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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (72815)	9/28/2009 5:07:33 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

Not editor but President and it was an affirmative action thingy, no brains involved. Change in Selection System Mr. Obama was elected after a meeting of the review's 80 editors that convened Sunday and lasted until early this morning, a participant said. Until the 1970's the editors were picked on the basis of grades, and the president of the Law Review was the student with the highest academic rank. Among these were Elliot L. Richardson, the former Attorney General, and Irwin Griswold, a dean of the Harvard Law School and Solicitor General under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. That system came under attack in the 1970's and was replaced by a program in which about half the editors are chosen for their grades and the other half are chosen by fellow students after a special writing competition. The new system, disputed when it began, was meant to help insure that minority students became editors of The Law Review. nytimes.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (72815)	9/28/2009 5:49:03 PM
From: Alan Smithee	5 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

Obama is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and was editor of the Law Review. Not likely for somebody with a less than average IQ. Where are the transcripts that show his grades?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (72815)	9/28/2009 6:55:47 PM
From: lorne	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

ken...."Obama is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and was editor of the Law Review. Not likely for somebody with a less than average IQ.".... He is also an African American...a minority.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (72815)	9/28/2009 7:05:20 PM
From: lorne	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

ken...you think that hussein obama would be president today if he had told voters the truth during election... LIKE THIS! Baucus Bill Provides for $25,000 Fine and 1-Year in Jail For Not Buying Health Insurance. liveleak.com Under the health care bill being considered in the Senate Finance Committee, Americans who fail to pay a penalty for not buying insurance could be charged up to $25,000 by the Internal Revenue Service or face up to a year in jail, according to congressional analysts. That's just one of the concerns Republicans say th More..e Democratic-run Congress is ignoring in the rush to pass legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system. "The American people expect us to get this right and to do it in an open, honest and bipartisan debate. That's what they deserve," said Sen. Johnny Isakson, R_Ga., in his party's radio and Internet address Saturday. "But that's not what they're getting from the Democrats on Capitol Hill." The Senate Finance Committee is the last of five committees to take up health care legislation, which tops President Obama's domestic agenda. The committee chairman, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., negotiated with top Republicans for weeks before talks broke down. Baucus' bill leaves out a primary demand of many Democrats - a government insurance option - and it has a lower price tag than other Democratic proposals. But the legislation includes an individual mandate penalty that could go as high as $1,900. Thomas Barthold, chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, told senators that the IRS could take legal action against those who fail to pay the mandate penalty. In a handwritten note to Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., Barthold said violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty. Isakson and other Republicans say the Baucus bill is too costly and would require too much government intrusion into the health care system. Only one Republican, Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, appears to be considering supporting it. At its core, the bill is designed to expand health insurance coverage to millions of people who lack it, employing a new system of federal subsidies for lower-income individuals and families and establishing an insurance exchange in which coverage would have federally guaranteed benefits. Insurance companies would be prohibited from refusing to sell insurance based on a person's health history, and limits would be imposed on higher premiums based on age.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (72815)	9/29/2009 7:27:41 AM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

U.S. Northeast May Have Coldest Winter in a Decade (Update2) By Todd Zeranski and Erik Schatzker bloomberg.com Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Northeast may have the coldest winter in a decade because of a weak El Nino, a warming current in the Pacific Ocean, according to Matt Rogers, a forecaster at Commodity Weather Group. “Weak El Ninos are notorious for cold and snowy weather on the Eastern seaboard,” Rogers said in a Bloomberg Television interview from Washington. “About 70 percent to 75 percent of the time a weak El Nino will deliver the goods in terms of above-normal heating demand and cold weather. It’s pretty good odds.” Warming in the Pacific often means fewer Atlantic hurricanes and higher temperatures in the U.S. Northeast during January, February and March, according to the National Weather Service. El Nino occurs every two to five years, on average, and lasts about 12 months, according to the service. Hedge-fund managers and other large speculators increased their net-long positions, or bets prices will rise, in New York heating oil futures in the week ended Sep. 22, according to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data Sept. 25. “It could be one of the coldest winters, or the coldest, winter of the decade,” Rogers said. U.S. inventories of distillate fuels, which include heating oil, are at their highest since January 1983, the U.S. Energy Department said Sept. 23. Stockpiles of 170.8 million barrels in the week ended Sept. 18 are 28 percent above the five-year average. Heating oil for October delivery rose 1.38 cents, or 0.8 percent, to settle at $1.6909 a gallon on the New York Mercantile Exchange.