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To: Sully- who wrote (76538)	1/9/2010 6:05:23 AM
From: FJB	3 Recommendations Respond to of 90947

>>That is where Obama's services come to the rescue of King Abdulla. Obama's bow to the king was no small matter, but of great significance in Muslim culture. It is a Muslim symbol of subjugation and inferiority. ... The claims that such a trial will give an opportunity to the terrorists to justify their actions and hate propaganda, is true, but it is much more than that. Such a trial will vindicate and justify mainstream Islamic education of hatred and will help Muslim establishment tighten their screws. It will greatly boost to the status quo in Muslim counties and an opportunity for Arab media and Muslim clerics to justify 9/11, their hate propaganda, incitement to violence and outright lies. This trial will be a set back to Muslim reformers, human rights activists and Arab feminists. It is telling them there is a good reason for Islamic violence dictated by Sharia law. This trial will create unnecessary sympathy among the many uninformed Western citizens to Islamist fictitious 'causes' and finger-pointing Muslims have been taught and believed in since birth. Like the OJ Simpson trial, a good portion of Americans will be confused over glaring truths which will cause a huge set back to America's war on terror. Knowingly or unknowingly, Obama has given a great gift for the New Year to the custodian of Islam, King Abdullah; a self-imposed trial by the victim nation of 9/11, a free televised propaganda machine from ground zero, to rescue mainstream Islam's reputation. Protecting the image of Islam is one of the basic duties of Muslim leaders and the utmost obligation of every Muslim who is obliged by Islamic law to lie, cheat and kill for its sake.<< Message 26232031

To: Sully- who wrote (76538)	1/9/2010 6:14:06 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Obama: C-Span ban protects private health information Scott Ott's Examiner Scrappleface: Examiner Columnist January 8, 2010 News fairly unbalanced. We report. You decipher. Today, the White House said President Obama's alleged failure to keep an oft-repeated campaign promise to televise high-level health care reform negotiations on C-Span was necessary to protect the "private health information of the participants" under so-called HIPAA privacy rules. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 prevents unauthorized disclosure of patients' health information, according to White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, "and this reform debate has already had serious health consequences for several members of Congress." Indeed, Sens. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., announced this week they would not seek re-election, after suffering painful bouts of voter discontent. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., tenaciously clings to political life after trading away his principled anti-abortion stance to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., in exchange for his support of the reform legislation. "These health reform discussions involve the most intimate, personal, often painful and embarrassing details," said Gibbs, "so the negotiations should remain confidential -- behind curtain, if you will -- between the legislators and the health care experts who own them." The White House has spent several days dodging media questions about Obama's promised C-Span coverage of the negotiations, so today's answer came as a welcome relief to professional journalists who had found themselves in the uncomfortable position of fostering doubts about the president's sincerity. "All I can say is 'Whew!' " noted one veteran White House correspondent. "Until we learned there's a good reason to ban C-Span, the White House briefing room was filled with an unprecedented kind of tension. The questions were almost objective, if not downright skeptical. It was like Gibbsy had morphed into [George W. Bush press secretary] Dana Perino. ... Scary." Examiner columnist Scott Ott is editor in chief of ScrappleFace.com, the world's leading family-friendly news satire source. washingtonexaminer.com

To: Sully- who wrote (76538)	1/9/2010 11:25:05 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 90947

The Long Jobs Wait Policy uncertainty hurts hiring. JANUARY 9, 2010. Sooner or later the economic recovery will start creating new jobs, we promise. But it sure is turning out to be a long, agonizing wait. The economy has been growing for at least six months, amid high productivity growth and rebounding corporate profits, yet employers still shed a net 85,000 jobs in December. The jobless rate remained at 10%, but 15.3 million Americans are out of work. Employers still appear to be on strike, not laying off as they were in the early part of 2009, but not hiring new workers either. The 10% rate would have been even higher had the civilian labor force not shrunk by 661,000 workers in December. Only 64.6% of working age Americans are now in the labor force, the lowest in 25 years. The so-called total jobless rate—which includes discouraged workers no longer looking—ticked up to 17.3% from 17.2%. Perhaps most dismaying is that nearly four in 10 (39.8%) of the jobless have been unemployed for six months or more. The longer these Americans stay out ... Message 26232126