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To: Valuepro who wrote (290069)	11/8/2010 8:47:34 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 306849

Roll backs are tough. O'mama walled out the free market. That's my biggest beef with him.

To: Valuepro who wrote (290069)	11/8/2010 10:39:40 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 306849

Grief counseling after the wipeout POLITICO November 08, 2010 by Maggie Haberman politico.com A staffer for a congressional Democrat who came up short on Tuesday reports that a team of about five people stopped by their offices this morning to talk about payroll, benefits, writing a résumé, and so forth, with staffers who are now job hunting. But one of the staffers was described as a "counselor" to help with the emotional aspect of the loss — and a section in the packet each staffer was given dealt with the stages of grief (for instance, Stage One being anger, and so on). "It was like it was about death," the staffer said. "It was bizarre." The staffer did say the portions about the benefits and résumé writing were instructive. The teams weren't sent by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office. Two people have suggested it may have been the Clerk's Office or Human Resources. While Tuesday was definitely a major loss for the Democrats, I hadn't heard it cast in a stages-of-grief way before.

To: Valuepro who wrote (290069)	11/8/2010 10:44:31 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 306849

Grief Counselors on Capitol Hill to Help Dems With Post-Election Transition November 8, 2010 by Meredith Jessup theblaze.com According to unnamed sources speaking to Politico, five professionals traversed Capitol Hill Monday visiting the offices of various Democrats who came up short in last week’s midterm elections. Each of them made themselves available to Democratic staffers who may need help with payroll, benefits and résumé writing in their new job hunts. But one of the five professionals has been described as a “counselor,“ dispatched to Capitol Hill to help ousted Democrats with ”the emotional aspect of the loss.” In addition, congressional staffers were given materials describing the various stages of grief. “It was like it was about death,” one Hill staffer told Politico. “It was bizarre.”

To: Valuepro who wrote (290069)	11/8/2010 10:59:19 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 306849

ACLU: Just Another Terrorist Collaborator? ............................................................ 11/7/2010 investors.com In a video message Monday, U.S.-born radical Yemeni cleric calls for Muslims around the world to kill Americans. AP View Enlarged Image The most dangerous terrorist has a much-deserved bull's-eye on his back, but the ACLU is trying to remove it. The group's defense of Anwar al-Awlaki is its most subversive move yet. A fugitive al-Qaida leader on the CIA hit list, Awlaki has been fingered as the mastermind behind the FedEx bomb plot, as well as last Christmas' airline bomb plot. He's best known for mentoring the Fort Hood terrorist and some of the 9/11 hijackers. "He has involved himself in every aspect of the supply chain of terrorism — fundraising for terrorist groups, recruiting and training operatives, and planning and ordering attacks on innocents," Treasury said recently, calling him a "key leader of al-Qaida" in Yemen. Because U.S.-born Awlaki poses a clear and present danger to the U.S., the government has targeted him for lethal force and frozen his assets. But the ACLU, which never met a terrorist it didn't want to protect, is going to court to block both moves, arguing they violate Awlaki's constitutional rights as an American. "Plaintiffs' ability to file a lawsuit as quickly as possible may spell the difference between life and death for Anwar al-Aulaqi, whose rights plaintiffs seek to protect," the group says in its complaint. But if Awlaki wishes to access the U.S. justice system, he could surrender today and take full advantage of due process and other constitutional rights. Instead, he chooses to stay in hiding and call for "killing the Americans," as he did in his latest videotaped message. The ACLU cites media reports that the targeted killing of an American citizen is "unprecedented." Not so. After 9/11, President Bush gave the CIA, and later the military, authority to kill U.S. citizens abroad if strong evidence existed that an American was involved in organizing or carrying out terrorist actions against the U.S. In fact, U.S. citizen Kamal Derwish was killed by a CIA missile strike in November 2002. U.S. spooks knew he was in a car with six other al-Qaida operatives driving through the desert of Yemen. And they sent a hellfire missile after them. The ACLU doesn't think any targeting of terrorists is lawful. It seeks to expose secrets about the U.S. drone program. In fact, the administration is invoking the state secrets privilege to dismiss its suit. "The entire world is not a war zone," ACLU chief Anthony Romero warned President Obama in a letter. "And wartime tactics that may be permitted on the battlefield in Afghanistan and Iraq cannot be deployed anywhere in the world where a terrorism suspect happens to be located." It even launched a letter-writing campaign among its 500,000 members urging the administration to stop "the targeted killing of individuals who are suspected of terrorism." But the International Emergency Economic Powers Act gives the commander in chief such authority. Bush invoked the law in issuing an executive order declaring a national emergency over the 9/11 attacks and the "continuing and immediate threat of further attack." Awlaki, who U.S. intelligence now believes had a direct role in the 9/11 plot, continues to threaten national security. Why is the ACLU so eager to protect him? Its lead attorney in the case happens to be a Muslim activist who's not even a U.S. citizen. Jameel Jaffer, who runs the ACLU's "national security project," even traveled to Yemen to meet with Awlaki's father, offering to represent him, pro bono, on behalf of his son. Nasser Awlaki, a Yemeni government official, denies his son is a terrorist, and wants the U.S. to spare his life. But last week, a Yemeni judge ordered police to take the al-Qaida leader "dead or alive." Via the Internet, Awlaki is calling for the global murder of Americans. "Jihad against America is binding upon myself just as it is binding on every Muslim," he recently told other Muslim Americans. Awlaki is at war with America, and we have every right to fire back, even if he is an American. Taking him out is a wartime imperative. If the ACLU delays action, the blood of the next al-Qaida attack will be on its hands.