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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 (101321)	3/10/2011 4:54:30 PM
From: Carolyn	Respond to of 224868

Well said. Sad but true.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (101321)	3/10/2011 4:54:55 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 224868

That is typical of you, but correct. There are few exceptions to that rule. The lawyers always win. Only the clients lose.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (101321)	3/10/2011 6:30:47 PM
From: tonto	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224868

Not true. Lawyers lose too. Malpractice payouts are a good reminder.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (101321)	3/10/2011 7:03:07 PM
From: chartseer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224868

I would guess gaddaffy is not only fully paid up on his Chicago contributions but he may even have sent a few post date checks. citizen chartseer

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (101321)	3/10/2011 9:19:51 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224868

(Reuters) - Fears about the economy and unrest in Saudi Arabia darkened the outlook for equities on Thursday, pushing major indexes below key technical levels. The Dow's worst day in seven months came after reports that authorities in Saudi Arabia had opened fire on demonstrators, increasing anxiety about instability in major oil producing nations. All three major indexes fell below their 50-day moving averages, a sign of deteriorating market strength. Sellers came out in force, with volume at 9.07 billion shares, above last year's daily average of 8.47 billion shares.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (101321)	3/10/2011 9:26:41 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224868

U.S. Escalates Pressure on Libya Amid Mixed Signals By DAVID E. SANGER 27 minutes ago The White House announced a five-point program of steps to isolate Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and ultimately drive him from power, but all stopped short of military action. .Qaddafi Forces Gain Momentum; Rebels Flee Town By ANTHONY SHADID 1 minute ago Rebels retreated from Ras Lanuf after an assault by Qaddafi’s forces, underlining a shift in momentum.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (101321)	3/11/2011 8:16:07 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224868

nationalreview.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (101321)	3/11/2011 8:25:48 AM
From: JakeStraw	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224868

What do you call 5000 dead lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did you hear about the lawyer hurt in an accident? An ambulance stopped suddenly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How do you tell if it is REALLY cold outside? A lawyer has his hands in his own pockets

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (101321)	3/11/2011 8:45:43 AM
From: JakeStraw	7 Recommendations Respond to of 224868

Taxpayers Win in Wisconsin online.wsj.com Mr. Walker and his allies have won a rare victory for taxpayers, one which should be a lesson for other states and Governors. The monopoly power of government unions can be broken.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (101321)	3/11/2011 8:46:50 AM
From: lorne	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224868

Paul wants government hands off his toilet By DARIUS DIXON \| 3/10/11 politico.com If the federal government can support abortion rights, why can’t it also support light bulb choice, Sen. Rand Paul asked Thursday morning. And don’t even get him started about his toilet. The Kentucky Republican began making the link between the personal, the political and the plumbing-related when he asked Kathleen Hogan, the DOE deputy assistant secretary on energy efficiency, “I was wondering if you’re pro-choice?” “I’m pro-choice of bulbs,” Hogan responded. “Actually, that’s the point,” Paul said, during an appliance efficiency hearing at the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. “The point is that most members of your administration probably would be frank and characterize themselves — and upfront — as being pro-choice for abortion,” he said, “but you’re really anti-choice on every other consumer item.” Paul continued on a string of attacks against federal regulations and labeled the lighting efficiency standards set by a 2007 energy law as just another government overreach. “Light bulbs, refrigerators, toilets, you name it. You can’t go around your house without being told what to buy,” Paul said. “You restrict my purchases. You don’t care about my choices. You don’t care about the consumer. “Frankly, my toilets don’t work in my house, and I blame you and people like you who want to tell me what I can install in my house,” Paul said. He added, “I find it insulting. “I’m all for energy conservation but I wish you’d come here to extol me, to cajole me, to encourage,” he said. “But you come instead with fines [and] threats of jail.” (For the record, at no point during the hearing did Hogan threaten to arrest Paul.) Back to abortion, he said, “I think there should be self-examination from the administration on the idea that you favor a woman’s right to an abortion but you don’t favor a woman, or a man’s, right to choose what kind of light bulb, what kind of dishwasher.” In the middle of her response to Paul’s line of comments, Hogan said, “My view is what you want —” “Is to buy a toilet that works!” Paul interrupted. Hogan replied: "I can help you find a toilet that works." “I’ve been waiting 20 years to talk about how bad these toilets are,” Paul later said. Chairman Jeff Bingaman responded, “Well, I’m sorry about your toilet.” Wyoming Republican Sen. Mike Enzi, whose Better Use of Light Bulbs Act would repeal the lighting provisions in the 2007 energy law, didn’t attend the hearing. After Paul's comments, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) called out her ENR colleague, saying that “it behooves us all not to engage in name-calling of those officials who are trying to carry out the work, as the chairman has so well pointed out, that Congress has asked them to do.”

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (101321)	3/11/2011 9:06:42 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224868

Rising oil prices and a startling jump in the U.S. trade deficit ganged up on U.S. equities, which tumbled on Thursday. The Dow Jones industrial average gave up 228 points or 1.87 percent while the Standard & Poor's 500 shed 24.91 points or 1.95 percent. The Commerce Department said the trade deficit in January bounded 14 percent higher than December, climbing from $40.3 billion to $46.3 billion. Investors on Wall Street were rattled by a weekly Department of Labor report that said initial unemployment benefit claims rose by 26,000 in the week ending March 5. Economists had predicted claims would rise, but not nearly as much as they did. Behind those figures, crude oil prices in New York reached $105 per barrel this week, casting a shadow over the economy's nascent recovery, given the drain of U.S. dollars from consumers and businesses to pay for the increase. Half of the increase in the trade deficit was due to rising oil prices, Commerce said, and oil prices since January have considered to soar. It could be said the 14 percent deficit had much to do with civil unrest in Egypt, which sent oil prices up about 7 percent. Prices began settling down, when unrest spread to Libya, but had not returned the entire 7 percent, when unrest in Libya sparked a 10 percent rise. That will be reflected in next month's trade report.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (101321)	3/11/2011 4:35:28 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224868

Message 27229863 kennyboy starts flipping burgers for the long weekend: to fill up gas tank

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (101321)	3/12/2011 10:47:11 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224868

kennyboy disappears every weekend: too busy flipping burgers

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (101321)	3/12/2011 2:48:35 PM
From: locogringo	7 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224868

I wonder if YOU will EVER comment about this, kenny....... (BTW, kenny_the _parrot......this is AP, already "bought and paid for", not some whacko right wingers..) Obama tells GOP: Nice try on health care records WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama once promised that negotiations over his health care overhaul would be carried out openly, in front of TV cameras and microphones. Tell that to the White House now. Republican congressional investigators got the brush-off this past week after pressing for details of meetings between White House officials and interest groups, including drug companies and hospitals that provided critical backing for Obama's health insurance expansion. Complying with the records request from the House Energy and Commerce Committee "would constitute a vast and expensive undertaking" and could "implicate longstanding executive branch confidentiality interests," news.yahoo.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (101321)	3/12/2011 10:04:19 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224868

Message 27232118

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (101321)	3/13/2011 9:14:37 AM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224868

Michael Savage: Dems 'unqualified at any speed' America threatened by radical Islam, but congressman worried about KKK : March 12, 2011 © 2011 WorldNetDaily wnd.com On his popular nationally syndicated talk-radio show yesterday, Michael Savage spotlighted the behavior of Democrats at the controversial House hearing on radicalization in the Muslim community in America. "Did you see how the Democrats behaved? How disgusting their behavior was?" Savage asked, pointing to Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, as one of many examples. After the hearing Thursday, Green bullied a reporter who pointed out that of 126 terror indictments by the Justice Department, all were of Muslims. But Green insisted the Ku Klux Klan should have been investigated along with Muslim radicalization. "Mr. Green, Mr. Green," Savage interjected as he played the clip. "The KKK is a despicable organization. They've been investigated, they've been penetrated. Half of them are FBI agents." Instead of embracing an investigation of Islam in America, Savage wondered, "why is Al Green suddenly talking about the KKK?" "What does it have to do with anything?" he asked. "The answer is 'unqualified at any speed.' A lack of brain power."

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (101321)	3/14/2011 7:07:36 AM
From: lorne	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224868

ken..ever wonder why hussein obama has such great warm and fuzzy feelings for arab jordanian palestinian scum? Radio confrontation: 'How can your group slit infant's throat?' Palestinian spokesman blasted over Jewish family's killing March 13, 2011 © 2011 WorldNetDaily wnd.com "Why should America continue to fund the Palestinian Authority when its own apparatus is responsible for incitement to murder and violence and terrorism and has carried out repeated terrorist attacks against civilians?" This is just one of multiple questions fired away by WND senior reporter Aaron Klein on his WABC Radio show during an interview with PA spokesperson Dmitri Diliani. The confrontational interview, audio from which is linked below, took place in the wake of the weekend's bloody massacre in which Palestinian assailants brutally stabbed to death five members of the Udi Fogel family, including a 3-month-old infant, inside their home in the Jewish village of Itamar. The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the "military wing" of PA President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party, at first released a pamphlet taking responsibility for the attack and then quickly retracted the statement. Top sources in the Brigades leadership in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, however, confirmed to WND that members of the Fatah group planned and helped to carry out the attack. After Diliani repeatedly claimed to Klein that his Fatah organization condemns violence and supports peace, Klein ended the interview, but not before lashing into the Palestinian spokesperson. "Yeah, you condemn violence," Klein exclaimed sarcastically. "I can't hear any more of this." Continued Klein: "You condemn violence as a Palestinian, probably from your party, just slit the throat of a Jewish infant and as your president, Mahmoud Abbas, just dedicated a square to an infamous Palestinian murderer." Audio of the interview can be heard below: Klein was referring to reports that Abbas's Fatah faction yesterday – just one day after the terrorist massacre in Itamat – named a town square after the jihadist leader of a 1978 bus hijacking in which 35 Israelis were killed. Klein asked Diliani to comment on those reports as well as the rampant incitement to violence evidenced in the official PA media in the days and weeks before the Itamar attack. Just one day before the assault, Sabri Saidam, advisor to and under-secretary of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, delivered a speech in which he emphasized that weapons must be turned towards the "main enemy [Israel]" and that internal differences of opinion must be set aside. In the week leading up to the terrorist attack, Palestinian Media Watch reported the PA announced plans for a football tournament named after the first Palestinian suicide bomber, Wafa Idris, who killed one and reportedly injured more than 150 when she blew herself up in Jerusalem in January 2002. Earlier, Abbas' representative, Azzam Al-Ahmed, member of the Fatah Central Committee, was the guest of honor at a Palestinian scout ceremony in which buildings representing Jewish residents of the West Bank were blown up. In December, Abbas granted the relatives of a Palestinian terrorist $2,000 as part of a regular PA campaign that supports so-called "shahids" or "martyrs" who die while attacking Jews.