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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (86111)	11/30/2011 9:53:39 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 89467

I know that song '4 dead and should have been more'

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (86111)	11/30/2011 4:30:31 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 89467

President Obama earlier this month quietly signed into law a spending bill that restores the American horse-slaughter industry, just a few months after a government investigation said the ban on slaughtering for human consumption was backfiring. The agriculture spending bill Mr. Obama signed the week before Thanksgiving did not include a ban on the inspection of horse meat — a backdoor prohibition that had, since 2006, effectively halted the U.S. horse-slaughter industry. In June the Government Accountability Office, Congress’s official investigative branch, released a report saying the ban had shut down U.S. slaughter, but that only depressed prices for horses here while causing many of the animals to be shipped to “foreign slaughtering facilities where U.S. humane slaughtering protections do not apply.” In unusually blunt language, GAO suggested Congress and Mr. Obama reconsider the ban. The options facing Congress were to further ban export of horses for slaughter or to lift the domestic slaughter ban. Congress chose the latter. “While we have a long way to go, responsible processing represents a vital first step in reversing the unintended consequences to blame for the dismal state of neglected horses and their frustrated caregivers across our country,” said Rep. Adrian Smith, Nebraska Republican. “Reinstating a humane, accountable and legal management tool is good for horses, good for owners, and is good policy.” The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said there are no horse slaughterhouses operating in the U.S. that produce meat for human consumption, but if a facility opens FSIS will be ready to do inspections. Horse meat regularly is used for consumption by circuses and zoos, and it is now sent to Eastern Hemisphere countries, where it is an accepted food. But slaughter has been a prickly issue in the U.S., where animal-rights activists and some horse lovers pushed to close slaughterhouses and ban exports. In 2010, about 138,000 horses were exported for slaughter, and another 30,000 horses were shipped for other purposes, though some of those likely were sent to feedlots to be fattened for later slaughter. Horse slaughter itself was never specifically banned, but Congress in 2006 prohibited any money being spent to regulate and inspect horses being transported for domestic slaughter. Under a 1996 law, those inspections were required for any slaughter intended to produce meat for human consumption. This year, the House version of the agriculture spending bill maintained the slaughter-ban language. But the Senate spending bill did not include the ban, and when the two chambers reconciled their bills, it was not in the final version. Mr. Obama signed the spending bill by autopen Nov. 18. He was traveling in Asia at the time the bill was presented to him, so he used the automated signature machine for the second time in his presidency. © Copyright 2011 The Washington Times, LLC. Click here for reprint permission.

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (86111)	12/1/2011 11:20:06 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 89467

Why Is Obama’s “Body-Man” Reggie Love Leaving? [ Yet another set of gay rumors involving Barry O. Larry Sinclair, Nick Colvin, Kai Penn (resigned after being mugged at 1:30 AM in a DC area filled with gay bars) , now Reggie Love. ] Posted on November 16, 2011 by Dr. Eowyn \| 55 Comments On Nov. 10, 2011, the New York Times (NYT) reports that Reggie Love, Obama’s 30-year-old “personal aide, shadow, caretaker, basketball buddy and roving diplomat” and all-around “ body man” made “what friends and colleagues called a painful decision to leave the president’s side” at the end of this year. Barry and his 6'5" "body man" Reggie Love Reggie began working for Barry after he graduated from Duke University (where he played basketball) with a B.A. in political science/public policy and won what the NYT calls “a low-level job” in Barry’s Senate office. Wikipedia, however, calls his job “deputy political director.” Reggie was then promoted to be Barry’s “personal assistant” during the 2008 presidential campaign. NYT says Reggie says the reason why he’s leaving his 6-figures-salary job is his “packed” schedule. According to Wikipedia, the reason is to complete his Master of Business Administration degree at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. But in his exclusive-to-subscribers report of November 14, 2011, investigate reporter Wayne Madsen wrote: “The fallout from Penn State has universities and colleges across the nation checking their records for indications of child abuse and other sex scandals. The Citadel is now embroiled in a scandal involving child sexual abuse by a summer camp counselor. Past gay-oriented sex parties at Duke and the University of North Carolina involving then Duke basketball and football player Reggie Love reportedly cost him his job as President Obama’s ‘body man.’ De facto White House chief of staff Pete Rouse, upon hearing of potential problems regarding Love at Duke and UNC and on the heels of the scandal at Penn State, forced Love to leave the White House staff immediately, even over the objections of Obama.” Yesterday evening when I began a draft of this post, I had seen on Wikipedia’s entry on Reggie Love a reference to him “overcoming” an un-named “scandal” when he was at Duke University to secure a job in Obama’s Senate office. This morning, however, that reference has disappeared from Wikipedia. Booker Rising, a website that describes itself as a “news site for black moderates and black conservatives,” has the dirt on Reggie Love. The website says that Love “passed out drunk at a University of North Carolina frat party” and was “teabagged” (a gay sexual practice wherein one man dips his testicles into the mouth of another) by “white frat boys.” Love also was kicked off the Duke basketball team because he had a “drunk-driving charge,” although he “didn’t get a sentence as his blood alcohol level was slightly below the limit.” He was reinstated back onto the basketball team a year later. Booker Rising has links to two photos from the frat party. The first photo shows Love passed out on the floor: A second photo shows the tea-bagging. First, a WARNING! ....... By all accounts Barry and Reggie have a close relationship. The NYT calls Love “an exception to the rule for a private, solitary president who allows few people to grow close to him…and growing so familiar that Mr. Obama would floss his teeth in front of him.” Barry even refers to Reggie as his personal “iReggie”, a play on Apple’s iPad. Reggie and Barry Other accounts, however, claim even a closer relationship — that Barry and Reggie are lovers. In a July 2009 issue, the tabloid Globe claims that “President Barack Obama is embroiled in yet another gay sex scandal – this time accusers are making incredible charges involving his hunky personal aide Reggie Love! GLOBE uncovers the outrageous claims about the 28-year-old who is the Commander-in-Chief’s “body man” – and the First Lady’s fury.” A year later, on May 24, 2010, Wayne Madsen had a blockbuster report for subscribers only, which claims that Obama is a long-time member of a gay man’s club in Chicago, of which his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is also a member. In it, Madsen writes that Reggie Love “is also reportedly one of Obama’s regular gay sex partners.” Madsen also discloses that Love received a salary of $109,000 a year as Obama’s “body man.” Nick Colvin, Obama's first body man It turns out Reggie is not the original, but the second, “Obama body man.” Reggie had a predecessor, Nick Colvin, who was sent packing when reports came out that he was involved in sexual relations with then Senator and presidential candidate Obama. In 2006 Colvin gave an interview to The Michigan Daily titled Alum’s job: Be friends with a senator where he described his job duties as Senator Obama’s personal assistant. They included waking up Obama every morning. Where does Michelle Obama sleep? ~Eowyn fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com More: larrysinclair.org