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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (51477)	5/14/2012 4:17:01 PM
From: calgal	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

is There Any Good News Rich Galen May 14, 2012 Let's start with Europe and work our way back. The Greeks held elections last week and they have not been able to form a government since. The leader of the "Leftist" party (read, Communist), Alexis Tsipras, has told the rest of the European Union that he believes Greece should ignore the promises it made to be bailed out and, in essence, go off on its own. According to the New York Times, "European leaders have warned that if Greece does not keep its promises, Europe will stop financing it, which would quickly lead to Greece defaulting on its debts and leaving the euro zone, as the countries who share the common euro currency are known."I'm not exactly sure what the Greek version of "nanny-nanny-boo-boo" is, but Tsipras appears to be chanting it. If a coalition government cannot be formed, new elections will be called and polls indicate the anti-bailout candidates will gain strength. As of last night, it was being reported that Tsipras had pulled out of any further talks, so there you are. Meanwhile up in Germany, Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic party has suffered its second major electoral defeat in as many weeks. In a regional vote the rival Social Democrats have gained control of Germany's largest state. Sort of like Democrats winning control of Texas. According to the BBC "Analysts say many voters rejected Mrs. Merkel's tough line on fiscal discipline as a cure for state debt. Voters in Greece, France and Italy also recently rejected austerity policies."Compare and contrast to the issues in California discussed below. Skipping over the Atlantic Ocean, Obama's America is not doing very well, either. On the corporate front, the CEO of Yahoo, Scott Thompson resigned over the weekend after, according to CNNMoney.com "after it was found he padded his resume with an embellished college degree." According to the LA Times "Recent Yahoo filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission stated that Thompson had degrees in accounting and computer science from Stonehill College in Massachusetts." But the college didn't begin offering a degree in computer science until four years after Thompson had graduated. The reason that, as Yahoo called it, these "inadvertent errors" on resumes have such a huge impact is because your resume is absolutely and completely under your control. You know what jobs you've held, what degrees you've earned, what organizations you've joined.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (51477)	5/15/2012 12:47:07 PM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Alarm Grows Among Dems About Obama’s Chances By Chris Stirewalt Power Play Published May 15, 2012 It has taken months of bad news, but Democrats increasingly believe that President Obama might just lose his re-election bid. The latest wake-up call comes in the form of a New York Times/CBS poll showing Republican Mitt Romney in the lead not just among registered voters overall, but with women and independents. The Times/CBS survey is unique in that the pollsters called back the same phone numbers they had a month before. In April, Obama and Romney were dead even. Now, Romney leads by 3 points overall. That’s still within the margin of error -- a statistical tie. But the shifts with women, moderates and independents are all statistically significant. Obama lost 5 points with each of those demographics. Continues... Read more: foxnews.com

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (51477)	5/17/2012 2:22:24 PM
From: FJB	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

The Vetting - Exclusive - Obama's Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: 'Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii' breitbart.com by JOEL B. POLLAK 29 minutes ago 118 POST A COMMENT Note from Senior Management: Andrew Breitbart was never a "Birther," and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the narrative of "Birtherism." In fact, Andrew believed, as we do, that President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961. Yet Andrew also believed that the complicit mainstream media had refused to examine President Obama's ideological past, or the carefully crafted persona he and his advisers had constructed for him. It is for that reason that we launched "The Vetting," an ongoing series in which we explore the ideological background of President Obama (and other presidential candidates)--not to re-litigate 2008, but because ideas and actions have consequences. It is also in that spirit that we discovered, and now present, the booklet described below--one that includes a marketing pitch for a forthcoming book by a then-young, otherwise unknown former president of the Harvard Law Review. It is evidence--not of the President's foreign origin, but that Barack Obama's public persona has perhaps been presented differently at different times. *** Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii." The booklet, which was distributed to "business colleagues" in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel. It also promotes Obama's anticipated first book, Journeys in Black and White--which Obama abandoned, later publishing Dreams from My Father instead. Obama’s biography in the booklet is as follows (image and text below): Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation. He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago’s South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White.The booklet, which is thirty-six pages long, is printed in blue ink (and, on the cover, silver/grey ink), using offset lithography. It purports to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of Acton & Dystel, which was founded in 1976. Continues... breitbart.com