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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (33322)	2/23/2013 12:28:46 AM
From: Greg or e	1 Recommendation Respond to of 69300

Same thing that sparked the Reformation. The Roman Catholic Church has been corrupt for centuries. Nothing new there.

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (33322)

2/23/2013 10:28:52 AM

From: longnshort

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Bob Woodward: 'Obama is a Liar'

Posted by Aurelius at 11:53 PM
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Pointed words from a respected, and unexpected, source. From the Washington Post (emphasis mine):

Misunderstanding, misstatements and all the classic contortions of partisan message management surround the sequester, the term for the $85?billion in ugly and largely irrational federal spending cuts set by law to begin Friday.

What is the non-budget wonk to make of this? Who is responsible? What really happened?

The finger-pointing began during the third presidential debate last fall, on Oct. 22, when President Obama blamed Congress. “The sequester is not something that I’ve proposed,” Obama said. “It is something that Congress has proposed.”

The White House chief of staff at the time, Jack Lew, who had been budget director during the negotiations that set up the sequester in 2011, backed up the president two days later...

The president and Lew had this wrong. My extensive reporting for my book “The Price of Politics” shows that the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors — probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government.

Obama personally approved of the plan for Lew and Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). They did so at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2011, according to interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved...

So when the president asks that a substitute for the sequester include not just spending cuts but also new revenue, he is moving the goal posts.

Barack Obama: Liar

To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (33322)	2/23/2013 10:49:19 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 69300

Most Miserable U.S. Cities Are Surprisingly All Liberal CitiesForbes has put together the most miserable U.S. cities Economist Arthur Okun developed the original Misery Index in the 1960s. It combines unemployment and inflation (and was 10.2 last year nationally, down from an 18-year high of 12.1 in 2011). Our look at misery is more localized, and includes unemployment, as well as other things that aggravate people. This year we examined nine factors for the 200 largest metro areas in the U.S. The metrics include the serious: violent crime, unemployment, foreclosures, taxes (income and property) and home prices. We also include less weighty, but still important quality-of-life issues like commute times and weather. We tweaked the methodology in this year’s list in response to feedback from readers, dropping our rankings of both pro sports team success and political corruption, since both were based on regional, rather than city-specific data. We also added a new measure—net migration—which we see as a clear gauge of whether or not residents feel a community is worth living in. Detroit, which ranked No. 2 last year, also would have finished No. 1 under the previous methodology (click here for more details about the criteria for the list). And how’d that turn out? Detroit, MI Flint, MI Rockford, IL Chicago, IL Modesto, CA Vallejo, CA Warren, MI Stockton, CA Lake County, IL New York, NY Toledo, Ohio St. Louis, Mo. Camden, NJ Milwaukee, Wisc Atlantic City, NJ Atlanta, Ga. Cleveland, Oh Poughkeepsie, NY Gary, Ind Youngstown, Oh Every single one of those cities votes overwhelmingly for Democrats. You’re saying “woah, woah, Teach, Atlanta and St. Louis are in states that vote Republican. That means you are a complete and utter liar, and how dare you make this whole story up!!!!1!!!” Ah, but Atlanta is mostly in Fulton County, which voted 64-34% for Obama over Romney. DeKalb County, which includes a tiny bit of Atlanta, voted even higher for Obama over Romney. The city of St. Louis, considered independent of a county, voted 82.7-16% for Obama. Every single one of these cities is a recipient of massive liberal/Democrat policies and governance. Their citizens are overwhelmingly liberal. The funny (not ha-ha) part is that liberals are abandoning these cities in droves (those that can escape), which is one of the article measurements. And where do they tend to move? Areas that aren’t practicing far left policies and ideas, then these, let’s call them…..a**holes, bring the same Leftists ideas which destroyed the cities they’ve abandoned to other cities.