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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 (158831)	8/13/2013 3:48:56 PM
From: rayrohn	4 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo Sedohr Nod TideGlider tonto Respond to of 224806

I and my wife are both self employed so are wrong again lol

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (158831)	8/13/2013 4:13:34 PM
From: locogringo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224806

No doubt you have insurance under a group policy because if you don't, you couldn't get an individual policy. *BULLSHT BULLSHT* *BULLSHT BULLSHT* Are you trying to outperform your THUG sidekick in the LYING department? Get factual, or get lost................. Anyway, thanks to obama_the_failure, your buddy is now bankrupt, since your back stabbing president just eliminated the payment caps. I hope you can advise him for his chapter 7 or 11, or is that beyond your skills too?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (158831)	8/13/2013 5:19:01 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 224806

do you have choice with Obama care ?? NO

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (158831)	8/13/2013 5:28:37 PM
From: Jack of All Trades	Respond to of 224806

What Global Warming? 2012 Data Confirms Earth In Cooling Trend August 13, 2013 - 12:16 PM By Barbara Hollingsworth Subscribe to Barbara Hollingsworth RSS (CNSNews.com) – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently released its “ State of the Climate in 2012” report, which states that “worldwide, 2012 was among the 10 warmest years on record.” But the report “fails to mention [2012] was one of the coolest of the decade, and thus confirms the cooling trend,” according to an analysis by climate blogger Pierre Gosselin. “To no one’s surprise, the report gives the reader the impression that warming is galloping ahead out of control,” writes Gosselin. “But their data shows just the opposite.” Although the NOAA report noted that in 2012, “the Arctic continues to warm” with “sea ice reaching record lows,” it also stated that the Antarctica sea ice “reached a record high of 7.51 million square miles” on Sept. 26, 2012. And the latest figures for this year show that there’s been a slowdown of melting in the Arctic this summer as well, with temperatures at the North Pole well below normal for this time of year. Meteorologist Joe Bastardi calls it “the coldest ever recorded.” The Associated Press had to retract a photo it released on July 27 with the caption, “The shallow meltwater lake is occurring due to an unusually warm period.” “In fact, the water accumulates in this way every summer,” AP admitted in a note to editors, adding that the photo was doubly misleading because “the camera used by the North Pole Environment Observatory has drifted hundreds of miles from its original position, which was a few dozen miles from the pole.” NOAA also reported that the “average lower strastospheric temperature, about six to ten miles above the Earth’s surface, for 2012 was record or near-record cold, depending on the dataset” even while the concentrations of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, continued to increase. "Even with all this data manipulation, the trend is down as shown by this Hadley global plot," writes Joseph D'Aleo, former director of meteorology at The Weather Channel. (See D'Aleo - Real Story About Temps.pdf) "Last year was the 8th warmest but 7th coldest since 1998. They explain it away with the predominance of La Ninas or a solar blip, but say it was the warmest decade nonetheless, so stop questioning us," he said. On August 7th, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten quoted Irish solar expert Ian Elliott predicting that lower levels of sunspot activity over the next few years “indicates that we may be on the path to a new little ice age.” “If you think scientists just couldn’t get any more incompetent, then think again. NOAA scientists even appear to believe that cold events are now signs of warming,” Gosselin points out. “When one carefully reads the report, we find that the NOAA findings actually do confirm precisely what the skeptics have been claiming all along: 1. The Earth has stopped warming. 2. The climate models exaggerated future warming [caused by] CO2 climate sensitivity is much lower than we first thought. “That’s the real issue at hand,” he added. - See more at: cnsnews.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (158831)	8/13/2013 5:45:50 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By Wayners Respond to of 224806

OFA Gets Zero Attendance for Climate Change Rally ot a single person showed up at the Georgetown waterfront Tuesday for a climate change agenda event put on by Organizing for Action, the shadowy nonprofit advocacy group born out of President Obama’s 2012 campaign, the NRCC wrote in its blog. The event page for the “Climate Change Day of Action Rally” disappeared after rainy weather appeared to drive away whatever people planned to attend. The embarrassing showing follows the news that only one volunteer stayed for an OFA Obamacare event in Centreville, Va., last week to work the phones: lolololol

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (158831)	8/13/2013 7:15:28 PM
From: lorne	3 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo rayrohn Wayners Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224806

Kenny...Typical democrat party member face?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (158831)	8/13/2013 7:33:20 PM
From: tonto	3 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo Sedohr Nod TideGlider Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224806

Kenneth, how do you spew such stuff day after day. Tell us about the state programs available and why do you not recognize them? You are not making sense...again.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (158831)	8/13/2013 11:12:16 PM
From: Wayners	Respond to of 224806

How would you know. Are you reading his mail?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (158831)	8/14/2013 7:18:07 AM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo TideGlider Respond to of 224806

Kenny, Here ya go. Start your day off in good spirits...This man was attacked for being White and test riding a scooter. Black mobs erupt in Ivy League region White man left bloodied near Yale University Wednesday, August 14, 2013 wnd.com Brooks Macquarrie sits bloodied on a New Haven, Conn., street in the aftermath of an attack. Read more at wnd.com Brooks Macquarrie sits bloodied on a New Haven, Conn., street in the aftermath of an attack. Brooks Macquarrie does not remember much about the black mob violence that almost killed him one month ago. Macquarrie was test driving a motor scooter for a shop where he worked as a mechanic. A group of black people approached him as he waited at a downtown New Haven stop light. When he woke up in the hospital, surrounded by his five children, police thought he might have been hit by a car: Broken ribs. Twenty-one stitches. Fractured eye socket. Broken nose. Head injuries. And lots and lots of blood all over the street. According to the New Haven Register: “For his part, MacQuarrie remembers a young man on a bicycle coming at him with an ‘angry look’ in his eye, according to a coworker. He remembers trying to avoid eye contact with the person. He remembers getting hit on the back of the head. After that, he remembers nothing of the incident. “ Macquarrie has not yet returned to work. Some police still think it might have been a car accident. But they are about the only ones left who do. Aside from local newspaper editors. But people who work with Macquarrie know differently: “Managers totally discount that police theory that Brooks Macquerrie might have been hit by a car,” says WTNH news. “They say that because there was no damage done to the scooter he was riding.” Two black people were identified riding away on the scooter. Car or no car, police and local media are working overtime to convince residents that race had nothing to do with this – or other – black mob violence in the area. “Our problem is that people have been reporting that this is a race-related issue, nothing in our investigation supports that whatsoever,” said David Hartman of the New Haven police department. Others wonder if the racially charged atmosphere surrounding the acquittal of George Zimmerman the week before had anything to do with the violence. New Haven was the scene of at least three pro-Trayvon rallies. “I think people are just speculating. I haven’t heard anything to the fact that it was related to the Trayvon Martin case or anything like that,” Katrina Jones told WTHN. “I just believe it was an isolated case.” Macquarrie himself has chosen not to speak with the media; he doesn’t want to enflame controversy, said the Register. Maybe it was related to Justice for Trayvon. Maybe not. But it was certainly not isolated: New Haven is the scene of regular and intense episodes of black mob violence directed at non-black people. Editors are fond of saying that because no one carried a sign, or uttered racial slurs, or issued a press release, that means there is no evidence the violence is race-related. But a lot of people in New Haven are starting to wonder why there have been so many recent episodes of black mob violence. And why the newspapers are loathe to cover it in any way – other than to deny it is happening.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (158831)	8/14/2013 8:12:31 AM
From: TideGlider	1 Recommendation Recommended By Sedohr Nod Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224806

Jesse Jackson Jr. could end up in one of the nation's cushiest prisons Gary Cameron / Reuters file Former Chicago congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. enters the U.S. District Federal Courthouse in Washington February 20, 2013. Jackson, son of the famed civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, plans to plead guilty to charges filed on 15 February accusing him of misusing $750,000 in campaign funds, his attorney said. By Matthew DeLuca, Staff Writer, NBC News Former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. will learn whether and for how long he could go to prison Wednesday — but he’s already shown a preference for some of the nation’s poshest pens. The one-time lawmaker from Illinois pleaded guilty on Feb. 20 to raiding $750,000 from his campaign fund to make a slew of personal purchases, including a $43,000 Rolex, vacations and other luxury items. He and his wife are due to be sentenced in a Washington district court on Wednesday. “For years I lived off my campaign,” Jackson said in court in February. “I used money that should have been for campaign purposes for personal purposes.” Advertise \| AdChoices [iframe width="300" height="250" src="http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/adx?iu=2620/newsvine/usnews&sz=300x250&c=1261693149&ord=1261693149" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe] [iframe width="300" height="250" src="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_util/frames/perfectmarket?width=300&height=250" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe] Jackson, the son of civil-rights activist Jesse Jackson, resigned his seat representing Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012, citing mental health issues. He had sought treatment for bipolar depression for prolonged periods at the Mayo Clinic, amidst ongoing federal investigations. Speculation had swirled before his resignation at home and on Capitol Hill about the reasons behind Jackson’s long, unexplained absences. In preparation for his sentencing hearing on Wednesday, Jackson’s attorneys named their client’s first choices for where to spend time behind bars: the Federal Prison Camp in Montgomery, Ala., or the Federal Correctional Institution Butner, in North Carolina. By chance or design, both of the prisons named by attorneys for the one-time lawmaker on Monday made a 2009 Forbes list of the nation’s “cushiest prisons.” “FPC Montgomery is the closest FPC to Washington, D.C.,” Jackson’s attorneys wrote in their formal request, “and would, as such, allow Mr. Jackson to maintain contact with his wife and children during incarceration.” Jackson’s second choice, Butner, is about 500 miles from Washington, his attorneys noted, and would allow his children to visit. The prison is also near where Jackson went to college in North Carolina, the lawyers wrote, and he “has significant ties to the area, which he believes will aid in his rehabilitation during any term of incarceration.” Jackson attorney Reid H. Weingarten of firm Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C., declined to elaborate on his client's prison preferences. “I don’t want to ruin the show,” he said, referring to the Wednesday hearing. Of course, there's nothing new about convicted, formerly respectable members of society seeking out a cot in Club Fed. Ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff spent 43 months at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Md., and former congressman Randy Cunningham spent time at the U.S. Penitentiary in Tucson after accepting $2.4 million in defense contractor bribes. And while neither of the two prisons named by Jackson's attorneys would match the high-flying lifestyle he maintained when he was mooching off campaign cash (including the purchase of a $1,500 cashmere cape, according to court filings), Jackson wouldn't be breaking rocks in the prison yard either. Montgomery is an "excellent facility," said defense attorney and federal prisons expert Alan Ellis, and Butner is "an attractive place; well-run, well-managed." Advertise \| AdChoices [iframe width="300" height="250" src="http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/adx?iu=2620/newsvine/usnews&sz=300x250&c=977114172&ord=977114172" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe] [iframe width="300" height="250" src="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_util/frames/perfectmarket?width=300&height=250" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe] At Montgomery, he could take an apprenticeship course in horticulture or train as a landscaper. At Butner, Jackson could get prison-yard stock tips from white collar crook Bernie Madoff, or prisoner 61727-054, as he’s known at the medium-security facilty he inhabits at the complex. Neither permits conjugal visits. Here's more on Jackson's top prison picks: FPC Montgomery: 2009 Forbes ranking: 3 Located about 90 miles from Birmingham, Ala., FPC Montgomery sits on the grounds of the Maxwell Air Force Base, which houses about 12,500 military and civilian personnel. The camp is on the grounds of the facility “to provide manpower for the general maintenance of the Air Force Base,” according to the prison’s orientation handbook, and inmates jobs include work as bakers, landscapers, and librarians. Spending the day on a base like Maxwell can have unexpected perks. Ellis said he had a client at FPC Montgomery who was tasked with mowing the base general's lawn, a job that could be sweaty work in the Alabama summer. "The general's wife would invite the client in for lemonade and cookies," Ellis said. No luxury outlets or high-priced goodies here: A jar of pickle relish from the prison commissary costs $1.95; Gillette aftershave goes for $3.90. Inmates don’t have to listen to their cell-mates’ choice of music if they don’t want to: Use of radios without headphones is prohibited, according to the prison’s handbook. Former notable inmates include Charles Colson, a special counsel to President Richard Nixon who pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice. FCI Butner: 2009 Forbes ranking: 9 About 35 miles outside Raleigh, N.C., the prison is an hour's drive from where Jackson's alma mater, North Carolina A&T, in Greensboro. There’s a tinge of collegiality to the complex that houses low- to medium-security facilities: All of the buildings are named after schools in the Atlantic Coast Conference, Ellis said. Madoff is in Clemson. Former inmates include televangelist Jim Bakker and attempted Reagan assassin John Hinckley, Jr. Current residents apart from Madoff at the Butner complex include Omar Ahmad Rahman, the engineer of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing who is known as the Blind Sheikh, and former mobster Carmine Persico. The prison has tech industry cred, with the Federal Bureau of Prisons saying on its website that the facility is situated “near the research triangle area of Durham, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill.” There’s a more serious reason Jackson’s attorneys might want to see him wind up at Butner – they have said he suffers from bipolar disorder and depression, and will need treatment in prison. The Butner complex includes the Federal Medical Center, which has full hospital facilities. "He's in treatment or has been in treatment, and they're probably going to want to put him in a place where they can continue treatment," Ellis said.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (158831)	8/14/2013 10:04:25 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 224806

yeah dems are for freedom, here's two stories that say so Feinstein wants to limit who can be a journalist 8 watch-dog UNREAL: NAACP Calls On Justice Department, Secret Service To Investigate Rodeo Clown Who Wore Obama Mask 8 wz

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (158831)	8/14/2013 12:08:00 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 224806

NBC NEWS: Businesses, Unions, Colleges all say employee hours being cut over Obamacare but WH says “no evidence” 8 scoop

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (158831)	8/14/2013 2:09:40 PM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 224806

Kenny...So will obama send arms to the moslum brotherhood in Egypt to use against the Army? Like he did and is doing for the moslum brotherhood in Syria? Course now he has to use a different country for a supply depot, do you happen to know which Country is now being used? Oh and by the way Kenny ....Russia does not like the moslum brotherhood very much.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (158831)	8/14/2013 2:20:42 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 224806

Kenny...Is this what your idol has created for the World? maybe Obama should ask Samantha powers and cass susstine what to do after all ...IMO...it was them who advised Obama how to get into this mess in the first place....right Kenny? RED ALERT WW3 HAS BEGUN NO JOKE!! (TRUTHLIVES youtube.com Published on Jul 9, 2013 HERE COMES WW3 - THIS IS NO JOKE. ARREST WARRANT ON THE WAY TO OBAMA. STAY WITH THE NEWS!

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (158831)	8/14/2013 3:20:29 PM
From: TideGlider	3 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo lorne TopCat Respond to of 224806

Bad Day Ken??

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (158831)	8/14/2013 5:31:06 PM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 224806

U.S. schools face tough decisions on Obamacare benefits By Yasmeen Abutaleb WASHINGTON \| Wed Aug 14, 2013 reuters.com Aug 14 (Reuters) - Hit by years of budget cuts, some U.S. public school boards are looking to avoid providing health benefits to substitute teachers and supporting staff under President Barack Obama's reform law, education officials say. According to the law, employers will have to offer health coverage to all full-time employees, defined as those who work an average of 30 or more hours per week each month, or else pay a fine starting in 2015. School boards, already struggling to manage after years of state budget cuts, are trying to get ahead of the potential costs of Obamacare for the current academic year, education and labor officials say. The need to find creative solutions, or risk cutting back staff hours further, will increase as they finalize their budgets, they say. In Pennsylvania's Penn Manor School District, Superintendent Mike Leichliter said there is no room in its constrained budget to provide additional employee insurance. Instead of cutting hours, the district used a substitute-teacher contracting service to pay part of the salaries for 95 employees. Money for such a service does not count against the school's budget. "When we looked at our costs, (healthcare) was one area that really had the potential to skyrocket," Leichliter said. "This is absolutely the worst time for school districts to be faced with mandated increases." The National School Board Association said many states and school districts have at least explored reducing hours, according to Linda Embrey, a communications officer. Several school officials contacted by Reuters said they could not find a way around cuts. In Indiana's Fort Wayne Community Schools district, one of the state's largest, administrators reduced hours for 610 of its 4,050 employees, including substitute teachers and support staff, who were working 30 or more hours a week. Providing them with health insurance would have cost $10 million annually, said Krista Stockman, public information officer for Fort Wayne. "You get to a point where there's a danger that you're cutting too much and that the quality of education you're providing isn't as great," Stockman said. "We're just going to have to do the same amount or more with less." Most of the employees affected are substitute teachers, classroom aides, cafeteria workers, bus drivers or similar support staff, according to school officials and labor representatives. They had not been receiving healthcare coverage from their employers in the past. Now, instead of getting such employer-sponsored benefits under the reform law, they may be eligible for government-subsidized coverage that will be offered by new state insurance exchanges starting on Oct. 1. SEQUESTER TAKES A SECOND TOLL During the 2012-2013 school year, 26 states provided less money to local school districts than the prior year, and 35 states provided less funding than in 2008 (a better year), according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. This year they are also grappling with across-the-board "sequester" spending cuts introduced after Congress deadlocked over how to fix the deficit. An Obama administration official said those cuts plus the states', and not healthcare reform, are the main reasons for staff losing work-time at schools. "We are seeing no systematic evidence that the Affordable Care Act is leading to a shift to part-time work," the official said. "There are a variety of factors impacting schools, including sequestration, which is cutting budgets and is a completely separate issue." The National Education Association is working with union leaders across the country to figure out how to encourage employers to avoid cutting hours as a result of healthcare reform, said Joel Solomon, NEA senior policy analyst. The effort has included a training session for dozens of labor representatives in June, and more sessions are planned for this year. Solomon said one popular solution offered by the NEA is to help schools get a more precise accounting of employee hours to see whether staff are truly working an average of 30 hours a week each month when holidays and other time off are included. That has helped some schools make less drastic cuts in employee hours, he said. Many school employees are expected to qualify for Obamacare's tax subsidies, which are available starting in January to people who make within 400 percent of the federal poverty level ($45,960 for an individual and $94,200 for a family of four in 2013). Even if they don't, the new plans are preferable to what they currently have to buy on the individual market because insurers cannot deny coverage based on prior illness. In Nebraska, the Plattsmouth Community School District is limiting the hours of permanent substitute teachers, who typically work every day, said Marlene Wehrbein, a labor union official who advocates for employees in the state's public school districts. "It creates a lot of inconsistency in staffing, and I can't see how that would be good for students," Wehrbein said. "How could you have a teacher teaching English four days a week and then on the fifth day you have someone else?"

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (158831)	8/14/2013 5:31:38 PM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 224806

The New York Times takes down the Clinton Foundation. This could be devastating for Bill and Hillary By Tim Stanley US politics Last updated: August 14th, 2013 blogs.telegraph.co.uk Is the New York Times being guest edited by Rush Limbaugh? Today it runs with a fascinating takedown of the Clinton Foundation – that vast vanity project that conservatives are wary of criticising for being seen to attack a body that tries to do good. But the liberal NYT has no such scruples. The killer quote is this: For all of its successes, the Clinton Foundation had become a sprawling concern, supervised by a rotating board of old Clinton hands, vulnerable to distraction and threatened by conflicts of interest. It ran multimillion-dollar deficits for several years, despite vast amounts of money flowing in. Over a year ago Bill Clinton met with some aides and lawyers to review the Foundation's progress and concluded that it was a mess. Well, many political start-ups can be, especially when their sole selling point is the big name of their founder (the queues are short at the Dan Quayle Vice Presidential Learning Center). But what complicated this review – what made its findings more politically devastating – is that the Clinton Foundation has become about more than just Bill. Now both daughter Chelsea and wife, and likely presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton have taken on major roles and, in the words of the NYT "efforts to insulate the foundation from potential conflicts have highlighted just how difficult it can be to disentangle the Clintons’ charity work from Mr Clinton’s moneymaking ventures and Mrs Clinton’s political future." Oh, they're entangled alright. The NYT runs the scoop in its usual balanced, inoffensive way – but the problem jumps right off the page. The Clintons have never been able to separate the impulses to help others and to help themselves, turning noble philanthropic ventures into glitzy, costly promos for some future campaign (can you remember a time in human history when a Clinton wasn't running for office?). And their "Ain't I Great?!" ethos attracts the rich and powerful with such naked abandon that it ends up compromising whatever moral crusade they happen to have endorsed that month. That the Clinton Global Initiative is alleged to have bought Natalie Portman a first-class ticket for her and her dog to attend an event in 2009 is the tip of the iceberg. More troubling is that businessmen have been able to expand the profile of their companies by working generously alongside the Clinton Foundation. From the NYT: Last year, Coca-Cola’s chief executive, Muhtar Kent, won a coveted spot on the dais with Mr. Clinton, discussing the company’s partnership with another nonprofit to use its distributors to deliver medical goods to patients in Africa. (A Coca-Cola spokesman said that the company’s sponsorship of foundation initiatives long predated Teneo and that the firm plays no role in Coca-Cola’s foundation work.) In March 2012, David Crane, the chief executive of NRG, an energy company, led a widely publicized trip with Mr. Clinton to Haiti, where they toured green energy and solar power projects that NRG finances through a $1 million commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative. This is typical Clinton stuff. The second thing I ever wrote for this website was about how corporations invest in politicians as a way of building their brand and raising their stock price. It can lead to some funny partnerships. This, from 2011: Just this month, bedding manufacturer Serta announced that it will be sponsoring Bill Clinton’s keynote address to an industry conference in August. "To us,"’ said the head of the company, "Clinton represents leadership. This appearance shows Serta is a leader and is taking a leadership position. This singles us out." Some might say that it is beneath a former president to basically endorse Serta’s new "Perfect Sleeper" line, even with its "revolutionary gel foam mattress". The cynical might infer from the NYT piece that the Clintons are willing to sell themselves, their image, and even their Foundation's reputation in exchange for money to finance their personal projects. In Bill's case, saving the world. In Hillary's case, maybe, running for president. It's nothing new to report that there's an unhealthy relationship in America between money and politics, but it's there all the same. While the little people are getting hit with Obamacare, high taxes and joblessness, a class of businessmen enjoys ready access to politicians of both Left and Right that poses troubling questions for how the republic can continue to call itself a democracy so long as it functions as an aristocracy of the monied. Part of the reason why America's elites get away with it is becuase they employ such fantastic salesmen. For too long now, Bill Clinton has pitched himself, almost without question, as a homespun populist: the Boy from Hope. The reality is that this is a man who – in May 1993 – prevented other planes from landing at LAX for 90 minues while he got a haircut from a Beverley Hills hairdresser aboard Air Force One. The Clintons are populists in the same way that Barack Obama is a Nobel prize winner. Oh, wait…

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (158831)	8/15/2013 11:02:57 AM
From: Jack of All Trades	Respond to of 224806

August 15, 2013 Holder and FBI admit lying about data released before election last year Thomas Lifson In their efforts to promote the re-election of Barack Obama, our nation's premier law enforcement agencies presented false data to the American public about a "crackdown" on mortgage fraud. Fox News reports: The Justice Department and FBI have quietly acknowledged they grossly overstated the scope of a mortgage fraud crackdown, which the administration heralded with much fanfare a few weeks before last year's presidential election. According to a memo circulated by the FBI and a correction posted online by the Justice Department, the number of defendants, the number of victims and the size of the losses are, in reality, a fraction of what officials claimed last October. Attorney General Eric Holder and other law enforcement officials claimed in early October that the initiative charged 530 criminal defendants on behalf of 73,000 victims who suffered over $1 billion in losses. The so-called Distressed Homeowner Initiative, which targeted fraud schemes against distressed homeowners, was highlighted in a press release and press conference at the time. Holder, talking to the cameras on Oct. 9, called it "a groundbreaking, year-long mortgage fraud enforcement effort." The real numbers, it turns out, were far smaller. The feds now admit that the number of criminal defendants charged was more like 107, not 530. The number of victims was 17,185 -- still a large number, but roughtly one fourth the size of the original headcount. And the losses totaled $95 million -- not $1 billion, as originally claimed. The mortgage meltdown of 2008, which served (and continues to serve) as a bludgeon for Democrats to blame George W. Bush, Republicans, and free markets for all the economic misery stands as one of the great, deceptive propaganda triumphs of American history. The low and medium information voting public does not know that banks were bludgeoned by regulators into giving mortgages to people who could not afford them. And now we have the admission that they were served up false information to make it appear as though Obama and the DoJ were doing something to improve things. Obama should be known as the Potemkin President because there is so much fraud involved in hisss self-presentation to the public. Read more: americanthinker.com Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter \| AmericanThinker on Facebook

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (158831)	8/16/2013 10:14:08 AM
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Kenny...Soon you will be the only one LEFT who still does not know what Obama is and you still worship him. Obama Is a ‘Snake’ and ‘We Have to Turn on Him’ Says… Aug. 14, 2013 Dave Urbanski theblaze.com Oliver Stone: Obama is a Snake! youtube.com Film director Oliver Stone—who has made no secret of his liberal political views—called President Barack Obama a “snake” for his role in National Security Agency spying programs that have become, he said, more about silencing protestors than finding terrorists. “Obama is a snake,” Stone told an audience in Tokyo on Monday. “He’s a snake. And we have to turn on him.” Movie Director Oliver Stone Calls President Obama a Snake and That We Have to Turn on Him Film director Oliver Stone speaks before press in Tokyo on August 12, 2013. (Getty Images) “The Boston Marathon, they were so busy tracking down potential protestors…that they missed the bombers,” Stone told the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan. “It’s never about terrorists, it always becomes about the way J. Edgar Hoover did it; he brought all the weight of government to bear against protestors. He didn’t like protestors. He thought they were left-wing communists. He never could find the proof, but by the time the Vietnam War came around, as you know, 500,000 people were on the list, and they were being eavesdropped on. And where are we now? Same place.” Stone said that admitted NSA leaker Edward Snowden “is a hero to me. He sacrificed his well-being for the good of us all” and that Russia’s Vladimir Putin did the right thing by granting Snowden asylum, according to PressTV. “I’m proud of him for doing it,” Stone said of Putin and Russia. “We need more countries to stand up to the U.S.” Stone also called Snowden a hero last month and said it’s “a disgrace that Obama is more concerned with hunting him down Snowden than reforming these George Bush-style eavesdropping techniques.” Last summer in the lead up to the 2012 Republican National Convention, Stone said he’d vote for Ron Paul over Obama if Paul secured the GOP nomination. Stone suggested that Paul was the “only one” who’s “saying anything intelligent about the future of the world.” Relations between Russia and the U.S. have been frosty since the Snowden asylum decision, with Obama abruptly canceling a meeting with Putin, which was taken as a snub.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (158831)	8/16/2013 11:39:22 AM
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Atlanta breaks a century-old temperature recordPosted: Aug 15, 2013 7:01 PM EDTUpdated: Aug 16, 2013 11:14 AM EDT By Rodney Harris - email ATLANTA (CBS ATLANTA) -Atlanta's high temperature on Thursday was only 73 degrees which is the coolest high temperature on record for August 15. The previous record was a high of only 77 degrees from 1908. The average high temperature for this time of year is 88 degrees, putting Thursday's high 15 degrees below average. Atlanta has seen a cooler-than-average summer due to a lot of rain. We're about 15 inches above average on rainfall this year.