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Politics : How Quickly Can Obama Totally Destroy the US? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Taro who wrote (7413)	1/23/2014 9:50:05 AM
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To: Taro who wrote (7413)	1/23/2014 10:11:01 AM
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Hanoi Jane, Michelle Obama's role model ....................................................................................... foxnews.com ^ \| 1/23/2014 \| Lauren Ashburn Talk about lighting up like a switchboard. It took approximately .1 seconds for the Twitterverse to pounce on Michelle Obama’s comments to People magazine that she considers actress and activist Jane Fonda -- once known as “Hanoi Jane” -- a role model. PEOPLE: "And there are other role models you look at and think, 'When I'm 70 or 80, I want to look and live like her'?" MRS. OBAMA: "I just went to see Cicely Tyson on Broadway. She is in her 80s and did a two-hour play with stamina and passion. I told her, 'I want to be you when I grow up!' [And] there's Jane Fonda, a beautiful, engaged, politically savvy, sharp woman." (Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com .

To: Taro who wrote (7413)	1/23/2014 10:22:08 AM
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Judge rules that Kansan who provided sperm to lesbian couple owes child support Thursday, January 23, 2014 9:05:28 AM · by Mrs. Don-o · 99 replies Associated Press ^ \| January 22 \| Associated Press

To: Taro who wrote (7413)	1/24/2014 10:15:07 AM
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master." Ayn Rand

To: Taro who wrote (7413)	1/24/2014 12:56:06 PM
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Timothy Geithner Teaches Standard & Poor's The Chicago Way Investor's Business Daily ^ \| January 24, 2014 \| IBD EDITORIALS Hardball: Hell hath no fury like an administration embarrassed by a top credit-rating agency stating the obvious — that its perilous spending policies and rising debts warranted a downgrade just like any poorly run business. Speaking at a fundraiser in Philadelphia on June 13, 2008, candidate Barack Obama said of his Republican opposition: "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." In this case, in August 2011, Standard & Poor's brought an embarrassing downgrading of U.S. debt to AA+ from AAA in advance of the president's re-election bid, the first such reduction in U.S. history. In response, the administration brought a lawsuit in 2013 charging fraud and seeking $5 billion in fines from S&P for the credit ratings it had attached to bonds supported by subprime mortgages in the years leading up to the financial meltdown. At the time, it smacked of vendetta. As we noted last year, S&P's subprime securities ratings were virtually identical to those of Moody's and Fitch, yet the government singled out S&P for prosecution simply because it was the only one of the big three to pull the trigger on the downgrade. The vindictive nature of the government's lawsuit was confirmed Tuesday when lawyers for McGraw-Hill, S&P's parent, filed an affidavit from the company's chairman, Harold McGraw III, stating that on Aug. 8, 2011, mere days after the downgrade, he got a call from Timothy Geithner saying S&P's deed would not go unpunished. "He said that 'you have done an enormous disservice to yourselves and to your country,' and that S&P's conduct would be 'looked at very carefully,'" McGraw said. "Such behavior could not occur, he said, without a response from the government." (Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...