Pat & Bob- Master and Servant
We've all made mistakes when we were teenagers that we regret now. When I was in high school I won a scholarship from the UN by writing a paper favoring the death penalty without understanding the absolute inability of judges and juries to be able to guarantee the accuracy of their assessments of guilt. In theory I still favor the death penalty; in practice I oppose it and I'm embarrassed that I wrote that paper. I had just turned 16 at the time.
The Municipal and County Government Employees Organization (MCGEO) has begun leafletting at Whole Foods stores to protest its CEO's comments against President Obama's health care initiative. MCGEO's parent organization, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), represents hundreds of thousands of grocery store workers across North America. Following is a press release from the union.
Media Contact: Amy Millar 240-876-1660
WHOLE FOODS CEO’S EFFORTSSource: Maryland Politics Watch RSS Feed
As I am writing this, Senator Edward M. Kennedy is being laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
He joins his two slain brothers, John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.
In fact, Senator Kennedy is being buried only a short distance from where his brothers are buried, and where an eternal flame lights the graves not only of the former president and the former First Lady, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, but also the graves ofSource: The Moderate Voice RSS Feed
-By Warner Todd Huston
Here is just another example of why the State of California is in a budget crisis: The Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI).
What is this program, who qualifies? Well, it does no less than give free government money to any illegal immigrant that is either over 65 years of age or is disabled or blind and does not qualify for Supplemental Security Income (Social Security) due to their immigration status.
Pulp?
From the NRCC:
Washington- With two weeks left in the summer recess and one step closer to the possibility of a government- run healthcare system, has Carol Shea-Porter read the monstrosity that is the Democrats 1,018- page healthcare bill? Has she read about the job-killing, tax-hiking, and government-run mess that is HR 3200? Well, for New Hampshire residents’ sake, they better hope so.
HR 3200: printed BOTH sides
From the NY Post:
City and state scores on SATs spiraled downward for the fourth straight year, according to new data.
Since hitting a peak in 2005, the city's average score on each 800-point section of the SAT has dropped by 13 points in reading, to 435, and by 18 points in math, to 459.
Scores on the writing section, which was introduced in 2006, have dropped by six points, to 432.
The state and country -- whose averages in each section of the most widely acceptedSource: Queens Crap RSS Feed
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We, the world, lost a fierce champion for peace
with the lion's, Senator Ted Kennedy's passing,
so let us march forward now guided by his courage
and bring his life's cause to a thunderous certainty.
Please leave your condolences to the Kennedy family here...
and then
Petition the senate to move on Teddy's Health-care for all.
Some thoughts from Reason contributor Will Wilkinson:
Here is a good debate proposition: It ought to be less embarrassing to have been influenced by Ayn Rand than by Karl Marx.
The most powerful way to argue the affirmative is to compare the number of human beings murdered by the devotees of each. That line of attack ought to be decisive, but I'm afraid it won’t get you far with the multitude of highly-self-regarded thinkers influenced by Karl Marx. Fact is, commitment to someSource: Reason Magazine - Hit Run RSS Feed
Edward M. Kennedy, the “liberal lion” of American politics, passed away this morning after serving in the U.S. Senate for nearly 50 years. President Obama said that the country had lost “the greatest United States Senator of our time,” adding, “For five decades, virtually every major piece of legislation to advance the civil rights, health and economic well being of the American people bore his name and resulted from his efforts. … An important chapter in our history has Source: Think Progress RSS Feed
From the endlessly surprised Associated Press:
Consumer sentiment improves more than expected
By Christopher S. Rugaber, AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON – Consumer sentiment rose more than expected in August and expectations hit the highest level since the recession began, indications that Americans’ pessimism about the economy may be lifting.
The housing sector also showed signs of life as a national measure of Source: Sweetness Light RSS Feed
From an elated Reuters:
U.S. sends Guantanamo detainee to Afghanistan: lawyer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Monday released a detainee from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to his home in Afghanistan, the latest departure from the controversial prison which is set to close in five months.
Mohammed Jawad was accused of throwing a grenade that injured two U.S. soldiers and their interpreter in Kabul in 2002. Jawad, one of theSource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed
Welcome to the latest edition of the 2010 DemConWatch Senate Forecast, a summary of the best Senate forecasts in an easy overview table.
Senate Forecast: 61.3 (+1.3), down from 61.4 (+1.4) (See the latest House Forecast here).
The Senate Forecast is an average of the projections of the Democratic held seats in the 2011 Senate. (We count Sanders and Lieberman as Democrats in the Senate Forecast).
Lots of changes since our last forecast on July 27, almost all in the GOPSource: 2008 Democratic Convention Watch RSS Feed
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ON TONIGHT’S SHOW: We had two great tea party events in Grand Forks and Fargo this week. I’m going to talk to two attendees of the Grand Forks event, and would love to get calls from other attendees as well. Also, according to an email from a Conrad staffer he’s staging his “listening” events so that he only has to listen to those he wants to listen too,Source: Say Anything RSS Feed
Arthur Whitfield, who served 22 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, who waited almost five years for a pardon for that crime, and who has yet to be compensated for the time he spent behind bars, has liver cancer.
I’ve known people similarly diagnosed. They are all dead now.
While I have been told that the General Assembly will be considering compensation to Whitfield in Wednesday’s special session (and the article says “thatSource: Vivian J. Paige RSS Feed
We have been documenting the increasingly violent and threatening protests at Democratic town hall events around the country, and now it seems things are reaching the boiling point. The Secret Service has finally gotten involved:
There were signs comparing President Barack Obama to a Nazi and showing him with an Adolf Hitler-style mustache, but federal officials believe another sign referencing the president and his family went too far.
A man whoSource: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed
RSA security, one of the top security firms in the country, has sent takedown notices to a blogger and his hosting company in an effort to silence his discussion of a vulnerability found on a bank web site that RSA helps monitor, according to the blogger.
The firm has accused the blogger of trademark infringement — a common tactic of companies like Wal-Mart and Farmers Insurance Group to silence criticism — and of running a “fraudulent” web site thatSource: Threat Level RSS Feed
Hard to believe but with all of the problems that we now face here in the United States, people continue to paddle across 70 miles of shark infested waters to get here. Above is a photo of a Cuban raft that was found South of Key West by a friend who runs Light Tackle Sportfishing boat out of Key West and the lower Keys...
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Captain Mike of the Compass Rose found the above raft when he was fishing for Wahoo with his charter. This is not uncommon and I saw plenty back when ISource: RightsideVA RSS Feed
Fox News:
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The Marines are going house to house, they’re going compound to compound to make sure that there are no militants remaining and they’re doing it while the Taliban that the Marines didn’t kill yesterday try to kill these Marines today.
Morning patrols faced some fairly stiff resistance — the Taliban firing from positions in the mountains surrounding the town, as well as sniping positions in town as well.
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Writing for the Wall Street Journal John S. Baker and Elliott Stonecipher express their concerns about the census scheduled for next year. This census is not only used to determine the population of America but will also determine the apportionment of House members and Electoral College votes for each state.
Why are the two men concerned? Well, it seems that illegal immigrants will be included:
Instead, the U.S. Census Bureau is set to count allSource: PoliGazette RSS Feed
The iconic photo of the Beatles on the crossing outside Abbey Road Studios was taken 40 years ago on Saturday. The photograph, taken by Scottish photographer Iain Macmillan, features John Lennon in a white suit and a barefoot Paul McCartney. Ever since the image appeared on the front of their Abbey Road album, the crossing has become a place of pilgrimage. Scores of Beatles fans visit every day to recreate the famous pose.A Day in the Life is a song by the British rock band The BeatlesSource: British Blogs RSS Feed
From the Daily News:
New York's largest city workers union is expected to endorse Controller William Thompson for mayor this week, labor insiders say - a stunning switch from four years ago, when it backed Mayor Bloomberg.
The move would hang in the air as other major city unions - like the United Federation of Teachers and Teamsters Local 237 - decide who to endorse this fall.
...both are...negotiating new contracts right now with Bloomberg, giving him a chance to win theirSource: Queens Crap RSS Feed
The Pueblo Chieftain offers an excellent write up of Sen. Michael Bennet's health care town hall yesterday in Pueblo. In it, Bennet reiterates his previous support for a public option in a final national health care package:
"I'm not going to support just any public option that's offered, but I believe we need one, especially in areas of the country where there is no other insurance option," he said.
From what sounds like a civil dialogue with health care providers--instead of aSource: Square State RSS Feed
