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[Steve]

Better brush up on your Spanish, FM.

You may get called up as a reservist!

 

Rick's about to invade Mexico!

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15140560

 

I exaggerate, I know... makes a great attention grabber though! hehe

 

But, it would certainly make more sense than invading Iraq looking for non existent WMD.

 

It would make even more sense to decriminalize illicit drug use in USA, register addicts, and offer treatment as an illness rather than a crime... would totally bankrupt the drug cartels in Mexico and USA and reduce crime in US cities by about 60%. The war on drugs was lost long ago.

 

 

We're using drones to identify it appears http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12756789

it may be the way to go kill a few...with the authorization of the Mexican government of course. I don't think it would go over well with the masses there but it seems to be doing a good job on terrorists so it is effective.

 

Demand on our side will always make it almost impossible to stop. It can be curtailed though. Technology can route out underground tunnels and such. We haven't done enough and we haven't worked smart enough.

[Steve]

lol...raical issues enters the Republican primary.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44747781/ns/politics-decision_2012/

Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain criticized the name of a hunting camp once leased by Gov. Rick Perry's family as "just plain insensitive" in an appearance on Fox News Sunday.

 

Other political news of note Cain: Perry camp sign 'just plain insensitive'

Updated 8 minutes ago 10/2/2011 4:44:10 PM +00:00 Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain criticized the name of a hunting camp once leased by Gov. Rick Perry's family as "just plain insensitive" in an appearance on Fox News Sunday.

The name of the camp — "Niggerhead" — was first reported by the Washington Post on Saturday. The paper said the name was painted on a rock at the entrance of the property.

 

Perry reportedly began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at the secluded ranch early in his career. The offensive phrase has been painted over, but the Post's sources and the Perry campaign differ on when that was done.

[unit731]

Perry is a flash in the pan. He ain't going nowhere. Too much baggage.

Loved his religion revival this Spring. Loved listening to all them ministers and preachers.

[Flashermac]

 

 

I'm more disappointed that Perry likes to go off and kill things for "fun" than the name of the place he did it. Perry has obviously never been shot at himself. Reminds me of Dick Cheney.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Flashermac]

 

 

 

Obama under fire over space plans

 

 

High-profile critics fear President Barack Obama's commercial overhaul of human spaceflight is going nowhere and could mark the end of half a century of US supremacy among the stars and planets.

 

"We will have no American access to, and return from, low Earth orbit and the International Space Station for an unpredictable length of time in the future," Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, warned lawmakers at a recent hearing.

 

The end of the space shuttle era has left America's human spaceflight program in an "embarrassing" state, Armstrong said, arguing that NASA needs a stronger vision for the future and should focus on returning humans to the Moon and to the International Space Station.

 

With the US space shuttle program now mothballed after its last flight in July, the United States is forced to depend on Russia's Soyuz capsules to ferry astronauts to the orbiting research laboratory until at least 2015.

 

Obama canceled the Constellation program that aimed to return humans to the Moon by 2020 and called on NASA to instead focus on new, deep-space capabilities to carry people to an asteroid by 2025 and Mars by 2030.

 

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[Flashermac]

 

 

 

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Call For Totalitarian Government, Re-Election Of Obama

 

 

The ignorance displayed in these interviews knows no bounds. The protesters just don’t get it. They are calling for the government to use force to impose their ideas, all in the name of bringing down corporations who they don’t realize have completely bought off government regulators. Corporations and government enjoy a mutually beneficial relationship – getting one to regulate the other is asinine and only hurts smaller businesses who are legitimately trying to compete in a free market economy that barely exists.

 

The zeal for totalitarian government amongst some of the “protesters†is shocking. One sign being carried around read, “A government is an entity which holds the monopolistic right to initiate force,†which seems a little ironic when protesters complain about being physically assaulted by police in the same breath.

 

One woman interviewed by Kokesh also announces her intention to help Obama to capture a second term. How can a self-proclaimed Occupy Wall Street protester simultaneously support the man whose 2008 campaign was bankrolled by Wall Street, whose 2012 campaign is reliant on Wall Street to an even greater extent, and whose cabinet was filled with Wall Street operatives?

 

Something is very wrong with this picture.

 

The usual suspects, mega-rich foundations and elitists, behind the young radicals have also started to emerge – George Soros, The Ruckus Society, the Tides Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

 

“The belated crusade against Wall Street is even more pathetic as it is coordinated by groups who wouldn’t exist without men like Soros, who made their money from deals that make the Street look sparkling clean. It’s class warfare as a cynical jab at the populist center, the people who mutter to themselves that the Street is full of crooks and so is Congress,†writes Daniel Greenfield.

 

The thousands of Americans currently expressing their disgust at Wall Street and the bankers who have ruined the economy to the detriment of the poor and middle class should be commended for getting off their hind ends and doing something, unlike the millions who will continue to watch American Idol, drink beer and laugh in ignorance as the country is flushed down the toilet. It should also be added that there is a sprinkling of “End the Fed†demonstrators who truly understand the root cause of the problem.

 

However, the fact that the majority of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are advocating “solutions†which the very elite they claim to be protesting against also want should set alarm bells ringing.

 

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Back to the future ... just like the 1960s.

 

 

[Steve]

http://news.yahoo.com/police-us-singer-owes-420-000-child-support-215129164.html

Police say a singer known for his 1990 chart-topping love song was hauled off a Massachusetts stage and arrested on charges of owing $420,000 in unpaid child support.

 

Steven Bernard Hill of Las Vegas was arrested Friday night at the MassMutual Center, where he was performing on tour.

 

Hill performs as Stevie B and is best known for the song "Because I Love You (The Postman Song)." It reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts in late 1990.

 

Sorta, kinda remember this guy. Was it necessary to take him off stage? Its a show, why not get him after?

[Flashermac]

Strange ... maybe some police chief was looking for publicity. Just pick him up back stage at the end of the show. He owes child support, but he's clearly not a dangerous criminal to be pounced on like this.

 

But he deserved to be arrested if he still has this stupid Mohawk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09qBdgqwYJY

[Flashermac]

Barone: Time to raise Cain to contender status

 

 

 

 

Is Herman Cain a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination? It's a question no one in the pundit world was asking until the past week.

 

Cain has never held public office. When he ran for the Senate in Georgia in 2004 he lost the primary by a 52 to 26 percent margin.

 

He has zero experience in foreign or defense policy, where presidents have the most leeway to set policy. When questioned about the Middle East earlier this year he clearly had no idea what the "right of return" is.

 

His solid performance in the Fox News/Google debate Sept. 22 didn't get pundits to take his chances seriously.

 

Neither did his 37 to 15 percent victory over Rick Perry in the Florida straw poll Sept. 24. That was taken as a response to Perry's weak debate performance and a tribute to Cain for showing up and speaking before the 2,657 people who voted.

 

But Republicans around the nation seem to have responded the same way. The Fox News poll conducted Sept. 25-27 showed Cain with 17 percent of the vote -- a statistically significant jump from the 5 percent he had been averaging in polls taken in previous weeks.

 

And a SurveyUSA poll of Florida Republicans conducted Sept. 24-27 showed Cain trailing Mitt Romney by only 27 to 25 percent, a statistical tie. That's very different from the Florida polls conducted by Public Policy Polling Sept. 22-25 and Quinnipiac Sept. 14-19, both of which showed Cain with 7 percent.

 

We will see whether other national or state polls show Cain with a similar surge. If so, then there's a real possibility that Cain could win enough primaries and caucuses to be a real contender.

 

That possibility is already being taken seriously by the Wall Street Journal's Daniel Henninger. Henninger argued in a Sept. 29 column that Cain's success in business -- engineering turnarounds in Burger King's Philadelphia stores and Godfather's Pizza nationally -- made him a plausible candidate.

 

"Unlike the incumbent," Henninger wrote, "Herman Cain has at least twice identified the causes of a large failing enterprise, designed goals, achieved them and by all accounts inspired the people he was supposed to lead."

 

Cain's business success, his "9-9-9" tax plan, his generally conservative stands on issues, the youtube clip showing him debating Bill Clinton on health care in 1994 -- all of these help account for his apparent surge in the polls.

 

But I suspect there are a couple of other factors. One is likability. Romney's attempts at ingratiation are awkward, and Perry's charm is lost on most non-Texans. But Cain is, as the Atlantic's liberal analyst Chris Good concedes, "undeniably likeable."

 

Another thing going for him is race. White conservatives like to hear black candidates who articulate their views and will vote for them: check out Rep. Tim Scott of Charleston, S.C.

 

In this, white conservatives resemble white liberals, who liked hearing Barack Obama articulate their views and were ready to vote for him too. This is what Joe Biden was getting at with his awkward 2007 comment that Obama was a "clean" black candidate.

 

White moderates are ready to support black candidates too, as Obama showed in the 2008 general election.

 

Cain claims that he could get one-third of the black vote in a general election. There's no way to rigorously test that.

 

But it finds some support in Scott Rasmussen's polls, which have been regularly pitting 10 current or possible candidates against Obama. Rasmussen finds Romney ahead by 2 percent and Chris Christie trailing by 1 percent. The other candidate closest to Obama, trailing by 5 percent, is Cain.

 

Moreover, Cain holds Obama to the lowest share of the vote, 39 percent, of any of the 10 Republicans. That may be because some black voters desert Obama when Cain is the opponent.

 

 

Raising Cain

[Flashermac]

 

 

 

BET's Robert Johnson To Obama: Stop Attacking The Wealthy

 

 

 

 

BET founder Robert Johnson on the "FOX News Sunday" program: "Well, I think the president has to recalibrate his message. You don't get people to like you by attacking them or demeaning their success. You know, I grew up in a family of 10 kids, first one to go to college, and I've earned my success. I've earned my right to fly private if I choose to do so.

 

"And by attacking me it is not going to convince me that I should take a bigger hit because I happen to be wealthy. You know, it is the old -- I think Ted and Fred and I we both sort of take the old Ethel Merman approach to life. I've tried poor and I tried rich and I like rich better. It doesn't mean that I am a bad guy.

 

"I didn't go in to business to create a public policy success for either party, Republican or Democrat. I went in business to create jobs and opportunity, create opportunity, create value for myself and my investors. And that's what the president should be praising, not demagoguing us simply because Warren Buffet says he pays more than his secretary. He should pay the secretary more and she will pay more."

 

 

 

 

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