2012 - NO OBAMA

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,,,,,,,I resign...my hard work has been futile. Send shelly a mod request she's aware.

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Breitbart...er...BRAINFART at it again I see! SELLING MISINFORMATION TO FIXED NEWS NETWORK...TO GET THE UNEDUCATED...UPTIGHT TEABAGGERS ALL RILED UP!

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GOV Jindal is an idiot!!!...His "glorified..sand.berms..washed away!!CNN just reported.

He got up on National TV..."Mr President we need these $400M sand berms now!" Geez....built up sand berms in the gulf?!?! This is the one time I agree with Thad Allen on the pushback


JINDAL STRONGARMED BP TO PAY FOR THIS!!!!

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Not for long....Oil is stopped...Financial reform passed...etc

[CashCowMoo]

Obama poll numbers turning worse than Bush's, Obama lies only work for so long. The socialist's mask is falling off!

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(FULL SPEECH) President Obama Fires Dysfunctional Team/Runaway General:

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In other good news...US socer team wins! But because Clinton was in the stands...i'm sure it was a conspiracy to make a failed U.S. President look like a winner or distract from Obama's "BP problem"

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CNN topic tonight "Gary & Tony have a baby..." CNN's just as bad as Fixed News (Fox news) What a joke...I suspect this was Anderson Cooper, John King or Rick Sanchez's idea.

CNN Can't report any "President Fails" tonight! Hahaaa

Because General Petraeus is now taking command of the Afghanistan.
And That snake Mcchrystal has been relieved finally!

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,,,,,,,Just heard lard azz Savage criticizing Petraeus as a "fainter" What branch of the military did Michael Savage serve in???

What a punk azz! And bunch of cowards you disenters are at a time of war!! Give Sean Calamity, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh a gridline, some AR15's... send them into the field and these clowns would shoot each other in the azz with friendly fire.

Fixed News...er Fox news is stuck on Gov.Blago trial, BP and oil skimmers. Who gives a damm about oiled pelicans every 24hrs..or about that S$&@ hole region known as" Miss,Ala,Louisiana...there's Zero coverage and news about Mcchrystal insubordination. Why?? Because you guys want to see this country FAIL!

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UCMJ Article91,,,,,,,I bet you were cheering for military insubordination!!!

Read it..Article91!!!! Were it me...General Mcchrystal would be Colonel Mcchrystal

I AM SO DAMM SICK OF YOU GUYS CHEERING FOR THE U.S. TO FAIL IN ORDER TO SCORE CHEAP POLITICAL POINTS!!!!

[logman]

oboma worst president this country has ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[logman]

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
Friday, June 18, 2010
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 25% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-six percent (46%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21 (see trends).

These results are based upon nightly telephone interviews and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. As a result, more than two-thirds of the interviews for today’s update were conducted after the president’s speech to the nation. Tomorrow’s update will be the first based entirely upon interviews conducted after the speech.

The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Updates are also available on Twitter and Facebook.

Overall, 41% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's performance. That’s the lowest level of approval yet recorded for this president. Fifty-eight percent (58%) now disapprove.

Seventy-six percent (76%) of Democrats approve of the president’s performance. Eighty-five percent (85%) of Republicans disapprove along with 72% of unaffiliated voters.

President Obama’s numbers have typically bounced following a national television event. Generally, they bounce up a little. Once, following a press conference, they went down. In all cases so far, the bounce has lasted a week or so and then faded.

Thirty-three percent (33%) say the president is doing a good or an excellent job handling the Gulf oil spill. Forty-six percent (46%) say he’s doing a poor job.

The Rasmussen Reports Media Meter shows that media coverage of President Obama has been 39% positive over the past week. Since the passage of the health care law, coverage has ranged from a high of 60% positive to a low of 39% positive.

Scott Rasmussen observes that one piece of common ground among voters today “is frustration with political dialogue that seems designed to polarize and divide the public.” In his new book, he adds, “Most of us have come to believe that the political system is broken, that most politicians are corrupt, and that neither major political party has the answers. Some of us are ready to give up and some of us are ready to scream a little louder. But all of us believe we can do better. In Search of Self-Governance , is available at Rasmussen Reports and Amazon.com.

If you’d like Scott to speak at your conference or event, contact Premiere Speakers Bureau.

Scott has published several recent Wall Street Journal columns including “Why Obama Can’t Move the Health Care Numbers” and how Obama won the White House by campaigning like Ronald Reagan. He has also written an overview of the health care reform debate, a look at how President Obama is losing independent voters, and was the first to note the decline in the president's approval ratings.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

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Fox Noise: Michele Bachmann defends BP....Remarkable

http://www.gawkk.com/bachmann-defends-bp-1/discuss

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Obama kicks some butt...Republicans Kiss butt of Big oil!!!

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,,,,,,,FYI if you're going on a recon mission in Pakistan for Osama.

You're going about it all wrong logman or Gary...
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=51321824
Here's my military 2cents all free of charge


I would touch down in the Soviet Union O DARK 30...
And hike my way to the khorg border....
Take a mule into borghil pass...
Make your way to Gupis,,,Fit in with the locals tell them you are a geologist.
And that's where you'll find your man...

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,,,,,,,You wouldn't be "Gary Faulkner??" Pakistan Arrests US Man on Solo Mission to Kill bin LadenUpdated: 5 hours 15 minutes ago


AOL News (June 15) -- A California construction worker armed with a pistol, a 3-foot-long sword and night-vision goggles has been arrested roaming northern Pakistan on a self-described solo mission to kill Osama bin Laden, Pakistani officials said today.

They identified the man as 52-year-old Gary Faulkner, who told investigators he's been to Pakistan seven times. He apparently has no connection to the U.S. military.

"We initially laughed when he told us that he wanted to kill Osama bin Laden," police officer Mumtaz Ahmad Khan told The Associated Press. But then when authorities found his sword and night-vision gear, "our suspicion grew," he said.

Pakistan's Dawn News quoted investigators as saying Faulkner told them he was trying to cross the border into Afghanistan on "a mission to decapitate Osama bin Laden."

Faulkner carried a book with Christian verses and teachings, Khan said.

When Faulkner was asked why he thought he could catch bin Laden, Khan told AP he answered: "God is with me, and I am confident I will be successful in killing him."

Faulkner, who suffers from kidney problems and high blood pressure, arrived as a tourist in the Chitral district, checked into a hotel and received a security escort, Agence France-Presse reported, citing police.

"On Sunday night, our security guard noticed that Gary had disappeared. A search operation was launched and we found him 14 kilometers [nine miles] short of the Pakistan-Afghan border. He was trying to enter Nuristan," Khan told AFP.

"He said 9/11 caused colossal losses to the U.S., therefore he wanted to locate Osama bin Laden and his friends," said Khan, describing Faulkner of sound mind.

It's the first known case of an American arrested in Pakistan for allegedly trying to fight against Islamic militants there. There have been several high-profile cases of Americans accused of trying to connect with Taliban or al-Qaida militants to join the fight against U.S. troops in neighboring Afghanistan.

Faulkner was picked up by police in Pakistan's northern Chitral region late Sunday, on suspicion of trying to cross the border into Afghanistan illegally. He hasn't been charged, and is being questioned today by intelligence officials in Peshawar, northern Pakistan's largest city.

Chitral is one of several remote, mountainous tribal areas where the al-Qaida chief is rumored to be hiding.

Faulkner had been in Chitral for 10 days before vanishing, AFP said. "Gary said he bought his pistol locally and the rest of the equipment from California, but there was no entry for this equipment on his travel documents," Khan told AFP.
Filed under: World, Weird News

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TURNCOAT CARVILE endorses Gov.Jindal for President:

Somehow the Muckrakers: John King, Anderson Cooper at CNN somehow missed this


JINDAL!!! He's only spent $3M of $25M BP grant!!!
The media won't cover this little fact...


Gautreaux and Chabert Stand Up For Terrebonne
BP has given the State of Louisiana $25M in grant money to diffuse the costs of spill related expenses. On Thursday, members of Louisiana's coastal legislative delegation were informed a mere $3M of the $25M has been spent. BP has also created a grant to promote tourism attractions threatened by the spill. There are a few things going on here; but the one thing missing is aid to our coastal parishes. What is going on with this money?

Senator Butch Gautreaux, D-Morgan City asked the same question. The Times-Picayune quoted Gautreax saying, "Why is Governor Jindal holding on to that money? I think he needs to explain." While Jindal is not quoted as having responded to the Senator's question, his spokesperson Melissa Sellers had quite a bit to say: "Working directly with BP is the best way to ensure that parishes are paid quickly," she said. "We stay in constant communication with parish leaders every day to ensure their needs are met, and we have told BP and the Coast Guard that we expect them to directly work with parishes to fund their expenses in order to reduce the amount of time for approving their requests." Sellers states that the Jindal Administration is in "constant communication" with parish leaders, yet goes on to say that BP officials have agreed to contact parish officials to address additional financial needs.

BP has already given the State of Louisiana $25M for oil clean-up expenses and communicates with coastal parish leaders on a daily basis. Now members of our legislative delegation are requesting portions of that money be transferred to affected parishes. Even though Louisiana has possession of the funds, the state's response is to contact BP. It seems abundantly clear that the State of Louisiana has no intention of handing over any of that money to Terrebonne Parish. Senator Chabert, D-Houma, was also present at the meeting with BP officials. Senator Chabert expressed frustration with the immediate availability of funds, saying, "They want to do so much, whether it's a big project or a small project, but they are frustrated because the money they need isn't being afforded them in a timely fashion."

Gautreaux and Chabert are doing everything they can to streamline these funds to coastal parishes, but the State of Louisiana seems to want to keep these funds. $5M of the $25M BP gave Louisiana was transferred to the Louisiana State Attorney General's Office. These funds are being used to help offset the cost of litigation against BP although the Louisiana Attorney General's Office has yet to identify who they will be filing suit against or when the suit would be filed. In the meantime, coastal parishes will get none of those funds from BP.

Louisiana has every reason for filing suit against BP, but why are we not using those funds to help mitigate the very losses we intend to file suit and seek damages for? Terrebonne Parish has 65 miles of coastal frontage and the state has decided to keep that money for themselves. Voice of Terrebonne is extremely satisfied to see our local legislators fighting to voice our concerns. We encourage citizens to visit the Our Action page and write, email, or call other local officials to voice your concerns on this issue. Change will only begin when citizens stop accepting second-class status and start demanding first-class efforts.



Post Date: 06-03-2010 ·
http://www.voiceofterrebonne.com/story-stand.html

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CNN: RICK SANCHEZ IS A CUBAN WOODSNAKE

[logman]

[logman]

Are you going to let me be the boards assistant yet?

Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm

[logman]

So why did you change your name again?

Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm

He can walk on water! Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm

White when its convenient! Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm

What a joke! Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm

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,,,,,,,Blanche Lincoln a man??? She stabbed the Party/Prez in the back...looks Billy Jean Kingish...she should switch parties!

[CashCowMoo]

Helen Thomas: another anti-israel dem bigot.

[CashCowMoo]

Oil Spill: Brought to you by Obama admin overwatch. 20 years from now they will still blame Bush for problems they dont know how to deal with. Classic.

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,,,,,,,,Why aren't you in the Gulf sucking up some uh dat FREE OIL dey got don yonda! All courtesy of the GOP!!!!!! I hear dey givin it alll away derr.

My best cajun impersonation.


Yes this is MoneyMade... One of God's messengers.

[logman]

You change your name again money???

Talent on loan from God!!! LOL Are you really Rush ???

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Helen Thomas is Lebanese....resigned but I say forced out by whom???????????

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Yes....that's my background.

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notes on the hand or teleprompter, you tell me what is different.

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best president ever? where did you learn history sir? thats right....you never have studied law and history have you.

[CashCowMoo]

do me a favor, and never drive a gasoline powered vehicle again. Dont buy anything plastic, dont fly, and dont use fertilizer.

thank you

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DRILL BABY DRILL....NO REGULATIONS! KILL BABY KILL

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Best president ever....soon GOP crackdown. Crack some f'n GOP heads

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959 Days Until Barack Obama is Out of Office

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Obama is a disaster

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Spill baby spill..."Please Mr. President bail us out" Signed idiot redneck hicks in the Gulf who criticized Govt bailouts!

ROFL!!!!!!

[buyittradeit]

I looked but couldnt find anything.

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Yup....don't be lazy Impress us...

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If it is on the news surely there would be a link on the internet right?

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Why...it's on the news! Fed is investigating MEE (Massey Energy)
what else is the govt supposed to do but shut those scammers down.

[buyittradeit]

you have a link?

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DOW 11,000!!! best since 2008

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,,,,,,,Yes....think before you write.

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Did he do anything for the w.va miners?

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WHAAAAT!!! "Karazi threatens to join Taliban" (pop a cap in somebody's azz!!)

Lawmakers: Afghan leader threatens to join Taliban

KABUL – Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened over the weekend to quit the political process and join the Taliban if he continued to come under outside pressure to reform, several members of parliament said Monday.

Karzai made the unusual statement at a closed-door meeting Saturday with selected lawmakers — just days after kicking up a diplomatic controversy with remarks alleging foreigners were behind fraud in last year's disputed elections.

Lawmakers dismissed the latest comment as hyperbole, but it will add to the impression the president — who relies on tens of thousands of U.S. and NATO forces to fight the insurgency and prop up his government — is growing increasingly erratic and unable to exert authority without attacking his foreign backers.

"He said that 'if I come under foreign pressure, I might join the Taliban'," said Farooq Marenai, who represents the eastern province of Nangarhar.

"He said rebelling would change to resistance," Marenai said — apparently suggesting that the militant movement would then be redefined as one of resistance against a foreign occupation rather than a rebellion against an elected government.

Marenai said Karzai appeared nervous and repeatedly demanded to know why parliament last week had rejected legal reforms that would have strengthened the president's authority over the country's electoral institutions.

Two other lawmakers said Karzai twice raised the threat to join the insurgency.

The lawmakers, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of political repercussions, said Karzai also dismissed concerns over possible damage his comments had caused to relations with the United States. He told them he had already explained himself in a telephone conversation Saturday with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that came after the White House described his comments last week as troubling.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said reports Karzai threatened to abandon the political process and join the Taliban insurgency if he continued to receive pressure from Western backers to reform his government are troubling.

"On behalf of the American people, we're frustrated with the remarks," Gibbs told reporters.

The lawmakers said they felt Karzai was pandering to hard-line or pro-Taliban members of parliament and had no real intention of joining the insurgency.

Nor does the Afghan leader appear concerned that the U.S. might abandon him, having said numerous times that the U.S. would not leave Afghanistan because it perceives a presence here to be in its national interest.

Karzai spokesman Waheed Omar's phone was turned off and another number for him rang unanswered Monday. Deputy spokesman Hamed Elmi's phone rang unanswered.

The comments come against the background of continuing insurgent violence as the U.S. moves to boost troop levels in a push against Taliban strongholds in the south.

NATO forces said they killed 10 militants in a joint U.S.-Afghan raid on a compound in Nangarhar province's Khogyani district near the Pakistani border early Monday, while gunmen seriously wounded an Afghan provincial councilwoman in a drive-by shooting in the country's increasingly violent north.

NATO also confirmed that international troops were responsible for the deaths of five civilians, including three women, on Feb. 12 in Gardez, south of Kabul.

A NATO statement said a joint international-Afghan patrol fired on two men mistakenly believed to be insurgents. It said the three women were "accidentally killed as a result of the joint force firing at the men."

International force officials will discuss the results of the investigation with family of those killed, apologize and provide compensation, he said.

The two men killed in the Gardez raid had been long-serving government loyalists and opponents of al-Qaida and the Taliban, one serving as provincial district attorney and the other as police chief in Paktia's Zurmat district.

Their brother, who also lost his wife and a sister, said he learned of the investigation result from the Internet, but had yet to receive formal notice.

Mohammad Sabar said the family's only demand was that the informant who passed on the faulty information about militant activity be tried and publicly executed.

"Please, please, please, our desire, our demand is that this spy be executed in front of the people to ensure that such bad things don't happen again," Sabar said.

In the latest of a series of targeted assassination attempts blamed on militants, Baghlan provincial council member Nida Khyani was struck by gunfire in the leg and abdomen in Pul-e Khumri, capital of the northern province, said Salim Rasouli, head of the provincial health department. Khyani's bodyguard was also slightly injured.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the shooting, although suspicion immediately fell on Taliban fighters who often target people working with the Afghan government and their Western backers.

One month ago, a member of the Afghan national parliament escaped injury when her convoy was attacked by Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan. Female government officials regularly report receiving threats to their safety. Some women leaders, including a prominent policewoman, have been assassinated.

The Taliban rigidly oppose education for girls and women's participation in public affairs, citing their narrow interpretation of conservative Islam and tribal traditions. Militants, who are strongest in the south and east, carry out beatings and other punishments for perceived women's crimes from immodesty to leaving home unaccompanied by a male relative.

Also Monday, the organizer of a national reconciliation conference — known as a jirga — scheduled for early May said it would not include insurgent groups such as the Taliban. There has also been indications it would include discussion of the withdrawal of 120,000 foreign troops in the country.

Ghulam Farooq Wardak, the minister of education who is organizing the conference, said it will focus on outlining ways to reach peace with the insurgents and the framework for possible discussions.

Out of the jirga will come the "powerful voice of the Afghan people," Wardak said. "By fighting, you cannot restore security. The only way to bring peace is through negotiation."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100405/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan

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Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! (STRIP CLUBS) Republican National Committee spent nearly $2,000 at West Hollywood strip club Voyeur




By Kenneth R. Bazinet and David Saltonstall
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Originally Published:Monday, March 29th 2010, 1:23 PM
Updated: Monday, March 29th 2010, 4:45 PM

Djansezian/GettyThe erotic, bondage-themed club Voyeur is located in West Hollywood. Take our PollStripping down the controversy
Are you offended by the disclosure that the RNC spent $1,946 on a strip club bill?

Yes! The GOP is supposed to be the party of family values.
No! This is blown way out of proportion - for partisan reasons.
I'm not surprised by ANYTHING that goes on in politics.

Related NewsArticlesSen. Graham slams health care bill for being 'sleazy'Lupica: Tea Party activism is about storm trooper sound bitesObama will bypass vacationing Senate to fill key jobsPresident Obama makes surprise trip to AfghanistanBarbara Bush hospitalized in TexasTalk about grand ol' partying.

The "family values" Republican National Committee spent almost $2,000 last month at an erotic, bondage-themed West Hollywood club, where nearly naked women - and men - simulate sex in nets hung from above.

The RNC's risqué business expense covered a night out at the high-end S&M club Voyeur Feb. 4, Federal Election Commission records filed by the RNC show.

A red-faced party spokesman insisted yesterday that party head Michael Steele - already under fire for running up outlandish expenses - was not among the revelers.

"The chairman was never at the location in question he had no knowledge of the expenditure, nor does he find the use of committee funds at such a location at all acceptable," said RNC spokesman Doug Heye.

Party officials refused to clarify how anyone at the RNC could have found the expense appropriate. The right-leaning blog, RedCounty.com, reported that the outing was part of an RNC push to recruit local "eagles," the party's honorary tag for young, big-ticket donors.

The dark, leather-heavy club features a net hung above the bar where topless performers - dressed in little more than masks and bikini bottoms - writhe above the heads of clubgoers. The Voyeur scene has drawn such A-listers as bad girl Lindsay Lohan and pop diva Lady Gaga.

One recent patron wrote in an online review: "There are topless 'dancers' acting out S&M scenes throughout the night," adding she was "stopped dead in my tracks to watch two girls simulating oral sex in a glass case."

At least one night a week, the dancers are all male, although the RNC hoedown appeared to be a ladies' night. West Hollywood is the heart of the L.A.-area gay community.

Heye conceded that the RNC had reimbursed an unnamed, "noncommittee staffer" for the naughty night. That appeared to be California Republican Erik Brown, 33, a marketing exec who has worked for the National Rifle Association and the Orange County GOP.

Last fall, he tweeted about catching an NFL game with Steele.

Last night, RNC officials released a statement that seemed to defend Brown as "a loyal GOP donor" and cast the blame for the Voyeur outing on the "improper request" of an unidentified RNC staffer - who has since been axed by the committee.

Brown didn't return calls and e-mails seeking comment yesterday, but FEC records showed that the RNC reimbursed him $1,946.25 on Feb. 4 - the same amount the RNC reported spending at the club that day.

After the story broke on The Daily Caller, a Web site headed by conservative Tucker Carlson, the RNC said it had asked for its money back. A Republican source said Brown has agreed.

The kinky episode come at a time when Steele is already under fire from some big-time donors for his high-flying ways.

A recent analysis by Politico.com found that under Steele, RNC spending on private jets had doubled, limo trips had tripled and meal expenses jumped from $306,000 to $599,000 compared with the same period in 2005.

Revelations about the party's latest bills did nothing to help Steele's standing. Prominent GOP officials were relieved to hear Steele was not at the club, but some shook their heads in disbelief that the RNC signed off for the tab at Voyeur.

"You would have thought," said a top GOP source, "they would have noticed that before they filed it."

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[MONEYMADE]

I am so sick of you people getting emotional and Never using your intelligence. HOW DARE YOU SAY THE PATRIOT ACT IS CONSTITUITIONAL! Health care is in the constitution? Is health care pools for the uninsured with pre-existing conditions like Cancer, HIV, High blood pressure unconstitutional?

HELL NO IT'S NOT!

What about having asthma...that's a pre-existing condition.
Is that in the constitution.

HELL NO IT'S NOT!

Lastly, read this below about your beloved Patriot act. Come join us when you can discuss with this forum on some level of reasoning about who's really calling the shots and save the Argumentum ad Metums...



The USA PATRIOT Act broadly expands law enforcement's surveillance and investigative powers and represents one of the most significant threats to civil liberties, privacy and democratic traditions in U.S. history. The act in its current form gives sweepingUnited States Constitution


Page one of the original copy of the Constitution

search and surveillance to domestic law enforcement and foreign intelligence agencies and eliminates checks and balances which had been the difference between the free world and the suppressed.

That difference previously had given courts the opportunity to ensure that those powers were not abused. PATRIOT and follow-up legislation now in development threaten the basic rights of millions of Americans and has turned America into a suppressed state.

A new bill introduced in this 110th Congress is designed to extend the USA Patriot Act allowing what many experts say are illegal provisions which will continue to allow the FBI, DEA, ICE, ATF, U.S. Military and other federal agencies to spy on investigate and arrest innocent Americans.
The law because of the act allows for violations of Americans constitutional rights that our fore Fathers did not intend. House Resolution 1467

Constitutional lawyers all across America say the Patriot Act should be repealed not reinstated.
President Bush signed into law the earlier renewal of the controversial Patriot Law on December 30, 2005 as the provisions were due to expire they were extended with Public Law 109-160 that pushed the date from December 31, 2005 until February 3, 2006. The date of expiration was again changed from February 3, 2006 until March 10, 2006 with Public Law 109-170. (Feb. 3, 2006

The origenal Patriot Act was passed into law on October 24, 2001 by the Congress of the United States, just 45 days after the September 11 attacks, with few Congressman even reading it and virtually no debate. There are significant flaws in the Patriot Act, flaws that threaten your fundamental freedoms by giving the government the power to access your medical records, tax records, information about the books you buy or borrow without probable cause, and even worse the power to break your door down at your home at any time of the day or night and conduct unconstitutional searches and seizures or if your lucky and are not home they can search your home or business in secret without telling you for weeks, months, or even indefinitely.

According to Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) the law dramatically expands the ability of states and the Federal Government to conduct surveillance of American citizens. The Government can monitor an individual's web surfing records, use roving wiretaps to monitor phone calls made by individuals "proximate" to the primary person being tapped, access Internet Service Provider records, and monitor the private records of people involved in legitimate protests.

PATRIOT is not limited to terrorism EFF writes on their web site. They point out that the Government can add samples to DNA databases for individuals convicted of "any crime of violence." Government spying on suspected computer trespassers (not just terrorist suspects) and all of this and more requires no court order. Wiretaps are now allowed for any suspected violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, offering possibilities for Government spying on and monitoring any computer user's searches, e-mails and in fact record every stroke on any computer.

Foreign and domestic intelligence agencies can more easily spy on Americans. Powers under the existing Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) have been broadened to allow for increased surveillance opportunities. FISA standards are lower than the constitutional standard applied by the courts in regular investigations. PATRIOT partially repeals legislation enacted in the 1970s that prohibited pervasive surveillance of Americans.

PATRIOT eliminates Government accountability. While PATRIOT freely eliminates privacy rights for individual Americans, it creates more secrecy for Government activities, making it extremely difficult to know about actions the Government are taking.

PATRIOT authorizes the use of "sneak and peek" search warrants in connection with any federal crime, including misdemeanors. A "sneak and peek" warrant authorizes law enforcement officers to enter private premises without the occupant's permission or knowledge and without informing the occupant that such a search was conducted.

The Department of Justice, with little input from Congress and the American people, is developing follow-on legislation - the Domestic Security Enhancement Act (nicknamed Patriot II) -- which would greatly expand Patriot’s already sweeping powers.

The federal government has turned American freedoms into a world wide mockery with their unchecked spying on ordinary Americans, part of a broad pattern of the executive branch using "national security” and or “suspected terrorism " as an excuse for encroaching on the privacy and free speech rights of Americans without adequate oversight. It eliminates many protections against unlawful imprisonment and now many rights in U.S. legal system are absent — such as the important right of habeas corpus Consortiumnews.com

As written the act violates due process for all Americans. All the president has to do is call a citizen an “enemy combatant,” and the person’s due process rights disappear. The US Government says that U.S. citizens can be detained and then tried in secret trials - in absentia, and can use secret evidence that the accused cannot see or challenge. If evidence is obtained by coercion, or torture government lawyers contend that it should still be allowed as a basis for conviction, there by erasing 300 years of Anglo-American jurisprudence.The shameful demise of due process - Editorials & Commentary ...
You should be very uncomfortable with the collection of your records by the governmentwhich are using the Patriot Act to demand your social security number and other private financial or medical information by order of secret courts and the muzzling of those citizens who receive such orders from speaking publicly about them. This is a violation of both the 1st and 4th amendment. You should also oppose the collection of both private and business records by banks, pharmacies and other businesses which are using the Patriot Act to demand your social security number and other private financial or medical information.
Criticism of former President Bush's admission that he had received warnings only weeks before September 11th has made it more important to understand the origins of the act. There has never been a more urgent need to preserve fundamental privacy protections and our system of checks and balances than the need we face today. As illegal government spying, provisions of the Patriot Act and government-sponsored torture programs transcend the bounds of law and our most treasured values in the name of national security and just the allegation of suspected terrorist activity be it true or not.
The current Act that was extended and updated you can read online at this site: www.epic.org.
Financial Transactions

The sections of the Patriot Act that deal with financial transactions fall under Title III, which is also known as the International Money Laundering Abatement and Financial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001. It stands on its own as a separate act of Congress as well as being part of the Patriot Act, and is an amended version of the 1986 Money Laundering Control Act and the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act. The earlier acts tended to focus on preventing money laundering and international cash flow as it related to the drug trade, or to gambling, smuggling, and other types of criminal activity. In the 2001 version, the focus has shifted towards money laundering as a means of financing international terrorism.

The current act encourages financial institutions to collect certain data to identify customers and their transactions in case any of the activity should be flagged as “suspicious” by a government agency. “Suspicious” in most cases means involving any foreign nationals or corporations. The Patriot Act considers any such accounts or transactions worthy of intense scrutiny. (Although the scrutiny will, of course, be more severe for certain nationalities than for others.)

What if you are a US-born, US citizen, do not have any arrest record, and are not involved in any type of criminal activity? If you’d just like to open a bank account or engage in another banking transaction, can a bank force you to provide your social security number? How about fingerprinting you? Is either of these strictly required by law? Not exactly – although if you do not wish to provide your social security number you will have to obtain an alternate taxpayer identification number. This information (along with your name, address, and date of birth) is used as part of the required Customer Identification Program (CIP) used to verify customer identity (and to compare customer information with lists of known terrorist suspects). Such information may also be required by other money service businesses such as currency exchanges. All having the effect of the financial institution acting as agent to and for the US Government.

Fingerprints are not a requirement of the Patriot Act, and they are certainly not required by all financial institutions – so if your bank insists on this procedure, you may wish to take your business elsewhere.

Cash Transactions

Cash transactions are certainly not prohibited, but they bring more government scrutiny, and they are now more inconvenient for certain vendors to process. If you deposit, withdraw, or make a purchase involving more than $10,000 in cash in one day, the other agency involved has to file a Currency Transaction Report (CTR) with the IRS that reports details such as your name, address, and taxpayer identification number.
If you purchase over $3,000 of traveler’s checks, money orders, or cashier’s checks, such a transaction will also be reported to the IRS via a Monetary Instrument Log (MIL). And should you engage in any activity that indicates you may be engaged in money laundering or otherwise violating the law, your transaction may even trigger your being put on the no fly list and on the Suspicious Activity Report (SAR). The SAR will be filed without your knowledge – it is, in fact, against the law for you to be informed of the SAR as your knowledge would compromise the subsequent investigation.
If you want the Patriot Act to be repealed you should immediately write your Congressperson and express your concerns, if you and millions of others don’t America’s leadership in freedom and our own freedoms and liberties will be a thing of the past.

[logman]

[MONEYMADE]

Yes I'm gloating...that's what us capitalists do. Maybe you mistook me for John Lenon or Lol some softy because I recognize the hypocrisy of both parties but my intellect tells me it's all a game. So before you get on your rocker pony and lecture about the constituition Ask yourself who the fk signed the patriot act!

[logman]

First off lets get this fact out in the open. I am not your buddy!
It is sad that you are gloating over making a few cents on a stock when our constitution was walked on to do so,