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In 1952 President Truman Established one day a year as a "National Day? of Prayer."
In 1988 President Reagan Designated the first Thursday in May of each? year as The National Day of Prayer.
In June 2007 (then) Presidential Candidate Barack Obama Declared that? the USA "Was no longer a Christian nation.
In 2009 President Obama Canceled the 21st annual National Day of? Prayer
ceremony at the White House under the ruse of "not wanting to? offend anyone"
HOWEVER... On September 25, 2009 From 4 AM until 7 PM, A National Day? of
Prayer FOR THE MUSLIM RELIGION Was Held on Capitol Hill, inside? the White House.
There were over 50,000 Muslims In D.C. that day. PRESIDENT OBAMA? PRAYS
WITH THE MUSLIMS!
I guess it doesn't matter if "Christians" were offended by this event? -
We obviously don't count as "anyone" anymore.
Now President Obama is encouraging schools to teach the Quran
for? extra credit, while at the same time, they cannot even talk about
the? Bible, God, pray, or salute the American Flag.
The direction this country is headed should strike fear in the heart? of
every Christian , especially knowing that the Muslim religion?
believes that if Christians cannot be converted, they should be? annihilated.
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POS ON A ROLL AGAIN TODAY
President Barack Obama has some explaining to do to America, Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Obama has said that he won’t have time to meet with Netanyahu when he addresses Congress on Iran.
“Now President Obama can find time to meet with a YouTube personality who eats cereal out of a bathtub, but not the prime minister of our ally Israel?” Van Susteren asked.
The “On The Record” host then slammed Obama for “another insult” when a Muslim leader who accused Israel of being a suspect in the 9/11 attacks was invited to the White House’s anti-terror summit.
“So let me get this straight: the White House invites a Muslim leader who accused Israel of 9/11, but President Obama can’t find five minutes to meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu who is terrified Iran is getting nuclear weapons? That is so messed up,”
Obama administration sent 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers incorrect tax forms...THIS ADMINISTRATION IS GETTING MORE AND MORE INEPT EVRYDAY..
The Obama administration revealed Friday that it sent about 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers a tax form containing the wrong information, and asked them to hold off on filing their 2014 taxes.
The self-inflicted bungle follows weeks of administration officials touting a successful enrollment season -- one that saw far fewer technical glitches than the rocky launch in late 2013.
About 11.4 million people signed up this season. But the errors in tax information mean that nearly 1 million people may have to wait longer to get their tax refunds this year.
QUOTE.
"When the political winds shift in an ugly direction, I will stand by the muslims." Barack Hussein Obama.
I JUST DON'T SEE IT ????????
The New York Post mocks Obama's take on 'Islamic' terrorism
Business Insider
By Colin Campbell 1 hour ago
New York City's most outspoken tabloid is not a fan of President Barack Obama's reluctance to call terrorists "Muslim" or "Islamic."
The front page of Thursday's New York Post features Obama blindfolded with the headline, "Islamic terror? I just don't see it."
The cover is a reference to Obama's Wednesday speech at a White House summit on religious extremism. In the speech, Obama argued against granting jihadist militants like the Islamic State group (also known as ISIS or ISIL) "religious legitimacy."
The Post, clearly, has a different point of view.
"They're burning and beheading victims in the name of Islam," the tabloid's story on the speech reads, "but President Obama delivered a major speech Wednesday on combating violent extremism — while refusing to use the words 'Muslim terrorists.'"Â
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MINUTES OF MEETING BETWEEN ES AND SK AT THE OFFICE..
http://www.aol.com/article/2015/02/12/this-cockatoo-repeating-its-past-owners-intense-arguments-is-co/21141886/?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl36|sec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D611953
George W. Bush was right about Iraq pullout
By Marc A. Thiessen September 8, 2014
When former President George W. Bush makes a rare visit to Washington today, he won’t criticize President Obama for the bloodletting Obama unleashed with his withdrawal from Iraq. After leaving office, Bush promised Obama his silence. He is a man of his word.
But if Bush did speak out, here is what he ought to say:
I told you so.
In the summer of 2007, Bush warned of the dire consequence of pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq against the advice of our commanders on the ground. All of Washington was telling Bush that the surge he had launched would fail and that the time had come to withdraw from Iraq and accept defeat.
At a White House news conference on July 12, 2007, Bush declared: “I know some in Washington would like us to start leaving Iraq now. To begin withdrawing before our commanders tell us we’re ready would be dangerous for Iraq, for the region and for the United States. It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to al-Qaeda. It would mean that we’d be risking mass killings on a horrific scale. It would mean we’d allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan. It would mean we’d be increasing the probability that American troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous.”
He had no idea at the time how prophetic his words would be.
In 2010, Obama did precisely what Bush warned against and withdrew all U.S. forces from Iraq — overruling his commander on the ground, Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, who had recommended that Obama keep 24,000 troops. And since then, everything that Bush warned would happen has come to pass.
Bush warned that withdrawing against the advice of our military commanders would result in “mass killings on a horrific scale.” Check. We’re now seeing mass killings on a horrific scale — summary executions, women and children buried alive, people being crucified, the attempted genocide of the Yazidis and two American journalists beheaded.
Bush warned that withdrawal would “allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan.” Check. The Islamic State now controls a safe haven the size of Belgium.
Bush warned withdrawing too soon would “mean we’d be increasing the probability that American troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous.” Check. The Islamic State is far more dangerous now, the United States is back carrying out airstrikes in Iraq and Obama will address the nation on Wednesday to lay out a new military strategy to defeat the Islamic State.
That’s not all. In a July 14, 2007, radio address, Bush also warned that U.S. withdrawal would allow “terrorists to .?.?. gain control of vast oil resources they could use to fund new attacks on America.” Check. The Islamic State now controls vast oil resources, which are bringing the group an estimated $3 million a day — helping it to become the wealthiest terror network in the world.
In a Sept. 13, 2007, Oval Office address, Bush warned that “Iran would benefit from the chaos” after U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. Check. Just last week, the United States provided air cover for Iranian-back Shiite militias as they took back the town of Amerli — which means we are now serving as the de-facto air force for the same Iranian-backed militias who were responsible for many of the U.S. casualties in Iraq.
Can you say victory?
In an April 24, 2007, news conference Bush warned that U.S. withdrawal “could unleash chaos in Iraq that could spread across the entire region.” Check. After the United States withdrew from Iraq, the Islamic State moved into Syria, killing thousands and using that country as a staging area to recruit jihadists and plan its re-invasion of Iraq.
In other words, since Obama withdrew U.S. troops all of these warnings have come true. In Iraq, we are seeing what happens when the United States cuts and runs and allows evil to run rampant. The results were entirely predictable.
Indeed, they were predicted — by George W. Bush.
HEY DAVE .......
ALL THOSE THAT RIDICULED YOU AT THE POS BOARD SHOULD NOW BE APOLOGIZING TO YOU ABOUT NOW .. SEEMS LIKE WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN SAYING IS BECOMING REALITY NOW .......
POS DOWN TO 1.20 AND LOOKING LIKE ANOTHER PIPE OR REVERSE SPLIT COMING .............JAKE
IRS: Extra Tax Refunds for Illegal Immigrants Granted Amnesty by Obama
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen confirmed Tuesday that illegal immigrants granted amnesty under President Obama's executive actions will be able to get retroactive tax refunds.
Byron York explained on "America's Newsroom" that illegal immigrants will be eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit, which is actually a government grant of up to $5,000 to working families.
"Illegal immigrants affected by the president's edict will not only be eligible for those tax credits going forward, but three years retroactively," York said. "So they'll be able to collect quite a bit of money from the treasury."
York explained that the IRS has issued taxpayer identification numbers to people who are in the U.S. illegally, but working, so that they can pay taxes.
Illegal immigrants who filed taxes that way over the past three years can now go back and amend those previous tax forms to claim the Earned Income Tax Credit.
"There has been a long debate over whether these people should be eligible for government benefits," York said, adding that one of the promises Obama made during the passing of ObamaCare was that illegal immigrants would not be eligible for subsidies.
"The question of what government benefits, if any, that illegal immigrants should be eligible for has been a pretty hot question for a while. And now, under the president's edict, they're definitely eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit and something called the Additional Child Tax Credit, going back for three years."
http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/02/04/irs-offering-extra-tax-refunds-illegal-immigrants-granted-amnesty-president-obama
A REAL EYE OPENER
It's easy to dismiss individual government programs until they're put together and this picture emerges.
Someone did a lot of research to put together all of this data.
Often these programs are buried within other programs, making them difficult to find.
A RealEye Opener
WHY is the USA APPROACHING BANKRUPTCY?
You think the war in Iraq was costing
Us too much? Read this:
We have been hammered with the
Propaganda that it was the Iraq war and
The war on terror that is bankrupting us.
I hope the following14reasons are
Forwarded over and over again until
They are read so many times that the
Reader gets sick of reading them. I also
Have included the URL's for verification
Of all the following facts.
1.
$11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare
To illegal aliens each year by state governments.
Verify
At: http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8
2.
$22 Billion dollars a year is spent on food
Assistance programs such as food stamps,
WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify
at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML
3.
$2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on
Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at:
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML
4.
$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on
Primary and secondary school education
For children here illegally and they
Cannot speak a word of English!
Verify
At:http://transcripts.CNN.Com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt....0.HTML
5.
$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for
Education for the American-born
Children of illegal aliens, known as
Anchor babies.
Verify
Athttp://transcripts.CNN.Com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
6.
$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to
Incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
7.
30% percent of all Federal Prison
Inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at:
Http://transcripts.CNN..Com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt...01.HTML
8.
$90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on
Illegal aliens for Welfare & social
Services by the American taxpayers.
Verify
At:http://premium.CNN..Com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01..HTML
9.
$200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed
American wages are caused by the illegal
Aliens.
Verify
At: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRI
13.
In 2006, Illegal aliens sent home
$45 BILLION in remittances to their
Countries of origin.
Verify
At:.<http://WWW/..rense.Com/general75/niht.htm
14.
The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration:
Nearly One million sex crimes committed
By Illegal Immigrants In The United States ..
Verify
At:http: // www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
The total cost is a whopping
$ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS
A YEAR AND IF YOU'RE LIKE ME,
HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING
THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY; IT IS
$338,300,000,000.00
WHICH
WOULD BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE
THE ECONOMY FOR THE CITIZENS OF
THIS COUNTRY.
Are we THAT Stupid?
YES,
FOR ALLOWING THOSE
IN THE U.S. CONGRESS
TO GET AWAY WITH DOING THIS YEAR AFTER
YEAR!!!!!
If this doesn't bother you, then just
Delete the message.
If, on the other Hand, it does raise the hair on the back Of your neck, I hope you forward it to every
Legal resident in the United States.
This is nuts!!!!!!!
Pfizer Breast Cancer Drug Gets Early FDA Approval
WASHINGTON — Feb 3, 2015, 6:53 PM ET
Associated Press
Federal health regulators on Tuesday approved a highly anticipated medicine from Pfizer Inc. to treat postmenopausal women with a certain type of advanced breast cancer who have not already taken other drugs.
The Food and Drug Administration approved Ibrance for women who have tumors that do not contain a protein known as HER-2 and have receptors for the hormone estrogen. Ibrance, known generically as palbociclib, works by blocking molecules linked to cancer cell growth.
Pharmaceutical industry analysts expect Ibrance to grow into a mega-blockbuster, with annual sales as high as $4 billion by 2020.
The drug is intended to be used in combination with another older cancer medication known generically as letrozole.
FDA's Dr. Richard Pazdur said the combination "provides a novel treatment option to women diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer," which refers to cancer that has spread to other parts of the body.
Pfizer said it would price Ibrance at $9,850 a month, or $118,200 per year. The New York-based company said in a statement that price "is not the cost that most patients or payors pay."
The company noted that most prescriptions are dispensed through health plans, which negotiate discounts for medicines or get government-mandated price concessions.
The FDA granted the drug accelerated approval — more than two months ahead of its April 13 target date — based on a 165-patient study showing that it slowed the progression of breast cancer. Patients taking Ibrance and letrozole lived 20.2 months on average before their tumors worsened. That was about twice as long as the benefit for women in a comparison group who only received letrozole. The study is ongoing and it's not yet clear whether Ibrance's benefits result in increased survival times for patients.
The FDA grants drugs accelerated approval to drugs that show highly promising preliminary results that are expected to result in clinical benefits for patients. If follow-up studies do not confirm those benefits, regulators can revoke the drug's approval. The agency previously named palbociclib a breakthrough therapy, a designation given to medicines for diseases with no or inadequate treatments. It's meant to speed up the testing and approval process.
More than 232,600 American women were diagnosed with breast cancer last year and 40,000 died of the disease, according to estimates from the National Cancer Institute.
The most common side effects with Ibrance include low levels of white blood cells, fatigue, nausea, hair loss, diarrhea, vomiting and nerve damage.
Shares of Pfizer Inc. rose 37 cents, or 1.2 percent, to close at $32.02. They added 29 cents to $32.31 in extended trading.
Whistleblowers: US Gave Visas to Suspected Forgers, Fraudsters, Criminals
http://news.yahoo.com/whistleblowers-us-gave-visas-suspected-forgers-fraudsters-criminals-152937215--abc-news-topstories.html
Officials overseeing a federal program that offers an immigration short-cut to wealthy foreign investors have ignored pointed warnings from federal agents and approved visas for some immigrants suspected of having committed fraud, money laundering, and even one applicant with alleged ties to a child porn website, an ABC News investigation has found. The shortcomings prompted concerns within the Department of Homeland Security that the boutique immigration program would be exploited by terrorists, according to internal documents obtained by ABC News.
“It is shocking,” said Sen. Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican. “Particularly when you have F.B.I. and other law enforcement agencies that are saying national security could be compromised or is being compromised -- that's enough for us to be concerned.”
Five different Homeland Security whistleblowers spoke with ABC News about a range of cases where visas were approved despite numerous red flags. They said objections were often ignored because the immigration program is so popular within the Obama Administration and with members of Congress from both parties. Known as the EB-5 visa program, foreigners who are willing to invest $500,000 in an American business can jump to the front of the line and obtain legal status to live in the U.S. for two years. If the investment is shown to create at least 10 jobs, the investors can receive a “Green Card” -- permanent residency.
White House Fudges Words To Avoid 'Turncoat' Charge
02/02/2015 06:59 PM ET
Semantics: If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck ... well, you get the idea. But not this White House, which called the Fort Hood massacre by a self-proclaimed jihadi yelling "Allahu Akhbar" "workplace violence."
Despite Army denials, desertion charges appear likely and imminent in the case of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who walked away from his combat post in Afghanistan.
The White House line that we traded five Taliban generals for him because "we leave no man behind" is wearing thin. We do and should leave deserters behind, and if we ever get our hands on them, their fate is usually not a happy one. Neither should Bergdahl's be.
The administration believes that its trade for the five Taliban leaders — who are eligible to return to the battlefield in three months, and one of whom has already phoned his old terrorist pals — could still possibly be explained away as a well-intentioned mistake.
At the time, Bergdahl was said to be in bad health, and he hadn't been officially charged with anything. And besides, the Taliban is not a terrorist group.
That's now the official line by an administration that let Marine Andrew Tahmooressi rot in a Mexican jail because he took the wrong exit but that sees nothing wrong in rescuing a deserter in time of war while strengthening an enemy that has cost America much in lives and treasure.
We can't be trading terrorists for a turncoat if the Taliban is not a terrorist organization. They're an "armed insurgency," as White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz explained.
IS is a terrorist group but the Taliban is not, making it lawful to deal with them.
Never mind that this administration does not consider the Islamic State either Islamic or a state.
By their fruits ye shall know them, except in the Obama administration. To explain this distinction without a difference, press secretary Josh Earnest said, "(The Taliban) do carry out tactics that are akin to terrorism, they do pursue terror attacks in an effort to try to advance their agenda."
But they are not a terrorist group, Earnest insists, because the Taliban, unlike al-Qaida, "have been principally focused on Afghanistan."
So you can commit terrorist acts but not be a terrorist group as long as your terror tactics are employed within the same ZIP code.
Never mind that it was the Taliban that let al-Qaida use Afghanistan as a sanctuary and base camp to plan and launch the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America
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POS TANKING BIG TIME NOW........
The gentle GIANT - Michael Brown ?
A MUST VIEW
Attached is a video taken from a cell phone, showing how Michael
Brown.....(yes, the one and the same)....treats a senior black male. This
300 lb. young boy (that's what media calls him) is the same Michael Brown that
attempted to take a gun away from a police officer and paid with his life.
Here is the fellow that all of the riots are about. Videos don't lie. You will
not see this in the media. Pass this around so the truth can be known. It
needs to be seen. So, they say the Grand Jury got it all wrong.....................
M. Brown was just a sweet boy.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152409165407282
DAVE............
LOOKING MORE AND MORE LIKE IMPENDING DOOM FOR POS......
P-P-H-M sing dis song, DOO-DAH, DOO-DAH....
Communist Party
The chairman of the National Committee of the Communist Party USA has penned a 2,023-word manifesto making the critical point that American Communists are eager to work with the Democratic Party to advance the modern communist agenda and achieve communist goals.
Communist Party chairman John Bachtell published his essay last week at People’s World, a “daily news website of, for and by the 99% and the direct descendant of the Daily Worker.”
“[L]abor and other key social forces are not about to leave the Democratic Party anytime soon,” Bachtell promised. “They still see Democrats as the most realistic electoral vehicle” to fight against perceived class enemies.
Bachtell, 58, is playing the long political game and he has a strategy, he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/communist-party-usa-chairman-vows-cooperation-democratic-party-141019868.html
Lynch Disqualifies Herself by Acquiescing to Obama’s Executive Amnesty
After six years of President Obama, Americans have seen an unprecedented attempt to expand Presidential power. Discarding the Constitution for his own pen and phone, this President has attempted to convert the subtle shift in executive power we have seen over decades and across parties into an imperial presidency. The President believes that he may act unilaterally on treaties, war, prisoner exchanges and U.S. immigration policy. He has peered into the Constitution and found that his powers have no limits. This may be why he lost both the House and the Senate, and since 2010, has remarkably caused 28 U.S. Senators to be fired and replaced by an even more unpopular party.
Now, the President nominates Ms. Lynch for Attorney General. The Attorney General, it should be noted, might be appointed by the President, but he or she is not counsel to the President. The job of the Attorney General is to enforce federal and constitutional law on behalf of the people. Simply put, the Attorney General must be strong enough to protect America from all sorts of crimes. Most importantly, the Attorney General, particularly the next Attorney General, must be prepared to protect the United States from an imperial president and presidential abuses under the Constitution.
In her hearing, Ms. Lynch disqualified herself from this position when she agreed that the President had the Constitutional right through executive action to gut the entirety of immigration law and create de facto amnesty on his own for millions of illegal aliens. Ms. Lynch’s position is not a political view; it is a legal view that is demonstrably false. By admitting that she is not prepared to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, she has disqualified herself from serious consideration for the job to which she has been nominated.
The issue of executive amnesty is one where innumerable partisans have taken differing positons on the legality of the President’s executive fiat. Most of these views are rooted, sadly, in political bias, academic tomfoolery, or just shameless promotion of economic interest. The President has no power granted him to create executive amnesty of the kind he has foisted on America. And no, prior Presidents did not do this, and even if they had, their violation of the law is not a justification for additional Presidential overreach.
Ms. Lynch was asked a simple legal question. It was one for which she had ample time to prepare. She failed to get that Constitutional question correct. She either does not know the right answer, or she is unwilling to stand up for the Constitution and the limits it puts on Presidential power. In either scenario, she cannot be confirmed.
AMERICA - YOU HAVE BEEN SOLD OUT LOCK STOCK AND BARREL TO THE ENEMY
MEET OUR NEW ASST. DIRECTOR FOR
US CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION
Meet Fatima Noor, President Obama's latest appointment to a high level position in the Department of Homeland Security, the post of Assistant Director for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration .
Obama Appointment Fatima Noor Asst Director for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration. Really?? If you are not concerned, people, you sure should be...see a pattern here?
Ms. Noor has little, if any, experience in the compliance or enforcement fields. Her total experience in government related work is limited to volunteer work with World Relief Memphis and as activities coordinator the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition.
She majored in psychology with minors in Spanish and Arabic international relations. She recently completed a month-long research fellowship in Muslim psychology hosted by Carnegie-Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh. Her research will be ongoing as part of her work the DHS.
http://muslimmedianetwork.com/mmn/?p=16040
No, this is not a joke.
IT'S TIME FOR MY AFTERNOON NAP SO WE CAN DUKE IT OUT LATER AND THEN HAVE A COUPLE OF HEINEKENS
WANT TO PUT THE GLOVES ON ........LOL
YES
BUT BOEHNER DIDN'T RELEASE A DESERTER FOR 5 TERRORISTS
Student attacks teacher in N.J. high school
Boehner and McConnell can veto Obama
A funny thing happened on the way to President Obama’s nirvana of one-man rule. Just as he was trying to build some momentum behind his executive orders while taunting Congress with an onslaught of veto threats, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) gave the president a reality check.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens as President Obama delivers remarks to reporters at the White House last year. (Michael Reynolds/European Pressphoto Agency)
Obama is insistent that Congress refrain from passing any further sanctions on Iran because he believes such a move could derail the White House’s diplomatic negotiations with Iran over Iran’s nuclear program. The president has faced criticism — most notably from Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) — for what appears to be his willingness to accommodate Iran. But when Boehner invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress next month without telling the White House, he sent a strong message. Boehner’s action essentially vetoed the president’s plan to acquiesce to Iran.
Obama may think he can govern around Congress, but he will learn that if pushed, Congress can also do some governing around him. He has just gotten his first taste.
The president may be testing the limits of executive power, forcing Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to lead their co-equal branch of government and creatively test their own limits of power, both on foreign and domestic policy. It may not be healthy for our democracy, but there is no question about who started it.
And don’t forget, thanks to the actions of Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), McConnell now has veto power over just about every executive branch nominee. Don’t expect the Republican majority to undo Reid’s filibuster rule change anytime soon. In fact, McConnell is reportedly considering getting rid of the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees as well. You reap what you sow.
Anyway, Obama is not the only person with “veto power” in Washington. Boehner can wield a “virtual veto” on many things, and McConnell can veto most executive nominations. There has been a lot of smug talk about Obama’s recent uninhibited, freewheeling attitude as he deals with Congress. But maybe the people at the White House will think twice about the president’s veto-heavy approach after they brush up on their civics and fully digest what the Netanyahu visit might portend for the remaining two years of the president’s term.
U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will face charges for desertion.
On Monday’s broadcast of “The O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel, retired Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer of the London Center for Policy Research revealed to host Bill O’Reilly that sources tell him U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will face charges for desertion.
Bergdahl was held captive by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Afghanistan from June 2009 until his release in May 2014, which was part of a prisoner exchange for five Taliban members who were being held at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay.
“Bill, the Army has come to its conclusion and Bowe Bergdahl,” Shaffer said, “Sgt. Bergdahl will be charged with desertion. I have been told and confirmed by two other sources that his attorney was given what we call a charge sheet. A charge sheet is results of the investigation listing out the articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice that have been violated. The key violation is desertion. And this is has been done. The decision has been made. Let me be very clear. As a corporate entity, the Army has decided that they want to pursue Bergdahl for this violation.”
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ONLY OBONGO COULD SCREW UP ISRAEL TOO
The Obama administration reportedly is fuming over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to address Congress in March regarding the Iranian threat, with one unnamed official telling an Israeli newspaper he will pay “a price” for the snub.
House Speaker John Boehner invited Netanyahu -- and the Israeli leader accepted – without any involvement from the White House.
In public, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest politely describes this as a “departure” from protocol. He also says the president will not meet with Netanyahu when he visits in early March, but has attributed that decision only to a desire not to influence Israel’s upcoming elections.
But in private, Obama’s team is livid with the Israeli leader, according to Haaretz.
"We thought we've seen everything," a source identified as a senior American official was quoted as saying. "But Bibi managed to surprise even us. There are things you simply don't do.
“He spat in our face publicly and that's no way to behave. Netanyahu ought to remember that President Obama has a year and a half left to his presidency, and that there will be a price."
The anonymous quote was a throwback to when, last year, Atlantic magazine quoted another unnamed senior administration official calling Netanyahu a “chickenshit.”
ANOTHER COVER UP.........
Whistleblower: Pelosi Covered Up Role In Crisis
Subprime Scandal: We've long suspected the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission wasn't honest in examining events before the meltdown. But an ex-commissioner says the probe was actually a full-blown political cover-up.
In a just-released book, former FCIC member Peter Wallison says that a Democratic Congress worked with the commission's Democratic chairman to whitewash the government's central role in the mortgage debacle. The conspiracy helped protect some of the Democrats' biggest stars from scrutiny and accountability while helping justify the biggest government takeover of the financial sector since the New Deal.
Wallison's sobering, trenchantly written "Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World's Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again" reveals that the Democrat-led panel buried key data proving that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and other federal agencies pushed the housing market over the subprime cliff. The final FCIC report put the blame squarely on Wall Street.
In 2009, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed her California pal Phil Angelides, a long-time Democrat operative, to lead the commission. The fix seemed to be in, and Wallison's account of the inner workings of the 10-member body confirms it. Here's what took place during the FCIC's 18-month, $10 million probe:
• Angelides provided no staff to help Wallison and other Republicans interview witnesses, conduct research or draft the report. But commission Democrats were assigned almost 80 staffers to help formulate their single theory that bank risk-taking and greed unleashed by deregulation caused the crisis.
• Angelides never notified Wallison or other commissioners about the hundreds of witnesses he called to testify in closed-door interviews with his staff, denying them the chance to cross-examine the witnesses.
• Staffers failed to put these private witnesses under oath, even though the final report was based almost exclusively on their testimony with little or no documents or data to back up their statements, which simply validated the Democrat narrative.
• Angelides buried evidence revealing that by 2008, three in four high-risk mortgages wound up on the books of HUD-controlled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or agencies such as the Federal Housing Administration. A data-rich memo by former Fannie Mae chief credit officer Ed Pinto proved that government, not the private sector, drove risky lending. But Pinto's research "was never formally made available by the chair or staff to the other members of the FCIC," Wallison writes.
• Angelides withheld the final draft of the report from Wallison and other commissioners until eight days before sending it to the printer, never giving them the time they needed to go over the wording or content of the almost 900-page draft
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IT ALWAYS AMAZES ME WHAT PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND ABOUT REVERSE SPLITS
IF YOU HAVE A 1 FOR 5 REVERSE SPLIT AS PPHM HAD ON OCT 19, 2009 AND OWNED 10,000 SHARES YOU WOULD THEN OWN 2,000 SHARES AFTER THE SPLIT.
THE CLOSE ON OCT 16 WAS 0.64 THE ADJ. CLOSE ON OCT 16 WAS $3.20...
BOTH EQUAL $6400.
TODAYS 2000 SHARES ARE NOW WORTH $2670.
Phase II Clinical Data of Peregrine Pharmaceuticals' Bavituximab in Combination With Sorafenib Presented at ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium
Positive Trends in Time to Progression, Disease Control Rates and 4-Month Progression-Free Survival Endpoints Were Reported in a Patient Population With Poor Prognosis; Survival Curves Showed Patients With Prolonged Survival Consistent With Those Seen in Other Immunotherapy Studies in Different Indications; Overall Data From Trial Support Bavituximab's Immunostimulatory Mechanism-of-Action
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Phase II Clinical Data of Peregrine Pharmaceuticals' Bavituximab in Combination With Sorafenib Presented at ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium
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TUSTIN, CA--(Marketwired - Jan 16, 2015) - Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: PPHM) (NASDAQ: PPHMP), today announced the presentation of clinical data related to the company's immuno-oncology development program and its lead investigational immunotherapy drug candidate bavituximab at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This conference is being held January 15-17, 2015 at the Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco, California.
The clinical presentation titled: "A Phase II Study of Bavituximab and Sorafenib in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)" will be presented this afternoon by Adam Yopp, M.D., assistant professor of surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, Texas.
In this single-center, single-arm, open-label investigator-sponsored trial (IST), 38 patients with advanced HCC received bavituximab (3mg/kg) weekly and sorafenib (400 mg) twice daily until disease progression or toxicity. Data show that the combination of bavituximab and sorafenib is associated with an improved time to progression (TTP) of 6.7 months, a disease specific survival (DSS) of 8.7 months, a disease control rate (DCR) of 58% (22 out of 38 patients) and a 4-month progression-free survival (PFS) of 62%. Two patients (5%) achieved a partial response according to Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors (RECIST). The secondary endpoint of median overall survival (OS) was 6.2 months. The combination of bavituximab and sorafenib was well-tolerated in patients with advanced HCC with no indications of autoimmune adverse events that have been seen with other checkpoint immunotherapies.
"These clinical outcomes of time to progression, disease control rate and 4-month progression-free survival are quite encouraging, especially in this heavily pretreated patient cohort with very poor prognosis due to their unfavorable disease biology including a high rate of macrovascular invasion," said Dr. Yopp. "I was also pleased to see an extended tail in the survival curve that is typical of emerging immunotherapies for cancer. The positive data from this study should be considered as rationale for future randomized trials to further evaluate the potential of bavituximab in liver cancer."
"These data, along with recently reported translational data from this study, continue to build the knowledge base for the bavituximab clinical program and, in particular, highlight the potential immunotherapeutic synergies of bavituximab and sorafenib. We agree with Dr. Yopp that these data warrant further clinical evaluation of this combination in later stage clinical trials," said Joseph Shan, vice president of clinical and regulatory for Peregrine. "We continue to build value in the bavituximab program across multiple programs including the execution of the SUNRISE Phase III trial in second-line, non-small cell lung cancer and from data generated from this and other investigator-sponsored trials as well as other ongoing clinical trials. We look forward to new clinical collaborations with the goal of further exploring the utility of bavituximab in combination with other immuno-oncology drugs."
A link to today's poster can be found from the front page of the company's website at: www.peregrineinc.com.
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Liver IST Clinical Translation Data
Recently presented translational data of six patients from this trial show that half of the patients evaluated had an increase in tumor fighting immune cells following one cycle of bavituximab treatment, similar to what has been shown for PS-targeting antibodies in multiple preclinical cancer models. In addition, the increase in immune response was associated with patients that remained on study treatment for longer time periods, suggesting the possibility of a clinically meaningful anti-tumor immune response. Three of the six patients evaluated had increased infiltration of activated tumor-fighting T-cells (CD8) into the tumor microenvironment which correlated with a prolonged time to disease progression. In addition, these responding patients initially expressed lower levels of PD-1 positive cells, an established marker of T-cell activation and disease outcome, prior to the initiation of therapy that was followed by a measurable rise post bavituximab treatment.
About the Phase II Trial
In this Phase II non-randomized, open-label trial, 38 patients with advanced HCC received bavituximab weekly and sorafenib (400 mg) twice daily, until disease progression or toxicity. The primary endpoint of this trial is radiologic time to progression with imaging occurring at 6 week intervals. Secondary endpoints of this trial include overall survival (OS), progression free survival (PFS), safety and response rates. In order to leverage recent understandings surrounding the immune-stimulatory mechanism of action of bavituximab, several additional components have been installed into this portion of the trial. These include plasma and serum collection and tissue biopsies for evaluating changes in immune response following bavituximab treatment to assess whether combination therapy reactivates tumor immunity by changing the tumor microenvironment from immunosuppressive to immunoreactive by changing the tumor infiltrating cell composition or inducing T-cell response to tumor antigens.
More information on this trial can be found at ClinicalTrials.gov using the Identifier NCT01264705.
About Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company with a pipeline of novel drug candidates in clinical trials for the treatment and diagnosis of cancer. The company's lead immunotherapy candidate, bavituximab is in Phase III development for the treatment of second-line non-small lung cancer (the "SUNRISE trial") along with several investigator-sponsored trials evaluating other treatment combinations and additional oncology indications. The company is also advancing a molecular imaging agent, 124I-PGN650, in an exploratory clinical trial for the imaging of multiple solid tumor types. Peregrine also has in-house cGMP manufacturing capabilities through its wholly-owned subsidiary Avid Bioservices, Inc. (www.avidbio.com), which provides development and biomanufacturing services for both Peregrine and third-party customers. Additional information about Peregrine can be found at www.peregrineinc.com.
THERE IS FUNNY STUFF AND THEN THERE IS HILARIOUS STUFF..
IS THIS GUY INSANE OR WHAT AND HE IS OBAMA'S RIGHT HAND MAN ....
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/al-sharpton-calls-emergency-meeting-210136185.html
Hillary Clinton...THIS Hillary Clinton ?
Hillary Clinton's 40 year career in government:
1) When she was an attorney working on the Watergate investigation, she was fired by her supervisor for “lying, unethical behavior.”
Jerry Zeifman, who said he is a lifelong Democrat, was a supervisor for 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. When the investigation was complete, Zeifman said he fired Hillary and refused to give her a recommendation.
“Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality. Now, there is some question as to whether Zeifman actually had the power to fire her or merely wanted to if he did have the power. Zeifman says he did fire her. Either way, Zeifman later said that his biggest regret about the entire matter was that he didn't report Hillary's unethical behavior to the bar association. 1 job - 1 failure
2) When Bill Clinton recaptured the governorship in 1982 he appointed his wife to head a special task force charged with reforming Arkansas’ education system, at that time widely regarded as the worst in the country. The plan Mrs. Clinton came up with showcased teacher testing and funding the schools through a sales tax increase, an astoundingly regressive proposal since it imposed new costs on the poor in a very poor state while sparing any levies on big corporations. The plan went through. Arkansas’ educational ranking remained abysmal. 2 jobs - 2 failures.
3) As First Lady of the United States, Bill gave Hillary another shot:
The Clinton health care plan, known officially as the Health Security Act, was a 1993 healthcare reform package proposed by the administration of President Bill Clinton and closely associated with the chair of the task force devising the plan, First Lady Hillary Clinton.
The plan, which became known as "Hillarycare" was so wildly unpopular on all levels, it led to the Republicans simultaneously winning both the House and Senate in 1994 for the first time since 1953. 3 jobs - 3 failures.
4) Hillary's first ethics problem involving White House operations was " Travelgate"
A memo written by David Watkins depicted Hillary Clinton at the center of the 1993 travel office dismissals. Watkins wrote, "we both know that there would be hell to pay" if "we failed to take swift and decisive action in conformity with the First Lady's wishes."
May 19: seven White House Travel Office staffers were fired, for little apparent reason besides to make way for a company owned by Clinton's friends (Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason) from Arkansas. Prior to the removal of the previous staff -- who historically would carryover from administration-to-administration -- Harry Thomason accused Travel Office employees of demanding kickbacks. An accusation later proved false. 4 jobs - 4 failures
"Filegate":
The White House FBI files controversy of the Clinton Administration, often referred to as Filegate, arose in June 1996 around improper access in 1993 and 1994 to Federal Bureau of Investigation security-clearance documents. Craig Livingstone, director of the White House's Office of Personnel Security, improperly requested, and received from the FBI, background reports concerning several hundred individuals without asking permission. The revelations provoked a strong political and press reaction because many of the files covered White House employees from previous Republican administrations, including top presidential advisors. Under criticism, Livingstone resigned from his position. Allegations were made that senior White House figures, including First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, may have requested and read the files for political purposes, and that the First Lady had authorized the hiring of the underqualified Livingstone.
Livingstone's lack qualifications for his position seem rather startling; he had worked on a number of Democratic Party campaigns and transitions, including being an advance man for the Clinton-Gore 1992 campaign, but his only prior job in the "security" field was that of a local bar bouncer at a Washington, D.C., night club. An FBI document suggested that Livingstone had been given his position because First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was a friend of Livingstone's mother and recommended him. In 1999, Clinton gave a sworn statement that she had nothing to do with Livingstone's hiring. Livingstone also stated under oath there was no truth to the supposed hiring relationship. Hillary Clinton would later refer to the whole files matter as a "pseudo-scandal". While we won't classify Hillary's involvement here as a job, she certainly did nothing to make a situation better, and it's rather obvious she helped make it worse.
Also, we have found out earlier this year that Secret service personnel who guarded the first family during the Clinton years claim that being assigned to then-first lady Hillary Clinton was considered “the worst form of punishment” because of her condescending, dismissive treatment of agents, a new book alleges.
“Agents say being on Hillary Clinton’s detail is the worst duty assignment in the Secret Service,” wrote Ron Kessler in his book, The First Family Detail, according to the Daily Mail. “Being assigned to her detail is a form of punishment.”
One former uniformed officer recalled the first lady telling him to “F*** off” in response to his cheerful “Good morning, ma’am.”
“Hillary was so mistrustful and vengeful,” a former agent told Kessler.
Nice. But Hillary's looking out for the common folks, right ? Yeah, sure.
5) As U.S. Senator from New York:
Back in 2005, Fannie and Freddie were, after years of dominating Washington, on the ropes. They were enmeshed in accounting scandals that led to turnover at the top.
Then legislative momentum emerged for an attempt to create a ``world-class regulator'' that would oversee the pair more like banks, imposing strict requirements on their ability to take excessive risks.
In 2005 Alan Greenspan told Congress how urgent it was for it to act in the clearest possible terms: If Fannie and Freddie ``continue to grow, continue to have the low capital that they have, continue to engage in the dynamic hedging of their portfolios, which they need to do for interest rate risk aversion, they potentially create ever-growing potential systemic risk down the road,'' he said. ``We are placing the total financial system of the future at a substantial risk.''
For the first time in history, a serious Fannie and Freddie reform bill was passed by the Senate Banking Committee. The bill gave a regulator power to crack down, and would have required the companies to eliminate their investments in risky assets.
If that bill had become law, then the world today would be different. In 2005, 2006 and 2007, a blizzard of terrible mortgage paper fluttered out of the Fannie and Freddie clouds, burying many of our oldest and most venerable institutions. Without their checkbooks keeping the market liquid and buying up excess supply, the market would likely have not existed.
But the bill didn't become law, for a simple reason: Democrats opposed it on a party-line vote in the committee, signaling that this would be a partisan issue. Republicans, tied in knots by the tight Democratic opposition, couldn't even get the Senate to vote on the matter.
Thus the real estate market bubble burst, which led to the collapse of the mortgage derivatives securities market, which led to the collapses of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, which led to the collapse of the U.S. economy and the stock market, which bottomed out in march, 2009. Only the stock market has fully recovered.
But we now know that many of the senators who protected Fannie and Freddie, including then Senators Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Christopher Dodd, received mind-boggling levels of financial support from them over the years.
Clinton, the 12th-ranked recipient of Fannie and Freddie PAC and employee contributions, received more than $75,000 from the two enterprises and their employees. The private profit found its way back to the senators who killed the fix.
On matters concerning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, immigration, etc., Mrs. Clinton basically voted along party lines.
She was neither sponsor or co-sponsor to any major legislation passed during her 2 terms in the Senate.
On an embarrassing note, Mrs. Clinton famously made up a story about " dodging sniper fire " while on a visit to Bosnia. When caught in the lie, Mrs. Clinton said she "misspoke". How do you "misspeak" about " dodging sniper fire" ? It was an outright lie, a rather stupid one as it was so easily disproved, and she got caught. Period.
Since Mrs. Clinton basically marched in lock step with her fellow Democrats in political matters, I see no reason to single out her Senate career as a failure, but unless I'm missing something, it seemed nothing more than the vast majority of other Senators' careers, ideological and mediocre. Certainly nothing so remarkable as to deserve potential presidential adulation. Let's be more than fair and call it a wash.
5 jobs - 4 failures 1 wash.
6) As Secretary of State:
- " Re-Set " button with Russia - How'd THAT work out ? - 5th failure
- " Arab Spring " - ditto - 6th failure
- Benghazi: it has become apparent that she knew it was terrorist attack while it was happening, yet STILL publicly spoke about the " video" as the cause for weeks. Supposedly was too distraught to go on the Sunday Moring talk shows the following week, so Susan Rice was sent out to lie instead. If true, and she was " too distraught" to face the nation, how can she be Commander-in-Chief ?
Still hasn't explained why she denied repeated requests for greater security in the weeks and months leading up to the attack ( even after Brits were attacked and subsequently left ).
7th, a huge failure.
- Investigation into a series of cases involving sexual misconduct by both ambassadors as well as security personnel were called off on the orders of senior State Department officials on Clinton’s watch. Clinton’s chief of staff Cheryl Mills gave the order in one case while other top-level officials stopped other probes. The confirmation of the cases in an internal State Department memo shows a pattern of sexual misconduct—including on the part of those charged with protecting Clinton—that is troubling. But the manner in which higher-ups consistently suppressed these embarrassing investigations is even more worrisome. While Clinton is not personally named as the one ordering the cover-ups, the links between the secretary and those committing the bad behavior as well as those shutting down the probes are clear.
Another egregious story in this list of egregious stories involves Howard Gutman, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium who was accused of routinely ditching his security detail and then soliciting prostitutes, including minors. But Patrick Kennedy, the undersecretary of state for management, ordered the investigation shut down. -
8th failure
- Relations with China, Iraq, North Korea, Israel, Egypt... all worse than before she took over as SOS. For that matter, name a country with whom our relations improved while she was on the job. Can't, can you ? We'll count them all as one.. -
9th failure
- We found out in early 2014 that while Secretary of State. Hillary fought against having Boko Haram classified as a terrorist organization. This is the same Boko Haram that kidnapped 300 Nigerian girls with plans to sell them. - 10th failure
Totals:
10 major failures covering 6 high profile jobs in government
no major specific positive accomplishments
So, what exactly has Mrs. Clinton done to merit her status as a Presidential candidate ? She has had numerous opportunities in many high-profile positions. I can't find a single example where she made any of those situations better through her work. Quite the contrary, she almost always left things in worse shape. Note, I don't consider a chance to be elected the first woman President an "accomplishment". I would love to see a woman President if she's the most qualified person ( male or female, black, white, Asian, whatever ) for the job. If anything I've posted about her career is not true, what is that exactly ? If you can't find anything incorrect ( feel free to do your own research, you won't be able to ) then just please give me any specific examples of Mrs. Clinton performing a job capably, efficiently, ethically and leaving things in a better position than they were before she took over. If you can't do either of those things, why on earth would you even consider voting for her ? We've been suffering as a nation because too many people voted for the current President because it was "historical". How's THAT working out ? We can't afford people to be voting for another bad potential President for the same stupid "historical" reasons. This is serious stuff. Time to vote for people who have proven they can do a good job. No other reason is acceptable. The world has become a really dangerous place. We need someone who can handle all that. Hillary has proven time and again she can't even handle much, much less.
TONE DEAF.............
Within days of the Charlie Hebdo murders, President Obama has decided to release 5 terrorists detained at Gitmo for 10-12 yrs.
Several are from Yemen Al Quida....the same group claiming responsibility for the Hebdo terror attacks.
Is this really the time to be releasing them?
Pelosi’s Pick For Intelligence Committee Has Received Thousands From Islamic Groups, Once Touted Madrassas
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The lawmaker House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi plans to name to a House intelligence committee received political contributions from Islamist groups named as unindicted co-conspirators of terrorist organizations and once gave a speech in which he said that the U.S. education system should be based on the Koran. Pelosi will name Democratic Indiana U.S. Rep. André Carson to the House’s Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, it was reported Tuesday. Carson will be the first Muslim to hold that position. He is one of two Muslims currently in Congress. Carson has raised eyebrows with some of his past political and religious remarks, and he’s received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign money from groups implicated in terrorism investigations. In a May 26, 2012 speech at the 37th Annual Islamic Circle of North America-Muslim American Society Convention in Hartford, Conn., Carson spoke about how Islamic teachings would improve the U.S. education system.