Posted by spooneybarger Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:38:00 GMT
The Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases are a danger to public health and welfare. It is the first step to regulating pollution linked to climate change.
Posted by spooneybarger Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:07:00 GMT
We preach of freedom in this country all the time. From the left, from the right. Yet, people aren’t free to come and go as they please.
The nation’s two major labor federations have agreed for the first time to join forces to support an overhaul of the immigration system, leaders of both organizations said on Monday. The accord could give President Obama significant support among unions as he revisits the stormy issue in the midst of the recession.
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:02:00 GMT
Police in the South Carolina county where Michael Phelps was photographed smoking from a marijuana pipe have been arresting people as they seek to make a case against the superstar swimmer, lawyers for two arrested people said Thursday.Attorneys Joseph McCulloch and Dick Harpootlian told The Associated Press they each represent a client charged with possession of marijuana who were questioned about the party Phelps attended near the University of South Carolina campus in November.
The lawyers said the two clients were renters at the house where the party apparently took place, although they were not at the party. The two have since moved and were arrested after police executed a search warrant at their new home and accused them of having a small amount of marijuana there.
“After they arrested him, they didn’t ask him, ‘Where did you get the marijuana?’ or ‘Who sold it to you?’ Almost all the questions they asked him were about Michael Phelps,” Harpootlian said.
Posted by spooneybarger Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:43:00 GMT
Please Ms. Collins, don’t feed me shit and tell me that its sweetbreads…
In driving down the total cost of the stimulus bill — from $838 billion approved by the Senate and $820 by the House — legislators also sharply reduced proposed tax incentives for buyers of homes and cars that held huge public appeal. Senator Collins said getting the final number to under $800 billion was more than symbolic; it meant “a fiscally responsible number,” she said.
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But even as Congressional leaders and top White House officials went through the package with a carving knife, it was clear that the three Republicans who agreed to support the bill in the Senate wielded extraordinary power, and along with conservative Democrats in their coalition, had put a firm stamp on the stimulus package. For instance, even as negotiators accepted many of the Senate’s reduced spending provisions, they were careful to maintain an additional $6.5 billion for medical research that was inserted at the insistence of Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, who is a cancer survivor.
they left out the $100 million specter insisted on to see ‘finally determine if the people of the great state of pennsylvania where cheated out of multiple super bowls by the new england patriots’...
Mr. Harkin said he was particularly frustrated by the money being spent on fixing the alternative minimum tax. “It’s about 9 percent of the whole bill,” he said, “which we were going to do later this year in a tax bill. Why is it in there? It has nothing to do with stimulus. It has nothing to do with recovery. This makes no sense whatsoever.”
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:07:00 GMT
but if true would be interesting. not that there is any way to tell… read the whole thing and ye shall understand… so sayeth the spooneybarger…
Small-town people of modest means and limited education are not fixated on cultural issues. Rather, it is affluent, college-educated people living in cities and suburbs who are most exercised by guns and religion. In contemporary American politics, social issues are the opiate of the elites.
Posted by spooneybarger Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:12:00 GMT
A federal jury today convicted the former mayor of Newark, Sharpe James, of fraud for conspiring to sell city-owned properties to a former girlfriend, who quickly flipped them and earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits. The former girlfriend of Mr. James, Tamika Riley, was also found guilty. Under federal guidelines both could face about seven or eight years in prison.
Posted by spooneybarger Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:56:00 GMT
If Mr. Spitzer were to resign, Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson would serve out the remainder of his term. Mr. Paterson, who is legally blind, would become the first black governor of New York. State Senator Joseph L. Bruno, the state’s top Republican, would assume the duties of the lieutenant governor.
just think… joe bruno, one step by a blind man off the curb into traffic away from being governor…
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:26:00 GMT
For (Ron) Paul, everything comes back to money, including Iraq. “No matter how much you love the empire,” he says, “it’s unaffordable.” Wars are expensive, and there has been a tendency throughout history to pay for them by borrowing. A day of reckoning always comes, says Paul, and one will come for us. Speaking this spring before the libertarian Future of Freedom Foundation in Reston, Va., he warned of a dollar crisis. “That’s usually the way empires end,” he said. “It wasn’t us forcing the Soviets to build missiles that brought them down. It was the fact that socialism doesn’t work. Our system doesn’t work much better.”
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:15:00 GMT
Multiple indications of vote fraud are beginning to pop up regarding the New Hampshire primary elections. Roughly 80% of New Hampshire precincts use Diebold machines, while the remaining 20% are hand counted. A Black Box Voting contributor has compiled a chart of results from hand counted precincts vs. results from machine counted precincts. In machine counted precincts, Clinton beat Obama by almost 5%. In hand counted precincts, Obama beat Clinton by over 4%, which closely matches the scientific polls that were conducted leading up to the election. Another issue is the Republican results from Sutton precinct. The final results showed Ron Paul with 0 votes in Sutton. The next day a Ron Paul supporter came forward claiming that both she and several of her family members had voted for Ron Paul in Sutton. Black Box Voting reports that after being asked about the discrepancy Sutton officials decided that Ron Paul actually received 31 votes in Sutton, but they were left off of the tally sheet due to ‘human error.’
Posted by spooneybarger Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:37:00 GMT
you are so smart. only you aren’t. and then the education first lady’s husband calls you out:
“There are good people running,” continued the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who has made his foreign policy credentials a centerpiece of his long shot presidential bid. “But to say Musharraf is up for election! Musharraf was elected — fairly or unfairly — president six months ago. It’s about a parliamentary election!”Clinton’s comments came in an interview with ABC Sunday, in which she said, “[Musharraf] could be the only person on the ballot. I don’t think that’s a real election.”
The New York senator also made similar comments during an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer last week, saying then, ””If President Musharraf wishes to stand for election, then he should abide by the same rules that every other candidate will have to follow.”
Posted by spooneybarger Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:56:00 GMT
it makes it much easier to fuck them. o wait, that is south african politicians not american ones, my bad….
Mike Huckabee once advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, opposed increased federal funding in the search for a cure and said homosexuality could “pose a dangerous public health risk.”
Posted by spooneybarger Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:28:00 GMT
Cary, North Carolina is the latest city to move to instant runoff voting and have an extremely positive experience—see this exit poll. Some key findings:
In the one race was an instant runoff was triggered, 92% of voters in the first round cast a valid vote in the final round. Given that this was a down-ballot race, with a hotly contested race for mayor decided in the first round, it was certainly higher turnout than would have occurred with a traditional runoff. It also acted as meaningfuol campaign finance reform, as candidates have been spending a lot money in Cary elections and would have to spend money in the runoff.
Posted by spooneybarger Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:11:00 GMT
Spooney supports it, so should you…
You can read the in the news bit here
You can learn more here
Posted by spooneybarger Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:12:00 GMT
how about we play the juxtaposition game…
say hi to bill…. ( still more parts on you tube… )
and randy…
and how about we throw in ko’s summation…