Obama's a dick..............

Could Obama ignore Congress if they refuse?

As both major parties debate their conditions for raising the nation's debt ceiling, some Senate Democrats and constitutional scholars are questioning whether the limit is constitutional in the first place.Link

Massive Stimulus Had Little Impact.

The Federal Reserve's massive stimulus program had little impact on the U.S. economy besides weakening the dollar and helping U.S. exports, Federal Reserve Governor Alan Greenspan told CNBC Thursday.Link

Why are they so worried this?.....

This guy probably spends a lot of his day thinking about this.

2012 compared to ’08.

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul says his campaign is going “all out” for the Iowa Republican Party’s Straw Poll in mid-August. Paul ran for the GOP’s nomination in 2008, finishing with nine percent support in the last Straw Poll back in August of 2007. “There was a time when I thought when that campaign was over I would go back to my usual obscurity and I would keep trying to plug away, but the momentum kept building and the prodding occurred, ‘Do it again! Do it again!’” Paul says. “I think that everybody’s so much more optimistic this time.”.Link

Interview starts at 3.40............

Obama signals era of permanent.

President Obama’s recent speech was supposed to be about winding down the Afghan war. But actually it was a signal that permanent war is now our status quo. Every other branch of government -- including the ruling Obama Salutescorporate branch – was full-tilt ready to keep the wars going. Now Obama has signaled that conflict will not end on his watch.Link

Frontrunner says US should stop starting wars.

Texas Rep Ron Paul is celebrating his victory in a Republican presidential straw poll, saying he's captured the imagination of people weary of US military involvement in global conflicts and worried about the economy.Link

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$120 trillion.

The Congressional Budget Office released a new report this week showing that the federal government’s publicly held debt would top 101% of GDP by 2021, more than the value of everything produced in this country over the course of a year. Think of it like owing more on your credit cards than your entire family income. By 2035, the publicly held debt, CBO says, could top an almost unfathomable 190% of GDP.Link

Remove your adult diaper.

A woman has filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security over how her elderly mother was detained and searched by Transportation Security Administration officers at the Northwest Florida Regional Airport last weekend.Link

Gay Panic.

Central economic planning in action.

Greece Agrees on Austerity Plan.

Greece won the consent of a team of EU-IMF inspectors for its new five-year austerity plan after committing to an additional round of tax rises and spending cuts, both Reuters and Dow Jones reported Thursday.Link

Ron Paul goes mainstream?.............

Ron Paul 2008 was a movement. Ron Paul 2012 is trying to be a campaign. Determined to be a greater force in his third presidential run, the Texas congressman and his team have embraced some of the more traditional aspects of a White House bid: a focus on retail politicking, deeper early-state infrastructure and a full schedule of meetings with party pooh-bahs.Link

Time to end Federal Reserve secrecy.

Among the facts that the Federal Reserve would rather you didn’t know is that at the height of the financial turmoil in 2008, when average Americans were just beginning to suffer, the institution was passing out sweetheart deals to protect the powerful and well-connected. Among the beneficiaries were foreign banks, Wall Street giants and even the company that then owned MSNBC.Link

Forecasts Are Lowered by Fed.

Federal Reserve officials lowered their forecasts for growth and employment this year and next, underscoring the Federal Open Market Committee’s statement today that the recovery “is continuing at a moderate pace, though somewhat more slowly” than previously expected.Link

Ron Paul has won..............

Now Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty are parroting Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) in criticizing the Federal Reserve Board while Mitt Romney and a growing number of congressional Republicans are beginning to sound like traces of Ron Paul regarding Afghanistan.Link

‘daunting’ long-term budget outlook.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Long-Term 2011 Budget Outlook Report, Wednesday, with dire projections for the nation’s fiscal future if the current path is not changed. The CBO called its budget outlook “daunting.”.Link

Cut, Cap, Balance.

As budget talks heat up in light of the looming July 4th recess, several conservative groups and lawmakers are coalescing around a pledge that cuts spending across the board, caps government spending, and includes a balanced budget amendment.Link

'We need to leave the euro now'.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has called on members of parliament to forge a "national accord" to deal with the country's debt crisis. Speaking at the start of three days of debate, Mr Papandreou said the country was "at a crucial point" and risked a catastrophic default if it did not act.Link

air conditioning > NASA budget.

Steve Anderson, a retired brigadier general who was Petraeus' chief logistician in Iraq, says that the Pentagon spends $20 billion a year just to air condition tents and temporary buildings in Iraq and Afghanistan. That's more than NASA's entire annual budget. There's an easy fix, says Anderson: Spray tents with polyurethane foam. An existing $95 million contract to spray-insulate tents is providing $1 billion in cost-avoidance, Anderson says. But insulating tents instead of air conditioning them is still not official military policy.Link

Dunn.

Police say "Jackass" star Ryan Dunn died in a fiery car crash in suburban Philadelphia early Monday morning. Police say Dunn's car careered off the road, flipped over a guardrail and crashed into the woods before bursting into flames. A passenger was also killed, and speed may have been a factor in the crash, West Goshen Township police said.Link

Why does Ron Paul keep winning.......

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), presumably a long shot in the race for the GOP presidential nomination, crushed his rivals in the Republican Leadership Conference straw poll of party devotees over the weekend with 612 votes. In distant second was former Utah Gov. Jon Hunstman (382 votes), followed by Rep. Michele Bachmann (191 votes).Link

Making George W. Bush vanish.

NEW ORLEANS — Republicans head into 2012 united in their disdain for an unpopular, Big Government-loving, internationalist president. The name of that president: George W. Bush.Link

Peace talks with Taliban.

The US is engaged in talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said, in the first high-level confirmation of US involvement. Mr Karzai said that "foreign military and especially the US itself" were involved in peace talks with the group.Link

Oops.

BRUSSELS (AFP) – NATO late on Sunday acknowledged it was responsible for civilian deaths during a Tripoli bombing raid, after Libyan officials claimed toddlers among nine dead.Link

Metallica and Lou Reed Team Up.

When Lou Reed sang about taking a walk on the wild side back in seventies, we’re guessing no one knew it could get this weird. Rolling Stone is reporting that the New York rock icon has recorded 10 new songs with Metallica at the band’s California studio. “[It’s] a marriage made in heaven,” Reed told the magazine. “I knew it from the first day we played together: ‘Oh, man, this is perfection, right in front of me.’ ”Link

A new Target.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States will seek to hunt down and kill new Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri just as it did his predecessor Osama bin Laden, the top US military officer said Thursday.Link

Pushing through California budget package.

(Reuters) - California legislators on Wednesday pushed through most of a budget package that would rely on an Internet sales tax, spending cuts and fee hikes, and a host of rosy forecasts to close a $10 billion shortfall.Link

Libya clash reaches tipping point.

The fight over presidential authority in the military conflict in Libya reached a tipping point Wednesday, morphing from an academic discussion over the War Powers Resolution to a serious challenge to President Barack Obama’s authority to keep U.S. forces involved in the NATO-led air bombings of the North African dictatorship.Link

Magic mushroom’s positive effects.

Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine claim to have determined the proper dose levels needed to create positive changes in attitudes, mood, life satisfaction, and behavior that persist for more than a year with the psychoactive substance in so-called "magic mushrooms.".Link

NATO actions in Libya.

(CNN) -- The president of South Africa lashed out Tuesday at NATO's enforcement of the U.N. resolution authorizing the organization to act to protect innocent civilians threatened by Libya's civil war.Link

Cops Call Out Drug Czar................

In conjunction with this week's 40th anniversary of President Nixon declaring "War On Drugs," a group of police, judges and jailers who support legalization released a report Tuesday showing how the Obama Administration is ramping up a war it disingenuously claims that it ended two years ago.Link

Suddenly Mitt wants to pull out.

Barack Obama donors net government jobs.

Telecom executive Donald H. Gips raised a big bundle of cash to help finance his friend Barack Obama’s run for the presidency. Gips, a vice president of Colorado-based Level 3 Communications, delivered more than $500,000 in contributions for the Obama war chest, while two other company executives collected at least $150,000 more.Link

10 Congressmen Sue Obama.................

A bipartisan group of 10 lawmakers is suing President Barack Obama for taking military action against Libya without war authorization from Congress.Link

Audit The Fed: HR 459 - 157 Co-sponsors.

Bill O'Reilly is not smart.

Friday deadline on Libya.........

Stepping up a simmering constitutional conflict, House Speaker John A. Boehner warned President Obama on Tuesday that unless he gets authorization from Congress for his military deployment in Libya, he will be in violation of the War Powers Resolution.Link

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Since Google launched its Google Earth feature in 2005, the company has become a worldwide leader in providing high-resolution satellite imagery. In 2010, Google Earth allowed the world to see the extent of the destruction in post-earthquake Haiti. This year, Google released similar images after Japan's deadly tsunami and earthquake. With just one click, Google can bring the world—and a better understanding of far-away events—to your computer.Link

368 civilians die in Afghanistan in May.

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The number of civilians killed in attacks and other war-related violence hit 368 in May, making it the deadliest month for Afghans since 2007, the United Nations said Saturday.Link

Dizzying Highs and Terrifying Lows.

On Tuesday and Wednesday at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, in a massive conference room that could have doubled as one half of a basketball court, an eclectic group of maybe 40 people convened to determine whether the NBA would play next year. The combined worth in the room was roughly 10 kajillion dollars. There were owners, lawyers, players, league and union officials, and of course, David Stern and Adam Silver, the two men with the most to lose.Link

Air Force Campaign One.

Air Force One is quickly becoming President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign-bus. Next week, one of the two presidential Boeing 747s is scheduled to carry the president down to North Carolina and then to Florida, both of which are must-wins for his campaign.Link

Pharmageddon.

The Kentucky number plate on Chad's pick-up truck, parked round the back of a doctor's clinic in Palm Beach, Florida, reveals that he has just driven a thousand miles, 16 hours overnight, to be here – and he's not come for the surfing.Link

Secret Bilderberg Agenda Leaked by Mole.

According to AFP journalist and legendary Bilderberg sleuth Jim Tucker’s inside sources, the agenda now under review includes a number of critical issues at the top of the elite’s to-do list. These breakdown as follows.Link

China ratings house says US defaulting.

A Chinese ratings house has accused the United States of defaulting on its massive debt, state media said Friday, a day after Beijing urged Washington to put its fiscal house in order.Link

AT&T gave cash to merger backers.

AT&T is lining up support for its acquisition of T-Mobile from a slew of liberal groups with no obvious interest in telecom deals — except that they’ve received big piles of AT&T’s cash. In recent weeks, the NAACP, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the National Education Association have each issued public statements in support of the deal.Link

Breakthrough in battery technology.

A new battery design developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could transform the way electric vehicles and the power grid store and discharge energy.Link

U.S. Can't Justify Its Drug War Spending.........

Name one government program that for 40 years has failed to achieve any of its goals, yet receives bigger and bigger budgets every year. If you said "the War on Drugs," you've been paying attention.Link

Secret Campaign of Yemen Airstrikes.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials.Link

My Job is to be the "Repeal" President.

NEW ORLEANS, La. - Presidential candidate, ardent defender of Liberty, and the best hope for averting a collapse of the country, the one and only Dr. Ron Paul joined Mike today to discuss a multitude of issues facing Americans and the solutions he will seek as President in order to restore America back to proper Constitutional moorings.Link

‘Very jaded’ from debate exclusion.

Being excluded from CNN’s June 13 presidential debate has left Gary Johnson angry and demoralized about his presidential campaign. “Up until now I’ve had faith in the process, but now I’ve had my teeth kicked in,” Johnson told POLITICO on Wednesday. “If this is how it goes, I’m going to leave this whole thing very jaded.”.Link

Barack Obama's private golf club.

House Speaker John Boehner has broken into one of the most exclusive groups in Washington — the small circle of old friends and administration officials President Barack Obama has invited for a round of golf.Link

Ron Paul raises more than $1 million.

GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul took in more than $1 million Sunday using an online "money bomb" that hit at the Republican field's front-runner, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.Link

5 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq.

Five U.S. soldiers were killed Monday in an attack in central Iraq, the U.S. military said in a statement. It was the deadliest single attack this year against U.S. forces in Iraq and an indication of how dangerous the country remains for American troops as they prepare to withdraw by the end of 2011.Link

G-Ron.

Government Will Lose......................

From the very beginning, the Obama administration made it clear that they'd never recoup all of the money they invested in the auto industry bailout. They just didn't know how much they'd lose. Now they've put a figure on it: The government will lose about $14 billion in taxpayer funds, out of the $80 billion it spent to bail out Chrysler and General Motors in 2009. That's a drop in the bucket compared to what the government has spent on bailing out the banks: About $4.6 trillion, with $2 trillion of that still outstanding, according to some estimates.Link

TARP and the auto bailout.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) warned at Friday's Faith and Freedom Conference that the government needed to remove itself from the free market.Link

Ron Paul money bomb......right now.

June 5th Money Bomb - The Revolution vs. RomneyCare Donate Now!.Link

'tough headwinds'..........spend.spend.spend.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama warned on Saturday that the US economy still faced "tough headwinds," as he welcomed newly created jobs in the once-troubled automobile industry. "Even though our economy has created more than two million private sector jobs over the past 15 months and continues to grow, we're facing some tough headwinds," the president said in his weekly address.Link

Villaraigosa’s Transit Legacy..................

What is TIFIA? This fey-sounding acronym for the 1998 Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act may be your ticket to a wheezing, convoluted federal lending vehicle designed in large part to help Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa name a major project after himself.Link

‘Handcuffed by policy,’.........Lame.

An apparently suicidal man waded into San Francisco Bay on Monday, stood up to his neck, and waited. As the man drowned, police, fire crews, and others watched idly from the shore.Link

College is a scam.......................

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — We can’t deny it anymore: College is a scam and a bubble — and the reasons why appear below. But I’ll be the first to admit it’s going to take years for that bubble to burst. And while college tuitions are still skyrocketing and student-loan debt is creating a generation of indentured servants, we might as well benefit from it.Link

Horror for US Economy as Data Falls off Cliff.

The last month has been a horror show for the U.S. economy, with economic data falling off a cliff, according to Mike Riddell, a fund manager at M&G Investments in London. "It seems that almost every bit of data about the health of the US economy has disappointed expectations recently," said Riddell, in a note sent to CNBC on Wednesday.Link

GOP fears Dennis Kucinich resolution.

Seeking to avoid a showdown over Libya, House GOP leaders pulled back from a floor vote on a resolution by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) that would bar U.S. involvement in the NATO-led campaign to topple Muammar Qadhafi.Link

The House refuses.

The House overwhelmingly refused to raise the nation's borrowing ability Tuesday — a largely symbolic vote designed to bolster Republican arguments that a successful measure must include deep spending cuts and sweeping policy revisions.Link

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