for arresting without warrants. I'd like to say they should be indicted for lying but believe it or not,
unless you're under oath, lying is not a crime. At least not an indictable crime. It's a moral crime." -- FOX News analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano, saying Dubya and Cheney should have been indicted for war crimes,
Here we have a President who has not closed Guantanamo Bay, who has expanded the war in Afghanistan, who didn't fight for even a public health care option, let along single-payer, who dickers with DADT in the hope that he can get outta Dodge before he has to deal with his own "icky feelings" about Teh Gays, and who seems willing to gut Social Security and Medicare in the hope that it will make Republicans play nice. Oh, and he's also been called a secret Muslim terrorist who's an enemy to Israel, which probably explains what is likely to be his next "Nixon goes to China" moment: http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/2010/07/imagine-what-theyd-say-if-obama-really.html
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The combined global land and ocean surface temperature data also found the January-June and April-June periods were the warmest on record, according to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, which based its findings on measurements that go back as far as 1880.
In June, the combined average for global land and ocean temperatures was 61.1 degrees Fahrenheit
(16.2 Celsius) -- 1.22 degrees Fahrenheit (0.68 Celsius) more than the 20th century average of 59.9 degrees Fahrenheit (15.5 Celsius).
Temperatures warmer than average spread throughout the globe in recent months, most prominently in Peru, in the central and eastern United States and in eastern and western Asia, according to NOAA.
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As they say "Fuck you America" and keep the other 60 billion or so they made the last two years.
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Evidence of absence.
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The real question is why the Democrats refuse to point this out: http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/2010/07/real-question-is-why-democrats-refuse.html
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Congressional Republicans want to give Wall Street another chance to wreck the global economy
Because, you know, it worked so well in 2008 and in 1929 when the banks and Wall Street were allowed to do whatever the frak they felt like!
The Vatican issued revisions to its internal laws on Thursday making it easier to discipline sex-abuser priests, but caused confusion by also stating that ordaining women as priests was as grave an offense as pedophilia.
"Misogynistic" doesn't even come close to it. This is women-hating at a level that even Calvin didn't reach.
Why that church doesn't die out as fast as the Shakers have is a mystery.
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Illegal immigrants in Utah feeling terrorized and very scared.
Meanwhile, GOP reps cite bible to support harsh crackdowns against illegal immigrants.
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McDonald's Accidentally Puts Condoms In Happy Meals
5,000 Happy Meals were distributed with colored condoms instead of a plastic toy from the movie The Last Airbender.
The condoms were intended for the Provincetown, Mass. school system, which recently established a policy making them available for students of all ages; they were delivered to McDonald's distribution center in Barnstable, Mass. in error.
"The packages were so bright and colorful that they were mistaken for small toys for Happy Meals, but unfortunately most of the workers do not read English, and thought 'Ribbed Latex' was a character in the movie," said Robin Anderson, vice president of public relations for the chain, as published by El Universal of Mexico.
The mistake led to an incident in a Brewster, Mass., McDonald's, where more than a dozen 8-year-olds attending a birthday party all opened their condoms at once, and immediately blew them into balloons and started batting them around the restaurant.
The McDonald's incident also caused problems in Provincetown, where the schools accidentally received the restaurant's shipments of Last Airbender toys, and several were released to students who went into their school's nurse's office seeking condoms.
via Opposing Views
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June sets Army suicides record - More US troops killed themselves last month than in recent Army history.
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Americans really don't miss the Disaster Monkey
In recent months, not only have conservatives continued to ramp up their anti-Obama rhetoric, but they have also begun invoking nostalgia for the good ol' days of President Bush. In April, College Republicans at Western Kentucky University created a "W" Day to show support for Bush, and there have been billboards with the question "Miss Me Yet?" and a picture of Bush popping up around the country.
Last month, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) hit Obama for his handling of the BP oil disaster, saying, "Remember the criticism George Bush got during Katrina? They said it was a lack of leadership. Let me tell you, that leadership looks pretty good right now." More recently, Jeff Shapiro — a man devoted to "correct the historical record about President Bush" — wrote an op-ed claiming that "a lot has changed since" last year, when he was being labeled a "failure."
In reality, not much has changed; the American public still doesn't really miss Bush. From a new Time poll:
– 71 percent blame the Bush for the "balky economy," while 27 percent blame Obama.
– 53 percent favor Obama over Bush (33 percent).
– 55 percent favor Obama over Sarah Palin (34 percent) in a hypothetical 2012 presidential campaign.
The Siena Research Institute also just released a poll of presidential scholars, who rated Bush in the "bottom five" of U.S. presidents throughout history. They rated him 39th. Other presidents in the bottom five were Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin Pierce. Obama was ranked 15th.
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Greg Mitchell: Secrecy, Cover-ups & Deadly Radiation: On the Birth of the Nuclear Age 65 Years Ago.
