That was when Jesus returned. And, for the first time 
Two thoughts at once came to mind. First; that that was pretty typical of our general attitude that China is taking over as the world's leader, there is nothing we can do but accept (and support) it, and that it's just a matter of time. And second; China will be number one in less than 5 years, not twenty.
We're fucked. And the perps is us.
Nut and Yahoo3. NO to Lilly Ledbetter equal pay for equal work act
4. NO to Hate crimes prevention act
5. NO to Student loan reform
6. NO to Healthcare reform
7. NO to Cancelling the F-22 - a plane the military doesn't want
8. NO to Funding energy and science research which Bush passed but never funded.
9. NO to Nuclear arms (reduction) deal with Russia
10. NO to US Navy increasing patrols off Somali Coast
11. NO to attractive tax write-offs for those to buy hybrid automobiles
12. NO to Cash for clunkers program and stimulating auto sales
13. NO to Announced plans to purchase fuel-efficient American-made fleet for the federal government
14. NO to Expanding the SCHIP program to cover health care for 4 million more children
15. NO to Signing national service legislation/expanding national youth service program
16. NO to Instituting a new policy on Cuba, allowing Cuban families to return home to visit loved ones
17. NO to Ending the previous policy of not regulating and labeling carbon dioxide emissions
18. NO to Expanding vaccination programs
19. NO to Closing offshore tax havens for corporations
20. NO to Negotiating deal with Swiss banks to permit US governmenbt to gain access to records of tax evaders and criminals
21. NO to Ending the previous policy of offering tax benefits to corporations who outsource
22. NO to growing American jobs through a policy promoting in-sourcing to bring jobs back to America
23. NO to Lower drug costs for seniors
24. NO to Tax cuts for small business
25. NO to Cap and Trade that republicans originally proposed and campaigned for two years ago.
Those are just a few of the things they voted AGAINST. What does it all mean?
That they voted FOR Corporation Interests over the American People.
If republicans are against helping America's middle class and poor ....
WHY would anyone vote for them in November?
They drove the economic car into the ditch and now they want the keys back!
Just say NO!
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Infamous momma's boy, big-haired, Jeebus-loving adulterer and all around GOP sex-lizard, the sheep with a secret sorrow, Senator John Ensign of Nevada has been sort of invisible lately. An invisible f***weasle is not a good thing, and so to remind of that he is still free and unfettered, today we have an article from the Las Vegas Sun.
And it begins thusly:
John Ensign is a man of many talents, not the least of which are his skill at twisting the truth and of putting on a false front to the world.
Nevada's junior senator has been morally superior in public while morally inferior in private, and he created a web of deceit that ensnared friends and supporters now being punished for his indiscretions. Facing an ethics probe and a federal investigation, Ensign has tried to make his scandal about a moment of human weakness (that lasted for months) and nothing more.
OK, that's a good start. But as Ensign has been trying to push the whole thing off as a weakness of the flesh, and rarely mentioning that bit about coverups, payoffs, and patronage. The LVSun, however, sums it up nicely:
That mistake — this is just about sex! — did not lead to a "difficult legal battle." Ensign is in legal jeopardy not because he slept with his wife's best friend and his best friend's wife — that never sounds less grotesque, does it? — but because of how he tried to cover it up, pay off the couple through Mom and Dad and then try to hush up the cuckolded husband by importuning people he regulates to hire him.
Ensign – you just got served.
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Cholera arrives in flooded Pakistan. "UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has described as "heart-wrenching" the destruction he witnessed on a visit to flood-devastated Pakistan. Mr Ban said the scale of the disaster was greater than anything he had seen before. He again urged the world to speed up aid to the country, saying shelter and medicine were desperately needed. The Pakistani government says up to 20 million people have now been affected by the monsoon floods. At least 1,500 are known to have lost their lives. Health experts are warning that the threat of epidemics in flood-hit areas is growing. The UN has already confirmed at least one case of cholera among the victims."
20 million devastated by floods, but the clusterfuck must go on. "A suspected US drone missile strike in Pakistan has killed at least 12 militants in a tribal area near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials say. The strike hit a compound used by militants in Issori village in North Waziristan, the officials said. The region that has become a stronghold of the Taliban and al-Qaeda and has been repeatedly hit by similar attacks. Pakistan publicly objects to the strikes but analysts believe they have the private backing of officials. A BBC investigation in July found that more than 700 people had died in such drone strikes since January 2009, including a number of senior Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders, but the attacks have fuelled anti-American sentiment in Pakistan. Saturday's attack was the first since devastating floods hit Pakistan in late July."
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The Battle of Meet the Press
