They said "Boo" and Obama surrendered?
He surrendered up-front because he was afraid the GOP might not support him?
So, any adminsitration can commit thousands of felonies - all they have to do is threaten the incoming
president and if he's a walking surrender machine, those crimes will never be investigated or prosecuted.
I guess "looking forward" is a nice name for that abortion of democracy.
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Newly published audio this week reveals that Vice President Dick Cheney's infamous Sept. 11, 2001 order to shoot down rogue civilian aircraft was ignored by military officials, who instead ordered pilots to only identify suspect aircraft.
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Most striking of all is the revelation that an order by Vice President Dick Cheney was ignored by the military, which saw his order to shoot down aircraft as outside the chain of command. Instead of acknowledging the order to shoot down civilian aircraft and carrying it out, NORAD ordered fighters to confirm aircraft tail numbers first and report back for further instructions.
Cheney's order was given at "about 10:15" a.m., according to the former VP's memoirs, but the 9/11 Commission Report shows United flight 93 going down at 10:06 a.m. Had the military followed Cheney's order, civilian aircraft scrambling to get out of the sky could have been shot down, exponentially amplifying the day's tragedy.
"I said MORE DEATH, dammit!"
Poor Darth. Deprived of yet more civilian blood.
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The numbers for Kenyan Usurper Hawaiian Devil Baby Barack Obama's chances in the 2012 Goat Rodeo are looking worse every day. But here's a shocker: 60% of people polled said that President Carebear turned out to be weaker than they thought he would be. (The Fixx)
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Rick Perry wishes the federal government would stay out of his state's affairs, except for the part where the majority of Texas' healthcare costs are covered by the federal government.
HARRIS: Governor, quick follow-up. Why are so many people in Texas uninsured?
PERRY: Well, bottom line is that we would not have that many people uninsured in the state of Texas if you didn't have the federal government. We've had requests in for years at the Health and Human Services agencies to have that type of flexibility where we could have menus, where we could have co-pays, and the federal government refuses to give us that flexibility.
We know for a fact that, given that freedom, the states can do a better job of delivering health care. And you'll see substantially more people not just in Texas, but all across the country have access to better health care.
It's nice to see Rick Perry subtlely admit that Texas has an extraordinarily high amount of uninsured residents, but here's the real problem with this statement — if not for those big federal government programs known as Medicare and Medicaid, Texas would be destitute.
Federal funds cover 60 percent of all Medicaid costs in the state of Texas. How exactly would the state make up that difference if you "didn't have the federal government?"
The really ironic thing is, the Affordable Care Act, which Republicans such as Rick Perry lovingly refer to as Obamacare, will actually lessen the burden on states in the near future. Ending the Affordable Care Act, which the entire Republican party is campaigning on, would swell the cost to states and skyrocket medical-related bankruptcies. Smart.
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The GOP debate in 45 seconds.
I guess they didn't read this.
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Of the rich, by the rich, for the rich: the lie of the tea party
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Hot video of Obama making fake promises and GOP talking points
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Cool Evolutionary Biology news of the week "His brain was not much larger than a chimpanzee's. Yet his widened pelvis implied his kind gave birth to children with much bigger brains. ... And so a fossilized adolescent named Karabo -- which means "answer" in a South African dialect -- is raising a lot of questions about human evolution. ... Researchers found his skeleton, and much of an adult female, in a cave some 25 miles north of Johannesburg in 2008 and announced the discovery in 2010. They coined a new species, Australopithecus sediba, and launched an intensive multi-national effort to study the find. ... In the journal Science, the team is now publishing detailed descriptions of the creatures' heads, hands, feet, and hips. The team also date the fossils to 1.98 million years ago, smack in the middle of an era notorious for its lack of evidence of possible human relatives. ... The mash-up of human-like and ape-like traits are like a "a stop-action snapshot of evolution in action," said the director of the Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program, Richard Potts, who was not involved in the research. ... The researchers stop just short of calling the creatures an ancestor to the human lineage known as Homo. But they place A. sediba squarely in the running for that coveted title. ... The species is "possibly the best candidate" yet for a Homo ancestor, said Lee Berger of the University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg. Berger, along with his then-9-year-old son Matthew, discovered Karabo in a fossil-rich region known as the Cradle of Humankind. ... None of the previous finds were preserved like this. The duo apparently fell into a deep cave together, where limestone encased the bodies and preserved exquisite detail. ... The fossils are "mouth-watering for anybody in this business," said Donald C. Johanson, director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University."
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Paul Krugman offered praise for President Obama's announced jobs legislation, calling it " significantly bolder and better" than he expected. However, he pointed out that "nothing will be done until the American people demand action," noting that Congress will need to be persuaded to take action on jobs.
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While he didn't yell "you lie," Rep. Jeff Landry (R-LA) broke congressional decorum last night when he quietly shilled for the oil industry with a sign reading "Drilling = jobs" during President Obama's jobs address to a joint session of Congress. Other Republican lawmakers boycotted the speech, even though Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) urged his members to appear.
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The U.S. had its hottest summer in 75 years, just 0.1 degrees behind the hottest summer record set in 1936. At 86.8 degrees average for the summer, Texas had the hottest summer ever recorded in any state. And the extreme weather does not stop with the temperatures: some states in the Northeast had their wettest summers ever, while seven other states had summers that rank among their top 10 driest ever.
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GOP voted for $50 billion to rebuild Iraq without cuts, now insist on cuts to offset funding to rebuild America.
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