Sarah Palin, the infamous half-term Governor of Alaska and failed Vice-Presidential candidate has quit halfway through her bus tour, and taken her family back home to Alaska.
Via Raw Story:
Amid diminishing media interest, Sarah Palin has quit her high-profile bus tour halfway through and returned to Alaska with her family, according to RealClearPolitics.
The move puts a damper on widespread speculations that Palin's "One Nation" bus tour, which launched on Memorial Day, was a precursor to a potential White House bid for 2012. Palin never made it to her scheduled stops in the key primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire.
Read more at; http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/22/report-palin-quits-bus-tour-halfway-through-retreats-to-alaska/
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Why Won't The Fed Cooperate? What/Who Are They Hiding?
Smug and Smugg
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is refusing to tell U.S. government investigators how much money it sent to Iraq during the first years of the American invasion, as a top Iraqi official suggested the missing and possibly stolen funds from that era is more than $18 billion – nearly three times the previously reported figure.
CNBC reported Tuesday that the New York Fed won't reveal to the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction how much money went to the Middle Eastern nation, hampering an investigation seeking to determine how much of the cash was stolen.
CNBC reported Tuesday that the New York Fed won't reveal to the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction how much money went to the Middle Eastern nation, hampering an investigation seeking to determine how much of the cash was stolen.
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Halliburton re-rapes the Victim
Goliath punishes little people who complain Link
On Tuesday attorneys for KBR went through Jones' medical records showing a history of prescriptions for anti-depressant medication.
What?
You mean being drugged and gang-raped can be depressing?
The most expensive legal jackals in Texas are going after Jamie Leigh Jones.
How dare she not take her gang rape "like a man."
How dare she object to being held against her will in a locked and guarded trailer!
Jones signed the contract where she "agreed" to be gang-raped.
Looks like she's not a "team player" when it comes to "company morale."
This might look bad on her work resume.
Goliath punishes little people who complain Link
On Tuesday attorneys for KBR went through Jones' medical records showing a history of prescriptions for anti-depressant medication.
What?
You mean being drugged and gang-raped can be depressing?
The most expensive legal jackals in Texas are going after Jamie Leigh Jones.
How dare she not take her gang rape "like a man."
How dare she object to being held against her will in a locked and guarded trailer!
Jones signed the contract where she "agreed" to be gang-raped.
Looks like she's not a "team player" when it comes to "company morale."
This might look bad on her work resume.
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Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi: Michele Bachmann's Holy War
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Only two Miss USA contestants attribute the changes in Bristol Palin's face to Evolution. The other 49 attribute the changes to Intelligent Design.
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Jon Stewart on how many times Fox has lied.
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Batshit in New Jersey
Being opposed to individual mandates is one thing, but I think this is going a little bit too far.
A bill proposed by a state assemblywoman in New Jersey would have government employees thrown in jail for up to five years if they attempt to enforce any part of the health reforms passed by Congress last year.Its sponsor — Assemblywoman Alison Little McHose (R) — reportedly copied much of the bill's text word for word from the Tenth Amendment Center, a fringe conservative group that promotes states' rights over the federal government. The parallel was first spotted by reporter Matt Friedman at The New Jersey Star Ledger.If passed, the law would mandate a $1,000 fine for any government worker or contractor who upholds federal laws pertaining to health care. It would also recommend prison terms up to five years, although it leaves that decision to judges who would potentially hear prosecutions brought under the proposed law.
It's a good thing the state of New Jersey is not accepting federal grant money for, or planning in preparation of, the implementation of a state health insurance exchange ahead of the 2014 deadline. If they were, Assemblywoman McHose may be proposing jailtime for the entire legislature and her dear governor Chris Christie.
Oh wait, they are accepting grant money and preparing for implementation.
New Jersey is seeking a $1 million federal grant to begin preparing for the creation of the state's health insurance exchange, the new health insurance marketplace set to launch in 2014, when federal health insurance reform requires everyone in the nation to get health coverage.Neil Sullivan, deputy commissioner of the state Department of Banking and Insurance, told a conference of the New Jersey Association of Health Underwriters, in Piscataway, that DOBI expects by next week to hear back from the federal government on its application for the $1 million federal grant.Sullivan said Gov. Chris Christie is "not a fan" of federal health care reform, "but as long as New Jerseyans are paying federal taxes, we will go for those federal funds that are available for the implementation of reform."
New Jersey is releasing grant funds to a group of New Jersey hospitals and clinics in order to advance a statewide electronic health records initiative. The grant money comes from a federal award of $11.4 million that the state received in 2010. The money will be split between electronic health records projects and the creation of four regional Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). [...]In January, New Jersey's health information technology operational plan was approved giving the state the ability to draw on funds from the Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement program administered by the US Department of Health and Human Services' Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
Conservatism is a mental illness.
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Today President Obama detailed a plan to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan by December 2012. Here is a handy-dandy graph courtesy of Think Progress illustrating troop numbers over the ten years from 2002 to 2012. On a mostly unrelated note, wouldn't this line make like the coolest roller coaster? Like, it's sorta boring but kinda fun until you go through the OBAMA INAUGURATION TUNNEL and then OMG climbing! OMG OMG OMG OH SHI–
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The first-ever Congressional bill to let states legalize marijuana will be introduced in the U.S. House by a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers on Thursday, and a group of police and judges who fought on the front lines of the failed "war on drugs" is announcing its support.
Neill Franklin, a former Baltimore narcotics cop and executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, said, "Clearly the 'war on drugs' has failed, and nowhere is that more clear than with respect to marijuana. It baffles me that we arrest nearly 800,000 people on marijuana charges in this country each and every year at taxpayer expense when we could instead be taking in new tax revenue from legal and regulated marijuana sales. Making marijuana illegal hasn't prevented anyone from using it, but it has created a huge funding source that funnels billions of dollars in tax-free profits to violent drug cartels and gangs. More and more cops now agree: Legalizing marijuana will improve public safety."
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), would essentially end the federal government's bullying of states when it comes to marijuana policy reform. Initial co-sponsors include Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN), Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO).
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Contrary to what you may have heard, that second---$1 million---line of credit at Tiffany & Co. wasn't for Callista.
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Hold on, Libruls...republicans don't have to follow man's laws. They have a waiver signed by Jebus himself. " Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann spent $3,407 of taxpayer funds allotted to her congressional office to help rent a sound system for a tea party-backed rally against President Obama's health care bill in 2009, according to a report this morning from Roll Call. ... House rules say taxpayer money cannot be used for strictly political events, although the funds can be used for press conferences, which is how the event was described. ... However, the newspaper reports that no questions were asked during the Nov. 9, 2009 event which, "opened with a prayer, the national anthem and a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance." ... Fellow Reps. Steve King (R-IA) and Todd Akin (R-MO) also contributed $3,407 toward the rental of the sound system at the same event."
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California Suspends Whiny Lawmaker Pay For Refusing To Balance Budget
Every so often Californians wake up long enough from their quaalude haze to try to pass weird laws about things like circumcision and Happy Meals and free range chickens or docking lawmaker pay when state budgets come in late — OH HEY that last one sounds sane, what were those people on? So now California State Controller John Chiang will enforce this, and he will stop sending out lawmakers' paychecks until they pass a new, balanced state budget. Has California ever passed a budget on time? No, not really. But OH NOOOOOES was the collective scream from indignant legislators, WHAT WILL WE DOOOO to feed our wives and CHILDREN OH GOD THE CHILDREN.
Lawmakers will be down $542 each day that they do not pass a balanced budget, which means there will be many homeless members of the legislature wandering around Sacramento very soon. Try not to look at them.
From the LA Times:
"John Chiang just wants to sit there and beat up on the unpopular kids," Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Silver Lake), who at 36 is among the youngest legislators, said in a statement. "I now have to explain to my wife and daughter that we won't be able to pay the bills because a politician chose to grandstand at our expense."
Poor dorky Mike Gatto, today he knows what it feels like to be a Regular Person.
So anyway, now it will take 11 years to pass a new budget in California instead of the customary 15. Haha, California is still broken. [LA Times]
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An annual wealth report prepared by Merril Lynch and Capgemini finds that the world's wealthiest are now actually richer than they were before the recession. The report also finds that there are actually 11 million more people worldwide who have at least $1 million in free cash than before the credit crunch.
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For the first time, minorities make up a majority of babies born in the U.S., a new Census review finds. Non-Hispanic whites make up just under half of all babies — in 1990, more than 60 percent of children in that age group were white.
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Today at a campaign stop with the group American Principles Project, Herman Cain took a question about how to increase domestic oil production. Without missing a beat, Cain said that, as president, he would create a special commission to remove environmental and energy regulations at the EPA. Cain explained that the commission would be comprised of businessmen from the coal, oil, shale oil, and natural gas industries because they are the "people closest to the problem."
Cain then said he would literally appoint the CEO of Shell Oil, presumably current CEO Peter Voser, to the commission because Shell Oil has "been abused by the EPA." Earlier in his remarks, Cain had riffed for a few moments about how Shell had faced delays in a drilling plan due to EPA regulations: http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/06/22/251566/herman-cain-shell-oil-commission-epa/
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