Displaying 1,471 To 1,500 Of 16,275 Comments The also want Texas schools to stop teaching critical thinking……”just saying! 🙂 » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 9:05 pm This talk about impeaching PBO is all the rage with the GOP and Bob Cecsa may be right, they are laying the grounds to try it again. The Impeachment of President Obama Has Begun Don’t be surprised if they try it and how stupid and partisan will they look if they do? Two Dem presidents, two impeachments. » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 9:04 pm ‘Papers, please’ intact, irrelevant Here in the state of Denial, our governor declared victory on Monday, praising the U.S. Supreme Court’s long-awaited ruling on Senate Bill 1070. “Today the state of Arizona and Senate Bill 1070 was vindicated and the heart of the bill was upheld,” a beaming Gov. Jan Brewer proclaimed. Evidently, Brewer took a pass on her usual scorpion-laced breakfast on Monday and instead went straight for the funny mushrooms. […] So how likely are feds to come running when the cops call in a jaywalker who is here illegally? “We’re going to tell you we’re not interested,” a senior Homeland Security official told me on Monday. That official said ICE will respond only in three circumstances: when the illegal immigrant is a criminal, a repeat immigration violator or a recent border crosser. “We apprehend more people than we can possibly get through the system,” he said, adding that the detention centers and immigration courts are overwhelmed. “If you’re arrested in Arizona today and you are just a run-of-the-mill illegal immigrant, your court date won’t be set for five years … and in five years, you lose and you can appeal — two and a half, three more years. So eight years from now you will have a final court order to leave the United States. That’s why we’re not responding to those cases.” » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 8:57 pm Yep, that will be a great day! Funny thing about blood cancers, remissions may come and go but once you got-you got it! » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 7:40 pm Nora Ephron, famed screenwriter and director, dies at 71 When Harry Met Sally,” “Sleepless in Seattle” and “Silkwood” screenwriter Nora Ephron has died, according to the Washington Post and CBS News. She was 71 years old and was said to be suffering from leukemia. Known as a prolific writer spanning film, stage, novels, works of journalism and blogs, Ephron was also an accomplished filmmaker, having both written and directed “Julie & Julia” (2009), “Bewitched” (2005), “You’ve Got Mail” (1998), “Michael” (1996), “Mixed Nuts” (1994), “Sleepless in Seattle” (1993) and “This Is My Life” (1992). She was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 6:48 pm You are absolutely entitled to some self pity, it must be a very large change not having your son around. Just don’t get to the point of eating out of a can over the kitchen sink. 😆 » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 6:31 pm Greed knows no party? » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 6:24 pm Good timing, k’es, seems the STOCK act has hit the news once again. 34 Lawmakers Changed Their Investments After Receiving Private Briefings About 2008 Economic Crisis Boehner is one of 34 members of Congress who took steps to recast their financial portfolios during the financial crisis after phone calls or meetings with [Treasury Secretary Hank] Paulson; his successor, Timothy F. Geithner; or Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, according to a Washington Post examination of appointment calendars and congressional disclosure forms. The lawmakers, many of whom held leadership positions and committee chairmanships in the House and Senate, changed portions of their portfolios a total of 166 times within two business days of speaking or meeting with the administration officials. The party affiliation of the lawmakers was about evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, 19 to 15. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/06/25/505447/congress-trading-2008-financial-crisis/ » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 6:01 pm I hope this get’s played over and over a few thousand times until election day! The barkless dog’s ego just got too much for him and he had to bark. » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 5:51 pm I love Madison! What a beautiful town. » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 5:43 pm That is what is so sickening and maddening about it AdLib. He is in a position of upholding the legal canons of all lawyers and judges and in his conceit he just shits on both his position and the canons. Maybe self disbarment? 😉 » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 5:37 pm Are you sure he wasn’t behind that Lindbergh baby thing? 😉 Can’t these crazies even use google before they come up with their conspiracies? Perhaps it doesn’t matter, they just want to get the lie out in the public hoping just enough will believe it to get themselves elected. Pesky facts be damned! » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 5:07 pm Outstanding k’es! Good job. » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 4:59 pm ROFL! Michel Steele on Romney’s not having a policy on immigration (beyond self deportation/veto Dream Act) “Just because he hasn’t told anyone, doesn’t mean he doesn’t have one.” 😆 😆 » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 4:54 pm k’es, this site is has a pretty good look at the STOCK Act, check out the left-hand sidebar, bunches of info there. Loved the part where the bill had very few cosponsors until a “60 Minutes” piece on it! 🙂 Looks like enough info there for you to write a post. 😉 » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 4:35 pm See, Obama is showing his true commie pinko colors! He’s giving away valuable land to those commies in the USSR! Romney is right, those Ruskies are our #1 geopolitical threat! Conspiracy Watch: Did Obama Give American Islands to Russia? One of the big takeaways from the first three-and-a-half years of the Obama administration is that some people are crazy. I don’t mean to suggest that this is an entirely new phenomenon—in the 1990s, a sitting member of Congress tried to prove that President Clinton murdered Vince Foster by blowing up a pumpkin—but it certainly seems to have picked up steam. As proof, I present the latest conspiracy theory from the fever swamps: President Obama secretly gave away seven American Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea islands to Russia. Russia! He transmitted them to Vladimir! http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/06/conspiracy-watch-obama-giving-away-american-island-russia oops: (Factcheck.org looked into this claim back in March and concluded that the the islands had actually been forked over by President George H.W. Bush in 1991, when he signed a treaty with Russia permanently establishing the maritime boundary. All of the islands are squarely on the other side, and most of them are pretty close to the mainland; it’d be like Spain claiming Nantucket. Also: Both of Alaska’s senators voted for the treaty. (The call was coming from inside Alaska!) In other words, case closed. Issa and his RWers claim that PBO and AG Holder concocted Fast and Furious in 2008 to take away our guns, but now he gets blamed for something in 1991? Where do these crazies get this stuff? » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 3:59 pm AdLib, he didn’t just flip his cards showing his hand, he flipped his finger to both the people and even legal scholars. Some of them were taken aback at his statements yesterday without any legal backing or need. He knows he won’t get admonished or impeached, he can live by his own code and screw the rest of us. » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 3:25 pm Right, k’es, I don’t know enough about it, I just remember when he hearings were being held that Thom Hartmann (I think) was saying it had holes that a truck could drive through. Need to look it up, I guess. » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 3:20 pm MOODY’S: Obama Is Still Likely To Beat Mitt Romney In November Moody’s is out with its June electoral forecast, and the credit-rating service still thinks President Barack Obama is a good bet to beat Republican nominee Mitt Romney in November’s election. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/moodys-obama-romney-electoral-map-college-2012-6#ixzz1ywKbHGh7 [img]http://static7.businessinsider.com/image/4fea1648ecad043f3000001d/moodys-electoral-map.png[/img] I will be interested if the SCOTUS ruling on immigration changes the next map in AZ and and Florida. Both of those states are quite close in some other polls. (Funny how the MSM never brings up the electoral map. 😉 ) » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 3:13 pm Excellent point C’Lady! While a full disclosure act may be decades away in congress, states can pass them. I guess the biggest problem is that the undisclosed money will fight any proposal that the states try to pass. Definitely a circular fight, no? Good luck to CA and it spreads across the country. What it may take is for an attack ad by some unknown group against a leadership person on the right to push a bill through. » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 3:05 pm KQ, Activism being the operative word and hypocrisy being the other. With all his preaching about precedent, history and “original intent,” he has no problem overturning laws that have been “settled” for 50-100+ years. He also preaches states rights yet this week we got CU.2 while ignoring the history of Montana. Bet me, within 6 years, oil and mineral corporations will once again own Montana government! » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 2:46 pm Nirek, without any disclosure of donors to super pacs then why can’t foreign money get commingled into their funds? You are right about multinational corporations, you know that they can’t/don’t separate their monies into separate US and foreign piles and only donate from the US pile! Look at Addelson, much of his money comes from China, does he separate that from his Vegas money when he gives to Romney? The Chamber of Commerce got caught using China money in campaigns and they then claimed “we have separate little piles.” BullShit! RE Citizens United point two allowing unlimited/undisclosed money into state campaigns, I have only one question: How long will it take before one company, one billionaire controls YOUR state/local government? » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 2:33 pm k’es, as I mentioned to Nirek, from what I have gathered that while the STOCK act is a very good start, congress left themselves many holes to walk through in the act. Perhaps it is better than I think and time will tell if we have rags to riches stories from newer congresspeople. I don’t know this, but who monitors the STOCK act? Fellow congresspeople like the ethics committee? » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 1:14 pm Nirek, The house did hold hearings on a bill that addressed ‘insider trading’ by congress members and close to nothing came out of it. It’s absolutely shameful to me that someone can be elected having modest income and savings then retire as a multimillionaire from inside tips garnered at their own hearings, some in closed door sessions and it’s all legal for them! They are a special class, unknown outside of congress. Some of the information a subsequent trading would be/is completely illegal for any one else. » Posted By bito On June 26, 2012 @ 1:04 pm IMO by far the most important decision today was the Citizen United II decision against Montana (and all states)attempting to block the unlimeted use of corporate money in state elections. A group of wealthy donors are now able to simply outspend most any other group and take over a state government. 2 copper companies basically owned Montana 100 years ago and with this decision they may one again after a couple of elections. This really sucks! Opinion recap: Citizens United solidified http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/06/opinion-recap-citizens-united-solidified/ » Posted By bito On June 25, 2012 @ 11:15 pm Sally, I need more room to reply: I’m not sure if Scalia has gone “clinical” like O’Donnell tends to think but he sure didn’t hide his partisanship in his ruling. He removed any doubt that he dislikes Obama/Dems and that is the way he rules. The fourth opinion, however, was just short of a political talking-points document, essentially choosing up sides in this year’s presidential campaign — indeed, it took sides in a week-old development in the ongoing political controversy over how President Obama is using his powers. That opinion, by Justice Antonin Scalia, reached far outside the record of the case to find reasons to denounce the Obama Administration for supposedly not even wanting “to enforce the immigration laws as written.” Even for a judge who wears his sentiments on the sleeve of his robe, this was remarkable, and not one of his colleagues would sign on to those remarks. [….] The sovereignty argument, though passionately stated by Scalia, contained no hints of the political implications that, in fact, saturated the other reason that he objected to the Kennedy opinion. This was his claim that the federal government in general — and the Obama Administration in particular — has made an explicit choice not to enforce the nation’s immigration laws, leaving the states to face virtually alone the threat of an invading horde of crime-prone and services-consuming immigrants. While some past Supreme Court opinions, in immigration cases, have commented negatively about lax immigration enforcement, not one in memory matched the intensity of Justice Scalia’s complaint. “Are the sovereign states,” he asked, “at the mercy of the Federal Executive’s refusal to enforce the Nation’s immigration laws?” There’s some more about Scalia in the opinion and none of it flattering. He seems to not even give a shit if he looks like a corporate Republican in his rulings, he knows he’s there for life so fuck you! http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/06/opinion-recap-immigration-and-judicial-styles/ » Posted By bito On June 25, 2012 @ 11:06 pm K’es, we were talking about The President’s timing when he delivers some of his zinger lines. If he hadn’t gone into politics, he would have made a great standup comedian, he has his pauses down perfectly……”Just saying…..” 😉 » Posted By bito On June 25, 2012 @ 10:13 pm FYI: ScotusBlog is reporting that the decision on the ACA will be handed down at 10:00 Thursday. » Posted By bito On June 25, 2012 @ 10:08 pm Sally, I mostly agree, the word alone, “mandate”, connotes that one is being dictated/forced to do something and those opposing the ACA easily took advantage of the dark, negative aspect of the word. That and like you mention below the word tax got thrown into the mix. They really needed a wordsmith to alter those two words to make the ACA accepted by more people. » Posted By bito On June 25, 2012 @ 10:05 pm C’Lady, When I read what Scalia said I hadn’t heard or seen anyone one else even reporting it. It was a strange feeling like one had just seen a UFO and no one else had. I was going WTF people report this! Scalia has gone off the deep end. In part: “Arizona has moved to protect its sovereignty — not in contradiction of federal law, but in complete compliance with it,” he wrote. “If securing its territory in this fashion is not within the power of Arizona, we should cease referring to it as a sovereign state.” Then he went off on PBO addressing something that wasn’t even before the court: Scalia took aim at Obama’s new policy on deportation in the statement he read from the bench, as well as in his dissent, although the issue was not before the court. “The husbanding of scarce enforcement resources can hardly be the justification for this, since those resources will be eaten up by the considerable administrative cost of conducting the nonenforcement program, which will require as many as 1.4 million background checks and biennial rulings on requests for dispensation,” Scalia said. He went on: “But to say, as the court does, that Arizona contradicts federal law by enforcing applications of federal immigration law that the president declines to enforce boggles the mind. Mitt is muddled and Scalia is boggled! 😉 » Posted By bito On June 25, 2012 @ 9:49 pmComments Posted By bito
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Self pity, I know, I have been going though a round of it myself lately. I’m in the “mood swings r us” phase right now!
Volunteer? Really, you just volunteered? 😆
In many states the state supreme courts hear final arguments and decide if a lawyer is disbarred because they are supposed to know and hold the highest of standards, not Scalia.
He’s running for President! Isn’t that when he is supposed to present his policies to the voters? What Nixon and his secret peace plan? How did that work out by electing him on that jewel?
Moody’s still projects virtually the same electoral map from last time — 303 electoral college votes for Obama, compared with 235 for Romney. Off the weak May jobs report, though, Obama lost some ground in some key swing states he’s carrying — Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, New Mexico and Virginia. He actually picked up steam in Moody’s model in Ohio, however.
As I said, the hearings they held were a complete joke and the blame for that is spread around to not just both parties but also to the media and we the people for not holding them to a standard that even a lowly desk trader would find them in prison and banned from trading.
Ask yourself, how can a Darrell Issa become worth 300-500 million dollars being a congressman?
What if there were a requirement that all members of congress could only hold state and local municipal bonds as investments? How many people would NOT run for congress?
One site that attempts to track and expose the money influence is http://sunlightfoundation.com/ You may like to check them out.
From ScotusBlog:
What those two replacement words might have been, I have no idea
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Scalia’s remarks start on page 2 of this WaPo article:
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