EXCERPT: PROMISES, PROMISES: Is gov't more open with Obama?Mar 16, 5:28 AM (ET)By SHARON THEIMER
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal agencies haven't lived up to President Barack Obama's promise of a more open government, increasing their use of legal exemptions to keep records secret during his first year in office.
An Associated Press review of Freedom of Information Act reports filed by 17 major agencies found that the use of nearly every one of the law's nine exemptions to withhold information from...

EXCERPT: On his Christian Broadcasting Network show yesterday, Rev. Pat Robertson said that the nation of Haiti has been devastated by a large earthquake because its people "made a pact with the devil."
Apparently they DID make a pact with the Devil....
Here is the......

EXCERPT:   There is a movement by the ignorant and devious among us to throw dust into our eyes concerning two major philosophies and the endgame when they deteriorate into their extreme alter ego:
(or more) party political system     Democrat Socialist Communist   Single party political system
Any Fascism According to AZ Moderate. The NAZIs Were Fascists - not Socialists! The Fascist Brown Shirts are on the......

EXCERPT: The TALF
Bernanke's Witness Protection Program
By Mike WhitneyMarch 16, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- Fed chief Ben Bernanke's new funding facility is a real doozy. In fact, if the Term Asset-Backed Loan Facility or TALF, which is set to launch on Thursday, doesn't convince the American people that it's time to take a wrecking ball to the Central Bank and start over, than nothing will. Bernanke and his co-conspirator at Treasury, Timothy Geithner, are planning to revive the...

EXCERPT: DoJ Official Blows Cover Off PATRIOT ActBy Ryan GrimSeptember 24, 2009 "Huffington Post' -- In the debate over the PATRIOT Act, the Bush White House insisted it needed the authority to search people's homes without their permission or knowledge so that terrorists wouldn't be tipped off that they're under investigation.Now that the authority is law, how has the Department of Justice used the new power? To go after drug dealers.Only three of the 763 "sneak-and-peek" requests in fiscal...

EXCERPT: CBPP: 33 States Have Raised Taxes by $32 Billion/Year
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has published State Tax Changes in Response to the Recession:
The national recession has had such a devastating effect on state finances that states took in $87 billion less in tax revenue from October 2008 through September 2009 than they collected in the previous 12 months. This 11 percent decline, the steepest on record, resulted from the impact on tax collections of lost jobs, reduced...

EXCERPT: Reference: Get Corporations out of Our Politics!
My first reaction has been to condemn the SCOTUS decision to in effect take the binders off of coorporate donations, but after thinking about it for awhile I have changed my mind.
This limit on the entity under our Constitution called a "corporation" is an anomaly that needed to be fixed.    
Hmmmm ...  Could it be that the SCOTUS is throwing down the glove to force Congress to enact legislation to fix the...

EXCERPT: Rep. DeFazio: ‘I Think Obama Is Ill-Advised By Larry Summers. Larry Summers Hates Infrastructure’»
Earlier this week, Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-MN) explained that funding for mass transit infrastructure projects was nixed from the stimulus proposal in order to make room for tax cuts. Despite the fact that tax cuts already comprise a bulky 33 percent of the stimulus (compared to only 7.5 percent for transportation infrastructure), conservatives are pressuring President Obama to include even...

EXCERPT: Fear.  Be afraid!  Be very afraid! The socialists are coming!  The socialists are coming!    That RNC memo  Posted by Michael Tomasky Thursday 4 March 2010 13.25 GMT guardian.co.uk Washington is buzzing about the RNC memo that the Politico's Ben Smith got hold of, the one of a Power Point presentation whose slides include one of Obama as Heath Ledger's Joker and others arguing -- the presentation was made to RNC members at a...

EXCERPT: How do you guilty white liberals like your black man now. Heh
I told yas he was the worst of the worst. can you say 10% unemployed with no idea how to make it better?
good luck all of you broke ass Odummy voters...