Jack & Jill Politics

OMG.. watching the entire video is maddening. The "plantation politics" commit following the call form the uneducated woman talking about Obama's stash. This would be funny of it weren't so sad.

Well, it's less maddening if you remember that for it to really work, we...most of us...have to buy it, and I don't see any danger of that happening. Then again, I'm sure you already know that:).

Where do they find these negros allowing beck to use them? Are they serious? I'm not not disregarding their views but to use beck as a conduit to express those views is self hating.

abe, doesn't the fact that they used Beck's show as a conduit say something about them? Despite the impression they try to float, it's not as if they've been so shut out and unheard that they just had to use his show to get attention. On the contrary, they've been represented in and given access to the media out of proportion to their percentage of the black population. For instance, in the past year, I have definitely seen Charles whatsisname on television more than I've seen Jackson and Sharpton combined. The same goes for Michelle Bernard...Larry Elder...and so on.

"Thank god we landed here.."

Is she crazy?

Either that, or she's furiously "getting her hustle on", LOL.

What does "getting her hustle on" mean?

I'm not kidding...

...being careerist:)...trying to make some money.

ah...thanks. I've heard it before, but it never quite clicked.

A marijuana alternative that looks and works like the real thing, and is legal, is catching the attention of Kansas lawmakers. But proponents of the herb called K-2 said plans to ban the substance should go up in smoke.

Proponents of this new marijuana alternative sold in at least one metro store said it's no worse than alcohol or tobacco. But Peggy Mast, Republican Representative from Emporia, Kan., said it's dangerous, and until more is known about K-2, it should be illegal.

Inside the Sacred Journey store in Lawrence, Kan., and among the herbal products you'll find K-2, the marijuana alternative. It costs about $15-75 a bag depending on size and varieties such as Standard, Citron, and Blonde. And the store isn't hesitant about what it does.

"A lot [of people] get a marijuana-like buzz when you smoke it, and that seems to be why a lot of people are afraid of it and attack it," said Rob Bussinger, a consultant at Sacred Journey.

Often mixed with common herbs, K-2 is a substance made of synthetic chemicals that mimic the effects of marijuana. What makes K-2 legal is that tests show the herb is missing the active ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). But there are a lot of unknowns about K-2 and possible long term effects, if any.

"And that makes it potentially dangerous," said Mast. "I'm really concerned about the effect it can have on young people."

Marijuana Alternative, K-2, Attracts Lawmakers' Attention

I suppose it's like those "alternative herbs" sold as knock-off mary jane. Who knows what's in that stuff!

The number of Americans who lack dependable access to adequate food shot up last year to 49 million, the largest number since the government has been keeping track, according to a federal report released Monday that shows particularly steep increases in food scarcity among families with children.

In 2008, the report found, nearly 17 million children -- more than one in five across the United States -- were living in households in which food at times ran short, up from slightly more than 12 million youngsters the year before. And the number of children who sometimes were outright hungry rose from nearly 700,000 to almost 1.1 million.

Among people of all ages, nearly 15 percent last year did not consistently have adequate food, compared with about 11 percent in 2007, the greatest deterioration in access to food during a single year in the history of the report.

Taken together, the findings provide the latest glimpse into the toll that the weak economy has taken on the well-being of the nation's residents. The findings are from a snapshot of food in America that the U.S. Agriculture Department has issued every year since 1995, based on Census Bureau surveys. It documents both Americans who are scrounging for adequate food -- people living with some amount of "food insecurity" in the lexicon of experts -- and those whose food shortages are so severe that they are hungry.

Report: More Americans going hungry

The original Black Panther Party, which famously advocated black power and preached self-defense through confrontation in the 1960s and 1970s, is not happy with the new upstart. It has condemned the New Black Panther Party and its tactics, saying the NBPP “stole” the party’s name for its “own misguided purposes.”

The Huey P. Newton Foundation Inc., created in 1993 and co-founded by Fredrika Newton, Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton’s widow, said in a statement that the original party was “never a group of angry young militants full of fury toward the white establishment … but operated on love for black people, not hatred of white people.

“As guardian of the true history of the Black Panther Party, the foundation, which includes former leading members of the party, denounces this group’s exploitation of the party’s name and history,” the statement said. “Failing to find its own legitimacy in the black community, this band would graft the party’s name upon itself, which we condemn.

“There is no New Black Panther Party,” the statement said, describing the NBPP as “a small band of African Americans calling themselves the New Black Panthers.” It said the NBPP has “no legitimate claim on the party’s name” and that it “only pretends to walk in the footsteps of the party’s true heroes.”

Black Panthers denounce ‘new’ Panthers

the original Panthers had an actual PURPOSE.

I've been hearing of this for a minute.

If you visit the page for Sarah Palin's book on Amazon.com, it says "Buy Going Rogue: An American Life and get Catastrophe at an additional 5% off."

Unfortunate Pairing?

Jeff Sessions, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, today told reporters that he plans on filibustering David Hamilton, President Obama's nominee to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. “I intend not to support going forward on the Hamilton vote,” Sessions said. “Unlike Justice Sotomayor, when asked to discuss the empathy standard he has embraced it.”

Sessions' announcement marks an about face for the Alabama senator. Sessions, a nominee to the federal bench under Reagan who was blocked by a committee vote, has for his 13 years in the Senate said he would never filibuster a judicial nominee. “One of the many reasons why we shouldn't have a filibuster, an important one, is Article I of the Constitution. It says the Senate shall advise and consent on treaties by a two-thirds vote and simply 'advise and consent' on nominations,” he said in a 2003 floor statement. "Historicaly, we have understood that provision to mean -- and I think there is no doubt the Founders understood that to mean -- that a treaty confirmation requires a two-thirds vote, but confirmation of a judicial nomination requires only a simple majority vote."

Sessions to Filibuster Obama's 7th Circuit Nominee

force him to stand up and filibuster, if he's all big and bad.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/16/hous...

"The study also found that the House bill would not lower healthcare spending overall but national expenditures would actually increase by $289 billion."

"One other complication for lawmakers is the so-called "doctor fix" in Medicare that the House still has to take up. It costs $210 billion and by law, seniors have to cover one-quarter of the cost. That means seniors would be paying $50 billion more in premiums over the next 10 years, an unexpected surprise.

Finally, some 60 percent of the uninsured would get insurance only because the House expands eligibility for Medicaid, government-paid health care for the poor. Critics say that's not reform, just an expansion of entitlements, which are already straining federal and state budgets."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...

"More generally, the report questions whether the country's network of doctors and hospitals would be able to cope with the effects of a reform package expected to add more than 30 million people to the ranks of the insured, many of them through Medicaid, the public health program for the poor.

In the face of greatly increased demand for services, providers are likely to charge higher fees or take patients with better-paying private insurance over Medicaid recipients, "exacerbating existing access problems" in that program, according to the report from Richard S. Foster of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services."

"In its most recent analysis of the House bill, the CBO noted that Medicare spending per beneficiary would have to grow at roughly half the rate it has over the past two decades to meet the measure's savings targets, a dramatic reduction that many budget and health policy experts consider unrealistic."

I think this is what I have been saying.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487...
the various health bills stipulate that Congress will arbitrarily decide how much to spend on health care for seniors every year—and then invest an unelected board with extraordinary powers to dictate what is covered and how it will be paid for. White House budget director Peter Orszag calls this Medicare commission "critical to our fiscal future" and "one of the most potent reforms."

But a decade from now, such limits are off—which also happens to be roughly the time when ObamaCare's spending explodes. The hard budget cap means there is only so much money to be divvied up for care, with no account for demographic changes, such as longer life spans, or for the increasing incidence of diabetes, heart disease and other chronic conditions.

Worse, it makes little room for medical innovations. The commission is mandated to go after "sources of excess cost growth," meaning treatments that are too expensive or whose coverage will boost spending. If researchers find a pricey treatment for Alzheimer's in 2020, that might be banned because it would add new costs and bust the global budget. Or it might decide that "Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller," as President Obama put it in June.

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged four individuals and two companies involved in perpetrating a $30 million Ponzi scheme in which they persuaded more than 300 investors nationwide to participate in purported environmentally-friendly investment opportunities.

The SEC alleges that Wayde and Donna McKelvy, who were previously married and living in the Denver area, particularly targeted elderly investors or those approaching retirement age to finance such "green" initiatives of Pennsylvania-based Mantria Corporation as a supposed "carbon negative" housing community in rural Tennessee and a "biochar" charcoal substitute made from organic waste. The McKelvys promoted Mantria investment opportunities through their Denver-based company Speed of Wealth LLC. With the help of two other promoters who are Mantria executives — Troy Wragg and Amanda Knorr of Philadelphia — they convinced investors attending seminars or participating in Internet "webinars" to liquidate their traditional investments such as retirement plans and home equity to instead invest in Mantria.

The SEC alleges that the "green" representations were laced with bogus claims, and investors were falsely promised enormous returns on their investments ranging from 17 percent to "hundreds of percent" annually. In fact, Mantria's environmental initiatives have not generated any significant cash, and any returns paid to investors have been funded almost exclusively from other investors' contributions.

"These promoters fraudulently exaggerated Mantria's green initiatives and used high-pressure tactics to convince investors to chase the promise of lucrative returns," said Don Hoerl, Director of the SEC's Denver Regional Office. "In reality, the only green these promoters seemed interested in was investors' money."

The SEC's complaint, filed in federal court in Denver, charges Mantria and Speed of Wealth as well as the McKelveys, Wragg and Knorr, and seeks an emergency court order to freeze their assets. The SEC alleges that they overstated the scope and success of Mantria's operations in several ways to solicit investors. For instance, they claimed that Mantria was the world's leading manufacturer and distributor of biochar and had multiple facilities producing it at a rate of 25 tons per day. In fact, Mantria has never sold any biochar and has just one facility engaged in testing biochar for possible future commercial production. Furthermore, Mantria's only source of revenue has been from its resale of vacant lots for its purported residential communities in rural Tennessee, but those did not generate cash with which to pay investor returns because Mantria provided 100 percent financing for almost all of its vacant lot sales to buyers using other investors' funds.

SEC Charges Promoters Of "Green" Investments With Operating $30 Million Ponzi Scheme Based In Denver Area

Women’s Rights & Reproductive Freedoms Under Attack with Honduran Coup: http://bit.ly/2EOPMm (a good issue for Hillary Clinton and President Obama note)

This woman and her cohorts belong UNDER the jail:

The body of a missing 5-year-old North Carolina girl has been found and her mother will be in court later today to face initial charges of offering her daughter for sex.

Searchers found the body of Shaniya Davis near Sanford, in central North Carolina. She was reported missing last Tuesday.

Her mother, Antoinette Davis, 25 is charged with human trafficking and felony child abuse.

An accomplice, Mario Andrette McNeill, 29, will face kidnapping charges. He was seen on surveillance footage carrying Shaniya at a Sanford hotel. As a result, another man who was arrested last week has been freed.

Antoinette Nicole Davis, 25, is charged with prostituting her daughter, Shaniya.
CAPTION
By AP
The cause of death has not been announced. The Fayetteville Observer reports that one searcher said her body was found in woods near a deer carcass.

Shaniya's father, Bradley Lockhart, said over the weekend that he raised his daughter for several years but last month decided to let her stay with Davis.

"I should've never let her go over there," he told the Associated Press.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadl...

she's an egg donor. give the guards extra cigarettes and tell them to 'take a break'. Then, leave only the MOTHERS in there with her. Let them at her. I'm very clear about what needs to be done with mofos that abuse children - men or women - doesn't matter to me. There's a rule in prison - DON'T FUCK WITH CHILDREN. and, I think the prisoners should dispense the ' justice' in this case.

SHE WAS FIVE YEARS OLD!!!

what kind of animal could do that to a CHILD?

the father will be haunted for the rest of his life. who could imagine that someone who had a child could do that to them?

I'm sure she won't live to be an old woman in prison. They'll take care of her long before that.

Apparently there are some democrats who are not happy with the President according to Morning Joe because they think he's taking to long to make a decision on Afghanistan, they don't know what he wants on healthcare, and they think he's let holder go off on a tangent.

Do you share those views as well?

tell Joe to answer the perennial question about him..

' what about that DEAD STAFFER IN YOUR OFFICE?'

I think morning joe is bullshitting. Largely Democrats/Liberals support how long he's taking to think through the situation.

TRANSLATION: We really wanted Hillary and so we're going to do everything we can to make Obama fail so Hillary, or anyone white, can swoop in and save the day in 2012.

Town breaks it down again.

rikyrah: 1 MO': :>) FIRST LADY - - SPEAKS on MENTORING:

First lady Michelle Obama brings mentoring message to Colorado

First lady Michelle Obama is visiting Denver today to focus attention on a program that puts students in touch with women who can act as their mentors.

Speaking at a luncheon at the governor's mansion, the first lady told 80 high school girls that through "hard work and focus" and perseverance when someone doubts them, they could be successful.

"There's no way that I could have known at your age that I would be standing here as first lady. What I did know was that I wanted to make my family and my community proud," she said.

In describing the aim of the White House's Women of Excellence leadership and mentoring initiative, Obama encouraged attendees to reach out as mentors -- starting today.

"Take this experience and spread it to all the girls who weren't lucky enough to be here," she said. "Be a role model in someone's life"

"There's no secret to success," Obama said, encouraging the young women to work hard and to be willing to fail.

"For each of us, we've all failed. We've all made mistakes," she said. "What we didn't do was let those mistakes shatter us and keep us from moving on to the next set of challenges."

Later, Obama plans to visit Denver's South High School. At the same time, a group of female Cabinet members, scientists, activists and movie stars will visit 11 metro school.

Obama launched the mentoring initiative on Nov. 2 when more than a dozen high school girls from the Washington, D.C., area came to the White House and met with the first lady and members of her staff.

The Washington phase of the program will pair 20 students with 20 mentors.

Joining Obama in Denver today are Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis; Christina Romer, Chair of the council of Economic advisors; and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.

Others scheduled to participate in events surrounding thefirst lady's visit include: congresswomen Diana DeGette, D-Denver, and Betsy Markey, D-Fort Collins; Colorado First Lady Jeanne Ritter; actresses Susan Sarandon, Fran Drescher, Alfre Woodard, Traci Ellis Ross and Karen Olivo; Helen Thorpe, a journalist and wife of Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper; Maggie Fox, CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection and the wife of Sen. Mark Udall; Susan Daggett, an environmental consultant and the wife of Sen. Michael Bennet; Denver School Board President Theresa Pena; Ellen Ochoa, Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center; Nancy Brinker, founder of the Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure; Denver Chamber of Commerce CEO & President Kelly Brough; and Jandell Allen-Davis, Vice President of Government & External Relations for Kaiser Permanente Colorado.

thanks GLH

rikyrah: FIRST LADY - - -On the DOMESTIC ROAD: :>)

Michelle Obama visiting students in Denver today



DENVER - Most students wouldn't be excited to be at school on a Sunday, but those who were decorating the inside of South High School were.
They were preparing for a visit from First Lady Michelle Obama on today.

She is visiting as part of a leadership and mentoring initiative.

She plans to meet with national and local women leaders, including Rep. Betsy Markey, at the governor's mansion for a luncheon discussion. In the afternoon, they'll all visit different schools in the area to discuss their careers and answer student questions.

Michelle Obama will be visiting South High.

Thirty students at South High were selected to have a private audience with Obama during her visit. The freshmen through senior students were nominated by their teachers for their leadership skills.

"I'm really excited," Addie Black, a freshman, said. "Oh man, this is gonna be so cool."

Each will be allowed to ask the first lady one question.

"I want to ask her what kind of activities she was involved with in high school, but once I start to think about the question I start to get caught up with the, 'Oh my gosh, I get to meet Michelle Obama!' and I float off somewhere else," Jennavieve Martinez, another freshman, said.

Sunday, they were setting up the school library and putting posters up in the hallway to try to liven up the school. The White House advance team was also there supervising.

PICS - - -When available. :>)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...

"Wedged in the House health-care bill is $23.5 billion that looks a lot more like new federal stimulus spending than anything to do with national health-care reform.

The barely debated pot of money would allow Congress to continue pumping billions in new short-term aid to states to cover Medicaid costs that have increased with rising unemployment in the past year.

The potential impact of the new spending became clear last week when giddy state budget officials in capitals from Annapolis to Sacramento penciled in the revenue, hoping that if health-care legislation survives in the Senate, the states' bonus might squeak through.

Medicaid relief for states comprised one of the biggest pieces of February's $787 billion federal stimulus package, but that funding will run out next year, halfway through states' next round of spending plans." ....................

What's the problem with that? At least it's useful compare to Iraq. I swear as a nation our priorities are screwy.

Nouriel Roubini's Global EconoMonitor
The Worst is yet to Come: Unemployed Americans Should Hunker Down for More Job Losses
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Nouriel Roubini | Nov 15, 2009

From the Daily News:

Think the worst is over? Wrong. Conditions in the U.S. labor markets are awful and worsening. While the official unemployment rate is already 10.2% and another 200,000 jobs were lost in October, when you include discouraged workers and partially employed workers the figure is a whopping 17.5%.

While losing 200,000 jobs per month is better than the 700,000 jobs lost in January, current job losses still average more than the per month rate of 150,000 during the last recession.

Also, remember: The last recession ended in November 2001, but job losses continued for more than a year and half until June of 2003; ditto for the 1990-91 recession.

So we can expect that job losses will continue until the end of 2010 at the earliest. In other words, if you are unemployed and looking for work and just waiting for the economy to turn the corner, you had better hunker down. All the economic numbers suggest this will take a while. The jobs just are not coming back.

There's really just one hope for our leaders to turn things around: a bold prescription that increases the fiscal stimulus with another round of labor-intensive, shovel-ready infrastructure projects, helps fiscally strapped state and local governments and provides a temporary tax credit to the private sector to hire more workers. Helping the unemployed just by extending unemployment benefits is necessary not sufficient; it leads to persistent unemployment rather than job creation.

The long-term picture for workers and families is even worse than current job loss numbers alone would suggest. Now as a way of sharing the pain, many firms are telling their workers to cut hours, take furloughs and accept lower wages. Specifically, that fall in hours worked is equivalent to another 3 million full time jobs lost on top of the 7.5 million jobs formally lost.

This is very bad news but we must face facts. Many of the lost jobs are gone forever, including construction jobs, finance jobs and manufacturing jobs. Recent studies suggest that a quarter of U.S. jobs are fully out-sourceable over time to other countries.

Other measures tell the same ugly story: The average length of unemployment is at an all time high; the ratio of job applicants to vacancies is 6 to 1; initial claims are down but continued claims are very high and now millions of unemployed are resorting to the exceptional extended unemployment benefits programs and are staying in them longer.

Based on my best judgment, it is most likely that the unemployment rate will peak close to 11% and will remain at a very high level for two years or more.

http://www.rgemonitor.com/roubini-monitor/25797...

I just watched the shuttle launch, sometimes I really wish I'd become an astronaut, or even an astronomer. I did want to be an astronomer until I found out how much math was involved (I hate math).

As much as I love space exploration, I've always been afraid of what will be found. If there are other life forms out there, what will our reaction be. We've got people on this Earth who can't even handle a Black president.

Co-sign on the astronaut/astronomy bit. My interest took a hit when '86 came around. I still have my old telescope from childhood. Promised myself to build a make-shift observatory once I get a home.

"Co-sign on the astronaut/astronomy bit. My interest took a hit when '86 came around. I still have my old telescope from childhood."

Same here.

there's something 'geeky cool' about it. If I was ever in Florida during the time of a launch, I think I'd want to go.