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Friday, December 19
Congress rewards its economy busting, nationalizing and socializing single digit approval performance with...another pay raise!
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 19 Dec 2008 01:11 PM EST
From The Hill: A crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents who have lost their jobs this year, and congressional demands of CEOs to work for free did not convince lawmakers to freeze their own pay.
Instead, they will get a $4,700 pay increase, amounting to an additional $2.5 million that taxpayers will spend on congressional salaries, and watchdog groups are not happy about it.
“As lawmakers make a big show of forcing auto executives to accept just $1 a year in salary, they are quietly raiding the vault for their own personal gain,” said Daniel O’Connell, chairman of The Senior Citizens League (TSCL), a non-partisan group.
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Times Public Editor Tries to Rationalize Paper’s Use of “Terrorist” Label
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 19 Dec 2008 03:33 AM EST
Hoyt also explains, “The Times does not call Hamas a terrorist organization, though it sponsors acts of terror against Israel,” because “Hamas was elected to govern Gaza.” And “it provides social services and operates charities, hospitals, and clinics.”
The National Socialists were elected to govern Germany. Does that mean the Holocaust wasn’t a crime against humanity? If Al-Qaeda ran hospitals and clinics, would that make it something other than a terrorist gang?
If you can’t call someone who kills a five-year-old girl to advance a political cause a terrorist, how do you describe them - as an overly enthusiastic partisan, a misguided freedom-fighter or an unfortunate individual who was driven to acts of desperation?
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AiM: Is Bernard Madoff Running the Federal Government?
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 19 Dec 2008 03:13 AM EST
Business cable network CNBC is asking, in a special report, whether investment manager Bernard Madoff pulled off the “scam of the century.” But Madoff is only accused of a $50 billion heist. That’s peanuts compared to what the politicians have done to us.
On Monday, December 15, in a story that went unnoticed, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that the federal government has failed another financial audit. It was the 12th year in a row that the federal government has been unable to accurately report on its fiscal condition. Frankly, nobody knows precisely where the money is going. But we know where it’s coming from―the beleaguered taxpayers.
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AIG now offering 'sharia-compliant' insurance products
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 19 Dec 2008 03:04 AM EST
Takaful is similar to mutual insurance and cooperative risk sharing but there are key differences including a clear segregation of funds owned by participants and those owned by the insurance operations entity. Investments of funds are also restricted to avoid companies involved in entertainment, alcohol, pork and other elements prohibited by Islamic law.
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The Theft of an Election Continues: Franken now trails by only 5 votes!
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 19 Dec 2008 02:48 AM EST
The U.S. Senate is scheduled to meet on Jan. 6 to seat its members, but the court cases associated with the Minnesota recount are likely to extend well beyond that date. If Coleman wins by a narrow margin, sources say, the Democratic-controlled Senate may not accept the Minnesota results.
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