it's all water out there
A full 14 percent of Republicans said that it was "definitely true" that Obama sympathized with the fundamentalists and wanted to impose Islamic law across the globe. An additional 38 percent said that it was probably true -- bringing the total percentage of believers to 52 percent. Only 33 percent of Republicans said that the "allegation" (as Newsweek put it) was "probably not true." Seven percent said it was "definitely not true." The rest (eight percent) either didn't know the answer or didn't read the question.
What do you think friends, is Barack Obama a muslim? The actual fact is that he is not! However, apparently 52% of american republicans believe that he is. This is due to the fact the media just keeps repeating the same nonsense over and over until people believe it is true. This is how misinformation works. People for goodness sake don't be mislead by this silliness. And to top it all off, it really should not matter whether anyone in the US or anywhere else is muslim, christian, or any religion for that matter. Freedom of religion is a constitutional right that means that anyone can worship whatever religion they like and should not be persecuted for this reason.
they probably forgot the towel because it's invisible in that light
looks like there are wild animals in there.
the reflecting sun light looks like electric shocks
there's a weasel hiding in there. watch out!
Back in late July, after a summer of struggle, the underwater oil spill caused by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig was finally capped. And then, something wonderful and miraculous happened! All of the millions of gallons of oil that poured into the Gulf of Mexico just disappeared! Raptured up into Oil Heaven, even!
Except: not. After absorbing the first spate of media gushing about the wonderful disappearance of all the oil, Mother Jones reporter Mac McClelland sent out a couple of text messages to contacts in the area, asking if they could find any oil, and the response she got back was, "Yes, the oil, it is everywhere."
But that's not stopped the administration from taking the line that the oil's disappearance is unalloyed good news, and that it's safe for the bon temps to roulez once more. Huffington Post's own Ben Craw has produced the essential mash-up video of White House Happy Talk, which gets downright hypnotic, in places:
WATCH:
As Huffington Post's own Dan Froomkin has documented, administration estimates may have been "overly optimistic." Representative Ed Markey (D-Mass.) was quick to call out the White House for promoting a rosy scenario without providing the data to back up their claims. Markey was subsequently joined by Representative Darrell Issa (R-Calif.). They had good reason: many independent scientists, studying the matter on their own, "rejected the government's claims."
I don't know if you have noticed this, but our current administration of "Change" is acting a lot like the last administration. The fact that Obama has declared the Oil Spill problem solved is testimony to this. We the People need to keep this issue in the forefront of our awareness so that we continue the clean up and continue to push for an end to our dependence on oil and other dangerous fossil fuels. We need to innovate our way out of this or we are doomed.
light keeps changing all the time
What will Ben Bernanke, the Fed chairman, say in his big speech Friday in Jackson Hole, Wyo.? Will he hint at new steps to boost the economy? Stay tuned.
Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
But we can safely predict what he and other officials will say about where we are right now: that the economy is continuing to recover, albeit more slowly than they would like. Unfortunately, that’s not true: this isn’t a recovery, in any sense that matters. And policy makers should be doing everything they can to change that fact.
The small sliver of truth in claims of continuing recovery is the fact that G.D.P. is still rising: we’re not in a classic recession, in which everything goes down. But so what?
The important question is whether growth is fast enough to bring down sky-high unemployment. We need about 2.5 percent growth just to keep unemployment from rising, and much faster growth to bring it significantly down. Yet growth is currently running somewhere between 1 and 2 percent, with a good chance that it will slow even further in the months ahead. Will the economy actually enter a double dip, with G.D.P. shrinking? Who cares? If unemployment rises for the rest of this year, which seems likely, it won’t matter whether the G.D.P. numbers are slightly positive or slightly negative.
All of this is obvious. Yet policy makers are in denial.
via nytimes.com
Thank you Paul Krugman for calling a sick economy a ....
A Sick Economy.
Don't listen to the nice news from the president and his flunkies. We need to spend more to get thing back on track and need to fix the inequities of our politcal and financial systems so that the middle class can begin to pull itself up again.
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