Majority Of GOP Believes Obama Is An Islamic Fundamentalist Who Wants Worldwide Islamic Law - This misinformation is spread by the media on all the major media outlets, not just the conservative voices.

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.

Op-Ed Columnist - This Is Not a Recovery - NYTimes.com -- Excuse me, do you mean to say that Tim Geitner was shading the truth earlier this month?

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.

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.

Barack "W" Obama seeks to expand arms exports by trimming approval process | McClatchy - I bet you didn't expect Obama to be the front man for the Military Industrial Complex!

The administration's stated reason for the changes is to simplify the sale of weapons to U.S. allies, but potential spinoffs include generating business for the U.S. defense industry, creating jobs and contributing to Obama's drive to double U.S. exports by 2015.

This is why we remain in Afghanistan and Iraq. Because our government is ruled by big business. The people need to stand up and take our rights back. Big business does not need help. Big banks do not need help. Try to get a loan for your house our your business. Good Luck!