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It reportedly drew crowds whenever it appeared in public, which is certainly an encouraging sign.
It reportedly drew crowds whenever it appeared in public, which is certainly an encouraging sign.
All U.S. taxpayers would enjoy the same immunity from IRS penalties and interest as House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY) and Obama Administration Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, if a bill introduced today by Congressman John Carter (R-TX) becomes law.Carter, a former longtime Texas judge, today introduced the Rangel Rule Act of 2009, HR 735, which would prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from charging penalties and interest on back taxes against U.S. citizens. Under the proposed law, any taxpayer who wrote “Rangel Rule” on their return when paying back taxes would be immune from penalties and interest.
The $800 billion-plus economic stimulus measure making its way through Congress could steer government checks to illegal immigrants, a top Republican congressional official asserted Thursday.
The legislation, which would send tax credits of $500 per worker and $1,000 per couple, expressly disqualifies nonresident aliens, but it would allow people who don't have Social Security numbers to be eligible for the checks.
Undocumented immigrants who are not eligible for a Social Security number can file tax returns with an alternative number. A House-passed version of the economic recovery bill and one making its way through the Senate would allow anyone with such a number, called an individual taxpayer identification number, to qualify for the tax credits.
A revolt among GOP conservatives to similar provisions of a 2008 economic stimulus bill, which sent rebate checks to most wage earners, forced Democratic congressional leaders to add stricter eligibility requirements. That legislation, enacted in February 2008, required that people have valid Social Security numbers in order to get checks...
Here's the Story: In a supermarket, Kurtis the stock boy, was busily working when a new voice came over asking for a carry out at check register 4. Kurtis was almost finished, and wanted to get some fresh air, and decided to answer the call. As he approached the check-out stand a distant smile caught his eye, the new check out girl was beautiful. She was an older woman (maybe 26, and he was only 22) and he fell in love.Later that day, after his shift was over, he waited by the punch clock to find out her name. She came into the break room, smiled softly at him, took her card and punched out, then left. He looked at her card, BRENDA. He walked out only to see her start walking up the road.
Next day, he waited outside as she left the supermarket, and offered her a ride home. He looked harmless enough, and she accepted. When he dropped her off, he asked if maybe he could see her again, outside of work. She simply said it wasn't possible. He pressed and and she explained she had two children and she couldn't afford a baby-sitter, so he offered to pay for the baby-sitter. Reluctantly she accepted his offer for a date for the following Saturday.
That Saturday night he arrived at her door only to have her tell him that she was unable to go with him. The baby-sitter had called and canceled. To which Kurtis simply said, "Well, lets take the kids with us." She tried to explain that taking the children was not an option, but again not taking no for an answer, he pressed. Finally Brenda, brought him inside to meet her children. She had a older daughter who was just as cute as a bug, Kurtis thought, then Brenda brought out her son, in a wheelchair.
He was born a paraplegic with down syndrome. Kurtis asked Brenda, "I still don't understand why the kids can't come with us?" Brenda was amazed. Most men would run away from a woman with two kids, especially if one had disabilities. Just like her first husband and father of her children did.
That evening Kurtis and Brenda loaded up the kids, went to dinner and the movies. When her son needed anything Kurtis would take care of him. When he needed to use the rest room, he picked him up out of his chair, took him, brought him back. The kids loved Kurtis. At the end of the evening, Brenda knew this was the man she was going to marry and spend the rest of her life with. A year later, they were married and Kurtis adopted both of her children . Since then they have added two more kids.
So what happened to the stock boy and check out girl? Well, Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Warner, now live in St. Louis, where he is employed by the St. Louis Rams and plays quarterback.
The Democratic Porkfest Bill of 2009: Hot AirTHE truth is that the Middle East is not much better off than at any time since its emergence as a geopolitical unit after World War I. Thanks to the transformation of America from a power guaranteeing the deadly status quo into one that supports reform and change, the region has started to experience new currents of democratization.
Afghanistan and Iraq have been liberated, their peoples given a chance to build new systems of their own choice. The Syrians have been kicked out of Lebanon. Libya has been disarmed. Egypt has been forced to allow multiparty presidential elections. More than a dozen Arab states have adopted constitutions and introduced some form of electoral politics. Kuwaiti women have won the right to vote and get elected.
Iran's democratic forces are encouraged to launch their campaign against the mullahs. The Islamists have been roundly defeated in Algeria, Egypt, Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
For the first time, the question of democracy is top of the political agenda in virtually every Muslim state...
[the] SLK variant will use battery packs located in its side sills. Because the sills need to be high to accommodate the packs, designers hit on the idea of turning a potential flaw into a virtue, combining them with the roof-mounted doors to create a baby brother to the SLC.It’s likely the range-topping SLK will use the same advanced lithium-ion battery technology as the Blue Zero E-Cell concept which debuted at the Detroit Motor Show earlier this month. It has batteries that drive an electric motor, and the model can run for around 120 miles before needing to be recharged.
In the SLK, this combination will be teamed with a petrol engine, possibly a development of the 3.5-litre V6 used in the current car. With a brake-energy regeneration system – like the KERS set-up on this season’s Formula One cars – plus stop-start, the SLK Gullwing would be extremely efficient, with fuel economy of around 40mpg and CO2 emissions of 150g/km.
Performance will be superb, too. Combined with the V6 engine, the petrol-electric set-up would have as much torque as a regular V8. And with the electric motor assisting the engine under full throttle and up hills, owners could expect awesome acceleration, with 0-60mph in five seconds and a top speed of 155mph. Fine-tuning of the performance and handling is likely to be carried out by Mercedes’ AMG division.
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The inventory of items in the Obama stimulus package is truly shocking.
The Journal notes that "only $90 billion out of [the] $825 billion, or about 12 cents over every $1, is for something that can... be considered a growth stimulus."
It keeps turning up in the strangest places.

Succinct: Paul Krugman is a lying a****le: Ace o' SpadesQ: You’ve been saying essentially that we should not look at these issues — like the Palestinian-Israeli track and separation from the border region — you’ve been talking about a kind of holistic approach to the region. Are we expecting a different paradigm in the sense that in the past one of the critiques — at least from the Arab side, the Muslim side — is that everything the Americans always tested with the Israelis, if it works. Now there is an Arab peace plan, there is a regional aspect to it. And you’ve indicated that. Would there be any shift, a paradigm shift?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, here’s what I think is important. Look at the proposal that was put forth by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia... I might not agree with every aspect of the proposal, but it took great courage... to put forward something that is as significant as that. I think that there are ideas across the region of how we might pursue peace.
The Saudi intiative offers Israel Arab recognition in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from territory it occupied in the 1967 war, including the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital and a "just solution for the problem of Palestinian refugees." Consider that for every one acre of land Israel has, Arab nations have 510, begging the question: why do the Muslims even want this miniscule bit of desert?
THE PRESIDENT: ...we are looking at the region as a whole and communicating a message to the Arab world and the Muslim world, that we are ready to initiate a new partnership based on mutual respect and mutual interest, then I think that we can make significant progress... Now, Israel is a strong ally of the United States. They will not stop being a strong ally of the United States. And I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount. But I also believe that there are Israelis who recognize that it is important to achieve peace. They will be willing to make sacrifices if the time is appropriate and if there is serious partnership on the other side.
Six decades of war just to survive isn't, apparently, enough of a sacrifice. Is there a word that means "naive", only multiplied by a million?THE PRESIDENT: I think it is possible for us to see a Palestinian state — I’m not going to put a time frame on it — that is contiguous, that allows freedom of movement for its people, that allows for trade with other countries, that allows the creation of businesses and commerce so that people have a better life...
Which would mean opening Israel's tiny sliver of land to another wave of suicidal terrorists. Brilliant! Why didn't anyone think of that before?
THE PRESIDENT: Now, my job is to communicate the fact that the United States has a stake in the well-being of the Muslim world that the language we use has to be a language of respect. I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.
Countries? We knew about Indonesia, but do tell.
Q: Tell me, time is running out, any decision on from where you will be visiting the Muslim world?
THE PRESIDENT: ...We’re going to follow through on our commitment for me to address the Muslim world from a Muslim capital. We are going to follow through on many of my commitments to do a more effective job of reaching out, listening, as well as speaking to the Muslim world.
And you’re going to see me following through with dealing with a drawdown of troops in Iraq, so that Iraqis can start taking more responsibility. And finally, I think you’ve already seen a commitment, in terms of closing Guantanamo, and making clear that even as we are decisive in going after terrorist organizations that would kill innocent civilians, that we’re going to do so on our terms, and we’re going to do so respecting the rule of law that I think makes America great.
What Obama describes is a return to lawfare -- the treatment of terrorist acts of war as law enforcement issues. It's almost as if 9/11 never happened. At least for Democrats, that is.
Q: President Bush framed the war on terror conceptually in a way that was very broad, “war on terror,” and used sometimes certain terminology that the many people — Islamic fascism. You’ve always framed it in a different way, specifically against one group called al Qaeda and their collaborators. And is this one way of –THE PRESIDENT: I think that you’re making a very important point. And that is that the language we use matters. And what we need to understand is, is that there are extremist organizations — whether Muslim or any other faith in the past — that will use faith as a justification for violence. We cannot paint with a broad brush a faith as a consequence of the violence that is done in that faith’s name.
He has a point. Whether it's nuns quietly passing SBDs in church, or Jewish dentists performing dental surgery with insufficent anasthesia, or even militant Quakers engaging in random cow-tipping, religious extremism in any form is completely unacceptable.
And so you will I think see our administration be very clear in distinguishing between organizations like al Qaeda — that espouse violence, espouse terror and act on it — and people who may disagree with my administration and certain actions, or may have a particular viewpoint in terms of how their countries should develop. We can have legitimate disagreements but still be respectful. I cannot respect terrorist organizations that would kill innocent civilians and we will hunt them down.
Because only those carrying laminated Al Qaeda Life Member cards can be targeted. We know that Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaeda-in-Iraq, Ansar al-Islam, Islamic Jihad, Abu Sayyaf, Jemaah Islamiyah, Fatah and Darul Islam have nothing to do with one another and can only be targeted with a complete police investigation after a crime has been committed.
Q: Will the United States ever live with a nuclear Iran? And if not, how far are you going in the direction of preventing it?
THE PRESIDENT: You know, I said during the campaign that it is very important for us to make sure that we are using all the tools of U.S. power, including diplomacy, in our relationship with Iran... Now, the Iranian people are a great people, and Persian civilization is a great civilization. Iran has acted in ways that’s not conducive to peace and prosperity in the region: their threats against Israel; their pursuit of a nuclear weapon which could potentially set off an arms race in the region that would make everybody less safe; their support of terrorist organizations in the past — none of these things have been helpful.
But I do think that it is important for us to be willing to talk to Iran, to express very clearly where our differences are, but where there are potential avenues for progress. And we will over the next several months be laying out our general framework and approach. And as I said during my inauguration speech, if countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us...
Diplomacy... not conducive to peace... pursuing nukes... setting off an arms race... supporting terrorists... all of that is "not helpful". So let's extend a hand.
Correction: is there a word that means "naive", only multiplied by ten trillion? Oh. Yeah. "Jimmy Carter".
We are in deep, deep, deep manure.
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Thank goodness Obama acted quickly by closing Gitmo, spreading the practice of abortion across the world, criticizing Rush Limbaugh and cozying up to the Mullahs.
Retired senior NASA atmospheric scientist, Dr. John S. Theon, the former supervisor of James Hansen, NASA’s vocal man-made global warming fear soothsayer, has now publicly declared himself a skeptic and declared that Hansen “embarrassed NASA” with his alarming climate claims and said Hansen was “was never muzzled.”
..."I appreciate the opportunity to add my name to those who disagree that global warming is man made," Theon wrote to the... Committee on January 15, 2009. "I was, in effect, Hansen's supervisor because I had to justify his funding, allocate his resources, and evaluate his results," Theon, the former Chief of the Climate Processes Research Program at NASA Headquarters...
"Hansen was never muzzled even though he violated NASA's official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind's effect on it). Hansen thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress," Theon wrote...
MEN ARE JUST HAPPIER PEOPLE
NICKNAMES
* If Laura, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate and Sarah.
* If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla and Four-eyes.
EATING OUT
* When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave and John will each throw in $20, even though it's only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.
* When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.
MONEY
* A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
* A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need but it's on sale.
BATHROOMS
* A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel .
* The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 336. A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items.
ARGUMENTS
* A woman has the last word in any argument.
* Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
FUTURE
* A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
* A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
SUCCESS
* A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
* A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
MARRIAGE
* A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
* A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does.
DRESSING UP
* A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the trash, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail.
* A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.
NATURAL
* Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
* Women somehow deteriorate during the night.
OFFSPRING
* Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.
* A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.
...most newspaper Web sites experienced a drop-off in the number of unique visitors [from November to] December. The same can be said for the average time spent per user... Politico and the Detroit News suffered. About four minutes were nicked off Politico’s average time spent from November to December while Detroit was down about 5 minutes.
The NYTimes.com shed about three minutes from November to December.
...Those sites where visitors lingered longer on average: Washingtonpost.com, Boston.com, SFGate.com, and the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, among others...
Site -- Dec. ’08 -- Nov. ’08
NYTimes.com -- 0:33:03 -- 0:36:32
USATODAY.com -- 0:15:26 -- 0:15:58
washingtonpost.com -- 0:15:02 -- 0:14:15
LA Times -- 0:07:36 -- 0:07:07
Wall Street Journal Online -- 0:10:48 -- 0:11:57
Chicago Tribune -- 0:07:27 -- 0:07:12
New York Post -- 0:10:44 -- 0:09:55
Boston.com -- 0:16:55 -- 0:13:27
SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle -- 0:14:44 -- 0:12:05
Chicago Sun-Times -- 0:06:14 -- 0:06:47
Politico -- 0:06:47 -- 0:10:45
The Houston Chronicle -- 0:19:20 -- 0:22:15
Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- 0:11:35 -- 0:11:08
The Detroit News -- 0:08:41 -- 0:14:02
Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- 0:08:34 -- 0:08:58
DallasNews.com - The Dallas Morning News -- 0:06:08 -- 0:06:10
Star Tribune -- 0:32:20 -- 0:20:32
The Washington Times -- 0:03:40 -- 0:03:46
Baltimore Sun -- 0:11:30 -- **
NJ.com -- 0:06:07 -- 0:06:37
MLive.com -- 0:08:40 -- 0:06:12
Old dogs, new tricks, all change: Just One Minute"He's more frightened of me than he is of John Boehner, which doesn't say much for our party," said Limbaugh.
He then said Obama's comments didn't matter, arguing that the president is "sprinting so far to the left" during his first week in office.
"The Republicans haven't been listening to me, anyway," Limbaugh said. "It's a moot point."

| Rep. Mike Arcuri, New York, 24th District, (202) 347-3042 Rep. Joe Baca, California, 43rd District, (202) 488-1528 Rep. John Barrow, Georgia, 12th District, (202) 285-0966 Rep. Melissa Bean, Illinois, 8th District, (202) 204-9050 Rep. Marion Berry, Arkansas, 1st District, (202) 543-5777 Rep. Sanford Bishop, Georgia, 2nd District Rep. Dan Boren, Oklahoma, 2nd District, (202) 454-5262 Rep. Leonard Boswell, Iowa, 3rd District, (202) 547-1334 Rep. Allen Boyd, Florida, 2nd District, (202) 543-5777 Rep. Dennis Cardoza, California, 18th District, (703) 536-6881 Rep. Chris Carney, Pennsylvania, 10th District, 202) 737-5877 Rep. Ben Chandler, Kentucky, 6th District, (202) 454-5262 Rep. Jim Cooper, Tennessee, 5th District, 202) 543-5777 Rep. Jim Costa, California, 20th District, (202) 347-3042 Rep. Bud Cramer, Alabama, 5th District, (256) 539-0902 Rep. Lincoln Davis, Tennessee, 4th District, (202) 543-5777 Rep. Joe Donnelly, Indiana, 2nd District, (202) 488-1445 Rep. Brad Ellsworth, Indiana, 8th District, (703) 354-7444 Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona, 8th District, (202) 454-5262 Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, New York, 20th District, (718) 344-8025 Rep. Bart Gordon, Tennessee, 6th District, 1-800-444-BART Rep. Jane Harman, California, 36th District, (202) 204-9050 Rep. Baron Hill, Indiana, 9th District, (202) 285-0966 Rep. Tim Holden, Pennsylvania, 17th District, (202) 737-5877 | Rep. Nick Lampson, Texas, 22nd District, (202) 544-3151 Rep. Tim Mahoney, Florida, 16th District, (202) 741-7325 Rep. Jim Marshall, Georgia, 8th District, (478) 742-1100 Rep. Jim Matheson, Utah, 2nd District, (703) 354-7444 Rep. Charlie Melancon, Louisiana, 3rd District, (202) 479-2527 Rep. Mike McIntyre, North Carolina, 7th District, (910) 738-8683 Rep. Mike Michaud, Maine, 2nd District, (202) 488-1445 Rep. Dennis Moore, Kansas, 3rd District, (202) 347-3042 Rep. Patrick Murphy, Pennsylvania, 8th District, (202) 488-1445 Rep. Collin Peterson, Minnesota, 7th District, (202) 543-5777 Rep. Earl Pomeroy, North Dakota, At-Large, (202) 347-3042 Rep. Mike Ross, Arkansas, 4th District, (202) 454-5262 Rep. John Salazar, Colorado, 3rd District, (202) 479-2527 Rep. Loretta Sanchez, California, 47th District, (714) 839-4431 Rep. Stephanie Sandlin, South Dakota, At-Large, (202) 347-3042 Rep. Adam Schiff, California, 29th District, (202) 544-3536 Rep. Heath Shuler, North Carolina, 11th District, (202) 544-3536 Rep. David Scott, Georgia, 13th District, (202) 488-1445 Rep. Zack Space, Ohio, 18th District, (202) 347-3042 Rep. John Tanner, Tennessee, 8th District, (202) 543-5777 Rep. Gene Taylor, Mississippi, 4th District, (228) 466-3933 Rep. Mike Thompson, California, 1st District, (202) 543-5777 Rep. Charlie Wilson, Ohio, 6th District, (202) 544-3536 |
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GORE HEARING ON WARMING MAY BE PUT ON ICE - Mon Jan 26 2009 17:59:26 ETAl Gore is scheduled before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday morning to once again testify on the 'urgent need' to combat global warming. But Mother Nature seems ready to freeze the proceedings. A 'Winter Storm Watch' has been posted for the nation's capitol and there is a potential for significant snow... sleet... or ice accumulations. "I can't imagine the Democrats would want to showcase Mr. Gore and his new findings on global warming as a winter storm rages outside," a Republican lawmaker emailed the DRUDGE REPORT. "And if the ice really piles up, it will not be safe to travel." A spokesman for Sen. John Kerry, who chairs the committee, was not immediately available to comment on contingency plans. Global warming advocates have suggested this year's wild winter spells are proof of climate change.
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