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		<title>The Holocaust DID Happen</title>
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The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world&#8217;s population.
They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
	Literature:
1988 &#8211; Najib Mahfooz
	Peace:
1978 &#8211; Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1990 &#8211; Elias James Corey
1994 &#8211; Yaser Arafat: ?????
1999 &#8211; Ahmed Zewai
	Economics:
(zero)
Physics:
(zero)
	Medicine:
1960 &#8211; Peter Brian Medawar
1998 &#8211; Ferid Mourad
	TOTAL: 7 SEVEN
The Global Jewish [...]]]></description>
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The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world&#8217;s population.<br />
They have received the following Nobel Prizes:</p>
	<p>Literature:<br />
1988 &#8211; Najib Mahfooz</p>
	<p>Peace:<br />
1978 &#8211; Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat<br />
1990 &#8211; Elias James Corey<br />
1994 &#8211; Yaser Arafat: ?????<br />
1999 &#8211; Ahmed Zewai</p>
	<p>Economics:<br />
(zero)<br />
Physics:<br />
(zero)</p>
	<p>Medicine:<br />
1960 &#8211; Peter Brian Medawar<br />
1998 &#8211; Ferid Mourad</p>
	<p>TOTAL: 7 SEVEN<br />
The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; that is FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world&#8217;s population.<br />
They have received the following Nobel Prizes:</p>
	<p>Literature:<br />
1910 &#8211; Paul Heyse<br />
1927 &#8211; Henri Bergson<br />
1958 &#8211; Boris Pasternak<br />
1966 &#8211; Shmuel Yosef Agnon<br />
1966 &#8211; Nelly Sachs<br />
1976 &#8211; Saul Bellow<br />
1978 &#8211; Isaac Bashevis Si nger<br />
1981 &#8211; Elias Canetti<br />
1987 &#8211; Joseph Brodsky<br />
1991 &#8211; Nadine Gordimer World</p>
	<p>Peace:<br />
1911 &#8211; Alfred Fried<br />
1911 &#8211; Tobias Michael Carel Asser<br />
1968 &#8211; Rene Cassin<br />
1973 &#8211; Henry Kissinger<br />
1978 &#8211; Menachem Begin<br />
1986 &#8211; Elie Wiesel<br />
1994 &#8211; Shimon Peres<br />
1994 &#8211; Yitzhak Rabin</p>
	<p>Physics:<br />
1905 &#8211; Adolph Von Baeyer<br />
1906 &#8211; Henri Moissan<br />
1907 &#8211; Albert Abraham Michelson<br />
1908 &#8211; Gabriel Lippmann<br />
1910 &#8211; Otto Wallach<br />
1915 &#8211; Richard Willstaetter<br />
1918 &#8211; Fritz Haber<br />
1921 &#8211; Albert Einstein<br />
1922 &#8211; Niels Bohr<br />
1925 &#8211; James Franck<br />
1925 &#8211; Gustav Hertz<br />
1943 &#8211; Gustav Stern<br />
1943 &#8211; George Charles de Hevesy<br />
1944 &#8211; Isidor Issac Rabi<br />
1952 &#8211; Felix Bloch<br />
1954 &#8211; Max Born<br />
1958 &#8211; Igor Tamm<br />
1959 &#8211; Emilio Segre<br />
1960 &#8211; Donald A. Glaser<br />
1961 &#8211; Robert Hofstadter<br />
1961 &#8211; Melvin Calvin<br />
1962 &#8211; Lev Davidovich Landau<br />
1962 &#8211; Max Ferdinand Perutz<br />
1965 &#8211; Richard Phillips Feynman<br />
1965 &#8211; Julian Schwinger<br />
1969 &#8211; Murray Gell-Mann<br />
1971 &#8211; Dennis Gabor<br />
1972 &#8211; William Howard Stein<br />
1973 &#8211; Brian David Josephson<br />
1975 &#8211; Ben jamin Mottleson<br />
1976 &#8211; Burton Richter<br />
1977 &#8211; Ilya Prigogine<br />
1978 &#8211; Arno Allan Penzias<br />
1978 &#8211; Peter L Kapitza<br />
1979 &#8211; Stephen Weinberg<br />
1979 &#8211; Sheldon Glashow<br />
1979 &#8211; Herbert Charles Brown<br />
1980 &#8211; Paul Berg<br />
1980 &#8211; Walter Gilbert<br />
1981 &#8211; Roald Hoffmann<br />
1982 &#8211; Aaron Klug<br />
1985 &#8211; Albert A. Hauptman<br />
1985 &#8211; Jerome Karle<br />
1986 &#8211; Dudley R. Herschbach<br />
1988 &#8211; Robert Huber<br />
1988 &#8211; Leon Lederman<br />
1988 &#8211; Melvin Schwartz<br />
1988 &#8211; Jack Steinberger<br />
1989 &#8211; Si dney Altman<br />
1990 &#8211; Jerome Friedman<br />
1992 &#8211; Rudolph Marc us<br />
1995 &#8211; Martin Perl<br />
2000 &#8211; Alan J. Heeger</p>
	<p>Economics:<br />
1970 &#8211; Paul Anthony Samuelson<br />
1971 &#8211; Si mon Kuznets<br />
1972 &#8211; Kenneth Joseph Arrow<br />
1975 &#8211; Leonid Kantorovich<br />
1976 &#8211; Milton Friedman<br />
1978 &#8211; Herbert A. Si mon<br />
1980 &#8211; Lawrence Robert Klein<br />
1985 &#8211; Franco Modigliani<br />
1987 &#8211; Robert M. Solow<br />
1990 &#8211; Harry Mark owitz<br />
1990 &#8211; Merton Miller<br />
1992 &#8211; Gary Becker<br />
1993 &#8211; Robert Fogel</p>
	<p>Medicine:<br />
1908 &#8211; Elie Metchnikoff<br />
1908 &#8211; Paul Erlich<br />
1914 &#8211; Robert Barany<br />
1922 &#8211; Otto Meyerhof<br />
1930 &#8211; Karl Landsteiner<br />
1931 &#8211; Otto Warburg<br />
1936 &#8211; Otto Loewi<br />
1944 &#8211; Joseph Erlanger<br />
1944 &#8211; Herb ert Spencer Gasser<br />
1945 &#8211; Ernst Boris Chain<br />
1946 &#8211; Hermann Joseph Muller<br />
1950 &#8211; Tadeus Reichstein<br />
1952 &#8211; Selman Abraham Waksman<br />
1953 &#8211; Hans Krebs<br />
1953 &#8211; Fritz Albert Lipmann<br />
1958 &#8211; Joshua Lederberg<br />
1959 &#8211; Arthur Kornberg<br />
1964 &#8211; Konrad Bloch<br />
1965 &#8211; Francois Jacob<br />
1965 &#8211; Andre Lwoff<br />
1967 &#8211; George Wald<br />
1968 &#8211; Marshall W. Nirenberg<br />
1969 &#8211; Salvador Luria<br />
1970 &#8211; Julius Axelrod<br />
1970 &#8211; Si r Bernard Katz<br />
1972 &#8211; Gerald Maurice Edelman<br />
1975 &#8211; Howard Martin Temin<br />
1976 &#8211; Baruch S. Blumberg<br />
1977 &#8211; Roselyn Sussman Yalow<br />
1978 &#8211; Daniel Nathans<br />
1980 &#8211; Baruj Ben acerraf<br />
1984 &#8211; Cesar Milstein<br />
1985 &#8211; Michael Stuart Brown<br />
1985 &#8211; Joseph L. Goldstein<br />
1986 &#8211; Stanley Cohen [&amp; Rita Levi-Montalcini]<br />
1988 &#8211; Gertrude Elion<br />
1989 &#8211; Harold Varmus<br />
1991 &#8211; Erwin Neher<br />
1991 &#8211; Bert Sakmann<br />
1993 &#8211; Richard J. Roberts<br />
1993 &#8211; Phillip Sharp<br />
1994 &#8211; Alfred Gilman<br />
1995 &#8211; Edward B. Lewis<br />
1996- Lu Rose Iacovino<br />
TOTAL: 129!<br />
The Jews are NOT promoting brain washing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims.  The Jews don&#8217;t hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants.<br />
There is NOT one single Jew who has destroyed a church. There is NOT a single Jew who protests by killing people.</p>
	<p>The Jews don&#8217;t traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.</p>
	<p>Perhaps the world&#8217;s Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.</p>
	<p>Muslims must ask &#8216;what can they do for humankind&#8217; before they demand that humankind respects them.</p>
	<p>Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel &#8217;s part, the following two sentences really say it all:</p>
	<p>&#8216;If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more<br />
Israel’.     Benjamin Netanyahu</p>
	<p>General Eisenhower Warned Us<br />
It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he<br />
ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.</p>
	<p>He did this because he said in words to this effect:</p>
	<p>&#8216;Get it all on record now &#8211; get the films &#8211; get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened&#8217;</p>
	<p>Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it &#8216;offends&#8217; the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.</p>
	<p>Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be &#8216;a myth,&#8217; it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.
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		<title>Hey Obama &#8211; Game Over Dude!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<title>Senator Evan Bayh&#8217;s resignation weakens Democrats before elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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	Senator Evan Bayh&#8217;s resignation weakens Democrats before elections.  New calculations reduce party&#8217;s hopes of retaining Senate control as mood shifts.
	Chris McGreal in Washington guardian.co.uk, Monday 15 February 2010 19.53 GMT Article history
	The Democrats today suffered a further blow in the runup to the midterm Congressional elections after another of the party&#38;apos;s senators, Evan Bayh of [...]]]></description>
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	<p>Senator Evan Bayh&#8217;s resignation weakens Democrats before elections.  New calculations reduce party&#8217;s hopes of retaining Senate control as mood shifts.</p>
	<p>Chris McGreal in Washington guardian.co.uk, Monday 15 February 2010 19.53 GMT Article history</p>
	<p>The Democrats today suffered a further blow in the runup to the midterm Congressional elections after another of the party&amp;apos;s senators, Evan Bayh of Indiana, announced he will stand down.</p>
	<p>The resignation greatly weakens the Democrats&amp;apos; chances of holding on to the seat, which will now become a prime target of the Republican campaign to win back control of the Senate in November.</p>
	<p>Bayh, a former state governor who was considered a possible vice-presidential running mate for Barack Obama, denied that his decision not to run again after 12 years in the Senate was prompted by the declining popularity of the Democrats amid continuing popular disillusionment over the economy.</p>
	<p>But it will contribute to the perception that the party is on the retreat as he becomes the fifth Democratic party senator to stand down, while others are fighting to retain seats that they won four years ago.</p>
	<p>Bayh, 54, had until recently been favoured to retain his seat. Opinion polls showed that he remained personally popular with Indiana voters, after winning re-election in 2006 with 60% of the vote, and he had a large election campaign fund put at about $13m.</p>
	<p>But Bayh&#8217;s standing had eroded recently amid a wider backlash against the Democrats, principally driven by the continuing economic depression, that cost the party what had been considered the safe Senate seat for Massachusetts last month.</p>
	<p>Bayh said that his desire to serve in Congress had &#8220;waned&#8221;. He denied that he was leaving because of the Democrats&#8217; declining popularity and instead blamed the frustration of partisan political gridlock.</p>
	<p>&#8220;There is too much partisanship and not enough progress – too much narrow ideology and not enough practical problem-solving. Even at a time of enormous challenge, the peoples&#8217; business is not being done,&#8221; he said. The Democrats are defending a 59-41 majority in the Senate after losing the Massachusetts seat.</p>
	<p>Until the Massachusetts upset, Democratic strategists believed that three or four of the party&#8217;s 18 seats up for election in November might be vulnerable.</p>
	<p>But the loss of what had been considered a liberal stronghold, and the political energy that has injected into the Democrats&#8217; opponents – both Republican loyalists and those activists, such as within the Tea Party movement, with a strong dislike of Obama – has changed the equation.</p>
	<p>The Cook Political Report, a widely respected assessor of Congressional elections, says that two of the 18 Democratic seats up for grabs are definite Republican wins, five are too close to call and three others are vulnerable.</p>
	<p>The loss of all 10 seats that the <span style="color: #005689;">Republicans</span> have a chance of winning would hand them control of the Senate.</p>
	<p>The Cook report recently moved Bayh&#8217;s seat to the vulnerable list. Among the other Democrats fighting to hold on to their seats is the party&#8217;s leader in the Senate, Harry Reid.</p>
	<p>Four other Democratic senators and six Republicans have so far announced they will not seek re-election.</p>
	<p>via <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/15/evan-bayh-stands-down-indiana">Senator Evan Bayh&#8217;s resignation weakens Democrats before elections | World news | guardian.co.uk</a>.
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		<title>UN global warming data skewed by heat from planes and buildings &#8211; Telegraph</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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	Weather stations which produced data pointing towards man-made global warming may have been compromised by local conditions, a new report suggests.
	By Heidi Blake
	Published: 6:30AM GMT 15 Feb 2010
	The IPCC claimed the Himalayan glaciers will disappear by 2035 &#8211; hundreds of years earlier than other studies [...]]]></description>
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	<p>Weather stations which produced data pointing towards man-made global warming may have been compromised by local conditions, a new report suggests.</p>
	<p>By Heidi Blake</p>
	<p>Published: 6:30AM GMT 15 Feb 2010</p>
	<p>The IPCC claimed the Himalayan glaciers will disappear by 2035 &#8211; hundreds of years earlier than other studies suggest Photo: ALAMY The findings are set to cast further doubt on evidence put forward by the UN&amp;apos;s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which claims the science supporting rising temperatures is unequivocal.</p>
	<p>The report co-written by Anthony Watts, an American meteorologist and climate sceptic, shows photographs of weather stations near heat-generating equipment which could be distorting their readings.</p>
	<p>Some are next to air-conditioning units or on waste-treatment plants, while one sits alongside a waste incinerator. A weather station at Rome airport was found to catch the hot exhaust fumes emitted by taxiing jets.</p>
	<p>Rising temperatures around the stations, which have been in use for 150 years, could also have been caused by urbanisation, the study claimed. One weather station at Manchester airport, which was built when the surrounding land was mainly fields, is now surrounded by heated buildings.</p>
	<p>The IPCC used data from the weather stations to back up claims that greenhouse gases had already caused a 0.7C rise in temperature, and gave warnings that further warming of up to 6C by 2100 could have devastating effects on civilisation and wildlife.</p>
	<p>But the panel has been mired in controversy since the leaking of emails from the climate change unit at The University of East Anglia, which appeared to show that data used to bolster the IPCC&#8217;s claims had been manipulated.</p>
	<p>Four major errors have also been uncovered in the second of the panel&#8217;s four reports on the state of global climate change, published in 2007.</p>
	<p>Most embarrasing for the IPCC was the inaccurate claim that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035 &#8211; hundreds of years earlier than other studies suggest &#8211; which was not backed up by any research.</p>
	<p>The damaging new findings by Mr Watts, whose study has not been peer reviewed, are backed by Professor John Christy, a former lead author on the IPCC who specialises in atmospheric science at the University of Alabama, Huntsville.</p>
	<p>Prof Christy has published research papers examining the effects of local factors on weather stations in California, Alabama and east Africa, which he believes drastically undermine the reliability of global temperature records.</p>
	<p>“The story is the same for each one. The popular data sets show a lot of warming but the apparent temperature rise was actually caused by local factors affecting the local weather stations, such as land development,” he said.</p>
	<p>Ross McKitrick, professor of economics at the University of Guelph, Canada, also highlighted problems with the weather data used by the IPCC after being invited to review its last report in 2007.</p>
	<p>“We concluded, with overwhelming statistical significance, that the IPCC’s climate data are contaminated with surface effects from industrialisation and data quality problems. These add up to a large warming bias,” he said.</p>
	<p>Kevin Trenberth, a lead author of the chapter of the IPCC report that deals with the observed temperature changes, acknowledged that there were problems with the global thermometer record but said these had been accounted for in the final report.</p>
	<p>“It’s not just temperature rises that tell us the world is warming,” he said. “We also have physical changes like the fact that sea levels have risen around five inches since 1972, the Arctic icecap has declined by 40 per cent and snow cover in the northern hemisphere has declined.”</p>
	<p>via <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7236011/UN-global-warming-data-skewed-by-heat-from-planes-and-buildings.html">UN global warming data skewed by heat from planes and buildings &#8211; Telegraph</a>.
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		<title>American Thinker Blog: Obama scrambling for a way out of KSM trial dilemma</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Obama scrambling for a way out of KSM trial dilemma
	Rick Moran
	The word is that Holder and Obama &#8220;never expected&#8221; the kind of pushback against holding a civilian trial for 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikk Mohammed.
	This is pretty clueless in and of itself. How tone deaf do you have to be in order to be caught unawares [...]]]></description>
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	<p>Rick Moran</p>
	<p>The word is that Holder and Obama &#8220;never expected&#8221; the kind of pushback against holding a civilian trial for 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikk Mohammed.</p>
	<p>This is pretty clueless in and of itself. How tone deaf do you have to be in order to be caught unawares when such large majorities favor keeping KSM from using a civilian trial as a propaganda tool?</p>
	<p>So now, Obama is frantically looking for a way out &#8211; keeping the idea of a civilian trial open but moving the venue somewhere else. This is probably a dead end and there are even many Democrats who believe the president will cave on the issue and have KSM tried by a military tribunal.</p>
	<p>According to this article in the Washington Post by Anne Kornblut and Carrie Johnson, the president has &#8220;inserted himself&#8221; into the decision making process:</p>
	<p>Officials acknowledged that Holder does not deserve all the blame for the political problems. &#8220;Their building represents what they do &#8212; justice. It&amp;apos;s rightly not staffed with people who have to worry about congressional relations or federal funding,&#8221; one White House official said.</p>
	<p>At first blush, the choice of New York made sense to many lawyers inside and outside of the administration: Judges and prosecutors there have handled serious national</p>
	<p>via <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/02/obama_scrambling_for_a_way_out.html">American Thinker Blog: Obama scrambling for a way out of KSM trial dilemma</a>.
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		<title>Obama Takes Aim At Banking Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama has been taking steps to try and cripple the American economy since he got in office a year ago.  Now, he is targeting the banking industry.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p><a href="http://torchandfork.com/wp-content/uploads/obama-volcker.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-420" title="obama-volcker" src="http://torchandfork.com/wp-content/uploads/obama-volcker-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>On Wednesday the banking industry became the latest target in Obama&#8217;s war against the American economy.  Obama made his speech saying that banks should be able to take deposits or invest, but not both. </p>
	<p>Two minutes later nearly $30 billion was wiped off the value of America&#8217;s top shares as traders reeled at Obama&#8217;s proposal to split up Wall Street&#8217;s banks.</p>
	<p>Germany&#8217;s BdB banking association Friday slammed U.S. President Barack Obama&#8217;s proposals to limit U.S. banking activities, saying they could hamper the performance of banks and the economy.</p>
	<p>Those plans &#8220;won&#8217;t improve the stability of the financial system,&#8221; said the association, which represents German commercial banks such as Deutsche Bank AG (DB), Commerzbank AG (CBK.XE) and Deutsche Postbank AG (DPB.XE).</p>
	<p>&#8220;Those plans threaten predominantly the capability of the U.S. as a financial center and eventually (would) hurt the entire global financial system. This would have negative consequences, notably for economic growth,&#8221; said the association&#8217;s managing director, Manfred Weber.</p>
	<p>Obama Thursday outlined a plan to prevent commercial banks and institutions that own banks from operating and investing in hedge funds and private equity firms, while capping proprietary trading.
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		<title>Air America Down The Tubes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mercifully, Air America is going away.  Let's face it, Progressives just can't do successful radio.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Air America Radio, a progressive radio network that once aired commentary from Al Franken and Rachel Maddow, is shutting down.</p>
	<p>The company founded in April 2004 says it is ceasing operations Thursday afternoon and will soon file to be liquidated under Chapter 7 bankruptcy.</p>
	<p>Air America says 10 consecutive quarters of declining ad revenue and the difficulty of making money on the Internet contributed to its financial woes.</p>
	<p>Well, what do you know?  People don&#8217;t want to listen to traitors spewing lies and hatred! </p>
	<p>I for one will remember Air America in the same way I remember a rude joke.
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		<title>All Eyes On Massachusetts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How wonderfully cool!  Karma is about to bite the Progressives in the ass.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>It&#8217;s voting day in America.  There are many important races and issues being voted on.  The one with the highest profile is probably the special election to fill the Massachusetts Senate seat vacated by the late Ted Kennedy. </p>
	<p>Just the fact that there is a genuine race for this seat in Massachusetts is big news by itself.  (Massachusetts is about as liberal as a population can be outside of Europe.) </p>
	<p>Now the Republican candidate, Scott Brown is not what I would call a perfect conservative, but this is Massachusetts, and if elected Scott Browns senate vote can put a stop to government health care and Cap&#8217;n Tax. </p>
	<p>Even is Brown loses by a small margin it will strike fear into the hearts of democrats across the country.  It&#8217;s Massachusetts, it&#8217;s Ted Kennedy&#8217;s seat, democrats own Congress, Obama-care is sooo close; if the democrats lose this one &#8211; it&#8217;s huge.</p>
	<p>Obama&#8217;s handlers will become more visible as they try to push the progressive agenda ahead further. </p>
	<p>We&#8217;re pushing a crazed, frenzied political animal into a corner.  This animal is not going to slink away, it will fight back.  The up side will be that it will be revealed for the dangerous self serving creature it is.  The down side is that it might take some desperate steps to fight back.  People, institutions, reputations may get hurt in the process. </p>
	<p>Good luck Scott Brown &#8211; I hope you have a decisive victory there in Massachusetts.
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		<title>White House Says &#8220;There Was No Smoking Gun&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	If it wasn&#8217;t so scary, it would be funny.  The Obama administration simply is not capable of taking responsibility for anything. 
	Referring to the failed Christmas airplane bombing, White House aide John Brennan said, &#8220;There is no smoking gun.&#8221;  This is the top CIA guy in the White House.  He is all about counter intelligence.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>If it wasn&#8217;t so scary, it would be funny.  The Obama administration simply is not capable of taking responsibility for anything. </p>
	<p>Referring to the failed Christmas airplane bombing, White House aide John Brennan said, &#8220;There is no smoking gun.&#8221;  This is the top CIA guy in the White House.  He is all about counter intelligence.</p>
	<p>Now, I&#8217;m NOT a CIA guy and I&#8217;ll bet you aren&#8217;t either, but let&#8217;s take a peek at some clues and see if we can come up with a suggested plan of action for the inept White House.</p>
	<blockquote><p>OK, a guy named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from Nigeria want to get on a plane bound for the United States.</p>
	<p>Umar does not have a passport.</p>
	<p>Umar bought a one-way ticket, with cash.</p>
	<p>Umar has no luggage.</p>
	<p>A couple weeks earlier Umar&#8217;s father told US intelligence that he was concerned about Umar&#8217;s increasing radical views.</p></blockquote>
	<p>As it turns out, it was Umar&#8217;s underpants that ended up smoking.  Now, maybe I wouldn&#8217;t have guessed that Umar was going to try to blow up the plane; genitals first, but I know that I would have at least pulled this whack job to the side for some additional screening.</p>
	<p>What the hell is wrong with the White House?
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		<title>Hey Obama &#8211; Whose Side Are You On?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[	It occurred to me that the Obama administration was real quick to call me a terrorist or nazi when I attended my first tea party last spring.  And, the government came down like a ton of bricks on border guards Campios and Ramos.  Democrats made a hobby out of bitching about our courageous military men [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>It occurred to me that the Obama administration was real quick to call me a terrorist or nazi when I attended my first tea party last spring.  And, the government came down like a ton of bricks on border guards Campios and Ramos.  Democrats made a hobby out of bitching about our courageous military men and women.  And more recently hang three of our Navy Seals out to dry for delivering an enemy combatant sporting a fat lip.</p>
	<p>Then they decided to bring terrorists imprisoned in Guantanimo to stand trial in civilian court; necessitating release of national security secrets to prosecute these bastards. </p>
	<p>In November another terrorist (this one a US Army officer) blows away 13+ soldiers.  The prez told us to not rush to judgement.  Since then, we&#8217;ve discovered that there were dozens of red flags all over this ass, but because of political correctness, (we certainly wouldn&#8217;t want to offend anyone), it will be handled as a domestic crime &#8211; not an act of terrorism.</p>
	<p>And now the jerk that tried to take down that plane on Christmas; His own father warned the FBI that he was concerned that his son had become radicalized and was concerned what he might do.  He studied at Terror-U with the same al quaeda trainer as the guy in Ft Hood.  He bought a one way ticket, with cash.  Geez, have we learned anything since 9/11? </p>
	<p>Well, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve learned.  The Obama administration has more regard for terrorists than for American citizens.  Our national security policy is something like &#8211; every man for himself, and if you&#8217;re an American citizen, there probably shouldn&#8217;t be any witnesses to you fighting for your life, or you will go to court.</p>
	<p>The worst enemies of America hold political office in America.</p>
	<p>God help us.
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