Archive for Government
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Philadelphia Screws Bloggers With Business Fee
Mayor Nutter of Philadelphia, or "Nutster," as I refer to him, saw his "Sugar Tax" headed for defeat in May of this year. That tax would have added 2 cents to each ounce of sugared soda and other items that contained sugar. Knowing it wasn't going to pass due to public outrage, he responded by cutti...
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The U.S. As A Debtor Nation Is A Repeat Of Rome
When it comes to debt, I learned years ago to change my ways after a bankruptcy in the late 1980's. I had an expensive home and more credit cards than I care to remember. I also had a good job that paid for it all. One day the job came to an end without warning and I had no real savings because of t...
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The Anger Over A Mosque Near Ground Zero
President Obama has decided to weigh in about a mosque that is planned and approved to be built near Ground Zero in Manhattan, the place where the Twin Towers once stood until Muslim extremists flew two planes into them, killing more than 3000 people. In that news conference, President Obama stated ...
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9/11 Responders Health Bill Defeated. Rescue Workers Backstabbed By Politics As Usual
If Republicans could find a way to clutch defeat from the hand of victory in upcoming 2010 elections, they were successful when they voted against the 9/11 rescuers health bill. This bill would have provided medical care to rescue workers who developed serious medical problems when they were exposed...
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Joe LIEberman’s “Internet Kill Switch” Bill Moves Forward In Senate
Joe LIEberman has introduced an Internet bill that is moving forward in the Senate. Seems innocuous until you realize the government could, in theory, control servers, force Internet companies to install attachments in equipment, prevent certain sites from being accessed (like Wikileaks?) or even...
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Jon Stewart, Foreign Singer, and Washington Connected To Bradley Manning
The Jon Stewart's Daily Show has been directly linked to Bradley Manning, the accused U.S. army private who leaked highly classified documents to Wikileaks.com and who has endangered "hundreds of lives," according to government officials. Evidence we gathered, in the same way used by the American...
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The Cost of Wars
Dollars look different when you see them, rather than just hearing them being said. No wonder our nation is in debt to China. // // // About these counters: All Counters The numbers indicate all of the approved funding for the wars to date. These appropriations do not...
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Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI) Calls For Execution of SPC Bradley Manning
US Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI 8th Dist.) has openly called for the execution of accused Wikileaks supplier, Bradley Manning. Bradley Manning was arrested after leaked secret documents, exposing an Apache helicopter murder video made it's appearance on Wikileaks.com, more than two years after the ...
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Bell, California City Council backstabs Community With Huge Salary For Themselves
It seems the community of Bell, California got one of the worst cases of mass backstabbing when their elected officials gave themselves salaries that has most earning nearly $100,000 each for serving part-time as representatives of a community of approximately 38,000 people. Among the highest salari...
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Does The Tea Party Have Backstabbing Members?
As the mid-term elections draw nearer and Democrats realize that their majority in both houses is in jeopardy, the media has been focusing on the Tea Party movement. Like them or not, more and more Americans have been identifying with Tea Party members' anger at a growing government and growing debt...
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Jesse Jackson Backstabs Rational Thought
Website TMZ has reported that Jesse Jackson has come to the defense of LeBron James even though he wasn't asked to. Though the Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert's open letter was a bit over the top in his rant against LeBron James choosing the Miami Heat as his next team, leave it to Jesse Jackson to pla...
