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3dc
|  08 Sep '10 22:40 : 0 recs
Financial Times’s Edward Luce got in the best line of the day:
"While Mr Obama is rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, his fellow Democrats are putting on dresses and heading for the lifeboats." |
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3dc
| 07 Sep '10 21:43 : 0 recs
Holder's DOJ Tells DOJ Voting Section Not To Enforce Voter Registration Laws
In November 2009, the entire Voting Section was invited to a meeting with Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes, a political employee serving at the pleasure of the attorney general. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss Motor Voter enforcement decisions.
The room was packed with dozens of Voting Section employees when she made her announcement regarding the provisions related to voter list integrity:
We have no interest in enforcing this provision of the law. It has nothing to do with increasing turnout, and we are just not going to do it.
Jaws dropped around the room. |
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Warren BuffetCar
| 07 Sep '10 13:09 : 0 recs
I think Sarah Palin would make a great president. Already we have hours of merriment at their expense - just imagine it with that f*ckwit in charge.
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Lord Byron
| 05 Sep '10 17:25 : 0 recs
i see an advert, at the top of the front page of this website, sarah palin for 2012 ... vote here |
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Motty
| 05 Sep '10 13:14 : 0 recs
Now this makes me little bit not liking Mr. Obama.
Obama Sought Nissan-Renault CEO Ghosn to Run GM
Why Nissan? Why not Benzie people? |
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3dc
| 03 Sep '10 20:43 : 0 recs
Ny Post on the Mosque. |
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3dc
| 03 Sep '10 16:14 : 0 recs
Sheriff Joe Fires Back - "Now it's time to take the gloves off."
The following is an official statement by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio regarding today's lawsuit filed against his office by the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C. for alleged refusal to turn over documents. It is followed by another statement from his Washington, D.C. attorney, Bob Driscoll.
"The Obama administration has filed three lawsuits against Arizona in the last few weeks ... one against a college district, one against the state of Arizona and now one against my office. Each lawsuit centers on something to do with alleged racial discrimination.
These actions make it abundantly clear that Arizona, including this Sheriff, IS Washington's new whipping boy. Now it's time to take the gloves off.
As for today's lawsuit against my office: These people in Washington met with my attorneys only a few days ago. And in that meeting, Washington got our cooperation; they admitted they already have thousands of pages of the requested documents; and they were given access to interview my staff and get into my jails.
They smiled in our faces and then stabbed us in the back with this lawsuit. The Obama administration intended to sue us all along, no matter what we did to try to avert it. Washington isn't playing fair and it's time Americans everywhere wake up and see this administration for what it really is. Calculating, underhanded at times and certainly not looking out for the best interests of the legal citizens residing in this country." |
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3dc
| 02 Sep '10 05:12 : 0 recs
PR firm Kirvin Doak sued by Righthaven over Celine Dion story it promoted
By Steve Green (contact)
Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 | 11:37 a.m.
Sun archives
* Why we are writing about the R-J copyright lawsuits (9-1-2010)
* Settlement reached after judge refuses to dismiss copyright suit (8-31-2010)
* Judge questions Righthaven over R-J copyright suit costs (8-26-2010)
* Consumer group offers help to defendants over R-J copyright suits (8-25-2010)
* Righthaven CEO’s law firm in merger (8-24-2010)
* R-J accused of entrapment over copyright enforcement (8-23-2010)
* Blogger asks to pay $200 to close R-J copyright suit (8-20-2010)
* 2 lawsuits over R-J copyrights lift total to 100 (8-19-2010)
* Website operators use new defenses to fight R-J copyright suits (8-18-2010)
* Righthaven reaches settlements in 2 cases over R-J copyrights (8-12-2010)
* Righthaven sues Democratic Underground website over R-J posting (8-11-2010)
* 5 more websites sued over R-J story copyrights (8-10-2010)
* Websites, bloggers make moves to avoid Righthaven lawsuits (8-9-2010)
* Righthaven continues suits over R-J copyrights; 91 total (8-6-2010)
* State Democratic Party fighting R-J copyright lawsuit (8-5-2010)
* Legal attack dog sicked on websites accused of violating R-J copyrights (8-4-2010)
* Some targets of Righthaven lawsuits fighting back (8-4-2010)
* Are website copyright violations hurting newspapers' bottom line? (8-4-2010)
* Defendants in R-J copyright lawsuits speak out (8-4-2010)
* Five more R-J copyright lawsuits filed (8-3-2010)
* R-J mob source hit with copyright suit (7-27-2010)
* More copyright lawsuits filed over Review-Journal stories (7-23-2010)
* Conservative website among 3 sued over R-J copyrights (7-20-2010)
* 3 suits over alleged R-J copyright infringements bring total to 72 (7-16-10)
* 5 more suits filed over alleged R-J copyright violations (7-15-10)
* Nevada Democratic Party hit with R-J copyright lawsuit (7-9-10)
* 5 more websites face R-J copyright lawsuits (7-8-10)
* Six more suits filed over R-J copyrights (7-1-10)
* Three more websites hit with R-J copyright suits (6-29-10)
* R-J copyright suit filed against newspaper source (6-25-10)
* 3 more R-J copyright suits filed; defendant responds (6-10-10)
* 8 more websites sued over R-J copyrights; 34 total (6-5-10)
* Former news anchor among targets of new R-J copyright suits (5-30-10)
* 4 more copyright suits over R-J stories brings total to 22 (5-28-10)
* 4 more sites sued over alleged R-J copyright infringements (5-20-10)
* 14th website sued over R-J copyright allegations (5-17-10)
* More suits over alleged R-J copyrights bring number to 13 (5-14-10)
* Suits accuse groups of posting copyrighted R-J stories (5-5-10)
* Two more websites sued over posting of R-J stories (5-3-10)
* Sixth copyright suit filed over R-J stories on websites (4-26-10)
* 3 copyright suits filed over R-J stories on Web sites (4-16-10)
* Suits accuse 2 groups of posting copyrighted R-J stories online (3-17-10)
"Improving public relations" doesn't seem to be high on the to-do list at Las Vegas copyright enforcement company Righthaven LLC.
Righthaven, which has been suing website operators and bloggers for unauthorized online postings of Las Vegas Review-Journal material, on Tuesday sued Kirvin Doak Communications, a longtime source of news and advertising revenue for the Review-Journal.
Like a few other Righthaven defendants, Kirvin Doak was sued for posting a Review-Journal story on its website that appeared to include quotes and information Kirvin Doak made available to the Review-Journal and other news organizations.
According to research by In Business Las Vegas, a sister newspaper to the Las Vegas Sun, Kirvin Doak is the largest public relations firm in Las Vegas and is the city's sixth largest advertising agency.
The story at issue was announced by Kirvin Doak on Feb. 10: Celine Dion is returning to The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in March 2011 for a three-year residency.
A story by Review-Journal reporter Mike Weatherford published that day included quotes from Dion identical to quotes distributed nationwide by Kirvin Doak in a press release. The Review-Journal story was then posted on the Kirvin Doak website, with the Review-Journal and its writer receiving full credit for the information.
Kirvin Doak regularly directs readers to the websites of the Review-Journal, the Las Vegas Sun and other publications -- for instance using its Facebook page to promote stories involving its clients.
The Celine Dion story, in the meantime, is public knowledge after it was reported worldwide and can still be read for free on the Review-Journal website.
Nevertheless, Righthaven charged in its lawsuit that the posting of the story by Kirvin Doak has "caused and will continue to cause irreparable harm to Righthaven."
As it does in most of its lawsuits, Righthaven is demanding $75,000 in damages from Kirvin Doak and forfeiture of the company's website domain name.
Dave Kirvin, along with Bill Doak a partner at Kirvin Doak, said in a statement: "We have not seen the lawsuit, nor were we contacted by the Review-Journal in advance, but we have enjoyed a 20-year working relationship with the Review-Journal editorial and advertising staff without incident."
Another Righthaven copyright infringement suit is likely to be of interest to veterans and military service members and their families.
It was filed Tuesday against P.O.W. Network in Skidmore, Mo., the nonprofit operator of the pownetwork.org website offering information on and serving the families of prisoners of war and U.S. military personnel missing in action.
Supported by veterans, service members and companies supportive of veterans and the military, the P.O.W. Network was sued because four Review-Journal stories about a Las Vegas man accused of falsely portraying himself as a military hero, David M. Perelman, were posted on the pownetwork.org site. The Review-Journal was fully credited for these posts on the pownetwork website, court records show.
The pownetwork website shows dozens of such stories from all over the country are available on its website. The R-J stories at issue in the lawsuit can still be read for free on the Review-Journal website.
Righthaven, however, again charges in its boilerplate lawsuit language that the alleged infringements "have caused and will continue to cause irreparable harm to Righthaven."
A request for comment was placed with P.O.W. Network and its president, Charles Schantag.
These were among seven Righthaven lawsuits filed Tuesday in federal court in Las Vegas over allegedly unauthorized postings of Review-Journal stories, lifting the company's lawsuit total to at least 114 since March.
Also sued were:
--American Political Action Committee and Alan Gottlieb in Bellevue, Wash., who allegedly have a website called www.ameripac.org.
--Brett Edmunds, whom Righthaven says is associated with a Nevada wrestling site called www.topfreeforum.com/nevadawrestling.
--Michael Nystrom, who has a website about politician Ron Paul called www.thedailypaul.com.
--Steven Gilbert, who has a website called www.sweetness-light.com.
--Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee (ALIPAC) and William Gheen in Raleigh, N.C.
Gheen fired back Wednesday, saying in a press release that ALIPAC is the nation's third-largest "grassroots organization fighting for secure borders," calling the Righthaven legal complaint "an ambush lawsuit" and saying he was looking into taking legal action against the Review-Journal and Righthaven.
ALIPAC says it hosts the "largest archive of information in existence on the topics of border security and illegal immigration."
"We stand ready to defend our free political speech and the free speech of all Americans against predatory companies like Righthaven and biased newspapers that would use the courts to try to generate revenue and silence the free speech of Americans," Gheen, president of ALIPAC, said in a press release. "We intend to defend our organization, our rights, and our good name with every possible resource."
"Righthaven is suing ALIPAC over an article titled 'Latino Summit: (Sen. Harry) Reid addresses Hispanic issues,' which ran in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Feb. 18, 2010. The article describes Reid's promises to a Latino group that he would support a form of amnesty for illegal aliens in America," the press release said.
"Righthaven is asking a judge to give it full control of ALIPAC's Internet domain www.ALIPAC.us, which would allow them to shut down the entire website over the article about Sen. Reid's support for amnesty.
"Righthaven LLC is a new company formed in March of 2010 that goes around filing lawsuits without warning against bloggers hoping for a quick settlement of $3,000-$5,000.
"ALIPAC archives articles from online publications as part of the group's rights under the Fair Use Act and as expressions of the group's members' freedoms of political speech. In the six years ALIPAC has been in operation, no other media outlet or company has chosen to challenge ALIPAC's rights in court, although materials from all major news publications are archived at www.ALIPAC.us.
"In the few cases where source publications have requested the removal of materials, those requests have been granted by ALIPAC. ALIPAC received no request from Las Vegas Review-Journal or Righthaven, just an ambush lawsuit.
"ALIPAC's archives have revolutionized the Internet's long-term memory on subjects regarding illegal immigration. The archives are utilized without charge b
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3dc
| 30 Aug '10 22:29 : 0 recs
Racy photoshop by somebody.... |
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3dc
| 30 Aug '10 22:17 : 0 recs
GZ Mosque developer has a tax problem
Sharif El-Gamal, the leading organizer behind the mosque and community center near Ground Zero, owes $224,270.77 in back property tax on the site, city records show.
That seems rather a lot.
El-Gamal's company, 45 Park Place Partners, failed to pay its half-yearly bills in January and July, according to the city Finance Department.
El Gamal himself is an interesting character. A few years ago he was a waiter. Then he sold real estate and then became owner of a real estate company and a developer.
The delinquency is a possible violation of El-Gamal's lease with Con Edison, which owns half of the proposed building site on Park Place. El-Gamal owns the other half but must pay taxes on the entire parcel.
El Gamal's spokesman essentially said, "trust us". |
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3dc
| 27 Aug '10 01:49 : 0 recs
Comment 16 nails the question.. Is Obama trying to start a civil war? |
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3dc
| 26 Aug '10 17:33 : 0 recs
Day by Day cartoon |
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Warren BuffetCar
| 26 Aug '10 10:19 : 0 recs
America clearly needs the genius of Sarah Palin to sort things out. Chortle.
WBC |
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3dc
| 26 Aug '10 07:10 : 0 recs : edited 2 times : last edit 26 Aug '10 07:15
Populist anti incumbent video....
Coach who wrote this was fired by the schoolboard for writing the song
story on the politically correct thin skinnedness that caused this young man to lose his job. |
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Motty
| 25 Aug '10 13:37 : 0 recs
So many bad luck, McCain, he is reported in Japan he will have nothing to offer.
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Kay
| 25 Aug '10 12:26 : 0 recs
Well, of course, a conflict is to be expected between people who want to bare their tits and those who want to cover their faces.
Votes: Those who attract American drunks or those who attract terrorist support groups |
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3dc
| 24 Aug '10 20:45 : 0 recs
Unreal! Obama Replaces "Hail to the Chief" With Sting’s "Desert Rose" — With Arabic Lyrics |
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Warren BuffetCar
| 24 Aug '10 16:34 : 0 recs : edited 1 time : last edit 24 Aug '10 16:35
Merlin,
Saudi is a thoroughly nasty place. Of the people I know who have been there (including some muslims) they hated it, and found it oppressive.
The regime exists because it is propped up by the USA in return for access to its oil. So long as they have oil, and so long as the US needs oil, they'll support severe islamic dictatorship in Saudi.
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Merlin
| 24 Aug '10 16:28 : 0 recs : edited 1 time : last edit 24 Aug '10 16:29
Oil or no oil , without the west's support Saudi Arabia would be back living in tents in a generation. |
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Warren BuffetCar
| 24 Aug '10 16:20 : 0 recs : edited 7 times : last edit 24 Aug '10 16:27
Merlin,
The USA should withdraw its support for the Saudi Royal Family immediately
In case you hadn't noticed - the Saudis have LOTS OF F*CKING OIL. Millions of barrels of it. Lol.
Oil trumps pretty much everything else, including civil rights or islamic paranoia.
Catholic priests have gone round rogering the backsides of young boys, the Pope and church have helped them carry on, and no one here seems to be bothered about that?
Isn't anyone bothered about having a titty bar at ground zero? Rednecks can now turn up to ground zero, shed a few Diana Princess of Wales style tears there, and then head off up the street for some watered down Bud and a good ogle of some young bird shaking her tits in your face. God Bless America.
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