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The president and first lady at Rancho Del Cielo

261911 — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:56:05 GMT

Now I have a better understanding of just how refreshing it was for the president and the first lady to take a break and enjoy the beauty of nature.:smile2:

President losing voters among women?

261911 — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:00:27 GMT

http://video.foxnews.com/v/164109657...ylist_id=87485
Tamara Holder is :oh_my: Now that I've vented that out, let's get back to the main subject.:biggrin: Is the president really losing voters among women?:whoah!: Apparently the Communist Broadcasting System polls show that he is.

Boehner tees up next round of debt-ceiling fight

261911 — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:37:04 GMT

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House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday teed up another debt-ceiling brawl, announcing that Republicans will insist on the same kinds of demands that Democrats claim brought the country close to its first-ever default last summer. The speaker, in an address in Washington Tuesday afternoon, said that when it comes time to vote on a debt-ceiling increase, he'll once again call for "cuts and reforms" greater than the amount of that increase. "It's the right thing to do," Boehner said. "This is the only avenue I see right now to force the elected leadership of this country to solve our structural fiscal imbalance." That fight could happen by early 2013, potentially during a frantic post-election lame-duck session of Congress. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, preempting Boehner's remarks, made an appeal Tuesday morning to avert that battle and simply raise the debt ceiling without the chaos.

"Only Congress, of course, can act to raise the debt limit -- and we hope they do it this time without the drama and the pain and the damage they caused the country last July," Geithner said, speaking at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's 2012 Fiscal Summit before Boehner took the podium.
House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, on Capitol Hill, also said the debt ceiling "shouldn't be a political issue," claiming Boehner knows that. The looming debt-ceiling debate will coincide with a slew of other debates over unresolved tax and spending issues -- including the potential expiration of the Bush tax cuts.

Last summer, Republicans insisted on spending cuts greater than the amount of the debt-ceiling increase. After weeks of tense negotiations on Capitol Hill, and market turmoil, Congress struck a deal -- though that deal has had mixed results. The "super committee" charged with finding more than $1 trillion in budget savings as a product of that deal failed to reach an agreement, triggering massive automatic cuts to defense and other areas of domestic spending which Congress is now trying to fiddle with.

A Boehner aide told Fox Business Network that the speaker's office still needs to discuss with members what the next debt-limit increase might look like -- in terms of how long it would last and what kind of cuts would be demanded in exchange. Boehner, in his remarks, said he wants "real" cuts and not "gimmicks." "We shouldn't dread the debt limit. We should welcome it. It's an action-forcing event in a town that has become infamous for inaction," Boehner said in his prepared remarks. "When the time comes, I will again insist on my simple principle of cuts and reforms greater than the debt limit increase." The national debt is now at $15.7 trillion.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...ceiling-fight/

Brainput Project Takes a Load Off Humans' Minds

Max Headroom — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:12:05 GMT

Brainput Project Takes a Load Off Humans' Minds

A group of researchers from several universities led by MIT have shown that robots controlled mentally by suitably equipped humans who are multitasking can take over some of the workload when needed. The Brainput project had researchers use a technique called "functional near-infrared" imaging to measure the activity of brains in test subjects.

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The Shadow Regime of Nero Obama will rule us long after November election regardless!

JohnCraven — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:49:45 GMT

No matter who wins the election in November for president of our great nation, the shadow regime which Nero Obama has created with the help of the Democrats and a lot of big government republicans who either will not or can not fight the Marxists in our nation's capitol, will continue to operate as if nothing had happened.

The shadow regime of Nero Obama are the czars and czarinas, the regulatory wonks and nit-pickers, and the endless parade of Marxists and Maoists whom Nero Obama has surrounded himself with and embedded in the machinery of government, almost like a Borg space hive if you remember your Star Trek episodes with Captain Jean Luc Picard at the helm of the Enterprise.

Given whom Mitt Romney has surrounded himself with, I seriously doubt he is up to the task or even willing to try and root out all these drones which Nero Obama has embedded in the beauracracy so that he can continue to dictate to us should he, hopefully, be removed from office.

Even if Romney were to win in an electoral landslide giving him carte blanche to undo all the evil that Nero Obama and the Democrats have done, given his latest moves to the center and away from all of us TEA Party conservatives, I doubt seriously that a Romney presidency will do battle with the drones Nero Obama has embedded in our government much less get rid of them.

And we're in for a world of hurt if the Shadow Regime of Nero Obama isn't fought tooth and nail and defeated at every turn.

JohnCraven
New Orleans

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Mark 9:27-28 �Why could we not cast him out?�
asked his disciples as to why they couldn�t cast out an evil spirit,
and Jesus said to them, �This kind can go out by nothing,
but prayer and fasting.�

Washington plays blame game over whether Obama or GOP responsible for court vacancies

261911 — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:04:19 GMT

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Dozens of seats on the federal bench remain empty, and Washington can't agree on who's at fault. "The blame lies with the Republican Party," Nan Aron, president of the Alliance for Justice, puts it simply. She's convinced that GOP senators are stone-walling qualified nominees in hopes that a Republican will re-take the White House and be the one to fill the seats.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, who sits on the Judiciary Committee, says the numbers tell a different story: There are 77 vacancies but only 31 nominees currently pending. "This really isn't about the Senate," Lee said. "This is about the fact that the president isn't making these nominations."

Aron argues that there are likely other potential nominees in the mix who can't get past an initial roadblock. When the White House wants to nominate an individual, the name is presented to the senators from that potential nominee's home state. Until the senators submit what�s known as a "blue slip" for that person, the nomination cannot proceed.

"In so many states around the country, Republican senators are withholding their blue slips," Aron says. However, the blue slip process is conducted largely out of public view, and details are nearly impossible to confirm.
When asked about all the empty seats on the bench today, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney responded, "One thing we know for sure is that the pace of confirmations has never been slower."

But according to newly released numbers from the Alliance for Justice, Obama's nominees are being confirmed at rates nearly identical to those Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush faced. Up to this point in their terms, both Clinton and Bush had 78 percent confirmation rates. Today, Obama's stands at 77 percent. Lee says the hard data proves his point about the president's failure to nominate more candidates. "They are being confirmed, but it's just that the president hasn't nominated most of these slots," he said.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...ble-for-court/

Barry bowing to Saudi King

261911 — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:03:05 GMT

Would be funnier if it wasn't true.

Obama calls for repeal of Defense of Marriage Act

261911 — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:41:28 GMT

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President Obama openly spoke of repealing the Defense of Marriage Act at a fundraiser Monday, as he defended his personal view that gay couples should have the right to marry. While his administration has put out statements on the idea of repealing the 1996 federal law defining marriage as between a man and a woman, it's unusual for Obama to call for its repeal.

He did so Monday as one of a list of policy goals for what he hopes will be a second term, along with passing the immigration legislation known as the Dream Act, reforming Wall Street and investing in schools. "We have never gone wrong when we expanded rights and responsibilities to everybody," Obama said. "That doesn't weaken families, that strengthens families."

The president was raising money before an audience of gay and lesbian supporters in New York, hosted by the LGBT Leadership Council and openly gay singer Ricky Martin, as well as Latino group The Futuro Fund. His comments at the fundraiser were his first to such an audience since he announced last week his personal support for gay marriage. Obama's Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, says marriage is defined as being between a man and woman.

The Obama campaign, according to most accounts, was not originally planning to hit this issue this early in the season. But Vice President Biden, by personally voicing support for gay marriage more than a week ago, nudged the president along. Now, the two campaigns are diverging. Romney is focusing on the economy. And, for a change, the Democratic presidential campaign is hitting the social issues debate -- as some on the right urge Romney to return fire.

Earlier Monday, Obama was taping an appearance with The View, where his announcement last Wednesday also came up. "A lot of this has to do with what's called the Defense of Marriage act," Obama said on the show. "It was passed originally when Hawaii started making noises about recognizing same sex marriage. The idea was we don't want that drifting into the federal government and this is part of the reason why my justice department has said to the courts, we don't think the Defense of Marriage Act is constitutional.

This is something that historically had been determined at the state level."
The Justice Department said in February 2011 that it would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act in the courts because the department deemed it unconstitutional, a move that sparked outcry from House Republicans, who vowed to pursue their own legal defense of the law.

The president's recent schedule reflects a robust push by the Obama campaign to trumpet, not downplay, the president's decision last week to support same-sex marriage -- a historic first for a sitting U.S. president. Even the commencement address Obama delivered at Barnard College in New York on Monday afternoon had a same-sex marriage tinge -- he shared the stage with Evan Wolfson, founder of the gay advocacy group Freedom to Marry, and touched on the issue briefly in his remarks.

"No matter who you love or what God you worship, you can still pursue happiness -- I will support you every step of the way," Obama said. The campaign last week released a web video heralding the announcement, while casting Romney as "backwards on equality." The president went on to raise nearly $15 million Thursday night from donors attending a campaign event at George Clooney's house. The president's events Monday effectively pick up where he left off last week. Romney and the Republican National Committee, though, are sticking to the issues of the economy and spending. The Republican National Committee released a new web video Monday slamming Obama for his "broken promises" on deficits and debt.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...est=latestnews
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Letter to Obama

261911 — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:29:45 GMT

Buffalo Debuts Speed Freak WiFi Router

Max Headroom — Tue, 15 May 2012 03:07:33 GMT

Buffalo Debuts Speed Freak WiFi Router

Buffalo Tech on Monday became the first on the market with wireless products touting 802.11ac WiFi, also known as "5G WiFi." These are its AirStation WZR-D1800H wireless router and WLI-H4-D1300 wireless media bridge. They purportedly offer speeds up to three times faster than 802.11n, and they are fully backward compatible with 802.11a, b, g and n.

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Social conservatives claim Obama's gay marriage endorsement could unite right

261911 — Mon, 14 May 2012 03:04:08 GMT

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Prominent social conservatives are claiming that President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage could be the fuel Mitt Romney needs to unite the right in November. Rick Santorum, the former Republican presidential candidate, is on record urging Romney to use this "potent weapon" against the president in the general election. And Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on Sunday called the president's announcement a "missing piece of intensity" for the presumptive GOP nominee.

Though gay marriage was not an issue that factored prominently into the 2012 election season until this past Wednesday, when Obama made his historic announcement, the clear distinction now between Obama and Romney has elevated the matter. Obama has said he didn't make a political calculation when he decided to take the plunge and announce his support for the unions.

Now officials and activists on both sides of the aisle are suggesting that, while Obama has used the issue to raise millions of dollars for his campaign this past week, the announcement is not necessarily a political winner in the fall. "I don't think the president did a political calculus to do this because if he did, he needs to go back to the calculator because it's a bad formula," Perkins told CBS' "Face the Nation."

Perkins called gay marriage a "serious issue" for Americans, and reportedly claimed Obama "helped fit that missing piece of intensity that Mitt Romney is going to need." Speaking on CNN's "State of the Union," American Values President Gary Bauer claimed Obama had taken "six or seven states he carried in 2008 and put them in play" with his endorsement of same-sex marriage. On the other side of the aisle, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein told "Fox News Sunday" she thinks there was "no political calculus in this because it's not smart."

"If he's going to do it from a political point of view, it doesn't make any sense," she said. Feinstein defended the president, though, saying his announcement was not a "flip-flop." She said Obama's "personal" evolution on gay marriage is one she went through as well. Romney, for his part, has not made too many political predictions regarding Obama's gay marriage endorsement, but has reiterated in public his opposition to same-sex marriage since that Wednesday announcement.

He again made his position clear during a major address Saturday to the evangelical Liberty University. Republican Party figures say the economy will remain the most important issue in the 2012 race despite the emergence of the gay marriage debate, but suggest that Obama's popularity will suffer -- noting that the number of states that have statutory or constitutional bans on gay marriage far outweighs the number that have legalized it.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that, for those voters who consider gay marriage the top issue, they now "have a clear choice" in November. "I think the view that Gov. Romney holds on traditional marriage is the view that's held by a lot of people across this country," Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., considered to be a contender for the Romney running mate slot, told "Fox News Sunday." "There are more than 30 states who either by statute or constitutional amendment have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman." Yet recent polling on the issue shows a mixed picture.

A USA Today/Gallup poll conducted May 10 showed a majority of Americans back Obama's endorsement. According to the poll of 1,013 adults, 51 percent approved of the decision while 45 percent disapproved. Sixty percent of those polled said the decision would make no difference in their vote. Still, the poll showed 26 percent were less likely to vote for Obama because of it, while just 13 percent were more likely to back Obama.
Speaking on ABC's "This Week," the first openly gay member of Congress predicted Sunday that all the fanfare surrounding Obama's announcement would amount to not very much at the polls.

"If you were going to cast your vote based on a candidate's position regarding same-sex marriage, you were already going to vote for Obama-Romney based on that," Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said. "I literally don't think anybody's vote was changed by this one way or the other." Frank argued that the Obama administration already had pushed for the repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy banning gays from serving openly in the military, and already had dropped its legal defense of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between one man and one woman.

"I can't think there are many people who said, OK, well, I'm going to vote for Obama even though he said that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and he said gay people can serve in the military. But if he says marriage, that goes too far," said Frank, who plans to retire at the end of his current term.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/13/social-conservatives-claim-obama-gay-marriage-endorsement-could-unite-right/?test=latestnews

Mozilla and Google ARMwrestle Microsoft

Max Headroom — Sun, 13 May 2012 03:02:32 GMT

Mozilla and Google ARMwrestle Microsoft

Mozilla and Google are challenging Microsoft's decision to shut out all browsers other than Internet Explorer from Windows 8 devices that use ARM processors. This restricts user choice, reduces competition, chills innovation, and might have antitrust implications, among other bad things, Mozilla general counsel Harvey Anderson asserted.

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"Evil Empire" Speech by President Reagan

261911 — Sun, 13 May 2012 00:55:13 GMT

Calling evil for what it is. No sugar coating what so ever.:thumbsup:

Inside the battle for North Carolina

261911 — Sat, 12 May 2012 09:44:04 GMT

http://video.foxnews.com/v/163449142...ylist_id=87485

When the dust settles and the smoke clears so to speak, who will carry North Carolina's 15 Electoral Votes on November 6?

Will voters "forget" the "magnitude" of the recession?

261911 — Sat, 12 May 2012 06:39:15 GMT

http://video.foxnews.com/v/163464341...ylist_id=87485

I say lets make this picture come true on November 6.