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UN praises Iranian 'co-operation'
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog has said relations with Iran are shifting from confrontation to co-operation.
UN report: Iran already has data for atom bomb construction
A United Nations report goes further than U.S. conclusions on Iran's nuclear weapons capabilities, saying Iran already has the detailed knowledge to design and produce a nuclear bomb.
Authorities in Iran Arrest 18 Students
Iranian authorities arrested 18 student leaders in Tehran on Friday in a crackdown on demonstrations, which flared up at two universities as classes resumed this week.
Samoa tsunami death toll reaches 190
The number of people killed by the tsunami that hit the Samoa island group in the Pacific last Tuesday has risen to 190.
Among the dead are as yet unidentified foreign holidaymakers. A proposed mass funeral has been postponed to give relatives the chance to fly to the remote islands.
Obama was told a trip to Olympics meeting may clinch Chicago win
Up until a few days before flying to Copenhagen, Obama was not sold on the idea. He was concerned he would be gone when the healthcare debate hit the House or Senate floor.
Health care reform: Privately, Barack Obama strongly backs public option
Despite months of seeming ambivalence about creating a government health insurance plan, the Obama White House has launched an intensifying behind-the-scenes campaign to get divided Senate Democrats to take up some version of the idea in the weeks just ahead.
UPDATE:
From Realwest.
Fear of Losing Private Health Insurance Trumps 'Public Option'
Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters nationwide say guaranteeing that no one is forced to change their health insurance coverage is a higher priority than giving consumers the choice of a "public option" health insurance company.
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Let's see, Iran's buying time and has everything it needs for the Bomb, while cracking down on internal dissent.
Prayers for Indonesian and Samoa.
It's not Obama's fault he looked like a fool on the World Stage.
Don't believe a word of it when "they" say the Public Option is tabled.
Morning all.
FIRST!
ReplyDeleteThe Teleprompter Jesus is a fool.
Truck,
ReplyDeleteForth is the new First!
THIRD!
ReplyDeleteThis leads me to say........
FORTH!
ReplyDeleteTHanks JCM. I can never keep up with what is in.
I heard yesterday at the boys football game that black socks and sandals are out. I think that they were pranking me.
Now might be a good time for a Burma Shave ad.
ReplyDeleteTruck! is this you?
ReplyDeleteHi.
ReplyDeleteDon't believe a word of it when "they" say the Public Option is tabled.
There are the "they" again.
/One of the banes of my existence.
Good morning.
ReplyDeleteWe are back from Kentucky and praise God for safe travel and keeping us healthy during our trip. Heard some incredible blue grass music.
The market pulled back a couple of hundred points at the end of last week and look for more pull back coming up. We are now going to head into a very volitile time, which will likely involve another sharp drop in the market.
Next week we will likely hear that GDP grew slightly and there will be some companies with some positive profit numbers. The naive , the unexperienced and the kool aid drinkers out there will point to that as proof that Obamanomoics is working and happy days are here again. That will con some investors into buying more stock.
However, you have to take into account that the government has poured billions into the banks, into the car companies, into mortgages and just about everything else out there. If you take away that artificial stimulus, the economy is still shrinking a quickly. The "smart money" sees that and will cash our and sit on the sidelines again.
So get ready for the MSM to crow for Obama, for more market volatility, and for another sharp drop in the market. Not as bad as last year but not good either.
In this case "they" have a face....
ReplyDeleteAnd "they" are out to get us....
3wood,
ReplyDeleteThe stimulus is working, Obama is fixing everything.
Your doom and gloom only proves YOU'RE A RACIST!
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Great post!
And the threads keep coming fast and furiously here!
ReplyDeleteGood morning JCM! Reposting a comment made at the bottom of the last post:
And here's the latest from Rasmussen:
Fear of Losing Private Health Insurance Trumps 'Public Option'
"Sunday, October 04, 2009
Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters nationwide say guaranteeing that no one is forced to change their health insurance coverage is a higher priority than giving consumers the choice of a "public option" health insurance company.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 29% take the opposite view. They say it’s more important to give people a government-sponsored non-profit health insurance option.
Most liberal voters say giving people the choice of a public option is more important. But most moderates put guaranteeing that no one is forced to change their health insurance first, and conservatives overwhelmingly agree with them.
Currently, 53% of insured voters say it’s likely they would have to change their health insurance coverage if the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats becomes law. That helps explain why 54% of voters believe that the health care system needs major changes, but just 41% support the comprehensive reform proposed by the president."
And here realwest sits, wondering just how many folks who CAN'T AFFORD health insurance there really are! IF it's really 48 million people that's one thing that would point to some sort of dramatic remedy - if it's closer to the 12 to 14 million people, not so much a dramatic remedy as a bandaid.
And I STILL can't get an answer as to how Obama & Co. came up with that 48 million people number.
Anyone out here know?
Good Morning 3 wood. Good to see you this morning. Cash positions will not help when inflation explodes. Where is the smart money going now?
ReplyDeleteAnd I STILL can't get an answer as to how Obama & Co. came up with that 48 million people number.
ReplyDeleteAnyone out here know?
PFA realwest, PFA*.
/*Plucked From Air....
In this case "they" have a face....
ReplyDeleteAnd "they" are out to get us....
*shudder*
Those "theys" are far worse than a bane.
PFA realwest, PFA*.
ReplyDeletecould also mean "pulled from ass".
Truck Monkey: I never really thought of that, you are really right. In fact thats probably where they got their numbers.
ReplyDeleteReal,
ReplyDeleteUPDATE on the Thread!
Good Stuff, thanks!
Hello 3 wood - glad you're back safe and sound from your trip!
ReplyDeleteUh, when - if ever - do you think the MSM and the Democrats - sorry for the redundancy there - will figure out that with a nearly 10% unemployment rate and a 52% unemployment rate for young Americans (aged 16-24) the economy isn't going to be coming back "strong" or for that matter, coming back much at all?
Thanks JCM! I actually posted that just as you were putting up this thread or Post or whatever we call it!
ReplyDeleteGMTA!
Real,
ReplyDeleteIt's The Wee Won, there is no problem.....
Out of Work? Blame Reagan.
The bad news is, unemployment's 9.8%. Oh wait, is that good news?
Hey Real.
ReplyDeleteThe democraps are doing their best to strangle the recovery baby in its crib. They have been wrong about everything economically for as long as I remember. The Teleprompter Jesus is Jimmy Carter on steroids. Let's hope that the damage these people do can be reversed.
Seat Belts Save Lives, Buckle Up America!
ReplyDeleteMorning everyone.
enuff,
ReplyDeleteBut congress in the truck and drive to the desert.
Will save more!
PIMF
ReplyDeletePut.... congress....
Good idear JCM, one bus oughta be plenty.
ReplyDeleteAttack on remote Afghan outposts kills 8 US troops
ReplyDeleteMilitant fighters streaming from an Afghan village and a mosque attacked a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistani border, killing eight U.S. soldiers and as many as seven Afghan forces in one of the fiercest battles of the eight-year war.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the deadliest attack for coalition forces since a similar raid in July 2008 killed nine American soldiers in the same mountainous region known as an al-Qaida haven. The U.S. has already said it plans to pull its soldiers from the isolated area to focus on Afghan population centers.
Fighting began around dawn Saturday and lasted several hours, punctuated by American airstrikes. Jamaludin Badar, governor of Nuristan province, said the two outposts were on a hill — one near the top and one at the foot of the slope — flanked by the village on one side and the mosque on the other.
Nearly 300 militant fighters flooded the lower, Afghan outpost then swept around it to reach the American station on higher ground from both directions, said Mohammad Qasim Jangulbagh, the provincial police chief. The U.S. military statement said the Americans and Afghans repelled the attack by tribal fighters and "inflicted heavy enemy casualties."
Jangulbagh said that the gunbattle included U.S. airstrikes and that 15 Afghan police were captured by the Taliban, including the local police chief and his deputy. A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said a council would decide the fates of the police, confirming the capture of the two top local officers.
Badar said five or six Afghan soldiers died, as did one policeman.
Afghan forces were sent as reinforcements, but Jangulbagh said all communications to the district, Kamdesh, were severed and he had no way of knowing how they were faring Sunday. The area is just 20 miles (30 kilometers) from the Pakistani border and 150 miles (230 kilometers) from Kabul.
"This was a complex attack in a difficult area," U.S. Col. Randy George, the area commander, said in the American statement. "Both the U.S. and Afghan soldiers fought bravely together."
Jangulbagh said the bodies of five enemy fighters were found after the battle.
U.S. Capt. Elizabeth Mathias, a military spokeswoman, said American forces continued to man the outpost and there was scattered fighting early Sunday. She said was unclear if the attackers were Taliban or from another group linked to them.
Meanwhile, back in Obamaland . . .
/Obamas' night out: First WH anniversary
Maybe that shoulda read, The One bus oughta be plenty. ;)
ReplyDeleteAnd right there is the problem. If you pretend to be President of the United States, you necessarily need to care about all American Citizens, even Republicans (if you're a Democrat) or Democrats (if you're a Republican) and the fact is that unemployment, NOT TO MENTION UNDEREMPLOYMENT is hurting, SERIOUSLY hurting ALL Americans (except the Elites). There is no real explanation for anyone taking glee in comparing Obama's crappy performance with anyone else; nearly 10% of Adult Americans are OUT OF WORK. That means they can't afford to make their mortgage/rent payments, help their children with college costs, make donations to charities, pay for medical care or health insurance and the LEFT seem to think this is a GOOD THING because it enables them to push their STUPID Government Option for Health Insurance and to waste even more money on helping homeowners' cope with their mortgage situations (Renters? Screw 'em - or pass a new version of a State wide type of rent control) and who needs Charity (private, that is) when the Government will be our "nanny state" and kiss our boo-boo's and make everything better?!
ReplyDeleteIt says a great deal about people who revel in other peoples misfortune and even more about folks who hope to profit from that misfortune - politically.
And NONE of what it says is remotely MORAL, GOOD OR ETHICAL.
Sorry for the delay, had to go eat breakfast.
ReplyDelete"Good Morning 3 wood. Good to see you this morning. Cash positions will not help when inflation explodes. Where is the smart money going now?"
Gold, money market accounts and commodoties
California: Another Appellate Court Strikes Down Cost Neutrality
ReplyDeleteA second appellate ruling has struck down a California city's red light camera program as illegal. On September 22, the California Superior Court for the County of San Mateo, Appellate Department overturned motorist Al Bullock's $387 conviction for making a right turn on red. Presiding Judge Mark R. Forcum concisely found that San Mateo's cost neutral contract with an Australian company, Redflex Traffic Systems, was in direct violation of state law.
Realwest: Ontario used to have rent control until it was removed ten years or more ago by the Tory party when they were in power. The short term issue was more renters then apartments and landlords bidding with tenants on how much rent they were willing to pay. Long term, rental market has stabalized, rents have dropped, and vacancy rates are stable, with more vacancy now then with rent control. As well apartments are in better shape. Of course the Liberals or NDP say that rent is killing the low income people. Then again the NDP is never happy about anything.
ReplyDeleteUnemployment is the big issue facing this country. For example, my job has been phased out, and last Wednesday my eldest daughter was laid off from her job and this just keeps on going on. Both of us are well educated, skilled folks and there is little out there right now for people like us. My daughter is l looking now to find a secretary job for the time being, and she graduated Cum Laude. New graduates are going to have a tough time finding any kind of work. This reminds me of when I graduated college in 1980 and worked as a private cop for a while before I found my first "professional" job.
ReplyDeleteWhat we are seeing is a deflation in income, eventually folks will find some kind of work, but it will be at a lower pay level than they were used to. That means that discretionary income and consumer spending will be less. With the anti-business environment coming from Washington today, there is no reason for a business to take a risk and hire new staff to grow, Why bother? You will only be punished by Washington if it works out.
And NONE of what it says is remotely MORAL, GOOD OR ETHICAL.
ReplyDeleteHEAR! HEAR!
Given want you just they must have other motives.....
POWER.
Hey PaladinPhil - that was, of course, only one aspect of my rant, but it's a good point. The fact is that there were, 8 years ago, over 2,000 municipalities in the United States that had some form of rent control.
ReplyDeleteWhat happens is that folks - at least in NYC - used that "extra" money they had from living in rent controlled or rent stabilized apartments to PURCHASE second or vacation homes (never mind what the rent stabilization laws specify, Charlie Rangel is FAR from the only NYC resident to blatantly flout laws intended to help others no where near as wealthy as he is). If you dropped Rent Stabiization RIGHT NOW, especially with the state of employment in NYC, hundreds of Thousands of NYC dwellers would have to move or become homeless.
The real issue for me is that the LEFT seem to actual revel in our economic plight (as long as THEY aren't hurt) as bringing some sort of social justice to the table (e.g., "see how we've had to live for so long - Work? what is this Work you speak of).
That we have a POTUS who not only doesn't reject that kind of thinking but indeed seems to embody it and try to make it respectable is what makes me sick.
SNL was wrong.
ReplyDeleteObama has done one thing.
Spent a ton of money.
My kids money, your kids money.
/Shovel ready
And on that "cheery" note I have to leave to get some more chores done!
ReplyDeleteHope you all have a great day and that I get the chance to see you all down the road!!
Oh and if any of y'all see Occasional Reader, please tell him I'm sorry I missed him out here last night!
Thank you!
anyone here understand dreams?
ReplyDeletePloome,
ReplyDeleteOnly The Wee Won's..........
I dreamed about ants
ReplyDelete:(
Good morning, all! I can't believe OR was here last night and I missed him! I hope he stops by again.
ReplyDelete3wood, my husband has been out of work for more than 8 months. He's an IT project manager with extensive experience in data centers. Absolutely no one is building, expanding or upgrading data centers or any other aspect of their IT operations. It's exactly as you say - why would any company take a risk or expand when you don't know from one day to the next what's happening in Washington.
Hey Ploome.
ReplyDeleteAs long as the ants weren't bigger than you it's all good.
PJTV: Steven Crowder: A Day With Michael Moore
ReplyDeleteLooks like the Feeb's nabbed another VeddyViteVing Conspirator®: New York man accused of using Twitter to direct protesters during G20 summit
ReplyDeleteWOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!! I found a whole bunch more of missing pictures!!!!
ReplyDeleteI guess my back up paranoia is stronger then I thought it was. :)
Ploome pick'a sig. Ants
ReplyDeleteanyone see the Anchoress today
ReplyDeletehttp://www.firstthings.com/blogs/theanchoress/2009/10/03/will-tiny-israel-save-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-271005
But this keeps running through my head:
With an incredible rapidity, America’s status as the world’s pre-eminent superpower is now passing away. This is a function both of the nearly systematic abandonment of U.S. interests and allies overseas, with metastasizing debt and bureaucracy on the home front.
It is interesting to think, isn’t it, that if America is brought low (a no-longer unthinkable notion, unfortunately) and the crazymen that we’re hot to appease in Iran, or North Korea or Venezuela get together to do crazy things, the only fully-functioning and war-ready Democracy left to help the world will be…Israel.
Tiny, despised, fierce Israel.
I love irony, but that’s not an irony I want to see played out.
Sunday…a good day to pray
Ploome,
ReplyDeleteIt's unfair and unjust that the US has ascendency in all aspects. Especially since that ascendency is based on individual liberty, free markets, and a classical liberal republic.
The radical leftist intent has been determined to being every equal misery of a socialist utopia for a long, long time.
They now hold all the levers of power.
another interesting article
ReplyDeletehttp://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/10/danish-news-obamas-arrogance-turned-off.html
Ekstra Bladet accused Obama of disrespecting the IOC.
It took the former Danish IOC member Kai Holm less than one round of counting to determine that Chicago was the victim of his own disrespect.
Quite remarkably Holm could tell it, all others considered as an advantage in the Olympic optics was a disadvantage. The world's mightiest man's visit was not an expression of humility and a desire to make the Olympic idea of American and global momentum.
No, it had instead said that Obama does not take the IOC and the Olympic ideals seriously. Having Understood: The American President should have spent more days to 'massage' IOC members' sense of self, so maybe Chicago had won instead.
Of course... This won't stop top democrats from blaming Bush for the major embarrassment
Morning all. Back home after a nice run.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm bragging. (I'm tired and I stink, too.)
This is cheery, too. The Coming Failure on Iran
ReplyDeleteNo to mention that the so called compromise with Iran has them hand over all their enriched uranium to the Russians- who have been helping build their nucular program.
Good morning, everyone. Hopefully you all are ready for some football this morning. A new NFL Open thread should be going up in about 7 minutes... if you're into that sort of thing, that is. :)
ReplyDeleteI think someone needs to add a new definition to the phrase "Epic Fail" on Urban Dictionary. A simple, true, fact-based definition: Obama.
ReplyDeleteRunning Bare, WaPo headline yesterday on three brief opinion pieces re Copenhagen was "Olympic Fail."
ReplyDeleteSimple, to the point. I like it.
Simple, to the point. I like it.
ReplyDeleteMe, too LOL.
RB, Jim - Olympic failure? Yep, it sure does work.
ReplyDeleteI'm normally a linguistic purist, but I get a kick out of the use of "fail" as a noun. It's somehow harsher and more dismissive than "failure."
ReplyDeleteIt's somehow harsher and more dismissive than "failure."
ReplyDeleteAgreed LOL.