Mitt Romney has become the first Republican presidential contender to reject an anti-gay-marriage pledge concocted by an Iowa Christian group. The controversial 14-point pledge, already signed by Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum, calls on candidates to “defend and uphold” marriage as uniting one man and one woman, and to reject…
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Click here to view this media Some good news tonight from Wisconsin. All six of the fake Democrats the GOP put up to run against actual Democrats in the recall primary elections lost tonight. I wonder if this will cause any backlash for them wasting the taxpayers’ money for pulling this stunt. Ed Schultz talked to the Nation’s John Nichols about the results and here’s more from USA Today — Fake Democrats lose in Wisconsin primary recalls . And as Ed and John discussed, the GOP running fake Democrats weren’t the only dirty tricks that went on with these elections. Deceitful Robocalls Added to List of Dirty Election Tricks in Wisconsin : Adding to the list of dirty tricks, reports are surfacing that a “Right to Life” group is robocalling Wisconsin Democrats and telling them not to go to the polls today, and instead to wait for an absentee ballot to arrive in the mail. This is false, as July 12 is the last day to cast a vote in the Democratic primary, and there is not enough time to cast a vote by mail. Apparently, the robocalls are coming from a 703 area code (Virginia). We do not know yet exactly who is ultimately responsible for these calls, and even if an individual is caught and takes the fall, we may never find out who’s really pulling the strings. Whoever they are, they are obviously people in synch with the right wing agenda of Governor Walker and the Koch Brothers. Disenfranchising voters by tricking them into not voting is a tried and true method of voter suppression. So is finding excuses at the polling place to keep certain people from voting, as GOP-pushed voter ID laws do. What all the tactics we see in Wisconsin have in common is that the right wing is pulling out the stops to prevent the people from exercising their constitutional right to remove them from office. Karoli : Fortunately, Wisconsin’s recall elections will go forward with actual Democrats running against their recall targets. Despite the best efforts of Koch Industries and their American Majority puppets , the real Dems won by large margins. Daily Kos : 8:01 PM PT (Steve Singiser): To put our own shiny bow on Wisconsin, here are the margins of victory for each of the real Dems: Nancy Nusbaum (SD-02) wins 65-35; Sandy Pasch (SD-08) wins 67-33; Shelly Moore (SD-10) wins 54-46; Fred Clark (SD-14) wins 67-33; Jessica King (SD-18) wins 69-31; Jennifer Shilling (SD-32) wins 71-29. Of course, it means the Republicans get another 30 days before they lose, but at least the fakers were sent home summarily. Next up: Republican attempts to recall Democrats on July 19th. Because the two parties really are not alike at all, there will be real Republicans facing real Republicans in a couple of the primaries, as opposed to fake ones screwing up the landscape. However, that doesn’t mean the races won’t be interesting .
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WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund’s new chief foresees “real nasty consequences” for the U.S. and global economies if the U.S. fails to raise its borrowing limit. Christine Lagarde, the first woman to head the lending institution, said in an interview broadcast Sunday that it would cause interest rates to rise and stock markets to fall. That would threaten an important IMF goal, which is preserving stability in the world economy, she said. The U.S. borrowing limit is $14.3 trillion. Obama administration officials say the U.S. would begin to default without an agreement by Aug. 2. “If you draw out the entire scenario of default, yes, of course, you have all of that – interest hikes, stock markets taking a huge hit and real nasty consequences, not just for the United States, but for the entire global economy, because the U.S. is such a big player and matters so much for other countries,” she said. Lagarde, who took over as managing director July 5, also addressed the fallout stemming from the sexual assault charges filed against her predecessor, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Strauss-Kahn resigned in May after he was accused of attacking a hotel maid in New York City. He has denied the charges. New York prosecutors have admitted in recent weeks that their case has weakened and that the accuser has lied about many aspects of her background. Lagarde, a former French finance minister, told ABC’s “This Week” that the scandal caused “a very strange chemistry of frustration, irritation, sometimes anger, sometimes very deep sadness” among the IMF’s 2,500 employees. Lagarde said she would be on her “best behavior all the time.” “When it comes to ethics and whatever I do, I always think to myself, would my mother approve of that,” she said. “And if she did not, then there’s something wrong.” President Barack Obama and congressional leaders from both parties planned to meet Sunday evening at the White House to resume negotiations on a debt deal. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Saturday that the talks should aim to reduce the deficit by about $2 trillion over 10 years. That’s about half the size of a more ambitious deal that Obama floated last week. Republicans are insisting on deep spending cuts as a condition of voting in favor of raising the debt ceiling. Obama and congressional Democrats are insisting that more tax revenue should be part of the mix. Lagarde did not address the European debt crisis or the IMF’s recent aid to Greece. On Friday, the IMF’s board approved a $4.2 billion loan to Greece, the latest installment of a bailout package intended to prevent the struggling nation from defaulting on its debt. The IMF has 187 member nations and lends money to countries with troubled finances.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Osama bin Laden was aware of the plot in which al Qaeda militants bombed London transport facilities on July 7, 2005, but it was the last successful operation he played a role in, U.S. government experts have concluded. Circumstantial evidence, including information gathered from the Abbotabad, Pakistan, hide-out where U.S. Navy SEALs killed bin Laden on May 2, also suggests that bin Laden had advance knowledge of an unsuccessful London-based 2006 plot to simultaneously bomb U.S.-bound transatlantic flights, several U.S. national security officials said. “Bin Laden was absolutely a detail guy. We have every reason to believe that he was aware of al Qaeda’s major plots…
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. ”There are probably more differences in human brains than in other animals partly because the human brain does most of its developing in the outside world.” -Robert Ornstein and Richard Thompson, ”The Amazing Brain” There already exists an enormous gulf between the natural word of normalcy and the unnatural world of violence and war. It is a separation that also exists in the mind, that is, between differing ideological and biological perceptions regarding the realities of brutal combat. Because of this, is the Pentagon and its Military-Entertainment Complex unknowingly contributing to, and even increasing the number of, soldiers…
Continue reading …Haier’s HaiPad ships in August, to become the preferred tablet of lolcats everywhere
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We thought Haier’s HaiPad looked oddly familiar, and a quick trip down memory lane suggests we aren’t (completely) bonkers: it’s a rebranded Quanta we spied at CES. The 7-inch slate now sports a custom Froyo skin from DianXin , an 800MHz processor, 802.11 b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, and a WCDMA radio. We’re told that last antenna provides the slate with phone and texting capabilities just like some versions of another 7-incher we know . Also present are “dual-cameras” (which we assume means one on each plane), availability in five “stylish” hues, and a vague August ship date. With less than a month to scrounge up 3,299 RMB (about $500) and train to fight off thousands of felines, you had better get cracking. [Thanks, Marco] Haier’s HaiPad ships in August, to become the preferred tablet of lolcats everywhere originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Ted Danson joins ‘CSI: Crime Scene Investigation’; R Kelly faces foreclosure on Chicago-area mansion; Arnold Schwarzenegger to return to acting in ‘Last Stand.’ (July 13)
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Congressional leaders will return to the White House today, but budget talks between President Barack Obama and his GOP rivals are at a frustrating standstill. Meanwhile the clock is ticking toward an August 2nd debt ceiling deadline. (July 13)
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Inspiring People: Lose the Weight, Win the Crown Miss America Hopeful Drops 110 Lbs. Wow! Meet the Miss America hopeful who went from portly to pageant babe [Report] Mssheun says: Bree Boyce , Miss South Carolina shows off old jeans after weight loss (video) http://bit.ly/pdZEb6
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