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Obama aide: Romney ‘struck out playing t-ball’ on foreign trip
…“It’s not that Romney struck out against a major league pitcher,” Colin Kahl, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, told reporters on a conference call as Romney flew home. “I mean, here, he struck out playing t-ball. This should have been easy and it wasn’t for him apparently.”
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“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half.” – Gore Vidal who died today at age 86
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The-World-Is-A-Safer-Place-Without-Saddam News
- Panetta: US force an option against Iran nukes
- Panetta asks Israel for patience on Iran
- Israel to end draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox
- UN: Syria using fighter jets against rebels
- Iraq says July deadliest month in nearly two years
- India power cut hits millions, among world’s worst outages
- Taiwan, China on alert as typhoons approach
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What Are The After Effects of Osama bin Laden’s Death?
The number of worldwide terror attacks fell to 10,283 last year, down from 11,641 in 2010 and the lowest since 2005, the State Department reported today.
What’s made the difference? The State Department cites the May 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden and other top al Qaeda members killed last year
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“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.” – Gore Vidal
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Republican Shenanigans
- Romney unfazed by Newsweek ‘Wimp’ cover
- Romney campaign welcomes Obama to Florida with ‘I Built This’ ads
- Romney denies criticizing Palestinian culture
- Republicans Urge Romney Focus on Jobs After Trip
- Justice Dept: Republican Fast and Furious report engages in distortion
- Bachmann’s million-dollar month
- McCain: Newsweek’s ‘liberal left-wing trash’
- Palin to Cheney: Careful where you aim
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If California gets any stupider in its crackdown on pot (on top of voting down gay marriage) it shld change its name to West Arizona. – Bill Maher Tweet
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GOP Rescues Livestock Producers, Shuns Farmers
With Republicans badly split over farm subsidies and cutting food stamps, House GOP leaders Tuesday decided to drop plans to extend the current farm program for one year and instead will press for immediate help for drought-stricken livestock producers
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Rock-the-Voter News
- Obama leads Romney in three battleground states, new poll
- Obama Plans to Lay Out ‘Specific Agenda’ for 2nd Term
- White House: Of Course Obama Didn’t Call Off Bin Laden Raid
- Iconoclastic American author Gore Vidal dead at 86
- Phelps swims into history with 19th Olympic medal
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. – Gore Vidal
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Business/Tech News
- Oil hovers above $88 as hopes fade for Fed easing
- BP results show strain of Russia, U.S. spill
- Chrysler July auto sales up 13 percent, Nissan up 16.2 percent
- Murdoch’s Daily lays off 50 staffers
- Burger King Profit Surges 60%
- Indian factory growth slumps to eight-month low in July
- Climate change threatens California power supply: report
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A Smart Flip Flop
He finally came around to what other climate scientists have been spouting for years. Richard A. Muller, a physics professor at the University of California-Berkeley, announced over the weekend that his much-publicized investigation into climate data has found that humans’ production of carbon dioxide is causing the world to slowly warm up.
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Olympic organizers are reportedly struggling to fill rows and rows of empty seats. Empty seats! In fact, yesterday officials put out a casting call asking for 200 Europeans or eight Americans- Conan
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Legal Defense and Food Fund Resurrected
20 days until my court date
Offline donation: Lisa Casey ~ PO Box 88 ~ Ashford, AL 36312
Please email 24/7 me at lisa@allhatnocattle.net
Thank you, Lou!
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Odd News
- Flight Diverted for Unattended Camera
- Former NFL Cheerleader Sarah Jones Denies She Is the ‘Female Sandusky’
- Australia finds record drug haul among Thai terracotta pots
- Why Some People Can Recall Life’s Every Moment
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Time To Deflate Photo
Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo used 250,000 books to create a maze which will be on display until Aug. 25 at The Southbank Centre in London, England.
Peace.
