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Obama State Of The Union--Pep Rally?
Submitted by Thunder1 on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 03:19.Updated March 10, 2010
Roberts: Scene At State Of Union 'Very Troubling'!
AP
President Obama chided the court for its campaign finance decision during the January address, with six of the court's nine justices seated before him in their black robe!
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address was "very troubling" and that the annual speech to Congress has "degenerated into a political pep rally."
Responding to a University of Alabama law student's question about the Senate's method of confirming justices, Roberts said senators improperly try to make political points by asking questions they know nominees can't answer because of judicial ethics rules.
"I think the process is broken down," he said.
Obama chided the court for its campaign finance decision during the January address, with six of the court's nine justices seated before him in their black robes.
Roberts said he wonders whether justices should attend the address."To the extent the State of the Union has degenerated into a political pep rally, I'm not sure why we're there," said Roberts, a Republican nominee who joined the court in 2005
"JIHAD JANE"!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 02:48.Pennsylvania Woman Tried To Recruit Terrorists!
The Canadian Gold Medal Hockey Song
Submitted by Thunder1 on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 02:22.This Is Just Too Good, Not To Pass On!!
Enjoy!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8PfX4VS_Lo&feature=player_embedded#
Thunder 
Canada's Israel!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 16:27.Israel Skates To Hockey Gold
Congratulations Israel!!!
March 4th, 2010
In a surprising twist for International Hockey, a team from Israel recently skated to a Gold Medal at a tournament held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada!
The team, who are based in Bat Yam, Israel, scored the top prize at the 35th annual BSR International Peewee Hockey Tournament.
Victories were earned in all the Division Games the Players participated in, along with the final match, in which the Israelis shot their way to an 8-7 win over a New Brunswick, Canadian team.
Israelis Wary Of Obama!!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:58.U.S. Leads Israeli, Palestinian Peace Talks!
VP Biden Arrives In Jerusalem!
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 | 5:39 AM ET The Associated Press
Israeli President Shimon Peres, left, talks with U.S. Vice-President Joseph Biden during their meeting at Peres's residence in Jerusalem on Tuesday. (Yin Bogu, Pool/Associated Press)
Israelis and Palestinians face a "moment of real opportunity" to make peace after agreeing to resume American-brokered talks, U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden said Tuesday as he launched the highest-level visit by an Obama administration official to Israel.
The indirect talks break a 14-month deadlock and mark President Barack Obama's first substantive diplomatic achievement in the region.
"I think we are at a moment of real opportunity, and I think that the interests of the Israeli and Palestinian people, if everybody stops and takes a deep breath, are actually more in line than they are opposites," Biden said ahead of a meeting with Israel's president, Shimon Peres.
Biden said he hoped the beginning of indirect talks would be "a vehicle by which we can begin to allay that layer of mistrust that has built up in the last several years."
Palin Under The Microscope!!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:47.Palin Ridiculed For Canadian Health Care Use!
Admits in Calgary speech that family used Canadian system in '60s!
Last Updated: Monday, March 8, 2010 | 10:02 PM ET The Canadian Press
Sarah Palin, pictured in Hong Kong in September, says her family used the Canadian health-care system in the 1960s. (Jeff Topping/CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets/Associated Press)
Sarah Palin's weekend admission that her family once travelled to Canada to receive treatment under the public health-care system she's so often demonized prompted skepticism and ridicule Monday among her critics in the U.S.
"My first five years of life, we spent in Skagway, Alaska, right there by Whitehorse," the former Alaska governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate said Saturday night during a speech in Calgary.
"Believe it or not — this was in the '60s — we used to hustle on over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse. I remember my brother, he burned his ankle in some little kid accident thing, and my parents had to put him on a train and rush him over to Whitehorse, and I think, isn't that kind of ironic now, zooming over the border, getting health care from Canada."
Always a popular whipping girl on liberal blogs and news sites, Palin was swiftly derided for the comments Monday as the news reverberated through and beyond the U.S. capital.
Day After Day After Day!!!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 12:37.Pakistan Suicide Bombing Kills 12!
Last Updated: Monday, March 8, 2010 | 7:24 AM ET
The Associated Press
Rescue workers and residents search for survivors in the rubble of a police building hit by a suicide bomb blast in Lahore. (Mohsin Raza/Reuters)A suicide car bomber Monday struck a building where police interrogate high-value suspects in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, killing at least 12 people and wounding 61 more, including women taking children to school, officials say.
The attack broke what had been a relative lull in violence in Pakistan, where militant groups revile the government for its alliance with the U.S.
It also showed that insurgents retain the ability to strike the country's heartland, far from the Afghan border regions where al-Qaeda and the Taliban have long thrived, despite army offensives aimed at wiping them out.
No group immediately claimed responsibility, but suspicion fell on the Pakistani Taliban and allied militant groups. Those groups are believed responsible for a wave of attacks that killed more than 600 people starting in October, including several in major Pakistani cities.
More recent attacks have been smaller and confined to remote northwest regions near Afghanistan.
Brainwashed American!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Sun, 03/07/2010 - 19:40.Report Of American Al Qaeda Spokesman's
Arrest Questioned!
March 7, 2010 5:25 p.m. EST
From One Lunatic To Another!!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Sun, 03/07/2010 - 19:18.Iranian President: 9/11 Was 'Big Lie'!
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says 9/11 attacks a ruse to allow invasion of Afghanistan
Bush Didn't Lie, Pelosi Did!!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Sun, 03/07/2010 - 14:50.
Rove: Bush Didn't "Lie Us Into War"!
By Ed Hornick, CNN
Obama Sides With Muslims!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Sun, 03/07/2010 - 14:38.Official: Armenian Genocide Resolution Unlikely To Get Full House Vote!
March 6, 2010 5:07 p.m. EST
British Pilot A Hero!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Sun, 03/07/2010 - 14:12.Wounded Pilot Evacuates Casualties In Afghanistan!
March 7, 2010 10:18 a.m. EST
Do As We Say Or.......BOOM!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Sun, 03/07/2010 - 13:59.Iraq Vote Marred By Violence!
26 Die As Iraqis Cast Ballots In 2nd Election Since U.S.-Led Invasion!
Last Updated: Sunday, March 7, 2010 | 9:16 AM ET
CBC News
Women walk past the rubble of a house destroyed by a blast in the mixed neighbourhood of Kirayaat, where police say one person died. (Hadi Mizban/Associated Press)Voters in Iraq were casting ballots in parliamentary elections Sunday despite a series of deadly insurgent attacks that began shortly after polls opened.
At least 26 people have died in mortar, grenade and car bomb attacks across the country. The victims include at least 14 people who were killed in attacks in the capital, Baghdad.
Dozens of firefighters and civil defence workers were trying to reach victims of one of the attacks in the strongly Shia neighbourhood of Shaab in Baghdad's north end, where extremists blew up a building, killing at least seven people.
"We all heard clearly a little girl crying in the ruins," said John Simpson, reporting from the scene for BBC. "Stories of what happened vary greatly, but it seems most likely that Sunni extremists put bombs here, perhaps car bombs, as part of the campaign against the election."
Love & Peace. Muslim Style!!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Sat, 03/06/2010 - 18:19.Car Bomb Strikes Iraqi City Ahead Of Elections!
Last Updated: Saturday, March 6, 2010 | 9:43 AM ET
The Associated Press
Officials inspect the scene after a car bomb exploded near a bus for pilgrims in the Shia holy city of Najaf in Iraq on Saturday. (Alaa al-Marjani/Associated Press)
A car bomb exploded near a bus for pilgrims in the Shia holy city of Najaf on Saturday, killing at least three people, including two Iranians, on the eve of key national elections, officials said.
Blasts in other Iraqi cities have killed dozens this week, underscoring warnings that insurgents would attempt to disrupt the vote with violence. An al-Qaeda front group issued a statement on Friday telling people not to leave their homes on election day.
Iranian and Iraqi pilgrims were waiting to board the bus after visiting Iraq's Imam Ali shrine, a witness said.
"I was shocked by the scene, pools of blood and people lying on the ground soaked with their own blood," said Ahmed Fakhir, 21, an Iraqi translator who was with the Iranian pilgrims.
More Of The Same????
Submitted by Thunder1 on Sat, 03/06/2010 - 02:44.What's Next For Health Care Reform?
March 4, 2010 4:27 p.m. EST
Oh, Oh!!!!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Sat, 03/06/2010 - 02:37.Obama's New Adversary!
Paul Ryan reviews health-care statistics before heading to President Obama's health-care summit this winter.
(Fortune Magazine) -- On the eve of President Barack Obama's winter health-care summit, Rep. Paul Ryan is dining at Talay Thai, a no-frills restaurant with metal chairs and Formica tables. On this frigid evening, Ryan strolled coatless to Talay -- "I'm from Wisconsin!" he says -- from his cramped Capitol Hill office, where tonight, as on most nights, he'll sleep on a cot.
Such frugality is fitting for a politician who, as he sips ice water, frets that America is "sleep-walking toward a debt crisis." Ryan tells me: "Within a few years a sale of government bonds will fail. The capital markets will go crazy, and the Fed and Treasury will run to Capitol Hill demanding a giant bailout. Adding Obamacare would make the crisis go deeper and arrive faster."
FOR FALCON!!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 23:32.Please Take A Look Montebello
High In California!
You will not see this heart-stopping photo on the front page of the NY Times, nor on the lead story of the major news networks. The protestors at Montebello High School took the American flag off the school's flag pole and hung it upside down while putting up the Mexican flag over top of it.
Navy Seal's Treatment Is Disgusting!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 02:06.Congressmen To Pentagon:
Exonerate Navy SEALs In Iraq Incident!
March 4, 2010 9:57 p.m. EST
MEN!!!!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 01:10.He Said To Me!
He said to me . . . I don't know why you wear a bra; you've got nothing to put in it.
I said to him . . . You wear pants don't you?
He said to me ........Shall we try swapping positions tonight?
I said . That's a good idea - you stand by the stove & sink while I sit on
the sofa and do nothing but fart.
LifeSavers!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 01:00.The Candy With The Little Hole!
This Should Make You Smile!
You Have To Love Little Kids!
The children began to identify the flavors by their color:
Red.....................Cherry
Yellow.................Lemon
Green...................Lime
Orange ..............Orange
Finally the teacher gave them all HONEY LifeSavers. None
of the children could identify the taste.
The teacher said, 'I will give you all a clue. It's what your
Mother may sometimes call your Father.'
One little girl looked up in horror, spit her lifesaver out and
yelled, 'Oh my God! They're Ass-Holes!
Yellow.................Lemon
Green...................Lime
Orange ..............Orange
of the children could identify the taste.
Mother may sometimes call your Father.'
yelled, 'Oh my God! They're Ass-Holes!
Thunder
Son Of A Bitch!!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 16:43.Delaware Pediatrician Accused Of Sexually Abusing Patients!
Afghanistan & Iraq!!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 15:10.Baghdad Suicide Blasts Target Advance Voting!
Last Updated: Thursday, March 4, 2010 | 11:50 AM ET
CBC News
Attackers targeted voters in Baghdad, as thousands of people made their way to polling stations to cast advance ballots before Sunday's national election.
At least 17 people were killed in the Thursday blasts, local officials said, noting that two blasts hit voters waiting outside polling stations.
Insurgent groups have said they will use violence to try and disrupt Sunday’s election, which will determine who will take charge of the country as U.S. forces finish withdrawing.
"Terrorists wanted to hamper the elections, thus they started to blow themselves up in the streets," said Deputy Interior Minister Ayden Khalid Qader, who is responsible for election-related security across the country.
A woman walks past Iraqi soldiers waiting outside of a polling station in Baghdad Thursday. Security officers are voting early so they can work during Sunday's election. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters)Many of the victims were believed to be security personnel — the main group to cast ballots during early voting since they will be working on election day.
Health Care!!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 14:59.Democrats Threaten Health-Care Bill Over Abortion!
Last Updated: Thursday, March 4, 2010 | 12:38 PM ET
CBC News
Representative Bart Stupak takes part in a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Stupak leads a group of a dozen Democrats who are opposed to health-care reform they say is not restrictive enough in funding for abortion. (Lauren Victoria Burke/Associated Press)
A dozen Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives opposed to abortion say they are willing to bring down President Barack Obama's proposed health-care bill unless tighter language barring funding of the procedure is added.
Representative Bart Stupak, a Democrat from Michigan, told ABC's Good Morning America on Thursday he and 11 Democratic allies were upset that the health-care reform package now under consideration contained less-restrictive language on federal funding of abortion than a previous bill approved by the House in November.
"We're not going to vote for the bill with that language in there," he said. "I want to see health care, but we're not going to bypass some principles that we believe strongly about."
THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE MARINES!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 21:08.Famous Photograph!
The battle to take Iwo Jima resulted in producing one of the most famous photographs taken during the war in the Pacific, Raising of the United States Flag, taken by photographer JOE ROSENTHAL.
The famous Flag Raising Photograph at Iwo Jima.
There are six Flag Raisers on the photo. Four in the front line and two in back.
The front four are (left to right) Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley, John Bradley and Harlon Block.
The back two are Michael Strank (behind Sousley) and Rene Gagnon (behind Bradley).
Strank, Block and Sousley would die shortly afterwards.
Bradley, Hayes and Gagnon became national heroes within weeks.
US Veterans Return To Iwo Jima
For 65th Anniversary Of Iconic WWII Battle
March 3rd, 2010
1945 Iwo Jima Orders, Handed Over For 65th Anniversary!!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 20:40.Marines, White House Herald
Iwo Jima’s 65th Anniversary!
By Paul Bedard, Washington Whisper
TO DAMM BAD!!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 16:35.Niqab Veil-Wearing Montrealer
Feels Treated Unfairly!!!
She Is Free To Go Back To Eygpt!!!!
Egyptian Immigrant Complained To Quebec's Human Rights Commission!
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 | 1:58 PM ET
CBC News
The niqab veil is a style of headwear that covers the whole body, leaving only the eyes exposed. (CBC)
An Egyptian woman who complained to Quebec's human rights commission about being expelled from a language class for refusing to remove her niqab veil says she was treated unfairly.
The woman was kicked out of a language class for new immigrants at the CÉGEP St-Laurent when she would not take off the niqab veil that covers her head, face and body while in class. The veil leaves only her eyes exposed.
Naema, who only wants to be identified by her first name, says she wears the veil for religious reasons.
She told CBC News she made it clear from the moment she enrolled in the government-sponsored course that she wanted to wear her niqab in class, because there were male students present.
SULLY!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 13:12.'Miracle On The Hudson' Pilot Retiring!
"Truly An Amazing Hero"!!
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 | 10:59 AM ET
The Associated Press
Passengers awaiting rescue stand on the wing of the US Airways Airbus 320 that splashed down in the Hudson River in New York on Jan. 15, 2009. (Bebeto Matthews/Associated Press)
Captain Chesley (Sully) Sullenberger, who piloted a US Airways flight during its emergency water landing on the Hudson River in January of last year, is retiring Wednesday.
Sullenberger, 59, joined US Airways' predecessor airline in 1980.
Flight attendant Doreen Welsh, who was also on Flight 1549 when it landed in the Hudson, is also retiring. Welsh, 59, joined US Airways' predecessor airline in 1970.
All 150 passengers survived the emergency river landing in January 2009 when the plane's engines were struck by birds. The plane landed in the river within minutes of taking off from New York's LaGuardia airport. It was supposed to fly to Charlotte, N.C.
Sullenberger, dubbed the "Hero of the Hudson" after the incident, told FAA investigators he put the plane down in the river rather than risk a catastrophic crash in a densely populated area.
Iraq & Somalia's Muslims!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 12:12.
Iraqi City Hit By 3 Suicide Blasts!
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 | 7:41 AM ET
The Associated Press
Iraqi security members examine the site of a bomb attack in Baquba, about 60 kilometres northeast of Baghdad. (Helmiy al-Azawi/Reuters)A police spokesman in Iraq's volatile Diyala province says three suicide bombings have killed at least 30 and wounded more than 40 people in the city of Baquba.
Capt. Ghalib al-Karkhi said the bombings in the mixed Shiite-Sunni city, which is roughly 60 kilometres northeast of Baghdad, targeted a local government housing office next to an Iraqi Army facility, the headquarters of the provincial council and the city's emergency hospital.
The bombings — Iraq's deadliest in weeks — come as Iraq is preparing for March 7 elections that will decide who will oversee the country as U.S. forces go home and help determine whether Iraq can overcome the deep sectarian tensions that have divided the nation since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
U.S. and Iraqi officials have warned repeatedly that insurgents were expected to launch attacks in an attempt to disrupt the crucial vote.
One Way Or The Other!!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 12:05.
President Barack Obama gestures at the Blair House in Washington during a meeting with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders last week to discuss health-care reform. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press)
U.S. President Barack Obama is unveiling at the White House on Wednesday a revised version of his health-care legislation that may include a number of Republican proposals.
Obama is expected to lay out his final package for long-discussed health-care reform in the U.S. and urge Congress to act swiftly to pass the legislation.
As with bills currently stalled before the House of Representatives and the Senate, the proposal is expected to require most Americans to carry health insurance coverage and bar insurance companies from denying coverage to people with medical problems or charging them more.
It would not include a publicly run insurance plan, however, but would allow the government to cap health insurance premiums "if a rate increase is unreasonable and unjustified."
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