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Old 03-09-2009, 06:05 PM   #106
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I dont even have a problem with the $1.7 million earmark for pig odor research in Iowa.

Iowans say 'earmark' for pig-odor study passes the smell test, isn't Grade A example of pork

You would have to had visited Iowa, with its massive hog farms to feed the rest of country their daily dose of bacon, to understand why they might think this is money well spent.
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Old 03-09-2009, 06:06 PM   #107
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Old 03-09-2009, 06:08 PM   #108
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20 million hogs in Iowa and 3 million people.

Sounds like a reasonable "pork" project to me.
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Old 03-09-2009, 06:17 PM   #109
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So far this administration has spent trillions of dollars. Yet no response on the recovery front. This is not a good sign. Few things are looking positive.
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Old 03-09-2009, 06:53 PM   #110
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If they are such a minor part, Obama and Pelosi should do as they have stated and reduce wasteful spending, and they shouldn't be missed if they are so minor.
Seriously Merc? IIRC more than half are from R's.

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So far this administration has spent trillions of dollars. Yet no response on the recovery front. This is not a good sign. Few things are looking positive.
Yeh, like thats gonna happen in 30 days. It'll be more like a year before any real change is noticed aside from the seasonal stuff.
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Old 03-09-2009, 06:57 PM   #111
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OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL
Wikipedia scrubs Obama eligibility
Mention of citizenship issues deleted in minutes, 'offending' users banned

Posted: March 08, 2009
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From Wikipedia's Barack Obama page

Wikipedia, the online "free encyclopedia" mega-site written and edited entirely by its users, has been deleting within minutes any mention of eligibility issues surrounding Barack Obama's presidency, with administrators kicking off anyone who writes about the subject, WND has learned.

A perusal through Obama's current Wikipedia entry finds a heavily guarded, mostly glowing biography about the U.S. president. Some of Obama's most controversial past affiliations, including with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and former Weathermen terrorist Bill Ayers, are not once mentioned, even though those associations received much news media attention and served as dominant themes during the presidential elections last year.

Also completely lacking is any mention of the well-publicized concerns surrounding Obama's eligibility to serve as commander-in-chief.

Where's the proof Barack Obama was born in the U.S. or that he fulfills the "natural-born American" clause in the Constitution? If you still want to see it, join more than 300,000 others and sign up now!

Indeed, multiple times, Wikipedia users who wrote about the eligibility issues had their entries deleted almost immediately and were banned from re-posting any material on the website for three days.

In one example, Wikipedia user "Jerusalem21" added the following to Obama's page:

"There have been some doubts about whether Obama was born in the U.S. after the politician refused to release to the public a carbon copy of his birth certificate and amid claims from his relatives he may have been born in Kenya. Numerous lawsuits have been filed petitioning Obama to release his birth certificate, but most suits have been thrown out by the courts."

As is required on the online encyclopedia, that entry was backed up by third-party media articles, citing the Chicago Tribune and WorldNetDaily.com

The entry was posted on Feb. 24, at 6:16 p.m. EST. Just three minutes later, the entry was removed by a Wikipedia administrator, claiming the posting violated the websites rules against "fringe" material.

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According to Wikipedia rules, however, a "fringe theory can be considered notable if it has been referenced extensively, and in a serious manner, in at least one major publication, or by a notable group or individual that is independent of the theory."

The Obama eligibility issue has indeed been reported extensively by multiple news media outlets. WorldNetDaily has led the coverage. Other news outlets, such as Britain's Daily Mail and the Chicago Tribune have released articles critical of claims Obama may not be eligible. The Los Angeles Times quoted statements by former presidential candidate Alan Keys doubting Obama is eligible to serve as president. Just last week, the Internet giant America Online featured a top news article about the eligibility subject, referencing WND's coverage.

When the user "Jerusalem21" tried to repost the entry about Obama's eligibility a second time, another administrator removed the material within two minutes and then banned the Wikipedia user from posting anything on the website for three days.

Wikipedia administrators have the ability to kick off users if the administrator believes the user violated the website's rules.

Over the last month, WND has monitored several other attempts to add eligibility issues to Obama's Wikipedia page. In every attempt monitored, the information was deleted within minutes and the user who posted the material was barred from the website for three days.

Angela Beesley Starling, a spokeswoman for Wikipedia, explained to WND that all the website's encyclopedia content is monitored by users. She said the administrators who deleted the entries are volunteers.

"Administrators," Starling said, "are simply people who are trusted by the other community members to have access to some extra tools that allow them to delete pages and perform other tasks that help the encyclopedia."

According to Alexa.com, Wikipedia is the seventh most trafficked website on the Internet. A Google search for the words "Barack Obama" brings up the president's Wikipedia page in the top four choices, following two links to Obama's official websites.

Ayers, Wright also missing in Obama's bio

The entire Wikipedia entry on Obama seems to be heavily promotional toward the U.S. president. It contains nearly no criticism or controversy, including appropriate mention of important issues where relevant.

For example, the current paragraph on Obama's religion contains no mention of Wright, even though Obama's association with the controversial pastor was one of the most talked about issues during the presidential campaign.

That paragraph states: "Obama explained how, through working with black churches as a community organizer while in his twenties, he came to understand 'the power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change.' He was baptized at the Trinity United Church of Christ in 1988 and was an active member there for two decades."

Ayers is also not mentioned, even where relevant.

WND monitored as a Wikipedia user attempted to add Ayers' name to an appropriate paragraph. One of those additions, backed up with news articles, read as follows:

"He served alongside former Weathermen leader William Ayers from 1994 to 2002 on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, which in 1985 had been the first foundation to fund the Developing Communities Project, and also from 1994 to 2002 on the board of directors of the Joyce Foundation. Obama served on the board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995 to 2002, as founding president and chairman of the board of directors from 1995 to 1991. Ayers was the founder and director of the Challenge."

Within two minutes that Wikipedia entry was deleted and the user banned from posting on the website for three days, purportedly for adding "Point of View junk edits," even though the addition was well-established fact.

The Wikipedia entry about former President George W. Bush, by contrast, is highly critical. One typical entry reads, "Prior to his marriage, Bush had multiple accounts of alcohol abuse. ... After his re-election, Bush received increasingly heated criticism. In 2005, the Bush administration dealt with widespread criticism over its handling of Hurricane Katrina. In December 2007, the United States entered the second-longest post-World War II recession."

The entry on Bush also cites claims that he was "favorably treated due to his father's political standing" during his National Guard service." It says Bush served on the board of directors for Harken and that questions of possible insider trading involving Harken arose even though a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation concluded the information Bush had at the time of his stock sale was not sufficient to constitute insider trading.
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91114
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Old 03-09-2009, 07:00 PM   #112
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Yeh, like thats gonna happen in 30 days. It'll be more like a year before any real change is noticed aside from the seasonal stuff.
What happened to all the talk about "shovel ready projects" Obama preached to us about? Contracts should already have been awarded and we should be hearing about them.
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Old 03-09-2009, 07:40 PM   #113
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Yeh like any gov't project moves that fast. I do know that there are a ton of projects ready to start in NJ. I assume it is similar in other parts of the country as well.
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Old 03-09-2009, 11:00 PM   #114
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Yeh like any gov't project moves that fast. I do know that there are a ton of projects ready to start in NJ. I assume it is similar in other parts of the country as well.
Hush. Obama is just having trouble finding the shovels. They're apparently all jammed up Pelosi's...skirt.

I mean, would YOU crawl up there looking?

Didn't think so.
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Old 03-11-2009, 10:43 AM   #115
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What happened to all the talk about "shovel ready projects" Obama preached to us about? Contracts should already have been awarded and we should be hearing about them.
Good grief. I have seen several governors on TV talk about projects that have started or were getting ready to start, and people being able to keep government jobs who otherwise would have had to be fired. Give it a rest Merc. Even Sonny Perdue has been on TV talking about it. The money is slowly getting out there. It will not happen overnight. The bill just passed less than a month ago.

Go here for more info: http://www.recovery.gov/
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Old 03-11-2009, 11:01 AM   #116
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Old 03-16-2009, 10:08 AM   #117
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Old 03-20-2009, 06:08 AM   #118
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Obama secretly ends program that let pilots carry guns

After the September 11 attacks, commercial airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they completed a federal-safety program. No longer would unarmed pilots be defenseless as remorseless hijackers seized control of aircraft and rammed them into buildings.

Now President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public safety on airlines in the name of an anti-gun ideology.

The Obama administration this past week diverted some $2 million from the pilot training program to hire more supervisory staff, who will engage in field inspections of pilots.
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Arming pilots after Sept. 11 was nothing new. Until the early 1960s, American commercial passenger pilots on any flight carrying U.S. mail were required to carry handguns. Indeed, U.S. pilots were still allowed to carry guns until as recently as 1987. There are no records that any of these pilots (either military or commercial) ever causing any significant problems.

Screening of airplane passengers is hardly perfect. While armed marshals are helpful, the program covers less than 3 percent of the flights out of Washington D.C.'s three airports and even fewer across the country. Sky marshals are costly and quit more often than other law-enforcement officers.

Armed pilots are a cost-effective backup layer of security. Terrorists can only enter the cockpit through one narrow entrance, and armed pilots have some time to prepare themselves as hijackers penetrate the strengthened cockpit doors. With pilots, we have people who are willing to take on the burden of protecting the planes for free. About 70 percent of the pilots at major American carriers have military backgrounds.

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Old 03-20-2009, 09:45 AM   #119
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Why? Whats the benefit to anyone of this?
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Old 03-20-2009, 10:17 AM   #120
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Because it's not entirely true. Comment, from a man named gman (call it an editorial on the editorial, if that helps) after posted article:

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Relax folks. The TSA and the Administration has come out saying that they will not be ending or scaling back anything to the FFDO program in any way. After this Editorial came out, the TSA quickly reaffirmed to ALPA, APA, APSA and others of their committment to the FFDO program. They plan to expand it. The editorial is false. And besides...one man...even the President cannot change a Legislative Bill. Don't forget that it was Pres Bush that was adamantly opposed to the FFDO program in the first place. FFDOs came into being after Congress overwhelmingly created the FFDO program against Bush's wishes. Even left coast Barbara Boxer was the co-creator of the Bill that became Law.
Regurgitation can be fun if done with a modicum of skepticism even if it makes all our points seem to have been justified.
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