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House votes for redone Wall Street Financial Reform Bill…GOP Senator Collins is on board….

Posted by jamesb101 on June 30, 2010 2 comments

They went home from Capital Hill tonight…

The Democrats redid some parts of the Wall Street Financial Reform Bill to

get some GOP votes…

They seem to have gotten Senator Collins back after she balked on the bill on Monday…

Lets see if they can get to 60 votes in the senate…..

Democratic efforts to overhaul Wall Street inched closer to the finish line on Wednesday as the House approved the legislation and a key Senate Republican announced her support.

The House approved the conference report in a 237-192 vote. Nineteen Democrats voted against the measure, while three Republicans voted for it. No Republicans voted for the House version of the bill.

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More on the Media Battle between Rolling Stone, Michael Hastings and the Veteran War reporters…..

Posted by jamesb101 on June 30, 2010 4 comments

On one side are bloggers, freelancers and familiar press critics such as New York Times columnist Frank Rich, who say that by not abiding by traditional media conventions Hastings told an essential truth about McChrystal and his aides that beat reporters would never have revealed.

On the other are veteran war correspondents such as Lara Logan and columnists such as David Brooks who say that Hastings betrayed the people he was writing about by unfairly focusing on the banter they use to cope with months of combat rather than the larger truths they have to convey about the war in Afghanistan.

The fight escalated after Hastings’s appearance on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” where he said he was “positive” that the rest of the media had been protecting McChrystal with a series of “glowing profiles” that helped them preserve access. Logan, CBS News’s chief foreign correspondent, came on minutes later to call this view “insulting and arrogant,” saying that beat reporting involved “an element of trust” that he had betrayed.

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Zoe Saldana is engaged……

Posted by jamesb101 on June 30, 2010 No comments

Well…….

Congratulations to the girl……

This guy is getting a beautiful woman……

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Sen. Brownback steps into the ‘Buy American’ group that back Boeing in the Air Force KC-X Aerial Tanker contract bid…

Posted by jamesb101 on June 30, 2010 No comments

Brownback wants the Pentagon to factor in the subsidies that where used to develop the A-330 into the cost numbers for the A-330 when the picking is doine for the new tanker……

I don’t get it….

Most of the people going to work in this country every day drive foreign cars….

Made in America….by Americans….

We’re trying to sell F-35′s to a number of countries…

But we don’t want their aircraft here?

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Teagan Goddards Political Dictonary……How good are you?

Posted by jamesb101 on June 30, 2010 No comments

Political words have the power to confound, obscure, and even inspire. Taegan Goddard’s Political Dictionary takes apart the language of politics to uncover its deeper meanings and broader significance…….Check it out here…..

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Not again!…..The Woman involved with Al Gore in Oregon has the the stained pants!…and DNA results…..

Posted by jamesb101 on June 30, 2010 2 comments

Al Gore was really pissed at his boss Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky affair…

Now the is a report that a Portland massage theripist that allleges a sexual assault has DNA evidence in gthe form a stain on pants…

The police say they will REOPEN the investigation….

First keeping the stained dress for his old boss…

Now keeping the stained pants for him?

What is this world coming to with politicians?

Police announced that they “will re-open and investigate a Portland massage therapist’s allegations that former Vice President Al Gore sexually assaulted her

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Space Shuttle Endevour’s last night flight Photo……

Posted by jamesb101 on June 30, 2010 No comments

Space Shuttle Endeavor lit up a predawn sky above Space Coast with a 4:14 EST launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle’s last scheduled night launch began a 13-day flight to the International Space Station and the final year of shuttle operations. ( Feb. 11, 2010 )

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Senate Confirms General Patreaus for the Afghan military campaign…..

Posted by jamesb101 on June 30, 2010 1 comment

Congratulations General !..

It WAS a demotion…

But your country needs you…..

Really …….the guy seems to be the best hope for the Afghan military campaign….

Good Luck!…..

You will need that ….and bit more……

Gen. David H. Petraeus was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate Wednesday as the new Afghan war commander, replacing Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal after his ousterover controversial remarks in a Rolling Stone magazine article.

The 99-0 Senate vote followed aconfirmation hearing Tuesday in which members of the Senate Armed Services Committee praised Petraeus’s leadership of the war in Iraq and lauded him as the nation’s premier warrior-diplomat.

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Mariano Rivera…The Yankee’s Best Dam Closer in Baseball

Posted by jamesb101 on June 30, 2010 2 comments

I’m a Mets fan…

But NO ONE can take anything from Mariano Rivera….

As the Mets annoucers have said in the past….

The guy thrown just about one pitch…

The batters know it…

Everybody oin the ball park knows it..

Yea…… he gets a whole lot of people out….

Time and time again…

Just about every game….

Every year…..

“I feel a tremendous load on my shoulders,” Rivera recalled this past March, sitting in front of his locker at the Yankees’ spring-training camp in Tampa, Fla. Rivera was trying to convey something quite different from what that expression normally means. A closer, who generally comes into a game only in the highly pressurized ninth inning to finish off the opponent, must welcome the kind of burden most of us — and even some otherwise very effective pitchers — flee. “I know,” Rivera went on, “I am going to have a good opportunity to pitch.”

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Daniel…..6-Time Wimbledon Champion Roger Federer loses in the Wimbledon Quarterfinals after a disastrous Performance

Posted by jamesb101 on June 30, 2010 3 comments

Hi all!

IT IS A REAL STUNNER. Probably one of the biggest Sporting Upsets in modern History. 6-Time Swiss Wimbledon Champion Roger Federer lost for ONLY the second time in 7 years at the All England Championships in Wimbledon.

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Another recession…or a humdrum recovery?

Posted by jamesb101 on June 30, 2010 15 comments

I vote for a humdrum recovery…..

Here’s somemore people on the question…..

A few economists are saying that we will soon have a second recession. Although I expect the labor market recovery will take years, it will be a recovery nonetheless.

Double-dip recessions have occurred in the past. The severe 1981-2 recession began only a year after the 1980 recession ended. The Great Depression of the 1930s also came in two phases: 1929-33 and 1937-8.

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Round #2 in New York State’s Budget Battle……

Posted by jamesb101 on June 30, 2010 1 comment

Yea folks….

It’s still going on….

Governor Paterson has vetoed $419 million from thr Legislature’s budget…

The Democrats don’t have the votes to oberide the veto’s …

Since the GOP is siding with the Governor to stop the changes the Democrat’s rewrote into the budget….

And Paterson has probable, in-coming Governor Andrew Cuomo, and the GOP on his side…..

Follow all that?

If you don’t…..

There’s more……

Gov. Paterson is getting help in his budget battle with Democratic leaders from an unlikely ally: the GOP.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday all but ruled out overriding the governor’s threatened budget vetoes – meaning Paterson can trim the pork and extra spending Democrats stuffed into the spending bill.

Senate GOP boss Dean Skelos trashed legislative Democrats for adopting “an irresponsible, unbalanced budget.”

“They should not expect or count on Senate Republicans to bail them out of the mess that they have made of this budget and the damage they are inflicting on taxpayers,” Skelos said.

Without the Republicans, Senate Democrats lack the votes to overturn Paterson’s line-item vetoes.

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Lautenberg and Landreiu fight over the Senate Appropriations Security Subcommittee spot….

Posted by jamesb101 on June 30, 2010 5 comments

Landreiu disagrees with the leadership in favoring handing the sport to NJ senator Frank Lautenberg……

Because Lautenberg retired form the senate so years back…then came back to fill an open spot when xxxx xxx got in legal trouble back in New Jersey…

Landreiu is actually senior to him in the Committee…

Inoyue has the ability to make the move regardless…But will have to work a deal with

Landreiu in public….

Lauthenberg will want the spot since he is from New Jersey, and deals with issues concerning the New York/New Jersey metro area…… one of the prime targets for terrorism in the past……

The good amount of his state residents live within 25 miles of New York City……..

“This subcommittee is particularly important to New Jersey, which is home to the most at-risk two miles in America for a terrorist attack, and families in my state will never forget the horror of Sept. 11, 2001,” he added.

“I look forward to leading this subcommittee and advancing America’s homeland security infrastructure.”

Other lawmakers are keeping their distance from the battle.

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President Obama meets with Latino Lawmakers on Immigration…..Discuses how to advance a Bill…..

Posted by jamesb101 on June 30, 2010 1 comment

The Dog thinks this is good politiics…

But I’m doubtfull any legislation will be forwarded….

Let alone passed….. till after next year….

The lift is too heavy….

Besides everytime they start talking about the bill …

They send more cops, soliders or fencing to the border…

By the way…….

The Border Patrol enforcemenet chief has issued a order to the troops

” ordering his agency to focus on deporting criminals and those who pose a national security threat, rather than on pursuing people such as “immediate family members of U.S. citizens” and those caring for children. ”

Lets see that plays……

……Advocates have heard assurances before.

Deepak Bhargava of the Washington-based Center for Community Change was among those who met with the president Monday. In an interview afterward, Bhargava said Obama “was unambiguous about his commitment. The question is whether the actions will match the words over the next few weeks.”

In their hourlong meeting Tuesday, lawmakers and the president debated a strategy for passing a bill in the coming months — no small task given that members are increasingly focused on the upcoming election, and national polls show broad support for Arizona’s strict new immigration law.

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Wonder Woman gets a DC Comics ‘make over’…..

Posted by jamesb101 on June 30, 2010 1 comment

The classic dark haired beauty is being reintroduced after having a contemporary ‘makeover’…..

After 69 years of fighting crime in her trademark red-and-gold bustier and star-studded hip-huggers, Wonder Woman is getting a modern-day makeover.

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Lebron James is available…..The New York Knicks are interested…..So is Miami and other teams….

Posted by jamesb101 on June 30, 2010 2 comments

The young mega star is in the drivers seat…

Money maybe a major consideration….

But so will player chemistry and a chance to get a championship ring…..

The Knicks don’t rate high those catergories…..

But they would led in the money spot being in New York…..

Few, if any, reports give the Knicksmuch of a chance, and yet the club’s brain trust remains confident that it can convince James to make the jump to the NBA’s biggest market.

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