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Kids should have held out for some dough ...

onemwtheone — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:17:37 GMT

... they're already paying union thugs to listen to this drivel.

Tri-C students recruited to fill the seats for Obama's appearance

PARMA, Ohio � With less than an hour before President Obama's scheduled speech, 75 seats remained empty in the recreation center at Cuyahoga Community College's Western Campus. So organizers went around campus and recruited more students to fill the seats.

Student Jennifer Rahal, of Parma Heights, whose class was canceled today, was working on her art work in the coffee shop in the basement of the building when the call went out for more guests.

been awhile since the last barman thread

soonerdawg1 — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:17:16 GMT

kiss my ass barman:trx-smly0

Rahmbo wants to be mayor

russ1945 — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:49:28 GMT

Rahm Emanuel expected to quit White House

Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, is expected to leave his job in six to eight months after growing tired of the "idealism" of Barack Obama's inner circle.

By Alex Spillius in Washington
Published: 10:00PM BST 20 Jun 2010

Comment: so the date on this article is June 20, 2010

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley to retire, speculation swirls around Rahm Emanuel candidacy

Comment: then this headline appears today.

Will we have to pay his WH salary while he runs for office? It was already announced he was leaving DC after the Nov elections. Will we pay the bill while he flies back and forth to Chicago to campaign. Ugh!

Obama - still campaigning and helping out the unions

russ1945 — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:30:50 GMT

Obama spoke emotionally at an AFL-CIO rally on Labor Day about unemployed construction workers. A �lot of those folks, they had lost their jobs in manufacturing and went into construction; now they�ve lost their jobs again,� he said. �It doesn�t do anybody any good when so many hardworking Americans have been idled for months, even years, at a time when there is so much of America that needs rebuilding.�
But here�s the rub: Not all workers are equal in Obama�s eyes. And most of them will remain �idled� by the Democrats� own design. The key is E.O. 13502, a union-friendly executive order signed by Obama in his first weeks in office, which essentially forces contractors who bid on large-scale public construction projects worth $25 million or more to submit to union representation for its employees.
The blunt instrument used to give unions a leg up is the �project labor agreement (PLA),� which in theory sets reasonable pre-work terms and conditions � but in practice, requires contractors to hand over exclusive bargaining control; to pay inflated, above-market wages and benefits; and to fork over dues money and pension funding to corrupt, cash-starved labor organizations. These anti-competitive agreements undermine a fair bidding process on projects that locked-out, nonunion laborers are funding with their own tax dollars. And these PLAs benefit the privileged few at the expense of the vast majority: In the construction indust

Jobs Index drops again

rolltide — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:08:47 GMT

For Immediate Release 10:00 AM ET, Tuesday, September 7, 2010

The Conference Board Employment Trends Index� (ETI) Declined in August NEW YORK, September 7, 2010

�The Conference Board Employment Trends Index� (ETI) decreased in August for the second time in the past four months. The index now stands at 96.7, down from July�s revised figure of 97.4. The index is up 9.4 percent from a year ago. "Employment growth has been slow lately, and the Employment Trends Index suggests that it may slow even further this fall," said Gad Levanon, Associate Director, Macroeconomic Research at The Conference Board. "However, we still expect job growth rather than an outright decline in the next several months."

This month�s decline in the Employment Trends Index was driven by negative contributions from seven out of the eight components. The weakening indicators included Percentage of Respondents Who Say They Find "Jobs Hard to Get", Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance, Percentage of Firms With Positions Not Able to Fill Right Now, Part-Time Workers for Economic Reasons, Job Openings, Industrial Production and Real Manufacturing and Trade Sales. It is the first time since March 2009 that seven components contributed negatively to the overall index.

The Employment Trends Index aggregates eight labor-market indicators, each of which has proven accurate in its own area. Aggregating individual indicators into a composite index filters out so-called "noise" to show underlying trends more clearly.

The eight labor-market indicators aggregated into the Employment Trends Index include:
 Percentage of Respondents Who Say They Find "Jobs Hard to Get" (The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Survey�)
　
 Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance (U.S. Department of Labor)
 Percentage of Firms With Positions Not Able to Fill Right Now (� National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation)
 Number of Employees Hired by the Temporary-Help Industry (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
 Part-Time Workers for Economic Reasons (BLS)
 Job Openings (BLS)
 Industrial Production (Federal Reserve Board)
 Real Manufacturing and Trade Sales (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis)

Why Is Terry Jones Getting So Much Press?

Point Given — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:02:03 GMT

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Afghanistan...ry?id=11574449

seems fishy ABC news is giving this guy alot of press

opinions on nuclear chemistry

soonerdawg1 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:21:33 GMT

have to write a 2 page opinion paper on this....having a hard time getting started....some input would be appreciated

Required topics: Nuclear power plants A) should we build more? B) Complete those we started C) Remove the ones we have D) Are they safe E) Do I want one near me F) Am I more concerned about nuclear power plants or coal/gas plants?

Nuclear weapons A) Should we build more, stick with what we have, or destroy all of them? B) Am I concerned about nuclear war/terrorism?

What should we do with nuclear waste? What did I learn in this class that I did not already know? Has this information changed my opinion regarding the nuclear filed?

thanks guys

Another Democrat "Too Busy" To Be Seen With POTUS In Home State

meltdown — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:40:39 GMT

Russ Feingold was in town but incredibly "too busy" to visit with Obama. He is in a tough fight for re-election. Guaranteed that if Obama had a 70% approval rating vs. a 40% rating, Feingold would have made some time.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/102122904.html

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution

roadreeler57 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:58:06 GMT

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution

by Connie Flood on Monday, September 6, 2010 at 7:20pm

The Time Has Indeed Come!
Governors of 35 states have already filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.

This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on.

An idea whose time has come!

For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest was to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform ... in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law.
I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.
A Constitutional Convention - this is a good way to do that. It is an idea whose time has come. And, with the advent of modern communication, the process can be moved along with incredible speed. There is talk out there that the "government" doesn't care what the people think. That is irrelevant. It is incumbent on the population to address elected officials to the wrongs afflicted against the populace...you and me. Think about this... The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc. Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure.

I'm asking each addressee to forward this Email to a minimum of twenty people on their Address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.

In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution:
"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States ."
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?not...&id=1148044246

Boycott Delmote fruit. .

Deuce II — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:07:25 GMT

Happy Labor to All!!!!!!!!! Please
BoyCott All Delmonte Fruit!!!!!!!!

Please allow this to stay up CPAW I would really appreciate it.....Thanks

the wisdom of that NYT Liberal scholar Paul Krugman

Willie99 — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:49:58 GMT

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/06/op...06krugman.html

1938 in 2010

Here’s the situation: The U.S. economy has been crippled by a financial crisis. The president’s policies have limited the damage, but they were too cautious, and unemployment remains disastrously high. More action is clearly needed. Yet the public has soured on government activism, and seems poised to deal Democrats a severe defeat in the midterm elections.

The president in question is Franklin Delano Roosevelt; the year is 1938. Within a few years, of course, the Great Depression was over. But it’s both instructive and discouraging to look at the state of America circa 1938 — instructive because the nature of the recovery that followed refutes the arguments dominating today’s public debate, discouraging because it’s hard to see anything like the miracle of the 1940s happening again.
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OMG, what a fucking retard

1) what happened within a few years of 1938 that ended the great depression? It was World War Fucking Two, not some failed stimulus bill.

2) if you want to compare Obama to FDR, then this is 1934 and the country has at least six more years of suffering to endure

he's suggesting that Obama didn't spend enough, that;s right, 1 trillion dollars was not enough, and he needs to spend more. Furthermore, he cites WWII has proof that government programs stimulate the economy. Evidently, the fact that Hoover & FDR did exactly what he espouses, and they failed miserably for a combined 11 years until the advent of WWII, just like Obama's stimulus failed miserably in 2009, is simply lost on him. He's either a liar or he's delusional, but he's nothing about being smart.

how do people so stupid get such a forum? he doesn't have an ounce of common sense and less know how, he's simply an intellectually deficit fool.

US Open Tennis - Fight in the Stands

festeringZit — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:04:51 GMT

Fans banned after tennis brawl

ESPN.com news services

Three tennis fans involved in a brawl Thursday night have been banned from attending the U.S. Open through the 2012 event.
Banned from the grounds were Joseph Pedeville, a 27-year-old who was reportedly yelling obscenities which led to an altercation with 49-year-old Tracey Falco and her 75-year-old father Lawrence Burnett. The video of the fight, which included Falco slapping Pedeville and Burnett falling down several rows of seats, was a television and Internet sensation following the Thursday night altercation.
The fight broke out in the upper deck of Arthur Ashe Stadium during a match between Novak Djokovic and Philipp Petzschner. The two stopped playing for a time before order was restored.
The New York Post said it tracked down Burnett at his home in East Stroudsburg, Pa., on Friday, where he said: "I'm in a lot of pain. I was defending my daughter. The guy is a jerk." Following the altercation, the three fans were taken to a police station in Queens, where they were given trespass warnings. The ban through Sept. 30, 2012 came on Friday.

Movies that describe the Obama presidency

Willie99 — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:40:11 GMT

the nominations are

Titanic

you know Barry is first on that row boat too

Not a single Democrat has run an ad in support of the health care bill since April," VandeHei noted.

Willie99 — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:27:03 GMT

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/...n6837589.shtml

not one Democrat in the nation has run an ad bragging about their health care "accomplishment" since April?

can any supporter of the health care plan tell me why they're not taking advantage of such a marvelous piece of legislation?

Dave (anyone else in Vegas this week?)

Willie99 — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:51:52 GMT

we're arriving Wed @ 10 AM & staying through Saturday, leaving on the red eye

sent you my cell phone number