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Sep 02

WE ARE ALL FROM THE ONE……….

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HOW SAD IT IS THAT SOME PEOPLE WON’T ACCEPT THAT WE ALL ARE PART OF THE HUMAN RACE AND CAME FROM THE SAME SOURCE, whether from God or some planet. Down in my neck of the woods some say they couldn’t vote for Obama because of his race, or they think he was a muslim. Jesus was a dark skin palestinian Jew. The key to life is to love God with your whole being and your neighbor as yourself.
 
 

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Dick Cheney’s new memoir has been making waves since the former vice president first signed a multi-million dollar publishing deal with Simon & Schuster in 2009. And, while discussing the memoir with NBC’s Jamie Gangel, Cheney said there would “be heads exploding all over Washington” upon its release…
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Aug 17

CEOs CALLED ON TO STOP POLITICAL DONATIONS?

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Starbucks Corp. Chief Executive Howard Schultz is winning support for his  call to withhold political contributions from U.S. lawmakers until they strike a  “fair, bipartisan” deal on the country’s debt, revenue and  spending.

Schultz recently led the world’s biggest coffee chain through a  painful but successful restructuring that returned it to growth. In his letter  Monday, he also challenged fellow U.S. business leaders to do their part by  hiring workers to give the national economy a much-needed jolt.

“I think  you will get other business leaders following their lead to encourage Washington to take some bold steps, which could inspire more confidence in the economy of  our country,” Morgan said.

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Aug 11

UNDERSTANDING MICHELE BACHMAN BELIEFS/ACTIONS

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Rep. Michele Bachman officially threw her hat into the presidential ring on June 27. Since then, the Minnesota congresswoman has emerged as a Republican front-runner, riding on a wave of Tea Party support and national media appearances.
New Yorker Washington correspondent Ryan Lizza spent four days with Bachmann and her staff aboard their campaign jet in mid-June. On Tuesday’s Fresh Air, he talks about his unprecedented access to the congresswoman, whom he profiles in the Aug. 15, 2011, edition of The New Yorker. The piece looks at the writers, beliefs and books that Bachmann has specifically mentioned as major influences in her life.
“To understand her, you have to understand the movement that she came out of,” Lizza tells Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross. “Her early ideological roots were formed by opposition to abortion … and she’s always been concerned with social issues, the culture war issues. … She takes her Christianity very seriously. She comes out of a religious evangelical conservative movement that is very much concerned with developing a biblical worldview and applying it to all corners of one’s life.”
For a number of years, Michele Bachmann’s personal website had a list of books she recommended people read. …  I was looking over the list and noticed this biography of [Robert E.] Lee by [Steven] Wilkins. [I had] never heard of Wilkins and started looking at who he was. And frankly couldn’t believe that she was recommending this book. … It is an objectively pro-slavery book and one of the most startling things I learned about her in this piece.
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Jan 21

CHINA’S ECONOMY ALREADY AHEAD OF OURS?

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President Hu Jintao heads back to China on Friday, his state visit to Washington having underscored his country’s status as the United States’ top economic rival — or even its superior, by one economist’s assessment.

By traditional measures of gross domestic product — the value, in U.S. dollars, of total goods and services produced — the size of the U.S. economy is $14.6 trillion. China’s GDP is only $5.7 trillion.

 

But if China’s economy is assessed according to its “purchasing power,” it may be a different story.  “In a developing country,” says Arvind Subramanian of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, “the amount it would cost you to get a haircut or go to a doctor would be much cheaper than what it would be in the United States.

When the size of the Chinese economy is measured by how many haircuts or doctor visits it would buy, the numbers change.  “If you make that purchasing-power correction,” Subramanian says, “I find that the Chinese economy is $14.8 trillion, which is larger than the American economy.”
 
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Aug 01

WHO AND WHAT IS THE FAMILY ON C STREET?

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You’ve heard about C Street.  The Family believes that God has chosen them, given them power and money to take over our government.  Forget Health Care, the uninsured, the elderly.  They think they are doing God’s will.  There is so much you need to know about these people so that you can take action.  If good people like you do nothing, EVIL WILL FLOURISH. Following is part of a credible report.-mackie

 

“The Family — which counseled Sen. John Ensign — lives and prays as a fundamentalist group with power at the center of its agenda.

The scandal over Nevada Republican Sen. John Ensign’s extramarital affair with an employee has renewed interest in a secretive fundamentalist Christian group known as The Family, with whom he lives when in Washington, D.C.

Ensign last month admitted to an affair with Cynthia Hampton, whose husband, Doug Hampton, was a top aide to Ensign and his best friend. After Doug Hampton asked The Family to intervene, members confronted Ensign at the group’s house on C Street in Washington.

On Wednesday, the author of a book about The Family was interviewed on KNPR-FM’s public affairs show “State of Nevada.” Author Jeff Sharlet, a contributing editor to Harper’s and Rolling Stone magazines, lived with The Family in early 2002. His book, “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power,” was published last year by HarperCollins.”

 

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Jul 29

McCAIN TO RAISE TAXES?

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain‘s signal that he may be open to a higher payroll tax for Social Security, despite previous vows not to raise taxes of any kind, is drawing sharp rebukes from conservatives.

McCain’s shift has come in stages, catching some Republicans by surprise. Speaking with reporters on his campaign bus on July 9, he cited a need to shore up Social Security. “I cannot tell you what I would do, except to put everything on the table,” he said.

He went a step farther Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” in response to a question about payroll tax increases.

“There is nothing that’s off the table. I have my positions, and I’ll articulate them. But nothing’s off the table,” McCain said. “I don’t want tax increases. But that doesn’t mean that anything is off the table.”

That comment drew a strong response from the Club for Growth, a Washington anti-tax group. McCain’s comments, the group said in a letter to the Arizona senator, are “shocking because you have been adamant in your opposition to raising taxes under any circumstances.”

During a town-hall meeting in Sparks, Nev., McCain insisted anew Tuesday that he would not raise taxes if elected.

He frequently has promised not to raise taxes.

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