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| | Sujet: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 8/11/2008, 13:47 | |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 8/5/2010, 22:26 | |
| Mon cher Eddie, vous devriez reellement ecrire ce que vous pensez de Bill O'Reilly et de ceux qui partagent ses idees, ou au moins certaines de ses idees, c'est a dire un grand nombre d'Americains, c'etait a peine discernable dans votre message.  |
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| | Sujet: 2237 - 8/5/2010, 22:38 | |
| Plus serieusement, vous devriez reprendre des cours d'Anglais, vous semblez avoir du mal a comprendre ce bon Bill!  |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 8/5/2010, 22:57 | |
| 237 - - Citation :
- Plus serieusement, vous devriez reprendre des cours d'Anglais, vous semblez avoir du mal a comprendre ce bon Bill!
Ah bon, vous aussi avez remarqué que j'avais perdu autant en américain que vous en français ? Personnellement je traduis en amateur mes petites pensées sans intérêt pour le grand nombre de gens qui n'en en pas plus à faire que de cirer les pompes à O'Risibilly, je ne suis pas traducteur professionnel appointé de textes techniques sur les énergies fossiles. Mais j'apprécie la revue de presse offerte par ce fil et quand j'ai un doute, mon épouse britannique accepte avec compréhension de me sortir des faux-amis, contresens et idiotismes. On dirait que vous m'en voulez ? 're you talking to me ? | |
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| | Sujet: 2239 - 8/5/2010, 22:59 | |
| Rasmussen
On eight of ten key issues tracked by Rasmussen Reports, voters trust Republicans more than Democrats.
Yep!
Dernière édition par Sylvette le 8/5/2010, 23:21, édité 1 fois |
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| [quote="EddieCochran"]237 - - Citation :
- Plus serieusement, vous devriez reprendre des cours d'Anglais, vous semblez avoir du mal a comprendre ce bon Bill!
Ah bon, vous aussi avez remarqué que j'avais perdu autant en américain que vous en français ?Je sais toujours quand j'ai fait: Tilt!!! ========== Personnellement je traduis en amateur mes petites pensées sans intérêt pour le grand nombre de gens qui n'en en pas plus à faire que de cirer les pompes à O'Risibilly, je ne suis pas traducteur professionnel appointé de textes techniques sur les énergies fossiles.A n'en pas douter. Tout compte fait vous auriez peut-etre du visionner la video en question jusqu'au bout. Je me demande bien qui cire les pompes de Bill? ========== Mais j'apprécie la revue de presse offerte par ce fil et quand j'ai un doute, mon épouse britannique accepte avec compréhension de me sortir des faux-amis, contresens et idiotismes.Ah ben dites donc, vous etes un chanceux! ========== On dirait que vous m'en voulez ? 're you talking to me ?Mais non, mais si.... J'ai d'ailleurs bien commence mon message avec "Mon cher Eddie". ------------ Ce qui est assez drole c'est qu'un des participants tout content de lire ce message virulent, n'a pu s'empecher de vous apporter son soutien en donnant un vote a votre (2)235!  |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 9/5/2010, 00:53 | |
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- Je sais toujours quand j'ai fait: Tilt!!!
C'est juste au flipper le tilt est l'avertissement sonore que quelque chose déconne. | |
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| Au flipper, claquement qui se produit lorsque l'appareil a été trop secoué, pour indiquer au joueur que la partie est interrompue.mais aussi: Faire tilt: déclencher immédiatement dans l'esprit une idée, une réaction, etc.  |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 9/5/2010, 13:39 | |
| 243 - - Une spécialiste des extra balls et du replay a écrit:
- Faire tilt: déclencher immédiatement dans l'esprit une idée, une réaction, etc
Si c'est vous qui avouez que vous avez besoin d'être secouée pour qu'une idée vous vienne à l'esprit il s'ensuit que le brave Mister Scotty doit avoir du boulot au point que ça pourrait lui filer les boules. La franchise reste néanmoins une de vos qualités les plus appréciées. | |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 9/5/2010, 15:59 | |
|  Et pourtant cela a un sens...... |
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| - EddieCochran a écrit:
- 243 -
- Une spécialiste des extra balls et du replay a écrit:
- Faire tilt: déclencher immédiatement dans l'esprit une idée, une réaction, etc
Si c'est vous qui avouez que vous avez besoin d'être secouée pour qu'une idée vous vienne à l'esprit il s'ensuit que le brave Mister Scotty doit avoir du boulot au point que ça pourrait lui filer les boules.
La franchise reste néanmoins une de vos qualités les plus appréciées. Vous etes le personnage le plus grossier et le plus mesquin de LP et ce n'est pas peu dire, je plains votre epouse. |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 9/5/2010, 23:12 | |
| 246 - - Citation :
- je plains votre epouse
Elle fut très touchée de votre sollicitude et me prie de vous faire parvenir ses compliments. | |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 10/5/2010, 03:12 | |
| Ah ben qué!
Moi qui passait juste par ici, allégrement et sans tracas, le Chancey Gardener typique quoi, me voilà devant mon ami Eddie traité de grossier personnage, que je lis.
Mais j'en perdrais le souffle pour moins, lui si poli pourtant.
Peut-on en vouloir aux baleines de vider leurs évents, elles en déperdition, le whaleburger nippon n'aidant pas leur cause. |
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| | Sujet: 2249 - 10/5/2010, 07:41 | |
| Currencies Hostage to Euro-Zone Debt Mess
BY KAREN JOHNSON AND ROBERT FLINT
NEW YORK—The euro, dollar and other currencies will take their direction in coming days from the outcome of high-level weekend meetings on a solution to the euro-zone debt crisis.
Details of a stabilization mechanism to halt the spread of Greece's sovereign-debt woes to other euro-zone countries are eagerly awaited.
The International Monetary Fund on Sunday signed off on a three-year, €30 billion ($38 billion) loan for Greece, as central bankers from the leading developing and developed nations gathered for a regular bi-monthly meeting over the weekend at the Bank for International Settlements.
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| EU agrees bailout package for euro European finance ministers have agreed a €750 billion (£650 billion) EU and International Monetary Fund bailout fund to help shore up troubled eurozone economies teetering in the European Union's growing financial crisis. - Spoiler:
After 11-hour marathon talks, ministers settled on the package they hoped would be big enough to prevent Greece's debt crisis from spreading.
Under the three-year aid plan, the EU Commission will make €60 billion (£52 billion) available while countries from the 16-nation eurozone would promise bilateral backing for €440 billion (£381 billion). The IMF would contribute an additional sum of at least half of the EU's total contribution, or €250 billion (£216 billion), Spanish Finance Minister Elena Salgado said.
“We are placing considerable sums in the interest of stability in Europe," said Ms Salgado after the talks, which were called on Friday night amid concerns that the financial crisis sparked by Greece's runaway debt problems had begun to spread to other fragile economies such as Portugal and Spain.
The deal, announced as Asian stock markets opened, comes as Europe attempts a difficult balancing act in rescuing debt laden nations.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has already been punished by the German people for agreeing aid to Greece; her Christian Democratic Party recorded its worst ever result in crucial regional elections over the weekend.
Shortly after the deal was announced the euro, which last week sank to a 14-month low against the dollar, rose nearly two percent in early trade in Asia and U.S. stock futures jumped two percent.
The EU's monetary affairs commissioner, Olli Rehn, said the agreement "proves that we shall defend the euro whatever it takes."
He described the arrangement as "a consolidation pact" that would be "particularly crucial for countries under speculative attacks in recent weeks".
The European ministers said in a statement: "We are facing such exceptional circumstances today and the mechanism will stay in place as long as needed to safeguard financial stability."
Spain and Portugal, which have begun to see the same signs of trouble that Greece had three months ago, have committed to "take significant additional consolidation measures in 2010 and 2011," the statement said, and the two countries will present them to the EU's finance ministers at their meeting on May 18.
The EU's slow response to the crisis and its failure to keep Greece from reaching the brink of bankruptcy triggered slides in the euro and global stocks last week, and intensified fears the crisis would spread.
Officials said they would fight speculative investors they blame for aggravating the public debt crisis.
"We now see ... wolfpack behaviors, and if we will not stop these packs, even if it is self-inflicted weakness, they will tear the weaker countries apart," Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg told reporters in Brussels before the EU meeting.
Some eurozone nations however blamed the behaviour of ndividual governments and a lack of European cooperation for the crisis.
"I'm against putting all the blame on speculation,"said Austrian Finance Minister Josef Proell. "Speculation is only successful against countries that have mismanaged their finances for years."
Early on Saturday, the eurozone leaders gave final approval for an €80 billion rescue package of loans to Greece for the next three years to keep it from imploding. The International Monetary Fund also approved its part of the rescue package — €30 billion worth of loans — in Washington on Sunday.
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| Who's on the Hook for the IMF's Greek Bailout? By BOB DAVIS(See Corrections & Amplifications item below.) WASHINGTON—Some lawmakers and other commentators are arguing that the U.S. will be handed a big bill to rescue Greece from default because the U.S. is the International Monetary Fund's largest shareholder.- Spoiler:
But as with much concerning the IMF, an international financial institution based in Washington D.C., it isn't that clear-cut.
"It is simply unfair—as a matter of principle—to force American taxpayers to use their hard-earned money to prop up failed policies in relatively wealthy nations," wrote Rep. Todd Tiahrt, a Kansas Republican, opposing any U.S. participation in a Greek bailout.
But the U.S. participation in the €110 billion ($145 billion) loan to Greece is relatively modest compared with the huge commitment by Greece's fellow euro-zone governments, and their taxpayers. Those 15 nations are in various stages of approving a total of $106 billion, divided according to their stake in the European Central Bank. Germany would loan $29 billion, followed by France with $22 billion.
The U.S. role comes from its obligations to the IMF, which is lending an additional $39 billion as part of the Greek package. The U.S. pays roughly in proportion to its stake in the IMF, as do other countries, if the IMF's board votes to approve the package on Sunday, as expected.
The IMF is akin to a global credit union. Members kick in money. The institution's board lends it out.
Each member has a "quota"—that is, a financial stake in the IMF, expressed as a percentage—and contributes accordingly. The U.S. quota is 17.09%, followed by Japan at 6.12%, Germany at 5.98% and France and Britain at 4.94% each.
Does that mean that the U.S. is responsible for 17% of the IMF's portion of the Greek package? Not exactly.
First, though all countries are theoretically responsible for investing in the IMF's lending pool, not all of them have currencies that potential borrowers can use. (Think of Zimbabwean dollars or Venezuelan pesos.)
The IMF doesn't say that outright. Instead, it uses the concept of "usable resources," meaning it uses money from countries that are considered financially sound. About 21% of the quota contributions to the IMF were "non-usable," according to the IMF, as of January 2010.
Because the U.S., Japan and big European countries are in the "usable" camp, they finance a larger percentage of IMF funding than their quota would suggest.
It isn't possible now to pinpoint those percentages, for several reasons.
The IMF draws on funds that are pledged to it but that continue to be held in national central banks. At the end of April, before it loaned any of the $39 billion to Greece, the IMF estimated it could lend about $250 billion overall over the coming year.
But in addition to these quota contributions, the IMF also has two pools of money, to which only wealthier countries contribute, that can be activated in an emergency. One isn't ready to deploy yet; together, they will add roughly $300 billion to the IMF's current lending ability.
For Greece, the IMF plans to tap bilateral loans made to it by Japan and European countries, but not by the U.S., and which will be rolled into these emergency facilities. (The U.S. will have a combined 19% share of those kitties.)
Counting all IMF funding sources, the 15 euro-zone nations would be responsible for a substantially larger stake in the institution's Greek bailout than the U.S. European contributions to the IMF loan, of course, will in turn be dwarfed by euro-zone countries' far larger exposure through the European bailout.
To make its loan, the IMF will borrow from the U.S. Federal Reserve and the other central banks it taps and pay them interest of about 0.25% on the money; the IMF will then charge Greece about 3% on the loan.
Will the money be wasted? That depends on whether the Greek electorate swallows the cuts in salary and pensions required by the IMF and the country's European partners and whether a new economic strategy boosts Greece's competitive position.
The IMF is always at the top of any list to be repaid because its blessing is crucial for any country to be able to borrow internationally. If there were to be any losses on Greek loans, IMF policy is to absorb them rather than passing them on to members.
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Venezuela's currencyis the bolivar. This article incorrectly identified the currency as the peso.
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| EU sets up $1 trillion eurozone/IMF defense package to protect euro from disintegrationAssociated Press BRUSSELSBRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and the International Monetary Fund pledged nearly $1 trillion Monday to defend the embattled euro, hoping to repel relentless attacks on the weakest of Europe's debt-laden nations and prevent the common currency from disintegrating.- Spoiler:
Central banks around the world joined the coordinated effort to prop up the euro and prevent Europe's debt crisis from derailing the global economic recovery. The U.S. Federal Reserve reopened a currency "swap" program to ship billions of U.S. dollars overseas in a bid to pump more short-term cash into the financial system and ensure banks have the dollars they need. Separately, the ECB jumped into the bond market, saying it is ready to buy debt from the eurozone — EU nations that use the euro — to shore up liquidity in "dysfunctional" markets.Many investors, rattled for weeks by the prospect Greece would default on its mountain of debt, heaved with relief. The euro climbed to $1.2963, up from the 14-month low of $1.2523 it hit late last week. Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average rose 1.3 percent to 10,499.25 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng index climbed 0.8 percent to 20,080.18. Futures suggested Wall Street would welcome the euro defense. Dow futures jumped 233 points, or 2.3 percent, to 10,568, and S&P and Nasdaq futures were both up more than 2.7 percent.There was cautious endorsement from analysts who still feared the measures may not be enough to save the common currency, which was adopted by many of the EU's member states in 1999."It buys time. We don't know if it will be enough. They're trying to give the impression that they're still united. They've bought some breathing space but that's all," said Song Seng Wun, an economist with CIMB-GK Research in Singapore. "This perhaps just postpones the inevitable, the euro may have to ultimately give way, that's the worst case scenario."Under the three-year plan, the European Commission — the EU's governing body — will make euros60 billion ($75 billion) available while countries from the 16-nation eurozone would promise backing for euros440 billion ($570 billion). The IMF would contribute an additional sum of at least half of the EU's total contribution, or euros250 billion."We shall defend the euro whatever it takes," EU Commissioner Olli Rehn said after an 11 hour-meeting of EU finance ministers that capped a hectic week of chaotic sparring between panicked governments and aggressive markets.Officials hope the massive sums will deter currency speculators from betting on a euro collapse after political posturing and soothing words failed to convince investors that Greece's financial implosion could be contained.Markets had battered the euro and Greek government bonds even as EU leaders insisted for days that Greece's problems were a unique combination of bad management, free spending and statistical cheating that doesn't apply to other euro-zone nations.Market jitters also partly contributed to a nearly 1,000-point drop in the Dow Jones industrials last Thursday. The Securities and Exchange Commission is meeting with heads of exchanges Monday to discuss how conflicting trading rules may have exacerbated the historic stock market plunge.In the end, even longtime skeptic Germany realized Europe had to show the money after financial attacks on Greece's debt seemed poised to spread to other weak European nations such as Portugal and Spain.Fear of default led to investors demanding high interest rates that Greece could not pay, forcing it to seek a bailout. Many feared market skepticism would make Portugal and Spain pay more and more to borrow, worsening their plight."We now see herd behaviors in the markets that are really pack behaviors, wolf pack behaviors," Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg said Sunday. If unchecked, "they will tear the weaker countries apart. So it is very important that we now make progress."Spain and Portugal have committed to "take significant additional consolidation measures in 2010 and 2011," a statement from EU finance ministers said. The two countries will present them to EU finance ministers at their meeting on May 18."We are facing such exceptional circumstances today and the mechanism will stay in place as long as needed to safeguard financial stability," the ministers said.Some eurozone nations, meanwhile, blamed financially weak nations and a lack of European cooperation for the crisis."I'm against putting all the blame on speculation," said Austrian Finance Minister Josef Proell. "Speculation is only successful against countries that have mismanaged their finances for years."Separately, eurozone leaders on Saturday gave final approval for a euros80 billion ($100 billion) rescue package of loans to Greece for the next three years to stave off default. The International Monetary Fund also approved its part of the rescue package — euros30 billion ($40 billion) of loans — in Washington Sunday.The Fed's move to back the euro defense plan reopens a program put in place during the 2008 global financial crisis under which dollars are shipped overseas through foreign central banks. In turn, these central banks can lend the dollars out to banks in their home countries that are in need of dollar funding. Swap agreements generally allow one central bank to borrow a currency from another, offering an equivalent amount of its own as collateral.  The Fed said action is being taken "in response to the reemergence of strains in U.S. dollar short-term funding markets in Europe" and to "prevent the spread of strains to other markets and financial centers." A so-called "swap" line with the Bank of Canada provides up to $30 billion. Figures weren't provided for the other central banks involved. They include the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Swiss National Bank, and the Bank of Japan.____AP Business Writers Emma Vandore in Brussels and Jeannine Aversa in Washington, and Associated Press writers Elaine Ganley in Paris, Matt Moore in Frankfurt, Alex Kennedy in Singapore and Daniel Wagner in Washington contributed to this report.
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| Quelle chance elle a d'etre Democrate cette dame, ca lui evitera sans doute (comme ce fut le cas pour Sonia) les blagues de mauvais gout auxquelles elle aurait, sans doute aucun, ete soumise eut-elle ete Republicaine. President Obama will name Elena Kagan as Court pickBy JOSH GERSTEIN | 5/10/10 1:57 AM EDT  Obama is expected to announced Monday that he has selected Solicitor General Elena Kagan. AP - Spoiler:
If confirmed, the former Harvard Law School dean would be the first justice to join the court without prior judicial experience since William Rehnquist nearly four decades ago.
Kagan would be the third woman on the nine-member court and only the fourth woman among 112 justices ever to serve, following Obama’s choice of Justice Sonia Sotomayor last year. She would replace Justice John Paul Stevens, who is retiring after 35 years.
At 50, Kagan is among the youngest of the potential nominees who were widely thought to have been seriously considered by Obama for the high court slot.
Kagan has a lengthy pedigree as a Democratic attorney. She served for several years as the deputy director of domestic policy under President Bill Clinton and earlier as an attorney in the White House counsel’s office. She made history by serving for six years as the first female dean of Harvard Law, where Obama had attended years earlier.
Yet Obama’s choice of Kagan, who currently serves as the government’s top lawyer before the high court, signals a desire to dodge a major showdown with Republicans, and she drew praise from GOP legal luminaries such as Ted Olson and Ken Starr when Obama named her as solicitor general last year.
But there could still be a substantial culture war dust-up over her actions at Harvard to exclude military recruiters because of the ban on gays in the armed services. Conservatives have indicated that one line of argument against Kagan is that her tireless efforts against the military recruiters shows Kagan is more activist and advocate than fair-minded judge.
White House aides also have signaled that Obama believes Kagan could provide a forceful, effective counterweight to Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Antonin Scalia, and perhaps even be the bridge to bring Justice Anthony Kennedy onto the liberal side in narrow 5-4 decisions.
As a White House official, she worked with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in negotiating anti-tobacco legislation. And in her current job, Kagan argued the White House position in Citizens United, the decision that opened campaigns to more corporate funding. Obama had made clear he hopes to roll back that decision through legislation – and Democrats are expected to champion Kagan’s role in the case as proof she’ll fight efforts by the Roberts Supreme Court to favor corporate interests – even though, in the end, Kagan lost the case.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36989.html#ixzz0nVrthbdv
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| The Enemy We Can't Name
By David Harsanyi
Even as investigators were hunting for the perpetrator of the botched "man-caused disaster" in Times Square, our cool homeland security secretary, Janet Napolitano, was reassuring a frazzled nation that the failed bombing appeared to be an isolated incident -- a "one-off" -- and avoided the notion of (much less the word) "terrorism."
Thankfully, law enforcement agencies refrain from leaping to conclusions before they have all the facts. Not Janet. And citizens should not infer anything based on a litany of historical and anecdotal evidence, even after the fact, lest some group feel demonized.
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| Federal Reserve Opens Credit Line to EuropeAssociated Press The Federal Reserve late Sunday opened a program to ship U.S. dollars to Europe in a move to head off a broader financial crisis on the continent. - Spoiler:
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve late Sunday opened a program to ship U.S. dollars to Europe in a move to head off a broader financial crisis on the continent.
Other central banks, including the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and the Swiss National Bank, are also involved in the effort.
The action reopens a program put in place during the 2008 global financial crisis under which dollars are shipped overseas through the foreign central banks. In turn, these central banks can lend the dollars out to banks in their home countries that are in need of dollar funding to prevent the European crisis from spreading further.
The Fed said action is being taken "in response to the re-emergence of strains in U.S. dollar short-term funding markets in Europe."
The debt crisis first erupted in Greece and there are fears that it could spread to Spain, Portugal and other eurozone countries. The crisis has pushed up demand for the U.S. dollar and has sharply weakened the value of the euro, the currency used by 16 European countries.
The Fed said the action was being taken to "prevent the spread of strains to other markets and financial centers."
The Bank of Japan will be considering similar action soon, the Fed said.
A so-called "swap" line with the Bank of Canada provides up to $30 billion. Figures weren't provided for the other central banks. The arrangements are authorized through January 2011.
The Fed had wound down these crisis-era programs with other central banks in February, along with other emergency programs to get lending flowing more freely again and return stability to financial markets. At that time, financial strains in the United States were easing, and the Fed began to take steps to move policy closer to normal.
It also had begun to lay out a plan to reel in the unprecedented stimulus money pumped out during the crisis. The Fed's balance sheet ballooned to $2.3 trillion, more than double where it stood before the crisis struck. The program reopened on Sunday will expand the Fed's balance sheet, economists say. However, the program poses little credit risk to the Fed because the arrangements are with other central banks, they added.
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| Arizona Law Also Happens To Be Good PoliticsA Commentary By Debra J. SaundersSunday, May 09, 2010Critics of Arizona's tough new immigration law, which makes illegal immigration a state crime, have called supporters of the bill "racist," "mean-spirited" and "un-American." Here's the newsflash: The measure is also good politics, not only in Arizona, but nationally. - Spoiler:
Usually after a measure like this has passed, the news media respond with stories about how the measure will hurt the GOP among Latino voters. This time, not so much.
A New York Times/CBS poll found that 51 percent of Americans see the Arizona law as "about right" and 9 percent said it does not go far enough; 36 percent support the measure. Note the poll didn't ask a phony amorphous question, like whether voters support "immigration reform" -- the usual fodder that provides the rationale for said stories.
President Obama called the Arizona law "misguided" and said he favors "common-sense comprehensive immigration reform." It's all lip service.
Obama reneged on his 2008 campaign pledge to push immigration reform -- with a path to citizenship for undocumented aliens -- during his first year in office because, well, it's political poison.
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| Grace au POTUS, les Etats Unis vont bientot pouvoir avoir leurs greves de transport comme en France! Obama Administration Eases Path for Airline, Rail Workers to UnionizeThe Obama administration on Monday changed a 76-year-old rule on union elections among airline and railroad workers, marking the most significant change to date by the White House easing the expansion of organized labor- Spoiler:
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Monday changed a 76-year-old rule on union elections among airline and railroad workers, marking the most significant change to date by the White House easing the expansion of organized labor.
Instead of requiring a majority of workers at a railroad or airline to favor banding together to form a union, the new rule, announced by the three-member National Mediation Board, would recognize a union if a "a majority of valid ballots cast" approve of organizing.
That reduces the qualification rule to apply to the number of participants in an election, not the larger number of workers who would be affected by the vote.
"This change to its election procedures will provide a more reliable measure/indicator of employee sentiment in representation disputes and provide employees with clear choices in representation matters," NMB said in its final rule.
Airlines that fought the change say it will lead to more labor disputes that could disrupt commerce and increase delays in an industry already reeling from recession, higher fuel costs and stepped-up security measures.
The most immediate impact of the change would be at Delta Air Lines Inc., where unions are trying to organize about 20,000 flight attendants. Unions are also expected to target workers at smaller carriers, including Allegiant Air, JetBlue Airways, Republic Airways and SkyWest.
"We applaud the NMB for taking this historic and courageous step to bring democracy to union elections," said Patricia Friend, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA.
But the Air Transport Association, which represents most major airlines, is expected to file a lawsuit challenging the new rule.
"It is quite clear to us that the NMB was determined to proceed despite the proposed rule's substantive and procedural flaws, leaving us no choice but to seek judicial review," the industry group said in a statement.
The rule will take effect 30 days after publication Tuesday in the Federal Register. The flight attendants' union said it would seek a representation election at Delta soon afterward.
Proponents of the change say the old rule ran contrary to democratic standards, where the outcome of an election is determined by the majority of those who vote. The change puts union elections at airlines and railroads under the same procedures followed by most other companies, which are overseen by the National Labor Relations Board.
"After decades of operating within a system that is rigged against them, rail and aviation workers have at least gained a right that most of us take for granted," said Edward Wytkind, president of the AFL-CIO's Transportation Trades Department.
The board proposed the rule change in October after a request from the labor federation, known as the AFL-CIO. That request came soon after President Obama named Linda Puchala -- the former head of a flight attendant union -- to a seat on the board, shifting the balance of power.
The final rule was approved 2-1, with chairwoman Elizabeth Dougherty issuing a fierce dissent. Dougherty, appointed by President George W. Bush, said the change is "an unprecedented departure for the NMB and represents the most dramatic policy shift in the history of the agency."
Delta spokeswoman Gina Laughlin said Delta would support an industry lawsuit challenging the rule change.
"While disappointed, we are not surprised by the majority members' decision in view of the way this rule change has been handled," Laughlin said Union membership has been on the decline for years. Overall union membership is at 12 percent, but airlines and railroads employ more than 500,000 workers, and about two-thirds of those are already in unions.
At Delta, about 15 percent of workers were union members before the carrier merged with heavily unionized Northwest Airlines two years ago. Unions representing flight attendants and ground workers who worked for Northwest want the new rules to cover elections at the combined carrier.
In a 2008 election, 5,253 Delta flight attendants voted to be represented by the AFA. But the union lost under the old election rules because the roughly 8,000 flight attendants who didn't vote were counted as "no" votes.
The new election rules will also help the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which represents Northwest ground workers such as baggage handlers and gate agents. Delta says it has roughly 30,000 workers in that group, including roughly 10,000 who came from Northwest.
Click here to read the new rule.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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| ObamaCare's Phony Medicaid 'Deal' The new health law unconstitutionally coerces the states. By RICHARD A. EPSTEIN The attorneys general of 13 states recently filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of the Medicaid portions of the new health law. Given the dismal track record states and individuals have had challenging New Deal social programs, many pundits have concluded their suit will be dismissed out of hand. I wouldn't be so sure. - Spoiler:
The new health law gives states frontline responsibility for setting up an untried system of "exchanges" through which individuals will purchase health-care insurance. States receive partial federal support for running the exchanges up to 2015, after which they run them at their own considerable but uncertain expense. States can opt out of organizing these exchanges—but only if they extend Medicaid coverage to more of their residents, including all uninsured persons whose incomes are 133% to 200% of the poverty level.
This program is highly coercive and it raises a constitutional problem of the first magnitude.
ObamaCare's defenders say there is no problem—since no state has to participate in Medicaid at all, they're free to walk away entirely from the ObamaCare deal. But this too is a fake option.
Suppose a thief takes your family portrait worth $100 to you and then makes a take-it-or-leave it offer to sell it back to you for $50. You prefer the picture to the money. He prefers the money to the picture.
Does that make the thief's offer a win/win? Of course not. It is ransom.
And thus the ObamaCare deal: States may leave Medicaid but the Medicaid taxes their citizens pay will support the program in other states. The state's option to leave Medicaid would be real only if the federal government refunded its citizens' Medicaid taxes or paid them into the state treasury.
There is one big obstacle to state success in the courts. In Frothingham v. Mellon (1923), a citizen of Massachusetts and the state itself challenged the use of federal tax dollars for infant and maternal health under the 1921 Maternity Act. Their argument was that the payments to individual people were not expenditures for the "general welfare of the United States," which, properly understood, only covered standard public goods like national defense.
But the Supreme Court there mistakenly held that neither the individual citizen nor the state had standing to challenge the program—on the peculiar ground that any potential constitutional violation that hurt everyone could be challenged by no one. That ruling put Massachusetts (like states today) in an impossible bind. A principled decision not to accept the federal funds meant that its citizens' tax dollars simply would go to mothers and infants in other states.
Fortunately, the obstacle that the Supreme Court raised to a state's standing to sue has already been breached. In Massachusetts v. EPA—the notorious 2007 decision allowing the EPA to treat carbon dioxide as a pollutant—the Supreme Court recognized that the state had standing to sue to protect its own coastline from the supposed ravages of excess CO2. The Supreme Court should likewise also recognize a state's standing to sue when the federal government seeks to command its resources to serve federal objectives. In New York v. United States (1992), the Court prevented the U.S. from forcing states to take title to nuclear waste. It can surely prevent the federal government from mandating massive expenditures of scarce state resources.
Under the Constitution the states are not wards of the federal government. Clever federal tax and spending statutes must not be allowed to reduce states to a servile status that allows the federal government to force massive wealth shifts among them.
The federal government should be told either to refund to the states their citizens' Medicaid tax dollars when they pull out of the program or to drop the new mandates to expand Medicaid coverage as the price the states must pay to escape ObamaCare-created duties.
Mr. Epstein is a professor of law at the University of Chicago and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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| Kagan's scant writings spark concern By JOSH GERSTEIN | 5/10/10 8:27 PM EDT The Senate is about to embark on something it hasn’t done in nearly four decades: vet a candidate for the Supreme Court — Solicitor General Elena Kagan — who has no paper trail as a judge.- Spoiler:
 The fire from the left Monday was so considerable that the White House came to Kagan’s
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| Kagan's Role Against Military Recruitment ScrutinizedAssociated Press Supreme Court nominee blasted the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gay soldiers as "a moral injustice of the first order." President Obama introduces Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his choice for Supreme Court Justice in the East Room of the White House May 10 as Vice President Joe Biden listens. (AP Photo)- Spoiler:
Kagan was explaining to students and faculty why military recruiters were allowed on campus again after almost 25 years of being banned from the law school's main recruitment office.
She said that under a federal law known as the Solomon Amendment, the university risked jeopardizing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding unless the school helped recruiters. The law allows the government to deny federal grants to schools that prohibit military recruitment on campus.
The following year, after a federal appeals court struck down the law as unconstitutional, Kagan re-imposed a ban on recruiters -- a move that is now expected to be used as "antimilitary" fodder by Republicans opposed to her confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court. The issue was used against her during her confirmation hearing last year for her current post as U.S. solicitor general.
Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III, chairman of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think thank, said Kagan's actions at Harvard raise important legal questions.
"(She) tried to essentially challenge the law and tried to get the Supreme Court to overrule what was a valid determination of policy by the Congress," Meese said.
Robert Levy, chairman of the Cato Institute's board of directors, agreed that Kagan is going to have to explain her position in that case.
"She wasn't one of the strongest advocates," Levy said. "But she was certainly in the camp."
Kagan's supporters say she followed the law precisely in imposing the ban on recruiters, and again, several months later, when she lifted the ban after the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Bush administration's appeal. The high court ruled against law schools and upheld the Solomon Amendment.
"Elena Kagan does not have a single antimilitary bone in her body," said Walter Dellinger, a former solicitor general in the Clinton administration who wrote a brief to the Supreme Court that was signed by 40 Harvard University professors, including Kagan.
Harvard had banned military recruiting through its career services office since 1979, when it passed an anti-discrimination policy for all employers who wanted to recruit there.
Adam Sorkin, the former president of Harvard Law School Lambda, a gay students' group, said Kagan initially continued the policy of her predecessor, Dean Robert Clark, allowing the military to recruit through the career services office. Sorkin said she only imposed a ban for a period of months, after the federal appeals court struck down the Solomon Amendment.
"It's really clear that she wasn't the big leader on this," Sorkin said.
"All she did was follow the law at the time. When the 3rd Circuit court said the law is you don't have to allow the recruitment on campus, she didn't, and when the Supreme Court said you do, she did," said Sorkin, now a lawyer in Chicago.
Kagan was not the first at Harvard to take a stand against a military policy.
The Solomon Amendment was passed two decades after Harvard first banned military recruiters over the issue of discrimination against gays. Afterward, military recruiters were still allowed to recruit students on campus through the Harvard Law School Veterans Association, a student group.
However, after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Republicans in Congress called it a disgrace that military recruiters were being hampered in a time of war, and the Bush administration threatened to cut off funding.
In 2002, Harvard Law School relented and allowed military recruiters to use a campus office.
Kagan continued that policy after becoming dean in 2003, the same year a major lawsuit was brought by 36 law schools challenging the Solomon Amendment. Harvard did not join the lawsuit, but filed a brief siding with the other schools.
In 2004, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the Solomon Amendment unconstitutional. The next day, Kagan banned military recruiters from using the campus office, but still allowed work through the veterans group.
Yet again, under threat of a funding cutoff, Harvard relented and Kagan allowed the recruiters to use a campus placement office.
And in 2006, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed the 3rd Circuit, finding it constitutional to deny funding to schools that do not allow military recruiting.
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| L'une des deux enfants cheris des dirigeants Democrates (en particulier du grand Barney Franck) a l'origine de la crise financiere actuelle avec Freddie Mack, Fannie Mae, donc, apres avoir perdu 11.5 milliards de dollars le premier trimestre demande encore un peu d'aide: A votre bon coeur, on vous remboursera quand on pourra.
Aucune des deux agences n'est sur la liste des organisations financieres dans le colimateur et sous la pression gouvernementale de l'administration Obama. Fannie Mae Needs $8.4 Billion More By NICK TIMIRAOS Mortgage Investor Posts Another Loss, Seeks Cash Infusion - Spoiler:
Fannie Mae asked the U.S. government for an additional $8.4 billion in aid after posting an $11.5 billion net loss for the first quarter, the latest sign that the bailout of the mortgage investor and its main rival, Freddie Mac, is likely to be the most expensive legacy of the U.S. housing-market bust.Fannie's losses reflected continuing weakness in the housing market and would have been worse without accounting changes that reduced its deficit. The quarterly loss was an improvement from the $23.5 billion loss for the year-ago quarter and marked the 11th consecutive quarterly loss for the Washington-based firm. Fannie Mae is asking for an additional $8.4 billion in government aid after reporting an $11.5 billion net loss for the first quarter. WSJ's Nick Timiraos joins the News Hub with more.The company has now racked up losses of nearly $145 billion, or nearly double its profits for the previous 35 years. While many of the nation's biggest banks have repaid their government loans and some are back to racking up big profits, Fannie and Freddie are still suffering from the housing-market crisis.In recent weeks, the Treasury pointed out how private-sector banks, insurers and even auto makers have repaid loans under the Troubled Asset Relief Program. But red ink continues to gush from Fannie and Freddie because of their huge exposure to home loans. "Everyone's trying to sweep it under the rug, but there's a very large embedded loss that hasn't been fully realized yet," says Kenneth Rosen, chairman of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. "Someone's going to have to write a check, and it's very large."The government's tab for Fannie will climb to $84 billion, while Freddie's stands at $61 billion. The government took control of both companies in 2008 through a legal process known as conservatorship as rising losses threatened to wipe out their thin capital reserves.Fannie's losses have surpassed Freddie's because its $3 trillion book of loan guarantees is nearly one-third larger than Freddie's. Delinquencies are higher at Fannie because the firm more aggressively dialed up its appetite for riskier loans at the peak of the housing boom.Despite their losses, the firms are helping to stabilize the housing market. Fannie, Freddie and the Federal Housing Administration provided guarantees or insurance for 96.5% of the home mortgages that originated in the first quarter, according to Inside Mortgage Finance, a trade publication. The companies also play a central role in the Obama administration's loan-modification effort designed to avert foreclosures. Losses at Fannie and Freddie continue to grow because the firms must set aside more capital to cover anticipated losses as mortgage delinquencies rise. The Treasury kicks in more capital every quarter if revenues can't meet those financial needs. Unlike many financial companies, the firms are exposed to a single asset class, holding nearly $5.5 trillion in mortgages and loan guarantees. Fannie's capital hole would have risen by $3.3 billion without new accounting rules that took effect Jan. 1. The firm's losses were driven by deterioration in its $3 trillion book of loan guarantees, which accounted for a $12.5 billion loss.One possible signal that losses will slow in the coming months: Fannie said 5.47% of its loans were 90 days or more past due at the end of March, down from 5.59% in February and the first monthly decline in nearly three years. That has stemmed in part from efforts to modify loans and from an uptick in liquidating delinquent loans through foreclosure. The company said Monday that credit losses could decline this year from record highs last year as delinquencies begin to level out.The company's loan-loss reserves fell to $61 billion from $64 billion three months ago, even as its pool of nonperforming loans grew to $224 billion from $217 billion. "If I was the government, I would plead with Fannie or Freddie to reserve far more than they are right now," given the prospect of future home-price declines, said Anthony Sanders, a real-estate finance professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.But the terms of the government conservatorship, which require Fannie and Freddie to pay an annual 10% dividend on their Treasury draw, could create an incentive to reserve more conservatively. Fannie had to pay the government $1.5 billion in dividends last quarter. "They don't want to raise the reserve levels because in a sense it doesn't matter and it could be perversely damaging to them," says Mr. Sanders.In its filings Monday, in the coming months Fannie said it wasn't likely to repay that its debt to the Treasury for the "indefinite future." Ben tiens donc...
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