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Bonjour Biloulou

Il me semblait que cette nouvelle plairait!

... papier recyclé parfaitement biodégradable ...

Sans doute, sans doute, aucun, meme, Eddie ; comme tout ce qui fut laisse sur le mail a Washington en janvier 2009 dernier apres l'inauguration de notre president.

L'"autre question": et la pollution esthetique, alors?

LES DEMOCRATES SONT TOUT EMOUSTILLES!

ILS VEULENT LA VERITE.

UNE INVESTIGATION SE DOIT D'ETRE MISE EN PLACE!

LE GOUVERNEMENT BUSH AVAIT INSTITUE UN PROGRAMME SECRET (ET CACHE AU CONGRES. On se demande bien pourquoi apres le nombre de fuites qui ont eu lieu entre 2001 et 2009) DONT LE BUT ETAIT LA DESTRUCTION D'EL QAIDA.

Quelle Horreur! Quelle surprise! (moi, stupide, qui croyais que c'etait un des buts de la guerre anti-terroriste)

C'etait donc sur toutes les premieres pages des sites politiques ce matin.

Quelques precisions par le Wall Street Journal:

JULY 13, 2009

CIA Had Secret Al Qaeda Plan

Initiative at Heart of Spat With Congress Examined Ways to Seize, Kill Terror Chiefs

WASHINGTON -- A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives, according to former intelligence officials familiar with the matter.

The precise nature of the highly classified effort isn't clear, and the CIA won't comment on its substance.

According to current and former government officials, the agency spent money on planning and possibly some training. It was acting on a 2001 presidential legal pronouncement, known as a finding, which authorized the CIA to pursue such efforts. The initiative hadn't become fully operational at the time Mr. Panetta ended it.

In 2001, the CIA also examined the subject of targeted assassinations of al Qaeda leaders, according to three former intelligence officials. It appears that those discussions tapered off within six months. It isn't clear whether they were an early part of the CIA initiative that Mr. Panetta stopped.

The revelations about the CIA and its post-9/11 activities have emerged amid a renewed fight between the agency and congressional Democrats. Last week, seven Democratic lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee released a letter that talked about the CIA effort, which they said Mr. Panetta acknowledged hadn't been properly vetted with Congress. CIA officials had brought the matter to Mr. Panetta's attention and had recommended he inform Congress.

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Vous m'avez devancé, je viens de lire cette révélation sur Courrier International.
Quelle surprise ! Quelle horreur !

N'est-ce pas?

Le choc est tel qu'il est difficile de s'en remettre!

Je regrette de n'avoir pas poste l'article ce matin, mais la dame en question, comme Fonda, me fichant des boutons, j'avais prefere ignorer. Alors pourquoi ce regret? mais parce que, et je ne sais pas qui est responsable, la photo qui accompagnait l'article en question et qui n'etait pas particulierement flatteuse (mais bon, la dame a l'age qu'elle a, n'est-ce pas) a, quelques heures plus tard, ete remplacee par une prise il y a une trentaine d'annees.

Streisand talks environmental urgency

By DAVID MARK | 7/13/09 1:48 PM

ce n'etait pas celle-la, mais pas loin... alors evidemment. Il y en a chez Politico qui ont du en entendre parler.

C'est peut-être Tchernobyl qui l'a rajeunie de trente ans en quelques minutes ?

Sylvette dans son mail a écrit:

comme tout ce qui fut laisse sur le mail a Washington en janvier 2009 dernier apres l'inauguration de notre president.

Vous ne pensez quand même pas que des Democrats enlèvent leur boulot à des techniciens de surface qui ont du mal à gagner leur croûte ? Inconcevable. Ils filent du boulot aux classes laborieuses qui sont dans leurs petits papiers.

Ah! Eddie ! C'est un fait, et j'ai honte de l'avoir oublie.

Ben, mm ince a lors.

Oops: Obama's Teleprompter Breaks Mid-Speech

The president has been criticized for relying too heavily on his teleprompter for routine remarks and the device has become jokingly known as "TOTUS."



FOXNews.com

Monday, July 13, 2009


WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama had just started a spirited defense of his economic stimulus plan on Monday when one of his teleprompter screens came loose, crashed to the floor and shattered into pieces.
The gadget's fall surprised Obama, who uses a teleprompter during most speeches and even brief remarks. The glass plate displaying his speech hit the floor in the auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, a massive building within the White House compound.
"Oh, goodness," Obama said. "Sorry about that, guys."
The audience -- administration officials, mayors and urban policy experts -- laughed as Obama went back to his text. To finish his 11-minute remarks calling for a new policy toward the nation's cities and metropolitan areas, he used notes and the remaining teleprompter screen.

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La Haine Democrate pour President Bush 43 plus forte que tout? Je doute que ce soit un plus avec les electeurs americains, mais bon... a suivre!

Obama's Agenda Stands to Lose as Furor Over Bush Years Intensifies

President Obama's allies are calling for investigations into the Bush administration's prosecution of the War on Terror -- but such developments could prove a distraction to the president's domestic agenda.

By Judson Berger

FOXNews.com

Monday, July 13, 2009

President Obama's ambitious domestic agenda for "hope" and "change" could soon get caught in the middle of a bitter debate over the policies of the past.
Early in the year, the president said he wanted to "look forward" and suggested he was not interested in opening high-profile investigations into the activities of the Bush administration.
But a series of developments halfway through Obama's first year related to the Bush administration's prosecution of the War on Terror are threatening to undermine the president's agenda and overshadow his message going forward, analysts say.
Among those developments:
-- Obama's congressional allies are calling for investigations of a Bush-era CIA counterterrorism program they say was kept secret from them.
-- Attorney General Eric Holder is leaning toward appointing a prosecutor to look into allegations of torture during the last administration.
-- Obama has ordered a review of reports that U.S. allies were responsible for killing hundreds, if not thousands, of Taliban prisoners in 2001 in Afghanistan.
-- New questions have been raised after a group of inspectors general issued a report last week on the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program, noting that the administration authorized other surveillance programs that have not been made public.
"If Congress is going to get sidetracked on trying to get Bush administration officials ... every moment that's spent doing that is not spent trying to get through health care reform or cap-and-trade," said William Jacobson, associate clinical professor at Cornell Law School.
"It would create years of legal investigation," said David Rivkin, a Justice Department official during the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations. "It would be polarizing. It would be bad for (Obama's) agenda. It would be bad for national security."
One of the Obama proposals that would be hurt by congressional investigations into the Bush administration is cap-and-trade legislation, which is aimed at reducing carbon emissions through a complex incentive system and already faces an uncertain fate in the Senate after narrowly passing the House.
Another is the timeline for health care reform, which appears to be slipping further down the calendar. On Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi planned to announce progress on a bill for health care reform, a hat tip to Obama, who earlier in the day urged lawmakers to move forward with his plan.
"The status quo on health care is no longer an option for the United States of America," Obama said as he introduced his surgeon general nominee, Dr. Regina Benjamin.
With climate change and health care reforms already a tough sell, Jacobson said Obama will only lose more Republican and moderate Democratic support if his allies in Congress or a special prosecutor launch a full-scale, multi-front investigation into the War on Terror.
"I don't see how this could possibly help Obama push through programs that, if they pass, are probably going to pass by the narrowest of margins," said Jacobson, who writes the Legal Insurrection blog.
Despite his reluctance to "look backward," Obama made clear in April that he was deferring to Holder on whether to prosecute Bush administration lawyers who drafted the legal justification for the interrogation techniques employed by the CIA on terror detainees.
Three months later, Holder is leaning toward appointing a prosecutor, and he could name one in a matter of weeks, a decision apparently made after reading a classified version of the CIA inspector general's report on enhanced interrogation techniques and other material.
But if a prosecutor is appointed, it could be virtually impossible to limit the scope of the investigation, Rivkin said, noting that once a special prosecutor is appointed, he or she is given "unrestrained resources" and expected to find wrongdoing.
As a result, a special prosecutor's investigation broadens and shifts course, distracting the attention of Washington -- as in the cases of former President Bill Clinton's real estate dealings and the leak of the identity of former CIA official Valerie Plame. The prosecutors in both cases did not have the evidence to support indictments related to the original allegations, but ended up catching officials in lies tied to the inquiries themselves.
Merely talking about investigating the Bush years has already proved polarizing.
The American Civil Liberties Union on Sunday released a statement nudging Holder toward appointing a prosecutor, saying the group was "encouraged" by reports that he may do so.
But Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told "FOX News Sunday" that the call to investigate a prior administration is part of a "terrible trend," and suggested the same could happen to Obama after he leaves office.
"This is high-risk stuff," Cornyn said, calling on Holder to follow the advice of the president and "look forward, not backward."
Even if the debate over torture allegations is cleared away, other Democrats want to look more closely at a proposal to capture or kill Al Qaeda operatives that the CIA apparently kept secret from lawmakers. *
"Congress should have been told. We should have been briefed before the commencement of this kind of sensitive program," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told "FOX News Sunday." "This is a big problem."
Cornyn, though, countered that the clamor over the program looks "suspiciously like an attempt to provide political cover" to Pelosi, who in May came under fire for accusing the CIA of lying to Congress.
House Democrats are now backing up Pelosi, but a former senior intelligence official told FOX News on Monday the program was never operational and that Congress originally gave the CIA authorization to develop ideas to battle terrorists.
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told FOX News on Monday that the administration would not have had an "absolute" obligation to inform Congress of a secret program if it could have compromised an operation.
"There is a lot here that we don't know, and we need to let this thing play out," he said.
FOX News' Bret Baier and Mike Levine contributed to this report.

* une fois de plus: Quelle surprise - Quelle horreur!

Il en est tres peu question mais NP a nomme des Tsars (plus de 30) qui ne sont ni revus par le Congres ni responsables devant qui que ce soit d'autre que NP. (2nde partie de la video)

President Obama's rosy scenario on the economy turns thorny

By JEANNE CUMMINGS | 7/14/09 4:29 AM EDT

President Barack Obama’s economic forecasts for long-term growth are too optimistic, many economists warn, a miscalculation that would mean budget deficits will be much higher than the administration is now acknowledging.

The White House will be forced to confront the disconnect between its original, upbeat predictions and the mainstream consensus about how the economy is likely to perform in a new budget forecast to be unveiled next month.

Christina Romer, chairwoman of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, said in a POLITICO interview that the administration — like many independent economists — did not fully anticipate the severity and pace of this recession. She said the White House will be updating its official forecasts.

The new numbers will come as part of a semiannual review that, under ordinary circumstances, is the kind of earnest-but-dull document that causes many Washington eyes to glaze over.

This time, however, the new forecasts — if they are anything like what many outside economists expect — could send a jolt through Capitol Hill, where even the administration’s current debt projections already are prompting deep concerns on political and substantive grounds.

Higher deficit figures also would arrive at a critical moment in the health care debate, as lawmakers are already struggling to find a way to pay for the president’s nearly $1 trillion reform package.

Alternately, if Obama clings to current optimistic forecasts for long-term growth, he risks accusations that he is basing his fiscal plans on fictitious assumptions — precisely the sort of charge he once leveled against the Bush administration.

White House officials rebuff such suggestions, saying the midyear correction is precisely intended to keep their economic program reality based.

But a series of POLITICO interviews in recent days with independent economists of varied political stripes found widespread disdain for Obama’s first round of assumptions, with some experts invoking such phrases as “rosy” and “fantasy.”


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Citation :

President Obama's rosy scenario on the economy turns thorny

Ça ne manque pas de piquant de constater que les Anglos-Saxons qui prétendent la rose entre les dents que les Français sont incapables de pratiquer l'humour mais qu'ils grenouillent dans la sphère des bons mots (quand ils ne se rendent pas gavés de fromage au lait cru à une armée de singes), de constater donc que les jeux de mots laids font également une belle jambe aux scribouillards anglophones qui grâce à ça tentent de casser la barack !

Il semble que la Barack en question n'ait pas besoin d'enormement d'aide en ce moment pour se casser.

Quant aux jeux de mots, j'en ai lus de pire, ici.

Citation :

Quant aux jeux de mots, j'en ai lus de pire, ici.

Bonjour Chère Sylvette,

J'espère que vous me ferez l'honneur de dire que vous incluez les miens dans ce répertoire-là.

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Yours Rockabilly.
EddieCochran, Nul pire ne crains !

Eddie

Si c'est une question d'honneur, comment resister!

Merci Chère Amie, le gendarme qui sommeille en moi savait que vous étiez une femme d'honneur

Salut Eddie,

Tu passes tes vacances à st tropez !!!!

Cachottier............

EddieCochran a écrit:

Merci Chère Amie, le gendarme qui sommeille en moi savait que vous étiez une femme d'honneur

Eddie

Qui ne serait flatte(e) par un tel jugement.

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Pour en revenir a NP et a ses programmes federaux de socialisation sous couleur de plans de relance de l'economie, le deficit vient de passer le trillion de dollars ($1.000.000.000.000,00)


Pour rappel:

$100 Start with a simple $100 bill. $10,000 A packet of $100 bills worth $10,000 is less than 1/2 inch thick. $1,000,000 This little pile of cash can easily fit into any backpack and weighs just about 22 lbs. $100,000,000 $100 million fits neatly on any standard pallet, weighing in at a little over one ton. $1,000,000,000 $1 billion is ten pallets worth of cold, hard cash. $1,000,000,000,000 Finally, here’s one trillion dollars.

Voila qui est interessant et qui remet les pendules a l'heure en ce qui concerne le manque d'interet et de fonds apportes par Pres. Bush 43 a l'education; a la couverture sociale pour les plus de 65 ans; l'aide aux pauvres.
Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures


Posted March 24th, 2009 at 10.20am in Ongoing Priorities.



President Barack Obama has repeatedly claimed that his budget would cut the deficit by half by the end of his term. But as Heritage analyst Brian Riedl has pointed out, given that Obama has already helped quadruple the deficit with his stimulus package, pledging to halve it by 2013 is hardly ambitious. The Washington Post has a great graphic which helps put President Obama’s budget deficits in context of President Bush’s.
What’s driving Obama’s unprecedented massive deficits? Spending. Riedl details:

• President Bush expanded the federal budget by a historic $700 billion through 2008. President Obama would add another $1 trillion.
  
• President Bush began a string of expensive finan­cial bailouts. President Obama is accelerating that course.
  
• President Bush created a Medicare drug entitle­ment that will cost an estimated $800 billion in its first decade. President Obama has proposed a $634 billion down payment on a new govern­ment health care fund.
  
• President Bush increased federal education spending 58 percent faster than inflation. Presi­dent Obama would double it.
  
• President Bush became the first President to spend 3 percent of GDP on federal antipoverty programs. President Obama has already in­creased this spending by 20 percent.
  
• President Bush tilted the income tax burden more toward upper-income taxpayers. President Obama would continue that trend.
  
• President Bush presided over a $2.5 trillion increase in the public debt through 2008. Setting aside 2009 (for which Presidents Bush and Obama share responsibility for an additional $2.6 trillion in public debt), President Obama’s budget would add $4.9 trillion in public debt from the beginning of 2010 through 2016.
  

UPDATE: Many Obama defenders in the comments are claiming that the numbers above do not include spending on Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush years. They most certainly do. While Bush did fund the wars through emergency supplementals (not the regular budget process), that spending did not simply vanish. It is included in the numbers above. Also, some Obama defenders are claiming the graphic above represents biased Heritage Foundation numbers. While we stand behind the numbers we put out 100%, the numbers, and the graphic itself, above are from the Washington Post. We originally left out the link to WaPo. It has been now been added.
CLARIFICATION: Of course, this Washington Post graphic does not perfectly delineate budget surpluses and deficits by administration. President Bush took office in January 2001, and therefore played a lead role in crafting the FY 2002-2008 budgets. Presidents Bush and Obama share responsibility for the FY 2009 budget deficit that overlaps their administrations, before President Obama assumes full budgetary responsibility beginning in FY 2010. Overall, President Obama’s budget would add twice as much debt as President Bush over the same number of years.

WELL....

SOMEBODY HAS TO PAY FOR THE DEBS OF THE PAST !!!!

Sylvette a écrit:

Voila qui est interessant et qui remet les pendules a l'heure en ce qui concerne le manque d'interet et de fonds apportes par Pres. Bush 43 a l'education; a la couverture sociale pour les plus de 65 ans; l'aide aux pauvres.
Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures


Posted March 24th, 2009 at 10.20am in Ongoing Priorities.




President Barack Obama has repeatedly claimed that his budget would cut the deficit by half by the end of his term. But as Heritage analyst Brian Riedl has pointed out, given that Obama has already helped quadruple the deficit with his stimulus package, pledging to halve it by 2013 is hardly ambitious. The Washington Post has a great graphic which helps put President Obama’s budget deficits in context of President Bush’s.
What’s driving Obama’s unprecedented massive deficits? Spending. Riedl details:

• President Bush expanded the federal budget by a historic $700 billion through 2008. President Obama would add another $1 trillion.
  
• President Bush began a string of expensive finan­cial bailouts. President Obama is accelerating that course.
  
• President Bush created a Medicare drug entitle­ment that will cost an estimated $800 billion in its first decade. President Obama has proposed a $634 billion down payment on a new govern­ment health care fund.
  
• President Bush increased federal education spending 58 percent faster than inflation. Presi­dent Obama would double it.
  
• President Bush became the first President to spend 3 percent of GDP on federal antipoverty programs. President Obama has already in­creased this spending by 20 percent.
  
• President Bush tilted the income tax burden more toward upper-income taxpayers. President Obama would continue that trend.
  
• President Bush presided over a $2.5 trillion increase in the public debt through 2008. Setting aside 2009 (for which Presidents Bush and Obama share responsibility for an additional $2.6 trillion in public debt), President Obama’s budget would add $4.9 trillion in public debt from the beginning of 2010 through 2016.
  

UPDATE: Many Obama defenders in the comments are claiming that the numbers above do not include spending on Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush years. They most certainly do. While Bush did fund the wars through emergency supplementals (not the regular budget process), that spending did not simply vanish. It is included in the numbers above. Also, some Obama defenders are claiming the graphic above represents biased Heritage Foundation numbers. While we stand behind the numbers we put out 100%, the numbers, and the graphic itself, above are from the Washington Post. We originally left out the link to WaPo. It has been now been added.
CLARIFICATION: Of course, this Washington Post graphic does not perfectly delineate budget surpluses and deficits by administration. President Bush took office in January 2001, and therefore played a lead role in crafting the FY 2002-2008 budgets. Presidents Bush and Obama share responsibility for the FY 2009 budget deficit that overlaps their administrations, before President Obama assumes full budgetary responsibility beginning in FY 2010. Overall, President Obama’s budget would add twice as much debt as President Bush over the same number of years.

Tout-a-fait Lawrence !

Republicans Grill Sotomayor on Past Controversial Statements

Obama's nominee for U.S. Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor, faces tough questioning Tuesday from Republican senators about her ability to judge fairly.

FOXNews.com

Tuesday, July 14, 2009
After declaring that a "wise Latina" woman has no advantage in finding judicial wisdom, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor faced tough questions Tuesday from the Judicial Committee's top Republican who accused the judge of changing her previous statement.
"My play on those words fell flat. It was bad," Sotomayor told Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, trying to defend her 2001 speech in which she suggested a "wise Latina" would usually reach better conclusions than a white man without similar experiences.
"I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gendered group has an advantage in sound judgment," Sotomayor told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, the second day of her confirmation hearing to become the first Hispanic to sit on the high court. "I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge."
The federal appellate judge said her 2001 remarks to students at the University of California Berkeley were meant only to to "inspire them to believe that their life experiences would enrich the legal system" and not to suggest that any one group was more likely to reach a better conclusion.
But Sessions, the senior Republican on the committee, asked how Sotomayor could make such a claim Tuesday that she was "agreeing" with Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor that a "wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases."
Sotomayor told students in 2001 that "Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases" and "I am not sure I agree with that statement."
"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who has not lived that life," Sotomayor had said in her remarks to students.
Sotomayor also responded to criticisms Tuesday over her ruling in the reverse discrimination case -- Ricci vs. Destefano -- that was later overturned in a 5-4 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. Sotomayor said the case was about an examination for firefighter promotions --]
The judge also said her remarks in 2005 -- in which she said the Court of Appeals is where "policy is made [and] where ... the law is percolating" -- have been taken out of context by critics.
"As a judge, I do not make law," Sotomayor told Judiciary chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., during opening testimony.
At least one Republican senator vowed Tuesday "to expose" Sonia Sotomayor as "extremely liberal" when he gets to questioning the Supreme Court nominee.

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Comme je le faisais remarquer il y a quelques temps, un juge americain se doit d'appliquer la loi pas de la mettre au gout du jour.