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Bonjour Biloulou

Il me semblait que cette nouvelle plairait!

Voila un des endroits ou l'argent du plan de relance de NP va se retrouver: 16.1 million de dollars pour sauvegarder une espece de souris.

Voila ce dont parlait le Senateur de l'Arizona entre autres, d'ou sa proposition de reviser les projets avant de continuer a transferer l'argent restant. (plus de 80% du total)

GOP hits Pelosi for nouse funds

By S.A. Miller


The tiny mouse that became a hotly disputed symbol of wasteful spending in the $787 billion economic stimulus bill has returned to pester House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The Obama administration revealed last week that as much as $16.1 million from the stimulus program is going to save the San Francisco Bay Area habitat of, among other things, the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse.

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Space Shuttle Endeavour Launches After Delays
Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- After more than a month's delay, space shuttle Endeavour and seven astronauts thundered into orbit Wednesday on a flight to the international space station, hauling up a veranda for Japan's enormous lab and looking to set a crowd record.

Success came on launch try No. 6, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the liftoff of man's first moon landing.
But the mood was dampened somewhat when NASA managers watched the launch video.

The space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Wednesday.

Reuters

Eight or nine pieces of foam insulation came off the external fuel tank during liftoff, and the shuttle was hit at least two or three times, said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's space operations chief. Some scuff marks were spotted on the belly, but that probably is coating loss and considered minor, he said.

In fact, Mission Control told the astronauts Wednesday night that the damage -- which occurred not quite two minutes into the flight -- looked to be less extensive than what occurred on the last flight.

Engineers immediately began reviewing all the launch pictures, standard procedure ever since flights resumed following the Columbia disaster. Gerstenmaier said zoom-in photos will be taken of the entire shuttle right before it docks with the space station Friday, to ascertain whether it suffered any serious damage. It will take days to go through all the data.

C'est pas pour dire mais je vais le dire quand meme...

Voulez-vous savoir pourquoi NP est presse de faire passer son histoire de couverture sociale qui va finir de destabiliser le pays:

Date................................. Presidential Approval Index Strongly Approve Strongly Disapprove Total Approve Total Disapprove

07/16/2009	-7	29%	36%	51%	47%

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01/21/2009

+28

44%

16%

65%

30%

S'il attend encore 2 mois il n'y a pas que le pays qui sera dans le rouge!!!

Biloulou , songez-y la prochaine fois...

Should Killing Lobsters In Boiling Water Be Outlawed? (VIDEO, POLL)

It's summer, and as many head to the beach with hopes of enjoying fresh seafood, the practice of killing live lobsters in boiling water is drawing new attention.

Around the world, many are beginning to question the commonly accepted methods for killing crustaceans. In March, a group of British scientists published a report stating that shellfish can process pain.


Legislation is already in place globally to protect crustacean rights. New Zealand counts shellfish on its list of animals protected by animal rights laws, Reggio Emilia, Italy forbids the boiling of lobsters and the British Shellfish Network dutifully advocates for lobster liberties. The recent influx of scientific experiments on crustacean pain tolerance and the rise in underwater animal activists has led many to ponder "can killing lobsters be humane?"

An article in The Atlantic explores the debate behind slaughtering lobsters.

Pince-moi, je rêve - dis-je à mon homard domestiqué !

Stefan Frederick Cook: Soldier Won't Deploy Over Obama Birth Certificate
huffington_post:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/14/stefan-frederick-cook-sol_n_231383.html

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner First Posted: 07-14-09 09:15 AM | Updated: 07-15-09 10:58 AM
UPDATE: The Army has revoked the deployment orders for a soldier who said he shouldn't have to go to Afghanistan because (he believes) Barack Obama was never eligible to be president.
Because he's a reserve soldier who volunteered for an active duty tour he can "ask for a revocation of orders up until the day he is scheduled to report for active duty," a public affairs officer explained. Cook volunteered for the tour in May of this year. It is not clear why he did so, considering his current objections.

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Obama birth certificate deniers won a small victory in court on Monday. Meanwhile, one such conspiracy theorist refused to deploy to Afghanistan on the grounds that Barack Obama isn't a legitimate president.

A judge said he would listen to "the merits" of Alan Keyes' case challenging Obama's presidency. While a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office said the move was merely procedural, birth conspiracy proponents are encouraged:

Supporters of a case that disputes the legitimacy of Barack Obama's presidency claimed a small victory today when U.S. District Judge David O. Carter told them to fix their paperwork and that he would listen to "the merits" of their case. But others present for the hearing Monday at the federal courthouse in Santa Ana stressed that the case remains a long way from ever getting a full airing in court and may never get to that point. [...]

Perhaps because of that history, Orly Taitz, the lawyer who filed the current suit, was greatly cheered by Monday's hearing. "He's very determined to hear the case on the merits," Taitz said, referring to the judge. "He stated, the country needs to know if Mr. Obama is legitimate, if he can legitimately stay in the White House."

Orly Taitz, the lawyer in Keyes' case, is also representing a soldier who refuses to acknowledge Obama as his president. U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook has argued that he shouldn't have to go to Afghanistan because the man sending him there isn't really president.

In the 20-page document -- filed July 8 with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia -- the California-based Taitz asks the court to consider granting his client's request based upon Cook's belief that Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and is therefore ineligible to serve as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces.

Cook further states he "would be acting in violation of international law by engaging in military actions outside the United States under this President's command. ... simultaneously subjecting himself to possible prosecution as a war criminal by the faithful execution of these duties."

Avant de parler, j'espere que vous lui aurez au moins ote les liens qui tenaient ses pinces serrees!

'ttention, la torture ne sera plus supportee!

Oui, bien sûr.

Ces élastiques servent maintenant à faire tenir le pantalon de mon pyjama depuis mon dernier régime.

* Sans avoir a aller chercher le systeme suisse, Pres. Bush avait propose un programme qui permettait a chaque Americain de choisir son assurance: aupres du gouvernement ou chez des assureurs prives et, meme s'il le souhaitait, partager moitie, moitie.

Il pouvait egalement, deposer mensuellement sur un compte bloque la meme somme d'argent qu'il aurait debourse pour s'assurer. Il aurait et responsable de son compte, dont il se serait servi qu'au fur et a mesure de ses besoins medicaux. Tout argent restant sur le compte a son deces aurait ete transmis a sa descendance.

Pres. Bush proposait egalement de voir s'installer des cliniques gratuites ou les personnes incapables de payer les honoraires chez des medecins ou les frais de laboratoires, vont directement aux urgences...

Il avait egalement demande a ce qu'un soutien financier soit apporte au systeme de soutien des pauvres afin d'eviter d'avoir a depenser de l'argent dans des structures administratives.

etc.. etc..

evidemment, les Democrates lui ont ri au nez. C'est tellement mieux d'engager des milliers de fonctionnaires** pour faire tourner un systeme socialiste. Ca marche tellement bien au Canada et en Angleterre qu'il serait dommage de ne pas prendre exemple!

** je rappelle que les minorites sont engagees en priorite.

Je n'aime pas particulierement la facon quelque peu excessive dont Glenn Beck presente son point de vue (meme si je suis d'accord avec la majorite de ce qu'il dit) mais il faut admettre que son explication de la somme minimale economisee par le plan des Democrates a l'aide d'un billet d'un dollar est particulierement frappante.

Success on Health care still a long way off

By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN | 7/16/09 7:49 PM EDT - Updated: 7/17/09 4:08 AM EDT

For a brief moment Thursday, Senate Democrats could celebrate. Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus suggested for the first time publicly he was hoping for a bipartisan deal to pay for health care reform by the end of the day.


The good feelings didn’t last long.


Within hours, Baucus (D-Mont.) said the talks were suspended until next week — defying President Barack Obama’s request to produce an agreement by the weekend and throwing into doubt any hopes of meeting the president’s August deadline to pass a Senate bill.


That wasn’t the only grim news for health reform advocates. Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf said plans being considered in the House and the Senate health committee would drive the nation further into debt — not create the savings repeatedly promised by President Barack Obama.


And on top of that, Baucus had to call the White House and apologize for saying earlier in the day that Obama’s resistance to taxing employer health benefits “is not helping us” get a bill.

Oooohhh!

Typiquement Democrate

Biden: Without Stimulus, U.S. Would Go Bankrupt

Vice President defends Obama administration's $787 billion stimulus package, saying without it, "we're going to go bankrupt as a nation."
FOXNews.com

Thursday, July 16, 2009




Avec un peu de maquillage, il serait bien en Joker!

July 16: Vice President Joe Biden speaks about health care reform in Alexandria, Va. (AP)

Vice President Biden defended the Obama administration's economic stimulus package Thursday by suggesting that without the federal government spending massive amounts of money to shore up the economy the country would go bankrupt.

"We're going to go bankrupt as a nation," Biden warned at an event in the backyard of the House's No. 2 Republican.

"People, when I say that, look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?" he said. "The answer is yes."

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Ce n'est pas le gouvernement qui doit depenser l'argent du contribuable dans des programmes federaux, ce sont les Americains qui doivent faire tourner l'economie en achetant!
Moins d'impots, plus d'achats, plus de jobs..

et ils n'ont toujours pas compris, en bon socialistes, ils font tout le contraire.

Aaaah? mais NP ne souhaitait pourtant plus que le mot "terreur" soit utilise!

man-made desaster!!!

Cher Saint Pierre

Il me semble que les premieres pages de ce fil aient disparu. Sont-elles archivees?

Merci d'avance pour votre aide

Ben c'etait suppose etre le territoire exclusif des Republicains, alors si les Democrates s'y mettent (Sarcasme, hein...)

Black Business Leader Charges Sen. Boxer With Racial Condescension

The president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce accused Sen. Barbara Boxer Thursday of racially condescending to him during an Environment and Public Works hearing.



FOXNews.com

Thursday, July 16, 2009


The president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce accused Sen. Barbara Boxer on Thursday of racially condescending to him during an Environment and Public Works Committee hearing.

Republican members of the committee had sought the testimony of Harry C. Alford, an opponent of a climate change bill that narrowly passed in the House.

Alford said in his opening statement that he spoke on behalf of his organization when he argued that the bill would have devastating consequences for small and minority-owned businesses.

But he took offense when Boxer countered his statement by quoting an NAACP resolution that approved the climate change bill and putting it on the record.

Clearly agitated, Alford asked why Boxer would cite that group's resolution.

"Sir, they passed it. They passed it," Boxer responded. "Now, also, if that isn't interesting to you, we'll quote John Grant, who is the CEO of 100 Black Men of Atlanta."

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Imaginons une seconde (une seconde seulement) que SENATEUR (elle y tient) Boxer soit Republicaine. Le scandale!!! Mais la, non.

Une fois de plus, c'est faites ce qu'on vous dit pas ce qu'on fait et de plus taisez-vous si vous n'etes pas d'accord.

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De plus en quoi le NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) est une reference en matiere d'environnement et de Business??

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Imaginons une seconde (une seconde seulement) que SENATEUR (elle y tient) Boxer soit Republicaine

Probablement compte-t-elle plus sur une victoire par KO qu'aux "poings", car très curieusement le substantif sénateur accepte le féminin en trice en-dehors de toute mordante intervention des chiennes de garde et autres Bombardier hystériques.

Mon prochain boxer je l'appellerais peut-être Sénatrice si la pauvre bête en a le genre...

Democrats Drop Key Part of Bill to Assist Unions

A half-dozen senators friendly to labor have decided to drop a central provision of a bill that would have made it easier to organize workers.

The so-called card-check provision — which senators decided to scrap to help secure a filibuster-proof 60 votes — would have required employers to recognize a union as soon as a majority of workers signed cards saying they wanted a union. Currently, employers can insist on a secret-ballot election, a higher hurdle for unions.

The abandonment of card check was another example of the power of moderate Democrats to constrain their party’s more liberal legislative efforts. Though the Democrats have a 60-40 vote advantage in the Senate, and President Obama supports the measure, several moderate Democrats opposed the card-check provision as undemocratic.

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Absolument.

"trice" alors Eddie , d'accord!

No escape from Guantanamo for Obama
By Jonathan Mann
(CNN)

There are more than 200 men behind bars in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In a way, U.S. President Barack Obama is trapped there too.



Obama has pledged to shut down Guantanamo Bay but achieving that goal is proving harder than he hoped.

"How we deal with those situations," he said in an interview with the Associated Press earlier this month, "is going to be one of the biggest challenges of my administration."

The detention center for suspected terrorists is one of the most infamous prisons in the world. On his first full day as president, Obama promised to shut it within a year.

On Tuesday he'll be at the half-way point and he's still struggling to close it.

The president says there are three kinds of prisoners at Gitmo. First, there are those who'll be put on trial. Military courts have already heard some cases and civilian court proceedings are under way as well.

There are prisoners who are expected to be released or transferred somewhere else. Since Gitmo was established in 2002, hundreds have been sent to their home countries or other places willing to accept them.

Finally, there are those the U.S. can't prosecute but doesn't want to let go.

All the cases are complicated but that third category is the most controversial: prisoners whom the administration still considers a threat, but doesn't expect to be able to convict in court using evidence judges will accept.

Lawyers within the Obama administration are considering jailing those prisoners indefinitely even after Guantanamo Bay is closed down.

"We don't have a tradition of detaining people without trial," Obama said. "It gives me huge pause, which is why we're going to proceed carefully."

The rights of the prisoners and the demands of U.S. law are part of the problem. There's also politics: widespread opposition to releasing or even jailing any Gitmo prisoners on U.S. soil.

Already, Congress refused to allow government money to be used to close Guantanamo Bay until there are clear plans for its inmates. So the president has to decide.

For now, Obama is caught between the prison he inherited and the promise he made, without any easy escape.

Herite? oui... mais il etait au courant lorsqu'il s'est presente comme candidat, il a assez reproche cette prison au gouvernement precedent.

C'est comme quand le successeur Republicain de NP s'installera a la Maison Blanche, il "heritera" de ce que NP lui aura laisse, et ce ne sera pas du gateau...

Pres. Bush, lui a "herite" entre autres d'une recession et du 11 septembre. Il a fait face, en mettant en place des diminutions d'impots.

Alors il faut arreter avec cette histoire d'heritage d'autant que NP est a Washington depuis bientot 7 mois et c'est sans compter novembre, decembre et debut janvier, durant lesquels Pres. Bush lui avait permis une transition des plus cordiales et des plus confortables, chose a laquelle, il n'avait pas, lui, eu droit!

On croit rever!! Ben l'etat dans lequel NP est en train de mettre le pays, ils n'auront pas beaucoup d'efforts a faire.

Islamic Supremacist Group Holds First U.S. Conference

Friday, July 17, 2009

Diane Macedo
YouTube

The Khilafah Conference 2009 is scheduled to be held July 19, 2009 at the Hilton Oak Lawn hotel.

A group committed to establishing an international Islamic empire and reportedly linked to Al Qaeda is stepping up its Western recruitment efforts by holding its first official conference in the U.S.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is a global Sunni network with reported ties to confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Al Qaeda in Iraq's onetime leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. It has operated discreetly in the U.S. for decades.

Now, it is coming out of the shadows and openly hosting a July 19 conference entitled, "The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam," at a posh Hilton hotel in a suburb of Chicago.

Hizb ut-Tahrir insists that it does not engage in terrorism, and it is not recognized by the State Department as a known terror group.

But some terrorism experts say it may be even more dangerous than many groups that are on the terror list.

"Hizb ut-Tahrir is one of the oldest, largest indoctrinating organizations for the ideology known as jihadism," Walid Phares, director of the Future of Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told FOXNews.com.

Phares said that Hizb ut-Tahrir, rather than training members to carry out terrorist acts like Al Qaeda, focuses instead on indoctrinating youths between ages of 9 and 18 to absorb the ideology that calls for the formation of an empire — or "khilafah" — that will rule according to Islamic law and condones any means to achieve it, including militant jihad.

Hizb ut-Tahrir often says that its indoctrination "prepares the infantry" that groups like Al Qaeda take into battle, Phares said.

"It's like a middle school that prepares them to be recruited by the high school, which is Al Qaeda," he said. "One would compare them to Hitler youth. ... It's an extremely dangerous organization."

Phares said Hizb ut-Tahrir has strongholds in Western countries, including Britain, France and Spain, and clearly is looking to strengthen its base in the U.S.

"The aim of this conference is to recruit within the Muslim community in America," he said. "The Middle East governments go after them, but in the U.S. they are protected, so having a base here is going to help their cells around the world."

Representatives of Hizb ut-Tahrir declined to comment when contacted by FOXNews.com.

Oren Segal, director of Islamic Affairs for the Anti-Defamation League, said the conference is cause for concern.

"While they're not, for the most part, engaging in violent activities, and they publicly say that they're against violence, there have been examples around the world where people who have spun off of this group have engaged in violent activity," Segal told FOXNews.com. "That's why they're banned in several Arab and Central Asian countries, as well as Germany and Russia."

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is one of the group's most famous alumni, New Statesman journalist Shiv Malik reported, citing intelligence sources. In addition to plotting the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, he also is implicated in the World Trade Center bombing of 1993, the Bali nightclub bombings and the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

Malik's report, the public policy institute the Nixon Center and the counter-extremism think tank the Quilliam Foundation agree that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq until he was killed in June 2006, was also once a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir.

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Selon Rasmussen:

Just 35% of U.S. voters now support the creation of a government health insurance company to compete with private health insurers.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 50% of voters oppose setting up a government health insurance company as President Obama and congressional Democrats are now proposing in their health care reform plan. Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided.

In mid-June, 41% of American adults thought setting up a government health insurance company to compete with private health insurance companies was a good idea, but the identical number (41%) disagreed.

C'est la course contre la montre pour NP, il lui faut apposer son paraphe en bas du papier et pouvoir dire: quand j'ai signe les Americains etaient "on board" comme il le repete regulierement! mais ce n'est plus tout-a-fait vrai.

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The BBC's Emma Jane Kirby in Paris says there is an acute sense of injustice in France at the moment, with many workers complaining that while their bosses continue to reap company benefits and bonuses, they are paying for this economic crisis with their jobs.

Bien vu et bien dit, c'est le sentiment général corrigé des variations idéologiques et syndicales saisonnières.

La forme de l'action des employés s'expose certes à la critique, mais personne ne pourra nier qu'ils payent les errements et les perversions d'une forme de management qui exécute l'exécutant et qui absout les bad boys au sommet et les prévaricateurs, accaparateurs et autres agioteurs qui tirent les ficelles dans l'ombre. Les ouvriers sont marrons alors les directeurs eux tirent les marrons du feu. On va à la châtaigne !

La dégénérescence des systèmes irrespectueux de l'homme commence invaraiblement par la tête.

Recu ce matin de Houston:

I don’t normally read a lot of poetry; however, this poem concerning summer in Texas really caught my attention.. It is so appropriate and “spot on” I just felt the need to share it with you. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did….