Ruminations - 9/26/08
Listening to the debate - I like the format and I like that the moderator is letting them go at each other.
But always surfing!
A post-Partisan Politican, that Obama is? From Jim over at Gateway Pundit:
Missouri Sheriffs & Top Prosecutors Form Obama "Truth Squads" & Threaten Libel Charges Against Obama Critics
More Hope and Change for Missouri...
St. Louis and Missouri Democrat sheriffs and top prosecutors are planning to go after anyone who makes false statements against Obama during his campaign. This is so one sided I can't even begin to describe how wrong this agenda is.
It's one thing if they want to keep the campaign fair for both sides, but they clearly only want to enforce the issue for the Obama Camp.
KMOV has a video report on the Obama "Truth Squads".
Shutting down Free Speech and the First Amendment Rights - is this really how we are to perceive the Obama supports - "Shut up or we'll sue you"? After all, the Obama campaign itself it going after radio and TV stations...
Shades of a Putin...
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NRO - I like this gal more and more [Mark Steyn]
An Alaska mayor writes to a California newspaper:“Dear Editor,” Palin wrote in 2002. “San Francisco judges forbidding our Pledge of Allegiance? They will take the phrase ‘under God’ away from me when my cold, dead lips can no longer utter those words.”
I can deal with that!
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Her Own Stem Cells Started Rebuilding Her Immune System
Resetting Immune System in Bid to Beat Scleroderma
Washington - First Bari Martz's fingers turned blue. Then she started gasping for breath, and her joints stiffened so that she couldn't even open her hands. Doctors diagnosed scleroderma, part of an insidious family of diseases where the immune system attacks a patient's own body, sometimes enough to kill.
Worsening rapidly, the Florida woman took a gamble: Doctors stored stem cells from her blood and then wiped out her faulty immune system. Her reinfused stem cells seem to have let a healthy new immune system take root, stopping more damage and, nearly two years later, letting her lungs and joints heal enough for better function.
Faster please! It also shows, along with a scores of other advances, that the use and research of adult stem cells is rapidly becoming the place to be. There is no reason why we need to create a life and then kill it to harvest its cells has to happen. We must cherish life.
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You think that they would learn their lessons? And since they haven't, when we, the voters, learn ours?
$6.6 billion in special projects rides on federal spending bill
WASHINGTON — A $630 billion spending bill nearing final approval in Congress includes $6.6 billion for thousands of lawmakers' pet projects, including $51.5 million requested by Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden when both presidential candidates have sworn off seeking any money.
Taxpayers for Common Sense analyzed the 2,321 special-interest items called "earmarks" in the spending bill. The legislation is a temporary measure that would fund the government through March, rather than October 2009, when the next fiscal year ends. It combines spending bills for the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs, as well as nearly $30 billion in disaster relief for flood and hurricane victims and up to $25 billion in loans to automakers.
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Both presidential candidates, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, have criticized earmarks. McCain, who doesn't request earmarks, has said that as president, he would veto any bill containing them. Since joining the Senate in 2005, Obama has requested $860.6 million in earmarks, according to the taxpayer group, but none this year, and he has pledged to reduce them if elected president.
Got that? Temporary! The Dem leaders in the House and Senate have failed to lead and get their mandated job done - spending bills. PLUS! they just cannot seem to understand that people are tired of the pork process - put it up front, out for review, and vote on it. Stop hiding it.
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