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Posted by Billy on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 1:55:27 PM
 
 
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REID SHOCK: KENNEDY DEATH 'GOING TO HELP US'...

Posted by Billy on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 1:49:57 PM

 

 REID SHOCK: KENNEDY DEATH 'GOING TO HELP US'...  

(Do click on the above link. When you do be ready to be made upset and shocked. Can you guess what would have happened if somebody on the right had said this.)

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Mount Vernon, WA to award Glenn Beck key to city

Posted by Billy on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 1:41:50 PM
The mayor of Mount Vernon has made it official. Mayor Bud Norris says he will give the key to his city to conservative talk show host Glenn Beck on September 26.  ( Mount Vernon, WA to award Glenn Beck key to city...   )


Norris says Beck will deliver a short talk that night and become the first person to receive a key to the city in the six years Norris has been mayor.

Protesters from the Skagit County Young Democrats walked outside city hall Tuesday with protest signs, one reading "Change the locks!"

They called it "totally inappropriate" to give a man who labeled President Barack Obama a "racist" a key to the city.
 
(Good for this Mayor for honoring a local boy who has made it big and shame on those from the left for  being upset over this.  Why is it ok for the Rev. Jesse Jackson  to call somebody a  racist  but not from the right to do it. I am not saying Beck is always right but shouldn't he enjoy the same rights of others.)
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IT'S OFFICIAL: NO PUBLIC OPTION FROM OBAMA...

Posted by Billy on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 11:57:21 AM

Aides to President Barack Obama are putting the final touches on a new strategy to help Democrats recover from a brutal August recess by specifying what Obama wants to see in a compromise health care deal and directly confronting other trouble spots, West Wing officials tell POLITICO.  ( IT'S OFFICIAL: NO PUBLIC OPTION FROM OBAMA...    )

 

Obama is considering detailing his health-care demands in a major speech as soon as next week, when Congress returns from the August recess. And although House leaders have said their members will demand the inclusion of a public insurance option, Obama has no plans to insist on it himself, the officials said.

 

“We’re entering a new season,” senior adviser David Axelrod said in a telephone interview. “It’s time to synthesize and harmonize these strands and get this done. We’re confident that we can do that. But obviously it is a different phase. We’re going to approach it in a different way. The president is going to be very active.
 
(It is good news if there is not going to be a public insurance option. However I still want to see what Obama and his team is coming up with and make sure nothing is hidden in the paper work. Also the President has been very active but the people still have been saying no to this so I am not sure what his team is thinking.)

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Revenue-hungry Kansas will be owner of new casinos

Posted by Billy on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 11:50:58 AM


In Kansas, Carrie Nation battled booze by smashing up saloons, the state school board once approved science guidelines questioning evolution and anti-abortion leaders have made their stiffest stands - all burnishing the state's conservative credentials.

Now, Kansas is poised for an unlikely distinction: It's about to get into the casino business, not merely by blessing gambling and taxing the profits but by becoming the legal owner of the casinos themselves.

Kansas is believed to be the only state with such an arrangement. It already has four Indian casinos, but its first non-tribal one is set to open in December in Dodge City, the former cowtown and setting of television's "Gunsmoke."

It's all because the state, known for its conservative history and a vibrant right wing within its dominant Republican Party, needs the money.


Lawmakers in recent months have slashed money for schools and other state services, and the current state budget relies on $50 million in casino licensing fees to remain balanced.

(Isn't  it sad that instead of getting a control of spending, government thinks it has to raise taxes or do things  which are questionable like the state of Kansas is doing here. For now on when I get my taxes I am going to write my leaders and tell them I can't pay them so they need to stop sending  me such high taxes. Read more on this news item Revenue-hungry Kansas will be owner of new casinos.)
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Harry Reid Took on the Wrong Newspaper

Posted by Billy on Tuesday, September 01, 2009 12:23:27 PM

(If you are like me and don't live in  Nevada  you  may not have heard of Sherman Frederick, the publisher of the Review-Journal,  -- but  I bet people  heard of him now. His editorial column from yesterday shows he is not afraid to take on the powerful Sen.  Harry Reid. Below is  an excerpt.)
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We're still here doing what we do for the people of Las Vegas and Nevada. So, let me assure you, if we weathered all of that, we can damn sure outlast the bully threats of Sen. Harry Reid.

On Wednesday, before he addressed a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Reid joined the chamber's board members for a meet-'n'-greet and a photo. One of the last in line was the Review-Journal's director of advertising, Bob Brown, a hard-working Nevadan who toils every day on behalf of advertisers. He has nothing to do with news coverage or the opinion pages of the Review-Journal.

Yet, as Bob shook hands with our senior U.S. senator in what should have been nothing but a gracious business setting, Reid said: "I hope you go out of business."

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No citizen should expect this kind of behavior from a U.S. senator. It is certainly not becoming of a man who is the majority leader in the U.S. Senate.

(Good for this publisher for not sitting out this fight. Shame on Sen. Reid. I hope the good people of Nevada will see the kind   of man they have in office and give him a pink slip the next election. If you want to write Sherman Frederick and thank him for standing up to the powerful just email him at sfrederick@reviewjournal.com. )

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