Will the Sun’s move dispirit the party even more?
Labour’s big remaining hope as it entered the conference season was that Brown’s speech would exceed the low expectations and provide the platform for some sort of recovery.
Last year the PM’s “no time for a novice” phrase caught the mood of the time and for the final quarter of 2008 Cameron’s Tories were on the back foot.
A lot was riding on being able to do the same again - a prospect that looks a lotSource: Political Betting RSS Feed
Also from Red China’s People’s Daily Online:
"Oba Mao" items popular with foreign tourists in Beijing
Pouches printed with a mixed image of U.S. President Barack Obama and late Chinese leader Mao Zedong are on sale at a small souvenir shop in Houhai, a famous tourist area in Beijing, on Thursday, September 24, 2009.
A souvenir shop in the popular Houhai tourist area of Beijing has recently become quite famous because it is selling products with the image of U.S.Source: Sweetness Light RSS Feed
The best thing about ObamaCare – if there’s any good about it – is that it has succeeded in bringing down Democrats. It’s quite ironic but the most ambitious plan Obama had for his country is so unpopular that many Democrats running for reelection next year will have a hard time hanging on to their seats.
Rasmussen reports that only 41% of voters support ObamaCare against 56% who opposes the bill. Never before was support so low and opposition so widespread.
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Miss Porky Pig flies through the air during the Pig Racing and Diving show in Melbourne, Australia.
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Syndicate columnist Charles Krauthammer appeared on Fox News Sunday with sharp criticism of President Barack Obama speech to the UN General Assembly. "I think he indulged himself in his speech at the General Assembly, which started out as sort of adolescent utopianism and went downhill. He started out saying things like no nation can dominate another. He said no group of nations ought to be above others," said Krauthammer.
"What do ourSource: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed
By Leslie Harris, After Downing Street
The recent uproar over the blatant hypocrisy of the Arlington (TX) School District's decision not to show President Obama's address to school children (which would have cost the district nothing), while at the same time preparing to bus (at taxpayers' expense) about 500 students to the gargantuan, shiny new Texas Stadium to hear former President George W. Bush speak, was mitigated when the district's embattled superintendent apologized andSource: Democrats.com | The Aggressive Progressives! RSS Feed
During the healthcare reform debate (which is really an insurance reform debate) we've heard a lot about the British National Health System (almost totally socialized and roundly criticized) and a little about the French system (less socialized, less criticized). I recently heard a suggestion that the Swiss system might be a model that would work in the USA. I have some more thoughts and informaiton about all this at True North, including a summary of how that little alpine countrySource: The Hedgehog Blog RSS Feed
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LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) - It’s game over for some police officers who played video games while they raided a convicted drug dealer’s home in central Florida.
Surveillance video obtained by WFLA in Tampa caught the officers playing a Nintendo Wii bowling game, with one furiously jumping up and down in celebration. Officials say some of the officers could be disciplined.
Officers with the anti-drug task force had just stormed into the home of the convicted drug dealer,Source: The Two Malcontents RSS Feed
It's a tough job protecting Polk County, Florida, from drug-dealing scum but not so tough that the deputies cannot have a little fun while they are doing it.
Unfortunately for them, the suspect's house was wired with security cameras and somebody gave the recordings to a local TV station:With guns drawn and flashlights cutting through darkened rooms, Polk County undercover drug investigators stormed the home of convicted drug dealer Michael Difalco near Lakeland in March.
AsSource: To the People RSS Feed
Not all serial killers are wanted by the police. Self-described abortion addict Irene Vilar is free to kill and kill again with the active encouragement of authorities, who confiscate your money to help finance her homicidal activities.
Vilar has committed 15 abortions in 16 years. Here’s how ABC sees fit to report on her accomplishment, and on her attempt to exploit it for financial gain:
Irene Vilar worries that her self-described “abortion addiction” will Source: Stop the ACLU RSS Feed
This is coming on the heels of Obama's first appearance at the UN as president for the Climate Gathering going on there, and I'm wondering if Hugo Chavez will smell sulfur like he claimed he did calling him the Devil after Bush spoke near the end of his second term..
Now back on topic......Every country has em, these climate kooks....Britain's head nut is Prince Charles, and I'm sorry..... but I have to laugh when anyone living at his comfort level tells me or anyone else on this planet Source: Chicagoray RSS Feed
By Tim Redmond
Municipal Transportation Agency officials have drafted a plan to overhaul the San Francisco taxi industry -- and just about everyone hates it.
The proposal, outlined in a Sept. 8 memo from Christiane Hayashi, director of taxis and accessible services, would ultimately shift control of cab permits away from working drivers and give them to cab companies.
The process would be slow -- the drivers who currently hold Source: SFBG Politics RSS Feed
CommonDreams | I really don't know what to say anymore, about a country in which proposing a new and better version of corporate-plunder masquerading as national healthcare gets you burned in effigy for being a socialist stooge by gun-toting angry mobs.
I really don't know what to say anymore, about a country in which the same people who hate you for being a socialist simultaneously hate you for being a fascist.
I really don't know what to say anymore, about a country in whichSource: subrealism RSS Feed
SecDef Robert Gates (left) and VJCS Gen. James E. Cartwright, Sept. 17, 2009.
DoD photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Molly A. Burgess, U.S. Navy. Click photo to enlarge.
Those who say we are scrapping missile defense in Europe are either misinformed or misrepresenting the reality of what we are doing. The security of Europe has been a vital national interest of the United States for my entire career. The circumstances, borders and threats may have changed, but that commitmentSource: Daily Kos RSS Feed
H.R. 2749: Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009
111th CongressThis is a bill in the U.S. Congress originating in the House of Representatives
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the safety of food in the global market, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. John Dingell ([D-MI)
Jul 30, 2009: This bill passed in the House of Representatives by roll callSource: Theodore's World RSS Feed
…top marks for Sunder Katwala of the Fabians for this, reported by James Graham:
When Cameron claims you can’t put a cigarette paper between the Tories and LDs, it makes you wonder what he’s smoking.
Meanwhile, twittery excitement is growing about this afternoon’s debate on civil libs. Richard Dawkins is speaking to his amendment in about half an hour:
@bengoldacre #ldconf there’s also dawkins doing amendment on libel in civil libertiesSource: Liberal Democrat Voice RSS Feed
Photo Credit: Sgt. 1st Class Alex LiceaSpc. Jonathan "Tito" Taylor leans against a rock wall as an Iraqi girl overlooks his shoulder during a combined foot patrol in the town of Salman Pak, Iraq, located 30 miles southeast of Baghdad. Iraq Army Soldiers and paratroopers assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Multi-National Division ? Baghdad, conducted these patrols frequently in order to deter any enemySource: U.S. Torture and Atrocities RSS Feed
This week, ThinkProgress pointed out that women often face extra hurdles in obtaining health care on the individual market since some insurers refuse to cover maternity care, disqualify women who have had a Caesarean-section pregnancy, or consider domestic violence a pre-existing condition. Yesterday in a speech, First Lady Michelle Obama addressed these disparities:
Women are affected because, as we heard, in many states, insurance companies can still discriminate because ofSource: Think Progress RSS Feed
From the NY Times:
President Obama has sent a request to Gov. David A. Paterson that he withdraw from the New York governor’s race, fearing that Mr. Paterson cannot recover from his dismal political standing, according to two senior administration officials and a New York Democratic operative with direct knowledge of the situation.
The decision to ask Mr. Paterson to step aside was proposed by political advisers to Mr. Obama, but approved by the president himself, one of theSource: Queens Crap RSS Feed
You can search this blog high and low and you're not going to find too many favorable references to Louisiana DLC Senator Mary Landrieu. She has a miserable overall voting record, one of the half dozen Democrats voting most frequently with the Republicans on substantive issues, a clear reflection of the unconscionable flood of corporate money that has made her campaigns one of the Senate's most corrupt cesspools, on a par with Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Richard Burr (R-NC), Joe Lieberman Source: DownWithTyranny! RSS Feed
Happy Friday! A collection of kisses from the Boston Globe:
A kiss – a simple act that can convey a diverse array of meanings. A kiss can be intimate and private, or meant for public display, it can convey love and affection, or simply provide comfort. Its use as a greeting is under fire in our current climate of H1N1 fear, as the French government has begun encouraging citizens to forgo “la bise”, their traditional cheek-to-cheek kiss, for health reasons. Gathered here Source: The Moderate Voice RSS Feed
A millennium or so ago, Steve Martin played a stadium with his stand-up act. He got the crowd of tens of thousands to repeat a series of statements in unison. My favorite, for sheer irony: “We Are all Individuals.”
But, the thing is, we are.
This is why I never cease to be amazed by disagreements like the one currently playing out between the curriculum groups “Common Core,” and “Partnership for 21st Century Skills.”
Is there really one Source: Cato-at-liberty RSS Feed
From Arizona’s East Valley Tribune:
Arpaio subpoenas ACORN, says funds misused
By Gary Grado
September 17, 2009
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio alleged Thursday that a national community activist organization is using federal and state funds to fight his efforts to enforce immigration law.
Arpaio sent subpoenas to the local chapter and national headquarters of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, askingSource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed
From the Daily News:
Maybe this is Mayor Bloomberg's plan to out help middle-class homeowners.
Hizzoner wanted a blue-collar house in Queens for his newest TV ad - and paid an eye-popping Manhattan rent to use it Thursday for just seven hours.
Bloomberg's campaign shelled out $3,000 to a Forest Hills homeowner to shoot scenes in the garage, living room and bathroom of his 2-1/2-story, single-family residence on a tree-lined block.
The mayor was a no-show.
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Sunstein: Embryos are 'just a handful of cells'
Argues cloning ban 'silly,' scoffed at those who find it morally repugnant
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By Aaron Klein
There is no moral concern regarding cloning human beings since human embryos, which develop into a baby, are "only a handful of cells," argued President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein. Source: Theodore's World RSS Feed
crossposted from Driftglass at the request of Crooks and Liars editors
“...they turned to prayer, beseeching
that the sin which had been committed
might be wholly blotted out.” -- 2 Maccabees. 12:42
Once upon a time, there was a President named Bill Clinton, who was, by most historical standards, a typical Centrist Republican, although by a fluke of geography and circumstances he ran for public office with a "(D)" after his name.
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From the NY Times:
The missing statistics used to appear in a supplement to the Mayor’s Management Report that in recent years has been published exclusively online. Some of the supplementary indicators have been eliminated entirely. In other cases, groups of indicators were combined to provide broad strokes of information, but not the detail that was available previously.
For example, more than 80 supplementary indicators for the Police Department have been condensed or dropped.Source: Queens Crap RSS Feed
A month ago, I used the above photo of Mr. Patrick Burns (Burns is the ugly one in the middle) to illustrate a rejoinder to one of his postings defending the intimidation of their owner and the confiscation and imprisonment of eleven hounds belonging to a Philadelphia basset pack.
Last night (talk about l’espirt d’escalier!), Patrick sent me an email with a link to his blog, where, in a fashion worthy of 3rd grade, he accuses me of theft, for usingSource: Never Yet Melted RSS Feed
SEHN | The Overarching Structure Of U.S. Environmental Decision-Making
Our current property and environmental law, including both federal statutes and the common law, harbors the presumption that economic activity generally provides a net benefit to society despite any accompanying damage it may cause. Grounded almost invisibly in this starting presumption, most of our property and environmental laws permit interference with economic activity only where that starting presumption isSource: subrealism RSS Feed
So Charlie Sheen recently penned a fictitious conversation between himself and President Obama – one in which he questions our Commander-in-chief on the big 9/11 cover up. Yes, the star of Scary Movie 3 – and Scary Movie 4 – believes that the Bush/Cheney regime were behind the attack, and feels that our current President should investigate immediately, in an effort to answer a “bottomless warren of unanswered questions surrounding that day…”
Now, never mind how
Silver and gold are sexy again. The price of gold reached an 18-month high today, while silver reached a 13-month high. At $1,006.40 an ounce, gold is nearing the high of $1,033 an ounce it reached in March 2008, during the very timely and well deserved death of Bear Stearns. Silver punches in at $16.75, still short of the $17.01 the precious metal of 25th anniversaries reached in August 2008.
By comparison, the U.S. Dollar Index is a truly terrifying sight. The greenback has been
In Orange
Good morning, and are we incentivized? Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.
Denver's been running on the warm side this week, nearing 90?, at least until yesterday, when the high was only 74?, with overnight lows dipping down to the 40s.
For today we've a forecast for showers, and a high in the low 60s. Yes, summer is definitely over, although we can expect more days in the 80s and lows creeping back up into the 50s, at least until the end of theSource: Square State RSS Feed
In honor of this solemn day, I am reposting the only post (or most of it) that I've written about 9/11.
I've been reading God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by the the always-amusing Christopher Hitchens.
His ornery sub-title raises a question that, believe it or not, I find myself taking seriously. Does it?
You know, of course, what prompted the "new atheism," the surge of books by Hitchens, Dawkins, Dennet, as well as lesser luminaries, some of whom burnSource: E pur si muove! RSS Feed
With more than 80 million people, Vietnam’s demand for entertainment services, particularly movies, is huge. However, the country currently has less than 100 movie theaters.
Young audience at the Megarstar Hanoi.
Along with the country’s development, living standards have improved so the demand for entertainment services is rising, including movies. However, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s statistics show that the number of cinemas in Vietnam is less than Source: Chao-Vietnam RSS Feed
George Pataki: Obama is Jeopardizing U.S. Security
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Eight years after the worst-ever terrorist attack on American soil, the man who was Governor of New York at the time, George Pataki fears that President Obama has weakened U.S. security.
In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV, Pataki says:
“There is no question in my mind he is jeopardizing our security. You cannot turnSource: Theodore's World RSS Feed
Ready for today’s Beat 360°? Everyday we post a picture – and you provide the caption and our staff will join in too. Tune in tonight at 10pm to see if you are our favorite! Here is the ‘Beat 360°’ pic:
A llama handler tries to get his llama moving on a hot day at the Sherwood Forest Golf Club August 29, 2009 in Cedar Mountain, North Carolina. The llama’s carry golf bags at a local golf course as part of the Llama Caddy program which uses the gentleSource: AC360 RSS Feed
Jackson Street Books is proud to welcome Garth Stein to discuss his latest award winning novel, The Art of Racing in the Rain. Monday September 7, 6pm PDT.
I've been telling you about this book for over a year now, and now here's your chance to meet the author-virtually! It's really difficult to explain Second Life, we'll be making a machima of the event so that you can see for yourself what is going on when we talk about Cafe Wellstone. I'll add that video later in the week.
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Terminator Inspired Vision
The human eye is a perceptual powerhouse. It can see millions of colors, adjust easily to shifting light conditions, and transmit information to the brain at a rate exceeding that of a high-speed Internet connection.
But why stop there?
In the Terminator movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character sees the world with data superimposed on his visual field—virtual captions that enhance the cyborg’s scan of a scene. InSource: DarkGovernment RSS Feed
The more statements he makes like this, the less I have to explain why I call him Forrest Gump Gibbs....
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Doh.....
RealClearPolitics - Video:White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs used the term "war on terror" at today's press conference.
The White House previously said that the "war on terrorism" was over.
VIDEO: Gibbs: Cheney Clearly Had His Facts Wrong
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