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Day By Day by Chris Muir
Yes, Chris, the Tea Parties are organizing and Flap will be attending one on April 15th here in Ventura County, California. Here is some info from the organizer’s Facebook Group:
A group of concerned citizens is organizing a Rally to be conducted at the Government Center in Ventura. The primary purpose of the Rally is to send a message to the State and Federal governments that we are deeply concerned about the level and direction of government spending. This group’s overall mission is to encourage public policy that promotes limited government, free markets, and individual liberty.
To get the word out about the Rally, the organizers will appear on talk radio programs, promote through many venues on the internet, make phone calls, send emails, and will post fliers throughout the area with all pertinent event information.
Attendees are being asked to bring a tea bag to the Rally to show their solidarity with the original tax revolt that was foundational to our nation. We intend to express our digust with the number of unnecessary spending programs that are being passed into law. The collected tea bags will be presented to government officials.
Join us, won’t you?
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In blogging matters, Flap will be visiting his father in law who is in the Los Angeles VA Hospital for most of the day and evening. Blogging will be intermittent at best.
However, catch Flap on Twitter in the right sidebar ————>
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San Diego-based Aegis destroyer, USS Benfold (DDG 65) engaged multiple targets during this multi-event exercise with Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) Block IIIA and modified SM-2 BLK IV missiles. The overall objective of
Stellar Daggers was to test the Aegis system's sea-based ability to simultaneously detect, track, engage and destroy multiple incoming air and ballistic missile threats during terminal or final phase of flight.
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Meet Vince Shlomi. He's probably better known to you as the ShamWow Guy, the ubiquitous television pitchman who has been phenomenally successful peddling absorbent towels and food choppers. Shlomi, 44, was arrested last month on a felony battery charge following a violent confrontation with a prostitute in his South Beach hotel room. According to an arrest affidavit,
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California will sustain $948 million in welfare cuts and $1.8 billion in higher taxes after fiscal leaders announced Friday that the state will not receive enough federal budget relief to avoid those measures.
As part of a $40 billion deficit solution, state lawmakers and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked state Treasurer Bill Lockyer and Department of Finance Director Mike Genest to determine by April 1 whether California will receive $10 billion in federal budgetary aid through June 2010.
Genest's office issued a statement this morning saying that he and Lockyer believe California will receive only $8.17 billion that qualifies under the criteria in the budget agreement.
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Seven states posted unemployment rates above 10 percent in February, as Georgia is inched toward the double digits, according to seasonally adjusted figures released Friday morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Georgia's unemployment rate for February was a record high 9.3 percent. Metro Atlanta's unemployment rate also was 9.3 percent in February.
Michigan registered the nation’s worst rate, with 12 percent of its labor force out of work as of February 2009.
Also in double digits were South Carolina (11 percent), Oregon (10.8 percent), North Carolina (10.7 percent), California (10.5 percent), Rhode Island (10.5 percent), and Nevada (10.1 percent).
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California's budget crisis could turn out to be a good thing for the state, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday, because it will give voters a chance to approve reforms that could stop another fiscal emergency from happening again.
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And that raises this question: Will the money that federal and state politicians are shoveling out under the rubric of "stimulus" actually have a material impact on what appears to be the worst recession to hit California since the Great Depression?
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The conservative blogosphere has had a field day with the revelation of a secret liberal media e-mail group called "JournoList," and the latest inside scoop from Slate's Mickey Kaus prompted this remark from blogger Jeff Goldstein:
Think "Woodward and Bernstein bring down Nixon," only replace "Woodward and Bernstein bring down Nixon" with "A bunch of guys who were beaten up daily in junior high show why they almost certainly had it coming."
Dead on target. A plague of neurasthenia has wussified the news business.
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Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada)
Harry Reid just now discovers that Chief Justice John Roberts is a conservative. So, Reid calls him a LIAR.
Wow.
This ain’t going to help Reid’s run for re-election in 2010 where the Nevada economy is suffering big time.
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This cannot be good for Sarah Palin even though the memo is over 20 years old.
John Coale, currently advising Sarah Palin on running for president in 2012, is a Scientologist. And according to a memo obtained by Gawker, Coale once plotted to use friendly politicians to advance the power-hungry cult’s agenda.
Coale is a prominent Washington power broker and husband to Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren. According to the Washington Post, he is running Palin’s political action committee behind the scenes and “guiding [her] political image in Washington.”
In 1986, he masterminded a plan—which was never executed—for Scientology to get into the “MONEY and VOTES game” in order to “create power” for Scientology and win influence Washington, D.C.
[You can read Coale's complete memo and other documents outlining his scheme here.]
The weirdness factor surrounding Palin has always been there and promoted by the LEFT.
But………this may be the straw.
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The conventional wisdom is Republican Jim Tedisco will pick up this seat for the GOP in New York’s 20th Congressional District (A seat opened when incumbent Democrat Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand was appointed to replace Hillary clinton in the U.S. Senate).
The latest Siena Research poll says otherwise.
As the NY-20 special election enters the final weekend, Scott Murphy (D) has reversed a four-point deficit and turned it into a four-point lead over Jim Tedisco (R), according to a new Siena Research poll.
Murphy now leads 47% to 43% among likely voters, having trailed two weeks ago by a 45% to 41% margin.
Key findings: Tedisco’s campaign is viewed by voters as more negative by a 44% to 25% percent margin, while Murphy’s campaign is seen as more positive.
But…..
Tedisco internal polling shows a tight race with him leading.
This race will come down to turnout and how successful the Obama machine is post-election.
The election is next Tuesday.
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Posted by Flap in JournoList
Yeah, Mickey Kaus has the scoop. Enjoy reading the high brow, sophisticated discussion here.
Why would these idiots ever think that some of their comments on a Google Groups list via e-mail would NOT Leak out?
Jeff Goldstein:
Think “Woodward and Bernstein bring down Nixon,†only replace “Woodward and Bernstein bring down Nixon†with “A bunch of guys who were beaten up daily in junior high show why they almost certainly had it coming.â€
Murrow wept.
Jonah Goldberg:
Obviously, it’s just one excerpt and I’m sure there are serious conversations that take place over there, too. But even going by that one example, it’s pretty clear that the list itself and the qualities and qualifications of those on it is a major concern to those on it. It’s like the liberal egghead version of Heathers.
This Kaus scoop will keep on giving and Flap is positive there will be many more posts plus additional leaks.
One, finally for the morning: re: Keith Olbermann and Journolist:
Matthew Yglesias: I also read on TNR.com today that Jonah Goldberg, who believes that everyone on this list is a fascist, is “good-humored,†while Keith Olbermann’s work is best analogized to Glenn Beck or Michael Savage.
Ed Kilgore: To be fair, Cottle was writing about self-styled Pundit Types, not making comparative judgments of worth. I actually don’t think Olbermann much ever achieves the heights of hysteria routinely maintained by the well-named Savage, but the pretence [sic] by some of us admirers of Keith that he’s a paragon of reasoned discourse is a bit much, too.
[ed. snicker]
Jonathan Chait: Perhaps, if his work is going to be brought up here 2 or 3 times a week, he should be invited on the list. Or is the point of this to create a forum where certain people can be criticized (or, more precisely, called names) without the criticizer having to fear a response?
Jesse Singal: Everyone I know who likes Olbermann also acknowledge that he is egomaniacal [sic] and has a penchant for hysterical drama. The main difference, which is glaringly left out by anyone who conflates him with the Savages and O’Reillys of the world, is that Olbermann doesn’t tend to, you know, lie about stuff regularly.
[ed. hysterical chuckling]
Michael Cohen: Personally, I find Olbermann insufferable, but I’m not sure I buy the comparison.
Read the rest and mock away…….
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