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• Finally home in Thousand Oaks – so good to be home. Las Vegas in two weeks for the WSOP and 2 plus 2 get together #
• links for 2010-06-20 http://bit.ly/cMXYP9 #tcot #catcot #
• US manufacturing crown slips to China in 2011? #tcot http://icio.us/l4hy3o #
• US, Israel Warships in Suez May Be Prelude to Faceoff with Iran #tcot http://icio.us/f3zang #
• Wating at the Reno airport for an already late @SouthwestAir flight. This trip to Nevada has not been timely or convenient for tourists #
• GOP in Reno Nevada http://twitpic.com/1yi9y0 #
• CA-Sen: Carly Fiorina gets mixed reactions from crowd at Juneteenth event in South Central LA #cagop #casen #catcot http://icio.us/15vs3i #
• Good Morning and Happy Father's Day everyone from Reno, Nevada #
• Day By Day June 20, 2010 – For Better or For Worse? http://bit.ly/adoVox #tcot #catcot #
• @Flap Twitter Updates for 2010-06-20 http://bit.ly/aQ6S6h #tcot #catcot #

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• US manufacturing crown slips to China in 2011?
  The US remained the world’s biggest manufacturing nation by output last year, but is poised to relinquish this slot in 2011 to China – thus ending a 110-year run as the number one country in factory production.

  Last year, the US created 19.9 per cent of world manufacturing output, compared with 18.6 per cent for China, with the US staying ahead despite a steep fall in factory production due to the global recession.

  That the US is still top comes as a surprise, since in 2008 – before the slump of the past two years took hold – IHS predicted it would lose pole position in 2009.

  However, a relatively resilient US performance kept China in second place, says IHS, which predicts that faster growth in China will deny the US the top spot next year.
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  No longer made in USA

  The figures are revealed in a league table being published on Monday by IHS Global Insight, a US-based economics consultancy.

  (tags: China USA)
• US, Israel Warships in Suez May Be Prelude to Faceoff with Iran
  Egypt allowed at least one Israeli and 11 American warships to pass through the Suez Canal as an Iranian flotilla approaches Gaza. Egypt closed the canal to protect the ships with thousands of soldiers, according to the British-based Arabic language newspaper Al Quds al-Arabi.
  (tags: iran Israel)
• Obama tells Kyl in private Oval Office meeting: I won’t secure border b/c then Republicans will have no reason to support “comprehensive immigration reform.”
  On June 18, 2010, Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl told the audience at a North Tempe Tea Party town hall meeting that during a private, one-on-one meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office, the President told him, regarding securing the southern border with Mexico, “The problem is, . . . if we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’” [Audible gasps were heard throughout the audience.] Sen. Kyl continued, “In other words, they’re holding it hostage. They don’t want to secure the border unless and until it is combined with ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’”
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  And, the Democrats will not be able to exploit Hispanics for their votes
  (tags: John_Kyl barack_obama illegal_immigration)
• CA-Sen: Carly Fiorina gets mixed reactions from crowd at Juneteenth event in South Central LA
  After spending months trying to convince Republican audiences that she is conservative to her core, GOP Senate nominee Carly Fiorina abruptly shifted strategy Saturday, campaigning in heavily Democratic South Los Angeles at a Juneteenth celebration where she was both warmly received and shouted down as a "two-faced liar" and a "turncoat."

  She strolled through Leimert Plaza Park with a traditional African scarf draped around her neck and a campaign photographer and videographer in tow — the visit grounded in political necessity as she looks ahead to a general election battle against Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer. After winning the primary as a sharp critic of President Obama, the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive must now win the support of independent voters and some Democrats to overcome her party's registration disadvantage in the state.

  (tags: carly_fiorina)

• Family reunion is weathered. Poker busted at final table with A-K Vs. BB who woke up with A-A – pretty standard #
• Actually @ Elks Lodge immediately adjacent (@ Les Schwab Tire) http://4sq.com/agiIqo #
• 8 miles finished and now off to the wife's family reunion – oh Boy! Poker tonight though – ) #
• 8 Miles are finished – Now off to the wife #
• Day By day June 19, 2010 – Makin’Lemons http://bit.ly/9jsc9x #tcot #catcot #
• In Reno, fed, caffeinated and heading to the gym for some 8 miles at an easy pace. Maybe I will be too tired for the wife's family reunion! #
• Links for 2010-06-18 [del.icio.us] http://bit.ly/dtmcEw #tcot #catcot #
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• links for 2010-06-18 http://bit.ly/ac1EJo #tcot #catcot #
• Day by Day June 18, 2010 – Nanny State of the Nation http://bit.ly/dCgRCc #tcot #catcot #
• RT @GregWHoward: #FF Patriots! @gingerds9 @AlinskyDefeater @PatDollard @BillDupray @MelissaTweets @jasoninthehouse @RepublicanCat @ClydePRM2 #
• Poll Watch: U.S. Voters Split on Obama Re-Election in 2012 – 46% Yes and 51% No #tcot http://icio.us/vgh4oc #
• Senior Official: Obama Administration Will Challenge Arizona Immigration Law #tcot http://icio.us/i2utql #
• Settling into Reno – played a little poker and already took a bad beat. Time to do a little Disneyland Half Marathon training. #
• Now waiting for wife's Aunt to arrive from Denver #
• Arrived in Reno, Nevada 15 minutes late after @southwestair change planes angst/hike #
• Stuck in Oakland on way to Reno @southwestair you let me down #fail #
• Links for 2010-06-17 [del.icio.us] http://bit.ly/bUlvE7 #tcot #catcot #
• @Flap Twitter Updates for 2010-06-18 http://bit.ly/dzFSo1 #tcot #catcot #
• Good Morning everyone. Off soon to Hollywood-Burbank Bob Hope airport for flight to wife's family reunion in Reno, Nevada #

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• Poll Watch: U.S. Voters Split on Obama Re-Election in 2012 – 46% Yes and 51% No
  U.S. registered voters remain split on whether President Obama deserves to be re-elected in 2012, with 46% saying he does and 51% saying he does not — little changed from earlier this year.

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  Obama is already in trouble – how much will be determined in November.

  (tags: barack_obama)
• Senior Official: Obama Administration Will Challenge Arizona Immigration Law
  As Hotsheet reported yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a television interview in Ecuador this month that the Obama Justice Department "will be bringing a lawsuit" against the controversial Arizona immigration measure signed into law earlier this year.

  The comment was striking because both President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder had said only that the administration was considering a suit. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who signed the law, called Clinton's comments stunning and added that "to learn of this lawsuit through an Ecuadorean interview with the secretary of state is just outrageous." She has said in the past she is prepared for a court fight.

  Now a senior administration official tells CBS News that the federal government will indeed formally challenge the law when Justice Department lawyers are finished building the case. The official said Justice is still working on building the case.
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  How about securing the border and protecting Arizonans?

  (tags: illegal_immigration)