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    • Iran said on Monday it is considering plans to build two new uranium enrichment plants concealed inside mountains to avert air strikes, drawing condemnation from the United States.

      The announcement from Iran's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi came soon after top US General David Petraeus warned that Washington would now pursue a "pressure track" against Iran to thwart its galloping nuclear programme.

      "Inshallah (God willing), in the next Iranian year (starting in March) as ordered by the president we may start the construction of two new enrichment sites," Salehi told ISNA news agency.

      Last November, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Iran would build 10 new uranium enrichment plants, after Tehran was strongly rebuked by world powers for building a second enrichment plant near the Shiite holy city of Qom.

      Salehi said the enrichment capacities of the new sites would be similar to the existing facility in the central city of Natanz, where a defiant Tehran is refining uranium

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    • A modest job-creation bill advanced in the U.S. Senate on Monday as the chamber's newest Republican bucked his party and sided with Democrats on a $15 billion package of tax cuts and highway spending.

      Republican Scott Brown joined four other Republicans, 55 Democrats and two independents to overcome a procedural hurdle that sets up a final vote later this week.

      Brown was widely hailed as a conservative hero after his surprise victory in Massachusetts last month gave Republicans enough seats to block most Democratic legislation.
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      Some conservative hero, right?

      (tags: Scott_Brown,)
    • California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was dismissive of the Tea Party movement in a “This Week” exclusive interview with Terry Moran. "The Tea Party is not going to go anywhere,” Schwarzenegger told Moran. “I think the Tea Party is all about just an expression of anger and dissatisfaction.”
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      The Tea Party movement is too splintered and disorganized to be an effective national force. However, it may affect some isolated small state GOP primary elections – like Nevada's Senate race.
    • Study claimed in 2009 that sea levels would rise by up to 82cm by the end of century – but the report's author now says true estimate is still unknown
      Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings.

      The study, published in 2009 in Nature Geoscience, one of the top journals in its field, confirmed the conclusions of the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It used data over the last 22,000 years to predict that sea level would rise by between 7cm and 82cm by the end of the century.
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      The science needs to be reviewed by an independent panel of climate experts – an open series of cenferences

    • Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee blasted the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Saturday as outdated, nearly corrupt and unrepresentative of the conservative movement.

      Huckabee, a 2008 Republican presidential contender and potential 2012 candidate who had spoken at the conference for years, said the reason he blew it off this year was that the meeting has become dominated by libertarian activists.

      “CPAC has becoming increasingly more libertarian and less Republican over the last years, one of the reasons I didn’t go this year,” Huckabee said in an interview with Fox News, where he is a paid analyst and has his own show.
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      And, it is held in the middle of winter in D.C. Ugh!

      The death knell for CPAC and the ACU?

  • Harry Reid

    Harry Reid: When Men Are Out of Work They Beat Up Their Wives More or Something

    Nevada U.S. Senator and Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid in the Senate today
    There is really NO EXCUSE for domestic violence in ANY CASE. But, Dingy Harry Reid agains makes an ass out of himself by saying vote for the Democrat jobs bill and kill two birds with one stone.

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) suggested Monday that domestic violence by men has increased due to U.S. joblessness.

    Reid, speaking in the midst of a Senate debate over whether to pass a $15 billion package meant to spur job creation, appeared to argue that joblessness would lead to more domestic violence.

    “I met with some people while I was home dealing with domestic abuse. It has gotten out of hand,” Reid said on the Senate floor. “Why? Men don’t have jobs.”

    Reid said that the effects of joblessness on domestic violence were especially pronounced among men, because, Reid said, women tend to be less abusive.

    “Women don’t have jobs either, but women aren’t abusive, most of the time,” he said.

    “Men, when they’re out of work, tend to become abusive,” the majority leader added. “Our domestic crisis shelters in Nevada are jammed.”

    Please, please the voters of Nevada must throw this idiot out of office this November.


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  • Day By Day,  Obamacare

    Day By Day February 22, 2010 – Asleep at the Switch

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Uh Oh!

    Despite Zed’s brother coming upon the scene, Naomi Zed’s business partner is still checking out the pony tail for the REAL ZED.

    Now, has Naomi met up with Zed’s brother previously?

    Stay tuned for “As The Bar Construction Turns.”

    In the meantime, the Obama Administration is posting in a few  hours a revised Obamacare proposal online, including government power to block health insurance rate increases. Will anyone be watching, listening or care?

    The Obama Administration credibility on the health care reform front is de minimis.

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