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links for 2010-08-24
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After months of withering job losses and weak economic growth, summer was going to be the season of recovery, the Obama administration heralded in June.
Thousands of infrastructure and construction projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act were to come on-line during June, July and August, helping to "create jobs for American workers and economic growth for businesses, large and small."
The White House dubbed it "Recovery Summer" and President Obama declared the economy had begun "growing at a good clip." Vice President Joe Biden predicted weeks earlier that creation of 250,000 to 500,000 new jobs a month could soon be on the horizon.
But with summer quickly coming to an end, those jobs gains and a robust economic recovery have not yet materialized, leaving Democrats on the verge of a fall election campaign in which Republicans are poised to make them eat their words.
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Obama and the Dems made wrong policy choices and now will pay at the polls. -
The good news for President Obama is that this week is likely to be better for him than last week was. The bad news? Last week! A week so bad, as we observed Friday, that the president ended it by clinging to his religion as the media revived the stupid-people-think-he's-Muslim trope. This, of course, was the result of his decision at the end of the previous week to weigh in on, then run away from, the debate over the Ground Zero mosque.
All week, the professional left hurled accusations of bigotry at the two-thirds or so of Americans who take offense at the idea of a fancy new mosque near the site of the 9/11 attack. But one familiar claim was notable for its absence. Hardly anybody asserted that the growing anti-Obama sentiment was the result of racism against a black president.
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Sentiment towards Obama certainly has changed quickly.Read it all…..
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CA-Sen Video: The Central Valley of California Turning Its Back on Barbara Boxer
“It might have been 6 to 8 months since we’ve seen her,” says a local news reporterCan you blame these California voters?
Let’s look at some facts:
- Fresno County Is Struggling Under An Unemployment Rate Of 16.2 Percent. (California Employment Development Department Website, www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov, Accessed 08/23/10)
- Fresno County Has An Unemployment Population Of 73,200. (California Employment Development Department Website, www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov, Accessed 08/23/10)
Some leadership Senator and look at this wonderful graphic which is more reminiscent of a third world slum than a city in California.
Fresno in Reality (from the Daily Beast’s America’s 50 Poorest Cities):
What about it, Senator?Think you should be re-elected?
I don’t think so……… This Californian will be voting for Carly Fiorina.
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CA-Sen: Carly Fiorina – Politicians Don’t Care About Silicon Valley
U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina speaking at Renewable Power Solutions
Better yet: Senator Barbara Boxer takes Silicon Valley campaign cash and then pursues a radical LEFT agenda.Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive at Hewlett-Packard, on Monday promised a deregulatory approach toward technology if elected to the U.S. Senate, warning of governmental overreach on Net neutrality and saying that current politicians don’t understand what’s important to Silicon Valley.
Fiorina, who won the Republican nomination in June, echoed what many technology executives have said for years: America’s skilled-worker visa system is so badly broken that “we have to start from scratch,” and that too many government policies push jobs overseas instead of making U.S. companies competitive against international rivals.
“We have to put a huge emphasis on attracting the best and the brightest–this is a nation that has always led through immigration,” Fiorina told the audience at the Technology Policy Institute’s Aspen Forum here. “Our visa system for high skills workers is in disrepair.”
In the November election, Fiorina is up against Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer, who has been in the U.S. Congress for nearly 28 years (CNET voter guide rating: 41 percent).
So, what does Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard propose:
- Privacy: Avoid detailed federal regulation of the sort that congressional Democrats have recently proposed. Instead, “let us hold people to those minimum standards and have transparency and innovation drive the rest.”
- Net neutrality: Opposes a Democratic proposal to regulate broadband providers by “reclassifying” the Internet. “I worry that when regulators say they want to reclassify broadband as a telecom service, we are taking a regulatory structure that was created in the early 20th century and applying it (to the 21st century). Any reclassification of broadband as traditional telecom service is bad public policy.”
- Patents: “We have to modernize our patent laws. We don’t have today strong or predictable intellectual property protection. We have a backlog today of 1.2 million patents…obviously a patent system that was created over a century ago has a hard time keeping up.”
- R&D tax credit: Congress needs to make the federal R&D tax credit–which expired last year– permanent. “It has not been renewed. That does not encourage innovation. That does not encourage the creation of jobs in this country.”
- Copyright: The United States needs to become “far more aggressive in protecting our intellectual property,” meaning beginning “tough realistic conversations with the nation of China, which routinely pirates our intellectual property with no consequences.”
- Congress: “Sometimes, in politics, politicians think the words are all that matters,” which means that Silicon Valley’s concerns are simply “not a priority for a whole set of representatives who claim to represent the technology community.”
The Left wing supporters of Boxer in the technology sector may like her views on parital birth abortion, gay marriage and climate change. But, when push comes to shove these issues won’t drive their business and improve their bottom line.
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Day By Day August 24, 2010 – Eagles
Anyone with a work ethic and will work for free while dating Naomi is worth the risk.Right, Chris?
Speaking of risky behavior, did you hear about famous movie producer James Cameron pulling out of a climate change/global warming debate?
The Avatar director was determined to expose journalists, such as myself, who thought it was important to ask questions about climate change orthodoxy and the radical “solutions” being proposed.
Cameron said was itching to debate the issue and show skeptical journalists and scientists that they were wrong.
“I want to call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out with those boneheads,” he said in an interview.
A risk to Cameron’s credibility for sure.
But, James Cameron is an excellent movie producer NOT a climate scientist anyway. Why is he bothering?
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@Flap Twitter Updates for 2010-08-24
- Audio: Dems (and GOP?) Revive Online Sales Taxes #tcot #catcot #cagop http://icio.us/gmskhe #
- CA-Sen: Barbara Boxer Opposes Carly Fiorina's proposal on term limits #tcot #catcot #cagop http://icio.us/4fwfsi #
- James Cameron—King of Hypocrites – Chickens Out of Climate Change Debate #tcot http://icio.us/u2flrt #
- NV-Sen Video: Thanks Harry http://bit.ly/awEBwT #tcot #catcot #
- RT @TheFix: Stu Rothenberg moves 5 more Dem-held House seats into more competitive categories. http://ht.ly/2tG65 #tcot #
- CA-Sen: Questions for Carly Fiorina? Go Ahead and Ask #tcot #catcot #cagop http://icio.us/j3dj0l #
- Jane Mayer's Violent Assault on the Koch Brothers #tcot http://icio.us/juyrnm #
- Charles and David Koch: Covert Operations? http://bit.ly/bDVoJu #tcot #catcot #
- Blogola by Ace http://icio.us/duj1do #
- Election 2010: California's few congressional battlegrounds heating up #catcot #cagop http://icio.us/twoto0 #
- Poll numbers in 1994, a bad year for Democrats, don't bode well for them in 2010 #tcot http://icio.us/4mwp44 #
- CA-Gov: L.A. Leftists Get the Code Pink Treatment at Jodie Evans’ Jerry Brown Fundraiser #cagop #catcot #tcot http://icio.us/epgnwo #
- CA-Sen Video: Carly Fiorina Addresses the California Republican Party Convention http://bit.ly/cHDnFI #tcot #catcot #
- CA-Sen: Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitman: Republicans' different strategies evident at GOP convention #tcot #catcot #cagop http://icio.us/h4oxn2 #
- @OneFineJay It never was about you Jay but the countless comments and e-mails I got from others, directed by other candidates & their flaks in reply to OneFineJay #
- @OneFineJay Yeah remember Jay when some insisted I received payola from Carly Fiorina during the GOP primary? Uh No….. in reply to OneFineJay #
- Blogger payola – It is Simply Dishonest #tcot #catcot #cagop http://icio.us/1wyktf #
- @OneFineJay AMEN Jay! Wish I had more advertisers though…… in reply to OneFineJay #
- True stories of bloggers who secretly feed on partisan cash #tcot #catcot #cagop http://icio.us/gokbuk #
- Real Estate’s Gold Rush Seems Gone for Good #tcot http://icio.us/xm21vn #
- Day By Day August 23, 2010 – Kiss Off http://bit.ly/aNmMec #tcot #catcot #
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