The Marines Return to Somalia

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Thursday March 12, 2009 · 8:14 PM PDT

2009/03/12 · 20:14

>The USS Boxer joins anti-piracy Task Force 151 off the northern coast of Somalia, and takes over as flagship of the task force.

This beefs up the strike capabilities of Combined Task Force 151, and may signal a shift in operations. Unlike the ship it replaces (the USS San Antonio), USS Boxer has shown up with a full crew, which includes a reinforced battalion of marines.

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Obama makes another questionable appointment

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Wednesday February 04, 2009 · 6:20 PM PST

2009/02/04 · 18:20

I'm really beginning to feel for the guy, but then I think he must have known what a den of thieves DC is. Obama keeps appointing people who turn out to have, ah, issues.

This time it's Obama's reaching across the aisle. He reached across to IL Rep. Ray LaHood (R-18), and will shortly feel the sting of another choice go bad as more info about this earmark swine gets aired on his way to being a dirtbag Secretary of Transportation.

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Thursday January 15, 2009 · 11:19 AM PST

2009/01/15 · 11:19

New York politics is really pushing Illinois hard for the title of dumbest dems (DD's).

This is Rep. Jose Serrano (D-NY 16) who introduced this bill looking to repeal the 22nd Amendment so any POTUS can run for a third term in office.

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Wednesday December 31, 2008 · 1:22 PM PST

2008/12/31 · 13:22

Let's see, energy is screwed up, wall streets screwed up, banking's screwed up, auto industry screwed up, housing's screwed up, IL senate seat's screwed up. The experts say we need the experts to stay in control so we can weather the storm and right the ship.

I say yeah, right. Time to fix 'em all.

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Wednesday December 17, 2008 · 7:35 PM PST

2008/12/17 · 19:35

The private shame that we voters in Illinois have borne for decades has depressed and angered solid taxpaying voters for decades. We have been powerless to stop the state that has produced political giants (Lincoln, Stevenson, Dirkson, Douglas, Simon), from also producing hundreds of the worst that stretch the gamut from the furthest religious mullah right, to the fringiest marxist left, all having one thing in common:

They're mostly crooks that are in it for the money. Only calling them crooks smears an ancient and comparatively moral part of society.

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Wednesday November 26, 2008 · 4:03 PM PST

2008/11/26 · 16:03

Damn those laws and rules and all that. IL Governor Rod "Blago" Blagojavich is the biggest piece of inflated cr*p to ever hold that office, and that, as any IL resident knows, is saying alot. He got a bitch slap from the Better Government Association via the Illinois Fourth Appellate Court last week, with more to come.

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Friday January 11, 2008 · 7:01 AM PST

2008/01/11 · 07:01

There are many types of organic crops that can be used to produce ethanol. Here in the US, big Agricorps and Bushco decided it was best for them to make corn based ethanol the organic crop based fuel of choice.

Why?

And forget about buying carbon offsets, once again the small family farmer is leading the way to carbon negative fuel production.

How? Read on for simple primer on crop-based fuels, and a quick shout out to the family farmer, making a bigger corrective impact on global warming than any UN program, or any country on the planet...

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Family Farmers Effed by Feds Again

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Sunday December 30, 2007 · 8:52 AM PST

2007/12/30 · 08:52

At year end, I always make a point of talking with some of my family and friends that are still farmers. Not Agricorp, these are families and couples that work several thousand acres making a living – not a killing – being the most productive growers on the planet.

In case you think the rising price of corn is making family farmers across the Midwest rich, think again. The new energy bill, which passed with support from both sides of the aisle, ladles out hundreds of millions to Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) and Cargill (along with Monsanto and others, contributors to many reasons why we, as a country, are fat and stupid), and nothing of note at all to the family farmers on the front line. The family farmer is locked into a race to try and grow just enough more in order to survive the plundering they endure every year by Agricorp, led by ADM, Cargill, and Monsanto.

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Saturday December 22, 2007 · 10:13 AM PST

2007/12/22 · 10:13

Citibank announced it is abandoning the pretense of fobbing off worthless loans via SIV’s- Security Investment Vehicles, and taking a

Moody’s may have precipitated a sub-prime scam endgame gambit by the biggest banks on the planet, starting by downgrading 6 out of CitiBank’s 7 SIV’s that they "operate". SIV’s are no longer considered safe investments, most worth less than the paper they were printed on.

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