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A majority of Republicans aren’t sure Obama was Born in the US?
Yes/No/Not Sure
Dem: 93, 4, 3
Rep: 42, 28, 30
Ind: 83, 8, 9
Northeast: 93, 4, 3
South: 47, 23, 30
Midwest: 90, 6, 4
West: 87, 7, 6
18-29: 88, 4, 8
30-44: 72,14,14
45-59: 82, 8, 10
60 +: 69,17,14
What the hell is wrong with these people? Anyone?
If they’re going to lie and obstruct on little things, what will they do when it really matters???
On Feb. 16, 23-year-old Alexandra Torrensvilas’ car was rear-ended by a police car driven by officer Joel Francisco, Meltzer said.
The crash was caught on the officer’s dashboard camera and on the audiotape, Sgt. Dewey Pressley, a 21-year-veteran of the force, is heard allegedly plotting to cover up what happened.
“Well, I don’t lie and makes things up ever, because it’s wrong,” Pressley said. “But if I need to bend it a little to protect a cop, I’m gonna.”
On tape, Pressley is also heard directing another officer on how to write the report.
“I will write the narrative out for you. I will tell you exactly how to word it so it can get him off the hook. You see the angle of her car? You see the way it’s like this? As far as I’m concerned, I am going to word it she is in the left hand lane. We will do a little Walt Disney to protect the cop, because it wouldn’t matter because she was drunk anyway,” Pressley said.
Maybe it’s time for the entire culture that condones and accepts police misconduct and abuse needs to be changed.
Whatever happened to Wilderness Survival? These kids look like they’re going to Iraq.
Has it already been 40 days since the Death of Neda? Anyway the clashes continue to increase and The Lede has some very good updating today.
The U.S. government said Tuesday it has revoked the diplomatic visas of four Honduran officials, stepping up pressure on coup-installed leaders who insist they can resist international demands to restore the ousted president.
The U.S. State Department did not name the four, but a Honduran official said they included the Supreme Court magistrate who ordered the arrest of ousted President Manuel Zelaya and the president of Honduras’ Congress.
I suppose this was justified behavior in the views of some people?
Mobile police used pepper spray and a Taser on a deaf and mentally disabled man Friday after they were unable to get him to come out of a bathroom at a Dollar General store, authorities said.
After forcibly removing Antonio Love from the bathroom of the Azalea Road store, officers attempted to book the 37-year-old, on charges of resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and failure to obey a police officer, but the magistrate on duty at the jail refused to accept any of those charges.
“I saw police laugh at me,” Love wrote in the note. “I don’t care them. I don’t want escape. I just wait long.” The magistrate refused to sign the arrest warrant, voiding the officers’ legal right to hold Love.
The officers took him home.
According to the note, Love gave directions as best he could.
“Police told me that I’m crazy. I don’t understand,” the note says.
Get rid of the bad apples and then maybe more people will trust the Police. Because lord knows my respect for an asshole with a gun will last for just as long as the gun is pointed at me.
So, it’s time to settle into the long game:
Phase 2 has begun. Six weeks after millions took to the streets to protest Iran’s presidential election, their uprising has morphed into a feistier, more imaginative and potentially enduring campaign.
The second phase plays out in a boycott of goods advertised on state-controlled television. Just try buying a certain brand of dairy product, an Iranian human-rights activist told me, and the person behind you in line is likely to whisper, “Don’t buy that. It’s from an advertiser.” It includes calls to switch on every electric appliance in the house just before the evening TV news to trip up Tehran’s grid. It features quickie “blitz” street demonstrations, lasting just long enough to chant “Death to the dictator!” several times but short enough to evade security forces. It involves identifying paramilitary Basij vigilantes linked to the crackdown and putting marks in green — the opposition color — or pictures of protest victims in front of their homes. It is scribbled antiregime slogans on money. And it is defiant drivers honking horns, flashing headlights and waving V signs at security forces.
The tactics are unorganized, largely leaderless and only just beginning. They spread by e-mail, websites and word of mouth. But their variety and scope indicate that Iran’s uprising is not a passing phenomenon like the student protests of 1999, which were quickly quashed. This time, Iranians are rising above their fears.
Maybe the revolution will be called on account of apathy:
He has not said how he plans to continue his struggle after January, but on Monday he urged a few hundred restive supporters who have joined him in Ocotal to be patient for what could be a long fight.
“It is our duty to struggle a day, two days, a month, six months, ten years. … We are going to do it,” Zelaya said. “The people’s struggles are eternal.”
He is trying to galvanize poor farmers, teachers and street activists into a movement strong enough to overcome his opponents and sweep him back into office, but Honduran military checkpoints kept all but a few hundred supporters from reaching Ocotal.
Many of those who did make it to Nicaragua wondered how long they could hold out away from their work and families, waiting for Zelaya to come up with a plan. Zelaya has vowed to remain on the border for at least a week, but hasn’t announced any concrete strategy since he walked a few meters into Honduras and then retreated Friday.
The crowd, housed in two shelters in Ocotal, spent Monday in disarray. They boarded buses for a drive to the frontier line, only to turn back when they realized Zelaya didn’t plan to join them. The ousted president showed up at one of the camps to address his supporters, only to find they had left for the border.
Zelaya just isn’t as popular as Chavez was, so he’s just not generating the same amount of populist energy and support:
Zelaya’s supporters have staged near daily protests in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, including 3,000 teachers who blocked an avenue Monday.
But the demonstrations have failed to become more than a minor inconvenience for interim President Roberto Micheletti and the formidable forces that support him: the military, business executives, Supreme Court and almost the entire Congress, including many in Zelaya’s own party.
When all the branches of government are against you, and you’re not even particularly popular in your own country, don’t expect a massive uprising, it’s just not going to happen.
Source: Fail Blog
As the LIBOR drops below 0.5%
The rate banks say they charge each other to borrow in dollars for three months fell below 0.50 percent for the first time, signaling central banks’ efforts to end the two-year seizure in credit markets are working.
The London interbank offered rate, or Libor, for such loans dropped to 0.496 percent today, from 0.502 percent on July 24, the British Bankers’ Association said, taking its decline this year to 93 basis points. The rate, a benchmark for about $360 trillion of financial products around the world, peaked at 4.82 percent on Oct. 10 following the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in September.
Kill Naked CDS’s and maybe we won’t have an exact repeat of Fall 2008.
And no surprise on who it is, Senator Inhofe:
“They have a point. I don’t discourage it… But I’m going to pursue defeating [Obama] on things that I think are very destructive to America.”
I’m just waiting for Palin and Bush to join in. Then we can agree the entire Republican party has gone bat shit crazy. (Mind you, I think the Republican Party has been bat shit crazy for a while, they’re just showing it more)
Source: NASA
Well, let’s hope cooler heads prevail, because Zelaya certainly isn’t willing to stop.
Ousted President Manuel Zelaya has stepped across the border into his homeland and says he will reclaim his post a month after soldiers flew him into exile.
Zelaya says he was forced to act on his own after U.S.-backed talks failed to reach a negotiated settlement with the coup-installed government to reinstate him.
That government has vowed to arrest him if he tries to return.
Zelaya crossed the border on Friday from Nicaragua, but went only a few steps as he waited for military officials to contact him.
Zelaya is so full of himself, that he can’t stand the idea of not following in the footsteps of Chavez. The Honduran Military should offer to escort him into the country and straight to a jail cell to stand trial for Treason. Let’s see if he wants it that badly. The Military shouldn’t have kicked him out in the first place, just placed him under house arrest until the Supreme Court and Legislature could properly cross the t’s and dot the i’s. Oh well, now quite possibly a lot of people are going to die because it’s turned into a giant pissing contest and Ortega (who is trying to overturn the term limits in his country), and Chavez are both itching to expand their influence:
Manuel Zelaya drove a jeep to Esteli, a town just 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of the Honduran border, where he shut himself inside a hotel Thursday night to plan a strategy for reclaiming the presidency from the interim government that sent him into exile.
He said he would make a second bid to return home as early as Saturday, saying U.S.-backed mediation efforts had broken down. The interim government vows to arrest the president if he sets foot in Honduras, and imposed a 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew along border areas.
