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American kids denied food stamps in Alabama Brutality

2012-02-07T08:50:00.000-08:00

Some U.S.-born children with parents who are illegal immigrants have been denied food stamps under Alabama's new immigration law, Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen told Yahoo News on Monday.
Five people have called into the group's Alabama hotline to say they were denied food stamps because they couldn't prove they were legal residents, even though the food stamps are for their children, who are citizens.

Five people have called into the group's Alabama hotline to say they were denied food stamps because they couldn't prove they were legal residents, even though the food stamps are for their children, who are citizens.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/american-kids-denied-food-stamps-alabama-under-immigration-143929070.html

http://www.boiseweekly.com/CityDesk/archives/2012/02/07/american-children-denied-food-stamps-due-to-anti-immigrant-law

Romney the very poor are care free

2012-02-02T15:10:00.000-08:00

Romney's plan would shred safety net for poor
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/02/opinion/dolan-romney-poor/index.html?eref=rss_mostpopular

Romney: "Not Concerned About Very Poor"
http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=171521

Romney: Campaign 'Not Concerned About the Very Poor'
http://news.yahoo.com/romney-not-concerned-very-poor-160802569--abc-news.html

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/mitt-romney-im-not-concerned-very-poor_620825.html

video
http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=romney+very+poor

Newt Gingrich a Frustrated Loser

2012-01-31T08:47:00.000-08:00

One plus One is what?

Answer me@! you nuts

Double you

Mitt Romney Tax Returns 13.9% Rate In 2010

2012-01-26T17:59:00.000-08:00

Mitt Romney Tax Returns Released: Paid Just 13.9% Rate In 2010, Had Swiss Bank Account

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/24/mitt-romney-tax-returns-released_n_1225247.html?ref=mostpopular

ex-Mrs. Gingrich Tells about Newt Gingrich Open Marriage Proposition

2012-01-19T08:03:00.001-08:00

In her most provocative comments, the ex-Mrs. Gingrich said Newt sought an "open marriage" arrangement so he could have a mistress and a wife.

She said when Gingrich admitted to a six-year affair with a Congressional aide, he asked her if she would share him with the other woman, Callista, who is now married to Gingrich.

"And I just stared at him and he said, 'Callista doesn't care what I do,'" Marianne Gingrich told ABC News. "He wanted an open marriage and I refused."

Marianne described her "shock" at Gingrich's behavior, including how she says she learned he conducted his affair with Callista "in my bedroom in our apartment in Washington."

"He always called me at night," she recalled, "and always ended with 'I love you.' Well, she was listening."

All this happened, she said, during the same time Gingrich condemned President Bill Clinton for his lack of moral leadership.

http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-gingrich-lacks-moral-character-president-ex-wife-135852543--abc-news.html

She said Newt moved for the divorce just months after she had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, with her then-husband present.

"He also was advised by the doctor when I was sitting there that I was not to be under stress. He knew," she said.
Gingrich divorced his first wife, Jackie, as she was being treated for cancer. His relationship with Marianne began while he was still married to Jackie but in divorce proceedings, Marianne said.
There was no immediate comment from Gingrich on his ex-wife's allegations. Gingrich has said during the campaign he has "no relationship" with Marianne.
While she had been quoted earlier as saying she could end his career, Marianne Gingrich defended Newt's ethics while he served in Congress and came under several ethics investigations.
"At the time, I believed him to be ethical," she said in the interview.

The former Mrs. Gingrich says Newt began to plan a run for President at the time of the divorce and told her that Callista "was going to help him become President."

In a statement to ABC News provided by the campaign, Gingrich's two daughters from his first marriage said, "The failure of a marriage is a terrible and emotional experience for everyone involved."

The daughters, Kathy Lubbers and Jackie Cushman said they would not say anything negative about Marianne and said their father "regrets any pain he may have caused in the past to people he loves."

Marianne Gingrich said Newt has never expressed any such regrets or apologized to her.

Social Grievances Exist Occupy Wall Street

2012-01-19T07:49:00.000-08:00

Social Grievances Exist Occupy Wall Street and demonstrations

Comedian Stephen Colbert for President

2012-01-14T16:39:00.000-08:00

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/stephen-colberts-super-pac-starts-buying-up-south-carolina-airtime/

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2012/01/13/early-colbert-president.cnn
Video

Left off the ballot in Virgenia are Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former U.S Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman.

2012-01-14T16:28:00.000-08:00

The clown rascals are out.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's Secret Stealing doughnuts

2012-01-14T10:19:00.001-08:00

Confession stealing doughnuts.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/index

Defeat of Big Mouth Michelle Bachmann in Iowa

2012-01-05T07:34:00.001-08:00

The Waterloo of this lady.

Treason Obama to Raise Medicare Eligibilty to 67 Unprincipled Coward

2011-07-11T17:39:00.000-07:00

Raise the medicare payroll decuctions.

Democratic Senator Charles Schumer Calls the Republican Cuts Extreme

2011-03-29T20:21:00.000-07:00

WASHINGTON — Speaking to several Democratic colleagues Tuesday, Sen. Charles Schumer, the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, said they should all use the word “extreme” when describing the budget cuts that Tea Party Republicans were seeking in the ongoing budget negotiations.
http://oilleader.com/
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-03-30-teaparty30_ST_N.htm?csp=34news

Michele Bachmann Fool for Christ Video

2011-03-29T16:44:00.000-07:00

http://people.famouswhy.com/michele_bachmann/

Minnesota Michele Bachmann President for 2012 Horror OMG

2011-03-29T08:17:00.000-07:00

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-10-craziest-michele-bachmann-quotes

John Boehner to Barack H Obama Specifics Please about Libya War

2011-03-23T16:10:00.000-07:00

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/03/23/134801656/boehner-puts-tough-libya-questions-to-obama

John Boehner Wants an Explanation from Barack Obama about Libya

2011-03-20T19:35:00.000-07:00

Boehner: Obama Must Explain Libya Mission To Congress, American People
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement on the situation in Libya, Sunday afternoon:

"The United States has a moral obligation to stand with those who seek freedom from oppression and self-government for their people. It’s unacceptable and outrageous for Gaddafi to attack his own people, and the violence must stop.

"The President is the commander-in-chief, but the Administration has a responsibility to define for the American people, the Congress, and our troops what the mission in Libya is, better explain what America’s role is in achieving that mission, and make clear how it will be accomplished. Before any further military commitments are made, the Administration must do a better job of communicating to the American people and to Congress about our mission in Libya and how it will be achieved."

Cutting Funds for the National Public Radio is a Crime by the Republicans

2011-03-18T05:53:00.001-07:00

The Republicans are continuing their crimes by cutting funds to the National Public Radio, NPR and now corporations will own them as they own the rest of the media and information dictatorship will be established.

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NPR woes escalate as House votes to strip its federal funding
The GOP-led House, determined to trim spending and emboldened by NPR's recent black eyes, voted Thursday to end NPR's federal funding. Under the bill, no public radio stations could use taxpayer dollars to buy NPR programs.

The House of Representatives voted Thursday to eliminate NPR's federal funding – and to prohibit public radio stations from using taxpayer money to pay NPR dues or to buy NPR programs.

House lawmakers voted 228-192 to defund NPR, with all Democrats and a handful of Republicans voting against the measure.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Ohio Democrat and a defender of NPR, said that in the United States the broadcast airwaves actually are held by the public and space is divvied up by the government, which issues broadcast licenses.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0317/NPR-woes-escalate-as-House-votes-to-strip-its-federal-funding

http://www.allmediainfo.org/public-radio.html

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/17/house-votes-strip-npr-funding/

http://liberalforum.org/liberalforum/index.php?/topic/101425-house-votes-to-strip-funding-for-npr/

Muslim Women in Hijab Behind Barack Obama Please Move Away from the Video Camera Shot

2011-03-16T10:18:00.000-07:00

http://american-politics-101.blogspot.com/
Young Muslim ladies please move away so you do not appear behind Barack Obama on people's home televisions and bars.

Right Winger US Congressman Michele Bachmann a Total Ignorant of History and Geography

2011-03-13T06:40:00.000-07:00

Rep. Michele Bachmann seemed to think she was in Massachusetts today as she delivered a speech to a group of conservatives in New Hampshire today. “You’re the state where the show was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord,” she told the crowd incorrectly, later making references to Plymouth Rock and calling New Hampshire the “first in the nation state.”
New Hampshire is, of course, the first nation to host a primary in 2012, making it particularly important to campaign and promote parties in (though not, as Rep. Bachmann called it, the first state). That appeared to be Rep. Bachmann’s goal in speaking to the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire today, which, keeping with the founding theme, handed out copies of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Rep. Bachmann kept to the theme, too, except attributed to the state she was in qualities of neighboring Massachusetts:

“What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love for liberty,” the potential GOP presidential candidate said. “You’re the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord. And you put a marker in the ground and paid with the blood of your ancestors the very first price that had to be paid to make this the most magnificent nation that has ever arisen in the annals of man in 5,000 years of recorded history.”

Later, she told the crowd that New Hampshire had a responsibility to keep liberty alive, which they have done “very well for almost 20 generations from the time the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, and I’m sure the very first one came up to New Hampshire and said, ‘This is where I want to be.’”

Sarah Palin Fishing and Hunting Caribou in Alaska

2011-03-06T13:58:00.000-08:00

Ultimate cruelty.
http://tlc.discovery.com/videos/sarah-palins-alaska-shes-a-great-shot.html
http://tlc.discovery.com/videos/sarah-palins-alaska-bristols-skeet-shoot.html
http://tlc.discovery.com/videos/sarah-palins-alaska-mother-daughter-fishing-trip.html

Mike Huckabee Claims Barack Obama was Raised in Kenya the Case of Insanity

2011-03-02T08:05:00.000-08:00

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/huckabee-questions-obama-history-claims-he-was-raised-in-kenya/
video "good answer Huckabee ... honest".
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/huckabee-questions-obama-history-claims-he-was-raised-in-kenya/

Republicans Tax Cuts Target the Poor, the sick, the hungry and the vulnerable

2011-03-01T07:01:00.000-08:00

Christina Sablan, who lost the ability to speak
http://www.cbpp.org/
http://www.alligator.org/opinion/editorials/article_53bd7d6a-43aa-11e0-8324-001cc4c002e0.html
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/jan/23/real-people-real-problems/
Republicans Tax Cuts Target Poor, sick, hungry vulnerable

Barack Obama Accomplishments as of July 2010

2011-02-27T08:48:00.000-08:00

Apparently, there seems to be a bit of confusion over this issue. I was able to find MANY examples of President Obama's accomplishments (at least 100, in fact) with a few simple clicks on the Internet. I didn't list them all but provided a link at the bottom for you to iew them yourself.

Here goes:

1. Signed an executive order on government contrast waste and spending-http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/economy_in_government_contracting >br>

2. Signed into law the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, giving women equal pay to men- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtKAKlurRAY

3. Renewed dialogue with NATO and allies on strategy issues- http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/04/04/Afghanistan-and-NATO

4. Announced plan to end war in Iraq (and we're on track for it. too!) - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/washington/28troops.html?_r=1http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/18/general-withdrawal-iraq-track/

5. Provided funding to families of fallen soldiers to defray expenses for them when the body arrives at Dover AFB- http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/pentagon-will-help-families/

6. Ended media blackout on war casualties and the return of fallen soldiers to Dover AFB- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7986203.stm

7. Signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which is responsible for saving and/or creating 2.1 million jobs- http://www.recovery.gov/About/Pages/The_Act.aspx

8. Launched the Recovery.org website to show where your tax dollars are going, giving transparency to government- http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/home.aspx

9. Making Home Affordable plan- http://www.makinghomeaffordable.gov/

10. Launched a $15 billion plan to help small businesses- http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-to-small-business-owners

11. Investing in education programs to both provide jobs now and for the future- http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education

12. Gave the VA $1.4 billion to improve services for veterans programs- http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/veterans

13. Signed in law to SChip law to help underprivileged children be covered by health insurance- http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/veterans

14. Repealed Bush's restrictions on stem cell research- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/09/obama-administration-stem-cell-funding

15. Ended the stop-loss program which made soldiers serve as many as 4 tours in war- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123741885685978043.html

16. Signed into law the Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act to stop fraud and wasteful spending in the way the Pentagon acquires weapons- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon_Systems_Acquisition_Reform_Act_of_2009

17. Signed into law the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act, giving the authority to investigate and prosecute fraud in the lending industry which led to the financial meltdown- http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/05/obama-signs-hou.html

18. Signed into law the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act to help families on the verge of foreclosure keep their homes- http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/05/obama-signs-hou.html

19. Started laying out a plan for Mexico-US border security- http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Administration-Officials-Announce-US-Mexico-Border-Security-Policy-A-Comprehensive-Response-and-Commitment

20. Announced strategy to deal with international nuclear threat- http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-By-President-Barack-Obama-In-Prague-As-Delivered

21. Improved the Freedom of Information Act, giving it more transparency- http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Freedom_of_Information_Act

22. Signed into law the Credit Card Accountability. Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act, putting the brake on sleazy practices of credit care companies and protecting consumers- http://www.newsunfiltered.com/archives/2010/02/pew_finds_credi.html

23. Endorsed the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act of 2009 which puts the brakes on offshore tax havens- http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-03-26-body-armor_x.htm

24. Helped reverse the DOW from around 8000 when Bush left to the biggest weekly gain in a year on July 9, 2010-http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/nyse/stocks-climb-again-posting-the-biggest-weekly-gain-in-a-year/19548493/

25. Provided a tax cut to 95% American workers- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/12/only-12-of-americans-thin_n_460559.html

26. Cracked down on companies denying their workers sick leave, pay, and insurance and also avoiding paying Social Security, Medicare and unemployment taxes- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/business/18workers.html

27. Increased funding for pell grants, providing more low income students with access to college funds- http://www.ourfuture.org/report/2009031325/obama-s-budget-supporting-students-not-banks

28. Signed into law the Veterans Health Care Budget Reform and Transparency Act, enabling better care for veterans- http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Signing-of-the-Veterans-Health-Care-Budget-Reform-and-Transparency-Act

29. Launched an investigation against Anthem Blue Cross over their jacking premiums up by 39%... pressure on Anthem cause them to reverse itself- http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2010/02/congress_opens_probe_into_anth.htmlhttp://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/04/30/anthem-blue-cross-rate-request-saving-californian/

http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/04/30/anthem-blue-cross-rate-request-saving-californian/

30. Extended unemployment benefits for over 2 million people by 20 weeks in November 2009- http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/04/30/anthem-blue-cross-rate-request-saving-californian/

31. Created the American recovery and Reinvestment Act which has saved/created more than 2 million jobs and improved the economy by 3.5%- http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2311303720100223

32. Economic policies helped unemployment drop to 9.5%. More jobs started opening up and hiring and joblessness dropped dramatically from over 700,000 on January 20, 2009, to 125,000 in June, 2010... Most of these job losses are attributed to temporary Census workers not doing the Census anymore. Jobs, being a lagging indicator (Economics 101), jobs are ALWAYS the last thing to improve in any economy.

33. Seven of ten economic indicators have improved, showing signs that the economy has and continues to improve-
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-19/leading-economic-indicators-index-in-u-s-rose-1-4-in-march.html

34. Allocated funding to help fireman and police officers save their jobs, thus keeping communities safer- http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/188/increase-funding-for-local-emergency-planning/

35. strengthened the Endangered Species Act- http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/188/increase-funding-for-local-emergency-planning/

36. Launched a criminal and civil investigation into the Gulf oil spill- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/01/bp-criminal-investigation_n_596626.html

37. Did NOT apologize to BP for making them take responsibility for the mess they created, as the GOP has done. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/06/17/2010-06-17_texas_rep_joe_barton_apologizes_to_bp_ceo_tony_hayward_over_white_houses_20_bill.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/17/gop-outraged-by-shakedown_n_615686.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100708/ap_on_el_se/us_gulf_oil_spill_gop_candidate

38. Did NOT suggest that taxpayers foot the bill for the spill instead of BP like John Boehner, Michele Bachmann, Tom Donohoe and other GOPers think we should.
http://www.ex-christian.net/index.php?/topic/38857-tom-donohue-republican-tax-payers-should-pay-for-bps-mess/

http://www.businessinsider.com/boehner-bp-2010-6

39. Gave tax credits for first time homeowners through the Worker, Homeownership and Business Assistance Act- http://www.federalhousingtaxcredit.com/

40. Did NOT screw over out of work Americans by blocking the extension of unemployment benefits in June of 2010-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/30/unemployment-jobless-fails-senate_n_631710.htmlFor even more, click here: http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com/2010/03/100-accomplishments-of-president-barack.html

http://www.daily-jeff.com/news/simple_article/4857392

Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney Picture

2011-02-25T11:32:00.000-08:00

Are you serious ... I don't believe you?

Justice Clarence Thomas No Talk Get Big Pay Check Video

2011-02-21T12:29:00.000-08:00

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_newsroom/20110221/pl_yblog_newsroom/the-fast-fix-a-judge-of-few-words;_ylt=AiTxs7MOaWxjWm7jR9Hogt.yFz4D;_ylu=X3oDMTNmdDc4ZTRmBGFzc2V0A3libG9nX25ld3Nyb29tLzIwMTEwMjIxL3RoZS1mYXN0LWZpeC1hLWp1ZGdlLW9mLWZldy13b3JkcwRjcG9zAzMEcG9zAzEzBHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcnkEc2xrA3RoZWZhc3RmaXhhag--
Thanks Ronald Reagan nominating an idiot.

John Boehner Budget Quarrels and Government Shut Down the Newt Gingrich Master Legacy

2011-02-20T07:43:00.001-08:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_government_shutdown_of_1995
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Robert-Reich-s-Blog/2010/0917/Gingrich-threatens-extinct-strategy-Shut-down-the-government
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/02/government-shutdown-possibility-grows-as-war-of-words-over-spending-erupts-on-the-hill.html
http://www.cnn.com/US/9511/debt_limit/11-16/budget_gingrich/

Sarah Palin Ventures into the Future Untamed Wild Ambitions 2012

2011-02-19T08:25:00.000-08:00

Will shoot some moose, are not we?

John Boehner I will Shut the Government

2011-02-19T08:07:00.000-08:00

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gop-cuts-20110218,0,2818120.story

John Boehner Wants Spending Cuts, Cuts and Cuts the Case of Insanity

2011-02-16T08:12:00.000-08:00

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/06/john-boehner-interview-ho_n_805576.html

Sarah Palin Video on Barack Obama Annual State of the Union Speech

2011-02-08T16:18:00.000-08:00

http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/01/sarah-palin-on-state-of-the-union-address-wtf/

Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch Takes On US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan

2011-02-07T11:27:00.001-08:00

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Hatch disgusting man.
Hatch: Kagan Should Recuse Herself From Obamacare Decisions
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Hatch-Kagan-recuse-Obamacare/2011/02/03/id/384932?s=al&promo_code=B9B1-1

2011-02-07T11:26:00.001-08:00

Sarah Palin the Master of Demagoguery Egypt and Obama Approach

2011-02-06T20:00:00.000-08:00

Although Sarah Palin has nothing to offer regarding Egypt she bumble mumble about 3:00-am and Barack Obama. Only attacking Radical Islamists.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailycaller/20110206/pl_dailycaller/palinegyptcrisisa300amwhitehousephonecallthatobamadidnthandlesuccessfully_1
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sarah-palin-criticizes-president-barack-obama-egypt-call/story?id=12851413

The Republicans Sweep the House November-2010 Now What?

2011-02-04T10:33:00.000-08:00

Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pennsylvania)

Michelle Bachman Republican Minnesota Speech and Enhancing the Art of Lying

2011-01-25T21:16:00.000-08:00

Blaming the rise of unemployment on Obama is a lie. The unemployment rate was nose up when Obama took office. It took him 6 months to stabilize it to about 9% to 10% what is it now. With improving the economy this unemployment rate will start yo dip.
The budget deficit is nonsense and will start to shrink once the economy start grwing again and more people be employed and paying federal income taxes.

Barack Obama Recent Rise in Approval Rating

2011-01-24T19:15:00.000-08:00

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/rasmussen-obama-job-approval-at-highest-level-in-15-months/

The Obama and Republicans Deal about the Extension of Tax Cuts for the Rich

2011-01-24T19:12:00.000-08:00

President Obama and congressional Republicans agreed Monday to a tentative deal that would extend for two years all the Bush-era income tax breaks set to expire on Dec. 31, continue unemployment benefits for an additional 13 months and cut payroll taxes for workers to encourage employers to start hiring.

The deal has been in the works for more than a week and represents a concession by Obama to political reality: Democrats don’t have the votes in Congress to extend only the expiring income tax breaks that benefit the middle class. The White House estimates that the proposed agreement would prevent typical families from facing annual tax increases of about $3,000, starting Jan. 1.

Obama was able to extract an agreement from GOP leaders to support an additional 13 months of jobless benefits, a 2 percent employee payroll tax cut and extensions of several tax credits aimed at working families that were included in the stimulus bill.

The deal also would revive the estate tax, but it would exempt inheritances of up to $5 million for individuals and $10 million for couples. Democrats on Capitol Hill are strongly opposed to setting the cap at that high a level and to the 35 percent rate discussed by Obama and Republicans that would apply to the taxable portion of estates.

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/president-obama-gop-reach-tax-cut-extension-deal/

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty Checking the Water for 2012 Republican Presidential Run

2011-01-22T09:17:00.000-08:00

Barack Obama Hawaii Birth Certificate Photo

2011-01-19T07:57:00.000-08:00

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html

Brother Robert Bently Governer of Alabama Would You Spare a Dime ... No You Are Not My Brother You Dont Accept Jesus Christ

2011-01-19T07:36:00.001-08:00

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-alabama-governor-20110119,0,4351953.story

Arizona Shooting is a Fatal Shot on Sarah Palin Presidential Dreams

2011-01-12T04:05:00.000-08:00

http://www.thestreet.com/story/10959096/1/credit-suisses-18-best-stock-picks-for-2011-part-1.html

Hajji Habiba Akumu Obama the Grand Mother of Barack Obama of Kenya

2011-01-09T07:24:00.000-08:00

Habiba Akumu Obama and Barack Obama Sr. as a child.
Also known as Akumu Nyanjoga (c. 1918-death).[citation needed] Barack Obama's paternal grandmother, and the second wife of Hussein Onyango Obama. She gave Onyango three children: daughters Sarah and Auma, and son Barack (Barack Obama's father).[Her father was named Njango and she was born and raised in the Western Kenyan village of Karabondi. In his memoir Dreams from My Father, her grandson wrote that she was miserable in her marriage and abandoned her husband and children and subsequently married again and moved to present-day Tanzania. Luos are given name related the circumstances of their birth and Akumu means mysterious birth, a conception after a birth, but before resumption of menses. She took the name Habiba upon her conversion to Islam. A photograph of her holding her son, Barack Sr, on her lap is on the cover of her grandson's memoir. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Barack_Obama

Jesse Kelly the Murderer from Arizona

2011-01-09T06:14:00.000-08:00

Back in June 2010, Kelly's campaign event website had a photo of the former Marine in military garb holding his weapon. It included the headline: "Get on Target for Victory in November. Help remove Gabrielle Giffords from office. Shoot a fully automatic M16 with Jesse Kelly." On January 8, 2011, his political opponent Gabrielle Giffords was one of the several people shot at a Safeway supermarket near Tucson, Arizona.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Kelly

Sarah Palin the Most Dangerous Woman in America Cross-Hair Map

2011-01-09T05:57:00.001-08:00

Sarah Palin’s target list is making headlines,after it was revealed that the former governor was targeting Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat U.S. Congresswoman, who was the victim of the Jan. 8th shootout that took place in a grocery store in Tucson (Arizona).

Gabrielle Giffords has been shot in the head by 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner who killed six people including a judge and a nine year old child while injuring eighteen other attendees.

Reports claiming that Gabrielle Giffords has been “shot at close range in the head” has the media digging and analyzing an old post that Palin did back in March in 2010 where the 40-year-old wife of astronaut Mark Kelly was identified as a target.

The Alaskan politician posted a map of the United States with crosshairs over red states where Democrats voted for the health care reform.

Sarah Palin and Shot Congress Woman Rep. Gabrielle Giffords from 8th District of Arizona

2011-01-08T17:39:00.000-08:00

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords

Sarah Palin is very dangerous woman.
Video
http://firedoglake.com/

The Case for Immigration to the USA

2011-01-08T09:06:00.000-08:00

The Economic Case for Immigration
Immigration reform has been a national priority for many years, but it has been difficult to build winning legislative coalitions. Public concern aggravated by the recession has predominantly focused on concerns about job competition, wage pressures, and the perceived social costs of illegal immigrants. Lost in this discussion is the fact that the majority of immigrants live in the United States legally, and immigrant workers contribute income, Social Security, Medicare, and sales taxes. Immigrants create new businesses and job opportunities, spur innovation, and play significant roles in both high- and low-skilled occupations such as information technology, engineering, bio-tech, medical services, construction, hospitality, and agriculture.
There is a strong economic argument that the growth and prosperity of the United States is dependent on immigrants replenishing our workforce. America will begin to age rapidly as the leading edge of the baby boom generation turns 65 in 2011. One benefit of the recent wave of immigration is the contribution immigrants have made at the younger end of the age spectrum. This “younging” of the population will continue to help the economy grow by providing new workers, new home buyers, and new citizens as more Americans live longer.
There is also economic consideration to resolving the controversial issues of border security and the path to legalization. Quite simply, emphasizing only border security and deportation will result in huge Federal expenditures and depress the economy as businesses lose essential workers. On the other hand, solutions that take a comprehensive approach matching security with work place enforcement and a path for legal entry and work will increase wages, tax revenues, and economic growth.
http://pfnyc.org/reports/2010-09-Economic%20Case_For_Immigration.pdf

Department of Home Security Web Site

2011-01-08T08:47:00.000-08:00

http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/budget/editorial_0430.shtm
For more information, contact:
Department of Homeland Security
Office of the Chief Financial Officer
Program Analysis and Evaluation
245 Murray Lane, SW
Mailstop 200
Washington, D.C. 20528
Information may also be requested by sending an email to par@dhs.gov or calling (202) 447-0333.http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/cfo_afrfy2009_vol1.pdf

The Change of Power in Congress 2011 Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner

2011-01-06T01:09:00.000-08:00

All Smiles.
Wishing John Boehner the best since he is in the driver seat now.

Obama in India Painting

2010-11-20T07:47:00.000-08:00

George W Bush and the Art of Disciplining

2010-11-19T16:46:00.000-08:00

Blowing Air May Help for Rep. Charles Rangel at Congress Hearing

2010-11-19T07:14:00.000-08:00

Rep. Peter Welch, (D) of Vermont listens (l.) as Rep. John Lewis, (D) of Georgia (r.) speaks on behalf of Rep. Charles Rangel, (D) of New York (c.) on Capitol Hill in Washington, during the House Ethics Committee hearing.
http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2010/Photos-of-the-Day-11-18/(photo)/
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA7
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/nyregion/19rangel.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a2

Father and Son in Congress Rand Paul and Old Ron Paul Photo

2010-11-19T07:02:00.000-08:00

Republican Sen.-elect Rand Paul (l.) enjoys a light moment with his father, Rep. Ron Paul (R) of Texas, during a campaign event in Erlanger, Ky.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/1118/Poison-vote-looms-for-tea-party-freshmen-Raise-the-national-debt-limit

2010-11-15T10:03:00.001-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiK2BYRYFjo&feature=related

Barack is Back after a ten-day trip to Asia.

2010-11-14T18:55:00.000-08:00

http://www.daylife.com/topic/Barack_Obama

Ben Chandler Democratic Congression Win from Ultra-Ultra Conservative Christian Oklahoma

2010-11-13T22:47:00.000-08:00

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/11/13/democrat-ben-chandler-squeaks-out-democratic-victory-in-kenturck/

North Carolina Fanatic Roman Catholic Repubican Renee Ellmers Hate Attacks on Muslims in America

2010-11-13T10:51:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfAqarG8l6w
North Carolina Fanatic Roman Catholic Repubican Renee Ellmers Hate Attacks Muslims America

Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner New Role at the Capitol Hill

2010-11-13T01:25:00.001-08:00

Barack Obama No Extra Tax Cuts for the Rich Beyond the First $250,000

2010-11-12T23:58:00.000-08:00

G20 Summit news has not been strictly confined to international news as President Barack Obama said Friday in Seoul his No. 1 priority is to preserve tax cuts for middle-class Americans.
Obama spoke at a news conference at the end of the G20 Summit. He said he is not caving in to Republican demands to extend Bush administration tax cuts for the wealthy, CNN reported.
"Here's the right interpretation: I want to make sure that taxes don't go up for middle-class families starting on January 1 -- my number one priority for those families and for our economy. I also believe that it would be fiscally irresponsible for us to permanently extend the high-income tax cuts," the president said.
"I think that would be a mistake, particularly when we've got our Republican friends saying that their number one priority is making sure that we are dealing with our debt and our deficit."
Obama said he wouldn't negotiate tax cuts at the G20 Summit. He said he would hold the discussions when Congress returns to work for a lame-duck session next week.
"I'm not going to negotiate here in Seoul. My job is to negotiate back in Washington with Democratic and Republican leaders," he said.
The president also said outgoing House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi should remain in a leadership position as minority leader.
Do you feel the President will refuse to give in to the extension even if it means middle-class Americans are paying thousands more in taxes come January? What do you think allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire would do for his chances of re-election in 2012? Sound off below.
http://www.thirdage.com/news/g20-summit-break-gives-obama-chance-address-bush-tax-cuts_11-12-2010#ixzz159Ap83Ka

US Congressional Mid-Term Elections 2010 November 11-2010

2010-11-11T05:53:00.000-08:00

House Results »
Democrats 189
Undecided 7
Republicans 239

John Boehner No Compromise with Obama on Bush Tax Cutsfor Rich

2010-11-11T05:41:00.000-08:00

John Boehner signals no compromise with Obama on Bush tax cuts
The presumptive next House speaker signals he'll insist on a permanent extension of the tax cuts and will tell that to President Obama during a bipartisan White House meeting next week. He also says he'll forgo use of a military plane as speaker.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-boehner-taxes-20101111,0,7248137.story
http://taxonthemind.com/?p=5815

Republican Anti-Muslim Bigots Who Lost During the Mid Term Elections Carl Paladino and Sharron Angle

2010-11-07T04:18:00.000-08:00

Extremely ugly Sharron aNGLE.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/nyregion/04paladino.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sodnhctSk

New Republican Black Congressmen anti-Muslim Bigot Allen West and Tim Scott

2010-11-07T04:11:00.000-08:00

Election Day victories for two Black Republicans raise a rare question in the House of Representatives in the 112th Congress: How will two African American members of the Grand Old Party interact with the Congressional Black Caucus?

Fourteen Black Republicans ran for Congress in the Nov. 2 midterm elections but, after all the votes were counted, only Tim Scott, a South Carolina businessman, and Allen West, a Florida-based Army veteran of the Iraq War, will take seats. They are the first African-American Republicans to be elected to Congress since 1995.

Anti-Muslim Bigot Allen West served in Iraq. Good job.
http://www.afro.com/

The Republican Leading Politicians for 2012 are Vocal Christians Tough as Nail

2010-11-06T05:08:00.001-07:00

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a possible 2012 Republican presidential contender, quietly addressed a gathering of evangelical leaders in Minneapolis today. Pawlenty, an evangelical, tried to get the McCain campaign
to focus more on born-again Christians last year but to little avail.

Pawlenty's appearance today is a reminder that, for all the talk of the Christian right's flagging influence, the current field of Republican front-runners for 2012 presidential race is composed entirely of social conservatives.

Besides Pawlenty, the field includes:

•Sarah Palin, a nondenominational Christian and former Pentecostal who is opening up about her faith.
•Newt Gingrich, a recently converted Catholic who's stepping up efforts to organize religious conservatives.
•Bobby Jindal, a Catholic conservative and darling of the Christian right.
•Mark Sanford, an Episcopalian whom conservative Christian activists tried to draft into the presidential race last year.
•Mitt Romney, a Mormon who tried hard to win over skeptical evangelical leaders in his 2008 White House bid and whose church played an active role in passing Proposition 8 in California last year.
•Mike Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister.
•A few other names floated as 2012 contenders are more socially moderate or have rockier relationships with the GOP's socially conservative base, but these folks are—at this early stage—second-tier contenders:
•Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who has upset Christian conservatives by supporting gay civil unions.
•Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who has long riled social conservatives in his state.
•Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who had rough relations with conservative Christian leaders as head of the Republican National Committee in the 1990s.
*Ex-Senator Rick Santorum of the the Iowa Christian Alliance.
http://politics.usnews.com/news/blogs/god-and-country/2009/4/21/2012-republican-front-runners-all-christian-conservatives.html
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2010/02/rick_santorum_explores_2012_pr.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012
http://www.nationbooks.org/book/189/Republican%20Gomorrah

Democrat Murray wins in Washington state

2010-11-05T01:18:00.001-07:00

http://media.www.thecandor.com/media/storage/paper1410/news/2010/11/03/GlobalNews/Democrat.Murray.Wins.In.Washington.State-3954982.shtml
http://www.keenobservers.com/5311/washington-state-election-results-2010-murray-wins-the-race/

Lynne Torgerson for Congress, Islam Should not Have 1st Amendment Status

2010-11-04T22:57:00.001-07:00

Torgerson for Congress, Islam Should not Have 1st Amendment Status.
Christian fanatic Lynne Torgerson, a candidate for the 5Th District MN seat in Congress is taking on Islam head on.

Fanatic Christian Oklahoma War of Terror Against Islam and Muslims the Sharia Law

2010-11-04T22:41:00.000-07:00

Looks like Oklahomans will not, repeat not, be subject to Sharia law anytime in the near future. Local media in the state is reporting that ballot initiative SQ755, which bars state courts from using Islamic or international law, is on the path to approval– Yes votes outweighing Nos by more than two-to-one, with about 40-percent of the precincts in.

Constitutional scholars point out that Sharia law is religious law, and the first words of the First Amendment say, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."

Here in the nutty, right-wing, Bible Belt state of Oklahoma, we go to the polls Tuesday to cast our ballots and, hopefully, stop the incessant radio and TV commercials from those who are sneaking in our borders and accosting our way of life. I am talking, of course, about the politicians. Seriously, folks, I am willing to give my vote to the first candidate to shut up for a full five minutes.

Should there be ban on the ten commandments?
Video Fanatic Rex Duncan
http://www.getreligion.org/2010/10/islamophobia-vs-bad-journalism/

Tea Party Nation leader Judson Phillips "Don't Vote for this Muslim Keith Ellison" Minnesota

2010-11-04T17:07:00.000-07:00

The head of a national Tea Party group says voters should oppose Rep. Keith Ellison—because he’s a Muslim. In a letter sent out last weekend, Tea Party Nation leader Judson Phillips enumerated his grievances with the Minnesota rep thusly, according to the New York Daily News: “He is the only Muslim member of Congress. He supports the Council on American-Islamic Relations [and] Hamas and has helped Congress send millions of tax [dollars] to terrorists in Gaza.”

Ellison’s also faced Islamophobic attacks from his opponent, Lynne Torgerson, who on her website accuses Ellison of “helping to raise money to be sent to terrorists,” based on his work with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil liberties group. Ellison is the first Muslim ever to be elected to Congress, but he is not in fact the only one; Andre Carson of Indiana is also Muslim.

http://www.newser.com/story/103904/tea-party-on-rep-keith-ellison-dont-vote-for-this-muslim.html

The Massacre of the Democratic Congressmen in Florida

2010-11-04T16:55:00.000-07:00

Republicans won all six closely contested U.S. House races. They ousted incumbents Ron Klein in South Florida, Alan Grayson and Suzanne Kosmas in Central Florida and Allen Boyd in the Panhandle. They also won two open seats in south and central Florida.

Especially stunning was Allen West’s victory over Klein by a clear margin in a swing district that straddles Broward and Palm Beach counties. West, an African-American retired lieutenant colonel, drew money and support from the tea party movement across the country.
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/dcblog/2010/11/republicans_gain_from_floridas_1.html

Indiana Congressman Andre Carson Big November 2010 One of Two Muslim Representatives

2010-11-04T16:27:00.000-07:00

http://indydemocrat.blogspot.com/search/label/Andre%20Carson
http://punditpress.blogspot.com/2010/11/indiana-7th-district-results.html

Mid Term Congressional Election Results November-02-2010

2010-11-03T19:05:00.000-07:00

2010 US election results Democrat | Republican

US House 186 seats 239 seats

US Senate 52 seats* 46 seats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2010

Robert Gibbs the White House Press Secretary

2010-11-03T18:37:00.000-07:00

Can't you understand? What is your problem?

US Congressional Mid-Term Elections 2010

2010-11-03T15:50:00.000-07:00

http://elections.msnbc.msn.com/ns/politics/2010/california/house/1

Political Cartoon Obama and Republican Female Congress Hopefuls

2010-11-03T11:56:00.000-07:00

Harry Reid Winning Nevada Senate Race

2010-11-03T11:55:00.000-07:00

The Defeat of the Anti-Muslim Tyrant Sharron Angle in Nevada Senate Race

2010-11-03T11:40:00.000-07:00

http://zalnews.com/nevada-election-2010harry-reid-defeat-sharron-angle-by-major-votes/
http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/blog/nevada-harry-reid-hangs-on-to-defeat-sharron-angle/

Sharron Angle calling Harry Reid a Marxist

2010-11-03T08:10:00.000-07:00

Sharron Angle: "Harry Reid, stop being lazy like the unemployed and try to kick this football.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-pn-angle-reid1-20101102,0,6475451.story
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/sharron-angle-unemployed-workers-are-lazy-w

Humorous Video American Politics

2010-11-02T10:12:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfwRb_XKFvA&feature=related

Why There Still Monkies Answering Christine O'Donnell

2010-11-02T07:26:00.000-07:00

First, I am not going to give you the common brush off to your question: "We didn't evolve from monkeys, monkeys and humans share a common ancestor". That's just avoiding the question, and frankly, I don't agree with it. I'm going to assume that when you say "monkey," you not only include those animals called monkeys that are alive today, but also animals that looked and behaved like monkeys that lived millions of years ago. An animal that lived about 40 million years ago, known as Aegyptopithecus, is believed by scientists to be a direct ancestor of humans. If I saw that animal swinging through the tree branches today, I'd certainly call it a monkey.

I'm going to go one step further and assume that you are using the term monkey even more colloquially, and include chimpanzees and gorillas under the general umbrella of monkeys. Technically those are apes, but since they are non-human primates that are indeed decended from monkeys, let's go ahead and let that one by. So below, I'm going to cover a scenario whereby humans might have evolved from apes, while leaving apes still existing.

Before I continue, though, let's clear one thing up. It is natural to think of humans as "more evolved" than other animals, but this isn't true in any scientific sense. We are differently evolved, simply adapted to a different environment. It so happens that our intelligence, and the culture and technology that it spawned, has turned out to allow us an unprecedented degree of success, and the ability to live in environments that our ancestors couldn't. But evolution didn't somehow anticipate this.

The point is, evolution is only "directed" in that it favors survival, it does not favor high intelligence or walking upright or use of tools, unless those features aid in the survival and passing on of genes to the next generation. Other animals, for instance mosquitos, don't seem to be suffering for lack of these human-like capabilities.

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interfertile: two animals are interfertile if they would be able to produce an offspring, if they were allowed to mate or were artificially inseminated. If they are both the same sex, they are interfertile if each could produce an offspring with the appropriate sex parent of the other.

See this essay for an elaboration on the concept of interfertility, and why I use the word rather than the ambiguous expression "the same species."

Around 7-10 million years ago, there was a population of apes in the forests of Africa, all of which were interfertile with all the others. These apes probably roughly resembled modern day gorillas, chimpanzees or bonobos ("pygmy champanzees"), but were not identical to any of them. Nor were they interfertile with any ape or human alive today.

The forests eventually reached the maximum capacity of these apes per square mile as it could support. Like modern chimpanzees, it is likely that various bands of the apes fought with and killed members of adjacent bands, with winners taking over the territory from losers. Even in the absense of fighting, there is a limit as to how many animals an environment can support, so the number of apes stabilized at this number.

Some of the apes lived near the edge of the forest, where the thick trees give way to the drier grasslands, or savanna. There were still trees, but they were much less dense than in the forests. While these apes were less adapted to this environment than they were to the forest, at least there was less competition from the other apes. The apes who lived in this transitional area gradually adapted to the different environment. Tree climbing ability and upper body strength was less important than ability to move about on the ground, and capabilities like carrying things long distances and throwing rocks at prey or predators were valuable. The savannah-compatible attributes and skills increased in number and degree among the populations living in the transition area between forest and savannah.

Over hundreds of thousands of years, more and more of the apes spread out farther and farther into the savanna. They continued to adapt to the savanna, becoming different in appearance and behaviour from those in the forests, much as coyotes differ from gray wolves today. The apes that lived near the border of forest and savanna looked and behaved like a cross between those living deep in the forest or far into the savanna, much as red wolves look and behave like a cross between coyotes and gray wolves. Like coyotes, gray wolves and red wolves, all of the apes -- whether living in the forest or the savannah -- were interfertile with all the others, as they were still fairly close relatives and therefore genetically similar.

A million or so years later, some of the apes were living over one thousand miles apart, and were separated by more than 10,000 generations -- 10,000th cousins, so to speak. Some were so distantly related that they were no longer interfertile with one another. Had they somehow been put together and tried to breed, they would not have produced offspring. However, they remained interfertile with the apes closer to them.

Typically, those less than 6000 generations apart remained interfertile. So they all were still "connected" by a chain of interfertile pairs. While it might be impossible for two apes that were 10,000 generations apart to have children together, they could have still theoretically shared grandchildren or great-grandchildren, by mating with apes that were only 5000 generations apart, which in turn mated with ones 5000 generations apart. Keep in mind, though, that in reality the degree of interfertility was rarely if ever tested: apes interbred only with apes that lived nearby, which were rarely separated by more than a dozen or so generations.

As time went on, the apes living in the forest became separated by more and more generations from the apes in the savanna. No longer were any of the apes interfertile with all of the others, not even the ones living in the transition territories. As populations ebbed and flowed, various bands moved about, took over territory of others, suffered from diseases and starvation and predation and changing climates -- eventually there became a day that the last "interfertility link" between the forest apes and savanna apes died. This day came and went without fanfare, as interfertility is a hypothetical concept: it is unlikely that any of forest apes had even tried to breed with any of the savanna apes for thousands of years prior to the point it became theoretically impossible.

From this point on, the two lines were completely diverged. There was no turning back, as it was now impossible for any of the forest apes to mix their genetic code with the savanna dwellers. The apes living in the forest continued to thrive in the forest, and were the ancestors of modern chimpanzees and bonobos. The apes in the savanna were our ancestors, and by this point, there is a good chance they looked a lot like primitive humans. They were far more intelligent than the apes in the forest, since intelligence had an especially high value in the savanna. Being able to accurately throw a rock, sharpen a stick to use as a weapon, make a fence or other structure to protect themselves from predators, and make use of animal furs were all extremely valuable skills here, and those that more readily acquired these skills tended to be the ones that produced the most surviving children.

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One final point I'll make to avoid upsetting the scientists: the more we learn about the path from ape to human, the more we know just how messy the process really was. I described it as a fairly neat process, one group evenly and gradually splitting into two over the course of a couple million years or so. In reality, there appear to have been numerous partial splits, and numerous different fluctuating populations with various degrees of interfertility (and actual interbreeding) between them. Most splits led to eventual extinction, Neanderthal man being a well known (and relatively recent) example. Certain chance events happened along the way, for instance there is evidence a jaw mutation that reduced biting power allowed the brain to grow bigger. In the forest that mutation was a disadvantage, but in the savanna the additional cognitive power given by the larger brain outweighed the loss of bite strength.

It hasn't even been conclusively proven that we are not still interfertile with chimpanzees: some people speculate that a hybrid may be possible, although personally I would bet against it. It is very likely we would be interfertile with Neanderthals. Likewise, modern chimpanzees are interfertile with bonobos, although there is no interbreeding in the wild between the two species as they are separated by the immense Congo River.
http://karmatics.com/docs/evolution-still-there-are-monkeys.html
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Monkies
http://estergoldberg.typepad.com/views_from_a_broad/

Congressional Mid-Term Coverage Video November 2010

2010-11-02T06:02:00.000-07:00

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/02/election.main/index.html

Oklahoma Republican Represenative Republican State Rep. Rex Duncan the New Nazi and Threrat to Muslims in US

2010-10-30T13:05:00.000-07:00

http://technorati.com/politics/article/oklahoma-strikes-back-against-sharia-law/

Uncle Obama Wants You

2010-10-29T08:07:00.000-07:00

http://barracudabrigade.blogspot.com/

California Race for Governor the Dark Horse Jerry Brown is Coming ahead of Meg Whitman

2010-10-24T12:01:00.000-07:00

Republican Scheme to Privatize the Public Education System is Disgrace

2010-10-23T19:44:00.001-07:00

Deciding who is a good teacher and who is not? is a game of rottoen politics and prejeduces that may result of firing good but old teachers. This is a traversity.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/22/juan_gonzalez_controversial_evaluations_system_will

Nevada Senate Race Democrat Harry Read and Republican Sharron Angle

2010-10-23T07:54:00.001-07:00

Illinois Senate Race Alexi Giannoulias and Mark Kirk

2010-10-23T07:29:00.000-07:00

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2010/senate/il/illinois_senate_giannoulias_vs_kirk-1092.html

Hot Contested Congressional Districts on November 2010 2010

2010-10-21T07:53:00.000-07:00

• Lean-D
Alabama - District 2
Bobby Bright (D) - Incumbent
Martha Roby (R)
• Toss-up
Arizona - District 1
Ann Kirkpatrick (D) - Incumbent
Paul Gosar (R)
• Lean-D
Arizona - District 5
Harry Mitchell (D) - Incumbent
David Schweikert (R)
• Toss-up
Arizona - District 8
Gabrielle Giffords (D) - Incumbent
Jesse Kelly (R)
• Lean-R
Arkansas - District 1
Chad Causey (D)
Rick Crawford (R)
• Lean-R
Arkansas - District 2
Joyce Elliott (D)
Tim Griffin (R)
http://www.npr.org/elections2010/scorecard/house.php

Barack Obama Approval Rating October 2010

2010-10-21T07:15:00.001-07:00

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20018855-503544.html

The Tea Party with No Cookies Sarah Palin

2010-10-21T03:42:00.000-07:00

No Cookies

Blanche Lincoln with her Republican challenger Rep. John Boozman. Lincoln Betrayal Didn’t Help

2010-10-19T11:08:00.000-07:00

Barak Obama "Who is Calling on the Phone?"

2010-10-17T08:30:00.000-07:00

Who is calling? "tea party"? answer is no.

Negativism is Growing in America

2010-10-16T21:55:00.001-07:00

Real Clear Politics Poll
Job Approval Approve Disapprove Spread
Obama 44.3% 49.8% -5.5%
Congress 21.2% 71.6% -50.4%
Direction of Country Right Direction Wrong Track Spread
RCP Average 30.8% 63.5% -32.7%

The Congressional Battle Between the Republicans and Democrats 2010

2010-10-16T19:15:00.000-07:00

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/2010-race-maps/house/

Sharron Angle calling Harry Reid a Marxist ... O’Donnell Calls Coons a Marxist

2010-10-15T06:52:00.000-07:00

http://www.politicsdaily.com/
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/odonnell-calls-coons-a-marxist-during-senate-debate/

Delaware Democrat Chris Coons and Republican Christine O'Donnell debate October 13, 2010 the Art of Low Blow

2010-10-14T06:05:00.000-07:00

Christine O'Donnell enhancing the art of fast hit and run and antagonizing.

The American People in the Eyes of the Conservatives

2010-10-10T13:41:00.000-07:00

John Merline Nonsense Article " 5 Reasons a GOP Win Could Be Good for Obama"

2010-10-10T02:00:00.000-07:00

Total nonsense article.

First, it's worth pointing out that the Democratic majority has hardly been an unqualified blessing for the president. Nonesense.

1) Improved poll numbers. Nonesense

2) A tamer GOP. Nonesense.

3) An opportunity to get a lot done.Nonsense.

4) A boost to the economy. Nonsense.

5) A chance to be a uniter. Nonsense.

http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/article/opinion-5-reasons-a-gop-win-could-be-good-for-obama/19665611
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-merline/7/95/b8a

Tom Donilon as National Security Adviser is Pointing to Afghanistan Exit Strategy

2010-10-09T08:50:00.001-07:00

The US Supreme Court Websites

2010-10-06T06:52:00.000-07:00

Members of the Supreme Court of the United Stateshttp://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx
http://www.supremecourt.gov/about/members.aspx

The Boehner Pledge to Ruin America

2010-10-01T16:54:00.001-07:00

President Barack Obama Interview with Rolling Stone Magazine September-28-2010

2010-09-28T19:23:00.000-07:00

President Barack Obama fights back.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/209395