Saturday
Apr162011
WATCH LIVE: Obama Townhall Discussion On The Deficit
Place your bs protectors squarely over your children's face first, then attend to yourselves. Once the masks are in place, you may begin watching without fear of lies and hyperbole.
Update: Performance is over. Watch a sumamry clip here.
The fun is already over. We'll post a clip as soon as one becomes available. In the interim, here is his deficit speech from the White House recorded Saturday.
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$2.84 BILLION LOAN For Columbia OIL REFINERY
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/userletter/?id=3181&letter_id=6774180621&content_dir=congressorg
GM to investigate after Chevy Volt hybrid catches fire for SECOND time in a week - even though it was unplugged
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1378314/GM-investigate-Chevy-Volt-hybrid-sparks-second-week.html#ixzz1Jz1hD6XG
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1378314/GM-investigate-Chevy-Volt-hybrid-sparks-second-week.html
VITTER WANTS ANSWERS ON BRAZIL DRILLING LOAN; PAUL WANTED ANSWERS TOO
http://www.theusreport.com/the-us-report/2011/3/22/vitter-wants-answers-on-brazil-drilling-loan-paul-wanted-ans.html
10 Doomsday trends America can’t survive
Commentary: We are past the point of no return, thanks to Super Rich
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-doomsday-trends-america-cant-survive-2011-04-19
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1378178/Charles-Manson-breaks-20-year-silence-40th-anniversary-gruesome-Sharon-Tate-murders.html#ixzz1JzBgSrKe
The EU Crackup
NEW YORK (AFP) - The United States plans to sell off much of its remaining shares in General Motors this summer despite the lackluster performance of the company's stock, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
The newspaper said the sale within the next six months would "almost certainly" mean that US taxpayers would take a loss from a politically controversial $50 billion rescue of the auto giant in 2009.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20110419/163598102.html
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The majority of Spanish parliamentary parties voted on Tuesday to extend the country's participation in NATO's Libya operation by two months.
Spanish Defense Minister Carme Chacon said the international coalition had to continue its "legitimate intervention in the region" to resolve the conflict.
http://peacockbiz.typepad.com/tram/2011/04/us-military-supplies-africa-ops-surge-contracts.html
[snip]
New questions are being raised about the Obama administration's plans for U.S. troops on the ground in Africa, where Libya and Ivory Coast are in turmoil and other nations are unstable, as documentation reveals federal officials are planning massive increases in U.S. fuel purchases for military operations there.