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News Wednesday Morning News!
Posted by Cienna Madrid on Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:54 AM
State of the Union: Not 'fair' enough, says our Prez. Last night, Obama outlined his plan to help Americans refinance their mortgages, levy higher tax rates on millionaires, and uh, drill the shit out of our fat-cat, oil-hoarding ocean, among other things.
Meanwhile, in Somalia: SEAL Team 6 frees two hostages held by Somali pirates during President Obama's SoTU Address.
Boeing's Profits "Taking Off": The company reported a 20-percent jump in its fourth-quarter profits, which was higher than anticipated.
Mother Nature Blows: Puget Sound Energy reports 38,000 new wind-related power outages in Whatcom, Skagit, Island and Kitsap counties.
"Headless Body in Topless Bar" Convict: Denied parole.
Ack: Federal Way babysitter charged with pouring Totally Awesome Power Oxygen Base Cleaner down her charge's throat.
Quitcher Bragging and Put Some Shoes On: Barefoot Bandit accused of ridiculing law enforcement in prison emails and phone calls.
And finally, Jon Stewart takes on Mitt Romney's tax returns:
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Quick, Olympia! Give Boeing another tax incentive so they can move more jobs to other states! THEY'RE STRUGGLING.
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Lovely work by Jon Stewart - thanks for the clip.
Even better, his guest last night was Elizabeth Warren. If (like me) you have a hard time acting earnest without being pompous (and this is Seattle, so the answer is probably yes) please give her extended interview a look to see how it's done.
Even better, his guest last night was Elizabeth Warren. If (like me) you have a hard time acting earnest without being pompous (and this is Seattle, so the answer is probably yes) please give her extended interview a look to see how it's done.
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Obama should have mentioned why he said no to the KeyStone pipeline. His silence on it was terribly conspicuous.
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@3: you don't hand your enemies a club to hit you with. he didn't mention (except crypitcally) the somali hostage rescue he'd ordered and that had just been successfully completed - was that also terribly conspicuous?
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Low Information Voter: Hurray, Obama's finally addressed "outsourcing."
High Information Voter: Yeah, just after he's signed three "free trade" agreements, and in the South Korean agreement at least 65% of the jobs don't even go to the South Korean workers, but are structured to go the North Korean slave labor camps! (And didn't he talk about outsourcing when he was running for president the first time? And what did he do in the interim? Oh yeah....he's running the reelection!)
Low Information Voter: Hurray! Obama spoke about changes in the tax code.
High Information Voter: Ho hum......he mentioned that during his first presidential campaign, and nothing came of it and his advisor on "jobs and competitives" is the biggest tax evader, jobs offshorer, and pension assets fraudster around, GE's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt!
Low Information Voter: But the problem is, according to Obama, business leaders can't find enough qualified or skilled workers, so all these jobs go unfilled!
High Information Voter: We've been hearing that drivel for over forty years, and they always repeat that crapola right before offshoring another batch of jobs.
Back in around 2002, 2003, when they laid off scores of IT people, and offshored some of their programming jobs to Ghana, they made the same exact claim. (Ghana???????)
Give me a break, already!!!!!
Low Information Voter: But Obama said the economy is coming back, and a bunch of new jobs have been created.
High Information Voter: Well, since the beginning of the last Economic Meltdown, only 30% of jobs have been "recovered" -- of course, the data is kind of sketchy on how many of those jobs are full-time, and what they pay, and probable little or no healthcare benefits and that Healthcare insurance reform doesn't kick in until 2014 --- assuming it does actually materialize?
Low Information Voter: But Obama said he's going after the banksters by creating some sort of Financial Crimes unit with the Dept. of Justice?
High Information Voter: Yeesh! Another subterfuge! That Financial Crisis Inquiry Report was handed over to the DOJ quite some time ago, with plenty of ammo to go after the banksters and the three rating agencies, yet no action has been taken by the Obama Administration. It's all smoke and mirrors and eye candy and two-facedness with that guy!
Low Information Voter: So you're blaming Obama for everything?
High Information Voter: Negative, sonny, I'm blaming him for continuing the impotent Bush neocon policies which only favor the super-rich, and I'm blaming him for appointing a 100% neocon administration, and I'm blaming him for doing as little as possible for American workers, minorities and women, and going after more whistleblowers than all previous American presidents combined, and like Bush cooked that Iraqi WMD intelligence data, Obama has now continued the same crap by cooking the IAEA Iran Nuclear Assessment Report (International Atomic Energy Agency).
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High Information Voter: Yeah, just after he's signed three "free trade" agreements, and in the South Korean agreement at least 65% of the jobs don't even go to the South Korean workers, but are structured to go the North Korean slave labor camps! (And didn't he talk about outsourcing when he was running for president the first time? And what did he do in the interim? Oh yeah....he's running the reelection!)
Low Information Voter: Hurray! Obama spoke about changes in the tax code.
High Information Voter: Ho hum......he mentioned that during his first presidential campaign, and nothing came of it and his advisor on "jobs and competitives" is the biggest tax evader, jobs offshorer, and pension assets fraudster around, GE's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt!
Low Information Voter: But the problem is, according to Obama, business leaders can't find enough qualified or skilled workers, so all these jobs go unfilled!
High Information Voter: We've been hearing that drivel for over forty years, and they always repeat that crapola right before offshoring another batch of jobs.
Back in around 2002, 2003, when they laid off scores of IT people, and offshored some of their programming jobs to Ghana, they made the same exact claim. (Ghana???????)
Give me a break, already!!!!!
Low Information Voter: But Obama said the economy is coming back, and a bunch of new jobs have been created.
High Information Voter: Well, since the beginning of the last Economic Meltdown, only 30% of jobs have been "recovered" -- of course, the data is kind of sketchy on how many of those jobs are full-time, and what they pay, and probable little or no healthcare benefits and that Healthcare insurance reform doesn't kick in until 2014 --- assuming it does actually materialize?
Low Information Voter: But Obama said he's going after the banksters by creating some sort of Financial Crimes unit with the Dept. of Justice?
High Information Voter: Yeesh! Another subterfuge! That Financial Crisis Inquiry Report was handed over to the DOJ quite some time ago, with plenty of ammo to go after the banksters and the three rating agencies, yet no action has been taken by the Obama Administration. It's all smoke and mirrors and eye candy and two-facedness with that guy!
Low Information Voter: So you're blaming Obama for everything?
High Information Voter: Negative, sonny, I'm blaming him for continuing the impotent Bush neocon policies which only favor the super-rich, and I'm blaming him for appointing a 100% neocon administration, and I'm blaming him for doing as little as possible for American workers, minorities and women, and going after more whistleblowers than all previous American presidents combined, and like Bush cooked that Iraqi WMD intelligence data, Obama has now continued the same crap by cooking the IAEA Iran Nuclear Assessment Report (International Atomic Energy Agency).
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The real news is of course the blanketing of both Slog and the real Stranger paper with ads for the best show Larry King has ever seen, Cavalia. It's everywhere. I even saw an ad for it on TV, which was apparently shot on an iPhone with a hankerchief accidentally covering the lens. There are horses in it. They prance around, back and forth, in a big line.
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@2 Warren's spot on TDS last night made me cringe. She just launched into her stump speech, and was easily rattled by Stewbeef's jokes. It wasn't a conversation, it was a politician reciting her campaign speech.
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