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Here is what's wrong with education these days, on many different levels http://patriotupdate.com/2013/03/professor-forces-students-to-lobby-government-to-ban-soda/

Paul fires back: Sens. McCain, Graham think the 'whole world is a battlefield' By Daniel Strauss - 03/07/13 03:31 PM ET Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blasted fellow GOP Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday, saying the two “think the whole world is a battlefield.” Paul criticized the hawkish senators for thinking the laws of war should take precedence over the Bill of Rights. The two had criticized Paul’s statements about drone policy during the Kentucky Republican’s nearly 13-hour filibuster on Thursday. “They think the whole world is a battlefield, including America, and that the laws of war should apply,” Paul said in an interview on Fox News about McCain and Graham, who had described Paul’s comments about drones as “ridiculous.” “The laws of war don't involve due process, so when they ask you for an attorney you tell them to shut up. That's not my understanding of the way America works,” Paul told Fox. “I don't think the laws of war apply to America, I think the Bill of Rights do and I think it's a disservice to our soldiers that our senators up there arguing that the Bill of Rights aren't important." Paul said whether drones can be used against U.S. citizens on U.S. soil is a “very serious question” and was at the root of Wednesday’s filibuster, which delayed a final confirmation vote on John Brennan, President Obama’s nominee to lead the CIA. “This was a very serious question. It was a question that took a month and a half to get an answer to and so I would argue — and I think a lot of the public would agree with me, both on the right and the left — that what we ask was a very serious question and it's a question that we finally got an answer to,” Paul said. Read more: http://thehill.com/video/senate/286881-paul-blasts-back-at-mccain-graham#ixzz2MyQarm3y Follow us: @thehill on Twitter | TheHill on Facebook

Politics on Tap Written on Friday, March 8, 2013 by Rodney Lee Conover Sad news out of South America this week – cancer in Venezuela died after a long struggle with Hugo Chavez. Sean Penn’s moustache is at half-mast, while Oliver Stone and Danny Glover are spending the rest of the week in mourning, counting they money they’ve accumulated in the very country which coincidentally was Hugo Chavez’ sworn enemy. North Korea has threatened to nullify the armistice which ended The Korean War if the United States and South Korea carry on with joint military drills. Over 10,000 US and 200,000 South Korean troops are taking part and officials in Pyongyang say unless it stops, they will cancel the Korean War ceasefire agreement. Not only that, Kim Jong-un has vowed to launch a nuclear attack on Los Angeles and San Francisco, calling it a “pre-emptive strike”. Wow – way to go Rodman. By keeping his filibuster against the confirmation of John Brennan going through prime time, Rand Paul forced ABC, CBS, and NBC to actually cover the issue of Eric Holder’s refusal to answer straight questions on drones. Meanwhile, John McCain called Rand Paul’s efforts; “a political stunt.” Of course, he said the same thing about The Monroe Doctrine. But the big controversy is how some Senators had dinner with Obama instead of supporting Paul Rand, who needed some time to rest his voice during the filibuster. Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Jerry Moran came in to give Paul a break. Even Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon joined in the filibuster. Meanwhile, John McCain went to eat dinner with the President, and proposed going before 4:30PM, which would also help with the sequester cuts. It’s a win-win. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s re-election campaign this week put up a video of a person wearing a Mitch McConnell mask, dancing to the “Harlem Shake.” Now there’s one way to get rid of a stupid fad. A new policy that was created in consultation with groups which include Planned Parenthood of Illinois, will require Chicago Public School kindergarteners to get sex education beginning in 2015. The children, or as Planned Parenthood describes them; “the ones that got away” are to receive instruction on “healthy choices” to “guide them throughout their lives.” The program will be available to kids as young as nineteen trimesters. Private companies hired more people than expected in February and suggests economic activity is picking up in the US. Employers added 198,000 jobs last month, beating the expected increase of 170,000. Especially good was construction hiring, where payrolls rose by 21,000 jobs. I blame George Bush. Can we finally admit we elected someone based on the color of their skin? I’m talking, of course, about John Boehner… Orange is in – have you checked out Snookie? Washington State Representative Ed Orcutt says riding bicycles causes more pollution than cars, because the increased heart rate and respiration from riding a bike results in larger emissions of carbon dioxide from the rider. Using this logic, people in the backseats of parked cars would really be the big polluters I would think. I have no evidence to back up my claim, but kinda like Ed there in Washington, that never stops me. The whole incident has inspired Al Gore to make a new documentary, entitled; “Lance Armstrong Hates Earth.”

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Yep. I saw another article were a kid got kicked out of school for bringing a cookie that was shaped as a gun. Obama must have sent a memo to all the schools "Please train the children and teachers to be liberal pussies" There are still good teachers in the system, but the liberal boo hoo army is spreading.

That honeycomb rim pattern does seem like it could be a mud collector.

Obama invited some of the rank and file members of the GOP to dinner. Makes me wonder what this turdball is up to now. The GOP said they are optimistic about working with Obama. Seeeesh, these suckers really fell for it. Obama will do an end around at some point. Just a word of advice to the GOP......"Don't drop the soap when Obama is around"

Nice. A ltitle "Huntress" in the making.

where did you see that? that sounds insane....not gonna sell many at that price. It was in another article about these tires. I will see if I can find it

Philip Klein Senior Editorial WriterThe Washington Examiner Email Author@philipaklein Popular in Politics White House, Holder respond to Rand Paul: ‘The answer is no’ Rand Paul’s moment and the end of Obama envy McConnell extends Rand Paul filibuster: It’ll take 60 votes to proceed with Brennan nomination What did Rand Paul accomplish last night? Rand Paul responds to Lindsey Graham’s comment on ‘ridiculous’ filibuster Ever since losing the presidential election, the right has been consumed by envy of President Obama — of his mobilization of key voters, his digital strategy, his ability to successfully shift blame to Republicans and the way he is able to seemingly exploit every crisis for his political advantage. My colleague Tim Carney has a good post explaining what Rand Paul accomplished with his 12-hour plus filibuster. But I also wonder if this could be seen as the moment where post-election conservative envy of Obama subsides, and they begin to see him as vulnerable again. A lot of the outpouring of conservative support for Paul’s filibuster on Obama’s drone policy went beyond the libertarian and anti-interventionist blocs of the movement who were also deeply troubled by Bush era counter-terrorism policies. Even those conservatives who may not agree with all of Paul’s views on presidential war powers were supportive if for no other reason than they relished seeing a conservative win a messaging war with Obama. It was impossible to dismiss this as just a right-wing Tea Party attack, because a lot of liberals agree with the substance of Paul’s criticism. This filibuster had to get under Obama’s skin. As much as anything else, he was elected on a promise to turn the page on the Bush era and conduct the war against terrorism with greater concern for civil liberties. Watching Paul’s filibuster last night, I couldn’t help but think that this is how Obama imagines himself – a principled crusader for justice. When Bush and Cheney were running the show, whatever could be said about them, at least they were consistent in supporting broad presidential powers in the realm of national security. But it’s hard to look back at the pre-2009 Obama and see him as anything other than an arrogant hypocrite now — somebody who thinks a muscular executive branch is okay so long as he’s running iPlease enter your email address below to begin receiving the Politics Digest newsletter. The filibuster also worked because Paul had credibility. Were it led by an older Republican Senator who had been around during the Bush administration, it would have smacked of political opportunism. Though this will boost Paul’s national political profile, nobody would deny that he’s been consistent. Also, for all the post-election discussions about the demise of the Republican Party, the filibuster also showed how it could have a bright future. Watching stars like Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio help out Paul showed that the GOP’s got talent. Republicans obviously have a long way to go. But taken together with the emerging sense that Obama overplayed his hand on the sequester, things are looking much brighter than they were in January. And Paul’s filibuster is probably the most galvanizing moment for conservatives since the election.

The Tucson City Council is a joke. Along with all their "Artsy Fartsy" ideas. The Electric cable car project is a prime example. THey spend millions on this joke of a project. Have they taken a good look at the street conditions?

It will be a great day when that blubbering fool is gone from politics. I wonder how much the left paid him to be a traitor to his party. We need many more people like Cruz and Rand Paul to start "Shaking the sugar tree" in Washington D.C. Get the Rhino's out .

I think it has to do with the fact that Davis Monthan AFB, wants to do more flights with their jets. Some residents are complaining, and there is some politics in play over it.

When guys like me get older and somewhat senile, we gotta share a little bit of quirky birthday humor! Hope you had a good birthday!

I saw some info that says these tires could exceed $500 each?

Nice.! That is some good eating right there.

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Dang....It's that time of year again? Hhmmmmmm.......WHat did I get you last year? Oh yeah.....a naked lady jumping out of a cake. I am going to have to come up with something more clever this year. Happy Birthday! In the words of the Terminator "I'll be back". I gotta go find something just right

A leaked email from an Agriculture Department field officer adds fuel to claims President Obama's political strategy is to make the billions in recent federal budget cuts as painful as possible to win the public opinion battle against Republicans. The email, circulated around Capitol Hill, was sent Monday by Charles Brown, a director at the agency’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service office in Raleigh, N.C. He appears to tell his regional team about a response to his recent question on the amount of latitude he has in making cuts. According to the partially redacted email, the response came from the Agriculture Department’s budget office and in part states: “However you manage that reduction, you need to make sure you are not contradicting what we said the impact would be.” The response noted that the administration had already told Congress that the APHIS would “eliminate assistance to producers in 24 states in managing wildlife damage to the aquaculture industry” without additional funds. Arkansas Republican Rep. Tim Griffin said the administration’s response to Brown’s email shows a bid to undermine efforts to replace the cuts, known as sequester, with less onerous ones. “This email confirms what many Americans have suspected: The Obama administration is doing everything they can to make sure their worst predictions come true and to maximize the pain of the sequester cuts for political gain,” Griffin said in a statement. Griffin told Fox News on Wednesday that the bosses effectively said, “you can’t do anything that is inconsistent with the negative impact that we’ve told everybody these cuts are going to have.” An Agriculture Department spokesman said Wednesday that Brown's suggestions had already been included in the agency's sequestration plan and in the administration's fiscal 2013 budget. Under the 2011 deal reached by Obama and Congress, the cuts are supposed to be across the board, meaning government officials have limited flexibility in moving around money. The administration in recent weeks has made doomsday predictions about the impact of the cuts. And the White House so far has appeared unwilling to accept a Republican offer to give the president more autonomy in making the cuts, covering $85 billion this fiscal year, to help reduce the impact on some of the most essential or hardest-hit programs or agencies. Some political strategists say the president hopes the cuts hurt enough to compel Republican lawmakers seeking re-election next year to end them by agreeing to more tax increases. On Sunday, Gene Sperling, the White House’s top economic adviser, suggested Republicans would indeed make this decision. “Our hope is, as more Republicans start to see this pain in their own districts, they will choose bipartisan compromise over this absolutist position,” he said. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, during a House hearing Tuesday, was asked by South Dakota Republican Rep. Kristi Noem about the Brown email. Vilsack said he was unaware of the email, but denied the administration has a policy of being inflexible and maximizing the cuts’ impact. “I wouldn’t say that we’ve said no to flexibility,” Vilsack said. “But there are certain circumstances where we don’t have flexibility.” “I’m hopeful that isn’t an agenda that has been put forward," Noem said. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/06/leaked-email-adds-fuel-to-claims-white-house-playing-politics-over-impact-cuts/#ixzz2MmCcUYTi

Baby cry Obama is stamping his pouty feet in the sand box. Since he had to sign the sequester, he has made it a point to make sure all the "Sky is falling" fear mongering, over the sequester is true. The Whitehouse is making sure that spending cuts are looking as horrendous as they predicted. More false posturing and bluster. But hey ....we have lots of extra money for Egypt

Too bad "We the people" are not afforded the same rights as the the Government. I bet I could talk a Republican billionaire into buying me a drone. Hhmmmmmm. .....Now which Golf course is he at....?

Check out this CCW state "Reciprocity" map and info. http://www.usacarry.com/concealed_carry_permit_reciprocity_maps.html

You don't need one in AZ, but you still need a CCW in states that allow concealed carry with another states CCW card.

Obama's, american hating buddy "Hugo Chavez" has died, Gee whiz...I won't be shedding any tears.