PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Mayor Sam Adams said Sunday he will not resign despite calls for him to step down after admitting he lied about a sexual relationship with a teenager. "Tomorrow, I go back (to) work as your mayor. I know I have let you down and made mistakes. I ask your forgiveness," Adams said in a statement. "I believe I have a lot to offer the city I love during this time of important challenges."
Even though the article doesn't say, you know he's a Democrat -- a Republican would be hounded from office.
Adams informed the four city commissioners of his decision earlier the day. He met separately with them on Saturday to privately discuss his political future just three weeks after being sworn in.
The scandal has resulted in an investigation by the Oregon attorney general and has divided the city and its gay and lesbian community. Adams has found strong support to remain, including a Friday rally on his behalf at City Hall that drew more than 400 people.
Earlier this week, Adams publicly apologized for lying about his sexual relationship with an 18-year-old man in 2005 as he began his campaign for mayor in 2007.
The city council planned to meet Monday. Commissioner Randy Leonard has been in charge of the city as president of the city council, and he told the AP he would like to get the issue resolved as soon as possible to make sure city business gets done. "At a minimum, this is very distractive," Leonard said.
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Maybe "Seedy Politician" needs a sub-category called "Guess which Party" This sort of editing by the MSM is a national joke.
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Lying about sex is not lying - the precedent was set by former President Clinton.
The teenager was of legal age (or at least that's all that has been claimed) and thus all Adams is accused of is an inapporpriate relationship - if it was a hetero relationship it would even seem admirable to many.
It's Portland, Berkeley of the North, so the whole thing may well play out as a battle to defend gay rights, a battle he would win.
The real issues of dishonesty and abuse of power will be brushed aside, just as they were before. And these issues are entirely independent of political party.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's enthusiasm for alternative energy is being buffeted by two political forces on opposite sides of plans to build the nation's first offshore wind farm off Cape Cod.
A leading foe of the $1 billion project is Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., an early and influential backer of Obama's presidential bid. A strong proponent is Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, a close friend of Obama and a source for some of his best campaign speech lines.
He just made Teddy mad by not getting Paterson to put Caroline into the Senate seat. I think I know how this one's going to go ...
The plan to erect 130 giant turbines across 25 miles of federal waters in Nantucket Sound poses an early test of the president's energy policy, on stark display Monday with Obama's order to re-examine whether California and other states should be allowed to have tougher auto emission standards to combat a build up of greenhouse gases and his directive for the government to get moving on new fuel-efficiency guidelines for the auto industry.
In the final days of George W. Bush's tenure, the Minerals Management Service issued a report saying the wind farm project poses no major environmental problems, clearing the way for the Obama administration to make a final decision on whether to issue a lease for the project. Reviews by the Federal Aviation Administration and the Interior Department's inspector general are still pending.
During the campaign, Obama had expressed strong support for wind power and indicated he wanted to double renewable energy production over the next three years. But deciding the fate of Cape Wind would force him to choose sides among friends and political allies. Patrick campaigned for Obama. Kennedy, despite being stricken with a brain tumor, is a critical backer of Obama's agenda, including health care reform.
Kennedy has fought the Cape Wind project for eight years, arguing it would kill birds and endanger sea life while imperiling the scenic area's tourism and fishing industries. The turbines would stand 440 feet above sea level when the tallest blades are pointing straight up. The Kennedy family's oceanside Hyannis Port, Mass., compound would have a clear view of the project to be located 4.7 miles offshore, but Kennedy says it is not why he opposes the project.
"The interests of our state have been basically submerged to a special interest developer," Kennedy has said of the project.
Patrick has championed the wind farm, embracing it as part of a push to make his state a leader in alternative energy.
"I haven't come to my conclusions for political reasons; I've come to my conclusions because I'm convinced that the future of our economy is very much connected to the development of a vibrant industry in alternative and renewable energy," Patrick said in announcing his support in 2005 as a gubernatorial candidate.
Project backers are wary of last-minute political meddling. They cite attempts in Congress over the years to derail it, including efforts by Kennedy.
"The opponents have proven to be very crafty and to embrace a scorched-earth approach to fighting this project," said Sue Reid of the Conservation Law Foundation, a conservation group supporting Cape Wind. "Of course we are going to be vigilant."
Kennedy complained there was a rush to approve the project as the Bush administration was departing--and before federal rules for offshore wind projects have been completed.
There are hundreds of proposals for wind-energy projects across the country, including more than a dozen for offshore projects. Wind energy accounts for only 1 percent of the nation's electricity. A federal report last year said wind energy could generate 20 percent by 2030, with offshore sources accounting for nearly 20 percent of that.
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The Kennedy family's oceanside Hyannis Port, Mass., compound would have a clear view of the project to be located 4.7 miles offshore, but Kennedy says it is not why he opposes the project. Yah, sure it is. I can smell the bullshit all the way in Cheeseland.
U.S. officials say Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to name a special envoy for climate change. Clinton has picked Todd Stern, a former White House assistant who was the chief U.S. negotiator at the Kyoto Protocol talks in her husband's administration, the officials said Monday. They spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of a planned midday State Department ceremony where Clinton will announce the appointment.
Stern served in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001, first in the White House, where he worked on the Kyoto Protocol and coordinated the president's Initiative on Global Climate Change and then at Treasury, where he was a senior adviser to the secretary.
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Want to cut carbon emissions. First decide that large areas of Nevada, Utah and Arizona that are federal land would make great solar farms. Screw the tortises. Second if you are gonna spend a bunch of money why not spend some of it on real energy research. Its called FUSION. And not just the ITER approach embraced by the DOE. Throw some at the other approaches like Magnetized Target Fusion or Bussard's Polywell approach. If it doesn't work, well we piss more money up ropes on bullshit than this and nobody (well pracicaally nobody) seems to care
During my exclusive interview with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, I asked her about some of the more controversial spending in the stimulus package, including hundreds of millions to expand family planning services, and $600 million in coupons to help people to convert to digital television. Birth control and television related
"The family planning services reduce cost," Pelosi said, "One of the elements of this package is assistance to the states. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."
"So no apologies for that?" I asked her.
"No apologies. No," Pelosi said. "And this is a, to stimulate the economy, is an economic recovery package and as we put it forth we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy. Food stamps, unemployment insurance, some of the initiatives you just mentioned. Believe it or not, they're the right thing to do but they also stimulate the economy."
On the $600 million to assist with the conversion to digital television, Pelosi argued for the spending -- but also said it might be taken out of the bill.
"Well, it's important for these people," Pelosi said, "This is a change in our country. If there - if it doesn't meet that test it will not end up in the bill at the end of the day. We are just beginning the process. It is timely. The senator talked about timeliness of this. And it helps meet the needs of the American people. But again, we have begun the process. We believe that what is in there, again, meets the test of growing the economy, creating jobs. Sort of a time release. Immediately creating jobs and then sustaining the job growth over time."
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Pelosi Says Birth Control Good for Economy - How about immigration control?
Babies [dead or alive] can't vote for another 17+ years, they can get the illegals on the rolls before the next election cycle. When you can't vote, you're disposable dispensable.
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Anyone who ever had a baby knows how much consumer spending they generate, from well before they are born. But Pelosi only cares about costs to Government.
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It's as clear a demonstration of how the child-hating wing of the Democratic party thinks as any. This is the Planned Parenthood, NARAL, abortion 'rights' part of the party taken to its illogical conclusion.
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Ever read Steyn's book "America Alone". We need more westerners to have babies, not less. A culture that does not create the next generation does not last very long.
And yes, anyone who has had a baby knows that they create a large amount of economic activity.
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Those who want babies will continue to have them, and it will be our children running things in a generation. I've no problem if they continue to have no babies at all.
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I really wish the bishop of San Francisco had the stones to excommunicate "Catholic" Pelosi. She has openly supported abortion in defiance of clear and constant Church teaching.
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I thought the Stimulus Package had provision for something like $300,000 worth of condoms. When I heard that it convinced me they are trying to screw us all.
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Regarding the illegals, we just need to change the law on the books regarding ANCHOR BABIES! That would stop alot of the costs right there.
Illegals get everything for free, no co-pays or anything, citizens have to pay through the nose.
Build the fence!
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ILLINOIS Governor Rod Blagojevich, charged with trying to sell the US Senate seat formerly held by President Barack Obama, considered offering it to talk show star Oprah Winfrey.
Blagojevich said on ABC's Good Morning America that a friend of his had suggested asking Winfrey to fill Obama's seat.
"She seemed to be someone who had helped Barack Obama in a significant way become president," Blagojevich said. "She was obviously someone with a much broader bully pulpit than other senators."
But he said he decided that the talk show queen, one of the richest women in America, was unlikely to accept the offer.
"She probably wouldn't take it, and then ... if you offered it to her, how would you do it in a way it didn't look like it was some gimmick and embarrass her?"
Blagojevich is doing the interview circuit and said he will not attend today's impeachment trial in the state Senate which could remove him from office.
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Blagojevich said on ABC's Good Morning America that a friend of his
apparently, he's a dog owner
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so he didn't offer it to her only because he felt she wouldn't accept?! Putting how it would look to the public ahead of how it would effect the public?
Nothing to do with if she's qualified or not.
unphuckingbelievable.
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Rush has often said he wouldn't run for public office because he couldn't stand the pay cut. Now wouldn't it be ironic if 0bama and the Dims should succeed with reviving the "Fairness" doctrine and the out-of-work talk show host runs for an open senate seat and wins? Too funny.
Why stop at birth control? Killing babies is like drilling in Alaska. We won't see the benefits for years. Lets go for a pandemic. That way we could get rid of all the nasty surplus population quickly. Heck, it might even help the cause of the Single Payer medical system. Win/Win if there ever was one.
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Donks are a death cult. This goes hand in hand with the executive order that Obama signed last week, just days after taking office, to restore federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information. That order reverses an order Bush signed when he took office to ban funding these groups. That's just one of the reasons I ended up holding my nose and voting for McCain.
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If the Catholic Church had any balls (and I say this as a Catholic) it would Excommunicate her ass. But then again, they just de-ex-communicated an holocaust denying troofer bishop. The Church is becoming a disgrace and is quickly losing all moral authority it may have once held.
As for the comments, who would want to bring a child into this world the democrats are building? I worry about my two sons.
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Donks are not only a death cult, but honestly, they practice human sacrifice. They sacrifice the innocent, both through abortion and through failure to punish killers and murderers of all kinds.
What makes it different than simple neglect though is the fact they CELEBRATE this so much. Abortions make them happy. It's a badge of honor to them. I don't really see how it can be considered anything else.
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AllahHateMe, as a fellow Catholic, I fully agree with the first sentence. The others are subject to discussion.
The Catholic Church has long preached about the evil of abortion, despite what San Fran Nan claims. The teaching is clear and unequivocal: abortion is murder.
It is possible to disagree with some Church teachings and still be considered Catholic. IMHO, abortion is not one of them.
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For the liberals, "Family Planning" = "Birth Control" = Abortion. Abortion = dismemberment of the infant while alive through suction or cutting to pieces, burning the skin of the infant while still alive until it dies, then cutting it to pieces, or delivering it live and suctioning it's brains out while it's still alive . . . DEMS = Pro Family Planning = Pro Abortion. Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the country. Follow the money.
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I don't think most people wanna think about it in that much detail, ex-lib. My experience is they will shout you down if you even start trying to explain it that way and at that point any further rational discussion is impossible. They really, seriously don't wanna hear it. They just want their choice.
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Demographics matter. Pelosi is simply playing to her Reconquista constituents. The Reconquista crowd ignore Planned Parenthood while cheering on liberals and the entitlement crowd as they abort themselves out of California.
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DMFD: Nah, a post-partum abortion will do just fine. Very similar to the partial birth abortions she defends so strenuously, but in her case more cutting and bigger buckets.
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if she seriously thinks abortion is a form of contraception - she's way loonier than I ever thought - the article doesn't exactly say. If she's just saying more people need to use condoms & the pill, instead of just having un-protected sex and having kids that society will eventually pay the bill for etc, I'd agree w/that.
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educated folks generally use birth control, uneducated folks don't. This is nothing new.
To have welfare cover for care of the first one or two babies is one thing, but I feel it should be cut off after the second child. I don't have the statistics, but it seems that unwed, uneducated mother's are giving birth to 4, 5 and sometimes 8 kids, all needing assistance. The fathers often are not involved and if they were are on welfare as well.
Adoption is a good option, but I don't see it used very often, even by very young girls that haven't finished school yet. Instead of adopting the child out so they can finish their education, they drop out and our system helps them find housing and pay for their kid for 18 years.
Often having more kids.
Compare this scenario to those that work hard and have to drop their kids off at day care so they can go to work. We're paying for the uneducated to stay home and sit on their butt, and they don't do a very good job at raising their kids often times.
In addition to this, the entitlements that folks are demanding is starting to really get to me. We need to revamp our laws to encourage folks to be productive and contribute to society, not expect something for nothing.
With these recent cutbacks, instead of cutting back some or all of the free stuff we give out to patients, not even talking about how most of the hospital bill is paid in full by you got it our tax dollars, they are cutting back on staff ratios, (nurses getting more patients) This is the front line of patient care. Pretty stupid if you ask me.
Sorry, rant off, Jan
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Get to the core issue.
She, and other libs, prefer cash over life. Its all there in what she said. We cannot afford... therefore abort (murder) babies to cut costs.
What a vile evil bunch of lefty thugs we now have in power.
h/t Jawa Report. this is a little more than creepy. On Amazon (link) there is a little blue book on sale with the following description. Its temporarily out of stock.
I'm sorry but no mere human deserves this much adoration. Particulary someone who hasn't done anything. Product Description
Printed in a size that easily fits into pocket or purse, this book is an anthology of quotations borrowed from Barack Obama's speeches and writings. POCKET OBAMA serves as a reminder of the amazing power of oratory and the remarkable ability of this man to move people with his words. His superb and captivating oratory style has earned comparisons to John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and this collection presents words that catapulted his remarkable rise to the American Presidency. Includes themes of democracy, politics, war, terrorism, race, community, jurisprudence, faith, personal responsibility, national identity, and above all, his hoped-for vision of a new America. This book is truly a primer for readers who want to examine the substance of his thought and reflect on the next great chapter in the American story. It is an unofficial requirement for every citizen to own, to read, and to carry this book at all times. That last sentence might lead one to believe that the book is some sort of joke. But this _is_ amazon and this was found by going to amazon's site and searching for 'Pocket Obama'.
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Yes, going through amazon, it seems to be a straight spoof; possibly, the book is on backorder because, well, it's not obvious it's a spoof, and obamauts are buying it to find guidance. Now, THAT would be funny, squared spoof.
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Quite similar to the lava lamp, plates, etc. Entirely disguting, but it's not what's written, said or appears on the telly that bothers me. Of greater concern is what's in the minds of the people who brought him to power.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
U.S. officials say Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to name a special envoy for climate change. Clinton has picked Todd Stern, a former White House assistant who was the chief U.S. negotiator at the Kyoto Protocol talks in her husband's administration, the officials said Monday. They spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of a planned midday State Department ceremony where Clinton will announce the appointment.
"This Week" Host George Stephanopoulos
