Every dog owner will have to take a costly 'competence test' to prove they can handle their pets, under new Government proposals designed to curb dangerous dogs. But you don't have to take a competence test to be an MP...
Owners of all breeds would also have to buy third-party insurance in case their pet attacked someone, and pay for the insertion of a microchip in their animal recording their name and address. The proposals are among a range of measures to overhaul dog laws in England and Wales being considered by senior Ministers, who are expected to announce a public consultation within weeks. Having solved all the other problems in the country they're down to this...
But critics said responsible dog owners would be penalised by yet more red tape and higher bills -- one expert estimated the extra costs at £60 or more -- while irresponsible owners of dangerous dogs would just ignore the measures. "When dogs are outlawed only outlaws will have dogs!"
They added that genuine dog lovers could end up paying for efforts to control a small number of 'devil dogs' that terrorised socially deprived areas.
The RSPCA said last night it would welcome a review of legislation which has failed to curb the numbers of dangerous dogs that can attack, and sometimes kill, children and adults.
But a spokesman for the charity added: 'We would not support anything that would hit sensible owners while failing to police those who are a danger.'
A government source said the proposals, contained in a confidential document headed Consultation On Dangerous Dogs, have been drawn up by the Department for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (Defra).
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Clearly TOTALITARIANISM AGZ [cute?]CANINES is more important that pre-Teen Brit school girls repor getting intentionally preggers in order to qualify + collect Brit public assistance = $$$ MUM-N-POPSY ARE NOT GIVING THEM DUE TO STATE OF BRIT ECONOMY.
BRIT = future STARVING, GRASS-EATING NORTH KOREA = EUROKORYE???
1990's NET > OWG-NWO NOW, D *** NG IT, THE WEEDS/GRASS ARE REFUSING TO SURRENDER!
The clock is ticking, and the real estate deals gone south are piling up, at Broadway Bank, the lending institution owned by the family of U.S. Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias.
Many U.S. banks are struggling amid the worst financial crisis since the Depression. Almost monthly, at least one Illinois lender has collapsed, seized by the government because of poor performance, often due to real estate loans turned sour.
At once-successful Broadway, headquartered in a former car dealership in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago, the situation has turned awful at an inopportune time for the Illinois treasurer. Less than a week before Giannoulias' Democratic primary election victory earlier this month, the scope of the problems at Broadway became clearer after a regulatory order was made public saying the bank has just three months to get its financial house in order.
Broadway's struggles have put Giannoulias on the defensive as Republicans eyeing Barack Obama's old Senate seat question what role he played in the bank's problems. Giannoulias, a friend of Obama's who is facing U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, the GOP nominee, in the November race, has repeatedly said he hasn't worked at the bank in four years.
Still, the situation could become more politically harmful and provide more ammunition for the GOP if the family-owned bank is taken over by the federal government before Election Day.
Broadway's chief executive, Demetris Giannoulias, Alexi Giannoulias' older brother, told the Tribune the family must raise at least $85 million by the end of April to stave off government seizure.
Demetris Giannoulias said he doesn't expect the government to drag its feet on shutting the bank if capital-raising efforts come up short.
"Regulators aren't cutting us any slack," said Demetris Giannoulias, 38, whose father founded the bank in 1979. Because you're an embarrassment. Have the young nephew start your car every morning ...
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The 'struggle' was caused by Alexi and his sibs taking $75 million out of the bank when their father died and about a million a pop each year since then.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that Republicans have left their mark on the healthcare bill and should accept that the bill will go forward. "They've had plenty of opportunity to make their voices heard," she said on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday morning.
"Bipartisanship is a two-way street. A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes. Republicans have left their imprint."
"Bipartisanship is a two-way street. A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes. Republicans have left their imprint." "It could even be tripartisan!"
The public option, for example, has been stripped from the bill because Republicans were so adamantly against it, she said. "They've had a field day going out and misrepresenting what the bill says," Pelosi said. "But that's what they do."
On ABC's "This Week," just a few days after the bipartisan healthcare summit, Pelosi said, "What's the point of talking about it any longer?"
In early remarks released by ABC, Pelosi was asked by "This Week" host Elizabeth Vargas "when it does finally come to vote on it in the House, you're certain that you can muster the 217 votes that you need even with the differences over abortion language?"
"Well let me say I have this in three -- just so you know how we sequence this," Pelosi said. "First we zero in on what the policy will be. And that is what we'll be doing -- following the president's summit yesterday.
"Secondly, we'll see what the Senate can do. What is the substance? And what is the Senate prepared to do? And then we'll go to the third step as to what my -- my members will vote for. But we have a very diverse party. But we all agree that the present system is unsustainable."
When asked to grade the past year, Pelosi said, "I think I get an A for effort."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Sunday the bill can't be refigured to address Republican concerns. Starting over, he said, is the only option.
"The American people do not want this bill," he said on CNN, also arguing that it is inappropriate to use the budget reconciliation measure to pass the bill with a simple majority vote in the Senate.
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"They've had a field day going out and misrepresenting what the bill says," Pelosi said. "But that's what they do."
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Either the Pubs capture enough seats to become teh majority party or so severely dent teh Donk edge that teh rest overthrow this arrogant bitch. Either way, she's not Speaker after November. Couldn't happen to a bigger asshole. I'd rub her face in it every chance I got
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I kind of hope they pass it because it wont go into effect for 5 years and it will mean the utter destruction of the Democrats. IMHO tehy want us to be the spoilers, it gets tehm off the hook.
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Where in the H3LL is the Military? If these people, Obama included, do not meet the definition of domestic enemy and a threat to the Constitution then what does? I remember my oath, these folks have to go.
There needs to be show trials and hangings on the Mall for the people to watch as the treasonous vermin are made examples out of.
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If it makes ya feel better, i hear the locals are not happy because she is not far enough in left field.
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Frank, you may be right about November, but I'm not entirely sanguine ... they still have immigration tricks to try to pull in the hopes of registering a huge number of new Dems before 2012. If she manages to rahm that through they'll keep her as speaker for sure.
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Tu,Hellfish, you all gotta get in line behind me. As a Bay Area Cali Repub, I've suffered with this harpy to the point I may need therapy. From now until that time she assumes room temperature (as well all must), I'll be swilling good local brew and converting it to the necessary liquid. But I'm not greedy, I'll leave enough top soil so your contributions will be useful and welcom. All I request is to be first.
Prediction, the big, fat, ugly billboard in SF with her wretched featuring her wretched face and extolling her accomplishments as Madame Speaker will be up for 2 years after she has had her @$$ tossed under the Obama Kumbaya Bus.
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Embarrassed by the debacle that led to their lieutenant governor nominee dropping from the ticket, Illinois Democrats on Friday began an online open casting call for applicants interested in serving as Gov. Pat Quinn's running mate in November.
Though the decision of who will be paired with Quinn on the fall ballot will ultimately be made by the 38-member Democratic State Central Committee, Quinn said posting candidate information online will ensure there's an "open process."
That open process is aimed at allowing vetting of applicants in advance to avoid scandalous revelations like those that surrounded Scott Lee Cohen following the Chicago pawnbroker's winning nomination to the post in the Feb. 2 primary.
Applicants can download a short questionnaire at http://www.ildems.com and send it for posting along with a resume and other background information. I'd like to see the list of suckers ...
A spokesman for House Speaker Michael Madigan, the Southwest Side lawmaker who also chairs the state Democratic Party, said anyone who submits an application will have the information posted online.
But that doesn't mean an applicant is officially in the running. Madigan has said he plans a two-day process in which the central committee will hold a hearing to discuss the post with some of the job seekers and vote on a choice the next day. A real, honest to goodness smoke-filled room ...
Quinn first asked Iraq military veteran Tammy Duckworth, an unsuccessful 2006 west suburban congressional candidate, to pursue the spot. But Duckworth declined, saying she wanted to remain in her post with the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington. Smart enough to know that a Dem running in a fall election is a dead duck ...
Quinn now says he wants a running mate who is "a progressive person. Somebody who understands we can use the power of government, we the people, to make lives better for everyday people."
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Isn't it interesting how the Democratic Party hates Democracy?
The Peasants should go back to planting turnips and leave elections and governing to their betters.
Oh, Illinois is $13 Billion in the hole thanks to this enlightened form of Government
A top Massachusetts Democrat said Saturday that one of Robert F. Kennedy's grandsons is considering carrying on the family's vaunted political tradition by running for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Joseph P. Kennedy III, one of the twin sons of former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II, may run this fall if Democratic Rep. William Delahunt decides against seeking re-election in his South Shore and Cape Cod district.
Kennedy, 29, "has been considering it but he hasn't made a decision," said the Democrat, who demanded anonymity to speak about private conversations with the father and son.
The younger Kennedy did not immediately respond to a request for comment. He is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School who works as a prosecutor in Barnstable County, near his family's Cape Cod compound.
Delahunt has served in Congress since 1997, but Massachusetts incumbents were shocked in January when a little-known Republican state senator, Scott Brown, claimed the U.S. Senate seat held for nearly a half-century by Edward M. Kennedy.
That prompted questions about the endurance of the Kennedy legacy and inspired several local Republicans, including former state Treasurer Joe Malone and state Rep. Jeffrey Perry of Sandwich, to say they are considering running for Delahunt's seat.
Brown not only beat his Democratic opponent, Attorney General Martha Coakley, in Delahunt's district, but he also won the Barnstable precinct where the late senator lived and used to vote.
Delahunt has also been criticized in recent weeks for his handling of a 1986 shooting by Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama professor accused of killing three colleagues this month. At the time, Delahunt was the local district attorney, and he accepted the findings of local and state police that Bishop's shooting of her brother was accidental.
"These are rare opportunities when there is a potential open seat," said Paul Watanabe, a political science professor at UMass-Boston. "He is the Kennedy most talked about in terms of carrying on the family tradition in the U.S. House or U.S. Senate." He is? By who? Poli sci professors? Other Kennedys ...
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"He is the Kennedy most talked about in terms of carrying on the family tradition in the U.S. House or U.S. Senate."
Joe, why do you drink?
Why do you roll smoke?
Why can't you live under the laws that you wrote?
Over and over, everybody made your prediction.
So, if you get stoned and stay out all night long, it's a family tradition.
rominent Democratic Party fundraiser Julianna Smoot will replace Desiree Rogers as social secretary, the White House announced today in a statement.
Rogers had taken heat after the White House's first state dinner was marred by the appearance of several gate-crashers who managed to elude the Secret Service and sneak into the exclusive gathering.
Reports Fox, with some background on Smoot:
Smoot served as national finance director for Obama's presidential campaign, helping raise $32.5 million during one quarter in 2007. She has also served as finance director for then-Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle and John Edwards' successful Senate bid in 1998.
Heading off expected criticism of the new aide's fundraising background, a senior White House official told Fox News that the social secretary for former President George W. Bush, Lea Berman, also had a fundraising pedigree.
Smoot's appointment comes just three months after an embarrassing security breakdown at a state dinner in which a celebrity-seeking couple from northern Virginia got into the exclusive Nov. 24 affair on the South Lawn without a formal invitation, despite heavy White House security.
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--With all the perceived woes we see in this administration, the only 'bone' they throw us is the social director? Those Weds nite parties must have been 'sub par' lately.
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Good Ms. Smoot can get to work right away rearranging deck chairs on this Titanic.
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#6 --With all the perceived woes we see in this administration, the only 'bone' they throw us is the social director? Those Weds nite parties must have been 'sub par' lately.
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#7 Good Ms. Smoot can get to work right away rearranging deck chairs on this Titanic.
Posted by: regular joe 2010-02-28 10:02
My thoughts exactly, guys. Bambi's ratings are in the toilet, so let's give everyone a pretty face as a distraction. I can't wait for 2010 and 2012.
U.S. Rep. John Linder, who served in Congress for over eighteen years, announced his retirement today at a party breakfast in Georgia. Linder's seat is expected to stay Republican after this year's midterm elections.
Linder made the announcement at the dedication of a new Gwinnett County GOP headquarters. Linder aide Derick Corbett confirmed the congressman's decision. "He will not seek re-election," Corbett said.
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A little traveling music for you John ..... You did it your way.
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I'll never forget when he beat Bob Barr in a runoff and many of my lefty friends and family crossed parties and were so proud they had a hand in Linder's victory. I smirked and said you know he's Newt's right hand man. You could tell they had a little puke in their mouth.
During an interview with MSNBC's Joy Behar on Feb. 21, MSNBC's Donny Deutsch let his bigot flag fly. While fulminating against the tea-party movement in general and in particular against the candidate known as "the tea-party candidate," who gave the rousing opening speech at CPAC, Deutsch blurted: "You almost need that blank piece of paper. That's the new model. Like, you know, this coconut (Marco) Rubio down in Florida."
In settings like MSNBC (but usually backstage) the term coconut (brown on the outside white on the inside) is generally used to castigate "Hispanics" who ignore marching orders barked by Democratic/MSM drill sergeants--same as "Oreo" for similarly uppity blacks.
Never mind that the Cuban-American Marco Rubio is probably more purely Caucasian than Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Oral Roberts, Johnny Depp among many other southerners who boast Choctaw/Cherokee heritage. We'll deal with Deutsch's stupidity in another article. This one's about Deutsch's bigotry, a derivative of his stupidity.
Exit polls show that Cuban-Americans voted against Obama by the highest margins--and by far!--of any U.S. ethnic group, including "anglos." So we're fair-game for ethnic slurs--and have been for decades. In fact, Deutsch has as much reason to fulminate against Cuban-Americans as the most virulent nativist. Regarding the U.S. political mainstream, Cuban-Americans obstinately refuse to assimilate. To wit:
The Democratic Party controls the U.S. legislature, most state legislatures, most state governorships and boasts--by far--the most registered voters in the U.S.
Yet these insufferable Cuban-Americans have traditionally snubbed all pied pipers from America's majority party, along with their allies and cohorts in the America's mainstream media. Instead Cuban-Americans have always gone whole-hog for Republicans--from Nixon to Reagan to both Bushes. In the last two presidential elections the voters of their adopted country gave George W. Bush barely half of their votes, whereas these exasperating Cuban-Americans --again oblivious, or brazenly defiant of their countrymen --gave him 80 per cent of theirs.
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I don't know which of these guys is Donny Deutsch but they seem to be your typical Democrat/MSM types.
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Donald Deutsch (born November 22, 1957) is an American CNBC commentator and former American advertising executive and former host of the CNBC talk show The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch.
Sounds positively Aryan.
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If you want to find racism in society go find a liberal. They pre-judge people based on ethnic grounds all the time.
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Future 1960's = 1980's MTV OWG PAULA "DELILAH/BATHSHEBA" ABDUL wiping out her Daddy's backyard plantation notwithstanding, I DEMAND TO KNOW WHATS WRONG WID COCONUTS!
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.
Every dog owner will have to take a costly 'competence test' to prove they can handle their pets, under new Government proposals designed to curb dangerous dogs.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that Republicans have left their mark on the healthcare bill and should accept that the bill will go forward. "They've had plenty of opportunity to make their voices heard," she said on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday morning.
A top Massachusetts Democrat said Saturday that one of Robert F. Kennedy's grandsons is considering carrying on the family's vaunted political tradition by running for the U.S. House of Representatives.
U.S. Rep. John Linder, who served in Congress for over eighteen years, announced his retirement today at a party breakfast in Georgia. Linder's seat is expected to stay Republican after this year's midterm elections.
