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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said a stricter wave of inspections for suspected price-gouging would begin on Saturday in an aggressive pre-election "economic offensive" aimed at taming the highest inflation in the Americas. he has no idea how an economy works. Hoogo-Lite
"We're not joking, we're defending the rights of the majority, their economic freedom," Maduro said on Friday, alleging price irregularities were found in nearly 99 percent of 1,705 businesses inspected so far this month. 106%!!
Maduro, who has staked his presidency on preserving the legacy of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez, launched a theatrical - and often televised - wave of inspections this month to force companies to reduce prices. 1) reduce revenue,
2) increased costs of imports and pay
3) ....
4) *success!*
He says "capitalist parasites" are trying to wreck Venezuela's economy and force him from office. he means "voters and employers"
Maduro also announced on Friday a new decree to limit monthly rents for commercial properties, to 250 bolivars ($40) per square meter, in a bid to reduce costs passed to consumers. and screw building/land owners
And in another populist move, the president said interest rates for savers on low incomes would be hiked to 16 percent, from 12.5 percent currently. inflation is currently 55%
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Witnessing the parasites overwhelming the host. The terminal stage of socialism before the reduction to a economic black hole.
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A familiar refrain. Communists always blame nebulous enemies for the failures of the own policies. Capitalist parasites, reactionaries, counter-revolutionaries, saboteurs, Republicans, teabaggers, etc.
[NYT] The decision by Senate Democrats to eliminate filibusters for most judicial nominations only marginally enhanced President B.O.'s power to reshape the judiciary, according to court watchers from across the political spectrum, because Republican senators can still veto his nominees to most currently vacant appeals court seats.
The White House counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, has said that the blue slip rule in the Senate is problematic because "it is a silent, unaccountable veto."
The new Senate rule clears the way for eight appeals court nominees who have already had confirmation hearings to win approval with simple majority votes, including three on the powerful Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which reviews federal policies and regulations. But it left unchanged the Senate's "blue slip" custom, which allows senators to block nominees to judgeships associated with their states.
"It is hard to overstate the change's importance for the D.C. Circuit, which has a disproportionate impact on the world, but it won't have overwhelming impact elsewhere," Kathryn Ruemmler, the White House counsel, said in an interview. "The blue slip rule for judges has been more problematic than the filibuster, in part because it is a silent, unaccountable veto."
Twelve more appeals court seats are either vacant or will be by the end of 2014. All but one are in states with at least one Republican senator. As a result, Mr. Obama still lacks unrestricted power to swiftly appoint a flurry of more clearly left-of-center judges than he has done to date, despite the fears of conservatives and the hopes of liberals, specialists said.
[An Nahar] A woman in the White House? President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... says that will happen "very soon," according to remarks released Friday.
"We have some amazing female [public] servants all across the country and there is no doubt that sometime very soon, we're going to have a female president," he said in an interview with broadcaster ABC.
What's more, "I'm confident that she will do a great job," he told veteran journalist Barbara Walters.
ABC, which released extracts of the interview on its website before it airs later Friday, did not specify whether Obama mentioned Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Liberatress of Libya and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry Clay ... in this context.
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Clinton 42 hinted at the future POTUS Bammer by being the "first Black President" in US HIstory despite being a white man.
The more important question right now is iff the Bamer's successor after Jan 2017 will be another Globalist.
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Clinton 42 hinted at the future POTUS Bammer by being the "first Black President"
If Bill was our first black President, I think you can make a case that B-HO is our first female president. Hey, don't yell at me! I calls 'em as I sees 'em.
[POLITICO] Five days after Jason Carter jumped into the Georgia governor's race, his grandfather, former President Jimmy Carter ... the worst president ever. Maybe the second worst. The votes aren't all in yet... , delivered a speech urging a ban on the death penalty. Within hours, the newly minted candidate felt compelled to issue a retort: while he loves his grandfather, he told a news hound, "I believe in the death penalty for heinous crimes, and that won't change when I'm governor."
The episode spoke to the benefit and potential burden of the Carter surname for the upstart Democratic state senator, who is waging a long-shot bid to unseat first-term Republican Gov. Nathan Deal. Practically everyone in the Peach State knows the Carter name, and in state Democratic circles the ex-president remains a revered figure more than three decades after he left the White House.
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Another Carter with his "new" batch of
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I hope he loses.
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South Georgia uppity rednecks, born to fail. Another bad batch. I blame inter-mixing with Alabamians or chemical run-off from the peanut fields. Start over.
[BREITBART] President Barak Obama used the sexually vulgar expression "tea-baggers" to refer to tea party members in a letter he wrote to a Texas grade school Teacher. The term "tea-baggers" has been used to ridicule the tea party, a group of American activists who advocate reducing taxes, shrinking the size of government, and returning to traditional family values. Obama was replying to a letter he received from Thomas Ritter, a 5th grade school teacher from Irving, Texas.
In his letter to the President, Ritter expressed deep concern that the Affordable Care Act was a law that "caused such a divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... , derisive and toxic environment." Ritter said that he wrote to the President with great trepidation because he feared "retribution." He asserted, "The reality is that any citizen that disagrees with your administration is targeted and ridiculed." Moreover, Ritter begged the President to, "Do the right thing not the political thing. Suggest a bill that Americans can support."
Ritter went on to accuse the President of making fun of "tea-baggers" and blamed White House Press Secretary Jay Carney for ridiculing Sarah Mama Grizzly Palin ... the babe libs love to hate ... , noting that it was "beneath the dignity of the White House" to engage in this kind of political targeting. Obama defended himself, writing, "I... appreciate your concern about the toxic political environment right now. I do have to challenge you, though, on the notion that any citizen that disagrees with me has been 'targeted and ridiculed' or that I have 'made fun' of tea-baggers."
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Put me at the top of the list, Obama
You are an eighth grader fostering a fourth grade mentality.
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I think the strategy is to keep the status quo in which voters have two choices: Republican or Democrat. IOW: tweedledee and tweedledum. So I'll keep throwing my vote to obscure third party candidates as a protest. McConnell sure as hell won't get it.
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As the Tea Party began impacting elections several years ago people were calling for the movement to become a third major party. It could then be said the Tea Party abandoned the Republican party instead of what I refer to as a "guerrilla" political movement. The leadership would then be "exposed" and would become targets of the Dems and the Rhinos.
But now we see that the Rhinos are becoming the militants. Because they are feeling the heat. That means the Tea Party should stay the course. Stay "guerrilla". An effective loosely nit movement. Stay effective but out of the line of fire. Our leadership is ideology. Not 1, 2 or 3 key figures.
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So, Mr. McConnell, since you think that Tea Partiers are terrorists, you believe that those Arab clowns flew the planes into the World Trade Center because they wanted lower taxes in the U.S.?
You're a f*cking IDIOT.
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[DETROITNEWS] O'Dell Tate has volunteered for the city's Angels' Night patrols for more than a decade and has watched as firefighters battle blazes that strain resources and put neighborhoods on edge.
Now, with a $24.2 million federal grant -- the largest ever awarded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to a fire department -- and two savvy grant writers, the city stands to hire 150 new firefighters.
That's $80,666 per new firefighter for two years, after which the city is on the hook. Unless those grant writers get busy again, in which it's Uncle Sugar paying out for salary and benefits pretty much forever. Which is how Detroit -- and Champ -- would prefer it...
"It couldn't come at a better time," Tate said. "We have wonderful firefighters here, but for a city bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... 's size, to increase our numbers would be a great asset."
After losing out on millions in federal grants for years, the Fire Department turned to the Detroit Public Safety Foundation, a nonprofit foundation founded in 2011 to boost Detroit's waning public safety resources.
"The Fire Department is an area that has so many needs and they didn't have anybody that has focused on writing grants ... ," Catherine Govan, executive director of the foundation. "It just makes us feel that we're doing what we need to do to help the city."
Govan said the nonprofit dedicated two grant writers to look for any grant "we could possibly get."
The grant will fund new firefighters' salaries and benefits for two years.
The Fire Department had never secured a grant from FEMA's Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Program, or SAFER, until 2011, when the foundation stepped in. Since then, the Fire Department captured a $22.5 million award in 2012, the largest SAFER grant awarded up to that point, that kept 108 firefighters from layoffs. In October of that year, the city laid off 26 firefighters, but they returned a month later under another SAFER grant of $5.6 million.
The latest grant is a "godsend," said Executive Fire Commissioner Don Austin, who credited the foundation with securing the grants that will boost staffing.
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a welfare City, Black Democrat Politics über alles
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Yep, typical Liberals, GOD(Obama) has sent them.
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I believe it was During Bush 2 they did the same thing with police officers across the country. What ended up happening was the cops were laid off and rehired on the program. Some cities did not hire a single additional cop. Lets see how many they really hire.
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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.
[An Nahar] A woman in the White House? President 
[POLITICO] Five days after Jason Carter jumped into the Georgia governor's race, his grandfather, former President 
[BREITBART] President Barak Obama used the sexually vulgar expression "tea-baggers" to refer to tea party members in a letter he wrote to a Texas grade school Teacher. The term "tea-baggers" has been used to ridicule the tea party, a group of American activists who advocate reducing taxes, shrinking the size of government, and returning to traditional family values. Obama was replying to a letter he received from Thomas Ritter, a 5th grade school teacher from Irving, Texas. 
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