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Rut Roh...
The government is set to release data Friday that will shed light on whether the economy is on a path for sustainable growth, or may be in danger of slumping into a double-dip recession. The gross domestic product report, to be released by the Commerce Department, will include the first estimate of economic growth in April-June. But just as importantly, the data will include revisions to GDP data for the prior three years. As a result, in the blink of an eye, the data has the ability to change the economic picture as we thought we knew...
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gdp-data-may-quell-or-spark-double-dip-fears-2010-07-29
Democrats Keep Door Open to Dangerous Lame Duck Session
http://rsc.tomprice.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=201525
White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/28/AR2010072806141.html
Pelosi Blocks Oil Spill Investigation
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2561306/posts
Two House Ethics Committee Members Tainted by Rangel Cash
http://www.nlpc.org/stories/2010/07/29/two-house-ethics-committee-members-tainted-rangel-cash
EPA rejects challenge to climate rules (Fascist Regime)
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40417.html
New Planned Parenthood Board Members Have Union, Soros, Democrat Ties
http://lifenews.com/nat6588.html
Opinion: Chicago-Style Politics in Kenya
(Aborting the kids you can’t get here)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2561284/posts
National campaign guiding ill adults to end lives advertises on Hillside, NJ billboard
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/07/national_campaign_guiding_ill.html
President Obama appears on podium with Drug Fraud
Charlottesville resident Leslie Macko was once employed at ACAC in the Albemarle Square Shopping Center. In April 2009, she lost her job as an aesthetician in the spa at ACAC.
President Barack Obama called on Congress last week to extend unemployment insurance. Macko stood next to the President of the United States as his example of the need to extend jobless benefits.
CBS19’s Jessica Jaglois has learned that Macko was found guilty of prescription drug fraud in March 2009, one month before Macko lost her job at ACAC. She served a one year probationary sentence.
Macko joined two other unemployed people and President Obama at the podium for a speech designed to encourage lawmakers to extend jobless benefits.
“We need to extend unemployment compensation benefits for women like Leslie Macko, who lost her job at a fitness center last year, and has been looking for work ever since. Because she’s eligible for only a few more weeks of unemployment, she’s doing what she never thought she’d have to do. Not at this point, anyway. She’s turning to her father for financial support,” Obama said in his speech.
ACAC owner Phil Wendel was unable to tell CBS19 if Macko was terminated because of the conviction. There’s also no indication from the court file that Macko lost her job because of the court case, or that she has received unemployment benefits improperly.
CBS19 contacted Leslie Macko about the conviction, and she declined to comment until she speaks with her attorney. We have also reached out to the White House to see if they know the full story behind the woman they chose to stand next to President Obama, but have not received comment from them either.
http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlines/99497354.html
Oops, WH response from Baghdad Bob Gibbs:
Hence:
“Without knowing a lot, I would certainly say that had that type of information been known, I doubt seriously — she would not have participated in the event here,” Gibbs said at the daily press briefing.
“I don’t think it should take away from the message the president had that day that as — in the midst of the greatest economic calamity that we’ve seen since the Great Depression, that we ought not take steps together to extend unemployment insurance to those that are out of work,”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/29/gibbs-wed-known-conviction-woman-wouldnt-stood-obama/
(Or, that’s not the _______ we used to know)
Horowitz’s take on Augusta case
Judge Rules That Christianity Is Indeed No Longer Allowed At Public Universities