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Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro Invites you to join Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi For a brunch benefiting the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee At the home of Melanie Barocas and Rick Mayer 78 Hart Road Guilford, Connecticut Saturday, September 26, 2009 11:30am SpeakerÂ’s Cabinet: $30,400 write/raise Sponsor: $10,000 write/raise Friend: $1,000 per person To RSVP or for additional information, please contact Evan McMillan at (202) 485-3415 or at Mcmillan@dccc.org Saturday, September 26, 2009 ~ Guilford, Connecticut Yes! I would like to support the DCCC and attend the brunch as a: â–¡ SpeakerÂ’s Cabinet: $30,400 write/raise â–¡ Sponsor: $10,000 write/raise â–¡ Friend:...

After BigGovernment began publishing undercover videos of ACORN offices offering advice on tax evasion and child prostitution, the community organizing group reacted as one might imagine: denials, accusations of falsification, and threats of lawsuits. Their national spokesperson, Bertha Lewis, claimed that the “right wing” had made ACORN the “Willie Horton of 2009,” claiming victimization by racists. Today, however, Lewis and ACORN are singing quite a different — and more humble — tune: ACORN, calling the actions of some of its employees “indefensible,” has suspended advising new clients as part of its service programs and is setting up an independent review...

After days or denying that the explosive video tapes were tantamount to a larger problem, ACORN did a pivot today and it's CEO, Bertha Lewis, made this announcement. In a press release, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis says, that as “a result of the indefensible action of a handful of our employees,” the group will immediately stop accepting anyone into ACORN office for service programs, will conduct in-service training of staff, and begin an audit “to review all of the systems and processes called into question by the videos,” to be conducted by the group’s Independent Advisory Council. The Council includes...

It doesn't take much to stir up fandom, but if there's one word of advice: Be wary of uncorroborated information. CinemaSpy this week kicked up some concern that the new "Battlestar Galactica" spinoff series was in trouble. Using a single anonymous source they said had been "100 percent accurate" in the past, the site described the behind-the-scenes of the show that is set to premiere in January as if it were a part of the new Roland Emmerich film "2012." "A trusted industry insider informed CinemaSpy on Saturday that production faces suspension on 'Caprica' due to serious script problems/shortfalls, and...

Democrats Reject GOP Proposal to Stop Stimulus Advertising Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H describes the self-congratulatory signs advertising President Obama's $787 billion stimulus bill as the "signs to nowhere" and tried in vain Wednesday to stop the advertising. September 16, 2009 Across the country, motorists are being greeted by signs advertising President Obama's $787 billion stimulus bill, and Republicans aren't happy about it. The large green-and-white highway signs declare, "Project Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act." Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H describes them as the "signs to nowhere" and tried in vain Wednesday to stop the advertising. Democrats were nearly...

GLENDALE, AZ -- Police are asking for the public's help locating an Arizona nuclear power plant worker who went missing last weekend. Glendale police spokeswoman Karen Gerardo said 41-year-old Cornelius "Neil" Hardy was last seen at his home near 69th Avenue and Deer Valley Road Saturday night. The 41-year-old is employed as an engineer at the Palo Verde Nuclear Plant. She said he must have taken his work phone, but he left his badge behind and now wonders if his career could have put him at risk.

America's worst ex-president (a title that he may lose very soon) Jimmy Carter made a ridiculous charge on Tuesday that Joe Wilson's outburst was "based on racism" and, more broadly, that "an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man." Its ironic that a man who has such hate in his heart would call other people racists. You see the former president HATES Jews. I try not to use the term Anti-Semite often. But I know of no other term (except maybe buffoon) to describe the...

AUSTIN -- A coalition of municipal and county officials along Texas' 1,200-mile-long border is challenging Gov. Rick Perry's statements that property owners and local law enforcement are being overwhelmed by smugglers and gangs from Mexico. "Your remarks, if accurately reported, create a public impression of lawless hordes overrunning the border region and do not reflect our collective experience," Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster, chairman of the Texas Border Coalition, said in a letter to Perry. "While each of our communities has their own unique issues, being overwhelmed by criminal elements from Mexico is not one of them." Foster made the...

The world was starting to become a different place in 1991 when "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" was released. Not only were fans reeling from the 1989 disaster that was "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," but the collapse of the Soviet Union created the possibility that enemies didn't have to be enemies forever. That mindset was brilliantly expressed by the writing team of Leonard Nimoy, Nicholas Meyer, Denny Martin Flinn (and we guess a little by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, something that has been historically disputed by Nimoy) with the Federation, and especially Capt. Kirk, having to...

A group of 45 bankers at Barclays yesterday bypassed potential curbs on pay and bonuses by jumping ship to set up a Cayman Islands company and manage $12.3 billion of Barclays’ most toxic debt. They will be paid at least $400 million over ten years (see Commentary, facing page). In an exotic piece of financial engineering, the bank will lend $12.6 billion to Protium, a newly created Cayman Islands-registered hedge fund, to buy the toxic assets. The bankers, led by Stephen King and Michael Keeley, both British, are setting up C12 Capital Management, a management company that will be paid...

~Favorite Clothes Song~ Marty Robbins - A White Sport Coat And A Pink Carnation A white sport coat and a pink carnation I'm all dressed up for the dance. A white sport coat and a pink carnation, I'm all alone in romance. Once you told me long ago, to the prom with me you'd go, now you've changed your mind, it seems someone else will hold my dreams. A white sport coat and a pink carnation, I'm in a blue, blue mood. *Video* Once I had a pretty girl Her name it doesn't matter She went away with another...

How does this .mp3 square with the comment he just made? Dem's...ya gotta love-em.

Sounds a little worse than "You Lie," I wonder if the same rules apply for words against a sitting Vice President?

WASHINGTON -- Do presidents and other public officials lie? Do birds fly? That age-old question was recently evoked when Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., shouted "You lie" after President Barack Obama told a joint session of Congress that his national health care proposal would not cover illegal immigrants. Wilson’s verbal attack was reminiscent of the back benchers in London’s House of Commons where rhetorical bombast is more frequent than in the halls of Congress. Wilson apologized for his blast but that didn’t stop the House from voting 240-179 to rebuke him for a breach of decorum "to the discredit of the...

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, is privately requesting between 30,000 and 40,000 more troops, a request that has produced "sticker shock" and "huge resistance" among key lawmakers, sources told FOX News. Congressional liberals who led the charge against the Iraq war are starting to turn their attention to Afghanistan, putting pressure on the Obama administration to scale back even as it prepares to consider a likely request to increase the U.S. troop presence.

Just discovered this song-thought I'd share here. If you like Techno/NewWave/Dance/House/Trance I think you will like it-God Bless! "I was there when Jesus came down from the cross... everyone was just standin' round like idiots.... These are the things that u can't explain killing all of what's makin' u ok shouldn't be that way. So this is how to talk when you speak to angels dreamin' while you walk with chimin' bangles yeah i could see it tonight.... This is what they say when they tell the storya cold hearts waitin for a moments glory I.... guess I don't knew...

Which is the real Enterprise? That's the challenge being thrown down by filmmaker and Star Trek expert Robert Meyer Burnett (Free Enterprise), who posted the composite image below on his Facebook page. Burnett has his own opinions on the matter, which anyone who's ever talked with him would know; after all, he helped design Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas.

MOMBASA, Kenya — The mother of a top al-Qaida fugitive who was killed in a U.S. raid in Somalia demanded today to see her son's body while a Somalia-based group claimed him as their leader and confirmed his death. Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a 30-year-old Kenyan, was wanted for the 2002 car bombing of a beach resort in Kenya and a failed attempt to shoot down an Israeli airliner. Three senior U.S. officials familiar with Monday's commando raid confirmed he was killed. Aisha Abdallah told the Associated Press she wants "to see the body of my son before it is...

It is a post-apocalyptic world. The oceans are a grayish brown, not blue. No green vegetation. In fact, no life on the planet at all. Just heat, wind, and dust. The movie on how this happened could be called Terminator 5: Rise of the Republicans. This is pretty much the scenario that Jonathan Freedland of the U.K. Guardian paints in his article laughably titled If Obama can't defeat the Republican headbangers, our planet is doomed. Yes, the future of the planet depends on ObamaCare passing which those wascally Wepublicans are blocking. Even Freedland admits he probably sounds quite hyperbolic: Anyone...

Bill Has No Public Option, Finds Lukewarm Support Among Other Senators WASHINGTON -- Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus formally unveiled a 10-year, $856 billion bill that would extend health insurance to tens of millions of Americans but that found lukewarm support among other key senators, indicating changes to the measure are in store.