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Vice President Joe Biden, well-known for his verbal gaffes, may have finally outdone himself, divulging potentially classified information meant to save the life of a sitting vice president. According to a report, while recently attending the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an annual event where powerful politicians and media elite get a chance to cozy up to one another, Biden told his dinnermates about the existence of a secret bunker under the old U.S. Naval Observatory, which is now the home of the vice president. The bunker is believed to be the secure, undisclosed location former Vice President Dick Cheney...

The vice president, well-known for his verbal gaffes, confirms at a dinner the existence and location of a secret hidden bunker that Cheney is believed to have used after the 9/11 attacks.

Vice President Joe Biden, well-known for his verbal gaffes, may have finally outdone himself, divulging potentially classified information meant to save the life of a sitting vice president.

Joe Biden is proving impossible to parody. In one of the few funny jokes at the White House correspondents dinner, Wanda Sykes won loud laughter when she joked that terrorists interested in learning America's most important secrets would only have to ask Biden how he's doing. According to an account in Newsweek, Biden did give up one of the country's secrets at another dinner where journalists and politicians make fun of Republicans (and occasionally laugh at each other). Biden told his dinnermates about the existence of a secret bunker under the Vice President's Residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory.

Obama’s 100 Mistakes, Misstatements and Missteps in his First 100 Days Undermining Our Values 1. Calling for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act on the White House website. 2. Calling on the White House website for the expansion of federal hate crimes to include homosexual behavior. 3. Calling on the White House website for policies like the “Fairness Doctrine” that could silence conservative and Christian talk radio. 4. Repealing limitations on taxpayer-funding of human embryonic stem cell research. 5. Repealing limitations on taxpayer-funding of abortions overseas. 6. Pledging $50 million to the United Nation’s Population Fund, which supports...

Happy 100 Days, Mr. President!

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1. "Obama criticized pork barrel spending in the form of 'earmarks,' urging changes in the way that Congress adopts the spending proposals. Then he signed a spending bill that contains nearly 9,000 of them, some that members of his own staff shoved in last year when they were still members of Congress. 'Let there be no doubt, this piece of legislation must mark an end to the old way of doing business, and the beginning of a new era of responsibility and accountability,' Obama said." -- McClatchy, 3/11 2. "There is no doubt that we've been living beyond our means...

EDITORIAL: Tigers at bay By | Sunday, April 26, 2009 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 Avg. Rating: 0 Print[-][+] Font Size E-Mail AlertsTell a FriendGot a Question?You ReportYahoo! Buzz The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, one of the world's most violent terrorist outfits, are surrounded in northern Sri Lanka and about to be destroyed - but Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and European self-styled peacemakers are getting in the way of victory. The meddlers should let Colombo finish off this menace. In desperation, the Tamil Tigers are using tens of thousands of locals as human shields....

“We couldn’t call it the Official Obama Administrtion Scandals, Blunders, Flip-Flops, Broken Promises, Mistakes and Lies List…that’s a mouthful! So we call it simply the Official Obama Administration Scandals List.The list topped 200 with the addition of the Gitmo Flip-Flop...The list includes: 38 appointment/nominee scandals, 7 broken promises related to his “unprecedented transparency” claim, 7 issues surrounding lobbyists in his “no lobbyists I promise” administration, 7 controversies involving nominees with serious tax problems, including 5 AFTER he said he had to “make sure we’re not screwing up again!”..."

Obama gives Queen an iPod @ 1:25 pm by Eric Zimmermann President Obama has reportedly given the Queen of England an iPod during his visit to Buckingham Palace. The iPod contains video of the Queen's visit to the United States in 2007. In return, the Queen presented Obama with a framed photograph of her husband and herself, the same gift she gives to all visiting dignataries.

In 1933, a month long economic summit in London failed to bring the world out of an economic disaster through international cooperation. The result was a cascade of increased protectionism, devaluations and full-scale war. On April 2nd, eight leading industrialized nations - U.S., Japan, Germany, UK, France, Italy, Canada and Russia (the G-8) and Eleven emerging market and smaller industrialized countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, plus the EU (the G20), are coming together, in London, for an emergency economic summit. The goals and importance are similar to 1933 and the...

Hope nobody minds my posting a thread for this, but I'm having a hard time remembering where I could find this site, so I thought I'd ask. There was a site I saw a while back which listed everything Obama's done since taking office on a daily basis. So has anybody else seen the same site, and if so, could you provide me the link? I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.

Another Day, Another Diplomatic Incident Another day, another diplomatic incident caused by the Obama administration. France is the latest ally to be insulted by President Obama. It seems that President Obama, according to the French newspaper Le Figaro, sent a letter to the President of France. The problem is that the letter was addressed to the former President of France, Jacques Chirac, and not to the actual President of France, Nicholas Sarkozy. The story is translated from French, Barack Obama Insults the Frenchcourtesy of Monsters and Critics:

Help me out here folks Could he really be this stupid???? Now Obama has insulted French President Sarkozy! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh no! Obama sent a letter to Chirac, saying he looks forward to working with him the next four years. Le Figaro, French newspaper is horrified at the faux pas. Doesn't Obama ever consult his staff before acting? Sarkozy is the President there! It's like Sarko writing to George Bush and saying he looks forward to working with him. Chirac is the FORMER president. Here is a translation of the letter in Le Figaro: Vendredi 20 mars 2009 OBAMA PREFERS CHIRAC...

A few years back, it emerged that US Senator Ted Stevens had been given an iPod by his daughter, and it had changed the way he saw the RIAA and the measures for which it lobbied. It's always seemed to me that once politicians -- at least those not beholden to the entertainment industry -- experienced the stupidity and frustration of the locks and controls that groups like the RIAA and MPAA put on content and want backed up by law, they'd realize they were little more than attempts to frustrate consumers and prop up outmoded business models. Maybe the...

We now have everyone in an uproar over the fact that AIG paid out $165 million in bonuses. The fact is, they’re obligated to pay. They’re bound by contractual agreements, and they could face lawsuits if they decide otherwise. These agreements were entered into during the first quarter of 2008, and top of that, none of the company’s top 50 executives are recipients of the bonuses. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think paying out the bonuses is ethically the correct thing to do. But legally, if they’re bound by contracts they could spend a lot of time, energy and...

Rio de Janeiro (AP) - His meet-and-greet with the U.S. president was bumped to Saturday, and when the White House announced his official visit, they misspelled his name. But when Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva becomes the first Latin American leader to sit down with President Barack Obama this weekend, he brings undisputed clout. Silva runs the world's fifth-most-populous nation and ninth-largest economy and has close ties with leaders across the political spectrum. He's been asked to lobby Obama for free trade on behalf of conservatives in Colombia and for dropping the U.S. embargo against communist Cuba. Even...

Americans anxiously watching their 401ks melt away may not have noticed the Obama administration is off to a rocky start in foreign policy, too. We were told often during the campaign that Mr. Obama would repair relationships with foreign governments allegedly damaged by the "cowboy"diplomacy of George W. Bush. But in his first weeks in office, President Obama gratuitously has offended allies, and has made clumsy overtures -- contemptuously rebuffed -- to adversaries. Most puzzling has been the back of the hand treatment the president has given to our closest ally. Most in Britain were ecstatic when Mr. Obama was...

Top 10 gift-giving excuses from Barack Obama: 10. What’s wrong with 25 DVDs as a gift? He thought they were great before he re-gifted them. 9. The Shamwow! wouldn’t have been delivered in time. 8. DVDs can be a vital public policy tool. The Titanic was the inspiration for Obama’s economic policy. 7. The White House gift shop was all out of Abe Lincoln beards. 6. It was a fiscally responsible gift. By giving the British Prime Minister 25 DVDs, he is saving their nation from potential late fees from Blockbuster. 5. Rush Limbaugh told him DVDs would be an...