My god, the AP covers Tymoshenko just like it covers Obama. Tymoshenko is a crook who made billions off the resale of Russian gas to Eastern Europe. The current President, Yushenko, thinks it was Tymoshenko who poisoned him in the run-up to the 2004 elections. And she used a hybrid H1N1 scare to shut down her opponent's convention and silence political debate for three weeks. The AP - Absolutely Pathetic.

Obama: "There is no free lunch." Strange metephor, given the spending as of late:

$29 billion Bear Stearns
$97 billion BofA
$97 billion AIG
$112 billion Chrysler/GM
$139 billion GE
$235 billion Citigroup
$300 billion homeowners who can’t pay their mortagages

$400 billion (and counting) Fannie/Freddie

$700 billion TARP
$787 billion Stimulus

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over $3 TRILLION

add to this $7.8 trillion on the books to be spent in next few years, and
we will be spending over $10 TRILLION and counting on this crisis.

(numbers from the Heritage foundation).

From Reuters: "President Barack Obama promised Pope Benedict on Friday that he would do everything possible to reduce the number of abortions in the United States, the Vatican said."

Obama is always wanting to please. However, lying to the Pope is not very wise - it didn't work out well for Aninias.

source: http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUST...

"Medvedev and Obama reached a preliminary agreement on new reductions in the Russian and American nuclear arsenals..."

Conventional weapons as well. Russia got US to draw-down closer to their levels of hardware. It's as if Obama had never been in serious diplomatic negotiations before.

A meeting between one man who claims to have moral authority, and another man who actually possesses moral authority

"...the problem lies in getting power from the proposed site in the Panhandle to a distribution system, Pickens said..."

He spends $2 billion for turbines on a $12 billion project, only to get tripped up witha transmission line issue? Surely the engineers at Mesa Power foresaw this. What is causing T.Boone to eat a $2 billion investment?

Perhaps this was a public service. Knocking out the Treasury web site can only help matters.

What, "rascist, activist judge" isn't enough to go on? I'm shocked, I say, just shocked.

"When the religious framework of a society starts to totter, it is not exclusively or immediately the physical security of the society that is threatened; rather the whole cultural foundation of the society is put in jeopardy. The institutions lose their vitality; the protective facade of the society gives way; social values are rapidly eroded, and the whole cultural structure seems on the verge of collapse." -- Girard 1977

"Thank you and come again!" LOL!