Dick Says What?...Dick Says What?...

Dick Cheney is at it again, hopefully he'll have Halliburton supplying a whole new war before he is kicked out of his bunker.

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“Does Russia really want to separate itself from the community of values that has fueled so much of its own economic progress?” Mr. Cheney asked an annual gathering of political leaders and business executives organized by the European House-Ambrosetti, a private consultancy. “Does the Russian government really wish to operate in the modern world as an outsider, alienating free countries and trying to rally the world’s dictatorships?”

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Wanna play a fun game?....

Read big Dick's comment above and just substitute America where you see Russia...isn't this fun?

The hypocrisy continues...

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Mr. Cheney has long been the Bush administration’s most vocal hawk, but his remarks on Saturday, originally intended to reflect broadly on Euro-Atlantic security, amounted to a sweeping indictment of Russia’s actions in recent years and a challenge to its leaders to reverse course. The speech, his aides said, was carefully vetted in Washington and reflected the administration’s deep anger over Russia’s incursion into Georgia a month ago.

“We know that if one country is allowed to unilaterally redraw the borders of another, it will happen and it will happen again,” he (Cheney) said.

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Can this tool try any harder to be a total hypocrite?

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YES!...I Get To Pay More Taxes

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance giants that fund half the U.S. housing market, are about to become subsidiaries of the U.S. government.

The Treasury Department late Friday was putting together final details of a plan to take the two into conservatorship, effectively a government takeover, at a potential cost of tens of billions to taxpayers.

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Any announcement would come just weeks before the two companies have to refinance $225 billion of mostly short-term notes. Fannie and Freddie sell debt to investors regularly, but concern about their financial position threatens to scare away those needed buyers, many of them foreign banks. A solid federal guarantee would allay investor fears and allow Fannie and Freddie to continue to raise funds as needed.

Earlier this summer, Congress gave the Treasury the authority to buy $25 billion worth of Fannie and Freddie shares if they falter. That was part of a much broader, and expensive, plan to shore up the housing market. Congress also earmarked $300 billion to refinance troubled mortgages and created a new regulator for Fannie and Freddie, which together control $5 trillion of mortgages, roughly half of the U.S. housing market.

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Alright..... half of the American people get to pay off the debt the other half couldn't pay on.

We get to pay off the all the bad loans the greed of the mortgage industry said were ok take loan out on...we get to pay for failed business decisions made by others who walked away with billions.

Sweet....I should just file for bankruptcy now. 

Why would I want to be part owner of the worst failing business in American History?...oh yeah because the government says I HAVE TO....

Did I miss a meeting or something?

I guess we could just print more money and devalue everyone's dollar in order to pay it off...nah we do that now and it isn't working.

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Wait it gets better:

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WASHINGTON — An important account in the federal Highway Trust Fund will run out of money this month, a situation that could hamper completion of road and bridge construction projects across the country, Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters said on Friday.

Because the trust fund’s highway account is draining away, the Transportation Department will have to delay payments for projects, Ms. Peters said at a news conference. Since money from Washington typically pays 80 to 90 percent of the cost of federally aided road work, states with shaky finances may have to consider curtailing projects.

The fund is financed by federal excise taxes on motor fuel, 18.4 cents a gallon on gasoline and 24.4 cents a gallon on diesel. But the fund’s highway account is being rapidly depleted because for months Americans have been reacting to the high price of gasoline by driving less, Ms. Peters said. In May, for instance, vehicle-miles were down 3.7 percent from a year earlier.

State transportation officials expressed alarm. The money shortage will have “grave repercussions for the states, for hundreds of thousands of workers in the construction industry and the driving public,” said John Horsley, executive director of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.

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Don't worry though...we are going to bail this out too with our imaginary money.

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To address the shortfall, the House this summer voted to transfer money from the government's general fund to bail out the highway account.

The White House threatened to veto that measure as a "dangerous precedent" that would shift the costs for road projects from highway users to taxpayers at large.

But in a turnabout, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters called on lawmakers Friday to complete work on legislation to transfer the money and prevent the fund from going into the red, jeopardizing transportation projects nationwide.

"At current spending rates, we will start the new fiscal year on October 1 with a zero balance in the Trust Fund, and will continue to spend more than we take in," Peters said.

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I can't believe how badly this country is being run...and we pay for it...and pay and pay and pay.

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Republican Funnies...I Like How They Make Us Laugh

Here are some clips from The Daily Show, this has been one of my favorite shows for some time...without further ado, here is the man.

Jon Stewart

Yes they are funny...but hey look at the material they have to work with.

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U.S Steel Only Pays $300 A Pop To Poison Children

Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel Corp. will pay $4.45 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by residents of Ecorse and River Rouge over air pollution from an Ecorse plant the company purchased out of bankruptcy in 2003.

Judge Avern Cohn of the U.S. District Court in Detroit approved the settlement Thursday with roughly 7,000 residents allegedly affected by smoke and metallic particle emissions from the U.S. Steel Great Lakes Works plant.

Under the terms of the settlement, residents who fill out paperwork as part of the affected class will receive $300 apiece, for a cumulative $2.1 million. Approximately $1.3 million will be divided between plaintiff attorney Jason Thompson of Southfield-based J. Thompson & Associates P.L.C. and co-counsel from two other local law firms. Another portion goes to court costs and other fees.

“It’s a fair and reasonable settlement, but it’s like many settlements in that each side probably wishes it got a little more,” he said.

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So it only costs $300 dollars per person you poison with Manganese....yeah this is what the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the constitution.

Why aren't these poisoners in jail?

Only in America and only in Detroit

Here are some of the deliriously funny symptoms you can have from Manganese poisoning.

"Symptoms of manganese poisoning are hallucinations, forgetfulness and nerve damage. Manganese can also cause Parkinson, lung embolism and bronchitis. When men are exposed to manganese for a longer period of time they may become impotent.

A syndrome that is caused by manganese has symptoms such as schizophrenia, dullness, weak muscles, headaches and insomnia."

Sorry Timmy that you are having hallucinations, amnesia and headaches after two weeks of not getting enough sleep....Timmy?...It's me...Daddy...remember? ......anyway here is $300 bucks...lets get you a Xbox...that will make it all better.

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I like the part where......."Approximately $1.3 million will be divided between plaintiff attorney Jason Thompson of Southfield-based J. Thompson & Associates P.L.C. and co-counsel from two other local law firms. Another portion goes to court costs and other fees."

Isn't it funny how so many people profit from our fellow Americans being poisoned by a godless corporation?

Hey if you can't make grotesquely large profits from defending people from death and corruption why take the oath at all?

This country is so f-d.

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Sheila Cockrel called to testify

Councilwoman insists she is not a target of grand jury investigation into alleged City Hall corruption.

Councilwoman Sheila Cockrel says she is scheduled to testify Wednesday before a grand jury investigating allegations of City Hall corruption, which could include the city's $47 million Synagro Technologies sludge disposal deal.

The FBI and the federal grand jury are investigating possible bribes in connection with the contract, which pays the Texas-based company about $47 million a year to truck and treat Detroit's sewage sludge.

Cockrel denies wrongdoing. She said her subpoena to testify didn't specify what she will be asked about. But in July, Cockrel received a grand jury subpoena to produce all her documents on the sludge deal and an interconnected agreement the City Council approved in March with a composting facility called Systematic Recycling.

Cockrel said she may not actually testify Wednesday because her lawyer has a previous engagement. She said she will try to reschedule the testimony.

At least three other council members have gotten similar FBI letters: Monica Conyers, Martha Reeves and Barbara-Rose Collins, people familiar with the federal investigation have said.

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The heat is really going to start coming down.

I predict Federal indictments on several members of the Detroit City Council.

I predict the Tamara Greene investigation will have some break-throughs as people start talking.

I predict Gary Brown will be appointed Detroit Chief of Police.

I don't know about you but if at my job I was subpoenaed by Federal investigators EVERYONE is going to look at me with the hairy eyeball.

Sheila Cockrel has really perfected the stunned doe-eyed look hasn't she?

Now she says she wants to reschedule it?  Sound like anyone we know?..cough cough KWAMI cough cough.

You don't reschedule a Federal subpoena...well the little people don't....you say good God I want this over now, lets get my testimony on record now because its the truth.

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Start at the bottom of the page and work your way up when you have about 2 hours to browse.

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