Shocking map of a recession ! This brings out the reality of what is going on
http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html

The Republican party has no minimum requirements. His conservative talking points come straight from the GOP!

Martiga Lohn, Associated Press
http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2010/07/target_corp_spending_c...
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Here's something Target Corp. isn't advertising in its Sunday circular: The discount retailer is now a major donor to a group backing the Republican candidate for Minnesota governor.
And that's not sitting well with every Target shopper.

Here we go, another lie out of the mouth of Obama. Remember when the great one said, "government will be transparent so the citizens will know what and how we are doing it" Well the freedom of information act no longer applies to the media, the citizen, or the SEC. This allows the Whitehouse to answer to no one,its their word or no one's now.

By E.J. DIONNE, JR.
http://www.toledoblade.com/article/20100727/OPINION04/7260341/-1/RSS02
THE smearing of Shirley Sherrod ought to be a turning point in U.S. politics. This is not a "teachable moment." It is a time for action.

The mainstream media and the Obama Administration must stop cowering before a right wing that has persistently forced its propaganda to be accepted as news by convincing traditional journalists that "fairness" requires treating extremist rants as "one side of the story."

I had an occasion to listen to WSPD today and really felt the need to comment on the idiotic rhetoric that I heard in the brief time that I listened. I don't know who the commentator was but it did not sound like Brian Wilson (thank God).
The main thrust of his commentary is that everything that has happened in America is the fault of President Barack Obama.

The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking. Here Are the Stats to Prove it
Posted Jul 15, 2010
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/the-u.s.-middle-class-is-being-wipe...
From The Business Insider
(Video) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/38363219#38363219
Editor's note: Michael Snyder is editor of theeconomiccollapseblog.com

The 22 statistics detailed here prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence in America.

Saw this story on Yahoo from ABC news. Incredible.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/pressure-calif-city-mulls-firing-overpaid-manag...

My biggest question is how did they get away with this for so long?

Hahaha, it doesn't get any better than this folks, not only does your money go to make solar cells, the government also uses your money to buy back the cells from the companies you paid to make them in the first place. Hahaha, too funny. This must be the beginnings of the double dip bailout! Hahaha! Talk about redistribution of wealth! This is a scam of the first order!

"The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority Thursday took a first step toward financing the city of Toledo's proposed construction of a wind turbine and solar-panel array near its Collins Park water treatment plant."

"Without that money [from the state], there's no way we could have accomplished what we're trying to do here," said Mr. Cicak, founder of the company,
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100723/BUSINESS03/72...

They admit themselves the business is not viable without handouts from us, the taxpayer. The organization has or will receive 16 million dollars in taxpayer money, according to the article, and it has yet to receive an order for product. There is no mention of private funding of this company, just of public handouts.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100722/ts_nm/us_usa_immigration_arizona

PHOENIX (Reuters) – President Barack Obama's administration heads to court on Thursday in a showdown over whether Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants encroaches on federal authority over immigration policy and enforcement.

District Judge Susan Bolton will hear arguments in a federal lawsuit seeking to block Arizona's tough new immigration law that is scheduled to take effect on July 29

Any predictions?

According to the announcement, they are allowing comments (again) on "all news, sports, business, and feature stories".

http://www.toledoblade.com/article/20100721/NEWS16/100729930/0/RSS10

No comments on editorials, though - that would be a bad thing now, wouldn't it?

Toledo Public Schools voters to decide on 7.8-mill levy in November. Declining population, declining enrollment, brand new schools paid for by the tobacco industry. Why do they need more money? They should be down sizing and cutting pay/benefits like the private sector does in bad times. I suppose if they could print money like the Federal Government that would solve the problem.

NAACP retracts criticism of USDA worker
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hvdRMsb5hKNrXK9GHagILB...
By BEN EVANS and MARY CLARE JALONICK (AP)

WASHINGTON — NAACP leaders are calling on the Obama administration to reconsider its ousting of a black Agriculture Department worker who was pushed out of her job over racially tinged remarks, reversing their previous criticism of the employee.

Letter-to-the-Editor July 20, 2010
Iott faring better than ex-workers
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100720/OPINION03...
Rich Iott is lending himself $800,000 for his campaign (“Iott loans $823,100 to House campaign,” July 17).

It appears the man who ran the Seaway Food Town grocery stores out of town is doing much better than the 4,000 or so former Food Town employees.

I wonder how many of them will donate to his campaign.

Hal Simon
Maumee

"A group of liberal journalists in 2008 sought to sweep under the rug the Rev. Jeremiah Wright scandal that threatened to derail then-Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign,.."

These "progressive" scum will do anything to protect dumbama

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/20/liberal-journalists-reportedl...

REFUDIATE! Is this a Palinism, a palindrome, a shakepearianism, or a.....oh, never mind.........