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MoveOn Opposes Senate Health Care Bill

Posted by Defend America on Friday, December 18, 2009 11:50:23 PM

MoveOn opposes Senate bill

Progressive standard bearer MoveOn is opposing the Senate bill and asking its millions of members to sign a petition calling on liberal Sens. Bernie Sanders, Roland Burris, and Russ Feingold to block the bill's passage until it can be strengthened.

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Chaves Has Some Harsh Words for Obama

Posted by Defend America on Friday, December 18, 2009 4:40:05 PM

Chavez: Obama smells of sulfur, too

Hugo Chávez, in Copenhagen (my translation. If you use this translation, please link to this post),

…That’s why we thank the president for giving President Morales and me a chance to speak.

It would have been regrettable if they had attempted to veto us in this meeting. I don’t even want to think about it, no, nor suspect it.

As Lula already said, the Kyoto Protocol can not be declared dead or extinguished, which is what the US pretends to do.

Which is why Evo tells a great truth: If Obama, Nobel War Prize, said here, by the way, it smells of sulfur here.

It smells of sulfur. It keeps smelling of sulfur in this world.

The Nobel War Prize has just said here that he came to act. Well, then show it, sir, don’t leave by the back door, eh?

Do everything you need to do for the US to adhere to the Kyoto Protocol, and let’s respect Kyoto, and empower Kyoto, and respond to the world in a transparent fashion.

http://faustasblog.com/?p=17485

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Reached Some Sort of Deal in Copenhagen

Posted by Defend America on Friday, December 18, 2009 4:36:51 PM

'Meaningful' Climate Deal
Said to Fall Short of Goals

Senior Obama official calls last-minute agreement at Copenhagen summit 'first step' on climate change
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No Deal in Copenhagen

Posted by Defend America on Friday, December 18, 2009 3:14:24 PM

Leaders Quit in Copenhagen

Climate conference ends with disappointment and anger as world leaders and activists leave without a deal
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Loophole Allows Woman in Virginia to Not be Charged for Killing Her Own Baby

Posted by Defend America on Friday, December 18, 2009 1:13:06 PM

Mother won’t be charged with baby’s death because of law loophole

A loophole in state law is preventing Campbell County investigators from charging a woman they say killed her newborn baby.

Deputies were called to a home in the 1200 block of Lone Jack Road in Rustburg around 11:00a.m. Friday.  The caller said a woman in her early 20s was in labor.  When deputies arrived, they discovered the baby had actually been born around 1:00a.m., about ten hours earlier.  Investigators say the baby was already dead when deputies got there.

Investigators tell WSLS the baby’s airway was still blocked.  They say the baby was under bedding and had been suffocated by her mother.  Investigators say because the mother and baby were still connected by the umbilical cord and placenta, state law does not consider the baby to be a separate life.  Therefore, the mother cannot be charged.


http://www2.wsls.com/sls/news/local/lynchburg/article/mother_wont_be_charged_with_babys_death_because_of_law_loophole/68659/#comments
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'Who Needs Data?'

Posted by Defend America on Friday, December 18, 2009 1:09:13 PM

Who Needs Data?

By Randall Hoven

The scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU), and the people who funded them, did not know how utterly useless CRU was.  All the research done at CRU made no difference whatsoever to the "science" of global warming.  Just ask other scientists and global warming alarmists.  Heck, ask CRU.
You think CRU was the only source of raw thermometer data going back 150 years?    Nope there are two others.  So who cares if CRU "lost" theirs?

You think CRU did science that showed warming trends?  So what?  Their conclusions were the same as everyone else's.  Phil Jones, head of CRU, said that.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/who_needs_data.html

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Iran Invades Iraq for Oil

Posted by Defend America on Friday, December 18, 2009 11:33:37 AM
Iran Forces Occupy Iraqi Oil Well, Border Guard Says (Update1)

By Maher Chmaytelli and Kadhim Ajrash

Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Iranian forces yesterday entered Iraqi territory at dawn and occupied well number 4 in the East Maysan oil field, Border Guard General Zafer Nazmi said.

The Iranian forces positioned tanks around the well, which is in the al-Fakah region, 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of Baghdad. The two neighbors have disputed the border of southeast Iraq for decades.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=asA7YDOTXZDQ&pos=8
Tags: oil   Iran   Iraq  
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Let's Give them Weapons Too

Posted by Defend America on Friday, December 18, 2009 11:32:35 AM

Six Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay to be repatriated


By Peter Finn, Sudarsan Raghavan and Julie Tate
Friday, December 18, 2009; 5:04 AM

The Obama administration is planning to repatriate six Yemenis held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a transfer that could be a prelude to the release of dozens more detainees to Yemen, according to sources with independent knowledge of the matter.

The release is a significant first step toward dealing with the largest group of detainees at the prison -- there are currently 97 Yemenis there -- and toward meeting President Obama's goal of closing the facility.

But Yemen's security problems and lack of resources have spawned fears about its ability to monitor and rehabilitate returnees. Critics of the administration charge that returning detainees to Yemen, a country where al-Qaeda is believed to be thriving, is tantamount to returning terrorists to the battlefield.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/18/AR2009121800898.html?hpid=topnews
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I Thought Things Would be Different and His Words Would be able to Soothe People and Change their Minds

Posted by Defend America on Friday, December 18, 2009 11:29:49 AM

Breaking news: India, China walk out of climate summit: Report

Copenhagen: India and China have taken a united stand and walked out of the climate summit as Copenhagen talks fail.

Tensions prevailed at the climate talks at Copenhagen today, as Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh and China premier Wen Jiabao walked out of the summit along with their respective delegations, as talks failed.

The principle of common but differentiated responsibility must be adhered to and developed countries must honour their commitments, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao said at the climate meet.

http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_breaking-news-india-china-walk-out-of-climate-summit-report_1324981



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Obama Administration Giving Up in Copenhagen

Posted by Defend America on Friday, December 18, 2009 11:28:31 AM

Senior White House Official: The 'Chinese Are Dug In'; 'We've Done What We Can' in Copenhagen

December 18, 2009 9:50 AM

"We've done what we can here," a senior White House official in Copenhagen, Denmark, tells ABC News. "The Chinese are dug in on transparency and are refusing to let people know they're living up to their end of the agreement."

After landing in Denmark early this morning, President Obama met with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during a bilateral at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to press the case that China needs to allow for transparency.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/12/senior-white-house-official-the-chinese-are-dug-in-weve-done-what-we-can-in-copenhagen.html

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'Dead Wrong Durbin'

Posted by Defend America on Friday, December 18, 2009 7:47:11 AM
Dead Wrong Durbin
The law will not stop the courts from releasing foreign jihadists in the United States.

By Andrew C. McCarthy

Sen. Dic- Durbin (R., Ill.) is the leading congressional advocate of the plan to ship the terrorists being detained at Guantanamo Bay to a prison in his (and the president’s) home state — i.e., the scheme to redistribute federal taxpayer money to Illinois to buy a jail the state barely uses and should never have built. As detailed in my column on Thursday, he is also a leading proponent of the purported imperative to close Gitmo, based on the canard that its existence drives terrorist recruitment, resulting in more terrorism.

The senator has written an op-ed for The Hill arguing his case. He makes some extravagant claims designed to assure Americans that the transfer of detainees from Cuba to a prison inside our country will not result in their being released here. As he puts it:

No detainees transferred from Guantanamo to the United States will be released domestically. The president has signed two laws that would prohibit such release. Both laws include identical provisions barring the release of Guantanamo detainees on U.S. soil. In the extremely unlikely event a detainee is found not guilty, he will not be released inside the United States.

Senator Durbin does not tell us what laws he is talking about, but at least one of them appears to be the Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2010, signed by President Obama on October 28. (I don’t know if he’s talking about two provisions in that one statute or if there is some other pertinent statute — but given that he says “both laws include identical provisions,” we need find the relevant provision in only one of them.) When a lawmaker posits a claim about a law but fails to quote or cite the law so we can compare his claim to the text, it pays to be wary.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTBkOTMwYzk5NjEzNDM0Y2VkZTlkNGEwODU0ODEyNmU=
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Democrat Party's Civil War

Posted by Defend America on Friday, December 18, 2009 7:45:44 AM
Welcome to the Democratic Party's Civil War
by Michelle Malkin

Seems like only yesterday the Washington establishment had proclaimed the death of the GOP. Pundits churned out public autopsy reports faster than the L.A. County Medical Examiner. Liberals gloated over the supposedly irreparable fissures between right-wing populists and Beltway Republican elites. Conservatism, we were told, was suffering brain death and heart failure. My, how quickly things -- ahem -- change.

Social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, the GOP leadership, Sarah Palin's heartland supporters, conservative think-tank intellectuals, D.C. and Manhattan conservatives, Big Business and small-business conservatives, Joe the Plumber conservatives, and every stripe and flavor of conservative in between are all united against the Democrats' proposed government takeover of health care. All.

http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/12/18/welcome_to_the_democratic_partys_civil_war


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'The President is No B+'

Posted by Defend America on Friday, December 18, 2009 7:44:40 AM

The President Is No B+

In fact, he's got the worst ratings of any president at the end of his first year.


By KARL ROVE

Barack Obama has won a place in history with the worst ratings of any president at the end of his first year: 49% approve and 46% disapprove of his job performance in the latest USA Today/Gallup Poll.

There are many factors that explain it, including weakness abroad, an unprecedented spending binge at home, and making a perfectly awful health-care plan his signature domestic initiative. But something else is happening.

Mr. Obama has not governed as the centrist, deficit-fighting, bipartisan consensus builder he promised to be. And his promise to embody a new kind of politics—free of finger-pointing, pettiness and spin—was a mirage. He has cheapened his office with needless attacks on his predecessor.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704541004574600002289276662.html?mod=rss_opinion_main


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Senate Invokes Cloture on Defense Appropriations Bill

Posted by Defend America on Friday, December 18, 2009 7:43:34 AM

Senate invokes cloture on defense bill in wee hours of the morning

By Bridget Johnson - 12/18/09 01:23 AM ET
The Senate voted 63-33 to limit debate on the 2010 defense appropriations bill in the early hours of the morning Friday.

The $636.3 billion defense bill was passed Wednesday by the House, and in addition to war funds carries the extension of several soon-to-expire policies, ranging from unemployment aid and healthcare benefits to the anti-terrorism law known as the Patriot Act.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/72895-senate-invokes-cloture-on-defense-bill-in-wee-hours

YEAs ---63
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Burris (D-IL)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
 Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaufman (D-DE)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kirk (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
 Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
NAYs ---33
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennett (R-UT)
Brownback (R-KS)
Burr (R-NC)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
 Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
LeMieux (R-FL)
Lugar (R-IN)
 McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Wicker (R-MS)
Not Voting - 4
Bond (R-MO)
Bunning (R-KY)
 Chambliss (R-GA)
Cornyn (R-TX)

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