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Morning Must Reads: March 1

By Alex RogersMarch 01, 20130

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The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC.

Is the gun control movement fading?
Congressional leaders have a meeting with the President over sequestration. It could be short. Speaker Boehner receives cheers from his Republican colleagues for not budging on further cuts, and Peggy Noonan doesn’t think Obama wants “even the appearance of laying down his arms for a moment” with the Speaker.
AFL-CIO indirectly embrace Keystone XL pipeline.
Paul Krugman: End the deficit obsession.
Justice Scalia thinks that the right to vote in Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is a “racial entitlement.”
How Beppe Grillo and Silvio Berlusconi threaten the future of Italy and the Euro.
The “untold history” of the U.S. and international crime.
What “House of Cards” gets right- and what it doesn’t

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sacredh

OT, but I have to turn in my film critics union card. I just watched the remake of Red Dawn and liked it.

La_Randy

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Never seen before photographs of the Beatles.

More on Woodward's lie:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/02/bob-woodward-throws-an-interception.html?mobify=0

sacredh

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A republican's take on Christie's not being invited to CPAC:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/01/not-inviting-christie-to-cpac-is-suicide-for-gop-king-says/

La_Randy

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@sacredh I read an article somewhere that Christe not being invited actually helps his chances at higher office, given the republican party's plummeting approval ratings. Seems plausible.

sacredh

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Christie's problem would be making it through their primary season.

MementoMori

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Just a reminder.

"[Peter] Brimelow's site also carries archives of columns from men like Sam Francis, the late editor of the newspaper of the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, a group whose web page has described blacks as "a retrograde species of humanity." It has run articles by Jared Taylor, the editor of the white supremacist American Renaissance magazine, which specializes in dubious race and IQ studies and eugenics, the "science" of human "race betterment" through selective breeding."

Peter Brimelow is the founder and operator of VDARE, one of the far right sites paulie gets his info from. paulie has also used American Renaissance to back-up his theories about an 'unreported race war'.

When you argue with paulie, you're lowering yourself to arguing with the type of people who wore white hoods in the 50's and blew up government buildings in the 90's.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/peter-brimelow

sacredh

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The unreported race war stuff is a head scratcher. I think it ranks up there with the unreported invasion of the body snatchers. You'd think that everybody would notice.

MrObvious

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@sacredh

And when do media have ANY problem reporting on black on white violence?

sacredh

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This stuff is only going to get worse too. They know everything is slipping away from them. You watch them ranting about things that haven't happened and then getting upset because the media isn't reporting on the things they make up.

sacredh

OT again, but Magic Johnson just offered LeBron a million dollars to participate in the dunk contest at the All-Star break next year.

sacredh

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Oh, do it:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/01/obama-i-am-not-a-dictator-im-the-president/?hpt=hp_bn3

sacredh

OT, but the Miami Heat have scored at least 102 points in a game 31 times this year. Their record when scoring at least 102 points? 31-0.

nflfoghorn

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I smell a repeat.

Much like Paulie's laugh track.

sacredh

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nfl, I do too. Only an injury is going to keep them from winning another title. LeBron shot 64% from the field in February. The last person to do that (minimum 200 attempts) was Kareem in 1983. The last person to average as many points, rebounds and assists as Lebron did in February with a 60% FG percentage? Had NEVER been done before. They're on ESPN tonight at 8 against Memphis. It should be a good game but I wouldn't say Miami is a lock to win.

nflfoghorn

@sacredh But they did anyway. They're at a level where they can turn it on and off at their leisure. Nobody can deal with that (like you said, as long as they stay healthy).

sacredh

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Live long and prosper Barack:

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Obama+%2b+Star+Trek&qpvt=Obama+%2b+Star+Trek&FORM=IGRE

sacredh

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S & M Star Trek. Beat me up Scottie:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/01/jedimindmeld-may-the-forced-spending-cuts-be-with-you/

sacredh

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Obama and his changes:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/01/politics/new-obama/

paulejb

"Obama's choices"

As the dreaded Sequester begins, we are in an age of trade-offs. Consider this shocking number: Housing 500 Federal Prisoners for five days is the same as operating Air Force One for just one hour.

Here are the numbers:

Operating AF1 per hour was $181,757 in 2010.
Federal Bureau of Prisons per capita cost was $71.49 per day in 2011.
Split that in 24 hours, it's a poor $2.97 per hour per federal prisoner.
AF1 hourly cost covers you 61,018 criminals per hour behind bars.
The cost of 500 federal prisoners is only $1,489.37 per hour.
The cost of 500 federal prisoners is only $35,744.88 per day.
The cost of 500 federal prisoners per 5.08484 days is... $181,757; the same as AF1 for one hour.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/03/obamas_choices.html

mantisdragon91

@paulejb American Thinker- How much does it cost to maintain tax breaks for the Oil companies that gauge us day in and day out?

paulejb

@mantisdragon91 @paulejb

Too lame for a response, Bugs.

mantisdragon91

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@paulejb @mantisdragon91I'll give you a hint Troll between 10 and 52 Billion a year

http://priceofoil.org/fossil-fuel-subsidies/

paulejb

HuffPost Politics

✔ @HuffPostPol

'Obama to Wash Post reporter: "I never want to make myself 100 percent clear with you guys" '

What?

mantisdragon91

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@paulejb Yet again Troll way to take something out of context. Goebbels would have been proud of you and your ilk.

paulejb

'Obama: "American Families Have Been Getting Battered Pretty Good Over The Last Four Years" '

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/03/01/obama_american_families_have_been_getting_battered_pretty_good_over_the_last_four_years.html

You got that right. Barry!!!!

mantisdragon91

@paulejb And they will keep getting battered until they wake up and dislodge the Republicans from Congress.

paulejb

"More than 700 pages of healthcare rules released"

http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/healthcare/285715-more-than-700-pages-of-healthcare-rules-released#ixzz2MJUiancN

You will be dead before your health care provider can read all the ObamaCare regs.

mantisdragon91

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@paulejb So you want there to be no rules? Is that your assertion? If my health care provider needs more than a couple of days to review the rules, it may be time to get a more competent health care provider.

nflfoghorn

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No suh massah, we don't need no Votin' Rites Act no mo'.

MrObvious

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@nflfoghorn

Racism taken to a grand new level.

nflfoghorn

I didn't even link to the page where you can color in the n-word hanging from a tree.

This is aimed at second-graders.

[SMH]

nflfoghorn

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I know.

And based on his response, Paulie never linked to it.

La_Randy

@paulejb @nflfoghornOf course, if a person is unsure their absentee ballot was counted, then they are allowed to cast a provisional ballot at the polls. Perfectly legal, idiot!

mantisdragon91

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@paulejb @nflfoghorn You have one case out of millions of votes. Keep harping troll and thinking that is the reason you lost. The next spanking at the polls will be a rude awakening yet again.

paulejb

@nflfoghorn

"Vote Fraud News"

2/19/13: OHIO: Melowese Richardson: multiple voting
"Richardson told a local television station this month that she voted twice last November. She cast an absentee ballot and then voted at the polls as well...Authorities also are investigating if she voted in the names of four other people, too, for a total of six votes in the 2012 presidential election." Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/19/ohio-poll-worker-obama-supporter-investigated-for-potentially-voting-six-times/#ixzz2LNftusC1 Eric Shawn, Did Obama supporter vote 6 times in 2012? Ohio poll worker target of investigation, Fox News, Feb. 19, 2013."

http://www.rnla.org/votefraud.asp

MrObvious

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@nflfoghorn

Are you surprised? He was homeschooled on headlines - the rest is just his imagination filling in the blanks.

paulejb

@nflfoghorn

Since Obama voters vote as many as six times why do they need a Voting Rights Act?

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/02/19/updated-ohio-poll-worker-voted-for-obama6-times-n1515548

La_Randy

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Allegations against one person, not proven and certainly not all "Obama voters".

mantisdragon91

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@paulejb @nflfoghorn Since Republicans try to keep minorities and students from voting they certainly do.

MrObvious

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@paulejb @mantisdragon91 @nflfoghorn

We just want you people limited to one vote per election.

Considering the massive fraud on a industrial level from groups on the rightie side I guess you mean 'you people' as in 'your people' (your tribe).