Your Choice in 2012: Patriotism or Socialism

Published August 12, 2012 | By Iowadawg

WITH THE SELECTION OF PAUL RYAN BY MITT AS HIS RUNNING MATE THE CHOICE FOR THIS FALLS ELECTION HAS BECOME EVEN MORE CLEAR.

From HERE.

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics “The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.”

“Floods are caused by rivers overflowing their banks or by high tides and strong winds blowing ocean waters onto land. They can occur in the spring when melting snow and ice from winter makes rivers unusually high. They can occur when hurricanes raise the tides and the winds and also accompany tsunamis. – Provided by Reference.com

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The new Denny’s in Neonopolisin Downtown Las Vegas is catering to the wedding-and-breakfast crowd (translation: drunk people) with an all-inclusive experience. Because there’s no better way to celebrate alcohol-soaked Sin City nuptials than with a Grand Slam breakfast. Stay classy, Vegas!

From : foodbeast

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License to Steal: Indian Minister OKs Embezzlement

A minister in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, is busy doing damage control after a video emerged showing him telling a group of local officials that it is acceptable for bureaucrats to steal as long as they work hard. He qualified the statement by saying that it is OK to steal “some” but not to “be a bandit.” The video has, understandably, sparked a backlash in a country whose political system has long been plagued by corruption. The minister, Shivpal Singh Yadav, has since spoken out, claiming that his comments were taken out of context.

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Ross and Norris McWhirter (Born this day in 1925)

In 1954, a few years after identical twins Norris and Ross McWhirter founded a London fact-finding agency, they met a director of the Guinness brewing company, Sir Hugh Beaver, who commissioned a compilation of world records that was intended to settle bar-room disputes. The first edition of the McWhirters’ Guinness Book of Records was given to bars for free as a marketing gimmick, but the book quickly became a phenomenal success. In 1975, Ross was assassinated. Why?

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Charlotte, N.C., woman accused in tax scheme approaching $3.8 million

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A Charlotte, N.C., woman has been accused in a tax scheme to defraud the government of more than $3.8?million.

In court documents filed Thursday in U.S. District Court, 40-year-old Candida Mayo Figueroa was named as a suspect.

Federal authorities said the U.S. Postal Service intercepted an “extraordinarily large number” of mailings from the U.S. Treasury Department that appeared to contain checks going to several apartments close to one another in Charlotte. The Postal Service alerted investigators because the names on the mail were people not known to receive mail at those addresses.

Authorities said much of the mail was sent to homes in the Arrowood Crossing apartment complex in southwest Charlotte, and that Figueroa had been seen pulling mail from multiple mailboxes there.

Investigators said they sent five addresses to the IRS, which linked 804 individual income tax returns to those addresses. There was no history of the taxpayers identified on the forms living at the homes listed, authorities said.

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A photo of President Obama was suddenly pulled from the website of the group Building One America, whose goals were documented extensively in Stanley Kurtz’s book Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities. The book, which was released ten days ago, reveals what Kurtz refers to as Obama’s plan to undercut the political and economic independence of America’s suburbs. Kurtz connects current Obama administration policy with his personal history, and with groups like Building One America in particular.

This website shows a cached view of how the BuildingOneAmerica.org site looked on July 19th, 2012 — with a photo of President Obama talking to Building One America’s President Mike Kruglik, which was taken during a 2011 meeting held at the White House. Kruglik’s official biography on the Building One America site describes him thusly:

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Despicable…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Friday called Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, an “American patriot” after a group of Republican lawmakers accused her of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political organization.

“She has been nothing less than extraordinary in representing our country and the democratic values that we hold dear,” Obama said at a White House Iftar dinner celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

“The American people owe her a debt of gratitude because Huma is an American patriot and an example of what we need in this country — more public servants with her sense of decency, her grace and her generosity of spirit.” [...]

Abedin, a Muslim, was seated on Obama’s right at the dinner and appeared visibly moved as the president spoke to a room full of religious leaders, elected officials and diplomats.

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