The week that was

Note: The following ( and all previous) news bits are taken directly from the Associated Press. They are not from some right-wing website or other "questionable" source that leftists might construe as conspiratorial against the Hussein administration.

6/29: Hussein still thinks that talks with Iran about their nuclear arsenal are still possible

6/29: Iran starts recounting 10% of the vote

6/29: Military coup in Honduras ousts the President who was trying to rewrite the Constitution so he could be President indefinitely. A new President was put in place with the support of the Congress, military, and Supreme Court. The world still recognizes the ousted President as the true President--including Hussein.

6/29: Afghan President Karzai accuses guards employed by the US of killing police

6/29: Russia holds major war games

6/29: Argentina's/first couple suffers setbacks when elections show they have lost control of both houses of Congress

6/29: A stray mortar hits a mosque & Pakistan retaliates with airstrikes killing more than 20

6/29: Air Force test fires a Minuteman missile from California coast into the Pacific

6/29: Study finds widening gap between younger and older Americans. Widest since the 1960s

6/29: Inspiration Networks CEO David Cerullo is building a $4 MILLION home in western SC as the ministry is cutting jobs

6/29: Fairpoint Communications says it may file for bankruptcy if it doesn't get more time to pay the interest on $530 MILLION loans

6/29: Enterprise Products to buy Teppco Partners in a deal worth $3.3 BILLION

6/29: Porsche rejects Volkswagen offer

6/29: Central bankers urge move from stimulus to reform

6/29: Toyota develops a wheelchair that can be controlled by brainwaves

6/29: Hussein adviser David Axelrod is not ready to support a second stimulus package

6/29: Hussein has written Michael Jackson's family expressing condolences

6/29: US talks with deposed Honduran leader and is seeking his return to power

6/29: Bernie Madoff is sentenced to 150 years in prison

6/29: Supreme Court overturns case involving Sotomayor saying previous rulings discriminated against white and Hispanic firefighters

6/29: Pitchman Billy Mays dies

6/29: Hussein announces new light standards for the US

6/29: Hussein speeding delivery of $346 MILLION in stimulus to help improve energy efficiency in new and existing commercial buildings

6/29: Drug-resistant Swine Flu reported in Denmark

6/29: White House says Supreme Court ruling shows Sotomayor is not biased (her ruling was overturned)

6/29: Iran shows partial recount results are valid

6/29: Monica Conyers resigns from Detroit City Council

6/29: California finding economy could prolong recession in US. CA accounts for 12% of the US GDP and is the world's 8th largest economy

6/29: EPA reveals 44 hazardous coal ash sites in 10 states

6/29: Reports are MJ weighed 112 lbs and was bald with a little bit of gray hair

6/30: Pier 1 Imports to close 80 stores

6/30: Sears is closing 24 more stores

6/30: Home Depot to close 34 of its Expo Design Centers

6/30: Zales to close 155 stores

6/30: American Greetings to close 60 stores

6/30: Ruby Tuesday to close 70 locations

6/30: Yankee Candle to close 28 stores

6/30: Goody's to close all 282 stores and file for Chapter 11 again

6/30: World Market to close 26 stores

6/30: Oneida to close 20 outlets

6/30: S&K to close 30 stores

6/30: Claire's to close 199 stores

6/30: Gap Inc. to close 100 stores

6/30: Costco Home Stores to close its 2 furnishings stores

6/30: 10 more to be charged in Madoff scheme

6/30: US pulls out of Iraqi cities. 4 soldiers are killed

6/30: Iran declares election results are valid

6/30: Ousted Honduran President vows to return to Honduras

6/30: Chavez threatens to invade Honduras if President is not reinstated

6/30: Israeli drones kill 29 in Gaza

6/30: Israel starts expanding settlements

6/30: militants attack oil fields

6/30: Japan unemployment rises to 5.5 year high of 5.2% (3.2 MILLION)

6/30: Taiwan opens door for China to invest

6/30: Hussein takes a swift stand on Honduras threatening sanctions

6/30: National Guard seeks volunteers to patrol Mexico border

6/30: Hussein reaffirms support for gay rights activism saying" I will not only be your friend, I will continue to be an ally and a champion and a president who fights with you and for you."

6/30: Hussein says "I expect and hope to be judged not by my words, not by promises I've made, but by promises that my administration keeps." (So much for transparency, no lobbyists in administration, no taxes for anyone making <$250,000, unemployment not going above 8%...)

6/30: Hussein promises to get cap-and-trade, financial regulations, and health care reform into law by the end of the year

6/30: Minnesota Supreme Court rules Al Franken the winner in the Senate race

6/30: Iraq celebrates US pullback but a bombing in Kirkuk kills at least 27

6/30: Yemeni Airbus crashed with 153 aboard. A 14 year old girl survives

6/30: China backs down on web filter

6/30: Train derails in Italy killing 13

6/30: Immigrants in US now asking money be sent from home countries to them

6/30: 7 teenagers are shot in Detroit

6/30: Consumer confidence falls in June from 54.8 to 49.3

6/30: Home prices dropped 18.1% in April

6/30: North Korea ship changes course

6/30: India says it will not talk about reducing any emissions, period.

7/1: Vibe magazine shuts down

7/1: US Weekly and TMZ report that MJ's children are not his biologically

7/1: 10 SC state reps call for Gov Sanford to resign

7/1: Interim Honduran leader vows Zelaya won't return

7/1: Mexican police find 6 bodies related drug war. Also, the body of a Texas teen was found in northern Mexico

7/1: Inspector General Fred Weiderhold was forced to retire after looking into AMTRAK wrongdoing. He is being replaced by former AMTRAK human resources executive with no IG experience

7/1: Karl Malden dies

7/1: Hussein calls the stimulus a success because it saved the the jobs of teachers, police, and firefighters

7/2: Crabtree & Evelyn file Chapter 11

7/2: GM recalls 44,000 Saturn SUVs

7/2: Federal prosecutors in NC file criminal conspiracy charges against Beazer Homes USA

7/2: North Korea fires 4 short-range missiles toward Japan

7/2: Thousands of Marines in Afghanistan launch offensive against Taliban

7/2: India decriminalizes gay sex

7/2: California starts paying bills (mostly refunds to citizens) with IOUs

7/2: Unemployment for May is 9.5%--26 year high

7/2: Iran reports more protest arrests

7/2: Organization of American States is threatening sanctions against Honduras

7/2: UN nuclear agency chooses Japanese diplomat as new head

7/2: Florida Supreme Court says Governor Charlie Crist cannot reject a list of all white nominees for appeals court

7/2: United Airlines computer problem disrupted flights at O;Hare International Airport in Chicago

7/2: Prosecutors play tapes in case of former Louisiana congressman William Jefferson accused of taking $400,000 in bribes

7/2: Gov. Sanford cleared of wrongdoing by State Law Enforcement Division in SC

7/2: Gov. Perdue of NC prodded lawmakers to stay and work on the budget, but they all adjourned for the holiday.

7/2: 467,000 jobs lost in June--it was expected to be only 363,000

7/2: FDIC seeks stronger rules for sale of failed banks. 45 banks have failed this year (25 in 2008 & 3 in 2007)

7/2: Education Secretary Arne Duncan challenged teachers to stop resisting pay linked to student performance

7/2: GOP requests more documents on Sotomayor and is blasted by White House which calls the documents "irrelevant"

7/2: White House authorizes seizure of assets belonging to extremist group in Iraq and Iran

7/2: 20 girls go to Camp David to celebrate Hussein's daughter's eleventh birthday

7/2: NY Congresswoman Caolyn Maloney gets boost from President Clinton at fundraiser in her bid to challenge Hussein's pick of current Senator Kristen Gillibrand who is temporarily replacing Hillary.

7/2: Feds seize Madoff's $7 MILLION penthouse, but Ruth Madoff begs to keep it and her fur coat. She leaves with the clothes on her back which does not include the coat.

7/2: Helen Thomas & CBS Chip Reid rip White House spokesman Robert Gibbs over the plants in the town hall meetings instead of opening them up for real questions from real people that have not been preselected.

7/2: North Korean ship returns home

7/3: FDIC closes 7 more banks bringing to 52 the number of failed banks this year which more than doubles the total for all of last year

7/3: Russia will allow shipments of US weapons across its territory into Afghanistan

7/3: Iranian cleric says some of the Iranian staffers of the British embassy will be put on trial for fueling protests

7/3: US missile strike in Pakistan kills 17

7/3: NY City Muslims are pushing to have Muslim holidays added to school year

7/3: Under a proposed Senate health care plan, all Americans must have insurance or will pay a $1000/year fine. Businesses with 25 or more employees must cover each worker or face a fine of $750/worker.

7/3: National debt at $11.5 TRILLION and is growing by more than $1 TRILLION/year and could be the next US crisis as it may force taxes to be increased and federal benefits and services to be cut.

7/3: Hussein begins holiday at Camp David

7/3: Hussein tells Putin Cold War is over

7/3: Washington Post sent out fliers of a July 27 meeting with White House officials to lobbyists who could pay $25,000 to $250, 000 to have access.

7/3: Governor Sarah Palin announces she will step down as Governor of Alaska at then end of this month.

7/3: Late blight has affected tomato plants all over the east coast except for Georgia. Late blight was responsible for the potato famine.

7/3: UNC-Chapel Hill announces 10% budget cuts or about $60 MILLION

7/3: British Airways is to cut seats on flights and delay arrivals of new planes

FUBAR: The New "Mission Accomplished"

Hussein, in a town hall meeting in Virginia, proclaimed the stimulus bill a success because it "saved" the jobs of teachers, firefighters, and police all over the country. Say what?

First of all, no one, including Hussein himself who went on the campaign trail to lobby for the bill, ever, ever said that the stimulus package was to save the jobs of teachers, fire fighters, and police. Never! The bill was supposed to stimulate the economy, create new jobs to get people back to work, and keep the unemployment rate at 8% or below. So going on the original principles, let's look and see how the bill has done. The economy is still in the tank and contracting more each month, the only jobs that have been created are those in the government, and unemployment will go above 10% as Hussein himself has said. Sounds like a huge success to me! Companies including GM are filing for bankruptcy. More employees are being laid off. The deficit is rising.

Now lets examine the new definition of what the stimulus package was supposed to do-save those jobs. Well, here in Charlotte, NC, 800 teachers and teacher assistants were given pink slips the Friday before Memorial Day. Later, CMS posted openings for 250 positions, but that still leaves a net loss of 550 jobs. In February, 600 teachers in Providence Rhode Island received their pink slips. In June, Broward County Florida sent pink slips to 394 teachers. By next year in Los Angeles, 2100 teachers are slated to lose their jobs. In Minnesota, Winona cut 13% of teachers in May and 10 other districts cut an average of 6% of their teachers. Also in May, 3000-5000 teachers were to be laid off in Washington. Need I say more?

Okay, here's more. At the end of June, Michigan laid off 100 state troopers. Modesto, CA laid off 9 officers. Maplewood, NJ cut 3, Toldeo cut 75, Cincinnati cut up to 200, Oakland 140, and El Monte, CA 17. In Chicago, 400 police officer positions are unfilled as the city cannot afford to hire officers and that number may grow to 800 by the end of the year. The same in Kansas City, MO where 45 jobs are unfilled and the 31 cadets that will be graduating soon will probably be laid off before they ever start working.

Firefighters? In Sacramento, 68 lost their jobs. Kokomo, IN cut 12. East Point, GA cut 45. Orlando laid off 47. More cities have laid off or are considering laying off more.

Sounds like a huge success to me (with the emphasis on suck). Washington and the President have taken spin to an all-time high. They just don't get it and never will!

Failure is the new success!!! FUBAR* is here to stay. Get used to it.

*FUBAR= F***** Up Beyond All Recognition

MJ vs Farrah

What's the difference between Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson?

Farrah touched a lot of young boys hearts. Michael touched a lot of young boys!




Remember, MJ was at best a pedophile and at worst a child molester/rapist. He neither was nor is an American or World hero.