NJ Dems Charge Ally of Christie with Bribery. State Seeks 2Bil Line of Credit.

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Friday May 08, 2009 · 9:03 PM PDT

2009/05/08 · 21:03

Mr. Law and Order Chris Christie is headed for even more problems in The Bankrupt State. According to nj.com, two Democratic legislators are asking authorities to investigate whether a political ally of Christie tried to bribe primary opponent Assemblyman Rick Merkt not to run for governor.

You may recall that the corpulent Christie recently hit some head winds with revelations of his authorizing tracking people through their cell phones without first obtaining a warrant when he was district attourney (as the ACLU charges), the $50 million no-bid contract he gave to John Ashcroft (John Ashcroft was the U.S. Attorney General in 2003 when the decision not to prosecute Chris Christie's brother Todd Christie for insider trading was made, though everyone else in the scandal was prosecuted), and the no bid contract he gave to David Kelley, also on the Todd Christie case.

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Thursday May 07, 2009 · 9:54 AM PDT

2009/05/07 · 09:54

Rest easy all you doomsayers and Obama-bashers. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today that there are no plans to deploy U.S. ground troops in Pakistan.

Frankie Teardrop

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Wednesday May 06, 2009 · 2:18 PM PDT

2009/05/06 · 14:18

Flu vaccine studies funded by drug companies are significantly more likely to be published in top journals and to later be cited in scientific literature than studies without drug company funding, and Government-funded studies were significantly less likely to find the flu vaccine effective than drug industry-funded studies, reveals a survey of nearly 300 studies done by researchers at the Cochrane Vaccine Field in Italy, and published in the British Medical Journal.

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Monday May 04, 2009 · 8:35 AM PDT

2009/05/04 · 08:35

New York State has settled a federal racial-discrimination lawsuit against Governor David Patterson for firing a white Senate photographer in order to replace him with an African-American when he was Senate minority leader in 2003.

Frankie Teardrop

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Sunday May 03, 2009 · 6:09 PM PDT

2009/05/03 · 18:09

Arlen Specter's appearance on Meet the ~~Corporate Media~~ Press today tells us all we need to know on why party-switchers suck. Arlen is about Arlen - plain and simple. If that scumbag's polling numbers were different, he'd still be a Republican today.

Frankie Teardrop

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Friday May 01, 2009 · 8:10 AM PDT

2009/05/01 · 08:10

As if we needed yet another example of how religion poisons the mind and warps judgment, a study based on a Pew Research Center survey of 742 American adults conducted April 14-21 finds that the more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists.

Conveniently, the study did not include analysis of groups other than white evangelicals, white non-Hispanic Catholics, white mainline Protestants, and the religiously unaffiliated, because the sample size was too small. Like that old lawyer’s saw cautions: don’t ask any questions you don’t want the answer to.

Frankie Teardrop

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Thursday April 30, 2009 · 5:52 AM PDT

2009/04/30 · 05:52

As the world braces to cope with spreading of the deadly Mexican Flu, new details are emerging of how Mexican clinics mishandled initial cases of the disease. This serves as a warning that funding for virus vigilance and reporting is not an option – it’s a deadly necessity.

Frankie Teardrop

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Wednesday April 29, 2009 · 12:04 PM PDT

2009/04/29 · 12:04

Recently, a friend that has her own S-Corp received an email and phone call from the "B2G Institute" that crowed:

A Proven Way to Grow Your Business

In 2003, nearly 20,000 small businesses across America received their FIRST government contract. Government contracts are solid, secure, and almost as good as money in the bank because the government is required by law to pay invoices within 30 days. Uncle Sam may be the ultimate customer for your business.

An Urgent Need for Your Services

The U.S. government is also required by law to award the lion’s share of its business to outside vendors of all types. Thus, the government needs companies both large and small to apply for its contracts. And the potential is huge. More than $327 billion in contracts will be available nationally this year alone. Of this total, nearly $70 billion in contracts will be reserved exclusively for small businesses.

The B2G Institute is an independent training organization formed to help private and public businesses across America master the government contract bidding process.

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Tuesday April 28, 2009 · 8:25 AM PDT

2009/04/28 · 08:25

Want a song that embodies the hope and spirit we feel today? It’s not going to come from one of these lame pretenders that are all we have today. You have to reach back.

Frankie Teardrop

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Monday April 27, 2009 · 5:57 PM PDT

2009/04/27 · 17:57

After all the people of New York and New Jersey have been through after 9/11, this heartless stunt of flying a commercial jet and F-16 fighter at low altitude over the Hudson river and lower Manhattan – the same flight path taken by the 9/11 suicide pilots – is just beyond belief.

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Sunday April 26, 2009 · 2:53 PM PDT

2009/04/26 · 14:53

As Mexico reels under its spreading swine flu outbreak, and with all of the new-strain swine flu deaths being confined to Mexico so far, the U.S. government is taking no chances and has declared a public health emergency Sunday as the number of identified cases of the new swine flu in the U.S. rose to 20.

Frankie Teardrop

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Friday April 24, 2009 · 7:47 AM PDT

2009/04/24 · 07:47

The Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq is looking more and more like the most disastrous foreign policy mistake in U.S. history.

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