Tinker:
I think that Matt Lauer and the NBC Network today show is the real racist people on our televisions sets these days. Not 'Paula Deen who has been emotionally crushed that the NBC TV news Network is so quick to accuse her as a southern women harboring racist feeling towards black people in America.
I think that Matt Lauer and the NBC Network today show is the real racist people on our televisions sets these days. Not 'Paula Deen who has been emotionally crushed that the NBC TV news Network is so quick to accuse her as a southern women harboring racist feeling towards black people in America.
Why? Because she used the "N" word sometimes in her past conversations around other people in the State of Georgia.
We all know racism's when we see and hear it don't we Ladies and Gentleman. And I feel more disrespecting prejudice definition feeling
from Matt Lauer within his careful PC speech at Paula Deen, and on the
other hand nothing but a torn and embarrassed Paula Deen.
I'll go fishing with "Paula," you can have Matt the phoney PC Lauer.
I'll go fishing with "Paula," you can have Matt the phoney PC Lauer.
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Watchdog: IRS enjoy luxury rooms at conference
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER and ALAN FRAM | Associated Press – Tue, Jun 4, 2013
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A total of 132 IRS officials received room upgrades at the 2010 conference in Anaheim, Calif., according to the report being released by J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration.
One official stayed five nights in a room that regularly goes for $3,500 a night, George's report said, and another stayed four nights in a room that regularly goes for $1,499 a night. The agency paid a flat daily fee of $135 per hotel room, it said, but the upgrades were part of a package deal that added to the overall cost of the conference. Without the upgrades, the IRS could have negotiated a lower room rate, as required by agency procedures.
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Why the IRS Scandal Needs a Special Prosecutor
Neither Democratic or Republican cherry-picked findings will restore the public's trust.
Updated: June 25, 2013 | 1:40 p.m.
June 25, 2013 | 9:21 a.m.
To restore trust, President Obama should turn over the IRS investigation to a non-partisan special prosecutor.
((Pete Souza/The White House, Creative Commons))
Don't do it.
Nearly six weeks ago, President Obama responded to an inspector general's report detailing the targeting, which had been long denied by the IRS. "The misconduct that it uncovered is inexcusable. It's inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it," Obama said, vowing to "hold the responsible parties accountable."
The IG report was based on a cursory audit. It was not a full-fledged investigation. And yet Democrats disingenuously claimed that it exonerated the Obama administration and the president's re-election campaign from any involvement in IRS targeting.
To truly "hold the responsible parties accountable," Obama still needed a thorough and impartial inquiry led by investigators who would question witnesses under oath, and would subpoena the White House and his own re-election campaign for related emails and other documents.
He did not ask for that.
Smelling blood, the GOP-controlled House launched an investigation led by Rep. Darrell Issa of California. Never mistaken for an impartial investigator, Issa quickly declared that IRS targeting was "ordered from Washington" – a thinly veiled indictment of the White House. His evidence? A few cherry-picked interviews with IRS officials and an Orwellian subtext: "We're getting to proving it," Issa said. On June 3 I wrote of Issa: "Meet the best friend of a controversy-plagued Democratic White House: a demagogic Republican."
Meanwhile, Obama backed his strong words with middling action, transferring political ally Danny Werfel from the Office of Management and Budget to the IRS, where as acting commissioner Werfel would investigate his own administration.
Werfel may be a stand-up guy with a solid reputation in Washington. But the public doesn't know him. The public also doesn't trust the federal government. And the public doesn't like the IRS.
Why, after the agency's massive breach of trust, would Obama think a Werfel-led investigation will restore the public's faith?
Werfel announced Monday that instructions used by the IRS to look for applicants seeking tax-exempt status with "Tea Party" and "Patriots" in their title also included groups whose names included the word "Progressive" and "Occupy." Jonathon Weisman of The New York Times reported, "The documents appeared to back up contentions by IRS officials and some Democrats that the agency did not intend to single out conservative groups for special scrutiny."
The White House and its allies declared the scandal over. Said David Axelrod, one of Obama's longest-serving advisers, said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" show: "I think the implication that this was some sort of scheme is falling apart."
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Dakar's small people 'bunkered' for Obama's visitBy TAMBA JEAN-MATTHEW in Dakar | Tuesday, June 25 2013 at 16:47
US President Barack Obama. FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Ordinary Senegalese are drawing lessons from the past
and leaving nothing to chance so that they avoid “foreseeable”
embarrassing circumstances during President Barack Obama’s visit, which
commences on June 26.
Enduring long hours in traffic jams while waiting
for high profile visitors to pass through, being unable to hawk their
wares freely in the streets and being virtually “held prisoner in one’s
house” are some of the embarrassments they recall from the 1998 visit of
former American president Bill Clinton.
Many businesses particularly in downtown Dakar and
its peripheral districts have already started recording low sales due
to this anticipation. “We’ve virtually been closed for a week now,”
says Doudou Keita, a garment seller in Guelle Tapé, a few kilometres
from the city centre.
Mbaye Ndiaye, an economist formerly employed by
the Trade ministry, says the visit will cause losses of several million
dollars, especially to the informal sector “who will take months to
recover”.
“While the Americans are capable of making our
country a better place, Obama is also capable of making our small
businesses in Dakar poorer,” argues Ndeye Diop, a doughnut and coffee
seller in a conversation with her colleague.
Assuredly, Ndeye's colleague Bintou Diagne retorted in English with a native accent “Yessi, e can!” It was a play on Obama's 2008 campaign slogan: 'Yes we can.'
These “unforeseeable” embarrassments have led
thousands of Dakar city dwellers whose neighbourhoods are being
“bunkered” to return to their villages until Obama - nicknamed “the big
cat” - goes away.
Barack (which means 'shack' in Wolof) “should have
lodged in a shack to show solidarity with the majority shack dwellers
here”, leading comedian "Kutia" insistently jokes on television about
Obama, who he calls the “White House rent payer”.
Pickpockets and prostitutes
Since the announcement of the date of his arrival,
the thousands of street beggars in Dakar have visibly disappeared and
gone underground.
The same thing has happened to the noisy hawkers
on the streets of the capital, most of whom were mistakenly picked up by
police during a clean-up against pickpockets classified by security
agents as “persons with the propensity to cause embarrassment”.
This category also includes both licensed and
unlicensed prostitutes who made good profits during visits by less high
profile statesmen whose delegations frantically sought out their
services.
But for Obama’s visit, they are among those
bearing the heaviest brunt of the tour, which has been extended from 48
to 72 hours beginning this Wednesday.
“No matter...some of us can still harvest from
Obama’s field”, says Aisha Konaté, a sex worker with nearly two decades
of experience and who boasts of having contacts capable of roping in
“high profile” clients to her private abode
For a week now, the national television "RTS" has
been clocking Obama’s upcoming visit with the Senegalese and American
flags displayed on the top left corner of TV screens, and the
inscription "D-Day 3 days to go," or whichever days are pending.
The youthful face of Obama has for two weeks been very visible on a billboard on one of the tallest buildings along the Place de l’independence main square in Dakar.
And elsewhere, especially at the heavily secured
Leopold Sedar Senghor International airport, several giant Senegelase
and American flags are flapping high in the sky around photographs of
the two heads of state.
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“While the Americans are capable of making our country a better place,
Obama is also capable of making our small businesses in Dakar poorer,”
argues Ndeye Diop, a doughnut and coffee seller in a conversation with
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I'm just here to help promote small business, like I do in the U.S.
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The United States Of Corporate America Illustrated In 1 Chart
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By Matthew Yglesias
Posted: 06/25/2013
This great map by Steve Lovelace replaces each state with its most prominent corporation.
I might quibble a little bit and suggest that Microsoft or Amazon are a bigger deal than Starbucks, that Minnesota should be represented by Target, and that Darden Restaurants (i.e., Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and Capital Grill) is a better representative of Florida than Hooters. Still, I love it.
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