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erynthered

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  1. From accross the pond: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/...,673192,00.html Center-left daily Süddeutsche Zeitung writes on Thursday: "Obama made a serious misjudgement. Right at the beginning of his first year in office, he saved the banks, rescued the automobile industry from collapse and passed a huge economic stimulus package. He had hoped that these enormous deeds would give him the space to address those issues which are dearest to him: health care reform, climate change and investment in education." "Those issues, however, are clearly not priorities for people in the US at the moment. Scott Brown campaigned on two promises, both of which apparently struck a nerve with the electorate. He wants to block health care reform and he wants to find ways to reduce the enormous budget deficit. It is here where the roots of dissatisfaction with Obama are to be found. His reform agenda, in its current form, is highly suspect to Americans. And they have the impression that, if he continues piling up debt, he will be gambling away the country's future." The Financial Times Deutschland writes: "For Obama, the election in Massachusetts means that he will have to re-evaluate his political style. He could now focus his concentration on his political base and push through his policy agenda. After all, he still has a majority in Congress -- he could back away from his strategy of bipartisanship ... which would mean giving up much of what he spent his first year in office creating." "More likely, however, is that Obama will interpret the Massachusetts loss as a signal that he should move further toward the middle and make more concessions to the conservatives -- even if this alienates his base even further, a base which had high expectations from the 'yes we can' candidate." "For everyone else in the world, this means that they will have to bid farewell to a candidate for whom the hopes were so high. They will have to say goodbye to the charisma they fell in love with. Obama will be staying home after all." The left-leaning daily Die Tageszeitung writes: "In addition to health care reform, Obama's reputation has primarily been harmed by the high unemployment rate and the increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan. It will become even more difficult in the future for the president to push projects through successfully. Not just because Republicans now have a means of preventing it, but also because the Democratic camp is deeply divided. Some would like to see the party shift toward the center -- wherever that may be -- whereas others want the party to position itself to the left. Such a battle is hardly a good sign for the mid-term elections in November. Massachusetts could prove to be an omen." The center-right Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes: "Of course the president rejects the interpretation that the Massachusetts election was a referendum on his first year in the White House. But he cannot ignore the fact that his health care reform package is not popular, the situation of the country's finances is seen as threatening and many voters blame the high unemployment rate on the party in power -- on the Democrats, led by Obama. The result is a second year in office full of very different challenges than the first. To save what there is to be saved, Obama will have to be prepared to fashion a bipartisan compromise on health care -- a compromise with a Republican Party which has tasted blood and can now dream once again about a return to power."
  2. How the hell did he find out about Dick Cheney's earthquake/weather machine? Hell, connor probably told him.
  3. I couldnt resist!
  4. he already sent it once....................ONCE!!
  5. Who the hell do you think you are coming in here and posting rational information. Shame on you!!
  6. http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/artic...orklife_balance Guess who made number 3, with no layoffs in their 94 year hisstory? Yep you got it!! 3. Wegmans Food Markets Previous rank: 5 What makes it so great? Rated one of the best groceries in the nation, and a former No. 1 on our list (in 2005), Wegmans has never had a layoff in its 94-year history. More than 4,000 employees, 11% of the workforce, have been here more than 15 years. 10. Camden Property Trust Previous rank: 41 What makes it so great? After stock of apartment developer tanked from a high of $80 in 2006 to a low of $17 in 2009, founders Ric Campo and Keith Oden rallied workers across 13 states with messages such as "Turn off CNBC -- the moderators know less than you do about the way forward." By year’s end the stock had rebounded to $42.
  7. Brown's daughter on American Idol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QW3MpzcnhQ...player_embedded
  8. If your job doesnt include levers and switches then you're not working people like me. <EII>
  9. Wait no longer, Chico.
  10. I is hat turnes sideways
  11. No ****. ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM, right over your head, eh?
  12. Will they still be naming this "Dead" HC bill after Ted Kennedy? I hope so, seems appropriate.
  13. Na, no sense calling him in to pick his brain. Nope. Film should tell him all he needs to know.
  14. Maybe bring him in to go over film and see what his thinking is first.
  15. ...and his first post no less.
  16. Common, you can do better than that!!
  17. In additon to that, he would not have worked well with Nix. Billick and him would never have been on the same page, IMO.
  18. This girl in HS named Rhonda taught me that. Help me rhonda Help, help me rhonda Help me rhonda Help, help me rhonda Help me rhonda Help, help me rhonda Help me rhonda Help, help me rhonda Help me rhonda Help, help me rhonda Help me rhonda Help, help me rhonda Help me rhonda yeah Thanks!!
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