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ECONOMY:

The Dow is plummeting again. Traders and insiders are making tons of money off this volatility, but government's attempts to artificially keep the market inflated are doomed to fail.

TAX AND SPEND:

Here's more on the continuing resolution Boehner and his partners in crime tried to pass:

"These Republican leaders "tried to pass a continuing resolution through the House of Representatives on Wednesday afternoon that would have permitted funding for Obamacare implementation, Planned Parenthood, the United Nations Population Fund, and the Palestinian Authority to continue in the new federal fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1." The measure failed when 48 House Republicans joined with 182 Democrats to vote it down. The big question here is why didn't all the House Republicans vote against it?"

With supposed friends like these, who needs enemies?

Florida Republicans have funded public radio and TV while being in power for 15 years, so when you hear Republicans pretend they don't support these things, you know they're lying.

Succinct explanation of Obama's motivation for raising taxes on the rich:

"We have heard over and over again about how Obama wants to raise taxes on the "rich" to cut the deficit. What he is really trying to do is buy the votes of those who are not "rich" with the dollars of the "rich.""

Well said.

In response to President Obama's class warfare attack, Cato breaks down the amount of taxes paid by income bracket. Needless to say, the rich pay a higher percentage than the non-rich, contrary to what Warren Buffet would have us believe. The breakdown is faithfully progressive except for the people above 10 million a year. Those people pay slightly less than the rest of the millionaires, but more than everybody else. Obama and the press don't want you to know this.

REGULATION:

Government is once again shaking down Google for more money.

The rebellion grows. Doesn't it suck that patents have metastisised to that analogy? If some of the barbarians at the gate manage to chip Apple's IP walls, the iZombies may shake the halls of power demanding real patent reform.

POLICE STATE:

FBI arrests suspected hackers for LulzSec and Anonymous. Retaliation will follow whether the FBI is right or wrong.

"One individual was described as part of the LulzSec group, the other belongs to the group that calls itself Anonymous, the official said. The suspected hacker arrested in California is homeless and alleged to have been involved in the hacking of Santa Cruz County government websites."

I feel safer knowing the FBI is protecting us from homeless hackers.

WAR:

Americans blame the Pakistani Intelligence services for the attack in Kabul. Maybe it never crossed their mind that if Americans weren't killing people in Afghanistan, Afghans wouldn't retaliate against Americans.

POLITICS:

Rick Perry, who used to be a Democrat and who still loves to spend other people's money, calls Mitt Romney Obama-lite. They're both Obama-lites.

This is old but important news: US officials flunk test on history, civics and economics. This shouldn't surprise anybody.

Buffet to campaign for Obama. Duh. Buffet has been campaigning for Obama for years.

MISC:

CERN scientists claim they have measured particles traveling faster than the speed of light.

"Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the international group of researchers, said that measurements taken over three years showed neutrinos pumped from CERN near Geneva to Gran Sasso in Italy had arrived 60 nanoseconds quicker than light would have done."

It's not likely the sun will fail to rise tomorrow, but let's hope this analysis crashes the great global warming fraud.

""We have high confidence in our results. We have checked and rechecked for anything that could have distorted our measurements but we found nothing," he said. "We now want colleagues to check them independently.""

Compare that attitude to the attitude of the global warming frauds. Wouldn't it be nice if Jones, Mann or Hansen hadn't been so corrupted by government money that they refuse to adhere to the scientific method in the same fashion? The scientific method is not dead except where government killed it regarding global warming pseudo-science.