"State taxes and state regulation have exploded in Herve Leger Cutout Bandage Swimsuit the last three decades. I see the surface appeal of saying less power to Washington means smaller government, but it's not necessarily true. The Chamber of Commerce would rather have to deal with one federal regulation than regulations from 50 states," he said.
Perry described the 1913 passage of the 16th and 17th Amendments as a "great milestone on the road to serfdom." The federal income tax gave Washington "a giant faucet of money" to exercise control over the states and the people, he said.
He also heaps scorn on the New Deal era of the 1930s. Then, "an arrogant President [Franklin] Roosevelt, an emboldened Congress" and a compliant Supreme Court agreed the federal government could enforce minimum wages, regulate manufacturers, protect unions, police Wall Street and guarantee pensions for older Americans. The result, he wrote, has been "a complete and total failure."
Perry, who referred to the justices as "nine oligarchs in robes," said herve leger angled he was not convinced that Social Security and Medicare were constitutional.
"I don't think our Founding Fathers, when they were putting the term 'general welfare' in there, were thinking about a federally operated program of pensions nor a federally operated program of healthcare," he said in a book interview with Newsweek last fall. "Whether it's Social Security, whether it's Medicaid, whether it's Medicare … they're bankrupt. They're a Ponzi scheme. I challenge anybody to stand up and defend the Social Security program that we have today."
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota have not published similar accounts of their constitutional views, but both agree with Perry that the 10th Amendment, which states that powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved for the states or the people, puts an important limit on federal power.
"I believe in the 10th Amendment of the Constitution," Romney said during a recent GOP presidential candidates' debate in Iowa. He called President Obama's Herve Leger Crisscross Strap national healthcare overhaul "bad constitutional law. … The right answer for every state is to determine what's right for those states."
Bachmann disagreed in part, saying she believed an individual mandate to purchase health insurance would be unconstitutional, whether imposed by Washington or the states. "This is clearly an unconstitutional action, whether it's done at the federal level or whether it's the state level," she said.
With the first official votes for the Republican nomination more than five months away, and with the very real possibility that GOP candidates such as Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, and George Pataki may jump into the race, much could still change as the election process unfolds. A look at presidential election trial heats conducted in the late summer of the year before previous elections reveals that such change is quite common:
2011年8月23日星期二
the nation went off track early in the 20th century
Perry's 191-page book drew little notice herve leger skirt when it was published in November. But now that he is running for the Republican nomination for president, his views on Social Security and other federal programs will be carefully scrutinized.
The book's aim, he wrote, was to provoke a "new conversation about the proper role of government in our lives. Now, cynics will say that I decided to write this book because I seek higher office. They are wrong."
University of Texas law professor Daniel B. Rodriguez said Perry's "libertarian, small-government views" were popular in Texas and elsewhere, but he questioned the comments on Social Security. "He is quite right to say the New Deal era reflected an enormous change in the relationship between the national government and citizens. But to suggest Social Security is unconstitutional is a fringe view," Rodriguez said.
Campaign aides said Perry would not seek to slash or repeal Social Security if he won the White House.
"When it comes to Social Security today," Perry believes there should be "a robust debate about entitlements, a debate about extending the retirement herve leger on sale age for younger people and for other changes that will make Social Security and Medicare more stable and financially sound going forward," said campaign spokesman Ray Sullivan. "We need to protect benefits for those who are at or near retirement, so they don't have anything to worry about."
Perry is a champion of states' rights and devotes part of his book to arguing that freedom for Americans depends on diverse states that are free to go their own way. "I would no more consider living in Massachusetts than I suspect a great number of folks from Massachusetts would like to live in Texas," he wrote.
In his view, the nation went off track early in the 20th century when Progressives argued the federal government needed to tax the wealthy and break up corporate monopolies. He says the American people made a mistake or "were herve leger clothes snookered" when "during a fit of populist rage" they amended the Constitution to authorize the income tax and to call for the direct election of U.S. senators. Before, senators were picked by state legislatures.
Michael Greve, a scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said Perry's views would have more appeal to "tea party" conservatives than to business conservatives.
The book's aim, he wrote, was to provoke a "new conversation about the proper role of government in our lives. Now, cynics will say that I decided to write this book because I seek higher office. They are wrong."
University of Texas law professor Daniel B. Rodriguez said Perry's "libertarian, small-government views" were popular in Texas and elsewhere, but he questioned the comments on Social Security. "He is quite right to say the New Deal era reflected an enormous change in the relationship between the national government and citizens. But to suggest Social Security is unconstitutional is a fringe view," Rodriguez said.
Campaign aides said Perry would not seek to slash or repeal Social Security if he won the White House.
"When it comes to Social Security today," Perry believes there should be "a robust debate about entitlements, a debate about extending the retirement herve leger on sale age for younger people and for other changes that will make Social Security and Medicare more stable and financially sound going forward," said campaign spokesman Ray Sullivan. "We need to protect benefits for those who are at or near retirement, so they don't have anything to worry about."
Perry is a champion of states' rights and devotes part of his book to arguing that freedom for Americans depends on diverse states that are free to go their own way. "I would no more consider living in Massachusetts than I suspect a great number of folks from Massachusetts would like to live in Texas," he wrote.
In his view, the nation went off track early in the 20th century when Progressives argued the federal government needed to tax the wealthy and break up corporate monopolies. He says the American people made a mistake or "were herve leger clothes snookered" when "during a fit of populist rage" they amended the Constitution to authorize the income tax and to call for the direct election of U.S. senators. Before, senators were picked by state legislatures.
Michael Greve, a scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said Perry's views would have more appeal to "tea party" conservatives than to business conservatives.
Many Democrats also are ambivalent about Obama's proposed
"We don't need short-term gestures. We need feather extensions for hair long-term fundamental changes in our tax structure and our regulatory structure that people who create jobs can rely on," said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., when asked about the payroll tax matter.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., "has never believed that this type of temporary tax relief is the best way to grow the economy," said spokesman Brad Dayspring.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says payroll tax reductions give the economy a short-term boost. But it says the benefit is bigger if employers get the tax break instead of, or along with, workers.
Some top Republicans have taken a wait-and-see approach, expecting the payroll tax issue to be a bargaining chip in the upcoming debt reduction talks.
Neither House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, nor Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has taken a firm stand on whether to extend the one-year tax cut.
Most GOP presidential candidates also are treading lightly.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney did not flatly rule out an extra year for the payroll tax cut, but he "would prefer to see the payroll tax natural hair extensions cut on the employer side" to spur job growth, his campaign said.
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich said Republicans will fall under increasing pressure to extend the payroll tax cut. If they refuse, he said in a recent speech, "we're going to end up in a position where we're going to raise taxes on the lowest-income Americans the day they go to work."
Many Democrats also are ambivalent about Obama's proposed tax cut extension. They are more focused on protecting social programs from deep spending cuts. Some worry that a multiyear reduction in the tax designated for Social Security could undermine that program's health and stature.
For decades the payroll tax generated more revenue than the Social Security paid out in benefits. The excess was used to fund other government operations. Last year, however, Social Security benefits began outstripping revenue from its designated sources, forcing the program to start tapping its "trust fund" of government obligations.
Powerful Hurricane Irene cut a destructive path through the Caribbean on Monday, raking Puerto Rico with strong winds and rain and then spinning just north of the Dominican Republic on a track that could carry it to the U.S. Southeast as a major storm by the end of the week.
Irene grew into a Category 2 hurricane with winds of Hair Extensions Online 100 m.p.h. as it churned north of the Dominican Republic. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said it could become a monstrous Category 3 storm by the time it slams into the U.S., possibly landing in South Carolina, Florida or Georgia.
New York City prosecutors asked a judge Monday to dismiss all criminal charges against former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn because they aren't sure beyond a reasonable doubt that the hotel maid who created a cross-continental sensation by accusing him of sexual assault is telling the truth.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., "has never believed that this type of temporary tax relief is the best way to grow the economy," said spokesman Brad Dayspring.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says payroll tax reductions give the economy a short-term boost. But it says the benefit is bigger if employers get the tax break instead of, or along with, workers.
Some top Republicans have taken a wait-and-see approach, expecting the payroll tax issue to be a bargaining chip in the upcoming debt reduction talks.
Neither House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, nor Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has taken a firm stand on whether to extend the one-year tax cut.
Most GOP presidential candidates also are treading lightly.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney did not flatly rule out an extra year for the payroll tax cut, but he "would prefer to see the payroll tax natural hair extensions cut on the employer side" to spur job growth, his campaign said.
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich said Republicans will fall under increasing pressure to extend the payroll tax cut. If they refuse, he said in a recent speech, "we're going to end up in a position where we're going to raise taxes on the lowest-income Americans the day they go to work."
Many Democrats also are ambivalent about Obama's proposed tax cut extension. They are more focused on protecting social programs from deep spending cuts. Some worry that a multiyear reduction in the tax designated for Social Security could undermine that program's health and stature.
For decades the payroll tax generated more revenue than the Social Security paid out in benefits. The excess was used to fund other government operations. Last year, however, Social Security benefits began outstripping revenue from its designated sources, forcing the program to start tapping its "trust fund" of government obligations.
Powerful Hurricane Irene cut a destructive path through the Caribbean on Monday, raking Puerto Rico with strong winds and rain and then spinning just north of the Dominican Republic on a track that could carry it to the U.S. Southeast as a major storm by the end of the week.
Irene grew into a Category 2 hurricane with winds of Hair Extensions Online 100 m.p.h. as it churned north of the Dominican Republic. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said it could become a monstrous Category 3 storm by the time it slams into the U.S., possibly landing in South Carolina, Florida or Georgia.
New York City prosecutors asked a judge Monday to dismiss all criminal charges against former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn because they aren't sure beyond a reasonable doubt that the hotel maid who created a cross-continental sensation by accusing him of sexual assault is telling the truth.
The 12-month tax reduction will cost the government
The debate is likely to boil up in coming herve leger cheap dresses weeks as a special bipartisan committee seeks big deficit reductions and weighs which tax cuts are sacrosanct.
At issue is a tax that the vast majority of workers pay, but many don't recognize because they don't read, or don't understand their pay stubs. Workers normally pay 6.2 percent of their wages toward a tax designated for Social Security. Their employer pays an equal amount, for a total of 12.4 percent per worker.
As part of a bipartisan spending deal last December, Congress approved Obama's request to reduce the workers' share to 4.2 percent for one year; employers' rate did not change. Obama wants Congress to extend the reduction for an additional year. If not, the rate will return to 6.2 percent on Jan. 1.
Obama cited the payroll tax in his weekend radio and Internet address Saturday, when he urged Congress to work together on measures that help the economy cheap bandage dresses and create jobs. "There are things we can do right now that will mean more customers for businesses and more jobs across the country. We can cut payroll taxes again, so families have an extra $1,000 to spend," he said.
Social Security payroll taxes apply only to the first $106,800 of a worker's wages. Therefore, $2,136 is the biggest benefit anyone can gain from the one-year reduction.
The great majority of Americans make less than $106,800 a year. Millions of workers pay more in payroll taxes than in federal income taxes.
The 12-month tax reduction will cost the government about $120 billion this year, and a similar amount next year if it's renewed.
That worries Rep. David Camp, R-Mich., chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, and a member of the House-Senate supercommittee tasked with finding new deficit cuts. Tax reductions, "no matter how well-intended," will herve leger sale push the deficit higher, making the panel's task that much harder, Camp's office said.
But Republican lawmakers haven't always worried about tax cuts increasing the deficit. They led the fight to extend the life of a much bigger tax break: the major 2001 income tax reduction enacted under Bush. It was scheduled to expire at the start of this year. Obama campaigned on a pledge to end the tax break only for the richest Americans, but solid GOP opposition forced him to back down.
Many Republicans are adamant about not raising taxes but largely silent on what it would mean to let the payroll tax break expire.
Republicans cite key differences between the two "temporary" taxes, starting with the fact that the Bush measure had a 10-year life from the start. To stimulate job growth, these lawmakers say, it's better to reduce income tax rates for people and for companies than to extend the payroll tax break.
At issue is a tax that the vast majority of workers pay, but many don't recognize because they don't read, or don't understand their pay stubs. Workers normally pay 6.2 percent of their wages toward a tax designated for Social Security. Their employer pays an equal amount, for a total of 12.4 percent per worker.
As part of a bipartisan spending deal last December, Congress approved Obama's request to reduce the workers' share to 4.2 percent for one year; employers' rate did not change. Obama wants Congress to extend the reduction for an additional year. If not, the rate will return to 6.2 percent on Jan. 1.
Obama cited the payroll tax in his weekend radio and Internet address Saturday, when he urged Congress to work together on measures that help the economy cheap bandage dresses and create jobs. "There are things we can do right now that will mean more customers for businesses and more jobs across the country. We can cut payroll taxes again, so families have an extra $1,000 to spend," he said.
Social Security payroll taxes apply only to the first $106,800 of a worker's wages. Therefore, $2,136 is the biggest benefit anyone can gain from the one-year reduction.
The great majority of Americans make less than $106,800 a year. Millions of workers pay more in payroll taxes than in federal income taxes.
The 12-month tax reduction will cost the government about $120 billion this year, and a similar amount next year if it's renewed.
That worries Rep. David Camp, R-Mich., chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, and a member of the House-Senate supercommittee tasked with finding new deficit cuts. Tax reductions, "no matter how well-intended," will herve leger sale push the deficit higher, making the panel's task that much harder, Camp's office said.
But Republican lawmakers haven't always worried about tax cuts increasing the deficit. They led the fight to extend the life of a much bigger tax break: the major 2001 income tax reduction enacted under Bush. It was scheduled to expire at the start of this year. Obama campaigned on a pledge to end the tax break only for the richest Americans, but solid GOP opposition forced him to back down.
Many Republicans are adamant about not raising taxes but largely silent on what it would mean to let the payroll tax break expire.
Republicans cite key differences between the two "temporary" taxes, starting with the fact that the Bush measure had a 10-year life from the start. To stimulate job growth, these lawmakers say, it's better to reduce income tax rates for people and for companies than to extend the payroll tax break.
That it was told to prosecutors as an intentional falsehood
Perhaps most damning of all, prosecutors Herve Leger Crisscross Strap said, where three separate version of events Diallo told them about her actions immediately after the encounter with Strauss-Kahn in Suite 2806 of the Sofitel Hotel near Times Square.
* In version one, under oath before the grand jury, she said she had run down the hall of the hotel's 28th floor where she was found frightened and cowering by her supervisors.
* In version two, she told prosecutors that immediately after the encounter, she went to another room to continue her cleaning duties and only encountered her supervisor by chance at the supply closet.
* In the third version, Diallo said she went to the other hotel room only briefly to retrieve supplies.
"These varying accounts also make it difficult to ascertain what Herve Leger Green in Black Combo actually occurred in the critical time frame," when the incident occurred, they wrote.
Strauss-Kahn will return to court Tuesday, when Obus will almost certainly grant the district attorney's request to drop the case. His lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, praised prosecutors for recognizing that his client was innocent.
The move to dismiss the case had been widely expected after prosecutors first revealed concerns about Diallo's credibility in late June. But in their filing on Monday, prosecutors revealed the full extent of their distrust of Diallo.
In particular, prosecutors described an impassioned and tearful Diallo telling them about a previous gang rape in Guinea -- which turned out to have been a lie.
"That it was told to prosecutors as an intentional falsehood and done in a completely persuasive manner -- identical to the manner in which she recounted the encounter with the defendant -- is also highly significant," they wrote. "But most significant is her ability to recount that fiction as fact with Herve Leger naked paillette complete conviction."
In the hours after Strauss-Kahn was first detained, a forensic team and prosecutors established a sexual encounter had indeed taken place, and that it had been very brief, suggesting to investigators that it had not been consensual.
Based on her account of the attack and that "no red flags" in her background had been immediately obvious, prosecutors brought the case to a grand jury in order to formally indict Strauss-Kahn, the filing said.
But the case soon fell apart. In one instance, forensics swabs picked up no trace of Diallo's DNA in a sink where she told prosecutors she had spit after the encounter.
Doctors also concluded that "redness" on Diallo's genitals could not conclusively be attributed to an attack, as her attorneys have claimed.
Aside from ambiguous medical and forensic evidence, prosecutors detailed how they began to uncover lies about her past and mysterious, and previously undisclosed, sums of money being deposited into her bank account.
Diallo's lawyers, who have been harshly critical of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance's handling of the case, filed a motion hours before the prosecutor's filing asking a judge to replace his office with a special prosecutor -- something experts say is unlikely to happen.
* In version one, under oath before the grand jury, she said she had run down the hall of the hotel's 28th floor where she was found frightened and cowering by her supervisors.
* In version two, she told prosecutors that immediately after the encounter, she went to another room to continue her cleaning duties and only encountered her supervisor by chance at the supply closet.
* In the third version, Diallo said she went to the other hotel room only briefly to retrieve supplies.
"These varying accounts also make it difficult to ascertain what Herve Leger Green in Black Combo actually occurred in the critical time frame," when the incident occurred, they wrote.
Strauss-Kahn will return to court Tuesday, when Obus will almost certainly grant the district attorney's request to drop the case. His lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, praised prosecutors for recognizing that his client was innocent.
The move to dismiss the case had been widely expected after prosecutors first revealed concerns about Diallo's credibility in late June. But in their filing on Monday, prosecutors revealed the full extent of their distrust of Diallo.
In particular, prosecutors described an impassioned and tearful Diallo telling them about a previous gang rape in Guinea -- which turned out to have been a lie.
"That it was told to prosecutors as an intentional falsehood and done in a completely persuasive manner -- identical to the manner in which she recounted the encounter with the defendant -- is also highly significant," they wrote. "But most significant is her ability to recount that fiction as fact with Herve Leger naked paillette complete conviction."
In the hours after Strauss-Kahn was first detained, a forensic team and prosecutors established a sexual encounter had indeed taken place, and that it had been very brief, suggesting to investigators that it had not been consensual.
Based on her account of the attack and that "no red flags" in her background had been immediately obvious, prosecutors brought the case to a grand jury in order to formally indict Strauss-Kahn, the filing said.
But the case soon fell apart. In one instance, forensics swabs picked up no trace of Diallo's DNA in a sink where she told prosecutors she had spit after the encounter.
Doctors also concluded that "redness" on Diallo's genitals could not conclusively be attributed to an attack, as her attorneys have claimed.
Aside from ambiguous medical and forensic evidence, prosecutors detailed how they began to uncover lies about her past and mysterious, and previously undisclosed, sums of money being deposited into her bank account.
Diallo's lawyers, who have been harshly critical of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance's handling of the case, filed a motion hours before the prosecutor's filing asking a judge to replace his office with a special prosecutor -- something experts say is unlikely to happen.
2011年8月16日星期二
ICE is currently running the program in 44 states
Immigrant advocates say the program wholesale feather earrings lands immigrants arrested for investigation of minor violations in detention and erodes their trust in police. They have also criticized the administration for giving the impression that local governments could choose whether to participate when it is in fact mandatory.
States including Illinois and Massachusetts had decided to opt out of the program, only to be told that they couldn't.
At the at-times boisterous meeting in Los Angeles, several dozen people spoke out against Secure Communities and the bulk of the crowd walked out halfway in protest after a speaker challenged the two task force members leading the session to resign. But a handful of people gave the program praise, saying more, not less, immigration enforcement is needed.
"Contrary to what you have heard, Secure Communities does not seek out hardworking, law abiding immigrants for removal," said Anna Pembedjian, public safety deputy for Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich. "Rather, it seeks out those who prey on them and others in our peacock feather earrings community,"
On Monday, immigrant rights groups urged members of the task force to call on ICE to end the program and questioned whether any real change would come from the meetings held last week in Dallas and scheduled this week in Los Angeles and Chicago.
Immigrant advocates are planning to hold protests Tuesday against Secure Communities in cities across the country.
Retired Sacramento police chief Arturo Venegas Jr., one of the two task force members overseeing the Los Angeles meeting, said he isn't going to quit.
"We have the opportunity to give voice to you in those halls of government where in the past, in reality we haven't had it," he told the smaller crowd that remained after the walkout in Spanish. "If we leave now, the work will continue, and they will make recommendations without our voice."
The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that it has recently developed additional training for local law enforcement along with feather hair earring a new policy to protect domestic violence victims. It also said it created the task force to make recommendations for other changes, recognizing "that there is room for improvement in the operation of the program."
ICE is currently running the program in 44 states and plans to achieve nationwide coverage in 2013.
Local law enforcement agencies routinely send fingerprints to the FBI for criminal background checks when an individual is arrested. Under Secure Communities, the FBI shares the fingerprints with Homeland Security to look for potentially deportable immigrants.
States including Illinois and Massachusetts had decided to opt out of the program, only to be told that they couldn't.
At the at-times boisterous meeting in Los Angeles, several dozen people spoke out against Secure Communities and the bulk of the crowd walked out halfway in protest after a speaker challenged the two task force members leading the session to resign. But a handful of people gave the program praise, saying more, not less, immigration enforcement is needed.
"Contrary to what you have heard, Secure Communities does not seek out hardworking, law abiding immigrants for removal," said Anna Pembedjian, public safety deputy for Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich. "Rather, it seeks out those who prey on them and others in our peacock feather earrings community,"
On Monday, immigrant rights groups urged members of the task force to call on ICE to end the program and questioned whether any real change would come from the meetings held last week in Dallas and scheduled this week in Los Angeles and Chicago.
Immigrant advocates are planning to hold protests Tuesday against Secure Communities in cities across the country.
Retired Sacramento police chief Arturo Venegas Jr., one of the two task force members overseeing the Los Angeles meeting, said he isn't going to quit.
"We have the opportunity to give voice to you in those halls of government where in the past, in reality we haven't had it," he told the smaller crowd that remained after the walkout in Spanish. "If we leave now, the work will continue, and they will make recommendations without our voice."
The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that it has recently developed additional training for local law enforcement along with feather hair earring a new policy to protect domestic violence victims. It also said it created the task force to make recommendations for other changes, recognizing "that there is room for improvement in the operation of the program."
ICE is currently running the program in 44 states and plans to achieve nationwide coverage in 2013.
Local law enforcement agencies routinely send fingerprints to the FBI for criminal background checks when an individual is arrested. Under Secure Communities, the FBI shares the fingerprints with Homeland Security to look for potentially deportable immigrants.
We let them clean up in our facilities because we assumed
The two men were alone in the building, he natural hair extensions added. There was no one inside to hear their shouts, and a security guard outside was unaware of the disaster unfolding inside, Captain Melvin said.
With a cellphone the men reached the Fire Department. While neither knew the precise address of the building, they said it was near the intersection of Richmond Avenue and Christopher Lane.
When firefighters finally found them, about an hour after their initial call, the two men were standing atop the plastic cart they had been using to transport supplies between floors. Even with the cart’s added height, the water was up to their necks, and about three feet from the elevator’s ceiling, Captain Melvin said.
The water level “was going up, and then coming down, and going up Hair Extensions Online a little more,” Captain Melvin said.
The rescue involved inserting a narrow ladder into the elevator from above, through the emergency hatch, Captain Melvin said.
Mr. Tyler and Mr. Amaker were not hurt and went back to the firehouse.
“We let them clean up in our facilities because we assumed that the water might have been sewer water,” Captain Melvin said.
Police were initially criticized for responding too slowly to the riots, but police presence increased by the thousands to finally get the violence under control.
Home Secretary Theresa May was making a speech on the riots later Tuesday, arguing that police forces need clearer guidance on how to tackle riots.
On Monday, Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to deliver a raft of new policies aimed at reversing the "slow-motion moral collapse" that he blamed Clip In Hair Extensions for fostering the disorder.
Cameron insisted that racial tensions, poverty and the government's austerity measures were not at the root of the riots as some insisted they were, instead blaming gang-related crime and deep-rooted social issues, including the country's generous welfare system.
The Association of British Insurers has estimated the cost from wrecked and stolen property at $326 million US but that total is expected to rise.
The riots had their beginnings in Tottenham, a low-income, multicultural neighbourhood in north London where 300 people had gathered to protest the fatal police shooting of Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old who was gunned down in disputed circumstances on Aug. 4.
An inquest into Duggan's death opened Aug. 9, but a full hearing Long Feather earrings will likely take several months.
With a cellphone the men reached the Fire Department. While neither knew the precise address of the building, they said it was near the intersection of Richmond Avenue and Christopher Lane.
When firefighters finally found them, about an hour after their initial call, the two men were standing atop the plastic cart they had been using to transport supplies between floors. Even with the cart’s added height, the water was up to their necks, and about three feet from the elevator’s ceiling, Captain Melvin said.
The water level “was going up, and then coming down, and going up Hair Extensions Online a little more,” Captain Melvin said.
The rescue involved inserting a narrow ladder into the elevator from above, through the emergency hatch, Captain Melvin said.
Mr. Tyler and Mr. Amaker were not hurt and went back to the firehouse.
“We let them clean up in our facilities because we assumed that the water might have been sewer water,” Captain Melvin said.
Police were initially criticized for responding too slowly to the riots, but police presence increased by the thousands to finally get the violence under control.
Home Secretary Theresa May was making a speech on the riots later Tuesday, arguing that police forces need clearer guidance on how to tackle riots.
On Monday, Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to deliver a raft of new policies aimed at reversing the "slow-motion moral collapse" that he blamed Clip In Hair Extensions for fostering the disorder.
Cameron insisted that racial tensions, poverty and the government's austerity measures were not at the root of the riots as some insisted they were, instead blaming gang-related crime and deep-rooted social issues, including the country's generous welfare system.
The Association of British Insurers has estimated the cost from wrecked and stolen property at $326 million US but that total is expected to rise.
The riots had their beginnings in Tottenham, a low-income, multicultural neighbourhood in north London where 300 people had gathered to protest the fatal police shooting of Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old who was gunned down in disputed circumstances on Aug. 4.
An inquest into Duggan's death opened Aug. 9, but a full hearing Long Feather earrings will likely take several months.
And Perry is the Texas governor who could make Republicans
Romney says he's different from Perry, whom he wholesale feather hair extensions calls a lifetime politician. Romney spent his formative years, of course, leveraging failing companies. Romney might have been a lifetime politician himself, though, if he hadn't kept losing elections.
Then there is Bachmann, who won the Ames straw poll and who excites Tea Party voters and who is, in her words, the tip of the spear against Barack Obama. But she's even less experienced than Obama and was ready to take the nation to default (while saying it wasn't actually default) and likes to brag about her fight for the "Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act." No, really.
Perry, meanwhile, has been elected three times as governor of the nation's second-biggest state, and, when it comes to appealing to Iowa social conservatives, he can match Bachmann prayer for public prayer.
Perry qualifies as a real anti- Obama, the Texan from Paint Creek who owns the Texas miracle economy (which may or may not quite be a miracle), who feathers in hair extensions thinks the 10th Amendment means most New Deal and Great Society programs are more or less unconstitutional.
If you ask Obama's advisers, who are worried enough about Obama's 39 percent Gallup poll showing, they'll say they worry more about Romney, who can run on his business background in a bad economy.
It's no wonder they'd prefer Perry, who reminds me of the Ken Buck caricature that Michael Bennet beat in Colorado. But Perry is the real thing. He really doesn't believe in the 17th Amendment. He really does think semi-official, evangelical-Christian prayer meetings are fine. He'd never call Tea Partyers dumb---es.
And Perry is the Texas governor who could make Republicans almost forget about George W. Bush. Perry isn't responsible for two wars. He wasn't in charge when the economy collapsed. If he sounds like Bush, he's still a Texas A&M Aggie who didn't go to Yale. He even jogs with a gun (no, I don't know how either).
In fact, he's so Texan he actually has suggested Texas might have cheap feather hair extensions to secede again some day— which is why I like to call him Rick "America Second" Perry.
But more to the point, in his campaign kickoff, Perry promised to make Washington "as inconsequential" in people's lives as he could. It's not just a campaign slogan. It's at the heart of the national debate.
It could be a very consequential argument that elections have consequences. Of course, it's early in the contest. We still have to see if Perry makes it to the showdown.
“He just denied it. He said the vice president didn't make any of those assertions,” Rhodes said. “If he doesn’t want to even admit what was on TV nationally -- all over the place -- then how can you have a conversation?”
Rhodes added that Obama brushed him aside. “Then he said, ‘We can't have a conversation because you're saying I called you a terrorist,’” recalled Rhodes. “The fact is it demonstrates the deep divide that he is unwilling to negotiate without going after the other side. The whole day was about going after Republicans and talking about how unreasonable they are.”
The private conversation between Rhodes and Obama was partially picked up by a TV camera, but the audio was tough to make out. Obama in general seemed to be saying the incident with Biden was misconstrued and that if Rhodes wanted to insist that the word “terrorist” was used then they were never going to feather extensions for hair see eye to eye.
Then there is Bachmann, who won the Ames straw poll and who excites Tea Party voters and who is, in her words, the tip of the spear against Barack Obama. But she's even less experienced than Obama and was ready to take the nation to default (while saying it wasn't actually default) and likes to brag about her fight for the "Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act." No, really.
Perry, meanwhile, has been elected three times as governor of the nation's second-biggest state, and, when it comes to appealing to Iowa social conservatives, he can match Bachmann prayer for public prayer.
Perry qualifies as a real anti- Obama, the Texan from Paint Creek who owns the Texas miracle economy (which may or may not quite be a miracle), who feathers in hair extensions thinks the 10th Amendment means most New Deal and Great Society programs are more or less unconstitutional.
If you ask Obama's advisers, who are worried enough about Obama's 39 percent Gallup poll showing, they'll say they worry more about Romney, who can run on his business background in a bad economy.
It's no wonder they'd prefer Perry, who reminds me of the Ken Buck caricature that Michael Bennet beat in Colorado. But Perry is the real thing. He really doesn't believe in the 17th Amendment. He really does think semi-official, evangelical-Christian prayer meetings are fine. He'd never call Tea Partyers dumb---es.
And Perry is the Texas governor who could make Republicans almost forget about George W. Bush. Perry isn't responsible for two wars. He wasn't in charge when the economy collapsed. If he sounds like Bush, he's still a Texas A&M Aggie who didn't go to Yale. He even jogs with a gun (no, I don't know how either).
In fact, he's so Texan he actually has suggested Texas might have cheap feather hair extensions to secede again some day— which is why I like to call him Rick "America Second" Perry.
But more to the point, in his campaign kickoff, Perry promised to make Washington "as inconsequential" in people's lives as he could. It's not just a campaign slogan. It's at the heart of the national debate.
It could be a very consequential argument that elections have consequences. Of course, it's early in the contest. We still have to see if Perry makes it to the showdown.
“He just denied it. He said the vice president didn't make any of those assertions,” Rhodes said. “If he doesn’t want to even admit what was on TV nationally -- all over the place -- then how can you have a conversation?”
Rhodes added that Obama brushed him aside. “Then he said, ‘We can't have a conversation because you're saying I called you a terrorist,’” recalled Rhodes. “The fact is it demonstrates the deep divide that he is unwilling to negotiate without going after the other side. The whole day was about going after Republicans and talking about how unreasonable they are.”
The private conversation between Rhodes and Obama was partially picked up by a TV camera, but the audio was tough to make out. Obama in general seemed to be saying the incident with Biden was misconstrued and that if Rhodes wanted to insist that the word “terrorist” was used then they were never going to feather extensions for hair see eye to eye.
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Assembly Democrats this session have offered 376 amendments
Cheema said police are investigating motives white mini skirts behind the incident and have collected evidences.
There has been no comment from the American embassy and U.S. consulate in Lahore.
Senior police officers arrived at the scene after receiving information and Cheema said policemen were deployed on the city's exit points to foil the attempt of taking the American man out of Lahore.
A U.S. undercover agent, Raymond Davis, had shot and killed two Pakistanis in Lahore in February, which had caused deep rift in relationship between the intelligence agencies of the two countries.Davis action unearthed the suspected U.S. intelligence network in Pakistan, and Pakistan's spy agency ISI asked the CIA to provide information about its agents in the country.
“They didn't have immediate family members in the area, so they supported themselves with their friends,” said Hernandez as she prepared to attend a quickly organized vigil in Santiago and Brennon's honor Sunday at the Howard Brown Health Center. “We've all started a support group for Alisha. Her friends will be by her side on a daily basis.”
On Sunday evening, dozens of friends and co-workers, many carrying flowers and dressed in black, greeted one another with teary embraces as they entered the door and gathered quietly inside a vacant room in back.
Rosa Yadira Ortiz, board president of Amigas Latinas and a leger dresses close friend of Santiago, remembered her as a passionate defender of civil rights.
“We lost a fierce warrior and an amazing activist,” Ortiz said. “She will be severely missed.”
Evette Cardona, co-founder of Amigas Latinas, said Santiago touched many lives.
“There are so many women, men, (transsexuals) who can't be here to celebrate her life … because of the fear, the fear of being on camera,” Cardona said. “Well, Christina was not afraid. We don't know why this happened. But we know life is fleeting and that every day is a blessing.”
Going into last week, the GOP controlled the Senate 19-14. That, along with their healthy majority in the state Assembly, meant Republicans could pass legislation practically untouched by the opposition.
For example, Assembly Democrats this session have offered 376 amendments to Republican bills; only one has passed. In the Senate, out of 164 Democratic amendments, only one has passed.
"For a long time the Republicans did not have to pay much attention to the minority party, but that is about to change," said Joe Heim, UW-La Crosse political scientist. "When you have to worry about someone buy herve leger jumping ship, you tend to start making more deals."
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said he has always tried to work with senators and never attempted to pass legislation that was intentionally "right wing."
Still, most agree the new math could bestow newfound clout on Republican Sens. Mike Ellis of Neenah, Luther Olsen of Ripon, Schultz of Richland Center, Sheila Harsdorf of River Falls and Robert Cowles of Allouez. Any one of them could stand in the way of legislation — or at the very least, alter it.
"No doubt about it; it puts more power in their hands," said state Sen. Tim Cullen D-Janesville. "If they insist on moderating future legislation — and I hope they do — they'll accomplish about all (Democrats) could have if we had herve leger dresses for sale retaken the majority."
There has been no comment from the American embassy and U.S. consulate in Lahore.
Senior police officers arrived at the scene after receiving information and Cheema said policemen were deployed on the city's exit points to foil the attempt of taking the American man out of Lahore.
A U.S. undercover agent, Raymond Davis, had shot and killed two Pakistanis in Lahore in February, which had caused deep rift in relationship between the intelligence agencies of the two countries.Davis action unearthed the suspected U.S. intelligence network in Pakistan, and Pakistan's spy agency ISI asked the CIA to provide information about its agents in the country.
“They didn't have immediate family members in the area, so they supported themselves with their friends,” said Hernandez as she prepared to attend a quickly organized vigil in Santiago and Brennon's honor Sunday at the Howard Brown Health Center. “We've all started a support group for Alisha. Her friends will be by her side on a daily basis.”
On Sunday evening, dozens of friends and co-workers, many carrying flowers and dressed in black, greeted one another with teary embraces as they entered the door and gathered quietly inside a vacant room in back.
Rosa Yadira Ortiz, board president of Amigas Latinas and a leger dresses close friend of Santiago, remembered her as a passionate defender of civil rights.
“We lost a fierce warrior and an amazing activist,” Ortiz said. “She will be severely missed.”
Evette Cardona, co-founder of Amigas Latinas, said Santiago touched many lives.
“There are so many women, men, (transsexuals) who can't be here to celebrate her life … because of the fear, the fear of being on camera,” Cardona said. “Well, Christina was not afraid. We don't know why this happened. But we know life is fleeting and that every day is a blessing.”
Going into last week, the GOP controlled the Senate 19-14. That, along with their healthy majority in the state Assembly, meant Republicans could pass legislation practically untouched by the opposition.
For example, Assembly Democrats this session have offered 376 amendments to Republican bills; only one has passed. In the Senate, out of 164 Democratic amendments, only one has passed.
"For a long time the Republicans did not have to pay much attention to the minority party, but that is about to change," said Joe Heim, UW-La Crosse political scientist. "When you have to worry about someone buy herve leger jumping ship, you tend to start making more deals."
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said he has always tried to work with senators and never attempted to pass legislation that was intentionally "right wing."
Still, most agree the new math could bestow newfound clout on Republican Sens. Mike Ellis of Neenah, Luther Olsen of Ripon, Schultz of Richland Center, Sheila Harsdorf of River Falls and Robert Cowles of Allouez. Any one of them could stand in the way of legislation — or at the very least, alter it.
"No doubt about it; it puts more power in their hands," said state Sen. Tim Cullen D-Janesville. "If they insist on moderating future legislation — and I hope they do — they'll accomplish about all (Democrats) could have if we had herve leger dresses for sale retaken the majority."
Paint Creek reminds me of a sense of community
Perry has written warmly about Paint Creek peacock feather hair extensions in his two books: Fed Up, which embodies many of the themes of his presidential campaign, and On My Honor, a tribute to the values of the Boy Scouts of America that includes reflections on his days in scouting.
"To some, Paint Creek is a throw-back in time -- a fading memory of the way things used to be, when you knew everyone within a 15-mile radius of you, and when you saw each other at work or school and then later at church," Perry wrote in Honor.
"Paint Creek reminds me of a sense of community that seems lost today. ... For me, Paint Creek was not merely an idea; it was the center of civilization, and everything else was an alternative universe."
The Perrys' roots in the community go back more than a century. Rick Perry's great-great-grandfather D.H. Hamilton moved to Texas after fighting for the Confederacy in the Civil War, ultimately settling in the Paint Creek area. Perry's father was a tenant farmer and a longtime county commissioner.
The bungalow where Perry and his older sister grew up no cheap feather hair extensions longer exists. The governor's parents, who typically shun interview requests, now live in a red-brick home adorned with a motto on the front door, "May all your weeds be wildflowers."
Those who knew the young Rick Perry -- and seemingly everyone in the county did -- recall an energetic youngster who was "110 percent boy," in the words of Don Ballard, the current school superintendent.
"He was just like the rest of us," said Ballard, 64, who knew Perry through 4-H. "He grew up on a farm and worked."
Wallar Overton, who is 11 years older than the governor, has known Perry "since he was born" and helped him prepare his book on scouting. His father, Gene Overton, was Perry's scoutmaster, whom the governor has repeatedly singled out as a role model in his life.
Driving through the back roads of rural Haskell County in his 2002 Silverado, Overton pointed out the now-dry pond where Perry and other scouts swam on scorching summer days and the six-man football field where Perry cheap hair feathers quarterbacked the Paint Creek Pirates. "If I had to say one thing about Rick Perry, it would be that if he set his mind to do something, he would go out and do it," Overton said. "He was goal-oriented."
Perry left Paint Creek to attend Texas A&M, graduating in 1972 with a degree in animal science. After nearly five years as a C-130 pilot in the Air Force, he returned to Haskell County to join his father in the farming business. In 1982, he married his school sweetheart, Anita Thigpen.
Two years later, Perry seized the opportunity to run successfully for a seat being vacated by a longtime incumbent, representing Haskell County in the House for three two-year terms as a Democrat. But he provoked lasting bitterness among many in the area when he switched parties in 1989 and was elected agriculture commissioner.
"We helped get him elected, and then he switched parties," said Sharon Mullino, Haskell County's Democratic chairwoman. "He left us. We didn't leave him."
Another Perry critic is Haskell County Judge David Davis, a Democrat who accuses Perry of placing his party's interests over "the best interest of Texas." Asked whether he's a fan of Perry, Davis wholesale feather hair extensions said, "No, sir."
But as Perry leaps headlong into presidential politics with polls placing him in the top tier of candidates, many in Haskell County will be part of the cheering section. "I think people are looking at him as a hometown boy, and they hope he does well," said Andy Gannaway, president of Haskell National Bank.
"To some, Paint Creek is a throw-back in time -- a fading memory of the way things used to be, when you knew everyone within a 15-mile radius of you, and when you saw each other at work or school and then later at church," Perry wrote in Honor.
"Paint Creek reminds me of a sense of community that seems lost today. ... For me, Paint Creek was not merely an idea; it was the center of civilization, and everything else was an alternative universe."
The Perrys' roots in the community go back more than a century. Rick Perry's great-great-grandfather D.H. Hamilton moved to Texas after fighting for the Confederacy in the Civil War, ultimately settling in the Paint Creek area. Perry's father was a tenant farmer and a longtime county commissioner.
The bungalow where Perry and his older sister grew up no cheap feather hair extensions longer exists. The governor's parents, who typically shun interview requests, now live in a red-brick home adorned with a motto on the front door, "May all your weeds be wildflowers."
Those who knew the young Rick Perry -- and seemingly everyone in the county did -- recall an energetic youngster who was "110 percent boy," in the words of Don Ballard, the current school superintendent.
"He was just like the rest of us," said Ballard, 64, who knew Perry through 4-H. "He grew up on a farm and worked."
Wallar Overton, who is 11 years older than the governor, has known Perry "since he was born" and helped him prepare his book on scouting. His father, Gene Overton, was Perry's scoutmaster, whom the governor has repeatedly singled out as a role model in his life.
Driving through the back roads of rural Haskell County in his 2002 Silverado, Overton pointed out the now-dry pond where Perry and other scouts swam on scorching summer days and the six-man football field where Perry cheap hair feathers quarterbacked the Paint Creek Pirates. "If I had to say one thing about Rick Perry, it would be that if he set his mind to do something, he would go out and do it," Overton said. "He was goal-oriented."
Perry left Paint Creek to attend Texas A&M, graduating in 1972 with a degree in animal science. After nearly five years as a C-130 pilot in the Air Force, he returned to Haskell County to join his father in the farming business. In 1982, he married his school sweetheart, Anita Thigpen.
Two years later, Perry seized the opportunity to run successfully for a seat being vacated by a longtime incumbent, representing Haskell County in the House for three two-year terms as a Democrat. But he provoked lasting bitterness among many in the area when he switched parties in 1989 and was elected agriculture commissioner.
"We helped get him elected, and then he switched parties," said Sharon Mullino, Haskell County's Democratic chairwoman. "He left us. We didn't leave him."
Another Perry critic is Haskell County Judge David Davis, a Democrat who accuses Perry of placing his party's interests over "the best interest of Texas." Asked whether he's a fan of Perry, Davis wholesale feather hair extensions said, "No, sir."
But as Perry leaps headlong into presidential politics with polls placing him in the top tier of candidates, many in Haskell County will be part of the cheering section. "I think people are looking at him as a hometown boy, and they hope he does well," said Andy Gannaway, president of Haskell National Bank.
which runs near the community that bears its name
Perry described himself as a "product of a wholesale feather earrings place called Paint Creek" in his presidential announcement speech in South Carolina on Saturday, recalling how his father returned from 35 missions in World War II to begin working a "little corner of land" as a tenant farmer.
"It's a great place to grow up -- wonderful people out there," he said in a brief conversation with the Star-Telegram last week. "I tell folks, other than coincidental things in life, I could just as well be working in a feed store in Haskell County."
Perry's political trajectory took root here, beginning with a six-year stint in the Legislature that helped propel him into statewide posts as agriculture commissioner, lieutenant governor and the state's longest-serving chief peacock feather earrings executive.
While old friends and admirers applaud his latest venture, he also has more than a few detractors in this predominantly Democratic county, including those who still resent his switch to the Republican Party in the late 1980s. He did not carry his home county in his 2006 re-election campaign for governor or his 1998 race for lieutenant governor.In books, speeches and interviews, Perry has told of a rural boyhood that was both hardscrabble and idyllic. The family lived in a 1920s bungalow-style and was "fairly self-sustaining," Perry recalled in a 2010 interview in Texas Monthly. "Mom was a very, very good seamstress and still is. She made my sister's clothes; she made a lot of my shirts. Now, with blue jeans we wore Levi's. But when I went to college, Mother still made my underwear."
The stream called Paint Creek, which runs near the community that feather hair earring bears its name, got its moniker from its dark-red clay banks. The creek was dry for months until a summer rain late last week brought a brief respite in the worst drought to hit Texas since the 1950s.
"I've been farming since 1945, and this is the worst," said Dale Middlebrook, 83, whose cotton crop was destroyed by the drought. Some farmers who have suffered the same fate have been selling scrap iron to help get by.
But confronting hardships -- whether a relentless dry spell or a raging spring flood -- is ingrained in the community fabric and, as Perry has often recalled, helps define those who live here. Despite the distances that separate their homes, the farming families that dot the region seem strongly intertwined. If someone "lost a family member or the rains flooded your property," Perry once wrote, " everybody would be at your door."
Perry's father has described this area as "the big empty," a rolling landscape of farms and cattle country festooned by mesquite and cactus. Haskell, the county seat, is less than 15 miles north of Paint Creek. Stamford, another small town, lies just to the south. The nearest city, Abilene, is about 55 miles feather hair extensions wholesale south.
Ray and Amelia still live in Paint Creek. The heart of the community is Paint Creek School, which was established in 1937 and has an enrollment of about 160, about 50 more than when Perry attended. "No Dream too Tall for a School so Small" is the school motto.
Another social linchpin is the community church. The exact population is hard to determine because those who consider themselves Paint Creek residents live in rural homes scattered throughout the area. Perry says the community doesn't have a ZIP code and is "too small to be a town."
"It's a great place to grow up -- wonderful people out there," he said in a brief conversation with the Star-Telegram last week. "I tell folks, other than coincidental things in life, I could just as well be working in a feed store in Haskell County."
Perry's political trajectory took root here, beginning with a six-year stint in the Legislature that helped propel him into statewide posts as agriculture commissioner, lieutenant governor and the state's longest-serving chief peacock feather earrings executive.
While old friends and admirers applaud his latest venture, he also has more than a few detractors in this predominantly Democratic county, including those who still resent his switch to the Republican Party in the late 1980s. He did not carry his home county in his 2006 re-election campaign for governor or his 1998 race for lieutenant governor.In books, speeches and interviews, Perry has told of a rural boyhood that was both hardscrabble and idyllic. The family lived in a 1920s bungalow-style and was "fairly self-sustaining," Perry recalled in a 2010 interview in Texas Monthly. "Mom was a very, very good seamstress and still is. She made my sister's clothes; she made a lot of my shirts. Now, with blue jeans we wore Levi's. But when I went to college, Mother still made my underwear."
The stream called Paint Creek, which runs near the community that feather hair earring bears its name, got its moniker from its dark-red clay banks. The creek was dry for months until a summer rain late last week brought a brief respite in the worst drought to hit Texas since the 1950s.
"I've been farming since 1945, and this is the worst," said Dale Middlebrook, 83, whose cotton crop was destroyed by the drought. Some farmers who have suffered the same fate have been selling scrap iron to help get by.
But confronting hardships -- whether a relentless dry spell or a raging spring flood -- is ingrained in the community fabric and, as Perry has often recalled, helps define those who live here. Despite the distances that separate their homes, the farming families that dot the region seem strongly intertwined. If someone "lost a family member or the rains flooded your property," Perry once wrote, " everybody would be at your door."
Perry's father has described this area as "the big empty," a rolling landscape of farms and cattle country festooned by mesquite and cactus. Haskell, the county seat, is less than 15 miles north of Paint Creek. Stamford, another small town, lies just to the south. The nearest city, Abilene, is about 55 miles feather hair extensions wholesale south.
Ray and Amelia still live in Paint Creek. The heart of the community is Paint Creek School, which was established in 1937 and has an enrollment of about 160, about 50 more than when Perry attended. "No Dream too Tall for a School so Small" is the school motto.
Another social linchpin is the community church. The exact population is hard to determine because those who consider themselves Paint Creek residents live in rural homes scattered throughout the area. Perry says the community doesn't have a ZIP code and is "too small to be a town."
Others are pressing Obama to take advantage of low interest
Obama's jobs agenda, which he plans to natural hair extensions tout on his Midwestern tour, calls for $30 billion to rebuild roads, bridges and ports; improvements to the patent system to spur innovation; trade deals with a trio of countries to boost exports; a $40-billion extension of unemployment insurance benefits; and renewal of the current one-year reduction of the payroll tax at a cost of up to $120 billion.
A range of economists and Democratic critics call those ideas inadequate.
Asked about Obama's support for free-trade deals with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a center-left think tank, said, "I would think they would be embarrassed to mention it."
"These are small countries, and we already have a lot of trade with them," he added.
Obama's policies "are just not big enough to make much of a Hair Extensions Online difference," said Robert Reich, who was Labor secretary under President Clinton.
Alternative ideas have been floating up from Democratic think tanks, elected officials and strategists: Peter R. Orszag, Obama's former budget director, advocates tripling the size of the payroll tax break — essentially wiping out the payroll tax entirely — and keeping the rate low as long as unemployment remains high.
Others are pressing Obama to take advantage of low interest rates and borrow money to underwrite a far larger public works program. Such a plan would spur enough long-term economic growth to pay off the extra debt, supporters argue.
Mark Zandi, an economist who has advised the Obama administration, suggests making it easier for homeowners to refinance mortgages at today's extremely low rates. The idea would be to eliminate charges that currently make it too costly for some people to refinance. He also advises changing immigration policies so that foreign students with advanced degrees find it easier to stay in the U.S.
Still, "There's no magic bullet here," Zandi said.
White House aides counter that large-scale, costly ideas stand little chance of getting through the Republican-controlled House.
But it's no sure bet that Congress will go along with smaller-scale ideas either. Republican leadership aides said the GOP was supportive of the Clip In Hair Extensions trade deals and a patent overhaul, although both have stalled several times this year. Obama's call for renewing the payroll tax cut has drawn fire from some Republicans, who argue it would worsen the deficit, and the GOP has also opposed his plan to extend unemployment insurance.
Pollster Stanley B. Greenberg, who polled for Clinton's White House, said voters had little patience for political leaders who limited policy proposals to what the opposition would support. White House officials can "get trapped in 'what can get through Congress' and the constraints of that debate," Greenberg said, recalling similar arguments in the Clinton years. "Voters want you to break out of that" and answer the question, "What are you battling for?" he said.
The complaints about Obama come not only from long-standing critics, but from some who have been supportive in the past.
One Democratic congressman who has defended Obama to fellow liberals said he told White House officials at a recent meeting that they seemed to have Stockholm syndrome — embracing the Republican view that deficit reduction should be a major national priority, in the manner of hostages who come to sympathize with their captors.
Obama "sat in the room with Republicans so long talking about Long Feather earrings deficit reduction that he seems to be parroting the same lines," said the congressman, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private meetings.
A range of economists and Democratic critics call those ideas inadequate.
Asked about Obama's support for free-trade deals with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a center-left think tank, said, "I would think they would be embarrassed to mention it."
"These are small countries, and we already have a lot of trade with them," he added.
Obama's policies "are just not big enough to make much of a Hair Extensions Online difference," said Robert Reich, who was Labor secretary under President Clinton.
Alternative ideas have been floating up from Democratic think tanks, elected officials and strategists: Peter R. Orszag, Obama's former budget director, advocates tripling the size of the payroll tax break — essentially wiping out the payroll tax entirely — and keeping the rate low as long as unemployment remains high.
Others are pressing Obama to take advantage of low interest rates and borrow money to underwrite a far larger public works program. Such a plan would spur enough long-term economic growth to pay off the extra debt, supporters argue.
Mark Zandi, an economist who has advised the Obama administration, suggests making it easier for homeowners to refinance mortgages at today's extremely low rates. The idea would be to eliminate charges that currently make it too costly for some people to refinance. He also advises changing immigration policies so that foreign students with advanced degrees find it easier to stay in the U.S.
Still, "There's no magic bullet here," Zandi said.
White House aides counter that large-scale, costly ideas stand little chance of getting through the Republican-controlled House.
But it's no sure bet that Congress will go along with smaller-scale ideas either. Republican leadership aides said the GOP was supportive of the Clip In Hair Extensions trade deals and a patent overhaul, although both have stalled several times this year. Obama's call for renewing the payroll tax cut has drawn fire from some Republicans, who argue it would worsen the deficit, and the GOP has also opposed his plan to extend unemployment insurance.
Pollster Stanley B. Greenberg, who polled for Clinton's White House, said voters had little patience for political leaders who limited policy proposals to what the opposition would support. White House officials can "get trapped in 'what can get through Congress' and the constraints of that debate," Greenberg said, recalling similar arguments in the Clinton years. "Voters want you to break out of that" and answer the question, "What are you battling for?" he said.
The complaints about Obama come not only from long-standing critics, but from some who have been supportive in the past.
One Democratic congressman who has defended Obama to fellow liberals said he told White House officials at a recent meeting that they seemed to have Stockholm syndrome — embracing the Republican view that deficit reduction should be a major national priority, in the manner of hostages who come to sympathize with their captors.
Obama "sat in the room with Republicans so long talking about Long Feather earrings deficit reduction that he seems to be parroting the same lines," said the congressman, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private meetings.
Edwards had met Santiago and Brennon about a year and a half
Santiago “was a fierce advocate. She was as wholesale feather hair extensions brilliant as she was beautiful. She was the greatest advocate for equal health care for all. That love doesn't die, it lives on,” Edwards said.
“She has been a leading and driving force in the expansion of our women's health services division and a powerful advocate for all LGBT women,” he added. “She's such a hard worker. She normally would be working this weekend, but this happened to be the time that they chose to enjoy together and hear the country music that she loved.”
Santiago was also a programming chair for Amigas Latinas, a gay and lesbian advocacy group for Latinas in the Chicago area, Hernandez said. She regularly coordinated fundraisers for the organization.
“She was a Nuyorican, who showed an amazing amount of pride,” said Hernandez, referring to Santiago's Puerto Rican and New York heritage. “As young feathers in hair extensions as she was, she was very committed to the city of Chicago and to women. She was really good at organizing and planning with a purpose.”
Brennon and Santiago had been among the first people to obtain a civil union in Cook County, she added.
Friends said Sunday that Santiago and Brennon had been planning to take some time off work to travel together. Santiago had checked in on Facebook at the state fair.
“Christina was famous for checking in at every event she went,” said Hernandez, who regularly volunteered with the couple. “We made fun of her because she was the only person who checked into work every morning. It was not cheap feather hair extensions surprising to see her checking in last night at the concert.”
Bruce Edwards, 46, who lives in the same building as the couple on the 5900 block of North Paulina Street, said he learned of the fatal accident late Saturday night.
Edwards, who runs a small handyman business, said that the couple had asked for his help last week to sand and repaint an old bicycle, but that Brennon had texted him later and told him they would be out of town.
“(Alisha) didn't mention where they were going. Now I know where they were going unfortunately,” Edwards said.
Edwards had met Santiago and Brennon about a year and a half ago when he showed them their new apartment. Edwards had previously lived in that unit until he moved into another one in the same building.
“She was a sweet, a nice girl, full of life, just easy to get along with,” Edwards said. “I like the way that they took the old apartment that I lived in and fixed it up. It looked a whole lot better than when I lived in there.”
The couple regularly invited Edwards to parties at their home. They planted herbs, vegetables and flowers on their private porch. Sometimes, they called on Edwards for help with do-it-yourself projects.
Hernandez was among dozens of friends who grappled with the sudden death of Santiago. By Sunday afternoon, supporters were already planning to drive to the hospital to which Brennon was taken. They want to help her feather extensions for hair recover.
Brennon, who according to Hernandez has family living in Iowa, will likely need all the support she can get in the coming weeks.
“She has been a leading and driving force in the expansion of our women's health services division and a powerful advocate for all LGBT women,” he added. “She's such a hard worker. She normally would be working this weekend, but this happened to be the time that they chose to enjoy together and hear the country music that she loved.”
Santiago was also a programming chair for Amigas Latinas, a gay and lesbian advocacy group for Latinas in the Chicago area, Hernandez said. She regularly coordinated fundraisers for the organization.
“She was a Nuyorican, who showed an amazing amount of pride,” said Hernandez, referring to Santiago's Puerto Rican and New York heritage. “As young feathers in hair extensions as she was, she was very committed to the city of Chicago and to women. She was really good at organizing and planning with a purpose.”
Brennon and Santiago had been among the first people to obtain a civil union in Cook County, she added.
Friends said Sunday that Santiago and Brennon had been planning to take some time off work to travel together. Santiago had checked in on Facebook at the state fair.
“Christina was famous for checking in at every event she went,” said Hernandez, who regularly volunteered with the couple. “We made fun of her because she was the only person who checked into work every morning. It was not cheap feather hair extensions surprising to see her checking in last night at the concert.”
Bruce Edwards, 46, who lives in the same building as the couple on the 5900 block of North Paulina Street, said he learned of the fatal accident late Saturday night.
Edwards, who runs a small handyman business, said that the couple had asked for his help last week to sand and repaint an old bicycle, but that Brennon had texted him later and told him they would be out of town.
“(Alisha) didn't mention where they were going. Now I know where they were going unfortunately,” Edwards said.
Edwards had met Santiago and Brennon about a year and a half ago when he showed them their new apartment. Edwards had previously lived in that unit until he moved into another one in the same building.
“She was a sweet, a nice girl, full of life, just easy to get along with,” Edwards said. “I like the way that they took the old apartment that I lived in and fixed it up. It looked a whole lot better than when I lived in there.”
The couple regularly invited Edwards to parties at their home. They planted herbs, vegetables and flowers on their private porch. Sometimes, they called on Edwards for help with do-it-yourself projects.
Hernandez was among dozens of friends who grappled with the sudden death of Santiago. By Sunday afternoon, supporters were already planning to drive to the hospital to which Brennon was taken. They want to help her feather extensions for hair recover.
Brennon, who according to Hernandez has family living in Iowa, will likely need all the support she can get in the coming weeks.
2011年8月12日星期五
Kerry's recently been repeating some of the economically
Isn't this plan crazy enough for you yet? Then white bandage dress get this: It also eliminates the $1 bill and replaces it with a coin. That may seem silly at first, but think about it.: Dollars are like pennies to the wealthy, and other people won't have enough of them to matter. Besides, it helps the poor a little too. When all those malnourished and uninsured kids grow up blind and disabled, they'll know if you really dropped a buck in their cup because they'll hear it rattling against the tin.
All the Republicans on the Committee expressed support for the Paul Ryan budget proposal. That would have eliminated Medicare and replaced it with an increasingly worthless voucher, which they called "Medicare" in order to hide the fact that it was an increasingly-worthless voucher. The House Republicans also voted for steep cuts in funding for education and state and local police. (We've just seen how well that worked out in Great Britain.) There's a lot of other crazy cheap herve leger dresses stuff in there, too.
All the Republicans have pledged not to raise taxes on the wealthy. But they seem to be open to "revenue enhancements" that would devastate the already-struggling middle class, like an elimination of the employer health benefit deduction (which would strip millions of medical coverage and create billions in out-of-pocket costs) and an end to the mortgage interest tax credit (which could put millions more homes into foreclosures and drive real estate values even more).
At any other point in modern history, people in both parties would have seen these six Republicans for what they are - extremists who seek the wholesale destruction of governmental institutions, the decimation of the middle class, and the transfer of even more national income national income to the ultra-wealthy. Eisenhower, Nixon, and even Reagan would recoil at their radical discount herve leger agenda.
The Democrats on the Committee are the nation's last line of defense. They must be outraged about these Social Security cuts, don't you think? They must be gearing up to save us from this insanity right now, right? Actually the best-known Democrat on the Committee, John Kerry, told Meet the Press that we need "a mix of reductions and reforms in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid."
Kerry's recently been repeating some of the economically meaningless mantras that were designed and promoted with billionaire Pete Peterson's money, as when he said that our problem "is not the short-term debt... (but) the structural debt of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid measured against the demographics of our nation."
No, it's not. Social Security doesn't contribute to the deficit. The demographic problem, or "baby boomer wave," was fixed in the 1980s, which is why there's currently a $2.6 trillion surplus in Social herve leger dress sale Security. And the way to fix Medicare and Medicaid, which are long-term problems, is by reducing or eliminating the direct and indirect cost of for-profit medicine from our economy.
Hey, maybe the Super Committee will say we can't afford to treat health care as a get-rich-quick scheme for MBAs anymore! They won't, of course, but any group that was sincerely committed to fixing our long-term deficits would.
All the Republicans on the Committee expressed support for the Paul Ryan budget proposal. That would have eliminated Medicare and replaced it with an increasingly worthless voucher, which they called "Medicare" in order to hide the fact that it was an increasingly-worthless voucher. The House Republicans also voted for steep cuts in funding for education and state and local police. (We've just seen how well that worked out in Great Britain.) There's a lot of other crazy cheap herve leger dresses stuff in there, too.
All the Republicans have pledged not to raise taxes on the wealthy. But they seem to be open to "revenue enhancements" that would devastate the already-struggling middle class, like an elimination of the employer health benefit deduction (which would strip millions of medical coverage and create billions in out-of-pocket costs) and an end to the mortgage interest tax credit (which could put millions more homes into foreclosures and drive real estate values even more).
At any other point in modern history, people in both parties would have seen these six Republicans for what they are - extremists who seek the wholesale destruction of governmental institutions, the decimation of the middle class, and the transfer of even more national income national income to the ultra-wealthy. Eisenhower, Nixon, and even Reagan would recoil at their radical discount herve leger agenda.
The Democrats on the Committee are the nation's last line of defense. They must be outraged about these Social Security cuts, don't you think? They must be gearing up to save us from this insanity right now, right? Actually the best-known Democrat on the Committee, John Kerry, told Meet the Press that we need "a mix of reductions and reforms in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid."
Kerry's recently been repeating some of the economically meaningless mantras that were designed and promoted with billionaire Pete Peterson's money, as when he said that our problem "is not the short-term debt... (but) the structural debt of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid measured against the demographics of our nation."
No, it's not. Social Security doesn't contribute to the deficit. The demographic problem, or "baby boomer wave," was fixed in the 1980s, which is why there's currently a $2.6 trillion surplus in Social herve leger dress sale Security. And the way to fix Medicare and Medicaid, which are long-term problems, is by reducing or eliminating the direct and indirect cost of for-profit medicine from our economy.
Hey, maybe the Super Committee will say we can't afford to treat health care as a get-rich-quick scheme for MBAs anymore! They won't, of course, but any group that was sincerely committed to fixing our long-term deficits would.
Portman said recently that he'd be open to some
Ladies and gentlemen, let's meet our peacock feather hair extensions Republican panel! Leading off on the Senate side is Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, chief architect of the GOP's 'jobs plan.' If that's a plan for creating jobs, the Black Plague was a public health initiative. Let's take a look at its highlights, which we can call up from Sen. Portman's own website before you can say bring out your dead!
The plan's first statement is that we must "begin living within our means." That's coded conservative language for cutting government spending on things like police, firefighters, and teachers. \This part of the "jobs plan" includes a "balanced budget amendment," spending limits, and "spending cuts." That's three different ways of saying "let's create jobs ... by firing a lot of people."
Last year's Dodd/Frank bill is a first small step toward urgently-needed bank reform which the Republicans say it's too "costly" and "job killing." The total cost of unreformed banking in 2008 was tens of trillions in lost cheap feather hair extensions wealth, and tens of millions of lost jobs. What they're really saying is, "Wall Street spends billions of dollarson campaign contributions, and it would be too costly to lose them - too costly for us."
"ObamaCare" is the Republican code for "the health law we supported when it was first drafted by the American Enterprise Institute, and then it was proposed by our Senators as an alternative to what we then called 'HillaryCare', which we embraced when Mitt Romney passed it in Massachusetts, and which we then decided was intolerable when it passed during a Democratic President's term -- after which we affixed his name to it as a pejorative term."
That's what they mean to say when they say "Obamacare."
Unlike his Republican peers, Portman said recently that he'd be open to some "revenue enhancement." That phrase is Beltway code for "increasing taxes on the middle class so the wealthy aren't disturbed." Expect more of cheap hair feathers this "flexibility" in the weeks to come.
There's way too much in the wacky Portman plan than we can cover here, including a ban on any control of greenhouse gas emissions and lots of new international trade deals that'll create new jobs ... in other countries, by destroying millions more of them here.
If there's one common thread running through this grab bag of far-right wish list items, it's this: None of them create jobs, and most of them would destroy them by the millions. It's an antimatter jobs plan, produced in some alternative universe, and like anything made of antimatter it would cause a massive explosion if it touched anything in our world.
That's the bad news about Portman. Want the good news? He's the moderate Republican on the Committee. Two of the Junta's other members, Dave Camp and Jed Hensaerling, voted for the Republican Study Committee budget, a document that's the political equivalent of Ozzy Osbourne wholesale feather hair extensions biting the head off a live bat onstage
The plan's first statement is that we must "begin living within our means." That's coded conservative language for cutting government spending on things like police, firefighters, and teachers. \This part of the "jobs plan" includes a "balanced budget amendment," spending limits, and "spending cuts." That's three different ways of saying "let's create jobs ... by firing a lot of people."
Last year's Dodd/Frank bill is a first small step toward urgently-needed bank reform which the Republicans say it's too "costly" and "job killing." The total cost of unreformed banking in 2008 was tens of trillions in lost cheap feather hair extensions wealth, and tens of millions of lost jobs. What they're really saying is, "Wall Street spends billions of dollarson campaign contributions, and it would be too costly to lose them - too costly for us."
"ObamaCare" is the Republican code for "the health law we supported when it was first drafted by the American Enterprise Institute, and then it was proposed by our Senators as an alternative to what we then called 'HillaryCare', which we embraced when Mitt Romney passed it in Massachusetts, and which we then decided was intolerable when it passed during a Democratic President's term -- after which we affixed his name to it as a pejorative term."
That's what they mean to say when they say "Obamacare."
Unlike his Republican peers, Portman said recently that he'd be open to some "revenue enhancement." That phrase is Beltway code for "increasing taxes on the middle class so the wealthy aren't disturbed." Expect more of cheap hair feathers this "flexibility" in the weeks to come.
There's way too much in the wacky Portman plan than we can cover here, including a ban on any control of greenhouse gas emissions and lots of new international trade deals that'll create new jobs ... in other countries, by destroying millions more of them here.
If there's one common thread running through this grab bag of far-right wish list items, it's this: None of them create jobs, and most of them would destroy them by the millions. It's an antimatter jobs plan, produced in some alternative universe, and like anything made of antimatter it would cause a massive explosion if it touched anything in our world.
That's the bad news about Portman. Want the good news? He's the moderate Republican on the Committee. Two of the Junta's other members, Dave Camp and Jed Hensaerling, voted for the Republican Study Committee budget, a document that's the political equivalent of Ozzy Osbourne wholesale feather hair extensions biting the head off a live bat onstage
The outspoken former first lady for years personally
The longtime girlfriend of reputed Boston wholesale feather hair extensions crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger was indicted Thursday for allegedly helping him dodge authorities during his 16 years on the run.
Federal prosecutors have charged Catherine Greig, 60, with conspiracy to harbor and conceal a fugitive, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. No arraignment date was set.
Greig has been held since she and Bulger were captured June 22 in Santa Monica, Calif. Bulger has pleaded not guilty to charges that he participated in 19 murders during the years he led the Winter Hill gang while also acting as an FBI informant.
At a bail hearing last month, Greig's attorney, Kevin feathers in hair extensions Reddington, described her as subservient and unaware of the extent of Bulger's alleged crimes when she fled with him.
Betty Ford Center managers learned this week that the former first lady's final wishes call for the rehab center that bears her name to receive $500,000 in donations.
Betty Ford authorized a $400,000 donation in her final will, which was signed three weeks before her July 8 death, the center said in a statement late Wednesday. The facility in Rancho Mirage, Calif., will receive an additional $100,000 from a foundation that the late former President Gerald R. Ford and his wife founded a decade ago.
The center, co-founded by Betty Ford in 1982, it has treated nearly 100,000 patients, including numerous celebrities, for feather extensions for hair drug and alcohol dependency.
The outspoken former first lady for years personally greeted patients at the center and remained a high-profile advocate for treatment solutions, especially for women.
Last year, she granted the center the right to use her name forever, the facility said.
Warren, a favorite of consumer groups and liberals, was tapped by President Obama last year to set up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Top national Democrats desperate to find a strong challenger to take back the Senate seat long held by the late Edward M. Kennedy have been urging her for months to run. Warren has never held elective office.
Federal prosecutors have charged Catherine Greig, 60, with conspiracy to harbor and conceal a fugitive, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. No arraignment date was set.
Greig has been held since she and Bulger were captured June 22 in Santa Monica, Calif. Bulger has pleaded not guilty to charges that he participated in 19 murders during the years he led the Winter Hill gang while also acting as an FBI informant.
At a bail hearing last month, Greig's attorney, Kevin feathers in hair extensions Reddington, described her as subservient and unaware of the extent of Bulger's alleged crimes when she fled with him.
Betty Ford Center managers learned this week that the former first lady's final wishes call for the rehab center that bears her name to receive $500,000 in donations.
Betty Ford authorized a $400,000 donation in her final will, which was signed three weeks before her July 8 death, the center said in a statement late Wednesday. The facility in Rancho Mirage, Calif., will receive an additional $100,000 from a foundation that the late former President Gerald R. Ford and his wife founded a decade ago.
The center, co-founded by Betty Ford in 1982, it has treated nearly 100,000 patients, including numerous celebrities, for feather extensions for hair drug and alcohol dependency.
The outspoken former first lady for years personally greeted patients at the center and remained a high-profile advocate for treatment solutions, especially for women.
Last year, she granted the center the right to use her name forever, the facility said.
Warren, a favorite of consumer groups and liberals, was tapped by President Obama last year to set up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Top national Democrats desperate to find a strong challenger to take back the Senate seat long held by the late Edward M. Kennedy have been urging her for months to run. Warren has never held elective office.
Prosecutors said their case did not involve allegations
In a statement to the court prior to Long Feather earrings sentencing, Mr. Ciavarella attacked the prosecution and Mr. Zubrod in particular, arguing they had sullied his reputation with "kids-for-cash" allegations, but failed to prove that he had taken money for incarcerating juveniles.
Mr. Ciavarella told Judge Kosik he agreed to plead guilty to fraud and tax charges in the case in 2009 based on the understanding that he would not admit to taking kickbacks or bribes for jailing juveniles.
"After my plea was presented to you for your consideration and acceptance or rejection, Attorney Zubrod made a statement to the press and uttered three words that changed the whole tenor of this case," Mr. Ciavarella told Judge Kosik. "As we all know those words were 'kids for cash.'
"Those three words made me the personification of evil. They wholesale feather earrings made me the Antichrist and the devil."
In subsequent public statements, Mr. Ciavarella denied portions of the government's case, leading Judge Kosik to reject the plea agreement, which would have sent Mr. Ciavarella and a co-defendant, former Judge Michael T. Conahan, to prison for about seven years.
Mr. Ciavarella said the "kids-for-cash" allegation drove him to fight the charges and demand a trial.
"I am about to lose the physical presence of my family, a loss which is almost unbearable to shoulder," Mr. Ciavarella told the court. "But I will never lose my will to fight against individuals who say I took cash to put children in placement when I never did."
During Mr. Ciavarella's trial in February, the government offered no peacock feather earrings testimony from juvenile offenders who appeared in his court, concentrating on payments Mr. Ciavarella and Mr. Conahan received from Robert K. Mericle and Robert J. Powell, the builder and co-owner of the detention centers.
Prosecutors said their case did not involve allegations that the two judges received specific payments for placing individual juveniles in specific detention centers. Rather, it focused on the overall scheme, which corrupted the entire juvenile court system.
"The defendant argues he didn't sell juveniles retail and we agree with that," Mr. Zubrod told the court Thursday. "He was selling them wholesale."
The state Supreme Court has vacated 4,000 to 5,000 cases handled by Mr. Ciavarella, finding he jailed juveniles on minor charges after cursory hearings, failed to fully inform them of their right to counsel and set court policies that swelled the number of detentions.
The prosecution maintained those juveniles should still be considered victims in the federal case, even if most of them were not placed in the two centers co-owned by Mr. Powell.
"I don't think Ciavarella or Conahan themselves really feather hair earring personally cared where the juveniles went as long as they could use their power to place the juveniles as leverage or control over Mericle and Powell," U.S. Attorney Peter J. Smith said after Thursday's sentencing.
The sheer number of victims, coupled with other factors in Mr. Ciavarella's case, inflated his sentencing score under federal guidelines, making him eligible for a life sentence.
Mr. Ciavarella was accompanied to court Thursday by his wife Cindy, two daughters and about 20 other relatives and supporters. They declined comment Thursday as marshals escorted them to a courthouse exit.
It could not be determined Thursday where Mr. Ciavarella was being held.
In addition to the prison sentence, Mr. Ciavarella was ordered to pay $1.17 million in restitution to the state and the IRS, but testimony at his trial indicated he is heavily in debt and would probably be unable to pay.
Defense attorney Al Flora Jr. said Mr. Ciavarella will appeal his conviction on most of the counts against him, but not on tax charges to which he admitted guilt during his trial.
Under Judge Kosik's sentence, Mr. Ciavarella is to serve a 20-year sentence on racketeering and conspiracy charges that will be the subject of appeal, followed by a five-year sentence on a tax conspiracy charge, followed by a three-year sentence for filing false tax returns.
Mr. Ciavarella told Judge Kosik he agreed to plead guilty to fraud and tax charges in the case in 2009 based on the understanding that he would not admit to taking kickbacks or bribes for jailing juveniles.
"After my plea was presented to you for your consideration and acceptance or rejection, Attorney Zubrod made a statement to the press and uttered three words that changed the whole tenor of this case," Mr. Ciavarella told Judge Kosik. "As we all know those words were 'kids for cash.'
"Those three words made me the personification of evil. They wholesale feather earrings made me the Antichrist and the devil."
In subsequent public statements, Mr. Ciavarella denied portions of the government's case, leading Judge Kosik to reject the plea agreement, which would have sent Mr. Ciavarella and a co-defendant, former Judge Michael T. Conahan, to prison for about seven years.
Mr. Ciavarella said the "kids-for-cash" allegation drove him to fight the charges and demand a trial.
"I am about to lose the physical presence of my family, a loss which is almost unbearable to shoulder," Mr. Ciavarella told the court. "But I will never lose my will to fight against individuals who say I took cash to put children in placement when I never did."
During Mr. Ciavarella's trial in February, the government offered no peacock feather earrings testimony from juvenile offenders who appeared in his court, concentrating on payments Mr. Ciavarella and Mr. Conahan received from Robert K. Mericle and Robert J. Powell, the builder and co-owner of the detention centers.
Prosecutors said their case did not involve allegations that the two judges received specific payments for placing individual juveniles in specific detention centers. Rather, it focused on the overall scheme, which corrupted the entire juvenile court system.
"The defendant argues he didn't sell juveniles retail and we agree with that," Mr. Zubrod told the court Thursday. "He was selling them wholesale."
The state Supreme Court has vacated 4,000 to 5,000 cases handled by Mr. Ciavarella, finding he jailed juveniles on minor charges after cursory hearings, failed to fully inform them of their right to counsel and set court policies that swelled the number of detentions.
The prosecution maintained those juveniles should still be considered victims in the federal case, even if most of them were not placed in the two centers co-owned by Mr. Powell.
"I don't think Ciavarella or Conahan themselves really feather hair earring personally cared where the juveniles went as long as they could use their power to place the juveniles as leverage or control over Mericle and Powell," U.S. Attorney Peter J. Smith said after Thursday's sentencing.
The sheer number of victims, coupled with other factors in Mr. Ciavarella's case, inflated his sentencing score under federal guidelines, making him eligible for a life sentence.
Mr. Ciavarella was accompanied to court Thursday by his wife Cindy, two daughters and about 20 other relatives and supporters. They declined comment Thursday as marshals escorted them to a courthouse exit.
It could not be determined Thursday where Mr. Ciavarella was being held.
In addition to the prison sentence, Mr. Ciavarella was ordered to pay $1.17 million in restitution to the state and the IRS, but testimony at his trial indicated he is heavily in debt and would probably be unable to pay.
Defense attorney Al Flora Jr. said Mr. Ciavarella will appeal his conviction on most of the counts against him, but not on tax charges to which he admitted guilt during his trial.
Under Judge Kosik's sentence, Mr. Ciavarella is to serve a 20-year sentence on racketeering and conspiracy charges that will be the subject of appeal, followed by a five-year sentence on a tax conspiracy charge, followed by a three-year sentence for filing false tax returns.
When he faced questions at his campaign stops
Romney was defending himself against criticism feather hair extensions wholesale that he took a pass when political leadership was most needed in the mighty struggle to negotiate an agreement to raise the debt ceiling. In fact, he was largely missing in the crux of the debate.
Romney consistently backed a Republican "cut, cap and balance" proposal that would have combined deep spending cuts with a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. But that proposal had no chance of becoming law and settling the crisis, and leaders in both parties knew it. It was one of several initiatives brought forward by both Republicans and Democrats for show before both sides got down to the authentic bipartisan negotiations.
During that process, Romney did not lay out a prescription that was achievable in a time of divided government. Supporting the earlier GOP bill was a far cry from stating whether he would have signed or vetoed the final debt natural hair extensions limit legislation, because rejecting it risked an unprecedented federal default with potentially disastrous consequences for the economy.
When he faced questions at his campaign stops, he said he wasn't privy to the behind-the-scene negotiations, and his campaign aides refused to elaborate on his thinking about the proposals in serious play.
Pawlenty was hardly dismissive when news came out about Bachmann's history of severe headaches, even if he did not go after her directly on the matter. "All of the candidates, I think, are going to have to be able to demonstrate they can do all of the job all of the time," the former governor said when first asked about the migraines suffered by the congresswoman. "There's no real time off in that job."
There was no mistaking that Pawlenty was leaving Hair Extensions Online open the question of whether Bachmann's health history made her fit to serve as president. But he later tried to clarify his remark, saying he was not challenging her on that front and the flap was merely a "sideshow." Bachmann says her symptoms are controlled with prescription medication and have not gotten in the way of her campaign or impaired her service in Congress.
The former Pennsylvania senator might have been mixing statistics on federal spending with federal revenue. The White House budget office has estimated that federal spending this year will equal about 25 percent of the country's $15 trillion economy — the highest proportion since World War II. But federal spending has averaged nearly 22 percent since 1970. In fact, federal spending has not been as low as 18 percent since 1966. Since the 1970s, federal revenues have averaged nearly 19 percent of the U.S. economy. This year's revenues are expected to equal just over 14 percent of the economy, the Clip In Hair Extensions lowest level since 1950.
Romney consistently backed a Republican "cut, cap and balance" proposal that would have combined deep spending cuts with a constitutional amendment to balance the budget. But that proposal had no chance of becoming law and settling the crisis, and leaders in both parties knew it. It was one of several initiatives brought forward by both Republicans and Democrats for show before both sides got down to the authentic bipartisan negotiations.
During that process, Romney did not lay out a prescription that was achievable in a time of divided government. Supporting the earlier GOP bill was a far cry from stating whether he would have signed or vetoed the final debt natural hair extensions limit legislation, because rejecting it risked an unprecedented federal default with potentially disastrous consequences for the economy.
When he faced questions at his campaign stops, he said he wasn't privy to the behind-the-scene negotiations, and his campaign aides refused to elaborate on his thinking about the proposals in serious play.
Pawlenty was hardly dismissive when news came out about Bachmann's history of severe headaches, even if he did not go after her directly on the matter. "All of the candidates, I think, are going to have to be able to demonstrate they can do all of the job all of the time," the former governor said when first asked about the migraines suffered by the congresswoman. "There's no real time off in that job."
There was no mistaking that Pawlenty was leaving Hair Extensions Online open the question of whether Bachmann's health history made her fit to serve as president. But he later tried to clarify his remark, saying he was not challenging her on that front and the flap was merely a "sideshow." Bachmann says her symptoms are controlled with prescription medication and have not gotten in the way of her campaign or impaired her service in Congress.
The former Pennsylvania senator might have been mixing statistics on federal spending with federal revenue. The White House budget office has estimated that federal spending this year will equal about 25 percent of the country's $15 trillion economy — the highest proportion since World War II. But federal spending has averaged nearly 22 percent since 1970. In fact, federal spending has not been as low as 18 percent since 1966. Since the 1970s, federal revenues have averaged nearly 19 percent of the U.S. economy. This year's revenues are expected to equal just over 14 percent of the economy, the Clip In Hair Extensions lowest level since 1950.
2011年8月10日星期三
Religion-related terrorist groups were active in 74 countries
The Pew Centre review of 198 countries Hair Extensions Online found those deemed restrictive or hostile in the previous report were growing even more so, while the opposite was found for those with more religious tolerance.
A substantial rise in public hostility toward religious groups was seen in China, Nigeria, Thailand, Vietnam and Britain, while government restrictions rose substantially in Egypt and France.
The Pew Centre looked at laws or other government policies aimed to ban particular faiths, limit preaching, give preference to particular religions or prohibit conversions. To measure hostility, it looked at sectarian violence, harassment over religious attire and other types of intimidation.
The countries most restrictive or hostile towards certain religions, besides Pakistan, included India, Indonesia, Egypt, Iran, China, Myanmar, Russia, Turkey, Vietnam, Nigeria and Bangladesh – although most of these did not show much change in the three years.
People were killed, physically abused, detained, imprisoned, displaced natural hair extensions from their homes, or had their property destroyed for religious reasons by governments in 101 countries in the year ending mid-2009, compared to 91 a year earlier, the report said. Such violence rose in more countries than it declined over the three years.
“Religion-related terrorist groups were active in 74 countries,” and violence was seen in half of these, in the year through mid-2009, the Pew Center said.
Christians and Muslims, the world’s two largest religious groups, were harassed in most countries. Other religions also saw harassment, but Jews, who make up less than 1% of the world’s population, saw restrictions or harassment in 75 countries.
In five European countries – Britain, Denmark, Russia, Sweden and Bulgaria – religious tension focused on the rapidly growing Muslim
population, but there was some rising feather extensions for hair anti-Semitism and antagonism towards minorities such as Jehovah’s Witnesses.
A substantial rise in public hostility toward religious groups was seen in China, Nigeria, Thailand, Vietnam and Britain, while government restrictions rose substantially in Egypt and France.
The Pew Centre looked at laws or other government policies aimed to ban particular faiths, limit preaching, give preference to particular religions or prohibit conversions. To measure hostility, it looked at sectarian violence, harassment over religious attire and other types of intimidation.
The countries most restrictive or hostile towards certain religions, besides Pakistan, included India, Indonesia, Egypt, Iran, China, Myanmar, Russia, Turkey, Vietnam, Nigeria and Bangladesh – although most of these did not show much change in the three years.
People were killed, physically abused, detained, imprisoned, displaced natural hair extensions from their homes, or had their property destroyed for religious reasons by governments in 101 countries in the year ending mid-2009, compared to 91 a year earlier, the report said. Such violence rose in more countries than it declined over the three years.
“Religion-related terrorist groups were active in 74 countries,” and violence was seen in half of these, in the year through mid-2009, the Pew Center said.
Christians and Muslims, the world’s two largest religious groups, were harassed in most countries. Other religions also saw harassment, but Jews, who make up less than 1% of the world’s population, saw restrictions or harassment in 75 countries.
In five European countries – Britain, Denmark, Russia, Sweden and Bulgaria – religious tension focused on the rapidly growing Muslim
population, but there was some rising feather extensions for hair anti-Semitism and antagonism towards minorities such as Jehovah’s Witnesses.
A bullet that lodged in a radio carried by an officer
Police reported outbreaks of violence herve leger sale Tuesday evening in Wolverhampton and West Bromwich, about 100 miles north of London, and in the northwestern city of Manchester.
There, a library and supermarket were ablaze, said Jeff Gill from the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue.
In Nottinghamshire, police sought to handle more than 1,000 reports of incidents -- most of them related to rowdy behavior by roaming bands of youths -- throughout the city and in Canning, Clifton, Basford and Radford, police said Tuesday.
The events are "gratuitous, senseless and wholly unjustified acts of wanton criminality," said Nottinghamshire Assistant Chief Constable Paul herve leger swimwear Scarrott, who led the police operation.
The riots were sparked by the shooting death on Thursday of Mark Duggan, 29, a black man.
Officers from Operation Trident -- a Metropolitan Police unit that deals with gun crime -- stopped the cab in the working-class, predominantly Afro-Caribbean district of Tottenham during an attempted arrest, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said.
Soon after, shots were fired and Duggan, a father of four, was killed. Shooting deaths are rare in England.
An illegal firearm had been found at the scene, with a "bulleted cartridge" in the magazine, but there was "no evidence" it was fired during the herve leger on sale incident, the commission said.
A bullet that lodged in a radio carried by an officer was police issue, the commission said.
"A post-mortem examination concluded that Mr. Duggan was killed by a single gunshot wound to the chest. He also received a second gunshot wound to his right bicep," the commission said, without saying who fired the bullets nor why police had stopped the cab.
The man's family and friends, who blamed police for the death, had gathered peacefully Saturday outside the Tottenham police station to protest.
The protest soon devolved into violence as demonstrators -- who included whites and blacks -- tossed petrol bombs, looted stores and burned police cars.
Violence continued in isolated pockets Sunday, spread Monday to other parts of the nation and continued Tuesday.
Tottenham has been the site of riots before. In white bandage dress 1985, Floyd Jarrett, who was of Afro-Caribbean origin, was stopped by police near the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham on suspicion of driving with a forged tax disc, a document all British vehicles must carry.
A few hours later, officers raided the nearby home of his mother, who collapsed and died during the raid. Rioting erupted shortly afterward, and a police officer, Constable Keith Blakelock, was killed.
There, a library and supermarket were ablaze, said Jeff Gill from the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue.
In Nottinghamshire, police sought to handle more than 1,000 reports of incidents -- most of them related to rowdy behavior by roaming bands of youths -- throughout the city and in Canning, Clifton, Basford and Radford, police said Tuesday.
The events are "gratuitous, senseless and wholly unjustified acts of wanton criminality," said Nottinghamshire Assistant Chief Constable Paul herve leger swimwear Scarrott, who led the police operation.
The riots were sparked by the shooting death on Thursday of Mark Duggan, 29, a black man.
Officers from Operation Trident -- a Metropolitan Police unit that deals with gun crime -- stopped the cab in the working-class, predominantly Afro-Caribbean district of Tottenham during an attempted arrest, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said.
Soon after, shots were fired and Duggan, a father of four, was killed. Shooting deaths are rare in England.
An illegal firearm had been found at the scene, with a "bulleted cartridge" in the magazine, but there was "no evidence" it was fired during the herve leger on sale incident, the commission said.
A bullet that lodged in a radio carried by an officer was police issue, the commission said.
"A post-mortem examination concluded that Mr. Duggan was killed by a single gunshot wound to the chest. He also received a second gunshot wound to his right bicep," the commission said, without saying who fired the bullets nor why police had stopped the cab.
The man's family and friends, who blamed police for the death, had gathered peacefully Saturday outside the Tottenham police station to protest.
The protest soon devolved into violence as demonstrators -- who included whites and blacks -- tossed petrol bombs, looted stores and burned police cars.
Violence continued in isolated pockets Sunday, spread Monday to other parts of the nation and continued Tuesday.
Tottenham has been the site of riots before. In white bandage dress 1985, Floyd Jarrett, who was of Afro-Caribbean origin, was stopped by police near the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham on suspicion of driving with a forged tax disc, a document all British vehicles must carry.
A few hours later, officers raided the nearby home of his mother, who collapsed and died during the raid. Rioting erupted shortly afterward, and a police officer, Constable Keith Blakelock, was killed.
China has been devoted to world peace and will remain
Between 1840 and 1949, China was attacked peacock feather hair extensions from the sea for more than 100 times and was forced to sign a string of unfair treaties due to maritime defense failures.
In the 21st century, struggle for maritime interests is becoming increasingly intense as the whole world comes to realize that the seas have become a key space for expansion of national interests and maritime security has become an important sphere of national security.
Therefore, building a strong navy that is commensurate with China's rising status is a necessary step and an inevitable choice for the country to safeguard its increasingly globalized national interests.
China has told the world repeatedly that it will never seek hegemony, no cheap feather hair extensions matter how developed it is.
China has been devoted to world peace and will remain a force for peace. Chinese navy fleets had by June escorted 3,953 ships from countries all over the world through the Gulf of Aden and waters off Somalia, among which 47 percent were foreign commercial ships.
Even if China developed an aircraft carrier with full combat capacity in the future, it will not pose any threat to other countries. Instead, a China with a strong military power means that China could shoulder more responsibilities for world peace.
At least 24 demonstrators were killed yesterday in Deir al- Zour and Homs in central Syria and in the southern province of Daraa, where the unrest began, Mahmoud Merhi, head of the Arab Organization for Human Rights, said by cheap hair feathers telephone from Damascus.
“Our first priority is to stop the bloodshed right away,” Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said yesterday in Ankara after his delegation met with Syrian counterparts for 6 1/2 hours. “Our dialogue with all Syrian groups will continue, the important thing is for the process to take a peaceful turn and for Syrians to determine their own future.”
Turkey’s foreign minister said he met with Assad for 3 1/2 hours and they discussed “concrete” issues in a “clear” manner. “Developments in the coming days will be important and critical in terms of meeting expectations for both Turkey and the Syrian people,” Davutoglu said.
Syria is pursuing “comprehensive reform” and is open to help from nations that are its friends, Assad said after meeting with Davutoglu, the Syrian state-run news agency Sana reported. He said “armed terrorist groups” killed wholesale feather hair extensions civilians and members of security forces in some cities and that Syria won’t relent in pursuing them.
The Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council condemned Assad’s policies, urging him to meet demands for change.
Arab criticism of Syria “could have an impact on the Assad regime; it makes it increasingly isolated,” Chris Phillips, a London-based analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit, said in a telephone interview. “That will increase the leverage that Saudi and Turkey have over Syria and might pressure it into making concessions.”
In the 21st century, struggle for maritime interests is becoming increasingly intense as the whole world comes to realize that the seas have become a key space for expansion of national interests and maritime security has become an important sphere of national security.
Therefore, building a strong navy that is commensurate with China's rising status is a necessary step and an inevitable choice for the country to safeguard its increasingly globalized national interests.
China has told the world repeatedly that it will never seek hegemony, no cheap feather hair extensions matter how developed it is.
China has been devoted to world peace and will remain a force for peace. Chinese navy fleets had by June escorted 3,953 ships from countries all over the world through the Gulf of Aden and waters off Somalia, among which 47 percent were foreign commercial ships.
Even if China developed an aircraft carrier with full combat capacity in the future, it will not pose any threat to other countries. Instead, a China with a strong military power means that China could shoulder more responsibilities for world peace.
At least 24 demonstrators were killed yesterday in Deir al- Zour and Homs in central Syria and in the southern province of Daraa, where the unrest began, Mahmoud Merhi, head of the Arab Organization for Human Rights, said by cheap hair feathers telephone from Damascus.
“Our first priority is to stop the bloodshed right away,” Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said yesterday in Ankara after his delegation met with Syrian counterparts for 6 1/2 hours. “Our dialogue with all Syrian groups will continue, the important thing is for the process to take a peaceful turn and for Syrians to determine their own future.”
Turkey’s foreign minister said he met with Assad for 3 1/2 hours and they discussed “concrete” issues in a “clear” manner. “Developments in the coming days will be important and critical in terms of meeting expectations for both Turkey and the Syrian people,” Davutoglu said.
Syria is pursuing “comprehensive reform” and is open to help from nations that are its friends, Assad said after meeting with Davutoglu, the Syrian state-run news agency Sana reported. He said “armed terrorist groups” killed wholesale feather hair extensions civilians and members of security forces in some cities and that Syria won’t relent in pursuing them.
The Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council condemned Assad’s policies, urging him to meet demands for change.
Arab criticism of Syria “could have an impact on the Assad regime; it makes it increasingly isolated,” Chris Phillips, a London-based analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit, said in a telephone interview. “That will increase the leverage that Saudi and Turkey have over Syria and might pressure it into making concessions.”
The United Nations says Somalia has been hardest hit
Biden's trip "underscored the commitment natural hair extensions of the U.S. government - the single largest donor in the region - to respond to the immediate crisis with life-saving assistance and investments in long-term solutions to hunger," Shah said in a USAID release August 9. "Ultimately, we know that it is smarter and cheaper to invest in food security than face the consequences of famine and food riots."
To demonstrate U.S. support for agricultural development in the region, Biden visited the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute in Hair Extensions Online Nairobi and met with Agriculture Minister Sally Kosgei. U.S. officials say that, as a result of severe drought, the Horn of Africa faces widespread crop failure, livestock mortality and increased food prices.
The United Nations says Somalia has been hardest hit by the crisis, with famine now affecting five regions across the country and threatening to spread. The U.S. Agency for International Development estimates that more than 600,000 Somalis have fled to neighboring countries, many "walking hundreds of miles to refugee camps in search of food and water" in a migration that has put additional strain on drought-affected areas of Kenya and Ethiopia.
Biden visited the Dadaab Refugee Complex in eastern Kenya, which Schwartz says currently hosts more than 420,000 Somali refugees, making it the Clip In Hair Extensions largest refugee camp in the world.
She also met with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga during her trip "to discuss how the United States can work with international partners on the best response to the crisis," the White House said August 8.
USAID said the United States has contributed more than $565 million to the Horn of Africa in 2011 alone, helping at least 4.6 million people in need.
But Smith said that while the United States has played a leading role in assisting the region, U.S. leaders are also "aggressively reaching out" to the international community for support.
"We need other countries to step up with us," she said, adding that even as global leaders begin to take action, the United States continues to encourage all donors to "ramp up their responses."
To demonstrate U.S. support for agricultural development in the region, Biden visited the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute in Hair Extensions Online Nairobi and met with Agriculture Minister Sally Kosgei. U.S. officials say that, as a result of severe drought, the Horn of Africa faces widespread crop failure, livestock mortality and increased food prices.
The United Nations says Somalia has been hardest hit by the crisis, with famine now affecting five regions across the country and threatening to spread. The U.S. Agency for International Development estimates that more than 600,000 Somalis have fled to neighboring countries, many "walking hundreds of miles to refugee camps in search of food and water" in a migration that has put additional strain on drought-affected areas of Kenya and Ethiopia.
Biden visited the Dadaab Refugee Complex in eastern Kenya, which Schwartz says currently hosts more than 420,000 Somali refugees, making it the Clip In Hair Extensions largest refugee camp in the world.
She also met with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga during her trip "to discuss how the United States can work with international partners on the best response to the crisis," the White House said August 8.
USAID said the United States has contributed more than $565 million to the Horn of Africa in 2011 alone, helping at least 4.6 million people in need.
But Smith said that while the United States has played a leading role in assisting the region, U.S. leaders are also "aggressively reaching out" to the international community for support.
"We need other countries to step up with us," she said, adding that even as global leaders begin to take action, the United States continues to encourage all donors to "ramp up their responses."
Majar resident Ali Muftah Hamid Gafez stood by the bed
Rebels claim regularly to seize towns wholesale feather hair extensions that Tripoli says are firmly in its control. The government accuses NATO of choking off food and power supplies; NATO says Gaddafi is denying his people basic rights. It is often difficult for reporters to verify claims on either side.
The credibility of the rebels' leadership meanwhile has been hit by the mysterious assassination of its military chief.
The scene at the crowded, claustrophobic hospital morgue on Tuesday afternoon was another reminder of the toll the current conflict has taken as Libya drifts back into greater isolation and the body count rises on both sides.
In a nearby hospital room, Majar resident Ali Muftah Hamid Gafez stood by the bed of his wife, Fattiya, whose left leg had apparently been severed the night before.
"I was sitting with my friends in the house, when we suddenly feathers in hair extensions heard the bomb. Then I blacked out," she whimpered, appearing frightened of the crowd of reporters assembled at the foot of her bed.
She pulled the covers up over her head, and waited for the foreigners to leave.
“We always said, ‘If you want to liberate Palestine, you need to liberate yourselves,’ ” said Gamal Eid, founder of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, in Cairo.
In Tunisia, activists have insisted on an article in the Constitution banning normalization with Israel and making support for Palestinians state policy. Through a vibrant social media network, Lebanese and Palestinian youths have organized marches and sought ways to have a greater say in decisions of the Palestinian leadership. Protesters in Egypt have urged officials to let boats sail from Egyptian ports to break the partial blockade against Gaza; one boat docked in Alexandria last month before the Israeli military boarded and cheap feather hair extensions seized it.
“Even if the revolutions fail to achieve full and thorough regime change, there is no Arab government that can ignore its people now,” said Rashid Khalidi, a professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University. “All the rulers — the kings of Morocco and Jordan, all the dictators and all the autocrats — they’re scared blind of their own people.”
All across the region, popular uprisings have most insistently looked inward, at issues of democracy, social justice and dignity. But for many, dignity is a notion defined both individually and collectively. And even in the most idealistic moments of the Arab revolts, the weakness of their own governments was often a focus of protesters’ ire. In Tahrir Square in Cairo, anger at America and Israel was less pronounced than resentment of the subservience of Egyptian leaders to their policies, namely the blockade of feather extensions for hair Gaza.
The Foreign Ministry in Egypt now calls the Gaza blockade “shameful.” The reconciliation agreement signed in May in Cairo between bitterly opposed Palestinian factions was a direct consequence of the fall of President Hosni Mubarak. Even at the United Nations, bracing for a debate in September over whether to admit a Palestinian state as a full member, advocates evoked the Arab revolts as the appropriate context for an end to an Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands that has lasted 44 years.
“We hope that Mr. Netanyahu can listen to the wisdom of the voices of the leaders who are now moderate,” said Mohamed Bassiouni, a former Egyptian ambassador to Israel and one of the loudest voices here for warmer ties, referring to Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister. “Don’t miss this golden chance because you don’t know what will come if there is democracy, because democracy means listening to the people.”
The Palestinian cause has long served as an arena for manipulation by Arab governments, and popular reverence for the issue is rarely mirrored in the treatment of Palestinians in Arab countries, particularly in Lebanon, where refugees lack basic civil rights. But this issue retains an emotional pull across the region, heightened by a new sense of Arab identity inspired by the revolts.
The credibility of the rebels' leadership meanwhile has been hit by the mysterious assassination of its military chief.
The scene at the crowded, claustrophobic hospital morgue on Tuesday afternoon was another reminder of the toll the current conflict has taken as Libya drifts back into greater isolation and the body count rises on both sides.
In a nearby hospital room, Majar resident Ali Muftah Hamid Gafez stood by the bed of his wife, Fattiya, whose left leg had apparently been severed the night before.
"I was sitting with my friends in the house, when we suddenly feathers in hair extensions heard the bomb. Then I blacked out," she whimpered, appearing frightened of the crowd of reporters assembled at the foot of her bed.
She pulled the covers up over her head, and waited for the foreigners to leave.
“We always said, ‘If you want to liberate Palestine, you need to liberate yourselves,’ ” said Gamal Eid, founder of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, in Cairo.
In Tunisia, activists have insisted on an article in the Constitution banning normalization with Israel and making support for Palestinians state policy. Through a vibrant social media network, Lebanese and Palestinian youths have organized marches and sought ways to have a greater say in decisions of the Palestinian leadership. Protesters in Egypt have urged officials to let boats sail from Egyptian ports to break the partial blockade against Gaza; one boat docked in Alexandria last month before the Israeli military boarded and cheap feather hair extensions seized it.
“Even if the revolutions fail to achieve full and thorough regime change, there is no Arab government that can ignore its people now,” said Rashid Khalidi, a professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University. “All the rulers — the kings of Morocco and Jordan, all the dictators and all the autocrats — they’re scared blind of their own people.”
All across the region, popular uprisings have most insistently looked inward, at issues of democracy, social justice and dignity. But for many, dignity is a notion defined both individually and collectively. And even in the most idealistic moments of the Arab revolts, the weakness of their own governments was often a focus of protesters’ ire. In Tahrir Square in Cairo, anger at America and Israel was less pronounced than resentment of the subservience of Egyptian leaders to their policies, namely the blockade of feather extensions for hair Gaza.
The Foreign Ministry in Egypt now calls the Gaza blockade “shameful.” The reconciliation agreement signed in May in Cairo between bitterly opposed Palestinian factions was a direct consequence of the fall of President Hosni Mubarak. Even at the United Nations, bracing for a debate in September over whether to admit a Palestinian state as a full member, advocates evoked the Arab revolts as the appropriate context for an end to an Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands that has lasted 44 years.
“We hope that Mr. Netanyahu can listen to the wisdom of the voices of the leaders who are now moderate,” said Mohamed Bassiouni, a former Egyptian ambassador to Israel and one of the loudest voices here for warmer ties, referring to Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister. “Don’t miss this golden chance because you don’t know what will come if there is democracy, because democracy means listening to the people.”
The Palestinian cause has long served as an arena for manipulation by Arab governments, and popular reverence for the issue is rarely mirrored in the treatment of Palestinians in Arab countries, particularly in Lebanon, where refugees lack basic civil rights. But this issue retains an emotional pull across the region, heightened by a new sense of Arab identity inspired by the revolts.
2011年8月8日星期一
As long as people can calm down quickly enough
Banking shares were tainted by Herve leger Dresses on sale fears the sector could face heavy losses as the sovereign debt crisis in Europe continued to brew. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world's biggest bank by market value, fell 4.2 percent. Port operators — whose lifeblood of imports and exports would be at risk if the global economy goes bust — were stung badly. Hong Kong-listed China Shipping Container Lines Co. dropped 9.7 percent.
Meanwhile, a strengthening yen, which makes Japanese products more expensive when they are sent overseas, slammed the country's powerhouse export sector. Hitachi Corp. dropped 4 percent. Sony was 3.8 percent down. Mazda Motor Corp. lost 3.1 percent.
Standard & Poor's downgrade of the U.S. sovereign credit rating to AA+ from the top-notch AAA, announced late Friday, was yet another blow to confidence in the struggling U.S. economy. It adds to growing fears that the world's No. 1 herve leger skirt economy may be headed back into recession.
Those anxieties have been compounded by signs that Europe's government debt crisis is threatening to engulf bigger economies such as Italy and Spain.
David Cohen of Action Economics in Singapore said the downgrade Friday did not come as a surprise, given the warnings issued by the agency weeks in advance — but that it may serve as a wake-up call for leaders to take action.
"As long as people can calm down quickly enough, it need not become another global financial crisis," Cohen said.
Elsewhere in Asia, Australia's S&P/ASX 200 index dropped 2.9 percent to 3,986.10. Singapore's benchmark dived 4.7 percent, Taiwan's market slid 3.8 percent and China's Shanghai Composite shed 3.6 percent.
"I think it's still a matter of people being cautious given herve leger dress sale they don't really know how wildly these overseas markets will respond," Westpac Banking Corp. chief economist Bill Evans told Australian Broadcasting Corp. television.
"I would expect people will take the risk off the table at the moment waiting for some more clarity in those two big issues: how will the U.S. respond to the downgrade and will the Europeans settle down these concerns in Europe?" he said.
Seeking to avert panic spreading across financial markets, finance officials from the Group of Seven industrial countries issued a joint statement late Sunday saying they were committed to taking all necessary measures to support financial stability and growth.
The G-7 statement came after the group held an emergency conference call to discuss the debt crisis in Europe and market prospects following the announcement of the first-ever downgrade of the U.S. credit rating.
The European Central Bank, meanwhile, said it will "actively implement" a bond-purchase program that could boost Spanish and Italian bonds and drive down interest yields that threaten those countries with financial disaster.
The burst of activity underscored how government debt levels in Europe and the U.S. have unsettled financial markets — and sharpened discount herve leger fears that debt troubles could derail the global recovery from the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
Meanwhile, a strengthening yen, which makes Japanese products more expensive when they are sent overseas, slammed the country's powerhouse export sector. Hitachi Corp. dropped 4 percent. Sony was 3.8 percent down. Mazda Motor Corp. lost 3.1 percent.
Standard & Poor's downgrade of the U.S. sovereign credit rating to AA+ from the top-notch AAA, announced late Friday, was yet another blow to confidence in the struggling U.S. economy. It adds to growing fears that the world's No. 1 herve leger skirt economy may be headed back into recession.
Those anxieties have been compounded by signs that Europe's government debt crisis is threatening to engulf bigger economies such as Italy and Spain.
David Cohen of Action Economics in Singapore said the downgrade Friday did not come as a surprise, given the warnings issued by the agency weeks in advance — but that it may serve as a wake-up call for leaders to take action.
"As long as people can calm down quickly enough, it need not become another global financial crisis," Cohen said.
Elsewhere in Asia, Australia's S&P/ASX 200 index dropped 2.9 percent to 3,986.10. Singapore's benchmark dived 4.7 percent, Taiwan's market slid 3.8 percent and China's Shanghai Composite shed 3.6 percent.
"I think it's still a matter of people being cautious given herve leger dress sale they don't really know how wildly these overseas markets will respond," Westpac Banking Corp. chief economist Bill Evans told Australian Broadcasting Corp. television.
"I would expect people will take the risk off the table at the moment waiting for some more clarity in those two big issues: how will the U.S. respond to the downgrade and will the Europeans settle down these concerns in Europe?" he said.
Seeking to avert panic spreading across financial markets, finance officials from the Group of Seven industrial countries issued a joint statement late Sunday saying they were committed to taking all necessary measures to support financial stability and growth.
The G-7 statement came after the group held an emergency conference call to discuss the debt crisis in Europe and market prospects following the announcement of the first-ever downgrade of the U.S. credit rating.
The European Central Bank, meanwhile, said it will "actively implement" a bond-purchase program that could boost Spanish and Italian bonds and drive down interest yields that threaten those countries with financial disaster.
The burst of activity underscored how government debt levels in Europe and the U.S. have unsettled financial markets — and sharpened discount herve leger fears that debt troubles could derail the global recovery from the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
The Securities and Exchange Commission last year accused
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Wyly is the past chairman of the Dallas advisory board for The Salvation Army and board chairman for the Dallas Theater Center. He served on the boards of the United Way of Dallas, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Dallas Summer Musicals, among numerous civic involvements.
They Wyly brothers also are known for their support of conservative political candidates.
The Securities and Exchange Commission last year accused Wyly and his herve leger dress younger brother, Sam, of reaping $550 million from insider trading over a 13-year period.
They allegedly traded tens of millions of shares in companies on whose boards they served, allegedly administering the transactions through off-shore subsidiaries.
He negotiated wage deferrals, raised taxes and imposed layoffs, service cuts and the first City University of New York tuition. Carey ultimately won $6.9 billion in U.S. Treasury loans for the city.
"Governor Carey looked to statesmanship and compromise, rather than partisanship or parochialism, to get the state's fiscal house in order," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement Sunday. "He called for shared sacrifice and asked all New Yorkers to come together."
Carey signed the landmark Willowbrook Consent Decree, committing the herve leger sales state to care for its developmentally disabled in non-institutional homes. His administration initiated the "I Love New York" campaign and the Empire State Games athletic events.
Before his election as governor, Carey spent 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Brooklyn districts. He served on the Ways and Means Committee in Congress, where he pushed for equal rights for the developmentally challenged and underserved.
Carey was a decorated veteran of World War II, serving with a unit that liberated the Nordhausen concentration camp in Nazi Germany. He retired from military service with the rank of colonel. He received the Combat Infantry Award, Bronze Star and the Croix de Guerre.
As a member of the so-called "Four Horsemen," with Sens. Edward herve leger bandage dresses Kennedy and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, he advocated for peaceful solutions to the conflict in Northern Ireland.
Carey was a graduate of St. John's University and St. John's School of Law.
Carey was married to Helen Owen Carey in 1947; they raised 14 children. He is survived by 11 children, 25 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.
Wyly is the past chairman of the Dallas advisory board for The Salvation Army and board chairman for the Dallas Theater Center. He served on the boards of the United Way of Dallas, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Dallas Summer Musicals, among numerous civic involvements.
They Wyly brothers also are known for their support of conservative political candidates.
The Securities and Exchange Commission last year accused Wyly and his herve leger dress younger brother, Sam, of reaping $550 million from insider trading over a 13-year period.
They allegedly traded tens of millions of shares in companies on whose boards they served, allegedly administering the transactions through off-shore subsidiaries.
He negotiated wage deferrals, raised taxes and imposed layoffs, service cuts and the first City University of New York tuition. Carey ultimately won $6.9 billion in U.S. Treasury loans for the city.
"Governor Carey looked to statesmanship and compromise, rather than partisanship or parochialism, to get the state's fiscal house in order," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement Sunday. "He called for shared sacrifice and asked all New Yorkers to come together."
Carey signed the landmark Willowbrook Consent Decree, committing the herve leger sales state to care for its developmentally disabled in non-institutional homes. His administration initiated the "I Love New York" campaign and the Empire State Games athletic events.
Before his election as governor, Carey spent 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Brooklyn districts. He served on the Ways and Means Committee in Congress, where he pushed for equal rights for the developmentally challenged and underserved.
Carey was a decorated veteran of World War II, serving with a unit that liberated the Nordhausen concentration camp in Nazi Germany. He retired from military service with the rank of colonel. He received the Combat Infantry Award, Bronze Star and the Croix de Guerre.
As a member of the so-called "Four Horsemen," with Sens. Edward herve leger bandage dresses Kennedy and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, he advocated for peaceful solutions to the conflict in Northern Ireland.
Carey was a graduate of St. John's University and St. John's School of Law.
Carey was married to Helen Owen Carey in 1947; they raised 14 children. He is survived by 11 children, 25 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.
Costa said police told her it was an anonymous tip
Silva-Thomas was wearing all black herve leger dresses clothes the night Baran allegedly slammed into him, Costa said, causing a severe head injury. Authorities have said the teen was not wearing a helmet.
Police told Silva-Thomas’s family about the arrest yesterday and said Baran was genuinely remorseful and that he had a clean record, Costa said.
Baran saw the story of the teenager’s death on the 5 o’clock news the next day.
“He watched it, and he was sick over it. ‘What do I do? What do I do?’ ’’ Costa said. “. . . He totally panicked. He said he hadn’t slept in three days.’’
Costa said police told her it was an anonymous tip that gave them the information that led to Baran’s arrest. Baran agreed to come in for questioning herve leger clothing after investigators arrived at his home on Fourth Avenue on Saturday, prosecutors said.
He will be arraigned this morning at Taunton District Court.
A preliminary investigation indicates that Silva-Thomas was riding his skateboard on Bay Street around 9:40 p.m. Thursday when he was struck near the entrance to Watson Pond, prosecutors said. Baran allegedly fled the scene, heading northbound on Bay Street.
Witnesses have said the driver apparently turned the vehicle’s lights off as it drove away.
Silva-Thomas later died in Morton Hospital in Taunton.
Taunton police and a woman who identified herself as a relative of Baran declined to comment.
Silva-Thomas’s mother was not available for comment, but herve leger Costa said she acknowledges the death was a tragic accident and she seemed to be doing better yesterday.
After Silva-Thomas was struck, dozens of friends and his girlfriend went to the hospital. He was a member of the wrestling team and worked part time at a local Market Basket. He would have been a senior at Taunton High School this year.
Services are at 4 p.m. tomorrow at Crapo-Hathaway Funeral Home in Taunton, and a graveside funeral will be held at 9 a.m. Wednesday at Mayflower Hill Cemetery in Taunton.
Police told Silva-Thomas’s family about the arrest yesterday and said Baran was genuinely remorseful and that he had a clean record, Costa said.
Baran saw the story of the teenager’s death on the 5 o’clock news the next day.
“He watched it, and he was sick over it. ‘What do I do? What do I do?’ ’’ Costa said. “. . . He totally panicked. He said he hadn’t slept in three days.’’
Costa said police told her it was an anonymous tip that gave them the information that led to Baran’s arrest. Baran agreed to come in for questioning herve leger clothing after investigators arrived at his home on Fourth Avenue on Saturday, prosecutors said.
He will be arraigned this morning at Taunton District Court.
A preliminary investigation indicates that Silva-Thomas was riding his skateboard on Bay Street around 9:40 p.m. Thursday when he was struck near the entrance to Watson Pond, prosecutors said. Baran allegedly fled the scene, heading northbound on Bay Street.
Witnesses have said the driver apparently turned the vehicle’s lights off as it drove away.
Silva-Thomas later died in Morton Hospital in Taunton.
Taunton police and a woman who identified herself as a relative of Baran declined to comment.
Silva-Thomas’s mother was not available for comment, but herve leger Costa said she acknowledges the death was a tragic accident and she seemed to be doing better yesterday.
After Silva-Thomas was struck, dozens of friends and his girlfriend went to the hospital. He was a member of the wrestling team and worked part time at a local Market Basket. He would have been a senior at Taunton High School this year.
Services are at 4 p.m. tomorrow at Crapo-Hathaway Funeral Home in Taunton, and a graveside funeral will be held at 9 a.m. Wednesday at Mayflower Hill Cemetery in Taunton.
Slade never heard him talk about problems at home
Neighbor Jody Eckmeyer said the father was peacock feather hair extensions a truck driver, had a good sense of humor, and often visited with neighbors. The mother was a nurse, and the teens, a girl and a boy, often spent time hanging out with friends on the porch and stayed out of trouble, she said.
“They were very well respected,’’ Eckmeyer said.
Another neighbor, Thomas Slade, said the father would often come over to Slade’s garage to have a couple of beers and work on his Suzuki motorcycle while Slade worked on his Harley-Davidson. “We were good friends, but we didn’t ride together,’’ he said. Slade never heard him talk about problems at home but he had recently mentioned that he had landed a new job with a trucking firm.
With the stakes much higher this autumn and next year, Democrats are cheap feather hair extensions urging the White House to correct these blunders. Specifically, they hope the president will insist that every dollar of spending cuts the supercommittee demands be accompanied by a dollar of higher revenues, and to say that changes in entitlements and taxes are joined at hip.
Mr. Obama, they say, also should play the national security card, forcing Republican to choose between higher taxes or about $600 billion in defense cuts.
“He can force Republicans to make a fundamental choice: Do they care more about protecting tax breaks or national security?” says the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland.
A separate issue for Mr. Obama is the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts: more than $3.5 trillion, including $800 billion benefiting wealthier cheap hair feathers Americans, over the next 10 years. The president backed down last year from a threat to block high-end tax cuts when he cut a deal with Republicans to extend them for two years in exchange for additional stimulus.
This was necessary because the White House never tried last year to “decouple” the Bush tax cuts by proposing to extend them permanently for the middle class but only for a limited period for the upper incomes. Doing so might have put Republicans on the defensive.
Drawing from that experience, many congressional Republicans now are convinced that Mr. Obama will blink again next year and will prove unwilling to oppose a measure that would extend tax cuts during an election year amid a sluggish economy. The president has vowed publicly and privately to Democratic congressional leaders that it is a certainty he will block any extension of tax cuts for the affluent.
Whether he sticks to that may affect the deficit wholesale feather hair extensions picture, the U.S. credit rating, and perhaps whether the incumbent is around for a second term to affect further changes.
“They were very well respected,’’ Eckmeyer said.
Another neighbor, Thomas Slade, said the father would often come over to Slade’s garage to have a couple of beers and work on his Suzuki motorcycle while Slade worked on his Harley-Davidson. “We were good friends, but we didn’t ride together,’’ he said. Slade never heard him talk about problems at home but he had recently mentioned that he had landed a new job with a trucking firm.
With the stakes much higher this autumn and next year, Democrats are cheap feather hair extensions urging the White House to correct these blunders. Specifically, they hope the president will insist that every dollar of spending cuts the supercommittee demands be accompanied by a dollar of higher revenues, and to say that changes in entitlements and taxes are joined at hip.
Mr. Obama, they say, also should play the national security card, forcing Republican to choose between higher taxes or about $600 billion in defense cuts.
“He can force Republicans to make a fundamental choice: Do they care more about protecting tax breaks or national security?” says the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland.
A separate issue for Mr. Obama is the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts: more than $3.5 trillion, including $800 billion benefiting wealthier cheap hair feathers Americans, over the next 10 years. The president backed down last year from a threat to block high-end tax cuts when he cut a deal with Republicans to extend them for two years in exchange for additional stimulus.
This was necessary because the White House never tried last year to “decouple” the Bush tax cuts by proposing to extend them permanently for the middle class but only for a limited period for the upper incomes. Doing so might have put Republicans on the defensive.
Drawing from that experience, many congressional Republicans now are convinced that Mr. Obama will blink again next year and will prove unwilling to oppose a measure that would extend tax cuts during an election year amid a sluggish economy. The president has vowed publicly and privately to Democratic congressional leaders that it is a certainty he will block any extension of tax cuts for the affluent.
Whether he sticks to that may affect the deficit wholesale feather hair extensions picture, the U.S. credit rating, and perhaps whether the incumbent is around for a second term to affect further changes.
Mr. Obama was trying to negotiate a deal with the House
The stakes escalated with the Standard wholesale feather hair extensions & Poor’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating on Friday. Clearly a blow to the president, it could boomerang on Republicans if they are seen as the impediment to rectifying the situation.
Whatever the merits of the downgrade decision, it was made easier by the phoniness of the deficit deal approved by Congress, which calls for $900 billion of spending cuts, one-third from defense. The agreement doesn’t touch the two drivers of chronic deficits: out-of-control spending on entitlements, especially health care, and insufficient revenue.
The supercommittee is being created to cut at least $1.2 trillion from the budget over the next decade or, if it fails, automatically trigger feathers in hair extensions reductions from both defense and nondefense expenses. It is likely this bipartisan panel will split over whether to include revenue increases and cutbacks in entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security.
The battle this year was fought on Republican terrain, essentially focusing on how much spending to cut. Despite polls showing surging public support for a deficit-reduction package that included higher taxes, congressional Republicans successfully stiffed all such efforts.
Still, the outcome wasn’t one-sided. Democrats kept entitlements off the table, so Republican threats to slash Medicare remain a golden campaign issue. And Republicans are already squirming over the possibility of huge defense cuts.
The biggest damage may be establishing the precedent of holding the debt ceiling hostage to major changes in policy, a tactic that is now embraced by some of the most sensible Republicans.
If one party controls the House or 41 members of cheap feather hair extensions the Senate, it can force drastic changes under the threat of the default gun; what pleases some Republicans today may later be used by Democrats to undo tax cuts or end wars. If often repeated, the politicians will inevitably drive off the cliff and create a cataclysm.
This state of affairs was enabled in part by one of the most incoherent communications strategies displayed by a modern president. One hundred days ago, President Barack Obama seemed in a decent position. The House Republican budget, written by Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, was wildly unpopular, with its deep cutbacks in Medicare and its failure to raise taxes for more affluent Americans.
The president gave a compelling speech about his economic priorities at George Washington University on April 13. He signaled willingness for a grand bargain in which he would agree to entitlement cuts in return for higher taxes, principally on the wealthy, or by closing loopholes, to produce significant deficit reduction.
That message resurfaced only sporadically — Mr. Obama seemed to recoil when accused of playing “class warfare.” On July 25, the White House trotted out the president to insist on a “balanced package.” At the same time, the Democratic majority leader was pushing a plan that didn’t include higher revenues.
A little earlier, Mr. Obama was trying to negotiate a deal with the House speaker, John A. Boehner, at the same time the Senate’s so-called Gang of Six, which included three very conservative Republicans, proposed a more sweeping proposal that came closer to the vision outlined by the president in April.
Whatever the merits of the downgrade decision, it was made easier by the phoniness of the deficit deal approved by Congress, which calls for $900 billion of spending cuts, one-third from defense. The agreement doesn’t touch the two drivers of chronic deficits: out-of-control spending on entitlements, especially health care, and insufficient revenue.
The supercommittee is being created to cut at least $1.2 trillion from the budget over the next decade or, if it fails, automatically trigger feathers in hair extensions reductions from both defense and nondefense expenses. It is likely this bipartisan panel will split over whether to include revenue increases and cutbacks in entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security.
The battle this year was fought on Republican terrain, essentially focusing on how much spending to cut. Despite polls showing surging public support for a deficit-reduction package that included higher taxes, congressional Republicans successfully stiffed all such efforts.
Still, the outcome wasn’t one-sided. Democrats kept entitlements off the table, so Republican threats to slash Medicare remain a golden campaign issue. And Republicans are already squirming over the possibility of huge defense cuts.
The biggest damage may be establishing the precedent of holding the debt ceiling hostage to major changes in policy, a tactic that is now embraced by some of the most sensible Republicans.
If one party controls the House or 41 members of cheap feather hair extensions the Senate, it can force drastic changes under the threat of the default gun; what pleases some Republicans today may later be used by Democrats to undo tax cuts or end wars. If often repeated, the politicians will inevitably drive off the cliff and create a cataclysm.
This state of affairs was enabled in part by one of the most incoherent communications strategies displayed by a modern president. One hundred days ago, President Barack Obama seemed in a decent position. The House Republican budget, written by Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, was wildly unpopular, with its deep cutbacks in Medicare and its failure to raise taxes for more affluent Americans.
The president gave a compelling speech about his economic priorities at George Washington University on April 13. He signaled willingness for a grand bargain in which he would agree to entitlement cuts in return for higher taxes, principally on the wealthy, or by closing loopholes, to produce significant deficit reduction.
That message resurfaced only sporadically — Mr. Obama seemed to recoil when accused of playing “class warfare.” On July 25, the White House trotted out the president to insist on a “balanced package.” At the same time, the Democratic majority leader was pushing a plan that didn’t include higher revenues.
A little earlier, Mr. Obama was trying to negotiate a deal with the House speaker, John A. Boehner, at the same time the Senate’s so-called Gang of Six, which included three very conservative Republicans, proposed a more sweeping proposal that came closer to the vision outlined by the president in April.
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