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		<title>By: Boyd</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/thinking-right/2009/07/09/run-sarah-run-set-the-pace-too/comment-page-8/#comment-18592</link>
		<dc:creator>Boyd</dc:creator>
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		<description>logs.ajc.com, how do you do it?


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		<title>By: Angelia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Angelia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Graet stuff. blogs.ajc.com deserves an award.


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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Graet stuff. blogs.ajc.com deserves an award.</p>
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		<title>By: Jason</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And this is why I like blogs.ajc.com. Shocking posts.</description>
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		<title>By: Robin Morris</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robin Morris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Palin is in DENIAL of her own ability.  she still thinks she is trying out for cheer leader.

The woman has a problem, she loves the attention, GOP used her for a  gimick which backfired on them and her also.

She does not have the ability to listen,  or learn and resents anyone telling her what to do.

GOP has created this bobble head, now they are wondering how they can get rid of it.  LOLOLOL

They really have a problem,  McCain the old man he does not dare say things about her, but those around him sure can.  He has mush in his month and now he cannot swallow.

I do not think anyone that asks her to speak at their money fund drives will allow her to just speak.

Controlling her will be a hard undertaking.  

If she thinks she is going to change Washington, she is really in denial, she does not have the brains to cope with them and they eat her up alive.

She is not even good fish bait.  I have read that she does not take being rejected to well,  she was loosing her hair and having some problems.  Well Sarah get ready to have more for you will have created all your money problems yourself.

HER BIG BOOK DEAL IS REALLY A JOKE,  please ask yourself what can she write about or I should say who is writing the book?   Sarah is not 

She hired some man who is known for his writing skills.   

What is there to write about, we all know her history, which is one big joke, she lies, cover ups, all she does when she is on stage is wink and flirt her way thru the speaking time.

Oh yes winky for President  Get a life Sarah, and accept what you are a FAILURE, you can never face the heat nor can  you take the heat.   

Whine all you want, you want to play the big time game with all those dirty old men, be our guest, but do not cry to anyone but maybe Todd will console you.  LOLOLOL   Money is your game, its not about changing government you do not have the ability or the wisdom to even think what the first thing you would do. 

You are not queen nor are you or ever will be.

Stay in Alaska and take care of your family.  You sure cannot be doing that on the road again making all those great big speeches of baloney.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Palin is in DENIAL of her own ability.  she still thinks she is trying out for cheer leader.</p>
<p>The woman has a problem, she loves the attention, GOP used her for a  gimick which backfired on them and her also.</p>
<p>She does not have the ability to listen,  or learn and resents anyone telling her what to do.</p>
<p>GOP has created this bobble head, now they are wondering how they can get rid of it.  LOLOLOL</p>
<p>They really have a problem,  McCain the old man he does not dare say things about her, but those around him sure can.  He has mush in his month and now he cannot swallow.</p>
<p>I do not think anyone that asks her to speak at their money fund drives will allow her to just speak.</p>
<p>Controlling her will be a hard undertaking.  </p>
<p>If she thinks she is going to change Washington, she is really in denial, she does not have the brains to cope with them and they eat her up alive.</p>
<p>She is not even good fish bait.  I have read that she does not take being rejected to well,  she was loosing her hair and having some problems.  Well Sarah get ready to have more for you will have created all your money problems yourself.</p>
<p>HER BIG BOOK DEAL IS REALLY A JOKE,  please ask yourself what can she write about or I should say who is writing the book?   Sarah is not </p>
<p>She hired some man who is known for his writing skills.   </p>
<p>What is there to write about, we all know her history, which is one big joke, she lies, cover ups, all she does when she is on stage is wink and flirt her way thru the speaking time.</p>
<p>Oh yes winky for President  Get a life Sarah, and accept what you are a FAILURE, you can never face the heat nor can  you take the heat.   </p>
<p>Whine all you want, you want to play the big time game with all those dirty old men, be our guest, but do not cry to anyone but maybe Todd will console you.  LOLOLOL   Money is your game, its not about changing government you do not have the ability or the wisdom to even think what the first thing you would do. </p>
<p>You are not queen nor are you or ever will be.</p>
<p>Stay in Alaska and take care of your family.  You sure cannot be doing that on the road again making all those great big speeches of baloney.</p>
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		<title>By: clyde</title>
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		<dc:creator>clyde</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As far as I&#039;m concerned,Cynthia McKinney got what she was looking for,free publicity.Odd that her&#039;s was almost the only name mentioned.She&#039;ll be a candidate for President for the Green Party in 2012 and somehow she feels this publicity for trying to run the blockade on Gaza will help the Green Cause.

 Now least I forget,who is it that&#039;s in charge in Gaza?Is it Hamas?Is this the group Cynthia is trying to assist?The next time Israel gets her I hope they keep her detained for a period of time.

 Now quickly tell me that it isn&#039;t Hamas that McKinney is tryimg to help,but the People of Gaza is her only concern,the people that voted to put Hamas in power.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned,Cynthia McKinney got what she was looking for,free publicity.Odd that her&#8217;s was almost the only name mentioned.She&#8217;ll be a candidate for President for the Green Party in 2012 and somehow she feels this publicity for trying to run the blockade on Gaza will help the Green Cause.</p>
<p> Now least I forget,who is it that&#8217;s in charge in Gaza?Is it Hamas?Is this the group Cynthia is trying to assist?The next time Israel gets her I hope they keep her detained for a period of time.</p>
<p> Now quickly tell me that it isn&#8217;t Hamas that McKinney is tryimg to help,but the People of Gaza is her only concern,the people that voted to put Hamas in power.</p>
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		<title>By: John Judge</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/thinking-right/2009/07/09/run-sarah-run-set-the-pace-too/comment-page-8/#comment-12540</link>
		<dc:creator>John Judge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You can hardly call being illegally boarded and captured at sea by the Israeli Navy and kidnapped into an Israeli prison in a boat carrying humanitarian aid to people in Gaza that had already been inspected and cleared at the departure point a &quot;publicity&quot; stunt on the part of Cynthia McKinney or any others aboard the Spirit of Humanity from the Free Gaza Movement, which had previously sent many other aid missions to Gaza without incident. Had the ship not been detained, there would have been no news items at all. Yet, both times Cynthia McKinney was aboard these humanitarian missions, the Israelis attacked her ship, in the first instance ramming it and leaving it foundering at sea with lives at risk. There was little enough publicity of those two outrages in any case, and most of the mainstream press avoided the topic. Had any other former Congress Member or even the other US citizens that accompanied her been dealt with in this way by any other country in international waters on a humanitarian and peaceful mission, headlines would have screamed it, the White House and State Department would have condemned it, and military carriers and Navy Seals might have been sent in to release the captives of such piracy. Yet, despite his own stated opposition to the illegal Israeli blockade on aid to the victims of their Operation Cast Lead against Gaza, which did massive destruction and led to more than a hundred fold the casualties caused in Israel by Hamas missile attacks, Obama was silent on the imprisonment and deportation of the Free Gaza 21 from a country they never intended to enter. The reduction of the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza and the crime against humanity of collective punishment being carried out by the Israeli government to some snide comment about a &quot;publicity stunt&quot; shames the author, not the courageous aid workers and humanitarians who were attacked, including a Nobel Laureate from Ireland. To find out the real story, not this gratuitous smear job, see www.freegaza.org. Ms McKinney has returned to Egypt to assist the Viva Palestine group and George Galloway in their effort to bring aid to Gaza overland instead. The inhuman indifference of many so-called journalists speaks to the demise of real reporting and the reason printed media is becoming obsolete. Prejudice and xenophobia and smarmy dismissals pass as journalism when they are clearly just racist propaganda.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can hardly call being illegally boarded and captured at sea by the Israeli Navy and kidnapped into an Israeli prison in a boat carrying humanitarian aid to people in Gaza that had already been inspected and cleared at the departure point a &#8220;publicity&#8221; stunt on the part of Cynthia McKinney or any others aboard the Spirit of Humanity from the Free Gaza Movement, which had previously sent many other aid missions to Gaza without incident. Had the ship not been detained, there would have been no news items at all. Yet, both times Cynthia McKinney was aboard these humanitarian missions, the Israelis attacked her ship, in the first instance ramming it and leaving it foundering at sea with lives at risk. There was little enough publicity of those two outrages in any case, and most of the mainstream press avoided the topic. Had any other former Congress Member or even the other US citizens that accompanied her been dealt with in this way by any other country in international waters on a humanitarian and peaceful mission, headlines would have screamed it, the White House and State Department would have condemned it, and military carriers and Navy Seals might have been sent in to release the captives of such piracy. Yet, despite his own stated opposition to the illegal Israeli blockade on aid to the victims of their Operation Cast Lead against Gaza, which did massive destruction and led to more than a hundred fold the casualties caused in Israel by Hamas missile attacks, Obama was silent on the imprisonment and deportation of the Free Gaza 21 from a country they never intended to enter. The reduction of the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza and the crime against humanity of collective punishment being carried out by the Israeli government to some snide comment about a &#8220;publicity stunt&#8221; shames the author, not the courageous aid workers and humanitarians who were attacked, including a Nobel Laureate from Ireland. To find out the real story, not this gratuitous smear job, see <a href="http://www.freegaza.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.freegaza.org</a>. Ms McKinney has returned to Egypt to assist the Viva Palestine group and George Galloway in their effort to bring aid to Gaza overland instead. The inhuman indifference of many so-called journalists speaks to the demise of real reporting and the reason printed media is becoming obsolete. Prejudice and xenophobia and smarmy dismissals pass as journalism when they are clearly just racist propaganda.</p>
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		<title>By: clyde</title>
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		<dc:creator>clyde</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What kind of questions would a black fireman not be able to answer that a white fireman could answer?

Wouldn&#039;t it be wise for the minority firefighters to to formulate a plan not to pass a test en masse in order to skew results their way?

If the minority firemen cannt truely pass the test,how did they get their job in the first place?Affirmative action?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What kind of questions would a black fireman not be able to answer that a white fireman could answer?</p>
<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be wise for the minority firefighters to to formulate a plan not to pass a test en masse in order to skew results their way?</p>
<p>If the minority firemen cannt truely pass the test,how did they get their job in the first place?Affirmative action?</p>
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		<title>By: Michael H. Smith</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/thinking-right/2009/07/09/run-sarah-run-set-the-pace-too/comment-page-8/#comment-12538</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael H. Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, yeah, all that manure and a buck might buy a small cup of coffee. Ricci is a landmark case despite all the claptrap coming from the liberal left-wing-nuts who think they are real lawyas. The Supreme Court has spoken,&lt;strong&gt; 5 Justices voted against Sotomayor &lt;/strong&gt;whether anyone likes that fact are not. Because politics being what they are presently Sotomayor will be confirmed but that confirmation will not change the present balance of the court, it will be just one liberal replacing another liberal. It is not likely any of the cases the liberals have lost more recently will be reversed by the court, they will remain &lt;strong&gt;the settled law of the land.&lt;/strong&gt; No doubt after the Supreme Court decision the New Haven Firefighters will get &quot;their earned&quot; promotions, the rest as they say, will just be legal formality. It is very doubtful after reading the opinions of the Supreme Court majority any further litigation will be pursued to opposes the decision of this reverse discrimination case that sets a new legal precedent heretofore that has not been tested, wherein fearing the possibility of a lawsuit from ethnic minorities is not a lawful justification for any employer to discriminate against anyone considered as being from an ethnic majority.  


Question: Why are some court cases called Landmark cases?


Answer: It means that this particular case has never been adjudicated in the law prior to this time OR, it breaks new legal ground that has heretofore not been tested, and that from this time forth, it will always be referred to as the foundation of all further legal opinions regarding this subject. 


http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_are_some_court_cases_called_Landmark_cases</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, yeah, all that manure and a buck might buy a small cup of coffee. Ricci is a landmark case despite all the claptrap coming from the liberal left-wing-nuts who think they are real lawyas. The Supreme Court has spoken,<strong> 5 Justices voted against Sotomayor </strong>whether anyone likes that fact are not. Because politics being what they are presently Sotomayor will be confirmed but that confirmation will not change the present balance of the court, it will be just one liberal replacing another liberal. It is not likely any of the cases the liberals have lost more recently will be reversed by the court, they will remain <strong>the settled law of the land.</strong> No doubt after the Supreme Court decision the New Haven Firefighters will get &#8220;their earned&#8221; promotions, the rest as they say, will just be legal formality. It is very doubtful after reading the opinions of the Supreme Court majority any further litigation will be pursued to opposes the decision of this reverse discrimination case that sets a new legal precedent heretofore that has not been tested, wherein fearing the possibility of a lawsuit from ethnic minorities is not a lawful justification for any employer to discriminate against anyone considered as being from an ethnic majority.  </p>
<p>Question: Why are some court cases called Landmark cases?</p>
<p>Answer: It means that this particular case has never been adjudicated in the law prior to this time OR, it breaks new legal ground that has heretofore not been tested, and that from this time forth, it will always be referred to as the foundation of all further legal opinions regarding this subject. </p>
<p><a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_are_some_court_cases_called_Landmark_cases" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_are_some_court_cases_called_Landmark_cases</a></p>
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		<title>By: Please run Palin in 2012!s</title>
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		<dc:creator>Please run Palin in 2012!s</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Meet Jeff Sessions the ranking minority bigot on Senate Judidiary   or as we call him Loser Sour Grapes Sessions--the Judge wannabe who never made it because of testimony that he was a bigot at his Senate Judiciary Hearing. Want to know why he&#039;s so embittered and obsessed with projecting bios onto Sotamayor?  Simple.  

In 1986 he was nominated by one of the worst Presidents in history, Ron Reagan to be a district court judge in Alabama.  His nomination was kicked to the curb by Senate Judiciary because of his many racist statements in the past.
Senator Kennedy led the questioning of black Assistant US Attorneys from Alabama who quoted bigoted statement after bigoted statement and cited the investigation of Sessions by the DOJ Civil Rights division for unsuccesfully trying to kill civil rights cases in Alabama.

This makes  the controversy surroundinghis failed attempt to be appointed to a federal judgeship nearly 23 years ago all the more interesting.

Having served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Alabama
since 1981, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was nominated for a seat
on the United States District Court in Alabama in the Fall of 1985.
Months later, amidst accusations of racial insensitivity, his
nomination was defeated.

At the time, Sessions had recently prosecuted three civil rights
workers for voter fraud, alleging that 14 ballots had been tampered
with. Known as the Marion Three, the civil rights workers were
acquitted and cited by civil rights groups opposing Sessions’
nomination as evidence of his alleged racial animus.

The most headline-grabbing charges against Sessions, however, were
made by Thomas Figures, an assistant United States Attorney for seven
years and an African-American. Figures had been appointed to the US
Attorney’s office in the Southern District of Alabama during the
presidency of President Carter.

During Sessions’ confirmation hearings in 1986, Figures alleged that
Sessions repeatedly displayed racial insensitivity around him.

‘I was regularly called &#039;boy,’” Figures said. When asked by Sen. Ted
Kennedy, D-Mass., who called him “boy,” Figures said, &#039;&#039;Mr. Sessions
did, one or two of the other assistants.&#039;&#039; 

Once after he’d been in a dispute with a white secretary in the US
Attorney’s office, Figures said in his testimony, Sessions “called me
into his office and indicated he felt I had been unduly harsh with the
secretary. Mr. Sessions admonished me to &#039;be careful what you say to
white folks.&#039;…Had Mr. Sessions merely urged me to be careful about
what I said to &#039;folks,&#039; that admonition would have been quite
reasonable. But that was not the language that he used.&#039;&#039;

In another incident, recently reported by Brian Beutler and Eric
Kleefeld Figures recalls the Justice Department&#039;s Civil Rights Division
sending their office instructions to investigate a civil rights case
that Sessions had tried to close:

&quot;We had a very spirited discussion regarding how the Hodge case should
then be handled; in the course of that argument, Mr. Sessions threw
the file on a table, and remarked, &#039;I wish I could decline on all of
them,’” Figures said, suggesting that Sessions wanted to close all
civil rights cases, saying ‘the statement, the manner in which it was
delivered, the impression on his face, the manner in which his face
blushed, I believe it represented a hostility to investigating and
pursuing those types of matters.&quot;

Kennedy asked Figures: &quot;Did you ever say anything to them? Did you
ever say, knock it off, or quit it?&quot;

Responded Figures: &quot;Senator, I felt that if I had said anything or
reacted in a manner in which I thought appropriate, I would be fired.
I always felt that my position was very tentative around Mr.
Sessions.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Meet Jeff Sessions the ranking minority bigot on Senate Judidiary   or as we call him Loser Sour Grapes Sessions&#8211;the Judge wannabe who never made it because of testimony that he was a bigot at his Senate Judiciary Hearing. Want to know why he&#8217;s so embittered and obsessed with projecting bios onto Sotamayor?  Simple.  </p>
<p>In 1986 he was nominated by one of the worst Presidents in history, Ron Reagan to be a district court judge in Alabama.  His nomination was kicked to the curb by Senate Judiciary because of his many racist statements in the past.<br />
Senator Kennedy led the questioning of black Assistant US Attorneys from Alabama who quoted bigoted statement after bigoted statement and cited the investigation of Sessions by the DOJ Civil Rights division for unsuccesfully trying to kill civil rights cases in Alabama.</p>
<p>This makes  the controversy surroundinghis failed attempt to be appointed to a federal judgeship nearly 23 years ago all the more interesting.</p>
<p>Having served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Alabama<br />
since 1981, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was nominated for a seat<br />
on the United States District Court in Alabama in the Fall of 1985.<br />
Months later, amidst accusations of racial insensitivity, his<br />
nomination was defeated.</p>
<p>At the time, Sessions had recently prosecuted three civil rights<br />
workers for voter fraud, alleging that 14 ballots had been tampered<br />
with. Known as the Marion Three, the civil rights workers were<br />
acquitted and cited by civil rights groups opposing Sessions’<br />
nomination as evidence of his alleged racial animus.</p>
<p>The most headline-grabbing charges against Sessions, however, were<br />
made by Thomas Figures, an assistant United States Attorney for seven<br />
years and an African-American. Figures had been appointed to the US<br />
Attorney’s office in the Southern District of Alabama during the<br />
presidency of President Carter.</p>
<p>During Sessions’ confirmation hearings in 1986, Figures alleged that<br />
Sessions repeatedly displayed racial insensitivity around him.</p>
<p>‘I was regularly called &#8216;boy,’” Figures said. When asked by Sen. Ted<br />
Kennedy, D-Mass., who called him “boy,” Figures said, &#8221;Mr. Sessions<br />
did, one or two of the other assistants.&#8221; </p>
<p>Once after he’d been in a dispute with a white secretary in the US<br />
Attorney’s office, Figures said in his testimony, Sessions “called me<br />
into his office and indicated he felt I had been unduly harsh with the<br />
secretary. Mr. Sessions admonished me to &#8216;be careful what you say to<br />
white folks.&#8217;…Had Mr. Sessions merely urged me to be careful about<br />
what I said to &#8216;folks,&#8217; that admonition would have been quite<br />
reasonable. But that was not the language that he used.&#8221;</p>
<p>In another incident, recently reported by Brian Beutler and Eric<br />
Kleefeld Figures recalls the Justice Department&#8217;s Civil Rights Division<br />
sending their office instructions to investigate a civil rights case<br />
that Sessions had tried to close:</p>
<p>&#8220;We had a very spirited discussion regarding how the Hodge case should<br />
then be handled; in the course of that argument, Mr. Sessions threw<br />
the file on a table, and remarked, &#8216;I wish I could decline on all of<br />
them,’” Figures said, suggesting that Sessions wanted to close all<br />
civil rights cases, saying ‘the statement, the manner in which it was<br />
delivered, the impression on his face, the manner in which his face<br />
blushed, I believe it represented a hostility to investigating and<br />
pursuing those types of matters.&#8221;</p>
<p>Kennedy asked Figures: &#8220;Did you ever say anything to them? Did you<br />
ever say, knock it off, or quit it?&#8221;</p>
<p>Responded Figures: &#8220;Senator, I felt that if I had said anything or<br />
reacted in a manner in which I thought appropriate, I would be fired.<br />
I always felt that my position was very tentative around Mr.<br />
Sessions.&#8221;</strong></p>
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