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Lots of fun on tonight's Michael Coren show with Ezra Levant, including this segment at the end where it all goes off the rails:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B-HkqrLFDw

Suggestions for good Podcast sites ?

uber stupid Andrea Calver really does sum it up.

this make nfld look as rich as Ontario. oh yeah, they are, but Danny wants more.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CQyU4ayBifw/SYvlA7UY6oI/AAAAAAAACDk/PiRxcEt7sMY/s1600-h/gdp+per+km.jpg

Ron:

l am a big fan of Hugh Hewitt's show - Hugh Hewitt.com. His podcasts are free as are all of the other townhall Shows.

If you don't mind paying a subsription fee of about 5 dollars US, I would highly recommend Dennis Miller's Radio show - 1 1/2 hrs a day of humour and politics. I have been a member since May 2007.

Mississauga Matt - thanks for the entertaining link.

I think the guy at the end - was trying to say "this country" - but they cut him off before the last syllable

I must admit I enjoyed Ezra accusing this woman of ab-oral sound projection

Thanks for the clip Matt - Ezra really gave her both barrels. Bravo Ezra! Andrea was spinning madly to change the channel.

Good link Matt. Thanks. Indeed it went off the rails, right after Andrea got hit by Ezra's train.

By the way Vit, I enjoyed that Gerry Mulligan and the boys. Excellent. Again, you keep brining back fond, old memories.

Give you an idea how slippery it was around Winnipeg today:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1519681409?bctid=10532456001

Every highway was closed including the perimeter. Half a dozen salt trucks in the ditch, three tow trucks, and a fire truck. Some say at least hundreds of cars.

Quite the video!

Good job, Matt. Posted.

"white right wing element" responsible for lack of "black CEO's":

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090209.whumanrights09/CommentStory/National/#comments?cid=al_gam_mostdiscuss

First comment.

Richmond MP says 'barbecue cat' joke becoming an international embarrassment...

Poll at CTV asking our (ahem) opinion of the Obama.

http://www.ctv.ca/canada

I am off topic hear but want to pay tribute to a great jazz vocalist that died on Friday. Blossom Dearie was one of the best. Her rendition of Peel Me A Grape was the standard for women jazz singers to be judged by in her time. I snuggled with a few of my sweethearts listening to her in my teen years. I sure miss that style of music. Rest In Peace.

Kate, hugh hewitt has an interesting point counterpoint on BO's statement on Iran over on his blog. Iwould provide a link but I am on my iPhone.

Socialism is a Pyramid Scheme.
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"Robert Mugabe binges on champagne and cavier as Zimbabwe starves

It is the 85th birthday of President Mugabe this month and the zealots of his Zanu (PF) party are determined that it should be an occasion that their great leader will never forget.

In recent days they have been out soliciting “donations” from corporate Zimbabwe and have drawn up a wish list that is scarcely credible in a land where seven million citizens survive on international food aid, 94 per cent are jobless and cholera rampages through a population debilitated by hunger.

The list includes 2,000 bottles of champagne (Moët & Chandon or ’61 Bollinger preferred); 8,000 lobsters; 100kg of prawns; 4,000 portions of caviar; 8,000 boxes of Ferrero Rocher chocolates; 3,000 ducks; and much else besides. A postscript adds: “No mealie meal” — the ground corn staple on which the vast majority of Zimbabweans survived until the country’s collapse rendered even that a luxury.

Those who prefer to give in cash, not kind, are invited to send “donations” of between $45,000 and $55,000 to a US dollar bank account in the name of the 21st February Movement, a youth organisation controlled by Zanu (PF) and named after the date of the President’s birthday."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5697712.ece

Epitaph for a newspaper:

""It's the end of an era," said pressroom supervisor Bill Metcalfe,"
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"Printing presses fall silent at R&T after 188-year run

When the printing presses fell silent at The Recorder and Times in the wee hours of this morning, it marked the end of 188 years of history."
http://recorder.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1425604

"which prompted me, as a private citizen, to raise the alarm through a memo distributed to concerned residents."

"It is hard for me to see this perversion of public policy and to accept that the folk of the bush have lost their battle to live a safe life in a cared-for rural and forest environment, all because of the environmental fantasies of outraged extremists and latte conservationists."
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"Victoria bushfires stoked by green vote

VICTORIA has suffered the most tragic bushfire disaster to have occurred on this continent throughout its period of human habitation.

The deaths, loss of homes and businesses and the blow to our feeling of security will take decades to fade into history. The trauma will live with the victims, who, to a greater or lesser extent, are all of us.

How could this happen when we have been told in a withering, continuous barrage of public relations that with technology and well-polished uniforms, we can cope with the unleashing of huge forces of nature.

I have been a bushfire scientist for more than 50 years, dealing with all aspects of bushfires, from prescribed burning to flame chemistry, and serving as supervisor of fire weather services for Australia. We need to understand what has happened so that we can accept or prevent future fire disasters.

That this disaster was about to happen became clear when the weather bureau issued an accurate fire weather forecast last Wednesday, which prompted me, as a private citizen, to raise the alarm through a memo distributed to concerned residents.

The science is simple. A fire disaster of this nature requires a combination of hot, dry, windy weather in drought conditions. It also requires a source of ignition. In the past, this purpose has been served by lightning. In this disaster, lightning has not played a big part, and for this Victorians should be grateful. But other sources of ignition are ever-present. When the temperature and wind increase to extreme levels, small events -- perhaps the scrape of metal across a rock, a transformer overheating or sparks from a diesel engine -- are capable of starting a fire that can in minutes become unstoppable if the fuel is present.

The third and only controllable factor in this deadly triangle is fuel: the dead leaves, pieces of bark and grass that become the gas that feeds the 50m high flames that roar through the bush with the sound of jet engines."
urlm.in/bqea

UK: National Socialism vs National Socialism.
The Family is arguing.
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"Ed Balls: minister fears rise of fascism amid economic gloom

The economic crisis could spark a resurgence in the Far Right, a close ally of Gordon Brown has suggested."
urlm.in/bqeb

AssPress and the anti-war industry.
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"US soldier who abandoned unit returns from Canada
Associated Press ^ | February 10, 2009 | Russ Bynum

Sporting a dragon tattoo on his forearm and skulls on both biceps, Cliff Cornell's looks tough. But he dissolves into tears as he reflects on his return to the Army four years after he fled to Canada to avoid the war in Iraq.

"I'm nervous, scared," Cornell said, wiping puffy eyes beneath his sunglasses Monday at a Savannah hotel after a three-day bus ride from Seattle. "I'm just not a fighter. I know it sounds funny, but I have a really soft heart."

Cornell, 29, of Mountain Home, Ark., planned to turn himself in to military police Tuesday at nearby Fort Stewart, where he'll likely face criminal charges for abandoning his unit before it deployed to Iraq in January 2005.

He said he fled because he doesn't think the war has improved the lives of Iraqis, and he couldn't stomach the thought of killing.

"During my training, I was ordered that, if anyone came within so many feet of my vehicle, I was to shoot to kill," said Cornell, who enlisted in 2002 but never deployed to war. "I didn't join the military to kill innocents."

The Army artillery specialist made it to Canada in 2005 and soon started a new life working at a grocery store on Gabriola Island in British Columbia.

Cornell's exile ended last week when he crossed the U.S.-Canada border into Washington state. He left voluntarily to avoid deportation."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2182237/posts
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"12.22.2008
war resister cliff cornell's deportation delayed - more deportation dates in the new year

Whew. Cliff Cornell's deportation date has been deferred until January 22, thanks to his lawyer, who moved fast and skillfully, and to all of you who wrote, called, and emailed Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.

The deferral gives Cliff's lawyer time to prepare a court challenge - and it gives us more time to mobilize support for Cliff and the other war resisters threatened with deportation.

To summarize:"
http://wmtc.blogspot.com/2008/12/war-resister-cliff-cornells-deportation.html
(i am:
# laura k
# formerly of nyc, now of canada)

"The central theme of the campaign, ‘The Guardian’ said, "is to assert that there is no contradiction in being a Muslim and being British." It has four key aims, the daily reported: ‘to ensure Pakistanis realise the west is not anti-Islamic, that British society is not anti-Islam, to demonstrate the extent to which Muslims are integrated into British society and to stimulate and facilitate constructive debate on the compatibility of liberal and Muslim values’."

"Don't attack us please, UK ads to say on Pak TV

London: The British Government will air ads on Pakistani television urging terrorists to not attack Britain.

Prominent British Muslims will star in the British Foreign Office-funded £400,000 (approximately Rs 2.9 crore)-campaign that is set to break on Pakistani television next Monday, ‘The Guardian’ reported on Tuesday.

The three-month public relations offensive, called ‘I Am the West’, will also include high-profile events in regions such as Peshawar and Mirpur, ‘The Guardian’ said. Seven in ten British Pakistanis are Mirpuris."
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/dont-attack-us-please-uk-ads-to-say-on-pak-tv/421654/
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"American spy chiefs have told the President that the CIA has launched a vast spying operation in the UK to prevent a repeat of the 9/11 attacks being launched from Britain. … Intelligence briefings for Mr Obama have detailed a dramatic escalation in American espionage in Britain, where the CIA has recruited record numbers of informants in the Pakistani community to monitor the 2,000 terrorist suspects identified by MI5, the British security service.

A British intelligence source revealed that a staggering four out of 10 CIA operations designed to thwart direct attacks on the US are now conducted against targets in Britain."

"Shaken, not stirred

Maybe the real “canary in the coalmine” isn’t Israel, but the UK. Westhawk writes, “imagine a government that has lost such control over its country’s internal security that it is forced to invite in a foreign intelligence service to help prevent a disaster. That describes the situation in Great Britain, according to this report from the Telegraph.”"
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/02/09/shaken-not-stirred/

From I to O to PET to Connections to the Centre/center.

Iggy's route march.

Iggy's motto: Mirror, mirror on the wall: Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.
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"Hint: Click in map to explore connectionsStory continues below interactive map
Click to activate this MucketyMap"

"Intellectual pols are back in favor
Is this a trend?

The U.S. just elected a real author as president, a man with two books that he actually wrote himself."

"In 2000, Ignatieff returned to Harvard as the director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.

Samantha Power, a journalist and the center’s founding executive director, brought Ignatieff to the center. During the campaign, she was a foreign policy adviser to Obama campaign.

In 2003, Ignatieff made waves (and some enemies) in the liberal community by endorsing the war on Iraq.

Four years later, in a New York Times Magazine article, he recanted his position. By this time he was back in Canada and seeing things from a different perspective:

“I keep revisiting the Iraq debacle, trying to understand exactly how the judgments I now have to make in the political arena need to improve on the ones I used to offer from the sidelines,” he wrote.

“I’ve learned that acquiring good judgment in politics starts with knowing when to admit your mistakes.”"
http://news.muckety.com/2009/02/10/intellectual-pols-are-back-in-favor/11241
STOPIGGY.

an interesting site.

http://www.becominghuman.org/

James K. Glassman, Stimulus: A History of Folly

Alas, the questions raised by a proposed stimulus—whether to apply it, what sort it should be, how much it should cost, and when it should begin and end—are far trickier to answer than problems involving dead batteries. And, remarkably enough, history and economic research offer no conclusive answers. The recession that began in 2008 could turn out to be the worst slowdown since the Great Depression of the 1930’s. For three-quarters of a century, economists have been studying it diligently. And even now they cannot come to a definitive conclusion about the cause of that depression, the reasons for its severity and duration, or what cured it. In an introduction to a book of essays on the Great Depression he compiled in 2000, Ben S. Bernanke, then a Princeton professor and now chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, wrote, “Finding an explanation for the worldwide economic collapse of the 1930’s remains a fascinating intellectual challenge.”

Today, of course, the challenge is more than intellectual...

Rendezvous with Destiny: A Panel on Ronald Reagan

Webcast under "Event Materials".

Beating 90 year old cold temperature records ?

but what about global warming ?

Sorry, I could not find the same information on their English version of the same site but you do not need to know a lot of French to understand a cold record from 1918 has been beaten this January 2009 in the province of Quebec.

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L'hiver en chiffres

Plusieurs records de bas minimum ont été battus au cours des grands froids que nous avons connus en janvier. En voici quelques-uns :

16 janvier : Un record absolu de bas minimum vieux de presque 100 ans (1918) a été battu à La Tuque. L'ancien record de -44,4 a été battu de 0,5 degrés Celsius pour établir la nouvelle marque à -44,9.

Autres records pour le 16 janvier : Sherbrooke (-35,9), Bagotville (-37,7), Québec (-33,9)

17 janvier : Gaspé(-31,7)

source,

http://www.meteomedia.com/news/storm_watch_stories3&stormfile=bilan_janvier_2009_29_01_2009

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And yet Al Gore has received another "prestigious" award for his lies ,

An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore has won the 2009 GRAMMY Award for Best Spoken Word Album.

source,

http://broadwayworld.com/article/An_Inconvenient_Truth_by_Al_Gore_Wins_GRAMMY_for_Best_Spoken_Word_Album_20090208

Re the deserter:
Is there a military draft in the USA?

If not, then what does a recruit think he's going to be doing, arranging flowers?

Victor Davis Hanson has, again, an excellent column on Obama.

The Apocalyptic Style

A few clips:

"Obama’s unnecessary, but apparently Pavlovian, tendency to preface every issue with (1) Bush et al. did this to us, and (2) I am bringing historic change never before seen."

"there is a disturbing pattern of what I would call "the apocalyptic style." We are not just to worry about global warming, but that there will be NO more agriculture at all soon!

Then President Obama says if we don’t act immediately on the stimulus, financial CATASTROPHE looms!"

Obama is the White House version of Rev. Wright.

Hope, fear, and trust.

The duo of hope and fear has morphed into the trinity of the left-socialists religion.

As Marx* wrote: "Chicolini: Well, who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?"
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"Costly bank rescue plan aims to increase trust

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on Tuesday unveiled a new bank rescue plan that includes a "new consumer business lending initiative to leverage up to $1 trillion dollars to kick start the secondary lending markets."

The department also announced plans for "a new website, FinancialStability.gov, to detail where federal funds are going and whether they are succeeding in stabilizing the financial system and promoting new lending." The administration has already begun posting contracts on the Internet.

Here are details of the program, as released by the Obama administration:"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2182385/posts

(*Groucho)

Khadr poll going desperately wrong for the folks at Cnews over at Canoe.ca

AtlanticJim, perhaps the people voting in the poll at Canoe.ca have read Christie Blatchford's column in the G&M today on the atrocities performed by the Taliban. It's a nightmare inducer but that's what our guys are fighting against in the Afghanistan.

"trying to come to terms rhetorically with odd notions and fantastic, counterintuitive theses."
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"P. D. Ouspensky and the Nightmare of Revolution

The death last year of Alexander Solzhenitsyn reminded westerners of the ideological disturbances that wracked the just completed century, the greatest of which Solzhenitsyn himself had documented in The Gulag Archipelago and in his novelistic cycle The Red Wheel. The literature of the Communist tyranny in Russia, of its internal and exported violence, bulks large, even when one considers it only in terms of English translations.

In addition to Solzhenitsyn, we have Gulag memoirs by Yevgeniya Ginsburg and Lev Rozgan, biographies of victims by their survivors such as Nadezhda Mandelstam’s two books about the persecution and imprisonment of her husband Ossip, and generically difficult-to-assign items like Testimony, the conversations of composer Dmitri Shostakovich with Solomon Volkov. One might easily count hundreds of titles crying out to be read.

One such book, Letters from Russia (1921) by Peter Damian Ouspensky (1878-1947), while almost unknown nevertheless boasts the twin virtues of its brevity (less than sixty pages) and its moment of composition, the year 1919, during the fantastic and homicidal tumult of Russia’s Civil War. Ouspensky – a mathematician, journalist, philosopher, and mystic, who for a short time in the 1920s associated himself with the eccentric guru George Gurdjieff – fled St. Petersburg when the Communist coup d’état erupted but could not find his way free of embattled territories until 1920, when he transited through Novorossiysk, a refugee corridor under British control, to Turkey. Ouspensky wrote the five letters in Ekaterinodar and contrived to smuggle them past the frontiers to a British reporter, C. E. Bechhofer, who arranged for their publication in London once their author was safely out of danger.

In his role as mathematician and philosopher, Ouspensky had written about the fourth dimension, so he had some experience in trying to come to terms rhetorically with odd notions and fantastic, counterintuitive theses."
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3792

just in from the national citizens coalition

Layton's 5% Solution
One of Jack Layton's proposed solutions to the economic difficulties we are going through is a 5% pay cut so employees can help out their employers. You can read the article here.

Here is my suggestion for Jack: try and regain some of your badly damaged reputation, stand up in the House of Commons and show some real leadership. Propose that all MP's take an immediate 5% pay cut. MP’s must lead by example and cut their own pay before going after hard working Canadians.

By the way Jack Layton and his wife Olivia Chow each make $155,000 as MP's and Layton gets an additional $52,900 because he is a party leader. Their combined family income is $352,000. Certainly Jack can afford a 5% pay cut.

Don’t hold your breath that Jack or any other MP will have the common sense to lead by example and take a pay cut

how about the NDP take a 1.50 a vote cutback.?

Hold the phOne!

O's jilting Hope? All he will have left(sic) is Hope's little sister Fear and the newcomer Trust. O has already thrown Fear's cousin, Unity, out the window.
But, looking beyond, Momentum is coming down the backstretch.
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"He made clear that he had all but given up hope"

"Taking on Critics, Obama Puts Aside Talk of Unity"
http://jacksnewswatch.com/2009/02/10/taking-on-critics-obama-puts-aside-talk-of-unity-5/#comments

Fire before smokescreen.
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""I think it's safe to say it was targeted at Steven Point's home," Thiessen said of the arson.

"The exact motive we're not clear on but we can say it's not politically motivated," he said.

"However, there appears to be some other level of motivation but unfortunately we can't speak to that at this point because it's not totally clear.""
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"Arrest made in arson fire that gutted home of B.C. lieutenant governor

4 days ago

CHILLIWACK, B.C. — Police have arrested a 13-year-old boy in connection with an arson fire at the home of B.C.'s lieutenant-governor.

Steven Point's home on the Skowkale First Nation reserve near Chilliwack was gutted by the fire last weekend."
urlm.in/bqfk

Wow, Kinsella is cheap. He has a caption contest over at his site, but has comments disabled. Guess he doesn't want to have to pony up for the prize.

Kris Osborn, Tank round guides self to target during test

An Army Abrams 120mm cannon destroyed a T-72 tank more than 5,000 meters away using a next-generation guided tank round able to find its own way toward a target, service officials said...

via Howard Lindzon

Death, Taxes and Creative Destruction…Inevitable!

Dollar Collapse! Bank Runs! 80's Movie Predicted it!

Gerald Celente on Confidence men for con job

Has anyone ever seen such concern for the fate of the spawn of the terrorist Khadr family?

The Bloc, the Dippers and Liberals, specifically Bobsy Rae are all asking questions about his fate when the Great O closes Gitmo. They want the dear, precious "child soldier of the Taliban terrorist army home to his proud mama Canadian Justice.

How does that work? He killed a US citizen and he should be tried here?

Cbc aired Susan Ormiston interviewing Eric(a) Millet,the principal of BelleIsle school who dropped the daily playing of the national anthem. This was done at the request of two parents who objected on 'religious' reasons. Mr. Millet has been threatened(maybe) and doesn't know if he will ever be able to teach again. Mr. Millet was also the green party candidate for the area last election. I can't find the clip at cbc,but it is worth watching.Viewers advisory- very high gag factor.

Experts say, Goreacle's Footprint (minus 3 toes) set a record.
More, please.
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"Maine's Bone-Numbing Minus-50 Sets State Record

When it comes to cold weather, Mainers have something new to brag about.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Geological Survey and Maine State Climate Office announced Tuesday that a minus-50 reading in northwestern Maine held up to scientific scrutiny.

That beats Maine's old record of 48 below zero set in 1925 in Van Buren, and ties the record for coldest temperature recorded in New England. That reading was made in 1933 in Bloomfield, Vt.

The record on New Hampshire's Mount Washington is minus-47."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2182611/posts

"NEWS RELEASE
February 9, 2009
For Immediate Release

BREITKREUZ BILL TO SCRAP THE USELESS LONG-GUN REGISTRY

Registry proves that law-abiding gun owners are not the problem

Ottawa – Saskatchewan M.P. Garry Breitkreuz has introduced a Private Members’ Bill to scrap the decade-old Canadian long-gun registry (see link below to Bill C-301)."
http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/breitkreuzgpress/2009/feb9.htm

I'd sure like to see C-301 pass. Unlikely I guess, but at least this might get some media attention.

Yeah, right....probably lots of hot air about right wing agendas and rednecks...I have SO much faith in our media/opposition.

... "And the one in the middle was on the right. And the one on the left was in the middle. And the guy in the rear was a Methodist* ...

Go over to AssPress's kickingass report. It's free.

"Dow Jones industrials plunged 382 points for the day."

"But he could have helped with a showing that looked more sure-footed, square-shouldered and said: I can handle this. I know what to do.

That's a tall order for a treasury secretary introduced weeks ago to a jittery nation as a tax scofflaw, a Cabinet officer who won confirmation with a third of the Senate against him.

It showed in Geithner's nationally televised performance."
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"Geithner's big moment: a tough sell

The new treasury secretary read from the teleprompter on his right. Then the one on his left."
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/10/america/Geithners-Tough-Sell.php

(*H/T Cash, Johnny)

This is interesting,from jolly old England. This woman resigned her job as principal of a school because she wanted her school's assemblies to include everyone. It seems that in the past the 20% of children from muslim families had their own assemblies. In pure Orwellian England,she was called a racist because she wanted everyone to be treated the same regardless of race,religion,etc. Coming soon to a school near you !!! http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/feb/10/secondaryschools-schools

Oops, spoke to soon. Geert Wilders' on, off, on again screening of Fitna in the House of Lords is off again. He has received a letter from the UK Secretary of State denying him entry:

The Secretary of State is satisfied that your statements about Muslims and their beliefs… would threaten community harmony and therefore public security in the UK.

Amazing: a MP from a another EU country denied entry. Amazing.

Free Republic poster added, "(so much for "hope)".
Fear is gone, er The Thrill is Gone, BB said.
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"Obama: 'There Is No Easy Out' for Wall Street (so much for "hope")
abc ^ | 2/10/2009 | KATIE ESCHERICH"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2182798/posts

Michelle Malkin has a post up about Henrietta Hughes, the..ahh.. 'homeless woman'..ahh..living in a pickup truck, who..ahh..was in the front line of an Obama Town Hall meeting...and she, weeping, asked Obama for help...and he hugged her...and lo and behold...the wife of State Representative offered her a house...free..

Michelle's readers asked - how did this woman even get a ticket to these pre-screened, security-heavy meetings? Dressed so well despite living for one year, ...over one year...in a pickup truck?

Is she real or an actress?

Some suspect that this was a photo-op set up; that Ms Hughes is not homeless; and wonder how she got into this meeting, and into the front line..

Now, why should the President of the US be put in the position where he has people telling him, as Ms Hughes did..that she 'deserves a house'..and he then, in the mind of the public, is seen as having carried out her wish. When will Obama stop campaigning?