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Jason Mattera, former Young America’s Foundation spokesman, is out with a brand-new book, Obama Zombies: Obama ZombiesHow the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation.

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SEBELIUS: Right now the public health officials weigh toward keeping schools open if there’s enough personnel to do that. It’s dangerous for kids often to not be in school, to not have a safe place to go, to not get fed on a regular basis, so knowing that we can contain this disease through vaccination and through mitigation, we’re trying to lean toward keeping the business going.

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To try to sneak in an inclusion of a $108 billion line of credit for the International Monetary Fund in a war-spending bill and then call the GOP irresponsible for not supporting it is over the top! I’m sure the majority of American’s would be against yet another stimulus bailout bill especially if they knew and understood where that money was going. Congress is being irresponsible to *use* the troop’s funding to sneak in unrelated and special interest spending.

So who is the IMF and why do they need our money? Why does Obama and the Democrats think this is so important that it’s tacked on to a very important troop funding bill?
From the International Monetary Fund website:

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 185 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.

From Wall Street Journal - Presto: Another $750 Billion

the IMF was founded in 1944 when the world monetary system operated on a gold standard. The fund’s job was to act as a lender of last resort when countries encountered balance-of-payments shortfalls. When the world went to a fiat-currency system, the fund’s original role became obsolete. It is possible to argue that a modified version of the lender-of-last-resort remains important for the global financial system. But over the past 30 years the fund has increasingly strayed from that limited mission to become a vehicle for transferring wealth to poor-country governments. The London agreement further advances these foreign aid ambitions with no oversight from Congress.

The following summary shows the U.S. giving billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to countries and entities that support the destruction of the U.S. and our allies.
Summary: 2009 Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Pandemic Flu As Passed by the Full Committee
Possibly worse than putting an IMF bailout over the troops is Americans allowing it to happen.

10 reasons why members of Congress should oppose including the IMF bailout funds in the supplemental and why, in fact, the IMF shouldn’t get a bailout at all.

UPDATE: Senate Passes $106B War Spending Bill, Sends to Obama

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Economist Milton Freidman taught Donahue a lesson when Phil attempted to equate greed with capitalism.

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Obama will deliver a speech in Egypt on June 4. This “shared values / listening” tour has been planned and anticipated since 2007 when Mr. Obama promised to address the Muslim world with outreach measures in his campaign

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Today, crew members of the STS-125 Atlantis Shuttle will inspect the heat shield and prepare for Wednesday’s rendezvous with the Hubble Space Telescope. The 5 a.m. EDT wake up call was “Kryptonite” by 3 Doors Down.

Space Walk Schedule (from Mission Summary.pdf)

SPACEWALKS Each will last approximately 6.5 to 7 hours.
(Grunsfeld is Extravehicular -1 wearing the spacesuit with solid red stripes; Feustel is EV-2 wearing the suit with no
markings; Massimino is EV-3 wearing broken horizontal stripes; Good is EV-4 wearing barber pole red stripes.)
• On flight day (FD) 4, Grunsfeld and Feustel will replace a wide field camera. Then they will replace a failed science
data processing computer that delayed the launch from last October and install a mechanism for a spacecraft
to capture Hubble for de-orbit at the end of the its life.
• On FD 5, Massimino and Good will change out three boxes, each containing two of the telescope’s six gyroscopes,
and three batteries.
• On FD 6, Grunsfeld and Feustel will install the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, a device that will perform spectroscopy,
the science of breaking up light into its individual components. The new science instrument replaces
COSTAR, the corrective optics package first installed on the first Hubble servicing mission, that enabled the
scientific instruments to compensate for the telescope’s misshapen primary mirror. The astronauts also will conduct
repairs to the Advanced Camera for Surveys, which has experienced power failures, causing two of the
telescope’s three observing channels to stop operating.
• On FD 7, Massimino and Good will repair and upgrade the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, which
stopped working in 2004 due to power failures, and install a stainless steel blanket on Hubble’s exterior. The
blankets provide additional thermal protection for some equipment bays, replacing the existing multi-layer insulation
that has degraded over time.
• On FD 8, Grunsfeld and Feustel will replace the final set of batteries for the telescope, replace a sensor needed
for precisely pointing the telescope to gaze at its celestial targets and install another blanket on its exterior.

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