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Many Americans view the bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler more favorably these days, believing incorrectly that the government made money or broke even on them. But the view grows a lot more negative when the actual price tag is attached. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 20% of American Adults now believe the government made money on the billions in taxpayer dollars given to the two automakers to keep them afloat, while 19% more say the government broke even. However, a plurality (46%) recognizes that the government lost money on the auto bailouts. Fifteen percent (15%)...

Hilarious video re: the Chevy Dolt (ahem...Volt) Video link"

Perry is just another GOP puppet and a sorry one at that. I am from Texas and know for a fact that the man is not an idiot, but a liar and will say and do anything required to get elected. As bad as Romney is, Perry would be worse.

<p>Ashton Kutcher attacked the Penn State Board of Trustees for firing Joe Paterno last night -- but there was one little problem, seems Ashton didn't know about Joe's misdeeds.</p> <p>Right after Paterno got the chop, Kutcher tweeted, "How do you fire Jo Pa? #insult #noclass as a hawkeye fan I find it in poor taste."</p>

Via Jonathan Last at the Standard. Remember a few months ago when people were snickering because GM had sold only 281 Volts that month? Yeah. The Nissan Leaf once again outsold General MotorsÂ’ Chevy Volt in July after GM slowed production of its electric car last month, giving Nissan a nearly 2,000-car edge in total sales.Nissan sold 931 all-electric battery-powered Leafs in July, bringing the total number of electric cars the company has sold to 4,806. General Motors only sold 125 Volts after shutting down its Detroit-based plant to retool it, bringing its total vehicles shipped to 2,870. General Motors...

And you thought Betty McCollum couldn’t do any worse than deliberately leaving out “under God” while leading the Pledge of Allegiance in the House in April 2002. No, my friends, this is Minnesota we’re talking about here. We’ve put Jesse Ventura in charge of the state and sent Al Franken to Washington. As Jack Nicholson once said in As Good As It Gets, “Sell crazy someplace else — we’re all stocked up here.” The Representative from MN-04 declared during her midterm election debate with Teresa Collett that al-Qaeda no longer poses a threat to the United States. No … seriously:

Boeing working on hybrid plane to cut fuel use, noise, emissions OSHKOSH, Wis. — An electric airliner? Imagine a hyper-efficient aircraft as large as a Boeing 737, although weighing much less. It would run quieter and cleaner than any other commercial plane ever made, requiring two-thirds less energy, according to NASA-funded research. The hybrid-powered jetliner of the future would operate on batteries or jet fuel, depending on whether it's cruising or taking off and climbing, when the most thrust is required. The concept of electric aircraft generated a resounding buzz amid the drone of pistons and the roar of gas...

After consulting with the Secret Service, President Obama drove a Chevrolet Volt at a plant in Hamtramck, Mich., the pool reports. The pool summarizes: “He stepped excitedly into a Black Chevy Volt, behind the wheel, buckled himself in and haltingly drove perhaps 10 feet at a crawling speed.” “Pretty smooth,” Obama remarked.

FishbowlDC has obtained e-mails written by WaPo's conservative-beat blogger Dave Weigel, that the scribe sent to JournoList, a listserv for liberal journalists. (Read up on JournoList with Yahoo! News's Michael Calderone's 2009 story that he wrote for Politico). Seems Weigel doesn't like (and that would be putting it mildly) at least some of the conservatives he covers. Poor Drudge - Weigel wants him to light himself on fire. Weigel's Words: •"This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to handle his emotional problems more responsibly, and set himself on fire."

With growing pressure for decisions on life-or-death issues in Afghanistan and Iran, this morning the White House announced that President Obama will soon travel to…Copenhagen. Obama will be in Denmark for just a few hours -- he leaves this Thursday and returns Friday -- which is just enough time to make a pitch for Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympic Games. He'll be following First Lady Michelle Obama, who is also going to Copenhagen as part of the promote-Chicago team. Here is the White House press release:.....

Speaking to a town hall of mostly ObamaCare supporters on August 11, 2009, the President compared the money-losing U.S. Post Office as an example of how a government-run program can compete with private enterprise. Oops!

Senate sources confirm for me that Mel Martinez was the famous “Senator Anonymous” from three weeks ago. Martinez, not wanting him name used, told the Politico “I don’t think we have learned much from the election in terms of what people want to see.” This senator said the Republicans needed someone who could “speak from the center” and wanted it known that “Sarah Palin is not the voice of [the Republican] party.”

Black voters turned out in force and voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama. General Colin Powell endorsed him. An emotional Condoleezza Rice spoke Wednesday of how excited she was to see this historic event. Some are pointing to this as black racism. That's nonsense, and here's why.We're all aware of the history of race relations in this country. Even those of us who under no circumstances would have voted for Obama can at least breath a sigh of relief: Finally, race is no longer a barrier to the pinnacle of national and world leadership. As a bonus, we can now look...

After the vice presidential debate Chris Matthews criticized Sarah Palin for, of all things, looking into the camera because it made her look like a "dolt." In fact, the "Hardball," host took several stylistic shots at Palin that implied the Alaska Governor wasn't very intelligent. Audio here When guest panelist Roger Simon noted Palin looked directly into the camera, Matthews observed: You know what I think of people when they come on "Hardball," and they look at the camera, I think they're dolts. In addition to the "dolt," remark Matthews viewed Palin's performance as "so reciting," and "automatic," "like a...

A gunman accosted a man carrying a duffel bag containing nearly $150,000 in broad daylight Friday next to a New York City Starbucks coffee shop, leaving his victim empty-handed and bloodied, WNBC.com reported. Seton Ijams, 50, had just withdrawn the money from a Chase Bank when the assailant approached him from behind, pistol-whipped him in the head and dragged him on the sidewalk as he clung to the bag, police said. Police said the robber is between 25 and 30, was dressed in a black parka and black pants and is about 5 feet 9 inches tall, WNBC.com reported. Limousine...

IN SPEECH, JOHN EDWARDS DENOUNCES WAR ON TERROR, CALLING IT A 'BUMPER STICKER' SLOGAN...

SEATTLE - A woman wounded in last month's deadly shooting rampage at Seattle's Jewish Federation offices says she hopes the attack helps the public and lawmakers see a need for tighter gun control laws. "How and why the murderer who invaded my workplace a couple of weeks ago was able to legally acquire two semiautomatic weapons in our state is still a very disturbing mystery to me," Dayna Klein, 37, said Thursday, seated next to her husband at a news conference in a downtown hotel. Klein said she met with former President Bill Clinton last week while in New York,...

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In this war freedom should come first not after! In New Hampshire the Motto is Live free or Die! I don't need Bush spying on law abiding americans and taking our freedoms. Anyone who surrenders a square inch of freedom to the government in the name of saftey is a traitor and should be treated like one! Let the Bush Fashists all drop dead! Filthy Commys! LET FREEDOM RING!

AUSTIN - I'm so sorry, but we are having a constitutional crisis. The timing couldn't be worse. Right in the middle of the wrapping paper, the gingerbread and the whole shebang, a tiny honest-to-goodness constitutional crisis... **snip** The Department of Defense has just proved this yet again with its latest folly of mistaking a flock of Florida Quakers for a threat to overthrow the government. A few months ago, a student at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth tried to check out a copy of Mao's Little Red Book and wound up being interviewed by two feds. Cointelpro and all...

Here's proof! The kitties are are loser souses just like your hero President. BTW, your boy really stunk in his speech last night. It was like, "oooooo I'm the modern FDR, JFK, and LBJ all rolled into one. I'll give you whatever you want if you'll forget how my incompetence let people die of thirst on a freeway overpass." What a loser

MIDI - GOOD SHIP LOLLIPOP On Sean Penn's ship "Idiot"...he's in need of a new fix-it kit His camera crew...starts to sink and they don't know what to do On Sean Penn's ship "Idiot"...he has thrown a hissy fit His photo-op...suddenly has taken quite a ker-plop He used his red cup...nice red plastic cup To start scooping that water out The guy is a dolt...big dolt...of that there is not a doubt On Sean Penn's ship "Idiot"...he is taking a big ego hit It isn't cool...we laugh as he plays the fool On Sean Penn's ship "Idiot"...he is truly...

How utterly evil the Palis must be to have rejected a state as natural in its borders as the one shown above! (this was the only way to slice and dice Palestine so that "Israel" could be born with a Jewish majority). Slicing and dicing into islands is called apartheid. picture is from: http://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/maps/part.html Though Balfour, himself, was in favor of a Jewish state, Great Britain particularly favored the declaration as an act of policy. Britain wanted the United States to join World War I and the British hoped that by supporting a Jewish homeland in Palestine, world Jewry...

I AM A RETIRED ARY STAFF SERGEANT WHO SERVED IN VIETNAM ON TWO TOURS. I SERVED IN 1968 AND 1969. I HAVE SEEN THE ATROCITIES AND CARNAGE WAR LEAVES IN ITS WAKE. I AM REPUBLICAN AND I DID VOTE FOR MR.BUSH (BOTH TERMS) I THINK BUSH SENIOR WAS A WAY BETTER LEADER THEN HIS KID. I HATE THE WAY THIS PRESIDENT IS TREATING THIS KIA SOLDIERS MOTHER. HIDING FROM THIS WOMAN IS ONLY HURTING HIS APPROVAL RATE. THIS IS THIS GUYS M.O. HE HID FROM THE VIETNAM DRAFT ALSO, BUT THIS IS FAR WORSE. ALL YOU PEOPLE POSTING ON THIS...

I would like to warn you all about dell and sales customer care Dell tech... First of all I call up DELL and went through the order. I told the guy what I wanted and what I was going to use the computer for I was told that a DELL diemension 3000 came with a p4 775 socket t if I paid the upgrade cost to get the new socket type. I got my comp the second week of jan 05 I then set it up and call DELL tech to confirm that I got the right hardware in my...

Advocacy Group Says Minority Leader Guilty of Gross Violation: Leahy and Levin Also Named ALEXANDRIA, VA - The American Conservative Union, the nations oldest and largest conservative grassroots organization, yesterday filed an ethics complaint against Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). The complaint comes in response to Sen. Reid's May 12th reference to judicial nominee Henry Saad's confidential FBI file on the floor of the United States Senate. "Henry Saad would have been filibustered anyway…," said Reid on the floor of the Senate. "All you need to do is have a member go upstairs and look at his confidential report...

I did it!!! For years I have been tying to post an article during normal freeping hours that nobody would comment on for over an hour. It is quite a challenge really. FR has a wide range of interests, and if an article is too weird, then people will comment on its weirdness. Anyway, every few weeks I have been trying to find an article just so totally boring that there would be no reason for anyone to comment on it, and at the same time not be too weird as to merit a comment based on its weirdness. I...

University of Hawaii students and faculty were treated to a sad spectacle on Wednesday night at the Art Auditorium. A bitter, defeated man named David Horowitz attempted to spew his lies and hate speech to an audience of about 100 people. He was soundly defeated by a courageous group of truth-and-reality advocates. Every time Horowitz told a lie, he was corrected by an audience member, who then were rudely told to “Shut up!” by some demented looking right-wingers. Horowitz is pushing the agenda of a group calling itself "Students for Academic Freedom," a thinly veiled attempt to censor university professors...

<p>I just heard that Bush and company is trying to pass a law that adds extra taxs to cheap beer like Milwaukee best and naturl light. He is going to raise the taxs on these bears by a nikel so he can recoop his money loses in the irag war. He and his old guys party the repitleublicans want to sock to the little guy and college guys like me who can only offord cheap bear and not the good stuff like all you chumps drink that sam adems and budwizer and coors lite and other big shot drinks. Give me a brake. Bush is not going to tax those bears because all his rich buddys drike them so he will tax all the people that didnt vote for him in the erection of 04. It is pay back for us not cow towing to his right wing aganda that only serves to destory the poor and working stifs like me and my mom and dad. So when I go to by some natey lite toniht with my fake id (scew the govement!!!) I will stock up and by maybe 3 or4 cases to hold me over so Bush won't be able to tax me and my bear and get himself out of that mess of a war in the muddle east. If I were you I would do the same and show Bush and his company of hooligans that we can't be taxed and tricked like little cirus animals that are beaten to dance and do tricks for use humans. Have a good day and don't let them know your on to them, that you know that they are trying to keep us down. Slowly now slowly we turn the tide!!!!</p>

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

Just signed up to see what The KKK and it's supporters are up to- as usual I found the most racist, sexist homophobic war monging hate mongering idiots I've ever seen gathered in one place all right here on this one website. It's good to know you assholes are can all be communicated to in one place- since most of you are illiterate and ignorant it will be easy to disseminate info to you redncek losers.

The last time I posted somthing all it said was "Why not let others enjoy this event?" (referring the Michael Moore coming to speak at UVSC, Which I will be at in support of Moore)I went on looking at what other people had to say, when I clicked "Reply to post" a message came up saying "Your posting privileges have been revoked" now why is that? what did I say that was so wrong. Its to bad everyone on this site is so close-minded. I already know that this will be taken off and my "posting privileges" will once again...

Marijuana appears to be a popular item to sneak into the Monongalia County Magistrate Courthouse these days. At about 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, court officials reportedly apprehended a woman carrying a baggie of marijuana and a pipe, and trying to enter the courthouse located on the third floor of the building on Spruce Street in Morgantown. Darris Summers, court administrator, said he found the drugs while searching through the woman's purse before she tried to pass through the court's security system -- a combination of a scanner and a hand search. Signs posted throughout the courthouse explain that all people and...

CHARLESTON -- A woman who told police her marijuana was stolen faces a felony drug charge. Shane N. Walker, 25, of Charleston, faces a count of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance after Charleston Police found 3 ounces of marijuana inside a gym bag belonging to her boyfriend's brother, according to a complaint filed Friday in Kanawha County Magistrate Court. Walker also told police she sells the drug and showed authorities a collection of plastic sandwich bags in which she stores the substance. She told police that she thought her boyfriend was hiding more than 3 ounces of...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Released from prison, Ronald A. Mahner's first mistake was driving back to get his stuff. Mahner returned to the Seminole County Jail to reclaim his personal property four days after being released. He had served a sentence for drunken driving, auto theft and habitually driving with a suspended or revoked license. But when asked to provide identification, Mahner handed a sheriff's deputy his license, which after routine computer check was found to have been revoked for life. Deputy Teri Cresswell couldn't prove Mahner was doing anything illegal without seeing him behind the wheel, so she told...

Religion is big news these days. This week alone, it's made the cover of Newsweek and prime time network television. The two media events serve to illustrate our national dichotomy over religion: Most of us want to believe in some sort of higher being; beyond that we find little to agree about. The Newsweek feature, ''God & Health: Is Religion Good Medicine? Why Science Is Starting To Believe,'' asked whether faith could improve one's health. The ABC report on Primetime Monday, ''Jesus, Mary and Da Vinci,'' asked whether the Bible told the whole truth about Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Thus...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Harold Ford on Friday threw his name into the mix of Democrats vying to succeed House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt in the wake of the party's election losses. "I recognize that I am an underdog because I'm starting out late," said Ford. But the Tennessee Democrat also said "there's a real yearning and a real appetite for change in the party." Ford made the announcement in an interview Friday morning on the nationally syndicated Don Imus morning radio show. Two other House veterans, Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Martin Frost, had jumped into the race Thursday and...

Teen Suffers Burns After Setting Own Shorts On Fire ELGIN, Ill., 12:16 p.m. CDT September 23, 2002 - A Roselle teenager suffered second-degree burns during a game with two other boys where they would splash gasoline on their pants, set them on fire, then try to put them out. The DailyHerald.com reported Monday that the "game" took place in the back yard of an Elgin home. Elgin police said the boys took turns smearing their shorts with gasoline Saturday night. They would then take turns lighting each other's pants on fire, and the teen whose pants were set on fire...

Since I am approaching my one year anniversary of being a "freeper" and since I have never contributed a dime to FR, jim or the republican party, I am going to beat the powers to be at FR and voluntarily leave, rather than have them come up with one of the cock and bull stories to ban me. Been fun,Bye

War with Iraq is almost inevitable, but Washington should not attack before exploring all diplomatic avenues, including a fresh United Nations resolution, a senior Republican senator said yesterday. Richard Lugar, an influential member of the Senate foreign relations and intelligence committees, sounded a note of caution against the increasingly bellicose language coming from Washington. A day after Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, said America could not afford to wait for proof that Iraq was building weapons of mass destruction, Mr Lugar - visiting London - urged a more "methodical" approach. He gave warning that America could leave the Middle...