The biggest drop goes to Huntsman who now risks a possible 5th place finish in NH after staking his campaign there. It's a little like a mini-me version of Giuliani's Florida strategy without the name recognition.

I've got my tix to Europe to look for work, eastern Europe. That's how well the economy's chugging along, ABG... nobody's hiring professors or teachers. Or keeping/retaining them.

I don't think it had ever occurred to any of them that it was possible for the President to actually be sitting on their shoulders as they do what they do.  At least not in the fashion that it is possible now.

One of our friends is just now leaving.  He is now in a leadership role.  All these guys have his name on them in a sort of way.  He goes ashen white just thinking about the President being able to watch them like that.  At first I thought he was afraid of them all really messing up a task, but no, it's the cussing thing.

Occupy began with MSM ignoring them till they couldn't any longer. And now... the 1% are wearing their fear on the sleeves...

Occupy Wall Street is in the middle of one of its day-long marches in New York Tuesday, protesting the National Defense Authorization Act, but for those following along on the Global Revolution livestream, the real action is happening in the broadcast studio itself. That's because police have apparently just raided the Brooklyn studio of Globalrevolution.tv and taken some of the project's key volunteers into custody.

The raid Tuesday follows a notice to vacate that police delivered to the Bushwick studio on Monday night. Victoria Sobel, a Global Revolution volunteer, said Vlad Teichberg and a guy named Spike, both of whom maintain the live feed aggregator, had been taken into custody by police, along with four or five others.

-- Occupy Wall Street's Livestream Operators Arrested

Apparently the city had the The Department of Buildings "determine" that "conditions in this premises are imminently perilous to life" the day before, and then the police arrested the LiveStream people while "enforcing" the Department of Buildings order to vacate the building.

A presidential statement said that keeping Afghan citizens imprisoned without trial violates the country's constitution, as well as international human rights conventions.

In the USA:

President Barack Obama signed a law on New Year's Eve granting himself absolute power to indefinitely detain, without charge or trial, American citizens suspected (by him) of being "belligerents."

On December 31, 2011, with the President's signing of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the writ of habeas corpus -- a civil right so fundamental to Anglo-American common law history that it predates the Magna Carta -- is voidable upon the command of the President of the United States. The Sixth Amendment right to counsel is also revocable at his will.

My question:

My spouse made his final rank, but the board was brutal.  They only promoted 38%.  What happens in the military if it is your time to be promoted, the board will look at you for two years.  They have a certain percentage the Pentagon figures out each year that they will need to retain.  If you don't make the cut two years in a row you are out.  You are out of active duty military and on your own.

With the shaving back of the force the promotion rates will go down to a crazy small percentage.  People who have been in uniform since 9/11 and fought in the two wars for almost a decade will be kicked out the service.  They will not receive their earned promotions.  They are screwed.

ah but heres the rub.  

what he did not mention.  ONCE. is that they are meeting to stop a Mormon.  IMO because he is a Mormon.  Tweety of course knows this but never mentioned it and chose instead to explain that they are trying to stop Mitt because of his "policies".

Weekly applications dropped by 15,000 to a seasonally adjusted 372,000 last week, the Labor Department said. That's 11 percent lower than the same time last year and a positive sign ahead of Friday's important read on December job growth. The four-week average, which smooths fluctuations, fell to 373,250 -- the lowest level since June 2008. When applications drop below 375,000 -- consistently -- they generally signal that hiring is strong enough to reduce the unemployment rate.

The downward trend in applications is one of several signs that show the economy ended the year with momentum. Retailers reported solid holiday sales, consumer confidence rose to the highest level since April and November and December were the strongest months of 2011 for U.S. auto sales."

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At some point people will (hopefully) be forced to acknowledged that the policies could be working.

you are an s$$hole.  you have always been an a$$hole.  if there was a contest you would be the second biggest a$$hole in the world.

yeah, why not the first?

because you are an a$$hole.

So far, the Dems look to pick up the seat in Massachusetts with Elizabeth Warren.  Good news.  However, the Republicans are likely to pick up the vacated seats in both Nebraska and North Dakota.  +1 Republicans.

According to RCP, 8 seats are really in play - FL (Nelson), MA (Brown), MI (Stabenow), MO (McKaskill), MT (Tester), NV (Heller), VA (Open), and WI (Open).

LOVE it!