The shuttle was not capable of breaking out of Earth's gravitational well.

That's what we get for not having a real 'heavy launch' vehicle since Apollo was retired.

CBS News is also questioning the Republicans' versions of the e-mails, provided to the media last week. Further, Mother Jones noted earlier this week that the Republicans' interim report included the correct version of the emails, which tends to underscore the point that last week's "revelations" to Jonathan Karl were motivated by malice, and not the result of incompetence on the part of GOP congressional staffers.

Yman is absolutely correct. You and your friends in the GOP are the ones who are making the accusation of a cover-up -- where's your proof? And no, getting louder and more obnoxious in your accusations is not proof of wrongdoing, nor is pointing to an aging and increasingly pathetic has-been who's trying desperately to call attention to himself and stay relevant.

Rep. Darrell Issa's House Oversight Committee has long had possession of these e-mails for several months, and they've been selectively leaking portions of emails to the point where the White House finally released them publicly on Wednesday. And now, because of that document dump, it looks like Issa's committee has been apparently caught engaging in a fabrication.

Read the White House e-mails for yourself, Slado. And who knows, maybe even you will finally see that there's simply no there there. Then, perhaps you'll think twice before posting an uninformed comment that's held up for general ridicule by everyone here.

First, you claimed Rice, Clinton and Obama were "lying" when they stated their belief that the video prompted the attack - something supported by evidence at the time.  Yet, despite be asked numerous times, you haven't provided a single shred of evidence that they knew the intelligence assessment - which pointed to the video from day 1 before a single edit - was wrong at the time.  So now you change the subject because you can't defend your accusation.

Not to mention your latest, baseless accusations in the IRS situation.

I wonder if liberal apps were increasing as well.  There is a lot BS going around, seems like releasing the number of all applications, the number reviewed, and their names would certainly be an easy way for the IRS to vindicate itself.

The timing could be explained away as the assumption that the number of applications would increase leading up to an election.

No.

To quote David Axlerod..."It's a huge government".

This is exactly the problem many have with the president.  He is by his own admission a figure head.  Responsible for nothing.

How does he hear about the days events?  He watches the news like me.

When you worked for whatever telephone company you worked for, if someone asked the CEO if anyone in the company knew about situation X, would you seriously expect the CEO to answer that question?  Even if he/she honestly believed no one had knowledge of it, there is no way he/she could know.  He/She would either have to refuse to answer the question (in which case they're accused of lying - as you just did) or he/she would have to give such a highly qualified answer that they would be accused of lying.

Because I think Roberts may be one of the most dangerous justices in my lifetime, especially with Alito and Scalia are on the same court.

I guess Breitbart realizes that his readers are too stupid to actually check things out for themselves.

Does that make you a "liar"?

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The numbers for 2013 aren't out yet because we're only five months into this year, but gas prices in Seattle right now are hovering around $3.89 per gallon, and that's after a five week period of oil companies consistently raising prices every week for the start of the summer driving season -- as they do every year. Up until the second week of April, I was paying $3.319 per gallon. Still nearly 20% cheaper than Bush's peak price.

While gas hit a low of $1.62 in January 2009, the price did not hit a peak of $3.985 per gallon until May 2011, and May 2012's retail price was still lower than that, at $3.6780. Still lower than Bush's peak price.

As for the stock market, I've been very clear as long as I've written anything here that long term (buy and hold not buy and sell), stocks are the best place to be.

What's even more pathetic is that Beck has long been a pitch man for Goldline International, which was the subject of a multi-count legal complaint filed by the City Attorney's office in Santa Monica, CA in November 2011.

There was an obvious bubble and it eventually had to pop.

The little, benighted, brown people will have "supply and demand" whether they want it or not..

The insights gleaned from a Psych 101 course would dictate that our invasions and interventions over time would do nothing but breed deep-seated resentment, distrust, and a seige mentality amongst the populace, but the nihilism of short-term gain was always too good to pass up.

But the Amy's Baking Company saga has nothing to do with politics you say?  Well, Amy Bouzaglo is no ordinary crazy cat-lady-baker-cum-meltdown-haver:

"She is also very involved in the Arizona Republican Party and volunteered numerous hours of her time during the 2006 elections. In 2005, she was 1 of 250 people appointed to the Republican Presidential Task Force in Arizona."

That's incidentally from the court papers regarding her bank fraud conviction.

But I'm sure no one told anyone in the Obama Administration.

I mean this logic defies reality but you guys keep assuming the best.

D'OH! (Facepalm.) You tricked me into divulging our nefarious scheme. (Sigh!) You're just too good for us, Slado. We should've known better than to try to fool the likes of you.

It has morphed into such corporate astroturf supergroups as "Fix the Debt."  Hunt, in his column, chides President Obama for refusing to embrace the recommendations of "his own deficit reduction panel."   Of course, the rules of the Commission called for the approval of 14 of the 18 members, but only got 11 in a "straw poll."    And, that tally is elusive since the Commission, taking the cue, simply adjourned without an official vote.  

So, the recommendations are, essentially, that of the co-chairs,  Bowles and Simpson.  Bowles and Simpson, undaunted, have as a pair, modified their recommendations by moving further to the right, with more spending cuts and less in revenue.

 Let's hope the austerity kick has been unmasked for what it is--a failure if not a fraud.  A swindle of history, a debasement of Keynes, with an assessment of what apparently passes for academic rigor these days  in conservative circles (Harvard Professor, Niall Ferguson said that Keynes had it all wrong because he was gay), and  charlatan research by Harvard economists, Reinhart and Rogoff (whose errors and unconventional statistics were caught , when their data became available, by a U Mass graduate student).  It is clear that Reinhart and Rogoff's work is worthy of publication only in the Journal of Irreproducible Results, but it has been the "intellectual underpinning" of the austerity movement.