Electric cars would need massive nuclear power to keep going

Tweet 5/25: "Switching all cars in the country to electric would drain the National Grid of nearly a fifth of its capacity unless

• the equivalent of another six new nuclear power stations are built, claims a report."...Telegraph UK

Chinese child chained to pole by father who tried to sell him as a slave

Tweet 5/27/10: A thin 8 year old Chinese boy is chained to a pole by his father who tries to sell the child as a slave to passers by. UK SUN, Nick Parker

Obama informs fawning media he knows they're biased in his favor

Tweet 5/25: "In one sense, the press, or at least some members of the press, have only themselves to blame.

• Obama treats them with contempt because he knows that when big tests come,
  
• they've always been on his side.

There's no reason for him to think they won't be there in the future. "Most of you covered me," he told the media elite at the 2009 White House Correspondents' Association dinner.

• "All of you voted for me.""

"Fawning press now gets cold shoulder from Obama," B. York, Washington Examiner

At least 9 suicides this year at Communist Chinese electronic sweat shop, 30 others about to jump were stopped

Tweet 5/25, BBC: "But the company has admitted it stopped a further

• 30 people trying to throw themselves off high buildings in a three-week period earlier this year. "...

5/21: BBC: They report 11 have been attempted, 9 successfully. Communist China is well known to try to keep bad news quiet, even paying people to shut up. The BBC of course helps, putting the name 'Taiwan' in the headline, allowing a reader to assume the deaths occurred in Taiwan. I read the article several times and still could not tell where exactly the deaths occurred and had to do extra research to find out. Being a Taiwanese company it is of course responsible. But the factories are in Communist China, that's where these young people are apparently being worked to death. "Ninth worker death at Taiwan iPhone firm Foxconn"

Chicago Tribune does not state Arizona law correctly, allows Obama rep statement without clarification.

Tweet Chicago Tribune, 5/19: "(DHS ICE head John) Morton said his agency will not necessarily process illegal immigrants referred to them by Arizona officials. The best way to reduce illegal immigration is through a comprehensive federal approach, not a patchwork of state laws, he said.

• "I don't think the Arizona law, or laws like it, are the solution," Morton said." (item at end of article).

(Article has blaring headline about immigration crackdown in Illinois--right, sure. Remember George Bush? If he wouldn't crackdown on illegal aliens, certainly Obama won't do it).

• First, the Arizona law is nothing more than a mirror of existing federal law. If that isn't good enough, "laws like it" will cover existing federal law. The Tribune allows an Obama official to say--well into his term of office--that he disregards current federal law, and lets this stand without amplification. The Tribune places this item at the tail end of the article-where many won't see it.
  

This is how the Tribune reporter himself described the Arizona law:

• "The law makes it a crime to be in the state illegally and requires police to check suspects for immigration paperwork."...

This is not correct. How can a reporter not know this? Police are not required-nor allowed-- to check people suspected of being illegal aliens. They are only allowed to do so if a person has been stopped for another violation.

• Perhaps the Tribune reporter went to public schools and is not well educated.

For decades, elected officials ordered police NOT to ask for immigration status even if a crime, including murder, had been committed. This has been the case in New York City (where I live) for decades. Even when Rudy Giuliani was mayor-much to my surprise at the time. He did not want anyone's illegal alien status to ever be revealed. To me this is a crime against citizens who are not criminals and grounds for impeachment of any elected official. Do you get the idea now that elected officials are completely out of touch-even the ones labeled as "conservative?"
via MichaelSavage.com

Germany bans some forms of short selling-BBC

Tweet 5/19, "The German financial regulator has banned traders in the country from "naked" short-selling of euro-denominated government bonds and of shares in the country's 10 most important financial institutions.

• Short-sellers usually borrow shares, sell them, then buy them back when the stock falls and return them to the lender, keeping the difference in price.

"Naked" short selling occurs when a trader sells a financial instrument that has not yet been borrowed."...

Multi-millionaire Obama insists struggling Mass. taxpayers pay bills for his Aunt Zeituni

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5/17, AP: Obama's Aunt Zeituni lives for "free" in Boston off the taxpayers. No one in the US press dared mention her existence before Obama's election. She's only 57 so has many years to go taking the spot of a poor lifelong US citizen who paid taxes all his or her life. It wouldn't be quite as bad if Obama didn't preach 'taking care of our brother' as a pious cornerstone of his obviously phony persona. A multi-millionaire who not only won't help his aunt, but is completely disconnected and contemptuous of hard working American taxpayers.

• "Obama wasn't involved in the Boston hearing. The White House also said it was not helping Onyango (Obama's aunt) with legal fees."...(And not a word of thanks to Massachusetts taxpayers. Judge a man by his actions, not his words. These are just the facts. Facts are distasteful to the far left, so they avoid all but one. They have exactly one fact in mind at all times, as per Saul Alinsky: blame the vicious right wing (bloggers) who pay Obama's bills. It's not only the money. The wage earner gives time in exchange for money, time away from his family, sometimes sacrificing his health. Obama refused to do that for his aunt, but has no problem expecting everyone else to.)ed. photo above Obama in Kenya with his aunt in his 20's. from RushLimbaugh via Gateway Pundit
  

Green Party in Norway goal is 30 hour work week

Tweet Current demand is for 35 hour week (with an eye to 30) as long as it provides for their welfare system.