Not only that, bit if I understand it right in order to get the waiver they had to actually exceed the federal govt. requirements

This really isn't an Obama thing, not best I can tell anyway. But darned if I know of another thread to put it in & I don't really think it warrants a thread of its own.

As I read the story -- about the inefficiencies in the anti-terrorist "fusion centers" set up to allow authorities at levels from local to national share info more easily -- there were issues from day one under Bush, those problems continued through the current administration and that neither side of the aisle in Congress seems likely to do much (or anything) about the whole mess.

My Way News - Intelligence effort named citizens, not terrorists

FWIW, the headline is a bit misleading IMO, that's just one tidbit from a broader report. The financial end of it was considerably more interesting to me, at least interesting enough to pass along for those who might not have seen it.

Mo. Rep. Akin failed to report state pension - Yahoo! News

Why bother even trying if you know your party is going to end up supporting you anyway?

I think at this point he could come out as gay and the party would still support him just because they need the seat to flip.

Exactly. He's pretty much scott free at this point. He could kill a truck load of puppies being driven by nuns while he was drunk and he'd still be backed by the GOP.

That'd be a great Law & Order episode.

Haha! Who do I need to send the script to?

Republicans out Democrat in 'World of Warcraft' witch hunt - InGame on NBCNews.com

Seriously, if this is all we have to worry about from a candidate, then we need more candidates like her.

What next GOP? Harry Potter readers are satan worshipers?

New noncitizen voter purge has its own problems, county elections officials say - Tampa Bay Times

Keep chasing down those fraudulent voters, GOP, like Don Quixote slaying windmills. Keep up the good fight!!

With friends (dictators) like this, who needs friends.

http://times247.com/articles/obama-r...hree-dictators

Well, according to the GOP propaganda, he probably will be able to vote.

Globe view of the candidates. Its interesting why France is so pro-Obama. I suspect its more they view Romney as second coming of Reagan.

Obama Has Massive Lead in Global Poll | The Weekly Standard

I think this is as much a name recognition thing. Generally positive view + known candidate = winner over unknown challenger.

SI

For the people who think that people collecting unemployment are a drain on the 'system', looks like (if the data is correct) that's not really the case.

Percentage of claims that were fraudulent from 1989 to 2011 is less than 3%. Fraud is bad, but, a percentage that low is a good thing.

More People Eschew Jobless Benefits Than Scam System - Yahoo! Finance

In England at least Romney made such a prat of himself on his visit thats likely the reason he's viewed as a well .... prat .....

Romney in London Olympics Blunder

My personal favorite was Mitt Romney addressing Ed Miliband as 'Mr Leader'.

If I remember right his tour wasn't particularly great publicity for him where-ever he went ..

After gaffe filled foreign tour Europe asks is Romney a loser?

3%?!? That's even more efficient than I would have thought. It would cost more to go after the offenders than you would recoup.

SI

You mean like how drug testing people receiving welfare benefits was supposed to root out fraud, but has ended up costing more than has been saved?

Or some parallel about rooting out voter fraud?

SI

You forget in Florida at least that wasn't the intent of the drug testing at all - the fact that the company doing the testing was heavily linked to the congressman involved was purely coincidental and I'm sure he didn't benefit from it at all (cough).

One of the firms set to do drug testing had been owned by Governor Rick Scott, but there was no conflict of interest because ownership had been transferred to his wife.

I was surprised by that number as well. Plus, if you add in the amount that people don't claim (which the article said was 7 times more than how many are committing fraud), the program is making money. :)

I presume that was said with sarcasm?

(because obviously any money that my wife might earn wouldn't ever be to my advantage .... well in my case it probably wouldn't be as she's undoubtably spend it on bits of tat for the house ... or 'decorations' as she calls them ;) )

For some reason this sounded a whole lot more interesting before you translated it.

:)

This is not the Onion, although it would fit right in there.

Ex-FEMA director Michael Brown criticizes Obama for reacting too quickly to storm | The Lookout - Yahoo! News

Is the next article on the page Uwe Boll complaining about how James Cameron makes too much money with his movies?

SI

Brown complaining about how Obama handled this is like a child molester giving parenting advice.

Win.

QOTDecade

To put it in a bit of perspective, it was at about this point, two days after Katrina hit, that Brown sent the email stating he, quote, "felt trapped as head of FEMA. Please rescue me."

This is from another thread but I think the topic fits better here.

I suspect the assassination threat and rhetoric will really ramp up over the next 6 months if Obama wins re-election.

Over the last year and a half the "vote 'em out" option was on the table. But if he wins, that's not on the table any more.

SI

I wish that someone could chronicle the amount of racist texts sent in the last 48 months. I'm sure we leveled off some time in mid 2010, but I imagine we're up for all manner of inappropriate jokes and hack racial comedy as early as tonight.

Zero in my neck of the woods, though I imagine all of us here live in different worlds. Out here, I'm looking to see if I can find a Romney / Ryan sticker on any car, ever.

We're almost 375 pages into this thread...if we do end up with 4 more years are we going to see this become an ~800 page thread?

Or we could just create a second term thread. But I think we're getting a bit ahead of things

SI

You mean, if he doesn't get to destroy the country as soon as the election is over....right?

I don't know, I've been reading all week on facebook that Romney will destroy the country pretty much right away too. Clearly either outcome will result in the end of the United States.

Well, we've had a good run

SI

Pretty sure Mormons are just re-incarnated Mayans.

Does that mean we get a new calendar soon and the world won't end in December?

SI

Here we go ... hopefully we get a decision tonight.

Two term presidency or regulated to the lower half of presidents.

FWIW - I like this thread, it shows continuity and allows easy reference.

Duh, guys the world is going to end in December no matter who wins.

For entertainment purposes only, if Romney wins Obama should pull a Palin & just resign. Then we get a few months of President Biden!

I think both are still very possible.

Those are not mutually exclusive.

43 is living proof.

This.

How many posts will this thread have by 2016? 30,000? 35,000?

Unless there's a new FOF game, I'd guess term 2 will get way fewer posts than term 1. We're losing posters but not gaining any.

Well, I got what I wanted and Healthcare Reform is saved and will continue. I get I will be paying more taxes but I'm okay with it, a fair trade in my mind.

Congratulations to Obama and the Democratic party.