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This is by far the best post I have ever read on this site!!!! Thank you for all the info and setting everything straight.

I wonder if he had his telepromter.... Thanks just wondering. Ha ha ha ha..my picture says it all...

That statement has been on xe.com for over 2 months. It has been stated on DV many times since then, old news.

Keep these Obama jokes coming!!!! Dear Lord, you took my favorite actor, Patrick Swayze. You took my favorite actress, Farah Fawcett. You took my favorite singer, Michael Jackson. I just wanted to let you know that my favorite President is Barack Obama. Amen.

Great, now Obama is gonna put an extra tax on happy meals. We all know that the soda tax is doing wonders. What a joke.

You must b a lb load up youran idit g w bush put all this togeather. You would b....... if you were hung with a new rope.. Please keep your politcal view off the threads... Mine is obama is the dumbest.. person to ever be elect... to this office Imho

I used to live in Massachusetts and let me tell you this health care thing is no joke. Since the universal health care wen in to affect, Mass has seen rising tollbooth prices, cigarette prices $8-$9 a pack) and an increase in state sales tax and probably many more tax increases that I have not seen since I now live in Tennessee. Her is an older link to the 5 main problems that the socialist health care has in Massachusetts. Let me tell you if it can happen to this state I don't think the government can make it any better. Do you? http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/15/news/economy/massachusetts_healthcare_reform.fortune/index.htm Thanks and god bless

I have been listening to this for 1/2 hr. Really scares you when there is really no way to prepare for any of this. Everyone should pay close attention. Great post!!!!!!

The only place I can find them is on ebay, they are not cheap. I have bought a bunch off of ebay and I would be more than happy to give you a list of trusted sellers that I have dealt with.

Everyone who has not heard about or gone to fairtax.org should check it out. Don't know why this has not been passed it only makes since to be fair to everyone. In the end it would give the government more tax money to play with anyways. Stupid government should stop thinking they are robin hoods

I did this once and it took me 442 licks to get to the center. Very good question.

Iraqi PM unlikely to form govt until year's end IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraq's prime minister is still seeking Cabinet nominations from the country's top politicians, signaling he likely will not form a new government much earlier than the Dec. 25 deadline, as promised. Nouri al-Maliki had pledged to announce his new government by Dec. 15 and end the political deadlock that began with inconclusive parliamentary elections nine months ago. Al-Maliki appealed for nominations Saturday at a meeting of the Kurdish Democratic Party and said he would still meet the constitutional deadline of Dec. 25 for announcing Iraq's new leadership. The meeting was also attended by Sunni and Shiite Arab politicians with whom al-Maliki has had to create uneasy alliances after his political party fell short of winning the most seats in parliament in the March elections. IMO I think the government is ready to goand that this is some more of there SMOKE AND MIRRORS. What do you guys think?

National Alliance rejects National Policy Council draft law Friday, December 10, 2010 11:00 GMT The National Alliance rejected the draft law of the national policy council submitted by Al Iraqiya List. National Alliance MP Abbas Al Bayati believes that the draft law of the national policy council represents the view of Al Iraqiya List. The different political parties should not be bound by the draft law which represents high demands, Al Bayati said. What does this mean?

Sure does make a lot of sense, I have been hearing the 15th for the past month. Thanks for the post.

I just read on DV a couple of days ago that Iraq would be able to produce upwards of 10 million bpd by the end of the year which seems extreme. Here is some proof that it is BS, if anyone else was wondering. LONDON (Dow Jones)--Iraq is expected to increase crude oil production to around 8 million barrels a day from the current 2.35 million barrels a day in six-to-seven years, a senior Iraqi oil official said Monday. "I expect Iraq to be one of the world's leading crude oil producers," Thamer al-Ghadban, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's top energy advisor, told an Iraqi petroleum gathering being held in London. Ghadban, who was Iraqi oil minister twice after the U.S.-led invasion, said Iraq produced so far in 2010 an average 2.35 million barrels a day, exporting some 1.875 million barrels a day. Iraq's oil revenues, desperately needed to finance war-hit infrastructure and which make more than 90% of the country's national budgets, reached some $230 billion between Jan. 2006 and Nov. 1 2010, he said. http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20101129-703288.html

BAGHDAD—Squabbling Iraqi politicians are wrestling with a fresh question in efforts to form a new government here: How much is a cabinet post worth? Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has the better part of this month to name government ministers from the big winning parties in March elections, after rival factions agreed to a power-sharing deal last month. To do so, he has fallen back on a controversial points system that seeks to match the relative prestige of each cabinet portfolio with a party's electoral performance. [iRAQ] Each party has been awarded one point for every 2.25 parliamentary seats it won in the polls. Political bosses are being asked to exchange the points for their preferred cabinet seats. Depending on the portfolio's heft, a cabinet seat can cost one to three points, or possibly more. The complex system isn't a popular one, even for the prime minister. "Sadly we are now counting seats, quarter- and half-seats," Mr. Maliki said at a recent news conference. "But we must be fair to everyone." Many of Mr. Maliki's election rivals—now prospective coalition partners—say the point system isn't fair. The backlash is threatening to further slow the process. Iraq has already set the record for the longest period between an election and the formation of a government, according to Cornell University's Institute for European Studies. The distinction had been held by the Netherlands. Some critics want a simpler system that would allocate ministries based on the percentage of seats won in the election. Others want the number of seats per point in Mr. Maliki's system increased. Still others want key posts—including the premiership itself—to be excluded from the math altogether, since those positions were agreed to in the power-sharing deal. "Until now there is no agreement on the points," said Mahmoud Othman, a member of parliament's Kurdish bloc, which like other slates is angling for ministries. There has been a popular revolt as well. In some Iraqi cities, secular-minded protesters have demanded that Mr. Maliki exclude the Ministry of Culture from the formula, to keep it out of the hands of Islamist parties. Mr. Maliki is under pressure to hand out cabinet posts in an equitable manner across the country's ethnic and sectarian divides. Sunnis, who for the most part boycotted 2005 polls and felt locked out of the last government—fueling the insurgency—are especially wary of being sidelined by the process of negotiating who gets what posts. The U.S. has warned that another perceived sidelining of the Sunnis, especially after the big turnout by Sunnis in the March election, could reignite an insurgency that almost tipped the country into civil war after the earlier vote. Iraq's minorities also feel crowded out. A Christian member of parliament said this week that any chance for a meaningful role in the next government has "gone with the wind." Ministerial posts continue to be viewed by most Iraqi politicians as personal fiefs and opportunities to amass influence, prestige and wealth. The process under way is "a bazaar where wild Iraqi desires for enrichment and influence meet clashing regional and international agendas," said Ibrahim al-Sumaidaie, a political commentator here. In the March polls, no bloc won a parliamentary majority, forcing bitter political enemies to agree to share power, after nine months of haggling. In the election, Mr. Maliki's Shiite slate won 89 of the 325 seats in parliament. The Sunni-dominated slate of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi edged him out with 91 seats, but Mr. Allawi failed to cobble together a governing coalition. The electoral outcome gives Mr. Maliki 39.5 points to Mr. Allawi's 40.4. A Kurdish alliance won 42 seats, giving it 18.6 points. And followers of anti-American cleric Moqtada al Sadr picked up 40 seats, giving him 17.75 points. Mr. Maliki hasn't been precise on just how many points each post will require. He said that plum ones—such as finance, foreign affairs and oil—would cost at least three points each. Next in the pecking order are "first-class," public-service ministries like health and electricity, requiring at least two points each, according to Adnan al-Asadi, a member of parliament from Mr. Maliki's party. Lower profile posts, for instance Iraq's human-rights and displaced-persons portfolios, need only 1.5 points, said Mr. Asadi. Mr. Maliki said he would exclude the defense and interior ministries from the formula to shield them from "sectarian and partisan considerations." Over the weekend, the complexity of the system—which Iraqis have dubbed muhasasa, Arabic for "quota system"—spawned a program on state-owned Iraqiya TV called, "The Posts: The Equations." Appearing on the show, Shaker Katab, a member of Mr. Allawi's bloc, suggested Mr. Maliki was hoarding points by equating his powerful post with that of the ceremonial presidency, which has been given to the Kurds, and the speakership of parliament, which belongs to the Sunni-dominated bloc. Amid the jockeying, Mr. Maliki has expanded the number of posts on offer—scrapping plans to slim down his future cabinet to 21 members. He now says it will include 41 ministers, including ones for investment and tourism. Parliament, meanwhile, is debating the number of parliamentary committees, for which chairmanships can be doled out to factions, on top of cabinet posts. And Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is currently proposing to boost the number of deputies for his post to three, up from two. "It's for the dual purposes of necessity, and appeasement," explained Ala Talabani, a member of parliament from Mr. Talabani's Kurdish bloc. http://sg.wsj.net/public/resources/images/WO-AD616_IRAQ_NS_20101208184819.gif This is my first post pls don't hate!!!