And William Jacobson’s got an excellent entry, ” A taste of the medicine .” And talking about the original Politico hit piece, Glenn Reynolds adds: Would Jonathan Martin, Maggie Haberman, Anna Palmer and Kenneth Vogel have put their names on a similar piece, with no named sources, aimed at Barack Obama? Would Politico have run it? I think we know the answer. More links at the post . Also, at Memeorandum and London’s (salacious) Daily Mail , ” ‘I don’t even remember her name’: Herman Cain denies sexual harassment claims as he admits he knew BOTH women .” PREVIOUSLY : ” Herman Cain Sexual Harassment Scandal Upends GOP Presidential Race .”
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“Spenditol,” a new miracle drug to help you spend it through the Obama Depression (via Midnight Blue ). Also at Daily Caller . And from Penny Young Nance, President and CEO of Concerned Women for America, ” Washington, It’s Time to Put On Your Big Boy Pants .” Women, who head up a majority of the household budgets in this country, sit down every week with a calculator and their checkbooks and make really hard decisions. There are sleepless nights and stress associated with these decisions, but they put on their big girl pants and make them just the same. This is why Americans are so angry with our national leaders. It’s not really that complicated. There is lots of talk about T-bills and bond ratings. Yes, we know the global financial markets and Federal Reserve policy are complicated, but the basic principle is not: We as a nation must live within our means. Forgive me if that sounds over-simplified or antiquated. But again, the average household understands the consequences of not paying debt and spending money you don’t have — you get a bad credit rating and then you can’t buy even the things you do need. They know the answer is not to keep spending or even cut back slightly. Unfortunately, the president has not gotten the memo. He doggedly refuses to seriously agree to spending cuts. CNS News reported in late 2010 that “in the first 19 months of the Obama administration, the federal debt held by the public increased by $2.5260 trillion, which is more than the cumulative total of the national debt held by the public that was amassed by all U.S. presidents from George Washington through Ronald Reagan.” That’s a lot of money for one president to burden the public. Now he’s trying to borrow more money and force our nation to go further into debt by advocating a debt ceiling increase without serious cuts in our spending. That’s why it’s important that the House passed the Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution (BBA). It is time for the nation to force accountability on our leaders and it is why the Senate needs to pass it as well.
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New Ad Campaign from Concerned Women for America
**Written by Doug Powers Last month, a California Congressman distributed talking points among the ranks stressing Obama and the Democrats “unprecedented” support for Israel : The July 22 memo from Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Foreign Affairs, declared that the backing from Obama and the House Democrats have been unprecedented. “I think you will find [this document] useful to make the case that House Democrats and the President are as good if not better than any Congress or Administration that has come before,” Berman, who is Jewish, said in an e-mail to Democrats in Congress. Meanwhile, across the ocean : Washington is funding an ad campaign in Israel featuring billboards of Palestinian officials asking: “We are partners — what about you?” The campaign launched Sunday includes the faces of senior Palestinian Authority officials Saeb Erekat, Jibril Rajoub and Yasser Abed Rabo, and Riad Malki, Palestinian foreign affairs minister, Yedioth Aharonoth said. The aim of the campaign is to persuade Israelis that peace partners on the Palestinian side truly exist, and calls for support of a two-state solution, the Tel Aviv newspaper said. The campaign has raised a few eyebrows in Israel. “We are talking about a Palestinian Authority campaign funded by the American government,” an Israeli Foreign Ministry official was quoted saying. The UPI reports that about $250,000 US dollars have been spent on the billboard campaign in Israel (I’d ask how much is being spent to send the same “we’re your peace partner” message to the Palestinians, but I’m guessing I know the answer). (h/t Israel Matzav ) **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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US Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Pro-Palestinian Ad Campaign in Israel
At Feministe, ” My Sluthood, Myself “: Last summer, I suffered the breakup of a relationship that I had thought would be permanent. Now, I’ve been through my share of break-ups, even of quite serious relationships, but nothing ever broke me like this one. Since then, I’ve had sexual interactions of the orgasmic kind with 9 different people, none of which I was at any time in a committed relationship with . I’m not telling you this to shock (though I am specifying the number because we all need to get over the whole “OMG! Be ashamed of your NUMBER! It’s either too big or too small!” thing). I’m telling you this because of something else that’s also true about me: I’d really like to be in a long-term, probably monogamous relationship. That’s right, folks, I’m a slut who craves a stable, loving, committed relationship. File me under “Lookin’ fer luv: ur doin it wrong.” That’s the story we get sold, right? That women who sleep around are destroying their chances at True Love. Something to do with bonding hormones getting all used up? Or is it that we have so little self-esteem that no one could love us? Or maybe it’s that we’re all used candy wrappers or dirty masking tape. I can never remember. Thing is: I’ve done it the other way. Until my mid-30s, I was largely a serial monogamist. Not for any grand ethical or philosophical reasons – it was just what felt comfortable to me. That’s not to say that I didn’t have some wild adventures in college, or never went to bed with someone on a first date – I did on occasion. It’s just that when I did, I’d often wake up the next day in a relationship. Let me tell you: not the best recipe for partnership bliss. I’m thinking of one particular instance in which I had what was for me a very painful dry spell: a year and a half in which I barely got to kiss anyone, and didn’t get to do anything other than that at all, sexually speaking, with anyone. It… yeah. Didn’t feel too good. Made me feel like I would never be touched or loved again. Made me feel, in a word, desperate. You know what’s not a great emotional state for making important life decisions? Desperation. To wit: after this year and a half of nothing, I went to bed with a woman I barely knew on our first date . Nothing wrong with that, we had a great time, and seriously, did I mention a year and a half? The problem came the next morning, when it became obvious that she was much more into me emotionally than I was at that point. Did I tell her that? And potentially get exiled back to my affectionless desert? I bet you know the answer. What followed was a two-year relationship in which we were unhappy for about the last year and a half … Lots, lots more at the link (amazingly). I guess this is why feminists decry ” slut shaming .” They wanna be out and proud about their slutishness (and their sexual orientation?) and don’t think they should hafta catch any flak for it. And on a related note, I’ve never even heard of “Craigslist Casual Encounters” (the miracle that saved our orgasmic friend here, but RTWT ). No shame there, I guess.
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Sexual Interactions of the Orgasmic Kind
