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At first Robert Gibbs said the president had no comment about the mosque, "It was a local matter'. Guess the president couldn't keep his month shut. It amazes me how he goes out of his way to turn Americans against him.

Before you go out and buy that solar collector or wind mill read the book "Lights Out" by Spencer Abraham, former US Secretary of Energy. Wind and solar will play a part, but they will never alone be the answer to our electrical needs. If we don't start doing something in the near future, the country will look like CA. in the year 2000. Remember the black outs and then governor Gray "out' Davis. TVA resently announced they were going to look at building a small Nuke at the old Breeder site in Oak Ridge. Lets hope this gets done.

I thought the gangs and terrorists only used high powered guns like Glocks and AKs. Why would a bunch of smart people like we have running this country be worried about a bunch of rusty 0ld WWII rifles?

Lincoln's goal was not to free the slaves. It was to preserve the Union. When he signed the Emancipation Proclamation it only freed slaves in the states in rebellion. Lincoln stepped on the Constitution to reach this goal.

http://www.thefoxnation.com/culture/2010/08/09/judge-napolitanos-history-liberty-pt-2-civil-war-gilded-age

I have purchase one gun off this site S&W revolver. No problems.

Congrats on your new gun. I have had mine for about two years now. Put a laser grip on it. Didn't notice any difference in recoil from factory grip.

Welcome to the forum.

My votes for Micky. I can't spell either.

I just used the title they had. It does say "failed", which means he tried at some point.

Have they considered drive through?

Helluva state of affairs. AZ's borders are a disaster due to Feds. not enforcing laws. AZ passes a law to try to relieve problem. Feds sues AZ. Now a public official is being threaten by the a group that the Feds. won't protect border from. Someone please tell me, what country do I live in? :D

I don't know how many Civil War Buffs there are on this forum, but when you go back and read why the south withdrew from the Union and what is going on today, can't help but to draw parallels. And no I am not talking about the slave issue at that time. It's not just AZ. Gulf oil spill and the health care bill are just two other examples of states being stepped on by Feds.

I just heard today that the Congressional Black Caucus is saying the ethics committee targets blacks. Ethics probes of Rangel, Waters cause tension on Capitol Hill

I have my original card issued in the 60s. It has "Not to be used for Identification" printed on it. The Republications do not what to take social security away, but most will say the system is unsustainable. I believe we will have 'means" testing in my lifetime.

I have carried an Ruger SP101 Revolver 5 shot and a KAHR PM9 6 shot semi auto. I am not in law enforcement or do things that would normally put me in harms way. So my question is when would i need more than 5 shots? The biggest advantage I see with a semi-auto is reloading and the PM9 is lighter than the SP101. As far as what the experts say check out this site. SnubTraining.com

I am not sure the Republicans, if they regain power in the house, will touch either Charlie or Maxie. This will probably be brushed under the rug by the fall elections. Dems don't want this hanging over them like Foley was over the Republicans in 06.

Ethics Trial Expected for California Congresswoman By ERIC LIPTON WASHINGTON — Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, will face charges of misusing her office and is expected to contest the claims in a House trial, the second powerful House Democrat to opt for such a public airing in recent days, Congressional officials said Friday. A House ethics subcommittee has charged Ms. Waters, 71, a 10-term congresswoman, in a case involving communications that she had with the top executive of a bank that her husband owned stock in while it was applying for a federal bailout in 2008, two House officials said. Charges are expected to be announced next week, several Congressional officials said, speaking only on the condition of anonymity because the proceedings remained confidential. Details of the specific accusations of wrongdoing were not available Friday evening. The expected trial, coming just after the start of a similar proceeding on Thursday for Representative Charles B. Rangel of New York, would be a modern-day precedent for the House, Congressional officials said. At no time in at least the last two decades have two sitting House members faced a public hearing detailing allegations against them. It would also be an embarrassment for the Congressional Black Caucus. Ms. Waters and Mr. Rangel are two of its most revered and long-standing members, and both have spent decades as key leaders in banking and financial services issues in the House. Mikael Moore, Ms. Waters’s chief of staff, declined to comment on the case on Friday, saying that the congresswoman had not been formally notified of any action by the ethics committee. Ms. Waters, at the time the investigation by the House ethics panel began last fall, was accused of intervening on behalf of OneUnited, a Boston-based bank. The Times reported last year that Ms. Waters called Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. in 2008, as the economy was in a free fall, to ask him to host a special meeting with executives from black-owned banks. As a key House player on the Financial Services Committee, Ms. Waters often called Mr. Paulson. He agreed to arrange the requested meeting, The New York Times reported last year. What Mr. Paulson did not know at the time was that Ms. Waters’s husband, Sidney Williams, owned stock in and had served on the board of OneUnited, whose chief executive turned the Treasury headquarters meeting into a special appeal for bailout assistance. The executive of the institution, one of the nation’s largest black-owned banks, asked for $50 million in federal aid, The Times reported. After articles on the case by The Times and The Wall Street Journal, the Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent watchdog agency, began an inquiry. The office referred the matter to the ethics committee, which charged the subcommittee with opening an examination of Ms. Waters’s activities. The four-member subcommittee, which included two Democrats and two Republicans, was led by Representative Kathy Castor, Democrat of Florida. Because Ms. Waters — like Mr. Rangel — has refused to agree to a proposed settlement, the case is headed toward a House ethics trial, officials said. “She is fighting it,†one House official said Friday. Ms. Waters made the call to Mr. Paulson on behalf of the National Bankers Association, a Washington-based organization of minority-owned banks. Its incoming chairman, Robert Cooper, was an executive at OneUnited, which had branches in Miami and Los Angeles, part of which Ms. Waters represents. Mr. Cooper and his boss, Kevin Cohee, the chief executive at OneUnited, ended up dominating the meeting, participants said, and made an unusual request for a special federal bailout. The Treasury Department officials, in interviews with The Times, said they were taken aback when they later learned about Ms. Waters’s ties to the bank. She had once owned stock in the bank, and her husband still did. He had stepped down from the board earlier that year. Mr. Rangel separately is facing charges that he inappropriately used his office staff to try to line up donations for a New York City educational center being built in his honor, and also that he failed to report income from a beachfront property he had rented out in the Caribbean. The prospect of two trials playing out as the November election approaches will almost certainly be seized upon by Republicans, who already had been attacking Democrats’ moral leadership and questioning whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi had lived up to her promise to “drain the swamp†of ethics violations in Washington. The case could still be concluded without trial, if Ms. Waters decided to settle. But if a trial were to take place, it is highly unlikely that it would start before September, as the House began its summer recess on Friday. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/31/us/politics/31waters.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

Obama reminds me a little of Nixon. They both acted stupidly.

Guess I can still sign up. Don't know if I could pass the "bind over and spread them test". It's been almost 40 years since the last one.

Must have missed it. Just heard about him today on Phil Williams radio show.

To all you small business owners out there, IRS also check businesses on Facebook for audit information.