Film - "Cruces Divided" Release Set for October 15th
Earth to Pearce: Obama is a natural-born U.S. citizen
From NM Politics.net - Republican mastermind Karl Rove believes President Barack Obama was born in the United States, is a citizen, and is a Christian. He said so when he was in Las Cruces several weeks ago. At a Sept. 30 event in Los Lunas, a woman asked Pearce whether he is willing to support the subpoenaing of Obama’s birth certificate. She also asked whether Pearce believes Obama “is in fact a Kenyan-born, Indonesian Muslim.” Pearce said Obama “raised the most significant questions himself” when he said he had traveled to Pakistan – at a time when, Pearce claimed, it was not legal to go there with a U.S. passport.Just like George W. Bush won the 2000 election, Barack Obama won the 2008 election. He meets the constitutional requirements to be president, and he is president. End of story. Pearce is intelligent. I’m assuming, or at least hoping, that he knows Obama is a citizen. So I have to wonder if he was pandering to people whose votes he was trying to win with his statement in Los Lunas. If so, he’s irresponsibly playing with fire. If, on the other hand, Pearce actually believes what he said in Los Lunas, well, that’s an entirely different reason to be concerned about his candidacy for Congress. Read Commentary
Caroline Baum: Obama Sausage Making
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From Bloomberg - “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, March 9, 2010. She wasn’t kidding. The public got to peek under the hood last week when the Wall Street Journal reported that McDonald’s Corp. wanted out: out of a requirement in the new health-care law that compels employers to spend 80 to 85 percent of premiums on medical benefits. Who knew? For McDonald’s mini-med health-care plan, a low-cost, limited plan covering about 30,000 hourly fast-food workers, the minimum medical loss ratio was economically unfeasible. The company asked for a waiver, according to memos provided to the Journal. Read more here:
Greenspan - "We're involved in a dangerous game"
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the U.S. fiscal deficit is “scary” and the federal government needs to cut spending on entitlements. “We’re involved in a dangerous game,” Greenspan said yesterday at a foreign-exchange conference in New York sponsored by Bloomberg LP, the parent of Bloomberg News. “We’re increasing the debt held by the public at a pace that is closing” the gap between our debt and “any measure of borrowing capacity,” Greenspan said. “That cushion is growing very narrow.” Read more here:
Gallup Finds U.S. Unemployment at 10.1% in September
NEA Shoots at Martinez, Friendly Fire Hits Denish
Chinese dissident wins Nobel Peace Prize
NewNM - It will not be two years in a row for President Obama, he did not win the Nobel Peace Prize this year; it went to a Chinese dissident who is in jail. Comparison of the 2009 and the 2010 awards? We will leave that to others.From MSNBC.com - OSLO — Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights" — a decision which produced a bitter reaction from the Chinese government. Thorbjoern Jagland, the Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman, said Liu was a symbol for the fight for human rights in China and that its government should expect its policies to face scrutiny as it has transformed into a big power both economically and politically. Read more
Aggie Volleyball Cruises To Road Sweep Of San Jose State
bleedCrimson.net ReportThe Aggie volleyball team used a dominating performance by Kayleigh Giddens who finished with a match-high 20 kills to cruise to their 17th consecutive victory over the Spartans and improve to 3-1 in the WAC and 9-9 overall. The Aggies easily won the first two sets 25-13 and 25-14 and held off the Spartans 25-20 in the third set for the sweep.
The Aggies trailed early in set one 5-3 but turned on the afterburners tying the set at 7-7 and winning seven of the next six of the next seven points to take a 13-8 lead. After a Kayleigh Giddens attack was blocked by San Jose State's Sarah McAtee and Alex Akana to cut the Aggies' lead to 15-10, New Mexico State would go on a 7-0 run fueled by Kayleigh Giddens and Whitney Woods behind tough serving by setter Jennah DeVries. Giddens would record two kills and a solo block while Woods would get a kill and a block along with freshman middle blocker Desiree Scott. DeVries' strong service was highlighted with a service ace during the run. The Aggies would finish off the set winning 25-13 when SJSU's Caitlin Andre committed a service error.
The Aggies would continue their domination in the second set as they led from start to finish jumping out quickly to a 5-0 lead behind kills from Desiree Scott and a pair from Kayleigh Giddens and again highlighted by tough serving by Jennah DeVries. The Spartans would trim the Aggies' lead to 10-6 on a service ace by Asia Casino but the Aggies would respond with a 5-1 run to take a 15-7 lead. The Aggies would push their lead to 11 points at 20-9 on a kill by Kayleigh Giddens and would finish out the set with a block by Kelsey Brennan and Amanda Tonga for a 25-14 set victory.
The third set saw the Spartans hang tough early as they would trail just 5-4 after a kill by Taylor Japhet. The Aggies would push their lead out to three points after a kill by Amanda Tonga was followed by an attack error by SJSU's Hanah Blume. The Aggies would maintain a three point advantage at 11-8 on a kill by Kayleigh Giddens. The Spartans would cut the Aggies' lead to one at 17-16 and then tied the set at 17-17 but the Aggies would respond with kills by Kayleigh Giddens and Whitney Woods along with a block of a Spartan attack to forge ahead 20-17. The Aggies would go on to win the set 25-20.
The Aggies return to action on Saturday afternoon as they take on Fresno State in Fresno, Calif. The Bulldogs defeated Louisiana Tech on Thursday night to improve to 2-3 in league play. The match is scheduled for a 2:00 p.m. MT first serve.
Selling the $200,000 ticket
From the Alamogordo Daily News By Elva K. Sterreich, Associate News Editor (Photo by J.R. Oppenheim - Alamogordo Daily News) Tumbling, screaming, racing, surfing down a dune of white sand, 60 travel agents took a load off their feet Tuesday as they took turns riding sled discs to the bottom of the slope. A rumble in the air made all 60 go silent as they watched and pointed at the F-22 moving above White Sands National Monument. No ordinary travel agents, this group, hailing from around the world, have a special directive. They sell $200,000 tickets to space on flights that begin at Spaceport America. As part of a tour of southern New Mexico Virgin Galactic accredited agents are looking at what they will be booking. Michael Broadhurst with Vision 2000 is based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and has seven clients already signed up for the ride. Vision 2000 is a member of the Virtuoso travel group which is affiliated with Virgin."It is the best group of luxury travel professionals in the world," Broadhurst said. For every one who comes for the ride, several will come to look at the area, he said. Ticket holders will bring their families, friends and more with them as they visit southern New Mexico. "I sense there is just a growing realization this (space tourism) is happening fairly soon," Broadhurst said. Already some of his ticketed clients are coming down soon with their families to check out southern New Mexico. Read more
Blankley: 2011's Uncharted Political Waters
by Tony Blankley - The New York Times has written, in explaining why the political parties have lost the confidence of the public: "Their machinery of intrigue, their shuffling evasions, the dodges, the chicanery and the deception of their leaders have excited universal disgust, and have created a general readiness in the public mind for any new organization that shall promise to shun their vices." The New York Evening Post, in explaining the same condition, has written that the people "saw parties without any ... difference contending for power, for the sake of power. They saw politics made a profession, and public plunder an employment ... They beheld our public works the plaything of a rotten dynasty, enriching gamblers, and purchasing power at our expense." The dates of those articles were November and December 1855 (See "The Origins of the Republican Party" by William E. Gienapp, Oxford University Press, 1987, page 98.) When those words were written, the Whigs and the Democrats were the two great parties. The Whigs soon went extinct, the dominant Democrats went on to lose every White House election between 1860 and 1912, except for the elections of Grover Cleveland. The Republicans came into being and won all the elections the Democrats lost. I have a sense that we may be at the early stages of going through a similar transformation of our party system as we did 155 years ago when the Jacksonian party system failed. Read more
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