House Republicans cede their right to approve; Janet Napolitano being sued for discrimination; MSU professor's letter to Muslim Student's Association; Don't cut nuclear warheads; Paul Ryan speaks on Obamacare; Code Pink to send photos of private parts to RNC Convention; Michelle seeking knuckleheads; Ethanaol vs. the World; USDA audit is an example of government running something

*The law now allows Obama and future presidents to name appointees to senior positions in every branch of the administration, from the Department of the Treasury to the Department of Homeland Security. [This would be without the oversight of Congress.]
Conservative critics worried that the bill restricts congressional authority to monitor executive branch decisions, but the measure received bipartisan support because of the gridlocked, slow-moving Senate, which is known for being the more deliberative of the two bodies of Congress.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/10/obama-signs-bill-exempting-presidential-appointees-from-senate-confirmation/#ixzz23Em2IkL3

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A veteran US law-enforcement official has filed a blockbuster discrimination lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, charging she pushed him aside to make way for a less-qualified woman who’s “enjoyed a long-standing relationship” with the anti-terror chief.

The court papers also allege that Suzanne Barr, Napolitano’s chief of staff at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has engaged in “numerous” acts of “sexually offensive behavior” intended to “humiliate and intimidate male employees.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/homeland_homegirls_Se5i5dCvDQc84CE9rSpvBM#ixzz23EqQsmli

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The story begins at Michigan State University with a mechanical engineering professor named Indrek Wichman.
Wichman sent an e-mail to the Muslim Student’s Association.*
The e-mail was in response to the students’ protest of the Danish cartoons that portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist.*
The group had complained the cartoons were ‘hate speech.’*
In his e-mail, he said the following:*
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Dear Muslim Association,*
As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intend to protest your protest.*
I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests (the latest in Turkey), burnings of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt, the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavian girls and women (called ‘whores’ in your culture), the murder of film directors in Holland, and the rioting and looting in Paris France.*

This is what offends me, a soft-spoken person and academic, and many, many of my colleagues.*I counsel you dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Muslims to be very aware of this as you proceed with your infantile ‘protests.’*

If you do not like the values of the West – see the First Amendment – you are free to leave. I hope for God’s sake that most of you choose that option.*
Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans..*
Cordially,
I. S. Wichman*
Professor of Mechanical Engineering*  [Verified by Snopes]
http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=221872  
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The commander of the U.S. Strategic Command on Wednesday rejected a call by a former Joint Chiefs of Staff vice chairman to cut U.S. nuclear warheads to as few as 300 deployed weapons.
Air Force Gen. C. Robert Kehler, the commander, also said Iran’s nuclear program remains a major problem and expressed worries about China’s large-scale, hidden underground nuclear facilities. http://freebeacon.com/no-to-nuke-zero/

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[If you can spend 6 minutes and are interested in the Affordable Health Care Act and how we are to pay for it, please listen to our Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan.  I can't wait to hear him debate Joe Biden.]  Paul Ryan: Hiding Spending Doesn't Reduce Spending

"I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits -- either now or in the future."  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPxMZ1WdINs
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The radical anti-American Code Pink group is encouraging their members to send snapshots of their vaginas to the RNC Convention in Tampa, Florida.
LifeNews reported:
Taking the silly “War on Women” rhetoric to another disgusting level, the pro-abortion feminists at CodePink have come up with a new campaign: Send your vaginas to the Republican convention. [This is a perfect example of how successful the Democrat school agenda, and the agenda of tv and Hollywood has been in lowering our values, decorum, and culture.] http://www.humanevents.com/2012/08/10/code-pink-to-send-photos-of-their-vaginas-to-rnc-convention/
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Michelle Obama spoke with the Tom Joyner Morning Show about the things people can do to get out the vote for her husband, and actually offered a rather insulting portrait of those who are undecided The most damning passage:
"All of us know that one person in our lives -- that one knucklehead nephew that's not registered to vote. That one neighbor who's not really paying attention. That one coworker who's confused about how Barack's tax plan will benefit that individual. Those are going to be the conversations that make the difference. And in this election, we're gonna be making a choice about how we want our democracy run. You know, do we want our president selected by people rolling their sleeves up, knocking on doors, or are we gonna hand it over to a couple of people who write big checks? http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katehicks/2012/08/10/michelle_obama_if_you_disagree_with_barack_youre_probably_confused
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Ethanol vs. the World

The corn fuel mandate is raising food prices and hurting the poor.

Yup, the ethanol lobby strikes again. It can't succeed without a mandate that forces consumers to buy its product every time they fill up the tank, and if the resulting corn shortages drive food prices up in a way that punishes consumers around the world, so be it. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443404004577581140907497810.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
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The United States Department of Agriculture spent $2 million on an internship program that only hired one full-time intern, a recent audit of the USDA’s Office of the Chief Information Officer reveals.
A USDA Inspector General’s report detailing the mismanagement of the agency’s multi-million dollar attempt to beef up the USDA’s information technology security found that after an infusion of millions, “because these projects were not effectively managed, the Department’s information systems are still at risk, even after expending $63.4 million of funding increases received in FY 2010 and 2011.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/10/usda-spends-2-million-on-internship-program-for-one-full-time-intern/#ixzz23EoFTL5x

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