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PostPosted: 12/20/11 12:38 pm • # 376 
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December 20, 2011 5:30 PM
Tuesday's Mini-Report
By Steve Benen

Today's edition of quick hits:

* The housing market isn't getting worse: “Five years into the worst housing depression since the 1930s, the latest monthly data from the Census Bureau indicate that the homebuilding industry is slowly coming back to life. Housing starts jumped 9.3 percent in November to an annual rate of 685,000, the highest reading in 19 months.â€



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PostPosted: 12/20/11 1:37 pm • # 377 
* Amusing economic tweet from Daniel Gross: “with retail sales rising, GDP growth accelerating, positive data flow, U.S. in danger at growing above trend — unless gov't republicans act soon!â€


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PostPosted: 12/22/11 3:24 am • # 378 
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December 21, 2011 5:30 PM
Wednesday's Mini-Report
By Steve Benen

Today's edition of quick hits:

* ECB starts making offers: “After more than a year of frustrating and mostly fruitless summit meetings of European political leaders, the European Central Bank appears to have found a more promising way to ease the euro zone crisis: give money to banks at bargain-basement rates.â€



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PostPosted: 12/22/11 2:10 pm • # 379 
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December 22, 2011 5:30 PM
Thursday's Mini-Report
By Steve Benen

Today's edition of quick hits:

* A series of deadly terrorist attacks in Iraq: “A wave of 16 bombings ripped across Baghdad Thursday, killing at least 69 people in the worst violence in Iraq for months. The apparently coordinated attacks struck days after the last American forces left the country and in the midst of a major government crisis between Shiite and Sunni politicians that has sent sectarian tensions soaring.â€



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PostPosted: 12/22/11 2:49 pm • # 380 
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/21/jim-sensenbrenner-michelle-obama_n_1163711.html

Jim Sensenbrenner, Wisconsin Congressman, Says Michelle Obama Has A 'Large Posterior' (UPDATED)

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First Posted: 12/21/11 05:12 PM ET Updated: 12/22/11 08:47 AM ET

In today's edition of Outrageous And Unfounded Insults, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) has decided to question Michelle Obama's body shape.

MediaBistro reports that Sensenbrenner was overheard talking on the phone, retelling an incident in which he said about Michelle Obama: "She lectures us on eating right while she has a large posterior herself."

The most bothersome issue here is the conflation of two entirely separate matters: the First Lady's (natural) physique and her campaign for healthy eating and physical fitness.

Michelle has traveled the country for her "Let's Move!" campaign for over a year, talking about healthy eating, promoting a more user-friendly pyramid graphic, getting stores like Walmart to stock their shelves with nutritious items and playing sports with kids.

Although she has been called out for indulging in the occasional hamburger and fries, Michelle Obama has practiced what she preaches: she stays fit (those arms are still toned after all these years) and maintains an enviably healthy body, both inside and out.



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PostPosted: 12/22/11 3:45 pm • # 381 
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Jim Sensenbrenner is an even bigger "posterior".


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PostPosted: 12/23/11 1:54 pm • # 382 
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December 23, 2011 5:00 PM
Friday's Mini-Report
By Steve Benen

Today's edition of quick hits:

* As promised, President Obama signed the two-month extension of the payroll tax cut this afternoon in the Oval Office, and soon after left for Hawaii to join his family for the holidays.

* Syria: “Twin car bombs ripped through the morning calm of Damascus on Friday, killing at least 40 people and casting doubt on the ability of a newly arrived team of Arab League monitors to stem Syria's growing violence.â€



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PostPosted: 12/27/11 1:36 pm • # 383 
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December 27, 2011 5:30 PM
Tuesday's Mini-Report
By Steve Benen

Today's edition of quick hits:

* Mixed economic news: “A monthly survey released Tuesday shows consumers' confidence in the economy in December surged to the highest level since April and was near a post-recession peak. But a separate private report said home prices in most major cities in the United States fell for the second straight month in October.â€



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PostPosted: 12/27/11 2:38 pm • # 384 
OM effen G!




Newt has lost it completely.


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PostPosted: 12/27/11 8:02 pm • # 385 
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Do these people not realize that someday their children may see this.


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PostPosted: 12/28/11 2:39 am • # 386 
Their kids probably do worse.


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PostPosted: 12/28/11 4:06 am • # 387 
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Those were adults?


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PostPosted: 12/28/11 2:35 pm • # 388 
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December 28, 2011 6:20 PM
Wednesday's Micro-Mini-Report
By Ed Kilgore

Well, it's a very slow news day, and I am not quite as omniscient as Steve, but here are a few random items of interest you might have missed today in non-Iowa developments:

* The Money Behind the War on Voting: Think Progress reports that a group called the American Justice Partnership, a Michigan-based group which has frequently worked with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to promote “voter IDâ€



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PostPosted: 12/28/11 2:52 pm • # 389 
Awww... I always loved that little chimp.


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PostPosted: 12/28/11 2:55 pm • # 390 
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Gingrich Blames Failure to Get on Virginia Ballot on Fraud By Paid Volunteers:

Really?
And exactly WTF is are "paid volunteers"?


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PostPosted: 12/28/11 3:13 pm • # 391 
Now that's a trick question. How dare you ask it!


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PostPosted: 12/28/11 3:30 pm • # 392 
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And WTF does "is are" mean?


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PostPosted: 12/28/11 3:36 pm • # 393 
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LOL, oskar ~ they are called "volunteers" because they usually are campaign volunteers but get paid on a per-signature basis when collecting/filling petitions ~ but it seems Newt might be both inflating and deflating the numbers ~ I read elsewhere that he submitted over the required 10,000 signatures but that only something like 6,500 were declared valid ~ so he missed the required 10,000 valid signatures by a much larger margin than he's admitting ~Sooz

Edited because I'm fairly sure the 10,000/6,500 valid numbers were for Perry, not Gingrich ~ I'll try to confirm that by finding that article again ~



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