IMF chief to remain jailed in NYC sex-assault case

They got you, you scumbag. These rich, foreign assholes think they are above the law. This guy is going to find out that he is just about even with it. I hope they lock his ass up and make an example out of him.

How do these people think they can get away with stuff like this? It's a good thing this woman had the presence of mind to report this fast or he may have escaped to a non-extradition country. Sometimes the good guys do win and scumbags are revealed.

This is probably going to fuck up his chances in the French election, don't you think?

By Jennifer Peltz - Associated Press

The head of the International Monetary Fund must remain jailed at least until his next court hearing for attempted rape and other charges, a judge said Monday.

A tired and grim-looking Dominique Strauss-Kahn appeared before the Manhattan judge to face charges of attempted rape, sex abuse, a criminal sex act, unlawful imprisonment and forcible touching. The top count is punishable by five to 25 years in prison.

Strauss-Kahn is accused of attacking a maid who went in to clean his penthouse suite Saturday at a luxury hotel near Times Square. Defense attorney Benjamin Brafman says his client denies any wrongdoing.

The charges stunned the global financial world and upended French presidential politics. A member of France's Socialist party, Strauss-Kahn was widely considered the strongest potential challenger next year to President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose political fortunes have been flagging.

Manhattan prosecutors asked the judge to hold Strauss-Kahn without bail, saying his position as IMF head had taken him out of the country previously and that the IMF leader was wealthy and doesn't live in New York.

"He has almost no incentive to stay in this country and every incentive to leave," Assistant District Attorney John A. McConnell said. "If he went to France, we would have no legal mechanism to guarantee his return to this country."

Defense attorneys had suggested bail be set at $1 million and promised the IMF managing director would remain in New York City.

The 32-year-old maid told authorities that when she entered his spacious, $3,000-a-night suite early Saturday afternoon, she thought it was unoccupied. Instead, Strauss-Kahn emerged from the bathroom naked, chased her down a hallway and pulled her into a bedroom, where he sexually assaulted her, New York Police Department spokesman Paul J. Browne said.

The woman told police she fought him off, but then he dragged her into the bathroom, where he forced her to perform oral sex on him and tried to remove her underwear. The woman was able to break free again, escaped the room and told hotel staff what had happened, authorities said.

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Not much in the news today...

Other than the latest bin laden updates, there isn't much in the news. I'm sure you have heard that pakistan is pissed off, too bad, so sad. They shouldn't be harboring terrorists. Assholes.

Now some people are saying bin laden wasn't armed. Who cares? He was a scumbag, murdering terrorist. He got lead poisoning because he deserved it.

I'm still waiting for the pictures or video. Until I see them I will have doubts. The burial at sea bullshit is still bugging me.

By the way, obama needs to thank the hell out of George W. Bush. The intel was gathered during the Bush presidency. Without it, obama wouldn't have anything but obamacare to run on in 2012, well that and the economy...haha. What a joke.

Be careful if you try to find a picture of bin laden dead. There are lots of scumbags out there attaching viruses to fake pictures. If you wait a few days the government will put out something and it will be on cnn, msnbc and of course, FoxNews.

Have a good evening, see you tomorrow...

Lawmakers, Executives Slam Obama for Boosting Brazil's Offshore Drilling

Seriously? obama is pimping oil drilling in Brazil but he won't let American companies drill here? WTF? How is it possible that the president of the United States could reject making our Country energy independent while offering to provide financial assistance for another country's state owned drilling operation? Let me tell you, because he is an America hating socialist scumbag...

From FoxNews

Republican lawmakers and oil industry executives are slamming President Obama for offering to help Brazil expand offshore drilling while U.S. production struggles to get back on its feet in the wake of the BP spill.

The president, on the first leg of his trip to Latin America, said in Brazil over the weekend that his administration wants to assist the Brazilian government "with technology and support" in developing its oil reserves -- a black gold mine he said could hold twice as much oil as U.S. deposits.

"And when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers," Obama said.

That message struck some at home as bizarre and misguided, considering the administration has stressed the need to wean the United States off foreign oil and move toward alternative fuels.

With U.S. oil exploration and drilling slowing to a crawl over the past year, they questioned why the president would throw U.S. weight behind Brazil, a country that also received a $2 billion loan for its state-owned oil company from the U.S. Export-Import Bank.

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Democratic Senator Reveals Nearly $300,000 in Unpaid Property Taxes

A little more on the claire mccaskill airplane scandal. The best line from this whole article is the last one,

"But with Missouri politics being a rough and tumble sport, the sale of the plane is not likely to put the issue to rest for the senator any time soon".

Especially not with people like me around. I'm planning to remind you guys about this every couple of weeks until the elections. I can't help but laugh a little when I read this. I think I have read it about ten times now.

Another funny part is how claire is always trying to make like she is just like regular people. Hmm, how many of you own your own plane? How many of you have the cash to write a $300K check? I know I sure don't, and neither does anyone I know. You think claire may be an elitist? Yep? Me too...

by Trish Turner - FoxNews

Any way you slice it, $287, 273 is a lot of money, especially in this economy. For one-term Senator Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., up for re-election in 2012, that's the amount of personal property taxes she failed to pay since 2007 on a plane she and her husband, a millionaire businessman, partially owned.

"I have discovered that the...personal property taxes on the plane have not been paid," McCaskill told a small number of reporters on a conference call Monday. "There should have been a reporting to the county of the existence of this airplane...There are people I could blame for this, but I know better. As (a former) auditor, I know I should have checked for myself. I take full responsibility for the mistake." Audio of the call was sent to Fox by a McCaskill aide and can be found here.

The senator said she had done her own "thorough review" of all 89 flights she had taken following a political controversy that erupted recently over the same plane that was first reported by Politico.

The senator had used the plane for political purposes paying for the travel with taxpayer money from her Senate office, a "mistake," the senator said, for which she reimbursed the government nearly $89,000. "All of the money has been repaid for the public funds," McCaskill said Monday.

The senator said she had paid sales taxes on the plane, both local and state, evidence, she said, that she had made no attempt to duck her financial responsibility. "I want to reiterate, there was no attempt to evade the plane...This is just a mistake that I take full responsibility for."

But Republicans did not buy the explanation from McCaskill, a top GOP target in 2012. "In the past two weeks, we have learned that Claire McCaskill billed taxpayers for political travel and failed to pay nearly $300,000 in personal property taxes on her plane. Over the last four years, cash-strapped school districts and the children in these schools have been deprived of these much-need funds," Missouri Republican Party chairman David Cole blasted in a statement from his office.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee quickly pounced releasing a video after the senator's admission showing McCaskill in 2006 telling voters, "If my walk doesn't match my talk, then shame on me and don't ever vote for me again."

One senior GOP strategist with experience in Missouri politics criticized, "While numerous cities across her state struggle to pay police, firefighters, teachers, some even getting laid off, Claire McCaskill is using that money to fly around willy nilly. That money would pay for six teachers to do their job for a year." (According to the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center, that is correct - an average teacher salary from 2009-2010 was $45,317.)

McCaskill recently co-sponsored a bill in the Senate that would send pink slips to federal employees who are found to have unpaid taxes, a measure Republicans also highlighted Monday, calling the Democrat a hypocrite. But a McCaskill aide said that was not a fair attack. "Those are people who knowingly have not paid their taxes and have refused to own up to it and to make that right," an aide told Fox. "She didn't knowingly do this. This is a situation where a mistake was made. As soon as she found out...she made it right," the aide told Fox.

Because planes are not licensed the way automobiles are with the state of residence, rather they are licensed with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the state has no record of ownership and, therefore, sends no property tax bill.

As for that bill, the McCaskill aide said, "The senator has already written and sent the check to repay this money. There was no effort to evade taxes here."

Still, the controversy has proved too much for the senator, who, according to her office, has no plans for public events this week while the Senate is on recess. An audibly exasperated McCaskill told reporters, "I have convinced my husband to sell the damned plane. He has hired a broker, and I never intend to step foot on that plane ever again."

But with Missouri politics being a rough and tumble sport, the sale of the plane is not likely to put the issue to rest for the senator any time soon.

Breaking: Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., Failed to Pay $287,000 in Property Taxes on Aircraft

This just gets worse for poor claire. She tries to present an image of being far above the financial quagmires of other politicians, a fiscal watchdog if you will. As it turns out she is as big a scumbag as the rest of them. And besides, if she can't keep a handle on her own finances do you really think she has any chance of doing it for our Country? Not quite. She is just another professional politician crook like 99% of the rest of them.

By Mark Hemingway - The Weekly Standard

In a conference call with reporters, Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill just disclosed that she failed to pay $287,000 in property taxes related to her co-ownership of a private aircraft. This scandal comes quickly on the heels of recent revelations that McCaskill improperly billed taxpayers for use of the same private aircraft, for which McCaskill reimbursed the Treasury $88,000:

Sen. Claire McCaskill is selling the personal plane that has caused her turbulence in recent weeks after POLITICO revealed she used taxpayer money to cover the cost of political travel.

The first-term Democrat said she was very happy she was able to convince her husband to "sell the damn plane."

In a conference call Monday afternoon, McCaskill revealed that after her own review of the plane's records, she had not paid personal property taxes on the aircraft over the past four years.

"I have discovered that the personal property taxes on the plane have not been paid. There should have been a reporting to the county of the existence of this plane. There are people I could blame for this, but I know better. I take full responsibility," McCaskill said to reporters, after revealing she had conducted her own audit of all 89 flights she had taken.

"This was a mistake, It should have been reported in Missouri. It will be paid in Missouri today," she said.

McCaskill said she would be sending a check for $287,273 to St. Louis County Monday for the back taxes she owed between 2007 and 2010.

Another corrupt chicago scumbag gets elected...

Was there ever any doubt that rahm emmanuel would be the mayor of chicago? I knew it as soon as the illinois supreme court broke the rules and allowed him to run.

This is exactly why chicago has a reputation of being the most politically corrupt city on the planet. You would think that the residents of the city would get tired of the label and do something about it, but then, it may not actually be the voters putting these scumbags into office...

Muslim Cleric Plans White House Protest in Attempt to Spread Sharia Law in America

This is what happens when our Country appears weak to the entire world. Radical scumbags feel empowered and emboldened. It wouldn't surprise me if obama sent some of his thugs out to join the guy. I can see the headline now, "radical cleric joined by seiu and teachers union in protest". In another time obama himself would probably have joined him.

There is no place in this Country for sharia law. It's not a question of tolerance or freedom of religion, it is a simple matter of sharia law being incompatible with everything our Country stands for.

This guy choudary needs to be ejected from our Country today, not tomorrow, today. The flag of islam will fly over the whitehouse over my dead body...

From FoxNews

A Muslim cleric who called Americans “the biggest criminals” during a recent interview has announced he will hold a protest outside the White House, according to the Daily Mail.

anjem choudary, who once said “the flag of Islam will fly over the White House,” says he will lead a demonstration rallying muslims to establish sharia law across the United States.

choudary, 43, called Americans “the biggest criminals in the world today” during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity this month.

choudary, who is the former leader of the outlawed British-based group islam4UK, says the March rally at the White House is being organized by the extremist group islamic thinkers society, which is based in New York.

“The event is a rally, a call for the sharia, a call for the muslims to rise up and establish the islamic state in America,” choudary told London’s Daily Mail in an interview.