Posted on an Obama campaign website...
"Vote like your lady parts depend on it," the text in the image says. Underneath, the text reads: "Because they kinda do."
UPDATE
: The image has been removed from the Obama website.
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The big monthly jobs report doesn’t come out until Friday, but no need to wait until then to know September’s unemployment rate: 8.1%.
At least, that’s the best guess of economists Regis Barnichon and Christopher Nekarda, who in
a paper last month laid out a new method for forecasting the unemployment rate.
The projection itself, made last Friday, isn’t particularly remarkable. An unemployment rate of 8.1% would represent no change from August, and is also the consensus forecast of economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires.
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The Department of Homeland Security has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a network of 77 so-called "fusion" intelligence centers that have collected personal information on some U.S. citizens — including detailing the "reading habits" of American Muslims — while producing "shoddy" reports and making no contribution to thwarting any terrorist plots, a new Senate report states.
The " fusion centers," created under President George W. Bush and expanded under President Barack Obama, consist of special teams of federal , state and local officials collecting and analyzing intelligence on suspicious activities throughout the country.
But a bipartisan report by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released Tuesday concludes that the centers "often produced irrelevant" and "useless" intelligence reports.
While dismissing the value of much of the fusion centers’ work, the Senate panel found evidence of what it called "troubling" reports by some centers that may have violated the civil liberties and privacy of U.S. citizens. The evidence cited in the report could fuel a continuing controversy over claims that the FBI and some local police departments, notably New York City’s, have spied on American Muslims without a justifiable law enforcement reason for doing so.
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Politically active pups and their obedient owners gathered in protest in New York's Union Square Tuesday.
Taking after their human predecessors that Occupied Wall Street last year, the group called themselves 'Doggupy' and they were there to demand better quality dog food.
'Dogs are rising up and barking about unhealthy pet food and they’re not going to eat it anymore!' organizers wrote on their website.
The protest was sponsored by
Merrick Pet Care <http://animalfair.com/home/doggupy-mutt-movement-food-pets/> and did so in an effort to raise awareness about the 'welfare of dogs everywhere'.
Specifically, they pointed to the looming threat of animal cancer, which causes the death of one in every three dogs.
Reportedly, the dogs left less filth and waste in the streets than the Occupy Wall Street crowds, and knew better than to lick themselves on camera
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