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Will negros destroy Franklin Park?
Post Date: 2010-02-15 09:37:21 by dont eat that
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Scuffles at Westfield Franklin Park Mall result in arrest of 6 teenagers Toledo police arrested at least six teenagers Saturday night at Westfield Franklin Park after responding to reports of fights erupting throughout the mall. The first scuffles were noted about 7:45 p.m. Police broke up groups of teens at the food court, around the movie theaters, and in several other locations. Police arrested teens who did not disperse on charges ranging from assault to obstructing official business and resisting arrest. One kicked a trash can at officers and was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, Officer James Schlievert said. No serious injuries were reported. ************ No race was ...
Joe The Plumber Goes Off On McCain, Says He 'Screwed Up My Life'
Post Date: 2010-02-14 19:05:11 by Brian S
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By Eric Zimmermann - 02/14/10 11:12 AM ET Joe the Plumber is no longer a fan of either Sarah Palin or John McCain, it seems. Joe, also known as Sam Wurzelbacher, told an audience in Pennsylvania this week that McCain "is no public servant." "McCain was trying to use me," Wurzelbacher said, according to public radio correspondent Scott Detrow. "I happened to be the face of middle Americans. It was a ploy.” "I don’t owe him s—," Wurzelbacher continued. "He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it.” In fact, Wurzelbacher's dislike for McCain is so strong that he no longer supports Sarah Palin simply because Palin will ...
Can Sarah Palin translate celebrity into real political power?
Post Date: 2010-02-14 15:44:09 by We The People
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Sarah Palin has proved that she can draw a crowd. What she has yet to demonstrate is that she can translate the appeal of a phenomenon into a political force that can attract or mobilize sizable numbers of voters. The former Alaska governor is the Republican Party's biggest celebrity. She has given voice to a grass-roots movement grounded in anger with Washington and President Obama's policies. But her political future remains in question. Is she presidential timber? A force only within the Republican Party? A protest candidate like George Wallace (minus the racial divisiveness) or Ross Perot? "Sarah Palin will have to choose to be either the leader of a movement or the ...
Supreme Leader to rule via Executive Order
Post Date: 2010-02-14 08:06:08 by Happy Quanzaa
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WASHINGTON — With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities. Mr. Obama has not given up hope of progress on Capitol Hill, aides said, and has scheduled a session with Republican leaders on health care later this month. But in the aftermath of a special election in Massachusetts that cost Democrats unilateral control of the Senate, the White House is getting ready to act on its own in the face of partisan gridlock heading into the midterm campaign. “We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders ...
Indiana-made Humvee Could Soon Be An Army Relic
Post Date: 2010-02-13 19:30:03 by Brian S
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INDIANAPOLIS — Army Staff Sgt. Tom Davis never saw the bomb that destroyed his Humvee as he rounded a corner in Ramadi just a week into his second tour in Iraq in 2006. Davis lost a leg and broke his back and both arms and can no longer walk or work. He'll never know whether he would have been less severely injured if he'd been in a different vehicle. But his experience, and those of thousands of other Americans wounded in bomb-shredded Humvees in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years, foretold what now appears to be the official demise of the hulking all-terrain vehicles that came to symbolize the military as much as the rugged Jeeps they replaced. The Army provided no new ...
At an Academic Pressure Cooker, a Setback Turns Deadly, Officials Say
Post Date: 2010-02-13 14:46:27 by Skip Intro
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At an Academic Pressure Cooker, a Setback Turns Deadly, Officials Say HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — This city of rocket scientists and biotechnology entrepreneurs prides itself on having one of the highest per capita numbers of Ph.D.s in the country. On Saturday, it was still reeling from the news that one of them, a neurobiologist with a Harvard doctorate named Amy Bishop, was accused of opening fire in a faculty meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, killing three fellow professors and wounding three more people. As of Saturday morning, the authorities said, Ms. Bishop, 42, had been charged with one count of capital murder and more charges were expected. The shootings opened a ...
Obama Says New Budget Rules Will Ease Deficits, Require Congress To 'Pay For What It Spends'
Post Date: 2010-02-13 12:56:45 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Saturday new budget rules that say spending cuts must accompany spending increases will force Congress to "pay for what it spends, just like everybody else." Obama signed a bill Friday reinstating budget rules known as "paygo" — short for "pay as you go." In place during the 1990s, the rules helped create balanced budgets and surpluses. Obama blames eliminating them for creating much of the $1.3 trillion deficit he faced upon taking office in January 2009 and for a total debt of $8 trillion projected over the next decade. The president has been trying to show a public alarmed by higher government spending ...
Obama Nuke Plant Loan Reflects New Energy Strategy
Post Date: 2010-02-13 12:51:42 by Brian S
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(02-13) 09:26 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration's planned loan guarantee to build the first nuclear power plant in the U.S in almost three decades is part of a broad shift in energy strategy to lessen dependence on foreign oil and reduce the use of other fossil fuels blamed for global warming. President Barack Obama called for "a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants" in his Jan. 27 State of the Union speech and followed that by proposing to triple loan guarantees for new nuclear plants. He wants to use nuclear power and other alternative sources of energy in his effort to shift energy policy. Obama in the coming week will announce the loan ...
Why Alec Baldwin Always Bounces Back
Post Date: 2010-02-13 11:48:19 by sneakypete
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-- Alec Baldwin is no stranger to bad press, thanks to a notoriously nasty divorce from actress Kim Basinger and an equally acrimonious 6-year custody battle over their daughter, Ireland. Most people with Web access know that fight reached a low point in 2007 when the actor berated his then-11-year-old daughter as a "rude, thoughtless little pig" via voice mail. Another disagreement with now 14-year-old Ireland is the reported cause of the "30 Rock" actor's latest woes. He was hospitalized briefly in New York early Thursday following a 911 call from his daughter, who allegedly panicked after she argued with her father and he told her he planned to "take some ...
Dianne Feinstein Caught on Tape Looking at Notes Scrawled in Palm of Hand During Televised Debate
Post Date: 2010-02-13 07:54:53 by borntoweardiamonds
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Dianne Feinstein was caught on tape looking at notes scrawled in the palm of her hand during a televised debate. Both news and footage of this mortifying history of hers have only recently been dug up in response to the liberal media's extreme overreaction to Palin doing the same thing at the recent Tea Party convention. Seems like Sarah Palin wasn't the only one to use the old tactic of looking at notes scrawled in the palm of her hand as a memory aid. In fact, you can even credibly say that she was only mimicking the antics of that California, senior senator, Dianne Feinstein, who had Palin beat by a good 20 or so years and seemed to set the "standard" for such ...
'Warning: Tea Party In Danger': Leader Slams Palin As 'Wolf In Sheep's Clothing'
Post Date: 2010-02-12 18:02:40 by Skip Intro
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'Warning: Tea Party In Danger': Leader Slams Palin As 'Wolf In Sheep's Clothing' A prominent Tea Party leader from Texas is warning that the movement "is becoming nothing more than a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party," and slamming Sarah Palin as representing "a growing insider's attack to the heart of the Tea Party." Dale Robertson, the founder of TeaParty.org, is just the latest Tea Partier to express concern that the movement is being hijacked by the GOP. In a lengthy statement -- entitled "Warning: Tea Party In Danger" -- posted yesterday on the TeaParty.org homepage, Robertson instructs his felllow Tea Partiers to ...
Brown County GOP Endorses Rob Portman
Post Date: 2010-02-12 15:15:58 by Badeye
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Brown County GOP Endorses Rob Portman COLUMBUS, OH – The Brown County Republican Party last night endorsed Rob Portman for U.S. Senate. “I was honored to represent Brown County in the U.S. Congress, and I’m pleased to have received the endorsement of the Brown County Republican Party,” Portman said. “Brown County, like the rest of Ohio, is suffering through record high unemployment. Too many working families aren’t able to make ends meet and too many small business owners are struggling to meet payroll. We can no longer afford the status quo that threatens to bankrupt us. We need to focus all of our energy on fostering an environment where jobs can be created ...
Teacher proclaims Twain, Lee and Steinbeck irrelevant in Obama age
Post Date: 2010-02-12 13:49:13 by dont eat that
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An American English teacher has called for novels which use the word "nigger" to be removed from the high school curriculum now that Barack Obama has been elected president. John Foley, who teaches at Ridgefield High School in southern Washington, believes classics of American literature such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men should no longer be required reading for students. "The time has arrived to update the literature we use in high school classrooms. Barack Obama is [president] of the United States, and novels that use the 'N-word' repeatedly need to go," he wrote in an opinion piece for the Seattle ...
The Obama Depression
Post Date: 2010-02-12 13:17:45 by dont eat that
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For the second month in a row, the unemployment rate has fallen while the number of Americans employed has dropped. This is not good news. It means that more and more people who normally would be looking for work are not looking because they do not think they can find work. The spread of discouragement among workers is a disaster. Yet, Obamanoids consider the fall in the unemployment rate to be good news. Let us look back to the economy of March 2007, an economy that was being described as “the worst economy since the Great Depression.” Back then, the unemployment rate was 4.4 percent and the number of discouraged workers, as a percent of the labor force, was 0.2, for a combined, ...
Regulators Hired by Toyota Helped Halt Investigations
Post Date: 2010-02-12 13:12:17 by go65
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Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Former regulators hired by Toyota Motor Corp. helped end at least four U.S. investigations of unintended acceleration by company vehicles in the last decade, warding off possible recalls, court and government records show. Christopher Tinto, vice president of regulatory affairs in Toyota’s Washington office, and Christopher Santucci, who works for Tinto, helped persuade the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to end probes including those of 2002-2003 Toyota Camrys and Solaras, court documents show. Both men joined Toyota directly from NHTSA, Tinto in 1994 and Santucci in 2003. While all automakers have employees who handle NHTSA issues, Toyota may ...
Poll: Bush Still Blamed For Economy
Post Date: 2010-02-12 12:11:38 by Brian S
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(CNN) - More than a year after President George W. Bush left office, more Americans continue to blame his administration over any other entity for the nation's economic woes, according to a new poll. In a New York Times/CBS News survey out Friday, 31 percent of Americans said the Bush administration is at fault for the current state of the economy while only 7 percent pointed their finger at President Obama and his team. An additional 23 percent said the fault lies with Wall Street institutions while 13 percent assign the blame to Congress. Nearly 10 percent said the blame lies with all of them. In a CNN/Opinion Research poll released last November, the public appeared split on who ...
Kerry 'shocked' and 'disappointed' with Edwards
Post Date: 2010-02-12 11:14:51 by Badeye
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Kerry 'shocked' and 'disappointed' with Edwards By Eric Zimmermann - 02/11/10 02:41 PM ET John Kerry says he is "shocked" and "disappointed" with the sex scandal that has brought down his 2004 runnings mate's marriage and political career. Kerry discussed the John Edwards saga during an appearance with his wife on Larry King last night. "What do you make of it?" King asked. "Well, Larry, what can you make? I mean, honestly, it is a tragedy," Kerry said. More from their conversation: KING: Are you shocked? J. KERRY: Yes, and obviously disappointed. But I think -- you know, I think everybody just feels awful about it, in terms ...
From Wasilla to Washington, the Party of No has become the Party of Lies.
Post Date: 2010-02-12 10:31:29 by war
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Sarah Palin sets the tone for a narrow, spiteful corner of American politics. That corner was occupied by the Tea Party convention last week in Nashville, where Palin served up a strong, carefully-brewed, neo-con-written speech featuring a blend of slurs steeped in personal animus toward Barack Obama. There were lies of a general nature, including the palm-reading Palin’s suggestion that the President is so out of his depth, so stupid—at least that’s what the cheering crowd heard—that he can’t function without a teleprompter. And the contradictory, but equally bogus, claim that Obama is a feeble egghead -- appealing to an old prejudice against intellectuals – ...
Debra Medina Brings Momentum to Screeching Halt By Refusing to Take a Position on Who Was Behind the 9/11 Attacks
Post Date: 2010-02-12 10:30:24 by Badeye
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Debra Medina Brings Momentum to Screeching Halt By Refusing to Take a Position on Who Was Behind the 9/11 Attacks By Sam Merten Feb. 11 2010 @ 12:37PM Just when it looked like Debra Medina could maybe possibly somehow sneak her way past Kay Bailey Hutchison into a runoff with Rick Perry for a chance to grab the Republican nomination in November's gubernatorial election, she melted down during an interview this morning with Glenn Beck, who questioned Medina about rumors that she's a "9/11 truther," meaning she believes the government was involved in the collapse of the Twin Towers. Medina said it was the first she'd heard of such an accusation before Beck asked her: ...
Economic Blood Dancers Wrong About FM/FN - Fannie, Freddie Spreads Narrowest in 17 Years
Post Date: 2010-02-12 09:39:52 by war
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Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Traders are driving relative yields on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage bonds that most influence the interest rates consumers pay to the lowest in 17 years, speculating cash the companies use to buy delinquent loans will be recycled back into the securities. The difference between yields on Fannie Mae’s current- coupon 30-year securities, which trade closest to face value, and 10-year Treasuries narrowed to as little as 0.66 percentage point yesterday, matching the lowest since 1992, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Investors turned to the securities after the government- supported companies said they would buy about $200 billion of loans out of ...
Apple Blossom date changed; Rachel, Zenyatta match-up back in play
Post Date: 2010-02-12 09:17:32 by Fred Mertz
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2/12/10 (Last updated: 2/11/10 5:40 PM) Oaklawn President Charles J. Cella announced Thursday that, following conversations with Jess Jackson and Jerry Moss, the Apple Blossom Invitational (G1) is back on. The race, which was increased to a total purse of $5 million provided both Horse of the Year RACHEL ALEXANDRA (Medaglia d'Oro) and dual champion ZENYATTA (Street Cry [Ire]) start, will now be held April 9, the day before the $1 million Arkansas Derby (G1), Oaklawn's traditional closing day. "The most important day in Arkansas sports history has now become the most important two days in Arkansas sports history," Cella said. "This is truly a race for the ...
Retail Sales in U.S. Increased in January More Than Anticipated - MOre Bad News For Economic Blood Dancers
Post Date: 2010-02-12 08:32:26 by war
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Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Sales at U.S. retailers climbed in January for the third time in four months, signaling the consumer spending recovery that began in late 2009 continues into the new year. The 0.6 percent increase was larger than forecast and followed a 0.1 percent drop the prior month that was smaller than previously estimated, Commerce Department figures showed today in Washington. Purchases excluding autos rose 0.6 percent. A drop in unemployment and a longer workweek last month signal the economy is poised to generate jobs, which will lead to gains in income that may further lift demand. Macy’s Inc. and Gap Inc. are among retailers driving profits up by keeping stockpiles ...
Palin's Poll Numbers Hit Historic Lows, Even Among GOPers
Post Date: 2010-02-11 17:45:23 by Skip Intro
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Palin's Poll Numbers Hit Historic Lows, Even Among GOPers Sarah Palin has upped her national profile in recent weeks, but a new poll shows that the extra attention hasn't done her any favors. In the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, the amount of people with a favorable view of Palin has dropped to its lowest point ever recorded by the pollster. More than 70% of respondents said she's not qualified to be president. Palin's numbers don't improve much when just Republicans are asked to give their opinion of her, the poll found. The Post reports just 45% of conservatives consider Palin qualified to move into the Oval Office. Last November, 66% of conservatives said ...
Former President Clinton taken to Hospital in NYC
Post Date: 2010-02-11 16:58:54 by Badeye
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Nothing to copy and paste as of yet. Here's hoping its not serious, and that he recovers quickly and fully. I may not have voted for him, and I may not have supported most of his policies. But thats just 'politics'.
Staten Island Snow
Post Date: 2010-02-11 16:00:45 by war
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