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Judge Finds Manipulation in Recall Vote in Arizona
Post Date: 2011-10-09 18:04:20 by Ferret Mike
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MESA, Ariz. — At first glance, it had the makings of a spirited election: the leader of Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigration facing off at the polls with an immigrant from Mexico who believed that the state had gone too far. But the immigrant, Olivia Cortes, a retiree who filed papers in July to challenge the State Senate president, Russell Pearce, disappeared from the political scene last week just as quickly as she had appeared. Ms. Cortes’s candidacy for a legislative district in this working-class community east of Phoenix, it now appears, had been a dirty trick. Critics of Mr. Pearce’s hard-line approach to illegal immigration collected enough signatures to ...
Protesters prepare to dig in for winter
Post Date: 2011-10-09 13:58:45 by Ferret Mike
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The cold is coming -- and they know it. As the Occupy Wall Street protesters head into their fourth week, the camp is preparing to dig in for the long haul. Saturday, thoughts were turning to basic human needs and ways to plan and strategize for the challenges ahead. At Saturday's 9 a.m. coordination meeting, representatives on the numerous task forces dealt with the need for more donations of sleeping bags, ground pads and shoes. Right now there's an oversupply of socks, T-shirts and thermal blankets. "The cold is definitely a concern for all of us," Olivia Nole-Malpezzi, 18, of Rochester said later. "We definitely need to prepare for the winter, mentally and ...
The Raiders said he died at his home in Oakland. Before there were owners like George Steinbrenner or Jerry Jones or Mark Cuban, there was Al Davis, an outspoken and successful irritant to the N.F.L., who fielded teams capable of championship-calibe
Post Date: 2011-10-08 19:48:20 by Sebastian
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Al Davis, the irascible owner of the Oakland Raiders whose feuds with the N.F.L. reshaped professional football over the last half-century and helped spur its rise to pre-eminence in the landscape of American sports, died Saturday. He was 82. The Raiders said he died at his home in Oakland. Before there were owners like George Steinbrenner or Jerry Jones or Mark Cuban, there was Al Davis, an outspoken and successful irritant to the N.F.L., who fielded teams capable of championship-caliber play. Mr. Davis was hired by the Raiders to be the coach and general manager in 1963 and remained with the team almost continuously for nearly 50 years. He left briefly in 1966 to become the ...
Standoff With Protesters Closes National Air And Space Museum In Washington
Post Date: 2011-10-08 18:19:40 by Brian S
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The National Air and Space Museum in Washington was closed Saturday after anti-war demonstrators tried to enter the building to protest a drone exhibit, and at least one person was pepper-sprayed. Smithsonian spokesman John Gibbons said a large group of demonstrators, estimated at 100 to 200 people, arrived at about 3 p.m. and tried to enter the National Mall museum. When a security guard stopped the group from entering, saying they could not bring in signs, he was apparently held by demonstrators, Gibbons said. A second guard who arrived used pepper spray on at least one person and the crowd dispersed. A number of groups have been demonstrating in the city in the past week. The group ...
Has Harry Reid presented the GOP with the means to overturn Obamacare?
Post Date: 2011-10-08 10:27:56 by CZ82
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Has Harry Reid presented the GOP with the means to overturn Obamacare? Jerry Shenk Following cloture, on Thursday, October 6, the US senate was poised to cast a pro forma vote on final passage of a China currency bill when Senate Republicans attempted to use the rules of the Senate to attach a post-cloture amendment. The Republican amendment would have required a vote on President Obama's jobs bill, forcing Democrats to vote on the plan the president has been insisting Congress pass and blaming Republicans for blocking it. Because there are insufficient votes among Senate Democrats to force closure or pass the bill, allowing the amendment would have blown up the charade that ...
Lawrence O'Donnell Criticized for Offensive Interview With Herman Cain
Post Date: 2011-10-08 09:21:48 by no gnu taxes
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Lawrence O'Donnell has landed on hot water after being disrespectful to Herman Cain during an interview for "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell". The host started out by reading an excerpt from the 65-year-old businessman's book which read, "I was too young to participate when they first started the freedom rides [of the civil rights movement] and sit-ins... I just kept going to school doing what I was supposed to do, and stayed out of trouble [as my father told me to]." "Where do you think black people would be sitting on the bus today if Rosa Parks had followed your father's advise?" O'Donnell then asked Cain, who replied, "My ...
Previous post Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet
Post Date: 2011-10-08 07:13:34 by Ferret Mike
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A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones. The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become ...
Senator accused of sexism over 'thank God' remark about female opponent
Post Date: 2011-10-08 06:48:39 by Ferret Mike
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A US senator, who once posed nude for a magazine photo shoot, has been accused of sexism after declaring "thank God" when his female opponent said she had never done the same. Scott Brown, a Massachusetts Republican who helped pay for university by appearing in Cosmopolitan, was alleged to have descended into "the gutter" with his comment on Elizabeth Warren. Asked how she funded her own education, Prof Warren, a 62-year-old Democratic ally of Barack Obama who teaches at Harvard, said she had "borrowed money", adding: "I kept my clothes on." During a radio interview, Mr Brown, 52, responded: "Thank God." He later added: "I went to ...
Previous post Next post Judge Refuses to Sanction CIA for Destroying Torture Tapes
Post Date: 2011-10-08 06:42:13 by Ferret Mike
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A federal judge won’t hold the CIA in contempt for destroying videotapes of detainee interrogations that included the use of a torture technique known as waterboarding, ruling instead Wednesday that the spy agency merely committed “transgressions” for its failure to abide by his court order. Punishing the Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein of New York ruled, “would serve no beneficial purpose.” (.pdf) Hellerstein wrote that CIA officials responsible for producing the tapes in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit might “not have been aware of the videotapes’ existence before they were destroyed.” The judge also said ...
"If you're a white man, then shut the f*ck up about race!"
Post Date: 2011-10-07 18:56:39 by jwpegler
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"If you are a White man, you don't know about shit other than how to rape and kill". NBC is not reporting this. If this had happened at a Tea Party rally, this is ALL NBC would be talking about.
Anti-Semitism at Occupy Wall Street Protest
Post Date: 2011-10-07 18:50:11 by jwpegler
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NBC is not reporting this. Had this happened at a Tea Party Rally, this is ALL NBC would be talking about. The antagonist who said "I'm a Jew", later said he was a Latino.
Lawrence O’Donnell lectures Herman Cain on how to be black in the segregated South [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-10-07 16:02:08 by no gnu taxes
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This is possibly the most offensive interview sequence I’ve ever seen.
Lawrence O’Donnell lectures and snidely criticized Herman Cain, who was a minor when Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus in 1955 and in high school for the desegregation fights in the late 1950s and early 1960s, for not participating in civil rights demonstrations later in the 1960s. The Freedom Rides referenced in the interview and as to which O’Donnell lambasted Cain for not participating, were in 1961, when Cain was in high school.
Here are some memorable O’Donnell questions:
Where do you think black people would be sitting on the bus today if Rosa Parks had followed your father’s advice [for ...
NY State Senators Say We’ve Got Too Much Free Speech; Introduce Bill To Fix That
Post Date: 2011-10-07 14:54:44 by Ferret Mike
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(TECH DIRT) We’ve been pointing out a variety of attempts to push back on the First Amendment lately. One fertile ground for such attacks are local politicians carrying the “cyberbullying” banner, in various attempts to magically outlaw being a “jerk” online, usually by making it illegal to offend someone online. Of course, making someone’s action illegal based on how someone else feels about it is all kinds of crazy. It also would seem to violate the very principles of the First Amendment, which bar Congress (and local governments) from passing any laws that take away one’s right to free speech. In the past, lawmakers pushing these laws have tended to ...
Everybody Hates Obama -- The Worthless Kenyan Down to 38% in the Gallup Poll
Post Date: 2011-10-07 14:29:19 by no gnu taxes
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38% Approval 53% Disapproval The Kenyan is Toast
Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan raises math questions
Post Date: 2011-10-07 13:15:45 by go65
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WASHINGTON -- Herman Cain's bid for the Republican presidential nomination is fueled in part by his proposed tax code overhaul that tax policy veterans say doesn't add up. Cain's proposal is gaining attention after a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Tuesday found his campaign is tied for second place with Texas Gov. Rick Perry among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents. In campaign stops, Cain touts his 9-9-9 plan as a concept that will lead to a fairer tax system. The proposal would tax sales transactions and gross income for individuals and businesses at 9 percent while eliminating levies on capital gains. It also ends the taxes that fund Social Security, ...
Cantor Decries ‘Growing Mobs’ as Wall Street Protests Reach U.S. Capital
Post Date: 2011-10-07 12:48:13 by Brian S
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The Occupy Wall Street protesters came to Washington, where they were compared favorably to the Tea Party by Vice President Joe Biden while House Majority Leader Eric Cantor called them “growing mobs” dividing the country. President Barack Obama also weighed in, expressing empathy with the demonstrators in the nation’s capital while stopping short of endorsing their movement. “The American people understand that not everybody’s been following the rules, that Wall Street is an example of that,” Obama said yesterday at a White House press conference. Occupy Wall Street began three weeks ago in Lower Manhattan and has spread to cities from Houston to San ...
Crackdown on Pot Clinics Threatens $1B Industry
Post Date: 2011-10-07 12:22:14 by Brian S
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A U.S. Justice Department crackdown aimed at the landlords of California’s medical-marijuana dispensaries threatens an industry that, by state estimates, generates as much as $1.3 billion in annual sales. In Los Angeles alone, there were 638 dispensaries last year before a city restriction forced many to close, according to a Rand Corp. study Sept. 21. The state health department has issued medical marijuana identification cards to almost 57,000 people since 2004, though the cards aren’t required. About 400,000 Californians use marijuana on a daily basis, consuming as much as 1 million pounds each year, according to the Board of Equalization, the state’s tax administrator. ...
With Time Running Short, Jobs Managed His Farewells
Post Date: 2011-10-07 11:30:58 by war
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Over the last few months, a steady stream of visitors to Palo Alto, Calif., called an old friend’s home number and asked if he was well enough to entertain visitors, perhaps for the last time. In February, Steven P. Jobs had learned that, after years of fighting cancer, his time was becoming shorter. He quietly told a few acquaintances, and they, in turn, whispered to others. And so a pilgrimage began. The calls trickled in at first. Just a few, then dozens, and in recent weeks, a nearly endless stream of people who wanted a few moments to say goodbye, according to people close to Mr. Jobs. Most were intercepted by his wife, Laurene. She would apologetically explain that he was too ...
Celente: Obama Will Win If Republicans Pick Establishment Candidate
Post Date: 2011-10-07 11:24:19 by Capitalist Eric
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And the next President of the United States will be: teleprompter populist extraordinaire, Barack Obama. Should the Republicans nominate one of the three current frontrunners – Mitt Romney, Rick Perry or Michelle Bachmann – Barack “Back-on-track” Obama wins (despite polls showing him with just a 41 percent approval rating) by playing the populist card he’s already begun to deal, forecasts Gerald Celente, Trends Journal publisher. The President is already calling the bluff of his Republican foes, demanding a millionaire’s tax and daring a gridlocked Congress not to pass it. “Warren Buffet’s secretary shouldn’t pay a higher tax rate than Warren ...
Poll: Cain surges, opens up 20-point lead on Romney
Post Date: 2011-10-07 11:19:11 by A K A Stone
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In news sure to inject shock and awe into the Republican political primary season, a Zogby poll released Thursday showed Herman Cain leading the Republican field, topping former front-runner Mitt Romney by an astonishing 20 points. Cain would also narrowly edge out Obama in a general election, the poll found, by a 46�“44 margin. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, would lose by a point to the president, 40 percent to 41 percent. Texas governor Rick Perry, who has slipped in the polls of late, would lose to the president 45 percent to 40 percent. The poll found that 38 percent of Republican primary voters said they would vote for Cain if the primary were held today. ...
Rand Paul: Obama’s Rhetoric Could Turn ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Violent
Post Date: 2011-10-07 11:13:01 by A K A Stone
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Senator tells Judge Napolitano demonstrators remind him of “Paris mob” During a Fox Business interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano, Senator Rand Paul warned that Barack Obama’s implicit support for the grievances of the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters could provoke them to turn into a violent mob. Scaling the heights of hypocrisy once again, Barack Obama – whose 2008 campaign was funded by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley – sympathized with the OWS protesters yesterday while grandstanding as the man to bring Wall Street back in line, despite the fact that his own cabinet is full of former Wall Street executives and he is even ...
'J. Edgar Hoover was NOT gay!': FBI warned Clint Eastwood and Leonardo DiCaprio not to camp up portrayal of bureau chief in new film
Post Date: 2011-10-07 11:01:05 by Sebastian
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Historians have for years speculated about the sexuality of the first FBI chief, J. Edgar Hoover, with some suggesting he was gay and enjoyed cross-dressing.And with an upcoming movie about his life in the pipeline, it seems current bosses at the bureau were more than a little concerned about the whispers spreading.When Clint Eastwood, who is directing the biopic, and Lionardo Dicaprio, who plays Hoover, met with bureau representatives to research the part, they were reportedly warned not to camp up the role. Scroll down for video Friends: J. Edgar Hoover, right, and Tolson, who are said to have shared an intimate relationship - as lovers as well as friends The FBI's assistant director ...
Video with footage that won't help Romney get theGOP nomination [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-10-07 01:22:28 by Ferret Mike
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-- Video title: Liberal Mitt's Greatest Hits: What Romney Doesn't Want You to See
Topeka, Kansas City Council Considers Decriminalizing Domestic Violence To Save Money
Post Date: 2011-10-06 18:49:20 by Brian S
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Faced with their worst budget crises since the Great Depression, states, and cities have resorted to increasingly desperate measures to cut costs. State and local governments have laid off teachers, slashed Medicaid funding, and even started unpaving roads and turning off streetlights. But perhaps the most shocking idea to save money is being debated right now by the City Council of Topeka, Kansas. The city could repeal an ordinance banning domestic violence because some say the cost of prosecuting those cases is just too high: Last night, in between approving city expenditures and other routine agenda items, the Topeka, Kansas City Council debated one rather controversial one: ...
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