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Police: Man On Facebook Is Not The ‘Kensington Strangler’
Post Date: 2010-12-21 13:12:11 by Skip Intro
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Police: Man On Facebook Is Not The ‘Kensington Strangler’ PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Philadelphia police say someone posted false information on Facebook identifying a city man as the Kensington Strangler. Now, police want to get the word out to protect the man from vigilante justice. Police Lieutenant Ray Evers says police found out about the Facebook posting mid-Monday morning. The fan page had a photo of a man and his address. “This fan page was saying this man was the Kensington Strangler. Looking at this picture, we notified Homicide and Special Victims and they said, no this male is not a subject in this investigation and is not wanted in this investigation.” ...
Rasmussen: Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
Post Date: 2010-12-21 12:50:05 by go65
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Thirty-six percent (36%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -13 (see trends). That’s the lowest level of Strong Disapproval for the president in more than year (since October 2009). Forty-one percent (41%) believe the Tea Party Movement will be stronger in 2012 than it was in 2010. A plurality of voters expect Tea Party candidates elected last month to sell out and become just like other politicians. Members of the Tea Party hold a different view. At the ...
Study Shows More Than 1 In 5 High School Graduates Can't Pass Military Exam
Post Date: 2010-12-21 12:28:39 by Brian S
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(12-21) 08:30 PST MIAMI, (AP) -- A new national study has found that thousands of students fail the military's entrance exam each year. The report from The Education Trust released exclusively to The Associated Press on Tuesday shows that 23 percent of recent high school graduates don't get the minimum score needed on the enlistment test to join any branch of the military. The test scores paint a grim picture of an education system that produces graduates who can't answer basic math, science and reading questions. The study comes on top of Pentagon data that shows 75 percent of those aged 17 to 24 don't qualify for the military because they are physically unfit, have a ...
Attorney General Fears Growing Terror Threat By U.S. Citizens
Post Date: 2010-12-21 12:14:28 by Brian S
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Attorney General Eric Holder is saying he’s worried about terrorist attacks on the U.S.—by Americans. In an interview Tuesday, Holder said that he worries about what he sees as a growing threat of American citizens who “for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born.” Holder said that out of 126 people charged with allegations related to terrorism in the past two years, 50 have been U.S. citizens. Comparing one, Anwar Al Awlaki, to Osama bin Ladin, Holder said that Awlaki’s dual U.S.-Yemen citizenship makes him a different type of threat than most foreign terrorists due to ...
Warm Bias: How The Met Office Misleads The British Public With Bogus Global Warming Assumptions
Post Date: 2010-12-21 11:49:02 by no gnu taxes
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Met Office 2008 Forecast: Trend of Mild Winters Continues Met Office, 25 September 2008: The Met Office forecast for the coming winter suggests it is, once again, likely to be milder than average. It is also likely that the coming winter will be drier than last year. Reality Check: Winter of 2008/09 Coldest Winter For A Decade Met Office, March 2009: Mean temperatures over the UK were 1.1 °C below the 1971-2000 average during December, 0.5 °C below average during January and 0.2 °C above average during February. The UK mean temperature for the winter was 3.2 °C, which is 0.5 °C below average, making it the coldest winter since 1996/97 (also 3.2 °C). Met Office 200 ...
Title: Colbert follows O'Reilly's logic: 'We've got to pretend Jesus was just as selfish as we are'
Post Date: 2010-12-21 09:27:39 by go65
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The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cJesus Is a Liberal Democratwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogMarch to Keep Fear Alive Colbert: Because if this is gonna be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we've got to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition -- and then admit that we just don't want to do it.
The New 2010 Army: How Many People Will it Take to Help a Recruit Put Up a Light Bulb?
Post Date: 2010-12-21 09:24:29 by no gnu taxes
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None. He can do it all by himself. However, it may take an entire emergency room staff to remove it.
Probable carcinogen hexavalent chromium found in drinking water of 31 U.S. cities
Post Date: 2010-12-21 09:23:15 by go65
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An environmental group that analyzed the drinking water in 35 cities across the United States, including Bethesda and Washington, found that most contained hexavalent chromium, a probable carcinogen that was made famous by the film "Erin Brockovich." It comes as the Environmental Protection Agency is considering whether to set a limit for hexavalent chromium in tap water. The agency is reviewing the chemical after the National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, deemed it a "probable carcinogen" in 2008. The federal government restricts the amount of "total chromium" in drinking water and requires water utilities to test for it, but ...
Marine General Says Faggots Will Get Marines Killed
Post Date: 2010-12-21 09:08:29 by no gnu taxes
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The Marine Corps' "top" general suggested Tuesday that allowing gays to serve openly in the military could result in more casualties because their presence on the battlefield would pose "a distraction." "When you're out in the field fearing for your life, sexual release is often sought to relieve stress - well, that and alcohol and drugs - shit, you might die and you know that. So when your life hangs on the line, you might find yourself wanting to let something else hang out, and that might be a problem" said Gen. James F. Amos, the commandant of the Marine Corps, "and we don't want anything distracting Marines from their mission, which is I ...
FCC to vote Tuesday on 'net neutrality' rules
Post Date: 2010-12-21 00:48:37 by WhiteSands
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CNN) -- The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote Tuesday on a set of regulations designed to ensure that internet providers grant everyone equal access to the Web. The "net neutrality" rules, proposed by the Obama administration, would be the government's biggest foray yet into one of the Web's fiercest debates. In announcing the proposed rules earlier this month, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said they would require high-speed internet providers to treat all types of Web content equally. The rules would, in effect, keep the companies that own the internet's real-world infrastructure from slowing down some types of websites or apps -- say, those ...
Michael Moore vs. WikiLeaks: “SiCKO Was Not Banned in Cuba”
Post Date: 2010-12-21 00:42:55 by WhiteSands
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In 2002’s Red Dragon, a prequel to Silence of the Lambs, FBI agent Will Graham lures a killer called “The Tooth Fairy” out from hiding by leaking an offensive profile to a tabloid reporter. Enraged by his public characterization as impotent and pathetic, “The Tooth Fairy” targets the reporter as his next victim. A similar snare has lured the odious Michael Moore out from whichever rock he resides under between deceitful “documentaries.” Over the weekend, a story broke regarding his 2007 film SiCKO. A WikiLeaks revelation indicated the film had been banned in Cuba. Several blogs and mainstream media sources ran with the story. Enraged by his public ...
$2 Trillion Debt Crisis Threatens To Bring Down 100 US Cities
Post Date: 2010-12-20 18:52:39 by Brian S
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More than 100 American cities could go bust next year as the debt crisis that has taken down banks and countries threatens next to spark a municipal meltdown, a leading analyst has warned.Meredith Whitney, the US research analyst who correctly predicted the global credit crunch, described local and state debt as the biggest problem facing the US economy, and one that could derail its recovery."Next to housing this is the single most important issue in the US and certainly the biggest threat to the US economy," Whitney told the CBS 60 Minutes programme on Sunday night."There's not a doubt on my mind that you will see a spate of municipal bond defaults. You can see fifty to ...
Feds Want Reporting For High-Powered Rifle Sales
Post Date: 2010-12-20 18:49:02 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON – The federal agency that monitors gun sales wants weapons dealers near the Mexican border to start reporting multiple sales of high-powered rifles, according to a notice published in the Federal Register. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has asked the White House budget office to approve an emergency request requiring border-area gun dealers to report the sales of two or more rifles to the same customer within a five-day period. The emergency request, published Friday in the Federal Register, is likely to face stiff opposition from gun rights advocates, including the National Rifle Association. ATF wants the Office of Budget Management to approve ...
Lysenkoism by social choice
Post Date: 2010-12-20 18:36:35 by continental op
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The worst fate a civilization can face is to cut itself off from reality. Sealed away from harmful facts, it swims in its own mind, nourished by wealth created in its past. Over time, the poisons build up and the delusion comes into collision — SMASH! — with reality and its unrelenting consistency. Then the civilization dies. We like to think that with our technology and open society, we play by a different set of rules than people used in the past. We want to think this collision cannot happen to us. To justify this, we create a mythos: the past was bad and brutal, but now we’re enlightened, and through the equality of all people, we are making as close to a Utopia as we ...
Seattle Buses To Carry ‘Israeli War Crimes’ Ads
Post Date: 2010-12-20 18:15:05 by Brian S
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(JTA) -- Buses in downtown Seattle will carry advertisements about "Israeli war crimes" to mark the second year since the Gaza war. The Seattle Midwest Awareness Campaign has paid $1,794 to place the advertisements on 12 buses beginning Dec. 27, the day Israel entered Gaza to stop rocket attacks on its southern communities, according to Seattle's King 5 News. The ads feature a group of children looking at a demolished building under the heading "Israeli War Crimes: Your tax dollars at work." Advertisements are accepted for Seattle buses as long as they do not publicize pornography, alcohol and tobacco, and as long as the images and material used don't ...
10 Global Warming Doomsday Predictions
Post Date: 2010-12-20 16:55:22 by no gnu taxes
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Have you ever seen one of those wild-eyed people with a sandwich board around his neck standing on the corner, screeching incoherently about how the end of the world is coming? Now, what if those people were insisting that you were really the crazy one? What if the newspapers agreed with them and the politicians wanted to pass taxes and spend hundreds of billions to implement their ideas? Sound too unbelievable to be true? Well, guess what? It's happening. Global warming alarmists are regularly prophesying about doomsday scenarios -- except they're doing it in newspapers and from the stages of swanky resorts where they've flown in their private jets. Unlike the old school ...
The War For Our Southern Border.
Post Date: 2010-12-20 14:30:36 by Skip MacLure
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At first, I thought the story had to be wrong when I heard that our Border Patrol agents had to use non-lethal ‘beanbags’ for dealing with illegals, and that in a deadly-force situation they had to wait to fire until fired upon. These ‘rules of engagement’ seldom accomplish anything other than getting good men killed or wounded. That’s exactly what happened when Agent Brian A. Terry was killed in the remote Peck Canyon area, north of Nogales, Arizona. Ironically, agent Terry was killed pursuing bandits who infest the borders preying on illegals coming across the border from Mexico. It’s no secret that the smuggling gangs have permanent observation posts set ...
'Just Keeping You Safe': The Cheka Checks In
Post Date: 2010-12-20 10:22:48 by Capitalist Eric
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What are you doing here?" Paul asked the armed stranger who had materialized outside his workplace. "Just keeping you safe," replied the interloper, who had invaded the property without invitation or explanation. The visitor was clad in what Paul described as a SWAT-style dark blue jumpsuit, mirrored sunglasses, and a baseball cap. He had arrived in a white SUV equipped with running lights and displaying police markings advertising that it belonged to the Department of Homeland Security. Paul (who asked that his last name not be used) was the only employee who saw something amiss as the Homeland Security officer busied himself peering into windows and doorways and making ...
The military members can now feel free to fudge pack all their switch hitter buddies! Congrats!
Post Date: 2010-12-20 08:53:31 by no gnu taxes
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It will be ok now to fudge pack all your switch-hitter buddies! FINALLY, oooh so good, a tight young mans ass is the best sex in this world -- better than any female virgin. HELL YEA. The only thing to feel bad about is when shy 18 year old guys won't let you sodomize them too. Maybe Pelosi and Reid will start a new round of talks to unlock all these young men's assholes for all you switch-hitters. Thanks and God bless the untied state of Liberalca.
New census count may complicate Obama 2012 bid .Population continues to shift from Democratic-leaning Rust Belt states to Republican-leaning Sun Belt states
Post Date: 2010-12-19 21:28:21 by WhiteSands
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WASHINGTON — The 2010 census report coming out Tuesday will include a boatload of good political news for Republicans and grim data for Democrats hoping to re-elect President Barack Obama and rebound from last month's devastating elections. The population continues to shift from Democratic-leaning Rust Belt states to Republican-leaning Sun Belt states, a trend the Census Bureau will detail in its once-a-decade report to the president. Political clout shifts, too, because the nation must reapportion the 435 House districts to make them roughly equal in population, based on the latest census figures. The biggest gainer will be Texas, a GOP-dominated state expected to gain up to ...
Entire Nation Gets A 'Ringside Seat' To Total Lunar Eclipse
Post Date: 2010-12-19 20:17:23 by Brian S
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If you step outside late tonight into early Tuesday morning, you may notice the moon looks like a luminous rotten orange. It's a total lunar eclipse that will be visible to everyone in North and Central America, including Alaska and Hawaii. "We've all got a ringside seat to this one," says Alan MacRobert, editor of Sky & Telescope magazine. "We'll be watching it together." During a lunar eclipse, the Earth lines up directly between the sun and the moon, so there is no direct sunlight to hit and reflect off the moon's surface. The only light that reaches it is "filtered and bending through our atmosphere," MacRobert says. That gives it the ...
Liberal myths vs. reality
Post Date: 2010-12-19 18:17:13 by WhiteSands
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According to Barack Obama, "The arguments of liberals are more often grounded in reason and fact." But according to Margaret Thatcher, "The facts of life are conservative." Who’s right? Myth: The deficit was caused by Bush’s tax cuts. Fact: For over four decades, 1960 through 2000, federal revenues averaged 18.2% of Gross Domestic Product and the trend was virtually flat. The final Bush tax rates became effective in 2003. In 2006 and 2007, well after the new tax rates were in effect, federal revenues were 18.2% and 18.5% of GDP, above historical levels. The federal government collected over half a trillion dollars more in 2007 than it did in 2000. Myth: ...
Monsignor defrocked in NYC sex abuse scandal
Post Date: 2010-12-19 16:54:29 by WhiteSands
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NEW YORK — A Roman Catholic tribunal has defrocked a monsignor who once led fundraising for the Archdiocese of New York after deciding he had molested a teenage student in the 1980s. The panel's action against Monsignor Charles Kavanagh came eight years after a middle-aged man came forward and claimed that the clergyman had touched him in appropriately and climbed into his bed during a trip to Washington D.C. Kavanagh insists he didn't do it. His sister and lawyer, Ann Mandt, says the church's decision was an attempt to cover up its mishandling of other sex abuse cases by cracking down on an innocent man. She says her 73-year-old brother "will never give up his ...
A fabulous military
Post Date: 2010-12-19 11:05:38 by continental op
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No one cognizant of history would think to deny that homosexual men are capable of fighting effectively. The Sacred Band of Thebes alone would suffice to disprove that notion. However, one salient fact to consider about the Sacred Band was that it was a band, which is to say, it was a military unit that was set apart from other military units that did not share the particular predilection that made it such a remarkably cohesive unit. The repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, which effectively permits the many closeted homosexuals in the U.S. armed forces to openly exhibit their abnormal preferences and presumably to act upon them, is therefore likely to prove less salutary to American ...
Assange Walks Off ABC Interview
Post Date: 2010-12-18 15:59:12 by WhiteSands
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WikiLeaks founder stops interview after Jim Sciutto asks about rape allegations.
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