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TSA: No More Overseas Airmail Packages Over One Pound Allowed Into U.S.
Post Date: 2010-12-07 22:01:11 by WhiteSands
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The Japan Post Services Co, the Japanese postal service, has announced that no more airmail packages over one pound will be permitted for shipment into the U.S., as a result of new TSA regulations, the rule applies to everyone except for large corporate mailers which are exempt. But the rules do not apply only to Japan. Apparently, reports Natural News, the TSA has requested that no foreign country be permitted to send air packages weighing over a pound into the U.S. because of perceived security threats, unless the postal carriers follow strict and tedious new screening rules to verify sender and receiver. I smell a Cass Sunstein "nudge" here again. The TSA doesn't outright ...
Emanuel opts out of most forums
Post Date: 2010-12-07 21:53:39 by WhiteSands
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Something’s missing from Chicago’s mayoral candidate forums: Rahm Emanuel. On at least three nights next week — Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday — just about all of the major candidates for mayor, except the former White House chief of staff, have agreed to sit side-by-side at community forums and take questions from voters or panelists. But Emanuel is taking a pass, as he has done with other forums this week and last. “I don’t think he’ll do any of them,” Emanuel spokesman Ben Labolt said of next week’s forums. “He’s been speaking to voters directly where they live and work every day of the week.” Rival candidate Gery Chico has ...
Arizona pension systems a soaring burden
Post Date: 2010-12-07 20:20:07 by WhiteSands
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Even as local governments and the state are slashing budgets, Arizonans are propping up public-pension systems that allow civil servants to retire in their 50s, receive annuities that can exceed $100,000 a year, and collect pensions while staying on the same job, The Arizona Republic has found. Over the past decade, government agencies have been forced to pour billions of dollars into the state's six pension systems to keep pace with continual benefit enhancements. The added cost of these enhancements has been largely borne by taxpayers as pension investments eroded amid stock-market declines. • State pension fund tried suing 'Republic' Even some of the pension ...
Elizabeth Edwards dies of cancer at 61
Post Date: 2010-12-07 17:11:57 by WhiteSands
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Elizabeth Edwards has died of cancer, NBC News has confirmed. She was 61. Gravely ill with cancer that no longer responded to treatment, Elizabeth Edwards was reportedly not in any pain and was surrounded by family and friends, including her estranged husband, at home in North Carolina. When rumors began to circulate that she had taken a turn for the worse, Edwards’ family announced Monday that her doctors had recommended against any additional treatment. “Elizabeth has been advised by her doctors that further treatment of her cancer would be unproductive,” said the statement her family provided to NBC News. “She is resting at home with family and friends.” John ...
Elizabeth Edwards Dies At 61
Post Date: 2010-12-07 17:10:19 by Brian S
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(12-07) 14:04 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- A family friend says Elizabeth Edwards has died of cancer. The friend says the estranged wife of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards died in North Carolina Tuesday morning. The friend spoke on the condition of anonimity because the family had not announced her death.
24 Signs That All Of America Is Becoming Just Like Detroit – A Rotting, Post-Industrial, Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland
Post Date: 2010-12-07 15:29:55 by Capitalist Eric
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For years, people have been laughing at the horrific economic decline of Detroit. Well, guess what? The same thing that happened to Detroit is now happening to dozens of other communities across the United States. From coast to coast there are formerly great manufacturing cities that have turned into rotting, post-industrial war zones. In particular, in America's "rust belt" you can drive through town after town after town that resemble little more than post-apocalyptic wastelands. In many U.S. cities, the "real" rate of unemployment is over 30 percent. There are some communities that will start depressing you almost the moment you drive into them. It is almost as ...
Elizabeth Edwards: Patients' 'Gut-Wrenching' Decisions to End Treatment
Post Date: 2010-12-07 14:30:10 by WhiteSands
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Between September and the end of November, Elizabeth Edwards' health went into a rapid decline. Her breast cancer spread to her liver, and has now reached the point where medical treatment can no longer do much for her. Although she appeared well enough to make public appearances just a few months ago, medical experts who are not involved with Edwards' treatment say it's not unusual for metastatic breast cancer to quickly progress into its final stages. "Once the last of all of the likely therapies stops working, it is typical for deterioration to be quite rapid," said Dr. Harry D. Bear, professor of oncology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. ...
Taxes To Remain At Present Level.
Post Date: 2010-12-07 14:05:46 by Skip MacLure
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Obama got rolled. He even sweetened the deal for Conservative Republicans with a proposed 2.5% reduction in withholding for the next year. What’s most important though is that American business can take a deep breath and at least look forward to two years of certainty. Maybe the engine of small business can generate a few jobs. It means that we’ll have this fight to do over, but we’ll have the House and the huge advantage of the influence and power of the Tea Party patriots. We’ll have to hold our conservative warriors’ noses to the grindstone… and along the way we can remind the RINOs just who’s watching them and that we can, and will, oppose and defeat ...
Liberal Democrats Revolt Over Obama Compromise, Call him a piece of "S**t," Demand Primary Challenge
Post Date: 2010-12-07 11:42:14 by no gnu taxes
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President Obama has compromised with Republicans over the last several days. You read that right. In order to secure some of his economic policies, Obama conceded Republicans that taxes for higher-earners should remain cut. In return, despite the fact that they did not get all of their economic wishes, some Congressional Republicans have promised their vote. While President Obama may be trying to give himself a pat on the back now that he has secured more votes, one group of people are furious with the President: his base. Once the compromise was announced, across the internet thousands of liberal democrats took to their keyboards to bash the Commander in Chief they so blindly followed for ...
President Bush and President Obama - Who Makes the Better President?
Post Date: 2010-12-07 11:08:58 by no gnu taxes
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Most democrats still think they are right about President Bush, even claim that at least Barack Obama is better than Bush, but that's not really correct at all. Let me explain. You see, not long ago, I was having a conversation with an acquaintance who didn't care for President Bush or President Obama, and he didn't have very nice things to say about either. Still, when he went into a near tirade over George W. Bush, I explained that; there is nothing really wrong with Bush II, it was the media who changed your perception, and/or perhaps your political persuasion, just like they trashed Bush Sr.'s VP- Dan Quayle. What he couldn't spell? Really, you mean like 95% of the ...
How’s that Hope and Change Working? President Bush’s Approval Rating is Higher than President Obama’s!
Post Date: 2010-12-07 10:38:25 by no gnu taxes
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I can hear liberals whimpering and pissing all over themselves. In under two years, Obama is tanking as the hope and change train has driven the country off the tracks. Will the left blame Bush his Obama’s busted lip? Politico reports: George W. Bush’s job approval rating as president has spiked to 47 percent, according to a Gallup poll released Monday. That’s 1 point higher than President Barack Obama’s job approval rating in a poll taken the same week. This is the first time Gallup asked Americans to retrospectively rate Bush’s job performance. And it was a stunning turnaround from his low point of 25 percent in November 2008. The 47 percent number is 13 points ...
Gallup: Bush’s job approval now higher than Obama’s
Post Date: 2010-12-06 22:24:09 by WhiteSands
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Via Jim Geraghty, a reminder that Inauguration Day 2009 seems, oh, so looong ago. Actually, The One’s daily approval rating stands at 47 percent today, so he and the Bushitler find themselves in a dead heat: A few obvious points. One: The Kennedy mystique is eternal. By the time the 50th anniversary of his assassination rolls around in 2013, I expect the wistful Camelot reminiscences to push him to a cool 90 percent. Two: Although Dubya’s numbers were Nixonian towards the end of his presidency, we can now lay to rest the idea that he’ll ever be remembered in the same class. “Not nearly as bad as Nixon” isn’t something you want to carve over the doorway of the ...
TRENDING: Elizabeth Edwards stops cancer treatment, releases statement
Post Date: 2010-12-06 21:57:46 by Skip Intro
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TRENDING: Elizabeth Edwards stops cancer treatment, releases statement (CNN) - Elizabeth Edwards is surrounded by family and friends in her North Carolina home after being informed by her doctors that further cancer treatment would be unproductive. "Elizabeth has been advised by her doctors that further treatment of her cancer would be unproductive," the Edwards family said Monday in a statement. "She is resting at home with family and friends and has posted this message to friends on her Facebook page." The message from Edwards, the wife of two-time presidential candidate John Edwards, reads: "You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three ...
White House Proposes Payroll-Tax Holiday
Post Date: 2010-12-06 18:21:37 by WhiteSands
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WASHINGTON—Aides to President Barack Obama are proposing a one-year reduction in the payroll tax as part of negotiations with Congress on a broader package to stave off income-tax increases due to take effect next year. Under the White House plan, the Social Security tax paid by workers would drop temporarily by 2 percentage points, to 4.2% from 6.2%, a person familiar with the proposal said. For a worker earning $40,000, the tax savings would be $800. The proposal has not won the approval of congressional Democrats or Republicans. Its emergence in the broader tax negotiations is a sign that the White House is trying to break the logjam on those talks before the end of the year, when ...
Bedbugs Beverly Hills - Insects Invade California
Post Date: 2010-12-06 17:43:19 by WhiteSands
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Bedbugs have invaded Beverly Hills, California. The bedbugs made it from New York City to Beverly Hills in more than two dozen communities. Well, no one knows if they came from the East Coast, but it's the same problem. "It's really all over the county," Angelo J. Bellomo, director of environmental health for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, said in a statement. Health officials began tracking bedbug reports last spring after seeing an increase in complaints from tenants, property owners and businesses. Now, there are about 55 reports each month. The rice-sized brown pests have been confirmed. Bedbugs have invaded the United States and have been found ...
Obama Jobs Deficit Further Evidence of Failure
Post Date: 2010-12-06 17:12:37 by WhiteSands
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“You are what your record says you are.” So says Bill Parcells, three-time Super Bowl–winning coach. Professional sports, athletes, coaches, and commentators can spin the numbers with the best of politicians, but in the end you are what your record says you are. The record for the first two years of President Obama’s economic policies is pretty dismal: National debt up $2.9 trillion; unemployment rate holding at a lofty 9.6 percent; and Obama’s personal metric—the Obama jobs deficit—up to 7.6 million workers. Not Your Father’s Recovery The Great Recession ended in June 2009. The economy should be accelerating smartly, creating jobs at a ...
FEC Complaint Filed Against Rangel
Post Date: 2010-12-06 15:46:54 by WhiteSands
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When Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) was censured in front of the House of Representatives, it may have seemed his ethics issues had passed. But now Rangel faces a Federal Election Commission probe into allegations he used improper campaign funds to pay for his House Ethics trial defense. The complaint, filed by the conservative-leaning National Legal and Policy Center, alleges Rangel paid for legal expenses out of funds from his National Leadership Political Action Committee. FEC rules state that a candidate's legal expenses can only be paid from individual campaign accounts or defense funds. However, a Rangal spokesperson says in a statement, "The National Leadership PAC attorney ...
Right wing declares war on the poor: Kate O'Beirne calls parents of school lunch recipients child abusers
Post Date: 2010-12-06 12:35:08 by go65
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I'm speechless. This little rant by Kate O'Beirne at a Republican strategy session is so evil, so incredibly cold-hearted, and so predictably right-wing that it makes me want to shove a big bowl of cereal and a big banana right down her chicken-hearted little gullet. Ebenezer Scrooge would be proud of his progeny. O’BEIRNE: And then the title of our gathering is so crucial; “Less of Washington and More of Ourselves”. The federal school lunch program and now breakfast program and I guess in Washington DC, dinner program are pretty close to being sacred cows… broad bipartisan support. And if we’re going to ask more of ourselves, my question is what poor ...
Dog Bites US Airways Flight Attendant, Prompts Diversion To Pittsburgh
Post Date: 2010-12-06 12:07:41 by Wood_Chopper
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PITTSBURGH -- A spokesman for US Airways has confirmed that a dog got loose on board a plane, and the captain decided to divert to Pittsburgh. According to the airline's Todd Lehmacher, Flight 522 was a nonstop flight from Newark to Phoenix but was diverted to Pittsburgh International Airport on Monday morning. Lehmacher said the company's policy is to allow pets in the plane's cabin if the pet and its cage can fit under a seat. The policy also states that the pet may not be let out of the cage. According to the airline, the passenger who brought the dog on board the plane did let the animal out. Lehmacher said the dog got loose and bit another passenger and a flight ...
WikiLeaks is freedom in action
Post Date: 2010-12-06 10:24:59 by continental op
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I write not to condemn Julian Assange, but to praise him. More than that, I write to accuse those so-called conservatives who have waxed hysterical in their contemptible fulminations against Assange and his organization, Wikileaks, of being ideological frauds, enemies of democracy and false friends of human liberty. One of the favorite accusations made by the totalitarian bootlickers who condemn Assange's free speech is that by making information available to the public about the actions of certain individuals that were recorded by other individuals, he has blood on his hands due to some mysterious transitive property that no one has yet managed to rationally explain. And the idea that ...
Obama should resign if approved UN spying: WikiLeaks founder
Post Date: 2010-12-05 22:04:51 by WhiteSands
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MADRID — President Barack Obama should resign if it can be shown that he approved spying by US diplomatic figures on UN officials, the founder of WikiLeaks said in an interview published Sunday. "The whole chain of command who was aware of this order, and approved it, must resign if the US is to be seen to be a credible nation that obeys the rule of law. The order is so serious it may well have been put to the president for approval," Julian Assange told Spanish daily El Pais. "Obama must answer what he knew about this illegal order and when. If he refuses to answer or there is evidence he approved of these actions, he must resign," he added during an Internet ...
Former area priest accused of trying to hire hit man to kill teen he’s charged with abusing
Post Date: 2010-12-05 21:56:30 by WhiteSands
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A former Kansas City area Catholic priest recently charged with sexually abusing a teenager in Texas is now accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill the boy. The Rev. John M. Fiala, who served in the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas in 2001 and 2002, was arrested last week in Dallas by Texas Rangers and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers during a murder-for-hire investigation. Fiala, 52, is accused of negotiating with an undercover agent to have the teen killed, said a Texas DPS spokeswoman. He was charged with one count of criminal solicitation to commit capital murder. Fiala also has been indicted on multiple counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child — ...
The streets are safe again
Post Date: 2010-12-05 21:56:18 by NMC_EXP
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A toy robot was blown to pieces yesterday evening in Denver by local police after a long, tense stand-off between the law enforcers and the eight-inch tall figurine. The department's bomb squad were called in to take care of the 'suspicious object', which was cemented to the base of a pillar supporting a footbridge. According to Denver Police Spokesman Matt Murray, a civilian called the police at 3.27pm to report the presence of the toy near the junction of 20th and Wazee streets. Police cordoned off the area and wouldn't let bystanders within 100 yards of the robot as they sent in their very own robot to examine the object, thinking it might be a bomb. Eventually, at ...
STUDENTS WARNED: READ OR LINK TO WIKILEAKS AND YOU'RE OUT OF A GOVERNMENT JOB
Post Date: 2010-12-05 18:13:18 by Brian S
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Graduate students at US universities are being warned not to read or post links to WikiLeaks documents, or they could be denied work with the US government. Several news reports suggest the State Department has been warning university departments that students could fail security screening if they are seen to discuss or post links to WikiLeaks documents on social networking sites. The US government considers the leaked material to be classified, even after public release. AboveTheLaw.com has obtained a letter from the career development dean of the Boston University School of Law warning students to stay away from WikiLeaks material. Today I received information about Wikileaks that I want ...
Gingrich: I'm 'More Inclined To Run' In 2012
Post Date: 2010-12-05 18:11:58 by Brian S
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During an appearance on "Fox News Sunday," former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said that he is "much more inclined to run" for president in 2012 than not run. Gingrich has been hinting for months that he may seek the presidency -- though he has a history of making a lot of noise about running before deciding against it, as he did before the 2008 election. On Sunday, Gingrich said that after speaking with friends and colleagues, he is "more inclined to think it is doable." However, he said he would not make a decision until the "end of February, beginning of March."In recent months, Gingrich has raised his profile as a conservative bomb-thrower, ...
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