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Feds: Somali-Born Teen Plotted Car-Bombing in Oregon
Post Date: 2010-11-27 13:53:30 by Murron
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Feds: Somali-Born Teen Plotted Car-Bombing in Oregon By WILLIAM McCALL and NEDRA PICKLER PORTLAND, Ore. – Federal agents in a sting operation arrested a Somali-born teenager just as he tried blowing up a van he believed was loaded with explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, authorities said. The bomb was an elaborate fake supplied by the agents and the public was never in danger, authorities said. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at 5:40 p.m. Friday just after he dialed a cell phone that he thought would set off the blast but instead brought federal agents and police swooping down on him. Yelling "Allahu Akbar!" — Arabic for ...
Ky. ‘King of Pot’ On the Lam 2 Years After Giant Raid
Post Date: 2010-11-27 13:37:22 by Murron
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KY. ‘King of Pot’ On the Lam 2 Years After Giant Raid The Associated Press Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010 With authorities closing in to seize 2,400 marijuana plants on John Robert Boone's farm two years ago, the legendary Kentucky outlaw vanished like a puff of smoke. The prolific grower has been dodging the law ever since, his folk-hero status growing with every sale of a "Run, Johnny, Run" T-shirt and click on his Facebook fan page. Tracking down the fugitive who resembles a tattooed Santa Claus has proven as hard as "trying to catch a ghost" for the federal authorities canvassing tightlipped residents among the small farms in a rural area southeast of ...
18 Former ACORN Workers Have Been Convicted or Admitted Guilt in Election Fraud
Post Date: 2010-11-27 13:18:38 by WhiteSands
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The scandal-plagued ACORN may no longer exist, but its tarnished legacy lives on in court, as the activist group and its former employees face criminal punishment. So far this year, at least 18 former workers have admitted guilt or been convicted on varying charges of election fraud. The punishment has ranged from probation to several months of prison time. ACORN, once a powerful advocate for low-income and minority voters, shuttered its operations amid plummeting revenues in March, six months after conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute caught on video some of the group's employees offering them tax advice. But the group is still facing charges in Nevada on ...
Tea Party's Balanced-Budget Dream Will Take Decades Even for Deficit Hawks
Post Date: 2010-11-26 12:12:32 by Brian S
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Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Republicans have endorsed a call for a constitutional amendment requiring the government to balance its budget after Tea Party candidates made erasing the deficit a rallying cry throughout the U.S. election campaign. While the calls may be urgent, even Washington’s leading deficit foes say it will take decades to balance the books. A proposal by the heads of President Barack Obama’s debt commission to cut the budget by $4 trillion wouldn’t wipe out the deficit for more than 25 years. Representative Paul Ryan, who’s in line to become chairman of the House Budget Committee, predicts it will take a half-century. A panel led by former ...
Behold. [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-11-26 10:34:27 by continental op
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I have a returned. The firing squads will assemble at dawn. Followed by the impaling crews at ten and the hangmen at high noon.
Why was Tom Delay Ever Tried?
Post Date: 2010-11-26 10:21:36 by no gnu taxes
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I'm not a lawyer, so if somebody has more understanding, steer me to where I am wrong. - Texas has a law which forbids corporations from contributing to candidates. - Corporations gave money to Delay (legally). - Delay funneled this money through the RNC to help some Texas State GOP candidates (no input from the corporations). - Texas prosecutors could not find any way to prosecute Delay for campaign finance violations. - They then used Texas money laundering laws to prosecute Delay even though those laws clearly state that such proceeds must come from illegal activities and it is clear that Delay obtained the money legally. - So Delay is convicted of money laundering of legally ...
Fox News, Tea Party continue to push Thanksgiving socialism myth
Post Date: 2010-11-25 19:38:18 by go65
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The Tea Party never passes up an opportunity to press their anti-socialism message, and Fox News loves to join in on the fun. The most recent tale of capitalism triumphing over socialism concernst the Thanksgiving holiday. A video of Jon Stossel explaining this Thanksgiving myth can be seen to the left. According the the legend, the settlers merely starved because they originally commited to a form of socialism. According to the tale, everyone in Plymouth shared property and their crops. As a result, each settler had little incentive to work hard and many of them did not work at all. After nearly starving from a famine the settlers changed their ways and committed to private property and ...
Tom DeLay Convicted of Money Laundering
Post Date: 2010-11-24 23:13:03 by WhiteSands
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Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay -- once one of the most powerful and feared Republicans in Congress -- was convicted Wednesday on charges he illegally funneled corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002, which could send him to prison for decades Jurors deliberated for 19 hours before returning guilty verdicts on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering in a scheme to illegally funnel corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002. He faces up to life in prison on the money laundering charge, although prosecutors haven't yet recommended a sentence. After the verdicts were read, DeLay hugged his daughter, Danielle, and his wife, Christine. DeLay ...
U.S. Stimulus Boosted Jobs, Output In Q3: CBO
Post Date: 2010-11-24 23:03:06 by go65
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The massive U.S. stimulus package, widely panned by voters, injected life into the otherwise-sluggish economy between July and September, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act put between 1.4 million and 3.6 million to work in the third quarter of this year, a time when more than 15 million Americans were unemployed, CBO said. It also boosted national output by between 1.4 percent and 4.1 percent during that time, the CBO said. During the third quarter, the economy grew by an annual rate of 2.5 percent. Economists say a rate faster than 3 percent is needed to make any noticeable dent in ...
Murkowski says Miller's lawsuit puts her Senate seniority in jeopardy
Post Date: 2010-11-24 21:54:52 by WhiteSands
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) called for a quick resolution to Joe Miller's legal challenge Wednesday, warning that if she isn't seated by January 3, she could lose her Senate seniority. According to the AP, lawyers for Murkowski sought to intervene in the lawsuit Wednesday arguing that not certifying the election results will leave the state without full representation when the new Congress convenes in January. "There are numerous critical issues facing our nation and Alaskans deserve to have full representation in the United States Senate," Murkowski attorney Scott M. Kendall wrote. In the motion to intervene in the case, Kendall argued that Murkowski would drop ...
Oops! 'Rightwing' Terror Suspect Turns Out to Be a...Leftwinger
Post Date: 2010-11-24 21:46:13 by WhiteSands
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It seems that whenever you hear about a "rightwing" hate crime nowadays, it turns out the the perpetrator turns out to be a leftwinger...much to the disappointment of liberals who continue to maintain the fiction about a violent Tea Party movement. And the latest case of a violent "rightwinger" who turns out to really be a leftwinger comes from my own county of Broward here in South Florida. With my condolences to the left who have been "robbed" of yet another example of supposed Tea Party "hate crime," here is a report on the arrest of the suspect by Bob Norman of the Broward Palm Beach New Times: The woman charged by the FBI with making a threat ...
Yes, Palin Backed the Bailouts
Post Date: 2010-11-24 21:23:26 by go65
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Why has MSNBC embedded one of its top on-air talents with Sarah Palin’s book tour? That’s a good question, but I thought Norah O’Donnell’s grilling of a young Palin fan was a fair use of the network’s time. O’Donnell asked Jackie (no last name given), who was wearing a T-shirt criticizing the bailouts, if she knew that Palin had supported them. Jackie refused to believe it. “The reason I ask you,” said O’Donnell, “is that I think there’s some confusion about Sarah Palin’s policies.” It wasn’t a man-on-the-street interview with a dopey tourist being asked a surprise question, of the kind John Ziegler conducted with Obama ...
BP oil spill incident commander dies in small plane crash
Post Date: 2010-11-24 21:21:52 by WhiteSands
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Jim Black, a BP incident commander for the company's Gulf of Mexico oil spill response team, died in a small plane crash near Destin, Fla., on Tuesday night, the company confirmed. "BP extends its heartfelt sorrow to the family of our friend and colleague, Jim Black, who, along with two other family members, died yesterday in a tragic plane crash," BP America CEO Lamar McKay said in a statement. 27Share 3 Comments "Jim was a devoted member of our Gulf Coast spill response team and served many years with Amoco and BP. He will be missed by all who knew him and worked with him. Jim and his family are in our thoughts and prayers." The Coast Guard said the small plane ...
Polar bears' Arctic habitat gets new protections (Obama wants US dependent on Muslim oil)
Post Date: 2010-11-24 21:01:21 by Hondo68
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(Reuters) - An area larger than the state of California covering the Arctic Alaska coastline, barrier islands and icy seas will be protected as critical habitat for polar bears, with development severely restricted, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said on Wednesday. Critical habitat designation is required once a species is listed under the Endangered Species Act. Polar bears, which are struggling with climate change and the loss of seasonal sea ice, were listed as threatened in 2008. Rosa Meehan, the Fish and Wildlife Service's Alaska division chief for marine mammals, said the designation strengthen protections that already exist under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Opponents ...
Two years later, do you ever miss Pres. Bush?
Post Date: 2010-11-24 18:51:07 by no gnu taxes
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George Bush is out hawking a new book, and suddenly the former president is popping up all over the place, from broadcast news interviews to Oprah's couch. Two years later, it seems worth comparing the former occupant of the Oval Office to the current one. Howard Kurtz writes in his Daily Beast column that the contrast between presidents Bush and Obama in recent appearances could hardly be sharper. Kurtz calls it the Decider versus the Agonizer. Bush, as always, talks in those short, declarative sentences and appears sure of himself - even on weighty issues like waterboarding, Saddam and WMDs. On the other hand, Kurtz writes that President Obama's "finely rendered ...
Pelosi's new mission: Limit Obama deals with GOP
Post Date: 2010-11-24 14:48:31 by WhiteSands
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hich Pelosi and many Democrats feel the White House failed them by muddling the party's message and being too slow to provide cover for incumbents who cast tough votes for Obama's marquee initiatives. Pelosi will lead Democrats "in pulling on the president's shirttails to make sure that he doesn't move from center-right to far-right," said Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., a co-chair of the liberal Progressive Caucus in the House. "We think if he'd done less compromising in the last two years, there's a good chance we'd have had a jobs bill that would have created real jobs, and then we wouldn't even be worrying about having lost elections." ...
Family Research Council Labeled 'Hate Group' By SPLC Over Anti-Gay Rhetoric
Post Date: 2010-11-24 14:43:56 by Brian S
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The Family Research Council is perhaps the most prominent voice in conservative social politics and the hosts of an annual rite of passage for many Republicans who hope to run for president. And now, FRC is on the same Southern Poverty Law Center list of hate groups as the Ku Klux Klan. The SPLC gave the Family Research Council the designation due to anti-gay speech from its leaders, which the SPLC says includes calls for gay men and lesbians to be imprisoned. Labeling the Family Research Council a hate group puts one of Washington's most powerful social issues advocates into the company of groups like the Nation of Islam and the now mostly defunct Aryan Nations in the eyes of the ...
How long will it be before George Bush is recognized as one of our greatest Presidents?
Post Date: 2010-11-24 14:37:41 by no gnu taxes
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It took Reagan about 15-20 years to get the credit he deserved. At the end of his Presidency his ratings were in the 30's as well. Doesn't it seem like we beat up our two term presidents no matter what party affiliation?
Administration Warns Congress Pending WikiLeaks Release Will Damage Foreign Relations
Post Date: 2010-11-24 13:17:51 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration said Wednesday it has warned Congress that the WikiLeaks website is preparing to release sensitive U.S. diplomatic records that could damage U.S. relations across the globe. "These revelations are harmful to the United States and our interests," department spokesman P.J. Crowley said. "They are going to create tension in relationships between our diplomats and our friends around the world." In anticipation of the posting of the leaked documents by the self-styled whistle-blower website, U.S. diplomatic outposts around the world have begun notifying other governments that it may happen within days, Crowley told reporters. ...
TSA Administrative Directive: Opt-Outters To Be Considered “Domestic Extremists”
Post Date: 2010-11-24 13:14:23 by Capitalist Eric
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If the information recently acquired by Doug Hagmann of Northeast Intelligence Network is accurate, then something really big is happening in America right now - and it’s most certainly not a step towards individual liberty. According to Mr. Hagmann, he was contacted by a source within the DHS who provided an alarming memo detailing a new administrative directive agreed upon by DHS chief Janet Napolitano and the head of TSA John Pistole. The memo, according to Doug Hagmann, “officially addresses those who are opposed to, or engaged in the disruption of the implementation of the enhanced airport screening procedures as ‘domestic extremists’.” The memo leaves no ...
TSA: Some gov't officials to skip airport security
Post Date: 2010-11-24 13:05:43 by WhiteSands
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Cabinet secretaries, top congressional leaders and an exclusive group of senior U.S. officials are exempt from toughened new airport screening procedures when they fly commercially with government-approved federal security details. Aviation security officials would not name those who can skip the controversial screening, but other officials said those VIPs range from top officials like Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and FBI Director Robert Mueller to congressional leaders like incoming House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who avoided security before a recent flight from Washington's Reagan National Airport. The heightened new security procedures by the ...
Russian agent says charity tied to terrorism [ Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation in Eugene Oregon]
Post Date: 2010-11-24 12:38:42 by WhiteSands
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EUGENE, Ore. – A former Russian counterterrorism agent testified Tuesday that an Islamic charity that once had its U.S. headquarters in Oregon was financing Islamic fighters battling the Russian Army in the breakaway republic of Chechnya. However, under cross-examination, Col. Sergey Ignatchenko acknowledged that the names he had of Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation officials tied to terrorism did not include defendant Pete Seda, also known as Pirouz Sedaghaty. "I never knew about him, I never heard about him," he said. Ignatchenko, now head of communications for the Russian Federal Security Service, testified via live video feed from former KGB headquarters in Moscow as a ...
Color-Coded Terror Alerts May End
Post Date: 2010-11-24 11:19:39 by Brian S
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The Homeland Security Department is proposing to discontinue the color-coded terror alert system that became a symbol of the country's post-9/11 jitters and the butt of late-night talk show jokes. The 8-year-old system, with its rainbow of five colors — from green, signifying a low threat, to red, meaning severe — became a fixture in airports, government buildings and on newscasts. Over the past four years, millions of travelers have begun and ended their trips to the sound of airport recordings warning that the threat level is orange. The system's demise would not be the end of terror alerts; instead, the alerts would become more descriptive and not as colorful. In the ...
U.S. Jobless Claims Decline to 407,000, Lowest Since July 2008
Post Date: 2010-11-24 10:03:23 by go65
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Applications for unemployment benefits in the U.S. fell more than forecast last week to the lowest level since July 2008, reinforcing evidence the labor market is healing. Jobless claims declined by 34,000 to 407,000 in the week ended Nov. 20, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. The median projection of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News called for a drop to 435,000. The total number of people receiving unemployment insurance decreased to the lowest in two years, and those on extended payments also fell. Fewer firings lay the groundwork for a pickup in job creation that will generate incomes and spur consumer spending, which accounts for 70 percent of the economy. Even ...
Senate Republicans' ban on earmarks was short-lived (3 days)
Post Date: 2010-11-23 22:41:26 by go65
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WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans' ban on earmarks — money included in a bill by a lawmaker to benefit a home-state project or interest — was short-lived. Only three days after GOP senators and senators-elect renounced earmarks, Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, the No. 2 Senate Republican, got himself a whopping $200 million to settle an Arizona Indian tribe's water rights claim against the government. Kyl slipped the measure into a larger bill sought by President Barack Obama and passed by the Senate on Friday to settle claims by black farmers and American Indians against the federal government. Kyl's office insists the measure is not an earmark, and the House didn't ...
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