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US Embassies Brace For Quran Burning Protests
Post Date: 2010-09-08 18:52:30 by Brian S
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(09-08) 14:43 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department has ordered U.S. embassies around the world to assess their security ahead of a Florida church group's planned weekend burning of the Muslim holy book amid fears it could spark anti-American violence. Officials said Wednesday that U.S. diplomatic posts have been instructed to convene "emergency action committees" to determine the potential for protests over the congregation's plans to burn the Quran to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The posts are to warn American citizens in countries where protests may occur. The move underscores the Obama administration's deep concern that Saturday's ...
FBI Memo Warns of Extremist Retaliation For Koran Burning
Post Date: 2010-09-08 18:13:50 by Brian S
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Jacksonville, FL, United States (AHN) - The FBI has "high confidence" that a Florida church's plan to burn a Koran on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks would impel extremists to attempt to harm organizers and participants of the event as well as U.S. forces overseas . That assertion is made in an FBI memo dated Aug. 19 published Monday on the blog site www.infowars.com. By "high confidence" the memo said it meant a judgment that is based on "high quality information from multiple sources or from a single highly reliable source, and/or that the nature of the issue makes it possible to render a solid judgment." The memo pointed to current ...
In Ohio, Obama Challenges GOP on Tax Cuts
Post Date: 2010-09-08 15:50:25 by Brian S
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(AP) Updated at 3:15 p.m. ET President Barack Obama strongly defended his opposition to extending Bush-era tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans on Wednesday and delivered a searing attack on Republicans and their House leader for advocating "the same philosophy that led to this mess in the first place." Obama said the struggling U.S. economy can't afford to spend $700 billion to keep lower tax rates in place for the nation's highest earners despite a call by House Minority Leader John Boehner and other GOP leaders to do just that. Speaking in the same city where Boehner, an Ohio Republican, recently ridiculed Obama's economic stewardship, Obama said Boehner's ...
Deportation of illegal immigrants without criminal records more likely in N.J. than nationwide
Post Date: 2010-09-08 14:39:14 by war
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In 1991, Faustino Escamilla snuck across the border from his native Mexico into Brownsville, Texas, eventually making his way to Norristown, Pa. where he worked as a stable hand. Seven years later, he moved to New Jersey and went to work for a fencing company in Hillsborough. He met a Costa Rican woman with two children and, in 2003, they bought a $197,000 townhouse on which they pay about $5,000 a year in property taxes. In June 2009, Escamilla, who has no criminal record, was stopped driving with a suspended license. Now, the federal government wants him deported. "If the case is that I have to leave the country, I would go with my wife to her country," said Escamilla, 36. ...
Who Are The NRSC? Why Do They Back Liberal Republicans?
Post Date: 2010-09-08 12:09:08 by Skip MacLure
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Yesterday, I wrote about establishment Republicans and their apparent opposition to all things Tea Party. Just who the heck are these people? We have just had a key election in Alaska. Incumbent Republican Lisa Murkowski went down in defeat to Joe Miller in the Senate primary. Joe Miller was the Conservative ‘Tea Party’ candidate. The head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee flew to Alaska to aid Lisa Murkowski with the primary. John Cornyn (R), Junior Senator from Texas, had said that his committee will observe strict neutrality. According to Miller’s campaign there are still national operatives in the state, and they suspected an effort to sway the election ...
House GOP Leaders Dodge Questions On The Future Of Ethics Office
Post Date: 2010-09-08 11:38:21 by Brian S
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House Republican leaders won’t say whether they will scrap an ethics office if they regain the majority this fall. The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), established by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in 2008, has attracted criticism from Republicans and Democrats during the last couple of years. Most GOP lawmakers voted against the creation of the OCE, and many political observers believe the OCE will be disbanded should Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) become Speaker next year. Pressed for comment, GOP leadership aides declined to directly answer the OCE question, presumably seeking to avoid politically damaging headlines about how Republicans want to strip away a new ...
Murkowski getting 'huge outpouring' of support, aide says
Post Date: 2010-09-08 11:12:47 by war
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FAIRBANKS - Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has received significant support since narrowly losing to Joe Miller in the August GOP primary, a spokesman said Sunday. Murkowski has yet to endorse her Republican rival, leading to widespread speculation that she is evaluating options for a possible re-entry into the race. She has two options if she wants to re-enter: to be invited to run under the banner of the Alaska Libertarian Party or to mount a write-in campaign. “She has received a huge outpouring of support from Alaskans, both individuals and groups,” Murkowski spokesman Steve Wackowski wrote Sunday in an e-mail to the Daily News-Miner. He cited support from Alaska Native ...
Jobs and a Republican Controlled Congress and a Democrat Controlled Congess
Post Date: 2010-09-08 10:19:46 by no gnu taxes
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Court OKs Warrantless Cell-Site Tracking
Post Date: 2010-09-08 08:12:10 by A K A Stone
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A federal appeals court said Tuesday the government may obtain cell-site information that mobile phone carriers retain on their customers without a probable-cause warrant under the Fourth Amendment.
The decision by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (.pdf) was not, however, an outright Obama administration victory. Lower courts, the three-judge panel wrote, could demand the government show probable cause — the warrant standard — before requiring carriers to release such data to the feds.
The opinion does leaves the privacy issue in a legal limbo of sorts. The standard by which the government can access such records — which can be used in criminal prosecutions — is left to the whims ...
Obama State Dept. Spokesman: Koran Burning Protest Same as 9/11 Attacks
Post Date: 2010-09-07 22:42:37 by A K A Stone
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Obama State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said on Tuesday that the planned protest by an obscure Florida Christian church in which Korans will be burned as "un-American" and "consistent" with the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by the Muslim group known as al Qaeda that murdered nearly 3,000 Americans and foreign nationals that day. Crowley was commenting on plans by the fifty-member Dove World Outreach Center in Gainseville, Florida, to mark the ninth anniversary of 9/11 on Saturday by burning around 200 Korans on the church's property. According to the State Department transcript of Tuesday's briefing, Crowley equated the protest burning of the ...
Democratic Primary Turnout Lowest in 80 Years, Study Shows
Post Date: 2010-09-07 22:00:20 by A K A Stone
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More Republicans voted in this year's statewide primary elections than Democrats, according to a new study, marking the first time GOP turnout has exceeded Democratic turnout in midterm primaries since 1930. Republican turnout exceeded Democratic turnout in the primaries held through August 28 by more than four million votes, according to Curtis Gans, director of American University's Center for the Study of the American Electorate. While the average percentage of eligible citizens who voted in the GOP statewide primaries was the highest since 1970, the average percentage of eligible citizens who voted in Democratic primaries reached an 80-year low. Gans cited voter ...
Parties Tied at 46% in Generic Ballot for Congress (GOP drops 10 points)
Post Date: 2010-09-07 21:51:22 by go65
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PRINCETON, NJ -- Republicans and Democrats are tied at 46% among registered voters in Gallup's weekly tracking of congressional voting preferences, marking a shift after five consecutive weeks in which the Republicans held the advantage. These results are based on aggregated data from more than 1,650 registered voters surveyed Aug. 30- Sept. 5 as part of Gallup Daily tracking. The results reflect more competitive voting intentions than has been the case recently. Republicans' leads over Democrats among registered voters in three of the previous four weeks were the highest Gallup has measured for this midterm election campaign, and higher than any GOP advantage Gallup has ...
BREAKING: Dozens Of Homes Burn Across Detroit
Post Date: 2010-09-07 21:38:53 by Murron
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BREAKING: Dozens Of Homes Burn Across Detroit
Poster Comment:DETROIT (WXYZ) – Several homes are fully-engulfed in flames in several different locations in Detroit. On Detroit’s east side, multiple homes are on fire on Moenart near Mound and McNichols. At least twenty homes were fully-engulfed near Quinn and Van Dyke. Multiple homes are on fire on Robinwood Street and Van Dyke, near the fires on Quinn and Van Dyke. Another set of homes are on fire at 7 Mile and Livernois on Detroit’s west side. Firefighters were also battling an abandoned commercial building near Chene and Hendrie on Detroit’s east side. Police are investigating the fires. Windy weather has hampered ...
Deputy who arrested Mel Gibson sues own department AP
Post Date: 2010-09-07 21:32:39 by A K A Stone
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LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles sheriffs deputy who arrested Mel Gibson for drunken driving in 2006 has sued his department, claiming he has been ostracized by the department since the incident. Deputy James Mee sued the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department on Monday. The lawsuit claims the department discriminated against Mee, who is Jewish, on numerous occasions since Gibsons arrest. His filing states he was required to remove references anti-Semitic slurs uttered by the actor-director and has been repeatedly passed over for promotions in the agency. Sheriffs spokesman Steve Whitmore denied the lawsuits allegations and says it does not tell the whole story. The lawsuits filing was first ...
City Council Meetings to Begin with Muslim Prayers
Post Date: 2010-09-07 21:26:52 by A K A Stone
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In the wake of the battle over a
mosque at Ground Zero
, a move by
Hartford City Council
is sure to have its critics.
The Council announced Tuesday that it has invited local imams to perform Islamic invocations at the beginning of the Council meetings in September.
Though meetings don't regularly begin with any form of prayer, an email from the Common Council called it "an act of solidarity with our Muslim brothers and sisters."
The email even referenced the ongoing issue in New York. "One of the goals of the Council is to give a voice to the many diverse peoples of the City, which is especially important given the recent anti-Islam events throughout the ...
Trace Cyrus Goes from Metro Station to UFOs
Post Date: 2010-09-07 21:09:55 by A K A Stone
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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Trace Cyrus is going from Metro Station to UFO landing docks. Trace Cyrus was reported sued by Metro Station bandmates in July after he declared the group’s split without their permission. Cyrus had taken to Twitter to call his own group’s music “weak”. The result was the band members reportedly voting him out as president of Metrostation Inc and then taking it to court. Now, Trace Cyrus is set to take on something not so weak, tracing the path of UFOs. He will team up with father Billy Ray who calls the project a “dream come true”. SyFy instead thinks the show is a bit obvious, calling it “UFO: Unbelievably Freakin’ ...
Tupac 'Wanted Me to Smoke Weed' with Him: Mike Tyson
Post Date: 2010-09-07 20:59:47 by A K A Stone
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When Mike Tyson looks back on his friendship with Tupac Shakur, he thinks about the rapper's big heart, explosive anger - and the one regret he has about their relationship.
"He always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did," Tyson said in a recent phone interview.
Tyson said he declined because he was a closet smoker and didn't want it to get out that he smoked the drug. Now, when he looks back on the lost opportunity, he says: "That's my biggest regret."
Tyson's friendship with Shakur is the subject of a new documentary, "One Night in Vegas: Tyson & Tupac," which airs Tuesday on ESPN (8 p.m. EDT).
Video: Scene from "One Night in ...
Rahm Emanuel Wants to Run for Mayor of Chicago
Post Date: 2010-09-07 20:33:26 by A K A Stone
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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said Monday night that if Chicago Mayor Richard Daley decides he will not seek re-election, he'd like to be there to fill his shoes. "I hope Mayor Daley seeks re-election," Emanuel, a Chicago native, said on PBS' "The Charlie Rose Show." "I will work and support him if he seeks re-election. But if Mayor Daley doesn't, one day I would like to run for mayor of the city of Chicago." Daley, who has served as mayor since 1989 and is on track to be the longest-serving mayor in Chicago's history, will be up for re-election in 2011. Emanuel said he has always aspired to be mayor, even when he was in the House ...
Government Report: Microbes Are Eating BP Oil Without Creating Oxygen-Starved `Dead Zones'
Post Date: 2010-09-07 19:47:13 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — Government scientists studying the BP disaster are reporting the best possible outcome: Microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf without depleting the oxygen in the water and creating "dead zones" where fish cannot survive. Outside scientists said this so far vindicates the difficult and much-debated decision by BP and the government to use massive amounts of chemical dispersants deep underwater to break up the oil before it reached the surface. Oxygen levels in some places where the BP oil spilled are down by 20 percent, but that is not nearly low enough to create dead zones, according to the 95-page report released Tuesday. In an unusual move, BP ...
Justice Department Investigating At Least 5 Anti-Muslim Acts In 4 States; Holder Meets Clerics
Post Date: 2010-09-07 19:34:44 by Brian S
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The Justice Department is investigating a handful of apparently anti-Muslim incidents in four states, including the stabbing of a Muslim cab driver in New York City. FBI agents and civil rights division investigators also are looking into vandalism and other incidents at mosques or mosque construction sites in Arlington, Texas; Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Madera, Calif.; and Waterport, N.Y. The open criminal investigations were confirmed by civil rights division spokeswoman Xochitl (SOH-chee) Hinojosa in response to a query from The Associated Press. The suspected anti-Muslim incidents, following the uproar over a planned mosque near ground zero in New York and Saturday's planned burning of ...
Attorney General Eric Holder To Meet With Faith Leaders Amid Fears Af Anti-Muslim Tide
Post Date: 2010-09-07 15:04:26 by Brian S
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Washington (CNN) -- A broad coalition of Christian, Jewish and Islamic leaders denounced what they described as a rising tide of anti-Muslim bigotry across the United States Tuesday, arguing that such sentiments constitute a betrayal of traditional American principles. "Freedom of religion is a hallmark of this country," said Ingrid Mattson, head of the Islamic Society of North America. It is time to decide "whether we are going to live up to our values." "America was not built on hatred. America was built on love," said Washington's Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. The various leaders are among the founders of the newly formed Interfaith Coalition on ...
Obama shouldn't blame Bush for recession
Post Date: 2010-09-07 14:18:07 by no gnu taxes
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President Obama boldly proclaims, "The buck stops here!" But, whenever his policies are criticized, he acts as if the buck stopped with President Bush. The party line that we are likely to be hearing from now until the November elections is that Obama "inherited" the big federal budget deficits and that he has to "clean up the mess" left in the economy by the Republicans. This may convince those who want to be convinced, but it will not stand up under scrutiny. No president can create either a budget deficit or a budget surplus. All spending bills originate in the House of Representatives and all taxes are voted into law by Congress. Democrats controlled ...
Secret Service Tossed Non-Essentials From White House Bunker On 9/11
Post Date: 2010-09-07 11:57:29 by Brian S
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Getting tapped by Captain James T. Kirk for a mission must have been a honor on the USS Enterprise, even for the young actors who played neophytes back in the late sixties. That is, unless you were wearing a red shirt, since that probably meant -- at best -- you might get to scream 'nooo!' while dying. For the most part, non-essentials wore red shirts on Star Trek. Although many conspiracy theories -- some based on facts, some based on faulty reporting, others based on fantasy and/or science fiction -- have circulated since the September 11, 2001 attacks, no one has suggested that there were any Redshirts at the White House, but there was certainly a hierarchy when it came to ...
Emmer son pays underage drinking fine
Post Date: 2010-09-07 10:32:07 by go65
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lcohol use continues to be a Minnesota governor campaign issue with one of Tom Emmer's sons pleading guilty to underage drinking. Thomas Earl Emmer III, known as Tripp, was ticketed early July 10 in Douglas County and court records show he has paid the $100 fine, $75 surcharge and $10 law library fee. The petty misdemeanor is getting more attention than similar infractions because past alcohol-related charges have been used against his father, the Republican governor candidate. An anti-Emmer television commercial exploits the 1981 and 1991 drunken driving charges, saying that as a legislator he tried to ease drunken driving penalties. Also, Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate Mark ...
Establishment Republicans, Legends In Their Own Minds.
Post Date: 2010-09-07 08:43:51 by Skip MacLure
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These are the supposed movers and shakers in the party… the ones who have been sitting out in the districts and picking typical party candidates, those who will follow the party establishment line and not question anything too carefully. That this approach to local, district and state party policy, with regard to candidate recruitment, has not proven very successful is obvious. The Republican Party was in catastrophic disarray when Barack Hussein Obama defeated John McCain. After President Bush caved in to hysterical pressure and signed on to TARP, forever damning himself in the eyes of Conservatives, we watched as Obama and his DeMarxist government brought us perhaps the most ...
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