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Ex-Florida GOP Chair Greer Arrested on Unknown Charges
Post Date: 2010-06-02 10:34:33 by Badeye
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Ex-Florida GOP Chair Greer Arrested on Unknown Charges Published June 02, 2010 | Associated Press Print Email Share Comments (0) Text Size OVEIDO, Fla. -- Former Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer has been arrested on unknown charges at his home near Orlando. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has been investigating Greer after an audit found he awarded himself and his executive director a fundraising contract that paid them about $200,000. Greer was arrested at his central Florida home Wednesday morning. Calls to the FDLE were not immediately returned. The Seminole County Jail confirmed the arrest. Greer resigned under pressure in February after reports of lavish ...
LA: Brave Jewish H.S. Student Stands Up to Angry Arab Mob to Defend Israel
Post Date: 2010-06-02 10:10:32 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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(MUST SEE VIDEO) LA: Brave Jewish H.S. Student Stands Up to Angry Arab Mob to Defend Israel Daniel and the Lions' Den: This one Jewish teenager (Daniel) has more chutzpah in his back pocket than all the American mainstream Jewish dis-organizations combined. The video is also the perfect example of how outnumbered Israel and the Jewish people are, and why it's important for ALL of us to take a stand and emulate this student. Supporting Israel is about a lot more than sitting back and writing a large check to your favorite inefficient mainstream Jewish organization. It's about the spirit of this student, and not being afraid of our enemies (who outnumber us greatly) ...
Something About Sally
Post Date: 2010-06-02 10:07:00 by Badeye
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Something About Sally Sally Quinn hit the nation's capital in 1969, becoming one of The Washington Post's most glamorous stars; sweeping Ben Bradlee, its legendary (and married) editor, off his feet; conquering Georgetown society—and making serious enemies along the way. Now the scandal over Sally's final “The Party” column suggests that her worst offenses, as well as her greatest achievement, may have taken place beyond the limelight, inside the fractured, often tragic Bradlee-Quinn family. As an era ends, the author profiles its prickly, power-loving queen. By Evgenia Peretz• Photograph by Jonathan Becker July 2010 Sally Quinn in the living room of her ...
Some Oil Spill Events From Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Post Date: 2010-06-01 22:24:05 by Brian S
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A summary of events on Tuesday, June 1, Day 42 of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began with the April 20 explosion and fire on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, owned by Transocean Ltd. and leased by BP PLC, which is in charge of cleanup and containment. The blast killed 11 workers. Since then, oil has been pouring into the Gulf from a blown-out undersea well at a rate of at least 210,000 gallons per day. OVERVIEW BP's stock plummeted and took much of the market down with it as federal prosecutors announced criminal and civil investigations into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. With the ambitious "top kill" having failed over the weekend and a relief well at least two ...
Republicans Jump Out To Historic Lead In Gallup Generic Ballot
Post Date: 2010-06-01 16:21:33 by no gnu taxes
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Gallup's generic polling shows the number of voters saying that they would vote for Republicans rising three points from last week, while the number saying they will vote for Democrats dropped four points. The 49%-43% lead for the Republicans is the largest that the pollster has ever recorded for the party. Moreover, Democratic enthusiasm for voting this fall fell a point, while enthusiasm among Republicans stayed about fifteen points higher. This indicates an even wider lead for Republicans once Gallup imposes a likely voter screen this fall. There's any number of reasons for this: the public's perception of Obama's response to the oil spill, the shaky stock market ...
Stocks turn lower
Post Date: 2010-06-01 16:17:07 by Badeye
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Stocks turn lower By Alexandra Twin, senior writerJune 1, 2010: 3:56 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Stocks gave up gains and turned lower Tuesday, with tech, energy and financial shares leading the retreat as worries about the global economic outlook overshadowed better-than-expected readings on the U.S. economy. The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) fell 23 points, or 0.2%. The S&P 500 index (SPX) lost 9 points or 0.9% and the Nasdaq composite (COMP) lost 13 points or 0.6%. Stocks fell in the morning after a report showed slower manufacturing growth in China and the euro briefly fell to a fresh four-year low. Better-than-expected readings on U.S. construction and manufacturing ...
BP Effort Turns to Capturing Oil Until Relief Wells Are Finished in August
Post Date: 2010-06-01 15:26:16 by Brian S
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June 1 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc has given up trying to plug its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico any sooner than August, laying out a series of steps to pipe the oil to the surface and ship it ashore for refining, said Thad Allen, the U.S. government’s national commander for the incident. Undersea robots began sawing away damaged pipe today, preparing for the first of those attempts, Allen said today at a press conference in New Orleans. The new strategy, which is subject to disruption by tropical storms and hurricanes, will continue until relief wells being drilled can plug the damaged well from the bottom, he said. That will happen no earlier than August. BP on May 30 said its ...
Al and Tipper Gore Break Up After 40 Years of Marriage
Post Date: 2010-06-01 14:50:46 by Badeye
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Al and Tipper Gore Break Up After 40 Years of Marriage Published June 01, 2010 | Associated Press Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, are separating after 40 years of marriage. They are telling friends they "grew apart" and there was no affair involved. According to an e-mail circulated among the couple's friends and obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday, the Gores said it was "a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration." Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider confirmed the statement came from the Gores, but declined to comment further. According to two long-time close ...
Second Amendment versus Second Nut
Post Date: 2010-06-01 14:40:31 by war
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LYNNWOOD, Wash., June 1 (UPI) -- A Washington state man accidentally discharged his gun at a Lowe's Home Improvement store and shot himself in the testicles, police said. Lynnwood police spokeswoman Shannon Sessions said the man was shopping at about 12:30 p.m. Sunday when his gun, which was in the waistband of his pants, went off in an apparent "accidental discharge," The Seattle Times reported Tuesday. "It made a loud noise and scared a lot of people in the store," Sessions said. "I believe he shot himself in the testicles and he also had some injuries to his leg and foot. He was obviously in shock." Sessions said police did not have a chance to ...
Coast Guard replaces on-scene admiral in charge of coordinating Gulf spill response
Post Date: 2010-06-01 13:32:54 by Badeye
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Coast Guard replaces on-scene admiral in charge of coordinating Gulf spill response Published June 01, 2010 | Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Coast Guard is replacing the admiral who has been the federal on-scene coordinator since an oil rig exploded and millions of gallons of crude leaked into the Gulf. The spill's unified command center said in a news release Tuesday that Rear Adm. Mary Landry will return to duties as commandant of the 8th Coast Guard District in New Orleans to focus on hurricane season preparations. Her replacement is Rear Adm. James Watson, who joined Landry as deputy on-scene coordinator three days after the rig exploded April 20. Coast Guard ...
Flag Vandalism Mars Memorial Day in Several States
Post Date: 2010-06-01 13:30:06 by Badeye
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Flag Vandalism Mars Memorial Day in Several States By Joshua Rhett Miller Published June 01, 2010 | FOXNews.com Christian Ashby, of Portland, Ore., holds an American flag that was vandalized outside of his home sometime late Saturday or early Sunday. From Oregon to Minnesota to Ohio, vandals trampled on Old Glory over the Memorial Day weekend. In one Ohio town alone, approximately 25 American flags were found set ablaze on Monday. At least one national veterans group called for those responsible for the "shocking and reprehensible" acts of vandalism to be quickly arrested and prosecuted. Police in Wooster, Ohio, were going door-to-door early Tuesday in search of the people ...
Toss it or fix it? Americans may just give health care overhaul law a chance to work
Post Date: 2010-06-01 12:45:51 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - Toss it or fix it? Anxious backers of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law are starting to see a flicker of hope. While polls show Americans remain sharply divided over the Democrats' landmark legislation, they aren't clamouring for its repeal. Instead, the public seems willing to listen to candidates who would give the overhaul a chance and fix or improve it as needed. That's the signal from some surveys and a congressional race in a bellwether Pennsylvania district. It's a pragmatic, somewhat counterintuitive outlook. That could be a break for Democrats in the fall elections, since Republicans are campaigning hard for repeal of the health ...
Impeach Obama: He's Covered Up Sestak's Bribe
Post Date: 2010-06-01 11:05:13 by no gnu taxes
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The Obama administration’s offer of a job to Rep. Joe Sestak in exchange for his quitting a Senate bid is a crime and an impeachable offense, a leading Republican toldFox News Sunday. Rep. Darrell Issa of California also said that, as with most crimes, the cover-up may actually be worse. The explanation for the Sestak affair -- that former President Bill Clinton offered the Democratic congressman an unpaid position on an advisory board if he would drop his challenge against party-switching Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter -- is simply not plausible, Issa added. As a sitting congressman Sestak couldn't have served on a presidential commission, Issa sad. "It's a crime ...
Palin biographer: I didn't move next door to spy
Post Date: 2010-06-01 11:03:15 by Badeye
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Palin biographer: I didn't move next door to spy Email this Story Jun 1, 8:46 AM (ET) WASILLA, Alaska (AP) - A writer working on a book about former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says he moved to her hometown to talk to her longtime acquaintances, not to spy on the family. Joe McGinniss said Tuesday on NBC's "Today" show that the price was right on the house next door to the Palins. He says he needs to be in Wasilla to do his work. Palin posted on Facebook last week that she wondered what McGinniss would gather "while overlooking Piper's bedroom, my little garden, and the family's swimming hole?" McGinniss called Palin's comments "ugly ...
States Line Up Against Funeral Hecklers in Supreme Court Brief
Post Date: 2010-06-01 10:01:14 by Badeye
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States Line Up Against Funeral Hecklers in Supreme Court Brief Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church Picketed Marine's Funeral; Court to Decide if Protest Was Free Speech 455 comments By DEVIN DWYER WASHINGTON, May 31, 2010 PrintRSSFont Size: Share:EmailTwitterFacebookMoreFarkTechnoratiGoogleLiveMy SpaceNewsvineRedditDeliciousMixxYahoo Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia are backing the family of fallen Marine Matthew Snyder in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case that could decide the constitutionality of laws restricting protests at private family funerals. A church group has outraged families by disrupting over 600 military funerals. Lance Cpl. Snyder, who was deployed ...
Koppel son dies after a bender (After pub crawl)
Post Date: 2010-06-01 09:57:55 by Badeye
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Koppel son dies after a bender Pub crawl ends tragically in seedy Wash Hts. apt. By JOHN DOYLE, REBECCA ROSENBERG and LUKAS I. ALPERT Last Updated: 6:07 AM, June 1, 2010 Posted: 2:51 AM, June 1, 2010 Comments: 33 | More Print The son of legendary TV newsman Ted Koppel was found dead in a Washington Heights apartment under mysterious circumstances yesterday morning after a daylong drinking binge with a man he had just met in a Midtown bar, law-enforcement sources said. Andrew Koppel, 40, of Rockaway Park, Queens, was declared dead at around 1:30 a.m. after paramedics were called to the rundown apartment in what a law-enforcement source called a "s- - - building" on 180th Street ...
Idiot Obama Supporters Use Metal Chairs as Umbrellas During a Thunderstorm
Post Date: 2010-06-01 09:43:23 by no gnu taxes
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Thunder, lightning stop Obama Memorial Day speech - Joe Biden attended the ceremonies at Arlington in Obama's stead
Post Date: 2010-06-01 09:19:00 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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Thunder, lightning stop Obama Memorial Day ELWOOD, Illinois (Reuters) – President Barack Obama's Memorial Day observance was stopped in its tracks on Monday by a torrential downpour accompanied by bolts of lightning and booming thunder. Obama thrilled the crowd at Abraham Lincoln National Ceremony by appearing under an umbrella as the rain poured down. But he did not deliver his prepared remarks honoring troops who died fighting for the United States. Instead he urged the crowd to seek shelter. "We don't want to endanger anyone, particularly the children, in the audience. A little bit of rain doesn't hurt anybody, but we don't want anybody struck by ...
Huffington Post: GOP Pol Lied About Navy Award; Footage Of Illinois Senate Candidate Mark Kirk Making False Military Claim Surfaces (VIDEO)
Post Date: 2010-05-31 19:06:20 by Brian S
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Rep. Mark Kirk's (R-Il.) false claim that he was named the Navy Intelligence Officer of the Year in the late 1990's was made at a committee hearing before the YouTube era began, but the long arm of C-SPAN can reach back and bring it up as if it happened yesterday. What is striking about Rep. Kirk's assertion in the video is that it appears scripted and thought out, which belies Kirk's recent defense that the false claim on his website -- that was only removed last week after a Washington Post investigation -- regarding the award was little more than an administrative oversight. At the very beginning of Kirk's testimony, he makes the claim, which he has since ...
Americans Honor Fallen US Military Personnel [ Memorial Day here in the US ]
Post Date: 2010-05-31 13:38:55 by WhiteSands
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Americans are honoring fallen U.S. military personnel in events Monday as part of Memorial Day observances across the United States. Vice President Joe Biden attended a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington. He said the day of remembrance is mixed with sorrow and incredible pride. Biden said the families of the fallen, along with all Americans, should take pride in the lives the military members lived, the service they provided and the nation they fought to save. President Barack Obama is honoring service members at a Memorial Day service at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery near Chicago. Memorial Day is a national holiday to pay tribute to ...
Obama during oil spill — golf, parties, photo-ops… and more golf! (photos)
Post Date: 2010-05-31 13:07:33 by no gnu taxes
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Party boy livin' it up! http://politipage.com/2010/05/28/obamas-days/
MEMORIAL DAY LF POLL - SHOULD DADT BE LIFTED?
Post Date: 2010-05-31 10:54:44 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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LF POLLSHOULD DADT BE LIFTED?YESNO
Barack Obama’s credibility hits rock bottom after oil spill and Sestak scandal
Post Date: 2010-05-31 10:40:19 by no gnu taxes
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The first thing Barack Obama probably should have done was to order the livestreaming Oil Spill Cam to be turned off. As the President insisted to Americans that he was “singularly focused” on staunching the flow, there was that mesmerising image on their television screens of plumes of hydrocarbons gushing relentlessly into the Gulf of Mexico. When any political leader feels they have to declare that they are “fully engaged” in an issue, it is clear that they are in trouble. Talking about it undermines the very point you are trying to make – not to mention that pesky Oil Spill Cam showing that, 38 days into the Deepwater Horizon disaster, not a whole lot had been ...
BP's Photo Blockade of the Gulf Oil Spill, Photographers say BP and government officials are preventing them from documenting the impact of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Post Date: 2010-05-31 04:02:12 by WhiteSands
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As BP makes its latest attempt to plug its gushing oil well, news photographers are complaining that their efforts to document the slow-motion disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are being thwarted by local and federal officials—working with BP—who are blocking access to the sites where the effects of the spill are most visible. More than a month into the disaster, a host of anecdotal evidence is emerging from reporters, photographers, and TV crews in which BP and Coast Guard officials explicitly target members of the media, restricting and denying them access to oil-covered beaches, staging areas for clean-up efforts, and even flyovers. Last week, a CBS TV crew was threatened with ...
Chicago: At least 22 shot in separate shootings, 1 dead
Post Date: 2010-05-31 03:55:41 by WhiteSands
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At least 22 people were wounded in separate shootings around the city roughly between noon Saturday and noon Sunday, including a man who died this morning after he was shot in the head, Chicago police said. At a news conference this morning, Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis said that nearly half of the shootings appear to be gang-related, including the fatal incident. Weis added that at least two of the other victims have refused to cooperate with police, "which makes the job of our detectives ... far more difficult." One of the shootings was particularly disturbing because one of the female victims was eight months pregnant, the superintendent said. No one in custody for any of ...
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