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U.S. Approval of Killing of Cleric Causes Unease [ Obama uses Predators to kill US citizens ]
Post Date: 2010-05-14 17:58:00 by WhiteSands
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U.S. Approval of Killing of Cleric Causes Unease By SCOTT SHANE WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s decision to authorize the killing by the Central Intelligence Agency of a terrorism suspect who is an American citizen has set off a debate over the legal and political limits of drone missile strikes, a mainstay of the campaign against terrorism. The notion that the government can, in effect, execute one of its own citizens far from a combat zone, with no judicial process and based on secret intelligence, makes some legal authorities deeply uneasy. To eavesdrop on the terrorism suspect who was added to the target list, the American-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is ...
Man Accused Of Using Hatchet In Home Depot Robbery
Post Date: 2010-05-14 15:56:43 by A K A Stone
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WILMINGTON, Del. - A Bear man has been arrested after allegedly using a hatchet to rob a Wilmington home-improvement store.
Police say 45-year-old Andre Walker entered a Home Depot store Thursday night, took a bucket and a hatchet to the checkout, then began hitting the cash register with the hatchet until it opened. Police say he fled to the parking lot and got in a stranger's car before heading back to the store, where he swung the hatchet at a manager.
Police used a stun gun to take Walker into custody. He is charged with robbery, possession of a deadly weapon during a felony, aggravated menacing and other crimes. He was being held in lieu of $60,750 secured bond.
More Jobs Might Be Created This Year Than During George W. Bush's Entire Presidency
Post Date: 2010-05-14 15:48:16 by Brian S
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If the economy produces jobs over the next eight months at the same pace as it did over the past four months, the nation will have created more jobs in 2010 alone than it did over the entire eight years of George W. Bush's presidency. That comparison comes with many footnotes and asterisks. But it shows how the economic debate between the parties could look very different over time -- perhaps by November, more likely by 2012. More important, the comparison underscores the urgency of repairing an American job-creation machine that was sputtering long before the 2008 financial meltdown. First, the numbers: From February 2001, Bush's first full month in office, through January 2009, ...
Justice Kennedy Questions Way Court Nominees Are Grilled; Defends President Obama's Pursuit Of Empathetic Judges
Post Date: 2010-05-14 15:38:05 by Brian S
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(05-14) 12:25 PDT West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP) -- Justice Anthony Kennedy decried the way some senators question Supreme Court nominees, defended President Barack Obama's pursuit of empathetic judges and rebutted the idea of activist courts in a speech Friday in south Florida. Kennedy said the Senate should not try to determine how high court nominee Elena Kagan would rule on specific issues, but should focus broadly on whether she has the qualities of a good judge. "Just to ask questions to try to figure out how the judge would rule on a specific question seems to me a rather short-term exercise," he said, responding to a question from an audience member. "What you ...
Palin Supporter Chokes Man to Death
Post Date: 2010-05-14 14:29:30 by Skip Intro
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Pressure Escalating On Police, Prosecutors To Probe Circumstances Of Homicide No one's denying what he might have done was wrong: allegedly stuffing crayons and toothpaste into his pockets and shoplifting. But the fact that Anthony Kyser was killed after he was caught, and allegedly choked by a store employee -- with an off-duty sheriff's officer watching it happen -- continues to hit a nerve. Chicago congressman Bobby Rush calls it a case of political hot potato. First he sent a letter about Kyser to the Cook County State's Attorney's Office. He says that office put it off on police. So he sent a letter to the police, accusing the department of ignoring a homicide. ...
Group of Obama Youths Beat Up a 73 Year Old Man
Post Date: 2010-05-14 14:10:39 by no gnu taxes
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http://video.foxnews.com/v/4196015/teens-viciously-beat-elderly-man?playlist_id=86856
Change! Obama Census Worker Rapes & Beats Handicapped Woman
Post Date: 2010-05-14 14:06:17 by no gnu taxes
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An Obama census worker raped and beat a handicapped woman in Indiana this week. JWF reported this from WHAS: A volunteer Census worker who made his rounds earlier this week is now accused of returning to a physically handicapped woman’s home this weekend and beating her and raping her. WHAS11’s Adrianna Hopkins was in Pekin, Indiana on Sunday where the crime happened, and spoke to the neighbors and friends of both the victim, and the accused. “I had no reason to be afraid or anything of him,” said Debbie Bishop. “He was just a nice ordinary person.” That’s what Bishop thought last Tuesday when she met Daniel Miller. The self-employed tile-layer and ...
La. Officials: 8-Inch Tar Balls Washed Up On Beach
Post Date: 2010-05-14 12:48:03 by Brian S
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(05-14) 08:51 PDT PORT FOURCHON, La. (AP) -- Louisiana wildlife officials say workers have found huge tar balls littering the beach at Port Fourchon, some of them 8 inches across. Laura Deslatte, a spokeswoman for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, said Friday that the glossy globs of oil were found along the entire beach at Port Fourchon. Workers from her department have not yet seen so much oil washed up anywhere else. A news release said that on Thursday, biologists found about 25 nickel-sized tar balls per square foot from the beach's southwestern end to its midpoint. They also found more than a dozen tar balls on the banks of Belle Pass, a few hundred yards ...
BP Tries Tube To Siphon Spewing Gulf Oil To Tanker
Post Date: 2010-05-14 12:45:55 by Brian S
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(05-14) 08:24 PDT (AP) -- Undersea robots tried to thread a small tube into the jagged pipe that is pouring oil into the Gulf of Mexico on Friday in BP's latest attempt to cut down on the spill from a blown-out well that has pumped out more than 4 million gallons of crude. Company engineers were trying to move the 6-inch tube into the leaking 21-inch pipe, known as the riser. The smaller tube will be surrounded by a stopper to keep oil from leaking into the sea. BP said it hopes to know by Friday evening if the tube succeeds in siphoning the oil to a tanker at the surface. Since an April 20 drilling rig explosion set off the catastrophic spill, BP PLC has tried several ideas to plug ...
Hurray for Obama! Unemployment is up! (And it’s actually worse than that)
Post Date: 2010-05-14 12:40:18 by no gnu taxes
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Unemployment news from the Labor Department caused jubilant reactions in the White House on Friday, and President Obama rushed to the microphones to crow. According to Obama, his policies are directly responsible for the latest economic news which he and uncritical media mavens see as proof of an economic recovery in full swing. What was the jubilant news? The unemployment rate rose from 9.7 percent in March to 9.9 percent in April. Actually, the president didn’t highlight the rising unemployment levels when he was patting himself on the back. Rather, he touted the 290,000 new jobs generated in April as the largest monthly increase in four years. While the president didn’t ...
From 1/2007: Troop Surge in Iraq will deepen Quagmire (Remember these idiots?)
Post Date: 2010-05-14 12:26:02 by no gnu taxes
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It looks like President Bush is going to announce a "temporary increase" in the number of American troops serving in Iraq. The President is adding complexity to a series of wrong decisions he has made since the beginning of the invasion. It is difficult to imagine how a surge in American troops can fix a self-created problem? We have made the same mistake that five star General Douglas MacArthur warned about with regard to Asia, "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." Presidents Kennedy and Johnson didn't heed the advice, and the rest is history. Now once again, we have a President who has involved us voluntarily (the US was never attacked directly or indirectly ...
Gulf Oil Gusher ‘Ten Times Worse’ Than Previously Estimated, Experts Say
Post Date: 2010-05-14 12:25:05 by Brian S
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So this is why BP's release of video showing the Gulf oil gusher was mysteriously delayed. According to a scientific analysis of footage from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, National Public Radio is claiming the growing ecological disaster is actually ten times worse than previously estimated, saying the rushing torrent of oil pouring into the ocean is equivalent to one Exxon-Valdez spill every four days. That's more than 70,000 barrels a day -- when the U.S. Coast Guard had placed the figure at a seemingly modest 5,000 barrels a day. Until this point in human history, the Exxon-Valdez disaster was just one of the worst oil spills ever, with nearly 11 million gallons of crude ...
Obama: GOP Wants Keys Back After Driving US ‘Into The Ditch’
Post Date: 2010-05-14 12:16:20 by Brian S
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President Barack Obama is ripping into his Republican opponents, accusing them of refusing to help rebuild America after having "created the mess" and driving the economy "into the ditch." Obama told a Democratic fundraising event in New York late Thursday that despite one of the busiest and most accomplished legislative sessions in recent memory, he witnessed "our friends on the other side of the aisle fall all over themselves to argue otherwise." "You would have thought at a time of historic crisis that Republican leaders would have been more willing to help us find a way out of this mess -- particularly since they created the mess," Obama said. ...
Obama was warned of the Times Square Bomber and did nothing to stop him
Post Date: 2010-05-14 09:53:21 by no gnu taxes
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KING: All right, terror. Last week, on terrorism, the heads of the major U.S. Intelligence agencies told Dianne Feinstein that another attempted terrorist attack on the United States is coming certain in the next few months. BIDEN: Well -- KING: What do you make of that? BIDEN: Well, look, let me put it this way. The idea of there being a massive attack in the United States like 9/11 is unlikely, in my view. But if you see what's happening, particularly with al Qaeda and the Arabian Peninsula, they have decided to move in the direction of much more small bore but devastatingly frightening attacks. KING: Detroit? BIDEN: Detroit. But I think what you're seeing morphing here -- ...
The Myth of Obama's "Inherited Deficit"
Post Date: 2010-05-14 09:43:42 by no gnu taxes
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The Washington Post babbled again today about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush. Amazingly enough,...... a lot of people swallow this nonsense. So once more, a short civics lesson. Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress, and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party. They controlled the budget process for FY 2008 and FY 2009, as well as FY 2010 and FY 2011. In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases. For FY 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing ...
Missing Data Causing Rig Reconstruction Mystery
Post Date: 2010-05-13 23:12:43 by Brian S
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(05-13) 16:31 PDT , (AP) -- A "black box" can reveal why an airplane crashed or how fast a car was going in the instant before an accident. Yet there are no records of a critical safety test supposedly performed during the fateful hours before the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. They went down with the rig. While some data were being transmitted to shore for safekeeping right up until the April 20 blast, officials from Transocean, the rig owner, told Congress that the last seven hours of its data are missing and that all written logs were lost in the explosion. The gap poses a mystery for investigators: What decisions were made — and what ...
Obama top recipient of BP contributions last 20 yrs. [ TWENTY YEARS !!! ]
Post Date: 2010-05-13 19:26:14 by WhiteSands
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According to the Center for Responsive Politics and financial disclosures, over the last twenty years of oil-giant BP’s political action committee, the largest recipient has been President Obama. Erika Lovely from Politico reports: BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Donations come from a mix of employees and the company’s political action committees — $2.89 million flowed to campaigns from BP-related PACs and about $638,000 came from individuals... An Obama spokesman rejected the notion that the president ...
RACIST Ethnic Studies Now Banned In Arizona
Post Date: 2010-05-13 18:37:29 by A K A Stone
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Arizona bill targeting ethnic studies signed into law Gov. Jan Brewer signs the bill that bans schools from teaching classes designed for students of a particular ethnic group. School districts may appeal the law, which becomes effective Dec. 31. May 12, 2010|By Nicole Santa Cruz, Los Angeles Times A bill that aims to ban ethnic studies in Arizona schools was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Jan Brewer, cheering critics who called such classes divisive and alarming others who said it's yet another law targeting Latinos in the state. The move comes less than 20 days after Brewer signed a controversial immigration bill that has caused widespread protests against the state. The ...
Dana Plato's Son Commits Suicide (Different Strokes)
Post Date: 2010-05-13 17:52:05 by Murron
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Updated May 13, 2010 Dana Plato's Son Commits Suicide Tyler Lambert, the son of late Diff'rent Strokes star Dana Plato, has committed suicide, nearly 11 years to the day that his mother took her own life. He was 25. Lambert died of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head last Thursday in Tulsa, Okla., his grandmother, Joni Richardson, told People. Lambert, a cameraman and amateur songwriter, had been experimenting with drugs and alcohol, Richardson said, which she thinks contributed to his death. Calls to the Tulsa medical examiner's office were not immediately returned. "It's a shame that such a talented human being would do this with his life," Richardson ...
Hawaii Slams Door On 'Birthers,' Who Turn To Obama Social Security Number
Post Date: 2010-05-13 15:40:31 by Brian S
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Hawaii is saying ‘Aloha’ to the "birthers." The state government can legally ignore repeated requests for President Obama’s birth certificate – a blow (or perhaps a publicity boost) to the birther movement, which claims that Mr. Obama was not born the US, and is therefore not eligible to be president. The birthers are instead turning to another claim against Obama’s legitimacy: an Internet rumor that questions the Obama social security number. Two private investigators claim that the digits indicate that it was issued in Connecticut, not Hawaii. (The digits in a social security number are allocated based on state of residence when issued.) They also say ...
Federal Criminal Charges Likely To Be Filed In Gulf Oil Spill
Post Date: 2010-05-13 12:43:33 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — Federal investigators are likely to file criminal charges against at least one of the companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico spill, raising the prospects of significantly higher penalties than a current $75 million cap on civil liability, legal experts say. The inquiry by the Homeland Security and Interior Departments into how the spill occurred is still in its early stages and authorities have not confirmed whether a criminal investigation has been launched. But environmental law experts say it’s just a matter of time until the Justice Department steps in — if it hasn’t already — to initiate a criminal inquiry and take punitive action. “There ...
Poll: Good Marks For Obama On Spill, More Drilling
Post Date: 2010-05-13 12:30:20 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — The Gulf of Mexico oil spill hasn't stained President Barack Obama nor dimmed the public's desire for offshore energy drilling, according to a new Associated Press-GfK Poll. While some conservative pundits, such as Rush Limbaugh, have called this "Obama's Katrina," that's not how the public feels, the poll found. BP PLC, which owned the well that has gushed more than 4 million gallons since an Apr. 20 oil rig explosion, is getting more of the public's ire. More people surveyed said they approved of Obama's handling of the ongoing oil spill than disapproved, but not by large margins or with unusually strong feelings. It contrasts with the ...
Bill Clinton offers himself as lottery prize to pay off Hillary’s debts
Post Date: 2010-05-13 12:02:33 by Skip Intro
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Despite making millions of dollars Mrs Clinton still owes her pollster $771,000 There are many ways to pay off campaign debts — cajoling phone calls, begging letters — but Bill Clinton believes that he has come up with a better method to wipe out the financial obligations outstanding from his wife’s failed presidential bid. He is raffling himself. In an e-mail sent to millions of people who supported Hillary Clinton’s White House campaign, the former President asks: “How would you like the chance to come up to New York and spend the day with me?” For those who would like the One-Day-With-Bill prize, an online donation of as little as $5 (£3) will buy ...
In Interview Former First Lady Splits With Husband on Same-Sex Marriage, Abortion
Post Date: 2010-05-13 11:40:42 by Skip Intro
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In Interview Former First Lady Splits With Husband on Same-Sex Marriage, Former first lady Laura Bush has broken with her husband on the premier social issues of his administration and said she backs gay marriage and abortion. After more than eight years of silence on the controversial issues, Mrs. Bush said in an interview with CNN's Larry KingTuesday, that gay marriage and abortion were points of contention with her husband, former President George W. Bush. Mrs. Bush in recent weeks has been promoting her memoir "Spoken from the Heart," in which she writes about her life both before and after becoming first lady. In response to a question about gay marriage, she said, ...
Nixon's grandson tests pedigree in NY House race
Post Date: 2010-05-13 07:05:08 by A K A Stone
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SMITHTOWN, N.Y. – Richard Nixon's grandson is joining the family business. Like the Kennedys, Carters, Cuomos and Bushes before him, 30-year-old Christopher Nixon Cox is hoping to use his family's political legacy as a springboard to political office. He's seeking the GOP nomination to run against four-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Bishop in eastern Long Island — a seat Republicans hope to win as part of the party's effort to recapture the House. In his first extensive interview since announcing his candidacy, Cox told The Associated Press on Tuesday that while he is aware of his grandfather's controversial place in history, it has not yet posed a problem ...
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