Monthly Archives: September 2010
YES! YES! YES! College football is back!!
Ah, my favorite day of the sports year is Saturday, when college ball returns full time! Tonight there are a few games, highlighted by Utah hosting Pitt!
Daily Benefactor News – Environmentalist Nutbag Killed By Police At Discovery Channel Headquarters – More Articles
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Environmentalist Nutbag Killed By Police At Discovery Channel Headquarters – ABC News
A radical enviornmentalist who took three hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters while wearing what police may be explosives was shot and killed by officers, police said.
The gunman, identified as James Lee, was killed by police following four hours of negotiations but the hostages are all safe, said Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger.
Manger said the suspect had “metalic canisters” strapped to his chest and back. When Lee was struck by police bullets, one of the canisters “popped.” Police have not confirmed if the canisters were a bomb, but Manger said the “device may have gone off” when he was shot.
Manger said police will search the building looking for other potential explosives Lee may have left inside.
“All the hostages are safe,” Manger said, ending a four hour standoff in which some 1,900 employees were evacuated from the building as well as the company’s on-site daycare center.
Manger said police spoke with Lee “for several hours” during which time he expressed “a wide range of emotions during those communications.”
Law enforcement identified the suspect as James Lee, 43, from Washington, D.C., who has for at least two years called for protests against the company and who was arrested and found guilty of disorderly conduct for a protest outside of Discovery’s headquarters in 2008.
In a rambling manifesto on Lee’s website, believed to have been written by Lee, the writer rails against “disgusting human babies,” “parasitic infants,” and says people should “disassemble civilization.” The manifesto also calls on Discovery to “broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet.”
The drama began when workers in the building got a bulletin from the building’s security.
“We have reason to believe there is an armed gunman at One Discovery Place. All employees should seek protection in a locked office on their respective floors immediately,” read an email sent to employees and read over the public address system.
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Audits: ICE Isn’t Cracking Down On Employers Of Illegal Aliens – Houston Chronicle
Immigration inspectors poring over the hiring paperwork of a California company last summer found that 262 employees – a whopping 93 percent of the total workforce – had “suspect” documents on file.
At an Illinois service company, auditors found dubious documents for nearly 8 in 10 of its employees. Inspectors examining records at a Texas firm found suspicious paperwork for over half of its employees.
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Clashes, Rioting In Indonesia Over Death Of Man In Jail – CNN
The death of a man in police custody has led to deadly riots in Indonesia, police said on Thursday.
The unrest, in the town of Buol in central Sulawesi, started over what police say were rumors that a man arrested on Monday had been tortured to death. Police late Tuesday and early Wednesday opened fire on an angry crowd when hundreds attacked a local police station.
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Judge Rules Against Obama On Oil Drilling – Yahoo News
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the government’s request to dismiss an industry lawsuit challenging its deepwater oil drilling moratorium, dealing another blow to the Obama administration.
Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc and other drilling companies sued the administration on June 7 after it first ordered a halt to deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico following BP Plc’s well rupture.
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Massachusetts Gets Hurricane Warning – MSNBC
As Hurricane Earl churned toward the Outer Banks of North Carolina with top sustained winds near 140 mph, forecasters issued a hurricane warning much further up the coast Thursday for parts of Massachusetts, including Nantucket.
The center of the hurricane was about 300 miles south of Cape Hatteras, N.C., around midday Thursday.
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Departing White House Economic Adviser Urges More Spending – CNS
Christina Romer, the departing chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, said the “only surefire ways” to boost the economy are for the “government to spend more and tax less.”
She also said that concern about the federal deficit is no “excuse for leaving unemployed Americans to suffer.” Romer predicted that the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act would drop unemployment to 8%.
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Ban On Plastic Grocery Bags Defeated In California Senate – Xinhua
California’s Senate has defeated a bill to impose a first-in-the-nation ban on plastic grocery bags, lawmakers said on Wednesday. This was the second time that the bill, AB 1998, failed a Senate vote at an overnight session.
The new ban, rejected by a 21 to 14 vote, would have included grocery stores, convenience stores and drugstores.
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Democrat State Senator From Maryland Indicted On Extortion, Bribery Charges – Washington Examiner
A federal grand jury has indicted powerful Maryland Senate committee chairman Ulysses S. Currie on charges of bribery, extortion, and mail fraud and making false statements.
Currie, a Democrat from Forestville, is accused of taking an off-the-book job with Shoppers Food Warehouse in exchange for using his position to influence government business to benefit the supermarket chain.
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911 Caller: ‘I Need A Hug And Hot Chocolate’ – KPTV
A man called 911 to tell police he needed a towel and a hug, but instead he found himself arrested on criminal trespassing charges. Mark Eskelsen was found in a private hot tub at the Four Seasons Rec Center at about 7 a.m.
Neighbors had complained about noise in the area, but police said Eskelsen called emergency dispatchers himself and claimed to be the Washington County sheriff.
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Golfer Sparks 12-Acre Fire With Shot In The Rough – London Telegraph
His hacking in the rough caused a spark that lit the rough ablaze and spread, destroying 12 acres, although no homes were destroyed. The fire, at the exclusive Shady Canyon Golf Club in Irvine, California, USA, attracted 150 firefighters.
Capt Greg McKeown, from the Orange County Fire Authority, said: “We had firefighters on the ground and attacking the fire on the ridge.”
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Man Lost Masterpiece After Drinking Session – Orange News
A New York man is being sued for apparently losing a £:900,000 painting after a drinking session. James Haggerty says he lost the Jean Baptiste Camille Corot masterpiece, Portrait of a Girl, after a bender at The Mark hotel in Manhattan.
“I think he’s a complete fumbling idiot,” Kristyn Trudgeon, who co-owns the painting, told the New York Daily News.
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Man Replaces Ex-Girlfriend With Custom-Made Sex Doll – News AU
A sex-starved businessman was so hung up on his ex-girlfriend after she dumped him that he paid $18,000 to recreate her as a life-sized sex doll.
The 50-year-old man put together a collection of photos of his ex and told Italian adult toymaker Diego Bortolin: “I want it just like her but with bigger boobs”. Mr Bortolin creates extremely realistic sex dolls at the factory behind his shop.
Sometimes, Liberals allow the ugly truth to come out!
Video via Hot Air! Does the Governor Deval Patrick really mean what he says?
Summing up the Obama speech!
Pictures speak louder than words, so here ya go, the Obama speech in a nutshell!
Dear Main Stream Media: In case you were wondering why America is so fed up with policians………
It is NOT skin color. It is politicians that act like this when their constituents, who the politician is SUPPOSED to be SERVING, dares to question them!
P.S. If you, in the main stream media ever actually bothered to be actual journalists, rather than doing op/ed, you MIGHT figure it out for yourselves! Instead, you insist on blaming racism, while reality passes you by, yet again!
Reason TV’s Nanny of the Month!
Nanny Staters, picking off our liberties one at a time! This month it is a police chief setting up a sting to catch a man who offers drunks rides home because he accepts tips, thus violating thecitiy’s taxi ordinance! Via Theo Spark! For my part I award this tool the Marxist Moron Award! AND the Daley Douchebag Award too!
Why is this swine still alive for the ACLU to coddle?
John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban himself has the ACLU in Jihadgasms!
INDIANAPOLIS — American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh and another Muslim inmate have asked a judge to order a federal prison to allow them and other Muslims in their highly restricted cell block to pray as a group, in accordance with their beliefs.
The American Civil Liberties Union last Thursday filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis for summary judgment on behalf of Lindh, 29, and Enaam Arnaout, 47, who claim that the prison’s policy restricting group prayer in the Communications Management Unit violates their religious rights. The ACLU contends there are no disputes over the facts of the case and that the law is on the inmates’ side, and asks the judge to rule in their favor.
Lindh, who is serving a 20-year sentence at the Terre Haute prison for aiding Afghanistan’s now-defunct Taliban government, wrote in a legal declaration that his religion requires him to pray five times a day, preferably in a group. “This is one of the primary obligations of Islam,” he wrote.
Praying in his cell is not appropriate, he said, because the Koran requires a ritually clean place for prayer and he is forced to kneel “in close proximity to my toilet.”
Awwww, poor piggy! We should have eradicated this vermin years ago frankly! And when terrorists cry, here come the ACLU types, panting like dogs in heat!
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Murkowski Concedes Alaska Primary Race – Yahoo News
Sen. Lisa Murkowski was booted from office in the Republican primary Tuesday by a little-known conservative lawyer in arguably the biggest political upset of the year.
Joe Miller, backed by Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Express, became the latest newcomer to the national political stage to take down an incumbent in 2010 amid deep dissatisfaction with the Washington establishment.
Miller’s win was a major victory for the tea party movement and marked the first time it had defeated a sitting senator in a primary. Tea partiers had knocked off Utah Sen. Bob Bennett at a state convention in May. Embolden tea partiers have now set their sights on Delaware where they are backing Christine O’Donnell against the more moderate Rep. Mike Castle in the GOP Senate primary. Murkowski is the third senator to lose this year, along with Bennett and Arlen Specter, D-Pa.
Murkowski trailed Miller, a Fairbanks attorney, by 1,668 votes after the Aug. 24 primary. Election officials began counting absentee and outstanding ballots Tuesday, and Murkowski made slight gains. But after more than 15,000 ballots were counted, she remained 1,630 votes behind.
“We all know that this has been a long week, a terribly long week,” she said at campaign headquarters while conceding. She said that while there were still outstanding votes, “I don’t see a scenario where the primary will turn out in my favor, and that is a reality that is before me at this point in time.”
“And for that reason, and for the good of the state of Alaska… I am now conceding the race for the Republican nomination.”
The stunning result was a huge validation of the political power of Palin as the former Alaska governor has been playing kingmaker in midterm elections ahead of a potential 2012 White House run.
Miller, 43, is an Ivy League-educated lawyer, West Point graduate and decorated Gulf War veteran who cast Murkowski as too liberal and part of the problem in an out-of-control Washington. It is a campaign strategy that has helped oust other incumbents this year and that Republicans will employ again in November as they look to take back Congress.
He didn’t immediately return messages to The Associated Press.
Miller campaign spokesman Randy DeSoto said there wasn’t any “big celebration or anything like that” planned Tuesday night. He said the Miller camp had no idea what to expect Tuesday.
Late in the day, he said he got a call from Murkowski campaign staff, asking how to get in touch with Miller, who was in his hometown of Fairbanks, away from his own campaign core in Anchorage. As of about 7 p.m., DeSoto said he himself hadn’t had a chance to talk with Miller about the decision yet.
“In the end, we’re, of course, just happy to hear she conceded, that it would not end up in a long recount or that sort of thing,” DeSoto said. He acknowledged, though, this is only one phase of the fight.
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Key Charlie Crist Ally Hosted Hamas Fundraiser In Florida Mosque – Big Peace
A key Muslim ally of Florida Governor and US Senate candidate Charlie Crist, Imam Muhammad Musri, hosted a fundraiser in Orlando for the terrorist group Hamas in June 2009, and a camera crew from ACT for America infiltrated the event.
Musri serves on Crist’s Faith-Based and Community Advisory Council and was appointed by Crist to his 2010 Sunshine Census Committee.
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Private sector employment decreased by 10,000 from July to August on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the latest ADP National Employment Report released today.
The ADP National Employment Report, created by Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP), is derived from actual payroll data and measures the change in total nonfarm private employment each month.
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Homelessness Up 50% In New York City – WNYW
If you think you’ve been seeing more people sleep on city streets, statistics back up the perception. The homeless population living on New York City streets has gone up 50% in the past year.
The New York City Department of Homeless Services conducts a yearly survey of the streets of the city to count the number of homeless who are not in shelters. The HOPE survey was conducted in January 2010.
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Man Plunges 39 Stories From NYC Skyscraper And Lives – MSNBC
A New York City man who plunged 39 stories from the rooftop of an apartment building survived after crashing onto a parked car.
22-year-old Thomas Magill jumped from the high-rise at West 63rd Street on Tuesday and landed in the backseat area of a Dodge Charger. He broke both his legs and police said he was in critical condition. His father, Thomas Magill Sr., asked friends to “pray for my son”.
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Climate Change Lies Are Exposed – Daily Express
An inquiry into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found there was “little evidence” for its claims about global warming.
It also said the panel had emphasised the negative impacts of climate change and made “substantive findings” based on little proof. The review by the InterAcademy Council (IAC) was launched after the IPCC’s hugely embarrassing 2007 benchmark climate change report.
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Pakistan Air Strike Kills 55 Terrorists, Civilians – NewsMeat
The death toll from Pakistani air strikes on terrorist hideouts in a northwestern tribal area Wednesday rose to 55, with reports of some civilian deaths, security officials said.
Pakistani jet fighters Tuesday targeted terrorists preparing for imminent suicide attacks and destroyed their bases in the lawless Khyber tribal district, which borders Afghanistan, security officials said.
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Laura Salpietro, 30, had been rushed to hospital after her waters broke, but as she lay on a bed in agony, doctors argued over whether to deliver her first child naturally or by caesarean.
Amazingly, the row then became violent, with punches thrown while her horrified husband Matteo Molonia, 37, looked on, pleading for the medical personnel to stop fighting and help his wife.
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