Monthly Archives: October 2010
Daily Benefactor News – Illinois League Of Women Voters Big Shot Who Bashed Pledge Of Allegiance, Is Former ACORN Worker – More Articles
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It happened Wednesday night at the beginning of a debate between Democratic incumbent Melissa Bean, GOP challenger Joe Walsh and Green Party candidate Bill Scheurer.
The debate for Illinois 8th congressional district took place at Grayslake Central High School. While League of Women Voters moderator Kathy Tate-Bradish began explaining the rules of the debate an audience member raised his hand and (when called upon) asked if they were going to start with the Pledge of Allegiance. When she said no, the audience booed and almost all in the crowd of more than 300 stood and enthusiastically recited it anyway.
Tate-Bradish, who joined in the pledge, issued a scolding when the crowd finished saying they are not allowed to disrespect her.
Ms Tate-Bradish took offense to the move and blamed it on the GOP candidate.
What seemed like a unanimous spontaneous show of Patriotism, gave Ms Tate-Bradish an opportunity to criticize the GOP Candidate in the press, saying that it was all the fault of the unruly republicans, the Executive director of the group echoed her sentiments. What the press didn’t report that both the moderator and the Executive Director have been very active in the progressive movement.
Ms Tate-Bradish, the moderator was very involved in the Illinois effort to make Barak Obama president, she even hosted campaign events for Obama in her own home.
Illinois League of Women Voters Executive Director Jan Czarnik said what happened at the debate and subsequent criticism directed at moderator Kathy Tate-Bradish was an attempt by supporters of Republican candidate Joe Walsh and tea party members to bully the organization.
By all of the press reports almost all of the crowd stood up to cite the pledge, so is Czarnik saying that Democrats don’t believe in reciting the pledge?
I am sure her criticism of Republicans and the Tea Party had absolutely nothing to do with the Fact she used to work for progressive mainstays such as ACORN’s Project Vote, and the Progressive People for the American Way. Below is the notice of Ms Czarnik’s hiring by the League.
“It’s a phony patriotism issue is what it is,” she said. “They must think it helps their campaign.”
Walsh campaign manager Nick Provenzano said he still did not understand why Tate-Bradish did not appear to welcome the Pledge of Allegiance suggestion. He said it was spontaneous and not orchestrated by Walsh’s campaign.
“That neutral stance (by Tate-Bradish) toward the Pledge of Allegiance is troublesome,” he said.
…Island Lake resident Joseph Ptak, a Walsh supporter, claimed Friday he asked for the pledge at the debate. Provenzano said he was not certain who made the request.
Ptak, 58, a U.S. Air Force veteran, said the pledge was a proper way to begin the event that was in a high school and had student participation. He said many veterans were in the audience, and he objects to Czarnik questioning the request’s sincerity.
“I’m a Joe Walsh supporter, but first and foremost I’m an American,” Ptak said.
According to its website, the mission of the Illinois League of Woman Voters says that it is supposed to be non-partisan:
The League takes positions on issues, but neither supports nor opposes any political party or candidate (appointed or elected) for public office.
Judging by their backgrounds and their reaction to a spontaneous public display of patriotism, neither Jan Czarnik nor Kathy Tate-Bradish fit a reasonable definition of non-partisan.
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The same SEIU offshoot group that is accused of turning in thousands of bogus voter registrations in Arizona has come under fire in Colorado. Mi Familia Vota is accused of turning in 6,000 bogus voter registrations in Colorado. The Denver Post reported:
A federal judge declined to force the secretary of state to reactivate approximately 6,000 new voters whose registrations were canceled.
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Biden: GOP Spending $200 Billion On Ads – Holy Coast
In an interview with Al Hunt of Bloomberg News scheduled to be shown Friday night, Vice President Biden commented on the need for disclosure when corporate interests contribute to political groups.
“I was amazed at the amount of money, this $200 billion of money that is – where there’s no accountability,” he said. “When I say accountability, we don’t know where it’s coming from. There’s no disclosure.”
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Democrat DeFazio Rolls Out Dirty Tricks In Oregon – Before it’s News
Challenger Art Robinson has pushed the “Little Emperor” farther than anyone ever has before and Peter DeFazio is both worried and angry.
Apparently he took that anger to the Chamber of Commerce in Roseburg, Oregon and made sure that Robinson supporters weren’t able to take part in a campaign event. DeFazio and the Roseburg Area Chamber of Commerce refused to allow about 300 people into the room.
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Democrat Senate Candidate Suspected Of Obstruction Of Justice In Brother’s Drug Case – The Examiner
A Louisville police detective’s job is on the line for having tipped off Jack Conway’s brother regarding an ongoing investigation into Matthew Conway’s alleged drug dealing.
But now it appears that Jack Conway – the Democrat attorney general of Kentucky who is running for U.S. Senate – himself was sending messages to the detective raising new questions about obstruction of justice.
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21 Die In Truck And Bus Collision In Uganda – Houston Chronicle
Police say that 21 people have died after a bus collided with a truck carrying fuel in northern Uganda.
Nwoya district police commander Moses Okello said Sunday that the accident took place in his district nearly 186 miles from Kampala. He said that 17 people died at the sight of the accident, four died in the hospital and 12 have been admitted to the Nwoya hospital in serious condition.
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Michelle Obama To Meet With Commercial Sex Workers In India – Michelle Malkin
While in India, it’s being reported that Michelle “my sneakers could feed your family for a year” Obama will meet with representatives from a certain area of that country’s economy:
U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle will be extremely busy in Mumbai… Adding to the Obamas’ busy schedule is Michelle’s likely visit to Kamathipura, where she will meet commercial sex workers.
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Obama’s Re-election Support Plummets To 39 Percent, Says Gallup – CNS
Only 39 percent of Americans now believe President Barack Obama deserves to be reelected, according to a Gallup poll conducted Oct. 14-17. That is a steep decline from the 48 percent who told Gallup he deserved reelection in a survey conducted in mid-June.
In the Oct. 14-17 poll, a majority of Americans – 54 percent – told Gallup that Obama does not deserve to be re-elected.
Op-Ed: They Hate Our Guts (And They’re Drunk On Power) – P. J. O’Rourke
They Hate Our Guts (And They’re Drunk On Power) – P. J. O’Rourke
Perhaps you’re having a tiny last minute qualm about voting Republican. Take heart. And take the House and the Senate. Yes, there are a few flakes of dander in the fair tresses of the GOP’s crowning glory—an isolated isolationist or two, a hint of gold buggery, and Christine O’Donnell announcing that she’s not a witch. (I ask you, has Hillary Clinton ever cleared this up?) Fret not over Republican peccadilloes such as the Tea Party finding the single, solitary person in Nevada who couldn’t poll ten to one against Harry Reid. Better to have a few cockeyed mutts running the dog pound than Michael Vick.
I take it back. Using the metaphor of Michael Vick for the Democratic party leadership implies they are people with a capacity for moral redemption who want to call good plays on the legislative gridiron. They aren’t. They don’t. The reason is simple. They hate our guts.
They don’t just hate our Republican, conservative, libertarian, strict constructionist, family values guts. They hate everybody’s guts. And they hate everybody who has any. Democrats hate men, women, blacks, whites, Hispanics, gays, straights, the rich, the poor, and the middle class.
Democrats hate Democrats most of all. Witness the policies that Democrats have inflicted on their core constituencies, resulting in vile schools, lawless slums, economic stagnation, and social immobility. Democrats will do anything to make sure that Democratic voters stay helpless and hopeless enough to vote for Democrats.
Whence all this hate? Is it the usual story of love gone wrong? Do Democrats have a mad infatuation with the political system, an unhealthy obsession with an idealized body politic? Do they dream of capturing and ravishing representational democracy? Are they crazed stalkers of our constitutional republic?
No. It’s worse than that. Democrats aren’t just dateless dweebs clambering upon the Statue of Liberty carrying a wilted bouquet and trying to cop a feel. Theirs is a different kind of love story. Power, not politics, is what the Democrats love. Politics is merely a way to power’s heart. When politics is the technique of seduction, good looks are unnecessary, good morals are unneeded, and good sense is a positive liability. Thus Democrats are the perfect Lotharios. And politics comes with that reliable boost for pathetic egos, a weapon: legal monopoly on force. If persuasion fails to win the day, coercion is always an option.
Armed with the panoply of lawmaking, these moonstruck fools for power go about in a jealous rage. They fear power’s charms may be lavished elsewhere, even for a moment.
Democrats hate success. Success could supply the funds for a power elopement. Fire up the Learjet. Flight plan: Grand Cayman. Democrats hate failure too. The true American loser laughs at legal monopoly on force. He’s got his own gun.
Democrats hate productivity, lest production be outsourced to someplace their beloved power can’t go. And Democrats also hate us none-too-productive drones in our cubicles or behind the counters of our service economy jobs. Tax us as hard as they will, we modest earners don’t generate enough government revenue to dress and adorn the power that Democrats worship.
Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference. Democratic advocacy for feminism, gay marriage, children’s rights, and “reproductive choice” is simply a way to invade -power’s little realm of domestic private life and bring it under the domination of Democrats.
Democrats hate immigrants. Immigrants can’t stay illegal because illegality puts immigrants outside the legal monopoly on force. But immigrants can’t become legal either. They’d prosper and vote Republican.
Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
And Democrats hate the military, of course. Soldiers set a bad example. Here are men and women who possess what, if they chose, could be complete control over power. Yet they treat power with honor and respect. Members of the armed forces fight not to seize power for themselves but to ensure that power can bestow its favors upon all Americans.
This is not an election on November 2. This is a restraining order. Power has been trapped, abused and exploited by Democrats. Go to the ballot box and put an end to this abusive relationship. And let’s not hear any nonsense about letting the Democrats off if they promise to get counseling.
*VIDEO* Obama Stumps For Harry Reid In Nevada
Meet the New Marxists, Same as the Old Marxists
I have long-held that the Democratic Party, having become overwhelmingly a liberal party, is now become increasingly Leftist. The “fringe” of the Democratic Party, the self-styled Progressives, is actually driving the Democrats ideological bus in many cases, and Progressive is just another word for Communist.
For those who disagree that progressive=communist, consider the stated aims of Progressives.
State run health care, no private insurers, no options, no choices.
Massive redistribution of wealth, to fund more entitlement programs, and more dependence on government
Environmental, and economic policies that crush businesses, property rights, and personal freedoms in the name of being “green”.
Ideals that sacrifice individual rights on the altar of “Social Justice”. Progressives seek more collectivism, and individualism, is the enemy of their beloved collectivist utopian dreams.
Bob Belvedere writes of another commonality between the old and new Marxists. The tactic of demonizing, and questioning the sanity of those who dare oppose the Progressives aims.
Having lived through the last thirty years of the Cold War and having begun a serious study of Soviet Russia during the last fifteen years of it, I can see the possibility that the Left in America may be adopting one of the main tactics employed against the dissidents during the Brezhnev Era: declaring those who oppose The State to be mentally ill.* A good number of these innocent people were put in the Psikhushka, the name for Soviet psychiatric hospitals [for a very good, short history of this evil practice, please click here] where they were subjected to ‘various forms of restraint, electric shocks, electromagnetic torture, radiation torture, entrapment, servitude, a range of drugs (such as narcotics, tranquilizers, and insulin) that cause long lasting side effects, and sometimes involved beatings… inhumane uses of medical procedures such as lumbar punctures’. Others were stripped of their offices and privileges and, in a sense, declared unfit for anything but manual labor. Some were sent to the Gulags.
Granted, unlike in the old USSR, the American Bolshes have been, so far, more subtle about it, but, still, it seems to be happening.
Case in point: the comments made yesterday by NPR CEO Vivian Schiller, as related by Mark Memmott, writer at the NPR blog, The Two-Way [tip of the fedora to Memeorandum][emphasis mine]:
Fired NPR news analyst Juan Williams should have kept his feeling about Muslims between himself and “his psychiatrist or his publicist,” the network’s CEO told an audience at the Atlanta Press Club earlier today.
Bob gives more examples, and surely we can recognize that the Progressives have been doing this for years. Just try to think of any Conservative voice that has not been attacked as loony, nutty, crazy, dangerous, potentially violent, or a threat by the Progressives. Tea Partiers, bloggers, columnists, politicians, etc. have all been accused of horrible things, simply for opposing the Left’s aims. They use intimidation, threats, and character assassination to silence us, let us say no more!
The New Marxists, are no different than the old Marxists really. They just do not hold the power that Stalin or Lennin or Mao did, not yet. See, the Constitution checks them, but they have been assaulting that for decades now, andwill continue to do so, unless we, the People, do our job on November 2nd!
I have kinda realized, a few minutes ago, that, I have lost my closest friend and a person I had come to consider almost a daughter. Someone who made my heart smile every time I saw her. I have lost her friendship and I have no idea why. Absolutely no idea why, and that might be the worst part of this. So, back to blogging in the morning, I am emotionally drained, and just ready to get back to work!
Daily Benefactor News – Illegal Aliens Canvass For Votes In Washington State – More Articles
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Illegal Aliens Canvass For Votes In Washington State – Fox News
When Maria Gianni is knocking on voters’ doors, she’s not bashful about telling people she is in the country illegally. She knows it’s a risk to advertise to strangers that she’s here illegally – but one worth taking in what she sees as a crucial election.
The 42-year-old is one of dozens of volunteers – many of them illegal aliens – canvassing neighborhoods in the Seattle area trying to get naturalized citizens to cast a ballot for candidates like Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, who is in a neck-to-neck race with Republican Dino Rossi.
Pramila Jayapal, head of OneAmerica Votes, says the campaign is about empowering immigrants who may not feel like they can contribute to a campaign because they can’t vote.
“Immigrants really do matter,” Jayapal said. “If we can’t vote ourselves, we’re gonna knock on doors, or get family members to vote.”
So far the illegal aliens going door-to-door aren’t meeting opposition. Craig Keller, an organizer for Respect WA, a group pushing for stricter immigration law in the Washington, said he doesn’t mind illegal immigrants volunteering for vote drives, he just wants to make sure mistakes on the voter rolls don’t allow them to vote.
“Anybody can go out and wave a sign, but when it comes to who’s making the choices, there’s no question they need to be citizens,” Keller said.
In close elections across the country, the immigrant and minority vote is considered key for candidates, especially Democrats.
Earlier this week in Nevada, a television ad urging Latinos not to vote sparked outcry from Democrats, who called it a dirty trick meant to keep Hispanics home and boost Republican candidates. Univision and Telemundo – the nation’s two largest Spanish-language networks – canceled the ad, which the Republican group Latinos for Reform had planned to eventually run in Nevada, Florida, California, Texas and Colorado through the Nov. 2 election.
Seattle is home to a wide array of immigrant communities, from Latinos to east Africans and Asians.
Congress declined this year to consider overhauling the country’s immigration law, much to the chagrin of immigrant advocates who had expected Democrats to do so by now.
Still, OneAmerica Votes launched one of the largest get-out-the-vote campaigns in the state on behalf of Democratic candidates. The organization is an offshoot of OneAmerica, one of the state’s largest and the most influential immigrant-rights advocacy group.
Through home visits, phone banks and mailings the organization is aiming to reach about 40,000 registered voters in the Seattle area in an attempt to help Democrats gain ground in key races. Volunteers include other types of people who can’t vote, such as legal permanent residents.
About 150 volunteers rolled out in nine cities across Washington this past week, knocking on 3,000 doors.
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Man Fired For Wearing Bush Sweatshirt At Obama Rally – KTLA
Don’t try wearing a Bush hat or sweatshirt at an Obama rally. Duane Hammond says it’s what got him fired. He’s a union stagehand who was part of the crew that built the platform for the Obama event.
He came to work early this morning wearing clothing that says “George H. W. Bush”. Mr. Hammond’s son is in the U.S. Navy, currently serving on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. George H. W. Bush.
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French Senate Passes Sarkozy Bill To Raise Retirement Age To 62 – Bloomberg
France’s Senate approved President Nicolas Sarkozy’s bill to raise the retirement age by two years as labor unions promised to maintain their protests for an eighth week against the measure.
Lawmakers in the Sarkozy-controlled upper house of Parliament voted 177-153, clearing the way for final passage. A comparable version of the legislation was approved by the National Assembly on Sept. 15.
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Virgin Spaceship To Pass New Milestone – Yahoo News
The world’s first private passenger spaceship will pass another milestone toward its commercial lift-off Friday, at a remote spaceport in the New Mexico desert.
Flamboyant British multi-millionaire Richard Branson will commemorate the completion of the main runway at Spaceport America, near the town of Las Cruces where the Virgin Galactic project is based.
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Arizona Group Accused Of Massive Voter Fraud Is Offshoot Of SEIU – Gateway Pundit
The Yuma Sun reported that two organizations Mi Familia Vota and One Vote Arizona submitted more than 3,000 voter registrations in Yuma County (20,000 statewide) right before the registration deadline.
What the Yuma Sun did not tell you is that over 65% of these last minute registrations were invalid due to the registrant not being a citizen, a wrong/invalid address, or a false signature.
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Barney Frank Rakes In $40,000 From Bailed Out Banks – Boston Herald
Barney Frank, in an intensifying clash with Sean Bielat, has pledged not to take campaign cash from lenders that got federal bailouts.
Yet he has raked in more than $40,000 from bank execs and special interests connected to the staggering government loans. Frank vowed in 2009 that he wouldn’t accept campaign donations from banks that received money under the $700B Troubled Asset Relief Program.
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Germany’s Chancellor Puts Muslims On Notice: You’re Not Welcome Here – The Tennessean
That’s the assessment of Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, in a recent speech before the youth wing of her conservative political party, the Christian Democratic Union.
The idea that disparate peoples can “simply live side by side and live happily with each other” has failed, she said. “Utterly failed.” Merkel insisted that Germany still welcomes immigrants.
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Massive Make-A-Wish Phone Scam Stealing Millions From American Elderly – ABC News
A massive phone scam exploiting the good name of the Make-A-Wish Foundation has siphoned more than $20 million from unsuspecting Americans and has been escalating in recent months.
Swindlers pretending to be calling from such government agencies as the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Trade Commission have put a new twist on an old con. They are hiding offshore.
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Cops: Woman Drove Around With Body For Months – CBS News
A California woman who befriended a homeless woman and let her sleep in her car told police she didn’t know where to turn when the woman unexpectedly died – so she drove the body around for months along with a box of baking soda to hide the smell.
Officers with the Costa Mesa police found the unidentified body Monday after getting a call about a car partially blocking a driveway.
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Dog Prefers To Walk On Two Legs – Orange News
A pet dog has become a local celebrity in China because he prefers to walk upright on his back legs. Zhou Guanshun, the 18-month-old dog’s owner taught his pet to walk on two legs by holding one of its front paws.
“Lu Lu was given to us by a friend and we loved him instantly,” he said. “He learnt to walk upright when he was just four months old, and hasn’t stopped ever since then.”
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Mother, Grandmother Bring Toddler Along For Burglary – Weekly Vice
Nicole Bugajski, 26, and her mother, 51-year-old Kimberly Mahnke were jailed Saturday after they attempted a home invasion with their two-year-old daughter/granddaughter in tow.
According to Muskegon Township police, Bugajski broke into a Western Michigan home around 4:30 p.m. while her mother kept watch outside in the car. The homeowners returned while she was still inside the house.
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Bomb Squad Called Over Box Of Kittens – WKMG
A suspicious package that forced officials to close a roadway near a federal office building in Brevard County contained kittens, according to authorities.
Brevard County sheriff’s deputies were called before 8 a.m. to the Social Security Office complex at 310 Canaveral Groves Boulevard in Cocoa after a guard found a box in the doorway. The bomb squad was called to the scene.
Daily Benefactor News – Thousands Evacuated As Typhoon Megi Nears China – More Articles
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Thousands Evacuated As Typhoon Megi Nears China – NewsMeat
More than 150,000 people were evacuated in Fujian province in China’s southeast and tens of thousands of fishing boats were called back to port, the official Xinhua news agency quoted flood control authorities as saying.
At least another 10,000 were evacuated in neighbouring Guangdong province, authorities there said, with forecasters predicting the storm would hit somewhere along China’s southern coastline late Friday or early Saturday.
The State Oceanic Administration issued a yellow storm surge warning, saying that Megi could cause a “50-year storm surge” if it landed as a severe typhoon.
“The storm surge could be so devastating that buildings, docks, villages and cities could be destroyed by it,” said Bai Yiping, director of South China Sea Forecasting Centre of the State Oceanic Administration.
Hong Kong shuttered oil terminals as the monster storm bore down.
Megi, which has already killed at least 27 people in the Philippines, was showing “signs of intensification”, the Hong Kong Observatory said Thursday.
“At present we estimate its intensity at around 175 kilometres per hour (110 miles per hour),” said forecaster Lee Tsz-cheung.
“We still cannot rule out the possibility of Megi intensifying further.”
Chinese authorities have issued a red alert, the highest of a four-step warning system, saying the typhoon could cause huge waves that could devastate coastal sea areas, including Guangdong, Fujian and the Taiwan Strait.
Xinhua, citing the State Oceanic Administration, said that Guangdong could see storm-triggered waves of up to seven metres (21 feet).
The red alert gives local authorities six hours to evacuate residents at risk and implement storm precautions, order schools, shops and airports to close and all vessels to return to port.
Torrential rains sparked by the typhoon killed at least two people and left one missing on one of Japan’s southern islands, media reports said.
As of 3 pm (0700 GMT) Thursday, Megi was estimated to be 430 kilometres southeast of Hong Kong as it moved slowly across the South China Sea.
Five oil terminals on Tsing Yi island off Hong Kong’s Kowloon peninsula were shut down, forcing tankers to anchor offshore and suspending marine fuel deliveries.
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Obama’s Approval Rating At New Low In Most Recent Quarter – Gallup
Barack Obama averaged 44.7% job approval during the seventh quarter of his presidency. His average approval rating has declined each quarter since he took office, falling by more than two percentage points in the most recent quarter to establish a new low.
These results are based on Gallup Daily tracking surveys conducted from July 20-Oct. 19, including interviews with more than 90,000 Americans.
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Democrat Mayor Resigns After Being Arrested For Purse-Snatching, Assault – Justice News Flash
The mayor of San Gabriel has stepped down following his arrest for a purse-snatching incident where he took off in his SUV, with a woman clinging to the side of his vehicle.
The arrest occurred on Friday, October 15, 2010 at around 1:15 a.m., after someone reported a heated fight between the mayor and a woman over money. Albert Y.M. Huang announced his resignation on Tuesday.
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A cafe owner has been ordered to tear down an extractor fan because the smell of her frying bacon ‘offends’ Muslims. Planning bosses acted against Beverley Akciecek after being told her neighbour’s Muslim friends had felt ‘physically sick’ due to the ‘foul odour’.
Councillors at Stockport Council in Greater Manchester say the smell from the fan is ‘unacceptable on the grounds of residential amenity’.
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Obama Administration Takes Credit For Bush Era Wind Farm Jobs – Gateway Pundit
The Obama administration is crediting its stimulus plan with creating up to 50,000 jobs on dozens of wind farms, even though many of them were built before Obama was inaugurated.
Out of 70 major wind farms that received federal energy grants through the stimulus program, public records show that 11, which received a total of $600M, erected their wind towers during the Bush administration.
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After years of costly delays, a long-awaited computerized system for managing the FBI’s caseload remains far from completion and risks coming so late that it will be obsolete on arrival, a Justice Department report warned Wednesday.
The Sentinel system was designed as a user-friendly paperless way to manage cases that would be ready in December 2009 at a cost $425M.
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Leftist Dullards Mock Palin For Correctly Referencing Boston Tea Party – Hot Air
Yesterday, at a Tea Party Express event in Nevada, Sarah Palin warned the crowd not to get overconfident, saying they won’t be able to “party like it’s 1773″ until a bunch of tea-party candidates are elected.
Lefty insta-meme: Idiot Sarah Palin doesn’t know that the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776! Because, after all, nothing happened in 1773 that could possibly be worth referencing at a tea-party rally, right?
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Today federal authorities arrested four people associated with American Therapeutic Corporation and charged the Miami-based company with fleecing $200 million from Medicare.
The company is accused of praying on patients with severe dementia, and forcing them to go through treatment they did not need in order to inflate the amount of money it received from the government program.
You know, if Websters ever decides to change the definition of loser……
These douchebags are great candidates! How sweet it is!
Hotline- Where the DCCC didn’t spend money is as indicative as where it did. With two weeks to go, Democrats are using their checkbooks as acknowledgement that nearly a dozen members are beyond saving. The DCCC did not spend money on behalf of Reps. Mary Jo Kilroy (D-Ohio), Debbie Halvorson (D-Ill.), Betsy Markey (D-Colo.), Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), Suzanne Kosmas (D-Fla.), Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.) and Steve Kagen (D-Wis.), the filings show. Republicans believe those seven seats are all but guaranteed to fall their way.
Daily Benefactor Columnists – Who Says Islam Is Totalitarian? – More Op-Eds
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Who Says Islam Is Totalitarian? – Andrew C. McCarthy
Who says Islam is a totalitarian doctrine? Well, Geert Wilders does, of course. As the editors point out in Monday’s superb National Review Online editorial, the Dutch parliamentarian has even had the temerity to compare Islam with Nazism. Strong stuff indeed, and for speaking it, Wilders has earned the disdain not just of the usual Muslim Brotherhood satellite organizations but even of many on the political right.
Though they support free-speech rights, and thus grudgingly concede that Wilders should be permitted to say such things, they want you to understand they find his sentiments deplorable. Taking the politically correct view, they assure you that Islam is not a problem at all – it’s just those bad extremists and Islamists who have, as the Bush-era refrain went, “hijacked one of the world’s great religions.”
Emblematic is the estimable Charles Krauthammer, who has described Wilders’s views as “extreme, radical, and wrong.” Dr. K.’s complaint, expressed on Fox News back in March (and published on the Corner), was that Wilders conflates “Islam and Islamism.” The latter, Krauthammer insists, is “an ideology of a small minority which holds that the essence of Islam is jihad, conquest, forcing people into accepting a certain very narrow interpretation [of Islam].”
As I take a backseat to no one in my admiration of Dr. K., I wonder what he’d make of Bernard Lewis’s take on this subject. Professor Lewis is the distinguished scholar widely and aptly admired, including by Wilders’s detractors, as the West’s preeminent authority on Islam. At Pajamas Media, Andrew Bostom has unearthed a 1954 International Affairs essay in which Professor Lewis quite matter-of-factly compared Islam with Communism. The essay, in fact, was called, “Communism and Islam.”
In it, Lewis considered “the very nature of Islamic society, tradition, and thought,” and concluded that its principal defining characteristic is the “authoritarianism, perhaps we may even say the totalitarianism, of the Islamic political tradition.” Expanding on this, he wrote:
There are no parliaments or representative assemblies of any kind, no councils or communes, no chambers of nobility or estates, no municipalities in the history of Islam; nothing but the sovereign power, to which the subject owed complete and unwavering obedience as a religious duty imposed by the Holy Law… For the last thousand years, the political thinking of Islam has been dominated by such maxims as “tyranny is better than anarchy,” and “whose power is established, obedience to him is incumbent.”
But what about the conceit that undergirds current American foreign policy, the notion that Islam and Western democracy are perfectly compatible? Lewis dismissed the idea as so much elite wishful thinking:
Many attempts have been made to show that Islam and democracy are identical – attempts usually based on a misunderstanding of Islam or democracy or both. This sort of argument expresses a need of the uprooted Muslim intellectual who is no longer satisfied with or capable of understanding traditional Islamic values, and who tries to justify, or rather, restate, his inherited faith in terms of the fashionable ideology of the day. It is an example of the romantic and apologetic presentation of Islam that is a recognized phase in the reaction of Muslim thought to the impact of the West.
Clearly, the ensuing half-century has found Western intellectuals – regardless of political bent – joining romantic forces with their uprooted Muslim counterparts. Thus the accusation by Dr. Krauthammer, to take a prominent but by no means singular example, that Wilders fails to perceive the distinction – I’d call it a hoped-for distinction – between Islam and Islamism. Yet this accusation itself conflates Islam with Muslims, as well as Islamists with violent jihadists. This confusion leads Krauthammer to surmise both (a) that only a small minority of Muslims believe jihad is “the essence of Islam,” and (b) that because most Muslims in the West are not terrorists, it should be “obvious” that they are not Islamists.
This is wrong on several levels. First, as Robert Spencer explains, “Jihad… is a key element of the Islamic faith according to every single Islamic authority on the planet.” To deny that it is the “essence of Islam” – which is how the prophet Mohammed regarded it – is to deny a basic fact. And though, as Spencer acknowledges, jihad is subject to varying interpretations, Lewis is clear on the preponderant construction. As he has recounted several times, most recently in The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years, “The overwhelming majority of early authorities… citing relevant passages in the Qur’an and in the tradition, discuss jihad in military terms.” This jibes, to quote Ibn Warraq, with “the celebrated Dictionary of Islam,” which describes jihad as an “incumbent religious duty,” and defines it as “a religious war with those who are unbelievers in the mission of Muhammad.”
Spencer echoes Lewis when he elaborates that “all the mainstream sects and schools of Islamic jurisprudence teach as a matter of faith that Islam is intrinsically political and that Muslims must wage war against unbelievers and subjugate them under the rule of Islamic law.” The fact that most Muslims do not engage in violent jihad, whether out of practicality, indifference, or what have you, does not change what Islamic doctrine says. Nor does it mean these Muslims are “rejecting” that mandate. They are ignoring it.
Moreover, as I’ve noted on several occasions, the point of jihad is to spread sharia, the Islamic legal system whose installation is the necessary precondition to creating an Islamic society. That need not be done by violent means. In fact, the Muslim Brotherhood, the world’s most influential Islamist organization, maintains that America and Europe will be “conquered” not by violence but by dawa – the proselytism of Islam by non-violent (or, more accurate, pre-violent) means, such as infiltration of our institutions. Spencer calls this phenomenon “stealth jihad.”
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Leftists, Progressives And Socialists – Walter Williams
One of the greatest sources of confusion and deception is the difference between leftists, progressives, socialists, communists and fascists. I thought about this as I caught a glimpse of the Oct. 2 “One Nation” march on Washington.
The participants proudly marched with banners, signs and placards reading “Socialists,” “Ohio U Democratic Socialists,” “International Socialists Organization,” “Socialist Party USA,” “Build A Socialist Alternative” and other signs expressing support for socialism and communism.
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Chris Coons Lied, Granny Died – Ann Coulter
In all of life’s tribulations, there is nothing so aggravating as being condescended to by an idiot. In last week’s CNN debate in the Delaware Senate race between the astonishingly well-spoken Christine O’Donnell and the unfortunate-looking Chris Coons, O’Donnell had to put up with it from Coons for 90 minutes.
O’Donnell wiped the floor with Coons, moderators Wolf Blitzer and Nancy Karibjanian, and the idiotic University of Delaware students asking questions – all of whom were against her.
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Public Sector Unions Choke Taxpayers – John Stossel
“I thought unions were great – until at Chrysler, the union steward started screaming at me. Working at an unhurried pace, I’d exceeded ‘production’ for that job.”
That comment, left on my blog by a viewer who watched my Fox Business Network show about unions, matches my experience. No one ordered me to slow down, but union rules and union culture at ABC and CBS slowed the work. Sometimes a camera crew took five minutes just to get out of the car.
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Change, Don’t ‘Celebrate.’ Cultures – Thomas Sowell
There was a reason that employers in the middle of the 19th century had signs that said, No Irish need apply – and why employers in the middle of the 20th century no longer had such signs. It was not that employers had changed. The Irish had changed.
The Catholic Church for years worked to bring about such changes among the Irish immigrants and their offspring, just as various religious and secular organizations among the Jews, among blacks, and among other groups worked to bring about changes within their respective groups.
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Extreme Girls: All The President’s Radical Women – Michelle Malkin
We are in the era of Democratic Extreme Girls – Big Nanny handmaidens who demand control of your children, your health care, your energy use, your pocketbook and your news. And that’s just for starters. If you think President Obama will move to the center after the midterms, think again.
Liberal bloggers are buzzing about the possibility that environmental czar Carol Browner could be appointed White House chief of staff next year.
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If Dems Lose, Obama Will Blame Everyone But Himself – Byron York
Assume the polls are correct and Republicans win control of the House, and perhaps even the Senate, in next month’s elections. What lessons will the White House learn? Will Barack Obama interpret the vote as a repudiation of much of his agenda, or will he conclude that he made a few tactical errors but was still right on the big issues?
Bet on the latter. All indications coming out of the White House suggest that if Democrats suffer major losses, the president and his top aides will resolutely refuse to reconsider the policies – national health care, stimulus, runaway spending – that led to their defeat.
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Rioters Rampage, Protesters Block French Airport – Boston Herald
Workers opposed to a higher retirement age blocked access to airports in Paris and around the country on Wednesday as hooded youths smashed store windows amid clouds of tear gas outside the capital.
Riot police in black body armor forced striking workers away from blocked fuel depots in western France, restoring gasoline to areas where pumps were dry after weeks of protests over the government proposal raising the age from 60 to 62.
Riot officers in the Paris suburb of Nanterre and the southeastern city of Lyon sprayed tear gas but appeared unable to stop the violence.
After months of largely peaceful disruptions, many protests erupted into violence this week over the government’s push to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed that his conservative party would pass the reform in a Senate vote expected Thursday.
Many workers feel the change would be a first step in eroding France’s social benefits – which include long vacations, contracts that make it hard for employers to lay off workers and a state-subsidized health care system – in favor of “American-style capitalism.”
Sarkozy said Wednesday that he would “carry the retirement reform through to the end.” And despite France’s tolerance for a long tradition of strikes and protest, official patience appeared to be waning after weeks of snarled traffic, cancelled flights and dwindling gasoline supplies and, now, rising urban violence.
Protesters blocked the main road leading to one of two terminals at Orly Airport on Wednesday, then moved to block the road to the other terminal, the ADP Paris airport authority said.
At Charles de Gaulle airport north of Paris, the nation’s biggest, protesters sang the French national anthem before pushing through a police barricade.
“It is like we are on another planet,” said Canadian traveler Olivier Lejour, waiting to take off from Charles de Gaulle. While he said it was “fun” to watch, he said the protests disrupted his efforts to work in Paris.
The CGT Transport union says protests also shut down the Clermont-Ferrand airport in the south and disrupted airports in Nice and Nantes.
With nearly a third of France’s gas stations dry, authorities stepped in without incident overnight to force open three fuel depots blocked by striking workers for days, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said.
At one site in the western town of Donges, police formed a corridor along the road leading to the depot to allow trucks to pass in and out. Video footage showed officers peacefully herding striking workers away from one depot.
Hortefeux warned that the blockades threatened emergency services and could have grave consequences for the entire French economy and public health and safety.
“The right to strike does not give anyone the right to prevent people from working or the right to block things, or the right to prevent travel,” Hortefeux said.
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Pa. Democrat Admits Helping Fake Tea Party Candidate – The Hill
A Pennsylvania Democratic House candidate on Tuesday admitted to helping a third party candidate get on the ballot in the hopes he would siphon votes away from his Republican opponent.
Bryan Lentz, the Democratic nominee running for the seat being vacated by Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), said he knew that volunteers from his campaign helped Tea Party candidate Jim Schneller.
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Britain To Cut 500,000 Public Sector Jobs – Deccan Herald
Nearly half a million public sector workers in Britain are to lose their jobs as the government plans to reduce more than 80 billion pounds in public spending in the next four years.
Danny Alexander, chief secretary to the Treasury, unwittingly disclosed the full scale of the expected redundancies when he was photographed Monday reading confidential briefing papers, The Daily Telegraph reported.
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The media is too busy hyperventilating about every word ever uttered by Delaware GOP candidate Christine O’Donnell to do any real investigative reporting on the Democrat candidate Chris Coons.
So I decided to do a little digging myself. (August 2007) WILMINGTON, Del. – A third lawsuit alleges that New Castle County Executive Chris Coons retaliated against county employees because of their political views.
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Obama Rules That SEIU’s Lawbreaking Is OK With Him – Canada Free Press
With a recent Federal Election Commission decision, Obama’s government has ruled in favor of the SEIU’s illegal kickback scheme and decided that such law breaking it is A’OK as far as he is concerned.
Ostensibly, FEC law states that unions cannot require member locals to pay a specific amount of money into a union’s political action committee fund. PAC contributions by the locals are supposed to be voluntary.
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Ohio Democrat Threatens Pro-Life Leader With Jail – Human Events
Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-Ohio) got himself into deep water when he took a principled stand to defend life earlier this year – then buckled to his pro-abortion leadership to vote in favor of Obamacare.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, President of the Susan B. Anthony List, is being threatened with possible jail time for informing voters that Driehaus voted in favor of taxpayer-funded abortion with his vote for Obamacare.
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20 Women Arrested In Swedish Child Porn Raid – Fox News
Swedish police say they have arrested 23 people in a nationwide raid against a child pornography ring, including 20 women.
Police spokesman Sven-Ake Petters called the raid “unique” and said he has never come across so many female suspects in a child pornography investigation before. Arrests were made at 12 different locations across Sweden on Wednesday and include women aged between 38 and 60.
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Republican Kirk Takes Lead In Race For Obama’s Old Senate Seat – News Max
Republican Congressman Mark Kirk now leads Democrat Alexi Giannoulias in Illinois’ race for the former U.S. Senate seat of President Barack Obama, according to the latest Rasmussen poll.
Although this is one of the key races that could enable Republicans to take control of the Senate, a no less important, but symbolic, element of the race is that Obama could see his own seat fall into GOP hands.
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Maine Postcard Finally Delivered After 64 years – CBS News
A former student at the Farmington State Teacher’s College in Maine now has a postcard that was sent to her in the fall of 1946. The postcard, a thank you note, was sent to Ruth Webber at Purington Hall by “Gert and Charlie.”
It was mailed from Winthrop. The postcard showed up recently in the mailroom at the University of Maine at Farmington. It had a 1 cent stamp on it.
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Woman Toasts Mother-In-Law – Orange News
A Leicester woman turned a photo of her mother in law into the world’s largest toast mosaic – using a staggering 9,852 slices of bread. Laura Hadland, 27, roped in 40 friends to help her make the massive mosaic out of 600 loaves of bread.
They used nine toasters to brown the bread to varying degrees before arranging it to make the 32ft 8ins by 42ft 3ins picture of her mother in law’s face.
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Man Accused Of Robbing Same Indiana Bank 4 Times – Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Authorities have arrested a man who they believe robbed the same South Bend bank branch four times since late August.
Federal prosecutors allege that 42-year-old William Easley robbed the 1st Source Bank on Aug. 23, Sept. 10, Oct. 5 and Wednesday, taking about $14,000 in all. The South Bend Tribune reported Easley surrendered at the St. Joseph County Jail early Saturday.
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Man Arrested For Sexually Assaulting A Horse – Weekly Vice
Marian Wegiel, 63, was jailed Monday after he allegedly sexually assaulted a horse, claiming that he was just trying to “comfort her.”
Officers were called to a home on Partridge Lane around 6:15 p.m. on a report that a man was inappropriately touching a horse who appeared to be in pain. The horse farm’s owner said Wegiel had been touching the animal in it’s genital region.
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On November 22, 2004, the socialist anti-American group Code Pink sent out a plea to supporters to help send assistance to the “refugees” from Fallujah, Iraq.
Today, as CODEPINK was busily preparing a year-end humanitarian mission to Iraq, we received an urgent message. It was from our dear friend Dahr Jamail, an amazing American independent journalist who has been risking his life to get the true story of Fallujah to the American public:
“I have just come from a refugee camp in Baghdad with families from Fallujah. The suffering is beyond description. It’s worse than anything you’ve read or anything I’ve written so far.
This is a humanitarian crisis. They need medicines for their camp and the other camps immediately. We have an organization set up of doctors who can distribute the medicines and supplies. BUT WE NEED THEM NOW! THIS CANNOT WAIT!”
Solidarity,
Dahr
The next day, on November 23, 2004, Code Pink announced that they had raised nearly $20,000 in one day for “refugess” from Fallujah.
Yesterday we put out an urgent call for aid to refugees from Fallujah, with an initial goal of raising $20,000. The response was amazing. From a $10 donation from a high school student to a $1,000 gift from a medical doctor, the compassion of the American people began to shine through the fog of war. In less than 24 hours, we surpassed our goal and that’s just the online donations!
In addition, a humanitarian aid group donated 300 pounds of priority medical supplies, Cliff Bar is donating high-protein bars for the children, an Iraqi-American returning home offered to be our on-the-ground liaison and people are pledging to do holiday house parties to raise more funds.
When we contacted journalist Dahr Jamail to tell him to good news, he was elated. “Holy cow, $20,000 already? I’m catching my breath. This is so beautiful.” Dahr had just returned from a visit to the Red Crescent, who said they could only care for “at most” 60,000 refugees. “This leaves at least 140,000 refugees, mostly women and children, with no support,” said Dahr. “These supplies will be their lifeline.”
On December 3, 2004, Code Pink announced that after only one week into their campaign they had sent $30,000 to Iraq. Their contact Dahr Jamail claimed the donations bought blankets, warm clothing, food, portable heaters, cooking stoves, stove and heater fuel, antibiotics, needles, sterile gloves, pain medications, gauze, basic first aid materials, water tanks, pipes, water pumps and water purification materials. Dahr Jamail and Code Pink also claimed that these supplies had already distributed to the refugees. The radicals at Code Pink must run an amazingly efficient operation. We’ll discuss Dahr Jamail below.
Code Pink later reported that they had collected $100,000 in donations. It was also reported that “humanitarian groups” such as the Middle East Children’s Alliance and Operation USA contributed $500,000 worth of medical supplies.
Code Pink was ready to deliver their supplies and donations to the Fallujah refugees. But there was a problem. They needed assistance from Congress to approve their trip. In stepped Senator Barabara Boxer (D-CA) along with Representatives Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Henry Waxman (D-CA). These radical members of Congress signed letters to approve their trip to Jordan and the Iraqi border.
These Congressional members wrote this letter despite the fact that in September 2004, Code Pink participated in and just endorsed the Beirut communique, which supported “the right of the people of Iraq and Palestine to resist the occupations” and called for “the unconditional withdrawal of US and ‘coalition’ forces from Iraq.”
With their signatures on the Beirut Communique Code Pink condoned the murder of US soldiers and Marines. Yet Barbara Boxer and Congressional leftists approved of their trip to the Iraqi border.
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Democrats Attempt To Bribe Seniors With $250 Social Security Checks – Sweetness & Light
Democrats are making a pre-election pitch to give Social Security recipients a one-time payment of $250, part of a larger effort to convince senior voters that their party, and not Republicans.
President Obama has urged Congress to approve the $250 payment. House and Senate Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid say they will bring up the legislation when lawmakers return in November.
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Lisa Murkowksi Funded By ‘Rent-An-Eskimo’ Racket – Washington Examiner
Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s write-in candidacy is being funded by $100,000 contributions from a handful of Alaska corporations that have been handsomely subsidized by the federal government.
These six-figure donors have pulled in billions of taxpayer dollars thanks to special legislative favors from Murkowski and her mentors the late Sen. Ted Stevens, and Lisa’s father, former governor Frank Murkowski
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Howard Dean: ‘Elections Are Not The Time To Educate People’ – CNS
Former DNC Chairman Howard Dean says Democrat candidates should wait until they win before “educating” constituents about the benefits they will derive from Obamacare.
NPR’s Scott Simon asked Dean on Saturday why Democrats are not touting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act while campaigning. “I don’t think we should be making the case right now,” Dean said.
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Maxine Waters’ Pro-Communist Past – New Zeal
Embattled Californian Congresswoma Maxine Waters began her political career as an ally of the Communist Party USA. Waters supported several party front organizations including the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.
This 1982 pamphlet reveals just willing then California State Assemblywoman Waters was to lend her name to Party causes.
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St. Jude Agrees To Buy AGA Medical For $1.04B – NewsMeat
St. Jude Medical Inc. said Monday it will boost its cardiovascular business by buying rival heart device maker AGA Medical Holdings Inc. for $1.04 billion, or $20.80 per share.
In the cash and stock deal, St. Jude is offering a premium of 41 percent compared to AGA’s latest closing price. St. Jude is also taking on $225 million in debt held by AGA, and it expects the deal to close by year-end.
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Goat Sacrifice Row Spurs Fatal Stampede In Bihar – Bangalore Mirror
An argument over sacrificing goats on the last day of Navratri festival triggered a stampede that killed 10 people on Sunday in a packed temple in India’s Bihar state.
“More than 45,000 devotees had thronged the temple at Tildiha village under Sambhuganj Police Station area for offering prayers and sacrificing goats when the stampede occurred,” said the Police Director General.
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Democrats Busing Students To Polls During School Hours – Cincinnati Enquirer
Three van loads of Hughes High students were taken last week – during school hours – to vote and given sample ballots only for Democrat candidates and then taken for ice cream, a Monday lawsuit alleges.
The complaint was made by Thomas Brinkman Jr., a Republican candidate for Hamilton County auditor, and the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes against Cincinnati Public Schools.
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Obama’s Budget Deficit: Still $1.3 Trillion – USA Today
The Treasury Department reports what we already knew: the federal government owes a LOT of money. $1,294,000,000,000, to be exact. And that’s just for 2010. Overall, the national debt is $13.6 trillion, or $13,600,000,000,000.
The $1.29 trillion is the official U.S. budget deficit for the 2010 fiscal year, which ended two weeks ago. It’s slightly lower than originally projected, thanks to higher corporate income taxes and lower government bailout spending than anticipated. But that’s little solace to President Obama as Democrats head into the 2010 midterm elections.
“Even though that suggests that we’re moving in the right direction, the president thinks we still need to do a lot of work in order to get our fiscal house in order,” said deputy press secretary Bill Burton. “He’s taken a number of steps to do that already. And he’s going to continue to work hard to make sure that we’re on the right track.”
When the year began, the White House projected the deficit would be more than $1.5 trillion. Last year’s deficit was a record $1.4 trillion. As a share of the nation’s economy, those are the two largest deficits since World War II. The final figure equals 8.9% of the nation’s economy, down from 10% last year.
“By carefully managing the emergency initiatives to stop the financial panic and by accelerating our exit from those investments, we have significantly lowered the cost to taxpayers, bringing the costs of the financial rescue down by more than $240 billion this year,” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said. “However, we still have a long way to go to repair the damage to the economy and address the long-term deficits caused by the crisis.”
The next shoe to drop in the deficit dance will come in December, when a bipartisan commission appointed by Obama and congressional leaders issues its recommendations for spending cuts, tax increases and other ways to slash the deficit. If 14 of the panel’s 18 members agree on anything, it will go to Congress for a vote.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell used the Treasury announcement to tweak the White House on an issue that will come up when Congress returns in November: whether to extend the massive tax cuts signed by George W. Bush nearly a decade ago. Obama wants to limit the tax cut to income below $250,000.
“After adding trillions more to the national debt, Democrats in Washington now want to take more money from the struggling Americans who need it most, and from the small-business owners across our country who create jobs,” McConnell said. “Saying no to more spending, more taxes and more debt is exactly what our constituents have been asking us to do. So we’ll keep doing it.”
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Poll: One Quarter Of Obama 2008 Supporters Defecting To GOP – Associated Press
President Barack Obama’s winning coalition from 2008 has crumbled and his core backers are dispirited. It’s now Republicans who stand to benefit from an electorate that’s again craving change.
Nearly two years after putting Obama in the White House, one-quarter of those who voted for the Democrat are defecting to the GOP or considering voting against the party in power this fall.
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China Coal Mine Explosion Kills 21, Traps 16 – CBS News
Rescuers battled dangerous levels of gas, tons of coal dust and the risk of falling rocks as they worked to free 16 miners trapped by an explosion at a mine in central China early Saturday. Twenty-one miners were confirmed killed.
The blast happened as the world still was celebrating Chile’s dramatically successful rescue of 33 miners trapped more than two months.
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North Korea Threatens To Attack South Korea Over Leaflets – Washington Times
North Korea renewed its threat Friday to attack South Korea over anti-Pyongyang leaflets being sent into the country, a sign of lingering tension after the sinking of a South Korean warship.
Civilian activists regularly use balloons to launch leaflets condemning Kim Jong-il across the border, a tactic Pyongyang views as part of official South Korean psychological campaigns aimed at toppling its regime.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 3 administrator, Shawn Garvin, has recommended that his agency veto the Clean Water Act permit that has already been approved for the Spruce No. 1 Mine in Logan County, WV.
Arch Coal, the owner of the mine, was set to commit more than $250 million and create at least 250 new, well paying jobs in Logan County, WV.
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More Trouble For Mosque Man – New York Post
The money woes keep growing for a developer of the Ground Zero mosque. Valley National Bank is suing Sharif El-Gamal and his real-estate company seeking $95,778 plus interest for an unrepaid loan.
The firm took out a $100,000 line of credit, guaranteed by El-Gamal, from the bank in 2008, but defaulted in early 2009, according to court papers. A spokesman for El-Gamal declined to comment yesterday.
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Islamic Kids Cartoons Praised By Obama Draw Terse Warning – WorldNetDaily
A coming series of “superhero” cartoons promoting the tenets of Islam under the title of “The 99″ – which has been praised by President Obama – is drawing a terse warning from an expert who has analyzed media impact on people for decades.
“These are not the types of heroes you want your children to have,” Dr. Ted Baehr, chief of MOVIEGUIDE©, told WND today.
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Pelosi: Raising Money For Democrats More Important Than Voters In San Francisco – American Spectator
Explaining why she has refused to debate her Republican challenger, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that raising money for Democratic candidates “across the country” is a higher priority for her.
A video posted at Republican John Dennis’s Web site, titled ‘Why No Debate, Nancy Pelosi?’, shows Pelosi being asked, “Would you be open to debating your Republican opponent John Dennis in San Francisco?”
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Man Arrested For Breaking Into Trailer, Having Sex With Dog – Weekly Vice
Henry Ivey, a 39-year-old Georgia man was jailed Monday after he allegedly broke into a mobile home and had noisy sex with a dog he had been out walking.
Ivey was out walking two dogs when neighbors watched him break into a vacant mobile home and take one of the dogs inside. Neighbors called 911 when they began hearing loud noises and screams coming from inside the abandoned home.
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Drunk Man Had Shower In Wrong House – Orange News
A drunk Australian man went home for a shower to sober up – but got the wrong house. The woman who lived there was terrified to wake up to the sound of someone having a shower downstairs.
She frantically called the police who arrested her red-faced neighbour, reports Northern Territory News. “He was very apologetic,” Superintendent Daniel Shean told the newspaper.
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German “Heatball” Wheeze Outwits EU Light Bulb Ban – Reuters
A German entrepreneur is bypassing a European Union ban on light bulbs of more than 60 watts by marketing his own brand as mini heaters.
Siegfried Rotthaeuser and his brother-in-law have come up with a legal way of importing and distributing 75 and 100 watt light bulbs – by producing them in China, importing them as “small heating devices” and selling them as “heatballs.”
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Massachusetts Man To Be Charged With Toilet Paper Assault – Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A Massachusetts man is facing an assault charge for allegedly hitting a town hall custodian on the back of the head with a roll of toilet paper because he was angry the cleaning man was whistling.
Framingham police say Allen Kerner was in town hall Wednesday using the bathroom. The custodian, who didn’t realize anyone was in the restroom, whistled as he replenished toilet paper rolls.
Why are Democrats going to lose their asses on 11-2-10?
Biggest reason? Their complete lack of regard or respect for their duty to REPRESENT their constituents!
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