Monthly Archives: October 2010
Looking At The NFL’s Top Teams: Installment 1 – The Jets
The New York Jets started the 2010 season with a penalty-ridden 10-9 loss to the Baltimore Ravens. Struggling to get first downs, their offense was unable to score a single touchdown all day, and it looked as if Mark Sanchez would spend another season relying on his running backs and defensive squad for salvation.
But then something happened. The New England Patriots came to town, and the Jets responded by holding the Brady Bunch to only two touchdowns, while Sanchez threw for three of his own. The Jets walked away with a decisive 28-14 victory after shutting down the Pats’ offense in the second half, and suddenly I began to wonder which game was more indicative of this year’s Jets team.
That question was not answered in week three when they traveled to Miami. While Sanchez once again managed to complete three touchdown passes against another fierce division rival, the Jets’ once-top rated defense failed to prevent the Dolphins from gaining 363 yards through the air. Yet even though the Fish put up a much better fight than the Patriots of the week previous, they too fell to defeat, and the Jets’ offense was beginning to look like a force to be reckoned with.
Which brings us to their week-four outing against the Buffalo Bills.
Few people expected that the hapless Bills were going to accomplish what the Patriots and Dolphins could not against one of the better – albeit inconsistent – defenses in the NFL, and the ones who did would be sorely disappointed by the time this game was over. Once again Mark Sanchez proved that he can actually throw the ball like a starting quarterback, adding two more passing touchdowns to his record, and bringing his four-game total to eight. An impressive showing by LaDainian Tomlinson on the ground helped lead the Jets to a 38 to 14 blow-out of the Bills, and more importantly, a third consecutive division win.
Bottom line – The Jets have an improved offense this year, thanks in no small part to the effective passing game of Mark Sanchez, and their defense is still one of the toughest in the league, despite Darrelle Revis’ nagging hamstring injury. While Sanchez will likely suffer a few more week-one-like fiascoes before the season is over, right now he has the sort of confidence under his belt that can elevate an average player to the ranks of the very good.
If the Jets can defeat an atypically low-scoring Minnesota Vikings team on Monday night, even a poor showing by their second-year quarterback won’t be discouraging enough to rattle him in any substantial way as the season progresses. Look for the Jets to go 10 and 6 this (regular) season, and with a little luck, maybe even 12 and 4.
By Edward L. Daley (aka DarcPrynce)
Daily Benefactor News – 4 Dead, 120 Injured In Hungarian Toxic Sludge Flood – More Articles
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4 Dead, 120 Injured In Hungarian Toxic Sludge Flood – CBS News
Hungary declared a state of emergency in three counties Tuesday after a flood of toxic red sludge from an alumina plant engulfed several towns and burned people through their clothes. One official called it “an ecological disaster” that may threaten the Danube and other key rivers.
The toll rose to four dead, six missing and at least 120 people injured after a reservoir failed Monday at the Ajkai Timfoldgyar plant in Ajka, a town 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Budapest, the capital.
Several hundred tons of plaster were being poured into the Marcal River to bind the toxic sludge and prevent it from flowing on, the National Disaster Management Directorate said.
So far, about 35.3 million cubic feet (1 million cubic meters) of sludge has leaked from the reservoir, affecting an estimated 15.4 square miles (40 square kilometers), Environmental Affairs State Secretary Zoltan Illes told the state news wire MTI.
Illes called the flood an “ecological catastrophe” and said the sludge could reach the Raba and Danube rivers. He suspended activity at the plant and ordered the company to repair the damaged reservoir.
The disaster agency said 390 residents had to be temporarily relocated and 110 were rescued from the flooded towns, including Kolontal, Devecser and Somlovasarhely. Firefighters and soldiers swept through the region Tuesday carrying out cleanup tasks with bulldozers.
The sludge, a waste product in aluminum production, contains heavy metals and is toxic if ingested. Many of the injured sustained burns as the sludge seeped through their clothes, and two faced life-threatening conditions. Two women, a young man and a 3-year-old child were killed in the flooding.
The injured were being monitored because the chemical burns caused by the sludge could take days to emerge and what may seem like superficial injuries could later cause damage to deeper tissue, Dr. Peter Jakabos of Gyor hospital, where several of the injured were taken, told state television.
In Devecser, the sludge in Tunde Erdelyi’s house was still five feet (1.5 meters) high Tuesday and rescue workers had to use an ax to cut through her living room door to let the red liquid flow out.
“When I heard the rumble of the flood, all the time I had was to jump out the window and run to higher ground,” said a tearful Erdelyi, still shocked by the events but grateful that the family rabbit and cat were safe.
Robert Kis, Erdelyi’s husband, said his uncle had been taken to Budapest by helicopter after the sludge “burned him to the bone.” The toxic flood overturned Erdelyi’s car and pushed it 30 yards (meters) to the back of the garden while her husband’s van was lifted up onto a fence.
Erdelyi, a seamstress, was hoping the flood spared the shop in town where she worked, her family’s main source of income.
In neighboring Kolontal, the town closest to the aluminum plant, 61-year old widow Erzsebet Veingartner was in her kitchen when the sludge flood hit Monday afternoon.
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12 Terror Suspects Arrested In France – Associated Press
Police in southern France arrested 12 suspects in sweeps against suspected Islamic terrorists networks on Tuesday, including three men linked to a network recruiting fighters for Afghanistan.
The roundups were part of two entirely different counterterrorism cases under investigation by French judges, and fell on the same day only by coincidence, one police official in Paris said.
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Top New Jersey Democrat Official Slaps 68-Year-Old Female GOP Staffer – Gateway Pundit
An unhinged staffer for liberal Rep. Frank Pallone slapped a 68-year-old female GOP staffer who was helping to put up campaign signs for Republican Anna C. Little. It was caught on tape.
According to Russell Cote, Little’s field operations director, the altercation took place at approximately 11:30 p.m. on First Avenue in Atlantic Highlands, not far from Little’s campaign headquarters.
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Harry Reid Trailing Sharron Angle In Nevada – The Examiner
Democrat Senator and leftwing extremist Harry Reid is falling even farther behind Republican rival Sharron Angle in the polls, according to results announced by Bill Hemmer of Fox News. This is a major break away for Angle, who now leads Senator Reid 49% to 46%.
Although the lead is within the margin of error of the polls, this is the first time that Angel has had more than a one point lead.
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Thousands Fill National Shrine For Md. Navy SEAL Funeral – Washington Examiner
More than 3,500 people attended Monday’s funeral for Navy SEAL Brendan Looney, who was later buried at Arlington National Cemetery next to his best friend and Naval Academy roommate, Travis Manion.
Described as a role model who always pushed those around him to be their best, Looney, 29, died Sept. 21 with eight other military personnel in an accidental helicopter crash in the Zabul province of Afghanistan.
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‘Repeal Obamacare’ Effort Resumes Surge – WorldNetDaily
The November election is getting closer. And so is the possibility that Obamacare – with its “death panels,” government intervention in health-care decisions and mandates for all consumers to buy the insurance the government specifies – simply will be repealed.
The effort has been assembled by U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, whose discharge petition would call for a new House vote on the proposal.
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Indonesia Flash Floods Kill 56 – Times Of India
At least 56 people were killed and 24 remain missing after flash floods in a remote region of Indonesia’s West Papua province, a disaster management official said on Tuesday.
The floods were unleashed early on Monday after torrential downpours that began late Sunday in West Papua’s Teluk Wondama district. Kisianto said that 81 people were seriously injured.
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Life In Prison For Would-Be Times Square Bomber – New York Times
Faisal Shahzad, who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a sport utility vehicle carrying a homemade bomb in May in Times Square, thick with Saturday visitors, was sentenced on Tuesday morning to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Remaining defiant, and smirking as the sentence was read, he told the court: “Brace yourselves, because the war with Muslims has just begun.”
Only a Leftist could actually be this stupid!
And boy, does Donald Douglas tend to make the stupidbots stick their feet in their mouths!
That’s right. Because it’s all just some crazed right-wing propaganda scam. Just ask Tintin, the blogging asshat at Sadly No!
Yeah, because THESE people are definitely NOT Communists!
New to the blogroll
Y’all might have noted that I have added and subtracted from our blogroll. I deleted some, maybe 15-20 sites that either are no longer going or that I just do not read anymore. I have added some new faces though. Please check them out.
I am always looking for new blogs to add, and hey, if you want to be included, let me or Ed know.
Charlie Crist a man with no conscience
Charlie is the perfect example of what American voters are fed up with. He is a guy who will say ANYTHING, tell any lie, change any position, to get elected. He has no interest in serving his constituents, he is, instead all about power!
Political sleeze at its worst. Charlie Crist was interviewed by the Palm Beach Post editorial board. Crist went for low blows against his republican opponent Marco Rubio calling him a “radical right” politician that has the “fringe views” of those in the tea parties. He also called Rubio a “Jeb Bush Republican” in dire hopes that the Bush label might work in this election cycle against Rubio, and curry favor to his campaign.
So, he condemns Rubio as a “Jeb Bush Republican. Yet, he labeled himself, not that long ago, a “Jeb Bush Republican”.
Charlie, come on, can’t you even summon the integrity to stick to one lie? But at least you did get ONE THING right.
To the Palm Beach Post‘s credit, they did not let Crist get away with labeling Rubio a “Jeb Bush Republican”
Crist hasn’t become a full-throated Bush basher.
“He did a good job,” Crist said of Bush during his Post interview.
Afterward, Crist was asked about his former “Jeb Bush Republican” self-description.
“Yeah, well, that’s changed,” Crist said. “I think Jeb and I both agree on that. I’m not even a Republican.”
Yes, Charlie, that is right! Fact is you have shown yourself to be nothing but a bag of lies.
And Now, DEEP THOUGHTS By Former CNN Anchor Rick Sanchez
“When you think of a volcano, you think of Hawaii and long words like that. You don’t think of Iceland. You think it’s too cold to have a volcano there.” – Rick Sanchez
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White House At Confab With Muslim Brotherhood – Human Events
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) held its “Islam and Muslims in America” conference last week in Chicago where a controversial White House appointee rubbed elbows with Muslim Brotherhood front organizations-including unindicted co-conspirators from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the largest terrorist funding trial in U.S. history, the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial.
The OIC host entity is comprised of the kings and heads of state of all Islamic countries (the OIC numbers its membership at 57 states by including the non-existent state of Palestine).
According to the “about us” section of the organization’s website, the OIC speaks for the Muslim world and the ummah, which is the worldwide body of Muslim believers.
The website says: “The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is the second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations which has membership of 57 states spread over four continents. The Organization is the collective voice of the Muslim world and ensuring to safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony among various people of the world…
“The Organization is composed of the following main bodies: The Islamic Summit, composed of Kings and Heads of State and Government of Member States, is the supreme authority of the Organization. It convenes once every three years to deliberate, take policy decisions and provide guidance on all issues pertaining to the realization of the objectives and consider other issues of concern to the Member States and the Ummah.”
The OIC’s claim to speak for “the collective voice of the Muslim world” carries great weight considering its membership. The OIC conference in Chicago-with the participation of the White House-is working with Muslim Brotherhood front groups to promote Sharia law and its governance in America through the ummah (body of religious believers).
Yet the OIC is not an Islamic religious organization but a political entity exercising political power and territorial claims through all of its members as well as the ummah.
The White House representative at the OIC conference, Dalia Mogahed, is a big supporter of Sharia law. From the London Telegraph:
“Miss Mogahed, appointed to the President’s Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was ‘oversimplified’ and the majority of women around the world associate it with ‘gender justice.’
“The White House adviser made the remarks on a London-based TV discussion programme hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the extremist Hizb ut Tahrir party.
“The group believes in the non-violent destruction of Western democracy and the creation of an Islamic state under Sharia Law across the world.
“Miss Mogahed appeared alongside Hizb ut Tahrir’s national women’s officer, Nazreen Nawaz.
“During the 45-minute discussion, on the Islam Channel programme Muslimah Dilemma earlier this week, the two members of the group made repeated attacks on secular ‘man-made law’ and the West’s ‘lethal cocktail of liberty and capitalism.’
“They called for Sharia Law to be ‘the source of legislation and said that women should not be ‘permitted to hold a position of leadership in government.’”
Mogahed participated in a panel at the conference with Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
Wahhaj, imam of the Masjid Al-Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn, N.Y., also sits on the board of directors of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an unindicted co-conspirator in the HLF trial.
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Federal Court Ruling: CAIR Must Answer To Charges By Five Former Clients – Big Peace
A federal judge in the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia has denied a motion to dismiss complaints by five former clients of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
CAIR is a Muslim organization previously named as a Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas front group by the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office in the federal criminal trial and conviction of a terrorist funding cell.
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Climate Film Depicts Children Assassinated For Not Reducing Carbon Footprint – InfoWars
A new climate change infomercial released by a prominent global warming activist organization depicts children being assassinated for not reducing their carbon footprint.
The young AGW skeptics are grotesquely blown up with innards and blood splattering everywhere, a frightening reminder of the fact that the environmental agenda is merely a veil for a hideous religion of death.
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DNC Uses F-Bomb Review To Promote Upcoming Obama Rally – Fox News
The Democratic National Committee is promoting an upcoming rally for President Obama by sending out a blog that touts the musical act preceding him as “f—ing awesome.”
A DNC spokesman blasted out an e-mail alert Monday that included a post from the Philadelphia City Paper’s website. The paper reported that ‘The Roots’ would be performing at Obama’s Oct. 10 rally in Philadelphia.
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Reporter Assaulted At Leftist Rally – Human Events
A liberal protester at the ‘One Nation Working Together’ march physically assaulted a Human Events reporter who was videotaping Rep. Charlie Rangel (D.-N.Y) at the event.
The reporter, Emily Miller, was first hit from behind while she was taping Rangel as he glad-handed supporters in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Miss Miller is heard on the video saying, “Please don’t hit me.”
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High School Students Admit Getting Class Credit For Attending ‘One Nation’ Rally – First Things
Not only were thousands of supporters given free rides to the ‘One Nation’ rally, leftist teachers at High Schools for Math, Science and Engineering were giving students class credits to attend.
High School kids are forced to attend the one Nation rally in order to graduate. Student Service Learning hours are required by many state governments to graduate High School, so kids must attend these rallies.
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$69M In California Welfare Money Spent Out Of State – NewsMeat
Nearly $69 million in welfare money meant to help California’s neediest families was spent or withdrawn at locations such as Hawaii, Las Vegas casinos and cruise ships from Miami.
The finding is based on data compiled since 2007 by the CA. Department of Social Services. It showed that the biggest chunk of out-of-state money – $11.8M – was spent at casinos or withdrawn from ATMs in Las Vegas.
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Democrat Jane Harman Profits From Firm Outsourcing California Jobs Overseas – American Spectator
California Democrat Rep. Jane Harman’s family business is laying off American workers – including engineering employees in California – and shifting jobs overseas.
A letter from the human resources director of one Harman company, obtained exclusively by The American Spectator, describes a “permanent” layoff of dozens of California workers that went into effect last week.
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Grandmother Attempts To Avoid DUI By Bribing Cop With A Sandwich – UPI
A police officer in Florida says a grandmother tried to avoid a drunken driving arrest by offering to make him a grilled cheese sandwich.
Elsie Wright O’Conner, 65, was arrested Thursday night and charged with driving under the influence. In his report, Marion County Deputy Calvin Batts said he responded to a call about an erratic driver and pulled O’Conner over.
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Brazilian Clown Receives More Votes Than Any Other Congressional Candidate – Yahoo News
Voters the world over complain about having clowns for politicians, but Brazilians embraced the idea on Sunday by sending a real one to Congress with more votes than any other candidate.
Francisco Everardo Oliveira Silva, better known by his clown name Tiririca, received more than 1.3 million votes in Sao Paulo state in Brazil’s presidential and congressional elections.
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Police Sell Off Stolen Knickers – Orange News
Cash-squeezed police forces are selling off ‘secondhand’ panties and bras in a bid to boost their coffers. Just weeks before forces expect to be hit by £2.4bn budget cuts, many have taken to punting stolen and lost items.
They are sold on the Bumblebee police auction site if the rightful owners cannot be found within three months, reports the Daily Telegraph.
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Man Jailed After Claiming Drugs Found In His Anus Were Not His – Weekly Vice
Raymond Stanley Roberts, 25, was jailed Wednesday after he was allegedly found with cocaine in his anus that he claimed was “not his”.
According to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, deputies pulled over Roberts at 8:40 a.m. because he was exceeding the speed limit. When officers approached the vehicle, they smelled a strong odor of what was believed to be marijuana.
If Obama needs a new Jobs Czar……………
I think he should ask this guy viaDoug Powers, at Michelle’s place. And btw, consider yourself warned that this has some language, and LOTS of common sense!
*VIDEO* Nullification: How To Resist Federal Tyranny In The 21st Century – By Thomas Woods
MLB Playoffs set!
Ah yes, I love postseason baseball here is the schedule! Oh, and GO RANGERS!
The American League playoffs became official Sunday afternoon when the Yankees dropped their finale to the Red Sox, thereby pushing the defending World Series champions into the Wild Card spot, with the Rays winning the AL East.
That means Wednesday’s openers of the AL Division Series will have the Rays hosting the AL West champion Rangers and the AL Central champion Twins playing their first playoff game at Target Field against the Yankees, seeking their 28th World Series title.
The Phillies had the best record in the National League this season at 97-65, and the NL top seed was given the opportunity to pick between the eight-day and seven-day Division Series — they chose the eight-day series that begins Wednesday. That means they will open their attempt at becoming the first team to win National League pennants in three consecutive years since the 1944 Cardinals by hosting the Reds on Wednesday.
The Giants, as the NL West champ, and the Braves, as the Wild Card entrant, will meet in the other NLDS, beginning Thursday at AT&T Park.
My picks? In the NL Phils and Braves In the AL Twins and Rangers
Everything you could possibly ever need, or want to know about the 10-2 Moonbat Orgy of Stupidity
It was a march comprised of various Leftists, terror sympathizers, anti-Semites, union thugs, whiners, far left activists, Marxists, Communists, Socialists, miscreants, malcontents, and worst of all Ed Schulz. here are some links to help you peruse the LeftFest!
Robert of American and Proud compares and contrasts Moonbats and Real Americans
Donald Douglas looks at the media’s coverage of the Moonbatpalooza. Bias anyone?
BlackFive highlights the neatness of Moonbats
Bluegrass Pundit shows us that yes, this was a Marxist event
Cold Fury has two words, EPIC FAIL!
Common Cents looks at Progressives in DC
The Confederate Yankee notes how MSNBS tried Ed Schulz’s fat arse!
Da Tech Guy notes the vast gap between 9-12 and One Nation
Doug Powers has fun at the expense of the “Constitutional experts” at the rally
Doug Ross: Tolerance=Violence for Leftists!
Flopping Aces asks if Ed Schulz might be suffering from Cranial Rectum Syndrome
Gateway Pundit: SAD!
Government Mess weighs in
Ed Morrissey looks at the Left’s longing for “unity”
William Jacobson examines the NAACP’s Selective Outrage Syndrome
Michelle: Left-A-Palooza
Moonbattery: COMMIES!
Nice Deb nutshells it for us
William Teach has a nice take of whether size matters
Proof Positive has a laugh!
Mary Sue: Chock full of Nuts!
Saber: Progressive? My ass!
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British Conservatives Clamp Down On Nanny State – The Sun
Barmy health and safety decisions could be given the chop, under plans being considered by the Government.
There was a steady rise of “nonsense” rulings made by town councils under the Labour government, according to Tory peer Lord Young.
They created a culture of fear, which led to events such as the 200-year-old tradition of down-hill cheese-rolling in Brockworth, Glous, being cancelled for safety reasons.
Other barmy health and safety measures introduced in the last decade include children being banned from playing conkers at school and a restaurant not giving out toothpicks for fear of injuring customers.
Lord Young has conducted a review into our health and safety culture, which is due to be published later this month.
Among the measures he wants considered are town halls being sued for wrongly banning events.
Emergency workers and teachers are also set to be freed from rules which say someone must be held to account for everyday mishaps and accidents.
The review also says there should be a crackdown on advertising which encourages people to make personal injury claims on a no-win, no-fee basis.
Red tape that can prevent children from going on school outings should also be scrapped.
Lord Young was shocked by some of the examples of health and safety madness he had uncovered while conducting the review.
He said: “It makes you wonder what sort of world we have come to.
“It has gone to such extremes. What I have seen everywhere is a complete lack of common sense.
“People have been living in an alternative universe.
“Whatever the loss is. I want officials to think twice and make sure they have the authority.
“This sort of nonsense has come from the last government trying to create a nanny state and trying to keep everybody in cotton wool.
“Frankly if I want to do something stupid and break my leg or neck, that’s up to me. I don’t need a council to tell me not to be an idiot.
“I can be an idiot all by myself.
“Schools are not allowing pupils to go on days out because they are scared they will be liable if an accident happens.
“That’s nonsense, and that’s not going to continue, unless a teacher is really negligent. In the ordinary course of events, accidents happen.”
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Poor Leftists Speak To Empty Field At ‘One Nation’ Rally – First Things
The wacky dishonest left wants you to believe that their crowd matched the Glenn Beck rally last month. What a crock. Only a couple of hundred stragglers hung out for the One Nation rally which was held on Saturday in Washington DC.
By the time the rally was winding down only a few dozen people were left to cheer the speakers. The union buses had already packed up and left.
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John Bolton ‘Very Seriously’ Considering 2012 Presidential Run – Daily Caller
On the subject of electoral politics and personal ambition, Bolton has been playing a bit coy with the media in recent weeks, refusing to rule out a potential presidential bid in 2012.
This morning he waded further into the subject, saying he’s “very seriously” contemplating a White House run in 2012 and that he’s been consulting with campaign operatives to discuss feasibility and logistics.
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U.S. Stimulus To Miami-Dade Creates 209 Jobs At $1.2 Million Each – Miami Today
The $254 million Miami-Dade has received to date in federal stimulus money has resulted in 209 new jobs for county residents. While this number is up from the 49 jobs reported eight months ago.
These numbers are the result of a resolution passed by county commissioners in March, requiring staff to estimate the number of jobs generated by the county’s economic stimulus plan program.
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Indonesia Train Crash Kills 36, Injures Many More – CNN
A crash involving two trains in central Indonesia Saturday killed 36 people and injured 26, officials said.
The crash occurred when a train traveling from Semarang to the capital of Jakarta was struck from behind by another train headed to Jakarta from Surabaya in East Java, according to a transport ministry spokesman. Four coaches have been lifted off the track, and one remains.
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Court Rejects Atheists’ Claim That National Motto Establishes Religion – WorldNetDaily
A court decision in Wisconsin has turned back an attack on the inclusion of the national motto “In God We Trust” and the Pledge of Allegiance at the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge William M. Conley dismissed a complaint brought against Stephen Ayers, the acting Architect of the Capitol, over the words engraved in the center’s walls.
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Armed Gang Kidnaps 22 Mexican Tourists In Acapulco – BBC News
An armed gang has kidnapped 22 Mexican tourists in the resort city of Acapulco, the prosecutor’s office in Guerrero said.
The office said the group, from the neighbouring state of Michoacan, was abducted on Thursday. The tourists were looking for a hotel when they were seized by gunmen. Acapulco is popular with visitors but it is also the scene of a violent turf war between rival drug cartels.
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8 Tax Cuts Set To Expire In 2011 – San Francisco Chronicle
In 2001 and 2003, President Bush enacted a series of tax cuts that lowered income taxes for just about everyone – not only the rich. These tax cuts will expire on December 31, 2010.
So far, although Congress has come up with plans to renew the tax cuts, it has not actually taken action. Here’s a look at what will happen if Congress allows the Bush tax cuts to expire.
*VIDEOS* Mark Levin Tears Gloria Allred To Shreds During Interview
Mark Levin Interviews Gloria Allred, And It’s Even Better Than You Could’ve Imagined – Daily Caller
Wow. In the unlikely event that anybody has ever wanted to trade places with Gloria Allred, just play this for them.
So this is all happening because Meg Whitman’s housekeeper wasn’t reimbursed for her mileage. That makes sense! And if you have any questions about it that Allred doesn’t want to answer, you don’t like housekeepers.
This is blowing up in Allred’s face so badly, her plastic surgeon just bought his own island.
P.S. William Jacobson: “Gloria Allred is doing more to drive illegal immigrants underground and to target Latinos for racial profiling than anything the State of Arizona has even thought of doing.”
*VIDEO* Rush Limbaugh Appearing On Family Guy
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Pentagon Losing Control Of Bombs To China Monopoly – Businessweek
A senior manager at a company that churns out metals routinely used in U.S. smart bombs pauses in mid-sentence when his phone rings: a Wall Street stockbroker looking for information. He makes a note to have an assistant call back – someone who is fluent in English, not just Chinese.
“It’s a seller’s market now,” says Bai Baosheng, 43, puffing a cigarette in his office in Baotou, China, where his company sells bags of powder containing a metallic element known as neodymium, vital in tiny magnets that direct the fins of bombs dropped by U.S. Air Force jets in Afghanistan.
A generation after Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping made mastering neodymium and 16 other elements known as rare earths a priority, China dominates the market, with far-reaching effects ranging from global trade friction to U.S. job losses and threats to national security.
The U.S. handed its main economic rival power to dictate access to these building blocks of modern weapons by ceding control of prices and supply, according to dozens of interviews with industry executives, congressional leaders and policy experts. China in July reduced rare-earth export quotas for the rest of the year by 72 percent, sending prices up more than sixfold for some elements.
Military officials are only now conducting an inventory of where and how U.S. suppliers use the obscure but essential substances – including those that silence the whoosh of Boeing Co. helicopter blades, direct Raytheon Co. missiles and target guns in General Dynamics Corp. tanks.
“The Pentagon has been incredibly negligent,” said Peter Leitner, who was a senior strategic trade adviser at the Defense Department from 1986 to 2007. “There are plenty of early warning signs that China will use its leverage over these materials as a weapon.”
China may already be flexing its muscles amid a diplomatic spat with its East Asian neighbor Japan. China last week imposed a “de facto” ban on exports to Japan of the metals used in liquid crystal displays and laptop computers, Japanese Economy Minister Banri Kaieda said Sept. 28. That followed Japan’s detention of a Chinese fishing boat captain whose ship collided with two Japanese Coast Guard vessels. Japan later released the man.
No such ban exists, China’s Ministry of Commerce spokesman Chen Rongkai said.
“What it does, clearly, is bring a new factor into the consideration of supply of critical materials,” said Dudley Kingsnorth, director of Industrial Minerals Co. of Australia, a forecaster in Perth.
The U.S. Congress’s investigative arm, the Government Accountability Office, in April warned of “vulnerabilities” for the military because of the lack of domestic rare-earth supplies. The House of Representatives Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing in October, the same month a Pentagon report on how to secure future supplies of the metals is due.
“The department has long recognized that rare-earth elements are important raw material inputs for many defense systems and that many companies in our base have expressed concern regarding the future availability of the refined products of these elements,” Brett Lambert, director of the Pentagon’s Office of Industrial Policy, said.
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On Wedneday Barack Obama told a group of Iowans that they would not lose their health care due to Obamacare. Dana Perino reacted to this blatant “mistruth” on Greta Van Susteren’s show. See video
On Thursday McDonalds announced that 1.2 million people will likely lose their health care. The Examiner reported: Coverage of 1.2 million people with mini-policies is under threat of health care reform.
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Obamacare To Worsen Doctor Shortage – Reuters
The U.S. healthcare reform law will worsen a shortage of physicians as millions of newly insured patients seek care, the Association of American Medical Colleges said on Thursday.
The AAMC estimates shortages will be 50% worse in 2015 than forecast. “While previous projections showed a baseline shortage of 39,600 doctors in 2015, current estimates bring that number closer to 63,000.”
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Ecuador’s President Freed From ‘Police Siege’ – Sky News
Ecuadorean troops have stormed a hospital in the capital city of Quito to rescue President Rafael Correa from renegade police officers who had blocked him inside the facility.
TV images showed heavy gunfire before Mr Correa was taken out of the building to the country’s presidential palace. Other footage showed one member of the security forces lying in the street.
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Sheriff: Mexican Lake Pirates Shoot U.S. Man – CBS News
An American tourist was shot in the back of the head in Mexican waters on Thursday after being ambushed by armed boaters, Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez said.
Sheriff Gonzalez identified the victim as David Michael Hartley, 30. Hartley and his wife were riding personal watercrafts back from Mexico on Falcon Lake when about six gunmen approached in two boats.
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Bronx Art Teacher Blabs About Exploits As Stripper, Hooker At Open-Mic Events – New York Daily News
A Bronx art teacher – removed from the classroom after writing about her past as a stripper and a hooker – has been blabbing about her sex industry exploits at videotaped public open-mic events.
Melissa Petro, 30, recently revealed her dark side at the Bowery Poetry Club. “My memoir that I’m working on now is about my experiences in the sex industry starting when I was 19 years old,” Petro said.
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Terrorists Destroy 27 NATO Oil Tankers In Southern Pakistan – Daily Mail
Terrorists in southern Pakistan have destroyed at least 27 tankers carrying fuel for foreign troops in Afghanistan. The incident came the day after Pakistan blocked supply routes to its neighbour in an apparent protest at a Nato air raid.
The convoy of tankers attacked on Friday is believed to have been heading to a second crossing in the southwest of the country which was still open.
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Rain Pounds NC, Bringing Flood And Wind Worries – Sun News
A deluge outstripping an earlier rainfall record set by Hurricane Floyd soaked the southeastern coast of North Carolina on Thursday, prompting worries about flooding and tornadoes.
The nearly 21 inches collected in Wilmington since rain started falling on Sunday topped Hurricane Floyd’s five-day mark of 19 inches set in 1999, the National Weather Service said.
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Busty Heart Shows How 46H Breasts Are Deadly Weapons – APP
Mega-boobed model Busty Heart once again showed off her talents on Germany’s version of “Britain’s Got Talent” this week by using her breasts to perform deadly karate techniques.
The talent show guest, whose real name is Susan Sykes, used her 46H boobs to smash planks of wood, crush beer cans and annihilate melons on the show called “Das Supertalent,” the Croatian Times reports.
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Police: Judge Hands Out Condoms Hidden In Acorns – San Francisco Chronicle
Police said a district judge from Intercourse, Pa., hid condoms inside acorns and handed them out to women in the state Capitol complex last week. A summary charge of disorderly conduct was filed Tuesday against Judge Isaac H. Stoltzfus.
The citation said the 58-year-old jurist gave the acorns to unsuspecting women, who were offended when they discovered the contents.
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Boston Firefighters Get Oxygen Masks For Pets – Reuters
The Boston Fire Department on Wednesday received a donation of small oxygen masks designed for pets, which will become standard equipment on every fire truck in the city.
The 60 masks to fit small snouts were a gift from the WellPet pet food company and the Massachusetts Veterinary Medical Association. “Smoke doesn’t discriminate,” said Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald.
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Spanish Fathers Entitled To Breastfeeding Leave – London Telegraph
The new legislation means that both the mother and father are allowed to leave work for an hour during the day or reduce their working day by half an hour during the first nine months following the birth of a child.
The European Union Court of Justice ruled on Thursday that the Spanish law caused an “unjustified discrimination on grounds of sex” because fathers do not have the same rights as mothers.
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