Monthly Archives: November 2010
Moral Retardation on display
Alternate post title? When Joy Behar is the second most disturbed person on a video.
There is nothing for me to add, just listen to this twisted human being’s inane ramblings!
Your Daley Douchebags today are…….
…..these two pieces of trash! Via Doug Powers, who knows that these two have EXTRA special reservations in, well, Hell!
Even if this is a hoax, these people are subhuman gravy buckets:
The Arnolds are having a baby. Unless the public votes to have the child aborted. Meet the couple behind Birthornot.com, where “you can vote and choose whether we abort or keep our unborn child.”
Pete and Alisha Arnold, both 30, both tech professionals, live in the Minneapolis suburb of Apple Valley and have been married for 10 years. Since September, they’ve blogged about their expected child at birthornot.com, posting health updates about the mother and the fetus (which will be 17 weeks-old tomorrow), and ultrasound pictures and video. But at the top of the blog is a poll hosted by PollDaddy.com. The question: “Should We Give Birth or Have an Abortion?” “Give Birth” has 46 percent of the vote at the moment, with “Have an Abortion” at 54 percent. The poll closes on December 7th.
Oh, and those voting abort? You are no better!
And you Marxist Moron of the Day is…………
None other than Jay Rockefeller, who just loves him some censorship.
Dear President Obama, take some advice from a soldier on how to fight terrorism
Via American and Proud. Colonel, now Congressman West gets it. Too bad the current administration clearly does not.
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Napolitano: The Ball’s In My Court Now – Ann Coulter
After the 9/11 attacks, when 19 Muslim terrorists – 15 from Saudi Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates and one each from Egypt and Lebanon, 14 with “al” in their names – took over commercial aircraft with box-cutters, the government banned sharp objects from planes.
Airport security began confiscating little old ladies’ knitting needles and breaking the mouse-sized nail files off of passengers’ nail clippers. Surprisingly, no decrease in the number of hijacking attempts by little old ladies and manicurists was noted.
After another Muslim terrorist, Richard Reid, AKA Tariq Raja, AKA Abdel Rahim, AKA Abdul Raheem, AKA Abu Ibrahim, AKA Sammy Cohen (which was only his eHarmony alias), tried to blow up a commercial aircraft with explosive-laden sneakers, the government prohibited more than 3 ounces of liquid from being carried on airplanes.
All passengers were required to take off their shoes for special security screening, which did not thwart a single terrorist attack, but made airport security checkpoints a lot smellier.
After Muslim terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab of Nigeria tried to detonate explosive material in his underwear over Detroit last Christmas, the government began requiring nude body scans at airports.
The machines, which cannot detect chemicals or plastic, would not have caught the diaper bomber. So, again, no hijackers were stopped, but being able to see passengers in the nude boosted the morale of airport security personnel by 22 percent.
After explosives were inserted in two ink cartridges and placed on a plane headed to the United States from the Muslim nation of Yemen, the government banned printer cartridges from all domestic flights, resulting in no improvement in airport security, while requiring ink cartridges who traveled to take Amtrak.
So when the next Muslim terrorist, probably named Abdul Ahmed al Shehri, places explosives in his anal cavity, what is the government going to require then? (If you’re looking for a good investment opportunity, might I suggest rubber gloves?)
Last year, a Muslim attempting to murder Prince Mohammed bin Nayef of Saudi Arabia blew himself up with a bomb stuck up his anus. Fortunately, this didn’t happen near an airport, or Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano would now be requiring full body cavity searches to fly.
You can’t stop a terrorist attack by searching for the explosives any more than you can stop crime by taking away everyone’s guns.
In the 1970s, liberal ideas on crime swept the country. Gun owners were treated like criminals while actual criminals were coddled and released. If only we treated criminals with dignity and respect and showed them the system was fair, liberals told us, criminals would reward us with good behavior.
As is now well known, crime exploded in the ’70s. It took decades of conservative law-and-order policies to get crime back to near-1950s levels.
It’s similarly pointless to treat all Americans as if they’re potential terrorists while trying to find and confiscate anything that could be used as a weapon. We can’t search all passengers for explosives because Muslims stick explosives up their anuses. (Talk about jobs Americans just won’t do.)
You have to search for the terrorists.
Fortunately, that’s the one advantage we have in this war. In a lucky stroke, all the terrorists are swarthy, foreign-born, Muslim males. (Think: “Guys Madonna would date.”)
This would give us a major leg up – if only the country weren’t insane.
Is there any question that we’d be looking for Swedes if the 9/11 terrorists, the shoe bomber, the diaper bomber and the printer cartridge bomber had all been Swedish? If the Irish Republican Army were bombing our planes, wouldn’t we be looking for people with Irish surnames and an Irish appearance?
Only because the terrorists are Muslims do we pretend not to notice who keeps trying to blow up our planes.
It would be harder to find Swedes or Irish boarding commercial airliners in the U.S. than Muslims. Swarthy foreigners stand out like a sore thumb in an airport. The American domestic flying population is remarkably homogenous. An airport is not a Sears department store.
Only about a third of all Americans flew even once in the last year, and only 7 percent took more than four round trips. The majority of airline passengers are middle-aged, middle-class, white businessmen with about a million frequent flier miles. I’d wager that more than 90 percent of domestic air travelers were born in the U.S.
If the government did nothing more than have a five-minute conversation with the one passenger per flight born outside the U.S., you’d need 90 percent fewer Transportation Security Administration agents and airlines would be far safer than they are now.
Instead, Napolitano just keeps ordering more invasive searches of all passengers, without exception – except members of Congress and government officials, who get VIP treatment, so they never know what she’s doing to the rest of us.
Two weeks ago, Napolitano ordered TSA agents to start groping women’s breasts and all passengers’ genitalia – children, nuns and rape victims, everyone except government officials and members of Congress. (Which is weird because Dennis Kucinich would like it.)
“Please have your genitalia out and ready to be fondled when you approach the security checkpoint.”
This is the punishment for refusing the nude body scan for passengers who don’t want to appear nude on live video or are worried about the skin cancer risk of the machines – risks acknowledged by the very Johns Hopkins study touted by the government.
It is becoming increasingly obvious that we need to keep the government as far away from airport security as possible, and not only because Janet Napolitano did her graduate work in North Korea.
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Obama Caves On Civilian Trial For KSM – Andrew C. McCarthy
Let’s review the state of play, shall we? Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama blasted the Bush administration’s decision to treat al-Qaeda terrorists as enemy combatants and detain them without trial at Guantanamo Bay.
Now, two years into his presidency, Obama has decided to treat al-Qaeda terrorists as enemy combatants and detain them without trial at Guantanamo Bay. The media is reporting that the administration will hold Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other 9/11 plotter indefinitely, granting them neither a civilian nor a military trial.
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How To Control Congress – Walter Williams
Let’s assume that each of our 535 congressmen cares about the destructive impact of deficits and debt on the future of our country. Regardless of party, congressmen face enormous lobbying pressures and awards to spend more and little or no pressure and awards to spend less.
The nation’s founders would be horrified by today’s congressional spending that consumes 25 percent of our GDP. Contrast that to the years 1787 to the 1920s when federal government spending never exceeded 4 percent of our GDP except in wartime. Today, federal, state and local government consumes 43 percent of what Americans produce each year.
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Natural Is Not Always Better – John Stossel
It’s not what we don’t know that causes us trouble. It’s what we know that isn’t so. Whichever famous writer said that (it’s been attributed to many), what he said carries truth. What are some of the things we know that aren’t so? Here’s one: Grass-fed “free-range” beef cattle are better for the environment – and for you – than factory-farmed corn-fed cattle.
It does seem to make sense that the steer raised in the more “natural” environment would be better for the world. Michael Pollan, the prolific food author and activist, wrote in The New York Times that “what was once a solar-powered ruminant (grass-fed steer) (has been turned) into the very last thing we need: another fossil-fuel machine.” How so?
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End Deficit Reduction Commissions – Thomas Sowell
Another deficit-reduction commission has now made its recommendations. My own recommendation for dealing with deficits would include stopping the appointment of deficit-reduction commissions. It is not the amount of money that these commissions cost that is the issue. It is the escape hatch that they provide for big-spending politicians.
Do you go ahead and spend the rent money and the food money – and then ask somebody else to tell you how to escape the consequences? If President Obama or the Congress were serious about keeping the deficit down, they could have had this commission’s recommendations before they spent hundreds of billions of dollars, handing out goodies hither and yon to their pet constituencies.
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Where’s My ObamaCare Waiver? – Michelle Malkin
More than one million Americans have escaped the clutches of the Democrats’ destructive federal health care law. Lucky them. Their employers and labor representatives wisely applied for Obamacare waivers earlier this fall and got out while the getting was good.
Now, it’s time for Congress to create a permanent escape hatch for the rest of us. Repeal is the ultimate waiver. As you’ll recall, President Obama promised repeatedly that if Americans liked their health insurance plan, they could keep it. “Nobody is talking about taking that away from you,” the cajoler-in-chief assured.
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Dead Souls – Victor Davis Hanson
Millions of us shuffle around, sighing that most of what we hear pounded into our brains is either banal or as untrue as it is dangerous to identify it as such. So we ignore it, we the dead souls who live in the world of unmentionable thoughts.
Here is a daily inanity: “The great majority of Muslims are moderates,” and its ancillary “Only a tiny percentage of Muslims are terrorists.” Both are true, but they have value as admonishments only if there were a widespread Western effort to demonize Islam and persecute Muslims, or we knew that mass destruction required millions of conventional troops. But neither is true.
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Bomb Case Blows Up In Feds’ Face – New York Post
In a stunning setback to President Obama’s approach to trying terrorism suspects, the first Guantanamo detainee to be prosecuted in civilian court nearly walked free when a jury found him not guilty on all but one of 285 terror-related counts yesterday.
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian, beat weighty charges such as conspiracy to kill US nationals and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in the 1998 attacks on US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, which claimed 224 lives.
He was convicted only on Count 5, a minor charge of conspiracy to damage or destroy US property with explosives.
But that count includes a subsection that asks jurors if the defendant’s conduct caused death of persons other than his co-conspirators – and the jury said “yes.”
That lone guilty verdict is enough to send the terrorist to jail for at least 20 years under federal sentencing guidelines, and maybe for the rest of his life.
Ghailani, 36, smiled during the eight minutes it took to read all the charges.
“We respect the jury’s verdict and are pleased that Ahmed Ghailani now faces a minimum of 20 years in prison and a potential life sentence,” the Justice Department said in a statement.
The failure to pin more serious convictions on Ghailani is likely to be seen as a setback for Obama’s plans to close Guantanamo and try 174 terrorism suspects in civilian courts.
The detainees at Guantanamo include Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
While the feds obtained a conviction, it was not on the more serious charges they needed to set a precedent for future prosecutions.
The major problem was prosecutors’ inability to establish how much Ghailani knew about the attacks or his involvement in the bombings.
Defense attorneys were elated at the jury’s conclusion, and said they plan to appeal the single conviction.
“This verdict is a reaffirmation that this nation’s judicial system is the greatest ever devised. It is truly a system of laws and not men,” said defense lawyer Peter Quijano.
Ghailani was transferred from Guantanamo Bay to New York in June 2009.
Following several tense days of deliberations, prosecutors were lucky to get even the one conviction, after seeing their case nearly implode in a mistrial.
The panel, which deliberated for a week, reached its decision two days after one juror asked to be excused, saying she was being “attacked” for her dissenting opinion.
But the jurors went back to work and reached the single unanimous verdict.
“You have reason to feel proud,” said Judge Lewis Kaplan. “You have all done your duty. Our nation is a better place. I and everyone else have been struck by the way you did your duty. You reviewed the evidence with great care.”
The government accused Ghailani of buying seven gas cylinders used in the bombs and the truck used to transport them.
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DA Promises To Prosecute Overly Touchy Pat Downs – KGO
The San Mateo district attorney’s office has a warning for all TSA personnel at SFO – anyone inappropriately touching a passenger during a security pat down will be prosecuted.
“The case would be reviewed and if we could prove the elements of it, that it was inappropriately done with a sexual or lewd intent, that person would be prosecuted,” incoming San Mateo DA Steve Wagstaffe said.
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Ohio Woman Outraged By TSA Pat-Down: ‘She Sexually Assaulted Me’ – The Blaze
An Ohio woman traveling with her infant son says a pat-down by a TSA screener went too far. “She sexually assaulted me,” Erin Chase complained Wednesday of the intrusive search.
“She needs to lose her job,” she said of the TSA employee. Chase’s complaint is just one of thousands pouring in from frustrated air passengers over the TSA’s recently implemented security checks.
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China Hijacked Internet Traffic From Federal Sites – Information Week
A state-owned Chinese telecommunications firm “hijacked” Internet traffic in April, affecting traffic from U.S. government domains and raising serious implications for Internet safety.
For about 18 minutes on April 8, 2010, China Telecom diverted U.S. and other foreign Internet traffic through servers in China, according to a report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
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Government Made $125 Billion In Improper Payments Last Year – Washington Post
The federal government’s improper payments totaled about $125 billion in fiscal 2010 as unemployment insurance and Medicaid payments increased, officials said Tuesday.
The total improper payment amount climbed $15 billion from the previous year. The payments included about 89,000 checks sent to dead or incarcerated people as part of the economic stimulus program.
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Student Body President In CA Is Illegal Alien – Daily Caller
The popular student body president at California State University, Fresno has publicly revealed a personal detail he long sought to keep secret: He is an illegal immigrant.
Pedro Ramirez, 22, previously told campus administrators in confidence that he was concerned about going public with his immigration status after winning the top post in student government.
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Prosecutor Wants WikiLeaks Boss Arrested For Rape – WNYW
A Swedish prosecutor said Thursday she had requested the arrest of Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, to face charges of rape and sexual molestation.
“I request the District Court of Stockholm to detain Mr. Assange in his absence, suspected of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion,” Swedish director of prosecutions Marianne Ny said in a statement.
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Physics Breakthrough As CERN Scientists Capture Antimatter Atoms For First Time – Daily Mail
In an astonishing breakthrough, a team of British and international physicists were able to ‘trap’ 38 atoms of anti-hydrogen in a laboratory for a fraction of a second.
While the experiment is unlikely to lead to the warp engines, anti-matter drives or the faster than light travel of Star Trek, it could shed light on the nature and origins of the Universe.
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Cops: Woman Posed As Doctor To Do Breast Exams – CBS News
Police arrested a woman in Idaho’s capital city after they say she impersonated a plastic surgeon and conducted breast exams on at least two women in local bars.
Kristina B. Ross was arrested and jailed on accusations of unlicensed practice of medicine. It all started when Boise police were called to a downtown medical office by employees of a licensed plastic surgeon.
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Argentinian Politician Slaps Colleague In Spat – Sky News
A disagreement over the budget erupted into fisticuffs when Graciela Camano punched opposition politician Carlos Kunkel in the mouth.
Two TV news channels were broadcasting the session in the capital Buenos Aires when Ms Camano got out of her chair to confront Mr Kunkel. The two exchanged words, then Ms Camano slapped Mr Kunkel in the mouth and walked out of the chamber.
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Bristol Palin’s Dancing With The Stars Performance Leads To 15-Hour Police Standoff – Weekly Vice
Steven N. Cowan, a 66-year-old Verona man was jailed Tuesday after he allegedly shot his television and created a 15-hour standoff with police, all because Bristol Palin had not yet been voted off Dancing With The Stars.
Cowan and his wife were watching the show when he became irate because Bristol Palin was still on the show, and he did not think that she was a good dancer.
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Mum Sparks Bomb Alert To Stop Wedding – Orange News
A mother told Russian airport officials her daughter was a suicide bomber in a desperate bid to stop her flying away to get married.
Police scrambled to intercept the unsuspecting bride-to-be as her plane was prevented from taking off from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport. But when authorities realised the tip-off was bogus they traced the anonymous call back to the woman’s mother.
Big Brother finds newest threat to mankind
Raw foods! Simply unbelievable! EITHER WE ARE FREE OR WE ARE NOT!
Raw milk raids are happening all over the United States. The Food and Drug Administration warns that raw milk consumption can cause health problems, but a growing community of raw foods enthusiasts are ignoring government recommendations and claiming that they are getting tastier, more nutritious food by going raw.
Reason.tv visited Rawesome to examine the circumstances of the raid and discovered that this particular raw foods case stretches across county lines and involves at least five separate government agencies, despite the fact that not a single member of Rawesome has complained or been harmed by the raw foods. In fact, members have to sign a contract stating that they understand and accept the risks of consuming raw foods before they are allowed to step inside.
If members of a private club sign a waiver stating that they want to drink a certain type of milk, why is the government getting involved? As Jarel Winterhawk, a manager at Rawesome, puts it, “This is America. How are you going to tell me what I can and cannot eat?”
This is very simple. We have, as a nation, sadly accepted a premise that the government has a right to protect us from ourselves. This is where acceptance of such a premise leads. Once you allow government to control things about your personal life they have no right to control, the flood gates of tyranny open!
Crazy Conservative Palin supporter, freaks out and
Oh wait, nevermind! Clifton reports it was a Left Winger
JS Online: A rural Dane County town supervisor believes Bristol Palin should not be on “Dancing With The Stars.”
He demanded his wife get his pistols to emphasize his point.
The result: A 15-hour standoff Monday and Tuesday involving hostage negotiators, a dog team and other law enforcement authorities on one side and the Town of Vermont man on the other.
The only casualty: The man’s television.
Dane County prosecutors have charged Steven N. Cowan with second-degree reckless endangerment in the incident that made his wife worry that he would shoot her, according to a criminal complaint.[...]
As Bristol Palin danced on the screen, Cowan raged.
“The (expletive) politics,” he yelled, according to the complaint. Cowan, a Town of Vermont supervisor, was upset that a political figure’s daughter was on the show when he didn’t consider her a good dancer, his wife told authorities.[...]
Cowan had tracked down a single-shot shotgun in the house, he “slapped” shells down onto a TV tray, loaded a round and took out the TV, the complaint says. [MORE]
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Protesters In Haiti Attack UN Peacekeepers In Cholera Backlash – The Guardian
Protesters in Haiti have attacked UN peacekeepers over a suspicion that Nepalese soldiers brought the cholera epidemic which has swept the country and killed 1,000 people.
Crowds in two northern towns hurled rocks, set up burning barricades and blocked roads to protest against the foreign troops and the government’s response to the crisis, rattling authorities and the UN in the runup to a 28 November election.
Cap-Haitien, the country’s second city, was this morning cut off from the rest of Haiti after a day of rioting shut its roads and airport and left more than a dozen people wounded. Clashes in the town of Hinche injured seven Nepalese peacekeepers, according to local radio.
The flare-ups followed mounting anger and fear over a disease which many blame on effluent from a base used by Nepalese troops in the Artibonite valley, where the outbreak began three weeks ago.
The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention found that the strain, which has infected more than 15,000 people and reached all 10 departments, resembled one from south Asia. Haiti’s first epidemic in living memory began in the valley a week after the Nepalese arrived.
UN officials have admitted problems with the base’s sanitation but denied its soldiers brought the disease, which is spread by contaminated faeces. No official investigation into the epidemic’s origin has been launched despite appeals from Haitian leaders and foreign epidemiologists.
“In Haiti most of the population believes it came from the Nepalese and that the UN will do its best to hide it,” said Prospery Raymond, country director of the UK-based NGO Christian Aid. “If it is confirmed to be from them this will be damaging for the UN and their peacekeeping all over the world.”
The outbreak has flooded clinics and hospitals with vomiting, diarrhea-stricken patients. Experts say more than 200,000 could become infected in coming months.
With no previous knowlege of cholera many Haitians are unsure how to avoid contagion. Experts say washing hands with soap, especially after going to the toilet, is the best prevention. Treatment – usually an IV drip and rehydration – is relatively simple and fast and saves the vast majority of those infected.
Even so, emergency teams are worried. “If it keeps accelerating we will not be able to keep up,” said Francois Servranckx, spokesperson for Doctors Without Borders, a non-governmental organisation which has treated 10,000 patients at improvised tent clinics.
Donors credit the UN peacekeeping force, known as Minustah, with keeping the Caribbean nation relatively stable in recent years despite food price riots, hurricanes and January’s earthquake. Many Haitians however brand the blue helmets an expensive and useless occupation force.
Haitians are also critical of their government for letting the disease spread from the Artibonite valley to cities where millions live in slums, rubble and tents. “Now it’s here and they’re wringing their hands. Not good enough!” said Alfred Roberts, a father of two in the capital Port-au-Prince.
The outbreak has put a question mark over whether presidential and legislative elections, already troubled by logistical and political problems, will go ahead on schedule later this month.
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Government Employees Owe Billions In Delinquent Taxes – CNBC
Deficit cutters struggling to make ends meet in Washington are eyeballing an unusual pot of potential revenue: back taxes owed to the government by federal employees themselves.
According to an IRS study, those employees and federal retirees owed a staggering $3.3 billion in delinquent tax payments to the government. The agency with the largest back-tax bill? The US Postal Service.
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Rangel Convicted On 11 Counts Of Rule Violations – The Hill
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), once one of the most powerful members of the House, was convicted Tuesday on eleven counts of violating ethics rules and now faces punishment.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the House ethics committee, announced the decision late Tuesday morning following a public trial and nearly six hours of deliberations.
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TSA Now Putting Hands Down Fliers’ Pants – Prison Planet
Going through airport security this past weekend, radio host Owen JJ Stone, known as “OhDoctah,” related how he was told that the rules had been changed and was offered a private screening.
When he asked what the procedure entailed, the TSA agent responded, “I have to go in your waistband, I have to put my hand down your pants,” after which he did precisely that. Stone chose to conduct the search in public.
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TSA To Investigate Body Scan Resister – San Diego Union-Tribune
The Transportation Security Administration has opened an investigation targeting John Tyner, who left Lindbergh Field under duress on Saturday morning after refusing to undertake a full body scan.
Tyner recorded the encounter on his cell phone and later posted it to his personal blog, along with an extensive account of the incident. The blog went viral, attracting hundreds of thousands of readers.
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Deval Patrick To Push For In-State Tuition For Illegals – Boston Herald
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick on Tuesday vowed to adopt the rest of an advisory panel’s immigration reform recommendations, including pushing for in-state tuition for illegal immigrant students at state colleges, during his second term.
The Democrat made the announcement to cheers at the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition’s Thanksgiving luncheon.
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Bond Market Defies Fed – Wall Street Journal
Bucking the Fed’s efforts to push interest rates lower, investors are selling off U.S. government debt, driving rates in many cases to their highest levels in more than three months.
The Federal Reserve’s $600 billion program to buy Treasury bonds began late last week and is kicking into high gear this week, with the central bank buying up tens of billions of dollars of debt.
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Obama’s Prospects For Russia Arms Pact Fade – Daily Caller
An agreement between the U.S. and Russia to slash their nuclear arsenals was in danger of collapse after an influential Republican senator said Tuesday it should not be voted on this year.
With a terse statement, Senator Jon Kyl dealt a major setback to President Barack Obama’s efforts to improve ties with Russia and to his broader strategy for reducing nuclear arms worldwide.
Ah, Westboro Bastards Church gets some more Karma!
God bless the people of Oklahoma.
To quote Nelson Muntz… Ha,ha!
Members of a Kansas church that protests at military funerals may have found themselves in the wrong town Saturday.
Shortly after finishing their protest at the funeral of Army Sgt. Jason James McCluskey of McAlester, a half-dozen protesters from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., headed to their minivan, only to discover that its front and rear passenger-side tires had been slashed.
To make matters worse, as their minivan slowly hobbled away on two flat tires, with a McAlester police car following behind, the protesters were unable to find anyone in town who would repair their vehicle, according to police.
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Euro Under Siege As Now Portugal Hits Panic Button – Montreal Gazette
The euro is facing an unprecedented crisis after another country indicated on Monday night that it was at a “high risk” of requiring an international bail-out.
Portugal became the latest European nation to admit it was on the brink of seeking help from Brussels after Ireland confirmed it had begun preliminary talks over its debt problems.
Greece also disclosed that its economic problems are even worse than previously thought.
Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, raised the spectre of the euro collapsing as she warned: “If the euro fails, then Europe fails.”
European finance ministers will meet in Brussels on Tuesday to begin discussions over a new European stability plan that is expected to result in billions of pounds being offered to Ireland, Portugal and possibly even Spain.
David Cameron said he was thankful that Britain had not joined the euro, but indicated his displeasure that taxpayers in this country face a pounds 7?billion liability in any bail-out package.
The veteran Conservative MP Peter Tapsell warned that the “potential knock-on effect” of the Irish crisis “could pose as great a threat to the world economy as did Lehman Brothers, AIG and Goldman Sachs in September 2008″.
Ireland has resisted growing international pressure to accept EU financial assistance amid concerns that this would lead to a surrender of political and economic sovereignty.
However, the German government is expected to signal that Ireland may have to accept a pounds 77?billion bail-out, along with a loss of economic and political independence, as the price of preserving the euro.
Mrs Merkel said that the single currency was “the glue that holds Europe together”.
Her words came as fellow eurozone members Portugal and Spain rounded on Ireland. They fear that international concerns over the euro will lead to so-called market contagion spreading to them.
Fernando Teixeira dos Santos, the Portuguese finance minister, said: “There is a risk of contagion. The risk is high because we are not facing only a national problem. It is the problems of Greece, Portugal and Ireland. This has to do with the eurozone and the stability of the eurozone, and that is why contagion in this framework is more likely.”
Mr Teixeira dos Santos added: “I would not want to lecture the Irish government on that. I want to believe they will decide to do what is most appropriate together for Ireland and the euro. I want to believe they have the vision to take the right decision.”
He later sought to clarify his comments, insisting that Portugal was not preparing to seek assistance.
Greece had earlier added to the growing uncertainty when it said it would breach the conditions for the bail-out it was granted by the EU earlier in the year. The Greek government said its debt problem was far worse than previous dire forecasts.
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California Supreme Court Upholds In-State Tuition For Illegals – Reuters
The California Supreme Court upheld a state law on Monday allowing illegal immigrants who attend high school in California for three years and graduate to pay lower in-state tuition rates at state colleges.
The ruling reverses a lower-court decision siding with opponents of the law who said it unfairly favors illegal aliens over U.S. citizens who live outside California and are charged much higher tuition rates.
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Ethics Panel Accepts Case Against Rangel – Financial Times
Charles Rangel, the New York Democratic congressman accused of violating ethics rules, looked likely to face a guilty verdict after a House panel accepted a prosecutor’s case against him on Monday.
The panel retired to deliberate on Mr Rangel’s fate, but analysts said the fact that it had accepted all the evidence presented by the ethics committee’s lawyers meant a guilty finding looked very likely.
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Open-Borders Group ‘One America Votes’ Operated Illegal Political Committee – Michelle Malkin
Before the midterm election, the open-borders group (funded by Soros, SEIU, and the usual progressive suspects) sent out illegal alien canvassers to drum up Democrat votes in Washington state.
The story isn’t over. My friend and Washington state blogger/watchdog Stefan Sharkansky scoured campaign finance records and found that OAV apparently failed to file as a registered political committee.
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Doctors Brace For Possible 23% Cut In Medicare Payments – USA Today
Breast cancer surgeon Kathryn Wagner has posted a warning in her waiting room about a different sort of risk to patients’ health: She’ll stop taking new Medicare cases if the U.S. Congress allows looming cuts in doctors’ pay to go through.
The potential cuts have raised alarms that real damage to Medicare could result if the lame-duck Congress fails to act by Dec. 1.
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Scores Killed, Injured In Building Collapse In New Delhi – VOA
At least 64 people were killed, and nearly 80 injured, as a five-story building collapsed in New Delhi, India. Relatives crowded around the building as workers raced to rescue those trapped in its debris.
The building caved in Monday night. But rescue efforts were slow because ambulances and heavy equipment needed to clear the rubble could not easily navigate the narrow alleys in the congested neighborhood.
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N.J. Lawmakers Pushing To Stop Airport Security Scans – APP
State lawmakers on Monday sharply criticized new fullbody scanning devices and pat-downs now in place at airports as they introduced resolutions urging federal officials to reverse the changes.
The opposition is part of a growing chorus of criticism that the tactics, which the TSA says can help prevent terrorist attacks that use nonmetallic explosives, are intrusive and potentially dangerous.
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8 More Arrested In Prince George’s County – Washington Post
Nine people, including three Prince George’s County cops, were arrested Monday on charges involving drugs, guns, and black-market alcohol and cigarettes as authorities ratcheted up a corruption probe.
The nine suspects were arrested three days after County Executive Jack B. Johnson (D) and his wife were led from their home in handcuffs, accused of evidence-tampering in a probe of sweetheart land deals.
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Burglar Caught After Sending Penis Photos To Contacts On Phones He Stole – Stuff
A serial burglar was in a “drug-induced stupor” when he photographed his penis with mobile phones he stole and sent the images to the owners’ contacts, a court has been told.
Shane Anthony Willis, 33, has been jailed for a minimum four-and-a-half years for a string of burglaries in inner Melbourne and regional Victoria between January and April this year.
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Man Burns Down Own Home Because His Wife Didn’t Clean – WTSP
Bay County Sheriff’s deputies report that a fire that broke out Wednesday night in Callaway Heights was set by one of the residents who was mad that his wife hadn’t cleaned up.
Deputies allege that Rachel Dorch claims her husband, Michael Dorch, became irate that she hadn’t cleaned the house, and threw a match onto the couple’s bed, saying “There’s your house,” before leaving the premises.
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Heart Attack Cafe Offers Free Food To Fat People – Herald Sun
A restaurant in the US has been criticized for offering free food to customers weighing over 159kg. The Heart Attack Grill in Arizona has launched a new offer where anyone who weighs over 159kg can dine for free at the famous eatery.
The restaurant employs waitresses dressed as nurses, with food such as the Quadruple Bypass Burger and Flatline Fries on the menu.
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Man Forced To Eat His Own Beard – Orange News
A man has told how two ‘friends’ cut off his beard and forced him to eat it in a fight over a lawnmower. Harvey Westmoreland told police that James Hill and Troy Holt had invited him and his brother to their house.
“They called and wanted me to come around there and when I got there, I realized they were already drunk,” he said. Holt apparently offered to buy Westmoreland’s lawnmower for $250.
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What does cause Islamaphobia?
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