It's now looking like a lot of prominent Republicans, ranging from party leaders to big-name pundits that we usually expect to make outrageous partisan attacks, are doing something they'd been previously neglecting: Definitively cracking down on the Birthers, rather than playing to the conspiracy theorists allowing this stuff to continue festering.
Source:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/republicans-stepping-away-from-the-birthers.php
"Good news! The Mexican FCC just canceled directive NOM-019SCT3-2001! Sure, I'll forgive you if you have no idea what this means (I didn't either at first).
The directive was a 2001 piece of law banning the use of mobile phones on commercial planes.""
Source:
http://www.gadling.com/2009/07/24/mexican-authorities-to-allow-mobile-phone-calls-on-commerical-fl/
This evening, the House passed a resolution sponsored by Rep.
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) that commemorates Hawaiis 50th anniversary as a U.S. state by a vote of 378-0. The resolution also contains this provision: Whereas the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, was born in Hawaii,
Source:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/27/obama-resolution-hawaii-378-0/
The calls to audit the Federal Reserve have come fast and furious in the last few weeks.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is continuing to push back against a House bill that would give the Comptroller General the power to audit the central bank.
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/30/fed-audit-supported-by-75_n_247765.html
"Of course Canada has longer life expectancy than the U.S. -- we have 10 times more people."
His health care vision and political clout on the line, President Barack Obama is using virtually every tool available in a publicity campaign to pressure Congress for swift legislative approval and to rally a public wary of the ongoing Washington tussle over his top domestic priority.
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090729/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_health_care_overhaul
Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a revised $85 billion budget Tuesday that he said contained "the good, the bad and the ugly," including additional cuts to child welfare programs, health care for the poor and AIDS prevention efforts.
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/28/schwarzenegger-expected-t_n_246100.html
Paul Stanley, Tennessee State Senator, Quits After Affair With 22-Year-Old Intern | Yawn
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/28/paul-stanley-tennessee-st_n_246641.html
Holmes' "brain tumour" was actually a Rathke's Cleft Cyst on her pituitary gland.
To quote an American source, the John Wayne Cancer Center, "Rathke's Cleft Cysts are not true tumors or neoplasms; instead they are benign cysts."
Source:
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/reality-check-shona-holmes-holmes-brain-tu
On July 28, 2009, Rep.
Virginia Foxx (R-NC) stated on the floor of the House that the Republicans' health care reform legislation, unlike that of the Democrats, would not put seniors "to death." Besides being a reprehensible accusation, her words are blatantly false.
A woman from Chicago is being sued for $50,000 over a complaint she posted on Twitter.
Check out the tweet and decide for yourself if the suit is grounded.
Reader "ValentineHumphrey" has a part-time job with a company that gets a 25% discount from AT&T.
It sounded like a good deal until she found out there was actually a fee for signing up for the discount. What?
Source:
http://consumerist.com/5323897/att-charges-you-a-fee-for-getting-a-discount
Despite their denials, influential Democratic Sens.
Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd were told from the start they were getting VIP mortgage discounts from one of the nation's largest lenders, the official who handled their loans has told Congress in secret testimony.WTF THIS SHIT HAS TO STOP,DODD SHOULD QUIT
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090727/ap_on_go_co/us_senators_mortgages_1
On last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart got arch-conservative Bill Kristol to admit that the government can provide better healthcare than the private sector.
Source:
http://www.indecisionforever.com/2009/07/28/jon-stewarts-extended-bill-kristol-interview/
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved the nomination of federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor to become the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, setting up a final confirmation vote by the Senate.
Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/28/sotomayor.panel.vote/index.html
France is experiencing its own blush of youthful prudishness as an entire generation of younger French women says no, merci to the summer tradition of topless sunbathing.
Source:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1912685,00.html?iid=digg_share
"Nothing will assuage them," the press secretary added. "But there are 10,000 more important issues for people in this country to discuss."
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/27/gibbs-obama-will-never-sa_n_245632.html
To see real piracy, look at bio-pirates, people & corporations who receive patents on common life-forms from the developing world (abetted by the US Patent and Trademark Office) and use their power to tax people for growing, consuming and exporting the plants they've lived with for centuries.
One such injustice is ending with US Patent # 5,894,079.
Source:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/27/what-real-piracy-loo.html
Here's a shocker: According to a tipster, American Apparel's pervy madman CEO, Dov Charney, is demanding the firing of employees he deems unattractive and thus detrimental to the "AA aesthetic," as he feels they may be hurting his bottom line.
Source:
http://gawker.com/5323472/we-predict-more-lawsuits-in-dov-charneys-future
Police match the prints to those of Charlie Samuel, held in Burk's slaying.
He has a history of violence and drugs. Police give a timeline of events that allegedly led up to the girl's death.
Source:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lily-burk28-2009jul28,0,123041.story
The Wayne County Star in western New York has found that offensive remarks on its Web site came from Internet protocol addresses at the Department of Homeland Security.
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/nyregion/25immig.html
Black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. told the Boston Globe in an e-mail late Friday that he spoke to President Obama and said he would meet with Cambridge Police Sgt.
James Crowley.
In the absence of evidence, Obama was very quick to believe the charge of racism and condemned the police for "acting stupidly".
Sergeant James M. Crowleys police union issued a statement saying it had reviewed the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr.and expressed full and unqualified support for Crowley's actions.
In a sworn affidavit, a Tennessee state investigator has said Paul Stanley admitted to having a "sexual relationship" with a 22-year-old female intern working in his office, and taking nude pictures of her in "provocative poses" in his apartment.The girl's boyfriend tried to blackmail him. 1994, Stanley's first wife, Judy Martin, filed for a restra
The National Republican Congressional Committee has added another Minnesota representative to its list of most vulnerable incumbents for 2010: Rep.
Michele Bachmann
Source:
http://minnesotaindependent.com/40096/bachmann-paulsen-most-vulnerable-2010
Police on Friday found about 150 dead dogs packed in freezers in the basement of a Michigan house littered with feces and trash where more than 110 live dogs, mostly Chihuahuas, were rescued this week.
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090724/ap_on_re_us/us_dog_house_mich
Just when you thought the story of the U.S. housing crisis couldn't get any uglier, it has.
The subprime disaster hasn't stopped the unbridled greed that created this mess. It has simply forced those looking for an angle to find new ways to get rich quick. Mortgage fraud has doubled since 2007 and are keeping the housing market down.
Is the wacky birther movement set to go mainstream? The daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney told CNNs Larry King that she understood why members of the birther movement are upset at President Barack Obama.
Source:
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/22/liz-cheney-speaks-out-in-defense-of-birther-movement/
The violence and the videos from the world's most frightening border got you down? Here's how Obama can build a nation " and a re-election campaign " as the war in Afghanistan begins again.
Source:
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/war-room/afghanistan-war-future-under-obama-072309?src=digg
Anti-reform conservative AMA doctor sends racist picture of Obama as an African witch doctor.
In a lengthy opening segment, Jon Stewart took on "birthers" last night, mocking their internal leadership and the media figures and politicians who support them.
If you don't know by now "birthers" think that our president is not an American citizen.
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/23/jon-stewart-eviscerates-t_n_243383.html
The political battle over health-care reform is waged largely with numbers, and few number-crunchers have shaped the debate as much as the Lewin Group, a consulting firm whose research has been widely cited by opponents of a public insurance option.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/22/AR2009072202216.html?referrer=digg
"Marijuana is dangerous and has no medicinal benefit," Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske said in downtown Fresno while discussing a multiagency effort to eradicate marijuana in eastern Fresno County, even though his boss, President Obama, campaigned on a pledge to stop bullying medical marijuana in California.
A penny stock newsletter service with a near zero refund rate - certainly looks worth taking a look!
Source:
http://r.ecommended.com/product/12900/pennystockprophetcom
In Utah, a modern-day caveman has lived for the better part of a decade on zero dollars a day.
Source:
http://men.style.com/details/features/landing?id=content_9817&
Wall Street's problem isn't greed so much as an obsessive short-term focus.
What's worse, says author Karen Ho, is how Wall Street's perspective has become America's too
Source:
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1912085,00.html?iid=digg_share
The theory that the Republican Party of 2009 has any interest in public policy was destroyed over the past 24 hours.
Sensing that the momentum for health care reform has slowed, one GOP talking head spoke about the biggest domestic reform in decades using the most brazen partisan and cynical terms:
Source:
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/21/gop_we_dont_do_policy/
"Run afoul of the conservative commentator, and feel the wrath of his avid Army.
Bill O'Reilly got a lot wrong. So what? He's entitled; nobody's perfect. But he also did something far harder to excuse. He invented, for his loyal viewers who have invested in him their trust as a man who gives it straight, with "no spin," a villain, someone to hate."
Honduras' interim government Tuesday ordered Venezuelan diplomats to leave the country as the international community threatened new sanctions on the Central American nation if negotiations fail to resolve the crisis.
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090721/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_coup_296
Obama and Defense Secretary Gates "are as serious as a heart attack" about ending the F-22.
But some members of Congress have pledged to keep buying this needless warplane no matter who opposes it or how much it costs. The same members of Congress respon for buying the F-22 and other military hardware took over $1.3 million in campaign donations..
Source:
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSN1641924820090716
U.S. oil company Chevron said Monday that it expects to lose a case which charges the companys Texaco branch with polluting Ecuadors rain forest with oil-contaminated water for nearly two decades.
Source:
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/20/chevron-not-going-to-pay-for-rain-forrest-contamination/
A religous court in Malaysia has sentenced a tearful Singaporean Muslim model to six strokes of the cane after she drank beer in a nightclub.
Prime Minister Taro Aso is preparing to dissolve Japan's lower house ahead of national elections on 30 August.
Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona will get a new judge at a trial where he faces racial profiling charges.
Arpaio, a foe in the Latino community of Phoenix and surrounding areas, has been in the national spotlight recently after federal investigators began a probe into wide spread claims of racial profiling...
Source:
http://newsjunkiepost.com/2009/07/20/americas-toughest-sheriff-entangled-in-web-of-legal-problems/
NEW YORK (Reuters) - CIT Group Inc has clinched a deal for $3 billion of emergency financing from bondholders, keeping the struggling lender out of bankruptcy, and the pact may be announced Monday, a person close to the matter said. The money could...
Source:
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1444850020090720?rpc=64
More than 60 people were injured in a crash involving more than 200 cars in Germany.
The accident happened on the A2 autobahn between Hanover and Peine.
It's not surprising that the much-ballyhooed "economic stimulus" hasn't done much stimulating.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071901762.html?referrer=digg
Five years after the Queens rubbish remover took home a mysterious barrel from a SoHo apartment, he opened it to find dozens of ancient Mexican artifacts. The mix of bowls, figurines and jugs were made between 300 B.C. and 500 A.D., some by Mayans.
The measure would make Oakland the first city in the United States to have a business tax category for marijuana merchants.
Source:
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2009/07/chronic_city_to_tax_pot_or_not.php
Cronkite's best moment was when he did exactly that which today's journalists insist they must never do.
Source:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/07/18/cronkite/index.html
In this interview with Politico, Ron Paul criticizes both Obama on the left AND Palin to the right.
He also talks about whether he will run for President again in 2012.
Source:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25109_Page2.html
Earlier today we mentioned that Digg.com appears to have changed the behavior of its short URLs so they no longer go to the source of the story for logged-out
Hardly a day goes by without some piece of news about newspapers trying to devise fresh ways to get consumers to pay for all the free content they're currently pushing out over the web.
Source:
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/07/17/journalism-online-would-be-newspaper-savior-gathers-steam/
Walter Cronkite, an iconic CBS News journalist who defined the role of anchorman for a generation of television viewers, has died.
Source:
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/walter-cronkite-iconic-anchorman-dies/
Crocs were born of the economic boom.
Then the boom times went bust, and Crocs went to the back of the closet. The company had expanded to meet demand, but financially pressed customers cut back. Last year the company lost $185.1 million, slashed roughly 2,000 jobs and scrambled to find money to pay down millions in debt.
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/15/AR2009071503672_pf.html
Security forces fired tear gas and plainclothes militiamen armed with batons charged at crowds of protesters gathered near Tehran University after a Friday prayer sermon delivered by the cleric and opposition supporter Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, his first appearance at the nation's weekly keynote sermon since before the election.
Source:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-prayer18-2009jul18,0,6890660.story
http://CampaignForLiberty.com Congressman Ron Paul questions Federal Reserve Governor Elizabeth Duke at the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology hearing on July 16, 2009 entitled, "Regulatory Restructuring: Safeguarding Consumer Protection and the Role of the Federal Reserve."
At age 66 she had twins, becoming the world's oldest new mom " and raising questions about maternity so late in life.
Now she is dead at age 69, leaving behind boys not yet 3.
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090715/ap_on_re_eu/eu_spain_oldest_mom
California could see a nearly $1.4 billion per year increase in state revenues were it to legalize marijuana, the state Board of Equalization says in an analysis of pending legislation to to do that.
Source:
http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitolalertlatest/023910.html
In a blow to the notion of meritocratic government, applicants to the Justice Department's internships and Honors Program were widely rejected if their resumes included the names of liberal groups on a departmental blacklist, the Washington Blade reports.
Source:
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/07/report-bush-admin-blacklisted-liberal-groups/
Beck goes off on this lady who dared to contradict him.
He verbally abuses the caller as it was his wife or children...and then, at precisely 3:30 in the audio, it sounds like someone pinched his nuts. Astounding.
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/15/caller-reduces-glenn-beck_n_233846.html
Beck goes off on this lady who dared to contradict him.
He verbally abuses the caller as it was his wife or children...and then, at precisely 3:30 in the audio, it sounds like someone pinched his nuts. Astounding.
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/15/caller-reduces-glenn-beck_n_233846.html
Beck goes off on this lady who dared to contradict him.
He verbally abuses the caller as it was his wife or children...and then, at precisely 3:30 in the audio, it sounds like someone pinched his nuts. Astounding.
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/15/caller-reduces-glenn-beck_n_233846.html
Beck goes off on this lady who dared to contradict him.
He verbally abuses the caller as it was his wife or children...and then, at precisely 3:30 in the audio, it sounds like someone pinched his nuts. Astounding.
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/15/caller-reduces-glenn-beck_n_233846.html
Reports that "virginity tests" were conducted on would-be-brides for a mass wedding has prompted India's federal woman rights watchdog to launch an investigation.
Source:
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/14/india.virginity/
Some companies fail by honest error.
Far more interesting, however, are the stories of companies that were driven into bankruptcy maliciously, through fraud, corruption, or scandal. Here are 12 of the most infamous such bankruptcies.
Source:
http://www.businesspundit.com/12-of-the-most-infamous-bankruptcies/
Two women members of a fanatical religious cult are accused of starving a toddler to death after the boy refused to say 'Amen' after meals.
Source:
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/boy-starved-for-not-saying-amen/story-e6freuy9-1225750303740
President Obama, Governor Schwarzenegger and other esteemed politicos may routinely distance themselves from the potential windfall that would accompany legalizing and taxing cannabis, but amid California's latest and deepest financial crisis the state Board of Equalization has tagged a whopping revenue figure to such a notion.
Source:
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/a-clockwork-orange/taxing-pot-would-generate-14-b/
"Cook submitted a formal written request to Human Resources Command-St.
Louis on ***May 8, 2009*** volunteering to serve one year in Afghanistan with Special Operations Command, U.S. Army Central Command, beginning July 15, 2009. The soldier's orders were issued on June 9, Quon said." Cook is a disgrace to the uniform.
Source:
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/story/777472.html
2009 is 50% over, but has already left a decades worth of brand carnage in its wake.
In May alone, 376 companies per day sought protection from creditors in bankruptcy court, according to Aacers court records.
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http://www.businesspundit.com/20-brands-products-that-died-in-2009/
WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - A sweeping overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system to be announced on Tuesday in the U.S.
House of Representatives will include a surtax on millionaires of 5.4 percent, congressional sources said. The tax rate is...
Source:
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSWEN055320090714?rpc=64
The program was designed after the Sept. 11 attacks, but the plans were never carried out before Leon E.
Panetta, the C.I.A. director, canceled it last month.
The news that Metropolitan police officers patrolling the nation's capital may soon carry GPS tracking equipment has been overshadowed by shock revelations that uniform-mounted video cams have "caught fire" in use.
Source:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/06/police_headcam_fireballs/
The Department of Homeland Security recently issued a chilling report: Americans, it said, can expect an upsurge in "rightwing extremism" from White nationalists, militias, and groups like the Ku Klux Klan.
The Klan, of course, has had a hand in some of the nation's most infamous acts of racial terror and murder.
Source:
http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/25151/life-goes-inside-todays-kkk
A double-decker sports plane has crashed into a car after plunging from the air.
The pilot was performing aerial acrobatic manoeuvres and struck the family car, which was parked on a road near the airfield.
A former U.S. intelligence agent said in a report published Monday that terror suspect Abu Zubaydah was subjected to simulated drowning months before the Bush administrations Department of Justice had written memos approving the use of waterboarding.
The claim deals a major blow to the Bush administration's defenses of torture
Source:
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/13/ex-cia-agent-suspect-waterboarded-before-doj-memos-approved/
A former U.S. intelligence agent said in a report published Monday that terror suspect Abu Zubaydah was subjected to simulated drowning months before the Bush administrations Department of Justice had written memos approving the use of waterboarding.
The claim deals a major blow to the Bush administration's defenses of torture
Source:
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/13/ex-cia-agent-suspect-waterboarded-before-doj-memos-approved/
A former U.S. intelligence agent said in a report published Monday that terror suspect Abu Zubaydah was subjected to simulated drowning months before the Bush administrations Department of Justice had written memos approving the use of waterboarding.
The claim deals a major blow to the Bush administration's defenses of torture
Source:
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/13/ex-cia-agent-suspect-waterboarded-before-doj-memos-approved/
The U.S. military in Iraq says two soldiers have been charged with filming and photographing female members of their unit while they were taking showers and then distributing the video and images.
Source:
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/07/two-charged-with-filming-female-soldiers-showering/
John Conyers who famously opposed impeachment of George W.
Bush now says Bush committed an "impeachable offense" by personally approving surveillance.
Source:
http://pubrecord.org/law/1010-top-democrat-says-bush-broke-the-law-by-authoirzing-surveillance.html
John Conyers who famously opposed impeachment of George W.
Bush now says Bush committed an "impeachable offense" by personally approving surveillance.
Source:
http://pubrecord.org/law/1010-top-democrat-says-bush-broke-the-law-by-authoirzing-surveillance.html
The Washington post says "An American flag flown upside down as a protest in a northern Wisconsin village was seized by police before a Fourth of July parade and the businessman who flew it - an Iraq war veteran - claims the officers trespassed and stole his property. "
Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/10/AR2009071002576.html?referrer=reddit
Second Amendment zealots are not letting the bad economy stop them from buying guns.
According to a news article published on Saturday by The Telegraph/UK, gun shops across the U.S. are having a heyday selling rifles and pistols ...
Source:
http://newsjunkiepost.com/2009/07/12/gun-sales-on-the-rise-as-nra-warns-members-of-days-to-come/
Audra Shay, the Young Republican leader accused of endorsing racism on Facebook, was elected head of the group for GOP members under 40 this afternoon.
Source:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-11/young-gop-chooses-hate/
"I'm not surprised that psychiatrist David Gratzer testified this week that the Canadian healthcare system is just awful and how the poor deprived Canadians are simply pouring across the border...
Oddly enough, he forgot to mention that the Canadian government was not only sending them across the border, they were picking up the check."
Source:
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/not-ready-dennis-kucinich-demolishes
The C.I.A. was said to have withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on orders from the former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agencys director, Leon E.
Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/us/politics/12intel.html
A 55-year-old man who beat his daughter over the head with a lump of concrete when she refused to go to his Mormon church "does not understand what all the fuss is about," Hastings District Court has heard.
Uluia Muliipu appeared in court after pleading guilty to one count of assault with intent to injure.
Source:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10583411
A well-orchestrated series of twin bomb explosions rocked the Tal Afar city located in Nineveh province in Northern Iraq on Thursday morning.
The Nineveh Military Operations Command revealed the current death count standing at 43 with 65 injured.
Source:
http://www.dailynewsjunction.com/2009/07/iraq-dual-suicide-bomb-assaults-consume-43-lives/
THIS week's cyber attacks on South Korea are believed to have been mounted from 16 different countries
Source:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,25760776-1702,00.html
Britain's nuclear stockpile could be reduced as part of a global initiative to persuade Iran and North Korea to give up the arms race, Gordon Brown said on Thursday.
Developed and developing nations agree global temperatures should not rise more than 2C above 1900 levels, a G8 declaration says.
More than 75,000 houses have faced severe damage in six districts of Yunnan with nearly 30 people afflicted with grave injuries.
In the Yaoan district of Yunnan, close to 328 are injured with one dead. The epicentre of the quake was on a region that has a rather sparse populace in the east-northeast area of Dali city than spans 98kms.
Source:
http://www.dailynewsjunction.com/2009/07/china-earthquake-causes-mass-mayhem/
Inching through debris and choking heat, police forensic officers comb the wreckage of one of the 7/7 tube trains in this exclusive picture.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D.-Md.) laughed on Tuesday at the idea that members of Congress should pledge to actually read the entirety of a health-care reform bill before voting on it.
Source:
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=50677
As the United States Congress battles over the costs, benefits, and especially, definitions of its own national renewable energy standard, coal-giant China announced a plan to get 15 percent of its energy capacity from wind, solar and other renewable energy sources by 2020
Source:
http://www.celsias.com/article/china-15-renewable-energy-target-ups-ante-us/
A woman being driven to Rhode Islands mental hospital was struck by a bus transporting prisoners after she jumped out of a taxi and ran across the highway.
The woman ran across the highway without her shirt on and police say she was struck by a bus carrying prisoners, presumably to court in Providence.
Source:
http://www.turnto10.com/jar/news/local/article/topless_woman_hit_on_i-95/19431/
The FBI today released its study of 2008 bank robberies nationwide.
Worst time to be in a bank branch: Tuesday from 9-11 a.m. That's when 1,803 robberies occurred; next worse was Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., when 1,629 happened.
Source:
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2009/07/bank_robberies_texas.php
Three television stations in San Francisco and Los Angeles have rejected an ad promoting the legalization and taxation of marijuana, set to run on consenting stations and cable networks in the state beginning Wednesday.
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/08/california-stations-rejec_n_227442.html
Senator DeMint brought Audit the Fed to the floor, Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska raised a "point of order" to prevent a vote.
DeMint directly challenged Senate leadership by pointing out the other GAO audits contained in the bill Senate president was forced to agree with Senator DeMint
Up to 26% of U.S. homeowners who stop paying their mortgage may be doing so intentionally, not because they can't make the payments but because they don't want to put money into a house that's worth less than what they owe.
Source:
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1908494,00.html
Fake numbers about his brother being more popular than Obama, almost calling the president a socialist, saying Bobby Jindal is "the real deal." THIS is what we've been waiting for the supposed "future of the Republican party" to come out of hiding and say? Spare me.
Source:
http://www.esquire.com/features/jeb-bush-interview-0809?src=digg
Three Muslim extremists were today jailed for an arson attack on a publisher after discovering he was going to produce a book about the Prophet Mohammed and his child bride.
Martin Rynja had the door to his home in Lonsdale Square, Islington, doused in diesel and set ablaze days before the UK publication of'The Jewel of Medina.
Since when is an Air Force flyover of a Christian-oriented festival in Idaho considered free exercise of religion? I seriously doubt Jesus would approve of a religion he founded making use of war machines.
And yet Gretchen Carlson and Patrick Mahoney are calling the proper function of separation of church and state "anti-Christian." Go figure.
Source:
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/fox-report-suggests-pentagon-policy
In the wake of Governor Palin stepping down from her job, new allegations have surfaced today in Alaska charging Palin with additional violations of the Alaska Executive Ethics Act.
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/palin-hit-with-more-ethic_b_226667.html
Sarah Palin and her defenders have cited numerous ethics complaints against the Alaska governor as a practical reason for her resignation.
Fighting the claims, Palin told the Anchorage Daily News Monday, was immobilizing her: "I'm not going to let Alaskans go through a year of stymied, paralyzed administration and not getting anything done
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/07/palin-department-of-law-p_n_226881.html
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) is blocked by Senate Democrat Leadership from having a vote on his amendment to audit the Federal Reserve, based on a bill authored...
President Barack Obama called on Tuesday for Russia to forge a true partnership with the United States, promoting democracy and the rule of law but avoiding direct criticism of the Kremlin. Obama
Source:
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5640IZ20090707?rpc=64
Which country has the most nukes? How many missiles could the US launch? How many bombs does Russia have? These are the latest figures
Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/apr/06/north-korea-nuclear-weapons
Mobs of Han Chinese wielding meat cleavers and clubs and groups of Muslim Uighur men beat people in the streets of the capital of China's Xinjiang region Tuesday.
The government imposed a curfew as it tried to stem communal violence after a riot that killed at least 156 people.
Jesse tried to scam Bank of America.
No, wait. He tried to open two accounts at once! No, that's not right either. He did something wrong, that's obvious. Isn't it? Hello? Please tell us what Jesse did wrong, Bank of America. Your lifetime banning confuses us.
Source:
http://consumerist.com/5308363/bank-of-america-bans-customer-for-life
The US economy is lurching towards crisis with long-term interest rates on course to double, crippling the country’s ability to pay its debts and potentially plunging it into another recession, according to a study by the US’s own central bank
McNamara served as secretary of defense during the Vietnam war under presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
Source:
http://www.wcbs880.com/Robert-S--McNamara-Dies/4743000
Some pundits have said that Palin's resignation is out of character.
Hardly. Don't forget that she resigned from her last statewide office. Sarah Palin is a quitter.
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/the-real-story-behind-pal_b_225636.html
A roadside bomb and a rocket-propelled grenade in southern Afghanistan killed two British soldiers, while gunmen in the east abducted 16 mine-clearing personnel working for the United Nations, officials said Sunday.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090705/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan
How did you spend the Fourth of July? Batshit-insane American Quitter Sarah Palin ended her own special Independence Day by posting a series of desperate grammar-challenged nonsense and vicious threats on her Facebook and Twitter pages.
Really.
The operator of a monorail at Walt Disney World died Sunday morning when two monorails crashed.
According to the Reedy Creek Fire Department, the accident happened about 2 a.m. at the ticket and transportation area
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea says North Korea has fired a sixth missile off its eastern coast. The Joint Chiefs of Staff say five missiles were fired earlier Saturday and the sixth around 4:10 p.m. (0710 GMT). The launches come two days after North Korea fired four short-range missiles.
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_NKOREA_MISSILE?SITE=KLIF
After his capture, Saddam Hussein told the FBI that he falsely allowed the world to believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction because he feared revealing his weakness to Iran
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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1908322,00.html
Investment bank Goldman Sachs had a crucial role to play in every market bubble and crash since the Great Depression, says a new article.
Goldman not only made money when asset prices were going up -- by hedging their bets, they made money on the way down, too.
They use the same playbook over and over again: Goldman positions itself in the middle of a speculative bubble, selling investments they know are crap.
When it all goes bust, leaving millions of ordinary citizens broke and starving, they begin the entire process over again.
Source:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/28816321/the_great_american_bubble_machine
As they have done with other political and social issues, for example, promoting the Ron Paul campaign and using the immigration debate, white supremacists and anti-Semites are planning to exploit Tea Parties over the July 4 holiday to disseminate their hateful views and recruit a larger following.
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http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/White_Supremacists_July_4_Tea_Parties.htm
The most effective ads make people stop in their tracks and do a double-take.
The billboard ads you'll see in this gallery don't just sell a product -- they get people talking. See how some creative entrepreneurs are getting the word out.
Source:
http://smallbusiness.aol.com/features/beyond-billboards
In this report is a list of the title and salary of every White House Office employee. Consistent with President Obama's commitment to transparency, this report is being publicly disclosed on our website as it is transmitted to Congress. This is where our money goes.
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Annual-Report-to-Congress-on-White-House-Staff-2009/
How Much Money Inflation? Due to a policy of allowing banks to reclassify checking deposits as savings deposits, the Fed increased the money supply 70% from May '08-May '09. The increase in M1 is "only" 16%.
Source:
http://mises.org/story/3525
Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001.
Source:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124650399438184235.html
South Park's Randy Marsh does not seem to have the makings of someone with financial savvy.
Neither his job as a geologist nor his irrational tendency to over-react suggest we should trust his judgment with money at stake. And yet, there is something this man can teach us about personal finance.
Source:
http://www.mint.com/blog/finance-core/personal-finance-according-to-south-park/
California officials said Wednesday they are trying to avert the federal government's threat to seize six parks that could be closed to help reduce the state's ballooning budget deficit. Parks that could be seized include Angel Island, Point Sur State Historic Park, Point Magu State Park, etc.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/01/california-parks-could-be_n_224141.html
People, who said they were former Bank of America employees, alleged that their supervisors drove them to burden consumers with needless debt and fees, to fatten the bank's earnings and the paychecks of senior executives, and threatened to retaliate if they complained.
Some complained their salaries had been too low and that they had to hit quotas.
Source:
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE55T5E420090630?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=69
Rival factions close to the McCain campaign have been feuding since last fall over Palin, usually waging the battle in the shadows with anonymous quotes.
Now, however, some of the most well-known names in Republican politics are going on-the-record with personal attacks and blame-casting.
A construction worker dangles from a crane, his arm stretched out to reach a terrified woman being swept away by a river.
Here's a fun dose of schadenfreude.
Sen.-elect Al Franken's (D-MN) long-awaited victory in the 2008 Minnesota Senate race seems to have caused quite a lot of stress in the Murdoch-owned press. Remember, this is the same corporation that sued him for a book back in 2003.
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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/murdoch-press-blows-gasket-over-franken-victory.php
This evening, a Yemenia Airbus A310 crashed an hour from its destination into the Indian Ocean off the island nation of Comoros. Nothing is known about the cause of the crash, but the plane was carrying a total of 154 passengers when it went down.
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http://www.gadling.com/2009/06/29/breaking-news-yemenia-airbus-a310-crash-154-passengers-on-bo/
Standing by your man suddenly seems to be going out of fashion for some American women in the public eye. This month, the wives of at least two famous men caught cheating -- sexually and financially --...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE55T0UX20090630?rpc=64
They took my pug and he told me he was taking him to the pound where he would be "put down." I was taken to the J stop headquarters.
I wasn't allowed to call a lawyer and I was put in a cell with handcuffs on with two other women who spit on me and hit me in the head, because they weren't in handcuffs and I was crying so much it bothered them.
Source:
http://gothamist.com/2009/06/30/woman_says_misogynistic_cop_arreste.php
A toddler has been found alive amid the debris of a passenger jet that crashed into the Indian Ocean early Tuesday with 153 people on board, officials said.
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http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/06/30/yemen-plane-crash-indian-ocean374.html
Marijuana and cocaine for personal use should be decriminalised because the "war on drugs" has been a disaster, according to some of Latin America's most powerful politicians and writers. The current international policy on drugs encourages corruption and violence that is threatening democracy throughout the continent, according to the former...
Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/28/legalise-marijuana-drugs-commission
Numerous debt settlement firms promise to make debts disappear.
But lawmakers have classified it a "rouge industry," arguing that debt settlement companies, which say they can negotiate reduced credit card and other debts, are "offering consumers false hope, charging tremendous fees and leaving them in a worse financial situation."
Source:
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/08/business/fi-debt-relief8
