If there was a degree of dja vu for fans of Obama crammed inside a university athletic arena in Hackensack, NJ, the other evening, it was entirely deliberate.
They only had to close their eyes and listen to the deafening chants of "Yes We Can" to imagine they had been transported back to the heady days of a year ago when their candidate was
The U.S.
Supreme Court blocked Washington state officials from releasing the names and addresses of those who signed a petition referring gay rights legislation to the November ballot. The ruling temporarily blocks a federal appeals court ruling that had ordered the release of the names. The Supreme Court order will remain in effect . . .
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http://oregonfaithreport.com/2009/10/top-court-enters-washington-marriage-petition-debate/
By overlooking cuts in research and development, product design, and worker training, GDP is greatly overstating the economy's strength
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_45/b4154034724383.htm
A police officer who once confronted Sen.
John McCain about marijuana decriminalization is being silenced and possibly pushed out of his job with a New Hampshire police force for speaking out against marijuana prohibition, his supporters say.
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http://rawstory.com/2009/10/claim-cop-turfed-pot-legalization/
It runs more pages than War and Peace, has nearly five times as many words as the Torah, and its tables of contents alone run far longer than this story.
Google thought so much of rocket scientist, Karl Blanks that he became the first authorized consultant for a new Google tool.
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http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/10/27/googles-favored-rocket-scientist
Although a temporary truce between Libertarians and Republicans has been in effect for the Tea Parties, divisions over legalizing marijuana, domestic espionage, abortion, torture, gay marriage, the separation of church/state, immigration, and de-militarization are starting to toll. The schism between Libertarians and Republicans is widening.
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http://progressivenation.us/2009/10/28/the-growing-rift-between-libertarians-and-republicans/
A worried Iranian airline pilot asked passengers to start praying after his plane was hit by a technical glitch early on Thursday, highlighting once again the notorious record of Tehran's aircraft.
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/091029/world/iran_aviation_offbeat
According to human rights lawyer John Sifton, the CIA tortured detainees so severely that it had to take measures to keep them alive so they could continue being tortured.
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http://rawstory.com/2009/10/lawyer-cia-prevented-prisoner-deaths-prolong-torture/
A young Toronto-area woman has died in hospital from injuries sustained when she was attacked by a couple of coyotes while hiking in Cape Breton.
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/091028/national/ns_coyote_attack
Shepard Smith apologized for a "lack of balance" on a story aired during his Fox News show today.
Reporter Shannon Bream was covering the campaign for governor in New Jersey when she snagged an interview with the Republican candidate Chris Christie, but when Smith asked her when she would interview the the Democratic candidate.....
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/27/shep-smith-apologizes-for_n_336231.html
New Yorkers are fleeing the state and city in alarming numbers -- and costing a fortune in lost tax dollars, a new study shows.
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/tax_refugees_staging_escape_from_qb4pItQ71UXIc0i6cd3UpK
In a conference call last week announcing a $1.6 billion third-quarter loss, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney concluded, "We know we can and must do better on our development programs."
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is ticked off.
He's tired of signing bills that doesn't address the pet causes he deems important.
Source:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/schwarzenegger/
In her opening remarks at a Homeland Security Committee hearing focusing on the policy "czars" that have been named by President Obama, an issue that has been a frequent topic on Beck's show, Sen.
Claire McCaskill refered to Beck as He Who Shall Not Be Named"
The Hill reports: The CIA misled Congress at least five times since 2001, according to Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee.
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http://rawstory.com/2009/10/cia-misled-congress-times-2001/
Iran has said it will accept a UN deal on its nuclear programme, but only if "very important changes" are made, Iranian state media have reported.
A Malaysian child is killed after a suspension bridge over a river in northern Perak state collapses, but 19 others are rescued.
A French court convicts the Church of Scientology of fraud, but stops short of banning the group from operating in France.
The world's tiger population is declining fast despite efforts to save them, and new strategies are urgently needed to keep the species from dying out, international wildlife experts said Tuesday.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091027/ap_on_re_as/as_nepal_saving_tigers
When Matthew Hoh joined the Foreign Service early this year, he was exactly the kind of smart civil-military hybrid the administration was looking for to help expand its development efforts in Afghanistan.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102603394.html
A look at the 1.07 million Americans who filed bankruptcy in 2008.
The public option lives.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced Monday that the bill he will bring to the Senate floor will include a public health insurance option that individual states could decline to participate in.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/26/reid-the-public-option-wi_n_334284.html
US President Barack Obama condemns the outrageous attacks that left more than 130 people dead in Iraq's capital.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8325306.stm
With the recession still in full swing, now seems as good a time as any to investigate the potential of money-saving gadgets and devices.
While the market is flooded with products that claim to save you money, not all of them actually do.
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http://www.mint.com/blog/saving/10-money-saving-gadgets-that-actually-help-save-money/
With the unemployment rate in the U.S. reaching new heights, many are forced to contemplate relocating to reduce their costs of living.
The graphic below showcases changes in salary across the country from the 4th quarter in 2008 to the 1st quarter in 2009, and spotlights those individual metropolitan areas with the greatest salary growth.
Ze digs deep into the history of the 'Graveyard of Empires' to offer a condensed timeline of Afghanistan from Genghis Khan to 9/11
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http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,45950304001_1931954,00.html?iid=digg_share
The mother of a boy thought to have been swept away in a giant helium balloon has admitted the incident was a hoax, according to court documents.
Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died.
He was 83.
War by remote: What do you think?
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/blog/2009/10/new-video-fighting-from-afar.html
Playing into Fox's hatefest is certainly stuffing Rupert Murdoch's pockets. But what could the White House's strategic objective be in dignifying their rantings with multiple responses?
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http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/10/22/the-lucrative-business-of-obama-bashing/?rpc=64
It is common knowledge throughout the world that the Middle East is a hot bed of financial activity.
Yet, where as the regions banks may hold plenty of cash, what can be said about their brand value?
TARP's Warren defends reported plans to slash executive salaries, calls pay excessive
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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/10/tarp_figure_confirms_substantial_pay_cuts_looming.php
The Church of Scientology refused to provide records demanded by a coroner investigating the death of a soldier who committed suicide two days after finishing one of the church's intensive courses.
And yet they happily and publicly provide personal "confessions" from members who have left the cult.
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26247876-2702,00.html
Sen.
John McCain (R-AZ) introduced a bill in the Senate on Thursday that would effectively allow Internet service providers to slow down or block Internet content or applications of their choosing.
According to a recent Gallop Poll, support for the legalization of marijuana is at an all time high in the US...
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http://hailmaryjane.com/44-of-americans-think-marijuana-should-be-legalized/
The Second tallest building in the world is already underconstruction! It will be completed in 2014 and will be LEED certified silver.
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http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/10/21/tallest-building-in-asia-revealed-for-seoul-south-korea/
Recent corporate abandonment of the national Chamber of Commerce (e.g., Apple) over the lobbying group's position on global warming point up the growing fissures and threats to the power (even the concept) of collective business lobbying.
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http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2009/10/19/091019ta_talk_surowiecki
Here's another appalling story of how the police get treated one way and civilians quite another.
Dallas cop does 70 in a 40 mph zone without his lights or sirens on, hits a kid on a bike and kills him. His punishment: A day off from work. Without pay, I'm sure.
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http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/10/kill_a_kid_take_the_day_off.php
Retired General Paul Eaton, senior adviser to the National Security Network, has hit back hard at Dick Cheney a day after the former vice president criticized the Obama administration again for "dithering while America's armed forces are in danger."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/national-security-network_n_330033.html
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission today released a new report that it says details efforts by the Chinese government to engage in cyber warfare and espionage.
Diplomats from Iran, the U.S., Russia and France agreed Wednesday to a draft proposal that would see Iran ship about 75 percent of it's enriched uranium to Russia by the end of this year.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/10/21/world/worldwatch/entry5404413.shtml
Here are the five key gotchas and some ways to stay in the lending worlds good graces
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http://www.mint.com/blog/the-motley-fool/5-ways-to-ruin-your-credit/
In 2002, Chris Turner, a health insurance agent from Tampa, Florida, was drugged and raped during a business trip.
That rape was called a "pre-existing condition" by several health insurance companies, which would have disqualified her for care.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/21/insurance-companies-rape-_n_328708.html
ere are the best viral marketing videos of 2009"so far.
Its only late October. Companies still have time to release new viral hits. Only time will tell what kind of random and fascinating content will hit the Web next.
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http://www.businesspundit.com/the-8-best-viral-advertising-videos-of-2009-so-far/
By Caren Bohan NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama chastised Wall Street firms on Tuesday for resisting tighter regulations of their industry and said they had not done enough to boost lending to small businesses. Lashing out at the...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE59K0FW20091021?rpc=64
Call it China's trial of the 21st century.
Not since Mao Zedong's wife and her fellow members of the reviled "Gang of Four" were tried in 1980 has a courtroom trial so captured the attention of the nation.
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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1931342,00.html?iid=digg_share
Two suicide bombers have killed at least four people at a university in the Pakistani capital Islamabad.
In a telephone call to the BBC, a senior Taliban commander has claimed his movement was behind the bombings.
Despite spending the last 9 months battering the president's agenda, the Republican Party has neither gained any traction with voters nor has it appreciably damaged the Democratic brand.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/19/gop-brand-has-declined-si_n_325907.html
A notorious Holocaust denier convicted of attacking Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel in an elevator has now set his sights on an 80-year-old Pembroke Pines woman whose memoir recounts her ordeal in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
In a lawsuit filed in Broward Circuit Court, Eric Hunt alleges that the "The Fifth Diamond: The Story of Irene W
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/sfl-zisblatt-holocaust-lawsuit-b10209,0,1735322.story
Persistent criminals could escape punishment even when there is overwhelming evidence against them under new plans allowing prosecutors to overlook minor offences, senior lawyers have warned.
Somalias hardline Muslim extremists have ordered women to shake their breasts to determine if they are wearing "un-Islamic" bras.
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http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/555958/cs/1/
Noam Chomsky argues that America supported atomic proliferation for these nations
Brazilian officials are insisting security won't be a problem for the 2016 Olympics despite drug-gang violence that plunged Rio de Janeiro into a day of bloody chaos just two weeks after it was picked to host the games.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091018/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_brazil_violence
In a follow-up to the "30 Republican Senators Don't Oppose Rape" story, here's Sen.
Al Franken's devastating grilling of an attorney representing Halliburton/KBR during Senate testimony after the vote.
If the election were held today, 43 percent of American voters would back Barack Obama for president, according to a new Fox News poll.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/15/fox-news-poll-vote-elect-president-obama/
After reporting big profits over the last six months, Bank of America reported a net loss of $1 billion in the third quarter as growing numbers of consumer loans soured and the bank paid millions of dollars to wean itself off government life support.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/business/17bank.html?hp
Jennifer Schuett's search for the man who snatched her from her bed when she was 8, sexually assaulted her and left her for dead on top of an ant hill ended Tuesday with the arrest of a suspect.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/13/texas.coldcase.victim/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects largely at the expense of accounts that pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops.
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/15/troop-funds-diverted-to-pet-projects/
Lawmakers are stepping up their push to revoke a key federalfor insurance industry.
A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091015/ap_on_re_us/us_interracial_rebuff
Smart Americans have two main questions about the financial industry reforms President Obama promised last Friday: First, will a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) prevent abuse of credit, savings and investment customers? But second, will any proposed regulatory reforms and oversight bodies prevent irresponsible behavior?
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http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/will-financial-reform-avoid-another-economic-meltdown/
Somebody explain this to me: The president of the United States wins the Nobel Peace Prize, and Rush Limbaugh joins with the Taliban in bitterly denouncing the award? Why Do Conservatives Hate America?
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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091012_why_do_conservatives_hate_america/
At the Oaks Apartments in Albany, the management can fly their own flag advertising one and two bedroom apartments - but residents have been told they can't fly any flags at all.
Despite some signs that the worst of the U.S. residential housing crisis may be over, many wealthy homeowners are still being squeezed by the combination of weak home prices and the stock market...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE59D15L20091014?rpc=64
A group of civilly-disobedient hemp farmers and business leaders were arrested Tuesday morning while digging up the lawn to plant industrial hemp seeds at the headquarters of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Cultivating industrial hemp, the non-psychoactive cousin of marijuana, is illegal under the "drug war."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/13/farmers-arrested-planting_n_318808.html
Al-Qaeda is in its worst financial state for many years while the Taliban's funding is flourishing, says the US Treasury.
A U.S. citizen of Lebanese origin has been sentenced by a United Arab Emirates court to 18 months in prison on terrorist charges relating to Israel and Iraq, newspapers reported on Tuesday.
Naji Hamdan was found guilty of funding...
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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE59C2HF20091013?rpc=64
The Senate Finance Committee passed a long-awaited $829 billion health care bill Tuesday by a 14-9 vote.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/13/senate.health.care/
The Parliamentary Question Carter Ruck and Trafigura don't want you to see.
Minton report: Trafigura Toxic dumping along the Ivory Coast.
Ford Motor Co. agreed to expand its largest-ever recall by about 4.5 million vehicles over a faulty switch linked to hundreds of vehicle fires.
Rachel Maddow puts a name to the affliction that has infected the President's most ardent critics: Obama Derangement Syndrome.
A woman has been arrested for "poking" someone on Facebook, the social networking website, facing up to a year in prison and fine of $2,500.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/6305822/Woman-arrested-for-poking-Facebook-user.html
President Reagan's Secretary of State, George Shultz, said this week that the expanding movement to legalize drugs is "a distinctive statement by people that the present system is not working very well and they want to change it."
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703298004574459421700711960.html
Though an autopsy shows he shot McKinney 24 times, the lawsuit alleges, he was not charged because Chicago police accepted his explanation that he'd acted in self defense.
Public relations and customer satisfaction departments may not answer their phones if you call, or even know the right answer if they pick up, but they're often monitoring every word that goes out on Twitter.
After all, if you say something on Twitter about their product, you're saying it in public, and that can be embarrassing.
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http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/10/09/want-better-service-just-complain-on-twitter/
A CIGNA employee gave the finger -- literally -- to a woman whose daughter died after the insurance giant refused to cover her liver transplant.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/08/cigna-employee-flips-off_n_314189.html
Statistics show that men and women handle money differently.
While there are exceptions to every rule, men generally are better prepared for retirement, are more willing to put money into savings, pay off credit card balances in full and are more educated about investing.
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http://www.billshrink.com/blog/men-vs-women-financial-planning/
I think that all homo sapiens can understand how the mere thought of an organization that receives government money through contract mechanisms being tangentially involved in setting up a fake tax shelter for a fake pimp and his fake prostitution ring of fake prostitutes can justifiably lead to lawmakers going absolutely cross-eyed with white-hot,
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/07/meet-the-senators-who-vot_n_312976.html
So now America's biggest business lobby and late-night comic David Letterman have something in common: They have really, really embarrassed themselves.
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http://www.climatebiz.com/blog/2009/10/07/us-chambers-climate-blunders
The spike in unemployment, the destruction of retirement wealth, the collapse in the value of our homes, the worst recession since the Depression have all resulted directly from the abdication of proper government.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dylan-ratigan/the-cost-of-corporate-com_b_312516.html
Here are some interesting results of a survey I received in my inbox today: eFinancialCareers.com surveyed 1,074 finance professionals in September about their bonus expectations.
Of the group, 83 percent anticipate receiving bonuses this year, while more than one-third of...
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http://www.businessweek.com/careers/managementiq/archives/2009/10/wall_street_bon.html
Detroit -- The lure of federal cash assistance for needy Detroit families sparked pandemonium Wednesday at Cobo Center, as hundreds of city residents pushed, jostled and trampled others in a rush to apply for the aid. 60,000 residents applied for the aid over two days, although the city will only be able to help about 3,400 families.
At least 47 school-age children in Chicago have been killed in homicides, mostly by guns, since the month President Barack Obama took office.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a3duFSs.mpT4
A year after his presidential defeat, John McCain is tussling again with Barack Obama -- and challengers from the Republican Party.
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http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1929092,00.html?iid=digg_share
Winding up before a judge in court is never a good sign for your business . . . unless youre in the legal profession.
It can happen to anyone: the underdog, the top cat, the genius, the idiot, the slimy or the squeaky clean.
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http://www.businessideas.net/business-ideas/10-business-ideas-that-will-get-your-ass-sued-off
Egypt announced on Wednesday that it has cut all cooperation with France's Louvre Museum until it secures the return of "stolen" Pharaonic antiquities in the latest row involving the exhibits of a major European institution.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091007/lf_afp/egyptfrancearchaeologylouvre
Rep.
John Boehner said last week he's still trying to find "one American" who favors a public option. Well here's more than 1,800 and they're from your district.
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http://pubrecord.org/multimedia/5694/boehner-american-support-public-option/
A routine traffic stop resulted in the seizure of what authorities say was nearly $10,000 in crystal meth on its way to Phoenix late last week.
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http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2009/10/nearly_10000_worth_of_meth_fou.php
WASHINGTON -- President Obama yesterday rolled out the red carpet -- and handed out doctors' white coats as well, just so nobody missed his hard-sell health-care message. In a heavy-handed attempt at reviving support for health-care reform, the White House orchestrated a massive photo op...
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/white_house_botched_op_kTVWHZ3vEeRQbxCC0TNZHN
While todays presidential slogans are mostly indistinguishable combinations of the words America, leader, and change, that certainly wasnt always the case.
Here are 10 campaign slogans worth remembering.
In a segment just now with Sen.
John Barrasso (R-WY), Fox News's Shepard Smith gave a stunning argument in favor of the public option.
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http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/fox-newss-shep-smith.php
As Congress lurches closer to a decision on an enormous overhaul of the American health care system, pressure is mounting on legislative leaders to make the final bill available online for citizens to read before a vote.
A US military aid program that favors Afghan vendors is being used by the Taliban as an extortion racket to the tune of a projected $80 million in the last year.
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http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/afghanistan/091002/us-military-funding-both-sides-afghan-war
The words to strike fear into every person ever to set foot in an interview room.
Being asked why you left your job is always difficult.
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http://www.walletpop.co.uk/2009/10/06/so-why-did-you-leave-your-last-job/
Robert Fisk's report in the Independent that the Persian Gulf countries are planning to stop pricing oil in dollars by 2018 and start using a basket of currencies instead has caused quite the big stir today.
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http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2009/10/06/what-if-oil-werent-priced-in-dollars/
WellPoint health insurance company, which has encouraged its employees to lobby against health care reform, is now cutting their benefits.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/05/wellpoint-cuts-workers-he_n_309716.html
The official toll currently is 609.
Helicopters dropped instant noodles and other aid to cutoff hillside communities that were without food for five days, as rescue workers gave up their search Monday for survivors from last week's massive Indonesian earthquake.
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http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/2009/10/indonesian-earthquake-recovery.html
Two men sneaked into the zoo at about 1 a.m. unnoticed. One suffered significant injuries.
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http://www.calgaryherald.com/travel/Charges pending Calgary tiger incident/2067393/story.html
If you liked the fun we had in Iraq the GOP has found a way to have even more over in the Mideast!
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http://rawstory.com/2009/10/attack-iran-before-israel/
Since the late 19th century, the unofficial slogan of the U.S.
Postal Service (it doesn't have an official one) has been guaranteed delivery through rain, sleet, or snow. Nowhere mentioned in that motto is a crippling economy or revenue and budget shortfalls.
The 'Internet Eyes' service involves players scouring thousands of CCTV cameras installed in shops, businesses and town centres across Britain looking for law-breakers.
Players who help catch the most criminals each month will win cash prizes up to 1,000.
In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning; along with China, Russia, Japan and France; to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-demise-of-the-dollar-1798175.html
California may be the eighth largest economy in the world, but its state staff are being paid in IOUs, unemployment is at its highest in 70 years, and teachers are on hunger strike.
So what has gone so catast
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/04/california-failing-state-debt
Rep.
Alan Grayson is standing up like a real man should to the GOP attacks on health care reform. This freshman Florida Congressman boldly and succinctly laid out the Republican plan for health care reform late Tuesday night. Its his Wednesday follow-up thats raising eyebrows on both sides of the aisle.
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http://newsjunkiepost.com/2009/10/02/is-rep-alan-grayson-the-new-mr-smith-goes-to-washington/
98 yr. old hit the robber so hard the stick broke.
All the robbers got was a sore head.
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http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2009/10/02/dnt.jacobs.90.woman.robbers.wcsc?iref=24hours
When the International Olympic Committee voted against Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics this morning -- after the President and First Lady flew to Copenhagen to push for it in person -- the Weekly Standard newsroom burst into applause.
Cheers...
Count me as one conservative who is disappointed that President Obama's hometown will not be hosting the 2012 Olympic Games.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-scarborough/thank-you-mr-president_b_308022.html
Glenn Beck went on another one of his they're out to get me paranoid rants today, and he even included the impersonation of him on last Thursday's Saturday Night Live Weekend Update special.
Beck said, "Don't think that what happened to Sarah Palin didn't go through my mind when I saw my character on Saturday Night Live."
A federal judge has ruled that the FBI must release its interview with then-Vice President Dick Cheney concerning the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
The Bush and Obama administrations have both sought to keep the Cheney interview secret, but Judge Emmet Sullivan has determined that there is no reason since the investigation has concluded.
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http://rawstory.com/2009/10/court-rules-fbi-must-release-cheney-interview-concerning-plame-outing/
Were very excited about this at Digg, and not because weve found a few extra pixels to sell to advertisers but because Digg Ads is our first step in the direction of helping marketers speak to the Digg community in the local language of Digg.
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http://chasnote.com/2009/10/01/digg-ads-it’s-just-the-beginning/
I had no idea things were this bad! I mean, our labor force is only 154 million, so that would put our unemployment rate at a whopping 97%.
It would... if it were accurate.
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http://imgur.com/Prk56.jpg
A shadowy private security company that has no known clients but claims to have helped foreign governments combat terrorism and will protect anything from cruise ships to Pakistani convoys has taken over a jail in a small Montana town, with plans to build a law enforcement training facility on the property.
Source:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/american_police_force_hardin_montana.php
The Empire State Building in lights of yellow and red to commemorate Communist China's 60th Anniversary.
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http://www.cnn.com/video/?JSONLINK=/video/us/2009/09/30/ldt.celebrating.communism.cnn
Senate Finance Committee Democrats rejected a proposed a requirement that immigrants prove their identity with photo identification when signing up for federal healthcare programs.
Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that current law and the healthcare bill under consideration are too lax and leave the door open to illegal
Michele Bachmann has decided that part of the health care bill that discusses school-based clinics (she calls them sex clinics) would lead to students being whisked away during school hours for abortions without parent consent.
Totally plausible.
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http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/10/bachmann_school.php
Bob Kruse, who recently led a critical Chevrolet Volt team and devised the automaker's long-term electric vehicle strategy, has resigned months before the vehicle's debut.
Kruse's resignation, effective today, comes at a crucial time for General Motors Co., which is banking on the Volt to change public perceptions of the company and also help meet
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http://detnews.com/article/20090930/AUTO01/909300326/GM-s-top-electric-car-exec-quits
A high school tradition for more than twenty years has now been banned at Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School in Georgia, Channel 3 Eyewitness News first reported on Friday.
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http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11200652#WNPoll87883
There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama "Hope" poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists.
Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574443353532223162.html?mod=wsj_share_digg
FTA: "It's up to all of us to say these arguments advanced by Cheney and his acolytes are nonsense and that really what they're doing is undermining our national security."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/29/generals-dick-cheney-liz_n_303453.html
Alan Grayson refused to apologize Wednesday for saying on the House floor Tuesday night that the GOP health care plan amounts to "don't get sick" - and if you do, "die quickly." "I'm not taking any of it back.
I stand by what I said," Grayson, a freshman Democrat who represents Orlando, Florida, told reporters.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/30/grayson-not-backing-down_n_305196.html
