April 2011
Tea Partier Arrested in Wisconsin and Charged With... →
Did I say Tea Partier? I meant far left progressive moonbat.
A 26-year-old woman was charged Thursday with two felony counts and two misdemeanor counts for allegedly making email threats against Wisconsin lawmakers during the height of the battle over Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-repair bill. Katherine R. Windels of Cross Plains was named in a criminal complaint filed in Dane County...
A List Of 28 Things That Will Make You Think That... →
What in the world is happening to America? Perhaps you have asked yourself that question from time to time. Today it seems like everything is falling apart. Our economy is crumbling, our politicians are incompetent, we have just gotten involved in another war, corruption is everywhere and the Americans people are so addicted to entertainment that hardly anything can wake them from their...
Lawsuit seeks dissolution of Dunwoody, Sandy... →
Suit says ‘super-majority white neighborhoods’ were created
The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus filed a lawsuit Monday against the state of Georgia seeking to dissolve the city charters of Dunwoody, Sandy Springs, Johns Creek, Milton and Chattahoochee Hills. Further, the lawmakers, joined by civil rights leader the Rev. Joseph Lowery, aim to dash any hopes of a Milton County.
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Got corned beef? a shortage? — Humboldt Park... →
Sure Puerto Ricans can get fresh beef at the supermarket. But what many crave — and can’t get — comes out of a can.
A national shortage of canned corned beef caused by a recall has hit especially hard in the U.S. Caribbean territory, a place where the sodium-rich, cholesterol-laden product is a regular part of some beloved local specialties, such as the fritters known as alcapurrias.
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Banking—$5 Fees May Be Coming to an ATM Near You -... →
*** Sure glad they fixed those evil bankers from screwing us at every turn.. Wow..(and why is she smiling?)
J.P. Morgan Chase and other banks are trying to recoup approximately $30 billion a year in lost overdraft fee income by testing $5 ATM fees, Consumer Action spokesman Joe Ridout told CNBC.
These banks have “historically been reliant on overdraft fees,” he said, so...
Farrakhan: Libya has lent Nation of Islam millions... →
CHICAGO (AP) — Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan reiterated his defense of Moammar Gadhafi on Thursday, calling the embattled Libyan leader a friend and Muslim brother who’s lent the movement $8 million over the years.
Farrakhan, speaking at a rare news conference, railed against the media and said Gadhafi isn’t the monster being portrayed by Western governments.
The 78-year-old...
SRS concrete pump heading to Japan nuclear site |... →
The world’s largest concrete pump, deployed at the construction site of the U.S. government’s $4.86 billion mixed oxide fuel plant at Savannah River Site, is being moved to Japan in a series of emergency measures to help stabilize the Fukushima reactors.
“The bottom line is, the Japanese need this particular unit worse than we do, so we’re giving it up,” said Jerry Ashmore, whose company,...
Exclusive: WANTED: U.S. workers for crippled Japan... →
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As foreign assignments go this must be just about the most dangerous going.
A U.S. recruiter is hiring nuclear power workers in the United States to help Japan gain control of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant, which has been spewing radiation.
The qualifications: Skills gained in the nuclear industry, a passport, a family willing to let you go, willingness to work in a ...
“Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove he is...”
– ~ Showtime
*** Random comment on a random forum. Well said.
WatchJournalist Who Called Rolling Stone‘s ’Kill Team‘ Story ’Bullsh**’ Explains Himself to Glenn
As Blaze readers know, Rolling Stone recently released an article on the so-called “Kill Team” in Afghanistan about, in the magazine’s words, “How U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses – and how their officers failed to stop them.” The article, which...
Is Media Matters Now Making Up Facts in War... →
Media Matters makes no secret of their main mission and tactics –“guerrilla warfare and sabotage” deployed to bring down Fox News in general and Glenn Beck in particular.
But just because your mission is clear, doesn’t mean that you are very good at waging the war.
Today Media Matters posted a story by anti-Beck activist Angelo Carusone. The story asserts that Glenn is losing radio station ...
Up to 1,000 bodies left untouched near troubled... →
Radiation fears have prevented authorities from collecting as many as 1,000 bodies of victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami from within the 20-kilometer-radius evacuation zone around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, police sources said Thursday.
One of the sources said bodies had been ”exposed to high levels of radiation after death.” The view was supported by the...
Pentagon Art: $600,000 Gurgling Toad Sculpture -... →
A $600,000 frog sculpture that lights up, gurgles “sounds of nature” and carries a 10-foot fairy girl on its back could soon be greeting Defense Department employees who plan to start working at the $700 million Mark Center in Alexandria, Va. this fall. That is unless a new controversy over the price tag of the public art doesn’t torpedo the idea.
[See a gallery of...
Say What You Really Feel | Doug Ross @ Journal →
As seen from Highway 60-70-84, 5 miles east of Clovis, New Mexico:
Great news from Colorado: 5,000 undocumented... →
And I hear that “undocumented Democrats” is the term they prefer.
Republicans on the House Administration Committee want to shore up voter registration rules in the wake of a Colorado study that found as many as 5,000 non-citizens in the state took part in last year’s election. …Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, a Republican, told the panel that his department’s...
The Associated Press: Israeli map shows nearly... →
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military on Thursday released a map detailing what it says are nearly 1,000 underground bunkers, weapons storage facilities and monitoring sites built by the militant Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.
Many of the sites on the map are located south of the Litani River in Lebanon, the zone where Hezbollah is banned from keeping weapons under the U.N.-sponsored truce...
Spot the Dirty Word in Calvin Klein's Soho Ad -... →
See it? Photo via Bowery Boogie
Can you guess why CBS New York thinks Calvin Klein’s latest Houston Street billboard is controversial? Hint: It has nothing to do with model Lara Stone’s remarkable cleavage. In fact, the purported scandal has nothing to do with Stone at all. Instead, it’s about the table behind her and the logo to her right.
Still stumped? According to CBS,...
California Estate Sold for $100 Million - WSJ.com →
The $100 million sale of a Los Altos Hills, Calif., home shows how some luxury properties are insulated from the U.S. housing slump.
A Russian billionaire investor paid $100 million for a French chateau-style mansion in Silicon Valley, marking the highest known price paid for a single-family home in the U.S.
The purchase of the 25,500-square-foot home in Los Altos Hills, Calif.,...
CNBC's Fast Money: Traders Worry That April 27... →
Traders are saying the scariest moment of the second quarter will be on April 27, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will hold the first ever press briefing following a monetary policy decision by the central bank.
Photo: Oliver Quillia for CNBC.co
This change in the Fed’s communication with the markets alone is enough to give investors the jitters, but the nervousness is compounded...
Cantaloupe Outbreak Total Now 13 in Five States →
A Colorado resident is the 13th person to be confirmed infected with an outbreak strain of Salmonella Panama tied to cantaloupe, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday.
In its investigation update, the CDC said 12 of the 13 who are infected reported eating cantaloupe in the week before they became ill. Eleven of those 12 had eaten cantaloupes purchased...
March 2011
Ford to surpass GM in car sales for the first time... →
Our auto insider Deep Volt writes that the real GM fireworks could start on Friday.
…GM market manipulation really lies in their incentive juicing and I think on Friday when they announce the March sales numbers, we’ll see some real evidence. Rob Port at SayAnything had a good post on the incentives a few weeks ago - General Motors Taking Advantage Of Government Restructuring To...
Shh! Obama gets anti-secrecy award | POLITICO 44 →
The president accepted a transparency award in a closed, undisclosed meeting.
President Obama finally and quietly accepted his “transparency” award from the open government community this week — in a closed, undisclosed meeting at the White House on Monday. The secret presentation happened almost two weeks after the White House inexplicably postponed the ceremony, which was expected to be...
WatchMiller Time: The Trump/O’Reilly Interview
“I think Trump, after spending sixteen weeks on a TV show with Gary Busey, is gonna look at Ghaddafi and think he’s Art Linkletter.”
(via Breitbart.tv » Miller Time: The Trump/O’Reilly Interview)
Obese man dies after found fused to chair | World... →
A morbidly obese man is dead after he was found fused to a chair that he had been stuck on for two years.
The 43-year-old man from Bellaire, Ohio, was discovered unconscious on Sunday by his girlfriend.
Emergency crews had to pry him free, as his skin was stuck to the recliner with urine, feces and maggots.
Local reports say one officer threw away his uniform because the conditions were so...
Berkshire's Sokol Quits After Lubrizol Share... →
David Sokol, long considered by outsiders to be the most likely candidate to succeed Warren Buffett, resigned from Berkshire Hathaway Inc. after purchasing shares of a company he suggested Mr. Buffett buy.
David Sokol spoke to shareholders prior to the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha, Neb., on May 1, 2010.
Mr. Buffett, Berkshire’s chief executive and chairman, said in a ...
WatchWal-Mart CEO Bill Simon expects inflation
U.S. consumers face “serious” inflation in the months ahead for clothing, food and other products, the head of Wal-Mart’s U.S. operations warned Wednesday.
The world’s largest retailer is working with suppliers to minimize the effect of cost increases and believes its low-cost business model will position it better than its...
Gasoline up 100% under Obama - Washington Times →
Feeling pain at the pump? Gas prices have doubled since Mr. Obama took office. According to the GasBuddy gasoline price tracking web site, the price of a gallon of regular gas was around $1.79 when Mr. Obama took office. Today the national average is $3.58. The lowest average price in the continental United States is $3.31 in Tulsa Oklahoma, the highest is $4.14 in Santa Barbara, CA. ...
Farmstand Canceled Due to… the City of Oakland |... →
I thought I was just being paranoid, but it looks like the City of Oakland workers do read my blog (hi guys!) and will be coming to the pop up farmstand to bust me for illegal activities.
Here’s the deal: After getting off the plane from Salt Lake City and making my way home to a cup of tea, I sit down at my kitchen table and I see this guy in a City of Oakland car taking photos of my garden....
“A First in American History: 2011 Federal Aid Set to Overwhelm State General...”
– A First in American History: 2011 Federal Aid Set to Overwhelm State General Funds | The Pelican Post
Well Done -- GOP Frosh to Harry Reid: You're a... →
If it looks like a turd and smells like a turd, odds are it is a turd.
Freshman House GOP members will send a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Wednesday ratcheting up the pressure to pass a continuing resolution for the remainder of the fiscal year that “makes reasonable, responsible spending cuts”— and promise to protest daily until he does. ”Mr. Reid, your record on...
Mega Millions Miss: New York state IT worker... →
He didn’t think Lady Luck was on his side — and now he’s out millions.
A hapless state information-technology worker who usually joined his office lottery pool took a pass last week — only to learn that seven positive-thinking pals nailed a whopping $319 million Mega Millions jackpot, said a deli owner who knows the winners.
“The word is that when they were...
Microsoft Co-Founder Hits Out at Gates - WSJ.com →
Paul Allen (far bottom right) co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975 and left the company in 1983. He remains one of the software giant’s largest shareholders. Above: a 1978 photo of early Microsoft employees.
Bill Gates schemed to take shares in Microsoft Corp. from his co-founder during the early days of the software company following his partner’s treatment for cancer,...
Radiation Traces Found in U.S. Milk - WSJ.com →
The U.S. government said Wednesday that traces of radiation have been found in milk in Washington state, but said the amounts are far too low to trigger any public-health concern.
The Environmental Protection Agency said a March 25 sample of milk produced in the Spokane, Wash., area contained a 0.8 pico curies per literlevel of iodine-131, which it said was less than one five-thousandth of...
Springs man's claim to have Obama records sets... →
Gregory Hollister
A Colorado Springs “birther,” retired Air Force Col. Gregory Hollister, has Internet blogs abuzz with what may be an illegal foray into an online Social Security data base and how he obtained a copy of President Barack Obama’s draft registration from 1980.
“Col. Greg Hollister, USAF (Ret.) contacted the Selective Service, falsely impersonated President Obama, improperly...
Poll: Obama's approval hits new low - Jennifer... →
***Is it just me or has POLITICO been reporting more less than stellar Obama news lately?
Since early March President Obama’s approval rating has dropped 4 percentage points. | AP Photo
President Barack Obama’s approval rating and prospects for reelection have plunged to all-time lows in a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.
Half of the registered voters surveyed...
Threats Claim Nuclear Bombs Hidden All Over U.S. «... →
***Why it’s called “TERRORISM”
CHICAGO (CBS 2) – The threats came in the mail and to date, there have been 25 letters that warn of nuclear bombs destroying America.
People who got them called the FBI and CBS 2′s Kristyn Hartman learned, the Bureau’s Chicago office is leading the investigation.
FBI Special Agent Andre Zavala said, “Yes, they alarmed a lot of people.”
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FT.com / Media - James Murdoch promoted at News... →
*** Hope this doesn’t spell the end of FOX news as we know it. His kids are far more liberal.
James Murdoch has been promoted to deputy chief operating officer at News Corp and chairman and chief executive of its international operations, confirming him as the family’s heir presumptive and setting the scene for a staggered handover of power at the $46bn (£29bn) media group.
The move...
Obama in 2002: Toppling Brutal Dictator a ‘Dumb... →
President Barack Obama pauses during his speech on America’s energy security, in this photo taken Wednesday, March 30, 2011, at McDonough at Gymnasium Georgetown University in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama, as an Illinois state senator in 2002, said that using military force to topple a murderous dictator amounted to a “dumb...
House Republicans seek IRS probe of AARP - CBS... →
*** Will be interesting to see if the IRS goes after the #1 supporter of Obamacare. Sic em!!
Heck, I’m surprised CBS NEWS is even reporting this.
House Republicans seek IRS probe of AARP
(AP) WASHINGTON (AP) — AARP lobbied for the new health care law and now it stands to profit, Republican lawmakers charged Wednesday as they called for the IRS to investigate whether the powerful...
Iran Prepares Its Revolutionary Guards for... →
“We have a strategy drawn up for the destruction of Anglo-Saxon civilization… we must make use of everything we have at hand to strike at this front by means of our suicide operations or by means of our missiles.” — Hassan Abbasi, “strategic adviser” to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “We are in the process of an historical war between the...
Former Organizing for America staffer | FOIA... →
New emails and testimony from Department of Homeland Security FOIA officer Catherine Papoi reveal that a former Obama campaign staffer repeatedly asked Papoi and her team to redact portions of “politically sensitive” documents, as well as portions of documents that were already publicly available.
Papoi, who came under fire at DHS for complaining that “sensitive” FOIA requests were being...
The Captain's Journal » Taliban Massing of Forces... →
The Waygal district in Nuristan has been seized by Taliban forces.
The Taliban seized control of a district in eastern Nuristan Province on Tuesday, chasing the governor and the police from the district capital, according to both Afghan officials and a spokesman for the Taliban.
It was the second Taliban success in recent days in the general area of the strategic Pech Valley, which American...
Members Collect Many Unpaid Tickets : Roll Call... →
File Photo Rep. Bennie Thompson and his chief of staff paid off $860 worth of parking tickets last week after Roll Call brought the outstanding fines to their attention. By Jennifer Yachnin Members of Congress have immunity from many routine parking tickets in the District of Columbia, but that doesn’t mean they can’t try to rack up fines.
According to a Roll Call survey of vehicles...
Two-thirds of oil and gas leases in Gulf inactive... →
U.S. President Barack Obama walks off stage after delivering remarks at a DNC event at The Studio Museum in New York, March 29, 2011.
WASHINGTON – An Interior Department report to be released Tuesday says more than two-thirds of offshore oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico are sitting idle.
According to the report, obtained by The Associated Press, those inactive swaths of the Gulf...
Postal Service to cut 7,500 jobs, close offices -... →
Declining volume of mail, staff costs and private-sector competition necessitate moves
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service said on Thursday it would cut 7,500 jobs and close seven district offices and 2,000 post offices as it handles less mail and faces greater staff costs and competition from FedEx and United Parcel Service.
“It’s critical that we adjust our work force to match...
Connecting the Dots … Grain Shortages & Food... →
I have been monitoring growing food shortages (particularly of freeze-dried storage foods) and food inflation for several months. Both are quietly accelerating because of a perfect storm of multiple drivers:
FULL STORY & worth a read.
