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PERRY, IA, -- Despite missing numerous release dates, MCP Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Piein' Palin. The game offers an exciting pie tossing experience. Even if she isn't running for president, doesn't mean she can't take a pie in the face. This is a fun, fast paced, carnival style game. Fun for the entire family. You choose to throw pies as your favorite Palin hater for three levels of raucous good times. A great soundtrack and Palin quips keeps the game fun and fresh for hours of entertainment. You can get your copy through the Android...

http://www.occupyoakland.org/openforums/announcements/ Occupy Oakland organizers are asking Oakland residents, workers and supporters to participate in a General Strike on Wednesday, Nov. 2. They're asking residents to head to downtown Oakland, 14th and Broadway for mass gatherings at 9am, 12 noon, and 5pm. A growing number of local Labor organizations have endorsed the strike, including: 1.SEIU LOCAL 1021 Call to Action for Nov 2U.C. UAW Local Support of General Strike 2.Alameda Central Labor Council endorses Nov 2 – 3.Phillipine Airline Workers Back Oakland General Strike Call of Occupy Oakland 4.Berkeley Federation of Teachers Calls On Teachers to participate in the Wednesday, November...

BREAKTHROUGH POWER TEST A SUCCESS, BUT A.P. SITS ON IT by Joe Shea AR Correspondent Bradenton, Fla . Back to home page Printable version of this story BRADENTON, Fla., Oct. 30, 2011 -- If you went to Google tonight and searched for the terms "E Cat Rossi Associated Press" you'd get 1,430,000 results from blogs, Web sites and magazines like Wired.com (UK edition). That number will grow . Most are about how an Associated Press reporter attended the demonstration of a device - as the exclusive media person present during the whole test - that proceeded to generate 475,000...

Recuperation from the storms. Nine month saga with the county. major cleanup with branches hauled off house and garage. The trees I planted long ago and had to take down and cut up because otherwise they would disturb the road, pedestrians, parked cars, overhead lines during the storms. Noone told me to do this. It was my responsibilty. So I had some stacks, small stacks on a small parcel of a small house in Arlington as we are into winter and those very storms. The adjoining property has huge trees which rain hell upon me with branches laden with snow...

Early Wednesday morning, the Atlanta Police Department, acting on orders from Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, arrested 53 Occupy Atlanta protesters who defiantly remained in the city's Woodruff Park beyond an 11 p.m. curfew. During an early morning press conference, Reed said that the city was forced to take action against the protesters after Occupy Atlanta organizers attempted to host a free hip-hop concert in Woodruff Park over the weekend without a proper security plan. When Reed announced Oct. 24 a reversal of his earlier order allowing protesters to remain in Woodruff Park beyond the 11 p.m. curfew for the city's...

Occupy Edmonton protesters held a march on October 29 to call for a Robin Hood tax. They are calling on G20 leaders to immediately impose a 0.05 per cent tax on banks for financial transactions and currency trades. They claim that profits made from the tax could go back to programs to benefit society. "It's a good way to generate some revenue to deal with global poverty, to deal with climate change," spokesperson Chelsea Taylor told CTV News. According to the group the Canadian government has shown a lack of leadership on a Robin Hood tax. "Finance minster Jim Flaherty...

The Mathematician vs. The Rhetorician: Why Paul Ryan Has Become Barack Obama’s Biggest Headache Ryan Streeter He may not be running for President (despite our best efforts to draft him and continued pleas from the American public), but Paul Ryan is the biggest, thorniest bur in Barack Obama’s saddle. His speech at the Heritage Foundation yesterday was another example of why. He took Obama to task by undermining both the philosophical and mathematical justifications of the President’s desperate campaign to use class to divide America. Among Republicans, Ryan has proved himself the most-skilled at going head-to-head with Obama in the...

Earlier this week, we asked conservative commentator Pat Buchanan how he proposes eliminating D.C.’s economic racial disparities. Buchanan, who firmly believes diversity hurts America, suggested stopping immigration to combat high national black unemployment, and general national unemployment. “We’ve got to start putting our own people first,” he said. The Root’s Nsenga Burton takes issue with Buchanan’s rhetoric: “Our own people?” Since when did blacks become “our own people” to folks like Buchanan? Invoking the Willie Lynch strategy of dividing and conquering those who would benefit from coming together (African-Americans and immigrants) as opposed to functioning separately is foul. Buchanan and...

Details about the new sex education curriculum in New York City public schools are out -- and some are concerned the lessons are too racy. The New York Post obtained workbooks that will be used for the new recommended curriculum, which begins in middle schools and high schools around the city next spring. Parents, they say, may be shocked by details of the work. Middle school students will be assigned "risk cards" that rate the safety of different activities, the paper says, from French kissing to oral sex. The workbooks for older students direct them to a website run by...

It's becoming clear that MSNBC anchors, hosts, and commentators are allowed to say any defamatory thing they want about the Republican presidential candidates. On Friday, Martin Bashir asked one of his liberal guests, Goldie Taylor, "Do you think Herman Cain can spell the word 'Iraq?'" (video follows with commentary): (VIDEO AT LINK) For the record, Cain received a Masters degree in computer science from Purdue while working full-time for the Department of the Navy as a ballistics analyst. He went on to be CEO of Godfather's Pizza, CEO of the National Restaurants Association, chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve,...

As it got colder in Lower Manhattan on October 22 the Occupy Wall Street meeting of the General Assembly considered a proposal for a people's tribunal against Goldman Sachs, for November 3. While other proposals were confronted by blocks, a form of quasi veto, this one passed by consensus. A block away JPMorgan Chase stood surrounded by fencing and police. It has been the subject of a number of marches from Zuccotti Park, but Goldman Sachs until now as escaped direct action. Goldman does not offer regular bank accounts or student loans, although it trades in both, and in the...

(Seattle - Oct. 21, 2011) Today, EPA Region 10 issued a final air permit to Shell Offshore Inc. for oil and gas exploration drilling in the Alaska Arctic. This air permit is one of several federal authorizations Shell needs to explore for oil and gas on the Outer Continental Shelf in the Beaufort Sea starting in July 2012. The permit authorizes air pollutant emissions during Shell’s exploration drilling with the Kulak drill rig and a support fleet of icebreakers, oil spill response vessels, and supply ships for up to 120 days each year…EPA’s final permit significantly reduces the potential air...

BENTON TOWNSHIP - Five decades after struggling to gain civil rights, African Americans must still deal with a health care and political system that denies their most basic needs. That was the feeling voiced by former Georgia congresswoman and 2008 Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, who cited her aunt's death from a botched colonoscopy as an example. "The doctor punctured her colon (and) sent her to her daughter's home, where she began to feel pain," McKinney said. "She called the hospital, and the doctor told her to go to sleep and call back in the morning. By the time...

Most people on Drew’s campus have probably heard the noise being caused by the protesters in New York City concerning the Occupy Wall Street movement, but how many actually know the details of what is going on? The Occupy Wall Street movement, which has inspired dozens of other “Occupy” events not only across the country but also the world, began a little more than a month ago as a protest to the various financial troubles being experienced in the United States today. The most well-known theme of the movement is the “99 percent versus the 1 percent” idea. That is,...

PRAGUE, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The Czech Republic will look to the European Union to defend its nuclear expansion plans and fend off growing opposition from neighbouring Germany and Austria...Toshiba Corp unit Westinghouse, an alliance of Russia's Atomstroyexport and Czech company Skoda JS, and France's Areva , are bidding to build the units in the biggest-ever Czech procurement deal.

The Obama administration is cooking the books to make it look like they are enforcing immigration laws, when in reality they are enacting amnesty through inaction… Worksite enforcement has dropped 70%, making it easier for illegal immigrants to live and work in the U.S… DHS recently established a working group with the specific purpose of overruling or preventing orders of removal for illegal immigrants. Obama speaking (to LaRaza Hispanics) voters, deportation numbers are ‘deceptive.’… We could free up millions of jobs for citizens and legal immigrants if we enforced our immigration laws.

NEW YORK: Sparked in Tunisia, popularized in Egypt, spreading in Europe and increasingly in the United States; demonstrations, strikes, riots and occupations of public squares are a growing global trend and an international phenomenon. Inspired by the peaceful, nonviolent uprisings in Egypt and elsewhere – New York’s Occupy Wall Street movement has caught on like wild fire throughout the United States and has spread to over 80 countries worldwide. The metastatic anti-capitalism movement began this past September at Liberty Plaza in Lower Manhattan, two blocks north of Wall Street – symbolically, beneath the office windows of the world’s leading financial...

A woman from Los Angeles who was a tree hugger, a liberal Democrat, and an anti-hunter, purchased a piece of timberland near Colville , WA . There was a large tree on one of the highest points in the tract. She wanted a good view of the natural splendor of her land so she started to climb the big tree. As she neared the top she encountered a spotted owl that attacked her. In her haste to escape, the woman slid down the tree to the ground and got many splinters in her crotch. In considerable pain, she hurried to...