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As the remains of Air France Flight 447 are still being recovered after last week's crash in the Atlantic that saw all 228 people aboard lose their lives, this story has emerged in headlines today. As the Times online reports, an Italian woman who arrived late for the flight has been killed in a car crash: ohanna Ganthaler, a pensioner from Bolzano-Bozen province, had been on holiday in Brazil with her husband Kurt and missed Air France Flight 447 after turning up late at Rio de Janeiro airport on May 31... The ANSA news agency reported that the couple had...

I dunno, sure seems like Palin's poularity in NY helped to trigger that Senate takeover. Thoughts anyone?

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but aren't 3rd tri-mester abortions ONLY legal if they're "medically necessary"? I find it hard to believe that all of the abortions Tiller performed were medically necessary. Just saying.

Pennsylvania Democrats Hesitant to Back Specter Now that Sen. Arlen Specter has switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party, he could face an uphill battle in convincing rank-and-file Democrats in Pennsylvania to back his re-election effort. "Voters have to get to a comfort level with him as a Democrat that does not exist yet," Allegheny County Democratic Committee Chairman James Burn told Politico. "If the primary were tomorrow and there were one or two other formidable contenders in the race, I wouldn't say with any certainty that he would win." Stephanie Singer, a Democratic ward leader in Philadelphia,...

SINGAPORE -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned North Korea on Saturday that the United States would respond quickly if moves by the communist government threaten America or its Asian allies. "We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in the region -- or on us," Gates told an annual international meeting of defense and security officials from Asia and the Pacific Rim. Gates called North Korea's nuclear program a "harbinger of a dark future" but said he does not consider it a direct military threat to the United States...

WARREN, Pa. — A small-town newspaper is apologizing for running a classified advertisement calling for the assassination of President Barack Obama. Warren Times Observer Publisher John Elchert says the ad appeared Thursday. It read, "May Obama follow in the steps of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy!" The four presidents were all assassinated. Elchert tells The Associated Press that the newspaper's advertising staff didn't make the historical connection. He says the northwestern Pennsylvania newspaper turned information over to police and that the Secret Service is investigating the person who placed the ad. A note in Friday's paper says the newspaper "apologizes...

If you're curious, she has a great shot to win....

For the last 40 years or so, the Democrat party has rode largely on the backs of the pro-choice movement to campaign during election seasons. The NOW organization uses pro-choice as their pillar of ideology, stating that a woman shouldn't be "forced" into a birth they don't want. Well, the Democrats in D.C. are enacting a slew of new initiatives that basically eliminate choices of ANY kind for the individual. Where are the so-called "pro-choice" advocates now? Was it all a scam? How can NOW claim to be "pro-choice" about anything? They only support anti-choice establishment Democrats! I don't want...

Is it just me, or do some of you find it immensely coincidental that selected Chrysler dealerships were ordered to close June 9, and analog television goes off the air June 12? Down here in South Florida, the surviving Chrysler dealers are literally dancing on TV, using Obama's face in the local fishwrap as their warranty backer. Obama is using the surviving dealerships to help spread his propaganda. Lawyers for Indiana, listen up. Obama is only interested in boosting his exposure. He could care less that investors and industries are losing millions, if not billions.

CHICAGO — Children on medicine for attention deficit disorder scored higher on academic tests than their unmedicated peers in the first large, long-term study suggesting this kind of benefit from the widely used drugs. The nationally representative study involved nearly 600 children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder followed from kindergarten through fifth grade. Children's scores on several standardized math and reading tests taken during those years were examined. Compared with unmedicated kids, average scores for medicated children were almost three points higher in math and more than five points higher in reading. The difference amounts to about three months ahead...

Congressman Tom Rooney, R-Tequesta, agrees with President Barack Obama — It’s time to determine the fate of those being held, some as long as seven years, at Guantanamo Bay. But after a fact-finding mission to the detention facility at the eastern tip of Cuba on Friday, Rooney said that rather than relocating any of the suspected terrorists to American prisons if they are found guilty, maybe the facility could be used as a prison. “The one thing, as we discussed down there and merits further discussion, is that right now it’s a detention facility. There are 248-plus people and only...

Monday, May 04, 2009 JUPITER- — A U.S. Navy ship powering south off shore at Carlin Park attracted several calls this morning to the U.S. Coast Guard Station at Lake Worth Inlet from puzzled residents. The ship is on its way to pick up sailors at Fleet Week, the annual rest-and-relaxation tour for sailors in Fort Lauderdale, said Ed Greenfield, U.S. Coast Guard public affairs officer. "People were concerned there was something going on. They are not used to seeing U.S. Navy ships come so close to shore," Greenfield said. He said he did not know how close the ship...

To express his “disappointment” that the state’s Republican leaders failed to reach a budget deal on time, Deputy House Majority Whip Ed Hooper, R-Clearwater, said he’ll decline $133 in per diem and other cash lawmakers receive while in Tallahassee this week. He’ll also pay his own travel expenses. “I’m not a rich person, but I just feel like this makes a tiny statement,” said Hooper, a retired firefighter. “We had nine weeks to get a budget done and we didn’t. It shouldn’t be the citizens’ fault.” So who’s fault is it? Hooper said it took time to figure out all...

Attorney for Chrysler shareholders discusses intimidation by the White House to prevent them for claiming their contractual entitlements (audio download)

Las Vegas entertainer Danny Gans, an impressionist who sold more tickets on the Strip than the Rat Pack or Elvis Presley, died early Friday, his manager said. He was 52. Gans, best known for his touching impersonation of entertainer George Burns, began a five-year headline gig at tycoon Steve Wynn's Wynn Las Vegas hotel in February. Prior to that, he spent 11 years at the Mirage. Gans earned Las Vegas Entertainer of the Year honors 11 years in a row in the reader poll conducted by the Las Vegas Review-Journal but was not well known beyond Las Vegas. The cause...

Ross Levinsohn, former president of Fox Interactive Media and now partner at media venture firm Velocity Interactive, spoke to the execs at the OnHollywood conference to deliver a warning to the entertainment industry: "Take action now or be replaced." The nut of his argument (and hardly news, to be fair) is that media consumption is changing dramatically. The old ways are dying: Newspapers are drying up. Magazine publishing is off. Music revenues are down. Even DVD sales are slowing. And the areas that are growing -- content downloading and subscriptons -- run at lower margins than the media they're replacing....

Floridians are feeling better about the economy than they have in more than a year, according to a new consumer confidence survey that economists say is a signal they might start spending again. Consumer confidence jumped 6 points in April to 71, the highest level since the 73 reading in February 2008, according to the University of Florida survey released Tuesday. Even though unemployment in Florida hit 9.7 percent in March -- the highest in 34 years -- and housing prices still are falling, consumers' are signaling that their spirits are improving from rock bottom, said Chris McCarty, research director...

"God will get you for that, Walter." Nobody could do more with these words than Beatrice Arthur as Maude Findlay on the marital warpath. She could slingshot them in fury or release them in a chilling deadpan, but however she delivered them you could be sure they'd hit their mark with a prizefighter's pop. All the tributes that will be lavished on Arthur, who died Saturday at 86, will extol her impeccable comic timing. Her ability to detonate a joke, to momentarily harness a punch line before releasing at full force, brought her Emmy-winning success in two groundbreaking sitcoms --...

Lesson learned: Don’t ever e-mail Perez Hilton! One big slip of the keyboard Monday, and local industrial photographer Ron Manera saw his business crawl to a virtual stop. And he says he's got blogger Perez Hilton and "his gay mafia" to thank. Manera's phones stopped working as callers were greeted either by a busy signal or a voice saying the phone was disconnected – even though it wasn’t. His website got overloaded and crashed. And his e-mail inbox filled up with hate mail. Someone wanted to burn his Palm Beach Gardens home. Someone else wrote about killing him and his...

Nice going FReepers!