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  • Rand Paul ends filibuster against CIA director nominee after almost 13 hours

    03/07/2013 12:06:18 AM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 108 replies
    Sen. Rand Paul ended his self-described filibuster against the confirmation of President Obama's nominee to lead the CIA early Thursday - at 12:39 EST -- just short of thirteen hours after the Kentucky Republican and tea party favorite began speaking. But Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, also a Kentucky Republican, said he would continue to oppose Brennan's confirmation and try to keep the debate going. After Paul yielded the floor, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., filed a motion to cut off debate on Brennan's nomination and bring it up for a vote....
  • Doctors euthanize Belgian twins who said they could not bear the thought of going blind

    01/14/2013 12:49:44 AM PST · by BlackVeil · 49 replies
    National Post ^ | 13 Jan 2013 | Bruno Waterfield
    Identical twins have been killed by Belgian doctors in a unique case under the country’s euthanasia laws. The 45-year-old brothers from the Antwerp region were born deaf and sought euthanasia after finding out that they would soon go blind. They told doctors that they were unable to bear the thought of not being able to see each other again. The twins, who have not been named but have been pictured on Belgian television, had spent their entire lives together, sharing a flat and working as cobblers. Belgium’s Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper reported on the weekend that doctors at Brussels University...
  • Ndamukong Suh: Another Belcher Waiting to Happen?

    12/03/2012 2:07:19 PM PST · by publius321 · 109 replies
    Instead of blaming guns, Why not address the clear warning signs of the mentally disturbed - BEFORE they snap. Here is at least one who is a walking portent...
  • Fever Dreams From My Real Father

    10/01/2012 1:54:05 PM PDT · by Tex-Con-Man · 58 replies
    Barackryphal ^ | September 29, 2012 | Loren Collins
    Fever Dreams From My Real Father #7: Gilbert's "Mockumentaries" Dreams From My Real Father is not Joel Gilbert's first DVD documentary to present a wild conspiracy theory that attempts to completely rewrite the life of a world-famous individual with stories of cover-ups that extended over whole decades, and claims of astonishing new evidence that Gilbert says he uncovered. In 2010, Gilbert wrote and produced Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison, and in January 2012 he released Elvis Found Alive. Both were projects of Gilbert's production company, Highway 61 Entertainment. Paul (available on Netflix streaming) makes...
  • Immigration officers doubted Obama birth story (Corsi tip-off to 7/17 Apaio Posse findings?)

    07/10/2012 8:45:56 PM PDT · by Seizethecarp · 212 replies
    WND ^ | July 10, 2012 | Jerome R. Corsi
    NEW YORK – Immigration documents filed in 1961 cast doubt on whether Barack Hussein Obama Sr. was the president’s biological father and indicate federal officers were prepared to investigate whether the Kenyan was married to the president’s mother, Ann Dunham. Aside from the image of a long-form birth certificate released by the White House April 27, 2011 – a document Sheriff Arpaio’s law enforcement investigation has found probable cause to believe is a forgery – what documentary evidence is there that Barack Obama was the biological father? In the third sentence of the third paragraph, the Dahlin memo adds the...
  • Were Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Really Married?

    07/07/2012 9:26:47 AM PDT · by Meet the New Boss · 253 replies
    The American Thinker ^ | 7 July 2012 | Nick Chase
    In my previously published article "Secrets Revealed," I concluded that what President Obama is concealing on his genuine long-form birth certificate (not the digital PDF forgery released to the public) is that his mother signed her maiden name. snip Personally, I think the preponderance of evidence shows that Obama's marriage to Ann Dunham was a legal contrivance that suited both their purposes -- Obama's as a means to maintain residency in the U.S. until he completed his studies, and Ann's (and maybe also her parents') to provide legitimacy to the baby's birth. In no way was this a meaningful marital...
  • LGBT Pride Month Program

    06/21/2012 8:59:34 PM PDT · by Rabin · 17 replies
    US D O justice ^ | June 6, 2012 | The Power of Out
    Attorney General Eric Holder, along with Department of Justice senior officials, employees and invited guests, celebrated the accomplishments of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender...
  • Obama Repeats Whopper About Mom's Health Insurance

    05/10/2012 5:54:50 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 18 replies
    IBD Editorials ^ | May 10, 2012
    The Obama Record: In a campaign infomercial, the president suggests his late mother's health insurer denied her coverage in her cancer battle. It's a heart-breaking story. Only it's not true. About midway through the slick 17-minute video, "The Road We've Traveled," narrator Tom Hanks explains that Obama made enacting his health care reforms a top priority because "he knew from experience the cost of waiting." "He remembered the millions of families like his who feel the pressure of rising costs and the fear of being denied or dropped from coverage," Hanks says, as photos of Obama and his late mother,...
  • Barack Obama's mother 'was secretly in contact with his estranged father'

    05/01/2012 7:13:17 PM PDT · by Mozilla · 51 replies
    www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | 30 April 2012 | Daniel Bates
    Barack Obama's mother was secretly in contact with his estranged father during his entire childhood without the future president's knowledge, a new book claims. Ann Dunham gave Barack Obama Sr regular updates about his life during the 1960s and 70s and even sent him school reports. It was not until the 1980s that Mr Obama became aware of the contact between the two - but he still did not forgive his father for being an absent dad. The claims are made in a new book by Mr Obama's half sister Auma in which she reveals that their father was routinely...
  • TEAR JERKER! Dead Daughter's Voicemails Erased by Phone Company

    03/23/2012 12:06:48 PM PDT · by US Navy Vet · 50 replies · 1+ views
    ABC News ^ | March 23, 2012 | By ASHLEY JENNINGS
    For 51-year-old Faron Butler, the thing he cherished most after his daughter's death was being able to hear her voice. "Every time I had a bad day or just wanted to listen to her I'd go through my old voicemails," Butler told ABCNews.com through tears. "I had one that I'd play over and over again. She'd be saying 'Daddy, I love you and I miss you.'" He said he was shocked when a few weeks ago he went to hear that familiar voice, only to find out the voicemail had been erased
  • Boston Globe reporter withholds Obama file birth (narrative doesn't match up with INS reports)

    11/09/2011 7:09:04 AM PST · by tutstar · 37 replies
    wnd ^ | Jerome Corsi
    A Boston Globe reporter sympathetic to Barack Obama apparently received favored access to the immigration file of the president's father. In writing her biography of Barack Obama's father, Boston Globe reporter Sally H. Jacobs had access to what appears to be the father's unredacted Immigration and Naturalization Service file. The documents cover the time Barack Obama Sr. arrived in Honolulu in 1959 until he was forced to leave the United States in 1964. However, the redacted file the Department of Homeland Security provided in an Freedom of Information Act request to independent reporter Heather Smathers whited-out key facts about the...
  • Source: Lindsay Lohan To Pose For Playboy

    10/25/2011 11:07:18 AM PDT · by Scythian · 75 replies
    Lohan has lined up a new gig -- as a Playboy girl. LiLo is posing for Hugh Hefner's Playboy magazine, a source told Access Hollywood. The source told Access that Lohan is disrobing for the spread, which is being shot this week in LA. When contacted by Access, a rep for the actress said, "I cannot confirm at this time."
  • Turns Out Obama‘s Story About His Mother’s Healthcare Struggle Is Inaccurate

    07/12/2011 2:17:31 PM PDT · by blueyon · 28 replies
    The Blaze ^ | 7/11/2011 | Christopher Santarelli
    A new book by New York Times reporter Janny Scott sheds new light on the life of Barack Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, including her final years. Scott found while assembling information for “A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother,” that Dunham in fact did have health coverage for her ovarian cancer, based off Dunham’s own past correspondence. Washington Examiner’s Byron York: “Dunham decided to stay in Jakarta, where she underwent an appendectomy. But the pain did not go away, and Dunham feared, correctly, that she was terribly ill. In January 1995 she left Indonesia to go home...
  • Man robs bank to get medical care in jail

    06/21/2011 3:20:20 PM PDT · by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! · 20 replies
    yahoo.com ^ | Tue Jun 21, 10:36 am ET | Zachary Roth
    Some people who need medical care but can't afford it go to the emergency room. Others just hope they'll get better. James Richard Verone robbed a bank. Earlier this month, Verone (pictured), a 59-year-old convenience store clerk, walked into a Gaston, N.C., bank and handed the cashier a note demanding $1 and medical attention. Then he waited calmly for police to show up. He's now in jail and has an appointment with a doctor this week. Verone's problems started when he lost the job he'd held for 17 years as a Coca Cola deliveryman, amid the economic downturn. He found...
  • Terry Pratchett begins formal process to end his life

    06/15/2011 6:58:15 AM PDT · by Abin Sur · 328 replies
    Blastr ^ | June 13, 2011 | Carol Pinchefsky
    Three and a half years ago, Terry Pratchett, the beloved author of the Discworld series, announced that he has early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Now he's made an even more startling announcement. Pratchett, who has campaigned in his native United Kingdom for the right of assisted suicide, has begun the formal process of assisted suicide in Switzerland, one of the few countries in the world to legalize euthanasia. Specifically, this would take place at Dignitas, a clinic that provides qualified doctors and nurses to assist with the patients' suicides. Dignitas has sent Pratchett the paperwork he needs to sign to begin the...
  • Husband gave life to save wife from tornado — ‘He was my hero’

    05/27/2011 1:22:10 PM PDT · by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! · 9 replies
    yahoo.com ^ | Fri May 27, 11:39 am ET | Zachary Roth
    As a tornado tore his Joplin, Mo., home apart, Don Lansaw did what came naturally: He threw himself on top of his wife Bethany to protect her. And in doing so, he gave his life for her. Lansaw's is just one of several tales of heroism, heartbreak, and amazing escapes that have emerged from the spate of violent weather events that swept the center of the country this week. As many as 125 people are thought to have been killed by the Joplin tornado alone. "The house was ripping apart, it all happened so fast," Bethany Lansaw told NBC News....
  • R-Rated Movies in the Catholic High School

    03/23/2011 9:01:00 AM PDT · by Mary Kochan · 18 replies
    Catholic Lane ^ | 3/23/11 | Catholic Lane Editor
    In most high schools, drugs, drinking, profanity and promiscuity pose significant challenges. Sadly these challenges now likewise present themselves in our diocesan high schools today. Studies show that teens exposed to R-rated movies become more likely to engage in smoking, drinking, drugs and promiscuity....
  • A Sad Picture....No caption necessary.......

    03/14/2011 1:07:23 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 137 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 03-14-2011 | Staff
  • Elton John's new baby next door (In £1.3m luxury flat with two nannies round-the-clock)

    01/01/2011 8:39:52 PM PST · by Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage · 46 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 2:09 AM on 2nd January 2011 | Caroline Graham and Sharon Churcher
    Sir Elton John’s new baby son Zachary is ‘living like royalty’ in his own £1.3 million apartment adjoining the singer’s exclusive Los Angeles pad. The Mail on Sunday has learned that Sir Elton, 63, and his partner David Furnish have appointed a top Hollywood interior designer to turn the flat beside their luxury home into a dream nursery. Although the work is not yet finished, several months after it started, eight-day-old Zachary is already installed there, and looked after by round-the-clock nannies. A New York television star who is a long-time friend of the couple said: ‘Elton and David have...
  • Stuffed! The 30,000-calorie Christmas feast eaten by the world's fattest mum in ONE two-hour

    12/26/2010 10:42:11 AM PST · by traumer · 90 replies · 5+ views
    A New Jersey woman who hopes to become the fattest woman in world got 30,000 calories closer to her 1,000lb goal with a festive feast that could have fed dozens of revelers. 46-stone Donna Simpson, sitting in a reinforced metal chair, chowed down on the world's biggest Christmas dinner as she ate for two straight hours on Saturday. The single mum-of-two tucked into two 25lb turkeys, two maple-glazed hams, 15lbs of potatoes (10lbs roast, 5lbs mashed), five loaves of bread, five pounds of herb stuffing, four pints of gravy, four pints of cranberry dressing and an astonishing 20lbs of vegetables....
  • S.F. Supes Pass Happy Meal Ban with Veto-Proof Majority

    11/02/2010 8:16:32 PM PDT · by PugetSoundSoldier · 17 replies
    SF Weekly Blogs ^ | Tue., Nov. 2 2010 | John Birdsall
    Snitch editor Joe Eskenazi has the word on today's vote by the Board of Supervisors to end toy giveaways for fast-food meals that fail to rate as nutritious. Eskenazi: The supes today passed an ordinance that will require meals to meet nutritional guidelines if restaurants wish to include a toy with the food purchase. More importantly, the supes passed the so-called "Happy Meal Ban" by an 8-3 vote ― meaning it can survive a promised veto from Mayor Gavin Newsom. That's right: San Francisco done banned the Happy Meal. Robble robble. Sponsored by Supervisor Eric Mar, the ban turned on...
  • U.S. Unemployment Rates By County

    08/16/2010 5:32:23 PM PDT · by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! · 16 replies
    americanobserver.net ^ | August 2010 | americanobserver.net
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  • I am a Broken Man

    06/14/2010 1:48:57 PM PDT · by savedbygrace · 259 replies · 4,521+ views
    A few days ago, my wife suddenly, without forewarning that I ever detected, told me she is leaving me. The details are not important, only that I recognize it was mostly my fault. Our grown daughter is leaving home about the same time. Within three weeks, I will be alone, with only my Golden Retriever as a companion. I'm calling on God, and he is answering, but in this physical world, it's only my Golden. Heartbroken, deeply wounded, ashamed. That's me. I'm hoping to receive words of advice and counsel. I'm a born again, spirit filled Christian, so I'll respond...
  • Big Push Building for DADT, ENDA Votes (Mary Bono Mack,Ileana Ros-Lehtinen,& Mark Kirk support ENDA

    05/03/2010 4:45:48 PM PDT · by Maelstorm · 9 replies · 494+ views
    http://www.southfloridagaynews.com ^ | 02 May 2010 | Lisa Keen
    Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, told the Signorile Show that she is still “very optimistic” ENDA will get its vote in committee in the next two weeks, but that “we have to be marching in the streets.” And things are looking a little tough for ENDA these days. The right-wing has stepped up its rhetoric considerably in recent days, sounding an alarm. An editorial in the conservative Washington Times in D.C. on April 23 said: “First-graders should not be forced into the classrooms of teachers undergoing sex changes. Religious broadcasters and faith-based summer camps...
  • A Protestant Discovers Mary

    03/14/2010 12:14:46 PM PDT · by NYer · 761 replies · 5,065+ views
    NC Register ^ | March 13, 2010
    Romano Guardini wrote in his book on the Rosary, “To linger in the domain of Mary is a divinely great thing. One does not ask about the utility of truly noble things, because they have their meaning within themselves. So it is of infinite meaning to draw a deep breath of this purity, to be secure in the peace of this union with God.” Guardini was speaking of spending time with Mary in praying the Rosary, but David Mills, in his latest book, Discovering Mary, helps us linger in the domain of Mary by opening up to us the...
  • Wash. man electrocuted by urinating on power line

    03/01/2010 7:27:07 PM PST · by rawhide · 42 replies · 1,255+ views
  • Our children as props (WA Gov signs gay rights bill in a pre-school)

    05/19/2009 6:27:51 PM PDT · by llevrok · 23 replies · 820+ views
    KIRO Radio (Seattle) ^ | 5/19/09 | Dori Monson
    Tuesday, May 19, 2009 @ 11:24am Dori writes... People asked me why I didn't talk about the governor signing the "everything but marriage" bill yesterday. I didn't address it on the air because to me, there's nothing controversial about the bill. I think homosexuals should have the same legal rights as heteros - but I do not think we should redefine marriage. I am perfectly fine with this bill. But I am NOT fine with the outrageous use of children in the photo-op of the governor signing the bill. Gregoire surrounded herself with a group of four year olds as...
  • Fifty Years of Math 1959 - 2009 (in the USA )

    05/01/2009 7:46:39 AM PDT · by Fawn · 30 replies · 1,453+ views
    an Email ^ | 5/1/09 | unknown
    Fifty Years of Math 1959 - 2009 (in the USA ) Last week I purchased a burger at Burger King for $1.58. The counter girl took my $2 and I pulled 8 cents from my pocket and gave it to her. She stood there, holding the nickel and 3 pennies, while looking at the screen on her register. I sensed her discomfort and tried to tell her to just give me two quarters, but she hailed the manager for help...while he tried to explain the transaction to her, she stood there and cried. Why do I tell you this? Because...
  • Vitamin D May Not Be The Answer To Feeling SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)

    03/19/2009 11:03:19 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 18 replies · 487+ views
    Medical News Today ^ | 18 Mar 2009
    A lack of Vitamin D, due to reduced sunlight, has been linked to depression and the symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), but research by the University of Warwick shows there is no clear link between the levels of vitamin D in the blood and depression. Exposure to sunlight stimulates vitamin D in the skin and a shortage of sunlight in the winter has been put forward as one possible cause of SAD. However Warwick Medical School researchers, led by Dr Oscar Franco, have discovered low levels of vitamin D in the blood may not be connected to depression. The...
  • 13-Year-Old Accused Of Killing Half Brother (to take over Dad's drug ring)

    03/03/2009 4:21:10 PM PST · by Mikey_1962 · 11 replies · 772+ views
    WaPo ^ | 3/3/09 | Mikey_1962
    HYANNIS, Mass. -- Police have accused a 13-year-old of masterminding the slaying of his 16-year-old half brother so he could take over a drug operation they are alleged to have inherited from their father. Jordan Mendes was found shot, stabbed 27 times and dumped into a pit, where his body was torched. District Attorney Michael O'Keefe said Mendes was a "significant drug dealer." Authorities said Mykel Mendes, a seventh-grader, was jealous of the money his half brother was making selling OxyContin and cocaine and wanted to take over. A 13-year-old friend and a 20-year-old cousin also are charged with murder.
  • FAX, EMAIL TO YOUR REPS (PORKULUS 101)

    02/07/2009 3:54:36 PM PST · by tomnbeverly · 16 replies · 653+ views
    02-07-09 | tomnbeverly
    Dear Elected Representative, TEACHING POINTS PORKULUS 101: 1. GOVERNMENT DOESN’T CREATE JOBS IT CREATES MORE GOVERNMENT. 2. LEAVE JOB CREATION TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR, STIMULATE WITH TAX CUTS. 3. GOVERNMENT JOBS FOR THE UNEMPLOYED ARE UNSUSTAINABLE TAX BURDENS FOR THE REST OF US. 4. IF YOU WANT MEN TO FEED THEMSELVES THEN TEACH MEN TO FARM, DON’T GROW GOVERMENT. 5. IT’S GETTING WAY PAST TIME TO THROW SOME MORE TEA IN THE HARBOR. 6. ONE TRILLION TAX DOLLARS CREATE 1.5 MILLION HOLE DIGGERS AND 1.5 MILLION HOLE FILLERS FOR 5 YEARS @ 50K PER YEAR PLUS THE COST OF SHOVELS....
  • Yule be in tears at Christmas

    12/24/2008 9:23:33 PM PST · by Cyberrat · 29 replies · 1,249+ views
    The Sun ^ | 12/24/08 | STAFF REPORTER
    THERE can be only one thing worse than not getting the present you want this Christmas – and that’s finding your most wanted gift is just an empty box. But that’s exactly what happened to this young lad – who thought he was unwrapping the Xbox360 console he had been dreaming of all year.
  • Bernie Buescher (D) is Colorado’s next secretary of state

    12/19/2008 5:33:15 PM PST · by Impy · 9 replies · 408+ views
    The Colorado Independent ^ | 12-19-08 | Cara Degette
    Gov. Bill Ritter has picked state Rep. Bernie Buescher as Colorado’s next secretary of state. “Thank you for the confidence,” Buescher told the governor. “I will work hard and try to do a good job.” Ritter announced his pick at a news conference in his office this morning. The position came open when Mike Coffman was elected to congress. In all, 20 people applied; that number was whittled to three finalists, including Buescher, as well as outgoing House Speaker Andrew Romanoff and Senate Majority Leader Ken Gordon. During the news conference, Ritter thanked all for applying, and said Buescher is...
  • The Placebo Effect: Not All in Your Head

    12/03/2008 6:50:35 PM PST · by neverdem · 4 replies · 741+ views
    ScienceNOW Daily News ^ | 2 December 2008 | Rachel Zelkowitz
    Enlarge ImageReal effect. Patients with a certain copy of a serotonin gene showed less amygdala activity (left), indicating reduced anxiety, after treatment with placebos. Credit: T. Furmark et al., Journal of Neuroscience To get a drug to market, pharmaceutical companies have to show that it works better than a placebo. But sometimes the placebo is just as powerful as the real thing. Just why our bodies respond so strongly to fake medicine has long been a mystery, but researchers are a step closer to solving that riddle, having picked out a particular gene that may be responsible for one...
  • Kanjorski beats Barletta in northeastern Pa.

    11/04/2008 8:40:40 PM PST · by Impy · 6 replies · 923+ views
    Centredaily ^ | 11-04-08 | AP
    PHILADELPHIA — Paul Kanjorski has fought off a nationally known crusader against illegal immigration to keep his northeastern Pennsylvania congressional seat. Kanjorski, a Democrat, beat Republican Lou Barletta in the 11th District.
  • Record 259 US Companies Cozy With Homosexuals

    09/13/2008 1:32:06 PM PDT · by hardhead · 76 replies · 393+ views
    WorldNetDaily ^ | Sep 13, 2008 | WorldNetDaily
    Below is the list, in alphabetical order, of companies scoring a perfect 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign's 2009 Corporate Equality Index, with policies beneficial toward homosexuals: 3M Co. AAA Northern California, Nevada and Uta Abercrombie & Fitch Accenture Ltd. Aetna Agilent Technologies Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld Alaska Airlines Alcatel-Lucent Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America Allstate Corp.
  • Why are conservatives happier than liberals?

    05/09/2008 12:25:31 PM PDT · by avacado · 39 replies · 162+ views
    CNN Online ^ | May 9, 2008 | Jack Cafferty
    Why are conservatives happier than liberals?FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty: Conservatives are happier than liberals. A study published in the journal “Psychological Science” says it’s because conservatives are better at rationalizing inequalities. Regardless of someone’s income, marital status or church attendance, people with right-wing ideologies report greater satisfaction with their lives than those with left-wing beliefs. Researchers found that conservatives also score highest when it comes to the ability to justify inequalities. For example, a conservative might support the idea of a meritocracy – that if you work hard and perform well, you’ll move up the economic ladder… and if you...
  • Gandhi, Churchill 'myth', Sherlock real for Britons

    02/26/2008 9:05:21 AM PST · by Brainhose · 8 replies · 252+ views
    ExpressIndia.com ^ | Today | Brainhose
    London, February 4: Mahatma Gandhi never existed while Britain's wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill was a fictional character. Don't fret. This is only what most Britons think about the great leaders. According to a survey carried out in Britain, many believe that Mahatma Gandhi and Churchill are just mythical figures like Florence Nightingale, popularly known as the 'Lady with the Lamp'. In fact, almost a quarter of the population have the popular notion that Churchill, "the greatest Briton of all time", was made up. Moreover, despite his celebrated military reputation, 47 per cent of respondents feel the 12th-century English...
  • Interview With An Upset Primary Results Conservative

    02/11/2008 3:30:36 AM PST · by joesbucks · 135 replies · 148+ views
    self | self
    I thought principled politics was supposed to be all about me. And if it doesn't go my way, I'm allowed to throw a tantrum, turn blue, kick my feet, flail my arms, threaten to support and vote for Hillary or Obama just to make my point. I mean, I didn't get my way. This is just like not getting my candy at the checkout counter. I didn't get my toy in the toy department. People took me out of control of my party and I'm mad. If I can't control my party, then I have to play nice and be...
  • Plugs pulled on FBI wiretaps due to unpaid bills

    01/10/2008 11:48:34 AM PST · by SubGeniusX · 26 replies · 53+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | Jan 10 08 | By LARA JAKES JORDAN
    WASHINGTON — Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau's repeated failures to pay phone bills on time. A Justice Department audit released today blamed the lost connections on the FBI's lax oversight of money used in undercover investigations. Poor supervision of the program also allowed one agent to steal $25,000, the audit said. In at least one case, a wiretap used in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act investigation "was halted due to untimely payment," the audit found. FISA wiretaps are used in the government's most sensitive and secretive criminal investigations,...
  • Fate of World Economy Lies with U.S. Housing --Greenspan

    10/02/2007 7:27:22 AM PDT · by ex-Texan · 80 replies · 279+ views
    Sign on San Diego ^ | 10/1/2007 | Sumeet Desai
    LONDON – The fate of the world economy hinges on what happens to house prices in America and that may not be a good thing, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said on Monday. Speaking at the Reuters headquarters in London, the former Fed chair delivered a gloomy prognosis on the state of the global economy – U.S. house prices are likely to fall further and they could drag the rest of the world with them. * * * “The critical variable in this judgement is the price of homes in the United States,” said Greenspan, who ran the U.S....
  • Does Your Mood Take A Nosedive Each November? (SAD)

    09/30/2007 3:33:12 PM PDT · by blam · 74 replies · 119+ views
    Science Daily ^ | 9-30-2007 | Loyola University Health System
    Source: Loyola University Health System Date: September 30, 2007 Does Your Mood Take A Nosedive Each November? Science Daily — If you notice that your mood, energy level and motivation take a nosedive each November only to return to normal in April, you may have Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), according to Loyola University Health System doctors. “This condition, characterized by depression, exhaustion and lack of interest in people and regular activities, interferes with a person’s outlook on life and ability to function properly,” said Dr. Angelos Halaris, chair of Loyola’s department of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences. But people should not...
  • Hispanic influx gives Liberal, Kan., a new face

    09/02/2007 7:16:22 AM PDT · by Sig Sauer P220 · 48 replies · 4,118+ views
    The Wichita Eagle ^ | 09/02/07 | Brent D. Wistrom
    LIBERAL - Ignacio Rivas stands at his paletas cart chatting with another guy who also pushes frozen fruit treats on a three-wheel cart. It's about 7 p.m. in downtown Liberal, a town proud of its Yellow Brick Road and annual Fat Tuesday pancake race. But as Rivas tilts his straw cowboy hat down and pushes across the city's main drag before sundown, the scene looks like one out of Mexico. Perhaps a third to half of the independent business storefronts advertise in Spanish. Most others note that they habla español. This snapshot reflects what's happening in Liberal -- the heart...
  • Boy Killed During Potty Training, Police Say

    07/19/2007 11:45:14 AM PDT · by Lucky9teen · 151 replies · 3,330+ views
    http://www.kcra.com/news/ ^ | 5:52 am PDT July 19, 2007
    Mom's Boyfriend Charged CINCINNATI -- A judge ruled that a teenager will be tried as an adult for the death of an 18-month-old boy whose mother testified that he was repeatedly swung like a bat against the wall when the teen became frustrated during toilet training. Derris Smith, 18, the mother's live-in boyfriend, has been charged with murder. He was 17 on June 27, when, police said, he delivered the beating that led to Malakai Glenn's death four days later. The impact of the child hitting the wall left drywall stuck to his head and cracked a wooden door, said...
  • Boy, 8, Kills Baby Sister, Police Say

    06/13/2007 8:54:53 PM PDT · by freespirited · 12 replies · 630+ views
    FOX News ^ | 6/13/07 | CHARLES J. HANLEY
    <p>NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, Texas — An 8-year-old boy dropped or threw his infant twin sisters down the stairs, killing one and injuring the other, authorities said. He is too young to be detained or charged, they said.</p> <p>The boy has a "diminished mental capacity," police said. A child must be at least 10 to be in the juvenile court system, Larry Irving, an investigator with the North Richland Hills Police Department, said Wednesday.</p>
  • Paris banged up ... again (Prisoner Riot Feared over Hilton Special Treatment)

    06/09/2007 9:34:01 AM PDT · by Anti-Bubba182 · 611 replies · 12,562+ views
    The Sun ^ | 6-9-07 | EMILY SMITH
    PETRIFIED PARIS HILTON mouthed “I love you” to her parents last night — before being carted off to face a hostile reception in prison.....[snip] [snip]Prisoner number 9818783 was put back in her special cell — isolated from other inmates — amid fears the angry lags could RIOT over her special treatment. Wardens even ordered a lockdown as prisoners — who think Paris pretended to be sick to con doctors — threatened a revolt. An insider at the prison in Lynwood, California, said: “The women inside the jail are seething. They say if you’re a rich white girl you get special...
  • Silly is very sad tonight; come say hi tomorrow and cheer him up... Happy Hour at The Irish Pub

    03/29/2007 10:47:15 PM PDT · by Silly · 75 replies · 455+ views
    March 30, 2007 | Silly
    Folks in Freeper land, I could use your encouragement, prayers, comfort and support tonight. After battling my employer over a verbally and physically abusive boss, I had to clean out my office today. Don't panic yet -- I'm continuing on payroll indefinitely. But after I reported the abuse, and was removed from her building, I was given an office from which I could search for a job. I needed that, because I need to be around midtown for interviews (and I have had some). Tomorrow in fact I have two interviews. I'll try to summarize this quickly: My boss is...
  • Mike Evans, original Lionel Jefferson, dead

    12/23/2006 6:39:32 PM PST · by Rodney King · 16 replies · 1,465+ views
    CNN ^ | today | staff
    TWENTYNINE PALMS, California (AP) -- Actor Mike Evans, best known as Lionel Jefferson in the TV sitcoms "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons," has died. He was 57. Evans died of throat cancer December 14 at his mother's home in Twentynine Palms, said his niece, Chrystal Evans. Evans, along with Eric Monte, also created and wrote for "Good Times," one of the first TV sitcoms that featured a primarily black cast. Michael Jonas Evans was born November 3, 1949, in Salisbury, North Carolina. His father, Theodore Evans Sr., was a dentist while his mother, Annie Sue Evans, was a...
  • Father of Chelsea's Boyfriend in Prison for Fraud, Scams

    12/08/2006 11:55:51 AM PST · by agooga · 38 replies · 1,066+ views
    ABC News ^ | 12/08/06 | Brian Ross and Joseph Rhee
    If reports are true that Chelsea Clinton and her boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky are considering marriage, the father of the groom won't be able to attend the wedding until he is released from prison in November 2008. Ed Mezvinsky, a former Iowa Congressman, is serving a seven-year sentence for fraud after getting caught up in a series of Nigerian e-mail scams.
  • Farewell Marine

    10/13/2006 9:44:07 AM PDT · by meandog · 5 replies · 797+ views
    Sarah Lee (James) Gilcher
    Apologies if this was previously posted but it is a tribute to the Marines who have paid the supreme sacrifice to their country. WARNING: Extremely sad on this, the birthday of the United States Navy and its seaborne infantry--the Devil Dogs of the U.S. Marine Corps.