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  • Tiger Woods' Doctor Tony Galea Linked to Banned Doping Drugs HGH and Actovegin

    12/15/2009 8:02:24 AM PST · by marshmallow · 60 replies · 1,118+ views
    NY Daily News ^ | 12/14/09 | Michael O'Keeffe, Teri Thompson and Nathaniel Vinton
    The Canadian doctor who performed a controversial medical procedure on Tiger Woods is under criminal investigation for drug violations on both sides of the border, bringing scrutiny to his colleagues, including one who worked closely with BALCO athletes and Yankee superstar Alex Rodriguez. Dr. Tony Galea was arrested in October and his Toronto clinic was raided by Canadian authorities after his assistant was detained at the U.S.-Canadian border and reportedly found to be in possession of illegal drugs, including human growth hormone (hGH) and Actovegin - a drug extracted from calf's blood that has been banned by the World Anti-Doping...
  • Tiger Woods' Alleged Porn Star Lover Advertised as Escort, Acted on 'Wonder Years'

    12/10/2009 9:51:49 AM PST · by Red in Blue PA · 34 replies · 2,355+ views
    Foxnews ^ | 12/10/2009 | Staff
    Porn star Holly Sampson said on an adult Internet talk show that she slept with Tiger Woods at his bachelor party five years ago. "Me and my girlfriends did a bachelor party for Tiger and it was amazing," she said on the show, in which she and other adult stars are interviewed topless. "He picked me to go into the room. I have to say he was really good." Now Jim McBride, the CEO of the celebrity adult Web site MrSkin.com tells Pop Tarts that Sampson has been running ads as a high-paying adult escort for at least seven years.
  • Woods Update: One of His Mistresses Allegedly Had an Abortion and There is a Sex Tape

    12/10/2009 6:23:14 AM PST · by marshmallow · 113 replies · 3,380+ views
    A disgraced Tiger Woods is terrified that the worst news is yet to come – that he fathered love children with his mistresses! And his many liaisons may have been caught on tape! That’s the bombshell charge that could wreck what’s left of his once squeaky-clean image, sink his badly tattered marriage and destroy his multimillion-dollar endorsement empire. The golf great had wild unprotected sex with a string of mistresses, sources tell The ENQUIRER- and now he fears claims that his out-of-control sexual proclivities may have produced children. “That would be the final straw for his wife – AND Tiger...
  • Rachel Uchitel tells friends that she and Tiger Woods did drugs before having sex

    12/04/2009 8:03:53 AM PST · by Perdogg · 196 replies · 4,689+ views
    Examiner ^ | 12.03.09
    What a difference a week can make. Last Friday reports were just starting to surface of Tiger Woods automobile accident. Since that time at least three women have come forward saying they were Woods' mistresses. Also rumors of domestic violence causing the car accident are running rampant. Tiger's life has definitely changed. Rachel Uchitel, the first woman who was romantically linked in the Tiger Woods affair scandal was reportedley paid off to keep quiet about the situation. Now RadarOnline is reporting that Uchitel told friends that she and Tiger would do drugs before having sex. Whether it is a coincidence...
  • Ft. Hood Victims Called "Maggots".....

    11/11/2009 10:12:01 AM PST · by Free ThinkerNY · 12 replies · 1,036+ views
    weaselzippers.net ^ | Nov. 11, 2009 | ZIP
    Note: Almost all of these comments (and many more at the link provided) are from Muslims living in America.... (Shadow Lands)- Following the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, some Muslim forums have been advising commenters to show restraint – for example here: would just advise everyone to choose their words very carefully. Regardless of how you feel, certian words can be construed as sedition. Why be locked up for celebrating on the forum the death of 12 people? not worth it.. so think about it So having thought about it carefully, here are some of the responses: OMG! 12 Maggots...
  • Huckabee Takes Swipe At Sarah Palin

    11/09/2009 12:06:25 PM PST · by DB9 · 97 replies · 2,303+ views
    The Huckster took a swipe at Sarah Palin and he did it with a smile. He does everything with a smile, being far from the first snake I've seen that has himself one of those. At least she isn't a Mormon. He might cut her a little bit of slack. Why am I thinking Huck has now read every Palin column Andy Sullivan has ever written? The Hucky puck doesn't like it that he's being overshadowed by both Palin and Romney, who comes up in the interview, as well. Is Huck's real problem that Sarah may have blown him off...
  • Levi Johnston Set to File For Joint Custody Of Son Tripp

    11/09/2009 1:08:34 PM PST · by rightwingintelligentsia · 103 replies · 2,804+ views
    The Insider ^ | November 9, 2009
    "The Insider" breaks news that Levi Johnston is going to file for joint custody of Tripp, his son with Bristol Palin. Levi told "The Insider" he is now going to take legal action because he had trouble when trying to see his infant son over the weekend. "At the end of the month I'm going to file for joint custody of Tripp."
  • 'Countdown' Goes Drag to Rip Sarah Palin

    11/05/2009 7:01:30 AM PST · by Rufus2007 · 38 replies · 1,487+ views
    Newsbusters ^ | November 5, 2009 | Jeff Poor
    Stay classy, MSNBC. On the day after the Republican Party showed gains in a few statewide elections and with key health care and cap-and-trade legislation pending, MSNBC went back to the well to do what it does best - attack the character of one of the network' favorite targets, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. On the Nov. 4 broadcast of MSNBC's "Countdown," with fill-in host Lawrence O'Donnell substituting for Keith Olbermann (still MIA since New Jersey gubernatorial race went Republican), Michael Musto, gay columnist for The Village Voice and author of "La Dolce Musto" dressed up as Palin and reenacted...
  • Scozzafava Endorses Democrat After Dropping Out of N.Y. Congressional Race

    11/01/2009 11:45:14 AM PST · by Behind Liberal Lines · 639 replies · 16,706+ views
    Fox News ^ | 11/01/09
    Republican Dede Scozzafava endorsed her former Democratic opponent Sunday in the race for an upstate New York congressional seat, one day after Scozzafava dropped out of the contest. Scozzafava dropped out after Conservative Party candidate Dough Hoffman experienced a late-in-the-game surge. But on Sunday, Scozzafava backed Democrat Bill Owens -- the announcement was made in a statement send out by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "I am supporting Bill Owens for Congress and urge you to do the same," she said. "In Bill Owens, I see a sense of duty and integrity that will guide him beyond political partisanship. He...
  • Levi Johnston 'To Take Sarah Palin To Court' Over Child Custody [The BoyFriend From Hell!]

    10/30/2009 5:37:59 PM PDT · by Steelfish · 174 replies · 4,428+ views
    Telegraph(UK) ^ | October 30th 2009
    Levi Johnston 'To Take Sarah Palin To Court' Over Child Custody The teenager who fathered Sarah Palin's 10-month-old grandson has delivered a fresh blow to the former Republican vice presidential candidate by saying he will "definitely" take her to court to gain access to his child. By Nick Allen in Los Angeles 30 Oct 2009 Levi Johnston, 19, who had a son called Tripp with Mrs Palin's eldest daughter Bristol, has been considering legal action for months but now says it is "inevitable" and that Mrs Palin is preventing him from seeing the boy. A court case over Tripp, during...
  • Levi Johnston

    10/12/2009 7:27:04 PM PDT · by gop4lyf · 37 replies · 1,525+ views
    I saw this commercial while watching House tonight. Makes me want to puke!
  • Why Is John Edwards Still Spending Campaign Money?

    09/22/2009 11:55:05 AM PDT · by La Enchiladita · 18 replies · 782+ views
    Newsweek/The Gaggle ^ | Sept. 22, 2009 | Holly Bailey
    A federal grand jury is reportedly winding down its investigation into whether former senator John Edwards broke any laws when his political committees made payments to his former mistress, Rielle Hunter. But here’s a random question: why is Edwards, who quit the 2008 Democratic primary almost two years ago, still spending money from his presidential fund-raising accounts? Since January, the John Edwards for President committee along with a separate account, Edwards for President, have spent more than $625,000, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. That’s not much compared to compared to usual Washington standards (A House race,...
  • Tasteless: Olbermann Guest Invokes 'Special-Needs' Children to Bash Palin

    09/17/2009 6:56:49 AM PDT · by Rufus2007 · 17 replies · 1,044+ views
    Newsbusters ^ | September 17, 2009 | Jeff Poor
    Keith Olbermann is not one to pass up an opportunity to attack anything that even hints at being right of center. The repugnant MSNBC host devoted some three-quarters of his Sept. 16 show to claim criticism of President Barack Obama had to have elements of racism, no matter how you sliced it. And therefore, those critics were all despicable human beings, end of story. However, he did manage to find time to revert to old tried and true method of appeasing his angry left-wing desires - a little bashing of former Republican vice-presidential nominee and Gov. Sarah Palin, with an...
  • Report: Yale Lab tech 'forced' ex into sex

    09/16/2009 1:49:35 PM PDT · by Rokurota · 30 replies · 2,476+ views
    New York Post ^ | September 16, 2009 | Dan Mangan
    The handsome Yale lab technician Raymond Clark quizzed by cops in connection with the grisly slaying of brilliant grad student Annie Le allegedly forced an ex-girlfriend to have sex with him, according to a new report. The New Haven Independent reports on its Web site today that Clark dated the woman, who has not been identified, about six years ago when they were both in high school. According to a 2003 police report obtained by the newspaper earlier this week, she told police he forced her to have sex with him and he “confronted” her -- when against his wishes...
  • Kanye West Has Truly Lost It This Time (Rants on stage about Taylor Swift win over Beyonce- Vid)

    09/13/2009 11:10:59 PM PDT · by blueglass · 60 replies · 3,294+ views
    Yahoo ^ | 9-13-09 | Billy Johnson, Jr
    I thought it was a joke when Kanye showed up on the MTV Video Music Awards stage next to Taylor Swift, right in the middle of her acceptance speech for Best Female Video for "You Belong With Me." It was the first Moon Man for the 19-year-old country starlet, who has become an equally huge star in the pop world. "I always dreamed about what it would be like to win one of these one day," Taylor said with surprise. "I never thought it would happen.". As Taylor continued, Kanye interrupted, saying he thought Beyonce's "Single Ladies" video was wrongly...
  • Bush says sacrificed free-market principles to save economy

    12/17/2008 6:12:33 PM PST · by LowCountryJoe · 71 replies · 2,120+ views
    American Free Press (AFP/Google News) ^ | December 17, 2008 | Unknown
    WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President George W. Bush said in an interview Tuesday he was forced to sacrifice free market principles to save the economy from "collapse." "I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," Bush told CNN television, saying he had made the decision "to make sure the economy doesn't collapse."
  • Picturing The Enemy

    08/21/2009 6:04:58 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 23 replies · 1,156+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | August 21, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff
    Security: The ACLU sneakily photographing CIA officers near their homes, then showing the shots to the imprisoned planners of the 9/11 attacks. A fruitcake fantasy? The government is looking into exactly this.When the Washington Post three and a half years ago uncovered the CIA's "black prisons" program, in which enhanced interrogation was used against terrorist detainees to foil future atrocities, we forcefully argued that such secret wartime operations ought never be outed. The Post may have won a Pulitzer for its revelation, but we feel more strongly than ever today. And a new story in that same newspaper gives new...
  • U.S. Supreme Court stays execution of Virginia inmate.

    07/13/2009 4:37:15 PM PDT · by freedomwarrior998 · 11 replies · 682+ views
    The Virginian Pilot ^ | 07/13/2009 | Virginian Pilot
    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday stopped the execution of a Virginia man while it considers whether to hear his argument that he was unconstitutionally tried twice for killing a 16-year-old girl after describing the crime in a taunting letter to a prosecutor.
  • Al-Qaeda in gay rape horror

    07/08/2009 7:38:34 PM PDT · by Clintonfatigued · 35 replies · 1,881+ views
    The Sun ^ | February 4, 2009 | Tom Newton Dunn
    EVIL al-Qaeda chiefs are raping young male converts to shame them into becoming suicide bombers, it emerged yesterday.
  • Palin A "Shooting Star Crashing To Earth"? (so says Ed Rollins)

    07/04/2009 2:03:48 PM PDT · by EveningStar · 101 replies · 3,009+ views
    CBS News ^ | July 4, 2009
    If Sarah Palin thinks quitting the Alaskan statehouse is going to help a 2012 presidential campaign which some pundits speculate she's mulling, she's mistaken, according to longtime Republican strategist Ed Rollins...
  • Sunday talk shows remain vital

    06/27/2009 11:37:46 PM PDT · by lakeprincess · 6 replies · 553+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 6/28/09 | Jennifer Harper
    Sunday morning + political talk shows + coffee. The equation has been a vital ritual in Washington for six decades now, manned by a rarified fraternal order of newsmen who practice some very basic journalism. It's the David Gregory, Chris Wallace, George Stephanopoulos, Bob Schieffer hour of charm.
  • Sponsors From Letterman (Wednesdays Show) Update With Contact Info

    06/11/2009 12:43:43 PM PDT · by curth · 36 replies · 1,835+ views
    6/11/09 | Curth
    Kelloggs http://www.kelloggcompany.com/contactus.aspx Kellogg Corporate World Headquarters Main Switchboard: (269) 961-2000 Consumers Affairs: (800) 962-1413 Paramount Pictures 5555 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90038-3197 (323) 956-5000 brenna.girard@paramount.com Lincoln-Mercury P.O. Box 6128 Dearborn, MI 48121 http://www.mercuryvehicles.com/help/contactus.asp (800) 521-4140 Met-Life 200 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10166 1-800-MET-LIFE 1-800-638-5433 AT&T Contact page, hard to find the proper people to contact. It figures. http://localization.att.com/loc/controller?cdvn=landinglocalization&pid=1080&cookieResetted=true&ltype=contactus Actonel (Proctor and Gamble) One Procter & Gamble Plaza Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 45202 http://pg.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/pg.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php AAA 1000 AAA Drive, Heathrow, FL 32746 Geoff Sundstrom, Director of Public Relations gsundstrom@national.aaa.com Janie Graziani, Public Relations Manager jgraziani@national.aaa.com 407-444-8000 McDonalds http://apps.mcdonalds.com/contactus/navigate.do?link=mcbiz HBO HBO's Consumer...
  • Letterman Sponsors List With Contact Information (Vanity)

    06/10/2009 10:33:29 AM PDT · by curth · 39 replies · 3,292+ views
    6/10/2009 | Curth
    Sorry for the vanity post, but this Letterman crap is just eating me alive and I wanted this info up top so everyone will see it..I found the list at conservatives4palin without the contact info. I just spent the last two hours looking all of this stuff up. I hope this will help get this hateful rotten bastard off tv for good. The left managed to get Imus tossed off for far less than what this animal has done to the Palin family. CBS Interactive, Inc. 235 Second Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Main: 415-344-2000 support@tv.com On The Border Restaurants...
  • Iwo Jima hero shot to death in motel parking lot [God Bless Clair C. Chaffin, 83]

    06/09/2009 8:06:08 PM PDT · by Flavius · 86 replies · 3,147+ views
    scnow ^ | June 9, 2009 | staff reports
    Florence County sheriff’s deputies have arrested two suspects, including a 16-year-old, they say were involved in a fatal shooting outside a Florence hotel room Monday morning. *snip* A native of Jackson, Mich., Chaffin landed at Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945, according to a February 2008 report in The Gainesville (Fla.) Sun. He dropped out of high school in the 10th grade to join the Navy and “even the score” for the death of his two brothers, Elmer and Kenneth, in the war, according to the September newsletter of the Gator Detachment of the Marine Corps League Inc. in Gainesville,...
  • Ayers and Dohrn Embark on U.S.-Bashing Book Tour

    05/20/2009 1:30:56 PM PDT · by AJKauf · 12 replies · 638+ views
    Pajamas Media ^ | May 20 | Mary Grabar
    We have few iconic couples from the 1960s and 1970s left. Sonny and Cher divorced and went their separate ways politically. Republican Congressman Sonny Bono died tragically in a skiing accident in 1998. Cher continues to perform by herself. But not all was Laugh-In and flower power. Today another famous couple, comrades-in-arms and former collaborators in Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Weatherman, and then Weather Underground — and now coauthors of the book Race Course Against White Supremacy — are bringing their show on the road. I am talking about Bill Ayers, once-fugitive “peace activist,” whose photo of him...
  • 'Stunned' over child porn case Ex-leader of Young Democrats sentenced after long investigation

    05/18/2009 4:53:10 PM PDT · by xcamel · 26 replies · 1,081+ views
    Albany TU ^ | May 16, 2009 | CASEY SEILER AND SARAH HINMAN
    ALBANY — Members of Albany County Young Democrats are "shocked and disturbed" at the revelation that the former president of the organization, Benjamin Jakes-Johnson, spent almost four years facing child pornography charges while rising through the ranks of the local group, as well as the party's state and national affiliates. Jakes-Johnson, 29, received a 57-month sentence in U.S. District Court Thursday after pleading guilty last October to one count of possessing child pornography. According to the office of the U.S. Attorney for New York's Northern District, Jakes-Johnson's computer and several discs were seized in October 2005 at his parents' house...
  • Illegal Immigrant Child Molester Gets $4 million from County

    04/27/2009 10:25:27 PM PDT · by T.L.Sink · 34 replies · 1,343+ views
    Judicial Watch ^ | April, '09
    Lawmakers have secretly approved awarding an illegal immigrant child molester more than $4 million because he was beaten by fellow inmates while in custody. Fernandez Ramirez, 24, is an illegal immigrant from Mexico who molested a 6-year-old girl in a park. The back door settlement, paid with tax dollers, gives the illegal alien's family $3.75 million and $900,000 will go to medical liens rendered while in custody. Orange County (CA) Board of Supervisors refused to comment on the settlement even though constituents have the right to know since it's their money.
  • Soldier-slandering, Radical Left-wing Cartoonist (Ted) Rall Laid Off

    04/24/2009 1:32:00 PM PDT · by Zakeet · 87 replies · 2,910+ views
    NewsBusters ^ | April 24, 2009 | Ken Shepherd
    Radical left-wing cartoonist Ted Rall -- who reveled in dismissing American servicemen as "idiots" -- was recently laid off. Editor & Publisher reported the story in an April 22 article: NEW YORK Chalk up one more wildly talented cartoonist to be victimized by the economy. “I’ve been laid off,” reads the headline on the blog of cartoonist Ted Rall, president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Rall, an editorial cartoonist for Universal Press Syndicate, has served as editor of acquisitions and development at United Media for the past two years. “My job was finding new talent -- comic strip...
  • Look Who Is Doing Great Financially...

    03/26/2009 9:07:13 AM PDT · by ElKafir · 22 replies · 1,382+ views
    Transsylvania Phoenix ^ | Transsylvania Phoenix
    'I'm having a very good crisis,' says George Soros as hedge fund managers make billions off recession. Soros said the financial crisis has been 'stimulating' and the culmination of his life's work. Read on
  • Operation Squirrel

    03/18/2009 2:26:28 PM PDT · by Big Guy and Rusty 99 · 13 replies · 1,070+ views
    ACORN ^ | now | me
    Behold OPERATION SQUIRREL: http://acorn.org/index.php?id=12345&L=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.migueldemalaga.net%2Ffotos%2Fajotela%2Fiwec%2F Call, email, and stop by the ACORN office. tell them I don't feel like paying my mortgage, what can you do for me? Don't be a jerk, just ask inane questions. flood their resources until they become ineffective. Have fun!
  • Indiana Sex Offender Found in Kentucky

    03/14/2009 7:14:25 PM PDT · by Morgana · 15 replies · 1,015+ views
    FRANKFORT, Ky. (WSAZ) -- A man wanted in Indiana for registering as a sex-offender was tracked down in Kentucky. Michael Wayne Henderson was arrested on Thursday. He was charged with being a fugitive on an out-of-state warrant. Police were able to track Henderson down in Frankfort at a shelter. Henderson has prior convictions that classify him as a sexual predator. He was released prison in Indiana back in September of 2008. Henderson is 37 years old.
  • We've Got a Deeper Problem Now

    02/26/2009 10:33:26 AM PST · by Big Guy and Rusty 99 · 10 replies · 580+ views
    me ^ | now | me
    I'm President Barack Obama with a typical white mama ain'tcha glad I'm President? War on Terror will soon go away I'm your commissar today Your kids'll pray to me in school and you'll salute my picture too Barack Obama Uber Alles! Barack Obama Uber Alles! Uber Alles Barack Obama! Acorn workers will control you and soon you'll think it's natural you will pay for the welfare state and always wear a happy face Chris Matthews says it can't happen here I think Jimmy Carter is coming near The fascist won't come back they say agree with us or you will...
  • 'Revolution' at New York University ends with cafeteria liberated, arrests of students

    02/20/2009 2:13:25 PM PST · by atomic conspiracy · 59 replies · 2,277+ views
    New York Daily News ^ | 2-2-09 | Caitlan Millat and Corky Siemaszko
    So much for the revolution. Security guards on Friday dragged the last of the renegade New York University students out of a campus cafeteria where they had been holed up in protest for three days. "Solidarity! Solidarity!" the fist-pumping rebels yelled as they were ousted from the Kimmel Center. Four students tried to flee a balcony after campus cops breached their barricade. Others were physically removed - and unceremoniously dumped outside. "He picked me up by the shoulders and dragged me through the door," complained protest organizer Farah Khimji, a 20-year-old sophomore. "I was physically subdued. I was thrown to...
  • Closing of Gitmo puts Europe in a quandary

    02/08/2009 8:51:23 PM PST · by Flavius · 22 replies · 1,012+ views
    cantonrep ^ | 2/8/09 | THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
    The decision to shut down the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay was a dream come true for many Europeans, including anti-terrorism officials who largely have condemned the facility. But European officials admit that dismantling Gitmo could be something of a nightmare. The foreign ministers of the European Union recently vowed to help President Barack Obama keep his promise to shutter the prison on the coast of Cuba in a year. They offered to provide refuge for as many as 60 inmates who could face persecution in their native lands.
  • Potty-mouthed president

    02/06/2009 11:00:35 AM PST · by mgstarr · 34 replies · 1,668+ views
    Ananova.com ^ | 2/6/09 | Staff / Ananova
    Clips of Barack Obama using the kind of language not normally associated with a US President are spreading like wildfire online. The clips are from the audiobook version of Barack Obama's autobiography, Dreams from my Father, which is read by the president himself. They include quotes attributed to a schoolfriend of Obama's who had a rich vocabulary which is reproduced in graphic detail in the book. US actress April Winchell has posted audio clips of President Obama reading some of Ray's fruitier expressions on her website, www.aprilwinchell.com. She writes: "You're about to hear the President of United States using language...
  • 4 Teenagers Are Charged In Shooting at Wheaton Mall

    01/08/2009 3:09:02 PM PST · by freespirited · 60 replies · 1,933+ views
    Washpost ^ | 1/08/09 | Matt Zapotosky
    The teenagers weren't thinking about last-minute holiday purchases when they pulled into the Montgomery County shopping mall two days before Christmas. Instead, one of the teens later told police, the group went to the crowded mall to randomly shoot someone. All four, including a 14-year-old girl, are members of the Bloods street gang in Prince George's County, authorities said. Two of them opened fire in the parking lot of Westfield Wheaton Shopping Centre when they spotted members of a rival gang, police said. In announcing the arrests yesterday, county police said the four were being held on charges of attempted...
  • Treasury to Ford: Drop Dead (The GMAC rescue plays favorites)

    01/02/2009 7:47:32 PM PST · by Ron Jeremy · 34 replies · 1,527+ views
    WSJ ^ | today | staff
    When the Bush Treasury decided to bail out Detroit, GM and Chrysler quickly said yes to the taxpayer cash, but Ford Motor Co. said it didn't need the money and declined. Ford's reward for this show of self-reliance? Treasury is now helping GM again by giving it a credit pricing advantage against Ford in the marketplace. That's one little-noted result of Treasury's action earlier this week to rescue GMAC, the GM credit arm that, as it happens, is 51% owned by the Cerberus private-equity shop that also owns Chrysler. With $5 billion in taxpayer cash in its pocket, GMAC quickly...
  • Killer of U.S. judge gets life in jail

    12/13/2008 11:33:11 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 25 replies · 1,150+ views
    Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 12/13/08 | http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081213/ts_nm/us_crime_usa
    ATLANTA (Reuters) – A court in Atlanta sentenced a convicted murderer on Saturday to life in prison after he killed a judge in a courtroom and three other people in stunning escape from custody, prosecutors said. Brian Nichols was widely expected to receive the death penalty for a series of murders committed in March 2005 that gained instant notoriety and sparked a huge police and FBI manhunt. He was convicted in November. But after several days of deliberation this week the jury was deadlocked 9-3 on whether Nichols, 37, should receive life without parole or execution by lethal injection. Under...
  • Jail terms for Israeli neo-Nazis

    11/23/2008 4:24:07 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 4 replies · 325+ views
    BBC ^ | Sunday, 23 November 2008
    Eight teenagers have been sentenced to time in jail by a court in Israel for carrying out a series of neo-Nazi attacks that shocked the nation. The eight, aged from 16 to 19, were found guilty of attacking religious Jews, gays and drug addicts, and the desecration of a synagogue. The group, immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union, were sentenced to between one and seven years in jail. Israel was founded in the wake of the Nazi Holocaust in which millions died. One of those convicted was the grandson of a Holocaust survivor. There was widespread revulsion in...
  • SV police overtime for protest about $8,000 (This is what the Freak-A-Zoids cost us)

    11/19/2008 4:57:27 PM PST · by SandRat · 9 replies · 463+ views
    SIERRA VISTA — Sunday’s protest against alleged torture training on Fort Huachuca brought a little money into the Sierra Vista city’s coffers, but it cost much more for city-provided security. According to records at the Sierra Vista Parks and Leisure Services, a Tucson resident paid $750 to rent Veterans’ Memorial Park for the day. Around 10 a.m., more than 150 protesters began to show up at the park for a nearly four-hour rally before walking west on Fry Boulevard to the corner of Fry and Buffalo Soldier Trail to demonstrate outside the post’s Main Gate. The Sierra Vista Police Department...
  • GOP's Arne Carlson endorses Obama

    10/23/2008 12:01:44 PM PDT · by Minn · 81 replies · 2,025+ views
    Star Tribune ^ | 1/23/2008 | MIKE KASZUBA
    The former governor said Obama represented the best hope for an America facing an economic crisis.Former Republican Gov. Arne Carlson endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama today, saying Obama represented the best hope for an America facing an economic crisis and criticizing Republicans for waging a mean-spirited campaign that has "been going down all these side roads." Introduced to a standing ovation at the State Capitol by U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, Carlson said his party had strayed from the moderate philosophies of past Republican leaders such as Ohio Sen. Robert Taft and President Dwight Eisenhower. "I consider...
  • NYT: McCain aide's firm was paid by Freddie Mac (this is beyond "bias")

    09/23/2008 8:09:18 PM PDT · by rightinthemiddle · 14 replies · 206+ views
    One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month to a firm owned by Senator John McCain's campaign manager from the end of 2005 through last month, according to two people with direct knowledge of the arrangement. The disclosure contradicts a statement Sunday night by Mr. McCain that the campaign manager, Rick Davis, had no involvement with the company for the last several years. Mr. Davis's firm received the payments from the company, Freddie Mac, until it was taken over by the government this month along with Fannie Mae, the other big...
  • Bill Clinton says he understands Palin's appeal ("I like that little Down syndrome kid.")

    09/22/2008 2:23:35 PM PDT · by Chet 99 · 142 replies · 496+ views
    NEW YORK - Bill Clinton said Monday he understands why Sarah Palin is popular in the heartland. "I come from Arkansas, I get why she's hot out there," Clinton said. "Why she's doing well." Speaking to reporters before his Clinton Global Initiative meeting, the former president described Palin's appeal by adding, "People look at her, and they say, 'All those kids. Something that happens in everybody's family. I'm glad she loves her daughter and she's not ashamed of her. Glad that girl's going around with her boyfriend. Glad they're going to get married."' Clinton said voters would think, "I like...
  • Why the Shakeup on Wall Street Could Be Good News for Obama

    09/16/2008 11:13:35 AM PDT · by markomalley · 15 replies · 104+ views
    Newsweek ^ | 9/16/2008 | Andrew Romano
    John Lennon once sang that "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." So, it seems, is politics. The news this morning that two of Wall Street's most storied firms, Merrill Lynch & Co. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., were following their distinguished former competitor Bear Stearns toward extinction was met with misery and fear in living rooms and conference rooms across the country--and rightly so. "The biggest reshaping of the financial industry since the Great Depression," wrote Bloomberg News. "Catastrophe," added the New York Post. But something tells me that Barack Obama's brain trust didn't...
  • Man who threatened to behead women will lose his eye, police say (Atheist attacks Christians, loses)

    09/16/2008 12:38:51 AM PDT · by atomic conspiracy · 59 replies · 343+ views
    The Gazette (Colorado Springs) ^ | 9-13-08 | Gazette Staff
    A man who threatened to behead two women because they were Christians was attacked in self-defense early Saturday and injured so severely, police say, that his eye was to be removed. Russell Bowman, who called himself an atheist, showed up with a large knife at the women's apartment in the 700 block of Tia Juana Street about 3:15 a.m., police said. Another resident grabbed a shotgun and ordered him to put the knife down. When Bowman refused and began approaching, the person hit him with the butt end of the weapon, police said. Doctors at Memorial Hospital reportedly told police...
  • Juneau [barf alert!]

    09/15/2008 5:38:59 PM PDT · by Big Guy and Rusty 99 · 7 replies · 224+ views
    brackets creative ^ | 2008 | Brackets Creative
    Here we go again . . . The liberals are making fun of Governor Palin's younger daughter and her baby. They also imply that she should have goten an abortion. watch and "enjoy" . . . try not to get any puke on the keyboard.
  • Obama: Lipstick on a Pig (Did he just call Sarah Palin a pig and a stinky fish?)

    09/09/2008 3:36:33 PM PDT · by kristinn · 1,565 replies · 3,038+ views
    Politico ^ | Tuesday, September 9, 2008 | Ben Smith
    Amie Parnes reports from Lebanon, VA: Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin's new "change" mantra. "You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig." "You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink." "We've had enough of the same old thing." The crowd apparently took the "lipstick" line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: "lipstick."
  • Alan Colmes tells us to: "Bring It On"

    09/01/2008 1:00:23 PM PDT · by jsk10 · 63 replies · 140+ views
    alan.com ^ | jsk10
    Alan Colmes not only stands by his vile remarks on Governor Palin, but urges us to "bring it on" as he defends his statements. I say we "Bring It!"
  • Russia’s Not Stopping

    08/19/2008 4:58:46 AM PDT · by Jbny · 50 replies · 108+ views
    Commentary Magazine ^ | August 19, 2008 | Abe Greenwald
    It’s time for a sober reassessment of the Russian invasion of Georgia. This is more than a Putin power play or a cynical attempt to be taken seriously by the West. This is annexation. From the Wall Street Journal: Russian troops seized control of the economically vital Georgian port of Poti Tuesday morning, a day after Moscow said it had begun pulling its forces out of Georgia. At about 9 a.m. local time, some 70 Russian peacekeeping forces entered the port grounds on seven armored personnel carriers, according to Georgian government and port officials. They detained 20 Georgian soldiers stationed...
  • Shiite Militia in Baghdad Sees Its Power Ebb

    07/26/2008 7:16:56 PM PDT · by flyfree · 33 replies · 170+ views
    nytimes ^ | July 27, 2008
    BAGHDAD — The militia that was once the biggest defender of poor Shiites in Iraq, the Mahdi Army, has been profoundly weakened in a number of neighborhoods across Baghdad, in an important, if tentative, milestone for stability in Iraq. It is a remarkable change from years past, when the militia, led by the anti-American cleric Moktada al-Sadr, controlled a broad swath of Baghdad, including local governments and police forces. But its use of extortion and violence began alienating much of the Shiite population to the point that many quietly supported American military sweeps against the group. Prime Minister Nuri Kamal...