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Police are looking for a pair of brazen, "sophisticated" thieves who disconnected an 800-pound ATM with about $96,000 inside and rolled it out of a Delaware County hospital on a dolly. The ATM, minus the cash, and the van the thieves used for their getaway were found aflame in Southwest Philadelphia last night, more than 24 hours after the the heist at he Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Upper Darby. Upper Darby Police Superintendant Michael Chitwood said the pair, wearing baseball caps and keeping their heads down to conceal their facial features from surveillance cameras, disconnected three cables and successfully...

As the author of Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold became posthumously known as the conscience of the American environmental movement. It was not what he set out to do. In fact from early on, Leopold's interaction with wildlife and wild lands can be seen as a bit of an enigma. As a child he spent his days romping about the backwoods and rolling grasslands of his native Iowa, occasionally taking a skiff across the Mississippi River to explore what the sloughs and swamps of Illinois had to offer. On these daily bird-watching forays he took his notebooks, his field glasses...

In an interview with POLITICO, Paul painted Grayson as a soft conservative, slamming him for once voting for President Bill Clinton and questioning why he accepted donations from senators who had voted in support of the Troubled Asset Relief Program bailout. “I just don’t think he has a lot of hard or strong beliefs,” said Paul.

How about...everytime time that Nazi Pelosi jumps up giggling and clapping like a school girl cheerleader everyone takes a shot???

Yesterday, MSNBC hater-in-chief Keith Olbermann caused a minor kerflulffle in the online world with this threat posted on his blog at the Daily Kos: Find everything you can about Glenn Beck, Stu Burguiere, and Roger Ailes. . . . Tuesday we will expand this to the television audience and have a dedicated email address to accept leads, tips, contacts, on Beck, his radio producer Burguiere, and the chief of his tv enablers, Ailes . . . While this would be quite an escalation in the current ideological media battles—I personally find it hard enough to wade through the darkness and...

FaceBook Case A First For WI Game WardensTuesday, September 8th, 2009 at 3:05 pm  Email This Post | Printer Friendly | Comments FaceBook Case A First For WI Game WardensTechnology aside, public tips still the key for catching criminals.Wisconsin DNR MADISON WI --(AmmoLand.com)- One Waukesha County man is guilty and another awaiting court action in what the Wisconsin DNR Law Enforcement Division is calling its first arrest based upon a Facebook video of illegal deer shining spotted by an anonymous tipster.“This was new territory for us. We learned a lot,” Conservation Warden Supervisor Rick Reed said of the case involving...

Jellyfish tossing helps land Madeira Beach man in jail By Brant James, Times Staff Writer Posted: Sep 08, 2009 02:27 PM MADEIRA BEACH — A 41-year-old man who witnesses said had been drinking since 9 a.m. was arrested Monday afternoon after authorities say he created a disturbance by pretending to drown and throw jellyfish on teenagers. Keith Edward Marriott, of 100 154th Ave. in Madeira Beach, faces charges of disorderly intoxication and carrying a concealed weapon after a pocketknife was found in his shorts, Pinellas County sheriff's deputies said. Marriott repeatedly submerged himself and floated to the surface, "causing concern...

"I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived in Indonesia for a few years, and my mother didn’t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday – at 4:30 in the morning.

President Obama plans to argue Wednesday night in a high-stakes address to Congress that the country's health care system is at a "breaking point," as he urges lawmakers to stop "bickering" and pass comprehensive reform. "The time for games has passed. Now is the season for action," Obama said in remarks prepared for delivery before a joint session of Congress. "Now is the time to deliver on health care." Obama is stressing his resolve to bring lawmakers together and clear away hurdles to passing an overhaul package. "I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I...

Ok, it's only the WH fountain but still..

SNIPPET: “Throughout the day the Prime Minister’s Office, when asked about Netanyahu’s whereabouts, said only that he was on a tour. After hours of speculation, and numerous inquiring phone calls, the PMO finally released the following laconic statement Monday evening: “The Prime Minister’s military attaché reports that the prime minister is visiting a security installation inside Israel.” Netanyahu was accompanied to the installation by National Security Adviser Uzi Arad and the military attaché, Meir Kalifi.”

Daniel J. Hill joined the US Army at the age of 15, by lying about his age. He eventually became a Special Forces paratrooper and served in Germany....In 1960 he was assigned to infiltrate the Katanga insurrection in the Congo where he met his lifelong friend, Rick Rescorla.... Rescorla had become Director of Security for Dean Witter Securities (later merged with Morgan Stanley), which occupied a number of floors in the World Trade Center. Rescorla had become increasingly concerned about the potential for a terrorist attack against the center and in 1990 hired Hill to provide an assessment of the...

was taken aback when President Obama said he was proud of the Afghani people who voted in their recent election in spite of being intimidated by the Taliban. I mean, how was it he never said he was proud of American Republicans who voted in spite of being intimidated by the thugs from ACORN, the SEIU and the UAW? Although I don't watch so-called reality shows, I've come up with what I think would be a real humdinger. It would pit certain studio audiences against one another in a series of competitions. One week it might be the "Saturday Night...

Republican State Sen. Mark Amodei kicked off his campaign for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Harry Reid today, telling reporters that he’ll run a positive campaign in the crowded primary, but that plenty of people in Nevada want to get rid of the incumbent. “When you look at where Nevada is right now, I think we’re at a financial crossroads. We do not need the status quo,” said Amodei, who is from Carson City. “The focus really needs to be on Nevada right now.”

Five sacks of dog food for every sack? A heap of chow for each kapow? Today, Main Line Animal Rescue, in an ad in the Washington Post, has put a pledge behind its distaste for Michael Vick, the convicted Bad Newz Kennels conspirator. Each time the Eagles new gadget guy / backup quarterback is tackled during the Oct. 26 away game against the Redskins, five bags of dog food will be donated to a D.C. animal shelter...

Obama offends Israeli LeftPresident Obama has offended almost the whole Jewish population in Israel, with his trying to tell them where not to live in their own country and that they must give over half their capital. They don’t want Jerusalem divided again. [The Tourjeman House museum on the border of where the City had been divided gives an idea of what a divided city was like.] Obama seems to be spurring a move to the Territories, while houses still are available. He sent four top officials to Israel within a week, to make such demands, but his Administration claims...

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release September 9, 2009 EXCERPTS OF THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS TO A JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS TONIGHT:

Americans were outraged several weeks ago when Libyan murderer Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was released from a Scottish prison. He was the only person convicted in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. Of those who died, 189 were American. Allegedly presidential advisors and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had lobbied behind the scenes to keep al-Megrahi in prison. He was dying of prostate cancer. Recall that President Obama traveled across the pond in March, hoping to beguile our European friends with his charisma. He apologized for our American stupidity with this quote. "In America there...

Protest set on Democratic health care plan The armies of "tea party" conservatives who packed town-hall meetings last month to oppose President Obama's $1 trillion government health care plan bring their protest movement to the Capitol on Saturday to urge its defeat. Those who thought the hundreds of April 15 tax-day rallies across the country were a flash-in-the-pan phenomenon had better think again. This is a grass-roots movement that has been gathering strength ever since, fueled anew by pending bills in Congress to enact a historic expansion of the government's power over the nation's private health care system. The tea...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, ready to uncover new worlds, peer ever deeper into space, and even map the invisible backbone of the universe. The first snapshots from the refurbished Hubble showcase the 19-year-old telescope's new vision. Topping the list of exciting new views are colorful multi-wavelength pictures of far-flung galaxies, a densely packed star cluster, an eerie "pillar of creation," and a "butterfly" nebula. With its new imaging camera, Hubble can view galaxies, star clusters, and other objects across a wide swath of the electromagnetic spectrum, from ultraviolet to near-infrared light. A new spectrograph slices across...