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OPENING SEQUENCECamera slowly zooms in between the security fence of a huge seaside mansion looming over the storm-tossed Pacific. Dissolve to a melting arctic ice floe, on which sits a distraught polar bear. As the camera pans back, we see it is a snow globe held in a man's hand, inside an opulent study paneled in Amazonian hardwood. Close-up of the man's lips, which whisper "Seagate." He drops the snow globe which crashes onto a priceless Persian rug in front of a roaring fireplace. In silhouette, a nurse enters the study and hurriedly covers his motionless body in a blanket....

Can two people earn a living wage growing and selling produce within the city of San Francisco? This is the question that Brooke Budner and Caitlyn Galloway set out to answer when they launched Little City Gardens in the Mission District of San Francisco. Armed with a commitment to urban gardening, a business plan and high hopes, but free of any pretensions that the answer to their question would be a resounding "yes," Budner and Galloway are taking Little City Gardens to the next level. That is, with a little help from the global community. "...How does your garden grow?"...

I did not write this, it was posted somewhere else and I copied it in here ... Everyone concentrates on the problems we're having in our Country lately: Illegal immigration, hurricane recovery, alligators attacking people in Florida. . . . Not me -- I concentrate on solutions for the problems -- it's a win-win situation... * Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border. * Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of the levees. * Put the Florida alligators in the moat along the Mexican border. Any other problems you would like for me to...

WILKES-BARRE – For the first time in more than 20 years, convicted mass murderer George Banks returned to Luzerne County on Tuesday. Banks, 67, appeared before Judge Joseph Augello for a third competency hearing to determine if he understands he faces the death penalty as a result of his crimes. In September 1982, Banks shot 13 people, including five of his own children, in Wilkes-Barre and Jenkins Township. It’s apparent the former prison guard and Wilkes-Barre resident has aged. Banks no longer has the dark mustache and black hair he had when he originally appeared in court 27 years ago....

Tiger Woods 'tells estranged wife Elin Nordegren he had 121 affairs during 5-year marriage' By Clemmie Moodie 29/04/2010 er Woods confessed to having 121 affairs during his five-year marriage, it was reported last night. The world’s top golfer, 34, is said to have told estranged wife Elin Nordegren the amazing number of women he bedded during her visit while he was in rehab. Legal sources told US paper the National Enquirer: “When Tiger was in rehab for sex addiction, he filled out four pages, listing the amount of women he’d had affairs with – there were 121 in all.” Now,...

Per Beck: Tomorrow the vote is on "whether Puerto Rico's status needs to change," not a vote for or against statehood. As Beck explains, this vote forces voters to choose: Do I like our current status? The vote will be "no," then followed at another time on statehood, which will be the only acceptable of the three choices to be given. Goal: voter dillution. 1. Puerto Rico: 12 million current and future votes for the Dems. 2. Illegal aliens: 20-30 million permanent Dem votes. All part of a plan to make the Dems the ruling regime for the next century....

Educating The Really Really Confused About “Nbc-gate”… Posted in Uncategorized on April 26, 2010 by naturalborncitizen It looks like Nbc-Gate is hitting top volume. I’ve witnessed some very desperate blogging propaganda trying to stop the bleeding as the nation finally wakes up to the fact that President Obama was a British citizen at the time of his birth. Having been born with dual nationality, he was born with a recognized allegiance to a foreign nation. I have explained previously in great detail why this disqualifies him from being President. http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/

DALLAS, TX (KERA) - Former Dallas Representative Terri Hodge will spend in year in prison for breaking tax laws. She's the latest to be sentenced in the Dallas City Hall corruption case. KERA's Bill Zeeble reports. Hodge could have received probation - a best case scenario - or up to 3 years in prison. Her attorney, Jeff Kearney, argued for the former, but the judge wasn't buying it. Kearney said Hodge will serve her time. Kearney: Ms. Hodge is going to do what the judge ordered her to do, return to the community as soon as she can, and continue...

Apparently a source within HHS has said that Sebelius and her staff had access to info from the Medicare actuary that Obamacare costs would be much higher than publicly disclosed before the vote, but chose not to want to actually see the info. Their justification was "It might affect the vote...." DUHH!

<p>In a year when Americans are desperate for job growth and frustrated with the reckless spending in Washington, the candidates running in the special election in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District epitomize the problem and the solution. It’s a race between a career Washington bureaucrat and a small business entrepreneur.</p>

There are only 190 days until the 2010 election. Many of you have been at work long before now. You've held strategy sessions all across the country to discuss how to most effectively help candidates in your community who are fighting to bring about change. At OFA headquarters, we've been poring over your ideas, your input, and the best data we can get our hands on to determine the most helpful role we can play. Together, based on that feedback, we've crafted a comprehensive electoral plan that can make a big difference in the upcoming elections. President Obama recorded a...

Google's roving Street View spycam may blur your face, but it's got your number. The Street View service is under fire in Germany for scanning private WLAN networks, and recording users' unique Mac (Media Access Control) addresses, as the car trundles along. Germany's Federal Commissioner for Data Protection Peter Schaar says he's "horrified" by the discovery. "I am appalled… I call upon Google to delete previously unlawfully collected personal data on the wireless network immediately and stop the rides for Street View," according to German broadcaster ARD. Spooks have long desired the ability to cross reference the Mac address of...

Goldman Sachs released internal documents over the weekend that it said demonstrated that its subprime mortgage trading reflected prudent risk management rather than speculation. Days before Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive, is due to appear before the Senate, the embattled bank said it did not “consistently or significantly short” the market for subprime mortgage securities, and any negative positions it had were intended to counterbalance long exposures. The material, consisting largely of internal e-mail traffic, is meant to refute allegations by a Senate investigation committee, which claimed on Saturday that Goldman had made big profits betting against the mortgage market, which...

"...Just days before the Senate was due to vote to start working on Democrats' legislation, Senator Olympia Snowe said that strong derivatives regulation goes to the heart of an effective financial reform bill..." http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2415678120100424

from: John McCain to: date: Fri, Apr 23, 2010 subject: I'm Prepared to Fight Your urgent action is needed. I'm fighting back against my opponent's attacks. But I need your immediate support to fund our new radio and TV ads to set the record straight. Make a contribution before our April 30th deadline. My Friend, I often say I love a good fight, and I have spent much of my life advocating the causes I believe in. I've fought for job creation, lower taxes and a strong national defense. I've fought against pork-barrel spending, wasteful earmarks, sky-high deficits and the...

MOTION FOR THE COURT TO ISSUE A TRIAL SUBPOENA TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA Now Comes Defendant Rod Blagojevich, by and through his counsels and hereby requests this court issue a subpoena ad testificandum for President Barack Obama. In support of said motion, defendant states the following: 1. President Barack Obama was elected November 4, 2008 and was inaugurated January 20, 2009. Before being elected President, Mr. Obama was a United States Senator from Illinois. 2. As a result of the election of Mr. Obama, his Senate seat was open for appointment by Governor Rod Blagojevich. 3. The charges against Mr....

22. However, the defense has a good faith belief that Mr. Rezko, President Obama’s former friend, fund-raiser, and neighbor told the FBI and the United States Attorneys a different story about President Obama. In a recent in camera proceeding, the government tendered a three paragraph letter indicating that Rezko “has stated in interviews with the government that he engaged in election law violations by personally contributing a large sum of cash to the campaign of a public official who is not Rod Blagojevich. … Further, the public official denies being aware of cash contributions to his campaign by Rezko or...

(This was sent as an email alert) Senate Hides Obama's Energy Tax Bill From Debate "If we introduce it, (correctly) it'll get referred to committees," - Lieberman - Vote Expected In 2 Weeks At The End Of April Lieberman a so-called independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats and fellow co-energy conspirators Kerry, D-MA, and RINO Graham, R-SC, will NOT introduce their Phony Secret Energy Tax Bill via the normal Senate process, but will instead simply hand it over to Reid. Lieberman said "We want him to be able to work with it and bring it out onto the floor as...

On a gray and breezy Thursday evening, approximately 150 people came to the intersection of Route 44/55 and the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail to hold signs, hear speakers and chant slogans. "No to Progressivism," read one sign. "Stimu-Less," "Anti-Socialism," and "We the People will never bow to Tyranny," read others. A young man standing in the crowd wore a black T-shirt with a small picture of an American flag, with a caption reading "R.I.P., The American Dream." The crowd of Tea Party sympathizers came out on April 15, tax day, to protest government spending and waste. "We're tired of the...

The plan would see taxpayers footing some of the bill for families facing "difficult social, financial or personal" circumstances Photograph by: fotolia, fotolia The European Union has declared travelling a human right, and is launching a scheme to subsidize vacations with taxpayers' dollars for those too poor to afford their own trips.