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Woman finds 'stolen' Audi in neighbor's garage
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:41:47 AM · by Wardenclyffe · 1 replies · 62+ views
AOL News ^ | 7/30/2009 | AP Staff
BERLIN -An Audi sedan written off by an elderly German woman as stolen two years ago has resurfaced — in her neighbor's garage beneath a thick layer of dust. Police said Thursday the 82-year-old from the northern city of Hildesheim took the car in for repairs two years ago and had the mechanics drive it back to her house and park it in her garage. She got the keys and papers from her mailbox, but when she went to get the car it was nowhere to be found. So she reported it stolen. When her neighbor went to clean up...
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Welcome Home Capt. Scott Speicher
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:40:18 AM · by Starman417 · 23+ views
Flopping Aces ^ | 08-02-09 | Scott Malensek
The remains of Navy Captain Scott Speicher, a pilot who has been missing since being shot down during the 1991 Gulf War, have been positively identified. The Pentagon has released a statement: The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) has positively identified remains recovered in Iraq as those of Captain Michael Scott Speicher. Captain Speicher was shot down flying a combat mission in an F/A-18 Hornet over west-central Iraq on January 17th, 1991 during Operation Desert Storm. "Our thoughts and prayers are with Captain Speicher's family for the ultimate sacrifice he made for his country," said Ray Mabus, Secretary of...
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First 100 days poll
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:40:15 AM · by GoforBroke · 1 replies · 52+ views
CNN ^ | 8/2/09 | cnn
Now is your chance to grade the Obama Administration and Congress on how its handled the second 100 days in office. Vote now on CNN.com, and then tune in to CNN TV on August 6, 2009 at 8p ET for the final grades
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Barack Obama’s aunt at home in Southie(Boston) digs
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:38:55 AM · by Leisler · 1 replies · 48+ views
The Boston Herald ^ | July 31, 2009 | Laurel J. Sweet
With her deportation hearing still six months away, the controversial Kenyan aunt of President Obama has quietly resurfaced in public housing in South Boston, the Herald has learned. “Beggars can’t be choosers,” Obama’s “Auntie Zeituni” Onyango, 57, told the Herald yesterday with a mischievous smile, wearing a string of pearls and a sleeveless forest-green sheath she said her nephew bought her years before he became leader of the free world. “I’d like to live in a castle and have a limousine,” she said, “but I don’t. My wealth is my health.” more............
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It’s time to give up on Iran and North Korea
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:37:46 AM · by Starman417 · 4 replies · 40+ views
Flopping Aces ^ | 08-02-09 | Scott Malensek
President Obama is worthy of admiration for his efforts to improve relations with America's adversaries Iran, North Korea and a few others. But for most of those states, it's time to give it up, and the Obama administration appears to realize that. I agree. There's no point in trying carrots or stick diplomacy with Iran or North Korea. Diplomacy has failed. I do wonder, however, how the writer plans to deal w NKorea's nukes and Iran's nukes+terrorist ties? Just live with it, and wait for something to go wrong/hope that "sane" people like Kim and Ahmadinejad can be trusted w...
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Seattle bank teller chases robber, loses job
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:36:30 AM · by My Favorite Headache · 11 replies · 97+ views
AP ^ | 8-2-09
SEATTLE – A Seattle bank teller has lost his job because he ran down a would-be bank robber and held him until police arrived. Jim Nicholson, 30, who had worked for more than two years at a Key Bank branch near the Seattle Center, says he understands the bank's strict policy that employees comply with robbery demands and avoid confrontations. But he told The Seattle Times that instinct took over when a thin man in a beanie cap, dark clothing and sunglasses pushed a black backpack across the bank counter on Tuesday and demanded money. Nicholson threw the bag to...
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Sergeant First Class Jared C. Monti, United States Army
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:35:36 AM · by Starman417 · 21+ views
Flopping Aces ^ | 08-02-09 | Ronald G. Graves
For Conspicuous Gallantry Above and Beyond the Call of Duty Greyhawk, at The Mudville Gazette provides the circumstances: On 21 June 2006, SFC Monti, then a staff sergeant, was the assistant patrol leader for a 16-man patrol tasked to conduct surveillance in the Gowardesh region. The patrol was to provide up-to-date intelligence, interdict enemy movement and ensure early warning for the squadron’s main effort as it inserted into the province. As nightfall approached, the patrol was attacked by a well organized enemy force of at least 60 personnel. Outnumbered four-to-one, SFC Monti’s patrol was in serious danger of being overrun....
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'Whip me if you dare' says Lubna Hussein, Sudan's defiant trouser woman
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:34:12 AM · by parsifal · 2 replies · 106+ views
Telegraph.co.uk ^ | August 2, 2009 | Talal Osman in Khartoum and Nick Meo
As the morality police crowded around her table in a Khartoum restaurant, leering at her to see what she was wearing, Lubna Hussein had no idea she was about to become the best-known woman in Sudan. She had arrived at the Kawkab Elsharq Hall on a Friday night to book a cousin's wedding party, and while she waited she watched an Egyptian singer and sipped a coke. She left less than an hour later under arrest as a "trouser girl" - humiliated in front of hundreds of people, then beaten around the head in a police van before being hauled...
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I Was A Racial Profiler
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:32:22 AM · by van_erwin · 5 replies · 207+ views
New York Daily News ^ | Sunday, August 2nd 2009 | JAKE MCNICHOLAS
"I'm retired now, but in my day we knew who to look for to make arrests. And they were white people." I'm retired now after a wonderful career with the New York City Police Department, and I have a confession to make. I used a person's race to initiate investigations and make subsequent arrests. In fact, according to the definition bandied about by those on the left who have no idea what they are talking about nor a clue when it comes to police work, I was - yes - a racial profiler. A little background. I was a detective,...
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Two Years Later: The Chauncey Bailey slaying (by Your Black Muslim Bakery }
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:31:31 AM · by SmithL · 1 replies · 67+ views
Oakland Tribune ^ | 8/2/9 | Thomas Peele, Mary Fricker and Bob Butler The Chauncey Bailey Project
Bakery's rule ended with journalist's killingOAKLAND - Two years ago this morning, when Devaughndre Broussard gunned down journalist Chauncey Bailey, he did it in exchange for a chance at becoming rich, he later told prosecutors.But his pay for killing Bailey wasn't cash, Broussard said. It was a promise of knowledge.Yusuf Bey IV, the then 21-year-old CEO of Your Black Muslim Bakery, told Broussard that he'd teach him and cohort Antoine Mackey the secrets of creating bogus credit reports and fraudulent loan applications that would bring them hundreds of thousands of dollars, Broussard said in March.Bey IV "was like, 'I am...
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On Health Care And Cap & Trade: We will All Pay. Not Just The Rich!
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:25:13 AM · by Petro · 3 replies · 66+ views
Cutting Through The Fog ^ | August 2, 2009 | Cranky George
Apparently, the Democrats still haven't learned that the rich are really the "Golden Geese" that we need in order to sustain our standard of living and create new jobs; not the broad evil that they are portrayed to be.
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Obama Officials: End of Recession is Near (Sure it is!)
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:23:25 AM · by Red in Blue PA · 25 replies · 226+ views
Foxnews ^ | 8/2/2009 | Staff
The word in Washington is that the economic train is emerging from the tunnel of recession, but Obama administration officials on Sunday could not explain why so many jobs are still stuck at the station. "We're on the right track" Council of Economic Advisers Larry Summers said on CBS' "Face the Nation." "We're certainly much closer to the point where (the unemployment rate) bottoms out than we were." "There are signs the recession is easing. ... And the actions that this administration has taken have been very effective in helping stabilize conditions," Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said on ABC's "This...
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Saudi Arabia Throws Cold Water On Obama Peace Plan
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:23:17 AM · by Karliner · 4 replies · 101+ views
Arutz Sheva ^ | Av12,5769-August 2,2009 | Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Saudi Arabia has thoroughly rejected appeals by U.S. President Barack Obama that the Arab world make modest gestures to Israel to show it is interested in advancing a regional peace that would include the establishment of a Palestinian Authority state within Israel’s current borders. "The question is not what the Arab world will offer," Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said at a joint press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday. "The question really is: What will Israel give in exchange for this comprehensive offer?" The Saudi rebuff, which also ignored an appeal by more than 200...
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McCain slams Blue Dog Democrats ["they always bark and they never bite"]
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:22:50 AM · by rabscuttle385 · 17 replies · 206+ views
CNN - Political Ticker ^ | 2009-08-02
WASHINGTON (CNN) – The “Blue Dogs,” a group of moderate to conservative House Democrats who have worked to limit the price tag of health care reform legislation, are taking a hit from a prominent Republican who is suggesting that the group will ultimately prove ineffectual. “The Blue Dogs, they always bark and they never bite,” Arizona Sen. John McCain said on an interview that aired Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. “They almost always – in fact, always, roll over and then play dead.”
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Was Obama born at Coast General Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya? more fodder for the mill
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:22:34 AM · by bareford101 · 4 replies · 485+ views
Yahoo Answers ^ | various | self
I had not heard this story before. I was searching up information on Google today about a hospital I volunteered at back in 2006 (Coast General in Mombasa, Kenya)... and this is what I found: Reports quote information that certified copies of a Kenyan Birth Certificate (BC) for Obama were sent from Kenya, and have been received by three separate individuals. And that these documents are certified, with an embossed seal, and display the name of the hospital where Obama was born, as well as witness signatures. (just do a search - "Obama born in Mombasa") Here is a video...
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McCain faults how Dems have approached health care reform
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:19:42 AM · by rabscuttle385 · 7 replies · 94+ views
CNN - Political Ticker ^ | 2009-08-02
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Sen. John McCain has some advice for Democrats: have a “true sit-down” with Republicans on health care reform legislation. “Well, first of all, unfortunately, there was no input by Republicans in the writing of the bill,” McCain said of the version of the legislation that came out of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. “It was all a Democrat proposal. That’s not the way you want to begin if you’re really interested in a true bipartisan result.” “It's got to be a true sit-down,” McCain added. “OK, what are you going to concede … how...
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Beach attempt to break world record for bikini-clad beauties fails as 'only 42' turn up
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:19:04 AM · by Schnucki · 12 replies · 453+ views
Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | August 2, 2009
A poor weather forecast in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, was blamed for the disappointing turnout. Organisers had hoped to enter the record books by getting more than 1,923 women wearing swimwear on the sands of the Essex seaside town, beating the number reached in Russia last year. One said that only 42 had turned out to raise money for Southend Hospital's breast cancer appeal, the oldest of whom was in her 80s. Debbie Reynolds, 23, said she thought they would at least break the UK record of 320. She said: "It was sunny and everything, so we thought we'd get a good...
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Summers: Obama administration didn’t fully understand the economic challenges they inherited
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:13:13 AM · by TaxPayer2000 · 33 replies · 358+ views
Breaking News 24/7 ^ | August 2nd, 2009 | Bureau News
Summers defends Obama economic record WASHINGTON — A top White House adviser is defending President Barack Obama’s approach to reviving the economy and says the new administration inherited a situation far worse than anyone understood. Economic adviser Larry Summers said Sunday that “we didn’t know how bad it was last winter” when the new administration took over. Despite that, he said the administration’s stimulus spending is the right framework to stop an economic free fall. He also said an overhaul of the health care system is key to helping reduce the deficit. Summers appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
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Is This Really Smoking Gun of Obama's Kenyan Birth?
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:13:03 AM · by jazminerose · 31 replies · 1,067+ views
WND ^ | 8/2/09 | Staff
California attorney Orly Taitz, who has filed a number of lawsuits demanding proof of Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president, has released a copy of what purports to be a Kenyan certification of birth and has filed a new motion in U.S. District Court for its authentication. This document purports to be a Kenyan certification of birth for Barack Obama, allegedly born in Mombasa, Kenya, in 1961 The document lists Obama's parents as Barack Hussein Obama and Stanley Ann Obama, formerly Stanley Ann Dunham, the birth date as Aug. 4, 1961, and the hospital of birth as Coast General...
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Uzbekistan charges Baptist camp with crimes
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:12:50 AM · by wmfights · 1 replies · 35+ views
The Baptist Standard ^ | July 29, 2009 | Bob Allen
TASHKENT CITY, Uzbekistan (ABP) -- Authorities in Uzbekistan cracked down on Baptists after a government-sponsored news agency ran articles alleging illegal religious activity at a summer camp for children. Forum 18, a Norway-based news service that monitors alleged violations of religious freedom, reported July 28 that Pavel Peichev, head of the Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists of Middle Asia, faces criminal charges of unlawfully teaching children religion and misusing resort facilities. Local Baptists fear huge fines, confiscation of the property, imprisonment or some combination of penalties if Peichev is convicted
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U.S. and Mexico need to smooth out sweetener trade
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:12:08 AM · by Cheap_Hessian · 41+ views
Reuters ^ | August 2, 2009 | Rene Pastor
PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - The U.S. and Mexico must eliminate possible distortions in sweetener trade between them caused by a free trade pact, a senior U.S. sugar industry official said. Under the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the U.S. and Mexico can transport unlimited amounts of sugar to one another. It started in 2008. "If either market is oversupplied, it would be disastrous for producers and government costs," Jack Roney, director of economics and policy analysis in industry group American Sugar Alliance, told Reuters at the start of the group's annual meeting. He said there...
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Science panel wraps up second day of anthrax investigation probe
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:10:02 AM · by BGHater · 2 replies · 46+ views
The Frederick News-Post ^ | 01 Aug 2009 | Adam Behsudi
WASHINGTON -- A panel of experts convened for a second day on Friday to probe the scientific process used by the FBI to identify used to identify the anthrax used in the deadly, 2001 mailings. The meeting featured presentations from three experts who worked on the case. Scientific methods were explained, and the 15-member panel was asked to use the study as a means to prepare for future attacks. A lawmaker also addressed the group, criticizing the FBI's handling of the country's first, widespread bioterrorism event. "If the technical and scientific proc
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Forget The Great In Britain [Newsweek's Analysis Faulty!]
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:09:46 AM · by Steelfish · 8 replies · 166+ views
Newsweek ^ | August 02, 2009
Forget the Great In Britain Its fall was inevitable, but the economic crisis will shrink the last pretenses of empire faster than anyone expected. Even in the decades after it lost its empire, Britain strode the world like a pocket superpower. Its economic strength and cultural heft, its nuclear-backed military might, its extraordinary relationship with America—all these things helped this small island nation to punch well above its weight class. Now all that is changing as the bills come due on Britain's role in last year's financial meltdown, the rescue of the banks, and the ensuing recession. Suddenly, the sun...
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Cartels Turn U.S. Forests Into Marijuana Plantations, Creating Toxic Mess
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:08:20 AM · by AtlasStalled · 10 replies · 148+ views
New York Times ^ | July 30, 2009 | Phil Taylor
"Mexican drug trafficking organizations have been operating on public lands to cultivate marijuana, with serious consequences for the environment and public safety," said Gil Kerlikowske, chief of the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy. * * * The drug plantations are as much an environmental menace as they are a public safety threat. Growers in Fresno County used a cocktail of pesticides and fertilizers many times stronger than what is used on residential lawns to cultivate their crop. "This stuff leaches out pretty quickly," said Shane Krogen, executive director of the High Sierra Volunteer Trail Crew in charge...
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The Lessons of Cash for Clunkers
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:07:45 AM · by fiscon1 · 8 replies · 180+ views
The Provocateur ^ | 08/02/2009 | Mike Volpe
Introduction: Here's a quick summary of the program. Cash for clunkers is a government run program that allows consumers to trade in their old car for a new one that is more fuel efficient. By doing so, they receive a credit toward the purchase or lease of said new car of $3500-$4500. Then, the dealer crushes the old car and makes it unusable. Then, the dealer fills out mountains of paperwork and hopes to get that credit back from the government. The program was supposed to run for about four months but was out of money in four days. Now,...
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50 Palestinians evicted from their Jerusalem homes
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:03:38 AM · by Cheap_Hessian · 10 replies · 191+ views
AP ^ | August 2, 2009 | Ben Hubbard
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli police evicted two Palestinian families in east Jerusalem on Sunday, then allowed Jewish settlers to move into their homes, drawing criticism from Palestinians, the United Nations and the State Department. Police arrived before dawn and cordoned off part of the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah before forcibly removing more than 50 people, said Chris Gunness, spokesman for the U.N. agency in charge of Palestinian refugees. U.N. staff later saw vehicles bringing Jewish settlers to move into the homes, he said. Israeli police cited a ruling by the country's Supreme Court that the houses belonged to Jews...
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Cuomo’s “Bonus Peep Show” And The Banking Queen’s “Say On Pay”
Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:03:00 AM · by luckybogey · 1 replies · 66+ views
LuckyBogey's Blog ^ | August 2, 2009 | LuckyBogey
Responding to the public furor over bonuses paid to executives of Wall Street firms bailed out by taxpayers, the House voted to give shareholders a bigger say over compensation in the first piece of President Obama’s overhaul of financial regulations... “If the last year has taught us anything, it’s that the compensation practices of some of our largest corporations have gotten completely out of control,” said Rep. James P. McGovern (D-Mass.). “We’ve got to act to prevent the next financial meltdown,” added Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), in a comment echoed by fellow Republicans, assailed the measure...
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Netanyahu: Israel a country of tolerance (Speaks out on shooting at Youth Center)
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:57:51 AM · by Maelstorm · 2 replies · 112+ views
http://www.ynetnews.com ^ | 08.02.09 | Roni Sofer
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday strongly condemned Saturday night's deadly shooting attack on a gay and lesbian youth center in Tel Aviv, which left two people dead and 10 injured. "I spoke to the internal security minister this morning and asked him to act so that the murderer faces trial and so that the full force of the law is used against him," Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting. "I send my condolences to the families of the victims and wish the wounded a speedy recovery. I would like to take this opportunity to say...
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Obamacare: Example of Why Some Fear “Counseling” About End-of-Life Care Could Become “Persuasion”
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:50:09 AM · by wagglebee · 22 replies · 305+ views
First Things/Secondhand Smoke ^ | 8/1/09 | Wesley J. Smith
The Medicare “mandatory counseling” controversy in the Obamacare debate laid bare a realistic fear that compensated counseling under Medicare could easily become subtle (or not so subtle) persuasion to refuse treatment–particularly since the primary point of the clause is to cut costs.Here is an example of why I believe that the fear is realistic. The Center for Practical Bioethics has published a “Caring Conversations” workbook, in which intimate issues and details of life, death, and end of life options are raised. Nothing wrong with that, in and of itself, of course. It all depends on how it is done.In...
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The Intolerance of the Left: An Interview with Harry Stein
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:48:25 AM · by Keltik · 4 replies · 178+ views
Nen's Nws Daily ^ | June 26, 2009 | Bernard Chapin
BC: Why do so many leftists believe that political issues are black and white in nature and revolve around good versus evil? Harry Stein: The obvious answer's that, since they speak almost exclusively to one another, this is all they hear; in the case of many, who’ve come of age in a culture and educational system dominated by Sixties vets, pretty much all they’ve ever heard. For liberals, the left of center position on a vast range of issues – abortion, gay marriage, affirmative action, taxation, even national security – is not merely the correct position, it is the moral...
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THE RELEVANT OBAMA ADMISSION
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:47:49 AM · by RobinMasters · 16 replies · 413+ views
NATURAL BORN CITIZEN ^ | July 29, 2009 | NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
[Ed. UPDATED 2:49 PM - The Google cache is now once again returning the Fight The Smears page with the relevant admission.] [Ed. UPDATED 9:33 AM - Looks like they missed a spot or returned the document to the web. Hurry before it vanishes. The following link is still active: http://www.fightthesmears.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/articles/5/birthcertificate ] With all the new media attention swirling around the issue of Obama’s eligibility to be President, I thought it might be helpful to re-release an important blog post I created back when my law suit was pending before SCOTUS. I’ve done this for two reasons. 1. The image...
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NY RevolutionMuslim.com Expands to South Eastern United States~Video
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:47:00 AM · by Islaminaction · 4 replies · 86+ views
Islam in Action ^ | August 2nd, 2009 | Christopher Logan
Back in July the Sharia loving Muslims of RevolutionMuslim.com expanded their network by uniting with the UK Muslims of SalafiMedia.net. Now RevolutionMuslim.com has expanded within the US to South Eastern United States. In this speech US Muslim convert Abdullah as-Sayf Jones praises martyrdom and jihadists. I have said it before and I will say it again, Islam destroy societies from within.
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Go West, young man! (sadly, the "Christian West" is shrinking and needs to be re-evangelized)
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:41:30 AM · by GodGunsGuts · 4 replies · 84+ views
CMI ^ | July 28, 2009 | Calvin Smith
Go West, young man! For most evangelicals, Jesus instruction in Matthew 28:19 to ‘Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations … ’ is a serious command, and it is an integral part of the mission statement of most churches. A great many churches take up special offerings and allocate funds towards missionaries they support. The western world countries (where Christianity once flourished) are still where the majority of missionaries are supported from, often by the prayers and small monthly donations from faithful Christians that want to be the ‘hands and feet of Jesus’ in countries they will probably...
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Cash For Grannies
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:40:28 AM · by jazminerose · 8 replies · 185+ views
www.joytiz.com ^ | 8/2/09 | Joy Tiz
Following the breathtaking success of the Cash for Clunkers scheme, the White House is about to roll out a key plank in Obama Care: Cash for Grannies. The program is designed to empower family members of senior citizens to relieve themselves of the burden of caring for elderly Americans who are no longer useful and are consuming valuable resources. Though Obama and Nancy Pelosi are both claiming credit for the program, it was actually drafted by unrepentant Nazi collaborator and democrat financier, George Soros. Soros is a notorious advocate of the assisted suicide campaign. He papers over it with tripe...
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Facebook and MySpace can lead children to commit suicide, warns Archbishop Nichols
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:40:28 AM · by marthemaria · 16 replies · 197+ views
http://www.telegraph.co.uk ^
Websites such as Facebook and MySpace encourage teenagers to view friendship as a "commodity" and are leading them to suicide, the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has warned. Archbishop Vincent Nichols said the sites are leading teenagers to build "transient relationships" which leave them unable to cope when their social networks collapse. He said the internet and mobile phones were "dehumanising" community life. His comments follow the death of 15-year-old schoolgirl who took a fatal overdose of painkillers last week after being bullied on Bebo, another networking site. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, the...
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British Troops Too Fat to Fight
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:40:02 AM · by panzerkampfwagen · 7 replies · 195+ views
The Observe ^ | unday 2 August 2009 | Mark Townsend
A leaked memo sent to all army units and obtained by the Observer reveals that basic fitness policy "is not being carried out" and highlights concern among military commanders over a "worrying trend of obesity" that is limiting the number of soldiers fit enough to fight in Helmand. Units are routinely failing to fulfil the army's basic fitness regime of two hours of physical exercise a week, it adds, and the army must "reinvigorate a warrior ethos". To counter the problem, the army will introduce a "body composition measurement" policy this October to weed out overweight troops as well as...
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Gay Weddings in Israel will have all the Jewish trimmings
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:38:37 AM · by Maelstorm · 9 replies · 200+ views
http://www.eturbonews.com ^ | Aug 02, 2009 | www.eturbonews.com
There is an old joke around these parts. Question: Other than Jerusalem, what do ultra-religious Jews, Muslims and Christians love? Answer: They love to hate homosexuals. But travel the 60km (40 miles) from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, and you enter a world apart. Major streets are decked with the multi-coloured Gay Pride banner. In this centenary year of the city, this is now Gay Pride month. On Friday, in Meir Dizengoff park, tens of thousands of people are expected to attend the annual Gay Pride parade which will end, this year, with a twist. Four couples will take part in...
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Analysis: Eurofighter/Typhoon was designed in a different era
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:36:40 AM · by sukhoi-30mki · 9 replies · 270+ views
The Times, UK ^ | July 31, 2009 | Michael Evans
Analysis: Eurofighter/Typhoon was designed in a different era Michael Evans, Defence Editor The Eurofighter Typhoon programme has been one of the most controversial military equipment projects, not just because of its cost — more than £20 billion for the proposed 232 aircraft — but because the fast jet was designed with the Cold War in mind. It was thought that the RAF would need the most advanced aircraft to win superiority against the best Russian fighters. The design was first sketched in 1979 but the contract for the Eurofighter, later renamed the Typhoon, was not signed with Britain’s three European...
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Geithner Won't Rule Out New Taxes for Middle Class (by ABC's G. Stephanopoulos)
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:33:46 AM · by SmartInsight · 49 replies · 935+ views
ABC News ^ | August 2, 2009 | George Stephanopoulos
To get the economy back on track, will President Barack Obama have to break his pledge not to raise taxes on 95 percent of Americans? In a "This Week" exclusive, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told me, "We're going to have to do what’s necessary." Geithner was clear that he believes a key component of economic recovery is deficit reduction. When I gave him several opportunities to rule out a middle class tax hike, he wouldn't do it. "We have to bring these deficits down very dramatically," Geithner told me. "And that's going to require some very hard choices."
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Pope Benedict to Catholics: Kneel For Communion
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:32:08 AM · by NYer · 57 replies · 497+ views
News Blaze ^ | August 1, 2009 | David Martin
"Whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the Body and of the Blood of the Lord... For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the Body of the Lord" - 1 Corinthians 11:27,28 Pope Benedict to Catholics: Kneel and Receive on the Tongue Only Pope Benedict XVI does not want the faithful receiving Communion in their hand nor does he want them standing to receive Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. According to Vatican liturgist, Monsignor Guido Marini, the pope is trying to set...
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In Israel, Catholic School Teachers Study Anti-Semitism & the Holocaust [Catholic Caucus]
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:30:29 AM · by Pope Pius XII · 5 replies · 65+ views
ADL ^ | July 30, 2009
Catholic school teachers from around the country traveled to Israel to learn about anti-Semitism and the Holocaust as part of the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) nationally acclaimed Bearing Witness Advanced program. Bearing Witness Advanced provides educators with an opportunity to gain firsthand knowledge of Israel against the backdrop of Jewish history, the Holocaust and Catholic-Jewish relations. "Combining experts' knowledge of the Holocaust with the words of those who experienced it can have a unique and powerful impact," said Dr. Ed S. Alster, ADL's Director of Education. "The teachers learned firsthand how anti-Semitism can lead to tragedy if left unchecked. The experience...
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Sweden vs. Talibans
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:30:17 AM · by WesternCulture · 14 replies · 413+ views
08/01/2009 | WesternCulture
Lately, Talibans threatening Sweden and Finland have been all over the news, at least over here in Scandinavia. The Nordic troops are in Afghanistan because we Vikings don't especially approve of little Afghanistan girls getting shot in the back because their parents are Westernized enough to send them too a school. Yes, even though we Swedes nuture a culture of being very diplomatic, PC and understanding, there is a limit even to our pacifism. If I was a clever Taliban, I wouldn't pick a fight with troops originating from Sweden and Finland (see clip below). Everyone despise us Swedes, but...
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Summers won't rule out new taxes [BOHICA]
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:29:57 AM · by advance_copy · 13 replies · 204+ views
The Hill ^ | 8/02/09 | Michael O'Brien
New taxes to help address the long-term budget deficit cannot be ruled out, National Economic Council Director Larry Summers admitted Sunday. Summers said during an appearance on CBS that "it's never a good idea to absolutely rule things out no matter what" when it comes to the prospect of new taxes. [snip] President Obama's top economic adviser said that the efforts to restructure healthcare in the U.S. would be chief among its efforts to reduce the deficit over time, characterizing the administration's attempt for a deficit-neutral reform bill as historically responsible. "This is the most fiscally responsible approach to introducing...
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Partisan Trends: Democrats Down Two Points in July
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:28:15 AM · by freespirited · 5 replies · 178+ views
Rasmussen Reports ^ | 08/01/09
The number of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats fell by two percentage points in July with Republicans and the number of unaffiliateds each gaining a point. In July, 36.8% of American adults considered themselves Democrats. That’s down two points from last month and down five points since December. This is the lowest percentage of Democrats measured since December 2007 (See History of Party Trends from January 2004 to the present). Still, there are more Democrats than Republicans. A total of 33.3% now claim an affiliation with the GOP. While that’s up a point over a month ago, it’s right in...
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New fee's for public school.
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:21:34 AM · by edcoil · 17 replies · 289+ views
8-1-09 | edcoil
I am now getting the sign-up forms for my children's public school for the fall season. They have add hundreds of dollars in new "fees" parents much make to the school for a laundry list of things for spirit shirts, etc. I know public schools around town don't have to pay these fees - it just seems the higher income areas are asked to fund the budget reductions. Anyone else getting huge new fees added to "public education."
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Suspect in Gay Sailor's Murder Found Dead (Notice the double standard in reporting this)
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:17:38 AM · by Maelstorm · 15 replies · 453+ views
http://www.sandiego6.com ^ | 8/01/2009 | San Diego 6 News Team
SAN DIEGO - A sailor accused of murdering a fellow seaman on duty at Camp Pendleton committed suicide in the base brig. Jonathan Campos, 32, of Lancaster, was found unresponsive in his cell at about 12:20 p.m., taken to the base hospital and declared dead about 1:15 p.m.,the Los Angeles Times reported. Campos, a petty officer 2nd class, apparently asphyxiated himself with toilet paper. He had been on suicide watch in the brig and was last checked at 11:45 a.m., according to a Navy written statement. Campos was charged with murdering 29-year-old August Provost on June 30 at about 2...
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Israeli police recommend Lieberman indictment (FM Avigdor Lieberman accused of money laundering)
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:16:33 AM · by SolidWood · 2 replies · 138+ views
JTA - Jewish and Israel News ^ | August 2, 2009 | JTA
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The Israeli Police's National Fraud Unit recommended that the state prosecutor indict Avigdor Lieberman in a money-laundering scheme. In a brief turned over Sunday to the Attorney General's office, the police recommended that the foreign minister be indicted on charges of bribery, fraud, money laundering, witness harassment and obstruction of justice, Ha'aretz reported. The investigation has been ongoing for several years, but picked up steam after Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu became the third largest political party in the country in last February's elections. Lieberman petitioned the Supreme Court to speed up the investigation after he became foreign minister.
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British Health Care System Forces Tens Of Thousands To Live in PAIN
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:16:03 AM · by Shellybenoit · 16 replies · 198+ views
UK Telegraph/The Lid ^ | 8/2/09 | The Lid
This is the type of health care we have to look forward to should the Obamacare bill become law. In Great Britain the National Health Service (NHS) found a brilliant way to saves £33 million, reduce the number of injections someone with chronic back pain can revive. Tens of thousands of back pain sufferers had been receiving cortosone injections which relieve the excruciating agony, but now the governmental authority charged with health care rationing has announced that it will no longer pay for those injections unless the doctor can provide an exact reason for the pain, dooming those patients to...
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Virginia Is For Pro Gun Activists(VA)
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:15:58 AM · by marktwain · 3 replies · 128+ views
Ammoland.com ^ | 31 July, 2009 | Glen Caro
National Rifle Association Virginia - -(AmmoLand.com)- As I noted in last month’s column, the 2009 Virginia elections will be ground zero for our grassroots activities this year. Not only will these elections determine the future our of our gun rights in Virginia, but they will also be used as a barometer for the 2010 elections. If two recent events I attended in Virginia Beach are any indication, we are well positioned this year in Virginia to remind politicians running in 2010 that those who oppose the Second Amendment do so at their own political peril! On July 16, my Virginia...
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Another Extraordinary Ordinary Patriot of the Tea Party Movement
Sunday, August 02, 2009 10:15:49 AM · by Lloyd Marcus · 2 replies · 140+ views
LloydMarcus.com ^ | 08-02-09 | Lloyd Marcus
I met Warren Kaul when I performed at the O Town Tea Party in Orlando, Florida. He was manning the Fair Tax booth. On stage, Warren expressed his displeasure with Obama's stimulus “nightmare” and his plans to transform America. Warren was born into extreme poverty and grew up in a two room shack in the hollows of Charleston, West Virginia. Encouraged by his mother, Warren was the first in his family to graduate high school. This was a major achievement for the Kaul family. Warren took it further and graduated college. Warren's success inspired his two sisters to graduated...