Yeah...well, I can be just as disingenuous:
Oh Hell, I can be twice as disingenuous:Record cold in parts of Conn.
Winter in October: Newark sees record-low temperature as cold hits N.J.
Oh Hell, I can be twice as disingenuous:Record cold in parts of Conn.
Winter in October: Newark sees record-low temperature as cold hits N.J.
Employees of Mi Casita Day Care have long been used to seeing prostitutes along their Broadway block in Camden, but not in the numbers they've been seeing of late.
"They've always been around, but they were more south . . . and not this many," Mi Casita executive director Flora Rivera said. In the last several months, a surge of "new girls" has arrived to do business in the city, Rivera and others have noticed.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the Department of Labor has been counting this increase as proof of created jobs. Not surprised at all.The influx of young prostitutes, and the drug use that accompanies them, has become a concern for staff and parents at Mi Casita and other day-care centers and preschools in the area.
CAIRO - The leader of al-Qaida has urged Muslims to wage holy war against the United States and Israel over a film that insulted Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
So...once again...the Cairo and Benghazi attacks had absolutely nothing to do with the hack film on YouTube, "Innocence of Muslims." But, the White House pushed that connection to protect their own exposed posterior on foreign policy weaknesses and miscues. The Muslim world picked up on the words of the White House (i.e. Barack Obama) and the State Department (i.e. Hillary Clinton) and used it as an excuse to destroy, kill, shout, and riot.Ayman al-Zawahri praised as "honest and zealous" demonstrators who breached the U.S Embassy in Cairo and attackers who stormed the U.S. "embassy" in Benghazi in violence linked to the film. The American ambassador and three others died in the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in the Libyan city.
A key proposal by Tunisia’s ruling Islamist party to outlaw blasphemy in the new constitution, which stoked fears of creeping Islamisation, is to be dropped from the final text, Assembly speaker Mustapha Ben Jaafar told AFP.
The agreement to drop the clause follows negotiations between the three parties in the ruling coalition and must still be approved by the committees drafting the constitution, which Jaafar said would be debated by parliament next month.
It comes after President Moncef Marzouki warned that militants pose a “great danger” to the Maghreb region, and following a wave of violent attacks — blamed on Salafists — on targets ranging from works of art to the US embassy.
“There will certainly be no criminalisation,” Jaafar, the 72-year-old speaker of the National Constituent Assembly, said in an exclusive interview.
Two things: First...just because Tunisia will not validate "blasphemy laws" officially, do you think that those who support them would give up enforcing them in their own sick, twisted and violent ways? No...of course not.“That is not because we have agreed to (allow) attacks on the sacred, but because the sacred is something very, very difficult to define. Its boundaries are blurred and one could interpret it in one way or another, in an exaggerated way,” he added.
It said that the increase in evictions stemmed in part from a construction boom stoked by a government stimulus program implemented to ward off the effects of the 2008 financial crisis.
Wait...what? China implemented a stimulus program to ward off the 2008 financial crisis? Then, local governments took advantage of this by grabbing the easy to acquire loans, but overshot the moon, and needed to do some damage control? That sounds feasible...as does the way they proceeded in damage control.The loosening of credit allowed local governments to take out loans on an “unprecedented scale,” but local governments soon found themselves unable to continue financing the projects, “so they sank deeper into debt,” Amnesty said.
BEIJING: Violent forced evictions are increasing in China as local governments seek to pay off debts by seizing land and selling usage rights to property developers, Amnesty International said in a report on Thursday.
The thing about Communist China is that the people don't own the land. The land is owned by the State. However, residents can lease the land (buy and sell rights on usage) for as long as 70 years. But, as is the case here, the State can grab it right back whenever they need it and good luck to the "squatter" in the process. Most of the violent protests across China (which the US Media routinely ignores) are a result of these forced evictions to benefit the State or local province.The report, Standing Their Ground, said that growing numbers of Chinese have been forced from their homes in both rural and urban areas, with evictees sometimes beaten, imprisoned, or even killed at the hands of authorities.
Heh...Tony and Time love those Commies.One of the great ironies revealed by the global recession that began in 2008 is that Communist Party–ruled China may be doing a better job managing capitalism's crisis than the democratically elected U.S. government. Beijing's stimulus spending was larger, infinitely more effective at overcoming the slowdown and directed at laying the infrastructural tracks for further economic expansion.
Here's the problem. Even the performance was just plain disrespectful.This isn't going to be a debate where Paul Ryan outshines Joe Biden. On the surface it will look like an evenly matched competition. But, if anyone takes an opportunity to dissect what the candidates for Vice President actually say, it will be cringe worthy (to a level rarely seen in national politics).Mark it...Joe Biden is going to tell some absolute whoppers. He is going to smile while he does it. The media is going to try and protect him the best they can. But, Joe always goes that extra mile and only looks around once he gets there.My prediction is that there will be no clear winner from the debate on Thursday. But, there will be a real clear loser. That will be the media trying to spin gold out of damp, rotting straw.
That's right. Gotta get that Latino vote. Romney just went up 7 in Florida.President Obama visited the grave of Cesar Chavez in Keene, Calif., Monday, and dedicated a monument to the late leader of the United Farm Workers.
Oh yeah...need to get that Norwegian vote. Minnesota and Washington must be running out of Kool-aid. What else?WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- President Obama proclaimed Tuesday as Leif Erikson Day, honoring the first large group of Norwegians to emigrate to the United States.
Ah ha...that Polish vote must be up for grabs...despite Lech Walesa endorsing Romney. Wisconsin is already heading towards Romney, and the Illinois internal polls must be shakey.WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- President Obama proclaimed Thursday as Pulaski Memorial Day in honor of Gen. Casimir Pulaski, one of the heroes of the American Revolution.
Specifically stated and accepted by the IPCC and Warmists everywhere (when it served their purpose) was this:Sea Ice Evolution Over the 20th and 21st Centuries
That's right there in the abstract of their cited paper. And yet, now the poles are opposites. How convenient.The climate change projections over the 21st century reveal that the annual mean sea ice extent decreases at similar rates in both hemispheres...
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A masked gunman assassinated a Yemeni security official who worked for the U.S. Embassy in a drive-by shooting near his home in the capital Sanaa on Thursday, officials said.
Yemeni officials said the killing bore the hallmarks of an al-Qaeda attack, but it was too early to determine whether the group was behind it. The assassination resembles other suspected al-Qaeda attacks recently that have targeted Yemeni intelligence, military and security officials. The attacks are believed to be in retaliation for a military offensive by Yemen's U.S.-backed government against the terror group's branch in the country.
Got that..."Al-Qaeda has called for attacks on U.S. embassies in a bid to exploit the anti-American sentiment that swept the Middle East and other parts of the Muslim world in the last month over an anti-Islam film produced in the United States. "Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which Washington considers the most dangerous offshoot of the terror network, has called for attacks on U.S. embassies in a bid to exploit the anti-American sentiment that has swept the Middle East and other parts of the Muslim world in the past month over an anti-Islam film produced in the United States.
How many times is she going to mention the economic plans that were graded by the Boston Globe, and guess what, she came out ahead of the Republican! Who’d-a thunk it?
Howie Carr sums up the most recent Scott Brown/ Elizabeth Warren debate for US Senate. As usual, it's a colorful rendition.You want some more stats from the Globe, Granny? On Sept. 30, you were five points ahead in a poll, and the Globe put it above the fold on page one, the lead story. Yesterday, Scott Brown was four points ahead in a poll, and the Globe used it as a news-in-brief item on page B2.
Part of the problem, ironically, is that most of the obvious tasks for a Democratic president are already done.
We can fight about the details, or whether you like these things, but he stopped the economic free fall, ended the Iraq war, re-regulated Wall Street, saved the car industry, passed national health insurance, got bin Laden, mandated a doubling of car-fuel efficiencies, ended 'don't ask, don't tell' and jump-started, via the stimulus bill, the green-energy industry.
That's right. Today's excuse is that President Obama is wiped because he was so darn successful. The problem is that a majority (if not all) of those items Westneat calls accomplishments go directly against what a majority of the country wanted. Therefore, they aren't items you want to tote to your favor in "polite" company.He has gotten too little credit for all that. Still, he owns the resulting policy vacuum. Is he spent?
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is taking up a challenge Wednesday to a University of Texas program that considers race in some college admissions. The case could produce new limits on affirmative action at universities, or roll it back entirely.
The university says the program that fills roughly a quarter of its incoming classes uses race among many factors and argues that is necessary to provide the kind of diverse educational experience the high court has previously endorsed. The rest of its slots go to students who are admitted based on their class rank, without regard to race.
Opponents of the program say the university is practicing illegal discrimination by considering race at all.
25% of all classrooms are filled not based on performance, not based on SAT scores, not based on extracurricular activities, but based only on the amount of melanin in the potential student's skin. This is entirely, and perfectly contrary to requirements under the law in hiring individuals who graduate college.Justice Elena Kagan is not taking part, probably because she worked on the case at the Justice Department.
The fact that such race based preferences still exist in academia is a blatant example of just how bent and fully removed they remain from true and realistic society.The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from denying any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. In other words, the laws of a state must treat an individual in the same manner as others in similar conditions and circumstances. A violation would occur, for example, if a state prohibited an individual from entering into an employment contract because he or she was a member of a particular race. The equal protection clause is not intended to provide "equality" among individuals or classes but only "equal application" of the laws. The result, therefore, of a law is not relevant so long as there is no discrimination in its application.
U.S. President Barack Obama's foreign-policy landscape is littered with deflated balloons. Soaring speeches, high hopes and great expectations have yielded minimal returns.
Across the Islamic world - from North Africa to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan - we see fragile relationships, unhappy transitions, unresolved conflicts and outright attacks on the United States, despite Obama's case for a new beginning, movingly articulated in his June 2009 speech in Cairo. Israel, deaf to Obama's urging, is further from reconciliation with Palestine and closer to war with Iran than it has ever been.
That's pretty much dead on. You won't see anything like this written in the US media despite the veracity. In fact, this is an Australian published in the Prague Post while writing from Singapore which is the base for the Asia Pacific Leadership Network.Likewise, for all the effort put into improving America's most important bilateral relationships - those with China and Russia - ties with both countries have become increasingly tense, owing most recently to the Kremlin's intransigence over Syria and official Chinese behavior in the South China Sea.
But it is hard to ignore the huge constraint that an intensely partisan and negative political environment in the United States has imposed. Republican intransigence has precluded U.S. ratification of the CTBT, which would be a big international circuit-breaker, almost killed the New START treaty at birth, and has caused the bar for further negotiations with Russia and China to be set almost impossibly high.
Shrillness? Is that what that was? I thought it was an actual leader stepping to the plate and putting the Chinese and the Russians on notice that they will not be dictating our foreign policy as they have been for the last four years.Nor is there any sign that any of these positions would be modified should Mitt Romney, the Republican challenger, become president. International concerns have been compounded - certainly for the APLN leaders - by the shrillness of Romney's statements on China and Taiwan, as well as his extraordinary identification of Russia as America's "No. 1 geopolitical foe."
PETA has a bone to pick with Pokemon, and it’s over how the popular Nintendo video game treats its big-eyed virtual characters.
The animal rights group, which normally focuses on the abuse of dogs, cats and other animals in the real world, has crossed over into the virtual world to launch a protest against Nintendo’s newest Pokemon game, “Black and White 2.”
PETA, which stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,
It's not real. That very simplistic sentence should be enough for the "animals are more important that humans (who in their opinion are not part of the animal kingdom) crew." It's a video game.complains the characters in “Black and White 2,” all of whom are collectively called Pokemon, are abused by their “trainers.”
Some gave a sheepish smile, a slight nod or an apologetic shake of the head.
But most often, the University of Washington students flooding past Elise Randall on Monday didn't bother to look up as she waved a clipboard and loudly offered to help them register to vote on the last day to do so by mail or online.
In two hours standing in the busiest thoroughfare on campus — and directly beneath a statue of George Washington — the graduate student registered two people.
No...it's been that kind of year for Democrat voter-registration advocates. You have to have substance to generate interest from the constiuency. With no substance, there's no enthusiasm.It's been that kind of year for voter-registration advocates.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A State Department document shows the U.S. embassy in Tripoli, Libya requested that a 16-member security team remain in the country four months beyond the end of its scheduled deployment.
A department official says the request made in February was granted.
The commander of the security team that made the request told AB
C News that slain U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens wanted the team to stay even longer, past the end of its deployment in August. Stevens and three others Americans were killed in an attack in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11.
And now...the truth from the head of the security detail directly as interviewed by one of the few journalists left in the US, Sharyl Attkisson:A State Department official said, however, that it never received any request for a post-August extension. The official added the team was replaced without any reduction in personnel or loss of skill sets.
ATTKISSON: Do you feel like there was a disconnect between what you saw on the ground and what the State Dept. folks thought was going on in Libya?
WOOD: There was certainly no disconnect in our transfer of information to them. They were getting the information on the situation on the ground. We sent it up through State Dept. cables and I sent it up to the military side on the D.O.D. side. So, there was awareness of what the situation in Libya was about.
ATTKISSON: How did you get the word that your team would not be allowed to stay?
WOOD: We knew that was coming through the cables and the draft cables that were going back and forth. The requests were being modified to say ‘don’t even request for D.O.D. support’.
ATTKISSON: So State Dept. was telling the folks on the ground in Libya ‘don’t continue to ask for this help’?
How, exactly, does Hillary Clinton still have a job...huh?WOOD: Correct
That's right. ExxonMobil made a total profit in 2010 of 2 cents on every gallon of gasoline sold in the United States. Now...who wants to guess how much money the US Government/State Government/ Local Government made on each gallon of gasoline sold?ExxonMobil’s earnings are from operations in more than 100 countries around the world. The part of the business that refines and sells gasoline and diesel in the United States represents less than 3 percent – or 3 cents on the dollar – of our total earnings. For every gallon of gasoline, diesel or finished products we manufactured and sold in theUnited States in the last three months of 2010, we earned a little more than 2 cents per gallon. That’s not a typo. Two cents.
However, Venezuela is run by an interfering, self-important, meglomaniac...so we have these results from the APThe candidate of the “Mesa de la Unidad Democratica” (a coalition of opposition parties) …. the consulting firm Varianza has reported their exit polls show 51.3 percent for Henrique Capriles, the opposition candidate, to Hugo Chavez’ 48.06 percent.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuela's electoral council says President Hugo Chavez has won re-election, defeating challenger Henrique Capriles.
We should have threatened him with or super-secret earthquake generator.National Electoral Council president Tibisay Lucena says that with most votes counted, Chavez had about 54 percent of the vote.
Dianne Feinstein wouldn't understand the concept of "supply and demand" if it bit her on her rather large posterior. Simply put, the State of California has such stringent environmental laws in place, that it disallows out of state inport of fuel because other states don't use the same mixture.LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sen. Dianne Feinstein has called for a federal investigation into gas prices in California because she doesn't think they are related to supply and demand.
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is proposing the U.S. take a more assertive role in Syria, put conditions on aid to Egypt and tighten sanctions on Iran as he looks to use a planned foreign policy address to paint President Barack Obama as a weak leader who has limited America’s influence on global affairs.
I was surprised to find this relatively bias free piece on Romney's foreign policy positions. It's a good start. For the last four years, the US foreign policy positions have been non-existent, or hidden from public view. President Obama's theme has been to avoid spreading any undue influence throughout the world...just another seat at the table approach. That's not who we are.Declaring that "it’s time to change course in the Middle East" and accusing Obama of "passivity," Romney plans to call Monday for the U.S. to work with other countries to arm rebels in Syria with weapons that can defeat the "tanks, helicopters and fighter jets" that make up President Bashar Assad’s army.
The AP fails to point out that Romney's "hurried and harsh reaction" was dead on correct and eloquent as well as biting. So, yeah...he faced criticism from the AP and just about every other liberal media outlet because it made President Obama look like a complete failure sticking to his internet video caused all the unrest position. On top of that, I can pretty much say without equivocation, no one gives a crap what John McCain says, with the exception of the media.In the fall, Romney faced criticism for his hurried and harsh reaction to news of protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and the near-simultaneous attacks in Libya. Before the administration knew of Stevens’ death, Romney criticized Obama for sympathizing with the attackers. In the aftermath, top Republicans — including Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the 2008 presidential nominee — urged Romney to give a speech laying out his vision for U.S. foreign policy.
This isn't going to be a debate where Paul Ryan outshines Joe Biden. On the surface it will look like an evenly matched competition. But, if anyone takes an opportunity to dissect what the candidates for Vice President actually say, it will be cringe worthy (to a level rarely seen in national politics).So while Biden is taking 6 days off the campaign trail at a crucial time in the presidential campaign, it's likely that he isn't completely off. He's most likely spending the time with David Axelrod preparing for Thursday's debate.
Drivers in Southern California awoke Friday to find that their gasoline prices had spiked by nearly 20 cents a gallon overnight as a result of fuel shortages caused by a series of refinery disruptions in recent weeks.
The New York Times goes on to pay a bit of lip service to the stricter environmental laws in California causing gas prices to be predominately higher than the rest of the country in general, but they don't dwell on it. And, more importantly, they don't tell you how that specifically screws the typical Californian at the present.Some gas stations around the Los Angeles area were forced to shut off their pumps because of rationing by suppliers, and they displayed makeshift signs explaining that the shortages were not their fault. Drivers formed long lines at stations that did have gas, with some stations raising prices to more than $5 a gallon for regular gasoline.
With her 1-year-old slung across her lap and her 5-year-old in tow, Ieesha Kelly continued her search for what she has been trying for three years now to find: a job.
But ask Kelly if the presidential election is about unemployed voters like her, and she'll give you a polite but definite "Are you kidding?" kind of look.
Yes...by all means sympathize and empathize...if you can. Then, ask a simple question:"I just want to be employed to do better for my kids and succeed in life," said Kelly, 32, as she used the public-access computers at the WorkSource employment center in Renton last week. Kelly said she was working two part-time jobs before her hours were cut in one, and she was laid off from the other.