- The moron posted this comment on a post from four days ago just three hours ago.
Give it a rest ... you are incorrect on this just as you are incorrect on every single item you put forth and you will never be correct - so get over it, accept it.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Wing-Nut Yammering and Flap-Doodle
Yet, more nonsense from our resident troll Ted:
Give it a rest ... you are incorrect on this just as you are incorrect on every single item you put forth and you will never be correct - so get over it, accept it.
Give it a rest ... you are incorrect on this just as you are incorrect on every single item you put forth and you will never be correct - so get over it, accept it.
Obama tells GOP no compromise on tax rebates
President Obama told Republican House leaders Tuesday he plans to stand firm on the part of his $825 billion economic recovery plan that calls for tax rebates for nearly all working Americans -- including those who make too little to owe income taxes.
According to two Republican aides familiar with Obama's Capitol Hill meeting, Rep. Dave Camp, R-Michigan, the ranking member on the Ways and Means committee, asked Obama if there was room for negotiation on the structure of the biggest tax cut in the bill.
"Feel free to whack me over the head because I probably will not compromise on that part," the president replied, according to one of the aides, who requested anonymity because the member of Congress relaying information to the aide from inside the meeting wished to remain anonymous.
Obama supports the tax rebates for those who don't pay income taxes because they do pay payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare.
One for the books
Baby born in Denver library
There wasn't time to look up any books on obstetrics before a woman gave birth in the Denver Public Library.
Library spokeswoman Celeste Jackson said the woman walked into the library, said she had been riding a city bus and was in labor.
She gave birth just inside the library entrance.
Staffers and security guards helped until paramedics arrived and took the mother and newborn girl to Denver Health Medical Center.
Jackson said staffers didn't yet know their names but they want to send flowers. She says, "It's never happened before."
Hospital spokeswoman Betty Rueda said the mother was in good condition Tuesday evening. She declined to release information on the baby, citing privacy rules.
Woman arrested after teaching kids how to shoplift
Lee County, Florida, authorities say a 24-year-old Lehigh Acres woman taught children how shoplift then abandoned them when the group was stopped. The woman was jailed on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, child cruelty and larceny petit theft.
An investigator said the woman walked into a Lehigh Acres store with four children and showed a 12-year-old how to hide clothes underneath the other youngsters. The woman fled the scene when the investigator confronted the children. She was later arrested.
A Department of Children and Families spokeswoman said her agency will also investigate.
Police find over 100 feral animals at mobile home
More than 100 feral cats and dogs were euthanized after authorities found them living among the remains of hundreds of other dead animals that had been dumped in trash bags at a man's rented property.
Temecula police on Friday arrested a 67-year-old man on suspicion of animal cruelty after officers responded to a call that two vicious dogs were running loose at his address, Riverside County sheriff's spokesman Javier Rodriguez said.
The man had let animals breed and roam freely on his property, Rodriguez said, and the creatures had completely taken over his mobile home. Officers even found animals hiding in cupboards.
"The smell, I can't tell you how bad the smell was," said Willa Bagwell, executive director of Animal Friends of the Valleys, which provides animal control services for Temecula.
When animal control officers arrived, packs of dogs were attacking each other and killing one of their own, Bagwell said. About 70 dogs circled officers and threatened to attack, forcing authorities to euthanize them.
"They were just wild animals. They had never been touched," she told The Press-Enterprise of Riverside. "I've never seen this many animals and animals this feral."
Nine puppies and one dog were saved but authorities had to remove the bodies of 318 cats and dogs, Bagwell said. Outside the mobile home, more than 100 plastic trash bags were filled with animal feces and animal corpses.
Margaret Sturgeon, 82, said she sometimes talked briefly to the man and he seemed normal.
"He said he had three dogs," she said. "He never acted as if anything was wrong."
Suspect gets 3 bites from police dog, 2 Taser zaps
A 19-year-old suspect in northeast Nevada may not be a very good prowler but there's no denying he's one tough cookie. Elko County sheriff's deputies said the man had to be zapped with a Taser twice and bitten by a police dog three times before he stopped struggling with officers during a recent arrest.
Lt. Doug Gailey said officers were responding to a report of a prowler at 3 a.m. on Sunday when they spotted some footprints in the snow by the home's doors, windows and even on the top of an air conditioning unit.
He said they called in the police dog named "Besmo," which caught a scent and led them to the man who was sitting in his vehicle on a neighboring parkway and appeared to be intoxicated.
He said the man refused to remove his hands from his sweat shirt pocket and exit the vehicle, so the dog was ordered to jump through an open window and help extract him.
Deputies pulled him to the ground but he still wouldn't comply so the dog was ordered to bite him again.
Still unfazed, Gailey said the suspect was zapped with a Taser but still wouldn't give in. A third attack by the dog and another blast from the stun gun finally did the trick.
He's been charged with attempted burglary, obstructing an officer and destruction of private property.
Mexicans turn to voodoo to help team beat the US
Superstitions in the sports world:
A Mexican sports daily is pinning its hopes of beating the United States in a World Cup qualifying match on voodoo - with help from a U.S-based electronics chain. An advertisement in the sports daily Record on Tuesday invited fans to clip coupons and redeem them at their local Radio Shack store for a voodoo-doll likeness of a U.S. player. The hope was that a little black magic might help Mexico break a decade of futility on the road versus its northern neighbor.
A Mexican sports daily is pinning its hopes of beating the United States in a World Cup qualifying match on voodoo - with help from a U.S-based electronics chain. An advertisement in the sports daily Record on Tuesday invited fans to clip coupons and redeem them at their local Radio Shack store for a voodoo-doll likeness of a U.S. player. The hope was that a little black magic might help Mexico break a decade of futility on the road versus its northern neighbor.
"Help end the losing streak so Mexico advances," the ad read.
An illustration showed a pair of scissors slicing off the leg of a doll in a U.S. jersey that was bruised, crying out in pain, leaking stuffing, and stuck with pushpins.
"We imagine a group of young people gathered around the TV supporting Mexico and applying punishments to our rivals so that the team can qualify," Record said in a statement.
Daniel Paz, marketing manager for the newspaper, told The Associated Press the promotion was a lighthearted attempt to make next month's rivalry game more enjoyable for fans.
"It's a toy," Paz said. "There's no intention of being anything serious."
The press office of Radio Shack in Fort Worth, Texas, did not immediately return phone calls and e-mails seeking comment, but the company's Mexico office confirmed its participation.
Mexico plays the United States on Feb. 11 in Columbus, Ohio, in the first match of the final round of CONCACAF qualifying for the 2010 World Cup. The "Tri" has not won in the U.S. for 10 years.
Record said it has created 10,000 dolls and plans to expand the promotion to include effigies representing the other CONCACAF finalists: Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador and Trinidad and Tobago.
Employees and patron subdue robber with serving spoon
Two supper club employees and a patron subdued a robber with their might - and a spoon.
Joey Geraci, 39, was charged Monday with felony armed robbery.
Geraci was accused of entering Williams Supper Club through a kitchen door, grabbing a teenage female employee and demanding money at about 10 p.m. Friday.
Joey Geraci, 39, was charged Monday with felony armed robbery.
Geraci was accused of entering Williams Supper Club through a kitchen door, grabbing a teenage female employee and demanding money at about 10 p.m. Friday.
Lt. Andrew Kraus said Geraci wore a motorcycle helmet and claimed he had a weapon.
Kraus said the chef then hit Geraci in the helmet with a large serving spoon and put him in a headlock. The three held the man on the ground. Police eventually had to shock him with a Taser.
Geraci is also charged with possessing drug paraphernalia.
There’s Mercury in High Fructose Corn Syrup, and the FDA Has Known for Years
Another thing the shrub and cabal tried to hide because it adversely effects their buddies profits
But as it turns out, the HFCS industry has been hiding some major skeletons in its closet — according to the IATP study (pdf), over 30% of products containing the substance tested positive for mercury.What makes this news truly shocking is not just that the manufacturers of high fructose corn syrup would put consumers’ health at risk, but that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) knew about the mercury in the syrup, and has been sitting on this information since 2005.
Here’s the connection, according to the IATP press release (pdf): The IATP study comes on the heels of another study, conducted in 2005 but only recently published by the scientific journal, Environmental Health, which revealed that nearly 50 percent of commercial HFCS samples tested positive for the heavy metal. Renee Dufault, who was working for the FDA at the time, was among the 2005 study’s authors. In spite of Dufault’s involvement in the study, the FDA sat silent on this one for three years, and in fact last August, allowed manufacturers to call the sweetener “natural.”
America's foundations step up aid in downturn
America's biggest charitable foundations are stepping up their giving to help the homeless and the hungry during the recession, according to a group that studies institutional giving.
As of mid-January, 50 of the nation's largest foundations had committed more than $100 million in grants aimed at reducing foreclosures, keeping food bank shelves stocked and providing services to the homeless and financial counseling for others.
The donations announced so far are just the beginning, said Steven Lawrence, the Foundation Center's senior director of research and author of a report on emergency giving in response to the economic downturn.
And they are also just one aspect of the way foundations are responding to the economic downturn, Lawrence said.
Foundations have seen their assets drop dramatically during the past year, just like everyone else, but many are committing to keeping their giving steady.
The nation's largest foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, announced this week it would increase its giving from 5 percent to 7 percent of its assets in 2009, despite a 20 percent drop in the value of its assets.
"The vast majority of foundations are trying to hold their giving level," Lawrence said.
That means many foundations are increasing their giving beyond the 5 percent of assets required by the Internal Revenue Service, to keep their promises to the causes they support.
Lawrence said he was not sure what will happen next year if the stock market does not recover: "2010 may be really challenging."
As of mid-January, 50 of the nation's largest foundations had committed more than $100 million in grants aimed at reducing foreclosures, keeping food bank shelves stocked and providing services to the homeless and financial counseling for others.
The donations announced so far are just the beginning, said Steven Lawrence, the Foundation Center's senior director of research and author of a report on emergency giving in response to the economic downturn.
And they are also just one aspect of the way foundations are responding to the economic downturn, Lawrence said.
Foundations have seen their assets drop dramatically during the past year, just like everyone else, but many are committing to keeping their giving steady.
The nation's largest foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, announced this week it would increase its giving from 5 percent to 7 percent of its assets in 2009, despite a 20 percent drop in the value of its assets.
"The vast majority of foundations are trying to hold their giving level," Lawrence said.
That means many foundations are increasing their giving beyond the 5 percent of assets required by the Internal Revenue Service, to keep their promises to the causes they support.
Lawrence said he was not sure what will happen next year if the stock market does not recover: "2010 may be really challenging."
Daily Funny
"Tell me," said the personnel director of a large corporation, "are you an honest attorney?"
"Honest?" the lawyer replied. "Let me tell you something. My father lent me ten thousand dollars for my education, and I paid him back in full after my first case."
"I'm impressed," he said. "And what case was that?"
The attorney squirmed slightly. "He sued me for the money."
"Honest?" the lawyer replied. "Let me tell you something. My father lent me ten thousand dollars for my education, and I paid him back in full after my first case."
"I'm impressed," he said. "And what case was that?"
The attorney squirmed slightly. "He sued me for the money."
Activists gather for World Social Forum
An afternoon jungle downpour could not drown the spirits of those who came from all corners of the globe to participate: Socialists, environmentalists, anarchists, Indians, communists and even a fellow dressed as a pirate.
The massive meeting - coming amid the worst global economic crisis in decades - was being held for the first time in the Amazon region, an especially poignant fact for attendees.
"During a financial crisis, the environment is the first thing to be pushed off the agenda of most governments," said Andrew Riplinger, 22, of Chicago.
"I think having the social forum here in Belem, surrounded by the rain forest - it's keeping environmentalism on the table."
The streets of Belem were overflowed - by both water and the activists, who came wearing homemade shirts extolling every social cause under the sun.
Massive banners were unfurled, trumpets blared a chaotic chorus as Indians from across the Amazon performed traditional dances, barefoot, bodies ornately painted and heads adorned with the feathers of exotic birds.
"I'm here to fight for land, health and education," said one parading Indian, an older man who gave his name only as Miguel.
Attendees see this year's forum as more vital than ever, with participants saying the world's economic crisis gave legitimacy to their demands for alternative development models.
The celebration in the Amazon was geographically half a world away - and ideologically on another planet - from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where a dour mood and a decidedly slimmer list of global luminaries prevailed.
The social was forum first held in 2001 in southern Brazil as a direct response to that economic meeting in Europe.
Standing on the deck of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, docked in Belem, the environmental group's top Amazon campaigner Paulo Adairo said this year's social forum was being held in the perfect locale.
"The destruction of the Amazon is being propelled by the globalization of the Brazilian economy - cattle and soy for export," he said.
"Socio-economic problems and the environment are interconnected. That is why it is very important to have the forum here, so we can highlight both issues."
Authorities find driver two days after crash
Authorities say a North Carolina man who spent two nights in his vehicle after crashing down a steep embankment along Interstate 77 has been found.
Jonesville Police Chief Roger Reece said 84-year-old Miles Grady Brooks was alive but unresponsive when crews reached his white Cadillac today.
Motorists reported on Sunday night that a white Cadillac was traveling the wrong direction on I-77.
Officers searched along the highway but couldn't find any sign of the car, and they issued a public alert for help.
Reece said a farmer feeding his cows saw the car early this morning.
Jonesville Police Chief Roger Reece said 84-year-old Miles Grady Brooks was alive but unresponsive when crews reached his white Cadillac today.
Motorists reported on Sunday night that a white Cadillac was traveling the wrong direction on I-77.
Officers searched along the highway but couldn't find any sign of the car, and they issued a public alert for help.
Reece said a farmer feeding his cows saw the car early this morning.
Cold Hearted Bastard
Over at MojoBlog I found this shocking post.
And the Award for the Biggest Cold-Hearted Bastard in America Goes To...
Bay City (Michigan) Electric Light & Power manager Robert Belleman. Upon learning that 93-year-old Marvin Schur froze to death—"a slow, painful death" according to the medical examiner—in his home, Belleman defended the utility's decision to cut off the man's power, without warning, during last week's subzero cold snap. Installing "limiters" which put a cap on power usage and shuts off the juice altogether if an owner exceeds the limit, is company policy, noted Belleman, and he saw no reason to change it in the light of Schur's death. As for the utility's failure to inform Schur?
"I've said this before and some of my colleagues have said this: Neighbors need to keep an eye on neighbors," Belleman said. "When they think there's something wrong, they should contact the appropriate agency or city department."
Schur, who was $1,000 behind on his utility bill, was indeed found by his neighbor—four days after the limiter was switched on, in a sub-freezing room that had icicles on the insides of its windows.
Update: Wow, this is worse than I thought. Bay City Electric Light & Power is a community-owned utility (one of the nation's 2,000 such utilities). And Robert Belleman is not just the manager of the utility, he's the manager of Bay City itself. So I guess when he meant that citizens had a duty to report that their neighbors were freezing to death due to the reckless disregard of utilities to the proper government officials, he meant himself!
*****
For this Belleman should have his testicles moistened with ice cold water and then placed against a flagpole in those same sub-freezing conditions to where his only hope for relief from the cold is to rip his own balls off and leave them attached to the pole (frozen to it actually) to get into the warmth of any shelter he could find with all access to any such shelter denied him.
Bush Was a Big-Government Disaster
He expanded the state, and the idea that the state is incompetent
Now that George W. Bush has finally left office, here's a challenge to a nation famous for its proud tradition of invention: Can somebody invent a machine capable of fully measuring the disaster that was the Bush presidency?'The day the music died'
It's been 50 years since a single-engine plane crashed into a snow-covered Iowa field, instantly killing three men whose names would become enshrined in the history of rock 'n' roll.
The passing decades haven't diminished fascination with that night on February 2, 1959, when 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 28-year-old J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and 17-year-old Ritchie Valens performed in Clear Lake and then boarded the plane for a planned 300-mile flight that lasted only minutes.
All three musicians influenced rock and roll in their own way.
Holly's career was short, but his hiccup-vocal style, guitar play and songwriting talents had tremendous influence on later performers.
The Beatles, who formed about the time of the crash, were among his early fans and fashioned their name after Holly's band, The Crickets.
Holly's hit songs include "That'll Be The Day," "Peggy Sue" and "Maybe Baby."
Richardson, "The Big Bopper," is often credited with creating the first music video with his recorded performance of "Chantilly Lace" in 1958, decades before MTV.
And Valens was one of the first musicians to apply a Mexican influence to rock 'n' roll.
He recorded his huge hit "La Bamba" only months before the accident.
The plane left the airport in nearby Mason City about 1 a.m., headed for Moorhead, Minnesota, with the musicians looking for a break from a tiring, cold bus trip through the Upper Midwest.
It wasn't until hours later that the demolished plane was found, crumpled against a wire fence. Investigators believe the pilot, who also died, became confused amid the dark, snowy conditions and rammed the plane into the ground.
The crash set off a wave of mourning among their passionate, mostly young fans across the country.
Then 12 years later the crash was immortalized as "the day the music died" in Don McLean's 1971 song, "American Pie."
This year a huge gathering is expected for a series of concerts and seminars and the designation of the hall where the three last played as a historic building in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on this fiftieth anniversary weekend.
The passing decades haven't diminished fascination with that night on February 2, 1959, when 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 28-year-old J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and 17-year-old Ritchie Valens performed in Clear Lake and then boarded the plane for a planned 300-mile flight that lasted only minutes.
All three musicians influenced rock and roll in their own way.
Holly's career was short, but his hiccup-vocal style, guitar play and songwriting talents had tremendous influence on later performers.
The Beatles, who formed about the time of the crash, were among his early fans and fashioned their name after Holly's band, The Crickets.
Holly's hit songs include "That'll Be The Day," "Peggy Sue" and "Maybe Baby."
Richardson, "The Big Bopper," is often credited with creating the first music video with his recorded performance of "Chantilly Lace" in 1958, decades before MTV.
And Valens was one of the first musicians to apply a Mexican influence to rock 'n' roll.
He recorded his huge hit "La Bamba" only months before the accident.
The plane left the airport in nearby Mason City about 1 a.m., headed for Moorhead, Minnesota, with the musicians looking for a break from a tiring, cold bus trip through the Upper Midwest.
It wasn't until hours later that the demolished plane was found, crumpled against a wire fence. Investigators believe the pilot, who also died, became confused amid the dark, snowy conditions and rammed the plane into the ground.
The crash set off a wave of mourning among their passionate, mostly young fans across the country.
Then 12 years later the crash was immortalized as "the day the music died" in Don McLean's 1971 song, "American Pie."
This year a huge gathering is expected for a series of concerts and seminars and the designation of the hall where the three last played as a historic building in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on this fiftieth anniversary weekend.
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