Monday, September 06, 2010
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Nutter gets booed
at Labor Day parade
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WHYY (Philadelphia,PA), by Tom MacDonald
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 9/6/2010 8:40:08 PM
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Philadelphia's Mayor got a rousing Bronx Cheer as he spoke to the union crowd at the city's Labor Day Parade. With three of the four city unions without a contract, some of the rank and file aren't happy with the mayor. Mayor Nutter wasn't surprised when he was booed by the crowd of union marchers on Columbus Boulevard. He says it's all part of the job. "My response is I don't like some of the things that the mayor has done
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Jewish Holidays, Personal Responsibility,
and Progressivism
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Big Government, by Jeff Dunetz
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Posted By: Sammybenoit- 9/6/2010 8:31:05 PM
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With the setting of the sun this Wednesday night, Jews across the world will begin the observance of the Yomim Noraim (Days of Awe), a ten day period book-ended by the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. This year’s High Holiday period comes at an interesting time for America as the first night of Rosh Hashanah comes a mere fifty-four days before the United States goes to the polls to between two radically different directions, one which emphasizes personal responsibility, the other emphasizes a reliance on government.
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Iran stoning could
happen after Ramadan
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Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 9/6/2010 8:24:20 PM
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The adult son of an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery says he fears she will be executed shortly after this week's end to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's 22-year-old son Sajjad Mohammadi Ashtiani was speaking by telephone to a news conference organised in Paris by the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy. "Ramadan is coming to an end and, according to Islamic law, executions can resume," the young man warned.
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New Zealand's North Island
hit by 5.2 earthquake
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Australian Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 9/6/2010 8:21:34 PM
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Aukland - A magnitude-5.2 earthquake has hit New Zealand's North Island, the US Geological Survey says. The quake struck the east coast of the North Island, near Palmerston North, at 10.48am local time today (8.48am AEST), the USGS reported on its website. New Zealand's GeoNet monitoring system said the quake struck at a depth of 15 kilometres, while the USGS put it at 16.7km. The quake was widely felt in the Hawkes Bay region, GeoNet said on its website. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre did not issue a tsunami alert
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Capsized Boater Suvives Four
Hours in Lake Huron
Due To Cooler
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The Detroit News, by Christine MacDonald
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Posted By: Chippewa- 9/6/2010 8:20:54 PM
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A man survived four hours in Lake Huron near Alpena today, clinging only to his cooler. The 46-year-old man was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard off of Stone Port in Alpena after his 22-foot fiberglass fishing boat capsized around 10 a.m., said Nathan Mathis, Coast Guard petty officer. Authorities were alerted by another passenger in the boat who swam the nearly 10.5 miles to shore. "He said his buddy was still out there and that last thing he saw was him swimming toward the cooler," said Mathis. The rescued man did not have a life jacket and was found holding on to his cooler, Mathis said. He was conscious when rescuers arrived but suffering from hypothermia from the 60-degree water. Staff added text and split headline. Please see site rules before posting next time
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Falls schools to cut down on paper use
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Buffalo News, by Richard E. Baldwin
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Posted By: Photoonist- 9/6/2010 8:17:50 PM
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Niagara Falls - Imagine a school with no more assignment sheets, no more attendance books, no more paper towels in the rest rooms. No test papers, written transcripts or library cards. In short, an almost paperless society. This is what students will begin to experience when they return to classes Tuesday in Niagara Falls public schools and step into a higher-tech environment where "going green" is one of the key objectives.
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Tension Mounts as Groups
Protest Plan to Burn Koran
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Jakarta Globe [Indonesia], by Ulma Haryanto
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Posted By: PageTurner- 9/6/2010 8:16:56 PM
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Jakarta. As the weekend saw protests in different parts of the country against an American church’s plan to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by burning copies of the Koran, pluralism advocates on Sunday called for cooler heads to prevail and violence to be avoided. The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, said it will burn the Islamic holy book on the ninth anniversary of the terror attacks.
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$timulus fails to get
the 'job' done in city
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New York Post, by Chuck Bennett
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Posted By: Photoonist- 9/6/2010 8:07:52 PM
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Major city infrastructure projects undertaken as part of the federal stimulus package have yet to generate even a fraction of the thousands of promised jobs, a Post analysis has found. Meanwhile, about $4.7 billion of the $7.3 billion in stimulus money has been earmarked for "budget relief" -- feeding the city's own payroll and allowing it to continue to fund entitlement programs, such as food stamps. (Snip) "We're continuing to put federal stimulus dollars to work, with some projects near completion and others still ramping up," said Andrew Brent, a spokesman for Mayor Bloomberg.
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Indonesian Muslims protest
plan to burn Quran
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: PageTurner- 9/6/2010 8:06:40 PM
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Thousands of Indonesian Muslims rallied outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta on Saturday to denounce an American church's plan to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by burning copies of the Quran. The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, said it will burn the Islamic holy book Wednesday, the ninth anniversary of the terror attacks. Local officials have denied a permit for the bonfire on the church's grounds, but the center - which made headlines last year by distributing T-shirts that said "Islam is of the Devil" - insists it will go ahead with the plan.
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Strikes erupt in France over
plans to lift minimum
retirement age to 62
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Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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Posted By: Photoonist- 9/6/2010 8:01:55 PM
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Strikes have broken out in France as unions gear up for a nationwide stoppage to protest plans to raise the minimum retirement age from 60 to 62. Some secondary school teachers began the protest early with their own strike to protest the slashing of 7000 jobs in education and other reform plans in the sector, on the eve of the larger showdown. Other private and public sector workers were to join protests today that unions said would see hundreds of thousands take to the streets to fight pension plans that are a cornerstone of President Nicolas Sarkozy's reforms.
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Soldiers fire on family's
car in Mexico, killing 2
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Associated Press, by Olga R. Rodriguez and Mark Walsh
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/6/2010 7:53:18 PM
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MONTERREY, Mexico — Soldiers opened fire on a family's car at a military checkpoint in northern Mexico, killing a 15-year-old boy and his father, authorities and relatives said Monday. It is at least the second time this year that a family has been caught up in a shooting involving Mexico's military, which has come under intense criticism for human rights abuses as soldiers fight brutal drug cartels. Javier Trevino, Nuevo Leon state lieutenant governor, said soldiers apparently shot at the car when the driver failed to stop at the checkpoint Sunday on the highway connecting
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Hurricane watches issued
for coasts of Mexico,
Texas as Tropical
Storm Hermine approaches
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Associated Press, by Jorge Vargas
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/6/2010 7:51:10 PM
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NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — Mexican authorities urged people to move to shelters while officials in Texas distributed sandbags and warned of flash floods as Tropical Storm Hermine strengthened and headed toward the northwestern Gulf coast on Monday. Hermine will probably make landfall around midnight just south of the U.S.-Mexico border, threatening to bring as much as one foot of rainfall to some areas battered by Hurricane Alex in June. Remnant rains from Alex killed at least 12 people in flooding in Mexico. Hermine "will briefly be over Mexico, and then
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Lawyer: Photo error led Sakine
Mohammadi Ashtiani, sentenced to death,
to receive 99 lashings
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New York Daily News, by Michael Sheridan
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Posted By: Photoonist- 9/6/2010 7:46:49 PM
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An Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned to death may have received 99 lashings over a photo mix-up. According to Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's lawyer, Javid Houtan Kian, another woman who had been in prison with her claims the mother of two received the additional punishment after a British newspaper published a photo of a woman without a veil, or hijab, covering her hair, which it indicated was Ashtiani. The Times of London later admitted the photo mistakenly identified her, and was actually a different woman.
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No. 1 Right-Wing Swinger: Rush Limbaugh
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Golf Magazine, by Staff
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Posted By: James Leyva- 9/6/2010 7:43:33 PM
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Golf-wise, you were a late bloomer, right? Yeah, when I moved from Florida to New York in 1997, a lot of my friends down there played golf. So in order to hang around them, I took up the game. I was 46 years old, and that’s when I really got into it and became obsessed, as most people who play the game are. I’m busier than I’ve ever been, so I don’t play as often as I’d like. I probably get out three to four times per month, mostly on weekends.
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Unlikely battleground of
Wisconsin reflects Democrats'
vulnerability in midterm elections
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Washington Post, by Karen Tumulty
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 9/6/2010 7:42:45 PM
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MILWAUKEE - Democrats in Congress are no longer asking themselves if this is going to be a bad election year for them and their party. They are asking if it is going to be a disaster. The answer will probably be found in states such as Wisconsin, one of a growing number of spots on the map where Democrats accustomed to winning reelection with ease are unexpectedly in trouble. The GOP pushed deep into Democratic-held territory over the summer, to the point where as many as 80 House seats could be at risk.
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Chinese film on 1960 labor camps
cheered in Venice
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Reuters, by Silvia Aloisi
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Posted By: Judy W.- 9/6/2010 7:12:54 PM
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VENICE – A powerful Chinese film on the plight of political prisoners condemned to forced labor camps in the late 1950s wooed critics in Venice on Monday, with some tipping it as a strong contender for the festival's top prize. "The Ditch" tells the little-known story of some 3,000 people deported for "re-education" to labor camps on the edge of the Gobi desert, in western China, and struggling to survive extreme climate and acute food shortages.
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Senator Russ Feingold tours
Wisconsin during Obama visit
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WITI-TV [Milwaukee WI], by Sarah Platt
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Posted By: GaGardener- 9/6/2010 7:09:59 PM
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US Senator Russ Feingold did not appear with President Obama at Laborfest, instead he campaigned in three Labor Day parades. FOX6 caught up with the senator to see if this was a political move. (Snip) He walked in Milwaukee's Laborfest parade, then a parade in Janesville, and then Kenosha. With polls showing his election race so close, FOX6 asked Senator Feingold if he was trying to distance himself from the President by not appearing with Obama at Laborfest. He said, "I didn't want to break my commitment to all the families and friends I grew up with.
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Big Labor’s Bloody Legacy
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FrontPage Magazine, by Michelle Malkin
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Posted By: MichaelvdGalien- 9/6/2010 6:49:32 PM
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To mark Labor Day 2010, President Obama will join hands with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka in Milwaukee and pose as champions of the working class. Bad move. Trumka’s organizing record is a shameful reminder of the union movement’s violent and corrupt foundations. The new Obama/AFL-CIO power alliance — underwritten with $40 million in hard-earned worker dues — is a midterm shotgun marriage of Beltway brass knuckles and Big Labor brawn. Trumka warmed up his rhetorical muscles this past week with full-frontal attacks on former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
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Undermining Peace
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FrontPage Magazine, by Alan M. Dershowitz
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Posted By: MichaelvdGalien- 9/6/2010 6:48:57 PM
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As President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton, Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Abbas now assemble to try to make peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the 600 pound gorilla in the room will be Richard Goldstone. Although he was not invited to the meetings, his presence will be felt. It will send the following message to the Israeli government: If you end your military occupation of the West Bank, and the Palestinians use their new territory to launch rockets and other attacks against Israel,
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Union Memberships
Drop With Economy
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Fox News, by Staff
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 9/6/2010 6:47:58 PM
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Union leaders will tell you organized labor is vital to the nation's economic health. But in this brutal economy, there are plenty of folks who bristle when they hear about unions demanding pay raises or fighting against health care co-pays. New polling from Rasmussen shows 45 percent of adults view unions favorably- and that includes the 16-percent who view them very favorably. But 46-percent have a generally unfavorable view of union and that includes 21-percent with a very unfavorable view.
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Abandoned turtles taking over
LA County waterways
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Pasadena Star-News, by Beige Luciano Adams, Staff
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Posted By: Sloopy- 9/6/2010 6:47:56 PM
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When a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department task force followed a tip about illegal fireworks in San Pedro on the fourth of July, a stash of 10,000 live baby turtles was the last thing they expected to find. "There were about 500 turtles in each box - and they literally exploded out of the boxes," said Linda Crawford, the adoption chairwoman of the California Turtle and Tortoise Club's Foothill chapter
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The Peace Delusion
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FrontPage Magazine, by Rich Trzupek
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Posted By: MichaelvdGalien- 9/6/2010 6:47:07 PM
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It’s been nearly two years since Palestinian representatives and Israelis sat across a table from each other to talk about peace. As the latest round of talks got under way yesterday, it’s hard to imagine that the results this time will be much different than any other time. Has anything changed that might lead to a different outcome? Gaza is still being run by Hamas.
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ICE agency report puts
serious dent in Eric Holder’s
DOJ case against sheriff Joe Arpaio
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Dayton Tribune (OH), by Robert Blain
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 9/6/2010 6:18:46 PM
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On Thursday Eric Holder and the Department of Justice filed suit against Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff’s office run by the outspoken and flamboyant Joe Arpaio who’s made it a personal crusade to uphold U.S. immigrations laws when the feds won’t.(Snip)The DOJ then got caught with its pants down when more government documents were uncovered under the Freedom of Information Act that suggests politics may be at the root of the investigation. Sheriff Arpaio’s lawyers found a March 11, 09 e-mail, that was sent just after the Justice Department investigation was announced, from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency employee
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Feeling scorned, big business
turns its back on President Obama
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Washington Post, by Staff
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Posted By: James Leyva- 9/6/2010 6:04:08 PM
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PRESIDENT OBAMA'S 2008 campaign raised roughly $40 million from the financial sector, 50 percent more than did Republican John McCain. But now, it seems, Wall Street is suffering a massive case of buyer's remorse. Irked by the president's anti-business rhetoric and by financial regulations he and a Democratic Congress have imposed, many erstwhile pro-Obama financiers -- as well as other business people -- blame him for destroying the investor confidence without which growth cannot resume. They are shifting their campaign cash to Republicans.
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Condoleezza Rice 'ordered
Bush to stay out of Washington'
after 9/11
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Telegraph [U.K.], by Staff
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Posted By: PageTurner- 9/6/2010 5:50:35 PM
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In a heated exchange, Ms Rice had to argue with the US President in Florida not to return to the White House because it was a potential terrorist target. She told the Channel 4 documentary: "The President got on the phone and he said: 'I'm coming back'. "I said: 'You cannot come back here. The United States of America is under attack, you have to go to safety. We don't know what is going on here'. "He said: 'I'm coming back'. I said: 'You can't'.
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