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New York Governor Cuomo
under fire for claiming
Hurricane Sandy was ‘worse
than Katrina’ even though
far more died in 2005 storm

Daily Mail [UK], by Sam Webb Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/27/2012 3:18:12 PM Post Reply

Governor Andrew Cuomo is coming under fire after saying that Hurricane Sandy was ´more impactful´ than Hurricane Katrina, even though the 2005 storm still caused significantly more deaths. The New York governor ignored the staggering different death tolls- Hurricane Katrina caused 1,833 deaths while Sandy is attributed in 121 deaths- but went on to say that last month´s hurricane ´affected many, many more people and places than Katrina´. He broached the controversial topic during a press conference on Monday while explaining his rationale in asking for nearly $42billion in federal aid for the reconstruction process.

N.J. roller coaster swept
into ocean by Superstorm
Sandy won´t remain as
´tourist attraction´

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/27/2012 3:07:02 PM Post Reply

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J.— A roller coaster swept off a New Jersey amusement pier by Superstorm Sandy won’t remain as a tourist attraction partially submerged in the ocean. Seaside Heights Mayor Bill Akers tells the Asbury Park Press the town and the owners of the Casino Pier are in talks to remove what remains of the Jet Star Roller Coaster. The mayor last week told a TV station that the coaster would make a “great tourist attraction.” But the mayor now says that “was not the brightest comment.” Casino Pier officials say they are still assessing the damage.

Why is Iran´s nuclear
stockpile growing?

Reuters, by Fredrik Dahl Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 11/27/2012 2:55:24 PM Post Reply

VIENNA - An increase in Iran´s higher-grade uranium stockpile is worrying but may arise from a bottleneck in making reactor fuel rather than a bid to quickly accumulate material that could be used for nuclear weapons, diplomats and experts say. The issue of when and how fast Iran might be able to build an atomic bomb if it chose to do so is closely watched in the West because it could determine any decision by Israel to launch pre-emptive strikes against the Islamic Republic. Tehran´s move this year to use a big part of its most sensitive material
Headline split by staff.

´National security risk´:
Far-right leader pushes
Hungary to draw up list of Jews

Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: crabam- 11/27/2012 2:23:17 PM Post Reply

BUDAPEST, Hungary -- A Hungarian far-right politician urged the government to draw up a list of Jews who pose a "national security risk", stirring outrage among Jewish leaders who saw echoes of fascist policies that led to the Holocaust. Marton Gyongyosi, a leader of Hungary´s third-strongest political party Jobbik, said the list was necessary because of heightened tensions following the brief conflict in Gaza and should include members of parliament.
Headline split and link repaired by staff.

US servicewomen sue
US military over combat ban

Agence France-Presse, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 11/27/2012 2:22:24 PM Post Reply

LOS ANGELES — A group of US servicewomen is suing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta over the Pentagon´s long-standing policy barring women from thousands of ground combat positions, they announced Tuesday. Four female soldiers, including two who won Purple Hearts for bravery in action in Afghanistan, slammed the policy as an "injustice to the women ... who continue to put their lives on the line for their country." "Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to be an Air Force pilot, and I have proven my ability every step of the way," said Major Mary Jennings Hegar

Most young people with HIV
don´t know they´re infected

USA Today, by Liz Szabo Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 11/27/2012 2:18:45 PM Post Reply

More than 30 years after the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, young people are again taking dangerous risks with their lives, according to a new report from the Centers for the Disease Control and Prevention. About 1,000 young people ages 13 to 24 are newly infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, each month, according to new data released for the first time. About 60% of HIV-positive young people have no idea that they´re infected, according to the report released Tuesday. Young people ages 13 to 24 account for more than a quarter of the 50,000 new HIV

Saudi Arabia´s new "tracking"
system for women

The ECN Daily, by Kasey Panetta Original Article

Posted By: frede- 11/27/2012 1:39:12 PM Post Reply

When you work in the tech world, your days are usually full of creative people doing incredible things; on the darker days, you occasionally stumble on people (or governments) using technology in ways that make your skin crawl. This week’s example? Saudi Arabia is sending a text message to the guardian—usually a husband, father, or brother—of any woman who attempts to exit the country.

It Will Take a Moral
Movement, Girls

American Thinker, by Christopher Chantrill Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/27/2012 12:43:41 PM Post Reply

After the election, conservatives are still full of foreboding -- and also a pessimistic hope. Want to know how to spell "default"? asks Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. It goes like this: "entitlement reform." Or this from Randall DeSoto: it takes about ten years for Americans to get it together and form a political movement for change. As in 1765 to 1776, 1850 to 1860, and so on.(Snip) But now liberals think the weather is set fair, what with the black and the Hispanic vote, ObamaCare, and beneficial financial and environmental regulations about to transform America.

Who´s Afraid of the Fiscal Cliff?

Cybercast News Service, by Patrick J. Buchanan Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 11/27/2012 12:39:06 PM Post Reply

Were the average Republican asked for a succinct statement of his views on taxation, he or she might respond thus: "U.S. tax rates are too high for the world we must compete in. The tax burden — federal, state, local, together — is too heavy. We need to cut tax rates to free up our private and productive sector and pull this economy out of the ditch." This core conviction holds the party together. Yet today the leadership is about to abandon this conviction to sign on to higher tax rates or revenues, while the economy is nearing stall speed. Yet, two years ago, President Obama himself extended the Bush tax cuts

Radio´s Laura Ingraham off the air

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/27/2012 12:36:17 PM Post Reply

NEW YORK- Radio talk show host Laura Ingraham is off the air - at least temporarily. She said Tuesday that she´s leaving her distributor, Talk Radio Network, after more than nine years because her contract is up. Ingraham said she is in discussions with other distributors about her show, which currently airs on 325 stations nationally. Talkers magazine says the conservative Ingraham is the most-listened to woman on radio, with an estimated 5.75 million listeners a week. Talkers said that ranks her among the top eight radio hosts overall.

Kansas vote was much
different from nation

Wichita Eagle [KS], by Bob Beatty Original Article

Posted By: wildcat1- 11/27/2012 12:19:36 PM Post Reply

Kansas has gone for the Republican nominee for president since 1968, and 2012 was no different. Mitt Romney defeated President Obama by 22 percentage points (60 to 38 percent) in the Sunflower State, an increase of 8 percentage points over GOP nominee John McCain’s vote share in 2008. Nationally, Obama defeated Romney by 3.3 percent (50.8 to 47.5 percent).

China´s Communist Party newspaper
falls for Onion story about Kim Jong Un

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 11/27/2012 12:00:24 PM Post Reply

Beijing - The online version of China´s Communist Party newspaper has hailed a report by The Onion naming North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as the "Sexiest Man Alive" -- not realizing it is satire. The People´s Daily on Tuesday ran a 55-page photo spread on its website in a tribute to the round-faced leader, under the headline "North Korea´s top leader named The Onion´s Sexiest Man Alive for 2012." Quoting the Onion´s spoof report, the Chinese newspaper wrote: ""With his devastatingly handsome, round face, his boyish charm, and his strong, sturdy frame,

Seeing No Evil

National Review Online, by Dennis Prager Original Article

Posted By: supersid- 11/27/2012 11:53:43 AM Post Reply

If you want to understand why President Obama was reelected despite a largely unsuccessful presidency and almost unprecedentedly high and continuous unemployment, just look at the Cuban-American vote. (Snip) Democratic presidential nominees went from 25 percent of the Cuban-American vote in 2000, to 29 percent in 2004, to 35 percent in 2008, to 48 percent in 2012. We obviously have a dramatic trend here. Now, why would that be? There are two reasons: No experience of evil, and American education. The first generation of Cuban-Americans had escaped Communist evil.

Republican senators say Rice meeting
just leaves more questions unanswered

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 11/27/2012 11:50:05 AM Post Reply

Three Republican senators who met Tuesday with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice say they left the meeting with more unanswered questions about her comments after the deadly September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. “I am more disturbed now than before,” said South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham. The Capitol Hill meeting lasted about 90 minutes and also was attended by acting CIA Director Michael Morell. Graham was joined by Sens. Kelly Ayotte, of New Hampshire, and John McCain, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

McCain, GOP senators rip Rice

USA Today, by David Jackson Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/27/2012 11:47:04 AM Post Reply

John McCain and other Republican senators said Tuesday they would oppose elevating Susan Rice to Secretary of State until she and other officials answer more questions about the Sept. 11 attack in Libya. "We are significantly troubled by many of the answers that we got and some that we didn´t get," McCain said after meeting with the United Nations ambassador who could be President Obama´s next nominee for the State Department. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., who also attended the meeting, said of Rice: "I would hold her nomination until I had additional answers to questions"

Powerball: Got the fever yet?

Pen Bay Pilot [Camden, ME], by Chris Wolf Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 11/27/2012 11:40:01 AM Post Reply

Just let a record Powerball Jackpot come around and it awakens a desire in most of us. We even begin to figure out how we will spend the money before we even buy the winning ticket. The question you ask is: Is all that money worth the one in 175,223,510 odds that you might actually pick the right numbers, or will you simply be out $2? The chances of winning $4 on Powerball are one in 55, so the chance is believable your original investment of $2 will net you $4. Gary Fowlie, of Village Variety in Camden, said this has been the best lotto sales he's seen in four to five years.

Israel official in
trouble over Obama gibe

USA Today, by David Jackson Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 11/27/2012 11:21:17 AM Post Reply

An Israeli military official is under fire for a Facebook photo in which he has dark mud smeared on his face with the caption "Obama style." From ABC News: "Sacha Dratwa posted the photo in late September, but since the furor he has restricted access to his account. (Snip) "In the photo, Dratwa appears to be smeared in mud from the Dead Sea, a popular activity for many visiting and living in Israel. Dratwa responded to a user on Twitter accusing him of racism saying, ´I´m not a racist, please stop [spreading] lies about me.'

The Oprah brand is old, wheezy
and tired--just like the seniors
who are taking over her fan club

Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/27/2012 11:13:10 AM Post Reply

Marie Antoinette’s advice to the poor was “let them eat cake.” Oprah Winfrey’s response to world recession has been to release her own line of organic food. According to Forbes, she has filed for trademarking “Oprah’s Organics”, “Oprah’s Harvest” and “Oprah’s farm.” Oprah’s products include salad dressing, frozen vegetables, massage oils, skin care products and hair sprays--a little bit of luxury for her millions of devoted followers.[Snip]The rest of the country will have to eat and wash their hair with things that don’t have a famous person’s name randomly stamped on them

Accused WikiLeaker Manning
says he was punished before trial

Baltimore Sun [MD], by Matthew Hay Brown Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 11/27/2012 11:11:28 AM Post Reply

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is due back at Fort Meade this week, where lawyers for the alleged WikiLeaker plan to argue that he was punished at a military brig before his case had been heard — grounds, they say, to dismiss all charges against him. (Snip) Manning, 24, is the only suspect arrested in the largest leak in U.S. history. He is accused of sending raw field reports from Iraq and Afghanistan, diplomatic cables from U.S. embassies around the world and a video of a U.S. helicopter attack in Baghdad to be published by WikiLeaks. If convicted, he could be sentenced to life in prison.

The NHS can’t go on being
free if selfish baby boomers
consult GPs for the slightest
aches and pains

Telegraph [UK], by Andrew M Brown Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/27/2012 11:08:39 AM Post Reply

The NHS can’t go on like this. Patients today--baby boomers, especially--bother the doctor with minor complaints when their grandparents would have grinned and borne it, and have unrealistic expectations of what the health service can provide. The system is at breaking point. The solution? We are going to have to start paying for some medical services at the point of delivery.[Snip]“It probably can limp on for the rest of this decade,” warns Dr Lee, “ but the reality is the pressures coming from the baby boomer generation and their expectations of health care, their perceptions of pain and suffering

Venezuelan Judge Who Angered
Chávez Says She Was Raped
While in Prison

New York Times, by MARÍA EUGENIA DÍAZ and WILLIAM NEUMAN Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 11/27/2012 10:40:47 AM Post Reply

CARACAS, Venezuela — An arrested judge at the center of one of Venezuela’s most prominent human rights cases was raped while in prison and then had an abortion behind bars after becoming pregnant, according to the judge’s lawyer and a book published last week in Caracas that has stirred new controversy around the case. The judge, María Lourdes Afiuni, was imprisoned in December 2009 after one of her rulings angered President Hugo Chávez. Human rights activists say her jailing was arbitrary and shows the lack of judicial independence in Venezuela.

´Please spare my little girl´:
How Mexico´s fearless female
mayor sacrificed herself to
save her daughter´s life as she
was abducted by drug gang,
tortured and executed

Daily Mail [U.K.], by Sam Webb Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 11/27/2012 10:29:36 AM Post Reply

The woman mayor who was kidnapped and murdered by a Mexican drug gang pleaded with her attackers for her young daughter’s life, it emerged today. Maria Santos Gorrostieta, who had already survived two assassination attempts, was driving the child to school at around 8.30am when she was ambushed by a car in the city of Morelia. The 36-year-old was hauled from her vehicle and physically assaulted as horrified witnesses watched, according to newspaper El Universal. They described how she begged for her child to be left alone and then appeared to get into her abductors’ car willingly.

Hillary Clinton: Being Methodist
is fundamental to who I am

Daily Mail (UK), by Leslie Larson Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/27/2012 10:26:00 AM Post Reply

As the Secretary of State is expected to soon announce her departure from the Obama administration, she has spoken in a surprisingly candid manner about the importance of her Christian faith on her career in public service. Hillary Clinton, who was raised in the United Methodist Church, once said her heritage instilled in her the ´obligation´ to relieve suffering but now the 65-year-old has gone even further, calling her faith ´fundamental´ to her identity. The personal statement by the former first lady turned senator turned cabinet member comes amid the unending speculation that she has her eye

Exclusive: ´He´s being
exploited by the church´:
Two and a Half Men star
Angus T Jones´ mother voices
fears after his extraordinary
religious rant

Daily Mail (UK), by Julie Moult & Lizzie Smith Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/27/2012 10:16:03 AM Post Reply

The mother of Two and A Half Men star Angus T Jones has spoken out to say he is being ´exploited´ by his church after he branded his hit show ´filth´ in an extraordinary religious rant. Carey Jones, 42, told MailOnline she was worried for her famous son. ´I´m concerned he´s being exploited by the church,´ she explained, but refused to comment further. The 19-year-old - who makes $350,000 per episode playing Jake - was seen urging fans to ´turn off´ in a new video for the Forerunner Chronicles.

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