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´Stop Being So Anglo´

Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto Original Article

Posted By: SoCalGal- 12/7/2012 7:34:46 PM Post Reply

"Allegations of racism and other discrimination against San Francisco Housing Authority Executive Director Henry Alvarez are flying in lawsuits filed by his subordinates," the San Francisco Examiner reports. It´s a man-bites-dog story inasmuch as Alvarez is black and his accusers are white--the reverse of the usual race-discrimination stereotype. In one lawsuit, Tim Larsen, a lawyer who works for the authority, alleges that Alvarez "told him to ´stop being so Anglo´ and that he ´did not have enough kink in his hair,´" (Snip) ´you and I are like Captain Kirk and Spock; you will never escape me.´ "

Obama´s corporate cash reversal

Politico, by Anna Palmer and Donovan Slack Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 12/7/2012 7:26:01 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama’s got a whole new take on corporate cash. The inaugural committee says its decision to accept unlimited corporate money is only a reflection of how drained donors are following the pricey reelection campaign. But coming right in the midst of negotiations over the fiscal cliff, the decision means Obama will start his second term with a significant symbolic reversal — four years ago, the corporate money ban was supposed to signal what his committee called a “commitment to change business as usual in Washington.” It opens him to charges that he’s changed

Psy ‘Forever Sorry’ for
Anti-American Song

ABC News, by Sheila Marikar Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 12/7/2012 7:01:09 PM Post Reply

Psy, the South Korean rapper famous for “Gangnam Style,” apologized today for a 2004 performance in which he said American soldiers should be killed “slowly and painfully.” The apology comes two days before he is scheduled to perform at a holiday concert that will be attended by President Obama and his family. TNT, the organizer of the concert, told ABC News that Psy will perform on Sunday as planned. A White House official confirmed to ABC News that the Obama family will attend the Dec. 9 taping of ”Christmas in Washington,” as is custom.

Egypt protesters breach barriers,
march on presidential palace

Globe & Mail [Canada], by Maggie Fick & Maggie Michael* Original Article

Posted By: John c- 12/7/2012 6:40:51 PM Post Reply

Tens of thousands of Egyptian protesters push past barbed wire fences installed by the army and march on the presidential palace, calling for President Mohammed Morsi to “leave” a day after they say he offered no concessions to opposition demands. Climbing over tanks of the Republican Guard, protesters streamed toward the palace as night fell Friday, crossing a no-go zone set up around the compound’s perimeter. The area witnessed deadly clashes on Wednesday, when supporters of Mr. Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood group drove out crowds camped outside the palace.

U.S. Government Lends $105M
to Brazil—to Build Aquarium

Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/7/2012 5:39:11 PM Post Reply

The U.S. Export-Import Bank, an agency of the federal government, is lending $105 million to the Brazilian state of Ceara to help build an aquarium in its capital city of Fortaleza. “An anticipated tourist attraction, the aquarium will boast four floors housing 25 large tanks containing approximately 15 million liters of water and showcasing 500 marine species and 35,000 individual specimens,” the Export-Import Bank said in a press release. “The aquarium will also feature interactive exhibits, two 4D cinemas, one 3D cinema, and an educational platform

Romney Turned Down One
Hour Primetime Fox News
Interview Night Before
Election Day

Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/7/2012 5:35:14 PM Post Reply

If you were a Republican presidential candidate, wouldn´t you jump at the chance to do a one hour primetime interview on Fox News Channel the night before Election Day? According to Bill O´Reilly who appeared on NBC´s Tonight Show Thursday, that´s what Mitt Romney was offered and he turned it down (video follows with transcript and commentary): JAY LENO, HOST: Now, I´m told you gave advice to both candidates. BILL O’REILLY: I didn´t give advice. I talked to them because I was trying to get both of them on.

Homemade Eggnog Can
Kill Salmonella with Booze

ABC News, by Sydney Lupkin Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/7/2012 5:27:30 PM Post Reply

What could be more festive than a dozen raw eggs, a quart of rum and a pint of bourbon getting friendly in a pot in the fridge for six weeks? Conventional wisdom would suggest eggnog should bring about a spike in salmonella cases every December, but it doesn´t happen. Call it a holiday miracle -- or just call it science. "Actually, it happens very, very, very, very infrequently," said Dr. William Schaffner, chair of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. "We do not record an increase in salmonellosis due to eggnog.

Obama and Morsi: Separated at Birth

FrontPage Magazine, by Daniel Greenfield Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 12/7/2012 5:26:58 PM Post Reply

In Cairo, Morsi scribbles his decrees and in Washington DC, Obama scribbles his. There is an ocean between the two men, but there is a good deal that they have in common. Both are ideologues who piggybacked on public outrage over the national impact of international economic declines to climb to power and pursue their true agendas. Without worries about the price of bread, the odds are good that Mubarak would be sitting in his old place and Morsi would be looking over the latest economic reports from the Brotherhood’s business networks and front groups. And without a sharp decline

Ryan Stonewalls on
Involvement with Boehner Purge

Breitbart Big Government, by Matthew Boyle Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/7/2012 5:17:07 PM Post Reply

As House Speaker John Boehner continues to hide the details of what happened and why during his conservative purge of House committees, House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan is eschewing comment and instead directing all inquiries about the purge to Boehner’s office. On Monday, Boehner and House GOP leadership removed four conservative Republicans from influential fiscally focused committees. Reps. Justin Amash of Michigan and Tim Huelskamp of Kansas were pulled from the House Budget Committee and Reps. David Schweikert of Arizona and Walter Jones of North Carolina

Notorious B.I.G.´s autopsy report
released 15 years after his death

Los Angeles Times, by Richard Winton Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 12/7/2012 4:52:18 PM Post Reply

Fifteen years after rapper Notorious B.I.G. was gunned down in one of L.A.´s most notorious unsolved homicides, the Los Angeles County Coroner has unsealed his 23-page autopsy report, providing the most detailed view yet on his death. The report shows that a bullet entered the rapper´s right hip, and fatally pierced several organs. Notorious B.I.G., whose real name was Christopher George Latore Wallace, died in March 1997 when an unknown assailant shot him four times during a drive-by shooting on Wilshire Boulevard as the music star sat in the front passenger seat of a Chevrolet Suburban.

Day 1 of Legal Pot Marred by Deaths
at Alleged Wash. Growing Center

ABC News, by Sarah Parnass Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 12/7/2012 4:45:11 PM Post Reply

The first day of legal marijuana use in Washington State was marred by an attempted robbery ending with two deaths at an alleged pot-growing facility just south of Seattle. The possession of pot became legal in the state Thursday after voters passed a measure decriminalizing it in November. Day two kicked off with more celebrations under the Space Needle tower, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported, but the Pierce County Sheriff´s Department investigated an attempted robbery in Puyallup at an alleged growing center foiled by a homeowner who shot two alleged burglars in front of his 9-year-old son.

The retail rebellion: Fast-food
workers, inspired by Walmart
strikers, demand higher wages

Yahoo! News, by Liz Goodwin Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 12/7/2012 4:42:31 PM Post Reply

Last month, workers at hundreds of Walmart locations nationwide staged protests—many on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year—demanding the retail giant pay higher wages. Walmart downplayed the rare show of rebellion, saying it only involved a fraction of its 1.6 million U.S. employees. (Snip)The protests also inspired another group of low-wage workers to stage their own. Last week, about 200 fast-food workers in New York City walked out of their workplaces—chains affected included Burger King and McDonald´s—to demand a "living wage" of $15 an hour and an end to the practice of keeping workers on part-time

The Quietest Tradition in Sports

Wall Street Journal, by Ben Cohen Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 12/7/2012 3:44:18 PM Post Reply

One night every December, students at tiny Taylor University pack the school´s gymnasium and participate in a phenomenon that´s completely out of place in modern sports: silence. The fans in the standing-room-only crowd are as loud as a library for as long as it takes Taylor´s basketball team to score 10 points. But once that happens, there´s no shushing them. As soon as Taylor hits double digits, the students erupt into bedlam, and they don´t stop screaming and dancing until it´s time for the post-game Christmas party on campus. Friday´s racket known as "Silent Night"—

Supreme Court will hear
gay marriage cases

Associated Press, by Mark Sherman Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/7/2012 3:40:19 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- The Supreme Court will take up California´s ban on same-sex marriage, a case that could give the justices the chance to rule on whether gay Americans have the same constitutional right to marry as heterosexuals. The justices said Monday they will review a federal appeals court ruling that struck down the state´s gay marriage ban, though on narrow grounds. The San Francisco-based appeals court said the state could not take away the same-sex marriage right that had been granted by California´s Supreme Court. The court also will decide whether Congress can deprive legally married gay couples

World War II fighter plane
pulled from Waukegan Harbor

Chicago Tribune, by Jonathan Bullington Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/7/2012 3:25:14 PM Post Reply

Nearly 100 people watched as crews pulled a WWII fighter plane from Waukegan Harbor this morning -- the first leg of a journey that could land it in a Glenview naval museum. “It’s a pretty inspiring thing,” said Charles Greenhill, a 78-year-old pilot from Mettawa who paid for the recovery. “You think you get used to it, but you don’t.” The plane will be shipped Greenhill’s hangar in Kenosha, Wis., and from there it will be transported to the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Fla. where a full restoration could take at least five years.

Another TSA Agent
Accused of iPad Theft

ABC News, by Randy Kreider and Megan Chuchmach Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 12/7/2012 3:05:02 PM Post Reply

A TSA agent was arrested this week and charged with stealing from passengers traveling through New York´s John F. Kennedy Airport, adding to the long list of TSA officers accused of theft of passenger belongings. TSA baggage screener Sean Henry, 32, was arrested on Tuesday after a sting operation conducted jointly by the TSA and the Port Authority Police Department caught Henry leaving the airport with two iPads that had been planted as part of the sting, as well as numerous other electronics devices he had allegedly stolen from passengers. Just as in a recent ABC News investigation of thefts

Rep.-elect from Florida
pledges support for climate
change legislation

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Zack Colman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/7/2012 2:45:25 PM Post Reply

Rep.-elect Patrick Murphy (D-Fla.) said he is ready to come out swinging on climate change. Murphy, who will replace Tea Party favorite Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), said he would support climate change legislation, according to The Miami Herald. "Unfortunately we have far too many politicians who continue to bury their heads in the sand and pretend it´s not happening," Murphy said Thursday at the Southeast Florida regional climate leadership summit in Jupiter, Fla. Murphy also said he would be a “passionate advocate” for the Everglades and on other environmental issues. Murphy is vice president of Coastal Environmental Services,
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Commander in cheat!

New York Post, by Lou Lumenick Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 12/7/2012 2:42:07 PM Post Reply

Half as long and twice as much fun as the self-important “Lincoln,’’ Roger Michell’s charming sex-and-politics comedy “Hyde Park on Hudson’’ is basically a frothy tabloid take on presidential history. And for my money, that’s a good thing in a season filled with puffed-up prestige pictures. Anchored by a thoroughly delightful performance by Bill Murray, the film shows President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrestling with two problems as World War II looms in the spring of 1939. (Snip) At the same time, FDR — whose bemused wife, Eleanor (Olivia Williams), seems to prefer the company of journalist Lorena Hickok

And a Quarterback
Shall Lead Them

Weekly Standard, by Geoffrey Norman Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/7/2012 2:39:00 PM Post Reply

The guy was a political science major, he knows about politics, he’s clever, he’s smart, he’s funny. It’s what people talk about at dinner parties, it’s what people talk about in the office, and it has united Washington in a way that I have never seen before. This according to Sally Quinn who knows more about – and has more invested in – Washington dinner parties than anyone alive. The figure about whom she gushes is the rookie quarterback of the Washington Redskins, Robert Griffin III. Or, as he is universally known, RG3.

Obama to take corporate
cash for inauguration

Politico, by Donovan Slack Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/7/2012 2:23:42 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama will accept unlimited corporate donations for his Inauguration in January, reversing his position from his first Inauguration, according to two sources close to the planning. There are no legal limits for inauguration donations, but four years ago, the president capped all contributions at $50,000 and barred companies from kicking in any money. Obama had also banned corporate money from the 2012 Democratic National Convention. (Snip) But the sources say the new decision is driven by pragmatism: The president and his team just wrapped up the most expensive campaign in

Obama calls Egypt’s Morsi
to complain about riots,
not human rights

Daily Caller, by Neil Munro Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/7/2012 2:15:16 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama called Egypt’s Islamist president Dec. 6 to complain about televised riots in Cairo that showcase the collapse of Obama’s much-touted 2009 “New Beginning” outreach to Islamist progressive groups. The president called “to express his deep concern about the deaths and injuries of protesters in Egypt … [and he] emphasized that all political leaders in Egypt should make clear to their supporters that violence is unacceptable,” according to a White House statement. At least six people have been killed in the riots, which reports say have also injured hundreds more.

The TV box that can detect
when you´re cuddling on the
sofa and show you an advert
for condoms

Daily Mail [UK], by Damien Gayle Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/7/2012 2:00:25 PM Post Reply

The cable boxes of the future could be able to detect when viewers are cuddling on the sofa and automatically serve adverts for contraceptives. U.S. cable provider Verizon has applied to patent a set-top box technology that can observe what´s going on in the room and show viewers adverts based on what it detects. In U.S. Patent Application 20120304206 the company suggests it could detect when people are ´cuddling´ then show ´a commercial for a romantic getaway vacation, a commercial for a contraceptive, a commercial for flowers [...] etc.´. The technology

Secret Service under investigation
over loss of sensitive files on Metro

Fox News, by Jana Winter Original Article

Posted By: Ribicon- 12/7/2012 1:56:59 PM Post Reply

The Secret Service is the target of an investigation into an "immense breach" involving the loss of two backup computer tapes left on a Washington, D.C., Metro train that contained sensitive personal information about all agency employees, contacts and overseas informants, according to multiple law enforcement and congressional sources. The ongoing probe is one of 13 new investigations involving the Secret Service launched by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS-OIG) in recent months. The new investigations stem from information received during the course of DHS-OIG´s ongoing ´Culture of Secret Service´ probe, requested by the Senate

‘Gangnam Style’ Singer PSY’s
Vitriolic Anti-American Past
Revealed, Outrage Ensues

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 12/7/2012 1:35:57 PM Post Reply

He has the most-watched YouTube video of all-time, an international phenomenon of a mega-hit in “Gangnam Style,” has made appearances on nearly every American morning talk show under the sun from Today to Ellen, and is scheduled to appear at the White House later this month. It’s safe to say that Korean pop star PSY is now the “most-liked” entertainer on the planet. It has recently been unearthed in the states, however, that eight years ago, long before achieving this massive stardom, the mega-star rapped about “slowly and painfully” killing American military members and their families. Some context:

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