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Pickle company agrees to
drop ´midget´

United Press International, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/19/2013 5:34:04 PM Post Reply

CRANSTON, R.I.- A U.S. pickle maker says it has agreed to stop calling a variety of small pickles "midgets" following a complaint by a Rhode Island woman. Chelley Martinka of Cranston began her campaign in December after she spotted a jar of Cains Kosher Dill Midgets in a supermarket, The Providence Journal reported Tuesday. Martinka has a 10-month-old daughter with dwarfism, which means she will be very short of stature. Martinka called and wrote Gedney Foods, the Minnesota company that owns the Cains brand, created a YouTube video and launched a blog.

Heroin dealer nabbed for
reentering U.S. illegally
for 4th time

Boston Herald, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/19/2013 5:26:48 PM Post Reply

A three-time deportee from the Dominican Republic who’s been charged with trafficking heroin in Massachusetts will be arraigned in federal court today for illegally reentering the United States for a fourth time. Juan Miguel Laboy, who is believed to be 38 or 39 years old, was spotted in Lawrence last month by a special agent from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, according to court documents. He was traced to an apartment complex in Methuen, where authorities allege he used money orders to pay rent for two units. Laboy was first deported from Louisiana in 2006, and then

Woman, 80, knocked off
scooter fighting assailant in
Gloucester City robbery

Philadelphia Inquirer, by Emily Babay Original Article

Posted By: Calvinesq- 2/19/2013 5:26:06 PM Post Reply

An 80-year-old woman was knocked off her scooter when she tried to fight off a man robbing her of her purse in Gloucester City. Police allege that 22-year-old John E. Reed approached the woman from behind while she was riding her electric scooter on the 500 block of Cumberland Street at about 11:15 a.m. Sunday. Reed grabbed the woman´s purse and tried to flee, but the woman wouldn´t let go, according to Gloucester City police. He then pushed the woman, knocking her off the scooter, and ran away with the purse.

Obama Doesn´t Have
Courage to Lead

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/19/2013 5:23:07 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Folks, what is paramount and obvious to me is here´s Obama, and he gets back from his vacation, and immediately -- with no provocation, by the way. There isn´t anybody outside of Jeff Sessions, maybe, hitting Obama. But Jeff Sessions isn´t really, either. There was nobody on the Republican side trying to pick a fight with Obama. Nobody´s insulting him. Nobody on the Republican side is doing anything other than mild -- mild, even by political standards -- criticism.

Heineman likely to succeed Johanns

Human Events, by John Gizzi Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/19/2013 5:22:31 PM Post Reply

Six years after he succeeded fellow Republican Chuck Hagel in the U.S. Senate, Nebraska’s Mike Johanns announced on Monday that he would not seek a second term in 2014. In becoming the second Republican senator after Georgia’s Saxby Chambliss to call it quits, Johanns surprised quite a few observers on both sides. The former governor of the Cornhusker State and secretary of agriculture under George W. Bush had been considered a cinch to win a second term. Johanns, interestingly, made his retirement announcement not long after he became one of two Republican senators to say he would vote

Delusional Politico Journalists:
Obama is Our Puppet Master

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/19/2013 5:18:21 PM Post Reply

RUSH: Well, folks, this is incredible. This is incredible. There is a story in The Politico today written by Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, called "Obama, The Puppet Master." They are so ticked off over this golf weekend, being shut out. They´re talking about Obama just mistreating them in the media and denying them access, how he´s a master at limiting and shaping and manipulating media coverage. These guys are just a bunch of puppets and Obama is the puppet master. It´s incredible,

Republicans Waiting for
Obama to Reach Out? Really?

Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/19/2013 5:14:28 PM Post Reply

RUSH: This is David in Decatur, Illinois. I´m glad you called, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello. CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I appreciate it. RUSH: You bet. CALLER: Hey, the sequester, it´s gonna take effect, they say, next week. And I hear Obama say today that the unemployment rate´s gonna tick up. My question to you, sir, is this. When did it tick down? Aren´t we still hovering around 7.8, 7.9%? RUSH: No, it ticked down right before the election. You know, it was

The Devil Made Them Do It

Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto Original Article

Posted By: Desert Fox- 2/19/2013 5:08:32 PM Post Reply

"Powerful Democrats" subjected a top Obama administration health-care official "to withering criticism" last week, notes Walter Russell Mead. When Gary Cohen, head of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, appeared before the Senate Finance Committee, chairman Max Baucus of Montana and Sens. Ron Wyden (Ore.), Bill Nelson (Fla.) and Maria Cantwell (Wash.) "tore into him." The hearing didn´t attract much journalistic attention; the only stories we could find about it were from a legislative trade publication (the Hill) and a health-policy one (Kaiser Health News). Here´s a summary of the senators´ complaints:

Biden-says-a-shotgun-
will-scare-off-intruders

Associated Press, by Nedra Pickler Original Article

Posted By: sardonic- 2/19/2013 5:03:25 PM Post Reply

Washington - Vice President Joe Biden says Americans don´t need semi-automatic weapons to protect their homes because a couple of blasts from a shotgun will scare off intruders. The vice president encouraged those worried about defending themselves to buy a shotgun. He was speaking Tuesday in an online video as part of a Facebook Town Hall hosted by Parents Magazine on the administration´s strategy for reducing gun violence. Biden says he keeps two shotguns and shells locked up in a metal safe in his home. He said he's told his wife, Jill, that if she needs to protect herself,

Press cares more
about Tiger than Benghazi

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Cheri Jacobus Original Article

Posted By: rojon- 2/19/2013 5:00:17 PM Post Reply

It would appear the press cares more about getting access to info on President Obama playing golf with Tiger Woods than it does about getting answers on Benghazi, American deaths and an apparent cover-up by the Obama administration. While many have shown relief and glee that the press is finally showing a degree of outrage at the lack of transparency and access to information by the Obama administration, it is tragic that this newfound sense of freedom of the press is due solely to Obama shutting out the media from his round of golf with serial adulterer Tiger Woods.

EU vows to get tough with Google
as campaigners warn of ´real
concern´ over personal data
collected by the search giant

Daily Mail [UK], by Mark Prigg Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/19/2013 4:44:00 PM Post Reply

EU bosses are to crack down on Google for failing to comply with privacy laws, France´s data watchdog has said. Google has been combining data from across its sites so it can improve they way it tailors its advertising to individuals since March. However, regulators see the scheme as ´high risk´ to people´s privacy, and last October, the firm was given four months to revise its policy.[Snip] ´At the end of a four-month delay accorded to Google to comply with the European data protection directive and to implement effectively (our) recommendations, no answer has been given,´ it said in

Obama warns ´people will lose jobs´
if budget cuts take effect next
week as he urges Republicans
to accept higher taxes

Daily Mail [UK], by Hayley Peterson Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/19/2013 4:35:22 PM Post Reply

President Obama warned on Tuesday that ´people will lose their jobs´ and ´the unemployment rate might tick up again´ if steep budget cuts take effect next week. He urged Republicans to agree to a plan proposed by Senate Democrats that would partially offset $85 billion in ´sequestration´ cuts scheduled to take effect next week through new tax revenues. ´So far at least, the ideas that the Republicans have proposed ask nothing of the wealthiest Americans or the biggest corporations,´ Obama said. ´So the burden is all on the first responders, or seniors or middle class families.´

Urinating on your rapist,
Colorado´s HB 1226,and the
#LiberalTips2AvoidRape trend

Philadelphia Inquirer, by Mike Bertha Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/19/2013 3:32:46 PM Post Reply

On Tuesday, #LiberalTips2AvoidRape began trending on Twitter. Here´s the backstory: On Monday, Colorado´s House voted to pass HB 1226, which would prevent anyone—including people with permits—to carry concealed weapons on campuses of public universities. State Rep. Joe Salazar came under fire for statements he made during the debate over the bill, which indicated that he felt that fear of rape on campus should not be the motivating factor for the House to vote against the bill. “It’s why we have call boxes, it’s why we have safe zones, it’s why we have the whistles," Salazar said.

10 Things Everyone Should
Know About Social Security

U.S. News & World Report, by Emily Brandon Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/19/2013 3:16:48 PM Post Reply

Nearly every working American pays into the Social Security program, but not everyone understands the benefits they qualify for due to their contributions. And most workers will no longer get paper statements that explain how much they have paid into the system and what benefits they are likely to receive in retirement. Here are 10 things everyone should know about Social Security: You contribute 6.2 percent of your income. Workers pay 6.2 percent of their earnings into the Social Security system, up to $113,700 in 2013. Employers pay a matching 6.2 percent for each worker. Self-employed workers must

Like a Swarm of Lethal Bugs:
The Most Terrifying Drone Video Yet

Atlantic, by Conor Friedersdorf Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/19/2013 2:57:40 PM Post Reply

An Air Force simulation says researchers are at work on killer robots so tiny that a group of them could blend into a cityscape. Science writer John Horgan´s feature on the many ways drones will be used in coming years is interesting throughout, and terrifying in the passage where he describes an effort to build micro-drones that are, as the U.S. Air Force describes them, "Unobtrusive, pervasive, and lethal." Air Force officials declined a request to observe flight tests at a "micro-aviary" they´ve built, he reported, but they did let him see a video dramatization

Supreme Court to hear RNC suit
challenging campaign finance limits

The Hill [Washington,DC], by Sam Baker Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/19/2013 2:51:50 PM Post Reply

The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to consider whether certain limits on campaign contributions are too low — or altogether unconstitutional. The court said it would hear a case, filed by the Republican National Committee, challenging the constitutionality of limits on how much a person can donate in any two-year period. The court has already shown a willingness to strip away limits on campaign contributions, most notably in the landmark Citizens United case that opened the floodgates for a massive influx of corporate money and gave rise to super-PACs. The case the court agreed to hear Tuesday is more narrow,
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Breaking News: Five Months
After Benghazi Murders:
Killers Frolic Untouched There

PJ Media, by Barry Rubin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/19/2013 2:48:46 PM Post Reply

Five months ago, radical Islamists in Libya murdered four American officials, and President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that the administration would not rest until those responsible were caught. Yet it seems as if nothing has been done: just as the White House did nothing on September 11, 2012, while the U.S. consulate was under attack, it has done nothing serious since, and is doing nothing now. Want proof? Consider this report: Just days after President Barack Obama vowed to hunt down and bring to justice those responsible for the Sept. 11 attack

Update on Rove
and Tea Party Patriots

American Spectator, by Quin Hillyer Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/19/2013 2:40:21 PM Post Reply

With regard to the photo-shopped image of Karl Rove into a Nazi uniform, the TPP has issued this statement: “We did not know about or approve a manufactured image added to a recent email from the Tea Party Patriots. It was added by an outside vendor. The image was inappropriate and we have ordered the vendor to immediately cease further use of the image.” - Jenny Beth Martin, Tea Party Patriots co-founder and National Coordinator. We still await an apology from TPP. Calling something “inappropriate” is not a direct apology.

French soldier killed in
Mali, 20 rebels dead

Reuters, by Vicky Buffery & John Irish Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/19/2013 2:34:55 PM Post Reply

Paris/Dakar-A French soldier and more than 20 Islamist rebels were killed during what appeared to be the first clashes in the Adrar des Ifoghas mountain range where militants have taken refuge in northern Mali, French sources said on Tuesday. Speaking on a visit to Athens, French President Francois Hollande said serious fighting had broken out and was continuing in the remote Adrar des Ifoghas mountains, resulting in several casualties among the rebels and one among the French. "A legionnaire from the 2nd foreign parachute regiment has died in a clash with Islamists in northern Mali," Hollande told reporters
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Nigerian militants seize French
tourists in Cameroon: Hollande

Reuters, by Tansa Musa & Bate Felix* Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/19/2013 2:28:47 PM Post Reply

Yaounde/Dakar - Islamist militants from neighboring Nigeria abducted a French family of seven, including four children, in northern Cameroon on Tuesday, French President Francois Hollande said. The risk of attacks on French nationals and interests in Africa has risen since France sent forces into Mali last month to help oust Islamist rebels occupying the country´s north. "They (French family) have been taken by a terrorist group that we know and that is in Nigeria," Hollande told reporters during a visit to Greece. Armed men on motorcycles intercepted the family in their car at 0700 GMT and forced them to
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Google’s self-driving car —
now featuring ‘Don’t Mess
With Texas’ sticker — hits
the streets in Austin

Dallas Morning News, by Tom Benning Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/19/2013 2:17:56 PM Post Reply

Google’s self-driving car – now emblazoned with a “Don’t Mess With Texas” bumper sticker – is hitting the streets Tuesday in Austin. As we mentioned Monday, the Google vehicle has generated a ton of buzz at the two-day Texas Transportation Forum in Austin. That excitement reached a crescendo Tuesday, as Google product manager Anthony Levandowski overviewed the self-driving program during a panel discussion. And a few lucky VIPs – including some Texas Department of Transportation officials – even got to experience the self-driving machine first-hand during a series of 10-minute test drives.

Who killed the middle class?

Human Events, by Patrick J. Buchanan Original Article

Posted By: jackson- 2/19/2013 2:17:25 PM Post Reply

“It is our generation’s task, then, to reignite the true engine of America’s economic growth — a rising, thriving middle class.” So said Barack Obama in his State of the Union. And for one of his ideas to reignite that engine, Republicans applauded. “And tonight, I am announcing that we will launch talks on a comprehensive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union — because trade that is free and fair across the Atlantic supports millions of good-paying American jobs.” One wonders if any of those in the hall who rose
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Duchess of Cambridge dresses
tiny bump in £298 MaxMara
wrap dress for official
outing... but dazzles with a
diamond necklace that
costs TEN TIMES as much

Daily Mail (UK), by Deborah Arthurs Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/19/2013 2:09:49 PM Post Reply

The Duchess of Cambridge returned to the day job after a relaxing holiday on the island of Mustique today - and she looked the picture of health this morning as she attended an official engagement in London, her tiny bump highlighted with a flattering wrap dress. The Duchess, making her first appearance since returning from her break last week - and for the first time at an official engagement with a baby bump - chose a black and white MaxMara Studio dress from the 2011 collection, decided to forgo a coat, despite the chill in the air, and accessorised

At least 4 dead, including
gunman, in Orange County,
Calif., shooting spree: police

New York Daily News, by Erik Ortiz Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/19/2013 2:02:53 PM Post Reply

At least four people are dead in a 25-minute shooting spree that terrorized drivers and shut down stretches of freeway in Orange County, Calif., Tuesday morning. Among those dead is the suspected gunman, who police say killed himself before officers could take him into custody. At least two other people were reportedly wounded during the chaotic rampage, which involves at least three attempted carjackings and six crime scenes. “The suspect shot and killed himself,” Lt. Paul Garaven, of the Tustin Police Department, told the Orange County Register.

Kerry´s 1st trip is to Europe,
Mideast; not Israel

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 2/19/2013 2:00:10 PM Post Reply

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will make his first official trip overseas next week, and his agenda includes meetings in nine nations across Europe and the Middle East. But there will be no stops in Israel or the Palestinian territories. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland says Kerry is bypassing Jerusalem and Ramallah while Israeli political parties continue to form a government after recent elections. Kerry departs Feb. 24. He will visit close U.S. allies and partners: Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Qatar. His diplomacy will focus on the conflicts in Mali,

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