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Topic: Holy Hot Rods! TV´s
Batmobile may fetch $5 million |
Holy Hot Rods! TV´s
Batmobile may fetch $5 million
NBC News, by Robert Frank
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Posted By:happywarrior, 1/19/2013 10:46:12 PM
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| Maybe it was the dual bubble windshields, perfectly framing the heads of Adam West and Burt Ward as they raced to the Gotham City crime scene. Or maybe it was the flared bat wings, edged in orange. Or perhaps it was the ultimate jet exhaust, which flamed like a dragon as the caped crusaders raced out of the Bat Cave. Whatever the reasons, the original Batmobile remains one of the most revered cars in America. And now the Batmobile – yes the very same one used on the 1960s Adam West TV show – is among the more than 1,400 cars expected to be auctioned off at the the 42nd annual
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Newtsche, 1/19/2013 11:55:11 PM (No. 9127360)
Went for 4.2
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jeff100, 1/20/2013 12:32:40 AM (No. 9127395)
Probably needs a tune-up.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 1/20/2013 1:42:06 AM (No. 9127432)
Wow but...I would have preferred Clark Gable´s Mercedes. It was cute!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
freightdog, 1/20/2013 8:51:48 AM (No. 9127686)
It´s not the booming economy that´s fueling the interest in antique autos and other collectibles, it´s the fear of inflation.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ribicon, 1/20/2013 10:45:42 AM (No. 9127947)
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/television/article/Holy-windfall-Batmobile-sells-for-4-2M-4208857.php
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Mom Claims 5th-Grade Son’s Quiz
Blames 9/11 Attacks On United States
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Posted By: happywarrior- 3/22/2013 10:36:55 AM
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A Texas mother claims a quiz her son took blamed the United States for the September 11, 2001 attacks. Kara Sands posted on her Facebook page earlier this month a quiz her fifth-grade son at Flour Bluff Intermediate School took after watching a video entitled “Remembering September 11th.” One of the questions on the quiz asked “Why might the United States be a target for terrorism?” with the correct answer being “Decisions we made in the United States have had negative effects on people elsewhere.”
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7 Marines killed in explosion
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NBC News, by Jim Miklaszewski and Erin McClam
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Posted By: happywarrior- 3/19/2013 9:34:16 AM
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Seven U.S. Marines were killed and at least seven wounded when a mortar exploded during a live-fire training exercise overnight at an Army munitions depot in the Nevada desert, military officials told NBC News. There were conflicting reports about what happened. According to one account, a 60-millimeter mortar shell exploded in a tube as Marines were preparing to fire it. Another account said that the shell exploded as Marines were picking it up to load it. The accident happened at Hawthorne Army Depot, a 147,000-acre ammunition storage and training facility just east of the California line.
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LGBT Education Group Denied Spot
In Cincinnati St. Patrick´s Day Parade
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Buzzfeed, by Sarah Karlan
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Posted By: happywarrior- 3/16/2013 9:55:04 AM
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Members of Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network are being excluded from marching Saturday in Cincinnati´s St. Patrick´s Day parade, but an out elected official — City Councilman Chris Seelbach — has their back. GLSEN had informed the councilman that their request to participate in the parade was declined by one of the parade´s organizers, Chris Schulte, specifically because "it´s their parade, it´s an Irish Catholic parade and we don´t want any members of the gay and lesbian community to be affiliated."
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10 Things That Are Simpler Than
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Posted By: happywarrior- 3/14/2013 5:01:07 PM
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The draft application for health insurance under Obamacare is out, and it´s long — 21 pages, to be exact. That´s close to ten times longer than an individual tax return, and significantly longer than an application for citizenship or a federal housing loan. It´s even longer than an application to establish a bank. The sheer complexity of the application is likely to spawn a cottage industry of Obamacare preparers, the Washington Post speculates. Which means a potential new addition to healthcare expenses: the cost of paying someone to help you apply.
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Pope Francis Brings Lessons Of
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Shortly after Pope Benedict XVI announced his retirement, the gay rights activist who was the first to legally marry his partner in Latin America sent out a jubilant tweet. Argentina´s Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio "cannot be pope," wrote Alex Freyre, because "he lost his papabile status the instant I married @josedibellow. Same for any other Argentine priest." On Wednesday, Freyre was proven wrong.
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Obama Eliminates Breakfast for US
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FrontPage Magazine, by Daniel Greenfield
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If only American soldiers in Afghanistan were unemployed Democratic voters in Chicago, then they might be getting three square meals a day from the government. But the military is the one place that Obama feels comfortable slashing expenses. While spending at an uncontrollable rate unseen since the last days of the Roman Empire in every other area, Obama has been cutting “waste” in the military like 20,000 Marines, Tricare healthcare for veterans and breakfast for soldiers serving in areas where he would only venture accompanied by heavy firepower. Warren Buffett and other
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CBS News, by Sharyl Attkisson
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Posted By: Drive- 5/17/2013 3:02:24 PM
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Obama administration officials who were in key positions on Sept. 11, 2012, acknowledge that a range of mistakes were made the night of the attacks on the U.S. missions in Benghazi, and in messaging to Congress and the public in the aftermath. The officials spoke to CBS News in a series of interviews and communications under the condition of anonymity so that they could be more frank in their assessments. They do not all agree on the list of mistakes and it's important to note that they universally claim that any errors or missteps did not cost lives and reflect "incompetence rather than malice or cover up.
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Raindrops wash away
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New York Post, by Michael Goodwin
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/17/2013 5:28:00 AM
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Watching President Obama trying to dodge raindrops and responsibility yesterday reminded me of the moment when Dorothy pulls back the curtain and discovers that the Wizard of Oz is “just a man.” Stripped of his spell of mystery and power, the wizard is worse than mortal. He’s a fake. So it was with Obama in the Rose Garden. His performance was tired and trite, ordinary to the point of dull. His veneer of passion was so transparent that you could see him trying to summon his old-time magic by pushing the buttons
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Obama a new Nixon?
Oh, get serious.
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Washington Post, by Editorial
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/16/2013 10:54:51 PM
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STANDING BEFORE reporters Thursday, President Obama declined an invitation to compare the recent scandals weighing down his administration with those that forced President Nixon to resign in 1974. So allow us to do the work for him: There is no comparison. Nixon, in a series of crimes that collectively came to be known as Watergate, directed from the White House and Justice Department a concerted campaign against those he perceived as political enemies, in the process subverting the FBI, the IRS, other government agencies and the electoral process to his nefarious purposes. Mr. Obama has done nothing of the kind.
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Weiner’s Wife Didn’t Disclose Consulting
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New York Times, by Raymond Hernandez
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/17/2013 5:43:54 AM
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The State Department, under Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, created an arrangement for her longtime aide and confidante Huma Abedin to work for private clients as a consultant while serving as a top adviser in the department. Ms. Abedin did not disclose the arrangement — or how much income she earned — on her financial report. It requires officials to make public any significant sources of income. An adviser to Mrs. Clinton, Philippe Reines, said that Ms. Abedin was not obligated to do so. The disclosure of the agreement that Ms. Abedin made with the State Department comes as her husband,
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Watergate 2.0 -- why the
IRS scandal is far worse
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Fox News, by Matt Kibbe
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/18/2013 5:59:17 AM
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In the wake of one of the worst abuses of government power in recent history, many are rushing to frame the Internal Revenue Service scandal as simply an attack on conservative activists. That view risks creating a partisan political football and misses a fundamentally scarier abuse that exceeds the scandals of Watergate or any other prior government abuse. The IRS has admitted that since May 2010 it targeted grassroots-conservative organizations that had applied for tax-exempt status, unfairly subjecting them to rigorous scrutiny due to their political leanings. Such groups were told they were required to comply with IRS requests,
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When it rains, it pours: Ten
press conference take aways
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Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/17/2013 4:52:42 AM
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President Obama’s press conference in the rain was not a success, if by success, his supporters would mean an event which convinces anyone who doesn’t work for him that he’s getting ahead of the scandal deluge. The sight of a Marine holding an umbrella over his head only added to the weirdness of the event. So what did we learn? 1. He has full confidence in Attorney General Eric Holder, the man who purportedly recused himself (whenever) without putting it in writing (whatever). When asked about the untrammeled snooping on Associated Press reporters and editors,
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Rep. Issa subpoenas Benghazi
auditor Thomas Pickering
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Julian Pecquet
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/17/2013 3:53:45 PM
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The lawmaker leading the charge to investigate the Benghazi terror attack on Friday subpoenaed the co-author of a report that slammed the State Department but didn´t interview Hillary Clinton. House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) formally demanded that retired ambassador Thomas Pickering submit to being deposed by the committee next Thursday. The subpoena comes in the wake of a series of acrimonious public exchanges this week between the two men. Issa didn´t issue a subpoena to former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen, who co-authored the Benghazi report with Pickering.
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