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Foul play! Just five per cent
of takings from NFL's pink
kit for breast cancer cam-
paign goes to charities
Daily Mail [UK], by Emma Reynolds
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 10/12/2012 9:54:01 AM
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| The NFL's involvement in Breast Cancer Awareness month has come under fire after claims the league is profiting from the cause. Players have been wearing pink caps, shirts, elbow pads, and boots and flashes of the colour have adorned towels and parts of the field throughout October across the U.S. Fans can buy pink items from the National Football League shop, or bid in auctions for products seen during games. The proceeds ostensibly go to help support the fight against breast cancer, but critics now allege that most of the cash ends up in the pockets of NFL owners.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
JAN, 10/12/2012 10:05:38 AM (No. 8928042)
Keep your charitable donations close to home or to the Salvation Army.
The rest are nothing but fundraisers for themselves.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
AltaD, 10/12/2012 10:05:54 AM (No. 8928043)
Is it too much to hope that this will put an end to the NFL's charity charade? I hated seeing the players wearing pink during the month I was receiving radiation treatments for breast cancer and I hate being reminded of it every year. I've had enough of the neon pink wrist bands and mouthguards, just stick to football.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 10/12/2012 10:11:31 AM (No. 8928060)
The NFL says it supports ACS. Then makes the money on sales of trashy merchandise to fans marked up 400%, giving a pennies to ACS. The players say they are for ACS, yet charitable donations take back seats to $15 million dollar mansions, or that 30th car. It looks cheap and fraudulent.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bullhead, 10/12/2012 10:16:25 AM (No. 8928071)
Concur with #1 & #2. Charitable giving should not be sanctimoniously paraded.
Matthew 6:3
But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
The same should apply to the United Way and its programs.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bassman, 10/12/2012 10:18:33 AM (No. 8928079)
Why not just take the money they spent buying all of the sissy pink attire and give that to charity? I'm sick of the pink already.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
so_free_me, 10/12/2012 10:25:44 AM (No. 8928101)
I wish there was an option to revert to black and white TV when the NFL comes on with their absurd pink accessories. And BTW I don't need any studies to tell me this whole ribbon crusade thing is always a joke all the time. No one has ever been helped by having someone else's "awareness" (whatever that is) raised.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mickturn, 10/12/2012 10:29:57 AM (No. 8928112)
And why I never give to any surrogate organizations, but give directly to the charity of my choice. If we all did that the hucksters would dry up and die.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mikeyt64, 10/12/2012 10:43:31 AM (No. 8928143)
Dittos #1
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
oriton, 10/12/2012 10:46:55 AM (No. 8928150)
At the checkout of so many stores, the cashiers are trained to ask if I want to contribute to the Susan Komen group and I always take the time to tell them no and explain why I won't contribute. Many people have never heard about the Komen foundation and their connection to Planned Parenthood. I make sure and mention the large percentage of black babies killed by abortion and PP, if the cashier is black. I hate seeing blatant advertisements while I'm watching football. It ain't hot, and if the players are criticized for self promotion, no one else outside of football should be allowed to promote either. Where does it end?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
tisHimself, 10/12/2012 10:56:14 AM (No. 8928171)
How about just putting out the throwback stuff and use 100% of the proceeds to help the 70 year old guys who can't write their name?
Faux charity as a means of increasing female allegiances to the League.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
coldoc, 10/12/2012 11:40:47 AM (No. 8928278)
Tired of the pink. Next thing will be pink Nascar . Wait......
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
fayebeck, 10/12/2012 11:41:07 AM (No. 8928280)
check out an organization named UCAAN.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
KingBubo, 10/12/2012 1:09:01 PM (No. 8928537)
#5, THEN THEY COUPLDN'T SHOW HOW MUCH THEY CARE
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
p chuck, 10/12/2012 1:18:15 PM (No. 8928556)
I am involved in cancer research and we are giving $1 million to centers for cancer screening and treatment. Our administrative costs are 7% of the total. We often have to dip into our pockets to make ends meet, but the focus is making certain that the centers have the resources to conduct the screening and treatments.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Jimjr, 10/12/2012 2:33:48 PM (No. 8928733)
Like #13 said, it's to "raise awareness". Something like all the Hollywood high-rollers have a Prius, Leaf or Tesla to "show they care", only to hop in their limos to be driven to the airport to jet off to the South of France in their private jets.
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'We got him!' Fugitive 'bomber' captured
Alive after he was found hiding inside a
Boat in backyard of Boston home.*
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Daily Mail [UK], by Louise Boyle*
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A man believed to be the terrorist behind the Boston bombings is in custody after he was cornered in a boat in a Boston backyard and appears to be wounded but still alive. Boston police confirmed that an individual has been apprehended, taking to social media to announce, ´Suspect in custody. Officers sweeping the area. Stand by for further info.´ The mayor of Boston, Tom Menino, was quoted by the Boston Globe as taking to the police scanner, saying ´We got him´. Relieved law enforcement officers began cheering and clapping after the man, believed to be Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was
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FAA approves resumption
of Boeing 787 flights
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Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Staff, wire reports
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Federal officials have accepted Boeing’s revamped battery system for its beleaguered 787 Dreamliners and intend to lift a 3-month-old order grounding the planes. The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement Friday that next week it will send airlines instructions and publish a notice lifting the grounding order. The lifting of the grounding order will be effective the day the notice is published. Lifting the grounding order gives Boeing the go-ahead to begin retrofitting planes with an enhanced lithium ion battery system. The root cause of battery failures that led to a fire on one of the planes and
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford defends
Super Bowl visit on radio today
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Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Robert Behre, Schuyler Kropf
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/19/2013 5:15:39 PM
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First Congressional District Republican candidate Mark Sanford today defended entering his ex-wife’s home to watch the Super Bowl with his son, saying “You’ve got to make the call as a dad.” [Snip] Earlier today, Sanford told the radio that he and his 14-year-old son were watching the game at the home of Chad Waldorf, who has an annual Super Bowl party at his home, also on Sullivan’s Island. His son didn’t like the crowd and wanted to return home at half-time to watch the game in a quieter venue, Sanford said.
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For the mainstream media, the Boston
bombing has been one of the
messiest stories ever reported
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Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/19/2013 4:51:17 PM
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It started with the false claim that a Saudi man was a suspect (he was actually a victim), something the networks ran with (including the rumour that he had been thrown into a cage) and were then forced to retract. Then there was a second “attack” at the JFK library that turned out to be an unrelated fire. Pundits weighed in uselessly, calling for the deaths of all Muslims in the world on Twitter or else somehow laying responsibility at the feet of the otherwise peaceful and democratic Tea Party (was Sarah Palin anywhere near the scene--we have the right
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Why can’t the IMF face up to
the truth about the failing euro?
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Telegraph [UK], by Jeremy Warner
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/19/2013 3:16:42 PM
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I´ve been in Washington most of this week for the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund. I wish I could say there was light at the end of the tunnel, but the reality is still deeply depressing. Sorry to use cliches, but two sayings spring to mind: fiddling while Rome burns, and re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. In "The Economic Consequences of the Peace", the British economist, John Maynard Keynes, wrote that his preference in any negotiation or arbitration was for "violent and ruthless truth telling" but there has been very little evidence of that in this week´s
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Boston Marathon bombs: live
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Telegraph [UK], by Raf Sanchez
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/19/2013 6:52:32 AM
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Latest 11.42 (06.42) The two suspects may be foreign nationals, according to NBC´s Pete Williams. Quote They were legal permanent residents... They were in this country legally, at least a year. They appear to be from Turkey, possibly Chechens from Turkey. That seems to be the nationality here. We´re told they were not students, in their early twenties. One 20, one 21. We don´t have their names yet. The Associated Press has also said the suspects are from Russian region near Chechnya, and had lived in the US at least one year. 11.25 (06.25) A woman in Watertown has snipers
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Debunking austerity claims makes
no difference to Europe´s
monks and zealots
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Telegraph [UK], by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/18/2013 6:24:29 PM
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Yet another pillar of the austerity edifice has crumbled. As many readers will have seen, fresh research has refuted the famous Reinhart-Rogoff paper showing a cliff-edge fall in growth to minus 0.1pc once public debt reaches 90pc of GDP. This was the paper seized upon by Tea Party Republicans, scorched-earth Schaublerians and Rehnites in Europe, our own dear Chancellor George Osborne, and Austro-liquidationists the world over, to back calls for draconian, pro-cyclical, fiscal tightening. [Snip] In fact the average growth rate for the 20 developed countries in the study is plus 2.2pc. Big difference.
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A day that changed the 1st
Congressional District race
for Mark Sanford
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Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Robert Behre, Schuyler Kropf
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/18/2013 7:52:43 AM
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If Mark Sanford’s quest for redemption falls short in the 1st Congressional District race, he may well point to a stunning 24 hours as the turning point. Sanford’s promising chance at beating Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in the Republican-leaning district began to fray at the edges Tuesday night when fresh details about his messy family life leaked out. More unflattering information about his personal life emerged Wednesday, followed by a decision by the National Republican Congressional Committee to back away from the former two-term governor and ex-congressman.
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Greece farm shooting:
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BBC News [UK], by Staff
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/18/2013 6:48:35 AM
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About 30 migrant workers have been injured in a shooting on a strawberry farm in Greece after requesting salaries that had not been paid. The migrants--mainly from Bangladesh--were shot at by at least one farm supervisor, in a Peloponnesian village in southern Greece. Several of the workers have been taken to hospital but none are in a critical condition. The owner of the farm in Nea Manolada and one foreman have been arrested. Nea Manolada, about 260km (160 miles) west of Athens, is an area where thousands of migrant workers are employed. Around 200 workers had gathered to request their
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Barack Obama can´t pass gun control
despite 90 per cent support. Truly,
he is a lame-duck president
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Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/18/2013 6:42:40 AM
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Yesterday, the most modest of gun control proposals died in the Senate. It would have expanded background checks to people purchasing weapons at gun shows and online sales, enjoyed 90 per cent support among the public and came on the back of the tragedy at Newtown. Yet, despite all that it had going for it, the Toomey-Manchin bill raised just 54 votes--six short of the number necessary for passage. “This is a pretty shameful day for Washington,” said Obama afterwards. It wasn’t exactly a red letter day for him, either. Why did the no-brainer bill fail? Four reasons:
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A moving funeral, but Britain is now
a country where behaviour that
was once unthinkable is now routine
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Daily Mail [UK], by Melanie Phillips
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/18/2013 4:26:54 AM
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What was so moving, in the end, was that Baroness Thatcher was buried as a simple Christian. Borne on a gun-carriage to St Paul’s cathedral as a great warrior statesman, Margaret Hilda went as a humble human soul to meet her ultimate fate, as must we all. But what a faith she had, blazing out in those magnificent, soaring hymns and readings that she had apparently so carefully chosen. [Snip] Sure, the protests that had been threatened for the funeral, by people whose gross disrespect for the dead suggests an equivalent and alarming contempt for the living, were kept at
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Source: Suspect 2 shot, is
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Watertown, Mass.– A number of gun shots were fired near Franklin Street in Watertown Friday night and it was believed that suspect number 2 in the Boston Marathon bombings had been shot. FOX 25's Bob Ward reported that as many 30 shots were fired in the neighborhood. Ward reported that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man known as suspect 2, was shot by police. It was not immediately known if Tsarnaev was killed. A bomb squad could be seen responding to the scene. A massive police presence was also in the area. FOX 25's Jarrod Holbrook reported that Tsarnaev was seen in a boat with a canvas
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Suspect 1 dead, search is on
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WFXT-TV [Boston, MA] & Fox News, by Staff
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Boston--FOX 25 has confirmed suspect #1 in the Boston Marathon bombings is dead and the search for suspect #2 is ongoing. FOX 25 has confirmed through sources that suspect #1 is dead and police are searching for suspect #2. Mass. State Police asked Watertown residents not to answer the door unless it is an announced police official. Police in Watertown, Mass., began searching for a heavily armed suspect who may have been involved in the shooting death of an MIT police officer after reportedly taking another suspect into custody early Friday. Local reports say the suspects threw and
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Schumer: Do not ‘jump to conclusions’
about connection between Boston
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Daily Caller, by Alexis Levinson
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WASHINGTON — New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer admonished colleagues not to “try to conflate” the immigration reform bill that the Senate is considering with the bombings at the Boston Marathon, the perpetrators of which have been identified as immigrants. “I’d like to ask that all of us not jump to conclusions regarding the events in Boston or try to conflate those events with this legislation,” Schumer said Friday at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the immigration bill. As the hearing was happening, the Boston metropolitan area was on lockdown, as police attempted to
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Boston Marathon bombs: live
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Telegraph [UK], by Raf Sanchez
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Latest 11.42 (06.42) The two suspects may be foreign nationals, according to NBC´s Pete Williams. Quote They were legal permanent residents... They were in this country legally, at least a year. They appear to be from Turkey, possibly Chechens from Turkey. That seems to be the nationality here. We´re told they were not students, in their early twenties. One 20, one 21. We don´t have their names yet. The Associated Press has also said the suspects are from Russian region near Chechnya, and had lived in the US at least one year. 11.25 (06.25) A woman in Watertown has snipers
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The Insanity of
blaming Islam
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The Week, by Mark Ambinder
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/19/2013 5:30:45 PM
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We are still speculating about virtually everything right now, but I feel as though I need to explain why I find the quick and easy conversation about Muslims being radicalized in America to be so illogical and laced with bigotry. Of course, there is a global violent jihadist movement, loosely organized, that wants to recruit young men to influence policies at home and abroad and perhaps usher in the global caliphate. That ideology motivates some Muslims to kill innocent people.But you´re allowed to be a radical Muslim in America.
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A growing sense that we´re not
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/18/2013 10:48:34 AM
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While the media are bearing the brunt of public skepticism over the handling of the Boston bombing, the behavior of government is also eroding public trust. Yesterday´s promised but cancelled news briefing is just one symptom. Andrew McCarthy of PJM notes that "Misinformation rather than enlightenment has been the order of the day in the investigation of Monday´s terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon," and that part of it is the natural outgrowth of the desire of investigators to keep the details of their investigations secret, so as not to alert suspects.
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Mark Kelly says senators voted
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Washington Post, by Philip Rucker
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Posted By: toledo- 4/18/2013 11:50:49 AM
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Mark Kelly, the astronaut husband of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, on Thursday upbraided senators who voted against gun legislation by saying they voted “out of fear.” ”If that vote had been a secret ballot, I bet you it would have passed with 80 votes,” Kelly told reporters. He was referencing the compromise authored by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) to expand background checks for gun buyers. It failed to advance in the Senate, with a vote Wednesday afternoon of 54 to 46.
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Griner Reveals That She’s Gay
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CBS Sports, by Staff
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/19/2013 1:39:43 PM
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Waco - Baylor star Brittney Griner has revealed she’s a lesbian. The Bears center, who was picked No. 1 overall in the recent WNBA Draft (to the Phoenix Mercury) and is considered by many to be an all-time great in women’s college basketball, casually explained her sexual orientation to Sports Illustrated. Griner was asked by SI’s Maggie Gray on the difference between men’s and women’s sports when it comes to acceptance of sexual orientation; why the WNBA has been able to often embrace many lesbians within their sport, while male sports in America still waits on its first publicly gay player.
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´My children were set up,´ father claims
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Associated Press *, by Staff
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/19/2013 12:34:59 PM
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Two brothers of Chechen origin suspected of staging the Boston marathon bombings, one of whom has been shot dead by police, are innocent of any crime, the Interfax news agency quotes a man identified as their father as saying. ‘‘In my opinion, my children were set up by the secret services because they are practising Muslims,’’ Anzor Tsarnaev told the Interfax news agency on Friday (Snip) On the site, he describes himself as speaking Chechen as well as English and Russian. His world view is described as ‘‘Islam’’ and he says his personal goal is ‘‘career and money.’’
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Allen West: Can we investigate
radical Islamic terror now?
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Washington Times, by Cheryl K. Chumley
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/19/2013 1:06:46 PM
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Former Florida Rep. Allen West issued a scathing statement on his Facebook page Friday, in response to the ongoing manhunt for one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. “Let me be very clear. The terrorist attack in Boston and evolving events indicate we have a domestic radical Islamic terror problem in America,” he wrote. “No more excuses. No more apologies. We are in a war of ideological wills and we shall prevail.”
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Boston Shooting, Robbery,
Car Chase, Manhunt (Photos)
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Business Insider, by Alyson Shontell, Mandi Woodruff*
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/19/2013 6:01:23 AM
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A shocking series of events on Thursday night and Friday morning left one Boston bombing suspect dead and the other on the run. Below are some images from the night. Please note that exact details are scare. Two men — later identified as the bombing suspects — are also suspected of fatally shooting an MIT Police Officer on Thurday night. An image from the crime scene was posted to Twitter by The Tech, below:(Photos)
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Oh no! Marathon bombers
not ´white Americans´
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 4/19/2013 8:31:29 AM
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Boo-hoo! David Sirota of Salon Magazine must be in mourning this morning, for the hopes he expressed in a piece titled "Let´s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American," have been dashed. One can only imagine he has plenty of company among members of the MSM who are smart enough not to admit their lust to blame their political foes for the Boston violence. Public opinion polls revealed that most Americans suspected the Marathon bombers were domestic ion origin, a suspicion one must guess they picked up from the wallpaper media, the MSM
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