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Big Bird’s producer boasts
well-padded retirement nest
Washington Times, by Susan Crabtree
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 10/24/2012 11:36:23 PM
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| Far from being a pauper, Sesame Workshop, the company that produces the beloved children’s television program that has become an unlikely point of partisan bickering in the presidential campaign, has put away more than $100 million in investments, including more than $20 million in hedge funds and $9.7 million in a private equity fund. PBS, the partially publicly funded network that broadcasts “Sesame Street” and its marquee character Big Bird, has come under fire from Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who says the government cannot afford to support
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Robinsolana, 10/24/2012 11:43:42 PM (No. 8959778)
Big Bird is rich.
Why are the taxpayers coughing up for even more money borrowed from China?
Why?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 10/25/2012 1:16:18 AM (No. 8959836)
The money from all the Sesame Street toys, children's wear, and furnishings (sheets, towels, curtains, etc.) alone would keep Sesame Workshop going forever.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
lana720, 10/25/2012 1:37:05 AM (No. 8959850)
No one begrudges a person a fair retirement fund but Holy Cow - $110 Million???
Feathers ought to be flying on this one!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DoktorFranken, 10/25/2012 1:53:26 AM (No. 8959862)
SHHHHHH!! It's a rich LEFTIST! They don't exist on Sesame Street NOR the Unicorn Fairy Neighborhoods.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
fleetusa, 10/25/2012 5:43:36 AM (No. 8959974)
Yes, they do research on better programming. In the private company world (i.e. non-government)that is called R&D. They are no different than Disney.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
pineledger, 10/25/2012 9:10:42 AM (No. 8960397)
No more money for the yellow chicken.
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Labor Nominee Perez at Center of
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak
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President Barack Obama´s nominee for Secretary of Labor, Thomas Perez, is embroiled in a heated new controversy over a school board election in Texas in which the federal government is intervening to protect incumbent school board members from their own failure to file papers to appear on the election ballot. Elections for four positions on the Beaumont Independent School District (BISD) in Beaumont, TX are to be held on May 11 in accordance with state law. Four challengers filed applications to be placed on the ballot, but their applications were rejected by BISD--and the Department of Justice´s Civil Rights
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Obama inauguration fueled
by corporations, unions
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Washington Times, by Luke Rosiak
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/21/2013 10:47:14 PM
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Chevron, Boeing and other companies whose fortunes are heavily dependent on government action or inaction were among the companies that gave $23 million to President Obama for his inauguration party, with the politician who ordinarily demonizes corporate money relying primarily on such sources, rather than individuals, for the $44 million gala in January. AT&T Inc. gave $4.6 million, Microsoft Corp. gave $2.1 million, oil giant Chevron Corp. and defense contractor Boeing Co. gave $1 million each, and healthcare firm Genentech Inc. gave $750,000, a filing showed this weekend. Unions also pitched in
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CIA, FBI, military interrogators
ready to question
Boston bombing suspect
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Washington Post, by Sari Horwitz*
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/21/2013 10:44:49 PM
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Federal prosecutors on Sunday were preparing to file charges against the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, even as he remained under heavy guard at a local hospital amid questions about whether authorities would be able to interrogate him. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was in critical but stable condition with a gunshot wound to the neck, Boston police said Sunday, and federal and local officials said they were unsure he would be able to talk again. “We don’t know if we’ll ever be able to question the individual,” Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said Sunday. The full extent
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A red state/blue state chasm
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Washington Post, by Fred Hiatt
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/21/2013 10:42:29 PM
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In the week since modest gun control died in the Senate, those of us who don’t think guns make the country safer have been inclined to blame a few cowardly senators whose votes could have shifted the outcome. Unfortunately, the problem is bigger than that. Contrary to what then-Sen. Barack Obama told us in his inspiring breakout speech to the Democratic convention of 2004, there is a blue America and a red America. And the colors have been deepening over the decade since Obama spoke. This isn’t an original thought.
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Americans react to Boston bombings
with confidence and resilience
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Washington Post, by Marc Fisher
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/21/2013 10:40:08 PM
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A dozen years ago, when the towers fell and the oceans no longer kept Americans safe from attack, Wade Dauberman was only an eighth-grader, but he was old enough to feel the widespread panic and fear, as well as the sense of unity and purpose that followed. This time, Dauberman says, there is no panic, not even much shock. But on Sunday morning, he led a couple of hundred runners in an impromptu marathon in his home town of Melbourne, Fla. — a tribute to the victims of the Boston bombing that he felt compelled to offer because “I feel
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After Gun Debate, Media
Credibility Is Shot
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NewsBusters, by Matthew Sheffield
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/21/2013 11:16:54 AM
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Normally, the people who cover the media industry try studiously to avoid mentioning the very obvious fact that America´s elite journalists are overwhelmingly liberal and that one can discern this by reviewing their output. This is a logical response considering that said reporters probably do not wish to antagonize potential sources. It´s hard to report on the media if no one in the media will speak to you. In the case of the recent journalist meltdown over gun control, the bias was so overwhelming, even Politico's cautious media reporter Dylan Byers had to admit the obvious:
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Police, citizens and technology
factor into Boston bombing probe
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Washington Post, by David Montgomery*
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BOSTON — Within hours of the Boston Marathon bombing, investigators were already overwhelmed. Bloody clothing, bags, shoes and other evidence from victims and witnesses were piling up. Videos and still images, thousands of them, were beginning to accumulate. Quickly, the authorities secured a warehouse in Boston’s Seaport district and filled the sprawling space: On half of the vast floor, hundreds of pieces of bloody clothes were laid out to dry so they could be examined for forensic clues or flown to FBI labs at Quantico in Prince William County for testing. In the other half of the room
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Authorities seek answers in
Boston Marathon bombing
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Washington Post, by Joel Achenbach and Robert Barnes,
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/20/2013 11:17:50 PM
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Authorities pressed forward Saturday in their search for answers in the Boston Marathon bombing, and the person who likely knows more than anyone else is the surviving suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, known to friends as “Jahar.” He remained hospitalized with gunshot wounds and was “not able to communicate yet,” said Massachusetts Gov. Deval L. Patrick. Tsarnaev is at heavily guarded Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the same hospital where his older brother, Tamerlan, 26, was pronounced dead Friday after a shootout with police in the Boston suburb of Watertown. “One of the reasons why I and so many
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and
the Ticking Bomb Scenario
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PJ Media, by Rick Moran
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/20/2013 11:04:05 AM
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The FBI will use the “public safety exception” to the Miranda rule in order to interrogate Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston bomber, without having to read him his Constitutional rights. ABC News: The exception, according to the FBI‘s website, “permits law enforcement to engage in a limited and focused unwarned interrogation and allows the government to introduce the statement as direct evidence.” “Police officers confronting situations that create a danger to themselves or others may ask questions designed to
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FBI questions three in
New Bedford in connection
with second bombing suspect
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Standard-Times [New Bedford, MA], by Simon Rios
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NEW BEDFORD — The FBI detained three people in connection with marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after a raid at the Hidden Brook apartment complex Friday evening, according to New Bedford police. Lt. Robert Richard told The Standard-Times the FBI executed a search warrant, taking into custody two college-age males and one female who are believed to be fellow students or roommates of Tsarnaev. "At this point, they´re being questioned as to ... their familiarization with suspect No. 2," Richard said around 7:30 p.m. Friday. The names of those taken
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Obama hails capture of bombing suspect
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Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/20/2013 1:25:16 AM
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President Obama praised Bostonians for the capture of the suspected terrorist bomber Friday night, even as he issued a plea for the public not to rush to judgment about the suspects’ possible motives. “Whatever hateful agenda drove these men to such heinous acts will not, cannot, prevail,” Mr. Obama said at the White House. “Whatever they thought they could ultimately achieve, they’ve already failed.” Mr. Obama said the terrorists failed because Boston and the nation refused to be intimidated. And then Mr. Obama spoke about the importance of Americans’ spirit “staying true to the unity and the diversity
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The Kennedy meth
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New York Post, by Larry Getlen
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/21/2013 5:09:29 AM
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In 1962, at the Carlyle Hotel in New York, a man “peeled off his clothing and began prancing around his hotel suite.” His bodyguards were cautiously amused, until the man “left the suite and began roaming through the corridor of the Carlyle.” The man in question was delusional, paranoid and suffering a “psychotic break” from the effects of an overdose of methamphetamine. He was also the president of the United States. The reason for John F. Kennedy’s bizarre behavior was that, according to an explosive new book, the president was — unbeknownst to him, at first — a meth addict.
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USA needs refuge from refugees
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Boston Herald, by Howie Carr
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So once again, no good deed goes unpunished. Uncle Sam lets another bunch of leeching future terrorists into the country who have absolutely no business being here, gives them “asylum,” making them immediately eligible for welfare, and this is the thanks we get? They turn into mass murderers. We bring in thousands of Muslims from a primitive society that has been battling Christians for centuries, and put them into a peaceful Christian society — what could possible go wrong? This is what I was thinking about yesterday, with much of the city under what amounted to martial law.
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Zogby: Obama still one
of the great communicators
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Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard
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Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that when it came to messaging Boston, President Obama had the right touch. "We have had presidents who have been able to rally local communities and the nation when people are hurting. This president is truly one of the great ones. He carried the right message to the people of the Boston area and beyond when he told them Thursday ´we will finish this race.´ He also has a strong shot at gaining an immigration reform victory with the package drawn up by
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Boston bombers: FBI hunting
12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to
brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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Mirror [UK], by Christopher Bucktin, Andy Lines
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The FBI was last night hunting a 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to the Boston marathon bomb brothers.Police believe Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were specially trained to carry out the devastating attack.More than 1,000 FBI operatives were last night working to track down the cell and arrested a man and two women 60 miles from Boston in the hours before Dzhokhar’s dramatic capture after a bloody shootout on Friday. A source close to the investigation said: “We have no doubt the brothers were not acting alone. The devices used to detonate the two bombs were highly sophisticated
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Don’t Rule Out Anything
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Weekly Standard, by Stephen F. Hayes
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“In this age of instant reporting and tweets and blogs, there´s a temptation to latch on to any bit of information, sometimes to jump to conclusions,” said President Obama, in the late evening of April 19, after Dzokhar Tsarnaev was captured alive in Watertown, Mass. (Snip)In an exceptionally well-reported story in the Daily Beast Friday, we read this: "One U.S. intelligence official who was regularly briefed on the investigation told Newsweek that he and his colleagues all but ruled out al Qaeda central or one of its affiliates giving direct and specific instructions for the attack."
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Rubio Reason for Legalizing Illegals:
´They Are Driving on Our Streets
Without a Driver´s License´
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Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/20/2013 10:00:59 PM
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R.-Fla.), one of eight senators who have crafted legislation that would put illegal aliens on a path to U.S. citizenship, explained in a Senate floor speech yesterday that one of the reasons he wants to do this is that he believes illegal aliens are currently driving on U.S. roads without drivers licenses and auto insurance and his bill would encourage them to get licenses and buy insurance. Rubio explained that under his bill ilegal aliens who "have committed serious crimes" will be deported. However, the proposal will apparently not deem as a serious crime the habit
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Official: Boston bombing suspect suffers
throat injury, may not be able to talk
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CNN, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/21/2013 12:32:40 PM
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BOSTON - The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings suffered an injury to his throat and may not be able to talk, a federal official told CNN on Saturday, possibly hindering attempts by authorities to question him about a motive in the attack. With one suspect dead, authorities believe answers to a motive and whether the brothers had help rest with Dzhokar Tsarnaev, who was captured Friday night just minutes after authorities had indicated that a massive manhunt for the suspect appeared to come up empty. The official, who was briefed on Tsarnaev´s condition
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Muslims guard against backlash
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Chicago Tribune, by Manya A. Brachear
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/20/2013 11:22:13 PM
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The Council on American Islamic Relations again offered sympathy to victims of the Boston Marathon bombing on Friday, but added a plea for Americans not to generalize and conclude that Muslim teachings influenced the suspect in any way. "Our focus is primarily on the victims," said Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago chapter at a press conference Friday afternoon. "We don´t want to be drawn into defending ourselves." Citing acts of violence in Boston and New York, Rehab blamed Islamophobic forces for inciting hate crimes.
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Mass. governor says he has no idea what
motivated Boston Marathon bombers
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/21/2013 9:08:53 AM
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Washington — The governor of Massachusetts says he has no idea what motivated the terrorists who exploded two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Speaking Sunday on CBS’ ”Face the Nation,” Deval (deh-VAL’) Patrick said it’s hard to imagine why someone would deliberately harm, quote “innocent men, women and children in the way that these two fellows did.” Patrick also said law enforcers believe the immediate threat ended when the police killed one of the alleged terrorists and captured the other. The two men were brothers whose family had come to the U.S.
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Boston Mayor:
Bombing Suspects Acted Alone
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: BaseballFan- 4/21/2013 2:36:56 PM
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Washington - Boston Mayor Tom Menino says information he has indicates that the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing acted alone. Menino tells ABC's "This Week" that he agreed with the decision to lock down Boston all day Friday, based on information officials had at the time. He tells ABC's "This Week" that a pipe bomb was found at another location and that another person was taken into custody. The mayor did not elaborate. One suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-KHAR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv), is in the hospital in serious condition. His older brother, Tamerlan, died in a police shootout
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Mass. police: Bomb suspects
didn´t have gun permit
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: CEP- 4/21/2013 6:28:15 PM
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Massachusetts police official say the brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon before having shootouts with authorities didn´t have gun permits. Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas tells The Associated Press in an interview Sunday that neither Tamerlan Tsarnaev (tsahr-NEYE´-ehv) nor his brother Dzhokhar had permission to carry firearms. He says it´s unclear whether either ever applied and the applications aren´t considered public records.
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