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APNewsBreak: Iran Ready to Ramp up Nuke Program
Associated Press, by George Jahn
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Posted By:NorthernDog, 11/15/2012 8:28:13 PM
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| VIENNA - Iran is on the threshold of being able to create weapons-grade uranium at a plant it has heavily fortified against Israeli attack, diplomats told The Associated Press on Thursday, calling into question an Israeli claim that Iran had slowed its nuclear time table. One of three diplomats who discussed the issue said Iran was now technically ready within days to ramp up its production of 20 percent enriched uranium at its Fordo facility by nearly 700 centrifuges. That would double present output, and cut in half the time it would take
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Comments: Now we find out - after the election.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
veritas, 11/15/2012 8:52:40 PM (No. 9017245)
Media -- who sent what titillating emails to whom? [Not that they would use "whom."]
Obama -- not my fault [whatever it is].
Reality -- Iran´s Mad Mullahs press along building nuclear explosives.
So -- would it tick you off to bury some relatives? Or maybe, to have to buy a marker to commemorate relatives incinerated thanks to the latest criminal malfeasance by the politicians? Like 9/11 families had to do?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
antiquegolf, 11/15/2012 8:53:30 PM (No. 9017249)
Quick, send in piaps. She can construct a framework for a discussion on how to begin negotiations with Iran on their nuclear program. Such a foreign policy "triumph" just might earn the little piggy a peace prize on her way out as SOS.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jeffblair, 11/15/2012 9:05:34 PM (No. 9017263)
Iran´s nuclear program wouldn´t be an issue if all countries would respect Article IV of the NPT, which states: "Nothing in this Treaty shall be interpreted as affecting the inalienable right of all the Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination and in conformity with Articles I and II of this Treaty."
Iran shouldn´t have to forteit its right just because some people in other countries are paranoid about Iran´s intentions.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 11/15/2012 9:08:31 PM (No. 9017264)
Iran has funded and supported terrorists organizations in the Middle East for years. Iran says they are going to wipe Israel off the map. What peaceful intentions?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 11/15/2012 9:11:59 PM (No. 9017266)
Hamas begins a diversionary action to tie up the Israeli Military while Iran puts all the bells and whistles on it´s delivery system.
Before robbing the bank on the south side of town....the prudent and thoughtful criminal will remember to start a diversionary fire on the north side of town to divert assets and attention away from the scene of the intended crime.
Bravo !!!
Smashing !!!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
stopstoreload, 11/15/2012 11:47:19 PM (No. 9017502)
It is not necessary to atack heavily fortified sites. All that is needed is to drop something heavy, like an old refrigerator, on the heads of the Khameinis and Ahmadinnerjackets.
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In Menendez´s troubles, echoes of past scandals
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Associated Press, by Henry C. Jackson
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/4/2013 2:26:33 PM
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WASHINGTON — An ethical cloud is following Sen. Robert Menendez in Washington, even as he has leading roles in some of Congress´ most important policy debates. The New Jersey Democrat heads the Senate´s Foreign Affairs Committee at a time when tensions with Syria, Iran and North Korea are rising. At home, the Cuban-American lawmaker is at the center of the immigration overhaul fight that´s captivating Capitol Hill. All the while, a Senate Ethics Committee investigation into Menendez´s conduct persists, with many of the same questions about politics, money and influence that have dogged members of Congress
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Notre Dame professor tackles ‘myth’ of Christian martyrdom
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Yahoo! News, by Liz Goodwin
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/3/2013 9:12:20 PM
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Candida Moss, a professor of early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame and a practicing Catholic, wants to shatter what she calls the “myth” of martyrdom in the Christian faith. (Snip) Moss contends that when Christians were executed, it was often not because of their religious beliefs but because they wouldn´t follow Roman rules. Many laws that led to early Christians’ execution were not specifically targeted at them—such as a law requiring all Roman citizens to engage in a public sacrifice to the gods—but their refusal to observe those laws and other mores of Roman
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Spider bite blamed for death of guitarist Jeff Hanneman of the heavy metal band Slayer
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/3/2013 6:09:11 PM
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LOS ANGELES — Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman thought he was on the mend after a spider bite followed by an infection. He’d been writing songs with the band in anticipation of recording a new album later this year. But in an unusual chain of events, a representative for the band said the bite may have contributed to Hanneman’s death more than two years later. Hanneman died Thursday morning of liver failure at a Los Angeles hospital with his wife, Kathy, by his side, according to Slayer spokeswoman Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald. He was 49.
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Fancy being neighbors with America´s first family? Caroline Kennedy selling off two Martha´s Vineyard plots for a cool $45million
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Daily Mail [UK], by Meghan Keneally and David Mccormack
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/2/2013 7:28:07 PM
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Highly anticipated next U.S. ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy has put two pieces of land on Martha’s Vineyard up for sale. The former first daughter is asking for a whopping combined asking price of $45 million for the two parcels at her exclusive Red Gate Farm estate. Listed for $20 million, Lot 6 is described as nearly 40 acres of prime waterfront property in Aquinnah with ‘incredible views of Squibnocket Pond’ and the Atlantic Ocean. ´Plenty of privacy with varied topography and easy pond access. Yours to create a marvelous estate,´ states the listing.
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´Storage Wars´ drops three cast members, report says
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United Press International, by Kate Stanton
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/2/2013 1:53:39 PM
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"Storage Wars," A&E´s beleaguered reality show about people who pick through abandoned storage lockers, is facing more drama in the wake of a lawsuit filed by former cast member Dave Hester. Radar Online reported Wednesday that "Storage Wars" producers have cut three cast members out of upcoming episodes, including buyer Darrell Sheets and married auctioneers Dan and Laura Dotson. “They lived up to Darrell’s contract, but then shot more episodes that weren’t covered by his contract and kept him out of those,” a source said. “He was not happy to say the least.”
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Struggling Catholic schools strategize to draw new students
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Reuters, by Mary Wisniewski
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/2/2013 1:39:00 PM
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CHICAGO - For years, headlines about Catholic schools in the United States have told gloomy tales of falling enrollment and multiple closings. Between 2000 and 2013, 2,090 U.S. Catholic schools closed or consolidated and enrollment fell 24.5 percent, according to the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA). In places like Chicago´s Leo Catholic High School for boys, student numbers have plummeted from 1,200 students in the 1950s to 157 this year. In New York, the Catholic Archdiocese plans to close 24 schools. (Snip) Staffed by religious orders like the Jesuits, the schools gained reputations for discipline and academic rigor.
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Obama to pitch immigration overhaul in Mexico
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Associated Press, by Jim Kuhnhenn
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/2/2013 8:44:04 AM
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has his domestic ambition at the top of his travel agenda as he travels to Mexico on Thursday. To sell his immigration overhaul back home, he needs a growing economy in Mexico and a Mexican president willing to help him secure the border. Obama was to fly to Mexico City on Thursday to meet with President Enrique Pena Nieto, eager to promote Mexico´s economic success and the neighboring country´s place as the second largest export market for U.S. goods and services. Mexicans will be hanging on the president´s words
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Rolling Stones Tickets Gather Moss as $600 Seats for Sale
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Bloomberg News, by Andy Fixmer
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/1/2013 8:57:50 PM
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The Rolling Stones are finding out: you can’t always get what you want. With the group’s “50 and Counting” tour kicking off in Los Angeles on May 3, pairs of $600 floor seats are still available for Staples Center arena, based on the sales website of Anschutz Entertainment Group Inc. AEG, owner of Staples, is promoting the Rolling Stones tour. “To anyone not working in investment banking, these are extremely expensive tickets,” said Gary Bongiovanni, editor-in- chief of Pollstar, a concert-industry magazine. To fill Staples Center, AEG has begun lowering prices. More $85 tickets are being made available
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PepsiCo pulls Mountain Dew ad dubbed racist
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USA Today, by Bruce Horovitz
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/1/2013 8:46:22 PM
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Dumb ads seem to be contagious. Soft drink giant PepsiCo says it is pulling a highly controversial commercial for Mountain Dew -- depicting five African-American men and a goat in a police line-up -- that has managed to offend African-Americans, women and bloggers coast-to-coast. African-American rapper Tyler, the Creator, developed the 60-second spot in which a battered white woman on crutches is urged by an officer to identify a suspect out of a lineup of black men. A talking goat named Felicia is included in the lineup. The goat makes threatening remarks to the woman, including, "Keep ya
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J.C. Penney Apologizes in Ad Developed Under Former CEO
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Bloomberg News, by Matt Townsend
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/1/2013 8:41:02 PM
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J.C. Penney Co. (JCP) is apologizing. The department-store chain is airing a television commercial this week -- in time for Mother’s Day -- that says it made mistakes and asks former customers to come back. Development of the 30-second ad began a few months ago after executives reviewed customer feedback, Joey Thomas, a company spokesman, said in an e-mail. In other words, the ad originated under Ron Johnson, the former chief executive officer who alienated customers by ditching discounts and axing dozens of popular brands in favor of ones aimed at younger shoppers.
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Christian Group Calls for ESPN Writer´s Suspension After Jason Collins Anti-Gay Remarks
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Yahoo! News, by Tim Kenneally
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/1/2013 7:32:19 PM
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A Christian Group is calling for the suspension of ESPN the Magazine writer Chris Broussard, after Broussard told an interviewer that gay NBA player Jason Collins can´t be a Christian because of his sexual orientation. A group called Faithful America (motto: "Love thy neighbor. No exceptions.") has launched an online petition asking for ESPN to suspend Broussard for comments he made on ESPN´s "Outside the Lines" on Monday, after Collins came out in an op-ed for Sports Illustrated. "Chris Broussard´s hateful attack on Jason Collins for being gay was an unacceptable misrepresentation of the Christian faith,"
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May snowstorm dumps nearly a foot on Wyo. and Colo.
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Associated Press, by Bob Moen
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/1/2013 2:48:57 PM
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Another spring snowstorm — the fourth in as many weeks — dumped around a foot of heavy, wet snow on parts of Wyoming, closing schools and roads but bringing more relief from a prolonged drought. Cheyenne received 10 inches by sunrise Wednesday with another 2 to 4 inches of snow predicted. Up to 14 inches was measured in areas west of Cheyenne where a winter storm warning was in effect. Elsewhere, Lander received 11 inches, Riverton 6 and Big Piney 12. Around a foot of snow was expected in many mountain areas.
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Benghazi Impeachment Suddenly Not So Far-Fetched
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PJ Media, by Roger L. Simon
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/4/2013 5:10:55 AM
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On October 27th, 2012, only days before the presidential election, I wrote: If Barack Obama is reelected, will he face impeachment over Benghazi — a yet more unpleasant and far more wrenching result than to lose an election? (Snip) Reading Stephen F. Hayes’ new article in The Weekly Standard — “The Benghazi Talking Points” — I am beginning to feel like Nostradamus. I’m not ready to make any predictions, but let’s put it this way… Barack Obama is bloody lucky he’s a Democrat, because if he were a Republican,
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BENGHAZI: Names of ‘whistleblower’ witnesses revealed
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Fox News, by James Rosen, Chad Pergram
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Their identities have been a well-guarded secret, known only to their high-powered lawyers and a handful of House lawmakers and staff. But now Fox News has learned the names of the self-described Benghazi “whistleblowers” who are set to testify before a widely anticipated congressional hearing on Wednesday. Appearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will be three career State Department officials: Gregory N. Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya at the time of the Benghazi terrorist attacks; Mark I. Thompson, a former Marine and now the deputy coordinator for Operations
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Obama´s sunny speech in Mexico raises eyebrows
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Los Angeles Times, by Kathleen Hennessey & Tracy Wilkinson
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/3/2013 10:13:38 PM
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MEXICO CITY — President Obama on Friday painted a sunny picture of a modern Mexico emerging from its past troubles, an attempt at rebranding that serves the political aims of both governments but clashes with the realities of a country beset by violence and poverty. On his second day of a swing through Latin America, Obama emphasized optimism about Mexico´s economic future and offered a broad endorsement of President Enrique Peña Nieto´s reform agenda. Speaking to a crowd largely made up of high school and college students, Obama pushed the next generation of Mexicans to continue to demand change.
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First Lady: Some Kids Don´t Know ´What a Real Tomato Looks Like,´ ´Where a Cucumber Comes From´
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Cybercast News Service, by Craig Bannister
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/4/2013 4:43:04 PM
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"Some kids have never seen what a real tomato looks like," and some "don´t know where a cucumber comes from," First Lady Michelle Obama said today. Addressing a gathering at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Mrs. Obama said that´s one reason she planted her garden at the White House: "And the nutrition issue, as Tom mentioned, as you all know, is something near and dear to my heart not just as First Lady, but as a mother. In fact, one of the first things that I did, as you know, as First Lady, was to plant the garden
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Natalie Maines releases her solo debut May 7
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Star-Telegram [Ft. Worth, TX], by Preston Jones
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/5/2013 7:49:35 AM
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There was no way around it: The room was half-empty. The 2013 edition of South by Southwest was just getting underway as Natalie Maines stood onstage at Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater, sporting a brunette faux-hawk and holding an acoustic guitar. Whole sections of the 2,750-capacity space sat devoid of bodies.(Snip) “Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas.”
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Americans Are Ready for a Female President. Finally
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Daily Beast, by Eleanor Clift
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/4/2013 9:35:41 PM
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A new poll from Emily’s List shows an overwhelming number of voters now support the idea. It’s a movement the group hopes someone in the sisterhood is about to inherit. With polls showing Hillary Clinton holding a formidable lead over all other potential candidates for president in 2016, a press conference to promote the idea of a woman president seems a little behind the news, a treasured dream catching up with a new reality, or perhaps a stalking horse for Clinton.
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The Complete Benghazi Timeline in Spreadsheet Format
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/4/2013 3:51:03 PM
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The evidence of a cover-up is becoming clear, thanks to information recently released about what happened at Benghazi. Doug Ross of Director Blue has pulled together information from Stephen Hayes and the House Oversight Committee that leads to, in his words, "four inescapable conclusions": a) Hillary Clinton lied under oath to Congress. b) Barack Obama went to sleep knowing that a U.S. Ambassador and other Americans were under terrorist attack. c) Barack Obama awoke refreshed the next day to begin fundraising. d) The entire Executive Branch lied repeatedly to the American people to
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Will Barack Obama ever stop apologising for America?
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Telegraph [UK], by Nile Gardiner
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/4/2013 1:21:19 AM
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I’ve just watched this extraordinary clip of Barack Obama’s speech in Mexico City earlier today, where the president blames the United States for the out of control gun violence in Mexico, a frankly ludicrous assertion. RealClear Politics has a partial transcript: "Most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States," President Obama said during a speech at Mexico´s Anthropology Museum. "I think many of you know that in America, our Constitution guarantees our individual right to bear arms. And as president, I swore an oath to uphold that right, and I always
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Funeral director struggles to find graveyard to bury Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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New York Daily News, by Bev Ford & Larry McShane
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/4/2013 5:45:55 AM
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He´s a body without a burial plot. Four cemeteries in three states have refused to accept the battered corpse of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, said the Massachusetts funeral director tasked with finding his final resting place. Peter Stefan, funeral director and owner of Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester, Mass., tried to find a plot for Tsarnaev in New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts — but nobody wants to bury the Russian-born terrorist on their land, he said. If nothing comes up, “we have to go to the federal government
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Agent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mexico
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CBS News, by Sharyl Attkisson
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/4/2013 10:48:26 PM
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WASHINGTON - Federal agent John Dodson says what he was asked to do was beyond belief. He was intentionally letting guns go to Mexico? "Yes ma´am," Dodson told CBS News. "The agency was." An Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms senior agent assigned to the Phoenix office in 2010, Dodson´s job is to stop gun trafficking across the border. Instead, he says he was ordered to sit by and watch it happen. Investigators call the tactic letting guns "walk." In this case, walking into the hands of criminals who would use them in Mexico and the United States.
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A day in the strawberry fields seems like forever
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Los Angeles Times, by Hector Becerra
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/4/2013 6:59:57 AM
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About 30 minutes into my job as a picker, the strawberry fairy left her first gift. On one of the beds of berries that seemed to stretch forever into the Santa Maria marine layer, Elvia Lopez had laid a little bundle of picked fruit. She and the other three dozen Mexican immigrants in the field were bent at an almost 90-degree angle, using two hands to pack strawberries into plastic containers that they pushed along on ungainly one-wheeled carts. They moved forward, relentlessly, ever bent, following a hulking machine with a conveyor belt that spirited away their fruit.
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Obama: ´My top priority as President: Creating good, middle-class jobs´
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm
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Posted By: SurferLad- 5/4/2013 9:47:49 AM
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Hi, everybody. Today, I’m speaking to you from the road — a trip to Mexico and Costa Rica. I’m here because Latin America represents an incredible opportunity for the United States, especially when it comes to my top priority as President: creating good, middle-class jobs. On Friday, we learned that our businesses created another 176,000 jobs last month. That’s 2.2 million new jobs over the past year, and 6.8 million new jobs over the past 38 months. But as I´ve said before, I won’t be satisfied until everyone who wants a job can find one.
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