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Cheers to Blue Monday, ´the
most depressing day of the year´

Agence France-Presse, by Staff

Original Article

Posted By:NorthernDog, 1/20/2013 10:21:42 PM

As if any Monday in January weren´t bad enough, Blue Monday, an ill-reputed date dubbed "the most depressing day of the year," should really put you in a mood. While there has been some confusion over exactly which day Blue Monday falls on in 2013, the official date is January 21. The theory of Blue Monday dates back to 2005, when UK psychologist Cliff Arnall created an elaborate mathematical formula to calculate the most miserable day of the year. Thanks to the day´s perfect storm of drab weather, holiday bills, and wrecked New Year´s resolutions, motivational levels

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Obama on TV all day. No wonder this Monday will be so depressing.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Yankeegirl, 1/20/2013 10:43:12 PM     (No. 9129033)

Oh, it´s a blue Monday all right


Reply 2 - Posted by: formerNYer, 1/20/2013 11:03:54 PM     (No. 9129065)

It´s go out, ride your bike, play some golf and stay as far away from any TV station that isn´t sports and/or cooking.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: BaseballFan, 1/20/2013 11:57:09 PM     (No. 9129136)

And before that bike ride, #2, be sure to raise Old Glory - upside down.


Reply 4 - Posted by: poodlemom, 1/21/2013 3:30:43 AM     (No. 9129263)

Been taping Perry Mason marathon on the Hallmark channel; won´t be going near a news channel until Tuesday.


Reply 5 - Posted by: pineledger, 1/21/2013 4:44:02 AM     (No. 9129311)

Midsomer Murders on Netflix is another good possibility. Or if you haven´t seen it the Ian Richardson BBC version of House of Cards.


Reply 6 - Posted by: King of all trolls, 1/21/2013 4:53:33 AM     (No. 9129317)

I´ve got a sock drawer in desperate need of attention.


Reply 7 - Posted by: mommateepee63, 1/21/2013 6:12:18 AM     (No. 9129361)

Our flag has been at half-mast since the early morning hours of 11/7/2012. Hubby has no plans to change it.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: BirdsNest, 1/21/2013 6:50:52 AM     (No. 9129386)

Looks like we will check to see if there is an NCIS marathon on USA channel 242. We have plenty of dvd;s we can watch or catch up on the few TV programs we tape and watch later. Like "Justified".


Reply 9 - Posted by: Periwinkel, 1/21/2013 6:55:21 AM     (No. 9129389)

Grandsons are out of school today (MLK day) so we will be going to Laser-Blaze and out to lunch and maybe to a movie with a bunch of car crashes...anything to get out and not be around a TV with the happy-happy-joy-joy MSM chirping about their Messiah who is come to save the world.


Reply 10 - Posted by: O.G.´s Mom, 1/21/2013 6:58:53 AM     (No. 9129393)

It´s not just blue Monday here in the US, it is deep,dark and depressingly blue.

Will we ever recover.


Reply 11 - Posted by: Fiesta del sol, 1/21/2013 7:01:01 AM     (No. 9129397)

Maybe a gust of wind will blow Mooch´s wig off.

I really wanted Obama to lose, but I really wanted the media to lose big. I didn´t think it was possible, but I hate the media more each day.


Reply 12 - Posted by: steveW, 1/21/2013 7:01:50 AM     (No. 9129398)

All flags at half-mast. National day of mourning.
This tragic inauguration should never, ever have happened.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: My 2 Cents, 1/21/2013 7:02:51 AM     (No. 9129399)

Not only will our TV be off today, I will not watch any news shows for a couple of days, so I can avoid the coronation.


Reply 14 - Posted by: Melody, 1/21/2013 7:15:13 AM     (No. 9129410)

´´If you carry the weight of the world
upon your shoulders,
I know, my brother,
that He will carry you.´´

´´God of our life,
there are days when the burdens we carry
chafe our shoulders and weigh us down;
when the road seems dreary and endless,
the skies grey and threatening;
when our lives have no music in them,
and our hearts are lonely,
and our souls have lost their courage.

Flood the path with light,
run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise;
tune our hearts to brave music;
give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of every age;
and so quicken our spirits
that we may be able to encourage
the souls of all who journey with us on the road of life,
to Your honor and glory.´´
--Augustine


Reply 15 - Posted by: Judith, 1/21/2013 7:23:17 AM     (No. 9129425)

#14 Thank you.


Reply 16 - Posted by: Rob_NC, 1/21/2013 7:33:41 AM     (No. 9129451)

..ah y`ll going you know where you racists....Monday January 21...you insensitive Neanderthals....
MLK day...the very idea...Blue Monday...


s/off


Reply 17 - Posted by: AutumnJoy, 1/21/2013 7:43:56 AM     (No. 9129467)

I successfully completely avoided the first one. This one will be a piece of cake compared to that fiasco.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: TakeBackAmerica, 1/21/2013 7:50:22 AM     (No. 9129475)

Just came back in from lowering our flag to half mast, but may hang it upside down.

That Marxist traitor has no right to be where he is today.


Reply 19 - Posted by: Sinatra5, 1/21/2013 8:13:33 AM     (No. 9129506)

I can´t fly my flag upside down or half mast, so after the election I just took it down. All days since the election have been "sad days". Somehow, I´ve feel like I´m in a Alice in wonderland scene


Reply 20 - Posted by: Farmwife1, 1/21/2013 8:19:22 AM     (No. 9129520)

Wore black to church yesterday. Coincidentally, a lot of people did. And re the media #11, I´m right there with ya.


Reply 21 - Posted by: GOPlease, 1/21/2013 8:21:02 AM     (No. 9129525)

#14 You helped! But remember, when you´re out today, 51%, 2 out of 4 of the adults you see, voted to put this post-turtle back into the Oval Office. It´s the same everyday. Talk about depressing.


Reply 22 - Posted by: Me?Opinionated?Nah!, 1/21/2013 8:22:42 AM     (No. 9129527)

Blue Monday or Bizarre Monday? Bizarre Biden Monday, to be specific. Yes, Trial Balloon #1 is being floated already by those geniuses who would place Joe Biden’s name on the list of POTUS candidates four years from now. I can conceive of Malaprop Joey placing his own name on that list. But, others? Really? It must be for laughs when the guy of giggles and gaffes is officially or even unofficially named the chosen one. Surely he can’t be serious. And don’t call him Shirley!


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: Not your typical New Yorker, 1/21/2013 8:33:25 AM     (No. 9129540)

Starting my Food Network marathon NOW!


Reply 24 - Posted by: TheMotherCO, 1/21/2013 8:34:34 AM     (No. 9129544)

I am with above poster - NCIS on 24 is having a marathon and I won´t change the channel to watch our country degraded by the rites attending the worst prez we have ever had.


Reply 25 - Posted by: gwmcclintok, 1/21/2013 8:36:09 AM     (No. 9129545)

Wifey likes morning news at WRAL TV in Raleigh NC. She comes upstairs to prepare for work, I go downstairs to get my news and enjoy retirement. First 5 minutes all MLk day....off goes the tv. Turned it on 10 minutes later....more mlk day. Off goes the tv...10 minutes later on goes the tv....the messiahs´s crowning. Off goes the tv... Wife is at work now, and the tv is OFF!
This morn, not one word from WRAL about the gun rallies.... only shootings, mlk day and and O.
And now on one of my favorite sites I am called a racist because I don´t believe in MLK day or Obama.


Reply 26 - Posted by: bogeegolf, 1/21/2013 8:40:06 AM     (No. 9129552)

It doesn´t help that it is 18 below right now. They are predicting a high today of -8. No global warming talk anyways.


Reply 27 - Posted by: vrb8m, 1/21/2013 8:50:00 AM     (No. 9129570)

It´s bad enough that this day is depressing almost beyond words, but to have that monster´s picture on the home page here is just rubbing it in. I´m surprised that somebody thought that would be a good idea.


Reply 28 - Posted by: nimby, 1/21/2013 8:56:18 AM     (No. 9129584)

Never understood why my workplace didn´t make this a "floating day off"! The day after Christmas and Thanksgiving are floaters.


Reply 29 - Posted by: fed-up, 1/21/2013 8:56:56 AM     (No. 9129585)

It is a sad day indeed. We should be watching a very elegant and inspiring inauguration today of Mitt and his lovely wife. I don´t intend to watch any of this. If I could, I would fly my flag at half mast also. I guess I should be encouraged that my neighbor still has his empty chair sitting in the front lawn. Im not alone.


Reply 30 - Posted by: Clover, 1/21/2013 9:02:02 AM     (No. 9129601)

Me? I´m hoping to see the Red Wings game and a really big game-winning score.

(Boo/Hiss to the Owners for all this delay.)


Reply 31 - Posted by: jackie, 1/21/2013 9:02:45 AM     (No. 9129602)

I might watch season 2 of Downton Abbey online. Wish Netflix would run it..
Will not watch any news channel today...If the radio is on it will be Rush..
Depressing thinking of those 2 squatters lapping up the adoration of the brainless masses.


Reply 32 - Posted by: Clover, 1/21/2013 9:05:48 AM     (No. 9129608)

....forget Blue Monday and think on this......

Yesterday is History

Tomorrow is a Mystery

Today is a Gift.....that´s why we call it a Present.


Reply 33 - Posted by: Layne´s Soapbox, 1/21/2013 9:25:14 AM     (No. 9129648)

No tv, none, won´t pay for it. Instead I´ll go for a walk on this bright, sun-shiny day (in VA) and then work on my schoolwork. I´m going to better myself today. And then hopefully enjoy of phone call from my hubby who´s deployed.
I can´t do anything to stop what is happening in DC today, so I´m not going to think about it.


Reply 34 - Posted by: CEP, 1/21/2013 9:27:01 AM     (No. 9129651)

It is definitely the most depressing day of the year.


Reply 35 - Posted by: thatsomewhereplace, 1/21/2013 9:32:37 AM     (No. 9129658)

I´d rather watch a squirrel decompose than watch anything inaugural. Aside from that...previous inaug day/parade? Were there "floats" in the parade? Not aware. Seems rather out of place. Blue Monday. Watch MeTV.


Reply 36 - Posted by: TexaTucky, 1/21/2013 10:20:20 AM     (No. 9129758)

Yesterday I didn´t plug in to anything all day because I was anticipating the doom-and-gloom I´d feel today. Having long ago cancelled our reservations to go to Romney´s inauguration and stay in D.C. for the Right-to-Life march, I could not bear to see the smugster-in-chief´s face or hear his voice on the news.

Then, last night, we decided to watch a local Houston pastor, Kerry Shook, interviewing Nick Vujicic, an Australian pastor born without arms or legs.

Look this guy up. What an uplifting, inspirational man he is. . . . says he keeps a pair of shoes in his closet because he believes in miracles.

This is still the best day of your life. Like Clover says, yesterday is done - and tomorrow hinges on what you make of today. For sure, Obama is a bur under our saddle for now, but this is still our country, and the flag is still our flag, and I will fly it high . . . at full staff - because this is still the greatest country the world has ever known.

And I´m alive.


Reply 37 - Posted by: Kimberly, 1/21/2013 10:26:38 AM     (No. 9129776)

I also taped Perry Mason to watch. And for all the fans of Midsomer Murders, there is another series by the same writers called Foyle´s War. It´s a dectective story set in WWII in Hastings England. Very well done with great plots. And it´s on netflix.


Reply 38 - Posted by: smcchk, 1/21/2013 10:28:53 AM     (No. 9129779)

I have always wondered what it was like for people to live through turbulent times, when their entire world was upended and destroyed. So far, it hasn´t been much fun.


Reply 39 - Posted by: M Stuart, 1/21/2013 10:52:05 AM     (No. 9129837)

Everyone is so funny here! I am watching the American Idol shows I´ve recorded. They are terrible and a huge waste of time. The singers are wailing, and the judges are awful. The doofy looking woman with the terrible wigs looks like she has a screw loose.

Thank GOD for fast forward. Maybe when they get past the auditions and put some instruments behind the wailing, it will improve.


Reply 40 - Posted by: tanstaafl44, 1/21/2013 11:13:32 AM     (No. 9129898)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtaKJUWAKCk


clips from john adams set to lullaby for a weary world (which could be america´s theme song for the next four years)


Reply 41 - Posted by: Arby, 1/21/2013 11:13:54 AM     (No. 9129900)

Four more years of Fauxbama and his brainless cronies. Plus I´m starting to think about doing my income tax. How about ´indigo Monday´?

The upside: it´s only four years. We survived the first four. Plus, the sun is shining.


Reply 42 - Posted by: RealityChick, 1/21/2013 11:21:11 AM     (No. 9129919)

After zero was re-elected I asked my husband to take down our American flag. I remember my dear Dad refused to fly it after Clinton got his 2nd. Both events utterly unbelievable.


Reply 43 - Posted by: Freeloader, 1/21/2013 11:35:51 AM     (No. 9129962)

Re #25

Forgetting about The Bamster´s Second Coronation for a minute, here are four items of interest the average bear in the street, whether black, brown or white, should know about Martin Luther King, not mentioned in the history books: (1) His official name of record was Michael King, not Martin Luther King (2) He was nabbed for plagiarism while working on his doctoral degree at Boston University (3) Was under intense FBI surveillance, for many years, due to involvement with communist organizations and why the Democrat controlled Congress never allowed his records to be opened before voting on the national holiday bill and (4) The late Reverend Ralph David Abernathy, one of his closest associates, wrote a book in 1989, entitled "And The Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography," detailing King´s obsession with, among other things, white prostitutes.

Have a nice day America!


Reply 44 - Posted by: WIBadger, 1/21/2013 11:36:06 AM     (No. 9129966)

I think I´m going out to the shooting range for some ´recoil´ therapy.


Reply 45 - Posted by: GreatPlains, 1/21/2013 12:11:19 PM     (No. 9130055)

We began our week long media blackout yesterday.
Not even rumors of Martians landing could tempt us to turn on the tv.


Reply 46 - Posted by: jimmyfoxhound, 1/21/2013 12:16:14 PM     (No. 9130068)

Listening to Lisa Gerrard & Patrick Cassidy song "Elegy" seems fitting. Goodnight America.


Reply 47 - Posted by: BuckeyeRon, 1/21/2013 12:21:25 PM     (No. 9130083)

Well, #45, you have Ronald Reagan and Strom Thurmond to thank for the holiday cuz after the proposal to set a MLK, Jr national holiday lanquished for years in the Congress including the 4 years his former home state governor served as president, those two decided to jam it through Congress. Guess they didn´t have the wisdom you possess or access to FBI background info you must have...


Reply 48 - Posted by: Chuzzles, 1/21/2013 12:39:06 PM     (No. 9130138)

Love Brit tv. My library system has tons. And the Foyle´s War series was written taking actual events from that time and making an episode about it. Learned a lot about how the Brits lived through WWII.

Although the last time I got depressed by election results, I watched all 3 seasons of Gilligan´s Island on dvd. Felt a lot better when I was done. Currently watching Inspector Lewis, MASH, and Big Bang Theory. Life is very good.


Reply 49 - Posted by: bluefindad, 1/21/2013 12:45:16 PM     (No. 9130153)

Anticipating working on my well today, then having a good meal and maybe watching a couple of ´Poirot´ episodes. What coronation?


Reply 50 - Posted by: pc1eszm, 1/21/2013 12:45:20 PM     (No. 9130154)

So that´s why I´m so cranky today. I thought it was because I didn´t sleep worth a rip last night.

No news for me today, either. I´m listening to satellite radio 80s on 8 for the rest of my workday and catching up on my Downton Abbey watching tonight.


Reply 51 - Posted by: mrduc, 1/21/2013 1:08:50 PM     (No. 9130225)

Thank heavens for DVRs. We got sick of seeing urkel and miss wiggy´s pusses all over the TV last week, telling us all we have to look forward to this week. Catching up on ´´Justified´´, rewatching last season and first few episodes of this season.


Reply 52 - Posted by: peterfleming, 1/21/2013 1:10:35 PM     (No. 9130231)

It doesn´t have to be blue Monday. TODAY is the day to watch Sheriff Joe Arpaio´s July 2012 COLD CASE POSSE press conference presentation, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njjJA4apcsI with tons of digital forensic evidence showing the bamster should not be in office EVER. 1 hour, 15 minutes of truth, all of it stonewalled by the socialist Diane Sawyer press. But a few good souls have questioned the birth certificate in various degrees of intensity, ORLY TAVITZ going all the way to the Supreme court, JEROME CORSI writing a sensational book, DONALD TRUMP blasting questions on the mainstream media, bloggers MATT DRUDGE, JOSEPH FARAH, LUCIANNE GOLDBERG, MARK LEVIN, and many more, keeping the story alive from mainstream censorship. This fascinating video is the perfect substitute for NOT watching the fraudulent swearing-in-indoctrination
www.youtube.com/watch?v=njjJA4apcsI It’s been said that SC Justice Roberts will be administering the Oath to Obama, and will also be hearing Taitz birth fraud case against Obama.


Reply 53 - Posted by: peterfleming, 1/21/2013 1:13:40 PM     (No. 9130241)

Correction: TAITZ not Tavitz


Reply 54 - Posted by: pianogirl88, 1/21/2013 1:33:00 PM     (No. 9130307)

I´ve even turned off WMAL, the conservative radio station in the DC area because of the ´´coronation´´ news at the top & bottom of the hour. WTOP radio published one picture on their website of an overflowing trash can with coffee cups all over the sidewalk. Obviously this is not a TEA party gathering in DC today. I still cannot believe this man was reelected in November.


Reply 55 - Posted by: cat2, 1/21/2013 2:20:01 PM     (No. 9130424)

Bright spot: you can´t listen to Rush today (he is away for a day), but you can listen to Mark Steyn!


Reply 56 - Posted by: caddyjak, 1/21/2013 2:22:40 PM     (No. 9130429)

Here is the sad story folks, we are witness to the greatest fraud in the history of the world. Start preparing an answer for the time when your starving grandchildren look at you with hollow eyes and ask "Why did you allow this to happen?


Reply 57 - Posted by: Rafter, 1/21/2013 2:32:20 PM     (No. 9130456)

Looking forward to those 2014 midterm elections!

And the Australian Open tennis tourney is really cooking.

They hit 115 degrees F in Sydney the other day.
Luckily that didn´t last long.

The tournament has a great new look since they got away from that aquarium green
motif a while back.
The bright blue looks great in the hot summer sunshine.

The Djoker played a great five-hour five-setter to advance. What a thrill!

Ya gotta make hay while the sun shines!
Have a great day!

(Why heed anything a UK shrink says? You´d have to be an idiot to be in the UK in January and be a shrink. Clearly he´s nuts and a loser! Ha ha ha... not really kidding about that, either...)


Reply 58 - Posted by: tocsin, 1/21/2013 2:44:01 PM     (No. 9130482)

The Alamo & Braveheart are on AMC...How appropriate!


Reply 59 - Posted by: Isabel, 1/21/2013 2:45:42 PM     (No. 9130484)

Some of our favorites on Netflix so as not to have to turn on News: Doc Martin, Lost, 24, Poirot, Foyles War, Midsomer Murders, PD James, Sherlock, Inspector Lewis, Taggart. Bless my son for giving us Apple TV so we can watch Netflix.


Reply 60 - Posted by: ConservativeYankee, 1/21/2013 3:13:41 PM     (No. 9130540)

I´ve had no radio or tv on over the weekend or today and plan on only listening to a repeat of one of my idol Mark Levin´s recent best shows during dinner tonight.

Aside from catching up on e-mail and taking a quick peek at Lucianne, it´s actually been a healthy boost for me not to listen, watch, or read any news.


Reply 61 - Posted by: lencu255, 1/21/2013 3:17:14 PM     (No. 9130552)

[...] is unhappy at not being able to convince everyone, himself included that he is greater than everyone; and this unhappiness of his may be his most human trait, perhaps the only human trait in him. But what is not human, but rather something devilish, is that because of this unhappiness he cannot help taking revenge on people, on all people but especially those who are in any way better or higher than he.
And the survey says the name inside the braces is.....?
Stalin! That´s what Bucharin said in 1936, couple of years before stalin killed him.
Absolutely fabulous book by Martin Amis - Koba the Dread: laughter and the twenty million.
God, save our country from that!


Reply 62 - Posted by: Lawsy0, 1/21/2013 3:31:54 PM     (No. 9130595)

Ldotter Pomom said it best on another thread; Mourning in America.


Reply 63 - Posted by: KanCreeper, 1/21/2013 4:29:32 PM     (No. 9130741)

The Drudge Headline pretty much nailed it for me: " 1461 Days"

Yeah! Buddy...And Counting!" Then we just have to support him for the rest of his life.


Reply 64 - Posted by: thewarden, 1/21/2013 4:38:21 PM     (No. 9130758)

First menopause and now this. Somebody talk me down from the ledge.


Reply 65 - Posted by: redink, 1/21/2013 4:40:20 PM     (No. 9130767)

Woke up feeling scared and overwhelmed and very much alone to deal with it all. I´ve lost more than I thought I could bear since 2008 and it appears there is still more to lose.

But #14 reminded me of where my hope lies. I am encouraged to keep going...thank you Melody. May you be blessed this day and many more to come.


Reply 66 - Posted by: zapper1979, 1/21/2013 8:03:26 PM     (No. 9131104)

Watching the Casey Anthony movie on Lifetime. Hard to believe but less depressing that watching Obozo and Mooch in her drag queen wig.


Reply 67 - Posted by: billa, 1/21/2013 8:18:36 PM     (No. 9131123)

Just wait until those who still have jobs and income, start preparing their income tax returns.

Even if based upon 2012 income and expense, everyone will likely witness a major drop in their expendable income, huge increase in health insurance premiums and the realization of the tax credits received this year will be long gone by next year.

BO´s second term (in his words, "the second coming") will be rife with misery; people losing more jobs, food, gas and energy prices soaring, government regulations that close and BK businesses, continued atrocities in the ME and No. Africa futher exposing how utter weak and impotent the US is in dealing with foreign policy and in particular with Islam.

I guess everything is going just according to plan for BO.


Reply 68 - Posted by: steph_gray, 1/21/2013 9:55:28 PM     (No. 9131304)

Spent today rehearsing with members of my music group and continuing to write new songs that express the despair.

This is how I stop the despair from taking over.


Reply 69 - Posted by: Luckyx3, 1/22/2013 9:03:34 AM     (No. 9131894)

Thank goodness we have dish network so we avoided any of the dog and pony show all day and watched season 3 of Justified last night.


Reply 70 - Posted by: Eheu Fugaces, 1/22/2013 10:22:07 AM     (No. 9132086)

Actually went to the gym yesterday (it calls itself a fitness center) and attended exercise classes -- was that desperate for diversion.



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NEW YORK — Jason Collins, the NBA veteran who last week announced he was gay, is seeking a book deal, The Associated Press has learned. Officials at three publishing houses said Monday that they had been contacted about a planned memoir by Collins, the first active player in any of four major U.S. professional sports leagues to come out as gay. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the proceedings. The officials said Collins was working on the book with Sports Illustrated´s Franz Lidz

New ShopRite Supermarket To
End Howard Park ‘Food Desert’
WJZ-TV [Baltimore, MD], by Christie Ileto    Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/7/2013 3:48:27 PM     Post Reply
BALTIMORE — A long-awaited supermarket is finally coming to West Baltimore. As Christie Ileto explains, a 67,000 square foot grocery store ends what residents have long called the “food desert” in Howard Park. Ask any Howard Park resident where the nearest grocery store is and they’ll tell you: “We have to go across tracks to Food King or Security Boulevard,” said Anthony. “Oh, wow. You’re looking at a good mile either way,” said Donald Sterling. After 14 years without a grocery store, area residents relying on public transit will soon look no further than their front doors.

Do You Still Trust Matt Lauer?
´Today´ Anchor Rated Low
in Reader´s Digest Poll
Forbes, by Jeff Bercovici    Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/7/2013 3:40:55 PM     Post Reply
After the year that Matt Lauer has had, you might call it a win that he managed to sneak into the list of the “100 Most Trusted People in America,” as determined by Reader’s Digest magazine with the help of the Wagner Group, a market research firm. But look a little closer and it’s obvious that the well-documented internecine struggles at the “Today” show have taken their toll on Lauer’s nice-guy image. For one thing, only 41% of the more than 1,000 people surveyed said they trust Lauer. That’s the lowest number for any of the network news

GM Wins Approval to Build
$1.3 Billion Cadillac Plant in China
Bloomberg News, by Tian Ying    Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/7/2013 9:56:31 AM     Post Reply
General Motors Co. (GM), the largest foreign automaker in China, said it won regulatory approval to build a Cadillac factory to boost sales of luxury vehicles in the world’s biggest automobile market. The National Development and Reform Commission has signed off on the plant, which will be located in Shanghai’s Jinqiao zone, with construction beginning in June, Dayna Hart, a GM spokeswoman, said in an e-mail today. Investments will total at least 8 billion yuan ($1.3 billion) and annual production capacity will be 150,000 units, she said. The plant would allow GM to avoid paying China’s 25 percent import tariff

3.5 quake strikes near Ventura
Los Angeles Times, by Ken Schwencke    Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/7/2013 8:45:59 AM     Post Reply
A shallow magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported Tuesday morning four miles from Saticoy, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 2:05 a.m. PDT at a depth of 13.7 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was six miles from Ventura, eight miles from Santa Paula and nine miles from Oxnard. In the past 10 days, there has been one earthquake magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby. Read more about Southern California earthquakes.

Iraqi Death Hints of
Iran´s Role in Syrian Crisis
Associated Press, by Adam Schreck*    Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/6/2013 5:09:09 PM     Post Reply
BASRA - The fighter´s body was collected at an Iraqi border crossing with Iran, then carried on Monday through the streets of this southern city as mourners hailed his sacrifice in protecting a revered shrine in Syria. Diaa Mutashar al-Issawi was one of several Shiite fighters from Iraq who have trickled into Syria for months, providing a measure of support for Syrian regime forces battling mainly Sunni rebels. They are drawn by a sense of religious duty to ensure the sanctity of the revered Sayida Zeinab shrine outside the Syrian capital of Damascus as sectarian divisions harden

South Carolina election a dead
heat, Democratic robopoll shows
Los Angeles Times, by Paul West    Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/6/2013 2:56:08 PM     Post Reply
The high-profile House race between former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch is going down to the wire as a dead heat, according to a Democratic poll released Sunday night. The survey, by Public Policy Polling, shows Republican Sanford with a statistically insignificant 47%-46% advantage heading into Tuesday´s special election. Green Party candidate Eugene Platt, whose campaign symbol is a frog and whose slogan is "leap of faith," is getting 4%, according to the poll. PPP, generally considered a reliable polling organization, conducts automated telephone surveys, rather than using live



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Putin keeps John Kerry waiting for
THREE HOURS during his visit to
Russia for meetings over Syria
as relationship between the U.S.
and Russia remains frosty

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Daily Mail [UK], by Staff    Original Article
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was looking to strengthen ties with Russia as he tries to put an end to the dictatorial regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, but instead he was met with the coldest of receptions. Russian President Vladimir Putin kept Kerry waiting three hours before their meeting at the Kremlin on Tuesday and continuously fiddled with his pen as the top American diplomat spoke about the ongoing crisis in Syria. Kerry’s visit to Moscow comes as he seeks Russian help in ending Syria´s civil, telling President Putin that common interest in a stable Middle East

Hillary Clinton — culpable for
Benghazi from beginning to end

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Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/7/2013 5:14:14 AM     Post Reply
When it first became clear that the CIA’s Benghazi talking points had been altered, many of us viewed the White House as the prime suspect. After all, it served President Obama’s political purposes to claim, at the height of a political campaign in which he was taking credit for the fall of al Qaeda, that the death of a U.S. ambassador was down to spontaneous outrage over a video, rather than pre-planned terrorism. It turns out, however, that the State Department was the prime culprit. It was State that pushed back hard against the original talking points.

Republican probe of Benghazi
attacks turns to Hillary Clinton

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Washington Post, by Philip Rucker    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/8/2013 6:52:16 AM     Post Reply
Republican lawmakers, who have spent months seeking to tie President Obama to last year’s deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, are increasingly focusing their probe on a new target: former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton. The GOP-led investigation of the Sept. 11, 2012, assaults that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others now centers heavily on the State Department and whether officials there deliberately misled the public about the nature of the assault. Three State Department officials are scheduled to testify before a House committee on Wednesday about the Benghazi attack and its aftermath.

Turning on Obama
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Amerian Spectator, by Ross Kaminsky    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/7/2013 6:19:30 AM     Post Reply
If ponies rode men and grass ate cows, And cats were chased into holes by the mouse … If summer were spring and the other way round, Then all the world would be upside down. Once in a long while, an event evokes one of my favorite historical images: the British Army band, at Lord Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown which sealed the Americans’ revolutionary victory, playing “The World Turned Upside Down.” In this case, the event is the dramatic change over the past two weeks

Seattle to melt buyback guns
into peace bricks

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Associated Press, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: maggie2u- 5/7/2013 1:13:31 PM     Post Reply
The Seattle Police Department collected more than 700 guns during a buyback in January, and now city officials have a plan for what to do with them. Mayor Mike McGinn is expected to announce Tuesday that they´ll be melted into bricks carrying messages of peace, and the bricks will be placed around the city. The buyback program was announced a month after last December´s elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., by city leaders sick of hearing about gun violence. Private sponsors including Amazon.com contributed tens of thousands of dollars

Sanford gets second chance:
On political scrapheap 4 years ago,
ex-governor wins 1st district seat

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Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Glenn Smith*    Original Article
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford completed the trail to political redemption Tuesday with a win over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch to reclaim his old seat in Congress. Sanford defeated Colbert Busch 54 percent to 45 percent, according to full unofficial results. Turnout was heavier than expected, with about 32 percent of the district’s 455,702 registered voters casting ballots. Sanford, who has never lost an election, returns to the 1st District seat he held for three terms from 1995-2001. It’s a remarkable comeback for a man many pundits had written off after his highly publicized affair with an Argentine

A new ‘Dawn’ at ABC:
Newsman becomes newswoman

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New York Post, by Tara Palmeri    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/8/2013 11:26:11 AM     Post Reply
Top ABC News editor Don Ennis walked into his Manhattan office on Friday in a “little black dress” and a brunette bobbed wig and announced to colleagues that from now on, he would like to be known as Dawn. The 49-year-old father of three said he’s splitting from his wife of 17 years to become a woman, or Dawn Stacey Ennis, as she is now known on her governmental records. “Today I begin anew,” she wrote on her Facebook timeline, where she debuted a flirty new profile picture. “Please understand: This is not a game of

Dem Congressman At Benghazi
Hearing: "Death Is A Part Of Life"

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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/8/2013 2:27:15 PM     Post Reply
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, tells Benghazi witnesses that "death is a part of life." CUMMINGS: And, as I listen to your testimony I could not help but think of something that I said very recently -- two years ago now -- in a eulogy for a relative. I said that death is a part of life, so often we have to find a way to make life a part of death. And, I guess the reason why I´m saying that, going back to something Mr. Nordstrom said, he wanted,

Benghazi: Incompetence,
but no cover-up

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National Journal, by Michael Hirsh    Original Article
Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 5/8/2013 6:04:54 PM     Post Reply
There was tragic incompetence, plainly, in the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi attacks, and even possibly some political calculation. It is a record that may well come to haunt Hillary Clinton, the first Secretary of State to lose an ambassador in the field in more than three decades, if she runs for president in 2016. But the obvious Republican effort to turn this inquiry into the Democratic (Obama) version of the Iraq intelligence scandal that has tarred the GOP since the George W. Bush years -- led by that least-credible of champions, the almost-always-wrong Darrell Issa --

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Constitution
implies a right to health care, education

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Washington Times, by Douglas Ernst    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/7/2013 8:22:18 PM     Post Reply
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took to the House floor Monday night and implied that the right to health care and education exists in the Constitution. Ms. Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, also made the case that the moral authority for such services is also derived from the Declaration of Independence. “One might argue that education and health care fall into those provisions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” she said. Ms. Jackson Lee added, “I think that what should be continuously emphasized is the president’s leadership on one single point: that although health care was not

Mark Sanford wins South
Carolina special election

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Washington Post, by Rachel Weiner    Original Article
Posted By: supersid- 5/7/2013 8:55:20 PM     Post Reply
Mark Sanford has won the South Carolina special election in a competitive race for what in normal circumstances is a safe Republican seat. The former governor beat Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert Busch, for the state’s 1st congressional district. The AP called the race for Sanford early in the evening, with the Republican leading Colbert Busch 54 percent 46 percent.

The High Cost of Rush: Talker
Bleeds Millions From His Carriers
as Toxic Talk Slumps, Cumulus Seems
Set to Part Ways With Rush Limbaugh

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Daily Beast, by John Avlon    Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/8/2013 5:41:29 AM     Post Reply
“We´ve had a tough go of it this last year,” Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey said Tuesday morning. “The facts are indisputable regarding the impact certain things have had on ad dollars." Dickey told analysts on the earnings call that his radio empire’s revenue was down $5.6 million in the first quarter of 2013 on top of a boatload of debt. Why? Parse the weasel words (“the impact of certain things”) and you’ll see that Dickey is blaming one man for the precipitous decline of right-wing talk radio’s profitability: Rush Limbaugh. El Rushbo is still a giant in the industry,


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