This is an update on the recent directive from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to their employees forbidding them from websites with "controversial opinions."
After an uproar from conservative bloggers and free-speech activists, the Transportation Security Administration late Tuesday rescinded a new policy that would have prevented employees from accessing websites with "controversial opinions" on TSA computers at work.
It is interesting to know that TSA workers now can have access to Rush Limbaugh along with pornographic websites (porno sites were not - and are still not - on the list of forbidden sites).
The original report is here.
The policy reversal story is here.
Jul 7, 2010
Japan court convicts anti-whaling activist
Anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune (pictured) was given a two-year suspended prison sentence and five years' probation Wednesday by a Tokyo district court judge for his role in boarding a Japanese whaling ship.
Bethune was found guilty on five charges, ranging from assault against whalers to trespassing onto a whaling vessel. Bethune had previously pleaded guilty to all charges but assault.
The New Zealand citizen could have received up to 15 years behind bars in Japanese prison.
At the May hearing, Bethune tearfully described the January collision between the Shonan Maru 2 and the Sea Shepherd's multi-million-dollar catamaran style speedboat, the Ady Gil. The crash sunk the Ady Gil (pictured), which Bethune captained.
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Bethune was found guilty on five charges, ranging from assault against whalers to trespassing onto a whaling vessel. Bethune had previously pleaded guilty to all charges but assault. The New Zealand citizen could have received up to 15 years behind bars in Japanese prison.
At the May hearing, Bethune tearfully described the January collision between the Shonan Maru 2 and the Sea Shepherd's multi-million-dollar catamaran style speedboat, the Ady Gil. The crash sunk the Ady Gil (pictured), which Bethune captained.Link
Rockies baseball fans may need cardiologist's permission to see home games
On the 4th of July the Colorado Rockies beat the San Francisco Giants by a score of 4-3 but it took 5 hours, 24 minutes to do it. It was the longest game ever at Coors Field in Denver. Story here.
Last night in the first game of a three game series with the St. Louis Cardinals the Rockies gave their fans another reason to give their heart medicine a workout.
In the first game of a three game series with a very good St. Louis Cardinal team, the Rockies entered the bottom of the 9th inning trailing by 6 runs. The Rockies scored 9 runs for a 12-9 victory. It was the largest ninth-inning comeback in Rockies history. The previous best was four runs.
Story here.
Last night in the first game of a three game series with the St. Louis Cardinals the Rockies gave their fans another reason to give their heart medicine a workout.In the first game of a three game series with a very good St. Louis Cardinal team, the Rockies entered the bottom of the 9th inning trailing by 6 runs. The Rockies scored 9 runs for a 12-9 victory. It was the largest ninth-inning comeback in Rockies history. The previous best was four runs.
Story here.
Feds helped pay bills for prisoners and dead people
An article at the link below reports that the federal government helped pay home air-conditioning bills for federal employees, prisoners and dead people!
According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the federal government helped pay the home air conditioning bills for more than 11,000 dead people, 1,100 federal employees, and 725 convicts in fiscal year 2009.
The payments were made by a $5 billion program known as the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).
LIHEAP is designed to provide federal assistance, administered by the states, to help people pay the energy bills to heat their homes in the winter and cool them in the summer.
The GAO examined the LIHEAP programs in seven states: Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, New York, Illinois, Michigan, and New Jersey and found evidence of fraud in each state.
Most glaring among the problems the GAO found were payments of LIHEAP benefits to dead people, some of whom, records show, had been dead for quite a long time.
The GAO matched LIHEAP data with federal civilian payroll records and found about 1,100 federal employees whose federal salary exceeded the maximum income threshold at the time of their application.
One such case involved a Chicago-area Postal Service employee making $80,000 per year!
The program also provided subsidies to the wife of another Chicago-area postal worker, who earned $84,000 per year, after the wife certified that her husband had no income.
The third chronic issue the GAO discovered was that the program repeatedly paid the air conditioning and heating bill of convicts who were in jail at the time the payments were made!
More here.
Jul 6, 2010
A hat to celebrate Tour de France
photo by Bogdan Cristel - Reuters via Time Magazine
A severe heat wave and no alarms from global warmists?
With a severe heat wave in the east and no "I told you so" warnings from the "global warming" alarmists is almost alarming in itself.
The "warming fraternity" is as silent now as they were during the long frigid winter we had a few months ago.
Are they still in shock from the scandal surrounding their guru Al Gore? Are they in hiding, waiting to see if there are any other Gored women out there?
[sarcasm off]
The "warming fraternity" is as silent now as they were during the long frigid winter we had a few months ago.
Are they still in shock from the scandal surrounding their guru Al Gore? Are they in hiding, waiting to see if there are any other Gored women out there? [sarcasm off]
Hotel in the sky for luxury transportation
The Aircruise is designed to be a multiple unit dwelling in the sky for luxury transportation. The initial design proposes a bar/lounge zone, four duplex apartments, a penthouse and five smaller apartments.
The photo on the left shows the Aircruise tethered to the ground. The photo on right shows an Aircruise floating in the sky.
The aircraft would be limited to a height of 12,000 feet because the hotel is not pressurized and the hydrogen keeping it afloat constricts at the colder temperatures found at extreme elevations.
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The photo on the left shows the Aircruise tethered to the ground. The photo on right shows an Aircruise floating in the sky.
The aircraft would be limited to a height of 12,000 feet because the hotel is not pressurized and the hydrogen keeping it afloat constricts at the colder temperatures found at extreme elevations.
Link
Lightning at the Parthenon in Athens, Greece
A flash of lightning illuminates the sky above the 2,500-year-old Parthenon temple in Athens.
TSA to block workers from controversial opinion web sites
From a CBS Investigates report (see link below): - - - - - - - - - - U P D A T E - - - - - - - - - -
After an uproar from conservative bloggers and free-speech activists, the Transportation Security Administration late Tuesday rescinded a new policy that would have prevented employees from accessing websites with "controversial opinions" on TSA computers at work.
It is interesting to know that TSA workers now can have access to Rush Limbaugh along with pornographic websites. Porno sites were not - and are still not - on the list of forbidden sites.
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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is blocking certain websites from the federal agency's computers, including halting access by staffers to any Internet pages that contain a "controversial opinion," according to an internal email obtained by CBS News.
Photo shows Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Director for the Obama administration.
As of July 1, TSA employees will no longer be allowed to access five categories of websites that have been deemed "inappropriate for government access."
The categories include:
• Chat/Messaging
• Controversial opinion
• Criminal activity
• Extreme violence (including cartoon violence) and gruesome content
• Gaming
The ruling did not specify how the TSA will determine if a website expresses a "controversial opinion."
There is also no explanation as to why controversial opinions are being blocked, although the ruling stated that some of the restricted websites violate the Employee Responsibilities and Conduct policy.
Do controversial opinion websites mean sites critical of the left-wing liberals in the current administration such as Matt Drudge and Rush Limbaugh? If so, will blocking certain Religious websites be next?
Conspicuously absent from the list are pornography websites.
Link
After an uproar from conservative bloggers and free-speech activists, the Transportation Security Administration late Tuesday rescinded a new policy that would have prevented employees from accessing websites with "controversial opinions" on TSA computers at work.
It is interesting to know that TSA workers now can have access to Rush Limbaugh along with pornographic websites. Porno sites were not - and are still not - on the list of forbidden sites.
Link
British Queen said to be shedding pounds
Queen Elizabeth II (pictured) is shedding pounds by living more frugally -- if living on 7.9 million pounds ($12.3 million) can be called frugal.
At any rate she is cutting spending and putting off palace repairs as royal finances are squeezed by Britain's budget crisis.
The 84-year-old queen is in Toronto, Canada for a visit.
The electric blackout in Toronto during her visit is really not what the Queen had in mind for cutting down her use of resources.
The power outage was caused by an explosion at a Toronto power facility.
A report at the first link below says the total public cost of supporting the monarchy was 38.2 million pounds ($57.8 million) for last year.
In an attempt to minimize the cost to support the monarchy, the report says it is the equivalent to 62 pence (94 cents) per person. However, that's only part of the story because it is taxpaying Brits who actually support the monarchy.
There are millions of Brits who do not pay taxes for one reason or another. Consequently the share per person for those who actually support the Queen is much higher than 62 pence!
The Queen's attempt to economize is here. The Toronto power outage story is here.
At any rate she is cutting spending and putting off palace repairs as royal finances are squeezed by Britain's budget crisis.
The 84-year-old queen is in Toronto, Canada for a visit. The electric blackout in Toronto during her visit is really not what the Queen had in mind for cutting down her use of resources.
The power outage was caused by an explosion at a Toronto power facility.
A report at the first link below says the total public cost of supporting the monarchy was 38.2 million pounds ($57.8 million) for last year.
In an attempt to minimize the cost to support the monarchy, the report says it is the equivalent to 62 pence (94 cents) per person. However, that's only part of the story because it is taxpaying Brits who actually support the monarchy.
There are millions of Brits who do not pay taxes for one reason or another. Consequently the share per person for those who actually support the Queen is much higher than 62 pence!
The Queen's attempt to economize is here. The Toronto power outage story is here.
White House staff salaries $38,796,307.00
Last Friday the White House released the salaries of its staff members ranging from its lowest-level employees to chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
One commenter paraphrased a famous Winston Churchill quote: "Never have so many been paid so much for so little."
There is a full list of the 500 some employees by name and salary here.
One commenter paraphrased a famous Winston Churchill quote: "Never have so many been paid so much for so little."
There is a full list of the 500 some employees by name and salary here.
Jul 5, 2010
Rockies baseball - the toddlers have grown up
The Colorado Rockies were perennial cellar dwellers while they 'grew their own' using the draft and minor trades rather than picking up free agents or trading for big-name players.
In fact, they traded away Matt Holliday (upper photo) one of their two legitimate stars.
The Holliday trade left future Hall of Fame first baseman Todd Helton (lower photo) and a bunch of young players. The team was then often referred to as "Todd and the toddlers."
Well, now the "toddlers" have grown up. After a slow start, the Rockies have turned heads in the National League winning series after series including 2 out of 3 from the elite Boston Red Sox.
The Rockies just finished a 4 game series with the San Francisco Giants by winning three games.
Yup, the toddlers have grown up.
In fact, they traded away Matt Holliday (upper photo) one of their two legitimate stars.The Holliday trade left future Hall of Fame first baseman Todd Helton (lower photo) and a bunch of young players. The team was then often referred to as "Todd and the toddlers."
Well, now the "toddlers" have grown up. After a slow start, the Rockies have turned heads in the National League winning series after series including 2 out of 3 from the elite Boston Red Sox. The Rockies just finished a 4 game series with the San Francisco Giants by winning three games.
Yup, the toddlers have grown up.
This flying car would make James Bond drool
Shown below is the Terrafugia Transition Roadable Aircraft – nicknamed the "Flying Car" – is a car/plane hybrid.
It is designed to drive on public roadways and park in a standard garage, but anyone with a sport pilot certificate can also take to the skies.
The FAA just granted the builders' a weight exemption, which allows them to add airbags, an energy absorbing crumple zone and a protective safety cage aimed at road safety.
This part car - part plane is expected to be available starting at the end of 2011. The anticipated purchase price is $194,000.
Link
It is designed to drive on public roadways and park in a standard garage, but anyone with a sport pilot certificate can also take to the skies.
The FAA just granted the builders' a weight exemption, which allows them to add airbags, an energy absorbing crumple zone and a protective safety cage aimed at road safety.
This part car - part plane is expected to be available starting at the end of 2011. The anticipated purchase price is $194,000.
Link
Still blaming Bush could boomerang
From a CNN report at the link below:
When signs of a severe economic downfall emerged more than two years ago, then-candidate Barack Obama was quick to point a finger at the man he hoped to replace.
More than sixteen months into his administration the message is still the same -- blame Bush.
Obama repeated that message when talking about the still-sputtering economy, twice reminding those at a town-hall meeting in Wisconsin that he "inherited" the economic mess.
It's a familiar message from his days on the campaign trail when criticisms of President Bush were as common as policy proposals.
"Nothing makes a president look weaker than pointing the finger at past administrations," said Republican strategist Ron Bonjean.
"By blaming somebody, it looks like you are playing politics and people just want jobs. They don't care about whose fault it is.
Playing the blame game only boomerangs on yourself."
Why soccer may never become 'America's Game'
The World Cup has introduced Americans to the vuvuzela.
Bedbugs close upscale store in New York City
Upscale teen apparel chain Abercrombie & Fitch Co in New York City due to a bedbug infestation.
The store, in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood, will reopen when the bedbug problem is gone.
Link
The store, in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood, will reopen when the bedbug problem is gone.
Link
List of Biden's political blunders
There are two questions about the list of Biden's political blunders found at the link below:
1. Is this a complete list? Answer: no. The complete list on the Internet would take up too much room in cyberspace and a print article would exhaust the paper supply of most newspaper publishers.
2. Why did this appear on FoxNews only and not the other news outlets? Answer: because MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NPR, etc. were too busy digging in Sarah Palin's trashcans to find out her popularity secret. They are still rankled because, during the last presidential election campaign, Sarah Palin drew crowds in the tens of thousands at giant venues while Biden spoke to hundreds at Middle School gymnasiums.
Following is a list of just a few of Biden's political blunders - starting with the most recent:
1. On June 25, 2010, Vice President Biden was visiting a custard shop outside Milwaukee when the shop manager told him his dessert would be on the house if he lowered taxes.
"Don't worry, it's on us," the manager said. "Lower our taxes and we'll call it even."
Biden replied: "Why don't you say something nice instead of being a smartass all the time?"
2. On March 17, 2010, Biden used a St. Patrick's Day celebration at the White House to honor the memory of the Irish prime minister's mother -- though she was alive.
"God rest her soul," Biden said as he introduced Brian Cowen and Obama. Biden quickly corrected his mistake, noting that Cowen's father, not mother, was dead.
"Wait ... your mom's still, your mom is still alive. It was your dad (who) passed. God bless her soul. I gotta get this straight," Biden said.
3. On July 16, 2009, Biden gave a blunt summation of the administration's approach to stimulus spending.
"People, when I say that, look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?" he said at a stop in Virginia. "The answer is yes."
4. On Inauguration Day, Jan. 20 2009, Biden misspoke when he told a cheering crowd of supporters, "Jill and I had the great honor of standing on that stage, looking across at one of the great justices, Justice Stewart."
Justice John Paul Stevens -- not Stewart -- swore Biden in as vice president.
5. During his first campaign rally as Obama's vice presidential running mate on Aug. 23, 2008, Biden introduced Obama by saying, "A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States -- Barack America!"
That's just a few from the partial list at the link below.
If the White House gave out a 'village idiot' award it would certainly go to Joe Biden.
Its no wonder comedians have said Barack Obama chose Joe Biden to be Vice President as his insurance policy against impeachment.
Link
Prince Charles embraces frugality - really
The report at the link below is about Prince Charles (pictured) the 'poor little rich boy.' It is titled, Royal in Recession: Prince Charles embraces frugality.
From the report:
From the report:
Charles, the Prince of Wales, doesn't exactly have to save for a rainy day: he collects Aston Martins, has three chauffeurs, and holds overseas investments totaling at least $68 million.
But as Britain copes with a bleak economic forecast and austerity measures meant to tackle its $230 billion deficit, the future king has embraced a royal version of frugality sure to make playboy princes around the world quiver: he's cutting back on canapés
and hosting drinks parties instead of lavish dinners.
The last year he even reduced his official spending by almost four and one half percent!
Are you impressed? Me neither.
Link
Jul 4, 2010
Fireworks at Mr. Rushmore
The National Park Service has canceled the Independence Day fireworks display at Mount Rushmore National Memorial this year because of growing fire danger in a forest decimated by pine beetles.
Tour de Lance: Armstrong goes for number 8
After finishing first in a record 7 Tour de France races in a row 38-year-old Lance Armstrong is going after his 8th win.
Link
Jul 3, 2010
Determined to rewrite the Bible
From a report at the link below:
A Swedish theologian says that despite the crucifix's proliferation in art and literature, there is scant evidence in the Bible or other ancient sources to indicate that Christ was killed on a cross.
The theologian, Gunnar Samuelsson, did his research while working on his 400-page doctoral thesis "Crucifixion in Antiquity."
Samuelsson is not alone. The History Channel has also been hard at work rewriting the Bible.
In one example the History Channel proclaimed that Jesus was married and had children. They even tried to track his descendants. This was said to an ignoble pursuit by many Bible scholars.
The sans cross crucifixion of Christ story is here.
Gaither Homecoming “We’ll Talk it Over”
Bill’s brother Danny Gaither sang one verse of this song right after one of his throat cancer radiation treatments. It is one of Danny’s very last appearances.
The marvelous voice of a younger Danny Gaither can be found HERE in a 1977 video recording.
The marvelous voice of a younger Danny Gaither can be found HERE in a 1977 video recording.
Jul 2, 2010
Finland makes broadband access a legal right
Finland is the first country in the world to make access to Internet broadband connections a legal right for every one of its citizens.
Under Finland's new law, telecommunications companies will be obliged to provide all citizens with broadband lines that can run at a minimum of 1 megabit per second (Mbps) broadband connection.
In Britain, the government has promised a minimum connection of at least 2 Mbps to all homes by 2012 but has stopped short of enshrining this as a right in law.
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Under Finland's new law, telecommunications companies will be obliged to provide all citizens with broadband lines that can run at a minimum of 1 megabit per second (Mbps) broadband connection.In Britain, the government has promised a minimum connection of at least 2 Mbps to all homes by 2012 but has stopped short of enshrining this as a right in law.
Link
Lawsuit over iPhone 4 just one week after release
From a CNET report at the link below:
Barely a week since the public got its hands on the iPhone 5, the first lawsuit over it has been filed.
The suit accuses Apple and AT&T of knowingly distributing a phone with a malfunctioning antenna.
The iPhone maker and its exclusive carrier partner in the U.S. are accused of a laundry list of infractions, including: general negligence, defect in design, manufacture, and assembly, breach of warranty, deceptive trade practices, intentional and negligent misrepresentation, and fraud by concealment.
With that many charges, one wonders if the iPhone 4 was prematurely rushed to market.
In responding to the first iPhone 4 complaints, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said it was the users fault accusing them of holding the phone wrong.
The CNET story is here.
The Steve Jobs accusation is here.
Full-body airport scanners may pose cancer risk
Security officials rely on full-body scanners to screen passengers, but could those machines pose a cancer risk to airline customers?
Several foreign media outlets reported this week on a possible cancer risk from the controversial full-body scanners.
One report said, "experts say radiation from the scanners has been underestimated and could be particularly risky for children. They say that the low level beam does deliver a small dose of radiation to the body but because the beam concentrates on the skin -- one of the most radiation-sensitive organs of the human body -- that dose may be up to 20 times higher than first estimated."
"The dose would be safe if it were distributed throughout the volume of the entire body, the dose to the skin may be dangerously high."
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(click on cartoon to enlarge)
Several foreign media outlets reported this week on a possible cancer risk from the controversial full-body scanners.
One report said, "experts say radiation from the scanners has been underestimated and could be particularly risky for children. They say that the low level beam does deliver a small dose of radiation to the body but because the beam concentrates on the skin -- one of the most radiation-sensitive organs of the human body -- that dose may be up to 20 times higher than first estimated.""The dose would be safe if it were distributed throughout the volume of the entire body, the dose to the skin may be dangerously high."
Link
Jul 1, 2010
NY Gov: So many vetoes - so little time
"Let's make a deal" is back on in the New York state capitol.
Gov. Paterson's veto threats are pushing state lawmakers back to the negotiating table to cut a deal on the budget.
They failed to get the needed 32 Democrat votes to pass a measure authorizing $1 billion in new taxes and revenues for the cash-strapped state.
The photo above shows the vision impaired Governor David Paterson (he is legally blind) as he leans over to see the bill he is signing before he adds his veto. He only has about 6,699 more signatures to go.
The photo below shows the stack of bills waiting for Paterson to sign before adding his veto.
He vowed to veto as many as 6,900 bills. How long would it take?
Anyone have a good remedy for writer's cramp?
Gov. Paterson spoke briefly to reporters Thursday about the fact that he's too busy wielding his veto pen to negotiate with the Legislature -- unless they would give him an acceptable proposal.
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Gov. Paterson's veto threats are pushing state lawmakers back to the negotiating table to cut a deal on the budget.
They failed to get the needed 32 Democrat votes to pass a measure authorizing $1 billion in new taxes and revenues for the cash-strapped state.
The photo above shows the vision impaired Governor David Paterson (he is legally blind) as he leans over to see the bill he is signing before he adds his veto. He only has about 6,699 more signatures to go.
The photo below shows the stack of bills waiting for Paterson to sign before adding his veto.
He vowed to veto as many as 6,900 bills. How long would it take?
Anyone have a good remedy for writer's cramp?
Gov. Paterson spoke briefly to reporters Thursday about the fact that he's too busy wielding his veto pen to negotiate with the Legislature -- unless they would give him an acceptable proposal.
Link
Obama whines about politics in amnesty push
Desperate to get an illegal immigrant amnesty through Congress, Mr. Obama blamed political posturing and special interest wrangling for standing in his way.
Wasn't it political posturing and special interest wrangling that helped him ram ObamaCare through Congress?
More of the story here.
Wasn't it political posturing and special interest wrangling that helped him ram ObamaCare through Congress?
More of the story here.
US Airways flight aborted by maggots
For anyone jumping to conclusions -- no, the maggots didn't come from the aircraft galley.
It was maggots falling from a container in an overhead bin that forced a US Airways plane to return to the gate in Atlanta.
It was determined that the maggots came from spoiled meat.
US Airways spokesman Todd Lehmacher says a passenger brought the container onto the plane and passengers noticed the maggots on Monday on the flight bound for North Carolina.
The plane returned to the gate and passengers got off so crews could clean the overhead bin.
Lehmacher says the flight then continued on to Charlotte, where the plane was taken out of service and fumigated out of an "abundance of caution."
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It was maggots falling from a container in an overhead bin that forced a US Airways plane to return to the gate in Atlanta.It was determined that the maggots came from spoiled meat.
US Airways spokesman Todd Lehmacher says a passenger brought the container onto the plane and passengers noticed the maggots on Monday on the flight bound for North Carolina.
The plane returned to the gate and passengers got off so crews could clean the overhead bin.
Lehmacher says the flight then continued on to Charlotte, where the plane was taken out of service and fumigated out of an "abundance of caution."
Link
Anna Chapman: the lady in red was a Russian spy
It was 'spies and fries' as Obama was treating Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to hamburgers at Ray's Hell Burger (pictured) in Arlington, Virginia while eleven suspects were arrested on charges of spying for Russia.
The red-headed lady in the red dress shown here was among eleven people arrested by the FBI and accused of spying for Russia in an extraordinary Cold War-style espionage plot.
Anna Chapman (pictured), believed to be a 28-year-old divorcee with a masters' degree in economics and her own online real-estate business, is being held without bail after prosecutors called her a 'highly trained agent' and a 'practiced deceiver'.
The accused allegedly used invisible ink and stenography - right out of a cheap 1950's spy novel. They could have made good use of the spy kit I got as a kid for a few breakfast cereal box tops.
One reporter wondered if they could have been just as effective using Google search.
Their amateurish methods prompted another reporter to write, "it's funny -- except is isn't"
Eight of the suspects were married couples - at least one with a child. The plot 'has been in place since the 1990s.'
Link
The red-headed lady in the red dress shown here was among eleven people arrested by the FBI and accused of spying for Russia in an extraordinary Cold War-style espionage plot.
Anna Chapman (pictured), believed to be a 28-year-old divorcee with a masters' degree in economics and her own online real-estate business, is being held without bail after prosecutors called her a 'highly trained agent' and a 'practiced deceiver'.The accused allegedly used invisible ink and stenography - right out of a cheap 1950's spy novel. They could have made good use of the spy kit I got as a kid for a few breakfast cereal box tops.
One reporter wondered if they could have been just as effective using Google search.
Their amateurish methods prompted another reporter to write, "it's funny -- except is isn't"
Eight of the suspects were married couples - at least one with a child. The plot 'has been in place since the 1990s.'
Link
US finally accepts international help for Gulf spill
Barack Obama has steadfastly refused oil spill help from countries around the world.
Finally, after 70 days, Mr. Obama is accepting help from 12 countries and international organizations in dealing with the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Finally, after 70 days, Mr. Obama is accepting help from 12 countries and international organizations in dealing with the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The State Department said in a statement Tuesday that the U.S. is working out the particulars of the help that's been accepted.
The identities of all 12 countries and international organizations were not immediately announced.
More than 30 countries and international organizations have offered to help with the spill.
Up until now the Obama administration has refused help from abroad while the spill kept getting worse.
Link
Can Al Gore survive the scandal fueled by National Enquirer?
First the Al Gore scandal broke in Oregon's online newspaper The Oregonian. Within hours others picked up the story in the news media as well as a host of blogs.
Now the National Enquirer is having a field day with the story.
When John Edwards, John Kerry's vice-presidential running mate, was involved in a scandal, main stream media mostly remained silent until the story broke in the National Enquirer. The Edwards story was then all over the print media as well as the Internet.
Will Al Gore suffer the same fate? Will Molly Hagerty be Al Gore's Monica Lewinsky.
Link here and here.
Now the National Enquirer is having a field day with the story.
When John Edwards, John Kerry's vice-presidential running mate, was involved in a scandal, main stream media mostly remained silent until the story broke in the National Enquirer. The Edwards story was then all over the print media as well as the Internet.
Will Al Gore suffer the same fate? Will Molly Hagerty be Al Gore's Monica Lewinsky.
Link here and here.
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