September 14, 2006
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Chicken Little
One day a first grade teacher was reading the story of Chicken Little to her class.
She came to the part of the story when Chicken Little tried to warn the farmer and read, “...and so Chicken Little went to the farmer and said ‘The sky is falling, the sky is falling!’”
The teacher paused and asked the class, "And what do you think the farmer said?"
One little girl raised her hand and replied, "'Crikey! A talking chicken!'
Dad Breaks Leg Trying to Cure Daughters Fear of Heights
Sep 14 -A father broke his leg trying to cure his daughter's fear of heights. Troy Stewart and his 10-year-old daughter Meagan were on their daily bike ride Monday evening when Stewart suggested they jump off a 15- foot bridge as a way of curing the girl's fear of heights.
Meagan made the jump into the Intracoastal Waterway safely, but her 31-year-old father ended up with a broken leg...http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/14/D8K4JTKO0.html
'Reversal of Fortune' at Hot Dog Contest
Sep 12 -Robert Breinig was ready to cram down the hot dogs. He'd kept his stomach empty for nearly two days in preparation for the competitive hot dog eating contest at the Kansas State Fair....But it took just nine franks until Breinig suffered what veterans of the competitive eating circuit call a "reversal of fortune" Monday afternoon... http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/12/D8K3KQ101.html
Gaddaffy Duck says COCA COLA IS AFRICAN
Sirte, 11 Sept. (AKI) - Coca Cola is an African beverage, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was reported as saying on Monday. Speaking during celebrations for the 7th anniversary of the African Union in Sirte, his hometown, Gaddafi claimed that the US-drink was African as "its essences come from our plants and so multinationals must pay compensation to us." The Libyan leader once claimed that British poet and playwright William Shakespeare was actually an Arab immigrant to Britain called Sheikh Zubeir.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.338877089&par=0
High school dropouts earn far less money No kidding!
Sept. 12, 2006 -Adults who don't finish high school in the U.S. earn 65 percent of what people who have high school degrees make...The new report says 44 percent of adults without high school degrees in the United States have low incomes _ that is, they make half of the country's median income or less...Those with poor initial qualifications remain disadvantaged throughout their life, because they have fewer opportunities to catch up later on," she said...
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4181505.html
Just browsing at the mall? That's what you think
No kidding! Again! Who let them in on this secret?
As you step in the door of a retail store …you're being lured to shop and spend in ways so subtle you probably don't know what's happening to you…
Retailers know how you'll approach a store, where you'll hesitate, how to affect your mood, how to pique your desires, how to play to your aspirations. Everything in a store, from lighting to floor color to music to how goods are displayed, is meant in some way to get you to not just shop, but spend.
At a Sony Style store, for instance, the subtle fragrance of vanilla and mandarin orange — designed exclusively for Sony — wafts down on shoppers, relaxing them and helping them believe that this is a very nice place to be. ..
…At a new Home Depot (HD) in the Atlanta suburb of Buckhead, the entranceway lures shoppers in with an open floor plan so they get a better "vista" of the store...
... J.C. Penney has just finished installing a new system for its stores that allows certain music to be played at certain times of the day. It can "zone" music by demographics, playing more Latin music in stores where there's a higher Hispanic population — all controlled by headquarters in Plano, Texas....
...Anyone who's walked into a mall has been enticed by the smell of cinnamon buns or chocolate chip cookies. Now, retailers such as Sony and shirtmaker Thomas Pink are developing "signature scents" that you smell only in their stores...Thomas Pink pipes the smell of clean, pressed shirts into its stores... (Blame it on the kids who didn't drop out of school and got marketing degrees)
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2006-09-01-retail-cover-usat_x.htm
Analyst predicts plunge in gas prices
WASHINGTON — The recent sharp drop in the global price of crude oil could mark the start of a massive sell-off that returns gasoline prices to lows not seen since the late 1990s — perhaps as low as $1.15 a gallon.
"All the hurricane flags are flying" in oil markets, said Philip Verleger, a noted energy consultant who was a lone voice several years ago in warning that oil prices would soar. Now, he says, they appear to be poised for a dramatic plunge...http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003257679_oilconsumers14.html
Of course the down side is there is less incentive to find our own oi and alternative energy...
Treasury: Federal Deficit Down 14.1 Pct.
Sep 13 -The federal budget deficit, helped by a surge in government revenue, is running 14.1 percent below the pace of last year, the government reported Wednesday…
...Through the first 11 months of the current budget year, revenues have totaled a record $2.12 trillion, up 11.5 percent from the same period a year ago...
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/13/D8K44QBG2.html
Homeowner could faces charges in shooting
WCNC-TV (North Carolina) 9/12/06 A burglary suspect is dead after the homeowner opened fire. It happened Monday morning in Waxhaw.
Now, the district attorney is working to figure out if the homeowner was protecting his family or if he was protecting his property...
...Mobley had just been released from prison a few months ago. He had been arrested for drugs, drug paraphernalia and resisting an officer...Friends of Mobley said he was no stranger to trouble...
While his family recognizes Mobley’s past, they think the homeowner should be prosecuted. Wheeler wants the homeowner to be charged. “I’m 74-years-old and I want justice,” Wheeler said... (Maybe you should have raised your son better)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700781/posts
WHIFF OF BANKRUPTCY JOLTS All-liberal, all-the-time AIR AMERICA
September 14, 2006 -- …A high-level source told The Post that Rob Glaser, the Real Networks founder who rescued the 2-year-old network from its first financial crisis, "walked away last week" and took his moneybags with him.
…Radio Equalizer, a blog that closely monitors Air America, claims the lefty net hasn't been able to pay its Associated Press bill and that staffers "have been bracing for the worst possible news."
…Franken called the first chairman, Evan Cohen, a "crook" after a promised $30 million infusion never materialized and a loan scandal involving a Bronx charity last summer.
Air America has about 87 affiliates nationwide. Earlier this month, the network was evicted from flagship WLIB and moved to a station with a weaker signal, WWRL (1600 AM).
http://www.nypost.com/business/whiff_of_bankruptcy_jolts_air_america_business_john_mainelli.htm
Air America Stiffs Al Franken
…"I don't know if that's true or not," Al Franken told Radar late Wednesday, when asked about the bankruptcy report. "We do know that there have been cash-flow problems. I haven't been paid in a while. Like, there's no cash flowing to me."
It's not the first time Franken has gone without a salary. Air America ran out of money promptly after it launched in 2004, after disgraced former chairman Evan Cohen inflated the amount of money he had raised to fund the network. The debacle nearly killed the network in its infancy, and led to a legendary incident in which Cohen reportedly sent an executive to Franken's apartment to hand-deliver an envelope purportedly containing all of his back pay. It was empty.
Since then, Air America has seen a litany of troubles, executive departures, talent shuffles, and lawsuits. Six months ago, the network was booted from its flagship station in New York City, WLIB, to a much weaker signal that doesn't cover the entire city, and it laid off five staffers on September 11, according to the New York Post….
…And then there's the matter of the $875,000 the network owes to the Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club. …Cohen convinced the nonprofit club—he sat on the board—to OK a massive interest-free loan to keep the network afloat in its early days. When news of the arrangement broke—liberal radio net steals from poor kids!—Air America agreed to repay the loan in full, and the New York City Department of Investigation started looking into the propriety of the transaction…
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2006/09/air-america-stiffs-franken.php
Steinem, Jane Fonda Radio Network Launched
My guess is they'll take Al Franken's last 5 listeners.
Greenstone Media, a radio company whose founders include social (feminist) activist Gloria Steinem and actress Jane Fonda, has launched an all-women, all-talk network across the United States.
Steinem said the network, which is run by women, aims to provide an alternative to current radio talk, which she describes as "very argumentative, quite hostile, and very much male-dominated." (Tell that to Laura Ingram!)
This network "has a different spirit. It has more community. It's more about information, about humor, about respect for different points of view and not constant arguing," Steinem told Reuters in an interview.
Welcome to Chick Radio’s first 6 stations: WNAG, WFEM, WCRY, WHYN , WDYK, and WPMS!!!
I'm sure my dad will tune in to hear Jane Fonda, might remind him of Jane Fonda on the radio in Viet Nam...
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/9/12/180204.shtml?s=ic
Here's something for Jane Fonda to talk about...
Men are more intelligent than women, claims new study
It is research that is guaranteed to delight men - and infuriate the women in their lives. A controversial new study has claimed that men really are more intelligent than women.
The study - carried out by a man - concluded that men's IQs are almost four points higher than women's.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=405056&in_page_id=1770
Nah, I think Al Franken and Jane Fonda are equally stupid, nothing to do with their sex/gender.
Post-Katrina Labor Shortage (good news for those wanting to work)
Sep 13 BILOXI , Miss.
...The U.S. Department of Labor set aside $10 million in grants for several community colleges in Mississippi and Louisiana to offer free classes in basic construction skills. The money already has paid for around 250 students, including Ramsay, to enroll in a four-week class at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College .
The Business Roundtable, a Washington-based association of chief executives from around 160 companies, has committed $5 million to help recruit and train up to 20,000 new construction workers by the end of Louisiana 's Legislature also earmarked $15 million for the training.
Even if that initiative meets its goal, thousands more workers are needed to fill the shortage. In the New Orleans region alone, the projected demand for workers ranges from 30,000 to 100,000, according to Jim Henderson, senior vice president of work force development for the Louisiana Community and Technical College System.
Henderson said Louisiana's "extremely low" unemployment rate _ 2.9 percent in July _ means the construction industry faces stiff competition for filling entry-level jobs that typically pay up to $16 an hour...
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/13/D8K43E1G0.html
World has tapped just 18 percent of global oil supplies, Saudi executive says
September 13, 2006 VIENNA, Austria - The world has tapped only 18 percent of the total global supply of crude, a leading Saudi oil executive said Wednesday, challenging the notion that supplies are petering out.
Abdallah S. Jum’ah, president and CEO of the state-owned Saudi Arabian Oil Co., known better as Aramco, said the world has the potential of 4.5 trillion barrels in reserves - enough to power the globe at current levels of consumption for another 140 years...
“The world has only consumed about 18 percent of its conventional potential,” Jum’ah said, contending that should lay to rest fears that the world is in danger of being tapped out within a few decades.
Jum’ah challenged explorationists to find enough new oil resources to add 1 trillion barrels to world reserves over the next 25 years, saying new technology and higher recovery rates would make it possible to hit that target.
Already, he noted, drilling is now going on as deep as 10,000 feet below the Gulf of Mexico and 7,000 to 8,000 feet elsewhere. Experts say a newly discovered petroleum pool beneath the Gulf of Mexico eventually could yield anywhere from 3 billion to 15 billion barrels.
http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=157340
Rosie O'Donnell: Radical Christians pose Islamofascist threat
Rosie O'Donnell says "radical" Christians in America are just as much of a threat as the followers of radical Islam who piloted hijacked jetliners into New York 's Twin Towers and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
O'Donnell, the newest face on ABC's "The View," yesterday let her feelings fly after co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck noted militant Islam provides a threat to free people.
"Just a minute," she interrupted. "Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have separation of church and state."
A bewildered co-host, Joy Behar, protested that Christians are not threatening to impose mass murder on Americans. "There's that difference. This group is threatening to kill us," Behar said.
And Hasselback, appearing surprised, said, "We are not bombing ourselves here in the country."
O'Donnell then dropped the adjective "radical" when referring to the Christians with whom she disagrees.
"And faith is not Christianity," O'Donnell stressed, "faith in humanity, faith in equality."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51956
How Dare the President Call A Spade A Spade?
September 12, 2006; WASHINGTON -- Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold called on President Bush to refrain from using the phrase "Islamic fascists," saying it was offensive to Muslims and has nothing to do with terrorists fighting the United States .
"We must avoid using misleading and offensive terms that link Islam with those who subvert this great religion or who distort its teachings to justify terrorist activities," Feingold said Tuesday in a speech to the Arab American Institute on Capitol Hill...
...Feingold's comments drew applause from the Arab American Institute audience and praise from the group's president, James Zogby, who argued that the term "Islamic fascism" scares Americans and inflames passions...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/12/AR2006091200618.html
(excuse me Russ, it's either that or just come out and say it's a war against Islam…period.)
Clinton and Reagan and TV movies
By Brent Bozell III
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrentBozellIII/2006/09/13/clinton_and_reagan_and_tv_movies
Iraqi Official Testifies to Links Between Saddam and Al Qaeda
New York Sun ^ September 14, 2006
WASHINGTON — A deputy prime minister of Iraq yesterday offered a sharp contradiction of the conventional wisdom here that Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Al Qaeda had no connection before the 2003 war, flatly contradicting a recent report from the Senate's intelligence committee.
In a speech in which he challenged the belief of war critics that Iraqis' lives are now worse than under Saddam Hussein, Barham Salih said, "The alliance between the Baathists and jihadists which sustains Al Qaeda in Iraq is not new, contrary to what you may have been told." He went on to say, "I know this at first hand. Some of my friends were murdered by jihadists, by Al Qaeda-affiliated operatives who had been sheltered and assisted by Saddam's regime."
A Kurdish politician who took his high school exams from inside a Baathist prison, Mr. Salih said he was the target of the alliance between jihadists, Baathists, and Al Qaeda in 2001, when a group known as Ansar al-Islam tried to assassinate him. In 2002, envoys of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the two Kurdish parties sharing sovereignty over northern Iraq between the two Iraq wars, presented the CIA with evidence that the organization that tried to kill Mr. Salih had been in part funded and directed by Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard.
Those words directly contradict a recent report from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that declassified a 2005 CIA assessment of Iraq's pre-war ties to Al Qaeda and found that none existed. In an interview after the speech yesterday, Mr. Salih said he was unaware of the CIA assessment. But he added, "There were links between Ansar al-Islam and Al Qaeda. The information at time [in 2002] was quite different...
Read more nysun.com... http://www.nysun.com/article/39631
U.S. Military: Senior Al Qaeda Member Arrested in Iraq
September 14, 2006 BAGHDAD, Iraq — A senior member of Al Qaeda in Iraq was killed during an operation in Baghdad this week carrying letters for Usama bin Laden and the new leader of the terror group's Iraqi offshoot, an Interior Ministry official said Thursday.
In a separate announcement, the top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq said U.S. forces had arrested a senior Al Qaeda terrorist and personal associate of the group's new leader, Abu Ayyoub al-Masri.
Abu Jaafar al-Liby, who was either the second or third most important figure in Al Qaeda in Iraq, was killed by police during an operation three days ago, Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Abdul-Karim Khalaf told The Associated Press...
...Al-Liby had been in charge of the Baghdad sector of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Khalaf said. He said two letters were found on his body -- one for bin Laden and the other for al-Masri, who took over Al Qaeda in Iraq from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi after he was killed in a U.S. airstrike north of Baghdad on June 7. Both letters pledged loyalty and promised more attacks...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,213759,00.html
Evidence: Saddam did have al-Qaida ties
Documents contradict Senate conclusion to the contrary
But as WND reported earlier this year, pre-war documents posted online by the Pentagon included a letter from a member of Saddam's intelligence apparatus indicating al-Qaida and the Taliban had a relationship with the regime prior to the 9/11 attacks.
A letter by the member of Saddam's Al Mukabarat to a superior, dated Sept. 15, 2001, reported a pre-9/11 conversation between an Iraqi intelligence source and a Taliban Afghani consul.
That information had been released on the orders of National Intelligence Director John Negroponte, and the letter was reviewed by an independent Middle East analyst whose conclusion was that it appeared genuine.
The letter indicated Osama bin Laden and the Taliban in Afghanistan were in contact with Iraq – noting a specific visit to Baghdad – and said the U.S. had proof Saddam's regime and al-Qaida were cooperating to hit a target in the U.S.
The documents also suggested the possibility that the U.S. could strike Iraq and Afghanistan if an attack on the U.S. proved to be tied to bin Laden and the Taliban....
...Laura Mansfield, the independent Middle East analyst, said the document provided "startling" evidence at the very least Saddam Hussein's government knew al-Qaida was active in Iraq ...
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51952
Sisters wage tax fight: Treat us like lesbians
Elderly women fear home inherited from parents will have to be sold
England- 13/09/2006
Inheritance tax concessions discriminate against some heterosexual couples, lawyers for two elderly sisters told the European Court of Human Rights yesterday.
England- 9/13/2006- Joyce Burden, 88, and her sister Sybil, 81, claim that they should enjoy the same tax advantages as a lesbian couple.
The sisters looked after their parents and two aunts at their home near Marlborough , Wilts, until their deaths.
They now care for each other. But when one of the sisters dies, the other will face a hefty bill for inheritance tax.
They fear that the home they inherited from their parents will then have to be sold. Inheritance tax is not payable on property passing on death from one spouse to another.
When the Civil Partnership Act came into force last year, that exemption was extended to same-sex couples. But siblings and descendants are not allowed to register as civil partners, and so are not eligible for the tax advantage.
"I don't have the status of a lesbian," Joyce Burden said before the hearing in Strasbourg . "This is an insult to single people who have looked after elderly parents. I don't call that justice."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/13/nsisters13.xml
Clinton aides had hand in Dubai deal
September 14, 2006
WASHINGTON -- In the spring, when Sen. Hillary Clinton was denouncing the Dubai Ports World deal, a consulting firm run by her top advisers was quietly lobbying for a Dubai takeover of two U.S. defense plants, Newsday has learned.
The Glover Park Group, whose principals include Clinton insiders Howard Wolfson, Joe Lockhart and Gigi Georges, was paid about $100,000 to help the government-owned Dubai International Capital Corp. in its acquisition of the British engineering firm Doncasters Group Ltd.
(Excerpt) Read more at http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usclin144890633sep14,0,4200190.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines
NOVAK: ARMITAGE DID NOT TELL ALL
Wed Sep 13 2006
"When Richard Armitage finally acknowledged last week he was my source three years ago in revealing Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee, the former deputy secretary of state's interviews obscured what he really did," Bob Novak claims in a column set for Thursday release.
Novak, attempting to set the reocrd straight writes: "First, Armitage did not, as he now indicates, merely pass on something he had heard and that he 'thought' might be so. Rather, he identified to me the CIA division where Mrs. Wilson worked, and said flatly that she recommended the mission to Niger by her husband, former Amb. Joseph Wilson. Second, Armitage did not slip me this information as idle chitchat, as he now suggests. He made clear he considered it especially suited for my column."
Novak slams Armitage for holding back all this time.
Armitage's silence for "two and one-half years caused intense pain for his colleagues in government and enabled partisan Democrats in Congress to falsely accuse Rove of being my primary source," Novak explains.
"When Armitage now says he was mute because of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's request, that does not explain his silent three months between his claimed first realization that he was the source and Fitzgerald's appointment on Dec. 30. Armitage's tardy self-disclosure is tainted because it is deceptive."
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Chicken Little
One day a first grade teacher was reading the story of Chicken Little to her class.
She came to the part of the story when Chicken Little tried to warn the farmer and read, “...and so Chicken Little went to the farmer and said ‘The sky is falling, the sky is falling!’”
The teacher paused and asked the class, "And what do you think the farmer said?"
One little girl raised her hand and replied, "'Crikey! A talking chicken!'
Dad Breaks Leg Trying to Cure Daughters Fear of Heights
Sep 14 -A father broke his leg trying to cure his daughter's fear of heights. Troy Stewart and his 10-year-old daughter Meagan were on their daily bike ride Monday evening when Stewart suggested they jump off a 15- foot bridge as a way of curing the girl's fear of heights.
Meagan made the jump into the Intracoastal Waterway safely, but her 31-year-old father ended up with a broken leg...http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/14/D8K4JTKO0.html
'Reversal of Fortune' at Hot Dog Contest
Sep 12 -Robert Breinig was ready to cram down the hot dogs. He'd kept his stomach empty for nearly two days in preparation for the competitive hot dog eating contest at the Kansas State Fair....But it took just nine franks until Breinig suffered what veterans of the competitive eating circuit call a "reversal of fortune" Monday afternoon... http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/12/D8K3KQ101.html
Gaddaffy Duck says COCA COLA IS AFRICAN
Sirte, 11 Sept. (AKI) - Coca Cola is an African beverage, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was reported as saying on Monday. Speaking during celebrations for the 7th anniversary of the African Union in Sirte, his hometown, Gaddafi claimed that the US-drink was African as "its essences come from our plants and so multinationals must pay compensation to us." The Libyan leader once claimed that British poet and playwright William Shakespeare was actually an Arab immigrant to Britain called Sheikh Zubeir.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.338877089&par=0
High school dropouts earn far less money No kidding!
Sept. 12, 2006 -Adults who don't finish high school in the U.S. earn 65 percent of what people who have high school degrees make...The new report says 44 percent of adults without high school degrees in the United States have low incomes _ that is, they make half of the country's median income or less...Those with poor initial qualifications remain disadvantaged throughout their life, because they have fewer opportunities to catch up later on," she said...
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4181505.html
Just browsing at the mall? That's what you think
No kidding! Again! Who let them in on this secret?
As you step in the door of a retail store …you're being lured to shop and spend in ways so subtle you probably don't know what's happening to you…
Retailers know how you'll approach a store, where you'll hesitate, how to affect your mood, how to pique your desires, how to play to your aspirations. Everything in a store, from lighting to floor color to music to how goods are displayed, is meant in some way to get you to not just shop, but spend.
At a Sony Style store, for instance, the subtle fragrance of vanilla and mandarin orange — designed exclusively for Sony — wafts down on shoppers, relaxing them and helping them believe that this is a very nice place to be. ..
…At a new Home Depot (HD) in the Atlanta suburb of Buckhead, the entranceway lures shoppers in with an open floor plan so they get a better "vista" of the store...
... J.C. Penney has just finished installing a new system for its stores that allows certain music to be played at certain times of the day. It can "zone" music by demographics, playing more Latin music in stores where there's a higher Hispanic population — all controlled by headquarters in Plano, Texas....
...Anyone who's walked into a mall has been enticed by the smell of cinnamon buns or chocolate chip cookies. Now, retailers such as Sony and shirtmaker Thomas Pink are developing "signature scents" that you smell only in their stores...Thomas Pink pipes the smell of clean, pressed shirts into its stores... (Blame it on the kids who didn't drop out of school and got marketing degrees)
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2006-09-01-retail-cover-usat_x.htm
Analyst predicts plunge in gas prices
WASHINGTON — The recent sharp drop in the global price of crude oil could mark the start of a massive sell-off that returns gasoline prices to lows not seen since the late 1990s — perhaps as low as $1.15 a gallon.
"All the hurricane flags are flying" in oil markets, said Philip Verleger, a noted energy consultant who was a lone voice several years ago in warning that oil prices would soar. Now, he says, they appear to be poised for a dramatic plunge...http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003257679_oilconsumers14.html
Of course the down side is there is less incentive to find our own oi and alternative energy...
Treasury: Federal Deficit Down 14.1 Pct.
Sep 13 -The federal budget deficit, helped by a surge in government revenue, is running 14.1 percent below the pace of last year, the government reported Wednesday…
...Through the first 11 months of the current budget year, revenues have totaled a record $2.12 trillion, up 11.5 percent from the same period a year ago...
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/13/D8K44QBG2.html
Homeowner could faces charges in shooting
WCNC-TV (North Carolina) 9/12/06 A burglary suspect is dead after the homeowner opened fire. It happened Monday morning in Waxhaw.
Now, the district attorney is working to figure out if the homeowner was protecting his family or if he was protecting his property...
...Mobley had just been released from prison a few months ago. He had been arrested for drugs, drug paraphernalia and resisting an officer...Friends of Mobley said he was no stranger to trouble...
While his family recognizes Mobley’s past, they think the homeowner should be prosecuted. Wheeler wants the homeowner to be charged. “I’m 74-years-old and I want justice,” Wheeler said... (Maybe you should have raised your son better)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700781/posts
WHIFF OF BANKRUPTCY JOLTS All-liberal, all-the-time AIR AMERICA
September 14, 2006 -- …A high-level source told The Post that Rob Glaser, the Real Networks founder who rescued the 2-year-old network from its first financial crisis, "walked away last week" and took his moneybags with him.
…Radio Equalizer, a blog that closely monitors Air America, claims the lefty net hasn't been able to pay its Associated Press bill and that staffers "have been bracing for the worst possible news."
…Franken called the first chairman, Evan Cohen, a "crook" after a promised $30 million infusion never materialized and a loan scandal involving a Bronx charity last summer.
Air America has about 87 affiliates nationwide. Earlier this month, the network was evicted from flagship WLIB and moved to a station with a weaker signal, WWRL (1600 AM).
http://www.nypost.com/business/whiff_of_bankruptcy_jolts_air_america_business_john_mainelli.htm
Air America Stiffs Al Franken
…"I don't know if that's true or not," Al Franken told Radar late Wednesday, when asked about the bankruptcy report. "We do know that there have been cash-flow problems. I haven't been paid in a while. Like, there's no cash flowing to me."
It's not the first time Franken has gone without a salary. Air America ran out of money promptly after it launched in 2004, after disgraced former chairman Evan Cohen inflated the amount of money he had raised to fund the network. The debacle nearly killed the network in its infancy, and led to a legendary incident in which Cohen reportedly sent an executive to Franken's apartment to hand-deliver an envelope purportedly containing all of his back pay. It was empty.
Since then, Air America has seen a litany of troubles, executive departures, talent shuffles, and lawsuits. Six months ago, the network was booted from its flagship station in New York City, WLIB, to a much weaker signal that doesn't cover the entire city, and it laid off five staffers on September 11, according to the New York Post….
…And then there's the matter of the $875,000 the network owes to the Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club. …Cohen convinced the nonprofit club—he sat on the board—to OK a massive interest-free loan to keep the network afloat in its early days. When news of the arrangement broke—liberal radio net steals from poor kids!—Air America agreed to repay the loan in full, and the New York City Department of Investigation started looking into the propriety of the transaction…
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2006/09/air-america-stiffs-franken.php
Steinem, Jane Fonda Radio Network Launched
My guess is they'll take Al Franken's last 5 listeners.
Greenstone Media, a radio company whose founders include social (feminist) activist Gloria Steinem and actress Jane Fonda, has launched an all-women, all-talk network across the United States.
Steinem said the network, which is run by women, aims to provide an alternative to current radio talk, which she describes as "very argumentative, quite hostile, and very much male-dominated." (Tell that to Laura Ingram!)
This network "has a different spirit. It has more community. It's more about information, about humor, about respect for different points of view and not constant arguing," Steinem told Reuters in an interview.
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I'm sure my dad will tune in to hear Jane Fonda, might remind him of Jane Fonda on the radio in Viet Nam...
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/9/12/180204.shtml?s=ic
Here's something for Jane Fonda to talk about...
Men are more intelligent than women, claims new study
It is research that is guaranteed to delight men - and infuriate the women in their lives. A controversial new study has claimed that men really are more intelligent than women.
The study - carried out by a man - concluded that men's IQs are almost four points higher than women's.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=405056&in_page_id=1770
Nah, I think Al Franken and Jane Fonda are equally stupid, nothing to do with their sex/gender.
Post-Katrina Labor Shortage (good news for those wanting to work)
Sep 13 BILOXI , Miss.
...The U.S. Department of Labor set aside $10 million in grants for several community colleges in Mississippi and Louisiana to offer free classes in basic construction skills. The money already has paid for around 250 students, including Ramsay, to enroll in a four-week class at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College .
The Business Roundtable, a Washington-based association of chief executives from around 160 companies, has committed $5 million to help recruit and train up to 20,000 new construction workers by the end of Louisiana 's Legislature also earmarked $15 million for the training.
Even if that initiative meets its goal, thousands more workers are needed to fill the shortage. In the New Orleans region alone, the projected demand for workers ranges from 30,000 to 100,000, according to Jim Henderson, senior vice president of work force development for the Louisiana Community and Technical College System.
Henderson said Louisiana's "extremely low" unemployment rate _ 2.9 percent in July _ means the construction industry faces stiff competition for filling entry-level jobs that typically pay up to $16 an hour...
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/13/D8K43E1G0.html
World has tapped just 18 percent of global oil supplies, Saudi executive says
September 13, 2006 VIENNA, Austria - The world has tapped only 18 percent of the total global supply of crude, a leading Saudi oil executive said Wednesday, challenging the notion that supplies are petering out.
Abdallah S. Jum’ah, president and CEO of the state-owned Saudi Arabian Oil Co., known better as Aramco, said the world has the potential of 4.5 trillion barrels in reserves - enough to power the globe at current levels of consumption for another 140 years...
“The world has only consumed about 18 percent of its conventional potential,” Jum’ah said, contending that should lay to rest fears that the world is in danger of being tapped out within a few decades.
Jum’ah challenged explorationists to find enough new oil resources to add 1 trillion barrels to world reserves over the next 25 years, saying new technology and higher recovery rates would make it possible to hit that target.
Already, he noted, drilling is now going on as deep as 10,000 feet below the Gulf of Mexico and 7,000 to 8,000 feet elsewhere. Experts say a newly discovered petroleum pool beneath the Gulf of Mexico eventually could yield anywhere from 3 billion to 15 billion barrels.
http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=157340
Rosie O'Donnell: Radical Christians pose Islamofascist threat
Rosie O'Donnell says "radical" Christians in America are just as much of a threat as the followers of radical Islam who piloted hijacked jetliners into New York 's Twin Towers and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
O'Donnell, the newest face on ABC's "The View," yesterday let her feelings fly after co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck noted militant Islam provides a threat to free people.
"Just a minute," she interrupted. "Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have separation of church and state."
A bewildered co-host, Joy Behar, protested that Christians are not threatening to impose mass murder on Americans. "There's that difference. This group is threatening to kill us," Behar said.
And Hasselback, appearing surprised, said, "We are not bombing ourselves here in the country."
O'Donnell then dropped the adjective "radical" when referring to the Christians with whom she disagrees.
"And faith is not Christianity," O'Donnell stressed, "faith in humanity, faith in equality."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51956
How Dare the President Call A Spade A Spade?
September 12, 2006; WASHINGTON -- Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold called on President Bush to refrain from using the phrase "Islamic fascists," saying it was offensive to Muslims and has nothing to do with terrorists fighting the United States .
"We must avoid using misleading and offensive terms that link Islam with those who subvert this great religion or who distort its teachings to justify terrorist activities," Feingold said Tuesday in a speech to the Arab American Institute on Capitol Hill...
...Feingold's comments drew applause from the Arab American Institute audience and praise from the group's president, James Zogby, who argued that the term "Islamic fascism" scares Americans and inflames passions...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/12/AR2006091200618.html
(excuse me Russ, it's either that or just come out and say it's a war against Islam…period.)
Clinton and Reagan and TV movies
By Brent Bozell III
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BrentBozellIII/2006/09/13/clinton_and_reagan_and_tv_movies
Iraqi Official Testifies to Links Between Saddam and Al Qaeda
New York Sun ^ September 14, 2006
WASHINGTON — A deputy prime minister of Iraq yesterday offered a sharp contradiction of the conventional wisdom here that Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Al Qaeda had no connection before the 2003 war, flatly contradicting a recent report from the Senate's intelligence committee.
In a speech in which he challenged the belief of war critics that Iraqis' lives are now worse than under Saddam Hussein, Barham Salih said, "The alliance between the Baathists and jihadists which sustains Al Qaeda in Iraq is not new, contrary to what you may have been told." He went on to say, "I know this at first hand. Some of my friends were murdered by jihadists, by Al Qaeda-affiliated operatives who had been sheltered and assisted by Saddam's regime."
A Kurdish politician who took his high school exams from inside a Baathist prison, Mr. Salih said he was the target of the alliance between jihadists, Baathists, and Al Qaeda in 2001, when a group known as Ansar al-Islam tried to assassinate him. In 2002, envoys of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the two Kurdish parties sharing sovereignty over northern Iraq between the two Iraq wars, presented the CIA with evidence that the organization that tried to kill Mr. Salih had been in part funded and directed by Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard.
Those words directly contradict a recent report from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that declassified a 2005 CIA assessment of Iraq's pre-war ties to Al Qaeda and found that none existed. In an interview after the speech yesterday, Mr. Salih said he was unaware of the CIA assessment. But he added, "There were links between Ansar al-Islam and Al Qaeda. The information at time [in 2002] was quite different...
Read more nysun.com... http://www.nysun.com/article/39631
U.S. Military: Senior Al Qaeda Member Arrested in Iraq
September 14, 2006 BAGHDAD, Iraq — A senior member of Al Qaeda in Iraq was killed during an operation in Baghdad this week carrying letters for Usama bin Laden and the new leader of the terror group's Iraqi offshoot, an Interior Ministry official said Thursday.
In a separate announcement, the top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq said U.S. forces had arrested a senior Al Qaeda terrorist and personal associate of the group's new leader, Abu Ayyoub al-Masri.
Abu Jaafar al-Liby, who was either the second or third most important figure in Al Qaeda in Iraq, was killed by police during an operation three days ago, Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Abdul-Karim Khalaf told The Associated Press...
...Al-Liby had been in charge of the Baghdad sector of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Khalaf said. He said two letters were found on his body -- one for bin Laden and the other for al-Masri, who took over Al Qaeda in Iraq from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi after he was killed in a U.S. airstrike north of Baghdad on June 7. Both letters pledged loyalty and promised more attacks...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,213759,00.html
Evidence: Saddam did have al-Qaida ties
Documents contradict Senate conclusion to the contrary
But as WND reported earlier this year, pre-war documents posted online by the Pentagon included a letter from a member of Saddam's intelligence apparatus indicating al-Qaida and the Taliban had a relationship with the regime prior to the 9/11 attacks.
A letter by the member of Saddam's Al Mukabarat to a superior, dated Sept. 15, 2001, reported a pre-9/11 conversation between an Iraqi intelligence source and a Taliban Afghani consul.
That information had been released on the orders of National Intelligence Director John Negroponte, and the letter was reviewed by an independent Middle East analyst whose conclusion was that it appeared genuine.
The letter indicated Osama bin Laden and the Taliban in Afghanistan were in contact with Iraq – noting a specific visit to Baghdad – and said the U.S. had proof Saddam's regime and al-Qaida were cooperating to hit a target in the U.S.
The documents also suggested the possibility that the U.S. could strike Iraq and Afghanistan if an attack on the U.S. proved to be tied to bin Laden and the Taliban....
...Laura Mansfield, the independent Middle East analyst, said the document provided "startling" evidence at the very least Saddam Hussein's government knew al-Qaida was active in Iraq ...
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51952
Sisters wage tax fight: Treat us like lesbians
Elderly women fear home inherited from parents will have to be sold
England- 13/09/2006
Inheritance tax concessions discriminate against some heterosexual couples, lawyers for two elderly sisters told the European Court of Human Rights yesterday.
England- 9/13/2006- Joyce Burden, 88, and her sister Sybil, 81, claim that they should enjoy the same tax advantages as a lesbian couple.
The sisters looked after their parents and two aunts at their home near Marlborough , Wilts, until their deaths.
They now care for each other. But when one of the sisters dies, the other will face a hefty bill for inheritance tax.
They fear that the home they inherited from their parents will then have to be sold. Inheritance tax is not payable on property passing on death from one spouse to another.
When the Civil Partnership Act came into force last year, that exemption was extended to same-sex couples. But siblings and descendants are not allowed to register as civil partners, and so are not eligible for the tax advantage.
"I don't have the status of a lesbian," Joyce Burden said before the hearing in Strasbourg . "This is an insult to single people who have looked after elderly parents. I don't call that justice."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/13/nsisters13.xml
Clinton aides had hand in Dubai deal
September 14, 2006
WASHINGTON -- In the spring, when Sen. Hillary Clinton was denouncing the Dubai Ports World deal, a consulting firm run by her top advisers was quietly lobbying for a Dubai takeover of two U.S. defense plants, Newsday has learned.
The Glover Park Group, whose principals include Clinton insiders Howard Wolfson, Joe Lockhart and Gigi Georges, was paid about $100,000 to help the government-owned Dubai International Capital Corp. in its acquisition of the British engineering firm Doncasters Group Ltd.
(Excerpt) Read more at http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usclin144890633sep14,0,4200190.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines
NOVAK: ARMITAGE DID NOT TELL ALL
Wed Sep 13 2006
"When Richard Armitage finally acknowledged last week he was my source three years ago in revealing Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee, the former deputy secretary of state's interviews obscured what he really did," Bob Novak claims in a column set for Thursday release.
Novak, attempting to set the reocrd straight writes: "First, Armitage did not, as he now indicates, merely pass on something he had heard and that he 'thought' might be so. Rather, he identified to me the CIA division where Mrs. Wilson worked, and said flatly that she recommended the mission to Niger by her husband, former Amb. Joseph Wilson. Second, Armitage did not slip me this information as idle chitchat, as he now suggests. He made clear he considered it especially suited for my column."
Novak slams Armitage for holding back all this time.
Armitage's silence for "two and one-half years caused intense pain for his colleagues in government and enabled partisan Democrats in Congress to falsely accuse Rove of being my primary source," Novak explains.
"When Armitage now says he was mute because of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's request, that does not explain his silent three months between his claimed first realization that he was the source and Fitzgerald's appointment on Dec. 30. Armitage's tardy self-disclosure is tainted because it is deceptive."
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