You can decide for yourself how you want to get home; I am going to take the car.
"US estimates millions drive drunk" by Associated Press | August 26, 2010
WASHINGTON — An estimated 17 million people have driven while drunk at least once on US streets and highways in the course of a year, according to a government study released yesterday....
To warn motorists about the dangers of drunken driving, the government is spending about $13 million for an advertising campaign to publicize increased enforcement through Labor Day weekend....
Is that really the best use of tax dollars for something that is self-evident and that the MSM promotes?
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And my chances.
I tuned in the radio and here is what I found on the way home:
Court halts president’s stem cell expansion
Stem cell labs, dashed by ruling, may look again to private donors
That must have been the station with Thom Hartmann on it because that was his big issue of the day.
The Globe's top story:
"Kennedy’s grave is on a well-manicured knoll above thousands of white grave markers, with a view in the distance of the monuments of Washington.
On a knoll, 'eh?
The grave is near those of his brothers — the late president’s marked by an eternal flame.
The last real American president.
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Related: Family, friends mark anniversary of Kennedy’s death
Kennedy savvy missed in cancer fight
As for the man who replaced him:
"On stump, Brown backs moderates" by Matt Viser, Globe Staff | August 26, 2010
WASHINGTON — Today, Senator Scott Brown is traveling to Illinois for a fund-raiser with US Representative Mark Kirk, a five-term congressman and Naval commander who is the Republican nominee for the Senate seat formerly held by President Obama. Kirk had been criticized as a “liberal’’ by a group called Tea Party Nation. But Tea Party movement activists were unsuccessful in their effort to defeat Kirk in the primary. Kirk’s race against the Democratic opponent, state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, is considered a tossup.
Related: You Are No Captain Kirk!
And the other guy is no Mr. Spock, either.
Tomorrow, Brown will travel to Ohio for fund-raisers for two congressional candidates who are in competitive races.
Next week, Brown will be in Washington state for a fund-raiser for Dino Rossi, a former state senator who is the Republican nominee for US Senate. He is challenging Patty Murray, a three-term Democratic incumbent.
Related: Washington Women Weary of Murray
Brown will also travel to California for separate fund-raisers for Carly Fiorina, a former chief executive of
Also see: Ladies Night in California
“It’s exciting for us,’’ said Steve Stivers, who will host Brown at a fund-raiser tomorrow in Columbus, Ohio. “He’s kind of one of the rock stars in the Republican Party. He’s a phenomenon.’’
Just what we need in AmeriKa: more celebrities!
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Btw, how did Brownie get that job?
See: Mass. Hypocrisy in Full Flower
Ted must be rollin' over in that knoll.
"Shaping Tea Party passion into a campaign force
NEW YORK — Joe Miller, a former Fairbanks judge and a Tea Party movement favorite whose candidacy had been all but written off a few weeks ago, holds a narrow lead over Senator Lisa Murkowski of about 1,500 votes. At least 7,600 absentee ballots remain to be counted as well as an uncertain number of questioned or provisional ballots. The final result may not be known until early September....
Related: Insurgents vs. Incumbents
Looks like the Globe was wrong again!
Inside the Beltway, a loss by Murkowski, a member of the Republican leadership, would be a staggering blow to the party’s Washington establishment, which has already seen candidates backed by the National Republican Senatorial Committee tumble in Utah, Kentucky, Colorado, and Florida.
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Also see: Ex-RNC leader Mehlman discloses he’s gay
"Key device in spill was not recertified; Confusion over repairs delayed plugging of leak" by Ramit Plushnick-Masti, Associated Press | August 26, 2010
HOUSTON — A critical device at the center of an investigation into the gulf oil rig explosion didn’t undergo a rigorous recertification process in 2005 as required by federal regulators, a worker responsible for maintaining the equipment told investigators yesterday.
Mark Hay of
Then why did it fail?
Recertifying the five-story device requires completely disassembling it out of the water and can take as long as three months to complete.
Translation: BP cut corner$.
The device — which may be lifted from the seafloor a mile below the water’s surface in the coming days — failed following the rig explosion. After the blowout, some 206 million gallons of oil spewed into the gulf until mid-July, when a temporary cap stopped the flow. A permanent fix is expected to be put in place after Labor Day.
But agenda-pushing MSM has left you with the impression it's all over!
The blowout preventer will be key to the investigation into the April 20 explosion that killed 11 people and caused the biggest oil spill in US history....
Right.
The fact that it is a SCENE of MURDER often gets forgotten.
Related: Globe Endorses Government on Evaporated Oil From Gulf Gusher
Yeah, I have been tuning out the MSM lies lately.
Elsewhere around the nation:
"Sheriff’s deputies had been called to the property nearly two dozen times in recent years, including once earlier in the day Sunday, before Charles P. Steadman Sponaugle, 52, opened fire on his family members, Louisa sheriff’s Major Donnie Lowe said.
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"Manhunt on for fugitive Colo. inmate" by Associated Press | August 24, 2010
STERLING, Colo. — Authorities searched yesterday for an inmate convicted of attempted murder and other crimes who escaped from a maximum security prison in northeast Colorado.
Douglas J. Alward, 48, was serving a 20-to-40-year sentence for attempted murder, assault, burglary, and kidnapping.
He would have been eligible for parole in October, Katherine Sanguinetti, a spokeswoman for the state corrections department. said. He had been “following the rules’’ and worked his way to a classification considered just below the minimum risk, she said.
Sanguinetti declined to disclose how the escape occurred but stressed that Alward faced rigid security....
It could not have been that rigid!
Related: Two Arizona escapees, companion are charged with murdering Okla. couple
‘Grim Sleeper’ suspect pleads not guilty
Also see: Slow Saturday Special: Bonnie and Clyde Compass Broken
California Killers
"Navy votes to discharge ex-astronaut" by Associated Press | August 21, 2010
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Navy should discharge Lisa Nowak, a former astronaut who lost her NASA job over a bizarre airport attack on a romantic rival, according to a Navy panel that reviewed her case.
The panel of three admirals made the recommendation Thursday after a daylong hearing at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville.
The recommendation now goes to the Naval Personnel Command. A final decision will be made by the secretary of the Navy. In the meantime, Nowak will continue working on the staff of the chief of Naval Air Training in Corpus Christi, Texas.
She flew on the space shuttle in 2006, but was dismissed from the astronaut corps after her arrest in 2007. There was no listed number for Nowak in Corpus Christi and Nowak’s commanding officer in Texas didn’t immediately return a call yesterday.
The panel recommended downgrading Nowak from captain to commander and giving her a discharge of “other than honorable.’’
If the recommendation is accepted, the change in Nowak’s rank means she will receive a pension at the rank of commander rather than captain.
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Related: New US satellite will monitor space debris
(Blog editor yawns)"While providing more evidence that a virus may play a role in the mysterious condition, the researchers said the findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, are nowhere near proving that the virus causes the syndrome. But....
I'm tired of that station.
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"People with diabetes already have a higher risk of cancer, the researchers said, and the tumor development seen in this study may not be caused by insulin, according to Bendix Carstensen, senior statistician at the Steno Diabetes Center in Gentofte, Denmark. It may be the result of contributing causes common to cancer, diabetes, and insulin use, such as obesity, he wrote in the abstract.
Not exactly what you want to hear with your medical diagnosis.
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"Scientists detail new solar system; Discovery called richest grouping yet revealed" by Raphael G. Satter and Frank Jordans, Associated Press | August 25, 2010
GENEVA — Christophe Lovis, of Geneva University, and his team haven’t been able to observe the planets directly, which is typical. Few planets can be seen against the blazing light given off by their much more massive parent stars....
Alan Boss, of the Washington-based Carnegie Institution for Science, who was not involved with the find: “Mother Nature really had fun making planets.’’
That type of talk is going to upset some people.
Boss noted that the method was “biased toward finding the big guys’’ because the greater the planet, the greater its gravity and the more it made its parent star wobble....
The find was made by researchers from Switzerland, France, Germany, and Portugal and has been submitted to the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
An artist’s impression depicts a planetary system around a sun-like star, HD 10180, which is 100 light-years away. (L. Calcada/ ESO via Associated Press)
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Being a science fiction fan I do find it fascinating -- and a lot better use of money than wars!
"Prime Minister David Cameron’s wife gave birth to a girl yesterday while the couple were away from London on their summer vacation.
Congratulations!
We celebrate life around here.
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(Changing the station again)
Local News:
"The US Army says a woman accused of killing two fellow soldiers — including a native of New Hampshire — and kidnapping their baby pleaded guilty yesterday to murder and kidnapping charges to avoid a possible death penalty. Officials say Davila poured muriatic acid over the bodies in a bathtub and took the couple’s baby girl unharmed.
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"State officials have confirmed that a great white shark attacked a seal off the coast of Race Point in Provincetown Friday evening....
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"WATER, THEN TRAFFIC DISRUPTED -- About 50 customers lost service when a water main broke yesterday in Brighton, and crews closed a section of Washington Street to make repairs. The break was reported at 5 a.m. and repairs were finished by 1:30 p.m. A Boston Water and Sewer Commission spokesman said the cause of the rupture may have been age. The pipe was installed in the early 1900s, he said, though it was relined with concrete in 1972 (Boston Globe August 26 2010)."
Yeah, your infrastructure is falling apart as taxes are raised -- and for what?
Also see: 3-foot alligator caught in Brockton
Fire officials cite fireworks as cause of nine-alarm blaze
Police quickly snag suspects, weapon in drive-by shooting
Councilor wants steel plates on disused houses
Cape vacationers get soaked as dreary weather lingers
Rain throws a wet blanket on hopes at Marshfield Fair
Sports:
No Sox game tonight, but....
Jordan Remy, the son of former
The bar again!
The victim yelled, “What are you doing?’’ and Remy replied, “You know you want it,’’ according to the report. The victim said she grabbed Remy’s cellphone, threw it, and walked away. Remy again approached the woman, who called police.
Police say Remy, who lives with his younger sister on Ross Place in South Boston, appeared intoxicated and agitated and said, “What do you want? . . . Why are you bothering me? I’m just walking home.’’ Remy also told police that his cellphone was not working, that some woman had thrown it....
Some woman?
Prosecutors said Remy had been arrested about 11 years ago, on a charge of being a minor in possession of alcohol, but the case was dismissed in Waltham District Court.
Ah, yes, a CHILD of PRIVILEGE!
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Also see: Friday Night Football Killed Teen Girl
Yeah, I thought teen drinking was serious.
Business:
"Kirsten Dixson is a personal branding strategist and online reputation manager in Exeter, N.H. She charges between $2,000 and $10,000 for her services, noting, “Your online reputation has a lot to do with your personal brand.’’
I know I have my own style-stamp!
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A precipitous drop in home sales in July following the expiration of the federal home buyers tax credit has economists and housing specialists worried the real estate market has stalled and will further undermine the economic recovery.
What recovery?
Although housing specialists had anticipated a drop-off in July after the expiration of the $8,000 first-time buyers credit, the decline was much worse than many had expected: 26 percent fewer home sales in Massachusetts than a year earlier, in July 2009, according to data released yesterday, bringing the number of sales to a 20-year low for that month.
A similar drop was recorded across the country....
We have been hearing and reading the same thing for months.
The results shook Wall Street....
The only entity that matters.
Karl “Chip’’ Case, a retired Wellesley College economics professor and longtime observer of housing markets, said the July sales figures were both surprising and disappointing. But he stressed it is still too early to say if the economy is in danger of slipping back into recession.
“I pray it’s not a double-dip,’’ he said....
The July figures had many housing specialists and economists struggling to understand where the economy is going....
Now you know why I never read (or listen) to the business press.
Having to pay attention to traffic right now so I can not switch the station.
Nigel Gault, chief US economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, said, “Clearly the housing stimulus was a waste of time.’’
That's why we call it stimuloot!
The disappointing sales tally comes just two weeks after officials at the Federal Reserve acknowledged that major sectors of the US economy, including housing, remain weak or are backsliding....
Moreover, there are several indicators that suggest the market is in for more than simply a period of adjustment. The inventory of available homes for sale is on the high side, indicating there are more sellers than buyers....
A study by Altos Research LLC, a real estate data tracking firm, found that nationwide housing inventory is rising rapidly and calculated that Boston’s housing inventory has grown 3.76 percent since May.
That jibes with the RECORD FORECLOSURES we are seeing!
Related: Boston Globe Takes Care of Business
Scott Sambucci, vice president for data analysis, said Boston appeared to be leading the country out of the housing crisis a year ago, but that was probably due to the effects of the tax credit and low inventories.
Now the region appears to have “hit a glass ceiling and is struggling.’’ He said sales generated by the tax credit masked the housing market’s true condition of being stuck in a slowdown.
That's what TV and all the other AmeriKan MSM is: an agenda-pushing mask over the truth.
“It’s easy to do a stop-gap measure like [the tax incentive] and say things are getting better,’’ Sambucci said. “But we never fully came out of the first dip.’’
Like I have been saying, the GRAND DEPRESSION -- and here the "change" guy is LYING about it!
Another factor is that mortgage rates that continued to plumb new lows still weren’t enough to nudge buyers into action....
Because WITHOUT JOBS and MONEY no one can BUY a HOME, duh!
The housing market may also still be suffering from self-inflicted wounds that will further delay its recovery.
Yeah, WHATEVER IT IS it isn't the government or Fed's policies!
They DID IT TO THEMSELVES!
Nancy Quinn, chief executive of Prudential Prime Properties, which has 19 offices in Massachusetts, Maine, and Rhode Island, “I think the problems are going to be stretched out for years to come.’’
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Timothy M. Warren Jr., chief executive of Warren Group, said, “Consumer confidence plays a role in this. People were feeling fairly optimistic in the early part of spring, and that has turned a bit gloomier as the hoped for job creation numbers just haven’t as been robust as expected.’’
Saul Cohen, president of Hammond Residential Real Estate, which has 14 offices in Greater Boston, said....
Who cares what Saul said?
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Related: Things Are Tough All Over in Massachusetts
Well, not everywhere (and I'm not headed anywhere near these towns):
"Home sales rise in some communities; Observers at a loss to explain why downward trend doesn’t hold" by Megan Woolhouse, Globe Staff | August 26, 2010
Housing sales plunged to a 20-year low in July in Massachusetts, but tell that to buyers in Cohasset.
Related: Teacher resigns over Facebook posting
Real estate agent Tom Hamilton sold a $2 million beachfront cottage in July. And last week two Boston couples signed contracts on homes in the town, for an additional $2 million in sales. No wonder this week’s report that home sales in Massachusetts for July plunged 26 percent didn’t ring true for Hamilton.
The WEALTHY live in a WHOLE OTHER WORLD!
No depression for them!
“When I saw the sales numbers, I said, ‘That is completely inconsistent with the July we had,’ ’’ Hamilton said. “Business is good. Business is very good.’’
Cohasset is among a handful of Greater Boston communities that bucked a state and national trend and reported increased home sales during the month of July, compared with the same period last year, according to Warren Group, which tracks real estate data.
And yet this was the BUSINESS HEADLINE of the DAY!
Single-family home sales in Cohasset were up 130 percent in July, and in Norwood, up 117 percent. Bedford, Hingham, and Winchester were among a few other towns that notched notable upward sales figures.
But in most communities in Massachusetts and across the United States, housing sales have either come to a standstill or dropped dramatically....
In other words, for THOSE NOT RICH!
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And that great recovery you heard so much about?
"Durable goods orders rise just slightly" by Bloomberg News | August 26, 2010
WASHINGTON — The reports indicate capital spending, one of the few bright spots in a weakening economic recovery, is slowing, while a lack of jobs is crippling housing. Mounting signs of a slowdown are increasing pressure on the Federal Reserve to find more ways to spur growth.
“The risks of a double-dip recession are steep enough to provide cause for worry,’’ said John Lonski, chief economist at Moody’s Capital Markets Group, who said the odds of another economic slump are about one in three, or about twice as high as earlier this year. “It calls for more remedial action by the Federal Reserve,’’ he said.
We call it a DEPRESSION around here, and the Fed can't do a damn thing about it.
Hell, they are the ones who CREATED the problem!
“The capital spending implications still look atrocious,’’ Michael Feroli, chief US economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York, said in a note to clients. “The downshift in the pace of capital spending is particularly worrying as this was the strongest, most reliable sector of the economy over the past year.’’
Corporate spending on equipment and software jumped at a 22 percent annual rate in the second quarter, the biggest increase since 1997, the Commerce Department said on July 30.
Gee, corporate spending on EQUIPMENT and such jumped even as PEOPLE were let go, huh?
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Related: HealthAlliance will cut about 50 jobs
Finally, I have arrived at home and can shut off the agenda-pushing BG radio.
So what is for dinner tonight?
"Troubled farms still selling their eggs; Pasteurization said to kill germs" by David Mercer, Associated Press | August 26, 2010
Related: Boston Globe Omelet
Looks like I will be going hungry tonight.
The eggs still being laid by potentially infected chickens will be pasteurized to kill any bacteria. Then they can be sold as liquid eggs or put in other products such as mayonnaise or ice cream.
What?
It’s a common if little-known practice in the food industry — salvaging and selling products that may have been tainted with disease.
I just lost my appetite.
Spokeswomen for the farms said their hens are still laying millions of eggs every day. Those eggs are being sent to facilities where their shells are broken and the contents pasteurized — a process that involves applying high heat without cooking the eggs.
Hillandale Farms spokeswoman Julie DeYoung said the operation has 2 million birds that lay an egg about every 26 hours.
“It’s close to 2 million eggs a day,’’ she said.
Chassy said there’s no reason the eggs — even from infected hens — cannot be safely sold if they are pasteurized or cooked.
And no reason can make me buy them.
Doing so raises the temperature of the eggs high enough to eliminate most if not all salmonella.
So says the same MSM and government that is lying about the catastrophe in the Gulf.
Face it, America, your FOOD SUPPLY is UNSAFE and the GOVERNMENT has FAILED you!
Both companies said they are waiting to hear from the Food and Drug Administration before deciding what, if anything, to do with their hens.
That isn't going to make me regain my appetite.
The FDA cannot order the farms to kill hens that may be infected with salmonella, but the farms could decide to do that on their own. Neither would discuss that possibility....
Uh-oh!
Hillandale’s DeYoung would not say whether the hens could wind up being used for meat — common practice for older, egg-laying hens that are less productive.
Better off NOT EATING ANIMAL FLESH at all, America!
A similar process has been used to salvage other raw products tainted with bacteria. Ground beef found to contain E. coli bacteria, for instance, is sometimes diverted for use in precooked products such as frozen meatballs, said Don Schaffner, a professor and microbiologist at Rutgers University.
So you are LITERALLY EATING SHIT!
Because the farms involved in the recall have so many hens, Schaffner said, “it would be a catastrophic waste if these hens were not going to be used in some way in the food supply.’’
Yeah, even if it sickens and KILLS YOU!
Doug Gurian-Sherman, a senior scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, agreed that it’s fine for meat and eggs tainted with salmonella to be eaten once they are properly cooked....
So much for believing the scientists that make the MSM paper!
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I should have brought home some take out.
One clan that won't have to worry about their food supply:
"First family finds refuge from rain — dining out
OAK BLUFFS — President Obama and Michelle Obama did yesterday what thousands of vacationers do when the waves whip the beaches and the showers sweep across the golf courses and tennis courts: They ate out.
The couple went for lunch at Nancy’s, a popular harborfront restaurant in Oak Bluffs, and chatted with other vacationers.
“Good to see you guys, you doing all right?’’ the smiling president asked a crowd that cheered their arrival.
Michelle Obama commiserated with the onlookers over the lousy weather....
Related: AmeriKa's Marie Antoinette
After ordering at the counter, the president joked with
After lunch, the weather improved and Obama headed out to play golf....
More than halfway through their 10-day Vineyard vacation, the first family has been riding out three days of rainstorms by reading books and playing board games at the 28-acre estate they are renting in Chilmark.
Does the MSM think we give a s***?
The president and his wife also went out to dinner Tuesday night....
They stayed for more than two hours. As the couple left the restaurant, the president told reporters waiting in a light drizzle....
Oh, the REPORTERS had to WAIT OUTSIDE in the RAIN, huh?
Well, in the car, anyway.
Hey, what is one more distortion in a paper full of them, anyway?
His aides say he has also done a considerable amount of work. Yesterday, he held a conference call on the state of the economy with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Council of Economic Advisors chairwoman Christine Romer, and National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers.
Related: Christina Romer, Top Obama Economic Adviser, To QUIT White House JOB
Some rats get out before the ship sinks.
Aides announced that Obama will travel to Fort Bliss, Texas, to meet with US troops on Tuesday and will deliver a speech on Iraq from the Oval Office at 8 p.m.
Message: We won -- and vote Democrap in November.
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So what do I have to watch as I plop down in front of the tube with my cup of coffee?
Video game helps youth develop anger control skills
No, no, no, turn the video game off!
You have been on it all day.
Why don't you go read a book?
Some Americans have nowhere to go:
ASHLAND, Ore. — A homeless man was arrested yesterday and faces charges of starting a wind-whipped wildfire Tuesday that destroyed 11 homes outside an Oregon college town.
John Thiry, 40, was arrested under a freeway overpass....
In southern Idaho, firefighters hoped calmer, cooler weather would help them gain ground on a wildfire that scorched more than 510 square miles.
The lightning-sparked fire was fueled by strong winds Sunday and Monday, blackening more than 327,000 acres and becoming the nation’s largest actively battled wildfire since it started Saturday. So far, crews have contained 10 percent of the fire burning across a desolate, flat landscape of sagebrush and cheatgrass.
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You know how news is around here. readers; they always end with the weather.
