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Bam AWOL on Vets Day
Posted: 1:57 AM, November 11, 2010
WASHINGTON -- Today is Veter ans Day. Do you know where your president is?
With his feeble flame of "hope" thoroughly doused here in the United States by last week's elections, President Obama has set out around the globe in search of throngs still enthralled by his flowery rhetoric.
He found them, of course, in Indonesia this week by telling them about how Americans must stop mistrusting Islam.
So that is why your president is halfway around the world instead of being here in the United States to celebrate the sacrifices American soldiers, sailors and airmen have made around the world to keep the real, still-burning flame of freedom alive.
AFP/Getty Images
KOREA MOVE: President Obama is greeted yesterday in Seoul, where he arrived for the G20 summit.
Obama honored our veterans from afar by laying a wreath during a ceremony at an Army base in South Korea last night.
That is a distance from here matched only by the chasm that has opened up between him and the voters who elected him two years ago.
This aloofness of his really is becoming a problem.
Not that Obama doesn't appreciate the sacrifices of veterans. He absolutely does. Just ask the Indonesians.
He was in Jakarta for their Heroes Day this week to honor their veterans "who have sacrificed on behalf of this great country."
"This great country," of course, being Indonesia.
"When my stepfather was a boy, he watched his own father and older brother leave home to fight and die in the struggle for Indonesian independence," Obama told the audience.
And the White House wonders why so many people think there is something foreign about this guy.
In the same speech, Obama gave voice to a harsh criticism he has heard about freely elected governments.
"Today, we sometimes hear that democracy stands in the way of economic progress," he said.
The shocking statement raises the question: Where has Obama heard this fatuous claim and with whom has he been talking politics?
Thankfully, your president tepidly disputed this calumny against democracy, but the alarming questions remain. He went on to tell the Indonesians, "Democracy is messy."
"Not everyone likes the results of every election. You go through ups and downs," he said.
At least it sounds like Obama is starting to get the message voters sent him last week.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/bam_awol_on_vets_day_IxEoyioHbtjAsNjGmbZoIP#ixzz14zjEHd4G
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Man Lights Joint At Hospital To Celebrate Child's Birth
Tribune-Review
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Last updated: 5:30 pm
Expectant father allegedly lights joint at Uniontown hospital
Some expectant fathers pass out cigars to celebrate the arrival of a newborn child.
In Fayette County, one new dad is accused of celebrating by lighting up a marijuana cigarette -- in a hospital's designated smoking area.
Uniontown police Sgt. Jonathan Grabiak said a Uniontown Hospital nurse noticed the distinctive odor of marijuana when she took a cigarette break in the facility's designated smoking area early Tuesday morning. In a written report, Grabiak described the area as an enclosed shed on Delaware Avenue.
The nurse observed two men in the shed, but she did not see either smoking marijuana.
A hospital security officer who called police at 3:20 a.m. directed Grabiak to the two men, who at that time were walking in front of the hospital.
Grabiak said both men had glassy eyes. One of the men admitted to smoking marijuana in the shed while awaiting the birth of his child.
"I'm having a baby and wanted to get a buzz," the man told Grabiak.
The man reached into one of his shoes and pulled out a plastic bag containing suspected marijuana.
Grabiak told the man he will be charged with possession of marijuana, but no charges had been filed as of yesterday. The man was released to a family member and told to leave the hospital.
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Kindergarten Teacher Arrested For Dealing Drugs
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Amazon sells How-To guide for pedophiles
Amazon sells How-To guide for pedophiles, won't pull book despite instant customer backlash
Jaime UribarriDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Kamm/GettyAmazon.com says it has no plans to stop selling the offensive book, despite the backlash.
Amazon.com has something for every type of customer - even pedophiles.
The online retail giant is facing a huge public backlash for selling the digital book "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover's Code of Conduct" on its Kindle electronic reader.
Retailing at $4.79, the disgusting, how-to book written by a degenerate named Phillip R. Greaves promotes itself as a guide that appeals "to the better nature of pedosexuals, with hope that their doing so will result in less hatred and perhaps liter [sic] sentences should they ever be caught."
Public reaction has been swift and angry, with hundreds of infuriated customers flooding the book's review section and calling for a boycott of Amazon.
"I will never buy another item from Amazon. You have crossed a line that is unconscionable. Goodbye, Amazon.com," wrote one customer using the screen name 'Child Protector.'
Despite the increasing negative reaction, Amazon claims it has no immediate plans to remove the book from its online inventory.
"Amazon does not support or promote hatred or criminal acts, however, we do support the right of every individual to make their own purchasing decisions," the Seattle-based company said in a statement released to TechCrunch and other blogs.
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Could George Bush now be arrested for waterboarding?
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Student sues over pink cleats after cut by coach
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Chris Joyner, USA TODAY JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi high school student has sued his school district, claiming his football coach dismissed him from the team for wearing pink cleats during October's Breast Cancer Awareness Month.According to the suit, filed last week in Simpson County Chancery Court, Mendenhall High School football coach Chris Peterson dressed down Coy Sheppard, a 17-year-old senior kicker, during an Oct. 8 football game for wearing the cleats.When Sheppard arrived at practice the next week wearing the shoes, Peterson cut him from the squad, says Oliver Diaz, a former state Supreme Court justice representing Coy.Because students in the Simpson County School District earn academic credit for sports, Diaz said, Coy's "graduation may be in jeopardy."District Deputy Superintendent Tom Duncan said the problem isn't the color of Coy's shoes but that the student ignored the orders of his coaches to take off the shoes."It had absolutely nothing to do with lack of support for breast cancer awareness," he said. Duncan also said the coach told Coy he would be allowed to make up his lost PE credit and graduate on time.The shoes were a present from Coy's 82-year-old great-grandmother, and he wore them in honor of his grandmother and step-grandmother, both cancer survivors, said his mother, JoAnne Sheppard. She said her son, who also plays soccer and works part time, has never been in trouble before.Busy with soccer practice and his after-school job, Coy was not available for comment, his mother said. The coach, she said, "belittled" her son. "That's hard from someone you look up to," she said.Diaz said Coy has apologized and promised to leave the pink shoes at home, but school officials have not budged. School board President Larry rell said he hopes the dispute can be worked out."I wish it could have been handled differently, where there could have been some compromise," he said. "I think all the kid wants is to play football and finish out the year."Coy's lawsuit asks the court to reinstate him to the football team, clear his record and for any monetary damages to go to the American Cancer Society.The school district has 30 days from the Nov. 4 filing to respond. |
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Too Much Texting Is Linked to Other Problems
November 9, 2010
Behavior: Too Much Texting Is Linked to Other Problems
RONI CARYN RABIN
NY Times
A new study suggests that the high school students who spend the most time texting or on social network sites (or both) are at risk for a host of worrisome behaviors, including smoking, depression, eating disorders, drug and alcohol abuse, and absenteeism.
The study by researchers at Case Western Reserve University, presented Tuesday at a meeting of the American Public Health Association in Denver, is based on data from questions posed last year to more than 4,000 students at 20 urban high schools in Ohio. About one-fifth sent at least 120 text messages a day, one-tenth were on social networks for three hours or more, and 4 percent did both.
That 4 percent were at twice the risk of nonusers for fighting, smoking, binge drinking, becoming cyber victims, thinking about suicide, missing school and dozing off in class.
The researchers emphasized that texting and social networking did not necessarily cause the other problems. But the lead author, Dr. Scott Frank, a family physician who is director of the public-health master’s program at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, said:
“It does make sense that these technologies make it easier for kids to fall into a trap of working too hard to fit in. If they’re working that hard to fit in through their social networks, they’re also trying to fit in through other behaviors they perceive as popular, like smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol, having sex and getting involved in higher-risk adolescent behaviors.”
Girls, members of minorities, and teenagers from low-income backgrounds or female-headed households were at greater risk, but the pattern persisted even after researchers controlled for those factors. (One in five teenagers reported no texting and no online social networking at all.)
Dr. Frank noted that the most avid texters and social networkers also rated their parents as more permissive. “This is a red flag for parents — a red flag for their parenting,” he said, “because they need to be monitoring and taking charge of the choices their kids are making. We want parents to set more restrictive rules for their kids regarding texting and networking, just as they would set rules about whether their child can go out on a school night and socialize for three hours.”
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Dems and GOP divided on how to move forward
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What Obama can learn from India
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Raw Video: Gibbs nearly pulls Obama from meeting
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Wade Phillips fired as head coach of Dallas Cowboys
Originally Published:Monday, November 8th 2010, 3:52 PM
Updated: Monday, November 8th 2010, 4:05 PM
Jerry Jones kept saying Wade Phillips would not be fired during the season, but even Jones could not take it anymore.
He fired Phillips on Monday, a day after the Cowboys disgraced themselves in a 45-7 loss to the Packers. Dallas is now 1-7 and it won't get any easier this Sunday when they play the red-hot Giants in the New Meadowlands Stadium. Two weeks ago, the Giants KOd Cowboys QB Tony Romo for the season with a broken clavicle in a 41-35 loss.
Phillips will be replaced on an interim basis by offensive coordinator Jason Garrett, who in 2008 turned down the Ravens and Falcons head coaching jobs to remain in Dallas. Garrett was always considered the natural successor to Phillips, but not under these circumstances.
Garrett, who once was the backup quarterback to Troy Aikman in Dallas, also was Kerry Collins' backup on the Giants team that went to the Super Bowl following the 2000 season.
The Cowboys start is their worst since Jones' first year owning the club in 1989 when Dallas finished 1-15. But Jones and Jimmy Johnson had inherited the worst team in the league from Tom Landry. This year, the Cowboys were a popular preseason pick to make it to the Super Bowl, which will be played in Jones' year-old $1.2 billion Cowboys Stadium in Arlington on Feb. 6. But the Cowboys opened the season with losses to the Redskins and Bears and never recovered.
Last year, the Cowboys finished strong in the regular season and then defeated the Eagles in the wild-card round, their first playoff victory since 1996. But they lost 34-3 in the divisional round to the Vikings.
Phillips, 63, took over for Bill Parcells in 2007 and finishes with a 34-22 record in the regular season and a 1-2 playoff record. Phillips' contract runs through the 2011 season. This is the first time Jones has fired a coach in the middle of the season.
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Teenager raking in cash with parent-friendly parties
10:48 AM, November 8, 2010
This kid has something to fist-pump about.
High-school sophomore Ricky Smith has been collecting up to $15,000 an event in cover charges for hosting drug- and alcohol-free teen dance parties throughout the city.
Called "Lost Generation," the series of parent-friendly parties attracts up to 500 teens from elite Manhattan public and private schools to lofts and clubs for a night of nonstop, juvenile booty-shaking.
"My goal was to monopolize the teen party business in New York City," said Smith, who organized five megaparties this year.
Each party -- advertised on Facebook and by individual promoters he recruited in dozens of schools -- is staffed with professional bouncers who have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to booze, dope or fisticuffs.
"It's like walking into a club -- usually a lot of house music and popular music you'd hear on the radio," he said. "Lots of dancing and, yes, fist-pumping."
Music is provided by aspiring teen deejays.
Some older teens scoff at the whole concept, but for Smith, a sophomore at the Professional Performing Arts School, it just means better business to focus on 14- to 15-year-olds.
They like it, he said, because older teens aren't around to intimidate them and parents, especially girls' parents, feel it's a safer environment.
Still, his budding business, which is overseen by Smith's father, Donald, has had hiccups.
His planned Oct. 30 party in a Garment District loft was canceled at the last minute when he couldn't come up with the necessary $3,000 deposit and had trouble getting the proper permits.
Smith used his Facebook page to blame the adult who brokers space for events.
What happened next was a lesson for the 40-year-
old broker, who was barraged by hateful and threatening e-mails.
He finally had to threaten to call the cops before the lower Manhattan teen told his followers to back off.
"I have a lot of admiration for him, and he has a lot of promise," the broker said. "Ricky is a smart kid but, nevertheless, a kid still."
Ricky said he doesn't see a career in the club or party promotion business.
"I want to work in math or science, my strong subjects," he said.
LINK TO PHOTO : http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/biz_kid_ny_party_smarty_DqlMEl96qtlbwbDZhSP5zI#ixzz14jKi1zgL
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Obama blames economy for losses he gets discouraged but is resilient
Obama blames economy for losses, says he gets 'discouraged' but is resilient
Hannah Brenton
The Hill
11/07/10 07:00 PM ET
President Obama blamed a sluggish economy for heavy Democratic electoral losses on Sunday's “60 Minutes.”
“I think first and foremost, [the election] was a referendum on the economy. And the party in power was held responsible for an economy that is still underperforming and where a lot of folks are still hurting,” said the president.
Asked whether he accepted Republicans’ claim that the election sends a clear message that Americans’ want smaller government, Obama said, “I think that first and foremost, they want jobs and economic growth in this country.”
Giving his first in-depth interview since a disastrous election day for Democrats, a downbeat Obama focused on his role in the electoral defeats.
The president accepted he should be held accountable for the state of the economy. “So, what you had was the economy continuing to get worse in the first several months of my administration, before any of our economic policies had a chance to be put into place," he said. "Appropriately, I’m held accountable for that.”
He also admitted to being discouraged by the lack of economic growth, saying, “I do get discouraged, I mean, there are times where I thought the economy would have gotten better by now.”
Obama said his administration’s economic policies had avoided another Great Depression, but slow economic growth could remain a long-term problem: “What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high… And, as a consequence, we keep on seeing growth that is just too slow to bring back the eight million jobs that were lost.”
Nevertheless, he remained optimistic about the future: “I am constantly reminded that we have been through worse times than these, and we've always come out on top. And I'm positive that the same thing is going to happen this time.”
Two years after sweeping to victory on the promise of bringing “change” to Washington, Obama acknowledged that he has not always succeeded in promoting bipartisan dialogue.
“Part of my promise to the American people when I was elected was to maintain the kind of tone that says we can disagree without being disagreeable. And I think over the course of two years, there have been times where I’ve slipped on that commitment.”
He reinforced his stated desire to work with Republicans in the next Congress, hoping to find compromises on the extension of the Bush tax cuts and infrastructure projects. “What I’m going to do is I’m going to reach out to Republicans and I’m going to say, ‘There -- what can we work on together?’”
Yet the president said he had been disappointed by a lack of Republican support in the past, particularly in reference to the healthcare bill: “We thought that if we shaped a bill that wasn’t that different from bills that had previously been introduced by Republicans -- including a Republican governor in Massachusetts who’s now running for president. That we would be able to find some common ground there. And we just couldn’t.”
He said the healthcare bill had been “costly politically” because it distracted from the administration’s economic policies.
Despite the heavy setbacks on Tuesday, the president said he had resilience to make it through.
“You know, I'll get knocked down a couple of times," he said. "But whatever I'm going through, it's nothing like what families around the country are going through.”
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Fugitive post location on Facebook
Calif. fugitive tracked down in Cut Bank after Facebook posts
SANJAY TALWANI
Independent Record
Thursday, November 4, 2010 12:18 am
A man who absconded from parole in California 12 years ago after shooting a man has been arrested in Cut Bank, where authorities say he’s been working harvests for a decade.
Sgt. Tom Siefert of the Glacier County Sheriff’s Office said a fugitive task force in California learned Robert Lewis Crose, 47, was working in the Cut Bank area from updates to Crose’s Facebook page.
He was on parole following prison for a 1996 incident in Ventura, Calif., in which Crose, then the owner of an appliance store, used a shotgun to fend off an intruder armed with a rubber hose, according to reports from the Los Angeles Times.
He was convicted of making a terrorist threat and another gun violation, served less than a year in prison before being released on parole, had his parole revoked, and was paroled again in October 1998.
California authorities sent pictures of Crose to Montana, which police and deputies handed out around town Friday. Saturday around 11:30 a.m., they got a call saying Crose was in a local casino, where he was arrested without incident.
“I talked to him, he said he’d worked cutting up here, harvesting, for the last 10 years,” Siefert said.
Several of his recent Facebook postings give a glimpse of his recent life. A couple of times, he mentioned snow. Oct. 24, he wrote, “Cutting barley in the rocks on the border sucks be so glad to be done.”
And Oct. 26, he wrote that he won $600 playing keno.
The morning of Oct. 28, he wrote that a water line had frozen in the sub-20 degree weather. When a friend asked where he was, he responded, “Cut Bank.”
“I said, listen, man, you’ve got to stay off Facebook,” Siefert said. “He kind of hung his head and laughed.”
It’s not the first time criminals have given themselves away online in Glacier County. A few years ago, Siefert said, a local youth posted videos of himself smoking marijuana on YouTube, leading to a search warrant and arrest.
Crose is in Glacier County Jail as California initiates the extradition process, Siefert said.
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