The Pentagon will offer the H1N1 vaccination to detainees at the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, officials there said Friday.
The Pentagon made the decision based on U.S. government assessments that people held in detention facilities are at high risk for the pandemic, said Maj. Diana R. Haynie, a spokeswoman for Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay, which is in charge of holding the suspected terrorists.
“Detainees at JTF Guantanamo are considered to be at higher risk and therefore they will be offered the H1N1 vaccination,” Haynie said.
I don’t know why he went to Dover. I think that clearly it is very important for a commander-in-chief whenever he can, in whatever way possible, to pay tribute to our fallen soldiers, our fallen military, folks, but I think, you know, what President Bush used to do was to do it without cameras, and I don’t understand sort of showing up with the White House press pool with photographers and asking family members if he can take pictures. I mean, that’s really hard for me to get my head around. I think it’s an honorable and important thing to pay tribute, there’s no greater sacrifice people make to the nation. It was a surprising way for the president to choose to do it. I would also point out that the best way to pay tribute to those who have sacrificed is to win the war.
---Liz “she’s so dreamy, sigh” Cheney
The lovely-looking restaurant and bar The Breslin begins lunch service tomorrow, and co-owner Ken Friedman (The Spotted Pig) is planning on serving alcohol despite objections from the Masjid Ar-Rahman mosque across the street. Earlier this month the mosque’s leaders called a meeting with Friedman at The Ace Hotel, where The Breslin is located, and asked, “Can you move the bar?” ...
I laughed. And the guy said, “Oh, you think that’s funny?” And I said, “Yeah, that is funny, that is really funny, because we’re not going to move the bar just because you discovered we’re serving booze.” Can you name one restaurant in New York that doesn’t serve booze? I said, “This is the United States of America and we’ll do whatever the fuck we want.”........
...just to show he’s not a hard-hearted man, that it’s not all dollars and cents, he agreed to put a curtain over the windows so devout Muslims wouldn’t be corrupted by the sight of infidel inebriation. But the curtain hasn’t arrived yet, so over the weekend he actually taped paper over the windows to hide a gay wedding…
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced this afternoon that he is withdrawing from the California governor’s race.
“With a young family and responsibilities at City Hall, I found it impossible to commit the time required to complete this effort,” Newsom said in a statement released by his campaign.
But he has also struggled to raise money for his campaign, despite the endorsement of former President Bill Clinton. His fundraising has badly trailed Attorney General and former governor Jerry Brown, who has not officially entered the race.
The Obama administration on Friday touted reports of 640,000 stimulus jobs, the latest economic numbers and the backing of a Republican governor to try to undercut GOP attacks on the effect of its massive $787 billion package.
Biden appeared Friday with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, one of a handful of Republicans outside Washington who publicly pushed for the White House’s stimulus package.
“This is not something that is a Democrat issue here or a Republican issue; this is a people’s issue,” Schwarzenegger said. “It’s a jobs issue. It’s all about jobs, jobs, jobs.”
Schwarzenegger also took on GOP suggestions that the stimulus reports have shown that the package hasn’t had much effect. He said the data to be posted Friday afternoon will show that California, struggling to close a $60 billion deficit, has seen more than 100,000 jobs as a direct result of the package, the most of any state.
Should Governor Schwarzenegger ever pause long enough to stop
Talking out of both sides of his mouth, then perhaps he might
Finally come to realize that he’s now a bigger joke than Gray Davis ever was.
Unfortunately for us, he keeps on blabbering.
Instead of going door-to-door, simply let the people come to you! When the trick-or-treaters knock, here’s what you do:
• Give each trick-or-treater a flier about President Obama’s Health Reform Plan and a “Health Reform NOW” sticker.
• If the parent is with child and they tell you they support the health reform, ask them to show their support by signing their name on an OFA pledge sheet and then you can even give them a Health Care ‘09 bumper sticker with the Obama logo!
• Don’t forget to give them a healthy snack too as a way to remind them about how important health reform is!
• As Halloween approaches, show you’re a supporter of health reform by carving a special Obama-themed pumpkin to set out on your porch. Click here for some ideas!Let’s make sure that this Halloween the only scary things Alaskans encounter are witches, ghosts, and goblins…and not another year of health insurance companies who promise you treats and only give you tricks.
To participate in the Health Halloween Reverse Canvass, click here. Be sure to include a good phone number and mailing address so we can send you the fliers, stickers, and bumper stickers you need!
Thanks to whoever put this up. Non destructive vandalism with a message is my favorite kind of vandalism.
It would be a real shame if this fuckmook gets plowed into by a distracted motorist…
LOL@ThinkProgress
‘Nativist Extremist’ Minuteman PAC Endorses Hoffman For Congress
and the ironing…
Former New York Gov. George Pataki endorsed Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman tonight, the clearest sign yet that even the most establishment New York Republicans now view Hoffman as having the best shot at preventing a Democrat from winning next Tuesday’s special election.
As someone personally engaged in the way of life in the Adirondacks and Northern New York, I’m deeply concerned about the course of our nation and the outcome of the election in the 23rd Congressional District.
Simply put, we cannot afford to give another vote to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid we cannot afford another vote for higher taxes…
The latest round of polling gave evidence that Hoffman is on the rise and has pulled even with, or ahead of, Owens as Scozzafava has fallen into third place. In a newly-released poll commissioned by the liberal blog Daily Kos, Hoffman is within one point of Owens, 33 percent to 32 percent, with Scozzafava lagging well behind in third place with 21 percent.
So anyways, this means something a lot and makes me happy. The lefturds not so much.
This could be the shot heard round the country…
The internet postings caught the attention of the authorities supervising the probation of this child molester, convicted of raping a 14-year-old boy.
Y’know those old PSAs that warned you that you couldn’t always tell the bad men because sometimes they looked just like your friendly next-door neighbor?
“Sometimes” isn’t “always.”
and you?
American police stopped their car after a witness reported two men ‘with painted faces’ were trying to break into a flat in Carroll, Iowa.
The caller added that the pair were wearing dark, hooded tops and had driven off in a big white car.
Police soon spotted a 1994 Buick Roadmaster matching the description…
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The ABC affiliate here is airing a two-part series that takes a close—and unobscured—look at breast self-exams. The series is airing during the fall “sweeps” period critical for a TV station’s ad revenue, prompting concern by a parental watchdog group. But WJLA insists it’s not just a naked attempt to boost the ratings.
The two segments include clinical demonstrations of self-exams, and the breasts of the two volunteers are not blurred.
OK, so it’s educational. Breast cancer awareness is important. I’m sure there’s nothing untoward here and there was absolutely no intent on the part of ABC to capitalize on certain well-known psychological phenomena, specifically with regard to boobs. And the fact that dudes will always look. Guaranteed.
So there’s that. On the other...hand:
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DALLAS (AP) - A 1970s-era Texas law that allows parents to show “harmful material” to their children has come under fire after a prosecutor said he couldn’t file charges against a man accused of forcing his 8- and 9-year-old daughters to watch hardcore online pornography.
...?!?!
Farren said police reported the incident to his office after one of the girls told a counselor in June that her father made them watch adults having group sex and various other acts at his home in Amarillo. The parents of the girls, and their 7-year-old sister, are divorced and share custody.
The girls’ mother, Crystal Buckner, wants her ex-husband to be jailed. She said she was stunned to hear from prosecutors and police that nothing can be done.
Um...in Texas? The state that originated the “he needed killin’” defense can’t do anything about some dude forcing (allegedly...) his preteen daughters to watch hardcore porn?
like a gibbous moon...
“In many ways, he’s sent from God,” [said Sting], “because the world’s a mess."[...]
“I can’t think of any be better qualified because of his background, his education, particularly in regard to Islam,”
Cuz his name is Hussein?!? mmm… mmm… mmm…
“It’s aggressive and violent and full of fear,” he said of the backlash against Obama. “They don’t want change, they want things to feel the same because they feel safe there.”
You got some cites on that “violence,” pal? Or ya just talkin’ thru yer ...erm, bass?
Sting, 58, said he’s hopeful that the world’s problems can be dealt with, but is frustrated that “we seem to be living in a currency of medieval ideas.”
“My hope is that we can start talking about real issues and not caring about whether God cares about your hemline or your color,”
erm… whaaa?!?
10/29 at 04:39 PM •
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Today is the internet’s birthday! On October 29, 1969, some UCLA dorks fired the LOL heard ‘round the world. (Note: they actually typed LOG, a simple typo which caused the computers to crash, setting a tradition upheld to this very day by the mu.nu domain.)
There was of course a party, attended by leading lights of the technological revolution, scholars and geniuses and…
“There is going to be an ongoing controversy about where we have been and where we are going,” said Arianna Huffington, co-founder of the popular news and blog website that bears her name.
“It is not just about the Internet; it is about our times. We are going to need desperately to tap into the better angels of our nature and make our lives not just about ourselves but about our communities and our world.”
Huffington was on hand to discuss the power the Internet gives to grass roots organizers on a panel with Kleinrock and Social Brain Foundation director Isaac Mao.
...yeah.
But hey, what’s a birthday party without a creepy, drunken clown?
I’m so sick of hearing about how hard the life of a celebrity is. The work schedule, the paparazzi, every aspect of your life under a microscope, stalkers…
...then again:
The other day I asked myself: ‘What can I do to bring Miley back to Twitter?’ Fan video? Petitions? Letters? That never works. Heck, Miley even made her own video about never wanting to use Twitter again. Then I looked at my cat, Fuzzy and I realized, maybe Fuzzy can help. Fuzzy can make the ultimate sacrifice for this cause. It was very difficult for me, you see, as I sincerely love Fuzzy. But my mind is made up. I could always get another cat, but nothing can replace Miley’s tweets for me!
The idea is very simple. I’ve set a deadline of November 16, 2009, when Fuzzy will part with his life and become a meal. I intend to make a cat dish according to our ethnic cuisine.
Personally I’m going with “prank” but it’ll be interesting to see which side PETA comes down on: will they hound Miley into doing her part as a celebrity toolbox and saving the kitten, or do they dare question the “ethnic” values of a foreign (and therefore superior by default) culture?
My home was shot at three times by the Right Wing. I don’t have police reports to prove it, but I said so, so it happened. Even thought I don’t know who did it to report it to the police, I know it was the Right Wing.
--- Larry the Lympian
Recently a lot of hubbub had been made about the possibility that the peaceful tea party protests and some conservative voices would stir up emotions that could lead to violence. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was even one of those sounding that alarm.
But what has gone unsaid by those same voices has been the possibility of violence against those who might take a position antithetical to that of the left.
Case in point: CNN’s Lou Dobbs. Dobbs, who has been the target of a smear campaign by the left-wing noise machine, told his radio audience on Oct. 26 that his home had been shot at three weeks earlier.
“But I want to tell you, when you talk about what they’ve done - they’ve created an atmosphere and they’ve been unrelenting in their propaganda,” Dobbs said. “Three weeks ago this morning, a shot was fired at my house where I live. My wife was standing out and that followed weeks and weeks of threatening phone calls.”
Dobbs detailed the event, the notification of law enforcement and threatening phone calls he had received after the fact.
“And, as I told the state patrol, and by the way, the New Jersey State Patrol is absolutely terrific - they responded instantly. But this shot was fired with my wife not, I don’t know, 15 feet away and we had threatening phone calls that I decided not to report because I get threatening phone calls,” Dobbs continued. “I now - it’s become a way of life - the anger, the hate, the vitriol, but it’s taken a different tone where they’ve threatened my wife. They’ve now fired a shot at my house while my wife was standing next to the car. It’s become something else.”
Parents are being banned from playing with their children in council recreation areas because they have not been vetted by police.
Mothers and fathers are being forced to watch their children from outside perimeter fences because of fears they could be paedophiles.
[...]
Children as young as five will instead be supervised by council ’play rangers‘ who have been cleared by the Criminal Records Bureau.
f’n geniuses
[In the Baucus Bill] feminine products, like tampons, were classified as “class I medical devices” and thus, the “tampon tax” was born.
...the committee quickly drafted new language that would exempt those necessities from the tax, along with all other class I devices, like tongue depressors, and decided to only tax class II medical devices and higher that cost more than $100.
...[like] powered breast pumps. ...pacemakers, ventilators, X-ray machines, powered wheelchairs and surgical needles - will also be taxed whether purchased by patients or doctors.
Making Health Care sooo much more affordable.
10/29 at 09:34 AM •
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and the Media Sharks who feed on them
just eww.
Jon Gosselin and Nadya Suleman will be going on a date.
“I heard that Nadya has an insatiable desire to spend time with Jon and to put their families together,” ["Cheaters" producer Bobby Goldstein ] said. “And I had the idea that this could be a very entertaining fiasco.”
...cameras will follow Gosselin “as he contemplates what hooking up with Octomom could really be like. He’s totally creeped out by the idea that if they got married, they’d have 22 kids.”
“It’s so bad that when they finally meet, Octomom’s brood may start calling Jon ‘Daddy.’ If this doesn’t make Jon lose it, then Octomom modeling her bikini body for him will.”
...Goldstein believes [Gosselin]’s quest for fame trumps everything else. “I think that he wants to remain in the limelight,” ... “Notoriety is a component that some humans place a lot of value on.”
He added, “It will be like watching a train wreck. You know you shouldn’t look, but you can’t turn your head away.”
yes. yes, I can.
PS If you don’t know who these ...people are, consider yourself lucky. ...and smart. ...and possessed of A Life.
10/29 at 09:24 AM •
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A man impersonating the Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Sanders managed to dupe his way into the UN headquarters in New York and shake hands with a senior official
[...]
He even posed for a photograph with Ali Treki, the new president of the UN General Assembly, before the alarm was raised and he was ejected.A spokeswoman for Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, yesterday said that an investigation had been launched into the security breach, which was dreamed up by KFC as a promotional stunt.
“It should not have happened – that I will stress, and very strongly,” Michele Montas told Canwest News Service, the Canadian news agency.
“There was some lapse in security and the individual in question was, on the initiative of one security guard, taken into the UN.”
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I can see this workin’ right up until ol’ Shamu figgers out that takin’ a bite out’a the inflatable will provide red meat as well as white.
“I say that Foer’s ethical charge against animal eating is brave because not only is it unpopular, it has also been characterized as unmanly, inconsiderate, and juvenile. But he reminds us that being a man, and a human, takes more thought than just ‘This is tasty, and that’s why I do it.’ He posits that consideration, as promoted by Michael Pollan in The Omnivore’s Dilemma, which has more to do with being polite to your tablemates than sticking to your own ideals, would be absurd if applied to any other belief (e.g., I don’t believe in rape, but if it’s what it takes to please my dinner hosts, then so be it).”
Take a look at the ensuing headlines on gossip sites across the web, and you would think that Portman’s main point was that meat-eaters are rapists. Bolstered by the fact that she signed a “Free Polanski” petition, commentators scream “Natalie Portman thinks I’m a rapist” and “Portman says eating meat is rape!!”
Let’s be serious. Portman was not saying that snarfing a slice of prosciutto is the same as the unlawful compelling of a person through physical force to have sexual intercourse. It’s a spurious claim that makes a powerful headline.
Yet, bringing this sensitive subject into the debate, drawing a parallel between rape and eating meat, is thoughtless, reinforcing the subliminal image meat-eaters have of those who abstain: they are often a little bit bonkers.
Unlike eating meat, there is no moral debate about rape, there are no sides: it is wrong. So why did the actress suggest that rape is a choice subject for ethical debate at a dinner party? I can’t help but wonder what sort of people she invites round for supper.
absolutely no connection to any shocking Detroit story, I’m sure
Speaking on the House floor last night [10/26], Rep. Keith Ellison read a statement denouncing a group of conservative lawmakers who think an Islamic group may be sending spies into Congress.
...Ellison, the first Muslim member of Congress, has had a long relationship with CAIR, which called the allegations “racist.” ...
[“Muslim" is not a “race.” Radical Muslim is not a religion but a political philosophy.]
“These charges smack of an America 60 years ago where lists of ‘un-American’ agitators were identified,” Ellison said, reading from the statement. “We should be affirming the importance of diversity and tolerance for all interns and staff who serve in Congress without suspicion of being identified as ‘spies.’ “
“The idea that we should investigate Muslim interns as spies is a blow to the very principle of religious freedom that our Founding Fathers cherished so dearly,” he added. “If anything, we should be encouraging all Americans to engage in the U.S. political process, to take part in, and to contribute to, the great democratic experiment that is America.”
They’re not being investigated “as spies.” They ought—as ought all people anywhere near gubbmint—to be investigated to learn whether or not they are spies, or otherwise connected to or loyal to any group or idea involving the overthrow of the US Constitution.
10/29 at 07:42 AM •
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