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While in Asia Hawaii last week, First Lady Michelle Obama sat down for a roundtable discussion with Ma’o Organic Farms. Mrs. Obama has made tackling childhood obesity her issue of choice, and has worked hard to ensure that McDonald’s only puts 14 French fries into each Happy Meal. During the course of the visit, Mrs. Obama revealed that steak and arugula is her favorite meal, and that we should be feeding it to our kids in order to adjust their palates. She said, "People don't have that connection. If they get their palates adjusted to those very interesting flavors, they...

Much has been made of the booing during a question from a homosexual soldier at the Republican debate. Mitt Romney in an interview with the Union Leader of Manchester, N.H., Monday, broadcast on C-SPAN: "I don’t recall with this soldier whether people were booing his question or just booing him.” The paper goes on to say (as if it was fact): Informed that the soldier was booed when he identified himself as gay, Romney said he wasn’t sure. You be the judge of when the booing took place: At :16 the soldier says "I am a gay soldier" No booing...

He has nearly two million fans and a book deal. But Boo isn't a reality TV star, actor or a pop singer - he's a pet dog. The five-year-old Pomeranian has the fame most celebrities dream of after amassing 1.79million fans on social networking site Facebook. And Boo is also a hit with the ladies. He attracted the attention of Hollywood stars including Khloe Kardashian, who posted a picture of the dog on her blog last year and singer Ke$ha, who Tweeted that Boo was 'her new boyfriend.' Since then, Boo's Facebook page, launched in 2009, has gone viral, receiving...

A reader forwards over an email from AIPAC President Lee Rosenberg to delegates to the organization's annual policy conference, which will feature President Obama's and Prime Minister Netanyahu's coming speeches to the organization. It's titled "Welcoming Guests Into our Home" and I don't think anyone over there is worried the crowd will heckle Bibi: The goal of the conference, as always, is to have every speaker, honored guest, member of Congress, Senator, and administration official who joins us feel that we have done everything we can to extend our hand in friendship. They must walk away from the conference knowing...

Los Angeles • Ever since Bram Stoker’s Dracula began haunting the imagination in 1897, popular culture has identified Christian symbols — crucifixes, holy water, communion wafers — as weapons to ward off a blood-thirsty vampire. The Twilight novels and film franchise have religious associations, too — most of them from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As the film’s “Twi-hard” fans get ready for the third “Twilight” installment, “Eclipse,” to open in theaters Wednesday, few are likely to recognize the religious references in the film based on the novels by Stephenie Meyer, herself a Mormon. “People make up...

Motorists who receive minor parking or traffic tickets in Indianapolis, Indiana are being threatened with fines of up to $2500 if they attempt to take the ticket to court. A local attorney with the firm Roberts and Bishop was so outraged by what he saw in Marion County traffic court that he filed a class action suit yesterday seeking to have the practice banned as unconstitutional. "The deck is stacked against the motorist," lawyer Paul K. Ogden wrote. "To penalize that person for seeking justice seems wrong. I know it is done for the purpose of discouraging baseless challenges to...

Photo of Obama and Spain's First Children Causes a Stir September 25, 2009 04:53 PM ET | Paul Bedard, Alex Kingsbury | Permanent Link | Print By Alex Kingsbury, Washington Whispers Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was in for a rude shock if he thought the same privacy conventions that shield the children of public figures in his home country would extend to the United States. Zapatero brought his wife and two daughters along on his trip to New York for the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly, and on Wednesday he and his family posed...

From Cosby’s Facebook page: I agree with President Carter that racism is playing a role in recent outbursts against President Obama. During President Obama’s speech on the status of health care reform, some members of congress engaged in a public display of disrespect. While one Representative hurled the now infamous “you lie” insult at the President, others made their lack of interest known by exhibiting rude behavior such as deliberately yawning and sending text messages ….

The White House has accepted an apology issued by Republican South Carolina representative Joe Wilson after the lawmaker disrupted the Wednesday night speech by President Obama to a Joint Session of Congress.

The more debatable point from the historic moment was the reception the President was afforded by the self-described "best fans in baseball." Though Obama was roundly cheered by the All-Star fans, his live presence still didn't attract the applause that George W. Bush did during a taped announcement by the four previous Presidents before the game and some boos could even be heard among the cheers.

"One of my readers sent me these "ghost" photos and the link to this video. He described himself as an experienced paranormal investigator and said that he thought the evidence was impressive..."

Any of you watching the Eagles-Giants game? A friend e-mailed me that our illustrious Vice President-elect Joe Biden was booed by Philly fans. He’s the silver lining on the gloomy Election 2008 cloud. AP notes the incident:

I will make it short. If Congress does not approve a bailout this week we are going into a deep recession within 2 weeks. This will ensure the elections of Obama as the media will blame the Republicans for not voting for the bailout. When socialist and defeatist Obama is the next President he will pass with the democrat Congress a 1.5 trillion dollars bailout loaded with welfare prgrams. To pay for it he will increase our taxes by 15% to 20%. It will be absolute socialism. This is no time for purism and absolute principles, there is a simple...

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The recent defeat of the amnesty bill in the Senate came after outraged Americans made it clear to the political elite that they would not tolerate this legislation, which would further erode our national sovereignty. Similarly, polls increasingly show the unpopularity of the Iraq war, as well as of the Congress that seems incapable of ending it. Because some people who vocally oppose amnesty are supportive of the war, the ideological connection between support of the war and amnesty is often masked. If there is a single word explaining the reasons why we continue to fight unpopular wars and see...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks plunged Tuesday as troubles for subprime lenders kept piling up and U.S. retail sales came in weaker than anticipated, leading investors to brace for a wilting economy. The Dow Jones industrials fell more than 150 points.

Some High School Sporting Officials in Washington State Want to Throw Unsportsmanlike Behavior Off the Field March 4, 2007 — From brawls on professional basketball courts to out-of-control parents at Little League games, unsportsmanlike behavior can be a problem. Now, some high school sporting officials in Washington state are considering tough new rules — including a ban on booing. Those who support the ban say that too often, spectators are cruel. "It's the organized effort to try to intimidate or try to make fun of someone that becomes personal in nature that can escalate then into other concerns that we...

LONDON (AFP) - Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens before he became a Muslim in the 1970s, has released his first commercial album for nearly three decades -- but reviewers seemed unimpressed. "An Other Cup" went on sale in along with a single, "Heaven/Where True Love Goes", while the album was to be released in the United States on Tuesday. With his telegenic, part-Greek good looks, Stevens scored international hits in the 1960 and 1970s with songs like "Wild World", "Moonshadow" and "My Lady d'Arbanville". But in 1977 he decided to hang up his guitar -- changing...

What's the though process on Steve Forbes running in 08? I watch him often on Saturday's on Fox's stock shows and he's extremely knowledgeable and conservative and seems to me, would make a good choice for 08. I don't know enough about him though to emphatically state that so I'm looking to the freepers for input.

WASHINGTON -- In the past week, Karl Rove has been promising Republican insiders an "October surprise" to help win the November congressional elections. President Bush's political strategist is also saying that the final two weeks before the elections will see a blitz of advertising, and the Republican National Committee is deploying an army of volunteers to key locations to help the grass-roots effort and monitor the elections. The RNC is offering to fly in volunteers and cover their expenses. Rove is not saying what the October surprise will be. Asked if he would elaborate and give his thinking about the...

Bear voluntarily returns to enclosure 2 hours, 40 minutes ago GOLDEN, British Columbia - Boo the runaway grizzly bear has returned on his own to his enclosure at a resort, apparently because of the ease of getting food and the end to the mating season, officials said. After nearly three weeks on the lam after busting out of confinement, the 4-year-old bear ambled back into the 22-acre artificial enclosure Saturday, said Michael Dalzell, sales and marketing director at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort outside this town on the western slope of the Canadian Rockies. "We believe he came back because he...

<p>June 16, 2006 -- WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is the scariest top candidate for president, and the prospect that she'll run in 2008 frightens a stunning 36 percent of voters, a new poll....</p> <p>By contrast, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is tagged as scariest by just 17 percent, or less than half as many, Al Gore by 15 percent, and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is the least scary at 11 percent.</p>

Pick up a newspaper, turn on the TV and it’s there: the news about avian flu. It can be alarming sometimes, often confusing. And nearly everyone has the same question: Could it happen here? In 1996, a new and particularly deadly strain of avian flu was found in a goose in China. It was found a year later in Hong Kong and six people died from the virus. They were the first known human cases.

Seven home runs shy of passing Babe Ruth, this should be a time of unbridled joy and excitement for Barry Bonds. Not so, he says. ''My life is in shambles. It is crazy,'' Bonds said Monday in an interview with The Associated Press. ''It couldn't get any crazier. I'm just trying to stay sane.'' Then, clearly joking, he went for shock value: ''Go to the Empire State Building and jump off, commit suicide and people can say, 'Barry Bonds is finally dead.' Except for in San Francisco,'' he said. ''I'll leave something for them.'' Despite those pronouncements, the 41-year-old Bonds...

Tehran - Iran is ready to counter any US aggression with offensive action, the head of the country's elite Revolutionary Guards warned on Wednesday amid an escalating international dispute over Tehran's nuclear activities. "We have worked on all defensive and offensive scenarios for any possible attacks," General Yahya Rahim Safavi told state television. "Currently there is no military threat against our country, and the United States and Israel are only talking about our nuclear program as part of psychological war in order to escape from their defeat in Iraq and Palestine," he charged. Earlier this month, US defence secretary Donald...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- About a fifth of Americans think federal agents have listened in on their phone calls, a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll released Tuesday suggests. Twenty-one percent of the 1,000 adults who replied to the survey conducted Thursday through Sunday said it was very likely or somewhat likely their conversations had been wiretapped, while 52 percent said it was not at all likely.(snip) According to the poll, Americans appear to be split over the legality of the domestic eavesdropping program. About 49 percent of respondents said the president had definitely or probably broken the law by authorizing the wiretaps and...

But Judge Alito also brings with him to this process a universally-accepted reputation as a rock-ribbed conservative jurist who is not afraid to get out in front of the curve when it comes to the types of social issues that get the president's base foaming at the mouth. For example, he is to the right of the Court's current majority when it comes to abortion rights — he voted for a marital notice provision in an abortion law early in his career as a judge — and his ascension to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's seat would immediately narrow that majority...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez urged Venezuelan parents not to dress their children in costumes for Halloween, calling it a U.S. custom that has no place in the South American country's cultural traditions. Speaking during his weekly radio and television show Sunday, Chavez called Halloween a "gringa," or North American, custom. "Families go and begin to disguise their children as witches," Chavez said. "That is contrary to our ways." Chavez said he was urging Venezuelans to reflect on the subject. In recent years it has become common to see Venezuelan parents holding parties for children dressed as ghouls,...

There are two digital images identical to each other (click above link); you have to find three differences. If you can find three differences, then you are part of an elite group. This has been tested on many people (in Holland), and hardly anyone found the three differences. After 45 seconds, 75% of those tested can only manage to find two differences, 24% see 1 difference.

What kind of animal is this that is following the guy in the Video? They are trying to say that it is Coyotes, but the sound they're making isn't like any coyote I've ever heard.

Civil War mystery may be solved by modern technology. (PRWEB) June 28, 2005 -- One of the mysteries of American Civil War lore may have finally been solved. The famous rebel yell, long known to have an unnerving effect on Union soldiers in the American Civil War, has just been examined by the History Publishing Company. Using as its core base, the only known yell by a living Confederate soldier recorded early in the Twentieth Century, History Publishing Company, through the use of sound technology, has emulated the sound of a company of soldiers charging a Union line. “The effect...

I believe National Treasure implies that Freemasons are a POSITVE influence on our country. Anybody that knows the TRUTH about Freemasonry rather than the propaganda they wrap themselves in will NOT be takin in by the positive portrayal in this movie. Please America, wake up, don't buy into the guys who brought "Seperation of Church/State" to America, model ISLAM as the highest truth (the Shriners), label the Holy Bible as "Furinture" in a lodge, and outlaw the name of "Jesus" in any lodge. I know I will get flamed by 10,000 Masons and Mason supporters on this, but if you...

For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome to the party! Your Hostess, Elvira Trick or Treat In 1883, around the time Halloween was starting to gain popularity in the United States, one Nebraska newspaper called it "the world wide holiday of the vicious small boy." Late nineteenth-century Halloween pranks included smearing doorknobs with tar, removing gates from fenced yards, knocking over occupied outhouses, and dismantling farmers' wagons and reassembling them on the roof of the local...

Judge Voids Will That Promised Curse Thu Oct 21, 8:58 PM ET OSLO, Norway - A Norwegian's threat to haunt anyone who tampered with his will didn't hold up in — or send a chill through — a court. The man, who wasn't identified, died in mid-2003 and left a will dividing his possessions among a long list of friends because he had no direct heirs, state radio network NRK reported Thursday. And, to be sure that no one challenged the document, he threated to haunt any who tampered with the document. "I take a solemn and holy vow that,...

A tourist was just killed on the new "The Mummy" ride at Universal Studios,Orlando. This just broke on the local news here in Orlando. Apparently the gruesome death was all caught on camera. Ride malfunction.

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WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- An Associated Press reporter who filed a story that former President Clinton was 'booed' at a Wisconsin rally when President George W. Bush announced that his predecessor had been hospitalized for heart surgery is standing by his claim. Scott Lindlaw, a White House correspondent who was among the reporters traveling with President Bush during the campaign swing to several battleground states, provided the information for the story that appeared under the byline of Tom Hays. No other news agency reported any booing and none is audible on network television clips, but the AP sent out the...

This was originally written and posted here as Media Contradications August 7, 2004 - in light of this insight from Powerline regarding the Rathergate and the AP's lies I started to see the MSM in it's last dying gasp! I thought it was appropriate to republish. Perhaps they see their last hope of recapturing their old glory and they realize their hero - was really a zero! Oh, and NO DU'ers - I didn't type the memo's! Just because I wrote this about the same time the memos made their way to CBS's laser printer doesn't mean I wrote the...

After falsely reporting that a crowd President Bush was speaking to booed after he wished President Clinton a speedy recovery from heart surgery, the Associated Press has refused to identify the reporter who filed the story or say what punishment he or she might face. The original report stated: "A crowd at a Bush rally in West Allis, Wis., booed when President Bush offered ex-President Clinton best wishes for a speedy recovery from coronary bypass surgery scheduled for next week." Milwaukee talk radio stations WTMJ and WISN were first to debunk the report. At WTMJ, talk-show host Jeff Wagner's producer,...

I appreciate having this opportunity to talk with you about something that's important to both of us -- the 2004 presidential election. You and I share a strong desire to put John Kerry in the White House, and we're not alone: Did you know that in the past five days, nearly 75,000 people from all across the country have donated almost $7 million to help John Kerry get his message out? I am writing today to ask you for your help, too. By contributing to this great cause, you can make sure that John Kerry's message of hope, promise, and...

Flu virus 'is the greatest bio-terror threat of all' By Roger Highfield, Science Editor (Filed: 28/11/2003) Nature's "on-going experiments" with influenza strains "may be the greatest bio-terror threat of all", with the world alarmingly unprepared for a global epidemic, researchers warn today. Another pandemic of the kind that killed up to 40 million people worldwide in 1918 is inevitable - and could be imminent, according to a team from St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. The threat of such a pandemic influenza is much greater than that posed this winter by the Fujian strain, which is already circulating in...

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<p>ROCKFORD — New York Times reporter Chris Hedges was booed off the stage Saturday at Rockford College’s graduation because he gave an antiwar speech.</p> <p>Two days later, graduates and family members, envisioning a “go out and make your mark” send-off, are still reeling.</p>

<p>The booming 1990s shook out in California with a major disparity that favored the rich over the poor while a continued decline in manufacturing jobs left the middle lagging, according to a report made public today.</p> <p>In a 115-page report titled "Boom, Bust, and Beyond: The State of Working California," the Sacramento-based California Budget Project found that over a 20-year period ending in the late 1990s, inflation-adjusted income actually dropped for 40 percent of the state's families.</p>

WASHINGTON (AP) — Iraq is dangerous and there are credible reports foreigners may face the risk of being kidnapped, the State Department said Thursday as it warned U.S. citizens to stay away. Travel by Americans to Iraq already is limited to journalists and Americans who have resided in the country since Feb. 8, 1991. In a statement, the department said conditions throughout the country remain unsettled and dangerous. Foreigners have been used as ``human shields'' in periods of confrontation, the department said. There was no mention in the advisory of the possibility that the United States may attack Iraq to...

Spectators boo as fashion models sport nooses and hoods Models sporting nooses, execution-style hoods and body-covering bandages triggered howls of protest and walkouts at Madrid's most prestigious fashion show. Carrying rosaries or crucifixes, they paraded - and stumbled - to the sounds of a man's voice saying the Lord's Prayer, followed by a woman panting erotically and iron bars screeching as they opened and closed. Spectators at the finale of the Pasarela Cibeles fashion show last night booed, whistled and called out to the vision-impaired models to guide them after some tripped. Some in the crowd said the hoods recalled...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Online magazine publisher Salon Media Group Inc. faces the prospect of going out of business if it can't raise more money this summer, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As of March 31, San Francisco-based Salon said it was down to its last $1.5 million in cash -- enough to keep its business running for three or four months, according to the company's annual report to shareholders. Salon's precarious position prompted the company's auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers, to conclude there is ``substantial doubt'' about its prospects for survival. The auditor's warning threatens to make...

Raptors stand on guard for Canadian anthem By LORI EWING -- Canadian Press TORONTO -- Childish. Stupid. Lacking in class. The Toronto Raptors, every one an American, had nothing good to say about fans who booed O Canada in Detroit on Sunday night. Game 1 of the opening playoff round between the Raptors and the Detroit Pistons took a nasty turn before the game had even begun on Sunday, when the capacity crowd at the The Palace of Auburn Hills booed O Canada. "That was pretty sad," Raptor forward Jerome Williams said after practice Monday. "That was something I wouldn't...