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Desirée Glapion Rogers is the descendant of a Creole voodoo priestess named Marie Laveau Glapion. The first time I meet her, she welcomes me into her East Wing lair—a rhythm and blues tune plays on a white iPod, a potted white orchid perches between two windows, fresh flowers sit on a heavy wooden desk. This is a woman who never sees a wilted bloom. The 49-year-old turns on just enough Southern charm to camouflage an aura of self-assuredness typically reserved for runway models or first ladies. Wearing a crisp white shirt, black patent flats and high-waisted navy slacks that would...

After the leaked email scandal, the University of East Anglia has been forced to admit they threw away the raw temperature data they used to make their predictions of anthropogenic global warming. They claim they only kept the 'adjusted' data. That is one sure-fire way to prevent skeptics from checking your calculations. Based on what programmers have learned from examining the leaked code the University of East Anglia used to calculate the 'Hockey Stick Graph,' their calculations definitely need rechecking.

The Huckster took a swipe at Sarah Palin and he did it with a smile. He does everything with a smile, being far from the first snake I've seen that has himself one of those. At least she isn't a Mormon. He might cut her a little bit of slack. Why am I thinking Huck has now read every Palin column Andy Sullivan has ever written? The Hucky puck doesn't like it that he's being overshadowed by both Palin and Romney, who comes up in the interview, as well. Is Huck's real problem that Sarah may have blown him off...

Levi Johnston says he's keeping some "huge" things about Sarah Palin from the public. In Part One of a two-part exclusive interview with "Early Show" co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez, which aired Wednesday, the father of Palin's grandson says, "There are some things that I have that are huge. And I haven't said them because I'm not gonna hurt her that way. " ... I have things that can, you know -- that would get her in trouble, and could hurt her. Will hurt her. But I'm not gonna go that far. You know, I mean, if I really wanted to hurt...

As Economy Grows, So Does China’s Trash Life went from ‘heaven to hell in an instant’ with landfill growth by village Oct . 11, 2009 ZHANGLIDONG, China - Visitors can smell this village long before they see it. More than 100 dump trucks piled high with garbage line the narrow road leading to Zhanglidong, waiting to empty their loads in a landfill as big as 20 football fields. In less than five years, the Zhengzhou Comprehensive Waste Treatment Landfill has overwhelmed this otherwise pristine village of about 1,000 people. Peaches and cherries rot on trees, infested with insect life drawn...

ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands — When two inspectors swung open the doors of a battered red shipping container here, they confronted a graveyard of Europe’s electronic waste — old wires, electricity meters, circuit boards — mixed with remnants of cardboard and plastic. “This is supposed to be going to China, but it isn’t going anywhere,” said Arno Vink, an inspector from the Dutch environment ministry who impounded the container because of Europe’s strict new laws that place restrictions on all types of waste exports, from dirty pipes to broken computers to household trash. Exporting waste illegally to poor countries has become...

You might think a posthumous Medal of Honor award ceremony would be a somber occasion, but not everyone would agree with you. Either this is an especially skillful photo shop effort or Michelle Obama has no clue whatsoever about the nature of this event. U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Jared C. Monti’s parents received the award for him. I hope they didn’t notice the first lady’s stunningly inappropriate dress, but that’s unlikely.

Did anyone get a picture of the Mall in DC after everyone left or was leaving? I would love to compare the grounds after "our people" left with the ground after "their BHO worshipers" left. On the Freeper March on DC we picked up after ourselves and even helped the crews clean up their equipment.

After the 2 million strong conservative freedom rally on 9-12: And, here is the filth left for someone else to clean up after the Inauguration of Barack Obama: Via Prisca

Recycling posters featuring the picture of US President Barack Obama have reportedly been spotted on garbage cans at the Estonian capital's airport. Obama's photograph is encircled with the three arrows that symbolize recycling and encourages consumers with his campaign slogan "Yes, We Can," Russia Today (RT) reported citing a report at delfi.ee. Eesti Pakendiringlus, an Estonian recycled packaging company, is stressing on the “can” with a pun on the word's other meaning tin.

Okay, I think most of us have had enough threads on the rantings of the little punk, but this segment on MSNBC left me flabbergasted... on MSNBC (DNC house channel) a report on the disgusting and ridiculous smears by Levi Johnston introduced by no one else but Norah O'Donnell actually defends Palin and exposes Levi as the lying attention-mongering goofball he is and debunks his BS. Norah, not at all a Palin fan, is visibly disgusted with the slimey punk. Watch for yourself: Video Of all places MSNBC... wow.

FOX25’s video that purportedly shows JFK’s granddaughter Rose Kennedy Schlossberg flipping off the media during the Ted Kennedy motorcade has hit YouTube. The 38-second clip shows a 20-something girl, who appears to be Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg’s daughter Rose, giving the middle finger to the media as she drives by them in a limo during the procession from the Cape to the Kennedy Library. Apparently, the young lady believed the not-so-subtle salute would be invisible from behind the car’s tinted window. Very classy. . . .

Mother of Bristol Palin’s ex-beau guilty in drug case PALMER, Alaska — The mother of the man former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol had planned on marrying has reached a plea deal in her drug case. Sherry Johnston pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of possession with intent to deliver the painkiller OxyContin. Five other felony counts were dropped. “That’s pretty,” Johnston said as a court officer placed pink handcuffs, a gift from an Arizona sheriff, around her wrists. She hugged her lawyer, Rex Butler, before being escorted out of the courtroom and taken to a correctional facility where...

KIRKUK — Kirkuk City has been considered by residents here to be one of the most beautiful and cleanest cities in Iraq. But due to budget constraints, waste removal services around the city have been lacking and waste has been accumulating. Thanks to efforts of the Kirkuk government and assistance from 3rd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, a new project to remove waste in the city and help educate its residents on properly disposing of trash was celebrated with a ribbon cutting ceremony involving Iraqi children, singers, and a cake, Aug. 9. The ceremony was attended by Kirkuk Governor Abdul...

A married man who planned to rendezvous with one of his handful of lovers at an eastern Wisconsin motel instead found himself bound, blindfolded and assaulted by a group of women out for revenge, according to court documents. Four women, including his wife, eventually showed up to humiliate the man, who ended up with his penis glued to his stomach in a bizarre plot to punish him for a lover's quadrangle gone bad, according to the documents filed in Calumet County

Hoping to learn more about one of the most glaring examples of waste and environmental pollution on earth, a group of scientists will set sail from San Francisco today to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a massive vortex of floating plastic trash estimated by some researchers to be twice the size of Texas. The bobbing debris field, where currents swirl everything from discarded fishing line to plastic bottles into one soupy mess, is located about 1,000 miles west of California. "This is a problem that is kind of out of sight, out of mind, but it is having devastating impacts...

An Iraqi city worker prepares to unload new trash containers to be distributed to local citizens of Basrah, July 1. Approximately 12,000 trash containers were delivered that day, with a total of 350,000 to be delivered in the near future. Photo by Sgt. Rodney Foliente, 4th Infantry Division. BASRAH — U.S. Soldiers and members of the Basrah Provincial Reconstruction Team joined Governor Sheltag Aboud al-Mayah here as he distributed the first trash can to a city family, July 1. The 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, coordinated with the local government to provide trash cans to residents here as...

Maxim brings the hottest female stars to FOXNews.com every Monday. Today, meet 'Bring It On' star Christina Milian. Christina Milian likes to keep her relationships exciting. The “Bring It On” star, 27, says that includes everything from costumes (like the red, robed, maid one she describes as “really cute”) to strip clubs. “I try a little bit of everything,” she says in the new issue of Maxim magazine. “Im all about keeping the excitement in the relationship. That’s why I sing songs like ‘Dip It Low.’ When I’m with somebody, I like to keep it exciting.”

Though Bill makes fun of Bush and the Republican party, he tries really hard to trash Obama.

Throwing orange peels, coffee grounds and grease-stained pizza boxes in the trash will be against the law in San Francisco, and could even lead to a fine. The Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 Tuesday to approve Mayor Gavin Newsom's proposal for the most comprehensive mandatory composting and recycling law in the country. It's an aggressive push to cut greenhouse gas emissions and have the city sending nothing to landfills or incinerators by 2020. "San Francisco has the best recycling and composting programs in the nation," Newsom said, praising the board's vote on a plan that some residents had decried as...

Talk about getting down and dirty.....On Friday morning, police on Vancouver Island got a call about suspicious activity in a Victoria suburb.....When an officer arrived on the scene, he discovered a man and woman having sex in a dumpster, reports CTV News in British Columbia.....

Dujaylah Iraqi Police pick up trash during Dujaylah Pride Day, April 18. Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Joe Thompson, Multi-National Division – South. FOB DELTA — Iraqi Security Forces, government officials and Coalition forces banded together for Dujaylah Pride Day to clean up the town, April 18. "It was very good for the city and the people because they see the Army and the Police and the Americans as they worked together to clean the area and that's a really excellent job to inform the people of the cooperation," said Salah Nasser Al Attabr, deputy mayor of Dujaylah.Iraqi Army Humvees...

She was subbing on the Laura Ingraham show.

Unless you've been living under a rock (and it's okay to admit if you have, I'm told rent is cheap), you probably heard that President Barack Obama sat courtside at D.C.'s Verizon Center Friday night, watching his hometown Chicago Bulls take on the Washington Wizards. The First Fan drank beer, read the game program and left early (with four minutes left) during a blowout. "All common American activity," as Tom Ziller put it, "except most of us don't sit courtside, nor are we important enough that the NBA will hold up a tip-off until we get to our seats." (Speak...

KIRKUK, Iraq, March 2, 2009 – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is part of a joint, multinational effort to provide solutions for city officials here on what to do with the 900 tons of trash Kirkuk residents generate daily. A truck offloads trash at Solid Waste Transfer Station 1, south of Kirkuk, Iraq. The $2.5 million facility has the capacity to handle 300 tons of waste per day. U.S. Army photo   (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. For years, Kirkuk residents have been dumping their garbage into unregulated areas or merely unloading it in open fields outside...

Two or three times a day, a satellite circling Earth narrowly misses destruction by an orbital hailstorm of junk sweeping the busy super highways of space. A spreading cloud of shrapnel from the collision of two satellites earlier this month is making wrecks for working spacecraft around Earth all but inevitable, analysts warn. As the ninth significant crack-up in two years -- including a punctured nuclear satellite -- the wreckage of Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251 is fostering a chain reaction of collisions that puts billions of dollars of spacecraft and manned space flights at risk. Debris from the Feb....

State could become a top dump for dangerous material "A project to bury tons of contaminated Hudson River bottom amid the rock of West Texas, seemingly biblical in its scope, could make the state one of the largest receptacles for hazardous waste in the country."

Some owners of foreclosed homes are stealing appliances and leaving the houses damaged and in disarray, MyFOXOrlando.com reported. Realtors complain the trashed houses are harder to sell. Homeowners upset at banks that are forcing them out have been hauling items from their houses and selling them, the station said. They're also damaging walls and floors.

Delivering cases of Jack Daniels whiskey, Grey Goose vodka and Patron tequila to a Bourbon Street bar early Tuesday, Jerald Spruille lamented the odor wafting through the French Quarter and pointed to a handful of plastic cups and sodden paper napkins lining a nearby gutter. "That used to be cleaned up by now," Spruille said, recalling the squeaky-clean atmosphere of just a few days ago. "This all used to be gone by now, and you used to see a guy walking around sweeping up anything that got left. And it smelled so good."Less than two days after the lemon-scented street...

HEBRON, Ind. — A woman who wasn’t invited to her sister’s wedding reception showed up anyway and attacked the bride, pulling out clumps of her hair, police said. Annmarie Bricker, 23, of Valparaiso, was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of battery.

What happens when a bunch of supposedly environment-loving Obama-droolers gather together in one spot? I'm sure you've already guessed, but the video below is instructive nonetheless. Liberals are far more likely than conservatives to believe that human activity is a major detriment to a healthy environment. If I often gathered with a group of people who trashed the land around them whenever they got together, I guess my mind might be poisoned too. Strangely, the major conservative events I've attended have never looked anything like the National Mall looked after getting hit by Barack Obama's liberal tsunami. Yet we are...

The litter on the National Mall after the Barack Obama inauguration was incredible. Barack Obama spoke to the need for more personal responsibility. Let's start by everyone cleaning up their own trash!

I was just listening to Rush, and he was just commenting how he got a call from an teacher who was very upset because the radio in her school was turned on to his show during the inauguration, while he was poking fun at it. She was angry that Rush ruined this historic event for these children and these children were "CRYING" because of his satire. I remembered a couple of wussy kids in grade school, but none that came close this wussy. I'd think anyone under 5 could care less about a politician's speech (although an employee I work...

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Inaugural revelers are lucky they didn't get fined for littering. As crowds cleared the city Tuesday, their trash covered the National Mall and Washington Monument grounds after President Barack Obama's inauguration. They left behind plastic bottles, newspapers, food wrappers, gloves and even American flags they had been waving. Trash bins overflowed with items people tossed. Twenty-one-year-old Laura Wiesner of Youngstown, Ohio, was on the cluttered Mall near the Smithsonian's American History Museum. She says people's quick exit - and failure to pick up after themselves - was a stark contrast to how grand the event had...

BOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WSAZ) -- A Boyd County landfill is now the focus of a search for a missing newborn baby's body. There's a fear, however, that the body already has been incinerated. Kentucky State Police investigators said a train that hauls trash from the East Coast is being held in a CSX rail yard in Greenup County. Meanwhile, back in New Jersey, a heartbroken mother fears a possible hospital cover-up. Police said if the newborn's body was discarded with the New Jersey trash, it very well may end up at the Big Run Landfill in Coalton. New Jersey police...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (CBS) ― Christ Hospital has some answering to do after a still born baby's remains disappeared before arriving at a Jersey City, N.J., area funeral home. A shocking story came out of Jersey City on Monday night: the remains of a baby were thrown out in a hospital's trash. The child's family wants to know how it happened and where the baby's remains are now. Bashire Moore was born days before Christmas with a weak heart that would kill him and when the funeral home came for the body, one tragedy was compounded by another. The funeral...

HURRICANE, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- A church in Hurricane has an outreach center where people can go for food, clothing, and support. They rely on donations, but some people aren't giving to the cause; they're giving to help their own cause. Anyone is welcome through the doors of Faith Mission, but the problems come when its doors are shut. Some people unload their donations at the thrift store while no one is around. “They’re dumping things that are undesirable,” Faith Mission Pastor Art Hage said. The unwanted donations don't stop at the door. They spread all the way to the road,...

Sarah Palin's Holiday Open House Dec 13th 2008 Sarah Palin just loves working a crowd. Last Tuesday she opened the doors of the Alaska Governor's Mansion, hosting 3,300 supporters, gawkers and cookie fiends at the annual Christmas open house. Palin shook hands and posed for photos, making sure to say a special hello to the children, a.k.a. the guests least likely to ask any awkward questions about pardoning turkeys or geography. The open house has been a tradition for 93 years. Fortunately the house even comes with a "residence manager" so Palin didn't have to get down and dirty with...

Trash has crashed.

Marilyn Wright's "Fire Bill and Hillary," posted at my.barackobama.com on January 21 2008 and online as of September 8, 2008, expresses a wish for Bill and Hillary Clinton to be "lynched" and "shot." It also wishes that Bill Clinton would die from a heart attack, and it refers to him as "white trash." This hate speech is "Paid for by Obama for America."...Here is what Marilyn Wright has to say about the Clintons (Google cache in case it "disappears" now that it is becoming an Internet-wide scandal). We believe (not legal advice) that this falls short of being reportable to...

Democrats are employing a diversionary tactic to defend themselves against the charge that they trashed thousands of American flags used at the grand finale Greek Temple event at Invesco Field. Here's how it works:To make the accusers look ridiculous, they publish pictures like the one on the left, showing flags bundled up in trash bags. This is a real picture, and I don't doubt they indeed were packaging them for later use. This is the diversion. Ordinary Americans hear the story and are outraged, but then see the picture and think "oh, that's not so bad."This first bit of...

There's a bit of a brewing tempest about 12,000 flags discovered in the trash after the Democratic convention in Denver. Fox News reports that the Democrats tossed them in the trash. The Obama campiagn says they didn't toss the flags in the trash, that they wouldn't mistreat the flag like that. Here is AP photo number 467 from the last night of convention. The AP caption reads Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., his wife, Jill, center, and Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., applaud during talk on the final night at the...

The libs hate it when people point out examples of flag abuse. It probably galls them because they view it as a piece of cloth or paper, and, after all, how can anybody be offended when somebody bites, folds, tears, mutilates, or devours a piece of cloth or paper? They hate being nailed on it because they think a bunch of yahoos will question their patriotism. Hmmm. So, since fomenting liberal angst is one of greatest sporting events known to man, and we lettered in that particular event, here goes. Photos

This is what the purveyors of party unity really think of the Clintons. Contrary to the disclaimer on each page, the Obama campaign exercises editorial control over this Web site by deleting content it considers “offensive” and “disrespectful.” Statements that Hillary Clinton is a “self-serving bitch” are not considered offensive or disrespectful by the moderators who supervise the site. Neither is this entry (http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/marlamiller/gGBlT3): Hillary’s only connection to lower socioeconomic groups comes from marrying white trash. She’s learned a lot slumming. We think all Clinton Democrats ought to see this one, and we have downloaded the page and taken screen...

Rielle Hunter compared John Edwards with Gandhi and went around trashing his cancer-stricken wife, it was reported Sunday. A Newsweek writer who courted her as a source during Hunter's affair with the presidential candidate portrays Edwards' mistress as a charming but hugely indiscreet muddlehead who called reporters with New Age babble about Edwards' "old soul." Asked about Elizabeth Edwards, who is unusually well-liked by political operatives and reporters, Hunter told reporter Jonathan Darman, "She does not give off good energy. ... I've only met her once.... She didn't make eye contact with me." Darman wrote of meeting Hunter, a former...

Saturday morning, I went right out to the supermarket to buy the National Enquirer to see what else might be true. And there it was, right by the cash register, with a headline across the top of the cover promising the latest details of a story the Enquirer broke months ago. John Edwards had initially dismissed the Enquirer's allegations of an extramarital affair as "tabloid trash." A saw mill worker's son who was himself once dismissed as "poor white trash," he should have been more cautious about underestimating those who are dismissed out of hand as inferiors. Whatever you might...

Now hear this: According to the The Associated Press, the gay city's Mayor Gavin Newsom has proposed inspecting its residents' garbage. Anyone not properly sorting their garbage will be fined. Do it again and you'll face delousing or perhaps beheading. That is all.

Garbage collectors would inspect San Francisco residents' trash to make sure pizza crusts aren't mixed in with chip bags or wine bottles under a proposal by Mayor Gavin Newsom. And if residents or businesses don't separate the coffee grounds from the newspapers, they would face fines of up to $1,000 and eventually could have their garbage service stopped. The plan to require proper sorting of refuse would be the nation's first mandatory recycling and composting law. It would direct garbage collectors to inspect the trash to make sure it is put into the right blue, black or green bin, according...

"Every city has a contract with their (waste) hauler and it depends on the revenue-sharing agreement," said Braicovich, adding that he would support the bill. Scavenging through other people's garbage and recycling bins is illegal in many Inland cities and existing state law already requires identification from anyone selling recyclables valued at $100 or more, said Don Drysdale, a spokesman for the CALIFORNIA Department of Conservation. There is also a limit of 500 pounds of aluminum cans that a person can sell per day. "That's a heck of a lot of cans," said Danny Frankel, president of Riverside Recycling.