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Friends say victim knew Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev ORLANDO, Fla. - The FBI confirms a special agent was involved in a deadly shooting early Wednesday near Universal Orlando, and two friends of the victim say he was from Chechnya and knew one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. The fatal shooting happened just after midnight at 6022 Peregrine Avenue in Orlando. "We are currently responding to a shooting incident involving an FBI special agent," FBI Special Agent Dave Couvertier told Local 6. "The incident occurred in Orlando, Florida. The agent encountered the suspect while conducting official duties. The...

How times have changed... When I was a child of 3 mother read this story to me. I wasn't racist then and I'm not racist now. This was a great story then and it's a great story now.

Over the weekend, I noted the scurrilous claim of a left-wing blogger who “reported” the hearsay rumor that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called Obama a “Sambo” and Hillary Clinton a “bitch.” Even the nutballs at the Daily Kos deleted a posting about the smear. But it’s still out there.

I'm surprised it took this long. “So Sambo beat the bitch!”This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Rumor That Palin Called Obama 'Sambo' Spreading Across Internet By Terry Trippany September 6, 2008 - 22:31 ET A new whisper campaign is forming in the blogosphere and creeping into web search engines across the internet as a self proclaimed e-zine called "LA Progressive" is spreading a false rumor that Sarah Palin called Barack Obama 'Sambo' while dining in an Alaska restaurant. Charley James, the author of the article that is unlikely to have his blogspot site shut down for Obama bias, also claims through 'anonymous sources' that Palin called Hillary Clinton a "b#^@h" in the same breath. It is...

Two members of Barack of Obama’s campaign, Dick and Sharon Price, created a post today on their “LA Progressive” blog that accuses Sarah Palin of using the name “Sambo” to describe Barack Obama. Aside from the fact that this constitutes slander, for there is absolutely no evidence - sources, etc, there is more to the story about “Dick and Sharon”. First, their blog only came into being on 10 March 2008 according to whois records. This is about the time that several satellite Pro-Obama blogs began to appear around the internet, several of which were found to be funded by...

Tons of readers are sending the latest, most pathetic smear against Gov. Sarah Palin. It is laughable beyond belief. One “Charley James” accuses Palin of exclaiming the following after Obama defeated Hillary: “So Sambo beat the bitch!” Read the entire “investigative report” here, which comes off like a really, really bad Onion parody. If you think these things should just be ignored, take a look at how it’s already spreading:

MOSCOW, November 16 (RIA Novosti) - Vladimir Putin has been elected president again - but this time of a global organization promoting a sporting form of self-defense that originated in Russia. The Russian leader has been made honorary president of the International Amateur Sambo Federation (FIAS), the federation's president David Rudman told a news conference Wednesday. Rudman said the election reflected Putin's contribution to Sambo, a modern martial art developed in the Soviet Union that takes its name from a Russian abbreviation meaning "self-defense without a weapon." Although the president is better known for his judo skills, he is also...