Blog Heap of Links for the day 31 March 2011

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Obamanation

To its credit, CBS News gave this deadly Obama culture of corruption nightmare mainstream coverage last month. But it’s been brewing on the blogs of gun rights advocates

9:42pm CDT Thu 2011 Mar 31 :MW

Hmm. That's weird. So if there are only 1,000 rebel fighters in Libya and there are 1,000 members of Al-Qaeda fighting with the rebels in Libya, then wouldn't that mean that the rebels are 100% jihadists? And, the Obama Administration wants to arm them? Now does that sound like smart power to you?

8:16pm CDT Thu 2011 Mar 31 :MW

Hollister said Tuesday a private investigator, Susan Daniels of Ohio, gave him what is purported to be the president's Social Security number. He then accessed the Social Security Number Verification Service to find out to whom it was issued and to access Selective Service documents. The site allows registered users to verify names and Social Security numbers for employment purposes and warns that using it under false pretenses is a violation of federal law. "According to the Social Security Administration, that number was never issued," said Hollister, who challenged whether the president is an American citizen in a lawsuit the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Jan. 18 without requiring a response from the White House. However, that's the Social Security number that appears on the Selective Service documents Hollister obtained.

6:51pm CDT Thu 2011 Mar 31 :MW

President Obama speaks about energy at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Obama's Energy Secretary Steven Chu has a Nobel prize in physics.

6:49pm CDT Thu 2011 Mar 31 :MW

Playing Politics

Comment: Only three words are necessary, CUT, CUT, CUT!

10:10pm CDT Thu 2011 Mar 31 :MW

Republican leaders wasted little time playing up reports Tuesday that New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the third-ranking Senate Democrat, told other members of his party that the caucus had urged him to start calling Republican budget cut proposals "extreme" during public battle between the parties of government spending. "Chuck Schumer did us a favor. He exposed their tactic," House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Republican of Virginia, told reporters. "You heard his comment. He's basically instructing his members to deem any spending cut unreasonable. Any spending cut. So clearly they're not serious."

10:10pm CDT Thu 2011 Mar 31 :MW

the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) told lawmakers Wednesday that the GOP version of the budget bill would result in the deaths of at least 70,000 children who depend on American food and health assistance around the world. "We estimate, and I believe these are very conservative estimates...."

6:55pm CDT Thu 2011 Mar 31 :MW

Threats

three men -- 40-year-old Afghani Ahmad Rahmani Naeem, 41-year-old Iranian Vahik Petrossian and 27-year-old Iranian Sengekdi Norvik Avanosian -- attempted to get into Camp Pendleton last weekend under what was considered suspicious circumstances... someone reported hearing hateful comments and terrorist threats from three men at a gas station in Oceanside Saturday. Investigators at Camp Pendleton said the men asked the attendant for directions on how to get to Camp Pendleton before they left the gas station....

6:55pm CDT Thu 2011 Mar 31 :MW

PlaneA Portland, Ore.-bound flight made a "level two emergency" stop in Chicago Tuesday night after passengers said three men, reportedly of Middle Eastern descent, were acting strangely, even fighting with flight crews. At least one of the men walked back to the area of the plane where flight attendants work, laid down and began complaining of illness. That man engaged in "some sort of altercation" with the flight attendant, a passenger said. At one point another man, who was pacing back and forth in the aisles, also got into a "verbal altercation" with a flight attendant, according to a passenger. Other men of "Middle Eastern descent" were passing notes and "writing in their notebooks..."

6:52pm CDT Thu 2011 Mar 31 :MW

Know the Enemy

Ali Sina is an Iranian ex-Muslim who established the organisation for apostates of Islam Faith Freedom International. In his latest book he posits that Muhammad is a narcissist, a pedophile, a mass murderer, a terrorist, a misogynist, a lecher, a cult leader, a madman, a rapist, a torturer, an assassin and a looter. Sina has offered 50,000 dollars for the one who can prove otherwise. Nobody has claimed the reward as yet. And no wonder, as the description is based on the Islamic texts themselves, such as the hadiths, the descriptions of Muhammad's life from testimonies of contemporaries.

10:09pm CDT Thu 2011 Mar 31 :MW

Bad Parents

Teachers realized the girl was in labor and called an ambulance. Medics rushed to the scene, and the 12 year old delivered a healthy baby girl in a nearby building. The young mother was then taken to the hospital but has refused to name the father. Family members said that the schoolgirl's father previously sexually abused another older daughter and served two years in jail for the sex crime... The girl was living with her father and brother after he won custody following a divorce from their mother....

6:48pm CDT Thu 2011 Mar 31 :MW
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It's Only Money

While Mike went to his office today, his seven lucky colleagues were celebrating their new mega wealth -- $19,129,571 each after taxes -- and Mike was delighted for them. "These seven were the hardest working state employess I've ever come across, go getters," he said. "I'll be sad to see them leave. They were such great people." Mike said none of the five who opted out of the Mega Millions pool are "bitter or angry." "I don't think they'll cut me in. I don't think they should. I don't deserve it," he said before heading back to work. While Mike returned to taking care of his agency's computers, Mike Barth, 63, was regaling the world with the close call he had while buying the winning ticket. "I was at the counter and it was my turn to buy a ticket when I reached down to grab a Snickers bar from the candy display," Barth said. "I like Snickers Dark and I said I just got to have one. And someone reached over me, actually cut in front of me to buy a ticket. I thought about saying something, but let it slide. I bought the next ticket -- the winning ticket. "

6:58pm CDT Thu 2011 Mar 31 :MW

Animal Culture

SnakeThe Bronx Zoo's venomous cobra was found on Thursday just about 200 feet from its cage to the relief of neighbors but the likely disappointment of those following lighthearted tweets from @BronxZoosCobra -- a Twitter feed created a few days after the snake's disappearance.

6:54pm CDT Thu 2011 Mar 31 :MW
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Sarah Palin 2012

Sarah Palin 45x45Sarah Palin wrote a note titled Setting the Record Straight on State's Film Production Tax Credit. Read the full text here.

9:36pm CDT Thu 2011 Mar 31 :MW

Sarah Palin 45x45Palin took it to Obama in analyzing his Libya speech tonight, saying that the speech was 'profoundly disappointing' and that the Obama doctrine is still full of 'chaos and questions', and is 'dodgy' and 'dubious'. She makes it very clear that U.S. interests should be to take Qaddafi out or to capture him....

6:46pm CDT Thu 2011 Mar 31 :MW