Is Prince William marrying his nanny like good ole dad?

The National Enquirer reports that a new furor in the UK!



Prince William is following in his father's footsteps - by marrying a woman who's the mirror image of his childhood nanny!



The 28-year-old royal's fiance Kate Middleton bears an uncanny resemblance to his nanny, Tiggy Legge-Bourke, while his father Prince Charles' wife Camilla Parker Bowles looks strikingly similar to his nanny, Mabel



Anderson.William, who recently announced his engagement to Kate, has been close to Tiggy since she became his nanny in 1993 when the prince was 11. It was a time of turmoil for Wills as his beloved mother



Princess Diana had recently separated from his father. Tiggy's love helped him get through those difficult days.



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In the UK Higher tuition fees apply only to the English

Imagine if only Christian students in the United States were faced with higher tuition rates, but Muslims were exempt.



Sounds crazy?



Well a form of educational apartheid is going in the UK. Can the U.S. be far behind?



The UK Telegraph reports that English face a university education "apartheid" after Welsh students were told they would be exempt from a sharp rise in tuition fees.



The Welsh Assembly government announced that it would heavily subsidise the degree courses of about 90,000 students each year, even if they studied at universities in England, Scotland or Northern Ireland.



It means that Welsh students will pay about £3,200 a year to attend university, while the English will be charged up to £9,000 under Coalition reforms. English students taking courses at Welsh universities will still have to pay full fees.



The disclosure led to claims last night that English taxpayers would effectively be subsidising cheaper courses for Welsh undergraduates.



At present, the Welsh Assembly receives an annual grant of £15 billion from the Treasury to fund devolved services including health, education and housing. Spending per head was about £5,500 this year, compared with £4,800 in England.



The Welsh announcement coincided with growing conflict in the Coalition over higher education policy.



Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, said he would be prepared to abstain from the vote on raising tuition fees, despite being involved in drawing up the policy.



Thousands of students clashed with police in London in the third major protest against the fee rises, with children as young as 10 joining the marchers. Further demonstrations took place in Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool, Manchester and Bristol.



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I can see it now. African American students will pay a third of tuition and the U.S. govt (the rest of us) will pick up the rest of the tab as a form of reparations.



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Eric Cantor believes in being a little bit pregnant: wants to keep some parts of ObmamCare

Attention!

The Pussies-R-Us Club will now take over the leadership of the House.

If you thought these leftover Republicans like Eric Camtor had the unabashed courage to stand up to the Obama agenda, this announcement today blows that thought out the water.

These feckless bastards haven’t even taken control of congress and they’re already caving in to keep parts of ObamaCare that quote “people like”.

So now we know what kind of leadership we having and I’ve been warning people since June that Eric Cantor, Mike Pence, and John Beohner are a bunch of punk-ass pussies that care more about pole testing than showing actual Reagan-like conservative leadership.

This is a very bad sign of things to come!

The Hill reports that House Republicans are looking to repeal the healthcare reform law and replace it with one of their own early next year without interrupting two popular parts the administration has already begun to implement.

They include a mandate that bars discrimination of pre-existing conditions and a stipulation that allows young people to remain on their parents' insurance plans until age 26.

Incoming Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Monday that they would do this by passing a GOP healthcare bill at the same time as repeal efforts are underway.

Speaking to more than 100 students at American University, Cantor said, "What you will see us do is to push for repeal of the healthcare bill, and at the same time, contemporaneously, submit our replacement bill, that has in it the provisions [barring discrimination due to pre-existing conditions and offering young people affordable care options]."
Cantor stressed that while he supports full repeal of the current law, Republicans share some of the same goals as Democrats, although they propose different ways of achieving them.

"We too don't want to accept any insurance company's denial of someone and coverage for that person because he or she may have pre-existing condition," Cantor said, addressing a young woman in the audience who noted that she had a pre-existing health condition.

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Johnny Depp strikes a fagot pose for Vanity Fair

I like Johnny Depp, I admire all his work going back to the days he appeared on 21 Jump Street.

He’s a fine actor that already has some Oscar quality performances under his belt. And I expect to see him win one some year if he gets the right role the Academy can hag their hat on.

But when I saw these photos that will appear in Vanity Fair magazine, I thought, Johnny, can you strike a manlier pose than that?

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Serious Questions about the Obama Administration's Incompetence in the Wikileaks Fiasco

We all applaud the successful thwarting of the Christmas-Tree Bomber and hope our government continues to do all it can to keep us safe. However, the latest round of publications of leaked classified U.S. documents through the shady organization called Wikileaks raises serious questions about the Obama administration’s incompetent handling of this whole fiasco.

First and foremost, what steps were taken to stop Wikileaks director Julian Assange from distributing this highly sensitive classified material especially after he had already published material not once but twice in the previous months? Assange is not a “journalist,” any more than the “editor” of al Qaeda’s new English-language magazine Inspire is a “journalist.” He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. His past posting of classified documents revealed the identity of more than 100 Afghan sources to the Taliban. Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders?

What if any diplomatic pressure was brought to bear on NATO, EU, and other allies to disrupt Wikileaks’ technical infrastructure? Did we use all the cyber tools at our disposal to permanently dismantle Wikileaks? Were individuals working for Wikileaks on these document leaks investigated? Shouldn’t they at least have had their financial assets frozen just as we do to individuals who provide material support for terrorist organizations?

Most importantly, serious questions must also be asked of the U.S. intelligence system. How was it possible that a 22-year-old Private First Class could get unrestricted access to so much highly sensitive information? And how was it possible that he could copy and distribute these files without anyone noticing that security was compromised?

The White House has now issued orders to federal departments and agencies asking them to take immediate steps to ensure that no more leaks like this happen again. It’s of course important that we do all we can to prevent similar massive document leaks in the future. But why did the White House not publish these orders after the first leak back in July? What explains this strange lack of urgency on their part?

We are at war. American soldiers are in Afghanistan fighting to protect our freedoms. They are serious about keeping America safe. It would be great if they could count on their government being equally serious about that vital task.

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BREAKING STORY: Armed Student Holds Hostages in Wis. High School-Shoots himself

Update: Chief: Armed student in Wis. high school shot self

AP reports that a student armed with a handgun held nearly two dozen students and a teacher hostage in a Wisconsin high school for about five hours before shooting himself when police broke into the classroom, authorities said Monday. No other injuries were reported.

Officers who were outside the Marinette High School classroom said they heard three gunshots shortly after 8 p.m. and busted through the door, said Police Chief Jeff Skorik. The 15-year-old male gunman then shot himself.

Skorik said the teen was taken to an area hospital and his condition was not immediately known Monday night.

Five of the 23 students who had been taken hostage about 3 p.m. had been released about 20 minutes before police entered the classroom because they told the gunman they had to use the bathroom, Skorik said.

The other 18 students and the female teacher, who had acted as a mediator between the male hostage-taker and authorities, were released unharmed once officers were inside.

Skorik said the gunman had refused to communicate with officials during the standoff, but allowed the teacher to speak with authorities by phone.

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CNN reports a handgun-toting student is holding 23 classmates and a teacher hostage inside a room at a northeast Wisconsin high school, police said Monday night.

The young male took over the classroom sometime near the end of the school day Monday, preventing anyone from leaving and eventually communicating with police through ateacher, Marinette Police Chief Jeffrey Skorik told reporters.

Refuting rumors circulating on social media sites, Skorik said authorities did not believe anyone had been hurt thus far at Marinette High School or that any shots had been fired.

The chief said that the student had no previous run-ins with the law, adding that it wasn't clear why he took hostages.

"We have no idea, as far as his motivation at this point," Skorik said.
A school administrator called police at 3:48 p.m. (4:48 p.m. ET) Monday, after most students had left for the day, reporting that an armed student had gone into a classroom and taken those inside hostage.

About 40 law enforcement personnel converged on the scene, including hostage negotiators who set up inside the school, according to Skorik. They had not talked directly with the student some three hours into the incident, but did get regular updates from the teacher.

Skorik said that the hostage-taker is a student at Marinette High, and that he believed -- though he could not confirm -- was assigned to the class that he took over.

Police know the identity of the student, though they haven't name him publicly, and have talked with his family members. Skorik said law enforcement believe the the young male, armed with a single handgun, is acting alone.

Law enforcement urged parents who didn't know their children's whereabouts to go to the Marinette County Courthouse, where they could see those on the affected class's roster, talk with police and get help from mental-health counselors.

Dozens of students and family members also gathered at a nearby hair salon, and the street to the high school was blocked off, according to CNN affiliate WBAY.

Marinette has about 11,600 residents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Bordering Lake Michigan, the city is just over 50 miles north of Green Bay.


CBS News reports an emergency management official in Wisconsin says an armed student has taken hostages inside a high school classroom in Marinette. Marinette County emergency management director Eric Burmeister says a high school administrator called authorities after 3 p.m. Monday to say an armed student had burst into a classroom. Burmeister says he's unsure how many people are in the classroom and no injuries have been reported.

Choral teacher Bonita Weydt tells The Associated Press that school ended about 10 minutes later and the principal told her to leave the building immediately. Burmeister says parents are being asked to go to the county courthouse. Marinette is a little more than an hour north of Green Bay and sits on the border with Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

CBS News affiliate WFRV reports that a Marinette High School administrator made a call to Marinette Co. Communications Dispatch that an armed student was holding hostages in a classroom.

WFRV reports that police are at the scene and no injuries are reported.

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Exclusive Interview with Poppy Carlig

Indeed Poppy Carlig lived an intense Fall this year. Her participation on Season 10 of "The Apprentice" gave her a new, fresh, an fruitful perspective of the business world, leading her to desire to experience the world of broadcasting one more time. To her surprise, she had found something else special: love. She's beautiful, she's smart, and she's an athlete! Poppy is a competitive synchronized swimmer who won 4 NCAA championship titles while attending college. Now let's see what she reveals today!

Poppy and her mom Auna Longpre.

1.What inspired you to apply as a contestant on The Apprentice? Tell us about the exciting process that you had to go through in order to get accepted! When I graduated from Standford, my plan was to continue on to medical school. However, after gaining acceptance, I realized that the long road to becoming a surgeon wasn't in line with my desire to maintain life-long relationships with patients, or my future desire to have a family where I can be actively involved in my children's lives. I began looking at other careers, and was unemployed during the process. With most of my experience in the Biological field, finding a job that wasn't directly in line with Biology was trying at best.When I found out about the return of "civilian" Apprentice, I decided to go for it.The process went quickly, and before it even sunk in, I was off to NYC for my very first job interview! I only had about 1 week to prepare to leave, and had to purchase business suits and attire. Having never worked, it was like I was given a task before the competition began.... find a New York business wardrobe in 1 week with a limited budget. Good thing I love shopping!

2. How do you feel about the fact that Donald Trump fired you even when you attempted to explain that your partners had agreed on your ideas for Kim Kardashian's fragance indoor display?

When Donald Trump fired me, of course I was disappointed. I went into this experience wanting SO badly to win. However, ultimately, the decisions that were made on the Kim Kardashian Task were mine to approve and put into action. Knowing now that Liza wasn't in favor of the boas and rhinestones, I feel cheated that she never expressed those opinions to me. She did that continually throughout the competition, and I wish now that I had thrown her "under the bus" in the boardroom for being a non-creative, "under the radar" teammate. However, as Project Manager, I must assume responsibility for both my decisions and for the actions of my team, and ultimately was fired.

At  the California Academy of Sciences.

3. You are definitely a young, educated woman with a lot of knowledge, willingness,and passion for life to share with the world.  Do you think that "The Apprentice" experience will influence decisions that you might make in the future and why?

Being on The Apprentice opened my eyes to a world of opportunities and career options. I have come to recognize strengths and assets I didn't know I had until getting a taste of the business world. I also gained a sense of maturity and learned about marketing ideas and catering them to a specific audience. Additionally, after a month of cameras following my every move, I came to enjoy the experience of being in front of the camera. I would love to be in front of the camera again on either the big or little screen. Sports have always been a passion of mine, so perhaps I will step into the sports broadcasting arena. I also have had a lifelong interest in the medical fields, and have recently applied to Dental Schools. Though I may sound like someone who doesn't know where they are headed in life, I like to think that my talents and interests are diverse, so I leave open the possibility of any career I have a passion, aptitude and facility for. No matter what the future holds for me, I will carry this experience and the invaluable knowledge I gained with me forever.

David and Poppy on WOODTV8 Michigan News live!

4. When others did not agree with you, what strategies did you use to sustain and support a point?

When working with other strongly opinionated people, disagreements often happen. I have always been a non-confrontational and tactful individual. Instead of arguing with teammates or dismissing ideas I disagreed with, I chose to listen and respond respectfully - stating both the positive and negative aspects of the idea. Also, I would try to incorporate pieces of other people's ideas with my own in order to gain support and team camaraderie.

5. Congratulations on winning a scholarship on The Jack Welch Management Institute! Are you planning on using it anytime soon?

  I was stunned when Jack Welch offered me a scholarship to The Jack Welch Management Institute. I do plan on using it, as it will aid me in any professional future I head toward. Recently I submitted applications for dental school, and am currently in the process of waiting to hear back from 28 institutions around the country. Attaining an MBA through Jack Welch's program will aid in a future in dentistry, as I will be better prepared to run my own practice.

David and Poppy at a Pumpkin Patch in 2010.

6. I'm pretty curious about your relationship with David! How did the professional dynamic between you and him evolved into something more special despite the  fast paced work pressure and rivalry among all competitors?

After being fired, contestants are moved to a separate hotel, where we are allowed to talk and get to know one another without the cameras.  Though David and I didn't get along during the Macy's Advertisement task, I knew lots of his melodramatic behavior was an act, and a strategy for more camera time. He did say some comedic things, and I figured he was interested in a future in television. The day after my firing, the 11 other fire-ees and I went on a field trip to Ellis Island.We were allowed to split up into smaller groups and roam. David pulled me aside and asked if I would venture with him. I gladly agreed, and the two of us shared the afternoon getting to know one another. After a couple of hours, we went to the gift shop, where he bought us Coke and rock candy, and we sat on a bench to continue talking. I think we were both surprised by how much we had in common, and how well we got along! From there, the rest is history!

Next to her dad Joseph Carlig III.

 7. How do you think you can perform better, working independently, or working collaboratelly in a group, and why? I am definitely a person who performs best working collaboratively in a group. This probably stems from a lifetime of team sports. In middle school, I picked up synchronized swimming - a time intensive sport in which learning to work cooperatively, patiently and efficiently are necessities. Throughout the tasks on The Apprentice, I noticed myself using many of the team-player mentality tactics I used as a synchronized swimmer. I enjoy bouncing ideas back and forth with teammates. Hearing other's ideas and feedback helps improve concepts and make them more marketable to a larger audience. Also, though there may be a project manager, I always believe that there is no "I" in "Team." Leaders who respect this rule are more often than not the ones who are successful.

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Houston Texans, Tennessee Titans Brawl Results In Hair Loss & Fines

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Actor Leslie Nielsen, Naked Gun and Airplane, Dead at 84

What made Leslie Nielsen so funny was for the last third of his long career he poked fun of his own serioes image. I remember him primarly for his fine dramtic roles, many times as the heavy or just the straight good guy. But his appearance in Airplane changed his image and he ended up very well in comedic. roles. It’s not an easy transition from drama to comedy. Comedy is much harder to do, and Nielsen did seamlessly.

Rediff reports that Canadian-American actor Leslie Nielsen, who famously switched from dramatic roles to comedy towards the tail-end of a long and successful career, died Sunday of complications related to pneumonia.

He was 84.

Nielson broke into Hollywood in the 1950s, where, owing to his striking good looks, he soon found himself typecast as usually a serious autocrat or a handsome ladies' man. He enjoyed success in this vein for many years, including as the captain of a sinking ocean liner in 1972's

The Poseidon Adventure. But with 1980's Airplane!, Nielson's showed that he'd actually always been closet comedian. Straight-laced, deadpan delivery of absurd lines quickly become his trademark, and the style was reprised in TV show Police Squad! and the wildly successful Naked Gun trilogy, which brought Nielson further critical and commercial success.

After Naked Gun, Nielson starred in a string of late-1990s comedies, including Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Spy Hard, and Mr Magoo.




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3 Michigan Boys missing Andrew 9, Alexander 7 and Tanner Skelton 5 since Friday

Ever so often I like to scan stories from different states. This story from Michigan quickly caught my attention. It hasn’t hit the national news, but it deserves the attention.

TheDetriot News reports that an overflow crowd of more than 200 people from Ohio and Michigan came to Morenci United Methodist Church for a brief vigil for three missing boys tonight.

As they left, there were many hugs and evidence of even more tears as the community tried to come to grips with the disappearance of Andrew, Alexander and Tanner Skelton.

"It's just a terrible time," said Iola Burton, who attended the service with her husband, Wally. "It's just so sad that it takes an event like this to bring our community together."

Teams are regrouping for another wave of searching Monday in Lenawee County near the Ohio border for the boys police fear are in "extreme danger," left by their father with a stranger just before he attempted suicide.

A task force of law enforcement agencies that include the Morenci police, FBI, the Lenawee and Fulton County, Ohio, sheriff's departments and the Michigan State Police, is looking for the boys, ages 9, 7, and 5, who were reported missing Friday.

The crowd at the church Sunday evening spilled out of the available pews requiring additional chairs to be brought in. In a solemn service, those in attendance filed to the front of the church to light a vigil candle. In the background an unaccompanied piano played seasonal songs including "Peace on Earth" and "O Holy Night."

Relatives of the missing trio were on hand but did not address the crowd, which included several people still wearing yellow safety vests after participating in afternoon searches.
Bob Dister, a lay leader at the church, thanked the congregation for their outpouring of support and said of the boys' family members: "They know your love."

Meanwhile, Morenci officials will close city hall Monday so the building can serve as the operational headquarters for the search operations.

"We are not leaving any stones unturned," Morenci Police Chief Larry Weeks said.

Investigators completed a search today at Harrison Lake State Park in northwest Ohio, about 10 miles south of Morenci, but turned up no clues, according to the Fulton County Sheriff's Department.

Police issued an "Amber Alert" for the boys Friday, after their father, John Skelton, 39, said he turned the boys over to a woman named Joann Taylor, asking her to take them to the boys' mother. Skelton then attempted suicide by hanging.

After he failed, he contacted an acquaintance who took him to an Ohio hospital.

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How the U.S. government should respond to WikiLeaks.

The Weekly Standard reports that the editors at Der Spiegel can’t contain themselves. Even before publication of the WikiLeaks documents, they’ve taken to their website to announce jubilantly that the leaking of these documents “is nothing short of a political meltdown for US foreign policy.”

Nonsense.

And the Obama administration and Congress can, acting together, ensure that this is nonsense. They can even turn this disgraceful crime into a moment of American strength. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has properly given our allies and others a heads-up as to what is coming. But that should be it. From now on, a policy of no comment about anything in any of these documents should be the absolute rule. No apologies, no complaints, no explanations, no excuses. No present or former government official should deign to discuss anything in these documents.

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Sen John McCain compares Sarah Palin to Ronald Reagan

What separates Sarah Palin from other Republicans is she’s not afraid to articulate conservatism-period.



We have too many whipish Republicans that are more concerned about being loved by the media to offer bold colors instead of pale pastels.



Thank God we have Mark Rubio on the man’s side of the ledger too. He’s not even in the Senate and already out Reagans all the GOP already there.



The Washington Post reports McCain compared his former running mate, Sarah Palin, to former President Ronald Reagan, noting that some viewed Reagan as divisive too. "I think that anybody who has the visibility that Sarah has is obviously going to have some divisiveness," McCain said. "I remember that a guy named Ronald Reagan used to be viewed by some as divisive. ... I think she had a positive impact on the last election, and I'm proud of her."



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Obama’s DOJ encouraged 11 Foreign Countries to file suit against Arizona over Immigration Law Video

If you believe in American sovereignty, this video will make your blood boil.

Left Coast Rebel via Maggie's Notebook has this video about the potential interference of adjudicating Arizona's border enforcement law by foreign nations and the seeming complicity of Eric Holder and the oxymoronically named Obama justice department.



Its stuff like this that caused the conservative tidal wave on election day. Pass this video to all your friends and family to get the word out.

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Jenni-Lyn Watson's Remains Believed to Be Found

CBS News reports that 20-year-old Pennsylvania student who vanished last week while on Thanksgiving break in her hometown was killed by her on-again, off-again boyfriend, who then dumped her body in a park "like garbage," a prosecutor said Saturday.

Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said 21-year-old Steven Pieper of Liverpool, N.Y., had been arrested on a charge of murder in the death of Jenni-Lyn Watson, a junior dance major at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa.

He was scheduled to be arraigned Saturday night in Clay town court. Pieper did not have a phone number listed at his home address.

A message left at a relative's house was not immediately returned Saturday. It was unclear whether he had an attorney yet. Eden Mishler, a dance major who had met Watson three years ago during her freshman year at Mercyhurst College, told The Associated Press that she had met Pieper several times but didn't know him that well.

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U.S. Carrier in Korean Seas as North Warns of ‘Brink of War’

NewsMax reports that the U.S. and South Korea were set to begin naval exercises in the waters west of the Korean Peninsula today, a show of force that North Korea warned would bring the region to the “brink of war.”

U.S. Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the U.S. is trying to prevent the tensions over North Korea’s attack on a South Korean island on the disputed maritime border from escalating into a more significant confrontation.

“We’re very focused on restraint and not letting this thing get out of control,” Mullen told CNN in an interview scheduled for broadcast today on “Fareed Zakaria GPS” and posted on the network’s Website.

“Nobody wants this thing to turn into a conflict.”
North Korea’s shelling of Yeonpyeong, which killed four people and wounded 20 more, raised tensions that flared after an international inquiry concluded that North Korea torpedoed the South Korean warship Cheonan in March and more recently following North Korean claims of advances in its nuclear program.

The Korean won was Asia’s worst-performing currency against the dollar Nov. 26 as the conflict continued. The Kospi stock index fell 1.3 percent. The tension also contributed to gains for the dollar, which rose the most since August against six major counterparts.

‘Defensive’ Drill

The U.S. called the four days of naval drills, which include the aircraft carrier USS George Washington and four smaller warships, “defensive in nature” and said they were initially planned before the Nov. 23 shelling of Yeonpyeong.

The nuclear-powered carrier, which holds about 85 aircraft and is served by a crew of 6,500, was last in waters off the Korean Peninsula in July as part of drills after the Cheonan’s sinking, which killed 46 sailors.

Kim Jong Il’s regime warned that any infringement of North Korea’s sovereignty would spark another attack.
“Escalated confrontation would lead to a war,” a North Korean government agency in charge of relations with South Korea said in a statement on the state-run Korean Central News Agency. “Gone are the days when verbal warnings are served only.”

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Lesbian-Only (Pearl's Rainbow) reort in Key West Florida opened its doors to guys because of reccession

I didn’t know Key West has become such a Gay haven. They even have a Gay police chief and a Gay Chamber of Commerce.



Sounds like seggreagation to me.



The Daily Mail reports that over this Thanksgiving weekend, Key West's only lesbian-exclusive resort is going 'all welcome' for the first time.



The decision was made public around the same time Pearl's Rainbow resort was honored in October by Curve, the best-selling lesbian magazine, as the guesthouse that had the greatest impact on lesbian culture in the past 20 years.



Pearl's Rainbow's lesbian owner, Heather Carruthers, said it was a business decision based on tough economic realities and requests of some lesbian guests who would like to bring male family members or friends.

She said lesbians were being more accepted and felt more comfortable in the mainstream these days.



She said: 'They can hold hands wherever they want to. It's really the world we want to have. We don't necessarily want to be segregated.



But her 'all welcome' decision is not sitting well with all gay and lesbian businesses in the area.



Tinlin, who runs three of Key West's nine major all-men gay guesthouses, replied 'certainly not' when asked if he would be allowing women onto his premises.



He added: 'Our business is down because of the economy and BP oil spill, but it's very important for this destination to maintain its all-gay reputation.''



Idyllic setting: Miss Carruthers said Pearl's enjoyed initial popularity because of the guesthouse's central Key West location and relaxing amenities



Key West, with a population of around 25,000, has a gay police chief, gay president of the Rotary Club, more than 400 members of its gay chamber of commerce and several elected gay officials - including Miss Carruthers, a Monroe County commissioner.



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New York woman leaps to her death on Westside of Manhattan

The New York Post repors that the victim – who hasn’t been identified – leapt just before 9 a.m. from one of the upper floors of 505 West 37th Street near Tenth Avenue, authorities said. The luxury apartment building is located a block from the Javits Convention Center.

She was pronounced dead at the scene.

The impact of the woman’s fall was so powerful that it split the concrete sidewalk where she landed.

The investigation into the apparent suicide is ongoing.

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Bikini Saturday Night 11-27-10

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Shocking Video: Savages (Crazed Shoppers) rush into a Buffalo Target Store on Black Friday

That right, these people are a bunch of savages that look like they were raised by wolves.

They ought to be ashamed for acting like a bunch of wild animals just to save a few bucks.

The Drudge Repot reports that shoppers waited out in the cold wet weather for hours. When the doors opened at 4 a.m. the Black Friday chaos turned ugly.

Seconds after the doors opened, something went dangerously wrong. Crazed Black Friday shoppers began piling up on each other.

"It went from controlled to a mob in less than five minutes and it just got nasty," said a shopper.


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TSA agents grope and humiliate female passenger because of her sanitary towel

This insamity has to end!



People with disabilities, the elderly, and other with various physical issues are really being hurt the most by these stupid procedures.



How much longer will Americans 4th amendment rights be trampled?



TheDaily Mail reports that a female passenger has claimed that she was assaulted by TSA agents when she was ordered to be patted down because her sanitary towel showed up on the body scanner.



The woman was wearing a flannel panty liner, that evidently aroused suspicion, causing her to endure what she described as a 'horrible' experience.



Humiliated by her experience, the unidentified Army vet wrote to women's health company Gladrags to detail what happened.



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Feds and Oregon Police foil bombing plot by Somali-born American citizen Mohamed Osman Mohamud

Thank God the FBI and state and local police in Oregon were on the case of this plot. This American citizen that was born in Somalia needs to be also charged with treason against the United States.

Unfortunately, its only a matter of time before one of these bomb plots are successful in an American city. It doesn’t have to be New York, Los Angeles or Chicago.


The Oregonian reports that the FBI thwarted an attempted terrorist bombing in Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square before the city's annual tree-lighting Friday night, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Oregon.

A Corvallis man, thinking he was going to ignite a bomb, drove a van to the corner of the square at Southwest Yamhill Street and Sixth Avenue and attempted to detonate it.

However, the supposed explosive was a dummy that FBI operatives supplied to him, according to an affidavit in support of a criminal complaint signed Friday night by U.S. Magistrate Judge John V. Acosta.

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, a Somali-born U.S. citizen, was arrested at 5:42 p.m., 18 minutes before the tree lighting was to occur, on an accusation of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.

The arrest was the culmination of a long-term undercover operation, during which Mohamud had been monitored for months as his alleged bomb plot developed.

"The device was in fact inert, and the public was never in danger," according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office.

The investigation involved the FBI, Oregon State Police, Portland Police Bureau, Corvallis Police Department and Lincoln County Sheriff's Office.

Mohamud will appear in U.S. District Court in Portland on Monday.
"This defendant's chilling determination is a stark reminder that there are people -- even here in Oregon -- who are determined to kill Americans," said Oregon U.S. Attorney Dwight Holton.

"The good work of law enforcement protected Oregonians in this case -- and we have no reason to believe there is any continuing threat arising from this case." According to the FBI affidavit, the case began in August 2009 when Mohamud was in e-mail contact with an unindicted associate overseas who was believed to be involved in terrorist activities. In December 2009, while the unindicted associate was in a frontier province of Pakistan, Mohamud and the associate discussed the possibility of Mohamud traveling to Pakistan to participate in violent jihad.

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Unmerciful Violence Hungry Pakistan Muslims threaten anarchy if Assia Bibi, a Christian woman is not put to death

As I previously reported, the sage of the blood thirty Muslims in Pakistan continues.

The so-called practitioners of a so-called peaceful religion known as Islam want to see a Christian woman, Asia Bibi hang by the neck for allegedly insulting the prophet Mohammad.

I’m still waiting for the so-called moderate Muslims around the world, President Obama included, to condemn this quest for death. But, so far they remain silent as they usually do.

Google News reports that Pakistani Muslims threatened protests and anarchy if the government pardons a Christian mother sentenced to death for blasphemy, calling hundreds of demonstrators onto the streets on Friday.

Demonstrators marched in the eastern city of Lahore after the most influential Sunni Muslim alliance in Pakistan urged the government not to grant mother-of-five Aasia Bibi clemency.
A crowd of several hundred called for "Jihad" and pledged to sacrifice their lives to protect the honour of the Prophet Mohammad, an AFP reporter said.

The rally was organised by a subsidiary of banned charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), which the United Nations has blacklisted as a terrorist organization.

"We will hold nationwide protests if the government pardons the Christian woman," the subsidiary's chief coordinator, Qari Yaqub, told participants.

Politicians and conservative clerics have been at loggerheads over whether President Asif Ali Zardari should pardon Bibi, who was sentenced on November 8 to hang under controversial blasphemy laws for defaming the Prophet Mohammed.

"The pardon would lead to anarchy in the country," the head of the Sunni Ittehad Council, Sahibzada Fazal Kareem, told AFP.
"Our stand is very clear that this punishment cannot be waived."

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Argentine Woman (Elvira Gomez ) Says Father Raped Her for 30 Years

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CBS News reports that an Argentine woman has accused her father of sexually abusing her for 30 years and having 10 children with her, including one who killed himself after learning that his grandfather was his father.

Elvira Gomez, 43, did not report the alleged abuse until her father, Armando Gomez, was recently arrested for robbery.

"I felt that I was a worse than a prisoner for 30 years because I couldn't even talk with anybody. He raped me, beat me for any reason, didn't let me approach other people and always had a loaded gun. He told me: 'I'm going to go to prison, but I'm going to kill you first,"' Gomez said in comments published Friday in the newspaper Clarin.

DNA tests reported this week confirmed that nine of her 10 children were with her father. Tests could not be carried out on her remaining son because he is dead. Elvira Gomez said she didn't have the courage to report the abuse until now because "since I was a girl he beat me with whatever he had in his hand: a rod or a machete which cut me all over. I spent days in bed."

Her mother died when she was 20 months old, she said. "Nothing can remove from my head the idea that he did something to her," Gomez said, speaking to the newspaper from her poor home in the village of Nicanor Molinos in Santa Fe province.

She said her eldest son committed suicide before he reached 18 when he learned the truth about his father. "I always thought he had decided to take his life because of a fight with his girlfriend, but they found a letter explaining it, that he had learned that his grandfather was his father," Gomez said.

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Obama gets shellacked on basketball court requiring 12 stitches on upper lip

“Did you get the number of the truck that hit me?” Poor President Obama is having a very rough November. Maybe he should switch sports to bowling? Gutter balls won’t hurt him. I think.

CNN reports that apparently no good deed goes unpunished for President Barack Obama, who was trying to make sure he didn't get a flabby belly after Thanksgiving but wound up with a fat lower lip instead.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the president received a dozen stitches after getting hit with an errant elbow during a Friday morning basketball game with White House aide Reggie Love and others at the Fort McNair military base in Washington.

Fox News reports that President Barack Obama needed 12 stitches in his upper lip after taking an errant elbow during a pickup basketball game Friday morning with family and friends visiting for the Thanksgiving holiday, the White House said.

First word of the injury came in a statement from press secretary Robert Gibbs nearly three hours after the incident.

The White House did not initially name the person who caused the injury, but identified him later Friday as Rey Decerega, director of programs for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.

Obama received the stitches under local anesthesia in the doctor's office on the ground floor of the White House after returning home. Doctors used a smaller filament than typically used, which increases the number of stitches but makes a tighter stitch and leaves a smaller scar.

The president had gone to nearby Fort McNair to indulge in a game of basketball, one of his favorite athletic pursuits. It was a five-on-five contest involving family and friends. Among the players were Obama's nephew, Avery Robinson, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Reggie Love, Obama's personal assistant, who played at Duke University.

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Rumor has that Rey Decerega hit Obama intentionally because the president failed to push immagration reform.

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Blame the Brits: Karzai aide blames British for bringing Taliban impostor to talks

When in doubt, blame the Brits! Just kidding, I have a lot of British readers of this blog. But this really is a funny story that’s leaving egg on the faces of all concerned that got bamboozled by a con man.



The Washington Post reports that President Hamid Karzai's chief of staff on Thursday said that British authorities were responsible for bringing a Taliban impostor into the presidential palace and that foreigners should stay out of delicate negotiations with the Afghan insurgent group.



In an interview, Mohammad Umer Daudzai said that the British brought a man purporting to be Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, a senior Taliban leader, to meet Karzai in July or August but that an Afghan at the meeting knew "this is not the man."



Afghan intelligence later determined that the visitor was actually a shopkeeper from the Pakistani city of Quetta, he said.



"This shows that this process should be Afghan-led and fully Afghanized," Daudzai said. "The last lesson we draw from this: International partners should not get excited so quickly with those kind of things. . . . Afghans know this business, how to handle it. We handle it with care, we handle it with a result-based approach, with very less damage to all the other processes."



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Maybe the British should reconsider cutting their Intelligence budget?



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Bikini babe Nicola McLean says 32G boobs aren’t big enough

Is bigger better when it comes to breast size?

I say hell yes!

The Sun reports that es-I'm A Celebrity babe Nicola McLean is big up top Down Under as she takes a stroll in the Australian surf.

Nicola - back in Oz for ITV2 spin-off Get Me Out Of Here Now! - showed off her 32G boobs in a teeny bikini.

And the former glamour model has told pals she wants to make her bust even BIGGER - despite her enhanced cleavage causing her such back pain that she has to make weekly visits to a doctor.

Nicola, 29, had a baby son called Striker in March with footballer hubby Tom Williams.

She has shocked some viewers who think she looks too skinny after shedding her baby weight.

Others say her slim frame makes her boobs look too big.
But a pal said yesterday: "Nicola has been saying she is not happy with how she looks and wants her breasts to be even bigger.

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Sarah Palin fires back with a Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States

The Leftist blogoshere really had an orgasm today pointing out Sarah Palin’s verbal gaffe of referring to North Korea as an ally of the United States.

It was a slip up in a Glenn Beck radio show in which any person listening to the interview knew it was only a slip of the tongue, nothing more, nothing less.

But the Lefty media who hate Palin with a passion made more of it than it was to try to portray Palin as somehow less than intelligent than the average community organizer.

It’s really pathetic given the fact of the numerous verbal missteps perpetrated by Barack Obama that the media conveniently ignores because they love him so much. And they have the brown noses to prove it.

However, Palin points out a few in this response to the media frenzy.

The Lefty media should feel really stupid and hollow right about now.


From Sarah Palin via Facebook

My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate – from the FBI’s 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system. We know that countries like Europe are willing to stand with us in our fight to halt the rise of privacy, and Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. And let’s face it, everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma and they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and ah, a breathalyzer, or an inhalator. I mean, not a breathalyzer, ah, I don’t know what the term is in Austrian for that…

Of course, the paragraph above is based on a series of misstatements and verbal gaffes made by Barack Obama (I didn’t have enough time to do one for Joe Biden). YouTube links are provided just in case you doubt the accuracy of these all too human slips-of-the-tongue. If you can’t remember hearing about them, that’s because for the most part the media didn’t consider them newsworthy. I have no complaint about that. Everybody makes the occasional verbal gaffe – even news anchors.

Obviously, I would have been even more impressed if the media showed some consistency on this issue. Unfortunately, it seems they couldn’t resist the temptation to turn a simple one word slip-of-the-tongue of mine into a major political headline. The one word slip occurred yesterday during one of my seven back-to-back interviews wherein I was privileged to speak to the American public about the important, world-changing issues before us.

If the media had bothered to actually listen to all of my remarks on Glenn Beck’s radio show, they would have noticed that I refer to South Korea as our ally throughout, that I corrected myself seconds after my slip-of-the-tongue, and that I made it abundantly clear that pressure should be put on China to restrict energy exports to the North Korean regime. The media could even have done due diligence and checked my previous statements on the subject, which have always been consistent, and in fact even ahead of the curve. But why let the facts get in the way of a good story? (And for that matter, why not just make up stories out of thin air – like the totally false hard news story which has run for three days now reporting that I lobbied the producers of “Dancing with the Stars” to cast a former Senate candidate on their show. That lie is further clear proof that the media completely makes things up without doing even rudimentary fact-checking.)

“Hope springs eternal” as the poet says. Let’s hope that perhaps, just maybe, they might get it right next time. When we the people are effective in holding America’s free press accountable for responsible and truthful reporting, then we shall all have even more to be thankful for!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

- Sarah Palin
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Connecticut Muslim woman (Marisol Rodriguez-Colon) pulls discrimination card against Ron-A-Roll rink

Let’s cry a river for this poor woman that wasn’t allowed to skate because she wouldn’t remove her headscarf.



Let’s ignore the liability issues involved if her scarf were fly off her head and a little kid falls and breaks their neck and dies.



Muslims are supposed to be treated differently because their religious faith is so much higher than everyone else’s. They are the peaceful ones and if you say differently, they’ll kill you for it.





The New York Post reports that a Muslim woman claims that a Connecticut roller-skating rink discriminated against her because it wouldn't allow her to skate in her headscarf.



Marisol Rodriguez-Colon, 40, said she was "mortified" when she and another female relative showed up for a niece's birthday party at the Ron-A-Roll rink in Vernon and were barred at the door.



The venue's rules, posted at the entrance, read: "No Hats. No Headwear. No Exceptions."



Colon said her religious hijab shouldn't count under that policy -- and tried to appeal to a rink manager.



"We wear this for religious reasons," Colon said. "But they didn't want to hear that."

The manager, Colon said, gave the women two choices: take off the headscarves, or wear a helmet over them.



Taking off the hijabs was "not an option," Colon told WTIC-TV in Hartford.



She said she has worn the traditional headscarf for 16 years and has it on "wherever I go."



She and the other relative went back to their car and missed the party.



"I wear this with pride," Colon said. "I was mortified -- by asking someone to wear a helmet you are actually ostracizing us.



"You are singling us out and showing everyone there is an issue -- that something is wrong with these two women."



Ron-A-Roll management issued a statement spelling out its "no headwear" policy. It said helmets are offered for safety purposes.



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Muslims are very good at, pulling out red hearings to divert people’s attention from the real issue. This was not a case of discrimination; it was a case of customer non-compliance with a rule set up for the safety of all skaters.



Everything else Miss Colon feels is totally besides the point and another public play for sympathy for the Left-leaning media who I’m sure is salivating to give it to her.



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