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Olympics

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:22:21 GMT

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"It's interesting to me how effective sports fans are at being in denial," said Daniel Mahony, a dean at Kent State who has done sports management research into fan behavior.

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But, he added, "Now it's become harder and harder for people to do that."

Torres even volunteered to take part in a stringent pilot drug-testing program administered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

"That's crucial public relations on her part," said Bob Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse.

The drum beat of idiocy...

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:00:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Capt Fogg nails it again: patriotism trumps any type of reason in our (right wing) politics...

Will anyone actually listen to what the candidates has to say on the issues? Or is it all decided based on imagery...

Clip Source: fogghorn.blogspot.com

Am I imagining it, or has our military in effect seceeded from mainstream American culture?

What I'm seeing is the search for another Commander Guy who has never had a doubt about anything the US has done or a scruple about anything we might do in the future: another strutting drum major, another prancing cheerleader who knows nothing about economics, history world affairs, international politics - but looks good in a flight suit. Five years in jail trumps five years at Harvard and hot rod Johnnie doesn't have a wife who ever had a doubt about American exceptionalism whether it be about Slavery, wounded knee, Jim Crow, the trail of tears, the Chinese exclusion act, Joe McCarthy, Father Caughlin, the internment of American citizens of Japanese ancestry, Kent State, the Gulf of Tonkin hoax, the WMD hoax, the Niger Uranium hoax or abu Ghraib. We're number one.

Tags: obama, mccain, military

Central Intelligence Agency Library

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:38:10 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cia.gov

Central Intelligence Agency

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Tags: central intelligence agency, library, cia, research, reference, knowldge

Three Broadcast Networks Earned A Big Fat Zero

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:51:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and former U.N. ambassador and assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke also benefited, as did one prominent Republican — former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson.

Shalala and Holbrooke had left public office when they got their deals. But it was reasonable for Mozilo to think they'd serve again in another Democratic administration.

And what, many wonder, was the quid pro quo for all this?

Just a month ago, in unusually harsh language, Dodd ripped into President Bush on the subprime mess and defended a $400 billion plan that would bail out the subprime lending industry — including Mozilo.

The Democrats' initial response has been to stall. They hope the problem will disappear until after the election. They need to investigate it fully, immediately and without prejudice — or risk having it blow up in their faces.

Clip Source: www.ibdeditorials.com

The firing of Democrat insider and money-man Jim Johnson a week ago as head of Barack Obama's vice presidential search committee came as no surprise.

Obama has railed specifically against Mozilo's company

At one point, he even demonized Mozilo for "infecting the economy and helping to create a home foreclosure crisis."

Now it turns out that Johnson wasn't the only Democratic F.O.A. — friend of Angelo.

Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, head of the Senate Banking Committee that oversees Countrywide, also was a recipient of Mozilo's mortgage largesse. So was Kent Conrad, the North Dakotan who chairs the Finance Committee and sits on the Budget Committee.

Dodd's case is illustrative. He took out two mortgages with no closing costs attached, at fixed rates of 4.25% and 4.5%.

Conrad didn't even know Mozilo. But he phoned him anyway, and got a great deal: a low-interest, virtually no-cost loan to buy a $1 million beach getaway. Favoritism? No way, says Conrad.

Nor were Conrad and Dodd alone.

Tags: obama's vp "vetter", jim johnson, chris dodd, senate banking committee, countrywide, kent conrad, finance committee, budget committee

You've got to be kidding me.

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:05:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ... And here I am sitting in an empty apartment.

Disgusting.

Clip Source: www.usatoday.com

Sex offender wins $57 million lottery jackpot

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The winner of last week's $57 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot is a registered sex offender who also pleaded guilty to two breaking and entering charges in the 1980s.

Fred Topous Jr., 45, was discharged from Michigan Department of Corrections supervision in October 2006.

The Kent City man traveled to Lansing on Tuesday to claim the prize from Friday's drawing in the multistate game. Topous chose to take the prize as a $34 million lump sum payment, before taxes.

Topous said he planned to buy a house, send his children to college and have some fun with his winnings. He said he and his wife work multiple jobs to make ends meet and thought they'd have to work till they died.

"I want to enjoy a little bit of life," Topous told state lottery officials. "We're plain folks. We've struggled all our lives."

Quadriplegic sailor sets sail... using only her breath to power her boat

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:13:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Mrs Lister's progress will be posted on her website www.hilarylister.com

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

A record-breaking quadriplegic sailor is set to sail solo round the British Isles using controls powered by her breath after technical problems forced her to postpone her challenge.

Hilary Lister, 36, from Canterbury, Kent, will today embark on her journey sailing clockwise around the British coast from Dover, seven days after she initially hoped.

Despite having no movement below her neck, she will use a sip-and-puff system of straws to control the sails and tiller of her state-of-the-art boat, an Artemis 20, with just her breath.

Mrs Lister, who is only able to move her head, eyes and mouth, first entered the record books in August 2005 when she became the first quadriplegic to sail solo across the English Channel.

In a second record-breaking challenge, she solo circumnavigated the Isle of Wight in July last year, becoming the first female quadriplegic to do so.

Tags: able, quadriplegic, sailing, respect!

4 day workweek to save gas.

Fri, 30 May 2008 03:43:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: this seems like a good idea- especially for rural areas that have limited public transportation.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

CINCINNATI (Reuters) - When Ohio's Kent State University offered custodial staff the option of working four days a week instead of five to cut commuting costs, most jumped at the chance, part of a U.S. trend aimed at combating soaring gasoline prices.

"We offered it to 94 employees and 78 have taken us up on it," said university spokesman Scott Rainone.

The reason is simple: rising gas prices and a desire to retain good workers. And while so far only the university's custodians are eligible, Rainone hopes the option will be offered to all departments

Some 44 percent of respondents said they have changed the way they commute -- doing things such as sharing a ride or driving a more fuel-efficient car -- or are working from home or looking for a closer job in order to reduce gasoline costs, according to staffing services company Robert Half International. That's up from 34 percent two years ago.

Tags: us recession, us economy, fuel crisis

Remember Kent State shootings

Tue, 06 May 2008 01:47:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Scott Ritter: they were defending our Constitution

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

Kent, Ohio - The shooting deaths 38 years ago of four Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard need to be seen as a gift, ‘a lesson’ to the entire United States, a former United Nations weapons inspector said yesterday.

The retired Marine is a former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq and a critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

Ritter said whatever their feelings about the Iraq war, people should never denigrate the service provided by the Americans fighting there because they are willing to die for us.

“Have we done everything we can to ensure the sacrifice that they are prepared to make is in a cause worthy of the sacrifice?” Ritter said. “And I will tell you, no, we have not.”

The rights of American freedom of speech and assembly were trampled ‘on this very spot,’ shortly after students buried a copy of the U.S. Constitution near where the memorial stands to protest their government’s actions, Ritter said.

Those protesters were defending the Constitution, he said.

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4 arrested at Kent State anti-war march

Mon, 05 May 2008 23:10:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: [qoute]"I'm pleasantly astounded by these kids today," said Arthrell, a teacher in the Cleveland City Schools. "They're really making a stand for a better world ... This is democracy's finest moment, when people take the initiative to change something on their own." There is an eerie similarity between 1970 and 2008. While I searched for yesterdays clip, I found articles about Viet Nam casualties, civilian deaths, Nixon's crimes. Substitute Iraq for Viet Nam and it all seems the same.

Clip Source: www.michaelmoore.com

May 5th, 2008 4:49 pm
May 4 commemoration ends with arrests War protesters refuse to leave bridge in Kent

By Matt Fredmonsky and Dave O'Brien / Record-Courier

KENT, OH — An anti-war march and protest in downtown Kent following Sunday's commemoration of the 38th anniversary of the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State University resulted in four arrests.

protesters who sat down in the middle of Kent's West Main Street bridge

The march, organized by the Kent State Anti-War Committee and the Portage Peace Coalition, began on campus and proceeded west along East Main Street, stopping at the KSU U.S. Air Force ROTC building in the Terrace Annex to post paper peace signs on the doors

Police clad in riot helmets and armed with pepper-ball guns attempted to re-open the bridge to vehicle traffic

early on officers stood by and allowed the protesters to chant, dance, play music and hang signs from the bridge

Tags: anti-war, arrests, kent state

Headline May 4, 1970

Sun, 04 May 2008 22:08:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

This reporter, who was with the group of students, did not see any indication of sniper fire, nor was the sound of any gunfire audible before the Guard volley. Students, conceding that rocks had been thrown, heatedly denied that there was any sniper.

Gov. James A. Rhodes called on J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to aid in looking into the campus violence. A Justice Department spokesman said no decision had been made to investigate. At 2:10 this afternoon, after the shootings, the university president, Robert I. White, ordered the university closed for an indefinite time, and officials were making plans to evacuate the dormitories and bus out-of-state students to nearby cities.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Kent, Ohio, May 4 -- Four students at Kent State University, two of them women, were shot to death this afternoon by a volley of National Guard gunfire. At least 8 other students were wounded.
The burst of gunfire came about 20 minutes after the guardsmen broke up a noon rally on the Commons, a grassy campus gathering spot, by lobbing tear gas at a crowd of about 1,000 young people
In Washington, President Nixon deplored the deaths of the four students in the following statement:

"This should remind us all once again that when dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy. It is my hope that this tragic and unfortunate incident will strengthen the determination of all the nation's campuses, administrators, faculty and students alike to stand firmly for the right which exists in this country of peaceful dissent and just as strong against the resort to violence as a means of such expression."
the Assistant Adjutant General, said the troops had opened fire after they were shot at by a sniper.

Tags: 4 dead, protest, kent state

History to remember: The Orangeburg Massacre

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:09:15 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Murder by the S. Carolina State Patrol of Samuel Hammond, Delano Middleton and Henry Smith, martyrs in the battle for desegregation. The incident received little coverage, compared to Kent State. The only person jailed was one of the black demonstrators; all the troopers were acquitted.

Clip Source: www.truthdig.com

Feb. 8, 1968

Students at South Carolina State University were protesting for access to the town’s only bowling alley

Cleveland Sellers

“It was a cold night ... this was the fourth day of activities around the effort to desegregate the bowling alley. ... The students had built a bonfire to keep themselves warm and build morale. They were trying to work out some strategy. What should they do next?

“The darkness turned to light as the police opened fire, nine highway patrolmen and one local police officer firing rifles and shotguns and pistols. It was a shock to many of the students that there was no bullhorns, no whistles, no anything that indicated that this kind of extremely lethal action would be taken

“It was a barrage of shots ... maybe six or seven seconds.

Students was hollering, yelling and running. ... I got up to run, and I took one step, and that’s all I could remember.

I got hit in the back ... this was when I got paralyzed. Students was trampling over me, because they was afraid.”

Tags: orangeburg, race, history, murder

Police Seeks ID Of Abused Girls

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:05:52 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cnn.com

(CNN) -- Police in Hallandale Beach, Florida, are looking for at least two victims of underage sexual abuse seen in videotapes found in the apartment of a man arrested last week on child pornography charges.

Matthew Kent Sheley, 36, is being held in a Broward County jail on $110,000 bond after being charged Friday with 11 counts of possession of child pornography. He does not yet have an attorney, according to the county state attorney's office.

Sheley was arrested after police received five videos showing attacks on two girls, both about 7 to 9 years old, from a property manager cleaning up an apartment where Sheley recently lived, Hallandale Beach police spokesman Andrew Casper said.

"It's pretty graphic," property manager Martin Halladey said.

Although the faces of neither Sheley nor the girls are shown in the video, police identified him through star tattoos on his left arm and hand that are seen in the video, Casper said.

No more beer at the barbershop!

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:11:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Guess its no longer worth the wait either?!

Clip Source: blog.mlive.com

No beer at barbershop, attorney general says

GRAND RAPIDS -- The owner of Jude's Barbershops, which had offered a free beer with a cut, is disappointed in a state Attorney General ruling that says he needs a liquor license if he wants to hand out beer.

"I'm glad we finally got clarity on the issue," Thomas Martin said today. "Offering a complimentary beer is not something that we created, it's an old-fashioned service that was done years ago. We just brought it back with the other old-fashioned services that we provide."

He said he would work with state legislators to legalize the practice.

Police in Kent and Ottawa counties had told him that handing out free beer violated local and state laws.

An assistant attorney general, in a five-page ruling, said only licensed businesses may offer beer.

Tags: humor, law and order, liquor license

Power grid narrowly averted rolling blackouts

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:43:21 GMT

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Clip Source: www.star-telegram.com

Some wholesale energy prices also spiked Tuesday evening -- especially in West Texas. ERCOT also reported that the drop in wind power led to constraints on the system between the north part of the state and the west.

Kent Saathoff, vice president for system operations at ERCOT, said Tuesday's event illustrates the inherent challenges associated with using wind power. Because the wind sometimes stops blowing without a moment's notice, engineers at ERCOT must remain nimble enough to respond to resulting instability on the grid, he said.

Tags: alternative energy, environment, industrial wind, wind farms, wind turbines

Top 15 Manipulated Photographs

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:41:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Photographs can lie, even when accompanied by a headline.

Clip Source: listverse.com

15. Harding and Kerrigan skate together

14. O.J. Simpson Covers

13. The Shark and the Helicopter

12. Tourist Guy

11. George Bush edited out

10. Kerry and Fonda Protest

9. Lukket’s 50s RAND Computer

8. 2006 Lebanon War Photographs

7. Katie Couric’s weight loss

6. Trotsky

5. Abraham Lincoln

4. Josef Stalin

3. Kent State

2. National Geographic

1. Political Correctness

Hoping to illustrate its diverse enrollment, the University of Wisconsin at Madison doctored a photograph on a brochure cover by digitally inserting a black student in a crowd of white football fans.

Tags: manipulated, photoshop, photoshopped, hoax