On Friday afternoon, two personalities from a morning radio program in Appleton, Wis., staged a mock funeral for Favre at a bar within sight of Lambeau Field.
By PAT BORZI
NYT
GREEN BAY, Wis. — For about 40 years, Jim Zeutzius has been going to Al’s Hamburgers, a downtown institution here since 1934 that is best known for its 15-stool lunch counter and a neon sign outside that reads, “Eat.” The two milkshake machines appear to be almost as old as Zeutzius, whoSource: Vox Verax RSS Feed
From the Times Newsweekly:
During the Oct. 5 meeting at Bethzatha Church of God in Elmhurst, COMET President Rosemarie Daraio told the 104th Precinct’s executive officer, Capt. Raymond DeWitt, and P.O. Thomas Bell of the Community Affairs Unit that vagrants have been occupying Cowbird Triangle, located at the confluence of Hamilton Place, Jay Avenue and Borden Avenue.
According to COMET’s newsletter, residents have also complained of homeless residents occupying another public Source: Queens Crap RSS Feed
Bank customers are increasingly being duped into acting as “money mules” for hackers, unwittingly laundering cash stolen from business bank accounts, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation warned the nation’s financial institutions on Thursday.
Using specialized Trojan horse malware, cybercrooks have been intercepting web-banking credentials from the computers of small and midsize businesses, and then initiating wire transfers to mules around the country. The mules areSource: Threat Level RSS Feed
THEY HAVEN'T GOT TIME READ THE BILLS THEY VOTE ON BUT THEY CAN PLAY SOLITAIRE AND CHECK BALL SCORES!!!
House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert, D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP)
The guy sitting in the row in front of these two... he's onSource: Theodore's World RSS Feed
NYTimes | These are heady times for advocates of legalized marijuana in California — and only in small part because of the newly relaxed approach of the federal government toward medical marijuana.
State lawmakers are holding a hearing on Wednesday on the effects of a bill that would legalize, tax and regulate the drug — in what would be the first such law in the United States. Tax officials estimate the legislation could bring the struggling state about $1.4 billion a year,Source: subrealism RSS Feed
Ofsted are coming - we're doomed!Autocratic regimes always employ legions of government inspectors. Their job is to tour round the various outposts of the centralised state and put the fear of God into local bureaucrats - to remind them who's boss.It was back in 1836 that Nikolai Gogol wrote his classic comedy about how the Czar's inspectors terrorised the officials of provincial towns in Russia. The play's joke is that the government inspector actually turns out to be a conman, who finally Source: British Blogs RSS Feed
A new poll of New York’s 23rd Congressional District from the Club For Growth, which is backing Conservative Party Candidate Doug Hoffman in the race, effectively shows that the race is now a statistical dead heat among all three candidates:
Washington – A poll released today by the Club for Growth shows Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman surging into the lead in the special election in New York’s 23rd congressional district to replace John McHugh, the former congressmanSource: Donklephant RSS Feed
This is something I meant to post on several weeks back when I first heard of it, but I didn’t get to it. Now Stars & Stripes has a story:
Army to phase in tan-colored Stryker vehicles
More than six years after sending the first Stryker armored vehicles into desert combat, the Army has decided that it’s probably a good idea to start painting them tan so they will blend in with the environments in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“Safeguarding soldiers is the primary purposeSource: Murdoc Online RSS Feed
Following reports that President Obama was “actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a state opt-out clause as part of health care reform,” White House Deputy Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer wrote on the White House blog that “those rumors are absolutely false.” “President Obama completely supports” the Democratic leadership’s efforts, Pfeiffer wrote.
A new report from Thomson Reuters has found that the U.S.Source: Think Progress RSS Feed
Obama spent the day golfing instead of making his long awaited decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan.
For weeks, President Obama has been indecisively dithering about whether to send more troops to Afghanistan to fight what he correctly calls a “war of necessity.” General Stanley A. McChrystal’s report, in which he requests more troops, was issued at the end of August.
The Commander in Chief, taking political heat for not having enough women in his innerSource: Red State RSS Feed
The world is upso down. FoxNews, in an editorial about the Obama Administration’s disdain for the network, and in as dramatic a style as they could muster, has compared itself to that left wing druggie journalist Hunter S. Thompson, while at the same time comparing the Obama White House to the Nixon White House. A comparison of FoxNews to a druggie? I can go with that, though Thompson certainly had a far higher ethical standard than FoxNews. Perhaps a more apt comparison would be to WilliamSource: All Spin Zone RSS Feed
Some have seen the original list of 26, but I felt compelled to few to add to my own to 46 and lets see if we can come up with a few more. I invite you to come up with some we missed in the comments section.
1. Offended the Queen of England.
2. Offended British PM By snubbing him and offering trade gifts that were a joke (DVD’s that wont play in England).
3. Offended the British People by returning a bust of Winston Churchill that they gave the United States (its like Source: PoliGazette RSS Feed
My latest book, Newspaper Days, has officially hit the market.
The book, which details my journalism career from my first job at the Newton County News in 1977 through my last days at The Carthage Press in 1999, can be ordered from Amazon.com for $18.95. E-books are available for $6.
The book includes a detailed account of the $1.5 billion libel suit that hastened my departure from newspapers, as well as giving a picture of a day before chain newspaper ownership thoroughlySource: The Turner Report RSS Feed
NYTimes | The first night after she surrendered her house to foreclosure, Sheri West endured the darkness in her Hyundai sedan. She parked in her old driveway, with her flower-print dresses and hats piled in boxes on the back seat, and three cherished houseplants on the floor. She used her backyard as a restroom.
The second night, she stayed with a friend, and so it continued for more than a year: Ms. West — mother of three grown children, grandmother to six and great-grandmother toSource: subrealism RSS Feed
19th century Pathans
The Pathans (as they used to call them in English), or Pashtuns (as is preferred currently), the largest ethnic group (c. 42,000,000 people) without a state, are the hosts of al Qaeda and Taliban’s prime recruiting base. Their inhospitable mountainous tribal homelands are the base of the insurgency in Afghanistan and the safe refuge of Islamic terrorism.
In their very significant paper No Sign until the Burst of Fire: Understanding theSource: Never Yet Melted RSS Feed
Ah, feel the eliminationism.
Rep. Gregg Harper, a Mississippi Republican, had a jocular interview with Politico's Anne Schroeder Mullins and popped out this little knee-slapper:
Mullins: What in the world does the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus do?
Harper: We hunt liberal, tree-hugging Democrats, although it does seem like a waste of good ammunition.
Coming from a congressman from a state still renowned for its lynchings and murders not just of black peopleSource: Crooks and Liars RSS Feed
The Oil Drum | Unfortunately I have had to miss the ASPO Meeting in Denver this week, and so cannot provide the daily reports that I have written in the past. But I notice that at least one of the talks has already caught a significant amount of press, and that is the one by Arthur Berman on the gas production from shale deposits such as the Barnett, Haynesville and Marcellus.
There has been a considerable hype in the press about the value of the gas from these shales, and the abilitySource: subrealism RSS Feed
RedState Morning Briefing
For October 19, 2009
Go to http://www.redstate.com/action/ for the name and phone number of your Senator. Call your Senator and demand opposition to the Baucus health care plan.
1. Barack Obama’s Budget Deficit Is Bigger Than His Ego
2. Fun With Ratings: How’s that Boycott Against Beck Working Out?
3. The Left is Shocked! Shocked! by Facebook Assassination Poll
4. Race Pimps and Their Funders
5. Holy Cow! ASource: Red State RSS Feed
From a badly conflicted Reuters:
Suicide bomber kills 29 in attack on Iran Guards
By Fredrik Dahl And Reza Derakhshi
TEHRAN (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed six senior Revolutionary Guards commanders and 23 other people on Sunday in one of the boldest attacks on Iran’s most powerful military institution…
State media said a local rebel group called Jundollah (God’s soldiers) claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest on the eliteSource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed
It appears that most Americans have now come to the understanding, with regard to Obama's capabilities and achievements, that I had before the election. He ain't up to the task (Welcome to the club but aren't you a little late?).
The latest Harris poll shows Mr. Wonderful's favorability rating amongst the public to be heading south faster than you can say "Change We Can Believe In."
In response to the question, "How would you rate the overall job President Barack Obama is doing?"Source: From On High RSS Feed
The Department of Defense released these photos as they announced on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009 the death of eight soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died Oct. 3 in Kamdesh, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their contingency outpost with small arms, rocket-propelled grenade and indirect fires. They were assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.Source: Theodore's World RSS Feed
Obama team makes it official: Budget deficit hits record. By a lot.
USA
The Obama administration has released new deficit numbers, and they are not pretty.
The deficit for Fiscal Year 2009, which ended Sept. 30, came in at a record $1.42 trillion, more than triple the record set just last year.
In addition, future deficits are currently projected to total $9.1 trillion in the coming decade.
What is common between Saudi and Chinese officials/leaders? Whenever they speak be prepared to leave a lot of room for interpretations. So let’s see what it means when Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal (the long-time director general of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service, the Al Mukhabarat Al Aamah, and the Saudi ambassador to the US) finds similarities between Osama bin-Laden and Robin Hood, a hero in English folklore.
In an article in the Oped page of the Christian Science Monitor,Source: The Moderate Voice RSS Feed
New Scientist | THERE are certain things you do not want to share with strangers. In my case it was a stream of highly personal text messages from my husband, sent during the early days of our relationship. Etched on my phone's SIM card - but invisible on my current handset and thus forgotten - here they now are, displayed in all their brazen glory on a stranger's computer screen.
I've just walked into a windowless room on an industrial estate in Tamworth, UK, where three cellphoneSource: subrealism RSS Feed
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These are dark depressing days for Cyclone fans. Not only is their football team just good enough to break their fans hearts, but ESPN Page 2 just disqualified the Cyclones in the College Football Tailgating Contest.
“Page 2 has banned Iowa State from the tournament. We received
The Republican National Committee (RNC) proudly launched its new website at GOP.com today, saying that it “will promote increased grassroots participation and innovation, better communication, improved platform compatibility and smarter marketing and fundraising tools for the GOP.” When a visitor goes to the site, the first thing he or she sees is a miniature floating Michael Steele walking onto the page with a greeting (similar in style to the old Microsoft Word Office Assistant):
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Wal-Mart was the victim of a serious security breach in 2005 and 2006 in which hackers targeted the development team in charge of the chain’s point-of-sale system and siphoned source code and other sensitive data to a computer in Eastern Europe, Wired.com has learned.
Internal documents reveal for the first time that the nation’s largest retailer was among the earliest targets of a wave of cyberattacks that went after the bank-card processing systems of brick-and-mortar storesSource: Threat Level RSS Feed
ScienceDaily reports:
World Will Miss 2010 Target To Stem Biodiversity Loss, Experts Say
The world will miss its agreed target to stem biodiversity loss by next year, according to experts convening in Cape Town for a landmark conference devoted to biodiversity science.
The goal was agreed at the 6th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in April 2003. Some 123 world ministers committed to "achieve, by 2010, a significant reduction of theSource: Daily Kos RSS Feed
My new friend Barry Botelho, owner of the beach food concession stand & the subject of a NDN story (sorry, can't link), sent me some pics of the new prototypes thresher, or is it called a harvester?
I haven't yet seen it actually harvesting, but may be I'll be able to get some video up soon. It certainly makes for a BIG improvement beachwise which I pointed out to Rep. Kennedy when he was here. All that smelly, yucky seaweed which used to accumulateSource: Rhode Island's Twelfth RSS Feed
SSgt Workman Earned the Navy Cross
h/t WOT
His Book:
Shadow of the Sword: A Marine's Journey of War, Heroism, and Redemption
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"Derek Sholl's new song, "When They Come Back" captures beautifully the experience of our returning combat veterans as they struggle to make the transition from warrior to civilian while dealing with the physical and mental wounds they've brought with them from the battlefield.Source: Theodore's World RSS Feed
Truth is stranger than fiction. Last Friday we posted an article asserting Bill Ayers' authorship of President Barack Obama's 'Dreams From My Father,' based on claims made by Obama biographer Christopher Andersen. It is possible that we have now gotten direct confirmation of this from Bill Ayers himself.
Anne Leary of Back Yard Conservative was passing through Washington, DC’s Reagan National Airport yesterday, and was surprised to come across Bill Ayers at Starbucks: “scruffy,Source: Faultline USA RSS Feed
This is the first legitimate poll I've seen that puts Jon Corzine in front in the New Jersey Governor's race over Bush/Rove crony Chris Christie.
The numbers: Corzine 44%, Christie 43%, and independent Chris Daggett 4% (Daggett was not listed as a choice, but was a voluntary answer -- more on that later). This is within the ±4% margin of error, but again this is the first poll that has had Corzine ahead in a long time. A month ago, Christie led by 47%-42% over Corzine.
My latest post for Hot Air is called “Conservatism Is Social, Socialism Is Not.” Read it here.
Whenever conservatives debate economics and social equality with progressives, the latter succeed in portraying the former as cold, greedy and careless. ‘Conservatives just don’t care about the poor,’ leftists say, they only care about protecting corporate interests and making a couple of million themselves while they’re at it.
Britain’s conservatives, the Tories, haveSource: PoliGazette RSS Feed
We already knew that Vision America's Rick Scarborough, who recently spoke at the How To Take Back America Conference, was a Birther. But we were not aware of the fact that the organization was also actively involved in the various lawsuits, but it looks like that is the case since they just used their email list to send out this fundraising pitch from Gary Kreep and the United States Justice Foundation:
You can read the full text of Kreep's email after the jump:
From The DeskSource: Right Wing Watch RSS Feed
Ground combat in the 1991 Persian Gulf War lasted just 100 hours, but it’s meant 17 years of pain and anguish for hundreds of thousands of veterans.
Loss of funding threatens UT Southwestern's Gulf War illness research
Dallas Morning News ....for complete article
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' cancellation of a $75 million contract with UT Southwestern Medical Center could mean the end to the Dallas university'sSource: Theodore's World RSS Feed
From ever trusting Associated Press:
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) meets International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei (L) during an official meeting in Tehran October 4, 2009. UN: Iran nuclear dispute shifting to cooperation
By Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writer Sun Oct 4
TEHRAN, Iran – The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Sunday there is a "shifting of gears" in Iran’s confrontation with the West to moreSource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed
Can you feel the love in the room.??.... “A picture is worth a thousand words...”
Obama Meets Top Afghan Commander as He Mulls Change in War Strategy
COPENHAGEN
President Obama held an unannounced meeting here on Friday with Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, his Afghanistan commander, to discuss a possible change in strategy and a proposed troop buildup in the eight-year-old war.
General McChrystal flew here from Source: Theodore's World RSS Feed
NYTimes | For years, Japan has been readying itself for the day that it is eclipsed economically by China. But as a result of the global slowdown, Japan’s difficulty in managing its economy and China’s rise — on vivid display Thursday as Beijing celebrated the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic — that day may come sooner than anyone predicted.
Though recent wild currency swings could delay the reckoning, many economists expect Japan to cede its rank asSource: subrealism RSS Feed
