Larimer County officials showed up at the Fort Collins home of the Heenes with a warrant around 10 p.m. MDT and at least three of them began a search. Sgt. Ian Stewart declined so say what they were after.
Authorities are pursuing criminal charges in the case of a boy who vanished into his parents' garage while the world feared he was trapped aboard a helium balloon prompting speculation of a hoax.
Richard and Mayumi Heene met with Larimer County investigators for much of Saturday afternoon, but Sheriff Jim Alderden didn't say who would be charged or what the charges would be.
Alderden didn't call Thursday's hours-long drama a hoax, but he expressed disappointment that he couldn't level more serious charges in the incident, which sent police and the military scrambling to save young Falcon Heene as millions of worried television viewers watched.
"We were looking at Class 3 misdemeanor, which hardly seems serious enough given the circumstances," Alderden said. "We are talking to the district attorney, federal officials to see if perhaps there aren't additional federal charges that are appropriate in this circumstance."
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having grown up in Larimer County, i can tell you that the current sheriff is indeed a real horses ass. The shifting demographics of the area have attributed sharply to the descent of what was once a fine county.
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proof of what an ass he is are in the fact he is shopping for charges. that is the job of the DA not the sheriff.
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I think he's shopping for cover for his expert "body language truth detecting"
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Directing thoughts for this family and our entire military family...
An Air Force pilot likely died instantly when his F-16 fighter jet collided with another over the Atlantic Ocean, authorities said Saturday.
The search for Capt. Nicholas Giglio, who has been missing since Thursday night's crash, was shifted to a recovery effort looking for the plane's wreckage.
Investigators believe the bottom of the other jet struck the top of Giglio's fighter and pierced the pilot's canopy, Air Force Col. Joe Guastella said. The other pilot was not injured and was able to land his plane safely.
Investigators came to their conclusion using data gathered from the second plane and an interview with the other pilot. Also, radio beacons on the aircraft and the pilot were never activated, indicating Giglio never left the cockpit, Guastella said.
"He had no opportunity to eject from the aircraft," Guastella said.
The Coast Guard, which spent nearly two days looking for the pilot in 8,000 square miles of ocean about 40 nautical miles northeast of Charleston, has now shifted to trying to recover the jet, said Capt. Michael McAllister, director for the search.
The collision happened as Giglio and the second pilot, Capt. Lee Bryant, were in a night training exercise. The pilots had finished most of their maneuvers and were getting ready to head home when they hit, Guastella said. The flight controls of Bryant's jet were miraculously not damaged, and he managed to land at Charleston Air Force Base without injury, Guastella said.
The two pilots were part of Shaw Air Force Base's 20th Fighter Wing commanded by Guastella. Giglio, originally from New Jersey, has been a fighter pilot for 18 months and is part of the 77th Fighter Squadron that is training for deployment to Iraq early next year. He took his first F-16 flight with Guastella, who was an instructor then.
"He is a patriot and a great American," said Guastella, who told Giglio's family about the investigators' findings a few hours before the public announcement.
Giglio, 32, leaves behind a wife, a young daughter and a baby on the way, Guastella said.
The 20th Fighter Wing hasn't flown since the collision and will likely remain grounded until Tuesday, its commander said.
Officials said after the crash that there were reports of debris and an oil slick in the water, but investigators haven't determined if that came from Giglio's jet. The water is about 50 feet deep in the area where the Air Force thinks the F-16 went down, McAllister said.
The Coast Guard used its helicopters and boats as well as private volunteers who helped in the search.
"If Capt. Giglio had ejected safely from the aircraft, we're confident we would have found him," McAllister said.
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...And yet, while a US Air Force fighter pilot lies at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean this morning - and ONE USCG cutter and a handful of private boats are trying to bring him home - the media is still dissecting Balloon Boy and his parents.
Mike
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An Ontario man thought vandals had smashed his mother's car windshield with rocks but it turned out the rocks came from a meteorite, officials in Canada said.
The meteorite's fireball lit up the sky over Ontario Sept. 25 with a light 100 times brighter than the moon.
Researchers at the University of Western Ontario tracked the remains of the fireball to Grimsby, Ontario, where Tony Garchinski discovered the windshield of his mother's car shattered and five small black rocks sitting in the driveway, Canwest News Service reported Saturday.
Garchinski, 20, eventually saw a news report on the meteorite
and called the researchers. Extraterrestrial vandals did in Mum's windshield.
The meteorite samples are being studied at the university before being returned to Garchinski. The samples are estimated to be nearly 4.5 billion years old and from the asteroid belt located between Jupiter and Mars, the report said. Hmmmmm....could be a statute of limitations issue here.
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Wehell, methinks some of the recent fireballs described on SPACEWEATHER + other NET were prob the same which flew oer GUAM-WESTPAC also, save in differing directions.
Record Events for Sat Oct 10, 2009 through Fri Oct 16, 2009
Total Records: 6257 more than half are record low daily maxima
Rainfall: 859
Snowfall: 297
High Temperatures: 369
Low Temperatures: 785
Lowest Max Temperatures: 3473
Highest Min Temperatures: 474 Much more at the link, including a nice map.
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It's snowing for the NE Patriots and Tennessee game! Isn't this kinda early for snow?
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A change in the weather?!?! In Tallahassee?!? Heaven forfend!!!! ;-)
Barbara, I pot up a couple of jalapeno plants and bring them inside for the winter in a sunny window -- just hand pollinate the remaining flowers, and they'll produce fruit later. I haven't had as much luck with tomatoes. (Those of you who are snickering, just keep it to yourself. I'm pretty sure I know all the jokes, even the one about what mosses do in the rain.)
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I don't know about moss but do you know why radishes get pithy? Rabbits pith on them.
A little gardening humor...I'll be here all week...tip the waitress on your way out.
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tw, the thing is, the only window I have that would work is north-facing, so of course it won't work. Also, the plants are pretty big, so even if I had a south- or west-facing window, I wouldn't have the space to put them.
I put in 1 Early Girl tomato plant this year, and it's grown over 6 feet wide and up into the tree on the other side of the fence. Also have 1 cherry tomato volunteer (courtesy of the birds from the neighbors' plant, I'm guessing), and it's grown far past the cage and the additional stakes. Everybody at the office loves me.
I'll protect the plants from any light frost with old sheets overnight, but when the first hard freeze is predicted, I intend to try something I read about some years ago. Pull up the tomato plant by its roots and hang it upside down (I don't have a garage, so the attic will have to do). Supposedly the tomatoes slowly ripen and you can have vine-ripened tomatoes on Christmas, depending on when that frost/uprooting comes.
Either that, or I'll have a couple of dead tomato plants in the attic.
Wonder if it would also work with the peppers?
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HURRICANE RICK ADVISORY NUMBER 10
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL EP202009
200 PM PDT SAT OCT 17 2009
...EXTREMELY DANGEROUS RICK STILL STRENGTHENING...MAY BECOME A
CATEGORY FIVE HURRICANE TONIGHT...
AT 200 PM PDT...2100 UTC...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE RICK WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 14.8 NORTH...LONGITUDE 104.5 WEST OR ABOUT 290 MILES ...470 KM...SOUTH OF MANZANILLO MEXICO AND ABOUT 660 MILES...1065 KM ...SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF CABO SAN LUCAS MEXICO.
RICK IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST-NORTHWEST NEAR 15 MPH...24 KM/HR... AND THIS GENERAL MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. ON THE FORECAST TRACK...THE CORE OF RICK IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OFFSHORE OF THE SOUTHERN COAST OF MEXICO OVER THE WEEKEND AS THE HURRICANE MOVES GENERALLY PARALLEL TO THE COAST.
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE INCREASED TO NEAR 150 MPH... 240 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. THIS MAKES RICK AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE. ADDITIONAL STRENGTHENING IS FORECAST...AND RICK COULD BECOME A CATEGORY FIVE HURRICANE TONIGHT OR SUNDAY.
HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 45 MILES...75 KM...FROM THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 155 MILES...250 KM.
ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 934 MB...27.58 INCHES.
LARGE SWELLS GENERATED BY RICK MAY AFFECT PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN COAST OF MEXICO DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...CAUSING POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SURF CONDITIONS.
OUTER RAINBANDS ASSOCIATED WITH RICK WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE SOUTHERN COAST OF MEXICO THROUGH TONIGHT.
...SUMMARY OF 200 PM PDT INFORMATION...
LOCATION...14.8N 104.5W MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...150 MPH PRESENT MOVEMENT...WEST-NORTHWEST OR 290 DEGREES AT 15 MPH MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...934 MB
THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT 800 PM PDT.
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Watching this one with great interest. See the end of the cone on this one? Well, another time when Central Texas with a low Lake Travis, needed rain, we got a deluge of rain from a hurricane that came inland very much on the same path as Hurricane Rick.
Seemingly, the rains came from nowhere --- took lots of folks cranking on wrenches on marina docks to keep up with the rise of the lake that night.
The rains came -- from a little watched, Pacific hurricane that brought bands of rain capable of raising a lake with 65 miles of shoreline, a foot an hour.
This time, Central Texas is watching this one. That same Lake Travis is only 40% full -- it supplies water to millions of folks.
Saudis will be able to buy handguns and other personal firearms openly for the first time after the interior ministry said on Saturday it will licence privately owned gun shops. Anyone over 25 with no criminal record could apply to open a gun store, the ministry said, according to the official SPA news agency.
An official said the move is aimed in part at reining in the widespread illegal ownership of handguns and assault weapons.
Hunting and sport shooting weapons are currently sold in specialty stores, and all weapons are supposed to be licensed. But a large number of personal guns, including assault rifles, are owned and traded without permits, according to a person familiar with the business.
There are no statistics on how many guns exist in private hands in the kingdom. But in July, Riyadh police said they had seized 1 091 weapons and more than 13 200 pieces of ammunition in the capital area in the preceding six months, a Saudi Gazette report said.
Last week, the interior ministry also said it would accept applications to set up private shooting clubs.
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I think Brazil has found new members for the 2016 Triathlon Team - Running (check) Marksman (check) Swimming (TBD - Depends how deep the Sewer Water is) <-"/sarcasm">
Hope the injuried Policemen recover; what was the Olympic Commitee thinking ?
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The host city pays the bills. The developers and the politicians pocket the money at the expense of the taxpaying public. It's a universal truth. The Olympics are all about money, using the athletes as a vehicle to get it.
People think that it is prestige to host the Olympics. They can think that all they want, while the politicians and developers laugh all the way to the bank.
So long, suckers, see ya in the funny papers.
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the best part is the Daley machine assholes (and Obama clingers) buying up property they thought would be used (at preeeemium prices) to stage the Olympics. Now they're stuck with shitty property
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only till the next round of bailout/stimulus Frank..
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A police officer and a suspected drug trafficker died and two others officers were wounded in a gunfight between law enforcement and criminals Saturday morning in one of the city's busiest intersections.
The state Attorney General's Office announced that a municipal police officer, identified as José Luis Torrijos, 40, died in a hospital from wounds sustained in the gunfight.
Torrijos became the 29th municipal officer killed this year by gunmen believed to be working for drug traffickers.
The firefight erupted on the Lázaro Cárdenas bridge, known popularly as the Five and Ten, in the La Mesa district, around 11:20 a.m. The body of one of the gunmen was found at the site, the Attorney General's office said. The man, believed to be between 18 and 23 years old, was not identified.
Authorities also found three vehicles nearby believed to have been used in the incident. One of them was a van, in which were found four AK-47 rifles, an R-15 rifle, a .45-caliber pistol, hoods and jackets with the SIEDO logo. The logo is used by the Mexican federal unit that fights organized crime.
In another incident, around 11:10 a.m., the Attorney General's office received word that a body had been found at Rodriguez dam.
Investigators found a the torso and legs of a woman, but no head nor hands.
Before dawn Saturday, a mutilated body was found hung from a bridge in the east side, the second such incident in a week, authorities said.
The unidentified man, who appeared to be in his fifties, was discovered around 1 a.m. hanging from the Técnologico bridge, said a statement from the state Attorney General's Office. The bridge connects Boulevard 2000 to the toll road to Tecate.
The body was nude and draped with severed body parts cut from it.
The state office linked the killing to organized crime but provided no other details.
On Oct. 9, authorities found the mutilated body of a government official hanging from Morelos bridge, on the south side of the city. He also was nude and had been castrated.
Authorities identified him as Rogelio Sánchez, 44, an official in the state department that issues driver licenses, who had been kidnapped two days earlier.
The state Attorney General's office has logged 444 homicides from Jan. 1 to Saturday. Most of them are related to the ongoing war between among drug trafficking cells fighting for control of the lucrative border region and the Mexican government's campaign to confront them.
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So which would be the safer destination for my vacation? Tijuana or Chicago?
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... but does Nawlins have legal brothels? I can eat good food almost anywhere, but getting laid is often a near-impossible challenge for guys like me.
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Harvard paid $497.6 million to investment banks during the fiscal year ended June 30 to get out of $1.1 billion of interest-rate swaps intended to hedge variable-rate debt for capital projects, the schoolâs annual report said.
Any surprise the same type of deals probably happened to those who drove oil prices up to $140 a barrel last year at this time? When you gamble you lose, but when 'special interests' gamble and lose, they get a 'special' deal. Great not to be the 'little people'.
Nearly 100 banks have failed so far this year, pushing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s insurance fund into the red for only the second time since its founding in 1933.
As the worsening commercial real estate debacle continues to ravage the balance sheets of thousands of mostly small and medium-sized banks, analysts expect hundreds more could fail before the problem abates.
"While banks and thrifts are now well along in the process of loss-recognition and balance-sheet repair, the process will continue well into next year, especially for commercial real estate," FDIC Chairman Sheila C. Bair told the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs financial institutions subcommittee last week.
"We expect the numbers of problem banks and failures will remain elevated, even as the economy begins to recover," Mrs. Bair said when she revealed in late September that the insurance fund's net worth turned negative. Problem banks and bank failures "tend to be lagging economic indicators," she said.
Mrs. Bair put those failures in perspective on Friday by noting that more than 500 financial institutions collapsed in 1989.
This year's 99 bank failures have already cost the FDIC more than $25 billion. That's on top of the nearly $20 billion in costs absorbed by the federal agency from the 25 banks that failed last year.
The recession has so devastated the FDIC's deposit insurance fund that the agency has had to take the unprecedented step of requiring banks to prepay $45 billion of insurance premiums by the end of this year in order to replenish the FDIC's coffers. The premiums would cover the fourth quarter of this year and all of 2010, 2011 and 2012.
As recently as May, the FDIC estimated that bank failures from 2009 through 2013 would cost the agency $70 billion. In late September, the FDIC increased that estimate by more than 40 percent to $100 billion.
The $100 billion projection is "about right, unfortunately," said Scott Talbott at the Financial Services Roundtable, a banking trade group that supports the FDIC's prepayment plan.
The deposit insurance fund's balance at the end of June was $10.4 billion, down from more than $45 billion a year ago. It is this balance that turned negative at the end of the third quarter; final figures are not yet available.
Yesterday it was reported here that 99 California banks failed.
Were there NO other bank failures in the entire nation?
I suspect the figure's both false and low.
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may be a "branches" vs "banks" thing
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Most of the years failure have been quite small banks. MOST banks (all sizes) would probably be in failure right now if they were honestly accounting for their non-performing loans.
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It doesn't help that the FDIC has directed the small banks to fork over 3 years advance insurance payments. It's almost like they want them to fail so that the bigger banks with creative balance sheets will be 'covered'.
However, some 1800 banks are still at risk, including the megabanks CITI and Bank of America. Here are some of the worst of the worst that are still outstanding:
The jobless rate in Illinois increased to 10.5 percent in September after a slight dip to 10 percent in August, according to figures released Friday.
The three-month moving average rose 0.1 percent to 10.3 percent, its highest level since December 1983, according to the Illinois Department of Employment Security. The state's unemployment rate at this time last year was 6.7 percent.
Economists say the increase in the state's unemployment rate isn't unexpected.
"Unemployment is a 'lagging indicator,'" said University of Illinois economist Fred Giertz. Even though the economy has slowly begun to grow again, it takes time for employment to catch up.
One reason is that productivity has increased during the recession so that "even as we start expanding output again ... we don't need quite as many people as in the past," Giertz said.
Things might also be worse than the state figures indicate because officials only count people who are actively seeking work and don't include those who have gotten discouraged and stopped looking, said Geoffrey Hemings, director of the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory at the University of Illinois. When those people are counted, the unemployment rate for August was 12.6 percent, more than 2.5 percent above the state's count for the month, Hemings said.
Illinois lost 14,200 non-farm jobs in September, but the rate of job loss has been gradually slowing, said Greg Rivara, spokesman for the employment security department.
Hemings said Illinois lost 306,000 jobs from August 2008 to August of this year.
The U.S. jobless rate also rose to 9.8 percent in September, from 9.7 percent in August, the highest rate since 1983.
Another key economic indicator, foreclosure activity, also points to a slow recovery in Illinois. The state's home foreclosure activity jumped almost 13.7 percent in the third quarter of this year from the second quarter.
A report released Thursday by Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac shows Illinois with 37,270 foreclosure filings from July through September. Filings include default notices, auction-sale notices and bank repossessions.
The filings represent one in every 141 housing units in the state, the 10th highest in the nation. That rate is 30.3 percent higher than for the same quarter last year.
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What would the jobless rate be if so many Illinoians hadn't moved to Washington DC to find work - er 'work'?
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You brought us Barry and his scum Chicago cadre. You've been running business and industry away from Illinois for 45+ years. No sympathy here. Have a f#7@ing nice day losers.
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there is a program here where they hired a large part of the welfare recipients to work in the welfare office. they answer phones and are generally unhelpful for 12-16 hours a week, and they get to keep drawing the check.
probably the same thing i chicago
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Compare wid FREEREPUBLIC > THE GREATEST DEPRESSION IS COMING.
The Obama administration said Friday that the federal budget deficit for the fiscal year that just ended was $1.4 trillion, nearly a trillion dollars greater than the year before and the largest shortfall relative to the size of the economy since 1945.
The number, while lower than forecast a few months ago, underscored the challenges ahead in shrinking the deficit even as the White House and Congress are considering more steps to stimulate an economy that is making a slow recovery. The political hurdles to finding a solution were evident on Friday as each political party immediately blamed the other for the growth of the deficit.
The shortfall for the fiscal year 2009, which ended Sept. 30, translates to 10 percent of the economy, according to a joint statement from the Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, and the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter R. Orszag. For the 2008 fiscal year, the deficit of $459 billion was 3.2 percent of the economy, as measured by the gross domestic product.
Economists generally agree that annual deficits should not exceed 3 percent of the G.D.P., and that is the level President Obama had vowed to reach by the end of his first term in 2013.
But subsequent spending and tax cuts to stimulate the economy, and lower-than-expected revenues as the recession deepened before bottoming out, combined to push the administration's deficit forecast to 4.6 percent of G.D.P. for the fiscal year 2013.
At 10 percent of the gross domestic product, the 2009 deficit is the highest since the end of World War II, when it was 21.5 percent. At that level, it already has become a bigger economic and a political issue than any time since the late 1980s.
Investors who are essential to financing the debt, including China and other foreign interests, are eager for signs that the government will eventually regain control over its budgets.
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Translation: Helicopter Ben's printing press is temporarily crapped out due to a shorted solenoid. He's waiting for the manufacturer to send a new part, but it'll take a while to get to DC from the factory. Which is in China, btw...
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Investors who are essential to financing the debt, including China and other foreign interests, are eager for signs that the government will eventually regain control over its budgets.
Meanwhile, the Zim bucks USD currency printing continues at a record pace.
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But subsequent spending and tax cuts to stimulate the economy, and lower-than-expected revenues as the recession deepened before bottoming out,
threw those expensive tax cuts in there huh? What % of the deficit increase were any tax cuts put in place by Obama? -10%? I don't recall ANY substantive tax cuts put out by this lying POS
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the transfer payments to the underclass in form of the EIC is a 'tax cut' to that crew.
not actually a 'tax cut' as you have to pay taxes to have them reduced in non-bizzaro world, but they want to claim they gave a 'tax cut' to the majority of 'tax payers'...
/spit
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$1.4 Trillion Deficit Complicates the Vast Partisan Looting of the National Treasury Stimulus Plans
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The number, while lower than forecast a few months ago, underscored the challenges ahead in shrinking the deficit even as the White House and Congress are considering more steps to stimulate an economy that is making a slow recovery.
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Yeah, give the listless patient a shot of speed and expect a full recovery to vim and vigor. Takes some real geniuses in Congress and the Executive to come up with that one.
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closer to 'buy the alcoholic a 5th of bourbon'...
then when he doesn't dry out, say you need to buy him another
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Nothing like a little reality to screw up a democrat stimulus plan.
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The Bedouin town of Rahat in the Negev is suffering from a wave of Arabs who illegally entered Israel from areas of Yehudah (Judea) and Shomron (Samaria) that are under Arab control, and from Gaza. They have rented homes and stores and are primarily employed at trade and construction work. According to Arutz Sheva's Hebrew service, their reputation as a cheap work force tempted the local Arabs to let them into the town.
The locals say, however, that the illegal migrants' presence has become a nuisance and is causing a spike in crime, including arms dealing and drug trade. There are about 2,000 illegal Arabs in Rahat, according to police estimates. Rahat elders and leaders are concerned that their very presence could damage the fabric of the Bedouin family unit.
Rahat mayor Faez Abu-Sahiban (Islamic Movement) recently announced a total war against the illegals. I have received reports from hundreds of young men and women complaining of harassment of the young women by the illegals, he said. This behavior contradicts our religion and tradition. We will not let those who want to trample our values stay in our town.
Abu-Sahiban announced that he intends to use a heavy hand together with the police and to kick out the migrants in two weeks' time. Anyone who cooperates with them would be an accomplice to a crime, he warned.
[Editor's note: The very same complaints that the Bedouins have against the illegal Arabs are often made by Jews against Bedouins and other Arab citizens of Israel, but calls to expel the Arabs from Jewish towns are condemned by Arab spokesmen and certain political groups as "racism" and "incitement to violence."]
A Southern California immigrant rights group on Friday asked the Target store chain and a costume company to stop selling an "illegal alien" Halloween costume it said is offensive to immigrants. Based on my not-scientific local poll, I have to partially agree. My one respondent answered the "Is this offensive to you?" question with a hearty "Yes!!" He then ran laughing from the room...
The costume features the mask of an alien with a green card and an orange jumpsuit with "illegal alien" written across the front.
Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, wrote e-mails to Minneapolis-based Target and Wisconsin-based BuySeasons, Inc. calling the costume "distasteful, mean-spirited, and ignorant of social stigmas and current debate on immigration reform." "Not to mention, green cards look NOTHING like that!"
The group said it also planned to send letters to other companies that are selling the costume. I sure hope they do. I think I might wanna buy one and need to know what websites to surf...
Target is removing the costume from the site after receiving several complaints, company spokesman Joshua Thomas said Friday. The store never intended to sell the outfit but included it in its online offerings by mistake, he said.
An e-mail to BuySeasons, Inc. wasn't immediately returned Friday.
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"Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles"
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and surmise that the Senorita Salas' coalition is about Hispanic illegal aliens.
So she's saying that Hispanics have hugh eyes and grey pointed faces...? Nice of her to insult them like that....
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LOL!
How you spot an illegal alien?
They flying the saucer with the mattress strapped on the side.
Basids! may not be funny to you but the 6 armed lizards are getting all the good dishwashing and fastfood jobs. It's like WTF! Don't you fuckers ever stop with the work thing? I mean damn! First person shows these 'tiles a hammer is Dee Eee Aaa Dee.
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These grunions must validate their high admin salaries by b*thching about anything remotely touching on immigration. A Ms. Al Sharpton with tequila shots methinks...
Only 46% of Americans aged 16-24 had jobs last month, the lowest since the government began counting. Advocates urge action to avoid a 'lost generation.'
Bright, eager -- and unwanted. While unemployment is ravaging just about every part of the global work force, the most enduring harm is being done to young people who can't grab onto the first rung of the career ladder.
So we are indeed turning into Europeans ...
Affected are a range of young people, from high school dropouts, to college grads, to newly minted lawyers and MBAs from Britain to Japan and across the developed world. One indication: In the United States, the unemployment rate for 16- to 24-year-olds has climbed to more than 18%, from 13% a year ago.
For people just starting their careers, the damage may be deep and long-lasting, potentially creating a kind of "lost generation." Studies suggest that an extended period of youthful joblessness can significantly depress lifetime income as people get stuck in jobs that are beneath their capabilities, or come to be seen by employers as damaged goods.
Equally important, employers are likely to suffer from the scarring of a generation. The freshness and vitality young people bring to the workplace is missing. Tomorrow's would-be star employees are on the sidelines, deprived of experience and losing motivation.
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If we (did the cruel and inhumane thing and) closed the borders & got rid of all the illegal aliens, would unemployment go down as the young people took all those jobs 'Americans won't do?' You know, the jobs we did as kids, like crop picking and yard work and car washing etc.
If we did another cruel and inhumane thing and lowered the legal minimum wage would jobs open up for young workers?
Or would the potential workers stay unemployed and jobs unfilled as being beneath the dignity of today's Americans?
#2
If you were concerned about employment those thing might really help. If you were concerned about power however, those are things you don't want to do. It keeps the serfs dependent upon you and your party fellow aristocrats keptocrats.
The "Jobs Americans Won't Do"(tm) narrative is usually hawked by people who've never seen Dirty Jobs.
#3
Curious minds want to know...how many of this cohort currently 19 or older voted for The One? Is it equal to or greater than their funemployment rate?
(The younger ones can't vote, can't really hold them accountable for this.)
#4
my three kids are employed (*knock* on wood) are employed, thank God - one in Uncle Sam's employ. Many of their friends are not and are having no chance in getting work. Hail Obama!
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#5
My nephew starts a new job tomorrow. He graduated with honors from Duke in the spring of '08. He had a paid internship during the late summer/fall of '08 but that ended in late December. He has been unemployed since. The company that is hiring him is lucky. He is so eager to work he is going to practically live at the office.
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Record Events for Sat Oct 10, 2009 through Fri Oct 16, 2009
A police officer and a suspected drug trafficker died and two others officers were wounded in a gunfight between law enforcement and criminals Saturday morning in one of the city's busiest intersections.
The jobless rate in Illinois increased to 10.5 percent in September after a slight dip to 10 percent in August, according to figures released Friday.
The Obama administration said Friday that the federal budget deficit for the fiscal year that just ended was $1.4 trillion, nearly a trillion dollars greater than the year before and the largest shortfall relative to the size of the economy since 1945. 
A Southern California immigrant rights group on Friday asked the Target store chain and a costume company to stop selling an "illegal alien" Halloween costume it said is offensive to immigrants. 
Only 46% of Americans aged 16-24 had jobs last month, the lowest since the government began counting. Advocates urge action to avoid a 'lost generation.' 
