Does Congressman Frank Wolf Support Rail to Loudoun?
May 31, 2012 by Virginia Virtucon
Filed under Total Nonsense
Our 10th district Congressman, Frank Wolf, has long supported the Silver Line to Dulles Airport, but does he support it beyond the airport? In an interview on May 24th Congressman Wolf said ““I support Rail to Dulles. Rail to Dulles is very important,” Wolf said. “Most of the people here support rail.”” Ummm……..he says twice that he [...]
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Ken Schmidt Reunited With Pet Iguana 5 Months After Burglary
May 31, 2012 by Huffington Post
Filed under TOP HEADLINES
BELLFLOWER, Calif. — They didn’t have to call Ace Ventura, or any other pet detective. A group of Los Angeles County deputies solved a case of lizard larceny on their own.
The Sheriff’s Department said in a statement Thursday night that deputies have reunited a man and his iguana, whose name is just “Lizard,” five months after he was stolen.
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Foreign Cenbank Holdings to May 30, 2012
May 31, 2012 by admin
Filed under Mortgage Mess
If you want excitement this week, go somewhere else The Fed’s own holdings of MBS shrank $13.235 billion, erasing most of the growth from the last two weeks while foreign central banks trimmed their holdings of both classes of US obligations by less than $1B. This week’s Reuters report1 is, as usual, based on the weekly update from the NY Fed’s H.4.1 table site.2 Here is Doom’s updated CSV version3 of the agencies and treasuries foreign central bank holdings data set….
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‘Sesame Street’ songs allegedly used in Guantanamo Bay interrogations
May 31, 2012 by admin
Filed under Clueless, Humor, Total Nonsense
A new documentary alleges that detainees at Guantanamo Bay were “tortured” by being forced to listen to songs from Sesame Street for days on end. The Al Jazeera film, “Songs of War,” features Christopher Cerf, who has worked as a composer on Sesame Street for more than four decades. “My first reaction was this just [...]
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ECB chief calls euro zone ‘unsustainable,’ criticizes Spanish bank response
May 31, 2012 by The Washington Post
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U.S. and European officials, who just weeks ago seemed to be getting a handle on the euro zone’s financial crisis, are now scrambling to prevent a new round of problems from pulling down some of Europe’s largest economies.
Sheila Jackson Lee Misspeaks, Seems To Out Undercover CIA Agent
May 31, 2012 by Huffington Post
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) appeared for a moment to have revealed the name of an undercover CIA agent on Thursday when she mistakenly conflated the man and his station chief, whose identity is not a secret.
During a floor speech in support of hiring more minorities in the Central Intelligence Agency, Jackson Lee talked about Garrett Jones, who she said “served as a CIA station chief in Somalia during peacekeeping operations in 1993.”
“He was cited as an African American officer who was able to work undercover for weeks in north Mogadishu, which he said would have — his duty officers said — would have all but been impossible by Jones’ other officers,” she continued. “We all have a contribution to make, and I look forward to this sense of Congress not being weeded out in conference and re-emphasizing the importance of this effort.”
Democrats Switching Parties in Droves
May 31, 2012 by Hyscience
Filed under Idiot Ideas, Total Nonsense
As Nice Deb points out, undoubtedly the Blue Dogs who are leaving the party feel more like the party left them … and in a way, they’re right. The Democrat Party has been morphing into the Democrat Socialists of America for many years, now. Under Obama, the transformation appears to be complete (or at the very least, it’s reached a whole new level … and accelerating).
Limit Alcohol To Half A Unit Per Day
May 31, 2012 by Medical News
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Limiting alcohol to half a unit per day is best for health, say Oxford University researchers who analyzed the link between alcohol consumption and 11 chronic diseases and concluded 4,600 more lives would be saved every year if people in England were to cut the amount they drink to within this level. They write about their findings in a BMJ Open paper that was published online on 30 May…
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Jeff Danziger: Wolves at the Polls
May 31, 2012 by Huffington Post
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Elena Steier, Sickworldjournal.com – Willie and Joe, Updated
May 31, 2012 by admin
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TITLE: Willie and Joe, Updated KEYWORDS: mauldin, wwII,world war … PUBLICATION DATE: Thu, 31 May 2012