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Speedway fence repaired, ready for 500

New-Journal [Daytona, FL], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/24/2013 10:26:13 AM Post Reply

Repairs to a section of catch fence at Daytona International Speedway damaged by airborne parts of a race car on Saturday were completed by 2 a.m. Sunday, Speedway officials said this morning. Fans, officials and teams are ready to go racing today and the Daytona 500 is scheduled to begin as planned at 1 p.m. Officials with the Speedway and NASCAR are conducting two press conferences this morning to discuss further details. Saturday night´s crash injured at least 28 people, including 14 who were taken to area hospitals by ambulance and 14 who were treated at

A Conservative Provocateur,
Using a Blowtorch as His Pen

New York Times, by Jim Rutenberg Original Article

Posted By: mikkins2- 2/24/2013 10:05:43 AM Post Reply

At 11:42 a.m. on Feb. 14, a conservative online magazine called The Washington Free Beacon posted a dispatch about a speech Chuck Hagel gave in 2007 in which it said he called the State Department “an adjunct to the Israeli foreign minister’s office.” The report was based on “contemporaneous” notes an attendee posted online. An hour later on the floor of the United States Senate, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina urgently cited that statement as another reason to delay Mr. Hagel’s nomination as defense secretary.

´It´s like a warzone´: fan´s
heart-stopping video of moment
NASCAR car crashes into stand
just yards away sending debris
including a TIRE flying into the
crowd - injuring at least 33
people as organizers push forward*

Daily Mail (UK), Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/24/2013 10:03:54 AM Post Reply

Shocking footage filmed from the stands at Daytona International Speedway shows the moment when debris from yesterday´s massive multi-car pile-up flew into the packed crowd injuring at least 33 fans - including a 14-year-old boy who is in a critical condition. The terrifying scene unfolds during the last lap as Kyle Larson´s car is catapulted by the crash into a catch fence separating the tens-of thousands of fans from the track - almost shearing the car in half. And as the fiery wrecks filter past the section of the speedway hit, the footage filmed by spectator Tyler Andersen

´Devastating´ sequester cuts:
True or False?

American Thinker, by Rick Moran Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/24/2013 9:55:23 AM Post Reply

I suppose it depends on your point of view. If you lose one fifth of your pay because you´re a federal employee and are furloughed one day a week, it´s pretty bad. But is Obama right about the effects of the sequester? He says that it would be "a huge blow to middle-class families and our economy as a whole." Oh, really? Bill Wilson writing in Forbes: According to Obama, the sequester would represent "a huge blow to middle-class families and our economy as a whole." Obama´s White House has also referred to the sequester as "devastating," saying

What Our Leaders Wrought:
Boehner Cries and Obama Lies

Town Hall, by John Ransom Original Article

Posted By: mikkins2- 2/24/2013 9:49:09 AM Post Reply

twfox wrote: Jan. 24,2013 - Bobby Jindal urges the GOP to "stop being the stupid party"---hmmmm. And now you knuckle draggers want to call the Presidents supporters stupid? Good luck with that! - The Big, Big Government Push Dear Comrade Fox, You apparently don’t know the context in which Jindal was talking about “stop being the stupid party.” What Jindal is referring to are the candidates who made bizarre comments during the election, like Todd Akin the Missouri Republican, who said this about the odds of getting pregnant from rape: “From what I understand from doctors, that´s really rare.

Karzai expels US special forces
from Afghan province

BBC News [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/24/2013 9:47:00 AM Post Reply

The Afghan president has ordered US special forces to leave Wardak province within two weeks over allegations of disappearances and torture. The measures were being taken due to the actions of Afghans considered to be part of US special forces, said a spokesman for Hamid Karzai. The strategically significant, central province of Wardak has been the recent focus of counter-insurgency operations. A US spokesman said it took all allegations of misconduct seriously. But he said he could not comment specifically on this latest development.

Robert Smith-Barry: The man
who taught the world to fly

BBC News [UK], by David McKenna Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/24/2013 9:38:46 AM Post Reply

As the RAF´s Central Flying School celebrates its centenary year, BBC News looks back at the career of the daring and inspirational war veteran who became its icon. "They´ve only seven hours flying, sir--and it´s bloody murder." It was the summer of 1916--the early days of the Battle of the Somme--and squadron leader Major Robert Smith-Barry was venting his frustration at the commander of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), in France. Although considered a brilliant pilot himself, Smith-Barry was deeply concerned about some of the British recruits being pitched against highly-trained German fighter squadrons. "They have barely learned to fly,

$2.5b crap out

New York Post, by Josh Kosman Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/24/2013 9:22:23 AM Post Reply

Last May, when the Revel casino opened in Atlantic City, the traffic light out front was reset on a four-minute cycle — in anticipation of epic traffic jams, one taxi driver says. Today, that cabby turns off his engine at the light to save gas. He’s one of only a handful of cars waiting. Revel was suppose to be a new kind of casino — no low-cost buffets, no smoking and a casino on a different floor than reception, with windows that looked on to the best Atlantic City beach, so gamblers did not lose track of place and time.

American Toy Story

National Review Online, by Jillian Kay Melchior Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/24/2013 9:19:09 AM Post Reply

The American dream is hiding in the unlikeliest of places — the toy box. The toy industry has always been a repository for national culture. And, unlike myriad other economic and social indicators, this one speaks well of America’s future. That was apparent at last week’s 110th Annual Toy Fair in New York City, where the entrepreneurial spirit thrived. Each year at the fair, around 7,500 toys make their debut. While many are introduced by big companies such as Mattel or Hasbro, other toys make it to market because of the creativity and capitalistic ethos of individual inventors.

Cher Calls GOP Star Ted Cruz
a ´Bigot,´ ´Creature from
the Nether Regions´

Breitbart Big Hollywood, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/24/2013 9:08:16 AM Post Reply

Cher leaned heavily on her Twitter page in the waning months of the 2012 presidential race to blast anything associated with Mitt Romney. Now, she´s focusing her GOP hate on the party´s rising star, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. Cruz, whose aggressive approach has made him the target of mainstream news outlets which ignore similar tactics by liberals, is now Cher´s favorite outlet for her social media vitriol. Got to go!The other day when I was RANTING AGAINST IDIOT,BIGOT, CREATURE FROM THE NETHER REGIONS,Ted Cruz i made up cool line ( i think)...Stand & Be Counted..OR..Sit & Be NOTHING !

Jackson Jr.´s district has history
of corruption

Associated Press, by Sophia Tareen Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 2/24/2013 8:56:44 AM Post Reply

CHICAGO- They elected a Harvard-educated Rhodes Scholar and ended up with a congressman who was convicted of having sex with an underage campaign worker. They voted for the son of a famous civil rights leader and got someone who illegally spent campaign funds on everything from furniture to Bruce Lee memorabilia. Call it Chicago corruption at its worst or simply uncanny coincidence, but residents of Illinois´ 2nd Congressional District haven´t been represented in Congress in more than three decades by someone who didn´t end up in serious ethical or legal trouble. That hangs over them as they

Bombings, suicide attack rock
Afghanistan

CNN, by Qadir Sediqi Original Article

Posted By: John c- 2/24/2013 8:56:17 AM Post Reply

IKABUL, Afghanistan —A series of explosions in eastern Afghanistan killed at least one person and wounded six on Sunday, officials said. In the first attack, a car bomb targeted a building belonging to National Directorate of Security, near the city of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province, a government spokesman said. The early morning blast killed one person and wounded two others, provincial spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said. In a second attack, a minibus packed with explosives targeted a police checkpoint in Logar province, said Den Mohammad Darwish, provincial government spokesman said. That blast wounded three people, he said.

Many cancer deaths traced to alcohol

Fox News, by Carl Nierenberg Original Article

Posted By: ruready?- 2/24/2013 8:14:59 AM Post Reply

Alcohol use accounted for roughly 3.5 percent of all cancer deaths in the United States in 2009, a new study finds. This amounts to nearly 20,000 Americans who lost their lives to cancer that year as a result of drinking.[snip]"Alcohol is a known cancer-causing agent in humans, but it has been severely overlooked as a preventable cause of cancer deaths," said study co-author Timothy Naimi, a physician and alcohol researcher at Boston University Medical Center. "People need to know the impact of alcohol on cancer deaths because it´s another reason why they should not drink excessively."

A salute to the pilots shot
down on this day by Cuba

Miami Herald, by Miraisy Rodriguez Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 2/24/2013 8:09:39 AM Post Reply

I was 5 years old and strapped to a tall pole across from my 3-year-old sister. The pole, a mast for a sail that was never very useful, was in the center of a raft being thrown about the Florida Straits. I don’t remember the nights, but I’m told they were so dark my mother, sitting between us, could not see us, but only feel us. I don’t remember being wet or cold, but my parents tell me the waves rolling over us were about 20 feet high. I don’t remember the sun, but after four days at sea,

Nigerian president ´spent $1million of
aid money meant for poverty-stricken
country on star-studded festival
featuring Beyoncé and Jay-Z´

Daily Mail [UK], by Alex Ward Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/24/2013 6:58:27 AM Post Reply

The Nigerian president spent $1million of aid money to entice international popstars such as Beyonce and Jay-Z to perform at a music festival in the poverty-stricken country, a media source reported. A letter stamped and signed by Bayelsa State officials in 2006 revealed that President Goodluck Jonathan, then the Governor of the state, released 150million Nigerian Nairas from the state’s poverty alleviation fund for the inaugural ThisDay Music Festival in the city of Lagos in 2006, according to SaharaReporters. The document surfaced after reality TV star Kim Kardashian was reportedly paid $500,000 (£329,695) for a fleeting appearance

Son, 21, ´saved mother and father´s
life´ after shooting dead home invader
while they were baking cake at home

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/24/2013 6:55:06 AM Post Reply

A 21-year-old son shot dead an intruder to protect his immigrant parents when three men stormed their suburban home in Houston on Thursday night. The residents, who are from Eastern Europe, were enjoying some family time together and baking a cake when they heard a knock on the door at around 8pm. The father answered the door and a group of three men forced their way in. ´I see a young boy and I think it is a friend of my son so I open it a little bit,´ the father explained to KHOU-TV, he did not want

Blackout Britain:
EU environmental directive
puts millions at risk of power cuts

Daily Express [UK], by Tracey Boles Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/24/2013 6:29:45 AM Post Reply

Shutdown was only avoided because a gas-fired station due to close by next winter came to the rescue. Last night experts warned that life-threatening blackouts are increasingly likely as “we head downhill--fast”. Alistair Buchanan, the outgoing head of energy regulator Ofgem said: “On Wednesday, January 16, due to unplanned outages and cold weather, National Grid had to find power to supply roughly a million homes to keep the lights on. “Fawley, an oil-fired plant in Hampshire, was one of the power stations that responded. Next winter Fawley will not be there.” And as a spell of bitter cold once

Sierra Club goes bolder in climate fight

Politico, by Talia Buford Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 2/24/2013 6:28:07 AM Post Reply

After 121 years of lobbying, letter-writing campaigns and law-abiding protests, the Sierra Club is retooling itself for the flash-mob age — and showing an increasingly aggressive edge. That edge was on display last week, when the Sierra Club’s two top leaders and 46 other climate activists zip-tied themselves to the White House gates to protest the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline. The organization called it the first time it had suspended its decades-long policy against club-sanctioned civil disobedience. That protest followed a trend in which the 1.4 million-member organization has toughened its

Liberal racial hypocrisy

Salon, by Falguni A. Sheth Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 2/24/2013 6:22:06 AM Post Reply

Since the reelection of President Obama, liberals have made some bold admissions. Commentators like Touré Neblett of MSNBC’s The Cycle have enthusiastically and repeatedly defended the president’s authority to launch drones against anyone, including American citizens, if he suspects that they are “trying to kill us.” At no point in his several defenses did Touré reconcile his position with once-popular Constitutional precepts that every person should be presumed innocent until proven guilty, and know the charges and evidence against him, and have the right to a fair trial. Neither did he explain why ordinary Americans should suspend their longstanding

Raising taxes to deal with a
deficit is like letting out
your trousers to deal
with a weight problem

Telegraph [UK], by Danihel Hannan Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/24/2013 6:15:48 AM Post Reply

No one emerges with much credit, so to speak, from the Moody´s downgrade. It was, in retrospect, silly of the Chancellor to have made such a big deal of Britain´s credit worthiness. His lapse of judgment, however, is as nothing compared to the unlovely enthusiasm with which Ed Balls has greeted the news. The Shadow Chancellor did his best to look sombre, but couldn´t conceal his pleasure. Quite apart from appearing unpatriotic, he reminded everyone of how unserious Labour is when it comes to deficit reduction. What has gone wrong? Quite simply, spending remains too high. Three years into the

EDF and the eco terrorists: what
a shame they can’t both lose

Telegraph [UK], by James Delingpole Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 2/24/2013 6:10:55 AM Post Reply

I´ve just had an email from something called Change.org--another of those online lefty pressure groups. This one is a plea from the parents of one of the environmental activists now being sued by the French energy company EDF for £5 million.[Snip] Claire and her friends act on principle and are entirely altruistic in what they do. Their chosen career paths have led them, not in the direction of making as much money for themselves as they can, but rather to promote ethical and radical solutions to some of the most important issues which face the planet

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