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Lights out: Power outage stops game at Super Bowl
Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By:JoniTx, 2/3/2013 8:49:22 PM
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| New Orleans — Power went out at the Superdome early in the third quarter of the Super Bowl on Sunday with the Baltimore Ravens leading the San Francisco 49ers 28-6. The majority of lights failed shortly after Jacoby Jones returned the opening kickoff of the second half for a touchdown. There was 13:22 left in the quarter. The teams remained on the field, with players stretching and trying to stay warmed up, including the Ravens' Joe Flacco and Ed Reed. Cheerleaders kept going through their routines There was a public address announcement for fans to stay in their seats.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Bla Bla, 2/3/2013 8:52:14 PM (No. 9156482)
Guess Beyonce´s fire blew out some fuses . . .
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
vwlarry, 2/3/2013 8:52:58 PM (No. 9156483)
Bush´s fault.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Country Boy, 2/3/2013 8:53:00 PM (No. 9156484)
Watching Netflix. No problems there.
NFL can go suck eggs.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Mr. Know-It-All, 2/3/2013 8:53:05 PM (No. 9156485)
Awkward!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
TunnelRat, 2/3/2013 8:57:42 PM (No. 9156493)
Lights out for the 49ers...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rat Patrol, 2/3/2013 9:00:28 PM (No. 9156503)
The power went out too late,it should have gone out during the half time show as it was the worst ever. Beyonce sucks!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
commontater, 2/3/2013 9:01:10 PM (No. 9156506)
It may be tha Super Bowl in the Superdome, but it is still Louisiana.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rob_NC, 2/3/2013 9:01:48 PM (No. 9156507)
That halftime stunk up the joint...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
chiller, 2/3/2013 9:02:26 PM (No. 9156509)
My money is: a cyber hack-attack.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 2/3/2013 9:05:19 PM (No. 9156519)
Half-time was awful.
What´s a Beonce?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Smart11344, 2/3/2013 9:05:19 PM (No. 9156518)
Green energy?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
VAPMAN, 2/3/2013 9:05:53 PM (No. 9156521)
Half the stadium was powered by green energy. Guess which side.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
civilservant, 2/3/2013 9:07:52 PM (No. 9156522)
3rd world status, here we come!! Barry´s world. This is patheti-sad. More than pathetic, far too sad.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
archbishopofaberlour, 2/3/2013 9:10:03 PM (No. 9156529)
This is the country we have become.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
irishwolfielady, 2/3/2013 9:13:14 PM (No. 9156535)
#9, I concur! If it can happen to Bank of America, it can happen at the Superbowl. Not watching anyway.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Taytay52, 2/3/2013 9:19:25 PM (No. 9156539)
On Facebook the idiots are already saying it is Jindal´s fault. Really? 100 years of Democratic rule might be a little more likely.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
thewarden, 2/3/2013 9:23:24 PM (No. 9156546)
Y´all need to get the app for police scanners... very interesting listening to the NOPD during the ´outtage´. It´s fun have a tech geek for a hubby.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Staunch Repub, 2/3/2013 9:27:15 PM (No. 9156554)
NOLA - - shat a whit hole....
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
dave29299, 2/3/2013 9:34:54 PM (No. 9156561)
Prepare for more of this kind of thing. Read the last chapter of a book, "I.T. WARS", for a real eye-opener. (It´s on Amazon).
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
killerbee, 2/3/2013 9:46:16 PM (No. 9156577)
And the EPA was touting this as the most energy efficient Super Bowl ever. I guess Beyonce used all the credits.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
JoniTx, 2/3/2013 9:58:44 PM (No. 9156592)
This explains the Super Bowl Energy:
http://energy.gov/articles/super-bowl-city-leads-energy-efficient-forefront
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
rocket scientist, 2/3/2013 9:59:24 PM (No. 9156595)
Was it Beyonce or was it Memorex?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Mike PHX, 2/3/2013 10:05:19 PM (No. 9156604)
N´Awlins... HA! If it weren´t for Detroit, they´d be the biggest joke in the US.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
thelmalou, 2/3/2013 10:39:36 PM (No. 9156634)
Worst. Halftime. Ever. And I would only expect something like the stupid power outage from that cesspool of a town. Geez Louise. I also called hack attack.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
bluefindad, 2/3/2013 10:43:49 PM (No. 9156636)
When the lights went out, a little voice in the back of my mind whispered "Who is John Galt?"
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
otronome, 2/3/2013 11:16:57 PM (No. 9156672)
WelcoThird World. Even South Africa could run a World Cp final and figure out power needs.
Same thing on MNF at Candlestick recently and in our neighborhood we get clear day outages every couple months.
Trillions spent on "infrastructure" and we have 15th century windmills and burn half our corn crop.
The game plan is a lower syandard of living for all.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
olhokie64, 2/4/2013 12:44:05 AM (No. 9156757)
This was us getting back at roger goodell for ruining our season.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Topic Thunder, 2/4/2013 2:25:16 AM (No. 9156784)
Just remember, everything in our world is built by the low bidder including that dump you live in!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 2/4/2013 5:36:01 AM (No. 9156834)
That power outage probably came when the stadium´s smart meter reached the red zone of too much electricity being used, so it atomatically shut off the electricity.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
MMC, 2/4/2013 7:05:13 AM (No. 9156898)
DH suggested that the game was going too fast and a producer flipped a switch... Gotta get in all the commercials!
I thought I was the cynical one! I thought it was a test run for terror attack.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Periwinkel, 2/4/2013 7:09:29 AM (No. 9156901)
#16 Not Bobby Jindal...Mitch Landrieu is the Mayor of the Big Easy. The same Mitch Landrieu, brother of Senator Mary Landrieu, two scions of a dynasty looting Louisiana for many years, nay maybe a century.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
NeverVoteDem, 2/4/2013 7:33:01 AM (No. 9156927)
The bookies - mob - wanted to slow the game down. It worked.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
pineledger, 2/4/2013 8:00:10 AM (No. 9156966)
Right, 32. Not so much about the outcome as the spread.
Personally, I like a team named after a poem.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
vesicant, 2/4/2013 8:27:42 AM (No. 9157007)
An "abnormality" in the system? No, life with green energy. Unless the power equipment couldn´t stomach beyonce (not a proper noun).
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
TheMotherCO, 2/4/2013 8:38:54 AM (No. 9157029)
Have been through NO several times and was always reminded of Tallulah Bankheads´ voice saying ´what a dump´. We never even found a place that looked fit to stay in. Of course, that was a long time ago.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
globalwarmer, 2/4/2013 8:45:32 AM (No. 9157043)
Welcome to the new third-world banana republic.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
M-79, 2/4/2013 9:04:13 AM (No. 9157093)
I thought Beyoncé did a great impersonation of Michael Jackson.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Me?Opinionated?Nah!, 2/4/2013 9:04:49 AM (No. 9157095)
By way of coverage on Radio or Television, I’ve witnessed all 46 of the previous Super Bowls. This year, I decided to not subject myself again to a bombastic barrage of glitz, glitter, razzle-dazzle and raunch, otherwise known as “The Super Bowl Half-Time Show.” Instead, I passed the (half) time by catching up on a few minor chores which needed attention. I’m glad I did. I plan to do likewise during the half-times of the next 46 unless their producers plan to ‘unspectacularize’ them by mercifully toning them down at least a reasonable number of notches. I know what I did was radical, but not only do I not care, I highly recommend it.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Felixcat, 2/4/2013 9:16:24 AM (No. 9157122)
The Puppy Bowl never lost power.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
sinic, 2/4/2013 9:26:09 AM (No. 9157144)
Now that THAT´S over...does Ray Lewis go to jail now?
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Eheu Fugaces, 2/4/2013 9:46:37 AM (No. 9157198)
According to The Donald, the Super Bowl power failure exemplifies the decline of America.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
ncgrammie4, 2/4/2013 9:56:06 AM (No. 9157226)
There is a story on Drudge this morning about New Orleans leading on the energy efficient forefront. Guess they really saved some big bucks last night.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Robert jones, 2/4/2013 9:58:27 AM (No. 9157238)
The NFL owes New Orleans and the Superdome a tremendous debt of gratitude. The game was shaping up to be a boring terrible blowout.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
J F Ackerman, 2/4/2013 10:01:32 AM (No. 9157252)
What a pathetic shambles. Except for Paul Harvey and the Budweiser horse, the "commercials" were slutty dreck. Thanks to all the interruptions, the game had no rhythm or continuity. The half-time show was a screaming, shouting, strutting no-talent black hooker. NFL stands for a lot of things these days... good clean family entertainment isn´t one of them.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Gallo3, 2/4/2013 10:18:27 AM (No. 9157314)
Here they are in the Greatest Music City in the World where kids start jammin at a tender age-
Home of Louis Armstrong and many, many other fabluous musicians, both living and dead
and for a musical halftime interlude they hire a talentless squawker dressed up like a cheap chippy-jumping around like a chicken with her head cut off-
No wonder God caused the lights to go out.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
AutumnJoy, 2/4/2013 10:33:44 AM (No. 9157353)
Beyonce reminded me of a crazed Witch Doctor doing an exorcism. All that was missing was the dead chicken.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
owl, 2/4/2013 11:20:54 AM (No. 9157469)
First thing across my mind too #11 . The way the EPA is attacking power plants , it´s a wonder the lights were on that long . Half the sales reciebts went to pay for electricity .
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
Grambo, 2/4/2013 11:29:37 AM (No. 9157498)
Most of our power comes from coal-fired plants, which Obama has promised shut down. Shazzam, the lights go out. Way to go Obie.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
broken01, 2/4/2013 11:36:10 AM (No. 9157522)
I thankfully didn´t watch all of the "Super" Bowl. Both of these teams are nowhere near my favorites and I had to wake up early to go to work. I heard this morning on the news that the power outage happened, the half time show sucked and the Edgar Allen Poe Ravens won. Big whup! I read too that the deadhead obama voters are trying to blame the blackout on Governor Jindal. What rubbish. All this is is the former mayor School Bus Chocolate City Nagin´s New Orleans chickens coming home to roost.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
dman, 2/4/2013 11:54:04 AM (No. 9157574)
What happened? As Mother Hillary said: “What difference at this point does it make” /s
We might form a committee to investigate, however. /s/s/s
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden, 2/4/2013 11:54:57 AM (No. 9157576)
The ugly comments on this thread about a city with so much of America´s beauty and history are inappropriate... and dare I say ignorant... sure it´s run by Dems... but Bobby is doing his level best to bring growth and industry to the entire state... As were My Ravens... [and don´t get me started on B´more... and it´s history...]
Next time you are near New Orleans, instead of flying into Kenner... come across the 32 mile Causway across Lake Ponchetrain at dawn... or the back roads through the beautiful bayous from Baton Rouge... Or past the still exquisite and gracious plantation homes before Gretna... and listen to a CD of Harry Baby [Harry Connick Jr who was playing sweet jazz as a lad of six] ... then have a beignet and coffee at Cafe du Monde in the Quarter as a lone sax plays Amazing Grace at noon... and get back to me...
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
joew9, 2/4/2013 12:16:01 PM (No. 9157623)
For the sake of energy efficiency the lights were on a motion sensor and San Fran wasn´t moving the ball enough.
A couple of guys got up on a ladder and waved their hand in front of the sensor and the lights came back on.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
Rock n Robin, 2/4/2013 12:51:10 PM (No. 9157718)
Re: #9 and some others: My first thought, too. E.g., Possibly a little cat and mouse toying by the same group that hacked the State Dept. website a week or so ago. Understand that there is no evidence and this just pure imaginative speculation. But interesting to see that others have the same thoughts.
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
Dreemaun, 2/4/2013 12:58:25 PM (No. 9157741)
#32 Ha! That´s exactly what my husband said.
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
ivehadit, 2/4/2013 1:27:04 PM (No. 9157791)
I just talked to a former Sec of State...she said What difference does it make...? LOL!!
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
MDConservative, 2/4/2013 1:27:21 PM (No. 9157793)
"I started thinking it was a terrorist attack. I was a little nervous."
Seriously? Then the terrorists have won.
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
zjrog, 2/4/2013 2:05:21 PM (No. 9157883)
I didn´t think terrorist, I first thought maybe ANONYMOUS had struck, but figured they´d toot their hornby killing the lights but announce something on the scoreboard/monitors...
I won´t Beyonce was worst, because she was better than Madonna´s show. THAT was the worst I´ve ever seen.
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Reply 58 - Posted by:
JHHolliday, 2/4/2013 2:49:09 PM (No. 9157991)
I wonder how many people are like me. I don´t watch the SB anymore unless my team (Falcons) is in it. I´ll probably be dead before they ever make it again.
I guess it makes a good excuse for a party but I have almost no interest in the NFL anymore. Maybe just old age....
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
lagniappe, 2/4/2013 3:13:28 PM (No. 9158042)
Thank you, # 52. I was not going to post as there is so much ignorance flowing on this thread I thought, what’s the use! Yes, there are a lot of liberals in New Orleans, partly due to history and partly a result of being a port city. I live within the city limits of New Orleans and I am represented by Senator David Vitter and Congressman Steve Scalise, two very conservative members of Congress. Mary Landrieu, our token Democrat, is one of the few Democrats holding a state wide office in Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area is mostly conservative. This weekend I saw millions of happy people enjoying a super bowel weekend like never before. It was a weekend long party no other city could duplicate. Now we get serious about Mardi Gras, another event no other city could duplicate. A few have tried in the past, but each time it ended up in a riot. I’ve lived in other cities and my career has me traveling around the US. New Orleans is a special place unlike any other city!
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Reply 60 - Posted by:
O.G.´s Mom, 2/4/2013 4:41:43 PM (No. 9158245)
Just a preview of what will become the "new norm" with Obama´s and the Left´s energy policies. We are truly on course to becoming a third world country with this idiot and his fellow socialists in the White House.
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Reply 61 - Posted by:
gone2pot, 2/4/2013 5:29:25 PM (No. 9158364)
Nagin´s chocolate factory at its best.
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Reply 62 - Posted by:
zzzghy, 2/4/2013 6:05:01 PM (No. 9158428)
Bravo, #52. Well said. Thank you.
There is an overabundance of ignorant locale-bashing on these boards. I live in SoCal and see it all the time.
It used to bug me; I don´t much care now. "You can´t stop monkeys from chattering," as my dad once said when my sister and I wouldn´t shut up.
Mardi Gras has been hijacked by abusive drunken slobs, yes -- as have so many other once-great American traditions. But New Orleans is a true American treasure, definitely.
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Reply 63 - Posted by:
wexfordcounty, 2/4/2013 6:41:16 PM (No. 9158505)
I would have thought Kanye West would have blamed Bush by now.
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Reply 64 - Posted by:
ArtieC, 2/4/2013 7:12:23 PM (No. 9158545)
What? NO couldn´t pay their electric bill?
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President Obama´s biggest gaffe yesterday when speaking of California Attorney General Kamala Harris was not in flirtatiously complimenting her as "the best-looking attorney general," but in introducing an observation from the system of beauty into a forum that was about the system of power.What´s that, you say? Irin Carmon does a great job in Salon in laying out the bounds of propriety for when it´s appropriate to talk about a woman´s looks as a general matter. But I´ve long felt we lack a solid theoretical underpinning for easily discussing these issues, and why precisely it is that
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McCain: ´I don´t understand´ GOP filibuster on guns
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Politico, by Jennifer Epstein
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/7/2013 12:18:14 PM
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Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"
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Hillary Clinton Would Not ´Clear the Field´ for 2016
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New Republic, by Tod Lindberg
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/6/2013 5:22:36 AM
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No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent
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Obama critic apologizes for his ´poorly chosen words´ on gay marriage
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/6/2013 12:18:19 PM
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
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Mother Of Slain Benghazi Officer To Sean Hannity: ‘They Want Me To Shut Up’
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Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/7/2013 5:00:16 AM
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,
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Vanishing workforce weighs on growth
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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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White House Blames Jobs Numbers on Sequester
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/5/2013 8:02:58 PM
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The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look
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The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat
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Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th anniversary in Havana, Cuba
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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Obama Budget to Cap Retirement Accounts at $3 Million
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 9:40:39 PM
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The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per
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