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Democrats: Voters shifting focus from Iraq
The Politico has a pretty good piece about the Democrats coming to terms with the success in Iraq, and what it means for their overall political strategy.
The majority of Democrats are reporting that almost none of their constituents has asked them about Iraq since they’ve been on Thanksgiving break.
-Chris Jones
NBC To Leno Staff: “If We Need You We’ll Call You”
Today was the last day for most of the 120 staffers on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” who left with an early Christmas bonus check and no guarantee of a job when the strike ended.
Each of the 120 staffers received a letter from the Human Resources department at NBC that said, “If your services are needed, we will contact you.”
Still on the payroll are the exec producers and a skeleton crew to answer phones. Leno was not on hand for the layoffs. Instead, Leno’s assistant notified the staff yesterday that they would get their Christmas bonus early. Leno’s bonuses usually go out the week before Christmas.
Exterminator Finds 9-year Old Bound With Duct Tape In Closet
WORKERS HELD HOSTAGE AT CLINTON CAMPAIGN OFFICE
A man with a bomb strapped to his body is holding at least two staffers hostage at the Clinton campaign headquarters in New Hampshire.
State Police said the man released a mother and a child from the office, but is holding others.
Clinton is not there. She is in Virginia. She was scheduled to speak at a Democratic National Committee event this afternoon, but she has cancelled her appearance.
Bill Shaheen, chairman of Clinton’s campaign, said someone walked into the satellite office with what appears to be a bomb strapped to his chest. Two staffers, whom he described as volunteers, were held hostage and others were released.
Workers for Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign office in Rochester also were evacuated, a campaign spokesman said. The office is four doors away from Clinton’s. John Edwards’ staffers and several businesses in the neighborhood also were evacuated.
A nearby school is locked down.
Police have gathered at a nearby church and set up a command post there. SWAT teams and the State Police bomb squad are heading to the scene.
-Chris Jones
**UPDATE #1: The man is demanding to speak with Hillary Clinton
**UPDATE #2: The two hostages were released at about 3 p.m. ABC News is reporting that the hostage-taker was an older male who was well-known locally and has a history of mental illness who told his son today to “watch the news.”
Jim Cramer gets new deal with CNBC
From NY Daily News:
Get ready for at least three more years of Jim Cramer screaming “Booyah” on CNBC’s “Mad Money.”
The loud-mouthed ex-hedge fund manager signed a new contract with the cable business channel. Terms weren’t disclosed.
“It was important for CNBC to lock him up,” said Brad Adgate of Horizon Media. “He’s become one of the few business news personalities out there.”
By re-upping Cramer, also co-founder of TheStreet.com and a New York magazine columnist, CNBC locked in one its most-popular talents as it faces competition from the newly launched Fox Business Network.
“CNBC tells me to give it my all every single night. I love that,” Cramer told the Daily News Thursday.
“I want to play for an all-star team. I don’t want to play for an expansion team,” he added, tweaking the competition.
Branching out beyond his encyclopedic knowledge of stocks, Cramer will also appear as a boardroom judge alongside Donald Trump in NBC’s “The Celebrity Apprentice,” premiering in January.
Religion Of Peace: Calls in Sudan for Execution of British Teacher
Everyone’s favorite religion of peace strikes again! Apparently 15 days in a Sudanese prison for calling a teddy bear “Muhammad” just isn’t enough to quell the growing Islamic rage in Sudan.
Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and knives, rallied Friday in a central square and demanded the execution of a British teacher convicted of insulting Islam for allowing her students to name a teddy bear “Muhammad.”
The protesters streamed out of mosques after Friday sermons with their Islamic rage at full intensity, as pickup trucks with loudspeakers blared messages against Gillian Gibbons, the teacher who was sentenced Thursday to 15 days in prison and deportation. She avoided the more serious punishment of 40 lashes.
I think the Mosque is like a drug for these people. It seems like Islamic rage is right at it’s peak fury immediately after attending the local mosque.
I don’t think I could go to church anymore if the Pastor whipped the entire congregation into a blind fury every Sunday. I think that’s the problem here. They pray five times a day, so many attend the mosque five times a day. That’s at least five times in a single day that they’re thrown into a full scale Islamic rage!
Becoming that enraged so frequently just can’t be healthy. In the future maybe we should try a combination of 2000 lb. bombs and intensive anger management classes as a new strategy for taming the Islamic world.
-Kenneth Levine
CNN Doesn’t Tell The Truth About Anything
Anyone who watched the GOP debate the other night knows what a sham it was. At least 9 of the 34 questions came from people directly associated with the Democratic party in some way or another.
CNN continues to argue that the candidates should be willing to answer the questions that are on the minds of voters, except 9 out of 34 were NOT the voters. They were Democrats pushing the issues they felt Republicans should be talking about.
That means 9 REAL Republicans or REAL undecided voters didn’t get to ask a question.
Let’s look at the most recent statement from CNN regarding their dishonesty:
In a statement, CNN defended its question choices, saying “the whole point” is to open the questions to “a wider range of Americans all around the country. CNN cared about what you asked, not who you were.”
Take a look at the interview David Bohrman, CNN’s Washington bureau chief and executive producer of the debate did with The New York Times BEFORE the debate:
Most questions online have been pulled from public viewing for review, but many of the remaining posts involve asking the candidates to defend their opposition to gay marriage and abortion. Those kinds of “lobbying grenades” would be disqualified by the CNN selection team, Mr. Bohrman said.
“There are quite a few things you might describe as Democratic ‘gotchas,’ and we are weeding those out,” Mr. Bohrman said. CNN wants to ensure that next Wednesday’s Republican event is “a debate of their party.”
If Mr. Bohrman’s intention was to make it “a debate of their party” he failed miserably. Whether he failed on purpose or he’s just incompetent I don’t know, but either way he should be fired.
-Chris Jones
Hell Freezes Over: Murtha Says The Surge Is Working!
I honesty didn’t think a single one of the “defeatocrats” had the “stones” to admit that the troop surge in Iraq is working. Apparently, hell has in fact frozen over or I’m experiencing the initial signs of schizophrenia, because it appears that John Murtha has finally admitted what most people already know. That the troop surge he promised would not work is working!!
“I think the ’surge’ is working,” the Democrat said in a videoconference from his Johnstown office, describing the president’s decision to commit more than 20,000 additional combat troops this year. But the Iraqis “have got to take care of themselves.”
Violence has dropped significantly in recent months, but Mr. Murtha said he was most encouraged by changes in the once-volatile Anbar province, where locals have started working closely with U.S. forces to isolate insurgents linked to Al Qaeda.
Democrats in recent weeks have used every excuse conceivable for why things are improving in Iraq, steadfastly maintaining that even if things are getting better it’s not because of the troop surge.
They could chalk it up to a an act of god (or Allah as the case may be), but as we all know Democrats are a secular “peoples” so that’s also out.
Provided Mr. Murtha doesn’t suddenly hold another press conference and accuse our troops of “murdering civilians in cold blood” we might just be on the right track.
-Chris Jones
Giuliani’s Mistress Used N.Y. Police as Taxi Service
If there is another scandal to be found involving Rudy Giuliani, you can bet it’s gonna be discovered not just any day now, but more like any minute.
ABC News is now reporting that before it was publicly known he was seeing her, then-married New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided a police driver and city car for his mistress Judith Nathan.
Giuliani allegedly expanded the budget for his security detail at the time. Politico.com reported yesterday that many of the security expenses were initially billed to obscure city agencies, effectively hiding them from oversight.
The former Mayor defended himself saying that he had nothing to do with how his security expenses were filed. He said it was up to the Police to file all the expenses and as far as he knew everything was filed correctly. His campaign has promised to launch an internal investigation.
Giuliani told ABC News today that accusations he assigned a police security detail to his mistress and helped to hide the expenses in the mammoth New York City budget “a pre-debate hit job.”
I have no idea if any of the accusations are true, or how much impact it would have if they were. What I do know is that the media has been on a mission to link Rudy to something scandalous. The narrative that many media outfits such as the New York Times have been pushing is that Rudy is a liar, an opportunist, and a crook.
Therefore, they have been feverishly trying to find anything they can that might prove this narrative to be correct. I have always been skeptical of the liberal media, but after the disgracefully rigged debate last night compliments of CNN, I have my doubts that “objectivity” even exists anymore.
This whole Rudy story has all the hallmarks of a classic political attack, so the best thing to do is let things play out before making any judgments about Giuliani.
-Chris Jones
The Hot Joints
New Strain Of Ebola Virus Discovered
A new strain of the deadly Ebola virus has been discovered near Uganda. Ebola is one of the deadliest and most terrifying viruses on the planet.
The new strain of Ebola has infected 51 people and killed 16 in an area near Uganda’s border with Democratic Republic of Congo, U.S. health experts said.
Ugandan health officials have said the virus appears to be unusually mild, but Ksiazek said it is not yet clear if this is the case. He said experts need to check to see how many diagnosed patients are still alive.
There are no known cures or treatments for the Ebola Virus. An infected person typically dies a horrifying death in which the internal organs liquefy causing the patient to “bleed out.”
-Samantha Giles
Surprise: Rodney King Shot Near Home
Rodney King, whose videotaped beating once made a symbol of police brutality in the 1990’s, suffered minor injuries after getting hit by a shotgun blast, according to Police.
An intoxicated King summoned officers to his home in Rialto, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles, on Wednesday night to report he had been shot, said Sgt. Don Lewis of the Rialto Police Department.
“He had some minor pepper wounds that looked like they were from bird shot,” said Lewis, who described the injuries as “extremely minor.”
King told the Police that he was just riding his bike down the street when all of the sudden someone shot him with a shotgun. He was able to ride his bike home, but says he has no idea who shot him.
“King and the whole house were very intoxicated and very uncooperative,” Police said.
The videotaped beating of King by the LAPD, led to the trial of four Police officers who were eventually acquitted. The acquittal of the officers touched off the worst riots in modern American history. Nearly all of South Central Los Angeles, and the surrounding areas were set ablaze.
The city descended into an orgy of violence, looting, and general civil unrest that led to the death of more than 50 people.
King was later awarded $3.8 million dollars in a civil judgment.
-Chris Jones
Al Jazeera Airs New Bin Laden Audio Tape
Al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden called on the Europeans to stop helping the US in the war in Afghanistan, saying America is “ebbing” in excerpts of a new audiotape aired on Al-Jazeera television.
“The American tide is ebbing, so it is best for you to press your leaders to change their policies,” bin Laden said, addressing Europeans and referring to their countries’ military contributions in Afghanistan.
-Chris Jones
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