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2011 May 24 - Headline News
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AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: Chrysler recovered via sales of gas-guzzling trucks, SUVs...
Payne: SUVs saved Chrysler
Chrysler and the White House will celebrate the Detroit icon's $5.9 billion repayment of government loans Tuesday in a ceremony that will be hailed by both sides for the same reason: The government bailout had become a liability for both entities.
In fact, government-free Chrysler is hardly off the debt hook, but is simply refinancing its debt with private rather than public debt-holders. For its part, the U.S. government will still have a 6.6 percent equity stake in Chrysler - but by removing itself as the company's loan shark, the White House can boast of the unpopular bailout's success in returning taxpayer loans 6 years ahead of schedule. That's an important sound-bite in an election year.
But there is one inconvenient truth you won't hear at the Sterling Heights, Mich. ceremony: Chrysler wouldn't be here had it not defied its green White House masters. Chrysler's return to profitability is a direct result of the fabulous success of its SUVs.
More From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110524/MIVIEW/105240374/Payne--SUVs-saved-Chrysler#ixzz1NMMR3tdR
Chrysler and the White House will celebrate the Detroit icon's $5.9 billion repayment of government loans Tuesday in a ceremony that will be hailed by both sides for the same reason: The government bailout had become a liability for both entities.
In fact, government-free Chrysler is hardly off the debt hook, but is simply refinancing its debt with private rather than public debt-holders. For its part, the U.S. government will still have a 6.6 percent equity stake in Chrysler - but by removing itself as the company's loan shark, the White House can boast of the unpopular bailout's success in returning taxpayer loans 6 years ahead of schedule. That's an important sound-bite in an election year.
But there is one inconvenient truth you won't hear at the Sterling Heights, Mich. ceremony: Chrysler wouldn't be here had it not defied its green White House masters. Chrysler's return to profitability is a direct result of the fabulous success of its SUVs.
More From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110524/MIVIEW/105240374/Payne--SUVs-saved-Chrysler#ixzz1NMMR3tdR
Abuse of Same Day Voter Registration Found in Wisconsin
Media Trackers conducted an open records request investigation of election day registrations in 15 Milwaukee and Dane County wards for the April 5 election. With just a small sampling of election-day registrations, Media Trackers uncovered significant potential abuses of the same-day registration system and numerous cases of incomplete voter registrations.
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http://biggovernment.com/mtrackers/2011/05/24/open-records-requests-uncovers-abuse-of-same-day-registration-in-wisconsin/
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http://biggovernment.com/mtrackers/2011/05/24/open-records-requests-uncovers-abuse-of-same-day-registration-in-wisconsin/
Sarah Palin's Secret Weapon
Shortly after Republicans swept last November to a historic victory in which Sarah Palin was credited with playing a central role, the former Alaska governor pulled aside her close aide, Rebecca Mansour, to discuss a hush-hush assignment: Reach out to conservative filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon with a request. Ask him if he would make a series of videos extolling Palin's governorship and laying to rest lingering questions about her controversial decision to resign from office with a year-and-a-half left in her first term. It was this abdication, Palin knew, that had made her damaged goods in the eyes of some Republicans who once were eager to get behind her potential 2012 presidential campaign.
The response was more positive than Palin could have hoped for. He'd make a feature-length movie, Bannon told Mansour, and he insisted upon taking complete control and financing it himself -- to the tune of $1 million.
The fruits of that initial conversation are now complete. The result is a two-hour-long, sweeping epic, a rough cut of which Bannon screened privately for Sarah and Todd Palin last Wednesday in Arizona, where Alaska's most famous couple has been rumored to have purchased a new home. When it premieres in Iowa next month, the film is poised to serve as a galvanizing prelude to Palin's prospective presidential campaign -- an unconventional reintroduction to the nation that she and her political team have spent months eagerly anticipating, even as Beltway Republicans have largely concluded that she won't run.
Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/media/2011/05/24/sarah-palins-secret-weapon#ixzz1NMPxKXRy
The response was more positive than Palin could have hoped for. He'd make a feature-length movie, Bannon told Mansour, and he insisted upon taking complete control and financing it himself -- to the tune of $1 million.
The fruits of that initial conversation are now complete. The result is a two-hour-long, sweeping epic, a rough cut of which Bannon screened privately for Sarah and Todd Palin last Wednesday in Arizona, where Alaska's most famous couple has been rumored to have purchased a new home. When it premieres in Iowa next month, the film is poised to serve as a galvanizing prelude to Palin's prospective presidential campaign -- an unconventional reintroduction to the nation that she and her political team have spent months eagerly anticipating, even as Beltway Republicans have largely concluded that she won't run.
Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/media/2011/05/24/sarah-palins-secret-weapon#ixzz1NMPxKXRy
Obama Botches Toast to Queen Elizabeth
ABC News' Jake Tapper reports: When the president toasted the Queen the orchestra misunderstood a pause and what seemed to be a cue from the president for "God Save the Queen" to begin playing.
"Ladies and gentlemen please stand with me and raise your glasses as I propose a toast," the president said, putting down his note cards and grabbing his glass. "To her majesty the Queen."
The president paused, the guests stood, and the orchestra prepared to play.
But the president wasn't done speaking.
http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2011/05/24/obama-botches-toast-queen-elizabeth
"Ladies and gentlemen please stand with me and raise your glasses as I propose a toast," the president said, putting down his note cards and grabbing his glass. "To her majesty the Queen."
The president paused, the guests stood, and the orchestra prepared to play.
But the president wasn't done speaking.
http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2011/05/24/obama-botches-toast-queen-elizabeth
Amusement Park for People With Disabilities Opens in Texas
The carousel has chariots for wheelchairs. Braille games decorate side panels on the jungle gym. And table-high sandboxes allow just about any kid to build a castle.
Morgan's Wonderland aims to offer everything a special-needs guest might enjoy at a theme park - while appealing to non-disabled visitors too.
"If it wasn't for searching Google," founder Gordon Hartman said, "it would've taken me a lot longer to put this together."
The result is both inventive and heartwarming: a 25-acre, $34 million park catering every detail to people with physical or mental disabilities, down to jungle gyms wide enough to fit two wheelchairs side-by-side, a "Sensory Village" that's an indoor mall of touch-and-hear activities, and daily attendance limits so the park never gets too loud or lines too long.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/05/24/amusement-park-people-disabilities-opens-texas/#ixzz1NMKAMmlH
Morgan's Wonderland aims to offer everything a special-needs guest might enjoy at a theme park - while appealing to non-disabled visitors too.
"If it wasn't for searching Google," founder Gordon Hartman said, "it would've taken me a lot longer to put this together."
The result is both inventive and heartwarming: a 25-acre, $34 million park catering every detail to people with physical or mental disabilities, down to jungle gyms wide enough to fit two wheelchairs side-by-side, a "Sensory Village" that's an indoor mall of touch-and-hear activities, and daily attendance limits so the park never gets too loud or lines too long.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/05/24/amusement-park-people-disabilities-opens-texas/#ixzz1NMKAMmlH
New York Power Company Charges Town Honoring War Hero Flag Fee
A New York community that displayed American flags on utility poles to honor a fallen hero is outraged after the Long Island Power Authority sent them a bill - for using their poles.
“I was pretty shocked,” said Peter Reich, a councilman in the Long Island community of Shelter Island. “It’s the most ludicrous thing.”
The flags were hung last year for the funeral of Army 1st Lt. Joseph Theinert. The Shelter Island native was killed while on active duty in Afghanistan. He sacrificed his life to save his platoon and was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart for his actions.
Last week, Theinert’s platoon gathered in Shelter Island for a reunion. To welcome the troops, the American Legion, along with the owner of the local hardware store, decided to once again line the parade route with American flags.
Local residents donated the $8,000 needed to purchase the flags, and the town’s superintendent of highways posted them on the utility poles. But someone from the power company reportedly saw a story about the flags in a local newspaper and informed town officials of the $5-per-flag fee.
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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/24/new-york-power-company-charges-town-honoring-war-hero/#ixzz1NMIaF15V
“I was pretty shocked,” said Peter Reich, a councilman in the Long Island community of Shelter Island. “It’s the most ludicrous thing.”
The flags were hung last year for the funeral of Army 1st Lt. Joseph Theinert. The Shelter Island native was killed while on active duty in Afghanistan. He sacrificed his life to save his platoon and was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart for his actions.
Last week, Theinert’s platoon gathered in Shelter Island for a reunion. To welcome the troops, the American Legion, along with the owner of the local hardware store, decided to once again line the parade route with American flags.
Local residents donated the $8,000 needed to purchase the flags, and the town’s superintendent of highways posted them on the utility poles. But someone from the power company reportedly saw a story about the flags in a local newspaper and informed town officials of the $5-per-flag fee.
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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/24/new-york-power-company-charges-town-honoring-war-hero/#ixzz1NMIaF15V
Free Speech in Elementary Schools ??
See video:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/956263586001/free-speech-in-elementary-schools
Additional Information:
Lawsuit: School bans Christmas colors, Christian-themed gifts
http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=19738
Two pro-family groups filed a federal lawsuit against a Texas public school district Dec. 15, alleging that it banned elementary students from exchanging Christian-themed candy cane pens, prohibited students from writing "Merry Christmas" on greeting cards sent to soldiers and even prevented the use of traditional Christmas colors at a school party.
The Alliance Defense Fund and the Liberty Legal Institute filed the lawsuit in federal court against the Plano Independent School District, arguing that district's policy is unconstitutional and violates the students' religious freedoms. The Department of Justice announced Dec. 16 that it is investigating the district's policy.
Students were not allowed to write "Merry Christmas" on greeting cards to U.S. soldiers because the phrase might "offend someone."
Traditional Christmas colors -- such as green and red -- were banned from this year's holiday party. The party, according to Shackelford, is called a "winter party."
"They asked to bring white napkins, white paper plates and white icing," he said. "… Then they said, 'All other items shouldn't be brought because it would violate the school policy against distribution of things without school approval."
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Appeals court rules against school principals in Plano Christian candy cane case
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/headlines/20100701-Appeals-court-rules-against-school-principals-1738.ece
http://video.foxnews.com/v/956263586001/free-speech-in-elementary-schools
Additional Information:
Lawsuit: School bans Christmas colors, Christian-themed gifts
http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=19738
Two pro-family groups filed a federal lawsuit against a Texas public school district Dec. 15, alleging that it banned elementary students from exchanging Christian-themed candy cane pens, prohibited students from writing "Merry Christmas" on greeting cards sent to soldiers and even prevented the use of traditional Christmas colors at a school party.
The Alliance Defense Fund and the Liberty Legal Institute filed the lawsuit in federal court against the Plano Independent School District, arguing that district's policy is unconstitutional and violates the students' religious freedoms. The Department of Justice announced Dec. 16 that it is investigating the district's policy.
Students were not allowed to write "Merry Christmas" on greeting cards to U.S. soldiers because the phrase might "offend someone."
Traditional Christmas colors -- such as green and red -- were banned from this year's holiday party. The party, according to Shackelford, is called a "winter party."
"They asked to bring white napkins, white paper plates and white icing," he said. "… Then they said, 'All other items shouldn't be brought because it would violate the school policy against distribution of things without school approval."
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Appeals court rules against school principals in Plano Christian candy cane case
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/headlines/20100701-Appeals-court-rules-against-school-principals-1738.ece
NC man gets 20 years for threatening ex-president
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A 28-year-old North Carolina man who threatened to kill former President George W. Bush and said he wanted to blow up the White House has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Federal prosecutors say Ronald Brim started sending letters with specific and graphic threats to the former president and first lady Laura Bush. Prosecutors say he also threatened the Rev. Billy Graham and the evangelist's son Franklin in April 2008 along with agents investigating his case.
A jury convicted Brim in August. A judge Tuesday agreed with prosecutors and gave Brim a lengthy sentence because of his criminal record.
Records show Brim served about eight years for indecent liberty with a child and malicious conduct by a prisoner. He committed 34 infractions behind bars in three years.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/17/nc-man-gets-20-years-threatening-ex-president/#ixzz1NM26RbTt
Federal prosecutors say Ronald Brim started sending letters with specific and graphic threats to the former president and first lady Laura Bush. Prosecutors say he also threatened the Rev. Billy Graham and the evangelist's son Franklin in April 2008 along with agents investigating his case.
A jury convicted Brim in August. A judge Tuesday agreed with prosecutors and gave Brim a lengthy sentence because of his criminal record.
Records show Brim served about eight years for indecent liberty with a child and malicious conduct by a prisoner. He committed 34 infractions behind bars in three years.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/17/nc-man-gets-20-years-threatening-ex-president/#ixzz1NM26RbTt
UPDATE: $24B in bailout paid to contractors who owe millions in taxes
Billions in Stimulus Funds Paid to Tax Delinquent Contractors
ABC News’ Devin Dwyer (@devindwyer) reports: The federal government awarded $24 billion in Recovery Act funds to contractors and vendors who owe millions in unpaid taxes, a new Government Accountability Office report has found.
The nonpartisan watchdog agency reported Tuesday that at least 3,700 recipients owed more than $750 million combined in unpaid federal taxes as of Sept. 30, 2009. They represent 5 percent of all recipients of the so-called stimulus funds.
“For many years now, we’ve known that a small percentage of federal contractors and grantees who get paid with taxpayer dollars shirk their responsibility to pay their taxes,” said Democratic Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan. “Now the executive branch should get on with it and actually debar the worst of the tax cheats from the contractor workforce.”
Levin, who chairs the Senate Permanent Investigations Committee, plans to hold a hearing on the report this afternoon.
“That such a huge amount of the stimulus money went to known tax cheats should be a wakeup call for Congress,” said Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, the committee’s ranking member.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/05/your-money-billions-in-stimulus-funds-paid-to-tax-delinquent-contractors.html
ABC News’ Devin Dwyer (@devindwyer) reports: The federal government awarded $24 billion in Recovery Act funds to contractors and vendors who owe millions in unpaid taxes, a new Government Accountability Office report has found.
The nonpartisan watchdog agency reported Tuesday that at least 3,700 recipients owed more than $750 million combined in unpaid federal taxes as of Sept. 30, 2009. They represent 5 percent of all recipients of the so-called stimulus funds.
“For many years now, we’ve known that a small percentage of federal contractors and grantees who get paid with taxpayer dollars shirk their responsibility to pay their taxes,” said Democratic Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan. “Now the executive branch should get on with it and actually debar the worst of the tax cheats from the contractor workforce.”
Levin, who chairs the Senate Permanent Investigations Committee, plans to hold a hearing on the report this afternoon.
“That such a huge amount of the stimulus money went to known tax cheats should be a wakeup call for Congress,” said Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, the committee’s ranking member.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/05/your-money-billions-in-stimulus-funds-paid-to-tax-delinquent-contractors.html
'Team B II' Members: Israel, You're Not Alone
'Team B II' Members: Israel, You're Not Alone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raBBptHlGRE&feature=player_embedded
Three authors of "Shariah: The Threat to America" joined a new coalition called Israel: You're Not Alone in a press conference in Washington, DC yesterday. Frank Gaffney, Gen. Jerry Boykin (ret.), and Tom Trento addressed different points about America's relationship with Israel and Israel's 1967 borders. Mark Langfan presents his map showing the Jewish State's vulnerability to rocket attacks against 70% of its population centers.
http://www.israelyournotalone.com
Gore tells grads: Climate crisis 'most serious challenge that our civilization has ever faced'...
(CNSNews.com) - In his commencement speech at Hamilton College on Sunday, former Vice President Al Gore told the graduates that global warming is “the most serious challenge our civilization has ever faced.” But as an undergraduate at Harvard University in the late 1960s, Gore--one of the most prominent spokesmen on climate change today--earned a “D” in Natural Sciences.
Gore’s transcript documents that during his sophomore year at Harvard he earned a "D" in Natural Sciences 6 (Man’s Place in Nature). Also, as a senior at Harvard, he earned a C-plus in Natural Sciences 118.
Gore, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his work on global warming.
For his college board achievement tests, Gore earned a 488 (out of 800) in physics, and a 519 (out of 800) in chemistry. Gore’s academic records were first obtained and reported on by reporters David Maraniss and Ellen Nakashima at The Washington Post in March 2000.
Gore did relatively well, however, on the SAT, earning 1355 (out of 1600). For comparison, George W. Bush got 1206 on the SAT.
President Barack Obama has not released his academic records. He first attended Occidental College and then transferred in 1981 to Columbia University, where he earned his B.A. He later went to Harvard Law School and earned his J.D. in 1991.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/climate-expert-al-gore-got-d-natural-sci
Gore’s transcript documents that during his sophomore year at Harvard he earned a "D" in Natural Sciences 6 (Man’s Place in Nature). Also, as a senior at Harvard, he earned a C-plus in Natural Sciences 118.
Gore, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his work on global warming.
For his college board achievement tests, Gore earned a 488 (out of 800) in physics, and a 519 (out of 800) in chemistry. Gore’s academic records were first obtained and reported on by reporters David Maraniss and Ellen Nakashima at The Washington Post in March 2000.
Gore did relatively well, however, on the SAT, earning 1355 (out of 1600). For comparison, George W. Bush got 1206 on the SAT.
President Barack Obama has not released his academic records. He first attended Occidental College and then transferred in 1981 to Columbia University, where he earned his B.A. He later went to Harvard Law School and earned his J.D. in 1991.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/climate-expert-al-gore-got-d-natural-sci
2011 May 24 - Headline News
This DAY in History:
May 24, 1775:
John Hancock becomes president of Congress
On this day in 1775, John Hancock is elected president of the Second Continental Congress.
John Hancock is best known for his large signature on the Declaration of Independence, which he jested the British could read without spectacles. He was serving as president of Congress upon the declaration's adoption on July 4, 1776, and, as such, was the first member of the Congress to sign the historic document.
John Hancock graduated from Harvard University in 1754 at age 17 and, with the help of a large inherited fortune, established himself as Boston's leading merchant. The British customs raid on one of Hancock's ships, the sloop Liberty, in 1768 incited riots so severe that the British army fled the city of Boston to its barracks in Boston Harbor. Boston merchants promptly agreed to a non-importation agreement to protest the British action. Two years later, it was a scuffle between Patriot protestors and British soldiers on Hancock's wharf that set the stage for the Boston Massacre.
Hancock's involvement with Samuel Adams and his radical group, the Sons of Liberty, won the wealthy merchant the dubious distinction of being one of only two Patriots-the other being Sam Adams-that the Redcoats marching to Lexington in April 1775 to confiscate Patriot arms were ordered to arrest. When British General Thomas Gage offered amnesty to the colonists holding Boston under siege, he excluded the same two men from his offer.
While Hancock served as president of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Samuel Adams' cousin John Adams convinced Congress to place Virginian George Washington in command of the rebel army. In 1776, the Continental Congress declared independence from Great Britain. The next year, John Hancock returned home to Massachusetts, where he served as a major general in the militia and sat in the Massachusetts constitutional convention that adopted the world's first and most enduring constitution in 1780. Having helped to create the new state government, Hancock proceeded to serve as the state's first governor, a position he held on and off until his death in 1793.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-hancock-becomes-president-of-congress
May 24, 1775:
John Hancock becomes president of Congress
On this day in 1775, John Hancock is elected president of the Second Continental Congress.
John Hancock is best known for his large signature on the Declaration of Independence, which he jested the British could read without spectacles. He was serving as president of Congress upon the declaration's adoption on July 4, 1776, and, as such, was the first member of the Congress to sign the historic document.
John Hancock graduated from Harvard University in 1754 at age 17 and, with the help of a large inherited fortune, established himself as Boston's leading merchant. The British customs raid on one of Hancock's ships, the sloop Liberty, in 1768 incited riots so severe that the British army fled the city of Boston to its barracks in Boston Harbor. Boston merchants promptly agreed to a non-importation agreement to protest the British action. Two years later, it was a scuffle between Patriot protestors and British soldiers on Hancock's wharf that set the stage for the Boston Massacre.
Hancock's involvement with Samuel Adams and his radical group, the Sons of Liberty, won the wealthy merchant the dubious distinction of being one of only two Patriots-the other being Sam Adams-that the Redcoats marching to Lexington in April 1775 to confiscate Patriot arms were ordered to arrest. When British General Thomas Gage offered amnesty to the colonists holding Boston under siege, he excluded the same two men from his offer.
While Hancock served as president of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Samuel Adams' cousin John Adams convinced Congress to place Virginian George Washington in command of the rebel army. In 1776, the Continental Congress declared independence from Great Britain. The next year, John Hancock returned home to Massachusetts, where he served as a major general in the militia and sat in the Massachusetts constitutional convention that adopted the world's first and most enduring constitution in 1780. Having helped to create the new state government, Hancock proceeded to serve as the state's first governor, a position he held on and off until his death in 1793.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-hancock-becomes-president-of-congress
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