Archive for September, 2010
A bumpier but freer road
Posted by Lucianne.com in Lucianne.com on September 30th, 2010
The Economist [UK], by Staff Posted By: supersid- Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:44:06 GMT AN INDIAN boss gestures from the lofty window of his steel'and'glass office. (Snip) Demand is brisk: Mr Bhasin predicts that his sales could grow from $1.2 billion to $10 billion in the next ten years. Such vast ambitions are no longer unusual in India. Firms now worth $5 billion expect soon to be worth $30 billion, observes Vijay Govindarajan, of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
AIG CEO sees no chance of loss on bailout
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MarketWatch, by Alistair Barr Posted By: James Leyva- Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:12:46 GMT American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Robert Benmosche said Thursday that the U.S. government could make a profit from its bailout of the insurance giant. The government committed more than $130 billion to save the insurance giant from collapse in 2008. It was the most controversial bailout during the financial crisis and sparked widespread concern that taxpayers would be left with big losses. But Benmosche said on Thursday that discussions now focus on how much profit the government may make from the bailout, not how much it might lose.
Verdict: Demeatrius Montgomery guilty, gets 2 life terms
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Charlotte Observer [NC], by Cleve R. Wootson Jr. & Gary L. Wright Posted By: muncsdad- Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:08:20 GMT A jury this afternoon found Demeatrius Montgomery guilty of first'degree murder in the 2007 killings of Charlotte'Mecklenburg Police Officers Sean Clark and Jeff Shelton. Superior Judge Forrest Bridges sentenced him to two consecutive life sentences without parole. Early in the proceedings, the judge set aside consideration of the death penalty because a former Charlotte'Mecklenburg police detective, Arvin Fant, threw away notes from the investigation. Headline split, text added and source correct to style. ' Lcom Staff
El Paso teacher accused of taping sex with kids
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Associated Press, by Staff Posted By: James Leyva- Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:06:35 GMT An El Paso high school dance teacher is accused by federal agents of recording more than 200 videotapes of himself having sex with as many as 70 children, some of whom were elementary school age. Marco Alferez, 34, was jailed without bond Thursday, a day after investigators testified that they found the videos in Alferez's home. He is also accused of downloading child pornography. During a bond hearing in federal court Wednesday, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent Gilbert Campa said some tapes were four to six hours long and that Alferez admitted to making the videos.
Not just another pretty purse
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Jewish World Review, by Lori Borgman Posted By: Sloopy- Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:04:49 GMT Last week someone said they had a headache and I found myself in the middle of another purse war. I reached in my bag and pulled out Tylenol just as another woman reached in her bag and pulled out Extra Strength Tylenol, Arthritis Strength Tylenol and gel Tylenol. She threw them down like she just played a royal flush.
Palin to team up with Steele at RNC rallies
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CNN, by Peter Hamby & Paul Steinhauser Posted By: GaGardener- Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:55:45 GMT Washington''Sarah Palin will join forces with Michael Steele and the Republican National Committee next month to hold a pair of fundraising rallies, according to multiple Republican sources. The former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee will team up with the RNC chairman at an event in Anaheim, California, on October 16 and in Orlando, Florida, on October 23. (Snip) With a reputation as a political outsider, Palin's move was partially seen as an effort to mend fences with GOP insiders as she ponders a possible 2012 presidential bid.
Americans Still Cling to Ignorance
Posted by Lucianne.com in Lucianne.com on September 30th, 2010
Jewish World Review, by Victor Davis Hanson Posted By: Sloopy- Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:53:42 GMT The bookish, twice'unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson once sighed that if most thinking people supported him, it still wouldn't be enough in America because "I need a majority." For some reason, Democrats have chosen to follow the disastrous model of Stevenson and not that of feisty man'of'the'people Missourian Harry Truman '' though the former nearly wrecked the party and the latter got elected. Previously posrted at http://lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=568214 HERE
Election 2010: Wisconsin Senate.
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Rasmussen Reports, by Staff Posted By: f64- Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:53:36 GMT Republican Ron Johnson now leads incumbent Democrat Russ Feingold by 12 points in Wisconsins race for the U.S. Senate. The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Johnson picking up 54% support, while Feingold, who is running for his fourth term in the Senate, gets 42% of the vote with leaners included. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, and two percent (2%) more are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
MSNBCs Schultz Touts Grayson as Model for Democrats to Imitate, ‘I Love’ Taliban Ad
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Newsbusters, by Brad Wilmouth Posted By: Desert Fox- Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:41:58 GMT Last week, on the Thursday, September 23, The Ed Show, MSNBC host Ed Schultz touted inflammatory Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson as an example that other Democrats should be following, and, apparently oblivious to the history of partisan polls being notoriously inaccurate, treated with credibility a poll conducted for Graysons campaign which showed the Democratic incumbent 13 points ahead of his Republican challenger, Daniel Webster, as evidence that other Democrats should learn from the Florida Congressman. Notably, a Sunshine State/VSS poll released this week finds Grayson trailing Republican Webster by seven points, 43 to 36 percent.
MRC’s Worst of the Week Favors for Democrats, Slashing ‘Bizarre’ GOP ‘Fringe’
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Newsbusters, by Rich Noyes Posted By: Desert Fox- Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:33:59 GMT Theres little pretense of media fairness as the 2010 elections approach. Last Thursday, ABCs World News ran as news a video produced by the Obama White House. Diane Sawyer excitedly touted how we got to listen in on a phone call today, as viewers saw a brief clip of President Obama talking to a cancer patient who thanked him for the government takeover of health care. Then on Monday, NBC Universal donated a 30'minute commercial'free interview to Obama, shown not just on NBCs Today, but on the corporations other networks (including USA, SyFy and Bravo).