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| NJ Online | Fail: Groups claim to have found ‘smoking gun’ to force Christie to move U.S. Senate election to November |
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First, the back story: (CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES – American Airlines took to its Facebook page Wednesday to explain its actions after Alec Baldwin complained he was kicked off a flight for playing a Scrabble-like game on his cell phone as the plane was about to depart from Los Angeles. Without mentioning the “30 Rock” star by [...]
Via The Charlotte Observer: The now-infamous UC Davis pepper-spraying incident from 11-18 has become a rallying cry – a call to arms – for Occupiers nationwide as they seek to legitimize their entitlement movement partly by way of screaming “police brutality” over every single incident where the police have had to act to move belligerent [...]
CBS Sacramento files an interesting report in which the homeless at a local city park want “Occupiers” off their ‘turf’: SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — As the Occupy Sacramento movement settles in for another night inside Cesar Chavez Park, another group sits, watches and wonders if they’ll ever get what they call “their park” back. “These homeless people [...]
CBS LA reports (via): SAN DIEGO (CBS) — A pair of Southland street cart vendors who were forced to shut down their businesses after “Occupy” protesters vandalized their carts are hoping to get some help from local residents. KNX 1070?s Tom Reopelle reports a fundraiser in the Gas Lamp district in San Diego on Monday [...]
Another one from the “You Can’t Make it Up” department: San Franciscans who prefer to have their food in the nude are facing opposition. Last Thursday, the ironically named Supervisor Scott Wiener proposed an ordinance on public nudity etiquette that would require nudists dining in restaurants to forgo their naturalist ways and don clothing. Public [...]
I am not making this up, y’all. I swear: Occupy Wall Street is an experiment in communal living, with basic human needs on public display. Even, at times, very intimate human needs. Outdoor sex has been a topic of discussion at quality-of-life meetings held each afternoon inside Zuccotti Park. Some people have expressed discomfort with [...]
**Posted by Phineas And this woman works for the Los Angeles Unified School District. God help the children. EDIT: Forgot to change the code for the video to something that would work here. D’oh! via Reason.TV (Crossposted at Public Secrets)
Absolutely priceless: Via CBS 12, which has a recap: SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Hundreds of protesters gathered in Cesar Chavez Park on Thursday to stand in solidarity with the growing nationwide demonstrations aimed at corporate greed, but some members of the peaceful event showed hostility to media members over basic questions about the goals of the [...]
I hope that by reading/watching actress Eva Longoria’s Tuesday comments to late night TV talk show host Jimmy Kimmel that the stupid doesn’t rub off on me. Scott Whitlock at Newsbusters has the transcript (you can also watch video clips of Longoria’s remarks at that same link): 12:26am EDT EVA LONGORIA: But you know what, it’s [...]
What in the world? FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — A Northern California teacher says he doesn’t want to hear a common courtesy in his classroom. He’s even lowering students’ grades if they say “bless you” after someone sneezes. Steve Cuckovich says the practice is disrespectful and disruptive. He’s banned saying “bless you” in his high school [...]