~Snooper~We posted on this topic on 09 JUL 08 and have refused to give up and will press forward relentlessly until Barack Hussein Czar Obama comes clean and "clears the muddy waters", as it were. Good luck on that but the crowd he was addressing were the gathering of the IVAW Winter Soldier frauds associates of the Colorado Vets Against the War. Imagine that.Was Barack in a feeding frenzy becau
Oregon law may protect Followers of Christ members The painful and apparently preventable faith-healing death of a 16-year-old Oregon City boy this week brings the secretive Followers of Christ Church back under legal scrutiny, just four months after the boy's infant niece died in similar circumstances.But unlike the girl's death, which resulted in criminal mistreatment and manslaughter charges ag
Before transacting your businesses online, it is very important that you do it with a legitimate one. Doing background check can be helpful, and there are many available sources online when doing a background check.
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While it is true that the proverbial hot seat doesn’t exactly apply here, you have to admit that the most recent NBA coaching hires will be under the microscope - deservedly or not. In this case, I am referring to Chicago’s Vinny Del Negro, Detroit’s Michael Curry, Phoenix’s Terry Porter, New York’s Mike D’Antoni and [.
Proof that hindsight is 20-20, a three-page report issued Tuesday, June 10, 2008, by the Washington Post made it clear that HUD is currently in the spotlight, given how many of their borrowers have entered or lost their homes to foreclosure. Not only are real estate professionals looking in their direction and shaking their heads, [...]
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From Politico.com's write-up of Obama's slick attempt to rewrite his personal history of the past 20 years.The MSM will pretend it has worked. But it hasn't and it won't. Ayers. Dohrn. Pfleger. Rezko. Wright.These are...
In the wake of a number popular medicines proving to be deadly, U.S. federal health officials have announced a major effort to use information on Medicare claims to assess the risks of drugs already on the market.
The new system, called the Sentinel Initiative, will allow the FDA to monitor almost immediately how drugs affect health. Currently, months or even years must pass before officials learn
FA Probe United Star's Chelsea Brawl FA refuse to confirm which players they have probed but will confirm that Wayne Rooney has been left with an injury. A brawl involving Manchester United players and Chelsea staff after the weekend's title showdown is being investigated by the Football Association. What started off a world record attempt at the most high-fives in one half hour suddenly erupted into a hand slapping, tongue poking frenzy. Both clubs have refused to confirm what caused the sudden outburst, However, both have claimed the new world record for their respective clubs.
Youth boot camps and their referral services are using deceptive marketing practices when trying to convince parents of troubled kids to try the programs, a GAO investigator told congress Thursday. (April 24)
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I just received a long-distance phone call from one of my billiard buddies based in London, England. My pool buddy wanted to know some of the best online casinos today. I did the search using my different online tools and came upon Casino Scrutiny, which touts itself as an online casino gambling guide for beginners. Casino Scrutiny features casino reviews of some of the best online casinos, e.g., Golden Casino, Rushmore Casino, and Millionaire Casino. What makes Casino Scrutiny stand out from the pack is its personal approach in reviewing online casinos. The approach consists of the author’s own journals and logs of his experiences playing at some of the online casinos. From what I’ve gathered, the author of Casino Scrutiny details the customer service and crews of different online
I was doing my usual daily bloghopping routine when I saw an interesting post about Malu Fernandez hating bloggers.
Malu Fernandez, in her Manila Standard Today column notoriously declared:
“But blogging, aside from Perez Hilton and the other big time bloggers (you know who you are) is for me a slacker job or a medium and [...]
Frequent flyers put their faith and their lives in the men at the cockpit, as well as the maintainence crew on the ground. People they don’t see, but assume are qualified and are present. (The atheists’ argument, really. Paradoxical, aren’t they?)
The news these days, however, is the lax in aviation safety inspections. Recently for example, [...]
by Ben SteinMy old dad, may he rest in peace, taught me many things. One of the best lessons came in 1956 (yes, in 1956, when I was in the sixth grade) when I brought home some data a teacher had given me. It said that according to a crank named Stuart Chase, the world would run out of oil by 1966. "Figures don't lie" was the final phrase of the article.I showed it to my father, who scoffed and said we would be using oil for all of my life and my children's lives. "But Pop," said I, "figures don't lie.""Yes," quoth he, "but liars figure."The Browning VersionThis came back to me like a thunderclap when I read a front-page piece in last Wednesday's Wall Street Journal about how poorly the S&P 500 has done if you count the period from exactly 10 years ago until now. By the reckoning of the au
The world now is shrinking on account of the rapid advancement in Science and Technology. More than anything else, business correspondence between two people who are separated by oceans could be accomplished in a jiffy because of the availability of cost-free web-based email clients which are the result of the ingenuity and the hard work of Yahoo and Google software engineers. Inasmuch as a parcel could be receive also in the following day since logistics outfits have fast aircrafts to transport your freights from one continent to another without much delay.Another blessing of the modern technology is that you could make a big savings for your telephone calls because of the advent of VoIP technology which enables anyone to make a free PC to PC calls and you will just incur a minimal phone
Budget 2008 -Fine Prints 2 As on today, when A.O selects your case for scrutiny , a notice u/s 143(2) is served on you . This notice must be served within twelve months from end of month of filing of your return. So let us say , for Asst Yr 2007-08, you filed return on 29/7/2007, the A.O must serve on you a notice u/s 143(2) by 31/7/2008 . Budget 2008 proposes to fix that A.O can not select your return for scrutiny after six from the end of financial year in which the return was filed. The amendment in section 143(2) is proposed is as under : (b) in sub-section (2), in clause (ii), for the proviso, the following proviso shall be substituted,namely ‘‘Provided that no notice under clause (ii) shall be served on the assessee after the expiry of six months from the end
On January 17, 2008, the New York State Division of Human Rights filed a lawsuit against both Jackson Hewitt and Liberty Tax Service over their practices of lending lower-income taxpayers money in anticipation of their tax refunds. The New York Times ran a story on it in the Friday January 18, 2008 edition which you [...]
It’s been a whirlwind of a year for Angelina Jolie - she (and her family) has been under constant scrutiny, and she’s still stayed focused enough to garner a Screen Actors Guild nomination. But when it came to her weight loss, she says the media went too far.The “Girl, Interrupted” actress recently told press that though she did undergo a drastic fluctuation in body weight when her mother Marcheline Bertrand died, the attention was misplaced.“The thing that’s disturbing is that instead of people saying, ‘This looks like a person that’s actually dealing with something, probably from emotions,’ they say, ‘Does she fit into skinny jeans and look thin?’ I want people to understand who I am as a person is not somebody that’s trying to look thin, but just trying to work
Recently, the United State Senate Special Committee on Aging held hearings on the problems and opportunities surrounding the rapid growth in reverse mortgages (Reverse Mortgages: Polishing Not Tarnishing The Golden Years). The testimony of witnesses is loaded with some compelling insights (good and bad) and is highly suggested reading for those considering a reverse [...]
Mike Huckabee's record on women's rights is coming under scrutiny, including his endorsement of the Southern Baptist Convention's stance that women should "submit graciously" to their husbands and his opposition to sending women into combat.read more | digg story
When it came down to having a child, my wife and I really didn’t care whether we had a boy or a girl — we just wanted a healthy baby. Well, ok, that’s not completely honest — we both wanted a girl. Why? Neither of us is 100% sure, but we’re pretty sure one factor was clothing choices. Baby girls have TONS of cute clothes and outfits and very few of them look dippy. On the other hand, baby boy fashion SUCKS.
Why is it that if you make boy clothes they have to be sports oriented? Does every boy on the face of the earth have to be a baseball, football, or basketball player? Frankly, I think this is to soothe the “manly men” out there who don’t know what to do with a baby but, by god, if I have a boy then he’ll be a MAN and drink BEER and FART and play FOOTBALL and be a STAR BECAUSE I COULDN’T BE! In short, all the knuckle-draggers that choose to live vicariously through their kids. I am not this sort of f
The lawyer of another woman who sued Dr. Jan Adams for mistakenly leaving a sponge inside her after a boob job tells The New York Daily News the controversial doc who operated on Kanye West's mother Donda the day before she died said he thinks the co
According to the EEOC, an adverse action is an action taken to try to keep someone from opposing a discriminatory practice, or from participating in an employment discrimination proceeding. Examples of adverse actions include:-- Employment actions such as termination, refusal to hire, and denial of promotion;-- Other actions affecting employment such as threats, unjustified negative evaluations, unjustified negative references, or increased surveillance; and-- Any other action such as an assault or unfounded civil or criminal charges that are likely to deter reasonable people from pursuing their rights.Once again, the EEOC web site contains an example of an adverse action that reminds me of illegal corporate behavior that is very familiar to me. The example is this:A Black worker has filed a charge alleging that he was racially harassed by his supervisor and co-workers. After learning about the charge, the Black worker’s manager asked two employees to keep the Black worker under sur
BRAY, Ireland — The Man Booker Prize carries with it a check for £50,000 (about $105,000), a guaranteed increase in book sales and, for little-known authors, instant popular recognition. But the spotlight sometimes falls in unexpected places.
That is what happened to the Irish writer Anne Enright, who won the 2007 Booker for “The Gathering” last month. The novel, in which a woman tries to untie her family’s tangled past as she brings her brother’s body home to be buried in Ireland, has won glowing praise, as Ms. Enright’s books generally do. But almost immediately the praise was intermingled with criticism over a recent essay by Ms. Enright in The London Review of Books.
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Bodyguards came under scrutiny this summer when SIA investigators visited the annual meetings of some of the country’s top companies. Over 100 close protection operatives were asked to show their licenses during the random checks on high-profile FTSE 100 companies. Only four were working without a valid SIA license. SIA head of investigation, Poppy Saunders, [...]
Experts say scenario is far worse than first predicted· Crackdown on marketing aimed at children urged Sarah Boseley, health editorMonday October 15, 2007 The Guardian Marketing junk food to children has to become socially unacceptable, a leading obesity expert will say today, warning that the food industry has done too little voluntarily to help avert what a major report this week will show is a "far worse scenario than even our gloomiest predictions". Professor Philip James, chairman of the International Obesity Taskforce thinktank, will say in a keynote speech that when it comes to public health the response of the food industry has so far been a case of "too little, too late". Today's conference of the National Obesity Forum comes on the eve of publication of a government-commissioned investigation into the scale of the obesity problem and what science can do to help tackle it. "The expected outcome of the Foresight Report on Obesity suggests
Internet Service Providers Associations of India (ISPAI) are alleging that internet companies Skype, Yahoo, Google, MSN and Net2Phone.com are eating market share of Indian companies and thats too illegaly i.e. without any licensed net telephony services. ISPs also allege that voice chat through Google, MSN and Yahoo is resulting in revenue leak for the government.
Evangelicals Imply Fred Thompson Has Flip-FloppedNote: This author too was told that Fred Thompson favored an amendment defining marriage between a man and a woman. Perhaps this position was a rumor, or Fred has evolved or changed his mind...More recently, Thompson has come under scrutiny for his position on a constitutional amendment on gay marriage, a defining issue for the Christian right.Thompson told CNN in August that he supports an amendment that would prohibit states from imposing their gay marriage laws on other states. That falls well short of what evangelical leaders want: an amendment that would bar gay marriage nationwide.Thompson's position surprised evangelical leaders who say they met with him in June and came away thinking he shared their desire for a more sweeping constitutional change. Now, they wonder if he is flip-flopping.One person in attendance — Mathew Staver of the Liberty Counsel, a Florida-based conservative legal group — said Thompson described going b
There's no quick fix when it comes to home remodeling, but you don't have to tell Westchester County residents that. Westchester County announced gains in its stepped-up efforts to apprehend unlicensed contractors.Law enforcement forces from Long Island and Westchester County announced the results of an operation last July conducted by undercover inspectors."Sadly, too many contractors carry a bag of tricks instead of a tool box," said Mindy Bockstein, chairwoman and executive director of the state Consumer Protection Board. "The proof can be found in successful stings.""There is not only zero tolerance for unscrupulous and illegal contractors, but county lines are irrelevant when it comes to that illegal activity," said Consumer Affairs Commissioner Jonathan Mintz. "We'll take your truck and we'll bring you to justice."It's a very strong message, and it's a flexing of some very strong powers we have in this industry."Asked if undercover stings will continue, Mintz said, "Absolut
By Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY BEREA, Ohio — Could NFL games be tainted by rogue officials? The scandal involving NBA referee Tim Donaghy had a group of NFL officials working the Cleveland Browns training camp on Thursday answering questions about officiating and gambling. “I would be dumbfounded that anyone would do it in the NFL,” said side judge Joe Larrew, a sixth-year official. Even if an NFL official were inclined to try fixing a game, the officials believe there are checks and balances more…
Here we go again on one of my favorite subjects, trying to debunk the man-made global warming myth.
Many of the assertions Gore makes in his movie, ”An Inconvenient Truth,” have been refuted by science, both before and after he made them. Gore can show sincerity in his plea for scientific honesty by publicly acknowledging where science has rebutted his claims.
Scientific honesty? Who ever said Al Gore wanted scientific honesty? Al Gore wants your money that is why he is perpetuating this fraud on the American people, that’s all. If he wanted honesty he wouldn’t be claiming that the debate is over. Hell, the debate never began. He would be willing to debate the issue. Who the hell made a politician an expert on the environment anyway? (more…)
The Article that has inspired this blog tonight.President Bush signed a secret order in 2002 authorizing the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens and foreign nationals in the United States, despite previous legal prohibitions against such domestic spying.Bush's' words about the program: "A program that is in my judgment necessary to win this war and to protect the American people."You know something Bush, I haven't trusted your judgement since you were the Governor of Texas.Different groups that have been monitored: Greenpeace, PETA - the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Catholic Worker, anti-war groups and even bicyclists in New York City.So what constitutes the government rights to spy on us in their eyes?Do you have a friend or family member that lives in a country other than the US? Do you correspond with them regularly through phone calls or emails? You might want to be careful as to what you say, chances are you being spied on. You pose a risk to
FDA Scrutiny Scant In India, China as Drugs Pour Into U.S. - Broad Overseas Checks Called Too Costly - Washington PostExcerpt:"India and China, countries where the Food and Drug Administration rarely conducts quality-control inspections, have become major suppliers of low-cost drugs and drug ingredients to American consumers. Analysts say their products are becoming pervasive in the generic and over-the-counter marketplace.Over the past seven years, amid explosive growth in imports from India and China, the FDA conducted only about 200 inspections of plants in those countries, and a few were the kind that U.S. firms face regularly to ensure that the drugs they make are of high quality."Read Story
Vacation rentals face county scrutinyLihue Garden Island, HI - 16 minutes agoIn light of a state investigation into alleged unauthorized use of 16 Ha‘ena homes as vacation rentals on state conservation lands, some residents yesterday …
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If you file a complaint of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, etc. against your employer, your employer may respond by producing what appears to be evidence of a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for whatever employment action was taken against you. However, legally, a violation would still be found if the explanation provided by your employer is a pretext designed to hide the true retaliatory motive.Typically, pretext is proved through evidence that an employer treated a complainant differently from similarly situated employees or that the employer's explanation for an adverse action is not believable. An adverse action is any action taken to try to keep someone from opposing a discriminatory practice, or from participating in an employment discrimination proceeding.If you have complained/opposed discrimination, etc. in the workplace, you want to begin tracking and documenting your employer’s pretext(s) by exposing how the so-called legitimate evidence is nothing more tha
Products have been sold with green branding for some time, and now the biggest companies are joining in. Advertising agencies are gearing up to support a wave of green marketing campaigns, claiming that companies that do not demonstrate their environmental credentials will lose customers.
Some of the branding ideas currently going to market are quite remarkable.
Honda’s F1 team invite you to post a pledge on their website to make a small lifestyle change, and in return you become part of the bizarre irony of having your name and eco-promise printed on one of their F1 cars, which do around 1.5 miles per gallon, in lettering visible under a microscope.
Diesel’s typically tongue in cheek ‘Global Warming Ready’ campaign shows the sartorial opportunities of climate change - clothes to keep you ‘cool while the planet gets hot’. And the wider fashion industry is also using environmental concern in a brand exercise.
These companies are using the inverse principle to campaig
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Email from Charlie Brown of Consumers for Dental Choice:FDA's rogue bureaucracy to face intense scrutiny in "07
As 2007 dawns, the stars are aligning for fundamental changes in how the government regulates (by that I mean fails to regulate) mercury fillings. Thus much is clear: the clock has run out for the pro-mercury bureaucrats at FDA's Center for Devices, a bureau so out of the mainstream the Supreme Court calls it "FDA's neglected stepchild" The Center's cover-up of the mercury, its refusal to do an environmental impact statement, its decision to allow amalgam sales with no proof of safety, and its arrogant attitude toward its legal duties will all be addressed in different forums in 2007.
This rogue bureaucracy's biggest mistake was using a bogus "white paper" to try to strong-arm two scientific panels into acquiescing in their cover-up of the science. Using a public relations offensive over Labor Day weekend of 2006,
