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A federal judge has denied ex-Detroit Councilwoman Monica Conyers’ request to withdraw her guilty plea in a corruption case and sentenced her to three years and one month in prison.Conyers suggested she was the victim of “badgering” last summer when she acknowledged a conspiracy to take bribes for her support of a Houston company seeking a sludge

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I really find this all to be pretty weird……

DETROIT (Reuters) – Federal regulators said they were looking into a report of another runaway Toyota Prius, this one in Westchester County, New York, where police said a woman pulling out of a driveway zoomed across a busy street and into a stone wall.

AP – They flew planes during World War II but weren’t considered “real” military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service ended, they had to pay their own bus fare home.

The top United Nations envoy in Iraq urged election officials Wednesday to release the results of this week’s historic vote as quickly as possible.

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Just seems to me like that will cause double the confusion…double the people missed……

An intelligence official says that in the two months since a Nigerian man tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airplane, the government’s list of suspected terrorists banned from flying grew from about 3,400 to 6,000.

A terrified 7-year-old boy begged emergency dispatchers to send police to his Southern California home where three armed robbers threatened his parents, according to a recording of the call released Tuesday.Gunmen broke into the boy’s home Tuesday morning and announced that they would take whatever they wanted, Los Angeles County sheriff’s Lt.

AP – U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address was “very troubling” and that the annual speech to Congress has “degenerated into a political pep rally.”

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I would agree…..

Senator Scott Brown railed yesterday against President Obama and congressional Democrats for continuing their quest to pass a comprehensive health care bill, saying the majority party in Washington has failed to heed the lessons of his own surprise victory in January.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, weighing in on the Senate’s efforts to pass a climate change bill, gathered Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday to try to jumpstart an overhaul of U.S. energy policy.

Beta amyloid, which was once thought to be a chief villain in Alzheimer’s, may be part of the brain’s normal defenses, researchers at Harvard suggested.

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What??? A Democrat wanting to cut a tax in order to spur job growth? What is this world coming to?

Haven’t Republican’s been saying things like this for a long time?…..

The new chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee wants to reduce the levy on small businesses to help spur job creation, and will use post to strengthen labor protections in trade deals and refashion the estate tax.

AP – A suburban woman “desperate to do something” to help suffering Muslims has been accused of using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas, even agreeing to move to Europe to try to kill a Swedish artist, prosecutors said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama still wants Congress to pass a climate bill this year, Republican Senator Susan Collins told reporters on Tuesday after meeting with the president.

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been arraigned on a probation violation and released on a $10,000 personal bond pending another hearing.A Wayne County Circuit Court judge entered a not guilty plea on Kilpatrick’s behalf on Tuesday.The judge ordered Kilpatrick to stay in Michigan until Thursday’s hearing, when he rules on a defense motion

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Sorry, I am not buying that……

The Senate's official gatekeeper, said the Drudge Report, a conservative news aggregator, and whitepages.com "are responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate," according to an e-mail to the Environment and Public Works Committee.

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They always think if they can put a different name on something that they can pull a fast one on us……

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Like a savvy Madison Avenue advertising team, senators pushing climate-control legislation have decided to scrap the name “cap and trade” and rebrand their product as “pollution reduction targets.”

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I honestly thought a whole lot more would be opposing it by now……

Americans who oppose a “healthcare reform bill similar to the one proposed by President Obama” outnumber those in favor by 48% to 45%. Since September, sentiment has grown among opponents that the legislation would raise healthcare costs and not address real problems in the system.

A skydiver miraculously survived after plummeting 3,000 feet to the ground when her parachute became tangled, The Sun reported Tuesday.

One of three terror suspects killed during raids Tuesday near Jakarta may include what authorities said was one of the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings, but police were still trying to confirm his identity.

No real explanation here. How can these people in Washington think the American people are so stupid. It is very frustrating.

Toyota owners claiming that massive safety recalls are causing the value of their vehicles to plummet have filed at least 89 class-action lawsuits that could cost the Japanese auto giant $3 billion or more, according to an Associated Press review of cases, legal precedent and interviews with experts.Those estimates do not include potential payouts

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To funny. Must be a created or saved job……

So, what is the $71,623 federal stimulus grant paying for?

Well, a job, said Mark Wright, a spokesman for the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

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But wait! Wasn’t Obama going to change all that? Wasn’t Obama on a path of being buddy buddy with all the world leader?

Didn’t Obama get the Nobel Peace Prize for ….. well, oh yeah…..what was that for?

And on top of that American’s don’t think he and the dem’s are up to par on national security?

I tell ya, I am just amazed……ok, not at all…..

A majority of Americans say the United States is less respected in the world than two years ago and think President Obama and other Democrats fall short of Republicans on the issue of national security, a new poll finds.

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Just sitting here laughing…….

In a long op-ed piece for The New York Times the other day, Gore cranked up the doomsday rhetoric. Human beings, he warned, “face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.’’ His 1,900-word essay made no mention of his financial interest in promoting such measures – Gore has invested heavily in carbon-offset markets, electric vehicles, and other ventures that would profit handsomely from legislation curbing the use of fossil fuels, and is reportedly poised to become the world’s first “carbon billionaire.’’

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The weather and climate really isn’t cooperating this year with Al Gore’s agenda…is it?……

Schools were closed, roads were blocked and power was knocked as Barcelona was
hit with its heaviest snowfall in 25 years.

AP – Israel wants to develop nuclear energy.

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ooops………..

The superintendent of a rural Montana school district says he was showing students his black powder muzzleloader when he accidentally fired the weapon into a classroom wall during a history lesson.Dwain Haggard, who used to be a Civil War re-enactor, was showing the gun to five students in Reed Point High School’s American history class Friday

Today is Tuesday, March 9, the 68th day of 2010. There are 297 days left in the year.Today’s Highlight in History:On March 9, 1862, during the Civil War, the ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimac) clashed for five hours to a draw at Hampton Roads, Va.On this date:In 1796, the future emperor of the French, Napoleon

Two former ACORN workers are accused of repeatedly trying to register the same voters during a Milwaukee drive to meet quotas set by the organization.Maria Miles and Kevin Clancy were charged Monday with falsely procuring voter registration as a party to the crime during the 2008 campaign.Phone numbers were not listed for Miles and Clancy. A

AP – The Iraqi prime minister’s coalition and its main secular rival both claimed to be ahead in the vote count Monday, a day after historic parliamentary elections that the top U.S. commander said would let all but 50,000 American troops come home by the end of summer.

AP – Two of the oldest people in the world have died on the same day.

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Interesting stuff……

AP – Sarah Palin has been no friend lately of socialized health care.

Millions of Americans have been forced to rely on unemployment payments for extended periods as the nation struggles through its longest period of high joblessness in a generation, and critics are taking aim, saying that the Depression-era program created as a temporary bridge for laid-off workers is turning into an expensive entitlement.

Dozens of former federal officials are playing leading roles in helping carmakers handle federal investigations of auto defects, including those for Toyota’s runaway acceleration problems.

A high-profile defense attorney hired by Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger on Monday disputed a college student’s claim that the two-time Super Bowl winner sexually assaulted her at a Georgia nightclub.The 20-year-old told police Roethlisberger, who had been out barhopping with friends, assaulted her early Friday. Roethlisberger

Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile.Operating on a scale never before attempted in this country, the city would demolish