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The view from the 39th floor is as breathtaking as it is deadly. Thomas Magill, 22, sneaked into his former West End Ave. apartment building prepared to die. He stepped onto a penthouse balcony on Tuesday and jumped off - only to survive after he crashed through the back window of a sports car on the street below.
With rhinoceros poaching in Africa approaching an all-time high, one nature preserve owner has had enough. Ed Hern, owner of the Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve near Johannesburg, South Africa, is experimenting with injecting cyanide into his rhinos' horns. He believes the poison will not harm the rhinos, because there are no blood vessels in the horn to carry the poison the rest of the rhino's body. But if anyone kills the animals and sells the horns for use in traditional Asian medicine, the end...
Don't know about the rest of our members here at the U.S.E. but this sort of mailing really pisses me off. They make you think you got an official notification but really! Lets cut the crap people.
Morgan Stanley has reluctantly joined the ranks of the slow-growthers. In a fresh note, Richard Berner has slashed his second-half U.S. GDP forecast to 2-2.5% from 3-3.5%. Basically, from 3.25% to 2.2%. That's some serious damage. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/morgan-stanley-capitulates-shredding-their-us-growth-forecasts-2010-9#ixzz0yNQlggkm
Update at bottom: Global initiative claims suspect never worked for them, but they need to confirm whether a volunteer with same name is the same individual The Village Voice believes this might be the “first ‘ground zero mosque’ hate crime.” Fresh food that lasts from eFoods Direct (Ad) “Police say a suburban New York man hailed a taxi in the city, asked the driver if he was Muslim and then stabbed him when the driver said yes,” the Associated Press reports.
Would President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency really force Americans to pay a tax on “rainwater runoff” from homes and small businesses? You bet they would. In fact, the EPA, under radical environmentalist Lisa Jackson, is proposing regulations to do just that. Take a look at the EPA’s own Federal Register filing, where the EPA generally describes the initiative it’s proposing:
America, and especially California, are in dire economic straits. Their day of fiscal reckoning is coming and it’s not going to be pretty. Consequently, it is has been suggested that something dramatic will have to happen for Congress to pass any form of relief because the American public was bitterly against the TARP and the Stimulus bill. I’m not advocating another massive bailout for the states, but it seems that if something meaningful is not done soon to restore economic viability t...
The NYPD has suspended a cold-hearted Brooklyn cop who failed to help a woman as she frantically drove her dying daughter to a hospital, police said. Police Officer Alfonso Mendez, 30, who is assigned to the 84th Precinct in downtown Brooklyn, had his gun and badge taken and will likely face a departmental charge for failing to take proper police action, cops said.
The 33 trapped Chilean miners may not receive any wages while they are trapped underground, a union official has claimed. Evelyn Olmos says that San Esteban, the company that operates the mine, has said it has no money to pay their wages and absorb lawsuits, and is not even participating in the rescue Mr Olmos has called on the government to pay the workers' wages starting in September, as well as giving help to the roughly 100 other people at the mine who are now out of work and 170 more ...
You have a cool new pet door that lets the cats come in and out. Then one day what do you see but...
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In a time when young people are becoming increasingly promiscuous, we are always impressed with individuals that are willing to wait before they begin sexual activity. This is especially true of celebrities that seem to grow up faster than the rest of their peers. Our hats are off to these girls for keeping their pants on!
These homes are right out of Hollywood or Fairy Tales. Check them out and see what I mean
PARIS – Friday in Paris. A hidden camera shows streets blocked by huge crowds of Muslim worshippers and enforced by a private security force. This is all illegal in France: the public worship, the blocked streets, and the private security. But the police have been ordered not to intervene.
The hunt for Puppy-Throwing Girl just got a lot more explosionier: Michael Bay, director of Victoria's Secret commercials and giant robot movies, has placed a $50,000 bounty on information leading to the arrest of the famed animal abuser.
Obama delivered a speech about a war that he exploited for political advantage during the election, and ignored the rest of the time. A war that he tried to sabotage as a Senator, and neglected once in the White House. Where Bush conducted constant conferences with commanders in the field, Obama has let the clashing egos of former Clinton Administration staffers, and a few imported radicals, determine how the war will be conducted. Of all the charges leveled at Bush over the war, he could never...
Democratic Socialists of America's Honorary Chairperson Dolores Huerta was used by the Obama Labor Department in advertisements instructing illegal aliens to fight for fair wages. In this recently uncovered audio, Ms. Huerta is speaking to high school students and praising the virtues of Hugo Chavez' Venezuela.
Some of us might answer that question with “the media was finally forced to cover him properly,” but let’s not get too picky about that now. At least the media has begun to notice that Hope and Change has worn threadbare in a very short period. Time calls Barack Obama “Mr. Unpopular” in its headline today, and reports on the steep decline in support for Obama over the course of his nineteen-month administration. They describe his “overreach” on policy, but Michael Sherer starts ...
So Iceland is cold..Well guess what, they also have the highest frequency of sex per year. As for the U.S, it turns out that some cities are hotbeds for love-making, whilst others are less than lustful. Check out this infograhic about the geography of sex.
A radical enviornmentalist who took three hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters while wearing what police may be explosives was shot and killed by officers, police said.
Eric Holder’s Justice Department really seems to believe that its primary responsibility is to help aliens who violate federal law as opposed to tax-paying citizens of the United States. What else can one say about the latest action filed by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division against Arizona community colleges claiming they violated federal law when they asked noncitizens applying for jobs to produce their green cards? According to news reports, the complaint was filed with the E...
An indignant President Obama complained last week, "I can't spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead." Fine. How about plastering a copy of his presidential oath of office there instead? The kowtowing commander-in-chief is in dire need of a daily reminder that his job is to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" -- not international law or global diktats.
The wealthiest members of Congress grew richer in 2009 even as the economy struggled to recover from a deep recession. The 50 wealthiest lawmakers were worth almost $1.4 billion in 2009, about $85.1 million more than 12 months earlier, according to The Hill’s annual review of lawmakers’ financial disclosure forms.
A retired lieutenant general from the U.S. Air Force who commanded forces armed with nuclear weapons says the disclosure of Barack Obama's documentation proving his eligibility to be commander in chief is critical not just to the defense of an officer challenging the president's status, but to the preservation of the nation itself.
After weeklong vote count, longtime Republican senator from Alaska concedes the primary race to Tea Party favorite Joe Miller, who had the backing of former Gov. Palin
The Reverend Al Sharpton has been spending a lot of time in recent days saying that Glenn is distorting Martin Luther King's dream. That's interesting, because 10 years ago on the anniversary of the 'I have a dream' speech, Sharpton made an appearance. At the Lincoln Memorial. With the Black Panthers. What was his dream? Hint: it involves caskets and cops.
Despite President Barack Obama's declaration Tuesday of an end to the combat mission in Iraq, combat almost certainly lies ahead. And in asserting the U.S. has met its responsibilities in Iraq, the president opened the door wide to a debate about the meaning of success in the muddle that most - but not all - American troops are leaving behind. A look at some of the statements Obama made in his Oval Office speech and how they compare with the facts
