Thursday, April 24, 2008

SPB News for Thursday.


Thomas Friedman Gets A Pie In The Face During Speech At Brown — New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman was attacked with pies in the face by environmental activists during a speech about energy at Brown University yesterday. — The Providence Journal reports that Friedman's message …

Hagee Says Hurricane Katrina Struck New Orleans Because It Was ‘Planning A Sinful’ ‘Homosexual Rally’ — On September 18, 2006, Pastor John Hagee — whose endorsement Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said this past Sunday he was “glad to have” — told NPR's Terry Gross that “Hurricane Katrina was …

Vermont soldiers can't get home from Iraq
Troops stranded in part due to airliner bankruptcy; lawmakers try to help.

CIA Acknowledges it Has More Than 7000 Documents Relating to Secret Detention Program, Rendition, and Torture The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) must stop stonewalling congressional oversight committees and release vital documents related to the program of secret detentions, renditions, and torture, three prominent human rights groups said today. Amnesty International USA (AIUSA), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the International Human Rights Clinic at NYU School of Law (NYU IHRC) reiterated their call for information, following the CIA's filing of a summary judgment motion this week to end a lawsuit and avoid turning over more than 7000 documents related to its secret "ghost" detention and extraordinary rendition program.


Carter says US Secretary Rice "not telling truth" Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday accused Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of not telling the truth about warnings she said her department gave Carter not to speak to Hamas before a Middle East trip.


Blackwater Finds New Home In South Bay (CA) Military security contractor Blackwater Worldwide is not giving up on a training facility in San Diego County, according to company officials. The company is planning to open an indoor facility in Otay Mesa. It would be housed in a 61,600-square-foot building [which needs to go bye-bye] on Siempre Viva Road, just south of Brown Field.


Supreme Court says police may search even if arrest invalid The Supreme Court affirmed Wednesday that police have the power to conduct searches and seize evidence, even when done during an arrest that turns out to have violated state law. The unanimous decision comes in a case from Portsmouth, Va., where city detectives seized crack cocaine from a motorist after arresting him for a traffic ticket offense.

Wal-Mart's Sam's Club limits rice purchases Wal-Mart Stores Inc's Sam's Club warehouse division said on Wednesday it is limiting sales of several types of rice, the latest sign that fears of a rice shortage are rippling around the world.

McCain Helped Ord Land Deal Sen. John McCain helped an Arizona developer resolve his water issues in a Fort Ord property purchase, according to Monterey County court documents. The presumptive Republican presidential candidate also sent a dazzling letter of recommendation to Seaside city officials when developer Donald Diamond submitted his bid to develop the Bayonet and Black Horse golf courses. McCain's assistance came to light in a New York Times front-page story Tuesday, thrusting Seaside's real estate machinations with Fort Ord into the national campaign spotlight.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Carter says Rice not telling the truth.......Now that's news cough, cough

airJackie said...

Yes who do you believe is telling the truth. Has President Carter ever openly lied to the American people NO. Has Connie Rice ever openly lied to the American people Yes all the time. There's your answer folks.

No surprise the CIA has more information on Torture and how prisoners were transported to other countries to be torture. Now the surprise to Americans will be that the countries Bush/Cheney sent prisoner were to countries Bush calls terrorist/axis of evil. Yes Syria tortured prisoners for the Bush Administration and so did Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan and others. Look for the US companies who are working in Iran to be next. Oh you had to get approval from the White House to do business in Iran and some companies got that approval. Halliburton is working in Iran but didn't need approval because their headquarters is in Dubai now.

Don't believe the rice story by Sam's Club it's is just used to sell rice because of low profits in this recession. At lease the Media help spread the propaganda.

Now we see how Teflon McCain makes his money. I knew that pay check wasn't enough. Now it is interesting to see how a Senator can profit from a deal in his State for a friend. It's good to have a friend who's a Senator and as you give him money for his campaign not a house just the campaign and in turn surprise a bill with alot of money comes your way. Sounds like another Senator I just read about lately.

KittyBowTie1 said...

"Hagee Says Hurricane Katrina Struck New Orleans Because It Was ‘Planning A Sinful’ ‘Homosexual Rally’"

I cannot decide which is funnier, Rev. Hoagie's paranoid rants about "the Katrina" [sic] which sound a lot like those of the guy from Westboro or the conversations the people on the ThinkProgress blog are having with their blog troll Daryll.

KittyBowTie1 said...

Yeah, some of the news media people blamed themselves for the run up on rice. The news people this morning told people to knock off the panic buying.