Archive for November, 2011

Los Angeles Times: Sanitation officials said Wednesday that they expect to haul away 30 tons of debris from the Occupy L.A. encampment –- everything from clothing to heaps of garbage to oddball curiosities left behind by the protesters who lived at the City Hall tent city for two months. Andrea Alarcon, president of the city [...]

Herman Cain’s Alleged Mistress Ginger White Denies Being A Prostitute

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Saudi Gazzette: A 23-year-old unmarried woman was awarded one-year prison term and 100 lashes for committing adultery and trying to abort the resultant fetus. The District Court in Jeddah pronounced the verdict on Saturday after the girl confessed that she had a forced sexual intercourse with a man who had offered her a ride. The [...]

PolitiFact sided with Tapper on this, so the ashamed DNC removed their discredited attack on Tapper. Politico: UPDATE: The DNC has removed an attack on ABC’s Jake Tapper from its website. ORIGINAL POST: The Democratic National Committee has dispatched a harsh open letter to ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper over his doubting [...]

San Francisco Weekly: On Thursday, Dec. 1, the city’s de facto ban of the Happy Meal commences. San Francisco has accomplished what the Hamburglar could not. Or has it? In order to include a toy with a meal, restaurants must now comply with city-generated nutritional standards. Those are standards that even the “healthier” Happy Meals [...]

Klein Online: . . . In one revelation, the book details how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, or ARRA, provided $650 million to the Investing in Innovation Fund, or i3, as it is called. That year, Duncan announced his agency was accepting applications for i3 grants from educational nonprofits, individual school districts [...]

The Hill: (The Hill) — Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) said Wednesday he would advise Herman Cain to let voters “move on” from the distraction of his campaign. Cain told his campaign this week it is time to “reassess” in light of the resurfacing of old sexual harassment allegations and new accusations this week that he [...]

Romney  Denies He Flip-Flops

(Salon) — If you have the stomach to listen to enough right-wing talk radio, or troll enough right-wing websites, you inevitably come upon fear-mongering about the Unassimilated Muslim. Essentially, this caricature suggests that Muslims in America are more loyal to their religion than to the United States, that such allegedly traitorous loyalties prove that Muslims [...]

(Rasmussen) — The Newt Gingrich surge has moved him to the top of the polls in Iowa, big gains in New Hampshire and now a two-point edge over President Obama in a hypothetical general election match-up. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters finds Gingrich attracting 45% of the vote while President [...]

Wednesday War Porn: <b>Wounded Warrior Ode To Ricky Bobby</b>
Inside The #OccupyLA Madness: <b>Watch Final Minutes Before Arrests</b>

(Reuters) – Police in riot gear and biohazard suits removed anti-Wall Street activists from their camp at Los Angeles City Hall on Wednesday, arresting nearly 300 people and fencing off the area. On the East Coast, about 100 Occupy protesters in Philadelphia swiftly and peacefully vacated their encampment overnight, but police later arrested 52 around [...]

Reuters: Los Angeles Police Lieutenant Andy Neiman said before the operation that some protesters had been storing human waste at the site for unknown reasons. He later said police entering the camp encountered “a horrible stench.” The grounds were strewn with collapsed tents, trash and other debris.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Trash, flattened tents and the stench of urine were the legacy of Occupy Los Angeles on Wednesday after hundreds of protesters were arrested or chased out of their City Hall park encampment. City crews erected chain link fence and concrete barricades around the park at dawn, six hours after 1,400 police [...]

The Caucus: 1:40 p.m. | Updated DAYTON, Ohio — A buoyant and defiant Herman Cain took the stage in a hotel ballroom on Wednesday morning to reassure a group of several hundred supporters that he would not be getting out of the race for the Republican nomination, saying, “The American people are going to raise [...]

#OccupyLA Protester Sobs As Boyfriend Arrested
CNN Asks LAPD Commander If Fellow Cops Wanted To Be Part Of #OccupyLA Protest