Breaking News! John Edwards Has A Heart!
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alterednews @ January 13, 2012
“McRib Sandwhich Key Ingredient In Next Gen Gym Mats”
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Story by Jack Box.
Like Microsoft and Apple computers before them, McDonalds has long been pushing to get their products directly into the lives of the American high school student population. Though those efforts have made both health activist and parent groups grimace, McDonalds may have found a way it get around the road block. It seems that certain athletic equipment manufacturers have gone to the mat for them.
Companies, such as the Chinese Gong-Dong Feng-Shie Ye-Haw Plastics, have been using ingredients from the infamous McRib sandwhich as a bonding agent in their yoga mats. “We stumbled upon this idea a number of years ago” says GFYP chemist / swimming pool consultant Cheng Leu. “One of our sales associates had a McRib while on a business trip in America. When he came back he would not shake our hands, as, despite several washings and a plane trip back to China, he had a very difficult time getting the residue from the sticky sandwich off his hands. Only my knowledge of chemicals from the pool industry allowed me to come up with a formula to dissolve the stuff”. Mr. Leu at once realized that the McRib would be an excellent bonding agent for the new brand of yoga and exercise mats targeted for American schools.
Meanwhile, here in America, Tony Godbout, CEO of exercise equipment start-up “Ham Slam” also realized the benefits of using the McRib in its mats, and quickly got the thumbs up from McDonalds to use them in the manufacturing of their products. “Unlike the stinky old mats we used to use in gym class when we were kids, these new mats smell good! kids want to get on the mats and wrestle and stuff because now it’s an enjoyable experience!”. Mr. Godbout, a one-time educator, notes “There is a pedagogical benefit to using the sandwich in the manufacturing process. It fits with Gardners Multiple Intelligences theory because you are including more of the senses. The kids love the smell of the gym now, and are much more motivated to work out and get exercise than they used to be”.
McDonalds Corporation, meanwhile, is smiling all the way to the bank. Not only are they collecting royalties from the equipment manufacturers, they are also creating a whole generation of kids who will likely subliminally crave the calorie packed gooey product for years to come.
Original story here.
alterednews @ November 2, 2011
BREAKING NEWS! Qaddafi Flees Libya, Replaces Steven Tyler on American Idol … UPDATE
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written by the mysterious Wesley M.
TRIPOLI — Fleeing armed rebels and unarmed protesters, Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi has accepted the international community’s offer of exile in Hollywood, where he will appear as a judge on Season 11 of the hit television show American Idol.
“It’s hard to keep a show fresh and unpredictable after 10 years on the air, so we’re excited to have Col. Qaddafi as a judge next season,” said Executive Producer Cecile Frot-Coutaz. “Qaddifi combines the wackiness of Steven Tyler and Paula Abdul with the tyrannic intensity of Simon Cowell. And his chemistry with Ryan Seacrest during the audition was unbelievable!”
Governments around the world uniformly praised the diplomatic breakthrough.
“The Libyan people gain their freedom from a murderous psychopath, and the American people gain another year of great television,” said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Geneva. “This kind of win-win is the essence of smart diplomacy.”
The recently struck deal, however, also breathes new life into lingering suspicions of a double standard in the Obama administration’s handling of the revolutions in Libya and Egypt. Addressing this issue, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney explained, “Hosni Mubarak is a 82-year-old autocrat with no knowledge of modern pop music, whereas Col. Qaddafi has paid for personal concerts by the likes of Mariah Carey, Beyonce, and Nelly Furtado. The two situations really couldn’t be more different.”
Republicans predictably criticized the new agreement.
“When America sheltered Nazi scientists after World War II, we at least got the Apollo moon program out of it,” said Speaker of the House John Boehner. “What are we getting from Qaddafi? A better way to make some tone-deaf kid from Wichita cry?”
Potential presidential candidate Sarah Palin tweeted, “I guess Stalin had a scheduling conflict. And yes, I do know Stalin is dead.” (UPDATE: See related article, “Chris Matthews: ‘Why Is Sarah Palin Lying About Knowing Josef Stalin Is Dead?’”)
At least one veteran television personality, speaking on condition of anonymity, also expressed confusion. “Steven Tyler’s antics brought great ratings, but I guess he just became too unmanageable on the set,” Kelsey Grammer told Reuters. “But why the State Department and the American Idol producers think a tyrant who bombed his own people will be any more reasonable is just beyond me.”
Confronted with Grammer’s anonymous comments, new State Department spokesperson Charlie Sheen responded, “Kelsey Grammer’s mind cannot process how many bad-ass gnarly gnarlingtons are still out there. Even if Qaddafi flames out, we can keep filling a dictator’s seat at that judges’ table for decades, bro. I’m an F-18. Winning!”
Steven Tyler could not be reached for comment.
UPDATE: Though the original article was published in March, P. A., the anonymous source of the story, confirms Qaddafi has been in negotiations with FOX concerning American Idol since that time, and now, as Libya’s government falls, this is straight up a done deal!
alterednews @ August 22, 2011
Fukushima – Six Months Later.
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EDITORIAL by Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr.
There has been a number of disturbing repercussions from the melt-down at the Fukushima nuclear power facility. There have been varying reports of radiated food making its way into the Japanese food supply. Now there are reports that some of that food is being shipped to the United States, and none other than Hillary Clinton is behind it!
There is much speculation that she is attempting to affect the public’s already low opinion of President Barrack Obama by irradiating them, curing the massive brain cancer outbreak that cause his election in the first place, and she takes credit, thereby creating a perfect path to finally secure her place as Commander In Chief, something that should have happened 2 1/2 years ago.
Best of luck to you Hillary Clinton. We at Altered News have your back!
You may be saying… How is this going to work! Radiation can’t possibly affect peoples ability to chose wisely… Can it?
Oh, but it CAN. This isn’t brain surgery you know! Back in Japan, in a stunning development, this same Fukushima radiation has cause some very strange mutations to occur among the Japanese people. It seems to have indeed altered their ability to have any decent taste at all! You want proof? Here it is!
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/radiating-americans-with-fukushima-rain-food-secret-clinton-pact
You may be saying, “Hey, this was ten years ago! How can Fukushima possibly have caused that?”. Physics, my friends, physics. Everyone knows that large, sudden fluctuations in radiation often triggers a ripple in the quantum time dilation effect. In non-technical terms, the effect of Fukushima traveled through time and created the hideous thing now known as Yatta, and altered the tastes of the Japanese people in the past to LOVE this sort of thing! And we know that, before Fukushima, that simply wasn’t the case! The quantumly un-irradiated Japanese people of the late 90′s were a sensible people and would never find themselves clamoring for such a thing as Yatta!
Now, you may ask “If this is the case, if the Fukushima event can alter history, then why isn’t Hillary Clinton, now, indeed, President?”.
That is a perfectly reasonable question with a perfectly reasonable answer. In order for the quantum time dilation effect to affect your past, you have to be near the source of the even. Quantum physics is very local. Hillary was nowhere near the Fukashima nuclear power plant at the time of the melt-down, so she could not have been able to benefit directly. Remember, Schrodinger’s Cat has to be inside the box in order to be both dead and alive.. Same thing here! But it has been shown that much lower levels of Fukushima’s quantum radiation CAN non-the-less affect a populations sense of taste…
And Hillary is READY FOR IT!!!
Note, some suspect the sudden emergence in America of both Michael Moore in the 90′S and Michelle Bachmann this last year may have also been a result of the Fukushima disaster. But so far, no one has been able to place either Moore or Bachmann near the scene of the accident to verify the hypothesis.
Still, that would explain a few things.
alterednews @ August 15, 2011
Madison Detached Hand Mystery….. Solved?
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A family dog in Madison brought home a severed human hand Saturday, launching a search that turned up the body of a suspected anti-Republican / Governor Walker protester, police said.
Sgt. Jody Tittle said police were called to a residence around 8:25 a.m. on reports that the family’s black Labrador retriever had the hand in its mouth.
Police searched with the assistance of Border Patrol search dogs for about 2 1/2 hours before coming upon the body of a man near a canal.
Tittle said the body appeared to have been there for a day or so, and that the man’s red shirt had “Solidarity” printed on front, leading officials to believe he was a protester at a recent anti-Governor Walker rally.
UPDATE:
Police now say they do have a person of interest connected to the crime. Blogger Chris Althouse was seen the day before defending his mother Ann Althouse from an attack that may have emanated from this very protester. The University of Wisconsin Law Professor and widely read blogger writes on her blog:
In the middle of the screen, at 3:38, in the red “fist” T-shirt and holding a heart-shaped balloon, is the man who pointed me out in the rotunda yesterday and who (apparently) participated in the comments yesterday under the pseudonym “Dirty Hippie.” He talks to the attacker just before the attacker yells “You’re socially retarded” and attacks me. The attack is at 3:58, off camera. Meade yells “hey” a few times and gets the incident framed. At 4:00, you see Chris detaching that man’s hands from me.
Here is the video.
However, if any of the members of the Althouse family is responsible for the protesters death, there may be little the Madison Police can do. Buried within the language of the Walker budget, there is a hidden provision within the bill indemnifying the actions taken by bloggers against those who assault them at political rallies. Curiously, there is no name attached to this specific language in the bill, only the initials A. A. Police are baffled that this provision would have gone unnoticed, and that the identity of the sponsor of this provision is so cleverly concealed.
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Original story here.
alterednews @ August 13, 2011
John McCaine: “No Black Pilots… For Now.”
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In a move that surprised some, Senator John McCain, who had previously said he would follow the advise of senior military leaders concerning the ban against allowing blacks to fly missions, has gone against the advise of senior military leaders, who now say that repealing the ban would do no long term harm to military readiness.
“At this time, we should be inherently cautious about making any changes that would affect our military, and what changes we do make should be the product of careful and deliberate consideration,”
McCain, who retired at the rank of Captain in 1981, was directly challenged by current Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen, the military’s top uniformed officer who chairs the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“Repeal of the law will not prove unacceptable risk to military readiness. Unit cohesion will not suffer if our units are well-led. And families will not encourage their loved ones to leave the service in droves.”
Mullen also said that Congress should act before the courts do, and that wartime is an ideal time for repeal.
“War does not stifle change; it demands it,” he said. “It does not make it harder; it facilitates it.”
McCain responded:
“Gates? He was never in the military… What does he know”!
Concerning Mullen, he added this:
“Yes, he’s an Admiral, but he hasn’t actually served in theater with the troops for years. He doesn’t know what’s going on, on the ground. He simply doesn’t understand how much damage this will cause to troop cohesiveness”
Major General Frank O’Driscoll Hunter defended McCain’s position:
“Racial friction will occur if colored and while pilots are trained together.”
Actual Story Here.
alterednews @ December 2, 2010
Editorial – Climate Change Secret Revealed!
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I was reading this story at WUWT, and truth revealed itself…
By looking at the graphic as presented, it’s obvious….
CLIMATE CHANGE IS GAY!
This explains why liberals embrace it so.
You know, when ever I came across global warming, my gay-dar would always twitch a little. At first I though maybe my senses were a bit out of whack because of the extra warmth we’ve caused, so I had my gay-dar re-calibrated to compensate (not an inexpensive task I must tell you). But, I’ll be damned if it still didn’t pique my curiosity… There was just SOMETHING going on here that caught my queer eye. Now I can let out a sigh of relief!
Note, the colors are not quite a rainbow, but that is on purpose. Climate Change is still trying to hide the truth. It’s still in denial. Please Climate Change, don’t do anything rash like jump off a bridge or something. I promise… It gets better.
alterednews @ October 21, 2010
Mysterious form of epilepsy triggered by Hannah Montana
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Is this actually surprising news?
alterednews @ September 15, 2010
Global Warming Gives Oysteres Herpes.
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Talk about sucking the life out of a good myth.
Scientists last month confirmed that oysters, long rumored to be aquatic aphrodisiacs, are contracting herpes, and the disease is killing them in great numbers, National Geographic now reports.
Deadly and incurable, the virus has been ravaging oyster communities near the coast of the U.K., killing off the Pacific variety of the shellfish.
While not contagious to humans and apparently only able to infect the Pacific strain of oysters, the disease now threatens the Pacific oyster industry off the English coast, Treehugger adds.
The cause, according to the National Geographic, could actually be related to global warming. The herpes strain infecting the oysters is only active in waters above a certain temperature, and remains dormant otherwise. As global water temperatures rise, new breeding grounds for the herpes virus appear.
Herpes in mollusks has been known about for years. The recent strain, first detected in France in 2008, is more virulent and deadly because it attacks young oysters in their breeding phase, when they have reduced immune defenses.
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Yes, this is a real story, not altered in any way.
alterednews @ August 11, 2010
Developing – Gays Fight For Right To Get Engaged.
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Now that the notion of gay marriage has shown to be less than a sure thing as far as the voting public is concerned, and is currently tied up in the courts, Bruce Blatt, longtime same sex advocate, has come up with an ingenious plan to advance the cause – gay engagement! “It’s the next obvious step” said the full-time blogger of Gay Surface-To-Air Missile., or GaySTAM.
“Look honey, we get far closer to our goal than people realize. We get to share rings, we get to have engagement parties, bachelor and bachelor parties and other parties, have the future in-laws over for dinner, and we can live together like we’re married, yet it won’t be our fault that we can’t get married, but like so many American who get engaged and never get married, we can also pretend that it’s going to happen. It would be like voting “present” on marriage”.
“Plus, unlike marriage, there is no controlling legal authority, so it would be much harder to legally block our new movement”. He added “No one can stop us. Time is on our side”.
Sean Dobson, head of the Foundation for Fighting against Fake Families, sees the latest move to gain acceptance of gay relationships as dangerous to the ideal of real families. ” Engagements have for centuries been exclusively between one man and one woman. This whole idea of gays getting engaged is scam, designed to promote sympathy for those people. It tears at the social fabric that binds us all, and will destroy the institution that is engagement!”.
Blatt counters that assertion “They used that argument against same sex marriage. We wouldn’t have destroyed it because it’s already destroyed. Remember when Brittney Spears got married in Vegas for a day. That does more to ruin marriage than we ever could. And now, you have Levi and Bristol making a mockery of their engagement after only two weeks…. So there you go!”.
In Related News: The FFFF has been caught using fake families to promote their family friendly cause.
alterednews @ August 3, 2010
Global Warming Causes Monkeys To Hate Squirrels (for good reason).
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Researchers have observed small monkeys called Japanese macaques going bananas at the sight of a flying squirrel, and provides yet more proof of global warming.
This riled-up response was in the past probably just a false alarm, with the monkeys mistaking the squirrel for a predatory bird. On the other hand, as global warming is making birds smaller, the macaques are now mistaking bats for birds, birds for bugs, and bugs for butter. This type of confusion could very well lead to the eventual extinction of the macaques.
Biologists and psychologists have long studied macaques’ complex social interactions for insights into the human societal changes expected as a result of global warming.
“Human evolution occurred alongside primate evolution from a common mammalian ancestor,” Onishi told LiveScience. “Therefore, it is important to learn the evolution of primates in understanding the previous steps in human evolution to understand how we will react to a changing environment.”
When Japanese giant flying squirrels glided over to a tree in the monkeys’ vicinity, adults and adolescent macaques started hollering at it threateningly, the researchers report. Young macaques screamed “Crap, it’s a bird!” and mothers scooped up their infants, while adults and high-ranking males in particular went and physically harassed the offending squirrel.
Onishi said other researchers have observed macaques used to respond in a similarly aggressive manner to birds that prey on the monkeys, such as the golden eagle and mountain hawk eagle. These raptors glide and swoop much like the flying squirrels. But not only are the once mighty raptors getting smaller, but the flying squirrels are getting more aggressive. In fact new research shows that the entire squirrel family may be developing a taste for animal flesh, which of course includes the human variety, with children being particularly vulnerable. Yet another potentially devastating consequence of global warming.
Other woodland creatures, including hares, deer and wild boars, have also shown an increase in carnivorous tendencies, said Onishi.
Real Story Here
More squirrel attack video here.
alterednews @ August 2, 2010
IRS visits Sacramento carwash in pursuit of 4 cents
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[Editor's Note: This is an Un-Altered news event]
By Bob Shallit
bshallit@sacbee.com
It was every businessperson’s nightmare.
Arriving at Harv’s Metro Car Wash in midtown Wednesday afternoon were two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes. “They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending,” says Harv’s owner, Aaron Zeff.
The really odd part of this: The letter that was hand-delivered to Zeff’s on-site manager showed the amount of money owed to the feds was … 4 cents.
Inexplicably, penalties and taxes accruing on the debt – stemming from the 2006 tax year – were listed as $202.31, leaving Harv’s with an obligation of $202.35.
Zeff, who also owns local parking lots and is the president of the Midtown Business Association, finds the situation a bit comical.
“It’s hilarious,” he says, “that two people hopped in a car and came down here for just 4 cents. I think (the IRS) may have a problem with priorities.”
Now he’s trying to figure out how penalties and interest could climb so high on such a small debt. He says he’s never been told he owes any taxes or that he’s ever incurred any late-payment penalties in the four years he’s owned Harv’s.
In fact, he provided us with an Oct. 22, 2009, letter from the IRS that states Harv’s “has filed all required returns and addressed any balances due.”
IRS spokesman Jesse Weller isn’t commenting “due to privacy and disclosure laws.”
Zeff says he’s as offended as much as anything else by what he considers rude behavior by the IRS guys. While at Harv’s, he sniffs, “they didn’t even get a car wash.”
alterednews @ March 14, 2010
Birds Shrinking Due To Global Warming, Will Disappear By 2035
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Songbirds in the US are getting smaller, and climate change is suspected as the cause.
A study of almost half a million birds, belonging to over 100 species, shows that many are gradually becoming lighter and growing shorter wings. This shrinkage has occurred within just half a century in response to warmer temperatures, and at this rate, many may disappear by 2035.
In biology, there is a general rule of thumb that animals tend to become smaller in warmer climates: an idea known as Bergman’s Rule. Usually this trend can be seen among animal species that live over a range of latitude or altitude, with individuals living at more northern latitudes or higher up cooler mountains being slightly larger than those below. But global warming has thrown this process into overdrive, and many of the birds in North America will soon become so small, they will literally wink out of existence.
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A black-capped chickadee is half as large as it cousins of thirty years ago
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The WWF funded study examined the weight and size of 48 individual birds that had been caught and measured at the ringing station from 1961 to 2007. What the scientists found was striking. The birds in North America are getting small. Lead Ornithologist Steve Martin was laughed at when he first proposed his thesis, but his critics are laughing no more.
The differences in size are stunning.
“On average, the decline in mass of spring migrants over the 46 year study was 50%. That’s shocking as a young boy changing shoe sizes in reverse” says Doc Martin. The rose-breasted grosbeak has declined in mass by about 40%, while the Kentucky warbler has dropped 30.3% in weight and the scarlet tanager 20.3%.
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Kentucky warblers are now 30% lighter
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The trend is particularly noticeable among those birds that have bright colors.
“In one obvious sense, the consequences are positive,” says Dr Rajendra Pachauri, head of the IPCC. “Now people will have to take global warming and the IPCC more serious, or else we will lose the ability to buy downy blankets or goose feather pillows”.
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Rose-breasted gosbeaks are now 40% lighter
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“Luckily, India has few birds, and this problem is not seen in the bird populations in my country, so we in India will not have to cut our greenhouse gas emissions” he added.
Dr. Martin laments “When we take pictures, we ask you to ‘watch the birdie’. Future generations will have no idea what that means and will think you’re cuckcoo. It’s really tragic”.
Original Story Here.
alterednews @ March 12, 2010
Women guilty of feeling too guilty, study shows
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Many men, on the other hand, stay emotionally detached, study suggests
[Editor's Note: OK. This is a real story. I don't see any reason to change or alter anything here, do you? It speaks for itself.]
Kim Moldofsky can feel guilt over just about anything — her children, stray cats, her work, her husband. “I am easily guilted,” she told me, laughing.
Meanwhile, her husband, Brad, 41, remains blissfully guilt-free. “He is kind and caring but he can be more detached,” said Moldofsky, a 41-year-old “mom blogger” and social media strategist near Chicago. “Sometimes I want him to get caught up in the emotion.” More on page 21
alterednews @ March 11, 2010
Rich men have longer sex life expectancy, study says
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[ Duh! ]
Report also finds the average person’s sex life winds down after death.
LONDON – It seems the old cliche may be true. Rich men are more likely than anyone to be interested in sex, have sex and enjoy sex, according to new scientific research, which also found rich people who stay active and healthy enjoy longer sex lives.
Research by University of Chicago academics published online Wednesday in the British Medical Journal found that, across all age groups, rich men were more interested in sex than poor men — and the gap increased with age.
Real Article Here.
alterednews @ March 10, 2010
B of A Cancels Overdraft Fees, Re-institutes Debtor Prisons
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NEW YORK – Bank of America customers will soon be unable to spend more than they have in the accounts linked to their debit cards, and instead may be thrown into debtors prison. It’s a step that may become a common move ahead of new regulations limiting overdraft fees.
Rules set by the Federal Reserve that will ban banks from charging such fees, without first getting permission from the customer, are set to take effect July first.
But Bank of America is going a step further than the regulations require. It will no longer allow debit card purchases to go through if there isn’t enough money in the account. And if the customer continues to overdraft their checking accounts or fail to pay their credit cards on time, they will be sent to debtor prisons.
Debtor Prisons have been politically unpopular in the United States since 1833, but recently, conservative politicians such as Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney, and even democratic pundits like Paul Begala and James Carville have recently expressed a certain warmth for the idea. The prisons are reported to be administrated by the Blackwater security firm, the troubled company that hired mercenaries in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. “We’ve been wanting to move away from the image of the ‘mercenary’ company, and feel this is a perfect opportunity to branch out” said Blackwater founder Eric Prince. When asked about concerns of civil rights issues related related to Blackwaters past, and the rights of consumers who find themselves in debt, and Cheney replied “They can go f**k themselves”.
Some extreme repeat offenders may even find themselves headed to a secret facility rumored to be built along side the terrorist detention center located at Guantanamo Bay.
“I think banks will use this as an opportunity to be creative and differentiate themselves from the weak-kneed Federal regulators in ways that was really hard to do when everybody had a free checking account,” says Robert Meara, a banking analyst with the consultant firm Celent.
Consumers have demonstrated a willingness to pay overdrafts for covering the mortgage and the car payment, said Greg McBride, who follows the banking industry for Bankrate.com. Now, if they continue to be delinquent on those large ticket items, they may be on a boat to Cuba, “But not if it’s things like covering a latte and a scone.” McBride assured.
Original Story Here.
NOTE: B of A may actually be behind the curve as far as debtor prisons are concerned. More info here.
alterednews @ March 10, 2010
Obama Apologizes To Supreme Court, Asks For Beer Summit!
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Seeking to quell the controversy over his comments on a recent Supreme Court decision, President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to the White House briefing room this afternoon.
Associated Press“I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Supreme Court or Justice Kennedy specifically, and I could have calibrated those words differently,” Obama told reporters.
At his primetime State Of The Union address on January 27th, Obama said the Supreme Court acted stupidly regarding the Citizen United vs the FEC, and the decision will “open the floodgates” of spending for corporations and foreign companies and other special interests in reversing a century. One Supreme Court justice, Samual Alito, shook his head as if to say the court acted appropriately.
UPDATE 4:06 p.m.: In a statement, the White House said Obama spoke with Justice Roberts this afternoon at 3:15 p.m. “They had a positive discussion during which the president told Roberts about his call with Judge Alito and statement to the media,” reads the statement. Obama has invited Justices Roberts, Kennedy, Alito and the other Supreme Court justices to a meeting at the White House for a beer summit “in the near future.”
Note: Original story content borrowed from: WSJ
alterednews @ March 10, 2010
Illinois Dem Favored To Win After Arrest History Surfaces
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CHICAGO – A political newcomer who won the Democratic nomination for Illinois lieutenant governor said he has no intention of leaving the race after details emerged about his arrest for allegedly holding a knife to his former girlfriend’s throat, noting that his poll numbers have been climbing steadily since the details of his arrest hit the press.
Scott Lee Cohen struck a defiant tone as running mate Gov. Pat Quinn predicted they were sure to win the race. “There are questions, and I will provide all answers honestly and openly,” Cohen said in a statement Thursday.
Cohen was arrested on domestic battery charges in 2005, accused of pushing his then-girlfriend’s head against a wall and of the knife incident. The police report noted abrasions on her neck and hand, but charges were dropped after she failed to appear in court.
<strong><strong>Arrest for prostitution</strong></strong>
Police records show the woman had been arrested for prostitution, the Chicago Tribune reported. Cohen said he did not know that at the time. He told WTTW-TV that he met her at a “massage therapy place” and believed she was a masseuse. Cohen denied hitting her and said their relationship was “tumultuous.”
Cohen said he has asked her and his ex-wife, Debbie Cohen York, to clear the air. York sought an order of protection against Cohen in 2005 as she filed for divorce. She said his violence was fueled by anabolic steroids.
Cohen acknowledged his past steroid use but denied abusing York.
“I never touched her, I never touched any woman,” he told WLS-TV late Thursday. “That’s not my style, that’s not me.”
York stood by her allegations but said Cohen had changed.
“At the time, he was going through a different phase,” she said. “He was a different person than he is now.”
Cohen, a pawnbroker and owner of a cleaning supplies company, shocked the political establishment by beating four state lawmakers to nab the Democratic nomination with 26 percent of the vote. He gained strong name recognition with advertising that featured people who said they found jobs at employment fairs he organized. Thus, he is following Chicago native Barrack Obama’s footsteps into politics by way of community organizing.
Source Article – <a href=”http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35256474/ns/politics-decision_2010/”>Here</a>.
alterednews @ March 10, 2010
