Day: August 9, 2013

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President Obama Describes Putin – “like the bored Kid in the back of the classroom.”

At a White House news conference on Friday, Obama insisted that he does not have bad personal relations with Putin. The two men had a testy meeting in June in Northern Ireland and from the photos of them at the time, it looked as if they would both rather have been somewhere else.

“I know the press likes to focus on body language, and he’s got that kind of slouch, looking like the bored kid in the back of the classroom. But the truth is that when we’re in conversations together, oftentimes it’s very productive,” Obama said.

Putin’s sending of a telegram wishing former President George W. Bush well after a heart procedure this week was viewed by some Kremlin watchers as a sign that Putin was sending an implicit message to Obama.

The White House says Obama pulled out of the Moscow summit not just because of the Russian decision to grant asylum to Snowden, who is wanted in the United States to face espionage charges.

U.S. differences with Russia have piled up recently over Moscow’s support for the Syrian government in that country’s civil war, as well as human rights concerns and other grievances.

There was no immediate response from Moscow to Obama’s description of the Russian president.

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Plane Crashes into House in Connecticut, 3 Confirmed Dead

Branford Fire Chief Jack Ahern confirmed that news Friday afternoon.

The three were killed when a plane plowed into two homes at 11:22 a.m. on Friday on Charter Oak Avenue in East Haven, just north of Tweed New Haven Airport.

A Seattle TV station is reporting that the pilot was Bill Henningsgaard, a former vice president of Microsoft, and that he was flying the plane with his son.

Up to five people may have been killed in the crash. At a press briefing earlier Friday afternoon, Gov. Dannel Malloy said the pilot of the plane may have had up to two passengers with him, according to airport authorities.

Malloy said two bodies had been found in the basement of a house struck by the plane.

Officials said earlier that two children, ages 1 and 13, were believed to be in one of two homes struck. Chief Ahern said both of those children died in the crash. Click the play arrow to see the houses, in a video shot by the Branford Eagle’s Mary Johnson.

h/t – indepedent

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10-Year-Old Texas Girl Arrested And Charged With Raping 4-Year-Old Boy

I’m not really sure where to even start with this heartbreaking story. A 10-year-old Houston, Texas girl was arrested and charged with raping a 4-year-old boy, KHOU 11 reports.

While the details surrounding the incident are scarce, what we do know is that the alleged incident is said to have occurred in the courtyard of the girl’s apartment complex.

“She was just being a child, having fun and playing. She didn’t know she was doing any wrong,” the girl’s mother told KHOU.

The incident was first reported back in April, which is when a sex crimes investigator was assigned to the case. The child was arrested last week and taken to a juvenile detention center, where she was held for four days.


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Florida Man Shoots Neighbor in the Face, Tells Police He Only Shot a Ni**er

Florida man shoots neighbor in the face; calls 911 then goes back to cooking dinner; on arrest, tells police he only shot a ‘n**ger’

In yet another racially charged shooting in the Sunshine State, a man reportedly shot his neighbor point-blank in the face last July and then went back to cooking his dinner.

Not only did 59-year-old Walton Henry Butler shoot 32-year-old Everett Gant but he called 911 to report it. He also became aggravated when they arrested him because as he told them, he only shot a “nigger.”

Gulf County Sheriff Joe Nugent Police said the suspect acted as if shooting the victim was “no big deal” and they were inconveniencing him with the arrest and interrogation.

h/t  – allvoices

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Assemblyman Allegedly Made Inappropriate Comments To Male Staffer


According to the Daily News and NY Times, the state ethics commission is investigating complaints that were kept secret. As the Times puts it, “The records related to the Kellner allegations were not turned over to the state’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics, even though the commission issued a broad subpoena for documents related to sexual harassment allegations as part of an investigation into harassment claims made against a former assemblyman, Vito J. Lopez, that concluded earlier this year.”

Lopez allegedly groped female staffers and made them touch his tumors; Lopez wasn’t charged with anything but resigned from the Assembly…so he could run for NY City Council, ugh.

Kellner’s former chief of staffer Eliyanna Kaiser had brought allegations of Kellner’s harassment toward an aide to Silver’s office, only to be ignored. Now State of Politics reports

“According to people familiar with the situation, Kellner made repeated inappropriate sexual advances and comments to a male employee. According to one person who asked to remain anonymous:

‘Micah would comment about his appearance and his sex life all the time. It was creepy. One time Micah leaned onto his shoulders and told him he had pretty hands-and he just froze. It escalated to the point where he actually got up the nerve to confront Micah. And after that, things did not get better. Micah took him off projects, diminished his role in the office, and when everyone else got a raise a few weeks later, his salary stayed the same. No one was surprised when he quit.'”

Kellner, a Manhattan Democrat, is married to a woman, but is openly bisexual. He told the News, “There should have been an investigation four years ago. There should be an investigation now, and I’m going to cooperate with any investigation.”

h/t – gothamist

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Donald Trump Calls Chuck Todd “one of the dumbest voices in politics”

MSNBC’s Chuck Todd must have really crawled under the Trump’s tulip. On Friday, Trump stayed behind the safety of his computer screen and unleashed a barrage of hate filled tweets against Mr. Todd.

The maturity level is amazing low. And to think Republicans actually considered voting for him to be their presidential nominee in 2012.

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Weiner’s Sexting Partner Masturbates on American Flag – People Are Pissed

Members of the U.S. military are pissed Anthony Weiner’s sexting partner involved the American flag in her masturbation porn — and TMZ has learned, the XXX king behind the video is so sorry … he’s editing the flag out of the tape entirely.

Sources close to Vivid honcho Steve Hirsch tell TMZ, Hirsch recently received a call from an active serviceman in Florida, complaining about Sydney Leathers’ upcoming porn, in which she masturbates on top of the red, white, and blue.

We’re told the man was NOT upset about the masturbation part — he’s a big Vivid fan after all — but the American flag’s involvement crossed the line, and he was going to have the DVD banned from his base.

We’re told Hirsch profusely apologized to the man for offending anyone in the U.S. military — a major porn consumer for obvious reasons — and agreed to remove the American flag from Vivid’s website as well as from Sydney’s DVD.

And that seemed to do the trick — we’re told the man accepted Hirsch’s apology, moved on with his porn-filled existence, and lived happily ever after. The end

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Finally – ObamaCare Supporters at Republican Town Hall Meetings

Taking a page right out of the Tea party play book, Obamacare supporters have taken to the streets, showing up at Republican town halls and asking sensible questions.

Supporters of the Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare — attended a town hall meeting held by five-term Republican congressman Rep. Patrick McHenry (NC) on Thursday. According to Think Progress, many of the pro-Obamacare attendees would not have health insurance without the program and they demanded to know what the congressman would suggest they do should Obamacare be repealed.

McHenry is one of the Republican House members who have voted repeatedly to defund the ACA. The coalition held their 40th vote just before they began their five-week summer recess.

Thursday in Swannanoa, NC, voters turned up to voice their opinions of McHenry’s fierce opposition to the Act.

One protester was a grieving mother named Leslie Boyd. Boyd’s son Mike was denied health insurance coverage because of a birth defect that insurers considered to be a pre-existing condition. He died of colon cancer because he could not afford to get access to treatment.

The Asheville Citizen-Times reported that another protester, Skip Edwards, 63, and his wife would not have insurance at all without Obamacare.

Edwards was laid off during the recession and both he and his wife have pre-existing conditions. Without Obamacare, they would only be able to get coverage through a high-risk pool program called Inclusive Health.

“It cost us $1,300 bucks a month — extremely expensive,” Edwards said. “It taps us out every month. But at our age and health, we’ve got to have it.”

McHenry responded to Edwards by saying that he is voting against Obamacare on principle, that he believes it’s “bad policy.”

The crowd reportedly groaned and booed when McHenry suggested that high-risk pools are a better solution than Obamacare

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Entertainment

Beyoncé’s New Hair

Remember when Beyoncé got her hair stuck in a fan while performing onstage? Well apparently this is the outcome,  the hair lost.

Ladies,  don’t try this at home. Only certain people could pull this off. Exception: Beyoncé, Halle Berry.

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