Day: October 31, 2013

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President Obama – Newtown and Boston Tragedies Unable to Change The GOP

As reported by The Hill, President Obama expressed a great deal of frustration at a fundraiser in Boston yesterday.

“Sometimes people ask me, ‘Man, how do you stay optimistic because it just seems like a bunch of problems piling up on your desk, and it doesn’t seem like you’re getting a lot of help from the other side?’”

And the president expressed concerns that some of the most tragic events in recent history were unable to end the partisanship in Washington.

“We would have hoped that coming out of those two tragedies that we would see a new spirit in Congress of people pulling together, and rolling up sleeves, and working on the things a broad spectrum of Americans agree on, but that’s not what we got,” Obama said. “Instead, we got more obstruction and more resistance to getting anything done, most recently culminating in a shutdown that was entirely unnecessary.”

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Zimmerman Nailed Bullet Ridden Bullseye on Wife’s Wall

Shellie Zimmerman, estranged wife of George Zimmerman, alleged Wednesday that he nailed a bullseye to her wall, complete with seventeen bullet holes, after she ordered him to collect his things and move out in early September.

Photos of the target were obtained by Radar Online, which quoted an anonymous source as saying, “This is the photo that Shellie sent to her lawyer and said, ‘Look at the subliminal message George left me,’ following their showdown in September.”

“At the time, Shellie was in New York, appearing on the TODAY show,” the source said. “What Shellie’s mom didn’t notice was the target. Then, when Shellie got home, she went over to the house and discovered the target with bullet holes in various quadrants. There it was…tacked up on the wall of their home office, right between the garage and the kitchen where the domestic incident took place.”

Shellie Zimmerman filed for divorce in September, and called the police on her husband for a domestic dispute days later.

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New York News

Is This The Missing Avonte Oquendo Riding the Subway? Police Says ‘No’

New York City police have determined that a photo of a boy riding a subway train is not that of an autistic boy missing for nearly a month.

A 13-year-old snapped the picture Tuesday and later posted it on his Facebook page.

Authorities said Thursday that the boy shown in the photo went with his mother to see police.

The boy resembles 14-year-old Avonte Oquendo (ah-VAHN’-tay oh-KEHN’-doh), who was last seen on Oct. 4 walking out of his Queens school.

The teen who took the photo approached the boy and asked if he was Avonte. But the boy didn’t respond.

Avonte’s parents had said they couldn’t be sure that the photo showed their son.

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Sports

Boston Strong – Red Sox Wins Third World Series

For the entire month of October, the Red Sox kept grinding with the type of tunnel vision that allowed them to prevail in every big situation imaginable.

But during the final chapter — the one that solidified that their season will be remembered forever — they finally had a chance to soak it all in. And ditto for their rabid fan base, which was able to cheer on a World Series clincher at Fenway Park for the first time since 1918.

In winning the World Series with a 6-1 victory over the Cardinals in Game 6 on Wednesday night, the Red Sox claimed their place in history in emphatic fashion.

By the end of the fourth inning, they led, 6-0, turning the rest of the night into joyous anticipation for the celebratory pile-up of players that occurred once it truly was over.

“To be honest, the game, it was kind of hard for me to keep my emotions down,” said second baseman Dustin Pedroia. “You always want to win in front of your home fans. It didn’t happen for that long. It’s just special. This whole year, the way it all ended, the way we came back in some of these playoff games, it’s just unbelievable to think about.”

After once going 86 years without a World Series title, the one the Red Sox clinched Wednesday was their third in the past 10 seasons, the most of any team in the Majors over that span.

The one common thread to all three titles won in the last decade? David Ortiz. Even though the Cards finally elected to pitch around Papi in the clincher, he did more than enough to bring home the World Series MVP.

“You know, winning this World Series is special,” said Ortiz. “I think it might be the most special out of all the World Series that I have been part of, to be honest with you.”

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Dick Cheney #Fail – Reason for Iraq War? Weapons of Mass Destruction

In a recent interview on Fox News, former Vice President and beneficiary of the war in Iraq Dick Mr Halliburton Cheney, maintained that the war in Iraq was good for America because, get this, it made sure Iraq didn’t have any weapons of mass destruction.

“They finger pointed you and Bush and I don’t want to do that,” Fox host O’Reilly said, “But we spent a $1 trillion on this with a lot of pain and suffering on the American military. What did we get out of it? Beside Saddam being out of there?”

Cheney began blabbering about nothing, prompting O’Reilly to ask again. “But what,” he asked, “right now, what do we, what do we get of Iraq for all of that blood and treasure? What do we get out of it?”

“What we gain,” Cheney answered, “and my concern was then and it remains today is that the biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or gas. That was the threat after 9/11 and when we took down Saddam Hussein we eliminated Iraq as a potential source of that.”

What Cheney failed to clarify was exactly how do you eliminate Iraq as a source for WMDs when intelligence showed that the country had no weapons of mass destruction.

What we know is that Halliburton made of like a bandit. A bandit who stole both lives and money, and Cheney was driving the get away truck!

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Politics

Another Republican Speaks Out Against The GOP’s War On The Poor

When a reporter asked Mitch Daniels, the former Republican governor of Indiana, what the country is doing to inhibit growth at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast held in Washington on Wednesday, he responded, “What are we doing that isn’t?”

The current president of Purdue University called the national debt an “overriding threat,” which he says will weigh more heavily on the poor, middle class, and young people. But in order to face that threat head-on, Daniels said, lawmakers should set aside their differences and focus on finding middle ground to fix the economy. 

“I think we should adopt policies specifically in the interests of the yet-to-haves in this country,” said Daniels. “People of very different views ought to come together and say look, we’ve got to call every close one and break every tie in favor of what will allow the private economy to grow faster.”

Daniels statements on behalf of the so-called yet-to-haves, who often include racial minorities, the low-income, the poor, and the elderly, came on the heels of Ohio governor John Kasich’s interview with the New York Times, in which he declared that there is a “war on the poor” in America by his fellow Republicans in Washington. 

“You know what?” said Kasich, who worked against the state legislature to expand Medicaid in the state. “The very people who complain ought to ask their grandparents if they worked at the W.P.A.”

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