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— Autumn is coming to Big Bear Lake, Calif. —
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Come up and join us and the beautiful lake, hiking trails, the forest roads or the wonderful stores in the village or around the town. Stores in Fawnskin across the lake on the north shore are also a lot of fun. Find great food also. Barnstorm Restaurant is at the airport administration building with a full view of take-offs and landings. Enjoy the sunny days and the blue skies filled with stars at night. Big Bear Lake is so great for both romance and for families.
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Will Pastor Terry Jones burn the Qur’ans this coming Saturday? —
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A group of protestors in Gainesville, Florida are against radical islam. The organizer of this Saturday’s protest rally is Pastor Terry Jones, who heads his church, Dove World Outreach.
The pastor says they will burn Qur’ans in protest of the attack on the World Center Towers in lower Manhattan, NY on 9/11/01.
Attorney General Eric Holder today stated the Qur’an burning was “idiotic and dangerous.” General David Petraeus, the top commanding general in Afghanistan said the burning of Qur’ans “Will put US Troops at risk.” However, Jones indicates he protest rally will still go on. About the burning of the Qur’ans, he wasn’t quite so certain.
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Obama is financing oil drilling for Brazil’s Petrobras — $2billion of your tax money —
Posted by: | CommentsThe U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil’s Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil’s planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan.
The U.S. Export-Import Bank tells us it has issued a “preliminary commitment” letter to Petrobras in the amount of $2 billion and has discussed with Brazil the possibility of increasing that amount. Ex-Im Bank says it has not decided whether the money will come in the form of a direct loan or loan guarantees. Either way, this corporate foreign aid may strike some readers as odd, given that the U.S. Treasury seems desperate for cash and Petrobras is one of the largest corporations in the Americas.
But look on the bright side. If President Obama has embraced offshore drilling in Brazil, why not in the old U.S.A.? The land of the sorta free and the home of the heavily indebted has enormous offshore oil deposits, and last year ahead of the November elections, with gasoline at $4 a gallon, Congress let a ban on offshore drilling expire.
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Will Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s Chief-of-Staff, run for Chicago’s Mayor seat in 2012? —
Posted by: | CommentsWill White Chief-of-Staff, Rahm Emanuel is rumored to be setting up to run for Mayor of Chicago after current Mayor Richard M. Daly retires in 2012. No surprise here as talk has been going on for a year or two. One of Emanuel’s notable sayings as quoted by Fox News program host, “You never want to let a serious crisis go to waste.”
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Obama’s Gulf drilling moratorium sees oil men moving out! —
Posted by: | CommentsDiamond Offshore announced Friday that its Ocean Endeavor drilling rig will leave the Gulf of Mexico and move to Egyptian waters immediately — making it the first to abandon the United States in the wake of the BP oil spill and a ban on deep-water drilling.
And the Ocean Endeavor’s exodus probably won’t be the last, according to oil industry officials and Gulf Coast leaders who warn that other companies eager to find work for the now-idled rigs are considering moving them outside the U.S.
Devon Energy Corp. had been leasing the Endeavor to drill in the same region of the Gulf as BP’s leaking Macondo well, which has been gushing crude since a lethal blowout April 20.
But Diamond announced Friday it will lease the rig through June 30, 2011, to Cairo-based Burullus Gas Co., which plans to send the Endeavor to Egyptian waters immediately.
Devon is one of three companies that has cited the deep-water drilling ban in trying to ease out of contracts to lease Diamond rigs. Diamond, a drilling company, said it expects to make about $100 million from the deal, including a $31 million early termination fee it recovered from Devon.
Larry Dickerson, CEO of Houston-based Diamond, signaled that other of his company’s rigs could be relocated, too.
“As a result of the uncertainties surrounding the offshore drilling moratorium, we are actively seeking international opportunities to keep our rigs fully employed,” Dickerson said. “We greatly regret the loss of U.S. jobs that will result from this rig relocation.”
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Chicago’s Mayor Richard M. Daly will not seek re-election! —
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Mayor Richard M. Daley announces his plans today (Tuesday, 7 September) to retire at the end of his current term. He said he would not run for a seventh term.- EDITOR: Blog.JetSettingMagazine.com
- Editor’s Note: Did Daly’s comment about making Chicago the nation’s greenest city, make Al Gore’s wallet become obese?
“Simply put, it’s time,” Daley said. “It’s time for me. It’s time for Chicago to move on.” His wife Maggie’s battle with cancer was one reason he made the decision to retire, reported cbs2chicago.com
In the 1990′s Daly’s said he was planning to make Chicago the nation’s greenest city, by encouraging energy-efficient building projects, green roofs and other sustainability initiatives. He was regularly seen riding his bike to work.
Daly, 68, a member of the Democratic Party and is Irish, has served from April 24, 1989 to 2011. He was born in Chicago, April 24, 1942.
Mexican Troops kill two in car that failed to stop at, Nuevo Laredo check point! —
Posted by: | CommentsMexican troops shot and killed 15-year old boy and his father and three others were wounded, Monday, 6 September.
Reports say the family car apparently failed to stop at a Nuevo Laredo highway check-point north of Monterrey, Mexico. The highway goes to Laredo, Texas. Drug trafficing has been a national emergency in the region, according to news reports.
This is the second time a civilian’s car has been shot at, according to a report from Javier Trevino, Nuevo Leon state lieutenant governor.
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Hurricane Hermine leaves pools in Mexico and pours into San Antonio and heads north! —
Posted by: | CommentsSAN ANTONIO, TX; Cutting down to a mere tropical downpour, Hurricane Hermine is now heading north out of San Antonio.
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NEW BRAUNFELS, TX; People in New Braunfels and its surrounding communities are keeping an especially close watch on Tropical Storm Hermine, hoping the rain-soaked storm will be kinder than the deluge they experienced earlier this year.
The area was hit by severe flooding in June caused by heavy rains.
While some people were forced from their homes by all the water, others lost business. One man in the nearby town of Gruene even lost his life.
“That event was unique in that the system kind of stalled over New Braunfels and it happened really early,” said Patrick O’Connell, the city of New Braunfel’s fire marshal and a member of its emergency management team.
O’Connell said although that weather system caught many people off guard, rescue workers are well-prepared for trouble this time around.
“We’ve got an entire staff of firefighters on duty,” O’Connell said. “We also recalled nine firefighters to man three of our water rescue boats.” People in New Braunfels and its surrounding communities are keeping an especially close watch on Tropical Storm Hermine, hoping the rain-soaked storm will be kinder than the deluge they experienced earlier this year.
The area was hit by severe flooding in June caused by heavy rains.
While some people were forced from their homes by all the water, others lost business. One man in the nearby town of Gruene even lost his life.
“That event was unique in that the system kind of stalled over New Braunfels and it happened really early,” said Patrick O’Connell, the city of New Braunfel’s fire marshal and a member of its emergency management team.
O’Connell said although that weather system caught many people off guard, rescue workers are well-prepared for trouble this time around.
“We’ve got an entire staff of firefighters on duty,” O’Connell said. “We also recalled nine firefighters to man three of our water rescue boats.”
No new storms heading out of the eastern Atlantic at this time say the National Nurricane Center.
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Hyde Park Makes Brit Fashion Statement Patriotic! —
Posted by: | CommentsHere is how fashion lines get started and a ripping bunch of publicity. Just get an officer’s horse and put eletcronic violinist Linzi Stoppard in Jasper Conran Union Flag ballgown and Gina satin platforms on ‘Tweedale’, with Trooper Sciacca, in Hyde Park this morning for the launch of Fashion for the Brave, the charity initiative with The Household Cavalry uniting British fashion and British forces. We don’t understand the whole item, but it got our attention at Blog.JetSettingMagazine.com at any rate.
Here’s more about the gown and heels: Beaming broadly – and feeling just a little nervous – Linzi mounted a cavalry black gelding called Tweedale, wearing a long Union Flag ballgown, designed by Jasper Conran, and six-inch red satin platforms from Gina.
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Paris Hilton Gets Out Early from Vegas Jail! — Police didn’t want see the show! —
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Paris Hilton gets booked and is out of Clark County jail in 3-hours. Police didn’t want the disruption. And, yes, they admit she was treated differently. After officers found illegal substances in the purse she was carrying, she was arrested. She says purse and substance were not hers.
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9/11 Brings on a busy political schedule for many! —
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Carrie Dann writes: NBC Political Unit photo courtesy USA Today
President Barack Obama will commemorate the ninth anniversary of September 11, 2001, at the Pentagon – the same location where he marked the day last year.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced in a briefing Tuesday that the president will attend a ceremony at the site of the Pentagon plane crash, while Vice President Joe Biden will travel to New York City. As previously announced, First Lady Michelle Obama and former First Lady Laura Bush will attend a ceremony in Shanksville, Pa., the site of the crash of United Airlines Flight 93.
As POLITICO and others pointed out last week, Obama’s options for the marking the anniversary were complicated by the fact that an appearance at the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan would have likely reignited the still-smoldering political controversy over the construction of an Islamic community center two blocks from where the Twin Towers stood.
As a presidential candidate in 2008, Obama observed the seventh anniversary of the attacks in New York City, attending a ground zero ceremony alongside then-GOP opponent Sen. John McCain.
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— Obama not showing up for 9/11 Anniversary Event? Nope he is going to the Pentagon! —
Posted by: | CommentsWith just 56 days to decide on who to vote for at Mid-Term Election November 2nd, Republicans are warned not to become too smug!
Odds are good for some GOP candidates to gain seats in both the House and the Senate, but we still need to be very watchful for sleezy phony vote counting tricks and phony voter registration high jenks, such as Acorn was accused of in the 2008 presidential election.
Plus, all this, the Obama is currently rolling out his latest plans for incentives to keep democrats in office so they can vote away more of our tax dollars. Obama is also strategizing new tax breaks, when all he has to do is leave the Bush tax breaks in place and get out of the way of Free Enterprise, say some voters in the know.
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Rachel Brown, 29, (D) runs against Barney Frank, (D) of Mass. — will she beat him? —
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A voter asks Democrat Barney Frank at Massachustetts Town Hall meeting named Rachel Brown asks Frank, “Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy as Obama has …” To which Barney Frank replies, ”On what planet do you spend most of your time?”
Questioned at a town hall last year about the “Nazi policy” of health care reform, Barney Frank yelled at the speaker, Rachel Brown, who made the comment that talking to her was “like arguing with a dining room table.”
Just like Joe the Plumber when put down by President Obama, now Rachel Brown is running against the shouting Frank, who is running for a 15th term. Although Frank was voted to be chairman of the House Financial Services Committee back in 2007, some voters blamed Frank on his lack of over-sight as the worst crash of Wall Street since the 1929 crash started the depression.
Now Brown is ready to beat Barney in the upcoming Primary election. TV viewers recall the shouting match between Fox News program host Bill O’Reilly and Frank recently, when O’Reilly called Frank a liar.
Candidate Brown has zeroed in on Frank’s role in the overhaul, saying she wants to see the end of government bailouts. Forward thinking Ms. Brown’s platform also includes other, more novel ideas, including the human colonization of Mars, which Frank’s friends in the mid-road press, use to make her seem crazy, which she is not. Others say we are not allowed to think that far ahead.
But, mostly Brown is in favor of stopping the government’s spending of such huge amounts of tax dollars we don’t have, and that do not put people back to work, except in government jobs, which increases our tax burden. She noted that she thinks we need a program that is based on the economy.
The election between Democrat incumbent Barney Frank and Rachel Brown will be September 14th. Let’s watch this one. It could wind up being a political shocker.
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Mid-Term Election Drawing Near Prompts President into spending more tax dollars! —
Posted by: | CommentsMILWAUKEE ; President Barack Obama, flew to Milwaukee today, Labor Day, inorder to promise more job making ideas. He proposed a six-year plan to rebuild the infrastructure with an initial $50 billion of our tax money as an investment. He is also preparing new business tax cuts, for good measure. Some listeners told reporters that they have heard this song before.
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U.S. Sailors from the Carrier George Washington Help Clean Manila Waterway! —
Posted by: | CommentsA group of crewmen from the U.S.S. aircraft carrier George Washington took time to assist Manila City workers to clean a messed up stream in the Muslim section of the city.
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Hurricane Hermine hits NE Mexico and heads for Texas…Winds 65 MPH —
Posted by: | CommentsNational Weather Service — Hurricane Center Report: 6 September 2010.
Hurricane Hermine has winds of 65 MPH and is hitting northeastern Mexico and heads for Texas.
LATEST AIRCRAFT…RADAR…AND SATELLITE FIXES INDICATE THAT THE
MOTION OF HERMINE IS SLIGHTLY LEFT OF AND FASTER THAN THE PREVIOUS
ESTIMATES…AROUND 330/13. THIS SUGGESTS THAT THE MID-LEVEL RIDGE
TO THE NORTHEAST OF THE STORM IS A LITTLE STRONGER THAN EARLIER
THOUGHT. HERMINE IS STILL EXPECTED TO MOVE ALONG THE WESTERN
PERIPHERY OF THE RIDGE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. THE OFFICIAL
FORECAST TRACK IS SHIFTED A BIT TO THE WEST AND SHOWS THE CENTER
CROSSING THE COAST EARLIER THAN IN THE PREVIOUS PACKAGE. THIS IS
CLOSE TO THE DYNAMICAL MODEL CONSENSUS TRACK.
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Alaska Plane Crash Victim Sean O’Keefe Back in Washington D.C. recovering! —
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Alaska Plane Crash Survivor Sean O’Keefe, 54, returns to Washington D.C. for full recovery.
EADS North America chief executive Sean O’Keefe has returned to Washington, D.C., where he is recovering from injuries suffered in an Aug. 9 plane crash in remote Alaska.
O’Keefe, 54, left Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage August 17 when he was transferred to a hospital nearer his home in the Washington D.C. area, according to a family spokesman. The name of the hospital was not disclosed.
Given his injuries, a spokesman said, doctors are reporting that he should make a full recovery in time. He is still in serious condition; however, he is expected to leave intensive care soon.
EADS, the parent company of Airbus, remains in competition with Boeing Co. for a U.S. Air Force contract to build a new fleet of aerial refueling tankers, al.com reports. If successful, the company has announced its plans to assemble the planes at a $600 million factory in Mobile. A decision is expected by Nov. 12.
O’Keefe and his son Kevin, 19, who is in good condition, were among the four passengers who survived the crash. Retired Alaska Senator, Ted Stevens, died in the crash.
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Alaska air crash victim, William D. “Bill” Phillips, Sr. 56, funeral held August 21 —
Posted by: | CommentsWilliam Phillips, Jr. 13, attended the funeral of his father William D. “Bill” Phillips, Sr. 56, lawyer and lobbyist in Washington D.C. Phillips, Sr. was buried in Potomic, Friday. The family attended his buriel with Willy in a wheel chair and cast on left leg and left arm.
Phillips, Sr. was one of the three survivors of the air crash that occurred August 10 while on a flight to a fishing camp in Alaska that also killed retired Senator Ted Stevens and three others.
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Democratic fund raisers are going after the money to get Scott McAdams elected over the Republican Joe Miller. The Demos are hoping the Independants will do the trick. The word in Fairbanks is that Miller’s defeat of Murkowski was a good thing in that Miller is less well known.
Democrat McAdams who has sounded centrist notes since Miller’s win, is saying he supports the popular call to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and is best poised to work across national party lines. McAdams who is now acting more like a middle of the road politician since Joe Miller’s win, is saying he supports the popular call to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and is best poised to work across national party lines.
McAdams this weekend has released a letter sent to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asking Salazar to lift a moratorium on exploratory drilling in the Chukchi Sea. The Miller camp may have a tough run in the mid-term election with Democrats trying to sway votes to McAdams along political party lines. The Chukchi Sea project exploration season is nearly over now, so the Democratic push for funds and votes is on big time. McAdams will find himself fighting the leftist environmentalists to open the Chukchi Sea project. But, the letter to the Interior Secretary is a political ploy that rarely works at best. Salazar would have to go through congress to get an okay at this point.
Miller was winner over Murkowski in primary held in August. Now the Democrats are pulling all the tricks they can to defeat Miller for the senate seat. The New York Times is even covering the campaign. The pressure is on for both sides.
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