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POPSMassachusetts Resident Charged With Plotting Jihad in U.S.
. . booked at the Sudbury police station before being turned over to federal authorities. Federal agents have searched Mehanna’s home and say he is a U.S. citizen. A bail hearing has been scheduled for 1:30 p.m. in federal court. Abousamra left the United States for Syria on Dec. 26, 2006, officials said. He said he would be back within a month after visiting his wife, but has never returned, officials said. The plot included plans to fire at emergency responders, but was abandoned because the men could not obtain the weapons, authorities said. They declined to name the mall or mallsthe men were targeting. Automatic weapons may be more of a challenge, but if you can’t get your hands on guns, even in Massachusetts, you aren’t trying hard enough. It looks like the kind of bust that, during the Bush years, some people would have considered a joke. You don’t hear the sneering anymore. Instead, people behave and talk as though the threat is dated, passe, no longer a concern.
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POPS Pot Head and I thought losing your reading glasses on the top of your head was funny. OOPS !!
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POPSFake hate crime alert: Leftists vandalize Denver Democrat HQ; Dems smeared Obamacare foes By Michelle Malkin • August 25, 2009 Meet the hoaxer: A 24-year-old arrested this morning on suspicion of smashing 11 windows at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters tried to conceal his identity while allegedly committing the crime, according to police descriptions. Maurice Schwenkler wore a shirt over his face, a hooded sweat shirt and latex gloves before he and another man fled the scene on bicycles, police said. Schwenkler was apprehended after a short chase. The other suspect remains at large. While Schwenkler does not appear in the state’s voter registration database, a person by that name in November 2008 received $500 from a political 527 committee called Colorado Citizens Coalition for “communications,” according to campaign finance disclosures. The accountant for the 527 appears to be the same woman who handles the books for many other Democratic-leaning political committees.
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POPSDozens Nabbed in Medicare Fraud Busts This is how you go about getting health care under control. Prosecute the lawbreakers and those who use the system to drain it of resources. There are laws already on the books that would save our healthcare systems millions...if only they were utilized.
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POPSStunning Government Billion-Dollar Giveaway to Paper Companies in the Works "Seventy-three percent of the energy we use in our mill system we produce," says Ann Wrobleski, IP's vice president for global government relations. "We feel like we're the original green industry, if you will." (In developed nations, paper is the third-largest industrial greenhouse gas emitter, behind the steel and chemical industries.) By adding diesel fuel to the black liquor, paper companies produce a mixture that qualifies for the mixed-fuel tax credit, allowing them to burn "black liquor into gold," as a JPMorgan report put it. It's unclear who first came up with the idea--Wrobleski told me it was "outside consultants"--but at some point last fall IP and Verso, another paper company, formerly a part of IP, began adding diesel to its black liquor and applied to the IRS for the credit. (Verso nabbed $29.7 million at just one of its mills in the final quarter of 2008 for its use of mixed fuel.)
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POPSStupid Alert: Jewel Thieves Robbed by Thieves Which is more baffling: a) the two robbers were themselves, robbed. b) All four robbers were from Illinois and went to Milwaukee for, ahem, the big job. c) I found this riveting story about 4 dumb ass robbers nabbed in Milwaukee, on the UK-based BBC News website
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POPSCoWrite - The community-sourced screenplay Cowrite is redefining screenwriting competitions by creating an open source type contest in which the end goal, like that of all individual aspiring writers, is to write a great screenplay and then try to sell it and get it produced.
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POPSTextophile Charged With Disorderly Conduct Coining a new term here: Textophilia -- a neurotic disorder of obsessive-compulsive cell phone useage that requires treatment to break the addiction that disables a person from functioning responsibly in society, predominantly found among young teenagers, the majority female. Look where they found her phone hidden.
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POPSTrue Crime Comix: The 'Most Ethical Congress Ever' Chris Dodd, Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. Given this fact there is little reason to wonder why Senator Dodd blocked reform proposals for Fannie and Freddie, calling them "ill advised." Dodd's willingness to protect Fannie and Freddie would alone merit a spot on the "ten most corrupt list," but there is much more. Dodd was also nabbed for accepting preferential treatment and loan terms from Countrywide Financial. The Connecticut Senator admitted earlier this year that he was told in 2003 when he refinanced two properties that he was being placed in Countrywide's "VIP Program," but said he believed this was simply a courtesy that had nothing to do with his position in the U.S. Senate. This is either a blatant lie or horribly naïve for a man who has served in the Senate for more than 25 years and currently chairs the Senate Banking Committee that regulates the mortgage industry. We're not buying it...
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POPSPointed Lack of Hand Shakes Between Bush and other G20 Members Nabbed from spiritualmonkey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Y_ncOVlDw Holy! This is not meaningless. I'm not sure the reporter's interpretive ideas are spot on, but it is definitely significant. Everyone else is smiling and shaking hands. I don't know when this occurred within the timeline of the gathering, but it's clear that there is a distinction being made between kinds of relationships. What do you think?
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