QUARTZ HILL, Calif. (AP) – Don’t mess with the marching band. That’s what California authorities are saying after a 17-year-old girl used her marching band baton to beat back two would-be muggers.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s Deputy Michael Rust says the Quartz Hill girl was walking to school April 24 when two men approached her from behind, tried to grab her coat and demanded money.
Instead, one got a punch in the nose and the other a kick to the groin. Rust says the girl then beat both of them with her band baton before she ran away.
The men have not been caught. But Rust says there’s a clear message to take from the encounter:
“The moral to this story is don’t mess with the marching band girls, or you just might get what you deserve. Final score: marching band 2, thugs 0.”
B.S. Report–She must be a real master of her baton…here’s someone else (Bruce Lee) who was considered a real master of his baton: the nunchucks. In fact, I think he pretty much proves it in this video.
WASHINGTON (AP) – “That wasn’t me,” President Barack Obama said on his 100th day in office, disclaiming responsibility for the huge budget deficit waiting for him on Day One.
Here’s President Obama’s favorite TV game show…
It actually was him – and the other Democrats controlling Congress the previous two years – who shaped a budget so out of balance.
And as a presidential candidate and president-elect, he backed the twilight Bush-era stimulus plan that made the deficit deeper, all before he took over and promoted spending plans that have made it much deeper still.
Obama met citizens at an Arnold, Mo., high school Wednesday in advance of his prime-time news conference. Both forums were a platform to review his progress at the 100-day mark and look ahead.
At various times, he brought an air of certainty to ambitions that are far from cast in stone.
His assertion that his proposed budget “will cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term” is an eyeball-roller among many economists, given the uncharted terrain of trillion-dollar deficits and economic calamity that the government is negotiating.
He promised vast savings from increased spending on preventive health care in the face of doubts that such an effort, however laudable it might be for public welfare, can pay for itself, let alone yield huge savings.
A look at some of his claims Wednesday:
OBAMA: “Number one, we inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit…. That wasn’t me. Number two, there is almost uniform consensus among economists that in the middle of the biggest crisis, financial crisis, since the Great Depression, we had to take extraordinary steps. So you’ve got a lot of Republican economists who agree that we had to do a stimulus package and we had to do something about the banks. Those are one-time charges, and they’re big, and they’ll make our deficits go up over the next two years.” – in Missouri. (Read more.)
B.S. Report–Ah, Barack…Who was the Junior Senator from Illinois who voted for every single one of Bush’s spending measures? And whose only regret was that the hated Republicans weren’t spending enough on such idiotic programs like the prescription drug program for seniors.
Pointing the blame at GW Bush is going to get old someday soon, especially since you supported his policies (at least you voted for them), and now you’ve outspent him 4-1.
No Mr. President, it’s you who now own this economy–it’s your mess because instead of combating the irresponsible spending of Bush like you said you would, you have decided to spend even more irresponsibly–much, much, much more irresponsibly than your predecessor.
And then you try to pass off the fantasy that your budget will cut the deficit in half by the end of your first (and hopefully only) term in office–that even has democratic number crunchers scratching their heads in amazement.
B.S. Report–Watch this video a couple of times and pass it on…it’s remarkably prescient. The America of “ism” is the America that President Obama and many of his Congressional cohorts would love to create. They abhor the America of freedom! But they can’t change America without your compliance or at a minimum your obedient silence. Many of our fellow Americans have already complied.
But I’m convinced that most Americans do not want Obama’s version of America, that is, if they understand exactly what they would be getting. It’s time that we all become educated about our glorious past and the country that our President is trying to remake.
Do your part to stop him by spreading the word and showing others that you will not allow our great country to be destroyed by those who only covet power for themselves. If we all do our part and we work together than there’s still a chance that we can stall this drive towards Socialism and reclaim the freedom that our Founders fought so hard to give us.
B.S. Report–I know many of my brethren think Ann is a bomb thrower…but not me. I love her column; though I don’t always agree with her and I wanted to wring her neck when she “endorsed” Hillary Clinton over John McCain. Still, she’s the most brilliant satirist writing today and this column is a perfect example of her wit and humor.
From Townhall.com
“We Do That On First Dates“
Without any pretense of an argument, which liberals are neurologically incapable of, the mainstream media are now asserting that our wussy interrogation techniques at Guantanamo constituted “torture” and have irreparably harmed America’s image abroad.
Only the second of those alleged facts is true: The president’s release of the Department of Justice interrogation memos undoubtedly hurt America’s image abroad, as we are snickered at in capitals around the world, where they know what real torture is. The Arabs surely view these memos as a pack of lies. What about the pills Americans have to turn us gay?
The techniques used against the most stalwart al-Qaida members, such as Abu Zubaydah, included one terrifying procedure referred to as “the attention grasp.” As described in horrifying detail in the Justice Department memo, the “attention grasp” consisted of:
“(G)rasping the individual with both hands, one hand on each side of the collar opening, in a controlled and quick motion. In the same motion as the grasp, the individual is drawn toward the interrogator.”
The end.
There are rumors that Dick “Darth Vader” Cheney wanted to take away the interrogators’ Altoids before they administered “the grasp,” but Department of Justice lawyers deemed this too cruel.
And that’s not all! As the torments were gradually increased, next up the interrogation ladder came “walling.” This involves pushing the terrorist against a flexible wall, during which his “head and neck are supported with a rolled hood or towel that provides a C-collar effect to prevent whiplash.”
People pay to have a lot rougher stuff done to them at Six Flags Great Adventure. Indeed, with plastic walls and soft neck collars, “walling” may be the world’s first method of “torture” in which all the implements were made by Fisher-Price. (Read more.)
Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet and actor. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains iconic, especially in American popular culture. In recent years he has continued to tour, record, and perform, and this, combined with activities in advocacy of marijuana, as well as a well-publicized 2006 arrest for marijuana possession, have made him the subject of renewed media attention.
Nelson moved to Nashville in 1960, but was unable to land a record label contract. He did, however, receive a publishing contract at Pamper Music. After Ray Price recorded Nelson’s “Night Life” (reputedly the most covered country song of all time; a version of “Night Life” was even recorded by convicted killer and former cult leader Charles Manson), Nelson joined Price’s touring band as a bass player. While playing with Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys, many of Nelson’s songs became hits for some of country and pop music’s biggest stars of the time. These songs include “Funny How Time Slips Away” (Billy Walker), “Hello Walls” (Faron Young), “Pretty Paper” (Roy Orbison) and most famously, “Crazy” (Patsy Cline). Nelson signed with Liberty Records in 1961 and released several singles, including “Willingly” (sung with his wife, Shirley Collie) and “Touch Me.”
He was unable to keep his momentum going, however, and Nelson’s career ground to a halt. Demo recordings from his years as a songwriter for Pamper Music were later discovered and released as Crazy: The Demo Sessions (2003). (Read more.)
Campaign cad John Edwards’ cheating ways made his wife, Elizabeth, sick to her stomach – literally.
Husband's affair made terminally ill Elizabeth Edwards throw up.
After the former presidential hopeful confessed his betrayal, Elizabeth Edwards writes in her new book, “I cried and screamed, I went to the bathroom and threw up.”
Elizabeth, 59, who is terminally ill with cancer, speaks in far more detail than before about her husband’s infidelity in her new memoir, “Resilience,” due to be published May 12 by Broadway Books. A copy was obtained by the Daily News.
Despite feeling deeply deceived, Elizabeth Edwards nonetheless publicly stood by her husband’s side, lending his candidacy the aura of a warm, loving family life.
But she had actually wanted him to quit the race to protect the family. Edwards admitted the hanky-panky to her days after declaring his candidacy in 2006 – almost a year before the National Enquirer reported it.
John Edwards and mistress Rielle Hunter
She was afraid of the destructive questions Edwards’ affair with videographer Rielle Hunter would raise.
Later events proved her right. “He should not have run,” she says.
Edwards did not publicly admit the affair until last August – seven months after he quit the race, and the National Enquirer had reported he was the father of Hunter’s infant daughter.
Edwards denied paternity, and his wife’s book doesn’t address that issue.
B.S. Report–I agree with Elizabeth Edwards. Only, there is so much about John Edwards that makes me sick to my stomach I don’t know where to begin.
First, how about his career as an attorney? He gave “ambulance chasers” a bad name as he went after doctors, hospitals, product manufacturers, and somehow managed to deceive juries using that hokey down-home (my father was a mill worker) approach to the law.
He ultimately received multi-million dollar settlements by using such time-honored legal tactics like channeling the dead from the grave to speak to the jury in his closing arguments.
He has always had a problem telling the truth and that has come back to doom him in his presidential campaigns. He received all kinds of flak for his $200 dollar haircuts but I can remember the always witty Mark Steyn’s response to his exorbitant haircut expenditures. He famously said: “Really, his haircuts don’t bother me that much at all; but it’s what’s underneath his haircut that terrifies me.”
As for Edwards’ treatment of his terminally ill wife…despicable. But, that’s just the scheming defense attorney in him…he’s made a living off of being duplicitous, and sometimes it’s probably difficult for him to simply turn that switch on and off.
Of course, not all defense attorneys are like Edwards–some are highly honorable and serve a much-needed purpose, but some plainly don’t.
Vice president Joe Biden said today he would tell his family members not to use subways in the U.S. and implied schools should be shuttered as the swine flu outbreak spread to 11 states and forced school closures amid confirmation of the first U.S. death.
Joe Biden: Fearless Leader Of The People?...The New Churchill?...Bold like Patton? Competent like Eisenhower?...NOT! He's terrified he may catch the flu!
B.S.–Here is a recent portrait of Joe Biden when he was told about the swine flu “pandemic.” Move over Patton….here is brave Joe!
Joe Biden Portrait: The New Face Of America...A spineless, quivering bowl of jello!
“I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now,” Biden said when asked whether he would advise family members to use public transportation.
Biden made his comments during a brief interview on NBC’s “Today” show during an interview with Matt Lauer.
“I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now. It’s not that it’s going to Mexico, it’s you’re in a confined aircraft when one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That’s me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation suggesting they ride the subway. “
The vice president also implied that schools should be closed as the threat of swine flu increases.
“If you’re out in the middle of a field and someone sneezes that’s one thing. If you’re in a closed aircraft or a closed container or closed car or closed classroom it’s a different thing.”
About two hours after the interview, Biden’s office issued a statement attempting to clarify the vice president’s remarks.
Joe Biden; a manly man, but very "in-touch" with his feminine side...
“The advice he is giving family members is the same advice the administration is giving all Americans: That they should avoid unnecessary air travel to and from Mexico. If they are sick, they should avoid airplanes and other confined public spaces, such as subways. This is the advice the vice president has given family members who are traveling by commercial airline this week,” Biden’s spokeswoman, Elizabeth Alexander, said in a statement. (Read more.)
B.S. Report–When Vice-President (it’s still absolutely shocking to me that he’s the VP of the United States!) Joe Biden speaks I can almost always comfortably take the opposite point of view.
So now, because Biden believes that swine flu is such a threat that he wouldn’t feel comfortable riding on a subway train or an airplane, I now would feel comfortable riding on a subway train or an airplane.
I don’t believe that swine flu is the scourge (in the U.S.) that we’re led to believe–that’s just me and my natural skepticism. I may be proven wrong and I’ll have to eat my words–but I’ll take that risk based on the previous track record of these types of media-generated panics.
Joe Biden suffers from a different kind of disease, just an incurable and insidious as swine flu. His disease is “foot-in-mouth” and he’s been afflicted with it his entire adult life. It is an almost pathological ability to say the absolute wrong thing at the most inopportune moment. He is the undisputed master at this craft. For want of a better term, Joe Biden is a professional “moron.”
MIAMI (AP) — A Korean-American who served prison time for attempting to broker the sale of deadly nerve gas bombs to Iran was indicted Wednesday on new charges of trying to help South Korea obtain advanced Russian rocket hardware and technology.
Investigators also found thousands of e-mails allegedly sent by Juwhan Yun, a 68-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen from Short Hills, N.J., involving other deals for sophisticated radar and air defense systems, short-wave infrared cameras, laser-guided bomb components and missile launch devices.
Yun is quoted in one e-mail as boasting that he has been “the largest one-stop supplier” of sensitive military and similar equipment for South Korea for the past 30 years.
Yun was arrested April 15 at the Fort Lauderdale airport after meeting with a former arms trafficker working as an informant for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Defense Department investigators. The cooperating arms trafficker, who is not named in court documents, had previously worked with Yun on deals involving Russian SU-27 fighter planes and surface-to-air missiles.
Yun, who is being held without bail, faces up to 60 years in prison and $6 million in fines if convicted of all six charges, which involve attempting to broker or export prohibited defense or missile-related items and failing to register with the U.S. government as a broker. Yun’s court-appointed attorney did not immediately return a telephone call Wednesday seeking comment, nor did officials the South Korean embassy in Washington.
This is the same guy in 1989, being led out of the courthouse after being charged with attempting to export nerve gas...he hasn't changed his views.
The Justice Department and U.S. attorney’s office in Miami also declined immediate comment.
In 1989, Yun was charged with attempting to supply Iran with 500 quarter-ton bombs of deadly sarin nerve gas. He was eventually convicted of conspiracy and sentenced to 30 months. He was released in March 1991. None of the gas was ever acquired by Yun or shipped to Iran. (Read more.)
B.S. Report–It’s impossible to tell how many U.S. citizens share the same sentiment as this guy. No doubt, we have plenty of foreign nationals living here that hate this country. But this guy is a naturalized citizen who wants to see us destroyed.
We live in a very dangerous world…and within this environment, President Obama has deemed this the necessary time to scale back on our national security defenses.
There is so much waste (mostly waste) with our government’s spending policies that there is literally millions of areas that spending could be cut before putting our nation’s security at risk.
But none of this matters to President Obama because he’s more concerned with centralizing as much power in Washington as he can–and if we happen to be attacked again, better yet, because he’ll be able to grab even more power if an attack occurs.
1803–United States doubles in size following the Louisiana Purchase.
1808–First practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri. He was way ahead of his time–it looked like this:
1812 – There aren’t many states that can boast an abundance of pelicans, but Louisiana, the 18th state to enter the United States of America, has plenty. That’s why it calls itself the Pelican State and the state bird is the eastern brown pelican.
1885–The Boston Pops Orchestra Forms.
1889 – The first national holiday in the United States was celebrated. The citizens of the U.S. observed the centennial of George Washington’s inauguration.
1900–U.S. annexes Hawaii.Nice move.
1900 – Train engineer Casey Jones was killed when trying to save the Cannonball Express as it highballed its way through Vaughn, MS.
1903 – Victor Records made its first Red Seal recording this day. The premiere disk featured Ada Crossley, an opera contralto.
1904–The debut of the…ice cream cone.
1922 – Charlie Robertson of the Chicago White Sox pitched the major league’s fifth perfect game. The Chisox defeated the Detroit Tigers, 2-0.
1927–The first Federal prison for women opens in Alderson, West Virginia.
1939 – The first railroad car equipped with fluorescent lights was put into service. The train car was known as the General Pershing Zephyr.
1939- Baseball’s ‘Iron Horse’, Lou Gehrig, played his last game with the New York Yankees on this day.
1939 – Public Television began. President Franklin D. Rooseveltbecame the first chief executive to appear on TV. Rooseveltspoke at the opening ceremonies of the New York World’s Fair in Flushing, NY on WNBT in New York.
1940 – Jimmy Dorsey and his band recorded the bandleader’s signature song, Contrasts, for Decca Records. The song went on to become one of the most familiar big band themes of the era.
1940 – Belle Martell was licensed in California by state boxing officials to be the first American woman prize-fight referee!
1945 – “How would you like to be queen for a day!” That opening line, delivered by host, Jack Bailey, was first heard on Mutual radio on this day. The first Queen for a Day was Mrs. Evelyn Lane. Years later Bailey would take the show to TV for a long, popular run.
1945 – Arthur Godfrey began his CBS radio morning show. His theme was Seems Like Old Times. Arthur Godfrey Time ran until this very same day in 1972. Godfrey’s show was different in that he used live talent and not records. His popularity with listeners was the major reason that several sponsors gave Godfrey the freedom to ad-lib their commercials and, from time to time, joke about the products as well.
1947 – Maps had to be changed as Boulder Dam was changed back to its original name, Hoover Dam. Some people, mostly those who live in the community of Boulder, Nevada, still refer to the dam as Boulder Dam. Many of them think that changing the dam’s name was a damn shame.
1952–Mr. Potato Head is first toy advertised on television.
1953 – Frank Sinatra and Nelson Riddle became a team this day at Capitol Records in Hollywood. Sinatra’s new musical style, under Riddle’s direction, brought the crooner to the top of the record world for the second time in his illustrious career.
1955 – A few University of Iowa men students released a little pent-up energy. What did they do? They conducted panty raids at women’s dorms. Some say the Hawkeyes were still celebrating their February 28th basketball win (72-70) over the Golden Gophers of the University of Minnesota. Now that colleges have coed dorms, the raids have become a part of collegiate history along with the swallowing of goldfish.
"Fellas, that's what we're after! The holy grail of women's bloomers!"
1961–Willie Mays hit 4 home runs in one game for the San Francisco Giants against the Milwaukee Braves.
1964 – TV sets would be drastically different after a ruling by the FCC stating that all TV receivers should be equipped to receive both VHF (channels 2-13) and the new UHF (channels 14-83). As a result, TV dealers scrambled to unload their VHF-only models as fast as possible. Antenna manufacturers were kept busy, as the new UHF receivers required new antennas too.
1975 – Saigon — and all of Vietnam — fell into communist hands this day, the unofficial end of the Vietnam War. As the U.S. withdrew completely from Saigon, the old non-communist capital fell to North Vietnamese tanks. Americans commemorate the fall of Saigon with memorial services for the 58,153 Americans who died in Southeast Asia during the war.
1977–Ron Cey of the Dodgers sets a then major league record of 29 RBIs in April.
1985 – The National Basketball Association set an all-time season attendance record as 19,506,355 fans attended games in arenas around the league. Seven NBA cities — Boston, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles and Philadelphia — drew over a million fans each in the 1984-85 basketball season.
1987 – Three more compact discs of music by The Beatles went on sale for the first time. The discs were Help!, Rubber Soul and Revolver. All became hits again for the Fab Four.
1993–Tennis star Monica Seles is stabbed in Germany during her match.
