August 10, 2013

The Daily Show 08/08/13 (D) Senator Kirsten Gillibrand interview

Great interview!!!

August 10, 2013

The Daily Show 08/08/13 (D) Senator Kirsten Gillibrand interview

My current senator and former congresswoman (NY-20)!

August 9, 2013

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand due to appear on 'The Daily Show' (Tonight!)

Washington -- U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, fresh off a visit to a Madison County farm, is due to appear on "The Daily Show" tonight for the third time in her brief Senate career.

Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is scheduled to sit down for a chat at 11 p.m. with the show's summer guest host, John Oliver, on cable network Comedy Central.

It will be Gillibrand's first appearance on the show since the Democratic National Convention in September 2012. In that appearance she talked with host Jon Stewart about the importance of the women's vote and increasing the number of women serving in Congress.

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/08/us_sen_kirsten_gillibrand_appears_on_tonights_the_daily_show.html



U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., will appear on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" at 11 p.m. Thursday. She is shown at a roundtable discussion at Syracuse University focusing on the Syracuse Say Yes to Education program. ( David Lassman / The Post-Standard)

August 7, 2013

Syrian army kills 62 rebels east of Damascus

Source: Reuters

BEIRUT | Wed Aug 7, 2013 5:32am EDT

(Reuters) - Sixty-two rebel fighters were killed in a Syrian army ambush at dawn on Wednesday near the town of Adra, east of Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group opposed to President Bashar al-Assad, said.

The state news agency SANA did not give a death toll for the ambush but said the rebels were from the al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front. It said all the rebels were killed and machineguns and rocket-propelled grenades confiscated.

SANA said the "terrorists" included non-Syrians and the Observatory said that eight rebels were still unaccounted for after the attack, which happened west of an industrial area east of Adra.

Assad's forces have been on the offensive around Damascus after rebels pushed into towns and suburbs on the outskirts of the capital last year. Adra is in the Eastern Ghouta region, which has been besieged by the army for months.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/07/us-syria-crisis-ambush-idUSBRE9760DQ20130807?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=992637

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This horrific conflict seems far from over...

August 7, 2013

Pay your taxes or lose your license

State warns scofflaws who owe $10G could lose driving privileges

Albany

Some 16,000 delinquent taxpayers were put on notice Monday: Pay up or lose your driver's license.

The Department of Taxation and Finance sent the warnings to implement new provisions of law enacted with the state budget. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, authored the proposal.

"Our message is simple: Tax scofflaws who don't abide by the same rules as everyone else are not entitled to the same privileges as everyone else," Cuomo said in a press release.

"These worst offenders are putting an unfair burden on the overwhelming majority of New Yorkers who are hardworking, law-abiding taxpayers," he continued. "By enacting these additional consequences, we're providing additional incentives for the state to receive the money it is owed, and we're keeping scofflaws off the very roads they refuse to pay their fair share to maintain."

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Pay-your-taxes-or-lose-your-license-4708596.php