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Ian David's JournalRight-Wing Refuses To Believe Cleveland Bombers Are NOT Part Of Occupy Movement
Right-Wing Refuses To Believe Cleveland Bombers Are NOT Part Of Occupy Movement
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Like many of his right-wing brethren, Sheffield leaps willfully in a thinly-veiled attempt to not only suggest that the five suspects taken into custody by the FBI were perhaps connected to the OWS movement, but are, undeniably, active leaders of the grassroots and widely non-violent protest.
Within the very first line of his post, he sets the stage:
“The leaders of the plot to bomb an Ohio highway bridge are members of the ‘Occupy’ movement,” he writes, “ but you won’t find that information in much of the mainstream media coverage of the story.”
Appalled by the “mainstream” media’s reluctance to cover a story that has no merit, Sheffield laments the would-be bombers’ connections to OWS yet offers absolutely no proof whatsoever to his condemnation, save for a brief link-out to a Breitbart.com story of the same nature and – as typical of most things pushed by the Breitbart moniker – a distinct slant on reality.
But even that withstanding, the Breitbart piece alone portrays the band of anarchists’ sheer displeasure with the Occupy Movement’s lack of violence and ultimate separation; where author Dan Riehl quotes an unnamed source in which the members ridiculed Occupy for not being on par with their violent, anarchistic world views.
More:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/02/right-wing-refuses-to-believe-cleveland-bombers-are-not-part-of-occupy-movement/
In other words, these are dudes who hated the Occupy movement for NOT being violent.
Republicans Launch Facebook App to Defeat Obama
Republicans Launch Facebook App to Defeat Obama
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The Grand Old Party opened up a new media salvo with Tuesday’s launch of its “Social Victory Center,” billed as a one-stop-online-shop for Republican voters to organize, plan events and volunteer in local, state and national elections.
And it’s all baked directly into a Facebook app, allowing the GOP to capitalize on the relationships that users on the social network have already built with one another.
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Users first register with a Facebook profile, and input additional informaiton such as their ZIP code and phone number. Then, they’re greeted by the “news” section, which features the latest Republican web ads and an assortment of Republican-friendly news stories, the selection of which depends on users’ location (a voter in Maine is going to see Maine-centric stories).
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Finally, “volunteer” is where the real social meat and potatoes lie. The section is built to get people off Facebook and into a local “Victory Center” (the Republican name for local field offices) to directly engage with a campaign. As with “events,” it builds a map based on users’ ZIP codes and shows them the address and contact information for these local outposts.
But what if a volunteer has an extra 30 minutes in his or her day and can’t make it to a local field office? No problem — users can make phone calls to registered voters through the app and their personal phone.
More:
http://mashable.com/2012/05/01/republicans-facebook-app/
Mother of groom arrested after Danvers wedding brawl
Mother of groom arrested after Danvers wedding brawl
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It all started when the groom's brothers tried to buy drinks at the bar and were refused. The groom was "irate" and began yelling at an employee, according to Patrolman Scott Frost's report.
When a member of the bride's family asked him to calm down, he grew more enraged, punching a wall and tearing the coat room apart, police said. The bride's brother tried to intervene and wound up being punched.
As the groom and his new brother-in-law wrestled on the floor, the groom's mother, Darlene DeIorio, went after the bride's mom, police said.
By the time police arrived, there was a large crowd of people around the two women. Officers eventually pulled DeIorio away and took her outside. But somehow, she managed to get back inside, where police spotted her throwing a chair across the floor and then attacking another woman.
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http://www.salemnews.com/local/x1378306875/Mother-of-groom-arrested-after-Danvers-wedding-brawl
Brockton, Mass. retirement board sues Google over stock split plan
Brockton retirement board sues Google over stock split plan
BROCKTON —
Brockton’s retirement board is suing Web-search giant Google Inc., claiming the company’s planned stock split would unfairly create nonvoting shares in the California-based company, Bloomberg News has reported.
The Brockton Retirement Board contends that Google officials failed to act in the best interests of shareholders in creating a new class of stock, the news service reported on Monday.
“The reclassification effort is a thinly veiled attempt to entrench” co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin “as dominant shareholders of Google by creating a non-voting class of Google stock in order to preserve their voting power into perpetuity,” the Brockton board said in a Delaware Chancery Court complaint made public Monday in Wilmington, Bloomberg reported.
Google now has Class A common shares, which have one vote each, and Class B shares, mostly held by the founders, Bloomberg reported. Under the reclassification, all shareholders will receive a dividend of new, non-voting Class C stock in what amounts to a 2-for-1 stock split, according to the complaint.
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http://www.enterprisenews.com/topstories/x515662790/Brockton-retirement-board-sues-Google-over-stock-split-plan
Police arrest man for paying with legit $50 bill
SHELBYVILLE, TENN. —
Tennessee police are apologizing after arresting a man for using a $50 bill they thought was fake but that turned out to be real.
Police in Shelbyville thought the bill was counterfeit after a convenience store clerk called them. The clerk said a marker used to detect false money didn’t show the bill was real.
The Shelbyville Times-Gazette reported Officer Brock Horner arrested Lorenzo Gaspar on Friday.
But a police evidence technician told the arresting officer that some old bills don’t react to the markers. So police gave the money to two banks to check, and they said it was real but just very old.
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http://www.patriotledger.com/topstories/x792223246/Police-arrest-man-for-paying-with-legit-50-bill
When the dude got that $50 bill, Shelbyville was called Morganville at the time, $50 bills were made on a different kind of paper, and nickels had bumblebees on them...
Texas Rapper Makes "Gay is Okay" Song (BEN - Adair Lion)
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"Ben" is Adair's controversial first single off of his project titled "Michael & Me," an album that pays homage to the late great Michael Jackson.
The release of "Michael & Me" will be on June 25, 2012 which marks the third anniversary of his death.
Scott Brown acknowledges using part of health care law he wants to repeal
Scott Brown acknowledges using part of health care law he wants to repeal
Brown says daughter, 23, insured under health law
Senator Scott Brown, who won office vowing to be the 41st vote to block President Obama’s health care law, and who has since voted three times to repeal it, acknowledged Monday that he takes advantage of one of its components to keep his elder daughter on his congressional health insurance plan. “Of course I do,’’ Brown said. He said that element of the law, which has proven widely popular despite a split over the broader measure, can be provided by states
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http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2012/05/01/scott_brown_acknowledges_using_part_of_health_care_law_he_wants_to_repeal/
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