Struggling Miami Marlins To Close Entire Upper Deck During Weekday Games

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Next time you go to Marlins Park, you won’t be sitting in the nosebleed seats, at least during weekday games.

The Marlins, whose attendance ranks last in the National League five weeks into the season, have decided to close the upper bowl at Marlins Park for certain weekday games, an approach the team used at times at Sun Life Stadium.

The higher deck seats will be off limits starting [...]

ALERT: Bill Gates Database of all K-12 Students information to he tracked by private companies

So a database that costs $100 million dollars will share personal academic information held by schools from Kinder up until students leave school with private companies for tartgetted advertising….

The system has been in operation for several months and already contains millions of K-12 students’ personal identification ‒ ranging from name, address, Social Security number, attendance, test scores, homework completion, career goals, learning disabilities, and even hobbies and attitudes about schoo

When [...]

Library Gives Free Pole Dancing Lessons To Help Boost Attendance

CLEVELAND (CBS Cleveland) - If you’re looking to get fit locally while feeling sexy, you can solicit Cleveland Exotic Dance. In Scotland, you can go to the library.

The Mayfield Library of Dalkeith, Modlothian, decided to offer a free pole-dancing course to draw attendance, according to STV Edinburgh.

“The pole fitness session is a fun and interesting way of encouraging more people into our libraries, trying out all the services on offer and ultimately borrowing [...]

The Citizens’ Hearing on Disclosure is Coming (April 29 – May 3)

An event will be held in Washington, DC at the National Press Club from April 29 to May 3 in which a powerful group of researchers and military/agency witnesses will testify for 30 hours over five days before former members of the U.S. House and Senate – a Citizens’ Hearing on Disclosure.

The motto for this event is “If Congress will not do its job, the people will.” A theatrical quality [...]

Jodie Foster Tells It – Privacy, Society, the World – A New Era

Have you guys SEEN THIS?

I am not a sheeple whatsoever… I don’t watch TV, I rarely watch movies… I definitely haven’t tuned in to any award show on the planet since I was a kid. So definitely don’t think I eat up media like a fly on shit… I do not.

But this speech Foster gave at the Globes the other night?

DOUBLESPEAK.

This is a big deal… sure, it’s way down the [...]

Riot Breaks Out in Metro Detroit: Chaos Reigns

TAYLOR (WWJ) - An event designed to help assist Michigan families with housing expenses turned into a chaotic scene after there was a mad rush to collect Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers.

The incident happened Saturday morning at the Wayne County Family Health Services Center on Eureka Road, between Beech Daly and Inkster roads in Taylor — where thousands of people were waiting to get housing vouchers, many who had been waiting outside in the cold [...]

OBAMA ENDS CAMPAIGN IN HALF-EMPTY ARENA

President Obama’s big rally tonight turned out to be just like his first, opening salvo of the 2012 campaign: a half-empty arena in Ohio. According toRealClearPolitics’ Scott Conroy, there were “empty seats scattered around the upper-level of Nationwide Arena … Four years ago, after all, Obama was easily filling venues larger than that …” The event even featured Bruce Springsteen and Jay-Z, and Obama still couldn’t fill it out.

As it turns out, the [...]

UH O: OBAMA ATTENDED WEDDING OF VP DEBATE MODERATOR

President Barack Obama was a guest at the 1991 wedding of ABC senior foreign correspondent and vice presidential debate moderator Martha Raddatz, The Daily Caller has learned. Obama and groom Julius Genachowski, whom Obama would later tap to head the Federal Communications Commission, were Harvard Law School classmates at the time and members of the Harvard Law Review.

After TheDC made preliminary inquiries Monday to confirm Obama’s attendance at the wedding, [...]

REPORT: Obama spent 412 hours in economic meetings, 600 hours on golf course

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney calls a newGovernment Accountability Institute (GAI) report finding that President Obama has missed over half of his daily intelligence briefings “hilarious.” 

 

 

“It’s revealing that Mr. Carney did not dispute the Government Accountability Institute’s actual numbers,” said Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer in an interview with Breitbart News. “That’s probably because our findings are drawn directly from the White House’s own calendar.”

 

 

The study found the following:

 

“The Government Accountability Institute, [...]

PRESIDENT SKIPS MORE THAN HALF OF INTEL BRIEFINGS

President Obama is touting his foreign policy experience on the campaign trail, but startling new statistics suggest that national security has not necessarily been the personal priority the president makes it out to be. It turns out that more than half the time, the commander in chief does not attend his daily intelligence meeting.

The Government Accountability Institute examined President Obama’s schedule from the day he took office until mid-June 2012, to see [...]

Syria tests missiles against coastal attack

Oliver Holmes
reuters.com
July 9, 2012

Syria’s navy fired live missiles from ships and helicopters over the weekend, state media said on Sunday, in an exercise aiming at showcasing its ability to “defend Syria’s shores against any possible aggression”.

Syrian television aired video of a variety of missiles being fired from launchers on land and from ships and showed the Syrian Defence Minister Dawud Abdallah Rahijia in attendance.

“Naval Forces conducted an operational live fire [...]

Syria tests missiles against coastal attack

(Reuters) – Syria’s navy fired live missiles from ships and helicopters over the weekend, state media said on Sunday, in an exercise aiming at showcasing its ability to “defend Syria’s shores against any possible aggression”.

Syrian television aired video of a variety of missiles being fired from launchers on land and from ships and showed the Syrian Defence Minister Dawud Abdallah Rahijia in attendance.

“Naval Forces conducted an operational live fire exercise [...]

The Table Is Set for a Mania – Jeff Clark – Casey Research

Dear Readers,

I’m writing to you from Vancouver, where Doug Casey, Jeff Clark, Andrey Dashkov, and other members of the Casey team are attending the World Resource Investment conference.

I don’t know what the official numbers are, but attendance is clearly down, and the mood among investors is considerably less buoyant than last time around. No surprise.

Being a contrarian, this is a clear buying signal to me. I don’t know if the [...]

Honor student placed in jail for tardiness and truancy at school

HOUSTON—A judge threw a 17-year-old 11th grade honor student from Willis High School in jail after she missed school again.

Judge Lanny Moriarty said last month Diane Tran was in his Justice of the Peace court for truancy and he warned her then to stop missing school.  But she recently missed classes again so Wednesday he issued a summons and had her arrested in open court when she appeared.

Tran said she works a [...]

Trayvon Martin killing boosts Easter voter-registration drive

On Palm Sunday, LaVon Bracy stood before the congregation of New Covenant Baptist Church in Orlando and announced plans to participate in an effort by 50,000 black congregations nationwide to register 1 million voters on Easter Sunday.

“All I’m asking for is any person willing to find one person to register to vote,” said LaVon, wife of Pastor Randolph Bracy Jr. “We are trying to register as many people as possible. [...]

TEAM WORK: Obama HQ briefs Romney’s press corps?

The Obama 2012 team hosted an off-the-record briefing for Mitt Romney‘s press corps at Chicago headquarters today, reporters tell me.

Obama press secretary Ben La Bolt and deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter hosted the event, during which reporters were given a tour of the office and asked questions about the Obama team’s strategy and outlook on the 2012 race. Campaign manager Jim Messina is said to have made a cameo appearance.

Reporters described the event as unrevelatory [...]

You should have waited: Samsung is going to release a Galaxy Nexus with a better GPU?

BY: STEFAN CONSTANTINESCU, INTOMOBILE

Very few people remember this, but when Samsung announced the Galaxy S II back in February of last year the spec sheet said it was running a dual core 1 GHz processor. By the time the device actually hit the market in May however, that got bumped up to 1.2 GHz. Could something similar happen to the Galaxy Nexus? Right now the world’s first and only smartphone running Ice Cream Sandwich, the [...]

Obama: Republicans Threaten ‘Very Core of What This Country Stands For

At a campaign event this evening at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C., President Obama indicated that he had successfully brought about “change”–an ambiguous 2008 campaign promise–by killing terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. From the official White House transcript:

And change is keeping one of the first promises I made in 2008 — ending the war in Iraq and bringing our troops home.  (Applause.)  The war is over and our troops are home.  [...]

Penn State: Due to multiple threats, Assistant Coach Mike McQueary will not attend Saturday’s game – via @GoPSUsports1

Nov. 10, 2011

 

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Due to multiple threats made against Assistant Coach Mike McQueary, the University has decided it would be in the best interest of all for Assistant Coach McQueary not to be in attendance at Saturday’s Nebraska game. - gopsusports

 

Bloomberg: First Amendment Doesn’t Apply To Wall St Protesters’ Tents

Mayor’s latest threat to occupy protesters

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
October 18, 2011

After failing to remove occupy Wall Street protesters last week in order to close Zuccotti Park and “carry out cleaning”, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has issued another thinly veiled warning to those still present and protesting.

During a Press conference last night, Bloomberg asserted that “the Constitution doesn’t protect tents — it protects speech and assembly.”

“I’m 100 percent in favor [...]

Julian Assange Joins Protestors as Occupy Wall Street Goes Global

The Occupy Wall Street protests have gone global today, reaching from Canada to Asia to Europe. People are denouncing centralized wealth in Hong Kong, marching under the banner of “Indignants” in Spain, asking for an end to nuclear power in Tokyo, rioting in Rome, and bringing a host of other concerns to the forefront on the streets of hundreds of other cities with thousand of [...]

‘Disheveled, disoriented’ actress Kim Delaney escorted off stage during award ceremony for military service

Longtime actress Kim Delaney, star of the popular television series “Army Wives,” was escorted off stage at the National Constitution Center Thursday night after delivering a stilted, and at times unintelligible, speech for the Liberty Medal Award presentation to Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

It is unclear what was wrong with the television star, but she appeared disheveled as she struggled to read a [...]

New Jersey Church Offers $90,000 ‘Spiritual Stimulus’ to Ailing Economy (‘Reverse Offering’ loot)

MORRISTOWN, N.J., Sept. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — On September 25th, Liquid Church of New Jersey is doing something unprecedented during its six Sunday morning church services. With the economy stalled and congregants struggling financially, the church is conducting a “Reverse Offering” — giving away the usual Sunday collection of $30,000 cash to all in attendance. The church is also in the process of releasing an [...]

An Iowa high school has introduced an automated wake up call system for chronically late students

Late for school? How about a wake-up call?

An Iowa high school has introduced an automated wake up call system for chronically late students.

Marshalltown High School unveiled the program Wednesday, with roughly 380 students receiving a friendly call from the school district’s automated calling system reminding them to get to school on time.

“Good morning from Marshalltown High School. It’s time to get up and enjoy the day,” the message begins, before [...]