By Mark Duell Mail on Line
A theme park in New York was forced to shut its gates to visitors when a mass brawl broke out after Muslim women were banned from rides unless they removed their headscarves.
Two park rangers were hospitalized and 15 people were arrested in the scuffle at Rye Playland in New York yesterday.
The theme park was crowded with around 6,000 visitors. Roughly 3,000 were in a Muslim tour group celebrating a holiday at the end of Ramadan.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
New CNN Poll: 27% of Democrats Want to Dump Obama
The Washington Examiner
A new poll by CNN and ORC International finds that 27 percent of Democrats would like to see their party nominate a candidate other than Barack Obama for president in 2012.
In response to the question, "Do you think the Democratic party should renominate Barack Obama as the party's candidate for president in 2012, or do you think the Democratic party should nominate a different candidate for president in 2012?" -- 72 percent said they wanted to see Obama renominated. But 27 percent, slightly more than one in every four, said they wanted to see Democrats nominate a different candidate. One percent had no opinion.
The poll was taken August 24-25. In a survey taken in early August, 28 percent of Democrats said they wanted a different candidate. Polls taken in July and before showed Obama in a stronger position, with no more than 22 percent saying they preferred a different candidate. The current poll is based on interviews with 463 Democrats and has a margin of error of 4.5 percent.
The new poll is another indication of Democratic unhappiness with the president, but it does not mean Obama will face a challenge in his party's primaries. Despite the complaints of a few liberals like Sen. Bernard Sanders, the odds of a Democrat opposing the president appear to be something less than zero. But the new poll is still a matter of concern to Democrats, because it is yet another indication that there is significant disillusionment with the president within his own party. Whether those disaffected Democrats will come around to supporting Obama next year is an open question -- and perhaps the most worrying of the president's re-election bid.
Monday, August 29, 2011
MiTT ROMNEY / MARCO RUBIO
You wanted Hope and Change, there is is right above.
Friday, August 26, 2011
The days of wine and roses are over for Obummer and the First Vacationer
It's going to be a rocky road ahead for election for Bary's re-election. . His entire deck of cards is falling. The anticipated Hope and Change thing just didn't work out at all. Because it was nothing but a sham from day one. . Will the last one out, please turn out the lights, the party's over.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Obama seeks bounce back.
WASHINGTON – Mired in one of the bleakest patches of his presidency, Barack Obama hits the US heartland Monday, seeking to rekindle the spirit of hope which swept him to the White House but has been crushed by a lame economy.
Obama will embark on a fabled ritual of American politics – a bus tour to rural areas of Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois, which have all felt the lash of the economic crisis and will be important to his 2012 re-election bid.
Hope is a commodity in short supply, as fears mount that the tepid recovery from the worst economic crisis since the 1930s will fizzle into a second recession and with unemployment stubbornly pegged at 9.1 percent.
A staggering 74 percent of Americans think the country is moving in the wrong direction, according to a RealClearPolitics polls average, and a CNN survey this month found 60 percent think the economy is still in a downturn.
Obama, reeling from a showdown with Republicans over debt, has seen his approval rating dip below 45 percent, and slowed growth in the economy and jobs market are casting a cloud over his 2012 hopes.
Just a few months ago, after the killing of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, many commentators were predicting Obama would stroll to the second term that every presidency needs to be termed a historic success.
But when Republican Tea Party lawmakers drove the United States to the brink of a historic default in a row over raising the government’s borrowing authority, Obama’s prestige took a severe hit.
As they say in Chinese,
Rots of Ruck.
Obama will embark on a fabled ritual of American politics – a bus tour to rural areas of Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois, which have all felt the lash of the economic crisis and will be important to his 2012 re-election bid.
Hope is a commodity in short supply, as fears mount that the tepid recovery from the worst economic crisis since the 1930s will fizzle into a second recession and with unemployment stubbornly pegged at 9.1 percent.
A staggering 74 percent of Americans think the country is moving in the wrong direction, according to a RealClearPolitics polls average, and a CNN survey this month found 60 percent think the economy is still in a downturn.
Obama, reeling from a showdown with Republicans over debt, has seen his approval rating dip below 45 percent, and slowed growth in the economy and jobs market are casting a cloud over his 2012 hopes.
Just a few months ago, after the killing of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, many commentators were predicting Obama would stroll to the second term that every presidency needs to be termed a historic success.
But when Republican Tea Party lawmakers drove the United States to the brink of a historic default in a row over raising the government’s borrowing authority, Obama’s prestige took a severe hit.
As they say in Chinese,
Rots of Ruck.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
U.S fears Al Qaeda plotters in Yemen trying to acquire deadly ricin for terrorist attack..
Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen has been trying to acquire large quantities of castor beans, which contain the toxic rich protein.
It is believed the poison will be packed around small explosives which could disperse the white powdery substance on detonation.
It is so deadly that even a speck of it can kill someone if inhaled or taken into the blood stream.
The poison was used in the 1978 assassination in London of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov and, in 2002, police raided a facility said to be plotting its manufacture in the UK capital.
Al Qaeda intend on detonating the explosives in enclosed areas like shopping centers and airports.
Could this be the start of War number Four?
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
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