A source has told chicagowhitesox.com that the Reds will receive right-handed pitcher Nick Masset and second baseman Danny Richar.
Griffey expected to break his wrist while signing his new contract.
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The Manchin's are just like any other family. Everyone has dirty laundry to air. Whatever is done in the dark will come to the light. First the fake degree for the daughter and the now the nephew has sex issues and who knows what is next for this famous family???? I bet Joe Manchin will not be so popular when it comes to election time this year.
20-year old John Finnegan is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his mother. 43-year old Mary Finnegan was found strangled in her home Friday morning.
In video bonding court this afternoon, Peoria County State's Attorney Kevin Lyons said Finnegan told police he had a four year sexual relationship with his mother. He said he found her asleep in her bed last Thursday and killed her swiftly.
Lyons said Finnegan also told police he (allegedly - an important word not used in the original cut'npaste) had sex with his mother's corps (They misspelled corpse, there) and cut her hair.
"The circumstances [are difficult because they] involve a family and an inappropriate relationship. And it involves a result that is violent. Those things added together are some pretty tricky ingredients. They are difficult for people to absorb [actually] happening on their street," Lyons says.
Lyons says Finnegan staged his mothers' home to appear she had died from a drug overdose.
Mary Finnegan was on medical leave from Caterpillar and being treated for bi-polar disorder.
Bond for John Finnegan is set at $2.5-million.
It's worth going to the link to see the mugshots."Alcohol definitely played a role in the fight," he said. "It's definitely a weird situation."
The taunting got worse and more personal as the men drank, escalating into a physical fight that involved all four men, Bieze said.
Ford Motor Company's two-decade obsession with selling Americans millions of gas-guzzling SUVs and pickup trucks is finally waning.
(No. Ford Motor Comany sold millions of products that millions of Americans wanted. They no longer want 'gas-guzzling' products since 'gas-guzzling' is not as affordable. Plus, the word finally is used again. As if Ford was forcing only these products onto their customers.)
The company announced plans to drastically shift its focus to building more fuel-efficient cars. Ford plans to convert three of its North American assembly plants from producing trucks to cars, and to realign its factories to manufacture more fuel-efficient engines. Ford will also begin domestic production and sales of six of the car models it currently sells only in Europe.
(Simple meaning, supply and demand is forcing a business re-alignment. And according to the information, Ford has been focused on selling fuel efficient cars, has been building them, but can only SELL them to their European customers.)
Many Americans are reacting to high gas prices by purchasing smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles, and since Detroit had little to offer to meet those priorities, Japanese automakers have capitalized on surging consumer demand for their more fuel-friendly cars and hybrids.
(Yes, this information is true. However, Ford OWNED the SUV and especially the American Truck markets, which has a much higher profit margin than sedans and small vehicles. Why would Ford build unwanted sedans and small cars when they can sell more trucks, and more importantly at much higher profit levels than sedans or small cars? They didn't. But they are now.)
Ford posted the worst quarterly performance in its history this week, losing $8.67 billion in the second quarter. The company lost $15.3 billion in 2006 and 2007 combined. Ford slashed more than 40,000 jobs in the past three years, and sold off three of its European luxury brands to raise money to cover the losses from declining SUV and truck sales.
(This paragraph illustrates my point exactly. There's less profit because there are fewer SUV and truck sales. There is less profit for two reasons, the insane amount they were making on the SUV and truck sales, and when that market dried up, they had less product in the sedan and small lines, and the Japanese automakers do. Double whammy. Perhaps they expected gas prices to level off?)
Most of this was Cutn'Pasted from a story by Robert Parry. July 21, 2008
The conservative-dominated U.S. Appeals Court has opened the door for President George W. Bush or a successor to throw American citizens – as well as non-citizens – into a legal black hole by designating them “enemy combatants,” even if they have engaged in no violent act and are living on U.S. soil.
The federal Appeals Court in Richmond, Virginia, ruled 5-4 on July 15 that Bush had the right, while prosecuting the “war on terror,” to hold Qatari citizen (and Peoria, Illinois, resident) Ali al-Marri indefinitely as an “enemy combatant.”
But some of the court’s more liberal judges expressed alarm, saying the legal reasoning that denied al-Marri meaningful due process not only trampled on American legal traditions but could be used to lock up U.S. citizens as well.
“For over two centuries of growth and struggle, peace and war, the Constitution has secured our freedom through the guarantee that, in the United States, no one will be deprived of liberty without due process of law,” wrote Judge Diana Motz, a Bill Clinton appointee, who dissented against the court’s approval of sweeping presidential powers.
Motz noted that al-Marri has been imprisoned for more than five years, “without acknowledgement of the protection afforded by the Constitution, solely because the Executive believes that his indefinite military detention – or even the indefinite military detention of a similarly situated American citizen – is proper.”
Al-Marri’s lawyers plan to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the case underscores one of the biggest issues at stake in the November elections: whether Republican John McCain will get to fulfill his promise to appoint more Supreme Court judges like Samuel Alito and John Roberts, who have embraced Bush’s vision of an all-powerful President.
Here's the rest of the entire story, which I suggest you please read. It is from the Consortium News - which claims Independent Investigative Journalism. So, I'm a bit troubled by this... a bit more than 'troubled' actually.Al-Marri entered the United States on a legal student visa, along with his wife and children, only a day before the 9/11 attacks. He was arrested amid the panic and fear that followed the attacks, and was charged criminally in a credit-card scheme.
But the Bush administration then asserted that al-Marri was an al-Qaeda “sleeper cell” agent planning follow-up attacks, declared him an “enemy combatant,” and locked him up at a Navy brig in South Carolina, where he was held incommunicado.
Eventually, al-Marri challenged his indefinite detention through a federal court suit. Bush’s lawyers countered by citing the Military Commissions Act in seeking to deny him access to civilian courts.
In an affidavit submitted to a District Court, a U.S. counter-terrorism official alleged that al-Marri had received al-Qaeda training, was prepared to engage in a suicide attack, and had met personally with Osama bin Laden and other senior terrorist leaders.
He was going to suicide bomb Peoria? Who the hell would have noticed that?It has been an Obamathon ever since the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee touched down in Afghanistan. At today's press conference in Amman, a throng of reporters recorded his every move. In total, 200 journalists requested seats on “Air Obama” -- 40 of them were accepted. The bill for the trip? About $20,000 each.In contrast, Katie Couric pointed out, as if CBS News couldn't have done anything about it, that “last night John McCain arrived in Manchester, New Hampshire” and was greeted by just “two journalists waiting on the tarmac.”
COURIC: But will this summer of love last? And will voters want to go steady with Barack Obama? We'll find out in November. And that is the CBS Evening News for tonight. I'm Katie Couric in Amman, Jordan. Thank you for watching. Good night.My hat is off to you Mrs. Couric. First, I only thought that AP writers could be that scintillating. Second, in one simple sign out - you have tarnished and trivialized the final speck of prestige that your once mighty flagship news organization once deserved.
The blog, TellZell.com, what got a sympathy writeup in the NYT this weekend. And while it has some fire in it, it's ultimately a sad relic of the once-mighty newspaper industry. A recent post, for example, contains a bunch of farewell letters from Tribune staffers:
"Perhaps I hid behind the smallness of my cog's place in the big machine here, or the fact that I worked in what is perhaps the best photo journalism department in the nation kept me from feeling too worried, but with the loss of talent over the last year or two and the seeming lack of any vision in regard to the future of true journalism (other then to hold to the cliff's edge for as long as possible), I feel that I need to say something, however insignificant it may be.*" (*yes, it is)
"The Times literally changed my life. I came here as a musician who occasionally wrote and I'm leaving as a guy looking for work as a writer (not that I, the son of a composer, could ever stop being a musician). I'm proud of having contributed to this paper."
This is a fantastic site of crying crybabies who thought that going private was a great idea - and they're actually SURPRISED that they're getting canned... and in the site they're complaining and fearful of all the Strike Breaking IT hard ware coming in to take the rest of their jobs.
(these things are called networked computers, just so you're in on it)
The best part? Its chance of impacting Sam Zell is... well, there's no chance! Bhahahahhahahaaahhahaaaaa HHAHAhahahahahhahhaaaaa!
Just three years ago, that trust fund enjoyed a surplus of $10 billion. Even without a tax freeze, the fund is projected to finish 2009 with a deficit of $3 billion. That that could grow as Americans drive less and buy less gas because of higher pump prices.Now, gentle readers, it has taken a LONG time for me to get used to the idea of a usage tax. But I have. I use the Interstates, and some toll ways and for that I should be taxed for the use and maintenance of those roads. I do not agree that gas taxes should be used for anything except roads, because I've bought into the premise that gas is what pays for the Interstate. In other words, don't touch that cash for rail - and fix the goddamned roads. And do it quickly!
The consequence is that only about $27 billion in federal money will be available next year to states and local governments for new infrastructure investment even though the current highway act calls for spending $41 billion a year. For many, the solution is to raise rather than suspend or cut federal fuel taxes, which haven't changed since 1993.
Oberstar, D-Minn., said his committee is working on the next long-term highway bill. He estimated it will take between $450 billion and $500 billion over six years to address safety and congestion issues with highways, bridges and transit systems.The rest of the article explained how Americans pay hardly anything for roads compared to the Europeans in Europe. Typical. So in order to offset those differences they will...
"We'll put all things on the table," Oberstar said, but the gas tax "is the cornerstone. Nothing else will work without the underpinning of the higher user fee gas tax."
At the very least, the gas tax should be indexed to construction cost inflation, DeFazio said.
...gradually increase the current federal fuel taxes to 40 cents a gallon.
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association is calling for a 10-cent-a-gallon raise and indexing the tax to inflation. With construction costs soaring because of competition for building materials from China and other developing nations, the tax rate would have to be about 29 cents a gallon to achieve the same purchasing power as the 18.4-cent rate imposed in 1993, the association says.
Other ideas that will be on the table when lawmakers write a bill next year including more toll roads and public-private partnerships, congestion pricing and user fees where drivers pay a tax based on how many miles they drive.Uh, how is that not insane? When they also allow people to take a deduction based on how many miles they drive? That offsets, doesn't it? Like I said, I'm for usage fees... not NEW usage fees. If there is less money coming in because people are (gasp!) not driving as much then logic dictates that there's less usage for those roads? Sure they're still crumbling into dust. Sure the Interstates were nothing more than Ike's guarantee that the Nation wouldn't plunge into another Depression.
"...The folks at the New Yorker are very smart, very learned, learned people, but once you get outside of the confines of Manhattan and the Upper West Side, you sort of begin to wonder if anyone-- if there was a conversation around the table about how will this be viewed by people who won't necessarily get the joke."Or... you could say that this isn't a joke at all - because some people believe these images as fact. (look 'round the internet for more than five minutes, you'll see what I'm talking about) And that's not because people are racists - it's because of Hillary's people sending those stereotyped 'jokes' about Obama all over the internet and mailed in pamphlets, and spoken to her Democrat primary voters! You can't get away with blaming this on Karl 'Where'd You Go?' Rove? Way to go team Democrat!
Charles Carpenter, who signed the Savebudweiser.com petition wrote, "I'm proud to drink American! If AB is not American-owned, I'll be sure to enjoy another American beer."
Wally O'Neill, the bartender at the Elks lodge in Wachtung, N.J., echoed that sentiment and said club members there would not keep drinking Budweiser.
"That would be a problem here," O'Neill said. "Let me put it to you this way: This is an America-first type of place. We've got a lot of old school people here who don't like seeing the country sold out. Anheuser-Busch selling out to the Belgians is like Ford or GM selling out to the Japanese."
"Dear Cap'n,Thank you J, and I hope you get better real soon. You might also want to see if you can get info about getting in on the class action lawsuit against the meat packer that allowed their mis-handling of their product to cause your illness.
Myself and at least 4 other people I know got sick from eating meat over the last week. It looks like it may be traced to Ohio and Nebraska. Just a heads up. Here's a link to the USDA if you want more info. (his Link to the USDA)
The other people were not with me, all separate incidents. But I found it
curious that they all occurred over the last week...people eating beef,
whether it be Italian beef, hamburger, etc. Same type of
sickness...vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration.
I had a cheeseburger at George's Hot Dogs, located on Damen just south
of Armitage (not sure you need the location) in Chicago."