Daily Cartoon
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David Cohen
Asheville Citizen-Times
Nov 10, 2008
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Obama planning U.S. trials for Gitmo detainees
President-elect has described camp as ‘sad chapter in American history’
 | The sun sets in June over Camp Justice and its adjacent tent city, the legal complex of the U.S. Military Commissions, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, in Cuba. |
WASHINGTON - President-elect Obama's advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison but could require creation of a controversial new system of justice.
During his campaign, Obama described Guantanamo as a "sad chapter in American history" and has said generally that the U.S. legal system is equipped to handle the detainees. But he has offered few details on what he planned to do once the facility is closed.
Under plans being put together in Obama's camp, some detainees would be released and many others would be prosecuted in U.S. criminal courts.
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High Court to examine Marri terror case
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court could take up a terrorism-related case challenging the President's broad powers of detention, observers say.
The High Court will decide Monday whether to accept the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah Marri, a legal U.S. resident who was whisked into military detention in 2003 when Bush administration officials charged he was an al-Qaida operative plotting a wave of post-Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Washington Post (NYSE:WPO) reported.
Marri was on trial in federal court in 2003 charged with using a false name and a stolen Social Security number to apply for bank accounts in Macomb, Ill., when Bush ordered he be turned over to the military. Marri was taken to a U.S. Navy brig in South Carolina where he's been held ever since, the newspaper said.
Read More Here: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/11/09/High_Court_to_examine_Marri_terror_case/UPI-36011226246841/
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Obamas Visit Bushes At White House
President-Elect And President Bush Discuss Transition Of Power In Private Meeting Monday
CBS/ AP) President-elect Obama and President Bush gathered Monday for their first face-to-face meeting, an Oval Office session that comes during a historic shifting of power to a new administration.
Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, arrived at the South Portico 11 minutes early with President Bush and first lady Laura Bush waiting for them. Mrs. Bush and Mrs. Obama enjoyed a warm greeting, while the president and his successor exchanged smiles and a handshake.
Taking a bit of prerogative, the president-elect put his left hand on Mr. Bush's back as the two couples entered the Diplomatic Reception Room.
"These things can be pretty frosty, but I think this time it won't be that way," said CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer, predicting "a nice and pleasant exchange" despite Mr. Obama's stated intention to undo many of Mr. Bush's initiatives.
Watch Videos Here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/10/politics/main4587490.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4587490
And Here:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/10/obama.bush/index.html?iref=mpstoryview#cnnSTCVideo
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The Bushes, The Obamas & The White House
CBS' Mark Knoller On The Tradition Of Presidents-Elect And White House Tours
There’s a lot of play-acting involved when a President-elect of the opposition party is received at the White House by the outgoing President.
It’s not quite as awkward as when the incoming Chief Executive actually defeated the incumbent, as was the case in 1980 when Jimmy Carter welcomed Ronald Reagan to the Oval Office; or in 1992, when the first President Bush had to offer smiles and a handshake to Bill Clinton.
Imagine how you’d feel if you’d been fired and were then required to show your replacement around your office and house?
Barack Obama didn’t beat George W. Bush, but he did beat him up rhetorically. Mr. Obama spent most of the last two years repeatedly making the case that Mr. Bush needlessly took the nation to war in Iraq and ran the economy into a ditch. Not the kind of verbiage that makes for instant cordiality.
And the worst thing Mr. Obama felt he could say about John McCain was that his election would amount to a third term for the Bush Administration.
But Messrs. Bush and Obama are both top-flight politicians. They know how to put politics aside - especially when the whole world is watching. And President Bush wants to be seen rolling out the red carpet for his successor.
Watch Video Here: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/President44/story?id=6217188&page=1
And Here: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/10/obama.bush/index.html?eref=rss_topstories#cnnSTCVideo
Read More Here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/10/notebook/main4587823.shtml
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Bush leaving office more unpopular than Nixon
President Bush has the lowest presidential approval rating in the history of such polling.On the day that President-elect Barack Obama is visiting the White House, a new national poll suggests that the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the most unpopular president since approval ratings were first sought more than six decades ago.
Seventy-six percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday disapprove of how President Bush is handling his job.
That's an all-time high in CNN polling and in Gallup polling dating back to World War II.
"No other president's disapproval rating has gone higher than 70 percent. Bush has managed to do that three times so far this year," says CNN polling director Keating Holland. "That means that Bush is now more unpopular than Richard Nixon was when he resigned from office during Watergate with a 66 percent disapproval rating."
Before Bush, the record holder for presidential disapproval was Harry Truman, with a 67 percent disapproval rating in January of 1952, his last full
Read More Here: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/10/bush.transition.poll/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
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5 Signs President-Elect Obama Is a Geek
By Matt Blum 
Barack Obama, soon to become the 44th President of the U.S.A., is many things: a statesman, a lawyer, an author, and an orator. It is also our opinion at GeekDad that, even without knowing him personally, we have enough evidence to demonstrate that he is a big geek. Even if you didn't want him to win the election, you have to admit that it would be awesome for him to be not only the first African-American President, but also the first geek President. Here, then, is our evidence:
1. Obama has pledged to create a cabinet-level Chief Technology Officer for the country. The U.S. CTO would be responsible for making broadband technology readily available to every U.S. citizen, and for fighting the telcos for net neutrality. While this is admirable for many reasons, it seems to us that nobody would make this a central point of his presidential campaign unless he were, on some level, a geek.
Watch Video Here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/10/politics/washingtonpost/main4587983.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4587983
Read More Here: http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/11/5-signs-preside.html
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Farrakhan Says Obama 'New Beginning'
CHICAGO (AP) ― 
After months of silence about his support for Barack Obama, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said in an address Sunday the new president-elect has a God-given capacity to handle any burdens he'll face as the nation's leader.
Farrakhan added that Obama will only be able to make positive changes with help from "God and people of good will," and he urged the Chicago-based movement's followers to do their part.
"President-elect Obama has energized all segments of the depressed, downtrodden, rejected and despised," he said in a 90-minute speech at Mosque Maryam on the city's South Side. "Now it is up to us to take the new energy that he has given us ... and channel that energy into making ourselves better."
Dressed in intricately decorated red and gold robes and matching fez, the once-ailing 75-year-old leader spoke to more than 1,000 followers in an address called "America's New Beginning: President-elect Barack Obama."
Farrakhan, who said Obama draws a "oneness of spirit" from all people, admitted he stayed quiet about his support for Obama during the past few months out of fear his words would harm the Illinois senator's bid for the White House.
Watch Video Here: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77539
Read More Here: http://cbs2chicago.com/local/farrakhan.obama.new.2.860013.html
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David Duke's EURO Conference Meets in Memphis
Reported by: Lacey Crisp
MEMPHIS, TN - Despite being kicked out out of an Olive Branch hotel, and several others, David Duke and his International EURO Conference have found a meeting place. Duke announced Thursday the meeting would be held at a secret location. Members gathered Saturday at the Memphis Plaza Hotel & Suites on Shelby Oaks Dr. near Sycamore View Rd.
The group of about 100 participants, met at the East Memphis hotel to discuss issues that Duke says are "vital to European Americans." According to Duke's official website, "The European American Unity and Rights Conference is dedicated to defending the heritage and rights of European Americans."
Memphis police were on hand in case of any problems, but the event went smoothly.
This is the third International EURO Conference held by the white civil rights activist. The first EURO Conference was held in New Orleans in 2004. Duke says now is an important time for the group because of President Elect Obama. Duke says Obama has a record of anti-white racism and is close with an anti-white church leader, Rev. Wright.
Watch Video Here: http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/mostpopular/story.aspx?content_id=f0784783-a8df-48b9-8285-19f2268595cd#BBECDEEMBEDEDPLAYER
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Obama's Life In Photos
To View Photos Go Here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-081028-obama-all-pg,0,6564040.photogallery
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Police: No Video of Inmate's Death
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) -- Internal reports at the Prince George's County jail reveal that a video camera failed to record the first five minutes when guards arrived in a cell to find a dead inmate.
The Washington Post reports it reviewed 13 statements that guards, supervisors and jail nurses provided to internal investigators on the day 19-year-old Ronnie White was found dead.
Watch Video Here: http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0908/555544.html
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Working Poor and Young Hit Hard in Downturn
Published: November 8, 2008
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PHILADELPHIA — Harvey Shaw’s plans to move out of his parents’ house, finally, have been derailed. With a high school degree obtained belatedly at 21, he had held a full-time job for 26 months as a detailer at a car dealership here, sprucing up new and used cars.
But in early October, Mr. Shaw, now 24, recalled, “I came back from vacation, and they said they were cutting back and replacing me with part-time workers.”
Labor experts say the hardships of the gathering recession are sweeping down to hurt the working poor and younger job seekers most of all.
From the fall of 2007 to this October, the share of 16- to 19-year-olds working fell by 8 percent, the largest decline of any age group, and the outlook for youths and low-skilled workers in coming months is bleak, economists say, with the industries most apt to employ them, like home-building and retail sales, taking steep dives.
Read More and Watch Multimedia Here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/us/09young.html?ex=1383973200&en=28499c89baac0e4d&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg
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Most 'undervotes' cast in counties won by Obama
An analysis of ballots that had a vote for president but no vote for U.S. senator could have recount implications.
By BRIAN BAKST, Associated Press
An Associated Press analysis of the nearly 25,000-vote difference in Minnesota presidential and U.S. Senate race tallies shows that most ballots lacking a recorded Senate vote were cast in counties won by Democrat Barack Obama.
The finding could have implications for Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and DFLer Al Franken, who are headed for a recount separated by the thinnest of margins -- 221 votes as of Friday, or about 0.01 percent.
Though some voters may have intentionally bypassed the race, others may have mismarked their ballot or optical scanning machines may have misread them. A recount to begin Nov. 19 will use manual inspection to detect such ballots.
Read More Here: http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/34116044.html
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How to End the Recession
November 6, 2008
The collapse on Wall Street is now decimating Main Street, Ocean Parkway, Mountain View Drive and I-80. Since January the economy has shed 760,000 jobs. In September alone, monthly mass layoff
claims for unemployment insurance jumped by 34 percent. General Electric, General Motors, Chrysler, Yahoo! and Xerox have all announced major layoffs, along with the humbled financial titans Goldman Sachs and Bank of America. Fully one-quarter of all businesses in the United States are planning to cut payroll over the next year. State governments are facing a tax revenue shortfall of roughly $100 billion in the next fiscal year, 15 percent of their overall budgets. Because states have rules requiring balanced budgets, they are staring at major budget cuts and layoffs. The fact that the economy's overall gross domestic product (GDP) shrank between July and September--the first such decline since the September 2001 terrorist attacks--only confirms the realities on the ground facing workers, households, businesses and the public sector.
Read More Here: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081124/pollin
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60 Minutes, CBS: Obama's Inner Circle (Video/Transcript)
Nov 09, 2008
I watched this interview with David Axelrod, David Plouffe, Robert Gibbs and Anita Dunn. Their poise, effectiveness, showed throughout this interview. The most important thing, no in-fighting, leaks, drama. And they talk about how the McCain Campaign did not take them seriously, especially about winning Indiana and North Carolina.
Read More and Watch Video Here: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/9/214644/606/727/658291
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NEW YORK — Chris Matthews refused to be drawn in to a debate last week when fellow MSNBC host Joe Scarborough talked on "Morning Joe" about whether President-elect Obama had fumbled the appointment of Rahm Emanuel as his White House chief of staff.
Matthews said he wanted to "do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work."
Wait a minute. A declaration of political peace? On one of the three cable news networks that has thrived on political combat during the presidential election campaign?
CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC all knew the end would come. Now the networks must retool, and will learn how many of the new viewers who sought them out over the past year will stick around.
Read More Here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/10/cable-news-future-emafter_n_142612.html
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Palin's own words: 'Amazing we did as well as we did'
Blames Bush -Snake wearing lipstick!!
Gov. Sarah Palin blames the Bush administration for the failure of the McCain-Palin ticket, thinks people need to move on from the so-called "Troopergate" controversy and has no regrets about state per diem for time spent at her home in Wasilla or state-funded travel for her children.
Palin also said she loved her time in the national spotlight and won't rule out a run for president or vice president in 2012.
Those were some of Palin's responses to questions posed Sunday afternoon in a wide-ranging interview with the Anchorage Daily News and KTUU Channel 2 at the governor's Wasilla home.
Despite the defeat of the Republican ticket at the polls Nov. 4, Palin remains a national media obsession: Greta Van Susteren of Fox News had just finished an interview with her Sunday and was chatting with the governor and her husband in the kitchen. Moose chili cooked in the crock pot and moose hot dogs lay on the table. Palin insisted they weren't a prop for the national media but just how the family likes to dine.
Watch Video Here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/55562.html
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Man questioned in Hudson case to stay jailed
Balfour 
JOLIET, Illinois - The convicted felon questioned in the killings of Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and nephew is staying in prison after authorities say a witness reported seeing him with a gun.
During a 35-minute hearing in Joliet on Monday, authorities decided there's probable cause to hold William Balfour until a Dec. 3 hearing before the full Illinois Prisoner Review Board.
Board Chairman Jorge Montes says the witness reported seeing Balfour with a gun that matches the description of the .45 caliber weapon used to kill Hudson's family members.
Read More Here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27645234/
Watch Video Here: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=6486018
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In tough times, layaway makes a comeback
Ahead of Christmas, plummeting sales spur revival of a ’50s standby
Hot Shoppes. Green Stamps. Rexall. Layaway.
Ask your grandparents.
Wait a minute ... did we say layaway?
Scratch that — of all the relics of 1950s retailing genius, it’s the one that’s still around. And with Christmas approaching in a time of widespread economic distress, it’s coming back strong.
“For a lot of people, they’re not going to have credit and they don’t have a lot of money right now, but they want to have a good Christmas,” said Mary Bullock, manager of a Kmart store in Orlando, Fla. “It is a lot different than in years past.”
Until recently, Kmart Corp. was pretty much the only major retailer that bothered to keep layaway plans prominent among their customer services. The service — in which a customer pays off the purchase price of a product in installments plus a small fee before taking it home — appeared headed for obsolescence two years ago when Wal-Mart Stores Inc. shut down its program.
Read More and Watch Video Here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27582079/
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US 'in secret overseas strikes'
The US has carried out nearly a dozen anti-terror attacks in Pakistan, Syria and elsewhere in the past four years, the New York Times has reported.
The US has carried out attacks in Pakistan in recent months
The previously unreported attacks were authorised in 2004 by Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the Times quoted senior officials as saying.
The order gave US forces permission to attack terror targets anywhere in the world without prior specific approval.
The Times said the defence department declined to comment on its claims. E SF
The White House also made no comment.
Read More Here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7719050.stm
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MGM first to post full-length features to YouTube
- Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios, better known as MGM, will be the first major movie studio to post full-length feature films on YouTube, the company announced Sunday.
CNET News reported on Thursday that YouTube was preparing to launch a feature-film service after spending months smoothing over fractured relationships in Hollywood.
MGM will likely not be the last studio to post full-length feature films on YouTube, according to an industry source. Last summer, Lionsgate announced a partnership with YouTube, but that deal calls for the studio to offer only short clips from films and TV shows. MGM will also post TV shows on YouTube, according to multiple reports published on Sunday.
For Google, YouTube's parent company, the deal is a turning point in its relationship with Hollywood. There was lots of distrust and bitter feelings in entertainment circles after the way Google dealt with copyright infringement on its site. But that was when Google was in the driver's seat. Back then, thousands of YouTube's users would post clips from TV shows and films on the site and YouTube executives told the studios they were powerless to prevent it--all the while YouTube amassed an enormous following.
Read More Here: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/cnet/20081110/tc_cnet/8301102331009228393
Starchild: I suggest all future HD television purchases = LCD with PC connectors - VGA at the very least!
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The fact that this new Terminator Salvation footage has popped up randomly leads me to believe that it hasn’t been officially released, so catch it while you still can. The video is called Terminator 4: The Art of Martin Laing and features a male (I assume it’s Martin Laing) talking about designing the new Terminators and then seeing them come to life. The footage shows a huge Transformer like Terminator called the Harvester, and we also get a glimpse at some motor cycle-type Terminators.
Watch it below!
http://filmonic.com/terminator-salvation-footage
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Miriam Makeba dies after collapsing on stage
The story
Miriam Makeba, the South African singer who wooed the world with her sultry voice but was banned from her own country for more than 30 years under apartheid, died after collapsing on stage in Italy. She was 76.
In her dazzling career, Makeba performed with musical legends from around the world -- jazz maestros Nina Simone and Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon -- and sang for world leaders such as John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela.
"Her haunting melodies gave voice to the pain of exile and dislocation which she felt for 31 long years. At the same time, her music inspired a powerful sense of hope in all of us," Mandela said in a statement. 
Read full article »
Watch Video Here: http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/10/obit.makeba.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories#cnnSTCVideo
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b. 5th May 1949, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
d. 4th November 2008, Malibu, California, U.S.A.
Former Motown President and Chief Executive, Jheryl Busby has died. He was 59.
He was found dead in the hot tub at his home in Malibu.
The cause was accidental, probably natural, although this had not been initially determined, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County coroner's office stated.
During his career, Jheryl worked for Stax Records, MCA Records, DreamWorks Records and Def Soul Classics.
He, also, developed the careers of Boyz II Men, Queen Latifah and Johnny Gill.
Jheryl Busby commenced his business career at Mattel Toys, starting as an inventory clerk and ultimately promoted to new-toy coordinator.
In 2004, he founded Def Soul Classics Records, signing LaBelle and the Isley Brothers, and two years later continued his partnership with LaBelle by starting Umbrella Recordings.
In 1998, Jheryl Busby also became a majority stakeholder in Founders National Bank, the first African-American-owned and operated commercial bank in California.
Read More Here: http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Respect.html
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