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| SATURDAY • NOVEMBER 14, 2009 |
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 OBAMA REACHES OUT TO CHINA: PRESIDENT OBAMA USED A SPEECH IN TOKYO TO SEND A MESSAGE TO BEIJING: We come in peace. “I know there are many who question how the United States perceives China’s emergence,” Obama said, according to the New York Times. But he added, “In an interconnected world, power does not need to be a zero-sum game, and nations need not fear the success of another.”
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IMMIGRATION OVERHAUL SET FOR 2010: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the Obama administration will push for a path to citizenship to some 12 million illegal immigrants as early as next year. Napolitano said she feared another wave of illegal immigration once the economy improves and therefore promised a “tough and fair pathway to earned legal status,” the New York Times reports, including stricter enforcement laws against illegal immigrants and their employers and a streamlining of the legal immigration system.
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PRESIDENT SAYS TO LAY OFF FORT HOOD: In a videotaped address released by the White House during Obama’s flight to Singapore, the President exhorted lawmakers to put off any investigations of the Fort Hood shooting until law enforcement and the military had completed their own. “The stakes are far too high,” said the President, who asked Congress to “resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into political theater.”
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MARGARET THATCHER: NOT DEAD: A 16-year-old grey tabby cats death caused a bit of international hysteria this week. On Tuesday night, as 1,700 Conservatives luminaries gathered for a black-tie affair in Toronto, Canadian Transport Minister John Baird sent a short text message to a friend and fellow attendee that read, Thatcher has died. Though Baird was referring to his dearly departed cat, the message rapidly spread the rumor that conservative icon and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dead. Phone calls flooded baffled officials at both 10 Downing Street and Buckingham Palace. A top aide alerted Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to the loss and started preparing an official statement mourning the passing of the Iron Lady, the BBC said. But once the news reached Canada that the 84-year-old Baroness Thatcher was still breathing, conservatives and Thatcher the Cat could rest easy.
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 POLICE ARREST SIXTH MEMBER OF FAMILY ACCUSED OF CHILD SEX ABUSE: Police arrested a sixth member of a Missouri family under investigation for allegations of child sexual abuse, police said. Darrel Mohler has been charged with two counts of rape, Lafayette County Sheriff Kerrick Alumbaugh said at a news conference. Missouri police did not have Mohler in custody earlier.
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 SPOILS OF MADOFF’S FEAST GO ON THE AUCTION BLOCK: ALMOST 200 ITEMS SEIZED FROM FINANCIER WILL BE SOLD SATURDAY IN MANHATTAN: They’re the spoils of a feast that’s over forever: Bernard Madoff’s stuff on a government auction block. Almost 200 items seized from the fallen financier’s homes are being sold Saturday in Manhattan, ranging from dishes, pens and stationery to decoy ducks, furs and a Rolex dubbed the “prisoner watch.” There’s even a partly used pad of adhesive notes, personalized with “Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities” a reminder that Madoff’s twisted financial activities were interrupted in action.
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 9/11 FAMILY MEMBERS WELCOME, CRITICIZE CIVILIAN TRIALS: Some family members of 9/11 victims welcomed the announcement that five Guantanamo Bay detainees with alleged ties to the attacks will be tried in a New York civilian court, while others blasted the decision. “I’m very, very disappointed in the government,” said Anne Ielpi, whose son, Jonathan Ielpi, was a firefighter who was killed in the south tower. “It’s like throwing it in our face again,” she said, speaking by phone Friday. “We can’t get away from 9/11, we can’t.”
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 SUICIDE CAR BOMB IN PAKISTAN KILLS 11: A suicide car bomber who blew himself up at a police checkpoint Saturday in Peshawar killed 11 people and wounded 26 — marking the second straight day of major violence in the area, authorities said. Shafi Ullah, deputy superintendent of police, said authorities had stopped the bomber at the post when the explosion occurred, killing three women, three children, a policeman and four other men.
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LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: ***Roland Emmerich’s 2012 features John Cusack racing to survive apocalyptic floods, earthquakes, and fire from the sky, but according to reviews you’d have a better time in the movie than watching it. Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers writes that the film “works the dubious miracle of almost matching Transformers 2 for sheer, cynical, mind-numbing, time-wasting, money-draining, soul-sucking stupidity.” The film cost a reported $260 million, but according to the New York Daily News’ Elizabeth Weitzman they forgot to budget for a story that goes beyond “the highest-paid members of an indifferent cast [who] survive the massive floods and giant fireballs that cause our planet’s destruction.”
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 PROBLEMS AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY INVESTIGATED: Army Secretary John McHugh ordered a new investigation into poor record keeping and other problems at Arlington National Cemetery even as a separate investigation ended without an absolute answer to who is buried in a grave marked “Unknown.”"As the final resting place of our nation’s heroes, any questions about the integrity or accountability of its operations should be examined in a manner befitting their service and sacrifice,” McHugh said in a statement after signing the order directing the Army’s Inspector General to begin an investigation into allegations regarding cemetery operations. The Army IG is already in the middle of an investigation ordered by the previous secretary of the Army to review management of the cemetery.
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LBN-HEALTH WATCH: ***Passing out after a long night out has been less of a problem thanks to the alcohol-infused energy drinks that have become available over the past few years. But on Friday, the Food and Drug Administration asked manufacturers to prove the safety of the reported drink of choice for a quarter of college students. Those who mix caffeine and alcohol are at a higher risk of injury than those who drink un-caffeinated alcohol, according to a Wake Forest University study.
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 LBN-SEE IT: Wall of resistance - A Palestinian demonstrator gestures while knocking down a segment of Israel’s separation barrier, during a protest in the West Bank village of Nilin, near Ramallah, on Nov. 6.
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LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***Robert Gibbs may be holding his breath the entire time, but the White House is turning loose Vice President Joe Biden for an appearance on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. The show will feature Biden on Tuesday, the first time he’s been on the show since the election, the New York Times reports.
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LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***The revised Google Book Search Settlement agreements limits the books covered to only those registered in the U.S. Copyright Office or published in the U.K., Australia or Canada. Modifications were made regarding unclaimed works and to access models. The parties hope to have a Final Fairness Hearing on the deal in early 2010. ***Sarah Palin’s long-awaited memoir may have gone rogue from the facts, according to the Associated Press’ advance look at her book. The former vice-presidential candidate depicts herself as someone who is frugal with taxpayer money when traveling and who rejected donations from powerful corporations, the AP says, but her record indicates otherwise. The former Alaskan governor stayed at a luxurious New York City hotel with her daughter in 2007. She says her gubernatorial campaign took mostly small donations from first-time givers, but more than half her war chest came from people and PACs who gave at least $500. And she blurs the lines between the Obama stimulus plan and the federal bailout that President George W. Bush signed. She implies that Ronald Reagan repealed the “death tax” (he didn’t). She says she stood against conflicts of interest, but pushed for a special zoning exception so she could sell her family’s $327,000 house. The book “has all the characteristics of a pre-campaign manifesto.”
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 LBN-SNAP: Olympic champion Michael Phelps….
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 LBN-HISTORICAL COMMENTARY By Fred Astaire: When working on my choreography I am not always receptive to outside suggestions or opinions. I believe that if you have something in mind in the way of a creation, such as a new dance, a sequence, or an effect, you are certain to come up with inaccurate criticism and damaging results if you go around asking for opinions. (1959)
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LBN-COMMENTARY By DICK MORRIS (Former Presidential Advisor and Best-selling Author): President Obama’s decision to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on trial in New York City along with four others accused of helping destroy the World Trade Center and attack the Pentagon on 9-11 paints a bulls-eye for terrorists right on New York City, their favorite target. Now Obama has identified where the terrorists should focus their energies - on New York City.
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LBN-NOTICED: *** Tim McGraw and wife Faith Hill attend the The Blind Side premiere after-party at Nashvilles Regal Green Hills Theater. ***Jessica Alba and daughter Honor Warren go shopping at Target in West Hollywood. ***Jennifer Garner looking for toys at JennyBec in Santa Monica. ***Kate Bosworth gets her hair cut at Beverly Hills Byron & Tracey salon. ***Correction - Taylor Swift celebrated her CMA victory with her mother and Reba McEntire at Nashville hotspot Avenue. *** BE AN LBN-CORRESPONDENT Send your celebrity sightings to LBN-Elert@TimeWire.net.
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LBN-COMMENTARY By KEN KRAGEN (PRODUCER): Are you in favor of reinstating the military draft? Why? As someone who saw the effect of the draft on our society in the 1960’s and played a significant role protesting it through our show, “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” in 1967, 8 and 9, I certainly could never advocate a return to a military draft now. The fact is that if George Bush hadn’t gotten us into the conflict in Iraq and had used the nations military resources solely to defeat the enemy in Afghanistan the subject of a draft would never need to be raised. Nevertheless, I wholly oppose it.
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 LBN-COMMENTARY By BILL O’REILLY: It’s somewhat disconcerting, but the Obama administration continues to dance around the terrorism question. While a new Rasmussen poll shows 60 percent of Americans want the Fort Hood massacre investigated as a terrorist act, the president sees the mass murder as a “tragedy” and a violent crime.
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 LBN-OVERHEARD: ***In the latest skirmish in his war with TLC, Jon Gosselin has filed a $5 million claim against the network, saying its representatives damaged his reputation and career by preventing him from working with other media outlets. In the suit, the reality star dad claims that the network contacted various media outlets he’d been in touch with to persuade them to stop dealing with him. ***Director Paul Wendkos, whose career spanned 50 years and covered some 100 films and television shows including the 1959 surf movie “Gidget,” has died due to a lung infection that followed a stroke. He was 84. ***Until Sarah Palins book comes out next week, it’s Bristols ex-boyfriend, Levi Johnston, who remains firmly planted at center stage of the Palin family spotlight. Or maybe we should say center ice. Johnston, in New York this week to collect a sex award and pose for Playgirl, has been coy about whether hed bare all for the shoot. But according to a source at the photo shoot, Johnston is wearing nothing but a hockey stick.
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LBN-QUOTE: “To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.” –Thomas Merton.
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LBN-HISTORY: On Nov. 13, 1956, the Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public buses.
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