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Freed Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al Megrahi has been moved out of an emergency care unit at a Libyan hospital, it was revealed today.

Megrahi was released from prison in Scotland last month on the grounds that he has prostate cancer and does not have long to live.

A Libyan official said earlier this week that Megrahi had been admitted to an emergency unit at the Tripoli Medical Centre and that his condition was poor.

‘Mr Megrahi is out of the emergency room and intensive care but is under close observation by a team of doctors,’ a hospital source said.

‘The hospital has formed a committee to assess his state of health and plans to issue a statement either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.’

The source did not say why Megrahi had been in the emergency unit and did not provide further details about his condition.

Megrahi was the only person convicted over the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 above the Scottish town of Lockerbie, in which 270 people were killed.

He received a rapturous welcome when he arrived home in Libya last month.

The majority of the victims of the bombing were U.S. citizens.

From the Chicago Tribune the original pathos-laden tripe headlines:

Orphaned Chicago kids try to keep their subsidized apartment

After grandma dies, building owner tells 3 children they cannot stay in unit on Far North Side

When Rosetta Bledsoe was on her deathbed last September, relatives moved the three grandchildren she was raising from their Rogers Park apartment to the West Side to be near the hospital.

That way, the youngsters could more easily visit the woman who had mothered them with a mix of tenderness and drill-sergeant discipline, while temporarily living with other family and not missing school.

Now the apartment building’s owner is citing that decision in saying the children must give up the Rogers Park home they shared with Bledsoe, 48.

Northpoint Apartments’ owner, a private Colorado company that operates them with federal subsidies, said the children lost any claim to the apartment in the 7700 block of North Paulina Street when they stopped living there full time.

An unusually heated court battle, now approaching a year, also centers on whether the children, ages 9 to 14, have a legal right to inherit the apartment after their grandmother and legal guardian died of a stroke last September.

The prospect of three orphans displaced from their home prompted dozens of neighbors and supporters to recently attend a rally for the children. Elected officials, including U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, have urged the apartment’s management to let the children stay.

The building’s owner said the subsidized housing is so scarce in Chicago — prospective tenants can wait for years — that it is vital that the units be awarded only to those who have met all the legal obligations, no matter how compelling the children’s case might be.

That scarcity of housing, likewise, makes it an urgent matter for the children and their new legal guardian, aunt Erica Bledsoe, 34.

"I have no Plan B," the aunt said. "We need to stay."

The children’s biological mother, Rosetta Bledsoe’s daughter, has been unable to care for them for years, relatives said. The children essentially grew up with their tough but vivacious grandmother who would meticulously inspect their daily wardrobe, said De’Ajah Parks, 14.

The middle child, Ty’Juan Lighthall, 12, said he most remembers the pots of spaghetti that his grandmother would prepare and how everyone gravitated to her at large holiday gatherings. "She was a great mom to us," Ty’Juan said.

The family has lived for nine years at Northpoint, just north of the Howard "L" stop in apartments subsidized by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development.

Bledsoe paid a set percentage, about 30 percent, of her income in rent, mainly from public benefits. The rest of the rent was covered by subsidies.

She had been suffering from cancer but the stroke that hit last September came out of the blue. Bledsoe was rushed to the hospital while the family gathered by her side. She had told Erica Bledsoe, the children’s aunt, that she wanted her to take care of them if she was unable.

The children were about to start school just a block from their apartment but they were also shuttling to Rush University Medical Center 15 miles away.

Erica Bledsoe didn’t have a car and said she was worried about the children missing school days, especially because she wasn’t sure about their future at Northpoint.

"I didn’t want a bad situation to be even worse," she said.

She enrolled the children at Ella Flagg Young school in the Austin neighborhood and relocated them to stay with relatives nearby. Bledsoe said they would spend weekends and holidays at Northpoint.

Northpoint’s owner said the family’s on-and-off relocation meant the children forfeited any claim to the apartment, and it filed a motion in Cook County Circuit Court in October to retake control of the unit.

"We certainly have sympathy for Miss Bledsoe, having lost her mother and the impact of that," said Cindy Duffy, spokeswoman for Aimco, which owns and operates the apartments. "But there’s a waiting list for these apartment units. It would be unfair for us to deny a qualified applicant."

Nicki Bazer, one of the family’s attorneys at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, cited housing laws stating that "remaining family members" can inherit an apartment. But management interprets the housing law to mean that minors are specifically banned from assuming an existing lease.

Erica Bledsoe, on her own, would not have been able to move into the subsidized apartment because the waiting lists for such units in Chicago have stretched several years.

Bledsoe said she is unemployed and would have made her rent payments by using the welfare payments that the children qualify for. She said she plans to go back to school to become a hairstylist.

But it’s the children’s future that has been the most galvanizing piece of the dispute, inspiring a candlelight rally and the intervention of Schakowsky, who urged building management to let the children stay. The children likely would have to try to squeeze into the home of relatives if they can’t stay in the apartment, which they say is in a better neighborhood.

The Illinois Housing Development Authority is investigating.

The children and their aunt, meanwhile, have been allowed to stay in the apartment. The students are just days away from reuniting with their friends at Gale Math and Science Academy when school resumes next week.

"What has been somewhat baffling is the extent to which [the building's owner has] fought this," said Bazer, their attorney. "To us, it’s clear that morally, the [owner is] wrong. But we’re arguing that legally, they’re wrong too."
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Apparently, what we have here is an endless cycle of pregnant teen welfare queens.

Firstly, these kids are not orphaned. The mother is around only she’s busy doin’ crack and men and apparently none of those men she’s doin’ is the father to any these kids. Not that this would matter anyway.  Secondly, grandmother didn’t raise these kids, tax dollars did. The grandmother 48 has a 34 yrs. old daughter (kids’ aunt). That means the kids’ mother, like her mother (kids’ grandmother) started having kids at 12 or 13 years old and have no doubt been on welfare their entire lives. Now, these welfare kids Ty’Juan Lighthall, De’Ajah Parks, and some nameless third kid, and their welfare queen auntie are fighting to keep their deceased welfare queen’s welfare wigwam to live in on the weekends. I mean, what  welfare queen doesn’t need a second welfare wigwam to escape to after a hard week of laying on their back doin’ crack with their legs spread wide open and the never ending task of coming up with hideous black baby names like Ty’Juan, De’Ajah, Kahneeka’Kaka, and Koontah’Kenteh.

 By BRADLEY OLSON
HOUSTON CHRONICLE

The chairman of the Harris County Republican Party sharply criticized Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia Thursday for granting jail access to a reporter and videographer from Al Jazeera English, an English-language offshoot of the Arabic news network.

GOP Chairman Jared Woodfill invited supporters to call the sheriff’s office and “voice concerns” about the decision to allow Al Jazeera English reporter Josh Rushing, a former public affairs officer for the U.S. Marine Corps in Iraq, to conduct interviews for a long-form news story about treatment of the mentally ill by U.S. law enforcement.

Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt also gave an interview to the network Thursday, a police department spokesman confirmed.

“We think it’s odd, at best, to have Al Jazeera going through our jails and actually interviewing folks,” Woodfill said. “Second, we don’t believe our chief law enforcement officer should be promoting an organization that has been linked to Al Qaeda and other terrorist or quasi-terrorist organizations. So we thought it was important to let our folks know what was going on.”

Alan Bernstein, a spokesman for Garcia, said the sheriff’s office “fully vetted” the news crew’s request and found them to be legitimate, since the Al Jazeera network has been granted interviews by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and that Rushing has regularly been granted access to the Pentagon for news stories.

“We decided that what was good enough for the Bush administration and the Pentagon was good enough for the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, and we’re proud to have welcomed a U.S. Marine home to Texas so he could do this story,” he said.

Bernstein criticized “misstatements” that he said were shared either on local talk radio, blogs or Woodfill’s initial e-mail, noting that Garcia never granted an interview and did not give the crew unfettered access to the jail but had a chaperone escort them at all times, as with any other media organization.

The phone number Woodfill initially sent out to GOP supporters asking them to call and “voice concerns” was the sheriff’s office dispatch that normally handles emergency calls, “an unfortunate error,” Bernstein said. A later e-mail from Woodfill corrected the numbers.

Woodfill defended the party’s criticism of Garcia and said it had nothing to do with the fact that he’s a Democrat. Rushing’s work has been highly critical of the military and the Bush administration. Rushing did not return an e-mail seeking comment Thursday evening.

(Pro Mexican Communist News Network) — The deportations of thousands of Mexicans who have served time in U.S. jails into Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are adding a deadly ingredient to an already volatile state of security, Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said.

Turf battles between rival drug cartels, and between authorities and cartels, have made Juarez one of the world’s most dangerous cities. There were 305 drug-related killings in August, making it the deadliest month yet, according to the mayor’s office.

Most of the recent violence has been committed by young street-level drug dealers who work for the Sinaloa or Juarez cartels, Reyes Ferriz said.

Adding deportees from the United States, some with criminal records, worsens the situation, the mayor said.

In the past 45 days, 10 percent of those killed in Juarez had been deported from the United States in the past two years, Reyes Ferriz said.

"We don’t have the statistics to know if they were criminals from the United States or not," he told CNN’s Rick Sanchez this week. "We know they were deported from the U.S. Most of them come from U.S. jails. They end up in the city of Juarez, and that’s a problem generated for us, but also for the United States."

Most deportees are simply Mexicans who crossed the border illegally, but some hardened criminals get involved with the gangs, which have networks in the United States, Reyes Ferriz said.

But according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. agency that oversees deportations, the number of criminal deportees entering Juarez from El Paso, Texas, is not high.

"El Paso had the fewest removals among the other border areas" in fiscal 2008, ICE spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa said.

About 85,400 "criminal aliens" were deported from the United States to their homelands in 2008, according to ICE.

Of those deported through El Paso, about 6,800 were criminal aliens, Zamarripa said. The term refers to noncitizens who have been convicted of a crime in the United States. Illegal immigrants whose only violation is entering illegally are not classified as criminal aliens, Zamarripa said.

Not all were Mexican, so not all left the United States by crossing into Juarez, she added.

By comparison, 11,400 criminal aliens were processed through San Antonio, Texas, via the nearby Laredo international bridges, and 11,000 criminal aliens were deported through San Diego, California.

The location of the deportation proceedings "depends on bed space and operational availability," Zamarripa said.

Reyes Ferriz wants deportees to be repatriated to the interior of Mexico instead of his city.

The Department of Homeland Security is running such a program, involving deportees from Phoenix, Arizona. The deportation flights from Arizona to Mexico are happening because it is a high-traffic area for illegal immigrants, and because that’s where the government of Mexico agreed to the program.

In a recent conversation, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the United States would work to give Juarez more details about who is being dropped off on its doorstep, Reyes Ferriz said.

The 2009 death toll in Juarez was 1,421 as of Monday, the mayor’s office said, on pace to beat last year’s 1,600 killings.

According to a report released last week by a Mexican watchdog group, Juarez, population 1.5 million, was the homicide capital of the world. It had an estimated rate of 130 killings per 100,000 people.

By comparison, the homicide rate in New Orleans, Louisiana, by far the deadliest city in the United States in 2008, was 64 homicides per 100,000 residents, based on preliminary FBI figures.

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Christian Whore Carrie Prejean

LOS ANGELES (CBS 5 / AP)

Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean sued pageant officials Monday for libel, slander and religious discrimination, accusing them of telling her to stop mentioning God even before her controversial remarks against gay marriage.

Prejean sued California pageant executive director Keith Lewis and actress and former Miss USA Shanna Moakler, who served as a co-director before resigning in protest of Prejean.

Prejean was fired in June by pageant officials who said she missed several scheduled appearances.

Her attorney, Chuck LiMandri, said that wasn’t true, and Prejean was ousted because of controversial remarks in April during the Miss USA pageant that marriage should be between a man and a woman.

She was named first runner-up, and many believe she lost her shot at the Miss USA crown because of her answer.

LiMandri said Prejean filed suit only after he sought detailed information on what events Prejean missed.

"I wanted to give them every opportunity to provide the basis for those claims," LiMandri said.

He said he found no proof that Prejean missed events. "There were no contract violations," he said.

The lawsuit claims Lewis and Moakler both told Prejean not to mention God on her Miss USA application or at public events at least two months before she gave her anti-gay marriage answer.

The suit also claims Moakler and Lewis improperly revealed that Miss California USA had paid for Prejean’s breast implants.

Moakler’s attorney, Mel Avanzando, said in a statement that Prejean’s lawsuit was without merit.

"More importantly, as everyone who watched or read her public statements is well aware, Ms. Prejean’s unfortunate and bigoted statements are responsible for any public humiliation or damages to her reputation that she has claimed to have suffered," Avanzando wrote. "Ms. Moakler strenuously denies that she did anything wrong and looks forward to proving that in a court of law."

Prejean is also suing publicist Roger Neal, who handles press for Miss California USA and Lewis.

Neal said he could not immediately comment on the lawsuit.

The lawsuit accuses Lewis, Moakler and Neal of using Internet sites such as Facebook and Twitter to post disparaging remarks about Prejean.

The lawsuit does not name Donald Trump, who owns Miss California USA’s parent organization and who in May refused to fire Prejean, a decision he reversed a month later.

The suit states Trump authorized Prejean’s appearance on the "Fox and Friends" show in May and a Shape magazine interview, both of which were sighted by Lewis as unauthorized public appearances by the beauty queen.

The complaint does not state a specific dollar figure that Prejean is seeking. It claims she has been subject to public ridicule and humiliation and lost out on modeling work because she lost her crown. She has also suffered anxiety, depression and loss of sleep since her firing, the lawsuit states.
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 Breitbart

 "They are spreading fear and they’re trying to see that the first president who looks like me — fails."

"People look at the United States as a country that has changed it’s way and elected someone from Kenya and Kansas, I’ll put it like that."

KABC’s Michael Linder was the only broadcast reporter at Thursday night’s town hall health care debate at Wade AME Church when Rep. Diane Watson [D] made some astonishing comments including claims that those opposed to health care reform are attempting to destroy a president “who looks like me.”

Later, Watson praised heath care in Fidel Castro’s Cuba — and, it seemed, the Cuban revolution itself.

The statements aired exclusively Thursday night on KABC’s The John Phillips Show.

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According to Watson, Obama is from Kenya and Guam is now the far east. While she’s probably correct about Obama being from Kenya, Guam is considered Asian-Pacific and not the far east.

Anti-U.S. military New York Times

WASHINGTON – The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has written a searing critique of government efforts at “strategic communication” with the Muslim world, saying that no amount of public relations will establish credibility if American behavior overseas is perceived as arrogant, uncaring or insulting.

The critique by the chairman, Adm. Mike Mullen, comes as the United States is widely believed to be losing ground in the war of ideas against extremist Islamist ideology. The issue is particularly relevant as the Obama administration orders fresh efforts to counter militant propaganda, part of its broader strategy to defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“To put it simply, we need to worry a lot less about how to communicate our actions and much more about what our actions communicate,” Admiral Mullen wrote in the critique, an essay to be published Friday by Joint Force Quarterly, an official military journal.

“I would argue that most strategic communication problems are not communication problems at all,” he wrote. “They are policy and execution problems. Each time we fail to live up to our values or don’t follow up on a promise, we look more and more like the arrogant Americans the enemy claims we are.”

While President Obama has sought to differentiate himself from his predecessor, George W. Bush, in the eyes of the Muslim world — including through a widely praised speech in Egypt on June 4 — the perception of America as an arrogant oppressor has not changed noticeably, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan, where United States forces remain engaged in war, and in Pakistan, where American-launched missiles aimed at militants from the Taliban and Al Qaeda have killed civilians.

Last week, during a visit to Pakistan by Richard C. Holbrooke, Mr. Obama’s special envoy, Pakistanis told his entourage that America was widely despised in their country because, they said, it was obsessed with finding and killing Osama bin Laden to avenge the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

American messages ‘lack credibility’
Admiral Mullen expressed concern over a trend to create entirely new government and military organizations to manage a broad public relations effort to counter anti-Americanism, which he said had allowed strategic communication to become a series of bureaucracies rather than a way to combat extremist ideology.

He also challenged a popular perception that Al Qaeda operates from primitive hide-outs and still wins the propaganda war against the United States. “The problem isn’t that we are bad at communicating or being outdone by men in caves,” Admiral Mullen wrote. “Most of them aren’t even in caves. The Taliban and Al Qaeda live largely among the people. They intimidate and control and communicate from within, not from the sidelines.”

American messages to counter extremist information campaigns “lack credibility, because we haven’t invested enough in building trust and relationships, and we haven’t always delivered on promises,” he wrote.

As a guide, Admiral Mullen cited American efforts at rebuilding Europe after World War II and then containing communism as examples of successes that did not depend on opinion polls or strategic communication plans. He cited more recent military relief missions after natural disasters as continuing that style of successful American efforts overseas.

“That’s the essence of good communication: having the right intent up front and letting our actions speak for themselves,” Admiral Mullen wrote. “We shouldn’t care if people don’t like us. That isn’t the goal. The goal is credibility. And we earn that over time.”

Members of Congress also have expressed concern about the government’s programs for strategic communication, public diplomacy and public affairs. Both the Senate and House Armed Services Committees have raised questions about the Pentagon’s programs for strategic communication — and about how money is spent on them.

The Senate Armed Services Committee issued a budget report last month noting that while “strategic communications and public diplomacy programs are important activities,” it was unclear whether these efforts were integrated within the Pentagon or across other departments and agencies. “Nor is the committee able to oversee adequately the funding for the multitude of programs,” the Senate report stated.

‘Certain arrogance’
Admiral Mullen did not single out specific government communications programs for criticism, but wrote that “there has been a certain arrogance to our ‘strat comm’ efforts.” He wrote that “good communications runs both ways.”

“It’s not about telling our story,” he stated. “We must also be better listeners.”

The Muslim community “is a subtle world we don’t fully — and don’t always attempt to — understand,” he wrote. “Only through a shared appreciation of the people’s culture, needs and hopes for the future can we hope ourselves to supplant the extremist narrative.”

He acknowledged that the term strategic communication was “probably here to stay,” but argued that it should be limited to describing “the process by which we integrate and coordinate” government communications programs.

Coinciding with the publication of his essay, Admiral Mullen released a YouTube video inviting questions from members of the armed services and the public on a range of national security and military personnel issues for an online discussion.

“The chairman intends to use social media to expand the two-way conversation with service members and the public,” said a statement announcing the interactive video question-and-answer session.

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We are concerned that goat fucking sons of whores label our military arrogant?

The only message we should be sending the Muslims is FEAR! Fear of the U.S. military–that we will hunt them down and kill em’ all. I mean all. Mothers, brothers, cousins, grandma, goats. Fear would cause the general populations that are harboring al Qaeda, Taliban, and their ilk to work with us. It has worked in the past and it would work again. This bullshit kinder gentler kumbahyah army is suicide for our soldiers and the U.S.  

Keep in mind it was the democrats who first labeled republicans who attended the Tea Party Rallies and Town Hall meetings as Right Wing Terrorists.

 SF Gate Politics Blog

Rep. Wally Herger, R-Chico, has put out an official statement standing by his now-famous YouTube moment — enshrining hearty kudos to a constituant who described himself as a "proud right-wing terrorist” at a Redding town hall meeting.So now comes the latest: Herger, whose reaction to the statement from Mr. Terrorist was: "Amen…a great American,” has become the latest fundraising poster boy for California Democratic Party.The party has sent around a letter with Herger’s YouTube moment, urging outraged Californians to pony up to Democratic causes and demand an apology.Herger, who hasn’t exactly been a high profile CA representative until now, upped his profile considerably last week when, at a recent town hall, he effusively praised the self-described "terrorist" guy –then appeared to go even further in an official statement, defending the man as "exercising his First Amendment rights."

But the California Democratic Party isn’t buying it: state party officials have begun using the much-watched YouTube scenario to raise cash. The letter from Shawnda Westly, executive director of the CA Dems, went out today and says: Many of us were outraged when we heard that Republican Rep. Wally Herger had publicly praised a self-described "proud right-wing terrorist" right here in California, but we had to make do with the account in the Mt. Shasta Herald.Now video of the event has surfaced, and seeing a sitting Congressman cheer on someone who described himself as a terrorist really sent a chill down my spine.Watch the video of Republican Rep. Wally Herger egging on a self-described right-wing terrorist — and then donate $25 or more today to help us put a stop to it.So is Rep. Herger’s YouTube moment a plus for the conservative grassroots and the Reps — or for the Dems? We report, you decide.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A new state law will require Illinois students in U.S. history courses to learn about the forced migration of millions to Mexico during the Great Depression.

The law was sponsored by Illinois Sen. William Delgado, a Chicago Democrat.

He says the U.S. government ordered the forced removal of nearly two million people to Mexico from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s to make more jobs available in the U.S.

But many of those deported were U.S. citizens.

Delgado says many never received apologies or public acknowledgment of their suffering.

The law, signed by Gov. Pat Quinn, requires all U.S. history classes for elementary and high schools to have a unit on the forced repatriations to Mexico.

The law is effective next year.

The bill is SB1557

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Marxists Obama and Delgado belonged to the anti-American New Party in Chicago in the mid-1990’s

FYI: Many of those U.S. citizens that were deported were actually anchor babies.