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BREAKING: WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS AWARE OF INTERNET’S PHOTOSHOP SHENANIGANS
Hey Internet, remember when, just a few days ago, you SO BADLY wanted the White House to release the photos of Osama Bin Laden’s blood-stained, bullet-ridden corpse? Well guess what? As it turns out, the White House didn’t release the photos because it knows all too well exactly what you would have done with them.
President Barack Obama’s decision not to release photos of a dead Osama bin Laden was driven in part by fears that the images would be electronically altered and “misused” in a way that could drive anti-American anger, protests and attacks on U.S. personnel abroad, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.
“One of the things that I think concerns Secretary [of State Hillary] Clinton and I is the risk not only of the pictures themselves inflaming people who were bin Laden’s adherents and radical extremists, but we were also worried about the potential for manipulation of those photos and doing things with those photos that would be pretty outrageous in terms of provoking a reaction that might in fact put our troops at greater risk in both Iraq and Afghanistan,” Gates said during a town-hall-style meeting with Marines at Camp Lejeune, N.C.
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Cities Unaffected by a Bad Economy
The U.S. unemployment rate crept back up to 9% last week, but some cities are feeling the pain far worse than others.
Roughly 112 metro areas in the U.S. are still dealing with 10% unemployment or greater. That’s down from 166 at the same time last year, but tell that to folks in El Centro, Calif., where nearly one in every four people is unemployed. The Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario area in California is still dealing with nearly 14% unemployment, while the 13.3% unemployment in Las Vegas is not only driving up foreclosures, but driving down traffic to its McCarran airport. Passenger numbers fell off 2.6% last year.
On the other side of the recovery, more than 210 cities are below the average U.S. rate and 65 areas dipped below 7%. If you’ve got a sweet gig at the University of Nebraska or have a steady buyer for your grain or corn-based ethanol, count yourself among the lucky residents of Lincoln, Neb., who aren’t part of the city’s absurdly low 4.1% unemployment rate. That’s still up from 3% just two years ago, however, and is only a hair better than the 4.2% rate in Bismarck, N.D.
It takes more than just a low unemployment rate in a small town to show the world you’ve weathered years of recession-fueled financial woes. With help from the Census Department, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, TheStreet found U.S. cities that not only withstood the economic downturn, but seemingly ignored it:
By: Jason Notte
Friday, May 13, 2011
Family finds $45,000 in new home — then returns it
SALT LAKE CITY – When Josh Ferrin closed on his family’s first home, he never thought he’d make the discovery of a lifetime — then give it back.
Ferrin picked up the keys earlier this week and decided to check out the house in the Salt Lake City suburb of Bountiful. He was excited to finally have a place his family could call their own.
As he walked into the garage, a piece of cloth that clung to an attic door caught his eye. He opened the hatch and climbed up the ladder, then pulled out a metal box that looked like a World War II ammunition case.
“I freaked out, locked it my car, and called my wife to tell her she wouldn’t believe what I had found,” said Ferrin, who works as an artist for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City.
Then he found seven more boxes, all stuffed full with tightly wound rolls of cash bundled together with twine — more than $40,000.
By CHI-CHI ZHANG, The Associated Press – Thu May 19, 8:50 pm ET
‘Macho Man’ dies in Florida car crash
Randy “Macho Man” Savage, the professional wrestler known for his raspy voice, the sunglasses and bandanas he wore in the ring and the young woman named Miss Elizabeth who often accompanied him, died in a car crash Friday in Florida. He was 58.
A Florida Highway Patrol crash report said the former wrestler — whose legal name was Randy Mario Poffo — was driving a Jeep Wrangler when he lost control in Pinellas County around 9:25 a.m. The Jeep veered over the raised concrete median divider, crossed over the eastbound lanes and collided head-on with a tree.
Police said he may have suffered a “medical event” before the accident, but the report did not elaborate, and it said officials would need to perform an autopsy to know for sure.
The report said a woman in the vehicle, identified as Barbara Poffo, suffered minor injuries. A statement from Stamford, Conn.-based World Wrestling Entertainment said the passenger was the wrestler’s wife.
“Poffo will be greatly missed by WWE and his fans,” the statement said.
Savage was a charismatic wrestler made famous for his “Macho Man” nickname and his “Oooh Yeah!” catchphrase. He was a champion in Full Story Here
Soccer team uses bizarre misdirection play to score crazy goal
Misdirection has always played a role in the sports world. Like a play-action fake in football, the goal of using misdirection is to sell the opposition on one play, and then catch them off-guard by suddenly doing the exact opposite.
If you need a perfect example of how well it can work, look no further than a soccer game between Bryant (Arkansas) High School and Conway (Arkansas) High School, where Bryant used a form of misdirection on a set piece to score a bizarre goal.
