The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is asking parents to immediately stop using a series of inflatable floats for babies in swimming pools, announcing a voluntary recall of about four million floats on Thursday.
The items — which inflate to seat babies and toddlers as they float on water — are manufactured by Massachussetts-based Aqua Leisure Industries. The company has voluntarily recalled 14 models because the legs straps in the seat of the float can tear, causing children to slip into the water and pose a drowning risk, the commission said in a statement.
Of course he was beyond weird, and I will always believe there was something to the accusations, but he was also clearly the greatest artist of his generation. I was a huge fan of him in the ’80s, at the Thriller period particularly.
Michael Jackson, the show-stopping singer whose best-selling albums — including ‘Off the Wall,’ ‘Thriller’ and ‘Bad’ — and electrifying stage presence made him one of the most popular artists of all time, died Thursday, CNN has confirmed.
He was 50.
He collapsed at his residence in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles, California, about noon Pacific time, suffering cardiac arrest, according to brother Randy Jackson. He died at UCLA Medical Center.”
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) is dead set on voting against Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination. In fact, he’s so certain of his position that he refuses to even meet with her.
Sotomayor has been meeting privately with Senators over the last few weeks, but when it was Inhofe’s turn, he declined.
The conservative Chicago Trubune reprinted, and Newsbusters links to a cartoon critical of FDR and his team from 1934. It is supposed to parallel – negatively – what is happening now under the Obama administration.
Things that happened in the decade or so after that cartoon was originally published:
* America defeated the Great Depression
* America and our allies defeated the Nazis
* America entered into one of the biggest economic booms in its entire history
* Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected three more times to the presidency
Why would America and a Democratic president want to repeat that feat? Please, Br’er Fox, don’t throw me in that thar briar patch.
These are things practically every American child knows. Conservatives would know it too if they cracked open a book.
The Washington Post publishes a thumbsucker today about possible negative consequences of spending hurting the 2010 election. Their big bit of evidence?
But there is evidence of growing public concern over his fiscal policies. As he traveled Thursday in Green Bay, Wis., Obama was greeted by demonstrators holding signs that said, ‘No socialism’ and ‘Taxed Enough Yet?’ “
So, the same marginalized Tea Party types who have been protesting since the day after the election. By this standard the Post must also be concerned about the fact that Obama might be revealed as the Muslim anti-christ before election day. Look, nobody knows what will happen on election day a year and a half from now, but this kind of concern trolling from the MSM is lame.
That’s Rush Limbaugh’s new phrase for what he used to call the “drive by media”. Look for his right-wing lemmings to start repeating it, like they do every other phrase from the party boss.
The AP’s Christina Hoag reports that Brenda Lee, a reporter for the Georgia Informer, was dragged kicking and screaming from the press area near Air Force One at Los Angeles International airport (LAX) Thursday morning.
“Airport security officers carried the woman away by the feet and arms as she protested her removal,” Hoag writes.
Great, we all know nothing bad happens when the CIA has a turf war?
The jockeying between CIA Director Leon Panetta and National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair centers on Blair’s effort to choose his own representatives at U.S. embassies instead of relying only on CIA station chiefs. Current and former U.S. officials described the dispute on the condition of anonymity, because of the sensitivity of intelligence issues.
When history looks back at our current times, I get the feeling that we may no longer consider the signing of the Civil Rights Act as the end marker for racial progress in America but rather as the midpoint in the movement. Yesterday the first black president announced a nominee to be the first Hispanic justice. This is not the America I was born in, but a changed one.
Especially Luis Reyes, 49, a Salvadoran-born businessman who arrived almost penniless three decades ago and now lives in spacious house in upper Northwest Washington. He said he yelled for his 11-year-old daughter as soon as he heard the news anchor start to announce Obama’s decision on his living-room television set. “I told her, ‘Come! Come! You have to come see this! This is a historic occasion that should inspire you,’ ” he said. “When I first got to this country, this would have been unthinkable.”
I saw a little kid no more than 4 or 5 on the train yesterday and thought to myself he’ll grow up in a world where the highest, most important jobs in the country actually reflect the makeup of the world he lives in and it will be the norm.
CBS 2 HD has learned that former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington on charges of making false statements to White House officials during his vetting for the position of Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The new indictment was handed up Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Washington, and means Kerik will face trials in New York and Washington, D.C.
Nice story in the NY Times about letters she kept from G.I.’s in WWII. As a lifelong fan of It’s A Wonderful Life, the girl next door appeal of Ms. Reed is quite clear.
The conservative Chicago Trubune reprinted, and Newsbusters 
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