A majority of the children of illegal immigrants from Mexico in Los Angeles do not graduate from high school, according to the findings of a new study, the Los Angeles Times reports. Adults with parents who were legal immigrants averaged about 13 years of education, but those whose parents were illegal immigrants went to school
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Continue reading …Fox & Friends: Protesting Mom ‘More Disgusting Than Any of the Filth Down on Wall Street’
October 24, 2011 No Comment
Click here to view this media The Fox & Friends kids’ reaction to the Stacey Hessler story was the same sort of predictable nonsense you’d expect from people paid primarily to get outraged over the latest liberal/marxist attack on America. The weekend edition though just might be outdoing their weekday counterparts in hysteria. According to them, Hessler is (a) an unfit mother of four young kids for leaving them behind in Florida as she lives on the street in Manhattan; (b) who probably wasn’t ‘putting out’ for her banker husband anyway (hmm…oh, nevermind); and is now (c) shacked up with some young waiter from Brooklyn. BRIGGS: I want to reiterate what Ali mentioned, this 38 year old Hessler, mother of four says, “Military people leave their families all the time, so why should I feel bad? I’m fighting for a better world.” That is more disgusting than any of the filth down there on Wall Street. Equating what she’s doing with military service, Joe Biden would be embarrassed by that. MORRIS: Her husband also works for a bank. CAMEROTA: He’s a banker. He works at a bank. MORRIS: Why not just protest at home? CAMEROTA: Maybe she has… MORRIS: Yeah, maybe that’s been part of the problem. CAMEROTA: Her husband banker used to work at Bank of America and now works for a local bank in Florida. She’s clearly having a mid-life crisis of some sort to leave your kids. And she said that she doesn’t plan to go home. Actually she’s going to stay there for the duration. MORRIS: So good. A role model. BRIGGS: Mother of the year . Jonah Goldberg at The National Review used that as an epithet first. This “unfit mother” though seems awfully committed to her kids. From her Facebook Wall : I have a plea for my friends. I need your help and support. I want to stay occupying wall st. I feel my presence is very important in the support of non-violent communication and sanitation(keeping the park clean) I am willing to work tirelessly on these efforts. I need help with getting my kids to activities and stepping up with the things I help lead, such as one small village, jr roller derby, bee-attitudes, 4H, for his glory co-op. Please respond if you are willing to help my kids so I can stay here and help this movement. I have a train ticket for tomorrow that I want to change but I need to know I have support from my community back home for my family in order to change the ticket. Their fantasies run amuck they then turn to an Associated Press poll that they say says 56% of Americans don’t support the Occupy Wall Street protests. Except that poll says no such thing. It asks: OWS1. Do you consider yourself a supporter of the Wall Street protests, or are you not a supporter of the Wall Street protests? ….which is an entirely different question than asking if you agree or disagree with the goals of the movement, or if you oppose, as a recent Gallup survey asked. For comparisons’ sake, a recent Time poll had only 6% of the respondents saying they considered themselves members or followers of the Tea Party. But such is life in Foxland, where facts really don’t matter if you have another narrative to sell. Here is Stacey Hessler reacting to the NY Post article about her that sparked all this vileness.
Continue reading …Fox & Friends: Protesting Mom ‘More Disgusting Than Any of the Filth Down on Wall Street’
October 24, 2011 No Comment
Click here to view this media The Fox & Friends kids’ reaction to the Stacey Hessler story was the same sort of predictable nonsense you’d expect from people paid primarily to get outraged over the latest liberal/marxist attack on America. The weekend edition though just might be outdoing their weekday counterparts in hysteria. According to them, Hessler is (a) an unfit mother of four young kids for leaving them behind in Florida as she lives on the street in Manhattan; (b) who probably wasn’t ‘putting out’ for her banker husband anyway (hmm…oh, nevermind); and is now (c) shacked up with some young waiter from Brooklyn. BRIGGS: I want to reiterate what Ali mentioned, this 38 year old Hessler, mother of four says, “Military people leave their families all the time, so why should I feel bad? I’m fighting for a better world.” That is more disgusting than any of the filth down there on Wall Street. Equating what she’s doing with military service, Joe Biden would be embarrassed by that. MORRIS: Her husband also works for a bank. CAMEROTA: He’s a banker. He works at a bank. MORRIS: Why not just protest at home? CAMEROTA: Maybe she has… MORRIS: Yeah, maybe that’s been part of the problem. CAMEROTA: Her husband banker used to work at Bank of America and now works for a local bank in Florida. She’s clearly having a mid-life crisis of some sort to leave your kids. And she said that she doesn’t plan to go home. Actually she’s going to stay there for the duration. MORRIS: So good. A role model. BRIGGS: Mother of the year . Jonah Goldberg at The National Review used that as an epithet first. This “unfit mother” though seems awfully committed to her kids. From her Facebook Wall : I have a plea for my friends. I need your help and support. I want to stay occupying wall st. I feel my presence is very important in the support of non-violent communication and sanitation(keeping the park clean) I am willing to work tirelessly on these efforts. I need help with getting my kids to activities and stepping up with the things I help lead, such as one small village, jr roller derby, bee-attitudes, 4H, for his glory co-op. Please respond if you are willing to help my kids so I can stay here and help this movement. I have a train ticket for tomorrow that I want to change but I need to know I have support from my community back home for my family in order to change the ticket. Their fantasies run amuck they then turn to an Associated Press poll that they say says 56% of Americans don’t support the Occupy Wall Street protests. Except that poll says no such thing. It asks: OWS1. Do you consider yourself a supporter of the Wall Street protests, or are you not a supporter of the Wall Street protests? ….which is an entirely different question than asking if you agree or disagree with the goals of the movement, or if you oppose, as a recent Gallup survey asked. For comparisons’ sake, a recent Time poll had only 6% of the respondents saying they considered themselves members or followers of the Tea Party. But such is life in Foxland, where facts really don’t matter if you have another narrative to sell. Here is Stacey Hessler reacting to the NY Post article about her that sparked all this vileness.
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When my wife of almost 12 years moved out of our Tucson home in 2009 I was in bad shape. We had been together since high school. I was shocked when she left that she refused to take her wedding dress. After all, what was I going to do with it? And for some time I did nothing with it and didn’t tell anyone about it. I just left it on its perch in my closet as a reminder that my life was changing drastically. I was at my parents’ house for dinner one night when I first mentioned the dress to anybody. I told my parents and my brother and sister-in-law that I had my ex-wife’s wedding dress because I wanted to know what to do with it. I wanted advice. “You should wipe your @$% with it,” my brother Colin chimed in immediately. I believe someone else suggested it would make a good doormat. My divorce had taken a toll on all of us; everybody was upset that my ex-wife was leaving me. “I bet you could come up with 101 things to do with it,” my sister-in-law Jenny said. I wasn’t in a great mood that night. I was really struggling with my divorce and was extremely stressed about the future for my kids and I. But I couldn’t help but smirk at the thought of my ex-wife’s wedding dress sitting outside my front door — what a fancy doormat it would make. I started to imagine other absurd uses for the dress and before I knew it someone had grabbed a pen and some paper and we were writing them down. For a while all of our ideas made nothing more than a list. We had no real plan to do anything with them. My brother encouraged me to take the dress on a weekend fishing trip we had planned and it was on that trip that the dress came out if its pretty preservation box for the first time. That weekend we used it as a tablecloth, a sleeping bag, and a doormat outside of my buddy Andy’s camper. I had mixed feelings seeing the pristine dress get dirty for the first time, but we laughed a lot. We ate hamburgers and hot dogs and wiped our hands on it. We stepped on it entering and exiting the camper. Colin and I got together occasionally and photographed the dress at work in different ways. We had used the dress in around 50 different ways when I started thinking about how to go about sharing my pictures with other people. Colin and I were very entertained by the dress uses we had come up with, and two of my friends were also going through divorces at the time — in both cases, the wife wanted out. I thought my pictures could be helpful to guys who found themselves in the same situation. Some friends suggested that I started a blog and with the help of another friend I did just that. In May 2010, I launched www.myexwifesweddingdress.com. I knew little about blogs prior to starting my own, but I felt that pictures alone wouldn’t be enough. I never really intended to tell my divorce story, but as I made my first entry I began sharing my feelings about divorce, and its challenges. It wasn’t hard to type and it felt good. And that is how my website began. Every few days I would share a wedding dress application and continue the story of my divorce. I basically wrote what was on my mind, and maybe a particular issue I was challenged with that day. The pictures were funny, but the writing was serious. My site starting gaining traffic momentum a few days after it launched, and before I knew it, people were interested in helping me turn my project into something more. After about a year and half and many more dress photo shoots later, I completed the book 101 Uses For My Ex-Wife’s Wedding Dress, which is being published by NAL/Penguin and is officially available on October 25th. Between the book and my website, my ex-wife’s wedding dress has been used in over 120 different ways. This dress is amazing. It is very dirty at this point but it is still in mostly in one piece (the bow came off early during a jump-roping exercise). I am fond of many of the wedding dress applications but there are a few that stand out about the rest. These are my favorite wedding dress applications:
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When my wife of almost 12 years moved out of our Tucson home in 2009 I was in bad shape. We had been together since high school. I was shocked when she left that she refused to take her wedding dress. After all, what was I going to do with it? And for some time I did nothing with it and didn’t tell anyone about it. I just left it on its perch in my closet as a reminder that my life was changing drastically. I was at my parents’ house for dinner one night when I first mentioned the dress to anybody. I told my parents and my brother and sister-in-law that I had my ex-wife’s wedding dress because I wanted to know what to do with it. I wanted advice. “You should wipe your @$% with it,” my brother Colin chimed in immediately. I believe someone else suggested it would make a good doormat. My divorce had taken a toll on all of us; everybody was upset that my ex-wife was leaving me. “I bet you could come up with 101 things to do with it,” my sister-in-law Jenny said. I wasn’t in a great mood that night. I was really struggling with my divorce and was extremely stressed about the future for my kids and I. But I couldn’t help but smirk at the thought of my ex-wife’s wedding dress sitting outside my front door — what a fancy doormat it would make. I started to imagine other absurd uses for the dress and before I knew it someone had grabbed a pen and some paper and we were writing them down. For a while all of our ideas made nothing more than a list. We had no real plan to do anything with them. My brother encouraged me to take the dress on a weekend fishing trip we had planned and it was on that trip that the dress came out if its pretty preservation box for the first time. That weekend we used it as a tablecloth, a sleeping bag, and a doormat outside of my buddy Andy’s camper. I had mixed feelings seeing the pristine dress get dirty for the first time, but we laughed a lot. We ate hamburgers and hot dogs and wiped our hands on it. We stepped on it entering and exiting the camper. Colin and I got together occasionally and photographed the dress at work in different ways. We had used the dress in around 50 different ways when I started thinking about how to go about sharing my pictures with other people. Colin and I were very entertained by the dress uses we had come up with, and two of my friends were also going through divorces at the time — in both cases, the wife wanted out. I thought my pictures could be helpful to guys who found themselves in the same situation. Some friends suggested that I started a blog and with the help of another friend I did just that. In May 2010, I launched www.myexwifesweddingdress.com. I knew little about blogs prior to starting my own, but I felt that pictures alone wouldn’t be enough. I never really intended to tell my divorce story, but as I made my first entry I began sharing my feelings about divorce, and its challenges. It wasn’t hard to type and it felt good. And that is how my website began. Every few days I would share a wedding dress application and continue the story of my divorce. I basically wrote what was on my mind, and maybe a particular issue I was challenged with that day. The pictures were funny, but the writing was serious. My site starting gaining traffic momentum a few days after it launched, and before I knew it, people were interested in helping me turn my project into something more. After about a year and half and many more dress photo shoots later, I completed the book 101 Uses For My Ex-Wife’s Wedding Dress, which is being published by NAL/Penguin and is officially available on October 25th. Between the book and my website, my ex-wife’s wedding dress has been used in over 120 different ways. This dress is amazing. It is very dirty at this point but it is still in mostly in one piece (the bow came off early during a jump-roping exercise). I am fond of many of the wedding dress applications but there are a few that stand out about the rest. These are my favorite wedding dress applications:
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NBC foreign correspondent Richard Engel is my favorite frequent guest on “The Rachel Maddow Show” — who knows what he might say. Certainly not Maddow. Engel didn't disappoint in his last appearance on her program Oct. 20, subtly calling Maddow out for a conspicuous omission in her recounting of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi renouncing his weapons of mass destruction. (video after page break) Before Maddow spoke with Engel about Gaddahi's death earlier that day, she said this — The process that resulted in Gaddafi finally being allowed to come to New York and pitch both the idea of Isratine (a joint Israeli-Palestinian state) and a tent up at Trump's place (for Gaddafi's speech at the UN in September 2009) , that process started actually right after 9/11. Gaddafi was one of the first Arab leaders to denounce the 9/11 attacks. He shared intelligence with the US about al Qaeda. And then he made an agreement with the Bush administration to give up his weapons of mass destruction program. In return, what the US traded for all of that, was bringing Gaddafi essentially in from the cold. We pretended like Gaddafi wasn't a murderous rogue dictator and narcissistic freak show in exchange for a sort of alliance, a pretend relationship, a facade of an effort to treat Libya like a country, like a normal country with a normal president. At the end of her subsequent interview with Engel, he specifically asked to mention this “factoid” — ENGEL (pointing finger at her):
Continue reading …US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford was pulled from the country this weekend, after the Obama administration received “credible threats against his personal safety,” a State Department spokesman announced today, accusing Bashar Assad’s regime of waging an “incitement campaign” against the ambassador. “At this point we can’t say when he…
Continue reading …The latest satellite en route to Earth has made its landing—trouble is, no one knows quite where it ended up. An American astrophysicist says Germany’s ROSAT seems to have dropped over Southeast Asia after entering Earth’s atmosphere late Saturday night. Though two major Chinese cities were in its projected…
Continue reading …Amped Wireless gives your WiFi 1.5-mile range: never lose signal in the garden again
October 24, 2011 No Comment
Those of us stationed inside the Engadget compound are always wishing we had better WiFi signal at the outer reaches of the battlements. Thank heavens for Amped Wireless’ range of professional networking tools. With a 600mW amplifier and a high-gain bi-directional antenna, its SR600EX Pro Smart Repeater can expand the range of your internet transmissions by up to 1.5 miles. The device also has two extra network ports for other devices and is designed for large buildings, boats, RVs or, you know… massive gadget labs. On the other hand, the AP600EX Pro Access Point can sit on the end of a wired network and do the same job for building-to-building connections. Both devices come with a 30-foot power-over-ethernet cable and are available today for $180. Continue reading Amped Wireless gives your WiFi 1.5-mile range: never lose signal in the garden again Amped Wireless gives your WiFi 1.5-mile range: never lose signal in the garden again originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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