The grocer said he received death threats after appearing in the 2009 movie and being discussed on “Late Show.”
Money just showed up in our account, say four on trial in Columbia swindle
A group of destitute swindlers on trial on charges of stealing $5.7 million from Columbia University claim they never took the money — it just miraculously showed up in their bank accounts. The quartet — George Castro, Jeremy Dieudonne, Joseph Pineras and Walter Stephens — went on trial Thursday in the brazen scheme, which rerouted millions meant for New York Presbyterian Hospital into their business bank account.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Tells Staff to ‘Keep Moving’
In her first memo, she also calls the company “an Internet icon” and thanks interim CEO Ross Levinsohn, but doesn’t discuss his future.
via Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-memo-13264?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thr%2Fnews+%28The+Hollywood+Reporter+-+Top+Stories%29
Ex-McKinsey & Co. director gets probation after pleading guilty to insider trading
A former financial consultant-turned-government witness was sentenced Thursday to two years of probation after prosecutors credited him with helping convict a pair of Wall Street titans on insider trading charges.
Anil Kumar had pleaded guilty in 2010 to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and other charges and agreed to cooperate…
via NY Post: Business http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/insider_mckinsey_trading_director_PruNyOSkuPg7TOxeNz63dM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Business
God Bless Bob Costas
America’s preeminent sportscaster, Bob Costas, who will once again be anchoring Olympic coverage for NBC, will protest the International Olympic Committee’s insensitive decision to not mark the 40th anniversary of the slaughter of Israel’s Olympic athletes with a moment of silence by having his own moment of silence:
At the July 27 Opening Ceremony from London, Costas plans to call out the IOC for denying Israel’s request for a moment of silence acknowledging the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Games. On the 40th anniversary of Munich, it’s a decision he finds “baffling.” When the Israeli delegation enters the 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium, Costas will stage his own protest: “I intend to note that the IOC denied the request,” he says, modulating his voice as if he were on the air. “Many people find that denial more than puzzling but insensitive. Here’s a minute of silence right now.”
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via National : The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/07/god-bless-bob-costas/260044/
The Only Known Recording of Sigmund Freud’s Voice
(Video Link)
The father of psychology spent the last year of his life in Britain. A BBC radio crew visited him at his home on Dec. 7, 1938. He was suffering from jaw cancer and uttering every word was agonizing. But he managed to make the following statement:
I started my professional activity as a neurologist trying to bring relief to my neurotic patients. Under the influence of an older friend and by my own efforts, I discovered some important new facts about the unconscious in psychic life, the role of instinctual urges, and so on. Out of these findings grew a new science, psychoanalysis, a part of psychology, and a new method of treatment of the neuroses. I had to pay heavily for this bit of good luck. People did not believe in my facts and thought my theories unsavory. Resistance was strong and unrelenting. In the end I succeeded in acquiring pupils and building up an International Psychoanalytic Association. But the struggle is not yet over.
Link -via American Digest
McCain calls accusations against Clinton aide ‘sinister’
Several House Republicans, including Representative Michele Bachmann, sent a letter to the State Department in June suggesting that a member of the Secretary of State’s staff had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Now other Republicans in Congress are criticizing this action.
via Christian Science Monitor | All Stories http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0719/McCain-calls-accusations-against-Clinton-aide-sinister
Republicans line up to rip Bachmann
There were long afraid to do it, but now the conservative knives are out for the GOP congresswoman.
via POLITICO Top Stories http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78741.html
Right-Wing Daily Caller Denounces GOP Anti-Muslim Sentiment
In an op-ed for the right-wing website Daily Caller, blogger Tom Rogan denounced Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) anti-Muslim witch-hunt and wider Islamophobic sentiment in the GOP ranks. Bachmann’s attack was “unjustified (based on a report written by a wacko), immoral and symptomatic of a casual and idiotic anti-Islamic sentiment that has crept into Republican dialogue.†he wrote. Describing a litany of Republican and conservative involvement in anti-Muslim activism — something others have avoided — Rogan added: “This casual, stupid and extreme anti-Islamic sentiment has no place in the Republican Party.†He lauds Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) repudiation of Bachmann’s attacks (House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and others distanced themselves, too). The “wacko†comment refers to the progenitor of GOP Islamophobia, Frank Gaffney.
via ThinkProgress http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/07/19/552811/daily-caller-denounces-gop-islamophobia/?mobile=nc
All of Glenn Beck’s Hard Questions for Michele Bachmann
I’m working out of Capitol Hill today, where Rep. Michele Bachmann’s start-fight-then-run-away strategy is a source of much amusement. Yesterday, you’ll recall, Sen. John McCain took the unusual step of criticizing Bachmann, in a floor speech, for peddling questions about the Muslim Brotherhood connections and security status of Hillary Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin. Bachmann replied with a letter. And that was… just about it. No bevy of interviews to explain her side of this. No hallway scrums with reporters.
Instead, as is becoming sort of a joke, she hot-footed it to Glenn Beck’s show. The news, I guess, is that she reiterated that Rep. Keith Ellison, R-Minn., “has a long record of being associated with CAIR and with the Muslim Brotherhood” and that “CAIR is an unindicted co‑conspirator, as stated in the large terrorist financing case that we’ve had in the United States of America and so he came out and essentially wanted to shut down the inspectors general from even looking into any of the questions that we were asking.” But I’m just as interested in Beck’s easy questions.
GLENN: Okay. So you write this, which is your job.
GLENN:Â Your duty to protect and defend the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
GLENN: There is no question in any sane person’s mind that the Muslim Brotherhood ‑‑ I mean, look at this ‑‑ look at this guy who ran and won the presidency in Egypt. He says, “Oh, I’m a moderate. I’m a moderate.â€Â As soon as he wins, it’s Sharia law, we’re going down, you know, death for Allah is our highest goal. It’s the all the same crap. So ‑‑
GLENN: Okay. So when you wrote this letter, then Keith Ellison comes out. And Keith Ellison is ‑‑ he has a record of being the Mafia hitman.
GLENN: There’s more to this story that I think is even more outrageous. Not only did they break their own laws, give this guy a special waiver, bring him into the White House. This is a guy who is a known ‑‑ part of a known terrorist organization. He then campaigns to have the blind sheikh released, but who pays for his airline ticket?
GLENN: No, of course not. Let me ‑‑ let me take you here because one of the more controversial things is you say Anthony Weiner’s wife will is ‑‑ has connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. Now, this is important because she works for Hillary Clinton.
GLENN: And it’s not an unreasonable thing to ask seeing that this president and this administration has ‑‑ didn’t know ‑‑ apparently didn’t know that Van Jones was the founding ‑‑ one of the founding members of a radical revolutionary, anti‑American, Communist organization, and he’s in the White House.
GLENN: So something is ‑‑ somebody’s dropping the ball some place, or somebody knows.
GLENN: Right. This has been ‑‑ I mean, your links and your footnotes ‑‑ and they’re down, by the way. I don’t know if you know that, Michele. But the Al‑Jazeera links that you put in and you said, here, go link ‑‑ go find the story on Al‑Jazeera. We can’t get to them this morning.
GLENN: Yeah, we’re going to have to get them because they’ve either been scrubbed or they’re being hammered, you know, by so much traffic which I highly doubt.
GLENN: Yeah. Let me just say this to you and then one more quick question. I just wrote a letter to the president of my company for The Blaze and he’s in charge of all content. He’s kind of our news, you know, our uber news director, if you will, he’s the president of content. And I just said we know the truth on this story. We’ve had this for a while. I do not want this company to sit down on this. So we are going to cover this and continue to cover this to make sure that people hear this story because, Michele, you guys are absolutely right and it is a matter of national survival.
GLENN: Let me ask you one quick question. John McCain and all of the elephant media are falling right in line with the Muslim Brotherhood. Bullcrap. What did John McCain do yesterday?
GLENN: But you’re not saying that she is compromised? You’re saying have we looked into this, right?
GLENN: I have to tell you, we’re at war. We’re at war with people in the Middle East, and her ‑‑ she’s compromised ‑‑ forget about the Muslim thing. She’s compromised or could have been compromised. Her husband was sending dirty photos of himself. I mean, you know, in a wartime, you would never put that person in a delicate situation because the family has already been compromised. But I digress.
I totally get that Bachmann, if she went on CNN, would have to field a bunch of leading questions that weren’t actually very studied. Is there no middle route, though? What’s the point of kicking up dust and then giving a small sample of the dust to a technician who already agrees with you?
Also, what are the odds that the House GOP gives her two more years in which to release sort of half-baked accusations with the heft of a “Member of the House Select Committee on Intellgence”?
via Slate Blogs http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/07/19/all_of_glenn_beck_s_hard_questions_for_michele_bachmann.html