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        <title>Mc Cains&#039;s Klan Rally.........</title>
        <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/timec/34954</link>
        <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/06/mccain-does-nothing-as-cr_n_132366.html&quot;&gt;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/06/mccain-does-nothing-as-cr_n_132366.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/06/in_fla_palin_goes_for_the_roug.html&quot;&gt;http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/06/in_fla_palin_goes_for_the_roug.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Okay, so Florida, you know that you&#039;re going to have to hang onto your hats,&amp;quot; Sarah Palin told a rally of a few thousand here this morning, &amp;quot;because from now until Election Day it may get kind of rough.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You betcha. And the person dishing out the roughest stuff at the moment is Sarah Palin.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I was reading my copy of the New York Times the other day,&amp;quot; she said.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Booooo!&amp;quot; replied the crowd.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I knew you guys would react that way, okay,&amp;quot; she continued. &amp;quot;So I was reading the New York Times and I was really interested to read about Barack&#039;s friends from Chicago.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It was time to revive the allegation, made over the weekend, that Obama &amp;quot;pals around&amp;quot; with terrorists, in this case Bill Ayers, late of the Weather Underground. Many independent observers say Palin&#039;s allegations are a stretch; Obama served on a Chicago charitable board with Ayers, now an education professor, and has condemned his past activities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers,&amp;quot; Palin said.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Boooo!&amp;quot; said the crowd.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, &#039;launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,&#039;&amp;quot; she continued.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Boooo!&amp;quot; the crowd repeated.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Kill him!&amp;quot; proposed one man in the audience.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Palin went on to say that &amp;quot;Obama held one of the first meetings of his political career in Bill Ayers&#039;s living room, and they&#039;ve worked together on various projects in Chicago.&amp;quot; Here, Palin began to connect the dots. &amp;quot;These are the same guys who think that patriotism is paying higher taxes -- remember that&#039;s what Joe Biden had said. &amp;quot;And&amp;quot; -- she paused and sighed -- &amp;quot;I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America, as the greatest force for good in the world. I&#039;m afraid this is someone who sees America as &#039;imperfect enough&#039; to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Boooo!&amp;quot; said the audience.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0000ff&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Comic Sans MS&quot;&gt;Kill him!&amp;quot; proposed one man in the audience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Comic Sans MS&quot;&gt;Mc Cain - Palin&amp;nbsp;incite hate riot!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Comic Sans MS&quot;&gt;Mc&amp;nbsp;Cains new strategy: Let America know Obama is&amp;nbsp;black!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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        <title>McCain also calls for postponing Friday&#039;s presidential debate</title>
        <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/timec/34221</link>
        <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/24/campaign.wrap/index.html&quot;&gt;http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/24/campaign.wrap/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>  

              
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        <title>Cindy McCain&#039;s $300,000 Outfit</title>
        <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/timec/33785</link>
        <description>&lt;p&gt;One of the persistent memes in the Republican line of attack against Barack Obama is the notion that he is an elitist, whereas the G.O.P. represent real working Americans like Levi &amp;ldquo;F-in&amp;rsquo; Redneck&amp;rdquo; Johnston.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It caught our attention, then, when First Lady Laura Bush and would-be First Lady Cindy McCain took the stage Tuesday night wearing some rather fancy designer clothes. So we asked our fashion department to price out their outfits.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Laura Bush&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;Oscar de la Renta suit:&lt;/i&gt; $2,500&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;Stuart Weitzman heels:&lt;/i&gt; $325&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;Pearl stud earrings:&lt;/i&gt; $600&amp;ndash;$1,500&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Total:&lt;/i&gt; Between $3,425 and $4,325&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cindy McCain&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;Oscar de la Renta dress:&lt;/i&gt; $3,000&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;Chanel J12 White Ceramic Watch:&lt;/i&gt; $4,500&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;Three-carat diamond earrings:&lt;/i&gt; $280,000&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;Four-strand pearl necklace:&lt;/i&gt; $11,000&amp;ndash;$25,000&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt;Shoes, designer unknown:&lt;/i&gt; $600&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Total:&lt;/i&gt; Between $299,100 and $313,100&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wow! No wonder McCain has so many houses: his wife has the price of a Scottsdale split-level hanging from her ears.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/09/cindy-mccains-300000-outfit.html&quot;&gt;http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/09/cindy-mccains-300000-outfit.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>  

              
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        <title>PALIN THE PUPPET </title>
        <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/timec/33033</link>
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&lt;p&gt;ST. PAUL, Minn. - &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_0&quot;&gt;Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin&lt;/span&gt; and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_1&quot;&gt;Barack Obama&lt;/span&gt; and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;lrec&quot;&gt;&lt;noscript&gt;&lt;/noscript&gt;Some examples:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PALIN: &amp;quot;I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress &#039;thanks but no thanks&#039; for that Bridge to Nowhere.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_2&quot;&gt;Alaska&lt;/span&gt; has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_3&quot;&gt;Ketchikan&lt;/span&gt; to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a &amp;quot;bridge to nowhere.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PALIN: &amp;quot;There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it&#039;s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform &amp;mdash; not even in the &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_4&quot;&gt;state senate&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_5&quot;&gt;weapons of mass destruction&lt;/span&gt; and to help destroy &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_6&quot;&gt;conventional weapons&lt;/span&gt; stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_7&quot;&gt;Republican Sen. Richard Lugar&lt;/span&gt; of Indiana, a respected &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_8&quot;&gt;foreign policy voice&lt;/span&gt; in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_9&quot;&gt;racial profiling&lt;/span&gt; by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_10&quot;&gt;death penalty cases&lt;/span&gt;. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PALIN: &amp;quot;The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_11&quot;&gt;payroll taxes&lt;/span&gt;, raise &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_12&quot;&gt;investment income taxes&lt;/span&gt;, raise the &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_13&quot;&gt;death tax&lt;/span&gt;, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_14&quot;&gt;American people&lt;/span&gt; by hundreds of billions of dollars.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE FACTS: The &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_15&quot;&gt;Tax Policy Center&lt;/span&gt;, a think tank run jointly by the &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_16&quot;&gt;Brookings Institution&lt;/span&gt; and the &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_17&quot;&gt;Urban Institute&lt;/span&gt;, concluded that Obama&#039;s plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain&#039;s plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_18&quot;&gt;corporate taxes&lt;/span&gt;. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MCCAIN: &amp;quot;She&#039;s been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America&#039;s energy supply ... She&#039;s responsible for 20 percent of the nation&#039;s energy supply. I&#039;m entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_19&quot;&gt;political campaign&lt;/span&gt; is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America,&amp;quot; he said in an interview with ABC News&#039; Charles Gibson.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE FACTS: McCain&#039;s phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she&#039;s no more &amp;quot;responsible&amp;quot; for that resource than &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_20&quot;&gt;President Bush&lt;/span&gt; was when he was &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_21&quot;&gt;governor of Texas&lt;/span&gt;, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_22&quot;&gt;Alaska Legislature&lt;/span&gt;. And where &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_23&quot;&gt;Alaska&lt;/span&gt; is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state &amp;mdash; by population.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MCCAIN: &amp;quot;She&#039;s the commander of the &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_24&quot;&gt;Alaska National Guard&lt;/span&gt;. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,&amp;quot; he said on ABC.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_25&quot;&gt;Afghanistan&lt;/span&gt;, for example, they assume those duties under &amp;quot;federal status,&amp;quot; which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_26&quot;&gt;Alaska&#039;s national guard units&lt;/span&gt; have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FORMER &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_27&quot;&gt;ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE&lt;/span&gt;: Palin &amp;quot;got more votes running for mayor of &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_28&quot;&gt;Wasilla, Alaska&lt;/span&gt; than &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_29&quot;&gt;Joe Biden&lt;/span&gt; got running for president of the United States.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor&#039;s election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_30&quot;&gt;Iowa caucuses&lt;/span&gt;, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_31&quot;&gt;2008 presidential primaries&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;FORMER &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_32&quot;&gt;MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY&lt;/span&gt;: &amp;quot;We need change, all right &amp;mdash; change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington &amp;mdash; throw out the big-government liberals, and elect &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_33&quot;&gt;John McCain&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_34&quot;&gt;Sarah Palin&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. &lt;span class=&quot;yshortcuts&quot; id=&quot;lw_1220549197_35&quot;&gt;George W. Bush&lt;/span&gt;, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  

              
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        <title>Hot mic catches GOP strategists trashing Palin pick</title>
        <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/timec/32989</link>
        <description>&lt;p&gt;Prominent Republican analysts Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy became the latest victims of an open microphone Wednesday, caught after a segment on MSNBC trashing John McCain&#039;s pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Noonan, a Wall Street Journal columnist and former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, and Murphy, a campaign strategist and onetime aide to John McCain, can both be heard expressing disbelief with the pick of Palin after they apparently thought they were in a commercial break.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;I come out of the blue swing-state governor world, Engler, Whitman, Thompson, Mitt Romney,&amp;rdquo; Murphy said during the mishap which has since been &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrG8w4bb3kg&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#004276&quot;&gt;posted on YouTube. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Murphy later flatly says of the pick, &amp;quot;It&#039;s not going to work.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Noonan is heard going even further, saying of the presidential race, &amp;quot;It&#039;s over.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I think they went for this &amp;mdash; excuse me&amp;ndash; political bulls&amp;ndash;t about narratives,&amp;quot; Noonan also said. &amp;quot;Every time the Republicans do that, because that&#039;s not where they live and it&#039;s not what they&#039;re good at, they blow it.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Murphy, who was a senior adviser to John McCain&#039;s 2000 presidential bid, also adds, &amp;quot;You know what&#039;s really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;</description>  

              
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        <title>Hillary Clinton.....I am speechless.....Brilliant!</title>
        <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/timec/32539</link>
        <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small&quot;&gt;Her speech brought me to tears....What did the rest of you think?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;textBodyBlack&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #ff0000&quot;&gt;To my supporters, my champions &amp;mdash; my sisterhood of the traveling pantsuits &amp;mdash; from the bottom of my heart: Thank you. Thank you,&amp;rdquo; she said. &amp;ldquo;You never gave in. You never gave up. And together we made history.&amp;rdquo; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;textBodyBlack&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #ff0000&quot;&gt;But she told those supporters that it was time to take all of their energy and enthusiasm and channel it into electing Obama. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;textBodyBlack&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #ff0000&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;My friends, it is time to take back the country we love,&amp;rdquo; she said. &amp;ldquo;Whether you voted for me or voted for Barack, the time is now to unite as a single party with a single purpose. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;textBodyBlack&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #ff0000&quot;&gt;&amp;ldquo;We are on the same team, and none of us can sit on the sidelines,&amp;rdquo; she added. &amp;ldquo;This is a fight for the future. And it&amp;rsquo;s a fight we must win.&amp;rdquo; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;textBodyBlack&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #ff0000&quot;&gt;The McCain campaign responded immediately, saying in a statement that &amp;ldquo;nowhere tonight did [Clinton] say that Barack Obama is ready to lead. Millions of Hillary Clinton supporters and millions of Americans remain concerned about whether Barack Obama is ready to be president.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>  

              
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        <title>Man held for Obama assassination threat</title>
        <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/timec/31540</link>
        <description>&lt;p&gt;A man is being held in Florida on charges he threatened to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, according to court documents.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;An affidavit filed by a Secret Service agent in U.S. District Court claims that Raymond Hunter Geisel, of Marathon, Florida, threatened to &amp;quot;kill, kidnap and cause bodily harm upon a major candidate for president of the United States, that is, Senator Barack Obama.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The affidavit says Geisel made the threats while attending a bail bondsman training class in Miami.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;During an interview with the Secret Service, Geisel denied threatening Obama, but told agents that &amp;quot;if he wanted to kill Senator Obama he would simply shoot him with a sniper rifle.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He later said that comment was a joke, the agent said in the document.&lt;/p&gt;</description>  

              
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        <title>Caylee..Dead or Alive...How can a mom murder her baby girl?</title>
        <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/timec/31391</link>
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&lt;p&gt;Prosecutors said Tuesday that the case of a missing 2-year-old is beginning to look like a homicide, and her mother is a person of interest.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #ff00ff&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma&quot;&gt;Two-year-old Caylee Anthony, shown here in this undated photo, went missing a month ago. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #ff00ff&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma&quot;&gt;He said he set the amount extraordinarily high because he was worried about evidence of human decomposition allegedly found in Anthony&#039;s yard and car. Her daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony, has been missing since mid-June.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #ff00ff&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Not a bit of useful information has been provided by Ms. Anthony as to the whereabouts of her daughter,&amp;quot; Strickland said in ordering the bail. &amp;quot;And I would add that the truth and Ms. Anthony are strangers.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #ff00ff&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma&quot;&gt;Anthony is charged only with child neglect, making false official statements and obstructing a criminal investigation. Authorities say she did not report the girl missing until last week.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #ff00ff&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma&quot;&gt;Sheriff&#039;s deputies said her car smelled of decomposition, and a cadaver-trained German Shepherd noted a smell of human remains in the car and her yard. They said they found a stain, dirt and what seemed to be piece of Caylee&#039;s hair in Anthony&#039;s trunk.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #ff00ff&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma&quot;&gt;Defense attorney Jose Baez requested bond around $10,000. He said Anthony&#039;s family can&#039;t pay a high bond and she has the right be free while facing only low-level charges.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #ff00ff&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;This is not a capital case, and if it were they certainly would file it, if they had evidence to,&amp;quot; Baez said. &amp;quot;There is circumstantial evidence of a possible homicide, I will give them that. But circumstantial evidence has not made them confident enough to charge her with any specific homicide or kidnapping, or any capital offense.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p _extended=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #ff00ff&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Tahoma&quot;&gt;Anthony&#039;s parents became concerned after her car was towed from a check-cashing business where it had been parked for days. She and the child lived with her parents, and she told them she worked as an event planner at an area theme park.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&quot;cnnEmbeddedMosLnk&quot; _extended=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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        <title>CHILD MOLESTER RELEASED..WHY DID HE ONLY RECEIVE 3 YEARS!</title>
        <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/timec/31115</link>
        <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;JERRY CURTIS WILLIAMS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt; AKA THE RAPIST WAS RELEASED FROM PRISON YESTERDAY...HE ONLY RECEIVED 3 YEARS FOR RAPING LITTLE GIRLS......HE IS A GANG MEMBER AND A RAPIST. THE GIRLS HE RAPED HAVE MAJOR ISSUES. THEY ARE SCARED. THEY THOUGHT HE WOULD BE LOOKED UP FOR A VERY LONG TIME...BUT OH NO...THEY RECEIVED A CALL FROM THE KERN COUNTY DA SAYING HE WOULD BE RELEASED YESTERDAY.....SO KERN COUNTY THIS MAN SERVED 2 YEARS FOR MOLESTING LITTLE GIRLS...AND THESE BABIES WILL BE DAMAGED FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES......WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? I KNOW PEOPLE THAT HAVE RECEIVED 6 YEARS FOR STEALING ...AND THIS PUNK SERVES 2 YEARS....HE IS NOT ON MEAGAN&#039;S LAW, YET...PAROLE DOES NOT HAVE HIM IN THEIR SYSTEM...WHERE IS HE? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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        <title>CHEATERS: Why Do Men Cheat?</title>
        <link>http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/timec/31028</link>
        <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Comic Sans MS&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small&quot;&gt;My husband and I hang out with 5 other married couples on a&amp;nbsp;regular basis. The females are very good to their husbands in my opinion......the men all cheat. I don&#039;t understand. They all have been together for a very long time. They all own homes, have children, and have excellent jobs. The women in these relationships have no clue. The men do not hide their infidelity from me because they know that I would not ever tell ...... I truly feel it is none of my business. I was always taught that&amp;nbsp;whatever is done in the dark will come to the light. I have been married for many years&amp;nbsp; and my husband is a very&amp;nbsp;faithful man...I think..lol.&amp;nbsp;There are so many diseases out their. Cheating is not only morally wrong but&amp;nbsp;they are putting&amp;nbsp;their entire family at risk. I don&#039;t understand it. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Comic Sans MS&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small&quot;&gt;Is it for the&amp;nbsp;sex?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Comic Sans MS&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small&quot;&gt;Is it for&amp;nbsp;the thrill?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Comic Sans MS&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small&quot;&gt;Why would you cheat on a woman that loves you and has been there through thick and thin? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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