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Rick Santelli's Chicago Tea Party

Rick Santelli's Chicago Tea Party

Inflation bumps cost of Memorial Day weekend BBQ by 29%!

Posted: 28 May 2011 12:26 PM PDT

From: Dailymail.co.uk

One sausage or two?

You may be lucky to get half at this weekend’s Memorial Day cookout, which is set to cost 29 per cent more than last year, thanks to inflation.

Those thinking of hosting a BBQ – even a modest one – can expect to fork out an extra $45 on food to serve a dozen guests.

The total cost comes to $199, or around 29 per cent more than last year… and that’s before soda and alcohol, according to the latest data for metro New York.

Lettuce has sky-rocketed 28 per cent since last year’s traditional BBQ, while an ear of sweet corn is now 50 cents, up from 20 cents last year.

Those who don’t like tomatoes are in luck though: they’re up a staggering 86 per cent on last year.

Nationwide the story is the same.

To read more, visit:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1390822/Memorial-Day-cookout-cost-29-year-thanks-inflation.html

Utah To Follow Texas Lead In TSA Grope-down Revolt

Posted: 28 May 2011 12:22 PM PDT

By: Steve Watson, Prisonplanet.com

Utah looks likely to be the next state to follow the example set by Texas in attempting to make TSA grope downs a felony.

Rep. Carl Wimmer, R-Herriman has introduced a bill into the Utah House of Representatives that would ensure TSA agents would have to abide by the same Fourth Amendment limits that police do when performing searches on Americans.

"It is a work in progress," Wimmer told the Utah Daily Herald. "What it would do right now is simply say TSA agents are not exempt from the requirement of reasonable suspicion or probable cause to pat down a citizen."

Like the bill that was recently unanimously passed in the Texas House, Wimmer's legislation would make it an offense to touch the private parts of the person on the receiving end of the pat-down.

As we reported yesterday, the man who was instrumental in working with the federal government to sabotage the Texas bill was Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, a former CIA agent and establishment insider considered to be the wealthiest man in Texas politics.

The bill stalled in the Texas Senate, after the Department of Justice sent a letter threatening to impose a no fly zone over Texas and shut down Texas airports. The warning was nothing short of a federal blockade and an act of financial terrorism.

To read more, visit:  http://www.prisonplanet.com/utah-to-follow-texas-lead-in-tsa-grope-down-revolt.html

Iris Scanning: The Best Security Tool You Won’t Find at U.S. Airports

Posted: 28 May 2011 12:19 PM PDT

By John Brandon, FOXNews.com

The best security technology available that would give the TSA an alternative controversial body scanners is already in use worldwide — just not here in the U.S.

And it won’t be here any time soon, either.

Thanks to privacy concerns and infrastructure issues, iris scanners aren’t planned for the U.S., a DHS spokesman told FoxNews.com. Airports and security checkpoints could use the machines, which take an instant picture of the eyeball from a few feet away and compare it against an internal database, in the hunt for terror suspects or illegal immigrants. They’re not.

But nothing has stopped the United Arab Emirates, India and Jordan who already use the technology at airports and border crossings, and a major U.S. company will soon announce another major deployment elsewhere in the world.

"In UAE, we’ve scanned more than 40 million people from all nationalities and caught 600,000 trying to come back over the years by changing their name," Imad Malhas, the founder of manufacturer IrisGuard, told FoxNews.com.

India has already enrolled about 600 million people in an initial phase, said Joe O'Carroll, the vice president at the company, which has deployed its scanners in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

To read more, visit:  http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/28/iris-scanning-make-borders-secure/?test=faces

SC Gov Haley will let Amazon break become law

Posted: 28 May 2011 12:16 PM PDT

By JIM DAVENPORT and SEANNA ADCOX, Businessweek.com

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Friday the Senate took a step in the right direction with a compromise that appears to clear the way for Amazon.com Inc. to move forward with a $125 million distribution facility that will employ 2,000 in Lexington County.

The Senate approved a measure after midnight Friday that says the online retailer doesn’t have to collect sales taxes on purchases from South Carolina consumers.

In a compromise, however, Amazon would have to include a clause on the confirmation email for each purchase that the customer may owe the state sales tax. The email must provide a link to the Department of Revenue. The company must also send customers a yearly tally of their purchases, either by mail or email, and specify they could owe the sales tax on their income tax return. The information will not be sent to the revenue agency.

Haley said Friday that “doesn’t mean anything if they don’t send those copies of those letters to the Department of Revenue so that they can actually enforce it. That’s when we know there’s true competitiveness all across the board again.”

Haley has opposed the legislation, saying it gives Amazon an unfair advantage over brick-and-mortar retailers who collect sales taxes. She said again Friday that she won’t veto the measure, and will allow it to become law without her signature.

A little-known and seldom-followed South Carolina law requires consumers to pay sales taxes even if a merchant doesn’t collect them.

To read more, visit:  http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9NFTOAG0.htm

No pot permits on county land, prosecutor says

Posted: 28 May 2011 12:13 PM PDT

By -Associated Press, TheWashingontimes.com

PHOENIX (AP) — Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery is advising the Board of Supervisors not to grant permits for medical marijuana dispensaries on country-controlled land because of opposition from the federal government.

The Arizona Republic reports county officials indicated they would go along with Montgomery if he drafts a formal legal opinion, which Montgomery said he plans to do in about a week.

Voters last November approved the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act, which allows qualifying patients with certain debilitating medical conditions to use marijuana.

But marijuana is not a federally approved drug and U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke has warned that Arizonans will be violating federal law if they participate.

To read more, visit:  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/20/no-pot-permits-county-land-prosecutor-says/

Ron Paul takes second in New Hampshire

Posted: 28 May 2011 12:07 PM PDT

From: Thestatecolumn.com

Texas Rep. Ron Paul is performing well in the latest CNN poll of potential Republican primary voters.

Mr. Paul, who declared his candidacy for president last week, took second in a CNN/WMUR poll released by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, which shows former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney favored by 32 percent of likely Republican primary voters.

Mr. Paul took second with 9 percent support.

The CNN poll is the second poll in as many weeks to find support for a Paul candidacy. An earlier CNN poll showed Mr. Paul leading amongst Republican voters.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani tied for third place, with 6 percent each. Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, former Utah governor Jon Huntsman and Indiana governor Mitch Daniels each received 4 percent.

The Texas Republican, who ran successfully for president in 2008, continues to gain in name recognition. The Texas Republican has already traveled to a number of key primary states, including Nevada and New Hampshire, meeting with potential supporters and fundraisers.

Mr. Paul's candidacy likely benefited throughout the week as a number of potential Republican presidential candidates announced they would not seek the 2012 nomination. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and New York real estate mogul Donald Trump said last week they would not enter the race. Mr. Daniels said Saturday that he, too, will not run for president.

To read more, visit:  http://www.thestatecolumn.com/articles/rep-ron-paul-takes-second-in-new-hampshire-cnn-poll/

Rand Paul, Tea Party Ask: What About Privacy?

Posted: 28 May 2011 12:02 PM PDT

By LIZ HALLORAN, NPR.org

It’s been nearly a decade since Congress, in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, hastily approved the USA Patriot Act and its historic expansion of law enforcement and domestic intelligence-gathering powers.

For just as long, civil libertarians have been agitating for legislators to hold a full-blown debate on the sweeping measure, fast-tracked to President George W. Bush’s desk just four days after it was raised in Congress.

This week, the Senate failed again to have a robust back-and-forth on expiring provisions of the act that allow wide latitude in surveillance of Americans.

The pressure on the House and Senate, from the White House and others, was to extend the measures — not to question if they infringe too much on civil liberties.

But freshman Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican and Tea Party favorite, raised a ruckus with leaders of both parties over the lack of debate, and forced the issue into the spotlight briefly but potently.

Julian Sanchez of the libertarian Cato Institute has suggested, only half-jokingly, that it would take a “legislative boxing match” to get the press and the public interested in a policy debate over a byzantine intelligence law.

Paul, in taking on Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, and Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, also from Kentucky, provided that fight.

To read more, visit:  http://www.npr.org/2011/05/27/136722456/rand-paul-tea-party-ask-what-about-privacy?ps=cprs
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