Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Katherine Rose Beaver, 75, of Westminster, died Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Katherine Rose Beaver, 75, of Westminster, died Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at home. Born August 9, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York, she was the daughter of the late Michael J. Gorman and Katherine Reilly Gorman. She was the wife of Joseph H. Beaver Jr. who died May 8, 2009.

She was a member of St. John Catholic Church in Westminster. She was a member of the Republican Womens Club, Maple Crest homemakers, Good Thyme Gals Garden Club. She was on the board at the Union Mills Homestead, Board Member and Treasurer of Junction, a member of the Historical Society and St. Joseph’s College in Emmittsburg class of 1957.

Surviving are daughters and sons-in law Michelle Beaver-Guttu and Bruce of Annapolis, Beth Wolfe and Steven of Hanover, P.A, sons and daughters-in-law Michael J. and Shannon Beaver of Westminster, Sean and Michele Beaver of Sykesville, brother and sister-in-law Michael and Kathleen Gorman of West Hartford, Conn., also surviving are 8 grandchildren, Arianna, Olivia, Logan, Megan, Ailish, Liam, Reagan, and Keira, numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

A mass of Christian burial will be held at 10:00 A.M on Tuesday, August 9, 2011, at the St. John Catholic Church, 43 Monroe St, Westminster with Monsignor Arthur Valenzano officiating. Interment will follow in Meadow Branch Cemetery.

The family will receive friends on Monday from 2-4 and 7-9 at the Fletcher Funeral Home, 254 E. Main Street, Westminster.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Carroll County Historical Society, 210 East Main St., Westminster, MD 21157 or St. Jude’s Children Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.

http://www.fletcherfuneralhome.net/obits/obituary.php?id=104089
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Huffington Post: 7 Sites You Should Be Wasting Time On Right Now

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

7 Sites You Should Be Wasting Time On Right Now

We know you're probably hitting that mid-week slump and looking for a site to make the afternoon a little more fun, so we've rounded up seven more time wasters to please even the most discerning of Internet palates.

So feel free to ignore any recruitment videos and the fact that Michele Bachmann exists for a few minutes this afternoon. We won't tell anyone.

	WATCH: Jon Stewart Mocks Obama's Non-Campaign Bus Tour
	13 Underappreciated Comedies
	WATCH: Kimmel Unveils The 'Tea Party Machine'
	QUIZ: Celebrity Baby Or Indie Band Name?
	WATCH: Wyatt Cenac Goes To Medieval Times

BLOG POSTS

	Greg Olear: 8 Reasons Why Stay-at-Home Dads Are Better Than Stay-at-Home Moms If necessity dictates that one half of the couple remain at the hearth to keep the proverbial home fires burning, there are some advantages to having that person be Dad.
	Katie Halper: Joe Walsh's Ex-Wife: Quit Lying
	Joe Peacock: Dear Cereal People: PLEASE FIX YOUR BAGS You reach into your cupboard and pull out some tasty, tasty cereal. It's a fresh box. And you know what a fresh box means... ANTICIPATION.
	Hina P. Ansari: The Godfather Chronicles: What if Michael Corleone Tweeted? While reliving all of The Godfather's plot twists and turns, a thought had occurred to me: what would the Corleone family players have tweeted? How would they have encapsulated their moments in 140 characters or less? And most importantly, would they have been retweet worthy?
	Martin Marks: This Is CNFMNSTV's Lightning Brunch "This is CNFMNSTV, the most reliable source for up-to-the-minute financial news from Wall Street and around the world, with far more letters than any other cable financial network, and hosted by our crackshot team of economists, gurus, and wizards -- literally."

Nonprofits face funding worries as federal grants drop

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Jay Carney vs. Jay Carney: Attacked Bush's 2001 'Heartland Tour,' Defends Obama's 2011 Midwest Job-Creation Tour

By Alex Fitzsimmons | August 11, 2011 | 13:19

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Kevin Dayhoff The Tentacle: Let them eat potatoes

August 17, 2011

Let them eat potatoes

Kevin E. Dayhoff

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4569

It was quite fascinating recently to read an article about urban foragers who are scavenging for food at abandoned homes. If it isn’t a manifestation of the chaotic behavior of the butterfly effect at the beginnings of economic chaos theory, it is missing a good chance...

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4569

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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Fitch keeps U.S. credit rating at highest level

Fitch Ratings says it will keep its rating on U.S. debt at the highest grade, AAA. It also says its outlook on the U.S. ratings is stable.

Fellow ratings agency Standard & Poor’s set off a tempest in the stock market last week after it downgraded part of the U.S. debt rating from the highest grade to the second-highest grade.

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Media Research Center: The Liberal Media Empire Strikes Back

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The Liberal Media Empire Strikes Back

During Month-Long Debt Talks, Liberal Media Savaged Tea Party Conservatives as Ignorant, Irrational, Irresponsible and Even Terrorists

By: Rich Noyes | View PDF Version

Monday, August 01, 2011 3:24 PM EDT

For the past month, as the debt talks slogged on in Washington, the so-called mainstream media unleashed increasingly hysterical attacks on the Tea Party and anti-tax hike conservatives — epitomizing the liberal elite’s supreme annoyance at the push to curb federal spending and contain the size of government.

The media’s disdainful language has ranged from the merely condescending (wondering whether the Tea Partiers in Congress actually knew how things worked, or referring to them as children), to outright hostile (likening the Tea Party to al Qaeda or other terrorist groups). Here are some of the choicer examples MRC has collected over the past 30 days:

Just a Bunch of Ignorant Boobs

“Do you think that Republicans – particularly those in the freshman class over in the House – understand just how serious this debt limit crisis is?...Do you think they understand what might happen if you can’t raise this debt limit here?”
— Bob Schieffer to Senator Jon Kyl on Face the Nation, July 24.

“The question, I think, some people might be asking is, do you think that members of the Tea Party caucus know how to govern, or are they — do they understand that standing up for a cause is not the same as governing?”
— Co-host Ann Curry to Tom Brokaw on NBC’s Today, August 1.

Tea Party = Irresponsible Children

“On one side are those kids in the back seat, Tea Party members of Congress and their stay-at-home blogging cheerleaders who either don’t understand or don’t care about the consequences of default — of the U.S. not meeting its obligations, of us looking like a joke. They’re willing to risk calamity, even embrace it, just to show how dedicated they are to not raising the debt ceiling. On the other side are Democrats and some Republicans who understand this is not a game.”
— Chris Matthews on Hardball, July 14.

“Some people say that the Republican Party has been held hostage by the Tea Party. One of our Facebook followers sent in an interesting analogy and said, ‘Why are Republicans allowing freshman congressmen to control this debate?’ and this person said, ‘It’s like letting the teenager in the family run the family budget.’ I mean, there’s some truth in that.”
— Moderator Bob Schieffer to GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell on Face the Nation, July 31.

Conservatives Are Unhinged Lunatics

“The Republican Party may no longer be a normal party. Over the past few years, it has been infected by a faction that is more of a psychological protest than a practical, governing alternative. The members of this movement do not accept the logic of compromise, no matter how sweet the terms....The members of this movement have no sense of moral decency....The members of this movement have no economic theory worthy of the name.”
— New York Times columnist David Brooks, July 5.

“You can hear the alarm going off, in this case the debt ceiling, which rational people agree needs to be raised, and yet every day there’s no deal.”
— Brian Williams on the July 26 NBC Nightly News.

Tea Party = Extremists

“Watching the extraordinary polarization in Washington today, many people have pointed the finger at the Tea Party. It’s ideologically extreme, refuses to compromise, and cares more about purity than problem solving. I happen to agree with much of that critique, but it doesn’t really answer the question, why has the Tea Party become so prominent? Why is it able to dominate Washington?”
— CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on his Fareed Zakaria GPS, July 24.

Howard Fineman: “What’s going on here, as I see it, is a kind of slow motion secession. This is an ending of the social compact. This is two, three generations worth of agreement about Social Security, about Medicare, about the role of the federal government. The Tea Party people are saying, we want to secede from that society....”
Chris Matthews: “You know what this sounds like? You know what this sounds like? When I spent two years in Southern Africa. It sounds like what the whites talked about doing. Eventually going into some sort of little circle, like Custer’s last stand against the United States.”
— MSNBC’s Hardball, July 25.

Stubborn and Difficult

“I think the frustration the President has, is ‘Look, I’ve come three-quarters the way to your position, and you’re not willing to give me that last 25 percent that I can use to say to Democrats there is something in this for you.’ So I think the intransigence of the Republicans is really beginning to wear on him and just strikes him as more and more unreasonable.”
— New York Times White House correspondent Mark Landler in a podcast for the paper’s “The Caucus” political blog posted July 15.

“A lot of folks are saying the current, you know, ‘My way or the highway, gotta have it all’ climate in Washington is really unworthy of the USA and makes us look like a banana republic.”
— CNN Newsroom anchor Brooke Baldwin, July 19.

“The Tea Party freshmen, upon whom all of this is being laid, really, who say compromise is a dirty word — are they complicating the picture?”
— Christiane Amanpour on ABC’s This Week, July 24.

Hostage-Takers and Terrorists

“The GOP has become the Wahhabis of American government, willing to risk bringing down the whole country in the service of their anti-tax ideology....These people are willing to go right into Armageddon, not face the warning signs. Go right off the cliff...”
— Chris Matthews on Hardball, July 5.

Salon’s Joan Walsh: “These people, the Tea Partiers and their friends and their enablers and their corporate friends like Dick Armey, they have created this shrieking on the right....This game of chicken, in particular, is deadly and it’s wrong and it’s hostage-taking. And you shouldn’t negotiate with hostage-takers.”
Host Chris Matthews: “I agree with you. I agree with you. I agree. It’s terrorism.”
— MSNBC’s Hardball, July 5.

Pat Buchanan: “They [conservatives] say, ‘This is the wrong way to go. We don’t believe in it. We’ve committed against it. We can’t do it, Mr. President, you’re asking us to break our word and do something we think is not going to work, and we’re not going to do it, sir.’”...
Co-host Mika Brzezinski: “So, I think the, what was the answer to my question that who the hostage taker is, Willie?”
MSNBC’s Willie Geist: “Sounds like Pat’s boys. Pat’s boys are holding the hostage.”
Newsweek editor-in-chief Tina Brown: “I think they’re the suicide bombers in all of this.”
— MSNBC’s Morning Joe, July 6.

“Wake up to the national security threat. Only it’s not coming from abroad, but from our own domestic extremists....The blunt truth is that the biggest threat to America’s national security this summer doesn’t come from China, Iran or any other foreign power. It comes from budget machinations, and budget maniacs, at home....So let’s remember not only the national security risks posed by Iran and Al Qaeda. Let’s also focus on the risks, however unintentional, from domestic zealots.”
— New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, July 24.

“If sane Republicans do not stand up to this Hezbollah faction in their midst, the Tea Party will take the GOP on a suicide mission.”
— New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, July 27.

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Washington Examiner Crime Reporter Gets Robbed - FishbowlDC

Washington Examiner Crime Reporter Gets Robbed

By Betsy Rothstein on August 16, 2011 3:59 PM

Scott McCabe, the Washington Examiner‘s longtime crime reporter, was robbed last night while lost in his own little online world. After his iPhone was taken on the Red Line last night, he chased the suspect down while unleashing a symphony of profanity....

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/washington-examiner-crime-reporter-gets-robbed_b47899

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