Was Michael Jackson’s Death a Homicide

According to Fox News, the LAPD may be considering it a homicide. There is not much information out there on whether Michael Jackson was murdered or whether his death was a accident. TMZ as well as other sites have been reporting that Michael Jackson’s death was an homicide. Many people have speculated that the doctor who prescribed the numerous drugs Jackson took as a prime suspect, but at this time there is not hard information.

According to Fox and TMZ, several doctors who treated Michael Jackson and prescribed drugs to the pop star legend have been suspended from practice by their home states. This story may get some new legs if all this turns out to be accurate. The autopsy results should be relating in a few days and we should get some more concrete information on exactly what caused the death of Michael Jackson

We will keep a close eye on this since if it was shown that Michael Jackson was murdered then this story is going to be long from over.

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Micheal Steele Speaks in Maryland

Michael Steele the Republican National chairmen is speaking in Maryland. Mr. Steele has commenting on the errors performed by the Obama administration over the first 100 days and laying out a strategy to revive the Republican party.

One thing Michael Steele is talking about is attacking the left with logic instead of bringing up stupid issues such as Nancy Pelosi’s remarks about the CIA. This is good advice and many people should take heed of this advice. The truth is I like some of the stuff President Obama is doing, but the price for most of his policies are too expensive and do not help enough people in the process.

In fact most of the people who are helped by these stimulus packages are not the middle class, they are not the poor, they are the fat cats on Wall Street and in the Automobile industry. The vast majority of the promises he has made he has no plan on implementing. For example he promised the elimination of the penalty for people who have lost their job to take money out of their retirement plans and 401Ks to help them through their crisis. This never happened and now he does not mention it any more.

The one thing Mr. Steele spoke about was the biases of the Media towards Obama, where the vast majority of the media totally supports Obama and will not report on instances such as campaign promises he made but will not keep. So most people do not know.

Now one thing I’m concerned about with the media is on the Internet. Most Republicans have not really embraced the power of the Internet for getting out a message. The left does understand this and its one of the reasons for the defeat the Republican’s experienced in the last election. The left has huge blogs. The Huffington Post is one of the most trafficked blogs in the World and no one can deny its not totally dedicated to promoting the left’s policies. Then you have the Daily Kos, which spews trash to its millions of subscribers.

On the right you have Fox News and Townhall.com, but most people think they have a natural bias to the left so they don’t listen to the arguments. And the truth is all both organizations do is to attack people and not really offer any decent ideas for methods to combat and solve the problems facing our country.

Then you have the countless blogs such as this one MyTownTalks.com which try to put forth decent conservative ideas and change minds, but we don’t have the reach as these bigger liberal blogs do. If Michael Steele really wanted to change the media, then he would push some resources to these smaller blogs who will never support Barak Obama for re-election. Blogs such as MyTownTalks and NoQuarterUSA. Both of these sites have the potential to take on the Huffington Post and the Daily Kos, if they just had some help. I’m not talking about money to expand although that would help, but I’m talking about help in the search engines and with new content. If links could be provided from major sources such as the RNC websites, Fox News, etc.. then we would have more authority and it would make the process of beating the large left sites for Search Engine placement would be possible. If we where provided unique content which we could re-publish then that would help with the amount of material available with the searches.

These things cost money which sites like mine do not have. I won’t speak for NoQuarterUSA, since I’m not sure of their specifics, but I will speak to this website. I write this site almost entirely by myself. I have recently been displaced from my job and at this time i don’t really have any prospects for a new one. I’ve decided I want to dedicate my time to building this site to a level that it can compete with sites such as the Huffington Post. I have built this site to a level that is rarely done by a single person. People want to hear what I have to say. I average over 20,000 page views every day. I’ve done this all by myself, but I doubt I can increase that to a level which will compete with those larger sites without help. Also considering that this site is my only source of income at the moment then I must ensure that it continues to earn a living for my family.

Regardless of my personal items, my point is if the RNC wants to compete with the Democrats in two years and when the next presidential election comes around then they have got to ensure they promote their message on the web. It takes time to build a prescience on the Internet and they need to start now by helping sites which will help them and by increasing the amount of reach which can be extended through the Internet. I can guarantee the Democrats are working towards this and if the RNC does not have decent placement then they will not be able to get their message to the masses. Its already been proven that the mainstream media is not going to accurately portray the conservative message.

Sarah Palin for vice President

Well John Mccain slapped the face of the Obama camp today when he chose the Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate. I’m fairly certain Barak Obama is regretting his failure to choose Hillary Clinton as the democratic Vice Presidential. I really expected John Mccain to choose a female for his running mate. Sarah Palin has been one of the potential running mate mentioned by the Mccain camp.

Personally this is probably a great move on the part of the Mccain camp and will probably help his position with women voters immensely.

Sarah Palin Bio

Sarah Louise Heath Palin (IPA: /?pe?l?n/; born February 11, 1964) is the governor of Alaska and the presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee for the 2008 United States presidential election.

Palin was elected governor in 2006 after defeating incumbent governor Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary and former Democratic governor Tony Knowles in the general election. She was the youngest person, and the first woman, to be elected governor of Alaska. She gained attention for publicizing ethical violations by state Republican Party leaders. Before becoming governor, Palin served two terms on the Wasilla, Alaska, City Council from 1992 to 1996, was elected and re-elected mayor of Wasilla for two three-year terms in 1996 and 1999. She also ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 2002. Palin holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from the University of Idaho.

On August 29, 2008, Republican presidential candidate John McCain chose Palin to serve as his running mate,making her the first female vice presidential candidate of the Republican Party and the second female vice presidential candidate representing a major political party. She will also be the first politician from Alaska to run on a national ticket for president or vice president.

Early life
Palin was born Sarah Louise Heath in Sandpoint, Idaho, the daughter of Sarah (née Sheeran), a school secretary, and Charles R. Heath, a science teacher and track coach.She has English, Irish, and German ancestry. Her family moved to Alaska when she was an infant. The Heaths were avid outdoors enthusiasts; Sarah and her father would sometimes wake at 3 a.m. to hunt moose before school, and the family regularly ran 5 km and 10 km races.

At Wasilla High School in Wasilla, Alaska, Palin was the head of the school Fellowship of Christian Athletes. She was the point guard and captain for the basketball team. She helped the team win the Alaska small-school championship in 1982, hitting a critical free throw in the last seconds, despite a stress fracture in her ankle.She earned the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" because of her intense play,[6] and was the leader of team prayer before games.

In 1984, Palin won the Miss Wasilla contest earlier, then finished second in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant,[7] which won her a scholarship to help pay her way through college.In the Wasilla pageant, she played the flute and also won Miss Congeniality.

Palin holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Idaho, where she also minored in political science.[10] She married Todd Palin, her boyfriend since high school, on August 29, 1988. She then briefly worked as a sports reporter for local Anchorage television stations while also working as a commercial fisherwoman with her husband.[6]

Pre-gubernatorial political experience
Location of Wasilla, AlaskaPalin served two terms on the Wasilla City Council from 1992 to 1996. In 1996, she challenged and defeated the incumbent mayor, criticizing wasteful spending and high taxes.[6] The ex-mayor and sheriff tried to organize a recall campaign, but failed.[6] Palin followed through on her campaign promises to reduce her own salary, and to reduce property taxes by 60%.[6] She ran for reelection against the former mayor in 1999, winning by an even larger margin. Palin was also elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors.

In 2002, Palin made an unsuccessful bid for Lieutenant Governor, coming in second to Loren Leman in a five-way race in the Republican primary. After Frank Murkowski resigned from his long-held U.S. Senate seat in mid-term to become governor, Palin interviewed to be his possible successor. Murkowski appointed his daughter, then-Alaska State Representative Lisa Murkowski.[6]

Governor Murkowski appointed Palin Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, where she served from 2003 to 2004 until resigning in protest over what she called the "lack of ethics" of fellow Alaskan Republican leaders, who ignored her whistleblowing complaints of legal violations and conflicts of interest.[14][6] After she resigned, she exposed the state Republican Party’s chairman, Randy Ruedrich, one of her fellow Oil & Gas commissioners, who was accused of doing work for the party on public time, and supplying a lobbyist with a sensitive e-mail.[15] Palin filed formal complaints against both Ruedrich and former Alaska Attorney General Gregg Renkes, who both resigned; Ruedrich paid a record $12,000 fine.

Governorship
Running on a clean-government campaign in 2006, Palin upset then-Governor Murkowski in the Republican gubernatorial primary. In August, she declared that education, public safety, and transportation would be three cornerstones of her administration. Despite the lack of support from party leaders and being outspent by her Democratic opponent, she won the general election in November, defeating former Governor Tony Knowles.

Palin visits a wounded soldier in Landstuhl, Germany, July 2007Palin became the first woman to be Alaska’s governor, and at 42, the youngest in Alaskan history. Palin was also the first Alaskan governor born after Alaska achieved U.S. statehood and the first not to be inaugurated in Juneau, instead choosing to hold her inauguration ceremony in Fairbanks. She took office on December 4, 2006.

Highlights of Governor Palin’s tenure include a successful push for an ethics bill, and also shelving pork-barrel projects supported by fellow Republicans. After federal funding for the Gravina Island Bridge project that had become a nationwide symbol of wasteful earmark spending was lost, Palin decided against filling the over $200 million gap with state money. "Alaska needs to be self-sufficient, she says, instead of relying heavily on ‘federal dollars,’ as the state does today."

She has challenged the state’s Republican leaders, helping to launch a campaign by Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell to unseat U.S. Congressman Don Young and publicly challenging Senator Ted Stevens to come clean about the federal investigation into his financial dealings.

Palin frequently had an approval rating above 90% in 2007.[19] A poll published by Hays Research on July 28, 2008 showed Palin’s approval rating at 80%, while another Ivan Moore poll showed it at 76%, a drop which the pollsters attributed to the controversial firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.

Energy policies
Palin has strongly promoted oil resource development in Alaska, but also helped pass a tax increase on oil company profits. Palin has announced plans to create a new sub-cabinet group of advisors, to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions within Alaska.

Shortly after taking office, Palin rescinded thirty-five appointments made by Murkowski in the last hours of his administration, including the that of his former chief of staff James "Jim" Clark to the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority.[24][25] Clark later pled guilty to conspiring with a defunct oil-field-services company to channel money into Frank Murkowski’s re-election campaign.

In March 2007, Palin presented the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) as the new legal vehicle for building a natural gas pipeline from the state’s North Slope. This negated a deal by the previous governor to grant the contract to a coalition including BP (her husband’s seasonal employer). Only one legislator, Representative Ralph Samuels, voted against the measure, and in June Palin signed it into law. On January 5, 2008, Palin announced that a Canadian company, TransCanada Corp., was the sole AGIA-compliant applicant. In August of 2008 Palin signed a bill into law giving the state of Alaska authority to award TransCanada Pipelines a license to build and operate the $26-billion-dollar pipeline to ship natural gas from the North Slope to the Lower 48, through Canada.

In response to high oil and gas prices, and in response to the resulting state government budget surplus, Palin proposed giving Alaskans $100-a-month energy debit cards. She also proposed providing grants to electrical utilities so that they would reduce customers’ rates.[34] She subsequently dropped the debit card proposal, and in its place she proposed to send Alaskans $1,200 directly and eliminate the gas tax.

Polar bears
In May 2008, Palin objected to the decision of Dirk Kempthorne, the Republican United States Secretary of the Interior, to list polar bears as an endangered species, at the time threatening a lawsuit to stop the listing. She has asserted that the administration believes listing them as an endangered species is premature and not the appropriate management tool for their welfare at this point in time.

Social issues
Palin in Kuwait, 2007Palin is pro-life, pro-contraception, and a prominent member of Feminists for Life. While running for Governor of Alaska, Palin supported the open debate of creationism alongside evolution in schools; however, she noted that "creationism doesn’t have to be part of the curriculum" and that she would not use "religion as a litmus test, or anybody’s personal opinion on evolution or creationism" as criteria for selection to the school board.

She opposes same-sex marriage, but she has stated that she has gay friends and is receptive to gay and lesbian concerns about discrimination. Palin complied with an Alaskan state Supreme Court order and signed an implementation of same-sex benefits into law under protest, stating that legal options to avoid doing so had run out. She supported a non-binding referendum on whether there should be a constitutional amendment on the matter.[44] Alaska was one of the first U.S. states to pass a constitutional ban on gay marriage, in 1998, along with Hawaii.[45] Palin has stated that she supported the 1998 constitutional amendment.

Palin’s first veto was used to block legislation that would have barred the state from granting benefits to the partners of gay state employees. In effect, her veto granted State of Alaska benefits to same-sex couples. The veto occurred after Palin consulted with Alaska’s attorney general on the constitutionality of the legislation.

Budget
In the first days of her administration, Palin followed through on a campaign promise to sell the Westwind II jet purchased (on a state government credit account) by the Murkowski administration. The state placed the jet for sale on eBay three times. In August 2007, the jet was sold for $2.1 million.

Shortly after becoming governor, Palin cancelled a contract for the construction of an 11-mile (18-kilometer) gravel road outside Juneau to a mine. This reversed a decision made in the closing days of the Murkowski Administration.

In June 2007, Palin signed into law a $6.6 billion operating budget—the largest in Alaska’s history. At the same time, she used her veto power to make the second-largest cuts of the construction budget in state history. The $237 million in cuts represented over 300 local projects, and reduced the construction budget to nearly $1.6 billion.

When on June 6, 2007, the Alaska Creamery Board recommended closing Matanuska Maid Dairy, an unprofitable state-owned business, Palin objected, citing concern for the impact on dairy farmers and the fact that the dairy had just received $600,000 in state money. When Palin found out that the Board of Agriculture and Conservation appoints Creamery Board members, she replaced the entire membership of the Board of Agriculture and Conservation. The new board, led by businesswoman Kristan Cole, reversed the decision to close the dairy, though it was eventually forced to close; the state attempted to sell the assets to pay off its debts but received no bids.

Public Safety Commissioner dismissal
Palin at Alaska Airmen’s Trade Show in Anchorage, Alaska (2008-05-10)On July 11, 2008, Palin dismissed Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan for not adequately filling state trooper vacancies, and because he "did not turn out to be a team player on budgeting issues." She instead offered him a position as executive director of the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, which he turned down. Her power to fire him is not in dispute, but Monegan alleged that his dismissal may have been an abuse of power tied to his reluctance to fire Palin’s former brother-in-law, Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten, who had been involved in a divorce and child custody battle with Palin’s sister, Molly McCann.[56] In 2006, before Palin was governor, Wooten was suspended for five days[57] for threatening to kill McCann’s (and Palin’s) father, tasering his 11-year-old stepson, drinking beer in his squad car, and violating game laws.

Palin said that her dismissal of Monegan was unrelated to the fact that he had not fired Wooten. Palin said that members of her staff had made contact with public safety officials regarding the trooper, though she said that her staff’s contacts with the commission were not directed by her and she had little knowledge of them.[58] She temporarily suspended without pay one staff member who was on tape mentioning her "family connection" with Wooten to Monegan’s staff. Palin replaced Monegan with Chuck Kopp, who had allegedly sexually harassed an employee.

In August 2008, the Alaska Legislature hired Steve Branchflower to investigate Palin and her staff for possible abuse of power surrounding the dismissal. Democratic State Senator Hollis French, who is overseeing the investigation, says that the Palin administration has been cooperating and that subpoenas are unnecessary.

Palin is the second U.S. woman to run on a major party ticket, after Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee of former vice-president Walter Mondale in 1984.

Family and personal life
Palin’s husband, Todd Palin, works for BP energy corporation at an oil field on Alaska’s North Slope and works as a fisherman in his hometown in the summers. Todd is a champion snowmobiler, winning the 2,000-mile (3,200 km) "Iron Dog" race four times.[6] Todd is one-eighth Yup’ik. The two eloped shortly after Palin graduated from college; when they learned they needed witnesses for the civil ceremony, they recruited two residents from the old-age home down the street.[6] The Palin family lives in Wasilla, about 40 miles (64 km) north of Anchorage.

On September 11, 2007, the Palins’ then eighteen-year-old son Track, eldest of five, joined the Army. He now serves in an infantry brigade and will be deployed to Iraq on September 11, 2008. She also has three daughters: Bristol, Willow and Piper.

On April 18, 2008, while in office as governor, Palin gave birth to her second son and fifth child, Trig Paxson Van Palin, who prenatal genetic testing showed would have Down syndrome. She returned to the office three days after giving birth. Her decision to have the baby was applauded by the pro-life community.

Details of Palin’s personal life have contributed to her political image. She hunts, eats moose hamburger, ice fishes, rides snowmobiles, and owns a float plane.[19][79] Palin holds a lifetime membership with the National Rifle Association. She admits that she used marijuana at a time when the state had legalized possession of small amounts (though possession was still illegal under federal law). She says that she did not like it. In December 2007, Palin posed for a photo spread in the fashion magazine Vogue.

 

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