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Cory Booker Bans Conan O’Brien From Newark
Conan O’Brien may think twice before insulting Newark, NJ again.
Last week on ‘The Tonight Show’,” O’Brien took a jab at the city, saying: “The Mayor of Newark, New Jersey wants to set up a citywide program to improve residents’ health. The health-care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark.”
Now, Newark Mayor Cory Booker has taken to YouTube to personally deliver his reaction to O’Brien: placing the funnyman on the Newark airport no-fly list.
In the video, a fired-up Booker defends his city, saying that Newark is “one of the fastest growing cities in the Northeast” and airs footage of Newark residents responding to O’Brien’s joke with shock and anger.
“Try JFK, buddy,” says Booker, after he “officially” puts O’Brien on the no-fly list at the tail-end of the minute-long YouTube address.
Lesson learned: Don’t mess with Jersey!
Matt Damon Comes Out For Bloomberg!
In some exciting election news, Hollywood star Matt Damon has endorsed Mike Bloomberg in his race for a third term as New York City Mayor – and quite the exciting endorsement it was:
Inline Skater Faces Charges Over Traffic Dispute With Tricycle
A Connecticut in-line skater faces assault and other charges after a confrontation over whether a 4-year-old on a tricycle had the right to be on a bike path.
Stamford police charged 43-year-old Chris Karamon with third-degree assault, risk of injury to a minor and other crimes.
Police said Karamon shouted and cursed at the boy’s parents on the path in Cove Island Park. Police said he later skated into the boy’s father, who was shielding his children, and threw a helmet and water bottle at him.
Police Lt. Sean Cooney said the path is for use by everyone, not just skaters.
Karamon declined to comment.
Jewish Grandmothers Nabbed For Dealing Heroin
Two grandmothers were arrested in Ashkelon, Israel for allegedly peddling large amounts of heroin to other drug dealers in the southern part of the country.
The arrests came a few hours after Ashkelon police detectives received intelligence on a 68-year-old woman said to be heavily involved in the heroin trade.
A subsequent police raid on her home uncovered 43 grams of heroin stashed in a shoe that had been placed in a cupboard – 100 times more than the amount of heroin defined by law as enough for personal use, a crime that carries a far less severe penalty.
During her interrogation, the suspect allegedly incriminated a second woman involved in the heroin network, leading officers to launch a second raid in Ashkelon to arrest a 63-year-old grandmother.
Both women have been accused by police of supplying hundreds of thousands of shekels worth of the drug to “drug stations” – apartments in which dealers divide up the goods and often add other chemicals to increase their street value – in Ashkelon and the surrounding areas.
“The 68-year-old suspect has no criminal background. She works as a cleaner, servicing private homes. She wanted to increase her income, since the funds from her pension were insufficient,” a Lachish Subdistrict Police source told The Jerusalem Post.
Police will attempt to gather evidence against dealers who purchased the drugs.
The elder of the two suspects “was not surprised” when officers showed up at her home, the source added, saying, “She expressed regret.”
Selling heroin carries a 20-year maximum jail penalty.
Saudi Arabia: Did They Or Didn’t They?
Saudi Arabia denied a report in Britain’s Sunday Express that said the Kingdom offered the Israel Air Force flight paths to attack Iranian nuclear facilities.
The Sunday Express reported this week that the Saudis had agreed to turn a blind eye and not interfere should Israel and the United States attack Iranian nuclear facilities via Saudi air space.
A senior Saudi official said that the report was baseless, adding that his country would demand that the newspaper print a retraction and apology.
The United States, France and United Kingdom demanded access last week to Iranian nuclear facilities after Iran revealed the existence of a second uranium enrichment plant in a letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Mother’s Naked Man Episode Finally Explained
Calling all Mother lovers! Season 4 of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ is now on DVD shelves, but before you buy, check out this exclusive commentary clip from the notorious ‘Naked Man’ episode.
Yeah, you remember him. He’s the guy who strips down spontaneously to save a bad date. It works two times out of three, he says.
In the clip, the producers chat about the inspiration behind the Naked Man (no, they did not make it up) and give pointers on what not to do if you’re considering trying it.
Poland Okays Mandatory Castration
Poland has approved a law making chemical castration mandatory for pedophiles in some cases, sparking criticism from human rights groups.
Under the law, sponsored by Poland’s center-right government, pedophiles convicted of raping children under the age of 15 years or a close relative would have to undergo chemical therapy on their release from prison.
“The purpose of this action is to improve the mental health of the convict, to lower his libido and thereby to reduce the risk of another crime being committed by the same person,” the government said in a statement.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said late last year he wanted obligatory castration for pedophiles, whom he branded ‘degenerates’. Tusk said he did not believe “one can use the term ‘human’ for such individuals, such creatures.”
“Therefore I don’t think protection of human rights should refer to these kind of events,” Tusk also said.
His remarks drew criticism from human rights groups but he never retracted them.
Military May Lift Ban On Women In Submarines
Top Pentagon officials are calling for an end to the U.S. military‘s historical ban on allowing women to serve in submarines.
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the top U.S. military officer, advocated the policy change in written congressional testimony distributed by his office to reporters.
“I believe we should continue to broaden opportunities for women. One policy I would like to see changed is the one barring (women’s) service aboard submarines,” Mullen said.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said he was “moving out aggressively on this.”
“I am very comfortable addressing integrating women into the submarine force,” Admiral Gary Roughead, chief of naval operations, said in a statement.
Women account for about 15 percent of the more than 336,000 members of the U.S. Navy and can serve on its surface ships. But critics have argued that submarines are different, pointing to cramped quarters where some crews share beds in shifts.
Nancy Duff Campbell, an advocate for expanding the role of women in the U.S. armed forces, said it would be easy to resolve problems associated with so-called “hot-bunking.”
“They say, ‘How could we have the women sleeping in the same area as men?’” said Campbell, co-president of the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC).
“But they already separate where the officers sleep from the enlisted, so it’s not like it can’t be done.”
Roughead said the problem of sorting out accommodations on the U.S. fleet of 71 submarines was not insurmountable.
Allowing women on submarines would be another step forward in expanding the role of women in the U.S. military. Last year, a woman was promoted to the rank of four-star general for the first time.
Women are still barred from traditional frontline combat roles in the U.S. military. But female soldiers often run the same risks as men in Iraq and Afghanistan, where bombings and other insurgent attacks can happen almost anywhere and target any U.S. unit.
Bin Laden Sports ‘I Love Guantanamo’ T-Shirt
Travelers on the metro in the Washington DC risk coming facing to face with Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, smiling and wearing an “I Love Guantanamo” T-shirt.
The irreverent billboard image of America’s number one enemy, just a short distance from the White House, is part of an activist campaign aimed at highlighting that Al-Qaeda uses the US detention center as a recruiting tool.
The metro billboard is “to remind policymakers that torture is illegal, unethical and a top recruiting tool for the terrorist leader Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network,” creators from the Avaaz activist group said.
Avaaz believes Guantanamo is a potent symbol for the “war on terror” torture excesses of former President George W. Bush and that Al-Qaeda plays on this fact to pull in new members.
Another poster presents former vice-president Dick Cheney, who has ardently defended the controversial interrogation techniques of the Bush-era, begging the question: “Could this be Al-Qaeda’s best recruiter?”
President Barack Obama, who has vowed to shut the camp by January, is shown in a third poster, looking pensive, alongside a slogan from his inauguration speech: “We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.”
The advertisement campaign aimed at shutting the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is being run at Farragut North metro station, one of the closest to the White House, and in the Washington Post daily newspaper.
Defense Secretary Rober Gates said that the complexities of trying to re-house the 223 inmates still at Guantanamo meant it was “going to be tough” to meet Obama’s January 22 deadline for the camp’s closure.
