John Patrick Bedell the Pentagon shooter not a terrorist: Cops
The suspect, identified like John Patrick Bedell, from 36 years, and residing in Hollister (Californian), took a hit of bullet in the head and last night died in the Hospital George Washington.“There are no indications, at this moment, that there was some domestic or international terrorist bond in all this”, said the head of the Police of the Pentagon, Richard Keeil, who assured that the causes of the shooting are not known.Both police agents who faced the attacker and were wounded in the shooting were registered of the hospital, added Keevil, that described its injuries like “superficial”. An agent was reached in the thigh and another one in the shoulder.“Until now it does not seem that somebody more has acted next to Bedell”, the official of the Police said, that added that “apparently it is an individual only that had some problem”.Keevil said that Bedell went dress well, with a suit, when associate came near to the guards in the station of the underground train to soothes of the Department of Defense of the USA, known like the Pentagon, a building in which works more than 23,000 people.The man did not take vest bullet-proof, and carried two pistols calibrates 9 millimeters and the abundant ammunition “when he walked directly towards the police and he began to shoot”, said Keevil.The authorities think that Bedell, described like a man well mannered and which had more ammunition in its automobile, it had passed several weeks traveling in that vehicle from the Coast the West to the American capital.Three police of the Pentagon responded to the attack of Bedell, and the shooting lasted a minute less than.The station of the railroad where the event took place remains closed today, which produces problems in the service of two lines of the metropolitan system.
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Sander Levin to lead House Ways and Means Committee
Rep. Sander Levin has been tapped to replace Charlie Rangel as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Democratic lawmakers after the second thoughts about raising another legislator who was technically next in line at the post had. Levin is disliked by the far right, and NeoNazi’s in particular.
Levin, a Michigan Democrat, was discussed as a possible replacement Wednesday shortly after Rangel announced he would step down amid a broad ethics probe. But New York Rep. Pete Stark, the next most senior member of the panel Rangel, emerged as the likely candidate.
This decision had many Democrats worry however, because Stark was seen by some as too volatile for such an important committee to lead. His racist, sexually and politically charged comments have received him into trouble in the past.
Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., Said after a meeting Wednesday that members wanted a consensus candidate. They met again Thursday at their final decision.
Although Levin will be “acting” president provided that the full House approves the shift, it is unclear whether the departure is temporary Rangel. The whole room would have to approve any attempt by Rangel to return to the post.
Levin can be regarded as a safer choice for the job than Stark.
Rangel, who last week admonished by the ethics committee on corporate funding of the various trips he took to the Caribbean, said Wednesday that he resign to avoid a distraction, but Stark – in the few hours he was considered for the job – all fill that void.
The Republican National Committee blasted an e-mail Thursday morning with a slew of Stark’s controversial comments over the past two decades, called him a “walking YouTube clip. ”
In a remarkable quote, Stark, who is white, called the former Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan, a black, a “disgrace to his race” back in 1990. Sullivan later said he was “programmed” by the “overseers Sununu on the plantation. “He referred to the then White House chief of staff John Sununu.
In one famous incident in 2007 on the House floor, Stark also accused President Bush of sending troops to Iraq “to their head for the amusement of President get blown.”
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Gina Welch investigates Evangelicals
A writer goes undercover as a “Church Lady” writing a report of membership of an evangelical church. The book is a melodrama, with the author in the role of villain. yes
In May 2007, deep in her time as a stealth member of Jerry Falwell’s Lynchburg, Virginia, town, Gina Welch had become anxious about her comfort level there. The latest alarming development: Falwell – fundamentalist preacher, Moral Majority founder, bête noire of the American left – had just died, and Welch, a Berkeley native and lifelong atheist, was sad.
Grief was not the reason she stood a few days later, mourners in the crowd near the entrance of Falwell’s mega-church, “Jesus first” pin adorning her chest. She was “undercover” as she puts it, “posing as a church lady” to collect material for her first book.
Following the trend in hip non-fiction, Welch’s “In the Land of Believers’ records something of a crazy stunt: A 20-something, Yale-educated secular jew California infiltrates a nerve center of the religious right, as if they saved and evangelize to the faithful, the whole time hiding her true identity.
For all that, Welch explains, the impetus for the project was serious. She wanted to understand her own foundation, “what my evangelical neighbors were just like people, unfiltered and off the record, not as the subjects of the interviews conducted by the” liberal media. “” The truth, she wrote, her subjects’ needed to know the microphone was off. ”
And yet, it is unfair for Welch microphone is never finished. The people she meets are always on the plate, they just do not know. They do not know her, although they think they do.
If it is regular at Thomas Road Baptist Church, joins a group of singles there and travel to Alaska on a mission trip with 16 other people (their goal to win souls for Jesus, 100), some of her subjects is that they really believe their friend. When her slumbering conscience is half awakened by the continued kindness of two of these people – a young woman she calls Alice and she calls a pastor Ray – Welch begins to have difficulty compartmentalizing their different lives.
This is in the end, offer the sick fascination and excitement of the Judas kiss of a book: Welch’s hardly surprising discoveries about evangelicals (the man that they even love), but the notion that eventually someone – whether one of the people she has fooled – it will expose, and heartache will follow.
To her credit as a writer, we hurt for those who have left themselves vulnerable to her, but the behavior of Welch’s throws the book off balance. Intended as a work of anthropological study, “In the Land of Believers” morphs into melodrama, with the author in the role of villain.
One need not Christian, or even believe that religion is inherently deserves respect, to cringe at the nonchalance with which they trampled on the most sacred traditions of her subjects.
In the 2004 movie “Saved!” When Eva Amurri the Jewish rebel character fakes gets stored in the mall, it is comical. When Welch pretends same one Sunday in the church, it is terrible, especially because of its retrospective attempt to justify themselves: they “do not have a deep understanding of how the heck to lie about.”
Months later, when they have to be baptized in the pool overlooking the sanctuary, they deterred by the breeziness “instructions from a volunteer at her church. It is impossible not to wonder: You call her for insufficient ceremony?
But the worst betrayal of Welch’s many people who do not know they are examined – some with a rather cruel eyes, she is particularly derisive of carefully chopped, heavily made-up women. Such a major ethical transgression, a striking irony in a book with substantial morality, is the fruit of writers sometimes tell a lie: that additional damage can not be helped.
Yet, very often can be.
One can not help but wonder what kind of book Welch would have written had she decided against her extensive masquerade. As Daniel Radosh points out in “Rapture Ready!” His incisive exploration of the 2008 Christian pop culture: “By definition, evangelicals with the culture in general.” With honesty Welch would have earned the trust of the people at Thomas Road, or at least their cooperation.
Instead, with a youthful blend of cynicism and naivete, she approached Falwell’s flock as they were the enemy – thus establishing itself to be completely disarmed by their humanity. This small skirmish in the culture wars, score one for the evangelicals.
When Gina Welch, a writer with a secular Jewish background, decided to Jerry Falwell evangelical Christian church to attend with an undercover expose in mind, she came away surprised.
Welch, an English professor at George Washington University, tells how her book brutally plan began shortly after she moved to the University of Virginia from California to graduate school. Fascinated and slightly repulsed by the evangelical nature of many Virginians, Welch began visiting Thomas Road Baptist Church, the basis for the famous preacher Falwell. (Falwell, the control of the vast church when Welch began attending in 2005. He died unexpectedly in 2007.)
Welch thought about the consequences of going undercover, by almost everyone to lie about her background and motives. When she forged ahead, as a hardened investigative journalist, using the often stated reasons, “You need to break some eggs to make an omelet … I saw myself as an armchair anthropologist, mapping of the evangelical culture, as reality tv troublemakers up, I had not come to make friends. ”
Expect insincerity meet and perhaps corruption apparently common among celebrity evangelists, Welch quickly realized her experience would be more complicated than expected. They distinguish the evangelical Christians she met seemed so much happier than her secular friends and family.
Before she could steel, Welch realized a kind of friendships with church members began to flourish, especially with Alice (as many people in the book, not her real name), another member of the church singles group that attended Welch.
Welch also noted that she really moved by some of the sermons and hymns. During the singing of “Have Thine Own Way ‘,’ emotion began to surge in me. It was the first in which I was overcome by what I eventually came to think as Feeling X.”
Welch was not sure how to put words in X Feeling. “The closest I felt it was a kind of vertigo … limitlessness, a sudden permeability, a sense of connectedness with all living things around me, with all the time and space. It was a kind of instant physical concept of infinity, and if a little confusing, it still felt good. ”
In the singles group traveled to Alaska, hoping to at least 100 people convert to Christianity far, Welch made the trip, the calculation is she special insights during such an intense time with the evangelists Falwell. The members of the group of singles come across as spiritual, but sincerely and deeply flawed men and women – not so very different in many respects from non-Christians, but certainly live in a world of faith that condemns homosexuality, the consumption of alcohol, for sex marriage, abortion and it seems too much training. (Welch feels disapproval when her undergraduate studies at Yale University, graduating class of 2001, is known.)
Welch’s mother, resolutely non-Christian, worried about whether her daughter would be caught in a cult-like atmosphere. Welch’s mother eventually traveled to Virginia to accompany the author to Thomas Road Baptist Church, the birth of one of the many memorable scenes in the book line. Welch separates the church during a stay at home writing the book, then returns to Lynchburg for her undercover mission reveal face to face, a mission that understand made her feel sick.
The book is a sometimes glib, sometimes searching memoirs about the complexity of religious belief. Welch is a combination of thoughtful, funny, self-mockery and an experienced stylist. As an agnostic who often attend mainstream evangelical churches, I am glad I joined her on her trip – as a reader.
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Billy The Kid Kiss Fm in Dallas
Kiss FM Dallas: Selena Gomez MySpace Blog: Busy busy week coming up .. Sunday 2 / 7 fly to San Antonio for the Rodeo Show at AT & T Center. Wednesay 2 / 10 to fly to KZZP Phoenix Johnjay and Rich morning show. Thursday 2 / 11 to fly to NY for Good Morning America performance and then an evening show at the Gramercy.

Friday 2 / 12 The Today Show, then Z100 radio station, WXRK, XM and Sirius, then Jimmy Fallon in the evening. Zaterdag 2 / 13 and fly to Boston to do radio WXKS WPRO. Sunday 2 / 14 to fly to Philadelphia to do WIOQ radio show and then the Tower Theater in Philly.
Tuesday 2 / 16 to fly to my hometown of Dallas to hang out with Kidd Kraddick morning show and the Billy Kidd on Kiss FM in Dallas. I hope I see you at the bus and I will keep you informed through the week. Many thanks to you all for the support of the album and Thank you to all radio stations playing “naturally”
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Dancing with the stars 2010 pairings
Now the celebrities are paired with professional dancers, we can begin to make predictions for the 10th season of Dancing With the Stars.
Perennial champ Cheryl Burke looks like a contender with flashy NFL star Chad Ochocinco – an athletic partner should make to her saddled with Tom DeLay last year. Of course they will have her hands full just keeping his ego in check.
Tony dovolání has a chance to return to the finals with the reality star Kate Gosselin, whose popularity with the voting population should serve her well, assuming they can keep. Running around after her eight children on her feet quickly, right?
Dear friends and fierce competitors Mark Ballas and Derek Hough could go either way with their partners, Shannen Doherty and Nicole Scherzinger, respectively. The Pussycat Doll dance experience, but will probably not appeal to female voters. Doherty has many female fans of her Beverly Hills, 90,210 days – but just as many opponents of the I Hate Brenda Club.
Olympic figure skating champion Evan Lysacek has a lot going for him, but is a bit handicapped by his partner, Anna Trebunskaya, not known for her choreography and her coaching skills.
And the rest:
The bubbly Chelsie Hightower is a good match for Bachelor Jake Pavelka, but whether he can more than the Texas Two-Step remains to be seen.
Edyta Sliwinska keeps drawing the short straw with random strangers like Aiden Turner. Should not her DWTS veteran status they deserve an athlete or a Donny Osmond once in a while?
Ashly Costa (formerly DelGrosso) shows that after a long absence in a team with the legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
Beginner Damian Whitewood has the pleasure of the company’s Pam Anderson, but probably not for long.
Bad boy Maksim Chmerkovskiy scandal-plagued teams in the ESPN host Erin Andrews. Karina not in sight this season.
And Louis Van Amstel, who transformed Kelly Osbourne last season, will try to bring it back to the last four with comedian Niecy Nash.













