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Text messages land teacher in hot water
MURRAY, Ky. -- A middle school teacher trying to buy pot was arrested after she sent text messages to state trooper instead of a dealer, police said.
Trooper Trevor Pervine was at dinner with his wife and parents celebrating a birthday when his phone started buzzing with messages about a marijuana purchase.
At first, Pervine thought the messages were from friends playing a joke, Kentucky State Police spokesman Barry Meadows said. But a couple of phone calls put that idea to rest, and Pervine responded to set up a meeting, 
Meadows said.
Authorities say Ann Greenfield, 34, arrived at the meeting point and found Pervine and other law enforcement officers waiting for her.
"She learned her lesson. Program your dealers into your phone," Meadows said.
Greenfield, a teacher at Murray Middle School, was charged with conspiracy to traffic in controlled 
substances within 1,000 feet of a school, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, Meadows said.
She was suspended with pay pending results of an investigation, the Murray Independent School District said in a statement posted Friday on the district's Web site. A message seeking comment left at a listing for an Ann Greenfield in Murray, Ky. was not returned.
Yahoo News ~ Associated Press ** Text messages land teacher in hot water
"She learned her lesson. Program your dealers into your phone," [Kentucky State Police spokesman Barry] Meadows said. Helpful hint from the KSP???
And people wonder why the education system sucks. Hmmm, with middle school teachers going to buy pot? I wonder.
CHEECHA WATNI, Pakistan -- Three Islamic militants died in eastern Pakistan when a powerful bomb they were transporting by bicycle accidentally exploded Saturday near a bustling cattle market, police said.
The severed head of one of the militants was found in a nearby field, Shakil said. Police collected the suspects' remains for DNA testing.
A suicide bomber killed 15 people -- including a judge -- when he blew himself up inside a courtroom in a southwestern city of Quetta on February 17.
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Her father Kevin, 43, blamed the rise in underage pregnancies on growing "gang culture" where teenagers hang around drinking, taking drugs and having sex.
Norman Wells, from the pressure group Family and Youth Concern, said the sex education in schools had cheapened it and reduced it to a "casual recreational activity."
The bleak figures mean the Government is less than a quarter of the way to meeting its promise to halve pregnancy rates among under-18s in England by 2010.
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Hunted and Assaulted
I don't understand, therefore, in one sense, although I do in many others, I don't understand Mrs. Clinton giving Obama the time of day on this David Geffen thing. I don't understand it. Ignore it. Who's David Geffen? But that's not the Clinton way. You don't diss Hillary Clinton. You don't disrespect Hillary Clinton. You do not criticize Hillary Clinton. You don't do it. You don't criticize her. If you're a Democrat, you don't criticize her husband. If you do, you are going to pay the price. It's a mistake for her to do this. Now, my theory about this, and I'm not wedded to it, but it's a possibility. Mrs. Clinton is the front-runner, she's come out of the gate the front-runner, she's entitled, she's presumptive as the nominee and all of this. You know what happens to front-runners. They generally fade because somebody comes out of the pack, big surprise, and knocks 'em off. Bill Clinton was not the front-runner in the Democratic battles in 1992. He came from behind, had the Whitewater stuff show up in the New York Times, and Clinton showed he could defeat those SOBs, however he did it. He showed that he can overcome this.
Hillary has to do the same thing. Obama is out there, and now Hollywood… (Gasping) … some parts of Hollywood out there as an obstacle for Mrs. Clinton to overcome. She's 23 points ahead of them! I'm not saying Obama is part of this, but the way the Clintons are reacting to this, it is as though Obama is a serious opponent and she's gotta knock him down to show she can do it; show other Democrats that she can do it. What's actually happened is that you have people out there saying, “Gosh, I like this Obama guy because he's not backing down to Clinton, Incorporated. He's not intimidated. He's firing right back at them.” And that's one thing he's gotta do. He's gotta show he's a tough guy. He's only been around, what, two years in the Senate? Besides that, nobody knows what he did. Well, we do in the Illinois Senate. Wait 'til you hear some of things this guy voted for. All of that is coming up later when it's important. I got e-mails from friends of mine last night, “I like this Obama guy.” Oh, no, no, no! Why?
You tell me the American people don't want to win? The American people are sick and tired of Clinton, Inc., the American people, some Democrats, too. I read some Democrat websites last night and they are sick and tired of the Clintons. They're tired of dynasties -- Bush, Inc., Clinton, Inc., whatever it is, and they like this guy Obama slapping back and not taking this. Mrs. Clinton was asked about this. This is Stephanopoulos. “Your campaign's gotten into a bit of a press release scuffle with the Obama campaign today. It began with comments by David Geffen,” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, “but do you personally believe that Senator Obama should denounce David Geffen's remarks?”
RUSH: Come on, what a --
RUSH: What Geffen said was not personal. What he said was not slash-and-burn. What he said was true politics: Clinton lies. Hillary Clinton lies. They find it easy. And, frankly, they're reckless, and I'm tired of them. There's no slash-and-burn -- you don't criticize the Clintons. No, no, no, no, no. You don't diss the Clintons. So Matthews said, “Well, Senator Clinton was on that panel today out in Nevada. She was asked by Stephanopoulos if she wanted the Obama campaign to denounce the words of Geffen. She said I'll leave it up to them. But you're not leaving it up to them. Are you saying what Hillary is thinking?”
MATTHEWS: Is that different than her?
WOLFSON: Because she's in front of a group of people who have come to hear her and the other Democrats.
RICHARDSON: Yes. Because I think that if we're going to win, we have to be positive. If there's anything about Democrats in the last few years, being a governor I felt this, we just can't criticize the president. There's plenty to criticize. We should advance our own policies, our own solutions.
CARVILLE: A Hollywood guy like that, you try to get him to open his wallet and shut his mouth, because, inevitably, he gets around Maureen Dowd, he's going to make a fool of himself. Geffen is a guy that he -- he -- as much as he knows about politics, he knows that little -- about Hollywood, he knows that little about politics. Somebody needs to say, hey, Bill Clinton has a 95 percent favorable among Democrats. This -- this -- this Geffen-led strategy of attacking Bill Clinton to win a nomination is -- is -- is indicative of -- of Mr. Geffen's political stupidity.
BRAZILE: He might be jealous, James. He's jealous.
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RUSH: All right, what's the message? We're not supposed to attack Bill Clinton. We're not supposed to attack Bill Clinton. We're not supposed to call Clinton reckless. We're not supposed to say he and Hillary are good liars. We're not supposed to do that. No, no, no, no, not permitted in the Democrat Party. Here's the second Carville bite.
RUSH: What are we to conclude from this? Here's what we're to conclude. It's real simple. We can undermine the troops. We can undermine the commander-in-chief. We can demoralize the troops. We can threaten and promise a slow bleed of the troops. We can deny them reinforcements. We can deny them troop rotations. We can deny them upgrades in equipment and armor. We can lose the war, we should lose the war! America should lose because Democrats own defeat, and we can unleash a genocide in Iraq by pulling out. But whatever the hell you do, don't call Bill Clinton a liar. You can say whatever you want about Bush. You can say whatever you want about Limbaugh. You can say whatever you want about the troops. You can own defeat. You can rip your own country to shreds day in and day out. Don't you dare criticize Bill or Hillary Clinton. That, my friends, is what you conclude from that.
There is a real war going on in the Democrat Party, and the media is trying to underplay this as, you know, like a cat fight and a skirmish, but I'm going to tell you what's really going on here. The Clintons are ticked off because Obama may in fact be the real first black president replacing the phony first black president, Bill Clinton. The whitest first black president from the scene. Make no mistake, this is about the black vote. This is all about the black vote. The Clintons, Hillary, not going to get anywhere without it. That's why all these stories, "Is Obama black enough?" You think these aren't coming from the Clinton War Room? Ha-ha. Guarantee you they are. Is Obama black enough? This is coming from the Drive-By Media! It's about the black vote, in the primaries.
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Why do you think there are stories in the Drive-By Media about Obama not being black enough, as though Bill Clinton is but Obama isn't? You think that just happens? It doesn't just happen in Clinton, Inc. Also notice this. Who instigated this? Who really brought this to light? None other than MoDo, Maureen Dowd. Of what? The New York Times. Now, Maureen Dowd is a reliable whacked out liberal. It's a shame how unhappy she is. I am tempted to think I could change that with just one dinner. You know me. I'm an eternal optimist. Just one. It would never happen, but we can fantasize. Nevertheless, she's a reliable, whacked out lib. She was the voice for Geffen. She gave Geffen's words amplification in the New York Times. Now, where's the New York Times going to come down on this? The New York Times is now in the middle of a rift between the Clintons and Hollywood. They’re not going to get rid of her, don't misunderstand, but I'm just telling you this is far more serious, even though it's entertaining to us, it's far more serious than anybody really knows.
This was supposed to be Hillary's coronation. This whole thing, this whole campaign, this whole primary season, this was supposed to be her coronation. She wasn't supposed to have to answer tough questions. She's on the listening tour. She has the chat room there on her website. She's not supposed to be dealing with any of this. This is not what was intended. This is a coronation. She's angry that anyone would seriously contend her nomination. And so is Bill. This is every bit as much about him getting back to the White House as her. Don't doubt that for a second. Now, Los Angeles Times today, "Gentle Jabs Turned to Punches for Clinton-Obama." And get this, “Her campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe, recently warned donors that Clinton would remember those who did not back her. ‘You are either with us, or you're against us,’ McAuliffe told potential donors during a dinner at Haim Saban's house,” who is a big Hollywood producer and big honcho of the Clintons.
Madonna has banned her daughter from dating until she is 18.
"It made her nervous to think that in just a few years guys would be hitting on her only girl."
I loved this quote, "TV is trash. I was raised without it." ...And we all know how well she turned out! She was perfectly okay with parading her own sexual deviancy and perversions and promoting them all upon everyone else's youth but forbids the very same for her own child. It was okay to see mommy make out with that ho-bag Britney Spears on TV, wasnt it?
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LONDON -- British Airways (BAY.L: 
"However, the ease of assimilating up to eight aircraft into our existing 777 fleet, rather than having a small number of A330s, swung the balance in Boeing's favor," he added.
The deal is further bad news for Airbus, which postponed a major announcement on job cuts this week, saying European nations could not agree how to share the work on the planemaker's next aircraft, the wide-body A350.
EADS shares were down 0.8 percent at 25.73 euros by 1230 GMT, while BA shares eased 0.5 percent to 570 pence.
"The competition is still wide open," he said.
Airbus said on Wednesday it had sold four smaller single-aisle A320s to British Airways, worth about $270 million at list prices.
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Already, the federal deficit is shrinking toward about half the size that it has averaged since 1970, when analyzed as a percentage of gross domestic product.
Although it is a welcome change, the improvement does little to stave off the long-run challenges to the nation's financial health, many economists say. Baby boomers are starting to retire, placing new demands on government. Costs for healthcare programs like Medicare are still projected to rise faster than overall inflation.
Some experts say the budget could achieve balance in the short run of the next few years. In unveiling its proposed budget this month, the Bush administration forecast black ink on the federal ledger in 2012. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), in its recent annual outlook, also shows a surplus for that year.
"Right now, we're in some sense in a relatively good spot," says Jim Horney, a budget analyst at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal think tank in Washington. "We're in the sixth year of an economic expansion," a time when federal revenues often rise along with a growing economy.
The long-term outlook remains sobering, all sides agree. The cost of Medicare, in particular, is slated to soar due to healthcare inflation and an aging population.
Still, analysts say the recent budget gains are good news for the government and the economy.
A more stable budget outlook, in turn, has benefits for the economy.
In the CBO projections, for example, the nation's public debt is forecast to fall from 37 percent of GDP in 2006 to 30.5 percent of GDP in 2012.
Others say the answer will probably involve tax hikes as well as some reductions in promised entitlement benefits – and that a modest increase in taxes need not damage economic growth.
One in six Europeans is living below national poverty thresholds, with children particularly vulnerable, according to the results of an official study.
"The facts are clear, 16 percent of Europeans remain at 
