Islamist websites threaten ex-Navy SEAL
Source: openchannel.nbcnews.com - Friday, August 24, 2012
Users on several militant Islamic websites affiliated with al-Qaida have posted the name and photo of a former Navy SEAL identified as the author of an upcoming book on the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden and threatened him with "destruction."
GOP convention protesters in Tampa say Isaac won't stop them; in it 'rain or shine'
Source: www.foxnews.com - Sunday, August 26, 2012
The few hundred protesters gathered under rainy skies in a park about a half-mile from the GOP convention on Sunday said an impending hurricane that is supposed to dump heavy rains on Tampa won't deter them from trying to get out their message that America needs to change, especially for the middle class. Giant blocks of ice spelling out the words "middle class" are melting on a warm, sticky days. Occupy protesters say it represents the melting away of the middle class in America. That message rings true for 52-year-old Tom Gaurapp and Cheryl Landecker from Freeport, Ill. Both worked for Sensata Technologies in the city of some 25,000 people and say 170 jobs there, including their own, were outsourced to China. Occupy is a left-leaning protest group of people in their mid-20s who generally believe that the financial system is stacked against a majority of people. Gaurapp and Landecker say that just a few years ago, they never would have considered joining such a protest. "But then again, we wouldn't have dreamed our jobs would have gone to China," Gaurapp said. Tropical Storm Isaac is expected to become a dangerous Category 2 hurricane by the time it makes land over the northern Gulf Coast sometime late Tuesday or early Wednesday. Tampa is expected to feel the brunt of the storm with heavy rainfall on Monday. The forecast caused Republicans to postpone their convention activities on Monday's opening day and not that many delegate
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