Obama updated on apparent NY car bomb

WASHINGTON: The White House said President Barack Obama has been briefed on the apparent car bomb found Saturday in New York”s Times Square.

In a statement, the administration said that the president, who attended an annual dinner for White House news correspondents Saturday night, praised the quick response by the New York Police Department.

Obama has also directed his homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, to advise New York officials that the federal government is prepared to provide support.

The White House says that Brennan and others will keep Obama up to date on the investigation.

NY car bomb threatened ”deadly event”: officials

NEW YORK: A car bomb that threatened a “very deadly event” failed to go off Saturday in the heart of New York”s Times Square, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday.

“We are very lucky… (to) avoid what could have been a very deadly event,” Bloomberg said at an impromptu press conference.

“The bomb squad confirmed that the suspicious vehicle indeed did contain an explosive device.”

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Cookie Monster Veggie Monster,Cookie Monster :A few years back a vicious rumor started spreading that the producers of Sesame Street were renaming the Cookie Monster “ Veggie Monster ” in order to send healthier messages about nutrition to kids.  As snopes.com points out , this rumor is FALSE. It is true that back in 2005, Sesame Street made a conscious decision to start including more programming dedicated to better health and nutrition.  So while they didn’t rename Cookie Monster “ Veggie Monster ,” they did have him develop a liking for fruits and veggies.  A Cookie is a Sometime Food was added to his repertoire of songs. Sesame Street had a really funny bit with the Cookie Monster and Matt Lauer in August 2006: source:http://www.gather.com/

Cookie Monster Veggie Monster,Cookie Monster:A few years back a vicious rumor started spreading that the producers of Sesame Street were renaming the Cookie Monster “Veggie Monster” in order to send healthier messages about nutrition to kids.  As snopes.com points out, this rumor is FALSE.

It is true that back in 2005, Sesame Street made a conscious decision to start including more programming dedicated to better health and nutrition.  So while they didn’t rename Cookie Monster “Veggie Monster,” they did have him develop a liking for fruits and veggies.  A Cookie is a Sometime Food was added to his repertoire of songs.

Sesame Street had a really funny bit with the Cookie Monster and Matt Lauer in August 2006:

source:http://www.gather.com/

Canyon Of Heroes Parade Route

Canyon Of Heroes Parade Route: New York City will throw a parade Friday morning for the New York Yankees to celebrate their 27th World Series title. The victory parade will travel through the financial district’s Canyon of Heroes. The ticker-tape parade will begin on Broadway at Battery Place at 11 a.m.

Canyon Of Heroes Parade Route:New York City will throw a parade Friday morning for the New York Yankees to celebrate their 27th World Series title. The victory parade will travel through the financial district’s Canyon of Heroes.

The ticker-tape parade will begin on Broadway at Battery Place at 11 a.m. and continue uptown along the Canyon of Heroes to Chambers Street. Then, a ceremony will be held at City Hall Plaza, where Mayor Michael Bloomberg will present the Bronx Bombers with the Keys to the City.

Canyon Of Heroes Parade Route

Canyon Of Heroes Parade Route: New York City will throw a parade Friday morning for the New York Yankees to celebrate their 27th World Series title. The victory parade will travel through the financial district’s Canyon of Heroes. The ticker-tape parade will begin on Broadway at Battery Place at 11 a.m.

Canyon Of Heroes Parade Route:New York City will throw a parade Friday morning for the New York Yankees to celebrate their 27th World Series title. The victory parade will travel through the financial district’s Canyon of Heroes.

The ticker-tape parade will begin on Broadway at Battery Place at 11 a.m. and continue uptown along the Canyon of Heroes to Chambers Street. Then, a ceremony will be held at City Hall Plaza, where Mayor Michael Bloomberg will present the Bronx Bombers with the Keys to the City.

Pay Tribute To Victems Of 9/11 By New York

NEW YORK: New York will lead tributes on Friday to victims of the 9/11 attacks in a ceremony at Ground Zero where work on replacements for the World Trade Center, and even a memorial, remains mostly stalled.

On the eighth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks by al Qaeda militants riding hijacked airliners, mourners will remember the 2,752 people who died in the destruction of the Twin Towers in Manhattan.

They will also mourn those who died in the attacks just hours later on the

Pentagon outside Washington and on a fourth plane, which crashed in Pennsylvania after the passengers overpowered the hijackers.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other officials will attend the now annual ritual at Ground Zero, when every name is read out and moments of silence mark key events, such as the impact of the two hijacked planes, and the collapse of the towers.

Powerful lights will send beams skyward from the site at nightfall.

Despite a deep desire to properly remember the tragedy, constant financial and legal wrangling has slowed work on replacing the enormous Twin Towers to a snail’s pace.

The financial crisis and downturn in the real estate market have made speedy renewal of the neighborhood even less likely and frustration is rising.

“It has become increasingly clear that New Yorkers should be embarrassed by the debacle that is represented by the failure of government officials to have successfully rebuilt Ground Zero,” Barry LePatner, a construction attorney, said.

“Unfortunately, the only conclusion that can be drawn from a careful study of their actions at this important site is an attitude that the public be damned.”

In theory, five new skyscrapers are planned, with a park and memorial in the middle, and a transport hub. But many now think that there is no market for all five towers.

For now, the site strikes casual observers as merely a large hole, although work on foundations of several key elements is well underway and the frame for the future Freedom Tower is rising.

A poll last week by Quinnipiac University found that two thirds of New Yorkers think even the memorial will not be ready in time for the 10th anniversary in 2011.

“They don’t expect to have any part of Ground Zero ready by the tenth anniversary,” Maurice Carroll, director of the university’s polling institute said.

“We’re getting fed up with the continual lack of progress at Ground Zero. And we think it’s important that there be some signs of movement this year,” Carroll added.

According to the poll, 25 percent of New Yorkers said the slow pace made them “ashamed,” the highest number to give that answer since it was first asked in 2006.

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Meet The Press updates

Meet The Press, A week after George Stephanopoulos‘ much-touted ratings victory over Meet the Press(and no, there wasn’t tennis on NBC; just a weak lineup of guests), the David Gregory-moderated show is back on top.

“Meet the Press” had 2.99 million viewers last Sunday versus 2.68 million for ABC’s “This Week,” according to Nielsen Media Research.

However, the Stephanopoulos show edged out Gregory’s program in the crucial 25- to 54-year-old viewer demographic.

On “Meet the Press,” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker shot holes into national gun laws.

Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos interviewed everyone’s favorite shouting Democrat, Howard Dean, as well as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

The CBS show, “Face the Nation,” is still hanging in there in the ratings race. Moderator Bob Schieffer takes home another bronze medal with 2.39 million viewers. “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace” attracted half that.

We can’t help but wonder what fuels the ratings fluctuations. As we noted a couple of weeks ago, high-profile guests don’t seem to make a difference. Does it just depend on what channel you had left on the TV from Saturday night?

Mina Brees, Mother of Drew Brees – Dies at 59

Mina Brees, Mother of Drew Brees – Dies at 59, The Austin American-Statesman reports that Mina Brees, former president of the Austin Bar Association has died.

According to the paper, her brother Marty Akins says she died Friday in Colorado while visiting her son, Reid.  Her other son is NFL quarterback Drew Brees, with whom whe reportedly had a falling out during her run for the Texas 3rd Court of Appeals in 2006.

The paper also reports that last week, the Texas Attorney General subpoenaed her business records following ownership claims to several Austin and Houston restaurant names.

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