Obama Debt Ceiling Remarks: Time Is Running Out For A Deal

WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters/Richard Cowan and Deborah Charles) – With four days remaining until the United States hits its debt limit, President Barack Obama on Friday told deeply divided Republicans and Democrats to stop bickering and find a way “out of this mess.” Obama said a deficit-reduction plan being advanced by the top Republican in Congress would be defeated in the Democratic-led Senate and was simply wasting time. He called for compromise and said both parties were not that far apart on spending cuts. Read More… More on Debt Ceiling

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Samosas Banned: Islamic Group Calls The Pastry ‘Offensive’

Al-Shabaab, the extremist Islamic group that effectively controls much of Somalia, has banned samosas in the famine-stricked, war-torn East African nation, according to the Kenyan Daily Nation . Apparently the ban, which was announced via loudspeaker , was instituted because Al-Shabaab leaders decided the samosa’s triangular shape was too closely associated with the Christian trinity. Locals face punishment for cooking, buying or eating the meat- or vegetable-filled pastries . This hasn’t been a good month for samosa-religion relations. Just a few weeks ago, a group of New Jersey Hindus sued a restaurant for covertly serving them meat samosa, in violation of their religious adherence to a vegetarian diet. Read More… More on Somalia

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Samosas Banned: Islamic Group Calls The Pastry ‘Offensive’

Samosas Banned: Islamic Group Calls The Pastry ‘Offensive’

Al-Shabaab, the extremist Islamic group that effectively controls much of Somalia, has banned samosas in the famine-stricked, war-torn East African nation, according to the Kenyan Daily Nation . Apparently the ban, which was announced via loudspeaker , was instituted because Al-Shabaab leaders decided the samosa’s triangular shape was too closely associated with the Christian trinity. Locals face punishment for cooking, buying or eating the meat- or vegetable-filled pastries . This hasn’t been a good month for samosa-religion relations. Just a few weeks ago, a group of New Jersey Hindus sued a restaurant for covertly serving them meat samosa, in violation of their religious adherence to a vegetarian diet. Read More… More on Somalia

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My easiest piece of workout equipment

Guest post written by Susan Rhoades

I’ve had several gym memberships over the years, but since I had kids I haven’t really been able to take advantage of them. I’m just always either at work or running around and taking them to school or sports practices. It really ties up my time, so I just try and come up with creative ways to get a good workout at home instead.

I have an elliptical and that’s mainly what I use when I work out. But I’ve grown tired of just doing that lately so I decided to look up some ways I could switch up my workout easily with my satellitestarinternet.com/. Then I got the idea to start jumping rope every now and then.

Now, I don’t think that I will jump rope for 30 straight minutes every day, but I definitely want to change it up some and jump rope a little bit every now and then. I just like the way that incorporating new stuff into you workout reminds you about all those muscles you’ve forgotten over the years and give you that good sore feeling when you wake up in the morning.