SAN FRANCISCO (The Blaze/AP) — Officials say a 16-year-old girl has survived a fall from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge — a plunge they are reluctant to call a suicide attempt. The Fire Department and the U.S. Coast Guard say the girl was in the water for 20 minutes Sunday before being pulled to safety conscious and responsive. She was transported to Marin General Hospital but her condition wasn’t immediately available. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that it’s not known if the girl jumped or fell. Officials say about 25 people per year die in jumps from the bridge, roughly 200 feet above the water. And according to the Daily Mail , “around 1,400 people have leapt from the bridge since it opened in 1937, and 98 per cent of them have died. Only a handful have ever walked again.” The Mail also says a person already in the water kept the girl afloat. In March, a 17-year-old boy survived after leaping from the bridge. Officials don’t believe it was a suicide attempt. — Information from: San Francisco Chronicle, http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle
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**Written by Doug Powers … The Governator ? He’s been a famous body builder. He’s been a killer cyborg from the future. He’s been Governor of California. And now, in this week’s exclusive cover scoop, Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals his plans for the next phase of his extraordinary career: He’s going be a cartoon superhero, known as The Governator. “When I ran for governor back in 2003 and I started hearing people talking about ‘the Governator,’ I thought the word was so cool,” Schwarzenegger, 63, tells EW in his first press interview since leaving office last January. “The word Governator combined two worlds: the world of politics and the movie world. And [this cartoon] brings everything together. It combines the governor, the Terminator, the bodybuilding world, the True Lies…” An animated series about a cyborg from the future who can bench-press the Golden Gate bridge and has a secret double life as a counter-terrorism operative who somehow ends up in politics and triples the debt of California? Sounds like an interesting combination. Darnit. I was hoping his first project would be a sequel to “Hercules in New York.” The original left so many unanswered questions — one of them being, “What!?” : Update: I’m getting tweets like this one taking issue with my use of the word “entertainment” in the title. Point taken. **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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Reuters – President Barack Obama’s proposal to revive the popular Build America Bonds (BABs) moved one step closer to legislative reality on Wednesday with introduction of a bill to continue the program for two years.
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It is painfully clear from this latest clip of California Democrat Rep. Pete Stark at last weekend’s town hall that he has no idea what the hell E-Verify — the federal employer citizenship verification program — is. Nor does he seem to care what it is, as he smirks at his informed constituents and asserts that denying jobs to illegal aliens could be “unconstitutional.” The endless Pete Stark Raving Mad video marathon continues: (Via Steve Kemp/Golden Gate Minutemen.) *** California, please change the channel and turn off the Stark horror show. Chris Pareja is the independent Tea Party candidate running against Stark. He’s a father and small business owner with solid grass-roots support and a limited-government agenda. Learn more about him here and help out his campaign.
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