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Stubborn U.S. Drought Could Be Costlier Than Hurricane Sandy
Post Date: 2012-12-08 10:01:18 by Brian S
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Less than 18 months after the US Army Corps of Engineers blasted gaps in a levee on the Mississippi River to cope with a record flood, it's getting ready to detonate explosives for the opposite reason – to clear rock outcroppings on the bottom of the drought- depleted waterway so cargo can keep moving. "From one extreme to another in just the space of 12, 15, 16 months? It's just incredible," says Richard Heim, a drought specialist at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The time last year, the drought in the continental US was largely confined to the its southern tier. Since mid-July, however, between 60 and 65 percent of the continental US has been ...
GREAT NEWS: Serial Killer Dr. Edwin C. Weathington Dead
Post Date: 2012-12-07 13:38:17 by A K A Stone
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI, December 7, 2012, (Operation Rescue) — Operation Rescue has just received word that abortionist Dr. Edwin C. Weathington, age 75, passed away on October 7, 2012, after a struggle with pancreatic cancer. After obtaining his Michigan license in 1980, Dr. Weathington performed abortions at Women’s Medical Center in Grand Rapids until the facility closed its doors in January 2012. Typical of abortionists, Dr. Weathington demonstrated improper behavior both in professional relationships and business practice. According to state documents, the Michigan Bureau of Health Services issued a $5,000 fine and six-month suspension of Dr. Weathington’s medical license ...
Bayou Frack-Out: The Massive Oil and Gas Disaster You've Never Heard Of
Post Date: 2012-12-07 11:31:52 by Brian S
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For residents in Assumption Parish, the boiling, gas-belching bayou, with its expanding toxic sinkhole and quaking earth is no longer a mystery; but there is little comfort in knowing the source of the little-known event that has forced them out of their homes. Located about 45 miles south of Baton Rouge, Assumption Parish carries all the charms and curses of southern Louisiana. Networks of bayous, dotted with trees heavy with Spanish moss, connect with the Mississippi River as it slowly ambles toward the Gulf of Mexico. Fishermen and farmers make their homes there, and so does the oil and gas industry, which has woven its own network of wells, pipelines and processing facilities across ...
Pearl Harbor Dead Remembered On 71st Anniversary
Post Date: 2012-12-07 10:53:10 by Brian S
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PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- More than 2,000 people are gathering at Pearl Harbor on Friday to mark the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack that killed thousands of people and launched the United States into World War II. Ceremonies get under way with a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m., the exact time the bombing began in 1941. The crew of a Navy guided-missile destroyer will stand on deck while the ship passes the USS Arizona, a battleship that still lies in the harbor where it sank. Hawaii Air National Guard aircraft will fly overhead. The Navy and National Park Service are hosting the ceremonies, which are being held in remembrance of the 2,390 service members and 49 civilians killed in ...
Obama's Approval Rating At Highest Point Since Bin Laden Raid
Post Date: 2012-12-07 10:26:36 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A month after the bitterly fought election, President Barack Obama has his highest approval ratings since the killing of Osama bin Laden, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll, and more Americans say the nation is heading in the right direction now than at any time since the start of his first term. Obama's approval rating stands at 57 percent, the highest since May 2011, when U.S. Navy SEALs killed the terror leader, and up 5 percentage points from before the election. And 42 percent say the country is on the right track, up from 35 percent in January 2009. A majority think it's likely that the president will be able to improve the economy in his ...
Scumbag Democrats Attack Veterans Second Amendment Rights
Post Date: 2012-12-05 07:06:04 by A K A Stone
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A major defense-spending bill hit an unexpected bump on its journey through the U.S. Senate over an amendment on veterans’ gun rights, which devolved into a heated floor debate and foreshadows a potential battle over Democrats’ vows to tweak the filibuster rules in the clubby, traditionally collegial body. Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, wants veterans who have been deemed “mentally incompetent” to have their cases adjudicated by a judge — rather than the Department of Veterans Affairs, as happens currently — and argued that veterans who simply cannot support themselves financially are needlessly given the label and, as such, cannot buy or possess ...
They Can Hear You Now: Verizon Patent Could Listen In On Customers
Post Date: 2012-12-05 00:06:19 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Verizon has filed a patent for targeting ads that collect information from infrared cameras and microphones that can detect the amount of people and types of conversations happening in customers’ living rooms. The set-top box technology is not the first of its kind – Comcast patented similar monitoring technology in 2008 that recommended content to users based on people it recognized in the room. Google TV also proposed a patent that would use video and audio recorders to figure out exactly how many people in a room were watching its broadcast. Verizon filed for the application in May 2011, but the report was published last week due to laws stating ...
Analyst Makes Bombshell Prediction Of $50 Oil, And More Production Than We Could Possibly Know What To Do With
Post Date: 2012-12-04 07:14:28 by A K A Stone
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For the US economy, this would be a 'Black Swan' of a totally different variety.
In Bank of America/Merrill Lynch's 2013 Energy Outlook, analyst Sabine Schels and colleagues make a shocking prediction about the possible path of West Texas Intermediate oil.
Surging US shale oil output creates risk of $50 WTI North America’s energy supplies are surging while the rest of the world continues to fight for scarce molecules of oil and gas. On our estimates, onshore US crude oil output now vastly exceeds previous growth rates in liquids and nat gas, particularly in Lower 48 states. With profitability for US domestic oil producers very high and no change in sight to US rules preventing crude ...
Piers Morgan looks like a fool debating the 2nd Amendment on Twitter.
Post Date: 2012-12-04 07:07:16 by A K A Stone
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Poster Comment:What a dumb ass he is.
Ninth Circuit Gives the A-OK For Warrantless Home Video Surveillance
Post Date: 2012-12-04 00:44:28 by A K A Stone
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Can law enforcement enter your house and use a secret video camera to record the intimate details inside? On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appealsunfortunately answered that question with "yes." U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents suspected Ricky Wahchumwah of selling bald and gold eagle feathers and pelts in violation of federal law. Equipped with a small hidden video camera on his clothes, a Wildlife agent went to Wahchumwah's house and feigned interest in buying feathers and pelts. Unsurprisingly, the agent did not have a search warrant. Wahchumwah moved to suppress the video as an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment, but the trial court denied his motion. On ...
Obama's Government Removes Fort Hood Shooter Judge Protecting Fellow Muslim
Post Date: 2012-12-04 00:19:34 by A K A Stone
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The military's highest court ousted the judge in the Fort Hood shooting case Monday and threw out his order to have the suspect's beard forcibly shaved before his court-martial.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled that Col. Gregory Gross didn't appear impartial while presiding over the case of Maj. Nidal Hasan, who faces the death penalty if convicted in the 2009 shootings on the Texas Army post that killed 13 people and wounded more than two dozen others.
But the court said it was not ruling on whether the judge's order violated Hasan's religious rights. Hasan has argued that his beard is a requirement of his Muslim faith, although facial ...
Farmers See Huge Spike In Hay Thefts...
Post Date: 2012-12-03 23:27:52 by Brian S
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ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - As if it’s not bad enough that Missouri farmers are trying to survive the worst drought in decades, now many of them are facing a new problem that’s costing them big bucks. Missouri Farm Bureau president Blake Hurst says thieves are actually targeting those big bundles of hay that are left out in fields prior to being harvested, hauling them off and selling the valuable commodity. “Of course, no one brands their hay so if you hook onto it with your tractor or your pickup and make it out the gate, then it’s impossible to prove where the hay came from,” Hurst said. With winter approaching and grass dying out, the price for fresh hay to feed ...
Sandy-Hit Synagogues Apply for Aid Despite Ban; FEMA Barred From Helping Houses of Worship for Now
Post Date: 2012-12-03 17:18:14 by Brian S
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UJA-Federation of New York and other Jewish agencies are helping synagogues damaged during Hurricane Sandy to apply for aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, even though the government agency currently bars grants to houses of worship because of concern that such aid may violate the First Amendment. Nathan Diament, executive director of public policy for the Orthodox Union’s Institute for Public Affairs, said the O.U. was still discussing the details of classification with the Department of Homeland Security, but the government was “advising synagogues and other houses of worship to apply, so once we work it out the issue won’t be, ‘We didn’t ...
GOP Proposes Medicare Cuts, Reduced Social Security Inflation Adjustment
Post Date: 2012-12-03 16:23:53 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — Seeking to jump-start stalled talks on avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff, House Republicans on Monday proposed a new 10-year, $2.2 trillion blueprint to President Barack Obama that calls for increasing the eligibility age for Medicare and lowering cost-of-living hikes for Social Security benefits. The proposal from House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and other Republicans comes in response to Obama's offer last week to hike taxes by $1.6 trillion over the coming decade but largely exempt Medicare and Social Security from budget cuts. The GOP plan also proposes to raise $800 billion in higher tax revenue over the decade but it would keep the Bush-era tax cuts — ...
7 people of the Obama race beat up innocent white kid
Post Date: 2012-12-03 08:40:54 by A K A Stone
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Poster Comment:Where is Zimmerman when you need him.
Teacher's Reward Program Charges Second-Graders for Bathroom Breaks
Post Date: 2012-12-02 14:32:12 by A K A Stone
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The mother of a 7-year-old Irving elementary school student says her son wet his pants in class after his teacher refused to let him use the restroom Thursday afternoon. "I was absolutely appalled," Sonja Cross said. "I could not believe it." The first-year teacher at J.O. Davis Elementary awards her students with "Boyd Bucks" for good behavior. Going to the bathroom outside of the three scheduled breaks costs two Boyd Bucks per trip. Cross' son, an honor roll student, needed to go to the bathroom, but he sat back down because he didn’t have any Boyd Bucks, his mother said. "He tried to hold it as much as he could, but he just ...
REPS AT RISK: Legislators, Aides And FBI Take Threats More Seriously – With Good Reason
Post Date: 2012-11-30 16:04:44 by Brian S
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The number of FBI investigations into threats against members of Congress spiked in the wake of former Rep. Gabby Giffords’ shooting, according to documents obtained by The Daily. In the nine months following Jared Lee Loughner’s murderous rampage, the FBI opened up at least 38 cases based on threats against specific members of Congress, as well as a handful of generic threats against unnamed members. This was a notable increase from the previous year, when the bureau opened 26 cases over a 12-month span, according to FBI documents. A 2010 analysis by Politico found that investigations into threats against members of Congress had steadily declined over the decade following the ...
AAA Urges EPA To Halt Approval Of E15 For Vehicles
Post Date: 2012-11-30 16:02:28 by Brian S
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Washington — AAA, the nation's largest travel organization, on Friday urged the Obama administration to halt the sale of E15 — a new fuel with a higher blend of ethanol — because of possible engine damage to most vehicles on the nation's roads. AAA, which has 53 million members, said it has found in a new survey a strong likelihood of consumer confusion and the potential for voided warranties and vehicle damage as a result of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) recent approval of E15 gasoline for 2001 model vehicles and newer. All vehicles on the road can travel on E10 — which is 10 percent ethanol. Corn advocates successfully petitioned the EPA to ...
'Bow And Arrow-Type' Attack Leaves 3 Dead At Casper, Wyo. College, Officials Say
Post Date: 2012-11-30 16:00:18 by Brian S
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New in this version: Suspect among those killed, police say Updated at 3:37 p.m. ET: Three people were killed Friday in an attack involving a bow and arrow-type weapon at Casper College in Casper, Wyo., police and college officials said. The attack occurred before 9 a.m. (7 a.m. ET) at the physical science center, said Rich Fujita, a spokesman for the college. Police told NBC station KCWY of Casper that two of the bodies were found on campus. One was a male faculty member, and the other appeared to be of "student age," Fujita said. At least one of them had been stabbed with a "bow and arrow type" weapon, police said. The third body was found about 2 miles off ...
Alabama ‘Teabagger’ Brian Downing Sentenced To Two Years For Bourbon Street Prank
Post Date: 2012-11-29 18:24:51 by Brian S
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The Alabama fan who admitted to placing his privates on a passed-out LSU fan last January learned his sentence this morning. He will get two years in prison. He’s known to most people as the ‘Bama Teabagger, but his name is Brian Downing and he’s 33 years old. It was video shot on a cell phone camera that got him into trouble after Alabama beat LSU in the BCS Championship game in the Superdome last January. Downing was videoed in the dining area of Krystal Burger on Bourbon Street exposing his private parts and pressing them against the neck of a passed-out Tigers fan. The video quickly went viral and Downing quickly found himself indicted on the very serious charge of ...
Equality and the American Public
Post Date: 2012-11-29 14:30:25 by Capitalist Eric
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One of the reasons why our nation has prospered is that we have been able to capitalize on our individual abilities, abilities that are diverse and unequal. It’s the differences and “unequalness” among people that allows for innovation, invention, new technology, growth, prosperity and progress. To enforce equality upon the populous is not only unnatural (equality does not exist in nature), but it prevents the very prosperity we all desire, resulting in class warfare. It’s no accident. As more “equalizing and redistribution legislation” becomes the law of the land, more poverty and class warfare develop. This will continue until the populous empirically ...
Dem Child Molester Melvin Reynolds Running for Congress
Post Date: 2012-11-28 20:22:30 by Abcdefg
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He’s BAAACK!: Dem Child Molester Melvin Reynolds Running for Congress; The Clinton Commutation That Keeps on Givin’ Which is worse to have in Congress -- a corrupt, nutty son of Jesse Jackson . . . or a corrupt, criminal, child molesting, former employee of Jesse Jackson and current friend of Louis Farrakhan? Criminal convict and former Congressman Melvin Reynolds is back and has announced he's running for the Chicago Congressional seat just vacated by Jesse Jackson, Jr. So, basically, it's like "The Lord of the Flies" -- replacing one disaster with another. Melvin Reynolds, Child Molester, Congressional Candidate & Friend of Bill Clinton & Louis ...
Chuck Hagel Being Vetted For National Security Post
Post Date: 2012-11-28 18:37:57 by Brian S
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Former Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel is being vetted for a possible top national security post in the Obama administration, multiple sources told The Cable. Hagel, who co-chairs President Barack Obama's Intelligence Advisory Board, which provides independent advice on the effectiveness of the intelligence community, could be in contention for either secretary of state or secretary of defense, people familiar with the vetting process say. Hagel, a moderate realist on foreign policy, would be a comfortable ideological fit for the president. He has publicly supported many of the administration's foreign-policy moves from his perch at Georgetown University, while often ...
Immigration: GOP proposes plan for young
Post Date: 2012-11-28 15:16:26 by jwpegler
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Two Senate Republicans on Tuesday unveiled their version of the Dream Act, stalled legislation that would provide a path to legal status for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants, many who have spent most of their lives in the United States. The bill introduced by Sens. Jon Kyl of Arizona and Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas was the latest effort by Republicans to show they are serious about tackling the immigration issue after their poor showing of support among Hispanics in the Nov. 6 election. Republicans in the House this week are also taking up a bill that would provide up to 55,000 green cards — permanent status visas — each year to foreign students in the fields of ...
Man Says Prayer Group Leader Told Him To Kill Wife
Post Date: 2012-11-28 11:43:35 by Brian S
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Less than three months after he stood as a groomsman in the wedding of two friends he had known since college in Texas, Micah Moore walked into a suburban Kansas City police department and unloaded a dark secret: He had taken the woman's life at the request of her new husband, a charismatic prayer group leader. Police said Bethany Deaton's death initially appeared to be a suicide. Officers found a note and empty bottle of over-the-counter pain medication along with her body in a minivan parked by a lake on Oct. 30. It wasn't until Moore confessed nearly two weeks later that police announced she had been killed. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing ...
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