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Major US Airport To Evict TSA Screeners
Post Date: 2012-03-14 20:39:17 by Murron
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Major US Airport To Evict TSA Screeners One of America’s busiest airports, Orlando Sanford International, has announced it will opt out of using TSA workers to screen passengers, a move which threatens the highly unpopular federal agency’s role in other airports across the nation. “The president of the airport said Tuesday that he would apply again to use private operators to screen passengers, using federal standards and oversight,” reports the Miami Herald. With Sanford International having originally been prevented by the TSA from opting out back in November 2010 when the federal agency froze the ability for airports to use their own private screeners, a law ...
Judge Deals Death Blow To Copyright Troll Righthaven
Post Date: 2012-03-14 12:24:29 by Brian S
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Righthaven LLC., a law firm that became known as a “copyright troll” for filing hundreds of lawsuits against media companies and bloggers, was forever banished from its business model on Tuesday by a judge who ordered a transfer of all their copyrights to settle the company’s substantial debts. After a series of stinging legal defeats last year, Righthaven found itself owing defendants more than $200,000 for their frivolous lawsuits. That was quite enough for U.S. District Judge Philip M. Pro, who ordered the company on Tuesday to forfeit all its intellectual property, which will be sold at auction. For about a year Righthaven’s business model was a success: they would ...
Cultist Democrats Have A Hissy Fit After Desecrated Flag With Obama Image Discovered
Post Date: 2012-03-14 07:56:52 by A K A Stone
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An Interview with Karen Santorum
Post Date: 2012-03-13 23:37:33 by A K A Stone
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2012: Alabama, Mississippi, and Hawaii primary thread (LIVE)
Post Date: 2012-03-13 20:53:21 by Hondo68
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Tonight we have the primaries for Alabama, Mississippi, and Hawaii. Here is the lowdown on their delegate counts from this Chart: Alabama (primary) 50 Delegates: 47 Bound, 3 Unbound – Winner-take-all if candidate at 50%Hawaii (caucus) 20 Delegates: 17 Bound, 3 Unbound – Allocated proportionally on vote tallyMississippi (primary) 40 Delegates: 37 Bound, 3 Unbound – Proportional, with 15% threshold *** The election widget below switches between the main three:
Northeast, Midwest See Record High Temperatures
Post Date: 2012-03-13 18:14:09 by Brian S
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MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Temperatures soared to record highs in the Northeast on Monday after a weekend of record-setting warmth across the Upper Plains and forecasts for an unprecedented extended warm front this week, the National Weather Service said. In Boston, temperatures reached a record 71 degrees Monday afternoon, eclipsing the former high of 69 degrees for this date set 110 years ago, the weather service said. The unseasonably warm weather was expected to continue in Boston throughout the week, but likely not with record setting temperatures, said Bill Simpson, a weather service meteorologist based in Taunton, Massachusetts. Temperatures also soared Monday afternoon in New York ...
Entire Arena Football Team Cut During Pregame Meal At Olive Garden
Post Date: 2012-03-13 16:55:22 by Murron
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Entire Arena Football Team Cut During Pregame Meal At Olive Garden The owner of the Pittsburgh Power fired all 24 members of his team during a pregame meal at an Orlando-area Olive Garden. With AFL players set to strike before the 2012 season opener, owner Matt Shaner reacted first, cutting his entire team hours before kickoff of a game against the Orlando Predators. "Mid-statement, all the players got up and left," former Power center Beau Elliott told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "Every player got up and left while he was still talking. There were 15 to 20 angry, large individuals." The AFL Player's Association was calling for an increase in the $400 game ...
GOP Intimidation of Ron Paul Delegates
Post Date: 2012-03-13 12:19:56 by Hondo68
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In some places, such as Maine and Minnesota, Ron Paul is likely to outperform the straw polls in terms of proportion of delegates won. As Lew Rockwell has noted, here and here, Ron Paul activists are sometimes able to take control of the local machines. Sometimes, however, the opposite apparently happens. As The Washington Times reported on March 10th, Paul actually underperformed his vote tally in Wyoming with local caucuses over the weekend. If you've ever been a Ron Paul delegate, you know that the GOP central committees will employ every trick in the book to avoid having to seat Ron Paul delegates. They will freely ignore their own bylaws, apply rules in such a manner as to only ...
Oklahoma House passes bill to drug test politicians
Post Date: 2012-03-13 11:55:09 by Brian S
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The Oklahoma House on Monday approved legislation that would require politicians throughout the state to be drug tested along with people receiving temporary public assistance. The legislation heads to the state Senate after being passed by a vote of 82 to 6, according to Reuters. The bill requires applicants for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program to undergo a mandatory drug test. The Department of Human Services estimates 22,000 people in Oklahoma receive TANF benefits, which helps poor families with children pay for living expenses, including rent, heat, utilities and personal care items. Democrats who opposed the legislation added an amendment that ...
Wild boars with razor-sharp tusks invade upstate New York
Post Date: 2012-03-12 19:59:01 by A K A Stone
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PERU, N.Y. — They roam by night, picking cornstalks clean, making off with apple crops. They have almost no natural predators, but they have razor-sharp tusks and a seemingly bottomless appetite for plants and animals. Their population can triple in one year. They are feral pigs, and while they have long plagued parts of the Southern and Western United States, now they have become a problem in the peaceful Champlain Valley of New York, an agricultural heartland on the edge of the Adirondacks. Actually, they are rarely spotted. Since they hunt at night and steer clear of humans, few people ever see these pigs. But a pack of them was captured on camera foraging on Bob Rulf’s ...
U.S. soldier in Afghan massacre had brain injury: official
Post Date: 2012-03-12 19:51:28 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army staff sergeant accused of the massacre of 16 villagers in Afghanistan on Sunday was treated for traumatic brain injury after being in a vehicle that rolled over in Iraq in 2010, a U.S. official said on Monday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it was premature to state whether there was any link between the 2010 injury and the Afghanistan incident.
Pretend President Obama says Spend Less on Breast Cancer LOTS more on Abortions! (Democrats War On Women
Post Date: 2012-03-12 17:43:24 by A K A Stone
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President Barack Obama is facing criticism from a conservative group for cutting women’s health care while holding steadfast to funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business. Obama refused repeated requests from pro-life House Speaker John Boehner to agree to cut funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business. However, his administration didn’t raise a stink about the elimination of $600 million for Community Health Centers. Planned Parenthood, and its defenders, like Obama have used the argument against cutting its funding that women’s health would suffer because the funding cuts would supposedly cut or eliminate legitimate health care programs for women ...
11 Year Old Kicks Michelle Obamas Lying Ass
Post Date: 2012-03-12 17:38:33 by A K A Stone
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Michelle Obama defended Let’s Move!, her anti-obesity program, in an interview released Monday. The first lady was asked to respond to critics of the program, who say the government should not be telling people how to eat–by Topanga Sena, age 11, a reporter for Scholastic News in Florida. TOPANGA SENA: How do you respond to critics who say the government should not be telling people how to eat or to stay active? MICHELLE OBAMA: You know, that’s absolutely right—and Let’s Move! doesn’t do that. Let’s Move! is not about having government telling people what to do, because government doesn’t have all the answers. I mean, a problem that’s this ...
Romney's FREE Abortions
Post Date: 2012-03-12 17:33:39 by A K A Stone
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RomneyCare now offers free elective surgical abortions. Mitt Romney was the enabler. This is how his government-dictated health plan is playing out. And he’s still proud of it. When he does touch on defects in his health plan, he never mentions abortion coverage as a problem. He’s either fine with it, or realizes he has to downplay it to get the conservative vote. When the law was first implemented, there was a $50 copay for a RomneyCare elective surgical abortion. Now RomneyCare abortions are "free" for a $0 copay (or $50-$100 in some plans). In fact, the $0 copay shows up as early as 2008 at the Massachusetts Health Care Connector site. (The "Commonwealth ...
Ohio Bill Would Require Men Submit Affidavit From Sex Partner Confirming Impotence Before Receiving Viagra
Post Date: 2012-03-12 14:56:02 by mininggold
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Ohio Bill Would Require Men Submit Affidavit From Sex Partner Confirming Impotence Before Receiving Viagra Judd Legum on Mar 11, 2012 at 5:51 pm An Ohio State Senator is turning the tables on men seeking to regulate women’s access to reproductive health. Sen. Nina Turner (D-Cleveland) has introduced legislation regulating men’s access to erectile dysfunction drugs. The Dayton Before getting a prescription for Viagra or other erectile dysfunction drugs, men would have to see a sex therapist, receive a cardiac stress test and get a notarized affidavit signed by a sexual partner affirming impotency, if state Sen. Nina Turner has her way. The Cleveland Democrat introduced ...
Ron Paul Wins First Caucus: MSM Changes Rules, Reports Romney Wins
Post Date: 2012-03-12 10:50:45 by Hondo68
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Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul secured his first caucus victory over the weekend, by winning 29 percent of the popular vote among the people of the U.S. Virgin Islands. However, the mainstream media decided to report that despite coming in second with 26 percent, Mitt Romney was the real winner. The Republican Party of the U.S. Virgin Islands reported the results as “112 to Paul (29%), 101 to Romney (26%), 23 to Santorum (6%), 18 to Gingrich (5%),” In response, The AP and other mainstream reports yesterday claimed that Mitt Romney won caucus, because he stands to come away with more delegates. Ron Paul supporters and the campaign itself have been tirelessly pointing ...
Union Boss 'Repulsed by Some of Our Supposed Brothers and Sisters Lining Up With Job Killers Like Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council'
Post Date: 2012-03-11 09:06:41 by CZ82
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Union Boss 'Repulsed by Some of Our Supposed Brothers and Sisters Lining Up With Job Killers Like Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council' Union leaders seek to mend divisions over pipeline By SAM HANANEL, Associated Press March 10, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — Unions may be united in working to re-elect President Barack Obama, but their leaders also are trying to repair bitter divisions over his rejection of an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. Trade unions representing workers who stand to benefit from thousands of new construction jobs from the Keystone XL pipeline are furious at other unions that joined environmentalists in opposing the project. AFL-CIO leaders ...
WOW: CNN Reports on How the Nazis learned from American Progressive Eugenics Movement
Post Date: 2012-03-10 17:35:49 by jwpegler
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The left’s respect for women: a look back
Post Date: 2012-03-10 11:38:41 by A K A Stone
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Since the most important story in the world right now is a popular radio host referring to someone by a rude name because he disagreed with her, I thought it might be a helpful exercise to look back at some of the glowing compliments paid to women throughout the years by our good friends on the left. How did they earn their absolute moral authority, anyway? Let’s take a look! (WARNING: The following contains language that is offensive to women. And also men. At least the ones who aren’t already consumed with hate.) Let’s start with a warm-up, somebody who’s not well-known and for good reason. Back in June 2009, a Playboy.com writer named Guy Cimbalo wrote a piece ...
Georgia Senate OKs drug tests for welfare applicants
Post Date: 2012-03-10 09:07:02 by CZ82
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Georgia Senate OKs drug tests for welfare applicants David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - Adults applying for welfare in Georgia would have to pass a drug test before receiving benefits under a bill approved by the state Senate late on Wednesday. The legislation, called the Social Responsibility and Accountability Act, is designed to ensure that welfare payments, called Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, are not diverted to illicit drug use." The legislation, which now goes to the Georgia House, would not affect welfare payments to children. Under the bill, if a parent failed a drug test, children could still receive payments through another person designated by the state. Two ...
Beach Waterpark announces closure for 2012
Post Date: 2012-03-09 15:51:14 by A K A Stone
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MASON — After nearly three decades, The Beach Waterpark is putting its operations on hold for 2012. Company officials announced today the popular amusement would not open this upcoming season, citing low attendance, the poor economy and competition as the reasons for the shutdown. “The Beach Waterpark management team is extremely saddened to make today’s announcement,” said spokesman for the investors of Beach Waterpark Ralph Vilardo Jr. “We have been proud to provide entertainment and employment to Southwest Ohioans for more than 27 years. Like many businesses these days, we had to make the difficult decision to close after concluding that further investment to ...
Romney rivals unswayed by campaign to play up delegate advantage
Post Date: 2012-03-09 15:38:46 by A K A Stone
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Mitt Romney's campaign is entering the psych-out phase. On the heels of his robust Super Tuesday victories, the Republican presidential frontrunner is ever-so-academically nudging his competitors to get out -- citing the challenges they face in the delegate math. Yet the campaign trail taunts, in the form of dispassionate memos and background briefings with reporters, seem to be emboldening his opponents more than discouraging them. The possibility of Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich becoming the nominee is certainly more remote given Romney's Super Tuesday-aided delegate advantage. However, with two-thirds of the delegates still up for grabs the race is not a lock for the former ...
Court critical of pink underwear for Ariz. inmates
Post Date: 2012-03-08 21:14:52 by A K A Stone
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PHOENIX (AP) -- The pink underwear worn by inmates in Arizona's largest county are a hallmark of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff. They also have become the target of criticism by an appeals court considering the case of a mentally ill man who mistakenly viewed officers' efforts to forcibly clothe him as a rape attempt. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that strip searches and other steps may be necessary for jail security, but questioned the legal justification in one particular case for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's policy of dressing an inmate in pink undergarments. "Unexplained and undefended, the dress-out in pink appears to ...
Union Boss Balistreri: Dems 'Job Killers'
Post Date: 2012-03-08 21:05:09 by A K A Stone
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Tell me something I don't know. Wisconsin Senate Democrats are job killers. What's stunning about Lyle Balistreri's remarks at a union gathering at Serb Hall is that he bashed these Democrats. Dissension in the ranks. LYLE BALISTRERI: (angrily) The people, the workers of the state of Wisconsin, while you're playing your partisan games, are the ones that are suffering. We're sick of it. ... For the Senate Democrats to vote against this bill is a sign that they're not with us. They're certainly not job creators, and, in fact, they're job killers. Priceless video. From CBS-58: Lyle Balistreri wasn't scheduled to speak during Wednesday ...
Man accused of hiding transmitter under wife's bed
Post Date: 2012-03-08 20:54:15 by A K A Stone
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RACCOON TWP. -- A Raccoon Township man was charged after police said he hid a listening device under his wife's bed in an attempt to catch her having an affair. Suzanne Cripe, no age given, of 111 Grays Lane, contacted police Feb. 20 and said she had found a "transmitter device" under her bed, according to a township police report. She told police she thought the device had been placed there by her husband, Wayne Comet Cripe, 66, also of 111 Grays Lane. The Cripes "have been separated for some time," and were still sharing a house, but they had separate bedrooms, the police report said. When police made contact with Wayne Cripe he said, "I guess she found the ...
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