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The Real CSI: How America's Patchwork System of Death Investigations Puts The Living At Risk
Post Date: 2011-02-04 01:17:14 by Godwinson
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The Real CSI: How America's Patchwork System of Death Investigations Puts The Living At Risk An investigation by ProPublica, FRONTLINE and NPR looks at the nation’s 2,300 coroner and medical examiner offices and finds a troubled system that literally buries its mistakes. By A.C. Thompson, Mosi Secret, Lowell Bergman and Sandra Bartlett In detective novels and television crime dramas like CSI, the nation's morgues are staffed by highly trained medical professionals equipped with the most sophisticated tools of 21st-century science. Operating at the nexus of medicine and criminal justice, these death detectives thoroughly investigate each and every suspicious fatality. The ...
$32 Billion in Budget Cuts Proposed
Post Date: 2011-02-03 22:11:27 by go65
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WASHINGTON — After clamoring loudly about their plans to curtail federal spending, House Republicans announced Thursday that they would cut $32 billion for the remainder of the fiscal year — a minuscule amount compared with a projected annual deficit of nearly $1.5 trillion. The Republican proposal is effectively $58 billion less than the domestic and foreign aid programs in President Obama’s budget request for 2011 — far short of the $100 billion in cuts that Representative John A. Boehner promised before the November elections that catapulted Republicans into the House majority and made him the speaker. Click for Full Text!
Democrats warn of US shutdown over debt
Post Date: 2011-02-03 19:01:17 by Capitalist Eric
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WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats warned Thursday of dire economic consequences if Congress fails to raise the US debt ceiling, saying it could prompt a shutdown of the federal government. "It's playing with fire," said US Senator Chuck Schumer said of the legislative standoff. If a shutdown were to occur, "citizens couldn't get their checks, veterans couldn't get their benefits, military payments would stop," the veteran New York lawmaker said. Congress early in 2010 raised the US debt ceiling to nearly $14.3 trillion -- very near the current US debt of some $13.9 trillion dollars. The government will run out of money in about two months' time, ...
Legion opposes proposal to cut VA spending (smacksdown Bachmann)
Post Date: 2011-02-03 17:12:29 by go65
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Responding to a proposal by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) to freeze VA health-care spending and cut veterans disability payments to help reduce federal spending, American Legion National Commander Jimmie L. Foster said his organization steadfastly opposes the initiative. "It is absurd to suggest such a thing when we are fighting two wars and creating more veterans every day who have served their country honorably and have already earned their benefits," Foster said. The plan, which proposes to cut a total of $400 billion in federal spending, is derived from an Oct. 28 report from the Heritage Foundation that projects $2.5 billion in savings from a freeze on VA health-care ...
First Bipod Hits Back at It's Fashion Critics…
Post Date: 2011-02-03 13:58:06 by Happy Quanzaa
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Her wardrobe choices have been making headlines for all the wrong reasons. And now Michelle Obama has hit back at the critics who reacted with anger after she chose to wear a British design to a White House formal dinner. In an interview with Good Morning America, the First Lady insisted she will continue to dress in the clothes that make her comfortable - regardless of the label. She said: 'Look, women, wear what you love. 'That's all I can say. That's my motto. I wear what I like because...I gotta be in the dress, so...' Read the full story at the dailymail
World food prices hit record high
Post Date: 2011-02-03 09:22:23 by go65
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London (CNN) -- World food prices rose to an all-time high in January, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The FAO's Food Price Index measures the cost of a basket of basic food supplies -- sugar, cereals, dairy, oils and fats and meat -- across the globe. The index rose by 3.4% in January -- the seventh monthly increase in a row -- to its highest level since records began in 1990. The cost of sugar, cereals, dairy and oils and fats all went up last month, while meat prices remained steady. FAO economist Abdolreza Abbassian said high prices were likely to persist in the months to come. Rising commodities costs are one of the major factors behind a ...
OMG! ANOTHER GLOBAL WARMING SNOWSTORM!!
Post Date: 2011-02-03 09:07:52 by no gnu taxes
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I really can’t decide whether I should hate Al Gore… or thank him for giving me something to write about. He has caused the spread of more pseudo-scientific incompetence on the subject of global warming (I’m sorry — climate change) than any climate scientist could possibly have ever accomplished. Who else but a politician could spin so much certainty out of a theory? As someone who has lived and breathed meteorology and climate for 40 years now, I can assure you that this winter’s storminess in the little 2% patch of the Earth we like to call the ‘United States of America’ has nothing to do with your SUV. Natural climate variability? Maybe. But I ...
NPR: The Last Bastion of Global Warming
Post Date: 2011-02-03 08:59:31 by no gnu taxes
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I am listening to story after story on NPR about how bad the winter weather is this year. But in between I hear some guy interviewed about global warming and what a problem it is. And he didn’t say climate change, he said global warming. I think that anyone currently in an insane asylum should be let out immediately and replaced with anyone who still believes in global warming.
The GOP House is Already Making a Difference in the Economy
Post Date: 2011-02-03 08:29:11 by no gnu taxes
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Private-sector payrolls expanded at a solid pace in January, led by small-business hiring, according to data released Wednesday. Private-sector jobs in the U.S. rose by 187,000 last month, according to a national employment report published by payroll giant Automatic Data Processing Inc. and consultancy Macroeconomic Advisers. Economists had expected ADP to report a job gain of 143,000 in January.
Heavy Gunfire Rings Out in Cairo Protest Square
Post Date: 2011-02-02 23:56:04 by Brian S
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CAIRO -- Bursts of heavy gunfire rained into Cairo's Tahrir Square before dawn Thursday, killing at least three anti-government demonstrators among crowds still trying to hold the site after an assault by supporters of President Hosni Mubarak, according to a protest organizer. Sustained bursts of automatic weapons fire and powerful single shots rattled into the square starting at around 4 a.m., and was continuing more than an hour later. Protest organizer Mustafa el-Naggar said he saw the bodies of three dead protesters being carried toward an ambulance. He said the gunfire came from at least three locations off in the distance and that the Egyptian military, which has ringed the ...
Texas Imposes Rolling Blackouts As Mercury Drops
Post Date: 2011-02-02 15:41:41 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - The Texas power grid operator on Wednesday imposed rare rolling blackouts as frigid weather swept across the state, leaving nearly 1 million homes temporarily without electricity. After the cold snap caused 50 generation units with the capacity of 7,000 megawatts to shut down, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the grid operator for the second most populous state behind California, declared an energy emergency. ERCOT called on state energy suppliers to cut about 4,000 megawatts worth of power demand in the early hours of the day -- equal to 800,000 homes, using ERCOT's estimate of 1 megawatt per 200 houses in extreme temperatures. The grid operator reduced ...
Reagan ‘Neglected Minorities’? -- Sam Donaldson and the left run roughshod over the record.
Post Date: 2011-02-02 14:15:36 by no gnu taxes
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On January 24, USA Today published nine commentaries on Ronald Reagan’s legacy. One of the selected contributors was Sam Donaldson. Why McPaper thought the former ABC White House correspondent deserved a place among the other eight (President Obama, House Speaker John Boehner, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese, biographer Lou Cannon, and scholar Leon Aron) is a mystery. The former ABC White House correspondent deserves some credit. In his retrospective, titled “My Respect for Reagan Only Grew,” Donaldson confesses that many underestimated the Gipper. “I must admit,” he ruefully notes: “I was one of them.” (So were ...
If the evidence of global warming is so strong why does the left manufacture so much bogus data in an attempt to prove their fairytale?
Post Date: 2011-02-02 11:33:58 by no gnu taxes
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If the evidence of global warming is so strong why does the left manufacture so much bogus data in an attempt to prove their fairytale? This is what climate disruption global change (aka -weather) is really about… Ottmar Edenhofer, a German economist and co-chair of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change admits the group’s primary goal is the redistribution of wealth and not environmental protection or saving the Earth. http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/554439/201011191859/The-Climate-Cash-Cow.aspx Lets take a look at all the manufactured data by fraudulent people. Bogus Data by a bogus leftist… California (Hein Tran) grossly miscalculated ...
Private Sector Added 187K Jobs In January
Post Date: 2011-02-02 09:43:45 by go65
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U.S. private employers added 187,000 jobs in January compared with a revised gain of 247,000 jobs in December, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Wednesday. The December figure was originally reported as a gain of 297,000 jobs. Click for Full Text!
Record Snows Fueled by Record Heat; January Heat Outpaces Cold
Post Date: 2011-02-02 09:14:59 by go65
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As noted in the previous post, some areas of the Northeast U.S. have racked up impressive snowfall totals so far this winter, particularly in near-coastal portions of southern New England. Hartford, for example, set an all-time monthly snowfall record in January. Is this the harbinger of a cooling trend, as some alarmist ice-agers would claim? In fact, preliminary data for January from the National Climatic Data Center indicate that, for the U.S. as a whole, record high temperatures actually exceeded record low temperatures. This is now the 10th month out of the last 13 since last January that heat records have exceeded cold ones. The ratio of high temperature records to low temperature ...
Boehner Lobbyist Affair Story Hitting The Enquirer Thursday?
Post Date: 2011-02-01 23:35:21 by go65
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Remember the videos at the bottom of this post? The New York Times passed on the story (if there ever was one; Page 6 of the New York Post isn’t known as the beginning and end of truth), but evidently Boehner hasn’t been successful in making the story go away. I was recently contacted by a reporter from the National Enquirer, and now I have confirmation that their story will hit the newsstands on Thursday. Wonder how well Boehner’s zero-tolerance pledge regarding corruption will hold up when it comes out that several hundred paper-making jobs were lost in his district and he refused to do anything about it at the same time he was sleeping with a lobbyist for the printing ...
Michigan School District Allows Sikh Students to Wear Religious Dagger to School
Post Date: 2011-02-01 22:36:13 by jwpegler
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A Detroit-area district says it's allowing Sikh students to wear a small, religious dagger to school. The decision by the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools reverses a ban put in place in December after a fourth-grader at a Canton Township elementary school was found with a dull, 3- to 5-inch kirpan. The kirpan represents a commitment to fight evil in the Sikh tradition. The dagger is a religious symbol that baptized Sikh males are expected to carry. The principal initially let the boy keep the kirpan, but the school board instituted a ban because of parental concerns and conflicts with the district's rules against bringing weapons to school.
NASA Satellites Capture Data on Monster Winter Storm Affecting 30 States
Post Date: 2011-02-01 21:32:12 by go65
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One of the largest winter storms since the 1950s is affecting 30 U.S. states today with snow, sleet, freezing rain and rain. NASA satellites have gathering data on the storm that stretches from Texas and the Rockies to the New England states. NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites have been providing visible, infrared and microwave looks at the storm system's clouds, precipitation, temperatures and extent. Visible and infrared images and animations of the storm's clouds and movement are created every 15 minutes by the NASA GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. using data from GOES-11 and GOES-13, the Geostationary Operational Environmental ...
Muslims in the Military
Post Date: 2011-02-01 20:54:02 by Ferret Mike
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His call sign is "Hadji," meaning "one who has made a pilgrimage to Mecca." "It's a pilot thing," explains Colonel Douglas Burpee, the highest ranking Muslim officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. Now in his 23rd year of military service, Colonel Burpee recently returned from flying helicopters in Afghanistan. "Everyone knows I'm a Muslim. When I fly, attached to my dog tags, I wear a pendant with a passage from the Koran," he says. "I try to set a good example based upon what I believe.... I can be a soldier and a Muslim at the same time. I have no problem with that." In the era of the war on terror, the example of a devout Muslim ...
U.S. tells Mubarak he must go
Post Date: 2011-02-01 16:07:43 by go65
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A senior U.S. official tells NBC News that Wisner not only told Mubarak that it was time for him to step down, but he explained that even if Mubarak wanted to stay in office, he couldn't possibly hold on until September. Asked whether there is a growing security concern in Egypt, the official said "no."
DOCTORS ORDERS, Judge compares Obamacare to reason for Revolution [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-02-01 15:58:05 by Mad Dog
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&pageId'Difficult to imagine' Founders forcing people 'to buy tea' Read more: Judge compares Obamacare to reason for Revolution The federal judge who today ruled that Obamacare is unconstitutional said he couldn't imagine that the Founders of America would have rebelled over a tea tax only to set up a government requiring people to buy tea. "If it [Congress] has the power to compel an otherwise passive individual into a commercial transaction with a third party merely by asserting – as was done in the Act – that compelling the actual transaction is itself 'commercial and economic in nature and substantially affects interstate commerce,' it is ...
text of Vinson Decision re; obamacare
Post Date: 2011-02-01 15:47:51 by Mad Dog
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Page 1 of 78 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA PENSACOLA DIVISION STATE OF FLORIDA, by and through Attorney General Pam Bondi, et al.; Plaintiffs, v. Case No.: 3:10-cv-91-RV/EMT UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, et al., Defendants. / ORDER GRANTING SUMMARY JUDGMENT On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed health care reform legislation: “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” Pub. L. No. 111-148, 124 Stat. 119 (2010), as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, Pub. L. No. 111-152, 124 Stat. 1029 (2010) (the “Act”). This case, challenging the Constitutionality of the ...
Egypt Proves Bush Was Right
Post Date: 2011-02-01 15:03:50 by no gnu taxes
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Bush adviser says Obama should have listened to the former president For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their "freedom deficit" signaling the political underdevelopment that accompanied many other economic and social maladies. In November 2003, President George W. Bush asked these questions: "Are the peoples of the Middle East somehow beyond the reach of liberty? Are millions of men and women and children condemned by history or culture to live in despotism? Are they alone never to know freedom and never even to have a choice in the ...
The Arctic Ocean Is Heating -- So Little Ice Has Never Before been Seen
Post Date: 2011-02-01 11:39:28 by no gnu taxes
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GOP Plan To Avoid US Default: Pay China Before Anyone Else
Post Date: 2011-01-31 19:21:17 by Brian S
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Legislation introduced by Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) would force the United States government to make interest payments on the national debt a first priority if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling. The bill is intended to prevent the US from defaulting on its loans by forcing the government to re-routing massive amounts of income to China, other countries and financial institutions before paying for domestic obligations, such as Social Security. "Under no circumstances is it acceptable for the US to default on its debt," Sen. Toomey wrote at the Wall Street Journal last week. "Not only are we morally obligated to honor our debts, but we benefit greatly from the nearly ...
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