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Woman was forced to have an abortion

SamCogar — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:26:51 GMT

In what investigators are calling a "horrendous" case of child abuse, five members of a Missouri family � a father and his four adult sons � are being charged with a host of shocking crimes against children as young as 11 years old. (snip) Police said the crimes were committed between 1988 and 1995, though they might have continued after that period. The Lafayette County Prosecutors office issued probable cause documents claiming that several female relatives and one male ...

Craven Cowardice?

ohio county — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:59:57 GMT

Administrators at Henry "Scoop" Jackson High School outside Everett, WA asked the student woodwinds section to provide a list of selections they would play for graduation. One selection caught administrators' attention: "Ave Maria" by Biehl. The song was a standard of the singing group, the Chanticleers and had been covered by the woodwinds section in a recital the previous year. Administrators waffled and asked the woodwinds to make an alternate selection. One of ...

It would have been $30,000,000 in America

SamCogar — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:12:29 GMT

A school district in England must pay $30,000 to a 16-year-old girl who lost all but two fingers in a horrific plaster of Paris accident. The girl's hands became stuck in a bucket of plaster of Paris during an art lesson in January 2007. The accident happened while she was attempting to make a sculpture of her own hands during the lesson at Giles School in Boston in Lincolnshire, England. Neither classmates, staff, nor paramedics could remove her hands as they began to cook from ...

Coyote + wolf = new breed of predator

SamCogar — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:14:11 GMT

�Coywolf� hybrids fill open evolutionary niche in northeast U.S. New DNA evidence reveals that coyotes have bred with wolves in the northeastern United States, turning mice-eating coyotes into much larger animals with a hunger for big prey, such as deer. The resulting "coywolves" may, however, benefit ecosystems, since they appear to be filling niches once occupied by wolves that were eradicated by humans. "We are finding repeatedly that hybridization is more ...

Looney was as looney as Looney was.

SamCogar — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:09:29 GMT

A Missouri man reportedly shot himself in the head accidentally while teaching his girlfriend about gun safety. According to witnesses James Looney was insistent on giving his girlfriend a personal lesson in firearm safety Friday before taking her to a shooting range, MyFOXMemphis reported. As part of the tutorial, Looney demonstrated different safety features on several firearms then put the guns to his head and asked if they would fire, Jefferson County Sheriff told the station. The ...

Dog That Did Not Bark

ohio county — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:41:52 GMT

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/us/politics/12acorn.html This story in Sunday's New York Times reports that the Census Bureau has disinvited ACORN from participating in the 2010 census effort. Okay? That's pretty straight forward and it is news and that is what happened. I do not dispute any of that. However, the Census Bureau's action was prompted by a scam perpetrated upon no fewer than four ACORN locations where a young man and woman posing as a procurer and his prostitute asked ...

Teen birth rates highest in most religious states

SamCogar — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:37:04 GMT

Link may be due to communities frowning on contraception, researchers say U.S. states whose residents have more conservative religious beliefs on average tend to have higher rates of teenagers giving birth, a new study suggests. The relationship could be due to the fact that communities with such religious beliefs (a literal interpretation of the Bible, for instance) may frown upon contraception, researchers say. If that same culture isn't successfully discouraging teen sex, the pregnancy ...

Conspiring to Remain Healthy?

ohio county — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:10:57 GMT

Surely they jest. This has already been scrubbed on the official Obama site but this is what the White House thinks of you:

Sleep Paralysis Can Terrorize Those Who Suffer From It

SamCogar — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:49:48 GMT

A new article by British researchers calls for more attention to be paid in the medical community to sleep paralysis, also known as "night terrors." "Sleep paralysis is a period of transient, consciously experienced paralysis either when going to sleep or waking up," wrote the researchers from the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London. "During an episode the individual is fully conscious, able to open their eyes but aware that it ...

Getting by on six hours of sleep? It�s genetic

SamCogar — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:46:55 GMT

Getting by on six hours of sleep? It�s genetic Most of us need about eight or so hours of sleep a night to perform optimally during the day. But scientists have found a mother and daughter who naturally snooze just six nightly hours, waking up bright-eyed and bushy tailed. "They really have shorter sleep requirements," said study researcher Ying-Hui Fu, a professor of neurology at the University of California at San Francisco, Mission Bay. It turns out, the pair are ...

An effective �Crime Stopper�, should be used more often.

SamCogar — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:24:49 GMT

Harlem Store Owner Kills Two Robbers With Shotgun A Harlem restaurant-supply store owner unleashed a round of shotgun blasts on a gang of four robbers Thursday afternoon, killing two of them and wounding two others, police said. The shooting happened at about 3:10 p.m. at The Kaplan Brothers� Blue Flame, at 523 West 125th Street, near Amsterdam Avenue, according to cops. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32408728

Betcha didn�t know this.

SamCogar — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:20:25 GMT

Unraveling how kids become bilingual so easily Mastering your dominant language gets in the way of learning a second, less familiar one, Kuhl's research suggests. The brain tunes out sounds that don't fit. "You're building a brain architecture that's a perfect fit for Japanese or English or French," whatever is native, Kuhl explains � or, if you're a lucky baby, a brain with two sets of neural circuits dedicated to two languages. Babies can learn 2 languages as fast as ...

The beauty of our Legal System.

SamCogar — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:35:49 GMT

VANCOUVER, Wash. � Former Vancouver police officer Clyde Ray Spencer spent nearly 20 years in prison after he was convicted of sexually molesting his son and daughter. Now, the children say it never happened. Matthew Spencer and Kathryn Tetz, who live in Sacramento, Calif., each took the stand Friday in Clark County Superior Court to clear their father's name, The Columbian newspaper reported. Matthew, now 33, was 9 years old at the time. He told a judge he made the allegation after ...

Linda shoots Pepper out of the saddle.

SamCogar — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:59:08 GMT

. SF Zoo's Same Sex Penguin Couple Splits Up http://www.ktvu.com/news/20021701/detail.html This will no doubt now be claimed by the believers and proponents of homosexuality in animals to be a miraculous case of �self-induced Penguin Gene Therapy�. .

ACLU Seeks End To Jail Censorship of Religious Material

ziggy — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:59:38 GMT

ACLU Seeks End To Censorship of Religious Material By Virginia Jail Ban of Biblical Passages and Other Material Unconstitutional STAFFORD, Va., July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Virginia today demanded that officials at the Rappahannock Regional Jail immediately end their illegal practice of censoring religious material sent to detainees. In a letter sent today to the jail's superintendent, Joseph Riggs, Jr., the ACLU asks for jail ...

A prime reason for the Three Strikes Law.

SamCogar — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:17:45 GMT

He was unpredictable. He was scary. He was weird," said SLED Deputy Director Neil Dolan. Burris had a long rap sheet filled with convictions for larceny, forgery and breaking and entering in states across the Southeast, including Florida, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. He had been paroled from a North Carolina prison in April after serving nearly eight years for felony breaking and entering and larceny. "Look at this," Lloyd said, waving a stapled copy of Burris' ...

Are you getting ready to weather this?

SamCogar — Sat, 30 May 2009 12:38:03 GMT

If not, then you might be in a heap of trouble. May 29, 2009: An international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle. Solar Cycle 24 will peak, they say, in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots. �If our prediction is correct, Solar Cycle 24 will have a peak sunspot number of 90, the lowest of any cycle since 1928 when Solar Cycle 16 peaked at 78," says panel chairman Doug Biesecker of the NOAA ...

Your narcissistic traits are not based in reality

SamCogar — Sun, 24 May 2009 08:17:19 GMT

But no one can convince you otherwise because that is what you were nurtured to believe. �Princess fever� reigns for generation of girls But some parents fear fairy-tale fantasy conveys wrong message �But what happens when our daughters get to adulthood and they realize that the world isn�t a fairy tale?� asks Morris, who lives in suburban Atlanta and insists she doesn�t mind imaginative play. She just wants her girls to strive for something beyond being �pretty and glamorous.� These ...

Dat poor squirrel

SamCogar — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:08:12 GMT

HAZLET, N.J. � The owner of a New Jersey pest control company has been charged with animal cruelty after a squirrel was found dead in a rooftop trap. The Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals charged Kathleen Buck, owner of Critter Ridder, on Friday. Chief Buddy Amato says a professional complex hired Critter Ridder to help get rid of the squirrel. He says a trap was set Wednesday for the animal, and no one returned to check on it. Amato says the squirrel ...

Pinnacle of Journalism

ohio county — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:04:51 GMT

The New York Times is the most renowned and respected newspaper in the United States. How sad is it to behold what the Times has become? http://www.nytstore.com/ProdDetail.aspx?prodId=29163 If you act now you can buy the commemorative Obama coffee cup with a reprint of the January 8 front page. And they wonder why they are losing readers...

AAH, those ignorant lefty liberal Educators

SamCogar — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:40:52 GMT

WEST HAVEN, Utah � The principal of a Utah middle school has been asked to apologize for forcing a kilt-wearing student to change his clothes. Weber School District spokesman Nate Taggart says Craig Jessop has been asked to extend an apology to 14-year-old student Gavin McFarland of Hooper after the school official's comments Wednesday. Gavin says he wore the kilt twice in the past two weeks to Rocky Mountain Junior High as a prop for an art project. Jessop told the boy that the outfit ...

WHAT, heteropaternal superfecundation was Mommy's fault

SamCogar — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:38:44 GMT

A Texas mother of twins got the shock of her life when doctors revealed that her 11-month-old boys do not have the same father. Mia Washington decided to get some expert advice when she and her partner noticed that twins Justin and Jordan had different facial features. Paternity tests then revealed what had happened � two eggs had been fertilized by two different sperm and there was a 99.99% chance the twins had different dads. Doctors at the DNA lab in Dallas, Texas had never ...

Solar Powered ...... and in the dark.

SamCogar — Sat, 16 May 2009 07:38:35 GMT

The value of a quality education is really, really important. Solar-Powered Show House Near Detroit Still Dark It's the house of the future, brought low by the problems of the past. Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Mich., and DTE, the Detroit-area power company, spent $900,000 to build a solar-powered demonstration house that wouldn't need electric or gas hookups. But seven months after the Troy, Mich., facility was unveiled, the Detroit News reports, ...

OOPS!!! He Did It Again!

Stephanie — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:54:04 GMT

Biden really outdid himself this time. Yet, notice at the end of the piece rather than denouncing Biden for his idiocy the author instead chooses to take another swipe at Bush & Cheney? Joe Spills the Beans This just in from Newsweek's Eleanor Clift, a frequent purveyor of political anecdotes. She bring us an enlightening one here regarding the (quote) undisclosed location (unquote) we heard lots about in the days after Sept. 11. Here's Eleanor: Ever wonder about that secure, ...

Obama Promises To "Restore Science"

ohio county — Sun, 17 May 2009 04:52:50 GMT

But what's his EPA going to do about ethanol? Pretend that the state holding the nation's first political caucuses has a superior product that will not remove a commodity from the food chain, drive up prices, and force third world countries to clear swaths of the rainforest to support growing corn for ethanol - a net CO2 gainer? http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/20090514/ts_usnews/ethanolrulingatestforobamaadministration Think Obama will "restore science" at the expense ...

The Empowerment Experiment

Stephanie — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:16:02 GMT

Apparently special interest groups can discriminate. Couple�s �buy black� experiment becomes a movement ATLANTA - It�s been two months since 2-year-old Cori pulled the gold stud from her left earlobe, and the piercing is threatening to close as her mother, Maggie Anderson, hunts for a replacement. It�s not that the earring was all that rare � but finding the right store has become a quest of Quixotic proportions. Maggie and John Anderson of Chicago vowed four months ago that ...

Its your fault, ..... so shut up and pay.

SamCogar — Sat, 16 May 2009 07:19:28 GMT

Owner of Stolen Car Sued in Deadly Hit-and-Run A motorist whose car was stolen and later involved in a fatal drunken-driving accident is among the defendants being sued for the deaths of a New York teen and his friend, both killed in the crash. The owner of the car, David Jaber, had left it running while he stopped at a New York City deli at 1:30 a.m. Feb. 1 when Kenneth Guyear allegedly hopped into the Kia and drove away, running over Robert Ogle, 16, and Alex Paul, 20, the New York ...

Hurt Someone's Feelings - Go to Prison

ohio county — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:20:13 GMT

http://futurestorm.blogspot.com/2009/05/hr-1966-offend-someone-online-go-to.html

This reminds me of an episode here.

Why Isn't the MSM Covering This????

Stephanie — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:00:09 GMT

College Student Shoots, Kills Home Invader COLLEGE PARK, Ga. -- A group of college students said they are lucky to be alive and they�re thanking the quick-thinking of one of their own. Police said a fellow student shot and killed one of two masked me who burst into an apartment. Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Jones met with one of the students to talk about the incident. �Apparently, his intent was to rape and murder us all,� said student Charles Bailey. Bailey said he ...

Nobody Messes With Joe

ohio county — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:45:23 GMT

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/shirtless_biden_washes_trans_am_in?utm_source=a-section

Jack Kemp

Stephanie — Sun, 03 May 2009 11:28:31 GMT

Jack Kemp, football star and politician, dies Jack Kemp, football star and politician, dies By MATT APUZZO and CAROLYN THOMPSON � 3 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) � Jack Kemp, the former pro quarterback who turned fame on the gridiron into a career in national politics and a crusade for lower taxes, has died of cancer at age 73. Family spokeswoman Marci Robinson said Kemp died shortly after 6 p.m. Saturday, surrounded by his family. Kemp died at his home in Bethesda, Md., in the ...

Souter to Retire

Stephanie — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:24:33 GMT

I'm not sorry to see him go.........just concerned over the prospect of who Obama may appoint to replace him. With Specter having defected, this won't be a nomination, just an appointment.

Will This Be Used as an Excuse for Martial Law?

Stephanie — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:19:57 GMT

I figure with that whackjob Napolitano heading the Department of Homeland Security it's a distinct possibility. U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency Over Swine Flu Outbreak By CAM SIMPSON WASHINGTON -- Federal officials declared a health emergency on Sunday, as they confirmed 20 cases of swine flu in five states, mobilized medicine stockpiles, and warned the public that the number and severity of incidences were likely to increase. The officials urged calm, saying the declaration ...

Low-Flying Plane Over Manhattan Was a 'Photo Op'

Stephanie — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:39:48 GMT

A jumbo jetliner escorted by military jets flew over Lower Manhattan Monday morning, frightening office workers and causing evacuations in what turned out to be a publicity operation approved by the unit of the Air Force. At around 10 a.m. EDT, the Boeing 747 was seen flying low over the southern tip of Manhattan and at one point was seen circling the Goldman Sachs Tower in nearby Jersey City, N.J. The circling plane was part of a "photo op," a Federal Aviation Administration ...

The Voice of Reason

Stephanie — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:36:36 GMT

A good education is important.

SamCogar — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:38:42 GMT

The students led the police down the road starting fires, said Ben Wolford, an editor at the campus newspaper who witnessed the riot. "They were going into their houses and bringing out office chairs," he said. "Someone said they threw a flat-screen TV on the fire." Students who lived in nearby houses threw objects from windows to feed the flames. Video shows students huddled on a roof, escaping into a second-story window as a line of about 25 police, their faces ...

Unionization and the labor cost differential

SamCogar — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:17:14 GMT

This cost differential has been a theme of the debate this week in Congress over whether taxpayers should subsidize GM, Ford and Chrysler. But what if the UAW could more easily organize workers at Honda and Hyundai? UAW-represented workers at Honda and Hyundai could then bargain for higher wages. The Employee Free Choice Act, passed by the House of Representatives last year, but stymied in the Senate, aims to make unionization easier by allowing workers to join a union by signing a ...

personal note

ohio county — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:33:27 GMT

Unless she happens to be a poor, black kid from the District of Columbia.

That awful cigarette smoke does it again,

SamCogar — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:53:57 GMT

WASHINGTON - Treating depression and other mental disorders in U.S. children cost $8.9 billion in 2006, making mental illness the most expensive condition to treat in childhood, U.S. government researchers reported on Wednesday. An estimated 4.6 million children were treated for mental disorders in 2006 at an average cost of $1,931 per child, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reported. But more children were treated for asthma than any other disease or injury, the ...

Cap and Trade

ohio county — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:28:35 GMT

Obama's Cap and Trade Proposal which he is haranguing the Congress to pass will cost you around $3900 per year. This should end the financial crisis pretty quickly. Oh, wait. Stop. Reverse that...

http://weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=16412&R=1613619078

Repaying TARP loans

ohio county — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:06:31 GMT

In this morning's Wall Street Journal: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner indicated that the health of individual banks won't be the sole criterion for whether financial firms will be allowed to repay bailout funds, a position that might complicate their efforts to give back the cash. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124027087650836931.html#articleTabs%3Darticle It appears as if the criterion for repaying TARP is a moving target.

Centra Financial Holdings Inc. of Morgantown

Stephanie — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:10:16 GMT

W.Va. bank becomes first to cut all bailout ties WASHINGTON (AP) - A West Virginia bank has become the first to completely cut its ties to the federal government's $700 billion financial rescue program. The Treasury Department said Friday that Centra Financial Holdings Inc. of Morgantown, W.Va., has given the government $750,000 to buy back warrants Treasury was holding that gave it an ownership share in the company. That transaction means Centra Financial has now paid ...

Say What You Want About Glen Beck...

ohio county — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:14:49 GMT

But he put Connecticut Attorney General Blumenthal in his place the other day:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2009/03/30/fox-news-host-beck-slams-connecticut-ag-you-are-insult-george-washington

Cigarettes to increase by sixty-two cents a pack

ohio county — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:27:37 GMT

Tomorrow the Federal tax increase goes into effect. Stock up today!

YUP, for the good of WV, stop that MTR'ing

SamCogar — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:41:40 GMT

The coal industry says most of the nearly 130 million tons of coal produced at mountaintop mines in Appalachia goes to generate electricity for 24.7 million customers. Moreover, mountaintop mines employ some 14,000 people across West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. The practice has a huge economic impact in Appalachia. Wages average about $62,000 � high pay for rural Appalachia � and states make millions in taxes. Coal companies have been cutting production, closing ...

Six years later and still pending, �.. pending, �. pending

SamCogar — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:56:40 GMT

Judge Defends Keeping 9-11 Documents Secret Before Trial NEW YORK � A judge said Wednesday he favors keeping Sept. 11-related documents and interviews secret until the trials for several families of victims suing the airline industry, an opinion that upset several victims' family members. Donald Migliori, a lawyer for families of three people who died on hijacked planes in the 2001 attacks, asked U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein to make nearly a million pages of evidence and 200 ...

Fed EXpands Debt by One Trillion Dollars and No One Cares

ohio county — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:09:20 GMT

The Federal Reserve Bank bought one trillion dollars of public debt, in effect moving a trillion dollars from one coat pocket to the next and nobody knows it. This is unprecedented. While we're arguing back and forth about a $165 million bonus package for fifty swells at the country club, Obama, Inc. is devaluing the currency and looking to spark some heavy inflation. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090319.IBFED19/TPStory/Business

News You Can Use

ohio county — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:41:51 GMT

This site proudly lists companies that are actively lobbying to raise your taxes. Please remember this when you buy products that these companies might make: http://www.ceres.org/bicep http://www.ceres.org/Page.aspx?pid=971 Similarly, this group, too, is working on your elected representatives to make you pay the maximum. Please remember them at the top of your lungs and through your wallet: http://www.us-cap.org/

Bigger Man Than Obama

ohio county — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:46:51 GMT

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D971TJ1O0&show_article=1

Public to Climate Change: Drop Dead.

ohio county — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:11:11 GMT

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hybrid17-2009mar17,0,6682265.story

I know, let's have the government mandate that the Big Three sell hybrids.