As government springs back to life, so do private industries that rely on feds to do businessVancouver Sun – by RACHEL LA CORTE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The end of the federal shutdown means boats will be back out on the Bering Sea to fish for king crab. Loggers are being allowed back into national forests in Oregon. And barriers keeping nature lovers out of national parks across the country have been removed.

Crews on about 80 boats have been sitting out the multimillion-dollar harvest of red king crab because federal managers who assign fishing quotas were among workers furloughed during the government’s partial shutdown. They’re relieved that they’ll soon be able to start their harvest, bringing back an industry that was one of many private sectors of the economy stalled around the country by the bickering in Washington.   Continue reading “As government springs back to life, so do private industries that rely on feds to do business”

ENE News

Alexandra Morton’s Blog, Oct. 11, 2013: […] The sockeye returns to the Skeena watershed in northern British Columbia crashed this year. This was completely unexpected. Sockeye salmon returns have plunged to historic lows in the Skeena River system of northwestern British Columbia, forcing drastic, never-before-imposed fishing closures. […] massive numbers were dying before spawning. This is a Fraser sockeye problem.   Continue reading “Biologist finds pink salmon that are canary yellow on Canada’s Pacific coast”

whiteprivelagelessonEAG News – by Kyle Olson

MUSKEGON, Mich. – We at EAGnews recently purchased a series of teaching guides that an untold number of American schools are using – or will soon begin using – to teach the new Common Core national standards in math and English.

The guides were produced by the Zaner-Bloser company. We wanted to examine these teaching materials to get a better idea about the values and ideological perspectives that school children will be influenced by.   Continue reading “Fourth graders learn to own their ‘white privilege’ – thanks to Common Core-aligned lesson”

UN Demands Obama “Nullify” Stand Your Ground LawsThe New American – by Alex Newman

Wildly overstepping its bounds while revealing a profound ignorance or disdain for America’s constitutional system of government, the United Nations demanded on September 3 that the Obama administration “nullify” Florida’s popular “stand your ground” law. Of course, the president cannot “nullify” anything, let alone state law — and especially not on meaningless orders from the UN.   Continue reading “UN Demands Obama “Nullify” Stand Your Ground Laws”

The U.S. DollarThe Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

On the global financial stage, China is playing chess while the U.S. is playing checkers, and the Chinese are now accelerating their long-term plan to dethrone the U.S. dollar.  You see, the truth is that China does not plan to allow the U.S. financial system to dominate the world indefinitely.  Right now, China is the number one exporter on the globe and China will have the largest economy on the planet at some point in the coming years.  The Chinese would like to see global currency usage reflect this shift in global economic power.    Continue reading “9 Signs That China Is Making A Move Against The U.S. Dollar”

Negotiations Continue On Capitol Hill One Day Before Debt Limit DeadlinePat Dollard

Excerpted from THE HILL: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says he will not allow another government shutdown as part of a strategy to repeal ObamaCare.

McConnell (Ky.) told The Hill in an interview Thursday afternoon that his party learned a painful political lesson over the past 16 days, as its approval rating dropped while the government was shuttered.     Continue reading “Scmbag Mitch McConnell Promises No More Shutdowns Over ObamaCare”

Washington’s Blog

Key Architect of Counter-Terrorism Policies to Become Homeland Chief

USA Today reports:

President Obama plans to nominate former Pentagon attorney Jeh Johnson as the next secretary of homeland security, officials said Thursday.   Continue reading “Apologist for Assassination of Americans to Be Named as New Homeland Security Chief”

James MadisonVeteran Today – by Jonas E. Alexis

James Madison, back in 1795, prophetically underscored a central point that must be echoed here at this critical time in our history, when the debt ceiling crisis has already reached a point of no return.[2]

Madison declared that “the testimony of all the ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous of all enemies of liberty.”[3]   Continue reading “Perpetual Wars and the Dreadful Few–”The Jews” (Part I)”

Someya's latest materialIEEE Spectrum – by Takao Someya

One decade ago, my research group at the University of Tokyo created a flexible electronic mesh and wrapped it around the mechanical bones of a robotic hand. We had dreamed of making an electronic skin, embedded with temperature and pressure sensors, that could be worn by a robot. If a robotic health aide shook hands with a human patient, we thought, this sensor-clad e-skin would be able to measure some of the person’s vital signs at the same time.

Today we’re still working intensively on e-skin, but our focus is now on applying it directly to the human body. Such a bionic skin could be used to monitor medical conditions or to provide more sensitive and lifelike prosthetics.   Continue reading “Bionic Skin for a Cyborg You”

Washington Post – by Eric Yoder

The budget measure that ended the partial government shutdown allows for a 1 percent raise for federal employees in January in addition to providing back pay for those furloughed, according to two Democratic Maryland senators.

“The promise of a modest pay raise and back pay for furloughed government employees are good first steps in recognizing the value of federal workers,” said Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee in a joint statement with Sen. Ben Cardin.   Continue reading “Budget deal allows for January federal pay raise”

JUDICIAL REFORM:  All valid evidence stands.  To convict the innocent is a crime in itself and the worst of all possible situations involving order within the society, but is a crime against only the person or persons involved.  However, to allow the guilty to go free to continue their crimes, is a gross absurdity, and in fact is a crime against the whole of society.  If evidence is obtained unethically or illegally, that is dealt with as a separate issue.

ELECTION REFORM:  The first three things that must be acted on in campaigns-
a.    All money for any campaign must come from the district of that campaign, and very definitely no money can cross state lines.
b.    Shorten the election cycle.  For elections in November all primaries begin in   June.
c.    Limits on campaign spending,(overall election reform was discussed in a 2 part series 1/24/92 & 2/7/92 in the North Chicago Tribune).   Continue reading “Ideas for Problem Resolution”

Marine Le Pen: EU will fall like the Soviet UnionThe Telegraph – by Martin Banks, Henry Samuel and Alex Spillius

The leader of France’s far-Right party has vowed that the European Union would “collapse like the Soviet Union” as she conspired to form what would be the most radical faction yet seen in the European parliament.

Marine Le Pen, buoyed by a weekend by-election triumph in southern France, criticised the EU as a “global anomaly” and pledged to return the bloc to a “cooperation of sovereign states”.   Continue reading “Marine Le Pen: EU will collapse like the Soviet Union”

winchester1Art of Manliness – by JEREMY ANDERBERG

From helping you find your way back to your campsite, to allowing you to find a missing widget under the bed, to providing illumination when the lights go out, to warding off a would-be attacker, there are few tools as handy and essential as the flashlight. And there are few tools that elicit as much affection and attachment. I think our British friends’ word for the flashlight – torch – gets right to the heart of the appeal. The flashlight is simply the latest iteration of the ancient need to carry fire in one’s hand.   Continue reading “Every Man Should Carry a Torch: A Primer on Flashlights”

She “stole” $2.87 from a PUBLIC fountain to feed herself and she is arrested. Mitch Mcconnell just stole 2-3 billion dollars by his vote last night and he is still free?

Something is wrong with this country.

ABC News

A western Ohio woman charged with petty theft for allegedly stealing $2.87 from a courthouse fountain says she is jobless and took the change to buy food.   Continue reading “Ohio woman charged in theft of $2.87 from fountain”

Stockpiling the Basics for Scratch CookingThe Organic Prepper

To be efficient, every pantry requires certain basics that allow for scratch cooking.  A good pantry should have everything you need to whip together a pie, a loaf of bread, or a batch of biscuits with no trip to the store required.

Many of these basics can be purchased in large quantities. One of my favorite destinations for pantry basics is Amazon, where I purchase yeast, aluminum-free baking soda, and other building blocks of a scratch pantry. I have also acquired 50 pound bags of organic sugar at Bulk Barn for a reduced price.   Continue reading “The Pantry Primer: Stockpiling the Basics for Scratch Cooking”

Wisconsin Republicans Sneaking Cops-Only Firearms Carry BillAmmoLand

Wisconsin –-(Ammoland.com)- Assembly Bill 9 would give law enforcement officers special privileges not granted to the lowly citizens whom they serve – including the ability to carry on private property where CCW is prohibited!

Republican State Rep. Joel Kleefish is ramming a bill through the legislature that will grant police officers — active duty, off-duty and retired — an exemption to access private property prohibiting concealed carry while they are armed.   Continue reading “Wisconsin Republicans Sneaking In Cops-Only Firearms Carry Bill”

Crazed House ranter: ‘God made me do it’New York Post – by Jeane MacIntosh

The Holy Spirit made her do it.

The court scribe who went on a crazed rant about the Constitution, religion and Freemasons after Wednesday’s vote to reopen the government said God spent the shutdown urging her to speak her mind.   Continue reading “Crazed House ranter: ‘God made me do it’”

The Daily Caller – by Robby Soave

Sixth graders were initially terrified to learn that a masked gunman was on the prowl inside their North Carolina middle school.

But once they learned the gunman was a school employee unwittingly putting them through an emergency preparedness exercise, their minds were set at ease — and their parents became the terrified ones.   Continue reading “Insane school unleashes fake masked gunman for civics experiment”

All Gov – by Noel Brinkerhoff

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) new facial recognition system is far from flawless. The technology can accidentally target an innocent person up to 20% of the time, according to a 2010 report (pdf) just released.

The FBI document, obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, revealed the effectiveness (and ineffectiveness) of the agency’s “Next Generation Identification” (NGI) system.   Continue reading “FBI’s Facial Recognition System Targeted an Innocent Person up to 1 out of 5 Times”