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I was walking around in a Wal-Mart store, when I saw a cashier hand this little boy some money back. The boy couldn’t have been more than 5 or 6 years old.
The Cashier said, ‘I’m sorry, but you don’t have enough money to buy this doll.’
Then the little boy turned to the old woman next to him, ”Granny, are you sure I don’t have enough money?”
The old lady replied, ”You know that you don’t have enough money to buy this doll, my dear.” Continue reading “A Story to Warm your Heart”
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I’ve been a volunteer monitor ( radiation ) with the radiatonnetwork.com for almost 3 years, due to Fukushima. On 2/28/2015 I had a 145 CPM ( Counts or decays per minute ) Alert. The ONLY other station here in the Bay Area that is a constant participator is 2 miles due north of me, and he registered a 151 CPM peak, so, we had a ” hot plume ” pass through. Shit happens all the time, but this was a hot one. Bio-accumulation is my concern. My Leandro station and SL CERT’s graphs below. Continue reading “San Francisco Radiation Spike – 2-28-15”
Washington (AFP) – US President Barack Obama said there was “nothing new” in Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial speech to Congress Tuesday, insisting the Israeli Prime Minister did not offer a better option than negotiations
Netanyahu “did not offer any viable alternatives,” Obama said speaking from the Oval Office. Continue reading “Obama says ‘nothing new’ in Netanyahu speech”
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General David Petraeus has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge in connection to his handling of classified material — striking a plea deal with the government that avoids an embarrassing trial and that will likely keep him out of prison over whether he leaked private information to his mistress when he headed up the CIA.
Federal prosecutors will ask the judge for two years of probation for Petraeus. Continue reading “Petraeus pleads guilty to misdemeanor charge in plea deal over claims he leaked classified info to mistress”
As unbelievable as it sounds, the Drug Enforcement Agency has come up with the most ridiculous argument against marijuana legalization yet. You see, the State of Utah is considering a bill that would recognize the rights of patients with certain debilitating conditions to use medical marijuana – or, more accurately, to use marijuana medically.
The bill specifically promotes the use of edible forms of the plant, preferring it to smoking. This is, of course, fine for most who want to use the herb for medicine. But the DEA is freaking out… Continue reading “DEA Claims ‘Rabbits’ Will Get Stoned If Utah Passes Medical Marijuana Bill”
Wall Street Journal – by JOHN D. MCKINNON
WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service on Monday confirmed it would allow illegal immigrants benefiting from President Barack Obama ’s recent executive action to file for tax refunds for prior years, fueling an outcry from Republicans.
The IRS explanation came in a letter from Commissioner John Koskinen to a veteran GOP lawmaker, Sen. Charles Grassley (R., Iowa). The letter confirmed and expanded on previous public comments by agency officials. In response, Mr. Grassley vowed to push legislation to overturn the policy. Continue reading “IRS Confirms Illegal Immigrant Tax-Refund Ruling, Sparking GOP Outcry”
WASHINGTON — The nuclear deal now being negotiated between Iran, the United States and its allies “doesn’t block Iran’s path to the bomb; it paves Iran’s path to the bomb,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Congress Tuesday.
But despite the friction with the White House caused by his appearance to a joint meeting of Congress, Netanyahu struck a more conciliatory tone, saying the relationship between the United States and Israel “has always been above politics, and must always remain above politics.” Continue reading “Netanyahu: Stop Iran’s ‘march of conquest’”
NEWTOWN, Conn –-(Ammoland.com)- Marval Hornady of Grand Island, Nebraska, died Feb. 20 at age 102. With her husband, Joyce, Marval co-founded Hornady Ammunition in 1949.
After raising a family, she was encouraged by her husband to become more involved at the company and did so in the early 1970s.
When Joyce was killed in a plane crash in 1981, she took over as chairman of the board and secretary of the corporation, and with her son, Steve, and daughter, Margaret, helped the company not only survive but thrive to become the success story it is today. Continue reading “Marval Hornady, Co-Founder Of Hornady Ammunition Passes at 102 Years of Age”
A fast-moving storm through Southern California on Monday dumped so much hail on Huntington Beach that it appeared to turn white.
According to the National Weather Service, at least an inch of icy pellets coated the sand at Huntington Beach after the system roared ashore Monday morning. The pea-sized hail at Huntington was layered about an inch deep, The Los Angeles Times reported. Continue reading “Southern California hailstorm turns Huntington Beach white as snow”
Dictator Barack Obama has announced plans to nationalize law enforcement like all despots like Hitler, Mao and Lenin did:
“We have a great opportunity… to really transform how we think about community law enforcement relations.”
“We need to seize that opportunity… this is something that I’m going to stay very focused on in the months to come.” Continue reading “Obama Announces His Plans to Nationalize Local and State Law Enforcement”
Iran and Russia have struck a deal to produce nuclear fuel in the Islamic Republic, Iran’s ambassador to Russia says.
“Based on a memorandum, Iran and Russia have agreed to jointly produce fuel and this is within the framework of our country’s long-term plans for nuclear fuel production,” Forsat-e Emrouz daily newspaper quoted Mehdi Sanaei as saying. Continue reading “Iran, Russia agree to produce nuclear fuel in Iran”
There is a joke that goes around the gun culture. After a defensive shooting, an attorney asks the person who was defending themselves “Why did you shoot him six times?” The stock punch line is: Because I ran out of ammunition.
The best humor has a lot of truth in it. In the highly charged atmosphere of a life and death defensive shooting, few people are able to count their shots. It is extremely common for people to empty their guns while attempting to stop a threat. Continue reading “VA: Number of Shots not valid reason for First Degree Murder Charge”
It’s time for an intervention. We need to talk.
Are you concerned about the stuff they call “food” at the grocery store? Do you opt for whole foods most of the time, and feel unwell if you eat so-called “junk food”? Are your views about food causing you to make changes in your day-to-day life? Do you believe there is a connection between the food you eat and your physical and mental well-being?
Then, it’s time to face reality. If you choose to eat food without chemicals on a regular basis, you, my friend, are mentally ill. Continue reading “Is Opting Out of Processed Food the New Eating Disorder?”
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The Last Bastille – by Kyle Rearden
Politicians insist that the government has a “right to know” about the intimate details of an entire citizenry. What they fail to realize is that governments do not have rights, which also means that the government has no inherent right to know anything about anybody. Despite this fundamental truth, these self-imagined rulers arrogantly demand that Americans acquiesce to these invasions of privacy on the grounds of whatever their latest crusade happens to be, yet they insist on maintaining their state secrets privilege. Their desire for the government to become nearly omniscient is so self-evidently dangerous to liberty that their attempts to implement a panopticon ought be commonly resisted. Continue reading “A History of Dragnet Wiretapping”
“The enemy will pass slowly from the offensive to the defensive. The blitzkrieg will transform itself into a war of duration. Thus, the enemy will be caught in a dilemma: He has to drag out the war in order to win it, and does not possess, on the other hand, the psychological and political means to fight a long, drawn-out war.”
– Robert Taber, The War of the Flea
The DoD and the Army have now inaugurated yet another iteration of the constant doctrinal battle to balance irregular warfare and conventional warfare. Since the beginning, the US armed forces have struggled to deliver on a force concept that could do either or both well. As William Lind has pointed out eloquently, the US and western powers have enunciated the generations of warfare, but failed to deliver on advancing through the sequence or even gleaning the wisdom they hold. Continue reading “Generations of War in the New Century by Bill Buppert”
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton might have violated a federal law during her four years in office after conducting all of her state business using a private e-mail account instead of an official State Department domain.
What is a surprising is that the State Department never bothered to create an account for Clinton, The New York Times reported. Furthermore, her staff did not abide by the Federal Records Act, which requires government employees to preserve correspondence on departmental servers. Letters and emails by federal officials are considered government property and should thus remain in the public sphere, not private emails, so they can be used in the National Archives. Continue reading “Hillary Clinton may have broken law by using personal email at State Dept.”
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Taser International, the stun-gun maker emerging as a leading supplier of body cameras for police, has cultivated financial ties to police chiefs whose departments have bought the recording devices, raising a host of conflict-of-interest questions.
A review of records and interviews by The Associated Press show Taser is covering airfare and hotel stays for police chiefs who speak at promotional conferences. It is also hiring recently retired chiefs as consultants, sometimes just months after their cities signed contracts with Taser. Continue reading “Body-camera maker has financial ties to police chiefs”
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New assessment tests that have angered parents and teachers across the nation prompted walkouts Monday by hundreds of high school students in New Mexico who had been set to take the exams.
The backlash came as millions of U.S. students started taking the rigorous tests aligned with Common Core standards that outline math and language skills that should be mastered in each grade. New Mexico is among a dozen states debuting the tests this year. Continue reading “New Mexico students join others in nation against new tests”
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