Saturday, August 16, 2014

In the news, Thursday, July 31, 2014


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JUL 30      INDEX      AUG 01
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Information from some sites may not be reliable, or may not be vetted.
Some sources may require subscription.

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from ABC News (& affiliates)
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from AMAC - The Association of Mature American Citizens
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from Awesome Ocean

Breaking: HSUS Loses Charity Rating
The HSUS has historically bragged about their 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, one of the most trust-worthy charity evaluators in the game. Recently, they were downgraded to a 3-star rating and now their rating has been completely revoked, a “Donor Advisory” warning taking its place.

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from The Blaze
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from The Brookings Institution
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from CBS News (& affiliates)

Emory Hospital to receive 2 Ebola patients
Two Americans who contracted the Ebola virus in Africa are being moved to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

Hubble telescope marks another milestone in space
Five years after a fifth and final shuttle servicing mission, the Hubble Space Telescope's instruments are operating in near-flawless fashion and while one of its six stabilizing gyroscopes has failed, project managers are optimistic the observatory will be able to operate through the end of the decade, wrapping up 30 years at the apex of astronomy.

State Supreme Court upholds Act 10, voter ID, domestic partnership registry
THE STATE SUPREME COURT UPHELD THREE MAJOR LAWS IN WISCONSIN.

from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

Mediaite Catches CNN’s Weir Calling Fox Nation ‘Ignorant F***sticks’

Joe Scarborough Turns On Israel: These Attacks are ‘Asinine,’ ‘Indiscriminate’

Pelosi to Reporters on Midterm Election: ‘We Need You to Be Messengers...’

Only NBC 'Nightly News' Covers Stunning Bill Clinton 9/10/2001 Audiotape
The day before the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, former President Bill Clinton told a group of businessmen in Australia that he "could have killed" the man behind those attacks, Osama bin Laden, in 1998, but he decided against launching a strike out of concern for civilian casualties.

Rand Paul: 'I Was Having a Great Day Today, and then I Went to MSNBC'

Networks That Ignored Bad GDP News, Eagerly Cover ‘Good News’
ABC and NBC evening news programs ignored the Commerce Department’s announcement of negative 0.1 percent GDP growth on April 30 and the revision to negative 1.0 percent growth on May 29. Again, on June 25 when the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) said the economy actually shrank by 2.9 percent in Q1, both “World News” and “Nightly News” remained silent. Only CBS “Evening News” reported all three of those GDP announcements the day they were released.

Son of Hamas Founder Declares ‘Hamas Is A Terrorist Organization With A Humanitarian Face’

House Authorizes Boehner to Sue Obama for Taking Actions Boehner Plans to Fund

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from The Daily Caller

Federal Court Orders DOJ To Release Fast And Furious Information

Pelosi Asks Reporters To Be ‘Messengers’ For Flailing House Dems

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from Daily Mail (UK)

Hubble spots gigantic 'magnifying glass' galaxy that lets astronomers see back a record breaking 9.6 billion years
'Lensing' galaxies are so massive that their gravity bends, magnifies, and distorts light from objects behind them

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from EarthSky

Asteroid impacts may have buried Earth’s earliest rocks
More than 4 billion years ago, giant asteroid impacts melted, mixed and buried the surface of Earth

High-level detail as Rosetta gets closer, and closer, to its comet
Wow! Comets ARE dirty snowballs. Latest image from the inbound Rosetta spacecraft, now less than 2,000 km from its comet and closing fast.

Methane release likely caused mystery crater on Yamal peninsula
A science team measured methane concentrations up to 50,000 times standard levels inside the crater.

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from East Oregonian

Oregon ranked 30th best state for child well-being
Two-thirds of fourth graders considered ‘not proficient’ in reading

Pendleton police respond to gun-toting bank customer
An agitated customer with a gun led to police intervention Thursday at the Pendleton branch of Community Bank. But Pendleton police Chief Stuart Roberts said the woman broke no law.

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from FactCheck.org

Playing Politics with Violence Against Women
An ad from Alison Lundergan Grimes knocks Sen. Mitch McConnell for voting “two times against the Violence Against Women Act” — evidence, Grimes concludes, that McConnell has forgotten that “over half the voters in Kentucky are women.” But McConnell has never opposed the central purpose of the Violence Against Women Act. In fact, he was a cosponsor of the original bill in 1991, and he has twice supported its reauthorization.

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from Fox News (& affiliates)
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from Freedom Outpost
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from The Heritage Foundation

Wind Farms Divide Environmentalists: Renewable Energy vs. Dead Birds

Lawmaker Moves to Tax Sugary Drinks
A Connecticut lawmaker hopes to open another front in the war on childhood obesity and diabetes. On Wednesday, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, a Democrat, introduced a bill that would impose a national tax on sugary soft drinks.

The Government Should Stop Discriminating Against Religious Adoption Agencies

Q&A: Ebola in Africa Not Yet a National Security Issue

Milton Friedman’s 7 Most Notable Quotes

Genevieve Wood: It’s Not ‘Inhumane’ to ‘Want to Secure the Border’

How Should Washington Address the Border Crisis?

Split on Border Spending Bill Prompts Republicans to Delay Recess

Baker Who Won’t Make Cakes for Same-Sex Weddings Appeals Mandatory Re-Education Order

How Our Broken Accreditation System Increases College Costs

Bachmann at the Border: ‘Bills Don’t Stop the Problem’

Legislation Introduced to Curb Civil Forfeiture’s ‘Perverse’ Incentives

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from History

Evidence of Gruesome Ancient Ritual Unearthed in Denmark
Some 2,000 years ago, an army of Iron Age warriors was slaughtered in battle and then cast into a lake near the Alken Enge wetlands in East Jutland, Denmark.

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from Homestead & Survival

Natural Remedies For Sunburn Relief  [via Improved Aging]

Shipping Container Makes An Amazing Underground Shelter Or Wine Cellar  [via Off Grid World]

19 Mind-Blowing Tricks Every iPhone And iPad User Should Know  [via BuzzFeed]

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from Huffington Post
from Independent Journal Review

A Hollywood Actress’ Way Of Standing Up For Israel Will Help Save The Lives Of Israeli Soldiers

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from The Jerusalem Post

Israelis to file human rights violation complaints against Hamas
Zionist education NGO Im Tirzu encouraged Israelis to send complaints to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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from MEDIAite

CNN Anchor Bill Weir to Fox Nation: ‘You Willfully Ignorant F*cksticks’

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from Methow Valley News

Fighting wildfires from aloft
Circling the pillars of smoke billowing upward from a wildfire is a small plane. Inside, Bill Moody of Twisp is the air tactical supervisor for the fire, orchestrating the aircraft fighting the fire and providing strategies and tactics to crews fighting the fire on the ground from his airborne perspective.

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from The Minority Report

US State Department Choosing the Wrong Side in Gaza

Another Sheila Jackson-Lee Whopper Served Up – This One Made With 100% Grade-A Bull
Witness the latest whopper from the kooky congresswoman, who claims that Congressional Democrats never sought to impeach President George W. Bush…even though Jackson-Lee herself was one of the co-sponsors of the measure to do just that!

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from Money Talks News

Are Those Designer Shades Worth the Price?

Are You Committing These 10 Deadly Credit Card Sins?

The Top 5 Consumer Complaints
The top three complaints for 2013 were vehicle-related issues, home improvement and construction problems, and credit and debt issues – the same top complaints consumers voiced in 2012.

Big-Box Stores Headed the Way of the Dinosaurs?

Totaled in Kansas, Not in Colorado
Will your car go to the body shop or the scrap heap? It depends on where you live and who your insurance company is.

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from National Geographic

Promising Ebola Drugs Stuck in Lab Limbo as Outbreak Rages in Africa
Lack of funds, regulatory hurdles hold up game-changing therapies.

Collective Mind in the Mound: How Do Termites Build Their Huge Structures?
Termites move a fourth of a metric ton of dirt to build mounds that can reach 17 feet (5 meters) and higher.

Modern Polar Explorers on the Hunt for Ancient Sea Monsters

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from National Review

Disenfranchising Franchises

The Unintended Consequences of Interventionism
Libya’s civil war should have never been our fight. By Rand Paul

Legitimizing Hamas’s War Criminality 
Our secretary of state has alienated both Israel and our moderate Arab partners.
By Charles Krauthammer

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from Nature News and Comment

Humanity's cultural history captured in 5-minute film
This animation distils hundreds of years of culture into just five minutes. A team of historians and scientists wanted to map cultural mobility, so they tracked the births and deaths of notable individuals like David, King of Israel, and Leonardo da Vinci, from 600 BC to the present day. Using them as a proxy for skills and ideas, their map reveals intellectual hotspots and tracks how empires rise and crumble. The information comes from Freebase, a Google-owned database of well-known people and places, and other catalogues of notable individuals.

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from NBC News (& affiliates)
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from NWCN (ID-OR-WA)

Bill would let police ping your phone in emergency
The power of pinging a cell phone during a crime or kidnapping is the focus of a bill in the state legislature that hits close to home for Sen. John McCoy, D-Tulalip.

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from Pamela Geller (Atlas Shrugs)

“Ceasefires Apply to Hamas As Well”

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from Patheos
[Information from this site may be questionable.]

Praise God and Pass the Ammunition
I’m sorry.  I apologize on behalf of the United States of America.  First of all, that moniker is not accurate.  In a nation of over 300 million people, you can be assured that we rarely agree on anything.

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from POLITICO

Joe Scarborough explains Israel remarks
Joe Scarborough says he was a bit surprised by the intensity of the response to his criticism of Israel on Thursday morning but is still an “unambiguously strong” supporter of the Jewish state.

Supreme Court asked to hear Obamacare subsidies case

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from PolitiFact

Nancy Pelosi says U.S. House 'has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history'
Pelosi said "the House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history." We did find a long record of skirmishing between the legislative and executive branches over the limits of each branch’s power, including at least 14 suits over the past four decades filed by individual lawmakers or groups of lawmakers. But Pelosi said "the House of Representatives," and in her narrowly crafted claim, she’s right. We rate her statement True.

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from Rare
[Information from this site may not be vetted.]

George W. Bush surprises Derek Jeter by remembering this special moment
Before Wednesday night’s game against the New York Yankees, the Texas Rangers honored Yankee’s star Derek Jeter with a pre-game ceremony. At the end of the ceremony, following a video tribute from former President George W. Bush, the ex-commander in chief joined Jeter on the field to give him a special gift.

Watch out! The EPA may be coming to break down your door

Sheila Jackson-Lee just told a fat whopper of a lie on the House floor
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas) apparently thinks that the general public is asleep at the wheel. The Texas Democrat took to the House floor Wednesday and railed against Republicans for discussing impeachment of President Obama when she herself co-sponsored an impeachment bill of President Bush in 2008

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from Religion News Service

Mommy, minister and unmarried: Single mothers in the pulpit
According to federal statistics, 41 percent of births are to unmarried mothers. But what if the single mom by choice is a minister, or a rabbi?

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from Science-Based Medicine

Just Asking Questions – Creation Edition
One of the strategies of denying established science is to “just ask questions” (affectionately known as JAQing off). The point is to undermine the science by probing for things that don’t appear to make sense, but not in a sincere attempt to understand. Rather, the idea is to ask questions that have already been answered, or that are based upon false assumptions or straw-man distortions of the science.

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from ScienceBlogs.com

The fantasy of cryonics in an unexpected place
Perhaps what’s the worst about this is that people spend incredible amounts of money, which could be used to make their lives now better or be passed on to their heirs, chasing immortality. Cryonics is not, as its advocates say, an “ongoing medical trial. Rather, those who choose to freeze themselves are more akin to the ancient Phaorohs, who spent enormous resources constructing elaborate tombs, so that they will one day rise from the grave and live again. Instead, they are found thousands of years later and end up in museums around the world.

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from ScienceDaily

Fossils could be discovered on the moon: Signs of ancient life may be littered across the moon
Physicists have tested what would happen if a piece of rock containing microscopic fossils from Earth was launched into space and hit the surface of the moon. The team turned fossil-filled rock into powder which was mixed with water and frozen to replicate a meteoroid.

Hubble shows farthest lensing galaxy yields clues to early universe
Astronomers have unexpectedly discovered the most distant galaxy that acts as a cosmic magnifying glass. Seen in a new image as it looked 9.6 billion years ago, this monster elliptical galaxy breaks the previous record holder by 200 million years.

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from ThatsNonsense.com

Do you want a free £75 Tesco Voucher? Hard luck.
A pretty old hat trick has reared its ugly head again this week and that’s the classic free supermarket voucher scam that dupes readers into completing spammy surveys.

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from Think Progress

Boehner Encourages Obama To Take Executive Action, One Day After Voting To Sue Obama Over Executive Action

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from Townhall.com

Judge Orders DOJ to Release Fast and Furious a List of Documents Withheld From Congress Under Obama Executive Privilege Claim

What I Saw at the U.S.-Mexico Border
By Michele Bachmann

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from TPNN (Tea Party News Network)

Another Hollywood Actor Comes Out Of The Closet, But It’s Not The One You’re Thinking About
David Boreanaz has never really been known for his political stance. In fact, in Hollywood, giving any indication that you are anything but an extreme, Leftist, Progressive, Marxist ideologue can have career ending consequences. Heaven forbid you give any hint that you are a conservative or go against the Hollywood ‘IT’ poster child, Barack Obama. But, on Wednesday, Boreanaz broke ranks and actually dared to criticize Barack Obama for his weak response to Vladimir Putin’s aggression.

BREAKING: Court Says Obama Admin MUST Turn Over Fast and Furious Documents

FAIL: Sheila Jackson Lee: Democrats Never Tried to Impeach Bush… Oh Wait, We Did

Useful Idiots: Chipotle Espouses Communist Rhetoric On To-Go Bags

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from USA Today
from The Wall Street Journal
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from The Washington Post (DC)
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from The Weekly Standard

Water Works
The environmental cost of Michelle Obama’s campaign to make Americans drink more water.
It’s been nearly a year since Michelle Obama began her bizarre, medically discredited campaign to get Americans to drink more water.

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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)

Watch: Hamas Would Probably Like To Kill This Woman For What She Just Exposed To Megyn Kelly
"They cannot win militarily against Israel so what they do is they use their own children as disposable collateral in order to win the war of public opinion against Israel.”

Bowe Bergdahl Is About To Face Justice, And This Time There’s No Escape

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from 12Tribe Films Foundation

The World-Wide War Against Radical Islam Begins With These Words

A Few Points Your Friends Need To Get Through Their Heads
Senator Booker on Israel
Now THAT Is The US I Know And Love!

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