Sunday, November 2, 2014

In the news, Thursday, October 23, 2014


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from BBC News (UK)

In the Western world the swastika is synonymous with fascism, but it goes back thousands of years and has been used as a symbol of good fortune in almost every culture in the world. As more evidence emerges of its long pre-Nazi history in Europe, can this ancient sign ever shake off its evil associations?

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from Breitbart

MICHELLE NUNN FAILS TO DENOUNCE RACE-BAITING FERGUSON MAILERS IN GEORGIA SENATE RACE

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from Conciliar Post

During the past decade, a small group of evangelical Christians claiming to be “ex-Muslim extremists” have entered the public discourse on Islam. They have written books, given speeches to law enforcement and military personnel, and appeared in the media. Unfortunately, their narratives contain serious discrepancies and several outright falsehoods. It cannot be known whether their deception is based on ideological motives, monetary reasons (these men have earned substantial amounts of money, including taxpayer funds, to tell their tales), or a combination of the two. Either way, their narratives do nothing to advance the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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from The Daily Caller
from Fox News (& affiliates)
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from Freedom Outpost
from Investor's Business Daily
from Kim Komando

How to spot credit card skimmers

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from Los Angeles Times

Reagan's Goldwater speech: Still great after all these years
Op-Ed By CRAIG SHIRLEY AND LAURA INGRAHAM

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from Mad World News
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

[Watch] Al Sharpton Makes Fool of Himself on TV, Proving His Cluelessness
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from The Mirror (UK)

Only people who are in work will receive the cash under radical NHS plans to tackle the obesity crisis

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from Money Talks News
from National Geographic

World's Longest Snake Has Virgin Birth—First Recorded in Species
An 11-year-old reticulated python produced six babies without mating in 2012.

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from Newsmax

New Reports: There Is No Global Warming

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from New York Times

Old Masters
After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign.
The portraits here are of men and women in their 80s and 90s, rich in the rewards of substantial and celebrated careers, and although I know none of them except by name and reputation, I’m asked why their love’s labor is not lost but still to be found. Why do they persist, the old masters? To what end the unceasing effort to discover or create something new? Why not rest on the laurels and the oars?

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from The Right Scoop

CNN’s Carol Costello meekly apologizes for laughing at assault against Bristol Palin

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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)

Wow! This Hubble Telescope Photo of Mars with a Comet Is Amazing

First Private Moon Mission to Launch on Chinese Rocket Today

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from The Spokesman-Review

Partial solar eclipse today will darken sky
Today’s eclipse arrives in this region about 1:30 p.m. and will last until about 4:20 p.m. It is the ninth in a series of 70 solar eclipses in the “Saros 153” series that started in 1870 and will continue until 3114. The series is a repetitive pattern that progresses from the north to south poles.

Didier drops lawsuit against Newhouse campaign volunteer

Lidgerwood Elementary part of Second Harvest food bank program

Mayor inherits $1 million from Myrtle Woldson
Spokane Mayor David Condon inherited $1 million earlier this year from noted Spokane philanthropist Myrtle Woldson, who died in April at age 104.

VA doctor arrested for alleged sex crimes
A Nine Miles Falls physician accused of drugging and raping a 13-year-old boy early Saturday is in the Stevens County Jail facing charges of child rape and possession of child pornography. Dr. Craig Morgenstern is an emergency room doctor at the Spokane VA Medical Center.

University of Washington eyes deeper Spokane ties
UW is eyeing the former Spokane Visitor Information Center at Main Avenue and Browne Street, a piece of property that is owned by the city and sits next door to the city’s hottest urban enclave. It is also on the outer edge of the University District.

Harassment a common part of online life, survey finds
A new study confirms what many Internet users know all too well: Harassment is a common part of online life. The first-of-its-kind report by the Pew Research Center found that nearly three-quarters of American adults who use the Internet have witnessed online harassment. Forty percent have experienced it themselves.

U.S. to monitor travelers from Ebola region
Starting Monday, all travelers who come into the U.S. from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone will have to report in with health officials daily and take their temperature twice a day for three weeks, the latest step by federal officials to keep the disease from spreading into the country.

Seniors to get small COLA increase
Come January, nearly 60 million Social Security recipients will get benefit increases averaging $20 a month, the third straight year of historically small pay increases. This year’s increase was 1.5 percent; the year before it was 1.7 percent.

In brief: Report: Child poverty hits 20-year high
Child poverty in America is at its highest point in 20 years, putting millions of children at increased risk of injuries, infant mortality and premature death, according to a policy analysis published this week in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
Cupich takes pope’s lead on new residence
Taking a page from the pope’s playbook, incoming Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich will forgo the historic Gold Coast mansion that has housed the city’s archbishops for more than a century, opting for more modest digs inside the rectory of Holy Name Cathedral.

Prime minister: Ottawa rampage a terrorist attack
A masked gunman killed a soldier standing guard at Canada’s war memorial Wednesday, then stormed Parliament in an attack that was stopped cold when he was shot to death by the ceremonial sergeant-at-arms. Canada’s prime minister called it the country’s second terrorist attack in three days.

Mayor, drug gang tied to abduction
Mexican Officials said Wednesday that a drug gang implicated in the disappearance of 43 students in a southern city essentially ran the town, paying the mayor hundreds of thousands of dollars a month out of its profits from making opium paste to fuel the U.S. heroin market.

In brief: Iraq’s Kurdish region OKs fighters to Syria
Lawmakers in Iraq’s largely autonomous Kurdish region Wednesday authorized peshmerga forces to go to neighboring Syria and help fellow Kurds combat Islamic State militants in the key border town of Kobani, providing much-needed boots on the ground.
Palestinian kills baby in Jerusalem attack
A Palestinian motorist with a history of anti-Israel violence slammed his car into a crowded train station in Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing a three-month-old baby girl and wounding eight people in what police called a terror attack.
Iranians protest acid attacks on women
Iranians rallied on Wednesday in the central city of Isfahan and the capital, Tehran, to protest a string of acid attacks on women in Isfahan in recent months, the latest public outcry over the assaults that have shocked the nation.

Blackwater security guards guilty in shootings of Iraqis
Four former Blackwater security guards were convicted Wednesday in the 2007 shootings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad, an incident that inflamed anti-American sentiment around the globe and was denounced by critics as an illustration of a war gone horribly wrong.

B.C. official calls for Columbia River Treaty accounting
In the 1960s and 1970s, three huge dams were built in British Columbia as a result of the 1964 Columbia River Treaty between the U.S. and Canada, which is lauded worldwide as a model for cooperative management of water resources.

Spokane County Commission candidates at odds over urban growth boundary
The future of a neighborhood in north Spokane County has become one of the most debated topics in this year’s race for County Commission.

In brief: Arrest made in fatal pedestrian hit-and-run
State troopers have arrested a man they accused of striking and killing a pedestrian on the side of a highway on Wednesday in north Spokane County.

Fatal hit-and-run suspect was drinking with victim before collision

Idaho veteran will be buried with her wife
After years of being denied, a Navy veteran will be allowed to be buried at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery next to her wife.

Police arrest armed coffee stand robbery suspect
Joseph G.W. Layman, 28, is suspected of robbing the Bare Beans Espresso and Walnut Street Perk last Friday and Saturday.

Confusion arises over Idaho candidate Sherri Ybarra’s degree

California prisons will end race policy
California officials agreed Wednesday to end a policy in which it segregated prison inmates after riots based on their race as a way to prevent further violence.

FedEx, UPS planning for crush
Facing an even bigger mountain of packages this holiday season, FedEx and UPS are hiring more workers to avoid the delays that frustrated shoppers and gift-recipients a year ago.

Air bag warning blows up
NHTSA now says 7.8 million vehicles at risk

Record jet-buying boosts Boeing earnings

Cigarette maker snuffs out smoking in offices, buildings
Camel cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. is snuffing out smoking in its offices and buildings.
Dish drops Turner channels
Satellite television giant Dish Network has removed seven Turner Broadcasting cable channels – including CNN, Cartoon Network and Turner Classic Movies – after the companies failed to agree on a new contract. The blackout affects 14 million Dish subscribers nationwide.
Consumer prices up a tad
Consumer prices rose 0.1 percent after having fallen 0.2 percent in August, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. Core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy, also climbed 0.1 percent after no gain in August.
Mini Cooper mileage overstated
The U.S. government has told BMW to reduce the gas mileage estimates on the window stickers on four of its Mini Cooper models after an audit found the figures were overstated.

Editorial: Preserving old garages not worth losing Lexus
When the Spokane City Council adopted an ordinance to help preserve historically significant buildings, the 1890 Merton Block, the 1915 Mohawk Building and the 1934 Rookery Building already had been demolished and turned into a parking lot.

Hasbro hopes to take ‘Ouija’ to the bank
Hollywood has a fascination with turning classic board games into movies. There was “Clue” and “Battleship,” and now “Ouija” is about to hit theaters this week. Filmmakers are working to get “Monopoly,” “Candy Land” and “Risk” off the toy store shelves and into cinemas. The problem: Audiences have yet to buy in.

Ask Dr. K: Try mild exercise to relieve back pain

Salvation Army to open warming center at freezing
The Salvation Army will be running the city’s warming center this year, and the group is recruiting volunteers so that the homeless can have a place to go when it’s freezing but not cold enough to meet the city’s mandate.

Transition home seeks help
Fields of Diamonds shelters women, children in need

Sixth District matchup offers opposites
For a while, it appeared Republican state Rep. Jeff Holy would coast to a second term in the 6th Legislative District without opposition, but Democratic challenger Ziggy Siegfried filed as a write-in candidate and collected enough votes in the August primary to secure a spot on the general election ballot.

Randy Mann: Volcanic activity enough to give us pause

Gardening: It’s time to think about winterizing your garden
Pat Munts

Obituary: Romero, Ray
2 Jun 1933 - 27 Sep 2014

Local ghost tour offers lesson in Spokane’s spirited history

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from TPNN (Tea Party News Network)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]


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from The Wall Street Journal

Boone Pickens Tells Oil Companies to Stop Drilling
T. Boone Pickens has seen plummeting oil prices before and says he knows what the problem is. Energy companies are pumping too much oil and none of them wants to be the first to stop, Mr. Pickens said Wednesday in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)

Wow: Grandpa Turns The Tables On 3 Would-Be Rapists In An Epic Way, Saving His Granddaughter And Wife

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from Ynetnews

Haniyeh praises Jerusalem terrorist
One week after Hamas leader's daughter received medical treatment in Israel, group's top official in Gaza praises 'martyr' who killed infant in Jerusalem light rail attack

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