Sunday, November 2, 2014

In the news, Wednesday, October 22, 2014


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OCT 21      INDEX      OCT 23
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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 American News
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

3 Star General Claims Muslim Brotherhood Has Infiltrated The White House

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from The Blaze (& Glenn Beck)

YouTube Stars Claim an NYPD Cop Forcibly Frisked Them Due to Their Islamic ‘Cultural Clothing’ — but Now They Have a Major Admission
Just days after posting a video that purported to show a New York City cop racially profiling two men in Islamic garb, the producers of the clip — who also star in it — have admitted that “it was a dramatization” and that it was not “an actual event.”

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from CBS News (& affiliates)
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
from The Daily Caller

Grimes’ Family Catering Business Has Unpaid Interns
Democratic Kentucky Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes, who supports a minimum wage hike, is under fire after it was revealed that her family’s catering business has unpaid interns.

Wendy Davis Tweets A Pic Of ‘Supporters…’ Turns Out They’re College Republicans

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from Forum for Middle East Understanding
(FFMU) (Shoebat.com)  [Information from this site may be unreliable.]

They Key To Understanding The Rise And Fall Of Antichrist Nation Of Turkey

Muslims Take Poor Man With Down Syndrome, And Saw His Head Off

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from Fox News (& affiliates)
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from Freedom Foundation (WA)

Thurston County Commissioners Deny the Reality of Math

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from Freedom Outpost
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Christian School Forced to Have Islamist Lead Assembly or be Closed
Well America, all you have to do to see what Islam is going to be attempting in America, and have attempted and gotten in America, is to look across the pond to the United Kingdom. In the UK, they have appeased the Muslims and have kowtowed to them now to the point where a British Christian school is being threatened with closure if they do not allow a Muslim imam to lead their assemblies.

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from The Guardian (UK)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

'I am a Liberian, not a virus': west Africans hit back against Ebola stigma
With Ebola panic spreading across the US, a social media campaign aims to counter discrimination

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from The Heritage Foundation
from Huffington Post
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]

Why UN Experts Are 'Deeply Disturbed' By Water Shutoffs For Low-Income Black Detroiters

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from KXLY 4 News (ABC Spokane)
from National Geographic

Mars Spacecraft Snag Comet Views

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from Prevention Magazine


from The Raw Story
[Information from this site may not be reliable.


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from Slate
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
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from The Spokesman-Review

Ben Bradlee, Washington Post editor who led Watergate coverage, dies

Canadian soldier shot at war memorial in Ottawa
Police say soldier, 1 suspected gunman dead in Ottawa shootings.

Owner files $350,000 claim in police shooting of dog Arfee
The loss and pain from the unjustified police shooting of Arfee in Coeur d’Alene last July is worth $350,000, the dog’s owner says in a claim filed with the city Tuesday.

Historic demolition rule stalls downtown auto dealer’s expansion
Larry H. Miller Lexus Spokane is threatening to leave downtown if the company can’t demolish two old one-story brick garage buildings to create new car lots.

In Spokane, there’s help for hoarders
Ceci Garrett has been helping hoarders with Lightening the Load, a faith-based organization in Spokane.

Nobel Peace Prize winner, 17, adds Liberty Medal
Malala Yousafzai accepted the medal, which is given annually at the National Constitution Center to someone who strives to secure freedom for people around the world, on Tuesday.

N. Korea frees American; two still held
North Korea’s reclusive government abruptly freed American Jeffrey Fowle Tuesday, nearly six months after he was arrested on charges of leaving a Bible in a nightclub, but Pyongyang refused to hand over two other U.S. citizens being held.

In Brief: U.S. authorities arrest head of Gulf Cartel
Saenz-Tamez, 23, from the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, was arrested by federal agents on Oct. 9 while shopping in the South Texas city of Edinburg.
Friar’s abuse victims settle for $8 million
Eighty-eight former students who were sexually molested by a Franciscan friar who worked as an athletic trainer at a Catholic high school have settled their legal claims for $8 million, according to two attorneys who represent more than half the victims.
Freed Vietnamese dissident travels to U.S.
The State Department welcomed Tuesday the release of one of Vietnam’s most prominent dissidents, as the U.S. urges the authoritarian government in Hanoi to improve its human rights record and smooth the way for stronger relations.

Indiana suspect violent long before 7 killings
With hindsight, there were signs years ago of increasing violence against women by Darren Vann, who police said Tuesday has confessed to killing seven women in northwestern Indiana.

Vaccine trials due in January
The World Health Organization is pressing the search for an Ebola vaccine and hopes to begin testing two experimental versions as early as January on more than 20,000 front-line health care workers and others in West Africa’s hot zone.

U.S. directs travelers from Ebola region to airports with screening
Fending off demands to ban travel from Ebola-stricken West Africa, the Obama administration instead tightened the nation’s defenses against Ebola by requiring that all arrivals from the disease-ravaged zone pass through one of five U.S. airports.

Canada car attack ‘linked to terrorist ideology’
A young convert to Islam who killed a Canadian soldier in a hit-and-run had been on the radar of federal investigators, who feared he had jihadist ambitions and seized his passport when he tried to travel to Turkey.

Islamic State fighters seize cache of weapons
Islamic State group fighters seized at least one cache of weapons, including hand grenades, ammunition and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, that were airdropped by U.S.-led coalition forces and were meant to supply Kurdish militiamen battling the extremist group in a border town.

Iraq asks for more U.S. aid, airstrikes
Senior Iraqi officials and commanders are calling for intensified U.S. airstrikes and more military aid, arguing that the 10-week-old American-led effort has been too modest to drive Islamic State fighters out of key towns and districts.

Otter seeks full panel review of gay marriage ruling
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter wants a larger group of judges to reconsider the recent decision that overturned the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. “I will continue defending Idahoans’ self-determination and the will of Idaho voters who decided that traditional marriage is a core principle of our society,” Otter said.

Candidates for Idaho’s top education job spar in debate
“If you liked Tom Luna, you’re going to love Sherri Ybarra,” Democratic candidate Jana Jones said of her GOP opponent. “We can’t afford to have another four years of a superintendent who is well-intended but ill-prepared.”

Idaho schools chief hopeful earned specialist degree, not doctorate

AdWatch: In rare move, Idaho secretary of state candidate hits the airwaves

‘Action alert’ storm over Hitching Post hits CdA
The offices of the Coeur d’Alene mayor and Idaho governor were deluged with emails and phone calls protesting the city’s anti-discrimination ordinance Tuesday in an escalating clash over religious freedom and same-sex marriage.

Man gets four years for setting WSU apartment complex fire
The plumber’s apprentice who admitted to setting a fire that razed portions of a massive student apartment complex at Washington State University in Pullman will spend more than four years and four months in federal prison, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Challenger puts limits on Spokane County District Court race
Spokane County District Court Judge Gregory Tripp has many advantages in his race for re-election. Not only is he the incumbent, running for his fifth full term, he also is running against a challenger, James Richard Reierson, a former Kootenai County deputy prosecutor, who is purposefully limiting his campaign.

In brief: Judge dismisses Idaho libel suit
A libel suit against a Rathdrum woman for comments she made on a newspaper blog has been dismissed.
Vehicle prompts base evacuations
A suspicious vehicle parked at Fairchild Air Force Base prompted evacuations Tuesday afternoon and kept visitors from leaving the base for about two hours.
Teen arson suspect leaves detention
The teen accused of setting fires in the Spokane Valley area was released Tuesday morning from juvenile detention to electronic monitoring.

Justices deciding fate of Backpage.com lawsuit
A website sometimes used by pimps to advertise prostitutes shouldn’t be able to claim immunity from state sex-trafficking laws because it doesn’t write the ads, an attorney for three teenage victims of sex trafficking told the state Supreme Court on Tuesday. But the website isn’t responsible for the content of ads, and even has rules that say it doesn’t accept those offering illegal services, an attorney for Backpage.com countered.

Spokane doctor charged with child rape
Dr. Craig Morgenstern, an emergency room doctor at the Spokane VA Medical Center, was arrested Monday and charged in Stevens County with child rape.

Pedestrian killed in hit-and-run collision
Joshua B. Lee, 31, of Deer Park, was walking on the paved shoulder of northbound Highway 2, just north of Nevada Street, when he was struck by an unknown vehicle sometime between 3 a.m. and 8 a.m.

In brief: Staples reveals possible data breach
In what could be the latest data breach to strike U.S. retailers, Staples Inc. said it is investigating “a potential issue involving credit card data.”
Target offers free shipping
Target Corp. is offering for the first time free holiday shipping on all items, including even $6 lipsticks, as the discounter throws itself in the ring to compete better with the likes of Amazon.
Oilman Nelson Bunker Hunt dies
Nelson Bunker Hunt, a Texas oilman who once tried to corner the silver market with his brothers only to see the move end in financial disaster, has died.
CVS expands tobacco fight
First, CVS Health pulled tobacco from its store shelves. Now, it plans to make some customers think twice about filling prescriptions at other stores that sell smokes.
China growth slowest in 5 years
China’s economic growth waned to a five-year low of 7.3 percent last quarter, raising concerns of a spillover effect on the global economy but falling roughly in line with Chinese leaders’ plans for a controlled slowdown.
Sales of existing homes rise
U.S. homes sold in September at their fastest clip this year, a sign that the housing market is shaking off a slowdown that began in mid-2013.

With sales slumping, CEO outlines change
McDonald’s will ‘simplify’ menu

Study pushes benefit of $7 billion in road projects
Washington would get a major economic boost by finishing the North Spokane Corridor and some other major road projects worth $7 billion, a state business group said Tuesday. The state faces significant costs and problems if the Legislature continues to deadlock over some type of tax-funded roads package.

Jobless rate dips in Spokane County
Spokane County’s unemployment rate fell to 5.7 percent in September, pushed downward by the return of teachers to classrooms.

Mortgage rules eased to spark lending
With the financial crisis and subprime mortgage bust receding further into history, the government is loosening some financial rules, hoping to inject more life into the country’s still-recovering housing market.

Justice adds muscle to fight against economic cyberspies
With cybercrime taking on new urgency, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday new efforts to combat economic spies who hack into U.S. companies’ computer systems, including installing a cyberspecialist in each of the 93 U.S. attorneys’ offices around the nation.

Shawn Vestal: New police ombudsman commission gets to work
Spokane’s new citizens commission charged with overseeing police complaints opened its first meeting with many of the dreadfully dull but important questions that government work is made of. But before the night was over, the Office of the Police Ombudsman Commission was already engaging serious issues, formally asking the Spokane Police Department to more thoroughly investigate two complaints, including one that has been the most significant point of disagreement between the ombudsman, Tim Burns, and police Chief Frank Straub.

Editorial: Best choices for bench are Bugbee and Tripp
[C.S. prefers Derr and Tripp. There is a reason Bugbee lost to Steve Tucker in the 2010 primary for county prosecutor.]

Trudy Rubin: African women key in Ebola fight

Mushroom mission
Hunt for chanterelles pays dividends in the kitchen
Sautéed Chanterelle Mushrooms
Fall Wild Mushroom Risotto
Beer Batter for Tempura-fried Lion’s Mane
Fall Wild Mushroom Bisque
Caramelized Onion-Chanterelle Tart

Hawley leaves her mark on pollo alla Bolognese
Chicken-Ham-Cheese dish proves a family favorite
Pollo alla Bolognese
Blanched Asparagus
Lazy Caprese Salad

Obituary: Mcdonald, Charlotte Faye “Sherry” (Larue)
Reardan, Newman Lake   23 Apr 1948 - 14 Oct 2014

Obituary: Pflugrad, Joan Elizabeth (Benninger)
Chewelah   5 Jul 1933 - 19 Oct 2014

Obituary: Lundy, Kenneth D.
Hillyard   17 May 1942 - 18 Oct 2014

Obituary: Walker, Donald E.
Wenatchee, Spokane   21 Jun 1930 - 12 Oct 2014

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from The Star (Grand Coulee, WA)

Quick arrest made after residential burglary suspect caught on animal cam
Electric City resident Steve Kiona, 37, was taken into custody Sunday night for investigation of burglary.

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from TPNN (Tea Party News Network)

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: Democrat Candidates Treating Obama Like He ‘Has Ebola’

Barack Obama Agrees With Rush Limbaugh on Voter ID Laws?

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from The Wall Street Journal

Minimum Wage Backfire
McDonald’s moves to automate orders to reduce worker costs.

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from The Wenatchee World (WA)

Local sheriffs come out against I-594
All four NCW sheriffs are among a majority of sheriffs in the state who are against Initiative 594, which would extend the requirement for background checks by gun sellers.

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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)

Muslim Terrorist Kills 3-Month Old American Baby And Hospitalizes Several Other People

Latest Billion Dollar IRS Scandal Could Make The Lois Lerner Debacle Look Like Small Potatoes In Comparison

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