Saturday, July 4, 2015

In the news, Wednesday, June 24, 2015


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from Alex Jones (INFOWARS.COM)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
from Algemeiner

The Blowback From the Oren RevelationsThe fierce reactions to Kulanu MK and former Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren’s evaluation of the Obama administration in his new book, and in particular to three articles he penned titled “How Obama abandoned Israel,” “Why Obama is wrong about Iran being ‘rational’ on nukes” and “How Obama opened his heart to the ‘Muslim world,” were predictable. He has enraged the administration, created enormous anxiety and polarized a situation within the American Jewish community.

Israel Project to Drexel University: Drop Honors for ChomskyThe U.S.-based Israel education group The Israel Project (TIP) on Friday sent an email asking supporters to sign a petition urging Philadelphia’s Drexel University, “Don’t honor hate. Withdraw your award to hateful extremist Noam Chomsky.” Earlier this month, Chomsky was presented with an honorary degree at Drexel’s ceremony for master’s degree graduates. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology emeritus professor in linguistics has been an outspoken advocate for far-left political policies for half a century. The 86-year-old Chomsky is also one of the most outspoken anti-Israel activists. He has gone as far as embracing the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah and calling the policies of the Gaza-ruling terrorist organization Hamas “preferable to the policies of America and Israel.” The Hamas charter calls for the annihilation of Israel and Jewish people.

If Nazi Germany is Any Guide, Palestinian Children of Today Will Always Hate IsraelA new study has found that many of the children who were educated in Nazi Germany retained, for the rest of their lives, the anti-Semitic attitudes they learned in school. What does that portend for Palestinian children, who are likewise inculcated with hatred of Jews?

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from Allen West
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]

Limbaugh “I want to WARN you to be prepared for this”
They’re just calling it the Confederate flag. Anyway, it’s not even about the flag. All of this is not even about the flag.

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

ALERT: New Black Panthers Call For Blacks To ‘KILL ALL WHITE SLAVE MASTERS'  (Video)

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from Bloomberg

What's Really Warming the World?
Climate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise

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from Breitbart

BLOWING UP HISTORY: THE ISIS TENDENCIES OF THE AMERICAN LEFT
The banning of the flag from the statehouse does nothing to make the state less racist (in fact, the entire media seem eager to ignore the fact that 100 feet from the Confederate war memorial that carried the Confederate flag, there is a massive and beautiful black history monument on the statehouse grounds). Neither does removing products from Amazon or removing monuments to historic American – yes, American – figures.

CITIZENS UNITED POLL: TRUMP SURGES, RUBIO COLLAPSES
Results of a new poll show that Americans are fed up with career politicians and the establishment Republican base. In a Citizens United poll, Dr. Ben Carson came out as the top pick out of 2016 GOP presidential candidates.

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from BuzzFeed
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Ben Carson: “Political Correctness” Could Destroy U.S. Like It Did Ancient Rome
“They stood for nothing and they fell for everything and they went right down the tubes,” the Republican presidential candidate once warned.

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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)

'The General Lee' Will Lose the Confederate Flag, Warner Bros. Says
Warner Bros. has announced that they have ceased the licensing for toys and replicas of the 1980s show The Dukes of Hazzard.

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from The D.C. Clothesline
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Black Activists in Detroit Blame Democrats for Violence

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from Freedom Foundation (WA)

State Employee Union Bosses Stand To Gain Big Under New CBAs
As it currently stands, both the state House and Senate budget proposals fully fund the pay raises provided for in the collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) negotiated by Gov. Jay Inslee and unions representing state employees last year.

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from The Heritage Foundation
from Huffington Post
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Bobby Jindal To Fulfill Son's Dream Of Returning To Iowa, Also Is Running For President

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from KXLY 4 News (ABC Spokane)

Entire psychiatric doctor staff resigns from Sacred Heart
The entire staff of psychiatric doctors are resigning from Providence's Sacred Heart Medical Center, and the hospital is left scrambling to fill those positions before patient services are interrupted. Providence Medical Group says the psychiatrists all put their notices in over a span of two weeks at the end of May, citing they could not keep up with the increasing workload. Now the hospital has until the end of August to fill the spots or convince the doctors to stay.

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from NBC News (& affiliates)

White Americans Are Biggest Terror Threat in U.S.: Study
The New America Foundation found that twice as many people have died in attacks by right-wing groups in America than by Muslim extremists since 9/11.

from The Right Scoop

CNN host tries to corner Ben Carson on the gay flag in discussion about Confederate flag

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from The Spokesman-Review

Court docs: Spokane Valley man beaten by wife, her mother, 4 others
A Spokane Valley woman and her mother allegedly recruited four men to help beat up the woman’s husband and steal belongings from his home. Richard Pollard, 57, told Spokane County sheriff’s deputies that the group beat him with baseball bats, a hammer, a stick and a phone before raiding his home and attempting to steal his car on May 22, according to court records. His wife, Randi Boulet, 26, was arrested Monday and booked into the Spokane County Jail. She was released Tuesday on a $30,000 bond.

Woman lied about finding abandoned puppies
A woman is facing a criminal charge of filing a false police report after claiming to find a box of eight abandoned puppies in Corbin Park near Post Falls last week. After an investigation was launched, animal control officers determined that the woman had lied about finding the puppies because she wanted to make sure animal control would take them. She has been identified as Mariah F. Eutsler, 20, of Post Falls.

The 15-year-old accused of grabbing a toddler from a park in Sprague, Washington earlier this year pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of second-degree kidnapping. Lincoln County Deputy Prosecutor Melvin Hoit argued there were aggravating circumstances that justified an exceptional sentence of 56-70 weeks in juvenile detention instead of the standard range of 15-36 weeks. Lincoln County Judge John Strohmaier agreed, imposing the sentence requested by Hoit. The teenager will get credit for the nearly 14 weeks he has already been in jail and will be required to register as a sex offender.

A discrimination case against the Idaho State Police for targeting a driver for a marijuana search because his license plates were from a state that has legalized the drug has been dismissed at the request of both sides, after it ran into numerous legal hurdles.

After signing two bills that loosen Wisconsin’s gun laws, Gov. Scott Walker defended the timing of his public event Wednesday, saying it had been scheduled before nine people were shot and killed last week in a South Carolina church.

Boston Marathon bomber apologizes before death sentence
In a startling turn, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev rose to his feet and apologized to the victims and their loved ones for the first time Wednesday just before a judge formally sentenced him to death. After Tsarnaev said his piece, U.S. District Judge George O’Toole Jr. quoted Shakespeare’s line “The evil that men do lives after them. The good is often interred with their bones.” “So it will be for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,” the judge said, telling Tsarnaev that no one will remember that his teachers were fond of him, that his friends found him fun to be with or that he showed compassion to disabled people. “What will be remembered is that you murdered and maimed innocent people, and that you did it willfully and intentionally. You did it on purpose.” O’Toole said.

Will Marathon bomber break his silence in court?
Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have said he feels remorse for the deadly attack, but the public has never heard directly from him. When he is formally sentenced today to death, he will be given an opportunity to address the court, but it’s not clear if he’ll take it. Legal experts say Tsarnaev, 21, has little or nothing to gain by speaking since the judge is required to impose the death sentence recommended by the jury.

A Coeur d’Alene man will serve up to life in prison for the sexual battery of a minor. Elvin F. Nebrensky, 59, was sentenced Tuesday by 1st District Judge John T. Mitchell, who ordered that the first six years of the sentence be fixed and the remaining life sentence be indeterminate. Nebrensky pleaded guilty April 27. The charge alleged that he had oral-genital contact with a 16-year-old. The Kootenai County Prosecuting Attorney’s office agreed to drop a second felony charge, sexual exploitation of a child.

Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana said Wednesday he was entering the 2016 presidential race and he began trying to distinguish himself in a field packed with better known rivals. It’s a long shot effort for an accomplished but overshadowed governor, and his prospects will depend in large measure on his continued courtship of evangelical voters. But several other contenders also are determined to win over that group.

Idaho Department of Fish and Game employees have found illegal marijuana plants growing on the Clark Fork Delta for two years in a row. The patches were discovered during restoration efforts that including erosion control and planting of native grasses on the delta, which is where the Clark Fork River empties into Lake Pend Oreille. The marijuana plants were reported to authorities and were removed.

Ironman Coeur d’Alene moves to August next year; half-Ironman added in June
Ironman Coeur d’Alene will move to August starting next year, while a half-Ironman event will be added on the June weekend when the rigorous triathlon has traditionally been held. Ironman said the full triathlon will be held on Aug. 21 next year. Besides changing the date, the new agreement extends Ironman’s run in Coeur d’Alene until 2020. It debuted in 2003 as part of the Ironman series to qualify competitors for the world championship in Hawaii.

Ironman adjusts start time for hot weather
Concern about the weekend’s hot weather forecast has prompted Ironman Coeur d’Alene to move the start time for Sunday’s triathlon to 5:30 a.m., a half-hour earlier.

First-degree murder charge entered in shooting of CdA officer
A Kootenai County judge this morning agreed to enter new charges, including first-degree murder, against the man accused of killing Coeur d’Alene police Sgt. Greg Moore. Jonathan Daniel Renfro, who was on felony parole, is suspected of shooting Moore as the officer questioned him early in the morning of May 5.

Washington’s average wage increased by 4.2 percent
The annual wage increased by 4.2 percent in 2014 to $54,829, the largest percentage increase since 2007, a state Employment Security Department news release said. These figures only cover wages eligible for unemployment insurance. The average number of workers covered by unemployment insurance also grew by 62,942 to more than 2.9 million.

South Carolina lawmakers vote to debate Confederate flag
South Carolina lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to consider removing the Confederate flag from their Statehouse grounds, and other politicians took aim at Civil War-era symbols across the South, saying change is imperative after police said nine black churchgoers were slain in a hate crime.

Bush removed flag in Florida
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush faced the same decision as South Carolina officials – whether to remove the Confederate flag from statehouse grounds – more than a decade ago. With far less fanfare, Bush as Florida’s governor 14 years ago removed the Confederate flag from the Florida state Capitol in Tallahassee. On Feb. 2, 2001, the flag moved to the Museum of Florida History.

Guard trains for big Northwest quake
National guardsmen from Spokane to Seattle to Grays Harbor spent the last week practicing for “the Big One” – a quake so big it would devastate some part of the Interstate 5 corridor between British Columbia and Northern California.

Mars may have had water a million years ago
Mars is thought to have had a watery past, but when exactly it transitioned to its dry and dusty present is up for debate. Now, though, a team of scientists studying the marks on a young Martian crater has found signs that waterlogged debris flowed down the Red Planet’s slopes surprisingly recently – within the last million years. The findings, described in the journal Nature Communications, help to fill in an increasingly complex picture on the recent Martian water cycle and have implications for the possibility of life.

Powerful rains hit East Coast
Severe weather that pounded the Midwest and spawned tornadoes shifted on Tuesday to the East Coast, where tornado warnings were issued in several states and rainstorms were strong enough to stop train service.

In brief: Pink plastic flamingo creator dies at 79
Don Featherstone was a classically trained painter, a talented sculptor and artist who became famous for creating the pink plastic lawn flamingo – the ultimate piece of American suburban kitsch. He died Monday at 79 at an elder care facility in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, after a long battle with Lewy body dementia.
‘High-energy’ injury killed Freddie Gray
A medical examiner found Freddie Gray suffered a “high-energy injury,” most likely caused when the Baltimore police van he was riding in slowed down, according to an autopsy report obtained by the Baltimore Sun. The report says Gray’s death could not be ruled an accident and is instead a homicide because officers didn’t follow safety procedures “through acts of omission.”
Navy Pier getting bigger Ferris wheel
Navy Pier plans to debut a bigger and more luxurious 196-foot Ferris wheel when the Chicago tourist attraction celebrates its 100th anniversary next summer. Standing 49 feet taller than the current Ferris wheel installed two decades ago, the replacement will fit up to 180 more passengers per ride. It will be outfitted with temperature-controlled gondolas that can carry up to 10 passengers each and feature padded seats, TV screens, speakers and condensation drainage systems.
Oil spill forces offshore shutdown
The shutdown of a pipeline that spilled up to 101,000 gallons of crude on the Santa Barbara coast forced Exxon Mobil Corp. to halt operations at three offshore platforms because it couldn’t deliver oil to refineries, the company said Tuesday.
Google simplifies ‘undo send’ steps
Google is making it easier to steer clear of the trouble that can be caused by a misdirected or inappropriate email. An option to cancel the delivery of an email within 30 seconds of hitting the send button is now a standard safeguard in Google’s Gmail as part of a settings change made this week.

Obama close to trade accord
Nearly two weeks after his ambitious trade agenda was nearly derailed by fellow Democrats, President Barack Obama is poised to clinch his biggest legislative victory of his second term with a Senate vote today to give him the authority he says he needs to complete a sweeping 12-nation Pacific Rim accord.

JAMA study says FDA wouldn’t approve pot as a drug
If medical marijuana were a regular drug, it would need the blessing of the Food and Drug Administration before it could be prescribed to patients. And in most cases, those patients would be out of luck. A comprehensive review of dozens of clinical trials that have tested medical marijuana for 10 conditions finds that there’s very little reliable evidence to support the drug’s use. The review, by an international team of researchers, was published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

U.S. won’t prosecute families for paying ransom to hostage-takers
Softening longstanding policy, the Obama administration will tell families of Americans held by terror groups that they can communicate with captors and even pay ransom without fear of prosecution. The shift comes as part of a broad review of U.S. hostage guidelines that are to be released today.

WikiLeaks: NSA eavesdropped on last three French presidents
WikiLeaks published documents late Tuesday that it says show the U.S. National Security Agency eavesdropped on the last three French presidents, releasing material which appeared to capture officials in Paris talking candidly about Greece’s economy, relations with Germany – and, ironically, American espionage. The release caused an uproar among French politicians, although it didn’t reveal any huge surprises or secrets. France itself is on the verge of approving broad new surveillance powers and is among several U.S. allies that rely heavily on American spying powers when trying to prevent terrorist and other threats.

Vatican will look at divorcee rules
An upcoming world summit of Catholic bishops will discuss dropping long-standing rules against remarried divorcees as part of efforts to update the church’s stance toward modern family life, the Vatican said Tuesday.

In brief: 16 die in blaze at Mexican retirement home
A fire swept through a retirement home for poor people early Tuesday, killing 16 elderly residents at the facility outside the city of Mexicali, which sits across the border from Calexico, California.
3 million Iraqis displaced by IS
The number of people displaced within Iraq because of violence and fighting by the Islamic State group has exceeded 3 million, the United Nations said Tuesday, a grim milestone for the war-battered country.
Elections set; hunger strike ends
Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez ended his 30-day hunger strike Tuesday after the government scheduled legislative elections for Dec. 6, thereby meeting his demand.

Spokane County commissioners lose growth boundary challenge
Spokane County commissioners lost another round in the ongoing dispute over how and where the county’s population will grow. Three appellate judges ruled last week commissioners didn’t provide enough public notice before revising urban growth boundaries in July 2013. The decision leaves in place a mediation process between Spokane County officials and members of neighborhood groups around the county, as well as the Washington departments of Commerce and Transportation, over where denser, urban development will be allowed.

A campaign to name a new Washington State University medical school in Spokane for WSU’s late President Elson Floyd is gaining support online and in the Legislature. More than 6,000 people have shown support for the idea on a Facebook page set up for the effort, and Sen. Mike Baumgartner, R-Spokane, said Tuesday morning he may introduce a bill to do just that later this week. On Tuesday afternoon, a group of House Democrats, including Spokane Reps. Timm Ormsby and Marcus Riccelli said they would sponsor legislation to honor Floyd by naming the school for him.

Judge orders county to refund tax payments to 5,000 city residents
Spokane County has been ordered to issue refunds to about 5,000 Spokane residents who paid higher taxes because of a street levy approved by city voters last fall.

Thousands of state employees in Washington received notice Tuesday that they may be temporarily laid off if a new state budget isn’t adopted by early next week. The Office of Financial Management has estimated that more than 26,000 employees will receive the furlough notices, with the vast majority receiving notice by email Tuesday. The notices state that employees may not perform any work during the furlough, and will not receive any pay for any days that they are not at work.

Gov. Jay Inslee sent a letter Tuesday to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers requesting that the remains of “Kennewick Man” be returned to Native American tribes.
Man gets prison for child pornography
A Post Falls man was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for possessing sexually exploitative material. William O’Connell, 39, pleaded guilty April 15 to having photos and videos depicting young children engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
AG tackles wage surcharge notice
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said businesses can add surcharges as a way to cover the costs of new minimum wage laws in some cities, but those charges must be clearly disclosed.
Fire spreads in Olympic park
A wildfire burning in a remote area of Olympic National Park in Washington has scorched more than 1 square mile. The blaze, which is burning in a wilderness area about 13 miles north of Quinault, continues to spread north and northeast into high mountains and rugged terrain. Fire managers who surveyed the wildfire by air Monday night mapped its size at nearly 800 acres.

The U.S. Department of Energy should not be given additional time to empty the next group of Hanford Nuclear Reservation waste storage tanks, according to state Attorney General Bob Ferguson. Earlier this month, the Energy Department proposed extending deadlines for retrieving radioactive waste from nine leak-prone tanks for one year, giving it until fall 2023 to complete the work. The agency said that was because a recent requirement that required air respirators for most tank farm workers as protection against chemical vapors reduced efficiency by 30 to 70 percent.

Road flares, guns among Murry’s possessions, unsealed records say
Numerous road flares and a gas can spout were found in a storage locker maintained by murder suspect Roy Murry in Pullman, according to court records unsealed Tuesday. The remains of road flares and several gasoline cans were recovered from the scene of a fire at 20 E. Chattaroy Road on May 26. Murry is accused of killing Terry Canfield; his wife, Lisa M. Canfield; and Lisa Canfield’s son, John Robert Constable and then setting the home and a shed on fire. Lisa Canfield was the mother of Murry’s wife.

Washington must pay $1.3 million to lawyers for mentally ill defendants
A federal judge has awarded the lawyers for mentally ill defendants who sued the state for warehousing them in jails $1.3 million in attorneys’ fees and litigation costs.

Grizzy bear count returns amid talk of delisting species
Twenty-four grizzly bears have been captured so far this year in and around Yellowstone National Park as wildlife managers start another season of research toward a potential lifting of federal protections.

Facebook surpasses Wal-Mart in stock value
Facebook is now bigger than Wal-Mart, at least when it comes to its value on the stock market. The world’s biggest online social network knocked the world’s largest retailer out of the top-10 list of the highest-valued companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index on Monday and the gap widened Tuesday.

Retailers pulling flags even as sales surge
Even as national retailers pull Confederate flags from shelves and websites after the shooting deaths of nine black church members in South Carolina, manufacturers that produce the divisive symbol say that sales are now surging.

Senator blasts ‘incompetent’ National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Senators threatened Tuesday to withhold additional funding from the nation’s top auto safety agency until it improves its ability to spot defective parts like Takata Corp.’s exploding air bags.

May jobless rate down from 2014 in Spokane
State economists reported a 6.3 percent May unemployment rate for Spokane County, down a bit from May 2014.The region has been adding jobs for many months, though not at the rapid clip of King County, which posted a 3.8 percent May unemployment rate. The state was at 5.3 percent.
Netflix to execute 7-for-1 stock split
Netflix will execute a seven-for-one stock split next month in a widely anticipated move designed to make the Internet video service’s shares more affordable to a bigger pool of investors.
Employment growth lifts sales of new homes
Purchases of new U.S. homes surged in the Northeast and West in May, as steady job growth over the past year has lifted the real estate sector. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that new-home sales rose 2.2 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 546,000, the strongest pace since February 2008.
Durable goods orders down 1.8 percent in May
Orders to U.S. factories for long-lasting manufactured goods fell in May, pulled down by a sharp drop in demand for aircraft. But a category that reflects business investment rose last month, a hopeful sign for manufacturing.

New leader at Boeing
Boeing CEO Jim McNerney is stepping away from the controls after 10 years. The aircraft maker said Tuesday that Dennis Muilenburg, president and chief operating officer, will become its new CEO on July 1. To ease the transition, McNerney will keep working at Boeing until the end of February. He is also remaining chairman of the Chicago-based company.

Editorial: Squabbling must stop as Spokane County seeks new CEO

Trudy Rubin: How Russia could become a U.S. ally

Baby bok choy adds sweet twist
Sautéed Baby Bok Choy
Baby Bok Choy with Sherry Vinaigrette

Add a French twist to summer grilling favorites
Grilled Baby Artichokes with Parmesan and Lemon Drizzle

Smoothie cookbook makes indulgent at-home recipes a breeze
Tropical Papaya Smoothies
Berry Smoothies
Watermelon-Mojito Cocktail Pops

Shawn Vestal: His thank-you turns back the pages of time

Restoring ’72 Plymouth Valiant was family affair
For years, 19-year-old Shaelyn Hall saw the 1972 Plymouth Valiant lying in a neighbor’s field. Even as a small child, something about the vehicle caught her attention.

TV pioneer Dick Van Patten dies at 86
Dick Van Patten, the genial, round-faced comic actor who premiered on Broadway as a child, starred on television in its infancy and then, in middle age, found lasting fame as the patriarch on TV’s “Eight is Enough,” died Tuesday in Santa Monica, California, of complications from diabetes.

Obituary: Wilcox, Les G.
12 Nov 1933 - 17 Jun 2015     Harrington

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