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Rick Santorum has cancelled events for the time being, as his three year-old daughter, who was born with Trisomy 18, was admitted to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia yesterday. Reportedly, he's staying with her at the hospital. Physical and mental problems are common in those who survive - half die within the first week of birth.
Keep them all in your thoughts.
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Some 5,000 anti-abortion protesters rallied in the streets yesterday; 300 arests were made, and officers earlier fired tear gas to disperse people throwing rocks and tearing down fencing at a convention center.
Of course, the arrests and tear-gassing had nothing to do with the assemblage of abortion opponents who gathered at the Texas state capitol - those enforcement actions occurred in Oakland, where Occuturds broke into City Hall and burned an American flag before heading over to the vacant Henry Kaiser Convention Center, where some started tearing down perimeter fencing and "destroying construction equipment" shortly before 3 p.m., police said.
Police said they issued a dispersal order and used smoke and tear gas after some protesters pelted them with bottles, rocks, burning flares and other objects.
Naturally, the Portland Occuturds couldn't stand all the attention going to Oakland, so they had to run around town, as well:
(Video supplied by Daylight Disinfectant) They blocked traffic on a downtown bridge until the Portland Police riot squad showed up.
In contrast, by all accounts, the gathering of thousands in Austin, Texas was calm and sedate, although one woman wore a sign on her back that took a harsher tack: "The American Auschwitz is Planned Parenthood, death camp for babies."
Asked about that, Sarah Wheat, co-CEO of Planned Parenthood in Austin, said, "We're very familiar with extremism." She added, "That marks just how extreme this agenda has become."
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Interestingly, that whole "Birther" issue may not have been as "out there" as it's been portrayed.
Copies of President Obama's college transcripts from Occidental College indicate that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia as an undergraduate. The transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California. The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program.. To qualify, for the scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship..
In any case, there's the little matter of whether or not Barry satisfied legal requirements to appear on the ballot down South, and yet another little problem: United States Justice Foundation has released the results of their investigation of Obama’s campaign spending. This study estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950,000 in campaign funds in the past year with eleven law firms in 12 states for legal resources to block disclosure of any of his personal records.
Why would Barry do that? Didn't he promise "the most open and transparent administration in the history of the country"?
At least one thing's pretty transparent: he wants to be King.
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Urban Greenspaces Institute, Willamette Riverkeeper, Audubon Society of Portland and the Coalition for a Livable Future are all against it.
In virtually every case, when these turkeys oppose something, it's a good idea.
Last May, the Portland City Council approved using $6 million in storm water charges collected from utility ratepayers to help buy 146 forested acres in Southwest Portland. It's an example of utility spending that some question but that others applaud as good environmental stewardship.
Nobody bothered to ask ratepayers, and it has no relationship to the costs that they pay for ostensibly providing water and sewer services. It took 146 acres off the tax rolls, and Audubon and others bay in delight. Of course, The Zero doesn't bother to delve into stuff like that; it might force them to hire a reporter.
Audubon was at the forefront of efforts to halt a plan by USFWS and zoos to remove all remaining California condors from the wild and place them into an enhanced captive breeding program. They hired lawyers and fought the plan for years. Sanity prevailed; Audubon did not. Today, you'd think that Audubon fought on behalf of the condors (now successfully reproducing after being re-introduced into the wild) rather than arguing for their extinction.
If they don't like something, it's probably a good idea.
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Hey, they can go home and pick their noses.
This whole "they're only here to do the jobs Americans won't do" thing just doesn't fly. Dubya was wrong, and that philosophy still is about as attractive as a Porta-Potty on a hot day in Juarez.
So is this: SEATTLE -- In Olympia, it's not all that often that immigrant advocacy groups and farmers are on the same side of a proposed bill.
But the unlikely allies have teamed up this session to push a measure aimed at stopping more cities and counties from adopting a federal program that checks an individual's eligibility to work in the country.
Known as E-Verify, the internet-based program has to date been adopted by 11 cities and counties in Washington state.
Let's get something straight: they aren't "immigrant advocacy groups". They're "no borders, no health screening, no nothing" advocates for illegal aliens.
And the farmers that hire illegal aliens are criminals.
Is it really that hard to say?
It may not make much of an impact, but we're not buying anything from the Washington Growers League. Washington farmers who are members of that organization have just lost another family of customers.
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You'd think they'd have learned, over there in the government, that the Friday Night Document Dump (FNDD) doesn't work any more. Maybe they have learned, which would explain why they keep pushing for an Internet kill switch. But, there isn't one as yet - so the FNDD is an epic FAIL.
Barry's racist attorney general is once again behind this one, and it's a doozy! As if there were any question previously...it's now abundantly clear that Eric Holder lied to Congress in the course of testifying about "Operation Fast and Furious".
This racist porker has consistently committed crime after crime while in office, and he needs to be sitting in a cell right now.
Golly, isn't it interesting that the MSM all run the same headlines? Why, the DoJ "turned over" documents. Really? Small wonder that the MSM is about as popular as a turd in a punch-bowl.
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Book now to avoid the rush! Ah, imagine basking amongst the shade of the swaying palm trees along the beaches of the River Thames. Such luxury can be yours in less than 40 years' time, according to a report by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
If it sounds too good to believe, that's because it is. Well, yes, quite. While British bureaucrats have entirely bought into the "man-made global warming" hysteria, with its attendant necessity for firm governmental control over all aspects of life amongst the citizenry, it appears that the Science is not, in fact, settled. Bit of a bother, that:
In September, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever, a supporter of President Obama in the last election, publicly resigned from the American Physical Society (APS) with a letter that begins: "I did not renew [my membership] because I cannot live with the [APS policy] statement: 'The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now.' In the APS it is OK to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible?"
In spite of a multidecade international campaign to enforce the message that increasing amounts of the "pollutant" carbon dioxide will destroy civilization, large numbers of scientists, many very prominent, share the opinions of Dr. Giaever. And the number of scientific "heretics" is growing with each passing year. The reason is a collection of stubborn scientific facts.
Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now. This is known to the warming establishment, as one can see from the 2009 "Climategate" email of climate scientist Kevin Trenberth: "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't."
Of course, long-time readers and commenters at MaxRedline have been aware of these troublesome issues for several years; as has been noted time and again, the underlying reasons in support of "anthropogenic global warming" are as old as civilization itself: power, and money. Scaring people to death carries significant benefits, as it pours taxpayer dollars into funding "studies" - as long as the "results" are acceptable - and this enhances not only the bottom line for the "researchers", but also for their affiliated universities.
It also affords justification for the enhancement in size and scope of governmental bureaucracies such as the E.P.A. and its counterparts, which naturally require more taxpayer dollars in order to support their mission of behavior management.
And it's great for the CEOs of "green" businesses: they reap massive tax subsidies before going out of business (three such companies, backed by the Obama administration, filed for bankruptcy just this week. And who can forget the raging success stories of Solyndra, and the Chevy Volt?). And what's really great about it is the "trickle-down" effect: even little tinpot dictators like Portland "mayor" Sam Adams can feel comfortable in ordering citizens to conform to specific, approved patterns of behavior - such as using slop buckets.
If it can in some way be tied to Saving The Planet™, then it's all good. Even if it's stupid.
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There's a reason why we refer to Portland loot rail as the Crime Train.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland transit police have arrested an 11-year-old boy who displayed a loaded gun during a dispute on a light rail train.
Officers responded Thursday night to learn that a group of boys and girls had a dispute with another passenger after one of the boys bumped into her baby stroller when they boarded the train.
Police Lt. Robert King says that during the argument with the baby’s mother, an 11-year-old boy lifted his shirt to show the woman a gun in his waistband, then started to pull the gun out. King says the woman backed away and the boy put the gun back in the waistband.
The woman called 911 and the train stopped downtown. The woman identified the boy to officers who recovered a loaded .22 caliber semi-automatic handgun.
An eleven-year-old with a loaded semi-auto gun, showing off for the gang on the Crime Train.
Dat right, dat right, he be bad.
But as Tri-Met's brain-dead spokewoman, Mary Fetch won't hesitate to assure you, light rail's really, really safe.
I'll drive.
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Okay, that's more than a little unfair: although Metro's Oregon Zoo has a unionized workforce, that's not why you'll be seeing the Zoo in the news early next month. What you'll see is a careful side-stepping of managerial incompetence as they attempt to spin the fact that they've screwed up yet again, resulting in the unfortunate decision to euthanize another megaherbivore.
You won't read, nor hear, that Metro Oregon Zoo has systematically chased out virtually all experienced animal care staff while embarking upon a hiring spree of "managers". Nor will you read or hear that daily animal care has been largely turned over to temporary workers and other inexperienced staff - many of whom much prefer to socialize among themselves as much as possible.
No, what you'll get is the solemn intonation that you always get: "He was like family", "It was in his best interest".
Another endangered animal is euthanized and dismembered, and they'll trot out the same old lines - hoping you won't remember when they said the same things two months ago.
They didn't have this sort of problem 20 years ago, when they had a couple of managers and a staff of experienced animal care professionals. You'd almost think they took a wrong turn, somewhere along the line.
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If the holy "Sustainability Center" so desired by Portlandia's politicians had any legs, they wouldn't need to hire a PR firm to peddle it. Judging from the comments on this story, they're going to have to spend a lot more than $22,000 to clear up the stink emanating from this wish-list project.
No worries, though - Eileen Brady and the other wannabe mayors are all over it. That's the latest in a litany of reasons why Brady and the other pretenders should be denied. Vote Max Brumm. He's young, but sane. And that's something that Eileen, "Streetcar", and Bus-boy completely lack.
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