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By David Edwards
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 9:50 EST
Less than an hour after same sex marriage became legal in Washington on Monday, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was meeting with opponents of the law.
Speaking at Calvary Chapel in Olympia, the former Pennsylvania senator promised about 100 pastors and so-called “values voters” that he would work to repeal marriage equality in the state.
“We have a serious issue about trying to get moms and dads to marry and stay together,” Santorum explained. “I don’t see this as encouraging that. I think that at least from my perspective it tends to water down marriage instead of encouraging men and women to form healthy marriages, and that to me should be the objective of the government because that is in the best interests of our society.”
The candidate also spoke out about a recent U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that overturned the same sex marriage ban in California.
“It’s pretty intolerant to suggest that people have no rational reason to be in favor of this institution that has been the bulwark of society for 235 years,” Santorum said, adding that both sides needed to “be respectful.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/14/santorum-lgbt-equality-waters-down-marriage/
Watch this video from KIRO-TV, broadcast Feb. 13, 2012.
"That to Me should be the Objective of the government" Guess what Douche Bag, the Objective of the government should be to stay the Hell out of people's bedrooms and get on with fixing issues that your party screwed up!!!! Sheeesh!!!!By David Edwards
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 9:50 EST
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By David Edwards
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 14:51 EST
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Wednesday suggested that President Barack Obama wanted to every kid to go to college so they could be brainwashed into being a liberal.
Speaking to a crowd of Floridians at the First Baptist Church of Naples, Santorum said that churches and families were under “assault” by the president and liberals.
“We’ve lost, unfortunately, our entertainment industry,” the candidate explained. “We’ve lost our higher education. That was the first to go a long time ago. It’s no wonder President Obama wants every kid to go to college. The indoctrination that occurs at American universities is one of the keys to the left holding and maintaining power in America — and it is indoctrination.”
“If they taught Judeo-Christian ideology, they would be stripped of every dollar. If they teach radical secular ideology, they get all the government support that they can possibly get. As you know, 62 percent of children who enter college with a faith conviction leave without it. And I bet you there are people in this room who give money to colleges and universities who are undermining the very principles of our country every single day by indoctrinating kids in left-wing ideology. And you continue to give to these colleges and universities. Let me have a suggestion: Stop it!”
Santorum added: “What they say is, look, their values trump your religious values. The government can tell you they’re going to starve you by taking money away, by taking out the charitable deductions. They’re going to weaken you by passing statutes to change the institution of marriage, which will ultimately make what is preached here hate speech and bigotry.”
Last month, the former Pennsylvania senator warned voters in Iowa that colleges and universities had become “indoctrination centers for the left.”
For his part, President Barack Obama spoke about the importance of college affordability during his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday.
“We can’t just keep subsidizing skyrocketing tuition; we’ll run out of money,” he said. “So let me put colleges and universities on notice: If you can’t stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/?p=380324
Watch this video from CNN, broadcast Jan. 25, 2012.
"Hate speech and Bigotry??? He is talking about his own Damned Party!!!!"By David Edwards
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 14:51 EST
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There's nothing funny about child rape, but I approve of this kind of protest.
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Even if you were watching closely as UH dominated Penn State in the Ticketcity.com Bowl Monday, you might not have noticed one attendee.
The notorious Pedobear, an internet meme embodying child molesters, was not only there, not only carrying a sign with the Penn State symbol saying "Keep Quiet and Don't Tell Anyone," but he showed up on the JumboTron, as the above picture from Deadspin shows.
Deadspin says the Shaggy Bevo UT message board took credit.
We're sure Cotton Bowl security simply thought he was a Houston Cougar (or a Nittany Lion?), but we're hoping there are no pictures of him making the Cougar hand signal.There's nothing funny about child rape, but I approve of this kind of protest.... more
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By David Edwards
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Tuesday that he was a “big believer” in free speech, but the “court has gotten it wrong” on pornography.
At a town hall-style campaign event in Belle Plaine, Iowa, a woman asked the Pennsylvania Republican what he would do about the Occupy Wall Street protests as president.
“In all due respect, nothing because that’s not really the role of the president,” Santorum replied. “This is a First Amendment right, but a First Amendment right isn’t an absolute right.”
He added: “I’m a big believer in the First Amendment. I think the court has gotten it wrong on some cases, particularly with respect to pornography and their rulings on that.”
“But with respect to the Occupy Wall Street people, they have the right to protest. But they don’t have the right to take over a community and terrorize it.”
In their 1969 Stanley v. Georgia ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated all state laws that prevented the private possession of “obscene” materials.
However, the court ruled in 1973 that obscene material was not protected by the First Amendment if it appealed “to a prurient interest,” showed “patently offensive sexual conduct, and “lacked serious artistic, literary, political, or scientific value.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/13/santorum-court-has-gotten-it-wrong-that-pornography-is-free-speech/
Watch this video from CNN, broadcast Dec. 13, 2011.
"What an Odd thing to say, don't Ya' think???"By David Edwards
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
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Help bring emergency aid to Dimock: http://j.mp/4dimock
On November 30th, 2011 the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will allow Cabot Oil and Gas co. to halt delivery of water to families in Dimock, leaving them with only the toxic, flammable water that has made them ill and caused skin lesions.
The time has come to take action to support our friends in Dimock. Cabot Oil and Gas, and the Pennsylvania DEP are neglecting their responsibility to aid the people whose lives they damaged. Tell Pennsylvania Governor Corbett he made the wrong choice, effectively selling out his constituents and allowing a travesty of justice to take place on his watch.
Please sign our petition: http://j.mp/rGorpS, and take a minute to call the Secretary of the Pennsylvania DEP, Michael Krancer, at 717-787-2814 and tell him to reverse the DEP decision and force Cabot to continue delivering water to the families in Dimock. You can also call Scott Perry of the DEP here: 717-576-7613 and call Governor Corbett here: 717-787-2500.
For more info go to: www.waterdefense.orgHelp bring emergency aid to Dimock: http://j.mp/4dimock
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I have spent almost 40 years of my life working in local government in Pennsylvania, mostly as a county planning director. Hydraulic fracking is a practice that has not been independently examined for its potential impacts. The proposed regulations do not take this into consideration, nor do these regulations mandate best practices, most advanced equipment, independent regulatory monitoring, or transparency in reporting. Potential impacts to groundwater as well as geologic stability have been identified and need to be fully investigated. In the meantime a workable regulatory system with emphasis on environmental protection rather than maximization of profit needs to be developed while permit applications are being revised.
http://thedailyreview.com/opinion/letters/letter-to-the-editor-nov-19-2011-1.1234608#dsq-login-facebook
http://www.centredaily.com/2011/11/19/2991920/dozens-of-protesters-rally-against.htmlI have spent almost 40 years of my life working in local government in Pennsylvania,... more
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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is filing for bankruptcy after years of excess borrowing and spending. Will other American cities be forced to do the same?
They may have other things in common, but right now, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Jefferson County, Alabama share a dubious distinction.
Both are in the midst of record-breaking financial woes. And just to keep the headline writers happy, both sets of difficulties stem from costly ventures in waste management.
Populous Jefferson County is saddled with more than $4bn (£2.4bn) in debt, the bad odour emanating from a sewer project that went awry amid allegations of corruption.
In Harrisburg, a small city of 50,000 people groaning under more than $300m (£190m) of debt, the offending project - a waste incinerator - is no less symbolic.
"Everyone says the incinerator is burning the city's future," says Eric Veronikis of the local Patriot News.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15749520Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is filing for bankruptcy after years of excess borrowing and... more
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Accused Penn State Child Rapist Gives First Interview Since Scandal Broke. Jerry Sandusky, the former assistant football coach charged with 40 counts of child sex abuse, breaks his silence on the Penn State scandal with Bob Costas. And he unsurprisingly denies all the charges. “Horsing around” and “horseplay” are terms that are now forever tainted.Accused Penn State Child Rapist Gives First Interview Since Scandal Broke. Jerry... more
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Many folks in the media have been asking: What will this terrible scandal do to Joe Paterno's legacy?
Folks, this is Joe Paterno's legacy....
Still, from now on when I think of Paterno, I won't think of his 400-and-whatever wins or his spotless (until now) program. I won't remember what Paterno did, but what he didn't do. What he didn't do is what got him fired Wednesday by the Penn State board of trustees.
Firing Joe Paterno doesn't fix everything, but it's a great start.
With responsibility comes responsibility.
Look, witnesses have testified that Sandusky did bad things with young boys in the Penn State football shower room. At least two janitors knew. At least one assistant coach knew. The athletic director and the school vice president knew. The school president knew. Paterno knew.
What is the over-under number on how many people have to know about a depraved predator working under their noses before one of them takes a step to stop the predator and protect the victims?
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Lhonda Kanode, 41-year-old woman from Middletown, Pennsylvania, has been accused of engaging in sex acts with a 15-year-old boy repeatedly between March and November 2011.
The trysts between adult woman and a teen boy ended this week when police caught the pair in the middle of sex act.
According to court papers, Kanode and the teen boy were found inside a fogged up Jeep at the Middletown Boat Launch last week on Tuesday night. The boy was taken to the Middletown Police Department where he told officers that 41-year-old Lhonda Kanode, of Mount Joy, had made sexual advances towards the boy since March. He told police that he's known the woman for years, but that since last spring their relationship turned sexual.
Police also accuse Lhonda Kanode of sending a nude photograph of herself to the teen's cell phone.
Kanode was charged Wednesday with felony counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and statutory sexual assault, as well as charges of indecent assault, and corruption of minors, according to court documents.
Kanode reportedly confessed to all of the sex acts.
http://femalesexoffenders.com/fso/index.php/the-news/450-41-year-old-woman-arrested-after-being-caught-in-the-act-of-having-sex-with-a-teen-boyLhonda Kanode, 41-year-old woman from Middletown, Pennsylvania, has been accused of... more
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Jennie Lee, 37-year-old woman from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania,has been sentenced to up to 23 months in jail and four years probation for having sex with two teenage members of her son’s high school football team.
Lee, 37, of the 1600 block of Reservoir Avenue, Abington, pleaded guilty in April to statutory sexual assault for having sex with the 15-year-old and to corruption of minors for engaging in sex with the 17-year-old.
Lee initiated contact with the 17-year-old teen over the Internet, using the teen’s Facebook page to engage in electronic conversations with him in February and March, 2010. Responding to the teen’s request for a naked photo of herself, Lee sent him a photo from her cellphone, showing a naked woman lying on a zebra pattern rug, the complaint said. The teen, in return, sent her a phone photo of a penis.
The two met several days later for oral sex. The two had similar sexual encounters four other times that month, according to the complaint. In each case, Lee picked up the 17-year-old in her van.
The teen brought a 15-year-old male friend with him on April 9, 2010, and all three twice engaged in sexual encounters. The 17-year-old was again with Lee on April 16, 2010, in the basement of her home, according to the complaint.
The 17-year-old reported the sexual activity to police on April 26, 2010.
http://naughtyneighbors.zoeoez.com/2011/10/26/jennie-lee-pennsylvania/Jennie Lee, 37-year-old woman from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania,has been sentenced... more
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Jersey Shore Cast S.T.D. Rumors with Dr. Phillis
On this installment Dr. Phillis interviews, via satellite, some of the Jersey Shore cast members. Snooki, Pauly D, The Situation, and Sammi are questioned about the herpes outbreak situation. Further questioning involves to-the-point responses that only Dr. Phillis can deliver.
Dr. Phillis is a product of Chase McMullen's imagination and in no way are any of the responses fact, they are all fiction.
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The city of Harrisburg has filed for municipal bankruptcy and is entering uncharted legal waters. Pennsylvania's capital is mired in more than $300 million of debt related to a botched trash incinerator project.
Pennsylvania’s capitol of Harrisburg has filed for bankruptcy protection as the cash-strapped city government can no longer pay its bills and workers by the fourth quarter.
The City Council voted 4-3 to file for bankruptcy protection Tuesday night and the petition was faxed overnight to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Harrisburg.
The council’s decision contradicts Mayor Linda Thompson’s financial recovery plan for the city, which is mired in $300 million debt. Under the plan, the state government will fund the city in exchange for an 8 percent property tax increase, outsourcing of city service functions and selling of a trash incinerator project.
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The US city of Harrisburg - capital of the state of Pennsylvania - has filed for bankruptcy, making it the first state capital to do so.
Harrisburg faces debts of $300m (£190m) and has struggled to pay for services.
The move comes as the state legislature considers a takeover of the city and the implementation of a "rescue plan".
Last year, municipal bond analysts expected many bankruptcies from cities under debt pressure, but few localities have actually taken the step.
The city council voted 4-3 on Wednesday to file for bankruptcy under a rarely used code for towns and cities.
Filing for bankruptcy is opposed by the city's mayor and state officials.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canad
A final vote on a state takeover plan of the city is expected next week.
A photo of a railway bridge over the Susquehanna River in Harrisburg 12 October 2011 is the picture I wanted to illustrate this story.
However, Linda Thompson, the mayor of Harrisburg, shown instead, is pictured above. Mayor Thompson opposes the decision to file for bankruptcy.The US city of Harrisburg - capital of the state of Pennsylvania - has filed for... more
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Forget the flag waving, constitution loving facade put on by the rethugs. They don't give 2 s**ts about Democracy. If undermining Democracy is the only way to win, then they'll do it. His argument:
"... The way Democrats win, they have two big cities with huge concentrations of voters — and then overwhelm the rest of the state...”
Yeah Rick, kind of like how the rest of Texas overwhelms the more liberal Austin. Your logic is as flawed as you are.Forget the flag waving, constitution loving facade put on by the rethugs. They... more
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INTERNATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES PROGRAM
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Dr. Daniel I. FineResearch AssociateMining and Minerals Resources Institute, MIT
LUNCHEON LECTURETUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 201111:00AM – 1:00PMCABOT 703
“Shale Gas War: The Geopolitics of U.S.Self-Sufficiency”
Dr. Daniel Fine
is a Research Associate at the Mining and Minerals Resources Institute,MIT. Dr. Fine is also a current Policy Adviser on Non-Conventional Oil and Gas. He isco-editor of
Resource War in 3-D: Dependence, Diplomacy and Defense, and has contributed to Business Week , the Engineering and Mining Journal and theWashingtonTimes
. Dr. Fine participated in the Atlantic Council Workshop on Central Asian Policyand the Hudson Institute Russia-United States Relations Project. He has given testimonyon strategic natural resources before the U.S. Senate Committees on Foreign Affairs andthe Energy and Natural Resources. Dr. Fine was a member of the Domestic EnergyProduction Issue Team of the Center For The Study Of The Presidency and Congress“Strengthening America’s Future Initiative.” He has participated as a panelist on energy public policy at the Rocky Mountain Global New Energy Summit.
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On Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001, the U.S. came under attack when four commercial airliners were hijacked and used to strike targets on the ground. Three of the planes hijacked by al-Qaeda on that day hit their high-profile targets: the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Nearly 3,000 people tragically lost their lives. Because of the actions of the 40 passengers and crew aboard Flight 93, who fought back against their hijackers, an intended attack on the U.S. Capitol was thwarted.
Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Vice-President Biden, state officials, bereaved relatives, artists and members of the public gathered Saturday to open a 1,500-acre national park on the outskirts of Shanksville (PA) that includes the partially completed Flight 93 National Memorial, in honor of the 40 passengers and crew members who died on United Airlines Flight 93.
The dedication of the memorial on Saturday, provided an opportunity for the two former presidents to appeal for unity. Neither George W. Bush nor Bill Clinton specifically mentioned the fractured state of relations in Washington. But their sharing of a stage and their comments here in the field where Flight 93 slammed into the ground stood in sharp contrast to the current state of divisive political discord.
This piece includes photographs and three documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/remembering-the-heroes-the-flight-93-national-memorial/On Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001, the U.S. came under attack when four... more
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Dr. Jeff Masters: An extreme rainfall event unprecedented in recorded history has hit the Binghamton, New York area, where 7.49″ fell yesterday. This is the second year in a row Binghamton has recorded a 1-in-100 year rain event; their previous all-time record was set last September, when 4.68″ fell on Sep 30 – Oct. 1, 2010. Records go back to 1890 in the city….
You don’t often see a major city break its all-time 24-hour precipitation record by a 60% margin, according to wunderground’s weather historian, Christopher C. Burt, and he can’t recall ever seeing it happen before.
Before seeing that amazing story, I was all set to lead with the “unprecedented” rains soaking the Washington, DC area:
“I can’t recall flooding like this. This is unprecedented,” [Virginia Department of Transportation spokesman] Morris said.
The unrelenting rains, sometimes falling at four inches an hour….
Capital Weather Gang’s Jason Samenow points me to this post, which has more details on our deluge:
Fort Belvoir, Va., recorded at least (last ob with rain total was 7:55 p.m.) an incredible 8.82” with as much as 7.03” coming during a three-hour stretch during the evening. It has received a stunning 13.52” since Monday.
And let’s not forget Irene’s recent devastating 1-in-100 year deluge, which was “the most devastating weather event ever to hit the region” where I grew up near the Catskill Mountains of New York state. It also set “the greatest single-day rainfall in Vermont’s history” by over an inch.
What’s going on?
Well, a very basic prediction of climate science is that as you warm the planet you get more water vapor in the atmosphere and more rain comes down in extreme deluges. Observations reveal that is already happening, and the recent scientific literature has said that is extremely likely that human emissions are the cause of this increase in precipitation intensity. Climate Progress ran through the recent literature in this February post, “Two seminal Nature papers join growing body of evidence that human emissions fuel extreme weather, flooding that harm humans and the environment.”
In a new report by by the scientific group Climate Communication, “Current Extreme Weather and Climate Change” report, top climatologists scientists spell out how human-caused global warming is loading the dice for the extreme weather seen in the past year. You can listen to a press conference held Wednesday by Jeff Masters and Jerry Meehl and Kevin Trenberth and Richard Somerville here.
Trenberth, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, explained the deluge-warming connection in an interview with Climate Progress last year:
I find it systematically tends to get underplayed and it often gets underplayed by my fellow scientists. Because one of the opening statements, which I’m sure you’ve probably heard is “Well you can’t attribute a single event to climate change.” But there is a systematic influence on all of these weather events now-a-days because of the fact that there is this extra water vapor lurking around in the atmosphere than there used to be say 30 years ago. It’s about a 4% extra amount, it invigorates the storms, it provides plenty of moisture for these storms and it’s unfortunate that the public is not associating these with the fact that this is one manifestation of climate change. And the prospects are that these kinds of things will only get bigger and worse in the future.
More at the linkDr. Jeff Masters: An extreme rainfall event unprecedented in recorded history has hit... more
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Newly Published Audio Provides Real-Time View of 9/11 Attacks
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For one instant on the morning of Sept. 11, an airliner that had vanished from all the tracking tools of modern aviation suddenly became visible in its final seconds to the people who had been trying to find it.
It was just after 9 a.m., 16 minutes after a plane had hit the north tower of the World Trade Center, when a radio transmission came into the New York air traffic control radar center. “Hey, can you look out your window right now?” the caller said.
“Yeah,” the radar control manager said.
“Can you, can you see a guy at about 4,000 feet, about 5 east of the airport right now, looks like he’s —”
“Yeah, I see him,” the manager said.
“Do you see that guy, look, is he descending into the building also?” the caller asked.
“He’s descending really quick too, yeah,” the manager said. “Forty-five hundred right now, he just dropped 800 feet in like, like one, one sweep.”
“What kind of airplane is that, can you guys tell?”
“I don’t know, I’ll read it out in a minute,” the manager said.
There was no time to read it out.
In the background, people can be heard shouting: “Another one just hit the building. Wow. Another one just hit it hard. Another one just hit the World Trade.”
The manager spoke.
“The whole building just came apart,” he said.
That moment is part of a newly published chronicle of the civil and military aviation responses to the hijackings that originally had been prepared by investigators for the 9/11 Commission, but never completed or released.
Threaded into vivid narratives covering each of the four airliners, the multimedia document contains 114 recordings of air traffic controllers, military aviation officers, airline and fighter jet pilots, as well as two of the hijackers, stretching across two hours of the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
Though some of the audio has emerged over the years, mainly through public hearings and a federal criminal trial, the report provides a rare 360-degree view of events that were unfolding at high speed across the Northeast in the skies and on the ground. This week, the complete document, with recordings, is being published for the first time by the Rutgers Law Review, and selections of it are available online at nytimes.com.
“The story of the day, of 9/11 itself, is best told in the voices of 9/11,” said Miles Kara, a retired Army colonel and an investigator for the commission who studied the events of that morning.
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