Chicken Little MSM and Obama: “The Sky Is Falling!”
WASHINGTON — When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can’t avoid.
Since Clinton’s inauguration, summer Arctic sea ice has lost the equivalent of Alaska, California and Texas. The 10 hottest years on record have occurred since Clinton’s second inauguration. Global warming is accelerating. Time is close to running out, and Obama knows it.
“The time for delay is over; the time for denial is over,” he said on Tuesday after meeting with former Vice President Al Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming. “We all believe what the scientists have been telling us for years now that this is a matter of urgency and national security and it has to be dealt with in a serious way.”
But there are powerful political and economic realities that must be quickly overcome for Obama to succeed. Despite the urgency he expresses, it’s not at all clear that he and Congress will agree on an approach during a worldwide financial crisis in time to meet some of the more crucial deadlines.
Obama is pushing changes in the way Americans use energy, and produce greenhouse gases, as part of what will be a massive economic stimulus. He called it an opportunity “to re-power America.”
…and it goes on and on!
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This week we celebrate:
- Lipstick Week
- International Language Week
- Saturnalia
- Gluten-Free Baking Week
This week’s daily parties:
- Cat Herders Day (12/15)
- Barbie and Barney Backlash Day (12/16)
- National Chocolate-covered Anything Day (12/16)
- Wear a Plunger on Your Head Day (12/18)
- Underdog Day (12/19)
- Sacagawea Day (12/20)
- Flashlight Day (12/21)
- Humbug Day (12/21)
- Phileas Fog Win a Wager Day (12/21)
- National Haiku Poetry Day (12/21)
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This woman should be given a medal.
An intended rape victim shot and killed her attacker this morning in Cape Girardeau when he broke into her home to rape her a second time, police said.
The woman told police he was the same man who raped her several days earlier.
The 57-year-old woman shot Ronnie W. Preyer, 47, a registered sex offender, in the chest with a shotgun when he broke through her locked basement door.
The woman told police he was the same man who raped her several days earlier. Officials do not intend to seek charges against her.
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Unbelievable!
A Romanian man has won a year-long fight to persuade the courts that he isn’t dead.
Gheroghe Stirbu, from Timisoara, tried to renew his identity card but was told by officials that he had been registered as dead.
Bungling civil servants had mixed him up with another man but although Stirbu pointed out what they had done they refused to acknowledge their mistake until Stirbu won a 12 month legal claim to be declared alive.
Judges renewed his status as alive – and then charged him £500 in court costs.
Mr Stirbu said: “When the judge ruled in my favour I was absolutely delighted – and then seconds later was absolutely shocked when I found out I would have to pay so much in legal bills.
“I will of course appeal the imposition of the costs but I am already beginning to wonder whether or not I would have been better off staying dead.”
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A Northamptonshire man’s last wish has been honoured – when his ashes were buried in the pub where he spent nearly all of his life.
Former landlord Jack Woodward’s remains lie beneath a flagstone with a plaque saying: “Stand here and have a drink on me.”
He was born in the 17th-century Boat Inn, worked there since he was 14 and lived there until shortly before his death in May, aged 83.
Jack’s will said he wanted his ashes to remain in the public bar as his final resting place.
Eldest son Andrew, 52, who now runs the pub at Stoke Bruerne, near Towcester, said: “Dad is in an oak casket exactly where he wanted to be.
“He was born in the pub and spent almost his whole life here. He used to sit in the bar quite a bit. It was where he would have a drink with some of the regulars.”
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OMG!
BEDFORD — For all the bad things you can find on the Internet, the “Six Easy Steps to Committing Armed Robbery” could be the worst when taken seriously.
“This is one for the books for us,” Beford Police Detective Shawn Klubnik said.
Detective Klubnik says friends Jocelyn Addison, Nia Mcbrayer and Jennifer Wattson used the downloaded instructions to rob the Dollar Tree on Rockside Road in Bedford Heights last Monday night.
“One of the girls was being kicked out of her home and she didn’t have any money,” Det. Klubnik said.
Police say the three suspects followed most of the suggested steps. They had a plan, masks, and a gun – albeit it an unloaded bb gun.
“This is aggravated robbery with a gun spec, whether it was a bb gun, plastic play gun or the real gun, the law looks at it the same,” Det. Klubnik said.
Even though the would-be robbers left the store empty-handed, they were outfoxed by the manager, who told them the safe could not be opened.
Police were on top of the suspects at I-271 and Rockside Road, not a mile from the Dollar Tree. Facing several officers with guns drawn, the suspects surrendered, tears streaming down their faces and volunteering any information the cops wanted.
What was skipped over from the outcome was step 5 – ”avoid police.”
“They messed up with staying away from police. They couldn’t do that one,” Det. Klubnik said.
Had they been successful, the final lesson is how to spend all the money fast. It suggests buying lots of “bling.”
Instead, the next time their surfing the web, they might want to find an escape plan as the suspects remain behind bars.
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You need a back-up, Dood!
DEARBORN – Police had to help free a woman handcuffed by her amorous husband this morning.
The husband misplaced the key to the cuffs and police were summed about 7:15 a.m. today to help set his embarrassed wife free, said Dearborn Police Sgt. Ray Patrick.
Patrick admitted the incident had “comedic value” but that no crime was committed.
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Poster boys for the criminally inept:
DAVENPORT, Iowa— A group of security cameras stolen from a pedestrian bridge in Davenport last week may ultimately help authorities nab the culprits.
That’s because police say the cameras snapped pictures of the alleged suspects just before they were stolen.
Police arrested and charged a Davenport teenager Tuesday with participating in the damage and theft of the cameras at the Davenport SkyBridge.
Police have charged 19-year-old Robert Newton with second-degree criminal mischief and theft. Newton bond is set at $6,500.
Authorities are searching for additional suspects. They say they were able to retrieve images recorded during the theft to identify those responsible.
The cameras were installed to monitor pedestrian traffic and identify people involved in acts of criminal damage.
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When the moon cheese hits your eye it’s a big pizza pie, you naughty criminal!
MIRAMAR, Fla. (AP) – Police say a pizza delivery man fought back with the one weapon he had handy when a gun was pulled on him in a stickup: A large, hot pepperoni pizza.
Delivery man Eric Lopez Devictoria, 40, flung the steaming pie at the gunman, buying time as he ran for safety, police said.
At least one shot was fired as Devictoria fled, but the deliveryman wasn’t hurt and was able to quickly call police, according to authorities.
Three teenage suspects were nabbed soon after Wednesday’s run-in with the cheesy weapon, police said, adding they were charged with armed robbery.
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This dood should get his palm read or something…
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – A news report says a burglar who broke into a house claims he was held captive by a “supernatural figure” for three days without food and water.
Police official Abdul Marlik Hakim Johar told The Star newspaper the house’s owners found the 36-year-old man fatigued and dehydrated when they returned from vacation Thursday.
He says they called an ambulance to take him to a hospital.
The man told police that every time he tried to escape, a “supernatural figure” shoved him to the ground.
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Yikes!
DEMOTTE, Ind. (AP) – Aw, nuts. That’s likely what Hope Wideup thought when her car’s turn signal and windshield wipers wouldn’t work. It’s also what she found later when she opened the hood. “There were thousands in there. They were everywhere,” she said, speculating a chipmunk found its way into her car, which had been sitting idle for several weeks, and used the engine compartment as a storage depot for a trove of black walnuts.
Wideup thinks it all started last fall when a chipmunk snatched a garden glove from her yard. She later found the glove in the engine compartment when she was trying to repair the broken turn signal. Unable to fix the problem, however, Wideup let the car sit unused for a couple of weeks and then heard a loud revving sound from the engine when she tried to start the vehicle.
That’s when she looked under the hood again and found the walnuts.
“Apparently this little guy stuffed a bunch of these nuts in the accelerator throttle,” said Wideup, who had to spend $242 for towing and repairs.
The chipmunk hasn’t returned, Wideup told the Post-Tribune for a story published Wednesday. But she’s not taking any chances, alternating use of her two cars so neither one is sitting too long.
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