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Friday, October 05, 2012

UW MADISON STUDENTS: 'UNFAIR' THAT OBAMA COULDN'T USE TELEPROMPTER IN DEBATE

Thousands of President Obama supporters turned out in in Madison, Wisc., for a rally following Wednesday night’s debate in Denver. The mood was somber, to say the least, as they waited to enter Bascom Mall at the University of Wisconsin Thursday afternoon. University of Wisconsin students and fellow Wisconsinites had mixed reviews on the president's performance.

I talked to supporters of the president who had watched the debate, asking how they thought the president did. One after the other said they were left unimpressed and “not inspired,” seemingly depressed and lethargic in their continuing support of the president.'
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THERE IS NO WAY YOU’LL BE ABLE TO GUESS WHO THIS IS

We’ll give you three guesses to figure out who this is. 

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U.S. SOLDIERS URGED NOT TO SHOOT TALIBAN AT NIGHT SO LOCALS CAN SLEEP

Reports indicate U.S. soldiers and British Royal Marines have been urged to show "courageous constraint  " by not shooting Taliban members spotted planting IEDs.

The reason? Shooting them might disturb the locals.

Fire In Ocean City

2 Alarm Building Fire; Waterman's Seafood on Ocean Gateway. Units working...

Update
Showell Vol. Fire Company and Ocean Pines for the ladder truck has been dispatched to Ocean City FD headquarters for the stand by


You can view the webcam and see some activity by using this LINK

The Top 10 Human Foods To Avoid Feeding Pets

Veterinarian Dr. Katy Nelson says some human foods are worse than others when it comes to feeding our pets.
Here's what not to feed dogs or cats and why:
    1. Chocolate: Extreme caffeine-like effects, dosage dependent. Side effects range from mild to moderate GI upset, muscle tremors, hyperthermia, seizures and even death.
    2. Grapes and Raisins: Nephrotoxic side effects, dosage dependent. Side effects range from mild GI side upset all the way to Acute Renal Failure and death.
    3. Onions and Garlic: These products contain volatile oils which can lead to vomiting, breakdown of red blood cells (hemolytic anemia, Heinz body anemia), blood in urine, weakness, high heart rate and panting.

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Better or Worse?


Brand WASTE

The federal government’s latest taxpayer-funded effort to promote U.S. tourism is dogged by lavish spending, cronyism, and questionable accounting, according to a report released Thursday by two U.S. Senators.

The report, issued by Sens. Jim DeMint (R., S.C.) and Tom Coburn (R., Okla.), details questionable practices by Brand USA, a public-private corporation established in 2010 by Congress to promote U.S. tourism.

“It is immoral to ask the federal government to shell out $100 million every year to pay for high ranking executives to enjoy parties in London and luxury suites at major league baseball games in the name of ‘travel promotion,’” Coburn said in a statement. “With millions out of work and our national debt surpassing $16 trillion, this is the kind of indulgence we need to say no to.”

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Why?

Did you ever wonder why a nation so rich in energy resources, with proven reserves of crude oil and natural gas, would spend trillions of dollars buying petroleum from countries that hate everything we stand for, knowing that every dollar we send to them strengthens them and weakens us and at the same time, turns down a reliable supply of oil from Canada, our best friend in the world?
Why has the education of the children, who are America's future, been put in the hands of a self-serving, politically motivated teacher's union, which, by its own admission, cannot stand up to the testing it would require to certify that their members are even qualified to teach in the first place?
Why is the supply and flow of our currency controlled by one man, who at his whim can strangle the amount of money in circulation or flood the world with cheap dollars at the very real danger of devaluing the dollar and bringing on hyperinflation?
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SURVEILLANCE CAMERA CAPTURES VIOLENT SCHOOL BEATING: ‘EVERY PARENT’S WORST NIGHTMARE’

A surveillance camera captured a disturbing and violent school beating at a middle school in Indiana. Now, the teenager and his parents are suing the school district because they say it isn’t doing enough to prevent instances of bullying.
In the video, 13-year-old Austin McDaniel is put into a choke hold and slammed to the ground by a 15-year-old student. The bully then proceeded to punch McDaniel incessantly, delivering dozens of blows until his victim is beaten unconscious.
Students can be seen all around watching the incident, however, no one steps in to help McDaniel — they just watch.
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Parenting


Sources: FBI Suspects Border Agent Killed Accidentally by Fellow Agent

The FBI suspects that a Border Patrol agent who died this week in a shooting just north of the Mexico-Arizona border was killed by one of his fellow agents, sources tell Fox News.
That development comes on a day when officials from multiple federal law enforcement agencies met with local authorities about the shooting that killed Agent Nicholas Ivie, according to Fox News' law enforcement sources. Those sources say they have made important progress and suspect that Ivie and another agent may have shot at each other accidentally while pursuing drug-runners.
Investigators aren't sure if the drug-runners fired on the agents.
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Reeco Richardson: Chevy Chase Car Theft Defendant Sues Police For $10 Million

Jury deliberations will continue Friday morning in the car theft trial of a young man involved in a fiery, deadly police pursuit in Chevy Chase.

Three people died in the crash back in March.
The fourth person in that car is on trial for car theft charges.
It was a horrible fiery crash. Four teens, running from police in a stolen sub-compact car, lost control and wrecked at Chevy Chase circle.

Anti-Israel Advocate Reps U.S. at Rights Conference

A Muslim leader who said that Israel should have been added to the”suspect list” for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was recently selected to represent the United States government at a human rights conference sponsored by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE ).

Salam al-Marayati, founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC ), was chosen by the Obama administration to deliver remarks in Warsaw, Poland—home to one of the largest Jewish ghettos during the Holocaust—during the OSCE’s Human Dimension Implementation Meetings (HDIM ), a 10-day gathering meant to foster the “promotion of tolerance,” according to the group’s website.

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Newest Navy Destroyer Pays Tribute To SEAL From NY

The U.S. Navy's newest warship will not be named for a former president, distinguished member of Congress or some historic figure from the past.

The USS Michael Murphy, a 510-foot destroyer, is being commissioned this weekend in New York City for a Long Island native and Navy lieutenant who became the first American awarded the Medal of Honor during the Afghanistan War when he was killed along with two fellow SEALs during an ambush in 2005. He was 29.

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93 Year-Old Wheelchair-Bound Woman Gets Photo ID In One Day After Losing Initial PA Voter ID Lawsuit

For the first time, Philadelphia resident Viviette Applewhite actually got a state-issued photo ID from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
It was an important moment that went practically unnoticed when it it took place in August, according to Horace Cooper of Project 21 and Justin Danhof, general counsel for the National Center for Public Policy.
“Applewhite is 93-years-old, does not drive, is confined to a wheelchair, lacks many personal identification documents, and yet she managed to get herself -- with no assistance from the ACLU -- to her local PennDot office, where she was issued an ID,” Danhof explained.
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Romney Says He was 'Completely Wrong' About '47 Percent' Comments

FISHERSVILLE, Va - Mitt Romney for the first time characterized his comments during a fundraiser that were surreptitiously filmed and caught the candidate essentially writing off 47 percent of Americans as "completely wrong."

"Clearly in a campaign with hundreds if not thousands of speeches and question and answer sessions, now and then you're gonna say something that doesn't come out right," Romney said in an interview Wednesday night with Fox News' Sean Hannity. "In this case I said something that's just completely wrong."

Romney went on to say that his life has shown he cares about "100 percent and that's been demonstrated through my life and this whole campaign is about the 100 percent."

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ENDGAME: How Iran's Hyperinflation Will Lead To Regime Change

Iran has captured a lot of attention this week as inflation spirals out of control and the Iranian rial is quickly becoming worthless.
Yesterday, the rapidly falling value of the rial sparked serious street protests in Iran.
Now, the question becomes: Is the hyperinflation currently underway in Iran going to be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back?
The West certainly hopes so.

That's the whole point of the forceful Western sanctions placed on Iran's oil exports and even imports of basic goods and the Iranian banks being completely frozen out of the international financial system.
The sanctions have been in effect since July, but the situation is really just now starting to get worse as it becomes crystal clear to Iranians that their monetary authority has completely run out of the foreign exchange reserves they need to defend the value of their quickly plunging rial

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Hidden Powers of Your Mouse

You use your mouse for just about everything: you drag, you drop, you highlight, you scroll. But even if you click your mouse a thousand times a day, I bet I've got a few secret mouse tricks you've never heard of.
Click Tricks
You surely know that double clicking highlights a word, and you might even know that triple clicking highlights a paragraph. But have you ever wanted to select a column of text in a Word document, without getting all the text to the left and right of it? Here's how you can: Hold down the alt and left mouse button (on a Mac, option-left mouse), and drag the cursor over the section you want to select. The coolest thing about this trick is that the text you are selecting does not even need to be formatted as a column for this to work.
Scroll Tricks
Most mice have a scroll wheel. Sure, it takes you up and down on a page, but in combination with other keys, it can do much more:
  • Scroll sideways: In many versions of Excel, holding down the shift key while scrolling will take you sideways. That's super helpful in a big spreadsheet.
  • Scroll wheel as back button: In most web browsers, if you hold the shift key while using the scroll wheel, it works like the back button: You can fly through all the sites you've recently visited. (Some mice have side buttons that work like back and forward buttons in your browser, too.)
  • Scroll to zoom: Holding ctrl and scrolling lets you zoom in or out of the page you're viewing. Ctrl-scroll up zooms you in; ctrl-scroll down zooms you back out. On a Mac, this trick will zoom in and out your whole screen, not just the document you're in.
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TRAFFIC ALERT


Funeral Procession on Saturday, October 6 for Dagsboro Junior Firefighter, Justin Townsend

Dagsboro -- WHERE: Indian River High School Auditorium in Dagsboro

WHEN: Saturday, October 6, 2102 from 11 AM until 1 PM

Funeral services will be held for Justin Townsend, a Dagsboro Junior Firefighter killed in the line of duty. Services will be held at the Indian River High School auditorium on Armory Road in Dagsboro. 

After the services, the funeral procession will leave from the Indian River High School to Redman's Cemetery on Iron Branch Road. The route will be: Exit right onto Clayton Avenue and proceed to Main Street in Dagsboro, continue on Route 20 to Firetower Road, right on Firetower Road and right on Iron Branch Road to Redman's Cemetery.

Delaware State Police and Fire Police will hold traffic on Route 20 and Route 26 in both directions to allow free movement of the fire apparatus in the procession, as well as the procession itself. Traffic will be temporarily stopped at all intersections to allow the procession to pass. Once the procession is through the intersections, traffic will be returned to normal flow. Iron Branch Road will be CLOSED from Firetower Road to Route 20 from 1 PM until 5 PM. This is necessary to accommodate parking at the cemetery.

Message boards will be placed today and tomorrow to inform motorists of impending delays on Route 26 east of Route 113, Main Street in Dagsboro, Armory Road, Route 20, and Iron Branch Road.

In anticipation of possible delays in the area, DelDOT's Transportation Management Center will be monitoring traffic via radio and cameras along the route. DelDOT will have personnel positioned throughout the area to ensure traffic flow.

OCTOBER SURPRISE? OBAMA SECRET IRAN DEAL CUT

Iran could announce a temporary halt to uranium enrichment before next month’s U.S. election in a move to save Barack Obama’s presidency, a source affiliated with high Iranian officials said today.
The source, who remains anonymous for security reasons, said a three-person delegation of the Obama administration led by a woman engaged in secret negotiations yesterday with a representative of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The delegation urged the Iranian leader to announce a halt to enrichment, even if temporary, before the Nov. 6 election, promising removal of some sanctions.
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