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Friday, December 12, 2014
Pa. Gov. Wolf, please cancel $8.75 million R-cap grant awarded to Perdue
To the Honorable Governor-Elect Tom Wolf:
Thank you for providing your transition website and email access to accept feedback as Pennsylvania confronts enormous debt.
As reported in the media, has Perdue yet to be actually given the $8.75 million Redevelopment Assistance Capital Grant awarded in 2010 for a toxic, hexane-releasing facility that remains unconstructed -- and the DEP has yet to approve -- at this Lancaster County, Pa. location near Three Mile Island?:
Lancaster, Pa. Newspapers, 8/10/11
If so, will you cancel the $8.75 million grant?
If Perdue has already been given the money, will you request its return?
1. The R-cap grant was awarded before the DEP could even start considering the facility's planned release of large amounts of the dangerous neurotoxin hexane into Susquehanna Valley air.
2. All these years later, even under Gov. Tom Corbett, the DEP continues to notpermit Perdue to yearly release hundreds of tons of toxic hexane.
3. It's now time to finally:
STOP PERDUE'S PLANS TO POISON PA.
AIR WITH THE NEUROTOXIN HEXANE:
My 2012 video about Perdue's now 4-year-old plans to poison Pennsylvanians for profit -- with a factory that needlessly releases large amounts of the hazardous neurotoxin hexane -- is posted here:
MEDIA ADVISORY: SEVENTY NEW TROOPERS PREPARE FOR DUTY FOLLOWING THE 142ND ACADEMY CLASS GRADUATION
(Sykesville, MD) – Colonel Marcus L. Brown will preside over the graduation of the 142nd Maryland State Police Academy Class, made up of seventy trooper candidates preparing to report for duty to one of twenty-two barracks statewide.
The 142nd Academy of seventy candidates will graduate nineteen sons, daughters or relatives of police officers. Nine candidates in Class 142 are related to a member of the Maryland State Police. Also graduating in Class 142 are six military veterans and one former Major League Baseball player, who was elected as the class president.
The trooper candidates have completed six months of rigorous training in a residential police academy that demands their very best, at all times. After graduation, each trooper will have to complete eight weeks of additional field training with an experienced trooper before they are able to patrol alone. Families, friends and fellow members of the Maryland State Police will be present at the graduation ceremony.
WHAT: 142nd ACADEMY CLASS GRADUATION
WHEN: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2014 at 10:00 a.m.
WHERE: WINTERS MILL HIGH SCHOOL
50 GORSUCH ROAD
WESTMINSTER, MARYLAND 21157
The 142nd Academy of seventy candidates will graduate nineteen sons, daughters or relatives of police officers. Nine candidates in Class 142 are related to a member of the Maryland State Police. Also graduating in Class 142 are six military veterans and one former Major League Baseball player, who was elected as the class president.
The trooper candidates have completed six months of rigorous training in a residential police academy that demands their very best, at all times. After graduation, each trooper will have to complete eight weeks of additional field training with an experienced trooper before they are able to patrol alone. Families, friends and fellow members of the Maryland State Police will be present at the graduation ceremony.
WHAT: 142nd ACADEMY CLASS GRADUATION
WHEN: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2014 at 10:00 a.m.
WHERE: WINTERS MILL HIGH SCHOOL
50 GORSUCH ROAD
WESTMINSTER, MARYLAND 21157
Bombshell revelation blows lid off IRS scandal
Justice Department caught huddling with Lerner to crush tea-party election
WASHINGTON – The government watchdog group Judicial Watch has struck again, discovering Lois Lerner, former IRS tax-exempt division chief, had discussed possible criminal prosecution of conservative groups with Justice Department officials two years before what the agency had conceded.
Lerner met with Department of Justice officials in October 2010, just before the November midterm elections. Amid the rise of the tea-party groups targeted by Lerner, Republicans in the 2010 elections gained the most seats in the House since 1948.
Judicial Watch used a Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, request to obtain the documents but had to go to court to force the DOJ to release the material.
One document shows a DOJ official with the Election Crimes Division of the Public Integrity Section of the DOJ’s Criminal Division setting up a meeting with a “Ms. Ingram.”
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WASHINGTON – The government watchdog group Judicial Watch has struck again, discovering Lois Lerner, former IRS tax-exempt division chief, had discussed possible criminal prosecution of conservative groups with Justice Department officials two years before what the agency had conceded.
Lerner met with Department of Justice officials in October 2010, just before the November midterm elections. Amid the rise of the tea-party groups targeted by Lerner, Republicans in the 2010 elections gained the most seats in the House since 1948.
Judicial Watch used a Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, request to obtain the documents but had to go to court to force the DOJ to release the material.
One document shows a DOJ official with the Election Crimes Division of the Public Integrity Section of the DOJ’s Criminal Division setting up a meeting with a “Ms. Ingram.”
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Thursday, December 11, 2014
Harrington Teen Arrested for Murder
Harrington, DE – Detectives with the Delaware State Police Homicide Unit have arrested a 17-year-old teen in connection with the death of his father.
The investigation began at approximately 9:45 a.m., Thursday December 11, 2014 when officers from Harrington Police Department, assisting troopers, responded to 4822 Park Brown Road for a report of a check on the well-being. A Harrington officer was the first to arrive on-scene and was contacted by two co-workers of an adult male who lives at the house. The co-workers were concerned about the 41-year-old male resident who hadn't shown up for work in the past couple of days. When they initially arrived at the house, the two made contact with the man's teenage son who claimed he may have killed his father. After placing the 17-year-old in custody, the officer made entry into the house, along with Kent County Paramedics and located the 41-year-old victim deceased in a bedroom from an undetermined wound to the upper torso.
Todd E. Ramsey, 41, was pronounce dead at the scene by county paramedics and was later removed by the Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security Division of Forensic Science who will perform an autopsy to determine the exact cause and manner of death.
Seth H. Ramsey, 17, was transported to Troop 3 near Camden where he was charged with Murder 1st and Possession of a Deadly Weapon During the Commission of a Felony. He was then transported to Stevenson Detention House in Milford where he is being held without bail.
Detectives continue their investigation to determine the circumstances surrounding this incident. No motive has been established.
16 Facts About Al Sharpton the Media Won't Tell You
The Rev. Al Sharpton has been praised as a civil rights icon by prominent figures in politics, and "60 Minutes" reported that he has become President Barack Obama's "go-to black leader."
Sharpton has been frequently in the media for leading protests against grand jury decisions exonerating white policemen in the deaths of unarmed African-Americans in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island, New York.
But many in the mainstream media have sought to downplay the negatives surrounding the firebrand minister, who has been accused of being a rabble-rouser out for personal gain, including:
1. When Sharpton sought involvement in the funeral of Akai Gurley, an African-American shot dead in November by a rookie police officer in the darkened stairwell of a housing project in Brooklyn, New York, Gurley's family told him to stay away.
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Sharpton has been frequently in the media for leading protests against grand jury decisions exonerating white policemen in the deaths of unarmed African-Americans in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island, New York.
But many in the mainstream media have sought to downplay the negatives surrounding the firebrand minister, who has been accused of being a rabble-rouser out for personal gain, including:
1. When Sharpton sought involvement in the funeral of Akai Gurley, an African-American shot dead in November by a rookie police officer in the darkened stairwell of a housing project in Brooklyn, New York, Gurley's family told him to stay away.
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Gay Rights Activists Outraged Over Billboard’s Message About Homosexuality and Genetics
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Paid for by Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays — an organization aimed at helping so-called “ex-gays” gain acceptance — the ad features a picture of male twins and reads, “Identical twins. One gay. One not. We believe twins research studies show nobody is born gay.”
While the billboard is offending local gay and lesbian advocates, Regina Griggs, executive director of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays, believes that critics aren’t looking at the facts, specifically when it comes to analyzing how same-sex attraction pertains to twins.
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What’s in the spending bill? We skim it so you don’t have to
The $1.01 trillion spending bill unveiled late Tuesday will keep most of the federal government funded through next September -- and it's packed with hundreds of policy instructions, known on Capitol Hill as "riders," that will upset or excite Democrats, Republicans and various special interest groups.
So, what's in the bill? We've sifted through the legislation, consulted supporting documents from Democratic and Republican aides, and called out some of the more notable and controversial elements below. (If you want to review detailed reports on all 12 parts of the spending bill, click here.)
Please note: This is a fluid report that will be updated to add more detail or correct errors. What notable changes did we miss? What notable changes did you spot? Contact us or share details in the comments section below:
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So, what's in the bill? We've sifted through the legislation, consulted supporting documents from Democratic and Republican aides, and called out some of the more notable and controversial elements below. (If you want to review detailed reports on all 12 parts of the spending bill, click here.)
Please note: This is a fluid report that will be updated to add more detail or correct errors. What notable changes did we miss? What notable changes did you spot? Contact us or share details in the comments section below:
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A somber Prince William and Kate pay tribute to victims at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City as they brave the gloomy weather
As they toured the museum that stands next to the site of the World Trade Center where nearly 3,000 people died on September 11 2001, the duchess said she did not anticipate how moving it would be.
She said she was particularly affected by being able to touch the names of the victims inscribed around the edge of the two memorial pools that stand where the twin towers used to be.
The couple were given a tour of the museum where they wrote their electronic signatures next to a twisted piece of steel recovered from the wreckage of the twin towers.
Allison Blais, the museum’s chief of staff, said: 'She talked about how in awe she was of enormity of the space. It was something she did not anticipate. She also talked about how moving the memorial was, and being able to touch the names of the victims outside on the pools.'
Joe Daniels, the museums’s chief executive and president, said: 'You could see it really in both their eyes, the sort of care and curiosity they had for the story of what happened and the people who died that day.'
He said that one of the most moving parts of the visit came when they visited the In Memoriam room, where photographs of nearly all of the victims line the walls. As the couple gazed at the pictures of the dead, outside recorded voices intoned the names of their friends and loved ones: 'My beloved husband… my best friend… my beloved daughter.'
Mr Daniels said: 'Just looking at the faces – of the old, the young, every race, every color - they were struck by the breadth and the scale of the loss we suffered that day.'
In an inner room they heard the oral history of one of the victims, John Katsimatides, in which his sister spoke of his love of dancing and how much he loved life.
'They seemed quite struck by that,' said Mr Daniels.
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Survey: Primary Care Doctor Shortage Result Of ACA
When Olivia Papa signed up for a new health plan last year, her insurance company assigned her to a primary care doctor. The relatively healthy 61-year-old didn’t try to see the doctor until last month, when she and her husband both needed authorization to see separate specialists.
She called the doctor’s office several times without luck.
“They told me that they were not on the plan, they were never on the plan and they’d been trying to get their name off the plan all year,” said Papa, who recently bought a plan from a different insurance company.
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Consumer Reports: 6 cars, SUVs that owners hate most
Consumer Reports magazine has named its three cars and crossover SUVs that irritate their owners the most -- the worst for owner satisfaction. Of the six, only one comes from a Detroit automaker.
Three come from a single maker -- Nissan.
Among cars, the Nissan Sentra, Kia Rio and Nissan Versa were so bad that fewer than half of owners surveyed by the consumer magazine said they would buy them again. Among SUV, only one fell below the 50% mark -- Chrysler's Jeep Compass. But the other two SUVs on the "worst" list, Nissan Pathfinder and Hyundai Tucson, didn't fare much better, with only slightly more than half of the owners say they'd be willing to plunk down cold-hard cash to buy again.
The annual survey covers 350,000 vehicles from a year to three years old, Consumer Reports says in its January issue. The survey isn't necessarily about reliability. Owners were happy when their cars met fuel consumption expectations. They also took into account the styling, cargo space, features, repair costs and driving dynamics.
Of the six biggest dogs in the survey, only the Jeep comes from a Detroit maker.
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Three come from a single maker -- Nissan.
Among cars, the Nissan Sentra, Kia Rio and Nissan Versa were so bad that fewer than half of owners surveyed by the consumer magazine said they would buy them again. Among SUV, only one fell below the 50% mark -- Chrysler's Jeep Compass. But the other two SUVs on the "worst" list, Nissan Pathfinder and Hyundai Tucson, didn't fare much better, with only slightly more than half of the owners say they'd be willing to plunk down cold-hard cash to buy again.
The annual survey covers 350,000 vehicles from a year to three years old, Consumer Reports says in its January issue. The survey isn't necessarily about reliability. Owners were happy when their cars met fuel consumption expectations. They also took into account the styling, cargo space, features, repair costs and driving dynamics.
Of the six biggest dogs in the survey, only the Jeep comes from a Detroit maker.
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Millsboro first responder hears fire call for her own home
On Nov. 18, she learned first-hand what it was like to be on the receiving end.
Bare was working the night shift at the fire station, and she and her family were ready for a crockpot dinner when a fire call came over the radio announcing a familiar address: her own.
“It's not very nice to hear your address come over the radio,” Bare said.
Flames were coming out of the one-story home on Sussex Alley when firefighters arrived, according to the Millsboro Fire Co. website. Firefighters took about 30 minutes to bring the fire under control.
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Citi Pays $3.5 Billion To Keep Its Employees Out Of Jail For Yet Another Quarter
Moments after Bank of America reported at today's Goldman financial conference that its Q4 trading revenues would be down both Q/Q and Y/Y, it was Citi's turn to warn that the current quarter will be the latest disaster in a long series of revenue disasters, with Q4 revenue said to drop 5% from a year ago, however, despite the drop, Citi would still see a "marginally profitable" quarter. Supposedly this means that a few hundred million shares of stock will have to be repurchased to give the optics that EPS is rising even as revenues continue to drop.
That was to be expected in a financially-engineered, centrally-planned world in which there is no institutional volume left, and all the rigged market levitation takes place on the back of negligible volumes by HFT algos, as well as stock buyback VWAP orders.
What, however, was a surprise, is that alongside the revenue warnings, Citi's CEO Corbat also announced yet another $2.7 billion in legal, related charges in 4Q, as well as another $800 million in repositioning expenses.
This simply means that for yet another quarter Citi will be charged with billions in recurring, non-one time "one-time, non-recurring" charges which will be dutifully added back to non-GAAP EPS by analysts at all the other banks (whose criminal employers are now engaged in the same racket with the US government).
But what it really means is that it cost Citi some $3.5 billion to keep its employees out of jail for yet another 3 months.
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That was to be expected in a financially-engineered, centrally-planned world in which there is no institutional volume left, and all the rigged market levitation takes place on the back of negligible volumes by HFT algos, as well as stock buyback VWAP orders.
What, however, was a surprise, is that alongside the revenue warnings, Citi's CEO Corbat also announced yet another $2.7 billion in legal, related charges in 4Q, as well as another $800 million in repositioning expenses.
This simply means that for yet another quarter Citi will be charged with billions in recurring, non-one time "one-time, non-recurring" charges which will be dutifully added back to non-GAAP EPS by analysts at all the other banks (whose criminal employers are now engaged in the same racket with the US government).
But what it really means is that it cost Citi some $3.5 billion to keep its employees out of jail for yet another 3 months.
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Christian ministry flies Christmas gifts, relief to Iraq
BALTIMORE (AP) -- The Christian ministry Samaritan's Purse is flying more than 60,000 shoeboxes packed with Christmas gifts to children in northern Iraq.
A 747 cargo plane loaded with the shoeboxes, clothing and food, took off from Baltimore-Washington International Airport today.
The Reverend Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan's Purse, says the Operation Christmas Child gifts and relief will be delivered to families in Iraq's Kurdish region who have fled Islamic State militants.
Operation Christmas Child officials say Christians packed more than 10 million shoeboxes with gifts and messages this year for delivery to children around the world.
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A 747 cargo plane loaded with the shoeboxes, clothing and food, took off from Baltimore-Washington International Airport today.
The Reverend Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan's Purse, says the Operation Christmas Child gifts and relief will be delivered to families in Iraq's Kurdish region who have fled Islamic State militants.
Operation Christmas Child officials say Christians packed more than 10 million shoeboxes with gifts and messages this year for delivery to children around the world.
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Yes, Dems Did Fund 'Independent' in Kansas Senate Race
Anyone who followed this year's Senate race in Kansas — the one longtime GOP incumbent Pat Roberts appeared to be losing to Greg Orman, the businessman running as an independent — knows Orman and his supporters vigorously denied Roberts' allegation that Orman was really a Democrat running to further the Democratic agenda.
"By word, by deed, by campaign contribution, this man is a liberal Democrat," Roberts said of Orman during a debate in October. "A vote for Greg Orman is a vote to extend the Barack Obama/Harry Reid agenda."
Not true, Orman answered. "The senator can say that over and over again, but it doesn't make it so."
What voters did not know was at that very moment, Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid's political action committee, the Senate Majority PAC, was preparing to pour more than a million dollars into the pro-Orman effort in Kansas. Reid was just waiting to make sure the donations came so late in the campaign that the public wouldn't find out about them until after the election.
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"By word, by deed, by campaign contribution, this man is a liberal Democrat," Roberts said of Orman during a debate in October. "A vote for Greg Orman is a vote to extend the Barack Obama/Harry Reid agenda."
Not true, Orman answered. "The senator can say that over and over again, but it doesn't make it so."
What voters did not know was at that very moment, Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid's political action committee, the Senate Majority PAC, was preparing to pour more than a million dollars into the pro-Orman effort in Kansas. Reid was just waiting to make sure the donations came so late in the campaign that the public wouldn't find out about them until after the election.
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Boardwalk Military Banners To Return Next Summer
On Tuesday afternoon, Pat Riordan of the OC Elks Lodge Veterans Committee requested of the Mayor and City Council permission to continue the Ocean City Elks Hometown Heroes Military Banner Program in 2015.
The program was created for the community of Ocean City to honor and recognize active duty military personnel that reside in the county. Banners display the official military photo of the service person, as well as his or her name, rank and branch of the Unites States Armed Forces.
The banners are placed on 20 light pole locations on the concrete boardwalk easterly bump outs from Ripley’s Believe It or Not to 4th Street from Springfest in May to Sunfest in September.
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Charlottesville double homicide suspect knew victim, police chief says
CHARLOTTESVILLE — A double homicide at a home was not a random act of violence, Charlottesville police said Tuesday.
On Monday night, Charlottesville police said Gene Everett Washington, 30, had been arrested. Washington is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Robin Aldridge, 58, and her daughter Mani Aldridge, 17.
Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy J. Longo said at a news conference Tuesday that Washington knew Mani but did not disclose any further information about their relationship.
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On Monday night, Charlottesville police said Gene Everett Washington, 30, had been arrested. Washington is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Robin Aldridge, 58, and her daughter Mani Aldridge, 17.
Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy J. Longo said at a news conference Tuesday that Washington knew Mani but did not disclose any further information about their relationship.
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Fresh agony for James Foley's family as sick ISIS militants 'try to sell them his headless body for $1million'
The family of beheaded American photojournalist James Foley are facing fresh agony after sick Islamic State militants tried to sell them his headless body for $1million, according to a new report by Buzzfeed.
The website spoke to three middlemen trying to broker the deal, who say they can prove the body is Foley's with a DNA swab and will deliver the remains across the Turkish border once the ransom has been paid.
Foley was the first American hostage to be beheaded by an ISIS militant in a graphic video recording this summer. Since August, the terrorist group overtaking large swathes of Syria and Iraq, has beheaded two more Americans and a Briton in similar displays of barbarism.
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The website spoke to three middlemen trying to broker the deal, who say they can prove the body is Foley's with a DNA swab and will deliver the remains across the Turkish border once the ransom has been paid.
Foley was the first American hostage to be beheaded by an ISIS militant in a graphic video recording this summer. Since August, the terrorist group overtaking large swathes of Syria and Iraq, has beheaded two more Americans and a Briton in similar displays of barbarism.
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