Hunter Bags 674 Pound, 9-Foot Tall Bear That Could Set Va. Record

LUNENBURG COUNTY, Va. (WTVR)—There are plenty of small black bears spotted in the greater Richmond area, but a bear recently killed by a hunter could take the state record for its size.
A young hunter killed a big black bear in Lunenberg County on Tuesday. CBS 6 traveled to south west to the county to find out how common large bears like this are and why closer to the city bears are becoming a more common sight.

The massive black bear bagged by local DJ Lacks sits in the back of a pickup truck. The 25-year-old brought down the bear with his rifle, shooting it from 75 yards away in the woods of Lunenberg County.

It took all day to remove the bear from the woods.

“This is the first one ever,” said Lacks. “It’s bringing more attention than I want, but it comes with the territory.”

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The Fall Of The House Of Labor

In 1958, Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, his eye on the 1960 GOP nomination coveted by fellow Californian Richard Nixon, went home and declared for governor.

Knowland's plan: Ride to victory on the back of Proposition 18, the initiative to make right-to-work the law in the Golden Land. Prop. 18 was rejected 2 to 1. Knowland's career was over, and the Republicans were decimated nationally for backing right-to-work.

Badly burned, the party for years ran away from the issue.

This history makes what happened in Michigan, cradle of the United Auto Workers, astonishing. A GOP legislature passed and Gov. Rick Snyder signed a right-to-work law as libertarian as any in Red State America.

The closed shop, where a worker must belong to the union before being hired, is dead. The union shop, where an individual must join the union once hired, is dead. The agency shop, where a worker cannot be made to join a union but can be required to pay dues if the union is the agent negotiating the contract for all workers, is dead.

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I THOUGHT OBAMACARE WAS GOING TO REDUCE HEALTHCARE COSTS

So let me get this straight. Obamacare was supposed to reduce healthcare costs by $2,500 per year per family (Obama told me so), cover 30 million more people, be neutral to the deficits, reduce bureaucracy, and put the insurance companies in their place. What we know for a fact is that the annual cost for family coverage is $1,700 higher than when Obamacare was passed, only about 15 million more people will actually be covered, it will increase our deficits by trillions, its 2,700 pages of rules, regulations, penalties, fines, and mandates will triple the bureaucratic nightmare of doctors and patients, and has enriched the sickcare industry causing their stocks to soar. And this is before the fun really begins in 2013 and 2014 with new taxes, fees and fines on the way. I’m sure the thousands of new Obamacare IRS agent enforcement officials will surely improve our healthcare efficiency.

Thousands of doctors are just throwing in the towel and retiring. Small businesses are going under, not hiring, or converting their employees to part-time. Large connected businesses and unions are using their lobbying clout to bribe their way out of requirements. This law is shaping up to be the biggest clusterfuck in history. And that is saying something. But don’t worry. When your appendix bursts next year, your local Obamacare Urgent Care Facility will schedule you for an appointment in 3 months.

Inefficient Health Care Bureaucracy Costs Physicians $27 Billion Per Year

Everyone knows that the U.S. health care system is inefficient. This hurts both the nation and the employers that offer coverage to their workers. But a new study by researchers at Cornell University and the University of Toronto claims that the average U.S. physician pays $61,000 more in administrative costs per year than their Canadian counterparts.

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Dover International Speedway To Prepare Holiday Dinner For Dover Air Force Base Troops

Speedway seeking donations, contributions for annual holiday event

DOVER, Del. – For the eighth consecutive year, Dover International Speedway will organize and host a holiday dinner for the troops at Dover Air Force Base on Friday, Dec. 21 at the Base.

Each year, the Speedway’s hospitality and concessions department and volunteers cook and prepare approximately 30 turkeys; 15 to 20 hams; 100 pounds each of green beans, corn and yams; 50 pounds of cranberry sauce; 10 gallons of gravy; and assorted desserts. They then deliver it to the Base and serve it to the troops.

Many Air Force reservists are still on active duty from the war in Afghanistan, and make up a large portion of personnel on the Base while the full-time active duty troops are overseas. The dinner will serve approximately 300 troops at the Base this year.

“The Dover Air Force Base is such a huge part of our community here in Dover, and the men and women stationed there give up so much to protect our country’s freedom, including time away from home during the holiday season” said Denis McGlynn, president and CEO of Dover Motorsports, Inc. “The holiday dinner put on by our food and beverage department is just one way we can give back to them this time of year and thank them for all they do.”

Much of the food and funding for the event is donated in advance, and Dover International Speedway is asking that anyone interested in contributing any of the items mentioned above, or in making a monetary donation, to contact Jeff Kivett at 302-883-6517 or jkivett@dovermotorsports.com.

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Bedbugs In Firehouse Have Staff Sleeping In Trucks

A bedbug infestation at a Northwest Washington fire station left firefighters sleeping in their personal vehicles or in the firetrucks to avoid being bitten by the bugs in their bunkrooms, a report on the conditions at D.C. firehouses found.

The 180-page report by the Office of the Inspector General details a wide swath of problematic conditions at D.C. fire stations across the city, including a lack of working smoke detectors, leaking roofs, flooded basements, rodent infestations and inoperable heating or cooling systems. Among the findings, 19 stations had significant rodent problems with one reporting that dead mice had been found in a refrigerator, seven did not have functional heating systems in living quarters, 27 did not have fire extinguishers, and 22 reported that the monitor that displays call information either was not working or was unreliable.

Complicating matters is the fact that the department has no formal policy for reporting and overseeing repairs.
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Another Fire On Va Eastern Shore Believed To Be Arson

Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation Agents were called to an abandoned residential structure fire Sunday in Accomack County.

According to state police, the fire was in the 30000 block of Withams Road in Oak Hall, Va.

Police say arson is suspected. 
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Residents Jump From Burning Apartment Building In Cambridge

CAMBRIDGE - An apartment fire is being reported at 507 Race St. in Cambridge, with reports of residents jumping from windows to escape flames, according to scanner reports.

There are reports of a partial collapse of the three-story structure.

Firefighters and paramedics are being called from other counties to assist.
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Today's Survey Question 12-16-12

One guy gets on a plane with a shoe bomb 

and now everyone has to take off their shoes.

What's it going to take to stop guns 

and carnage in schools?

Body Found Laurel, Delaware

It was been reported that a body has been found in a pond in Laurel, Delaware.

More to come....

Rob Parker Suspended For Remarks About RG3 And Race

ESPN suspended commentator Rob Parker on Friday for what the network called “inappropriate” comments about Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III and race.

Parker, who is black, questioned on air Thursday whether Griffin is “a cornball brother?”

Griffin was not available to reporters Friday. The Redskins declined to comment on the suspension. But Griffin’s father, Robert Griffin Jr., sent The Washington Times a Bible verse via text message.

“A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger,” he wrote, quoting the Book of Proverbs, Chapter 15. Verse 1.
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White Christmas, With Santa & His Reindeer

‘I NEED YOU TO KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU ALL VERY MUCH’: TEACHER WHO HID 1ST GRADERS IN A BATHROOM WANTED THAT TO BE THE LAST THING THEY HEARD

First grade teacher Kaitlin Roig didn’t think she and her students were going to survive.

When the gunfire started at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. Friday morning, Roig rushed her 15 children into the class bathroom to hide. Her classroom had large windows, and she knew they needed to get somewhere safer.

“I just knew we had to get in there, I was just telling them it’s going to be all OK, you’re going to be all right,” Roig told ABC News.
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Obama’s Electronic Medical Records Scam

Here’s more evidence that government “cures” are inevitably worse than the “diseases” they seek to wipe out. Buried in the trillion-dollar stimulus law of 2009 was an electronic medical records “incentive” program. Like most of President Obama’s health care rules, this top-down electronic record-sharing scheme is a big fat bust.

Oversight is lax. Cronyism is rife. The job-killing and privacy-undermining consequences have only just begun.

The program was originally sold as a cost-saving measure. In theory, modernizing record-collection is a good idea, and many private health care providers have already made the change. But as with many government “incentive” programs, the EMR bribe is a tax-subsidized, one-size-fits-all mandate. This one pressures health care professionals and hospitals across the country into radically federalizing their patient data and opening up medical information to untold abuse. Penalties kick in for any provider that hasn’t switched over by 2014.
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Rampage Shootings: It's the Moral Decay of Society, not Guns

It should come as no surprise that the rate of mass shootings at schools and in other public places is increasing. The surge has nothing to do with guns, which have been widely available in the U.S. for years. Gun control laws have been increasing. Instead, there is a direct correlation between the increase in violence and the gradual degradation of morals, ethics and parenting. We are cultivating mental illness in our society.
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Why Do We Need Unions?

Michigan has now become the 24th state to give workers the right to work without having to join a union. The event provoked more than vigorous debate. State police had to be on duty to guarantee the safety and the ability of Michigan legislators to actually go vote on the measure.

So what is the controversy all about? I agree with folks on the left about the real issue. It's not about right to work. It's about unions themselves. Why do we have them? Why do we need them? What public purpose do they serve?

There's no mystery here. A union is an attempt to monopolize the supply of labor to an employer or group of employers. Like all monopolies, unions try to restrict supply and get a price (in this case a wage) above the free market level.
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Restaurant Owner Posts Completely Reasonable Response To Negative Online Feedback

No, that isn’t a sarcastic headline. After being lambasted by readers’ comments on his recently opened eatery, a Washington, D.C., restaurateur did what some of his foodie kin could not — issued a restrained, thoughtful and apologetic response.Earlier this week, the D.C. blogPoPville.com simply asked readerswhat they thought of a restaurant that opened in the city’s Columbia Heights neighborhood in October. Some of the feedback was less than kind, much of it focusing on poor service:

“Mediocre to poor food and some of the worst service I’ve seen anywhere.”
“Over-priced. Bland food. Slow service.”
“I’ve been twice. The first time the service was abysmal. Second time service was terrific.”

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Thanks For Nothing

As you know, America is always the first country to send aid to other countries (Japan, India, Mexico,Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, etc.) when they are in trouble.

It is highly appropriate that we Americans, must now send our "THANKS" to all those countries that reciprocated our help with their disasters, misgivings, social turmoil, & poverty when they returned to the USA monetary and physical help after Hurricane Sandy 2012 ravaged our East Coast leaving behind many dead people, the massive destruction, the countless homelessness and pure disaster in the east.
We have listed all the Countries and World Organizations below that are giving us their gracious assistance.

Please assist is in thanking these entities by passing on this email so people all over America can join in and THANK our many neighbors, to whom this nation has invested BILLIONS and BILLIONS!!!!

Can you guess who is on the list?

That right - the first country to respond was.....................
NOBODY !! - NOT ONE - NADA - NILL - NON - NUN - NYE
Maybe now Americans will realize that charity should begin at home.

With millions of our own country people in need and in poverty, let's save our money and spend it at home instead of sending it to Egypt, Libya, Pakistan, etc........

Staten Island and parts of New Jersey would gladly thank America if we spent the billions of dollars there that originally came from my pocket and yours......

17 Most Innovative Cars Of The Year

A lot changed in the auto industry this year. Cadillac suddenly became a relevant brand again, and now Ford is trying to do the same with Lincoln.
Fuel efficiency continued to be the big theme. Prius sales skyrocketed, and Chevy's Volt became the most loved and hated car of the year.

Even Ferrari and Land Rover looked to boost their cars' mile per gallon figures.

From the Porsche that can drive more than 700 miles on a single tank to the electric Tesla that can compete with any vehicle on the market, these 17 innovative cars may not be the best on the road, but they are the ones that are changing the game.

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