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According to Beck, the vote will be coming up in the next hour or so to confirm Cass Sunstein in the Senate. Call your senators now. You can get your Senator's contact info by going to the web and typing in your Senator's name.senate.gov Phones are being swamped - - keep it up!

Our proposed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein wants to ban hunting, animal agriculture and give animals the right to sue in court. His notion is that more can be accomplished by tweaking regulations like the Endangered Species Act to achieve his aims than straightforward attempts to give animals rights to sue in court and be represented by a lawyer as he has proposed. Senators Chambliss and Cornyn have put holds on his nomination, but they and our other representatives need to hear from us. The relevant part is 48 minutes into the video. You only need to listen to about two...

The heated debate over health care reform continued Monday in Wayne County. Democratic Congressman Chris Carney held a town hall meeting with hundreds at the Wayne County courthouse in Honesdale to address some of the rumors and concerns. Carney spent most of the town meeting debunking what he calls mis-information about a proposed health care reform bill. "I understand that there is a part of this bill that it says the government is going to have a say in how my children can raise their children because they are paying for the health care," commented Ruth of Matamoras. Carney told...

EPA admits global warming is a good thing: page 19 "The Administrator acknowledges that as for human health, so too for welfare: moderate temperature increases may have some benefits, particularly for agriculture and forestry over the short term, as summarized above in this section and discussed in more detail in the Technical Support Document in Part IV, sections 9(a) and 10(a). This possibility is not inconsistent with a judgment that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere endanger welfare. Beneficial effects can coexist with harmful effects, and it is not necessary to reach a firm conclusion, for particular domains and sectors, about...

I was attempting to express my opposition to the EPA flatulence tax on most livestock (while allowing Ted Turner's huge bison herd to excape taxation) during the comment period here http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&o=09000064806a0cfd I kept getting a bounce message so this morning - after the EPA comment deadline passed - - I wrote my representative and the email went thru, but when I attempted to contact Sen. Specter both by web contact form the message did not go through. I attempted to contact someone in his offices by email and that bounced as well.

CNN's talking head has twice suggested that Gov Palin will either be neglecting her children if she is VP or won't be able to do the VP job because of her children. He especially focused on the Down's Syndrome child because of the child's special needs.

The Marcellus Shale play is the latest huge thing in natural gas, considered by some to be a "super giant" gas field. Read more here http://www.petroleumnews.com/pntruncate/246893563.shtml The edge of the Marcellus Shale in Northeast PA and NY is about 100 miles from NYC, which means the gas needs only a very short trip by pipeline to the major metropolitan centers. Natural gas is the cleanest of the fossil fuels and also is a source for hydrogen for hydrogen powered vehicles. So here are a bunch of "concerned citizens" planning to oppose it with all their might. "The Damascus group has...

Gutefar - The Bronze Age Sheep of Gotland This article claims sheep of the British Isles descended from sheep from Gotland, an Island in the Baltic "...arriving in Britain between 2,000 and 3,000 years ago, doubtless traveling along with the same Viking raiders that brought sheep originally to Gotland." She also claims Vikings are the ANCESTORS of the Visigoths. Only problems is that the Visigoths preceded the Vikings by about 400 years. The Visigoths sacked Rome in 451 AD and the first recorded Viking raid on the British Isles happened around 800 AD with the raid on the monastery at...

Well, it's official, "At the latest measuring session of the Boone and Crockett Club, Pennsylvania black bears taken in the past three years placed first and second in North America. One of those - taken by Andrew Seaman Jr. of Dunbar in 2005 - is now tied with a bear taken in California for the largest ever taken legally by a hunter in the world." http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?Q=172875&A=11

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=wanted_a_culture_of_self-defense&ns=MichelleMalkin&dt=04/18/2007&page=2 There's no polite way or time to say it: American colleges and universities have become coddle industries. Big Nanny administrators oversee speech codes, segregated dorms, politically correct academic departments and designated "safe spaces" to protect students selectively from hurtful (conservative) opinions -- while allowing mob rule for approved leftist positions (textbook case: Columbia University's anti-Minuteman Project protesters).

Is anyone else having trouble getting the new vaccination against shingles (Zostavax)? I started asking my doctor about it last fall when the CDC recommended it for most adults over age 60. The vaccination is expensive - - $150 to $200, but is good for several years. My pharmacy can get order one dose, but my doctor won't give me a prescription to bring to the pharmacy, where I guess I would pick up the vaccine - keep it frozen - - and then bring it to the doctor's office to get the injection. I am willing to pay for...

BIASED TOWARD HILLARY? Is the Huntsville (AL) Times showing bias to Senator Hillary Clinton D-NY in her run for president? On January 21 the Times ran the article “Clinton ready for historic run: ‘I’m ready to win.’” on the front page yet the story about Representative Sam Brownback’s announcement that he is a candidate for president, “Kansas Senator enters ’08 race from far right,” was on page A3. What was the thinking of Times editors? Is Clinton more important than Brownback? Is it because she is the first woman candidate for president in America? No, that’s not right. America has...

Humane agents warned a Westmoreland County woman it was only a matter of time before the wolf hybrids she kept as pets turned on her. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/news/westmoreland/s_462296.html

Montpelier, Vt. — In what environmentalists hailed as a major victory, a federal judge on Friday ordered the Bush administration to step up efforts to restore the gray wolf to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York......Anthony Tur, a Fish and Wildlife Service field officer based in Concord, N.H., said the agency's headquarters in Washington would decide whether to appeal the ruling. He questioned the push to build gray wolf populations in the Northeast on two fronts, saying it wasn't clear that the public would support such a move and that there was dispute in the scientific community about whether...

From The Morning Call -- May 2, 2005 Philly woman hurt in bear attack at Hickory Run By Ron Devlin Of The Morning Call A 21-year-old Philadelphia woman was injured in an encounter with a 150-pound black bear Saturday night while camping in Hickory Run State Park, officials confirmed.... "We're not considering it an attack, but an encounter with a bear," said Warrick. "The bear was apparently after food." Upon seeing the bear, Feeney fled and was chased by the animal, Warrick said. Park officials stress that persons encountering bears should not run, but stand still. The trio was camped...

LOWELL -- Last year when Cindy Kryston called city cultural leaders together to discuss Lowell National Historical Park's financial distress, she got a lot of support from Mike Smith. Smith, American Textile History Museum president, told Kryston, the national park's acting superintendent at the time, the park wasn't alone as it battled decreasing visitation, reduced funding and budget deficits. He wasn't kidding. Smith is in the fight of his 34-year professional life to keep the museum solvent, and, hopefully, in Lowell. The museum currently has a $600,000 operating deficit. Its budget has been reduced from about $2.5 million in 1997...

A ProMED-mail post ProMED-mail, a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases [1] Date: 2 Apr 2005 From: ProMED-mail Source: NY Dept. of Agriculture press release [edited] 2nd Case of CWD Found in Oneida County Deer State's Trace Back Finds 2nd Positive CWD in Herd Directly Linked to Index Herd ----------------------------------------------- A 2nd positive case of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in New York State has been confirmed in a white-tailed deer from a captive herd in Oneida County that is directly linked to the herd where a white-tailed doe was found positive for CWD earlier this week. CWD is...

During the last week of 2004, Pennsylvania Game Commission officials removed a bear estimated to weigh about 600 pounds from under a house in Gold Key Lakes.....this was the same bear Johnson had removed from five other houses in the Gold Key private community, and the same bear he had relocated eight times over the past seven years."

THE VALUES ELECTION By Grace Hatton This was an election decided on values. I hope it was a repudiation of the values of the extreme left that tries to tell our kids that eating meat or drinking milk is bad; that shearing sheep and wearing wool is bad; that global warming is caused by domestic livestock flatulence while disregarding the fact that there are probably more white tailed-deer in the U. S. than there are sheep or cattle; and that wolves, cougars and bears should have more rights than humans, that all the people should be removed from half of...

HARRISBURG - The 2003 bear seasons may yet become the best harvest year Pennsylvania hunters have ever had, according to harvest reports from Pennsylvania Game Commission check stations. Through Dec. 2, hunters had already taken 2,952 bears and still had four more days of extended season in Wildlife Management Unit (WMU) 3D to topple the state record of 3,075 bears set in 2000. Equally intriguing is the incredible number of huge bears hunters are shooting this fall. This week, three bears exceeding 800 pounds were taken in Pike and Monroe counties. The largest was a hard-to-believe 864-pound male bear taken...