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The documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, included allegations that the staff at WTUs in Texas mistreated soldiers under their supervision through disrespect, unfair treatment, harassment, intimidation and even, at times, disregard for their medical conditions and treatment plans.

Oil and natural gas production in Eagle Ford Shale generated an estimated $87 billion in total economic output for Texas and supported nearly 155,000 full-time jobs in 2013. That’s according to a new study released Tuesday by the University of Texas at San Antonio Institute for Economic Development. The shale region, which encompasses a 21-county, and generated more than $4.4 billion in tax revenue to local and state governments in 2013. Based on these updated figures, UTSA projects that the shale region will support more than 196,000 jobs and generate $137 billion in total economic output for Texas by 2013.

The Barnett Shale generates $11.8 billion in gross product per year and 107,650 permanent jobs for North Texas, according to economist Ray Perryman.

This youtube video was so powerful - I have not seen it before, but as a Vet, I think it should be seen by many more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoABty_zE00

I’m a fan and regular reader. Thanks for your yeoman’s work on the IRS scandal. I’m also retired from a 35-year law enforcement career, 22 of which were at the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, so I have some insight into the Service and its workings (although I spent all but one year doing money laundering – narcotics, and organized crime cases – rather than tax.) I’m quite surprised that no one has mentioned Section 1203 of the Internal Revenue Code, which mandates terminations of IRS employees who commit any of what are known in the Service as the “10 Deadly...

Elected leaders need to carefully consider the costs and negative unintended consequences of unnecessary federal regulations. They need to remember that real people must comply with these regulations and that making them overly burdensome stifles American growth. Have you been impacted by excessive and unnecessary regulation?

Unions have long used Democratic allies to kill any reform that includes a guest-worker program. (pay wall story) If Republcians had a TINY bit of politcal guts they would require that UNIONS put in place 20% of their membership for incoming immigrants. Then our people in Congress can take a stand for real change...LOL

This is THE video with every dead person in memorial and sounds of people calling for help or to call and tell someone - "I love you...we are trapped in these buildings."

Cut from NBC: Scottish singer Emeli Sande performs a moving rendition of Abide With Me in memory of the victims of the 7/7 London bombings at the Olympics Opening Ceremony Britons are also fuming that tributes to victims of the 7/7 attacks were combined in a general memorial, and not given their own moment of silence.

But for work in a war zone, Lockheed modified the K-1200 to operate via remote control—because, with a couple of tons worth of cargo swaying beneath it, the K-1200 isn't particularly quick or nimble. By removing the pilot, and necessary interfaces and life support systems, the autonomous K-1200 can fly higher and with more and heavier loads than any other helicopter in service.

snip - this is an excerpt "This is not a race, really," Bush said of the event, which aims to honor service members injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. "It's a celebration." And the second leg of the three-day trek proved to be one tough, but hearty celebration.

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich may not appear on the ballot for the June 26 Utah primary, after a $500 check — the required filing fee — bounced, an official said. State election director Mark Thomas told ABC News that a $500 check given by the Gingrich campaign to secure his place on the Utah ballot bounced on March 27. “Our office immediately attempted to contact the campaign and the designated agent but no phone calls were returned,” Thomas said. “We also asked the state Republican Party to assist us, but they also could not get into communication with them,...

For weeks the headlines have screamed that U.S. gasoline prices have hit an all-time-record high for this time of year. Other media outlets continue to speculate on the impact of the EU's proposed ban on Iranian oil, which would keep refiners based on the Continent from using it. Some question whether this new record winter price for oil will derail what looks like a reasonably strong economic recovery. And speculation on how higher gasoline prices will affect new car sales seems popular. Welcome to 2012 and our longest-running national melodrama: Oil. Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/02/27/3765797/oil-the-never-ending-story.html#storylink=cpy

MESQUITE -- President Barack Obama came to Mesquite. But all some guests saw was a mess. About 200 VIPs, Eastfield College students and staffers with tickets were turned away from Obama's speech Tuesday "I want to see a competently run office, not this. The way we were treated is a total surprise. Here were all the people who spent hours organizing this event locally, and we're suddenly told nobody else gets in." Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/10/04/3420131/vips-got-second-class-treatment.html#ixzz1ZuHyS9oh Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/10/04/3420131/vips-got-second-class-treatment.html#ixzz1ZuHk5KRT

Please click on the link this is the best ever video about 911 by a New York guy who shows so many images of the towers, the Pentagon, and Shanksville...the people on the planes in the buildings. He names names and shows the work of heroes. We must never forget and I hope you will share this video with others.

Every year I watch this two or three times to remind myself that foru planes with innocents aboard crashed into the Pentagon, a field in PA and the twin towers. It breaks your heart to hear the phone calls - to family to say good bye. We must never forget that evil has a name...Islam perverted

every hour on the hour all day till Sunday night the station has a variety of tributes to the servicemen, first responders etc. etc. My wife called and said, I made me cry as I listened last hour. (12:00 CT) These folsk fly the flag three or four times a day and have some good old music too

Dallas-based Primoris Services Corp. announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, James Construction Group LLC, has been awarded five contracts — worth about $89 million — for highway infrastructure work and projects related to the construction of natural gas production facilities in Louisiana and Texas. Primoris moved its headquarters to Dallas from California earlier this month.

snip - Under the proposed reimbursement agreement, the Defense Department would pay not only for the bus rehabilitation, but the $500,000 annual operating costs. In exchange, Pentagon personnel would ride for free on the entire DASH bus system, including the expanded service along the AT2 route between King Street and Mark Center.

Here is a most moving poem set to music on YouTube, as it has less than 3,000 views I doubt it has been given a good Free Republic notification. I have nephew who was such a Marine as in this and I served two Christmas Days overseas in 1966 67. Mail was sure different then.