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  • Royal Bluegrass: Prince Charles Coming to Kentucky

    02/20/2015 12:11:08 PM PST · by skinkinthegrass · 17 replies
    rcnky.net ^ | 02/20/2015 | Staff report
    Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, will visit Washington, DC and Louisville. The visit to the nation's capital is scheduled for March 17-20 and then the heir and his wife come to Louisville on March 20. In Louisville, they will highlight the work being done by members of the local community and charitable organizations to protect, preserve, and promote the health and well-being of the people of Kentucky's largest city through community cohesion, clean air, and food literacy initiatives, according to a news release.
  • Lexington Board of Adjustment votes to allow Islamic Center on Armstrong Mill Road

    02/01/2015 5:43:48 AM PST · by skinkinthegrass · 17 replies
    Lexington Herald-Leader (KY) ^ | January 30, 2015 | Beth Musgrave
    After a debate of more than an hour, Lexington's Board of Adjustment voted 6-1 Friday to allow an Islamic community center on Armstrong Mill Road. The existing Islamic Center, on South Limestone, had applied for a conditional use permit for a worship center on a 9-acre site on Armstrong Mill Road currently zoned agricultural.
  • Flying Car

    10/30/2014 12:42:08 AM PDT · by skinkinthegrass · 56 replies
    http://www.aeromobil.com ^ | Oct. 29, 2014 | areomolbile
    AeroMobil. Beautiful flying car. Beautifully integrated. Transforms in seconds from an automobile to an airplane. Gives you freedom to move.AeroMobil is a flying car that perfectly makes use of existing infrastructure created for automobiles and planes, and opens doors to real door-to-door travel. As a car it fits into any standard parking space, uses regular gasoline, and can be used in road traffic just like any other car. As a plane it can use any airport in the world, but can also take off and land using any grass strip or paved surface just a few hundred meters long.
  • China seizes huge cache of illegal weapons including 10,500 guns and 120,000 knives and SWORDS

    08/22/2014 11:01:41 PM PDT · by skinkinthegrass · 19 replies
    Daily Mail.Co. UK ^ | 14 April 2014 (update:15 April 2014 ) | Matt Blake
    China seizes huge cache of illegal weapons including 10,500 guns and 120,000 knives and SWORDS Follows 4-month probe leading agents deep into China's criminal underworld Haul includes sniper rifles, machine guns, crossbows and samurai swords 15 people were arrested on suspicion of making and distributing arms Official says it was a family-run firm that 'gave business cards all over China'
  • Las Cruces man accused of killing mom with sword set to appear in court

    08/04/2014 8:23:24 AM PDT · by skinkinthegrass · 20 replies
    http://www.ktsm.com ^ | Monday, July 21, 2014 - 7:19pm | Andra Litton
    Las Cruces, NM (KTSM) — The Criminal Complaint against a 35-year-old Las Cruces man accused of brutally murdering his mother with a sword was obtained by NewsChannel 9 on Monday morning.
  • Cops: Spurned Woman Pulled Knife On Man

    07/02/2014 5:05:29 PM PDT · by skinkinthegrass · 21 replies
    The Smoking Gun ^ | July 2, 2014 | none given
    JULY 2--A 56-year-old Florida woman is facing an assault rap after allegedly threatening a 25-year-old man with a knife after he “rejected her sexual advances,” police report.
  • US Republic now gone—Fully replaced by Dictatorship

    06/19/2014 10:01:06 AM PDT · by skinkinthegrass · 40 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | June 19, 2014 | Sher Zieve
    Obama and his criminal syndicate are completely and tyrannically running the show in the USA. US and Constitutional laws are not being followed—and have not been since Obama took the Office of POTUS—by Obama and the members of his ruling cabal. Obama’s legal authority is to enforce the laws of the land. Obama has—and is—doing neither. Instead, he is writing and judging laws—replacing both Congress and SCOTUS.
  • Man run over by Tacoma police car in critical but stable condition, police investigating

    06/18/2014 8:50:36 AM PDT · by skinkinthegrass · 42 replies
    The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington State) ^ | June 16, 2014 | Alexis Krell
    An accident in which a Tacoma police car ran over a man lying in the street Saturday will be forwarded to prosecutors after investigators interview the policeman or the man injured, the department said Monday.“We’re doing a traffic investigation like we would for any other citizen out there,” police spokeswoman Loretta Cool said. “We don’t believe there’s any wrongdoing. It looks like an accident.” Police said the man run over, Emanuel Andrade, a 22-year-old Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier, was in critical but stable condition Monday. JBLM confirmed Andrade is assigned to the 7th Infantry Division, but further information about his...
  • Sharyl Attkisson Asks Questions That CBS Isn't Asking About the Suddenly Missing IRS E-mails

    06/16/2014 12:31:35 PM PDT · by skinkinthegrass · 37 replies
    newsbusters.org ^ | June 16, 2014 | 12:56 | P.J. Gladnick
    Great questions which contrasts sharply with the CBS online report:WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service says it has lost a trove of emails to and from a central figure in the agency's tea party controversy. The IRS told congressional investigators Friday it cannot locate many of Lois Lerner's emails prior to 2011 because her computer crashed that year. Lerner headed the IRS division that processed applications for tax-exempt status....The IRS was able to generate 24,000 Lerner emails from the 2009 to 2011 because Lerner had copied in other IRS employees. The agency said it pieced together the emails from the...
  • Here’s some plane porno for aeronautical geeks

    06/09/2014 9:21:50 PM PDT · by skinkinthegrass · 23 replies
    metro ^ | Monday 9 Jun 2014 9:01 pm | Eric Magnan (from Airborne Films)
    Like planes, amazingly defined cinematography and hyper cool celebs?If this is the case, this video will not fail to impress you.This amazing collection of clips belong to Eric Magnan as part of his director show reel.A show reel is his calling card or video CV used to attract business and directing jobs.
  • High ‘high elf’ stabs Portland woman’s car with sword

    05/25/2014 5:14:04 PM PDT · by skinkinthegrass · 52 replies
    NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ^ | Sunday, May 18, 2014, 6:05 PM | Nicole Hensley
    A Glendale, Ore., man decked out for battle and allegedly high on LSD thought he was fighting the evil ‘Morgoth,’ but really, he was stabbing a woman’s car in a Portland, Ore., intersection.
  • Amnesty By Any Means Necessary

    05/22/2014 10:23:41 AM PDT · by skinkinthegrass · 12 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | Thursday, May 22, 2014 | Arnold Ahlert
    The Obama administration is determined to continue mocking the separation of powers concept contained in the Constitution. Thus, the president is contemplating another unilateral move with regard to illegal immigration, allowing some illegal aliens brought here as children to serve in the United States military.
  • Soros Took Over our White House – Jarrett Demoted & Plouffe Gone

    01/26/2014 7:40:10 PM PST · by skinkinthegrass · 45 replies
    http://www.redstate.com ^ | January 25th, 2014 at 11:13 AM | littletboca
    Basically there’s been quite a shake – up in the White House and the Democrats and George Soros are doing the shaking.They’ve been the brunt of all Obama’s political blunders and have grown weary of their Commander in Chief’s screw upsfor the past five years. Senate and House Democrats are venting their frustrations over the ACA and worried that if it keeps self -destructing theNovember 2014 Elections are going to be a nightmare for Democrats. For starters, here are a few disgruntled Democratswho aren’t happy with their Commander in Chief. Mary Landrieu (D – La), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va), Mark Pryor...
  • Hitler Finds Out McConnell Is Losing To Matt Bevin

    12/31/2013 7:02:35 AM PST · by skinkinthegrass · 6 replies
    www.youtube.com ^ | ???? | RINOeradicator
    Hitler Finds Out McConnell Is Losing To Matt Bevin; self explanatory
  • Headlong Helix: Snaps of Snails

    11/04/2013 6:50:37 AM PST · by skinkinthegrass
    canadafreepress ^ | Saturday, November 2, 2013 | Wes Porter
    Can anything not be faster than the legendary speeding snail? The common garden snail Helix aspera can cover a metre an hour. This is actually faster than the recorded speed that certain nations’ mail services at times operate, Canada and Britain amongst them...The snail’s own love life is if anything even more unusual. In fact they would doubtlessly have thrown Giovanni Casanova into throes of admiration. Determined to enjoy life to the full, each and every gastropod is hermaphrodite. By way of encouragement, they tickle each other’s fancy with love-darts, hard spikes jabbed into each other during mating. Some can...
  • Sen. Ted Cruz on C-SPAN

    10/25/2013 5:12:38 PM PDT · by skinkinthegrass · 32 replies
    C-SPAN.org ^ | 10-25-2013 | S-SPAN
    vanity
  • Egyptian authorities detain suspected 'spy' bird

    09/03/2013 2:50:06 AM PDT · by skinkinthegrass · 5 replies
    kvue.com ^ | September 2, 2013 | The Associated Press
    CAIRO (AP) -- In a case that ruffled feathers in Egypt, authorities have detained a migratory bird that a citizen suspected of being a spy.There, officers and the man puzzled over the electronic device attached to the suspected winged infiltrator...Instead, they discovered it was a wildlife tracker used by French scientists to follow the movement of migrating birds, said Ayman Abdallah, the head of Qena veterinary services.
  • US Panel backs Trial for Anthrax Vaccine on Children

    03/24/2013 9:26:05 AM PDT · by skinkinthegrass · 8 replies
    BBC NEWS ^ | 19 March 2013 | BBC Staff
    A US presidential commission has paved the way for testing an anthrax vaccine on children, prompting criticism that participants would be "guinea pigs".But the bioethical issues report said researchers would have to overcome many hurdles before conducting any trial.Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius must decide whether to act on the paper's recommendations.
  • The Flies Buzzing Around the Obamas

    02/22/2013 10:58:58 AM PST · by skinkinthegrass · 15 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | Friday, February 22, 2013 | Judi McLeod
    When First Lady Michelle Obama steps out of her White House Picture Frame on her end of February nationwide tour, to take credit for not only halting—but reversing—childhood obesity, folk should be thinking “fertilizer”.The White House crediting Obama’s failed Let’s Move initiative as salvation for obese children everywhere is well fertilized with the same matter fertilizing her White House ‘organic’ garden.When First Lady Michelle Obama steps out of her White House Picture Frame on her end of February nationwide tour, to take credit for not only halting—but reversing—childhood obesity, folk should be thinking “fertilizer”.When First Lady Michelle Obama steps out...
  • 'Young' black hole is nearby, NASA says; doorway to a new universe?

    02/16/2013 1:48:31 PM PST · by skinkinthegrass · 22 replies
    herocomplex.latimes.com ^ | Feb. 13, 2013 | 2:30 p.m. | Amy Hubbard
    ‘Young’ black hole is nearby, NASA says; doorway to a new universe? Feb. 13, 2013 | 2:30 p.m. A supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy, according to NASA. (X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/L.Lopez et al; Infrared: Palomar; Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA ) A supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy, according to NASA. (X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/L.Lopez et al; Infrared: Palomar; Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA )Asteroid 2012 DA14 is bearing down on Earth, rattling nerves and making sci-fi fans’ eyes light up. But the cool science news doesn’t stop there. Researchers believe...