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MONROE, Wash. -- Special federal agents are investigating a local gun range suspected of serving as a militia training camp, according to court documents. Owner Jim Faire says he can't afford to run a background check on every visitor because his outdoor gun range is a nonprofit business. As a result, he said, county officials and the FBI have begun cracking down on the range after a convicted felon was caught with guns and drugs there. With thousands of shells littered across the ground, the gun range is now closed. Neighbors are glad to have the quiet, but they never...

Well, that didn’t take long. Just 44 days into the job, and President Obama is going gray.

Dr. William Gray is a vocal opponent of the anthropogenic global warming theory and recently took issue with Dr. James Hansen of NASA's GISS.For a look at Dr. Gray and the other key players in the global warming debate, see our slideshow below.Last week I wrote about an extremely strongly worded letter from William Gray to the American Meteorological Society (AMS) objecting to their awarding James Hansen their highest award.  This letter pits two of the giants in meteorology and climatology against each other in the debate over manmade climate change and global warming. The letter itself (available here on icecap.us)...

COLLEGE STATION – When the weather turns dry, Texans may start thinking about the best ways to avoid high water bills and still maintain their landscaping. Gray water may be one option, said Dr. Bruce Lesikar, Texas Cooperative Extension agricultural engineer. Gray water is the water that has passed through showers, sinks, bathtubs or washing machines, Lesikar said. It makes up about half of the water used in the home and normally passes into onsite wastewater treatment systems or city sewer systems. "The typical resident will have about 30 gallons per person per day," he said. Gray water is a...

Climate Change: Drowned out by an official prophecy of doom, one of our top hurricane forecasters says Al Gore "doesn't know what he's talking about." And he was being charitable. Last Friday, on the same day that bevy of bureaucrats calling themselves the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) approved a report predicting disease, famine and species extinction due to man-made global warming, Dr. William Gray called the jolly green giant a "gross alarmist" at the National Hurricane Conference held, appropriately enough, in New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS -- Natural changes in ocean currents are to blame for increased Atlantic hurricane activity in recent years, not man-made global warming as many scientists believe, hurricane forecaster William Gray said on Friday. "I think the whole human-induced greenhouse gas thing is a red herring," Gray said in a speech at the National Hurricane Conference.

The United States of America vs. Bill Keller How hard is it to be executive editor of the New York Times today? The White House calls him a traitor. He gets roasted every day on talk shows and blogs. The newsroom is losing faith. The paper is shrinking. And the worst part is that fighting back means overcoming his own nature... ...For a meeting without historical precedent, the president of the United States had called the Times to the White House to personally try to prevent a state secret from appearing in print—an exposé of the National Security Agency’s efforts...

Blood, Iron, and Gray HairAnemia in old age is a rising concern Ben Harder The life of a red blood cell is brief but fast paced. Each heartbeat pumps millions of the tiny cells into the body's vascular system at speeds of more than a meter per second. In about a minute, they can carry oxygen from the lungs to tissues in the rest of the body and return to the lungs. And they die before they're 4 months old. The body replaces old red blood cells by generating fresh ones, typically producing about 2 million cells per second. A...

A spokesman for the Suffolk district attorney says 20-year-old Stephen Marshall shot himself in the head when Boston authorities, acting on a tip from Maine police, climbed on the bus he was riding at about 7:25 PM Sunday night. A spokeswoman at Boston Medical Center says Marshall died at 11:24 PM No passengers were hurt. Five were taken to hospitals to be examined. Maine authorities say Marshall was a person of interest in the deaths of 57-year-old Joseph Gray of Milo and 24-year-old William Elliott of Corinth. Both men are registered sex offenders in Maine. Police say they do not...

Sheep don't mix well with grizzly bears and wolves. Now they won't mix at all on more than 70,000 acres in the Absaroka-Beartooth wilderness. A 74,000-acre sheep grazing allotment south of Big Timber in the Gallatin National Forest has been permanently closed and the ranchers who used it for generations have been paid to move their sheep elsewhere... The agreement is the eighth -- and second-largest -- in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem in recent years that has led to the retirement of about 300,000 acres from grazing. The latest involves the Ash Mountain and Iron Mountain allotments used for generations...

Wolves, wolf-hybrids suspected culprits in bloody predations... his herd of 700 sheep. But something had gotten there before him. Everywhere he looked, it seemed, there was a sheep that had been attacked and bloodied. "It was terrible," he said. "Some of them just had a chunk of flesh tore out, in some cases clear to the bone, the size of an orange. A few were bit in the neck." A few of the sheep could be doctored, but many of them died... of the 60 that were attacked, 21 died and 39 were injured. On top of that, the percentage...

Gnawing leisurely on the remains of a moose carcass, the wolf pack's alpha male seemed unaware that mortal danger was coming ever closer. Suddenly the eight-member rival pack burst into view. The alpha scrambled to his feet, but too late. Howling and barking, the enemy chased him down and mercilessly attacked, killing the hapless victim within a couple of minutes. It's not unusual for the gray wolves on Isle Royale National Park to target each other, said John Vucetich, a Michigan Tech University wildlife biologist who witnessed the carnage from an airplane in January. But the rival pack's brazen invasion...

LITTLETON, Colo. -- Mike Gray can speak English fluently, and in the lawn-care business, he says, that's a marketable asset. So he advertises his linguistic ability with a sign on his trailer depicting an American flag with the message, "Lawn Services Done With Pride! By An English Speaking American." Now that sign could end up getting Mr. Gray fired. His supervisor at the Arapahoe County Road and Bridge Department has threatened to terminate Mr. Gray, a heavy-equipment operator for 16 years, unless he covers up the red, white and blue message.

CONFIRMATION POLITICS Although freshman Democratic Sen. Ken Salazar has removed his hold on the nomination, former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray is still being blocked by Democrats for confirmation as U.S. ambassador to the European Union. The unidentified senator now imposing the hold is believed to be Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, who did not return this column's call. The objection to Gray is a 2-year-old television ad by Gray's Committee for Justice accusing senators of blocking the confirmation of Judge William Pryor because he is Catholic. A footnote: Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Negroponte last Tuesday wrote...

ST. LOUIS, Missouri (Reuters) - A Missouri man who killed two women by pushing them off a bridge spanning the Mississippi River was put to death early Wednesday, a Missouri prison official said. Marlin Gray, 38, died at 12:07 a.m. CDT after workers at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri, injected him with a series of lethal drugs, stopping his heart.

ABSTRACT Information obtained through 31 August 2005 shows that we have already experienced 110 percent of the average full season Net Tropical Cyclone (NTC)4 activity. In an average year, 33 percent of the seasonal average NTC of 100 occurs before the end of August. Our September-only forecast calls for five named storms, four hurricanes, two major hurricanes and NTC activity of 80 which is much above the mean September-only average value of 48. Our October-only forecast calls for three named storms, two hurricanes, one major hurricane and NTC activity of 30 which is much above the mean October-only average value...

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MIAMI (AP) - L. Patrick Gray, whose yearlong stint as acting FBI director was marked by the Watergate break-in and the ensuing scandal that led to President Nixon's resignation, has died. He was 88. Gray died at his home in Atlantic Beach from complications from pancreatic cancer, said his son, Ed Gray, of Lyme, N.H. Just last month, Gray ended 32 years of silence about his role in the Watergate scandal, telling ABC's "This Week" that he had reacted with "total shock, total disbelief" to the revelation that his former deputy, W. Mark Felt, was the secret Watergate source known...

L. Patrick Gray, the FBI chief during the Watergate break-in, says he believes deputy W. Mark Felt became the anonymous source known as Deep Throat because he was angry at being passed over as J. Edgar Hoover's successor and wanted to sabotage Gray. "I think there was a sense of revenge in his heart, and a sense of dumping my candidacy, if you will," Gray told ABC's "This Week" during an interview for its Sunday broadcast.

WASHINGTON -- Mark Felt, finally revealed as the "Deep Throat" who divulged the Watergate scandal, is wearing the hero's laurel 32 years later. But that designation comes across as peculiar to those of us who lived through the turbulent times. Felt deserves praise for breaking the rules as FBI associate director, providing Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post the guidance to determine whether they were on the correct path in uncovering the machinations of President Nixon. However, Felt was considered by reformers at the FBI to be part of the problem rather than the solution. He was...

After reading Sunday's New York Times, my first inclination was to call 9-1-1 and ask police to put St. Paul's Mac-Groveland and Crocus Hill neighborhoods, as well as Minneapolis' uberliberal Uptown enclave, on suicide watch. I was particularly worried about Heather Martens and the other folks over at Citizens for a Safer Minnesota, the local adjunct for the mathematically challenged Million Moms. The "paper of record" ran what must have been a painful front-page story for readers and staff alike. The Old Gray Lady admitted what many of us have known all along: Sen. Dianne Feinstein's assault-weapon ban had little...

Note: Skeptics abound. Readed the authentication section and the issues. This is the cumulation of over a decade of research and verification and validation of the Majestic Documents set. Majestic Documents.com is a groundbreaking look at the United States UFO program called Majestic and the top secret government documents that tell the story of presidential and military action, authorization, and cover-up regarding UFOs and their alien occupants. A remarkable work of investigative journalism, this website is the first to authenticate top secret UFO documents that tell a detailed story of the crashed discs, alien bodies, presidential briefings, and superb secrecy....

Mystery Object Encountered By Russian Phobos Spacecraft by Tom Van Flandern, Astronomer Meta Research Martian moon Phobos and "Phobos Mystery Object", photographed in 1989 by a Russian spacecraft not long before all contact was lost. March 15, 1992 was the cover date on the first issue of a new astronomy research publication, the Meta Research Bulletin (MRB). Its purpose was to draw attention to deserving astronomy findings and ideas ignored solely because they did not fit well into mainstream models of the field. Such mainstream models include the Big Bang, the primeval Destination: Space nebula, the Oort cloud, and the...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nature, not mankind, is to blame for a period of increased hurricane activity that could last for another 20 or 30 years, tropical weather expert William Gray said Thursday. The Colorado State University professor, known for his annual predictions, will be the closing speaker Friday at the 27th annual National Hurricane Conference. Hurricane activity began increasing 10 years ago after a slack period of about 25 years. "We think it's the ocean circulation patterns," Gray said in an interview. "It's not human-induced global warming. It's related mainly, as we see it, to the global ocean conveyor...

Schools in Six States Watched Closely After Baghdad Find (Drudge Report)

BLACK IN GRAY by Steve Cole The following article presents more data on a recent BBS thread on blacks in the Confederacy. My purpose is to present these facts, which is based on a recently published book, "Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia", by Erwin L. Jordan, Jr. Please do not attack these facts as being mine; I am only conveying the information. The following article was copied from "Tri-State Defender; the Mid-South's Alternative Newspaper", dated August 12-16, 1995, entitled "The Black and the Gray". And, note, this is a Black newspaper. {My comments are in brackets. For...

We live in a time when what is left is right, what is good is bad, what is up is down, and what is true is false. This is a period of our history unmatched in its preponderance of mind-control mechanisms meant to manipulate public opinion and fool people into believing what is black is white, what is white is black, and gray is all that matters. Every day I hear people parrot what they ingest from the mainstream media, foolishly believing they are informed and are paying attention. I learned some time ago that lies and deception are not...

No one could say that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger lacks energy. His energy policy, however, has been lacking. Schwarzenegger came to power in last year's dramatic recall election after former Gov. Gray Davis came to grief over the state's budget and electric power crises. By now, everyone knows how Schwarzenegger has resorted to some of the borrowing and bookkeeping gimmicks that gradually got Davis in hot water with voters. But overlooked are the potential parallels to Davis' inattention to a brewing energy crisis. The electric power crisis of 2001 seemed to come on suddenly but in reality brewed for more than...

On Saturday we traveled from our home in Lakewood to Simi Valley to visit friends and accompany them to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. They have struck up a friendship with an extraordinary person who is a docent at the Library and we couldn’t resist the promise of a private tour. The tour was wonderful. The grounds magnificent, the exhibits awe inspiring including the replica of the Oval Office. Then we got to the Lewis and Clark exhibition. There were canoes and a authentic reproduction of one of their Keel Boats, an Indian village, the supplies and trinkets they carried...

U-Haul Economics by Rick Ackerman A Chicago economist has come up with an interesting and seemingly plausible new economic indicator. We’ve all heard stories about the exodus of U-Haul vans from California, but the details are usually too sketchy to tell us much. Turns out they can be quantified in dollars and cents so that the flow of traffic reveals which U.S. regions are hurting and which are prospering. For instance, while it costs $1,080 to rent a 26-foot U-Haul truck for a one-way trip from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, the rental going in the opposite direction is just...

<p>Sacramento -- Days after being recalled, Gov. Gray Davis quietly appointed dozens of political supporters and top staffers to lucrative slots on state boards and commissions.</p> <p>The appointments were not announced in press releases, as is customary, and only came to light Thursday in the relatively obscure weekly history of action published by the Senate, which still must vote on confirming the nominations.</p>

Crockett wants California's governor to speak at the Carquinez Bridge grand opening next month. Officials just don't know whose name to put on the invitation. Will it be Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger's first official ribbon-cutting? Or will it be Gov. Gray Davis' swan song? The grand-opening party date of Nov. 15 coincides with the deadline for the Secretary of State to certify the recall election results. The certification could occur sooner, and many believe it will. But in the past 31 years, it has taken an average of 38 to 39 days, which falls on Nov. 14 and 15.

<p>California's governor is the leader of the nation's largest state and the world's sixth largest economy.</p> <p>If this recall succeeds, a replacement candidate with unknown positions on the issues and well-less than a majority of the vote would take office almost immediately. More than the first 30 days of his term would be consumed by efforts to just get on his feet -- not conducting the business of government.</p>

Than SCREWED by GRAY DAVIS!! WHO IS WITH ME!!!! Tuesday will be a GRAND DAY FOR THE GRAND OLD PARTY!! We must all RALLY AROUND SCHWARTZANEGGER AND LET OUR VOICES BE HEARD! WE ARE TIRED OF THE CRAP DEMS HAVE BEEN PULLING CALIFORNIA!

Gray Davis shows off his hand, grotesquely swollen by his incessant signing of special interest legislation.Mullings.com

"Mr. Davis, in the future you are to become a great leader. That is why I've been sent back to protect you. Stay in the casket until they stop shooting."

ALERT! Here are the new tv ads that my cohorts at the Recall Gray Davis Committee just completed. They begin running on Tuesday of next week. The ads feature not just Gray Davis, but more importantly, Cruz Bustamante, reminding viewers that "Cruz Bustamante is just another shade of Gray." CLICK HERE to SEE THE TV ADS Let's hope that voters choose to dump Gray Davis and realize that Cruz Bustamante is not an acceptable alternative whatsoever. Any feedback or comments? Praise and compliments always welcome

ATTENTION PRO-RECALL SUPPORTERS WEDNESDAY PRO-RECALL GATHERING!!!! We need a lot of FReepers to show up at a "YES on RECALL" rally/gathering outside of Wednesday's gubernatorial debate in Sacramento. WHAT: Big "YES on RECALL" (NO on BUSTAMANTE) Show of Support WHEN: Wednesday, September 24 - Arrive around 4:30 - 5:00... if you can't make it until 5:30 PM that's cool. The debate starts at 6:00 PM. WHERE: Serna Plaza - Campus of Sacramento State University. CLICK HERE for Driving Directions to the Campus. WHY: Because if we don't then pro-recall supporters around the state will only see "NO on RECALL"...

Border Control Chief Calls for Calif. Driver's Licenses to Be Banned as Airplane ID (CNSNews.com) - Ed Nelson, chairman of U.S. Border Control, has asked Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to ban the use of California driver's licenses as identification for boarding airplanes. "Since it is now so easy for anyone, including illegal aliens and terrorists, to get a California driver's permit, it is clear that such a document no longer provides any assurance that the holder deserves to be allowed a seat on an airplane," Nelson stated in a letter to Ridge. "It seems as if politics take precedence...

September 18, 2003  An Open Letter to All Recall Gray Davis Supporters  Dear Friends, This letter is long but I really need you to take the time and read it. If you would be so kind as to forward it on to others who support the recall effort I would be extremely grateful. The events of this week surrounding the legal challenges to the Recall Gray Davis ballot measure have given me cause to stop and reflect on the past eight months and take stock of where things stand today with the Recall Gray Davis campaign. I know some of...

In Los Angeles, (R)nold Inc. swooped into the Grand Old Party's Political Convention hurling conservative-tested, establishment-approved rhetoric with all the force of Hurricane Isabel. In partisan theaters across town, Democrat politicians were also being featured. In "Once upon a time in Mexico", Cruz Bustamente could be seen delivering another re-invented campaign theme: Go Slow on MEChA, Vote Yes for Bustamente!

Another controversial bill supported by Latino leaders may arrive soon on the desk of Gov. Gray Davis, though the embattled politician has yet to state his position on the issue. The state Senate this week approved Assembly Bill 522, which, if it eventually is signed by the governor, would require all public agencies to recognize Mexican consular identification cards, otherwise known as "matricula consular," that could be used by undocumented immigrants to open bank accounts and receive various services. Opponents say the identification cards could pose a security risk because they are not fraud-proof. Before the bill, sponsored by Assemblyman...

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 20032:00 P.M. &#8211; 4:00 P.M.Queen Mary Special Events Park in Long Beach, CA [1126 Queens Highway &#8211; Long Beach, CA]If you plan to attend the &#8220;YES on RECALL&#8221; Victory Lap Rally on Saturday, September 13, 2003, please email us your RSVP to: Rally@RecallGrayDavis.com ALL THE PRO-RECALL CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNORGIANT CROWD OF PRO- RECALL SUPPORTERS QUEEN MARY PARK &#8211; STUNNING WATERFRONT BACKDROPThe big final push for the &#8220;YES on RECALL&#8221; grassroots campaign will begin with this &#8220;YES on RECALL&#8221; Victory Lap Rally. All of the pro-Recall candidates for Governor have been invited and you can bet that...

Dear California , Me , myself , and I'm a jerk . The lies I told just did'nt work . Sincerely , California Democrat Governor Gray Davis

EXTRA: Cybill Uses Her Tongue By Fiona Ng, Hollywood.com Staff SANTA MONICA,  April  4, 2000 -- Cybill Shepherd, actress, model, spokeswoman, is giving new meaning to the term "tell-all." In her new Jerry Springer-style confessional, "Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think" (in stores today), the outspoken actress/model lives up (or down) to her rep. To save inquiring readers the time of sifting through the tome's 294 pages, we've poured over the manuscript ourselves and highlighted the more lubricious moments below for quick reference and easy...

A Wife’s Observations There is too much misinformation floating around out there about my husband. When I read newspaper profiles about him, I hardly recognize the person I've been married to for the past 20 years. So here is the Gray Davis I know.Like most guys, my husband loves sports. It is probably because he played every sport he could when he was growing up. He still plays golf and we try to play together whenever possible. He is actually pretty good, averaging about a 15 handicap - not bad for someone who only gets to play about 6...

Thanks to a grassroots campaign that gathered more than a million signatures from registered voters, the state of California will hold a special election October 7 on whether to recall Democratic Gov. Gray Davis. Despite all the media hype, there is no guarantee that the recall will be approved. Here are ten good reasons Californians should pull the plug on America's worst governor. 1. Very Questionable FundraisingLast year, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon ran television spots during his campaign against Davis in which average Californians were depicted approaching Davis's secretary. Each asks to speak to the governor and is turned...

<p>GOV. GRAY DAVIS deserves to be recalled. His performance has earned him record-low poll numbers because voters believe he is too arrogant, too nasty -- and that he would sell them out to any special interest that could help his career. Rather than shape up to fend off the recall, Davis has been acting as if his main goal is to prove to skeptical voters that they've been too kind to him.</p>

On Tuesday, Ol' Gray gave us a taste of his vomit in a speech aides say he spent more than a week preparing. The fact that he took 7 days to mold this tripe into barely coherent thoughts is shocking enough, but allow us to dissect some of the best quotes from this "speech" at UCLA, as reported by the Washington Post. Here's the rest