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Tea Party in Greensburg Pa., at the Westmoreland County Courthouse April 15th (tomorrow) at 12:00 noon Guest Speaker: Rose Tennant of the Quinn & Rose Morning Show from the Warroom (www.warroom.com)

Sen. Joe Biden hit Western Pennsylvania today -- Greensburg specifically -- with his first visit to the area since the Democratic National Convention. Before he began his morning speech, Biden had to compose himself while recalling a gift of two footballs (signed by former Steeler Rocky Bleier) given by late Steelers founder Art Rooney to Biden's two boys in 1972, when they were recuperating from a traffic accident that killed his wife and daughter. Biden recalled the story after he was introduced by Rooney's son, Dan.

GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) _ Greensburg will be back in the national spotlight next week. A new cable network called Planet Green will feature the tornado-ravaged community's rebuilding efforts as part of a documentary that will last several weeks. But Greensburg residents won't be able to view the 13-part documentary about the town's recovery from a devastating tornado because the city doesn't have a cable service. The show premieres Sunday at 8 p.m. Planet Green plans invite the whole town to the Greensburg school gymnasium tomorrow for a barbecue and screening of the first episode. Planet Green has had film crews...

These are the best pictures of the Greensburg, Kansas Tornado that I've seen anywhere. The site features about 40 high resolution photos of the devastation. The snaps are covered with a strict copyright, are available for sale to the public, and apparently are a source of income for the website's owner. Therefore, only a link is provided. The damage is incredible!

TOPEKA - Talk of a future Greensburg turned this week to visions of green. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said she and the town's mayor, Lonnie McCollum, have discussed the town rebuilding as an environmental model community, with renewable power, energy-efficient buildings and other possibilities. Rep. Dennis McKinney, D-Greensburg, added that planning should include high-tech aspects that help the town attract young families and new business. A statewide architect group has volunteered to aid Greensburg as it plans to rebuild. Now a contingent of Wichita architects say they are willing to share expertise in environmentally sustainable design. The town has the name...

The Democrats game plan was in full view after the Kansas tornado, and, unfortunately, some of the country seems to buy into the nonsense and the propaganda. Their plan is to seize on everything that happens and turn it into a scandal. We are still in the midst of the Alberto Gonzales fiasco, as if a president did not have the right to fire and hire federal prosecutors for any reason. Again, Bill Clinton fired 92 of 93 prosecutors as well as the Travel Office staff the day he took office. He also transferred 500 raw FBI files on individuals...

SANDLE, REIFF and YOUNG, P.C. 50 E Street, S.E., Suite 300 Washington DC 20003 Telephone: 202.479.XXXX FAX: 202.479.XXXX May 10, 2007 VIA E-Mail Mr. James C Robinson FreeRepublic.com PO Box 9771 Fresno, CA 93794 Re: Statement re Democratic National Committee Dear Mr Robinson: We are writing on behalf of our client, the Democratic National Committee (DNC). A post by “coffee260” on FreeRepublic.com today states that this morning, on the Quinn & Rose show on XM, co-host Quin stated that the DNC chairman, Gov. Howard Dean had called Gov Kathleen Sebelius (D-Kans) “around 5:00am on morning after a tornado destroyed the...

Have you noticed that the term "global climate change" is replacing "global warming"? For much of the United States, this last winter was colder than any in the recent past. Via the news media, travelers snowed in at airports were fed a steady diet of looming catastrophe. The newscasters have shrewdly altered the phrase to highlight the viciousness of the weather. To a passenger sleeping on a cold airline terminal floor, any warming would be a relief. Even...

NEWS ALERT----BREAKING STORY Kansas Democrat Governor Kathleen Sebilius was blaming President Bush for the slow response time because according to her, "our National Guard humvees, flatbed vehicles, and trained personnel are all stuck in Iraq". She stated those comments hours before the arrival of the President to Greensburg. According to sources close to Kansas Presidential candidate Senator Brownback, Sen. Brownback questioned her why she waited so long to deploy the troops and equipment to this town and most of all, why she got in front of the main stream media and stated it was President Bush's fault. According to sources,...

Brownback suggests plan for Greensburg Sen. Sam Brownback suggested Thursday that a pilot program based on the Homestead Act could bring revitalization and relief to Greensburg. Through a series of tax incentives, Brownback told media in a conference call that he hopes the program would stimulate the town's economy and encourage it to grow. The program would have four main components: • a $5,000 tax credit for all first-time homebuyers; • help paying down student loans for people to move in and stay in Greensburg; • tax credits for investing in the rural community; • a venture capital fund. Similar...

Greensburg Victim Rips Kansas Gov. For Comments Claim Of Slow Response An Abusrd 'Political Slam,' Resident Says (CBS) GREENSBURG, Kan. While Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and the Bush administration jaw back-and-forth over the relief efforts for Greensburg, Kan., the town devastated by Friday night's F-5 tornado, town residents have chimed in and say they couldn't be any happier with the response from the government and other rescue units. "The poor response thing is just political BS," Greensburg resident Mike Swigart, 47, who lost his house and four vehicles from the storm, told WCBSTV.com in an exclusive interview. "I saw her...

'5-9-07 - President George W. Bush arrived in Wichita at 9am Wednesday. Air Force One landed at McConnell AFB and then boarded Marine'

Six people were arrested Monday on suspicion of trespassing in Greensburg. District Judge Daniel Love found probable cause for their arrest and set bond at $10,000 for each individual.None of the six lived in Greensburg, according to Love."They apparently were from Wichita," he said, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service apparently was going to take four of the six people, he said.They have not been formally charged, and their names were not available.

Link to site, Wichita Eagle

Russell Steen, a 48-year-old sales and delivery man for Taylor Printing, stood with his kids in the front yard of his house in Pratt, Kansas (pop. 6,500) last Friday night. “We were watching the lightning about 9:30, quarter to ten,” he told me. “It was one of those Kansas lightning storms that you tell people in L.A. about and they just don’t believe you. The whole sky was filled with it. It was amazing.” Steen doesn’t have cable. He doesn’t even have broadcast TV. Maybe he doesn’t need it. “I mean, that storm was something to see.” Eventually, he went...

Anybody watching CNN? Am I imagining things or did CNN actually dispel the Gov. Kat Katty Sebelius myth that they didnt have enough equipment? Also the AG of Kansas seemed to have backtracked on earlier statements that they didnt have enough for the cleanup and reconstruction. Now the story is they meant for future disasters they would be strained.

By Associated Press Monday, May 7, 2007 Greensburg, Kan.— Paramedic Annette Gasten and her German shepherd, Greta, had a grim weekend searching amid the piles of wreckage left by one of the strongest tornadoes to rake across the Plains. Every business on Greensburg’s main street was demolished and officials estimate as much as 95 percent of the town was destroyed. Tree trunks stood bare, stripped of most of their branches. All the churches were destroyed. At least eight people in this community of 1,500 were dead, putting the state’s total death toll at 10. No one was found Sunday in...

GREENSBURG, Kan. Four Fort Riley soldiers were arrested for looting from a store in Greensburg. Major General Tod Bunting, the state's adjutant general, said the soldiers came to Greensburg to help on their own, and were not part of any official detachment. Few details were available, but Bunting says the four went into a store last night and took more merchandise than the owner wanted them to take. He was not sure what store they went into, but it was one of the few buildings still standing after Friday night's storm. Bunting also did not know exactly what the soldiers...

Tornado Snatches Greensburg Treasure 1,000 pound Brenham pallasite meteorite comes up missing after tornado strikes Greensburg. by The Associated Press The tornado that razed the Kansas town of Greensburg also snatched one of its most valuable treasures. The thousand-pound Brenham pallasite meteorite is gone. Greensburg has drawn world-class meteorite hunters for decades to this remote Kansas hamlet. Trooper Ronald Knoefel says even the town's own extensive meteorite collection is gone. And the town's other claim to fame -- the world's largest hand dug well -- is buried under a mountain of debris. The nearby gift shop for the attraction had...

Updated: 12:26pm The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Greensburg was an EF-5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale. A spokesman for the NWS office out of Dodge City estimates winds were near 205 miles-per-hour. The tornado was about a mile and a half wide. This is the first EF-5 and the first F-5 under the previous scale since the tornado that hit Moore, OK in 1999. That storm system spawned the Haysville Tornado.

May 4 2007--A large tornado caused extensive damage in Greensburg, Kansas this evening. The storm hit the Western Kansas town shortly before 10:00 p.m. KAKE storm chaser Lanny Dean was just a few miles away when the tornado hit. Dean has seen several homes destroyed on the southern edge of the community. KAKE's Nick VinZant is reporting sigificant damage in Greensburg with houses destroyed and others seriously damaged. Stay with KAKE and kake.com for updates on this storm.

They photographed generals and presidents. They also shot street scenes of ordinary Koreans doing their laundry and getting haircuts. It was 1953 and Roy Behrens and Dom Emanuele were serving as photographers at the tail end of the Korean War. "We photographed everything you can imagine," says Behrens, 74, who now lives in Tucson. Tucked into his portfolio of Korean civilians and American generals are shots of American actress Terry Moore in an ermine bathing suit, there for a USO show. Not all the assignments were so pleasant. With peace declared, Behrens shot photos of American bodies being delivered from...

<p>A group of Maryland lawmakers is seeking to have funding for a proposed high-speed maglev train project removed from that state's budget.</p> <p>The magnetic levitation train runs on a elevated track, or guideway, at speeds that may reach 240 mph. Maryland's maglev project would link Baltimore with Washington, D.C. It would take about 20 minutes to make the trek on guideways that are proposed to run parallel to a current Amtrak rail line.</p>