http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/missouri/ en-us Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:58:13 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284209/posts CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (CN) - A 23-year-old illegal alien faces charges and deportation after he allegedly threatened to blow up a police station and a federal courthouse. Pedro Quino-Teodoro is charged with two counts of making a terrorist threat and one count of attempted obstruction of a governmental function. Police say Quino-Teodoro threatened to kill an officer and his family if immigration authorities were contacted during an assault investigation. Immigration officials confirmed his illegal status. Upon arrest, Quino-Teodoro allegedly said he would destroy the federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau and police headquarters. He is being held on a $100,000 cash-only... Court House News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284209/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:58:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2269660/posts ST. LOUIS - It's an international mystery: How did a Missouri family's Christmas card photo end up in the Czech Republic, splashed across a huge storefront advertisement? Danielle Smith said Wednesday that the photo taken of her family last year got sent to family and friends, and was posted on her blog and a few social networking sites. The photo showed her and her husband Jeff holding their two young children. About 10 days ago, one of Smith's college friends was driving through Prague when he spotted their huge smiling faces in the window of a store specializing in Europeann... philly/news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2269660/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:57:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2264453/posts The Springfield, Missouri, chapter of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi organization, thought it would be cute to adopt a section of highway along West Bypass between Sunshine and Farm Road 142. MoDOT allowed them to put up a sign along the road bearing the group's name, and members posed with it, Seig Heil-ing and whatnot (pictured). Afterward, they went home, put on their swastika-print jammies and drifted off to thumb-sucking sleep, secure in their white pride. Then, along came the Jews to ruin everything. The Jewish Community Relations Bureau, based here in KC, approached Kansas City Rep. Jason Holsman... The Pitch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2264453/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:51:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262710/posts Missourians are rushing to arm themselves with concealed weapons at a record pace so far this year. Criminologists and law enforcement officials say the increase may be driven by fear of increased crime due to the recession and the perception of potential loss of gun rights from a new Democratic president. "People just don't feel safe, whether it's with the political structure or the economic situation," said Noelle Fearn, assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice at St. Louis University. In the St. Louis area, the surge is most marked in St. Charles, Warren, Lincoln and Jefferson counties, where applications... stltoday.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262710/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 05:57:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259410/posts Note: The following text is a quote: Eight Uzbekistan Nationals Among 12 Charged with Racketeering, Human Trafficking & Immigration Violations in Scheme to Employ Illegal Aliens in 14 States Twelve defendants, including eight Uzbekistan nationals, have been charged in a 45-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Mo., on May 6, 2009, on RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) charges related to labor racketeering, forced labor trafficking and immigration and other violations in 14 states. Abrorkhodja Askarkhodjaev, 30, Nodir Yunusov, 22, Rustamjon Shukurov, 21, citizens of Uzbekistan residing in Mission, Kan.; Ilkham Fazilov, 44, Nodirbek... US DOJ.GOV/opa - Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259410/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 23:41:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2250377/posts JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri legislators spent about an hour in the dark Tuesday because of a power outage at the state Capitol , and a snake took all the blame and paid the price. The electricity went out at noon while lawmakers were debating legislation and scores of schoolchildren were touring the building. Several people were stuck in elevators, but Capitol Police Chief Todd Hurt said they all were freed within 20 minutes and no injuries were reported. Power was back on after about an hour. The problem was a reptile that was in the wrong place at the... philly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2250377/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 23:30:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2246669/posts A continuation of an irregular series of geological features in state parks: this one is Elephant Rocks State Park in Missouri. Please read my notes after the final image. Elephant Rocks State Park General Information Park Map Click for full-size. Click for full-size. Same view, different season This last image comes from a revelatory Web site, by Scott Haefner: Scott Haefner photographyHe has a huge variety of photographs (most of which could be ordered as prints), and you have GOT to see his Bubble 360 panoramas! Links to the panoramas are on the home page. To get to images organized... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2246669/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2009 03:47:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2240964/posts Note: The following text is a quote: Two Missouri Brothers Among Those Indicted in $4 Million Nationwide Spamming Conspiracy Millions of E-Mail Addresses Illegally Harvested from Computers at 2,000 Schools KANSAS CITY, MO—Two Missouri men and their company are among those indicted by a federal grand jury in a nationwide e-mail spamming case that victimized more than 2,000 colleges and universities in a scheme that sold more than $4 million worth of products to students, announced Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri. Amir Ahmad Shah, 28, of St. Louis., his brother, Osmaan Ahmad... KansasCity.FBI.gov - DOJ Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2240964/posts#comment Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:49:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237184/posts JEFFERSON CITY | House Speaker Ron Richard said this afternoon that federal officials have already warned against a plan to use federal stimulus dollars for a tax cut. Richard, a Joplin Republican, made the remarks in an appearance on the Fox News program Your World. "We've got a message from the OMB, the vice president, they don't like it," Richard said in the TV interview. "They say it's illegal and we're going anyway." primebuzz.kcstar.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237184/posts#comment Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:53:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235461/posts It's been said that conservatism has different meanings for different people. It may not be textbook, but without a whole lot of navel gazing, here's what it means to me and what Free Republic is all about: In a word, Freedom! In two words, Preserving Freedom. In a handful of words as stated by our Founding Fathers, to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity! America was founded on the proposition that all men are created equal by God and that our unalienable rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness are granted directly by God... Click here to support your favorite conservative website! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235461/posts#comment Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:10:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236455/posts NEW YORK, April 23 (Reuters) - Ameren Corp (AEE.N) suspended its efforts to build a new nuclear power plant in Missouri due to unfavorable legislation that would not allow for cost recovery during the construction process, the company said in a release on Thursday. This is one of the first nuclear projects in the United States to be suspended since the federal government started pushing the "nuclear renaissance" several years ago amid rising energy demands, concerns over climate change and dependence on overseas supplies of fossil fuels. Despite Ameren's decision, the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry advocate, still expects four... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236455/posts#comment Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:29:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235574/posts Does anyone know of a protest being organized for Obama's visit to Jefferson County to mark the end of his "first 100 days"? I would love to see that happen. I actually don't even know what city he is going to. Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235574/posts#comment Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:39:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233724/posts Nobody can sell any ammunition after June 30, 2009. It has already started: 'Ammunition Accountability' Legislation. Remember how Obama said that he wasn't going to take your guns? Well, it seems that his allies in the anti-gun world have no problem with taking your ammo! The bill that is being pushed in 18 states (including Illinois and Indiana) requires all ammunition to be encoded by the manufacturer, a data base of all ammunition sales. So, they will know how much you buy and what calibers. Nobody can sell any ammunition after June 30, 2009 unless the ammunition is coded. Any... email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233724/posts#comment Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:33:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233573/posts Do not believe the nattering nabobs of negativity. The Nationwide Tax Day TEA Party/Tax Revolt was a huge success!! What we need now is MORE and LOUDER!! Obama has no clue. Being confronted by millions of fed-up citizens is new to him. He never expected the otherwise docile American people to rise up against his wannabe Marxist/fascist totalitarian regime. He's now lashing out at us through the Dept of Homeland Security as if We the People are his enemy. Well, we are! And he now knows it. And he's scared witless!! And the media has been reduced to the speechless,... Click here to support your favorite revolting website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233573/posts#comment Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:16:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232343/posts Congratulations FReepers and Patriots! According to Henchster's ongoing tallies, we've surpassed 750,000 participants in our nationwide Tax Day TEA Party/Tax Revolt! Woo hoo!! All 50 states fully engaged! Over 600 cities represented and reports still coming in! Huge turnout, huge SUCCESS!! Elected officials take note: DO NOT TREAD ON ME!! Tyranny, usurpation, corruption, overreaching, big spending, high taxing will no longer be tolerated! We the people are FED-UP and we're not going to take it anymore! Ignore us at your own peril! All Congressional seats, all elected offices throughout the land at risk! Revolution is in the air!! Click here to support FR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232343/posts#comment Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:36:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232005/posts Speech by: Mitch Martin “Country of Makers, not Takers!” This is a very stirring speech given by a local citizen of Washington, Missouri on the bank of the Missouri River. Posted on Guy Midkiff's website. http://guymidkiff.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/washmo-tea-party-mitch-martin-speech/ guymidkiff.wordpress.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232005/posts#comment Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:27:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230843/posts If the Obama administration has taken flak for suggesting that conservative groups might be home to domestic terrorists, it looks like some House Democrat leaders are willing to go even further: But in an interview on Fox TV in San Francisco, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) chalked up the GOP grass-roots effort as “AstroTurf.” “This initiative is funded by the high end; we call it AstroTurf, it's not really a grass-roots movement. It's AstroTurf by some of the wealthiest people in America to keep the focus on tax cuts for the rich instead of for the great middle class,” Pelosi said.... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230843/posts#comment Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:58:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230621/posts St. Louis — Thousands of people packed Kiener Plaza downtown on Tax Day to vent their ire at President Barack Obama and other leaders and to show their concern about the nation's future. They joined thousands more across the country who took to public places for "tea parties" to protest what they see as pork in the nation's budget, an unfair tax burden on working Americans, deficit spending and government bailouts they say will fall to our children to repay. . . . While protests on tax-filing day are nothing new, the tea party protests Wednesday at more than 700... St. Louis Post-Dispatch, stltoday.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230621/posts#comment Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:55:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230269/posts KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Thousands of tax protesters, fed up with what they call runaway spending in Washington, gathered across Kansas City and across the country on Wednesday. Courtesy: Bev Chapman 200 people turn out for tax protest in Lee's Summit More In Lee's Summit, nearly 300 people turned out for a "tea party" on the steps at City Hall to express their frustration at how their tax dollars are being spent. About 3,000 people also attended a tax protest at Liberty Memorial Wednesday afternoon. About 10,000 people attended another protest at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park Wednesday... kmbc http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230269/posts#comment Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:45:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229220/posts After the 2010 census has been held, the number of seats held by each state in the U.S. House of Representatives will change. The National Conference of State Legislatures recently estimated what the 2010 reapportionment will mean for each state. Eight states are expected to lose one seat each, in the U.S. House and in the Electoral College. They are Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. States that will gain will be Texas (3 seats), and one each for Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and Utah. If the bill now pending in Congress to expand the... Ballot Access News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229220/posts#comment Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:46:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2227296/posts Friday, April 10, 2009 Missouri's Castle Doctrine and Right-to-Carry improvement bill continues to make progress through the Missouri House of Representatives. House Bill 668, sponsored by State Representative Kenny Jones (R-117), would expand current Castle Doctrine protections up to and including a person's boundary lines, while lowering the legal age to receive Right-to-Carry permits from 23 to 21. On Thursday, April 9, two notable amendments were added to HB 668. The first, offered by State Representative Brian Munzlinger (R-1), would expand Missouri's concealed carry provisions to include public colleges and university campuses. After much debate, the amendment passed by a... NRA ILA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2227296/posts#comment Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:03:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226785/posts ST. LOUIS — Chatting with a visitor about energy issues in the back of the Greater Mount Carmel Baptist Church here, a group of women exploded in laughter at the idea that their electric rates were among the lowest in the nation. “We can barely afford what we have now,” said Renee Daniels-Hanner, 48, an office manager who lives with her husband, a postal employee, and their teenage daughter in a three-bedroom brick home in the city’s Baden neighborhood. The house, built in 1953, has central air-conditioning to ward off the heat and humidity of Mississippi River summers, a double-door... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226785/posts#comment Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:56:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226406/posts JEFFERSON CITY — As reported on the Mother Ship this morning, state Rep. Michael Corcoran, D-St. Ann, has been charged with drunk driving related to a traffic stop that occurred on Feb. 6 in St. Louis County. Corcoran’s attorney says he’ll fight the charge. But just facing the charge doesn’t bode well for Corcoran’s political future. Corcoran is one of three Democrats who has announced his intention to run for the 24th District state Senate seat in 2010. The seat is currently occupied by Sen. Joan Bray, D-University City. She is unable to run again because of term limits. The... St. Louis Post-Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226406/posts#comment Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:08:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2225543/posts We cheer the reddest. We corn the hardest. And, apparently, we grin the widest. Because Nebraska is the happiest state in the U.S., a new study says. The survey — conducted by personal finance Web site MainStreet.com — ranked all 50 states and the District of Columbia from fiscally happiest to saddest based on a few factors of economic well-being. These included foreclosure numbers, unemployment rates and the ratio of average debt to average annual income. “It reflects the attitude of this state,” said Gov. Dave Heineman. “We are a positive people with a can-do attitude who are focused on... Lincoln Journal Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2225543/posts#comment Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:00:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225567/posts JEFFERSON CITY — The Federal Election Commission has raised questions about the ability of the Missouri Democratic Party to follow federal election law in two separate enforcement actions made public earlier this year. The FEC audits and other documents reveal that state Democrats have been audited, fined or questioned by the FEC about complying with the law in six consecutive election cycles. In February, the FEC published an audit of the state Democratic fundraising arm — the Missouri Democratic State Committee — that found the committee couldn't properly account for $1.2 million transferred between its federal and nonfederal accounts in... St. Louis Post-Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225567/posts#comment Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:31:24 GMT