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Longview teen badly burned while siphoning gas By Erik Olson The Daily News Friday, January 1, 2010 A 17-year-old Longview boy suffered serious burns on his chest and abdomen early Friday morning after he lit a cigarette while attempting to siphon gasoline from a car in the Beacon Hill area, according to police and firefighters. The teenose name was not released, suffered first- and second-degree burns over 30 percent of his body and was transported to St. John Medical Center, Cowlitz 2 Fire and Rescue lieutenant Jason Sanders said. The burns extended to his pelvis, hands and feet, Sanders said....

A major left-wing propaganda attack group funded by billionaire George Soros has begun aggressively targeting MassResistance because of our exposure of Kevin Jennings, Obama's "safe-schools" czar and his activities pushing homosexuality on schoolchildren. In two recent postings, they've put together a big collection of lies, distortions, misinformation and propaganda to try to discredit MassResistance and our facts about Kevin Jennings -- and the horrible things his group GLSEN has done with children.

A letter sent from: The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley 1 January 2010 His Excellency Mr. Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister, Commonwealth of Australia. Prime Minister, Climate change: proposed personal briefing Your speech on 6 November 2009 to the Lowy Institute, in which you publicly expressed some concern at my approach to the climate question, has prompted several leading Australian citizens to invite me come on tour to explain myself in a series of lectures in Australia later this month. I am writing to offer personal briefings on why “global warming” is a non-problem to you and other party leaders during my...

Two articles presented here:India Express article: US President Barack Obama’s key aide and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s vacation in India had its official overtones. Not only did he have some important meetings, the Prime Minister’s media advisor, Harish Khare, is said to have worn the diplomat’s hat and hosted him for a trip to Old Delhi, showing him around the “spice streets”. Incidentally, the first leg of his trip, in the third week of December, clashed with the King of Bhutan’s state visit, and the two happened to be staying in the same hotel. The hotel staff...

Why climate change is hot hot hotBlame a combination of corrupted science, ersatz religion and Third World opportunismAccording to the CIA’s analysis, “detrimental global climatic change� threatens “the stability of most nations.� And, alas, for a global phenomenon, Canada will be hardest hit. The entire Dominion from the Arctic to the 49th parallel will be under 150 feet of ice. Oh, wait. That was the last “scientific consensus� on “climate change,� early seventies version, as reflected in a CIA report from August 1974, which the enterprising author Maurizio Morabito stumbled upon in the British Library the other day. If only...

A Memphis man went to jail New Year's Day on a rash of charges after police found him drinking a 40-ounce beer while driving backward down a city street with a marijuana plant on the front seat. At about 9 a.m. Friday, officers responded to a complaint that Tyrone Buckley, 51, was driving drunk around a parking lot in the 1000 block of Court in the Medical Center area. According to an affidavit, officers spotted Buckley driving backward on nearby Waldran Boulevard. According to police, Buckley smelled of alcohol and had a box on the passenger's seat holding a marijuana...

Newark Liberty Airport Reportedly in Lockdown Over Security Breach

President Obama returns to the White House Sunday night amid new questions about the effectiveness of our fight against terrorism. The failed terror attempt on a flight to Detroit raised new concerns about the response to the threat. When the President leaves the island paradise of Hawaii, he'll come back to questions about who is to blame for the terrorist near miss on an airliner in Detriot and even more questions about what's being done now to keep the nation safe. The Christmas Day terror attempt is bringing flashbacks to post 9/11 frustration: warning signs existed, but weren't pieced together....

My brother Marc loves setting the Psalms to music. Over the last 30 years, he's come up with settings for perhaps half the 150 psalms, including the entirety of Psalm 119. Usually, Marc's melodies are an obvious fit to the theme of the psalm: joyful melodies for psalms of praise, mournful melodies for psalms of repentance, stirring melodies for psalms of victory. His treatment of Psalm 12 is particularly effective. Marc's melodies follow precisely the mood changes of the Psalm, the plea for help, confidence in the Lord's victory and a reflection on the enduring power of God's Word. But...

Interest Rate Rally Anticipates Inflation In 2010 by: Daryl Montgomery January 02, 2010 U.S. treasuries closed out 2009 with their biggest loss since 1978. It was the first loss since 1999 and only the fourth loss in 31 years. Interest rates at the long end of the curve are now almost double what they were at the height of the Credit Crisis. It was quite a turnaround from the end of 2008, when bonds managed to rally and survive the market slaughter that took down almost every asset class. 2009 witnessed a complete turnaround when treasuries went down and almost...

A spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service said the agency is investigating an effigy of President Barack Obama found hanging from a building in the Georgia hometown of former President Jimmy Carter. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan told The Associated Press that the large black doll was found Saturday morning along Main Street in the small town of Plains. According to footage from WALB-TV, the doll was hanging by a noose in front of a red, white and blue sign that says "Plains, Georgia. Home of Jimmy Carter, our 39th President." A witness told the television station that the doll...

Children of Blackshirt women, who joined Oswald Mosley's pro-Nazi British Union of Fascists, often feel that they have had to live with the burden of the guilt and shame caused by their mother's fascist sympathies.When I was 11, I was taken by my mother to visit her birthplace in Kennington, London. As we walked around my mother showed me where the air-raid shelters were during the war, but then she began telling me about the Blackshirt meetings. At 11 it did not mean much to me but it has played on my mind ever since. I decided to reopen the...

Economic Double-Dip? Try A Triple by: Sold At The Top January 03, 2010 Much of the bearish attention these days is focused on discerning a so called “double dip” shaping up as the next major macroeconomic trend yet a look back at many decades of recessionary circumstances shows scant evidence that such phenomena occur organically. On the other hand, what is the true definition of a double dip? How long or short does an expansion have to run between dips and what are the primary measures that determine the thoroughness and validity of that expansion? The following chart shows the...

It speaks eloquently to the Obama administration’s priorities that it took the White House four days to acknowledge the “catastrophic breach of security” that led to the failed bombing of a US-bound jet on Christmas Day — but a scant four hours to accuse Dick Cheney of coddling terrorists. The former vice president Wednesday harshly criticized the administration’s efforts — or non-efforts — against terrorism. Whereupon, Team Obama went ballistic. But Cheney’s take was spot-on: “We are at war” against terrorism, but President Obama “pretends we aren’t.” This, warned Cheney, “makes us less safe.” Precisely. Obama, he said, “seems to...

But, for the fourth year running, the cold came early. First their animals and now their children are dying.....in ...... escalating numbers.....

America has been greatly blessed by God and has stood as the greatest country in the history of the world for over 200 years. America has many foreign and domestic enemies that are seeking her destruction. This thread is a daily call and reminder for people of faith who believe in God and in the power of prayer to make a commitment to intercede for America at this critical time in her history2 Chronicles 7:14If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will...

Our Troops Rock!  Thank you for all you do!   For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces.   Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today!     ~ Hall of Heroes ~Nancy Wake"The White Mouse"Info and some photos from this website.             Young Rebel from http://www.nzedge.com  Nancy Wake was born in the gusty heights of Roseneath, Wellington, New Zealand, on 13 August 1912 to Charles Augustus and Ella Rosieur Wake, the youngest of six children. The biography Nancy Wake, by Australian...

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Thousands of dead octopuses have washed up on a beach in northern Portugal, in what is being called an environmental disaster. They cover a 5-mile stretch of Vila Nova de Gaia beach - no reason has yet been found for their appearance. The authorities have warned the public not to eat them. MEANWHILE: WELLINGTON: More than 120 whales died over 48 hours in two separate beachings in New Zealand, the Department of Conservation said on Monday. More than 20 pilot whales will be buried by Coromandel Maori on Monday after dying when they became stranded on Sunday. Sixty-three whales, mostly...

Quote: Update: TSA seeking man who may not have been screened at Newark Airport; passengers being moved from 'sterile' to public area - CNN less than a minute ago from BreakingNews Headquarters Security breach leads to lockdown at Newark Airport's Terminal C; male passenger being sought - CNN 10 minutes ago from BreakingNews Headquarters

Want to learn how to build something destructive like a bomb, steal something, cheat somebody or buy something dangerous or become a terrorist? It's easy. Just turn on your computer. There is ample evidence to back up those who contend that the Internet is a major contributor to the terrorist movement, linking impressionable young men and women on the cusp of radicalization with those already there and increasing the possibility of them ultimately turning into everyone's worst nightmare — the freelancer who is difficult to discover until it is too late. The air disaster averted over Detroit the other day,...

Financial woes are dimming the GOP's bright prospects of making major gains in the House next year and some GOP strategists are blaming an unlikely source: Republican incumbents. The National Republican Congressional Committee, the financial arm for GOP House campaigns, has raised less than a third as much money as its Democratic counterpart and ended 2009 with barely enough money to fully finance a single House race, Politico reported Sunday. Despite evidence of solid opportunities in at least 40 districts this year, Republican incumbents have donated well below expectations, GOP strategists told Politico.

The National Republican Congressional Committee, the financial arm for GOP House campaigns, has raised less than a third as much money as its Democratic counterpart and ended 2009 with barely enough money to fully finance a single House race, Politico reported Sunday.

Janet Napolitano and I hadn’t planned to spend New Year’s Eve together.

Rush Limbaugh was released from Queens Hospital in Honolulu on Friday, December 31st. He is feeling stronger and rested after two days of examination and observation. Rush will return to the microphone on Wednesday, January 6th. Mark Steyn will be the guest host on Monday, January 4th and Tuesday, January 5th. Rush thanks the tens of thousands who've shared prayers and good thoughts with him over the past two days' time, and offers his deepest thanks to the staff and administration of Queens Hospital for their excellent care and supervision.

PARIS (Reuters) - France is looking to sell millions of surplus vaccines for the H1N1 flu strain after ordering many more shots than it actually needed, officials said on Sunday.Swine Flu The Health Ministry said in a statement it had originally bought 94 million individual vaccinations against the H1N1 virus at a cost of 869 million euros ($1.25 billion), thinking that everyone would need two jabs for immunity against the illness. Doctors now say a single vaccination is sufficient, meaning that France, with a population of some 65 million, has a massive oversupply that it is looking to sell on.

Where's the Wolf? David K. McCombs The idea, if not the term Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) has been popular since a heat spell in early Eighties.  I was quite susceptible then.  The idea was mainstreamed by Carl Sagan as a result of his thoughts about Venus.  As a planetary physicist, Sagan pondered the exceptionally hot conditions on Venus.  The exceptional heat is caused by 'greenhouse' gases in the the Venusian atmosphere.  The gases trap infrared radiation, so the atmosphere stays hot.  Sagan inferred that a similar hostile climate on earth would result if the percentage of CO2 in the Earth's...

A *WINTER STORM WARNING* remains in effect for most of northern NY and the Northeast Kingdom of VT until 10 PM. For the rest of northern VT, the warning goes until 1 AM Monday. For Bennington and Windham counties, the warning goes until 6 PM. A *WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY* continues to be in effect for Rutland County until 10 PM. A powerful storm system in the Gulf of Maine hurled back a band of heavy snow which concentrated itself on the eastern Champlain Valley, bringing a tremendous amount of snow over the past 24 hours. Almost 33 inches of snow...

At least seven Iranian police officers have died in a clash with drugs smugglers in the east of the country, officials said. The shoot-out happened in Khorasan province near the Afghan border, a police chief told Iranian state radio. The report said four drugs traffickers had also been killed and another seriously wounded

Iranian legislators on Sunday decided to not allow a visit from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.), according to Iranian media. "Members of the Iranian parliament's Foreign Relations Committee (a subcommittee of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission) voiced opposition to the request after studying the issue," Hassan Ebrahimi, head of the committee, told the semi-official Fars News Agency.

Recent Earthquakes in California and Nevada == PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE REPORT == California Integrated Seismic Net USGS/ Caltech/ CGS/ UCB/ UCSD/ UNR Version #2: This report supersedes any earlier reports of this event. This event has been reviewed by a seismologist. A light earthquake occurred at 4:02:18 PM (PST) on Sunday, January 3, 2010. The magnitude 4.0 event occurred 37 km (23 miles) ESE of Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. The hypocentral depth is 12 km ( 8 miles). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Magnitude 4.0 - local magnitude (ML) Time Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 4:02:18 PM (PST) Monday, January 4, 2010 at 0:02:18 (UTC)...

Sen. Charles Schumer said Sunday that airlines based in the United States should threaten to stop flying to airports with lax security.

A town famed for honouring dead British solders returning from Afghanistan expressed its dismay yesterday at plans by an extremist Islamic group to march through its streets. Islam4UK, which calls itself a ‘platform’ for the fanatical Al-Muhajiroun movement, said its supporters will parade through Wootton Bassett in the near future. The group’s website said the event is being held ‘not in memory of the occupying and merciless British military’ but of the Muslims ‘murdered in the name of democracy and freedom’. Its leader, Anjem Choudary, said the protest, involving 500 people, would be ‘peaceful’ and that ‘symbolic coffins’ would be...

President Obama and his Hawaiian vacation party, fresh from watching Ohio State defeat Oregon in the Rose Bowl, took a late afternoon New Year's Day trip to Island Snow shave ice and clothing store--one of the Obama's favorite haunts in Kailua. The large Obama tribe -- which included Malia, Sasha, family friends Marty Nesbitt and his family, Eric Whitaker and his family, island golfing buddies Greg Orme and Mike Ramos and others--ordered 19 shave ice cones in all the various flavors and colors of the rainbow, seven of them with ice cream on the bottom. There were so many orders,...

According to Rasmussen, the number of self-identified Democrats has dropped steadily to an all-time low since Election 2008, declining six points in less than a year. 35.5% of Americans now call themselves Democrats while 34% now call themselves Republicans. Even if you blindly accept these figures at face value, they still indicate that in less than a year, the Obama-Pelosi-Reid axis of sleaze has managed to utterly annihilate all public support for its agenda beyond its most mindlessly faithful party sheep...

The Solomon Islands archipelago in the Pacific was hit by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake today, less than an hour after a 6.5-magnitude temblor triggered a warning of possible local tsunamis. The quake hit at 9:36 a.m. local time (4:36 CST) about 103 kilometers (64 miles) south-southeast of Gizo, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The earthquake was 30.5 kilometers deep.

Pope Benedict XVI Forgives Christmas Eve Attacker Pope Benedict XVI has forgiven the woman who leapt over a barrier at the Vatican on Christmas Eve and assaulted the 82-year-old pontiff. By Nick Squires in Rome 03 Jan 2010 Georg Gaenswein, the Pope's personal secretary, visited Susanna Maiolo, 25, in order to "express the Holy Father's interest and benevolence in her situation", the Vatican said. Monsignor Gaenswein visited Miss Maiolo on Jan 1 in a hostel for people with psychiatric problems where she is being held, in the hilltop town of Subiaco near Rome, Il Giornale newspaper reported. The newspaper said...

Being Obama’s Brother [Pic in URL] Stephen Morrison / Corbis George Obama sits in front of his home in a slum in Nairobi, Kenya By George Obama | NEWSWEEK Jan 2, 2010 In November 2008, I stood in a bar in Kenya watching Barack Obama give his victory speech. From the wild cheering of the crowd on TV, and his repeated appeals to them personally—"You said," "You heard," "You called"—I felt as if the people of America knew this man far better than I, even though we shared the same father. If there was a leading light in the Obama...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – "Avatar" sped past the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office after three weekends in release, making it the fourth-biggest movie of all time, according to data released on Sunday. James Cameron's 3-D sci-fi epic earned $1.02 billion, powered by sales of $202 million during the New Year holiday weekend, distributor 20th Century Fox said. The only movies ahead of it are Cameron's "Titanic" ($1.8 billion), "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" ($1.12 billion), and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" ($1.07 billion). North American moviegoers chipped in $68.3 million,...

Raytheon, the world's largest missile maker, has won a $1.1 billion order from Taiwan for new Patriot missile systems. The order covers an initial ground-system hardware contract valued at $965.6 million and a $134 million contract for spares. The order, according to a statement by Raytheon, will include advances in technology, improved man-machine interface and reduced lifecycle costs. The deal has been in the making since October 2008 when the U.S. Defense Department proposed a $6.46 billion arms sale package to Taiwan, including the most advanced Patriot anti-missile system. Raytheon said the new Patriot fire units will be produced in...

White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan is maintaining the system to protect the U.S. against attack worked successfully this year apart from the Christmas Day bombing attempt — a claim that seems to downplay the notion that deadly attacks at Fort Hood in Texas and a military recruiting center in Arkansas represented a failure of intelligence gathering. Asked Sunday on NBC's "Meet The Press" about the lead-up to the Christmas Day attack, Brennan said, "Every other day the system has worked this year....The system is working. It's just not working as well as it needs to constantly."

The first line of U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian's campaign biography reminds readers of his starring role as point guard for UNLV's basketball team. Other aspects of Tarkanian's basketball career are unlikely to appear in a campaign advertisement unless it's for a political opponent.

"The military tends to be more right wing, conservative leaning, and there's a bias when you have a Democratic, liberal president," said Michael Naho'opi'i, who graduated from the Naval Academy in 1986 and retired as a lieutenant commander. "A lot of it has to do with security. But it does show that he supports the troops." The Marines "enjoy a superb relationship with the White House staff and Secret Service, and eagerly look forward to supporting future presidential visits to Hawaii," said Col. Robert D. Rice, commanding officer of Marine Corps Base Hawaii.

In the days after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's failed attempt to kill himself and bring down Northwest Flight 253, the story followed a familiar pattern. First, there were the daily revelations of what various intelligence and other government agencies didn't do with what they had already known about Abdulmutallab's behaviour and associations: from his father's effort to alert US officials about his son's radicalisation, to Abdulmutallab's cash purchase of a round trip ticket and his checking in for the flight without luggage - both "red flags" that should have warranted secondary airport screening. As the full picture emerged, it became clear...

The Chinese Air Force is satisfied enough with its locally made WS10A jet engine, to put it into production. This can be seen from that fact that the WS10A is now powering some of their J-11B fighters. Originally, the J-11 used a Russian AL-31F engine, but China has been working for a decade to manufacture their own version of this, the WS10A. The WS10A is something of an acid test for China, as it is a powerful military engine, and a complex piece of work. Russia refused to license China to produce the AL-31F, so the Chinese stole as much...

The internal threat from Muslim extremists in the military extends to high-level Defense Department aides who have undermined military policy. In fact, one top Muslim adviser pushed out an intelligence analyst who warned of the sudden jihad syndrome that led to the Fort Hood terrorist attack...

Heavy snowfalls and ice will continue to cause widespread disruption as the big chill tightens its grip across the UK in the coming week, forecasters said today. The freezing weather brought chaos yesterday as snow created treacherous driving conditions and caused a number of sporting events to be cancelled. Northern England was deluged with up to 6cm of snow while heavy falls occurred in eastern Scotland with 9cm recorded lying on the ground in Edinburgh last night. The Met Office warned of icy roads across the UK and heavy snow in Yorkshire, northeast England and parts of Scotland today. The...

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Same Cooke's song Wonderful World is used to demonstrate obama's ignorance.