http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/records/ en-us Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:02:46 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2096746/posts Why is it important to see Obama's college records? Because the media has created fantasies around Obama on every issue. You should start dispelling them with the easiest one, i.e. the fantasy of Obama's "academic degrees and honors". Obama has been fighting desperately to block all access to his college records. Even his public "thesis" at Columbia mysteriously disappeared. The media just swallowed the official Obama's "academic degrees and honors" without checking his actual grades, his scores on standardized tests, his academic writings if any, etc. All the decisions to admit Obama to colleges, to give him "academic degrees and... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2096746/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:02:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056100/posts The ships' logs of great maritime figures such as Lord Nelson and Captain Cook have cast new light on climate change by suggesting that global warming may not be an entirely man-made phenomenon. Scientists have uncovered a treasure trove of meteorological information contained in the detailed logs kept by those on board the vessels that established Britain's great seafaring traditition including those on Nelsons' Victory and Cook's Endeavour. Daily Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056100/posts#comment Mon, 4 Aug 2008 10:18:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040480/posts SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in New York has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom a database linking users of YouTube, the Web’s largest video site by far, with every clip they have watched there. The order raised concerns among users and privacy advocates that the online video viewing habits of tens of millions of people could be exposed. But Google and Viacom said they were hoping to come up with a way to protect the anonymity of YouTube viewers. Viacom said that the information would be safeguarded by a protective order restricting access to the data to... yahoo.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040480/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:21:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013060/posts Livonia, MI -- Local pro-life advocates in the Detroit area have found the bodies of babies killed in abortions and patient medical records in another Michigan abortion center's dumpster. The finding comes on the hells of one abortion facility that ran afoul of illegal dumping laws and was investigated by the state. This time, members of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society found the bodies, biohazard waste and medical records at the Women's Advisory abortion business in Livonia. LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013060/posts#comment Thu, 8 May 2008 15:40:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2007059/posts Fathers Eugene O'Hagan, his brother Martin and David Delargy London, Apr 25, 2008 / 01:27 am (CNA).- Three Catholic priests from Northern Ireland have signed a recording contract worth nearly $2 million for the music giant Sony BMG.Fathers Eugene O’Hagan, 48, his brother Martin, 45, and their old school friend David Delargy, 44, signed the deal near the steps of Westminster Cathedral.  The three men, who call their trio “The Priests,” said they would donate the money made from the music to charity.The three priests developed their musical talent at St. MacNissi’s College in County Antrim.  There, they were... CNA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2007059/posts#comment Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:58:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1989025/posts Steps to prevent catastrophic wildfires in the Lake Tahoe basin, one of the country's most treasured natural wonders, have been hampered for years by bureaucratic infighting among agencies that often work at cross purposes, according to thousands of pages of documents reviewed by The Associated Press. The failure of the agencies to adequately protect the basin was brought to light last June when the Angora Fire ripped through a thickly forested ravine and destroyed 254 homes near South Lake Tahoe. Since then, blame has fallen on the overlapping agencies that have environmental and regulatory oversight of the Tahoe basin. A... AP on Bakersfield Californian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1989025/posts#comment Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:30:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973715/posts Foreign hackers, primarily from Russia and China, are increasingly seeking to steal Americans’ health care records, according to a Department of Homeland Security analyst. Mark Walker, who works in DHS’ Critical Infrastructure Protection Division, told a workshop audience at the National Institute of Standards and Technology that the hackers’ primary motive seems to be espionage. “They’ve been focused on the [Department of Defense] – the military – but now are spreading out into the health care private sector,” Walker said. Early in 2007, a virus was placed on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site, he said, and... Federal Computer Week http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973715/posts#comment Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:56:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968199/posts Investing: old vinyl's top of the pops Last Updated: 2:52am GMT 09/02/2008 Vintage records are shooting up the investment charts – if you know which ones to buy. Toby Walne reports Vinyl can provide record returns for investors willing to take a musical spin with their money. The Holy Grail is That'll be the Day, a seven-inch single recorded exactly 50 years ago by the Quarrymen – the group that later became the Beatles. On paper it is worth £100,000, but experts believe it might fetch more than double this at auction, if the only known disc could be wrestled... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968199/posts#comment Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:09:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967899/posts President Bush is asking Congress to repeal a portion of an open records law he signed five weeks ago, a move that open government advocates say stymies efforts to make government more transparent. An eight-line provision buried in the 1,314-page appendix to the president's spending plan would move a new office for resolving disputes over government records to the very agency that defends other federal agencies wishing to keep government documents shrouded: the Department of Justice. Critics contend that would create a conflict of interest because officials aiming to resolve disputes and those defending the government in such battles would... Ocala Star-Banner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967899/posts#comment Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:40:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929592/posts The media has been on a low buzz about the fact that Hillary and Bill Clinton have made efforts to slow the release of millions of pages of documents that pertain Hillary's actions during Bill's White House years. What, these critics wonder, are the Clintons hiding with their reticence to release these documents? It is a good question, indeed. But, flying low under this Clinton document-gate radar is the stonewalling of a release of documents by another candidate for the Democrat Party nomination for president; Barack Obama. While in State government here in Illinois, Barack was known as a "nice... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929592/posts#comment Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:48:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926465/posts Truck driver Kjell Fundin has done what no man has ever done before by traveling almost the entire length of Sweden on a lawnmower. On Thursday morning the intrepid 59-year-old from Sundsvall made history as he drove his trusty machine into Ystad town centre. Covering a distance of 1,700 kilometres (1,060 miles), the lawnmower man took 46 days to complete the journey from Haparanda to the southern town. The idea for the journey came about after a well-known radio show host travelled the same route on a motorcycle during the summer. Distinctly unimpressed, Fundin decided to pop off an e-mail... www.thelocal.se http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926465/posts#comment Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:54:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913776/posts A U.S. magistrate on Friday rejected arguments by the Bush administration and urged a federal judge to order the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola said it is necessary to hold out the threat of a contempt-of-court citation to ensure that White House personnel safeguard backup tapes of electronic messages that may have been deleted. Whether to issue the order is up to U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy. The Bush administration has 10 days to say why Kennedy should not order preservation of electronic communications by White House officials and aides.... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913776/posts#comment Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:30:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912274/posts SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A judge says the federal government can legally withhold the names, salaries and positions of more than 900,000 federal employees from a university agency that for years has made the information public. Centre Daily Times (CentreDaily.com) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912274/posts#comment Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:03:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911494/posts Possum breaks record with year-long snooze 14 October 2007 NewScientist.com news service A possum has set an enviable record for doing absolutely nothing. After stuffing itself full of food in a laboratory, one curled up and hibernated for a record 367 days. Some mammals, such as ground squirrels, hibernate for up to six months through winter, while a western jumping mouse (Zapus princeps) once hibernated for 320 days in a lab. That record has now been smashed by an Australian eastern pygmy possum (Cercartetus nanus) in Fritz Geiser's lab at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911494/posts#comment Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:22:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1907408/posts Ruling Could Speed Release Of Records From Clinton LibraryThis article was published on Friday, October 5, 2007 10:06 PM CDT in News By Andrew DeMillo THE MORNING NEWS LITTLE ROCK -- Former President Bill Clinton will have limited time to review thousands of documents archivists have cleared for release from his presidential library in Arkansas because of a recent court ruling, federal officials say. About 26,000 pages of documents have been processed by archivists and forwarded to Clinton and the White House for their review, according to spokeswoman Susan Cooper of the National Archives, which manages the presidential library system.... The Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1907408/posts#comment Sat, 6 Oct 2007 13:13:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905190/posts WASHINGTON - Presidents don't have indefinite veto power over which records are made public after they've left office, a federal judge ruled Monday. In a narrowly crafted ruling, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly invalidated part of President Bush's 2001 executive order, which allowed former presidents and vice presidents to review executive records before they are released under the Freedom of Information Act. By law, the National Archives has the final say over the release of presidential records and Kollar-Kotelly ruled that Bush's executive order "effectively eliminates" that discretion. It allows former presidents to delay the release of records "presumably indefinitely,"... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905190/posts#comment Tue, 2 Oct 2007 02:37:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881138/posts LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton cites her experience as a compelling reason voters should make her president, but nearly 2 million pages of documents covering her White House years are locked up in a building here, obscuring a large swath of her record as first lady. The Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881138/posts#comment Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:43:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1867870/posts Washington, DC – Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption announced today that it filed a lawsuit on July 16, 2007 in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration to obtain access to the following records from the Clinton Presidential Library: “First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s calendar, to include but not limited to her daily office diary, schedule, day planner, telephone log book, and chronological file.” The Archives, which operates and maintains Clinton Presidential Library records, failed to respond to Judicial Watch’s April 5, 2006 Freedom... The Drudge Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1867870/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:56:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1857983/posts You can transform that mountain of papers into a molehill without fearing the wrath of the IRS. Here's exactly what you need to keep -- and for how long. I can build a papier-mâché replica of the Empire State Building with my old tax records. Unless financial nostalgia brings you a warm feeling on a cold night, most of us would like to dump our old records as soon as possible. MSN.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1857983/posts#comment Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:31:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852299/posts WASHINGTON - E-mail records are missing for 51 of the 88 White House officials who had electronic message accounts with the Republican National Committee, the House Oversight Committee said Monday. The Bush administration may have committed "extensive" violations of a law requiring that certain records be preserved, said the committee's Democratic chairman, adding that the panel will deepen its probe into the use of political e-mail accounts. The committee's interim report said the number of White House officials who had RNC e-mail accounts, and the number of messages they sent and received, were more extensive than previously realized. The administration... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852299/posts#comment Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:47:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803593/posts The songwriter, labor organizer and folk hero Joe Hill has been the subject of poems, songs, an opera, books and movies. His will, written in verse the night before a Utah firing squad executed him in 1915 and later put to music, became part of the labor movement’s soundtrack. Now the original copy of that penciled will is among the unexpected historical gems unearthed from a vast collection of papers and photographs never before seen publicly that the Communist Party USA has donated to New York University. The cache contains decades of party history including founding documents, secret code words,... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803593/posts#comment Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:33:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1764041/posts WASHINGTON - The White House and the Secret Service quietly signed an agreement last spring in the midst of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal declaring that records identifying visitors to the White House are not open to the public. The Bush administration didn't reveal the existence of the memorandum of understanding until last fall. The White House is using it to deal with a legal problem on a separate front, a ruling by a federal judge ordering the production of Secret Service logs identifying visitors to the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. In a federal appeals court filing three... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1764041/posts#comment Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:09:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701796/posts I am very doubtful on these numbers, in 1936 Springfield, IL had 25 days above 100 and 69 days above 90 and had an average summer temperature of 94. This year we had one hot week with temps in the high 90's and August was cool. John Leslie http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701796/posts#comment Fri, 15 Sep 2006 02:51:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1673172/posts Still in the dark waiting Republicans' request for records unfulfilled By Kevin Wingert rep3@wyomingnews.com Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle CHEYENNE - After seven weeks of waiting, the chairman of the Wyoming Republican Party says he has not received a response from all of the state government's departments to his public records request. "I just feel like I'm being strung along here," said Drake Hill, the Republican Party chairman. "The roadblocks that we are encountering are really within the governor's office, itself." On June 9, Hill filed a request at several state agencies, including the office of the governor. It covered... Cheyenne Wyoming Tribune-Eagle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1673172/posts#comment Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:44:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1656738/posts NEW YORK The most widely used electronic-voting systems all have flaws that can be addressed relatively easily, but few states and counties have actually implemented recommended security measures, researchers concluded Tuesday. Even the printing of paper records widely seen as a countermeasure to hacking and other attacks on ATM-like touchscreen machines does little good if audits aren't routinely and automatically performed, researchers said. While California and 11 other states require audits in addition to paper trails, more than half of the 26 states requiring paper records don't do so. The report, based on interviews with elections officials and analyses of... ap on Riverside Press Enterprise http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1656738/posts#comment Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:23:12 GMT