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Pres. Obama: “Our Founders designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change than I would like sometimes.” Uh, that’s because the Founders were trying to prevent exactly what you are trying to do, Mr. President. They did not want the Federal Government to dominate the life of every citizen from cradle to grave. They wanted people to be free – to earn their own keep and keep what they earn. What a concept.

Deep snows and blizzard-like conditions have combined to create a "moose emergency" in Southcentral. The group tasked with recovering moose hit by vehicles on local roads, Alaska Moose Federation, was rolling almost non-stop Thursday and Friday, responding to at least 15 collisions in 20 hours. "We had one truck with two moose on it," AMF Executive Director Gary Olson said. "Literally, a bull was hit in Eagle River on a curve, then a cow was hit by another car. They were (loaded) on the truck and we delivered them to a local church." Just a week after taking over as...

You know what? I have been watching this blog for some time and this is my first post. I seem to see those who take the name Christian, but through their post they don’t seem to baring much good fruit. A lot of the posts are slanderous to say the least. Some condemn Romney others condemn Gingrich etc. People we as Christians need to get down on our knees and first and foremost ask our LORD to forgive us of our Backslidden sinful ways (sin is sin with no degrees). God is the Person who will put our next president...

Heavy snows in parts of Alaska are taking a deadly toll on moose as deep snowdrifts force the animals into hazardous detours on plowed roads and railroad tracks, prompting one group to seek declaration of a “moose emergency.” State and local officials said the ambling animals are being killed in increasing numbers in rail and road collisions. In the Matanuska-Susitna Borough north of Anchorage, 315 moose have been killed in vehicle so far this winter, said Tim Peltier, a biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The average is roughly 270 for the winter, he said. The state-owned...

She was going to get creamed in the general election, anyway.

An agitated moose ran down and stomped a well-known Bush pilot from Willow, but he was saved when his wife grabbed a shovel from their pickup truck and whacked the big animal until it backed off.

Western Newfoundland couple followed trail of young animal's blood CBC News Posted: A western Newfoundland couple used the hide of a freshly killed moose overnight Tuesday to keep warm after getting lost in the woods during a hunting trip near Gros Morne National Park. Stephen and Sheila Joyce said they lost their way after wounding a young moose and began following the trail of its blood. Shivering and soaking wet, they eventually caught up with the wounded animal. “My wife thought it would be a good idea to skin the calf and we could use the skin as a blanket....

Anita Perry, the 59-year-old wife of Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, has been very actively campaigning for him on her own all fall. Now, she's taken on a new assignment. Mrs. Perry has launched an online drive to recruit hundreds of volunteers for what she calls the Perry Strike Force. This would consist of Perry fans who would travel to Iowa and work across the state Jan. 2-4, getting out Perry caucus-goers to the hundreds of meeting sites on the evening of Jan. 3. (Don't worry, the BCS Championship Game is not until Jan. 9 this time.) "With over 1,700...

A woman was injured Wednesday when her car ran into an injured moose that had already been struck by another vehicle. Phoebe Payne, 70, of Mount Vernon, was driving south on U.S. Route 201 when her 2005 Toyota Camry ran into a moose, according to a statement from Detective Lt. Carl Gottardi, with the Somerset County Sheriff's Office. The car, which Payne swerved in an attempt to avoid the moose, ended up in a ditch. It was destroyed. Payne was taken by ambulance to the Jackman Region Health Center with non life-threatening injures. The yearling moose was killed. Before Payne's...

Police have arrested a 30-year-old woman suspected of biting two people at a Denver convenience store. The incident occurred about 10:30 p.m. Monday at the Barn Store at 4650 Tower Road. Police say it's one of the most unusual crimes they've seen. Emi Leyonia Coleman is accused of biting a store employee on the neck after asking the woman for a hug. She faces felony charges for the attacks. “I reached over (the counter) and gave her a hug. She had her face here (on her shoulder). I didn’t think anything of it. She latched on it. She was shaking...

Kevin Wayne Reddick, 35, appeared in provincial court in Gander this morning on charges related to an incident on Friday in which a woman was shot in the chest while she was near a pond off Philpott's Road, just outside the town of Lewisporte. The woman, who is from Little Burnt Bay, is in stable condition and is recovering in hospital, police say. Reddick, who was apparently moose hunting at the time, is facing charges including: careless use of a firearm; unauthorized possession of a firearm; possession of a firearm knowing its possession is unauthorized; possession of a weapon for...

When people from away think of Maine, what’s the first thing that comes to their minds? “Isn’t it winter there, like, ten months a year?” “I think it’s part of Canada. Or Sweden.” “Stephen King is the governor. Or the governor is some other psycho like him.” Which just goes to show that people from away are idiots. What they’re supposed to think of when the subject of Maine comes up is a rockbound coastline with lighthouses, lobsters being plucked from the sea and plopped into steamers, hardy rural types tapping maple trees each spring in order to listen in...

I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives (and our not yet furnished apartment) and help us. Later, after I’d met my father, I tried to believe he’d changed his number and left no forwarding address because he was an idealistic revolutionary, plotting a new world for the Arab people. Related Even as a feminist, my whole life I’d been waiting for...

Somewhere in the heavens above Amarillo, angry shouts rang out from the back of Southwest Airlines Flight 3683. “You’re all going to die,” a man dressed in black screamed at passengers Tuesday afternoon. “You’re all going to hell. Allahu Akbar,” translated as God is great in Arabic. Federal authorities arrested Ali Reza Shahsavari, 29, of Indialantic, Fla., onboard the Boeing 737 after pilots made an emergency landing at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport at 3:30 p.m. He is being held in the Randall County jail on a federal charge of interfering with a flight crew. None of the 136 passengers...

'Many deaf and hard-of-hearing people have been left bemused by some unfortunate mistakes in the BBC’s computer generated subtitles. The errors asked for ‘a moment of violence’ to commemorate the Queen Mother at her funeral and mistakenly called the Archbishop of Canterbury the ‘Arch b*tch of Canterbury’. Mistakes are so frequent they’ve prompted the creation of a website dedicated to sharing the gaffes. Live subtitles are generated by speech recognition as someone talks into a microphone while listening to a programme, or by a stenographer typing words manually. A news reporter visiting a farm spoke of the pigs’ habit of...

In the long term, the Pagami Creek fire still burning east of Ely, Minn., should improve moose habitat, clearing the bramble to make way for saplings and berries that the animals love to munch on. But for now, the forest fire is proving problematic for moose hunters, many of whom have been unable to access the territory they are permitted to hunt starting Saturday. The situation has led the state Department of Natural Resources to offer refunds for the cost of permits. Those permits, for what is often known as "the hunt of a lifetime," are a coveted commodity that...

Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that is going to use this teeny, tiny space to talk about a huge, but under-acknowledged local problem: moose alcoholism. As you can see from the disturbing photo above, this is a growing issue in our community, with moose practically dropping everything to chase down Coors trucks and other such madness. We can no longer look the other way. But our concern is not only for the well being of our local fauna — we can't have our moose developing hangovers or liver disease — but also for...

Moose gut pile leads to Alaska bear mauling

When Dave Collie looked out his window Monday morning he saw a very unusual sight. A moose was hanging about in the yard outside Collie's house on Bayview Court. "My neighbor phoned me at about 7:00 am and said to look out my window because there was a moose just outside our house." Collie was able to tip toe about 50 feet away from the moose and snap some photos. "He decided to lay down for about half an hour. I went out to see if I could perhaps get a better shot, but he just got up and moved...

A woman was taken to the Whitbourne Clinic for observation Sunday evening after the car she was in collided with a moose on the Trans-Canada Highway. The accident happened just before 8:30 p.m. in the Hodgewater Line area about 100 kilometres west of St. John’s. RCMP said the woman's injuries were not serious. Early Monday morning, RCMP from the Holyrood detachment reported there was a moose-vehicle accident between Makinsons and Bay Roberts. The moose was killed. Police didn’t say if anyone in the vehicle was injured.

Two drivers received minor injuries after running into moose on the Outer Ring Road outside St. John's Friday morning. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said a pickup truck hit two moose. Then a sport utility vehicle that had been following the truck hit one of the animals. The accident happened in the eastbound lanes between Topsail Road and Thorburn Road. Meanwhile, the RNC also said a vehicle hit a moose on the Southern Shore highway, south of St. John's, on Thursday evening. The driver sustained minor injuries.

Woman Hits Moose With Car After Sister Hits Moose With Car The moose of Canada are stalking and haunting Connie Evirett and Yvonne Studley, two car-driving sisters from British Columbia. Last month Studley, 49, had a car accident involving one of the beasts; the melee left her in a coma, and the moose in a moose coffin. Then, while on the way to the hospital to visit her younger sister, 51-year-old Evirett had a moose/car accident of her own. Everitt told a reporter: "My first thought was, 'Are the moose going out [on a] hunting season for my family?'" Seems...

For the first time, this year's aerial surveys indicated a statistically significant decline - down from more than 8,000 in 2006 - in the moose population of northeastern Minnesota, including the Arrowhead region. The population in the northwestern part of the state already has collapsed, down to about 100 animals from more than 4,000 in 1986. This as the range of the moose has shriveled steadily since the 1960s, when moose could be spotted all across the northern part of the state. A new draft plan released by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources last week spells out not only...

The cheese is sliding off of Chris Matthews' cracker.

Michele Bachmann must have had an interesting chat with her openly lesbian stepsister when she came out. The Minnesota Republican, whose anti-gay remarks have got the political world talking, will have had some explaining to do to Helen LaFave. A video of Ms LaFave talking positively about Democrat Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009 with her long-term partner Nia Wronski has emerged.

<p>Officials say a moose burst through the dining room window of a retirement home in southwestern Sweden, knocking over furniture and flower pots before taking off into the wild again.</p>

You never know what might happen when you're reporting on a farm. WWBT reporter Tara Morgan learned that lesson the hard way. While working on a story in Hanover County, VA, a camel started eating her hair. For a moment, it seemed like the camel had a good grip on the reporter. But with some help from her photographer, it didn't take long for Morgan to free herself. Both Morgan and her photographer got a good laugh, and no one was injured.

Kenya: In the Footsteps of Her Brother, ObamaJohn Makeni 8 April 2011 Nairobi — At 6.30pm, all the seats are already occupied. A bespectacled man walks to the stage and announces that the public reading will start in a minute. Soon Dr Auma Obama emerges from a side door and proceeds to the podium. She is greeted by a round of applause, and she flashes a smile back. Dr Obama steers clear of the limelight, and this was a rare moment when she appeared in a public podium. After all, she is the half-sister of the world's most powerful man,...

Ryan Streeter reckons that Governor Palin’s fiscal record in Alaska does not bear comparison with Governor Christie

The world is approching the ultimate crunch. The selfcentered mind made world created by human nature cannot survive the divine spirits of love truth and life. Self active human nature is filled with the spirits of hate, lies and death. These ill spirits are clearly displayed by the Islamo-Marxist-Chicago Gangster occupying the White House. The vessels dedicated to serving these ill spirits must pass away. We are in the third year after the inaugeration of Obama. This correlates to the third horse in the book of Revelation. In Revelation the black horse reveals famine and rationing. We see this before...

On Tuesday February 15th, Wisconsin will hold a primary election for The Wisconsin Supreme Court. Wisconsin Freepers, please do what you can to get your conservative friends to vote in this important primary.

Erskine, MN (WDAY-TV) -- An Erskine, Minnesota man's car is totaled after he collided with a moose on Highway 59 Wednesday night. An Erskine, Minnesota man's car is totaled after he collided with a moose on Highway 59 Wednesday night. The Minnnesota State Patrol says 27-year-old Conrad Strand was about 6 miles south of Erskine, when he hit a cow moose. Strand's 2002 Grand Marquis is totaled. The moose died at the scene. Strand was wearing his seatbelt and did not need any medical attention at the hospital.

Harvard Professor Raj Chetty and a group of other researchers have performed a much-discussed study (via Gene Expression) that looks at what factors really affect things like income, your likelihood to own a home, and odds of getting married. The most startling thing they found? Your score on a very basic kindergarten test is a HUGE predictor. Other educational factors like class size and the quality of your teachers aren't nearly as important. Given the renewed interest in educational policy in America right now, it's fascinating.

I was just reading some of the political websites and found something really surprising: Most of the people who commented on any of the articles weren't actually commenting on the articles at all! Instead, they were either tossing in their two cents worth about some other project entirely; commenting on some other comment; commenting on whether a person commenting had the right to make such a comment at that particular venue; or commenting on the published article in such a way as to make it obvious that they had either misundertood what was written or ......

It's seen as a sign of getting old, but scientists have discovered that arthritis is not just a human problem as a study lasting 50 years reveals how moose suffer from an identical form of the condition. The research, published in Ecology Letters, also casts new light on how malnutrition early in life can lead to the disorder in both moose and humans. The study, which began in 1958, was carried out on Isle Royale, a wilderness island National Park in lake superior, with only one large predator, the wolf and one large prey species, the moose. The research has...

With the world waiting for the jury's verdict in the Rod Blagojevich corruption case, it's time that readers get their writes. As a journalist in extremely corrupt Ukraine, I see so many parallels between Chicago and Ukraine politics. For example, pay-to-play, kickbacks, no transparency in decision-making, no seat at the table for the common folk, bribery, extortion by public officials/bureaucrats, etc. … Cordially, Mark R. in Kiev Dear Mark in Kiev — Funny you should mention it. Our wise and powerful czar, Mayor Shortshanksovich, made Kiev one of Chicago's "Sister Cities" in 1991. See how much we have in common?...

The story isn’t anyway near as good as the headline, but: A man faces charges after an unusual incident at a local library. 52-year-old Darrell Bess was taken into custody yesterday, naked, armed with knives and several pounds of stolen cheese. Bess was ordered by a judge to stay away from the Main branch of the Cincinnati-Hamilton County Public Library in downtown Cincinnati because of prior thefts.

Two sisters from the northwestern B.C. community of Kitimat have both had close encounters with moose on the loose. A month ago, Yvonne Studley, 49, was badly injured when she hit a moose with her vehicle, so last Friday her sister decided to visit her in Vancouver General Hospital. But sister Connie Everitt, 51, also hit a moose and ended up in hospital. In the first accident a month ago, Studley was on her way home from a business trip when a moose ran in front of her car. The animal went through the windshield and landed on her, breaking...

6/23/2010 - POWIDZ AIR BASE, Poland (AFNS) -- Officials from the 86th Airlift Wing formalized their partnership with their Polish sister wing, the 3rd Airlift Wing, during a ceremony here June 21. Along with members of the Polish Air Force, Airmen from the 86th AW and 435th Air Ground Operations Wing from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, attended the signing of the letter of intention by Brig. Gen. Mark Dillon, the 86th Airlift Wing commander and Polish air force Brig. Gen. Tadeusz Mikutel, the 3rd AW commander. "I want to thank General Mikutel for his leadership, vision and hospitality as we...

A Pierce County Superior Court judge Thursday sentenced LaTanya Clemmons to five years in prison for helping the suspected getaway driver after the murders of four Lakewood police officers in November. Clemmons' brother, Maurice, committed the worst violence against police in state history when he shot and killed Lakewood police Sgt. Mark Renninger and officers Tina Griswold, Ronald Owens and Greg Richards in a Parkland coffee shop early on Nov. 29. A Seattle police officer shot and killed Clemmons 40 hours later, following a massive manhunt. Judge Stephanie Arend told Clemmons that although her actions "would not have changed the...

A NORWEGIAN boy, 12, reportedly saved himself and his sister from a moose attack using skills he picked up playing the online role-playing game World of Warcraft. Hans Jørgen Olsen, 12, and his sister encountered a moose during a walk in the forest near their home in the central Norwegian town of Leksvik, said the Norwegian online newspaper Nettavisen. It was then Olsen's WoW instincts reportedly kicked in. Firstly, he taunted the animal to get it away from his sister, the paper said. In WoW, players use taunting to shoo monsters away from weaker team members, the newspaper said. Then,...

A cross-section of the citizens of my county was not encouraging.

This is Sarah Corrie Simpson's first visit to Israel. Her younger sister, Rachel Corrie, was killed by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer in Gaza in 2003, at the age of 23. Now, the family is suing the state in the Haifa District Court. "I'm glad the day is finally here, that the eyewitnesses are having a chance to talk in a court of law," she said in an interview with Haaretz on Thursday. "It's been seven long years." The witnesses, who include Rachel's colleagues in the left-wing International Solidarity Movement, say Rachel climbed atop a mount of dirt to be...

Sick to death of KG ?? Here is your chance to commit to never posting any bs about her ever again !!

A strange thing happened tonight. While reading the sudden onslaught of threads asking for advice on various topics, I suddenly remembered that my sister, who loves to hunt moose, really has a problem buying cheese. Does any FReeper have advice for a piece of software she can use to select the cheese?

The Popular Articles section at the bottom of the FR page seems not to have changed for several days. Is it just me or some kind of server glitch?

Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein ObamaHussein ObamaHussein ObamaHussein Obama is mentally ill and getting worse. The angst will continue as long as he persists in Islam World Rule rather than America with Christian heritage intact.

A Swedish man who was arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife has been cleared, after police decided she was probably killed by an elk. Ingemar Westlund, aged 68, found the dead body of his wife Agneta, 63, by a lake close to the village of Loftahammer in September 2008. He was immediately arrested and held in police custody for 10 days. Now the case has been dropped after forensic analysis found elk hair and saliva on his wife's clothes. Mr Westlund told Expressen newspaper: "My family and I have been dragged through a nightmare." His wife had last been...

Health Care: A government task force has decided that women need fewer mammograms and later in life. Shouldn't that be between patient and physician? We have seen the future of health care, and it doesn't work. We have warned repeatedly that the net results of health care bills before Congress will be higher demand, fewer doctors, more cost control, all leading to rationing. New recommendations issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) regarding breast cancer and the necessity for early and frequent mammograms do not convince us otherwise. Just six months ago, the panel, which works under the...

IN a remote corner of rural Java, a blacksmith and his family were astounded last week to learn that the American woman who helped save them from poverty 26 years ago was Ann Dunham, an anthropologist better known as the late mother of the US president. Dunham is still remembered in the central Javan hamlet of Kajar as a generous benefactor whose gifts of money, food and schoolbooks helped numerous villagers. Yet none of them had realised that the woman who paid several visits to research rural crafts in the 1980s had a son who was to become America’s 44th...