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Rear Admiral "Nasty" Manazir talks about his role in saving an A-6 Intruder attack aircraft after the bombardier/navigator was partially ejected due to a seat malfunction.

The S1 was successfully delivered along with a few other assorted goodies. Well, it’s really more like part of a robot, or a robot arm to be precise. If you’re imagining a full-on humanoid robot, you might be disappointed. NASA says that in a recent demonstration, “the robot [conducted] common crew activities and tasks via supervised autonomy and teleoperations from the ground.” Not only that, but NASA also says that robot “labor could reduce the cost of spacecraft operations and improve safety by taking on tasks that could expose crew members to hazardous risks.” The smart, mechanical arm is made...

Sohail would, at times, administer only partial doses of the vaccine and the remaining dose in the vial would then be re-drawn at a later time and administered to another patient. The partial dose vaccine vials would be kept in the office refrigerator between administrations. The order says children were put at risk and that Sohail would record the proper dosage in the patient’s medical records and bill insurance for the full amount. Last week, one of Sohail’s staff members called the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, reporting that Sohail planned to shred patient files related to the vaccine administration, but...

The administration of new U.S. President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing executive orders that aim to minimize the role the U.S. plays in the UN and other international bodies, including organizations supporting the Palestinians or in which the Palestinian Authority has official representatives. According to a report published in the New York Times on Wednesday, the first of two draft orders calls for stopping US funding to any UN or other global agency according to a list of criteria. One of these criteria is giving the Palestinian Authority or the Palestinian Liberation Organization full membership, or any organization that “is...

**SNIP** “I have said from the start of the year that I’m happy to talk to Republicans about anything related to the budget. There’s not a subject that I am not willing to engage in, work on, negotiate and come up with common sense compromises on.” **SNIP** Mr. Obama stressed that he cannot negotiate with Republicans under the threat of a debt default, urging Congress to reopen the government and raise the government’s borrowing authority immediately. “What I’ve said is that I cannot do that under the threat that if Republicans don’t get 100 percent of their way they’re going...

Nevada got a partial waiver from the health care law — a significant development that Democrats are dismissing as par for the course and Republicans are claiming as a political victory. The Health and Human Services Department announced late Friday that Nevada had secured a statewide waiver from certain implementation requirements of the Obama administration’s health care law, because forcing them through, the department found, “may lead to the destabilization of the individual market.”

In response to the Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, Senator Obama and 13 Senate Co-Sponsors introduced Senate Bill 1173. This bill proposes that virtually all federal and state limitations on abortion be nullified. The key binding provisions of the bill would invalidate all of the major types of pro-life laws that have been upheld by the Supreme Court since Roe v. Wade became law in 1973 including the ban on partial-birth abortions and bans on government funding of abortion. Obama, himself, says that abortions should be legally available in accordance with Roe v. Wade. But, but,...

...Jill Stanek reports that, while she was a registered nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn Illinois, "babies were being aborted alive and shelved to die in the soiled utility room." Barack Obama personally orchestrated the defeat of legislation that would have made this illegal in Illinois, and then he lied about it in the bargain. ...the executive summary is as follows. "Babies were being aborted alive and shelved to die in the soiled utility room." Illinois legislators introduced legislation to make this illegal. Barack Obama sabotaged and derailed this legislation under color of protecting Roe vs. Wade, even though...

The page contains a GRAPHIC cartoon of Barack Obama smashing a baby's head against a wall (which is why I am not actually posting the cartoon here--people who might find such an image upsetting, even in a cartoon, don't have to see it). The cartoon is similar to the kind that was used during the World Wars to portray the enemy as woman-raping and/or baby-killing monsters, e.g. Imperial Germany as a fanged gorilla carrying a half-naked woman over his shoulder. In politics, of course, such a cartoon must convey the absolute truth if it is not to be written off...

The Audacity of Death By DANIEL ALLOTT June 5, 2008 According to Barack Obama, Gianna Jessen shouldn't exist. Miss Jessen is an exquisite example of what antiabortion advocates call a "survivor." Well into her third trimester of pregnancy, Gianna's biological mother was injected with a saline solution intended to induce a chemical abortion at a Los Angeles County abortion center. Eighteen hours later, and precious minutes before the abortionist's arrival, Gianna emerged. Premature and with severe injuries that resulted in cerebral palsy. But alive. Had the abortionist been present at her birth, Gianna would have been killed, perhaps by suffocation....

(IsraelNN.com) A survey carried out the Panels Research Institute finds that more than 75% of Israelis see partial or total transfer for Israeli-Arabs out of Israel in any final-status agreement that includes a Palestinian state. The poll asked whether it would be justified, in the framework of an agreement for the establishment of a Palestinian state, to demand the transfer out of Israel of all Arabs. Nearly 30% said yes with no reservations, while 28% said only Arabs who did not express loyalty to Israel should be expelled. In addition, another 19% said that Arabs who lived in areas bordering...

A growing number of bloggers such as Richard Cohen, Brigitte Gabriel, Sharon Hughes, Charles Krauthammer, Kenneth Blackwell, Naomi Ragen, Debbie Schlussel, Ed Lasky, and William Levinson are pointing out Barack Obama’s numerous connections to unsavory individuals and organizations that espouse and promote hatred of Jews, Catholics, white people, Israel, and/or the United States. By “connections” we do not mean casual social contacts, but Obama’s deliberate efforts to seek out these entities and gain their support. ...Naomi Ragen Naomi Ragen dismisses the “smear” and makes frontal attack on Obama The Jews who are considering voting for Obama (or Clinton) should be...

Dr. Michael Ross, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, says the law probably refers to a procedure called "intact dilation and extraction," or intact D&X. It differs from another procedure, D&E, or dilation and evacuation, which is not outlawed. Both procedures start the same. The cervix is dilated via mechanical stimulation or a drug, which takes a day or two. To perform a D&E (not banned), suction and forceps are then used to pull fetal tissue from the uterus. In the process, the fetus is broken up. In an intact D&X (banned), the fetus is...

1531. Partial-birth abortions prohibited (a) Any physician who, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, knowingly performs a partial-birth abortion and thereby kills a human fetus shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both. This subsection does not apply to a partial-birth abortion that is necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself. This subsection takes effect 1 day after the enactment.

Harris Campaign Calls on Nelson to Defend Sanctity of Marriage For Immediate Release June 6, 2006 Contact:  Chris Ingram   (813) 288-8400 (Tampa, Fla.) - The Katherine Harris for U.S. Senate campaign called on Senator Bill Nelson to support the Marriage Protection Amendment today. "I believe the majority of Americans strongly support the preservation of traditional marriage. We must never undermine the uniqueness of an institution that continues to serve as an essential thread in the fabric of our society. I support the passage of the Marriage Protection amendment being debated in the Senate," Congresswoman Harris said. Campaign spokesman Chris Ingram...

A POPE DESCRIBED AS 'FROM THE SUN' WAS BORN DURING ECLIPSE AND LEAVES WITH ONEHe was born during an eclipse (May 18, 1920) and there will be an eclipse, a rare type of partial eclipse, Friday (April 8) on the day of his burial. And so now eyes have turned more intently to an old prophecy attributed to the Irish monk St. Malachy O'Morgair -- who supposedly foresaw the entire succession of popes by using riddle-like nicknames, with the one fitting the 110th -- John Paul II -- being De Labore Solis, which means  "from the labor of the sun."Indeed,...

LANSING -- The American Civil Liberties Union and two abortion rights groups have filed a federal lawsuit to stop a new state law aimed at banning a controversial procedure that critics call partial-birth abortion. The law, set to take effect March 30, was approved by the state Legislature last June. Hundreds of thousands of voters signed petitions to allow the bill to become a law with only the approval of the House and Senate, both controlled by Republicans, after Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm vetoed the original legislation. The ACLU, the Center for Reproductive Rights and Planned Parenthood Federation of America...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

If you are looking for an orthodox Catholic appointment calendar, look no farther! This 128-page "week-at-a-glance" appointment calendar: *Lists all the indulgenced works of the Church on a week-by-week basis, *Highlights the twenty-two special days when a partial indulgence becomes plenary to honor a day, *Has scholarly notes on the history of indulgences, *Contains the conditions for earning both partial and plenary indulgences, *Gives the complete text of over nearly two dozen different indulgenced prayers, *Carries weekly reminders for Friday fasts and Saturday confession *Provides the Scriptural supports for one dozen different apologetics topics: The Eucharist, Marian dogma and doctrines,...

[FReepers, please note that this article was written sometime prior to 2000, most likely around 1998 - AM] A growing number of evangelicals, disturbed by cries of the end, are reviving an old view of Revelation that avoids date-setting According to a recent Associated Press news report, when the year 2000 arrives computers throughout the world may be thrown into confusion. Many big computers at such computer-dependent institutions as insurance companies and banks track the year by using only the last two digits, rather than all four. Consequently, these computers will read the last two digits of 2000 as if...