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During an interview with KARE 11 a juror for the trial of ex-Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who ultimately found out she was an alternate, expressed concern about being called for the job because she "didn't want to see rioting again" and was scared people would show up at her home if they were unhappy with a particular verdict. Raguse: Did you want to be a juror?Christensen: I had mixed feelings. There was a question on the questionnaire about it and I put I did not know. The reason, at that time, was I did not know what the outcome...

A few choice comments by Dave Cullen. Today's subject: CNBC - "Physicists assure us that we're not living in an alternate reality where Trump is president"http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/22/alternate-realities-and-trump-mandala-effect-and-what-cern-does.html

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They are proposing to use exactly the same track for these hazardous cars. Totally unacceptable,” said Berkeley Vice Mayor Linda Maio.The hazardous cars Maio is talking about could carry a highly explosive crude oil fracked from the Bakken region of North Dakota. It is as flammable as gasoline: as we saw when a 100-car train carrying the fuel derailed in Quebec last summer.

Given the recent issues the FreeRepublic web site has been having, I thought it would be useful to open a discussion on election night contingency plans. The site was mostly down during the debates, and seems to be having issues keeping up even now. Given that, it seems likely that we're going to have problems on election night. While twitter and various other sites are good to keep up on election results, I really like to read the posts from like-minded individuals. Right now, FR seems to be the best place for that. In the event FR does go down,...

QUESTION: If I delete all Alternate Data Streams I find in Windows XP, will Windows Operating System continue to work? The more I read about Alternate Data Streams (ADS), the more I don't trust them. I found that there are 10 Things to know about ADS.1. There is no limit on the size of streams and there can be more than one stream linked to a normal file. ADS are not visible in explorer or via command prompt. In fact, their size is also not reported by Windows! 2. Streams can be attached not only to files but also...

Democrats have never been shy about criticizing the Bush tax cuts, but they’ve been reluctant to push for broad tax hikes since retaking control of Congress. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel could soon break the ice. The New York Democrat has spent months formulating a plan to raise taxes on the rich to shield most taxpayers from the alternative minimum tax and offer some goodies to the working poor and married couples. Rangel hasn’t tipped his hand on his plan for coming up with at least $800 billion in revenue over the next decade, but reports earlier...

As tax season nears, Democrats in Congress are discovering they have an urgent political bomb to defuse -- the alternative minimum tax. The AMT already hits four million Americans, and without new legislation this year it will explode in the pocketbooks of 23 million taxpayers What's amazing is that many Democrats and reporters are trying to blame this looming tax increase on the 2001-2003 tax cuts. See if you can follow their argument: Taxpayers are obliged to pay the higher of their tax bill under either the regular IRS code or the AMT. And because the tax cuts reduced the...

/15/2006 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- This year, the Air Force will test fly a B-52 Stratofortress that is powered, in part, by fuel derived from natural gas. The Air Force Research Laboratory's propulsion directorate, a part of Air Force Materiel Command, is providing technical assistance to the test flight scheduled for September at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The bomber will fly with two of its eight jet engines using a specially blended fuel made of conventional petroleum-derived JP-8 and a Fischer-Tropsch jet fuel produced from natural gas. The experiment is part of the Department of Defense's Assured Fuel Initiative,...

SAN DIEGO -- Homicide detectives in San Diego are searching for a Los Angeles-area woman they say injected several transgender victims at a "silicone party" in University Heights. Police were notified about the party on Florida Street on June 21 after receiving a call from someone from the San Diego Gay and Lesbian Center, who reported that two transgender females who had received injections of silicone had been hospitalized and were in critical condition. Officials said that five people at the party paid the woman to injected them with silicon in their lips, hips, cheeks and buttocks in an effort...

WEST POINT, Va. - With gasoline prices soaring, President Bush urged Congress on Monday to encourage development of alternate fuels like biodiesel and ethanol to make the United States less dependent on foreign oil. "Our dependence on foreign oil is like a foreign tax on the American dream, and that tax is growing every year," Bush said at the Virginia BioDiesel Refinery about 140 miles south of Washington. Bush flew here, about 30 miles from Richmond, to visit a production facility for biodiesel, an alternative fuel made from soybeans that is cleaner-burning and American-made, but carries a higher price tag...

Gasoline prices are high, and we need to make them go down! I have started a petition that can be downloaded at http://www.biggreenfish.com/gaspetition. This petition asks that the United States Congress do everything within its power to lower gas prices to a bearable level, and that it set the initiative for scientists and engineers to find the best alternative fuel source to gasoline and discover the best way to convert our nation to that new fuel source. Download it and pass it on to all your friends. I will turn the signed petitions for my area over to my congressional...

It happened again. Last week, during an interview in Beijing, Washington Post Managing Editor Philip Bennett voiced his contention that the United States should not be the “leader of the world.” Along with this abhorrent declaration, Bennett launched into various other statements, mostly displaying a distinctly anti-American sentiment. Such words were particularly vile, in light of the fact that he was offering them to a regime that aspires to eventual supremacy on the world scene, and is relentlessly building towards that goal. Though it is by no means certain that Bennett’s anti-American diatribe will cost him his position as chief...

Until the 18th century, there was basically only one kind of Judaism, that which is now called Orthodox. It meant living by the religion's 613 laws, and doing so suffused Jews' lives with their faith. Then, starting with the thinker Baruch Spinoza (1632-77) and moving briskly during the Haskala, or "enlightenment," from the late 18th century, Jews developed a wide variety of alternate interpretations of their religion, most of which diminished the role of faith in their lives and led to a concomitant reduction in Jewish affiliation.These alternatives and other developments, in particular the Holocaust, caused the ranks of the...

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!

<p>PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Catholic Charities Maine may have found a way to provide domestic partner benefits to its employees without violating church doctrine against unmarried couples living together, premarital sex and homosexuality.</p> <p>The move would allow the social service agency to receive an $85,000 federal grant that's been blocked by the city since July. A city ordinance requires agencies that receive federal housing and community development funds through the city to offer domestic partners the same benefits available to spouses.</p>

By now, I'm sure everyone is familiar with the commercial that appeared following the October 4th accusations. In this rather ridiculous commercial, the sheriff negates all accusations against Janet Napolitano. Yet he does nothing to assure Arizona's people that the accusations are truely false; he does not offer any evidence that negates the accusations. He only requests that Arizonians join him in refusing the accusations.

The Attorney General claims she had no involvement in this financial disaster. However, the documents included here reveal the involvement of the office of the Attorney General as far back as October 1999. Memoranda from the Attorney General's office early in the implementation of the alt-fuels laws show that concerns surfaced about the actual prices of the vehicles.