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There’s much more to the story of Obama’s amended campaign finance reports than what Obama and the Obamedia will tell you. I will fill you in on what’s missing in a moment. What we have here, essentially, is Obama using a non-profit group called Citizens Services Inc. as a front to funnel payments to ACORN for campaign advance work. Obama officials say it’s no big deal. Nothing to see here. Move along. But where there’s left-wing laundering smoke, there’s fire. CSI has been the subject of a little-noticed complaint to the FEC by a Democrat who smelled something rotten going...

Senior Airman Kathleen Gasque, a native of Marion, SC, lays down electrical cord outside the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division S2 office, August 8, 2008. Gasque volunteered to deploy for one year in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Photo by Sgt. Philip Klein, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division Public Affairs. FOB WAR EAGLE — The fight to bring security to the people of Iraq requires the cooperation of all branches of the military. Senior Airman Kathleen Gasque is one of the servicemembers who have taken the responsibility to fight for the freedom of Iraq and her...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Call it CSI: DNA. With William Petersen’s announcement this week that he will leave his role as Gil Grissom on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS Entertainment boss Nina Tassler didn’t even wait for questions before addressing the departure Friday during her Q&A with critics. Petersen will stay with the hugely popular show through episode 10 of this season and will make return appearances, Tassler said. That was easy to grasp. The description of a new character taking — or not taking — Petersen’s place, however, led to some confusion and a series of questions. The writers...

Apparently it's all gotten to be too much for Crime Scene Investigator Gil Grissom. Or, it will. Calling it an actual signoff rather than yet another sabbatical, EW.com reports that William Petersen will be leaving CSI sometime midseason. "Billy is leaving," series executive producer Carol Mendelsohn said. "But he will remain throughout the run of the series an executive producer. And he will, whenever CBS asks, come back. I don't think you've seen the last of Gil Grissom." "My biggest problem with leaving the show at any point isn't leaving Grissom," said Petersen, whose previous leave of absence came when...

1. 6-8 hits with a Glock Model 18, firing full auto, elevated, at a distance of at least 30m. 2. Perfect heart shot from a moving vehicle. 3. WTF did they do? Horatio dead? Nick Wolf is the POS that had him killed? They just ruined the series.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Gary Dourdan, who co-stars on the CBS television hit "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," has been arrested on suspicion of possessing cocaine, heroin and other drugs, police said on Tuesday. Dourdan, 41, was detained by police in the desert resort town of Palm Springs, about 100 miles east of Los Angeles, after he was found asleep in the driver's seat of a parked car before dawn on Monday, according to a police press release. The car had been parked on the wrong side of the street with the interior light left on, and Dourdan appeared to...

The world's oldest mummy, the Italian Iceman known as Otzi, is shown in this undated file photo. Otzi died from a shoulder wound inflicted by an arrow, according to research into his perfectly preserved 5,000-year old body. (Werner Nosko/Reuters) Italy's prehistoric iceman "Otzi" died from a shoulder wound inflicted by an arrow, according to research into his perfectly preserved 5,000-year old body. Otzi, the oldest mummy unearthed, was found in the Italian Alps in 1991 wearing clothing made from leather and grasses and carrying a copper axe, a bow and arrows. Though Otzi's body underwent several scientific tests to...

A prehistoric hunter known as Oetzi whose well-preserved body was found on a snow-covered mountain in the Alps died more than 5,000 years ago after being struck in the back by an arrow, scientists said in an article published Wednesday. Researchers from Switzerland and Italy used newly developed medical scanners to examine the hunter's frozen corpse to determine that the arrow had torn a hole in an artery beneath his left collarbone, leading to a massive loss of blood. That, in turn, caused Oetzi to go into shock and suffer a heart attack, according to the article published online in...

COMBAT OUTPOST ELLIS, Iraq (March 21, 2007) -- Marines are currently using crime scene investigation techniques to help combat insurgents in ongoing operations in Iraq. Though not like the popular television shows, crime scene investigation is being used to uncover possible insurgents in the Barwanah area and put them behind bars. According to Staff Sgt. James Breslin, a Marine with the sensitive site exploitation team with Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, he and his fellow Marines can process a crime scene using modern evidence collecting procedures to help uncover possible weapons and the people who?ve used them....

If California's $3.4 billion solar initiative succeeds in promoting 1 million more rooftop, solar-electric systems, it could still be considered a failure. That's because the 10-year program, set to begin next month, aims to do more than just subsidize installations. It's also intended to make solar electricity's cost comparable to the power provided by utilities. Today it costs twice as much. If solar costs could be made competitive, the impact would be profound. Most conventional power is produced by burning coal or natural gas, making the electric-generation industry a leading source of greenhouse gases that cause global warming. Cheap and...

State to embark on its biggest-ever photovoltaic project When the sun rises on New Year's Day, it will signal the start of California's most ambitious effort yet to generate electricity from sunlight. HOWARD LIPIN / Union-Tribune California hopes to subsidize the installation of enough photovoltaic systems, like this one atop a Qualcomm building in Sorrento Mesa, to generate 3,000 megawatts of solar electricity. That could power nearly 3 million homes on a sunny day. The California Solar Initiative commits the state to spending more than $3.4 billion over the next 10 years to subsidize the installation of 1 million solar...

DNA evidence ties the man suspected of starting the fatal Esperanza Fire to two other recent fires, according to an arson investigator's affidavit filed in Riverside Superior Court. The devices used to start the two prior blazes - six or seven matches bound by a rubber band to a cigarette fuse - are also "similar" to the one found at the ignition site of the Esperanza Fire, California Department of Forestry investigator Matthew Gilbert stated in court documents. The earlier fires started June 9 and 10 on the Morongo Indian Reservation, according to Gilbert. In both cases, Gilbert wrote, he...

I was Watching CSI-Las Vegas on the weekend. As the crime scene investigators were detailing a murder scene the evidence found didn't add up leading the character, Gus Grissom to remark:

S. T. Karnick, who writes about culture from a right of center perspective for numerous publications, says that the TV show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has decided to depict two of its characters as openly Christian. Karnick writes about last night's episode of CSI on his blog, Karnick on Culture (http://stkarnick.com): Religion is all over the place on network TV series now. Many programs just can't seem to resist bringing it up, and the treatments are typically fairly sympathetic though by no means without nuance or sophistication. For example: following up on last week's interesting comment at the end of...

When Erica Grubb installed solar panels on the roof of her Berkeley house, the decision was both personal and political. Personal because Grubb used a small inheritance from her mother to purchase the solar panels, which cost $18,000 -- $13,000 after rebates. Political because seeing "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's movie on global warming, inspired Grubb, a lawyer, and her husband, an economist, to go solar and install equipment that can generate up to 2.8 kilowatts of electricity. The Grubbs join thousands in California who are lining up to purchase equipment that converts sunlight into power or hot water for...

Via email from: http://msliwa.com * For Interviews with key pro-democracy activists inside and outside of Lebanon, contact: Rev. Dr. Keith Roderick, 202-498-8644, keith.roderick@csi-usa.org IMMEDIATE RELEASE Christian Solidarity International (CSI) Contact: Rev. Dr. Keith Roderick, 202-498-8644, keith.roderick@csi-usa.org Hezbollah is Using Christian Villages to Shield its Military Operations in Violation of International Law WASHINGTON, August 1, 2006: Hezbollah is using Christian villages to shield its military operations against Israel. Southern Lebanese Christian villages, such as Ain Ebel, Rmeish, Alma Alshaab, and others are being used by Hezbollah terrorists for launching missile attacks. "Hezbollah is repeating the same pattern that it practiced against...

California's landmark efforts to increase solar power, supported by environmentalists, state leaders and the governor, could be in peril. In the next few months, PG&E, the largest utility company in the state, will reach the cap on how much solar energy it will buy back from customers. If the Legislature fails to pass a new bill raising that cap, new solar users in PG&E's territory won't be eligible for the benefits currents users enjoy, which some fear could bring the rise of solar energy in California to a grinding halt. "It will destroy the industry," said Ken Adelman, a retired...

5/18/2006 - ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. (AFPN) -- For forensic science consultants at the Air Force Office of Special Investigations' 33rd Field Investigations Squadron, criminal investigations in the Air Force begin at the crime scene. The work of Air Force forensic science consultants is similar to that of criminal investigators in the television show “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” said the squadron's Special Agent Tam Reed. “However, unlike CSI, we don’t get lab results back within an hour,” said Agent Reed, an AFOSI agent since joining the Air Force in 2000. The squadron doesn’t have its own lab for processing...

Diana Sue Sylvester had been living in San Francisco only six months when she was raped and killed in the Sunset District after walking home from work at UCSF, three days before Christmas in 1972. On Friday, San Francisco police said DNA evidence and a computer search of sex offender records finally had led them to a suspect. John Puckett, 72, a retired carpet installer living in Stockton, was arrested at a trailer he shared with his wife, Marlene, and is expected to be arraigned next week on murder charges in the slaying of the 25-year-old nurse. "Even though he's...

Iraqi police officers using a forklift to move forensic processing equipment received from the 988th Military Police Company, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, to help the Iraqi police track down criminals and terrorists involved in crimes. U.S. Army photo by 988th Military Police Company CSI: Iraq Iraqi Police Receive Forensic Equipment By U.S. Army Pfc. Edgar Reyes2nd Brigade Combat Team4th Infantry Division FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq, April 13, 2006 — The 988th Military Police Company, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, delivered new forensic equipment to the Iraqi Criminal Investigative Service crime lab March 25....

The U.S. Public Port Industry The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) represents more than 80 public authorities in the United States. These state, county and city government agencies own and develop seaport facilities to handle both domestic and international maritime commerce being imported to or exported from the United States. U.S. ports and waterways handle more than 2.5 billion tons of trade annually. The majority of our nation’s overseas cargo flows through AAPA member ports’ facilities. While some public ports operate their own cargo terminals, many serve as “landlord” ports, leasing portions of their facilities to private terminal operating...

http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_053224434.html FBI Terrorism Task Force Investigating I-55 Crash SLIDESHOW: Crash Scene Photos Jay Levine Reporting (CBS) CHICAGO A stunning discovery inside a car involved in a deadly crash on the Stevenson Expressway Wednesday has sparked a federal investigation. Two people were killed in the crash involving a number of cars and semi trucks. Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports one of the people killed was carrying several suspicious items. CBS 2 has learned that members of the FBI Terrorist Task Force are among those involve din the investigation originally though just to be a huge traffic nightmare, but could end up...

Reality TV they are not, but two hit shows are so convincing as imitations of life in the criminal justice system that some legal experts worry they're distorting the expectations of real jurors. The influence of the "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and "Law & Order" franchises has permeated American law. Lawyers ask would-be jurors whether they watch the shows and then change strategies depending on the answers. Law schools maintain video libraries of the programs as teaching tools and even analyze the plot lines in class. Which side benefits the most - prosecutors or defense attorneys - is debatable. While...

When Tammy Klein began investigating crime scenes eight years ago, it was virtually unheard of for a killer to use bleach to clean up a bloody mess. Today, the use of bleach, which destroys DNA, is not unusual in a planned homicide, said the senior criminalist from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. ADVERTISEMENT Klein and other experts attribute such sophistication to television crime dramas like "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," which give criminals helpful tips on how to cover up evidence. Prosecutors have complained for years about "the CSI effect" on juries — an expectation in every trial for the...

CSI TO VIEWERS: THE REAL CRIME IS RESPECTING LIFE The Catholic League was bombarded with complaints this morning about “Secrets and Flies,” the November 3 episode of the CBS program CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. “Secrets and Flies” revolves around the murder of Christina, a single mother. After an autopsy reveals that Christina was a virgin, it is learned that she adopted a fertilized embryo from Project Sunflower, an organization devoted to finding surrogate mothers for abandoned embryos. Here’s what Catholic League president Bill Donohue had to say: “A talented writer could easily spin an interesting who-done-it from this plot, but...

Tonight, on CSI: Las Vegas, the main plot line involved a single mother whose apparent suicide was staged. The mother was a virgin (determined by the autopsy), and was described as a "prude" by the victim's sister. After a DNA test, it was determined the baby found with the dead woman wasn't biologically-related to the mother. After further investigation, it was found out that the mother had adopted an embryo "left over" from a fertility clinic. A fictional pro-life organization called "Project Sunflower" had found the embryo a mother. As one woman CSI investigator told the details of this organization...

Irvine, Calif., September 13, 2005 While forensic scientists have long claimed fingerprint evidence is infallible, the widely publicized error that landed an innocent American behind bars as a suspect in the Madrid train bombing alerted the nation to the potential flaws in the system. Now, UC Irvine criminologist Simon Cole has shown that not only do errors occur, but as many as a thousand incorrect fingerprint “matches” could be made each year in the U.S. This is in spite of safeguards intended to prevent errors. Cole’s study is the first to analyze all publicly known mistaken fingerprint matches. In analyzing...

It's 7:30 p.m. and the Cuddle Party is about to begin. The 20 or so people who fill the Bodymind Institute in Los Angeles are all wearing pajamas, and a few look nervous. Their anxious expressions say, "I hope this is fun because I'm standing here in my pajamas with a bunch of strangers." They range in age from early 20s to early 60s and represent all races, shapes and sizes. Everyone wears a name tag. They have come to experience "an affectionate play event for adults, designed to provide a space to explore and enjoy touch, nurturing and communication"...

Man's body found 42 years ago is identified By Deanna Boyd Star-Telegram Staff Writer FORT WORTH - A homicide victim whose skeletal remains were found 42 years ago in a creek bed near the Benbrook dam finally has a name. Major case Detective Bryan Jamison said DNA tests have confirmed that the bones are that of Kenneth Bennett Glaze, a 35-year-old man who disappeared from Fort Worth in 1963. "It was a critical first step," Jamison said of the identification. "I'm glad it happened so quick so we can get down to the business of solving this crime." The remains,...

Washington -- A Prince George's County, Md., jury would not convict a man accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death because a half-eaten hamburger, recovered from the crime scene and assumed to have been his, was not tested for DNA. In Washington, a jury deadlocked recently in the trial of a woman accused of stabbing another woman because fingerprints on the weapon did not belong to the suspect. An Alexandria, Va., jury acquitted a man on drug-possession charges in part because a box containing 60 rocks of crack cocaine that he was accused of tossing from his car during a...

DO YOU watch CSI? It is a question heard in an increasing number of jury selection hearings across the US. The hit television series Crime Scene Investigation, in which brilliant forensic scientists solve seemingly baffling cases each week in little more than 40 minutes, is changing the face of American justice as jurors apply the lessons of what they have seen on TV to real-life criminal trials. A decade ago, the kind of physical and forensic evidence used in the OJ Simpson trial baffled many viewers. Today, educated by what they believe they have learned from TV, it is the...

SAN ANGELO -- Authorities have recovered the body of a missing Dyess Air Force Base airman from a stock tank on a West Texas ranch, his stepsister said. Staff Sgt. Michael Leslie Severance's body was found in 10 to 20 feet of water in a tank 15 miles northeast of San Angelo, Nicole Leighton said Monday. His body had been weighted with cinderblocks, and his death was ruled a homicide. Severance, 24, had been missing since Jan. 15. He lived in San Angelo but was assigned to Dyess in Abilene, about 90 miles to the northeast. Leighton said Air Force...

American TV show CSI: Miami has been attacked by a top scientist for misleading jurors with its unrealistic portrayal of the capabilities of forensic experts and the boundaries of science. Lawyers fear the popular drama has precipitated the "CSI effect" by giving the public unrealistic expectations of what can be achieved in forensic laboratories - and that forensic testimonies are beyond reproach. West Virginia University expert Max Houck says, "Defense attorneys now worry about the CSI effect because they think the jurors view science as this juggernaut, this infallible, objective method that is always right, always accurate and that spells...

Last night's show was stupid because they went through hours and hours of high-tech snooping to finally find out that murdered was the woman's stepmother -- and then, only at the end, did someone discover a motive: the stepmother would get millions as executor of the grandkid's estate. Well, why didn't they find out about financial implications of the death AT THE BEGINNING OF THE INVESTIGATION -- I guess that would have meant no need for hours of high-tech investigation to figure out a suspect, so no need for the entire episode. The Sexiest Man in the Morgue William L....

CSI Las Vegas (George W. Bush morality tales) ? I watch CSI Las Vegas on occasion, but I have never thought of the T.V. series as being a George W. Bush morality tale. This article from Stephen Cole who writes about television for CBC.ca. seems to think it does. He may have a point. jimmyk http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/thedeadzone.html The Dead Zone Why CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is Hollywood's perfect Bush-era export. By Stephen Colevia cbc excerpt from my blog: jimmyk http://butthatsjustmyopinion.blogspot.com/ The success of CSI specifically is more than a simple case of right show, right time, however. For one thing, no...

Tonight's CSI: Miami episode is feature a plot line where a group of terrorist hijack a fishing boat, smuggle some RPG's into Miami, and fire them at police and a convenience store run by Cuban immigrants. One of those arrested in the crime presents the police a card with a statement addressing his constitutional rights, and said something about his "Second Amendment rights" and "the right to form a militia." He refuses to answer a Hispanic female officer, saying he won't answer a "Puerto Rican." After the convenience store attack, another terrorist who is apprehended with a black eye from...

LOS ANGELES (Nov. 13) - CBS News has fired the producer responsible for interrupting the last five minutes of a hit crime drama with a special report on the death of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, a network source said on Friday. Word of the dismissal came a day after CBS apologized to viewers for breaking into "CSI: NY," one of its top-rated shows, on Wednesday night. "An overly aggressive CBS News producer jumped the gun with a report that should have been offered to local stations for their late news. We sincerely regret the error," the network said in a...

Interrupted CSI: NY To Be Repeated (CBS) CBS will rebroadcast the Wednesday night episode of "CSI: NY" that was interrupted by a news report of Yasser Arafat's death. Viewers in some parts of the country missed the last few minutes of the popular crime drama because of the Arafat report. The program will be shown again Friday at 10 p.m. ET. CBS issued the following statement: "An overly aggressive CBS News producer jumped the gun with a report that should have been offered to local stations for their late news. We sincerely regret the error."

CBS interupted CSI with 5 minutes left to report Arafat's death, and my mother is pissed as can be. Does anybody on the West Coast know how CSI ended? I'd be grateful to anybody who saw it it for an explanation. Thank you.

Is anybody else noticing that either Law and Order or CSI is on every single night practically? I mean, please know when to say when. CSI NY, Miami, CSI - original, and then basically the same for Law and Order.... What's next Price is Right : Hawaii? Good grief. More stories at Rightliner.com

Don't look now, but camera is watching Privacy: The video eye is almost everywhere these days, but the view isn't like they portray on crime shows By Bob Mims The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune 2004-08-13 00:25:49.959 On a plane, train or bus, strolling a mall or park, using an ATM, riding an elevator, pumping gas, feeding coins into a tollbooth, in class or even your doctor's examining room - someone could be watching.     Are you a store clerk? Your cash register may be the star attraction of a security cam. So may be the hallways at...

"CSI" Kills Back to Life? By Joal Ryan Are CSI's casualties about to return from the dead? Jorja Fox (news), axed last week from TV's top-rated drama, will return to the scene of the crime and rejoin the show, sources tell E! News Live. Fellow fired costar George Eads will stage a similar comeback--or so he hopes. Speaking to TV critics in Los Angeles Wednesday, Eads called his dismissal "a big misunderstanding." CBS had no comment Wednesday. Fox and Eads were bumped off when CBS got out the Louisville Slugger and played hardball with the reputedly pay-hike-seeking actors. Fox was...

LOS ANGELES -- Two stars of the CBS hit television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" were fired for breach of contract, KCBS-TV and Variety reported Thursday. Actors Jorja Fox and George Eads, who play investigators Sara Sidle and Nick Stokes, were fired after asking for more money to stay on the show, according to the reports. Danica Smith, publicist for both Fox and Eads, told The Associated Press that Fox was fired Wednesday but did not have details. Smith could not confirm whether Eads was fired. A CBS spokesman said the network had no comment. Eads didn't show up...

Toledo police detective Steve Forrester, left, and Tom Ross, an investigator with the Lucas County prosecutor's office, and formerly of the Toledo police, talk about the Robinson case. Allegations made last year by a Toledo woman that she was sexually and physically abused as a child by Catholic priests during Satanic and sadomasochistic rituals led to the reopening of the 1980 case of a nun's murder for which the Rev. Gerald J. Robinson was arrested Friday, authorities said.

PURPOSE The purpose of this hearing is to investigate the security of containers used to ship goods imported into and exported out of the United States by water. The Subcommittee will receive testimony from the Administration, cargo shippers, vessel operators, as well as freight terminal owners and operators. BACKGROUND Overview The United States’ maritime borders include 95,000 miles of open shoreline, 361 ports and an Exclusive Economic Zone that spans 3.5 million square miles. The United States relies on ocean transportation for 95 percent of cargo tonnage that moves in and out of the country. Each year more than 7,500...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - The bugs don't lie. Maggots and other insects found at a crime scene can provide investigators with important clues, according to a new exhibit making its world premiere at the Science Museum of Minnesota on Saturday, the first stop on a tour booked through 2007. "CSI: Crime Scene Insects," explores the rapidly growing field of forensic entomology, and how insects can crack cases and bring killers to justice. Not only was the exhibit inspired by the hit "CSI" TV shows, its curator is a consultant for both of them. He also does work for the FBI...

AS fans of "CSI: Miami" know, David Caruso (news)'s character and his Miami colleagues are one up on the Erie, Pa. police department. They already solved a necklace-bomb case. The bizarre case and the sinister device that killed a man who allegedly robbed a bank late last month was similar in concept to the CBS crime drama's subject. The plot of "Losing Face," which was the series' second episode last fall, involved the use of a locked collar device. "We haven't received any calls [about the Erie case] and any suggestion of a connection is quite a stretch," Chris Ender,...

Defense could pin hopes on insect life By Kristen Green UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERJune 30, 2002 In the first four weeks of David Westerfield's murder trial, jurors were schooled in scientific evidence such as blood and DNA, fingerprints and fibers. Now they'll get a crash course in the life cycle of flies. Westerfield's team of lawyers is expected to launch his defense this week, and lead attorney Steven Feldman has hinted that he will use insect biology to prove 7-year-old Danielle van Dam died after police and reporters began tracking his client's every move. That would mean Westerfield couldn't have killed...