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A Virginia prosecutor who ran on ending mass-incarceration in jails pushed to have a father who was dragged out of a Loudoun County school board meeting jailed on two misdemeanor charges despite him claiming his daughter had been raped. Scott Smith was photographed on June 22 being arrested and dragged out of the heated meeting with his torso exposed in Leesburg, Virginia after he protested its proposed transgender policies. The 48-year-old plumber was ridiculed on social media afterwards and was painted by the left to be a deranged, right-wing bigot.

DENVER, CO—Local Christian plumber Peter Howe has come under fire for refusing to join same-sex fittings. Howe is being labeled a "backward, hateful bigot" for his refusal to connect two male pipe threads or two female pipe threads, insisting on only the traditional, conservative practice of male-to-female connections. "Fittings are between a male pipe thread and a female pipe thread only," said Howe in a statement. "That's the way God designed plumbing, and it's my religious right to refuse anyone with a different plumbing lifestyle. I'm not saying they don't have the freedom to do what they want. I'm just...

Things are really starting to heat up regarding the Silk Road marketplace (as if things already weren’t hot enough). Following the start of Ross Ulbricht’s trial last week, a bitcoin trader has been sentenced to four years in prison due to his unveiled connections to the underground illegal market. Robert M. Faiella (who often operated under the code name “BTCKing”) has recently pled guilty to operating an illegal money transmission business.  Often times, the business saw to the exchange of fiat currency for bitcoins, which would then be used to purchase drugs and other items from Silk Road. Faiella, a...

the University of Cambridge, found that the 'plink, plink' sound produced by a water droplet hitting a liquid surface is caused not by the droplet itself, but by the oscillation of a small bubble of air trapped beneath the water's surface. The bubble forces the water surface itself to vibrate, acting like a piston to drive the airborne sound. ..."But thanks to modern video and audio technology, we can finally find out exactly where the sound is coming from, which may help us to stop it."

How many plumbers does it take to fix an airplane toilet? It’s a joke with no punch line, as 85 plumbers on a Norwegian flight headed for Germany discovered Saturday when their plane had to return to Oslo because of a broken toilet, reported The Independent. The flight, which departed Oslo bound for Munich, turned back at the Swedish border. “We would have liked to fix the restrooms, but unfortunately it had to be done from the outside and we did not take the opportunity to send a plumber (out) at 10,000 meters,” Frank Olsen, a plumbing company CEO aboard...

A Texas plumber is receiving threatening calls after his old pickup truck appeared in a jihadist video in Syria. The Ansar Al-Deen terrorist group used his truck in a propaganda video in Syria. Texas City plumber Mark Oberholtzer has been bombarded with calls, some hostile, since a truck he traded in at AutoNation was shown being used as a gun platform in Syria. (Galveston Daily Times)The Ansar Al-Deen Front, an independent Islamist group operating near Aleppo, Syria, posted video of the truck used in fighting.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLSN0pDqABMFOX News reported: A Texas plumber has been receiving threats after a photo emerged of Islamic...

For homeowners eager to save money on repairs, it’s a tempting proposition—you pay a tradesman cash-in-hand, he knocks a bit off the bill, and no questions are asked. With the builder or plumber failing to declare their earnings and pay any tax, such secret payments are said to cost the economy £2 billion a year. Now a survey suggests the black economy is booming, with more than four in five homeowners admitting they have paid a workman cash-in-hand. Not only that, but 30 percent have done it three times or more in the past year alone. …

Joe Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber, has a few choice words for “America’s Sweetheart”, Megyn Kelly. It all started when Politico’s Roger Simon published a blog entitled, “Government Shutdown Unleashes Racism”. Simon based his article on a piece that was supposedly written by Joe called,“ America Needs a White Republican President”. The only problem? Joe did not write the piece; he only posted the aggregated version on his website. The real author is Kevin Jackson of The Black Sphere who, by the way, just happens to be black. Kevin provided a satirical and relevant look at how the policies of...

Michael Bloomberg is the mayor of New York and a media mogul who weekends in Bermuda and whose net worth is an estimated $27 billion. Victor Head runs a plumbing business with his brother in Pueblo, Colo. The two clashed from a distance Tuesday in the Colorado gun recalls, and Head gave the billionaire a righteous drubbing. The defeat of two pro-gun control Colorado state senators in recall elections sends a message that should be heard all the way back on the Upper East Side, and maybe even in Hamilton. It wasn’t too long ago that Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Here's Cody in Spring, Texas, as we go back to the phones. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hi. CALLER: Hey, Rush. I just wanted to remind you that this is not the first time that this type of IRS scandal has surrounded Barack Obama. If you remember all the way back to 2008 with Joe the Plumber, he was simply playing a game in his front yard with his son. He asked Obama a question and made him look bad. Next thing you know, all of his financial information was released to the press. The next day,...

The Ohio man known to America as “Joe the Plumber” is raffling off an AR-15 rifle to protest discussion of a ban on assault weapons. “Despite what national news commentators say, the AR 15 is NOT an ‘assault weapon’ or ‘weapon of mass destruction,’” he wrote at JoeForAmerica.com. “In honor of this magnificent rifle, JoeForAmerica.com is giving away a new AR 15 to the lucky man or woman who wins this drawing.” Joe the Plumber, whose real name is Samuel Joe Wurzelbacher, sprang onto the national stage during the 2008 campaign when President Barack Obama and then-GOP presidential candidate John...

A leading gun rights advocate announced it endorsed the Ohio man who became known as “Joe the Plumber” in his race to represent Ohio’s 9th Congressional District in Washington. “I’m excited and all the same time, incredibly humbled by the announcement we have received an enthusiastic and strong endorsement of the Gun Owners of America,” said Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, who earned the moniker in 2008 when he confronted then-candidate Barack Obama about how Obama’s tax policies would discourage him from buying a plumbing business. “As an avid sportsman and gun owner, I can tell you with great pride that no...

Kucinich to challenge fellow Ohio DemBy Cameron Joseph - 12/28/11 11:24 AM ET Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) will run against fellow Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur next year. He will file the paperwork on Wednesday afternoon, he announced. Redistricting erased two House seats in Ohio, pushing the two incumbents into a single district. The new district contains areas of Kucinich's Cleveland base and Kaptur's Toledo base. After publicly shopping for a district in Washington state and mulling a challenge to Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), Kucinich decided enough of his base was intact to mount a primary challenge against Kaptur, who is...

Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, is considering a run against U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur in 2012, according to Republican Party sources. Jon Stainbrook, chairman of the Lucas County Republican Party, said there is "high-level interest in the national Republican Party" in a potential Wurzelbacher candidacy. "We are encouraging Joe to run," Mr. Stainbrook said. "He hasn't made any official decision yet." Chris Maloney, spokesman for the Ohio Republican Party, said a candidate like Mr. Wurzelbacher would have strong fund-raising capabilities thanks to national recognition he received during the 2008 presidential campaign, but added such star power would...

Finally. Only two years after he stopped reporting for PajamasTV, he returns for the Right Network. http://rightnetwork.com/episodes/whaddya-know-joe-trailer

On October 12 of 2008 Barack Obama campaigned in “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher's neighborhood. Wurzelbacher asked Obama why he’d want to raise taxes at the time. Wurzelbacher subsequently became something of a Presidential campaign issue. In what seemed mere seconds the liberal press descended upon him like so many locusts. Within days we knew more about Joe the Plumber than we know about Barack Obama to this day. Within three days later FactCheck.org had Joe fact checked. Four days later PMSNBC proclaimed that Joe had no plumbing license. That same day CNN was defending Obama’s tax proposals. Joe took it...

“Joe the Plumber” endorses Bouchard Written by Bouchard for Governor Jul22 For Immediate Release: July 22, 2010 “Joe the Plumber” endorses Mike Bouchard for Governor Oakland County – Mike Bouchard, Republican candidate for governor, today gained the endorsement of Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher. On the heels of internal polling numbers showing him tied for first place, Bouchard has gained national attention calling for Right to Work in Michigan, a labor stronghold. “I am pleased to have “Joe the Plumber’s” endorsement in my race for governor,” said Bouchard. “He was not afraid to ask President Obama the tough questions and...

As amazing as it may seem, there’s considerable evidence that Joe Caldert, a plumber from St. Francis, Kan., submitted the design which was the basis for BP’s at least temporarily successful effort to stop the flow of oil. Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/did-joe-the-plumber-fix-the-oil-spill-98707484.html#ixzz0u61DZuwS

I am a conservative and wish to suggest a poster (signs) campaign for Tea-Party activities in Washington DC and around the country in April, which is---- THE PLUMBER POSTER #01: "It's Time To Call The Plumber And Flush Out Congress (We Are All Plumbers)" THE PLUMBER POSTER # 2: A PLUMBER--- -Plumbs a true and straight course -Cleans Out Debris and Waste -Contains scum in bowls, sinks and tubs -Pipes Out Sewage -Pipes In Clean Water -Replaces old fixtures IT'S TIME TO CALL A PLUMBER TO WASHINGTON DC ------Feel free to use any way you wish. Thanks.

Pennsylvania Public Radio's Scott Detrow reports from a conservative event in Harrisburg: Wurzelbacher touched on several different points during his speech, and many of them were surprising. He said he doesn’t support Sarah Palin anymore. Why? Because she’s backing John McCain’s re-election effort. “John McCain is no public servant,” he told the room, calling the 2008 Republican nominee a career politician. I pointed out he’d just be plain old Sam Wurzelbacher of Ohio — Joe the Plumber wouldn’t exist – without McCain. His response was blunt. “I don’t owe him s—. He really screwed my life up, is how I...