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Poll to remove civil war monuments from Richmond's Monument Avenue ( see url for poll)

If I could figure out how to post screenshots from my phone I would. However, shortly after today's Boston Marathon bombing a friend posted an interesting page he found on Facebook titled: To All Those Injured In The Boston Marathon Explosions. The Join Facebook date for that page was April 13, 2013. I took two screen shots from my phone just in case the page got scrubbed. It did. I'm told the average Joe user cannot manipulate dates like that.

Sorry all, I don't know how to hyperlink. Here's the URL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PYrCei02TaI

:52 in, the president tells his daughter, "I did it". Did what? Recite the oath without giggling, burping, fainting? Or did the narcissist in chief just say he alone is responsible for being re-elected?

<p>NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials say several people have been shot outside the Empire State Building and that the gunman is dead.</p> <p>City police say three or four civilians have been wounded in the Friday morning shooting and that the shooter is dead.</p>

FORT PIERCE — The Florida Highway Patrol reopened both directions of Interstate 95 at Indrio Road, in northern St. Lucie County, after the highway was temporarily closed when a grenade was found under the underpass at Indrio Road, a FHP official said. Trooper Tomas Corey noticed the suspicious device around 9:38 a.m. while traveling east on Indrio Road. Corey stopped and identified it as a grenade. A call was made to the St. Lucie County's Sheriff Office Bomb Squad. In the meantime Trooper Corey stopped all east and westbound traffic traveling on Indrio Road under the interstate. Traffic was also...

---snip----- NEW YORK, (CBSNewYork) – A new national alert system is set to begin in New York City that will alert the public to emergencies via cell phones. It’s called the Personal Localized Alert Network or PLAN. Presidential and local emergency messages as well as Amber Alerts would appear on cell phones equipped with special chips and software. The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Emergency Management Agency said the system would also warn about terrorist attacks and natural disasters. “The lessons that were reinforced on 9/11 is the importance of getting clear and accurate information to the public during...

For the last several months, I have been covertly investigating the people, power and money behind the proposed “9/11 mega mosque” planned for the old Burlington Coat Factory situated just two blocks from “Ground Zero” in lower Manhattan. In order to provide the most comprehensive and fact-based insight into this issue as possible, I deliberately postponed publishing any reports until my investigation, consisting of direct and indirect inquiries, procurement of records, and the use of operational assets to develop information was complete. While any person of reasonable sensibilities and a working moral compass could legitimately find the construction of an...

Allow me a moment to step away from the usual voice of this website. What I am about to write has absolutely nothing to do with hockey. If you live outside of Nashville, you may not be aware, but our city was hit by a 500-year flood over the last few days. The national news coverage gave us 15 minutes, but went back to focusing on a failed car bomb and an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. While both are clearly important stories, was that any reason to ignore our story? It may not be as terror-sexy as...

WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Just as my wife and I were leaving for the hospital ( only minutes from when the prayer request went upon FR ) my wife received a call from the ICU. Cathy has partially awakened!!! She responds to voices, breathing mostly on her own - best part - the brain scan shows NO DAMAGE AT ALL! She has contracted an infection, which has yet to be identified. But, truth is ..hospital's are where you go to find all sorts of creepy infections. After all the gloom and doom scenarios from the docs this is great news. Thank you...

Some months ago we posted a prayer request for Cathy, a very sick mother of two small children who was widowed 3 years ago. Cathy was readmitted to a local hospital with failing kidneys. The toll on her body has hit a critical and near fatal turn the other night. Cathy's kidneys are not able to get rid of enough body fluids resulting in a potassium level that caused her heart to stop beating. It is unclear how long she was dead in her room. She was defibrillated and bought back but is unable to breath on her own, in...

After over a decade of hanging here, picking up other prayer requests I must post one of my own. My wife and I have taken in two grandchildren (2 and 5) after the death of their father and eventual abandonement by their mother who has been overwhelmed by one medical condition over another. She called this morning half way around the country with news that she is once again hospitalized, this time with conjestive heart failure and would like to home to see her children while she can. This is difficult on so many levels and only a mighty and...

Is THIS where Obama is taking the country? ( snip ) The strategy Cloward and Piven’s article is focused on forcing the Democratic Party, which in 1966 controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress, to take federal action to help the poor. They argued that full enrollment of those eligible for wellfare “would produce bureaucratic disruption in welfare agencies and fiscal disruption in local and state governments” that would “deepen existing divisions among elements in the big-city Democratic coalition: the remaining white middle class, the white working-class ethnic groups and the growing minority poor. To avoid a further weakening...

What does the word “Ismail Ax” on an arm of the Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-hui mean? The Chicago Tribune on Wednesday suggested a reference to the Koran, where Ismail is a son of Abraham (or Ibrahim in Arabic). In Islam, Ismail destroyed idols using an ax with his father after converting to monotheism. In that case, “Ismail Ax” can be interpreted as the punishment of God for unjust acts. In Christianity and Judaism, Ismail is an outcast. Abraham had Ismail by a slave because his wife Sarah was infertile. But later he expelled the slave and Ismail to the...

Perhaps the budget deficit is getting too large. The IRS is trying to get eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) to turn over records on its customers, especially the larger ones, so that the IRS can go after those who have not paid taxes on their auction transactions. What fun. Getting a company to rat out its own. eBay is fighting the move, but the government seems determined to go after merchants, especially those who have transactions of over $5,000 a year. The government may have a point; tax evasion is a serious business. And so why shouldn't eBay potentially poison its relationship...

HAVANA -- Fidel Castro's niece said Sunday he was recovering well from surgery and would likely be "very active" again in Cuba's government. "Fidel is stupendous," said Mariela Castro Espin, daughter of acting President Raul Castro, who took over in July after his older brother underwent surgery. Pole Vaulting near Havana Fidel Castro, 80, has disappeared from view since temporarily ceding power to his younger brother, aside from occasional videotaped meetings with foreign visitors. Sailboarding instructor says of Castro, "best student this year" The most recent showed a Jan. 29 meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in which the Cuban...

"They'll slit your throat on Jolo," people told Col. Jim Linder, head of a U.S. military task force in the Philippines. He recalled the prediction as we buzzed toward Jolo Island in a helicopter. Linder, a 45-year-old South Carolina native who has the remnants of a Southern drawl, has led Special Forces operations in the Middle East, Central and South America, Eastern Europe and Africa for the past 20 years. His latest assignment is the remote 345-square-mile island at the southernmost edge of the vast Philippines archipelago. Jolo is a known haven for Al Qaeda-linked terrorist groups, including Abu Sayyaf,...

A calendar featuring Ontario farmers, including two from this area, is unveiled at the Ontario AgriCentre, 100 Stone Rd. W., on Tuesday Nov. 7 from 5 to 7 p.m. The 2007 Faces of Farming calendar launched by the Ontario Farm Animal Council features two local farmers. Martha Schatti, who represents the month of February, is an elk farmer from Rockwood. Lawrence Drost, a chicken farmer from Moorefield, represents May. The calendar project is also being expanded into a rotating art show. Part of the main floor of the AgriCentre will be used to exhibit photos and stories from the calendar.

Billionaire cash has kept embryonic stem-cell research alive--just barely. Anti-abortion crusaders see research on embryonic stem cells as something akin to murder. Eli Broad sees it as a great way to save lives--and he is tapping his $6 billion fortune to help. Sidestepping the ban on federal funding of most stem-cell experiments imposed by President Bush five years ago, Broad, the founder of builder KB Home, gave $25 million in February to the University of Southern California to erect a stem-cell building. More gifts may loom, he hints. Broad says he is saddened by the Bush Administration's stem-cell ban, which...

This is the third thread I've posted here on FR concerning my email exchanges with a Palestinian muslem, who goes by the name, Naser. We started exchanging emails via YouTube after he uploaded the now infamous "Green Helmet" guy video. It has been interesting to get his perspective on the current war in Iraq, his view on the Isreali conflict and whatever else he chooses to rant about. I've been thumbing his eyes lately with all of the retaliatory threats against the pope and how it relates to the "Religion of Peace". Todays post concerns his reply to my asking...