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Sarah Palin found a novel way to turn down an interview request from Piers Morgan on Friday, posting a picture on Facebook of a bear she had shot dead and a note saying she was busy. The former Alaska governor thanked chat show host Morgan for inviting her on his 'shambolic show' but added she was 'kind of busy right now'. The Facebook message, which had been liked by nearly 3,000 of Palin's supporters within two hours of it being posted,..

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham was “dead wrong” when he suggested the United States should boycott the 2014 Winter Olympics...House Speaker John Boehner said. ..“Listen, I love Sen. Graham. We’ve been close friends for 20 years..Boehner said.. “Why would we want to punish U.S. athletes who have been training for three years to compete in the Olympics... Graham said boycotting the Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, would “send the Russians the most unequivocal signal” ..what they’re doing is outrageous,... if they grant this guy asylum it’s a breach of the rule of law as we know it and is...

' The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 46% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Obama's job performance. Fifty-three percent (53%) now disapprove... Today’s figures include 24% who Strongly Approve of the way Obama is performing as president and 41% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -17.. Twenty-nine percent (29%) believe the United States is generally heading in the right direction... Whether it’s health care, immigration, gun control or the various controversies in Washington, D.C., Scott’s weekly newspaper column shows that the unifying theme is a renewed distrust of...

Tyler Weyer and his fellow seniors at Republic High School began considering possible commencement speakers last fall...But Weyer had a crazy thought. “I said, ‘Hey, let’s just get Sarah Palin,’ ” said Weyer, the 17-year-old senior class president at Republic High...Then came another e-mail from Palin’s people – this time to set up a phone call with him and school officials...On April 18, Weyer and school officials had the phone call with Palin’s representative, and learned that Palin would be coming to graduation... Anderson’s priority is to preserve the event as a commencement ceremony – something focused on the students...

Major Bank SAM Security Breach This is real time, big, big money. If you or your company or governmental sub unit(State, county, foreign nation) do or have done business, grants or contracts with the Federal Government, you should start checking your accounts now. This is the email I got today. 'Dear SAM user The General Services Administration (GSA) recently has identified a security vulnerability in the System for Award Management (SAM), which is part of the cross-government Integrated Award Environment (IAE) managed by GSA. Registered SAM users with entity administrator rights and delegated entity registration rights had the ability to...

Buried in Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s long and depressing article on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is an interesting statistic. The F-35 program office employs 2,000 people. Two. Thousand. For some perspective, here’s a list of offices, staffs, agencies, and commands and their estimated staff size (not including contractors): Pacom 3,200 Joint Staff 2,800 OSD 2,700 Centcom 2,000 Defense Logistics Agency 27,000 I know that the Joint Strike Fighter is an inordinately complex acquisition program that, after years of neglect and mismanagement, requires diligent oversight, but it’s still just a single acquisition program. And yet it employs the same number of people...

If you don't raise the debt ceiling, that ... is temporarily stopped. Now, we did that in 1995. We didn't default on our debt. TED CRUZ: And the result was balanced budgets, and some of the greatest fiscal responsibility we have seen in modern times from Congress, because fiscal conservatives stood together and said, we need to be responsible.

' growers will have a difficult time wading through the 500 pages of proposed rules...the requirements on dealing with irrigation water, however, may be the most problematic. They direct that irrigation water that touches produce "be of safe and sanitary quality." Most water applied on Yakima Valley farms comes from canals fed from rivers. Under the new rules, water that touches produce in the field must be treated if, for any reason, the water may not be safe.

Was UFO a Russian ballistic missile? Russian Defense Ministry says it successfully test-fired intercontinental ballistic missile Thursday; earlier, unidentified flying object reported in Israel, Lebanon, other states in region and Reports from the Syrian cities of Daraa, Hama and Dir al-Zur are claiming that Assad's forces are using unknown gas shells against civilians. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4239820,00.htm

Kol Yisrael radio reported that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Opposition leader MK Shaul Mofaz have reached an agreement to form a national unity government.

General Boykin was more pessimistic. "I have a different view, Glenn, I believe that Iran has a nuclear warhead now. Now, that's gonna shock a lot of people, but they've been working for 25 years and they've had the assistance of North Korea as well as the Russians. You don't work for 25 years without succeeding in the development of a warhead."

The Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah has begun its first combat operations in Syria, the opposition said. Opposition sources said Hizbullah fighters launched Russian-origin BM-21 Grad rockets toward civilian protesters on Jan. 16. The sources said the Hizbullah rocket attack took place near Damascus amid Iranian threats to increase intervention in Syria. Other opposition sources also reported Hizbullah rocket fire.

Iran said on Sunday it had received a letter from the U.S. government about the Strait of Hormuz, Foreign Ministry spokesman ...was quoted ... as saying Tehran had not yet decided if it would reply to the letter, the contents of which he did not detail. "America's message over the Strait of Hormuz reached us through three channels. It was given to our U.N. representative, the Swiss ambassador conveyed it to the Foreign Ministry and also Iraqi President Jalal Talabani gave the message to Iran,"

The ECB will hold on Sunday afternoon, a crisis meeting. Per Telefonkonerenz mit dabei: alle wichtigen Finanzminister und Vertreter der G7. By using this Telefonkonerenz: all major finance ministers and representatives of the G7. Themen: PIIIGS-Bonds und US-Downgrade. Topics: PIIIGS bonds and U.S. downgrade. Möglicher Finanzcrash am Montag. Update: G20 halten Krisenkonferenz bereits Samstag Abend (US-Ostküstenzeit). Possible financial crash on Monday. Update: G20 already hold emergency meeting Saturday night (Eastern time). - Michael Mross Interview mit Russia Today. - Michael Mross interview with Russia Today.

'The state of Washington has canceled the driver's license of a journalist who, in a New York Times Magazine article last month, revealed that for 14 years he kept a secret from his U.S. employers: He is an illegal immigrant. He obtained a Washington driver's license weeks before his Oregon license was to expire on his 30th birthday earlier this year.

Japanese government officials said Tokyo has obtained information from some Japanese traders that shipments have been stopped. China's Trade Ministry denied Thursday that Beijing is embargoing export of rare earths to Japan... a territorial dispute has strained relations between the two countries. With offices closed in both Japan and China for public holidays, it was difficult...

Israel’s ambassadors and consuls general serving throughout the world will discuss broad diplomatic and strategic issues at a conference to be held next week in Jerusalem. This is the first time a conference for all of Israel’s Heads of Missions has been held.

Oil and Gas Permit #510 The above Oil and Gas Lease is linked to several SEPA documents about that proposal for your review: * SEPA Cover Memo (Comment Period) * Threshold Determination * Environmental Checklist * Associated Maps