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resident Biden on Saturday said that no intelligent person can deny the impacts of climate change after the president toured storm damage in Florida from Hurricane Idalia. “Nobody can deny the impact of climate crises - at least nobody intelligent can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore. Just look around, around the nation and the world for that matter,” Biden said while in Live Oak, Fla. “Historic floods, intense droughts, extreme heat, deadly wildfires that have caused serious damage that we’ve never seen before.” He traveled to the Sunshine State to survey damage, meet with survivors and thank...

Mammatus clouds hang over Lake Coeur d'Alene Thursday in advance of major thunderstorms that moved into the area around 5:30 p.m. on August 10, 2022. Mammatus is a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud, typically a cumulonimbus raincloud. Photo by Elizabeth Sandifer

Legendary actor James Garner -- star of "The Rockford Files" and "The Notebook" -- has died ... TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell us an ambulance was dispatched to the actor's home in Los Angeles around 8PM Saturday evening ... and he was dead when they arrived on scene. We do not know his cause of death at this time.

An Upstate man is in custody, accused by the FBI and local law enforcement as being part of a “domestic terrorist group” that broke into and took over a foreclosed home, according to a release by the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office. The home is listed as being valued at $2,599,000. A realtor checking on the home found a notice, apparently posted by the extremists, saying that they were taking possession of the home. The Sheriff's Office release said, “On April 24, a deputy responded to a report of a burglary at 112 White Violet Way in Sunset. A lock on...

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On May 3, 2007, ten aspirants to the Republican presidential nomination kicked off the long campaign with a debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. The candidates disagreed about the issues and their respective qualifications--but each claimed Reagan's mantle. "I think it's important to remember," said Mike Huckabee, "that what Ronald Reagan did was to give us a vision for this country, a morning in America, a city on a hill." John McCain talked about Reagan's fiscal austerity: "Ronald Reagan used to say we spend money like a drunken sailor." Tommy Thompson threw in a stilted...

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Photo #4: Five F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets over MacDill Air Force Base, 6 January 1983, Florida, USA. Image ID: DFSC8400656View the Photo Gallery of Sunrises and Sunsets (which includes the above picture)http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-200702.htm (February 2007)

No more Patriot Act means Operation Able Danger and 9/11 all over again. Don't let the sun set on the Patriot Act. Call your state senator at 202-225-3121. Freed Iraq. No thanks to Democrat oposition. Cowards cut and run. Marines never do. Stay the course. Peace with God. I believe in a time when Americans had guts. Maximum Effort. Abandon Iraq? NO! Thank you, FreeRepublic, for allowing me to post my work!

Happy Easter! Last week the subject theme for the photography thread was Sunrise, wherein someone suggested that sunrises are better than sunsets. That sounds like a challenge to me! Let's see if we can top the sunrise thread with some beautiful sunset shots. Please post your bestest sunset photos here - your own work, please.

The sun sets above the Yenisei river in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, December 21, 2004. The Northern Hemisphere's winter solstice, the shortest day of the year was Tuesday, when the sun was directly over the tropic of Capricorn. (REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)

On a slow newsday :) I took these photographs of the sunset here in the Paducah, KY area earlier this evening. Enjoy Western KY Sunset

U.S. Department of JusticeBureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives    Washington, DC 20226 CHANGES IN FEDERAL LAW AS OF SEPTEMBER 13, 2004 RELATING TO SEMIAUTOMATIC ASSAULT WEAPONS (SAWs)ANDLARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION FEEDING DEVICES (LCAFDs) GENERALAs of September 13, 2004, the provisions of Public Law 103-322, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, covering semiautomatic assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices are no longer in effect. The regulations implementing these provisions also are no longer in effect.Specifically, there is no longer a Federal prohibition on the manufacture, transfer, and possession of semiautomatic assault weapons and...

New National Polls Show Assault Weapons Ban Wedge Factor in Election 9/10/2004 Press Release Dan Klores Communications New York, NY Contact: Eric Pugatch Phone: 212-685-4300 Bush Leadership on Homeland Security Undercut By His Refusal to Renew Ban, Say Voters in Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio; Voters Make Clear Distinction Between Generic "Gun Control" Issues and Renewing Ban on Assault Weapons Washington, DC - The results of new polling released today by Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates show conclusively that voters in three election swing states view President Bush's blocking of the national Assault Weapons Ban as a pivotal indicator of his...

SAF CONDEMNS ABC NEWS FRAUD IN REPORT ON SUNSET OF 'ASSAULT WEAPONS' LAW The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) today called on ABC News anchor Peter Jennings and correspondent Bill Redeker to admit the network distorted fact during a report on the end of the so-called "assault weapons" ban that aired Wednesday evening, Sept. 8. During that segment, video footage from the North Hollywood bank robbery shootout in March 1997 showed the robbers firing full-automatic weapons, suggesting that this type of firearm will be legal when the ban expires at midnight Sept. 13. These guns had been illegally modified, yet ABC...

AN URGENT MESSAGE TO NRA MEMBERS: ONE MORE PUSH TO END THE CLINTON GUN BAN With only five days to go before the September 13th expiration of the 1994 Clinton gun ban, anti-gun activists across the nation are making a last stand to re-enact this ineffective legislation. But now time is running out. Congress is only in session three more days before the sunset, and because time is short, anti-gunners will be redoubling their efforts to extend the ban. Originally enacted in 1994, the Clinton crime bill banned gun ownership by law-abiding citizens as the solution to violent crime. But...

Kerry Watches As His Lead In The Polls Fades Into The Sunset.

The so-called assault-weapons ban is about to sunset. About time. It was one of the goofiest gun laws on the books. It outlawed guns because they look mean — the perfect law for a superficial world. The assault-weapons ban was racial profiling for guns. Before we start, you should know I used to be like you when it came to firearms. I had a religious-like hatred of guns. In fact, I was a member of the anti-gun organization Handgun Control Inc. It was a long slow, conversion for me, spurred by the patient influence of my older brother Paul, who...

Groups urge Congress to extend assault weapons ban The Associated Press 8/2/2004, 7:05 p.m. ET DETROIT (AP) — Dozens of anti-gun violence activists were joined Monday by Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his police chief in calling on Congress to renew a federal ban on assault weapons that is scheduled to expire next month. The campaign to extend the ban, which expires September 13, is led by the Million Mom March and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The groups are in the 12th week of their "Halt the Assault Tour" to raise awareness of the looming deadline. Kilpatrick, Police...

Action Alert: Senator Frist Blocking Vote on AWB 7/20/2004 Action Alert The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence United with the Million Mom March 1225 Eye Street, NW Washington, DC 20005 www.millionmommarch.org Senator Bill Frist, the Republican Majority Leader (and a physician), is currently preventing the Senate from voting on renewing the Assault Weapons Ban. A majority of Senators are on the record supporting renewal. But Dr. Frist is blocking it. Attaboy, Dr. Frist. With Congress leaving for a five-week recess on Friday, the Republican leadership needs to get a strong message: schedule a vote on the Assault Weapons Ban...