February 2012
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Naval History - Feb. 25
From the Navy News Service
1861 - Saratoga, a member of the U.S. African Squadron, captures the slaver sloop Express.
1933 - USS Ranger (CV 4), the first true aircraft carrier, is commissioned.
1959 - USS Galveston (CLG 3) fires the first Talos surface-to-air missile.
For more information about naval history, visit the Naval Historical Center Web site at www.history.navy.mil.
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Daily Navy Photo: USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74)
[caption id=”attachment_80704” align=”aligncenter” width=”600” caption=”The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for a scheduled port visit as the ship returns from a seven-month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility. John C. Stennis played a role in the drawdown of...
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FRIDAY FLASHBACK: Nilsson - "Everybody's Talkin'"
A great classic from 1969. You know it, you like it….
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Obama Campaign Attacks Koch Brothers, Blames Them...
In an unprecedented attack on two private citizens, the Barack Obama campaign has issued an email from Jim Messina, the campaign manager, specifically targeting the Koch brothers.
Here’s the text:
In just about 24 hours, Mitt Romney is headed to a hotel ballroom to give a speech sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, a front group founded and funded by the Koch brothers.
Those are the same Koch...
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Overzealous Union Teachers Drag Students into...
DANVILLE, Ill. – Americans might not agree on much these days, but we can all agree that kids should not be bullied at school.
But what happens when the school bully turns out to be the child’s teacher?
That concern was raised at a Danville school board meeting last night by parent and school board member Gina McGuire, who alleges her high school-aged son was “harassed” by a teacher over...
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Based on Where the Top 1 Percent Lives, the Occupy...
I’ve written before about how big government is enriching people in the Washington metropolitan area.
This is for two reasons.
First, bureaucrats are paid too much, getting twice as much compensation, on average, as people in the productive sector of the economy.
Second, lobbyists, contractors, and interest groups have figured out how to get lucrative positions at the federal trough.
A new...
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Palin and Gingrich Outraged Over Obama’s Apology...
Both former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich are expressing outrage over President Obama’s apology to Afghan authorities for burned Qurans that were found in a garbage pit on a U.S. military base. A few hours after the president’s apology on Thursday morning, news outlets reported that an Afghan soldier retaliated for the burnings by killing two U.S....
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Occupy and Foreign Terror: The American Left’s...
As many Americans watch in disbelief as Greek society deteriorates into anarchistic and Union-led riots, death, and chaos, those of us with experience in monitoring far Left extremism know what’s coming. In a past piece of mine from 2010, The Extreme Left: A Ticking Time Bomb, I laid out the American far Left’s support and emulation of their radical counterparts in Greece.
At the time, Greek...
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And You Wanna "Tax The Rich"?
I have a better idea. How about we tax the poor? 49.5% of them now pay no federal income tax. How is that fair? Why don’t they pay their fair share instead of freeloading off the rest of us and demanding that we pay more, so we can meet their definition of fair share? I’m sick of giving these parasites a free lunch everyday, let ‘em pay for their own.
It is not 50.5% of the wage...
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Gallup Finds Unemployment Climbing
Nobody is surprised are they? Except for the Obamaites, but they don’t count. They’re mentally ill and live in a different reality than normal folks. I told you unemployment was going to rise, so did Sean Hannity, and millions of others that are grounded in reality. Let’s be clear, we were better off under Carter than we are now.
The photo below illustrates the face of...
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Thanks to Obamanomics: Per Capita Government Debt...
He just keeps spending and spending and spending and spending like he has a bag full of magic seeds that turn in to money tree’s when he has Michelle plant them while he rides with the fairy on the unicorn sprinkling pixie dust on his crop of imaginary money tree’s.
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Obama Policies Cause Gas Prices To Shoot Up
What did I tell you he would do? That’s right, blame the high prices on everything and everybody but himself. If you’ve been watching the news, that’s exactly what he’s doing. The reality, he caused the high prices, now he’s blaming others for the result of what he did. Typical leftist. This is solely on Obama, period.
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Economics For Dummies: Raising Taxes Does Not...
I thought the dumbass left learned this when Reagan was in office, but apparently they are too stupid to learn from history. Raising taxes does not raise revenue, period. It decreases revenue, what part of that do you morons not understand? By the way, that includes “taxing the rich” you Bolshevik schleps. The 1980’s proved that beyond a shadow of a doubt, yet these Obamaite...
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Americans' Satisfaction As Low As It Was Under...
It’s Jimmy Carter all over again… but worse. Carter didn’t intentionally destroy the economy and willfully implement a pure socialist agenda, unlike the radical extremist that currently resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.
Bad news for Barack means “Hope & Change” for America! U.S. News reports:
It’s February, nine months before a...
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WEATHER ALERT: WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT...
A LOW PRESSURE TROUGH WILL MOVE OVER WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR LATER TODAY. INCREASING MOISTURE FROM LAKE SUPERIOR WILL CAUSE SNOW SHOWERS TO INCREASE THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE TONIGHT ACROSS THE SNOW BELTS OF BAYFIELD…ASHLAND…AND IRON COUNTIES. THE SNOW WILL DECREASE LATE SATURDAY MORNING. ..WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 10 AM CST SATURDAY… THE...
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Obama Policies Cause Gas Prices To Shoot Up
What did I tell you he would do? That’s right, blame the high prices on everything and everybody but himself. If you’ve been watching the news, that’s exactly what he’s doing. The reality, he caused the high prices, now he’s blaming others for the result of what he did. Typical leftist. This is solely on Obama, period.
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Thanks to Obamanomics: Per Capita Government Debt...
He just keeps spending and spending and spending and spending like he has a bag full of magic seeds that turn in to money tree’s when he has Michelle plant them while he rides with the fairy on the unicorn sprinkling pixie dust on his crop of imaginary money tree’s.
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I Love It When Newt Nails The Phony "Media"
The media… HA! HA! HA! Media? Surely you jest! They suck Obama-DNC dick all the way to completion. Everybody in the country knows it, yet they continue to embarrass themselves!
Every Republican candidate needs to attack and confront the media like Newt, otherwise the charade will continue.
This is from The Gateway Pundit:
CNN did its best last night [Wednesday] to influence the GOP debate...
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Appeasement is Futile
Obama impaled. Well, he still doesn’t get the fact that no matter how much ass you kiss, scrotum you suck, and appeasing you do, those who hate us will still hate us.
Afghan demonstrators parade an effigy representing US President Barack Obama as they shout anti-US slogans during a protest against Koran desecration in Jalalabad. At least nine demonstrators were shot dead and dozens...
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Base Jumper Kareens Rocks at 120 mph
In case you missed it, a base jumper with one of those flying suits leaps off a mountain to do a little flying. Well, a little too close to the rocks. Oops!
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WEB FORECAST: Flurries Friday; More Snow Sunday
Expect flurries in the Twin Cities Friday morning, with mostly cloudy skies and highs around 30 by afternoon.
Highs will stay around 30 on Saturday, with the next chance of snow on Sunday. The Twin Cities will see 1 to 3 inches of snow, while snowfall totals of 6 to 10 inches are possible between Brainerd and Duluth.
A chance of snow is also in the forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday.
Click here...
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Birkie Skiers Prepare Ahead of 39th Annual Race
Cable, WI (Northland’s NewsCenter) - Now in its 39th year, the American Birkebeiner race in Northwestern Wisconsin is gearing up to be one of the biggest yet.
More than 9,000 skiers from all across the world will take part in the 32 mile race that stretches from the Telemark Resort near Cable to the finish line in downtown Hayward.
Since its start, “The Birkie” has grown into...
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COL BKB: Iowa 67, Wisconsin 66
IOWA CITY, Iowa, Feb. 23 (UPI) — Two free throws by Matt Gatens with 4 seconds to play Thursday brought Iowa a 67-66 upset victory over No. 15 Wisconsin.
Read the rest at UPI
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Naval History - Feb. 24
From the Navy News Service
1813 - USS Hornet, under command of Capt. James Lawrence, captures HMS Peacock.
1942 - Japanese occupation forces are attacked by planes from carrier USS Enterprise (CV 6) task force under Vice Adm. W.F. Halsey.
1973 - In accordance with the Paris Accords, Navy Task Force 78, composed of four ocean minesweepers plus Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 12, begins...
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Daily Navy Photo: USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52)
[caption id=”attachment_80584” align=”aligncenter” width=”600” caption=”A CH-64E Sea Knight helicopter departs the flight deck of amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52) while the ship is anchored in the Arabian Gulf. Pearl Harbor and embarked Marines assigned to the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (11th MEU) are deployed as part of the Makin...
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Donald Vold of Bayfield Sent to Hospital After...
Bayfield, WI (Northland’s NewsCenter) —- A Bayfield man is in the hospital after he crashed his car into a tree on Highway 13 near Washburn, WI.
Yesterday, authorities received a call around 5pm about a car accident on Highway 13 and Bayview Park Road in the Township of Bayview.
When the Washburn Fire and Ambulance Departments, Ashland Paramedics and Bayfield County Sheriff’s Office...
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Superior Police Offering Cash For Facts
Superior, WI (Northland’s NewsCenter) — The Superior Police Department is offering a cash reward of up to $5,000 for information in the Toriano Cooper homicide investigation.
Investigators are still seeking answers to the crime, but need the public’s help to bring the case to a close.
Superior Police are prepared to offer the cash reward for information leading to the arrest...
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Support From Superiorites
Superior, WI (Northland’s NewsCenter) — Due to the recent acts of violence in the Superior community, a prayer vigil will be held on Sunday, February 26th.
The vigil will take place at 4:00 p.m. at the intersection of North 12th Street and Poplar Avenue.
The vigil will highlight the recent robbery at the Superior Walgreen’s which led to a high speed chase by Superior Police.
...
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Today’s Gas Prices Aren’t Bush’s or Iran’s Fault:...
During last night’s debate in Mesa, AZ, moderator CNN’s John King suggested Iran’s behavior was driving gas prices up, and asked the candidates how they’d deal with Iran in order to stabilize the price of petroleum. What an asinine question! Our gas-price problem isn’t because of Iran, rather, it’s because of Barack Obama. If we were drilling for our own oil, as Sarah Palin suggested in 2008 with...
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Election Year Bamboozle: Obama Tries to Fake It on...
With his Presidential Approval Index rating dipping to -15, his signature healthcare legislation at the front door of the Supreme Court, his rejection of the Keystone Pipeline preventing both job creation and steps toward energy independence, his insistence on a “lead from behind” foreign policy- shall we go on?- President Obama and his staff have figured that it’s time to cook up a little more...
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The Great Gibson Guitar Raid: Months Later, Still...
“They…come in with weapons, they seized a half-million dollars worth of property, they shut our factory down, and they have not charged us with anything,” says Gibson Guitars CEO Henry Juszkiewicz, referring to the August 2011 raid on his Nashville and Memphis factories by agents from the Departments of Homeland Security and Fish & Wildlife.
The feds raided Gibson for using an inappropriate...
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Charter Removing CW 2 and My 9 From Cable Service
On March 12, 2012, Charter Communications will remove the Northland’s CW 2 (KDLH DT 2) and My 9/My 9 Sports Network (KBJR DT 2) from their Duluth/Superior service area.
CW 2 (cable channel 2) and My 9 (cable channel 9) are the premiere digital broadcast networks in the Northland carrying highly sought-after programming including UMD Bulldog hockey and football, regional high school athletics,...
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New "Coffee With A Cop"
Superior, WI (Northland’s NewsCenter) — In effort to enhance communication and relationships with citizens, The Superior Police Department is implementing a new “Coffee with a Cop.”
The Superior Police Department will be offering a time to have a cup of coffee and discuss issues within the community.
Police officers will be able to listen to citizens about the concerns...
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Needed Information Surrounding An Armed Robbery in...
Superior, WI (Northland’s NewsCenter) — The Superior Police Department is asking any witnesses that were in or around the Superior Walgreen’s Store on Tower Avenue last Friday afternoon for information surrounding an armed robbery(car jacking).
Investigators say it would have happened around 4:45 p.m. on February 17th.
If you have any information please call the Superior Police...
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And You Wanna "Tax The Rich"?
I have a better idea. How about we tax the poor? 49.5% of them now pay no federal income tax. How is that fair? Why don’t they pay their fair share instead of freeloading off the rest of us and demanding that we pay more, so we can meet their definition of fair share? I’m sick of giving these parasites a free lunch everyday, let ‘em pay for their own.
It is not 50.5% of the wage...
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Six Dollars A Gallon Is Here
Yup, six bucks a gallon. Although it’s only in the Orlando area for now…. take a peek of what to expect this summer.
TAMPA (CBS Tampa) — Talk about pain at the pump! Some Florida drivers are spending nearly $6 a gallon to fill up their gas tanks.
According to GasBuddy.com, motorists are shelling out $5.89 for a gallon of regular gas at a Shell station in Lake Buena Vista, topping out...
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Gallup Finds Unemployment Climbing
Nobody is surprised are they? Except for the Obamaites, but they don’t count. They’re mentally ill and live in a different reality than normal folks. I told you unemployment was going to rise, so did Sean Hannity, and millions of others that are grounded in reality. Let’s be clear, we were better off under Carter than we are now.
The photo below illustrates the face of...
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Americans' Satisfaction As Low As It Was Under...
It’s Jimmy Carter all over again… but worse. Carter didn’t intentionally destroy the economy and willfully implement a pure socialist agenda, unlike the radical extremist that currently resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.
Bad news for Barack means “Hope & Change” for America! U.S. News reports:
It’s February, nine months before a...
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Economics For Dummies: Raising Taxes Does Not...
I thought the dumbass left learned this when Reagan was in office, but apparently they are too stupid to learn from history. Raising taxes does not raise revenue, period. It decreases revenue, what part of that do you morons not understand? By the way, that includes “taxing the rich” you Bolshevik schleps. The 1980’s proved that beyond a shadow of a doubt, yet these Obamaite...
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UAW, SEIU, MoveOn building the ‘99 Percent Spring’...
From The Blaze
The self-proclaimed “99-percent” movement behind Occupy Wall Street claims to be a leaderless movement a la the so-called Arab Spring. So it’s inevitable that a website that advertises something called the “99 percent spring” would emerge to complete their analogy. Unfortunately for the Occupiers, the analogy doesn’t stop there — rather like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the...
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Naval History - Feb. 23
From the Navy News Service
1795 - The U.S. Navy Office of Purveyor of Supplies is established. This is officially recognized as the Navy Supply Corps Birthday.
1919 - USS Osmond Ingram (DD 255), the first Navy ship named for an enlisted man, is commissioned.
1944 - Carrier groups under Adm. Raymond Spruance attack Saipan, Tinian and Rota in the Marianas.
1945 - U.S. Marines and a Navy corpsman...
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Daily Navy Photo: USS Peleliu (LHD 5)
[caption id=”attachment_80446” align=”aligncenter” width=”600” caption=”The amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHD 5) transits through the San Diego Bay. Peleliu is returning from a scheduled underway in preparation for its upcoming 2012 deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Stephen M....
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White House Senior Advisor: Unemployment...
Everybody worried about the economy needs to chill, Valerie Jarrett’s got this…
White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett spoke at the Student Summit at North Carolina Central University and claimed unemployment stimulates the economy.
Her reasoning behind this is people take their unemployment checks and “go out and spend it” which “help(s) stimulate the economy.”
“Let’s face it, even though...
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Did Wisconsin Teacher Union President Mary Bell...
MADISON – Wisconsin Education Association Council President Mary Bell is a liar.
That’s according to a recent blog on BigGovernment.com by Collin Roth of Media Trackers.
Roth looked into recent media reports that WEAC officials asked prospective gubernatorial candidates to promise to veto any budget that doesn’t restore collective bargaining privileges for public sector unions.
He was inspired...
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Reality 2012: Even Obama Has Lower Expectations...
In 2008, while Republican crowds were chanting “USA, USA, USA,” during Sarah Palin’s speeches, Democrats were chanting “hope and change” as Barack Obama talked about “fundamentally transforming America.” And to their shame, many of the people chanting “hope and change” actually believed Obama could deliver. Of course, by the end of 2009 the only significant change, economically speaking, was that...
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JW Sues Obama Department of Energy for Records...
As you may recall, Judicial Watch has been investigating Vice President Biden’s role in securing a bailout for auto manufacturer Fisker Automotive, which opened a facility in V.P. Biden’s home state of Delaware in 2009. Well, that investigation has taken a new turn now that Fisker’s domestic operation is crumbling while funds and jobs promised to American taxpayers are heading overseas to...
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The Effects of Dependency Programs: More Harm than...
There’s still no such thing as a free lunch, although under the Obama administration you may disagree. According to the 2012 Index of Dependence on Government, produced annually by The Heritage Foundation, they report more than 70 percent of all federal spending goes to dependency programs. And now with almost 50 percent of the population not paying federal income tax, it’s creating a fiscal...
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OWS letter to the editor: We will storm Wall...
From Big Journalism
Over at USA Today, a self-employed massage therapist from Austin, TX has a letter to the editor responding to an editorial suggesting that Occupy Wall Street has lost its way.
Here’s what this fellow wrote:
USA TODAY’s editorial is right to say that Occupy might lack clear goals on how to move forward, but the movement has accomplished its main original goal: to protest...
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Salon rewrites history of violence at Occupy...
From Verum Serum
Writer Rebecca Solnit has a piece up at Salon arguing that Occupy Oakland has been horribly misunderstood. They’re not violent, they’re the victims of violence. Her piece is titled The Truth About Violence at Occupy and the subhead is “In Oakland, the camp coincided with a significant drop in crime. But that wasn’t the story we were told.”
It’s a longish piece with a number of...
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Occupy Indoctrination 101 for students attending...
From Fox News
Students in ninth through the 12th grade attending summer programs at a community college outside Washington, D.C., will get a taste of the Occupy operation in a new course that aims to get them interested in “the movement for justice.”
“Occupy MoCo!,” one of the newest courses at Montgomery College in Montgomery County, Md., is part of the Summer Youth program offered for...