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This is a real news story.
(Reuters) – An 8-year-old South Carolina girl’s dream of having the woolly mammoth become the official state fossil has been put on hold while lawmakers debate an amendment that gives God credit for creation of the prehistoric animal.
A bill that recently passed the state House to designate the Columbian Mammoth as the state fossil stalled in the Senate after Republican Senator Kevin Bryant added two verses from the book of Genesis.
That amendment was ruled out of order but senators this week will debate a new amendment that says the mammoth was “created on the sixth day along with the beasts of the field,” Bryant said on Monday.
The original enrollment target, prior to the website problems, was 7,066,000. Obamacare has reached 99.65% of the projected signups. California is allowing people to continue signing up until April 15th, that alone will probably put the enrollment total OVER the original projected goal.
Not that Putin cares. Alarmist bullshit stories continue to fly from the Ukrainian coup government about “invasions” here and there, and Russia has put a relatively small amount of troops on the eastern Ukrainian border. I don’t have much doubt that Crimea’s going to separate from Ukraine and go back to official Russian control like it was up until 1954, but it won’t take a war or an “invasion” to do it.
These are the people who did nothing to stop sniper fire from the Ukraine hotel onto protesters on February 20th in Kiev, Ukraine, and have now benefited from it. The abrogation of the truce of February 20th, led by violent members of the opposition, has now put them in a position of power within the new government. The overthrow in the end had little to do with democracy. This was by the design of the extreme right-wing opposition parties, who wanted to elevate violence as the means of regime change and denigrate peaceful protest. This greatly contributed to the deaths of hundreds of people.
This is going to become a larger and larger issue, and discredits the new Ukrainian coalition government. A leaked phone call between and Estonian diplomat returning from Ukraine and an EU diplomat (purportedly intercepted by pro-Yanukovich former security officials, but I think it was the Russians) confirms that these shootings are the subject of controversy and suspicion in Ukraine, and might be worldwide soon. However the U.S. is the last place you will hear it come to prominence. The video is followed by a news report about the leaked phone call.
WARNING: The first video is graphic and disturbing. This is a video of people being shot by snipers in cold blood.
These people were shot by gunmen shooting from behind them, from their own “side” of the battle lines. Their supposed martyrdom coincided with the opposition taking over and within 24 hours the elected president was driven from the country.
The Estonian foreign ministry confirmed the leaked conversation was accurate. It said: “Foreign minister Paet was giving an overview of what he had heard in Kiev and expressed concern over the situation on the ground. We reject the claim that Paet was giving an assessment of the opposition’s involvement in the violence.” Ashton’s office said it did not comment on leaks.
During the conversation, Paet quoted a woman named Olga – who the Russian media identified her as Olga Bogomolets, a doctor – blaming snipers from the opposition shooting the protesters.
“What was quite disturbing, this same Olga told that, well, all the evidence shows that people who were killed by snipers from both sides, among policemen and people from the streets, that they were the same snipers killing people from both sides,” Paet said.
“So she also showed me some photos, she said that as medical doctor, she can say it is the same handwriting, the same type of bullets, and it’s really disturbing that now the new coalition, that they don’t want to investigate what exactly happened.”
“So there is a stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers it was not Yanukovych, it was somebody from the new coalition,” Paet says.
Ashton replies: “I think we do want to investigate. I didn’t pick that up, that’s interesting. Gosh,” Ashton says.
Darrell Issa is a car thief and a disgrace to the Congress, and if Elijah Cummings is supposedly “flipping out” here, then I want to see more members of Congress flip out, every day.
It’s so difficult to set up an experiment to “prove” this, but guess what they found one.
Another soon-to-be-published study may provide the most compelling evidence to date that looser gun laws lead to more bloodshed. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health were able to conduct a natural experiment in Missouri after the state repealed a law requiring handgun purchasers to get a license and pass a background check in 2007. According to the study’s authors, repealing the law “contributed to a sixteen percent increase in Missouri’s murder rate.”
That translated into 55 to 63 more murders per year in Missouri between 2008 and 2012, despite the fact that during the same period, “none of the states bordering Missouri experienced significant increases in murder rates and the U.S. murder rate actually declined by over five percent.” The increase in murders began in the first full year after the state’s licensing requirement was repealed, and the researchers “controlled for changes in policing, incarceration, burglaries, unemployment, poverty, and other state laws adopted during the study period that could affect violent crime.”
More handguns means more murders. People kill people, with guns.
He says you can’t do it, so here it is. He was arrested for possession of Valium.
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