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1. Florida man jailed for carrying Aleve. read

2. Woman Starved, Tortured Young Niece. wplg

3. Pot house raids net 135 arrests, $41M of plants. wsvn

4. Florida Trucks Avoid Castration. nbc6

5. Dwyane Wade on Star Jones rumors: We’re just friends. MH

6. Mom Accused Of Leaving Baby In Hot Car. cbs4

7. Man Waiting In Woman’s Car Raped Her. wplg

8. Low morale, internal jealousies at the National Hurricane Center. MH

9. Miramar police warn of driveway robberies. SS

10. Amber Alert Issued For Missing Florida Teen. nbc6

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Miami gang leader Manuel ”Insane” Balbin believed a young member swiped his PlayStation 2. He spared the teen’s life, prosecutors say, but not before he:

• Jolted the teen’s right testicle with a Taser stun gun.

• Carved gang initials into the teen’s back, then used Axe deodorant spray and a lighter to torch his leg.

• Shot the teen, then 17, three times with a stolen pink-painted rifle, dressed him in a tube top and forced him to steal beer from a convenience store. read

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While she was shocking the world with her provocative track Like a Virgin back in the mid 1980s, he was barely out of nappies. But last night during a promotional performance Madonna spent almost every second of her No. 1 track Four Minutes bumping and grinding against Justin Timberlake, despite being well and truly old enough to be his mother. read

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From one America hater to another?

Director Spike Lee has waded into the ongoing controversy surrounding Jeremiah Wright, the Chicago pastor whose provocative statements have proved a thorn in the side of Democrat frontrunner Barack Obama. Lee advises the preacher to do the right thing and keep quiet. “The more he opens his mouth, the more damage he does,” he told the Guardian yesterday.For good measure, Lee hinted at a political conspiracy behind Wright’s recent, contentious attempts to justify his remarks. “It looks like he’s being paid to keep talking,” read story

Well we know for a fact that Obama has been giving the Church of Hate in Chicago money for 20 years……

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The government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez asked Colombia’s main leftist guerrilla group to ‘’share its experience in guerrilla warfare,” citing a possible U.S. invasion, according to documents obtained by The Miami Herald.

A senior Colombian official said the documents were retrieved from a computer belonging to Raúl Reyes, the FARC leader killed March 1 in a Colombian military strike on a rebel hide-out in neighboring Ecuador.

In one of the e-mails reviewed by The Herald, someone who signs as ”Iván” tells the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia’s main leadership, known as the Secretariat, that the request for military cooperation came from the minister of the interior of Venezuela, Ramón Rodríguez Chacín.

The senior Colombian official — who requested anonymity as a condition to discuss the documents — identified ”Iván” as Iván Márquez, a member of the Secretariat. Read story

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By Humberto Fontova

Was it remotely conceivable that someone with Jeremiah’s Wright’s worldview and connections had somehow avoided a pilgrimage to the world capitol of Yankee-hatred, to worship and commiserate with its high priests?

Not a chance. Reverend Wright was part of Revered Jesse Jackson’s 300 person entourage to Havana in 1984. “Viva Fidel!” bellowed Reverend Jackson while concluding his speech at the University of Havana. “Viva Che Guevara!..Long Live our cry of Freedom!”

“He (Jesse Jackson)is a great personality,” reciprocated a beaming Fidel Castro, “a brilliant man with a great talent, capable of communicating with people, very persuasive, reliable, honest. Jackson’s main characteristic is honesty. He is sincere and there is not a single bit of demagoguery in his conversations.”(italics mine)

As mentioned, this was summer of 1984, so at the time the world’s longest-suffering black political prisoner suffered his incarceration and tortures in stoic defiance. “Nigger!” taunted his jailers between tortures. “We pulled you down from the trees and cut off your tail!”

I do not refer to Nelson Mandela. No, this prisoner was being tortured a few miles away from the Revs. Jackson, Wright and their entourage of black American luminaries. The prisoner was a black Cuban named Eusebio Penalver and he was being tortured by Reverend Wright’s gracious hosts. Mr Penalver’s incarceration and tortures stretched to 29 years which makes him the longest-suffering black political prisoner in modern history, surpassing Nelson Mandela’s record in time behind bars and probably doubling the horrors suffered by Mandela during this period.

Eusebio Penalver was bloodied in his fight with Castroism but unbowed for almost 30 years in its dungeons. He’s what Castroites call a “plantado”–a defiant one, an unbreakable one. “Stalin tortured,” wrote Arthur Koestler, “not to force you to reveal a fact, but to force you to collude in a fiction.”

“The worst part of Communism,” wrote Solzhenytzin, “is being forced to live a lie.”

Eusebio Penalver refused to collude in this lie. He spit in the face of the liars. He scorned any “re-education” by his jailers. He knew it was THEY who desperately needed it. He refused to wear the uniform of a common criminal. He knew it was THEY who should don it. Charles Rangel, Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright all toast his torturer. But through 30 years of those tortures Eusebio Penalver stood tall, proud and defiant.

“For months I was naked in a 6 x 4 foot cell,” Eusebio recalls. “That’s 4 feet high, so you couldn’t stand. But I felt a great freedom inside myself. I refused to commit spiritual suicide.”

Sr Penalver served several months of this 30 year sentence naked in a “punishment cell” barely big enough to stand in, where he languished naked and in complete darkness. Shortly before his death in 2006, Senor Penalver told this writer, “Castro’s apologists, those who excuse or downplay his crimes– these people be they ignorant, stupid, mendacious whatever–they are accomplices in the bloody tyrant’s crimes, accomplices in the most brutal and murderous regime in the hemisphere.”

Imagine, say, Jesse Helms or Pat Buchanan, visiting South Africa at the same time Wright and Jackson visited Cuban, then yelling “Viva Botha!” Our ears would STILL be ringing from the media uproar.

But have you ever heard of Eusebio Penalver? He lived in Miami for almost 20 years and would have been a cinch for the media to track down. Ever see a CNN interview with him? Ever see him on 60 Minutes? Ever read about him in the New York Times? The Boston Globe? Ever hear about him on NPR during Black History Month? Ever hear the NAACP or Congressional Black Caucus mention him?

Why do I bother asking?

Jackson and Wright’s Cuban pilgrimage was arranged by the Cuban Council of Churches, who sprang for the full $300,000 tab. “ I have been affiliated with the Cuba Council of Churches since the 1980s,” boasted Reverend Jeremiah Wright in a sermon just last year. “I have several close Cuban friends who work with the Cuba Council of Churches and you have heard me preach about our affiliation and the Black Theology Project’s trips to Cuba.” And naturally the kicker: “Our denomination’s Global Ministries is committed to calling for an end to the U.S. sanctions against Cuba.”

This same denomination, needless to add, clamored FOR sanctions against South Africa.

The Cuban Council of Churches, according to Cuban intelligence defector, Juan Vives, is an arm of Cuba’s ICAP (Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos) itself an arm of Cuba’s DGI, Cuba’s secret police, founded and mentored by the KGB and East German STASI. the ICAP’s long-time chieftan was Rene Cruz Rodriguez whose meteoric rise through Cuba’s Stalinist bureaucracy was facilitated by his diligence as an early executioner, often beating out Che Guevara and Raul Castro themselves in his zeal to shatter the firing-squad victim’s skull with a coup d’ grace from his .45. Also, on Nov. 5, 1982 a Dade County, Fla., grand jury indicted Rene Rodriguez Cruz, for drug smuggling.

Courtesy of Cuban-American professor, Tony de la Cova, we have dramatic proof of how some of Jeremiah Wright’s “close friends” distinguished themselves as Cuban Revolutionaries.

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by Ralph Peters

I haven’t sat through 20 years of Wright’s sermons, but the most striking aspect of the pastor’s rants that I have heard is that - like demagogues on every inhabited continent - he prefers assigning blame to making progress.

Blame is delicious. And easy. Progress takes work.

Nor is it in the interest of demagogues to see their followers graduate from society’s margins toward the center. Social, economic or political success undercuts their fundamental argument that their poor will always be with us.

It gets tricky to portray your followers as eternal victims when you live in a multimillion-dollar mansion (smack dab in the midst of your oppressors), one of your flock is a likely presidential nominee of the most powerful nation in history - and his spouse holds an Ivy League law degree and earns over $300K a year.

In a situation like that, any demagogue has to renew his call to arms - to dismiss any success he can’t spoil outright.

What the media have missed is the ideological company Wright keeps. If you listen past his magnificent rhetorical skills, he makes the same the-evil-government’s-out-to-get-you arguments as white supremacists, polygamist child molesters, UFO cults and all the less scrupulous “advocates” for troubled minorities.

The demagogue’s bottom line is always: Your failures aren’t your fault - it’s all their fault. Whitey’s to blame, or people of color, or the Jews (those Elders of Zion sure do stay busy) or black helicopters from the UN. It’s a formula for the perpetuation of failure.

Fortunately for us, this paralyzing cult of victimhood is the antithesis of the ethic that allowed the United States to achieve the quality of life the vast majority of us enjoy today. What built our country was the get-up-off-your-butt belief that God, by any name, helps those who help themselves. read more

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This picture on the cover of todays Daily news is of a seemingly mad Obama, but this is not the demeanor he had when  forced again to distance himself from his Mentor/ Pastor..Instead of showing leadership and denouncing the Anti- American speeches that Obama wants you to believe he never heard until last week, he decided to sell his soul to the Church of Hate and say nothing for 20 years. He is now a very damaged and flawed politician. This will not go away….

This is what Obama looked like when he made his divorce speech….

This is the ultimate Media spin. The usual “Americans are too stupid to realize that this is a fraud.” How are we to believe that Obama is all of a sudden upset at the things his Pastor, who for twenty years had been preaching hate towards every other race and hate towards America as loudly as he can? Only those already in the tank for Obama and the naive will eat this Sh*t being served up by The Obamaniacs…He is no longer the Messiah. Where are all the fainting Obama Freaks? Or was that a fraud too? He now looks like your average Leftist Politician who seems too weak to confront his crazy Pastor for 20 years. Is this how he will treat Americas enemies?

Barack Obama’s support of Rev. Jeremiah Wright was wrong choice. D.N.

An Old Newness By Thomas Sowell. read

Obama’s Wright Turn by Richard Baehr. read

The Jive Talk Express by Michelle Malkin. read

Obama’s Chickens Come Home to Roost by Robert Tracinsk. read

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It seems Obamas chickens are coming home to roost. The real question is, does Obama and his wife agree with everything Mr. Wright says? In Martial Arts you never dis the teacher. The fact is Obama made a forced speech about Race that the guilt laden press thought was amazing, ” as great as Abraham Lincoln” was what spittle king Chris Mathews said. But as far as his teacher is concerned Obama said what he had to say.

Louis Farrakhan is the teachers Master and Farrakhan will not gain power if Obama is elected President. Obama will have to distance himself from him and the good Rev. Wright. How  much in the tank is the press to not connect the dots and realize that Obama sold his soul to these people years ago. Will the American people mind if the Rev. Wright has an open invite to the Lincoln Bedroom? If Obama does get elected will he quickly make up with the Rev. Wright? Can you imagine this America Hater doing his dance in the White House as our soldiers fight against savages? Maybe this election comes down to Americans deciding between Bimbo Eruptions and America Haters moving into the White House.

Reality is that if the Super Delegates take this away from Obama the party will split and there may be riots in Denver. On the other hand Conservative White Dems and the elderly will not vote for Obama. This guy makes Mondale look like a War Monger. The big question is whether Obama and his wife agree with everything their Mentor/Pastor says.

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama’s worst nightmare, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, yesterday delivered his most brutal wallop to his pal’s campaign as he hailed hatemonger Louis Farrakhan and accused the United States of committing terrorism. read

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Maybe people should just use condoms.

Most scientists involved in Aids research believe that a vaccine against HIV is further away than ever and some have admitted that effective immunisation against the virus may never be possible, according to an unprecedented poll conducted by The Independent.

A mood of deep pessimism has spread among the international community of Aids scientists after the failure of a trial of a promising vaccine at the end of last year. It just was the latest in a series of setbacks in the 25-year struggle to develop an HIV vaccine.

The Independent’s survey of more than 35 leading Aids scientists in Britain and the United States found that just two were now more optimistic about the prospects for an HIV vaccine than they were a year ago; only four said they were more optimistic now than they were five years ago.

Nearly two thirds believed that an HIV vaccine will not be developed within the next 10 years and some of them said that it may take at least 20 more years of research before a vaccine can be used to protect people either from infection or the onset of Aids.

A substantial minority of the scientists admitted that an HIV vaccine may never be developed, and even those who believe that one could appear within the next 10 years added caveats saying that such a vaccine would be unlikely to work as a truly effective prophylactic against infection by the virus. read

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OLDSMAR –

This alligator made himself at home in Pinellas County.Authorities say 69-year-old Sandra Frosti of Oldsmar found the eight-foot alligator in her kitchen late Monday night. read

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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Former President Jimmy Carter embraced a leading Hamas figure Tuesday, according to participants in a meeting that infuriated Israeli officials already upset by Carter’s freelance Mideast peace mission. Carter also laid a wreath at the grave of Yasser Arafat, whom the Bush administration and many Israelis blame for the breakdown of peace talks seven years ago and the violence that followed.

At a reception in the West Bank town of Ramallah organized by Carter’s office, the former president hugged Nasser Shaer, a senior Hamas politician, meeting participants said. Embraces between men are a common custom in Arab culture.

“He gave me a hug. We hugged each other, and it was a warm reception,” Shaer told The Associated Press. “Carter asked what he can do to achieve peace between the Palestinians and Israel … and I told him the possibility for peace is high.”

Carter’s office refused to comment, saying he does not discuss closed meetings. read

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Maybe Bob Johnson will now be accused of being racist?

Wading back into the Democratic presidential race, billionaire businessman Bob Johnson said Monday that Sen. Barack Obama would not be his party’s leading candidate if he were white.

Johnson’s comments to the Observer echoed those of former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro. She stepped down as an adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton last month after saying Obama wouldn’t be where he is if he were white.

“What I believe Geraldine Ferraro meant is that if you take a freshman senator from Illinois called `Jerry Smith’ and he says I’m going to run for president, would he start off with 90 percent of the black vote?” Johnson said. “And the answer is, probably not… .”

“Geraldine Ferraro said it right. The problem is, Geraldine Ferraro is white. This campaign has such a hair-trigger on anything racial … it is almost impossible for anybody to say anything.” read more

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Jessica’s lawsuit claims Rob exposed his no-no parts to Jessica, fondled himself, stuck his hands down her pants, talked about his sex life and also grabbed her ass. Jessica said she never blackmailed the family for $1.5 million even though Rob claimed that Jessica demanding the cash or she would release a bunch of scandalous things about the family to the public. Rob’s lawyer claims Jessica is a lie-teller. Dlisted

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IT wasn’t just the audience that hated Heather Mills at the Miss USA Pageant over the weekend - the show’s producers couldn’t stand Paul McCartney’s one-legged ex-wife, either.
Audience members loudly booed and hissed when Mills was introduced as a judge for the show at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Vegas. But the real problem came behind the scenes, where, for three weeks prior, Mills refused to sign a contract stating the show could be rebroadcast.

“She flat out refused because of one line,” said an insider. “They went back and forth rewriting and finally threatened to pull her from it altogether. She still wouldn’t sign it because she wants to get paid if they resell the footage. Her ego is enormous, and it’s getting bigger by the minute.” read

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Since the McGovernite takeover of their party, they have struggled to work up enthusiasm for Middle American mores. (Since 1980, only Bill Clinton managed it, which is why he was the only Democrat elected president in three decades.)

When the liberal reflex is coupled with a Ivy League-educated candidate who seems personally remote and uncomfortable with everyday American activities, it’s electoral poison.

After the likes of Al Gore and John Kerry, Republicans had to be wondering, “Could Democrats possibly nominate yet another candidate easily portrayed as an out-of-touch elitist?”

With Obama, Democrats appear to be responding with a resounding “Yes, we can!”

Obama brings a special measure of arrogance to the standard liberal critique of Middle America. His candidacy has always been characterized by two paradoxes. How can he be so hopeful at the same time he and his wife, Michelle, portray America as a sink-pit of despair? And how can he claim to be a uniter when he’s an orthodox liberal who has risked little or nothing for bipartisan outreach?

Now, we know. Obama defines hopefulness as liberalism, specifically liberalism as embodied by himself. Only with Obama’s election will America be redeemed from its harrowing false consciousness. We will be unified, not by Obama reaching out to conservatives to hammer out compromises, but by conservatives shedding their bitterness and becoming Obama liberals.

This is the underside of hope: arrogance fading into a secular messianism based on the fallenness of everyone who disagrees with Barack Obama.

And it’s small-town voters who are deluded? read more

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 by Peggy Shapiro
There is something unsettling and very familiar in the Obama poster campaign which has plastered his image over the country. The posters depict the same graphic closeup of the candidate with one block word either “Hope,” “Change” or “Progress” at the bottom. I knew that I had seen this before, and then it came to me that this image appropriates the graphic style of totalitarian Soviet propaganda. It recalls the idealzed portraits and personality cult of the “Beloved Leader” such as Stalin and Lenin. The leader, face illuminated by a “holy” light, looks off to the horizon and sees the truth that is not available to his mere mortal followers, who must look up to his image.

The one-word message offers a simple (simple-minded) promise of a utopian existence. These stenciled words bring to mind They Live, a 1988 film, in which secret alien gods take over Los Angeles and control the inhabitants by subliminal billboard messages which display the word “Obey.” Coincidentally or not, the website for the artist, Shepard Fairey, who designed Obama’s posters is called Obey and boasts on its homepage, “Manufacturing quality dissent since 1989,” and the artist bills himself as an agent of “worldwide propaganda delivery.”
Perhaps the common ground between Obama and Fairy is not only technique, but message. Fairy’s other work romanticizes revolutionary/terrorist figures.  Obama’s association with figures such William Ayers, who boasted of a dozen bombings between 1970 and 1974, has been reported often. Obama was among only 22 Senators who opposed an amendment designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps a foreign terrorist organization. (Unlike the other 21,however, Obama missed the vote.) Fairy’s art also reflects a common theme of the Obama campaign: America is a nation that oppresses. It is the America in which Obama’s wife Michelle can take no pride and that Obama’s spiritual advisor damns. It is the vision of America and its place in the world by one who is unfamiliar with history and who has the luxury of American freedom to express his distain for the country.

What is then unsettling about the Obama poster campaign is that it may be perfectly suited for a man whose candidacy is based on a personality cult, who promises overly simplistic remedies for complex issues, and who seems to have more respect for America’s critics than for the nation he hopes to lead. Source

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“The reality is that people are dying already,” said Jacques Diouf, of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). “Naturally people won’t be sitting dying of starvation, they will react,” he said.

The UN says it takes 232kg of corn to fill a 50-litre car tank with ethanol. That is enough to feed a child for a year. Last week, the UN predicted “massacres” unless the biofuel policy is halted.

“The world food situation is very serious: we have seen riots in Egypt, Cameroon, Haiti and Burkina Faso,” said Mr Diouf. “There is a risk that this unrest will spread in countries where 50pc to 60pc of income goes to food,” he said.

Haiti’s government fell over the weekend following rice and bean riots. Five died.

The global food bill has risen 57pc in the last year. Soaring freight rates make it worse. The cost of food “on the table” has jumped by 74pc in poor countries that rely on imports, according to the FAO.

Whatever the arguments, politics is intruding. Food export controls have been imposed by Russia, China, India, Vietnam, Argentina, and Serbia. We are disturbingly close to a chain reaction that could shatter our assumptions about food security.

The Philippines - a country with ample foreign reserves of $36bn (Britain has $27bn) - last week had to enlist its embassies to hunt for grain supplies after China withheld shipments. Washington stepped in, pledging “absolutely” to cover Philippine grain needs. A new Cold War is taking shape, around energy and food.

The world intelligentsia has been asleep at the wheel. While we rage over global warming, global hunger has swept in under the radar screen. read

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[youtube]http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351287,00.html[/youtube]Ruggedly handsome actor Jason Beghe was best man at the wedding of “X Files” star David Duchovny (his childhood pal) and actress Tea Leoni. In 1998, he starred as Demi Moore’s love interest in “G.I. Jane.” He’s been featured in numerous TV dramas such as “Criminal Minds,” “Numb3rs” and “CSI.”

In 2005, Beghe appeared in promotional spots for the Church of Scientology. But now Beghe has escaped the church after taking courses since 1994. He’s made a video that’s up on YouTube. This is what he has to say: “Scientology is destructive and a rip-off.”

He also says: “It’s very, very dangerous for your spiritual, psychological, mental, emotional health and evolution. I think it stunts your evolution. If Scientology is real, then something’s f——ed up.” read

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A long-buried sex movie of Marilyn Monroe recently hit the market, a top collector told The Post. An illicit copy of the steamy, still-FBI-classified reel - 15 minutes of 16mm film footage in which the original blond bombshell performs oral sex on an unidentified man - was just sold to a New York businessman for $1.5 million, said Keya Morgan, the well-known memorabilia collector who discovered the film and brokered its purchase.

The footage appears to have been shot in the 1950s. When it came to light in the mid-’60s, then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had his agents spend two weeks futilely trying to prove that Monroe’s sex partner was either John F. Kennedy or Robert F. Kennedy, according to declassified agency documents and interviews, Morgan said. read

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel’s secret service has declined to assist U.S. agents guarding former U.S. President Jimmy Carter during a visit in which Israeli leaders have shunned him, U.S. sources close to the matter said on Monday.

Carter angered the Israeli government with plans to meet Hamas’s top leader, Khaled Meshaal, in Syria, and for describing Israeli policy in the occupied Palestinian territories as “a system of apartheid” in a 2006 book. read

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1. Cuban Rapper escaping from the prison paradise Fidel built missing at sea. ”I don’t really know what happened, but my heart tells me that my son is alive,” read

2. MIAMI — One man is dead and another was injured during a shooting inside a Miami nightclub. The shooting happened at 3:15 a.m. Monday inside Studio A, at 66 Northeast 11th St.”There were four shots. I blacked out. I was under the bar,” said a bartender, who told Local 10’s Kellie Butler that her first name was Natalia. wplg

3. ORLANDO, Fla. — Two teenage brothers were injured Sunday when shots were fired outside a central Florida water park, police said. [Full Story]

4. Thank you Oprah for endorsing guy…BARTOW, Fla. — Employees of the “Dr. Phil” television show posted bail for a central Florida teenager jailed for taking part in a videotaped beating of another teen, a spokeswoman for the show’s host confirmed Saturday. [Full Story]

5. The son of a man who died after an attack by Africanized bees says he wants people to know about the danger they pose. More

6. Cedella Marley Booker,81, the mother of late reggae musician Bob Marley, has passed away at her South Florida home on Tuesday. more

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Al Gore is not happy with the press because they ask questions he can not answer.

Al Gore is speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this afternoon. But good luck finding out what he says: Reporters are banned from the event. Huff

In Stalin’s Russia any dissenter from the Party Line was guilty. Innocence had to be proved. It’s a standard tyrant’s trick. During the reign of Oliver Cromwell in England, witchhunters did not have to prove that their victims were guilty. The accused witches had to prove their innocence.

That’s what Al Gore has done to science: He and his friends have flipped innocence and guilt from normal science to Stalinist science.
In Al Gore’s America, any “global warming denier” is guilty until proven innocent. He or she must have been bought off by Big Oil. Skeptics, no matter how well-qualified, must prove the negative about really silly alarmist hogwash. And whenever some prediction is falsified, the warm mongers have an explanation: it’s just a temporary glitch in the data. Oh, yes, we were wrong about 1998, but just wait till 2050! The excuses are endless.
Stalin twisted scientific biology over four decades in the Soviet Union. His favorite fake-scientist, Trofim Lysenko, used all the powers of the police state to enforce his batty belief that the bleeding disaster of Soviet agriculture could be fixed just by making plants grow bigger. It’s the old idea that giraffes have long necks because their ancestors stretched their necks out more and more, to nibble at higher leaves on the trees. It’s nonsense, as horse breeders have known for ages. You can’t make a great race horse just by making their ancestors run fast. You have to do selective breeding.
But breeding takes time, and Stalin was in a hurry. So he fell for the Lysenko fraud, and flipped the burden of proof: Any Soviet biologist who disagreed with Lysenko was shot. This went on for forty years, and caused endless suffering as one harvest after the next crashed. People died by the millions, in part because biological science was fundamentally corrupted.
Putting the burden of proof on the doubters is a perversion of normal, healthy science. It’s as if Jeremiah Wright demanded that all white folks must prove to him that they’re not blue-eyed devils. If politically correct ideas are true by default, the Al Gores can prove anything.
In normal science the burden of proof is on the proposer. Albert Einstein had to prove in his historic 1905 paper that there was a fundamental flaw in classical physics. The distinctive predictions of Relativity Theory had to be verified for decades afterwards. Some are still being tested today. His predecessor Max Planck remarked that he encountered so much skepticism that he had to wait for the older generation of physicists to die off before his work was accepted. Darwin said the same thing.
A healthy scientific community is extremely skeptical. It needs to see more and more evidence, over and over and over again, before it adopts some wild-eyed new idea. It takes all the time it needs; good science is very patient. Einstein himself was a complete skeptic about quantum mechanics, and never accepted it over the last forty years of his life. He had a perfect right to question it, as long as he had rational arguments, and he did. (He was wrong on QM, but he was right on Relativity.)
“Catastrophic global warming,” caused by human beings, is a really wild-eyed idea, given the fact that animals have survived on earth for half a billion years, with thousands of massive volcanic explosions, giant meteors hitting the earth, drifting continents, and great biomass changes that would have perturbed the climate, if the hypothesis were true. Just imagine the amount of C0² that must have been released with the Cambrian explosion of animal life. If the earth really saw superfast global ups and downs in temperature, no animals could have survived those 500 million years. The Ice Ages drove animals and people south, but they were not superfast, global events, or you and I would not be here today. Animals and plants are able adapt to temperature changes. Polar bears grow layers of fat and long, dense fur. Camels can stay cool in the desert.
In biology, “catastrophism” has been treated with intense skepticism since Charles Darwin in the mid-19th century. Except today, when biological catastrophism is the in thing. Why would that be, do you suppose?
How have Al Gore and the fraudsters pulled it off? It’s really simple. They just flipped the burden of proof and put it on the “deniers” — the skeptics, who don’t believe the computer models. With the Left in control of the media, you can do it.
So now it’s prove to me you’re not a witch! Because there is no decisive evidence. There are 21 computer models that “prove” global warming over the next century. By the time 2050 rolls around, most of the modelers will be dead.
To answer the biggest con trick in the history of science, you just have to address a single question to True Believers: What’s your evidence for this barmy idea? (Not: Here’s my evidence against it. That’s not how it works).
And the answer is: There are no facts robust enough, consistent enough, and verified enough to support the mass hysteria. The climate system is hypercomplex, nonlinear and poorly understood. The media spinners are immensely ignorant about real science, and just care about the next scare headline. There’s a lot of wild speculation and a mob of self-serving politicians, bureaucrats and media types who stand to gain a ton of power and money by suckering millions of taxpayers. Al Gore just started a 300 million dollar PR campaign to convince everybody. When was the last time you saw 300 million bucks being spent to promote a scientific hypothesis that was already proven? We’re not spending millions to prove the existence of gravity. The uproar and money involved in this fraud is in direct proportion to the lack of solid facts.
The last ten years have seen global cooling, not warming. read more

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