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Monuments Men now available on video
Can't wait to get my hands on it.
I have not seen a movie that moved me like that for a long time!
Watch Weather Man tells story of driving into water
Weather reporters are always telling us not to drive into water, but do they always practice what they preach?
http://fox8.com/2014/05/13/dick-goddard-hopes-his-water-rescue-story-will-save-lives/#ooid=Z5eXd2bTrNQc9pPagHSGmYSUsS8GP__e
http://fox8.com/2014/05/13/dick-goddard-hopes-his-water-rescue-story-will-save-lives/
How well do you know Stephen Colbert?
Looks like the media is taking up the task of introducing America to Colbert - or waking them up to what we already knew about him:
Here is a fun little slide show about Stephen Colbert: The life & times of a satirist:
http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/stephen-colbert-the-life-and-times-of-a-satirist#image=1
Confronted on Execution, Texas Proudly Says It Kills Efficiently
"When you do something a lot, you get good at it. I think Texas probably does it as well as Iran."DAVID R. DOW, who has represented more than 100 death row inmates, on the state prison in Huntsville, where 876 people have been executed since 1924.
HUNTSVILLE, Tex. — If Texas executes Robert James Campbell as planned on Tuesday, for raping and murdering a woman, it will be the nation’s first execution since Oklahoma’s bungled attempt at lethal injection two weeks ago left a convicted murderer writhing and moaning before he died.
Lawyers for Mr. Campbell are trying to use the Oklahoma debacle to stop the execution here. But many in this state and in this East Texas town north of Houston, where hundreds have been executed in the nation’s busiest death chamber, like to say they do things right.
For two years now, Texas has used a single drug, the barbiturate pentobarbital, instead of the three-drug regimen used in neighboring Oklahoma. Prison administrators from other states often travel here to learn how Texas performs lethal injections and to observe executions. Texas officials have provided guidance and, on at least a few occasions, carried out executions for other states.
Even the protesters and television cameras that used to accompany executions here have, in most cases, dissipated. “It’s kind of business as usual,” said Tommy Oates, 62, a longtime resident who was eating lunch last week at McKenzie’s Barbeque, about one mile from the prison known as the Walls Unit. “That sounds cold, I know. But they’re not in prison for singing too loud at church.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/us/facing-challenge-to-execution-texas-calls-its-process-the-gold-standard.html?emc=edit_th_20140513&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=45299538&_r=0
Tornado Sirens going off
But it looks like it is 20 mile away with the direction mostly away from us. Why do they do this?
Tornado's are isolated and don't take out 20/30 mile areas at once.
Happy Mothers Day to all you moms out there
My mother has long passed but I still think about her and on days like this miss her.
Larry Wilmore to take over Stephen Colbert’s time slot with ‘The Minority Report’ on Comedy Central
Comedy Central isn’t wasting any time — “Daily Show” correspondent Larry Wilmore will take over Stephen Colbert’s time slot in 2015, the network announced Friday night.
“The Minority Report with Larry Wilmore,” created and produced by “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart, will debut next January after “The Colbert Report” wraps up for good this year, airing at 11:30 p.m. Colbert, of course, is heading over to CBS to take over “The Late Show” from David Letterman in 2015.
Wilmore, 52, is a familiar face to “Daily Show” fans — he’s been on the late-night show since 2006 and currently serves as “Senior Black Correspondent.” In addition, Wilmore, a veteran comedy writer, co-created “The PJs” (the animated show with Eddie Murphy) as well as the Emmy-winning “Bernie Mac Show.” Fans of “The Office” might also recognize him as the guy who ran the “Diversity Day” seminar; he also served as a consulting producer on the NBC comedy series.
Can the Kochs Hold Back History?
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The modern equivalent of Hearst is the Koch Brothers, David and Charles — known without affection as the Kochtopus. On certain days, depending on the stock market, their combined worth is more than any single American’s, somewhere around $80 billion.
They have used a big part of this fortune to attack the indisputable science on climate change, to buy junk scholars, to promote harmful legislation at the state level, to go after clean, renewable energy like solar, and to try to kill the greatest expansion of health care in decades. Money can’t buy love, but it certainly can cause a lot of havoc.
With their fight against health care, the Kochs are bumping into another wall of inconvenient truths. Not only has Obamacare exceeded expectations for sign-ups in the first year, but it’s projected now to cover more people over 10 years — 25 million — and cost $104 billion less than previously forecast, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/09/opinion/egan-can-the-kochs-hold-back-history.html?emc=edit_th_20140509&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=45299538
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