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I believe animals can tell us things.
Especially pets.
I think their interaction with people can really give you insight into what a person is about. It can tell you how that person is behind closed doors when nobody is around. It can tell you the kind of environment the family is living in. A pets interaction with family members can tell you everything with regard to what kind of safe, loving household they belong too.
Is the pet always angry? Does the pet live in fear? Is the pet a danger to others? etc. etc. etc.
With this in mind, watch the instinctive action of Bo "The WhiteHouse Dog" as Michelle Obama began to read a Christmas story to young children. Based on this... isn't it clear what kind of household the Obama's are behind the scenes?
I'll let the video tell the story.
Full story.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/24/michelle-obama-twas-the-night-before-christmas_n_2360332.html
What a great First Lady!
Student from Keystone state scores perfect SAT score
WE'VE ALL read depressing newspaper stories about underachieving local high school students. This, I'm happy to say, isn't that kind of column.
No, I've set aside this space to give a well-deserved thumbs-up to Cameron Clarke, a senior at Germantown Academy who scored a perfect 2400 on the SAT.
That's right. A perfect score.
That hardly ever happens.
Although more than 1.66 million students took the SAT in 2012, only 360 test takers nationwide achieved a spotless 2400, according to SAT officials.
"I put in a lot of work," 18-year-old Cameron told me when I visited his house in Mount Airy. "I took a prep class with some of my friends, and I did a lot of practice tests from a book.
"But that only prepares you so much," he explained. "The difference between getting, like, a 2400 and a couple of points lower is just focus.
Cameron has been a student at Germantown Academy since preschool, and his parents had an inkling early on that their son was gifted. On an IQ test at age 4, he scored a 151, which is way, way up there.
His mother, Mary Jones, teaches Spanish at Father Judge High School. His dad, Peter Clarke, owns the Reef Restaurant and Lounge at Third and South streets.
http://articles.philly.com/2012-12-18/news/35871335_1_student-government-cross-country-perfect-sat-score
Cameron Clarke is one of just 360 people out of 1.66 million test takers to post a perfect SAT score in 2012
I had a request that this be posted in the GD forum.
EDIT: Title of OP was changed because it was worded poorly, and I didn't want the OP heading to take away from what is a great story.
Black teen achieves perfect SAT score.
WE'VE ALL read depressing newspaper stories about underachieving local high school students. This, I'm happy to say, isn't that kind of column.
No, I've set aside this space to give a well-deserved thumbs-up to Cameron Clarke, a senior at Germantown Academy who scored a perfect 2400 on the SAT.
That's right. A perfect score.
That hardly ever happens.
Although more than 1.66 million students took the SAT in 2012, only 360 test takers nationwide achieved a spotless 2400, according to SAT officials.
"I put in a lot of work," 18-year-old Cameron told me when I visited his house in Mount Airy. "I took a prep class with some of my friends, and I did a lot of practice tests from a book.
"But that only prepares you so much," he explained. "The difference between getting, like, a 2400 and a couple of points lower is just focus.
Cameron has been a student at Germantown Academy since preschool, and his parents had an inkling early on that their son was gifted. On an IQ test at age 4, he scored a 151, which is way, way up there.
His mother, Mary Jones, teaches Spanish at Father Judge High School. His dad, Peter Clarke, owns the Reef Restaurant and Lounge at Third and South streets.
http://articles.philly.com/2012-12-18/news/35871335_1_student-government-cross-country-perfect-sat-score
Cameron Clarke is one of just 360 people out of 1.66 million test takers to post a perfect SAT score in 2012
Texas women sue over cavity search. "The officer didn't even change gloves!" (Warning:Very Graphic)
Two Texan women have filed a lawsuit for being subjected to embarrassing ‘roadside body cavity searches’ by state troopers who searched their genital regions.
The women were stopped by a trooper for throwing a cigarette butt out of their car window, which is prohibited under the Texas Health & Safety Code that outlaws littering. Angel Dobbs, 38, and her niece Ashley Dobbs, 24, were stopped by a trooper on State Highway 161 and forced to exit their vehicles. Trooper David Farrell then began to question the women about marijuana, proceeding to search the car and then calling his female colleague Kelley Helleson to the scene to search the women’s bodies.
The trooper’s dash-mounted camera captured the incident on tape, which was published online by the Dallas Morning News. The video shows Helleson using her fingers to search the anuses and vaginas of the women. The trooper used the same latex glove to touch the genitals of both women, while conducting the search on the side of the road in full view of the passing vehicles.
Farrell said she ordered the search because the women were “acting weird” – even though he found no marijuana in the car and had no indication of any illegal activity aside from the littering. He then tried to “morph this situation into a DWI investigation”, the Dallas Morning News reports. Neither of the women had been drinking.
The troopers, as well as Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety Steven McCraw, will now be forced to attend court to settle the incident. McCraw said he was aware of complaints about “unlawful strip searches, cavity searches and the like”, but did not do anything to address the issue.
Scott H. Palmer, an attorney for the woman, told the Dallas Morning News that this is a case of public sexual assault and that “no one’s ever seen the likes of this”.
Full story:
http://rt.com/usa/news/texas-women-roadside-cavity-422/
Dallas News.com
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2012/12/irving-women-sue-state-troopers-in-federal-court-alleging-roadside-body-cavity-searches.html/
Video: (Warning: Very Graphic)
News Report:
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's son used same day voter registration.
As most here know, Gov. Scott Walker was opposed to same day voter registration. However, all the while, he actually accompanied his college aged son to the voting booth, so he could register and vote via "same day voter registration" during the GOP primary.
From the Milwaukee Journal Newspaper:
With Walker on hand, son used same-day voter registration in GOP primary
By Don Walker of the Journal Sentinel
Although he has signaled opposition to same-day voter registration, Gov. Scott Walker accompanied his college-age son to a Wauwatosa polling place to register and vote on Aug. 14 - the day of the GOP Senate primary.
A witness who was at the polling place told the Journal Sentinel that the governor accompanied his son.
In a speech in California last month, Walker said he was considering ending same-day voter registration but has since said it won't be a priority for him in the next legislative session.
Walker also said that proponents of same-day registration, some of whom held a news conference this week urging him to leave the issue alone, had turned it into a "ridiculous issue."
"My priority is about jobs, creating jobs. . . . It's not a part of my legislative priorities. It hasn't been something we've talked about," Walker said.
Jocelyn Webster, a Walker spokeswoman, said Friday in an email that the governor had made it clear in a Journal Sentinel 2010 candidate survey that ending same-day registration would make election day operations more efficient for poll workers.
"At the same time, he believes people can and should use any registration opportunity legally available to them, and same-day registration currently is," Webster said. "All this said, the governor has repeatedly said legislation on this issue is not a priority for him. If Matt did register on election day, I think it would highlight that point."
Two Republicans - Rep. Joel Kleefisch of Oconomowoc and Sen. Alberta Darling of River Hills - are writing a bill to end election-day registration.
Kleefisch said he believed there was a greater potential for fraud or simple errors with election-day registration. That's a charge supporters of the law, which has been on the books for 35 years, have disputed.
Proponents say the law encourages turnout and has made Wisconsin a traditionally high-turnout state.
In Milwaukee alone, more than 57,000 people registered on Nov. 6. The Milwaukee Election Commission said much of the same-day turnout occurred in wards at or near the Marquette University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Milwaukee School of Engineering campuses.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/with-walker-on-hand-son-used-sameday-voter-registration-in-gop-primary-907uqgh-182578561.html
Ohio certifies Presidential results. Obama beats Romney by 2.98%
Ohio becomes 36th state to certify results: @BarackObama 2,827,621 (50.67%), @MittRomney 2,661,407 (47.69%). https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjYj9mXElO_QdHpla01oWE1jOFZRbnhJZkZpVFNKeVE#gid=19 …
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Another thread to celebrate our victory! And to celebrate the pollsters who were not influenced by right wing propaganda. The pollsters who were unbiased and factually accurate reported nearly unanimously that Obama had a solid, ironclad 3% point lead in Ohio. And that's exactly where he finished.
Is the Obama campaign giving away too much info?
I understand gloating. I understand the need for historical analysis. I understand that to some degree, the public has a right to know how our leaders get elected.
But is the Obama campaign releasing too much intel?
I for one was hoping that our get out the vote effort, our technological advantage, and our ability to obtain and use data would give us an advantage for elections to come. Instead, sometimes it seems like the Obama campaign is all too willing to let everyone, including the GOP, copy off their homework.
I want the field offices to stay in place for 2016. I don't want to share email strategies or marketing campaigns with Republicans. I want all of this to stay in the shadows, so our Democratic nominee, be it Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Duvall Patrick or whoever else, can use it 4 years from now.
Yet every time I turn on C-SPAN there is another Obama campaign strategist telling the world exactly how they kicked GOP butt!
Enough already!
Let the neanderthal, sexist, racists, homophobic, FOX news watching party figure it out for themselves.
There is no reason to voluntarily explain to people who believe the world is only 6,000 years old how the internet works.
There is no reason to talk about how the census workers were not plotting to take your gun but where really just counting everyone, so that those of us who can read would know the Country isn't 99% white.
Why tell them that yes.... really, FOX news and Rasmussen REALLY DO slant their polls.
LET THEM FIGURE IT OUT FOR THEMSELVES!
Here is a link to buzzfeed. It talks in detail about a conference where the Obama campaign held sessions with note taking GOP strategists, over how the Obama campaign whipped their a** so badly.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/republicans-go-to-obama-school
Am I alone in wishing the Obama campaign would just shut up!
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