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SunSeeker's JournalClinton Cracks Up At The Most Awkward Q Of The Benghazi
Love this exchange where Hillary showed her sense of humor and the Republican's utter lack of it.
"Who else was at your home, were you alone?" Roby asked.
"I was alone, yes," Clinton replied.
"The whole night?" Roby asked.
"Well, yes, the whole night," Clinton said, bursting with laughter.
"Well, I don't know why that's funny," Roby said.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/hillary-clinton-laughs-benghazi-testimony
Ex-Benghazi Investigator Alleges Rep. Gowdy Violated Federal Law
Source: NBCNews.com
The legal battle between the House Select Committee on Benghazi and its former investigator, Todd Podliska, escalated Monday afternoon, when Podliska's lawyers alleged that Chairman Trey Gowdy violated government confidentiality rules and federal law in responding to allegations made by Podliska.
"Both Representative Gowdy and the committee have clearly violated terms of the confidentiality agreement and the Congressional Accountability Act," said Peter Romer-Friedman, one of Podliska's attorneys, to MSNBC on Monday afternoon.
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The lawyers allege that Gowdy and the committee improperly released confidential information regarding an employment dispute with Podliska, in an effort to discredit him.
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Gowdy, the Benghazi committee chairman, told NBC News' Kristin Welker that Podliska was a "lousy employee" who mishandled classified information, and that his criticism of the committee's focus on Hillary Clinton only arose when he "was losing in mediation on his reservist claim."
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-benghazi-investigator-alleges-rep-gowdy-violated-federal-law-n443166
How Dupont "Poisoned the World."
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In 1961, the Teflon-coated “Happy Pan” hit the market. During the Happy Pan rollout, DuPont’s chief toxicologist, Dorothy Hood, cautioned in a memo to executives that the substance should be "handled with extreme care.” She explained that a new study had found enlarged livers in rats and rabbits exposed to C8, which suggested the chemical was toxic. But DuPont continued to market Teflon and related products, which would burgeon into a billion-dollar-a-year business for the company.
Sue Bailey had just gotten pregnant with her third child when she was transferred to the Teflon division of Washington Works. There, she said, she channeled C8 waste into on-site pits using a contraption that looked like a bicycle pump. For the rest of her pregnancy, she suffered from crippling anxiety. “I knew in my gut that something was really wrong,” she says. When Bailey gave birth in January 1981, the baby had only half a nose and a ragged eyelid that gaped down to the middle of his cheek.
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It was becoming clear that the implications of the lawsuits went far beyond the Tennants or the Kigers or the thousands of residents of the Ohio River Valley. By this time, C8 was being detected everywhere—produce and beef in American grocery stores, polar bears in the Arctic, children in the remote Faeroe Islands. One analysis of blood banks from around the world showed that nearly all of the blood contained C8. The lone exception was a set of archived samples that had been collected from Korean War veterans before 1952.
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http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/welcome-to-beautiful-parkersburg/
Looks like Southern California got its January rain in July.
Normally we get our rains in January and our July is bone dry. But this year the months seemed to swap in terms of rain totals.
It's also more rain than San Diego saw in all of January this year; on average, January is the second-wettest month and July the second-driest, with January averaging 66 times more rainfall than July. The only other time July has out-dampened January in San Diego was 1976, when July had 0.02 inch to January's trace.
Later in the day, Los Angeles broke its own July records. Downtown Los Angeles picked up 0.28 inch, which broke the July full-month record of 0.24 inch from July 1-31, 1886. Los Angeles International Airport saw 0.32 inch of rain, tying the record for all of July set in 1992.
http://www.weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/southwest-flood-threat-july-2015-tropical-storm-hurricane-dolores
Rare Honor for U.S. Women’s Soccer Team as New York City PlansTicker-Tape Parade
Source: NYTimes.com
New York City will hold a ticker-tape parade on Friday for the United States women’s national soccer team, breaking with decades of precedent to bestow a rare honor upon a group that competes outside the metropolitan area.
Two days after the team’s World Cup triumph, the office of Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday that the players would be saluted along the Canyon of Heroes in Lower Manhattan at 11 a.m. Since Monday, lawmakers had noted that a parade would be a landmark city honor for a women’s team.
“The people have spoken,” the mayor’s wife, Chirlane McCray, wrote on Twitter, “and they want a ticker-tape parade.”
Read more: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/nyregion/new-york-city-ticker-tape-parade-for-us-womens-soccer-team.html
I wish I could be in New York for this historic event!
FIFA Under Pressure To Pay Women's Soccer Teams Fairly
Yet FIFA paid the winning women's team a $2 million prize, which is four times less than the $8 million it pays men's teams that lose in the first round. The total payout for the Women’s World Cup this year is $15 million, while FIFA awarded a total of $576 million to men's teams in the World Cup last year.
Ultraviolet, a women's rights advocacy organization, started a digital campaign on Monday to press FIFA to pay women's soccer teams fairly for equal work. Roughly 60,000 people signed the campaign in the first 24 hours -- more than twice the signatures a typical Ultraviolet campaign receives on its first day.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7745892
Victory Party for US World Cup Team TODAY at L.A. Live!
If you're near downtown Los Angeles, come show your appreciation for our amazing women's national soccer team!
There will be free parking beginning at 9 a.m. in Lot W- Gate B (1005 W. Chick Hearn Ct, Los Angeles, CA 90015). You may also park in Lot C- North (1150 L.A. LIVE WY, Los Angeles CA 90015).
http://patch.com/california/losalamitos/world-cup-victory-celebration-planned-tuesday?utm_source=article-mostrecent&utm_medium=rss&utm_term=sports&utm_campaign=recirc&utm_content=aol
Victory Party for US World Cup Team TODAY at L.A. Live!
There will be free parking beginning at 9 a.m. in Lot W- Gate B (1005 W. Chick Hearn Ct, Los Angeles, CA 90015). You may also park in Lot C- North (1150 L.A. LIVE WY, Los Angeles CA 90015).
http://patch.com/california/losalamitos/world-cup-victory-celebration-planned-tuesday?utm_source=article-mostrecent&utm_medium=rss&utm_term=sports&utm_campaign=recirc&utm_content=aol
Come show your appreciation for our amazing women's national soccer team!
World's most endangered marine mammal could go extinct
The animal is found exclusively in the upper part Mexico's Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez. But it's not fishing for the vaquita that is the problem. Rather, the commission concluded illegal fishingand trading of another critically endangered species called totoaba caught using huge gill nets was the driver, resulting in "a high entanglement risk for vaquitas."
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Uhlemann said that the totoaba's swim bladder is illegally exported to Asia to make soup and traditional medicine. Demand for totoaba bladders has spiked recently, and a single totoaba bladder can sell for $14,000.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/worlds-most-endangered-marine-mammal-could-go-extinct/
Charleston cop fired for posing in Confederate flag boxers.
A North Charleston police officer who posted a photo of himself wearing Confederate Flag boxer shorts to Facebook has been fired.
The photo spread across the Internet on Thursday after the post had been online for a few days.
Police Chief Eddie Driggers issued a termination letter to the officer, Sgt. Shannon Dildine, saying the photo undermines the officer's "ability to improve trust and instill confidence when working with our citizens."
"Your posting in this manner led to you being publicly identified as a North Charleston Police officer and associated both you and the Department with an image that symbolizes hate and oppression to a significant portion of the citizens we are sworn to serve," Driggers wrote.
http://www.abcnews4.com/story/29411843/north-charleston-police-chief-fires-officer-for-confederate-flag-display-found-on-facebook
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Yes, a pic of the guy in his boxers is at the link.
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