BILLINGS, Mont. -- A brazen black bear with a late-night hankering for supreme pizza surprised a Montana resident last week, and it's not the first time the animal has eluded capture. Is it racist to call a black bear "brazen" or is it racist to call a brazen bear "black"? I'm confused.
The bear is believed responsible for about 21 break-ins in the Red Lodge area in south-central Montana over the past few weeks.
In the most recent heist, Marek Rosin said he awoke at about 1:30 a.m. on July 29 to find the bear had pushed open the door to his back porch and was raiding his chest freezer. "He was about four feet from me with his head in the freezer munching on a pizza," Rosin said. "It was almost comical if it wouldn't have been that close."
Rosin scared the bear off before it could eat anything more. Must have been the scream
Most of the break-ins involve the bear climbing through a screened window or breaking through a screen door to access picnic baskets refrigerators or freezers, said Shawn Stewart, a Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologist. Stewart said he thinks a single adult black bear is causing most of the problems. Two culvert traps were set up, but the bear has avoided them. Another bear was captured and relocated.
Over the past four days, no new reports of bear break-ins have come in. It's unknown if the bear might have left the area. Or he got tired of frozen pizzas
Bear incidents are also being reported south of Bozeman, east of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and around Jackson Hole, Wyo. "It's fairly widespread," Stewart said.
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"Hey Boo-Boo, lookee here, no more pic-a-nic baskets for me."
"Gee Yogi, I don't think the Ranger is going to like this."
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For instance, the health care law assumes some $200 billion in savings from productivity gains alone. The trustees called that "far from certain."
Yeah, "government worker" and "productivity" are two things not usually associated with each other.
I think the new strategic plan is, "hurry up and die, granny"...
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How many times have I heard libs saying "Oh, but I don't want to hurt the families". Well, now what are they going to do now that there is no money? They have no choice but to do it. Only in spades. Way worse than the conservative route.
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These are hard times, the chickens, buzzards, vultures and even the pterodactyls are coming home to roost.
Here's an interesting related article from the NYT Battle Looms Over Huge Costs of Public Pensions We had quite the discussion on this topic on the 'Burg a few days back.
And there are yet more hard choices to be made.
[Arab News] Kyrgyz forces arrested an opposition party leader on suspicion of plotting the overthrow of the government on Thursday, after troops fired blank rounds into a crowd trying to join mass demonstrations near Parliament.
Acting President Roza Otunbayeva said security forces seized firearms and grenades from Urmat Baryktabasov and 26 supporters after a day of protests in the capital of the Central Asian state, which plans to hold parliamentary elections in October.
"All who attempt to destroy the peace of the citizens will be punished," said Otunbayeva.
Her interim government has struggled to impose its authority since an uprising in April toppled President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. Savage ethnic fighting followed in June, killing more than 350 people over several days and forcing thousands from their homes.
Baryktabasov, who staged a failed coup attempt in 2005, recently returned from exile. Early on Thursday, Kyrgyz troops stopped busloads of his supporters as they approached the capital from his hometown on the shores of Lake Issyk-Kul.
After a standoff lasting several hours on a main road into Bishkek, troops fired tear gas and blank rounds to disperse the crowd. Local news agencies said two women were injured by rubber bullets.
Keneshbek Dushebayev, head of the Kyrgyz National Security Service, told Reuters the army was acting on information that some of those arriving by bus were armed and might attempt to overthrow the interim government.
"If their demands are not met, they are intent on seizing power," he said during the standoff in the village of Kirshyolk, as helicopters roared overhead.
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China's moves to free up its gold market open the way for foreign players and local banks to tap growing demand for the precious metal, offering citizens a more attractive investment and promising to boost the country's clout over global prices.
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ION PEIPING, CHINESE MIL FORUM > BETWEEN A DAM AND A HARD PLACE. China's current + future Demand for WATER, versus SACRIFICE OF HIGHLY ARABLE AGRI-LAND = FOOD IN FAVOR OF NEW DAMS.
* DAILY TIMES.PK > [Housing Ministry]CHINA MUST REPLACE ONE-HALF [actually, 1/2-plus] OF ITS HOMES IN 20 YEARS. Circa year 2030.
versus
US GOVT > Congress-critters are repor debating on whether to start a NEW NATIONWIDE "URBAN RENEWAL" PROJECT in 2020.
Proposition 23 takes aim at California's ambitious environmental law (known as AB 32 or the global-warming law), which requires greenhouse-gas emissions to be reduced to 1990 levels by 2020. If approved by voters in November, the ballot measure would halt enforcement of AB 32 until California's unemployment rate, now over 12%, falls to 5.5% for at least four consecutive quarters. Or global warming floods the whole state, including Mt. Whitney, whichever comes first.
Last week, Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown, a former California governor, ... who helped lay the groundwork for the current collapse whilst banging Linda Ronstadt...
declared global warming to be the defining issue between himself and the Republican candidate, saying Whitman "will gut AB 32." That's a feature, not a bug...
In the months to come, Brown said, "the contrast between my proposal for green jobs and her shilly-shallying on AB 32" will become clear. To date the green jobs are vapor. If the effort was showing results there wouldn't be an argument, would there?
Indeed, despite her latest statement that she may vote no, the ballot measure's supporters see Whitman as an ally. If she doesn't have the lips to stand up for it then there's a problem, isn't there?
"Whitman has said all along that AB 32 is a job killer and that she favors temporary suspension of the law and that is our position as well -- it is consistent with Proposition 23," says Yes on 23 spokeswoman Anita Mangels. "Why do you want to have a law that destructive?"
"Because it feels so good when when we repeal."
Brown is well aware that Whitman's willingness to suspend the greenhouse-emissions law puts her on the wrong side of California public opinion. That's the same public opinion that keeps voting in the Caliphornia legislature, so I guess the Caliphornios deserve the government they've got.
A new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California shows that 66% of residents support the climate law, 45% of the public believe AB 32 will create more jobs, while only 23% believe it will kill jobs (24% say the number of jobs won't be affected). Independents, who currently support Whitman 42% to 39%, are opposed to Proposition 23 by 53% to 29%. The California Experiment continues. They just can't settle for being halfway down the drain, can they?
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45% of the public believe AB 32 will create more jobs, while only 23% believe it will kill jobs
Who are these people who aren't aware that "green jobs" is a hoax?
I'm not against subsidies for new technologies in principle, but this state intervention can't be sold on the back of BS arguments that they will materially reduce unemployment.
Boeing and EADS got their bids into the office with time to spare. US Aerospace said its bid arrived at Wright-Patterson half an hour before the deadline. The Defense Department said it was five minutes late.
US Aerospace is a new company that is in partnership with Antonov, a state-owned Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer that used to build planes for the Soviet Union's military and now specializes in building very large aircraft.
Because of the late arrival of the bid, the Defense Department will not consider US Aerospace's proposal, according to Pentagon chief spokesman Geoff Morrell.
"We are not allowed by law to even review their proposal. It did not arrive in time. So we cannot consider it. We cannot review it," Morrell said.
A spokesman for US Aerospace, Chuck Arnold, said the Defence Department "still feel[s] the cold war is on" and doesn't want US Aerospace to succeed in the bid. IOW: Racist!
Morrell said the rules are clear. Yep. Ask any lawyer.
"This is a $30 billion to $40 billion contract. That is not a high school homework assignment, OK? These deadlines count, and any professional contractor understands that," he said. Pay attention, Boeing and EADS: If you win the bid, you better be done on time. Oh please, once they cash the check 'deadlines' become negotiable ...
Chuck Arnold, a spokesman for US Aerospace, said the bid proposal was on time. I deny your definition of "on time" and substitute my own.
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They need to stop whining. The fix is in, its going to Boeing no matter how good bad ontime or late any other bids are. Nobody else should bother bidding, Boeing will reset and change the rules if they lose until they finally win it. Boeing invested well in lobbyists and congressmen.
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Oh please, once they cash the check 'deadlines' become negotiable ...
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So remind me again about when the USAF said tankers to replace the -135 would be in the air.....
i think they blew their own homework assignment. (with a litle help from their in-house friends and the BMAC).
And then there is that leettle extra credit problem they also blew; its called the F-35.
( disclaimer: I am not a big fan of the armed forces flying tankerskis any more than the bloated Airbust effort)
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The Islamic-Muslim Representatives came on time, the Bzzantine Roman Christians came late, + the Buddhists never appeared at all > THUSLY, VIRGINA, WAS HOW MONGOL-CONTROLLED ASIA CONVERTED TO ISLAM OVERNITE. The post-GENGHIS MONGOL "GREAT KHAN" felt disrespected by the Late Arrivals + No-Shows.
Carbon taxes, add-ons to international air fares and a levy on cross-border money movements are among ways being considered by a panel of the world's leading economists to raise a staggering $100 billion a year to fight climate change.
British economist Nicholas Stern told international climate negotiators Thursday that government regulation and public money also will be needed to create incentives for private investment in industries that emit fewer greenhouse gases.
In short, a new industrial revolution is needed to move the world away from fossil fuels to low carbon growth, he said.
"It will be extremely exciting, dynamic and productive," said Stern, one of 18 experts in public finance on an advisory panel appointed by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
A climate summit held in Copenhagen in December was determined to mobilize $100 billion a year by 2020 to help poor countries adapt to climate change and reduce emissions of carbon dioxide trapping the sun's heat. But the 120 world leaders who met in the Danish capital offered no ideas on how to raise that sum -- $1 trillion every decade -- prompting Ban to appoint his high-level advisory group.
The Copenhagen summit also resolved to mobilize a three-year emergency fund of $30 billion starting this year. It was unclear how much has been raised and disbursed so far.
The advisory panel, which began working in March, will present its final report to Ban in October, a month before the next decisive climate conference convenes in Cancun, Mexico.
Cancun? Nice work if you can get it. Have the delegates ever considered video conferencing or is sacrifice only for us little people?
It will analyze a range of options, Stern said, and governments must decide which to chose, how much to raise from each source, and how to distribute the money.
Potential revenue sources include auctioning the right to pollute, taxes on carbon production, an international travel tax, and a tax on international financial transactions, as well as government grants and loans. Each could produce tens of billions of dollars a year, Stern said.
"No one single source will deliver $100 billion by itself. There is no silver bullet, no hole in one," he said.
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'climate Change' always was about creating a tax base for the UN. Now that 'carbon' trading (which has nothing to do with carbon) is going down the gurgler, they are looking for other ways to tax.
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"In a speech given in 2007 at the Australian National Press Club, Stern called for one per cent of gross global product to be employed in global warming-related environmental measures." from Stern's Wikipedia entry.
As far as I can tell, this guy is the watermelon in the story. Never mind Cancun, if this guy is calling something "exciting, dynamic and productive," then there is about to be a power-grab.
(i) Too quick.
(ii) You have to take care not to get blood on your clothes."
Hell, just drop the damned piano on him and be done with it, grom.
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Cancun? Nice work if you can get it. Have the delegates ever considered video conferencing or is sacrifice only for us little people?
It's only for little people too stupid to know what's good for them. The democrats have said so, so that makes it right, right? If you're not part of the elite, your just a peasant to be rules after all. I think socialism is a direct take off from feudalism.
It will analyze a range of options, Stern said, and governments must decide which to chose, how much to raise from each source, and how to distribute the money.
"All we need is the $100 billion a year, you guys only need to raise it. Thanks, get back to us."
There is no silver bullet, no hole in one
Not quite yet, there isn't. How about a wooden stake?
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Global Warming is a farce. Junk science. It is based on deliberately skewed interpretations of scientific data, put forth by social activists with an agenda to control all human activity.
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HEBRON (Ma'an) — A family clash in the northern Hebron region injured three and saw 25 detained by police, Beit Ummar village officials said Thursday.
Police said they were called to the village to respond to complaints of public disturbance and violence, and arrived on scene to find a mass family brawl.
Police said they opened an investigation into the incident.
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During the summer of 1972, official Washington was dragging Air Force Gen. John D. Lavelle's name and reputation through the mud. Multiple investigations by the Pentagon and Congress concluded that the four-star commander had ordered unauthorized bombing missions in North Vietnam and then tried to cover them up. He was demoted to major general and forced to retire, in disgrace.
Lavelle maintained his rectitude until his death, saying he was acting on orders. Nearly four decades later, it turns out he was right.
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The clue he was acting under orders was that the Air Force didn't court-martial him, something one would think would be mandatory in something so grave as what he was accused of.
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Let's see now, just who would a four-star be taking orders from?
Historical records unearthed by two biographers who came across the material by happenstance show that Lavelle was indeed acting on orders to conduct the bombing missions and that the orders came from the commander in chief himself: President Richard M. Nixon.
Not only did Nixon give the secret orders, but transcripts of his recorded Oval Office conversations show that he stood by, albeit uncomfortably, as Lavelle suffered a scapegoat's fate.
"I just don't want him to be made a goat, goddamnit," Nixon told his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, on June 14, 1972, a few days after it was disclosed that Lavelle had been demoted for the allegedly unauthorized attacks. "You, you destroy a man's career. . . . Can we do anything now to stop this damn thing?"
On June 26, Nixon's conscience intervened in another conversation with Kissinger. "Frankly, Henry, I don't feel right about our pushing him into this thing and then, and then giving him a bad rap," the president said. "I don't want to hurt an innocent man."
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IIRC the missions were tied to North Vietnam's expansion of its activities as per the HO CHI MINH trail into CAMBODIA + LAOS. The NIXON ADMIN did not wish to be accused of unilaterally expanding the war outside of Vietnam.
FEW IFF ANY AT THE TIME BELIEVED LAVELLE TRULY ACTED ON HIS OWN - THE REAL CRUZ WAS HOW LONG [years or decades] IT WOULD TAKE BEFORE THE NIXON ADMIN OR THE FED GOVT ACKNOWLEDGED IT.
Also, it wasn't only NIXON or the USDOD-USAF > many Reelection-minded, anti-Nixon or anti-War DEMS + OTHER covertly supported Gen. Lavelle's
"action" despite their public rhetoric.
The US is said to be negotiating a controversial agreement with Vietnam to provide nuclear fuel and technology without the usual constraints on enriching uranium to prevent proliferation.
The deal has been under discussion for several months following Hanoi's announcement of plans to build 14 nuclear power stations over the next 20 years, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Washington has required several other countries, most recently the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, to agree to source all their nuclear fuel on the international market and to renounce the right to enrich uranium as a requirement for assistance in developing nuclear power.
Vietnam signed an initial memorandum of understanding on nuclear power with the Bush administration in 2001. But the Obama administration has accelerated talks in recent months as Vietnam reaches agreements with other countries including Russia which has been contracted to begin building a light water reactor for $8bn in 2014.
The US and Vietnam signed a new memorandum of understanding in April over broad co-operation on nuclear power including access to "reliable sources of nuclear fuel". An agreement would allow US companies such as General Electric and Bechtel to sell nuclear reactors and other equipment to Vietnam.
But the talks have drawn criticism that Washington is setting a different standard for Vietnam than some other countries.
Henry Sokolski, director of the Nonproliferation Education Centre in Washington, said the US agreeing to allow Hanoi to produce its own nuclear fuel would undermine anti-proliferation efforts.
"After the US set such a good example with the UAE, the Vietnam deal not only sticks out, it could drive a stake through the heart of the general effort to rein in the spread of nuclear fuel-making," he told the Wall Street Journal.
However, Vietnam has said it is not interested in producing its own nuclear fuel because it would be diplomatically sensitive to do so.
Hanoi has also signed nuclear co-operation agreements with several other countries including China, France and India.
China, which has recently dominated the security situation in North Asia, appeared shaken by a surprise move by the US administration to begin negotiations for a civilian nuclear deal with Vietnam.
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Unified VIETNAM is America = Amerika's NEW-ALMOST-BFF???
IMO this will test the merits/truth of CHIN-specific PCorrectness, i.e. RISING CHINA'S myriad Historical, Diplomatic, + MSM-Net claims that it is a POLITE "LOVER, NOT A FIGHTER", + never Ever EVER E-V-E-R EVAR! engages in Local-Regional IMPRIALISM, ETC. IN ASIA LIKE THE US + JAPAN + EUROS.
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NEWS KERALA > EXPERTS: US, VIETNAM NUCLEAR DEAL COULD BE DESTABILIZING [Regional, Globally], UNSETTLE CHINA.
and
* WMF > PLA GENERAL ZHU CHENGHU: CHINA IS NOT AFRAID TO MILITARILY FIGHT/WAR AGZ THE US ON ANY ISSUE, NOT TO FIGHT NUCLEAR WAR AGZ THE US ESPEC IFF THE US FIRES MISSLES OR STATIONS ITSELF ON OR NEAR CHINESE TERRITORY. CHINA'S DEFINITION OF "CHINESE TERRITORY" ACCORDING TO GEN. ZHU INCLUDES PLA MILBASES, CHIN-CLAIMED ISLANDS, PLA WARSHIPS + AIRCRAFT, ETC. REGARDLESS IFF IN CHIN OR INTERNATIONAL WATERS OR AIRSPACE, ETC.
* NORTH + SOUTH KOREA BRING, READY THEIR MISSLES IN OPEN TIT-FOR-TAT: SOUTH KOREAN ADMIRAL KIM KYUNG-SHIK SAYS SOUTH KOREA + SK ARMED FORCES IS CLOSELY WATCHING OR MONITORING NORTH KOREA, SOUTH KOREA WILL NOT STAND FOR ANY NORTH KOREAN "PROVOCATIONS" DURING THE WEST SEA MILITARY DRILLS.
* WMF > "POST MAGAZINE" JAPANESE MEDIA: CHINA'S COVERT INTELLIGEWNCE NETWORK IN JAPAN MAY NUMBER UP TO 3.0MILYUHN PERSONS INCLUDING LARGE NUMBERS OF JAPANESE CITIZENS, ENTREPENUERS + COMPANIES. APPROXI 30,000 CHINESE GIRLS/WOMEN LIVING + WORKING IN JAPAN ARE SPIES FOR BEIJING.
ANNA CHAPMANS + Facebook conquered the PLA.
* WMF > JAPAN"S PM NATO KAN MAKES A STRONG STATEMENT: JAPAN NEEDS "NUCLEAR DETERRENT" WHILE ALSO ADHERING OR SUPPORTING NON-NUCLEAR PRINCIPLES.
* WMF > JAPAN'S CONSPIRACY TO GAIN NATIONAL CONTROL OF US OKINAWA BASES, DAOYUS, + TAIWAN SEA, AIR LANES PUTS THE ENTIRE WORLD IN DANGER.
Regional Destabilization + possible US-China War.
* WMF > FORMER UK PM MAGGIE THATCHER ADMITS THAT THE COLD WAR USSR's GREATEST THREAT TO NATO WAS INDIRECTLY ECONOMIC, NOT MILITARY DESPITE THE POTENCIES OF THE SOVIET ARMED FORCES. THE USSR's ECON "GREATEST THREAT" WAS ALSO ITS GREATEST WEAKNESS AS SOVIET MIL SPENDING COMPRISED 15% OF ITS COLD WAR BUDGET [+ rising], AS OPPOSED/COMPARED TO A NATO AVERAGE OF ONLY 0.05%.
ARTIC > IOW, REAGAN ADMIN + NATO suppor for "STAR WARS" + Deployment of accurate US PERSHING II's IRBM, TLCMS ETC. reduced Soviet economic production by raising Soviet mil spending to counter the former. Couple wid MOSCOW's = KREMLIN's FEARS OF MIL, NATIONAL, IDEO OBSOLESCENCE VEE US-NATO + RISING NON-RUSSIAN MUSLIM POPULATIONS IN SOVIET SSRS.
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Never watched the pregame, halftime, or postgame show just because of him. My little protest.
Whenever I see the guy, the same thought pops into my head. Lookout at a gangbang.
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Now if he was removed from MSNBC and replaced with a real newsperson. Same can be said of Rachel Maddow. I never watch MSNBC. They don't have any news. It seems that all they have is some piece on prisons.
William Ayers, education professor and former Vietnam War era radical, is planning to retire after more than 20 years at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a top school official confirmed today. The retirement will be official within the next couple of weeks, said UIC Education Dean Vicki Chou.
The school has faced its share of negative attention because of Ayers, a former member of the Weather Underground. The radical group was responsible for a number of bombings, including one in a Pentagon bathroom.
Ayers' retirement had nothing to do with the negative press, Chou said, adding that the university will miss him. "It will be more than a ripple because he's made a significant mark here," Chou said. "He's been really a very good colleague here. He has hundreds of students who really cherish that they've had the experience of being taught by him."
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Spoiled little Chi-Town, rich-boy bomber puke can go anywhere he wants to now. Just the thought that he's retired from anything, makes my skin crawl.
At least he wont be filling our kids brains with Anti-USA anarchist eff-ing mush. I despised him in the early 1970s; and wish him a slow, painful death today.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Proposition 23 takes aim at California's ambitious environmental law (known as AB 32 or the global-warming law), which requires greenhouse-gas emissions to be reduced to 1990 levels by 2020. If approved by voters in November, the ballot measure would halt enforcement of AB 32 until California's unemployment rate, now over 12%, falls to 5.5% for at least four consecutive quarters. 
Boeing and EADS got their bids into the office with time to spare. US Aerospace said its bid arrived at Wright-Patterson half an hour before the deadline. The Defense Department said it was five minutes late.
William Ayers, education professor and former Vietnam War era radical, is planning to retire after more than 20 years at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a top school official confirmed today. The retirement will be official within the next couple of weeks, said UIC Education Dean Vicki Chou.
