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Deadly Tragedy at Ohio Air Show: Wing Walker & Airshow Pilot
Killed in Crash during Performance

https://www.youtube.com/

http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxyIelyTX2M&feature=player_embedded

From Syracuse.com, Wing walker Jane Wicker, who died at Dayton-area air show, had called her stunt a 'managed risk':

A budget analyst with a daredevil streak, Jane Wicker knew she was taking a risk when she signed up to entertain thousands of spectators at the Vectren Air Show near Dayton.

She said in a TV interview that she felt confident of her ability and said on her website that lots of practice makes her signature stunt a "managed risk." She planned to hang underneath the plane's wing by her feet and sit on the bottom of the airplane while it was upside-down.

It wasn't clear Saturday what went so wrong. The biplane glided through the sky, rolled over, then crashed and exploded into flames, killing the wing walker and the pilot, authorities said. No one else was hurt.

A video posted on WHIO-TV shows the small plane turn upside-down as the performer sits on top of the wing. The plane then tilts and crashes to the ground, erupting into flames as spectators screamed.

Ian Hoyt, an aviation photographer and licensed pilot from Findlay, was at the show with his girlfriend. He told The Associated Press he was taking photos as the plane passed by and had just raised his camera to take another shot.

"Then I realized they were too low and too slow. And before I knew it, they hit the ground," he said.



Wicker wrote on her website that she had never had any close calls.

"What you see us do out there is after an enormous amount of practice and fine tuning, not to mention the airplane goes through microscopic care. It is a managed risk and that is what keeps us alive," she wrote.

In 2011, wing walker Todd Green fell 200 feet to his death at an air show in Michigan while performing a stunt in which he grabbed the skid of a helicopter.

In 2007, veteran stunt pilot Jim LeRoy was killed at the Dayton show when his biplane slammed into the runway while performing loop-to-loops and caught fire.

Organizers were presenting a trimmed-down show and expected smaller crowds at Dayton after the Air Force Thunderbirds and other military participants pulled out this year because of federal budget cuts.

The air show, one of the country's oldest, usually draws around 70,000 people and has a $3.2 million impact on the local economy. Without military aircraft and support, the show expected attendance to be off 30 percent or more.

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"Kill Whitey" Black Panther Leader Arrested in Manhattan on Gun Rap
Sunday, June 23, 2013, 7:12 PM

Black racist 'King Samir Shabazz' arrested in Manhattan on gun charges.

King Samir Shabazz, the National Field Marshall for the New Black Panthers, an "all black army formed to kill whitey", has said whites "should be thankful we're not hanging crackers by nooses... yet, yet, yet".  He, also, has "wet dreams about killing the go*damn cracker"


King Samir Shabazz was arrested this weekend in Manhattan.
The New York Post reported:
The tattoo on his face says, "Kill Whitey" in block letters, and cops say the gun he carried was loaded and unlicensed.

But that didn't stop Maruse Heath — head of the Philadelphia chapter of the New Black Panther Party — from claiming that he's really all about charity and outreach as he was arraigned on a gun-possession charge in Manhattan last night.

"It is my understanding that the New Black Panther Party is the functional equivalent of the KKK," Assistant District Attorney Christopher Ryan countered as Heath, 41, was ordered held in lieu of $75,000 bail for getting busted allegedly with a gun in Harlem Thursday night.

Heath, aka "King Salim Shabazz," was arrested on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard as he left a meeting of New Black Panther Party members. The group had gathered to plan a 15th-anniversary Million Man March commemoration, scheduled for Harlem on Sept. 7.

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Twinkies coming back in July with non-union workers

http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/twinkies-to-return-to-store-shelves-july/article_81f840fd-cc55-55df-9734-3abcd7dadd0d.html

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(The re-write of the Truth:"



Into a lie:

"President Barack Obama makes the first extended trip to Africa of his presidency next week—but he won't be stopping in his ancestral homeland."
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-administration-defers-security-africa-trip-costs-skips-211646601.html

Oops!... Yahoo! News Refers to Kenya as Obama's 'Country of Birth'

Posted Sunday, June 23, 2013

Oopsie! Yahoo! News goes full birther...
Yahoo News accidentally referred to Kenya as Barack Obama's "place of birth" in a report this weekend on his African trip.


Red Alert Politics reported:

http://redalertpolitics.com/2013/06/22/yahoo-news-accidentally-calls-kenya-obamas-country-of-birth/

Things got pretty awkward for news website, Yahoo! News, after an article published by a White House reporter Friday called Kenya President Obama's 'country of birth.'

The article, written by Rachel Rose Hartman, spoke of the Obama family's upcoming visit to Africa, which is expected to take place on June 26th to July 3rd. Hartman mentioned that the President will not be stopping in his country of birth which — apparently to the writer — is Kenya.

Whether it was a freudian slip or a careless mistake on behalf of Hartman, the blunder caused quite a stir, and many took to Twitter to voice their disdain.

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Global Warming Scientist Admits Their Computer
Models May Be ALL SCREWED UP

The Scientists in the global warming hoaxer movement has been looking for excuses as to why the earth hasn't gotten warmer in over 15 years. One scientist has committed the ultimate hoaxer blasphemy, saying that if the trend continues their models could be "fundamentally wrong."

Meteorologist Hans von Storch who still believes in the global warming myth, told Spiegel online:

"If things continue as they have been, in five years, at the latest, we will need to acknowledge that something is fundamentally wrong with our climate models. A 20-year pause in global warming does not occur in a single modeled scenario. But even today, we are finding it very difficult to reconcile actual temperature trends with our expectations."

There are two conceivable explanations -- and neither is very pleasant for us. The first possibility is that less global warming is occurring than expected because greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have less of an effect than we have assumed. This wouldn't mean that there is no man-made greenhouse effect, but simply that our effect on climate events is not as great as we have believed. The other possibility is that, in our simulations, we have underestimated how much the climate fluctuates owing to natural causes.

The IPCC (the UN's Global Warming group said by now  global temperatures would have risen 1 degree Celsius and 3 degrees. However, UK researchers recently reported that global temperatures will only rise between 0.9 degrees Celsius and 2.0 degrees Celsius. On the other hand the NY Times and the BBC have reported that global temperatures plateaued about 15 years ago agreeing with the Met office of the UK one of the key proponents of the Climate Change hoax.

Storch also committed heresy regarding another global warming hoaxer claim, that there global warming is settled science:

Certainly the greatest mistake of climate researchers has been giving the impression that they are declaring the definitive truth. The end result is foolishness along the lines of the climate protection brochures recently published by Germany's Federal Environmental Agency under the title "Sie erwärmt sich doch" ("The Earth is getting warmer"). Pamphlets like that aren't going to convince any skeptics. It's not a bad thing to make mistakes and have to correct them. The only thing that was bad was acting beforehand as if we were infallible. By doing so, we have gambled away the most important asset we have as scientists: the public's trust. We went through something similar with deforestation, too -- and then we didn't hear much about the topic for a long time.

The scientist is still a believer in the hoax:

We still have compelling evidence of a man-made greenhouse effect. There is very little doubt about it. But if global warming continues to stagnate, doubts will obviously grow stronger.

As the global apocalypse predicted by the global warming hoaxers continues to be missing, there will be more cracks in their alliance.

Perhaps the hoaxers will even concede the point made clear by the United Nations' IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer:

But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole.

That's the real reason for this hoax, not environmental policy, but redistribution of worldwide income.

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Wallenda Walks Across The Grand Canyon

LITTLE COLORADO RIVER, Arizona | Sun Jun 23, 2013

Nikolas "Nik" Wallenda is an acrobat, daredevil, and high-wire artist. He comes from a long line of entertainers and is most famous for being the first person to cross over Niagara Falls on a tightrope. Tonight he walked across a section of  the Grand Canyon. The major difference between this stunt and his walk across Niagara Falls is that this time he did it without any tether or any other safety device. He is now the first person to ever cross a section of the Grand Canyon on a wire.

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Mouse vs. man in new Cold War

By MICHAEL GOODWIN

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mouse_vs_man_in_new_cold_war_CF9UFQUD0xy88w96tMQYSP

The photo of President Barack ('The Mouse') Obama and Russian boss Vladimir ('The Man') Putin sitting glum-faced at the G8 summit sparked talk of a new Cold War. Let's hope not, because we would lose this time.

Looking at them, I had one thought: In a showdown, my money is on Putin. In fact, whether negotiating over Syria or arm-wrestling, I want a Putin on our side.

He knows his country's national interests and is prepared to pursue them. We, on the other hand, have a president who increasingly lives over the rainbow.

World disorder is growing by the day, and Obama seems not to notice or care. His big moment in Berlin — a speech at the Brandenburg Gate — was noteworthy for his profuse sweating.

News reports focused on the small crowd, which was a fraction of the rock-star-sized turnout he got there in 2008. But Obama's topic struck me as the cause for alarm.

He proposed cutting Russian and American nuclear arms by a third, an idea so loopy it had the feeling of a bait-and-switch. He had to know Putin would say nyet, and the timing made no sense with chemical weapons floating around in Syria and the rise of new nuclear powers, including Pakistan, India and North Korea.

Even worse, Iran's scramble for the bomb and the warning from Saudi Arabia and others that they will want their own nukes made Obama's choice an embarrassment. It was as if he was trying to turn attention away from the present dangers by floating a tired vision of Hope & Change.

Forget the world as it is, let's dream about the world we want. Maybe throw a little pixie dust in the air and wish for a pony, too.

Dreaming has its time and place, but it is no substitute for action that might make the world safer here and now.

His pathetic performance raises questions: Is our president giving up on containing the chaos? Have the world's problems overwhelmed him?

Actually, I suspect something far more dangerous. He doesn't have a clue about how bad things are.

Obama has never appreciated America's unique standing in the world. Coming out of the blame-America-first faculty lounge, he believes the planet would be a better place if we took a smaller role in it.

That's the vision he has followed by sounding the retreat across the globe. "Leading from behind" is how one aide described it, but it's not leading at all, unless you call running for the exits leading.

The result hasn't been a rise of the good guys who were supposedly held back by our heavy hand. Instead, the vacuum is being filled by Iran and its agents in the Mideast, assorted Islamists in North Africa and tyrants and sociopaths everywhere. Obama is so consumed with his own navel that he hasn't noticed the world isn't cooperating with his vision.


The bad guys have noticed.

Putin, for one, has Obama's number. So do the Iranians, the North Koreans and even the Taliban, who think they can kidnap one of our soldiers and exchange him for five bloody terrorists at Gitmo. Maybe they are right.

Our allies must be shaking, knowing Obama won't stand up to the bullies. And who can blame a Karzai in Afghanistan or an al-Maliki in Iraq for tilting away from us? We're short-timers in their neighborhood.

Obama's view is not new to history or unique with him. But somewhere between his dreamy talk of utopia and his policy of neo-isolationism, there are actual slaughters of real people taking place.

Yet the tens of thousands of corpses piling up in Syria don't move him, nor do the millions of people displaced or forced to flee the country. And his passivity shows he fails to grasp the dangers to our national security of the war spilling into Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Israel.

Ah, but wait, the president does have an epiphany: The world needs to combat climate change immediately. Any day now, the White House promises, he's going to set limits on carbon emissions from American power plants. It'll be a bells-and-whistles speech, one for history, aides say.

That will certainly put a smile on Putin's face. After all, America is surrendering another piece of its economic future and he doesn't have to fire a shot.

Fearful Dems' Silver sidestep

As I watched the seven Democratic candidates for mayor take turns swearing their support for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a political lament came to mind: "Sometimes party loyalty asks too much."

It's a no-brainer that Silver's hush money payoff of $103,000 to two women who charged they were sexually harassed by another assemblyman should earn him a thumbs-down from the candidates. And it would if Silver were a Republican or a Dem back-bencher.

But his power frightens the seven Dems, who looked like the seven dwarfs running for their lives when the Silver question came up at a debate.

By saying he should stay as speaker, they put themselves at odds with a majority of state voters. They might also be giving Republican Joe Lhota an issue to jump-start his mayoral race.

Lhota has made little headway, and goes for weeks without making news. To judge from the lack of information from his campaign, his team wants it that way.

But the radio silence ended Friday, when Lhota held a news conference to urge his rivals to join his dump-Silver bandwagon. "We all have to stand together," he declared.

By itself, the issue isn't a game changer. But it could be the start of a more aggressive effort by Lhota to remind New Yorkers that loyalty to party rule means the publc gets the shaft, as the Dems are proving in the Silver case.

Will they also favor unions over taxpayers? Will they stay silent if Gov. Cuomo screws the city? Will they stand up to Washington's attacks on New York?

Those are the consequences when party asks too much, and Lhota shouldn't be shy about saying so.

Hill's 'go to' scandal excuse.

Reader Jim Soviero predicts how Hillary Rodham Clinton will explain the sex scandals during her tenure at the State Department. "She'll blame some little-watched, drug-filled, horribly made adult video," he writes. "She'll claim the tape ignited primal lusts, and the filmmaker will get a year. The 'actors' will get an invite to perform at the next IRS shindig."

Careful — don't give her any ideas!

FBI's chilling game of drones

Yes, the FBI uses drones to spy on Americans, but just a little bit, here and there. That was the substance of agency Director Robert Mueller's testimony to Congress in the latest revelation about Big Brother government.

"We have very few of limited use, and we're exploring not only the use, but the necessary guidelines," Mueller said.

His words aimed to reassure, but they don't. What does "limited use" mean? And who is drawing up "guidelines"?

If it's Eric Holder, then nobody is safe.

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U.S. Braces for Historic Supreme Court Decisions

(I wonder how John Roberts will vote since he was probably blackmailed in changing his vote and voting 'yes'for ObumaCare.  Do you think the Obuma Adm. will use their supposibly blackmail piece against him again.... hmmmmm..??  Could it involve his two adopted children? ... does Ireland, South America, Rep. Steve Bell, ring a bell. 
http://www.westernjournalism.com/was-chief-justice-john-roberts-blackmailed/

Is their a clue of blackmail in Sen. Mike Lee's new book, "Why John Roberts Was Wrong About Healthcare"...?  Stay Tuned!)

http://www.amazon.com/kindle-store/dp/B00C0CPCRW

This week the Supreme Court will hand down four decisions that will mark a turning point for the United States, and some possible outcomes could even change the course of this country for the rest of our national existence.
The High Court heard 75 cases this year. As this week begins, 64 have been decided, meaning the final 11 will come down this week as the Court concludes its 2012 Term. Seven are run-of-the-mill cases, but the other four are as big as they get. 

In terms of turning points, there are two major cases involving race. It's also noteworthy that both cases were argued by the constitutional law firm Wiley Rein, specifically two of that firm's partners: Burt Rein and Will Consovoy.

The first is Fisher v. University of Texas. [Full disclosure: at the request of one of the parties, I authored a brief in this case for economists and statisticians.]

The petitioners argued that racial preferences in the admissions process at the University of Texas violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. The Court could narrowly rule in their favor, or it could go so far as to overrule prior cases, especially the 2003 case Grutter v. Bollinger, and rule that racial preferences are always unconstitutional. That is the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment and, for me, it is the correct view.

The second is Shelby County v. Holder. Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) requires certain states and localities—mostly in the South—to receive permission from a federal court or the U.S. Justice Department before redrawing legislative districts after each census, or changing their voting laws or procedures. In 1966, the Supreme Court held in Katzenbach v. McClung that Section 5's intrusion into state sovereignty is authorized by the Fifteenth Amendment because of egregious voter suppression in the 1960s. Now that America is a very different place, the justices are considering whether VRA Section 5 is no longer justified by the Constitution.

The last two major cases are the marriage cases. [Full disclosure: at the request of one of the parties, I also coauthored a brief in this litigation for social scientists.

In both of these cases, there are a couple significant questions of whether they were brought in a fashion that satisfies all the requirements of Article III of the Constitution for the federal courts to properly have jurisdiction over those cases. Thus, there is a very real possibility that one or both cases could be dismissed without any decision on the merits of the case.

However, if the Court does reach the merits, the consequences of the decisions could be extraordinary.

One is U.S. v. Windsor. Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 (DOMA) defines marriage for purposes of federal law (such as federal taxes, immigration, and Social Security benefits) as the union of one man and one woman. In Windsor, the Court is considering whether Section 3 violates the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. If it does, then all federal marriage benefits can now be obtained by homosexual couples and likely polygamous families as well (both native to the U.S., and those seeking to immigrate to this country from Muslim nations where polygamy is legal).

The final big case is nothing short of historic. In Hollingsworth v. Perry, the Supreme Court will decide whether the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution confers the right for any consenting adults to marry.

If so, then traditional-marriage laws will be struck down nationwide in the 38 states where they currently exist, and all persons in every state will be able to enter into either homosexual or polygamous marriages. The case directly involved homosexual couples, but if the right is declared to be any union of consenting adults, then if three or more adults all consented to marry each other they would likely have the right to do so.

The Fifth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution are center-stage this week. Given that the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, school children for generations to come in America will read in their history books about what the Supreme Court does this week, one way or the other.


Breitbart News legal columnist Ken Klukowski is a fellow with the American Civil Rights Union and Family Research Council, and on faculty at Liberty University School of Law.[/b]

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Jarhead is probably familiar with this expression:
"Artillerymen have a technique called 'time on target,' in which guns from different batteries are synchronized so that the rounds all hit a target simultaneously."


Somewhere, someone or something has called 'time on target' on the Obuma  administration.  But there exists a certain class of scandal that defies all the rules, that breaks down the barriers between the Beltway and the country at large.  Teapot Dome and Watergate are among these.  In the past weeks, months, the constellation of interrelated scandals... Benghazi, the IRS, Justice, and NSA...termed "scandalpalooza," has achieved that status.  I like to call it the 'Obuma Scandalpalooza'... since his name is connected to each scandal.

But it is the latest scandal involving the National Security Agency that has truly focused public attention.  Benghazi had death under terrifying circumstances, the IRS scandal had the most feared federal agency on the rampage against innocent citizens, the Justice Department scandal had reporters targeted for doing their jobs.  But it is the NSA scandal that has provided the context for all the others, that has brought them together as a bleak and brooding menace threatening American life as it has always been lived... listening to phone calls and reading America's emails.  And to top this all off, NSA leaker Edward Snowden's revelations of U.S. intelligence activities and after reportedly milking the hard drives of four laptops he carried into his Hong Kong hotel, the Chinese government defied a Washington extradition request and let Snowden leave the former British territory.

Once safely at the airport in Moscow, his U.S. passport revoked, Snowden had cover from Russia as he obtained financial and legal assistance from WikiLeaks and petitioned fascist Ecuador for asylum.

Even if the Ecuador claim is intended to throw pursuers off his trail, any number of countries less than friendly with the Obuma administration may be lining up to give the former NSA contractor safe haven.  Considering Snowden was charged under the Espionage Act, there are enough political loopholes in extradition treaties to ensure the administration will have a hard time getting him back.

America is in very deep doo-doo, people!


So... where is Edward Snowden??

Where is Barack Insane-Hussein Obuma??

Where is John Galt??

And, for that matter, where in the hell is Jimmy Hoffa??

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Who's Up to Watch ObamaCare Ruin the NFL?

(Not surprising... Obuma and Sebelius turn everything they touch to pure crap)

(I would, Helen... case in point: Checkout this next pic for
MEAN & UGLY
and while you're at it, go look in the mirror)

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius hopes pro football will make ObamaCare viable. Instead, association with an unpopular law that lacks democratic legitimacy and is destined to fail may ruin football.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Monday she is in talks with the NFL to help promote new insurance options under ObamaCare.

"We're having active discussions right now with a variety of sports affiliates" about both paid advertising and partnerships to encourage enrollment, Sebelius told reporters.

HHS is reportedly also in talks with the NBA to promote the law.

Partnerships with sports organizations are especially promising to HHS because the department hopes large numbers of young, healthy men will enroll in the law's new coverage options.

Those young men don't really need health insurance. To the extent that they're able, they're saving up for marriage, for their first house, and maybe for starting a family. If they can even get a job in this economy. Those choices don't serve the Democrats' interest of buying votes through healthcare. So our government will try persuading and forcing them to make other choices that serve the Democrats' political interests.

Sebelius has broken federal law a couple of times in office, and by all rights should be unemployed and facing prosecution.