Rifqa Bary to be Shipped Back to Ohio

Not the news we were hoping for:

Rifqa Bary being sent back to Ohio
Jerry Wilson – October 13, 2009 – Examiner.com

The ongoing story of Rifqa Bary, the Ohio teen who earlier this year ran away from her devout Muslim parents out of fear for her life after having become a Christian, took another turn today when during an odd joint court session, one held in Florida where Rifqa is currently located and one in Ohio, it was ruled she should be returned to Ohio.

Rifqa’s return is contingent on her parents providing the documentation concerning her immigration status. Despite this request having been made several times by both Rifqa’s legal representation in Florida and the court in Florida since the start of the case it has yet to be produced. It is not known what would happen should it be revealed that Rifqa and her family are in the United States illegally as has been surmised by some bloggers following the case.

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81-Year-Old Man Shoots and Kills Masked Robber

Guns are one of the greatest equalizers in society:

Elderly man kills robber in his home

MontgomeryAdvertiser

BREWTON [Alabama] – Police say an elderly man shot and killed a masked robber who broke into his Escambia County home.

Escambia County Sheriff Grover Smith says the man and his wife were in bed early Tuesday morning when the suspect kicked in the door of their home. Smith says the 81-year-old man got his pistol from the bedside table and shot 35-year-old Jeremy Paul McCall in the head.

Smith says McCall had been released from a Nebraska jail two days before he was killed. It was not immediately clear why he was in jail.

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Uhm, I guessing because he’s a punk who didn’t learn his lesson the first time and had to be taught the hard way?

Republican Olympia Snowe Finally Admits What We Already Knew: She Supports the Health Care Deform Bill

No surprise there.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:  Olympia Snowe is just another freakin’ commie who is wearing the sheepskin of a Republican;  She is one of only three Republican asshats who voted against the wishes of their constituency for Obama’s socialist trojan horse  Stinkulus package.  So, it’s not really bipartisan support, more like commie’s of a feather flocking together.

Key Republican says she’ll vote for health bill
Chairman Baucus picks up support of Sen. Snowe as vote nears

By Robert Schroeder, MarketWatch

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine said Tuesday that she’d support a sweeping Senate Finance Committee bill overhauling the U.S. health-care industry, giving Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., a sought-after Republican vote on President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.

In highly anticipated comments on the $829 billion, 10-year bill, Snowe said the bill wasn’t all she wanted.

“Far from it,” she told fellow senators during what is likely to be the committee’s last work session on Baucus’s bill. “But when history calls, history calls, and I happen to think that the consequences of inaction dictate the urgency of Congress to demonstrate its capacity to solve the monumental issues of our time.”

Baucus kicked off the committee meeting Tuesday morning, saying “now is the time to get this done,” after the committee’s longest bill-writing session in more than 22 years. The panel is expected to vote its final approval or rejection of the bill before the day’s end.

The legislation needs 12 votes to clear the 23-member committee. If it passes, it would mark a major milestone on the road to overhauling the $2.4 trillion U.S. health-care industry. The Finance Committee’s is the last of five congressional bills to be voted on. Both the Senate and House would need to pass bills for Obama to sign.

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Snowe’s vote could help to sway other moderates in her party when the bill goes to the Senate floor, where it will need 60 votes to overcome a Republican filibuster. Among those Republicans Snowe could influence is fellow Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who also joined Snowe to vote for Obama’s stimulus plan earlier this year.

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Dr. Schnieder Blows with the Prevailing Winds

H/T – TGUSA

“To capture the public imagination, we have to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and little mention of any doubts one might have.  Each of us has to decide the right balance between being effective, and being honest.”

– Leading greenhouse advocate, Dr Stephen Schneider
( in interview for “Discover” magazine, Oct 1989)

From the soon to be released documentary, “Not Evil, Just Wrong:”

(Personally, I think it should be called “Absolutely Evil and Just Plain Wrong.” )

Here is the Schnieder’s segment on Leonard Nimoy’s  “In Search of…The Coming Ice Age:

Schwarzenegger Goes Against the People of California and the State’s Constitution—Signs Bill Recognizing Gay Marriages

Looks like Arnold thinks the gay voters will help save his sorry butt come his next run for re-election:

California Governor Signs Gay Marriage Recognition Bill
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
By Staff, Associated Press – via Boston.com

Sacramento, Calif. (AP) – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill recognizing gay marriages sanctioned in other states during the nearly five months such unions were legal in California.

Schwarzenegger says the action is consistent with a state Supreme Court ruling upholding the marriages of same-sex couples who tied the knot in California before voters approved Proposition 8.

The bill signed by the governor late Sunday also states that gay and lesbian couples who were married in other states after Proposition 8’s passage have the same rights and benefits that California grants domestic partners.

The bill was sponsored by a Democrat, state Senator Mark Leno of San Francisco.

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Bunker-Buster Bomb On the Fastrack to Delivery

With all the gutting of the military by Our Dark Overlord, this is very peculiar:

U.S. Speeding Up Delivery of Bunker-Buster Bomb; Denies Iran Is the Reason
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
By Anne Gearan, Associated Press – via MyWayNews

Washington (AP) – The Pentagon is speeding up delivery of a colossal bomb designed to destroy hidden weapons bunkers buried underground and shielded by 10,000 pounds of reinforced concrete.

Call it Plan B for dealing with Iran, which recently revealed a long-suspected nuclear site deep inside a mountain near the holy city of Qom.

The 15-ton behemoth — called the “massive ordnance penetrator,” or MOP — will be the largest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal and will carry 5,300 pounds of explosives. The bomb is about 10 times more powerful than the weapon it is designed to replace.

The Pentagon has awarded a nearly $52 million contract to speed up placement of the bomb aboard the B-2 Stealth bomber, and officials say the bomb could be fielded as soon as next summer.

Pentagon officials acknowledge that the new bomb is intended to blow up fortified sites like those used by Iran and North Korea for their nuclear programs, but they deny there is a specific target in mind.

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The Earth Says Al Gore is Full of Hot Air

How’s that AGW working out for you, Al?

Three Decades Of Global Cooling
IBD

Climate Change: As a Colorado Rockies playoff game is snowed out, scientists report that Arctic sea ice is thickening and Antarctic snow melt is the lowest in three decades. Whatever happened to global warming?

Al Gore wasn’t there to throw out the first snowball, er, baseball, so he might not have noticed that Saturday’s playoff game between the Colorado Rockies and the Philadelphia Phillies was snowed out — in early October. The field should have been snow-free just as the North Pole was to be ice-free this year.

It seems that ice at both poles hasn’t been paying attention to the computer models. The National Snow and Ice Data Center released its summary of summer sea-ice conditions in the Arctic last week and reported a substantial expansion of “second-year ice” — ice thick enough to have persisted through two summers of seasonal melting.

According to the NSIDC, second-year ice this summer made up 32% of the total ice cover on the Arctic Ocean, compared with 21% in 2007 and 9% in 2008. Clearly, Arctic sea ice is not following the consensus touted by Gore and the warm-mongers.

This news coincides with a finding published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters last month by Marco Tedesco, a research scientist at the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology. He reported that ice melt on Antarctica was the lowest in three decades during the ice-melt season.