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14 Nov 2011
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12 Nov 2011
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ATLANTA (CBS ATLANTA) -

Private investigator TJ Ward said presidential hopeful Herman Cain was not lying at a news conference on Tuesday in Phoenix.

Cain denied making any sexual actions towards Sharon Bialek and vowed to take a polygraph test if necessary to prove his innocence.

Cain has not taken a polygraph but Ward said he does have software that does something better.

Ward said the $15,000 software can detect lies in people's voices.

CBS Atlanta's Mike Paluska played Cain's speech for Ward into the software and watched as it analyzed Cain's every word. 

If he is hiding something this thing would have spiked way down here," said Ward.  "He is being truthful, totally truthful.  He is a man with integrity and he talked directly about not knowing any incident he is accused of."

The software analyzes the stress level and other factors in your voice.  During the speech, when Cain denied the claims, the lie detector read "low risk."  According to Ward, that means Cain is telling the truth. 

During the section of Bialek's news conference where she says, "He suddenly reached over put his hand on my leg under my skirt and reached for my genitals he also grabbed my head brought it towards his crotch."

During the analysis of that section the software said "high risk statement."  Ward said that means she is not  telling the truth about what happened.

"I don't think she is fabricating her meetings," said Ward.  But, she is fabricating what transpired."

Ward said nearly 70 law enforcement agencies nationwide use the voice software, including the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office.

Ward said the technology is a scientific measure that law enforcement use as a tool to tell when someone is lying and that it has a 95 percent success rate.

After listening to Cain's speech and analyzing it, Ward said there is no doubt, Cain is innocent.

"When he directly talks about the allegations against him there is no high risk," said Ward.  "It is low risk, which tells me he is being truthful in his conversations to the public."

Copyright 2011 WGCL-TV.  All rights reserved.

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6 Nov 2011
November 6th, 4:19pm 0 comments

Ga Tech v. Virginia Tech

@LarryWilliamsTI: DC Bud Foster on Georgia Tech's offense: They're a pain in the (butt). You can quote me on that (stuff). I tried the best I can. #Hokies
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6 Nov 2011
November 6th, 3:01am 0 comments

Segregation and Eminent Domain Arrive at Occupy Wall Street

Has Segregation come to Occupy Wall Street? Yes… sleeping segregation.

The latest changes happening in Zuccotti Park may be a “canary indicator” – an early warning sign of what the people behind this movement would like to happen to America and the world.

Those who claim to represent “the 99%“ and are waging class warfare against the ”1%” they mock for living in gated communities, appear to be creating their own “gated” community… as in segregated.

Reports out of lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park say that plans are in the works for many individual tents to be removed and  for the installation of “group housing” with restrictions on who can sleep in these tents.

It started on Friday. The OWS version of “eminent domain” was on display as single tents occupied by lone protesters were taken down and a large, group tent, designated for women only, was raised. At least one resident was not pleased about being evicted without notice.

The governing council of OWS apparently decided that the recent spate of reported rapes, sexual assaults and fighting in Occupy Wall Street’s Zuccotti Park warranted  prompt action. And so, individual tents were moved and the giant tent (seen below) will be a “safe house” where female protesters can sleep was erected.

NY Post Photo by Andrew Kelly

Ironically, one of the women who came forward with her story of unwanted sexual advances in the park, thinks it is a good idea, but she’s not planning on using it. Kara Demtropoulous told the New York Post;

“I feel safe in my tent, but I bet this will help a lot of other women feel a lot safer than they have been.”

The ladies-only tent is only the beginning. There is also talk of more specialized sleeping areas coming to Zuccotti Park. Plans are apparently in the works to raise tents for:

  • Gay Protesters
  • Transgendered Protesters
  • Married Protesters
  • Medical Care
We are told that the new women-only tent will also be protected by an all-female security force. Does this mean that the Gay tent will have an all-gay group guarding them, and transgendered people will need to have transgendered guards?
The OWS movement appears to be trying to create a more formal “collective” inside the 33,000 square foot park they current occupy. The “women’s safety” issue was used in order to push this agenda. The reports of two rapes and more sexual assaults was the reason given for the immediate need to build women’s tent, and nobody can argue against protecting women, but why is there a need for a gay, transgendered or married tent?  Have there been any reports of attacks on gay or transgendered people?  We have not seen any, such action. And which married couples are going to want to share a tent with 16 other people?
This push to create multiple segregated sleeping areas does not seem to make sense, unless you are trying to create a Socialist Collective where the leaders decide how to distribute the resources among the people. The “organizers” are pushing people into higher density living areas and removing the individual tents (and ultimately individual property rights).
This is right out of the Agenda 21 playbook.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:29pm

    And so the progressive creep of the socialist progressive agenda advances; and yes indeed we are seeing the “canary factor” of what the socialists and communists wish to enforce upon the will of the people of America, weather we want it or not.

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    • MidWestMom
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:51pm

      And those big tents are just as illegal as the little ones….
      oops…I forgot. The protesters don’t have to obey the law. They’re “special”.

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    • Founding Father2
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 9:17pm

      The Cain-Gingrich Debate is answering the questions that the OWS people are asking, LIVE right now: http://tiny.cc/nqviw

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    • barber2
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 9:25pm

      Founding: don’t bother the Occupiers at this hour. It’s probably time for the Drumming With Marijuana Hour…

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    • RabidPatriot
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 9:30pm

      Only liberals can see a pile of crap and divide up the piles of clean crap from the dirty crap.

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 9:32pm

      You are Right SNOW here it comes….. don’t you just love the
      Irony of all this? The one’s making the decisions will naturally
      get more than the others… Dont you think? I think the homeless
      should go and protest outside their tents or take over their tents
      like they have done at the homes of the CEO’s or Businesses.
      If their money ran out they would really have a problem, Wouldn’t
      they? Or maybe someone started enforcing the laws? That would
      really mess up their plans, huh??

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 9:57pm

      @SissyKatz — the ironic part for me is that I keep warning people about these various #Occupy groups, even the one currently going on in Phoenix, and not many are paying attention. Just back on tuesday I was downtown and noticed next to the Phoenix Occupation group a sign that read “Obey, we are the Communist Party USA, obedience is mandatory…”

      I asked an officer if it was okay to take a picture of the sign as it was on public property, and illegally posted on a cross walk signal, and he said yes…mind you, I wanted to make sure I followed the law of our city/state…and when I got a camera out to take the picture, it and many others were on the way deeper into the Occupy area quicker than anything.

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    • kindling
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 9:58pm

      I wish they would call themselves something other than the 99%, because they do not speak for me or those of like mind. I think they are probably the 10%.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 10:32pm

      Why don’t they all move to Detroit and take over the area that is so blighted and build what they want. Has anyone noticed they are choosing some of the most expensive real estate known to man???

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    • smokeysmoke
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 10:35pm

      so isent this kinda a pathetic way of solving a problem… there are sexual assults and rapes… so we are just going to seperate the boys from the girls.. it just makes me so mad that the TEA PARTY got such a bad image, WHEN THERE WERNT EVEN INSTANCES OF ANYTHING THAT MSNBC WAS SAYING WAS HAPPENING… BUT THIS IS PROOF…. WOMEN ARE SCARED AND INTIMIDATED OF THE CROWD AT OWS…. AND MSNBC SAYS THAT MOST AMERICANS AGREE WITH THE SPIRIT OF THIS MOVEMENT… i bet that would not be true chris matthews if you actually told them facts…. INSTEAD OF JUST HOW TO THINK, AND WHAT TO THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING..

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    • libsdolie
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 11:55pm

      i just want to know with all the reported cases of rape in the OWS and other camps why is there not a Class action suit for all the rapes that have happened against OWS leaders. After all they will not let the police in to investigate and they have like 500k in the bank. No security no protection no help only the promise to counsel the attackers. Why is it that the ambulance chasers are not there in force to take up the cause. It seems to me that the womens rights groups should be looking after all the victoms.

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on November 6, 2011 at 1:03am

      You are so right (AGAIN). What do you think about 11/9/11? Have you heard any rumblings about veterens day 11/11/11? I have heard something about a terrorist attack, have you? All of this is part of the progressive agenda. I am afraid allot is in the works for next week.

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    • restorehope
      Posted on November 6, 2011 at 1:29am

      In the future, any homeless people who erect a tent or sleep in a cardboard box should not be arrested or asked to “move on”. All they have to do is hold up a sign and protest something. If the police do make them move, then they should sue the city. A precedent unfortunately has been set by the totally clueless New York officials who have allowed the looneys to run the asylum.

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on November 6, 2011 at 1:04am

      Next thing you know, they will want to cut off your hand if you steal from them, although they want to *steal the wealth* from others. Then they would want to make sure you have no weapons, except for *those appointed by them* to keep the peace. Starting sound more nazish and communish by the week.

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    • Steve
      Posted on November 6, 2011 at 1:06am

      Eventually we should see
      a Gay male tent
      a Lesbian tent
      a transgender tent,
      a KKK tent,
      a CAIR tent,
      a Communist tent,
      a Socialist tent attached to the Communist tent.
      Anarchist tent
      a Nazi Tent directly across from the KKK tent with a effigy of Sammy Davis Junior in the middle,
      a code pink tent next to the Lesbian tent of course,
      Hamas tent directly under the CAIR tent,

      Other tents available for our illustrious Democratic leadership downwind of the port-a-potties.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on November 6, 2011 at 1:06am

      I guess they forgot about women being RAPED by lesbians. Like in prison. They just set up an isolated tent prison for women. Welcome to the wonderful World of commie socialist FREEDOM. Isolation is your 1st clue. Well, maybe your 2nd or 3rd or 4th or 5th clue. Either way, you are now imprisoned in a tent. Enjoy your new socialist freedom. The next step in socialist freedom will have you turning tricks for rent and/or food in your new Grand Freedom Woman only tent. You might want to stay away from the drugs that will be introduced to you for free. Tricks are for kids… and you are certainly kids being setup to turn tricks.

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    • smokie
      Posted on November 6, 2011 at 2:10am

      This might be good. This socialist experiment might open some eyes.
      The liberal agenda turned me away from liberalism. How many times will this group mug its own members before some of them turn conservative?

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    • SomeRandomPerson
      Posted on November 6, 2011 at 2:27am

      I can’t tell you how tired I am of hearing about these friggin protesters. I‘ve pretty much quit watching the news because that’s all they talk about. And if it isn’t the protesters, it’s that stupid election stuff. I’m starting to loose my faith in The Blaze and Fox News. I may go over to CNN if they don’t report something different for a change.

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on November 6, 2011 at 2:52am

      They don’t have a Senior Citizens Center either….Age discrimination!!!!

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    • Shiroi Raion
      Posted on November 6, 2011 at 4:25am

      Great story. We won’t see them telling anyone about this on MSDNC.
      I imagine they would further segregate themselves into more groups if they were to continue with this odd behavior.
      I thought of something else too. Given an honest poll. What would the priorities be between Tea Party and OWS?
      Question: What are your highest priorities in life?
      Tea Party: Life, family, friends, values, freedom, peace, and (many or most) spirituality.
      OWS: Material things seems to be their main priority. It’s about the only thing they seem to talk about.
      This is just my assumption of course, and also it’s given that they would actually need to tell the truth for such a poll which is very improbable.
      I’m not a spiritual person myself, but those I listed as likely Tea Party values are my highest values in life. This is where I see the biggest difference between Conservative-Libertarian versus Liberal-Progressive.
      OWS‘s words don’t match their actions and behavior.

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on November 6, 2011 at 6:01am

      @Steve

      I see that you forgot the “earthers” tent. But I guess that‘s because they would try to smoke the leaves and burn everyone else’s tents down.

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    • raderby
      Posted on November 6, 2011 at 6:18am

      And force and enforce laws too. Obamacare, solar power at 1200 a watt, open borders, as infinitum….. This is the biggest reason of all to oppose Obama and all like him. The “canaries” are these foolish pretenders to the 60′s at OWS. These canaries are testing Obama marxist ideas, and making them visible – to see, once again, how far the progressive forge can hammer and mold us before they get stopped. Only to push again in some other theater of their war with us. Prog/libs/commie/marxists need to be defeated, not reasoned with, since no negotiations affect them at all.

      Does anyone else realize this prog agenda is directly the course of action the USSR planned and implemented to bring down the USA from within? Please wake up.

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  • GramSam
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:28pm

    Sounds to me like these guys intent on staying for awhile. I bet the people that live near by are so pleased. Do this people not have a life of some kind that would be better than this, to be used by the socalist, communist, and muslims.

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    • barber2
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 9:21pm

      Yes. Can you imagine what life will be like for the neighborhood “community watch” groups of the original, rational neighbors ? How do you spell : Banks, please burn my mortgage and foreclose on my house../ or Son, have you considered a job in police enforcement ?

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  • YepImaConservative
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:28pm

    “We are told that the new women-only tent will also be protected by an all-female security force. Does this mean that the Gay tent will have an all-gay group guarding them, and transgendered people will need to have transgendered guards?”

    Ahhhh, not to worry Women, Gays and Transgenders… the Black Panthers will have your back in more ways than one. Panthers dig the chicks, wanna’be chicks and chicks with diks!

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  • alrunner58
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:26pm

    Bring out the hoses like they did in the 60′s.

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    • 1TrueOne55
      Posted on November 6, 2011 at 1:58am

      Not the fire hoses they need water tenders with a special “Skunk Liquid” similar to the IDF uses for riots in Israel. I would bet smelling like a skunk with all your gear soaked as well would be a real downer. It might force them to at least go and spend money on new gear to stay there.

      I say soakem with Skunk Juice…

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  • endgamer
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:23pm

    Wow that makes it a rapist smorgasbord all under one tent!! How smart they are!!

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  • just happy
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:17pm

    We should have erected “communism” training camps years ago and given everyone the opportunity to live there for a month. Maybe that would have woke them up and this stupidity which we have been tolerating for 60 years would not have evolved. The gradual erosion of freedom and decency in this country is so deep seated now I pray it is not TOO late to recover.

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    • barber2
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:43pm

      Totally agree. Allowing the Far Lefties to infiltrate, pollinate, and subjugate our young was appalling ( please the rhetoric was channeling an Al Sharpton / Jeese Jackson moment )

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  • freedomofspeech
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:16pm

    I’m courious how long they will be living in this park? rent free, own special tents. ever play fort when you were a kid? kinda reminds me of this, and the rules were made up as you go. I‘m reading Mark Steyn’s new book and he writes about how many ppl never come out of adolescence, low and behold occupy supporters are proof. What’s that toy commercial song “I don’t want to grow up…”.

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    • Lamarr01
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 9:00pm

      There are probably mothers in Queens and Brooklyn that are happy to have their adult children out of the house for a few weeks.

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    • RichNGadsden
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 9:16pm

      LAMARR01, LOL, now the parents can get to the game consoles for a while. And, have plenty of food in the house for once.

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:15pm

    Upon letting everyone have their way you end up with Anarchy.

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  • flyvie
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:14pm

    I hope the Mayans were right. Hermain Cain 2012.

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    • barber2
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:30pm

      Good Lord, if the Mayans are “right” that must mean that Obama wins in 2012. ..

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    • Doug in Seattle
      Posted on November 6, 2011 at 1:45am

      The Mayans will be hanging up the new 10,000 year calendar. That’s all, nothing special about it at all. The myth about the calendar being the end of the world was started by libs so they can get more people anxious about the future.

      Everybody knows global warming is what’s going to cause the end of the world. And that won’t happen until the temp rises another 2 degrees. Don’t you listen Al Gore?

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:14pm

    Some Folks is more equal than others.

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    • barber2
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:24pm

      And some folks is smarter than others : the ones who aren’t attending any Occupy Event .

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  • GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:12pm

    Marxcrocosm: A small, Marxist representative system having analogies to a larger Marxist system in constitution, configuration, or development.

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  • barber2
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:12pm

    Oh, goodie. When will the burkas come ? Can you say, Lord of the Flies ?

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  • cassandra
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:11pm

    I wonder how their going to like their little facist comunity

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  • YoungBloodNews
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:09pm

    This is like a buffet for sex predators! Putting all the women in one place makes it so much easier when selecting your victim. And a rape’in they will be!

    Just bring a razor, I dont think those ladies have shaved in awhile….

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  • tbl10
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:08pm

    Anybody read the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. Sounds a bit reminiscent, the pigs are taking over, because they are just a little higher and know better then the rest of the animals. Meanwhile the same pigs are sleeping in hotels every night. HaHa love the hypocrisy of this movement.

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  • phillipwgirard
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:05pm

    I have a way of getting rid of them, but right now it’s against the law, and i have a price lol

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  • phillipwgirard
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:03pm

    They are starting their own FEMA camp. saves us the trouble, better get used to living in camps OWSers LOL

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    • Brooke Lorren
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:19pm

      I‘m guessing they’re on the yellow list though. They’ll go along with whatever program the government wants to force us into. It’s us freedom-loving types that are likely to die on our way to the camps.

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    • phillipwgirard
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:42pm

      BROOKE, i believe you are right, imagine the likes of those putting people like us in camps? i’de have to kill

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    • loriann12
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:47pm

      They need to get someone to volunteer to build the tiny houses so they can all have their own house.

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    • Lamarr01
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:49pm

      List? What list? Nobody told me about a list. We don’t need no stinking lists!

      The FEMA camps are where the “Most Equal” will go. There will be gourmet dining, hot showers, free STD clinic, monogrammed condoms, flush toilets, Wet Wipes, etc. The FEMA fences are to keep the starving people out.

      The FEMA fences are to keep out. not to keep people in. and protect the SwinoCrats.

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  • John 1776
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:01pm

    I am laughing so hard that I am crying! It’s like “Biosphere Two”, that science experiment a few years back, except, it’s now “Marxist-fear Two.” A small communist experiment. Well, if it works as well as the large scale Marxism worked, this will be a self extinguishing experiment!

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  • Bullfrog85
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:01pm

    Where’s the sex and drugs tent?

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    • barber2
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:26pm

      Right next to the “Democrat Register To Vote” tent…

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    • loriann12
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:48pm

      I don’t care who you are, that’s funny!

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    • Lamarr01
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 9:08pm

      The Sex and Drugs are in the Community Center. Remember you are expected to share whatever you have. No videotaping or flash photography allowed. Cash or credit cards are not honored.

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    • captaincameron
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 9:38pm

      Everywhere.

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  • Robert-CA
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:58pm

    Can’t wait for that cold cold winter :)

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  • ALL4FREEDOM
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:58pm

    This nonsense has gone on long enough. Bloomberg is a whimp: the Public Health Commisioner should simply declare the place a public health disaster area and clean it out. No overnight accomodations of any kind. Protest by day, and go home. Or go to hell, come to think of it.

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    • barber2
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:15pm

      Yes. Think your last “directional” advice was most appropriate !

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    • Lamarr01
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 9:19pm

      The park could be cleaned out with a couple of water trucks filled with raw sewage. Or just open the nearest manhole (excuse my language) and pump the sewer water into the park.

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    • glennrocks
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 9:51pm

      It really is strange that the health department has allowed this. This is just a e-coli or flu pandemic waiting to happen. Then they will sue the City for letting them get sick.

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  • Obama Bin Lying
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:57pm

    The Occutards should be called lord of the Fleas

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  • Ronald Wilson
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:57pm

    Succession should not be tolerated. You can’t have a state within a state.
    Non-violent extraction is what is needed. Time to bring out the law on these people.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:56pm

    Waterhose the filth into the ocean and let NATURE take its course. AMEN!

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    • barber2
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:20pm

      On behalf of our fellow mammals and the fishes in the ocean I say : Please no! Do not pollute our oceans!

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  • 1casawizard
    Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:56pm

    Make em sleep in their tents instead of sleeping at hotels and then coming back in the morning. Winter’s coming and tent sleeping and going to the potty is tough for a lot of folks. Let em go back home. I’m tired of hearing about this every day.

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    • Hickory
      Posted on November 5, 2011 at 9:25pm

      True to form for Democrats. Lies and deception is the norm. Where did you sleep last nite? Er, ah, right here man. That’s nice. How was the continental breakfast? It was great…. er, ah, I mean uh, ah, uh I gotta go pee.

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Population is not the problem

FRONT ROYAL, VA. (Population Research Institute) - I understand that not everyone is happy that the planet is now home-for the first time-to seven billion human beings. 

But what is there not to celebrate?

By nearly every measure of well-being, from infant mortality and life expectancy to educational level and caloric intake, life on Planet Earth has been getting dramatically better.
 
Take life spans, for example. In 1800, when there were only 1 billion of us, lifespans hovered around 24 years. By 1927, when the world's population is estimated to have reached 2 billion, a person could expect to live into their forties. Today, as we pass the 7 billion mark, lifespans have reached 69 years and are still climbing. As people live longer, naturally there are more of us around at any given time.

Better health care and nutrition, by driving infant and child mortality rates down to extremely low levels, have played a major role in extending human lives.  As late as the 19th century, four out of every 10 children died before reaching age five. Today under-five mortality is under 6 percent and falling.

Despite our growing numbers, both crop yields per hectare and food consumption per capita continue to increase.  World food and resource production has never been higher. Enough food is produced for every person on earth to consume 3,500 calories daily. There is no need for anyone to starve in the midst of this plenty.

As our numbers have grown, incomes have soared. Population may have increased seven times over the past two centuries, but per capita income has more than kept pace, growing a remarkable ninety times from $100 to $9,000. The human race has never been so well off.
 
Economies continue to expand, productivity is up, poverty is down, pollution is declining and political freedom is growing.

So what is there not to like about this picture of prosperity and progress?

The human beings themselves, apparently.

Many of the more extreme environmental groups, such as the Sierra Club, see man and nature locked in a kind of mortal combat in which the birth of a baby means the death of a tree, and vice versa.  And they are, I need not remind you, firmly on the side of the trees.

Or the fish.  Like the fellow from the U.K.'s Optimum Population Trust that I recently debated, who said that if we did not control population growth the oceans would be emptied of fish.

I had heard this fish tale before, of course. It goes like this: We are overfishing the ocean commons. Mass extinctions of commercially valuable fish are just around the corner. We will all starve.

In fact, one of Paul Ehrlich's scariest scenarios, from his 1968 book, The Population Bomb, has a hypothetical Environmental Advisory Board telling the American President in 1979 that "the decline in fisheries in both the Atlantic and Pacific is now irreversible due to pollution and recommend[ing] the immediate compulsory restriction of births to one per couple, and compulsory sterilization of all persons with I.Q. scores under 90."

It is not at all obvious to me what the imposition of a one-child policy in the U.S., combined with the forced sterilization of the "unfit," would do to help restore declining fish stocks or avoid mass famine.

But then I don't share Ehrlich's 'blame humanity first' attitude, which leads him to presuppose that the solution to all problems, environmental or otherwise, lies in reducing human numbers.

Even if the ocean fisheries disappeared entirely, it wouldn't matter much in terms of the world's food supply. While fish is an important source of protein, providing 7 percent of the total, it only accounts for a meager 1 percent of the world's calories.

It is true that yields in many of the world's ocean fisheries are no longer increasing. Three-quarters of the world's fish stocks are now fished at, or beyond, sustainable limits. Of the estimated 100 millions tons of fish a year that the oceans can produce, we are already harvesting roughly 95 percent.

But fish in the wild are not the whole story. To satisfy the increasing demand for seafood, entrepreneurs have turned to aquaculture, producing 45 million tons by 2005. This is why, despite the leveling out of the total marine catch, world fish production continues to climb. More importantly, total fish production has increased so much that fish per capita in the late 2000s set new records.

Certainly the wild fish stocks, which "graze" in the vast commons of the oceans, can be better managed to maximize yield.  Establish some kind of ownership rights over the larger, more mobile, and commercially important species, and enforce existing treaties against overfishing and the taking of juveniles.

To save the whales, for example, you should start by reining in the corrupt Japanese commercial fishing industry. 

No one would argue that the best way to save the whale population is by forcing the Japanese birth rate-already below replacement-down to even lower levels, even though the Japanese consume all the whales they kill themselves. How much less sense does it make to carry out population control programs in Africa using the same warped more-babies-equals-fewer-whales logic?

As this example suggests, simply reducing human numbers does little or nothing to directly alleviate environmental problems. Population control is neither an effective nor a humane way to protect the world that we live in.

To paraphrase the Pope, the best way to protect the environment is to recognize that Man is an integral part of nature and protect him.

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One of the Hazards at Arcandian Shores Golf Course

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One of the Hazards at Arcadian Shores Golf Course

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Stacie Crimm Does After Refusing Chemo to Save Unborn Baby’s Life | Video

Stacie Crimm’s story is a mixture of tragedy, selflessness and courage. The 41-year-old was overjoyed when she found out that she was finally pregnant. She was especially esctatic because she had been told that she could never have children.

But she became worried after she started getting headaches and double vision. Fox News has more:

The expectant mom sent more than 150 text messages to her brother in the months that followed, many of which detailed her severe headaches and double vision.

“I’m worried about this baby,” Crimm wrote.

“I hope I live long enough to have this baby,” read another message. “Bubba, if anything happens to me, you take this child,” the single mom wrote.

Sadly, she was diagnosed with neck cancer in July. After briefly weighing her options, Crimm made a bold decision: She planned to refuse chemotherapy to save the life of her child.

Crimm lived just long enough to deliver her 2-pound, 1 ounce daughter, Dottie Mae in August. The courageous mother was able to hold the child in her arms just one time before she passed away.

Her brother, Ray Phillips, explained just how important seeing Dottie was to his sister. “This baby was everything she had in this world,” he said.

Watch below for more:

(H/T: newsok.com)

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Sammy Watkins has run from a troubled neighborhood into Clemson record books

CLEMSON - A former youth football star sprinted down a residential street in Fort Myers, Fla., on Mother's Day night 2008. Willie Fletcher was a phenomenal athlete. Locals said he was going to be their Michael Vick. He had blazing speed. Now he was running for his life.

Fletcher had fled a block party, chased by a man wielding a pistol. He was shot five times. He fell to the sidewalk two houses down from the home of Mike McMiller, a Pop Warner football coach who had enjoyed watching Fletcher play as a youth.

Fletcher was five years older than McMiller's stepson, Sammy Watkins, a sophomore in high school. Watkins and McMiller heard the gunshots and raced outside to find Fletcher, who would die at the hospital.

Watkins, now a freshman receiver at Clemson, recalls what McMiller told him that night: "Remember this night, stay on your course."

"There are a lot of people like me in my neighborhood," Watkins said, "probably even faster, they run just like me. If they lined up and raced me, they'd be right there, but they didn't follow their dreams, they went the other way."

Three-and-a-half years later, Watkins is running into the end zone in Clemson's football season opener. He scores a touchdown 26 seconds into his Clemson career, the quickest in school history.

This is the story of how Watkins ran from a troubled neighborhood and into the record books.

11.15 seconds

Brad Scott visited South Fort Myers High in 2008. The Clemson assistant had scoured the area for years, first as an assistant at Florida State in the 1980s and 90s when he recruited a prospect named Deion Sanders at North Fort Myers High.

Some of the high school coaches that knew Scott from his FSU days were still around, now serving as mentors for new coaches or nearing retirement. South Fort Myers High coach Grant Redhead had played under Scott's friend. Redhead told Scott his school might have a player worth a look.

"I remember going to practice and saying, ‘I think you are right,' " Scott said.

Clemson was one of the first major college programs to show interest in Watkins.

Sammy and older brother Jaylen, who now plays at Florida, thought track was a good way to stay in shape for football season. As a sophomore in high school, Watkins ran the 100-meter dash in 11.6 seconds, finishing 50th in the state in Class 2A. He didn't love track but he liked competing. He wanted to be faster. He wanted to be the fastest prep athlete in Florida.

10.66 seconds

Clemson coaches were surprised to see the amount of notes Watkins compiled from just one meeting last month. Five, six pages of writings. Watkins wanted to absorb the offense quickly.

The staff had a sense of Watkins' rare focus when he visited their camps as a prospect. It's when he fell in love with the Clemson campus and the sleepy town.

"You gotta look real hard to get in trouble," Watkins said of Clemson.

It's a place where he could quietly focus on becoming the next Julio Jones, the Atlanta Falcons receiver whom he models himself after, and a potential body double as Watkins has the same braided hair and has added 13 pounds in one year to his sculpted 6-1, 203-pound frame.

Julio with hands, McMiller says.

Perhaps the best measure of his worth ethic was his track time, a verifiable measurement.

As a junior, Watkins went from 50th in the 100-meter dash to sixth as a junior, running a 10.66 time at the state meet. While he didn't have a say about the double-teams defenses threw at him in the fall, he could have a say about his speed. And he could be faster.

10.45 seconds

South Fort Myers High was tied with Southeast Bradenton with two minutes to play in the playoffs last December. Watkins scored the game-winning touchdown on a 72-yard pass play.

The next week, South Fort Myers trailed by a touchdown with less than two minutes to play. Watkins returned two punts for touchdowns in the game's final 100 seconds.

Many asked why a great player was committed to a six-win Clemson team. The Florida coaches wondered, too. On the last day of the recruiting contact period, Florida coach Will Muschamp and coordinator Charlie Weis traveled to South Fort Myers High to persuade Watkins.

Watkins refused to speak with them.

"I looked at (Clemson) as the perfect place, perfect time," Watkins said. "We can turn the (program) around."

This past spring, Watkins won the 100-meter dash at 10.45 seconds. He was the fastest man in Class 2A.

26 seconds

McMiller and Watkins' mother, Nicole, scrambled to find the Clemson-Troy game on television last Saturday. They added a cable package, thinking ESPN3 was part of another digital tier. They learned ESPN3 offered webcasts. They found the game in time to see Watkins turn a short pass into a 33-yard touchdown. It came just 26 seconds into the game.

"Raising kids, you never actually think they are going to be doing this," McMiller said. "You just root for them and stay behind them as much as you can."

 

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