Monday, October 7, 2013
AMBER ALERT WEBSITE GOES OFFLINE AMID GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, MICHELLE OBAMA’S ‘LET’S MOVE’ WEBSITE STAYS UP
The official website of the AMBER Alert program has been taken offline, due to the federal government shutdown.
“Due to the lapse in federal funding, this Office of Justice Programs (OJP) website is unavailable,” a message greeting visitors now reads on the website.
(Image Source: AmberAlerts.gov)
It was immediately unclear when the website was taken down. However, it should be noted that First Lady Michelle Obama’s website for her “Let’s Move” campaign is still up, running and fully functional.
The AMBER Alert program is a voluntary partnership between law-enforcement and broadcasters that issues urgent bulletins following cases of child abductions.
FOLLOWING THE NEWS, USERS ON TWITTER REACTED:
If George W. Bush shut down the Amber Alert system for a political stunt, there would be a 24/7 TV marathon of screaming fury.
Probably not a super idea for the Administration to temporarily disable the Amber Alert system.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/06/amber-alerts-website-goes-offline-amid-government-shutdown/
The L-8 Mystery
At 6:03 on the morning of Aug. 16, 1942, U.S. Navy blimp L-8 ascended from Treasure Island in San
Francisco Bay to conduct an anti-submarine patrol along the coast of California. Aboard were pilot Ernest Cody and ensign Charles Adams. The flight proceeded uneventfully until 7:42, when Cody reported that they’d spotted an oil slick and were going to investigate.
At 11:15, caddies at a seaside golf club saw the airship float in from the sea, its motors silent. Descending, it struck some telephone lines and the roofs of several homes before coming to rest in Daly City. The first person to reach the downed ship, volunteer fireman William Morris, was surprised at what he found: “The doors were open and nobody was in the cabin.”
There was no trace of Cody or Adams. Though most of the fuel had been dumped, the parachutes and life raft were stored appropriately, and the radio was in working order. Only the crew were missing.
After a search, the Navy declared itself certain that “the men were NOT in the ship at any time it traveled over land.” Two fishing vessels near the oil slick testified that they’d seen the blimp descend to investigate, but nothing had fallen or dropped from it.
That’s all. A Coast Guard search found nothing. Cody and Adams were both declared missing, then pronounced dead a year later. No one knows what became of them.
www.futilitycloset.com/2012/12/11/the-l-8-mystery/
More Really Interesting, Thoughtful Or Funny Things HERE
At 11:15, caddies at a seaside golf club saw the airship float in from the sea, its motors silent. Descending, it struck some telephone lines and the roofs of several homes before coming to rest in Daly City. The first person to reach the downed ship, volunteer fireman William Morris, was surprised at what he found: “The doors were open and nobody was in the cabin.”
There was no trace of Cody or Adams. Though most of the fuel had been dumped, the parachutes and life raft were stored appropriately, and the radio was in working order. Only the crew were missing.
After a search, the Navy declared itself certain that “the men were NOT in the ship at any time it traveled over land.” Two fishing vessels near the oil slick testified that they’d seen the blimp descend to investigate, but nothing had fallen or dropped from it.
That’s all. A Coast Guard search found nothing. Cody and Adams were both declared missing, then pronounced dead a year later. No one knows what became of them.
www.futilitycloset.com/2012/12/11/the-l-8-mystery/
More Really Interesting, Thoughtful Or Funny Things HERE
I seems to me that many people may have felt something similar to this at some point in their life...
...and I am talking male or female about a male or female.... there is a certain magic in the possiblilties of youth and the uncharted territory we explore...
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Blogs With Rule 5 Links
These Blogs Provide Links To Rule 5 Sites:
American Power has:
The Other McCain has:
The Pirate's Cove has:
Proof Positive has:
The Conservative Hideout 2.0 has:
The Reaganite Republican has:
The Woodsterman has:
DID I MISS YOUR RULE 5 LINK AROUND?
EMAIL YOUR LINK AROUND TO: 90NINETYMILES THIS WOULD BE AT GMAIL.
PROGRESSIVES WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO FIGURE THIS OUT.
60 Minutes Airs Segment On The Large Scale Disability Scam That The Obama Administration Is Complicit In to Reduce The Unemployment Rate
The number of Americans enrolled in the federal disability program has skyrocketed, setting it on a course to become the first federal benefits program to run out of funds. Steve Kroft breaks the latest Senate investigation into the entitlement program with an interview with Sen. Tom Coburn who says the system is being gamed and is in need of an overhaul. Kroft's report will be broadcast on 60 Minutes on Sunday, Oct. 6 7:30 p.m. ET/PT.
Coburn, the ranking Republican on the Senate Subcommittee for Investigations, doesn't believe the system's woes are all due to an influx of aging baby boomers and lingering effects of the recession. In his latest investigation, Coburn exposes how some legal, medical, and judicial professionals abuse the system. "If all these people are disabled...I want them all to get it and then we need to figure out how we're going to fund it," says Coburn. "But my investigation tells me and my common sense tells me that we got a system that's being gamed pretty big now," he tells Kroft.
Kroft finds two disability judges whose jobs are to adjudicate as many as 700 cases a year each in an inundated system. They say disability lawyers are flooding an already backlogged system with cases that should never have been brought because there is a good chance they will win them.
It's hard for lawyers to resist what has become such a lucrative business. One of the judges, Marilyn Zahm, told Kroft, "If the American public knew what was going on in our system, half would be outraged and the other half would apply for benefits."
The budget for federal disability, a Social Security Administration program, is $135 billion - more than the government spends on Homeland Security, the Justice Department and the Labor Department combined.
One law firm in particular has made a big business of disability claims. Binder and Binder received $70 million from the Social Security Administration last year, and Kroft talks to two lawyers who worked there who say their former firm is a "legal factory." They say many of the clients they handled sought disability when their unemployment benefits ran out.
Says Coburn, "What's coming about now...is the very people who are truly disabled, because we have so many scallywags in the system, are going to get hurt severely when this trust fund runs out of money."
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57606172/okla-sen-u.s-disability-system-being-gamed/
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