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Puerto Rico votes on US
ties and chooses governor
Associated Press, by DANICA COTO
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Posted By:envirodude, 11/7/2012 10:03:29 AM
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Ricans faced a fundamental question on Election Day: Should they change their ties with the United States? Citizens in the U.S. island territory cannot vote in the U.S. presidential election, but many were excited to participate in a referendum on whether to push the territory toward statehood, greater autonomy or independence. Car horns blared and party flags waved after polling stations closed following what election officials said was a high voter turnout. During the day, many voters carried umbrellas against the blistering tropical sun as temperatures neared 90 degrees Fahrenheit (31 degrees Celsius).
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
John c, 11/7/2012 10:07:55 AM (No. 8995939)
This is backwards. We should be deciding if they change their relationship to us.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
kanphil, 11/7/2012 10:11:53 AM (No. 8995956)
Cut 'em loose. We can't handle the problems we've got in the contiguous 48+2.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
arcady, 11/7/2012 10:17:59 AM (No. 8996000)
A relic of the Spanish-American War. Sell them to the highest bidder, pay off some debt. Maybe the Chinese are interested...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
glcinpdx, 11/7/2012 10:28:59 AM (No. 8996056)
If they're a state, at least they'll start PAYING some taxes instead of just sucking taxpayer money from the US Treasury...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
lostinmassachusetts, 11/7/2012 10:52:52 AM (No. 8996175)
No, #4. If they're a state, the add two more liberal Democrats to the U.S. Senate. When do the existing citizens get to vote on whether or not to accept them into the union?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Tom Mix, 11/7/2012 11:36:40 AM (No. 8996362)
Only if we can figure out how to make a flag with 51 stars on it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 11/7/2012 11:41:11 AM (No. 8996380)
Can the AP get to it, or is this a novel?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Tom Mix, 11/7/2012 11:59:53 AM (No. 8996469)
I found that a 51 star flag has been figured out already.
It has 9 stars in the top row, 8 stars in the next going down. Then 9, 8, 9 and 8 all added equals 51.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Kurto, 11/7/2012 12:18:22 PM (No. 8996566)
Puerto Rico positions its belly closer to the trough.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
oldsfc, 11/7/2012 5:26:04 PM (No. 8997733)
For years the national currency in PR was the food stamp. Making them a state would be a disaster. Most are on some type of welfare or government program. But, after this election, do it. Kind of like rubbing salt in an open sore.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 11/7/2012 8:50:55 PM (No. 8998225)
Cut them loose or make them pay taxes.
Many are here working along side you for years, except they get their tax deductions returned to them at the end of the year.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bighambone, 11/7/2012 9:19:59 PM (No. 8998268)
Most will never pay taxes, as 118% of all Puerto Ricans are on some sort of welfare. As the man said, once they achieve statehood their welfare benefits would go up. On top of that you could add two liberal Democrat Senators to the US Senate, and I don't know how many liberal Democrat representatives to the House of Representatives. Also Spanish is the historic language of Puerto Rico, would that mean that the USA will then become a bilingual country so as not to hurt Puerto Rico's feelings?
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Dozens Camp Out At Granite Bay
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Posted By: envirodude- 3/28/2013 11:27:56 AM
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GRANITE BAY-Dozens waiting in line for a chance to get free food at Chick-fil-A, but the first customer won’t even be served until tomorrow. It’s got that Black Friday feel out here with tents and coolers and chairs for people all waiting for a tasty treat. More than 100 people set up camp at the new Granite Bay Chick-fil-A. “it’s crazy,” said Natalie Woodmass, a Chick-fil-A customer. People starting lining up in the dark. “It’s fun, it’s free food for a year,” said Darek Daszynsky.
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You´ve got to see this: William Carey
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Let´s see LeBron James do this. Ashlee Arnau, a cheerleader at William Carey University in Hattiesburg, Miss., made an incredible front-flip half-court shot Thursday night at halftime of the school´s men´s basketball game that became an instant Internet sensation. The ball was placed on the floor at midcourt. Arnau approached it with a running start, did a front-flip, grabbing the ball while she was upside down, and then launching it toward the basket while her legs swung forward. Swish! "I really don´t practice at all," Arnau told the AP in a phone interview.
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Ron Paul: Election shows U.S. 'far gone'
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The Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan
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Posted By: Envirodude- 11/9/2012 7:32:24 AM
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Rep. Ron Paul, whose maverick presidential bids shook the GOP, said in the wake of this week's elections that the country has already veered over the fiscal cliff and he sees no chance of righting ship in a country where too many people are dependent on government. "We're so far gone. We're over the cliff," the Texas Republican told Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop" program. "We cannot get enough people in Congress in the next 5-10 years who will do wise things. (Snip) Mr. Paul, who is retiring after 12 terms in the House
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Puerto Rico votes on US
ties and chooses governor
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Associated Press, by DANICA COTO
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Posted By: envirodude- 11/7/2012 10:03:29 AM
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Ricans faced a fundamental question on Election Day: Should they change their ties with the United States? Citizens in the U.S. island territory cannot vote in the U.S. presidential election, but many were excited to participate in a referendum on whether to push the territory toward statehood, greater autonomy or independence. Car horns blared and party flags waved after polling stations closed following what election officials said was a high voter turnout. During the day, many voters carried umbrellas against the blistering tropical sun as temperatures neared 90 degrees Fahrenheit (31 degrees Celsius).
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Suicide note shared: 'I've lost my mind
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Clarion Ledger [Jackson, MS], by Molly Parker
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Brad Taggart —a hunter, a fisherman, an archer, a humble Christian, a sarcastic and good-natured 21-year-old, the son of well-known parents — left only a few powerful words behind when he took his life July 10th outside his parents’ home in rural Madison County. His words were raw and honest and hand-written on a sheet of loose leaf paper. They offered the only explanation Andy and Karen Taggart have to their son’s decision to commit suicide on that summer day. “I hate that I’m putting you through this,” he wrote. “The last thing I want is to bring you all grief but I cannot go on living any longer.
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Watertown, Mass.– A number of gun shots were fired near Franklin Street in Watertown Friday night and it was believed that suspect number 2 in the Boston Marathon bombings had been shot. FOX 25's Bob Ward reported that as many 30 shots were fired in the neighborhood. Ward reported that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man known as suspect 2, was shot by police. It was not immediately known if Tsarnaev was killed. A bomb squad could be seen responding to the scene. A massive police presence was also in the area. FOX 25's Jarrod Holbrook reported that Tsarnaev was seen in a boat with a canvas
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/19/2013 4:15:42 AM
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Boston--FOX 25 has confirmed suspect #1 in the Boston Marathon bombings is dead and the search for suspect #2 is ongoing. FOX 25 has confirmed through sources that suspect #1 is dead and police are searching for suspect #2. Mass. State Police asked Watertown residents not to answer the door unless it is an announced police official. Police in Watertown, Mass., began searching for a heavily armed suspect who may have been involved in the shooting death of an MIT police officer after reportedly taking another suspect into custody early Friday. Local reports say the suspects threw and
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Schumer: Do not ‘jump to conclusions’
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Daily Caller, by Alexis Levinson
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WASHINGTON — New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer admonished colleagues not to “try to conflate” the immigration reform bill that the Senate is considering with the bombings at the Boston Marathon, the perpetrators of which have been identified as immigrants. “I’d like to ask that all of us not jump to conclusions regarding the events in Boston or try to conflate those events with this legislation,” Schumer said Friday at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the immigration bill. As the hearing was happening, the Boston metropolitan area was on lockdown, as police attempted to
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Boston Marathon bombs: live
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Telegraph [UK], by Raf Sanchez
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/19/2013 6:52:32 AM
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Latest 11.42 (06.42) The two suspects may be foreign nationals, according to NBC´s Pete Williams. Quote They were legal permanent residents... They were in this country legally, at least a year. They appear to be from Turkey, possibly Chechens from Turkey. That seems to be the nationality here. We´re told they were not students, in their early twenties. One 20, one 21. We don´t have their names yet. The Associated Press has also said the suspects are from Russian region near Chechnya, and had lived in the US at least one year. 11.25 (06.25) A woman in Watertown has snipers
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USA needs refuge from refugees
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Boston Herald, by Howie Carr
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So once again, no good deed goes unpunished. Uncle Sam lets another bunch of leeching future terrorists into the country who have absolutely no business being here, gives them “asylum,” making them immediately eligible for welfare, and this is the thanks we get? They turn into mass murderers. We bring in thousands of Muslims from a primitive society that has been battling Christians for centuries, and put them into a peaceful Christian society — what could possible go wrong? This is what I was thinking about yesterday, with much of the city under what amounted to martial law.
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The Insanity of
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The Week, by Mark Ambinder
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/19/2013 5:30:45 PM
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We are still speculating about virtually everything right now, but I feel as though I need to explain why I find the quick and easy conversation about Muslims being radicalized in America to be so illogical and laced with bigotry. Of course, there is a global violent jihadist movement, loosely organized, that wants to recruit young men to influence policies at home and abroad and perhaps usher in the global caliphate. That ideology motivates some Muslims to kill innocent people.But you´re allowed to be a radical Muslim in America.
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Feds ´investigating possibility that the
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Daily Mail (U.K.), by David Martosko
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Federal law enforcement officials are actively investigating the possibility that the Boston bombers were known to the government’s terror-trackers, MailOnline understands. Any inquiry into the marathon bombing will look into whether agents could have taken action – but didn’t – to prevent the Tsarnaev brothers from obtaining the explosives that killed 3 and wounded 173 others. CBS News reported Friday evening that two years ago, the FBI interviewed the elder brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who was killed in Thursday night´s dramatic shootout. The feds reportedly spoke to him at the request of an unspecified foreign government, but couldn´t
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´My children were set up,´ father claims
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Associated Press *, by Staff
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Two brothers of Chechen origin suspected of staging the Boston marathon bombings, one of whom has been shot dead by police, are innocent of any crime, the Interfax news agency quotes a man identified as their father as saying. ‘‘In my opinion, my children were set up by the secret services because they are practising Muslims,’’ Anzor Tsarnaev told the Interfax news agency on Friday (Snip) On the site, he describes himself as speaking Chechen as well as English and Russian. His world view is described as ‘‘Islam’’ and he says his personal goal is ‘‘career and money.’’
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Allen West: Can we investigate
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Washington Times, by Cheryl K. Chumley
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/19/2013 1:06:46 PM
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Former Florida Rep. Allen West issued a scathing statement on his Facebook page Friday, in response to the ongoing manhunt for one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. “Let me be very clear. The terrorist attack in Boston and evolving events indicate we have a domestic radical Islamic terror problem in America,” he wrote. “No more excuses. No more apologies. We are in a war of ideological wills and we shall prevail.”
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Boston Shooting, Robbery,
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Business Insider, by Alyson Shontell, Mandi Woodruff*
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/19/2013 6:01:23 AM
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A shocking series of events on Thursday night and Friday morning left one Boston bombing suspect dead and the other on the run. Below are some images from the night. Please note that exact details are scare. Two men — later identified as the bombing suspects — are also suspected of fatally shooting an MIT Police Officer on Thurday night. An image from the crime scene was posted to Twitter by The Tech, below:(Photos)
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