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'Balloon boy' Heene family drama story stinks on ice

Smallscreen News

by April MacIntyre

October 16, 2009

The balloon, owned by Richard Heene, took off from the family yard near Fort Collins, Colorado, USA and floated away.

Now the law and specifically child protective services are sniffing around the Colorado family's home getting to the bottom of what actually went down yesterday.

'Barahona Relief Act' bills would limit monetary awards for abuse victims

palmbeachpost.com

by Pat Beall

March 3, 2011

Outraged critics are calling it the Barahona Relief Act: Twin bills winding through Tallahassee that would cap damages in lawsuits brought against private groups overseeing the care of foster children, regardless of negligence.

The proposals also would shield the Florida Department of Children and Families from lawsuits filed against private companies hired by the state to place foster children in homes. Our Kids received government grants worth $100 million in 2009. The non-profit has not been turned down for insurance, she said, but premiums have risen by 64 percent to $191,663 since 2009.

'Beemageddon' threatens US with food disaster

rt.com

by Posting Your Comment

May 7, 2013

US honey bees have been dying by the tens of millions, with annual death rates of about 30 percent. With fewer bees to pollinate fruits and vegetables each year, 'beemageddon' may soon cause the collapse of the agriculture industry.

Honey bees pollinate more than 100 US crops, including apples, zucchinis, avocados and plums, that are worth more than $200 billion a year. Since 2006, about 10 million bee hives at an average value of $200 each have been lost in what scientists call the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), according to a new report by the US Department of Agriculture. There are currently about 2.5 million honey bee colonies in the US, which is a drastic decrease from the 6 million that existed in 1947 and the 3 million that existed in 1990. Last winter alone, the honey bee population declined by 31.1 percent, with some beekeepers reporting losses of 90 to 100 percent. In the previous two winters, beekeepers lost about 22 percent of their populations.

'Big Oil' Rescues 'Big Moonbat'

michellemalkin.com

by Doug Powers

February 7, 2011

This is even better than the time Alan Grayson got saved by military contractors.

Two women who traveled from Portland, Oregon to Cairo last week to participate in Code Pink's latest Hamas-aid trip to Gaza ended up getting rescued by a big oil company-the kind Code Pink usually protests as killing the planet, when the leftist group isn't hobnobbing with terrorists and undermining U.S. allies like Egypt.

'Black Box' Requirement On For Sept. 1

Personal Liberty Alerts

by Upi - United Press International, Inc.

August 20, 2012

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has rejected a one-year delay in regulations setting standards for event data recorders - the so-called "black boxes" - in U.S. vehicles.

Beginning Sept 1, all new passenger vehicles sold with the devices will have to have programming that collects data in the seconds leading up to a crash. The cost to manufacturers won't be much of an issue since 91.6 percent of new vehicles sold in the United States already have a "black box." The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers - a trade group representing GM, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Volkswagen and seven other automakers - supported making the devices mandatory in 2010 but recently asked NHTSA to delay the recording requirement until next September.

'Blistering' court decision aimed at county's Child Welfare Services

10news.com

by Michael Chen

October 2, 2014

A family's nightmare leads to a scathing court decision aimed at the County of San Diego, a decision that could impact anyone who is a parent.

Team 10 first broke the story in 2011 when a local couple was left reeling after their young children were taken by Child Welfare Services. In April 2011, 1-year-old Riley and her 3-year-old brother Dale were enrolled in a home daycare in Linda Vista. Within weeks, their mother, Joanna Swartwood, noticed Riley was coming home with bruises on her cheek while Dale would cry when headed to daycare.

'Blood in the water': Media 'sharks' devour Deen

wnd.com

by Chelsea Schilling

June 29, 2013

Is this the tragic end of 'queen of Southern cuisine'?

How did Paula Deen, a spunky 66-year-old TV chef, go from being the much-loved "queen of Southern cuisine" to exiled pariah in just days? Deen, who campaigned for President Obama in 2008 and cooked alongside Michelle Obama on national TV, was ranked as the fourth highest-earning celebrity chef in 2012. She's now under fire for admitting in a legal deposition to use of the "N"-word many years ago.

'Boycott Best Buy' Movement Takes Off

PJ Media

by David P. Goldman

May 2, 2012

The electronics retailer's sponsorship of a CAIR event in Minnesota has galvanized opposition.

A former Marine who served in Beirut in 1982-1983 and Iraq in 2003 looks into the camera and declares, "On behalf of myself and my family, we will no longer conduct business at Best Buy." He cuts his card in half. The Marine joined over 8,000 others who have signed a petition to boycott Best Buy over the company's financial support for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. The federal government designated CAIR as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation, a charity discovered to be a front for Hamas.

'Britain's Schindler,' Who Saved Hundreds Of Jewish Children, Dies At 106

talkingpointsmemo.com

by Naomi Koppel

July 2, 2015

Nicholas Winton, a humanitarian who almost single-handedly saved more than 650 Jewish children from the Holocaust, earning himself the label "Britain's Schindler," has died. He was 106.

Son-in-law Stephen Watson said Winton died on Wednesday. The Rotary Club of Maidenhead, of which Winton was a former president, said his daughter Barbara and two grandchildren were at his side. Winton arranged trains to carry children from Nazi-occupied Prague to Britain, battling bureaucracy at both ends and saving them from almost certain death - and then kept quiet about his exploits for a half-century.

'Bully' makes case for homeschooling

wnd.com

April 12, 2012

Documentary explores systemic violence children endure on campus.

You can laugh at nutty right-wingers who home-school their kids because they don't want them to learn about evolution; you can sneer at dirty hippies who unschool their kids at home because they can't be tied to the Man's curriculum, man. Laugh and sneer all you want, but those home-schooled and unschooled kids are not being hounded to death - literally, in a case documented on-screen in "Bully" - by their peers.

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