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First Aid Kit Holistic Essentials

2:10 AM Anonymous 0

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="first aid kit_mini (1)" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-12991" height="300" src="http://cdn1.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/first-aid-kit_mini-1.jpg" width="400" /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></div><div id="stcpDiv" style="left: -1988px; position: absolute; top: -1999px;"></div><span style="font-size: large;">'As a Naturopathic Doctor, I consider homeopathy to be the best home remedy modality for acute (as opposed to chronic) situations, particularly with children. Homeopathic remedies can be found at most healthfood stores, they are inexpensive, and those tiny sweet pellets are extremely easy to administer to a child of any age, even newborns as they dissolve easily on the tongue.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">So why aren’t these remedies in every home’s first aid kit? The reason is because most parents are intimidated by the plethora of different remedies out there so they don’t know where to start.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">My goal in this article is to list the most important homeopathic remedies to have in your home first aid kit at all times to deal with acute situations and even more importantly, when to appropriately use them.'</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/first-aid-kit-holistic-essentials/">more... </a></span><br /><br />

First Aid Kit Holistic Essentials

'As a Naturopathic Doctor, I consider homeopathy to be the best home remedy modality for acute (as opposed to chronic) situations, parti...

Slow Cancer Growth by Enjoying Your Life and Staying Connected

2:06 AM Anonymous 0

<br />  <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span><img alt="http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2010/1007/360_relationships_death_0727.jpg" class="decoded" height="261" src="http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2010/1007/360_relationships_death_0727.jpg" width="400" /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">Photo Credit:<a class="_Cf irc_hol" data-ved="0CAQQjB0" href="http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2006938,00.html"><span class="irc_ho" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">content.time.com</span></a><span class="_Tn"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">'Looking for a way to slow cancer growth that doesn’t involve toxic chemicals or radiation? Researchers from Ohio State University and Cornell University have found that the positive stress from interaction with other people and the fun of play can help to fight cancer by slowing down tumor growth. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Although the study, which was published in the journal <i>Cell</i>, looked at the impact of socializing in mice, it is thought that similar effects could be experienced by humans.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;">  </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">What did the study show?'</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Read <a href="http://alignlife.com/articles/healthyhabits/slow-cancer-growth-enjoying-life">more... </a></span></span></div>

Slow Cancer Growth by Enjoying Your Life and Staying Connected

Photo Credit: content.time.com 'Looking for a way to slow cancer growth that doesn’t involve toxic chemicals or radiation? Researche...

What Has Been The Impact Of China's One Child Policy On It's Military?

2:00 AM Tukiyooo 0

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoDQ_l4ysncQbHY3PtV82J5UKlrFu_3JO6YhVx5B_O2YTRE0wA_2eIijueS2w8i2_XvfnCGmcawVF8ZO_AQSQojd2nOKkJoWEcsFQC5BXFeuiLq3PkYCf3fLhiDEsYgh4YeUO8GGj1YFXj/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoDQ_l4ysncQbHY3PtV82J5UKlrFu_3JO6YhVx5B_O2YTRE0wA_2eIijueS2w8i2_XvfnCGmcawVF8ZO_AQSQojd2nOKkJoWEcsFQC5BXFeuiLq3PkYCf3fLhiDEsYgh4YeUO8GGj1YFXj/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">New recruits of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) take part in training to adjust their standing postures in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, October 16, 2013. Photo：Reuters</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Soldiers Of The One-Child Era: Are They Too Weak To Fulfill Beijing's Military Ambitions? -- South China Morning Post</b></span></div><br />With 70pc of soldiers from one-child families, many wonder if they could cope on battlefield<br /><br />No one knows the real fighting capability of the People’s Liberation Army, but the fact that more than 70 per cent of China’s soldiers come from one-child families raises questions about how well prepared these troops would be for the horrors of battle.<br /><br />“I was a spoiled boy as I am an only child. In my first year in the army, after a hard day’s training I’d hide under my blanket and cry every night because I missed home and my girlfriend,” Dalian native Sun Youpeng, who joined the  PLA after graduating from university at the age of 22 in 2010, told the South China Morning Post.<br /><br />Past reports from the PLA Daily tell of recruits spitting red ink to feign sickness and escape the tough training.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1421451/soldiers-one-child-era-are-they-too-weak-fulfill-beijings-military">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> China's young are the same as everywhere else in the world .... I doubt that this one-child policy will have an impact on their military (if any).

What Has Been The Impact Of China's One Child Policy On It's Military?

New recruits of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) take part in training to adjust their standing postures in Hangzhou, Zhejiang...

China Joins U.S. Led Military Exercises In Thailand

1:00 AM Tukiyooo 0

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK14kwGslNN54EQ-fJRUVWfPotG5lXD0sKDXGPvf6w1hEGfnmQ4yyR4WPXD_hZs7h_9PdILwmks0om6KB3kaBep8snh9chZ_hqo3Z92rj03lbzr5HakbZay8Er0l3ZXi0bmFjDJ7T1DqCM/s1600/us_postal_service_logo-325.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK14kwGslNN54EQ-fJRUVWfPotG5lXD0sKDXGPvf6w1hEGfnmQ4yyR4WPXD_hZs7h_9PdILwmks0om6KB3kaBep8snh9chZ_hqo3Z92rj03lbzr5HakbZay8Er0l3ZXi0bmFjDJ7T1DqCM/s1600/us_postal_service_logo-325.gif" width="193" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>China Flexes Its Muscles In U.S.-Led Military Exercises -- Washington Times</b></span></div><br />BANGKOK — The U.S. is leading the largest multinational military exercise in the Asia-Pacific region, and Chinese media are hailing Beijing’s first-time participation in the annual drill as proof that the communist nation’s “regional military impact” cannot be ignored.<br /><br />Nearly 14,000 troops from the U.S. and Asia-Pacific countries are participating in Cobra Gold 2014, which opened Tuesday at Camp Akatosarot, about 230 miles north of Bangkok.<br /><br />“Cobra Gold truly replicates the dynamic security environment we find ourselves in today, and what we will face in the future,” Navy Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III, commander of U.S. Pacific Command, said at the opening ceremony for the military exercise.<br /><br />About 9,000 U.S. troops are training alongside 4,000 from Thailand, 80 from Singapore, 120 from Japan, 300 from South Korea, 160 from Indonesia and 120 from Malaysia.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/12/china-flexes-its-muscles-in-us-led-military-exerci/">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> This is a recognition that China is now a major player in Asia. After-all .... leaving them out of the loop in this multinational exercise  would have been the equivalent of trying to ignore the 800lb gorilla in the corner of the room.

China Joins U.S. Led Military Exercises In Thailand

China Flexes Its Muscles In U.S.-Led Military Exercises -- Washington Times BANGKOK — The U.S. is leading the largest multinational military...

Will Asia Spark A Third World War?

12:00 AM Tukiyooo 0

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXkmxDjJDuP9jb3VlJWJcjkx7wy_ENRQMqQcf17eZHL_fdmjb_2pHtaFd4D0zcV-z2NECYKnKLhWRjsjvx_sS9UdmPRmT333bUqJerPMuYEgBTSBZy0t5BefUDlEap0pDOJLrTl-_WtR6V/s1600/200px-US-DefenseIntelligenceAgency-Seal.svg.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXkmxDjJDuP9jb3VlJWJcjkx7wy_ENRQMqQcf17eZHL_fdmjb_2pHtaFd4D0zcV-z2NECYKnKLhWRjsjvx_sS9UdmPRmT333bUqJerPMuYEgBTSBZy0t5BefUDlEap0pDOJLrTl-_WtR6V/s1600/200px-US-DefenseIntelligenceAgency-Seal.svg.png" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Will Asia Repeat Europe's Mistakes? -- Alistair Burnett, Real Clear World</b></span></div><br />Historical analogies often take the place of analysis - even more so when the implications of analogy are too horrendous to be spelled out. As we prepare to mark the centenary of the outbreak of First World War, ominous parallels are being drawn between rising tension between Japan and China and that between Germany and Britain before the outbreak of the World War. Such comparisons are relevant. China and the United States and its ally, Japan, today may not be the mirror image of European powers which came to blows, but the cascading alliances that led to the conflagration in 1914 still hold lessons for today.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2014/02/12/will_asia_repeat_europes_mistakes_110290.html">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment</b>: Asia is not Europe .... far from it. Asia and it's history is unique .... and one should look at the tensions in the region from this perspective and not from a European one. As to the possibility of a future World War starting in Asia .... I just do not see it. But as to the possibility of a regional conflict .... unfortunately .... between countries like China and Japan, or China and India .... the possibility may be very remote but .... it is still a possibility.

Will Asia Spark A Third World War?

Will Asia Repeat Europe's Mistakes? -- Alistair Burnett, Real Clear World Historical analogies often take the place of analysis - even m...

GOLD and SILVER are looking real good here

11:58 PM Tukiyooo 0

GOLD and SILVER are looking real good here

SHORT SQUEEZE? "I think that the squeeze is on..." --Jim Comiskey There's more than just a squeeze on. There's a real st...

Crusader Barnone to take back America

11:54 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>We have to make it happen</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">*****SIGN THE PETITION*****</span> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>100,000 SIGNATURES by March 15th this year</b></span><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">"We the people no longer consent..." </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div id="watch-uploader-info"><b>Published on <span class="watch-video-date" id="eow-date">Feb 12, 2014</span></b>          </div><div id="watch-description-text"><div id="eow-description">Click on this link to sign the  petition & share this link on ALL of your social media. We need  100,000 signatures at the very least. <br /><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" data-redirect-href-updated="true" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fpetitions.whitehouse.gov%2Fpetition%2Freinstate-original-constitution-created-1789-people-united-states-america%2Fnn5gBFJS&session_token=Z_SdgncaKV0Gvjue8Kc2lVMEt-58MTM5MjM2MjkwNEAxMzkyMjc2NTA0" rel="nofollow" style="color: red;" target="_blank" title="https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/reinstate-original-constitution-created-1789-people-united-states-america/nn5gBFJS">https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/peti...</a><br />Reinstate the original Constitution created in 1789 FOR the people of the United States of America.<br /><br />On  Feb 21st, 1871 the 42nd congress created the Act of 1871 which  abandoned the original constitution & created a new  country/corporation known as the United States, located in the District  of Columbia. With the help of a revised 13th amendment which legally  defined a "Slave" as "Involuntary servitude", and legal definitions of  "Person" & "Citizen" in the 14th & 15th amendments the  government fraudulently entrapped free sovereign peoples into being  "Subject to the Jurisdiction of the United States". Under Title 28 3002  sec 15 (A) (B) (C) in the DC code, you can find proof that the United  States IS a corporation. We the people no longer consent to this illegal  & fraudulent document that was secretly created to enslave "U.S.  Citizens" & want our original constitution back where it belongs.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/pazejn8sZec?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Barnone and Jesse Ventura are a team</span> </b></div><br /><b>Jesse Ventura is working closely now with Chris a.k.a. barnone1190 to expose the current American Fascist Government:</b><br /><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/02/jesse-ventura-follows-my-barnone11970.html" style="color: red;">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/02/jesse-ventura-follows-my-barnone11970.html</a> </b><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/VVBtRxacWIM?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b>...developing...</b></div>

Crusader Barnone to take back America

We have to make it happen *****SIGN THE PETITION***** 100,000 SIGNATURES by March 15th this year "We the people no longer consent...&q...

Infidels, atheists, and agnostics hate Jesus

11:48 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Message to the churches, pastors, and Christians... </b></span><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>--II TIMOTHY 3.13</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things  saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the  creation of God;</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>--REVELATION 3.14-16 </b></i> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/h8ElgH4kbBI?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>...developing...</b></div>

Infidels, atheists, and agnostics hate Jesus

Message to the churches, pastors, and Christians... But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. --II...

Do you need a reality check?

11:41 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Tacos takes on the YOU TUBE fakers</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh_I4TZQ8oe_wJNncBQwUK9Z46fA7ZtqjY9IPkVirsF2qPCWyNsNB0SWwTEWa2fVlZGM8dEU9emP5GJXm8Vk0_dqAqYvZHDOH8BOWrOwJGV_bS6ilHZff2dOn1VneH848_nU-7Ie0HI0c/s1600/TacosPIC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh_I4TZQ8oe_wJNncBQwUK9Z46fA7ZtqjY9IPkVirsF2qPCWyNsNB0SWwTEWa2fVlZGM8dEU9emP5GJXm8Vk0_dqAqYvZHDOH8BOWrOwJGV_bS6ilHZff2dOn1VneH848_nU-7Ie0HI0c/s1600/TacosPIC.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Jd5hBp6V4-Y?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><b>...developing...</b></div>

Do you need a reality check?

Tacos takes on the YOU TUBE fakers ...developing...

Russia's Defense Minister Boasts That The Country's Defenses Are Strong

11:00 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMm6jSmioMW2e8YHmEZJWGrP_ZgIVKs1q0-pGSrwtbNSUeNN-FVd46HThcaSCeOStOCToCbO7PgjpvJNCNWyYNfougeRStebdM8A-U5ZswbzpwCItfLUgXJT97vmwHO_WRyditc59x7Rc_/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMm6jSmioMW2e8YHmEZJWGrP_ZgIVKs1q0-pGSrwtbNSUeNN-FVd46HThcaSCeOStOCToCbO7PgjpvJNCNWyYNfougeRStebdM8A-U5ZswbzpwCItfLUgXJT97vmwHO_WRyditc59x7Rc_/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Shoigu Says Rumors of Russian Military Downfall “Nonsense” -- RIA Novosti</b></span></div><br />KRASNOYARSK, February 12 (RIA Novosti) – Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday dismissed as “utter nonsense” online rumors that the Russian armed forces are virtually non-existent.<br /><br />At a meeting with students in the Siberian city of Kransnoyarsk, Shoigu was asked to comment on online rumors that “there is nothing left, our army is a total wreck and we can only showcase tin cans at [military] parades in Moscow.”<br /><br />“This is nonsense, total and utter nonsense,” Shoigu replied. “This is rubbish.”<br /><br /><b><a href="http://en.ria.ru/military_news/20140212/187467182/Shoigu-Says-Rumors-of-Russian-Military-Downfall-Nonsense.html">Read more</a></b>....<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> He is also boasting that Russia's nuclear weapons are <b><a href="http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_02_12/Russias-nuclear-shield-is-still-powerful-Shoigu-9607/">second to none</a></b>. As to what is my take .... there are <b><a href="https://www.strategypage.com/%5Chtmw%5Chtlead%5Carticles%5C20140208.aspx">big problems.</a></b>

Russia's Defense Minister Boasts That The Country's Defenses Are Strong

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu Shoigu Says Rumors of Russian Military Downfall “Nonsense” -- RIA Novosti KRASNOYARSK, February 12 (R...

How To Pay For A 11-Carrier Navy

10:00 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaYSQtdVEci_j6XXuZn7Q8UqOisTYfeZXoCR16SN3luMENyanjl9m2HFJRorBSRDEjZ3HSqiSdXK2NYl3PJCWhfvHJpwbKLxp4iDuG-xWbv-__eN5kPQEcHYH_n-VihkFauvVwRJwCGelK/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaYSQtdVEci_j6XXuZn7Q8UqOisTYfeZXoCR16SN3luMENyanjl9m2HFJRorBSRDEjZ3HSqiSdXK2NYl3PJCWhfvHJpwbKLxp4iDuG-xWbv-__eN5kPQEcHYH_n-VihkFauvVwRJwCGelK/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships steam in formation while participating in a photo exercise with the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) at the culmination of ANNUALEX 2008. ANNUALEX is a bilateral exercise between the U.S. Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Brendan Morgan/Released). 19 November 2008. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USS_George_Washington_%28CVN-73%29_001.jpg">Wikipedia</a></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Congress Questions Plan To Pay For 11-Carrier Navy -- DoD Buzz</b></span></div><br />Plans to permanently retire the USS George Washington and bring the Navy’s carrier-fleet total down to 10 are still being debated in ongoing budget deliberations despite reports the White House has scrapped any plans to reduce the carrier total.<br /><br />Some of the uncertainty centers around potential funding for the mid-life refueling for the USS George Washington in the upcoming 2015 budget submission, dollars which may still be uncertain or under review, Capitol Hill and Pentagon sources said.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.dodbuzz.com/2014/02/11/congress-questions-plan-to-pay-for-11-carrier-navy/">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment: </b>This is so typical of Washington .... make decisions in which the hard decisions are either kicked down the road and/or ignored.

How To Pay For A 11-Carrier Navy

U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships steam in formation while participating in a photo exercise with the aircraft carrier U...

Picture Of The Day

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Picture Of The Day

U.S. special forces soldiers provide security while an Afghan special forces soldier directs other Afghan soldiers during a firefight with i...

U.S. Navy Declassifies Fleet Positions The Night Of The Benghazi Attack.

9:30 PM Tukiyooo 0

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">Navy declassifies fleet positions the night of the Benghazi attack. Never seen a gov't map like this <a href="http://t.co/dTZKjvOF7f">pic.twitter.com/dTZKjvOF7f</a><br />— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) <a href="https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/statuses/433723897028952064">February 12, 2014</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> This is the first time that I am also seeing such a deployment map. Click on the map to enlarge it.<br /><br /><b>Update #1:</b> <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/02/12/judicial-watch-releases-map-show-dozens-of-us-military-ships-stationed-near-benghazi-during-attack-n1794068">Map Shows Dozens of U.S. Military Ships Stationed In North Africa Waters During Benghazi Attack</a> -- Townhall<br /><b>Update #2:</b> <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/investigator-claims-navy-map-reveals-there-were-enough-forces-to-respond-to-benghazi/">Investigator Claims Navy Map Reveals ‘There Were Enough Forces to Respond’ to Benghazi</a> -- Mediaite

U.S. Navy Declassifies Fleet Positions The Night Of The Benghazi Attack.

Navy declassifies fleet positions the night of the Benghazi attack. Never seen a gov't map like this pic.twitter.com/dTZKjvOF7f — John H...

How The U.S. Navy Avoids Outbreaks That May Make It's Sailors Sick

9:25 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/KESn_tpwE68" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>How The Navy Avoids Norovirus -- CNN</b></span></div><br />Norfolk, Virginia (CNN) -- The United States Navy has 323,000 active duty service members, many of them housed in close quarters -- yet it is able to avoid major outbreaks of contagious diseases like those seen on commercial cruise ships.<br /><br />Nearly 700 crew and passengers onboard Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas were sickened by norovirus in January before the ship returned to its port in Bayonne, New Jersey.<br /><br />In addition, the Caribbean Princess, operated by Princess Cruises, cut a seven-day itinerary short the same week because of a norovirus outbreak that affected 178 passengers and 11 crew members.<br /><br />In the Navy, such an outbreak would cripple a ship.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/11/health/navy-norovirus/">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> Bottom line .... prevention, inoculation, compartmentalizing human contact, quarantine the sick, and keeping the mess-hall (and everywhere else) super clean.

How The U.S. Navy Avoids Outbreaks That May Make It's Sailors Sick

How The Navy Avoids Norovirus -- CNN Norfolk, Virginia (CNN) -- The United States Navy has 323,000 active duty service members, many of them...

Day 6: Don't Trust "Old" Athletes. Except For Kelly Clark. She's Awesome.

9:23 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Winning three in a row is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hard</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Threepeats are rare in any sport, let alone an event that only takes place every four years. </span></span></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-4fafc4ce-29b1-9d21-849d-1bb78aa20977" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">There are many reasons, but age is the biggest one. When a whippersnapper wins an event back in 2006 and repeats in 2010, his body has run through the Cycle: train, compete, win, party, less training, party more, lose focus in favor of endorsements, lose some smaller events, refocus on training, train, compete, win, etc. </span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">Once the Cycle starts over, the body doesn’t want to go through all that crud again. The body isn’t in the early-20s anymore. It starts to deteriorate. It doesn’t recover as quickly from less training and more partying. It starts to do what normal people’s bodies do around the mid-20s: decay. </span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">So should it surprise us that Shani Davis and SJ Shaun White couldn’t medal in their strongest events the past couple of days? I’m not really that surprised. I watched that documentary that NBC had a couple weeks before the Olympics began about White, and he did not look on top of his game at all. And Davis, even though his weakest event is probably the 500, did not look solid in that event. </span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s really too bad that we have to pile these expectations on old bodies. But who is taking up the slack? In speedskating, there is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">no one</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in long track from the US that is willing to take up the reins, men or women. The Dutch dominance (as much as I love it) has meant that Americans struggle even more than before. </span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">In snowboarding, thank goodness for the ladies. The guys are having a hard time keeping up with the competition in halfpipe, and that will eventually happen in slopestyle as well - sorry, Sage Kotsenburg. Meanwhile the ladies are very consistent in their halfpipe. Kaitlyn Farrington took the gold while ruining-my-Cycle-theme Kelly Clark took bronze. Clearly the snowboarding ladies have a good transitional system going on that the guys could really try to emulate.</span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">More on the US ladies in a later post.</span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">Mini Blurbs</span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today Matt Lauer is reporting from…</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the freezer that you’ve never cleaned out and now has ice crystals all over it. </span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Little did I know</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: When snowboarders are done with their run, they put their hands up in the air. So at the end of their runs, they aren’t just putting up their hands in joy - it’s supposed to be done!</span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blue Butt Group</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: They have to spray the snow in blue so the course is easy to see. But when the snowboarders are wearing khaki-like snowpants and are falling a lot, it means that the blue paint gets on the butts of the athletes. I just noticed that today. Hel-lo, Smurf!</span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Popular mascots</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: They may be reviled by the rest of the world, but it’s clear that the mascots are always a big hit in the host city itself. Evidence over the past couple of days shows that the hat/mitten combination with the three Sochi mascots are hugely popular. The hat has two really long pieces of fabric down past the ears and all the way down so that people can stick their hands at the ends for mittens. There’s a first grader at my school that has one like this, so I already knew the style!</span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">English and Cyrillic</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: In snowboarding halfpipe, they have a HUGE screen that shows video of the athlete, and their name. The cool thing is that they show the name in English, and then again with Cyrillic letters. </span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Torah Bright’s mouthguard</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: It may just be how her face is shaped, but Torah Bright’s mouthguard has been visible almost every time she’s seen! It doesn’t hurt that Bright has a great smile that she’s always wearing.</span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tie!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Very cool that in the women’s downhill there was a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tie</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for gold. Slovenian Tina Maze skied last, and her time matched the leader, Swiss Dominique Gisin. I would be very cool with sharing the podium with a competitor!</span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pairs skate</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Did the winners just skate to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jesus Christ Superstar</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">? Was he supposed to be Jesus? If he’s Jesus, who’s she? Did they end the skate by making a human cross? What the heck?</span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And kudos to the German pair, who tried everything they could to win, including a throw triple axel. And there was a wink-wink by using music from </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Nutcracker</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which was originally written as a novella...by a German.</span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am frightened</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: I am actually starting to enjoy cross-country skiing. The short stuff - not the long 50km races. But I watched the entire Nordic combined cross-country skiing portion (at least, what they showed on-air), and had fun! It helped that the course was set up right off the ski jumping area, which meant that there was a GIANT grandstand full of people cheering them whenever they came in (which was four times). </span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It helps that I enjoy the idea of Nordic combined - however long you jump determines when you start the cross-country skiing. Eric Frenzel and Akito Watabe had amazing jumps and started almost 30 seconds in front of everyone else, and the two skiers only saw each other the whole race. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today’s roundup</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: 2-man luge (the kids even thought that was a ridiculous event - we watched it live), women’s downhill, nordic combined, pairs figure skating, women’s halfpipe, men’s speedskating, and curling.</span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Live and taped</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: I am beginning to figure out the best way to avoid spoilers but still watch some events live. All I had to do to avoid all the spoilerific sidebars was to minimize the screen, so the only thing I see is the main screen! It meant I didn’t know any results except the ones I watched. Good deal. </span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Czech report</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: The Czech snowboarder that fell hard in slopestyle participated in halfpipe today. That’s guts!</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">The Czech men’s hockey team kicked off the men’s hockey portion of the Games. Unfortunately, they lost.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">Excited to show the kids the new luge relay tomorrow! We'll have some fun with that. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRS8YGChS2wTxwNW-21iCHavf3_TYfpWwqdry3yyp_wAUtludU4qUs-v_beFQA5Oba_ZFMkC83ZaJITbv_10s-XCyX15FgTgejrl5CeJkTHdg35xcXVZDfuPRfY1mjPZCa7NaCfc0Huas/s1600/olympic_rings_568.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRS8YGChS2wTxwNW-21iCHavf3_TYfpWwqdry3yyp_wAUtludU4qUs-v_beFQA5Oba_ZFMkC83ZaJITbv_10s-XCyX15FgTgejrl5CeJkTHdg35xcXVZDfuPRfY1mjPZCa7NaCfc0Huas/s1600/olympic_rings_568.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span>

Day 6: Don't Trust "Old" Athletes. Except For Kelly Clark. She's Awesome.

Winning three in a row is hard . Threepeats are rare in any sport, let alone an event that only takes place every four years. There are many...

First Footage Surfaces Of New Iranian Sub (Video)

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<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/_ChBN54kFUs" width="420"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Video: First Footage Surfaces Of New Iranian Submarine -- Popular Science</b></span></div><br />The new mid-sized model is the nation's largest domestically built sub.<br /><br />During a montage of military achievements broadcast February 3rd on Iranian television, something new slipped in with tributes to the past and present. It was the first footage of Fateh, an Iranian submarine so new it hasn't officially launched yet.<br /><br />While the Fateh hasn't officially been unveiled, the world has known about its existence since at least October 2013, thanks to satellite images. The Fateh is, at approximately 130 feet long and 20 feet wide and 500 tons displacement when submerged, Iran's biggest native-built submarine so far. (Iran has three larger submarines, the Russian-built Kilo-class subs.)<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/video-first-footage-surfaces-new-iranian-submarine">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> The video is only 22 seconds long .... not much to see ... but my first impression when I viewed the video was one of being underwhelmed .... it is a very small sub. But when I though about it later on .... I then realized that it is probably the best sub to have in the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf and a perfect weapon for the Iranian Navy.

First Footage Surfaces Of New Iranian Sub (Video)

Video: First Footage Surfaces Of New Iranian Submarine -- Popular Science The new mid-sized model is the nation's largest domestically b...

White House Is Still Keeping The Text Of The Iranian Nuclear Deal Secret Even Though It Has Been Marked As “Unclassified”

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<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-oORhxAG0ec" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>White House Keeping Tabs On Who Views Secret Iran Deal -- Washington Free Beacon</b></span></div><br /><i>A step-by-step look at how ‘unclassified’ deal text is kept hidden from public</i><br /><br />The White House is keeping close tabs on who has read the text of the recently signed Iran nuclear deal, a document that has been marked as “unclassified,” yet is being kept in a highly secured location.<br /><br />Members of Congress and staffers with high-level security clearances are being forced by the White House to consent to top-secret security measures in order to view the deal text, which is off limits to the American public, according to a senior Senate aide familiar with the process.<br /><br />The White House has come under fire from Congress and others for refusing to publicly release text of the deal, which aims to roll back portions of Iran’s contested nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in economic sanctions relief.<br /><br />Precise details about the deal and the exact process to view it remain hazy.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://freebeacon.com/white-house-keeping-tabs-on-who-views-secret-iran-deal/">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> What is the White House hiding?

White House Is Still Keeping The Text Of The Iranian Nuclear Deal Secret Even Though It Has Been Marked As “Unclassified”

White House Keeping Tabs On Who Views Secret Iran Deal -- Washington Free Beacon A step-by-step look at how ‘unclassified’ deal text is kept...

IMF Report Details Weaknesses In The Iranian Economy

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3IwQo_lka0GwGOfWa-h65FLGXre8oFkL6Oe54VTziBYxLEJQP5NSIUeJ7W0F-R1FD8QxlUn3UG1zrZthkhB4kqhVnLNaHmlqc-Kvhwxhzm7KESHbQG7pU4DdmSD8IcTNBvpSrBb7Xlzrt/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3IwQo_lka0GwGOfWa-h65FLGXre8oFkL6Oe54VTziBYxLEJQP5NSIUeJ7W0F-R1FD8QxlUn3UG1zrZthkhB4kqhVnLNaHmlqc-Kvhwxhzm7KESHbQG7pU4DdmSD8IcTNBvpSrBb7Xlzrt/s1600/2013-09-12-BZSSR.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I.M.F. Study Details Perils of Iranian Economy -- New York Times</b></span></div><br />The International Monetary Fund issued a sobering appraisal of Iran’s economy on Wednesday, warning that years of government mismanagement aggravated by the impact of the West’s antinuclear sanctions had left the country vulnerable to anemic growth and rampant inflation that require urgent attention.<br /><br />The I.M.F. appraisal was the organization’s first on-the-ground assessment of the Iranian economy in nearly three years. It was issued as Iran is seeking to undo the Western sanctions through negotiations on its disputed nuclear program.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/13/world/middleeast/irans-economy-is-weak-imf-finds.html">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>More News On The IMF's Report On The Iranian Economy</b></span></div><br /><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140212/imf-sees-deep-weaknesses-iran-economy-after-sanctions-1">IMF sees deep weaknesses in Iran economy after sanctions</a> -- Global Post/AFP<br /><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-02-12/imf-says-iran-economy-needs-reform-to-build-on-sanctions-relief">IMF Says Iran Economy Needs Reform to Build on Sanctions Relief</a> -- Bloomberg Businessweek<br /><a href="http://www.skynews.com.au/businessnews/article.aspx?id=949777&vId=4336924&cId=Business">IMF sees deep weaknesses in Iran economy</a> -- SKY News<br /><a href="http://www.rferl.org/content/iran-imf-economy-reforms/25261864.html">IMF Mission Visits Iran, Calls For Reforms </a>-- Radio Free Europe<br /><a href="http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/economy/15965-imf-iran-s-economy-faces-deep-structural-weaknesses">IMF: Iran’s economy faces deep structural weaknesses</a> -- National Council Of Resistance Of Iran

IMF Report Details Weaknesses In The Iranian Economy

I.M.F. Study Details Perils of Iranian Economy -- New York Times The International Monetary Fund issued a sobering appraisal of Iran’s econo...

A Collection Of Photos On The NSA And Other Top Intelligence Agencies Revealed For First Time

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<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/WJBtE6nwjWE" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Overhead: New Photos of the NSA and Other Top Intelligence Agencies Revealed for First Time -- Creative Times Report</b></span></div><br /><i>In partnership with The Intercept, artist Trevor Paglen offers a glimpse of America's vast surveillance infrastructure, photographing three of the United States' most powerful intelligence agencies—including the NSA—and placing the images in the public domain.<br /></i><br />What does a surveillance state look like?<br /><br />Over the past eight months, classified documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have exposed scores of secret government surveillance programs. Yet there is little visual material among the blizzard of code names, PowerPoint slides, court rulings and spreadsheets that have emerged from the National Security Agency’s files.<br /><br />The scarcity of images is not surprising. A surveillance apparatus doesn’t really “look” like anything. A satellite built by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) reveals nothing of its function except to the best-trained eyes. The NSA’s pervasive domestic effort to collect telephone metadata also lacks easy visual representation; in the Snowden archive, it appears as a four-page classified order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Since June 2013, article after article about the NSA has been illustrated with a single image supplied by the agency, a photograph of its Fort Meade headquarters that appears to date from the 1970s.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://creativetimereports.org/2014/02/10/overhead-new-photos-of-the-nsa-and-other-top-intelligence-agencies-revealed-trevor-paglen/">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment</b>: These are all night-time shots, but what I find it interesting is that while the National Geospatial Intelligence office lights were all on (and the parking lot appeared to be full), the NSA and the Agency National Reconnaissance Office's were dark and their parking lots empty. now we know who burns the "midnight oil".

A Collection Of Photos On The NSA And Other Top Intelligence Agencies Revealed For First Time

Overhead: New Photos of the NSA and Other Top Intelligence Agencies Revealed for First Time -- Creative Times Report In partnership with The...

Suing The NSA

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<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/OJMvxSFSXOg" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>'Rand Paul v. Barack Obama' Lawsuit Hits Federal Court With 350,000 Plaintiffs, As U.S. Senator Sues White House And Intelligence Chiefs Over NSA Surveillance -- Daily Mail</b></span></div><br />* Kentucky senator wants to end broad, non-targeted surveillance of Americans' communications, including so-called 'metadata'<br />* He calls the NSA programs uncovered by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden 'precisely the kind of overreach we fought a revolution over'<br />* 'Rand Paul v. Barack Obama' filed in federal court Wednesday morning<br />* Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who lost a gubernatorial bid in November, is lead counsel for the plaintiffs – all 350,000 of them<br />* In addition to the president, Sen. Paul is suing the leaders of the NSA and FBI, and the White House's director of national intelligence<br />* He's also raising money from his class-action participants for his next political campaign, likely a presidential run in 2016<br /><br />Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is making good on his promise to sue the Obama administration over what he calls 'precisely the kind of overreach we fought a revolution over.' His targets are the National Security Agency, the FBI and other federal government offices that snoop on private communications at home and abroad.<br /><br />With former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli as his lead attorney, Paul filed suit Wednesday morning in Washington, D.C. federal court along with the conservative FreedomWorks organization.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2557341/Rand-Paul-v-Barack-Obama-lawsuit-hits-federal-court-350-000-plaintiffs-U-S-senator-sues-White-House-intelligence-chiefs-NSA-surveillance.html">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MjRHyUPI7MQ" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>More News On The 'Rand Paul/Freedom Works v. Barack Obama' Lawsuit On NSA Surveillance</b></span></div><br /><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/Sen-Rand-Paul-sues-Obama-over-NSA-surveillance-5228423.php">Sen. Rand Paul sues Obama over NSA surveillance </a>-- SFGate/AP<br /><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h5aezvLyN8zwg6Y8JhAiM_S8xGgA?docId=f51794f4-ac38-4aa9-bec2-843e9703144c">Senator Rand Paul sues Obama over NSA intel program</a> -- AFP<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/13/us/politics/rand-paul-files-lawsuit-over-nsa-call-surveillance.html?hpw&rref=technology&_r=0">Rand Paul Files Lawsuit Over N.S.A. Call Surveillance </a>-- New York Times<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/02/12/rand-paul-files-suit-against-obama-nsa-today/">Rand Paul files suit against Obama, NSA Wednesday </a>-- Washington Post<br /><a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/12/rand-paul-announces-suit-against-obama-administration-over-nsa/">Rand Paul announces suit against Obama administration over NSA</a> -- CNN<br /><a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/02/12/Paul-files-class-action-suit-challenging-NSA-surveillance/UPI-15391392233133/">Paul files class action suit challenging NSA surveillance</a> -- UPI<br /><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/02/12/rand-paul-nsa-phone-surveillance/5428245/">Rand Paul files lawsuit to halt NSA phone surveillance </a>-- USA Today<br /><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/02/12/rand_paul_s_lawsuit_against_the_nsa.html">Rand Paul’s Lawsuit Against the NSA</a> -- Slate<br /><a href="http://www.dailytech.com/Senator+Rand+Paul+Files+Suit+to+Block+NSA+Surveillance/article34321.htm">Senator Rand Paul Files Suit to Block NSA Surveillance </a>-- Daily Tech<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-rand-paul-and-ken-cuccinelli-accused-of-stealing-nsa-lawsuit/2014/02/12/058675aa-942b-11e3-83b9-1f024193bb84_story.html">Rand Paul and Ken Cuccinelli accused of stealing NSA lawsuit</a> -- Dana Milbank, Washington Post<br /><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Buzz/2014/0212/Sen.-Rand-Paul-files-NSA-lawsuit.-Can-he-win-video">Sen. Rand Paul files NSA lawsuit. Can he win?</a> -- Peter Grier, Christian Science Monitor

Suing The NSA

'Rand Paul v. Barack Obama' Lawsuit Hits Federal Court With 350,000 Plaintiffs, As U.S. Senator Sues White House And Intelligence Ch...