May 17th, 2012 by admin
The tea-party radio crowd is mad at Fox 31 reporter Eli Stokols for failing to report what they see as the real story behind Representative Chris Holbert’s lone no vote against the state budget bill April 12.
Citing unnamed sources, Stokols reported Friday:
Republicans privately groused that Holbert’s vote amounted to ’sour grapes’ after the House GOP caucus refused to allow him to run an amendment dealing with abortion on Wednesday, when the House spent hours debating a few dozen ‘message amendments’ to the budget that aimed to make political points.”
Stokols’ story came after Holbert issued a news release stating he voted against the budget bill because it didn’t set aside any money for a so-called “rainy day fund,” to be used for unanticipated state needs.
Stokols reported Holbert’s explanation, as well the view that allegedly “swirled around the Capitol” that Holbert was essentially lying about his real reason for the “no” vote.
“If I’m Eli Stokols and I’m a crack reporter, it’s not that hard to get a hold of the people,” Grassroots Radio Colorado’s Jason Worley told listeners Monday. “It took me ten seconds to figure out everything [Stokols] says here [in Stokols' piece], which is complete supposition and rumor, is false, completely wrong.”
On the radio, Worley claimed that it wasn’t Holbert who wanted to run an amendment banning public funding for abortion in Colorado. Instead, it was Marsha Looper, who’s in a primary battle with House Majority Leader Amy Stephens.
But leading House Republicans didn’t want Looper to be able to say that she was fighting for an anti-abortion bill, because championing such a bill would help her in her primary campaign against “I-am-the-Christian-Coalition Amy Stephens” in “one of the most conservative districts in the state,” according to Worley.
So, Worley said, Republicans made it look like the anti-abortion amendment was Holbert’s, so that Looper couldn’t take credit for it.
Looper told me that, in fact, it was she who took the lead on the abortion amendment, not Holbert.
“Chris and I talked to each other about a month ago,” Looper told me. “And that was it. I was prepared to run the amendment to remind everybody that public funding for abortion is prohibited in Colorado.”
“I had conversations with individuals, and they weren’t happy with my running the bill, and [later] lo and behold, it was already in the bill,” she told me adding that she didn’t run the amendment when she found that it had been inserted in the “long bill on page 363.” (Indeed, you can find it in a footnote in the state budget bill on page 363, as well as, and this is the funny part, in the State Constitution.)
“I’m sure Mr. Stokols isn’t going to reveal his sources, but whoever his sources were, they pinned it on the wrong guy, ” Worley said on the radio.
Asked if he still stood behind his sources for this story Microsoft Windows 7 Key, Stokols told me via email:
I stand by my sources.
Representative Holbert made the conscious choice to send out his own press release and statement the day after the vote. Obviously, he felt the need to explain his vote for some reason. I wrote the story because he sent the press release, which ran counter to the other things I’d been hearing.
I don’t blame Eli for using anonymous sources. He’d almost certainly never have gotten anyone to comment on the record, and given the importance of abortion issues in politics these days, airing the views is clearly in the public interest.
So Worley shouldn’t be directing his anger at Stokols, who just reported what he was told.
Worley should focus on finding out who spread the Holbert story and give reporters specific names.
That’s what Worley did Monday, saying on the radio: “And, you know, Reps like B.J. Nikkel who spread these rumors should know better.”
I called Nikkel yesterday for comment, but have not heard back yet.
Unlike Worley, Holbert won’t say who he thinks talked to Stokols.
All he’d tell KVOR talk-radio host Jimmy Lakey Sunday was, “Somebody planted that story.”
Last year, someone came to Holbert with a bill to defund Planned Parenthood, and he was going to run it, but it was too late, Holbert told Lakey. This year, Holbert continued, he decided to look into it, but the language was too complicated. And when he heard that Representative Marsha Looper was working on a similar bill, he figured he didn’t have to run it.
LAKEY: …But this sour grapes, and so do you know who the sour grapes are up there [at the Capitol]?
CHRIS HOLBERT: I…
LAKEY: You want to name names here?
CHRIS HOLBERT: No…
LAKEY: No, I know you don’t. You’re a nice guy. I’ll name na…! No, I don’t know who they are either… Well Exchange Server Key, we’ll come back, I want to wrap it up with Representative Chris Holbert. He stood firm and he voted ‘no’ on budget that spends every penny, every year, where it continues to kick some problems down the way. But Chris Holbert says he wasn’t pouting. So there you have it. We’ll continue to talk about this, wrap it up with Chris Holbert, and uh, I’ll be glad to, in just a moment, tell you how you can contact Chris Holbert, or maybe help him out. He’s the lone vote! Voting against some crazy stuff up there, and you ought to support a guy like that. So stick around! More to come! I’m Jimmy Lakey.
If you think tea-party radio shows are done with this strange story by now Windows 7 Activation Key, a week after Stokols reported it, you’d be wrong. Worley was still talking about it Wednesday on KLZ. And he’s still angry at Stokols.
My advice for Worley is, don’t get mad at Eli Stokols. You should be thanking him for reporting what was said to him. You just need to find people with the guts to name names on the record.
May 17th, 2012 by admin
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President Obama honored Rebecca Mieliwocki as the 2012 National Teacher of the Year today, saying she is “the definition of above and beyond.”
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May 17th, 2012 by admin
New York, NY – An unusual flying object is scheduled to arrive in the city’s airspace Friday – the space shuttle Enterprise.
Enterprise is expected to get to the city riding on top of a modified jumbo jet. Its trip was to include low-altitude flyovers over parts of the city and landmarks including the Statue of Liberty and the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on Manhattan’s west side.
The shuttle had been scheduled to arrive earlier in the week but NASA pushed it back because of bad weather.
The shuttle prototype was housed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington but will soon be making its home at the Intrepid, where it will be “the largest and most significant space artifact in the entire Northeast,” said Susan Marenoff-Zausner, Intrepid’s president.
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Enterprise comes to New York as part of NASA’s process of wrapping up the shuttle program, which ended last summer. At the Smithsonian, its place has been taken by the shuttle Discovery. Shuttle Endeavor is going to Los Angeles and shuttle Atlantis is staying at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center.
Enterprise has never been used in an actual space mission, but was a full-scale test vehicle used for flights in the atmosphere and experiments on the ground.
That doesn’t make Intrepid any less excited about having it, Marenoff-Zausner said.
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May 16th, 2012 by admin
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Washington – The first new case of mad cow disease in the U.S. since 2006 has been discovered in a dairy cow in California, but health authorities said Tuesday the animal never was a threat to the nation’s food supply.
The infected cow, the fourth ever discovered in the U.S., was found as part of an Agriculture Department surveillance program that tests about 40,000 cows a year for the fatal brain disease.
No meat from the cow was bound for the food supply, said John Clifford, the department’s chief veterinary officer.
“There is really no cause for alarm here with regard to this animal,” Clifford told reporters at a hastily convened press conference.
Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is fatal to cows and can cause a fatal human brain disease in people who eat tainted beef. The World Health Organization has said that tests show that humans cannot be infected by drinking milk from BSE-infected animals.
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In the wake of a massive outbreak in Britain that peaked in 1993, the U.S. intensified precautions to keep BSE out of U.S. cattle and the food supply. In other countries, the infection’s spread was blamed on farmers adding recycled meat and bone meal from infected cows into cattle feed, so a key U.S. step has been to ban feed containing such material.
Tuesday, Clifford said the California cow is what scientists call an atypical case of BSE, meaning that it didn’t get the disease from eating infected cattle feed, which is important.
That means it’s “just a random mutation that can happen every once in a great while in an animal,” said Bruce Akey, director of the New York State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at Cornell University. “Random mutations go on in nature all the time.”
The testing system worked because it caught what is a really rare event, added Mike Doyle, director of the University of Georgia’s Center for Food Safety.
“It’s good news because they caught it,” Doyle said.
Clifford did not say when the disease was discovered or exactly where the cow was raised. He said the cow was at a rendering plant in central California when the case was discovered through regular USDA sample testing.
Dennis Luckey, executive vice president of Baker Commodities, told The Associated Press that the disease was discovered at its Hanford, Calif., transfer station when the company selected the cow for random sampling.
Luckey said the cow died at the dairy and was randomly tagged for the surveillance program.
Michael Marsh, chief executive of Western United Dairymen, said it was an adult cow over 30 months old, not a downed or sick animal, and it appeared normal when it was last observed. He said the cow was first tested on April 18.
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The Agriculture Department is sharing its lab results with international animal health officials in Canada and England who will review the test results, Clifford said. Federal and California officials will further investigate the case. He said he did not expect the latest discovery to affect beef exports.
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association said in a statement that “U.S. regulatory controls are effective, and that U.S fresh beef and beef products from cattle of all ages are safe and can be safely traded due to our interlocking safeguards.”
Clifford said the finding shows that safeguards the U.S. government and other nations have put into place in recent years are working. In 2011 there were only 29 worldwide cases of BSE, a dramatic decline since the peak of 37,311 cases in 1992. He credited the decline to effect of feed bans as a primary means of controlling the disease.
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Past scares about mad cow disease have affected beef exports to Japan and other countries. Japan banned all U.S. beef imports in 2003 after the first case of mad cow disease was discovered in the United States. Japan resumed buying American beef in 2006 after the bilateral trade agreement setting new safety standards.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Tuesday that the latest finding would not affect trade between the US and Canada.
May 15th, 2012 by admin
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Mitsubishi is dusting off and old name for its new compact crossover. The new RVR that will be released in Japan next spring is nothing like past Mitsus wearing the moniker, a model we knew here as the Expo LRV. The RVR shares the Mitsu family’s nose and physique, though the compact body is being described by officials as lightweight.
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May 14th, 2012 by admin
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May 14th, 2012 by admin
Two key Democratic senators said Friday that they would vote to confirm President Bush’s nominee for attorney general, Michael Mukasey, apparently ensuring his nomination. The decision by Charles Schumer of New York and Dianne Feinstein of California ended weeks of drama over Mukasey’s dodges of questions in his confirmation hearing about whether or not waterboarding was illegal. That story leads the New York Times Replica Emilio Pucci Dresses, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. The Wall Street Journal tops its world-wide newsbox with the resignation of Citigroup’s CEO; the company’s stock has fallen 31 percent this year.
With Schumer and Feinstein on board, the Republicans on the Senate judiciary committee now have a majority in favor of passing Mukasey on to the full Senate, where approval looks to be much smoother.
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The LAT goes into the most detail about what apparently decided it for Schumer: that in a private meeting Friday, Mukasey said that if Congress banned “coercive methods”—which congressional Democrats are trying to do—the president would have to obey. “And he flatly told me that the president would have absolutely no legal authority to ignore such a law, not even under some theory of inherent authority under Article II of the Constitution Cheap Bandage dresses,” Schumer said. “He also pledged to enforce such a law and repeated his willingness to leave office rather than participate in a violation of law.”
The Post says that now that the drama over whether or not Mukasey will be confirmed is over, the focus will shift to the political ramifications of the confirmation vote, with most Democrats eager to cast an opposition vote against torture. Bring it on, Republicans say. “Democrats are demonstrating their weaknesses on security matters, which will work to their disadvantage,” said Sen. John Cornyn of Texas.
And speaking of controversial nominees for Cabinet positions: The NYT fronts a look at new evidence that former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani knew more than he admitted about Bernard Kerik’s ties to a mob-connected company when he promoted Kerik to be director of homeland security. As the Times delicately puts it: “The additional evidence raises questions not only about the precision of Mr. Giuliani’s recollection, but also about how a man who proclaims his ability to pick leaders came to overlook a jumble of disturbing information about Mr. Kerik, even as he pushed him for two crucial government positions.”
Everyone stuffs news of Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Turkey, where she’s trying to convince the Turks not to invade the one part of Iraq that isn’t causing the U.S. problems: the Kurdish-controlled north. Turkey is trying to get the U.S. to do more to combat anti-Turkish Kurdish guerillas who use northern Iraq as a rear base to attack targets in Turkey. Rice’s trip is a prelude to a visit by Turkey’s prime minister to the White House on Monday. “Our expectations of the United States are very high,” said Turkey’s foreign minister. “We want action.”
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Also in the papers: The Journal profiles a typical Moscow family whose rising fortune helps explain President Vladimir Putin’s enormous popularity in Russia. The Post looks at a Blackwater-affiliated private intelligence company. Attitudes toward abortion are changing in Mexico after Mexico City legalized it earlier this year, the LAT reports. Big Sugar’s tentacles reach farther than you would have expected, the Post finds. Television writers are going on strike as of Monday, the LAT reports.
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Toyota is in the process of reevaluating the structure of its highest level of management. Eight years ago there were 58 board members running the show before Toyota cut the group down to 27. Now Toyota is planning to reduce its board further by dropping its membership to 17.
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