Sunday, February 11, 2007

more Archiving II





Tuesday Feb 06, 2007



NEWLAND In the Avery County jail, a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments reminds inmates of any sins committed.



ASHEVILLE District Attorney Ron Moore has cleared city police of criminal wrongdoing in a fatal shooting into a car.



Catawba revises land code: County OKs broad changes to development rules involving mobile homes, subdivisions



'Keep on Going' Guy Spear's full life leaves him too busy to lament what he lost in accident



Carolina wakes up to a Minnesota morning: Arctic sting no record, but close enough.



Lobbying intense on death penalty: Perdue calls for a moratorium as the Council of State gets an earful on doctors' role in executions.



Fight leaves one man dead in Bryson City: Suspect first charged with assault with intent to kill; charges could change in light of victim's death



UNC officials find financial irregularities, lack of proper controls at A&T: "Smelling some smoke," the interim chancellor asks the UNC system for help.










Monday Feb 05, 2007



John Edwards: raise taxes for healthcare



ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES: We're reorganizing to meet the demands of a changing news environment



Officials try to manage growing health-care needs, plan for baby boomers



QUIT OR BE TOSSED OUT: 2 Baptist churches leaving N.C. group
St. John's, Park Road vote to exit convention




Charlotte's Woodstock generation is ready to rock and roll again -- just after the BMW is valet parked.
























Sunday Feb 04, 2007



Chimney Rock sale raises questions on states plan for site



Charlotte: Practice fires raise air concerns. Fire Department says asbestos taken out before buildings burned



The pain of capital gain on the taxpayer



4 cranes destined for port hit dredge



Camp Lejeune: Base drive still a bummer



A survey of abandoned vessels along the coast could rouse debate about whether the state needs to address the issue. The Eastern Carolina Council of Governments hopes to do just that by taking its findings to government agencies and other groups active...



A $2.5 Billion Shakedown



Houses riddled with crime, blight: A police sergeant owns 10 housing units in Southeast Raleigh near downtown that routinely draw officers on drug, prostitution and assault calls.














Saturday Feb 3, 2007



Hearts With Hands offers emergency aid in tornado-torn Central Florida



Asheville loses water lawsuit



A plan to redraw Pender County's commissioner voting districts has the support of one state lawmaker, but another says she's worried there wasn't enough public input.



Franklin: Bond has been raised to $300,000 for a man charged with drugging and raping a 14-year-old girl on Jan. 6."Based on new information, the district attorney and I felt it was appropriate to require a larger bond," Sheriff Robert Holland said Thursday.



Asheville Global Report: Libby trial reveals Cheney manipulations on Iraq



Swain County: No specific timetable yet for state investigation of election charges



Old Fort officer dies in wreck



WINTON - Two employees for an animal rights group were cleared Friday of charges that they cruelly killed cats and dogs. What they got were littering convictions -- for throwing out the dead animals.



Sanford church speaks out with silent display



Graham County: Support for troops under way










Friday Feb 2, 2007




Franklin: Wal-Mart Supercenter project on hold for now



New Macon County Library, Southwestern Community College nearly complete




Winter storm fizzles, spares much of WNC: 5 inches of snow in some places, none in others



CULLOWHEE ������¯������¿������½ State troopers now say a Western Carolina basketball player, not his girlfriend, was behind the wheel of a car that crashed into the Tuckasegee River last week



Waynesville library offers bilingual story time for kids



Asheville UNC Asheville will host a talk on The Current Science of Climate Change at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 6, at UNC Ashevilles Karpen Hall, room 038. Noted environmental expert Leonard Bernstein will present key findings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, for which he served as convening lead author.



Members of the Cherokee County Parks and Recreation at Andrews Steering Committee met Jan. 22 to discuss what should be included in the master park plan for the Salman Property.



No-Stick Plot: Forecast of snow, ice falls short of its billing



The Charlotte area is expected to warm a little today to about 39 degrees, and possibly even be sunny, a day after snow blanketed the region.



Charlotte: Charter school once threatened by unrest and closure makes comeback with firm administrative leadership



Bank of America Corp. and other banks are reissuing debit and credit cards after retailer TJX Cos. Inc. said customer data was stolen by computer hackers, The Associated Press reports.



Homeless in Hillsborough: Editors note: This is the first in a series of three articles looking at the state of homelessness in Hillsborough and possible solutions. Next weeks story will focus on Jeffery Ruffin, a chronically homeless man who has been waiting four years to receive disability checks.





More Archiving



Tuesday Feb 06, 2007



Attack On Agent Ramos: Update



World's Oldest Newspaper Goes Digital



Click Here to see (in Swedish)



Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?





$2.9 TRILLION SPENDING PLAN: Bush's budget favors defense



PERJURY CHARGES

Judge clears way for trial for Jim Black ally: Official with PAC for optometrists accused of lies on finance reports




Nonprofit raises $750,000 toward lacrosse defense



THE WATADA DOCTRINE: The deeper meaning behind the court martial of Lt. Ehren Watada and why this soldier is the darling of the anti-war movement.



HILLARY'S HIDDEN ENERGY AGENDA: According to this anonymous writer who has worked for a decade on energy and environment policy on a national and international level, Senator Clinton������¯������¿������½s plan for energy independence means that you will ������¯������¿������½have less, make less, and do less.������¯������¿������½ Here������¯������¿������½s how it came to be and who������¯������¿������½s behind it.












Monday Feb 05, 2007



RALEIGH ������¯������¿������½ New state Rep. Charles Thomas plans to beat high rental costs in Raleigh and send a signal about the costs of being a public servant by camping out in a recreational vehicle while the General Assembly is in session.



Copters were shot down: U.S. pilots revise tactics in Iraq after 4 crashes in 2 weeks



Many states joining fight against Real ID
After Maine passed resolution against it, others following suit




Senator Clinton has a carefully hidden plan for US energy ������¯������¿������½independence.������¯������¿������½ The plan means that you will ������¯������¿������½have less, make less, and do less.������¯������¿������½ Here������¯������¿������½s how it came to be and who������¯������¿������½s behind it.



The other side of the Prophet



Ahmadinejad: On February 11, Islamic Republic's nuclear rights 'will be established'



Ridiculous New York Times Story of the Week



Bush plans for 2012 surplus: Budget proposal calls for billions more for defense, keeping tax cuts and reining in health costs.



Saudi court sentences foreigners for drinking, dancing



Georgia Tech and other campus newspapers reject an ad for What Americans Need to Know about Jihad as ������¯������¿������½offensive.������¯������¿������½









Sunday Feb 04, 2007








HEATH SHULER: Power Player of the Week



"Every time there is a debate between a real jihadi and, say, what we have decided to call moderate Muslims, the jihadis win"



UK officials suspect jihadist mole in Ministry of Defense



UK: Teacher fired for saying most suicide bombers are Muslims



Iranian general supervised Hamas arms, source says



Chewbacca Arrested in Hollywood!



Western banks skimming from Africa.



Palestinians: "We Don't Deserve a State"



# Move on from Blair, Labour urged
Labour's deputy leadership contender Jon Cruddas says it is time for the party to move on from Blairism.




AFP - Egyptian police have discovered two arms caches in northern Sinai near the border with the Gaza Strip, including hand and rocket-propelled grenades.



# Satellite prepares to go super-cold
Europe's Planck satellite will study relic radiation from the Big Bang to answer deep questions about the origin of the Universe.




Reuters - Israel has stepped up preparations for a possible military incursion into Gaza over concerns that fighting between Palestinian factions may lead to renewed attacks on Israel, a newspaper reported on Sunday.



AP - Hamas gunmen attacked bases of Fatah-allied troops with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades early Sunday, part of a four-day campaign by the Islamic militants to weaken the security forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.



Storm Track Appeasement: Listen UP! An Appeaser Dictates the Rules for Reporting Islam










Saturday Feb 3, 2007



Imam prays to stop ������¯������¿������½oppression and occupation������¯������¿������½ at Democratic National Committee meeting



Easley: Nifong broke his word: The governor called the Durham DA his worst appointment. He said Nifong promised not to run for a full term



Northeast Intelligence Network: Case of Libyan children infected with HIV virus topic of new al Qaeda message



Panel links warming to humans: Climate changing at perilous rate, it says



Bush to Face Questions from Democrats



Sleeper Cells in the United States and Canada: There is every reason to suspect that we will endure suicide missions by Islamist sleeper cells. They are already in place. They are waiting for the right time. I know this from experience.



Morris: Hillary Has New Scandals



Dems to Net - "Thanks For All Your Hard Work in '06, Now Piss Off."



CONROE, Texas -- A 65-year-old retired truck driver who was attacked by a vicious pit bulldog during a neighborhood walk choked the dog to death as he defended himself.



OMAHA, Neb. -- Claiming U.S. dollars used to purchase gasoline made from Middle East oil funds terrorism, a group called the Terror-Free Oil Initiative opened the nation's first "terror-free" gas station.



WINSTON-SALEM������¯������¿������½Former U.S. Senator John Edwards is making a second attempt for the U.S. presidential seat, and told a filled crowd inside Wait Chapel at Wake Forest University on Jan. 29 that there is one prominent issue that stands out more than any other matter for the next commander in chief.
������¯������¿������½I think the single most important issue facing the next president will be to reestablish our leadership in the world,������¯������¿������½ he said.












Friday Feb 2, 2007



Video: Muslim Students Disrupt Daniel Pipes Speech at UC Irvine



Piglet exterminated in Qatar



WASHINGTON ������¯������¿������½ To the victor goes the bonus: Rep. Heath Shuler rewarded Anzalone-Liszt Research, a Montgomery, Ala., polling firm, with a $5,000 ������¯������¿������½win������¯������¿������½ bonus after beating the odds and defeating 16-year incumbent Charles Taylor, his most recent campaign finance report shows.



50 Iraqis Dead from Laser Shortfall?



Bob Geldof is launching a channel aimed at promoting world peace.

The anti-poverty campaigner is getting involved in the development of the online channel, according to Broadcast magazine.




BEAVERDAM ������¯������¿������½ It was Fred Hensley������¯������¿������½s whistling that finally allowed searchers to home in on his whereabouts shortly after midnight Thursday as the prospect of a winter storm threatened the region.



A Long Row To Hoe: Proposals for an alcohol-fueled end to dependence on foreign oil do not sit lightly on the American landscape. Can they fit within our borders at all?



RALEIGH - U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings said Thursday that President Bush intends to push for significant increases in the maximum federal Pell Grants available to students.



ZOA calls for retraction & apology after Sec'y Rice calls Hamas "a resistance movement"



UK: Muslim fury over arrests



CONTAINING IRAQ



In America, Iranian torturers are prosecuted; in France, their victims are.



Joe Kennedy Pimps for Hugo Chavez: The elder Kennedy loved Hitler; now Joe the Second cuts 30-second spots for Venezuela's petty tyrant.











Thursday Feb 1, 2007



Asheville: The National Weather Service on Thursday afternoon cancelled its winter storm warning for most of Western North Carolina after a storm system that was expected to drop five inches of snow fizzled out.



The Islamic Mein Kampf



ASHEVILLE: A winter storm bearing down on Western North Carolina today threatens to bring widespread power failures and dangerous roads as up to 5 inches of snow gets topped by a quarter- to a half-inch of ice.





A First Hand Account of Road Conditions between Franklin and Cullowhee, NC



NCDOT: Traveler Information Management System



SPITTING ON OUR TROOPS



Connecting the dots of brinksmanship in the Mideast this morning brings us the sounds of increasingly loud saber rattling from all sides:



"Ironic isn't it? While we sit in "safety"... wondering if our nation is going to invade Iran, they have secretly been invading us!"



Iran's Revolutionary Guards: "The kidnapping of American citizens in the Middle East, Europe and South America is not difficult and can happen at any moment"



Canadian town to immigrants: you can't stone women



The "Other" Headline From General O'Reilly's Speech
There was a lot of news from yesterday's speech by Brigadier General Patrick O'Reilly, Deputy Director of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency. Not only did he report significant progress in our own missile defense efforts, he also outlined the most compelling reason for moving ahead with BMD:




31 January 2007: Jamal KHALIFA, the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden and precious gem broker by profession, was shot by unknown assailants and killed in Madagascar, according to his family.



CARY - No matter what happens this morning, Rick Nordman will have 5 inches of snow in his backyard, easy.http://www.newsobserver.com/100/story/538491.html



DHIMMI WATCH: 'Palestinian Genocide Day' instead of Holocaust Day



UK: prison toilets rebuilt to face away from Mecca



Station Crew Completes Successful Spacewalk












Wednesday Jan 31, 2007



WINTER STORM WATCH FOR WNC





GATES OF VIENNA: EU DOMAIN NAME GRAB



CHEROKEE ������¯������¿������½ The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians on Tuesday approved a casino expansion plan that will double the size of its gambling operation and bring 1,000 new jobs to Western North Carolina.



Macon County Deputies have charged a man for drugging and raping a 14-year-old child: Douglas Charles LePage, 50, of 591 Fox Run Road, Franklin, was taken into custody after he allegedly put benzodiazepine into the food of a 14-year-old, later raping her.



Pentagon investigating Iran's Qods Force role in Karbala attack: IRGC's Qods Force is the prime suspect in the Karbala attack which killed 5 soldiers; we broke story on Friday, January 26





TOP 11 SIGNS ISLAM NOT AS BAD AS THE CELEBRITY LEFT



JOE BIDEN MAKES IT OFFICIAL



Can it really be possible that Americans are witnessing a governmental program designed to merge ������¯������¿������½ slowly but surely ������¯������¿������½ the United States, Mexico and Canada?



Extremists in Somalia Threaten to Kill Any Peacekeepers Posted There



MARIANNA, Fla. | The wife of a rural Panhandle sheriff, a deputy and two suspects were killed Tuesday evening in shootings outside the sheriff's home.



PALESTINE: For more than sixty years it has been the recipient of aid from the United Nations, Europe and the United States. In fact, "the highest per capita aid transfer in the history of foreign aid anywhere." Statesmen all over the world have paid homage to it. It's leadership has been praised and defended by Jimmy Carter





What's Left? How Liberals lost their way: Maggie's Farm



What's Left? How Liberals lost their way: Belmont Club



LAS VEGAS - Juan Pablo Montoya didn't have much chance to celebrate his Rolex 24 At Daytona victory Sunday, for he was supposed to be in a Nextel Cup car Monday morning for a test at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.