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WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the CIA's decision to search the Senate Intelligence Committee's network and computers without approval was absolutely indefensible and carried serious implications for the separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches.
Adding heat on the CIA, the Senate will investigate the network, which contained a Senate committee's still-secret review of U.S. terror interrogations. It has been at the center of dueling criminal referrals to the Justice Department and a dramatic collapse in relations between the nation's spy agencies and the lawmakers entrusted with their oversight.
On the other side, Reid said he had instructed his Senate's chief cop to examine how Senate staffers obtained an internal CIA review, which the CIA accused them of improperly copying. But Reid described the CIA's alleged monitoring of Senate computers as more serious.
The parameters of the sergeant-at-arms' investigation are unclear, and it's unknown what cooperation he'll receive from the CIA, which has been locked in a bitter rift with the intelligence committee's chairman, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
The agency accuses committee staffers of illegally accessing certain documents; Feinstein and other senators say the CIA broke the law by monitoring its computer use and deleting files.
To my knowledge, the CIA has produced no evidence to support its claims that Senate committee staff who have no technical training somehow hacked into the CIA's highly secure classified networks, an allegation that appears on its face to be patently absurd, Reid said in a letter to CIA Director John Brennan. A previous review, he said, appears to corroborate committee findings and contradict CIA claims.
CIA spokesman Dean Boyd said the agency was committed to resolving its differences with senators. The CIA, he said, believes in the necessity of effective, strong and bipartisan congressional oversight.
The clash between Congress and the CIA is arcane in its particulars but potentially broad in scope, with the sides battling over who will write the official history of one of the darkest eras in American spying – the waterboarding and brutal interrogations of al-Qaida prisoners in undeclared black site prisons overseas.
Feinstein's claim that the CIA has undermined separation of powers makes it a constitutional fight, too.
The disagreement had been kept under wraps until this month and broke out fully into the open after the California Democrat took the Senate floor to outline her case last week. It was an extraordinary intervention for a senator who has been among the staunchest defenders of U.S. intelligence agencies.
The CIA has dismissed Feinstein's allegations.


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....have been distributed plus ALOT of unclsaimed property keeps rolling in, who gets it the residuary now?
I am not clear what you are asking. Is there a trust that provides one thing and a will that says something else regarding the residue? A pour over will (typically see with a revocable trust) usually leaves the residue of the estate to the trust. Is the will. being probated? If so, how far in the probate are you? Did the residuary beneficiary survive the decedent for the period required by the trust or will? If the property passed outright to the residuary beneficiary and he or she survived for the requisite period of time, then typically the assets otherwise distributable to that beneficiary are then distributed to his or her estate.
You really need to talk with an attorney who can review all of the documents and get all of the facts in order to get adequate advice. There is not enough information to answer your question.
I think the first attorney to answer is asking the right questions. From your question, it seems to me that the will has likely been probated and the executor has begun distribution of the assets. In that case, it may be too late to challenge the disposition plan if the Order for Distribution has already been signed by the court. I recommend consulting an attorney in your county or jurisdiction to help ascertain your rights in this situation.
This answer does not constitute legal advice, and in merely general in nature. It does not create an attorney-client relationship.
First, with regard to unclaimed property, an Final Order Distributing a probate estate will ordinarly have an omnibus clause to distribute any estate assets that may later be discovered. The executor will comply with the Order if unclaimed property is discovered. If a beneficiary dies before the decedent, the issue is called lapse. California has an anti-lapse statute to determine distribution. The interpretation of a will, if an ambiguity must be resolved, must be determined by the court prior to a final order of distribution.
I agree with the other attorneys who have responded. Your question does not give us enough facts to arrive at a more concrete solution. Under certain, limited, circumstances you can contest a will even if it has gone through a probate. If you do not want to contest it, then you might be able to bring the issue before the court for advice to determine who the proper heirs are. In general though it is best to hurry up. Once the assets are distributed it is very difficult to get them back!


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Scotland lock Jim Hamilton will return to Edinburgh's starting XV when they host Glasgow in the 1872 Cup decider on Saturday.
The 27-year-old has missed the entire season so far with a knee injury but has been given the all-clear to make his comeback in the Scottish derby at Murrayfield, which could see the home side draw level with top of the table Glasgow in the Magners League standings.
Head Coach Rob Moffat is hoping Hamilton can help lift the side after their 25-12 defeat against Warriors in the first leg of the competition at Firhill last weekend.
"It is good to have him back," said Moffat.
"His return gives the squad a massive boost."
Hamilton is one of four changes to the starting line-up, with prop Kyle Traynor reintroduced into the front row, Alan MacDonald reclaiming the number six jersey after recovering from a rib injury and Mark Robertson returning on the wing, while John Houston moves across to inside centre.
Moffat is urging his team to see Sunday's defeat as fresh incentive to fight for a win over their capital rivals.
"There should be a reaction to Sunday's result from our players - we didn't play well and we lost to our closest rivals," he said.
"Glasgow went top of the league, while we dropped down to fifth place.
"So this is a massively important game for us; not just because it is Glasgow, but because it is a big game in the wider scheme of the Magners League."
The Edinburgh side is still plagued by injury problems, with captain Mike Blair ruled out with an ankle problem and vice-captain Allister Hogg facing a lengthy absence after undergoing surgery on his hip last week.
Fly-half David Blair continues to be sidelined with an ankle injury, while club captain Simon Cross is still out with a knee problem along with Andrew Easson (knee), Ryan Grant (ankle) and Simon Webster (hamstring).
Meanwhile, Glasgow Head Coach Sean Lineen has kept faith with the XV who beat their capital rivals 25-12 at Firhill on Sunday to return to the top of the Magners League.
Victory at Murrayfield would see Lineen's men reclaim the 1872 Cup but defeat could see Edinburgh draw level with the Warriors in the Magners League table.
"I've been very impressed with the players' attitude this week because we all know we have unfinished business," said Lineen, who will name his bench on Friday.
"We've had a pretty full-on week and are leaving nothing to chance.
"Edinburgh will be hurting but we've been there before. We're expecting a very fierce match on Saturday."
Lineen added that he Hopes that members of the record-breaking support that came to Firhill will travel to the capital this week.
"There will be a large number of Glasgow fans through in Edinburgh and these supporters are always vital for us," he said.
Form:The last twelve meetings between the two teams have all been won by the home side on the day, whilst Glasgow's most recent win on Edinburgh soil was 33-26 at Myreside in the Welsh-Scottish League on 15 September 2000. Edinburgh have won just one of their last three matches: 9-6 at home to Bath in the European Cup on 19 December. Top of the table Glasgow Warriors are unbeaten in their last five games in the Magners League since their 16-26 reversal at home to Ospreys on 25 September.
The Teams:
Edinburgh: 15 Chris Paterson (c), 14 Mark Robertson, 13 Ben Cairns, 12 John Houston, 11 Tim Visser, 10 Phil Godman, 9 Greig Laidlaw,8 Scott Newlands, 7 Roddy Grant, 6 Alan MacDonald, 5 Jim Hamilton, 4 Scott MacLeod, 3 Geoff Cross, 2 Ross Ford, 1 Kyle Traynor.
Replacements: 16 Sean Crombie/Andrew Kelly, 17 Allan Jacobsen, 18 Craig Hamilton, 19 David Callam, 20 Ross Samson, 21 Nick De Luca, 22 Jim Thompson.
Glasgow: 15 Bernardo Stortoni, 14 DTH van der Merwe, 13 Max Evans, 12 Graeme Morrison, 11 Thom Evans, 10 Dan Parks, 9 Chris Cusiter, 8 Richie Vernon, 7 John Barclay, 6 Kelly Brown, 5 Richie Gray, 4 Alastair Kellock (c), 3 Moray Low, 2 Dougie Hall, 1 Jon Welsh.
Date:Saturday, January 2
Venue: Murrayfield
Kick-off: 15.05 GMT
Referee: Peter Allan
Assistant Referees: David Changleng, Ronnie Dumma
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HILLSVILLE — The Carroll County School Board is considering a request for a soccer program for Carroll County Middle School.
Information about the potential program was presented by Dr. Mark Burnette, who turned the floor over to middle school principal Marc Quesenberry at the school board's Oct. 14 meeting.
As a meme going around Facebook proclaims, more people have been dumped by pop star Taylor Swift than have caught the Ebola virus in the U.S.
On a more sober note, Ebola, worldwide, has caused slightly more than 4,500 deaths from 1976 to mid-October this year out of more than 7,000 reported cases — most of them in West Africa, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). By contrast, the Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919 infected 500 million people across the globe and killed at least 50 million of them in that time frame alone, according to the CDC.
HILLSVILLE — Carroll County got into the fall spirit for the annual Pumpkin Festival at the Southwest Virginia Farmers Market on Oct. 18.
The festivities took place from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., and included fall-themed activities such as pumpkin carving, apple butter making, pumpkin cannons and a zombie trail ride.
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Mary Ashby and Terry Brown announced their wedding plans for this weekend.
The wedding is at 2 p.m. Saturday at Fairview Baptist Church.
Timber Abrianna Mundy celebrated her sixth birthday on Aug. 20 with a party at Chuck E. Cheese. Her sisters, Hope Gaynor and Taelynn Mundy, helped her celebrate along with many special friends and family.
She is the daughter of John and Tammy Utt of Woodlawn and Tim and Britt Mundy of Max Meadows. Her maternal grandparents are Brenda Liddle and Emory Bearden of Woodlawn and Charles Liddle of Galax. Her paternal grandparents are Don and Mabelene Beverly and Wayne Mundy, all of Cana.
Levi Dasher Bowers turned two Sept. 30. He celebrated Sept. 27 with a party at his home with family and friends. He is the son of Travis and Heather Bowers of Galax.
His grandparents are Janice and the late Clarence Bowers, Paula Diamond of Galax and Dallas Diamond of Barren Springs. Great-grandparents include Ada Lee and Elmer Williams, the late Paul Haga, Dorothy and Paul Diamond, Ruby and the late Raymond Bowers and the late Audrey and Oacus Sizemore.
Editor's Note: This information is taken from open court records and is a matter of public record. The listings are complete. The newspaper, as a matter of fairness, will not honor requests to omit any listing.
For information on this column or questions, call 236-5178, ext. 213.
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These sentences were recorded in April in the Grayson County General District Court office, Independence. Sentences may be appealed:
By LARRY CHAMBERS, Staff
HILLSVILLE – The county filled the last building in the Carroll Industrial Park on Tuesday when Andrews Farming Inc. and its sister operation ANDCO Logistics Inc. announced plans to expand their operation, invest $5.6 million and hire 51 people over a three-year period.
BRISTOL –– Carroll County runners Samuel Haynes and Tyler Barrett and Grayson County's Mary Beth Cunningham all came home with championship medals after winning their respective divisions at the Abingdon Invitational cross country meet, held Wednesday at Sugar Hollow Park.
An open event, runners were participating as individuals in divisions based on grades 6 through 12, with the top five in each division earning medals. No team scores were tabulated.
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Photos and Description of this 4 bedroom holiday villa in Cala Carbo
4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, overlooking Es Vedra and with an oriental twist
You imagine yourself in great oriental atmosphere through the gorgeous, round white dome (inside a very high ceiling), and the decorations in and around the house. When you're lying by the pool, you look out over the sea and the mystical rock Es Vedra.
The house is for 7 people.
There is a separate apartment left immediately after entering the gate. It has two twin beds and a bathroom. In the house are 3 bedrooms. Two bedrooms (one double and one single) share a bathroom with bath and shower and the last bedroom has a double bed and private bathroom with bath and shower.
The kitchen is fully equipped, there is wifi and air conditioning in the living room.
Outside there is a chill out area and a large table with sofas. The barbeque is also a lounge area with sofas and the possibility to walk. From there into the kitchen
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Falmouth Classics Regatta
Falmouth Classics steps up one more gear for 2014. The camaraderie of the best Classic Boat Rallies comes to Falmouth. Building on the success of the expansion to a three day event, Falmouth Classics have now been able to bring the competitors together in one area in close proximity to the Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival.
We welcome all classic sailing boats to the whole regatta, and classic motor launches and any other classics hulls, powered by whatever means they were designed for, to our Classic Parade and to our Shore-side functions.
Thanks to the sponsorship of National Ventilation and Airtech Environmental Systems and the cooperation of Falmouth Harbour Commissioners berthing will be free for visiting competitors. This puts Falmouth in the top league with other major Classic Regattas on both sides of the Channel. It gives an added incentive for boat owners to include Falmouth in their summer programmes.
Free berthing and mooring will be available for visiting yachtsmen. Competitors will be berthed together at the Falmouth Haven Marina near Customs House Quay with larger boats moored close by.
Classic Boat Parade
Beginning at approximately 1000 on the morning of Saturday 14th June the Falmouth Lifeboat will give a rescue demonstration (WITH HELICOPTER IF AVAILABLE) off Pendennis Headland and Castle in the region of Black Rock beacon. At 1030 the firing of a gun from the castle battlements will mark the start of the Parade of Classic Sailing, Power and Rowing Gigs. Boats will pass a review launch below Pendennis point and present salutations to dignitaries aboard.. Assistance to identify the boats taking part will be given by experienced yachtsmen to those watching at the various viewpoints. Shanty men will serenade in the Castle grounds and other viewpoints during the morning.
Parading boats crews are encouraged to dress in appropriate costume to present salutations to the reviewing dignitaries who will select the best presented boats and crews for prizes to be presented later in the day. The Docks Fireboats, if available, will create a giant backdrop fountain to the Parade.
This event like all sailing is weather dependent. The types of boat parading and the chosen routes exact location may change to suit the conditions on the day. It is hoped that a large Schooner and a Square Rigged tall ship will lead the Parade followed by several large Pilot Cutters, then Gaff rigged and Bermudan yachts large and small following. Last will come Motor yachts and Gigs. If the weather is exactly right the Maritime Museum built replica of a 4000-year-old Log boat found in the mud of the river Humber would be the last boat to pass the review launch.
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These are Republicans who think that the key to winning elections is to do more of what the Democrats are doing. In effect, they say "me too" on issues such as immigration, in hopes of gaining more new votes than they lose by betraying their existing supporters.
In the wake of last year's presidential election debacle for the Republicans, the explanation preferred by "moderate" Republicans has been that the GOP has been too narrowly ideological, and needs to reach out to minorities, women and young people, rather than just to conservatives.
In the words of the "Growth and Opportunity Project," the problem is that conservative Republican candidates have been "driving around in circles on an ideological cul-de-sac."
But the report itself says that the Republicans' election problems have been at the national level, not at the state level, where a majority of the governors are Republicans. Are the Republican moderates suggesting that the reason Mitt Romney lost in 2012 is that he was driving around in a conservative cul-de-sac? Romney was as mushy a moderate as Sen. John McCain was before him - and as many other Republican losers in presidential elections have been, going all the way back to the 1940s. The only Republican candidate who might fit the charge of being a complete conservative was Ronald Reagan, who won two landslide elections.
The report to the Republican National Committee is on firmer ground when it says that national Republican candidates have not articulated their case very well - that "we too often sound like bookkeepers." Republican candidates "need to do a better job talking in normal, people-oriented terms."
Absolutely. It doesn't matter how good your case is, if you don't bother to articulate it so that voters understand you.
The heart of the report, however, is the argument that Republicans need to reach out to minorities, women and young people. With Hispanics and blacks becoming a growing proportion of the American population - and both groups voting overwhelmingly for Democrats - the Republicans are obviously in big trouble in future elections if they don't do something.
But if they do what this report advocates, they could be in even bigger trouble. Here again, facts seem to mean nothing to those who wrote this report.
They propose going through such organizations as the NAACP to reach black voters, as if the NAACP owns blacks, in violation of the 13th Amendment. Not only is the NAACP virtually a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party, the kind of black voters that the Republicans have some hope of winning over are unlikely to be enthralled to the NAACP, and many of them may see through such race hustlers.
Or do all blacks look alike to those who wrote this report?
It is the same story with Hispanics and Asian Americans. The Republicans are supposed to go through these groups' "leaders" as well - mostly leaders tied to the Democratic Party ideologically or otherwise. You might think that a Republican Party that talks about individualism would try to appeal to individuals.
Individuals whom the Republicans have some chance of winning over may well be a small minority within these groups. However, if the GOP can reduce the Democrats' 80 percent of these groups' votes to 70 percent, that can swing elections.
But a shotgun approach to minorities won't do it.
When it comes to minority votes, the Democratic Party is much like Eastman Kodak during the long period when it sold the vast majority of the film and cameras in the country. How did its competitors manage to drive Kodak into bankruptcy?
Not by saying "me too" while trying to imitate Kodak and trying to outdo Kodak with better film and better film cameras. They went digital instead. But that approach requires a lot more thought than apparently went into this report. Polls and focus groups are not a substitute for thought.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His website is www.tsowell.com.
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Marshall Morgan's super sophomore season for Georgia was recognized Monday when he was named one of 20 semifinalists for the Lou Groza Award for nation's top placekicker.
Morgan was shaky as a freshman, but since returning from a two-game suspension for a boating under the influence charge to start the season, he's 13 of 15 on field goals and has made all 22 extra points attempted.
"Of course, I believed in myself, but now that's it's actually happening, it's a lot better feeling," Morgan said.
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"They've seen how I was kicking this whole summer," Morgan said. "I feel like they wanted me out there. It just made me feel really good having guys talking positive stuff in my ear and not guys on the team talking negative like a few last year maybe."
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Choosing siding for the exterior of your home involves more than just picking a color; it also entails selecting a siding type that will complement your house style while staying within your budget. When considering wood, vinyl or stucco siding, you will find a wide range in installation costs, in the amount of labor required to install each siding and in the ongoing maintenance each type of siding requires. Each siding style has its pros and cons.
Stucco siding consists of a layer of cement applied over lathe or steel mesh or over existing masonry, such as brick or stone. You can choose colored stucco or paint it after it is in place. New synthetic stucco materials increase surface flexibility, thereby reducing cracks. Available in a rainbow of colors, vinyl siding comes in long, lapped sections and installs over wallboard or insulated sheeting. Wood siding comes in various types, including pine, redwood, fir and spruce.
Stucco siding is durable and low-maintenance. Stucco holds paint very well; however, If you choose stucco with infused pigment, you may never need to repaint. Vinyl siding also does not require painting, is inexpensive and is easy to install, with a wide choice of matching and contrasting colors for corner sections, fascia and shutters. Redwood and cedar are weather-resistant, making them the top picks in the wood siding category.
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Choose your siding not only by price, but by the style of house you own. Vinyl siding comes in various widths, and 4-inch laps can replace narrow siding strips on a traditional-style home, while stucco may look better on ranch-style homes or in developments that require a certain percentage of masonry on the home's exterior. Natural wood siding offers rustic appeal for resort homes, and you may choose from wood shingles or even siding that looks like logs.
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A mother was killed and her daughter was critically wounded in a domestic-related shooting early Friday in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, police said.
About 12:05 a.m., a 25-year-old woman was in an argument with her boyfriend in the 5400 block of South Laflin, police said. When the woman's mother attempted to intervene, the boyfriend shot both women, said police News Affairs Officer Amina Greer.
Theresa Spearman, 46, suffered gunshot wounds to the abdomen and upper back and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where she died at 12:36 a.m., according to police and the medical examiner's office.
The daughter was shot multiple times in the torso and was also taken to Stroger, where she was listed in critical condition, Greer said.
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Much of the Silly Season moves in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series took place during the actual racing season this year, so with few driver moves left to make, crew chief shuffles came front and center after the season finale.
Stewart-Haas Racing made the biggest announcement of the first week of the offseason when it released Tony Stewart's crew chief of two years, Steve Addington, two days after Sunday's race at Homestead-Miami Speedway and signed Chad Johnston to be the crew chief for the No. 14 team in 2014, among several crew chief changes the organization made that include Rodney Childers to the No. 4 team with Kevin Harvick and Daniel Knost to the No. 41 team with Kurt Busch.
Johnston had been the crew chief for Martin Truex Jr. and the No. 56 team at Michael Waltrip Racing, but that job fell apart after the race-fixing scandal late in the Sept. 7 race at Richmond International Raceway caused full-time sponsor NAPA to leave the team at the end of the year.
The No. 56 team dissolved, as Truex and his pit crew will move next season to the No. 78 team at Furniture Row Racing, which finished 10th in the final points standings with the eldest Busch as the driver.
Addington did not find a job with a history of nearly as much success. He will be the crew chief of the No. 51 team at Phoenix Racing, which has not yet announced a full-time sponsor or driver for 2014, although it will likely by Brandt with Justin Allgaier in the driver's seat.
That move is certainly a fairly steep drop from Addington's position with the No. 14 team and his jobs with Busch in the No. 22 car at Penske Racing from 2010-11 and with Kyle Busch and the No. 18 team at Joe Gibbs Racing from 2008-09.
Addington began his full-time crew chief career at Joe Gibbs Racing in 2005 with Bobby Labonte but went three years, including the next two with J.J. Yeley, before he got his first Cup series win in 2008 with Kyle Busch.
Busch won 12 races in his two seasons with Addington but never finished better than 10th in the points standings. Kurt Busch won four races in his two seasons with Addington but finished 10th both years.
In 2012, Stewart won three races as the Cup series reigning champion but fizzled in the Chase and finished ninth in the points standings.
Addington faced tough circumstances in 2013, as he had to work with four different drivers because Stewart broke a leg during a sprint car crash in August and missed the final 15 races of the season.
However, Addington's career has been defined by missed opportunities, and those bygone chances now have him with a second-tier team that has not finished better than 25th in the Cup series points standings and had nine different drivers in a 2013 season that had former owner James Finch sell the team to Harry Scott Jr.
Both Busch brothers and Stewart were favorites to contend for the championship during their seasons with Addington because they often had successful regular seasons that put them in position to contend for the title, but they faded during the Chase every single year.
Addington could get those drivers, who have a combined four championships among them, into the Chase, but he could never have much success with them once they got there.
Regardless of the factors that contributed to those Chase swoons, Addington is now in the same spot as drivers who had opportunities with top teams but fell short of expectations.
Drivers such as Yeley, Michael McDowell, David Reutimann, David Stremme, Regan Smith, Elliott Sadler and Reed Sorenson, among others, all had rides with large, multi-car Cup series organizations at least at one point in their careers, but they are now with underfunded teams, start-and-park teams or even Nationwide Series teams.
For now, those drivers languish in mostly bad rides with hopes of one day getting another chance at the big time, and now Addington is in that same spot.
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Start Wrigley work now
The city should immediately give the Cubs the OK to start their proposed renovations.
By the Cubs paying, this saves the city money it can't afford to give away. The Cubs and Wrigley Field are the product that draws revenue to the city. The rooftop owners are just feeding off someone else's product.
Joe Iacullo,
Yes to pigeon cleanup
Ald. James Cappleman is to be commended for trying to resolve a very serious health problem from pigeon droppings ["Alderman gets heat for pigeon roundup," Jan. 23].
For example, the sidewalks under the viaducts at Belmont and Kedzie are completely covered in pigeon droppings. There is no place you can walk without stepping on the droppings.
The people who feed pigeons and the organization Showing Animals Respect and Kindness should clean up after the pigeons.
We need an organization that shows humans respect and kindness. The people of Chicago need to be protected from the filth and disease of all animal droppings.
Lorraine Buehler,
End TIFS
Among the many moves California did to get its financial house in order was end every politician's favorite piggy bank: TIFs. Those pesky Tax Increment Financing districts, awarded to political favorites, which allow cities and other municipalities to legally loot property taxes that would normally go to schools, parks, libraries and other less-sexy causes.
It is time Illinois do the same. End TIFs, which were intended to be used only in cases of extreme blight but fund bling instead.
Karen Kennedy,
Ward map nonsense
I have lived in the same house in Portage Park for over 25 years. During that time, my address was assigned, rightly so, to the 38th Ward office which is four blocks from my home. I was recently informed that my half of a one-way residential block long street is no longer in the 38th Ward. Instead, I was informed that I am now in the 36th Ward (Nick Sposato's Ward). I obtained a copy of the 38th to 36th remap and it is a total farce. What makes almost no sense is that Sposato's ward office is several miles from my home. However, I did go out of my way to meet Sposato and offered him my full support provided he remains the independent that he appears to be.
This is typical Democratic Chicago Machine-style shenanigans and at some point, I am hoping that the voting public will wise up to this nonsense.
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Robert Rudolph is at it again.
The author, who spoke to The National Enquirer last month about the homosexual affairs he claimed John Travolta took part in, has taken up the cause of trashing the actor once again.
"I have no doubt that John Travolta is a sex addict," Rudolph told that tabloid's new print edition. "I've heard from many men who have either had gay sex with John or saw him having gay sex in health spas, steam rooms, locker rooms, you name it. I've gotten so many emails that I'm writing a second book titles "Tracking Travolta" and I've got plenty of material."
You also have a one-way ticket to Hell, dude.Rudolph claims as many as 50 men might come forward.
A family friend, meanwhile, is afraid of what these allegations will do to Travolta's wife, Kelly Preston. She's pregnant.
"This must be hell for Kelly, especially in her condition," says a source. "She's trying to carry on with grace and make it to her due date. All Kelly wants is a healthy baby. I think this whole sordid mess is emotionally devastating to her. The last think Kelly needs is to go into premature labor over John's supposed flings with other men."
It would be even worse for Preston if there was a shred of evidence behind the accusations.
09.17.09 at 11:56 amDonkey HodeyBanner pic:Wanna know how I got these scars? Well, my father was a fiend, used to beat my mohter. None of that's important though. To make a long story short, if you spend so much time sucking dicks, it turns out you can get cold sores on top of cold sores and shit adds up.
John has a great tool 9pardon the pun) to entice young men into his world. I would have been very excited to be co-pilot or close in his flying machines. This is one of the biggest intrest zones for men. Men love airplanes. So did his son. Sad about his son. I will never think that John WAS GAY TO HIS OWN SON, BUT MAYBE TO OTHERS.
How do I know,? I don't except for being chased by gay men when I was young. They never got me but even my girlfriends used to notice it. I am mnot even feminine or gay looking, only a cute baby face and that's about it. Well, maybe I'm very accepting and friendly but I never was concerned about men that may be gay. Then, later in life, I HAD TO BE CONCERNED.
GAY MEN< stop with the control freak shit and get a freakin' life.
Probably. He works so hard at creating that tbioroc, controlled personality for interviews. I have always assumed he was gay. The whole wife and kids thing means nothing, as we have seen down through the years. Celebrities feel they can't be honest about their sexuality for fear of losing fans. So they play a game and appeal to both sides ..well, at least in cases of attractive celebrities
Ummmmm.... Who cares if he is or isn't?
Gay men are just like straight men. They brag about having sex with certain people when they haven't.
When he was with Paul Baresi, they were seen out on the town everywhere.. and Johnny was always giggling like a school girl.. he was so proud of his hung actor-lover that he had trouble keeping his hands to himself.. he has hit on Adam Sandler.. but Adam was afraid to come out just yet..John was known to be a prima donna behind the scenes and a "party boy" at any of the elegant soirees he and Paul threw.. Really old news.. if you know who to ask..
WHY would you say the author has "a one-way ticket to Hell" ? The author happens to be correct about Travolta.
WHO cares leave it be
it's no ones business, anyway.
I have talked with Mr travolta two times in my life,both at a gym spa and hot tub .never was their any indication or notice of interest by him in my genitals, not a look not a stares or a glance or innapropriate smile orgestures of any homosexual nature even in moments when no one else was around. Even if I was not his type there still would have been some notion of curiosity if he went that way. I am no expert but I know my gaydar when it goes off and their was nothing but enlightening engaging conversation between two fathers one comon one a world famous actor. I think some people aspecially homophobes cant stand their own lives and or despise another persons success that they would do anything to bring that person down. Best wishes to the travolta family they have sufferred enough with the tragic loss of their son and I only wish them all of lifes best.


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Neat and eerie effect … it DOES look pretty ghostly!
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HOUSTON (AP) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry has written a letter to President Barack Obama slamming his energy policies, EPA regulations and a lack of movement on whether to build a cross-border pipeline to carry crude oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries.
The letter is dated Friday. It largely reiterates much of Perry's long-standing opposition to the Obama administration's energy policies.
But it comes as a bipartisan energy bill stalled in Congress when GOP Senators demanded a vote on the Keystone XL Canada-to-Texas pipeline and on the EPA's move to put greenhouse gas regulations on existing coal-fired power plants.
Perry's letter touts Texas' economy and what he called the state's success at having both a robust energy industry and sound environmental regulations.
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