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The school buildings in the Minot Public School District are sorely in need of updating, attendees at a community forum held Thursday night at Minot High School-Magic City Campus were told.
A consulting group hired to conduct a study of the district's building and educational needs gave low grades to the district's buildings, most of which were built prior to the early 1970s. The low grades were largely based on infrastructure such as poor heating, air and ventilation, fire codes and space per student.
Bel Air Elementary rated a D; Bell Elementary an F; Dakota Elementary a D; Edison Elementary a C; McKinley Elementary an F; North Plains Elementary a D; Perkett Elementary a D; Roosevelt Elementary an F; Sunnyside Elementary a D; Minot High School-Central Campus a D; Memorial Middle School a C-; Jim Hill Middle School a C+ and Souris River Campus a D. Schools that have had more recent renovation done got higher grades. The new Washington Elementary, a rehabilitated building that was once a medical clinic, rates an A. Lewis and Clark and Longfellow Elementaries, both of which have additions under construction, also got higher marks: Longfellow an A, and Lewis and Clark a B+. Magic City Campus, the newest of the district's buildings and built in the early 1970s, received a B+.
Superintendent Mark Vollmer said the school buildings are clean and safe and are up to code, but are also showing their age. The district has taken steps to address needs as they come up, such as installing new roofs on all of the schools in the last decade, he said. Still, Minot is the only school district in northwest North Dakota that does not have a building fund to pay for ongoing maintenance.
This was the second of three planned public forums to give the public a chance to give input about the state of the district. The school board plans to ask voters to approve a bond issue referendum in the fall to pay for new school construction to address the growth in the district.
Vollmer said the last of the forums is tentatively scheduled for late May. The consulting firm is doing a study of the district's demographics to determine which areas have seen the most growth in young families. Vollmer said some of the growth in the area is in surrounding districts, including Nedrose, and may not affect Minot directly.


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Skip to comments.Author of "American Sniper" among the dead at Rough Creek (CHRIS KYLE MURDERED!)
Posted on 02/02/2013 7:01:42 PM PST by hawkeye101
A former Tarleton State University student who wrote the best-selling book, "American Sniper," was one of two victims shot and killed at Rough Creek Lodge late Saturday afternoon. Chris Kyle and a friend were found dead at Rough Creek's shooting range.
(Excerpt) Read more at yourstephenvilletx.com ...
First the internet guy in his car and now this. Looks like the left wants to play rough.
RIP SEAL - you will be missed
Interesting, a description of the vehicle but no info on the suspect.
Is this the guy that popped Ventura for his alleged abusive remarks towards Kyle's fellow Seals?
What the dickens is this about? Political killing?
Refresh me, was this the guy that was outed by the news media as the author ??
what do you bet it wasn't republicans that did it
these are not random. they have been targeted.
Thanks. Recall seeing him on O'Reilly not long ago.
Propaganda is all around you...hold fast to what is true!
They are taking out those they fear the most. and that will be on Our side.
RIP Chris a true American hero.
Time for a serious investigation on the death of these SEALS. How many have died on BO and Hillary's watch? Ever since the Bin Laden Raid, they seem to be dropping like flies. Really weird. Will the Republicans and congress sweep this under the rug too?
It's a hit, period.
We are at war and the president is on the wrong side.
Yes and Ventura took him to court over it.
Yes it is.
Whats to investigate, we know what happened.
They are literally scared to death.
RIP Chris.
Who had it out for him and why? Hired hit? Can't help but think of this too.
"Helicopter Crash in Afghanistan Reportedly Kills Members of SEAL Team 6"
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/06/afghan-president-31-americans-killed-in-helicopter-crash/#ixzz2Jnmja88k
I'm wondering that as well. What ever happened to the guy who did Thomas Payne on YT??? I think he was threatened as well.
I remember seeing Chris Myle on some Fox (?) This is really shocking. Could you, or someone on the thread, give the backstory on the Internet guy?
You will be missed. Thank you for your service.
Myle=Kyle. Dang cell phone touch screen.
I think mooslims are responsible.
Is it time yet?
If you haven't seen this yet, you need to!
This looks like an important story. Do you have a link that we can actually follow?
"They are literally scared to death."
SCOTUS Roberts scared sh—tless too.
Dear God! What has happened to our country.
That truck doesn't sound like an inconspicuous vehicle.
Islamic revenge killing?
This is the only confirmation I have of the story. I think there is a breaking news story on theblaze.com now.
Deaths similar to weapons video guy shot mysteriously in South Georgia.
Don't forget Breitbart. And, yes, I think he was offed.
Thanks Old Sarge
Obama Dead Pool file update
Thanks Old Sarge
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Obama is offing his enemies one by one..nothing would surprise me about this Administration, absolutely nothing
My first thought, too.
My second thought being that maybe the truck was deliberately conspicuous.
A "skull sticker" on the back window? That's a typical sniper platoon logo.
(( ping ))
Recent suicide of a seal, the Libyan former seals, seems like there were several more recently, now this. Does anyone know how many seals have died since BinLaden's death and how does that compare to other years?
"That truck doesnt sound like an inconspicuous vehicle."
Red herring? Make it appear that a redneck, bitter clinger is the suspect?
Meanwhile, he switches to a Pendleton shirt, khakis, and drives away in his Volvo.
[yea, I know, been watching too many spy movies lately...]
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Skip to comments.Fox News Declares Ted Cruz Ineligible To Be POTUS Due To Birth In Canada [American Mother]
Posted on 03/09/2013 8:04:06 AM PST by Cold Case Posse Supporter
Now we are finally getting somewhere. Just like Obama is ineligible technically because his fathers British Nationality 'governed' his birth status in 1961, Ted Cruz is ineligible too. Fox News has confirmed it and rightly so. Sean Hannity made a huge blunder the other day and declared Ted Cruz a natural born citizen because he was born to a American mother in Canada. He was so wrong. Cruz is a 14th Amendment U.S. 'statutory' (not natural born) citizen which is something completely different than a Article 2 Section 1 Constitutional natural born Citizen which is explicitly designed only for the presidency by the framers.
Given the multiple questions surrounding Obama's birth and parentage, but assuming BHO-I as his bio-father, and especially given the same questions arising for million of young Americans known as 'anchor babies,' I maintain and have maintained that the SCOTUS is doing everyone a disservice by refusing to tackle the question of the Framers' intent in inserting the 'natural born' language into the Constitution for presidential eligibility but for no other.
I would argue that that Office is so unique, so special, so different from all others, that the Framers wanted it filled only by one who had the idea of the USA and all it stood for deeply embedded in his bones from Day One. All circumstances of birth and parentage notwithstanding, IMO, the current occupant of the office does not hold that idea or its ideals in his bosom.
I wouldn't say that Obama's occupancy of the Office is proof, but it is certainly precedent that merely claiming to have been born on US soil is adequate to meeting the requirement. How it applies to Cruz is another matter altogether. His parents weren't in Canada as foreign service or military personnel whose children born abroad appear to be exempted in most interpretations. All interesting questions raised and yet 'evaded' by SCOTUS.
Hahahahaha! Is Mr. Rodgers your alter-ego?
How is:
"If the Constitution makes no mention of dual citizenship, then how can the Constitution bar a dual citizen from being President?"
even worth responding to? It's surprising he didn't wrap it up with a hearty, "So there!"
The Constitution isn't a document for dimwits.
Again I ask you to present your source of proof that dual citizenship was an officially recognized class of citizenship in either the US or in England at the time the Constitution was signed.
Because you see, if it was not even considered a form of citizenship at all, if it in essence "did not exist", it would not have been mentioned at all - anywhere.
Which is why you cannot produce any source mentioning dual citizenship as a legitimate form of citizenship, officially recognized or not, at or before the signing of the Constitution.
Given the absence of any legally-determined birth facts for Obama, he might have been born in 1898. But he looks a little young for that so I doubt that his eligibility could have been determined by any court in 1898. To determine Obama's eligibility we have to start out with some legally-determined birth facts, and Onaka would not verify any birth facts for Obama.
I'm glad that you realize that there are eligibility situations which have not been decided by the courts. The refusal of the courts to take up the eligibility challenges - for ANY of the challenged candidates (McCain, Obama, and the non-US citizen that Donofrio challenged appearing on the NJ ballot) - means that we have precedent of somebody known to not even be a US citizen at all being able to make it to the ballot. If that person had been elected there would presumably be precedent set for a non-US citizen to be President.
This is dangerous stuff. The refusal of the courts to do their jobs means that we have lawlessness, which makes everything shaky.
Under this system, how is somebody like Cruz ever supposed to know whether to spend his money on a Presidential run, or whether it would all be wasted because of an eventual SCOTUS decision? The system is forcing Cruz and/or anybody else with questionable birth circumstances to play "chicken" with the Constitution and with their own money and future. And it is making every person who contributes to his campaign or votes for him in a primary play "chicken" too. It means that if he IS eligible he will still lose votes from some people because they don't want to take the risk of him being found ineligible. If he ISN'T eligible it means that some eligible conservative candidate loses primary votes to him. The whole thing is unconscionable. The courts are holding us hostage by refusing to settle these questions - "evading" them, as Justice Thomas says. They can be as coy as they want but the truth of the matter is that they are hurting ALL of us by playing cat-and-mouse with the Constitution.
I hate this. I'm about ready to give up on this country altogether, and that's a sad, sad thing for me to say because I have always loved this country. I don't even recognize her any more.
If "natural born" has anything to do with sole allegiance, then the Constitution does address dual citizenship.
Look. If I understand your argument, it is that dual citizens at birth are not eligible to be President. Right?
Yes, or no.
So according to your theory, if another country made a person who was born a US citizen ALSO born THEIR citizen, then that person is ineligible to be President of the United States. Right?
Yes or no.
These are simple yes or no questions.
Why can I not get a straight, yes or no answer from these birthers? It's like I'm asking them to derive Einstein's equation.
"But he looks a little young for that so I doubt that his eligibility could have been determined by any court in 1898."
Sorry. I was writing as an adult, presumably to an adult. I wasn't aware I needed to borrow some crayons to exchange views with you.
If Obama was born within the USA, then WKA (1898) controls his situation. And Hawaii says he was born in Hawaii, after Hawaii was made a state. So that pretty well settles it, unless you have proof that Hawaii lied to the state of Arizona.
Proof, not wacky conspiracy ideas with space aliens coming to earth and swapping documents....
Where on there is the gender, date of birth, island of birth, mother's name, or father's name ever mentioned?
If Onaka doesn't specifically mention it then he did not verify it as requested. The only reason for him to not verify something he was requested by a qualified requestor is if he CAN'T verify it because that claim was not made on a legally-valid record.
IOW, unless you can show me "male", "Aug 4, 1961", "Oahu", "Stanley Ann Dunham", and "Barack Hussein Obama", Onaka has effectively confirmed that none of those claims are made on a legally-valid HI BC.
So show me where those items are mentioned.
BTW, TPM Muckraker publishing only HALF of Bennett's request is yellow journalism to the millionth degree. It's like cutting out a bunch of conversation from a transcript, so that one question is asked and all you hear is the answer to a different question. To know what Onaka is SUPPOSED to verify if the record is valid, you have to know EVERYTHING that was asked. In order to get the half of the request that they published, TPM Muckraker had to also get the other half of the request. THEY EDITED THAT OUT, which is literally journalistic malpractice. Why did they do that?
Natural born has nothing to do with sole allegiance, as discussed at great length by the US Supreme Court in 1898. It simply meant born in the USA, of parents here "in amity" with the US government.
Since we do not control the laws of Botswana, we cannot prevent Botswana from declaring all of us to be citizens of Botswana. But it wouldn't matter if they did, because the US Constitution doesn't discuss dual citizenship, nor use it to bar anyone from running for office.
My distinction is simple: as I stated in my "assumption," they didn't have a JFK airport or Ellis Island in the 1780s with ships coming in every day by the dozens or hundreds. It would be weeks or months before a ship arrived.
In those times, if you were born here you born to natives who were already here.
I'm saying that in the language of the time, it was assumed that native or natural born in America were born to the already established citizens of the country.
I read in the Commentaries of Blackstone that in England it was assumed that a child of aliens born in England was considered to be a natural-born subject, but in France the child of an alien born if France is still an alien. The assumptions were different in Europe because the countries were very close and many shared borders where cross-border travel was common.
Cross-border travel in America was not so easy because you had to cross the Atlantic in a 3-mast ship, which was an expensive endeavor.
An assumption? Yes, but a reasonable one to make.
No, what Hawaii has officially verified is that they cannot verify any birth facts for Obama. See the last post I made to you. Yellow journalism hid the truth of what Onaka actually did, by failing to look at the rules Onaka had to follow and by editing out half of Bennett's request to Onaka. I've posted on that a lot around here, but if you haven't seen it, you can see Klayman's letter about this at http://butterdezillion.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/complete-klayman-letter-to-bauer.pdf
Another explanation is at http://butterdezillion.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/wheel-of-fortune-v-family-feud-final.pdf
And BTW, 2 attorneys who have argued based on Minor v Happersett have confirmed that the legal reasoning is sound. Bennett made it clear that he was requesting the items on the actual request form to be verified. He requested that the other items be verified "from the birth record", which allows Onaka to interpret it to mean a request for verification that those are the items that are on the BC - not that those are the real birth facts (items found on a VALID BC). In addition, the Mississippi Democratic Executive Committee fashioned their request to specifically NOT ask for any birth facts to be verified. Their request was what convinced me that even hostile attorneys recognize that Onaka confirmed a legally non-valid BC for Obama. And the counsel for NE SOS John Gale could not rebut the logic either - chose instead to say that NE doesn't have to care what HI told AZ (after first claiming that Bennett never requested DOB, gender, etc to be verified). So by either words to me or actions, I've got 6 hostile attorneys who have admitted that this legal reasoning is sound.
Recently it was reported that George Zimmerman's lawyer had requested the hospital records for Witness 8, to verify her claim that she was Trayvon's girlfriend and missed the funeral because she was hospitalized. The prosecution admitted that there were no records, which the media reported as "effectively confirming" that she was not hospitalized. The admission that there was no hospital record is indirect confirmation that she wasn't in the hospital. Bennett requested verification that Barack Hussein Obama, II, male, was born on Aug 4, 1961, in Honolulu on the island of Oahu, to Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Hussein Obama - and NONE of that was verified. That is an admission that they have no legally-valid BC that makes those claims.
The state of Arizona considered Hawaii's answer to be adequate. That suggests courts would as well. You can postulate fraud, but you have no evidence that Hawaii deliberately misled Arizona.
Ҥ338-14.3 Verification in lieu of a certified copy. (a) Subject to the requirements of section 338-18, the department of health, upon request, shall furnish to any applicant, in lieu of the issuance of a certified copy, a verification of the existence of a certificate and any other information that the applicant provides to be verified relating to the vital event that pertains to the certificate.
(b) A verification shall be considered for all purposes certification that the vital event did occur and that the facts of the event are as stated by the applicant.
(c) Verification may be made in written, electronic, or other form approved by the director of health."
Let me repeat:
"A verification shall be considered for all purposes certification that the vital event did occur and that the facts of the event are as stated by the applicant."
"No, what Hawaii has officially verified is that they cannot verify any birth facts for Obama."
On the contrary, per Hawaii law:
"A verification shall be considered for all purposes certification that the vital event did occur and that the facts of the event are as stated by the applicant."
The telltale sign for me was when Hawaii refused to let officials from Arizona see the original public records.
According to the Article IV Section 1 "full faith and credit" clause of the Constitution:
The Constitution clearly stated that a state does not have to take another state's word for it, but that public records may be "proved." Arizona went to Hawaii to prove the records for itself, and Hawaii blocked them.
Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
We all know that the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, which means that Arizona's constitutional right to prove public records for itself supercedes Hawaii's state privacy laws, which they are using to hide Obama's records, regardless of what Hawaii deems sufficient "for all purposes."
Before receiving anything from HI, Bennett said Obama's name would go on the ballot as long as HI sent ANYTHING. And he was true to his word. HI sent a verification that they have no valid BC for Obama, and Bennett put Obama's name on the ballot as he had promised.
If courts would have considered it good enough, then why didn't MDEC request Obama's actual birth facts to be verified so they could submit to the court the same response that Bennett got? The validity of the BC and the truth of the claims made on it were central to the MDEC court case, which is what they used as the reason for making their request. But then they deliberately failed to ask about any birth facts or the validity of the BC. What they got was totally irrelevant to the central question, as defined by them. You think those guys are just stupid, or do you suppose they knew that a judge would HAVE to rule that a response like Bennett got would actually damage their case?
If they have a record they have to verify the existence of a record. They also have to verify any submitted facts that they can certify as having actually happened (that is, those facts are claimed on a legally valid BC). Let's look at how that would play out.
Suppose I sent in a long-form to HI that said Mary Poppins, female, was born in Honolulu, on Big Island, on Jan. 1, 2013, to Little Bo Peep and Osama Bin Laden. I signed as the informant but there wasn't any birth weight for the child and there was no doctor's signature saying that mother and child had been examined. So the record is non-valid. It exists but it is non-valid.
Then suppose that you requested a verification that Mary Poppins, female, was born in Honolulu, on Big Island, on Jan. 1, 2012, to Little Bo Peep and Osama Bin Laden.
Onaka looks at the request application to see which BC is being asked about and sees that he's got one that claims the same things as are listed in the request application. So he has to verify the existence of the BC.
If he issues a verification saying that they have a birth record for Mary Poppins, does that mean he is verifying all the other stuff as true?
If he responded by saying they don't have a BC for Mary Poppins when they actually do (and the law says nothing about whether the record is valid or not) would that fulfill the requirement of the statute, that they verify the existence of the birth record if it exists?
"The telltale sign for me was when Hawaii refused to let officials from Arizona see the original public records."
They didn't need to. They merely needed to verify the facts, which they did. And Arizona was content. Had Arizona - which does NOT love Obama - not been content, they could have sued Hawaii in court to release more.
You live in a fantasy land, where a state verifying something is proof that the state doesn't verify something. I don't doubt your sincerity, but you probably aren't sane enough to cross a street without help.
If you don't verify something specifically, then you are not certifying that the event happened that way. What Onaka verified is the existence of a birth record for Barack Hussein Obama, II. A verification of "male" would be a certification that Obama was born male. A verification of "Aug 4, 1961" would be verification that the birth was on Aug 4, 1961. Etc. But Onaka didn't verify any of those things. Of the things on the actual verification application, the ONLY thing he verified was that they have a birth certificate under that name.
Why? Why did Onaka leave out all the critical birth facts, after Bennett reiterated in his letter that he wanted the items on the request application verified?
You can't have a certification that just says, "What you said is true". A person could claim they had said ANYTHING, and could show that signed blank check from Onaka saying it was all true!! That's not how legal documents work. If a verification is to be considered legally the same as a certified birth certificate, there is NO WAY that a signed blank check would be acceptable. What is verified is what is ACTUALLY STATED AS BEING VERIFIED.
And that's NOT male, Aug 4, 1961, Honolulu, Oahu, Stanley Ann Dunham, and Barack Hussein Obama.
Why not? Why were those things not verified?
Must of clicked the "I have already previewed or do not wish to preview" box when I really meant to preview my comment so I could edit it and clean up my sloppy html code! LOL!
Sorry about that. Hopefully there aren't too many stupid mistakes in there.
First I find it interesting that you and Rodgers picked up the same diversionary type squirrel "pretend" argument..
**Uhh, lets pretend that some other country decides to usurp the citizenship of our country by suddenly declaring all US citizens to now be the citizens of country X. Then lets ask if any of those "former" US citizens can be qualified under the Constitution because they are no longer US citizens by virtue of country X laying claim to them**
Is this the question that you are asking? And are you seriously trying to participate in this discussion by making up some kooky scenario like this and presenting it as a SERIOUS question?
Or are you trying to cover for the fact that you can produce NO official *LAW* recognizing dual citizenship as a legitimately legal US class of citizenship? It is not in the history of this country, not now not ever. Because dual citizenship, specifically referencing Presidential eligibility under the Constitution is what this discussion is about. A person born a dual citizen (specifically for the issue of our modern times, being born after the Constitution was signed) is not eligible because such a class of citizenship did not exist in 1787 per US law or English common law.
It was undoubtedly meant to help " insure experience and attachment to the country", but the means was an inadequate method. There was no way they could write a loyalty test into the Constitution, or ensure any future President cared about America. Ultimately, that job was left to the voters. Unhappily, modern voters don't seem to care about America, or any of the principles that America stood upon - so they voted for Obama, and not just once, but twice.
"You can send me a check or money order for that nugget, LOL!"
Well...I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you, but you do have my thanks. I will try to phrase things more correctly in the future.
Very interesting speculation. It certainly has some worthy points to ponder.
My mistake, Thomas Johnson was a delegate to the Continental Congress, but he went back to Maryland to serve in the state assembly before the Declaration was signed. He went on to be Governor of Maryland and a US Supreme Court Justice.
But I think having a citizen father would have made her a US citizen. Reportedly John Adams initially was opposed to John Quincy marrying a foreigner.
Her mother was English. I'm quite convinced LCA's son JQA qualified as a natural born citizen. But I just wanted to point out the difficulty after the Revolution of determining just which of the Americans living abroad qualified as US citizens and on what grounds (and also to show that I still remember things from the school paper I had to write on the Adamses many years ago).
"A person born a dual citizen (specifically for the issue of our modern times, being born after the Constitution was signed) is not eligible because such a class of citizenship did not exist in 1787 per US law or English common law."
Try to come back to reality. They could not have banned what they could not conceive of existing. If the writers of the Constitution could not have imagined dual citizenship, they could not have banned it in a President.
And they did not. There is no mention of dual citizenship in the US Constitution, so it therefor cannot ban a dual citizen from office.
Consider the case of Lynch v. Clarke. Julia Lynch was born in New York while her parents visited America, and she left at around the age of 3 months and never returned to the U.S. The highest court in NY determined that she was a natural born citizen, eligible to run for President (if she returned long enough to satisfy the 14 year residency requirement):
"Suppose a person should be elected president who was native born, but of alien parents; could there be any reasonable doubt that he was eligible under the Constitution? I think not. The position would be decisive in his favor, that by the rule of the common law, in force when the Constitution was adopted, he is a citizen...Upon principle, therefore, I can entertain no doubt, but that by the law of the United States, every person born within the dominions and allegiance of the United States, whatever the situation of his parents, is a natural born citizen."
That opinion was often quoted in the years to come, and Lynch was mentioned with approval in WKA.
There is no doubt that Julia Lynch was a dual citizen, and primarily a citizen (or subject) of England. But she was also a natural born citizen of the USA, and her case was never overturned or rejected by any subsequent court. That is, at a minimum, a pretty good sign that in 1844, dual citizenship was not barred by the NBC clause.
Nor could the judge in Lynch find any example otherwise during the years between 1787 and 1844.
The legal meaning of NBC included within it the possibility of a dual citizen, since some countries claim citizenship based on parentage. Had the Framers wanted something else, they could easily have written "born of citizen parents" (4 words) instead of "a natural born citizen" (4 words).
But they wrote what they wrote. You don't have the right to overturn them.
Don't fall into the same trap as 2nd amendment supporters are being led into.
It's not a matter of "need." It's a matter of being able to exercise your Constitutional rights. You don't have to justify your choice to exercise your rights to someone else.
Arizona has a Constitutional right to prove Hawaii's record, whether anybody thinks they "need" to or not.
If you don't exercise your rights, you run the risk of losing them. I was disappointed that Arizona did not push it further. You say they were content. I think the Obama administration threatened them into acquiesence. One just has to look at all the reporters now coming forward with tales of being threatened by the Obama administration to know that it is going on everywhere.
Wonder if I can get the senate to pass a resolution declaring me a billionaire?
"Unhappily, modern voters dont seem to care about America, or any of the principles that America stood upon - so they voted for Obama, and not just once, but twice."
Yeah, I gave the voters a pass the first time they elected him because they obviously were ignorant of him due to the Main Stream Media's success in covering up his anti-Americanism during the first election cycle. However, it just boggles my mind that, even AFTER they have all had plenty of time to discover what an anti-American scumbag he is, they went ahead and reelected him!
This is certainly not the America that I grew up in. Obviously, our public education system has failed these poor saps. That's why my wife and I are homeschooling our daughter.
This has nothing to do with the 2nd Amendment. Arizona wanted Hawaii to verify that Obama Jr was born in Hawaii. They did. Arizona doesn't need to see the original document, and that isn't what Arizona asked.
It seems pretty obvious to me, reviewing the letter, that Hawaii says Obama Jr was born there. And if Obama Jr was born in Hawaii, he meets the criteria for a NBC.
That really is all there is to it.
And that is why all 50 states, all 535 members of Congress, and all the courts agree that Obama Jr is President of the USA. Sometimes a cigar is JUST a cigar...
"Thats why my wife and I are homeschooling our daughter."
Good on you! Given the current school system, that is an important decision!
We home schooled our kids until the 9th grade. My youngest is now in 10th grade, but we talk a lot about history and science and politics. I think her biology teacher has been frustrated that she won't accept the teacher's opinion on evolution without question...
Blah, blah, blah indeed.
No, Vladimir Putin is not eligible for the presidency under Article Two or the Twentieth Amendment (or the Twelveth Amendment). Mr. Putin claims to have been born to two Russian parents in St. Petersburg, Russia. But I have not seen an image of his long form birth certificate to confirm that information.
Has any court or any action of Congress ever ruled Obama to be ineligible?
Does the Hawaii Letter of Verification from Dr. Alvin Onaka prepared for Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett state that "A birth certificate is on file with the Department of Health indicating that Barack Hussein Obama,II WAS BORN in Honolulu, Hawaii?"
Are you aware of the meaning of the word "Verification?"
Has any member of Congress ever requested a congressional hearing on the issue of presidential eligibility and natural born citizenship over the last four years?
Allen v Obama, Arizona Superior Court Judge Richard E. Gordon: "Arizona courts are bound by United States Supreme Court precedent in construing the United States Constitution, and this precedent fully supports that President Obama is a natural born citizen under the Constitution and thus qualified to hold the office of President. Contrary to Plaintiffs assertion, Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1874), does not hold otherwise."—Pima County Superior Court, Tuscon, Arizona, March 7, 2012
You asked ' Are children born to illegals on US soil NBC?'
In my frame of reference such children are not NBC because of the requirements for parents to be citizens at time of birth. I believe the Founders wisely considered family allegiance to the USA be as a critical requirement for NBC to the extent possible to be ascertained. When the question arises I not only think of Mexicans or other Latin Americans but also of the two sons of the current President of Egypt who were born in the USA. I believe that the Founders wanted to make sure that the requirement for POTUSA was as ironclad as possible to assure a POTUSA had no foreign ties that might compromise their duties to/for the USA. The wisdom of their thinking and writing is being held to test under Obama and his enablers including even government officials.
I only mention the 2nd amendment because that debate is shifting towards why do people "need" guns, as a way of shaming gun owners into having to justify why they want guns.
You brought up the idea that Arizona didn't need to prove records, they only needed to verify facts.
It was the use of the word "need" that triggered my analogy to the 2nd amendment debate.
Debating the "need" to exercise Constitutional rights is a slippery slope that runs the risk of, again, letting the Left dictate the language of the debate. First, it was the need to own guns, now it's the need to prove the public records of other states, next it will be the need to freely exercise religion (Obamacare abortions), speak freely (Obama threatening the press), peaceably assemble (DHS stockpiling ammo), petition the government (nobody has standing), be secure from unlawful search (TSA) or the taking of one's property (wealthiest 1% - I'm waiting for the confiscation of my 401(k)).
Well, what's your Fogbow handle Noobie?
Well, you insist upon imagining things that in the real world cannot happen. But, let's make this easy and assume that Vladimir Putin did somehow become president as a result of a violation of the Constitution. The only constitutional way to remove a president is through the impeachment process.
Returning to the real world, though, one of the issues in the campaign of 2008 concerned the claims expressed by some that Obama was not a natural born citizen. By selecting Obama, the voters and their electors implicitly resolved those expressed claims in Obama's favor. Had you been an elector, you might have decided the issue differently. Okay.
Seriously, what do you think should be done at this point?
I've already suggested that it may have been an inculcated understanding due to the remoteness of America at the time and the assumption that people born here were born to natives of the land, given that travel from Europe took so long. Also, the Preamble to the Constitution refers to establishing the Constitution to secure liberty to "ourselves and our posterity," meaning the citizen people and their citizen children.
That said, from the argument that a born citizen is one who is born in the jurisdiction of the country (and not just on the soil), a legal alien would be under the jurisdiction of the country, but I think that an illegal alien is still under the jurisdiction of their homeland, so their child born on USA soil one day after illegally crossing the border should not be a citizen.
..... becomes at the time of his birth a citizen of the United States. For the reasons above stated, this court is of opinion that the question must be answered in the affirmative.
Notice they declared him a citizen, but not a natural born one. In fact, from earlier in the opinion:
At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country, of [169 U.S. 649, 680] parents who were its citizens, became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further, and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction, without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case, it is not necessary to solve these doubts.
Say WHAT?
1)Children of parents who are citizens are natural born
2)There are doubts about the citizenship of children when the parents citizenship is unreferenced or foreign, but there are NO DOUBTS about what constitutes 'natural born'.
3)The judges felt it UNECESSARY to distinguish between the desperate TYPES of 'citizen' in their decision....
Because the question wasn't if Wong Kim Ark was a natural-born citizen, but whether he was a 'citizen of the United States'
Since the decision made it plain Wong Kim was not natural-born [due to his parents citizenship], the only other type of citizen he COULD be was one naturalized at birth via the 14th Amendment.
Guess the judges missed the fact the co author of the 14th Amendment said it DIDN'T include foreigners or aliens.
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"Every Person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons."
If you love anchor babies, thank the decision of Wong Kim Ark.
FWIW, the court in WKA said:
" Such allegiance and protection were mutual — as expressed in the maxim protectio trahit subjectionem, et subjectio protectionem — and were not restricted to natural-born subjects and naturalized subjects, or to those who had taken an oath of allegiance, but were predicable of aliens in amity so long as they were within the kingdom. Children, born in England, of such aliens were therefore natural-born subjects."
Someone here illegally is not here "in amity" with the government, and thus would not give birth to NBCs. IMHO.
I respect your right to your own opinion, but three times now you have ignored the grandfather clause problem. Granted, it may not be decisive in itself. But I would think if you had a real answer to it, if for nothing else to relieve me of my ignorance, you would at least acknowledge its existence. But you don't.
And I do not limit the evidence collecting to the founders. DL makes the point, which you completely circumvented, that there were various opinions on the matter. It does not matter to your argument that Rawle was a legal expert. He was just one of many, and many of those had various and conflicting opinions, else you would not even have your quote farm for statements apparently dismissive of parentage. The matter was in discussion, parentage was being raised, and the issue was not settled in the minds of many. I am not asking for extraordinary proof regarding Rawle. I am asking for something which actually qualifies as proof.
You say the birthers have no evidence. But this is not true. What is true is that you have in one way or another dismissed that evidence and now hope that others, like myself, who are trying to give the question a fair hearing, either do not know of the conflicting evidence, or can read your mind and just innately know, as you seem to, that it doesn't support the birther case, or else just meekly accept your authoritative assertion that we are all idiots. That simply isnt good style in legal analysis. You could never win in a typical appellate court with an approach like that.
As for "absolutely false," or even "absolutely true," that is nonsense. We are not talking about divine law, but human law. Men err. Supreme Court decisions display repeated shifts and shades of meaning over time, and some of those shifts are clearly accidental, especially as it relates to what are called terms of art, words or phrases given a specific body of complex meaning over time. That is why I said at the outset, unless SCOTUS takes this on, we will not have final certainty.
Am I a birther? Probably, according to you. I am an old man and I was raised my entire life to believe that citizenship, natural born or otherwise, was far more than just being born on this soil. Any animal can do that. The grandfather clause would not have been necessary if that were the case. The quotes you have mined to invoke your reductionist view are noteworthy and valuable to the discussion, but I have learned over time to be wary of quote wars, and I do not consider any single quote to be decisive in itself. Filling in the gaps with rigorous context to achieve true understanding is not a trivial task, and is best left to those with the time, inclination, and ability to do so. Among such you will seldom hear talk of absolute claims of truth or falsity, because human law is shifting sand. Only the divine law endures over time, and human law only survives to the extent it relies on divine law.
So I think our conversation is at an end. My time is precious, and no one is paying me to write the definitive brief for this problem. I leave it to you and other dedicated volunteers and professionals. I do not believe Obama will leave office over a constitutional violation, real or imagined, of any sort. We are past that. His term will expire and he will either leave or find a pretext for remaining in power. My focus right now is gun rights. It is one thing to have a president whose lawless acts will never get him impeached. It is quite another for said lawless one to attempt to remove from us our last practical defense against his mounting tyrannies. That is where I choose to focus my energies.
So if birtherism is where you want to work, go for it. Not for me. But lose the paranoid ad hominem shtick. Itll never sell in Peoria. Or even Springfield.
Just sayin
Nothing is immune at this time. I appreciate discourse and accept change as a part of life, good or bad, but do not appreciate the dishonesty.
If the concept can't be changed or you don't like the connotations or whatever, the create a work around by simply changing the definition.
This is the technique I despise the most, whether with NBC eligibility, anytime abortion, and currently gay marriage and gun control, among others.
Can't redo the 2nd? Then redefine a gun to make it illegal or a magazine illegal or the round itself. Lie if you have to or don't have to, it's their end result that's important, not the integrity of the path to get there
They are masters at these techniques and use them against US, a group of people who are masters only of the moment, with an awareness of nothing more than the span of our own lifetimes and what we want, when we want it.
I don't have much faith we survive with this mindset against those concerted efforts with no viable resistance. They have won or soon will and the republic is dead. Then we get a taste of karma and reality and the consequences of stupidly ignoring history, like the spoiled prodigal children we are.
Beam me out, Scottie. Resistance is futile. We have embraced the decline and I don't want to embrace the destination.
"If you love anchor babies, thank the decision of Wong Kim Ark."
Actually, you would have to thank the Founders who used a legal phrase that would permit such a thing to happen. WKA didn't make up a meaning, but discussed the meaning as the Founders understood it.
What is "the grandfather clause problem"?
No, it was mentioned a scant six times. Four in the decision and twice in the dissent.
What you posted is the Appellants Brief, not the determination of the court.
Show me.
For legal alien status that confers citizenship to children, is it only permanent resident alien status or does even temporary student visas count?
I would think (hope?) that someone with a delcared temporary status cannot confer citizenship on their children, whereas someone with a declared permanent resident status could.
I read on old naturalization histories that it was required of an alien to declare their intention to become a citizen to begin the naturalization process. It would be reasonable to assume that someone here on a temporary student visa has declared their intention to not stay here, and so should not be able to confer natural born status to their children?
I was otherwised engaged and just now read your response. Very interesting anaolgy, and very helpful, I think. Property was central to the founder's view of freedom, and the complexities of title under the common law were second nature to them. It would be an interesting framework from which to reexamine the body of evidence. Good thought. Thanks.
But Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and most likely has a Canadian birth certificate. Do you mean to tell me that a man born in Canada that has a Canadian birth certificate is a Constitutional Article 2 Section 1 natural born Citizen eligible to run for the presidency?
I KNOW I posted the Appellant's brief. It sheds light on what the government want the court to decide.
And NBS/NBC was mentioned far more than 6 times in the WKA decision. It covered half of the decision, and for reason - because it was something the government had argued against.
"Show me."
The legal term was "natural born citizen", and that definition includes anyone born in the country of parents here in amity with the government.
I don't know on Cruz. If both his parents had been US citizens, then I'd say yes, he meets the requirement for NBC. But with just one parent, I don't know. I can think of arguments on both sides.
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Free Market Bashing
Since the inception of the current downturn, free market capitalism has taken quite the bashing. Supporters of significant government involvement in the economy deride the horrors of "unfettered capitalism" and a "free market run amuck." Frequently, deregulation of capital markets is singled out as the most dastardly culprit, to which Pres. Obama seems to be alluding when he blames "relying on the worn-out dogmas of the past," and "too little regulatory scrutiny." Yet, after the last eight years in which we witnessed Sarbanes-Oxley, No Child Left Behind, Medicare Part D, and numerous attempts to reign in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shoved aside by legislators, evidence of unregulated economic activity being the source of our crisis seems rather scant.
The idea that "deregulation" was somehow responsible for the mortgage meltdown is a particularly shaky proposition. Shannon Love explains why:
Leftists have to answer a question: if greedy, irresponsible, unregulated etc. capitalism caused the housing bubble, why didn't we see a similar bubble in commercial real-estate markets which operate under even less regulation than the residential markets? Why does the politically neglected and unregulated commercial real-estate market exhibit much milder swings?
The differences between residential and commercial real estate provide the means to test the hypothesis that government intervention or the lack thereof caused the housing bubble and subsequent collapse of the financial system. We can compare the two markets because the same institutions ultimately make residential and commercial loans. They make loans in the same communities and regions. Changes in the economy affect both types of real estate at the same time and to the same rough degree. The only major difference between the two markets lies in the degree of government intervention.
After dispensing with some obvious questions about the comparison, Love highlights how the residential market was essentially turned into a Lemon's Market:
As Love points out, the commercial real estate market has no such mechanism muddying its waters, and information is comparatively less asymmetric. Without the government interference, commercial mortgage lenders let the potential for bad outcomes drive their decision making:
More than any other policy, the creation of Freddie Mac and Fanny May distorted the residential mortgage market in a way that the commercial market escaped. The FMs exist solely to induce lenders to make residential loans that the free market judged too risky. The FMs buy up residential mortgages from primary lenders and bundle them together in securities. They do so precisely in order to short-circuit the free-market feedback system that communicates to banks when the financial system as a whole has lent out as much money as it safely can. That feedback system worked like a governor on an engine. It kept the system from running away and lending more money than it could recoup, but also prevented people with poorer credit from getting loans.
Politicians who wanted the engine to run faster created the FMs to bypass the governor in order to get higher performance in the short run. Since the FMs would buy up almost any mortgage, lenders could make riskier and riskier loans without suffering any negative consequence. The FMs replaced the self-interested secondary-market buyers with people playing with government money and a mandate to induce more and more lending. Special dodgy accounting rules allowed the FMs to hide the risk behind the securitized mortgages they sold.
Tellingly, no such intervention occurred in commercial markets. The FMs' charters expressly prevented them from buying commercial mortgages. As a result, the commercial mortgage market functioned with a free-market governor. When lenders made too many risky loans, free-market secondary buyers stopped buying their mortgages and the system cooled down. As a result, commercial markets saw no runaway boom and subsequent colossal bust.
Although I think that laying the crisis solely at the feet of the residential mortgage market is overly simplistic (for example, what was up with the ratings agencies?), Love does point to a very apt comparison as to how government intervention in the market changes incentives and behavior. If you guarantee risks against bad loans, and subsidize the debtors, then more of such loans will be made. Remove such a guarantees and subsidies and market forces will severely punish improperly compensated risk taking.
The trade off, of course, is that free markets do not allow much opportunity for rent-seeking. Which is why Love's final lament is so true:
Sadly, experience suggests that mere empiricism has no place in political economics.
That's because empiricism does not buy votes.


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5. EnteroMedics Gets Zapped
If only EnteroMedics'(ETRM) diet device could slim obese patients as well as it did the company's stock price, then the company's shareholders would be in a much weightier position.
Shares of EnteroMedics plummeted 56% to $1.26 last Friday, after it reported disappointing clinical trial results for its Maestro System, which uses electrical charges to block the primary nerve regulating digestion. Unlike pacemakers, patients power the surgically implanted device on and off with a control belt worn around the waist.
Top-line results from the 233 person phase III study known as ReCharge showed that patients implanted with an active Maestro device lost just 8.5% more "excess weight" than those implanted with a dummy device. In order for the study to be successful, Maestro needed to hit a 10% statistical superiority margin over the sham device, according to TheStreet's biotech ax Adam Feuerstein.
In other words, for all its pumped-up publicity, EnteroMedics' fat zapper turned out to be nothing more than a pulsing placebo.
Nevertheless, the less-than-impressive ReCharge results are still not stopping the company from filing for marketing clearance with the Food and Drug Administration during the second quarter.
"Based on these compelling results, and the totality of our clinical experience with the Maestro System, which now includes more than 600 patients worldwide, we believe EnteroMedics is well-positioned to deliver this novel therapy to people with obesity in the U.S.," said the company's CEO, Dr. Mark B. Knudson.
No way, Knudson. No matter how you try and spin it, those results were anything but "compelling." And even in the unlikely case that the FDA approves your device despite two failed phase III studies, why would anybody shock themselves svelte when they will soon be able to simply pop a diet pill from the likes of Arena(ARNA) , Vivus(VVUS) or Orexigen(OREX) ?
Like it or not, that's the real skinny on EnteroMedics.
4. Carnival's Crisis
Go ahead, Carnival Corp. (CCL) . Set your cruise ships adrift in the Gulf of Mexico. Stranding them at sea is absolutely the smartest move you can make.
We're not kidding. It may tick off your passengers, but your shareholders will absolutely love the ride.
Here's what happened: An engine-room fire caused the company's Triumph cruise ship, which was bound for port at Galveston, Texas, to lose power 150 miles off southern Mexico's Yucatan peninsula on Sunday. None of the 3,143 guests nor 1,086 crew members on board were injured, according to the cruise line operator. That said, inoperable toilets and a lack of air conditioning reportedly made the tug-boat-aided trip to Mobile, Ala., far less than luxurious. Shares of the company's stock fell just under 1% on the news.
The cruise line canceled the next two Triumph departures to fix the problem. It also offered full refunds and vouchers to the travelers whose vacations were ruined.


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The A Circuit by Georgina Bloomberg
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A billionaire heiress, a working student, and the daughter of a famous rock star compete on horseback riding's elite A circuit.
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In 2036 New Jersey, when teens are expected to become fanatically religious wives and mothers or high-priced Surrogettes for couples made infertile by a widespread virus, sixteen-year-old identical twins Melody and Harmony find in one another the courage to believe they have choices.
Ten by Lauren Myracle
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Winnie's celebrates her unique style through her first year with a double-digit age as she has many new experiences, from the high of spending time in New York City with her aunt and big sister, to the low of her two best friends suddenly becoming interested in boys.
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The adventures of two teenaged cousins who live in a place called The Floating Islands, one of whom is studying to become a mage and the other one of the legendary island flyers.
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The Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith
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Harry Potter Film Wizardry by Brian Sibley
A guide to the Harry Potter films offers an inside look at everything it took to bring J.K. Rowling's novels to life and includes interviews with the films' stars, behind-the-scenes stories, photos of props and sets, and extra removable items.
It Gets Better edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller
A collection of original essays and expanded testimonials written to teens from celebrities, political leaders, and everyday people. While many of these teens can't see a positive future for themselves, we can. We can show LGBT youth the kind of happiness, potential, and satisfaction their lives hold if they can just get through these early years.
My Boyfriend is a Monster vol. 1 by Evonne Tsang and Janina Gorrissen
St. Petersburg High school juniors Dicey Bell, a baseball star, and Jack Chen, who loves science and role-playing games, discover a mutual attraction when paired for a project, but on their first date, a zombie-producing fungus sends them on the run.
Bakuman vol. 4 by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata, Tetsuichiro Miyaki, and Hope Donovan
When Akito is unable to come up with a storyboard within the time frame he promised, Moritaka decides to break up their partnership! As they go their separate ways to create manga, it may turn out that they're actually headed in the same direction.
King of RPGs vol. 1 by Jason Thompson and Victor Hao
Follows hardcore computer gamer Shesh Maccabee as he arrives for his freshman year at college banned by a court order from the computer gaming world and finds game master Theodore Dudek, who runs the role playing game, "Mages & Monsters."
This list showcases just a few of our new books in the YA section this month. Be sure to check out a full listing of all new YA titles for June including books on CD, ebooks, and downloadable audiobooks.


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Although many rumours suggest that Apple will not demonstrate its sixth-generation iPhone at worldwide developers conference this June, new details about the highly-anticipated handset just keep to emerge. Interesting, but the analysts from Jefferies believe that it absolutely does not matter when exactly Apple launches its next phone as it will be inevitably successful. Most likely it will be revealed this fall.
"Based on assumed retained sockets and guidance from supply chain companies (many of which report monthly), we see enormous September quarter builds. Our guess is 50 to 60 million units. We believe that the iPhone 5 is shaping up to be the biggest launch in handset history," wrote Peter Misek, an analyst from Jefferies securities wrote in a report, according to Tech Trader Daily.
Among other things, it is reported that Apple's sixth-generation iPhone will be made of liquid metal materials, will be 20% thinner than the models 4 and 4S and will have 4" screen with even higher pixel density than the currently available devices. This is not the first time when reports talk about thinner form-factor and larger screen.
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Formerly known as the Physical Education Building, it was renamed the Bentson Bunker Fieldhouse on June 7, 1995, in recognition of gifts received from Fargo businessman Art Bunker and his wife, Norene.
At the request of the Bunkers, the name includes that of Art's former NDSU basketball coach and life-long friend, Chuck Bentson.
Coach Bentson retired in 1981 after 32 years of service. He was the longest serving coach in NDSU history and second on the all-time wins list. He died Jan. 20, 1994.
A record crowd of 2,259 packed the BBF on Nov. 5, 1986, when the Bison squared off with crosstown rival Minnesota State Moorhead—one of the top regular-season attendance figures in NCAA Division II history.
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Pinellas Park Officer Jason M. Nosal was charged after a July 5 incident involving a woman's driveway, a Largo police officer and a Taser.
By ANNE LINDBERG
Published July 28, 2006
PINELLAS PARK - A Pinellas Park police officer who was Tasered by a Largo police officer resigned Wednesday, the same day he was charged with driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
Officer Jason M. Nosal and his attorney appeared at the Largo Police Department Wednesday evening, where he surrendered his driver's license and formally received a misdemeanor DUI citation. He will appear in court Aug. 15.
The charge stems from a July 5 incident in which a woman called police saying a man had followed her home and was passed out in his car in her driveway, according to Largo police.
Largo police used a Taser on Nosal after he woke up flailing, police said. Largo officials said they didn't initially cite him because they were waiting for the results of a blood test taken at the hospital where Nosal was taken after he was Tasered.
The results, which came back Wednesday, showed Nosal's blood alcohol level was 0.220 to 0.222 percent. In Florida, 0.08 percent is the level at which a person is presumed to be impaired. The tests also found traces of MDA and MDMA, or ecstasy, an illegal drug that is both a stimulant and a psychedelic, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. MDA is the parent drug of MDMA.
Pinellas Park police Chief Dorene Thomas called the situation disappointing. Nosal was a good officer but faced termination because of the incident, she said.
Nosal denied taking any drugs, implying that they had been slipped to him, Thomas said.
Largo police declined to release their incident report, saying the case was still being investigated. But Capt. James Precious , the patrol division commander, provided more details:
The incident began a little after 8 p.m., when a woman called 911. She told dispatchers that someone had followed her home and pulled into her driveway behind her. The car, she said, was still in her driveway with someone in it.
Two officers went to the woman's house on Cork Street and found the car with its engine still running and the windows down, a man slumped in the driver's seat, Precious said.
"The officer sees that this guy is not sleeping, but passed out," Precious said. One of the officers reached into the car to turn off the engine and apparently jostled the man, who woke up and started "flailing his arms."
The officer thought the man was trying to put the car in drive and the car began to move, Precious said. The officer, fearing he would be dragged away, shot the man with his Taser.
Police then stopped the car and pulled the man out.
After they had handcuffed him and turned him over, one of the officers recognized him as a Pinellas Park police officer.
Because he was "clearly under the influence of something," the officers called paramedics, who suggested Nosal be taken to a hospital, Precious said. Officers followed him to Largo Medical Center, where the doctor drew blood and decided he should be admitted. Police later obtained a warrant for his blood.
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Bossier inline speed skating team going for nationals
When you hear speed skating, the first few images to come to mind are probably ice and the Winter Olympics. But a local team shows speed skating can thrive off the ice, too.
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Anyone see this documentary on HBO?
It's the story of the Bill Collins Jr vs Luis Resto fight from back in the 80s. Collins was an up and comer, Resto was an experienced fighter who was expected to give him a good fight to get him over the hump. Collins ends up losing by decision. After the fight, it is discovered that the majority of the padding in Resto's gloves were removed. Collins suffered damage to his eyes and never fought again.
The documentary follows Resto today, after getting out of prison relating to the incident. He confronts his former trainer and cornerman on the incident. Both spent time in prison and were banned from the sport, but each of their places in the world today are in stark contrast to one another.
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Friday, October 26, 2012
Denver Insurance Executive Indicted for Insider Trading
DENVER – Insurance executive Michael Van Gilder, age 45, of Denver, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on five counts of insider trading, U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado John Walsh and FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge James Yacone announced. The case is being prosecuted in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which today filed a complaint charging Van Gilder with civil insider trading violations, conducted a parallel civil investigation and substantially contributed to the criminal investigation of the case as well. The defendant allegedly traded based on inside information regarding a Denver oil and natural gas company called Delta Petroleum Corp. Van Gilder surrendered to the FBI this morning at the U.S. Marshals' Office, and will appear in U.S. District Court in Denver this afternoon for an initial appearance.
According to the indictment, Van Gilder was the CEO and a member of the board of directors of Van Gilder Insurance Company, an insurance business owned by the defendant's family. Van Gilder was a close personal friend of an executive at Delta Petroleum. Delta Petroleum was a Denver-based oil and gas exploration and development company whose core area of operations was in the Gulf Coast and Rocky Mountain regions. The company's stock was traded on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "DPTR." Van Gilder at times arranged for and provided insurance policies covering certain of Delta's business operations.
From Nov. 5, 2007, and continuing until at least Jan. 9, 2008, Van Gilder allegedly committed securities fraud by trading in securities based on material, non-public information.
Specifically, on Nov. 8, 2007, Delta publicly announced and filed with the SEC a quarterly report disclosing its operational performance, revenues, earnings and other financial performance for its quarterly period which ended Sept. 30, 2007. Three days prior to the disclosure, the financial publication Barron's disseminated an article entitled "Day of Reckoning" focusing on Delta, expressing pessimism about the company and its stock. Following the publication of the article, the price of Delta's common stock dropped $1.49 per share. Van Gilder was, at the time, a shareholder of Delta and held shares of its common stock and long-term call options to purchase Delta common stock in a brokerage account with Merrill Lynch and Company.
The Barron's article was brought to Van Gilder's attention. Based on the article, Van Gilder called his stockbroker and asked whether he should sell his shares of Delta. Later that day, Van Gilder spoke with a Delta executive. According to the indictment's allegations, the executive conveyed to Van Gilder that Delta planned on announcing figures in its third quarter financial report that would not miss its third quarter forecasts and projections for its financial and operational performance, a first in a number of quarters that Delta would meet its projected numbers. At the time Van Gilder received this information, the financial and operational performance had not yet been publicly released and was not generally known to the investing public.
Based on this confidential material, Van Gilder decided not to sell his Delta investment but instead instructed his stockbroker to buy more Delta common stock on his behalf. As a result, the stockbroker purchased an additional 1,250 shares of Delta common stock at $15.55 per share. Several hours after he purchased the additional stock, Van Gilder emailed two friends and told them that the Barron's article was "bogus" and that they should buy Delta stock because Delta "will hit their numbers." In the Nov. 8, 2007, third quarter results Delta disclosed earnings and other financial figures that were in line with or exceeding previous forecasts and predictions of its performance for the quarter.
In late November 2007, discussions also began for Delta to get a large cash infusion from a privately held investment company called Tracinda, owned by California resident Kirk Kerkorian, through a large equity investment by Tracinda in the oil and gas company. The indictment alleges that the Delta executive shared confidential information about the possible investment with Van Gilder, and that, on Nov. 26, 2007, following a series of calls and other communications, Van Gilder contacted his stockbroker and purchased an additional 1,750 shares of Delta common stock at $13.87 and $13.88 per share.
As the indictment further relates, the Delta executive continued to share information about the confidential discussions about the contemplated Tracinda equity investment in Delta with defendant Van Gilder, as the confidential discussions progressed over the course of early December 2007. As result, according to the indictment, on Dec. 8, 2007, Van Gilder, in turn, emailed his stockbroker to advise him that he "wanted to purchase as much Delta stock as possible" and two days later arranged through the stockbroker to purchase an additional 4,000 shares of Delta common stock at $17.64 per share. Within minutes of execution of these purchases, Van Gilder spoke by phone with a family member, who, several minutes later, instructed his own stockbroker to purchase Delta common stock.
On Dec. 17, 2007, the Delta executive advised its board of directors of his discussions with Tracinda. The board authorized the executive to proceed with negotiations with Tracinda. That evening, the executive exchanged a series of text messages with the defendant regarding the board's decision. Several hours later, Van Gilder directed that $40,000 be wire transferred from a bank account to his Merrill Lynch brokerage account.
On Dec. 19, 2007, a representative of Tracinda contacted the Delta executive and made an offer for Tracinda to purchase a one-third interest in Delta through a purchase of Delta's common stock at $17 per share. At the time, Delta's stock was trading at approximately $14.65 per share. Tracinda's overture remained confidential. Van Gilder, knowing about the overture, purchased 200 call options, entitling him to purchase up to 20,000 shares of Delta common stock at $20 per share. Delta continued negotiations with Tracinda, and on Dec. 22, 2007, Tracinda agreed to increase its stock purchase to $19 per share. The indictment alleges that in a series of calls Van Gilder was informed of the progress of the confidential negotiations. Immediately following one of these conversations between Van Gilder and the Delta executive, Van Gilder sent an email to two of his family members, with the subject line entitled "Xmas present." In the email, he advised the family members to purchase Delta stock because "something significant will happen in the next 2-4 weeks."
On Dec. 24, 2007, Van Gilder, through his stockbroker, purchased 3,000 more shares of Delta common stock at prices ranging between $15.63 and $15.65 per share, and 90 more call options to purchase up to 9,000 additional shares at $20 per share. On Dec. 28, 2007, during the course of working to finalize the Tracinda stock purchase, the Delta executive exchanged a series of cell phone text messages with Van Gilder. As a result, Van Gilder caused $272,212 from a bank account to be wire transferred into his Merrill Lynch brokerage account. The following day Van Gilder emailed his stockbroker, requesting the broker to "get it on Delta asap."
On Dec. 29, 2007, Delta's board of directors approved a finalized stock purchase agreement for Tracinda to purchase approximately 35 percent of Delta's common stock for $19 per share. On Monday, Dec. 31, 2007, before the commencement of NASDAQ's regular trading hours, Delta and Tracinda issued a press release announcing the stock purchase agreement. Within an hour of the commencement of regular trading hours that day, Van Gilder's stockbroker purchased an additional 4,000 shares of Delta common stock at prices ranging from $19.28 to $19.33 per share, and 114 additional call options. By the close of regular hours trading that day, Delta's common stock price had risen $3.34 from its previous close of $15.51. Over the course of the next three trading days, Delta's stock price continued to rise, closing at $22.82 per share by Jan. 4, 2008. On Jan. 9, 2008, Van Gilder sold the 290 call options that he had purchased between Dec. 19 and Dec. 24, 2007, realizing a profit of approximately $86,100 on the transaction.
The indictment charges Van Gilder with five counts of securities fraud, reflecting five transactions between Nov. 6, 2007 and Dec. 24, 2007 where Van Gilder purchased Delta common stock based on confidential insider information. If convicted on all counts, the defendant faces up to 100 years in federal prison, and up to $25 million in fines.
"Trading on inside information undercuts the fairness and transparency of our financial markets," said U.S. Attorney Walsh. "This case demonstrates that in the highly networked world we now live in, insider trading knows no geographic boundaries. This office, and U.S. Attorney's Offices around the country, will continue to target insider trading wherever it may occur. Thanks to the hard work of this office, the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York, the SEC and the FBI, a Denver insurance executive has been charged for profiting using confidential information."
"The FBI has made protecting the financial markets and the trust of investors a priority," said FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Yacone. "As such, we will vigorously investigate those who engage in insider trading."
This case was investigated by the FBI, New York and Denver Divisions, with the assistance of and working with the SEC.
Van Gilder is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ken Harmon and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Levy from the Southern District of New York.
The charges contained in the indictment are allegations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
Today's announcement is part of efforts underway by President Obama's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force (FFETF) which was created in November 2009 to wage an aggressive, coordinated and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. With more than 20 federal agencies, 94 U.S. attorneys' offices and state and local partners, it's the broadest coalition of law enforcement, investigatory and regulatory agencies ever assembled to combat fraud. Since its formation, the task force has made great strides in facilitating increased investigation and prosecution of financial crimes; enhancing coordination and cooperation among federal, state and local authorities; addressing discrimination in the lending and financial markets and conducting outreach to the public, victims, financial institutions and other organizations. Over the past three fiscal years, the Justice Department has filed more than 10,000 financial fraud cases against nearly 15,000 defendants including more than 2,700 mortgage fraud defendants. For more information on the task force, visit www.stopfraud.gov .


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Ringo was recently asked by Access Hollywood what he hoped to receive for his upcoming birthday (July 7th). Ringo's answer was unconventional, he said, "just more Peace & Love." Then he expanded his wish further, "it would be really cool if everyone, everywhere, wherever they are, at noon on July 7 make the peace sign and say "Peace & Love."


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