Archive for November, 2011
Eagles Thankful For Gutsy, OT Win
LOVELAND, Colo. - A short-benched Colorado Eagles team defeated the Idaho Steelheads, 5-4, in overtime in the first of three meetings between the teams this week. Skating with just 14 skaters for two-thirds of the game, and 13 for the final third, Colorado out-shot Idaho 38-20 in a fast-paced game at the Budweiser Events Center. The Eagles out-shot the Steelheads 12-7 in the first period, but it was Idaho that led 2-1 at the first intermission. The visitors scored ... Full Story
On This Day, November 24, 1963
Jack Ruby kills Lee Harvey Oswald At 12:20 p.m., in the basement of the Dallas police station, Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is shot to death by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner. On November 22, President Kennedy was fatally shot while riding in an open-car motorcade through the streets of downtown Dallas. Less than an hour after the shooting, Lee Harvey Oswald killed a policeman who questioned him on the street. Thirty minutes after that, he ... Full Story
The Pepper Spray Cop
Lt. John Pike of the U.C. Davis campus police may be one of the most famous cops in the U.S. His actions at the Occupy site at the university have prompted an outburst of opinion and some parody. The first article talks about the internet meme and the twitter account. Links to both are in the article at Salon. Be sure to look at Pepper Spraying Cop Tumblr Lt Pike and the NYPD white shirt who sprayed the women at OWS have both been cited by the hacker group Anonymous. The second article ... Full Story
Bush and Blair found guilty of war crimes
Bush and Blair found guilty of war crimes for Iraq attack By Glenn Greenwald A tribunal in Malaysia, spearheaded by that nation’s former Prime Minister, yesterday found George Bush and Tony Blair guilty of “crimes against peace” and other war crimes for their 2003 aggressive attack on Iraq, as well as fabricating pretexts used to justify the attack. The seven-member Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal — which featured an American law professor as one of ... Full Story
Inequality: A collision is coming
Inequality, unemployment and unresponsive government: A collision is coming By Robert B. Reich 6:00 a.m. EST, November 9, 2011 The biggest question in America these days is how to revive the economy. The biggest question among activists now occupying Wall Street and dozens of American cities is how to strike back against the nation's almost unprecedented concentration of income, wealth and political power in the top 1 percent. The two questions are ... Full Story
Auditions
Moon Theater Company The Moon Theatre Company is holding auditions for "Kitchen Witches" Nov. 27 & 28 at 6 p.m. at 340 Mountain Ave. in Berthoud (the Re/Max office). Looking for one 50+ female who is good with accents and one 25-30 male. "Kitchen Witches" is a full-length comedy that brings two archenemy cooking show hostesses together on stage in the same TV show, yielding ratings that would put Martha Stewart and Jerry Springer both to shame. Performances will be the last two weekends in ... Full Story
Representative Gardner Lets Billionaires Skip Out on
Press Release New Report: Representative Gardner Lets Billionaires Skip Out on Taxes A new report by Bloomberg News revealed that billionaires are using tax loopholes to avoid paying taxes, as a result taxes paid by the richest 400 people has been cut nearly in half in recent years. Representative Cory Gardner (CO-04) has refused to close tax loopholes for billionaires and Big Oil and Republicans, like Gardner, demanded even more tax breaks for billionaires while repealing the ... Full Story
Offer to kill Occupy Wall Street
A Washington DC lobbying firm with close ties to Speaker of the House John Boehner wants to destroy the Occupy movement, for a price. Memo to the Banking Industry: How to Kill Occupy Wall Street For $850,000 by Jonathan Larsen and Ken Olshansky (crossposted from MSNBC's "Open Channel" blog) A well-known Washington lobbying firm with links to the financial industry has proposed an $850,000 plan to take on Occupy Wall Street and politicians who might express sympathy for ... Full Story
Farm Bill Proposal deserved a Quick Death
By John Crabtree, johnc@cfra.org, Center for Rural Affairs Over the last month, the leadership of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees pressed to finish a farm bill proposal that would cut 23 billion dollars over the next decade out of the USDA budget, through the Congressional Super Committee deficit reduction process, which must conclude by November 23rd. Fortunately, the Ag Committee proposal was never forthcoming. Rural America can breathe a ... Full Story
Sheriff on Facebook and Twitter
LCSO Adds Facebook & Twitter Accounts Press Release The Larimer County Sheriff's Office has added both Facebook and Twitter accounts as part of Sheriff Justin Smith's goal to increase communication with Larimer County citizens. In addition, Sheriff Smith has added a professional personal account to both Facebook and Twitter. The latest news releases, public activities, and general information as well as information on breaking incidents will be posted to both the Facebook and Twitter ... Full Story
