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What's This About an Attack on Thursday?

Submitted by AbstrACT on Tue, 2010-02-09 05:32.
I heard something on the news today. I must have caught the tail end of it. It was something about a threatened attack on the US on Thursday. I've Googled it, and so much came up about 9/11 and what not. Has anyone else heard about this?
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J Heaton posts threat against family:"Beware of strangers in your neighborhood. The one he harms might be your family member."

Submitted by FWright on Mon, 2010-02-08 18:46.

 

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Is this the comment of a stable man? Is this an invitation to violence?fdubb
Submitted by jheaton on Mon, 2010-02-08 17:24.

needs to seek medical help. If you blog under your real name beware of strangers in your neighborhood. The one he harms might be your family member.

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Will Anyone Stand Up For Modesto’s Voters?

Submitted by truthseekers on Mon, 2010-02-08 12:13.

Modesto is facing a dilemma.  On one hand the voters chose overwhelming (by 60-70%) to turn down all five annexation measures, but now the Mayor and City Council are engineering an end run.

After listening to a heart wrenching speech by a farmer whose family has been working  the land within the Beckworth Triangle for more than 100 years pleading for City Planning Commissioners  to turn down the request to include his farm in Modesto’s sphere of influence, they choose to move forward anyway.

There are two lines coming from city planners that need to be remembered.  The first is, “Once land is brought into the City’s sphere of influence development is inevitable” The second is “annexation is driven by developers”. These two lines were spoken by a member of the city’s planning staff.

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Yes, we are going to bellyache

Submitted by truthseekers on Mon, 2010-02-08 07:38.

So the mayor thinks some people are going to bellyache about his chamber speech. Well, he is right. I like the mayor and I think the chamber does a lot of good, but the chamber luncheon is not the forum for the state of the city speech. If he wants to give a speech to the chamber, that is all right, but his state of the city speech is for all Modestans and should be done in a setting where anyone who wants to can attend.

Don't tell me that I can watch it on cable or read it on the Internet. Forty dollars for admission to his speech is just not right. I can stand in the back of the room and watch? Where are we, back in the '60s South? We just did district elections so that those residents who felt disenfranchised could now feel a connection to the city. What kind of message are we sending now?

ED WASHINGTON

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Hive 101

Submitted by AbstrACT on Mon, 2010-02-08 02:07.

Okay- So I've noticed that some navigate The Hive better than others. I am not a Hiver who has all the tricks down but I would like to be one!

I have some questions I would love answered, but for some reason, no one will ever take the time to answer them. I am hoping this blog will be different:)

1)How do I copy a blog or parts of a blog and post it to another thread exactly as it was written? I am unable to get photos and icons transferred for some reason.

2) Are there ways to make links or words highlighted, bold and/or italicized without inputting codes such as "The Hive"?

3) How do I put videos into my blog?

4) How do I enlarge the font?

5) Do some bloggers have a different comment box than others, depending on their computer?

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Obama adviser: Stop criticizing anti-terror effort...You're playing into al Qaida's hands

Submitted by truthseekers on Sun, 2010-02-07 08:57.

WASHINGTON -- An exasperated White House newly committed to preaching partisan peace slammed Republicans for playing politics on national security and making ignorant allegations about the investigation into the Christmas airliner plot.

Deputy national security adviser John Brennan complained Sunday that politicians, many of them Republicans, were unfairly criticizing the administration for partisan purposes and second-guessing the case with a "500-mile screwdriver" that reaches from Washington to the scene of the abortive attack in Detroit.

"Quite frankly, I'm tiring of politicians using national security issues such as terrorism as a political football," Brennan said. "They are going out there. They're unknowing of the facts. And they're making charges and allegations that are not anchored in reality."



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Modesto Considers Expanding its Sphere of Influence...WE DON'T CARE is the Response By the McClatchy Yellow Pages

Submitted by truthseekers on Sun, 2010-02-07 08:13.

Before you read any of this consider the following quotes. 'By bringing land into the sphere of influence it is being desigated to be developed"  and" Developers drive annexation.'

These were phrases uttered by City Planners here in Modesto.  The people spoke loud and clear but yet some are plotting to do whatever they choose to do.  It's not accidental or benign, it's insidious.

 

By the Editorial Staff of the McClatchy Yellow Pages

 

These two expansions are among seven proposed general plan changes that grew out of the city's Urban Growth Review in 2009. Five of the proposals involve changing the land use designations within the city's existing sphere of influence.

We don't have a problem with those changes, but some people do, on the grounds that more growth isn't needed or wanted.

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