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The California Public Utilities Commission is subsidizing indoor pot grows with the state’s low-income electricity program, which means that even non-toking, non-stoner power users are contributing to the high … rate of electricity use, according to the Willits News which reports from the land of Mendo Gold.
North Coast law enforcement is finding a growing number of indoor grows where gardeners have qualified for the low-income CARE electricity assistance program. Under the program, law-abiding electricity ratepayers pay a subsidy to assist those who qualify for CARE. In a recent series of Humboldt County indoor grow raids, deputies found electricity bills showing most of the locations were being subsidized by CARE.
Here’s a 96 question test for you to see how knowledgeable you are about our country. An interesting question, given how often we hear about how bad the schools have become, is how well would the high school grads from this year would do. Another one would be how would they (or the general population) do against a group from another country? I’d like to see how candidates for President would do.
In order to become a US citizen, immigrants must pass the Naturalization Test. American citizenship bestows the right to vote, improves the likelihood of family members living in other countries to come and live in the US, gives eligibility for federal jobs, and can be a way to demonstrate loyalty to the US. Applicants must get 6 answers out of 10 in an oral exam to pass the test. According to US Citizenship and Immigration services, 92 percent of applicants pass this test.
You must get 58 or more of these test questions correct in order to pass.
House Republicans are trying to pass a resolution to reaffirm that “In God We Trust” is the national motto of the United States.
There must be something in the water in Massachusetts this year. For the second time in a month, police have responded to a 911 call from a couple stranded — and lost — on a farm outing. This time, the rescue appeal came from an apple orchard.
When Mark and Marcia Rosenthal of Boston went apple-picking on the afternoon of Oct. 22, they didn’t expect it to end with a rescue. According to the farm’s owner, the two wandered too from their parked car at Honey Pot Orchard in Stow, and as night began to fall, they became frightened that they wouldn’t be able to find their way back. The Rosenthals called the Orchard’s main line, but when no one answered, they called 911.
Police arrived at the orchard’s entrance and told the owners about the problem, directing them to a landmark where the couple was waiting to be rescued. Julie Martin-Sullivan, who owns the family business with her brother, said they sent workers right out to pick up the Rosenthals.
Laura Chavez did not pass go. She did not collect $200.
Instead, Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputies took the 60-year-old directly to jail after they say she repeatedly stabbed her boyfriend Wednesday after arguing during a game of Monopoly.
Vice’s man in Libya noticed that a flag flying above the courthouse in Bengahzi, the cradle of the now victorious Libyan revolution, belongs to Al Qaida.
That doesn’t mean the Islamists have won or anything—Al Qaida flags actually pop up a lot in that part of the world. But it’s not encouraging! When reporter Sherif Elhelwa started taking photographs, a courthouse guard approached him and said, “Whomever speaks ill of this flag, we will cut off his tongue. I recommend that you don’t publish these. You will bring trouble to yourself.”
Later, though, the same guard tried to argue that it wasn’t the Al Qaida flag, which features “There is no God but Allah” in Arabic and a full yellow moon:The guard claimed repeatedly that there is no al Qaeda in Libya, and that the flag flying atop the courthouse is “dark black,” while the al Qaeda flag is charcoal black.
We Came, We Saw, We …..ooops! But seriously, good job all around guys.
Pretty much says it all because, “Everybody needs toucan stubs.”
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A Los Angeles police sergeant was arrested Sunday on suspicion of burglary after a woman found him inside her home near the San Bernardino National Forest and sprayed him with a potent form of pepper spray that is typically used to ward off bears, authorities said.
LAPD Sgt. Lucien Daigle allegedly fled but crashed his car a few miles from the woman’s Mentone home, said San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Sgt. Paul Morrison. Daigle reeked of pepper spray when he was approached and had valuables inside his car that belonged to the woman, Morrison said. It was only during the booking process, Morrison said, that deputies learned that Daigle, 44, was an LAPD sergeant.
Authorities said there is no indication that Daigle, a Highland resident, is acquainted with the victim. “It was a burglary,” Morrison said. Morrison said the break-in occurred sometime before 6:20 p.m. Sunday in the 8900 block of Tres Lagos Drive in Mentone, a remote community near Redlands.
The homeowner told deputies she had taken her dogs for a walk and returned to find a man inside her home, Morrison said. “She had sprayed the intruder with bear pepper spray. It is five times more powerful than pepper spray we use in law enforcement,” he added.
Too bad it wasn’t a bear trap.
New York (CNN) — A Long Island couple wants to trademark the slogan “Occupy Wall St.” with the intent to sell sweatshirts, T-shirts, bumper stickers and hobo bags, among other merchandise.
“I’m no marketing genius, but when you got something that’s across 50 states, it’s a brand now,” said 44-year-old Robert Maresca of West Islip, New York. Maresca’s wife, Diane, filed a trademark application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on October 18 and paid a fee of $975.
The move has some Occupy Wall Street supporters perplexed. “The goal of OWS is not to become a profitable business,” said Tyler Combelic, an Occupy Wall Street spokesman. “Anything that misconstrues it as such, such as trademarking for the sake of profiting, is missing the point of protest.”
But Robert Maresca sees things differently.
So, if this is good for our psychology, then we should shortly see video games called Blow Up the Banks and War Zone on Wall Street to keep the public docile? Do violent video games make going to war easier to sell like the old argument about violent TV causing violent kids? Or do we humans just enjoy blowing shit and people up? So many crappy, government-financed studies to start writing….
The story of the dictator’s demise is already being transformed into a video game by Kuma Games, the company that also brought us a gamified version of Osama bin Laden’s capture and death. Kotaku reports that the game will be ready to play as early as this Tuesday.
Media theorist Alexander Galloway has suggested that forms of configuration such as those found in video games “express processes in [broader] culture that are large, unknown, dangerous, and painful.” If Galloway is right, then Kuma Games’ immediate impulse to create a video game about Qaddafi’s capture may be more than just a marketing ploy (though it is that as well). The desire to translate events like Qaddafi’s and bin Laden’s deaths into video games is also part of what we might call algorithmic sorting: the cultural attempt to simplify complex historical and social issues into patterns that we can recognize and make sense of.
Is anybody surprised?
South Texas gets second drone for patrolling – The Brownsville Herald: South Texas’ second unmanned aerial vehicle was expected to arrive at its base station in Corpus Christi Wednesday night and will begin operations in a couple of days.
Texas Congressional members Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi, and Mike McCaul, R-Houston, announced the arrival of the second UAV earlier this week.
The Predator UAV is equipped with an electro-optical/infrared sensor system that is suitable for flights in darkness and bad weather.
Cuellar has pushed for more drones for the Texas-Mexico border and earlier said the bipartisan effort between Democrats and Republicans was the key factor for South Texas receiving second UAV.
Both would be banned as too scary
From Christians who want to replace Halloween with Jesusween to the dentist who wants to pay kids $1/lb for the Halloween candy they collect (as opposed to the dentist who says they should gorge themselves on candy), there are just too many who want to sanitize childhood.
Children wanting to wear scary, violent or blood-drenched costumes will have to trade them in for more caring and community friendly outfits at two public elementary schools this Halloween.
The principal of Colonel Walker and Ramsay schools said her staff has chosen to use the day normally known for scares and frights as an opportunity to teach community values.
But some parents say it’s political correctness gone too far.
Speaking of Halloween, here’s a nice, simple, yet effective example of what one can do to get their car into the spirit, so to speak. Boo!
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