A Navy spokesperson told KFMB it wasn't their missile. He said there was no Navy activity reported in the area Monday evening.
On Friday night, Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California, launched a Delta II rocket, carrying an Italian satellite into orbit, but a sergeant at the base told KFMB there had been no launches since then.
Ellsworth urged American to wait for definitive answers to come from the military.
KFMBTV8, Fox News and others are discussing this and my only comment until further information is obtained is that the word "mysterious" and the word "Missile" when talking about our own coast, should never, ever, be used in conjunction with each other.
The largest voting bloc are seniors, those that have lived through countless elections and who are the most active in elections such as the upcoming midterms.
Recently I was informed of a site, JohnEricksontv who believes that seniors are given lip service but no one really listens to them, they do not have a voice that can be heard above the fray.
Teaser:
As sure as the sun will rise, a swarm of seniors will go to the polls. Historically, voter turnout for the 60- to 70-year-old group has been at least twice that of their 25- to 30-year-old children and grandchildren. Yet we seniors are being taken for granted. Politicians have pigeonholed us as red or blue, and instead expend energy courting young souls who flock around the latest social media-powered cause.
Brought in from the League of Women Voters Evanston branch because she doesn't live in the 8th Congressional District, Tate-Bradish handled the event at Grayslake Central High School that featured Democratic U.S. Rep. Melissa Bean of Barrington, the Green Party's Bill Scheurer and Walsh.
Tate-Bradish was asked whether the Pledge of Allegiance would be recited after she went over some ground rules and directed the candidates to make opening statements. The query came from a man in the audience.
As Tate-Bradish explained the debate was not scheduled to start with the pledge, almost all in the crowd of more than 300 stood and enthusiastically recited it anyway. Tate-Bradish, who joined in the pledge, issued a scolding when the crowd finished.
The moderator then said she was disrespected and afterwards when she was asked about it...well you can see that little interview at Founding Bloggers (H/T Gateway Pundit).
Rebel Pundit was on the scene, video camera in tow, and he confronted the woman who felt “disrespected”. He wanted to know what the moderator meant when she said she felt disrespected. Unsurprisingly, she has no answer for him.
Make sure to click over and watch that video as well.
Then, via Gateway Pundit, the man that asked the original question about whether they were going to cite the Pledge of Allegiance weighs in.
Read all the links and watch the video above and the one at Rebel Pundit/Founding Bloggers.
OBION COUNTY, Tenn. - Imagine your home catches fire but the local fire department won't respond, then watches it burn. That's exactly what happened to a local family tonight. A local neighborhood is furious after firefighters watched as an Obion County, Tennessee, home burned to the ground. The homeowner, Gene Cranick, said he offered to pay whatever it would take for firefighters to put out the flames, but was told it was too late. They wouldn't do anything to stop his house from burning. Each year, Obion County residents must pay $75 if they want fire protection from the city of South Fulton. But the Cranicks did not pay. The mayor said if homeowners don't pay, they're out of luck. This fire went on for hours because garden hoses just wouldn't put it out. It wasn't until that fire spread to a neighbor's property, that anyone would respond. Turns out, the neighbor had paid the fee.
First and foremost, once there the firefighters should have put the damn thing out and worried about how to bill Cranick in such a way that others understood they needed to pay the fee in order to utilize the services.
Secondly, the neighbor that did pay... wouldn't the fire have not spread to the neighbors property, the neighbor that did pay, if the fire department had responded to Cranick originally?
If no one in the area had paid, would they have allowed a whole block, a whole neighborhood, a whole city to burn to the ground?
I see arguments to the contrary and admit freely the arguments are grounded in harsh reality and make perfect common sense.
National Review Online has a little back and forth going over this issue, arguing both sides.
That bolded paragraph is what really gets to me. I have no problem with this kind of opt-in government in principle — especially in rural areas where individual need for government services and available infrastructure vary so widely. But forget the politics: what moral theory allows these firefighters (admittedly acting under orders) to watch this house burn to the ground when 1) they have already responded to the scene; 2) they have the means to stop it ready at hand; 3) they have a reasonable expectation to be compensated for their trouble?
The situation is this: The city of South Fulton’s fire department, until a few years ago, would not respond to any fires outside of the city limits — which is to say, the city limited its jurisdiction to the city itself, and to city taxpayers. A reasonable position. Then, a few years ago, a fire broke out in a rural area that was not covered by the city fire department, and the city authorities felt bad about not being able to do anything to help. So they began to offer an opt-in service, for the very reasonable price of $75 a year. Which is to say: They greatly expanded the range of services they offer. The rural homeowners were, collectively, better off, rather than worse off. Before the opt-in program, they had no access to a fire department. Now they do.
And, for their trouble, the South Fulton fire department is being treated as though it has done something wrong, rather than having gone out of its way to make services available to people who did not have them before. The world is full of jerks, freeloaders, and ingrates — and the problems they create for themselves are their own. These free-riders have no more right to South Fulton’s firefighting services than people in Muleshoe, Texas, have to those of NYPD detectives
Why isn’t there a happy middle ground? You can pay 75 bucks upfront or, if you wait until your house is on fire, it will cost you, I dunno, $10,000? Lots of things work like this.
Jonah, you know how to hit a guy where it hurts: deploying my precious Burke against me and calling me the dread double C-word. But notice, my argument isn’t about the wisdom of the policy, or of Mr. Cranick for not opting into it. It’s about what to do if you’re the fire chief sitting in front of the burning house. As I said in response to Kevin, we’re not talking from “the original position” here. We’re in medias res:
The South Fulton Fire Department already exists — its fixed costs funded by a combination of tax-dollars from in-city residents and opt-in fees from some county residents. It has already responded to the scene of the fire to protect a fee-payer’s property. There is an enforceable verbal agreement from the Cranicks to pay the full per-fire cost.
Kevin would have us think about Pareto optimality and aggregates here. But we’re not designing the policy from scratch, we’re applying the policy we have to a concrete case in which not just the parameters of the policy, but also our moral intuitions, have to be brought to bear.
Now, maybe the fire was too far gone by the time they responded to the fee-paying neighbor’s call, or it would have been too dangerous, or there is some other similarly compelling prudential reason to let the sucker burn. But if there wasn’t, I ask again. What case can be made for doing nothing?
Out of all the arguments I have seen on this issue, Jonah's makes the most sense.
You charge the $75 opt-in fee and if someone hasn't paid it and needs to utilize the services, then you have a set amount (insert whatever amount) that you charge them.
It makes the point that expanding your services costs and it also allows for firefighters to do their jobs and save a house if that fee hasn't been paid as well.
I have never been one to speak of "moral" obligations, to provide services to people not willing to pay for those services, but there are some cases where you have to ask yourself "what is the right thing to do?"
Standing there, holding a firehose, having the ability to stop someone from losing everything and refusing to do it, just seems wrong.
There were people with union T-shirts and others participants who carried banners advocating expanding Medicare for all Americans. While the Beck rally stretched well down the National Mall, Saturday's event was shaping up to be far smaller, with sparse groups lingering around the reflecting pool and other monuments.
Organizers said they were expecting more than 100,000 to attend the rally. Thousands of people packed the area around the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, but based on an unscientific estimate there were significantly fewer people than when Fox News’ Glenn Beck hosted the conservative “Restoring Honor” rally there Aug. 28. At that rally, attendees were forced to stand shoulder to shoulder the entire length of the Reflecting Pool.
All that despite all the organizations and people being bussed in for attendance. No doubt the crowd was huge just as it was with Beck's rally just not as huge , and it was organized, not grass roots.
Guess that enthusiasm gap really does exist and it is bigger than anyone imagined.
While reading through The Hill article about Christine O'Donnell and Chris Coons sharing a stage at the yearly candidate forum sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Delaware, nothing huge jumped out.
It seemed to be a civil event with the candidates basically introducing themselves. The candidates did answer a few questions and when O'Donnell was asked about her previous statements on masturbation she explained those statements were made 15 yrs ago and put them in context.
You can read all that for yourself because what caught my eye and actually made me laugh out loud was a comment posted by someone calling themselves Bored Liberal Dem.
ease up on the masturbation thing..us Dems are going to have a lot of time on our hands after Nov.
BY Bored Liberal Dem on 09/16/2010 at 23:57
Following that up on another page of comments was one from Old Cro, who responds:
"ease up on the masturbation thing..us Dems are going to have a lot of time on our hands after Nov.."
Best.Democrat.Reply.Ever
BY old cro on 09/17/2010 at 04:17
Your entertainment for today.
Now back to regularly scheduled political programming..........
