Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Rand Paul enters 2016 fray money changes GOP

As 2016 approaches, that evidence may be coming in the form of Sen. Rand Paul announcing his bid for the presidency Tuesday. Or Sen. Ted Cruz doing it last month. Or Sen. Marco Rubio (apparently) doing it next week. Or even in Jeb Bush taking his own sweet time.

The GOP field is starting to crowd up – and to grow flush with cash – despite the eagerness of many Republican Party insiders to avoid the kind of bumptious free-for-all that left Mitt Romney battered and looking like he won the GOP nomination by default.

Rand Paul: 'I'm putting myself forward as a candidate for president'

Since riding the tea party wave into the Senate in 2010, Paul has carefully built a brand of mainstream libertarianism -- dogged advocacy of civil liberties combined with an anti-interventionist foreign policy and general support for family values -- that he bets will create a coalition of younger voters and traditional Republicans to usher him into the White House.

The test of that theory began Tuesday when the Kentucky senator made official what has been clear for years: He's running for president.

"Today I announce with God's help, with the help of liberty lovers everywhere, that I'm putting myself forward as a candidate for president of the United States of America," Paul said at a rally in Louisville.

Paul immediately hit the campaign trail for a four-day through New Hampshire, South Carolina, Iowa and Nevada -- the states that traditionally vote first in the primaries and caucuses.

A power outage hit the White House and much of the Washington area

A power outage hit the White House and much of the Washington area on Tuesday, snarling trains, emptying museums and cutting electricity to government buildings and the U.S. Capitol.

The Justice Department and State Department were also affected, along with the University of Maryland. Power company Pepco Holdings Inc said the outage stemmed from a dip in voltage because of transmission line trouble.

Power was briefly knocked out to the White House, delaying the daily press briefing.

The "power outage (is) affecting many parts of the city, and it affected the White House complex. We were on a backup generator and now we are back on normal power," a White House spokesman said.

The State Department's daily briefing also was suspended after power was lost. An official at the Department of Homeland Security said in an email, "At this time, there is no indication that this outage is the result of any malicious activity."

The U.S. Capitol complex operated using a backup generator before power was restored. Power also went out as media tycoon Oprah Winfrey was speaking at a U.S. Postal Service ceremony marking the issuance of a stamp honoring poet Maya Angelou.

Some subway stations in the United States' second-busiest transit system were running on backup power, according to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

The Smithsonian Institution said four museums, including the National Air and Space Museum, had been evacuated.

Pepco said its crews were repairing transmission equipment in Charles County, Maryland, south of Washington. The company's website showed about 1,400 customers without power, with most clustered in the District of Columbia.

The Washington Post quoted a District of Columbia homeland security official as saying an explosion at a plant operated by the Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative had caused a power surge that cut electricity to much of the capital area.

The power company did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Its website said about 1,700 customers, most of them southeast of Washington, were without power.

Wallace Loh, president of the University of Maryland, tweeted that power had been cut to the campus and Pepco was working to restore it.

Widespread power outages hit White House, Washington area

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Washington (CNN)Widespread power outages hit across Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, affecting government and privately-owned buildings and the city's public transit rail system intermittently early in the afternoon.

The power outage, which is affecting about 2,000 customers in the Washington area was caused by a small explosion and fire at a power substation in southern Maryland, according to local and U.S. officials.

Charles County Fire & EMS dispatched firetrucks to the Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative's Ryceville power substation shortly after 12:45 p.m. on Tuesday, when 9-1-1 calls came in reporting the incident, said Bill Smith, the Fire & EMS department's public information officer. The station is partly operated by PEPCO, the electricity utility in Washington, D.C.

Fire officials extinguished the "small fire" that sparked off at a transformer at the power station in about 35 minutes, Smith told CNN. There were no injuries, he added.

"The power has been shut down [at the station]. Any fires that we had are out," he said.

By 2 p.m., most power was back on, SMECO said. It explained the outage on Twitter.

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Social Security benefits will increase by 1.7% in 2015 COLA

The Social Security Administration also announced Wednesday that the maximum amount of earnings that workers pay Social Security taxes on will increase from $117,000 to $118,500 in 2015, based on the increase in average wages.

Monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for nearly 64 million Americans will increase 1.7 percent in 2015.
The 1.7 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will begin with benefits that more than 58 million Social Security beneficiaries receive in January 2015. Increased payments to more than 8 million SSI beneficiaries will begin on December 31, 2014.

http://www.ssa.gov/

http://www.ssa.gov/news/cola/
http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/22/retirement/social-security-cola/index.html

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Brundy Married with Children Video Clips

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Friday, September 19, 2014

Blue Jet US plane in emergency landing after engine 'explodes' Long Beach Airport

Passengers evacuated onto the runway using the Airbus A320’s emergency slides

ared West was headed home Thursday morning on a flight to Austin after visiting family in Fullerton.

Not long after his plane took off from Long Beach Airport, the Dripping Springs, Texas, resident heard a “boom” on the right side of the plane. About 10 seconds later, the cabin filled with smoke.

Oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling and passengers nearby were screaming and holding each other tight. Fearing this was his end, West, himself an amateur pilot, put on his oxygen mask and started recording a video message on his smartphone.

“I said, ‘If anyone finds this, tell my mother that I love her,’” West, 34, said.

But it wasn’t the end for West and the other 141 passengers and five crewmembers on JetBlue Flight 1416.

Shortly after takeoff at 9:05 a.m., “an overheat warning” was reported for one of the aircraft’s two engines, airport officials said. Long Beach Fire Department spokesman Jake Heflin said the crew spotted smoke billowing from the engine and pilots deployed a fire extinguishing agent from the cockpit.

Passengers exiting Long Beach Airport later that afternoon described flight attendants deploying oxygen masks and telling them to “brace, brace, brace!” The smoke in the cabin was so thick they couldn’t see, some passengers said.

For a moment, passengers such as Upland resident Laura Andreasen, 57, who was aboard the airliner with her family traveling to Orlando, Fla., for a Disney cruise, feared for their lives.

“I wasn’t sure if we were going to plummet or make it back,” she said.

The airplane landed safely and the passengers and crew evacuated on inflatable slides.

Three people were treated for injuries and released, and one was taken to a local hospital, Heflin said. One of the passengers had tailbone pain after using the evacuation slide, he said.

The Airbus A320 was in the air for less than 30 minutes. After departing, it turned back and landed at the airport at 4100 Donald Douglas Drive at 9:29 a.m., city officials said.

Some departures were delayed, and two flights from the Bay area that were scheduled to arrive before 11 a.m. were diverted. The aircraft was cleared and operations were back to normal by 11:15 a.m., but with some delays expected throughout the day, officials said.

Jackson Rathbone, an actor who portrayed Jasper Hale in the movie “Twilight,” tweeted that he was on the plane.

“Our right engine exploded and our cabin filled with smoke,” he wrote. “The doors were thrown open, once on the Tarmac. The stewardesses yelled for us to get out and as far away from the airplane as possible...I grabbed my son and jumped down the inflated ramp, my wife following. We left all our personal effects onboard.”

The moment jet passengers thought they might die (but some were still going to take one last picture): US plane in emergency landing after engine 'explodes' and cabin fills with smoke

Passengers express confusion as they are shrouded in a haze of smoke and a wailing child is heard in the background, but everyone remains calm as they prepare for an emergency landing.

Oxygen masks were deployed after the engine failure occurred on a JetBlue flight from Long Beach, California, to Austin, Texas, on Thursday.

video filmed by a passenger wearing an oxygen mask shows the dramatic scene inside an aircraft after one of its engines malfunctioned and filled the cabin with smoke.

Friday, June 6, 2014

Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl and President Obama

President Obama stands with Bob and Jani Bergdahl during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White

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Obama's Bergdahl Strategy Underestimated America's Complicated Relationship with


Birth name	Bowe Robert Bergdahl
Born	(1986-03-28) March 28, 1986 (age 28) Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S.
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	United States Army
Years of service	2008–present^[1]
Rank	Sergeant (promoted in absentia)
Unit	1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division
Battles/wars	Global War on Terrorism War in Afghanistan (POW)
Relations	Jani Larson (mother) Robert Bergdahl (father) Sky Albrecht (sister)^[2]

Bowe Robert Bergdahl (born March 28, 1986) is a United States Army soldier who was held captive by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Afghanistan from June 2009 until his release in May 2014.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] The circumstances under which Bergdahl went missing are disputed. Accounts of how he was captured differ. The U.S. Department of Defense reported that he went missing on July 2, 2009, attributing his disappearance to "walking off his base in eastern Afghanistan with three Afghan counterparts".^[7]

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Early life and education[edit]

Bergdahl was born on March 28, 1986, in Sun Valley, Idaho, to Jani (née Larson) and Robert "Bob" Bergdahl, a commercial truck driver.^[1]^[8]^[9] Bergdahl has an older sister, Sky Albrecht,^[1]^[10]^[11] and was home schooled by his mother Jani in Hailey, Idaho. The family attended Sovereign Redeemer Presbyterian Church, an Orthodox Presbyterian Church. According to Bowe's pastor at the time, he struggled with his faith.^[12]
He received a GED certificate through the College of Southern Idaho by the time he was in his early 20s.^[8]^[13]^[14]^[15] As an adult, Bergdahl studied and practiced fencing and martial arts before switching to ballet classes at the Sun Valley Ballet School in Ketchum, Idaho.^[8]^[13] He never owned a car; he rode his bicycle everywhere.^[15] He spent time in a Buddhist monastery between 2007 and 2008.^[12]

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http://news.yahoo.com/obamas-bergdahl-strategy-underestimated-americas-complicated-relationship-war-195500916.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowe_Bergdahl

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