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Brain deterioration from too much lying? Obama misspells 'respect'

CBS DC
Fri, 07 Mar 2014 08:56 UTC

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President Barack Obama delivers remarks while hosting the event, “In Performance at the White House – Women of Soul,” on March 6, 2014 in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C.

O-O-P-S. President Barack Obama had a spelling blunder Thursday while praising Aretha Franklin.

Obama misspelled "respect" while lauding the "Queen of Soul" before a White House concert featuring several musical legends.

"When Aretha first told us what R-S-P-E-C-T meant to her," Obama said, before the audience in the East Room erupted into laughter. He then continued, ""She had no idea it would become a rallying cry for African-Americans, and women, and then everyone who felt marginalized because of what they looked like or who they loved. They wanted some respect. Later, when somebody asked her why it had such an impact, she said, 'I guess everybody just wants a little respect.' Today, they still do."

First up in the East Room lineup was Patti LaBelle, with a thundering delivery of "Over the Rainbow" that had the audience on its feet.

Arguing over trifles while the world burns: Megachurch pays millions to leave nation's biggest Presbyterian denomination - major rift over 'Who Jesus is'

Billy Hallowell
The Blaze
Thu, 06 Mar 2014 13:06 UTC

A California megachurch has voted to officially leave the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), a Christian denomination that is the largest in the nation.

Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in Menlo Park, Calif., one of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s largest congregations, made the choice despite facing a $8.89 million cost for the church's property and membership fees, Religion News Service reported.

With 4,000 members, including former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Menlo Park's decision is a major development in the lifecycle of a denomination that continues to experience ideological infighting over its more liberal stances on controversial issues.

In sum, 2,024 ballots were cast in support of separation, with only 158 individuals in opposition - an overwhelming 93 percent of the votes were in favor of Menlo Park moving on to join ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians.

ECO is a relatively new denomination that was founded in January 2012 amid ongoing theological debate among Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) church leaders. According to Religion News Service, the Christian body has attracted 115 Presbyterian churches since its inception.

"This is a major milestone, and not an ending but a beginning," Pastor John Ortberg wrote in a letter to parishioners on March 2. "There's a lot yet to come of what Dallas Willard called the unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily - entering fully into the good news that Jesus has brought, for ourselves, and for us as a church."

Michigan woman's mummified body found in her car six years after her death

Arturo Garcia
The Raw Story
Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:36 UTC

The mummified remains of a Pontiac, Michigan woman were found in the back seat of her car, about six years after her death, CNN reported on Friday.

Authorities said a contractor found Pia Farrenkopf's body in the vehicle, which was parked in her garage with the key halfway in the ignition.

"I've been doing this 37 years," Oakland County Undersheriff Mike McCabe was quoted as saying. "Never seen anything like this before."

The cause of Farrenkopf's death has not been determined, but authorities said it remained a secret in part because her bank account, which reportedly contained around $54,000, was set up to make automatic payments for her bills. After the money ran out of her account, the bank holding her mortgage foreclosed on the property. But the outside of the house showed no signs of mistreatment because a neighbor would cut her lawn every week, and the post office collected her mail. Her employer last reported seeing her in September 2008.

Nearby residents told WXYZ-TV that Farrenkopf, who would be 49 today if she were still alive, was reclusive, but traveled often. One neighbor, who chose to remain anonymous, said she had not seen any activity at the house in three years.

World food prices advance most in 19 months on weather woes

Rudy Ruitenberg
Live Mint
Thu, 06 Mar 2014 10:37 UTC

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An index of grain prices rose 3.6% last month to 195.8 points. That’s still below where the gauge was in October, and 19% below the year-earlier level

An index of 55 food items rose 2.6% to 208.1 points from a restated 202.9 in January

World food prices posted the biggest gain in 19 months in February on concern cold weather and drought in the US, the world's biggest exporter of wheat, and dryness in top-sugar producer Brazil will harm crops.

An index of 55 food items rose 2.6% to 208.1 points from a restated 202.9 in January, when it dropped to the lowest level since June 2012, the Rome-based United Nations' Food & Agriculture Organization said. The gauge is still down 2.1% from a year earlier.

The FAO's food index hasn't fully reflected lower prices of grain and oilseeds, where bigger crops are forecast to pad stockpiles by the end of the 2013-14 season, according the UN Corn futures fell 40% in Chicago last year on an outlook for record production.

There have been some areas of concern regarding wheat, there have been drought problems in Australia, there's also drought in the US central Plains, Concepcion Calpe, an economist at the FAO, said by phone from Rome on Thursday. There are other factors, for example what is happening in Ukraine and Russia.

Oil slick hints missing Malaysian jet may have crashed at sea

Keith Bradsher
The New York Times
Sat, 08 Mar 2014 09:54 UTC

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Relatives of passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight grieve at Beijing International Airpor

A 12-mile-long oil slick spotted between Malaysia and Vietnam on Saturday afternoon is thought to be the first sign that a missing Malaysia Airlines flight with 239 people aboard went down in the waters between southernmost Vietnam and northern Malaysia, according to Vietnam's director of civil aviation.

"An AN26 aircraft of the Vietnam Navy has discovered an oil slick about 20 kilometers in the search area, which is suspected of being a crashed Boeing aircraft," Lai Xuan Thanh, the director of the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam said. "We have announced that information to Singapore and Malaysia and we continue the search."

Mr. Thanh said the oil on the surface of the water was somewhat closer to Vietnam than Malaysia, at the mouth of the shallow Gulf of Thailand. The last coordinates automatically transmitted by the aircraft were from on the Malaysian side near the midpoint between the two countries, when the plane appeared to be in stable flight at 35,000 feet.

Big Brother: Milwaukee to give away 2,000 surveillance cameras for citywide NSA spy grid

Kristan T. Harris
CudahyNow
Fri, 07 Mar 2014 10:29 UTC

The city of Milwaukee will be giving away 2,000 security cameras to south side businesses. A grant has been provided to the city and they are eager to get started. Is this a violation of our constitutional 4th amendment right? These cameras will come with facial recognition and subsequently will track your behaviors. They will also be able to collect meta data on your habits, cell phone conversations, what you buy and who you associate with. This information will be collaborated with your cell phone id and facial recognition software provided by these cameras to monitor your voyage around town and record your trends.

This information will be trolled by the Milwaukee Fusion spy center, used to track your internet, cell phone activity and behaviors. Stored and saved for future reference indefinitely. The original intent of fusion centers was to prevent terrorist attacks from foreign interests. Now it's used to spy on American citizens The fusion center works in conjunction with the NSA, CIA, FBI and local police to profile everyone. The most frightening thing about fusion centers is the lack of over site and the inability to hold a fusion center accountable both personally and legally.

These surveillance grids are often abused such as using these systems to snoop on lovers and blackmailing individuals.

Shocking message left by 'spoiled' New Jersey teen suing her parents

Kevin Fobbs
examiner.com
Fri, 07 Mar 2014 10:22 UTC

You have to be a special kind of spoiled brat to think that parents that raised you, fed you and even enrolled you in a private school in order to provide the best education would be steamed rolled over by shocking horrid language that would make a sailor blush. Yet, according to the Blaze, Rachel Canning who saw part of her lawsuit against her parents rejected left her mom a message that even angered New Jersey Morris County Court Judge Peter Bogaard.

The 18-year-old high school senior, who can easily claim the "Worst Daughter of the Year" award, did not feel that she needed to bow to the parental rules being set for her. Imagine the outrage she reasoned in having to:

Keep parental curfew rules
Doing chores around the home
Reconsider her boyfriend relationship which was upsetting her parents

Florida man accidentally shoots passing 12-year-old and self - while giving gun safety demo

David Ferguson
The Raw Story
Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:44 UTC

A Florida man claims he was showing a friend how to clean a gun when he discharged the weapon and struck a 12-year-old girl in a passing car, then accidentally shot himself.

The Orlando Sentinel reported that 60-year-old Ventura Santos Matteo was in his garage on Friday when his gun-safety demonstration went awry.

Matteo accidentally fired the Sig Sauer pistol, which struck a 12-year-old girl in a passing car. The bullet penetrated the door and struck her in the right upper arm. Her younger brother, who was riding in the back seat, was unharmed.

Startled by the gunshot, Matteo then discharged a second bullet into his left thigh.

The girl was treated at the Arnold Palmer Children's Hospital and is expected to recover. The Sentinel said that Matteo is scheduled for surgery at Orlando Regional Medical Center and is also expected to recover.

Con-artist at large: Oklahoma's 'Dr. Mike' allowed to continue injecting miraculous 'Jesus shot' for $300 a pop

Scott Kaufman
The Raw Story
Wed, 05 Mar 2014 10:04 UTC

A man known as "Dr. Mike" in Edmond, Oklahoma is being questioned by the community about the ingredients of what he calls a "Jesus shot."

The full name of "Dr. Mike" is John Michael Lonergan, and in 2005 he had his license to practice medicine revoked in Ohio after he was convicted of eight felony counts of tax evasion, mail fraud and health care fraud. After he was released from prison, "Dr. Mike" moved to Oklahoma, which granted him a license to practice medicine on a provisional, supervised basis.

According to News 9, "Dr. Mike" has been injecting local residents with something he calls the "Jesus shot," which allegedly cures all pain for life. At his clinic, he has been charging people $300 per "miracle injection."

Last month, one Oklahoma resident curious about "Dr. Mike" posted about him in a forum devoted to "outing people who falsely claim military service."

"Nobody knows anything about this guy," she wrote, "but he claims that he is a Former Special Forces Doctor and him and another Special Forces Doctor developed a serum for the military called Jesus Juice and it has been used in the military for years and it cures any ailment."

Australia student ordered to pay $100,000 to music teacher for Twitter defamation

Jonathan Pearlman
The Telegraph
Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:07 UTC

Music teacher in Australia wins case against former student who defamed her on Twitter and Facebook

A music teacher in Australia has been awarded £57,000 ($AUS105,000) in damages for defamation on Twitter and Facebook after she was targeted by a former student who "bore a grudge".

Andrew Farley, 20, the son of the school's head of the music and arts department, wrote defamatory messages about Christine Mickle, 58, who replaced Mr Farley's father. He had never been taught by the popular teacher but posted the messages a year after graduating, suggesting she was responsible for the fate of his father, who stood down in 2008 for health reasons.

"For some reason it seems that the defendant bears a grudge against the plaintiff, apparently based on a belief that she had something to do with his father leaving the school," said district court judge Michael Elkaim.

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Society's Child

Brain deterioration from too much lying? Obama misspells 'respect'

Arguing over trifles while the world burns: Megachurch pays millions to leave nation's biggest Presbyterian denomination - major rift over 'Who Jesus is'

Michigan woman's mummified body found in her car six years after her death

World food prices advance most in 19 months on weather woes

Oil slick hints missing Malaysian jet may have crashed at sea

Big Brother: Milwaukee to give away 2,000 surveillance cameras for citywide NSA spy grid

Shocking message left by 'spoiled' New Jersey teen suing her parents

Florida man accidentally shoots passing 12-year-old and self - while giving gun safety demo

Con-artist at large: Oklahoma's 'Dr. Mike' allowed to continue injecting miraculous 'Jesus shot' for $300 a pop

Australia student ordered to pay $100,000 to music teacher for Twitter defamation

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