Growing Number of Dems Face Reality on Terror Trials - Shuler Still AWOL Despite Public Pressure

PRESS RELEASESubject: WNC GOP Immediate Release: Growing Number of Dems Face Reality on Terror Trials - Shuler Still AWOL Despite Public Pressurehttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/nyregion/28bloomberg.htmlhttp://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/01/28/2010-01-28_chuck_gilly_ok_moving_911_trial.htmlhttp://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/78347-first-house-dem-requests-911-trial-to-be-moved-http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/28/AR2010012802925.htmlIn the past 48 hours, Senators Gillibrand, Schumer, Lincoln...

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Winter Storm Warning for Western North Carolina

Graphic Courtesy GSP Office of the National Weather ServiceThe snow sirens are going full-tilt. I'm cranking mine as well. This storm appears that it will be more widespread than the previous ones this season, so I'd advise that you go to town, get some groceries, batteries and top off your vehicle's fuel tank. If your vehicle is a bicycle...you are screwed in that regard. FEMA has a handy-dandy checklist of things you should be doing to prepare...

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Winter Storm Watch for WNC Mountains Ice Storm possible for Piedmont/Foothills

As the graphic above indicates, we might be in for some winter weather in the next 48 hours or so. Please keep checking for updated information, as this is a fluid situation and the forecast is not yet firmed down.The National Weather Serive is being very coy about putting amounts of forecasted snow on their maps...just a vague 4 to 10 inches. On the pin-point forecasts, all I'm seeing is 1/2 an inch or so. Maybe that will change as the models start...

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Germans being confronted with their legacy of murder by Allied troopsToday is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The real Holocaust Remembrance Day takes place on the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. It marks the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. In Hebrew, Holocaust Remembrance Day is called Yom Hashoah. When the actual date of Yom Hashoah falls on a Friday, the state of Israel observes Yom Hashoah on the preceding Thursday....

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NC General Assembly 01-27-2010 Legislative Calender

Here is the schedule for committees of the North Carolina General Assembly that are meeting today...10:00 AMModernization of NC Banking Laws and the Consumer Finance Act1228/1327 LB10:00 AMSeafood and Aquaculture - Pine Knoll Shores AquariumN/A10:00 AMCANCELLED - Children and Youth CommitteeN/...

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PIZZA!

All four food groups delivers in one tasty packag...

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NC General Assembly 01-25-2010 Legislative Calender

Here are the committees of the North Carolina General Assembly that are meeting today, including the (in my opinion) totally useless Taskforce on Childhood Obesity money grab. Note--The misspelling on the Legislative Calender are not mine. 10:00 AMHouse Select Committee on High Speed Internet in Rural Areas544 LOB1:00 PMTaskforce on Childhood Obestity643 LOB2:00 PMHouse Select Committee on the Use of 911 Funds421 L...

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On The Roof

These guys were working on the roof of the new Sylva Fire Departmen...

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Macon County Board of Commissioners 01/25/2010 Meeting Agenda

The County Commissioners will be meeting at 2pm today in the County Boardroom on the 3rd floor of the Courthouse. I'll be there taking notes and video.MACON COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERSJANUARY 25, 2010AGENDACall to order and welcome by Chairman BealeAnnouncements:Work session at 8:30 a.m. on February 6 at SCC Groves CenterInvocationPledge of AllegiancePublic Hearing - Subdivision OrdinancePublic hearing on proposed amendmentsAdoption of amended...

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A Brief History of a Tornado Warning 01/24/2010

Graphic Courtesy Iowa State University**7.02pm** Yes, I've typed 2009 instead of 2010 in several places. LOL. I'll fix the map later.The area above was placed under a Tornado Warning by the National Weather Service for a brief time this afternoon after radar indicated conditions favored the formation of a tornado in Henderson and Buncombe Counties in western North Carolina. I posted a radar image of the vortex on Twitter via TwitPic.Here is the...

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