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teeth before you brush is recommended. that's going to wrap things up for sgmd. let's stay connected at cnn.com/sanjay. time now to get your check of your top stories in the cnn newsroom. good morning, from cnn world headquarters in atlanta. this is cnn sunday morning. >> folks, this could be bad. >> ten million. more than $3 billion in damage. seven to ten days in the dark. just some of the threats here as we're looking ahead to hurricane sandy. another number for you this morning, nine. as many nine days until the election and campaign plans, they're in disarray. how the super storm could affect the election. >> even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that god
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intended to happen. >> the remarks may be sparking outrage and it may be causing frustration. "new york times" on why rape policies are worse than -- sunday morning to you. thanks for being up and at 'em. i'm sitting in for randi kaye today. it is 8:00 a.m. on the east. haenks for starting your sunday with me. >> want to begin this hour with hurricane sandy and the latest update we have here at cmn. right now, first, some of the pictures. the storm already battering the shores of the carolinas, even though it centered more than 200 miles off the coast right now. we are seeing tropical storm warnings extending from south carolina up towards virginia. people all along the east coast right now over the weekend. rushing to get sand bags and flashlights and water and all kinds of other supplies. want to take you straight to north carolina right now to george howell who is live for us
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this morning at kill devil hills. this is part of the outer banks hoor. an area already getting hi. as evidenced by all the water and rain. good morning to you. we can really start seeing those waves behind you. >> reporter: yeah. you know, where there was -- i am going to show you what's happening out on the atlantic. take a look. there's always the concern out here about this beach erosion, the storm surge could get anywhere up from four to six weeks, so they're looking for it on this side of the outer banks. there's about three or five feet of flooding in that area as the storm continues to push northward. we are on that side of the storm. a lot of the heavy rain still off shore of it coming in. what you see happening on the eastern side of mcincome and parts of south carolina, it's a good sign of what's to come as the storm makes the left foot into those metropolitan areas of
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new york city, philadelphia, and washington d.c. the winds out here right now anywhere from 25 -- i would even say 30 miles per hour gusting. there's vertical rain coming in. sand where there was beach. you have the sand coming in. brook, a lot of people decided to ride this storm out here on the island. we know that part of coastal highway 12 has been shut down just south of us in the inlet. people who are in that area, they will be waiting and watching as this storm passes by us. >> so with regard to that one way in and one way out, as far as damage, have you heard of anything else in and around the outer banks area? >> the only damage that i've heard of so far is that highway 12, the part where there's water over the how, but, again, brook, there are parts of this island that people know are prone to flooding, so those people, many of them, have gotten to higher ground, and the people that decided stay on this island,
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they know what to do. they've been watching the track of the storm just to find out, you know, exactly what it's going to do to this island. again, right now flooding is the big thing that people are worrying about. >> i know you said a moment ago a lot of people still there, you know, business as usual at kill devil hills. a lot of people riding this one out along with george. stay safe. we'll come back to you in a minute here. we appreciate it. want to talk, though, as far as the trajectory of this hurricane and to do that let's go to bonnie schneider. she's live with us this morning here in the weather center, so, bonnie, good morning. with regard to sandy, where is it now? when will it really make landfall? >> this is just in. it's the 8:00 advisory from the national hurricane center. we have a brand new position statement on sandy. right now the storm center is about 395 miles east of morning city and southeast of cape hatteras by 260 miles. the storm is getting closer, and we are expecting according to
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the national hurricane center, life-threatening storm surge from the mid-atlantic coast, including the long island sound and new york harbor. it's fwegt more serious and ominous as the storm approaches. right now a category one hurricane. we're not expecting it to intensify to a category two. we are expecting hurricane force winds at the time of landfall. let's take a look at the track. it's slowed down a bit. landfall possibly early tuesday, but in advance of the storm because it's so wide certainly we'll be feeling those effects of wind and rain already right now as you saw from the report in north carolina, but in areas further north, you'll feel it later tonight and certainly for tomorrow. the storm track going inland. that's why it's supper a dangerous point because it will be impacting so many people. that's what i want to show you now. the power outages by 10 million. you're talking about new york city and philadelphia. those are the possibilities of people that could be impacted. cleveland and pittsburgh all the way to the west as well. tens of millions of people possibly impacted by one storm,
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one unusual hurricane in late october that actually has snow coming in with it. it's really got a multi-facetted effect with strong winds coming in gusts up to 80 miles per hour over a widespread area. many states impacted. it's a storm suj that is not just the heavy rain falling from the sky, but the water coming off shore make it even more dangerous. here's a computer model to show you the interesting, the really fascinating dynamics with this storm. this is a hurricane. look what happens in our models. we have heavy snow. really heavy snow. we're talking about a foot of snow or more in parts of the mountains of virginia and west virginia from this one storm. this will be a widespread long-lasting event. if you haven't paid your cautions and your threats, i would advise you do so today. brook. >> thank you, bonnie. we'll be talking to you throughout the morning on this hurricane. thank you.
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in terms of just sort of geographically how people are preparing, new york, the office of emergency management preparing for the worst. you have buses and subways and commuter trays may -- let me say that again -- may have to suspend all service if the area is hit hard by sand where i. governor of new york cuomo warned the metro transportation authority to prepare immediately. they say a final decision to suspend that service will be made later today. heads up for that. they are warning people now that there is no gaern tee of service after 7:00 tonight. to new jersey. another state absolutely could get hit directly from this hurricane. homes, businesses along the coast in preparation there boarding up. just yesterday governor chris christie. the governor issued a mandatory vakz evacuation for the state's barrier islands, but for the casinos as well. >> this morning i formally declared a state of emergency in anticipation of hurricane sandy, which is expected to be a severe and a potentially devastating
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storm that will hit new jersey beginning sunday night and be in full force by monday. >> that's new jersey. in washington d.c. similar situation. you have store shelves that are quickly clearing out as people who live there, they're heading to the store. they're preparing for the worst. the mayor of washington d.c., vincent gray, he declared a state of emergency just yesterday, and city workers have already started prepping for clean-up. city leaders say they will maintain contact with people in the area throughout the next couple of days on social media sites, facebook, twitter. look for that. in maryland also a state of emergency has been declared. in fact, in annapolis they're moving sand and sand bags in to place just to protect people who live there, people who work there. city officials hope that these initial precautions will help block any floodwaters from expected storm surge. and the trucks. these utility trucks, you see
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them rolling out here. this is chicago. what does chicago have to do with this? they're helping out. 240 of these trucks headed to the east coast just to help out with the arrival of hurricane sandy. com-ed says the trucks and crews will stay as long as they need to to help with expected power outages caused by this storm. and sandy isn't just a dangerous storm. it could have an impact on the election that is just nine days away. president obama, he has had to cancel some of his campaign events both foam and tuesday, including his final trips to virginia, colorado, both crucial swing states. instead we're told the president will be spineding more time in the white house monitoring this storm. as for his challenger, similar situation with mitt romney. he is having to make some changes as well because of this hurricane. he has canceled all of his campaign events in virginia, and will now join husband running mate join paul ryan on a bus tour through the mother of all swing states, mother of all battle grounds in ohio, the
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republican mom knee that will also be campaigning in iowa, wisconsin, and new hampshire through tuesday. speaking of iowa, mitt romney is getting a boost from that state. did you check the des moines register just last night. this is just in here. they have now officially endorsed the republican candidate. a strong record of achievement in both the private and public sectors and ran a successful business that turned around failing companies. keep many mind, they endorsed barack obama four years ago and also the morning times, they're going with president obama here. the newspaper published an op ed just this morning. as much of an endorsement as the president -- as a rebuke of republicans really. "the times" writes that mr. obama has impressive achievements despite the implaquable wall of refusal provided by congressional republicans so intent on stopping him they risked pushing the nation into depression, held its credit rating hostage, and hobbled economic recovery."
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more on politics in just a bit. to hawaii now where the islands are under the tsunami advisory. these warnings, they have now been downgraded after the first few tsunami waves hit the coast. look at all the people, though. back to back to back heading inland here, trying to get away from the coastal regions, the low-lying areas in anticipation of potential flooding from the waves, but i can tell you that the waves in hawaii were much smaller than feared. why are we talking about a tsunami here? it's because of this hurricane. a magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit the western canadian coast of the queen charlotte islands late saturday nitrogen rating these initial tsunami warnings. this map shows the energy burst here from the quake. we're told there have been at least 23 aftershocks. coming up, we will hear why some college students in a crucial battleground state are supporting one candidate over another, and you seriously might be surprised by some of what you
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are about to hear. plus, the morning times columnist nick krzysztof weighs in on a senate candidate's ensensitive rape comment, but his outrage is aimed at the candidate. you'll hear ahead. ♪ with a low national plan premium... ♪ ...and copays as low as one dollar... ♪ ...saving on your medicare prescriptions is easy. ♪ so you're free to focus on the things that really matter. call humana at 1-800-808-4003. or go to walmart.com for details.
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we are now nine days out before election day, and i wanted to share some important numbers here on the presidential race just into us here this morning. we're going to begin in virginia. we've been watching this swing state so so closely. this new washington post poll shows president obama with a four-point advantage over his challenger, mitt romney. this is a change over the one-point lead romney enjoyed there in a similar poll last week. what we want to hear driktly from you in the voters in the state of virginia, so we sent cnn political contributor john avalon packing, and he hit the road on board the express to ask college students not just who they're voting for, but why.
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>> coming from home where i was raised by a single dad, i mean, he in the last three years that i have gone to college has apologized to me over and over again just for what a mess the economy has become, and he takes it very personally, and he says i'm sorry that you have such a mess to clean up. >> my opinion is the older folks beyond us they didn't do their job. they didn't manage the economy. they didn't manage things. they just spent, spent, spent. they didn't plan for us, and now we have to clean up the mess that they made, and i really believe that in the next ten, 15 years there's going to be a bunch of younger folks running for office to clean up the mess that was made. >> i think that you also see the older generation -- i think they all want reagan back, right? everyone invokes reagan as the idealistic. one way or the other, we -- i had never lived under reagan's presidency, so i can't speak to that, but our generation sees other social issues that we want addressed or gay marriage and gay rights or --
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>> you're in favor of -- are you? >> i am. >> you're a republican? >> yeah. >> which is a very interesting to try and reckoncile and plain to my gay friends. >> i think a lot of us are free thinking in that way, but it's kind of gotten to the poind point where it's triage. okay, economy is most important to me. in 2008 i supported the president. i even, you know, worked for grassroots organizations, and i was all about him, and in this election it's kind of just been like a bad break-up between me and the president. >> i think that for me it comes down a lot to what we're looking for in a president for the next four years. basically somebody who we think can accomplish something. really get some things done, and i think that mitt romney at the beginning was really trying to get across that message that that's what he was going to do. he was going to be the one that came in. he is going to accomplish more than barack obama will, but his problem was is what he was attempting to accomplish. he didn't really sit well with a lot of voters. he was more on the far right,
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and a lot of us didn't really feel comfortable with that. his recent shift to the center, i think, has healed some of those wuntsdz, but it's also a little more bittersweet because, you know, there were certain times well i thought if romney would just shift to the center, i would be behind him, but it's pretty tough to back track on some of the things that he said, so i think for that reason, you know, there are certain things that i wish barack obama would do better, but there are certain things that i hope mitt romney doesn't do. >> mitt romney had to say what he had to say to get elected, but he also had to say to keep rick santorum from being the bigger mom knee. i think we should look at mitt romney's record. >> i'm from massachusetts, and when he was governor, he did a lot of great things for our state, so i think that's -- >> like individual mandated health care. >> like health care. a lot of people get righted up about the whole discussion, and i don't think that romney is not for health care and for everybody having health care, which people have said. i think he just tliz that individual states should get to
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decide, and i have no problem with that. >> if he becomes president of the united states of america, then he is going to be dealing with the republicans in the house, and do we really think that he is going to go against them? is he going to push against them and so i think that for some of us who are centrists and more moderate, more worried if he becomes a president, it's just going to be unleashing the beast on a lot of the things during the primaries that came out that make a lot of us very nervous and a shift in the direction of the country that we don't want. i would like to believe that he would do what he did as governor, but we don't have asurety. >> those are all students at wash wash and lee university in lexington, virginia, which is where we find our political contributor john avalon. joining me this morning. can i just say that, you know, look, whether you agree with some of the students or not, it is so refreshing hearing such just engaged bright minds just speaking their opinions. what was your biggest take-away? >> first of all, just that. i mean, look, these kids are incredibly engaged with the
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issues. a lot of political consultants are critical. they say policy doesn't matter. it's all about the slogan, and these students clearly push back on that. they've studied the plans. they understand the shifts in policy and the implications. a couple of big take-aways. first of all, all these students economy issue number one, but the deficit and the debt. you hearted that. they do feel that it's a form of generational theft, but they have some real questions. this is a center right campus, and there were some obama supporters, but overall i think the edge was to romney, about the there's real questions both about the authenticity of his recentering in the general election after campaigning as a severe conservative. you heard that. also, real questions about the role that social issues and the religious right play in the republican party. some of them were very fiscally conservative is saying this doesn't fit me or my generation. it's a fascinating wide-ranging issue of students very engaged in that pivotal battleground state of virginia. >> where have you been? you've been in florida, north carolina. you're in virginia with ali velshi, and is that sort of the theme in talking to some of
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these voters, john, that, you know, really it's the economy that is clearly the biggest concern, the biggest issue as they're heading to the polls? >> absolutely. the economy is the biggest issue. you do hear a lot of conversation about deficit and debt, but there is the question about who would be a better steward. there's a sense the economy is improving. people acknowledge that. the big question mark is has it been fast enough, and if mitt romney is elected, what does that mean with a republican congress versus re-electing president obama? so these people undecided voters are informed. they are thoughtful, and even the swing voters who are leaning one way or the other, they understand the complexities of the election. they don't want to be talked down to. they want to be offered specifics and solutions. >> well, safe travels to you and ali velshi. thanks for getting up early. >> thanks, brook. any time. coming up here we're going to talk about kwefshl comments on rape. another senate candidate puts his foot in it here, but nicolas krzysztof says let's not focus on that statement. wait until you hear where he is
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25 minutes past the hour here on a sunday. you know, it was the last thing the republicans needed so close to the november election. >> even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that god intended to happen. >> those comments about rape by indiana's republican senate candidate for senate richard murdock has since apologized for ochbtded minimum, but mad to democrats, the incident caught the attention of the "new york times" columnist nick krzysztof. he released an op ed aimed at outrage over political policy versus the politician, and cnn producer nadia spoke to
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krzysztof about that rape comment. >> i thought that god should have sued mr. murdock for defamiliaration, and i was happy to see democrats jump all over his insensitive remarks by him, earlier by todd akin, but i also think that, you know, if we're going to get upset about insensitive comments about rape, and we should, then we should be even more upset about incredibly insensitive policies on rape, and on things like that, neither democrats nor republicans have been particularly active, and maybe the best example of that is the huge untested backlog of rape kits around the country that are just sitting on evidence shelves and nobody is even looking at them. >> i found that completely shocking in your column. you said there's this backlog of rape kits. how did you find out about that? what are the ramifications of that? >> well, this is something that, you know, it doesn't really get much attention because it's not something that republicans and
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democrats are yelling at each other about. people agree this is a traversy, and it doesn't get attention, and nothing really much gets done. i came across this a couple of years ago and, you know, and talked to a woman who had been raped. she had gone to the hospital. the kid had been assembled, and he assumed it was tested, and it wasn't, and that seems to happen routinely. in illinois, human rights watch found two years ago that 80% of rape kits were going untested at that time. nationally there seem to be hundreds of thousands of these rape kits that are just sitting around untested, and it seems to me that the problem -- that the broader problem is the same as the kind that leads to these insensitive remarks by richard murdock. in many cases people just don't take rape seriously. >> and your column today really focuses on the broader issues of rape policy and how it's dealt with in this country. so what about the other things that you found so disturbing?
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>> well, you know, there are a few. in 31 states, for example, it seems that a rapist where a rape leads to baby that the rapist can get visitation rights. conceivably even custody in some cases to a child born of that rape. in massachusetts a convicted rapist is trying to get access to the child born of that rape, and, again, this just seems unfathomable and if we're going to get upset about candidates making stupid remarks, we should get even more outraged by stupid policies. >> nick krzysztof, as always, a fas mating column, and thank you. >> thank you so much. >> coming up here we want to talk about hawaii and the tsunami and this earthquake in canada that tregerred this whole thing over the last couple of hours. the first few waves they have come and gone. here's the coast of hawaii. local officials warn that the danger has not totally passed.
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at meineke i have options... like oil changes starting at $19.95. my money. my choice. my meineke. good morning to you, and welcome back here to this cnn sunday morning. i'm brook baldwin sitting in for randi kaye half past the hour now. here are stories we are watching for you right now, including hawaii. the coast of hawaii remains under a tsunami advisory where the waves are expected to flood, some of the low coastal areas. the waves were generated because of this magnitude 7.7 earthquake. that's where the queen charlotte islands late saturday night that then triggered those evacuation orders into coastal areas.
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those have now been lifted, but we're watching hawaii still this morning. also, we're watching this wrish millions of people all the way from the mid-atlantic northward through the northeast bracing for hurricane sandy. they are stocking up with the essentials, the sand bags, batteries. of course, water in north carolina. sandy battered the coast with strong winds and raging surf saturday. the potential super storm as it's been called could drop as much as a foot of rain, heavy snow, and devastating winds on many of the areas with a lot of people here up and down the east coast. now, the impact of sandy is already being felt on the campaign trail. president obama has canceled trips to crucial swing states like virginia. he is headed back to the white house to monitor the storm, and mitt romney as well deciding to cancel some of his campaign events in virginia this week. he instead will be joining his running mate paul ryan on a bus tour of ohio.
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romney will also campaign in iowa, wisconsin, and new hampshire in the next, couple of days. now so sandy and the trajectory here of this super storm. let's talk to bonnie schneider. good morning once again. when is sandy expected to make landfall? >> sometime late monday, early tuesday, but brook, it's important to note this is a large storm. the impacts will be felt before the actual land fall occurs. the latest 8:00 advisory shows the position is now 395 miles east of new york city. it's the first time we're seeing that mentioned in a position statement. so much to talk about. so little time. here's a look at the movement you can see to the northeast at 10 miles per hour. a category one hurricane. we're expecting it to come in as a hurricane. last year during irene there was a lot of talk that it came in as a strong tropical storm, but this will be a strong storm and a large one, and they will impact us many many different ways. one of the ways we'll be impacted, and it was noted on the last hurricane advisory was it was storm surge. that's not just the rain falling from the sky. we're going to get a lot of
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rain, and we'll see the piling up of the water in dangerous areas, possibly long island sound or even new york harbor. what happens when the hurricane winds -- once it starts getting into that shallow coastal area, it has nowhere else to go, brook, but up and out and inland. storm surge can travel many, many miles. we've seen that before with past hurricanes. this is a big concern for this system particularly, amongst many others like power outages. >> okay. sort of like the perfect storm all these conditions coming together. we'll look for it monday night into tuesday. bonnie, thank you. big heads up on some supreme court cases we're going to be watching for this week. it could stop you from getting rid of types of things like many your junk drawer or gauge. wait until you hear the list and why. i'm so glad you called. thank you.
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are you thinking about selling your old iphone or perhaps donating clothes to charity, maybe having a yard sale, hang on a second. play close attention here to this important court case at the u.s. supreme court. it might give you second thoughts. here is the crime and justice correspondent joe johns. joe, good morning. >> brook, this started with a student from thailand who was studying in the united states. to pay for his kegs his family and friends sent his cheap versions of tax books printed overseas which he sold to people in the united states at big discounts. the publisher sued. now some say the outcome of this case could have a big impact on the economy. >> reporter: it's a case that could cause trouble for anyone who ever thought about selling an old iphone or ipad. donating clothes to charity or even unloading junk at a yard sale. the issue about to be argued
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before the supreme court is whether the original copyright holder on u.s. products manufactured or purchased in other countries can control your ability to resell the product once you buy it. davis resells old products at this ebay consignment store. >> how much of that stuff is foreign manufacturers? >> i probably say 85%, 95%. >> he fears the case could put him out of business. >> i think it's ridiculous. i have known about it because it could affect my business so horribly, but i could kind of pushed it back because i'm, like, how could this possibly happen? the reprecussions are rid ebbing husband. >> libraries are worried. andrew shore represents a coalition of interests, including libraries. >> the rule we would like to see is very simple. you bought it, you own it, and you can do with it as you please. >> otherwise, shore says copyright owners could demand a fee every time you try to resell
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almost anything not made in america. >> anything i'm wearing, would that apply? >> it's got a copyright. >> dvd's. >> yeah. >> what else? i phones? >> i phones. >> computers? >> yeah. >> televisions? >> yep. >> cars? >> yep. >> jewelry? >> everything with copyright. >> the copyright holders and their lawyers say the rhetoric has gotten a little overheated. >> you know that you're on the right side of a case when the other side -- the best answer that they can come up with is that the sky is it going to fall. garage sales, museums and that sort of thing. none of that is going to happen. >> powerhouse attorney ted olson says this is mostly about books and movies and other so-called intellectual property and making sure producers of such works have exclusive rights to distribute them in the u.s. >> it's protecting the integrity of the copyright system in the united states, which was created by the constitution in order to create an innocentive for people to create work that make us all
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laugh or cry or educate us? >> toe truth to tell mike carol says it's the kind of case a supreme court might prefer politicians to resolve because the law is so murky. >> it would be best if congress really weighed many. the court is faced with a really difficult job here because the text of the statute really seems to be hard to reconcile. >> if any of this sounds familiar for you, it may be because the court recently tackled a similar case, but the opinion ended up a tie vote with justice kagin recusing herself due to the role she played mr. it when she was solicitor general. this time, though, she is expected to participate. brook. >> joe, thank you. joe johns for us in washington. coming up here, candy crowley, host of cnn's "state of the union." we'll talk to ler about hurricane sandy and how it's affecting the presidential race ask how that may play out. also, about some recent key newspaper endorsements and whether they really even matter. that's next. e. [ male announcer ] dayquil doesn't treat that. huh?
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let me say it again to all of us here. nine days until the presidential election and this hurricane. hurricane sandy already affecting events this upcoming week on the trail. let me go to washington. candy crowley is standing by. she's the host of cnn's "state of the union." good morning to you. let's just first begin with the fact that we know that mitt romney and president obama, they're both having to cancel events in virginia specifically because of the storm. the president staying back in the white house, monitoring this hurricane. in terms of optics in voting, how do you see the storm playing out? >> well, the optics are interesting simply because the president was supposed to go to colorado, and he is cancelling that trip. the state not affected by the storm to sort of stay and monitor the east coast. in other words, you don't want to be the president to be seen out campaigning if something horrific happens along the east coast. we know that. virginia is a huge battleground
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state, and all of them -- not just the president -- presidential candidates, but wives and surrogates had all planned journeys into virginia to kind of go and stoke up their bases because it's so close, but you soak a lot of resource that is virginia may not have, looking at the size of this storm, so, many of the, we're having governor mcdonald, the virginia governor on today, so we'll talk to him about that. it does take away some of the time that they wanted to spend in virginia because it is so critical to both of them. >> what about also, candy, we talk about this critical state of iowa, and i saw the des moines register newspaper, they hadn't endorsed a president -- a republican presidential candidate since nixon and now they're officially endorsing romney. what do you make of that, and are newspaper endorsements -- do they really matter? >> i don't know that endorsements in general matter in terms of people's votes. i mean, there may be some people that read "the des moines
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register" this morning and are going to, you know, change their minds or an undecided that says, ah, yes, that's exactly the way i was trying to frame it in my head. i'm not going to rule out that some people maybe change their minds by either the endorsement of a person or the endorsement of a newspaper, but i think by and large, they don't, but here's what they do do. they sort of get -- gather attention for the candidate, and the fact that "the des moines register" hasn't endorsed a republican since nixon is huge. for the "new york times" tone doors president obama for the washington post to endorse president obama, that's kind of like, yeah, okay. i think particularly in a state in iowa in des moines being in iowa, this can be huge simply because it brings added attention to mitt romney in a time when they really would like to put that one in their basket. >> you mentioned coming up, the governor of virginia. who else is on the show? >> we'll also have the former
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governor of ohio, because we want to talk to b two swing states and the campaigns in general with david axlerod. a top advisor to the president as well as the head of the republican party. >> thank you. have a wonderful show. we will be tuning in, as always. "state of the union" starts just about 12 minutes, 11 minutes here if you are watching the clock like i am. 9:00 a.m. eastern, 6:00 a.m. pacific right here on cnn. are you sick and tired of publicity hounds always seeking the spotlight? comedian dean obadala has had enough and has now a theory of how to get rid of them and we'll take you live to north carolina where hurricane sandy already really hitting the coast. don't go anywhere. hmm, it says here that cheerios helps lower cholesterol
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if barack obama opens up and gives his college records and applications and if he gives his passport applications and records i will give to a charity of his choice -- american cancer society, inner city of chicago, aids research, anything he wants, a check, immediately for $5 million. >> the donald and his self-proclaimed bombshell announcement to the president, which was, let's just say, met by a good amount of criticism and even laughed off by the president himself, but my next guest says i has had enough of these stuptsz. this is xheed wran dean -- comedian dean. to quote you, the millionaire with the grow tefkly inflated ego and the equally grow tefk
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hairstyle that looks leak a pomeranian has been stapled to his scalp. who on earth are you talking about? >> the donald. i wouldn't even look at him when he was on. i swear i had my eyes closed. i will not give him the attention he is craving from us. that's my whole point of the article that i wrote, which is entitled "ignore the media whores." or ignore the publicity whores. to me they have to be stopped, and there's a way we can do it. >> so how do we do it, and who else is on your list? let's start there. >> well, the usual suspects. i call the legion of doom of the publicity outlets out there. you have trump, of course. rush limbaugh. big mahr swefshz to constructive to this crazy word. sarah palin, ann coulter. they're the main ones to me. they're the a-team of this group. they're the ones that they say
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things not to affectuate change for positive good, but to sell books and raise thr speaking fee. they don't care about us. they care about themselves only, but they couch it in these terms of you are trying to help you. we know you're not. let's support that. can we? >> the fact that you are writing about them, is that not sort of counter intuitive? that's like giving oxygen? you're pointing us to read this cnn op ed. what do you say to that sna. >> i didn't mention any of their names in my article. that's why i describe them. i think i'm subtle. >> very subtle. >> sneaky in that way. we know who they are. i can't make them disappear, but my point is to ignore them because the media is a business. the news is a business. just like entertainment is a business. if someone is not getting ratings and stories about them are not being clicked on, guess what, people stop writing about them. you reflect -- i say you, brook. i don't mean you. i mean the media. >> you mean you. >> right. >> for example, ann coulter is
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on piers morgan earlier this week. if that gets poor ratings, we -- >> we can impact what's on our television sets by turning the channel and not watching them. we can do this. >> we can? >> i think we can. this is my hope and change speech. let's make america better. >> go to cnn.com. have a wonderful sunday. >> not only speaking of this hurricane now, not only is hurricane sandy expected to cause widespread wind damage and dump a lot of rain, about a foot of rain in the northeast, it could also cause massive snowstorms when it merjz with this cold front. >> we are seeing tropical storm
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warning extending from supreme court being to virginia and we have george howell smack dab in north carolina on the coast there at kill devil hills. it's the outer banks. i know you have been hit with rain. bring me up to speed. what are you seeing this morning? >> brook, you know, the strong wind, the sideways rain. you can see the rain that comes in. right now we are right within that band. that brand that stretches from wilmington, north carolina, all the way up to norfolk, virginia. what you see happening right now along the outer banks, a good indication of what is to come. the storm system hooks around us and goes into those metro areas into washington d.c., new york, philadelphia where we understand that they will see those hurricane force winds. real quick, want to show you what's happening out out here on the atlantic. take a look at the very choppy surf out there where there was a beach, brook. the beach is gone. we're expecting a storm surge -- yeah. storm surge yaej anywhere from
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four to six feet on this side of the outer banks, and then on the sound side of the outer banks anywhere from three to five feet of flooding is expected as this storm churnz northward on. we're on the northwestern side of it getting a lot of rain and strong winds, brook. >> george howell, thank you. we're going to come back to you, i'm sure. they will throughout the rest of the day as our coverage continues on hurricane sandy. george, thanks. to bonnie schneider here. bonnie, let's just take a little more about what we were seeing with george. the waves were already whipping on the outer banks, and as far as landfall goes, you were saying that's really not until, what, monday into tuesday? >> monday into tuesday. remember, this is an unusual hurricane, brook. it's a large one. we're going to feel those hurricane force winds in advance of the storm, and the national hurricane center says when it makes landfall it will likely come in as a hurricane, which is interesting. that just came out in the latest position statement. let's take a look at the track. still off to see. then the sharp turn comes in. possibly a landfall somewhere south of new york city, north of virginia.
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it's difficult to pinpoint, and we'll get closer as we get closer to that time. notice that the threat of storm surge continues inland. the threat of heavy rain and strong wind will impact millions of people, so this is not just a few people. when you look at the population of new york and philadelphia just, for example, over ten million, and then head out to cleveland and pittsburgh, we're still looking at strong winds as far west as those regions. potentially this could be a massive disaster when it comes to power outages with very strong winds. those wind advisories are in place and not only that, we have storm surge and heavy rain and you saw from george's report, he was kind of dodging the rain because it was coming in sideways. expect a lot more of that as sandy comes on shore. brook. >> here we are at the end of october. when is hurricane season officially over? >> well, it's not over until never, but i can tell you it's unusual to see something like this in october make -- something like this making landfall. even the model is incredible. >> bonnie, thank you. of course, all day long please stay with c.
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Rhubarb Cake
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Prep 40 mins
Cook 20 mins
I love Rhubarb Cake. Caramel and orange juice make this one special. During rhubarb season we make this cake frequently.Cooking time does not include chilling time. You can bake the bottom and cook the rhubarb the night before. Make glaze and fill cake in the morning.- NOTE: it is advantageous to have a special form for the bottom, but if you us a simple round form, use a metal ring around the baked cake when you fill it. Remove carefully when filling has set.
Ingredients Nutrition
cake bottom
- 6 tablespoons butter, softened
- 6 tablespoons sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup flour
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 pinch salt
- 3 -4 tablespoons milk
- 1⁄2 lemon, rind of
- 1 3⁄4 lbs rhubarb
- 1⁄2 cup orange juice
- 6 -8 tablespoons sugar (divided)
- 1 (1/3 ounce) package red glaze mix (I use Dr. Oetker brand, see note)
- prepared vanilla pudding (optional)
- sweetened whipped cream (optional)
- Prepare cake bottom according to recipe #119337 for German Fruit Cake Bottom, but use lemon rind instead of vanilla. You can make the cake bottom in advance.
- Let cake bottom cool completely. Meanwhile prepare rhubarb filling.
- Wash rhubarb, peel and cut into rather even 1/4 in pieces.
- Preheat pot on medium heat and add 3 tablespoons sugar. Caramelize sugar over medium high heat until light brown. Add orange juice and stir until the caramelized sugar is dissolved. Be careful, sugar will be very hot!
- Add rhubarb. Cook for about 5-8 minutes stirring constantly, until rhubarb is still firm to the bite. Add additional sugar to taste. Stir until dissolved.
- Drain rhubarb through a sieve and reserve liquid. Let rhubarb get cold.
- Measure liquid to make 1 cup. If necessary add water to make 1 cup. Prepare the glaze with the liquid according to package directions. Mix in rhubarb immediately and fill directly on cake bottom. Let set.
- Either top completely with a fluffy vanilla pudding and let it set, or simply top with freshly whipped sweetened cream.
- NOTE on Vanilla Pudding: use your favorite brand. We usually prepare 1 whole package and use about half on the cake. We easily find other uses for the rest.
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I had most of the ingredients on hand, included the special mold that I woundn't give up!
The cake was perfect and the dough perfect. This was a great change to the usual Rhabarber Wehe or the Crumble,
It looks also perfect and very attractive. For the jelly I used not the Dr. Otker brand and the custard was homemade.
Thanks a lot for this recipe.
The German Fruit Cake Bottom, German Fruit Cake Bottom turned out absolutely perfect. I designed and made my own baking pan, using a 9" fluted pan with a removeable bottom and then placed an 8" aluminum pie dish in the center, upside down, and filled with dry peas to keep the aluminum from collapsing. This gave me a deep center for the rhubarb. The red glaze (Dr. Oetker brand) was just great in the rhubarb sauce. The Rhubarb cake when completed, looked so professional, I did not want to serve it. However, it was devoured when topped with whipped cream, WOW! I would like to suggest that the German Fruit Cake Bottom recipe be added to the Rhubarb Cake recipe. It would save some time and you do not have to go through 2 recipes. Next cake will be a combination of Rhubarb and the beautiful fresh Strawberries that we have now. And will also make a great Strawberry Filling. Both of these recipes are just great. Thank you. "Uncle Bill"
This cake was exceptionally delicious! I used a different brand of glaze, and it worked out fine, but I think Dr. Oetker's is much prettier. We loved the mild citrus flavour of the cake itself, and when topped with the rhubarb, it was heavenly. I topped this cake with whipped cream and we devoured it, it should have a warning: BEWARE, once you start eating this you will not want to stop!!! Thanks so much for a delicious, well written and easy to follow recipe.


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I have a DV6 6011TX notebook PC with:
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It came with Win7 x64 HP, and I have it updated to SP1 + all the latest patches/udpates.
I am getting the following error when I turn on my notebook or reboot it (and it happens randomly):
An error occurred while reading boot configuration data.
This started happening since last 3/4 weeks, and only thing which I did during that period was to upgrade BIOS to F.1A version from F.13.
I have tried to roll back bios to previous version i.e. F.13 from F.1A, but it gives error 'Image Verification Failed' and stops.
Kindly guide me:
1) What is the appropriate fix for this
2) How can I manually roll back the Bios (if it is an BIOS issue, which I suspect it is)
Thank you, in case I have missed out on anything please let me know.
Re: Error 0xc0000225 on Boot
If you don't already have one, use another PC to create a Windows 7 Recovery CD. Download the ISO from the link below.
You should use an application such as ImgBurn to burn the ISO to a CD. Once created, or if you already have this, insert the CD and restart to boot from it. Select the Repair option.
Select the 'Repair your Computer' option and follow Option 2 in the guide on the link below to run Start-up Repair – you may need to run this 2 or 3 times.
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Re: Error 0xc0000225 on Boot
Thanks for your reply.
I have tried the approach you suggested, and selected Startup Repair option. It runs the test/repair routine, then when it was finished, the log simply would say 'Test X compled, Error = 0x0'. This message repeat itself for all the listed tests. I guess I should try it when the error occurs, and see whether this approach works. Although, IMO the error is not simply about the booting related OS files, it seems to be something to do with partition tables itself.
Re: Error 0xc0000225 on Boot
Shutdown the notebook. Tap away at f10 as you start the notebook to enter the bios menu. Under the Advanced or Diagnostic tab you should find the facility to run tests on both the Hard Drive and Memory. Post back with the details of any error messages.
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Hello, Sorry for delayed response. No errors found on HDD or Memory. By the way somehow, TestDisk is now seeing all the partitions along with Disk Management tool of windows. But any other 3rd partition manager doesn't see them.
Thanks for your help so far.
Re: Error 0xc0000225 on Boot
Hello. I have tried to boot the computer from the Repair disck, I changed the primary boot device also, but i can't startup from the disk. It also don't show me the message: "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD." Can you help me please?
Re: Error 0xc0000225 on Boot
i have a new laptop hp spectre i think its is. i am a student and am not sure in how to fix my issue, i tried to put a game on the system that was quite large i think ( again im not sure ) but when i did it said it had to restart so i clicked ok but then when i tried to turn it on saying windows start up failed and i dont know what to do it, it came up with that same error 0xc0000225 and it doesnt have a disc input so what do i do please help.
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In case anyone with private insurance is wondering how 25% of their health is provided by the public health system, it mostly means the immunizations you got as a kid. Immunizations, disease free water supply and decreased child mortality account for the vast majority of longevity increases seen over the last century.
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The most important word read in this article is collaborative. Individuals have
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Responsibility lies with both the providers and the recipients.
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Confused about the comment about the importance of mental health treatment but there's no other reporting on the topic. There seems to be a disconnect here by the reporter or editor either has edited out an important discussion topic here or has an unfortunate bias and didn't follow-up this line of thinking which was the basis of this article about innovation in medical care.
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Republicans have had decades to show us something better...
They did nothing about it, until forced to.
OK, Let's see it.
Please prove Obama wrong --
I double-dog dare you.
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LDS lib,
dems have had decades to show us something better....
they have not. They gave us something worse than doing nothing.
and I guess the Obamacare crowd and other BO apologists ignore the graphic showing access to health care is only carries a 5% weight in determining a person's health.
And Obamacare does not encourage competition.
The BO misadministration will not allow Utah, or any other state for that matter, to vary one iota from their one-size-fits-all Obamacare, afetr all, BO knows best!
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In a PR stunt, Gov. Dayton announced that he's appealing the ruling shooting down the Next Generation Energy Act, aka the NGEA. It's a PR stunt because Gov. Dayton said "it's a matter of protecting air quality." The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals disagrees, saying that "Minnesota would need Congressional approval to enforce that section of the 2007 law."
Gov. Dayton is standing on shaky constitutional ground. He's argued that the NGEA "doesn't illegally restrict new coal-powered plants but merely requires that they be offset by reductions at existing plants." That's irrelevant. The Interstate Commerce Clause, found in Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the US Constitution states "The Congress shall have Power To … To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes."
Think of the insanity if this wasn't the case. If the ICC didn't exist, North Dakota could pass a law that requires all electricity sold into North Dakota had to be from nuclear power plants. Without the ICC, Minnesota would face a choice of not selling electricity into North Dakota or to generate that electricity at nuclear power plants.
Such laws would demolish state sovereignty. That's intolerable.
A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's decision last week that barred Minnesota from enforcing key sections of the Next Generation Energy Act. The court sided with North Dakota utilities and other interests that argued [the NGEA] illegally regulates out-of-state utilities.
As usual, Rep. Pat Garofalo nails it with this statement:
This is an election year stunt aimed at improving turnout with environmental activists. It's Gov. Dayton's signal that he's with them. Sadly, Gov. Dayton didn't swear an oath to be with them. The oath he took said that he'd uphold the Minnesota Constitution and the US Constitution. As usual, he's got his priorities all mixed up.
When unions signed onto liberalism's entire agenda, they signed onto some things that are hurting them now. That's what this article is about. Unions have been among the most trustworthy parts of the DFL's coalition. Their reward is getting frequently shafted.
The DFL has steadfastly defended the refugee resettlement program despite the national security risks it presents. The State Department's refugee resettlement program doesn't just give terrorists a free pass to move into the United States. It also hurts workers.
Last week, the St. Cloud City Council voted to rezone a former convent so it could be turned into an apartment unit that will house "seasonal workers from Ukraine, the Philippines and Mexico" who will work for GNP, formerly known as Gold'n Plump.
Now that it's their ox that's getting gored, the AFL-CIO is expressing its disgust with the program. Implicit in their complaint is their disgust with the DFL:
Jane Conrad, a union organizer with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, said GNP's program will have a ripple effect in St. Cloud.
"It's kind of opening a Pandora's box that we really shouldn't be going down," she said. "When you have guest workers coming in from out of the area, they're not staying here, they're not invested in the community, the way those that live here are. And when we have the poverty rate that we have currently right now, we need everything we can get in this community."
Ms. Conrad can thank the DFL for those refugees taking the place of her union workers. Then again, it's fair to say that the AFL-CIO can blame themselves for empowering the DFL locally and the Democratic Party nationally.
The AFL-CIO and other major unions have gotten shafted by other Democratic Party agenda items. Think Keystone XL transcontinental pipeline and the Sandpiper Pipeline from the Bakken to Superior, WI. The unions got shafted on those good-paying jobs because today's Democratic Party will always side with the environmentalists over the unions. Think, too, of the ACA demolishing the unions' Cadillac health insurance plans, too.
Technorati: AFL-CIO, Refugee Resettlement Program, Keystone XL Pipeline, Sandpiper Pipeline, Affordable Care Act, Environmental Activists, Enbridge, DFL, Democratic Party
It's telling that 27% of Democrats think that 'deniers' should be prosecuted. It's frightening, though, that New York State has taken it a step further by investigating Exxon Mobil for refusing to play ball with the popular scientific theory.
According to the NY Times, the "New York attorney general has begun an investigation of Exxon Mobil to determine whether the company lied to the public about the risks of climate change or to investors about how such risks might hurt the oil business. According to people with knowledge of the investigation, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman issued a subpoena Wednesday evening to Exxon Mobil, demanding extensive financial records, emails and other documents."
This is a serious investigation only in the sense that state attorneys general have subpoena power and the resources to make life miserable for the companies they 'investigate'. Otherwise, this isn't a serious investigation. The accurate terminology for what the NY State Attorney General is doing is 'leading a fishing expedition'. Another term that might be used is that Gen. Schneiderman's hunting for someone's scalp, a trophy to brag about during his re-election campaign.
I seriously doubt that Schneiderman can prove anything about the science. If he can't prove that climate change exists to a judge, then he should lose the entire case because, according to the NY Times, the investigation intends to prove how much climate change "might hurt the oil business."
The fact that people think the government should prosecute 'climate change deniers' should be sufficient motivation to vote out Democrats in 2016 and beyond. These people are nuts and vindictive.
Frank Hornstein represents a Twin Cities district. That's why it isn't surprising that he opposes the Sandpiper Pipeline project in northern Minnesota. What's odd is his reason for opposing it:
Rep. Frank Hornstein, DFL-Minneapolis, said many frame pipelines as a safer alternative to oil-carrying trains but that it shouldn't be a choice between the two.
"Pipelines leak and explode and so do trains. The choice is: Are we going to continue our dependence on oil or get serious about conserving?" said Hornstein, who called the debate a symptom of "America's gluttonous appetite for oil. The science is in, the data is screaming at us. And what goes on inside here," he said pointing to the Capitol, "is unfortunately not helping."
Bulletin for Hornstein: The vote is in. People love their oil-loving ways. They don't care that we're using lots of oil.
Americans processed all of the data that's "screaming at us." The perspective that Rep. Hornstein prefers lost. Actually, it got its butt kicked. It isn't surprising, though, that Rep. Hornstein isn't paying attention to what the American people want. He' a hardline progressive who knows what's best for Americans. Because knows what's best for Americans, his policies should be implemented ASAP.
That sounds like a certain pen-wielding president who hates Congress and the courts, doesn't it?
With all due respect to Rep. Hornstein, the American people don't care that he thinks he knows what's best for them. Though he'll probably continue getting re-elected for as long as he wants, Minnesotans will reject his attitude.
Protesters carried makeshift signs and banners and chanted, "We don't want your tar sands oil, we won't let you kill our soil," and "Pipelines spill, tar sands kill."
I'd love to see the autopsy report that states that tar sands were the cause of death. These environmental activists are from the outer fringes of the outer fringe of the DFL.
Technorati: Frank Hornstein, Protests, Environmental Activists, Sandpiper Pipeline, Fossil Fuels, Totalitarian Left, President Obama, Democrats
When the PUC approved the certificate of need for the Sandpiper Pipeline project, it was predictable that the DFL's army of environmental activists would start complaining. MN350 quickly criticized the decision:
"It seems Enbridge has a new office in Minnesota today, staffed by the members of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission," said Andy Pearson of environmental rights group MN350. "The record clearly shows that the Sandpiper pipeline poses unacceptable risks to water, climate, and treaty rights. A better commission would have stood up against Enbridge to protect Minnesotans, but that is not the commission which met on Friday. This decision is an embarrassment to Minnesota and a disservice to its citizens."
Here's a series of questions for Mr. Pearson and the other extremists in the environmental movement:
- What is an acceptable risk to water and climate?
- Is there an acceptable risk?
- Are all risks unacceptable?
- If all risks are unacceptable, explain why they're unacceptable.
It's more than interesting that Pearson first attacked the PUC, essentially accusing them of being bought and paid for by big corporations. What proof does Mr. Pearson have that substantiates that accusation? Or is he just shooting his mouth off? I suspect it's the latter.
Shouldn't people question MN350? Haven't they made enough statements that have demolished their credibility? I've been following environmental organizations for decades. Their predictions are wildly inaccurate. That's on a good day. Their predictions and/or statements read more like outright propaganda than statements that should be taken seriously.
If Republicans were smart, which is questionable, they'd start championing regulatory reform. They'd start with a conversation that explains how the environmental activist wing of the DFL hurts farmers and businesses. They'd probably do a series of videos that highlight how not building pipelines hurt farmers. They could include another video series that shows that the 'science' that these regulations is more voodoo than science.
If all we do is complain, then we should just shut up because we're getting the government we deserve.
Technorati: Sandpiper Pipeline, Certificate of Need, Public Utilities Commission, Enbridge, MN350, Environmental Activists, Andy Pearson, DFL, Regulatory Reform, MNGOP
Predictably, environmental activists protested the PUC's approval of the Sandpiper Pipeline project:
Hundreds gathered Saturday to protest Minnesota's proposed Sandpiper pipeline. The rally in St. Paul came one day after Minnesota regulators endorsed the $2.6 billion Sandpiper pipeline that would carry crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken oil fields to Superior, Wisconsin, according to the Star Tribune. That's where pipeline owner Enbridge Energy operates an oil terminal tied to other pipelines supplying refineries in the East and Midwest.
Anti-pipeline activists said they expected as many as several thousand people. Activists who led the battle against the giant Keystone pipeline say they hope to turn Minnesota's pipeline into the next national organizing symbol against tar sands and climate change.
These professional protesters show up wherever a fossil fuel project has been approved. If someone wants to build a pipeline, these professional protesters will protest there. What's more, they'll be insisting that the project being built shouldn't be built if there's the slightest chance of any sort of accident.
That's an impossible standard. It can't be met, which is why these activists insist on that standard.
Richard Smith, who heads the group Friends of the Headwaters, told Minnesota Public Radio News the Enbridge project could put sensitive water resources at risk. "They shouldn't have the right to exploit our water resources, our headwaters of the Mississippi, our lakes and streams, our wild rice and our drinking water," he said.
Sharon Day, with the Indigenous People's Task Force, fears expanding oil production in Canada and moving more oil through the state will hurt the environment. "If you want your grandchildren's grandchildren to have life, to have clean water, then we must all do what we can," Day said.
Richard Smith says that Enbridge "shouldn't have the right to exploit our water resources, our headwaters of the Mississippi, our lakes and streams, our wild rice and our drinking water." I'd state it differently. Friends of the Headwaters shouldn't have the right to tell Minnesotans that they have to pay higher prices for energy, whether it's gas prices or higher home heating bills, just to meet their impossible goals.
I stated earlier that FoH and other environmental activist organizations insist that projects meet their 'no accidents ever policy'. It's time to insist that building Minnesota's energy infrastructure is just as important as protecting Minnesota's natural resources. Thus far, DFL politicians have said that that's possible. Then they've nitpicked every single project to death. The environmental activist wing of the DFL, led by the MCEA, has literally litigated these energy projects into oblivion.
It's time the DFL's actions matched their words.
Technorati: Protests, Public Utilities Commission, Certificate of Need, Sandpiper Pipeline, Friends of the Headwaters, Environmental Activists, MCEA, Litigation, DFL, Natural Resources, Infrastructure
Now that the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, aka PUC, has issued a certificate of need for the Sandpiper Pipeline project, it's time to ask an important question. First, here's what happened:
ST. PAUL – The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission has approved a certificate of need for the proposed Sandpiper pipeline from North Dakota's Bakken oil fields to Superior, Wisconsin. While the PUC agreed 5-0 Friday that the $2.6 billion, 610-mile pipeline is necessary, they didn't foreclose the possibility of rerouting it away from environmentally sensitive lakes, streams and wetlands in northern Minnesota. Enbridge Energy will still have to go through a lengthy review of its proposed route and a proposed alternative.
It's great that they approved the project but I'm just a little worried about why they're involved. Their primary responsibility is monitoring public utilities. There's no doubt that politicians create 'innovative' definitions for words but that doesn't mean a pipeline is a public utility.
There's no justification for adding the PUC into the regulatory process — except if the goal is to create another hoop for companies to jump through. Then it makes perfect sense. If creating multiple hoops is the goal, then having the PUC review pipeline projects is imperative.
There are multiple agencies that review these types of proposals. Why? Shouldn't Minnesota create a one-stop shopping center for reviews? Shouldn't there be a time limit placed on both parties to speed up the review process? That way, companies can't run out the clock by withholding important information and regulators can't string companies along with endless amounts of questions.
Streamlining the review process gets important projects approved quickly while still asking the important questions.
There's a throng of anti-corporation organizations filled with environmental activists attempting to kill the Sandpiper Pipeline project. They thrive off of multiple bites at the apple during the regulatory process. They're assisted by politicians like Sen. Klobuchar and Sen. Franken, not to mention Gov. Dayton, Lt. Gov. Smith and legislators like Rep. Thissen and Sen. Marty.
These environmentalists will stand in the way of this type of reform. They'll insist that the process isn't broken and that it doesn't need fixing. That's a fantasy. Any system that requires years to get a project approved isn't just fractured. It's broken. Companies should be held accountable but they shouldn't be required to spend tens of millions of dollars on each step of the regulatory process.
A strong national economy relies on cheap energy. If that's our goal, which it should be, then it's time we stepped into the 21st Century.
It isn't a secret that environmental activists don't want the Sandpiper Pipeline built. That's because they're pushing for an all-renewable energy economy. Here's what they're saying this year:
"We've just suggested that there should be a safer place to put it across the state, environmentally," said Richard Smith, president of Friends of the Headwaters. "The state would still retain whatever property tax dollars come from the company from the pipeline itself, plus there'd still be construction jobs."
That's a lie. Here's what they said about their earlier actions:
The Friends of the Headwaters ("FOH") was successful in educating Hubbard County Coalition of Lake Associations (HCCOLA) Board Members who submitted a resolution to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) that the Sandpiper Pipeline Route must be relocated in order to protect and preserve the lake country's natural resources http://www.hubbardcolamn.org/sandpiper-pipeline.html. FOH also successfully educated the Hubbard County Board of Commissioners and the County Soil and Water Conservation District ("SWCD") so that they submitted resolutions to the PUC requesting that it include a non-water alternate route in its proceedings regarding the Sandpiper route.
For the first time in an energy request before the PUC, both the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency ("MPCA") and the Department of Natural Resources ("DNR"), the state agencies charged with protecting the state's environment and natural resources, have raised very serious concerns regarding the North Dakota Pipeline Company, LLC, an Enbridge affiliate ("Enbridge") Route. The MPCA concluded Enbridge's route is the least environmentally sensitive of 6 of the routes proposed. See http://www.friendsoftheheadwaters.org/latest-news-and-information.html.
The Friends of the Headwaters are doing everything within their power to prevent the building of the Sandpiper Pipeline. Meanwhile, there's a massive railcar shortage that's preventing farmers from getting their crops to market and creating safety issues for towns that the oil trains pass through.
Here's more proof that the FOH is attempting to kill the Sandpiper Pipeline:
Leading up to the June hearing before PUC regulators in St. Paul, Administrative Law Judge Eric Lipman criticized the regulatory procedure for being "a lot harder than it ought to be."
Lipman's 106 page ruling advised the PUC to exclude "rising global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, climbing sea levels…global instability, hunger, poverty, and conflict" from consideration in future proceedings. "The addition of those larger items to the hearing agenda has a significant impact. It adds genuine complexity and expense to a contested case—and the burdens of coping with that complexity and expense falls upon energy companies, government agencies and ordinary citizens alike."
Here's a little interesting information about FOH:
Friends of the Headwaters is represented by the legal team at the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA). Arguably the most respected environmental stewardship organization in Minnesota, MCEA is staffed with knowledgeable and passionate people fighting for environmental best practices across Minnesota.
That MCEA is mentioned as FOH's attorneys speak volumes. I wrote about MCEA way back in this post. Here's what MCEA bragged about in their op-ed:
Along with our allies at the Izaak Walton League of America, the Union of Concerned Scientists and Wind on the Wires, the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy and Fresh Energy argued, first in South Dakota, then before the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC), that the new plant was a bad idea. Our message was simple: The utilities had not proven the need for the energy, and what energy they did need could be acquired less expensively through energy efficiency and wind.
We kept losing, but a funny thing happened. With each passing year, it became clearer that we were right. In 2007, two of the Minnesota utilities dropped out, citing some of the same points we had been making. The remaining utilities had to go through the process again with a scaled-down 580-megawatt plant.
MCEA has a lengthy history of stopping fossil fuel projects. They're in the legal sabotage business. Frankly, they don't care if farmers get hurt. FOH and MCEA's highest priority is stopping any project that makes fossil fuel more available.
Sen. Franken's solution to high home heating prices isn't a serious proposal:
The Democratic senator's measure would put in place a coordinated response to growing coal supply emergencies that affect power plants across the country, including in Minnesota. "In Minnesota, we know that our utilities need dependable fuel supplies so they can provide heat to homes and businesses, and prevent rising energy costs for consumers," Franken said.
The proposed Severe Fuel Supply Emergency Response Act of 2015 would direct the Secretary of Energy to lead the response to coal fuel supply emergencies by:
- Promptly investigating the cause of the fuel shortage and informing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Surface Transportation Board.
- Convening a meeting with stakeholders involved.
- Making written publicly available recommendations for actions that would help alleviate the problems.
If Sen. Franken won't propose a serious solution that doesn't create a different crisis, he shouldn't be a U.S. senator. This isn't a serious proposal because Sen. Franken is still owned by environmental activists. These environmental activists, along with the Putin administration, don't want the Sandpiper Pipeline project built. Before progressives start questioning the logic, here's why the Pipeline is at the heart of the coal shortage problem. Because the Sandpiper Pipeline hasn't been built, oil from the Bakken is getting shipped via rail to refineries in Superior, WI, and elsewhere. The last I heard there were either 6 or 7 trains dedicated to transporting oil from the Bakken to the refineries in Superior.
That's led to a railcar shortage that's affecting the shipping of iron to steel mills in the Rust Belt, the shipping of agricultural products to the Twin Cities in addition to the shipping of home heating products to anywhere in Minnesota.
Sen. Franken knows this. He doesn't care about creating rail space to transport agricultural products to market or taconite to steel mills. Sen. Franken's highest priority is to appease the environmental activists. Instead of appeasing theses special interests, he should attempt to represent his constituents. I know that's a revolutionary concept with Democrats but it's a worthwhile endeavor.
Technorati: Al Franken, Transportation, Surface Transportation Board, FERC, Railcar Shortage, Environmental Activists, Coal Shortage, Agricultural Products, DFL, Sandpiper Pipeline
This NY Times article isn't what the Clinton Machine needs right now:
Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton's wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One's chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.
And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.
Will Podesta accuse the NY Times of cherrypicking the information? Will he accuse them of being a Bush operative who "wove in a bunch of conspiracy theories about" the Clintons in their attempt to vilify the Clintons' good name?
I'll be blunt. I don't believe in coincidences. When the words coincidence and the Clintons are used in the same sentence, I'm more cynical than Charles Krauthammer, which takes some doing.
Jazz Shaw put this into his post:
That's why it seems to me that the speech payment to Bill (who shares family resources with Hillary) is the more startling story than the other donations.
Another statement from the NY Times article that's utterly laughable:
In a statement, Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign, said no one "has ever produced a shred of evidence supporting the theory that Hillary Clinton ever took action as secretary of state to support the interests of donors to the Clinton Foundation."
Considering the fact that Hillary's lawyer testified that Hillary had deleted all 'personal' emails from their private server, I wouldn't doubt Mr. Fallon's statement. In fact, if I was a cynical man, I'd probably think that Mr. Fallon had just come close to admitting that the proof was destroyed.
That's fair because I think the Clintons' credibility was destroyed long ago.
Technorati: Clinton Foundation, State Department, Hillary Clinton, Uranium, Russia, Democrats, Election 2016


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