SLANTED REPORTING: TOYOTA CAMRY crashes into DAY CARE CENTER

We need to STOP accepting POOR REPORTING!

SUSPECT ALCOHOL?

Let's STOP CONVICTING PEOPLE in the MEDIA.....


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Tampa day care closed after car crash

Tampa day care closed after car crashes into building

Eric Glasser, WTSP
August 29, 2014

Tampa, FL -- Two women were critically hurt when they lost control of their car and plowed into a Tampa day care center early Friday, just hours before the school would have been full of youngsters.

The car struck the Achievement Center for Early Learning, 4601 E. Busch Blvd., near 46th Street.

The owner of the preschool was grateful there were no children in the center.

"It would be a nightmare," said Vincent Hernandez, who owns the preschool.



Hernandez could still hardly believe it as he looked at the shattered glass and debris. A little more than two hours later, "I would have three tables in here filled with children," he said.

The very same room is packed with 15 to 20 children every day from about 6 a.m. until 6.p.m., he says.

"You would see a lot more devastation."

Two women were hurt overnight when their car landed upside down in the parking lot of the Achievement Center for Early Learning building on Busch Blvd. (Photo: WTSP)

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Two women were hurt overnight when their car landed upside down in the parking lot of the Achievement Center for Early Learning building on Busch Blvd. (Photo: WTSP)

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About 3:39 a.m., a gray Toyota Camry traveling west on Bush Boulevard when the driver lost control, crossed into the eastbound lanes, then smashed into the front window of Hernandez's preschool before flipping over. The driver and passenger had to crawl out of the passenger's window to get out.

Parents, who started showing up Friday morning to drop off their children, quickly realized it wasn't going to be possible, leaving them scrambling.

"I may have to call out of work now, because I don't have anyone to watch him," said Cynthia Pagan.
"I just basically have to go back home," said Cristina Reza, another parent.

Video taken inside the preschool at the moment of impact shows headlights approaching, then sparks flying as the wall collapses.

Police suspect alcohol may have been a factor.

The victims were both taken to Tampa General Hospital.

Throughout the afternoon, contractors worked to clean up the area. The building itself is still structurally sound, they say. Hernandez says he will keep the room sealed off until repairs are made,
but he plans to re-open for business Tuesday morning.

"It's fixable," he said, "and I'm grateful that nobody got injured."

Tampa police later identified the two women involved in the crash as Haley Burgess, 20, from Tampa, and Candy Turner, 31, from Brandon. Burgess is in stable but critical condition, and Turner is in stable condition, according to Tampa Fire Rescue.

Accident investigators say there was evidence at the scene leading them to believe alcohol may have been a factor in the crash.

Hernandez says there are about 80 families who leave their children in his care each day.

He was already working with other local preschool centers just in case he was unable to re-open after the Labor Day holiday.

But at this point it appears they will be back open for business Tuesday morning.

Parents who want to check for updates on the preschool can call the Achievement Center for Early Learning's answering machine at (813) 988 -1999.


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RSN: Has Hillary Clinton forgotten why she's not president?

Out of touch!

Hillary needs to change her PARY AFFILIATION!

Sad disappointment!

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FOCUS | Don't Do It, Hillary! Joining Forces With Neocons Could Doom Democrats

Paul Rosenberg, Salon
Rosenberg writes: "Has Hillary Clinton forgotten why she's not president? In light of her headline-making Atlantic interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, in which she seemingly echoed the neocons' 'who lost Syria/who lost Iraq' line, it would seem that she has.”
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CounterCurrents: Killing By Silence: The International Community’s Silence, Participation: Of Whom, By Whom, For Whom?,

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Modi's 100 Days: India Towards Doledrums?
By Ajaya Kumar Singh

http://www.countercurrents.org/aksingh310814.htm

Sangh Parivar aims in attempting to stifle India's vibrant plurality and diversity. Modi's one hundred days show that the very idea of India as plural and diverse nation is at axe. The alarm bell has rung. What nobody dared to do; Sangh Parivar attempts to do it by pulling the strings of the rubrics of the constitution. It does undermine all that India stands for: SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC


The Hindutva Hypocrisy
By Bilal Shaheen

http://www.countercurrents.org/shaheen310814.htm

Even if India will become a Hindu Rashtra, it will be a Muslim Rashtra, Sikh Rashtra, Christian Rashtra and so on. And it will not be without tragedies, holocuasts and genocides. Millions have already perished in Hindutva's cumbersome mission to install Hindu Rashtra. Today India has its own ground zero at Ayodhya. If nothing is done to stem this rising tide of irrational nationalism, India, sooner or later, will explode into unimaginable scenes of genocide, extremism and nefarious nationalism


The Narrative Of Love Jihad
By Abdul Majid Zargar

http://www.countercurrents.org/zargar310814.htm

With BJP’s ascendance to power at centre and in many other states, the confidence of minorities in the role of the state is fast crumbling, especially as regards their physical protection & prevention of communal violence. Hindu right-wing dominated State governments are lending tacit or express support to the Hindu zealots to promote the agenda of violence & hatred. Many years after anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat (2002) and Mumbai (1993) offenders still wait to be sentenced. Instead, persons convicted of murder have been let free like Maya Kodnani & babu Bajrangi in Gujrat. Similarly Sangeet som, accused of engineering Muzaffar nagar riots has been awarded Z+ security cover. To top it all a rabid communal lunatic has been made in charge of UP poll campaign. And all this does not augur well for India


Over 1,000 Protest In Ferguson, Call For Highway Shutdown Monday
By Kevin Zeese

http://www.countercurrents.org/zeese310814.htm

Well over 1,000 people protested peacefully, marching through Ferguson, going to the police station and some going door-to-door in prosecutor McCulloch’s neighborhood asking him to be removed or recuse himself. There are calls for shutting down highways on Labor Day and, if Officer Wilson is not fired and arrested, for shutting down highways for two days the week after


Washington's Gamble: Wealth, Power And The Drive To Nuclear Armageddon
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter310814.htm

Would the US be prepared to back down? Faced with possible defeat by conventional Russian forces if the worst case scenario comes to pass, would it use the nuclear option to avoid backing down and attempt to eradicate Russia as a potential rival and risk destroying humanity in the process? Given its track record of reckless disregard for human life across the globe since 1945, what do you think?


The Guardian Australia Censors & Ignores Iraqi Holocaust
And Iraqi Genocide Now Renewed By US & Australia
By Dr Gideon Polya

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya310814.htm

After 2 decades of devastating Iraq, the US and US lackey Australia have now re-invaded Iraq with return of soldiers as security guards, selective air supply of humanitarian aid, 800 US “military advisers”, US bombing of Iraq (adumbrated to extend to Syria in addition to US-armed Israeli bombing in Syria), Australian air supply of weapons to the Kurds, and critical Australian targeting of US drone strikes in Iraq (and elsewhere) via its joint US-Australian Pine Gap spying facility in Central Australia


Killing By Silence: The International Community’s Silence
On The Israeli Aggression On Gaza Strip
By R.Sivakumar

http://www.countercurrents.org/sivakumar310814.htm

The present episode of Israeli aggression on Gaza has killed around two thousand civilians but the more chilling fact is that the International community has let this to happen by choosing to remain quite


Participation: Of Whom, By Whom, For Whom?
By Farooque Chowdhury

http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury310814.htm

Without participation, democracy is not democracy. And, participation – a process and an auger – in election is only a part of practicing democracy. It’s an important indicator of democracy, but not the only indicator


Arrest And Prosecute Yogi Adityanath
By N.D.Pancholi

http://www.countercurrents.org/pancholi310814.htm

Appeal To Rajnath Singh, Home Minister, to arrest and prosecute Yog Adityanath for making inflammatory statements to vitiate peace and communal harmony in the country

RSN: A Century of Extinction,

FERGUSON:
If a Lily White Community were peacefully protesting and invaded by MILITARY WEAPONS including ARMORED VEHICLES, SWAT GEAR, SNIPERS ON THE ROOF, TEAR GAS, RUBBER BULLETS, AUTOMATIC WEAPONS  by a Black Police Force ..... what would the response be?

FERGUSON is a MICROCOSM of American Racism perpetuated by the Republican Party, duplicating the HATE the NAZIs employed to divert attention from their FAILED FISCAL POLICIES. TRICKLE DOWN, ANYONE?  

At least be honest!

THE WAR MONGERS:
RSN offered the article below....

Are American Memories so short we've forgotten the MARCH TO WAR in Iraq that destabilized the Middle East?

Didn't Americans march in the streets about the BRUTAL THUG AMERICAN KEPT IN POWER - SADDAM HUSSEIN? Didn't Americans rally with Faux News to silence the OPPOSITION as UNPATRIOTIC?  

The poor historical education of Americans has contributed to yet another MARCH TO WAR.

The Sykes-Picot Agreement mandated U.S. SUPPORTED THUGS would rule.

The overthrow of Mossadagh, the installation of the BRUTAL SHAH condemned Iran for the British Monarchy to assure their rule on the backs of the oppressed.

RESOURCE WARS!

The PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY is about the FOLLY of Global Domination at the expense of Americans.  

PLEASE, PLEASE INFORM YOURSELVES!

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John McCain and Lindsey Graham | Stop Dithering, Confront ISIS

John McCain and Lindsey Graham, The New York Times
Excerpt: "The president clearly wants to move deliberately and consult with allies and Congress as he considers what to do about ISIS. No one disputes that goal. But the threat ISIS poses only grows over time. It cannot be contained. It must be confronted."
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Police Officer Resigns, Another Is Fired After Ferguson Incidents
Brendan O'Brien, Reuters
O'Brien writes: "A police officer has resigned after pointing a rifle at protesters during racially charged demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri, and another has been fired for inappropriate social media posts stemming from the two weeks of civil unrest, officials said on Friday."
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Insecurity State: The Politics Behind the Drama in Ferguson
Jeb Lund, Rolling Stone
Lund writes: "Watching the citizen protests in Ferguson, Missouri and the massive police overreaction, I couldn't help but think of the old 1960s revolutionary phrase about 'heightening the contradictions,' the idea that a little subtle and acceptable instigation could prompt the state to expose its own brutality."
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Why Comcast Is the Worst Company in America
Lynn Stuart Parramore, AlterNet
Parramore writes: "There are a lot of really strong contenders for the title of worst company in America. Walmart, Bank of America, Ticketmaster and Carnival Cruise Lines have all consistently delivered exquisitely horrible experiences to the American consumer, and their contributions to the national anxiety level must not be underestimated."
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Michael Sam, NFL's First Openly Gay Player, Is Cut by St. Louis Rams
Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times
Farmer writes: "The St. Louis Rams pushed the pause button on Michael Sam's NFL dreams Saturday, waiving the rookie defensive lineman in their final wave of cuts in advance of their season opener."
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The US Government Can Brand You a Terrorist Based on a Facebook Post
Arjun Sethi, Guardian UK
Sethi writes: "The US government's web of surveillance is vast and interconnected. Now we know just how opaque, inefficient and discriminatory it can be."
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Elizabeth Kolbert | A Century of Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker
Kolbert writes: "It's unusual to be able to date the vanishing of a species. The last time a dodo was seen, on the island of Mauritius, was probably in 1662, but no one knows how long the bird survived, unseen and in low numbers."
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Ending the Medicaid Blockade

The Moral Bankruptcy of GOP needs re-thinking!  

The message below from MoveOn:

Another state is joining the right side of history. Pennsylvania will soon become the 28th state to offer Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act.¹ After years of stonewalling by Republican Governor Tom Corbett, who's fighting for his political life in a tough re-election bid, Pennsylvania will also join a growing group of Republican-led states to lift their self-imposed Medicaid Blockade.²

The announcement is a welcome relief for up to 500,000 Pennsylvanians who would otherwise be left without any health coverage.³ It's also a deep affirmation of the hard work by elected leaders, groups organizing in Pennsylvania like Keystone Progress and Working America, and health care activists who've been advocating for Medicaid expansion—including hundreds of thousands of MoveOn members like you.

MoveOn members in North Carolina rallying in March for Medicaid expansion

Across the country, MoveOn members are pitching in and participating in other campaigns to pressure elected officials and change the public debate around Medicaid expansion. In Pennsylvania alone, more than 13,000 MoveOn members signed petitions to the Republican governor urging him to accept the federal funds to cover the state's residents under Medicaid.

In Utah, one MoveOn member, independent filmmaker Paul Gibbs, made a documentary called "Entitled to Life," which won wide praise for shining a spotlight on the stories of people in the Medicaid gap.^4,5 With support from MoveOn members, Paul is now making films featuring the stories of people trapped behind the Republican Medicaid Blockade in other states—starting with North Carolina and Florida.

MoveOn members like you are crucial to making these campaigns and victories possible. State by state, we're steadily winning on Medicaid expansion—and we're winning the argument about whether to keep moving forward to ensure that all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care. In another sign of the shifting politics around Obamacare, even Gov. Bill Haslam, the Republican governor of bright red Tennessee who's up for re-election, is moving toward Medicaid expansion.⁶ Now, with 23 states left to go, and the wall of opposition steadily cracking, it'll take all of us pitching in to fully end the Republican Medicaid Blockade.⁷

For now, we just wanted to share this terrific news—and thank you for all you've done, and will do.

–Victoria, Ben W., Alejandro, Aiyi'nah, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Republican Governor Agrees To Expand Medicaid For Low-Income Residents In Pennsylvania," The Huffington Post, August 28, 2014
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=300540&id=100603-3735812-QGHrKTx&t=1

2. "GOP Governor In Tough Re-election Bid Prepares To Implement Obamacare," ThinkProgress, August 28, 2014
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=300541&id=100603-3735812-QGHrKTx&t=2

3. Ibid.

4. "Entitled To Life," Filmmaker Paul Gibbs, June 3, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2kEubKv1LI

5. "Film: Tragic stories of Utahns in the Medicaid coverage gap," The Salt Lake Tribune, June 4, 2014
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=300168&id=100603-3735812-QGHrKTx&t=3

6. "Haslam may submit Medicaid expansion plan in fall," The Tennessean, August 28, 2014
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=300551&id=100603-3735812-QGHrKTx&t=4

7. "Status of State Action on the Medicaid Expansion Decision," Kaiser Family Foundation, accessed August 29, 2014
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=296305&id=100603-3735812-QGHrKTx&t=5

RSN: National Guard Troops in Rio Grande Valley Using Food Bank Because Rick Perry Hasn't Paid Them, ....America Has Created a Monster

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Rapper T.I. on Ferguson Aftermath: America Has Created a Monster

Ryan Reed, Rolling Stone
Reed writes: "T.I. says the Ferguson tragedy and the country's current racial tensions are 'the result of ignoring and mishandling an already fragile-spirited, recently enslaved, presently oppressed race/generation of people.'"
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Colorado Springs Police Officers Will Wear Body Cameras Starting in October
Andrea Sinclair, The Gazette
Sinclair writes: "Colorado Springs police officers will soon be outfitted with body-worn cameras as part of a five-month pilot program, a change many police departments throughout Colorado have already adopted."
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Citing Unsettling Ferguson Images, Davis Police Department to Return Armored Vehicle
Veronica Rocha, Los Angeles Times
Rocha writes: "Davis, Calif., city officials have directed the police department to return a surplus U.S. military armored vehicle to the federal government after residents, citing images seen during protests in Ferguson, Mo., expressed fears of militarization."
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National Guard Troops in Rio Grande Valley Using Food Bank Because Rick Perry Hasn't Paid Them
Kolten Parker, San Antonio Express-News
Parker writes: "The Texas National Guard contacted a Rio Grande Valley food bank Thursday to ask whether the charity had food and gas resources for about 50 soldiers who are in need of assistance because they have not received a paycheck."
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116 Million Full-Time Workers in America Doing the Work of 136 Million People
Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times
Puzzanghera writes: "Full-time American workers labor the equivalent of nearly an additional day each week, averaging 47 hours instead of the standard 40, according to Gallup poll results released Friday."
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Russian Army Wives Protest, Demand Government Come Clean About Where Soldiers Are
Anna Smolchenko, Agence France-Presse
Smolchenko writes: "Several dozen women gathered outside a military base in central Russia on Thursday to demand that commanders come clean about the whereabouts of their husbands after reports of secret funerals for soldiers covertly sent to Ukraine."
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WildLeaks: A Hub for Witnesses of Poaching to Anonymously Report Wildlife Crimes
Deutsche Welle
Excerpt: "WildLeaks is the first secure and anonymous platform for wildlife and forest crime whistleblowers. Its goal is to create a safe, secure and anonymous online platform for individuals to send information about wildlife crime."
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A Place to Bark

 

 

 

A Place To Bark

 

This sweet pup is now in my car & we are headed back to my shelter. I posted the first photo an hour or so ago & for whatever reason a woman started a heated debate as to, how many more I could save if I didn't take the one that needed a little more medical care than normal.

I ask if you love animals, please don't try to discourage myself or others from helping those that need
a little extra help.

If people want to help, it's their choice. If I want to give the underdog a ch...ance that is my choice.

Let's agree to disagree for the love of animals.
Not fight amongst ourselves.

 It's counter productive & my time is better spent on Saving & Caring for those here.

I structure my program to help all types of dogs.

Old, young, big, small, bully breeds, black dogs & special needs.

They all deserve Life!!! I'm only one person, but do all I can do.

So if you Believe In Life, Thank you for being here & being Positive!!!

This dog is Rescued, SAFE & Saved!

If you would like to help with her medical care, donate here:

http://www.aplacetobark.com/donations

More photos when we get home...

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