Colt Solid: January 2013

Thursday, January 31, 2013

GOP Senator Key in NY Gay Marriage OK Concedes | Synopsis

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GOP Senator Key in NY Gay Marriage OK Concedes

"The Confines Of New York" by Glyn Lowe Photoworks
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Veteran state Sen. Stephen Saland's (SUH'-lahndz) defeat means three of the four Republicans who cast critical votes for gay marriage in June 2011 won't be returning to the Senate. Saland's concession Thursday ends a long count of absentee ballots in the Hudson Valley race, in which Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo (KWOH'-moh) praised him for what he called a courageous vote of conscience. Democrat Terry Gipson wins the 41st Senate District race. Saland has represented the district in Putnam and Dutchess counties for more than 20 years. He sponsored legislation for schools and to combat child abuse.

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0.222884	Saland says his years in the Legislature have been a "great honor."
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo

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Putnam

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Terry Gipson

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Now is the Time to Reduce Gun Violence in Schools and Communities | Essentials

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Now is the Time to Reduce Gun Violence in Schools and Communities

Hello KItty for President 2012 by Christian Lau
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I have been proud to serve President Obama and this administration since day one, but Wednesday was one of my proudest days. The actions that the President is taking and proposing to reduce gun violence echo what America’s educators say they need to better protect and support students in school and in their communities. I thank the President and Vice President Biden for leading this critical national conversation. America’s schools are among the safest places in our country. The President’s comprehensive approach will make schools and communities safer. We will never fully understand why 20 first-graders and six educators were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School—or why still more students and educators lost their lives at Columbine, Chardon or Red Lake high schools, Westside Middle School, Virginia Tech or the many other campuses and communities in our country where guns have cut short dreams and created fear.

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Vice President Joe Biden

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Pete Souza

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Source URL: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/01/18/now-time-reduce-gun-violence-schools-and-communities

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Editor's note: This post was originally published on the official blog of the U.S. Department of Education.I have been proud to serve President Obama and this administration since day one, but Wednesday was one of my proudest days. The actions that the President is taking and proposing to reduce gun violence echo what America’s educators say they need to better protect and support students in school and in their communities. I thank the President and Vice President Biden for leading this critical national conversation. America’s schools are among the safest places in our country. The President’s comprehensive approach will make schools and communities safer.We will never fully understand why 20 first-graders and six educators were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School—or why still more students and educators lost their lives at Columbine, Chardon or Red Lake high schools, Westside Middle School, Virginia Tech or the many other campuses and communities in our country where guns have cut short dreams and created fear. We can, however, take a number of common-sense steps to help prevent future tragedies.As the President called for this week, we can limit access to the deadliest guns and ammunition, and we can put in checks to keep guns out of the wrong hands. We can also provide new resources, so schools can develop and implement comprehensive emergency management plans.We can expand student support systems by allowing communities to decide what they need most, including more school resource officers, psychologists, social workers and counselors. A renewed commitment to students’ mental and emotional well-being is key. President Barack Obama listens to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan during a meeting in Vice President Joe Biden's West Wing office at the White House, Dec. 17, 2012. The President dropped by the Vice President's meeting to discuss the Administration’s effort to develop policy proposals in response to the tragedy in Newtown, Conn. Pictured, clockwise from the President, are: the Vice President; Attorney General Eric Holder; Margaret Richardson, Counselor to the Attorney General for Executive Branch Relations; Sarah Bianchi, Director of Economic and Domestic Policy for the Vice President; and Eric Waldo, Deputy Chief of Staff for Sec. Duncan. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) read more

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Neighbor Took 6 Young Survivors Into His Home | Essentials

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Neighbor Took 6 Young Survivors Into His Home

GOC Bengeo to Woodhall Park 083: School bus stop by anemoneprojectors (getting through the backlog)
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Gene Rosen had just finished feeding his cats and was heading from his home near Sandy Hook Elementary school to a diner Friday morning when he saw six small children sitting in a neat semicircle at the end of his driveway. A school bus driver was standing over them, telling them things would be all right. It was about 9:30 a.m., and the children, he discovered, had just run from the school to escape a gunman. "We can't go back to school," one little boy told Rosen. "Our teacher is dead. Mrs. Soto; we don't have a teacher." Rosen, a 69-year-old retired psychologist, took the four girls and two boys into his home, and over the next few hours gave them toys, listened to their stories and called their frantic parents.

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Gene Rosen

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-0.248655	"We can't go back to school," one little boy told Rosen.
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0	"I had no idea what had happened," Rosen said. ...
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-0.360602	"They said he had a big gun and a little gun," said Rosen, ...
-0.274444	"This little boy turns around, and composes himself, and he looks at me like he had just removed himself from the carnage and he says, 'Just saying, your house is very small,'" Rosen said. ...
-0.182333	"This little boy turns around, and composes himself, and he looks at me like he had just removed himself from the carnage and he says, 'Just saying, your house is very small,'" Rosen said. "I wanted to tell him, 'I love you. I love you.'"
-0.479128	"Her face looked frozen in terror," Rosen said, ...
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Sandy Hook

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Adam Lanza

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NY, Md., Govs Hot on Gun Control | Essentials

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NY, Md., Govs Hot on Gun Control

2008 05 05 - 0816 - Baltimore - I-695 beneath I-70 by thisisbossi
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The two governors leading the debate on stricter gun laws -- New York's Andrew Cuomo and Maryland's Martin O'Malley -- not only want to enact legislation that would make their respective states the toughest in the country, they are both widely believed to have presidential aspirations and could face each other in 2016 or a future Democratic primary. Cuomo laid out his legislation in a State of the State address last week and it was passed by the state Senate Monday, while O'Malley described his plan Monday at a gun summit at Johns Hopkins University. Both of their plans are bold and expansive. Cuomo and New York lawmakers struck a deal late Monday to pass the first gun-control measures since the rampage killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School last month that left 20 first-graders and six educators dead. What are the two plans?

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Gov. Martin O'Malley

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-0.225421	"There is a sickness in our country. That sickness is gun violence," O'Malley said ...
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Andrew Cuomo

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Cuomo

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-0.374722	Cuomo said, "Enough people have lost their lives. Let's act."
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Organization: Johns Hopkins University

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City: New York

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President Obama Signs District of Columbia Emergency Declaration | Reduction

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President Obama Signs District of Columbia Emergency Declaration

North Yorkshire Police CITROEN DISPATCH (YJ07 HKO) by Police_Mad_Liam
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The President today declared an emergency exists in the District of Columbia and ordered federal aid to support the District of Columbia's response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from Hurricane Sandy starting on October 28, 2012, and continuing. The President's action licenses the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of easing the hardship and suffering triggered by the emergency on the regional population, and to provide proper aid for required emergency measures, licensed under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives and to secure home and public wellness and safety, and to minimize or avoid the danger of a catastrophe in the District of Columbia. Specifically, FEMA is licensed to determine, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources needed to reduce the impacts of the emergency.

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President Obama

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W. Craig Fugate

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Steven S. Ward

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

CIA to investigate conduct of ex-director Petraeus | Reduction

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CIA to investigate conduct of ex-director Petraeus

Friends and Enemies by Rennett Stowe
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The CIA is opening an "exploratory" investigation into the basic conduct of ex-CIA director David Petraeus, who resigned last week after acknowledging an affair. CIA spokesman Preston Golson says the investigation by the CIA's inspector general "doesn't presuppose any particular outcome.". Lawmakers questioned top CIA and FBI authorities about the affair Thursday, during hearings initially scheduled to examine the Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. Petraeus biographer and girlfriend Paula Broadwell was found to have actually categorized information in her possession, evidently from her time looking into Petraeus' career. The FBI cleared Petraeus of mishandling categorized information, however reserve Army officer Broadwell is under investigation and her security clearance has been suspended. Petraeus will affirm prior to Congress Friday about the events in Benghazi.

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Petraeus

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Preston Golson

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ANALYSIS: Sandy Stalls Presidential Politics | Essentials

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ANALYSIS: Sandy Stalls Presidential Politics

We need to get this to the Fiscal Cliff! What could go wrong? by DonkeyHotey
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After canceling his appearance at a morning campaign rally in Orlando, Fla. , President Barack Obama walks into the White House in a driving rain after returning to Washington to monitor preparations for early response to Hurricane Sandy, Oct. 29, 2012. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo) Exactly one week from today Americans across the country will go to the polls to pick the next president of the United States. But this morning people in many parts of the East Coast are waking up to the destruction left in the wake of what one ABC News reporter described as a "liquid fist" that pounded the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. According to the Associated Press, the storm took the lives of "at least 17 people in seven states" and cut off power to nearly 7. 5 million residents.

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Barack Obama

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Jacquelyn Martin/AP

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Bill Clinton

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Jonathan Karl

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