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Marine Corps officials: 4 Marines killed in training accident at Camp Pendleton in California

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SAN DIEGO – Four Marines were killed Wednesday in a training accident at Camp Pendleton in Southern California, base officials said.

The accident happened at 11 a.m. during a range maintenance operation at the San Diego County coastal base. Officials were investigating the cause and provided no further details on the training or the accident.

The identities of the dead were being withheld pending notification of relatives.

“We offer our heartfelt prayers and condolences to the families of the Marines lost today in this tragic accident,” said Brig. Gen. John W. Bullard, commanding general of Marine Corps Installations West at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. “Our first priority is to provide the families with the support they need during this difficult time.”

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KTVU Oakland and NTSB may be sued over racist prank.

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OAKLAND, CA—The Asiana airlines will sue the Obama administration’s National Transportation Safety Board and KTVU-TV of Oakland for releasing false and racially insensitive names of pilots of Flight 214 which crashed July 6. The airliner crash had three fatalities.

Asiana will review if the lawsuit will proceed despite the fact that KTVU has retracted the names and claimed that the NTSB verified that names that were released.

Sources: The Christian Science Monitor

Bullhead City fireworks display; Sima Valley fireworks end unexpectedly

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The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.

I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.—John Adams in a letter to wife Abigail of July 3rd after the ratification of the Declaration of Independence.

BULLHEAD CITY—Hundreds of people lined the boardwalk in Laughlin to watch the spectacular fireworks display across the Colorado river in Bullhead City. The fireworks set off several small fires along the Colorado, as usual. Still the fireworks continued into the night by private parties to celebrate 237 years of independence.

The fireworks finale set off car alarms at the Pioneer hotel and casino across the waterway.

The fireworks display at Sima Valley, California took a tragic turn, however, where the LA Times reports 36 injuries after the fireworks exploded unexpectedly.

Two young girls escape from kidnapper, Whittier police say

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February 21, 2013 | 9:04 pm

Two similar incidents took place on Feb. 5., police said.

Whittier police were seeking a kidnapping suspect Thursday night after two young girls were apparently forced into a car.

About 2:30 p.m. Thursday, an 11-year-old girl walking alone was grabbed by a man and put in the back seat of his vehicle, according to the Whittier Police Department.

“While inside, she noticed a younger female, approximately 7 years old, in the back seat crying,” police said in a statement.

The 11-year-old was able to get herself and the other girl out the vehicle in front of Founders Memorial Park near Broadway and Citrus Avenue.

“They both ran in opposite directions,” police said.

The older girl made her way home and called police. The younger girl’s whereabouts were not known, police said Thursday night.

Read more at the LA Times

Despite Tax Increase, California State Revenues in Freefall

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California State Controller John Chiang has announced that total state revenue for the month of November 2012 fell $806.8 million, or 10.8%, below budget.

Democrats thought they could hammer “the rich” by convincing voters to pass Proposition 30 to create the highest state income tax in the nation. But it now appears that high income earners have already “voted with their feet” by moving themselves and their businesses out of state, resulting in over $1 billion shortfall in corporate and income taxes last month and the beginning of a new financial crisis.

Passage of Proposition 30 set off euphoria and expectations of higher spending for public employees. The California Teachers’ Association (CTA) trumpeted: “California students and working families won a clear victory today as voters clearly demonstrated their willingness to invest in our public schools and colleges and also rejected a deceptive ballot measure aimed at silencing educators, other workers and their unions.”

State bureaucrats immediately ramped up deficit spending far beyond the state’s $6 billion annual tax increase, with the Departments of Health Services and Developmental Services increasing this month’s spending by over $1 billion versus last year. The lower tax collection and higher spending drove the State’s deficit after the tax increase to $2.7 billion for the first 5 months of this fiscal year. State Controller John Chiang reported:

November’s disappointing revenues stand in stark contrast to recent news that California is leading the nation in job growth, has significantly improved its cash liquidity to pay bills, and even long-distressed home values are starting to inch upward… This serves as a sobering reminder that, while the economy is expanding, it is doing so at a slow and uneven pace that will require the State to exercise care and discipline in how its fiscal affairs are managed in the coming year.

The improved “cash liquidity” Chiang referred to turns out to be $24.9 billion of debt.

Read more at BreitBart News

California becomes terrorist friendly State

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(Reuters) – The California Senate passed a bill on Thursday that seeks to shield illegal immigrants from status checks by local police and challenges Republican-backed immigration crackdowns in Arizona and other U.S. states.

On July 5, the California Senate passed their TRUST act which prevents their law enforcement officers from stopping or catching terrorists entering the country illegally. The law has been called the “Anti-Arizona” law passed in response to the recent supreme court decision on SB-1070.

From the bill’s front page:

This bill would prohibit a law enforcement official, as defined, from detaining an individual on the basis of a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold after that individual becomes eligible for release from criminal custody, unless the local agency adopts a plan that meets certain requirements prior to or after compliance with the immigration hold, and, at the time that the individual becomes eligible for release from criminal custody, certain conditions are met.

“Today’s vote signals to the nation that California cannot afford to be another Arizona,” Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, a Democrat who sponsored the measure, said in a statement.

California, of course, could not become another Arizona until they start teaching the Constitution of the United States of America in public schools. This bill is an obvious reason that Arizona should not be teaching the Constitution as they do in California.

The bill supported by 100 illegal immigration groups supported the bill which passed the Democrat State-Assembly 47-26. Final approval is expected in August and it will be sent to the desk of Governor Brown for his signature.

Recently it was revealed that a local traffic stop in Boston, Massachusetts revealed an illegal alien running a flight school which was responsible for issuing at least six pilots licenses to illegals. This is a very similar situation to the manner in which SB-1070 would be enforced.

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1. Reuters
2. San Jose Mercury News
3. LA Weekly Blog