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Protesters victorious in Kiev - President Yanukovych flees

Protesters climb the fence at the presidential palace near Kiev.

Protesters control the entrances to the palace after President Viktor F. Yanukovych fled the capital.

The palace and other once impregnable centers of power fell without a fight to throngs of joyous citizens stunned by their triumph.

Deputies enter the Parliament building in Kiev.

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The Parliament found the president unable to fulfill his duties and exercised its constitutional powers to set an election for May 25 to select his replacement.

Members of Parliament have replaced the parliamentary speaker and attorney general, appointed a new pro-opposition interior minister and voted to free jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.

Police appear to have abandoned their posts across the capital as protesters in Kiev have walked unchallenged into the president's official and residential buildings.

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Canada geese stay all winter - cackling geese migrate

A Loveland, Colorado Reporter Herald report at the link below says the habitat and migration patterns of the Canada and cackling geese are not the same.

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Just what are cackling geese anyway?

Ten years ago, Canada geese were split into two species with the smaller geese, which weigh less than 15 pounds, called cackling geese.

Cackling geese nest in the high Canadian Arctic in the spring and migrate south in the fall and winter months, mixing with the Canada geese. They show up in Colorado in November with some migrating further south as far as Texas, Southern California and parts of Mexico.

The report says both Canada and cackling geese are attracted to areas with open water and large expanses of grass, favoring reservoirs, lakes, rivers and marshes.

Along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, they feed on harvested cornfields and bluegrass, eating grain, seeds and insects.

Geese are not looked on favorably by homeowners when the large birds flock to their lawns to graze leaving behind their slimy droppings.

Full report here.

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Gaither Homecoming group sing - The Old Country Church

Colorado Springs homeless camp called Obamaville

The sign reading “Welcome to Obamaville” was placed on the site of a homeless tent camp in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

The sign, which appeared in December, was visible from the Cimarron Street ramp to Interstate 25, clearly conveyed a political jab at rising unemployment under President Barack Obama.

Welcome to ObamavilleColorado’s fastest growing community

Needless to say the left-wing media has been silent on the matter.

The myth of global warming ‘settled science’

In the report at the link below Dr. Krauthammer says he is neither a global warming believer nor a global warming denier.

But he does say that sending tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere cannot be good for humanity.

He also believes that those scientists who pretend to know exactly what this will cause in 20, 30 or 50 years are white-coated propagandists.

"The debate is settled,” asserted propagandist in chief Barack Obama in his latest State of the Union address. “Climate change is a fact.” Really?

There is nothing more anti-scientific than the very idea that science is settled, static, impervious to challenge.

Take a non-climate example. It was long assumed that mammograms help reduce breast cancer deaths. This fact was so settled that ObamaCare requires every insurance plan to offer mammograms (for free, no less) or be subject to termination.

Now we learn from a massive randomized study, where 90,000 women were followed for 25 years, that mammograms may have no effect on breast cancer deaths.

The mammogram example was no more ‘settled’ than the so-called ‘settled science’ of claimate change.

So much for settledness.

And climate is less well understood than breast cancer. If climate science is settled, why do its predictions keep changing?

And how is it that the great physicist Freeman Dyson, who did some climate research in the late 1970s, thinks today’s climate-change Cassandras are hopelessly mistaken?

Full report here.

Trying to make sense of the bloodshed in the Ukraine. Why are they fighting?

At the first link below is a question and answer report titled, “Ukraine's Dangerous Turn Has Roots in History.”

At the second link is a report titled, “What Are Ukrainians Fighting For?”

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Two masked protesters hide behind a sheld

A protester hurls a Molotov cocktail

A large improvised slingshot is used for hurling rocks

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Only two seasons...

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A new app allows strangers to listen in on your phone calls

This smartphone app is called Crowdpilot.

It lets any user bring a third party into a conversation without alerting the person on the other end of the line, the modern day equivalent of picking up a landline while someone else is already on a call.

The app even allows the third party to talk to the app user without the other caller’s knowledge.

Upon launching Crowdpilot, users are given a choice of people to get in-call “advice” from, including Facebook friends and total strangers.

How many phone calls have you received from people using this app?

Actually, you will never know who is using this 99 cent app.

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A new Obama initiative will destroy First Amendment rights

Under the Obama administration, the Federal Communications Commission is planning to send government contractors into the nation's newsrooms to determine whether journalists are producing articles, television reports, Internet content, and commentary that meets the public's "critical information needs."

Those "needs" will be defined by the administration, and news outlets that do not comply with the government's standards could face an uncertain future.

It's hard to imagine a project more at odds with the First Amendment.

Mr. Obama has been vigourusly going after the Second Ammendment rights of Americans by pushing gun control. Now he is after our First Amendment rights.

Will the liberal media protest this attempt to control news or will they assume that Mr. Obama won’t challenge what they report - only what the conservative media reports.

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Ukraine ignores repeated phone calls from Chuck Hagel

The Pentagon acknowledged Thursday that Ukraine Defense Minister Pavel Lebedev has refused to take multiple phone calls made personally by Obama’s Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel (pictured).

"Secretary Hagel has been trying, himself, since early this week," Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby told reporters.

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Two bloodied protesters (shown above) stare at a well-armed policeman in Kiev

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Lebedev refuses "to communicate, to accept a phone call" from Hagel or the Pentagon.

Perhaps Hagel's team thinks that publicizing the fact that Lebedev is stiff-arming him — Kirby announced at the top of the briefing that Hagel couldn't reach his counterpart — will put public pressure on the Ukrainians to take his phone call.

Perhaps the real reason for ignoring Hagel is that Ukraine doesn’t want a country like America, that has experienced vastly diminished respect on the world stage in the last six years, meddling in their affairs.

A look back at how America has dealt with Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Egypt and Syria in the last six years shows that the Obama Administration has vastly diminished clout and respect on the world stage.

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