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WPRI.com | Eyewitness News : Interest Rates to Double for Millions of Students | WPRI.com

Tue, 2 Jul 2013 01:50:21 +0000

Interesting to note that the House has already addressed this issue but it was Senator Harry Reid who refused to do anything before the break!! The problem lies in the US Senate! Why didn't Senators Reed and Whitehouse force the issue? You're too soft on the "clueless" ones!

WPRI.com | Eyewitness News : West Warwick may exhaust pension fund by 2017; Central Falls a preview | WPRI.com

Wed, 9 May 2012 02:11:33 +0000

WW Town Officials can't say they weren't warned.....

WPRI.com | Eyewitness News : Pension meeting in West Warwick | WPRI.com

Wed, 9 May 2012 02:03:47 +0000

WW Town Officials can't say they weren't warned..... I have been raising Red Flags about this for over 11 years. One wonders how former Council members like Geoff Rousselle, John Flynn, Peter Calci and Leo Constantino will try and explain this to the taxpayers??? What will former Pension Board Chairmen Geoff Rousselle and Steve Alves have to say?? It's going to get VERY interesting? With $234 MILLION in unfunded Pension obligations, the taxpayers are in for some bad news.

DoD Buzz : H-I pitches 'Patrol Frigate' as cheaper alternative to LCS

Mon, 9 Apr 2012 02:09:35 +0000

ASROC on a FFG7.... What ship were you on? The FFGs were a disaster then and are nothing more than "tugboats" now. Yet the USN still has 29 of them! In my opinion it’s just to keep the "numbers" up! After all, even though the navy is "authorized" 328 ships, they are down to 288? And Obama is cutting that to 230? No longer are they "G ships" so why hasn't the USN changed the designation? Their ASW capability against a Diesel threat is is practically non-existent. Ever hear of the Shkval? None of Iran's current submarine classes are capable of firing missiles but Iran has acquired or domestically produced a large number of mines and torpedoes that can be employed on most of its subsurface boats. In 2005 it reportedly launched two indigenous production lines of 533mm and 324mm wake-homing torpedoes with ranges of up to 20km. 9 Iran's claims that it has developed a supercavitating high-speed torpedo called 'Hoot' with speeds of 230mph, which is allegedly based on the Russian VA-111 Shkval. Iran might have sourced the technology from China, which imported 40 Shkval torpedoes in 1998 from Kazakhstan and was successful in reverse-engineering them. The Shkval is a shallow-water, rocket-propelled, super-cavitating torpedo with a range of 3 to 5 NMs and is fired from a 533-mm torpedo tube. The torpedo exits the tube at 50 knots and then ignites the rocket motor, propelling the weapon to speeds four to five times faster than other conventional torpedoes. The weapon reportedly has an 80 percent kill probability at a range of approximately 4 NMs. Of note, the sinking of the South Korean corvette Cheonan in March 2010, reportedly by a DPRK Shkval torpedo most likely fired from a small sub has amply demonstrated the capability of this weapon. As for the LCS? Duh! Littoral Combat Ship. How long does anyone think they would last operating off the DPRK or Iranian Littoral? As for the "modules" Where are they? Bottom line: Yup, an LCS or FFG would do a "bang up" job against this threat!! Yeh Right, probably just a bang!!!

DoD Buzz : H-I pitches 'Patrol Frigate' as cheaper alternative to LCS

Mon, 9 Apr 2012 01:56:40 +0000

Ocean State Current : 03/27/12 - House Committee on Labor

Tue, 3 Apr 2012 00:07:33 +0000

Am I missing something here? When I go to the GA website and check on these two Bills, it appears as if BOTH were "Held For Further Study.," i.e. they will never make it to the House Floor for a vote! Can anyone please clarify the current status?

KATU - Portland, OR : 7 California boys arrested in attack on teen | National & World News | KATU.com - Portland News, Spo

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:25:53 +0000

Here’s one link: http://www.colorofcrime.com/colorofcrime2005.pdf • Of the nearly 770,000 violent interracial crimes committed every year involving blacks and whites, blacks commit 85 percent and whites commit 15 percent. • Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against blacks. Fortyfive percent of their victims are white, 43 percent are black, and 10 percent are Hispanic. When whites commit violent crime, only three percent of their victims are black. • Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit a violent crime against a white than vice versa, and 136 times more likely to commit robbery. • Blacks are 2.25 times more likely to commit officially-designated hate crimes against whites than vice versa.

WPRI.com | Eyewitness News : Committee to vote on school closure | WPRI.com

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:51:03 +0000

So far, IMHO, ALL of these posts are missing the main point of the story. Gist says the schools will not close because she says so... Ms Debbie says it is ILLEGAL to close the schools so I guess the money needed to run them will magically appear because she has said so??? The Commissioner is living in a Dream World... I guess $10 million is just going to appear and all will be right with the world..... Remember too, that the RI Department of Educations is directly RESPONSIBLE for the schools in Central Falls. That means Ms. Gist is RESPONSIBLE for the schools in Central Falls. She's done a great job there.. Yeah, right...

WPRI.com | Eyewitness News : Tax return dispute involves ex-lawmaker | target 12 | WPRI.com

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:45:19 +0000

An $8,300 return from the IRS. Now that's cause for a real investigation!!!

WPRI.com | Eyewitness News : Pentagon: \'Mystery missile\' was probably airplane

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:34:41 +0000

Yeah right!!! Does this look like a jet contrail? http://video.foxnews.com/v/4411533/mystery-projec... If you believe this fairy tale from the Pentagon, you probably believed President Johnson’s version of what happened in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964!!! What better way to demonstrate to the US President that the DOD is unable to detect an unknown submarine off our coast? Why not fire a missile back toward Asia to demonstrate not only can they approach our coast at will but also launch at will. By firing BACK toward Asia, they have demonstrated they were not overtly threatening the US. After all, the US Navy routinely does the same thing across the pond. Would this have anything to do with the US "printing" another $600 BILLION in paper that lowers the value of US Treasury Notes held by other nations? Draw your own conclusions, but remember this: “Trust the Government? Ask an Indian!”