2012: The BUZZ Takes A Quick Look Back - Monroe County ...

December 31, 2012 Page 5 - The BUZZ
Democratic and Republican
leaders in the
Senate vowed Friday night
to work through the
weekend to create a new
bill that would avert the
so-called “fiscal cliff”
looming on Monday. President
Obama said he
doubted the Senate heads’
final push would produce
a deal, but added the Senate
should allow “an up or
down vote” on a scaledback
proposal he has personally
pushed.
At the same time, Tennessee
Senator Bob
Corker said “the American
people should be disgusted”
the nation’s leaders
have not solved the
NATIONwIDE
solution to the possibility
of a new economic crisis at
year’s end. Howard Kurtz
of the Daily Beast called
Washington “the country’s
biggest day-care center,”
and famous sex therapist
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
noted on Twitter that
members of Congress
“who can’t compromise
probably aren’t good
lovers.”
A second, smaller but
still powerful winter storm
rolled into the Northeast
on Friday and Saturday,
dumping up to six inches
of snow from Philadelphia
to New York City to Hartford,
Connecticut. However,
the system lacked the
punch of the week’s earlier
storm that brought tornadoes,
high winds, icy
roads, power outages, and
record snowfall and led to
17 deaths and thousands of
grounded flights.
“America’s Toughest
Sheriff,” Arizona’s Joe
Arpaio, said on Thursday
he was planning to dispatch
armed volunteer patrols
to the schools in
Maricopa County within
the coming week, a response
to the state’s attorney
general’s suggestions
that at least one teacher in
each school be weapontrained
and armed. Arpaio
said the volunteers would
provide their own equipment,
would not receive a
taxpayer-based salary, had
the experience to handle
the job, and would patrol
the perimeters of schools,
not inside them.
Gallup released its latest
poll on Friday, reporting
that a majority of
Americans have a “favorable”
view of the National
Rifle Association. Fiftyfour
percent nodded positively
to the NRA, with 83
percent of Republicans favoring
less gun control,
with 36 percent of Democrats
supporting the
organization.
The American Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals agreed on
Friday to pay Ringling
Brothers and Barnum and
Bailey Circus $9.3 million
to settle a lawsuit that accused
the Virginia-based
company of mistreating
Asian elephants that perform
in its shows. A 2000
suit filed against the pro-
ducer of the circus citing
the Endangered Species
Acts was dismissed.
And the American
Academy of Ophthalmology
on Saturday urged
New Year’s Eve revelers to
take that bottle of champagne
and “uncork it with
care.” The exploding
corks, aimed wrong, could
cause major eye injuries
and even blindness, said a
spokesman, for the bottles
hold more pressure than a
car tire, as much as 90
pounds per square inch,
which propels corks at 50
miles per hour.
Thanks
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time to thank all the people
that participated in the
Toys for Tots program.
Without your generous
donations, hard work, and
time invested to help, this
event would not have been
possible.
A special thanks goes
out to Tom and Renae
Dockery of Tellico Tire,
Chief Gregg Breeden and
Gudger Bill Bivins with
the Madisonville Police
Department, and the volunteers
from Mt. Calvary
Baptist Church.
This year’s event was a
huge success and we hope
to build on it for the years
to come.
Again, we would like to
say thank you to everyone.”
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