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Natural Competition ? Transgender Man -Now Woman- Sues CrossFit For Not Allowing Him/Her To Compete As Woman

Soon to turn up on DNC fundraising e-mails….. in 3…. 2….. 1…..
SAN FRANCISCO –  A transgender woman in Northern California has sued the company behind the popular CrossFit workouts for refusing to let her compete in the female division of its annual fitness competitions.
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The lawsuit brought Thursday by Chloie Jonsson, 34, accuses CrossFit Inc. of violating her rights under a California law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity.
Jonsson’s complaint says she was born male but has been living as a woman since she was a teenager and underwent sex reassignment surgery eight years ago. The surgery, coupled with the female hormones she takes, satisfied the state’s requirements for her to be recognized as female on her birth certificate and other official documents. (more…)

Daylight Saving Time Begins

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Don’t forget – Daylight Saving Time begins for most of the United States and Canada at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 9, 2014.  Don’t forget to “spring forward”!

Two Stolen European Passports (Italy – Austria) Used By Unknown Entities Who Boarded Missing Malaysian Flight 370

Not only does the stolen passports raise concerns, but how did each false passenger then gain visa’s into China.    Chinese officials authorizing the visa’s would have actually held those passports in order to approve the travel documents.   Hmmmmm ???  Curiosor and Curiosor…
malaysia-airlines-file(BLOOMBERG)  Two passengers on the Malaysian Airline System Bhd. (MAS) jet that disappeared with 239 people on board used stolen Austrian and Italian passports to board the aircraft, the European countries’ foreign ministries said.
Austrian officials contacted a man from the nation listed on the passenger manifest and found him to be “well,” Martin Weiss, a spokesman for Austria’s foreign ministry, said by telephone today. Luigi Maraldi, an Italian national also shown on the manifest, didn’t travel on the plane, spokesman Aldo Amati at the country’s foreign ministry said by phone. (more…)

The Last Refuge Celebrates – 20,000,000 Visitors!

Treehouse Hits The 20,000,000 Mark!

tree-houseThe Last Refuge – officially, The Conservative Treehouse – celebrated its third anniversary on February 1, 2014.  Now it’s time for another celebration (and we love celebrations) as we welcome our 20,000,000th visitor!

The Tree has been approached over twenty million times, tapped for information, moved into for refuge and signed up for learning.
Twenty million times someone has said, “Self, let’s check out the Treehouse and see what’s up.”
Twenty million times someone perhaps said, “I saw that link—wonder what they’re up to….”  (more…)

Iditarod Update – Day #6

Big Lake’s Martin Buser owns a three-hour lead over Two River’s Aliy Zirkle in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race as the two mush their teams toward Nulato.
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DAY #6 Update – CLICK HERE

George Zimmerman Drops Sanction Complaint Against Florida Prosecutors Angela Corey and Bernie De la Rionda

Within the Sun Sentinel article you find the following:
gz[…]  He was acquitted of second-degree murder in July by a Seminole County jury.
At a hearing Feb. 6, Zimmerman attorney Lorna Truett was unable to say conclusively whether the criminal case was over. There was one major official pending issue: a motion by Zimmerman’s criminal attorneys to sanction prosecutors.
But two weeks ago, Zimmerman filed paperwork, saying he wanted to dismiss that motion and stop that fight.
In the civil case, Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson lifted the stay at the request of all the parties.  (link)

Saturday Open Thread – March 8th

Tomb of the UnknownOur Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Malaysia Flight 370 Missing With 239 Total Passengers (13 Nationalities) "Lost Presumed Crashed" – Boeing 777

VERY unusual situation.   Catastrophic loss of flight with no distress call is highly troubling. Possible explosion…

malaysia-airlines-file(CNN) — A passenger flight carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing is missing and would likely have run out of fuel, Malaysia Airlines said Saturday.
“At the moment we have no idea where this aircraft is right now,” Malaysia Airlines Vice President of Operations Control Fuad Sharuji said on CNN’s “AC360.”
Subang Air Traffic Control lost contact with Flight MH370 at about 2:40 a.m. local time (1:40 p.m. ET Friday), Sharuji said.
“We tried to call this aircraft through various means,” he said.
The Boeing 777-200 departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12:41 a.m. and was expected to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m., a 2,300-mile (3,700 kilometer) trip. It was carrying 227 passengers, two of them infants, and 12 crew members, the airline said. (more…)