Latest among many Perry head-scratchers:last night's pledge to send troops back to Iraq.Going after the all important Bush-Cheney vote? Source: http://twitter.com/CrassPolitical/statuses/156133113746038784
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APSpending his entire major league career with the Cincinnati Reds from 1986-04, Barry Larkin hit .295 with 198 home runs, 960 RBIs, 2,340 hits and 379 stolen bases. He won three Gold Gloves and the 1990 World Series.
By RONALD BLUM
updated 4:32 p.m. ET Jan. 9, 2012
NEW YORK - Barry Larkin was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame on Monday with plenty of room to spare.
The former Cincinnati Reds shortstop was chosen on 495 of 573 ballots (86 percent) in voting announced by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, well above the necessary 75 percent. Larkin was on the ballot for the third time after falling 75 votes short last year.
He will be inducted July 22 in Cooperstown along with the late Ron Santo, elected last month by the Veterans Committee.
"I am so humbled by the experience and so excited about being the newest member of the Hall of Fame," Larkin said on a conference call.
Playing from 1986-04 - all with his hometown Reds - Larkin hit .295 with 198 home runs, 960 RBIs, 2,340 hits and 379 stolen bases. A 12-time All-Star, he won the 1995 NL MVP award, three Gold Gloves and the 1990 World Series. In 1996, he became the first shortstop to have 30 homers and 30 steals in a season.
In addition to his Little League, high school and college coaches, Larkin credited late Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler, who recruited him out of Cincinnati and then redshirted him as a freshman.
"I was a better football player than a baseball player at the time," Larkin said. "I just worked on my baseball talent, just that alone. That was an eye-opener because I got so much better."
Jack Morris was second with 382 votes (67 percent), missing by 48 votes on his 13th try but up sharply from 54 percent last year. The pitcher has two chances left on the BBWAA ballot, and no player has received such a high percentage without eventually gaining election.
Jeff Bagwell was third at 56 percent, followed by Lee Smith (51 percent), Tim Raines (49 percent), Alan Trammell (37 percent) and Edgar Martinez (37 percent).
Mark McGwire, 10th on the career home run list with 583, received 19.5 percent in his sixth try, down from 19.8 percent last year and 23.7 percent in 2010 - a vote before he admitted using steroids and human growth hormone.
Bernie Williams received the most votes (55) among players who were eligible for the first time. Bill Mueller got just four votes and will be dropped in future years, along with Juan Gonzalez (23) and Vinny Castilla (six).
Next year's ballot figures to be the most controversial, with Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, Mike Piazza, Craig Biggio and Curt Schilling eligible for the first time.
Larkin got 52 percent when he appeared on the ballot for the first time in 2010. He received the largest single-year percentage increase to gain election since 1948, when pitcher Herb Pennock was elected with 77.7 percent, a year after finishing with 53.4 percent.
"That was really surprising. I don't know how things changed," Larkin said.
He is the 48th Hall of Famer who spent his entire career with one major league team and the third from the Reds, joining Johnny Bench and Bid McPhee.
Larkin broadcast for MLB Network from 2009-10, then moved to ESPN last year. He's a spring training instructor for the Reds, and has gone to South Korea and Brazil as an envoy for Major League Baseball and the State Department.
Rafael Palmeiro, among just four players with 500 homers and 3,000 hits along with Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Eddie Murray, got 72 votes and his percentage increased to 12.6 from 11 last year in his first appearance. Palmeiro received a 10-day suspension in 2005 for a positive test for performance-enhancing drugs, claiming it was due to a vitamin vial given to him by teammate Miguel Tejada.
Gonzalez, a two-time AL MVP implicated by Jose Canseco in steroids use, received 30 votes last year, just above the 5 percent threshold for remaining on the ballot.
In 2014, the focus will turn to elite pitchers when Greg Maddux (355 wins) and Tom Glavine (305) become eligible. Among pitchers eligible for the Hall, all 20 of the 300-game winners are in.
Morris finished with 254 victories and was the winningest pitcher of the 1980s. A postseason star, he was the ace of three World Series winners but is burdened by a 3.90 career ERA.
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More newsGetty Images??CSN: Barry Larkin and the family of Ron Santo will be honored in Cooperstown this summer. But the volume will be turned up as the steroid issue moves to the front of the discussion for the class of 2013,which includes Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa and Mike Piazza.
Source: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/45926064/ns/sports-baseball/
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Some whole-body donation programs are turning away corpses too fat for scientific study, while others find that would-be donors simply don't sign up because they're surprised by weight limits as low as 170 pounds.
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POSTED: 12:15 am MST January 7, 2012UPDATED: 8:44 am MST January 7, 2012MISSOULA, Mont. -- A University of Montana Grizzly football player is in jail for an alleged rape.Junior running back/ line backer, Beau Donaldson was taken to the Missoula County Jail Friday night. He's accused of sexual intercourse without consent, and is being held in jail on $100,000 bond.This comes after the initial results of a UM investigation regarding reported sexual assault.Donaldson is a 2008 graduate of Big Sky High School in Missoula. He's scheduled to appear in Missoula County Justice Court, Monday.NBC Montana will bring you updated information as soon as it becomes available. Check NBCMontana.com and watch the News at Ten, Saturday evening, for the latest details in this developing story.Copyright 2011 KECI, KCFW, KTVM. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Tax filing Americans get a two-day reprieve because of quirks in the calendar. A Washington, D.C., holiday extends tax filing season to April 17.
Does the mere mention of April 15 send chills up your spine? Not to worry ? the Internal Revenue Service has postponed this year's federal tax filing deadline until two days later.
Skip to next paragraphThe IRS said Wednesday that taxpayers will have until April 17 to?file?their 2011 returns, thanks to two quirks of the calendar.
April 15 falls on a Sunday this year, and the following day is Emancipation Day, which is observed in the District of Columbia. By federal law, District of Columbia holidays affect?tax?deadlines the same way federal holidays do, giving taxpayers an extra day.
People requesting an extension will have until Oct. 15 to?file.
The IRS says it is expecting more than 144 million individual?tax?returns to be?filed?this year.
Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/jOpWfHD6hn0/Tax-filing-deadline-IRS-moves-it-to-April-17
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WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama plans to visit the offices of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday and meet with the staff.
His visit comes just two days after appointing Richard Cordray to lead the watchdog agency, using a Senate recess to circumvent Republican opposition.
Later, the president will have lunch at a Washington restaurant with winners of a campaign contest.
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According to KTVZ, the Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service has released a proposal that would give West Butte Wind Power LLC a permit to legally kill golden eagles in central Oregon. The permit is the first of its kind and in this case, West Butte's wind turbines would be able to kill up to three protected golden eagles over a five-year span as long as the company contributes to conservation efforts for the species.
The department is allowing for public comment on the draft permit until Feb. 2. With this major announcement, here are some facts on wind energy's impact on birds:
* Wind turbine blades have taken a toll on birds of prey, including red-tailed hawks, burrowing owls, and eagles, noted an article from USA Today.
* Under federal laws that protect eagles and other migratory birds, the Fish and Wildlife Service can prosecute wind energy companies responsible for bird kills.
* So far only a handful of studies have looked at birds deaths due to wind turbines, also known as "avian mortality," and higher levels of mortality have been found near coasts and areas with large concentrations of birds, reported the American Wind Energy Association.
* A two-year study of the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area, a project with 7,000 turbines, found 182 dead birds, of which 119 were birds of prey and concluded that 55 percent of raptor deaths were due to collisions with the wind turbines.
* The American Bird Conservancy added that with the U.S.'s goal of generating 20 percent of its electricity from wind by 2030 there is also the estimate that wind will be killing at least one million birds each year.
* In addition to colliding with the gigantic fiberglass turbine blades, wind energy projects can also cause habitat loss, a major problem for especially if the habitat is essential for feeding or breeding.
* According to the Wall Street Journal, wind energy kills between 75,000 and 275,000 birds every single year and the number killed at each project can vary greatly.
* A 2005 Forest Service report estimated that 28,000 birds are killed by wind turbines every year while a 2009 report by a Fish and Wildlife research puts the number at 440,000 annual bird deaths due to the turbines.
* One of the ways energy companies can minimize the impact on migrating birds is by planning the project site carefully and taking into account migration patterns on animals that use the habitat.
* Last February, the Fish and Wildlife Service proposed new and voluntary guidelines for onshore wind energy development that would help avoid harming wildlife, reported the Associated Press.
Rachel Bogart provides an in-depth look at current environmental issues and local Chicago news stories. As a college student from the Chicago suburbs pursuing two science degrees, she applies her knowledge and passion to both topics to garner further public awareness.
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