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List of F5 and EF5 tornadoes
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Parkersburg, Iowa EF5 tornado on May 25, 2008
This is a list of all official rated and authoritatively suggested probable F5 tornadoes ever recorded. Also included are the official Enhanced Fujita Scale EF5 tornadoes – the replacement of the older tornado classification system in the United States – which came into effect in February 2007. Since 1950, there have been 58 confirmed tornadoes rated F5 or EF5 in the United States and one in Canada.
Since structures are completely destroyed in both cases, the identification and assignment of scale between an EF4 tornado and an EF5 is often very difficult.[1]
The tornadoes on this list have been officially rated F5 by an official government source. Unless otherwise noted, ...
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Saturday, 18 May 2013 03:15 PM
By Sandy Fitzgerald
Newsmax.
The IRS admission that the agency has given extra scrutiny to conservative groups has led to renewed cries for tax reform — or the elimination of the agency altogether.
"The problem is not the redundancy that is the ‘politicized IRS," writes Forbes columnist John Tamny in an opinion piece. "Rather the problem is that the IRS exists to begin with. It’s time that we abolish our tax authority with a view toward re-asserting our individual liberty."
Tamny argues that the IRS' misdeeds are "offensive," but denies that they in themselves rise to the level of a scandal.
He noted that the IRS has been politicized since the 1930s — at least — and "it seems the better answer is to acknowledge what's more of a certainty, that the IRS itself is the scandal."
The IRS, he said, ...
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By MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI | Associated Press – Fri, May 17, 2013
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Thousands of anti-gay protesters, including Orthodox priests, occupied a central street in Georgia's capital Friday, with some threatening to lash with stinging nettles any participant in a gay pride parade which was to take place there. Police in Tbilisi guarded several dozen gay activists and bused them out of the city center shortly after they arrived at the gathering. Those occupying the street held posters reading "We don't need Sodom and Gomorrah!" and "Democracy does not equal immorality!" Police, however, failed to prevent scuffles, which resulted in 16 people getting injured, the ambulance service said. A number of protesters carrying bunches of stinging nettles threatened to use them on gay activists. They insist that homosexuality runs against Georgia's traditional Orthodox Christian values. ...
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Dr. Greg J. Dixon
The present IRS scandal didn’t start with the Obama administration. Nixon had his “Enemies list”, and it was the IRS that brought Al Capone to heel, not the FBI. Following is an excerpt from Chapter 8 of my book, The Trail of Blood Revisited that gives the details of how the Internal Revenue Service removed the tax-exempt status of the Indianapolis Baptist Temple, in Indianapolis, Indiana in May of 1995 and published it in their May IRS IRS Quarterly. They did it in order to punish us, thinking that it would destroy the church financially. It actually had the opposite effect, in fact the giving increased which showed that the members were not giving for the tax benefits but unto the Lord. The church had actually given up it’s exempt status voluntarily in 1984 but the IRS ...
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Pastor Joey Faust and Ramon Marroquin were represented by attorney Shelby Sharpe (May 14, 2013), in Tarrant Country Criminal Court (Fort Worth, Texas), in affiliation with the Rutherford Institute. He is known for the landmark Texas case affirming the right to homeschool. Faust and Marroquin were charged with interfering with police duties for crossing a police "scrimmage" line at a 2012, Fort Worth Gay Pride parade (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuxOaOdipcI&feature=youtu.be). (http://christiannews.net/2012/10/31/texas-pastor-jailed-for-preaching-at-pride-event-awaits-court-date/)
The police were permitting other citizens to cross the street, but members of Kingdom Baptist were prohibited from continuing down the sidewalk. Faust and Marroquin disobeyed police orders and crossed the street because they did not believe the police had the Constitutional right to prohibit them, while allowing other Christians, etc., to cross. During the bench trial, the state placed the two arresting officers on the witness stand (one was a lesbian). They ...
