http://www.drudge.com/user/snoofy New links and comments. en-us http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Wordzilla/0.58 10 http://www.drudge.com/news/167708/gop-group-digitally-removed-minorities http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/04/23/1909661/anti-voting-mailer/ A conservative group connected to Colorado's Secretary of State has been sending political mailers -- including a picture of a darker-skinned woman whose face was digitally removed and replaced with a white woman's face -- in an attempt to oppose a landmark voting bill that may soon become law....Secretary of State Scott Gessler, a frequent speaker at True The Vote events who uses his perch to warn about the supposed threat of voter fraud, is leading opposition to the bill, which is supported by a number of Republican County Clerks and the Colorado County Clerks Association. Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:58:15 -0400 snoofy http://www.drudge.com/news/167708/gop-group-digitally-removed-minorities#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.167708 discussion, 0.5 daily 167708 http://www.drudge.com/news/167601/fertilizer-company-kept-danger-feds http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/20/17838304-red-flag-texas-plant-had-1350-times-amount-of-chemical-that-would-trigger-oversight?lite The West, Texas, fertilizer plant that exploded on Wednesday, obliterating part of a small town and killing at least 14 people, had last year been storing 1,350 times the amount of ammonium nitrate that would normally trigger safety oversight by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Yet a person familiar with DHS operations said plant owner West Fertilizer did not tell the agency about the potentially explosive fertilizer as it is required to do. "This facility was known to have chemicals well above the threshold amount to be regulated under the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Act (CFATS), yet we understand that DHS did not even know the plant existed until it blew up," said Rep. Bennie Thompson, (D-Miss.), ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security. ... Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:31:30 -0400 snoofy http://www.drudge.com/news/167601/fertilizer-company-kept-danger-feds#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.167601 news, 0.5 daily 167601