Hurricane Irene Heads For Southeast U.S. Coast

America lucked out last hurricane season- but it appears we won't be so lucky this year...


Category 1 Hurricane Irene continues to churn the Atlantic waters near Hispanola (Dominican Republic/Haiti) this Tuesday morning.

Weather model forecasts (shown here close to landfall the GFDL and HWRF models) for Irene take her close to the eastern Florida coast and possibly on-shore somewhere near Wilmington NC possibly by Saturday evening.

It would be a good time for residents on the east Florida- Georgia- South and North Carolina coasts to ready themselves for a possible Category 1 to 3 hurricane in the next few days.

MetroRegion Kansas City News: St. Joseph Home Invasion Results in Homicide

The "Killa City" mentality is spreading to other nearby cities...


The ST. JOSEPH NEWS-PRESS reports a resident was killed Monday night- "shot in the head 2 to 3 times-" during a home invasion in St. Joe.

There were "five adults and four children" in the home when 2 suspects broke in- and the undescribed victim was shot by a "tall, thin, dark-skinned black male" says the SJN-P.

Kansas Citians Get Gouged Again By Terrorist Oil Companies

I call the oil companies terrorists because their manipulation of gasoline/fuel prices are CERTAINLY un-American and a detriment to this country's shaky economy!


You recall recently when the price of a barrel of oil dropped dramatically- nearly $18 per barrel- to around $80- but gasoline prices dropped maybe a penny or two a day- and leveled out around the $3.30-$3.35 per gallon mark.

Even though a barrel of oil's price has risen about $4 from the low of $80- this morning finds gas stations- mainly Quik Trips- have raised the gasoline price DRAMICALLY again- around a $0.15 per gallon rise to as much as $3.52 per gallon!

Americans will tolerate anything these days....

The 74th Homicide of 2011 in KC-MO

If you liken civic violence to the flu- the Plaza Incidents would register as a sniffle- but the recent spate of killings in KC-MO should rate as a full-blown coma...


Late Monday night- a 52-year-old woman was shot and killed in the Old Northeast area.

Police report getting the call around 11:40 p.m. late Monday night to a shooting in the 3500 block of East St. John.

EMS rushed the victim to a hospital- but she passed away from her injuries later.

The victim's 27-year-old son-in-law was the prime suspect in the shooting- and police took him into custody at the scene.


The homicide sickness continues at virtually the rate of 1 per day in the past week- but it seems that KC-MO's "physician" elected officials are out playing golf....

CSW BREAKING: Homicide No. 73 in KC-MO

Police are investigating a shooting of a male in the 1700 block of Kansas Avenue.

The call came in to emergency services just after 2 p.m.- and there was also the report of a vehicle crashing into a tree related to this call.

Police arrived and found a male on the ground without a pulse.

EMS declared the man DOA..

Police had very vague suspect information- "possibly 2 black males seen running northeast" away from this scene.

Heavy Thunderstorms Monday Morning Soaks Kansas City- Omaha

Another round of heavy thunderstorms has moved through Metro Kansas City Monday morning- dropping nearly 2.5-inches of rain in parts of Johnson county KS and sparking several structure fires.


In Omaha- up to 7 inches of rain fell before the storms moved southeast toward Kansas City.

Several areas of Omaha near the Missouri River were flooded- according to the OMAHA (NE) WORLD-HERALD- and floodwaters caused some damage at Omaha's new baseball stadium north of downtown.


In Metro Kansas City- lightning is said to have sparked structure fires in Leavenworth county- in the 19500 block of Jarbalo Road and Lenexa KS- in the 8000 block of Summit.

Lightning also damaged a home in KC-MO- in the 600 block of West 67th Terrace- and may have caused the fire that injured 2 firefighters in the 10700 block of White.

Firefighters from several fire departments are fighting a barn fire in rural Cass county and- at 12:08 p.m.- Grandview MO fire crews were called to a roof fire at a house in the 12900 block of Corrington.

Up to almost two and a half inches of rain fell in south Johnson county KS- and Tomahawk Creek rose about 8 feet in an hour.

No flooding issues have been reported so far.

More thunderstorms are forecasted over these same areas later today into early Tuesday- with flash flooding becoming an increasing threat.

CSW BREAKING: House Fire With Injury in South Kansas City MO

At  10:45 a.m.- five companies of the KC-MO Fire department are sent to a house fire in the 10700 block of White.

First company arriving is Pumper 42- and they report "fire and smoke showing from a 1-story" house.

Three handlines are being used- and the lone occupant was reportedly outside when fire crews arrived- also there sounds to be some sort of water supply problem at this fire.

At 10:56 a.m.- all interior crews were ordered out of the structure- as an outside attack commences during a heavy thunderstorm.

At 10:57 a.m.- a firefighter asks for an ambulance for an unknown injury to  firefighters here.

A1 11:17 a.m.- EMS reports "2 firefighters with minor burns and smoke" inhalation.

One is "a 38-year-old female" and the other "a 58-year-old male-" both transported "non-emergency" to St. Luke's Plaza hospital (Research Med Center reports being "closed to all ambulances").

KC-MO Records Homicide No. 72 For 2011

Another has died by gunfire on the streets of Kansas City MO...

This shooting took place a few minutes before 1 a.m. Monday morning in the 2400 block of Olive.

Police found a male in his 40's with gunshot wounds there- and the victim died after being taken to a Metro hospital.

There isn't any suspect information available from police.

Employee Critically Burned After Vehicle Crashes into An Olathe KS Fast-food Restaurant

Around 12:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon- the woman driver of a SUV mistakenly accelerated into the side of a Church's Chicken fast-food restaurant in Olathe.

When the vehicle struck and pushed-in the side of the building at 124 North Clairborne- it splashed hot grease from the chicken fryers onto a 21-year-old male employee inside the restaurant- critically burning him.

He- and the 2 occupants of the vehicle- were taken to various hospitals- the injuries to the vehicle occupants being not life-threatening.

Incredibly- Republicrats Want To Raise Taxes on Lower to Middle-Income Earners

Actually- according to this ASSOCIATED PRESS story via MyWay News- the Republicrats want to let the Social Security or FICA (SS/FICA) payroll reductions you're enjoying now expire on January 1.

That equates to a tax increase folks.

Would the Republicrats approve raising the income-rate that the wealthy enjoy regarding Social Security?

You see- the maximum income taxed SS/FICA is $106800- if you made (yeah right) say $1-million- you would only pay SS taxes on $106.8k of that $1-mil.

If you make $10-million a year- you'd STILL only pay SS/FICA based on $106.8k of your income.


Social Security is going broke ONLY because the Federal government has used ("borrowed") the excess SS taxes for everything else- including foreign aid and the bloated defense budget.

If the Fed paid Social Security BACK all that it has borrowed- the SS fund would be fine- but the pollys in DC don't want to do that.


Or raise SS/FICA or ANY tax rates on the wealthy- like even billionaire Warren Buffet has suggested.


America can't continue to spend- spend- spend- but the government can't continue to turn to the Social Security fund to borrow- borrow- borrow.

Failure to give the lower and middle-income earners some sort of REAL relief in this Recession/Depression WILL result in really dark times ahead for many Americans (and hopefully- the pro-corporate/wealthy Republicrat Party).

CSW BREAKING: Shooting in KC-MO's East Side

Kansas City MO Fire-EMS reports "a male in his 20's" is in critical condition with multiple gunshot wounds" early Sunday morning.

The man's injuries were sustained in the 2400 block of Myrtle where several minutes after midnight the victim was shot at least 3 times by yet-unknown assailant(s).

Police are investigating.