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WASHINGTON — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is facing federal civil charges of taking part in an influence-peddling scheme involving the city's public-employee pension funds.

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Jerry Sandusky's lawyer on Wednesday asked for a delay in the former Penn State assistant football coach's child sex-abuse trial, saying he needed more time to prepare and still was waiting for disclosure of prosecution material.

Defense attorney Joe Amendola argued in a 13-page motion that ...

WASHINGTON — The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service sought Wednesday to tamp down concern over wide-scale cuts, revealing it will seek to keep thousands of rural post offices open with shorter hours.

At a news briefing, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said the mail agency was backing off its plan to ...

Paul Joseph Watson | Public Affairs Director falsely claims document does not apply within U.S.

We are now in our last week of our Kickstarting the Butcher Shop at Sugar Mountain Farm. We made our initial goal of $25,000 for the butcher shop equipment thanks to all of you!

We made our second goal of an additional $5,000 for pouring the abattoir tower. Thank you, again!!

Some people have asked how high can we go? The sky’s the limit. There are more goals ahead such as pouring the floors of the abattoir, the roof of the abattoir, etc. Help spread the word to as many people as possible in this last week so as to raise additional funds for the higher levels where all backers can get additional rewards added on to rewards packages such as more sausage, hot dogs, bacon and other Goodies.

Spread the Word Game:

Win: T-shirts, mugs, DVDs, books plus more meat and other goodies on rewards tiers.

Goal: Get the word out in this last week. Let’s blast past a new level to help fund the next step: construction of the abattoir to bring slaughter on-farm!

The Message: Kickstart the butcher shop at Sugar Mountain Farm for pastured pigs http://smf.me Pls RT

Feel free to add to that but use at least those words and short link to get things spreading further.

Actions:

1. Tweet the message to followers
   Bonus Credit: Follow @SugarMtnFarm
   https://twitter.com/SugarMtnFarm
2. FaceBook write the message on your wall
   Bonus Credit: Like this post, Friend & Event “Finals Week”
   http://facebook.com/SugarMtnFarm
3. Blog the message above with some intro discussion.

Bonus Credit: link to a picture from the project so it shows on your blog - pictures attract attention and make people interested in things.

4. Discuss our project and mention the message in discussion lists - don’t spam though.

Leave a comment on Update #41 letting me know what you did.
e.g., 1,2,3,4.

Our project ends May 15th. If we can break through to the $35,000 level then backers can get extra meat and goodies added to their rewards as show in in the chart on Update #40.

On May 16th when our project is done, I’ll pick seven random winners from the commenters on Update #41: one for each day of this final week, to receive their choice of a T-shirt, mug, Sugar Mountain Farm Book, Farm Tour DVD, a small ivory pig tusk or extra meat in their meat package!

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