Author: Angel - NYC

Dacula Patch – by Deb Belt

The sun was out, not a hint of a summer thunderstorm around Saturday when Sean O’Connor went out to do some yard work.

But a crash that blew his boots off and across the driveway, where they lay smoldering, made him realize he’d just been hit by lightning.

“Just as I picked up the rake, I heard a loud crashing sound,”O’Connor told WGCL TV. “A few moments later I was picking myself up off the ground. I had the taste of blood in my mouth. I noticed my leg was burning a little bit.”   Continue reading “GA Man Survives Lightning Strike That Blew His Boots Off”

AmmoLand

Massachusetts –-(Ammoland.com)- On Wednesday, GOAL held a pro 2nd Amendment rally and lobby day at the Massachusetts State House. The State House Park Rangers estimated the attendance at between 300-400. The rally and lobby day was held to oppose Speaker DeLeo’s gun control bill, as originally drafted, H. 4121.

GOAL Executive Director Jim Wallace meets with House Speaker DeLeo    Continue reading “Massachusetts Gun Owners’ Action League Members Rally Against H.4121”

AmmoLand – by Michelle Malkin

Los Angeles, CA – -(Ammoland.com)- “They don’t care.”

As Obama administration officials pivot like haywire jewelry-box ballerinas to divert attention away from the nationwide Veterans Affairs disgrace, a reader who has been fighting the system urged me to urge Capitol Hill and the American public to stay focused.

This former Special Forces soldier and medic served his country for 25 years. He worked in the health care field managing military field medical clinics.   Continue reading “A Fed-Up Veteran Blasts VA’s ‘Lie, Delay, Deny’ Abyss”

AmmoLand – by Alan Gottlieb

BELLEVUE, WA –-(Ammoland.com)- The Second Amendment Foundation today is demanding that school officials in Connecticut’s Regional School District 14 immediately rectify the district’s blocking of websites belonging to firearms rights advocacy groups, including SAF, and is considering prompt legal action if this is not accomplished.

The situation was revealed Wednesday when a student at Nonnewaug High School discovered while researching a class project that access to such sites, and other conservative websites, was blocked while access to anti-gun-rights websites was available.   Continue reading “Pro Gun Group Demands Immediate Fix To Connecticut School District’s Website Blocking”

ABC News – by MOHAMED OSMAN

A Sudanese woman sentenced to death for apostasy was freed Monday by a Khartoum court, and has rejoined her Christian husband with their two young children, her lawyer and state media said.

State news agency SUNA said the Court of Cassation threw out the death sentence against 27-year-old Meriam Ibrahim after defense lawyers presented their case. Her lawyer, Eman Abdul-Rahim, told The Associated Press that Ibrahim left prison and was with her husband. Her 18-month-old son, Martin, had been with her in jail, where she gave birth last month to a second child.   Continue reading “Sudanese Woman Sentenced to Death for Apostasy to Be Released”

New York Times – by CAMPBELL ROBERTSON and FRANCES ROBLES

NEW ORLEANS — All last week, people were calling Louis Charbonnet to find out how they might avoid lying down at their funerals. Funeral directors have called; so have people with their own requests, such as the woman who wanted to be seen for the last time standing over her cooking pot.

The calls started coming in to the Charbonnet-Labat Funeral Home during its June 12 viewing for Miriam Burbank, who died at 53 and spent her service sitting at a table amid miniature New Orleans Saints helmets, with a can of Busch beer at one hand and a menthol cigarette between her fingers, just as she had spent a good number of her living days.   Continue reading “Rite of the Sitting Dead: Funeral Poses Mimic Life”

AOL

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court convicted three Al-Jazeera journalists and sentenced them to seven years in prison each on terrorism-related charges in a verdict Monday that stunned their families and raised international outrage, with a chorus of voices denouncing the ruling as a blow to freedom of expression.

The verdicts against Australian Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohammed came after a 5-month trial that Amnesty International described as a “sham.” The group called Monday’s rulings “a dark day for media freedom in Egypt.”   Continue reading “Egypt sentences 3 Al-Jazeera reporters to 7 years”

CBS Detroit

DETROIT (WWJ) – It’s a basic human right: water. But could the United Nations soon help the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department provide the service to struggling customers?

Water department spokeswoman Curtrise Garner says it’s a possibility — but for now, the water bills must be paid.

“We do have programs that do help those that are just totally in need; can’t afford it — but we also know that there are also people who can’t afford it would can not pay and we know this because, once we shut water off, the next day they are in paying the bill in full. So we do know that that has become a habit as well,” said Garner.   Continue reading “Nearly Half Of Detroit Water Customers Can’t Pay Their Bill”

Huffington Post

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Grand Ole Opry member Jimmy C. Newman, known for mixing Cajun and country music, has died.

Opry publicist Jessie Schmidt said Newman died in Nashville on Saturday after a brief illness. He was 86.

The Tennessean reports (http://tnne.ws/1lhA3YI ) Newman’s first Top 10 country hit, “Cry, Cry, Darling,” came 60 years ago, in the summer of 1954. That same year he joined Shreveport-based radio show “The Louisiana Hayride,” where he performed alongside Johnny Horton, Elvis Presley and others.   Continue reading “Jimmy C. Newman: Grand Ole Opry Member And Cajun Country Pioneer Dies At 86”

New York Daily News – by John Marzulli

It’s already been a very expensive year.

The $40 million Central Park Five settlement would boost 2014 city payouts in police misconduct and civil rights suits past last year’s total. And there’s still six months to go.

The legal tab, if the Central Park deal is approved, would hit $101 million this year, compared to $96.3 million for all of 2013, according to figures provided to the Daily News from City Controller Scott Stringer’s office.   Continue reading “With $40M Central Park Five deal, city’s payouts in NYPD, civil rights suits are higher than last year”

Global Research – by Joachim Hagopian

The world’s most powerful chemical manufacturer, Monsanto, and the powerful food and agri-industries have had their way in America for many decades. Through the power of lobbyists pouring money into the hands of corrupt lawmakers, US presidents, and federal agencies like the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), until just recently they have successfully squelched any grassroots movements made by the American people concerned about the food they eat and its effect on their physical health.   Continue reading “Vermont and the People are “Fighting Monsanto” for their Lives and For Now “They are Winning””

WTNH – by Kent Pierce

FAIRFIELD, Conn. (WTNH) – A left behind school project caused an alert that shut down train service on Metro-North and Amtrak for several hours Friday morning.

“It has been determined that this was an unfortunate accident and there was no malicious intent,” Fairfield police said in a statement (see full statement below).

Police shut down Unquowa Road over the tracks by the Fairfield train station around 5:30 a.m. because a public works crew found something on a railing up there, something the experts didn’t like.   Continue reading “Discarded school project halts morning commute”

Front Page News – by Daniel Greenfield

Bill Bratton has destroyed his reputation in a short amount of time by becoming a mouthpiece for Bill de Blasio. Taking the job was a poor idea since crime rates had dropped so low that they were bound to rebound, especially under a pro-criminal mayor like De Blasio. All that Bratton had done is set himself up to take the blame and join the ranks of failed NYPD commissioners like Lee Brown who did what a liberal mayor wanted instead of fighting crime.   Continue reading “Bill de Blasio’s Police Commish to Teach NYPD About 5 Pillars of Islam”

The Guardian – by Jon Swaine

New York City’s counter-terrorism chief has claimed that Muslim Americans from the city have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join jihadist groups such as Isis, and could return to attack the US.

John Miller, the deputy commissioner of intelligence for the New York Police Department, said New Yorkers were among more than 100 American Muslims fighting with Islamists in the Middle East.   Continue reading “NYPD terror chief: New Yorkers among American Islamists in Middle East”

AmmoLand – by Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- Mass shooting situations trigger a tsunami of public emotion, so there are enormous incentives for politically correct reporters to “interpret” them in certain ways for political purposes.  They are often complex events that take time and careful investigation to unravel.   In the recent shooting in Las Vegas, two police officers and a concealed carry permit holder were killed by the two attackers, who also died.

The last three deaths occurred in a Wal-Mart, which, I am told, has some of the most complete surveillance camera systems of U.S. retail establishments.   Continue reading “Change in Las Vegas Shooting Story Prompts Alternate Theory”

AmmoLand – by Alan Korwin

PHOENIX, AZ –-(Ammoland.com)- The lamestream media told you:

Nothing.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

I finally got the answer! After months of wondering and asking–

The man currently in the White House has flagrantly broken so many laws, and violated the oath of office so many times — with 535 members of Congress, why hasn’t one, not one, stood up on the floor of Congress, called him out on any of it, and sought his impeachment? Why?    Continue reading “Why Hasn’t Obama Been Impeached Already? The answer – Joe Biden”

New York Times – by Ashley Parker

WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee on Friday ordered Representative Don Young, Republican of Alaska, to pay a fine of almost $60,000 for using campaign money for personal purposes and for accepting “impermissible gifts.”

After a 14-month investigation that examined 25 trips that Mr. Young took between 2001 and 2013, the committee found that 15 of those trips — to hunting lodges with his family and staff — were “inappropriate.” It also found that Mr. Young, 81, had failed to report certain gifts on his financial disclosure forms.   Continue reading “House Ethics Panel Orders Alaska Republican to Pay Fine”