Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

At the end of the latest legislation session Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed a bill removing mandatory enhanced sentencing for criminals who use guns in the commission of their crimes.

He did this at the same time that he signed other legislation making it illegal for teachers to be armed on K-12 campuses for self-defense.

Liberal logic–teachers are not allowed to shoot back if under attack and criminals face no mandatory sentence enhancement for using a gun in carrying out an attack.   Continue reading “Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Bill Removing Penalty for Using Gun in Crime”

CBS News

Federal agents arrested the founder of a major drug company in an early-morning raid Thursday on charges stemming from an alleged scheme to get doctors to illegally prescribe a powerful opioid to patients who don’t need it.

John Kapoor, 74, was taken into custody in Phoenix, Arizona. Kapoor is the billionaire founder and former CEO of the pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics. He faces charges including racketeering, conspiracy, bribery and fraud.

Kapoor is the most significant pharmaceutical executive to be criminally charged in response to the nationwide opioid crisis.   Continue reading “Drug company founder John Kapoor arrested for alleged opioid scheme”

ZNet – by Greg Nichols for Robotics

Birds decimate crops, costing farmers tens of millions of dollars each year.

To stop that from happening, farmers have employed all kinds of gimmicks, from traditional scarecrows to nets.

If you’re ever driving through bucolic pastures and hear a boom suggestive of artillery, it’s probably a propane gun set off to scare away birds.   Continue reading “Farmers are firing automatic lasers at hungry birds”

Dr. Mercola

Eye-catching geranium flowers in white, pink, salmon, red, fuchsia, lavender or bi-colors are popular additions to gardens.1 Now found worldwide,2 geraniums are actually perennial plants that are native to South Africa3 and then brought to Europe in the 17th century.

Geraniums refer to more than 200 geranium plants,4 such as Geranium maculatum or wild geranium,5 Pelargonium peltatum or ivy geranium6 and Geranium “Rozanne” or hardy geranium.7 Out of these geranium species, however, only Pelargonium graveolens or rose-scented geranium8 can be safely consumed.   Continue reading “Geranium: Let This Herb Be Your Gateway to Better Health”

Daily Mail

Isolated and inhospitable, this huge collection of razor-sharp vertical rocks looks like the last place where wildlife would thrive.

The colossal ‘Grand Tsingy’ landscape in western Madagascar is the world’s largest stone forest, where high spiked towers of eroded limestone tower over the greenery.

But despite its cold, dangerous appearance, the labyrinth of 300ft stones is home to a number of animal species, including 11 types of lemur.   Continue reading “Inside the world’s largest STONE forest, where tropical rain has eroded rocks into 300ft razor-sharp spikes”

Bored Panda – by Viktorija G.

Trees have been around for about 370 million years, and as you can from these incredible pictures, there’s a good reason why they’ve survived for so long. Whether they’re growing in the middle of gale-force winds, on the tops of rocky platforms, inside concrete tunnels, or even growing out of each other, trees know how to survive in places that few living organisms can, which explains why the planet is host to around 3 trillion adult trees that cover an estimated 30% of the earth’s land. Considering that plants produce the vast majority of the oxygen that we breathe, we should all think ourselves very fortunate that trees are as resilient as they are. We wouldn’t even be here if they weren’t. Thanks guys! (h/t: twistedsifter)
Continue reading “Badass Trees That Refuse To Die No Matter What”

Dr. Sircus

The one thing that we can all agree on at this point is that the climate is changing. Mother Nature certainly has awoken with a vengeance with massive storms across the globe, earthquakes, floods, early snows and weakening and even collapsing ecosystems.

The climate is changing (it always does) but that does not mean climate change has anything to do with the fraud of manmade global warming. Climate change does not mean warming it means what it says though the great manipulators of public information decided for us a few years ago that climate change means manmade warming when it does not.   Continue reading “One Thing We Can All Agree On with Climate Change”

Epsilon Theory – by W. Ben Hunt, Ph.D.

These are baby-doll Southdowns, and yes, they’re exactly as cute as they look in this picture. We only have four today on our “farm”, as sheep have a knack for killing themselves in what would almost be comical fashion if it weren’t so sad. We keep them for their so-so wool, which we clean and card and spin and knit. It’s so-so wool because the Southdowns were bred for their meat, not their fleece, and I can’t bring myself to raise an animal for its meat. Well, I could definitely raise birds for meat. Or fish. But not a charismatic mammal like a baby-doll Southdown.   Continue reading “Sheep Logic – This Is The Age Of The High-Functioning Sociopath”

Telegraph

Tattoos can cause infections 15 years after they were drawn, doctors have warned after a woman was admitted to hospital suffering enlarged lymph nodes.

The 30-year-old Australian feared she had cancer after noticing painful lumps in her armpit.

However when doctors at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney removed the tissue it was found to be harmless.   Continue reading “Tattoos can cause infections 15 years later, warn doctors”

Ars Technica

Three years ago, Cody Wilson and his organization, Defense Distributed, released a $1,200 computer-numerically-controlled (CNC) mill called the Ghost Gunner. The machine essentially made home gunsmithing faster, cheaper, and more portable than ever before, but it had a limited scope (no pun intended). Initially, the Ghost Gunner only aimed (OK, maybe some pun intended) to complete unfinished lower receivers for AR-15 semi-automatic rifles.

Today, that scope widens: Wilson and Defense Distributed are now in the handgun business, too.   Continue reading “3D print a serial-free handgun at home with the latest Ghost Gunner update”

Teaching American History

“Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.” This is an observation of Dr. Tillotson, with relation to the interest of his fellow men in a future and immortal state. But it is of equal truth and importance if applied to the happiness of men in society, on this side the grave. In the earliest ages of the world, absolute monarchy seems to have been the universal form of government. Kings, and a few of their great counselors and captains, exercised a cruel tyranny over the people, who held a rank in the scale of intelligence, in those days, but little higher than the camels and elephants that carried them and their engines to war.   Continue reading “John Adams, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)”

American Lookout

A far left Antifa rioter in Portland, Oregon is heading to jail for five years for his involvement in an incident that left a police car burned. It’s good to see one of these thugs suffering the consequences of their actions.

The Oregonian reports:
Continue reading “Antifa Rioter In Oregon Gets Five Years In Jail For Torching Police Car”

Bloomberg – by Thomas Korosec

JPMorgan Chase & Co. was ordered by a Dallas jury to pay more than $4 billion in damages for mishandling the estate of a former American Airlines executive, but the verdict will probably be knocked down on appeal.

Jo Hopper and two stepchildren won the probate court verdict over claims that JPMorgan mismanaged the administration of the estate of Max Hopper, who was described as an airline technology innovator in a statement issued by the family’s law firm.   Continue reading “JPMorgan Ordered to Pay More Than $4 Billion to Widow and Family”

Washington Post – by Joe Davidson

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”

Mail carriers do their best in all kinds of weather, no question.

But the unofficial Postal Service motto promise of “swift completion” can be derailed by in-house human factors. And in some cases, those delays have been covered up, an investigation found, by intentional employee manipulation.   Continue reading “Probes estimate billions of delayed mail to facilities and point to Postal Service ‘manipulation’ by a few employees”

The window is closing for public input tomorrow (9/27/2017) when the public-comment deadline expires. Do something NOW because it’s coming to a neighborhood NEAR YOU !

URGENT NOTICE!

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 27TH IS DEADLINE TO SIGN & SEND COMMENTS ON BLM’S INTEGRATED INVASIVE PLANT MANAGEMENT Environmental Assessment:   Continue reading “BLM wants to apply 15 kinds of Herbicides over ~1,500 acres over the next 20 years”