From the Trenches World Report
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A young blonde girl in her late teens, wanting to earn some extra money for the summer, decided to hire herself out as a “handy woman” and started canvassing a nearby well-to-do neighborhood. She went to the front door of the first house and asked the owner if he had any odd jobs for her to do.
“Well, I guess I could use somebody to paint the porch” he said. “How much will you charge me?” Continue reading “Paint my porch”
NEWARK, N.J. – (AP) — Allies of New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez have launched a coordinated public relations campaign to support him through what is likely to be a long and expensive legal fight over federal corruption charges.
Menendez pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges this week that he accepted nearly $1 million in gifts and campaign contributions from a longtime friend in exchange for a stream of political favors. Continue reading “Sen. Menendez using campaign money for defense website”
JACKSONVILLE, Florida – Tito and Amanda Watts were arrested over the weekend for selling “golden tickets to heaven” to hundreds of people. The couple, who sold the tickets on the street for $99.99 per ticket, told buyers the tickets were made from solid gold and each ticket reserved the buyer a spot in heaven — simply present the ticket at the pearly gates and you’re in.
“People can sell tickets to heaven,” a Jacksonville police spokesman said. “But the Watts misrepresented their product. The tickets were just wood spray painted gold with ‘Ticket To Heaven – Admit One’ written in marker. You can’t sell something as gold when it’s not. That’s where the Watts crossed the line into doing something illegal.” Continue reading “Couple Arrested For Selling “Golden Tickets To Heaven””
Yahoo News – by MARYCLAIRE DALE
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Michael Casciolo had left his penthouse apartment with a black laundry bag stuffed with high-grade marijuana when he saw a half-dozen men in dark clothes and ski hats pick up the pace down the hallway.
“My first immediate thought was, it was the Mafia and I was getting robbed,” said Casciolo, a thin man with sunken eyes who was dressed in a gray suit and tie. “I was thinking: Everything is catching up to me.” Continue reading “Convicted drug dealer testifies against 6 former officers”
Lincoln, Neb. (CBS ST. LOUIS) – Nebraska State Sen. Ernie Chambers made a series of controversial comments regarding police officers, saying that if he carried a gun he’d shoot an officer first and ask questions later.
An audio recording from KFOR 1240 uncovered Chambers, who represents North Omaha’s 11th District and is the state’s only African-American senator, comparing law enforcement to Islamic State militants and saying he’d shoot a cop if he owned a weapon. Continue reading “Nebraska State Senator Says He’d Shoot A Cop ‘And Then Ask Questions Later’”
Information Liberation – by Chris
The jig is up. One of the state’s oldest scams for generating revenue is issuing “traffic tickets” for non-crimes like “speeding” under the guise doing so keeps the road safer (of course, this is a total lie), yet for a multitude of reasons ticket revenue is plummeting across America. While Hillary Clinton called for speed limits across the U.S. to be lowered to 55 mph a few years back, a number which coincidentally maximizes revenue, states have gone the other way, raising average speed limits to around 70, and in states like Texas the limit is as high as 85. Did all this new “speeding” translate to more dangerous roads? No, in fact it’s the opposite, the roads are safer than ever, and just as important, you’re less likely to be extorted by road pirates. Continue reading “Bureaucrats Panic As Traffic Ticket Revenue Plummets Across U.S.”
On a pre-programmed course in an old airfield in Alameda, Calif., a silverfish-shaped car meanders through a cardboard city full of frozen people and cut-out trees. Here at the edge of Silicon Valley, looking back across the bay at the San Francisco skyline and just minutes from Mercedes-Benz’s Research facility in Sunnyvale, the F 015 “Luxury In Motion” autonomous prototype vehicle makes its way — with the driver’s seat comfortably swiveled 180 degrees to face backwards. Continue reading “On the Road In Mercedes Sci-Fi Self-Driving Car of 2030”
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topping someone from putting up a small picture in front of the camera to make the speed limit 150mph or higher.
Now go turn the system back to normal and be sure to erase the black box data prior to the trail. But Judge, my car has the new Ford speed limiter so I could not have been speeding.
Ford (F) says that the newest edition of its S-Max car has “a new technology that scans traffic signs and adjusts the throttle to help drivers stay within legal speed limits and avoid fines.” Continue reading “New Ford car automatically obeys speed limits”
A Seattle architect named Katrina Spade has proposed a new solution for urban food production: convert the recently deceased into nutritious compost to feed the food crops.
The project is called the Urban Death Project, and it describes the process of turning dead humans into food as follows: Continue reading “Urban Death Project seeks to compost dead humans to feed the crops: has it really come to this?”
Oregon Live – by Emily E. Smith
Benito Vasquez-Hernandez has orange canvas slip-ons, a single spoon, a wristband he wears at all times. He has little else.
He lives in a small cell with a single window high above his head and sleeps on a skinny mattress resting on a cinderblock frame.
Vasquez-Hernandez is treated like any other inmate in the Washington County Jail. But he’s unlike every other inmate there. Continue reading “Oregon man commits no crime, but held in jail for 900 days”
Two high-ranking agents with the Secret Service are under fire for allegedly driving while drunk, and smashing their government vehicle into a White House barricade.
The Washington Post reported the Obama administration is investigating the pair. And Brian Leary with the Secret Service confirmed the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general is leading up the probe. Continue reading “Secret Service agents face fire for alleged drunk driving”
Residents of the Big Apple could start earning big bucks if an anti-idling bill to award New Yorkers for filming law breakers is approved by the City Council.
If adopted, the bill would establish a program that could let New York City residents earn cash rewards in exchange for submitting video evidence of people caught violating the city’s already strict anti-idling laws. Continue reading “NYC bill would let residents earn money by recording idling cars”
The Justice Department is building a national database that tracks vehicles’ movements around the U.S. in real time using information obtained from the Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) license plate scanning program, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The program not only tracks car, driver and passenger locations via high-tech cameras along highways, but uses data mining “to identify travel patterns.”
According to the newly uncovered documents, the primary goal of the program is to seize assets, such as cars and cash, to combat drug trafficking. But former and current officials told the Journal that the database’s use has expanded to hunt for automobiles associated with a slew of other crimes. Continue reading “Asset Forfeiture Drives Justice Department’s License Plate Tracking”
After 18 months of reporting and editorializing, and not until the day after the election, did the headlines acknowledge today what gun rights activists have been saying so long about Initiative 594: It’s a gun control measure, as affirmed by the Seattle Times and Seattle P-I.com.
And Wednesday morning, I-594 backers held a press conference to make it abundantly clear that passage of their 18-page gun control scheme was just the first step in pushing a more far-reaching agenda. That also affirmed what the firearms community had been saying all along, and been essentially pigeon-holed as paranoids by gun prohibitionists. Continue reading “Finally the Seattle press admits that I-594 is ‘gun control’”
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Examiner – by Dave Workman