Category: News

Gothamist

Because wantonly perpetuating anxiety and fear is the perceived calling card of major news outlets (especially on a slooooow Friday), NBC New York brings you another Ebola scaremongering tale: A Vegas-bound flight from JFK was held on the ground after a passenger vomited in-flight. Had the passenger been to Africa recently? Yes he had. Was the logical assumption that he’d just splashed Ebola all over the damn plane? You bet.

Firefighters and CDC officials met the passenger at the gate, where he was immediately quarantined. A “thorough assessment” followed, and it was determined the passenger did not have Ebola. He was just a guy who had been to Africa who puked on a plane. Nothing to see here, although this is disturbing: Continue reading “Nauseous Man On Flight Out Of NYC Quarantined Upon Arrival”

As I was thinking about Ferguson, MO. and the possibility of massive protests this weekend along with all the other news that is upon us right now this very moment, I started thinking about that letter Eric Frein supposedly left behind about the details on the night of the shooting.

I believe that not one of us here (including myself) and on other sites that commented about this letter besides it being a BS story caught what Mr. Frein actually said in this letter.

Tidbit from the letter,  Frein, 31, wrote that he ran back to his Jeep and drove into a road block about half a mile away, Bivens said.   Continue reading “Recalling the letter of Eric Frein”

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Last Resistance – by Dave Jolly

Have I ever said I hate unions? Rhetorically asked because the answer is I’ve said it many times and this is just one of many examples of why!

Blacks are still up in arms over the shooting death of a black criminal by a white police officer. They don’t care that the large youth had just held up a convenience store. They don’t care that evidence shows that he viciously attacked the police officer leaving the officer with a complete blowout fracture of his eye socket. They don’t care that the officer repeatedly told Michael Brown to stop, but Brown continued to attack the officer forcing the officer to shoot him. They don’t care that the autopsy showed that Brown was shot four times in the arm from front to back in the officer’s attempt to defend himself. They don’t care that Brown’s companion lied like Obama about what happened. They don’t care that the officer was forced to shoot Brown in the head when he attacked him one last time.   Continue reading “Chicago Teachers Union Busing Union Members to Ferguson for Protest”

9 News – by Brandon Rittiman

FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Nearly a year into legalized sales of recreational pot, the two main candidates for Colorado governor mulled the idea of repealing the law in a 9NEWS debate Thursday.

Republican challenger Bob Beauprez (a former congressman) advocated for a statewide vote on repealing the legalized sale of cannabis.

Gov. John Hickenlooper said a vote on repeal would be “premature,” but agreed there is cause for alarm over the effect the drug might have on young people.   Continue reading “Should Colorado repeal legal marijuana?”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

We warned a week ago of the various possibilities surrounding an Ebola outbreak in America, and today we get some degree of confirmation of a medical-based martial-law coming to the US. Governor Dan Malloy has declared a Public Health Emergency in Connecticut, authorizing the “isolation of any individual reasonably believed to have been exposed to the Ebola virus.” Simply put, as we noted previously, the State of Public Health Emergency allows bureaucrats to detain and force-vaccinate people without due process – despite not one single case being found in CT. If there is a major Ebola pandemic in America, all of the liberties and the freedoms that you currently enjoy would be gone.   Continue reading “Public Health Emergency Declared In Connecticut Over Ebola: Civil Rights Suspended Indefinitely”

So much for all the extra, high-alert, subway security BS they’ve spewing…

Gothamist

If we’ve told you once, we’ve told you a thousand times: it is inconsiderate to tie your used condom to a subway pole… or anywhere else in the subway system, for that matter. In fact—and this might come off as a little uptight—the only place you should be stashing your used condom is in a designated trash receptacle. (Or your freezer at home, pending approval from your roommates.)   Continue reading “Again: Please Don’t Tie Your Used Condom To The Subway Pole”

The Eagle – by Sam Peshek

The man in charge of a task force to ensure the state appropriately responds to infectious diseases like the Ebola virus said Monday that planning to contain or prevent future outbreaks of pandemic diseases and viruses is already underway.

“The game plan is to do a quick assessment of the current Ebola case and the response to it and make recommendations that can be helpful in short and long terms,” Texas A&M Health Science Center CEO Brett Giroir said. “Then we want to outline and engage the major topic areas that are important to the Ebola response and other responses in the future.”   Continue reading “Texas A&M’s Brett Giroir will lead Ebola task force in Texas”

Fox News – by Catherine Herridge

Convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan has written to Pope Francis espousing “jihad,” in his latest correspondence aligning himself with radical Islam.

Despite efforts by the Defense Department to label the 2009 massacre as “workplace violence,” Hasan has described himself several times, and again in the new letter, using the acronym “SoA,” or “Soldier of Allah.”   Continue reading “Fort Hood shooter sends letter to Pope Francis espousing ‘jihad’”

KVUE – by Mark Wiggins

FORT HOOD — Armored for battle against an invisible enemy, Thursday was a dress rehearsal for soldiers at Fort Hood preparing for deployment to Liberia. Their mission is to assist in a worldwide effort to combat the spread of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa.

“You’re fixing to do a great service for the world,” Texas Gov. Rick Perry told troops gathered for a training exercise in the use of protective clothing.   Continue reading “Fort Hood troops prepare to fight Ebola battle in West Africa”

Reuters – by Grant McCool

U.S. lawmakers agreed to use $750 million in war funds to fight Ebola in West Africa and seven more people in Spain were admitted to the hospital where an infected nurse lay seriously ill on Friday, as global concern grew about the virus spreading.

Countries from Macedonia to the Czech Republic to Brazil dealt with a rash of unlikely cases while Europe, the United States and the United Nations focused on trying to contain Ebola, which has killed thousands in West Africa.   Continue reading “U.S. to free up Ebola funds as fears of global spread rise”

The Organic Prepper

Did you ever think about dipping your big toe into the waters of “prepping” but it just all sounded so “out there” that you weren’t quite sure it was something you wanted to be involved in? Then this is the guide for you.

Maybe it made sense in principle, but then you watched that guy and his wife filter and drink their own pee on Doomsday Preppers and you said, “Oh, heck no.”   Continue reading “How to be a Prepper…But Not One of Those Crazy Ones”

Olive Bio Diesel

Under the Obama National Security Agency, the rise of journalistic Statism is reminiscent of Stalinism. Journalists have 3 choices: 1) Write only what pleases the Obama NSA, 2) Stop writing entirely, or 3) prepare to be persecuted via 24/7/365 e-surveillance, e-harassment (including electrical surges destroying your TV and computer), possible prison sentences contrived and concocted and physical organized stalking. Those who write the truths are infected with Morgellons, poisoned with Campylobacter jejune, have their cars, careers, home life and health care sabotaged.   Continue reading “Obama, NSA, and the Rise of Statism”

All Gov – by Steve Straehley

The Distressed Asset Stabilization Program (DASP) is a federal program that was meant to take nonperforming mortgages off the banks’ books and move them to an entity that would make the terms of their loans easier for homeowners to live with. Instead, the program, run by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), has turned out to be a money-maker for big investors.

A report (pdf) by The Right to the City Alliance and The Center for Popular Democracy shows that the FHA has auctioned 98,100 mortgages from 2012 to the middle of this year. For-profit entities, primarily private equity firms, have bought 97% of them. Once the homes are foreclosed on, the equity firms then rent out the houses and even sell securities based on future rent receipts.   Continue reading “Government Housing Program Backfires, Helps Wall Street Instead”

The Guardian

The US government on Wednesday asked a federal judge in Manhattan to dismiss a private civil lawsuit against an Iran sanctions group on national security grounds without any public explanation for the reason.

If the judge agrees, it would mark the first time the government had invoked the state secrets privilege without publicly explaining its motivation for doing so.   Continue reading “US invokes secrets privilege to request civil lawsuit against Iran sanctions group be dropped”

Looks like the hawk was exercising his first and fourth and possibly his second amendment rights.

Fox News

Filmed over Magazine Beach Park in Cambridge, Massachusetts recently, a large hawk gave Amazon a reason to rethink the company’s Prime Air drone delivery initiative. YouTube user and software developer Christopher Schmidt has been taking his Phantom FC40 quadcopter drone out into public areas to fly it around the skies a couple times each week. To capture 1080p video during his weekly flights, Schmidt uses a GoPro Hero 3+ Black attached to his quadcopter drone.   Continue reading “Hawk takes out quadcopter drone, reclaims the sky”