From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
Self-admitted “undocumented” farm workers gathered in Olympia, WA, to protest work conditions at Driscoll’s fruit farms. With the help of an interpreter, they complained about having to work in varying weather conditions, such as rain, cold, and heat, you know, the things that come along with working in fields. I guess they want Driscoll’s to control the weather for them. Continue reading “Illegal Aliens Demand Better Work Conditions”
Why are there eight months of daylight saving each year?
It wasn’t always this way.
We started with six months in the 1960s, then moved to seven in the mid-1980s. Now, we spring forward an hour in March and don’t fall back until early November. Continue reading “Daylight saving time 2016: How big business benefits from more sunshine”
Governor Kate Brown laments over the “gun safety” bills that were defeated in the recent Oregon legislative session. “I will be working to develop legislation for the 2017 session and explore what might be achieved using my executive powers” she said at a press conference last week. When asked to clarify, she struggles to form complete sentences and unloads a string of “uhhh” and “ummm”, while trying to say she wants to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them, which is already the law, which was further bolstered by the passage of SB941 in the 2016 session. So, really, she’s already legislatively accomplished such things. Continue reading “Oregon Governor Vows “Executive Action” On Gun Control”
A newly-released 911 call provides more information about the final moments for a Florida man who was killed shortly after being Tased on Interstate 85 by two Coweta County Sheriff’s Deputies.
Chase Sherman’s parents said their son was hallucinating Nov. 20 after having a bad reaction to synthetic marijuana. Continue reading “911 call released in Coweta County Taser death”
Donald Trump‘s Chicago rally Friday night was canceled as large crowds of protesters amassed inside and outside the venue, leading organizers to fear for the safety of those gathered.
Five arrests were made and two police officers were injured, interim Chicago Police Superintendent John Escalante said during a press conference Saturday night. Of those five arrests, two each were made by the Chicago Police Department and University of Illinois police, and one arrest was made by Illinois State Police. One of the individuals arrested was a journalist. Continue reading “Trump Rally Postponed in Chicago as Large Crowds of Protesters Gather; 5 Arrested”
Keith Emerson, founding member and keyboardist of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and a prog rock legend, died Friday. He was 71. His bandmate Carl Palmer and the trio’s official Facebook confirmed Emerson’s death. TMZ reported that police found Emerson with a single gunshot wound to the head, though they could not confirm that Emerson died by suicide. “We regret to announce that Keith Emerson died last night at his home in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, aged 71. We ask that the family’s privacy and grief be respected,” the band wrote. Continue reading “Keith Emerson, Emerson, Lake and Palmer Keyboardist, Dead at 71”
Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner
Greene County, MO – The epidemic of mass incarceration is coming back to bite authorities in one American city. Because the Greene County jail is completely full, Springfield (pop. 165,000) is unable to arrest more than 12,000 people accused of crimes such as traffic infractions and misdemeanor assaults.
Missouri’s third-largest city has lost almost half a million dollars in less than a year from unpaid fines and fees. These lost extortion fees are likely the biggest concern to city officials. Continue reading “City Had to Stop Arresting Actual Criminals Because They Filled Up Jail with Non-violent Offenders”
San Francisco entrepreneurs Geoffrey Woo and Michael Brandt have come up with a revolutionary way for coffee lovers to get their early morning caffeine fix – chewable caffeine cubes. Each 35-calorie bite-sized ‘Go Cube’ is the equivalent of drinking roughly half a cup of coffee. So if you’re running late with no time to brew a fresh cuppa joe, just pop two cubes and you’re good to go. Continue reading “Chewable Coffee Cubes Offer a New Way to Kickstart Your Day”
BEND – Something didn’t seem right about the bullet hole in the top of Robert “LaVoy” Finicum’s white Dodge pickup.
Investigators from the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office could account for bullet holes in the left front hood, the driver’s side mirror and the front grille. They came from the AR-15 of a state trooper who had fired three times at the truck as Finicum raced at 70 mph toward a police roadblock on Jan. 26. Continue reading “Bullet hole on LaVoy Finicum’s truck traced to elite FBI team”
East Orlando Post – by Jacob Engels
While Ted Cruz proudly proclaims he is an Evangelical Christian, his campaign takes pains to hide the truth that Cruz and his pastor father, Rafael Cruz are Pentecostal Christians, a fact further hidden by having Ted and Heidi Cruz’s belong to the congregation of First Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist church in Houston, as their home church.
Both Cruz’s parents, his father Rafael a Cuban-born immigrant, and his mother Eleanor, born in Wilmington, Delaware, grew up in Catholic families. Both were among the millions of that left the Catholic Church since the 1960s to embrace Pentecostalism, a Christian movement estimated to make up 4.4 percent of the U.S. population, accounting for some 13 percent of evangelical churches in the United States. Continue reading “Ted Cruz: Closet Pentecostal”
Speaking at Common Cause’s ‘Blueprint for Democracy’ conference today, Edward Snowden used his time to speak out about surveillance, personal liberties and of course, the San Bernadino iPhone.
“The FBI says Apple has the ‘exclusive technical means’ to unlock the phone,” Snowden said. “Respectfully, that’s bullshit.” Continue reading “Snowden: FBI’s claim that it requires Apple’s help to unlock iPhone is ‘bullshit’”