talking to your kids about ebolaThe Organic Prepper

You can’t turn on the television or radio lately without hearing a breathless report about Ebola.  Since most of our kids don’t live in bubbles, they’ve been hearing the same things you are.  If you’re worried, concerned, or downright afraid, can you imagine how a child must feel? To allay that fear, it might be time for an age-appropriate talk with them about Ebola.

I’ve always been of the opinion that if my child is old enough to ask the question, they are old enough to receive an age-appropriate answer. When my daughters were small, I’d filter the answer down to one sentence. If they were satisfied with that, I left it alone. If they asked further questions, I went into more detail. They know how much information they can handle, and I feel like, as parents, we are obligated to teach them. When they asked things I didn’t know the answer too, we always looked it up, which I felt was another teachable moment: the answers are there if you know where to look.   Continue reading “Talking to Your Kids About Ebola”

Fox News 

WASHINGTON – Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson vowed Friday to “transform and reform” the Secret Service in the wake of high-profile security failures that led this week to the resignation of the agency’s director, telling Fox News that an independent board will soon be asking the “hard questions.”

In an interview on “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Johnson said he plans to name members of that board “in the next couple of days.”

He declined to offer details about “who knew what, when” regarding recent security incidents but said: “I’m more focused on what we need to do to ask the hard questions.”   Continue reading “DHS chief Johnson vows to ‘transform and reform’ Secret Service, ask ‘hard questions’”

StoryLeak – by Michael Thomas

“Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron Says “Non-Violent Conspiracy Theorists” Are Just As Dangerous As ISIS”

“David Cameron told the U.N. that “non-violent extremism” is just as dangerous as terrorism and must be eradicated using all means at the government’s disposal.

He references 9/11 and 7/7 Truthers as examples of the type of extremism that must be dealt in a similar fashion to ISIS. Continue reading “British Citizen Turns Himself In To Scotland Yard After PM Cameron’s Inflammatory UN Speech”

Opposing Views – by Michael Allen

Angela Brown was charged with child endangerment and permitting a child to be present when possessing a controlled substance back on June 19.

Brown was giving her 15-year-old son Trey cannabis oil to treat his pain and seizures, which are due to a brain injury from 2011.

The Browns say an ER doctor suggested the Madison, Minn., family try medical marijuana, so they went to Boulder, Colo., and brought back some cannabis oil (video below).   Continue reading “Mom Going to Trial for Treating Son with Seizures with Medical Marijuana”

CDCEbolaxTruthstream Media – by Melissa Melton and Aaron Dykes

CDC officials have told us the outbreak of Ebola on American soil — the first ever Ebola patient diagnosed outside of Africa is here — but don’t worry, they have everything under control.

They have continually reassured the public that they have complete confidence in their protocols and the American medical infrastructure which will follow those protocols to a ‘T’.   Continue reading “CDC Director Contradicts Himself Live over How Ebola Is Spread”

diazThe Free Thought Project – by John Vibes

Video has recently surfaced showing Baltimore City Police Officer Gualberto Diaz breaking down the door of a Brighton Street apartment, just before he allegedly assaulted a number of the occupants inside, while pointing his gun and making death threats.

While these are the same actions that Diaz carries out in the line of duty every single day, this intrusion was not done under the color of law.   Continue reading “On Duty Cop Breaks into House Assaults Estranged Wife And Holds Family At Gunpoint”

Town Hall – by Katie Pavlich

In light of the first case of Ebola in the United States emerging earlier this week after Thomas Duncan traveled to and from the country of Liberia to attend a funeral (and then knowing he was infected, lied on a medical form before hopping on a flight back), many people are asking why flight bans or restrictions to Ebola stricken countries have not been put in place.

On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest essentially argued that because America has the ability to treat the disease, that it is unnecessary to implement travel restrictions in order to prevent it from coming here.  Continue reading “CDC Director Doubles Down on Lack of Flight Restrictions From Ebola Stricken Countries”

A screen from a YouTube video by Defense DistributedRT

Defense Distributed has offered a pre-sale of its new milling machine which allows buyers to print and assemble a steel AR-15 rifle in the comfort of their own home. The weapon is completely untraceable.

Ghost Gunner is the company’s new computer-numerically-controlled (CNC) milling machine. Unlike its so-called Liberator gun, which is a plastic gun design to be created via a 3D printer, the Ghost Gunner is the PC-connected hardware for manufacturing the lower receiver of the popular AR-15 rifle.    Continue reading “3D printer for creating untraceable AR-15 rifles hits market”

SOTT – by David Edwards, Raw Story

A Florida police officer has place been on paid administrative leave after cell phone video showed him using a Taser to stun a 62-year-old African-American woman in the back as she was walking away. In a press conference held at 3:15 a.m. on Wednesday, Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo announced that Officer Terry Mahan had been placed on leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.    Continue reading “Florida officer tasers 62-year-old woman in the back as she walks away”

metal-gun-inlineWired – by Andy Greenberg

When Cody Wilson revealed the world’s first fully 3-D printed gun last year, he showed that the “maker” movement has enabled anyone to create a working, lethal firearm with a click in the privacy of his or her garage. Now he’s moved on to a new form of digital DIY gunsmithing. And this time the results aren’t made of plastic.

Wilson’s latest radically libertarian project is a PC-connected milling machine he calls the Ghost Gunner. Like any computer-numerically-controlled (or CNC) mill, the one-foot-cubed black box uses a drill bit mounted on a head that moves in three dimensions to automatically carve digitally-modeled shapes into polymer, wood or aluminum. But this CNC mill, sold by Wilson’s organization known as Defense Distributed for $1,200, is designed to create one object in particular: the component of an AR-15 rifle known as its lower receiver.   Continue reading “The $1,200 Machine That Lets Anyone Make a Metal Gun at Home”