Month: August 2014

RT

A police officer in central Texas has been placed on paid administrative leave while investigators consider whether a recent Facebook posting by the cop in which he discussed massacring food stamp recipients violated departmental policy.

According to KWTX News, Marlin Police Sgt. Rob Douglas already admitted that he authored a rant on his public Facebook profile last week mocking “the useless turd bags” he encounters at the grocery store on the first of the month — the day that public assistance, like welfare checks and food stamps, are usually made available to the needy.   Continue reading “Texas cop placed on paid leave for supermarket shooting spree Facebook threat”

RT

Supporters for the labeling of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in Colorado delivered a petition on Monday with about twice the number of signatures required for a ballot initiative to appear before voters in November.

Right to Know Colorado, the group backing the labeling effort, collected more than 170,000 signatures on the petition, according to the KDVR. A petition in Colorado is required to have 86,105 valid signatures from registered state voters for ballot initiative approval.   Continue reading “GMO-labeling movement poised for ballot initiative in Colorado”

RT

UK Foreign Office minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi has resigned from government, saying she can “no longer support” its policy on Gaza.

She told her Twitter followers that she was leaving with “deep regret”. She was previously chairman of the Conservative Party.

Lady Warsi became the first female Muslim cabinet minister when David Cameron took office in 2010. She was demoted from the cabinet to a middle-ranking FCO post in 2012 and became minister for faith and communities at the same time.   Continue reading “UK minister resigns over ‘morally indefensible’ Gaza policy”

Mail.com

Two American aid workers infected with Ebola are getting an experimental drug so novel it has never been tested for safety in humans and was only identified as a potential treatment earlier this year, thanks to a longstanding research program by the U.S. government and the military.

The workers, Nancy Writebol and Dr. Kent Brantly, are improving, although it’s impossible to know whether the treatment is the reason or they are recovering on their own, as others who have survived Ebola have done. Brantly is being treated at a special isolation unit at Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital, and Writebol was expected to be flown there Tuesday in the same specially equipped plane that brought Brantly.   Continue reading “US gov’t had role in Ebola drug given aid workers”

Mail.com

YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — Almost a decade after Richard Nixon resigned, the disgraced former president sat down with his one-time aide and told the tale of his fall from grace in his own words.

For three decades, that version of one of the nation’s largest and most-dissected political scandals largely gathered dust — until this week. Starting Tuesday, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Nixon’s resignation, portions of the tapes will be published each day by the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum and the private Richard Nixon Foundation. The postings begin with Nixon recalling the day he decided to resign and end Saturday — his last day in office — with the 37th president discussing his final day at the White House, when he signed the resignation agreement, gave a short speech and boarded a helicopter for San Clemente, California.   Continue reading “Nixon tapes released on resignation’s anniversary”

Mail.com

BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — The parents of a 6-year-old girl who disappeared from her Washington home and wasn’t reported missing for a day have agreed to take lie detector tests and allow a search of the home, a sheriff’s spokesman said Monday.

Both the home search and lie detector tests were in progress late Monday, Kitsap County Deputy Scott Wilson said. He said he doubted he would be able to discuss results. State child welfare workers removed two other children, an 8-year-old boy and 12-year-old girl, from the home earlier Monday.   Continue reading “Missing girl’s parents agree to lie detector test”

Mail.com

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A child crying on the television show “Game of Thrones” jogged a foster parent’s memory that he had left a 10-month-old girl inside a sweltering car while he and his partner smoked marijuana at their house, a police affidavit released Monday says.

Seth Jackson, 29, is charged with first-degree murder in the July 24 death in Wichita. No charges have been filed against his partner. Police say the girl was inside the car with the windows up for more than two hours. It was around 90 degrees outside. An autopsy showed she died of hyperthermia due to heat exposure.   Continue reading “Police: TV show reminded man that girl was in car”

WKRN 2 News – by Jason Mays

COLUMBUS, Ohio –A local woman is being tested for the Ebola virus after a recent trip to a foreign country. 

According to the Columbus Public Health Department, the 46-year-old woman is currently in isolation in a local hospital with a potential case of the Ebola virus. Continue reading “46-Year-Old Woman Hospitalized, Tested For Possible Ebola”

Daily Mail – by Anna Hodgekiss

A British doctor working in Sierra Leone has described the horror he and his team have witnessed since the deadly Ebola outbreak struck.

Dr Oliver Johnson, along with a team of British medics, was working to strengthen the health system in the country’s capital Freetown when the crisis took hold earlier.

When disaster struck, they decided to stay and ‘do everything they could’ to help – despite health workers being among those most at risk of contracting the virus.    Continue reading “British doctor working in Sierra Leone describes the horror of deadly disease”

CNBC

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Gang of Eight immigration bill (S.744) passed by the U.S. Senate last June, and voted for by both Tennessee senators – Lamar Alexander (R) and Bob Corker (R), would have roughly doubled the number of new foreign workers allowed into the country, as well as legalized illegal immigrants. To put into context the possible effects of this legislation on Tennessee, the Center for Immigration Studies has analyzed recent government data on employment.   Continue reading “All Tennessee’s Employment Growth Since 2000 Has Gone to Immigrants; Yet, Natives Accounted for 60% of Population Growth”

Liberty Unyielding – by Howard Portnoy

It takes a village … to stop a school district from loonily handing out condoms to 11-year-olds. From the Statesman Journal viaEAG News):

The Gervais [Oregon] School District’s board of directors agreed to hit the brakes on implementing its condom distribution plan, saying while it’s urgent to address teen pregnancy, more research needs to be done. Continue reading “School district halts condom giveaway to 6th graders after community uproar”

ABC News

The man who recorded video of a fatal police chokehold in New York City has been arrested on gun charges, police said Sunday.

Police said 22-year-old Ramsey Orta was arrested Saturday night on Staten Island, a few blocks from where officers confronted his friend Eric Garner on July 17.   Continue reading “Man Who Shot NYC Choke Video Held on Gun Charge”

Police One – by Ryan Parker, LA Times

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police found a shotgun that fell off an officer’s motorcycle and on Friday arrested the man accused of taking it from the area.

Takee Williams, 43, was arrested for grand theft after officers were able to track down the shotgun a few miles from where it came off the officer’s bike, according to a news release from the Los Angeles Police Department.   Continue reading “LAPD finds cop’s missing shotgun; man arrested”

Zero Hedge – by Chris Hamilton

US is Bankrupt: $89.5 Trillion in US Liabilities vs. $82 Trillion in Household Net Worth & The Gap is Growing. We Now Await the Nature of the Cramdown.

There are many ways to look at the United States government debt, obligations, and assets.  Liabilities include Treasury debt held by the public or more broadly total Treasury debt outstanding.  There’s unfunded liabilities like Medicare and Social Security.  And then the assets of all the real estate, all the equities, all the bonds, all the deposits…all at today’s valuations.  But let’s cut straight to the bottom line and add it all up…$89.5 trillion in liabilities and $82 trillion in assets.  There.  It’s not a secret anymore…and although these are all government numbers, for some strange reason the government never adds them all together or explains them…but we will. Continue reading ““The US Is Bankrupt,” Blasts Biderman, “We Now Await The Cramdown””

Canada Free Press – by Judi McLeod

Given the Marxist misery the Obama regime is spreading like farmer’s manure on their way to Utopia, legions have long suspected that the Democrats own a monopoly on evil. But recent antics of their star performers Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid et al may indicate that they’re plain crazy too.

Barack Hussein Obama, who has recently taken up repeating “The Bear is Loose’ during his random, royal walkabouts in lunchtime D.C., must have been thinking of Nancy Pelosi, who came on like a screeching banshee, not once but twice chasing down Republican Representative Tom Marino of Pennsylvania through the House Chamber.   Continue reading “Evil and plain crazy not a healthy combination”

American Freedom by Barbara

Governor Brewer orders that flags be lowered to half-staff from sunrise, August 5, 2014 until sunset August 11, 2014.” 

The senator, aged 68, left for a one-hour ride around 10am near Heber-Overgaard, Arizona. When he didn’t return his family went searching for him and found him dead with his horse nearby.   Continue reading “Arizona state senator Chester Crandell dies in horse-riding accident”