Month: December 2014

Yahoo News – by Jo Piazza

It was the movie “Airplane!” come to life.

Sixteen people, fourteen passengers and two crew members, simultaneously began vomiting on a U.S. Airways plane from Israel to Philadelphia on Friday, forcing the pilot to make an emergency stop in Rome.

Various news reports identified a foul odor in the cabin, which caused the domino effect of illness.   Continue reading “In-Flight Nightmare—U.S. Airways Plane Grounded By Sick Passengers and Crew”

Castanet

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1” claimed the top spot at the box office for the third weekend in a row with an estimated $21.6 million.

The penultimate chapter in the massively successful franchise has now earned $257.7 million domestically. “Mockingjay – Part 1” is still about $78 million shy of where the previous installment, “Catching Fire,” was in its third weekend just last year.

Post-Thanksgiving is generally one of the year’s slowest box office weekends, with no new, wide releases.   Continue reading “‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1’ tops slow weekend at the box office”

DNA Info – by Ted Cox

WEST LOOP — The mayor and a leading Chicago congressman pledged Friday to rally undocumented immigrants eligible to take advantage of President Barack Obama’s executive order issued last month on immigration reform.

“This is a unique opportunity the president presented, and we have to make the most of it,” said Mayor Rahm Emanuel Friday after addressing the Illinois Business Immigration Coalition in an office at the Civic Opera House. “The light doesn’t go green for another 178 days. So we’ve got to get ready to make sure everybody’s prepared.”   Continue reading “Rahm, Rep. Gutierrez to Rally Immigrants Under Obama’s Executive Order”

NPR – by Krishnadev Calamur

We have more news today on The New Republic, which on Thursday announced that it was cutting its publication schedule, moving its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to New York and rebranding as a digital media company — decisions that prompted the departure of editor Franklin Foer and longtime literary editor Leon Wieseltier.

The majority of the magazine’s masthead resigned Friday, including senior editors Julia Ioffe, Noam Scheiber, executive editors Rachel Morris and Greg Veis, and contributing editors Anne Applebaum and Jonathan Chait. (You can find the full list over at Politico.)   Continue reading “Staffers Resign En Masse At ‘The New Republic’ Amid Planned Changes”

And will they get rid of Obamacare? No absolutely not.

Washington Examiner – by Philip Klein

On Dec. 24, 2009, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed President Obama’s healthcare law with a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority, triggering a massive backlash that propelled Republicans to control of the House the following year. On the Senate side, going into this year’s midterm elections, 25 senators who voted for Obamacare were already out or not going be part of the new Senate being sworn in next month. After Democratic losses on Nov. 4 and Saturday’s defeat of Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., the number has risen to 30. In other words, half of the Senators who voted for Obamacare will not be part of the new Senate.   Continue reading “Half of the Senators who voted for Obamacare won’t be part of new Senate”

Daily Caller – by Neil Munro

President Barack Obama’s immigration deputies released 30,862 foreign criminals into the United States’ cities and neighborhoods, according to a federal document.

The document also showed that Obama repatriated less than 1 percent of the 12 million illegals living in the United States during the 12 months up to October 2014.   Continue reading “Obama Deputies Free 30,862 Foreign Criminals”

Bloomberg View – by Francis Wilkinson

It was the most Republican of times, it was the most Democratic of times.

That’s the U.S. right now, a nation heading in two diametrically opposed directions. Where you live in the country has always influenced how you live. But divergent public policy choices, rooted in sharp partisan conflict, are heightening the geographic distinctions.  Continue reading “America Is Coming Apart at the Seams”

Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

MCALLEN, Texas — A previously deported criminal alien went to court to fight charges and deportation, claiming he was a citizen of the world, but lost the case and is currently awaiting a possible 20-year sentence.

Earlier this week 40-year-old Victor Manuel Blancas Rosas was convicted of illegally re-entering the country after a short trial where he represented himself and his mental sanity was brought into question but a judge had ruled that he was competent enough to continue.   Continue reading “Criminal Alien Fights Immigration Charges and Loses”

Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

Authorities are looking into a fatal wreck caused by illegal alien smugglers, trying to elude capture, that resulted in their death while injuring seven others.

The wreck took place Wednesday morning near the farming town of Ricardo, Texas about 15 miles north of the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in Sarita, Texas, according to information released by the Texas Department of Public Safety to Breitbart Texas.   Continue reading “Border Wreck Kills Two During Failed Human Smuggling Attempt”

Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

The results of DNA testing done by a European laboratory confirmed the identification of one of the 43 education students that had been kidnapped by police and later executed by a drug cartel.

On Sunday noon, Mexico’s Attorney General Jose Murillo Karam spoke in a televised press conference where he said that testing of human remains sent by his agency (PGR) to the University of Innsbruck had in fact given a match to Alexander Mora Venancio one of the 43 missing students.   Continue reading “Mexican Authorities Confirm Remains Are From One of 43 Missing Students”

Breitbart – by Brandon Darby

A Border Patrol agent is suffering multiple head fractures after an illegal alien attacked him and bashed his head in with a rock, according to several Border Patrol agents who spoke with Breitbart Texas on the condition of anonymity. The attack occurred near the Ajo Station of the Tucson Sector.

The agent was new to the U.S. Border Patrol agency. According to the sources, the illegal alien tackled the agent and used a rock to bash the agent’s head.   Continue reading “Illegal Alien Bashes Border Patrol Agent in Head with Rock, Agent Severely Injured”

CBS Boston

BOSTON (CBS) — Boston police say seven or eight young teenagers tried to rob a person in front of a Dorchester KFC on Friday night.

The male victim told police he was approached at 10:20 p.m. by a group of male and female teenagers outside the fried chicken chain at 481 Washington St. He said two young men demanded his cell phone and wallet while pointing a knife at him, according to police.

That’s when the victim said he had to swing a plastic bag with three cans of beer inside at the group to fend them off.   Continue reading “Boston Police: Man Swings Bag Of Beers To Fend Off Teen Robbers”

RT

Israeli airstrikes have hit targets near Damascus International Airport and in the town of Dimas near the Lebanon border, Syrian state TV reports.

“The Israeli enemy committed aggression against Syria by targeting two safe areas in Damascus province, in all of Dimas and near the Damascus International Airport,” the report said, adding that there were no casualties.   Continue reading “Israeli airstrikes hit near Damascus airport – Syrian state TV”

Thanks to Frost Jack.

Jim.com – by Lysander Spooner

I.  The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract between persons now existing. It purports, at most, to be only a contract between persons living eighty years ago. [This essay was written in 1869.] And it can be supposed to have been a contract then only between persons who had already come to years of discretion, so as to be competent to make reasonable and obligatory contracts. Furthermore, we know, historically, that only a small portion even of the people then existing were consulted on the subject, or asked, or permitted to express either their consent or dissent in any formal manner. Those persons, if any, who did give their consent formally, are all dead now. Most of them have been dead forty, fifty, sixty, or seventy years. and the constitution, so far as it was their contract, died with them. Continue reading “No Treason – The Constitution of No Authority”

Gun Watch – by Dean Weingarten

A judge in Alabama shows an example of both the deadly danger of a punch, disparity  of force, and the changes that ubiquitous cameras are bringing to the justice system.   It is also interesting how misleading the early reporting was.  From video evidence later on, it was clear that there was no fight.  One man was attacked, and responded to the attack.  It is clear that some people tryed to fit this into the “progressive elite” model of murder.  From the Original article:   Continue reading “AL: One Punch, One Shot, One Killed, Charges Dismissed”

The Black Sphere

Just because you have a business doesn’t make it yours; at least not when there is a Gay Mafia!

There is an update in the case of the farmer who didn’t want his private home used for gay weddings, and that is: it’s not about GAYS, it’s about MONEY!

Liberty Ridge Farms is the residence of Robert and Cynthia Gifford, who host events on their property; occasionally they allow wedding ceremonies in the house they live in.   Continue reading “Gay Mafia has NOTHING on THIS Mafia”

Survival Cache

Fire starting is at or near the top of all survival checklists with redundancy of method also on the list.  In reality, keeping the fire alive is arguably more important than starting one since the burning flame does the work, not the ignition.  But of course the fire must begin somehow.  Most kits have multiple ways of starting a fire, with usually about three to five different objects that can give birth to flame.  In my kit I have more than a dozen things that can start a fire and knowledge of at least five more ways that have been known to start fires.  But it makes little sense to carry around all of them since most have few or no advantages over other ways of igniting a flame.   Continue reading “15 Ways To Start A Fire”