Year: 2014

New York Times – by SHAILA DEWAN

ARNOLDS PARK, Iowa — For almost 40 years, Carole Hinders has dished out Mexican specialties at her modest cash-only restaurant. For just as long, she deposited the earnings at a small bank branch a block away — until last year, when two tax agents knocked on her door and informed her that they had seized her checking account, almost $33,000.

The Internal Revenue Service agents did not accuse Ms. Hinders of money laundering or cheating on her taxes — in fact, she has not been charged with any crime. Instead, the money was seized solely because she had deposited less than $10,000 at a time, which they viewed as an attempt to avoid triggering a required government report.   Continue reading “Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required”

KMTV – by Marjorie Sturgeon

The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a high risk recall for nearly 32,000 pounds of chicken from Murrry’s Inc. shipped nationwide.

The recall is for 12 ounce boxes of Bell and Evans Gluten Free Breaded Chicken Breast Nuggets and 10.5 ounce boxes of Bell and Evans Gluten Free Breaded Chicken Breast with a best by date of Aug. 9, 2015.   Continue reading “Bell and Evans breaded chicken products recalled”

BATR

If you are mystified about the insane policies that drive our country to the brink of oblivion, you need not be confused any longer.  The deranged fascists over on Free Republic have a new hero.  Attorney Steven Zak and contributor to Frontpage has an essay – The Old Right/New Left/Neo-Nazi Alliance – published on Frontpagemag.com.  Leave it to David Horowitz, that Trotskyite denier who wants you to believe he is an American conservative to feature the literalism of Zak.  Impervious to those who might place Mr Zak with the ranks of shyster representation, this lawyer turned writer doesn’t lack any chutzpah.  From his opening statement to his closing summary he is not shy about where he stands!    Continue reading “Israel-First NeoCons = anti-American Turncoats”

NBC News – by GIL AEGERTER

Lawyers for a nurse quarantined in a New Jersey hospital say they’ll sue to have her released in a constitutional challenge to state restrictions for health care workers returning to New Jersey after treating Ebola patients in West Africa.

Civil liberties attorney Norman Siegel said Kaci Hickox, who was quarantined after arriving Friday at the Newark airport, shows no symptoms of being infected and should be released immediately. He and attorney Steven Hyman said the state attorney general’s office had cooperated in getting them access to Hickox.   Continue reading “Nurse’s Lawyers Promise Legal Challenge to Ebola Quarantine”

This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is ‘UP.’ It is listed in the dictionary as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].

It’s easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?

At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP, and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends, brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and fix UP the old car.   Continue reading “Up”

The Newspaper

In Cilento, Italy, vigilantes shot the speed camera in Agropoli on Thursday. According to Salerno Today, the device was completely destroyed by shotgun slug rounds that took out all three of the device’s lenses.

In Lanobre, France, vigilantes knocked over and smashed a speed camera with a backhoe on Wednesday, La Voix du Cantal reported. On Thursday, a camera in Bassignac on the D922 was set on fire with gasoline. In Bores, vigilantes spraypainted a the speed camera on the RD937 white on Saturday. According to La Republique des Pyrenees, this was the tenth attack on the device.   Continue reading “France, Italy: Traffic Cameras Shot, Scorched, Smashed, Spraypainted”

New York Times – by MARC SANTORA and MICHAEL D. SHEAR

The Obama administration has expressed deep concerns to the governors of New York and New Jersey and is consulting with them to modify their orders to quarantine medical volunteers returning from West Africa as President Obama seeks to quickly develop a new, nationwide policy for the workers, according to two senior administration officials.

One administration official said the federal government has been pressing the governors to back off their decisions, which quarantine all medical workers who had contact with Ebola patients. But another official said the administration has not specifically asked the governors to reverse their policies.   Continue reading “White House Presses States to Reconsider Mandatory Ebola Quarantine Orders”

CDA Press – by Devin Heilman

COEUR d’ALENE – A peaceful rally had a few intense moments Friday afternoon in front of Coeur d’Alene City Hall.

Perturbed passersby exchanged words with a small group of same-sex-marriage opponents who spent several hours sharing their opinions vocally while holding signs and flags.

Zach Mahaney, of Coeur d’Alene, said he decided to confront the people rallying after reading a shirt worn by one of the men. The words promoted violence against gay men, suggesting they should be put to death.   Continue reading “Rally supports traditional marriage, Hitching Post”

Huffington Post – by Braden Goyette

Kaci Hickox, the first nurse to be quarantined under a strict new policy on her return from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, criticized her treatment in a Dallas Morning News op-ed on Saturday.

Her words echoed concerns voiced by medical professionals that a mandatory 21-day quarantine for doctors and nurses who have treated Ebola patients would deter volunteers from signing on to fight the epidemic.   Continue reading “Nurse Under Ebola Quarantine Criticizes Her Treatment”

WNYC – by Matthew Schuerman

A top U-S public health official criticized the governors of New York and New Jersey for imposing a three-week-long quarantine on health care workers returning from West Africa if they had direct contact with Ebola patients.

“We need those health care workers,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “So we do not want to put them in a position where it makes it very uncomfortable for them to even volunteer to go.”   Continue reading “Senior U.S. Public Health Official Slams NJ/NY Ebola Quarantine”

RT

German authorities fear there could be as many as 7,000 Muslim extremists in the country by the end of the year. Disenfranchised youths are particularly vulnerable to being recruited, while there are around 450 German extremists in Syria and Iraq.

The extremists all follow the strict interpretation of Islam known as Salafism and believe that jihad is a legitimate tool in their fight against the West, which they believe is an enemy of Islam. Hans-Georg Maassen, who is the head of Germany’s BfV domestic intelligence agency,told rbb-Inforadi that there are currently around 6,300 Islamic extremists in Germany, but this figure could rise to as many as 7,000 by the end of the year, AP reports.   Continue reading “Germany could be home to 7,000 Muslim extremists by Christmas”