Month: March 2015

Camping Survival Blog

Continue reading “CNN News -Police advocates: We’re worried about recent spate of ambushes”

Yahoo News – by Joe Mandak

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man and his fiancee have sued Rent-A-Center and a western Pennsylvania police department claiming he was wrongly arrested because company employees falsely said he had a gun when they came to repossess furniture.

Tyrie Sheppard and Sade Fallin say the Rent-A-Center workers went to their home in Wilkinsburg, near Pittsburgh, on Dec. 27 to repossess a bed and refrigerator after the couple missed a payment. The couple contends they owed less than $200, missed the payment only because she gave birth to their child days before and already had a court date scheduled to resolve the matter when Rent-A-Center workers arrived.   Continue reading “Couple sues Rent-A-Center, police over gun report arrest”

From Abigail.

An old American lived close to New York City for more than 40 years. He would have loved to plant potatoes in his garden, but he is alone, old and weak. His son is in college in Paris, so the old man sends him an e-mail. He explains the problem:

Beloved son,

I am very sad, because I can’t plant potatoes in my garden. I am sure, if only you were here, you would help and dig up the garden for me.  

I love you,

Your Father.

The following day, the old man receives a response e-mail from his son:

Beloved Father,

Please don’t touch the garden. It’s there that I have hidden ‘the THING’.

I love you, too,

Alan

At 4pm the US Army, The Marines, the FBI, the CIA and the Rangers visit the house of the old man, take the whole garden apart, search every inch, but can’t find anything. Disappointed they leave the house.

A day later, the old man receives another e-mail from his son.

Beloved Father,

I hope the garden is dug up by now and you can plant your potatoes. That’s all I could do for you from here.

I love you,

Alan.

MassPrivateI

This summer beware: Is your neighbor having a cookout? Call the police, they could be a terrorist!

This is no joke, it’s a sad state of affairs when no one is questioning the absurdity of the alleged war on terror (barbecuing)!

The following B.S. bulletin prepared by the DHS of Intelligence and the FBI’s Directorate of Intelligence and the National Counterterrorism Center was issued in January to law enforcement and first responders throughout the country.   Continue reading “Warning: Your neighbor’s BBQ could be a terrorist meeting”

Politico – by Nick Gass

Valerie Jarrett says she plans on staying in the White House until the end of President Barack Obama’s term.

In an interview with The New York Times Magazine published Friday, the president’s senior adviser discussed politics and policy and made clear that she wants to stick around until Jan. 20, 2017.   Continue reading “Valerie Jarrett: I’ll stay at White House ‘until the lights go off’”

Gallup – by Justin McCarthy

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans continue to name the government (18%) as the most important U.S. problem, a distinction it has had for the past four months. Americans’ mentions of the economy as the top problem (11%) dropped this month, leaving it tied with jobs (10%) for second place.   Continue reading “Americans Name Government as No. 1 U.S. Problem”

Huffington Post – by Andy Campbell

A bill introduced to the Texas House of Representatives would make it illegal for private citizens to record police within 25 feet.

House Bill 2918, introduced by Texas Rep. Jason Villalba (R-Dallas) on Tuesday, would make the offense a misdemeanor. Citizens who are armed would not be permitted to record police activity within 100 feet of an officer, according to the Houston Chronicle.   Continue reading “Texas Bill Would Make Recording Police Illegal”

The Newspaper

A US Department of Justice report released earlier this month called into question the predatory tactics of traffic police and municipal court in Ferguson, Missouri. The high court decided on Monday to clear the bench and put Court of Appeals Judge Roy L. Richter in charge of all the city’s cases in the St. Louis County municipal court.

“Judge Richter will bring a fresh, disinterested perspective to this court’s practices and he is able and willing to implement needed reforms,” Chief Justice Mary R. Russell said in a statement. “Extraordinary action is warranted in Ferguson, but the court also is examining reforms that are needed on a statewide basis.”   Continue reading “Missouri Supreme Court Stops Ferguson Motorist Shakedown”

RT

The laundry list of problems affecting the Pentagon’s F-35 fighter jet reportedly includes a high rate of false alarms from its large array of sensors. The expensive defense project is being criticized for producing an unreliable and unaffordable weapon.

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has a number of sensitive sensors, and engineers have a hard time teaching its software to interpret the data they provide. The information must be checked against so-called threat libraries, and files of signatures of known threats.   Continue reading “F-35 sensors plagued by false alarms – reports”

Mail.com

NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of faking an ownership stake in Facebook to justify a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against its founder Mark Zuckerberg has vanished.

Paul Ceglia, who was under house arrest pending his May 4 trial, jumped bail by slicing off an electronic monitoring device and creating a crude contraption to make it seem as though he was moving around inside his home, authorities said.   Continue reading “Facebook fraud suspect on the lam; family, dog also missing”

Mail.com

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Police in Eugene, Oregon, say a 39-year-old driver apparently set herself on fire, crashed her car on a bridge and jumped 40 feet to a park below.

The woman is being treated for critical injuries at a Portland-area hospital. According to The Register-Guard newspaper (http://is.gd/ZBElBA ), someone called 911 Thursday afternoon and reported a car appeared to be on fire from the inside, with the woman at the wheel driving recklessly.   Continue reading “Police: Oregon driver sets herself on fire, jumps off bridge”

Oregon Live – by Emily E. Smith

Benito Vasquez-Hernandez has orange canvas slip-ons, a single spoon, a wristband he wears at all times. He has little else.

He lives in a small cell with a single window high above his head and sleeps on a skinny mattress resting on a cinderblock frame.

Vasquez-Hernandez is treated like any other inmate in the Washington County Jail. But he’s unlike every other inmate there.   Continue reading “Oregon man commits no crime, but held in jail for 900 days”

Yahoo News – by ALICIA A. CALDWELL

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents in a sweep targeting the most dangerous criminal immigrants arrested 15 people who have been allowed to remain in the U.S. under President Barack Obama’s executive action intended to protect children who came to the U.S. years ago with their parents, The Associated Press has learned.

Fourteen of the 15 had been convicted of a crime, the Homeland Security Department confirmed late Thursday. In at least one case, the Obama administration renewed the protective status for a young immigrant after that person’s conviction in a drug case, a U.S. official briefed on the arrests said.   Continue reading “15 immigrants protected from deportation arrested in sweep”