Month: October 2015

Senator Blumenthal

This morning at the Hartford Legislative Office Building, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced new legislation that would bar gun sales until background checks are complete. Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty (D-5), Newtown Police Chief Michael Kehoe and Connecticut gun safety advocates also joined in the call for legislative action to end the dangerous practice of default sales if checks are pending beyond 72 hours.   Continue reading “No Check, No Gun: Blumenthal, Murphy Introduce Legislation Barring Gun Sales Until Background Checks Are Complete”

Grabien

Less than six hours after the mass shooting today in Roseburg, Ore., President Obama called a press conference to demand new gun laws, a move he predicted would spur critics to accuse him of politicizing the issue. If they don’t accuse him of that, they might accuse him of making the tragedy about himself.

During today’s 12-minute address, President Obama referred to himself 28 times. (For those counting at home, that’s almost three times per minute.)   Continue reading “In 12 Minute Speech To America About Mass Shooting, Obama Refers To Himself 28 Times”

Front Page Mag – by Daniel Greenfield

It’s not exactly news that the media is there to help Obama. It’s not even news that the White House feeds talking points to the media. It just doesn’t usually do so at press conference while saying, “Print this.”

So now we’ve hit a new low in the pathetic disgusting relationship between Obama and his media lapdogs.   Continue reading “Obama Now Openly Telling Media what Propaganda to Print”

BBC News

Two people have been killed in a shooting outside New South Wales state police headquarters in western Sydney, Australian police say.

A civilian police employee was “callously murdered” at close range as he left work and had been deliberately targeted, state police commissioner Andrew Scipione said.

The gunman, who was killed by police fire, is yet to be identified.   Continue reading “Australia shootings: Two dead near Sydney police HQ”

My Budget 360

The middle class destruction train is moving full steam ahead if we are to examine Census figures closely.  And the American male has a first-class ticket on this express train to wage destruction.  According to the recently released Census figures full-time working males are earning less than they did in 1973 adjusting for inflation.  Purchasing power matters greatly even though there is this ongoing narrative that we are experiencing very little inflation.  Has anyone taken a look at housing costs, healthcare costs, or even college tuition?  The problem at the core of this salary stagnation is that productivity gains are simply not trickling down to the typical worker.  The Great Recession largely smashed male employment.  Males lost 3 out of 4 jobs in the Great Recession.  The financial crisis impacted everyone, male and female, but there is some interesting data to be examined from the figures for full-time working males.   Continue reading “Wage Apocalypse for the American man: Typical male worker earned less in 2014 than in 1973.”

BBC News

Is it snowing in India’s tropical southern city of Bangalore?

The pictures below would certainly make you think so.

Unfortunately, the reality is quite different: what looks like snow is actually harmful snow-white froth that floats up from the city’s largest lake and spills over into neighbouring areas.   Continue reading “India Bangalore lake of toxic snowy froth”

Off the Grid News – by Daniel Jennings

The United States simply is not growing enough vegetables to meet its needs, data collected by the USDA’s Economic Research Service indicates.

Around 1.65 cups of vegetables were available per person per day in the United States in 2013, even though dietary guidelines recommend a person consume 2.5 to 3 cups of vegetables a day, NPR reported, using government data.   Continue reading “The American Food Shortage You Knew Nothing About”

The Sleuth Journal – by Gaye Levy

When it comes to survival medicine, I make no claim of being an expert.  I am, after all, a mere layman with no medical training.  On the other hand, I do possess a good deal of common sense so when something seems a bit off, I do my own research and make decisions based upon data and not upon supposition.

Something that has always been “off” to me are expiration dates on pharmaceuticals.  Why is it that drugs always expire exactly one year after the date they were filled?  The truth, as I wrote about in The Myth of Expiration Dates on Drugs and Prescription Meds, is that those expiration dates are often bogus.   Continue reading “What You Need To Know About Using Old Drugs For Survival”

ABC News

The student and Army veteran who witnesses say charged the shooter at a community college in Oregon is alert and awake at the hospital as he recovers.

Chris Mintz, 30, was shot seven times during the Thursday rampage, but he says his main concern is about the others who were injured.

“I just hope that everyone else is OK,” he told ABC News this morning.   Continue reading “‘Hero’ Umpqua Community College Student Chris Mintz Speaks After Being Shot 7 Times”

KHOU 11 News – by Jeremy Rogalski

HOUSTON — Special Agent Marc Delpit with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms faces an aggravated assault charge for allegedly beating a man and threatening a high school football crowd at gunpoint.

Houston Police spokesman Kese Smith said the incident took place around 8 p.m. Friday in the parking lot of St. Thomas High School during halftime of the varsity football game between St. Thomas and Angleton high schools.   Continue reading “ATF agent faces charges for high school football game assault”

In January 2013, a month after the Sandy Hook hoax, Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin wrote a letter to Biden to request that the Obama administration not push for tighter gun restrictions and to let officials know that if stricter laws passed, he would not enforce them.   Continue reading “Douglas County Oregon Sheriff John Hanlin’s anti-gun control letter”

The Rundown Live – by Kristan T. Harris

Dixon police are checking to see if local vehicles are left unlocked under a new program called “Gotcha!”

A Reddit user posted an image of a ticket he received reminding him to lock up his vehicle by local Illinois authorities and claimed that the “local police department unlawfully” entered his “unlocked vehicle to prove a point.”   Continue reading “Police Enter Unlocked Vehicles to Remind You to Lock Up Under New “Gotcha!” Program”

Jon Rappoport

“In March, Mr. Obama submitted a plan to the United Nations detailing how the United States would meet its target [on reducing global warming]. It said it would do so chiefly through enactment of Environmental Protection Agency regulations on emissions from cars, trucks and power plants.” (New York Times, “Global Climate Pact Gains Momentum as China, U.S. and Brazil Detail Plans,” 6/30/15)

Translation of the above quote: Obama will bypass Congress and make global warming decisions for the future of America through executive fiat.   Continue reading “Obama, Pope, UN: con artists together”

Reuters – by Harriet McLeod

The federal trial for the man charged in the deaths of nine people at a South Carolina church was delayed on Thursday, as U.S. prosecutors told a judge they have not decided whether to seek the death penalty against the accused gunman.

In addition to state murder charges, Dylann Roof, who is white, faces 33 federal hate crime and firearms charges stemming from the killing of black churchgoers at Charleston’s historic Emanuel AME Church in June.   Continue reading “No death penalty decision as trial delayed in church massacre”

RT

Three people have died and one more has been critically wounded during a shooting which started in the front yard of a residence located directly across from Inglis Town Hall, Florida, Levy County Sheriff’s Office officials said.   Continue reading “3 people killed in shooting outside City Hall in Inglis, Florida”