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The one percent declare the stock market is the measure for all of the people. The facts tell a different story.
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KXAN – by Andy Jechow and Lauren Lanmon
HAYS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — The vaccination debate unexpectedly came to the Hays CISD Facebook page on Monday following two posts about a planned “emergency response and mass vaccination drill” at Hays High School.
The bioterrorism drill, from 7:30 a.m. until noon on Tuesday, took place in the high school parking lot, involving area first responders and volunteers. Hays County says they hold this kind of drill to practice the emergency distribution of relief items, vaccinations and medication and health assessments.
“This particular scenario was based upon an anthrax release in the county,” said Hays County Emergency Preparedness Coordinator Mike Jones. “We take that as a terrorist event or bioterrorism.”
Continue reading “How a bioterrorism drill turned into a vaccination debate at Hays CISD”
Four employees with the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) have been accused of producing fake IDs for illegal immigrants in exchange for cash.
In October 2015, state police received an anonymous letter alleging that a corrupt RMV clerk was selling stolen identifications and drivers’ licenses, according to the Justice Department.
After investigating, authorities found that a number of RMV clerks, along with outsiders, operated an identity theft scheme and arrested six people on Wednesday. Continue reading “DMV workers made fake IDs for illegal immigrants: feds”
The Tennessean – by Amy K Nixon
Three Cheatham County Sheriff’s deputies have been placed on administrative leave after a Pegram teen filed suit in federal court accusing them of using excessive force while he was being held at Cheatham County Jail.
Jordan Elias Norris, 19, has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court accusing the deputies of deprivation of civil rights, citing the use of excessive force and failure to protect after he was repeatedly stunned with Tasers in the jail in November 2016. He suffered more than 40 pairs of Taser burns, many of which are unaccounted for by authorities, the lawsuit states. Continue reading “3 deputies placed on leave after lawsuit claims excessive force was used on teen inmate”
The Baltimore Sun – by Kevin Rector
For the second time in as many weeks, Baltimore police body-camera video has emerged showing what defense attorneys say is officers planting drugs on a criminal defendant.
Josh Insley, a local defense attorney, released the footage Tuesday, a day after the Baltimore state’s attorney’s office dropped all charges against his client based on concerns raised by the video. Insley said he believes the video shows officers “engage in what appears to be a staged recovery of narcotics,” and that he will be pursuing legal action against the police department. Continue reading “Attorney for woman in drug case says body-camera footage shows officers planting drugs”
DENVER — A man in a wheelchair said he was ticketed because he couldn’t get across the road during the signal’s allotted time and now he’s fighting the citation.
Kyle Wolfe said he was passing through 19th and Lawrence streets in downtown Denver.
Wolfe said he started to cross the street when the signal indicated it was his turn to go. Continue reading “Man in wheelchair says he was ticketed because he couldn’t cross road fast enough”
The Daily Sheeple – by Claire Bernish
You are not free. In the one nation imperiously touting freedom as a star-spangled guiding principle, you are not free to enjoy a peaceful existence unmolested by armed revenue-reapers of the State — collecting rainwater, selling lemonade, living off-grid, charitably tending the homeless, and even feeding stray animals, all require you pay up, permit up, or license up — or be remanded to a cage for an intellectually insulting period of time.
Yes, apparently, leaving food and water for a small colony of feral cats gives the State sufficient premise to rob a pair of animal good samaritans blind — because, nary an issue exists government couldn’t royally mangle — turning otherwise law-abiding people into paupers and criminals, and souring public trust and sentiment in the process. Continue reading “Criminalized Freedom: Couple Fined Hundreds, Face Possible Jail, for Feeding Stray Cats”
One News Now – by Steve Jordahl
Wanting a better life for his family than that offered under California’s social and economic policies, a naval reserve officer and father of four moved them to Texas – and he’s offering to help his fellow conservatives who find themselves trapped in a similar onslaught of liberalism.
In Venezuela, protesters are violently clashing with police after what most observers say were “sham” elections giving President Nicholas Maduro almost unlimited power as the socialist country crumbles around him. Paul Chabot of Conservative Move argues that what’s happening in that South American country is the result of an out-of-control government and a widening gulf between the rich and the poor – exactly what he sees happening in California. Continue reading “Great escape: From liberalism to conservatism”
A woman is dead, a man is missing and seven are in the hospital after an explosion caused a school building to collapse in Minneapolis today, the Minneapolis Police Department said.
The explosion set the building at Minnehaha Academy on fire and the flames were further fed by a ruptured gas line, according to police. The fire has since been put out, police said. Continue reading “1 dead, 1 missing after school building collapse in Minneapolis”
Since she was little, Shiloh Jolie Pitt knew he was a boy trapped in a girl’s body, first he started by asking his parents to let him dress and wear short hair like a boy, he even asked to be called John.
As he grew up, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were by his side always supporting him, they are both loving parents after all, and would do anything to see their children happy. Continue reading “11 Year Old Daughter of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Starting Gender Transition”
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Archive: ITTBF 8-2-17
BERLIN (Reuters) – A medical examination showed a 96-year-old German known as the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz” was fit to start serving his prison sentence, German prosecutors said on Wednesday, but his lawyer said a court should decide whether he was well enough.
Oskar Groening was sentenced to four years in prison in 2015 for his role in the murder of 300,000 people at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz in what was seen as one of the last major Holocaust trials. Continue reading “German prosecutors say ‘bookkeeper of Auschwitz’ fit for prison”
The Jerusalem Post – by Herb Keinon
China steps to the plate and offers a Chinese vision to peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
China’s expressed interest in getting more actively involved in trying to solve the Israeli-Palestinian issue stems from a concern that any explosion in the Middle East could jeopardize its oil and gas supply from the region, Israel’s former ambassador to China Matan Vilna’i said on Tuesday. Continue reading “China pushing its four-point peace plan”
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Archive: TWFTT 8-2-17
No choice, hate going into town but had to today, have to get water, eggs and maybe butter. Water store is easy, four five gallon jugs (water in NM is not safe to drink less purified due to old mines, etc) at $1.25 each, that just leaves some gas for the old car and… Walmart. Other stores short of Dollar Tree are too outrageously expensive to shop at, $6-7 a pound for weird looking “beef.” Chicken is usually cheap, only $3-4 a pound, sometimes it drops to $2. Well, the budget got tighter than ever this year, live with my mother and we keep the water, power and internet going, that alone just about zeroes out the meager budget, I work on her place and keep it held together, lots of repairs, etc since she bought it and more to go yet. TV last night (I got the old antenna that came with the place finally turned around and working three years later, not a high priority since we are not TV people, we always just used the internet) had something on the news about how the egg market crashed, eggs are so cheap they are throwing them away to save money, hell they might just give them away! Alright, that works for me! Let’s go to town today and take care of the monthly business and look for those cheap eggs that have been FLOODING the market for over six months. Continue reading “Had to go to the store today”
Several recent media reports on tight labor markets may have been entirely wrong. New numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggest that the construction labor market is not as tight as these news outlets might want us to believe.
According to a report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research by Brian Dew and Kevin Cashman, several figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics seriously bring into question the claim that there is a construction labor shortage. Numerous media reports have stoked this belief, such as a recent report from the Dallas News, which claimed that the lack of available labor is amongst the biggest concerns of homebuilders in the state of Texas. Continue reading “Reality Check: No Sign of a Construction Labor Shortage”