Year: 2018

Mercury News

YOUNTVILLE — Three women and one man have been found dead after a veteran receiving PTSD treatment took three hostages at the Yountville Veterans Home in Napa County, law enforcement officials said.

It appears one of the dead individuals was the gunman, who killed himself, law enforcement officials said.

“This is a tragic piece of news, one that we were really hoping we would not have to come before the public to give,” said CHP Assistant Chief Chris Childs.   Continue reading “Gunman kills three hostages, self in Napa County veterans home”

AOL

WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) – A military parade requested by President Donald Trump will take place in November on Veterans Day in Washington D.C., but to minimize damage to roads it will not include tanks, a Pentagon memo released on Friday said.

Last month Trump asked the Pentagon to explore a parade in celebration of American troops, after the Republican president marveled at the Bastille Day military parade he attended in Paris last year.   Continue reading “Trump’s military parade planned for Veterans Day — without tanks”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Is the city of Oakland rejecting all forms of law enforcement? Just days after the mayor of the city forewarned the citizens of a looming ICE raid (and left 840 felonious illegal immigrants on the streets), it seems some of her citizens are taking her lead.

A barista at an employee-owned coffee shop in Oakland, Calif. ignited a controversy a few weeks ago when they asked a police officer to leave the shop because of a new policy that prohibits employees from serving police officers in uniform.   Continue reading “Oakland Coffee Shop Refuses To Serve Police In Uniform”

The Federal Observer

It matters not what the problems of the nation are – illegal immigration, gun (read, “people“) control, employment, abortion, health, education, welfare or anyone of a hundred or a thousand different issues – the problems will NEVER be resolved by those who we have been repeatedly sending over back to Washington, D.C. – some of them for many decades.   Continue reading “The Heart of the Problem”

The Great Recession

Bloomberg this week ran a story telling us how the smart money gets out of the stock market when it hits its all-time peak and how the dumb money helps the smart money out. Only they didn’t know that was what they were writing. It typically happens this way:

At the end of a deliriously euphoric market rally when the market is preparing to crash, all the Joe Sixpacks, mom and pop and the family dog open trading accounts and try to chase the tail of market action. Many throw in their entire retirement funds, pawn the dog’s collar and take out loans on credit cards to buy in as much as they can. By buying in late, they help provide a smooth exit for the smart money. At least for some of it. It is the little guys, tough from hard labor, whose muscles are employed to push the money bags of the rich to the top of the mountain from which the little guys are allowed to jump off.  Continue reading “The Dumb Money is Helping the Smart Money Exit the Stock Market”

Fox News

Kristian Saucier, the former U.S. Navy sailor who served a year behind bars for taking photos of classified areas in a nuclear submarine, has been pardoned, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Friday.

Saucier recently received a letter from the Department of Justice saying it was taking a new look at his request for a pardon. Although he was released from jail last year, he remained under house arrest.   Continue reading “Trump pardons former Navy sailor imprisoned for taking photos on nuclear submarine, White House says”

Edward Hewes Gordon Clark

How silver was demonetized in the United States, in such a way that even the President who signed the bill^[1] knew nothing about it for two years, was long a mystery.  Of late, a good deal of nauseous courtesy has been wasted over it, among old party-hacks, in the Senate and elsewhere.  But there is very little doubt that this deadly drain upon our life-blood — this vampire-suck at the daily sustenance of every man, woman and child in the land — was bought and paid for, like the ooze of a slaughter-house, by the Bank of England and the Jews of Frankfort.  Continue reading “Shylock’s Masterpiece — “The Crime of 1873.””

Mercury News

YOUNTVILLE — A military veteran receiving PTSD treatment has holed up with three hostages after getting into a brief shootout with police at the Yountville Veterans Home in Napa County, officials said.

A little after 3:30 p.m., law enforcement released a number of residents who were on lock down in a separate area of the building.

Jim Thomas, vice president of the Veterans’ Group at the Yountville Veterans Home said that he had been in a meeting when the shooting first started at 10:30 a.m.   Continue reading “Gunman takes hostages at Napa County veterans home after shootout with police”

NJ.com

A suspected drunk driver who fled the scene of an accident told a police officer he did so because he felt scared because the crash occurred in “redneck country.”

The crash happened Sunday at the intersection of Route 15 and Houses Corner Road in Sparta, Sussex County.

Michael Gormley, 48, of Morristown was turning onto Houses Corner Road in his Chevrolet pickup when he hit another vehicle that was making a turn, Lt. John Lamon said.   Continue reading “Suspected drunk driver fled crash because he felt scared in ‘redneck country’”

KDVR

DENVER — The National Rifle Association has given more than $7 million in grants to hundreds of U.S. schools in recent years, according to an Associated Press analysis, but few have shown any indication that they’ll follow the lead of businesses that are cutting ties with the group after last month’s massacre at a Florida high school.

Florida’s Broward County school district is believed to be the first to stop accepting NRA money after a gunman killed 17 people at one of its schools Feb. 14.   Continue reading “Denver Public Schools to stop accepting several NRA grants”

ABC News

The smirk wiped off his face, a crying Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison for securities fraud Friday in a hard fall for the pharmaceutical-industry bad boy vilified for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug.

Shkreli, the boyish-looking, 34-year-old entrepreneur dubbed the “Pharma Bro” for his loutish behavior, was handed his punishment after a hearing in which he and his attorney struggled with limited success to make him a sympathetic figure. His own lawyer confessed to wanting to punch him in the face sometimes.   Continue reading “‘Pharma Bro’ gets 7 years in prison in securities fraud case”

NJ.com

The federal government has been advising a beach town on the Jersey Shore on plans to build a pier and start a ferry service that would speed New Yorkers to the doorstep of a resort co-owned by Jared Kushner.

Kushner’s seaside resort sits right next to the proposed pier, which places the federal government in the awkward position of helping steer a project that would benefit President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser.   Continue reading “Jersey Shore town seeks fed backing for ferry dock near Kushner-owned resort”