Ars Technica – by Beth Mole

If you ask the Internet what’s wrong with you when you’re not feeling well, it’s bound to break the news that you’ve probably got cancer or perhaps some rare, terminal disease. It doesn’t matter that you just have a mundane, generic symptom. You likely only have a few months left and you should start getting your affairs in order. Sincere condolences, poor Internet user.

With the Web brimming with such bum medical advice—alarming patients and irking doctors worldwide—Google is now rolling out new search tools to try to strip away the medical malarkey or at least shove it down deep in search results.   Continue reading “Googling medical symptoms may no longer convince you that you’re dying”

Free Thought Project – by William N. Grigg

Philadelphia, PA — As chief of Pennsylvania’s Bureau of Narcotics Investigation, Jonathan Duecker had just been handed control of the Philadelphia Gun Violence Task Force, which he wanted to turn into a sleek paramilitary unit. Duecker, an ex-DEA agent, wanted door-busters and ass-kickers, and his ambitions were impeded by a group of older officers who were still inhibited by scruples regarding due process and the Bill of Rights.   Continue reading “Top Cop Takes Over State Task Force, Removes the Good Cops to Create His Own Mafia”

KDRV 12 News

MERLIN, Ore. — A man is in custody after a standoff lasting more than five hours in Merlin.

SWAT team members are still out searching the property after arresting 70-year-old Mike Dills.

Oregon State Police troopers arrested him for possession and delivery of meth.   Continue reading “Update: Man Arrested After 5-Hour Standoff in Merlin, Oregon”

Eric_rudolphEric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966), also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, is an American convicted for a series of anti-abortion and anti-gay-motivated bombings across the southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed two people and injured over 120 others.[1]

Described by US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as a terrorist,[2] he spent five years on theFBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list until he was caught in 2003. In 2005, as part of a plea bargain, Rudolph pleaded guilty to numerous federal and state homicide charges and accepted four consecutive life sentences in exchange for avoiding a trial and a potential death sentence. He remains incarcerated at the ADX Florence Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.

Get Off the BS

Sources within the Santa Monica police department claim that James Wesley Howell, an Indiana man who was caught with explosives and weapons on Sunday Morning, told the Santa Monica police that as many as five people were involved in planned attacks on gay communities in both Florida and California.

According to the LA Times, Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks initially said on Twitter that the 20-year-old Indiana man (James Howell) told one of her officers after he was arrested that he wanted “to harm the Gay Pride event.”  

Continue reading “Howell and Four Other Suspects Involved in Planned Sunday Massacres”

Grant Pass Daily Courier

MERLIN — State police urged people to stay away from a location in downtown Merlin shortly before 3 p.m. Wednesday because of an armed standoff.

An OSP spokesman said that they attempted to serve a search warrant at 126 Galice Road and the person barricaded himself inside the residence. More details were not available.   Continue reading “Armed standoff in Merlin, OR continues”

Xerox News

The New Jersey E-ZPass Group has awarded Xerox an eight-year contract to enhance its E-ZPass® System customer support. Xerox will provide a state-of-the-art customer service center, violations processing, and financial back-office services for the New Jersey E-ZPass System.

Once fully operational, drivers will be able to contact support representatives through phone, e-mail, fax, a mobile application, web and online chat functions. Additionally, all customer correspondence will be presented in a single, dynamic dashboard, allowing agents to view past customer information and tailor the support as needed.   Continue reading “Xerox to Help New Jersey E-ZPass Enhance Customer Experience, Simplify Operations”

Liberty Fight

Paul Elam of ‘An Ear for Men’ has a very interesting video analysis of the San Diego, CA District Attorney’s recent video targeting domestic violence victims.

During the video, he points out an undeniable bias against men, as well as a very interesting study which notes “286 scholarly investigations, 221 empirical studies and 65 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 371,600. [- Martin S. Fiebert, Department of Psychology, Cal State University, Long Beach.]   Continue reading “Advocate Warns: “Male Domestic Violence Victims Should Not Seek Help in San Diego or Anywhere Else””

NBC News

House Democrats led by Civil Rights veteran Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, are in the midst of a sit-in on the chamber floor to try and force a vote on gun control.

“Now is the time for us to find a way to dramatize it, to make it real,” Lewis said. “We have to occupy the floor of the House until there is action.”

Then Lewis and House Democrats sat.   Continue reading “House Democrats Hold Sit-In on Gun Control”

This is a list of LGBT rights organizations around the world. For social and support groups or organizations affiliated with mainstream religious organizations, please see List of LGBT-related organizations and conferences. For organizations affiliated with political parties, please see List of LGBT organizations that affiliate with political parties.

See the list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LGBT_rights_organizations

Courthouse News – by Tim Ryan

WASHINGTON (CN) – New gun-control legislation unveiled Tuesday by a bipartisan Senate group echoes proposals to close the so-called “terror loophole” rejected just a day earlier.

Demands for gun control have reached a fever pitch in the week since a gay nightclub in Orlando became the site of the deadliest shooting in the country.   Continue reading “New Guns Bill Has Support Across the Aisle”

Courthouse News – by Adam Klasfeld

MANHATTAN (CN) — Newly free from a Supreme Court challenge, New York’s attorney general deployed the state’s tough gun laws for the first time against three federally licensed dealers accused of selling more than 100 assault weapons.

New York’s case against the owner and employees of Jackson Guns and Ammo in Henrietta, N.Y. marks the first prosecution under the Safe Act, which the state passed shortly after the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
“The SAFE Act stops criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from buying a gun by requiring universal background checks on gun purchases, increases penalties for people who use illegal guns, mandates life in prison without parole for anyone who murders a first responder, and imposes the toughest assault weapons ban in the country,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo says on a government website for the law. “For hunters, sportsmen, and law abiding gun owners, this new law preserves and protects your right to buy, sell, keep or use your guns.”   Continue reading “First Weapons Bust Under Tough N.Y. Gun Law”