From the Trenches World Report

The Shooter’s Log – by Dave Dolbee

This week, anti-gun lawmakers have been hard at work to amend House Bill 1016 into a passable version. All proposed amendments would still implement some of the most restrictive regulations for gun stores and force them to close. Your NRA-ILA continues to outright oppose House Bill 1016 and any anti-gun amendment proposed.  Please continue to contact your state Representative and politely urge them to OPPOSE House Bill 1016.   Continue reading “Gun Store Licensing Bill Proposes Anti-Gun Amendment”

BATR

The Department of Justice has a long record of acting as the dictatorship of jurisprudence. Acting like council to the mob, the “Consigliore” Attorney General plots protection rackets for the ultimate organized crime syndicate. Eric Holder is the latest in a long line of lawyers that distort and stretch credibility to the theater of the absurd. Making up legal arguments to distort or conceal culpability is a prime prerequisite to serve as the chief law enforcement thug for the current President.   Continue reading “Watergate to Fast and Furious”

Computer World – by Patrick Thibodeau

Two brothers were sentenced Friday to 87 months in prison for running an H-1B fraud scheme intended to create a low cost, on-demand workforce, federal law enforcement officials said.

Atul Nanda, 46, and his brother, Jiten “Jay” Nanda, 45, were each sentenced by Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn, the Chief U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, to 7 years and two months in federal prison, according to U.S. Attorney John Parker. The brothers were recently convicted by a jury following a trial.   Continue reading “Judge sends two to prison for 7 years for H-1B fraud”

Vermont Watchdog – by Bruce Parker

Data from the Vermont Department of Health show that more than one-third of refugees resettled in Vermont test positive for tuberculosis.

Since 2013, about 900 refugees admitted to the Green Mountain State have been tested for tuberculosis, a potentially fatal infectious disease affecting the lungs. Of that number, 318 refugees, or 35.4 percent, tested positive.   Continue reading “More than one-third of refugees in Vermont test positive for tuberculosis”

Everyone knows that a farmer works “from sun to sun”, but few people understand why he’d be stupid not to, so a brief look into the economics of food growth is in order. Let’s imagine, for the sake of having a model, that this short list is everything you have to do to get a tomato plant to grow in a pot, and produce food:   Continue reading “Economics and Politics of Gardening”

NCPR – by Zach Hirsch

Right now there’s national conversation about civil rights for transgender people. In the North Country, many schools and workplaces are figuring out how to help everyone feel included. But according to activists in Plattsburgh there’s a long way to go.

Outside a church where a brainstorming session was about to start Wednesday evening, Jamie Young from Plattsburgh lit a cigarette. She started transitioning from male to female back in the 1980s, and now she’s comfortable being herself. But she said her family still doesn’t fully accept her; they still refer to her as “him.” “And there are people like that, where you can debate them until you’re blue in the face, and you’re always wrong and they’re always right,” Young said.   Continue reading “Activists outline LGBTQ priorities in Plattsburgh”

Reuters

Fire crews have extinguished a fire that raged in Oregon after a Union Pacific Corp train carrying crude oil derailed on Friday and burst into flames, the Federal Rail Administration said.

The accident, which forced the evacuation of a school and the closure of a highway, has renewed calls for stronger regulation to guard communities against crude-by-rail accidents.   Continue reading “Fire extinguished in Oregon after train carrying oil derails”

ABC News 13

AT&T and Cricket Wireless customers are reporting widespread service outages in the Houston area and throughout the country, according to reports on social media.

The outage seemingly began at some point on Friday afternoon.   Continue reading “AT&T, Cricket customers report widespread wireless outages”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Is everyone paying attention to what is happening here? Righteousness is being stomped into the ground. During the course of the last few years homosexual marriage popped up here and there and became a huge issue and then the Supreme Court ruled in favor of it and people interpret that as some new law which it is not. Just after that transgenderism and the discussion of open bathrooms became a big issue. We are seeing a huge trend right now. Anything unrighteous is creeping in and within a year or two it becomes common place and is accepted by the masses. This little boy handing out Bible verses OUTSIDE of the school is considered “offensive”. But men going into a woman’s bathroom is not. A man who will be in the same bathroom as your daughter.

Continue reading “Elementary School Calls Police On 7-Y-O Boy For Sharing Bible Verses”

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“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win…”
— Muhammad Ali

“If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.”
— Muhammad Ali

“I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.”
— Muhammad Ali

“How tall are you? So I can know in advance how far to step back when you fall down!”
— Muhammad Ali   Continue reading “Crazy, I’m havin’ tears – R.I.P. Ali”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Go to college, study hard, get a good paying job – that’s the mantra heard by most students across America as they wind down their high school careers.

Intuitively taking out loans just to go to college because everyone says so isn’t a good idea, and a new study by the NBER finds that in fact, students who left for-profit schools during the 2006-2008 timeframe were worse off after attending. A key factor, as the WSJ reports, is that most of these students never earned a degree, they dropped out.Making matters worse, and certainly contributing to the fact that over 40% of student borrowers don’t make payments, is the fact that these students borrowed to attend the colleges.   Continue reading “Get To College, Get A Job, Get Poorer: Students Are Worse Off After Attending For-Profit Colleges”

WFAA

FORT HOOD, Texas — Officials at Fort Hood have confirmed they’ve found the bodies of four missing soldiers, bringing the total dead to nine after a Light Medium Tactical Vehicle overturned in flood waters Thursday morning.

“Our focus now is on notifying next of kin and caring for our soldiers who have lost one of their teammates ,” said Maj. Gen. John Uberti during a news conference early Friday night.   Continue reading “Bodies of missing Fort Hood soldiers found; 9 dead”