From the Trenches World Report

This is B/S!!!!!!!!!!!!

It will soon become a national law, we’ve already see it happening in numerous states (MA) etc.

If one state can get away with it every other state will follow!

Where I Am

I. Am. The. Mom.

Let’s get one thing straight: no doctor or nurse is going to sequester my children in an exam room and talk to them privately. Period. This public service announcement made necessary because of this sign, posted at the check-in counter of my doctor’s office:   Continue reading “Michigan law requires doctors to have a private conversation with minors, parents banned”

Huffington Post – by Elizabeth Daley

PITTSBURGH, Pa. June 6 (Reuters) – A federal agent shot and killed himself inside a U.S. Department of Homeland Security building in Pittsburgh on Thursday afternoon, county officials said.

James McConaughy, 43, of Beaver Falls, was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:19 p.m. (2019 GMT) from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said. An autopsy is scheduled to take place on Friday. Continue reading “Federal Agent Commits Suicide In Pittsburgh Homeland Security Office”

LA Weekly – by Dennis Romero

You’re in the heat of the moment, rounding third, but then you must stop and ask, Can I have your verbal or written consent to have sex with you?

Sounds quite unspontaneous. But a law co-authored by L.A. state Sen. Kevin de Leon would have state-run college campuses establish an “affirmative consent” standard for its students.

According to the language of the bill, SB 967, students who want to have sex must essentially establish that there has been “an affirmative, unambiguous, and conscious decision by each participant to engage in mutually agreed-upon sexual activity.” In fact, the legislation says, …   
Continue reading “Verbal or Written Permission Could be Required For College Sex”

The Buffalo News – by Phil Fairbanks

In the end, it wasn’t just the videotaped beating of a handcuffed suspect on a sidewalk that got Buffalo Police Officer John A. Cirulli in trouble.

Cirulli also found himself in hot water for what he did later while the suspect sat inside a police cruiser. He hit him again.

Cirulli’s admission that he struck John T. Willet, 22, in the face a second time is part of a plea deal that could send the former officer – he resigned Friday – to federal prison for up to two years.   Continue reading “Buffalo police officer admits hitting suspect – twice”

This creature is the antithesis of a normal and healthy, functioning human being. In other words, liberals, progressives, or what have you. These creatures truly do have mental disorders. They should never be allowed to handle sharp objects….. Nor hold positions of any kind of authority.

But yet, there’s Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Henry Waxman, Bab’s Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, John Conyers, Sheila Jackson Lee, and their ring leader, “the boy”, the mental midget himself, Barry the Rat. All these, AND MORE, show and display the attributes of mentally deficient individuals.   Continue reading “Gwyneth Paltrow: Mean words hurt water’s feelings”

Jon Rappoport

Modeling or programming?

A Medai.com article, “Why is Predictive Modeling Essential to Healthcare?” offers this quote:

“…the algorithms of predictive modeling can analyze hundreds of data points to make a diagnosis or a prediction of risk.”   Continue reading “Obamacare: watch out, here comes “predictive modeling””

Lew Rockwell – by Laurence M. Vance

President Obama made a surprise visit over Memorial Day weekend to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. Following a performance by country music star Brad Paisley, the President addressed about 3,000 troops in a hangar on the base. Video of the event, as well as a transcript of the president’s remarks, are up on the White House website.

After a few jokes, the president personally thanked the troops:   Continue reading “Thank the Troops for Their Service? Speak for Yourself”

ABC News

GlaxoSmithKline PLC will pay $105 million to dozens of states to settle allegations that it unlawfully marketed its asthma drug Advair and the antidepressants Paxil and Wellbutrin.

Under the settlement announced Wednesday, the London-based pharmaceutical also agreed to rules that bar it from paying doctors to promote its products; providing financial incentives that encourage salespeople to market drugs for unapproved uses; marketing drugs using results from inadequate studies or making unapproved claims that a product was “better, more effective, safer or has less serious side effects,” according to a statement from California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris.   Continue reading “GlaxoSmithKline Agrees to $105 Million Settlement”

Mail.com

MONCTON, New Brunswick (AP) — Royal Canadian Mounted Police combed the streets and woods of this normally tranquil city Thursday in search of a man suspected of killing three officers in the deadliest attack on their ranks in nearly a decade.

The suspect, 24-year-old Justin Bourque, was armed with high-powered long firearms. He was spotted three times while eluding the massive manhunt that emptied roads and kept families hunkered in their homes in Moncton, an east coast city where gun violence is rare.   Continue reading “Hunt on for Canadian suspected in police killings”

Mail.com

WARREN, Mich. (AP) — General Motors said Thursday that it has forced out 15 employees for their role in the deadly ignition-switch scandal and will set up a compensation fund for crash victims, as an internal investigation blamed the debacle on engineering ignorance and bureaucratic dithering, not a deliberate cover-up.

GM took more than a decade to recall 2.6 million cars with bad switches that are now linked to at least 13 deaths by the automaker’s count. “Group after group and committee after committee within GM that reviewed the issue failed to take action or acted too slowly,” Anton Valukas, the former federal prosecutor hired by the automaker to investigate the reason for the delay, said in a 315-page report. “Although everyone had responsibility to fix the problem, nobody took responsibility.”   Continue reading “GM ousts 15 employees over ignition-switch scandal”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — An additional 18 veterans in the Phoenix area whose names were kept off an official electronic Veterans Affairs appointment list have died, the agency’s acting secretary said Thursday — the latest revelation in a growing scandal over long patient waits for care and falsified records covering up the delays at VA hospitals and clinics nationwide.

Acting VA Secretary Sloan Gibson said he does not know whether the 18 new deaths were related to long waiting times for appointments but said they were in addition to the 17 reported last month by the VA’s inspector general. The announcement of the deaths came as senior senators reached agreement Thursday on the framework for a bipartisan bill making it easier for veterans to get health care outside VA hospitals and clinics.   Continue reading “VA chief: 18 vets left off waiting list have died”

NPR – by CAMILA DOMONOSKE

Earlier this week, workers in Japan began constructing an underground “ice wall” around the melted-down nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. The wall is designed to stop hundreds of tons of radioactive groundwater from leaking into the nearby Pacific Ocean.

Building a subterranean wall of ice sounds a little crazy. NPR’s Geoff Brumfiel, who’s been covering the story, says it is a little crazy — but not as far-fetched as it sounds.   Continue reading “Wall Of Ice Surrounding Fukushima Will Contain Radioactive Water”

Yahoo Finance – by Aaron Task

Anyone who follows the financial markets in recent years has come to expect dramatic proclamations of doom from Peter Schiff, president of EuroPacific Capital.

Schiff remains an ardent critic of the Federal Reserve and hasn’t reversed his long-term concerns about the fate of the U.S. economy, currency and stocks.  But judging by the accompanying interview, he seems to have learned a lesson or two about the challenge of fighting in the Fed.   Continue reading ““The air is already coming out of the bubble” but Fed can delay collapse: Peter Schiff”

CBC News

As police hunted for Justin Bourque in a wooded area in suburban Moncton, N.B., this week, one of the primary concerns officers dealt with was determining exactly what weapons he was carrying with him,

Based on a widely circulated image of the suspect, B.C.-based firearms instructor Rod Giltaca identified the two long guns Bourque was carrying as a semi-automatic centre-fire rifle — possibly an M14 or a cheaper knockoff version — and a pump-action shotgun. Both guns can be obtained legally and are commonly used by hunters, he said.   Continue reading “Moncton shooting: Justin Bourque was armed with rifle, shotgun”