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'Let's Whoop Some Ass': St. Louis Cops Charged With Beating Undercover Detective Posing as Protester
Post Date: 2018-12-03 06:20:44 by Deckard
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"It's gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these shitheads once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart."Several St. Louis cops face federal charges for beating a man they thought was a protester and then covering up the encounter. Their victim turned out to be an undercover officer himself. The incident took place in September 2017, when protests erupted over the acquittal of former police officer Jason Stockley. (Stockley had shot and killed black driver Anthony Lamar Smith following a police chase. Stockley, who claimed self-defense, was tried for murder and found not guilty.) As demonstrators took to the streets, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department ...
Commander Of US Navy's Middle East Fleet Found Dead
Post Date: 2018-12-02 14:48:53 by Stoner
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After only seven months leading the US Navy's Fifth fleet, Vice Admiral Vice Admiral Scott Stearney - who led the American Navy presence in the Middle East from its base in Bahrain - has been found dead in his residence, the Navy announced Saturday evening. Stearney, a Chicago native and graduate of the University of Notre Dame, assumed control of the fleet from Vice Adm. John C. Aquilino back in May after Aquilino had served in the role for only eight months. He was in his late fifties at the time of his death. The circumstances surrounding the admiral's death are not yet known. Bahrainian authorities are cooperating in an investigation, according to a statement released by the ...
Philly Cops Skirting Forfeiture Restrictions By Seizing Cars As 'Evidence'
Post Date: 2018-11-30 09:50:17 by Deckard
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from the any-port-in-a-shitstorm deptA couple of months ago, a consent decree drastically restructured Philadelphia's severely-abused asset forfeiture program. It didn't eliminate the program entirely, but it did eliminate the small-ball cash grabs favored by local law enforcement. The median seizure by Philly law enforcement is only $178, but it adds up to millions if you do it all the time. Small seizures like this now need to be tied to arrests or the property needs to be used as evidence in a criminal case. Other restraints will hopefully eliminate local law enforcement's worst practices -- like seizing someone's house because their kid sold $40 of drugs to a police ...
When the Nanny State Actually Tries To Nanny
Post Date: 2018-11-30 07:08:00 by Deckard
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This is not just about kids, but about the adults they will become.Anytime you hear the words "for the safety of our precious children," grab your little ones and run. Someone who thinks he cares more about your kids than you do is about to make you grovel. If he's from the government, run faster. Chicago mom Kim Brooks learned that lesson a few years back when she was hurrying to get everything ready for a plane trip home from visiting her parents in Virginia. Brooks knew that if her son didn't have a set of headphones, it would be a miserable flight for him (and anyone seated near them, I would guess), so she drove to the store to buy a pair. When the boy said he ...
Trump Administration Set to Announce Pointless, Legally Dubious Bump Stock Ban [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-11-30 06:57:57 by Deckard
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Even the Obama administration recognized it didn't have the authority to ban bump stocks.Bump stocks are modifications that can be attached to a rifle to increase the rate of fire, often at the expense of accuracy. Nine months after President Donald Trump endorsed a ban on the devices, the administration appears to be on the verge of banning them. CNN was the first to report the news yesterday evening, citing "officials familiar with the matter." An administration official confirmed to The New York Times that the rule would be unveiled "in the coming days to weeks." Under Trump's new regulation, a source tells CNN, bump stock owners would have 90 days to get rid ...
Ann Coulter: Trump’s Great Wall Becomes Trump’s Great Stall
Post Date: 2018-11-29 12:43:48 by Deckard
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For those of us who were ecstatic the night Donald Trump was elected president, who watch election night videos over and over again, it used to be easy to defend him against the charge that he is just a BS-ing con man who would say anything to get elected. It’s getting harder. Trump was our last chance. But he’s spent two years not building the wall, not deporting illegals — “INCREDIBLE KIDS!” — and not ending the anchor baby scam. Within 10 seconds of Trump’s leaving office, there will be no evidence that he was ever president. Laws will be changed, executive orders rescinded, treaties re-written and courts packed. Trump will leave no legacy at all. Only ...
Cohen pleads guilty in new deal with Mueller
Post Date: 2018-11-29 12:05:12 by Jameson
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Cohen appeared in federal court in Manhattan Thursday where he entered a guilty plea for misstatements to Congress in closed-door testimony last year about his contacts with Russians during the presidential campaign. Cohen has now promised to “put family and country first” by cooperating with prosecutors, becoming perhaps the most pivotal public witness against his former boss. Cohen’s earlier plea deal with federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York implicated President Trump in campaign finance felonies. Since then, Cohen has spent more than 70 hours in interviews with Mueller's team. The questioning has focused on contacts with Russians by Trump ...
The Costs of the Confederacy
Post Date: 2018-11-29 10:24:47 by Willie Green
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In the last decade alone, American taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology With centuries-old trees, manicured lawns, a tidy cemetery and a babbling brook, the Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library is a marvelously peaceful, green oasis amid the garish casinos, T-shirt shops and other tourist traps on Highway 90 in Biloxi, Mississippi. One gray October morning, about 650 local schoolchildren on a field trip to Beauvoir, as the home is called, poured out of buses in the parking lot. A few ran to the yard in front of the main building to explore the sprawling live oak whose lower limbs reach across the lawn like ...
Mainstream Media Now Normalizing ‘Conspiracy Theory’ of Geoengineering Through Aerosol Spraying
Post Date: 2018-11-28 11:32:01 by Deckard
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The controversial subject of climate engineering or weather modification – which was popularized, and oversimplified with the term “chemtrails” – is stepping from the shadows and into the light of public scrutiny. What was once a conspiracy theory is now the subject of congressional debate and peer-reviewed studies. This month, a new study published in Environmental Research Letters, normalizes geoengineering and planes spraying particulates into the atmosphere to curb global warming. The study recommends that a fleet of 100 planes make 4,000 worldwide missions per year to “save the world from climate change.” The planes would be spraying sulphate particulates ...
Trump Drops Bomb on Obama – Illegal Surveillance May Be Considered Treason
Post Date: 2018-11-28 10:16:03 by A K A Stone
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President Trump has slammed Barack Obama and his lawless administration for “spying” on his presidential campaign, claiming that the surveillance abuse committed by Obama, John Brennan and James Clapper may be considered “treason,”, according to audio tapes obtained by the Daily Mail. According to President Trump, Barack Obama was fully aware his appointed CIA chief John Brennan and director of national intelligence (DNI) James Clapper were conducting surveillance on citizens, specifically members of his campaign. “Personally, I think he knew. Yeah. Just remember what they did.” “Let me put it this way: if the shoe were on the other foot, and the same ...
Ignorance Of The Law Is No Excuse, Court Tells Cop
Post Date: 2018-11-28 10:09:20 by Deckard
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from the one-small-stopgap-in-a-torrent-of-unearned-forgiveness deptWe've grown accustomed to law enforcement being given a pass for not knowing the laws they're enforcing. A 2014 Supreme Court decision made being ignorant precedential, providing cops with an out citizens can't use. Ignorance of the law can be the best excuse when it's a cop trying to keep his evidence from being thrown out of court. With rare exceptions, courts have said it's okay for officers to predicate stops on perceived traffic violations, rather than actual traffic violations. Officers really have to make an effort to run afoul of the Supreme Court-created Fourth Amendment loophole. Another rare ...
Do Alabama Police Who Killed the Wrong Man Know What 'Brandished' Means?
Post Date: 2018-11-28 06:58:54 by Deckard
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Police in Hoover, Alabama, are still trying to get their story straight days after an officer shot and killed the wrong man at a mall last week. It's still unclear what exactly happened on Thanksgiving night that led police working security to shoot and kill Emantic "EJ" Bradford Jr. There was a prior shooting that injured two people, though police now say Bradford was probably not responsible. Still, Bradford was shot and killed by an officer who saw him holding a gun. While all the facts have yet to come out, the Hoover Police Department's seemingly ever-changing explanations haven't helped clear things up. In a joint statement sent to media outlets yesterday ...
Study: White liberals perform ‘competence downshift’ when talking to a black person
Post Date: 2018-11-27 22:21:08 by A K A Stone
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This article on Yale’s website was published almost two weeks ago. The author of the article, Cydney Dupree, is one of two researchers who started out looking at how white presidential candidates talk when they are addressing a mostly black audience compared to when they are speaking to a mostly white audience. Dupree, who is black, and co-researcher Susan Fiske of Princeton found the candidates were less likely to use words that expressed competence and more likely to use words that expressed warmth when talking to a minority audience: The team found that Democratic candidates used fewer competence-related words in speeches delivered to mostly minority audiences than they did in ...
Holiday windfall for Houston patrons of ATM that mistakenly dispensed $100 bills
Post Date: 2018-11-27 11:21:57 by Deckard
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Some people in Houston will have some extra spending money for the holidays after an ATM mistakenly dispensed $100 bills in place of $10 bills on Sunday night.A man went to the Bank of America ATM in the evening to withdraw cash, but instead of getting $20, the machine spit out a $100 bill, authorities told NBC affiliate KPRC.After the man posted about it on social media, a crowd rushed to the bank machine, KPRC reported, adding that several arguments and even a few fights ensued among people in line at the ATM.The bank machine dispensed the large bills for about two hours, deputies told KPRC. Officers were called to secure the ATM at around 11 p.m. local time, the Harris County ...
The Texas bullet train now looks likely. Here’s what to expect
Post Date: 2018-11-27 10:53:50 by Willie Green
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The Japenese bullet train, known there as the Shinkansen, is coming to Texas, if all goes as planned. But the question persists: Is Texas ready for high-speed rail? TOKYO — Texas Central will break ground next year on the first bullet train line in the United States, which will connect Dallas to Houston, and the train, technology and much of the know-how is coming from Japan.“We will start the construction next year,” said Masaru Yosano, Chief General Manager of Central Japan Railway Company. Yosano flies to Texas once a month to help coordinate the project with partners at Texas Central Railway Company, the private firm that’s developing the United States’ ...
After Losing $1 Billion to Tariffs, General Motors Announces 14,000 Layoffs
Post Date: 2018-11-27 06:10:05 by Deckard
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Trump's rally promises won't happen because of Trump's trade policiesSpeaking to a cheering crowd in Youngstown, Ohio, in July of last year, President Donald Trump promised more jobs would soon be flowing to the blue-collar city. "Let me tell you folks in Ohio and in this area, don't sell your house," Trump said at the time, to wild applause "We're going to get those jobs coming back, and we're going to fill up those factories or rip them down and build brand-new ones. It's going to happen." Months later, though, Trump imposed new tariffs on imported steel and aluminum that increased prices for many American manufacturers, including ...
Mall Shooter Gets Away After Police Show Up and Kill Different Man Who Reportedly Stopped Him
Post Date: 2018-11-26 10:46:31 by Deckard
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Hoover, AL — On Thanksgiving night, an armed assailant opened fire inside an Alabama shopping mall, shooting an 18-year-old male and a 12-year-old girl. Shortly after the shots rang out, a Hoover police officer engaged a man with a gun, opened fire and killed him. Police then released a statement championing their officer and patting themselves on the back for stopping a potential mass shooting. But the man they shot was not the shooter. On Friday, police issued the following statement describing what happened. …two males engaged in a physcal altercation on the second floor concourse area of the Riverchase Galleria, near the entrance to the Footaction. During the fight, one of the ...
Wiffle Ball was a Blast
Post Date: 2018-11-24 19:51:59 by Deckard
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I had almost as much fun playing wiffle ball as a kid as I did little league. I was completely into playing baseball with friends or for years in leagues until I was 16. In my front yard, we would play wiffle ball until dark. If only one friend was over that was enough… we could still play. Hit it over the house, a home run…hitting a window, a double, in the creek a triple… etc. You didn’t have to worry about breaking a window or knocking your buddy out while pitching as fast as you could. You would learn how to grip it and you could make it curve, rise, or sink a ridiculous amount. We would play for hours until night or until the ball was stuck on the roof or in a ...
Andrea Long Chu’s Fake Vagina
Post Date: 2018-11-24 19:33:21 by buckeroo
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Sit down and read this essay in The New York Times by Andrea Long Chu. It is, inadvertently, an icon of our radically disordered culture. Here’s how it starts: Next Thursday, I will get a vagina. The procedure will last around six hours, and I will be in recovery for at least three months. Until the day I die, my body will regard the vagina as a wound; as a result, it will require regular, painful attention to maintain. This is what I want, but there is no guarantee it will make me happier. In fact, I don’t expect it to. That shouldn’t disqualify me from getting it./blockquote> Could there possibly be a more succinct statement of our very particular cultural madness? ...
TRIGGERED! Howls Of Outrage Over Racist “Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”
Post Date: 2018-11-24 18:59:23 by buckeroo
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Make no mistake that the left and especially the social justice warrior miscreants HATE everything that is decent about American and first and foremost, this includes our traditional holidays. The war on Christmas has been raging for decades now with liberal snots and their hate brigades having successfully bullied retailers into forbidding employees to which customers a “Merry Christmas” and it has also expanded into Thanksgiving which has now been included in the running list of 7,931,428 things that are racist. Not even Charlie Brown, the beloved Peanuts character is safe. The fragile snowflake SJW grievance mongers and perpetually perturbed culture warriors have been ...
White House petition: Seat Alex Jones next to Jim Acosta in Brady briefing room
Post Date: 2018-11-24 18:32:24 by buckeroo
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CNN reporter Jim Acosta and Infowars publisher Alex Jones could both lob questions at President Trump’s press secretary if petitioners succeed in an effort pending on the White House website. A publicly-created petition recently posted on the “We the People” section of the official White House site calls on the Trump administration to grant press credentials to the right-wing Infowars publisher and assign him a seat him alongside CNN’s chief White House correspondent. “Alex Jones‘ first amendment rights are being violated everyday he does not have White House press credentials,” wrote the petition’s creator. “Let Alex Jones have press ...
Dear TSA, Please Stop Molesting Kids at the Airport
Post Date: 2018-11-23 18:04:42 by Deckard
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The ugly truth about security theater.The other day—after slogging through a check-in line at one of the nation's busiest airports, dutifully removing my shoes and belt, and checking my bag and pockets for other potentially dangerous items (water and loose change)—I was pulled aside by a crack Transportation Security Administration agent so he could further investigate the contents of my carry-on. While waiting, I witnessed what looked to be a 10-year-old boy being molested by a 250-pound man. Now, normally I would have reported this incident to the proper authorities. Inappropriate contact with a child, inside or outside his clothing, is a criminal act. But in this case, ...
Flower Vendor Sues Riverside County Sheriff's Department for Excessive Force, She Did Not Seek Permission From The State to Sell Flowers
Post Date: 2018-11-22 08:36:16 by Deckard
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A flower vendor announced a lawsuit Tuesday against the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department after she was arrested in June 2017 for selling flowers without a permit. She alleges that the officers involved in the caught-on-camera arrest used excessive force.The cellphone video shows a sheriff's deputy in an altercation with a woman who allegedly did not have a permit to sell flowers outside a high school graduation ceremony in Perris. That woman Joaquina Valencia is now suing the Riverside County Sheriff's Department for excessive force and saying no human should ever be treated the way she was. The complaint alleges Valencia was "unjustifiably beaten, shoved to ...
John Kasich(R) to Torpedo Pro-Life Heartbeat and Stand Your Ground Legislation
Post Date: 2018-11-21 21:49:16 by Hondo68
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Perennial mainstream media darling and establishment dreamboat Governor John Kasich revealed his latest betrayals to Ohio conservatives on Monday- and they’re both whoppers of the highest order. Speaking to reporters at the Ohio Statehouse, Kasich confirmed that he would use his veto powers to override not one, but two major conservative policy victories, both of which are set to be passed by both chambers of the Ohio Legislature. The first piece of legislation Kasich is poised to stop is a pro-life ‘Heartbeat Bill,’ that would prohibit abortions performed on babies with a medically discernible heartbeat in the state of Ohio. Although Kasich has (apparently falsely) billed ...
Stossel: Let Them Vape
Post Date: 2018-11-21 06:56:23 by Deckard
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Our government says e-cigarettes and vaping are the latest "epidemic" among teens. So the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it will restrict them. Cities across the country are banning e-cigarette use in public. But e-cigarettes help smokers quit traditional cigarettes. Michelle Minton of the Competitive Enterprise Institute tells John Stossel that people have misconceptions about e-cigarettes. "It's about 95 percent less harmful than a normal traditional cigarette," she says. That's because e-cigarettes let people get a hit of nicotine without actually burning tobacco. The burning of paper and tobacco leaves is what makes cigarettes so dangerous. Minton ...
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