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Simpsons Creator Refuses to Apologize for ‘Apu,’ and Exposes Danger of ‘Pretending to be Offended’
Post Date: 2018-05-04 05:46:46 by Deckard
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Simpsons creator Matt Groening knew he would stir up controversy when he decided to give life to show character “Apu Nahasapeemapetilon.” But maybe he had no idea how much, or didn’t care. Whatever his motivation for introducing the world to Apu, his character has predictably drawn the consternation of the politically correct police department. But according to Groening, the outrage is fake news and those who take offense to the stereotypical Indian character are simply pretending to be offended. In a revealing interview with USA Today, Groening was asked if he had any comments about Apu being a stereotype of the Indian Community. “Not really,” Groening ...
How a Naked Man In Need of Mental Health Help is Treated in a Police State
Post Date: 2018-05-03 12:47:01 by Deckard
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Marion, IN — A mother and father are horrified and asking for police to be held accountable after a graphic video showed multiple cops savagely attack and beat their schizophrenic son. On Monday, Arrington Barber, 29, was in the midst of a schizophrenic episode and was walking outside of his apartment wearing only a blanket. Barber, who has a history of mental illness—but no history of violence—was in need of help. However, when police arrived, he got the exact opposite. According to police, when they saw Barber and attempted to approach him, he dropped the blanket and ran inside his apartment. To a schizophrenic man, multiple armed men with guns chasing after you can be ...
Cop Uses Compassion Instead of Violence to Respond to Lost Dog and Something Amazing Happened
Post Date: 2018-05-03 11:01:59 by Deckard
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It is no secret that hundreds of innocent dogs are shot and killed by police officers in the United States every year, and while the horrific footage captured by body cameras creates public outrage for a moment, the majority of the officers who are responsible for murdering family pets never face charges for their actions. Each officer who encounters a dog has a choice, and when the Texarkana Police Department received a report about a “vicious dog,” and Officer Travis Frost spotted a dog who matched the description, he could have approached the animal with his handgun drawn, waiting for the dog to make the slightest movement towards him to justify opening fire. But instead, Frost ...
Top Ten Photo Enforcement Felons
Post Date: 2018-05-03 10:25:58 by Deckard
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The Newspaper Many top photo enforcement industry executives have found themselves behind bars or under federal investigation. While the bribery scandal in Chicago, Illinois generated the most attention, envelopes filled with cash from Redflex Traffic Systems were also handed to politicians in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington according to Aaron M. Rosenberg, the Australian company’s former executive vice president. Rosenberg entered a guilty plea on two counts of bribery in 2016. He was sentenced to just three months of home confinement, 120 hours of community service and ten hours ...
In One Hannity Interview, Giuliani Blew Up Trump’s Arguments in 3 Legal Cases
Post Date: 2018-05-03 07:49:26 by Jameson
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In his very first TV interview as Trump’s attorney, with Trump shadow adviser Sean Hannity no less, Giuliani contradicted the president’s stories on potential obstruction of justice, the Stormy Daniels affair, and even his relationship with fixer Michael Cohen. In response to Hannity’s first softball – what’s the status of the Russia investigation – Giuliani basically confirmed that he leaked Mueller’s questions for Trump (which were actually composed by the president’s attorneys) as part of an effort to paint the special counsel as unfairly biased. Then he offered up a brand new explanation for why Trump fired FBI director James Comey: He fired ...
Mike Pence Calls Lawbreaking Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio a 'Champion of the Rule of Law'
Post Date: 2018-05-03 06:13:22 by Deckard
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Because nothings says "rule of law" like a sheriff held in contempt for refusing to follow a judge's orders.Vice President Mike Pence had kind words Tuesday night for former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-styled "toughest sheriff in America," who was pardoned by President Donald Trump last year after a federal judge held him in criminal contempt. At a rally in Arizona, Pence introduced Arpaio, now running for U.S. Senate, as "another favorite, a great friend of this president, a tireless champion of strong borders and the rule of law." It was interesting choice of words, considering Arpaio was charged by federal prosecutors and convicted of ...
Black Gun Owner Will Give Birth in Prison After Trying to Protect 2-Year-Old Daughter from Assailant
Post Date: 2018-05-03 06:05:56 by Deckard
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Siwatu-Salama Ra used a legally purchased firearm to protect her family. She was sentenced to 2 years in prison.Siwatu-Salama Ra is a 26-year-old black mother who watched in horror as an angry assailant—a neighbor with whom Ra had a dispute—deliberately crashed her vehicle into Ra's car while Ra's two-year-old daughter was playing inside. Ra removed her unloaded, legally purchased handgun from the glove box and brandished it, scaring the neighbor off. The assailant, Channel Harvey, was never charged. Ra was arrested for felonious assault. She is now serving a mandatory two-year-sentence, even though Michigan is a Stand Your Ground state and Ra was clearly defending her ...
Kanye West: I Want to Apologize to George W. Bush for 2005 Comment
Post Date: 2018-05-02 14:24:02 by no gnu taxes
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Kanye West revealed in a TMZ interview on Tuesday that he wanted to apologize to George W. Bush for saying in 2005 that the president did not care about black people in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Kanye West said he was always told not to apologize to Bush, but that he recently saw the former president pushing his father’s wheelchair at Barbara Bush’s funeral in March, and he felt sympathy for him. “Do you know how bad I would want to go to George Bush and say I’m sorry for hurting you. I was an artist I was hurting when I went up to the telethon,” Kanye explained. “I said something in the moment, but when I look at you as a Dad, and a family member, ...
Kanye West just said 400 years of slavery was a choice
Post Date: 2018-05-02 12:11:59 by no gnu taxes
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Tuesday brought us two Kanyes. The first was a man who opened up about his mental health, his family, and his art in a nearly-two hour interview with radio host Charlamagne Tha God. The second was a Kanye who appeared at the TMZ headquarters where he had this to say: "When you hear about slavery for 400 years ... For 400 years? That sounds like a choice." The rapper went on to add:"You were there for 400 years and it's all of y'all. It's like we're mentally imprisoned." Provocative statements are second nature to the 40-year-old rapper. And this week he's been making headlines left and right, including proclaiming his love for President Trump. ...
Smut Night at the Press Dinner
Post Date: 2018-05-02 09:29:00 by Deckard
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Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, billed as a celebration of the First Amendment and a tribute to journalists who “speak truth to power,” has to be the worst advertisement in memory for our national press corps. Comedian Michelle Wolf, the guest speaker, recited one filthy joke after another at the expense of President Trump and his people, using words that would have gotten her kicked out of school not so long ago. Media critic Howard Kurtz said he had “never seen a performance like that,” adding that Wolf “was not only nasty but dropping F-bombs on live television.” Some of her stuff was grungier than that. The anti-Trump ...
Dial T for Tyranny: While America Feuds, the Police State Shifts Into High Gear
Post Date: 2018-05-02 09:23:27 by Deckard
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By John W. Whitehead April 30, 2018 “Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility.” — Professor Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Discourse in the Age of Show Business What characterizes American government today is not so much ...
Dad in America Told His Son Had To Die Like Alfie—But He Resisted With Guns and His Son LIVED
Post Date: 2018-05-02 05:29:01 by Deckard
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As the tragic story of baby Alfie begins fading from headlines, it is important to point out what allowed this situation to unfold like it did. Guns. Before throwing your arms in the air and screaming out, “how the hell does this child’s death have anything to do with guns?” consider the following truth: The majority of the United Kingdom is unarmed, leaving most guns in the hands of criminals and government. When only government has guns, they can make decisions—like kidnapping a baby and starving him to death—without fear of recourse from the citizens, or even the family. Officials in the UK sentenced baby Alfie to death this year when they denied his parents the ...
Police Cadets Quit, Expose Departmant for Training Cops to View Public as ‘Cockroaches’ They’re at War With
Post Date: 2018-05-02 05:23:12 by Deckard
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Nearly a dozen police recruits quit their training program and are now calling out the department for trying to teach them aggressive tactics that do not serve or protect the public. It takes at least four years of college for an enlisted person in the military to become a military “officer,” which is quite a contrast from the mere nine months it takes for a police officer to earn the title. But according to a group of 10 former Austin Police Department recruits who wanted to become peace officers, just like the military, the Austin PD is training “warriors” instead of “guardians.” The former recruits are now blowing the whistle and claiming that the type ...
Device Detects Drug Use Through Fingerprints, Raising A Host Of Constitutional Questions
Post Date: 2018-05-01 10:43:20 by Deckard
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from the defendant-has-indicated-gov't-will-receive-'two-fingers-while-he's-s dept If this tech becomes a routine part of law enforcement loadouts, judicial Fourth and Fifth Amendment findings are going to be upended. Or, at least, they should be. I guess citizens will just have to see how this all shakes out. A raft of sensitive new fingerprint-analysis techniques is proving to be a potentially powerful, and in some cases worrying, new avenue for extracting intimate personal information—including what drugs a person has used. [...] The new methods use biometrics to analyze biochemical traces in sweat found along the ridges of a fingerprint. And those trace ...
Trump weekly approval rating reaches 11 month high
Post Date: 2018-04-30 22:33:01 by buckeroo
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President Trump's weekly approval rating has hit an 11 month high, according to data compiled by Gallup on Monday. Forty-two percent of Americans said they approved of the job Trump was doing at the end of the week of April 29. Trump's approval rating was 38 percent the week before. The rating is the highest weekly rating for the president since May 7, 2017, when his approval rating also hit 42 percent. The poll came on the heels of an eventful week for the president. Trump met with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel and discussed the future of the U.S. in the Iran nuclear deal. He hinted last week he could end up pulling the U.S. from the ...
Stormy Daniels sues Trump for defamation over 'con job' tweet [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-04-30 15:31:33 by IbJensen
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Adult film star Stormy Daniels has filed a defamation suit against President Donald Trump for a tweet that said a forensic sketch of a man who allegedly threatened her in 2011 was "a total con job." Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, claims she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006 and was warned by an unidentified man to keep quiet about it five years later, after she gave an interview to a gossip magazine. The lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan centers on an April 18 post on Trump's Twitter account in which he reacts to another person's tweet about the sketch. "A sketch years later about a nonexistent man," Trump's ...
Teen was driving 106 mph when she crashed, killed best friend, prosecutors say
Post Date: 2018-04-30 13:43:56 by misterwhite
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CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. - Only Channel 2 Action News was in court Wednesday when a teenager learned she faces a felony vehicular homicide in the death of her best friend. Cristina Pavon-Baker, 17, crashed on Interstate 75 in Morrow during Senior Skip Day. The wreck killed Mikayla Penn, 18. Pavon-Baker's attorney asked the judge Wednesday not to take her passport since she had a cruise scheduled next month. That upset the victim's family and the district attorney. “She doesn't need to be on a cruise enjoying herself,” Clayton County District Attorney Tracy Graham Lawson told the court. Channel 2’s Tom Jones said Lawson was clearly irritated when Pavon-Baker’s ...
Almost 2/3 Of Americans Have Given Up On Political Parties Citing Corruption In Government
Post Date: 2018-04-30 12:42:55 by Deckard
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Disillusioned by the promises of politicians and convinced that the entire political system is irreparably corrupt, many Americans will be staying out of the voting booth for the 2018 elections. This isn’t new, however, as many refused to vote in 2016 as well. Although that number may seem high, in 2016, faced with the prospect of having to choose between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, 46.9% of eligible voters didn’t even vote in the presidential election. Most of those who no longer vote have given up on the “lesser of two evils” fallacy and the irrational belief that somehow the government has our best interests in mind. Respondents of the told poll ...
Good Drivers are Creating a Budget Shortfall, Proving Gov’t Needs You to Break the Law to Fund Itself
Post Date: 2018-04-30 08:44:39 by Deckard
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The state of California is finding that the business model of relying on drivers to break the law in order to fund the state budget, fails miserably when drivers fail to break the law and cannot be slapped with exorbitant fees and fines. California’s state budget currently relies on more than $450 million from penalties and fees collected from drivers who have been charged with both criminal and traffic violations. However, while trusting drivers to break the law at a rate that would sustain the state’s massive budget worked for a while, the strategy is now causing the state to go bankrupt. A summary from the California State Auditor, as reported by Courthouse News, revealed that ...
Military Industrial Complex Stocks Sent Crashing as North and South Korea Achieve Peace
Post Date: 2018-04-30 08:31:40 by Deckard
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North and South Korea reached a historic peace deal this week, and as the leaders from the two nations met in person for the first time and agreed to pursue an end to the Korean War, it signaled an incredible breakthrough in diplomacy and sent the stocks of defense contractors in the United States crashing. When North Korea’s Kim Jong-un shook hands with South Korea’s Moon Jae-in for the first time on Friday, they put thousands of people both at home and around the world at ease, as they agreed to a peace deal that has the power to break the tension that has been between the two countries for decades. However, while peace may seem like the best possible outcome to the average ...
The Best Discontinued Snack Foods From the Decade You Were Born
Post Date: 2018-04-29 15:00:52 by no gnu taxes
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It’s easy to look back on the past and feel a pang of nostalgia. We all long to revisit the places of our youth, but, unfortunately, many of those sites are long gone. Just like that old drive-in or favorite store at the mall, there’s another major source of nostalgia: packaged snacks that are gone but not forgotten. It’s hard to look back on the foods of our youth without getting a little sentimental. But while you can always fix yourself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with the crusts cut off just like Mom used to make, there are plenty of snacks that simply don’t exist anymore. Nostalgia for the foods of the 1990s is at an all-time high right now, as millennials ...
Why Does Willie Nelson Still Do It?
Post Date: 2018-04-29 14:20:29 by Deckard
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This article originally appeared in the May 2018 issue with the headline “The Last Man Standing.”Many of his peers are dead, and countless others haven’t picked up a guitar since their arthritis kicked in. But on April 29, two days after releasing his aptly titled seventy-third studio album, Last Man Standing, Willie Nelson turns 85. A few weeks later he’ll be, as per usual, on the road again. He’s got plenty of cash and a legacy that rivals any musician who’s ever lived, so no one would blame Willie if he spent the rest of his life doing nothing but lounging on a beach near his home in Maui or enjoying edibles at his ranch outside Austin. Yet ...
Republicans Love Federal Snooping (Unless it's against Trump)
Post Date: 2018-04-29 14:07:06 by Deckard
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President Donald Trump and some Republican lawmakers in Congress insist that the president and his aides were inappropriately snooped on by politically motivated federal intelligence officials during the 2016 election. Yet when given the opportunity to scale back the FBI's power to secretly engage in domestic surveillance of American citizens, the president and the GOP did not take advantage of it. In fact, they did the opposite. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments was scheduled to sunset at the end of 2017 unless Congress renewed it. That provision authorizes the federal government to poke into communications of foreign targets, overseen by a secret ...
Brooks Suggests Republicans Are Retiring Because of Assassination Fears
Post Date: 2018-04-28 00:49:28 by redleghunter
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Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks suggested in a radio interview that Republicans are retiring en masse because of assassination fears. Brooks was speaking on “The Dale Jackson Show” about the first Republican practice the Congressional Baseball Game after last year’s shooting that left Majority Whip Steve Scalise severely injured. “We have multiple rings of security, plainclothes, uniform, Capitol Police, other police,” he said. “There was a medical vehicle nearby just in case there was a copycat.” But Brooks said while there were multiple factors that contributed to a slew of Republicans leaving the House, he suggested fears of violence was a major one. ...
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