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Victory in California! Gov. Brown Signs CalECPA, Requiring Police to Get a Warrant Before Accessing Your Data
Post Date: 2015-10-11 21:25:58 by Hondo68
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Californians can rest assured that law enforcement can’t poke around in their digital records without first obtaining a warrant. Today, Gov. Jerry Brown has signed S.B. 178, the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA). After months of pressure from public interest groups, media organizations, privacy advocates, tech companies, and thousands of members of the public, California’s elected leaders have updated the state’s privacy laws so that they are in line with how people actually use technology today. CalECPA protects Californians by requiring a warrant for digital records, including emails and texts, as well as a user's geographical location. These ...
FDNY releases breakthrough 'It Gets Better' video featuring LGBT members
Post Date: 2015-10-11 16:13:59 by Bridge at Remagen
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. The FDNY is coming out of the closet — and it hopes doing so will save lives. The department has put together a powerful “It Gets Better” video featuring gay, lesbian and transgender firefighters and paramedics discussing their struggles coming out. The emergency workers involved in the project are happy they can live out in the open. “I am the other and I’m OK with that,” gay Firefighter Luke Allen says in the 8-minute video. “I’d rather be the other than the cookie cutter.” Allen is joined by 11 other FDNY members sharing heartfelt, sometimes painful, stories about the challenges they faced coming out to their families, friends and ...
Patriot Was Being Beaten With A Baseball Bat – Then Trump’s Limo Pulled Up…
Post Date: 2015-10-11 11:54:46 by A K A Stone
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Donald Trump has been the GOP frontrunner in the 2016 presidentia“Someone in the car looked over and said, ‘Gee, look at that, it’s a mugging,’” Trump recounted at the time. “I said to my driver to stop the car because it was brutal-looking.” Despite Maples’ attempts to stop him, Trump got out of his car. “The guy with the bat looked at me, and I said, ‘Look, you’ve gotta stop this. Put down the bat,’” Trump said. “I guess he recognized me because he said, ‘Mr. Trump, I didn’t do anything wrong.’ I said, ‘How could you not do anything wrong when you’re whacking a guy with a bat?’ Then he ran ...
Relatives have ‘proof’ Alcatraz escapees are still alive
Post Date: 2015-10-11 09:17:37 by cranky
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In June 1962, three inmates shimmied through a hole they’d chiseled into the walls of Alcatraz prison and climbed up to the roof. To mask their escape, they’d placed in their bunks realistic-looking dummy heads they’d made out of papier-mâché and human hair from the prison barber shop. The three men — brothers John and Clarence Anglin and fellow inmate Frank Morris — grabbed makeshift paddles and plunged an escape raft they made of stolen raincoats into the dark waters of San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz officials have long stated that the men drowned, maintaining the prison’s bragging rights of no escapees. But now, more than 50 years later, new leads ...
Deputy shot with crossbow: Arrow nearly hit spine, mother says
Post Date: 2015-10-11 01:09:07 by GrandIsland
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MONTCALM COUNTY, MI - The Montcalm County Sheriff's deputy who was shot by a crossbow Friday night while attempting to arrest a man accused of assaulting a neighbor is in serious condition at a Grand Rapids hospital. Staff at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital confirmed Michael Kotenko, a 13-year veteran with the sheriff's department, was in serious condition Saturday evening. On Facebook, Susan Verplanck Kotenko, who identified herself as the deputy's mother, said Kotenko underwent surgery early Saturday morning. She wrote that the tip of the arrow, allegedly fired by a man Kotenko and other law enforcement officials were attempting to arrest for allegedly stabbing a ...
Bowe Bergdahl should NOT go to prison for 'deserting' his unit before he was captured by the Taliban, recommends preliminary military hearing
Post Date: 2015-10-10 18:14:40 by cranky
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Presiding officer at Article 32 hearing last month in Texas, Lieutenant Colonel Mark Visger, recommended 'non-judicial punishment' for BergdahlHe is recommending that Bergdahl face a lower-level court martial Was captured by Taliban after leaving post in 2009 and held until last yearExchanged for five Taliban commanders after years of abuse and tortureDonald Trump has said Bergdahl should face execution for leaving his postUS Army commanding general to decide if case should go to court-martial An Army officer is recommending that Sgt Bowe Bergdahl face a lower-level court martial and be spared the possibility of jail time for leaving his post in Afghanistan, his lawyer said ...
Minority Muslim students take over Christian chapel in Kansas university
Post Date: 2015-10-10 18:04:48 by Bridge at Remagen
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Right in the American Heartland, in the state of Kansas, a minority group of Muslim students have succeeded in taking over what used to be the Christian chapel of their university to the dismay of the school's majority Christian population. Ironically, the Muslims gained control of the Christian prayer area with the help of the administrators of Wichita State University (WSU) who, last May, decided to make the university's chapel "faith neutral" to accommodate Muslim students, according to a Fox News report. University officials ordered workers to remove all the pews and the altar inside the Harvey D. Grace Memorial Chapel. Muslim prayer rugs and some ...
Nearly 1,000 People Move From Blue States to Red States Every Day. Here’s Why.
Post Date: 2015-10-10 14:20:21 by tpaine
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Nearly 1,000 People Move From Blue States to Red States Every Day. Here’s Why. Stephen Moore / @StephenMoore / October 09, 2015 / 73 comments 306 1.2k Five of the seven states with the biggest gains in income have no income tax at all: Florida, Texas, Arizona, Washington, and Nevada. (Photo: Andre Jenny Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom) COMMENTARY BY Portrait of Stephen Moore Stephen Moore @StephenMoore Stephen Moore, who formerly wrote on the economy and public policy for The Wall Street Journal, is a distinguished visiting fellow for the Project for Economic Growth at The Heritage Foundation. Read his research. The so-called “progressives” love to talk about how ...
Government Bans Bacon on Federal Prison Menus, Adds Turkey Substitute
Post Date: 2015-10-10 11:21:44 by no gnu taxes
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The federal government has removed bacon, pork chops, ham, and all other pig products from the menu at its 122 federal prisons, impacting the nation’s 206,000 federal inmates. The Washington Post reported that the ban went into effect when the new fiscal year began last week. According to the Bureau of Prisons, the decision was made after surveys revealed that inmates do not like the taste of pork. The bureau runs the country’s federal penitentiaries, which includes providing inmates with three meals per day. “Why keep pushing food that people don’t want to eat? Pork has been the lowest-rated food by inmates for several years,” Edmond Ross, spokesman for the ...
Trump: I'm never getting out of the race
Post Date: 2015-10-10 09:44:54 by A K A Stone
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2016 GOP candidate Donald Trump joins Morning Joe to discuss the state of his campaign, his opponents and why he's never getting out of the race. Duration: 11:13
Anti-ISIS Halloween decorations on N.J. house rile some neighbors
Post Date: 2015-10-10 07:51:57 by cranky
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Some homeowners on Cleary Avenue are finding their neighbor's Halloween display more garish than ghostly. The decorations include a mannequin dressed as a tortured captive of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a hanged mannequin dressed as a murdered soldier and a machete-wielding mannequin wearing a mask of President Barack Obama. The homeowner who erected the display told NJ Advance Media he didn't believe his decorations were anti-American and that his critics were trying "to stifle his freedom of speech." "We in this house do not like ISIS," said the homeowner, who asked that he only be identified as Matt. "What greater scary man is there ...
Maine taxpayers illegally charged $184,000 for abortion-related procedures: pro-life gov. seeks repayment
Post Date: 2015-10-09 22:26:38 by redleghunter
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AUGUSTA, ME, October 8, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- The "Family Planning" Association of Maine (FPAM) improperly charged $184,000 worth of abortion-related "services" to the state's medicaid program. Pro-life Governor Paul LePage's Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is seeking repayment for the 2006-2010 charges, which the state has already paid, because the law says medicaid cannot pay for abortions or abortion-related "services." The FPAM is suing, asking a judge to overturn Maine's DHHS order for repayment. It seems that previous, pro-abortion state administrations did not question similar charges, for over ten years. FPAM argued in ...
Figures on government spending and debt
Post Date: 2015-10-09 16:29:24 by cranky
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Figures on government spending and debt (last six digits are eliminated). The government's fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.Total public debt subject to limit Oct 818,112,975Statutory debt limit18,113,000Total public debt outstanding Oct 818,150,540Operating balance Oct 869,269Interest fiscal year 2015 thru Aug234,680Interest same period pvs fiscal year239,753Deficit fiscal year 2015 thru Aug529,960Deficit same period pvs fiscal year589,162Receipts fiscal year 2015 thru Aug2,883,250Receipts same period pvs fiscal year2,669,126Outlays fiscal year 2015 thru Aug3,413,210Outlays same period pvs fiscal year3,258,288Gold assets in Aug11,041
Drone crashes on Ellipse near White House
Post Date: 2015-10-09 15:46:59 by nativist nationalist
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The drone was launched from the grounds of the Washington Monument. (WTOP/Neal Augenstein) WASHINGTON — U.S. Park Police have confiscated a drone that crash-landed on the Ellipse, near the White House. At 1:20 a.m. Park Police and the U.S. Secret Service responded to a report that a small drone was being operated from the grounds of the Washington Monument early Friday. The drone crossed Constitution Avenue and crashed on the Ellipse, the grassy area between the Monument and the White House grounds. Park Police issued a citation to Howard Solomon III, of Washington, and confiscated the F182 6 Axis Quadcopter. The Secret Service located the quadcopter just inside the Ellipse ...
Immigration's Impact on Republican Political Prospects, 1980 to 2012
Post Date: 2015-10-09 14:26:54 by nativist nationalist
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This Backgrounder examines the partisan political implications of large- scale immigration. A comparison of voting patterns in presidential elections across counties over the last three decades shows that mass immigration has caused a steady drop in presidential Republican vote shares, particularly in the nation's largest counties. Each one percentage-point increase in the immigrant share of a large county's population reduces the Republican share of the two-party vote by nearly 0.6 percentage points on average. Three key conclusions emerge from this analysis: First, the enormous flow of legal immigrants in to the country — 29.5 million 1980 to 2012 — has remade and ...
Why this upcoming vote for Speaker of the house of Representatives is so very, very important? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-10-09 08:54:38 by BobCeleste
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Why this upcoming vote for Speaker of the house of Representatives is so very, very important? Let's first look at the US Constitution, the Supreme Law of the United States of America. Article II. Section 1. clause 6 In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or Inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly, until the disability be removed, or a President ...
Trey Gowdy to Elijah Cummings letter of 7 Oct 2015
Post Date: 2015-10-08 18:32:04 by nolu chan
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California Land Subsidence Hits Record Levels
Post Date: 2015-10-08 14:55:26 by nativist nationalist
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The depleted Almaden Reservoir near San Jose, California, in February 2014. The Golden Brown State’s fourth year of drought has brought massive land sinkage, aka subsidence, caused by continued and deeper drilling of ground water by farmers. The subsidence has been observed for a while, but it is getting worse as more water is pumped out of the ground. Not only is the subsidence another warning about the limited water supply, but the land sinkage also disturbs the proper functioning of water infrastructure around the state. For example, canals were designed with a precise degree of slope to move water by gravity, and the subsidence has disrupted that. Around 80 percent of state ...
FBI Seizes Four State Department Servers in Clinton Email Probe [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-10-08 12:45:55 by nolu chan
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FBI Seizes Four State Department Servers in Clinton Email Probe Probe focusing on how classified information was sent to secretary of state BY: Bill Gertz Washington Free Beacon October 7, 2015 5:00 am The FBI has seized four State Department computer servers as part of its probe into how classified information was compromised on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email system, according to people familiar with the investigation. The four servers, which were located at the State Department’s headquarters building, were seized by the FBI several weeks ago. They are being checked by technical forensic analysts charged with determining how Top Secret material ...
GOP's McCarthy dropping out of race for House speaker: NBCNews
Post Date: 2015-10-08 12:35:48 by nativist nationalist
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has pulled out of the race for House Speaker, NBC News confirmed Thursday. This story is developing. Please check back for further updates.
Pitcher Bob Gibson Recalls a Baseball Era When Only the Series Counted
Post Date: 2015-10-08 11:18:22 by Deckard
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The Hall of Fame Cardinals pitcher and author of Pitch by Pitch: My View of One Unforgettable Game, recalls a postseason with only one playoff: the World Series.I never pitched in a playoff game. But I pitched—was outpitched, actually, by Mickey Lolich of the Detroit Tigers—in the last World Series game prior to the advent of the playoff system that has transformed October. That unpleasant memory was made in 1968, the season before the National and American Leagues split into divisions, Major League Baseball expanded the postseason, and the World Series lost a little something.Until 1969, the World Series, every time, matched the winningest team in the National League against its ...
'This Is Our Guy': Musicians Rally For Harry Nilsson, An Icon Who Dodged Fame
Post Date: 2015-10-08 11:09:38 by Orwellian Nightmare
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Harry Nilsson at the piano in 1972. On Thursday, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces its nominees for the class of 2016. Those names will be voted on by the 800 or so Hall of Fame members, and inducted next April. Every year, armies of outraged fans denounce the hall for leaving out their favorite rockers — and this year, one one such group in Los Angeles is mounting a musical campaign aimed directly at the voters' ears, with hopes of inducting one of rock's forgotten heroes: the late Harry Nilsson. The obvious names — pioneers of rock like Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis — were all inducted long ago. Bands that are less ...
Drudge: Supreme Court Justice told me its over for independent media
Post Date: 2015-10-08 08:48:55 by Deckard
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Infowars Warning that the very foundation of the free internet is under severe threat, Drudge detailed a conversation he had with a Supreme Court Justice about coming copyright legislation that should send shock-waves throughout the independent media. “I had a Supreme Court Justice tell me it’s over for me,” Drudge told Jones. They’ve got the votes now to enforce copyright law, you’re out of there. They’re going to make it so you can’t even use headlines.” Drudge added, “To have a Supreme Court Justice say to me it’s over, they’ve got the votes, which means time is limited.” The online media pioneer also detailed his ...
Unbeknownst to Clinton, IT firm had emails stored on cloud; now in FBI’s hands Read more here:
Post Date: 2015-10-08 08:32:43 by Justified
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WASHINGTON A Connecticut company, which backed up Hillary Clinton‘s emails at the request of a Colorado firm, apparently surprised her aides by storing the emails on a “cloud” storage system designed to optimize data recovery.The firm, Datto Inc., said Wednesday that it turned over the contents of its storage to the FBI on Tuesday.A Republican Senate committee chairman, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, also has asked the firm to provide the committee copies of any data from Clinton’s account still in its possession. There were conflicting accounts as to whether the developments could lead to retrieval of any of Clinton’s more than 31,000 personal emails, which she ...
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