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Weed Warriors Who Mistook Tea for Marijuana Will Pay Their Victims $150,000
Post Date: 2020-05-06 18:18:16 by Deckard
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After seven years of litigation, a Kansas couple finally obtains some compensation for a comically inept drug raid. Not marijuana (Teavana) The Leawood, Kansas, couple whose home was raided in 2012 after sheriff's deputies claimed that loose tea found in their trash was marijuana will receive $150,000 for their trouble under a settlement agreement with the Johnson County Sheriff's Office. The settlement—which caps seven years of litigation, including two trips to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit—falls far short of the $7 million that Adlynn and Robert Harte originally sought. But it represents an implicit acknowledgment that the Hartes and their children ...
Court Says Innocent Mom Can’t Sue Cops Who Mistook Cotton Candy for Meth, Jailed Her for MONTHS
Post Date: 2020-05-06 18:04:13 by Deckard
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By Matt Agorist Monroe County, GA — An innocent grandma, Dasha Fincher, was kidnapped by police and thrown in a cage for months—not because she did anything wrong—but because police couldn’t tell the difference between cotton candy and meth. Seriously. After being locked up for no reason, this innocent new grandma went after the police who did this to her, in the form of a lawsuit, as well as the company who manufacturers the dangerously inaccurate tests cops used to take her freedom. This week, Fincher learned exactly how much money she will be getting from her lawsuit against the negligent drug warriors who stole her freedom. Zero. Unfortunately for Fincher, the ...
Writer Complains “Manspreading” Joggers Violate Social Distancing Guidelines
Post Date: 2020-05-06 17:54:27 by Deckard
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‘It feels selfish. It feels scary. It feels borderline dangerous,’ says writer describing male joggers Males who “manspread” while jogging are selfishly violating social distancing guidelines, says a writer for a mainstream publication.In a recent UK Independent life & style editorial, Helen Coffey writes, “Manspreading has crossed over to the realm of running, and it’s not OK.”“Taking up space in the world seems hardwired for men – but right now, it reeks of selfishness,” writes Coffey.Coffey says lately while jogging she’s noticed herself innately adhering to social distancing guidelines, attempting to take up as little space as ...
While Pandemic Destroys So Many Lives, The Surveillance State Celebrates
Post Date: 2020-05-06 17:43:24 by Deckard
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If they’re able to track “violators” who follow within a flying spit particle of someone else, then it stands to reason they could choose to track pretty much any other type of behavior. By Lee CampSpecial to Consortium NewsIf we don’t fight back against the secretive surveillance state growing steadily around us, your wife/husband may find out you love a Cinnabon more than you love her/him. And that might be just the beginning of it.While many of us remain quarantined — inexorably welded to our home/apartment/RV in an abandoned Walmart parking lot — the surveillance state is actually stretching its legs, brought out for a run by our friendly ...
Cops Not Wearing Masks Beat Man, Threaten to Arrest Others “For Not Wearing a Mask”
Post Date: 2020-05-06 17:32:02 by Deckard
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New York, NY — Violent cops in New York appear to be loving the COVID-19 lockdown and the apparent pass it gives them to dole out beatings to anyone who doesn’t obey their every dictate. There is no shortage of videos of this violence either. A 20-year-old Brooklyn man was beaten and arrested this week because he was less than six feet away from his friends. According to the arrest report, Stephon Scott and three others were stopped by police “for failing to social distance. All were within six feet of each other.” When Scott refused to be put in handcuffs for doing nothing other than standing next to his friends, the cops violently took him to the ground and began ...
Someone Snitched on a Food Pantry Helping Needy During Pandemic, So Gov’t Shut It Down
Post Date: 2020-05-06 17:22:42 by Deckard
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Amesbury, MA — There have been few things more divisive in recent American history than the current pandemic which we have been watching unfold over the past two months. While politics should play absolutely no role in a pandemic, it’s become the polarizing central issue currently tearing America in half. It is also turning countless Americans into tattletales who rat out their neighbors for not standing six feet apart, or, as the following infuriating case illustrates, helping those in need. Last week, Tracey Brown, of Amesbury, wanted to do something good for her community in their time of need. So, she converted her front yard free library box — that let people check out ...
In Tearful Post, Frontline Nurse Explains How Covid-19 Patients are Being ‘Murdered’ in NYC Hospitals
Post Date: 2020-05-06 17:15:27 by Deckard
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Here’s something you’re not going to see on the nightly news. With all of their pundits, experts, politicians, and feel good human interest stories, and all of their charts, graphs, predictions, models and projections, they won’t dare present testimony from front line hospital workers who don’t toe the official line.In a recent social media post, 37-year-old Nicole Sirotek, a frontline ICU nurse in NYC, shares her story of working with Covid-19 patients, claiming that people in the hospitals are literally being murdered in order to inflate Covid-19 death numbers, and that no one really cares about the truth because it is happening in minority communities.“She told ...
Texas Governor Orders ‘Immediate Release’ Of Jailed Salon Owner
Post Date: 2020-05-06 16:58:28 by Deckard
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Tyrannical judge sentenced Shelley Luther to week in jail for refusing to apologize for reopening business Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered for the “immediate release” of a woman who was sentenced to jail for seven days for refusing to apologize for reopening her salon business in defiance of county lockdown orders.Abbot released a statement Wednesday denouncing the judge who sentenced Shelley Luther to jail, saying there better ways of protecting public safety than jailing a mom wanting to feed her kids.“As I have made clear through prior pronouncements, jailing Texans for non-compliance with executive orders should always be the last available option,” Abbot ...
Oregon gov cancels Independence Day
Post Date: 2020-05-06 16:50:35 by Deckard
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The irony, it burns. On Friday, Oregon Governor Kate Brown held a press conference to discuss the latest developments in the containment efforts of the Wuhan coronavirus, and how to implement safe reopening procedures for different parts of Oregon. She failed, however, to announce the specific framework of the reopening, and said she would extend the emergency declaration until July 6 — two days after Independence Day. Although Brown has announced a gradual plan to allow businesses to reopen, her emergency declaration gives state agencies the ability to set their own rules for a longer period. In her press conference, Brown said right off the bat, “I want to be clear. We will not ...
Georgia kicks off chilling door-to-door COVID-19 blood collections
Post Date: 2020-05-06 16:39:35 by Deckard
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Washington Times They have in Georgia at least, where the state’s Department of Public Health recently announced, in cooperation with both Fulton County and Dekalb counties’ Boards of Health, that “to learn more about the spread of COVID-19,” an “investigation” has commenced — and it’s an “investigation” that’s leading government officials to make random stops at randomly selected residences and ask random citizens for, get this, their blood. Citizens’ DNA in the hands of unelected government officials. Hmm, what could go wrong there? Specifically, Georgia’s health wonks want to know “the percentage of people in ...
Elvis Was King, Ike Was President, and 116,000 Americans Died in a Pandemic
Post Date: 2020-05-06 16:35:11 by Deckard
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The year was 1957. Elvis’s new movie “Jailhouse Rock” was packing the theaters. The last episode of “I Love Lucy” aired on television. The show “West Side Story” held tryouts in Washington, D.C., and opened on Broadway in September. Ford’s new car the Edsel rolled off the assembly line. The Cold War with Russia was on and “In God We Trust” appeared on U.S. currency. The first Toys R Us store opened. Also that year, the so-called Asian Flu killed 116,000 Americans. Here is the full summary from the Centers for Disease Control: In February 1957, a new influenza A (H2N2) virus emerged in East Asia, triggering a pandemic (“Asian ...
The psychology behind why some people won't wear masks
Post Date: 2020-05-06 15:23:37 by Gatlin
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The psychology behind why some people won't wear masks Most Americans have never had to wear a mask for their health before, let alone while they shop for groceries or go for a run. So, even as businesses or states increasingly require them, rebellion is natural -- to a degree, says Dr. David Aronoff, director of Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Division of Infectious Diseases and professor of medicine. But he urges Americans to think of the mask guidance not as forced conformity, but as a necessary act of solidarity: Wearing a cloth mask could stop seemingly healthy people from infecting others with coronavirus if they're asymptomatic. Coronavirus, face masks and ...
DOJ sides with church suing Virginia Gov. Northam after pastor who held 16-person service faced fine, jail
Post Date: 2020-05-06 15:02:08 by Gatlin
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DOJ sides with church suing Virginia Gov. Northam after pastor who held 16-person service faced fine, jail The Justice Department is siding with a Virginia church suing Gov. Ralph Northam after police threatened a pastor with jail time or a $2,500 fine for violating the state's coronavirus lockdown restrictions by holding a 16-person church service on Palm Sunday. The DOJ decision came after police in protective garb served a summons to Kevin Wilson, the pastor of Lighthouse Fellowship Church on Chincoteague Island, for holding the service on April 5 with 16 people spaced far apart from one another in a church that could fit 293 people. State officials said Wilson and the church ...
There’s a New Baptist Sex Abuser Database, but SBC Action Is Still Needed
Post Date: 2020-05-06 13:20:42 by Gatlin
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There’s a New Baptist Sex Abuser Database, but SBC Action Is Still Needed For more than a decade, abuse survivor advocates have been asking the Southern Baptist Convention to establish a clergy predator database, and for just as long they’ve been confronted with a denomination determined to do nothing. Now Megan and Dominique Benninger, who brought to light their former pastor’s record as a convicted child molester after the leadership of their Pennsylvania church failed to disclose it, have launched a new Baptist sex abuser database at BaptistAccountability.org. Their work builds on the StopBaptistPredators database that I started and maintained from 2006 to 2012, ...
Why Some People Are Able to Stay Sharp Past Age 100
Post Date: 2020-05-06 11:42:51 by Gatlin
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Why Some People Are Able to Stay Sharp Past Age 100 Neuroscientists in Australia recently investigated the brain characteristics of dementia-free centenarians (95–103 years old) using resting-state fMRI neuroimaging. Their research question: "Is there something special about [centenarians'] brain functional connectivity that helps them preserve cognitive function into the eleventh decade of life?" The researchers found that people over age 95 without dementia tend to have stronger "left brain-right brain" functional connectivity and more robust bilateral synchronization between brain hemispheres. This study (Jiang et al., 2020) was recently published ...
Armed mobs: the grim apotheosis of libertarianism
Post Date: 2020-05-06 11:30:12 by Gatlin
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Armed mobs: the grim apotheosis of libertarianisms The scene was the most unnerving of any in my political adulthood at least since the assassinations of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Sen. Robert Kennedy, and this scene also involved guns: Dozens of protesters armed with automatic weapons stormed the state capitol in Lansing, Michigan, demanding an end to enforced social distancing requirements made necessary by the coronavirus. Unnerving, but not entirely surprising. The protest had some of the symbolic trappings of the Tea Party movement, for example: the prominent display of both U.S. and Gadsden flags, the latter emblazoned with the group's motto, "Don't ...
Political scientist finds disconnect in Libertarian Party platform, voters
Post Date: 2020-05-06 11:23:10 by Gatlin
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Political scientist finds disconnect in Libertarian Party platform, voters University of Dayton political scientist Christopher Devine has written the definitive academic study of the Libertarian Party — America’s third largest political party. He documents a growing disconnect between the party’s radical platform and the more mainstream, “fiscally conservative and socially liberal” policy preferences of its rank-and-file supporters. His research is timely. This week, Michigan Congressman Justin Amash announced that he would run for the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination at next month’s national convention. Devine examines the Libertarian ...
Federal judge rules Illinois’ stay-at-home order constitutional
Post Date: 2020-05-06 09:14:05 by Gatlin
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Post Article – Federal judge rules Illinois’ stay-at-home order constitutional ENA, Ill. (WREX) -- On the same day Beloved Church in Lena held a service with more than 100 people, defying Governor JB Pritzker's stay-at-home order, a U.S. district judge rules the order constitutional. Beloved Church and its pastor Stephen Cassell filed the federal complaint Thursday. The lawsuit claimed the state and other local authorities have "intentionally denigrated Illinois churches and pastors and people of faith by relegating them to second-class citizenship." But, a ruling from U.S. District Judge John Z. Lee says the state's stay-at-home order is constitutional. ...
WHO Guidelines Encourage Children Younger Than 4 be Taught “Masturbation” and “Gender Identity”
Post Date: 2020-05-05 17:10:54 by Deckard
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WHO guidelines for sex education recommend that children aged 0-4 be taught about “masturbation” and “gender identity.” The World Health Organization’s ‘Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe: A framework for policymakers, educational and health authorities and specialists’, advises children be taught about sexually pleasuring themselves and transgenderism before they’ve even fully learned to talk. The WHO advises that children aged 0-4 are given “information about enjoyment and pleasure when touching one’s body… masturbation.” Toddlers are also to be encouraged to “gain an awareness of gender identity” and given ...
Sweden Bucked Conventional Wisdom, and Other Countries Are Following
Post Date: 2020-05-05 13:11:38 by Deckard
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No lockdown, no shuttered businesses or elementary schools, no stay-at-home. And no disaster, either. Spring is in the air, and it is increasingly found in the confident step of the people of Sweden. With a death rate significantly lower than that of France, Spain, the U.K., Belgium, Italy, and other European Union countries, Swedes can enjoy the spring without panic or fears of reigniting a new epidemic as they go about their day in a largely normal fashion.Dr. Mike Ryan, the executive director of the World Health Organization’s Emergencies Program, says: “I think if we are to reach a new normal, I think in many ways Sweden represents a future model — if we wish to get back ...
Kansas City Forces Businesses, Churches to Keep Lists of Visitors for COVID-19 Tracking
Post Date: 2020-05-05 12:54:05 by Deckard
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As part of its partial reopening of “nonessential” institutions, Kansas City, Missouri, is now requiring businesses and churches to maintain lists of people who enter their doors, an Orwellian policy established ostensibly to enable the city health department to respond quickly to reports of COVID-19 exposure. On Thursday, Mayor Quinton Lucas (shown), a Democrat, issued an executive order relaxing some of the provisions of his previous lockdown orders. The new order allows “nonessential” businesses to reopen under the “10/10/10 rule,” which states that “non-essential businesses open to the public must limit the number of customers allowed to no more than ...
Clinton Foundation Wants To Use AmeriCorps To Create A 'National Contact Tracing Corps'
Post Date: 2020-05-05 12:18:33 by Deckard
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By MassPrivateI The Co-Chair of AmeriCorps and the creator of AmeriCorps, former President Bill Clinton, wants to create a national contact tracing force using AmeriCorps volunteers. The Co-Chair of the AmeriCorps, Congressman John Garamendi, recently introduced a bill that would “expand volunteer opportunities within AmeriCorps and the Federal Emergency Management Agency” (FEMA). The bill “Undertaking National Initiatives to Tackle Epidemic Act” (UNITE Act) would allow AmeriCorps and FEMA to create a national contact-tracing corps. (see page 10) The bicameral legislation ensures that existing national and community service programs are fully mobilized in order to ...
Volkswagen Beetle Repurposed Into an Old-Fashioned Mini Bike
Post Date: 2020-05-05 12:01:33 by Deckard
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Here’s how to transform the original VW Bug into a sweet mini-motorcycle The original Volkswagen Beetle is one of the most popular vehicles of all time. Not wanting to let them go when their engines finally break down, fans have found all kinds of ways to repurpose their parts. The “Volkspod” mini-bike is one of the coolest we’ve seen. Brent Walter decided to use the most iconic part of the VW bug – the round, bubbly fenders – as the body of a mini-motorcycle. He made two Volkspods out of one bug by welding one front fender and one back fender together for the body of each mini-bike. The headlights and taillights are preserved, making them look like ...
Pennsylvania Dairy Farmer Decides to Bottle His Own Milk Rather than Dump It. Sells Out in Hours.
Post Date: 2020-05-05 11:51:18 by Deckard
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The American spirit lives on at a 300-year-old, cream-line dairy farm, where a farmer is working around the clock to bottle his own milk after his processor told him to dump it. Locals are lining up to support him. When Ben Brown’s dairy processor told him they could no longer buy his milk, he got to work bottling it himself. Brown’s Whoa Nellie Dairy farm has been providing high-quality, cream-line milk since the 1700s. He sells some of it at his on-site farm store, but a large portion of it used to be sold to a dairy processor who pasteurized and bottled it for local restaurants and markets. When he realized he would have to dump hundreds of gallons of milk each week until his 70 ...
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