Just like “Gun Free Zones” save lives, the laws against drunk driving save just as many!
The woman charged in a downtown Minneapolis hit-and-run crash that killed Augsburg College student Austin Conley told police she thought a rock smashed her windshield.
Teisha Randle, 20, of St. Paul is charged with two counts of criminal vehicular homicide in what witnesses described as a high-speed crash in the Warehouse District early Sunday morning.
According to police dispatch records, the 911 caller kept saying, “The car was going 90 and hit this guy. I think he’s dead.”
Of course those who use “Gun Death” as a metric could care less about this story. I mean no guns were used, so what’s the big deal?
My Grandmother Passed away. When it comes to my own ideals of life she did it well. She was just shy of her 88th, and when her health took a turn for the worst she didn’t linger long, and she’ll be greatly missed.
The services are up in Northern Maine, and I’ll be leaving tomorrow morning. I may do some therapeutic posting, but that’s all on how I feel.
The military’s highest court ousted the judge in the Fort Hood shooting case Monday and threw out his order to have the suspect’s beard forcibly shaved before his court-martial.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled that Col. Gregory Gross didn’t appear impartial while presiding over the case of Maj. Nidal Hasan, who faces the death penalty if convicted in the 2009 shootings on the Texas Army post that killed 13 people and wounded more than two dozen others.
But the court said it was not ruling on whether the judge’s order violated Hasan’s religious rights. Hasan has argued that his beard is a requirement of his Muslim faith, although facial hair violates Army regulations.
Just give the asshole a webcam feed (one way, no feed from him…he doesn’t want to play) when the judge gives his sentence, and then give the prick the needle. This is nothing but making a mockery, and so many people who should know better are playing along.
He has rights, he’s waiving them. GOOD this makes our job easier. We know what he did, we know why he did it, and we have lots of witnesses to corroborate the whole thing. We also know this man has no respect for the military he abused and assaulted, nor the people who would lay down their lives to protect his worthless ass.
Just get him in the ground and quick fucking about!
Earlier this week the animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against Hot’s Kitchen, a popular Hermosa Beach restaurant, for violating the state’s consumer protection laws by continuing to sell foie gras after the state’s ban on the sale of the product took effect in July.
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Hot’s, along with other plaintiffs in Canada and New York, sued the state of California in July—seeking repeal of the ban shortly after it went into effect. And Hot’s, like a few others, as I noted in July, has given away free foie gras to customers who continue to demand it even after the ban took effect…..While I expect these and a few other noteworthy particulars will doom PETA’s case, this suit will lay bare a larger truth that I and a few others have long argued about California’s foie gras ban: It’s so vague as to be unenforceable in any manner that comports with constitutional requirements of due process.
After all, why hasn’t some governmental unit brought even one enforcement action in the state? Why isn’t Hermosa Beach enforcing the foie gras ban against Hot’s Kitchen?
Some of the students objected, but none of them objected as much as Hernandez did. She handed out fliers and started a petition opposing the RFID tags. For this, and for declining to wear such a tag, she was threatened with expulsion from the school. The district has made it clear that other students had better fall in line, too. According to the Charlottesville, Va.-based Rutherford Institute, which is representing Hernandez, students who don’t take part in the ID program will lose access to the cafeteria, the library, and extracurricular activities.
Why is the school taking such a hard line? Not for the sake of student safety—John Jay High already has 200 surveillance cameras. The real reason is money: Public schools receive funding based on a head count known as average daily attendance. The higher the head count, the more money the system gets.
Hence, Houston’s Spring school district boasted two years ago that after introducing RFID-enabled student IDs, the system “has recovered $194,000 in Average Daily Attendance (ADA) funding that would have been lost if the district had not been able to verify the attendance of students who were at school but not in their classroom when attendance was taken.”
Putting tracking chips on kids is pretty disgusting, but doing it so they can get credit where none is due is egregious. The sole purpose of this is so they can count kids who aren’t attending school as attending school. The chips can show the kid is on school grounds (or the chip is stuffed in a locker and the kid is AWOL), but they aren’t at the classes they should be attending. Yeah, the kid who ditched class and is smoking cigarettes in the parking lot, or eating snacks in the cafeteria, or surfing porn in the Library/Computer lab should be counted when it comes to school funding. Hey because showing up is good enough, right? This is like those shining lights of teachers who give points for the kid printing their name at the top of a test!
Of course it makes sense since teachers haven’t been, and have been actively against being paid to actually TEACH for decades.
Didiet Jambart started taking the drug Requip manufactured by GlaxoSmithKiline to treat his Parkinson’s disease, in 2003. The medication turned the married father into a gay sex addict and compulsive gambler, who even stole from his friends and family, and sold his children’s toys to fund his habits.
He advertised himself for gay sex and lost a huge amount of money in online gambling. Before Jambart started taking Requip, he was considered a model member of the community he lived in. According to media reports, the behavior stopped, once Jambart, a former bank manager, stopped taking the drug.
They’re trying to say the drug made him gay? YEAH! It does sound like the drug had some issue with impulsive behavior and/or inhibitions, but I’m scratching my head on this one.
So we talked about the Belcher murders yesterday. What I didn’t bring up was this story. Here’s a story of of a professional wrestler who killed his wife, his son, then himself.
The murders were all by suffocation, with Benoit ending his own life by hanging.
Its suggested that Benoit had early onset dementia from multiple concussions throughout his life, and possibly other mental effects from abuse of illegal steroids. No idea if this has any connection with Belcher, but there have been some very similar cases to this in football as well.
Still the anti-rights people are focusing on this story because they are “Gun Deaths”, yet the issue is likely MUCH more complicated than the simple fact that Jovan Belcher owned guns.
Charges have been filed against the estranged son of the woman who was found stabbed to death in her north Minneapolis home on Monday.
Police say two witnesses sleeping inside the house woke to a masked Ishmael Roberts, 22, stabbing Beatrice Wilson with a samurai sword.
The Katana was the “Assault Weapon” of its time, and the Samurai were still using it even when firearms were becoming mainstream. It was even standard issue to the Japanese Army in WWII!
