Saturday, December 21, 2013

What next ? ban nicotine patches ? strip search to enforce it ?

New York City Council votes to ban e-cigarettes

Miguel Martin, president of Logic, the U.S.'s third-largest e-cigarette maker, says he's disappointed in the New York City Council's position.

By M. Alex Johnson, Staff Writer, NBC News

New Yorkers who've latched on to electronic cigarettes to get their nicotine fix at the local bar had their hopes snuffed out Thursday as the New York City Council overwhelmingly voted to add the smokeless smokes to the city's ban on smoking in public places.
Even though the electronic cigarettes don't produce secondhand smoke, the council voted 43-8 to ban the use of e-cigarettes in restaurants, bars, city parks and any other places where smoking is already outlawed.

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Force ? How many people will actuall tell them ?

Proposed Law Would Force Parents to Disclose Gun Ownership to School District

Michael Schaus | Dec 20, 2013

Apparently, liberals have a plan to bring an end to school shootings: Make disclosure of firearm ownership mandatory for all families enrolled in public education. According to the Missouri Torch:
A pre-filed bill in the Missouri Senate would require parents of public school students to report to the school if they own a gun.
Why don’t we just cut right to the chase, and write a law instructing would-be mass-shooters to report their intentions well ahead of time? Or, heck, we could just outlaw the act of killing innocent school children. And I’m sure criminals, owners of illegal weapons, and potentially dangerous sociopaths will be more than happy to follow along with such equally ridiculous legislation. Right?
More than being an egregious violation of personal privacy, the bill highlights the impotence of progressive “solutions” to violence conducted with firearms. Compulsory disclosure of gun ownership provides the authorities with such little actionable or useful information it is almost not worth mentioning. View Full Article

The teacher that was fired for posing for magazines in her bikini is getting “payback” on the school that forced her to resign.

“Bikini Teacher” Gets Payback On School, Poses For Hustler Magazine Cover

The teacher that was fired for posing for magazines in her bikini is getting “payback” on the school that forced her to resign. The “bikini teacher,” who moonlit as a bikini model, recently posed for the cover of the pornographic Hustler magazine.

The ex-teacher, Olivia Sprauer, who goes by her stage name Victoria James, originally stated that she would not pose for the magazine because, “I don’t do spread-eagle shots for the camera, so I don’t think Hustler is going to work out.” FULL ARTICLE

Two Colorado teens arrested in alleged plot to shoot up high school

By M. Alex Johnson, Staff Writer, NBC News

Just a week after a disaffected teen severely wounded a fellow student at his Colorado high school before killing himself, police arrested two other boys Friday on suspicion of plotting to similarly shoot up their high school in the same state.
Trinidad High School, Trinidad Middle School and Fisher's Peak School in Trinidad were on "lockout" status — sealing children and staff inside — for most of Thursday until it was determined that the boys weren't in class.

The boys — who weren't identified because they are juveniles ages 15 and 16 — face charges of making a credible threat to a school and felony inciting destruction of life or property, Trinidad police said Friday.

They'd been planning for at least six weeks to open fire in the high school once classes resume next month after the winter break, police said .STORY

Stopping Big Bertha? Seattle debates mysterious object obstructing tunnel machine

There's much speculation as to what has stopped a giant machine boring a tunnel beneath downtown Seattle. Theories range from a man-made object from Seattle's past, such as a steam engine, to something from the natural world, such as a glacial boulder. NBC's Joe Fryer reports.

By Joe Fryer and Daniella Silva, NBC News

SEATTLE — In a city known for a giant needle pointing toward space, everyone is talking about a massive machine stuck underground.
They call her Bertha, a 57-foot-wide, earth-eating tunnel maker chewing her way below downtown Seattle to make way for an underground highway along the city's waterfront.
But two weeks ago, a thousand feet into her near two-mile journey, Bertha came to a grinding halt.
"We're a bit puzzled about what's preventing us from moving forward," said Chris Dixon with Seattle Tunnel Partners.
Officially, Bertha was stopped “after unanticipated and increasing resistance was experienced, possibly due to an obstruction.”

A mysterious obstruction, 60 feet down, and Seattle is abuzz with theories of what's in Bertha's way.

“There’s history buried everywhere,” local historian Feliks Banel said.

"It could be Jimmy Hoffa, it might be Sasquatch or it could be a flying saucer, you know."

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Friday, December 20, 2013

ONLY WAY TO GET AHEAD + STAY AHEAD..

LIE !

Who was the genius that thought GQ and Phil Robertson would be a good idea ? o_O

AMEN.....

Piers Morgan: The First Amendment Shouldn't Apply to 'Vile Bigots' Like Phil Robertson

Hey, Piers,go back to England!!!...OH,I'M SORRY, THEY DON'T WANT YOU BACK...WELL, WE DON'T WANT YOU EITHER..OUR CONSTITUTION IS TO PROTECT US FROM PEOPLE LIKE YOU...............

Guy Benson

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At least Phil told us how he feels, whether you agree with him or not, he was truthful. We have a president who lies to us every day, WHEN CAN WE GET HIM FIRED ?.

'Duck Dynasty' fans outraged over A&E's Phil Robertson punishment

A&E suspends 'Duck Dynasty' star for anti-gay remarks

By Patrick Kevin Day

December 19, 2013, 2:27 p.m.

The day after "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson was suspended from the hit A&E reality series, fans and nonfans of the series took to social media to either express their outrage at A&E for removing Robertson from the show or for airing the show in the first place.
Robertson was put on an indefinite filming hiatus after the publication of an interview in the January issue of GQ magazine in which he made controversial remarks about gay people and civil rights that drew heat from GLAAD, among others.
Whether they were fans of the show or not, many conservative Christians took great offense that Robertson was removed from the show for expressing his beliefs.

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Does anyone think he is going to release anything ? It always bothers me to read articles like this because I'm always disappointed when nothing happens and again, he gets away with breaking the law.

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Federal Judge Slams Obama’s ‘Cavalier Attitude,’ Orders Him To Release Sealed Documents

Could this be a sign of things to come? A federal judge has slammed Obama’s “cavalier attitude” towards transparency with his decision making, ordering his administration to release a government-wide foreign aid directive that he wanted hidden from the public. A lawsuit had been filed by Washington, D.C. non-profit Center for Effective Government, which sought the release of the Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development.

The Obama administration had declined to make the document public under the “Presidential communications privilege,” but federal judge Ellen Huvelle declared the Obama administration’s argument of executive privilege was “troubling” and accused them of engaging in “governance by secret law.” The ruling comes on the heels of a report last month by the Committee to Protect Journalists, which concluded that Obama’s administration was the most secretive since the Nixon administration
It also appears that the President could be brought to trial soon once again for his transgressions. South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, who expressed outrage over the Obama administration’s “unprecedented level” of floating congressional law, wants to take the White House to court over executive outreach. Thirty Republican congressman are on board with this and Gowdy also said a House resolution has authorized a congressional lawsuit.
Speaking to Fox News, Gowdy explained that Congress could sue the Obama administration for ignoring laws passed by the legislation. “I don’t like running to the court. I’d rather use any other remedy other than going to the court,” he said. But our other remedies have not worked and the judicial branch is there for a reason. In certain circumstances Congress ought to be able to assert its standing, and I just think the pervasiveness of his ignoring of Congress has reached a point [that] we don’t have a choice.”
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“Carol of the Bells.”

Watch this musical group tear this Christmas classic to shreds in stellar holiday performance

You know Christmas is here when smash-hit a capella group Pentatonix does a cover of “Carol of the Bells.”

The singers, who vaulted to stardom after winning the third season of “The Sing-Off” on NBC, cover of the Christmas classic has garnered more than 11 million YouTube hits and more than 21,000 comments.
“Among their covers, this one is one of my preferred,” said one YouTube user Thursday.
Another user equally enjoyed the group’s cover performance.

“Loved them the first time I heard them on The Song Off. Now, PTX plus Christmas songs — wonderful experience. They’re like nothing else out there,” said YouTube user Terry Hines Thursday.Carolyn Bolton, Rare Staff
Posted on December 19, 2013 5:

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Thursday, December 19, 2013

"MANS BEST FRIEND" ?

Another dog shoots hunter, this time in Florida

By msnbc.com staff

It's happened again: A hunting dog has shot its master.
This time, a man in Florida was hit in the thigh by a round from his Remington .308 on Saturday, TBO.com reported.

The culprit was a bulldog named Eli. Authorities told TBO.com that Billy E. Brown, 78, was driving to go deer hunting with a friend on a bumpy road in Pasco County near Tampa when Eli "got excited in the truck" and bumped the rifle. The gun discharged, the bullet hit Brown in the right thigh, and he was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa, said Officer George Wells, spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Brown's condition was not released.

Wells said Brown and the friend were about one-and-a-half miles into the woods when the accident -- if you're buying that the dog didn't mean to do that -- occurred.

The name of Brown's friend was not released. The two have been hunting together for more than 25 years, Wells told TBO.com.
This incident follows one Dec. 1 in which a hunter in Utah was hit in the buttocks by birdshot after his dog stepped on a shotgun laid across the bow of a boat. The Salt Lake City Tribune said the wounded hunter had 27 pellets removed from ... well, you know.

Drones Shot Down Over Texas

GOOD !!!

Updated December. 17, 2013

Following columnist Charles Krauthammer's observation that the first person to shoot down a surveillance drone on U.S. soil will be a "folk hero," gun ...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGgEFOD8Jlo

'Fake' interpreter from Mandela event is admitted to psychiatric hospital: report

EPA

Thamsanqa Jantjie stands just three feet from President Barack Obama during the Nelson Mandela memorial service on Dec. 10.

By Alexander Smith, NBC News contributor

The "fake" sign language interpreter who stood feet away from world leaders including President Barack Obama at Nelson Mandela's memorial has been committed to a psychiatric hospital, South African media reported Thursday.
Thamsanqa Jantjie caused uproar at the ceremony in Johannesburg on Dec. 10 when he used sign-language interpretations that deaf groups say were little more than nonsensical gesticulations.
The 34-year-old later claimed he may have suffered a schizophrenic attack in which he saw "angels" flying into the stadium.

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Obama commutes sentences of eight crack cocaine offenders

In a statement, Obama said the commutation “is an important step toward restoring fundamental ideals of justice and fairness”

SINCE WHEN WAS HE CONCERNED ABOUT "JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS" ?

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I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.”

'Duck Dynasty' new season will feature suspended patriarch

Maria Elena Fernandez TODAY

Phil Robertson is the patriarch of "Duck Dynasty."

A&E Networks

Duck Commander Phil Robertson will appear in the next season of "Duck Dynasty" but has been suspended from filming future episodes.

When "Duck Dynasty" returns for its new season on Jan. 15, "Duck Commander" Phil Robertson will be a part of it, an A&E network spokesman told TODAY on Thursday. Most of the 10-episode season was filmed before the network suspended the Robertson family patriarch for anti-gay remarks he made during a GQ magazine interview and the stories would not work without him, the spokesman said.
The hit show starring the wealthy Louisiana family is not currently in production. But on Wednesday, A&E announced it was "indefinitely" placing Roberts on hiatus from filming and he will not be part of the show when production resumes sometime next year.
“We are extremely disappointed to have read Phil Robertson’s comments in GQ, which are based on his own personal beliefs and are not reflected in the series 'Duck Dynasty,' A&E said in a statement. "His personal views in no way reflect those of A&E Networks, who have always been strong supporters and champions of the LGBT community."
The family's conservative religious views are featured regularly on the show.
          Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal praised the Robertsons
         Sarah Palin wrote: "Free speech is an endangered species.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

A Quiet Rage Building Across the Nation

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Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson Thinks Black People Were Happy Before the Civil Rights Movement

Phil Robertson, GQ

When it comes to expressing his thoughts, Phil Robertson clearly isn't limited to just sharing his views on homosexuality .

Peter Gicas, eonline

In the January issue of GQ , the Duck Dynasty star also comments on growing up in a pre-civil-rights-era Louisiana.

"I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person," Robertson claims. "Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotten with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash."

He adds, "They're singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, 'I tell you what: These doggone white people'—not a word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues." REST OF STORY

Santa is Not Only White – He’s Also Republican!

Michael Schaus | Dec 18, 2013

It seems apropos to mention something controversial about Santa Claus, given the recent furor over his skin pigmentation. (Because, ya know, early Catholic Bishops and German folklore characters are traditionally such a multicultural crowd.) But, my controversial comment about old Saint Nick has little to do with his racial identification. You see, I have given it many hours of thought (no… I have no life), and I am convinced that Kris Kringle is (undoubtedly) a member of the Republican Party.
Wait! Hear me out! He may not be a Gadsden-flag-waving member of the tea party, but he definitely belongs to the NRA and votes a solidly Republican ticket. (He might have voted for JFK once, but that was primarily because of Kennedy’s tax policy.) Here’s the reasoning:
For starters, the Jolly Old Elf decided to set up shop in one of the most barren, and desolate, corners of the globe. (No… I’m not talking about Detroit.) In addition to the Arctic’s plentiful supply of recoverable oil, it has advantages that would - stereotypically speaking - be attractive to Republican businessmen: It’s basically one freezing cold tax haven.
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If you have to lie to support gun control, how is it a morally viable position?

An ever-present dichotomy in the nation’s conversation over the place of firearms in our society is how the two sides chose to argue their points in the debate. Citizen control groups such as Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Moms Demand Action, the Violence Policy Center, Brady Coalition (or whatever they’re on now), Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, and their allies, tend to make the same anecdote-based arguments time and again in order to attempt to persuade people on an emotional level. They then reinforce their arguments with the entire raft of logical fallacies, and in some cases, simply choose to tell half-truths to blatant falsehoods. REST OF STORY

John Stossel

Look Back in

Liberty 2013

This wasn't a great year for liberty. A few disasters that government caused:

--Obamacare. It was supposed to "bend the cost curve" downward. The central planners had lots of time to perfect their scheme. For a generation, the brightest left-wing wonks focused on health care policy. The result? Soviet-style consumer service comes to America.
--Government shutdown. The real disaster was the unnecessary panic over it. Zoos would shut down, and baby pandas would starve. The media made it sound like America might not survive even slightly limited government. They were happy to echo the politicians' claim that there's no wasteful or stupid spending to cut.
"The cupboard is bare," said Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "There's no more cuts to make."
Nothing to cut? Government spends $3.8 trillion a year! View Full Article

Donations allow blind man to keep the dog that saved him

Cecil Williams says that it was a miracle and angels help save him, after the blind man lost consciousness and tumbled with his guide dog in front of an oncoming New York City train subway track.

Cecil Williams pets his service dog Orlando while being hugged by police officer Anthony Duncan following a press conference on Dec. 18, 2013. By Christina Caron, NBC News

NEW YORK -- A blind man who would have had to say goodbye to the guide dog that stayed by his side after a fall onto the New York City subway tracks will now get to keep his loyal companion of eight years.
Ever since Cecil Williams' story aired Tuesday on "Nightly News with Brian Williams," NBC News has
received hundreds of inquiries from people wanting to help Williams, 61, keep his dog Orlando.
Williams fainted at the 125th Street platform in Manhattan on Tuesday, and as he tumbled forward, Orlando landed in the tracks alongside him. Orlando tried to rouse Williams, who was unconscious. They lay there as the train passed above them. More Of Story Carlo Allegri / REUTERS

Report: IRS vendor owed $525 million in back taxes

The Internal Revenue Service has been doing business with nearly 1,200 vendors that owe back taxes, says a new report.

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington, D.C.

The Internal Revenue Service has been doing business with nearly 1,200 vendors that owe back taxes, including one unnamed contractor that owed a whopping $525 million, a new inspector general's report says.
Altogether, 1,168 IRS vendors owed back taxes totaling $589 million as of July 2012, according to the report released Tuesday. Only 50 were in a payment plan to pay off their debt. STORY

If this attack was against a member of PETA, they would have been Praying for someone to show up with a gun.It's easy to sit back and criticize,but it's amazing how quickly your priorities change when you are the one involved

PETA blasts bear mauling victim

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

ANOTHER ONE.......Dec. 10th it was the 6 year old kissing his "girlfriend" on the cheek WTF

Atlanta high school student suspended for hugging teacher

GUN BULLIES: Moms Demand try to bully Ronald McDonald into joining their citizen control cult by Bob Owens

It’s a simple concept for most rational people: comply with the law.That simple concept is apparently lost on the bullies of the citizen control cultists of Moms Demand Action, who are now attempting to bully McDonald’s into banning concealed carry, even when it is legal under state laws:Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, which organized a successful campaign this summer to pressure Starbucks into banning guns from its cafes, is preparing a similar effort aimed at McDonald’s, founder Shannon Watts told POLITICO.It’s part of the larger political shift from gun control advocacy groups, and the recognition that like much of Obama’s second term agenda, gun control is buried under the reality of a divided Congress.

Epstein needs to do better research, as Starbucks did not ban guns from their stores. As Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz made clear, he only made a request. Moms Demand also tried to target Staples, and that failed as well when the office supply chain refused to be bullied.
Mom’s Demand is doing a wonderful job of advertising of what might happen if citizen’s don’t jealous guard their liberties.
Let’s make sure they fail. Again.

Moms Demand Action get caught in another deceptive claim trying to bully store managers into challenging corporate policies

Shannon Watts just can’t stop making ignorant comments about guns

Mom’s Demand Founder Declared EVERY GUN an assault weapon.

You don't have to be a federal judge to know that.........

Federal Judge: "I Cannot Imagine" the NSA's Collection of Phone Records is Constitutional

Daniel Doherty | Dec 16, 2013

Has Edward Snowden been vindicated? Not quite, but the U.S. government is at least being forced to answer tougher questions about the constitutionality and effectiveness of one of its most controversial countererrorism programs.
A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency program which collects information on nearly all telephone calls made to, from or within the United States is likely to be unconstitutional. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon found that the program appears to violate the Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures. He also said the Justice Department had failed to demonstrate that collecting the so-called metadata had helped to head off terrorist attacks. Acting on a lawsuit brought by conservative legal activist Larry Klayman, Leon issued a preliminary injunction barring the NSA from collecting metadata pertaining to the Verizon accounts of Klayman and one of his clients. However, the judge stayed the order to allow for an appeal. “I cannot imagine a more ‘indiscriminate’ and ‘arbitrary invasion’ than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying it and analyzing it without judicial approval,” wrote Leon, an appointee of President George W. Bush REST OF STORY

Duck Dynasty Star Ducks Barbara Walters Interview--to Go Hunting

December 17, 2013 - 9:39 AM

Many celebrities look forward to a Barbara Walters interview. Not so with Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson. He skipped the interview to go duck hunting.
Radar Online is reporting that Robertson bailed on Walter’s ‘Most Fascinating People’ interview last month for the ABC network.
Walters talked with other members of the Robertson family, and Phil’s wife, Miss Kay, reportedly told her that the 67-year old founder of Duck Commander would rather shoot ducks than do the interview.
Walters says on-air that she has, “never been superseded by a duck before

- See more at: http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/eric-scheiner/duck-dynasty-star-ducks-barbara-walters-interview-go-hunting#sthash.eHzFZIGq.dpuf

YA GOTTA BE KIDDIN !!!

As NORAD Tracks Santa, critics track NORAD

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DAN ELLIOTT, AP
3 hours ago

DENVER (AP) — The U.S. and Canadian military will entertain millions of kids again this Christmas Eve with second-by-second updates on Santa's global whereabouts. But there's something new this year: public criticism.

A children's advocacy group says an animated video on the NORAD Tracks Santa website injects militarism into Christmas by showing fighter jets escorting Santa's sleigh. It's a rare swipe at the popular program, which last year attracted a record 22.3 million unique visitors from around the world to its website.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command defends the video as nonthreatening and safe for kids.

The kerfuffle erupted two weeks ago over a 39-second video on noradsanta.org called "NORAD Tracks Santa Trailer Video 2013."

A 5-second segment of the video — which is also available on youtube.com — shows two fighter jets flanking Santa.
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THIS IS A REAL BILLBOARD NEAR GAINESVILLE FLORIDA

Monday, December 16, 2013

That's hilarious. Michelle switched seats! some tension in the Obama household!!

Legal Insurrection

‘Every HR department’s worst nightmare’: Photo of Joe Biden getting his grope on causes a stir Sol Rieger

Biden was jealous of Obama’s pic RT @TheBlaze_Blog: A picture is worth 1,000 words: Joe Biden’s awkward holiday cheer

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Ho ho no: Santas brawl on NYC street posted at 5:01 pm on December 16, 2013 by Ed Morrissey Over the weekend, we saw a lot of reminders about the SantaCon tradition in New York, which is remarkably similar to the St. Patrick’s Day tradition, only in elf costumes. Men dressed as Santas show up for an epic pub crawl, and later spread Christmas cheer and joy throughout the Big Apple in the form of, er, urine and vomit. Think of this as a Father Christmas flash mob, with no real leadership but a growing annual membership base. Most New Yorkers want no part of SantaCon, but its participants insist that they’re entitled to assemble and celebrate just like everyone else And what happens when alcohol gets added to cliques and entitlement? Inevitably, this (via Breitbart, NSFW language):

A group of men wearing Santa suits got into a brawl near Union Square that was caught on video Saturday night, cops said.
“We’re looking into it,” said NYPD spokesman Sgt. Lee Jones said after the Daily News notified cops of the video that was posted on YouTube. “We don’t have any reported assaults right now. We know about it.”

I’m old enough to remember when Santa handed out lumps of coal, not lumps on a skull.

GOOD GUY WITH A GUN: Armed school officer stopped Arapahoe High School shooting

Authorities are dramatically revising the response time of law enforcement officers to the Arapahoe High School shooting on Friday. Originally, it was claimed by multiple outlets that responding law enforcement agencies took 14 minutes to arrive at the school, and that the shooter was not located until 30 minutes into the event. As we noted based on this information, this proves that schools need armed staffers and/or faculty on campus because it takes far too long for outside law enforcement agencies to respond to stop an active shooterIt now appears that our original thesis was confirmed because there was an armed officer on campus who was the reason the shooter was stopped after only shooting one student.
They are now stating that the entire incident was over in just 80 seconds. STORY

A FAIRY TALE.....

FBI disrupts shootings through interventions There have been hundreds of these disruptions since 2011,

EILEEN SULLIVAN, AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says it has helped to disrupt or prevent nearly 150 shootings and violent attacks this year, in part by steering potential gunmen toward mental health professionals. It's an achievement that stands out during a year when President Barack Obama made curbing gun violence a priority, yet has had little success in getting new restrictions enacted.

Mass shootings like the rampages in Newtown, Conn., the Washington, D.C., Navy Yard and the Aurora, Colo., movie theater do not represent the majority of gun violence. Yet when they do occur, the impact is high. And many times there's the question of whether the shooter had adequate mental health treatment to prevent it from happening. Yet, in the national discourse about reducing gun violence, mental health treatment has received much less attention than banning assault weapons. REST OF STORY

UPDATE............

Relative: Mandela signer in group that burned men

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ALAN CLENDENNING, AP FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2013 file photo, Thamsanqa Jantjie, the bogus sign ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The bogus sign language interpreter at last week's Nelson Mandela memorial service was among a group of people who accosted two men found with a stolen television and burned them to death by setting fire to tires placed around their necks, one of the interpreter's cousins and three of his friends told The Associated Press Monday.

But Thamsanqa Jantjie never went to trial for the 2003 killings when other suspects did in 2006 because authorities determined he was not mentally fit to stand trial, said the four. They insisted on speaking anonymously because of the sensitivity of the fake signing fiasco, which has deeply embarrassed South Africa's government and prompted a high-level investigation into how it happened.

Their account of the killings matched a description of the crime and the outcome for Jantjie that he himself described in an interview published on Sunday by the Sunday Times newspaper of Johannesburg . READ MORE

TURNED HIM LOOSE B/C HE MAY NOT COME OUT ALIVE....... child molesters not too popular

Tenn. Sen.'s fired chief of staff ordered freed

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JESSICA GRESKO, AP molesters
1 hour ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The fired chief of staff for Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander will live with his parents in Maryland and be electronically monitored while he awaits prosecution on charges of possession and attempted distribution of child pornography.

A federal judge allowed Ryan Loskarn to be released from custody after a hearing Monday. Loskarn's lawyers argued that the 35-year-old had no prior convictions or arrests and that he should be freed. Prosecutors opposed the request.

Magistrate Judge John Facciola ordered Loskarn to be confined to his parents' home on the monitor and isn't allowed any access to the Internet.

Loskarn's parents appeared in court, and his father stood with his arm around his wife as she told the judge that they have no home computer and that cellphones and iPads are password protected. They promised to ensure their son would have no access to the Internet. They have no young children living in the home, they told the judge. Loskarn's parents declined comment after the hearing. STORY

Harvard University Evacuated Amid Explosive Search

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Sunday, December 15, 2013

SURE THIS WAS POSTED BEFORE, BUT NEEDS TO BE SEEN....KANYE.---WHAT AN ASS !!

Open Letter From Police Chief David Oliver to Kanye West

A few days ago, Kanye West compared his job as a rapper to be just as dangerous and sacrificial as a police officer or a soldier in combat.

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