January 8, 2015

Dennis Miller called Hillary a "chunky white chick" while speaking glowingly of Jeb, Walker

On his radio program today. No mention of Jeb Bush or Scott Walter's body or skin color

January 8, 2015

Steubenville rapist weeps as he is released from two yrs in jail

Steubenville rapist WEEPS in court as he's released after two years in juvenile detention for the rape of a 16-year-old girl
Ohio high school football player Trent Mays who was convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl was released today after two years of juvenile detention
A statement from attorney Adam Neeman says Mays earned his release and is now 'eager to prove himself'
Mays and teammate Ma'Lik Richmond, were both found delinquent in the 2012 rape but Richmond was released one year earlier



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2900435/Ohio-high-school-rape-convict-released-custody.html#ixzz3OCNot2Xl

January 8, 2015

the moment a mudslide knocks a house off its foundation

Heavy rain and flooding has led to a muddy start to 2015 in some areas of Washington State.

Power outages and mudslides are threatening the safety of homes in western areas, and residents in the cities of Aberdeen and Hoquiam have been advised to evacuate.

Officials say that at least three homes in Hoquiam have been knocked off their foundations due to mudslides, while a landslide has forced a major highway to close.

Video of a home being knocked off of its foundation shows how damaging the storm has been.

http://globalnews.ca/news/1756246/watch-mudslide-knocks-washington-home-right-off-foundation/

January 7, 2015

NY times: In memory of Cabu, Wolinski, Charb and Tignous.

January 7, 2015

New Yorkers are enjoying their freedom from tickets.. parking as they please, brown paper bag drinks

Tuesday morning’s alternate-side parking period found 25 cars on the wrong side of one block in Park Slope, Brooklyn, still occupying the spaces they were required to leave an hour earlier, without a single ticket in sight. None of this appeared to faze the street sweeper moving down the block — or the police cruiser just behind it, which did not stop.

At New York City housing projects from the Bronx to Staten Island, residents said they had seen fewer officers patrolling their hallways and streets, leaving some people relieved and others frightened for their safety.


And on Burnside Avenue in the Bronx on Tuesday morning, Leyni Soto relished sipping from a Red Bull in a brown paper bag. When he did the same thing two months ago, an officer asked him what was in the bag.

But this time was different. “They slowed down their pace, they looked at me, they looked at the bag and they kept going,” said Mr. Soto, 28, an assistant manager of a cellphone store. “It felt really good.”

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Already, the city’s drivers have collectively enjoyed a minor windfall in parking tickets not written. As a cable contractor in New York City, Gary Jeffers often has no choice but to double-park, resigning himself to a pile of parking tickets. In recent weeks, however, he has been able to double-park for longer without fear of being cited, he said.

“Of course that’s a good thing, because the traffic officers just want your money,” he said on Tuesday morning in Queens. “Now I have the right to park a bit more.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/nyregion/life-in-new-york-city-where-arrests-are-down-and-tickets-are-rarities.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

January 7, 2015

Soldiers on the streets: Military is brought in to protect Eiffel Tower, media offices, places of wo

Soldiers on the streets: Military is brought in to protect Eiffel Tower, media offices, places of worship and public transport links as France responds to terror attack

Soldiers pictured patrolling Paris in combat fatigues with machine guns
Troops deployed to train stations, places of worship, and public spaces
Three gunmen who attacked offices in the city this morning still at large








Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2900755/Soldiers-streets-Military-brought-protect-Eiffel-Tower-media-offices-places-worship-public-transport-links-France-responds-terror-attack.html#ixzz3OAdo9ams

January 7, 2015

The Kiss _ Boehner and Pelosi

John A. Boehner kissed House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi not long after he retained his post as speaker of the House on Tuesday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/us/congress-returns-boehner.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=b-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

January 7, 2015

Sex offender gets light sentence for molesting 8 victims as Brooklyn judge sympathizes

Sex offender gets light sentence for molesting 8 victims as Brooklyn judge sympathizes with his mental illness
Supreme Court Justice Vincent Del Giudice expressed sympathies for Lowell Britt, who suffers from frotteurism. The mental illness is defined as molesting people without their consent in a public place.

A repeat sex offender convicted of molesting eight women and teen girls in Brooklyn laundromats didn’t get any extra jail time Tuesday from a judge sympathetic of his mental illness.

Supreme Court Justice Vincent Del Giudice lamented that the state prison system does not offer a treatment program for the pervert’s particular mental disorder of frotteurism.

The sickening disease is defined in the dictionary as the “practice of achieving sexual stimulation ... by touching and rubbing against a person without the person’s consent and usually in a public place.”

Lowell Britt, of Bay Shore, L.I, was sentenced to three years in prison to run concurrent with the same jail term he received last summer for a sex attack in Queens. Britt is also subject to 15 years of post-release supervision.

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A 22-year-old woman wrote: “I’m begging for justice, not only for me but for all our little girls out not only that he goes to rehab but serves time and get this animal off the street.”

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“I’ve done time without knowing what’s wrong with me,” Britt, 29, told the judge.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/sex-offender-light-sentence-molesting-8-victims-article-1.2067723

January 6, 2015

LA Sheriff's department wants the public's help to find their missing beanbag gun

After driving more than 32 miles from Calabasas to the Sunset Boulevard exit of the 101 Freeway in Hollywood, the deputies -- whose names were not released -- were informed by a bystander that the car’s trunk was open about 2 to 3 inches.



The only item missing: The beanbag shotgun stored inside a black canvas carrying case.

"It was inside the trunk," said Deputy Crystal Hernandez, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff's Department. "There's a lot of equipment stored inside there."

To find the missing gun, searchers retraced the deputies’ route: entering the 101 Freeway in Calabasas, turning south on the 405 Freeway, exiting at the Skirball Cultural Center before returning to the northbound 405 Freeway, turning on the southbound 101 Freeway and exiting off the 101 Freeway at Sunset Boulevard.

The California Highway Patrol and the Los Angeles Police Department, along with a sheriff’s search and rescue team and a helicopter crew, assisted in the ultimately unsuccessful search.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-la-sheriffs-searching-for-bean-bag-shotgun-20150103-story.html

January 6, 2015

Dad invites police officer to watch him spank his 12-year-old daughter

How humiliating and sick for the 12 year old.

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When a Florida father alerted his 12-year-old daughter that he planned to spank her for fighting with her sister, she told him it was against the law for him to hit her.

Dale Garcia was determined to prove his daughter wrong and called the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office on Dec. 29, according to a police report, to ask whether he could legally hit his daughter.

A deputy arrived at the residence shortly after and told Garcia that hitting his daughter was within his rights.

“(He) wanted me to stand by while he spanked her with the paddle. … I stood by as (he) spanked (her) 4 times on her buttocks. Since no crime had been committed this case is closed,” the officer wrote in his report.

http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2015/01/06/dad-invites-police-officer-to-watch-him-spank-his-12-year-old-daughter/