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SEE IT: Kentucky police officer caught on camera with wife accidentally shooting self in elevator
Darryl Jouett had just finished dinner with his wife before his gun discharged in a Cincinnati, Ohio, elevator, sending him to the hospital. He was released Monday morning.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/kentucky-cops-accidentally-shoots-elevator-video-article-1.2066553
Two weeks and society hasn't fallen apart due to a lack of parking tickets and other petty summonses
Kate Flannery
New York 6 hours ago
Two weeks and society hasn't fallen apart due to a lack of parking tickets and other petty summonses or the abatement in the harassment of the working class and poor. I cheer and encourage the police to continue throwing their tantrums. You'd think with the militarization of police departments across the nation - that our country was something out of Mad Max or Escape From N.Y. It's not. Their behavior with the work slowdown, makes that abundantly clear.
Dr. Askia Davis
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn 6 hours ago
For more than 30 years NY State has decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana. Nevertheless, as reported in the NY Times, before the slowdown more than 50,000 in 2014 were arrested for possession of as little as one joint. the Times also reported that the issuance of tickets for riding bikes was very high in mostly Black Bedford Stuyvesant and almost non existent in mostly While Park Slope. Non of this is surprising because the unequal application of justice is a tradition that goes back to the so-called "founding fathers' of this nation and was accelerating in our city from the point of the election of Rudy Giuliani.
Thus it quite possible that the scales of justice are becoming more balanced as NYPD ceases acting as a force promoting mass incarceration for minor "infractions" in communities of color!
The media, in its limited analysis, want us to believe that these cop protest are about disrespecting Mayor de Blasio. In truth they are about certain elements in NYPD desiring to maintain the ability to be above the law and unaccountable for the brutal acts of some of its members. To them the lives of Blacks and Latinos are devalued and do not matter!
The movement to bring about a more just policing and criminal justice system is gaining strength and should be joined by all New Yorkers committed to real justice in our city.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/nyregion/decrease-in-new-york-police-arrests-continues-for-a-second-week.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
Maine governor spent $53K in failed attempt to remove low-income young adults from Medicaid
AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage’s administration spent nearly $53,000 on private lawyers in its failed attempt to remove thousands of low-income young adults from the state’s Medicaid program after being told by Maine’s attorney general that he couldn’t win the case, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
The Republican governor went to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals after the federal government denied his request to end Medicaid coverage for about 6,000 19- and 20-year olds. He was forced to seek outside counsel after Attorney General Janet Mills, a Democrat, declined to represent the state.
Mills refused to represent the administration because the case had “little legal merit” and “wouldn’t be a good use of time and money,” she said in an interview this month. She even joined the federal government in fighting LePage’s effort in court.
But she allowed the governor to hire outside counsel because of the earnestness of his position and because she said it’s not her “aim to prevent the governor, as the chief executive, from pursuing public policy in initiatives.”
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/maine-governor-spent-53k-medicaid-fight/
“They’re attacking me because, well, I’m me.” Palin continues war of words over dog photo
Sarah Palin fired another shot in her unlikely war of words with the activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) on Monday, accusing it of hypocrisy and asserting that liberals feel no compunction about attacking even special-needs children and puppy trainers.
Palin and Peta are at odds over a photo posted on the former Alaska governor’s Facebook page, which shows her six-year-old son, Trig, who has Down’s syndrome, stepping on the back of the family’s service dog, Jill Hadassah, to reach the kitchen counter.
“Kiss my okole” was Palin’s Hawaiian-tinged response to criticism from Peta and angry online onlookers. She alerted readers to what she sees as the true obsession of such critics: “They’re attacking me because, well, I’m me.”
“Where have [Peta] been all these years?” Palin asked in a statement to NBC News, before suggesting the activists were hypocrites for having praised public figures previously accused of malfeasance toward animals.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/05/sarah-palin-critics-hypocrisy-photo-son-dog
cat caller (sexual harassment) forced to bend over and let girls smack his backside
Public punishment: Police Sub-inspector Monica Singh seized Mr Dhoni and carried out the punishment with the help of the schoolgirls in the middle of the street
He said: 'I felt shamed by standing there while these women hit me. I hadn't laid a finger on them and it is not a policewoman's job to decide who is and who is not guilty.'
But judges in Madhya Pradesh rejected his claim, saying Mr Dhoni had deserved the beating and would not have got off with a simple slap on the wrist if the courts had dealt with the case.
The ruling said: 'He had tormented his victims in public with his whistling and cat calls, and he was punished in public.
'It was very fitting.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2897574/Sex-pest-forced-bend-let-girls-smack-backside-harassed-wolf-whistles-India.html#ixzz3NynO3d2V
this is a cake - took 18 hours to complete
What would the Dowager Countess of Grantham say if this was served at Downton Abbey? The terrifyingly realistic Maggie Smith cake that took 18 hours to make
Image of actress Dame Maggie Smith has been made as a cake
Created in 18 hours by food artist Karen Portaleo, 50
Baked to celebrate premiere of Downton's fifth season in U.S.
It's a vanilla cake with buttercream, with an Earl Grey Tea soak
Cake took pride of place at premiere party
Dame Smith was sent a picture of it
Downton Abbey consultant joked that it's 'so very American'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2897433/What-Dowager-Countess-Grantham-say-served-Downton-Abbey-terrifyingly-realistic-Maggie-Smith-cake-took-18-hours-make.html#ixzz3Nym4tgMZ
Texas Among States Opting Out Of New Anti-Prison Rape Requirements
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/01/04/texas-among-states-opting-out-of-new-anti-prison-rape-requirements/(AP) Inmate advocates worry that a proposal to reduce the financial penalties for states that don’t comply with a 2003 federal law aimed at eliminating rape behind bars will severely damage it.
The measure failed this fall. Its sponsor, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, vows to re-introduce it in the new GOP-controlled Congress.
Cornyn said the funds include grants for worthy programs — such as ones that support rape and domestic violence victims — and that the law should be more narrowly tailored to affect money that goes to prison construction, operations and administration.
Supporters of the measure acknowledge the change would essentially eliminate the financial penalties, since little — if any — federal grant money is used for prison construction, daily operations and administration.
Those costs are typically handled by local government budgets.
pic of grandson cradling alzheimer stricken grandma goes viral
A picture that speaks a thousand words: Heart-breaking moment grandson cradles his frail 87-year-old grandmother with Alzheimer’s
Gianuluca Murisciano posted a picture of his caring for his grandmother
In just a few days the photograph gained over 400,000 likes on Facebook
He did so to remind people to 'protect and comfort' those around them'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2895445/A-picture-speaks-thousand-words-Heart-breaking-moment-grandson-cradles-frail-87-year-old-grandmother-Alzheimer-s.html#ixzz3Noqe1PY5
Mcd tries to make consumers think chicken mcnuggets are low calorie
No, 50 chicken McNuggets are not 470 calories (how I wish). Look closely, and you'll notice some fine print stating that the calorie count is based on a single serving, and 50 McNuggets should serve 5 adults. So, we're actually talking about a 2,350-calorie box of food product. Now, in person, the text is definitely large enough to read if you stop and look. It's just dwarfed by all the text around it, so someone giving the sign a passing glance might miss it entirely. I doubt McDonald's really expects anybody to believe that more than 4 dozen fried chicken nubs contain fewer calories than a Big Mac. But the company is clearly obfuscating some of the real nutrition info through the power of graphic design.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/01/02/mcdonald_s_chicken_mcnuggets_check_out_the_absurd_calorie_label.html
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