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Demovictory9's JournalGreat-grandmother, 69, is arrested and jailed for 12 hours after Disney World security guards found
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7003425/Woman-69-jailed-12-hours-Disney-World-security-guards-medical-marijuana.htmlGreat-grandmother, 69, is arrested and jailed for 12 hours after Disney World security guards found her prescription CBD oil which she uses to treat arthritis
Hester Jordan Burkhalter, 69, took her family to Walt Disney World
At entrance to Magic Kingdom, security guards found prescription CBD oil
Burkhalter says the CBD oil was prescribed to treat pain caused by arthritis
Guards alerted Orange County Sheriff's deputies, who tested the oil
Oil was found to have traces of THC, which creates the 'high' effect in marijuana
Burkhalter was sent to jail, where she spent 12 hours before posting bond
Prosecutors dropped felony charge after local media inquired about story
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But Burkhalter, a resident of Hildebran, North Carolina, was prescribed a CBD oil that claimed to not have any THC.
She says she and her family saved up money for two years for their trip to Walt Disney World in Orlando.
Burkhalter says that when the family reached the checkpoint at the entrance to the theme park, she had her belongings searched.
A security guard found the CBD oil and alerted a sheriff’s deputy, who arranged to have the oil tested.
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Republicans and Fox News would have lost their fucking minds had Barack Obama behaved like Donald Trump.
https://twitter.com/dylanmsmitty/status/1125818429276151809
Barely getting by: 51% of Americans say they can't pay the bills on their income alone
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7002409/Barely-getting-51-Americans-say-pay-bills-income-alone.html
GOP working over time to supress the vote
https://www.news-journal.com/news/elections/hughes-election-security-bill-passes-in-senate/article_fe800424-5ca7-11e9-9154-ef839b88c0b3.htmlEast Texas state Sen. Bryan Hughes’ signature bill on election security won passage Monday in the Texas Senate and moves to the House of Representatives for debate.
Senate Bill 9 creates a paper trail for electronic voting.
It also takes aim at voter fraud that can occur when people who help disabled voters try to influence how they vote.
It enhances the penalty for making a false statement on a mail ballot application from a misdemeanor to state jail felony and requires those who help voters who are not family members to sign a form documenting their role.
The bill also would require people who help disabled voters cast a mail-in ballot officially certify that the voter they help is physically unable to enter a poll without risk to harm. In addition, it allows poll watchers to accompany both the voter and helper into the voting area.
“The heart of the bill is that paper ballot, that paper backup,” Hughes, R-Mineola, said as he urged passage of the measure. “This is not a partisan issue. ... It says if you’re going to bring someone to the polls and help them cast their ballot ... then, yes. We want to know your names.”
Hughes chaired a Select Committee on Election Security last summer in preparation for the legislative session that opened in January. Many of the provisions in his Senate Bill 9, he told senators, came from sworn testimony from Democrats and Republicans.
The bill passed on a 19-12 vote along party lines.
“For whatever reason, the national Democrats made this a lightning rod,” he said. “Election integrity is important to all of us.”
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The bill would require someone who drives people to the polls and asks that a voting machine be brought to the vehicle for its disabled occupants sign a statement saying who they are and why the voter they brought needed assistance.
Hughes’ bill also orders election judges to not accept voter registration forms that are prefilled out. That’s because those often arrive at the voter’s home with boxes saying the applicant is 18 years or older and is an American prechecked.
Critics of the bill said someone could be guilty of a crime by turning in one of those prefilled-out applications, and Hughes on Monday said those registration applications will be barred from use.
“It cannot be accepted if (those boxes were) prechecked,” he said. “There are no changes in this bill that would provide a trap for the unwary, or a ‘gotcha.’”
Hughes also defended the increased penalties for “knowingly” committing voter fraud, saying more district attorneys are likely to prosecute the crime if more serious penalties are attached. The change raises the maximum jail time from one year to two, and it boosts the maximum fine from $4,000 to $10,000.
Also, the bill establishes a civil avenue for people who suspect they have been wronged by voter fraud to sue those they feel are responsible.
Pregnant woman asked jail staff for help, Hours later, she was alone in a cell, holding newborn
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/06/us/woman-gives-birth-jail-cell-broward-florida/index.htmlPregnant woman asked jail staff for help, lawyers say. Hours later, she was alone in a cell, holding her newborn
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An hour and 38 minutes later, Jackson told her lawyers, she was still in the jail cell by herself, bleeding, "and no urgency was demonstrated by your staff," the lawyers wrote.
"Six hours and 54 minutes after asking for help, a (Broward Sheriff's Office) tech notified medical staff that Ms. Jackson was holding her newborn baby in her arms, having delivered the baby without medication or the assistance of a physician," the letter said.
The sheriff's office has launched an investigation into the delivery, said spokeswoman Gina Carter. A doctor and two nurses provided Jackson care after she gave birth at the North Broward Bureau, Carter said, and the child "was placed with an appropriate caregiver."
After providing a short statement via email, Carter said CNN would have to file an official records request to see the incident report filed after Jackson gave birth.
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"Not only was Ms. Jackson's health callously ignored, the life of her child was also put at grave risk."
How the incident will affect the woman's "already fragile mental health" remains to be determined, they lawyers said.
Other inmates heard Jackson's screams during labor, CNN affiliate WPLG reported. Jackson's mother, Shirley Nixon, told the station she did not realize her daughter, who she said is bipolar and schizophrenic, had given birth in a jail cell rather than a hospital.
"I figured she was born in the hospital," Nixon said of her granddaughter. "They didn't tell me none of this. Where were they?"
Mystery in North Olmsted solved: Source of key fob, garage opener problems identified
NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio -- After weeks of speculation, sleepless nights and confusion, the mystery of the key fob and garage door opener problems in North Olmsted has been solved.
The cause was a custom, man-made device inside a resident’s home, North Olmsted Councilman Chris Glassburn announced Saturday afternoon. Residents of Virginia Avenue, Brendan Lane, MacBeth Lane and Terra-Lynn Drive reported they were plagued with the problems for weeks.
So as to not identify the homeowner, Glassburn would only say it is a notification system which allows the resident to know if there is movement in the house/someone is in the house.
There is no malicious intent of the device, Glassburn noted.
Glassburn and Bill Hertzel, a retired communication employee, found the device after a resident agreed to allow them inside a home.
“The device, which ran on a battery backup, was identified and disabled,” Glassburn wrote in a statement. “There will be no further interference and the resident has agreed to not make such devices in the future. There are no implications for the future or other communities in this matter.”
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2019/05/the-mystery-in-north-olmsted-is-solved-key-fobs-garage-openers-work-again.html
“They began by shutting off the power in the places where they detected the strongest reading for interfering radio frequencies,” said Chris Eck, a company spokesman. But even after shutting off power on an entire block, the overpowering frequency persisted.
Wanda Walker, right, holding the door as Anna Walker carries her daughter out of their car. For weeks the Walkers said the key fobs for their car would not work at home but would work outside of their neighborhood.
Wanda Walker, right, holding the door as Anna Walker carries her daughter out of their car. For weeks the Walkers said the key fobs for their car would not work at home but would work outside of their neighborhood.CreditDustin Franz for The New York Times
“It’s like trying to talk to someone at a nightclub,” said Adam Scott Wandt, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, in explaining how a strong frequency can derail a weak frequency.
Dan Dalessandro, a television repairman, was one of several ham radio aficionados who went to investigate. At first, he said, all he picked up were “little blips” on a signal detector, but on one block — and at one house in particular — the signal was extraordinarily powerful.
By Saturday afternoon, City Councilman Chris Glassburn announced that the mystery had been solved: The source of the problem was a homemade battery-operated device designed by a local resident to alert him if someone was upstairs when he was working in his basement. It did so by turning off a light.
“He has a fascination with electronics,” Mr. Glassburn said, adding that the resident has special needs and would not be identified to protect his privacy.
The inventor and other residents of his home had no idea that the device was wreaking havoc on the neighborhood, he said, until Mr. Glassburn and a volunteer with expertise in radio frequencies knocked on the door.
“The way he designed it, it was persistently putting out a 315 megahertz signal,” Mr. Glassburn said. That is the frequency many car fobs and garage door openers rely on.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/us/key-fobs-north-olmsted-ohio.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Arrested! Female Jail Guards who Performed Illegal Strip Searches on Women visitors
A woman who arrived at the jail next to Manhattan criminal court to visit a detainee last August was given a curt instruction: sign a consent form and undergo a search.
Believing that she had no choice, the woman complied, a prosecutor said in court on Monday. A correction officer told her to pull down her pants and spread her legs, while other officers stood nearby and watched.
She was then instructed to lower her underwear and remove a sanitary napkin. The officers found no contraband, the prosecutor said.
This search was one of five illegal searches described in a 27-count indictment unveiled on Monday against five guards and a former supervisor who worked at the Manhattan Detention Complex on Centre Street, a jail known colloquially as the Tombs.
The corrections officers were arrested and arraigned in State Supreme Court on charges including official misconduct, conspiracy, unlawful imprisonment and filing false documents. They all pleaded not guilty and were released without bail.
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The correction officers “blocked exits, surrounded visitors on all sides, forcibly removed visitors’ clothing, including underwear, touched visitors’ breasts, examined visitors’ vaginal and buttocks areas, forced visitors to squat without pants or underwear, and forced visitors onto the floor,” the document said.
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The officers accused of illegal searches in the indictment were Alifa Waiters, 45, Daphne Farmer, 49, Jennifer George, 32, Lisette Rodriguez, 51, and Latoya Shuford, 36. Leslie-Ann Absalom, 53, a retired correction captain, was also charged.
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The people subjected to illegal searches were restrained with “physical force, intimidation, and deceit, even after visitors asked to leave or visitors affirmatively stated that they did not consent to be searched,” prosecutors said in court papers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/nyregion/illegal-strip-searches-jail.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage
Drone drops anti-press flyers with swastikas at California University
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Drone-flyers-swastikas-Ariana-Grande-Sacramento-13819763.php
A drone dropped swastika-emblazoned, anti-media flyers in Sacramento Friday night outside of both an outdoor Sacramento State fundraising dinner and an Ariana Grande concert.
Sacramento State president Robert S. Nelsen confirmed the school's "Bites on the Bridge" dinner was bombarded by the flyers, in a statement that rebuked the leaflets' messaging.
"Sacramento State condemns in the strongest terms the dissemination of hate speech and propaganda Friday evening at our annual fundraising dinner on the Guy West Bridge," Nelson said via a statement on Facebook.
"The anonymous act of spreading such vile material is offensive and runs counter to the principles of inclusion and diversity practiced at Sac State. It did not stop the event, nor will it slow our march toward greater understanding and commitment to the rights and safety of our campus community."
Stephen moore surprised that his past hate speech unearthed
As Republican senators begin to sour on the idea of nominating gold-standard enthusiast and prolific misogynist Stephen Moore to the board of the Federal Reserve, Trump’s nominee appeared on Firing Line With Margaret Hoover. If Moore is hoping to assure the president that he’s still the supply-sider for the job — the White House announced Monday that it is reviewing Moore’s columns for further moments of bigotry — the PBS interview certainly didn’t help his cause.
Hoover asked Moore about past comments that were neither appropriate at the time nor have aged well. In a 2000 appearance on C-SPAN, he stated that the rise of black female income was a negative influence on the family unit: “It’s not a good thing that black women are making more than black men today. In fact, the male needs to be the breadwinner of the family, and one of the reasons I think you’ve seen the decline of the family, not just in the black community, but also it’s happening now in the white community as well, is because women are more economically self-sufficient. So, I would like to see an increase in black earnings because black men have not closed the gap as much as black women have.” Moore reworded that position on Tuesday:
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.@StephenMoore said “the male needs to be the breadwinner of the family” in 2000. He now says he “shouldn’t have said that.” Watch how he puts it now.
Moore also provided some clarity about an extremely questionable joke he made in a speech on health care given shortly after the election of Donald Trump: “By the way, did you see, there’s that great cartoon going along? A New York Times headline: ‘First Thing Donald Trump Does As President Is Kick a Black Family Out of Public Housing,’ and it has Obama leaving the White House. I mean, I just love that one. Just a great one.” Moore did his best to defend the quote, which was issued less than three years ago:
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.@StephenMoore explains his 2016 joke about Donald Trump moving into the White House and kicking “a black family out of public housing.” Moore says, “That is a joke I always made,” adding he didn’t mean it “like a black person” lived there. “I shouldn’t have said it,” he says.
Moore added that “there should be a statute of limitations on saying stupid things,” claiming that “times have changed a lot” since he made the comments regarding female income in 2000. (Hoover then reminded Moore that he had made similar comments in 2014.) It appears that statute of limitations would need to be just seconds long to do Moore any good.
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http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/watch-stephen-moore-try-to-defend-racist-joke-about-obama.htmlHours after withdrawing as a candidate to serve on the Federal Reserve Board, Stephen Moore expressed shock that his critics had pored over his divorce records and decades-old columns.
“If I had any sense that this would happen — people would be looking at my writings from 20, 25 years ago — I would have told the president, ‘Wait a minute, I can’t do a Senate confirmation,’” Moore told Fox Business Network on Thursday.
But the White House probably should have seen it coming.
Past administrations have historically spent weeks or even months trying to
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/02/trump-nomination-stephen-moore-1300075
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