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Demovictory9's JournalCompassion alert! sheriff sergeant cares for a dog that had been stuck by a vehicle.
https://twitter.com/NYSheriffs/status/1208074263116308486Compassion alert! Sergeant Chris Howlett, from the Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office, cares for a dog that had been stuck by a vehicle.
Howlett with the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office recently cared for a dog that had been struck by a vehicle.
A photo shows the pup with the officer’s coat on him and Sergeant Howlett is petting the dog to comfort him.
According to WKBW, the dog suffered only minor injuries and was reunited with his owners soon after.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EMPxIYQX0AElaXO?format=jpg&name=medium
https://fox8.com/2019/12/21/officer-comforts-dog-after-pup-was-struck-by-car/
Church to pay off $5.3M in medical debt for thousands of poverty-stricken households in California
https://abc7ny.com/society/church-to-pay-off-$53m-in-medical-debt-for-5000-local-residents/5774995/A gift from Christian Assembly Church is wiping out $5.3 million of debt for the poor in 28 communities.
"I would love to be a fly on the wall for someone whose receiving a notification like this," church member Blythe Hill said.
The more than 5,000 impacted households will receive a letter with the news just in time for Christmas.
"There is 5,555 people that will benefit from this and they will all be receiving letters in the mail this week," Pastor Tom Hughes said.
The church partnered with the organization RIP Medical Debt. A letter from RIP Medical Debt states "you no longer owe the balance" and "no strings attached."
RIP is a national nonprofit agency that bundles unpaid medical debt. Entities like Christian Assembly can then buy that debt.
Church members are overwhelmed by the impact.
"Just to open that envelope and be like, 'Oh my gosh, my debt's been paid,'" one woman said.
The church collected about $50,000 in the past year. The members were unaware of how it would be used, but the big reveal is now planned for Christmas services.
Police slammed a man's head into a car that they thought he had stolen, video shows. The man died.
David Glen Ward, 52, was the victim of a carjacking Nov. 24 and somehow got the vehicle back, police said. Ward, however, did not tell law enforcement that he had recovered the car.
A Santa Rosa police detective called the sheriff’s office around 5:40 a.m. Nov. 27 to say that the Honda had been spotted. When Deputy Jason Little tried to stop the car minutes later, police said Ward started to pull over but then led police on a five-mile pursuit that reached speeds of more than 70 mph.
Police said Little tried to stop Ward with a PIT maneuver — a tactic in which officers ram their vehicles into a fleeing vehicle to force it to swerve sideways. Little ordered Ward to show his hands but then continued driving, telling a dispatcher that Ward had kept moving his hands toward his waist.
Blount then arrived and ordered Ward to unlock his car door with one hand. Ward moved his hand toward the lock button, but the door did not unlock. Ward rolled down the window.
“I can’t believe this. I’m the injured party in this,” he said. He asked the deputies why they were “harassing [him] all the time."
The deputies tried to pull Ward out of the window while Ward yelled, “My legs! My legs!” Blount pointed out that Ward’s leg was under the steering wheel.
“He bit me!” Blount cried out. A few seconds later, Little said Ward had bit him, as well.
That’s when Blount pulled Ward’s head out of the window by his hair and slammed it into the car’s frame. A crunching noise rang out as Ward moaned.
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Deputy Nick Jax then arrived and told the other officers that the man lying unconscious in front of them was the car’s owner.
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That’s David Ward,” Jax said.
“Then why did he run?” Little asked.
“I don’t know why he ran,” Jax replied. “You have every — All this, it’s legit. He had no reason to run. But I was out with him earlier, like two hours ago, at his house. The car wasn’t there at the time. Obviously, he somehow, he made contact with the guy and got it. But he was here two hours ago, and this is him."
“Oh well,” Blount said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12/21/police-slammed-mans-head-into-car-that-they-thought-he-had-stolen-video-shows-man-died/
Cats' Poor Reception Prompts Universal to Send an 'Improved,' Updated Version to Theaters
https://www.thewrap.com/cats-poor-reception-prompts-universal-to-send-an-improved-updated-version-to-theaters/After Universal Pictures’ new film “Cats” was clawed and torn to shreds by critics last week, the studio told movie theaters on Friday that it would be sending a new version of the film with “some improved visual effects.”
The move of replacing a film already in theaters with an “improved” version is unheard of But according to a copy of a memo obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, director Tom Hooper has been upfront about the fact that he barely finished the CGI on the film in time for the world premiere in New York City last week, and the switch is at his request.
Critics have disparaged “Cats,” which stars Francesca Hayward, Taylor Swift, Judi Dench, Jennifer Hudson and Idris Elba, among others. The film received a C+ CinemaScore and was slapped with a 19% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The updated film is expected to be available for cinemas to download on Sunday via a satellite server, but for exhibitors that don’t have access to the server, they are expected to receive a hard drive by Tuesday, according to Universal. The studio is asking that theaters replace the current print of Cats as soon as possible.
Universal didn’t immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment
anyone going to see Cats?
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https://twitter.com/Bill_Maxwell_/status/1208243975036928001https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EMSLfOKUYAEhLDa?format=jpg&name=medium
Mike Huckabee tried to silence a Twitter user with 422 followers - now he has 77K followers
After settling in the state of Florida, former Arkansas governor and current Fox News personality, Mike Huckabee, built a $7 million beachfront house in Walton County, throwing him in the midst of a legal battle over people’s access to public beaches. When one of the lawyers on the public side of the legal fight tweeted a few sarcastic jabs at Huckabee on Twitter, the former pastor and conservative media personality responded by filing a formal complaint with the Florida Bar.
As the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports, Huckabee’s complaint accuses lawyer Daniel Uhlfelder of “vile and unprofessional attacks” and “repeatedly posting disparaging information about me,” which he claims is a violation of Bar rules.
Uhlfelder, who had just over 422 Twitter followers when Huckabee’s complaint against him was filed, is on the legal team fighting for the doctrine of “customary use” that protects public beach access in the state of Florida. In 2018, former Governor Rick Scott signed into law a bill that upended the doctrine. Huckabee was a huge fan of the new law, and soon after is was passed, no-trespassing signs started popping up on the beachfront where his home was built. He even reportedly complained about beach-goers walking onto his property.
One tweet shared by Uhlfelder featured a political cartoon drawn by Andy Marlette that depicted Huckabee as an entitled beach hog. Huckabee also reportedly took offense to Uhlfelder liking a tweet that read: “I’m trying not to picture Ol’ Man Huckabee slathered in Noxzema, clad in a Fox & Friends T-shirt, khaki shorts, calf-length black socks and sandals, wandering along the beach with a metal detector.”
https://deadstate.org/mike-huckabee-is-trying-to-silence-a-twitter-user-with-422-followers-for-saying-mean-things-about-him/
According to Uhlfelder, Huckabee isn’t simply taking issue with his right to express himself on Twitter — it’s a direct attempt to threaten his livelihood in order to get him to shut up about public beach access. “Bar rules are not supposed to be used as a weapon,” he said.
The Sun-Sentinel suggests that there may be another reason driving Huckabee’s campaign against Uhlfelder.
Huckabee’s complaint is dated Oct. 15. That was four days after Uhlfelder retweeted a tweet that showed Huckabee in a photo with Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, the Ukrainian men and Rudy Giuliani associates facing criminal violations of campaign finance laws. The original tweet was posted by Chip Hinkleman, who identifies himself as a “joke coach” for Huckabee.
https://twitter.com/DWUhlfelderLaw/status/1203718739209969668
Christian pastor: I'd support Trump 'even if he ran a dogfighting ring on Mother Teresa's grave
https://deadstate.org/christian-pastor-id-support-trump-even-if-he-ran-a-dogfighting-ring-on-mother-teresas-grave-while-having-multiple-affairs/RWNJSChristian pastor: I’d support Trump ‘even if he ran a dogfighting ring on Mother Teresa’s grave while having multiple affairs’
Commentary: Matt Bevin's Appalling Exit
But before he left Frankfort for good Friday, he left behind a trail of 428 last-minute pardons and commutations to criminals – including many extremely violent rapists and murderers – that tell a very sordid tale of who the former governor considered worthy of freedom.Some of them will turn your stomach:
He pardoned and commuted the sentences of Patrick Baker, convicted of reckless homicide in 2017. The Louisville Courier Journal reported that Baker's brother and sister-in-law held a fundraiser for Bevin's gubernatorial campaign, raising $21,500 that went directly into Bevin's pocket as payment on a loan he made to his own campaign. Baker served two years of a 19-year prison sentence while his co-defendants are still in prison.
Bevin pardoned and commuted the sentences of Dayton Jones, who was convicted in 2016 of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.
He pardoned Micah Schoettle, convicted in 2018 of repeatedly raping a Kenton County girl since she was nine years old.
Another pardon went to Delmar Partin, who was convicted of beheading a woman and stuffing her body in a barrel.
Also pardoned was Kathy Harless of Grayson County, who gave birth to a baby son in the outhouse of a flea market and murdered the newborn by throwing him in a cesspool.
Then there was Daniel Scott Grubb, who said he was drunk when he murdered Jeremy Johnson by throwing a cinder block at him. When he found Johnson's body the next day, he panicked and found a friend to help him bury the corpse.
And on and on and on it goes.
https://www.wvxu.org/post/commentary-matt-bevins-appalling-exit#stream/0
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