A Russian mixed-martial arts fighter, being questioned by FBI agents in Orlando, Florida regarding his association with the Boston bombers, allegedly became suddenly violent; injuring an agent before being fatally shot.
"The agent, two Massachusetts State Police troopers, and other law enforcement personnel were interviewing an individual in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing investigation when a violent confrontation was initiated by the individual. During the confrontation, the individual was killed and the agent sustained non-life threatening injuries. As this incident is under review, we have no further details at this time," the FBI office in Boston stated today.
And it turns out that the guy was previously arrested in 2010 in Boston for instigating a road-rage incident, again May 4 of this year for aggravated battery in Orlando, and was also a suspect in a triple homicide. All in all, it appears that the cops just cleaned up the gene pool a bit.
Despite past federal court rulings, your Benevolent Barky Administration is acting to nullify the First Amendment. The Overlords at the Department of Vegetation and the Department of Just Us issued new regulations earlier this month:
The Justice Department and the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights have now effectively defined dating and flirting as “sexual harassment,” in addition to demanding that colleges adopt unconstitutional speech codes.
Perversely, the government suggests that punishment may be required BEFORE a disciplinary hearing, reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland‘s “sentence first, verdict afterwards“:
a university must take immediate steps to protect the complainant from further harassment prior to the completion of the Title IX and Title IV investigation/resolution. Appropriate steps may include separating the accused harasser and the complainant, providing counseling for the complainant and/or harasser, and/or taking disciplinary action against the harasser.
1984 is here; it just arrived a few years later than anticipated.
Meanwhile, Kathleen Sebelius, Overlord at the Directorate for Health and Human Sevices, has been busily redefining the term, "Rights":
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (shown) told the World Health Assembly (WHA) on Monday that “universal health coverage” is a “right” and that it is the responsibility of “national governments” to achieve this goal.
According to her, Rights are most definitely not "endowed by our Creator"; instead, they are granted by government. And thus, it follows that they can also be taken away by government.
The latest and greatest trend among "planners" over the past decade or so has involved running trains at-grade, and often in the middle of perfectly good roads. They're absolutely fascinated by it. And they seem completely unfazed by the fact that week in and week out, pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers are killed or seriously injured due to the inevitable - and completely preventable - "unexpected interactions". The latest episode comes out of Seattle, where a man in his 50's was hit. The transit agency said he suffered minor injuries, but he was subsequently transported to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.
This comes on the heels of last month's incident in which a Mariners fan was killed while walking to the stadium. And in green, sustainable Sacramento, collisions happen nearly every week. It's the same story in virtually every city in the country that's installed at-grade light rail. By contrast, collisions, injuries, and deaths are rare along actual heavy-rail train lines.
The marked contrast can be linked directly to the conscious decisions by "planners" to run light rail trains down streets, and it's time to start charging these boys and girls with criminal negligence.
Despite their ongoing financial issues (which the agency claims are due to rich bus drivers and maintenance workers, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the rail-centric managers), the former transit agency (now a development agency) wants to spend $20 to $30 million on implementing a "paperless ticketing" system. This, they note, would position TriMet as a leader among "transit agencies".
It's all part of the costs associated with maintaining the myth that Porkland is on the cutting edge of green, sustainable societal evolution. Despite opposition, the Agency plans to implement the technology this summer, with full deployment timed to coincide with the grand opening of their new 7.3 - mile light rail line to nowhere; slated for September 2015.
About once a week or so, the former regional transit agency known as TriMess gets caught in another lie, or at least, in some form of deception. Last week brought us Jeff Gianola's news segments in which long-time FON Neil McFarlane tried to brush aside the fact that TriMet managers are among the best-compensated of any transit agency in the country.
In interviews conducted, appropriately enough, on an immobile bus, McFarlane claimed that TriMet's one of the best transit agencies in the country, and you have to pay managers big money to retain them. At the same time, he whined that the health insurance and other benefits that they have to pay drivers and mechanics are bleeding the agency dry (though, yeah, he sorta found a million dollars to give pay boosts to himself and 69 of his very bestest managers, and kinda hid that from the public). But hey, none of that matters, because drivers and mechanics.
It's like the Barky administration in there: we gotta stop giving tours to kids because sequester.
This week, the latest is that they've ticked off a federal judge by playing hide-the-salami with evidence in a case in which they're defendants. One of their bus drivers made an illegal left turn and ran over five people; two of whom died. And when asked for documents during the discovery process, they decided that electronic documents must not count. So the judge clarified things for them: not only do electronic documents count, but Neil McFarlane, as head of the agency, now has to submit a sworn affadavit that all materials have been turned over.
In a court hearing last month, the judge also took TriMet officials to task for constantly grumbling about requests for evidence during the phase of the lawsuit known as discovery.
"I'd just say that if one of TriMet's buses takes a left turn and kills somebody, badly injures three others, then they probably should buckle up and expect some discovery without too much complaining," Mosman said, according to a court transcript.
McFarlane got off too easily. The weasel should be jailed. No offense intended to weasels, who are in no way culpable.
2014's looking bleaker all the time for Democratics, according to a new Rasmussen poll of 1000 likely voters:
With growing questions about Benghazi and actions taken by the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department, Democrats' noticeable edge over Republicans in voter trust in the area of government ethics and corruption has disappeared.
Just a month ago, Democratics were eight points ahead of evil, greedy Republicans in the voter trust department, but now they've lost that - and Republicans are slightly ahead of them. It's almost as though some of those folks have begun to notice that Democratics are, well, Democratics. Keep up the good work, Team Barky!
Remember a few years back, when they were set to lead the world in "green energy" and our politicians - especially on the west coast - were all about how we need to be more like them? Good times, good times...right up until Spain realized they were spending themselves into oblivion with unsustainable "green tech". So, much to the dismay of Iberdola and Vestas and any number of solar companies, they pulled the plug on subsidies for all that stuff. Since doing so, they've saved some serious cash. Naturally, they had to find something to do with it.
So they set aside some $3 billion to build four of the "most advanced" submarines in the world. But, having "invested" some $700 million at this point, a slight flaw has been detected in their cunning plan: they can't swim. They're just heavy enough that they'll sink like rocks. So much for the first submarines entirely designed and produced by Spain. It's looking as though they'll need to hire the USA's General Dynamics to fix the problems.
A three-dimensional time-for-space wiggle image of the sun taken by NASA spacecraft STEREO.
We're all familiar with 3-D printed models, and the 3-D printed weapons have been getting a lot of play as well. But NASA's investing in the next big thing: they've awarded a grant to the small Systems and Materials Research Corporation, which will produce a prototype food printer.
NASA's interested in the concept because long-duration space voyages (say, to Mars) mandate such a device; they can't store - or grow - sufficient food to supply such missions. SMRC proposes to get around this issue using liquids and powders stored in cartridges, with shelf lives of as much as 30 years.
The protein blocks could be derived from ground mealworms, other insects, or even algae; it doesn't matter because they're just components of the printing process, which will produce food by printing it, layer by layer.
The company has somewhat loftier plans than simply producing meals for the star-bound, however: taking a page from Paul Ehrlich, they envision a time in the near future when it simply won't be economical nor practical to grow food the old-fashioned way - on farms. Nope, there'll be a 3-D printer in every kitchen, and protein derived from ground-up insects and algae will rule. Mixed with flavorings and liquids, a healthy breakfast like the one above will be printed out for your enjoyment in a matter of minutes, and your trip to the corner grocery will involve merely exchanging spent cartridges and purchasing refills.
Mooch ought to love it; she's always ragging on you to "eat healthy", anyhow.
An enterprising pair of "buyers" wrote a check for down payment on a mini-mart and gas station and then marked everything down to half-off. They did gangbuster business; raking in about $50,000 before splitting the scene. The down payment check they'd written to the owner, of course, bounced.
Manuel Gutierrez was arrested Tuesday and charged with first-degree assault. Despite being 17, Gutierrez is being charged as an adult.
Two motorcycles crashed into the car Gutierrez was driving Friday night when he pulled into oncoming traffic on Highway 118, after leaving Arrow Road.
Jasper Police Chief Connie Cooner Rowe described Gutierrez as “non-English speaking, undocumented, unlicensed and uninsured at the time of the crash.” She said he was not taken into custody at the scene due to a “language barrier issue” as well as conflicting reports over who was driving the vehicle once the suspects were located.
ICE has placed a hold on him; charges are expected to be upgraded.
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