"Affluenza" boy got popped down in Mexico because he or his doting Mommy used a cell phone to order a pizza. That revealed their location to authorities. They're so stupid that it never occurred to them that U.S. authorities might monitor their phone traffic. Once they made the call, Marshals were able to tip Mexican cops to their location.
In the Mexican mugshot, Mommy exudes confidence. Nothing's going to happen to her - or so she seems to believe. Laws and other lives don't seem to matter to members of this deranged family.
Apparently, Mommy's unaware of the fact that she's now facing third-degree felony charges and is looking at two to ten years in prison if convicted. There doesn't seem to be any way that she can evade conviction, and with any luck she'll get the maximum sentence.
It seems that there are several of them in your brain, one of which is the primary control mechanism determining your sleep/wake cycle. And when you die, it also records that event, meaning that it is now possible to determine TOD to within an hour. But that's if you're normal. If you're bipolar, your clock may be wildly off - as though you lived in Japan or China rather than on the west coast of the USA. Now being examined: whether or not it might be possible to replace the main clock in bipolar individuals with input from one of the other clocks in their brains.
Over there in Virginia, the Democrat governor and his Attorney General are taking action to limit access to guns. Republicans have responded by eliminating funding for the armed bodyguards that currently accompany the Democrat turkeys. Hey, if Barry and his buddies are so into "gun control", let them go first. Barry'd wet his pants if there was no armed Secret Service detail covering his sorry butt.
Wapato Jail has sat unused in Multnomah County since it was completed in 2004 at a cost of $58 million. The county spends $300,000 a year to maintain it; it has never housed an inmate. Some of us believe that since Portland mayor "Streetcar" Charlie declared a homeless emergency, it might be worthwhile to move them out of tents and into a heated building with showers, toilets, an industrial kitchen, a medical center, and some $2 million in "public art" that few have ever laid eyes on.
Of course, the career politicians at Multnomah County have a laundry list of why that can't happen. For one thing, their goal is to sell the facility - but there's just one teeny little fact that the libs in charge overlook: it's a minimum-security facility; there aren't any bars or cells (not that you'd host a tavern at a correctional facility anyway). That means that no private prison company is going to be interested in buying the place.
Well, but the roof is leaking in places.
Hey, libs - so are the tents. And this being Portland, where it rains a hell of a lot, I'm betting there's a contractor somewhere around here who can deal with that non-issue.
County Chair Deborah Kafoury says there are too many hurdles to be overcome for using the 525-bed North Portland facility to house and serve the homeless. She says they include financial, legal, logistical and land-use obstacles.
“We have seriously studied it,” Kafoury told the Portland Tribune last week. “If it was just one or two things, I’d say press ahead. But there are too many hurdles, and the money could be better spent creating shelters closer to downtown, where the services are.”
Land-use: the land is zoned for heavy industry, which allows for a jail - but not a shelter. But as Portland demonstrated with its zoning change at Cascade Station, under the main flight paths at PDX, they can switch it from "mixed use residential" to "shopping mall" at the drop of a hat. So that's not a problem.
Logistics? Portland has already turned a former National Guard center in Multnomah Village into a shelter for homeless women; they just bus them in and out.
Legal? Financial? Really?
Wapato was built using state and county bond proceeds. The department says the country cannot switch to another permanent use without endangering their tax-exempt status, based on a May 2007 bond counsel opinion. The county bonds expire in July, however, and the state Treasurer’s Office says there are no restrictions on the use of the Oregon bond proceeds.
In other words, every argument that Kafoury mentions as an excuse for not opening the place up is a typical Leftist lie. This is the problem with liberals: they always claim to want to help people, and they always cause more harm - worse, they don't see the disparity. The "services" that are located downtown could easily be moved to Wapato, and as the location is a little out-of-the-way, it'd actually be better for druggies and alcoholics to clean up - because there's easy access to drugs and alcohol in downtown Portland.
But the solution is just too easy for a liberal to wrap her head around. It's not even a new concept:
The Fort Lyon Correctional Facility in rural southeastern Colorado became a residential homeless treatment center in 2013. Florida’s Gainesville Correctional Institution was transformed into a homeless shelter the next year.
But, but, but...it's a correctional facility!
Right. And has never been used. Heat. Food. Sanitary facilities. Medical facilities. Public "Art".
Obviously, we can't allow homeless people to live in such a place!
When police arrived they found fresh blood on the snow and a trail of blood leading north out of the parking lot.
About 1/4 mile away deputies found a woman's body, the victim of a homicide, English said.
It's been snowing heavily in the Hood River, Oregon area, so this was clearly done in recent hours yesterday morning. This is decidedly abnormal in the Hood River area. A Portland woman's car was found parked at Multnomah Falls, and the search for her has been called off in part because of snowfall covering everything there. However, the Falls are quite a distance from Hood River, so it's unlikely that this murder victim was her. At present, we now have two mysteries involving women in the Columbia River Gorge.
As a Kansas family discovered last week, drinking tea and shopping at a gardening store provides probable cause for police to send a SWAT team over to raid your home: back in April 2012, that's what happened to Robert and Addie Harte, who along with the 7 year-old daughter and 13 year-old son were awakened when cops blasted in and held the family at gunpoint while the house was searched. Initially claiming to be looking for evidence of a major pot-growing operation but finding no such evidence, they switched over to searching for evidence of "personal use". Bob and Addie, as it happens are both former CIA intelligence analysts, though that doesn't seem to have entered into the equation.
The family was cleared of any wrongdoing. But the "investigation" began seven months previously, when Robert and his son went to a gardening shop to buy materials so that the son could grow hydroponic tomatoes for a school project. A state trooper took Robert's license plate number and sent it to the local sheriff's office, and the "investigation" was born.
Bob and Addie were now targets of a criminal drug investigation because of a visit to a gardening supply shop.
On several occasions during the course of the "investigation", deputies rummaged through the couple's garbage, and they found "saturated plant material" which they claimed tested positive for THC. Assuming that such tests were even carried out, it happens that the "saturated plant material" was actually the remains of Addie's penchant for drinking loose-leaf tea, as lab tests later confirmed.
However, on the basis of the "positive field tests" and the visit to a gardening supply shop, cops were able to obtain a warrant for the SWAT raid. The cops were in a hurry because they wanted to hold a press conference on 4/20 to tout their success in apprehending lawbreakers. For some unknown reason, 4/20 is apparently significant in the stoner subculture.
In any case, having been cleared of any such activity, the Hartes wanted to know why they'd been raided in the first place, but the Sheriff's office declined to provide them with that information. Eventually, they ended up spending $25,000 in lawyer fees to get those data, and once they had it, they filed a lawsuit. But last week, they got a surprise:
The U.S. District Court Judge dismissed all claims, finding that having a SWAT team burst into their home was not only not a violation of their Fourth Amendment rights, but that police had probable cause - and holding the family at gunpoint did not constitute excessive force. Toto, I hope we're not in Kansas anymore.
Contamination at a nuclear site in Long Island, New York has resulted in its designation by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation as a Superfund cleanup job.
The dry-cleaning operation was engaged in illegal disposal of hazardous wastes, apparently by simply dumping it onto the ground around their business. They managed to contaminate both the soils and groundwater, according to DEC.
The lawsuit was dismissed, but as noted in the post, it illustrates both their supremacist tendencies and their reflexive claims of victimhood. They "demand" to be released because Pamela Geller posted a photo of herself in a "Poke a Dot Bikini before our eyes" and they were "offended", which somehow violated their rights.
You can't circumcise 'em, 'cause there ain't no end to them pricks.
In the Mexican mugshot, Mommy exudes confidence. Nothing's going to happen to her - or so she seems to believe. Laws and other lives don't seem to matter to members of this deranged family.
