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Carole Dalton, wife of accused Kalamazoo mass-murderer Jason Dalton, has filed for divorce and seeks sole custody of the kids - and transfer of ownership of hubby's 401(k) to her for use as child support. Something about the straw that broke the camel's back.
And since Jason was a driver for Uber, the company must have somehow been involved. Riight. But seriously, would you pay to take a ride with this guy?
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I don't know how else to break it to you, Captain, but an icebreaker works better in the sea. On dry land, not so much. Just sayin'.
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"All Hell broke loose", according to the director of UCSB's Center for the study of hate and extremism, who was initially present simply to observe but subsequently found himself trying to intervene in the melee before police arrived.
Dozens of protesters who heard about a planned Ku Klux Klan rally were waiting by a Southern California park when six people pulled up in a black SUV. They were dressed in black shirts decorated with the Klan cross and Confederate flag patches and took out signs that read “White Lives Matter”.
Witness video show the Klansmen were quickly surrounded Saturday afternoon by the counter-protesters who shouted at them. Someone smashed the SUV’s window. One KKK member stabbed a counter-protester with the decorative end of a flag pole, setting off a vicious brawl where three people were stabbed, one critically, and two were assaulted.
Excuse me, but offhand, I'd say that what set off the vicious brawl was when a "counter-protester" smashed the window. When you've got half a dozen folks standing around with signs, that's known in this country as an exercise of First Amendment rights. You may disagree with their message, but you don't get to break stuff and start fighting with them. That's when things are apt to get all stabby.
Now let's see: half a dozen folks showed up to parade around with signs, and "counter-protesters" vandalized the vehicle in which they'd arrived, knocked two of the folks down and were apparently trying to stomp them to death, and three people ended up getting stabbed. So the cops ended up arresting at least a dozen people - which by my count is somewhat more than the number of folks who showed up to parade around with their signs.
Maybe things would work out better if the folks who are always calling others intolerant practiced a little Tolerance™ themselves. Maybe do a bit of "celebrating diversity".
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Oh, the Democratics love to crow about it; they're even plotting new ways to force light rail into Clark County, Washington - the fact that residents there have repeatedly rejected previous efforts and have clearly demonstrated that they don't want it matters not to the Willamette Valley Democratics who simply know what's best (for others). But just how great is the Portland-area "transit system"?
As it turns out, not very; a new study shows that it doesn't even make it into the top ten in the USA.
Probably nothing that a few billion dollars more can't fix.
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Well, give her this: she's not only hot, she speaks four languages (which according to the Florida Senate, is two more than I speak).
Of course, there's a downside from her perspective: she'd have to move into a smaller house in a crummy neighborhood.
Fortunately, Donald would have to be elected for that to happen, and I don't think that's in the cards. (Casino reference; couldn't resist).
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Little-noted race-baiter "Melissa Harris-Perry" boycotted her own MSNBC show this week, presumably "thinking" she was taking a stand against The Man. Both of her show's viewers are reportedly shocked, and even more dismayed by the fact that it appears that MSNBC will not allow her back on the air.
Like "Doctor" Melissa Click, another rabid Lefty has managed to bunch her career because they mistakenly thought that rules don't apply to them.
That’s the thing with liberals, they apologize, but only after they have inflicted the intended damage.
Meanwhile, a new Rasmussen poll has come out. And just who do Americans consider to be the most racist people in the country? Hint: not whites, not Hispanics. Surprise, surprise, surprise! If you said blacks, step right up to claim your prize.
Americans consider blacks more likely to be racist than whites and Hispanics in this country.
Thirty-seven percent (37%) of American Adults think most black Americans are racist, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Just 15% consider most white Americans racist, while 18% say the same of most Hispanic Americans. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Oh, my heavens. Who'd ever have thunk it?
On the other hand, both of the now-jobless racists are women named "Melissa", so there's that.
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Another step for mankind: mind control.
The Pentagon is attempting what was, until recently, an impossible technological feat—developing a high-bandwidth neural interface that would allow people to beam data from their minds to external devices and back.
That’s right—a brain modem. One that could allow a soldier to, for example, control a drone with his mind.
This seemingly unlikely piece of technology has just gotten a lot less unlikely. On Feb. 8, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—the U.S. military’s fringe-science wing—announced the first successful tests, on animal subjects, of a tiny sensor that travels through blood vessels, lodges in the brain and records neural activity.
It's injected into a vein. In an artery, it could cause a stroke. But they track the thing as it migrates through the blood system, and when it hits the brain, they command it to stop, expand, and hold its position. Then it starts monitoring traffic in the brain.
The idea is to turn brains into sending devices, obviating the need for current remote control devices.
Of course, it takes little imagination to come up with other uses; stentrodes could conceivably be modified to scramble brain circuitry, rendering a perceived target paralyzed or dead. The possibilities are endless.
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Oregon DEQ "discovered" a math error in their spiffy new Democrat-mandated "Clean Fuels Standard".
Well, not really; it was pointed out to them by an evil oil company, and the agency was forced to acknowledge that they screwed up.
SALEM — A math error in the rules of a state program that seeks to increase the use of biofuels will make it slightly harder for oil companies to comply and easier for biofuels companies to generate revenue under the program until it’s fixed, a state agency said Friday.
Cory Ann Wind, who manages the low-carbon fuel standard program for the state Department of Environmental Quality, acknowledged the error Friday.
Wind said in an interview an oil company recognized the error in the agency’s numbers when working out how to comply with what’s called the Clean Fuels program.
“Their math wasn’t matching up with my numbers,” Wind said. “They were right.”
It had to hurt to have to admit that in their zeal to put together new regulations, they got the numbers wrong. Go, Oregon government!
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Dear Mr. Jobs,
It appears that you have overpaid your parking tickets, and are due a refund of $176 from the City of San Francisco. We ask that you submit verification of identity in order for us to send you your refund check.
Five years after Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer, the city of San Francisco is trying to give him $176. It's part of a wider effort by the city government to refund drivers who overpaid their parking tickets.
The City of Portland would just pocket the extra cash. It's how they roll.
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That's what doing shoddy work and pooping on the lawn will get you. It should be noted, however, in their defense: they're goats. It's what they do. Apparently the fine urbanites in Salem objected to the "barnyard odor" that disrupted the ambiance when they visited the park to commune with Nature. They found it a little too - well, Natural.
(Reuters) - A crew of goats brought in to devour invasive plants at a popular park in Oregon's state capital, Salem, have been fired because they ate indiscriminately, cost nearly five times as much as human landscapers and smelled far worse, a city official said on Friday.
The 75 billy and nanny goats were supposed to eat Armenian blackberry and English ivy and other invasive plants choking native vegetation across the 1200-acre Minto-Brown Island Park, the city's largest, in a pilot program last fall.
This here park ain't big enough for the two of us, Billy.
Just what the heck the bureaucrats expected is unclear; you don't just truck 75 goats out and turn them loose, that's just plain stupid. And you don't use billy goats, because they do stink the place up.
Goats are successfully used for this purpose all over the place - when people know what they're doing. You use portable fencing to confine them to specific, targeted locations; you don't just let them wander around, billy-nilly. I had an unbelievable mound of invasive blackberry; I put Goat on a long tether and let her have at it: in just a few weeks, it was dead and gone (the blackberry, that is).
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