Monday, July 16, 2018
Chainsaw Attack Suspect Was Removed from US 11 Times: ICE - NBC 7 San Diego
Chainsaw Attack Suspect Was Removed from US 11 Times: ICE - NBC 7 San Diego:
The man arrested and accused of using a chainsaw to attack his wife had been removed from the U.S. 11 times since 2005, immigration officials confirmed Friday.
Alejandro Alvarez Villegas, 32, was arrested in Chula Vista, California on allegations he tried to kill his wife with a chainsaw in front of their three children at the couple's home in Whittier.
Alejandro Alvarez Villegas, 32, was arrested in Chula Vista, California on allegations he tried to kill his wife with a chainsaw in front of their three children at the couple's home in Whittier.
As Starbucks and Seattle Ban Plastic Straws to Appease the Greenies, They May Be Harming the Disabled
As Starbucks and Seattle Ban Plastic Straws to Appease the Greenies, They May Be Harming the Disabled
"On Monday, Starbucks joined a growing list of companies in pledging to phase out the use of plastic straws (by 2020).
Many other companies — and even cities like Seattle, Wash., and Vancouver, B.C. — have banned plastic straws, widely seen as a fairly easy way to minimize harm to the environment.
These bans will make life harder for the disabled, however.
"On Monday, Starbucks joined a growing list of companies in pledging to phase out the use of plastic straws (by 2020).
Many other companies — and even cities like Seattle, Wash., and Vancouver, B.C. — have banned plastic straws, widely seen as a fairly easy way to minimize harm to the environment.
Many disabled people with diseases like muscular dystrophy find it increasingly difficult to lift cups to their mouths.
Plastic straws enable them to drink without what would be a herculean effort.
There may not be a fitting substitute.
Plastic straws enable them to drink without what would be a herculean effort.
There may not be a fitting substitute.
Daniel Gilbert, a 25-year-old in Kentucky who was born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, keeps plastic straws with him because not all of them are the same.
He once left his straws at home while he was at a bar with his friends, and the bar only had plastic stirrers.
He once left his straws at home while he was at a bar with his friends, and the bar only had plastic stirrers.
Gilbert's disease causes his muscles to deteriorate, making it harder and harder to pick up cups and glasses..."
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History for July 16
History for July 16 - On-This-Day.com
Roald Amundsen 1872, Orville Redenbacher 1907, Ginger Rogers 1911
Michael Flatley 1958, Will Ferrell 1967, Barry Sanders 1968
1790 - The District of Columbia, or Washington, DC, was established as the permanent seat of the United States Government.
1935 - Oklahoma City became the first city in the U.S. to install parking meters.
1942 - French police officers rounded up 13,000 Jews and held them in the Winter Velodrome. The round-up was part of an agreement between Pierre Laval and the Nazis. Germany had agreed to not deport French Jews if France arrested foreign Jews.
1945 - The United States detonated the first atomic bomb in a test at Alamogordo, NM.
1951 - J.D. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" was first published.
1969 - Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, and began the first manned mission to land on the moon.
1979 - Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq after forcing Hasan al-Bakr to resign.
1981 - After 23 years with the name Datsun, executives of Nissan changed the name of their cars to Nissan.
Sunday, July 15, 2018
Democrat Leaders Have Some Bad News For Desperate Dems About Blocking Kavanaugh | Daily Wire
Democrat Leaders Have Some Bad News For Desperate Dems About Blocking Kavanaugh | Daily Wire:
Durbin was more blunt. "Some of the things that have been in blogs and suggested do not even understand the basics of the Senate," the second-ranking Democratic Senator told reporters. "Some of the people who have come up to me at parades and said, 'Shut 'em down, do this, do that,' it reflects a limited understanding of how the Senate operates."
Why Mueller's Indictment of 12 Russians Is Meaningless Theater
Why Mueller's Indictment of 12 Russians Is Meaningless Theater
"Does anybody seriously think Vladimir Putin will ship a dozen of his intelligence service's top digital spies to America to face trial?
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein made a huge splash Friday by announcing that special counsel Robert Mueller has issued an indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence operatives for hacking the computer systems of two top Democratic campaign committees.
What Rosenstein didn’t say in making that announcement suggests the indictment was made public to manipulate voters, rather than as a public information service provided to help American citizens understand what their government is doing.
...Congressional Democrats quickly seized on the indictment to demand that President Donald Trump either cancel his meeting Monday in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin or challenge Putin to agree to extradite the indicted intelligence officers.
And that’s why Rosenstein’s Friday news conference was meaningless, except as attempted manipulation of public perception of the special counsel investigation of allegations aides to Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russian interests.
But the fact that the U.S. has no extradition treaty with Russia only begins to explain why Rosenstein’s news conference was suspect. Demands that Putin extradite 12 employees of his government’s intelligence service beg credulity.
This is the same Putin who granted temporary asylum to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden five years ago after the world learned he was a cyber-traitor on an unprecedented scale .
Just last year, Putin extended Snowden’s asylum to 2020.
If anything, Putin may well be more likely to have his thugs round up a dozen American citizens presently in Russia and jail them on trumped-up espionage charges in retaliation for the Mueller indictment...
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"Does anybody seriously think Vladimir Putin will ship a dozen of his intelligence service's top digital spies to America to face trial?
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein made a huge splash Friday by announcing that special counsel Robert Mueller has issued an indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence operatives for hacking the computer systems of two top Democratic campaign committees.
What Rosenstein didn’t say in making that announcement suggests the indictment was made public to manipulate voters, rather than as a public information service provided to help American citizens understand what their government is doing.
And that’s why Rosenstein’s Friday news conference was meaningless, except as attempted manipulation of public perception of the special counsel investigation of allegations aides to Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russian interests.
But the fact that the U.S. has no extradition treaty with Russia only begins to explain why Rosenstein’s news conference was suspect. Demands that Putin extradite 12 employees of his government’s intelligence service beg credulity.
This is the same Putin who granted temporary asylum to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden five years ago after the world learned he was a cyber-traitor on an unprecedented scale .
Just last year, Putin extended Snowden’s asylum to 2020.
If anything, Putin may well be more likely to have his thugs round up a dozen American citizens presently in Russia and jail them on trumped-up espionage charges in retaliation for the Mueller indictment...
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German TV Show Replaced Trump With The Baby Blimp, And It’s Perfect
German TV Show Replaced Trump With The Baby Blimp, And It’s Perfect:
"German TV show “Heute Show” decided to replace the real Donald Trump with Baby Blimp in his recent visit to UK.
The result is simply brilliant..."
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"German TV show “Heute Show” decided to replace the real Donald Trump with Baby Blimp in his recent visit to UK.
The result is simply brilliant..."
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Peter Strzok is absolutely shameless
But the basic facts speak for themselves: With his flagrant misconduct, Peter Strzok brought shame to the FBI and the entire Justice Department. He should be ashamed of himself, rather than playing the victim.
New Mexican President To Create Border Force To Stop Illegal Immigrants, Drugs From Central America | Daily Wire
New Mexican President To Create Border Force To Stop Illegal Immigrants, Drugs From Central America | Daily Wire"Mexican president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will create a border force to stop illegal immigration and stem the tide of drugs and illegal guns pouring into Mexico from Central and South America.
Alfonso Durazo, Lopez Obrador's future chief of public security, said in an interview on Sunday that the law enforcement force will be large and will be part of an overall effort to transform the region out of a perpetual state of violence and poverty.
Bloomberg reports:
..."We’re going to create a border police force that will be highly specialized," Durazo told Bloomberg.
"They need to apply the law."
Bloomberg notes that Durazo's comments were specifically in reference to "stopping undocumented migrants and human traffickers from crossing into Mexico."...
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