Alan C.
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Why are there no libertarian countries?
Yeah, why don't billions of superstitious, functionally illiterate people embrace libertarianism?
It's a mystery, alright.
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Surprise man charged with DUI, documents show drug recognition experts said no impairment present
"He (the officer) walked up and he said 'I can tell you're driving DUI by looking in your eyes,'" said Thornton.
The 64-year-old says his eyes could have been red because he had just left LA Fitness where he was in the pool swimming.
"I take my glasses off and he says, 'You've got bloodshot eyes.' I said, 'I've been swimming at LA Fitness,' and he says, 'I think you're DUI,'" said Thornton. "He (the officer) goes, 'Well we're going to do a sobriety test.' I said, 'OK, but I got bad knees and a bad hip with surgery in two days.'"
Medical documents show Thornton was scheduled to have hip replacement surgery two days after the incident.
According to the police report, the officer notes that Thornton does have a hip and knee problem.
Thornton said two other officers arrived and he conducted the sobriety test.
"At one point, one of the officers shined the light in my eye and said, 'Oh, sorry,' and asked the other officer if he was doing it right,'" said Thornton.
Thornton said he was then placed in handcuffs and told to sit on the curb.
"I couldn't even sit on the ground like that and they knew it and I was like laying on the ground, then they put me in the back of an SUV and when I asked the officer to move her seat up 'cause my hip hurt she told me to stop whining," said Thornton.
According to documents provided to ABC15 from the City of Surprise, Thornton was taken to police headquarters where he took a breathalyzer test.
The test, according to the police documents came back with a blood alcohol level of 0.000.
"Yes, I do the breathalyzer and it comes back zero, zero, zero," said Thornton.
While in custody, a "DRE" or drug recognition expert is called to test Thornton.
"After he did all the tests, he says, 'I would never have arrested you, you show no signs of impairment,'" said Thornton.
The Surprise resident is right. The police documents show the drug recognition officer wrote, "I conducted an evaluation of Jessie, in my opinion Jessie was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol."
According the documents from the Surprise Police Department, the blood analysis showed no drugs were detected in Thornton's blood.
Jessie's car had been impounded and the MVD notified of the DUI charge.
"I then get this message that my license is being suspended and I have to take some sort of drinking class or something," said Thornton.
According to the police documents, Thornton was later released to his wife.
"She was at work and had to come get me, it was a mess, I couldn't believe it," said Thornton. "On top of that my car was impounded on a Friday night and they said I couldn't get it until Monday.."
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Mom: Son's skull fractured during fight at school; school didn't call 911
"They should have called 911 when my child had a big hole in his head instead of waiting for me to go pick him up," she said.
The seventh-grader did not want to be shown on camera. His skull was fractured on Friday when a classmate hurled a desk at his head. He says it was the fifth attack he endured at the hands of school bullies.
"I was pretty freaked out and scared," her son said. "It's violent, it's a violent school."
Canales said she'd repeatedly contacted the school, but was ignored.
"I go to the school, I call the school, nobody listens," she said.
She also said the school nurse told her to take her son home on Friday and that this wasn't a serious injury. She took him to the hospital, where doctors told her it was very serious.
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...victims of emotional mistreatment were found to have a reduction of the thickness of the cerebral cortex in specific areas associated with self-awareness, self-evaluation and emotional regulation.
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The scientists speculate that a regional thinning of the cortex may serve as a protective mechanism, immediately shielding the child from the experience of the abuse by gating or blocking the sensory experience.
This is why so many adults (especially narcissists) are conspicuously puerile and petulant. Their maturity and intellectual development was stultified as a result of the abuse they suffered.
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Wealth of most Americans down 55% since recession
Peter Schiff made a very keen observation on his show recently when he pointed out that inflated asset prices caused by artificial demand is not the same thing as wealth. The "wealth" which people believed that they had was illusory.
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While I, myself, prefer communicating via written word because I prefer cogitation to extemporaneous speaking, I recognize that real-time interaction helps mitigate evasiveness and pettifog which some people use when their arguments consist of sophistry, etc.
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After we have our 2nd child together, life became a living hell.
You did the right thing by getting away from him. He sounds like a loose cannon.
It's unfortunate that he is involving your kids in church. Church is a place for him to hide.
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California pit bull owner charged with murder in fatal mauling
Alex Jackson, 29, was charged after DNA tests on his dogs found blood on their muzzles and coats that matched that of Pamela Devitt, 63, who died after being bitten 150 to 200 times by his four pit bulls.
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...it was the first dog mauling case they could recall since the 2001 trial of a San Francisco couple convicted in the death of a neighbor who was mauled by their giant dog.
Marjorie Knoller received a 15-years-to-life sentence after a jury found her guilty of second-degree murder. In rejecting her appeal, the California Supreme Court ruled that Knoller acted with a conscious disregard for human life when her 140-pound Presa Canario escaped and killed Diane Whipple in an apartment building hallway.
Knoller's husband, Noel, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
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Her husband told KCAL-TV he blamed the dogs' owner for what happened.
"I do not blame the dogs. I don't blame pit bulls," Ben Devitt said. "I blame people who don't take responsibility for their animals."
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...in most cases the dogs involved in attacks are not family pets but animals who are often isolated and don't get positive human interaction.
"If a dog has seriously hurt or killed someone, you have to look to the owner and the owner should be held accountable on some level," he said. "There's no reason we have to tolerate that kind of behavior."
I posted this because Stef often talks about how pet owners are held liable for the harm done by their pets while parents are rarely (if ever) held responsible for the aggression perpetrated by their children.
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Catholic Church's Top Exorcist Claims He Rid World of 160,000 Demons
The Catholic Church's top exorcist, who claims to have sent 160,000 demons back to hell, says he wants Pope Francis to allow all priests to start performing the ritual to deal with a rising demand for exorcisms from the faithful.
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"There was now, more than ever, a need for exorcists to combat people possessed by 'sorcerers' and 'Satanists,'" he noted in that report.
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"Practicing yoga brings evil as does reading Harry Potter. They may both seem innocuous but they both deal with magic and that leads to evil," he said.
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Labor big a real heavy sleeper
Union fat cat Mark Rosenthal spends more time sleeping at his desk than organizing labor, a series of damning photos reveals.
The 400-pound president of Local 983 of District Council 37 — the city’s largest blue-collar municipal-workers union — often downs a huge meal, then drops into dreamland in the early afternoon, members of the union’s executive board told The Post.
“He eats lunch when he arrives at work at 2 p.m. Then, like clockwork, he goes to sleep with a cup of soda on the table and the straw in it,” said Marvin Robbins, a union vice president.
“Then he wakes up, looks at his watch and says, ‘I have to get out before the traffic gets bad.’ He’s usually out by 4 p.m. after being at the office two hours.”
Rosenthal is a former Parks Department employee who rose to power campaigning to rid the union of corruption in the late 1990s.
He last made embarrassing headlines in 2009, when he inspired a City Council bill requiring jumbo-size ambulances for morbidly obese patients after he had a stroke at City Hall.
Since then, he hasn’t been making much of an effort to give the city’s ambulances a break and slim down. Union officials say he racks up $1,400 in monthly food bills on the union dime.
Much of the 5-foot-7, 400-plus-pound Rosenthal’s food tabs are for catered union events and meals he writes off as “union business,” board members claim.
They say he significantly overorders at eateries like Dallas BBQ, the Stage Door Deli and Pine Restaurant in The Bronx, a hangout for local politicians, and takes the extra food back to his Bronxdale apartment.
“He’s always walking off with a doggie bag or extra boxes of food,” said another executive board member.
Rosenthal, who earns $156,000 annually, yesterday denied being a free spender— and insisted he works “12-to-14-hour days.”
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Police Shoot & Kill Grandfather While Responding To Burglary Call
Those close to the family say the victim lived nearby and heard his neighbor’s burglar alarm. Neighbor Jerry Wayne Waller then apparently went outside to see what was going on.
The 72-year-old man didn’t even make it to the house across the street before he was shot. He died on his own property.
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The elderly man, who was armed at the time, was shot and killed in his own driveway by police responding to a burglary call. “We heard five shots,” Haskin recalled. They were just rapid fire one after the other.”
Speaking on the incident Fort Worth police Cpl. Tracey Knight said, “Officers felt threatened by the man with the handgun and he was shot.”
After the shooting Haskin said, “The police officers were sobbing uncontrollably and very distraught.”
Not only has the family been victimized, but now those police will have to live the rest of their lives knowing that they blew away a completely innocent person.
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Police beat man to death in Sacramento, CA
I bet it was heart disease.
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[view:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsTQ1cM-Hpg:640:390]
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People use metaphors to avoid dealing with discomforting truths.
The way to deal with the claims you mentioned is to focus on the fundamental nature of taxation (eg. threats, coercion, expropriation, violence).
There are people in prison who didn't pay taxes in a manner which appeased some bureaucrats.
There are people whose homes, bank accounts, and other property was confiscated for the same reason.
An act cannot be both voluntary and coerced simultaneously; it's one or the other.
If taxation is voluntary then it's not taxation; it's donation or reciprocation.
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Head of the IMF Christine Lagarde in court charged with embezzlement and fraud
The head of the International Monetary Fund arrived in the dock of a
Paris courtroom today as she braced herself to be formally charged with
embezzlement and fraud.The clearly nervous
57-year-old said nothing to reporters as she entered the Court of
Justice of the Republic, a special tribunal set up to judge the conduct
of France’s government ministers, shortly after 8.30am.Lagarde faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in jail if found guilty of the very serious charges.
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was when she was President Nicolas Sarkozy’s finance minister that she
is said to have authorised a 270 million pounds payout to one of his
prominent supporters, so abusing her government position.
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“Uh, I don’t have anybody to send out there,” the 911 dispatcher told
the woman. “You know, obviously, if he comes inside the residence and
assaults you, can you ask him to go away? Do you know if he’s
intoxicated or anything?”The woman told the dispatcher that Bellah previously attacked her and
left her hospitalized a few weeks prior to the latest incident. The
dispatcher stayed on the phone with the woman for more than 10 minutes
before the sexual assault took place.“Once again it’s unfortunate you guys don’t have any law enforcement
out there,” the dispatcher said, according to Oregon Public Radio.The woman responded: “Yeah, it doesn’t matter, if he gets in the house I’m done.”
Police say Bellah choked the woman and sexually assaulted her. He was arrested by Oregon State Police following the incident.
“There isn’t a day that goes by that we don’t have another victim,”
Josephine County Sheriff Gil Gilberson told Oregon Public Radio. “If you
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxfHh9fH5j4
Code Pink: "Women for Peace" (unless you refuse to pay for universal health-care)
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Shocking NYC Parking Ticket Blitz: $115 Fines For What Was Legal Minutes Before
...cars were parked there and were legal. The tape shows a city transportation crew changing “alternate side, Monday and Thursday” signs to “No Standing Anytime.”
Then, within 25 minutes of the signs going up, traffic agents were swiping registration stickers and issuing tickets to five or six cars parked there. One building manager watched it happen.
“Well, it’s ridiculous,” Karim Znaidi said.
Cherrez, who works across the street, and was ticketed, spoke to the agents.
“They don’t care. They just want to collect money for Mr. Bloomberg — from my pocket,” Cherrez said.
The fine: $115. The only notice: paper signs that warned of towing if cars were not out by 6 p.m. Saturday, but what happened to the motorists Slattery spoke to happened six hours before.
“I’m gonna fight it. I am,” Cherrez said.
Nicole Gomez, a spokesperson for the Department of Transportation said parking next to a bike stand is illegal, “Still, any motorist who believes they received a ticket in error can contest it through the Department of Finance, which adjudicates violations.”
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McCain: 'Why the hell' do iPhone apps need updating?
After questioning Apple CEO Tim Cook in a congressional hearing Tuesday, Sen. John McCain ran out of time and didn't get to ask one pressing question on his mind.
"What I really wanted to ask is why the hell I have to keep updating the apps on my iPhone all the time and why you don't fix that," McCain, an active Tweeter, said–prompting some laughs in the room.
"Sir, we're trying to make them better all the time," Cook responded in kind.
Lawmakers grilled Apple executives over their company's tax strategy, examining why Apple shifts income to an Irish subsidiary to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
Apple officials said the company moved the money to its overseas operations, such as those in Ireland, not to avoid taxes but because of the growth of Apple's sales overseas.
Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and McCain, the committee's ranking member, both started the hearing with withering criticism of Apple's tax practice.
Tim Cook shold've ignored these fools. He doesn't owe them an explanation for anything.
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Goods from kiosks at two malls seized
Federal agents swept through two shopping malls Monday, seizing fake merchandise and shutting down stores.
The Department of Homeland Security spearheaded the investigation that targeted mostly kiosks in the Walden Galleria and Boulevard Mall. Agents hauled bags and boxes out of the Boulevard Mall after stripping three kiosks of their merchandise.
Jim Spero, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Buffalo office of Homeland Security, says the sale of counterfeit goods - in Buffalo and beyond - poses a major security threat.
"When you purchase counterfeit goods, when you sell counterfeit goods, you don't know who you're dealing with. You don't know what kind of criminal activity you're supporting," Spero said. "It's actually organized crime that is behind the distribution of these goods. It could be terrorists as well."
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Deputies Watch Woman Die in Court
Richardson was arrested on May 19, 2011, in Tarrant City, Ala., for failing to pay a 2008 traffic ticket. She was sent to the St. Clair County Jail.
London claims that when she visited her mom in jail two days later, her mother could hardly walk, had trouble breathing and complained of pain in both legs.
London claims the jail staff refused to give her mom her asthma medication and stopped other inmates from helping her.
"Ms. Richardson told Ayunna that she was sick, that both her legs were hurting her so badly that she could not walk to the tray area to pick up her food, and that they would not give her her medicine," the complaint states.
"Ms. Richardson told Ayunna that several of the inmates were trying to help her out by going to get her tray for her, since she could hardly walk, but the jailers told them that they were 'babying' her, and moved Ms. Richardson to a different area in the jail, away from the inmates that were trying to help her."
Jail staff refused to take Richardson to the hospital, despite her worsening condition, her daughter says.
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Drinking is the least of their problems.
So my father is a creationist
in Atheism and Religion
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These are loaded questions in that they implicitly assume that a "who" was responsible.
Humans were not made; they evolved from less complex organisms. My encapsulated explanation of evolution is that as
populations of organisms expand over time, they fill niches as variances in
offspring produce adaptations to thresholds in the environment.
All dinosaurs didn't go extinct. When most people think of dinosaurs, they think of animals such as sauropods and some megafauna which no longer exist. However, many species survived, some of which remained nearly unchanged for millions of years. There is compelling evidence to suggest that a mass extinction event occurred as a result of, or in concert with, a meteor impact.
Nobody knows for certain how the universe formed; only what has happened since.