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rooster, hows about you explain that 'squaw' comment...
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You mean squaw Liz Cruz?
$&^@!$%^ christian fascists!
“They wouldn’t allow me to see the doctor”: Another pregnant woman jailed in Wisconsin for seeking medical care
Tamara Loertscher had a feeling she was pregnant, so she went to see a doctor last summer. She didn’t have health insurance, but sought care anyway. It turns out that her suspicions were right, a pregnancy test revealed she was 14 weeks along.
After a urine test, Loertscher said she disclosed to her doctor that, because of a thyroid condition and depression, she had been self-medicating with marijuana and methamphetamine, but had stopped when she suspected she was pregnant. It didn’t matter. Loertscher lives in Wisconsin, and a law there allows the state to arrest, detain and incarcerate pregnant women found to be using drugs, or, in Loertscher’s case, pregnant women who have used drugs in the past.
Hospital workers reported her, and a process was set in motion. The state accused her of child abuse and appointed her fetus a lawyer. (This is a familiar pattern.) She was ordered into an in-patient treatment facility, despite the fact that she was no longer using drugs and had voluntarily sought medical care. She refused, and was soon incarcerated. MORE...
http://www.salon.com/2014/12/15/they_wouldn%E2%80%99t_allow_me_to_see_the_doctor_another_pregnant_woman_jailed_in_wisconsin_for_seeking_medical_care/
John Kasich: Schools must partner with religious groups to receive mentoring funds
Though he’s a former Fox News host and generally a down-the-line conservative, Ohio Gov. John Kasich has been cast in the role of the Reasonable Republican. Unlike many fellow GOP chief executives, Kasich accepted federal funds to expand his state’s Medicaid program under Obamacare, and he has forcefully defended that decision in the face of right-wing opposition, even though it could prove a political liability as he contemplates a White House bid in 2016. But while Kasich has alienated some conservatives with his Medicaid stance, his latest policy move is much more likely to win the applause of Rick Santorum & Co.
Cleveland.com reports that under the governor’s $10 million mentoring program for public schools, a school district must partner with both a religious organization and a business or a nonprofit established by a business. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. According to the website, Buddy Harris, a senior policy analyst at the Ohio Department of Education, told a group of religious and nonprofit leaders that the Kasich administration doesn’t “foresee any proselytizing happening between mentors and students.”
Asked why the governor included the religious requirement, a spokesman told Cleveland.com, ”The governor believes faith-based organizations play an important role in the lives of young people.” But the governor’s own words undermine his administration’s claim that the religious requirement isn’t about proselytization. In a video made for applicants to the program, Kasich said, “The Good Lord has a purpose for each and every one of them [students] and you’re helping them to find it.”
Under the program, schools don’t have the option to partner with a business and a secular nonprofit; a religious group must be part of the mix.
What could possibly go wrong?
http://www.salon.com/2014/12/15/john_kasich_schools_must_partner_with_religious_groups_to_receive_mentoring_funds/
I wonder what the sentence is for disagreeing with the Governor?
HEDZUP... REAL ID update...
The Feds Want to Replace Your Driver’s License with a National ID Card
December 15, 2014 at 10:20 am by Benjamin Preston
From the January 2015 issue of Car and Driver
If you live in Arizona, Louisiana, New York, or one of more than a dozen other states, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has bad news for you. Come January 19, your driver’s license will no longer allow you access to certain federal facilities. Unless DHS changes its mind. Again.
In 2005, Congress passed a bill called the Real ID Act, based upon recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission. Whether or not you’ve heard of the law depends largely upon how in tune you are with conspiracy theories. Where you live matters, too, because nearly a decade after the law’s passage, only 19 states actually comply with its standards.
Real ID’s stated intent is to ensure that all jurisdictions issuing driver’s licenses and other identification meet federal standards, “which should inhibit terrorists’ ability to evade detection by using fraudulent identification.” Basically, the government is upping the ante on what it will accept as valid forms of ID at federal facilities, nuclear power plants, and—here’s the biggie—federally regulated airline flights (i.e., most of them).
Opponents fear that Real ID will lead to a national identity card like those issued by “totalitarian” governments and that its requirement that states share data from their department of motor vehicle databases is an invasion of privacy. Others object because Congress didn’t offer financial backing to help states implement Real ID. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) contends that the program wastes state resources while doing little to combat terrorism, calling it a “bureaucratic nightmare.”
For its part, Homeland Security promises that Real ID will leave states with control over the look and administration of driver’s licenses, and, more important, over the information they collect to issue them. “There is no federal database of driver information,” the agency says on its website, although the ACLU contends that the law says otherwise. What does non-compliance mean for residents of those states? Most states have been granted extensions, although many have passed legislation that amounts to a promise not to comply.
For most Americans, that flight restriction is the big worry. But DHS says that any state driver’s license will be accepted as a valid ID at airports until at least 2016. And after that, passports and other federal IDs will work. The ACLU doesn’t put much stock in DHS deadlines either way, including the latest one. “We know how it’s going to play out because it’s played out three times already,” says Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel for the ACLU. “They give a deadline, the deadline goes, and then they give an extension. The states know that DHS isn’t going to keep all the residents from non–Real ID states from boarding airplanes.” Which means that those refusing to play along might just achieve the goal of dooming Real ID to failure.
http://blog.caranddriver.com/the-feds-want-to-replace-your-drivers-license-with-a-national-id-card/
YES.
wow
I know little re; college football, but that sounds sad even to me.
LOL! Yeah...but a TEXAN? Hell, that's like hiring a cocksucker to vacuum your shop...it'll be quick but really sloppy.
Bullshit. ISIS started out as Prince Bandar's 'private' army and has since become an "unofficial" projection of the Saudi return to empire status.
...Spoken like a true dingleberry. LOL!
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issi is a Obama lib progressive product, fools gave away a won war
I know you clowns live and breathe bush/cheney but give it a rest, been almost 7 years now, grow a pair
Sadly, it appears an Oklahoma university...TU...is hiring a %&@$# TEXAN as head coach. INMHO hiring ANYONE from down there to bail out an Okie football team is about as @&%*#%$ close to abomination as you can get!
O/T - Sadly, it appears an Oklahoma university...TU...is hiring a %&@$# TEXAN as head coach. INMHO hiring ANYONE from down there to bail out an Okie football team is about as @&%*#%$ close to abomination as you can get!
You mean we have a difference of opinion? I'm shocked.
Totally unsporting!
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Have you thought of practicing 'silence'?
Silence IS golden. R*O*F*L*M*A*O!!!
L2R - Let's see... Wouldn't you agree that any group that privately boasts they've conned their enemies into financing their flagship project and then taunts them about it would likely regret said actions when unexpectedly called out on their illegal hiring practices?
Embarrassing, too!
Non-Religious Group to Creation Museum: Looks Like We Sunk Your Ship
Earlier this week, Answers in Genesis, the Christian group behind Boone County's Creation Museum, launched a billboard campaign targeting detractors of its plan theme park in Grant County inspired by Noah's Ark.
"To all of our intolerant liberal friends: Thank God you can't sink this ship" read the billboards placed near the offices of the daily newspapers of Louisville, Lexington, and Frankfort, and closer to AiG's home in Northern Kentucky, as well as Times Square in New York City.
On Wednesday, the Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Authority declined to award more than $18 million in a state tax incentive program to the Ark Encounter project, citing the planned hiring practices that the state claims could be a violation of religious freedom. "State tourism tax incentives cannot be used to fund religious indoctrination or otherwise be used to advance religion," Tourism Secretary Bob Stewart wrote in a letter as reported by the Courier-Journal. "The use of state incentives in this way violates the separation of church and state provisions of the Constitution and is therefore impermissible."
The Herald-Leader adds:
"Fundraising for the Ark Encounter project has proved troublesome. Ark Encounter first won approval of tourism tax credits for the $172.5 million project three years ago, but it later withdrew that application. This year, it asked for tax incentives on a $73 million portion of the overall project."
The current problems started during the summer, when the Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Authority gave preliminary approval to an incentive package which allows a 25 percent sales tax rebate for approved tourism sites. But state officials paused after Americans for the Separation of Church and State pointed out language in job postings for the park requiring "salvation testimony" and a "Creation belief statement."
The news inspired a response from at least one national group that advocates for the separation of church and state. "To our misinformed friends at Answers In Genesis, looks like we sunk your ship," read a graphic created and posted Wednesday to the Facebook page of Americans United for Separation of Church and State".
Ark Encounter had received preliminary approval for the tax incentive, which offers recipients a rebate of sales tax up to 25% of a project's capital costs over ten years. Hotel projects in Covington and Newport were recipients this year, and on Wednesday, an award was given to a hotel project in Somerset a Jim Beam project in Louisville. The Answers in Genesis website explains the State of Faith this way:
"In order to preserve the function and integrity of the ministry in its mission to proclaim the absolute truth and authority of Scripture and to provide a biblical role model to our employees, and to the Church, the community, and society at large, it is imperative that all persons employed by the ministry in any capacity, or who serve as volunteers, should abide by and agree to our Statement of Faith, to include the statement on marriage and sexuality, and conduct themselves accordingly."
Attorney James Parsons, who represents the group behind Ark Encounter, said legal options are being explored, according to the Courier-Jounrnal.
http://www.rcnky.com/articles/2014/12/10/atheists-creation-museum-looks-we-sunk-your-ship
wow
Non-Religious Group to Creation Museum: Looks Like We Sunk Your Ship
Earlier this week, Answers in Genesis, the Christian group behind Boone County's Creation Museum, launched a billboard campaign targeting detractors of its plan theme park in Grant County inspired by Noah's Ark.
"To all of our intolerant liberal friends: Thank God you can't sink this ship" read the billboards placed near the offices of the daily newspapers of Louisville, Lexington, and Frankfort, and closer to AiG's home in Northern Kentucky, as well as Times Square in New York City.
On Wednesday, the Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Authority declined to award more than $18 million in a state tax incentive program to the Ark Encounter project, citing the planned hiring practices that the state claims could be a violation of religious freedom. "State tourism tax incentives cannot be used to fund religious indoctrination or otherwise be used to advance religion," Tourism Secretary Bob Stewart wrote in a letter as reported by the Courier-Journal. "The use of state incentives in this way violates the separation of church and state provisions of the Constitution and is therefore impermissible."
The Herald-Leader adds:
"Fundraising for the Ark Encounter project has proved troublesome. Ark Encounter first won approval of tourism tax credits for the $172.5 million project three years ago, but it later withdrew that application. This year, it asked for tax incentives on a $73 million portion of the overall project."
The current problems started during the summer, when the Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Authority gave preliminary approval to an incentive package which allows a 25 percent sales tax rebate for approved tourism sites. But state officials paused after Americans for the Separation of Church and State pointed out language in job postings for the park requiring "salvation testimony" and a "Creation belief statement."
The news inspired a response from at least one national group that advocates for the separation of church and state. "To our misinformed friends at Answers In Genesis, looks like we sunk your ship," read a graphic created and posted Wednesday to the Facebook page of Americans United for Separation of Church and State".
Ark Encounter had received preliminary approval for the tax incentive, which offers recipients a rebate of sales tax up to 25% of a project's capital costs over ten years. Hotel projects in Covington and Newport were recipients this year, and on Wednesday, an award was given to a hotel project in Somerset a Jim Beam project in Louisville. The Answers in Genesis website explains the State of Faith this way:
"In order to preserve the function and integrity of the ministry in its mission to proclaim the absolute truth and authority of Scripture and to provide a biblical role model to our employees, and to the Church, the community, and society at large, it is imperative that all persons employed by the ministry in any capacity, or who serve as volunteers, should abide by and agree to our Statement of Faith, to include the statement on marriage and sexuality, and conduct themselves accordingly."
Attorney James Parsons, who represents the group behind Ark Encounter, said legal options are being explored, according to the Courier-Jounrnal.
http://www.rcnky.com/articles/2014/12/10/atheists-creation-museum-looks-we-sunk-your-ship
What goes around...
Sox - H2 is a typical republican...just smart enuff to invent bs knowing full well we'll get tired of smacking down every lie so he can eventually claim as truth the one we miss.
Define "false equivalence".
The Right Wing's Facebook Army
The digital army sprung to life with a click of a mouse in a nondescript office park in Alexandria. Less than 10 miles away, at the White House, the phones began to light up. One call came into the switchboard and then another. Thousands of people flooded the phone lines. It was early August 2014, and the callers were conservatives lambasting President Obama for promising what they described as "executive amnesty." The deluge of angry activists was not the work of a heavily coordinated national campaign, a pricey phone-banking operation, or really an exhaustive effort of any kind.
It resulted from a single post on Facebook.
The volume of calls was so high that, within hours, the White House complained it was a "security issue," according to an email from the phone vendor hired to connect callers to the switchboard. More than 9,000 calls had been made before they pulled the plug. At the headquarters of ForAmerica, the conservative group that had launched the telephone broadside, the White House's reaction was seen more as victory than defeat.
"We got our point across," said David Bozell, ForAmerica's executive director.
In the last four years, ForAmerica has quietly amassed what it likes to call a "digital army" on Facebook—a force that that now numbers more than 7 million. The group's spectacular growth can be explained in part by the paid acquisition of its members through targeted advertising. But thanks to a daily stream of savvy and snackable red-meat messaging, these mercenaries have become loyal conservative digital soldiers whose engagement is attracting new recruits. These days, a routine post on ForAmerica's page reaches more than 2 million people, achieves more than 100,000 "likes," and has tens of thousands of people repost and comment.
..."Facebook tells us quite often that we're among their most engaged operations on its entire platform, and definitely No. 1 in the political sphere," David Bozell said. Indeed, an official with Facebook confirmed that ForAmerica's flock is among "the largest and most active presences on Facebook" in the political realm.
...The Bozells launched ForAmerica's Facebook page in September 2010. The goal was to use paid acquisition to secure 300,000 Facebook "fans" by the end of 2010. "We got it in a month and a half," David said. The explosive growth continued over the next several years. Each new membership benchmark they set was eclipsed faster—and less expensively—than they had projected.
The Bozells wouldn't say who underwrites ForAmerica, but tax records show that $2.4 million of the $2.52 million the organization raised in 2013 came from a single donor.
...With 2016 looming, ForAmerica is targeting its outreach in key states—those home to early primary contests and general-election battlegrounds—to maximize the group's influence over the upcoming presidential campaign. Their membership benchmarks are lofty—10 million members by the Iowa caucuses in January 2016, and 11.5 million by the November 2016 election. Perhaps most audaciously, David said they want at least "five percent of registered voters in every state" to be members of their movement.
...That ForAmerica, and other tea-party-influenced groups such as Heritage Action, FreedomWorks, and the Senate Conservatives Fund spend nearly as much time targeting Republicans as they do Democrats rankles many in the GOP establishment. "It's disappointing that these grassroots resources aren't generally targeted against Democrats who are the real problem for advancing conservative values," said Brian Walsh, a GOP strategist and outspoken critics of these groups. More specifically, the complaint is that the Bozells are part of a professionalized "purity for profit" movement in D.C., in which some conservatives make a living riling up the grassroots. MUCH MORE...
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/the-conservative-digital-army/383526/?single_page=true#disqus_thread
At least we know who's responsible for the silly TeaPer KochStep scripts lambasted daily across the web.
The Right Wing's Facebook Army
The digital army sprung to life with a click of a mouse in a nondescript office park in Alexandria. Less than 10 miles away, at the White House, the phones began to light up. One call came into the switchboard and then another. Thousands of people flooded the phone lines. It was early August 2014, and the callers were conservatives lambasting President Obama for promising what they described as "executive amnesty." The deluge of angry activists was not the work of a heavily coordinated national campaign, a pricey phone-banking operation, or really an exhaustive effort of any kind.
It resulted from a single post on Facebook.
The volume of calls was so high that, within hours, the White House complained it was a "security issue," according to an email from the phone vendor hired to connect callers to the switchboard. More than 9,000 calls had been made before they pulled the plug. At the headquarters of ForAmerica, the conservative group that had launched the telephone broadside, the White House's reaction was seen more as victory than defeat.
"We got our point across," said David Bozell, ForAmerica's executive director.
In the last four years, ForAmerica has quietly amassed what it likes to call a "digital army" on Facebook—a force that that now numbers more than 7 million. The group's spectacular growth can be explained in part by the paid acquisition of its members through targeted advertising. But thanks to a daily stream of savvy and snackable red-meat messaging, these mercenaries have become loyal conservative digital soldiers whose engagement is attracting new recruits. These days, a routine post on ForAmerica's page reaches more than 2 million people, achieves more than 100,000 "likes," and has tens of thousands of people repost and comment.
..."Facebook tells us quite often that we're among their most engaged operations on its entire platform, and definitely No. 1 in the political sphere," David Bozell said. Indeed, an official with Facebook confirmed that ForAmerica's flock is among "the largest and most active presences on Facebook" in the political realm.
...The Bozells launched ForAmerica's Facebook page in September 2010. The goal was to use paid acquisition to secure 300,000 Facebook "fans" by the end of 2010. "We got it in a month and a half," David said. The explosive growth continued over the next several years. Each new membership benchmark they set was eclipsed faster—and less expensively—than they had projected.
The Bozells wouldn't say who underwrites ForAmerica, but tax records show that $2.4 million of the $2.52 million the organization raised in 2013 came from a single donor.
...With 2016 looming, ForAmerica is targeting its outreach in key states—those home to early primary contests and general-election battlegrounds—to maximize the group's influence over the upcoming presidential campaign. Their membership benchmarks are lofty—10 million members by the Iowa caucuses in January 2016, and 11.5 million by the November 2016 election. Perhaps most audaciously, David said they want at least "five percent of registered voters in every state" to be members of their movement.
...That ForAmerica, and other tea-party-influenced groups such as Heritage Action, FreedomWorks, and the Senate Conservatives Fund spend nearly as much time targeting Republicans as they do Democrats rankles many in the GOP establishment. "It's disappointing that these grassroots resources aren't generally targeted against Democrats who are the real problem for advancing conservative values," said Brian Walsh, a GOP strategist and outspoken critics of these groups. More specifically, the complaint is that the Bozells are part of a professionalized "purity for profit" movement in D.C., in which some conservatives make a living riling up the grassroots. MUCH MORE...
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/the-conservative-digital-army/383526/?single_page=true#disqus_thread
At least we know who's responsible for the silly TeaPer KochStep scripts lambasted daily across the web.
Hmmm. if "deprive them some sleep" was as far as it went, why the sudden GOP upset? Have you, again, shot your mouth off in an ignorant manner in fulfillment of your troll phantasies?
RE;
so peg your ok with us droning a person to pieces, but not to deprive them some sleep ?
fuagf - Jury decisions are only as good as the evidence presented by the DA and the judge's legal instruction at impaneling. Having been peripherally involved recently with a DA removal I can assure you that removing one is nigh impossible unless the powers that be deem such to be politically advantageous. (...even then, it's tough)
F6, re; the Youngblood doctrine...
Our legal system is a fine demonstration of the difference between original intent and current reality. How do we advance from a quota/revenge system to a punishment/rehab process? I don't know...but I do know the mess we have now carries within it the seeds to our failure as a nation. This article explicates this only too well.
Does an Innocent Man Have the Right to Be Exonerated?
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/12/does-an-innocent-man-have-the-right-to-be-exonerated/383343/
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pro_se -- just to clarify a bit -- the prior logic-chain argument/precedent is how the law itself is construed/constructed and developed/elaborated -- which law itself is pretty clearly distinguished and distinct from the specific facts gained through investigation that are in evidence in any given case -- it's not rather than; our system is at least supposed to proceed in each case by getting the facts of the case into evidence and then applying the law to the facts as found -- there are of course any number of ways in which given cases or classes of cases can be and are gotten wrong in our system, including by deliberate abuses of the system -- but I don't see any quite that sort of conundrum of fragility portending self-immolation built into it, even if and as it's properly under pressure to reform such abuses as have become embedded in/endemic to it
fuagf - I think current-case police officer guilt/innocence is now moot due to the inherent fragility of the system possibly triggering a self-immolation of sorts. Excessive melodrama? ...I wish. Any system based upon prior logic-chain argument/precedent rather than evidence gained thru investigation as ours is will always contain the seeds of its own demise.
It's quite obvious that precedent serves to protect the system but can fail the individual. This makes the real question terrifyingly simple: What's more important, the good of the many or the sanctity of the individual?
Two facts to never forget about our justice system...
1/ 'Truth' & 'justice' aren't always compatible.
2/ The office of District Attorney is the most powerful elective office in America.
I could say more...but what's the use?
Exactly...which should vacate the ruling. BUT, given certain peculiarities of Missouri culture, that probably won't happen. Regrettably, having grown up in Clinton, I'm only too qualified to say that.
Possible Ferguson Grand Jury do-over?...
Missouri AG: Ferguson Grand Jury Was Misled On Deadly Force Statute
By Susie Madrak December 5, 2014 12:00 pm
In 1985 the Supreme Court amended this law to include a "probable cause" requirement under Tennessee v Garner and the jury wasn't informed of this until three months later.
Via Frank Vyan Walton at Daily Kos, verification of bad instruction given to the jury:
Subsequent to a previous report from Lawrence O'Donnell the Missouri Attorney General has confirmed with Last Word that they instructions given the Michael Brown Grand Jury describing the Police "use of force" laws was incorrect and misleading.
Video from Program
The background of this situation is that Lawrence O'Donnell reported that after reviewing the transcripts of the Darren Wilson Grand Jury, his analyst discovered that Assistant District Attorney's working for Bob McCullough gave the Jurors an outdated copy of Missouri Lawthat all that was required for an Officer to use deadly force is their "reasonable belief" that there was a threat.
In 1985 the Supreme Court amended this law to include a "probable cause" requirement under Tennessee v Garner and the Jury wasn't informed of this until 3 months later just before their deliberations, nor even at that time was the difference and relevance of this explained to them clearly.
The misleading information was given to the Grand Jury directly before Darren Wilson's testimony giving the impression that all that was required under the law for Wilson to kill Michael Brown was his belief that he was in danger, without the additional requirement ofprobable cause for such a belief.
The Missouri AG now proclaims that was wrong and the Missouri Law needs to be changed and updated to reflect the Supreme Court's ruling.Continue over the fold to read more.
O'Donnell: The Missouri Attorney General says "The Police Use of Deadly Force Law in Missouri must be changed." in response to my question to the Attorney General he said:
"Among the problems that Ferguson has brought to light is the need to update Missouri's use of deadly force statute. This statute is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's holding in Tennessee v. Garner. Consequently, it is important this statute be amended by the Missouri legislature to incorporate the Garner decision to avoid confusion in the criminal justice system." --Chris Koster, Missouri Attorney General.
O'Donnell: As I have stated on this program there should be no confusion in the criminal justice system because the United States Supreme Court clarified the proper, and legal, and constitutional use of deadly force by police, 29 years ago.
There are two clear possibilities here. Either the St. Louis County District Attorney's Office was aware of this conflict and deliberately attempted to give the Grand Jury a false impression of the law, only to slip in a unclear, unexplained "correction" at the last minute which would be far too weak to override the prevailing impression gained from weeks of testimony which had been reviewed through a jaundiced lens...Or...The St. Louis County and other DA's throughout the state have been regularly misleading juries and grand juries with the mistaken and wrong impression that probable cause is not required for law enforcement before deliberate deadly force can be deployed legally because they just don't know any better.
And worse even still, are Officers walking the streets of Missouri - or other states - also under this incorrect impression that all they need to use deadly force is to "feel threatened"?
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/12/missouri-ag-ferguson-grand-jury-was-misled
Missouri AG: Ferguson Grand Jury Was Misled On Deadly Force Statute
By Susie Madrak December 5, 2014 12:00 pm
In 1985 the Supreme Court amended this law to include a "probable cause" requirement under Tennessee v Garner and the jury wasn't informed of this until three months later.
Via Frank Vyan Walton at Daily Kos, verification of bad instruction given to the jury:
Subsequent to a previous report from Lawrence O'Donnell the Missouri Attorney General has confirmed with Last Word that they instructions given the Michael Brown Grand Jury describing the Police "use of force" laws was incorrect and misleading.
Video from Program
The background of this situation is that Lawrence O'Donnell reported that after reviewing the transcripts of the Darren Wilson Grand Jury, his analyst discovered that Assistant District Attorney's working for Bob McCullough gave the Jurors an outdated copy of Missouri Lawthat all that was required for an Officer to use deadly force is their "reasonable belief" that there was a threat.
In 1985 the Supreme Court amended this law to include a "probable cause" requirement under Tennessee v Garner and the Jury wasn't informed of this until 3 months later just before their deliberations, nor even at that time was the difference and relevance of this explained to them clearly.
The misleading information was given to the Grand Jury directly before Darren Wilson's testimony giving the impression that all that was required under the law for Wilson to kill Michael Brown was his belief that he was in danger, without the additional requirement ofprobable cause for such a belief.
The Missouri AG now proclaims that was wrong and the Missouri Law needs to be changed and updated to reflect the Supreme Court's ruling.Continue over the fold to read more.
O'Donnell: The Missouri Attorney General says "The Police Use of Deadly Force Law in Missouri must be changed." in response to my question to the Attorney General he said:
"Among the problems that Ferguson has brought to light is the need to update Missouri's use of deadly force statute. This statute is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's holding in Tennessee v. Garner. Consequently, it is important this statute be amended by the Missouri legislature to incorporate the Garner decision to avoid confusion in the criminal justice system." --Chris Koster, Missouri Attorney General.
O'Donnell: As I have stated on this program there should be no confusion in the criminal justice system because the United States Supreme Court clarified the proper, and legal, and constitutional use of deadly force by police, 29 years ago.
There are two clear possibilities here. Either the St. Louis County District Attorney's Office was aware of this conflict and deliberately attempted to give the Grand Jury a false impression of the law, only to slip in a unclear, unexplained "correction" at the last minute which would be far too weak to override the prevailing impression gained from weeks of testimony which had been reviewed through a jaundiced lens...Or...The St. Louis County and other DA's throughout the state have been regularly misleading juries and grand juries with the mistaken and wrong impression that probable cause is not required for law enforcement before deliberate deadly force can be deployed legally because they just don't know any better.
And worse even still, are Officers walking the streets of Missouri - or other states - also under this incorrect impression that all they need to use deadly force is to "feel threatened"?
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/12/missouri-ag-ferguson-grand-jury-was-misled
POSSIBLE DO-OVER?
The New Republic just died.
Love those copyrights! Dumbass.
Hmmm...is derF slumming again?
S&P 500 ties 1929 with 48 record closing highs...
Wall Street climbs to record highs
By Dave Shellock Wednesday 21:00 GMT.
An encouraging batch of US economic releases helped push the S&P 500 to record closing and intraday highs and the dollar to a five-year peak as the market focus shifted away from volatile oil prices and back to the outlook for global central bank policy.
The US equity benchmark closed 0.4 per cent higher at 2,074, after earlier reaching 2,076.28. The Dow Jones Industrial Average also hit record peaks.
Across the Atlantic, the FTSE Eurofirst 300 rose 0.5 per cent to within sight of its highest close since January 2008. The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo added 0.3 per cent to end at yet another seven-year peak. The dollar, meanwhile, rose 0.3 per cent against a weighted basket of currencies to its best level since March 2009, as the latest economic figures reinforced expectations that US interest rates would start to rise by mid-2015 — while monetary policy remains accommodative elsewhere.
ADP, the private payroll operator, said 208,000 jobs were created in the US last month — fewer than the consensus estimate of 222,000, but enough to keep analysts positive about Friday’s non-farm payrolls report. “Overall, the report continues to run at an above 200,000 pace, which is an unwritten requirement at the Federal Reserve in order to commence monetary tightening,” said Andrew Wilkinson, chief market analyst at Interactive Brokers.
MUCH MORE... http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6548373c-7a9c-11e4-8958-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3KwSvpIt3
C'mon experts, tell me what to think.
Republican psychology explained...
7 Habits of Highly Defective People
By Daniel Tomasulo, Ph.D.
After you have known people for a while, you realize they are defective. They’re cheap, crude, pushy, ignorant, loud, and unattractive. How did this happen? How did people who seemed so elegant and gregarious become the varmint-like creatures you want to avoid? What made them change into the dirty froth of humanity right before your eyes? Believe it or not, science has done some research on this phenomenon.
Highly defective people (HDP) have several common characteristics that reveal themselves over time. Their habits astound and mystify us. They might look different on the outside, but on the inside they are very much alike. They share common attributes that make them a kindred clan. One or two of these traits alone wouldn’t qualify them, but with a cluster of seven, you are in the presence of a HDP. In no particular order, here’s what to look for:
1. Me, me, me.
This is the one person defective people love to talk about. In the June 2013 issue of the Journal of Research in Personality, German researchers discovered that people who refer to themselves more often by using first-person singular pronouns like “I,” “me,” and “myself” are more likely to be depressed than participants who used more pronouns like “we” and “us.” The researchers studied 103 women and 15 men using psychotherapeutic interviews followed by questionnaires about depression. They found that participants who said more first-personal singular words were more depressed.
But wait — there’s more. They were also more likely to be difficult in other ways. They inappropriately self-disclose, constantly seek attention, and have difficulty being alone. (Maybe they don’t like the company.)
2. Bubble-busting.
Shelly Gable and her colleagues are relationship scientists who study the patterns of communication between people. They’ve found that only supportive, encouraging comments celebrating the good news of others is what makes for a solid relationship. They call this active-constructive responding (ACR).
However, one of the communication patterns they looked at is particularly nasty. Active-destructive responders quash any good news they hear from you. Got a raise? “Most of it will be taken out in taxes.” Got a new love? “It’ll never last.” The researchers should have called these folks the Buzz Killers.
3. Materialism.
“Money can’t buy you love, but it can buy almost everything else.” This is the mantra of the materialists. But why are they so unhappy? In the July 2014 issue of Personality and Individual Differences, researcher Jo-Ann Tsang, from Baylor University, and her colleagues asked this question. What they found is interesting: Materialists lack gratitude. They are less satisfied with their lives because they are not focused on what is positive in them. As a result, they can’t get their psychological needs met, and set an unrealistically high expectation of what a new possession will bring. When the expectation isn’t met and the hope for it dashed, the positive feelings drop. Bummer, let’s go buy a Hummer.
4. Pessimism.
The pessimists among us see negative events as permanent, uncontrollable, and pervasive, whereas optimists see negative events as temporary, changeable, and specific to the occasion. Martin Seligman, in his 1990 book, Learned Optimism, explained that pessimistic thinkers generally take negative things to heart.
Since then, there has been much research to back this up. Pessimists explain negative events happening to them as stable, global, and internal: stable meaning they won’t change over time; global in that it reflects their whole life; and internal in that the cause of the event happened because of them. But when good things happen for a pessimist, it is the other way around. It is unstable and will change, it was only in this specific case that the good event could happen, and they don’t believe they had any role in making it come about.
Optimists are exactly the opposite on all three dimensions. For them the glass is always half full. For the pessimist it isn’t just half empty, it’s their fault.
5. They count (and recount) their less-ings.
The focus is on what’s wrong, not on what’s strong. Instead of counting their blessings, highly defective people dwell on the opposite. They ruminate over the negative things in their lives and, as a result, their sense of well-being and physical health suffer.
In 2004 Robert Emmons and M. E. McCullough edited an impressive volume: The Psychology Of Gratitude. Time and time again, the research showed that focusing on what you are grateful for improves your well-being. The November 2014 issue of O: The Oprah Magazine sings the praises of gratitude in its cover story. The problem, of course, is that HDP never read stuff like this.
6. A fixed mindset.
People with a fixed mindset don’t believe they can change. They see themselves as unable to make significant changes in their abilities. Carol Dweck of Stanford University proposed in her 2006 book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, that some people see their innate ability to succeed as fixed, while others believe that hard work, grit, training, and learning can help them achieve success.
Guess who’s right? They both are. As Henry Ford once said, “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
7. Procrastination.
“Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?” might be the mantra of HDP. Since 1997, research on procrastination has demonstrated that while procrastinators might get a short-term benefit from putting things off, the long-term benefit is that they end up feeling worse than those who get on with it. In his 2010 book, Still Procrastinating? The No Regrets Guide to Getting It Done, researcher Joseph Ferrari thinks we should reward people who get things done ahead of time.
In a 2011 paper in Psychological Science, Gráinne Fitzsimons and Eli Finkel report that procrastinators who think their partners will help them with a task are more likely to procrastinate. If you live with a HDP, let the dishes pile up and the garbage overflow. It’s the least you can do to help.
http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/7-habits-highly-defective-people?paging=off¤t_page=1#bookmark
Hmmm...might even explain how/why the major corps are remaining cash-rich rather than expanding their markets. I'm probably all wet - being an old hillbilly and all.
European Nations Repatriate Gold Reserves From United States Vaults
MOSCOW, November 28 (Sputnik), Ekaterina Blinova — Growing concerns over economic stagnation and unprecedented money printing have pushed European nations into repatriating their gold and as well as increasing their gold bullion national reserves.
"The 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath have revived interest in a monetary policy instrument of a bygone era: gold. This trend is especially pronounced in Europe, where central banks face public pressure to buy more gold or bring back home what they hold in vaults overseas," the Wall Street Journal reported.
According to the media source, the Swiss National Bank "could be forced to more than double its gold assets," while selling gold would be restricted. The “Save Our Swiss Gold” campaign is preparing for a vote on November 30, which could require the SNB to repatriate all of its gold reserves from overseas vaults.
The Netherlands has already returned 122 tons of its gold holdings from the US, with the Dutch Central Bank announcing that the decision to repatriate the gold would obviously "have a positive effect on public confidence." Remarkably, in 2012 the Dutch president stated that he didn't consider repatriating gold due to the fact it was "absolutely safe in Manhattan."
The National Front led by Marine Le Pen is urging the French government to return its gold from abroad. Le Pen wrote an open letter to Christian Noyer, governor of the Bank of France, calling for the repatriation of France's gold holdings and asking for an independent organization to be allowed "to audit the country's current holdings of 2,435 metric tons," Kitco News reports. The National Front leader has also recommended the Bank of France increase reserves by 20 percent and "never sell its gold reserves."
Germany's plan to bring its $635 billion worth of gold bullion reserves back was abandoned by the German authorities. "The Americans are taking good care of our gold, we have no reasons for mistrust,” Nobert Barthle, the German Parliament Budget spokesman said as quoted by RT. However, this decision has met heavy criticism from Eurosceptics, who insist that German overseas holdings should be inspected annually, as the Bundesbank does with its reserves in Frankfurt, Hans Olaf Henkel, German member of the European Parliament stressed.
http://sputniknews.com/analysis/20141128/1015267390.html
Yes, the source sucks...but it somewhat verifies other info floating around. Maybe the shorts are finally about to be screwed? If so, that would explain why the market is so damn high in the wrong time of the year.
OPEC Policy Ensures U.S. Shale Crash, Russian Tycoon Says
By Will Kennedy and Jillian Ward Nov 27, 2014 9:04 AM CT
OPEC policy on crude production will ensure a crash in the U.S. shale industry, a Russian oil tycoon said. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries kept output targets unchanged at a meeting in Vienna today even after this year’s slump in the oil price caused by surging supply from U.S shale fields.
American producers risk becoming victims of their own success. At today’s prices of just over $70 a barrel, drilling is close to becoming unprofitable for some explorers, Leonid Fedun, vice president and board member at OAO Lukoil (LKOD), said in an interview in London. “In 2016, when OPEC completes this objective of cleaning up the American marginal market, the oil price will start growing again,” said Fedun, who’s made a fortune of more than $4 billion in the oil business, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. “The shale boom is on a par with the dot-com boom. The strong players will remain, the weak ones will vanish.”
Oil futures in New York plunged as much as 3.8 percent to $70.87 a barrel today, the lowest since August 2010. At the moment, some U.S. producers are surviving because they managed to hedge the prices they get for their oil at about $90 a barrel, Fedun said. When those arrangements expire, life will become much more difficult, he said.
Saudi Arabia
While some OPEC countries including Venezuela pushed for a reduction in output quotas at today’s meeting, Saudi Arabia, the group’s dominant member, argued for the status quo. In Russia, where Lukoil is the second-largest producer behind state-run OAO Rosneft (ROSN), the industry is much less exposed to oil’s slump, Fedun said. Companies are protected by lower costs and the slide in the ruble that lessens the impact of falling prices in local currency terms, he said.
Even so, output in Russia, the biggest producer after Saudi Arabia in 2013, is likely to fall slightly next year as lower prices force producers to rein in investment, Fedun said. “The major strike is against the American market,” Fedun said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-27/opec-policy-ensures-u-s-shale-crash-russian-oil-tycoon-says.html
Grabum sox.
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