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According to the FBI, 33,000 violent street gangs, motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs with about 1.4 million members are criminally active in the U.S. today (Actually 2011 stats; the numbers have been growing since 2009). Many are sophisticated and well organized; all use violence to control neighborhoods. Gangs are responsible for an average of 48 percent of violent crime in most jurisdictions, and up to 90 percent in others.
Things are not helped by Al Sharpton's protest march where the protesters chant: 'WHAT DO WE WANT? DEAD COPS!' What about arresting some of these people for inciting violence and riots?
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He says Proposition 47 has hit law enforcement hard, and says his officers are already seeing the results of the ballot initiative that reduced the penalties for certain offenses.
Can't keep 'em outta the country. Can't keep 'em in jail. Can't shoot 'em. WTF?
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Read long ago about a police district that kept the pictures of the usual offenders on a wall. Basically the same guys committed 99% of all of the crime. The cops knew them but had to let the criminals screw up before they could anything. When a large majority of the guys on the wall were arrested the town was peaceful, when a large number were out it was a war zone.
Yet we police as if everyone is a potential criminal and act as if prison will teach them a lesson. For a gang banger it teaches them solidarity with their gang (which keeps them alive inside) more than anything else.
I'm not sure what the answer is but I would push for bigger max security prisons so nearly everyone could be in solitary. No gangs, no shivs, no rapes, and no cable. You can get any book on a high school or college reading list.
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...now there's a job we can 'farm out' to China. Sort of like the extraordinary rendition that seems to be in favor with either party. I'm sure the Chinese can beat domestic operations on cost (let alone the perps).
When Tarrant, Alabama Police Officer William Stacy was called to the Dollar General store on Saturday, December 6, he wasn’t especially surprised. “We get shoplifting calls at Dollar General all the time,” he tells Yahoo Parenting. “Usually people are stealing things like makeup or phone chargers – not things they need to get by.” To protect and to serve. Not just arrest everyone for everything they get a call on.
So when Stacy arrived to find 47-year-old Helen Johnson stealing eggs to feed her two daughters, her niece, and two young grandkids, he knew this incident was different. Johnson explained to Stacy that her family hadn’t eaten since Thursday. So instead of making an arrest, the officer, 23, bought Johnson a carton of eggs. “When she mentioned the kids and said they were hungry, that’s when I knew I wanted to buy the eggs,” Stacy says. “No matter what financial situation kids are in, it’s not their fault they’re hungry.”
Johnson tried to give Stacy the $1.25 she had in her pocket for the eggs, which cost $1.75 plus tax, but instead he asked only for a promise she wouldn’t shoplift again. Johnson told local news AL.com that she was shocked by the officer’s good deed. “I was like ‘Oh my God, thank you Jesus for this man,” she said. “He is my hero.”
The act of kindness was caught on video by another customer, Robert Tripp, and posted to Facebook, where it was been viewed more than 966,000 times and has received more than 22,000 likes. It has been shared nearly 13,000 times.
After letting Johnson go home, Stacy says his Lieutenant helped her sign up for the Tarrant Fire Department’s Toy Drive, which provides Christmas toys and food for families at the holidays. By that Wednesday, when Stacy returned to work, donations from across the country started pouring in for the Johnson family – a response to the viral video, which Tripp labeled #feelgoodstoryoftheday. “It took an entire shift to take all the stuff to her house and unload it,” Stacy says of the afternoon he spent delivering groceries to the Johnsons . “I’ve taken three Tahoe loads of food to her house, and I know a food bank came to bring her food, and they also got a Christmas tree donated.”
Stacy says he’s hoping this story will inspire people to donate to other hungry families as well. “It’s a rought city to live in,” Stacy says of Tarrant. “There are a lot of people who need food.” Stacy says the Tarrant Police Department is using this opportunity to start a fund to help feed the community as a whole.
On Facebook, users are calling Stacy “an angel in disguise,” but the officer says he was just doing his job. “There’s a real trust issue between law enforcement and citizens right now, but hopefully this shows we are not robots who just want to arrest people,” Stacy says. “We have hearts – you have to have a big heart and clear conscience of mind to do this job.”
Stacy says he still can’t believe the attention the story has gotten, since he didn’t know the interaction was filmed in the first place. “I don’t see myself as a hero. I’m not a big fan of cameras and the spotlight, I just want to do my job, do it the right way, and spend time with friends and family.”
The officer doesn’t have kids of his own, but says his fiancée has a 6-year-old son. “I’ve known him since he was one and I consider him one of mine,” he says. “I know what it’s like to have kids, and it’s tough. It’s the holidays, and I’m glad I could help this family.”
The Tarrant Police Department is still collecting donations for the Johnson family and other local residents. To donate, send checks to:
Tarrant Police Department Charity Fund Or Tarrant Police Department Charity Fund Johnson Family People’s First Credit Union 1140 Ford Ave. Tarrant, AL 35217
[Ynet] It was a heartwarming story for legions of pet owners and animal lovers around the world. Pope Francis, talking to a distraught boy whose pet had died, declared there was a place in heaven for the creatures we share our lives with. His comment was reported this week by many news media outside Italia, with dozens of articles in the United States. It was veritable catnip to social media.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... it turned out the pope had not made the comment.The news stories were apparently based on a misreading of remarks Pope Francis made at his weekly general audience at the Vatican on November 26 and on a comment that a past pope did make several decades ago.
Pope Paul VI, who died in 1978, once said, reportedly while comforting a child whose dog had died, "one day we will see our animals in the eternity of Christ."
"There is a fundamental rule in journalism. That is double-checking, and in this case it was not done," the Vatican's deputy front man, Father Ciro Benedettini, said on Saturday, when asked about how the media ran with the story.
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"There is a fundamental rule in journalism. That is double-checking, and in this case it was not done," the Vatican's deputy front man, Father Ciro Benedettini, said on Saturday,
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I was wondering how they were going to explain the extension of the statement, that by implication there would be mosquitoes, too.
Fleas, ticks, venomous snakes?
(Sounds like a job for SooperJesuit!)
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No, your doggie, goldfish or gerbil may not be in Heaven, the Pope opines, but Che, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot? Prolly, he sez...
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“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
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Weird it's almost like they just made the whole thing up. We'll have to see what happens to the shoddy journalist who wrote the original story. I expect the punishment will be anchoring MSNBCs nightly lineup.
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There's a book out by a Franciscan monk about pets going to heaven. His take was, yes they do. I can't find the book and don't recall the author.
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Open carry sends a message to those around you. Open carry might be a deterrent to thugs. On the other hand, they might target you first if they know you are carrying. Concealed carry should not slow you down if properly concealed/carried. I prefer concealed carry; let the thugs guess about who might be armed and a threat.
I think rules for police should = rules for everyone else.
after all, if you're not following this principle
"To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence."
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Full open carry and concealed carry here in AZ. No permit required. And to the horrors of the left, Anarchy did not prevail. Not mass baby killings, no tea party riots, nothing, just the thugs now thinking twice before committing a crime.
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Open carry is legal here in Virginia. I don't know the requirements for it, other than the requirements for buying the gun.
On the other hand, in VA, a veteran can get a concealed carry permit without any training - just submit your DD214 along with the other paperwork and you're good to go.
Since in my case, my weapons training was over 40 years ago, and I haven't fired any weapon for 10 years, I plan to take a course before I get my permit.
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ROE are still the same for a weapon of any type, gun (concealed or open), chair or spoon.
Reactive self-defense,
reasonable perceived lethality,
force equivalency.
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Concealed carry is better for those carrying, doesn't make you a priority target. Open carry is better for those NOT carrying or criminal who are carrying, keeps them aware that there are armed people in their midst.
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Tut tut, my good man. While pearl grips may look out of place on those plastic poodle-shooters so often favored in this lamentable age, on a vintage firearm they can add a touch of elegance and style.
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Most Virginia cops are pretty laid-back about guns if you don't do something to make them feel threatened. I drove into Capitol Square with my gun stowed in my open glove compartment (keeps it from slipping across the seat), stopped at the guard house to tell them where I needed to go and find out where to park, and the Capitol cop didn't bat an eyelash.
I think you can even carry concealed into the Capitol if you have a permit (though with the idiot leftist governor we have right now, that may no longer be true). The cops know those of us with permits aren't the ones to worry about.
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George C. Scott as Patton; can't find the clip. Fine craftsmanship should be admired.
Open carry in Kansas, other than into schools, gov buildings, and businesses marked otherwise like banks. It is interesting listening to Dodge City passer-throughs lament that not everyone is slinging.
We had something interesting happen a couple years back, I asked a deputy the rules transporting a firearm from vehicle to business without violating any concealed firearm laws. He said, "Just open carry it in."
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There was a bill in the Kansas Congress proposing that any government property which could not be reasonably secured would allow the carrying of a firearm. The University of Kansas (Berkely-on-Kaw) shit a porcupine and IIUC tied up the bill in court.
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Got just the spot to put them- Lurigancho prison, outside Lima. Where 100 guards "control" 10,000 prisoners. With no cells. Rated by Hellhole Daily as the worst prison in the world.
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at least they didn't destroy the Native American culture for a selfie.
Not agreeing that what these idiots did was anything less than the wonton destruction of a world treasure (I'll bet they didn't even 'peep' when the Taliban destroyed the Buddhist statues at Bamiyan Cliffs), but the Portuguese and Spaniards did their own version of indigenous cultural destruction in the search for gold and glory.
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Hell yeah they did. However I want to argue what they did, they were not clowns.
North Korea Sunday put on display an American who had apparently entered the country illegally and who strongly denounced the US political and economic systems. The man identified himself at a press conference in Pyongyang as Arturo Pierre Martinez, aged 29 and from El Paso in Texas, CNN reported.
He entered the North from China in November, according to a North Korean statement cited by the broadcaster, just two days after the US spy chief James Clapper arrived in Pyongyang to secure the release of two other detained Americans.
Martinez had earlier tried to swim across the Han river between the two Koreas to enter the North, only to be caught and sent back to the US where he was placed in a psychiatric hospital, his mother told CNN.
"But he got out," Patricia Eugenia Martinez said, adding her son was bipolar. "He...got the court to let him out and instead of coming home to us he bought a ticket and left for China."
At the press conference Martinez admitted the illegal entry but said he was "extremely grateful" for the North to have pardoned him and to have offered him "the most generous reception", according to CNN. It released images of Martinez obtained from the North's government, showing him wearing a suit and tie and delivering a statement.
The North aired the criticisms by Martinez of his own government at a time when Pyongyang is under growing international pressure to improve its human rights record. The UN Security Council is expected to meet this month on the North's rights record, following a proposal to refer it to the International Criminal Court on possible charges of crimes against humanity.
South Korean troops in September caught a US man trying to swim across the river border with the North but did not disclose his identity. The man, reported to be in his late 20s or early 30s, told Seoul authorities that he had wanted to meet the North's leader Kim Jong-Un, Yonhap news agency reported at the time.
CNN said the legal status of Martinez in the North was unclear. It was not known whether he would be able to leave the country, which has a history of detaining US citizens.
The North in October freed 56-year-old US national Jeffrey Fowle, who was detained after allegedly leaving a Bible in a nightclub bathroom. The following month it freed US missionary Kenneth Bae and another American, 24-year-old Todd Miller, following the secret mission by Clapper. Bae was arrested in November 2012 and later sentenced to 15 years' hard labour after being accused of plotting to overthrow the isolated state's regime. Miller was arrested in April after allegedly ripping up his visa at immigration. He was sentenced to six years' hard labour in September.
At Sunday's press conference Martinez denounced the US government, accusing it of operating like "a Mafia enterprise" plundering other nations.
OPEC won't rush to cut oil production even if prices fall as low as $40 per barrel, one of the cartel's members said Sunday.
I'm sure the Saudis can handle it. Whether Venezuela, Iran and Russia can is another matter...
The energy minister for the United Arab Emirates told Bloomberg at a Dubai conference that the middle eastern oil producers believe "the market will stabilize itself."
"We are not going to change our minds because the prices went to $60 or to $40," Suhail Al-Mazrouei said.
Even as it has watched prices dip, OPEC declined to cut back on production at its November meeting. Some observers had expected a production cut to boost the price of crude.
Oil prices have tumbled 40% this year and are now trading below $60 per barrel, a five-year low. Gas prices have come down, too -- the U.S. nationwide average was $2.60 on Sunday. In some parts of the country, gas is below $2.
Lower energy prices are good news for consumers and some sectors of the economy, but they are not without victims. Plunging prices have been blamed for stock market turmoil, and some oil producers are concerned. Some have begun cutting back on spending and staff, and the U.S. shale industry is worried OPEC is trying to kill off its profitability.
Now commence all the hand-wringing...
How low can oil go? That's the question many are asking. A recent survey of investment strategists by CNNMoney found most believe the price of crude will rebound in the new year and round out 2015 at $74.
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Me thinks the floor price of oil is about $35 a barrel.
The $100+ oil prices are a bubble unsupportable by economics. The speculators drove up the price of oil. When it costs a country less than $5 a barrel to deliver it to Andover, Delaware, $75 a barrel is a lot of profit.
Hopefully this pressure from Canada and the US oil production will kill off OPEC rather than vice versa.
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Before the oil crisis and embargo of the early 1970's Light Sweet Crude was selling for under $4.00 per barrel. I wouldn't attempt to put a temporary bottom on it just yet.
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The House of Saud is trying to explain to the west that it is necessary to include what the Saudis want into economic calculations, and don't think just because you've reached self-sufficiency that you can uncouple from their little operation.
The pusher always wins.
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Spot on Ed. They've [Soodies and others] leveraged a highly effective over-pricing scheme for decades, and look at the Federal and State tax revenues it has produced. No, I doubt the scheme will somehow quietly go away.
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They are riding this out hoping to drive the shale and US exploration into mothballs. We are in an interesting strategic game between the western oil companies and OPEC. If OPEC decides to reduce production we have won the oil wars. This is their last chance fight to maintain control of the world market.
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Nothing says it has to be House Saud that reaps the wealth from Arabian oil. Wink Wink.
Enterprise Products Partners is shelving a proposed pipeline that would have transported crude from North Dakota to Oklahoma, the company announced on Friday.
The news came in the midst of a brutal slide in global oil prices that have raised concerns about whether U.S. companies will continue to build on the expansion of oil production. Middle East oil producers have yet to announce a cut in production to offset the drop in crude, in what some analysts say is a slow-bleed strategy designed to make pumping crude as uneconomic as possible for the world's fastest growing non-OPEC oil producer.
Enterprise Products—a publicly traded partnership designed to provide financing on oil and gas infrastructure projects — said in a terse statement that investors had "decided not to move forward with development of its proposed Bakken to Cushing crude oil pipeline."
Commitments from potential partners "were not sufficient to support the project," Enterprise Products added. The company did not immediately respond to an inquiry from CNBC on whether the project's closure was related to the drop in oil prices and other factors.
Meanwhile in the NE USA, electric rates are very high and promise to go much higher, while the NIMBYists there refuse to allow construction of pipelines and LNG facilities to bring in more natural gas to feed their electrical generation systems.
I'd build the pipeline now even though prices are low. You have to play the long game. By the time the pipeline is ready prices will have rebounded. Labor will be a little cheaper if the economy slows. And it makes sense to push oil from the north to the refineries; refineries have to stay busy.
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It would be best to play the long game, but I strongly suspect the players are in debt up their wazoos &/or have to borrow money from somewhere to pay for this.
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New England Electricity Prices Spike As Gas Pipelines Lag
Some electricity customers in New Hampshire are in for a shock this winter. Numerous utilities across New England have announced electricity rates that are some of the highest in the history of the continental United States. And it’s a problem that’s expected to get worse before it gets better.
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“In New England, this winter, based on what’s been recently trading, is likely to have the highest natural gas prices on planet earth,” Taff Tschamler, chief operating officer of energy supplier North American Power, told an energy conference this fall. That’s traders hedging against another winter as cold as last year.
According to Competitive Energy Services, a private energy consulting firm, Gas for January delivery is trading at nearly $19 per million BTUs. In Japan, which relies entirely on imported gas and often has the world's highest prices, gas is forecast to cost less than $18 this winter.
There’s no doubt that New England gas demand has outstripped pipeline supply, and the market is responding.
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“What I think we’re hoping for is that the good lord who protects drunks and the United States, will also protect New England,” said Peter Brown, an energy attorney with the law firm Preti-Flaherty, at this fall’s energy conference.
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Sounds more like the Teamsters and railroad unions got to them.
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I'll go with the moderator pink comment. High priced oil will one day return. It's not for nothing that we've been trained to $3.50 per gallon gasoline.
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If all of this energy sadness comes to it, for the sake of political correctness, can we refer to 'black outs' or 'brown outs' as simply.... Previously Lit Areas (PLA)? Comments and input from RU faculty welcome.
We expect prices to remain unpredictable and
volatile in coming weeks and months. Prices could
fall further, and investors should be prepared for that.
However, prices could also turn and move higher if
any of the factors previously noted begin to reverse or if there is a major geopolitical event that alters or just scares markets.
We expect oil prices will soon bottom and begin a
slow recovery in 2015. Low oil prices will help the global economy, resulting in both demand rising and the U.S. dollar depreciating back toward prior levels. This in turn should help push prices up, although likely at a gradual pace.
Supply will not likely respond in the nearer term. Oil producers tend to not make sudden changes in activity due to prices moving up or down. We expect supply to be curtailed materially only if we see continued weakness into 2015. Even then, most capital-spending cuts will have limited impact as reductions will likely be focused more on natural gas, exploration and project expansions before anything associated with current production.
What Is Our Long-term Oil Price Outlook?
Our longer-term outlook is for both WTI (main U.S.
price) and Brent (main international price) to typically be in the range of $75-$95 per barrel the majority of the time, although they will be above and below at times. We expect prices to remain below this range through at least 2015. We expect WTI to average about $5 less than Brent, comparable to its current discount.
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Warren Buffett and his boys (Obama, Soros) do NOT want pipelines built - it hurst Buffett's railroads, and it makes sure gas stays abundant and cheap and widely distributed (Something Soros and his sock puppet Obama dont want).
Non-WoT until we have a reason to move the story elsewhere.
[Ynet] Norwegian police said Sunday they have warned politicians about possible eavesdropping of cellphone calls after several listening devices were reportedly found in central Oslo, including near government buildings and Parliament.
Siv Alsen from the security police said the National Security Authority has begun an investigation, but could not provide more information pending the agency's report.
Espionage "has been high" in Norway for several years and police have told politicians to be on their guard, Alsen told the The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
Her comments followed media reports that illegal listening and tracking devices were found in fake mobile base stations, which could be used to monitor calls and data, as well as trace the movement of people in the area.
Curious. I seem to recall that we had a similar problem of fake mobile base stations here, not too long ago. And that there was no follow up attributing them to a particular party.
Turkish police on Sunday launched a sweeping operation to arrest dozens of supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's rival, US-exiled imam Fethullah Gulen, including a raid on the offices of the Zaman daily, which is close to the cleric.
I and my brother against my cousin: check. Now it must be I against my brother, and so it is.
The operation came just two days after Erdogan signalled a new crackdown against the supporters of Gulen, who Erdogan blamed for orchestrating a corruption probe almost exactly a year ago against members of his inner circle.
Counter-terror police conducted early morning raids in 13 cities across Turkey, including Istanbul, and detained at least 14 people including a top executive, producers and directors of a television channel close to Gulen, the state-run Anatolia news agency said.
Arrest warrants were issued for a total of 32 people, including Ekrem Dumanli, the chief editor of Zaman, the country’s top selling newspaper.
A huge crowd gathered outside the offices of Zaman on the outskirts of Istanbul, forcing the police to leave the building without detaining any newspaper employees.
"The free press cannot be silenced," the crowd chanted, as Dumanli defiantly addressed them, challenged the police to come and detain him.
No one protests to leave the New York Times editors be...
As in almost all the previous raids -- which targetted mostly police officers -- the details of the swoop were leaked by a mysterious Twitter user named Fuat Avni before it was even carried out.
Last week Fuat Avni warned his supporters that police were set to detain some 400 people, including 150 journalists. Late Saturday, he went on to publish the names of those journalists, some of whom were among those rounded up. The government has repeatedly tried to shut down Fuat Avni's Twitter account but the user simply moves to another address.
The swoop was the latest in a series of raids since July against Gulen supporter as the government cracks down on what Erdogan has described as a "parallel state" within the security forces seeking to topple his government.
It came a year after a vast corruption scandal probe was launched on December 17, 2013 that saw dozens of leading businessmen and political figures close to Erdogan, including the sons of three ministers, detained. Erdogan managed to stall the investigation by sacking thousands of police and scores of judges and pushing through laws tightening state control over the judiciary and the Internet.
The president on Friday signalled a new crackdown against Gulen supporters, saying he would "pursue them in their lairs".
"I want my dear nation to know that we are not just faced with a simple network, but one which is a pawn of evil forces at home and abroad," he said.
"We will go into their lairs again. Whoever is beside them and behind them, we will bring down this network and bring it to account," he added.
Gulen, 73, is the spiritual leader of a movement which controls media outlets, schools and culture centres and was a key backer of Erdogan before falling out with him over the government’s plans to shut down his schools. His Hizmet movement has denied being behind the corruption probe.
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So no football, Final Four and so on unless Uncle Sugar rides to the rescue, huh? Comcast/NBC, relentless basher of the Pubs, now needs the Pubs to vote through the deal so as to save their network and advertising revenue?
Okay, Mr. Chairman of Comcast, what's it worth to you?
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Who thinks that if they held the superbowl anyway, without the Gov't insurance "partnership", and something were to happen, that the Gov't wouldn't bail everyone out anyway. Seems moot.
#9
Those NFL owners also expect taxpayers in their cities to build new stadiums. It's a sweet deal if they can bamboozle the rubes into going for it. But, aside from bowling and tiddlywinks, what else is there to watch on TV?
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They can play the game without fans in the stands and still broadcast. Or they can pay for their own insurance for the events; after 13 years of non-major terrorist events and lots of premiums paid I would think rates have gotten reasonable.
I thought having Katie Perry perform at half-time could be a bigger threat, but 'Oh Well'.
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Ok - so how many 'regular people' have tickets to the Super Bowl? Seriously. Aren't the tickets very expensive - that is if you can find any.
If they (the NFL and owners) can afford to pay players tens of millions to essentially provide entertainment. I think they can afford the insurance coverage and/or security.
At least if the Feds have to pay part of the insurance we should get a piece of the profit.
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I take back what I said earlier; we usually go out to eat while the Bowl is on. You can get a good table without waiting. Just stay away from places with TV's in them.
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@#14: Thanks Ed! Good tip.
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3.5Milyuhn became 4.3Milyuhn became 5.3Milyuhn became 6.3Milyuhn illegal immigrants, now back down to a mere 5.0 Milyuhn.
OOOPPSSS, my bad, forgot it was 9.3Milyuhn for a few days.
But whose counting ...???
* FYI DRUDGEREPORT > [Examiner.com] [US] CENSUS: WHITES TO BECOME "MINORITY" IN 2044, HISPANIC POPULATION TWICE BLACKS.
A favorite word of sanctimonious moonbats is “fairness,” so it isn’t surprising that Obama has applied the liberal concept of fairness to his unconstitutional amnesty decree:
As the debate rages on Capitol Hill about how to defund President Obama’s executive action that gives legal status to 5 million illegal immigrants, it’s important to take a look at where the funding for his new amnesty program is coming from.
The funding for Obama’s executive action is coming through the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, a fee, not tax based agency under the jurisdiction of Homeland Security. Because the USCIS is a fee based agency, many have argued Congress cannot defund it.
Who pays this fee? Law-abiding immigrants of the type who are likely to contribute to American society instead of sponging off welfare.
On average legal immigrants wait ten years to fully obtain citizenship (and only after they’ve had a green card for five years) and they must pay thousands of dollars to USCIS in the process. Again, that money is now being used to give millions of illegal immigrants a free, expedited pass to legal status. Adding insult to injury, millions of green cards for illegals means longer wait times for legal immigrants.
In a kakistocracy, authorities do not encourage playing by the rules.
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Not to mention that if LEGAL immigrants get welfare or any means-based assistance then the Sponsors are on the hook to reimburse the government for it. The sponsors have to sign an affidavit of support saying they will support the immigrant for 10 years after they find work.
Who is the 'sponsor' for the illegals? The taxpayer - most of whom did not want amnesty granted.
Illegal aliens will get funding for Obamacare - Legal immigrants - not so much.
Personally I think after we get someone decent in Washington they should seize and sell the private property of every elected official who voted for this to pay off their 'sponsor' obligations - including their pensions. Yeah... I can dream can't I?
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Because the USCIS is a fee based agency, many have argued Congress cannot defund it.
Then it's a tax and by the former constitution, only the legislative branch can raise and levy taxes. (A little squabble with a couple English kings established that basic tenet of Anglo-American governance)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
When Tarrant, Alabama Police Officer William Stacy was called to the Dollar General store on Saturday, December 6, he wasn’t especially surprised. “We get shoplifting calls at Dollar General all the time,” he tells Yahoo Parenting. “Usually people are stealing things like makeup or phone chargers – not things they need to get by.”
[Ynet] It was a heartwarming story for legions of pet owners and animal lovers around the world. Pope Francis, talking to a distraught boy whose pet had died, declared there was a place in heaven for the creatures we share our lives with. His comment was reported this week by many news media outside 
OPEC won't rush to cut oil production even if prices fall as low as $40 per barrel, one of the cartel's members said Sunday.
A favorite word of sanctimonious moonbats is “fairness,” so it isn’t surprising that Obama has applied the liberal concept of fairness to his unconstitutional amnesty decree:
