The Saudi-registered Embraer Phenom 300 jet was attempting to land at Blackbushe airport..when it crashed.....it was carrying three relatives of Osama Bin Laden. They were named as Rajaa Hashim, Osama’s stepmother; Sana Bin Laden, his half-sister, and her husband Zuhair Hashim....It is the third time members of the Bin Laden family have been killed in a plane crash. Mohammed bin Laden, Osama’s father, was killed when his Beechcraft 18 crashed in Saudi Arabia in 1967 while on his way to marry his 23rd wife.
First the medicine. Sandra Bland reported to the arresting officer and to the jail booking people that she had epilepsy. Epileptic attacks are reported by epileptics to increase in frequency and severity when a person with the condition is under stress. Why is still unknown. See Stress and Epilepsy.
The Pentagon said on Thursday the United States would deliver 2,000 AT-4 anti-tank rockets to Iraq as early as next week, 1,000 more than announced on Wednesday, to help Baghdad combat suicide car bombings by Islamic State. Since the Iraqi Army routinely abandons, sells or loses track of weapons why do I think ISIS is applauding this move?
I am not a fan of gun battles like the recent biker shootout in Waco, but they may be an inevitable, and possibly legal occurrence in a 'stand your ground' state. The first biker to threaten another biker or his property with harm, if found, may have broken the law.
After that initial disturbance, a chain of 'stand your ground' actions, self-defense actions seem to have occurred. It is legal under Texas law, see below, to use lethal force to protect yourself, other threatened persons, or property. There is no requirement in the law to back down or retreat, anywhere, even a public place.
Clayton Homes, owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, makes more mobile home loans than any competitor by a factor of six....operates under at least 18 names, leading many buyers to think they’re shopping around...lends at interest rates that can top 15 percent, and often adds thousands in fees to borrowers’ loans....Clayton customers report deceptive and predatory deals including loan terms that changed abruptly....To maintain its down-to-earth image, Clayton has hired the stars of the reality TV show Duck Dynasty to appear in ads.
'Rough ride?" take a look at the NYT map of where Gray was picked up, and where the police station is, and note the cops made 4 stops while driving in a circle around town...The slang terms mask a dark tradition of police misconduct in which suspects, seated or lying face down and in handcuffs in the back of a police wagon, are jolted and battered by an intentionally rough and bumpy ride that can do as much damage as a police baton without an officer having to administer a blow.... and BTW it is against Baltimore PD procedures to NOT buckle in a suspect, Gray was not put into a sea
'Do as I say not as I do'. Rand's 22 year old son has been arrested multiple times for crimes including assault. In RandWorld it's the black fathers who are to blame for their kids criminal behavior, in his own sons case he won't talk about it. It also seems Rand's own purportedly Presidential quality morals have failed to make any difference with his own offspring.
Former Iraqi military officers and Baathists exploit Jihad, and control ISIS across Iraq and Syria. The shadowy figures send foreign fighters out to die while they run the terrorist organization with utmost secrecy. The blanket exclusion of the Baath from power they were accustomed to by the US and Shiite government, and firing of the Army by order of Paul Bremer and GW Bush, led to the formation of ISIS.
Judging from comments around the web, the usual non-reality based right wing segment of the country is up in arms about AG Holder and the DOJ reports on the investigation of the Ferguson Police Department and the DOJ exoneration of former Officer Darren Wilson, who killed Michael Brown last summer. Wilson was found not to have violated the civil rights of Brown in shooting him down in the street and Wilson will face no federal charges whatsoever.
The murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov: “The investigation is considering several versions,” the statements said. The first it listed was: “a murder as a provocation to destabilize the political situation in the country, where the figure of Nemtsov could have become a sort of sacrificial victim for those who stop at nothing to achieve their political goals.” Putin has said he will "personally oversee" the investigation.
GOP Anti-vaxxer: Rep. Barry Loudermilk, a Georgia Republican.....chair of a key congressional subcommittee on science and technology...responding to a woman who asked whether he'd be looking into...if the (CDC) had covered up information linking vaccines to autism. He responded with a rather unscientific personal anecdote: "I believe it's the parents' decision whether to immunize or not…Most of our children, we didn't immunize.
Rudy say Obama doesn't love America. I say Guiliani loves himself more than America. Rudy goes on to say he isn't a racist because Obama's Mom was White. I say if Guiliani was in a White lynch mob in 1948, and the guy with the rope around his neck pleaded 'My Mom was White!', Rudy wouldn't hold up the lynching for a New York nanosecond.
Republicans are always imagining crazy stuff....Ebola plague ships...vaccines rotting your brains...... Senator Tillis, (R-NC), imagines eliminating laws restaurant workers must wash hands after toilet visits. It's a "regulatory burden". Just have a law restaurants post a sign saying if they wash their hands or not. GOP logic. Choice! ..Marketplace Magic!..but.. isn't the sign posting law also a burden..and...if not legally required will the serfs have to buy their own soap..?
There is no fear Republicans will not incite, no ignorance they will not exploit and no deception, fabrication or figment of their imagination they will not use to rile up The Base or anyone they can hit on for a vote, on topics they have no knowledge or business pontificating upon.
From Kindergarten, and on up, school open carry and aiming of a toy gun, a carrot, or a pastry at school mates or a teacher will be legal and unpunished in Texas. Gun advocates and the NRA would say "it's about time!" Teaching 5 year olds that aiming guns, even toy guns, at people is bad may confuse impressionable youngsters in use of real weapons at home.
As they clutch at their American Sniper movie tickets, the right is in a tizzy over Michael Moore, the guy who accurately revealed the real motives behind the Iraq War, a job that our mainstream corporate media failed to do, in his 2004 movie Fahrenheit 9/11. Moore is now showing disdain for the hero of the right's favorite movie. Moore says:
My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse...“I tried to save more lives than a sniper ever could hope to — by preventing us from going to war in the first place,” he said. “So, Fox News and the other lazy media — quit making s**t up about me! You look ridiculous.”
If you thought the nutjobs of the right could go no further in their quest for inanity, insanity and claiming their personal and Constitutionally protected freedumbs are at risk, a gay hating Bible thumping zealot in Colorado has sued a baker for her refusal to put anti-gay graffitti on his Bible shaped cakes. She would provide him with the icing so he could write his own, but he has sued claiming an abuse of his religious freedumb.
