Month: September 2013

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NBA Sports

NBA Player Jailed on Domestic Abuse Charge

Oklahoma City Thunder guard DeAndre Liggins has been jailed on domestic abuse complaints, according to Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office records.

He was taken to the Oklahoma County jail. He is being held on complaints of domestic assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and domestic abuse in the presence of a minor, a jail official said.

Oklahoma City police were called at about 4:40 p.m. to the 2300 block of NW 180th near North Pennsylvania Avenue. An official police incident report is not yet available, Lt. Arthur Gregory said.

“From what I understand it was a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship,” Gregory said. “And I don’t know who the child was, if it was theirs, her’s or his.”

Liggins averaged 1.5 points and 1.4 rebounds in 39 games with the Thunder last season, his first in OKC. He is on a non-guaranteed contract for the upcoming season. Training camp begins in late September.

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News

Florida Shooting: Mother and 17 Month-old Child Dead

Sarah Harnish and Josephine Boice

Police in Florida are investigating a Sunday shooting that left a 35-year-old woman and her 1-year-old daughter dead.

The Herald-Tribune reported that Sarasota police responded to a 911 call at around 9:45 a.m. on Sunday morning and discovered that 35-year-old Sarah Harnish had died of a gunshot wound. The woman’s 17-month-old daughter, Josephine Boice, later died at All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg.

Police said that the child’s father had gone for a ride on his scooter and returned to the sound of gunfire. Detectives concluded that the mother shot the child and then herself.

“Investigators are still trying to piece it all together,” Sarasota Police spokesperson Genevieve Judge told the Herald-Tribune. “We’re treating it as a shooting investigation and a death investigation.”

Authorities had not released information about the type of handgun or a motive for the shooting

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North Korea Tid Bits

Dennis Rodman Back in North Korea.

And he swears his trip has nothing to do with requesting the freedom of Kenneth Bae, an imprisoned missionary whose health has deteriorated recently.

The former basketball star Dennis Rodman returned Tuesday to North Korea, where he plans “to see my friend” Kim Jong-un, the dictator whose country until recently was threatening to annihilate the United States with nuclear weapons.

Mr. Rodman said in Beijing that he was planning a five-day visit to the North but played down speculation that he would try to secure the release of Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American Christian missionary who has been jailed there since late last year after being detained on North Korean soil.

“I’m not going to North Korea to discuss freeing Kenneth Bae,” Mr. Rodman, a Basketball Hall of Fame member, told Reuters in a telephone interview. “I’m just going there on another basketball diplomacy tour.”

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Politics Syria

Professor Says Attacking Syria is a War Crime

Professor Noam Chomsky says even with congressional approval, an attack on Syria without UN support is a war crime.

“As international support for Obama’s decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world,” Chomsky told HuffPost in an email.

Chomsky recently traveled to the region to learn more about the Syria crisis, and his comments there led some to believe he was open to military intervention if negotiations failed to produce peace. “I believe you should choose the negotiating track first, and should you fail, then moving to the second option” — backing the rebels — “becomes more acceptable,” he said.

But his comments to HuffPost indicate that he remains opposed to any military action that came without U.N. approval.

“[T]hat aggression without UN authorization would be a war crime, a very serious one, is quite clear, despite tortured efforts to invoke other crimes as precedents,” he added.

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dancing Politics

Bill de Blasio and Family Get Funky At West Indian Day Parade

New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio, his wife Chirlane (right) and son (left) sporting that now famous Afro, shows off their moves at the West Indian Day Parade.

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Anthony Weiner Politics

Anthony Weiner Tries to Sound West Indian at Labor Day Parade – Video

Labor Day Parade in Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn New York is one of the biggest, if not the biggest parade in the nation. The event usually pull participants and onlookers from all over the world.

But the parade is also known primarily as a West Indian event, with millions of people representing just about all the Caribbean islands. And with that fact,  the parade is known to attract politicians seeking office.

And Anthony Weiner was there. No, not the Anthony Weiner you know. No, this Anthony Weiner was apparently born in one of the West Indian islands. From his accent, I cannot really tell which island he’s from, but it sounds Trinidadian.

Can you tell?

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Politics Syria

McCain and Graham on Syria – President Must Make Strong Case to Congress

(AP) — Two Republican foreign policy hawks say President Barack Obama must make a strong case for attacking Bashar Assad’s Syria if he wants to win congressional backing for the operation.

Sen. John McCain tells reporters at the White House that Obama’s intervention now will be more difficult because Assad “is moving his forces around.” Both McCain and Sen. Lindsey Graham questioned the wisdom of the administration publicly signaling in advance its intention to strike.

The GOP senators, who often speak with the same voice on foreign affairs, talked in the White House driveway Monday after a private meeting with Obama.

McCain said he believes lawmakers awaiting a critical vote on Syria “must be assured that this is different from the past two years of neglect” on the part of the administration.

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Politics

Happy Labor Day – Here’s The World’s Largest Free Flying American Flag – PIC

It was unveiled today by the Port Authority Police, in honor of Labor Day. It’s displayed prominently over the George Washington Bridge, leading from New York to New Jersey.

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dead Sports

Tommy “The Duke” Morrison Dead At The Age of 44

Tommy Morrison, the hard-punching heavyweight with boy-band good looks who once beat George Foreman and later starred in the Rocky franchise before falling ill in recent years — all the while denying he was HIV positive — died on Sunday at a hospital in Nebraska. Morrison, who was nicknamed “The Duke,” was 44.

Morrison’s death was confirmed by his wife, Trisha to the mixed martial arts website, “MMA Dirty,” which reported he died of “respiratory and metabolic acidosis and multiple organ failure.” His death was also confirmed by Morrison’s long-time promoter, Tony Holden to the Associated Press.

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Featured

One Year Old Shot In Head and Killed In Brooklyn

This is not a political story, but I can’t help but think that Republicans and the NRA would maintain their same ole lame story – guns are not a problem.

A 1-year-old Brooklyn boy was killed by a bullet that had his father’s name on it, police sources said.

Antiq Hennis was nestled in his stroller Sunday night, just inches from his parents, when the shot pierced his head just a block from the family’s Riverdale Ave. home, cops and witnesses said.

The child’s father Anthony Hennis — the intended target, according to law enforcement sources and family members — was unharmed but distraught after the bullets started flying at Bristol St. near Livonia Ave. in Brownsville at 7:20 p.m.

“He was screaming ‘My baby got shot.’ He was going crazy,” said Gina Gamboa, 22, who saw the dad seconds after Antiq was mortally wounded. “The baby was breathing, but his eyes were closed. It’s crazy. They just will start shooting.”

At least four shots rang out. The tragic tot was the only person hit.

Little Antiq was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital with a bullet hole in the left side of his head, cops said.

He died at the hospital shortly before 9 p.m.

“He just started walking. He was vibrant. He was full of life,” said the baby’s great-uncle, Chris Dobson. “I can’t believe it.”

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Politics

President Obama’s Labor Day Message – Video

Making sure the economy works for all Americans, not just a select few.

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Education Food And Recipes

Shocking Facts about Sugar

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