A mentally disturbed gentleman was really on the hot seat Friday morning. He sat down on a protective board covering the electrified third rail at the Utica Ave. subway station station on the C line in Brooklyn Friday morning — and refused to get up, authorities said.
Transit workers had to shut off electricity to the third rail in the area for nearly an hour and C trains skipped several stations. The C locals went express between Broadway Junction and Hoyt/Schermerhorn St.
Power was cut at about 9:30 a.m. and restored at approximately 10:25 a.m. when the man either was removed or agreed to leave his perch. He was taken to Kings County Hospital, authorities said.
The third rail 600 volts of electricity to propel trains.
Imagine that. A Republican finally told the truth about why they shut down the government, bringing our economy to a halt.
Apparently – and this is from their own mouth – they don’t want to be “disrespected,” and they will keep the government and the economy down until they get… “something.”
The Republican, Rep. Marlin Stutzman of Indiana admits he has no idea what that “something” is, but the government will stay down until that “something” shows itself.
For many of us, to remember the last time Republicans shut down the federal government is to think of then-Speaker Newt Gingrich. Specifically, the far-right Georgian admitted in November 1995 that he closed the government in part because President Clinton hurt his feelings on Air Force One — the president didn’t chat with Gingrich during an overseas flight and then made the Speaker exit at the rear of the plane.
It was a moment that captured the entire fiasco quite beautifully. A petulant, out-of-control Republican leader shut down the government largely to spite the president who made him feel bad.
We don’t yet know if a similar moment will come to define this Republican shutdown, but I’d like to nominate this gem as an early contender.
“We’re not going to be disrespected,” conservative Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., added. “We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is.”
Go ahead, Republicans, tell us another one about how the shutdown is Democrats’ fault.
OMG! Adobe has just disclosed that one of their servers has been hacked.
Although investigations are still ongoing, the company is sharing details on what they believe could have been accessed. It’s pretty huge!
Seems like the hackers have obtained encrypted data for as many as 2.9 million customers, and while Adobe stresses that the data is encrypted and that they “do not believe the attackers removed decrypted credit or debit card numbers”, that data — encrypted or not — is definitely not something they want to be floating around in the matrix. Neither do Adobe’s 2.9 million customers.
Adobe has yet to disclose how that data was encrypted, so it’s currently unclear just how secure anything really is at this point.
New York City councilwoman Letitia James, from Brooklyn and with strong ties to labor unions, has won a Democratic primary runoff for public advocate on Tuesday. This victory makes her all but certain to become the first African-American woman to hold citywide office.
Since there is no Republican candidate, Ms. James will almost definitely be elected to succeed Bill de Blasio, the public advocate and Democratic nominee for mayor.
With 99% of precincts reporting, Ms. James, 54, defeated Daniel L. Squadron, 33, a state senator from Brooklyn and Manhattan, by winning 59.4% of the vote. Squadron won 40.6% of the vote.
Tuesday at her campaign headquarters, councilwoman’s James gave her acceptance speech, stating:
“I am humbled to join you tonight and announce that we have won this campaign and we are on to the Office of New York City Public Advocate. I ran for Public Advocate because all my life I have seen New Yorkers persevere and I’ve seen the role that government can play in helping uplift working people. As someone who comes from humble beginnings, I’ve experienced it myself. My father was a janitor and my mother cleaned offices. The opportunities I was given and the family, faith, and community that stood behind me, helped me make it. And today, you elected me the first woman of color to hold city-wide office in OUR city.”
LITTLE KNOWN FACTOID: The public advocate is first in line to succeed the mayor if that office suddenly becomes vacant. One of three citywide positions, the office serves as a watchdog on municipal government and has the power to review city agencies and issue reports. Ms. James would be the fourth Democrat to serve in the office since it was created in the early 1990s.
She has defiantly stood her ground against critics following her controversial MTV VMAs performance.
And Miley Cyrus is clearly enjoying the attention – so much so that she’s taken her racy behaviour a step further.
The 20-year-old is seen simulating sex in a shocking new Terry Richardson shoot released Thursday, as she swiped back at Sinead O’Connor’s open letter pleading with her not to let the music industry ‘make a prostitute’ of her.
The images are unashamedly pornographic in nature, showing the former child star in a series of overtly sexual poses, wearing next to nothing.
In a number of pictures, she wears a tiny leotard that barely covers the lower part of her body, featuring a G-string in the back, and a not much thicker strap in the front.
In one shot, she leans against a wall with her hand while fondling herself; in another, she pulls the front of the leotard so high that she exposes half her crotch.
Miley also sticks out her tongue – her now signature move – while holding a beer can suggestively in her groin area.
Well, it was starting to feel as if this day would never come, but the highly anticipated Scandal has returned!
I remained spoiler free for the debut episode of Season 3, so I went into tonight’s show with no idea what to expect for the Season Premiere.
I’m going to keep this one brief as I’m way too excited just to have the show back on my TV screen again.
But to make sure Scandal has returned back to its scandalous levels of drama, I made a list to see if the Season Premiere measures up to what we’ve come to expect from this over-the-top Scandalmania.
Let’s begin shall we:
WTF moments such as Daddy Dearest heading B613 and all 3 players in the love triangle (Olivia, President Grant, and Mellie) working together to resolve the affair for the media-hungry – Check
President Grant still in love/lusting over Olivia Pope – Check
Huck and Harrison coming to the rescue and being their regular Captain-Save-a-WHORE-Olivia selves – Check
The obligatory It’s been handled (hee!) – Check
Mellie’s ever plotting and running around the White House – Check
Olivia making an appearance on the Best Dressed List (She was rockin’ that white coat) – Check
Olitz still steaming up my TV screen up with their red hot chemistry- Cheeeeck
Cyrus and his wondrous one-liners, The Lord didn’t fill out his voter registration card!! Oh Cyrus, you devil you – Check
Discovering President Fitzgerald “Fitz” Grant III (yes, him) was the one to leak Olivia Pope’s name to the media??? – Double Whammy Check
And of course a cliff-hanger ending that only leads to more questions – What exactly is in that folder??? – %#$^% CHECK!
Oh, and I must give props to Daddy Pope. He was bringing it with the,
First Lady?? First Lady?? Do you have to be SO mediocre??
And let’s not forget,
You’ll get on that plane over hell or high water. And let me be clear that I am hell AND high water.
Daaang Daddy.
He was reading Olivia Pope all episode long. Now we know where she gets it from…. – Check
President Obama’s already shortened trip to Asia was canceled Thursday, the White House calling it a casualty of the government shutdown.
Obama had been scheduled to leave Washington Saturday to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Indonesia, and the East Asia Summit in Brunei.
“The President made this decision based on the difficulty in moving forward with foreign travel in the face of a shutdown, and his determination to continue pressing his case that Republicans should immediately allow a vote to reopen the government,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney in a statement. “Secretary [Of State John] Kerry will lead delegations to both countries in place of the President.”
The White House announced last month that Obama would take a four-nation, seven-day tour that also was to include stops in Malaysia and the Philippines. Earlier this week, the White House had canceled those two legs of the trip because of the shutdown of parts of the federal government, which began Tuesday morning.
The highlight of the trip was to have been Obama’s participation in the APEC meeting. But several published reports had said Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin also might use the trip for a one-on-one discussion on the situation in Syria.
The White House said Obama personally called the leaders of Indonesia and Brunei to deliver the news. Carney said Obama hoped to return to Southeast Asia “at a later date.”
It takes real balls to orchestrate a government shutdown, then blame the people who are implementing your shutdown. That was exactly the case on Wednesday, when a Texas Republican, Rep. Randy Neugebauer, appeared at The World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Neugebauer was shocked! Shocked I say, that a park service ranger did her job and tried to implement the shutdown at the Memorial. According the rules governing the shutdown, non-essential government employees must be furloughed, and some of these so-called non-essential workers are employed to keep the Memorial opened.
“You should be ashamed of yourself,” Neugebauer said, his face filled with scorn for the unsuspecting ranger. The ranger answered that she wasn’t ashamed, but Neugubauer insisted, she should be!
On Twitter, the Republicans are calling this “more campaigning.” But whatever they think it is, President Obama is darn good at it. Today in Maryland, the President took his show on the road and informed the American people of the recent Republican government shutdown, and the simple process Republicans should take to bring the government back.
A dental hygienist from Connecticut was the female driver who tried to ram her car into a White House barricade and was shot dead near the US Capitol after a high-speed chase through Washington streets Thursday afternoon, law enforcement sources told The Post.
Sources said Miriam Carey, who formerly lived in Brooklyn, was licensed to practice in New York and Connecticut and had a permit to work as a hygienist in Connecticut prisons.
At least a dozen gunshots were fired when she tried to flee cops, who had trapped her two blocks from the Capitol. She was believed to have been hit several times.
A child believed to be a girl about 2 or 3 years old was found unhurt in her black Infiniti sedan, which had Connecticut license plates.
Authorities had no immediate explanation of the woman’s motive. But Capitol Police chief Kim Dine told reporters there was no reason to believe it was an act of terrorism “or anything other than an isolated incident.”
ABC News said the 34-year-old woman had a history of mental health issues. A task force of FBI and Secret Service agents was executing a search warrant at her Connecticut home, CNN said.
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