In Utah, the law allows teachers to carry concealed weapons in schools and these teachers are not required to disclose that they are packing and administrators are forbidden from asking that teacher if they’re carrying.
Utah’s law also requires that teachers must keep their guns on them at all times, even in the bathroom. So when Michelle Ferguson-Montgomery went into the bathroom at the Westbrook Elementary School and a shot was later heard, the first thought was that she had shot herself. But it seems that her gun went off, shattering the toilet and causing fragments of the toilet to injure her Second Amendment, right on her leg.
The teacher was taken to a Salt Lake hospital and listed in good condition. The authorities are investigating.
September 11th, 2001 went down in history as a time when our political leaders dropped the ball. They were asleep at the wheel and this country paid and is still paying a heavy price for their failure to do their jobs.
That attack, a coordinated effort between multiple terrorists, brought down the Twin Towers in New York city, ending the lives of 2605 people. Another plane hit the Pentagon killing 125 more and yet another plane crashed in Pennsylvania killing all on board. In total, 2,977 people died that day, including the passengers on all the planes.
To add insult to injury, the Republican administration once again took its eye off the ball when, instead of going after the perpetrators of the terrorists attack, they went after oil in Iraq instead. Another 4486 American troops gave their lives for this oil, tens of thousands more sacrificed limbs for the Republican’s war and hundreds of thousands Iraqi civilians died, while the mastermind of the terrorists attack that forever changed the lives of every American on September 11th, that man – Osama Bin Laden, walked free. At one point in his presidency, George Bush was even caught saying that he was not concerned about Osama bin Laden anymore.
All that happened on the Republican watch, or should I say on the Republican nap. It wasn’t until a Democrat, Barack Obama, came into power that we developed a strategy, we refocused our efforts and eventually found and kill Osama Bin Laden.
So I was once again, utterly shocked when this latest Gallup poll came out saying that Americans prefer Republicans when it comes to fighting terrorism.
According to Gallup, 55% of Americans choose the GOP on this dimension, while 32% choose the Democratic Party. This is the widest Republican advantage in Gallup’s history of asking this question since 2002.
Rob Portman is a Republican Senator for the state of Ohio. And on Thursday, the Republican senator told reporters that if they get control of the Senate in the November election, a vote to Repeal Obamacare will follow. With the House of Representatives already controlled by Republicans, the prospects of a repeal bill passing both houses of Congress is extremely likely.
“I suspect we will vote to repeal early to put on record the fact that we Republicans think it was a bad policy and we think it is hurting our constituents,” said Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), appearing at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. “We think health care costs should be going down, not up. We think people should be able to keep the insurance that they had. They are worried about the fact that the next shoe to drop is going to be employer coverage.”
As Portman’s remarks indicated, a repeal vote by a Republican-controlled Senate would be a largely perfunctory exercise, designed to register GOP opposition with the health care law once again. The president would never sign such a measure, even if he were severely chastened by the 2014 election results. Even top conservative donors concede as much.
In a new video released by CNN’s Anderson Cooper, two contractors are seen watching the police shooting of Michael Brown.
“He had his fucking hands in the air!” one of the men is heard shouting in the moments after the Aug. 9 shooting of the black teen by a white police officer.
CNN aired the footage during “Anderson Cooper 360” and said it was filmed by an unidentified man near the scene of the shooting. CNN also talked to the two men who were shown on the video.
The men, who didn’t wish to be identified, told CNN they witnessed the shooting from about 50 yards away. The man shown in the video in a pink shirt told CNN that they heard one gun shot followed by another about 30 seconds later. He said he saw Brown staggering and putting his hands up saying “Okay, okay, okay” but that “the cop didn’t say get on the ground, he just kept shooting.”
The man in the green shirt told CNN he saw Brown running away from the police car with his hands up as the officer chased him. He also said the police officer shot Brown again when his back was turned, according to CNN.
Yes, this is news you need to know. You just never know when this topic will come up and imagine how smart you’ll appear when you broadcast that 46 year old Byron Schlenker of New York, broke the Guinness World Record for the World’s Widest Tongue.
Don’t worry about who held the record before Byron broke it, that really doesn’t matter. No one is going to have a conversation with you about who has the second widest tongue. If someone asks about that, tell them to get a life!
New Jersey had its credit rating cut one step by Standard & Poor’s, handing Chris Christie his eighth downgrade, the most ever for a Garden State governor.
The reduction to A, the sixth-highest level, with a stable outlook follows a Sept. 5 downgrade by Fitch Ratings. It gives New Jersey the same general-obligation grade as California, which is on track for an upgrade as revenue exceeds Democratic Governor Jerry Brown’s estimates. Only Illinois has lower ratings than New Jersey among U.S. states.
“New Jersey continues to struggle with structural imbalance,” S&P analyst John Sugden in New York said in a statement today. “The governor’s decision to delay pension funding, while providing the necessary tools for cash management and budget control, has significant negative implications for the state’s liability profile.”
Christie, a 52-year-old Republican in his second term, broke his promise this year to make $2.5 billion in extra pension payments in fiscal 2014 and 2015 to help trim unfunded obligations. He has called for more changes to the plan as costs for employee benefits crowd out other state spending.
They invited the Republican mad man was invited to speak at a conference for Middle Eastern Christians Wednesday night. Consider that the first mistake they made. As if they didn’t know that Ted Cruz was a pompous and egotistic maniac, eager to pander to a group if there is the slightest chance they can further his own political needs, the Middle Eastern Christians booed the Republican congressman when he began talking about his love of Israel.
Apparently Cruz did not do his homework on acceptable topics when pandering to Middle Eastern Christians.
“Christians have no greater ally than Israel,” was the comment that got the boos going.
Cruz, who cannot get his feelings hurt stormed off the stage like the little spoiled brat who cannot get his way. But before he exited left, as the boos rained down from the rafters, Cruz left the audience with these chilling words, a warning to be precise. “If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews,” he said. “Then I will not stand with you. Good night, and God bless.” And off he went!
Jay Carney, the former Press Secretary for President Obama made his debut on CNN as a political commentator last night, after the president’s address on deaking with the ISIL threat
Sam Feist, CNN’s Washington bureau chief said in a statement.
“Jay’s unique experience as both a journalist and a White House press secretary make him an invaluable voice for the network as we cover the final two years of the Obama Administration and look ahead to the coming campaigns.
“We’re fortunate to have Jay on our air tonight to provide analysis and insight surrounding the President’s address to the nation.”
In his own statement, Carney said that he was “thrilled to be joining CNN at a time when there is so much happening in the nation and the world.”
President Obama addressed the nation tonight, saying that he has the necessary authorization to fight against ISIL without Congress making a vote on the matter, but he asked Congress to join him in the fight.
Took a break for lunch today and decided to go out for a slice of pizza or something. As I walked west on 57th Street to 6th ave, this caught my attention. I had to share.
Here is a man. A white man and he’s angry. Here is a white man who is angry, and he gas a gun!
OMG! The angry white man with the gun is confronting the police! With all we’ve heard about the trigger happy police these days, what do you think will be the end result for this angry white man with a gun, picking a fight with the cops? Someone is sure to be slaughtered, right?
This just goes to show the double standards in today’s society. Can you imagine if the color of the man was different? What would happen to him if he were black or latino?
Well you don’t have to imagine. Eric Garner was just standing in his neighborhood when he was attacked by police, taken down and killed when a police officer applied and illegal choke hold.
Mike Williams, another black teenager was murdered by another cop, having at least 6 bullets pumped into his fleeing body simply because he was walking in the street.
Trayvon Martin was walking in his father’s neighborhood and because he fit a stereotype, he was followed and murdered by a cop wannabe.
Santiago Hernandez was sitting when police descended on him, beat and pepper sprayed him for because they claimed he “resisted arrest.” Then then dropped the charges, leaving Santiago bruised and bloodied.
These are just some of the recently publicized examples of this double standard, but there are countless more happening daily that we never hear about.
But back to our story.
A 63-year-old white man, clad in pajamas, was waving a large gun around, threatening people and understandably scaring the bejesus out of them. Several called the cops, who showed up in a cruiser and attempted to convince the man to “put the gun down,” so they could talk to him.
He was having none of it, and though what he says cannot be heard on the video, it is clear he is making some sort of a statement about his rights to openly carry this weapon. The officer acknowledges his “open carry” rights, but says the man is not allowed to cross the street. That’s jaywalking. The man flips the bird to the police and toward the camera, makes masturbatory gestures, and keeps the assault rifle over his shoulder. He’s having none of it. The cops keep trying to talk some sense into him, and tell him he is “scaring people.” The man says, “shoot me.” The cops don’t.
I have a Note 3 and I’m already too accustomed to friends calling it “a flat screen TV!”
“How can you walk around with that thing by your ears,” they’ll asks, always laughing and joking about how big the thing is. “I can’t even fit it in my pocket” is often the next phrase and the jokes will continue. Then they’ll pull out their little iphones and the comparisons would start.
But I’m always the last one standing, because at the end of the discussion or argument in some cases, they all gravitate to my big screen, usually speechless by the quality of my pictures, high-definition videos, the exceptional processing speed and the ease at with everything flows. By this time, their little iphones with sub par processing and below average picture quality are tucked away in their pockets, hidden from sight.
All hail the Samsung!
So Apple unveiled their big screen iphone 6 and iphone 6 plus today, and a small screen smart watch because the big screen Samsung with their Galaxy and Note products is a big hit with consumers. People don’t want to pay hundreds of dollars for a device they have to squint their eyes to see, so with today’s release Apple is finally getting with the times and attempting to cut into Samsung’s hold on the big picture.
The iphone 6 comes in with a 4.7 inch screen, a tad smaller than the 5.1 inch Samsung Galaxy S5 and the iphone 6 plus has a 5.5 inch screen. And they also unveiled a smart watch or “AppleWatch too!
To my friends, welcome to your very own personal flatscreen TV! I doubt your resolution can compare to mine though! I’m pretty sure you will still be in awe, watching HiDefination programming on my TV Note!
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