The Capitol was locked down Thursday after shots were fired outside one of the House office buildings.
Some lawmakers said seven or eight shots were fired and that they seemed to be coming from the area of the Rayburn House Office Building.
It appeared at least one person was injured in the shooting.
Media reports suggested the incident began at the White House and ended on Capitol Hill.
ABC News issued an alert saying someone had tried to ram a barricade near the White House and then fled in a vehicle with police in pursuit.
NBC News reporter Pete Williams tweeted that the incident began at the White House and led to a car chase.
ABC News, citing police, shot and killed a woman who was driving the car.
The Minnesota Congresswoman went on CNN and had a rather heated discussion with host Wolf Blitzer over ObamaCare and the Republican push to shut down the government.
SIDENOTE: My sympathies go out to Mr. Blitzer for thinking that he was going to get a straight answer from the robot-like-talking-points queen.
In the clip below, Blitzer asked a set of reasonable questions about Obamacare:
Do you really believe if this law — and it is a law passed by the House, passed by the Senate, signed into law by the president, approved by the Supreme Court — goes into effect that women, seniors, children are going to die?
Don’t you realize that millions and millions of Americans will now have health insurance earlier they didn’t have, health insurance.
Is it good or bad that children can now be on their parents’ health insurance policies until they reach the age of 26?
If you have a pre-existing condition, should you be allowed to buy health insurance?
Should an insurance company be able to deny you insurance coverage?
All great questions. But Bachmann is a master of the Shake and Bake She should be playing basketball with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Bachmann was able to steer clear of any real answers to Blitzer’s questions by sticking to what she does best – the Republican talking points… in other words, she lied her way out of the studio.
After his success with getting Syria to agree with the United Nations to give up their Chemical weapons, President Obama took on another challenge, a task over 30 years in the making. President Obama spoke with President Rouhani of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Could this be the start of Iran agreeing to turn over their nuclear ambitions? Time will tell…
Okay. So apparently some of you have complained that it was too complicated to understand Obamacare. Maybe you’ve listened to the Republicans talk about the 2000+ pages of the law and the government red tape it entails. Well complain no more (and while you’re at it, switch off the Republican commentators spewing non factual talking points). Below is a video explaining all the intricacies of the law and how it will or will not affect you.
So simple, even your two-year old will understand.
Christian conservatives are condemning a YouTube video where a young boy is praying for President Obama.
In the video, the boy clasps his hands and lowers his head before thanking the president for “all the stuff that you helped us with.”
Later in the video, the boy says, “God has given you a special power, and you are going to handle it just fine.” At the end, he opens his eyes and raises his hands, yelling a triumphant, “Barack Obama!”
…CainTV’s Robert Laurie wrote, “If you thought that Barack Obama was just a mortal man elected to a temporary position in office, you thought wrong. According to this video, he’s much, much, more than that. He is a divine instrument, replete with God-given ‘special powers.’”
WorldNetDaily condemned the young boy for “praying TO Obama. Not for him. Not about him. TO him.” This is despite the fact that the first words out of the boy’s mouth are “A prayer for President Barack Obama.”
And Alex Jones’ InfoWars took its criticism of the video to yet another level: “The controversial prayer video is just the latest example of the type of feverish leader worship historically only witnessed in communist and totalitarian regimes, such as North Korea, Mao’s China and Nazi Germany.”
I’ve been waiting for this game for quite a long time and two days into playing, I am in love.
Payday 2 is a team based game where you are a squad of criminals who embark on various missions. Doing so, you receive cash which can be used to buy new weapons, new masks, and can be also used to customize all your gear.
What I love: -The first Payday was also team based but just wasn’t very good at it. The HUD was too limited, the missions could be done without a team, the classes showed no major difference, and you really never needed help. In Payday2 the HUD now shows your entire team, their health, armor, ammo, and equipment. Each mission requires you to work with them and use their special skills to accomplish each heist. -Every time you level up, you gain a skill point that can be used to level up certain classes. Now thankfully each class is significantly different from one another and each has a special ability -The first Payday had..uh maybe 5 or so missions? Now we have upwards of 12 missions (probably more) and certain missions has various parts to them. -I love being the bad guy in a game, it’s something you rarely are in video games. There’s a certain essence of “badass” about it. -The guns! Oh how I love the choices of them all! The first Payday was limited to just a hand few, Payday 2 has over 9 standard weapons and just as many secondary weapons. -The graphics! Oh this game looks beautiful compared to the last game. Then again a video in 360p would look better than the first Payday. -The options to do each Heist are endless. You can stealth it or go in guns blazing. A door can be opened in four different ways, cameras can be taken down in numerous ways, locks can be broken or picked; Oh the choices are wonderful!
What I dislike: -Nothing honestly.
Bonus section! What I hate: -The leveling system is just stupid. Each skill costs 1 skill point and a large amount of cash. To “Ace” a skill requires three points and an even larger amount of cash. Tier 3 level skills cost three points and a six figure cash amount…. -The guns are so expensive that I want to cry. A G36 rifle costs $200k and each upgrade can vary from $10k to even more. Thankfully we don’t have to pay for ammo, otherwise I’d quit. -Grinding every level. I’ve put five hours into the game and hit have hit level 24. Once I hit 24 I spent the next hour playing a serious heist, earned a ton of cash, but gained next to nothing in experience. The grind begins. -Crime.net. I don’t even know where to start with this. In the first Payday, you simply went to the multiplayer menu, selected a map and difficulty, and you were shown the available games. For Payday 2 they introduced Crime.net. A large, constantly updating map which shows all the available heists, their difficulty, pay, experience, lobby leader, and the open slots available. As nice as it sounds, having all that info shown to you, the map is glitchy move around, it updates too slow, and new missions aren’t able to be set up by yourself so you must play what the game says you must.
-You’re being shot! In a normal first person shooter, when you’re being shot at a red arrow or something of similar nature pops up in the direction you’re being shot from. It’s a tried a truth method that nearly ever shooting game uses. In Payday2 a half red circle shows up from what part of your is being shot it, in example an enemy can be in front of you but shooting at your left arm, thus it’ll show your left side is being shot. This has completely confused me and led me to be spinning in circles to find a guy who’s probably just right behind me.
Don’t get me wrong, I will max out my level in Payday 2 and continue to play this game till I find something more exciting to play with my friends. It’s a fun fun game and can be replayed till time ends. I love being a criminal, love the new improvements they’ve made, and love the gameplay. It’s not a perfect game, but I’m quite alright with that.
A video entered as evidence in the murder trial of John Henry Spooner on Tuesday appears to show the 76-year-old shooting his 13-year-old neighbor Darius Simmons dead.
The Milwaukee senior is charged with first-degree homicide after the alleged incident in May last year. Jurors saw the video (below), taken from Spooner’s own surveillance camera, that shows the suspect walk out of his house, brandishing a gun. After a short argument, the man in the video waves the gun around before he shoots Simmons in the chest. Simmons manages to flee outside the scope of the camera before dying.
Imagine a city where you don’t drive in loops looking for a parking spot because your car drops you off and scoots off to some location to wait, sort of like taxi holding pens at airports. Or maybe it is picked up by a robotic minder and carted off with other vehicles, like a row of shopping carts.
Inner-city parking lots could become parks. Traffic lights could be less common because hidden sensors in cars and streets coordinate traffic. And, yes, parking tickets could become a rarity since cars would be smart enough to know where they are not supposed to be.
As scientists and car companies forge ahead — many expect self-driving cars to become commonplace in the next decade — researchers, city planners and engineers are contemplating how city spaces could change if our cars start doing the driving for us. There are risks, of course: People might be more open to a longer daily commute, leading to even more urban sprawl.
That city of the future could have narrower streets because parking spots would no longer be necessary. And the air would be cleaner because people would drive less. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 30 percent of driving in business districts is spent in a hunt for a parking spot, and the agency estimates that almost one billion miles of driving is wasted that way every year.
If you don’t yet know what Jay Z is talking about, then you most likely were on a trip to the moon. If that’s the case, then welcome back. Miley Cyrus – children’s icon on Disney – shocked the world when pictures and videos of her twerking hit the internet:
Now that you’re all caught up on Miley Cyrus’ Twerking abilities, you may be asking why is Jay Z mentioning her in his music? A valid question. Some assume that Jay Z was returning a favor because Cyrus gave him a shoutout in her “Party In The USA.” But if Jay Z was really returning the favor, why does it sound as if he was making fun of her.
Here’s Jay’s lyrics:
“When I was talking Instagram, Last thing you wanted was your picture snapped. Feds still lurking, They see I’m still putting work in, Cause somewhere in America Miley Cyrus is still twerkin’, HA! Twerk, twerk, twerk, twerk, Twerk, Miley, Miley, twerk, Twerk, Twerk, Miley, Miley, Miley, twerk, Twerk, yeah, ugh-huh, Twerk, Miley, Miley, Miley. Only in America.”
HuffPo reports that Jay Z “drops in some not-too-subtle laughter throughout the verse, leaving it up to us to discern, rather easily, his views on Cyrus’ treatment of the dance craze — a movement that originated in hip-hop culture.”
Don’t let Jay stop you Miley. Twerk and Twerk some more! 🙂
A woman has been thrown off a cliff by a love rival, with the entire shocking incident caught on camera this past week.
The incident took place in Peru, and a video of the altercation has since gone viral on the Internet, stunning viewers across the world.
Fortunately, the woman only fell about 20 feet and survived the fall, according to CBS News. She did however suffer some injuries and a number of cuts and bad bruises.
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