Also too: Portland, Oregon?!?
I could see Detroit, but Portland?! 😯
Category: Justice
Emails show that BP knew more than they told people
This is crazy….
Emails that attorneys representing a defendant in the BP oil spill case plan to introduce in February show for the first time that the oil company knew the massive scale of the 2010 blowout in the Gulf of Mexico weeks earlier than previously disclosed.
BP has long maintained that it provided full disclosure to the public and the federal government about its knowledge of the spill’s extent and did so promptly. The emails suggest otherwise.
BP has said in the past that it learned of the spill’s full extent months after the April 2010 blowout. But the emails indicate that the company knew almost immediately after the drilling rig exploded, killing 11 workers and injuring 17, that the spill may be extraordinarily large.
BP pleaded guilty in mid-November to more than a dozen felony charges related to the spill, including lying to Congress about the size of the leak, as part of a wide-ranging deal settling the company’s corporate criminal liability. Justice Department officials said a probe of individual criminal activity related to the spill is ongoing and may result in more indictments.
via HuffPo: BP Oil Spill Flow Rate Vastly Understated For Weeks, Emails Show.
At first, I thought this was nothing more than a witch hunt. Turns out I was wrong about that. This was pure evil. BP should be put out of business.
Getting robbed in a jail parking lot?
Alternative headline: “Somebody really, really, really, really, really, really, wants to go to jail so bad!” I mean, free meals, free bed, group showers. Hey, it beats living in the streets. The complimentary forced anal sex might be a bit rough, but you take the good with the bad. 😆 😀 😛 😯
If you cannot be safe in the parking lot of Rikers Island, America is in some deep trouble and we are seriously screwed. 🙄
From a thief’s point of view, the place had a lot of potential.
It was big, with lots of room to work. Rows and rows of cars that almost certainly contained valuables left behind by their owners, more so than on a normal city street. What was more, the cars were almost guaranteed to be unattended for at least two or three hours while the owners were away.
The location’s only drawback: it was the parking lot for visitors to Rikers Island. At the other end of a long bridge sat the huge jail complex that held the inmates these drivers were visiting. That must deter many potential thieves.
But not all.
It was Oct. 7, a Sunday, typically a busy day when family members who cannot come on a weekday find time to visit.
One of them was Ailsa Williams, 39. She was going to see her son, whose name and crime she declined to share in an interview. She had been visiting for months and was prepared for the long day ahead, beginning with this parking lot.
“There aren’t enough spots,” Ms. Williams said. “The ones that are there aren’t outlined properly.” The lot is irregularly shaped, sort of a triangle. The broad end is occupied by an administrative office in a trailer. Below it are narrowing rows of parking spots, ending in the tip, where she found a spot.
She did something no right-thinking New Yorker would normally do elsewhere. She left all her things in the car.
via Unlikely Spot for a Break-In – The Rikers Parking Lot – NYTimes.com.
I hate to might like someone else’s misfortune; but some things are just too funny to pass up. 😀
This is why I never did anything with Anonymous
Because sooner or later, the law catches up with you.
A Dallas grand jury has brought charges against Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown stemming from the 2011 hack of intelligence vendor Stratfor Global Intelligence.
Brown isn’t charged with committing the hack; just with possessing and transmitting credit card numbers that were stolen in the incident.
He has been in prison since he was arrested in dramatic and public fashion three months ago after posting a threatening video to YouTube. Brown was talking with acquaintances during a Sept. 12 TinyChat session when the feds burst in and took him away. The chat session was later posted to the internet.
The Anonymous spokesman was charged the next day with threatening a federal officer.
This time the charges are are related to a different incident: the 2011 Stratfor hack where credit card numbers and internal e-mail messages were stolen.
According to the grand jury indictment, dated Tuesday, Brown posted a link to a zipped version of the documents stolen in the Stratfor hack on Christmas day 2011 — that counts as trafficking in “stolen authentication features,” the indictment claims. He’s also charged with possessing stolen credit card numbers, Card Verification Values, and other information related to those credit card numbers.
Unless you consider logging into their public IRC chat network as “doing something with them.” I went there, very much a hard leftist sort of a group. Which is, honestly, really not my thing. In fact, on the Anonops network’s “Newblood” channel there was someone who gave me a hand with setting up Linux Mint 14 on Oracle VM Virtual Box, which really does work well. Before anyone panics, I checked, it was an legit ISO and the system works great on this laptop.
Anyhow, this dude is going up the river for a long time. I feel sorry for his Mother; I mean the dude freaked out and was trying to protect his Mom. Something I know very well about. I am quite protective of my Mother and Father too. He did that, and is now going to have pay the piper. This is why I never got involved with anything illegal, internet or otherwise. Because the law always catches up with you. The Wheels of justice turn slow, but they do turn. If you are a lawbreaker, and the Government decides your number is up, its all over but the court case and crying in jail then. If you are not well off, you are done. As my uncle (Dad’s youngest brother) found out back in the 1990’s. He fell into hard times, start dealing blow and weed; wanted to make some quick money. One of his friends, got busted for possession with intent to distribute and of course, he sung like a yellow canary and they nailed my uncle, big time.
He pulled 15 years in prison for it too. This is why I keep my nose clean. Because jail sucks. I have never been there and I do not intend to go there, if I can at all help it!
But yet, Alexander Calloway is the victim.
What a freaking joke. 🙄
HOUSTON—As family members of a man who was shot by a Valero clerk in southeast Houston called for the store clerk’s arrest, the store owner released surveillance video.
Alexander Calloway, 21, and his two cousins were trying to enter the gas station on Martin Luther King and Belarbor around 3:30 a.m., but the store was locked.
The young men got into an argument with the clerk, who unlocked his door and came outside, police said.
Someone punched the clerk in the face and the clerk pulled out his gun and shot Calloway in the stomach, according to HPD.
Calloway’s cousins rushed him to a fire station on Cullen at Selinsky, and paramedics transported him to Ben Taub Hospital in critical condition.
via Surveillance video shows violent confrontation at gas station | khou.com Houston.
The Video Story:
Moonbattery calls this Alexander Calloway fool, “A hoodlum of politically privileged pigmentation.” Indeed he is. This guy gets into an argument with the clerk and then punches the clerk in the face and then, the clerk pulls out his gun and shoots the guy, in self-defense; and the clerk is at fault. I think not. 😡
What gets me is Calloway’s Father saying, “He didn’t have to shoot my son.” Well, old man, if your miserable piece of crap son, was home where he should have been, instead of out catting around with his friends, who also had guns; maybe he would still be alive. Instead, he is dead, at the hands of own damned foolishness, and no amount of your race-baiting boo hoo’ing is going to bring him back. Now, shut the hell up and accept that your idiot son was a fool and paid the ultimate price for it.
Again folks, as I have written here a thousand times and on my old blog; these are Obama’s people, these are the ones, the handout society that voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. We have four more years of this stupidity too. Enjoy. 🙄
Others: The Gateway Pundit and The Last Refuge
A theocratic imposition
As quick as I am to point out the apostasy in the Christian world, and I am also quick to point the errors that are sometimes made in our courts.
The Story via The Blaze:
An Oklahoma teenager In Muskogee, Oklahoma, who pleaded guilty in the tragic death of another teen has been given an interesting sentence: 10 years of church attendance in exchange for not heading to prison. The defendant, Tyler Alred, 17, is not fighting a judge’s mandate, as his lawyer deems the decision both fair and appropriate.
“My client goes to church every Sunday,” attorney Donn Baker told Tulsa World. “That isn’t going to be a problem for him. We certainly want the probation for him.”
The problem?
This:
Some experts have contended that mandating church attendance creates a separation of church and state issue. In addition to going to church, Alred will need to wear an ankle bracelet to monitor his alcohol intake, speak at events about the negative results of drinking and driving, finish high school and go for counseling. Additionally, he will undergo drug tests.
…and you know what? The experts here are absolutely correct. This is nothing more than an imposition of theocratic law. Which is why the Puritans fled England, because theocratic law was being imposed upon them. This kid should be sentenced to a juvenile detention facility, and when he is 18 years old, he should be transferred to a prison to serve out the remainder of his term. Obviously, this kid comes from a well-to-do family and was able to get good legal representation. Because if this were any other person, they would be going to juvenile, and then to prison.
To those who would try to argue that the separation of Church and State does not exist. I am well aware that it does not exist in the Constitution; but merely the Constitution, under the first amendment protects us from Government established religion. However, Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists was clear:
Gentlemen
The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, & in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection & blessing of the common father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves & your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.
Th Jefferson
Jan. 1. 1802.
In this case, the wall was breeched and the First Amendment was totally violated. Because of this; as a Conservative Christian and as a Constitutional Conservative do not support this one iota. We are a Constitutional Republic, and not a Christian theocracy. I wonder what Mr. Brayton would think about me writing this? Me? A “Wingnut?” It depends on the definition of the term. If being one of those, is someone who believes that this punishment was justly fit, I am not one of those. Nor will I ever be.
Also too, could you imagine the outrage, if this kid had been sentenced to attend a Mosque for killing a Muslim or for defacing a Mosque? The usual suspects would be screaming from the rafters! …and rightly so too. You simply cannot use religion as a sentence for the commission of a crime and maintain that wall that Thomas Jefferson spoke of, it cannot be done.
It Begins: Obama’s brown shirts vandalize cars
Including one, of an unemployed Obama supporter!
Check the video:
The Story via CBS 2 in LA:
ALTA LOMA (CBS) — A case of campaign vandalism is under investigation Friday in Alta Loma. Someone keyed the word “Obama” into two cars and slashed seats in another outside a residence that had Mitt Romney campaign signs. CBS2 and KCAL9 reporter Rob Schmitt spoke to Ken Slown, owner of one of the keyed vehicles. Slown actually supports President Obama! He explained to Schmitt that he and his wife — both currently unemployed — are staying with her parents and it’s her parents who support Romney. “I don’t know if they were trying to get a point across, to vote for Obama,” said Slown, “but to do something like this is not going to get the point across.” He estimates the damage to both of his vehicles at about $3,400. In addition to both cars being keyed, his wife’s vehicle had her seats slashed, as well. Said Slown, “They pretty much cut the backs of all of the seats.” A neighbor, who also has a Romney/Ryan sign in their front yard, were also hit. “Obama” keyed in the hood and on the black gate of an SUV. A GPS unit was stolen from a Dodge Ram nearby. The truck, however, was not vandalized.
I reported this sort of stuff happening back in 2008, on my old blog; it happened then, and now it is happening again. These thugs will stop at nothing to support thier hero and that includes beating people up. They know no limits, nothing is off-limits; we must remember this come election day and vote different.
This also might explain why Romney is now leading Obama Nationally and in most states. Because of stuff like this. Here is hoping that now Ken Slown will support Romney, seeing that Obama’s Brownshirts targeted his car. It is an absolute pity that the once honorable Democratic Party, has become the communist-light party and has stooped to carrying out such tactics.
Good: voter fraud being investigated
If Mitt Romney loses
Video: Police State: NYC’s Stop and Frisk Program Exposed
This one has my blood boiling.
The Video:
The Absolutely mind-numbing story via the Progressive Magazine, The Nation:
Exclusive audio obtained by The Nation of a stop-and-frisk carried out by the New York Police Department freshly reveals the discriminatory and unprofessional way in which this controversial policy is being implemented on the city’s streets.
On June 3, 2011, three plainclothes New York City Police officers stopped a Harlem teenager named Alvin and two of the officers questioned and frisked him while the third remained in their unmarked car. Alvin secretly captured the interaction on his cell phone, and the resulting audio is one of the only known recordings of stop-and-frisk in action.
In the course of the two-minute recording, the officers give no legally valid reason for the stop, use racially charged language and threaten Alvin with violence. Early in the stop, one of the officers asks, “You want me to smack you?” When Alvin asks why he is being threatened with arrest, the other officer responds, “For being a fucking mutt.” Later in the stop, while holding Alvin’s arm behind his back, the first officer says, “Dude, I’m gonna break your fuckin’ arm, then I’m gonna punch you in the fuckin’ face.”
“He grabbed me by my bookbag and he started pushing me down. So I’m going backwards like down the hill and he just kept pushing me, pushing me, it looked like he we was going to hit me,” Alvin recounts. “I felt like they was trying to make me resist or fight back.”
Alvin’s treatment at the hands of the officers may be disturbing but it is not uncommon. According to their own stop-and-frisk data, the NYPD stops more than 1,800 New Yorkers a day. A New York Times analysis recently determined that more than 20 percent of those stops involve the use of force. And these are only the numbers that the Department records. Anecdotal evidence suggests both figures are much higher.
This ought to be, but will not be, because it does not fit the narrative of the so-called “right”; on every front page of every last darned Conservative blog out there. Before anyone even remotely says it; I might be a racial realist, but I do not support this sort of idiotic nonsense. This is nothing more than thug and racist tactics by the New York City police department. I have condemned racism on this blog and I will continue to do so. However, this goes well beyond racism, this is also police state thug tactics. Law enforcement is supposed to serve and protect, not intimidate and threaten its citizens. Furthermore, it is not supposed to stop and frisk people, for the sole purpose of checking to see if they are criminals or not. This is unconstitutional.
You see, the difference between this Conservative blog and the rest is this here: I happen to know that America is trending towards a police state and has been for many years. I also happen to know that this slide towards a police state is not based on partisan leadership in Washington D.C. The Police State in trend in America has been in place under Republicans and Democrats both. I give major kudos to The Nation magazine for having the brass balls to bring this issue to light and I hope as a Constitutional Conservative that some sort of investigation into this activity is started.
Again, this is not about partisanship at all —- this is about that which happens to be morally right and morally wrong; and this little story here is just morally wrong. I just hope something is done about it, and quickly, before someone out there, police or civilian; gets hurt really bad or worse, ends up dead.
We can do better than this, as Americans — we can do better.
Update: I thought of this after I hit publish. This right here is nothing more than what the Detroit Police Department had back in the 1960’s and early 1970’s; which was the S.T.R.E.S.S. program. It was racist, it was thug tactics and it was ended by Mayor Coleman Young, when he took office. This is the same thing and it is unconstitutional. If there is any sort of morality in New York City, this little operation will be stopped and quickly.
Others: New York Magazine, Gawker, The Raw Story, Colorlines and The Agitator
