This is sort of a personal story for me, because I grew up less than 5 miles from this cemetery. My grandparents and late cousin are buried there. Fox 2 News Headlines
Of course, this is what happens, when people get desperate. It stinks, but it is a sign of the times. (via Fox 2 Detroit)
Prayer for this man, he stood against injustice and for that, I admire him.
(Reuters) – Former South African president Nelson Mandela spent a second day in a Pretoria military hospital on Sunday for medical tests and the government said the anti-apartheid leader’s condition was comfortable.
President Jacob Zuma visited the 94-year-old, according to an official statement. It provided no other details of the health of South Africa’s first black president, who came to power after historic all-race elections in 1994.
On Saturday, Zuma’s office said there was no cause for alarm and that the medical treatment Mandela was receiving in the military hospital in the capital was “consistent with his age”.
via Mandela comfortable in hospital: South Africa | Reuters.
I pray that he makes a speedy recovery.
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.
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!
Some good news for my Dad.
(Reuters) – The proposed Michigan “right-to-work” law will not apply to existing union contracts, a leading sponsor of the proposal said on Friday, which may blunt its immediate impact on the huge auto industry in the state.
Michigan Republicans pushed through the state legislature on Thursday a law making the payment of union dues voluntary in the private sector. The state Senate also voted to apply this to the public sector except for police and fire unions.
Republican lawmakers, who hold majorities in both chambers of the legislature, could give final approval to the laws on Tuesday and Republican Governor Rick Snyder could immediately sign them, Amber McCann, spokeswoman for state Senate Majority Leader Richard Richardville, said on Friday.
“Right-to-work” could be signed into law within a week in the cradle of the U.S. auto industry, a stunning blow to organized labor in the United States.
The law would actually take effect at the end of March, Richardville said on Thursday.
But the legislation has a so-called “grandfather” clause exempting existing union contracts until they expire, said Republican state Senator Arlan Meekhoff, a sponsor of the plan.
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“I don’t think this will hurt the UAW with the (Detroit automakers) as much as it will hurt unions trying to organize nonunion companies in Michigan,” Schwartz said.
via Michigan right-to-work law exempts existing union contracts | Reuters.
Just the same, the whole idea of Government essentially blocking Union organizing rights is asinine. Which is why I no longer will be supporting the Republican Party.
On CBN Newswatch, Dec. 6:
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Something moderately surprising to wake up to:
South Carolina U.S. Senator Jim DeMint will replace Ed Feulner as president of the Heritage Foundation. Mr. DeMint will leave his post as South Carolina’s junior senator in early January to take control of the Washington think tank, which has an annual budget of about $80 million.
Sen. DeMint’s departure means that South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, a Republican, will name a successor, who will have to run in a special election in 2014. In that year, both Mr. DeMint’s replacement and Sen. Lindsey Graham will be running for reelection in South Carolina.
Mr. DeMint was reelected to a second term in 2010. The 61-year-old senator had announced earlier that he would not seek a third term.
The first person I thought about, was Amanda Carpenter. Amanda is the sweetest person in the Conservative Blogosphere; well she was, she decided to get away from blogging and work in the beltway. She is Jim DeMint’s speechwriter. Amanda took to twitter to say this:
Friends asking what my plans are, that’s a little premature. I’m going to explore my options and do what I love! That’s all for now. XO. 🙂
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) December 6, 2012
As for DeMint his leaving the Senate is a huge loss for the Conservative wing of the Republican Party. I do not doubt his story at all. But I can see why he would want to do it. Because it is obvious that the Republicans are going to concede this tax hike nonsense, so DeMint just decided, “You know what? Screw it. I am going to work in the activist arena.”
I cannot blame him, it would be a huge pay raise for the man and plus, he can actually make a difference there. Not much he can do in the Senate, when you have squishy Republicans running the show. Either way, I wish Senator DeMint the best and I also wish Amanda Carpenter the best as well.
On CBN Newswatch, Dec. 5:
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On CBN News Channel Morning News, Dec. 5:
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On today’s show, Egypt in crisis; foes protest Morsi, Brotherhood; tensions escalate over fiscal cliff stand-off; parents seek answers over carbon monoxide scare, and more.
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