Day: July 2, 2016
I’M WITH HER
Grandmother with gun confronts intruders in her house
Why didn’t she wait for the 2nd responder heroes to save her? Doesn’t she know guns are dangerous?
BOYNTON BEACH (CBS12) — A Boynton Beach grandmother was home alone when three burglars entered her house.
But what she did next may surprise you.
“It was really scary. It was a very, very scary situation. ‘Cause I had no idea what they were gonna do,” said the woman, whom we agreed not to identify.
About 12:45 Tuesday afternoon she went to the peephole and saw a man was at her front door, banging on the door, ringing the bell.
He left but came back a few minutes later, with a T-shirt over his head, and putting on gloves, so she ran to the bedroom to get a handgun from the dresser beside her bed.
“I heard something, glass breaking and then I was freaking out,” she recalled.
Three men burglars—- were in her living room, and she was in the bedroom standing just inside the doorway ready to shoot them if they entered.
“I decided that it’s either them or me, you know. I had to save my life. One of them came to the door here and opened it and when he did I had the gun in his face,” she said.
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RAMADAN BOMBATHON
The Decline of Coal in Three Charts
Along For the Ride
Guest Post by Eric Peters
A guy was killed by his auto-piloted Tesla last week (new story here) and Uncle is looking into it. Of course he won’t do anything about it. Because “if it saves even one life” is very selectively applied. It applies only when whatever the danger happens to be is something Uncle wants to use as an excuse to impose yet another mandate.
Never to rescind one.
See, for instance, air bags.
Or – lately – cars that drive themselves.
Uncle very much wants such cars and so is prepared to do nothing about their potential – and now actual – lethality.
How Machines Destroy and Create Jobs
“There’s just doesn’t seem to be many blacksmith jobs these days.”
At first glance, this would be a ridiculous thing to say. Of course there aren’t many blacksmiths around. We live in a modern society and machines do a way better job of making things from metal anyways.
However, it also raises an important point.
What if machines are better at driving long-haul trucks? What if machines are better servers at McDonald’s? What if robots did your taxes for you?
While some of these ideas are contentious today, in the future we may look back thinking that our fears were ill-placed. The truth is that the job landscape is constantly in flux as technology changes.
Disabled woman beaten bloody by TSA agents after becoming confused and afraid at security checkpoint
A disabled woman was beaten bloody by federal agents during an airport security screening while on her way to undergo treatment for a brain tumor.
Hannah Cohen set off the metal detector at a security checkpoint at the Memphis International Airport, and she was led away for additional screening, reported WREG-TV.
“They wanted to do further scanning, (but) she was reluctant — she didn’t understand what they were about to do,” said her mother, Shirley Cohen.
Cohen said she tried to tell agents with the Transportation Security Administration that her 19-year-old daughter is partially deaf, blind in one eye, paralyzed and easily confused — but she said police kept her away from the security agents.
The confused and terrified young woman tried to run away, her mother said, and agents violently took her to the ground.
“She’s trying to get away from them, but in the next instant, one of them had her down on the ground and hit her head on the floor,” Cohen said. “There was blood everywhere.”
The young woman, who was returning home after finishing treatment for the brain tumor at St. Jude Hospital, was arrested and booked into jail.
Authorities eventually threw out the charges against Hannah Cohen, but her family has filed a lawsuit against Memphis police, airport police and the TSA.
Neither police department commented on the suit, but a spokesperson for the TSA said passengers should notify agents ahead of time if they have special needs.
“Passengers can call ahead of time to learn more about the screening process for their particular needs or medical situation,” said TSA spokesperson Sari Koshetz.
Watch this video report posted online by WREG-TV:
BATTLE FLAG OF SJWs
Hacked Emails Confirm NATO Push To Provoke, Escalate Conflict With Russia
by Tyler Durden
Jul 1, 2016 10:00 PM
Just two weeks ago, a huge scandal erupted within another ‘union’ as Germany slammed NATO for “warmongering” destroying the fictional narrative that ‘innocent’ NATO was merely reacting to evil Russian provocations. Furthermore, as NATO accelerated its encirclement of Russia, with British soldiers deployed in Estonia, US soldiers operating in Latvia and Canadians in Poland, while combat units are being increased in the Mediterranean…
NATO found another excuse for war, assessing that it may now have grounds to attack Russia when it announced that if a NATO member country becomes the victim of a cyber attack by persons in a non-NATO country such as Russia or China, then NATO’s Article V “collective defense” provision requires each NATO member country to join that NATO member country if it decides to strike back against the attacking country.
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WAL-MART FREAKS OF THE WEEK
How high does your confidence level have to be to assume she’ll say yes in a Walmart?
Can we call the art of something bad, good? I think so. Shoutout to medium_artist on Instagram for putting his time into showcasing the wonderful world of Walmart. We thought we were the only assholes dumb enough to spend time cultivating this stuff.
This is why I stopped hiring babysitters off of Craigslist. Mr. Peepers’ resume just doesn’t stack up for my liking.
THE SOLUTION IS OBVIOUS
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,
The vapours weep their burthen to the ground,
Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Tithonus