Just When You Thought You Heard It All News 9-6-2015

Some people ride bikes or public transit when their licenses are suspended. But in what I can only describe as a "doofus move", one battery-powered, Barbie Jeep-riding Texas State student is not allowing a DWI arrest stop her from getting around on her own four wheels. 

Tara Monroe, an industrial engineering junior, said her license was automatically suspended after refusing a breathalyzer test after a Waka Flocka concert. Her father drove to San Marcos from Kingwood, her hometown, to strip her of her vehicle, leaving her with a bike to get around. 

A stupid police officer in Millis, Massachusetts, who claimed that he'd crashed his cruiser Wednesday after coming under attack by a gunman in fact lied about the entire incident, according to local police........

The only shooter was the officer himself, who fired repeatedly into his own squad car, Millis police Sgt. William Dwyer said Thursday. 

The bogus report prompted a massive manhunt on Wednesday for the nonexistent gunman, with a SWAT team joining in the search. Civilians were asked to remain indoors for hours. Officials also canceled classes at Millis schools on Thursday as a precaution.

The officer, whose name won't be released until criminal charges are filed, had claimed that he crashed and his car caught fire after a suspect armed with a handgun fired at him from a dark colored pickup truck. 

I'm surprised he didn't say the shooter was a dark colored man in a dark colored pick up truck.

The officer, who has been variously reported as 24 and 27 years old will be fired, Dwyer said. He joined the department a year and a half ago and was a full-time dispatcher and part-time officer. 

"I am very upset and don't know how to feel right now," Dwyer said, according to media reports. "The public is safe and should feel secure in their homes and the community."

Reporters took photos of the charred wreckage of the police vehicle.

Dwyer said it's unclear if the officer also torched the car. He wouldn't comment on the officer's motives. 

Sometimes, the stars align perfectly, and idiotic, rude people get exactly what they deserve!

WATCH! http://youtu.be/HWyUfhoDR2Y

In a video uploaded to YouTube on Thursday, an irate woman was captured hurling insults at restaurant workers who had the audacity to put green peppers on a meal for kids who "don't eat green things!" 

So I guess this means that they don't eat anything healthy!

"If you want to be polite to the customer, then you speak English," barks the impolite customer. "My kids don't eat green things, they eat red peppers!"

When the workers, who remain calm throughout the video, offer to make a new meal, the woman calmly reminds them that "I DON'T HAVE 15 MINUTES!"

You know who else doesn't have 15 minutes? The world, for this person's bulls**t.

"You get it right the first time! The customer is always right!" says the customer, who, incidentally, is very wrong.

Though it's possible the video is fake, the workers in the video don't seem to be in on the "joke."

Finally, as the woman -- who embodies everything terrible in the world -- strides towards the exit, she once again reminds the staff to "GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME!"

Do you know what else needs to be done right the first time? Opening doors. Otherwise you crash right into them!

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Dad Robs Bank To Save Daughter

Your child is sick and desparatelly needs medical attention. You have no medical insurance and no options. What would you do?

A Michigan man accused of robbing a credit union told police he needed the money to help pay for his daughter's chemotherapy treatments, authorities said.

Brian Randolph, 23, is accused of robbing the Vibe Credit Union in South Lyon, Michigan, on Aug. 12.

Randolph entered the building and passed a note demanding money, police said. While the note indicated he had a shotgun hidden in his clothes, he never revealed the firearm and police told ABC News that he said he did not actually bring a gun with him.

He has been charged with armed robbery and bank robbery and had his bond set at $500,000, police said.

After his arrest, Randolph told police his motive for the robbery was to help pay for his daughter's cancer treatments, authorities said.

Randolph told police that his insurance company was no longer paying for his daughter's chemotherapy treatments and that he robbed the credit union in a last-ditch attempt to find a way to pay for her treatments, according to South Lyon Public Information Officer Lieutenant Christopher Sovik.

Randolph's family, including the mother of his 1-year-old daughter, told local media sources that they think he was desperately trying to get money before his daughter's upcoming chemotherapy treatment. Asia Dupree, Randolph's girlfriend and mother of their 1-year-old daughter, told WXYZ-TV that their daughter Brialynn has restinoblsstoma, a cancer that forms in the eye.

"I guess it was desperation. Time was ticking right before her appointment came up," Dupree told WXYZ-TV.

Randolph is scheduled to make his first court appearance today since his arraignment, but the name of his lawyer was not immediately available, according to the court clerk.

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Denied Gay Marriage...

A courageous county clerk in Kentucky Is defying the Supreme Court and saying she was acting “under God’s authority,” She denied marriage licenses to gay couples on Tuesday, less than a day after the court rejected her request for a delay.

The uproar unfolded shortly after 8 a.m. at the Rowan County Courthouse as two same-sex couples walked into the county clerk’s office, followed by a throng of journalists and chanting protesters on both sides of the issue. One couple, David Ermold and David Moore, tried to engage the county clerk, Kim Davis, in a debate before the cameras, but as she had before, she turned them away, saying repeatedly that she would not issue licenses to any couples, gay or straight.

“Under whose authority?” Mr. Ermold asked.

“Under God’s authority,” Ms. Davis replied.

While I don't agree with gay marriage, in the interest of biblical levity I agree with obeying all of Gods laws, not picking and choosing which ones to honor or adhere to. The bible says,

1 Peter Chapter 2:13

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

So, the question is. Given this scripture, should Davis refuse to marry same sex couples even though it is the law of the land? Or does she have the right to ignore mans law and stand up for Gods law? 

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SEIZED...For Child Support!

Family court seems to be a horrible place when it comes to matters of custody and child support. Lives are torn apart and men are mercilessly abused by a system designed to demonize them. I have heard tale after tale after tale about well intentioned, well meaning fathers who do the best than can to provide for their children only to be punished by bitter, vindictive women who choose to use the system as a weapon. 

Before I get criticized, and acussd of being a chavanist let me just state for the record that there is no shortage of low life's masquerading as men who refuse to take care of their children. But do good men deserve to suffer, be embarrassed, and or stereotyped because of a rotten few?

Apparantly The State of New York seems to think so. The state has began the practice of seizing the cars of those who owe back child support. But the irony is. If the person who owes back child support needs their car to get to work, and they have no other options, how will they earn money to pay back, current or future child support? 

In Topeka, Kansas an equally embarrassing method is being used to punish men who don't even owe back child support. The Department of Children and Families sends out a postcard each month to several non-custodial parents asking them if they've paid their child support.

It's something that caught one Kansan by surprise.

"I was utterly shocked. Not only shocked, but embarrassed that they would be sending these cards out as public knowledge," said Walter Scott, who lives in northeast Kansas and has a 17-year-old daughter from a previous marriage he helps support.

Scott said he couldn't believe that information he deems private would be sent in the form of a postcard.

"I live in a very small town and it's like, why don't you just put a sign in my front yard saying 'Hey here's a non-custodial parent and he's paying child support," he said. "I don't get month statements, but I get this card in the mail."

Child Support Services is under the Department of Children and Families. Theresa Freed, the communication director for DCF said there should not be an expectation of privacy in the case of child support.

"I will never complain about support because I know that is a valid need," said Scott, who still works to be an active parent in his daughter's life. "I created those children and I do want to be an active partner in their life. I know the amount that is due every month, it's paid every month."

Scott said he doesn't understand why the information is put on a postcard rather than a sealed statement where the information would remain private.

"If they say this is acceptable then what's next? How far will they push that privacy or that invasion, what's next?" he said.

So, this man who is paying child and is being embarrassed for......paying child support.

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Just When You Thought You Heard It All News (8-29-2015)

I said it before and I'll say it again. Be thankful for what you've got!

Two unlicensed doctors are facing charges for performing botched surgeries on a man's penis, leaving it mutilated..............

A Miami judge has charged Nery Carvajal-Gonzalez, 48, for unlicensed health care causing serious injury.  She was picked up this week after landing at Miami International Airport, and is being held on $100,000 bond.

Carvajal-Gonzalez had allegedly operated on her victim, an unnamed 55-year-old hair stylist, several times before she performed the bungled penis enlargement. She gave the man cosmetic facials and injected filler into his buttocks to enhance their shape.

The victim paid Carvajal-Gonzalez $2,500 for the butt injection. Though investigators said "there was a hole in his buttocks that fluid was leaking from," he decided to go forward with the penis enlargement surgery anyway.

In February, Carvajal-Gonzalez allegedly put an implant in the man's penis to make it longer and thicker, but the fillers she used permanently disfigured him, according to local media, 

"The victim's penis was now incredibly small, yet very swollen and the skin around the shaft had been removed and was raw," investigators said in a warrant.

For repairs, Carvajal-Gonzalez took the man to meet Mark Schreiber, a fake doctor known as "Dr. Mark," at a warehouse in Hialeah. Schreiber, 60, had already spent two years in jail, starting in 2008, for performing unlicensed plastic surgeries.

The victim reportedly paid Schreiber $1,000 to get Carvajal-Gonzalez's implant removed. After the procedure, the man removed his bandages to find that his penis had been mutilated further. Schreiber told him that the look was normal, and then stopped answering the victim's calls.

Earlier this month, Schreiber was arrested on a charge of unlicensed health care causing serious injury. He's reportedly being held without bond.

The victim's ordeal "reads like a horror script," prosecutor Warren Eth told Local 10. "It's almost unbelievable that a human being can voluntary do this to another human being. Not once, not twice. This was not an isolated incident. [Carvajal-Gonzalez] solicits business and butchers people."

The victim says he's permanently disfigured and can't have sex. He also feels no sensation when he urinates, and suffers from painful "spontaneous erections," investigators told the New York Daily News.

 An elementary school teacher who was allowed to keep his job despite being late for work 111 times in two years said Friday that breakfast is to blame for his tardiness. Try working for McDonalds and using that excuse.

"I have a bad habit of eating breakfast in the morning and I lost track of time," 15-year veteran teacher Arnold Anderson told The Associated Press.

In a decision filed Aug. 19, an arbitrator in New Jersey rejected an attempt by the Roosevelt Elementary School to fire Anderson from his $90,000-a-year job, saying he was entitled to progressive discipline. But the arbitrator also criticized Anderson's claim that the quality of his teacher outweighed his tardiness.

He was late 46 times in the most recent school year through March 20 and 65 times in the previous school year, the arbitrator said.

Anderson said he was one to two minutes late to school "at the most" but was prepared and was never late for class.

"I have to cut out eating breakfast at home," he said Friday.

Anderson remains suspended without pay until Jan. 1.

A message seeking comment was left Friday with the school superintendent's office.

The arbitrator found that the district failed to provide Anderson with due process by not providing him with a formal notice of inefficiency or giving him 90 days to correct his failings before terminating his employment.

Gov. Chris Christie referenced the case in a tweet on Friday. Christie wrote: "Think I'm too tough on the teachers union? This is what we're dealing with in NJ."

Anderson said he was "very upset" to be suspended but conceded that losing his job would have been worse.

When he returns to school in January, "I will be early," he said.

Parents in Natomas, California, were worried earlier this week following reports of a creepy, suspicious van driving the streets of the Sacramento suburb. The red van had "Free Candy" painted in white on its side along with handprints and smears leading to its rear doors. It also had no rear license plate.

"It just felt like they were trying to attract kids, and it just gave me a creepy feeling," Dominique Bellow told KOVR. She said her son took a photo of the vehicle after seeing it around town.

"I didn’t know what was going on so I just wanted to get evidence in case anything happened," 12-year-old Lawrence Bellow said.

As it turns out, the van was a joke-on-wheels bound for this year's Burning Man Arts Festival. There's a tradition of Burning Man attendees driving art cars to the weeklong party, which takes place in the Nevada desert.

The decorated vehicles can get pretty outrageous, but it appears that some people just didn't see the dark humor in the "Free Candy" van. 

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Bring Back The Death Penalty.........

This ad was posted by Donald Trump in New York City in 1989. It was published in four newspapers. Since then these young men have been cleared after having been incarcerated for years! There has never been an apology from Trump or anything that remotely resembles remorse. But Americas favorite idiot always manages to do what he does best, add insult to injury!

The "Central Park five" are getting a $40 million settlement after they were wrongfully convicted of raping a jogger 25 years ago.

The five black and Latino men, who were then teens, were convicted in 1989 of raping a 28-year-old woman in Central Park. But DNA evidence and a confession by a serial rapist later cleared Antron McCray, Korey Wise, Kevin Richardson, Yusuf Salaam and Raymond Santana in 2002, after the five had spent as long as 13 years in prison.

In an piece published in the New York Daily News on Saturday, Trump calls the settlement a "disgrace."

My opinion on the settlement of the Central Park Jogger case is that it’s a disgrace. A detective close to the case, and who has followed it since 1989, calls it “the heist of the century.”

Settling doesn’t mean innocence, but it indicates incompetence on several levels. This case has not been dormant, and many people have asked why it took so long to settle? It is politics at its lowest and worst form.

Trump NEVER says he thinks the men are actually guilty of the crime they were wrongfully convicted of, but he does say, "These young men do not exactly have the pasts of angels." 

And neither does he.

The five men initially confessed to the crime, but they recanted their confession at trial and said it was brought about after they were coerced by police officers who did not allow their parents to be present during their lengthy and exhausting interrogation.

On May 1, 1989, while the case was in the media spotlight, Trump took out the full-page advertisement in four New York newspapers calling for the return of the death penalty and saying that "criminals of every age'' who raped the woman in Central park should "be afraid".

Trump is the most unreasonable, insane human being in the world, and anyone who considers supporting his presidential campaign should have themselves committed. He can be president of the klan maybe but of the United States. Not so much!

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#laughingwhileblack

Laughing while black! Recently 11 African-American women were kicked off of the Napa Valley wine train for doing nothing more than laughing and enjoying themselves. The women, who were members of a book club, were told by staff that they were being too loud. One white passenger was apparently irritated, telling them the train, which exists for the sole purpose of serving wine was “not a bar.” Others on the tour complained that they were causing a disturbance and the women, one of whom is 84, were booted from the train as police looked on. As if that weren’t humiliating enough, the company actually had the nerve to publish a post on Facebook regarding the incident accusing the women of “verbal and physical abuse” toward other guests and staff.

On Tuesday the company made a statement admitting that those charges were “inaccurate.”

But one of the women in the group, Lisa Johnson said that the post was only removed after 

she contacted Napa Valley Wine Train and threatened to sue if the false charges were not 

removed from Facebook.

Now, of course, the company is offering the group a free wine tour for 50 people. Making 

this condescending claim, “You can enjoy yourself as loudly as you desire,”

After this story broke, another man says he and a group of Latinos were discriminated against 

during an earlier trip on the Napa Valley Wine Train.

This story begs the question. Do African-Americans still have to have to wear the mask? A 

poem written by Paul Lawrence Dunbar in 1896 is still quite accurate in describing the plight 

of black people in America. “We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and 

shades our eyes, This debt we pay to human guile;”

As an African-American in this country it seems as if your every move is under scrutiny. It 

never seems to be a matter of right or wrong as much as it is a matter of whether our actions 

are deemed right or wrong by whoever designates themselves to be the guardian of “good 

taste” on any given day. Bigotry, hatred, and prejudice have a tendency to label anything and 

everything that its victims do as insulting. Something as simple as laughing, and having a 

good time in public can be seen as offensive and disturbing to those who resent the fact that 

we actually have the nerve to be free and act like it.

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Black Children Get Kicked Out of School.

The Obama administration issued guidelines today that recommended public school officials use law enforcement ONLY as a last resort for disciplining students, a response to a rise in zero-tolerance policies that have disproportionately increased the number of arrests, suspensions and expulsions of minority students for even minor, nonviolent offenses. There is evidence that suggests such stringsnt policies are a part of the school to prison pipeline.

The secretary of education, Arne Duncan, and the attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., released a 35 page document that outlined more appropriate means of discipline,  including counseling for students, coaching for teachers and disciplinary officers, and sessions to teach social and emotional skills —that could reduce the time students spend out of school as punishment.

“The widespread use of suspensions and expulsions has tremendous costs,” Mr. Duncan wrote in a letter to school officials. “Students who are suspended or expelled from school may be unsupervised during daytime hours and cannot benefit from great teaching, positive peer interactions and adult mentorship offered in class and in school.”

Data collected by the Education Department shows that minorities — particularly black boys and students with disabilities face the harshest discipline in schools.

According to the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, black students without disabilities are more than three times as likely as their white peers to be suspended or expelled. And an analysis of the federal data by the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that in 10 states, including California, Connecticut, Delaware and Illinois, more than a quarter of black students with disabilities were suspended in the 2009-10 school year.

As school districts have placed more police officers on campuses, criminal charges against children have drastically increased, a trend that has alarmed civil rights groups and others concerned about the safety and educational welfare of public-school students.

The Obama administration’s document also set guidelines for reducing arrests and keeping discipline within schools.

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Just When You Thought You Heard It All News (8-22-2015)

  

The poll made headlines around the world for finding that 9 percent of North Carolina voters were putting their support behind a candidate named "Deez Nuts." The result left many of us thinking, "is this for real?"

If you believe the political scientists the answer is "yes" and is indicative of a bigger problem about how we do elections in the United States.

"I think this guy getting 9 percent despite having a funny name and apparently being 15 years old really shows how many voters are looking for a third alternative this year," says Tom Jensen, director of liberal Public Policy Polling, the company behind the now infamous poll.

"They're unhappy with the Democrats, they're unhappy with the Republicans." Jensen continued. "If this guy can get 9 percent, it makes you wonder how much a serious independent candidate could get. Perhaps a repeat of '92 where Ross Perot was a real factor in the presidential race."

A spokesperson for the Federal Election Commission told ABC11 Wednesday night that the person who filled out the legal form to run for president had met the requirements to be listed as running, but the person's real name was not included.

Numerous outlets are reporting that the culprit is actually a 15-year-old named Brady Olson from Wallingford, Iowa; a small farm town of only 197 people.

It doesn't take much to run for commander in chief, all you have to do is fill out a form with the FEC called a "Form 2" and raise $5,000. Of course there's also the Constitutional requirement of being 35 years old, a requirement Olson a.k.a. "Deez Nuts" does not pass. He also hasn't raised a cent, much like the 600 other candidates running for president.

I'm not sure I want to know what the other choices are?

Another round of shots, good sir!

Commissioners in Daytona Beach, Florida, approved a measure Wednesday that will allow the opening of a 12-lane gun range connected to a booze-filled restaurant. Commissioners were "leery" at first, because alcohol and guns don't mix, but they came around to the ideaaccording to the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

The paper reports:

I've gone back and forth on this," said Commissioner Pam Woods, who later cast a yes vote.

"I was leery," echoed Commissioner Patrick Henry, who also supported the business.

Commissioner Ruth Trager wasn't won over by the new business' developers at the meeting who explained the precautions they'll take, and she cast the lone no vote. She drilled the business partners with questions about how they'll know if someone is sober or a felon.

They were reportedly swayed by the business' strict rules against shooting after drinking. Everyone who eats or drinks at the restaurant will have to submit to an ID scan, and if they've had alcohol, they won't be allowed to shoot at the range that day. In addition, guns won't be allowed in the restaurant, though commissioners pointed out that the policy won't stop people with concealed carry licenses from entering.

Patrons who go to the gun range will also have to sign an affidavit promising they're not drunk.

But why risk it by allowing booze in the restaurant in the first place? Co-founder Ron Perkinson says the eatery wouldn't be profitable without libations.

"Safety is obviously key and number one for not only me, but everyone else there. Everything is going to be revolved around safety," he told WFTV.

He said he would consider installing a metal detector at the restaurant if the commissioners asked for it, but they didn't.

This takes keeping your child safe to a whole new level.

The parents of an infant who was lockedin a hotel safe in Niagara Falls, Canada, won't be charged, officials said.

The child was placed inside a small safe in a room at the Howard Johnson Hotel on Tuesday by an older sibling during a game of hide-and-seek, and the safe door was somehow locked, NJ.com reports.

The parents called hotel employees who opened the safe, which is 20 inches wide, 14 inches tall, and 17 inches deep.

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Arrested By Mistake!

When 21-year-old Honor Roll student Marcus Green was pulled over for speeding in Fayetteville, North Carolina, he thought that he would be given a ticket and be allowed to continue on his journey. Instead he ended up being arrested.

In a bizarre case of mistaken identity, a clerical error led Green to being detained. Green has no police record but was detained for several hours until his father, Mark Green, paid the $1,100 cash bond to let him out.

 Green said he received a notice about an expired tag citation in Macon, Georgia six months ago, even though he hadn’t been there in three years. After calling and explaining the situation, he thought the mistake had been cleared up, but apparently it hadn’t been.

When he was stopped by the officer for speeding, he was asked, “did you know your license was suspended?” A surprised Green replied, “No.”

He then went on to say, “I haven’t been to Macon in three years,” the officer insisted that records show that he had a suspended license.

After getting out of jail, Green and his father headed out to Macon to sort the whole thing out. What they found was that Green’s information had been placed underneath a citation number for an individual who failed to appear in court, by the name of Gerien Marcus.

Although a subsequent letter from the Department of Driver Services sent to Green’s family admitted there had been a mistake, the Honor Roll student said, “I still have to appear in court on September 1 just to make sure this is completely gone from my record.”

“With the heightened awareness of the transactions with the police and youth, particularly black males, you need to talk to your kids,” said Mark Green, adding that he is grateful the situation didn’t escalate. His son said, “It was a traumatic experience,” but his father had always taught him how to handle himself around law enforcement officials.

“You don’t think it’s gonna happen to you that you’re gonna end up in a jail cell because of a speeding ticket,” Marcus continued. However, “The court clerk said this actually happens a lot.”

“This could have went south very easily,” said Mark Green, who is a former law enforcement official. He adds that he is thankful his son remained polite and respectful, even if he was arrested for a crime he didn’t commit.

A spokeswoman for the DDS said that the department received two records from the court containing identical driver’s license numbers but the information was not returned to the court for correction as per standard protocol. “In this case it was not and incorrect information was applied to Mr. Green’s record,” she added.

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