Perhaps a suddenly firearm-friendly President Obama
can put in a good word for Jared Marcum. In April, Marcum, an
eighth-grader at Logan Middle School in Logan, W. Va., was arrested when
he refused to take off his NRA t-shirt. The New York Daily Newsreports:
The
clothing kerfuffle began when Marcum wore a shirt bearing the NRA’s
logo and a hunting rifle. As he stood in line in the cafeteria, a
teacher ordered him to either change shirts or turn it inside out.
Marcum
declined and was sent to the office, where an officer was dispatched
after he again refused to comply with the school’s request.
Cops arrested him and charged him with disrupting the educational process and obstructing an officer.
Late last week Marcum “appeared before a judge and was officially charged with obstructing an officer,” reports
Fox News. If convicted, he could face up to a $500 fine or a year in
prison. He will be back in front of the judge on July 11 if his attorney
cannot get the charge dismissed before then.
One can understand this sort of silliness across the border in Maryland (as we have chronicled here and here) — but in West Virginia? This is, after all, the state whose senator’s campaign ad featured him shooting Obama’s cap-and-trade bill. Ah, those were the days. (hat tip Drudge)
A Kansas physician says he makes the same income and offers better
quality care to his patients after he dumped all health insurance
companies.
Thirty-two-year old family physician Doug Nunamaker of Wichita,
Kan., said after five years of dealing with the red tape of health
insurance companies and the high overhead for the staff he hired just to
deal with paperwork, he switched to a system of charging his patients a
monthly fee plus the price of an office visit or test, CNN/Money
reported.
For example, under Nunamaker's membership plan -- also known as
"concierge" medicine or "direct primary care" practices -- each patient
pays a flat monthly fee to have unlimited access to the doctors and any
medical service they can provide in the practice, such as stitches or an
EKG.
For adults up to age 44, Nunamaker charges $50 a month, pediatric
services are $10 a month, and for adults age 44 and older it costs $100 a
month. Although Nunamaker calls the practice "cash-only," he accepts
credit and debit cards for the fees and services.
Nunamaker and his partner negotiated deals for services outside the
office. A cholesterol test costs the patient for $3, versus the $90 or
more billed to insurance companies; an MRI can cost $400, compared with
$2,000 or more billed to insurance companies. (continue reading at Breitbart)
On a side note:
Despite a shortage of U.S. primary care doctors, less than 25 percent of
new doctors go into this field, and fewer still work in rural areas,
researchers say. (continue at Breitbart)
Eyeball-licking, a/k/a worming, or oculolinctus, is an eye-licking fetish that is currently sweeping across the schools of Japan like, well, like a great big dirty bacteria-coated tongue sweeping across a horrific number of adolescent eyeballs, writes Shortcuts Blog at the Guardian. Here's an excerpt:
The popularity of the bizarre practice, sometimes called 'worming', has been blamed for a rise in cases of conjunctivitis.
And it freaks us out just to think about it.
Sometimes known as "worming" – which somehow makes this whole thing
worse – oculolinctus is being blamed for a significant rise in Japanese
cases of conjunctivitis and eye-chlamydia, which is actually a thing. It's apparently seen as a new second-base; the thing you graduate to when kissing gets boring.
The craze is thought to stem from a music video by Japanese emo band Born
(there's a chance that the eyeball-licking scene was only included to
distract everyone from the fact that the song sounds like it belongs on a
menu screen for an EA Sports game about snowboarding from a decade ago,
but at this point that's just speculation).
Tumblr, inevitably, is filling up with drawings and unnecessarily close-up photographs
of the act, and YouTube is no stranger either. One theory about why it
has taken off so spectacularly is down to the sheer number of nerve
endings in the cornea. The eyeballs are incredibly sensitive because
they need to detect grit and other small particles, and the sensation of
oculolinctus is supposedly akin to that of toesucking.
Unwilling
to try it myself – because my tongue isn't long enough, I don't want
eye-chlamydia and just writing about this has made me retch...
Dr. Robert Cykiert, an associate professor in the department of
ophthalmology at the New York University Langone Medical Center, said
the surface of a healthy eye is normal mostly sterile, while the mouth is filled with bacteria and food particles. [snip]
“[People] may have scarring of the cornea that can be permanent
depending on the bacteria in germs … it may cause a perforation or hole
to develop,” said Cykiert, who has had to give some patients with
corneal ulcers a cornea transplant.
In speech to conservatives
Friday, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush raised eyebrows with the words he
chose to discuss the benefits of immigrants producing many young
workers.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Friday told an audience of conservatives
that the future of the US economy depends on immigrants in part because
they are “more fertile” than native-born Americans and thus will
produce many young workers to help support the aging US boomer
generation.
What Bush meant to say was that immigrants have a higher birthrate. In the years ahead, the United States
will need a large cohort of young workers to pay taxes to help support
the Social Security and Medicare expenses of retirees. With the
native-born birthrate sinking toward a record low, immigration could be a
big help in this regard, runs Bush’s real argument.
“Immigrants
are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact
families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an
engine of economic prosperity,” was Bush’s full quote during his speech
at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s annual conference in Washington.
It’s true that immigrant women per capita have more children than native-born women. Last November, a comprehensive Pew Research Center analysis
of the latest available government data found that the immigrant
birthrate in 2010 was 87.8 live births per every 1,000 women of
childbearing age. The equivalent figure for native-born women was 58.9.
(It’s
also true that the immigrant birthrate is declining. Hispanics are
having fewer children per capita as they assimilate into US culture, as
did previous waves of immigrants throughout US history.)
The Australian government has announced new guidelines on gender
recognition which state that individuals should be given the option of
selecting "male", "female" or "intersex" on their personal documents, according to reports.
I'm reminded of the Saturday Night Live character Pat, who when asked in an application for sex, Pat responded, "Please!"
However there are problems with using the term 'intersex', rather than Lesbian, Bi-sexual, Gay, Transgender, whatever. Intersex is defined as anatomical anomaly, a birth defect one might say:
“Intersex” is a general term used for a variety of conditions in
which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that
doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male. For
example, a person might be born appearing to be female on the outside,
but having mostly male-typical anatomy on the inside. Or a person may be
born with genitals that seem to be in-between the usual male and female
types—for example, a girl may be born with a noticeably large clitoris,
or lacking a vaginal opening, or a boy may be born with a notably small
penis, or with a scrotum that is divided so that it has formed more
like labia. Or a person may be born with mosaic genetics, so that some
of her cells have XX chromosomes and some of them have XY.
Though we speak of intersex as an inborn condition, intersex anatomy
doesn’t always show up at birth. Sometimes a person isn’t found to have
intersex anatomy until she or he reaches the age of puberty, or finds
himself an infertile adult, or dies of old age and is autopsied. Some
people live and die with intersex anatomy without anyone (including
themselves) ever knowing. (Intersex Society of North America)
I'm not sure if the United States will follow Australia's lead on this. Perhaps having a box where an individual could check "male", "female" or "other" would be best? Just asking. I realize that the majority of citizens in the world are being forced to go along with all these gender-related immoran changes in society, whether we want to or not. Majority does not rule any longer, especially here in the U.S.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said the new guidelines, which come
into operation from July 1, will make it simpler for people to establish
or change their sex or gender in personal records held by federal
government departments and agencies.
"We recognise individuals may identify, and be recognised within the
community, as a gender other than the gender they were assigned at birth
or during infancy, or as an indeterminate gender," Dreyfus said in a
statement Thursday. (more at France24)
I think the Left is pushing the LGBTQ and now Intersex agenda onto the majority of this nation, including indoctrinating our children from their earliest years onward. This is a very scary situation.
Nine year-old twins Zea and Luna
introduce President Barack Obama at the White House's LGBT Pride Month
celebration Thursday, June 13. What were 9 year old children doing at an LGBT Pride celebration at the White House in the first place? Using children as props again for their vile agenda. Video and comments at Breitbart.
The Obama administration is considering resettling thousands of
refugees who left Syria during the country's ongoing civil war to
multiple towns and cities across the United States, theL.A. Times reports.
A resettlement plan under discussion in Washington and other capitals
is aimed at relieving pressure on Middle Eastern countries straining to
support 1.6 million refugees, as well as assisting hard-hit Syrian
families.
The State Department is "ready to consider the idea," an official
from the department said, if the administration receives a formal
request from the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for
Refugees, which is the usual procedure.
The United States usually accepts about half the refugees that the
U.N. agency proposes for resettlement. California has historically taken
the largest share, but Illinois, Florida, Pennsylvania, Maryland and
Virginia are also popular destinations.
U.N. refugee officials, along with diplomats and non-governmental
relief groups, are scheduled to meet in Geneva this week to discuss
potential resettlement plans. Germany has already agreed to take 5,000
refugees.
Continue reading at Breitbart hat tip Drudge who has the following:
Coffee Party Progressive Facebook page
contained pro-Trayvon and anti-Zimmerman postings including one
suggested threat against Zimmerman
There were some shocking revelations about a couple of
today’s prospective jurors. One was juror J39, who simply disbelieved
in the legal possibility of killing in lawful self defense, saying
that “murder’s murder, no matter what. Even if it’s self-defense.
Self-defense doesn’t make it right to kill somebody.” He was promptly
dismissed by the Court after the State’s questioning, without any need
for the defense to question him.
Far more disturbing, however, was prospective juror E7. Although he
claimed, when questioned by the State, that he had arrived at “no
conclusion” in this case, after extensive questioning by the defense,
this happened:
..
It would emerge after extensive questioning by the defense that he
had, back in March 21, 2012, actively posted on a Facebook page, “Coffee
Party Progressives.” This Facebook page was strongly pro-Trayvon, and
anti-Zimmerman, with one poster commenting: ”I say give the guy
[Zimmerman] some skittles and an iced tea and shoot him in the head.” (We
do not know whether any of the content captured in the screen captures
below is that of E7, only that they represent the content posted on the
page on the same date the Court determined E7 had posted.)
It appeared, in short, to be a deliberate attempt by E7 to deceive
the court as to his state of mind in order to obtain a seat on the jury,
deny Zimmerman his Constitutional rights to a fair and impartial jury,
and obtain an improper conviction of Zimmerman for murder in the second
degree.
Details of this event drawn from today’s summary of day 3 of the jury selection process:
Prospective Juror E7
E7 is a white male, in his 50′s, who works in the entertainment
industry (a musician and a painter) but says he is currently
“underemployed” and “things are slow.” At first he was relatively
interested in the case, and thought that if the police didn’t arrest
Zimmerman, there must have been a reason for that. He feels that
someone has a right to defend themselves, and shouldn’t be arrested for
doing so lawfully.
Later two things changed that impacted his thoughts and actions.
One, Zimmerman was finally arrested. Since the facts of the case didn’t
change, He wondered why the arrest didn’t happen in the first place,
and believed that he should have been, since he was now. The other
thing that changed was how heated the debate became, at which point he
consciously decided to avoid the case and not discuss it further.
E7 says he made a conscious decision to avoid the case and not
discuss it to prevent “making enemies,” and that he stopped talking
about the case after he saw people around him “get so heated.” He
believes, he said, that “all these suppositions don’t mean anything,”
and that he’s heard recording in the case but didn’t come to any
conclusions. He recalled seeing pictures of “alleged” damage to
Zimmerman’s head. He said he believed that if someone’s within their
right to defend themselves, they shouldn’t be arrested. He said he was
aware that there’s a dispute about who is screaming on the 911 audio,
but that “I haven’t formed a conclusion.”
Now go read the other article by Andrew Branca at Legal Insurrection here,
FOR TODAY’S MOST SHOCKING PROSPECTIVE JURORS, SCROLL DOWN TO R39 & E7, ...
Today the Court continued its preliminary questioning of prospective
jurors, moving through 10 candidates by the end of the day. As was the
case yesterday, questions were limited to how much exposure the
prospective juror had to the case through the media and other channels,
as well as how that may have impacted their opinion of the case.
Interestingly, Judge Nelson spoke directly to George Zimmerman this
morning before the jurors began to be brought in, asking him if he was
satisfied with how his counsel were managing the voir dire. Mr.
Zimmerman responded, “Yes, your Honor.”
There was also some speculation today that the defense believed a
jury might be seated by the middle of next week. In addition, it was
disclosed that a total of 71 jurors have been dismissed at this point.
Another 100 were summoned today, but are on call and do not have to
report immediately to the court house.
Like yesterday , there was also a notable increase in questioning by
both the State and the defense about the prospective juror’s use of
social media. There was little of this on Monday, but it’s become an
increasing focus of questioning since then.
There also seemed to be an increased interest in whether the prospective jurors were active in church.
Despite
the outcry from the masses to Mark Yudoff, president of the University of
California, my voice among them, no one to date has had the guts to scrub the
school of its Islamist extremism and its rampant Jew-hatred, soon to be followed
by Christian-hatred. (History has shown that Jews are always the
first, but never the only.) Added to that now is harassment and defamation
of AMCHA co-founder Tammi Rossman-Benjamin. Words fail me as I see
happening in America what everyone knows happened in Europe just eighty years
ago. How the “learned” can allow
the Fascism to continue is baffling enough, but that they can proceed in their
daily routines and assume they will remain immune to the dangers posed by the
conquering invaders is beyond anyone’s comprehension. No
country has risen up after Islamic conquest. Even Spain’s
re-conquista of 1492 appears to be falling to the new jihadists after a hiatus
of several centuries.
Now
the school is to blame for allowing these uncontrollable students to discredit
Tammi with petitions, posters, videos and more. Is there none on
staff with a conscience, or is this school just one of the many that receive
Saudi funding, for which it is deemed acceptable to sell their souls and betray
their country?
It
was not so long ago that the Jews sought help from the police in Sweden and
Norway, which the governments were unwilling to provide. Because of the
states’neglect, Sweden has become the rape capital of the world. We
know that Islamists wield control in many ways, so what is now taking place on
the campuses will be followed by rioting, rape and sodomy, perhaps
stabbings. Arabs are also not averse to throwing deadly rocks,
setting fires, wanton destruction and, yes, cannibalism. Just
recently, on YouTube, we saw a jihadist cut out and eat the heart of his
victim. The news
media has
confirmed the many days of fires in Stockholm, set by their violent
adherents of the Religion of Peace. Jews are fleeing Sweden, and
Norway is already Judenrein, on its way to becoming a land with no trace of
its initial Nordic culture.
California
will be no different, as the Jewish population has already reported experiencing
intimidation and endangerment, apparently preparing to leaving the U of C
with their chosen, preferred population - the followers of the consummate War
Lord.
I
called on the president to use all the laws within his power and the state’s to
restore sanity and safety to the students. End the bigotry and expel
those who want to turn the school and our country into another Sharia
entity. Defend Tammi
Rossman-Benjamin’s hope of restoring the school to its past
glory! How can they not?!
While the administration may indeed be deserving of what they have sown,
they have caused undue stress and harm to the victimized students, not to
mention the additional expense for having to switch schools in order
to complete their education.
The
successes experienced by the aggressive, brutal Jihadists will embolden those in
other schools and throughout our nation if this administration does
nothing. Evil thrives when good men do nothing. We hope
they will not postpone until all that’s left is irrevocable regret and progeny
who will have to bear the burden and pain from inaction.
The jury selection continues for the third day in the George Zimmerman trial. For the latest updates and links check out The Last Refuge who has been all over this case from the beginning. You can follow the events live at Fox.
Today there are questions about the possible skewing the ethnic and racial make-up of the public who received jury duty notifications.
I think the Zimmerman side has lost the PR battle, allowing Trayvon Martin's family and supporters to paint a picture of Trayvon that really is not accurate, painting him as a little innocent boy when he was not.
There is much talk about the way Zimmerman looks, the huge weight gain, and how this does not help him. Is this what we've come to? Judging a man innocent or guilty on weight gain?
The George Zimmerman murder trial for the 2012 shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin is underway in Seminole County, Florida. Defense attorney Mark O’Mara is representing Zimmerman and the lead prosecutor for the state of Florida is Bernie de la Rionda.
Zimmerman faces second-degree murder charges for the shooting of
Martin, who was unarmed at the time. The defendant has claimed that he
shot Martin in self-defense, citing Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law. (Mediaite)
Images from Trayvon Martin 's phone showing him with a gun, smoking (marijuana), will not be admitted into trial.
The event has been protrayed as racist, as profiling, as an over-eager White man attacking and killing a young, innocent Black boy.
The media narrative being sold is quite clear, Trayvon Martin is the
innocent victim here and George Zimmerman is a horrible bigot who
attacked the young man for doing nothing more than buying skittles while
being black. (Wagist)
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