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"He always came up with fairly simple and elegant solutions -- very candid in his opinion, yet reasonable in his judgment and caring with his interactions."
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Santa Cruz police learned of another similar death outside California that Tichelman allegedly was involved with, which further piqued investigators' interest, Clark said. She has not been charged in that case, and authorities declined to say where it was.
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I wondered who would pay to have that face around them until the article said she provided him with heroin. She's a call girl/junkie combo package. Ugly as sin.
McALLEN -- A man from the Dominican Republic is expected to be sentenced by the end of the month following his guilty plea to assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
According to documents released Monday afternoon, Llevry Ramon Herrera Sepulveda went before U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter Ormsby on Friday afternoon and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of assaulting a border patrol agent. Ormsby ordered he remain in custody pending his sentencing hearing on July 31.
Initially FBI agents had charged Herrera with one count felony assault of a federal officer on June 17, just two days after he had assaulted a border patrol agent identified in court records only as A.P., the criminal complaint shows.
On the day of the assault, A.P spotted a group of persons who had crossed the river in an area south of Pharr and tried to apprehend a smaller group of six persons that splintered off and ran towards him, court records show.
The border patrol agent tried to apprehend Herrera only to be met with a series of punches to the face that stunned the agent during the struggle where he tried to take down and arrest the Dominican man.
During the fight, Herrera tried to take the agent's baton and other weapons but was only able to grab the radio and throw it into the brush.
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The Service would find this fantastic
(can you tell if I'm being sarcastic?):
An app -- call it Honey --
To track time and money
They spend on pursuits orgiastic.
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Hell, if they want to know whether I'm being sarcastic, I'll be glad to tell them. Another waste of our money and an assault on freedom of speech. Falls in the category of FUBAR.
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What I think this is actually about is a desire on the part of the police bureaucracy to not have to exercise any judgement. If the software says it wasn't acceptable sarcasm, you're guilty. Sue the vendor.
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well, I have always been sincere in my commentary.
no worry here
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Any "app" than can reliably detect sarcasm could probably pass the Turing test.
[Al Ahram] South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Wednesday urged rebel chief Riek Machar to restart talks to end a raging civil war between their forces that has driven the country to the brink of famine.
"Even if Riek Machar's forces still continue attacking our forces, I still renew my call for him to accept the logic of peaceful resolution," Kiir told crowds at celebrations to mark three years of independence.
"Put down your guns and come home."
South Sudan has been wracked by war since mid-December, when presidential guards loyal to Kiir clashed with troops supporting Machar, who fled to the bush and rallied a huge rebel army.
The fighting has been marked by widespread atrocities against both members of the Nuer people, to which Machar belongs, and Kiir's Dinka group, the single largest tribe.
Three ceasefire deals have failed to stick, and peace talks in luxury hotels in the Ãthiopian capital Addis Ababa have made little progress.
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[Al Ahram] President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... said on Wednesday that Russia, facing the threat of new sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, wanted to avoid international isolation but would strongly defend its national interests.
"We will never pursue isolationism. We will always be part of the international community," Putin said during a meeting with representatives of the Civic Chamber, a consultative body which monitors the work of the government and parliament.
"You and I must properly define national interests. We have learnt how to do that," he said. "We will do this persistently but correctly, carefully and ... strongly."
The United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... have imposed visa bans and asset freezes on some Russian companies and individuals since Russia annexed the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine in April after the overthrow of a Moscow-leaning Ukrainian president.
Washington and Brussels have held out the possibility of more sanctions if pro-Russian separatist fighters do not wind down the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
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When you get caught with your hands in the cookie jar, you will have to take the punishment. The entire station should be rotated out. Start fresh and get back at it-build trust, build relationships, develop relationships and begin over. Stop being all butt hurt, and get back to defending our nation. The Germans started two world wars in the last 100 years, tens of thousands of Americans died fighting them. They may be our good friend today, but the old saying hold true, "Trust but verify".
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[Iran Press TV] Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has promised to continue military operations against pro-Russian forces in the country's eastern regions.
During a visit to the eastern city of Slavyansk, where pro-Russian forces have reportedly been defeated, Poroshenko praised the Ukrainian troops for their efforts in retaking the city.
The city is now under a siege to stop the return of the militias.
On July 5, Ukrainian forces retook control of Slavyansk following overnight attacks. Andrei Purgin, deputy prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, said fighters only left Slavyansk to protect the civilian population.
According to reports, the government troops' next stop is the two main cities of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Ukraine's mainly Russian-speaking parts in the east have witnessed deadly festivities between pro-Russia activists and the Ukrainian army since the government in Kiev launched military operations in mid-April in a bid to crush the pro-Russia protests.
Violence intensified in May after the Donetsk and Lugansk regions held local referendums, in which their residents voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence from Ukraine.
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The Affordable Care Act has been successful at achieving some major goals in the first year of its full implementation, according to a new study from The Commonwealth Fund.
There are three important findings from the study: The uninsured rate is dropping, most people like their new insurance plans (even Republicans!), and most people are finding it easy to visit a doctor.
The study found the uninsured rate in the U.S. declined by one-quarter over the last nine months, which included the law's first, six-month open-enrollment period in which individuals could sign up for private insurance plans through exchanges established by the law.
From the July-to-September 2013 period to the April-to-June 2014 period, the uninsured rate of people between the ages of 19-64 dropped from 20% to 15%, according to the study. The research found 9.5 million people gained insurance, either through the exchanges or through the law's expansion of the federal Medicaid program.
The decline in uninsured was seen across different age groups and races, though the drop was disproportionately high among the young (-10%) and Latinos (-13%). It was disproportionately low among African-Americans the decline was only 1%.
The findings show the law has been successful at reducing the uninsured rate among the poor which was, of course, one of its main goals:
Expectedly, there is a significant difference in the reduction of uninsured between states that have expanded Medicaid and those that have not. According to the study, the uninsured rate among residents who make up to 100% of the federal poverty level fell from 28% to 17% in the 25 states that have expanded Medicaid (plus the District of Columbia). In the 25 states that haven't, the rate only fell from 38% to 36%.
Among those who have become newly insured, the vast majority say they are "better off" and like their plans. In total, 58% of respondents with new plans said they are "better off" than before including 61% who were previously uninsured. Seventy-nine percent of those who were previously uninsured said they were either "somewhat" or "very satisfied" with their new plans.
Even 74% of Republicans say they're at least somewhat satisfied with their new plans.
Significantly, most people who gained coverage under the Affordable Care Act said they couldn't have accessed care they have received since obtaining insurance:
Finally: About one-fifth of people who have signed up for a new plan have attempted to find a new primary care or general doctor, and most 75% have said the process is at least "somewhat easy." Two-thirds of those who found a primary-care doctor got an appointment within two weeks. Thirty-seven percent of people said their new plans included "most" of the doctors they wanted (about 39% don't yet know).
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Mine is horribly worse. Thank God I had my major medical issues under my old plan, otherwise I might not be alive right now due to triage and cost cutting
#2
FYI this organization is one that promotes getting more healthcare to the poorest. Its headed by the former director of Micheal Dukakis Chief Health Advisor, a lecturer on health services, health policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health, in 2008, he was senior health adviser to the Obama campaign. On March 20, 2009, President Obama appointed Blumenthal to be the National Health Information Technology Coordinator, just a month after the enactment of a federal stimulus package that included about $19 billion in incentives for Medicare and Medicaid.
In other words, he's been promoting the koolaide for decades - as has the "Commonwealth" organization. Not an unbiased source - I would question the legitimacy of the study unless all its methods and cross tabs of polls were completely open, as well as the questions asked.
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I would question the legitimacy of the study unless all its methods and cross tabs of polls were completely open, as well as the questions asked.
What OldSpook said. I've been following this issue fairly closely from the beginning, as for me there are life and death issues involved, not just money. To be honest, I do not believe a single word of the article, because it does not jibe with any of the anecdotal and statistical evidence I've seen thus far.
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I doubt they looked at the drop in uninsured to see if any paid their premiums. I also doubt that info is clear and available from this lying regime and bureaucracy
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I would hate to think your right Darth. Blood is a precious commodity.
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Amusing, the anti-Christians believe USA has titles of nobility, which would make accusations against a titled person treasonous, possibly. Doubly amusing, what those individuals accuse Christians of doing is what they and their cynosures are doing, which is actively working to harm their country. Triply amusing, one is never at a loss to grasp what anti-Christians are doing, just note what they accuse Christians of doing. They are most obliging in this regard, leaving one never at a loss of knowing what they do or even contemplate doing. Harry Reid is especially helpful in this way.
#5
True, however, I and a few others keep tabs on the unwashed heathen, and when the time comes I will be praising the Lord and passing the ammunition.
[Iran Press TV] Newly disclosed documents that show the US government spied on several prominent Moslem-Americans for years demonstrate that America is "no longer a free country," an American former university lecturer said.
The National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) covertly monitored the emails of five Moslem civil rights activists, academics and lawyers, according to a report published Tuesday by journalists Glenn Greenwald
...who some think ranks up (or down) there with Robert Fisk in the quality journalism department. Others, of course, disagree...
Someone would need to beat the living crap out of Greenwald in order to be on par with Fisk.
and Murtaza Hussain
Who?
in The Intercept, citing leaked NSA documents provided by Snowden.
The five individuals appear on an NSA spreadsheet in the Snowden archives called "FISA recap"—short for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The spreadsheet shows 7,485 email addresses, mostly of foreigners, that were monitored between 2002 and 2008.
"The United States is no longer a free country and it won't be free until we rise up in another American revolution, hopefully a non-violent one, and reinstate our Constitution," said Kevin Barrett, who's also a journalist, radio host and activist in Madison, Wisconsin.
Really, I simply must spend the time to learn who actually is who among those activist types...
Barrett is a Mooselimb and a Moonbat.
"The American people are now just complete sitting ducks for this kind of NSA spying and government blackmail, Barrett told Press TV in an interview on Wednesday.
*waves to the nice people at the NSA who just want to catch bad guys*
"Any American can be targeted, any American can be manipulated and controlled through this message," he added.
"They're being manipulated by the NSA so that they would be forced to cooperate with the FBI. This is a common tactic that's been used against the Moslem community," Barrett said.
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The National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) covertly monitored the emails of five Moslem civil rights activists, academics and lawyers, according to a report published Tuesday by journalists Glenn Greenwald
Only five monitored was it? I was hoping for tens of thousands.
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"The United States is no longer a free country and it won't be free until we rise up in another American revolution, hopefully a non-violent one, and reinstate our Constitution," said Kevin Barrett, who's also a journalist, radio host and activist in Madison, Wisconsin.
Lad doesn't know squat about revolutions, does he?
Mike
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The Iran Press? Yeah, they know something about freedom, don't they?
[LATIMES] Both candidates claimed victory Wednesday in Indonesia's presidential election, the tightest race since the former Southeast Asian dictatorship made the transition to democratic politics less than two decades ago.
Joko Widodo, the popular chief executive of the capital city, Jakarta, said he had won based on samples of votes being counted at 480,000 polling stations nationwide that gave him a lead of between 4 and 6 percentage points. The so-called quick counts have accurately forecast results in the last several national elections.
But Widodo's rival, Prabowo Subianto, a former head of Indonesia's special forces, refused to concede defeat. An hour after Widodo delivered a victory speech -- at the plaza where the former Dutch possession declared independence in 1945 -- Subianto told supporters that "our team has won in many provinces and many areas."
With official results not due until next month, the world's fourth most populous nation was poised for several more weeks of tension after a gritty campaign that was marred in its final weeks by ferocious smears against Widodo that played on Indonesia's religious and political sensitivities.
The claims against Widodo, better known by the nickname Jokowi, falsely accused him of being a closet Christian with Chinese roots, damaging his standing among Indonesia's overwhelmingly Mohammedan population. The smears likely contributed to a dramatic drop in his pre-election poll numbers, which went from a 30-point advantage over Subianto to the two being in a dead heat.
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Dang. Indonesian names are something out of Star Wars.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
The Affordable Care Act has been successful at achieving some major goals in the first year of its full implementation, according to a new study from The Commonwealth Fund.
