[NJ] An Irvington police captain was locked away Please don't kill me! early this morning after allegedly trying to run over a city councilman with her car, according to authorities.
Monique Smith, 43, was taken into custody on charges including aggravated assault, stalking, harassment, criminal mischief and improper lane change multiple weapons charges related to the incident involving South Ward Councilman John Sharpe James, Newark police front man Sgt. Ronald Glover said in a statement.
James was close to his home in the area of Elizabeth and Pomona avenues when he was confronted by Smith around 11 p.m., according to Glover. As she yelled at him, James got into his car and drove off.
Smith got into her personal vehicle and followed the councilman, allegedly striking his vehicle several times. James then proceeded to his parents' home on Wilbur Street, where his father, former longtime Newark Mayor Sharpe James, intervened on his behalf, Glover said.
Police were called to the scene, but were unable to locate Smith until early this morning. Did they look in the stationhouse?
It is unclear whether the councilman was injured during the incident, or what sparked the confrontation between him and Smith.
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Irvington Mayor Tony Vauss said he was still gathering information on the incident this morning, but that Smith would be suspended without pay pending an investigation. Despite the arrest, he defended the decision to promote her based on her track record with the force.
“She’s been a fine officer for many years in the Irvington Police Department,” he said.
After she pleas the case down to a misdemeanor and stern warning, she'll need the extra dough to cover legal fees. Thanks for thinking ahead Mr. Mayor.
If you had breakfast this morning you might be saying hello to the meal again when you read the details of Al Sharpton’s Viagra prescription.
From the Daily News:
Sandy Rubenstein was cleared of a rape accusation Monday, but not before one final, potentially humiliating revelation emerged about his ex-pal Al Sharpton.
A prescription for the sex pill Viagra was found in Rubenstein’s apartment — but it was issued in Sharpton’s name, a police source told the Daily News.
Rubenstein was accused of raping a top official in Sharpton’s NAN who was unconscious at the time, on the same day as Sharpton’s birthday in October of last year. Sounds like a Rape Culture to me. It was probably that guy Barry again. Betcha Lena Dunham and Jackie are glad they missed it.
The Daily News asked the race-baiting fraud about it and his response is what you’d expect:
A shocked Sharpton initially said he was unaware of a doc’s note for the little blue pill that treats erectile dysfunction.
“I don’t know anything about that, no, I don’t know anything about that,” Sharpton said, after a speechless second.
But he roared back a moment later, accusing the source who leaked the detail of trying to embarrass him with a smear campaign and saying he would demand an investigation.
“I am not saying what I do or don’t do, I’m not going to invade my privacy for some cop,” said Sharpton. “I have no knowledge of what was in (Rubenstein’s) apartment. But it’s not uncommon for men of all ages to use certain things.
“If the motive of the cop was to embarrass me, at 60 years old, I am unembarrassable,” fumed Sharpton, whose longstanding animosity with the NYPD has reached a fever pitch because of his vocal opposition to stop-and-frisk and close relationship to Mayor de Blasio.
Somehow the NYPD just has printed copies of Al Sharpton’s Viagra prescriptions on hand to plant on crime scenes? Yeah that seems totally feasible.
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Now known round the world as a pouter,
He'll find the press shouts even louder.
Reporters will shower
Their truth on the power
Of Kirkby "clay pigeon" Delauter.
[Washington Post] Starting to notice that the rest of us don't like being racist by definition? It's a yucky world, when we'd rather have Boner than a Dem. Jim Webb views himself as another tribal leader, of the Scots-Irish tribe...
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Exactly Doc, and it's got a chance, not much of a chance, but a chance.
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Hold my nose and vote for JEB...
..And the most tea party candidates for your Congressional and Statehouse representation. The legislature sets the agenda, if they have the will to do so.
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“I think that they have kind of unwittingly used this group, white working males, as a whipping post for a lot of their policies. And then when they react, they say they're being racist.”
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I'm going to send Webb a few bucks just to get on a mailing list one level up. We'll see, there are still a boat-load of potential Blue-Dawgs out there, hit the right populist buttons and all hell could break loose in both parties.
Just as our senators and representatives were preparing to be sworn in and President Obama was talking about how eager he is to work with the new Congress, our own Sen. Charles Schumer -- the No. 3 Democrat --- declared his caucus ready for full obstructionist mode.
At issue here is the Keystone Pipeline that would bring oil from Canada down to the Gulf.
The Republicans' plan is to bring this up early, because it should be a no-brainer and enjoys the support of several Democrats. According to the president's own State Department, pipeline construction would support 40,000 jobs while posing no additional harm to the environment.
This is the legislation Schumer has committed to sinking. If the bill does indeed make it to the president's desk, says New York's senior senator, "We will have enough votes to sustain a presidential veto."
So much for President Obama's so-called "all-of-the-above" approach to energy.
Truth is, too often the extremist agenda of well-heeled greens has been put before the interests of ordinary Americans who stand to benefit from lower oil prices and the good jobs a pipeline project would bring.
[USATODAY] Rep. John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans... was re-elected Tuesday to a third term as U.S. House speaker after facing down a conservative rebellion that sought to oust him from the office. Decisions, decisions... a Dem, a Herpe, or Boner...
As of early Tuesday, 15 Republicans had been on record saying they would not vote for Boehner. During the vote, another 10 politicians joined them. But they still voted the bastard back in. So much for our opinion.
In the end, Boehner was elected with 216 votes out of the 408 votes cast. Regular reader DarthVader notes that Boehner then took his revenge...
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Insanity - repeating the same things and expecting different results. The GOP just handed themselves a loss in 2016 electing this ultimate insider with no principles other than what the Chamber of Commerce and Crony Capitalists tell him and the other GOP errand boys to do.
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This drop in crude oil price is beginning to bother me a bit. I smell an orchestrated price dip, followed by a heavy round of federal tax increases at the pump. The proles won't feel a thing initially, and this ponzi scheme bailout has to come from somewhere, right ?
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Bitch Mitchell has already said he's not going to do a damn thing about Executive Amnesty. Probably not about Obamacare either. And Boehner will go right along with him.
Both of them are actually foolish enough to think that all those illegal voters will vote for them. And you know they will vote - LaRaza and the DNC will make damn sure of that as well as suing anyone who dares to question their 'right to vote'.
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Wasted time, effort, and political ammo. NOT realizing that speaks volumes about Gohmert and the other two candidates and their situational awareness. Can someone in Texas please speak to him? He might listen, he's actually a likeable guy.
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They'll all be surprise when the next terrorist strike hits DC and most people* outside the Beltway yawn. Big city mayors might be agitated (as in we may be next), but too busy with their own imploding mess to get the flyovers excited about it.
* not to be confused with the ballot box stuffers who consume but don't produce.
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Benedict's Boner?
(Sorry, couldn't resist)
In any case I think the Republicans have pretty much signed their own death warrant - they're just too stupid to realize it. Once these illegals start voting (or The Emperor grants them citizenship by fiat) the GOP is finished. It may be finished now - I think a lot of conservatives will remember the treason of Boehner and Mitchell and stay home. I'll certainly be tempted to. Sure I may be 'throwing my vote away' but at least I'm not giving it to the other side which is what the GOP leadership is anymore.
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People voted for new republican blood because they wanted a change from the status quo of uncontrolled spending and out of control govt. Boehner, McConnell and Reid were the architects of our bankruptcy as a govt. O is a symptom. Boehner may be King Sh*t but he will preside over a collapsed govt or a rebellion. We are approaching the knee of the collapse curve.
Boehner and McConnell will preside over our demise if they pursue the status quo.
This country is being attacked from without and within. We are running out of time.
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[BLOGS.REUTERS] The Federal Communications Commission is in the middle of a high-stakes decision that could raise taxes for close to 90 percent of Americans. The commission is considering whether to reclassify broadband as a telecommunications service and, in doing so, Washington would trigger new taxes and fees at the state and local level.
The agency would like to make Internet service a public utility, placing broadband under Title II regulation of the Communications Act of 1934. This move would make broadband subject to New Deal-era regulation, and have significant consequences for U.S. taxpayers.
Under this decision to reclassify broadband, Americans would face a host of new state and local taxes and fees that apply to public utilities. These new levies, according to the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), would total $15 billion annually. On average, consumers would pay an additional $67 for landline broadband, and $72 for mobile broadband each year, according to PPI?s calculations, with charges varying from state to state.
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It's more likely that whether or not the internet becomes a public utility, I'll pay more. Never lower prices!
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No, wrong. Not if it follows the Texas model for electricity. One company maintains the wires to the headend, and is heavily regulated as a public utility. The others generate power to put onto those wires, and are *very* competitive with lots of choices.
Same could be done with data. Municipality or local Telcos, CLECs and Cable spin off their plants into regulated monopolies, and sell bandwidth and content over that plant. Plant is maintained to a given standard, say, gigabit fiber, like FIOS.
So no its not a disaster if its handled correctly.
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Lots of things that can be done, aren't. The rent seekers have taken over broadband in the USA. Case in point: I uploaded a DVD of a 45 min. lecture online for a cousin in South Korea. Took me 16 hours to upload it to live.com, took him 16 minutes to download. We pay about the same bill for the service we get in our respective countries.
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Anguper Hupomosing9418 ADSL is asymmetric WRT bandwidth direction, so if you're using that (plus adding some time for it to be "processed") it doesn't sound too unlikely.
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I am trying to set up Rantburg-Pneumateek which will be a synopsis of all my comments as well as a few others. The cost of getting le tube to Alaska Paul is slowing the project, however, Inwill show interest to the Chineese. All the right people will want the tube in time.
[CNBC] It's time for Congress to hike the federal gas tax and actually solve a fiscal problem instead of "kicking the can down the road," Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., told CNBC on Monday. Right on %*@#ing schedule. Rat bastards. Taxes just went up, with the income taxes included in Obamacare kicking in this year, including a 55 percent estate tax.
Let's all wait until 2018 or so to die, then, after all this nonsense is rolled back.
The tax, or user fee, funds infrastructure repairs and improvements and hasn't been raised since 1993. Instead, Congress has been dipping into the general treasury to keep the dwindling Highway Trust Fund solvent. That implies it's destined to continue to go up... and up... and up... Here's a heretical thought: what if we spent the Highway Trust Fund only on highways?
"What Congress has done five times since 2008 is literally generational theft, just stealing from future generations out of the general funds to pay for infrastructure because Congress is going to fund infrastructure but not in the appropriate way," Corker said in an interview with "Closing Bell." They're [too many impending years in purgatory to use that particular language] incapable of comprehending the connection between transportation costs and economic growth.
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[CNSNEWS] Incoming Republican Senate Commerce Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.) will not rule out a gas-tax hike as a means to replenish the Highway Trust Fund, according to his press office and his own comments on Fox News.
On Jan. 4, on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace asked Senator Thune, "One of the big items on your agenda is the fact that you have to find a way to finance the transportation bill, which would pay for upkeep of our highways and the public transit system. With gas prices now under $2.50 a gallon, would you favor increasing the gas tax?"
"Well, I don't favor increasing any tax, Chris, ... he said piously...
but I think we have to look at all the options," said Thune. "We obviously have a big delta we have to meet. The highway bill expires at the end of May and there's about a hundred billion shortfall of what it would take to fund the highway trust fund at the current level of operation." "What the hell? Everybody's used to paying through the nose for gas by now. If the rates don't go all the way up first thing they won't bitch too much."
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Will the tax go down if oil hits $100/bbl in a few months?
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.
If you had breakfast this morning you might be saying hello to the meal again when you read the details of Al Sharpton’s Viagra prescription.
[CNBC] It's time for Congress to hike the federal gas tax and actually solve a fiscal problem instead of "kicking the can down the road," Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., told CNBC on Monday.
[CNSNEWS] Incoming Republican Senate Commerce Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.) will not rule out a gas-tax hike as a means to replenish the Highway Trust Fund, according to his press office and his own comments on Fox News.
