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10 Ways the "MAN" Watches Us

10 Ways the "MAN" Watches Us

1.FBI monitoring of email and electronic communications.Credit: Mozilla Foundation

The FBI implemented a system in the late 1990s known as Carnivore, which scanned emails en masse looking for keywords. It's since been replaced by even more sophisticated software.

"Carnivore uses a list of FBI-supplied keywords to sift through email (maybe everybody's email) to find suspicious references to call FBI attention to possibly nefarious conversations going on across the Internet," explained Joe B. Vaughan, Jr., author of "The Suburban Manifesto: How To Get City Hall To Do Exactly What You Want"

2.License-plate cameras at intersections

  In order to crack down on drivers running red lights or committing other traffic transgressions, many municipalities have installed cameras at intersections.

The camera snaps a picture of the offending vehicle, and based on license-plate information, the photo and an accompanying traffic ticket are sent to the car’s owner.

3.Surveillance cameras in public places

In August, Detroit officials announced that the city would be operating 350 security cameras in the central business district, joining dozens of American cities that use surveillance cameras to help prevent crime.

Cameras are installed in areas that have a history of criminal activities or in areas where crowds regularly gather — down town  public parks or subway stations, for example. The cameras also record the everyday activities of law-abiding citizens, many of whom are unaware they are being watched.

4.Geolocation tracking on cell phones.

GPS on a smartphone is one of life’s greatest inventions — in the palm of your hand, you can get directions from Point A to Point B, or let friends know your current location.

But that same GPS also lets law enforcement officials know where you are. The American Civil Liberties Union has requested information from 31 states for details about how law enforcement uses cell phone location data and how frequently it is gathered. The federal government has also admitted that it has the authority to track citizens using cell phone data.

5.Electronic toll collectors.

For those who frequently drive on toll roads on the East Coast, getting an E-ZPass saves both time and the need to have a cup holder filled with quarters for the commute to work. The same is true of similar systems, such as TxTag in Texas or FasTrak in California.

All of these, as well more than a dozen other systems in North America, work using radio frequency identification (RFID). The passes communicate with readers at tollbooths, and the readers both debit the passes' prepaid balances and keep a record of when and where the transaction occurred.

6. Business records

Section 215 of the Patriot Act allows the FBI and other federal law-enforcement entities to subpoena a business or person for any "tangible thing" related to an authorized terrorism investigation. The FBI can ask for bank statements, library records, medical records, business papers — any paper trail left by the person or business. Law enforcement does not have to have to show any probable cause to request the information.

7.The "Lone Wolf" provision of the Patriot Act

The government recognizes that terrorists, such as the Pakistani man who tried to blow up Times Square in 2010, do not always operate as part of a larger group, and such "Lone Wolves" are currently considered one of the top terror threats. A "Lone Wolf" provision was added to the Patriot Act in 2004 and permits the government to conduct intelligence investigations without the traditional burden of proof.

8.The "Secure Communities" initiative. 

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency works with state and city law enforcement to share resources on non citizens who have committed crimes. According to the ICE website, Secure Communities "uses an already-existing federal information-sharing partnership between ICE and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that helps to identify criminal aliens without imposing new or additional requirements on state and local law enforcement.

9.Biometric identification

Biometric identification uses a scan of a part of the body — a fingerprint, the iris of the eye, or the voice, for example — as a verification tool. Instead of typing in a password or swiping a card to log into a computer or enter a building, you would use your body.

Many security experts believe this is the most secure type of authentication available, and governments are taking advantage of this technology. The Department of Homeland Security has developed a standard for biometric identification for visitors to the United States, and the Department of Defense is providing the Army with a toolkit to do biometric identification in the field.

10. Roving John Doe wiretaps

One of the controversial Patriot Act provisions reauthorized this past spring permits roving John Doe wiretaps, which follow a "person of interest" within a broad search warrant.

For example, instead of getting a warrant to tap into a single phone line, the roving John Doe wiretap allows law enforcement to tap any and all communication lines — cell phone, landlines, email, text messaging — a person of interest may be using.

*Thank you Tech News Daily for the list of 10.

I also believe that tagging pictures on line even on your home computer by name location is building a base for  the Govt.  to be able to track you and predict your movement around the world.

Anybody remember chipping their pets? Now they are chipping people!

Where's GOOGLE'S Common Sense?

Why no results for manteca in Google search?

Why can't Google own up to mistakes and even possibly adhere the solution right next to the problem?

Why can Google Ad words not pay bloggers for ads they ran on,  saying Tracking code not installed ? I saw the ads!

How can Anyone understand Google's two step verification?

Why does Google Charge Bloggers for for advertising itself on Blogger?

Why Can't Google Earth show Real Time?

Why did Google name it Drive instead of DOCUMENTS?

Why did Google shut down 360?

Why Do  Google Analytics, Adsense, Adwords all track days differently and count page hits differently?

What's the Difference between Google Blogger and Google Sites?

  

Where's California's Common Sense?

 The federal courts are about to start handing responsibility for inmate health care back to California corrections officials.
It is the first step in ending a seven-year-old receivership that has cost the state billions of dollars to improve prison medical conditions.
The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation will assume responsibility Friday for hiring employees and preparing to open a $1 billion prison medical complex in Stockton.
If the transition goes well, the court-appointed overseer predicted his control of inmate medical care could end in about a year. A federal judge is likely to appoint a special master to monitor the state’s compliance at least into 2014.

Taxpayers are paying a price

 Californians spend about $23.4 million a year to treat state inmates with valley fever.

The California prison system estimates about 200 inmates are hospitalized every year due to valley fever. Most of them are diagnosed with the disease while serving sentences in eight institutions in the San Joaquin Valley, where the airborne fungus that causes valley fever is rampant.

That doesn't include federal inmates at prisons like Taft, which was described in one lawsuit as a "petri dish for valley fever."

A study by the state prison health system found that the rate of valley fever in Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga was 600 times the rate found outside the prison walls in Fresno County.

When you add up all the time state inmates spend in the hospital for valley fever, it amounts to an average of 5,000 days, or about 25 days for every inmate. The gruesome details of inmates' experiences with the fungal disease, and the disease's long-term impact on their lives, remain largely hidden from the public's view*

*1996 media was blocked from interviewing prisoners without the prison pre selecting them

He Will Raise The Dead?.....What Were The Other Signs?

‘Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.’" (Luke 21 v.10-11, 25-26)

Brazilian Toddler Wakes Up at His Funeral

After he's pronounced dead, a two-year-old briefly comes back to life.

Published: June 15th, 2012

 

Back in the old days, when someone died, you'd have a "wake" for them. While we still do this today, the reasoning isn't the same. These days, we do it to remember our lost loved one, to look at old pictures together and commiserate. Back then, though, wakes were held to make sure the person was really dead, which is the subject of this story. Earlier this month in Brazil, a two-year-old boy woke up at his own funeral, asked for some water, then laid back down, only this time, he was actually dead.

The child's family was naturally devastated.

The boy's father, Antonio Santos, said, "Everybody started to scream, we couldn't believe our eyes. Then we thought a miracle had taken place and our boy had come back to life. Then Kelvin just laid back down, the way he was. We couldn't wake him. He was dead again."

The family rushed the boy back to the hospital, where doctors re examined him but pronounced him dead again, unfortunately.

"They assured me that he really was dead and gave me no explanation for what we had just seen and heard," Santos said.

Kelvin Santos had supposedly died earlier that week, and the doctors said at the time that he had stopped breathing during pneumonia treatment. Santos said that his son was a victim of medical malpractice, and has registered a complaint with the police.

The family delayed the funeral for a while just to make sure, but ended up burying the boy later that day.

What do we see in the Gaza Strip
Hell on Earth

Mile High mystery: UFO sightings in sky over Denver

+ toward downtown Denver.
He said, “The flying objects appear around noon or 1:00 p.m. at least a couple of times a week.” The strangest part is they are flying too fast to see with the naked eye, but when we slowed down the video, several UFOs appear.
We altered the color contrast to make it easier to see. You can take a look for yourself by watching the video clip.
We wanted to verify the video we saw was legitimate and not doctored in anyway. So our photojournalist set up his camera in the same spot, and shot video from just before noon until just after 1:00 p.m. He also captured something unexplained on video.
Aviation expert Steve Cowell is a former commercial pilot, instructor and FAA accident prevention counselor.
He thought he would have a logical explanation, until he watched the video. “That is not an airplane, that is not a helicopter, those are not birds, I can’t identify it,” he said. He also told us the objects are not insects.
He said he knows of no aircraft that flies as fast. He did tell us there is one other possibility. “Perhaps there’s some sort of debris that is being raised up by some of the atmospheric winds.”
But in his professional opinion, “As it fits the definition, it’s an unidentified flying object.”
The FAA tracks all air traffic in Colorado and across the country. The FAA sent us a statement that says, “We`ve checked with air traffic control and no one has had any reports of the activity you described…nor have any of our employees observed anything of this nature either visually or on their radar displays.”

Tarantulas’ invade Assam town, ‘kill’ two

Jintu Gogoi's neighbourhood in Sadiya, Upper Assam, is no longer friendly. Over two weeks ago, an army of eight-legged freaks invaded it. It all happened in the evening on May 8. Most of the inhabitants of Chaulkhowa Nagaon village had been to a Bihu function. When the programme drew to a close, swarms of spiders suddenly descended from nowhere and started biting the people. The festive mood soon turned into one of panic with people bumping into each other and tripping over empty benches in their frantic bid to egress. Jintu was bitten by one of these critters.

Dozens of dead blackbirds have fallen from the sky over a small Arkansas town for the second year in a row.

That the town of Beebe has seen this before, however, doesn't make the deaths of dozens of birds any less odd -- maybe even more so.

ABC Arkansas affiliate KATV reported that a radar image showed a large mass over Beebe a few hours before midnight Saturday. Then the birds began falling from the sky, just like last year.

Emily Nichols, a police dispatcher in Beebe, told ABC Radio that she received multiple calls. "Just that blackbirds are falling again and that they found black birds on their streets where they live or at churches," Nichols said.

Animal Care and Control was called out at about 7 p.m., a few hours earlier than last year, Horace Taylor of Animal Care and Control in Beebe told ABC Radio.

ABC

Thousands of dead blackbirds rained down.

"Well, there was just birds falling down on the street and people dodging and missing them," Taylor said. "And we were down the street picking them up. We got called out by the chief and we all out trying to pick them off the street."

Taylor added that the Game and Fish Department took about 30 of the nearly 100 birds for testing to try to determine what happened.

Fireworks were blamed for the deaths of thousands of blackbirds last year, but it's unclear whether fireworks were the cause this time. Police imposed an impromptu ban on fireworks when the birds began falling this year.

Lt. Brian Duke of the Beebe Police Department told ABC this year wasn't nearly as bad as last year, when the birds covered the streets of Beebe. This year, they were concentrated in a smaller area and the birds were cleaned up quickly. There haven't been any reports of people being hit by a falling bird.

Biologists said last year's kill was caused by birds who were spooked off their roosts by the loud explosions and began flying into homes, cars, telephone poles and each other.

Around this same time last year, thousands of dead fish also turned up in the Arkansas River, prompting conspiracies about the end of the world, poison and environmental catastrophe.

UN warns of looming worldwide food crisis in 2013

World grain reserves are so dangerously low that severe weather in the United States or other food-exporting countries could trigger a major hunger crisis next year, the United Nations has warned.

Failing harvests in the US, Ukraine and other countries this year have eroded reserves to their lowest level since 1974. The US, which has experienced record heat waves and droughts in 2012, now holds in reserve a historically low 6.5% of the maize that it expects to consume in the next year, says the UN.

"We've not been producing as much as we are consuming. That is why stocks are being run down. Supplies are now very tight across the world and reserves are at a very low level, leaving no room for unexpected events next year," said Abdolreza Abbassian, a senior economist with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). With food consumption exceeding the amount grown for six of the past 11 years, countries have run down reserves from an average of 107 days of consumption 10 years ago to under 74 days recently.

Prices of main food crops such as wheat and maize are now close to those that sparked riots in 25 countries in 2008. FAO figures released this week suggest that 870 million people are malnourished and the food crisis is growing in the Middle East and Africa. Wheat production this year is expected to be 5.2% below 2011, with yields of most other crops, except rice, also falling, says the UN.

The figures come as one of the world's leading environmentalists issued a warning that the global food supply system could collapse at any point, leaving hundreds of millions more people hungry, sparking widespread riots and bringing down governments. In a shocking new assessment of the prospects of meeting food needs, Lester Brown, president of the Earth policy research centre in Washington, says that the climate is no longer reliable and the demands for food are growing so fast that a breakdown is inevitable, unless urgent action is taken.

"Food shortages undermined earlier civilisations. We are on the same path. Each country is now fending for itself. The world is living one year to the next," he writes in a new book.

According to Brown, we are seeing the start of a food supply breakdown with a dash by speculators to "grab" millions of square miles of cheap farmland, the doubling of international food prices in a decade, and the dramatic run down of countries' food reserves.

This year, for the sixth time in 11 years, the world will consume more food than it produces, largely because of extreme weather in the US and other major food-exporting countries. Oxfam last week said that the price of key staples, including wheat and rice, may double in the next 20 years, threatening disastrous consequences for poor people who spend a large proportion of their income on food.

In 2012, according to the FAO, food prices are already at close to record levels, having risen 1.4% in September following an increase of 6% in July.

"We are entering a new era of rising food prices and spreading hunger. Food supplies are tightening everywhere and land is becoming the most sought-after commodity as the world shifts from an age of food abundance to one of scarcity," says Brown. "The geopolitics of food is fast overshadowing the geopolitics of oil."

His warnings come as the UN and world governments reported that extreme heat and drought in the US and other major food-exporting countries had hit harvests badly and sent prices spiralling.

"The situation we are in is not temporary. These things will happen all the time. Climate is in a state of flux and there is no normal any more.

"We are beginning a new chapter. We will see food unrest in many more places.

"Armed aggression is no longer the principal threat to our future. The overriding threats to this century are climate change, population growth, spreading water shortages and rising food prices," Brown says.

According the Book of Revelation in the Bible, one of the signs that Armageddon is at hand will be an angel pouring a bowl into the rivers, causing them to turn to blood. The verse, Revelation 16:4, reads: “Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of waters; and they became blood.”

The Yangtze River

The Yangtze River, China’s largest river, is known as the Golden Watercourse, but residents along its shores noticed this week that the water wasn’t its usual hue, rather the water had turned red, and no one seems to know why.

 ABC News reported that the river turned red on Thursday near the city of Chongquing, where the Yangtze meets the Jialin River. Some residents were stumped by the turn of events, stopping to collect the water in bottles as a keepsake. A photo showing a man with water from the river in a clear plastic bottle made the water look almost as brightly colored as tomato juice. Others, like fisherman and thous working on boats went about their usual daily business.

Scotsman.com reported that the river was reported as having turned red by people at various spots along its course, and added that local officials are investigating, but do not know why the Yangtze river turned red.

The UK Daily Mail reported that this isn’t the first time a Chinese river turned red. The Jian River experienced a similar event last December when it was polluted by a powerful dye that was being illegally dumped. Officials raided and shut down the factory responsible.

While there a number of less than supernatural causes for why the Yangtze River is now red, the Daily Mail did note a creepy correlation from Christian scripture.

Where's Delaware"s Common Sense?

   WHERES OUR RIGHT TO PADDLE/?

Delaware has become the very first state to pass a controversial law that effectively outlaws the corporal discipline of children by their parents. Senate bill 234 was signed into law by Governor Jack Markell on September 12.2012.

Really now, never, for running in the street?

Touching the stove?

Taking without Asking?

Sometimes i needed to Grab a arm for Attention would that be Considered Abuse?

Sponsored by Delaware’s Senate Majority Leader Patricia Blevins, the bill redefines child abuse laws to include any act that causes “pain.”

The legislation classifies child abuse as a separate crime in the state and increases penalties in child abuse cases. Prior to the new law, child abuse cases were prosecuted under the same statute dealing with assault by abuse or neglect that applied to adult victims. “Assaults against children are different than assaults against adults,” said Sen. Blevins. “So, it is important to make this a standalone crime.”

The new law creates three levels of child abuse. The first and second degrees are considered felonies and penalties increase if the victim is under four years old and suffers from intellectual or developmental disabilities. Parents who are guilty of committing “physical injury,” or “pain,” to a child under the age of 18 would be guilty of a class A misdemeanor and subjected to a year in prison as a result. One who is charged with causing pain to a child under the age of three would be guilty of a class G felony and subjected to two years imprisonment.

Pain motivates the individual to withdraw from damaging situations, to protect a damaged body part while it heals, and to avoid similar experiences in the future. Most pain resolves promptly once the painful stimulus is removed and the body has healed, but sometimes pain persists despite removal of the stimulus and apparent healing of the body; and sometimes pain arises in the absence of any detectable stimulus, damage or disease.

I WOULD LEAVE THE STATE AND TAKE MY TAXES MY VOTE MY MONEY AND MY CHILDREN AND ANYONE ELSE WHO WANTED TO GO AND LEAVE THE STATE!      

VOTER REGISTRATION IN CA

 Secretary of State Voter Hotline at (800)345-VOTE(8683) 

https://rtv.sos.ca.gov/elections/register-to-vote/

 Secretary of State's office atelections@sos.ca.gov or at www.sos.ca.gov, 

Constitution of the State of California 1879

http://www.sos.ca.gov/archives/collections/1879/archive/1879

A Campaign to Legalize Hemp

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (R) is on a campaign to legalize hemp, arguingit would put his home state’s economy at a competitive advantage. 

Last week, Paul wore a shirt made from hemp at the Kentucky State Fair. He suggested farmers could grow hemp to make products like paper, livestock bedding, and twine.

Kentucky’s Democratic Governor Steve Beshear said he is "open to the idea of industrial hemp, but I know law enforcement has some very serious concerns about the similarity to marijuana and what it might do to their enforcement actions." Paul said that proper regulation of permitting would address those concerns.

Rand Paul is also a co-sponsor of Senate Bill 3501, which would amend the Controlled Substances Act so that hemp is not defined as a drug. That bill was introduced by Oregon Senator Ron Wyden (D). Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Congressman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have also co-sponsored. A similar bill has also been introduced in the House.

Libertarian-leaning voters could tip elections for Republicans in key swing states in the future, even some that seem unlikely now -- like Oregon. 

Karl Rove, who was George W. Bush’s chief strategist, said Oregon’s statehouse is split evenly among Democrats and Republicans, and “Republicans came within 15,000 votes of winning the governorship and yet it’s the most unchurched state in the union. So it’s a weird conglomeration. Oregon might be next.”    

Rove attributed this trend in part to growing libertarianism. “Oregon, as you may recall, was a battleground in 2000 and this time around there is a little bit of evidence that Obama has some difficulty there,” Rovesaid in Tampa on Monday. “I think part of it is that you do have this sort of weird element… centered around Portland that looks at Obama as a dangerous reactionary. But you also have something going out there, sort of this libertarian, Western, iconoclastic I’m-not-going-to-be-put-in-a-box. But something’s going on in Oregon.”

TO CONTACT RAND PAUL

Secret Service Left What ...Where.....

TAMPA

A Secret Service agent left a gun in the bathroom of a plane carrying Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

A reporter discovered the gun while the plane was flying from Florida to Indiana on Wednesday. It was quickly retrieved by a Secret Service agent. The weapon belonged to an agent assigned to Romney's security detail.

In Washington, Secret Service spokesman Edwin Donovan says the agency is aware of the incident and that the matter will be handled internally. He would not discuss who left the gun or how it was misplaced.

The agent involved was not on the afternoon flight to Tampa, the site of the Republican National Convention. Romney is scheduled to accept the presidential nomination on Thursday.

Hooters Welcomes Joe Biden to Tampa

The gaffe occurred when Biden said he was in North Carolina, at a campaign stop in Virginia.

Where is Mothers Common Sense?

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Woman Killed By Own Daughter During Driving Lesson

August 25, 2012 Tragedy struck in a church parking lot, when a 15-year-old girl who was learning to drive hit and killed her mother.
Kim Riggs
Kimberly Riggs, 40, let her daughter take the wheel of her car in the parking lot of the Newport Church of God in Newport, Kentucky, after they had attended church.
But when the teenager got behind the wheel, she mistakenly pressed down on the car's accelerator instead of the brakes and suddenly backed up the car hitting and knocking her mother to the ground.
Then the girl began driving uncontrollably in the lot, knocking down a fence and hitting the back of a home.
She then turned the vehicle around and hit her mother again, pinning the woman’s body against a fence.
'I see the front end of this car coming over my neighbor's fence,' Brandy Raleigh, who witnessed the terrible accident, told WLWT-TV.
'I yelled to her [Riggs] 'Move!' but it was too late. The girl driving the car had struck the woman. You would never think to see something like that,' she added.
The pastor of the church, Rusty Wollum, said congregants rushed to help Riggs, who was described as barely conscious after she was hit.
'She couldn't speak but she could just barely breathe by holding her sternum,' he told WAVE-TV.
'We were trying to keep her calm, telling her that help was on the way, that we were there with her,' he added.
Riggs, a single mother of two, was transported to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
The daughter was also treated for minor injuries.

Wheres Floridas Druggies Common Sense?

 

 

 

 

He was naked, on crack and in alligator's mouth

Carlos Mayid couldn't see Adrian Apgar being attacked by an alligator early Wednesday, but he could hear him. With his cellphone in hand...

By Amy L. Edwards

The Orlando Sentinel

ORLANDO, Fla. — Carlos Mayid couldn't see Adrian Apgar being attacked by an alligator early Wednesday, but he could hear him.
With his cellphone in hand and a sheriff's operator on the line, Mayid left his home near Lake Parker, Fla., and walked down his street in the predawn darkness toward the screams of a man who was fighting for his life in the water.
In the recording of a dramatic 911 call released Thursday, Mayid is heard breathing heavily and walking through wet grass as Apgar's repeated cries grow louder. Finally, he got close enough to yell back.
"Hey. What's up? What do you need?" Mayid hollered.
"A gator's got me," Apgar replied, his voice faint in the background.
Mayid's call shortly after 4 a.m. sent four Polk County, Fla., deputies racing to the 2,150-acre lake just outside Lakeland, Fla., where they jumped into the water and wrenched Apgar's arm from the gator's mouth. The 45-year-old victim, who told authorities he'd passed out nude on the shore after smoking crack cocaine, was rushed to a hospital in critical condition.
Later Wednesday, state wildlife authorities trapped and killed a nearly 12-foot-long alligator thought to be the one that attacked Apgar.
Mayid's call was picked up by operator Josh Fulman.
"There's a guy screaming bloody murder over here, 'Help,' in front of the Moose Lodge," Mayid said. He could not be reached Thursday to elaborate on his experience.
"I can hear him from inside my house ... He's screaming, 'Help, help, help, help.' "
A dramatic back-and-forth followed, with Mayid serving as the middleman between victim and operator.
Fulman told Mayid that deputies were on the way, but there was little the two could do. Meanwhile, Apgar kept screaming.

Replying to a plea from Apgar that was inaudible on the tape, Mayid said, "I ain't going over there. I can't go in there anyway. ... I don't know how the hell they're going to get through."
Mayid ended up getting close enough to ask Apgar where the alligator had bitten him, yelling, "Help is on the way, help is on the way."
About five minutes into the nearly eight-minute call, the operator suggested Mayid tell Apgar to punch the alligator. "I don't know if it's true, but if you punch him in the nose ... it may let him go," Fulman said.
Mayid relayed the message and immediately came back with Apgar's response: "Too big."
Said Mayid, "He says he needs a gun."
Polk County deputies arrived about two minutes later and soon reached Apgar in the water. He was slumped over in the alligator's jaws in chest-deep water on the east side of Lake Parker.
After a tug-of-war with the gator, three deputies and their sergeant were able to rescue Apgar and carry him to shore. The rescue took about 20 minutes.
Apgar told the deputies he had been smoking crack cocaine and fell asleep on the shore when the alligator attacked him. The area includes a strip of land with a picnic table.
But local and state officials said Thursday they don't know if Apgar was on the land or already in the water when he was attacked.
Sheriff's officials have said Apgar, 45, suffered a broken right arm. His left arm was nearly severed, and he had bites to his buttocks and leg. He underwent surgery Wednesday afternoon at Lakeland Regional Medical Center.
A hospital spokeswoman said Apgar was alive Thursday, but a family member asked that his specific condition not be released and would not talk to reporters.
Gary Morse, spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, said the 11-foot, 9-inch, 600-pound alligator trapped several hours after the attack had been euthanized, a necessary step to protect the public.
The alligator was "much larger" than average, Morse said.
Investigators aren't positive the captured alligator was the one.

What Kinda Karma is Following You Around?

 


  



Man Wanted for Beating 2-Year-Old to Death Gets Freakishly Impaled





A man was recently killed by way of falling onto a fence and impaling himself after he touched a live wire while at work on a construction site. Disturbing, right? Well, get this: That man, Cesar Osuna, also happened to be wanted for beating a 2-year-old boy to death. Even more disturbing.

A toddler by the name of Juan Felix died in January of 2011 after being taken to the hospital. An autopsy performed showed that Juan Felix passed away from blunt force trauma. According to police reports, this poor, poor child, who should have never been subject to this unimaginable horrific abuse, suffered from multiple rib fractures, tearing of abdominal membranes, and a skull fracture.

So. A man who's wanting for killing a 2-year-old boy dies in a freak accident at work. Coincidence? Or did the universe know something we didn't?

Here's what happened: After Juan died, Osuna fled to Mexico from California, and apparently started working in construction. Police who were after him were able to identify him through various tattoos on his body. Meanwhile, Juan's mother, Noemi Mendoza, is in the midst of serving a six-year sentence after pleading no contest to willful cruelty to a child. (Mendoza was accused of leaving her child in the custody of someone considered dangerous. Apparently, there were indications that this completely innocent little boy had been abused on other occasions. Disgusting.)

So, if Osuna is the person responsible for killing a small child, maybe this is proof that, once in a while, karma does come around. I really don't see why any person disgusting enough to kill a 2-year-old boy should have the right to walk around a free man or woman. Or walk around at all. What happened to Juan Felix is stomach-turning sickening, a flat-out tragedy (and shame on his mother for leaving her son in harm's way to begin with).

So, now we have Mendoza in jail, and Osuna dead. Poetic justice served? I'm not so sure. Because even if Osuna was guilty, neither his death -- or Mendoza's jail sentence -- will be able to bring little Juan Felix back.



Also saved the taxpayers a Trial and Prison costs!


GOD Bless Karma!




Thank You     Nicole Fabian-Weber @ Cafe Mom   for bringing us this story.

WHERE DID THE FEMININE WOMAN GO?

WHERE DID THE FEMININE WOMAN GO? WHERE DID THE BALANCED LIFE OF A PLEASING (by GOD,by MAN, by OTHERS) HAPPY,STYLISH,AND YES SEXUALLY CONTENT WIFE AND/OR MOTHER DAUGHTER SISTER AUNT FRIEND NEIGHBOR GO? WHAT HAPPENED TO HUSBANDS THAT WANTED TO GO HOME,EVEN THOUGHT OF WAYS TO BE THERE MORE? MEN WHO PROUD TO BRING PEOPLE HOME, INVITE THE GUYS OVER, HUG THEIR CHILDREN GOODNIGHT AND KISSES HIS WOMAN (his PRINCESS,his HEART,his LOVER)BEFORE SHE SLIPS OFF TO BED. WHY CANT WOMEN BE HAPPY, CONTENT,SATISFIED ?O? WHERE DID THE BALANCED LIFE OF A PLEASING (by GOD,by MAN, by OTHERS) HAPPY,STYLISH,AND YES SEXUALLY CONTENT WIFE AND/OR MOTHER DAUGHTER SISTER AUNT FRIEND NEIGHBOR GO? WHAT HAPPENED TO HUSBANDS THAT WANTED TO GO HOME,EVEN THOUGHT OF WAYS TO BE THERE MORE? MEN WHO PROUD TO BRING PEOPLE HOME, INVITE THE GUYS OVER, HUG THEIR CHILDREN GOODNIGHT AND KISSES HIS WOMAN (his PRINCESS,his HEART,his LOVER)BEFORE SHE SLIPS OFF TO BED. WHY CANT WOMEN BE HAPPY, CONTENT,SATISFIED ?MAN?
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WHY DONT OUR VOTES COUNT? DOES ANYTHING WE WANT MATTER?

That is a revolutionary idea in an era when California legislators rarely pass balanced budgets by the June 15 deadline. It is also popular with voters, who overwhelmingly approved Prop 25.




The law, Proposition 25, only worked as voters had intended for one budget season.


If legislators didn't pass a balanced budget by their June 15 constitutional deadline, they'd be docked all pay and expense money until they did their job.


Prop. 25 itself didn't require a budget to be balanced. But a 2004 measure, Prop. 58, did. It forbade the Legislature to pass — or the governor to sign — an unbalanced budget.


Now there has been a bait and switch — the switch ordered by a judge

Sacramento County Superior Court Judge David I. Brown


 Appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to serve as a Sacramento County Superior Court judge.

Now We all know Why

Politicians Cant be Punished not in the Money Department
Not by the Laws they make!

And when your on your way Up or Down in the Game of Politics get a Judge

to help out your fellow Politicians!

6 Things in the Constitution................

 

 

 

 

1. Not all votes of the members present need be recorded in the official journal.

"...the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal." In other words, if less than one-fifth want to include the actual votes then they are left out of the official record.

2. Neither House can meet anywhere different without agreement

"Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting."

3. A Congressman cannot be arrested for misdemeanors on the way to the Hill

"[Senators and Representatives] shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same...."

4. Congressmen shall not be questioned for speeches in either House

"...and for any Speech or Debate in either House, [Congressmen] shall not be questioned in any other Place." I wonder how many Congressmen have used that defense on CNN or Fox News.

5. No one can be convicted of treason without two witnesses or confession

"No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court." One person is not enough.

6. The President can adjourn Congress

"[The President] may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper." While many people know that the president can call a special session of Congress, it is less well known that he can actually adjuorn them if they disagree about when they want to adjourn.

Where's Our Right to Lie?

Ever lied online?



Back in '80s when the Internet more closely resembled a series of tubes, the state of Rhode Island passed a law making it illegal to lie online. And until this week, this law was still in effect, according to the Associated Press.

That's right, in Rhode Island someone could actually be slapped with a misdemeanor charge, fined up to $500, and sentenced up to a year in prison for lying about their age on an online dating site, fibbing on Facebook about how many people were at a house party, or pumping up their resume on LinkedIn.

According to the Associated Press, lawmakers have finally caught up with the times and voted to repeal this antiquated law.

"This law made virtually the entire population of Rhode Island a criminal," executive director of the Rhode Island American Civil Liberties Union Steven Brown told the Associated Press. "When this bill was enacted nobody had any idea what its ramifications were. Telling fibs may be wrong, but it shouldn't be criminal activity."



Originally the law was meant to crack down on scammers and con artists but it also made the "transmission of false data" illegal, according to the Associated Press. Quickly the Internet outgrew the law.

The state representative who proposed tossing the law, Chris Blazejewski, told the Associated Press that it was probably unconstitutional. What's more, it wasn't very useful -- only a few people had ever been prosecuted for not telling the truth online.

"There are a lot of things we don't condone in our society that aren't crimes," Blazejewski said. "We take freedom of speech very seriously in this country and we should be concerned about the real and serious possibility of further erosion to our First A

Where's OUR (New Jersey's) Common Sense?

He may have been ticketed for not saving his Jeep from a cliff dive, but his other option was to let his 5-year-old son die and go to jail.

Frank Roder of New Jersey was ticketed on Thursday for failing to use his emergency brake, after which his Jeep flew into the Rahway River. Roder had leaped out of the vehicle because his son opened the door and was running straight toward a 35-foot embankment, according to Fox News.

"He hopped out, and I thought that was OK. I was just going to park," Roder, 38, told the station. "He just took off, made a beeline for the edge."

Roder said he narrowly saved his little boy Aidan, but his 2006 Jeep Commander wasn't so lucky. Roder knew something was wrong when the kid said, "Um, Daddy ..."

And then, the Jeep was gone. It slid down an embankment and into the muddy water below.

A cop on the scene reportedly handed him a pair of tickets -- one for the brake, and another for failure to produce his insurance card, which was in the water-bound Jeep -- and told Roder he should have just applied the brake.

"I say, 'Really? And if I did and my boy stepped over the edge and fell instead of the Jeep, then where would I be?' He says, 'Jail, for child endangerment'."

Though miffed and carless, Roder plans on paying his $50 and $60 tickets,

Common Sense

Sandusky Convicted of 45 Counts

Originally printed at http://www.ksee24.com/news/local/Sandusky-Convicted-of-45-Counts-160091845.html

By Kimberly Kaplan and Michael Isikoff, NBC News, and M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com
June 22, 2012

Jerry Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of child sexual abuse Friday night and faces spending the rest of his life in state prison.
Sandusky's attorney, Joseph Amendola, asked Judge John Cleland to allow Sandusky to be released on house arrest, but Cleland summarily rejected the request, saying: "Bail is revoked. Mr. Sandusky is remanded to the custody of the sheriff."
Sandusky was immediately led out of the courthouse in handcuffs as a large crowd of onlookers cheered.
Sandusky, 68, the former longtime defensive coordinator at Penn State, had denied all 48 counts alleging that he abused 10 boys over 15 years. Two grand jury reports accused him of having used his connection to one of the nation's premier college football programs to "groom" the boys, whom he met through his Second Mile charity for troubled children, for sexual relationships.

Happy Fathers Day!

              I Would believe that most Fathers start out Feeling like this!

                         Then sort of grow into the Life long Position!

                         They all have one thing in common, they all have

                                               Dadisms....................

    Don't ask me, ask your mother.

    I'll play catch after I read the paper.

    Coffee will stunt your growth.

    A little dirt never hurt anyone--just wipe it off..

    Get your elbows off the table.

    This is your last warning.

    I'm not just talking to hear my own voice!

    Stop crying or I'll give you a reason to cry.

    Don't forget to check your oil.

    You're only young once.

    You're gonna like it, whether you like it or not!

    The early bird gets the worm. Rise and shine!

    If your friend jumped off a bridge would you?

    You have things so easy!

    Don't look at me in that tone of voice!

    What do you think this is, your birthday?

    How many times do I have to pound that into your head?

    What part of NO don't you understand?

    I don't care what other people are doing! I'm not everybody else's father!

    Didn't your teacher learn you anything?!

    Two wrongs do not make a right.

    Don't use that tone with me!

    Am I talking to a brick wall?

    If I catch you doing that one more time, I'll...

    Wipe your feet!

    Enough is enough!

    Don't make me stop the car!

    What did I just get finished telling you

    You'll realize the value of money once you start earning.

    Turn off those lights. Do you think I am made of money?

    

    Now you listen to ME, Buster!

    I told you... Now see.

    I told you, keep your eye on the ball.

    This will hurt me a lot more than it hurts you.

    We're not lost. I'm just not sure where we are.

    When I was your age, I treated MY father with respect.

    As long as you live under my roof, you'll live by my rules.

    I'll tell you why. Because I said so. That's why.

    Do what I say, not what I do.    

   but no matter what         WE ALL LOVE FATHERS!