A doctor that had been seeing an 80-year-old woman for most of her life finally retired. At her next checkup, the new doctor told her to bring a list of all the medicines that had been prescribed for her. As the doctor was looking through these his eyes grew wide as he realized Grandma had a prescription for birth control pills.
"Mrs. Smith, do you realize these are birth control pills?"
"Yes, they help me sleep at night."
"Mrs. Smith, I assure you there is absolutely nothing in these that that could possibly help you sleep!"
She reached out and patted the young doctor's knee and said, "Yes, dear, I know that. But every morning, I grind one up and mix it in the glass of orange juice that my 16-year-old Granddaughter drinks. And believe me, it definitely helps me sleep at night."
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
THE SECRET TO A LONG LIFE
An elderly, but hardy cattleman from Texas once told a young female neighbor that if she wanted to live a long life the secret was to sprinkle a pinch of gunpowder on her oatmeal each morning.
She did this religiously and lived to the age of 103. She left behind 14 children, 30 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren, five great-great-grandchildren and a 40 foot hole where the crematorium used to be.
She did this religiously and lived to the age of 103. She left behind 14 children, 30 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren, five great-great-grandchildren and a 40 foot hole where the crematorium used to be.
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
BRILLIANT REPORTING
I just watched a Channel 2 news report on a “deputy involved shooting.”
The shooting took place at a bus station in southeast Houston after a man charged at a female deputy with a machete. He was reported to be pissed off because he missed the last bus to Mexico.
Jake Reiner, the reporter on the scene, said he didn’t know the condition of the victim, but he did see a man lying under a body sheet and “he didn’t appear to be moving.”
The man under the body sheet didn’t appear to be moving? Now that’s what I call brilliant reporting. Way to go Jake.
The shooting took place at a bus station in southeast Houston after a man charged at a female deputy with a machete. He was reported to be pissed off because he missed the last bus to Mexico.
Jake Reiner, the reporter on the scene, said he didn’t know the condition of the victim, but he did see a man lying under a body sheet and “he didn’t appear to be moving.”
The man under the body sheet didn’t appear to be moving? Now that’s what I call brilliant reporting. Way to go Jake.
HITLER'S WEE WEENIE
Historians say Der Fuhrer suffered from penile hypospadias which left him with a micro-penis; and he had only one ball to boot
Now I’m beginning to understand why Hitler hated the Jews so much. It must have been that Jews infuriated Der Fuhrer because they had bigger dicks.
In their new book “Hitler’s Last Day: Minute By Minute,” historians Jonathan Mayo and Emma Craigie write that Adolph Hitler had a wee weenie because he suffered from penile hypospadias. The condition is one in which the urethra emerges somewhere on the bottom of the penile shaft instead of from its tip. It prevents the penis from fully developing, leaving a man with a micro-penis.
Last December researches at the University of Erlangen unearthed prison documents from 1923 which showed that a medical examination of Der Fuhrer discovered he also suffered from right-side chryptorchidism. This condition is one in which the right testicle failed to descend during childhood. At the time, Hitler was serving a prison term for his failed Munich Beer Hall Putsch. During his time in prison he wrote the Nazi bible, “Mein Kampf.”
Ach du lieber! Der Fuhrer had only a wee weenie and he had to pee out of a hole in its bottom. Ach du lieber Gott im Himmel, and he had only one ball to boot. Heil Hitler!
Now I’m beginning to understand why Hitler hated the Jews so much. It must have been that Jews infuriated Der Fuhrer because they had bigger dicks.
In their new book “Hitler’s Last Day: Minute By Minute,” historians Jonathan Mayo and Emma Craigie write that Adolph Hitler had a wee weenie because he suffered from penile hypospadias. The condition is one in which the urethra emerges somewhere on the bottom of the penile shaft instead of from its tip. It prevents the penis from fully developing, leaving a man with a micro-penis.
Last December researches at the University of Erlangen unearthed prison documents from 1923 which showed that a medical examination of Der Fuhrer discovered he also suffered from right-side chryptorchidism. This condition is one in which the right testicle failed to descend during childhood. At the time, Hitler was serving a prison term for his failed Munich Beer Hall Putsch. During his time in prison he wrote the Nazi bible, “Mein Kampf.”
Ach du lieber! Der Fuhrer had only a wee weenie and he had to pee out of a hole in its bottom. Ach du lieber Gott im Himmel, and he had only one ball to boot. Heil Hitler!
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY AND WHERE YOU SAY IT
By Bob Walsh
I happened to be listening to a little bit of Uncle Rush this morning while I was out dropping my tax stuff off and I heard something very interesting from a caller. There is no way of knowing (at least right now) how much of this is true and how much of it is not, but…..
According to the caller, his wife was in line to check in at the airport and, in keeping with the times was talking politics. Allegedly she referred to Hillary as a bitch, in a normal conversational voice.
Again allegedly, she was immediately swooped on by an employee of United Airlines who pulled her out of the check-in line. She was not allowed to board her flight and incurred significant expense in getting rebooked on another airline to get where she needed to be.
The caller stated that they had not figured out what, if anything, they intended to do about it. One nice thing about this is it will definitely leave some sort of paper trail. It will be interesting to see what United Airlines says about why she was booted out of line, if she really was.
EDITORS NOTE: As Bob Said, “there is no way of knowing how much of this is true and how much of it is not.” I browsed the internet for more than half-an- hour trying to verify this story and there is absolutely nothing on it. This leads me to believe that the caller is a liar.
In any case, Bob’s advice to “be careful what you say and where you say it” is damn good advice!
I happened to be listening to a little bit of Uncle Rush this morning while I was out dropping my tax stuff off and I heard something very interesting from a caller. There is no way of knowing (at least right now) how much of this is true and how much of it is not, but…..
According to the caller, his wife was in line to check in at the airport and, in keeping with the times was talking politics. Allegedly she referred to Hillary as a bitch, in a normal conversational voice.
Again allegedly, she was immediately swooped on by an employee of United Airlines who pulled her out of the check-in line. She was not allowed to board her flight and incurred significant expense in getting rebooked on another airline to get where she needed to be.
The caller stated that they had not figured out what, if anything, they intended to do about it. One nice thing about this is it will definitely leave some sort of paper trail. It will be interesting to see what United Airlines says about why she was booted out of line, if she really was.
EDITORS NOTE: As Bob Said, “there is no way of knowing how much of this is true and how much of it is not.” I browsed the internet for more than half-an- hour trying to verify this story and there is absolutely nothing on it. This leads me to believe that the caller is a liar.
In any case, Bob’s advice to “be careful what you say and where you say it” is damn good advice!
JOB OPENING FOR UBER DRIVE IN KALAMAZOO
By Bob Walsh
If you have the hankering to be an Uber driver they currently have a slot open in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Jason Dalton, 45, was an Uber driver and formerly worked as an insurance adjuster. He had no criminal record. Saturday he decided to start killing people. He managed to kill six apparently random victims over a period of hours.
The carnage started about 1800 hours near an apartment building. He shot a woman multiple times. Fortunately the woman is likely to survive.
Four hours later and 17 miles distant he shot a father and son who were checking out cars at a dealership. They both died.
Shortly after that he gunned down five people in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel restaurant. Four of them die.
Dalton was arrested without incident shortly after midnight.
Uber declined to say whether or not Dalton was driving for them on Saturday. Their policy prohibits both drivers and passengers from carrying weapons. I guess Dalton didn’t really care about that.
Dalton was described as a quiet family man with a wife and two children.
All I can say it is a good thing that none of his victims or the people around them was armed or somebody might have actually gotten hurt.
If you have the hankering to be an Uber driver they currently have a slot open in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Jason Dalton, 45, was an Uber driver and formerly worked as an insurance adjuster. He had no criminal record. Saturday he decided to start killing people. He managed to kill six apparently random victims over a period of hours.
The carnage started about 1800 hours near an apartment building. He shot a woman multiple times. Fortunately the woman is likely to survive.
Four hours later and 17 miles distant he shot a father and son who were checking out cars at a dealership. They both died.
Shortly after that he gunned down five people in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel restaurant. Four of them die.
Dalton was arrested without incident shortly after midnight.
Uber declined to say whether or not Dalton was driving for them on Saturday. Their policy prohibits both drivers and passengers from carrying weapons. I guess Dalton didn’t really care about that.
Dalton was described as a quiet family man with a wife and two children.
All I can say it is a good thing that none of his victims or the people around them was armed or somebody might have actually gotten hurt.
OFF-DUTY AMERICAN-ISRAELI SOLDIER KILLED BY 14-YEAR-OLD TERRORIST
Israel Today
February 21, 2016
Tuvia Yanai Weissman, 21, an off-duty IDF soldier who immigrated from the United States, was stabbed and killed by two Palestinian children on Thursday.
Weissman was shopping with his wife, Yael, and their four-month-old child, Neta, at a supermarket north of Jerusalem that prides itself on the coexistence demonstrated by its mixed Jewish-Arab staff and clientele.
Yael Weissman later told Israeli media that Tuvia heard screams as the two child terrorists stabbed another Jewish shopper and he ran to help, despite being unarmed at the time.
In the course of his brave action, Tuvia suffered fatal stab wounds and was later pronounced dead, leaving behind his childhood sweetheart and their baby girl.
The two attackers were ultimately stopped by an armed civilian who rushed into the store and shot them. One of the 14-year-old attackers was killed, and the other remains hospitalized.
The US State Department later confirmed that Weissman was an American citizen and condemned the attack “in the strongest possible terms. …There is no justification for terrorism.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: I’m surprised that our State Department did not likewise condemn the killing of the 14-year-old Palestinian terrorist by declaring there is no justification for killing children.
February 21, 2016
Tuvia Yanai Weissman, 21, an off-duty IDF soldier who immigrated from the United States, was stabbed and killed by two Palestinian children on Thursday.
Weissman was shopping with his wife, Yael, and their four-month-old child, Neta, at a supermarket north of Jerusalem that prides itself on the coexistence demonstrated by its mixed Jewish-Arab staff and clientele.
Yael Weissman later told Israeli media that Tuvia heard screams as the two child terrorists stabbed another Jewish shopper and he ran to help, despite being unarmed at the time.
In the course of his brave action, Tuvia suffered fatal stab wounds and was later pronounced dead, leaving behind his childhood sweetheart and their baby girl.
The two attackers were ultimately stopped by an armed civilian who rushed into the store and shot them. One of the 14-year-old attackers was killed, and the other remains hospitalized.
The US State Department later confirmed that Weissman was an American citizen and condemned the attack “in the strongest possible terms. …There is no justification for terrorism.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: I’m surprised that our State Department did not likewise condemn the killing of the 14-year-old Palestinian terrorist by declaring there is no justification for killing children.
MAN LEADS POLICE PURSUIT ON BACKHOE
A homeless man took a backhoe and led police on a 13mph chase back-and-forth on the Florida Keys Seven Mile Bridge
By Larry Kahn
Florida Keys Keynoter
February 19, 2016
FLORIDA KEYS -- A slow-speed chase on the Seven Mile Bridge early Tuesday closed the span until 3 a.m.
The vehicle that took police on the ride: A backhoe, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office says.
Carl Blahnik, 59, took the joyride about midnight, starting when he allegedly dumped boulders at the north end of the bridge around mile marker 47 of U.S. 1. He then headed south, topping out around 13 mph, and nearly made it to the other end at mile marker 40.
But he suddenly changed direction back north -- forcing two deputies in patrol cars to hit reverse to get out of the way, says agency spokeswoman Becky Herrin.
She says Blahnik then spent an hour and a half driving back and forth over the bridge while deputies, with lights and sirens on, tried to pull him over, reversing direction several times. While that happened, he hit the side of the bridge several times, damaging it, Herrin said. A police cruiser was also damaged, she said.
Despite that, "It appeared from his skill he had experience driving one of these," Herrin said. "He did pinpoint pivots on the bridge."
Deputies got other cars off the road, then left the span themselves and waited at the ends. About 1:20 a.m., Blahnik finally drove off the bridge at the north end near where he dumped the boulders, and police set up spikes to puncture the tires. It worked, Herrin said. The backhoe stopped and Blahnik was arrested.
Blahnik is charged with felony counts of fleeing police, grand theft auto, aggravated assault and criminal mischief; and misdemeanor counts of reckless driving, failing to register a motor vehicle, littering and digging up a public road.
The bridge reopened just after 3 a.m. after debris from the incident was cleaned up.
Herrin said the backhoe was stolen from an area near the Marathon Community Park at mile marker 48.5. Sewer work has been ongoing there along U.S. 1. She said the keys were in the ignition.
His apparent reason for the adventure: Slowing other motorists down.
"He apparently was saying something about people driving too fast. He wasn't really too coherent," Herrin said.
Herrin said Blahnik was carrying a Wisconsin identification card and that he might be homeless, living in woods near Coco Plum Beach at the other end of town.
By Larry Kahn
Florida Keys Keynoter
February 19, 2016
FLORIDA KEYS -- A slow-speed chase on the Seven Mile Bridge early Tuesday closed the span until 3 a.m.
The vehicle that took police on the ride: A backhoe, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office says.
Carl Blahnik, 59, took the joyride about midnight, starting when he allegedly dumped boulders at the north end of the bridge around mile marker 47 of U.S. 1. He then headed south, topping out around 13 mph, and nearly made it to the other end at mile marker 40.
But he suddenly changed direction back north -- forcing two deputies in patrol cars to hit reverse to get out of the way, says agency spokeswoman Becky Herrin.
She says Blahnik then spent an hour and a half driving back and forth over the bridge while deputies, with lights and sirens on, tried to pull him over, reversing direction several times. While that happened, he hit the side of the bridge several times, damaging it, Herrin said. A police cruiser was also damaged, she said.
Despite that, "It appeared from his skill he had experience driving one of these," Herrin said. "He did pinpoint pivots on the bridge."
Deputies got other cars off the road, then left the span themselves and waited at the ends. About 1:20 a.m., Blahnik finally drove off the bridge at the north end near where he dumped the boulders, and police set up spikes to puncture the tires. It worked, Herrin said. The backhoe stopped and Blahnik was arrested.
Blahnik is charged with felony counts of fleeing police, grand theft auto, aggravated assault and criminal mischief; and misdemeanor counts of reckless driving, failing to register a motor vehicle, littering and digging up a public road.
The bridge reopened just after 3 a.m. after debris from the incident was cleaned up.
Herrin said the backhoe was stolen from an area near the Marathon Community Park at mile marker 48.5. Sewer work has been ongoing there along U.S. 1. She said the keys were in the ignition.
His apparent reason for the adventure: Slowing other motorists down.
"He apparently was saying something about people driving too fast. He wasn't really too coherent," Herrin said.
Herrin said Blahnik was carrying a Wisconsin identification card and that he might be homeless, living in woods near Coco Plum Beach at the other end of town.
Monday, February 22, 2016
TRAGEDY NOT CRIME
In front of the Brooklyn federal courthouse, 15,000 mostly Asian-Americans protested the manslaughter conviction of former NYPD officer Peter Liang
Former NYPD officer Peter Liang was convicted in federal court February 11 for manslaughter in the accidental stairwell shooting of an unarmed black man during a vertical patrol of a Brooklyn public housing building. The 2014 shooting occurred when Liang was startled by a noise in the stairwell and accidentally discharged his weapon, fatally wounding Akai Gurley. The prosecution maintained that Liang had recklessly drawn his gun, that he shouldn't have had his finger on the trigger, and that he did nothing to help Gurley as he lay dying on the floor.
On Saturday 15,000 mostly Asian-Americans protested Liang’s conviction in front of the Brooklyn federal courthouse. They held signs reading “Tragedy Not Crime,” “No Scapegoating,” “No Selective Justice,” “An Accident Is Not A Felony,” “Justice for Peter Liang,” as well as several others, some of which offered condolences to Gurley’s family.
Demonstrators in 30 cities, including Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Miami and at the Washington Monument, also protested Liang’s conviction.
The Brooklyn demonstrators were met by a group of protesters supporting Liang’s conviction. They held up signs that read, “Justice For Akai Gurley – Jail Killer Cops.”
I seriously doubt Officer Liang would have been charged and tried for anything were it not for the ‘Ferguson effect.’ Before Michael brown was shot dead by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, the Liang case would have been considered a tragic accident. I think that’s what it really was.
While Liang deserved to be disciplined for screwing up, he should not have been fired and certainly not criminally charged.
It seems as though the feds and local prosecutors are eager to placate an angry minority community. From now on, cops better make sure they are damn right before they shoot at anyone. Of course, for hesitating just a nanosecond too long, some officers will be shot dead. That will also placate some members of the minority community.
Former NYPD officer Peter Liang was convicted in federal court February 11 for manslaughter in the accidental stairwell shooting of an unarmed black man during a vertical patrol of a Brooklyn public housing building. The 2014 shooting occurred when Liang was startled by a noise in the stairwell and accidentally discharged his weapon, fatally wounding Akai Gurley. The prosecution maintained that Liang had recklessly drawn his gun, that he shouldn't have had his finger on the trigger, and that he did nothing to help Gurley as he lay dying on the floor.
On Saturday 15,000 mostly Asian-Americans protested Liang’s conviction in front of the Brooklyn federal courthouse. They held signs reading “Tragedy Not Crime,” “No Scapegoating,” “No Selective Justice,” “An Accident Is Not A Felony,” “Justice for Peter Liang,” as well as several others, some of which offered condolences to Gurley’s family.
Demonstrators in 30 cities, including Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Miami and at the Washington Monument, also protested Liang’s conviction.
The Brooklyn demonstrators were met by a group of protesters supporting Liang’s conviction. They held up signs that read, “Justice For Akai Gurley – Jail Killer Cops.”
I seriously doubt Officer Liang would have been charged and tried for anything were it not for the ‘Ferguson effect.’ Before Michael brown was shot dead by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, the Liang case would have been considered a tragic accident. I think that’s what it really was.
While Liang deserved to be disciplined for screwing up, he should not have been fired and certainly not criminally charged.
It seems as though the feds and local prosecutors are eager to placate an angry minority community. From now on, cops better make sure they are damn right before they shoot at anyone. Of course, for hesitating just a nanosecond too long, some officers will be shot dead. That will also placate some members of the minority community.
TWO NYPD COPS SHOT IN BROOKLYN
A shootout occurred in in the Bedford-Stuyvesant after Jamal Funes rammed his car head-on into a police car
By Larry Celona, Shawn Cohen and Kathianne Boniello
New York Post
February 20, 2016
Two Brooklyn cops were shot early Saturday in a wild standoff with a man who led them on a car chase before ramming a marked patrol vehicle head-on, sources said.
Police Officer William Reddin was struck in the hip and Police Officer Andrew Yurkiw was hit in his vest at point-blank range, sources told The Post.
Reddin underwent surgery at Kings County Hospital and was in stable condition. His partner was released after treatment for a blunt-force injury, sources said.
The suspect, 34-year-old Jamal Funes of New Jersey, was shot “numerous” times and is in critical condition at Brookdale Hospital, NYPD Police Commissioner William Bratton said.
The cops spotted Funes with a gun inside his car. When they tried to pull him over he took off, sources said.
As he sped through Bedford-Stuyvesant, Funes shot at the cops from his vehicle, sources said. The officers, part of a plainclothes anti-crime unit working out of the 81st Precinct, called for backup.
Funes drove the wrong way on Lexington Avenue and slammed in to the officers’ marked patrol car.
By then, backup had arrived. Funes faced off against eight cops at the intersection of Lexington and Malcolm X Boulevard.
During the gun battle with the suspect, Reddin was struck in the hip, just below his bulletproof vest. Yurkiw was saved from death when a bullet hit his vest.
Funes stayed inside his car throughout the bloody shootout, said Bratton.
When it was over, cops recovered a .357-caliber handgun from the front seat of Funes’ car, along with five spent shell casings, the commissioner added.
The cops are “alert and talkative, and it was so good to see them in such good shape despite everything they’d been through,” said Mayor de Blasio. He called them “very dedicated officers.”
Redding, a nine-year veteran, is a married father of two with another child on the way, while Yurkiw has three years on the force, said de Blasio. The mayor did not identify the officers by name.
“This morning’s a reminder of the important and dangerous and crucial work that police officers do, and the way they put their lives on the line every single day,” de Blasio said.
Authorities are still piecing together Funes’ background and what might have prompted him to shoot at the cops, Bratton said.
“His history is what might have prompted him” to do this, the commissioner said.
Funes, who also goes by the name Fredrick, has at least 15 prior arrests on his record. His rap sheet includes a 2007 arrest for assaulting an NYPD cop and trying to take the officer’s gun, sources said. He served three years in prison on those charges.
In 2006, Funes was charged with assault in the second-degree for striking a child with a belt and was on probation for a year. And in 2002, he was charged with assault for punching a girl in the face.
Funes’s record also record includes 11 arrests in Illinois between 1996 and 2000. The details of those arrests was not known. At the time, Funes lived in a Chicago.
All of the shots fired during the Brooklyn shootout were captured on the NYPD’s ShotSpotter, a high-tech gunshot detection system, Bratton added.
It’s the second time this month that NYPD officers were shot in the line of duty.
On Feb. 4 Officers Diara Cruz and Patrick Espeut were shot at point-blank range in the stairwell of a Bronx housing project while on a vertical patrol.
Suspect Malik Chavis shot at the cops after they asked him for identification. He killed himself a few minutes later.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Those public housing vertical patrols are downright dangerous! That’s why I do not think NYPD officer Peter Liang should not have been criminally charged in the 2014 accidental stairwell shooting of a man (WHY JURY BELIEVED NYPD COP WAS LYING ABOUT STAIRWELL SHOOTING | 2-14-16).
Given the concentration of hoodlums, gangbangers, dope dealers and other scumbags that live in big city high-rise public housing projects, the last thing I would want to do is to go on vertical patrols there.
By Larry Celona, Shawn Cohen and Kathianne Boniello
New York Post
February 20, 2016
Two Brooklyn cops were shot early Saturday in a wild standoff with a man who led them on a car chase before ramming a marked patrol vehicle head-on, sources said.
Police Officer William Reddin was struck in the hip and Police Officer Andrew Yurkiw was hit in his vest at point-blank range, sources told The Post.
Reddin underwent surgery at Kings County Hospital and was in stable condition. His partner was released after treatment for a blunt-force injury, sources said.
The suspect, 34-year-old Jamal Funes of New Jersey, was shot “numerous” times and is in critical condition at Brookdale Hospital, NYPD Police Commissioner William Bratton said.
The cops spotted Funes with a gun inside his car. When they tried to pull him over he took off, sources said.
As he sped through Bedford-Stuyvesant, Funes shot at the cops from his vehicle, sources said. The officers, part of a plainclothes anti-crime unit working out of the 81st Precinct, called for backup.
Funes drove the wrong way on Lexington Avenue and slammed in to the officers’ marked patrol car.
By then, backup had arrived. Funes faced off against eight cops at the intersection of Lexington and Malcolm X Boulevard.
During the gun battle with the suspect, Reddin was struck in the hip, just below his bulletproof vest. Yurkiw was saved from death when a bullet hit his vest.
Funes stayed inside his car throughout the bloody shootout, said Bratton.
When it was over, cops recovered a .357-caliber handgun from the front seat of Funes’ car, along with five spent shell casings, the commissioner added.
The cops are “alert and talkative, and it was so good to see them in such good shape despite everything they’d been through,” said Mayor de Blasio. He called them “very dedicated officers.”
Redding, a nine-year veteran, is a married father of two with another child on the way, while Yurkiw has three years on the force, said de Blasio. The mayor did not identify the officers by name.
“This morning’s a reminder of the important and dangerous and crucial work that police officers do, and the way they put their lives on the line every single day,” de Blasio said.
Authorities are still piecing together Funes’ background and what might have prompted him to shoot at the cops, Bratton said.
“His history is what might have prompted him” to do this, the commissioner said.
Funes, who also goes by the name Fredrick, has at least 15 prior arrests on his record. His rap sheet includes a 2007 arrest for assaulting an NYPD cop and trying to take the officer’s gun, sources said. He served three years in prison on those charges.
In 2006, Funes was charged with assault in the second-degree for striking a child with a belt and was on probation for a year. And in 2002, he was charged with assault for punching a girl in the face.
Funes’s record also record includes 11 arrests in Illinois between 1996 and 2000. The details of those arrests was not known. At the time, Funes lived in a Chicago.
All of the shots fired during the Brooklyn shootout were captured on the NYPD’s ShotSpotter, a high-tech gunshot detection system, Bratton added.
It’s the second time this month that NYPD officers were shot in the line of duty.
On Feb. 4 Officers Diara Cruz and Patrick Espeut were shot at point-blank range in the stairwell of a Bronx housing project while on a vertical patrol.
Suspect Malik Chavis shot at the cops after they asked him for identification. He killed himself a few minutes later.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Those public housing vertical patrols are downright dangerous! That’s why I do not think NYPD officer Peter Liang should not have been criminally charged in the 2014 accidental stairwell shooting of a man (WHY JURY BELIEVED NYPD COP WAS LYING ABOUT STAIRWELL SHOOTING | 2-14-16).
Given the concentration of hoodlums, gangbangers, dope dealers and other scumbags that live in big city high-rise public housing projects, the last thing I would want to do is to go on vertical patrols there.
EL CHAPO ON PRISON LIFE
“They are turning me into a zombie.”
By Catherine E. Shoichet
CNN
February 17, 2016
Now that he's back in a maximum-security prison, notorious Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman isn't happy about life behind bars, according to his attorney.
In an interview with Mexico's Radio Formula on Tuesday, Guzman's lawyer said the drug kingpin feels that he is a victim of "physical and mental torture" because guards wake him up so often.
"He told me, literally, 'Every two hours, at night, they wake me up to take roll. ... They are turning me into a zombie. They do not let me sleep. All I want is just for them to let me sleep,' " attorney Juan Pablo Badillo said.
Since authorities recaptured him last month, Guzman has been inside Altiplano prison in central Mexico. It's the same facility he broke out of in July 2015, slipping out through a tunnel in a brazen escape after he took advantage of a blind spot in a cell where the camera couldn't watch him. Now, according to reports, security measures have increased dramatically.
The prison has installed 400 new cameras. Authorities hope to add another 600 by April. According to a report in Mexico's "El Universal" newspaper last month, motion sensors now monitor his every move, dogs have been trained to detect his scent stand guard and prison floors have been reinforced with steel rods.
When he spoke with Guzman for about 25 minutes on Monday, Badillo told the Mexican radio station that his client also told him that a dog had been guarding his prison cell.
But sleep deprivation was what Guzman was most concerned about, Badillo said.
"' It is brutal torture,' he told me," Badillo said. "This is what was done by Stalin in the '40s and '50s in Russia."
The lawyer's comments drew swift criticism, even as the show aired Tuesday morning.
The show's host read what he said was a response from a listener: "So now 'El Chapo' is yet another victim of the system. And the thousands of people who he had killed and who he poisoned with his drugs, who is protecting them?"
Guzman's lawyer responded that such accusations against him must be better substantiated.
Mexican officials have said they're doing everything they can to make sure Guzman doesn't escape again and that the drug lord eventually will be extradited to the United States to face charges there.
Badillo said he didn't have much time during his short visit with Guzman on Monday to discuss the possibility of extradition.
"He said, 'We have to talk about it. But I want to be judged by Mexican laws.' "
Nicknamed "Shorty" for his height, Guzman has been indicted in seven U.S. jurisdictions.
In the past, Mexican officials had bristled at the idea of extraditing him. But after his recapture this year, they were swift to say they'd be willing to send him to the United States to face charges.
By Catherine E. Shoichet
CNN
February 17, 2016
Now that he's back in a maximum-security prison, notorious Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman isn't happy about life behind bars, according to his attorney.
In an interview with Mexico's Radio Formula on Tuesday, Guzman's lawyer said the drug kingpin feels that he is a victim of "physical and mental torture" because guards wake him up so often.
"He told me, literally, 'Every two hours, at night, they wake me up to take roll. ... They are turning me into a zombie. They do not let me sleep. All I want is just for them to let me sleep,' " attorney Juan Pablo Badillo said.
Since authorities recaptured him last month, Guzman has been inside Altiplano prison in central Mexico. It's the same facility he broke out of in July 2015, slipping out through a tunnel in a brazen escape after he took advantage of a blind spot in a cell where the camera couldn't watch him. Now, according to reports, security measures have increased dramatically.
The prison has installed 400 new cameras. Authorities hope to add another 600 by April. According to a report in Mexico's "El Universal" newspaper last month, motion sensors now monitor his every move, dogs have been trained to detect his scent stand guard and prison floors have been reinforced with steel rods.
When he spoke with Guzman for about 25 minutes on Monday, Badillo told the Mexican radio station that his client also told him that a dog had been guarding his prison cell.
But sleep deprivation was what Guzman was most concerned about, Badillo said.
"' It is brutal torture,' he told me," Badillo said. "This is what was done by Stalin in the '40s and '50s in Russia."
The lawyer's comments drew swift criticism, even as the show aired Tuesday morning.
The show's host read what he said was a response from a listener: "So now 'El Chapo' is yet another victim of the system. And the thousands of people who he had killed and who he poisoned with his drugs, who is protecting them?"
Guzman's lawyer responded that such accusations against him must be better substantiated.
Mexican officials have said they're doing everything they can to make sure Guzman doesn't escape again and that the drug lord eventually will be extradited to the United States to face charges there.
Badillo said he didn't have much time during his short visit with Guzman on Monday to discuss the possibility of extradition.
"He said, 'We have to talk about it. But I want to be judged by Mexican laws.' "
Nicknamed "Shorty" for his height, Guzman has been indicted in seven U.S. jurisdictions.
In the past, Mexican officials had bristled at the idea of extraditing him. But after his recapture this year, they were swift to say they'd be willing to send him to the United States to face charges.
PORN ACTORS DO NOT WANT RUBBERS TO GET BETWEEN THEM AND THEIR LIVELYHOOD
The California Occupational Safety and Health Standards board voted down a proposal to make actors use rubbers while filming porn movies
Dozens of porn actors appeared before the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards board to voice their opposition to a proposal which would have required actors to use rubbers while filming porn movies. They succeeded … at least for the time being.
For those not familiar with the scene, there are thousands of men and women participating in pornography films. Porno is not an underground industry! To the mom and dads of aspiring actresses who went to Hollywood to make it big, you might ask yourselves, 'is our darling little daughter getting fucked in films?' And mom, if you pushed the little darling with your dreams of her being a 'Hollywood star,' has your dream turned into a nightmare?
PORN STARS APPLAUD FAILED VOTE ON TIGHTER RULES
By Matthias Gafni
San Jose Mercury News
February 19, 2016
OAKLAND -- More than 100 adult film workers at a packed auditorium erupted in cheers Thursday afternoon after a state workplace protection board shot down proposed regulations that some predicted would have spelled the end of California's legal porn industry.
After six hours of emotional testimony at the Elihu M. Harris State Building by porn actors, producers, agents and couples who broadcast sex through a webcam in their own home, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards board fell one vote short of approving new rules requiring the performers to use condoms, goggles, gloves and other fluid barriers, while recording sex acts. The board voted 3-2 in favor of the regulations, but a fourth vote was needed for approval.
Mona Wales, a Silicon Valley porn actress who has been in the industry for four years, celebrated outside the meeting.
"I'm just utterly thrilled. It seems like it's the first time they understand the flaw of not listening to the sex workers," she said. "Had this passed, as a legal industry, porn would have ceased to exist in California."
Advocates argued that the rules are needed to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, but Thursday's audience was predominantly opposed to the new rules with performers and producers flying in from around the country. They described how the added regulations would make their products "unsellable," and force workers to ply their trade in places where there are no regulations. Others shared stories of harassment and fear that made them concerned that some medical records would be kept by their employers under the new rules.
Mickey Mod, an Oakland high school graduate who's been in the porn industry as an actor for more than eight years, said no one cared for their bodies as much as sex workers, and the new rules would make the industry less safe.
"You would see a shift of people moving out of state or underground," Mod said. "You would see a shift of people moving to comply with the regulations, but they will struggle to be competitive."
Sex workers argued that the current industry standard has kept them safe for decades except for two instances of on-set transmission of HIV. Currently, adult performers are tested for HIV, chlamydia and other sexually transmitted diseases every two weeks and actors share those results with each other before any scene is filmed.
"They're looking for a problem that's not there. There's not a threat to the public and there's not a threat to ourselves," said 33-year adult film veteran Nina Hartley, who said she felt safer having sex on a porn set than after meeting someone at a bar. "You can't make the risk zero, for that you must be celibate."
But a handful of speakers who spoke disagreed and said stricter workplace protections were needed. Joshua Rogers and Sofia Delgado spoke about how they became HIV-positive while working on the adult film industry in 2013.
"I strongly support condoms and testing together," Rogers told the board.
The two dissenting CalOSHA board members Dave Harrison and Barbara Smisko had differing reasons for their "no" votes. Smisko had reservations about medical confidentiality issues, while Harrison felt there needed to be more input from within the industry.
"I'm more torn over this than I can ever explain," Harrison told the crowd before his vote. "I don't think I'm ready to vote today ... without more involvement from the industry."
Despite the vote, board Chairman David Thomas told the crowd of sex workers that the requirement to wear condoms was inevitable.
"You're already required to wear condoms, you're just not doing it," he said.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has been pushing for the increased regulations. The organization also stressed that CalOSHA regulations already require condoms to be used in adult films, but the requirement is largely ignored.
"This is not private, consensual sex behavior," foundation spokesman Jed Kensley told the board. "This is employment, it's different."
The same issue will appear on the November ballot with the Condoms in Pornographic Films Initiative, a ballot measure requiring condoms to be used during adult film sex scenes. In 2012, Los Angeles County voters approved a local ordinance requiring condoms while performing sex in adult films there.
The board voted Thursday to start the process over, with more industry input, and return with new rules within a year.
Dozens of porn actors appeared before the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards board to voice their opposition to a proposal which would have required actors to use rubbers while filming porn movies. They succeeded … at least for the time being.
For those not familiar with the scene, there are thousands of men and women participating in pornography films. Porno is not an underground industry! To the mom and dads of aspiring actresses who went to Hollywood to make it big, you might ask yourselves, 'is our darling little daughter getting fucked in films?' And mom, if you pushed the little darling with your dreams of her being a 'Hollywood star,' has your dream turned into a nightmare?
PORN STARS APPLAUD FAILED VOTE ON TIGHTER RULES
By Matthias Gafni
San Jose Mercury News
February 19, 2016
OAKLAND -- More than 100 adult film workers at a packed auditorium erupted in cheers Thursday afternoon after a state workplace protection board shot down proposed regulations that some predicted would have spelled the end of California's legal porn industry.
After six hours of emotional testimony at the Elihu M. Harris State Building by porn actors, producers, agents and couples who broadcast sex through a webcam in their own home, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards board fell one vote short of approving new rules requiring the performers to use condoms, goggles, gloves and other fluid barriers, while recording sex acts. The board voted 3-2 in favor of the regulations, but a fourth vote was needed for approval.
Mona Wales, a Silicon Valley porn actress who has been in the industry for four years, celebrated outside the meeting.
"I'm just utterly thrilled. It seems like it's the first time they understand the flaw of not listening to the sex workers," she said. "Had this passed, as a legal industry, porn would have ceased to exist in California."
Advocates argued that the rules are needed to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, but Thursday's audience was predominantly opposed to the new rules with performers and producers flying in from around the country. They described how the added regulations would make their products "unsellable," and force workers to ply their trade in places where there are no regulations. Others shared stories of harassment and fear that made them concerned that some medical records would be kept by their employers under the new rules.
Mickey Mod, an Oakland high school graduate who's been in the porn industry as an actor for more than eight years, said no one cared for their bodies as much as sex workers, and the new rules would make the industry less safe.
"You would see a shift of people moving out of state or underground," Mod said. "You would see a shift of people moving to comply with the regulations, but they will struggle to be competitive."
Sex workers argued that the current industry standard has kept them safe for decades except for two instances of on-set transmission of HIV. Currently, adult performers are tested for HIV, chlamydia and other sexually transmitted diseases every two weeks and actors share those results with each other before any scene is filmed.
"They're looking for a problem that's not there. There's not a threat to the public and there's not a threat to ourselves," said 33-year adult film veteran Nina Hartley, who said she felt safer having sex on a porn set than after meeting someone at a bar. "You can't make the risk zero, for that you must be celibate."
But a handful of speakers who spoke disagreed and said stricter workplace protections were needed. Joshua Rogers and Sofia Delgado spoke about how they became HIV-positive while working on the adult film industry in 2013.
"I strongly support condoms and testing together," Rogers told the board.
The two dissenting CalOSHA board members Dave Harrison and Barbara Smisko had differing reasons for their "no" votes. Smisko had reservations about medical confidentiality issues, while Harrison felt there needed to be more input from within the industry.
"I'm more torn over this than I can ever explain," Harrison told the crowd before his vote. "I don't think I'm ready to vote today ... without more involvement from the industry."
Despite the vote, board Chairman David Thomas told the crowd of sex workers that the requirement to wear condoms was inevitable.
"You're already required to wear condoms, you're just not doing it," he said.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has been pushing for the increased regulations. The organization also stressed that CalOSHA regulations already require condoms to be used in adult films, but the requirement is largely ignored.
"This is not private, consensual sex behavior," foundation spokesman Jed Kensley told the board. "This is employment, it's different."
The same issue will appear on the November ballot with the Condoms in Pornographic Films Initiative, a ballot measure requiring condoms to be used during adult film sex scenes. In 2012, Los Angeles County voters approved a local ordinance requiring condoms while performing sex in adult films there.
The board voted Thursday to start the process over, with more industry input, and return with new rules within a year.
Sunday, February 21, 2016
IS TRUMP UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF FUNNY TOBACCO?
One would have to conclude that The Donald must be under the influence of some funny tobacco when he comes up with some of what he says on the campaign trail
Between 1909 and 1913, the U.S. Army under the command of General John Pershing was battling a Moro rebellion in the Philippines. The Moros were a large tribe of Filipino Muslims.
On Friday, during a campaign speech in North Charleston, South Carolina, Trump told his audience this story about Gen. Pershing:
He caught 50 terrorists that did tremendous damage and killed many people and he took the 50 terrorists and he took 50 men and he dipped 50 bullets in pig's blood. And he had his men load his rifles, and he lined up the 50 people, and they shot 49 of those people, and the 50th person, he said; "You go back to your people and you tell them what happened.” And for 25 years, there wasn’t a problem. For 25 years there wasn’t a problem. All right? So we better start getting tough.
Gen. Pershing never did any such thing. Anyone with half a brain would consider this story a ridiculous fable. Dipping bullets in pig’s blood. Executing 49 Moros. And that figment of someone’s imagination ended the Moro terrorism.
How did Trump or his advisors come up with this tale? They got it off the internet. Versions of this story have been around for several years, including one about Israeli settlers coming up with a new way to deter Palestinian suicide bombers – wrapping their corpses in pigskin to prevent their ascent to paradise.
Trump and his advisors, like so many fools, simply fell for the malicious internet mischief originally perpetrated by some smartass Muslim hater. And worst of all, Trump’s audience ate it up.
Of course, Trump has said other ridiculous things since he started campaigning for the presidency. One would have to conclude that The Donald must be under the influence of some funny tobacco when he comes up with those outlandish statements of his.
No matter how ridiculous Trump comes across, a lot of Republicans seem to adore him. He won the South Carolina primary with 32.5 percent of the vote. Sorry, but I can’t help but think that a third of South Carolina Republican voters must be idiots. If not idiots, they must be stealth supporters of Hillary.
You may like what Trump says. So do I, by the way. He either amuses me or amazes me. But I sure do not want a clown to be our next President. We already have one in office now.
If Trump ends up as the Republican nominee, I will vote for him, but I will be holding my nose and filling a barf bag while doing so. I prefer a clown over a sorry ass bitch who will change the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court so that liberal justices will outnumber conservatives for decades to come. Unfortunately though, in all likelihood I’ll be voting for the losing candidate.
Between 1909 and 1913, the U.S. Army under the command of General John Pershing was battling a Moro rebellion in the Philippines. The Moros were a large tribe of Filipino Muslims.
On Friday, during a campaign speech in North Charleston, South Carolina, Trump told his audience this story about Gen. Pershing:
He caught 50 terrorists that did tremendous damage and killed many people and he took the 50 terrorists and he took 50 men and he dipped 50 bullets in pig's blood. And he had his men load his rifles, and he lined up the 50 people, and they shot 49 of those people, and the 50th person, he said; "You go back to your people and you tell them what happened.” And for 25 years, there wasn’t a problem. For 25 years there wasn’t a problem. All right? So we better start getting tough.
Gen. Pershing never did any such thing. Anyone with half a brain would consider this story a ridiculous fable. Dipping bullets in pig’s blood. Executing 49 Moros. And that figment of someone’s imagination ended the Moro terrorism.
How did Trump or his advisors come up with this tale? They got it off the internet. Versions of this story have been around for several years, including one about Israeli settlers coming up with a new way to deter Palestinian suicide bombers – wrapping their corpses in pigskin to prevent their ascent to paradise.
Trump and his advisors, like so many fools, simply fell for the malicious internet mischief originally perpetrated by some smartass Muslim hater. And worst of all, Trump’s audience ate it up.
Of course, Trump has said other ridiculous things since he started campaigning for the presidency. One would have to conclude that The Donald must be under the influence of some funny tobacco when he comes up with those outlandish statements of his.
No matter how ridiculous Trump comes across, a lot of Republicans seem to adore him. He won the South Carolina primary with 32.5 percent of the vote. Sorry, but I can’t help but think that a third of South Carolina Republican voters must be idiots. If not idiots, they must be stealth supporters of Hillary.
You may like what Trump says. So do I, by the way. He either amuses me or amazes me. But I sure do not want a clown to be our next President. We already have one in office now.
If Trump ends up as the Republican nominee, I will vote for him, but I will be holding my nose and filling a barf bag while doing so. I prefer a clown over a sorry ass bitch who will change the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court so that liberal justices will outnumber conservatives for decades to come. Unfortunately though, in all likelihood I’ll be voting for the losing candidate.
CANADIAN TEENAGER IS SUING POLICE AFTER BEING SHOT WITH AN OFFICER’S STOLEN GUN
The RCMP and an officer are being sued after a teenage girl was shot with the officer’s stolen gun
By Jake Kivanc
VICE News
February 16, 2016
A Canadian teen who was shot last year with a gun stolen from an RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) cruiser is suing the national police force, the attorney general of Canada, and the officer in question for an undisclosed amount.
Sixteen-year-old Calli Vanderaa was shot in the parking lot of the convenience store last October, where she had stopped with a few friends. The single bullet that hit her left her with a punctured lung, along with damage to her ribs and internal organs.
The semi-automatic handgun used in the shooting was allegedly stolen from the cruiser of Sergeant Chris McCuen earlier that evening after it was left sitting in open sight on one of the backseats of the car.
Although the police said Vanderaa was not the target of the shooting, 22-year-old Matthew Wilfrid McKay and 25-year-old Matthew Andrew Miles have been charged with a number of crimes, including an attempted murder charge for the shooting of McKay.
Vanderaa's lawyer launched the lawsuit last week, which seeks compensation for both "physical and psychological" damages sustained by Vanderaa.
"This is a little girl, who had a bullet tear through her lung, her spleen, her colon, [and it] took two ribs on the way through. I mean, she was massively beat up," Robert Tapper, Vanderaa's lawyer, told the CBC.
"What is she looking for? She's looking for compensation. It's really as simple as that."
A similar incident happened in Barrie, Ontario, last year when an officer with the Peel Regional Police left her handgun unattended in her car at night. The man who stole the gun and its ammunition was later arrested and charged after he posted a video threatening to kill his cousin with the weapon.
That officer—43-year-old Constable Tracy Cleland—pleaded guilty to careless storage of a firearm. Davin Charney, a Toronto lawyer with an expertise in criminal law and police wrongdoing, told VICE he would expect to see a similar charge against McCuen, which will come on top of the lawsuit launched by the victim.
"I would be surprised if the officer wasn't charged with careless storage of a firearm," Charney told VICE.
"If someone steals a gun and shoots someone with it, that action isn't the criminal responsibility of the officer, but he or she does have a responsibility to store the gun properly. What changes in all of that is that the RCMP could be liable for a much more substantial claim [due to the injuries]."
Making note of more-typical examples of police brutality such as the shootings and assaults that have dominated the media, Charney said that this case is an example of one of the main issues that is overlooked when it comes to "bad policing"—the financial cost.
"When we think of bad policing, we think of harm caused to people, or where people are beat up and they die, but there's a financial cost to all of this as well. Bad policing is expensive, it increases the cost of what the public pays for policing, and the people ultimately bear that cost."
The RCMP responded to VICE's request for an interview by saying that the matter was still under investigation, and the police force could not comment on the matter.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a strange case. Not the lawsuit, but the officer leaving his gun unattended. Shit, most cops sleep with their guns and some even have their guns strapped on while naked and having sex.
By Jake Kivanc
VICE News
February 16, 2016
A Canadian teen who was shot last year with a gun stolen from an RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) cruiser is suing the national police force, the attorney general of Canada, and the officer in question for an undisclosed amount.
Sixteen-year-old Calli Vanderaa was shot in the parking lot of the convenience store last October, where she had stopped with a few friends. The single bullet that hit her left her with a punctured lung, along with damage to her ribs and internal organs.
The semi-automatic handgun used in the shooting was allegedly stolen from the cruiser of Sergeant Chris McCuen earlier that evening after it was left sitting in open sight on one of the backseats of the car.
Although the police said Vanderaa was not the target of the shooting, 22-year-old Matthew Wilfrid McKay and 25-year-old Matthew Andrew Miles have been charged with a number of crimes, including an attempted murder charge for the shooting of McKay.
Vanderaa's lawyer launched the lawsuit last week, which seeks compensation for both "physical and psychological" damages sustained by Vanderaa.
"This is a little girl, who had a bullet tear through her lung, her spleen, her colon, [and it] took two ribs on the way through. I mean, she was massively beat up," Robert Tapper, Vanderaa's lawyer, told the CBC.
"What is she looking for? She's looking for compensation. It's really as simple as that."
A similar incident happened in Barrie, Ontario, last year when an officer with the Peel Regional Police left her handgun unattended in her car at night. The man who stole the gun and its ammunition was later arrested and charged after he posted a video threatening to kill his cousin with the weapon.
That officer—43-year-old Constable Tracy Cleland—pleaded guilty to careless storage of a firearm. Davin Charney, a Toronto lawyer with an expertise in criminal law and police wrongdoing, told VICE he would expect to see a similar charge against McCuen, which will come on top of the lawsuit launched by the victim.
"I would be surprised if the officer wasn't charged with careless storage of a firearm," Charney told VICE.
"If someone steals a gun and shoots someone with it, that action isn't the criminal responsibility of the officer, but he or she does have a responsibility to store the gun properly. What changes in all of that is that the RCMP could be liable for a much more substantial claim [due to the injuries]."
Making note of more-typical examples of police brutality such as the shootings and assaults that have dominated the media, Charney said that this case is an example of one of the main issues that is overlooked when it comes to "bad policing"—the financial cost.
"When we think of bad policing, we think of harm caused to people, or where people are beat up and they die, but there's a financial cost to all of this as well. Bad policing is expensive, it increases the cost of what the public pays for policing, and the people ultimately bear that cost."
The RCMP responded to VICE's request for an interview by saying that the matter was still under investigation, and the police force could not comment on the matter.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a strange case. Not the lawsuit, but the officer leaving his gun unattended. Shit, most cops sleep with their guns and some even have their guns strapped on while naked and having sex.
SURGEON TRYING TO AVOID DOUBLE PARKING TICKET RAMS CAR INTO COP
Dr. Rachel Wellner claimed she was the victim in that the cops beat her up when they busted her
By Shawn Cohen and Megan McGibney
New York Post
February 18, 2015
A Bronx cancer surgeon was busted for ramming a cop in the leg with her car as she tried to avoid getting a double-parking ticket in Midtown on Thursday, police said.
Two cops were issuing the ticket at around 11 a.m. when Dr. Rachel Wellner, 40, a breast cancer specialist at Montefiore Medical Center, hit the gas and struck an officer in the shin, sources said.
Another police unit stopped her on West 53rd Street between Ninth and Tenth avenues, and she was arrested.
The injured cop was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Wellner was charged with resisting arrest, leaving the scene of an accident, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct.
She tearfully defended herself Thursday night.
“I double-parked the car and got a ticket,” she told The Post, adding that she drove off because cops “used force” on her.
“I was beaten up,” Wellner said.
But Wellner’s biggest concern was the possible damage to her reputation.
“If you put my name out there, I will lose my job as a surgeon,” she pleaded.
On her website, she describes herself as “dedicated to combining compassionate, high-quality care.”
The surgeon recently worked in the Dominican Republic to help people without access to medical technology.
By Shawn Cohen and Megan McGibney
New York Post
February 18, 2015
A Bronx cancer surgeon was busted for ramming a cop in the leg with her car as she tried to avoid getting a double-parking ticket in Midtown on Thursday, police said.
Two cops were issuing the ticket at around 11 a.m. when Dr. Rachel Wellner, 40, a breast cancer specialist at Montefiore Medical Center, hit the gas and struck an officer in the shin, sources said.
Another police unit stopped her on West 53rd Street between Ninth and Tenth avenues, and she was arrested.
The injured cop was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Wellner was charged with resisting arrest, leaving the scene of an accident, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct.
She tearfully defended herself Thursday night.
“I double-parked the car and got a ticket,” she told The Post, adding that she drove off because cops “used force” on her.
“I was beaten up,” Wellner said.
But Wellner’s biggest concern was the possible damage to her reputation.
“If you put my name out there, I will lose my job as a surgeon,” she pleaded.
On her website, she describes herself as “dedicated to combining compassionate, high-quality care.”
The surgeon recently worked in the Dominican Republic to help people without access to medical technology.
Saturday, February 20, 2016
THANK YOU FOR FLYING DELTA
Four-hour flight turns into 30-hour nightmare for Delta passengers
By Lori Aratani
The Washington Post
February 18, 2016
The weather forecast was less than ideal for the Delta Airlines flight that left Monday afternoon bound for John F. Kennedy International Airport from Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, but no one aboard could have imagined just how bad things would get.
According to multiple news reports and tweets from the passengers themselves - the four-hour flight turned into a 30-hour nightmare with two flight diversions caused by bad weather. At one point, the turbulence was so bad, one passenger told NBC that she thought the plane was going to break in half.
"I've never seen an air sick bag used before and many were," said Lauren Karasek, another passenger aboard the flight.
Delta apologized for the problems.
In an emailed statement Wednesday, spokesman Michael Thomas confirmed the multiple diversions.
"Delta flight 944 from Punta Cana was unable to land at JFK due to runway conditions and inclement weather in the New York area. The flight diverted to Manchester, New Hampshire, where it remained overnight to comply with mandated crew rest requirements. The flight redeparted for JFK the following day as Delta flight 9929 but diverted to Boston as a result of severe weather in New York. With improving conditions, the flight arrived at JFK before 8 p.m. EST Tuesday."
Karasek said the flight left as scheduled, bound for New York with no indication that anything was amiss. Even as the flight circled the airport, passengers aboard were unconcerned. Looking out the window, passengers could see there was heavy cloud cover and snow. Then the captain spoke.
"He said that we were low on fuel and had to land in 10 minutes or we needed to be diverted," Karasek, 30, recalled.
So diverted they were -- to Manchester, which would have been all well and good-- except that the airport isn't equipped to handle international travel so there were no customs officials to process the 160 or so passengers. (Delta officials told PIX 11 that agents were brought in from Portland, Maine 95 miles away).
Then there were other problems. Because of heavy snow and cold, the plane had to be de-iced. And, because the flight had taken so long, there was a risk that the crew would "time-out" meaning they'd reached the maximum amount of time they could fly.
They missed the window. Karasek said passengers resigned themselves to spending the night in Manchester. But efforts to get passengers off the plane also ran into trouble. The first set of stairs ground crews rolled up to the plane didn't fit. A second set of stairs had to be brought in. Only 20 people were allowed off the plane at time, but Karasek felt lucky to be in the second group.
Could the long nightmare finally be coming to an end?
No such luck. When Karasek and her friends arrived at the terminal there was no one from Delta to meet them except an airport security guard who'd radioed Delta that people were waiting.
So she and her friends struck out on their own, found a hotel and settled in for the night. About 1 a.m. they received an email from Delta, apologizing for the problems and offering them 12,500 Skymiles. They heard nothing more until the next morning when they called at 8 a.m. and were told their flight would be leaving at 11 a.m.
But this would not be the end either.
The plane left Manchester and made two attempts to land at JFK in what Karasek was later told were 60 mile-per-hour winds. People were being tossed around the plane, she said. Air-sick bags were deployed. Several people requested oxygen, which was offered using portable tanks.
"I'm a frequent flier and I've never seen turbulence like this," she said. She pulled out a packet of Dramamine, which she bought to combat car-sickness, took a pill and passed the rest of the packet to her fellow passengers.
"There were a lot of people getting sick, several people needed oxygen," passenger Maribel Reyes told NBC. "It was really bad, I never experienced turbulence like that. I thought the plane was going to break in half. The pilot described it as a blender."
The pilot announced he was diverting to Boston. The flight landed about 3 p.m. But once there, Karasek said, agents refused to open the door to let them into the terminal.
"People were banging on the door," she said. "The captain was advocating to let us go."
Karasek understands there may have been security concerns. A compromise was worked out. The ground crew finally relented, asking passengers to provide their names and seat numbers before letting them off. Once off the plane, Karasek and her friends decided they'd had enough. They bought train tickets.
Karasek arrived home at 11 p.m. Tuesday night. According to Gothamist, only 90 of the 159 passengers were still aboard when the flight finally landed at JFK around 8 p.m. Tuesday.
For her part, Karasek is keeping it all in perspective. "Yes, this sucks, but there are plenty of other travesties in the world - let's just take a minute to remember that," she said.
And while Karasek praised the flight crew as more than gracious given the circumstances, she's less pleased with Delta's customer service. Between the hotel and train tickets, she estimates she and her friends spent roughly $650. Her efforts to reach Delta via Twitter about possible reimbursement were not so successful. Wednesday afternoon, airline representatives told her she would not be eligible for reimbursement.
Thomas, the Delta spokesman, confirmed the offer of 12,500 Skymiles, adding that those who don't have frequent flier accounts with the airline were offered vouchers, but he could not say for how much. He also said the airline would evaluate other situations like Karasek's.
By Lori Aratani
The Washington Post
February 18, 2016
The weather forecast was less than ideal for the Delta Airlines flight that left Monday afternoon bound for John F. Kennedy International Airport from Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, but no one aboard could have imagined just how bad things would get.
According to multiple news reports and tweets from the passengers themselves - the four-hour flight turned into a 30-hour nightmare with two flight diversions caused by bad weather. At one point, the turbulence was so bad, one passenger told NBC that she thought the plane was going to break in half.
"I've never seen an air sick bag used before and many were," said Lauren Karasek, another passenger aboard the flight.
Delta apologized for the problems.
In an emailed statement Wednesday, spokesman Michael Thomas confirmed the multiple diversions.
"Delta flight 944 from Punta Cana was unable to land at JFK due to runway conditions and inclement weather in the New York area. The flight diverted to Manchester, New Hampshire, where it remained overnight to comply with mandated crew rest requirements. The flight redeparted for JFK the following day as Delta flight 9929 but diverted to Boston as a result of severe weather in New York. With improving conditions, the flight arrived at JFK before 8 p.m. EST Tuesday."
Karasek said the flight left as scheduled, bound for New York with no indication that anything was amiss. Even as the flight circled the airport, passengers aboard were unconcerned. Looking out the window, passengers could see there was heavy cloud cover and snow. Then the captain spoke.
"He said that we were low on fuel and had to land in 10 minutes or we needed to be diverted," Karasek, 30, recalled.
So diverted they were -- to Manchester, which would have been all well and good-- except that the airport isn't equipped to handle international travel so there were no customs officials to process the 160 or so passengers. (Delta officials told PIX 11 that agents were brought in from Portland, Maine 95 miles away).
Then there were other problems. Because of heavy snow and cold, the plane had to be de-iced. And, because the flight had taken so long, there was a risk that the crew would "time-out" meaning they'd reached the maximum amount of time they could fly.
They missed the window. Karasek said passengers resigned themselves to spending the night in Manchester. But efforts to get passengers off the plane also ran into trouble. The first set of stairs ground crews rolled up to the plane didn't fit. A second set of stairs had to be brought in. Only 20 people were allowed off the plane at time, but Karasek felt lucky to be in the second group.
Could the long nightmare finally be coming to an end?
No such luck. When Karasek and her friends arrived at the terminal there was no one from Delta to meet them except an airport security guard who'd radioed Delta that people were waiting.
So she and her friends struck out on their own, found a hotel and settled in for the night. About 1 a.m. they received an email from Delta, apologizing for the problems and offering them 12,500 Skymiles. They heard nothing more until the next morning when they called at 8 a.m. and were told their flight would be leaving at 11 a.m.
But this would not be the end either.
The plane left Manchester and made two attempts to land at JFK in what Karasek was later told were 60 mile-per-hour winds. People were being tossed around the plane, she said. Air-sick bags were deployed. Several people requested oxygen, which was offered using portable tanks.
"I'm a frequent flier and I've never seen turbulence like this," she said. She pulled out a packet of Dramamine, which she bought to combat car-sickness, took a pill and passed the rest of the packet to her fellow passengers.
"There were a lot of people getting sick, several people needed oxygen," passenger Maribel Reyes told NBC. "It was really bad, I never experienced turbulence like that. I thought the plane was going to break in half. The pilot described it as a blender."
The pilot announced he was diverting to Boston. The flight landed about 3 p.m. But once there, Karasek said, agents refused to open the door to let them into the terminal.
"People were banging on the door," she said. "The captain was advocating to let us go."
Karasek understands there may have been security concerns. A compromise was worked out. The ground crew finally relented, asking passengers to provide their names and seat numbers before letting them off. Once off the plane, Karasek and her friends decided they'd had enough. They bought train tickets.
Karasek arrived home at 11 p.m. Tuesday night. According to Gothamist, only 90 of the 159 passengers were still aboard when the flight finally landed at JFK around 8 p.m. Tuesday.
For her part, Karasek is keeping it all in perspective. "Yes, this sucks, but there are plenty of other travesties in the world - let's just take a minute to remember that," she said.
And while Karasek praised the flight crew as more than gracious given the circumstances, she's less pleased with Delta's customer service. Between the hotel and train tickets, she estimates she and her friends spent roughly $650. Her efforts to reach Delta via Twitter about possible reimbursement were not so successful. Wednesday afternoon, airline representatives told her she would not be eligible for reimbursement.
Thomas, the Delta spokesman, confirmed the offer of 12,500 Skymiles, adding that those who don't have frequent flier accounts with the airline were offered vouchers, but he could not say for how much. He also said the airline would evaluate other situations like Karasek's.
JERRY’S TOY TRAIN MAKES A SUDDEN TURN
By Bob Walsh
Governor Jerry Brown’s legacy project is High-Speed Rail. (Though not nearly as high speed nor nearly as cost effective as originally planned.) The HSR Authority made a sudden change of direction yesterday with Jerry’s choo choo.
The first leg of the train will now run from Silicon Valley in the south Bay Area to Bakersfield, about 250 miles. Originally the first leg was to run from Buttcrack to South Buttcrack, but the cost per mile was very high due to the need to build a lot of tunnels, bridges and other inconvenient and expensive things.
The original plan, approved by voters as Proposition 1A, called for 2 hours and 40 minutes commute time between SF and LA with a business plan that would be self-supporting with no government subsidy. It is now acknowledged that neither one of those goals is realistic.
Lawsuits are in the works against the current plan, and a ballot initiative is planned for this November that would divert the HSR money to increased water storage in the formerly great state of California.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Reminds me of Chattanooga Choo Choo.
Moonbeam’s Choo Choo
Pardon me, boy
Is that Moonbeam’s choo choo?
Track twenty-nine
Boy, you can gimme a shine
Can you afford
To board Moonbeam’s choo choo
In San Francisco
I've got my fare
And just a trifle to spare
When you hear the horn blowin' eight to the bar
Then you know that Los Angeles is not very far
Shove the pedal to the metal
Gotta keep it rollin'
Woo, woo, Los Angeles there you are
Governor Jerry Brown’s legacy project is High-Speed Rail. (Though not nearly as high speed nor nearly as cost effective as originally planned.) The HSR Authority made a sudden change of direction yesterday with Jerry’s choo choo.
The first leg of the train will now run from Silicon Valley in the south Bay Area to Bakersfield, about 250 miles. Originally the first leg was to run from Buttcrack to South Buttcrack, but the cost per mile was very high due to the need to build a lot of tunnels, bridges and other inconvenient and expensive things.
The original plan, approved by voters as Proposition 1A, called for 2 hours and 40 minutes commute time between SF and LA with a business plan that would be self-supporting with no government subsidy. It is now acknowledged that neither one of those goals is realistic.
Lawsuits are in the works against the current plan, and a ballot initiative is planned for this November that would divert the HSR money to increased water storage in the formerly great state of California.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Reminds me of Chattanooga Choo Choo.
Moonbeam’s Choo Choo
Pardon me, boy
Is that Moonbeam’s choo choo?
Track twenty-nine
Boy, you can gimme a shine
Can you afford
To board Moonbeam’s choo choo
In San Francisco
I've got my fare
And just a trifle to spare
When you hear the horn blowin' eight to the bar
Then you know that Los Angeles is not very far
Shove the pedal to the metal
Gotta keep it rollin'
Woo, woo, Los Angeles there you are
COSBY SUES TO RECOVER HUSH MONEY
By Bob Walsh
Bill Cosby has filed a legal action against a woman he paid hush money to because she wouldn’t keep her mouth shut.
Cosby paid Andrea Constand a significant amount of hush money in 2005. Last year the woman participated in a police interview regarding Cosby’s sexual assault on her. Cosby’s lawyers assert this is a violation of the confidentiality agreement and they want their hush money back.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Fuck Bill Cosby, that sorry ass serial rapist!
Bill Cosby has filed a legal action against a woman he paid hush money to because she wouldn’t keep her mouth shut.
Cosby paid Andrea Constand a significant amount of hush money in 2005. Last year the woman participated in a police interview regarding Cosby’s sexual assault on her. Cosby’s lawyers assert this is a violation of the confidentiality agreement and they want their hush money back.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Fuck Bill Cosby, that sorry ass serial rapist!
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