Monthly Archives: November 2011
Gingrich Wins New Hampshire Union Leader Endorsement
Gingrich Wins Union Leader Endorsement – The Hill
GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich received the endorsement of the influential editorial board of the New Hampshire Union Leader on Sunday, providing another boost to his surging campaign.
The endorsement gives the former House Speaker additional momentum after a month which has seen him vault to the top of national GOP polls.
“We are in critical need of the innovative, forward-looking strategy and positive leadership that Gingrich has shown he is capable of providing,” said the editorial by publisher Joseph W. McQuaid.
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“A lot of candidates say they’re going to improve Washington. Newt Gingrich has actually done that, and in this race he offers the best shot of doing it again,” he added.
The Gingrich campaign said it was “honored to have the endorsement,” calling it “an enormous boost to our campaign,” reported NBC News.
The Union Leader endorsement is highly regarded in the early primary state. Candidates often meet with the editorial board and place great emphasis on securing its backing.
The failure to win the board’s endorsement may be a setback for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s campaign which has struggled to win support from Tea party-affiliated voters and the right-wing of the GOP base.
Drew Cline, editorial page editor for the Union Leader, spoke about the board’s decision on CNN Sunday morning. Cline said that the board’s “two favorites were probably Perry, Gingrich.”
He added that the board, which failed to endorse Romney in 2008 as well gave “every candidate serious consideration.”
However explaining his view on the difference between the two candidates, he added that “Romney’s a guy who wants to be liked, a politician who wants to be liked. Gingrich is a politician who wants to be respected.”
NASA Launches Super-Size Mars Rover (Video)
NASA Launches Super-Size Mars Rover – The Blaze
The world’s biggest extraterrestrial explorer, NASA’s Curiosity rover, rocketed toward Mars on Saturday on a search for evidence that the red planet might once have been home to itsy-bitsy life.
It will take 8 1/2 months for Curiosity to reach Mars following a journey of 354 million miles.
An unmanned Atlas V rocket hoisted the rover, officially known as Mars Science Laboratory, into a cloudy late morning sky. A Mars frenzy gripped the launch site, with more than 13,000 guests jamming the space center for NASA‘s first launch to Earth’s next-door neighbor in four years, and the first send-off of a Martian rover in eight years.
NASA astrobiologist Pan Conrad, whose carbon compound-seeking instrument is on the rover, had a shirt custom made for the occasion. Her bright blue, short-sleeve blouse was emblazoned with rockets, planets and the words, “Next stop Mars!”
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Conrad jumped, cheered and snapped pictures as the rocket blasted off a few miles away. So did Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Roger Wiens, a planetary scientist in charge of Curiosity’s rock-zapping laser machine, called ChemCam.
Wiens shouted “Go, Go, Go!” as the rocket soared. “It was beautiful,” he later observed, just as NASA declared the launch a full success.
A NASA Twitter account “belonging” to Curiosity kept followers apprised of the rover’s launch progress:
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The 1-ton Curiosity – as large as a car – is a mobile, nuclear-powered laboratory holding 10 science instruments that will sample Martian soil and rocks, and analyze them right on the spot. There’s a drill as well as the laser-zapping device.
NASA’s Mars exploration program director, Doug McCuistion, called it “the monster truck of Mars.”
“It’s an enormous mission. It’s equivalent of three missions, frankly, and quite an undertaking,” said an ecstatic McCuistion. “Science fiction is now science fact. We’re flying to Mars. We’ll get it on the ground and see what we find.”
The primary goal of the $2.5 billion mission is to see whether cold, dry, barren Mars might have been hospitable for microbial life once upon a time – or might even still be conducive to life now. No actual life detectors are on board; rather, the instruments will hunt for organic compounds.
Curiosity’s 7-foot arm has a jackhammer on the end to drill into the Martian red rock, and the 7-foot mast on the rover is topped with high-definition and laser cameras. No previous Martian rover has been so sophisticated or capable.
With Mars the ultimate goal for astronauts, NASA also will use Curiosity to measure radiation at the red planet. The rover also has a weather station on board that will provide temperature, wind and humidity readings; a computer software app with daily weather updates is planned.
The world has launched more than three dozen missions to the ever-alluring Mars, which is more like Earth than the other solar-system planets. Yet fewer than half those quests have succeeded.
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Just two weeks ago, a Russian spacecraft ended up stuck in orbit around Earth, rather than en route to the Martian moon Phobos.
“Mars really is the Bermuda Triangle of the solar system,” said NASA’s Colleen Hartman, assistant associate administrator for science. “It’s the death planet, and the United States of America is the only nation in the world that has ever landed and driven robotic explorers on the surface of Mars, and now we’re set to do it again.”
Curiosity’s arrival next August will be particularly hair-raising.
In a spacecraft first, the rover will be lowered onto the Martian surface via a jet pack and tether system similar to the sky cranes used to lower heavy equipment into remote areas on Earth.
Curiosity is too heavy to use air bags like its much smaller predecessors, Spirit and Opportunity, did in 2004. Besides, this new way should provide for a more accurate landing.
Astronauts will need to make similarly precise landings on Mars one day.
Curiosity will spend a minimum of two years roaming around Gale Crater, chosen as the landing site because it’s rich in minerals. Scientists said if there is any place on Mars that might have been ripe for life, it would be there.
The rover – 10 feet long and 9 feet wide – should be able to go farther and work harder than any previous Mars explorer because of its power source: 10.6 pounds of radioactive plutonium. The nuclear generator was encased in several protective layers in case of a launch accident.
NASA expects to put at least 12 miles on the odometer, once the rover sets down on the Martian surface.
“I expect the public to have images, vistas, that we’ve never seen before,” McCuistion said. “Those first images are going to just be stunning, I believe. It will be like sitting in the bottom of the Grand Canyon.”
This is the third astronomical mission to be launched from Cape Canaveral by NASA since the retirement of the venerable space shuttle fleet this summer. The Juno probe is en route to Jupiter, and twin spacecraft named Grail will arrive at Earth‘s moon on New Year’s Eve and Day.
NASA hails this as the year of the solar system.
Daily Benefactor News – Occupy San Diego Goons Invade Wal-Mart, Leave 75 Carts Full Of Merchandise (Video)
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Occupy San Diego Goons Invade Wal-Mart, Leave 75 Carts Full Of Merchandise (Video) – Human Events
The Occupy movement continued its outreach program of thuggery, harassment and intimidation on Black Friday.
At least one group of occupiers handed out “cum-sumer whores” fliers to Wal-Mart shoppers. Meanwhile, the San Diego occupiers stormed into a Wal-Mart, filled 75 carts with merchandise, disrupted shoppers by chanting their nonsense for several minutes at the cash registers, then fled the store leaving behind 75 full carts for the employees to put away.
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Do they really think this thuggery is going to persuade people to join them?
Here’s more on the incident:
Approximately 75 people met up this morning at a transit center with the knowledge of flash mob that will happen and nothing else. I was a little apprehensive being that I didn’t know how we could incoroprate dancing into the 99% movement, nor having much ability to dance.
Their idea on the flash mob was that we’d all enter Walmart inconspicuously and shop for 30 minutes, filling up our carts as much as possible. Then we’d meet at the front to check out and the first person to get up to a checker calls asks the cashier to page their child (Michael Check) to the checkstand cause they’re ready to leave, and then right after the page: MIC CHECK! Citizens of Walmart!! Greetings and welcome back from the food coma!! In the spirit of holiday giving, we believe a discussion is in order about the meaning of value and low cost. For every low-priced product purchased at Walmart, your communities pay the difference. Every price drop represents mistreated workers who STILL cannot feed their families, STILL cannot afford their homes, and STILL cannot payoff their tuitions. Every sweet deal can be attributed to our jobs being outsourced from American communities. Each item on sale helps bankrupt small businesses. YOU, YOUR COMMUNITIES, AND YOUR WORKERS ARE BEING ABUSED!!
Walmart intentionally underemploys, forgoing REAL benefits for social services, costing California taxpayers $86 million annually. Walmart employees are overworked, underpaid, and left under-insured in poor and unsafe conditions. Walmart could fire its employees for the mere mention of forming a workers union; which is the best tool American workers have to protect their rights. Corporate beasts such as this one bleed our communities dry by putting the local business owners, who actually have personal stake in your communities, at a disadvantage against these gluttonous juggernauts. Yet they have the nerve to tell you it’s for your benefit. WE DO NOT HAVE TO BUY THE SCAM!! WE DO NOT HAVE TO BUY DOLLAR-COLLARS FOR OUR FAMILIES!! WE DO NOT HAVE TO BUY ANY OF THIS!! SELF-MADE GIFTS HAVE MORE POWER ANYWAY!! So this holiday season, give yourselves, your families, and your communities the gift of empowerment!! ACT LOCALLY!! SHOP SMALL BUSINESS!! BUY AMERICAN!! Thank you, Exit Safely, and remember to smile… After that there was applause as we all 75 left our carts and exited the disgusting, big box store. We received thumbs ups from employess, smiles from most, claps at the end, and when walking out the three cops there smiled at us as we walked past shouting, “We are the 99%, YOU are the 99%!” We did the same to a second Walmart and then had to call it a day since other activities were planned.
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So, David Frum might be so upset if Romney or Huntsman is NOT the nominee………..
………that he might just pack his Pragmatic Politics bags, lined with REAL RINO skin so you know they are David Brooks approved, and leave the GOP? Well, I guess that leaves us no choice then. If nominating Perry, or some other candidate beneath the “intellect” of Frum means life in the GOP without Frum, then all I can say is, Let me get that door for you Mr. Frum!
In my column for the National Post, I explain why Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman are the best contenders in the GOP presidential field:
I’m looking for two chief things in a candidate for 2012:
1) The temperament, judgment, deftness and largeness of spirit required in the presidential office; and
2) The creativity and intellect to respond to the global economic crisis – a crisis threatening to actually get worse if (or when) the euro implodes.
Those conditions obviously and categorically exclude the clownish Herman Cain, the daffy Ron Paul, the dim Rick Perry and the firebrand congresswoman Michele Bachmann.
Frum, looks up from looking down his nose on better, and smarter people than him to also criticize Rick Santorum, and Newt as un-presidential. But, allow me to focus on his criticisms of Cain, Bachmann, and Perry here.
First of all, to refer to Herman Cain as a clown is simply childish and stupid. I stopped endorsing Cain because I feel his foreign policy creds are lacking. But, I am fully aware that Cain has accomplished too much in his life to ever be called clownish. Frankly, I can see Frum in big red shoes and a huge red nose a lot more easily than I can Cain.
Now Bachmann has lost some respect in my eyes for her attacks on Perry, and her whining about her appearance on Jimmy Fallon, I mean come on, Congresswoman, suck it up. You ought to know by now how low the Left is. Playing the Sexism Card ought to be beneath you. But, again, I can respect her for having the guts to fight for, and stand by her principles. I am not so sure I can say that Frum is as gutsy, or principled.
Now, to the attack on Perry as “dim”. Really Mr. Frum? Dim? Have you seen the governors economic record? Have you looked at his plans to reform D.C.? Now, Mr. Frum might disagree with Perry on certain issues, that is fine. He might like Romney or Hunstman better, again, fine. But, to refer to Perry as “dim”?
Is this because he has an accent? Certainly stuffed shirt pricks like Frum are fairly quick to mock a Southern accent as not so smart. I would remind Mr. Frum that a good portion of our Founders were from,the South. Frum might recognize some of their names Madison, Mason, Jefferson, Lee, Washington, Henry among others.
Maybe Frum has just convinced himself that any candidate that is “too Conservative” simply cannot win. Or perhaps Frum is just not really any type of Conservative? Consider his praise for Romneycare
I still think that his Massachusetts health-care plan showed creative leadership on an important problem — even if he himself now declines to defend his own accomplishment.
Yes, that explains a lot! But surely Romney’s issue with changing positions will give Frum pause
Yet it’s also true that Romney has reversed so many of his positions so abruptly that voting for him is like taking a random walk. We can be sure that a Romney White House will be well-run. But what will it do? That’s anybody’s guess.
Is he serious? He says no one has a clue what a Romney White House would do, but we HAVE to nominate Romney? Talk about a dim bulb? What of Hunstman? Why does the all-knowing Frum support the former governor of Utah?
Huntsman, by contrast, has bravely challenged the Republican party’s strident, uncompromising radical style. I also like Huntsman’s willingness to re-examine the Afghanistan commitment and to focus more on the economic challenge from China. On the other hand, Huntsman’s economic platform is pure Wall Street Journal editorial page: Big tax cuts for the highest-income earners, radical cuts in retirement benefits for people now under 55. The more supple Romney has carefully avoided any such radical commitment.
The Washington, D.C., primary is set for April 3. I’ll probably cast a vote that day for Huntsman, if only to show support for a brave and independent-minded candidate — and in hope that a strong Huntsman showing will be interpreted as a call for a more modern and inclusive Republican party.
O.K. Hunstman is a “BIG-TENT” guy, and Frum wants the party to be more modern, you know smarter, you know, like Frum. Oddly, Frum sounds a whole lot like Meghan McCain here. sure he uses bigger words, but in essence he is Meghan in a business suit. He really can not offer any substantial reason why he frowns on Perry, Bachmann, or Cain, or even why he is so enamoured with Hunstman lr Romney. But, by golly, we stupid rubes better all line up and listen to Frum, or he might take his pragmatism and go home!
Any other nominee would gravely test my commitment to the political party I’ve supported since I entered the United States as a college student in the fall of 1978.
Tell you what David, in my view, the vest thing you can do is to not let the door hit you on the way out!
Excuse me, but didn’t you used to be Charles Johnson?
Ah, Charles Johnson, of Little Green Football fame, or lack of fame these days it seems. He used to be a big time blogger, one of the elites of blogging I suppose you might say. But then, well, he decided he should hate Christians, Southerners, Conservatives, anyone who did not completely agree with his narrow-minded view of the world. And POOF! Just like that he ceased to be relevant, except to himself of course. Stacy McCain, who is SILL relevant, has more
The terminal stage of narcissistic personality order:
Happy Thanksgiving to all LGF readers.
On this day, I’d like to thank 2007 me, who woke up and realized that the “counter-jihad” bloggers were in truth a bunch of bigots and fascists. And I’d also like to thank the 2009 me, who realized that the Republican Party was dangerously off the rails, and publicly jumped off their runaway right wing train. . .
It is sad that Johnson got so full of himself, that, well, he destroyed himself. As Stacy concludes……
……..for those readers whose reaction to such news is, “Oh, you mean Little Green Footballs is still online?”
If you didn’t discover the blogosphere until after 2007, of course, your reaction is probably, “Charles Who?”
He used to be somebody important, believe it or not.
DaleyGator DaleyBabe Vanessa Mae
From A Man, A Dog, and A Gun, new to our blogroll comes this video, and a few pics of the lovely and talented Vanessa Mae
Daily Benefactor News – Military Advocates Decry ‘Illegal’ Early Terminations Of 157 Air Force Majors
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Military Advocates Decry ‘Illegal’ Early Terminations Of 157 Air Force Majors –
The Chapman University of Military Law and its associated AMVETS Legal Clinic are blowing the whistle on what they say is an injustice set to be perpetrated on 157 Air Force majors on the last day of November.
“The Obama administration has ordered massive reductions in forces, resulting in many officers who are near retirement being involuntarily separated without retirement or medical benefits,” explained institute director Maj. Kyndra Rotunda.
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The Department of Defense specifies that service members within six years of retirement normally would be retained and allowed to retire on time with benefits, unless extenuating circumstances exist such as disciplinary issues.
According to lawyers at Chapman and the AMVETS Legal Clinic, the Air Force has deviated from the six-year protection “without any legal authority.”
“At the heart of the matter, is whether the Secretary of the Air Force [Michael Donley] can ignore protections that exist in governing regulations,” Rotunda told The Daily Caller. “The Air Force position is that yes, he may. Our position is that nobody is above the law.”
Air Force spokesman Michael Dickerson explained to TheDC that “selective continuation” is the process which has resulted in the premature separation of these 157 majors. According to Dickerson, officers who fail to get a promotion two times in a row are subject to involuntary discharge – unless they are within two years of qualifying for retirement. Officers subject to discharge can be retained if tapped for continuation by a selection board – it is at these selection boards where officers six years to retirement normally are retained.
“If a continuation board is held, under DoD policy, a commissioned officer on the Active Duty List in the grade of O-4 shall normally be selected for continuation if the officer will qualify for retirement within six years of the date of continuation,” Dickerson wrote in an email to TheDC. “The Secretary of the Military Department, however, may deviate from the DoD policy upon notification to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness based on the needs of the service.”
The Air Force Times reported that last December Air Force Secretary Donley told Defense Secretary Robert Gates that some officers within the six year protective window would be terminated.
“Due to efforts to manage our officer corps and to size and shape the force to meet congressionally mandated end-strength, the Secretary of the Air Force notified USD (P&R) of his intent to exercise his authority not to selectively continue large pools of twice-deferred officers who would otherwise qualify for retirement within six years,” Dickerson added.
Despite the Air Forces’ assertion that the dismissals have been kosher, Rotunda noted that based on the Defense Department’s Instruction 1320.08, “derogatory information” is the only reason officers should be terminated, and that budget shortfalls are not one of the instances.
“The Air Force cites budgetary short falls as the reason to terminate them. But that rationale is nowhere mentioned in the regulation,” Rotunda told TheDC. “In this instant, the officers being separated are within six years of retirement and their records do not contain derogatory information. Thus, they should be allowed to remain in service and retire. The defense department’s own regulation does not authorize what the defense department is doing. The Airmen relied on the law when they entered service and now the Secretary wants to change that law, without authority.”
Based on reporting from the AFT, this kind of termination is indeed unusual.
“In my 18-year affiliation with the Air Force – including ROTC – I didn’t know of anyone who wasn’t selected for continuation – unless they had a quality indicator such as an Article 15 or [drunken driving] charge,” an Airborne Warning and Control System crew member told the AFT. “That was the standing context; that was my entire experience; that was the expectation.”
The AFT further reported in July that Maj. Gen. Sharon Dunbar, the Air Force’s top force management officer, has articulated the possibility of more cuts to twice-deferred majors due to mandated reductions.
“Our flexibility in selectively continuing officers will likely remain limited until we reach our funded end strength level,” Dunbar said in a statement.
Chapman University has taken up the cause of several terminated majors. Major Kale Mosley, a combat pilot who has served for six months shy of 20 years, is one of their clients. Mosley has served in 13 combat zones and was recently deployed to Libya with only 30 hours notice. Shortly thereafter he was sent to Iraq.
“It was on the same day of this Iraq deployment that the Air Force gave him a pink slip,” said Rotunda.
“The issues of military personnel are more pertinent than ever with increased combat zones worldwide, from Libya and Uganda to Afghanistan and Iraq,” said Josh Flynn-Brown, a Post-Doctoral Clinical Fellow at the Military Institute, who is handling Mosely’s case. “It is a time to honor our heroes, the men and women who drop everything to fight for our country. We honor them not by handing them a pink slip as they are shipped off to combat.”
The advocates are calling on members of Congress to institute a Temporary Early Retirement Program, as they did during the draw-down in the 1990s to offer “pro-rated benefits for those officers who, for one reason or another, fall shy of 20 years in service.”
Chapman also has requested that the Air Force push back the final termination dates until after the holidays. According to Chapman, the Air Force has refused. Mosley and the 156 other majors will be terminated on Nov. 30 unless the Air Force reverses its decision or Congress steps in.
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Leftism summed up in 30 seconds or less
RS McCain has the video, and I think the clip illustrates everything that is wrong with the useful idiots that allow their minds to be seduced by the empty promises of Marxism. Here is the transcript. Note the hyper-emotionalism, the lack of common sense, the complete lack of appreciation for Western values that allows this moron to speak freely, and the addiction to the notion that these miscreants are ” building a new world”.
“I spent the last three weeks building this library into a place where people could come together, where they can just share ideas, where they can meet each other, and where they can just be in peace together. And now it’s all being torn apart for no good reason. We’re not hurting anybody here. We’re not hurting any one. We just want to be here and meet each other and learn together. We just want to try and build a new world.”
I suppose this walking brain donor never thought that he and his hippie friends, CAN do all those things without living in tents, and while actually practicing hygiene as well. But, I suspect this overgrown child only cares about being the center of attention. It is all about him. Leftism is ultimately all about selfish people who wish to mooch off the successes of others.
What this hippie, like all Leftists, really needs, is a kick in the ass.
Ain’t that peculiar?
Michele Bachmann said in the last debate that Gingrich was wrong about deciding if certain illegals, who had been here for a very long time might stay, rather than being deported. Well, Michele, perhaps you forget that you agreed with Newt before, well, you know the rest………
OUCH! That has to hurt.
Look, Rick Perry is right about the border it must be secured FIRST! Then, and only then we can look at how to handle those illegals here already. Otherwise, those deported will just come right back. And I certainly say that we ought to deport the worst first, MS-13 gang members, those who have committed crimes, etc. And we ought to work our way back from there.
Pandemonium: The Craziest Black Friday Videos
Pandemonium: The Day’s Craziest Videos From Black Friday – The Blaze
We all know the stories that come out of Black Friday are shocking. For example, we already have reports of a woman pepper spraying rivals at a California Walmart. But in this day-and-age, stories have given way to videos, and Business Insider has promised to keep an updated story with all the wildest videos from Black Friday. We’ve included some of their selections below (as well as some that we found ourselves) but keep checking their original story for more Black Friday gold (content warning for language in some places).
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Figures… Occupy Miami Protest Leader Led “Jews Go Back To The Ovens” Rally
Figures… Occupy Miami Protest Leader Led “Jews Go Back To The Ovens” Rally – Gateway Pundit
In December 2008 Pro-Palestinian protesters at a rally in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., took their anti-Israel rhetoric a step further, calling for the extermination of Israel — and of Jews.
“Go back to the ovens!”
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The organizer of this protest and several other anti-Israel protests in the Miami area was Mohammad Malik. Today, Malik is heading the local Occupy Miami movement.
World Net Daily reported, via Orbusmax:
The recent executive director of the controversial Council on American-Islamic Relations’ South Florida chapter is a founder and spokesman of Occupy Miami, WND has learned.
Mohammad Malik currently is as an activist with several other Islamic groups.
He has led hate-filled anti-Israel protests in which participants were filmed wearing Hamas paraphernalia while chanting “Nuke Israel” and “Go back to the oven” – a reference to Jews being killed in the Holocaust.
Malik has been widely quoted in the Florida news media in recent weeks speaking for Occupy Miami.
The Miami Herald identified Malik as one of the organizers of Occupy’s Miami’s downtown campsite headquarters…
…Malik himself was the principal organizer of numerous anti-Israel rallies.
A rally in March was titled “Miami’s Third Intifada Rally for Palestine.”
During the demonstration, protesters reportedly chanted a slogan often used by Hamas and other Palestinian radicals calling for the destruction of Israel: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
A Malik-led rally in December 2008 reportedly drew 200 to 300 rowdy supporters, with some screaming for Jews to “go back to the ovens.”
Mohammad Malik led anti-Israel protests in Miami in March.
Malik taunted pro-Israel protesters in this 2009 protest. (Americans Against Hate)
Now Muhammad Malik is leading the local Obama-endorsed #Occupy Miami protests.
Occupy Nutbag Arrested For Threatening To Kill South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley
Occupy Nutbag Arrested For Threatening To Kill South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley – KITV
A South Carolina man is accused of threatening the life of Gov. Nikki Haley on Facebook, but he claims he was only making a point about free speech.
When 26-year-old Nathan Shafer heard about the arrests of 19 Occupy Columbia members outside the State House last Wednesday, he did what lots of people do when they get angry – he vented about it on the Internet. He saw Gov. Haley’s Facebook post about the arrests and Haley’s comment that she “appreciate[s] freedom of speech,” and that’s when authorities say Shafer crossed the line.
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“I hope someone murders you before I do,” Shafer said he commented on the post. “How’s that for freedom of speech?”
The next day, Shafer says two State Law Enforcement Division agents visited him in Charlotte to discuss the comment. Shafer says he retracted and deleted his statement, promised he wasn’t serious and apologized to the Haley family.
Still, Shafer says SLED agents called him again on Tuesday and told him he’ll be prosecuted for the alleged threat. Shafer turned himself in at noon on Wednesday at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center.
“I just think the whole situation is completely ridiculous and blown out of proportion,” Shafer wrote shortly before his arrest.
Threats against public officials are naturally taken very seriously, even when a comment was supposedly made in jest. In July, however, a federal court ruled that a man who posted online statements calling for President Barack Obama’s assassination was merely exercising his free speech rights.
At issue, according to the court, is whether a “reasonable person” would view the statement in question as a genuine threat. In Shafer’s case, that remains to be seen.
Daily Benefactor News – Black Friday Madness: Shopper Pepper Sprays Crowd To Get Deal At L.A. Wal-Mart, Shootings In CA, SC
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Black Friday took an ugly turn at a Los Angeles Wal-Mart when a female shopper – desperate to get her hands on discounted electronics – pepper sprayed a crowd to keep them away from the merchandise she wanted.
At least 20 shoppers suffered minor injuries and police are still looking for the woman.
The melee began shortly after 10:20 p.m. Thursday as shoppers prowling for Black Friday deals were let inside the store.
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The suspect began shooting the pepper spray when the coverings of items she wanted were removed, according to police.
“Somehow she was trying to use [the pepper spray] to gain an upper hand,” police Lt. Abel Parga said.
Witnesses described the frenzied scene to the Los Angeles Times, describing how shoppers-gone-wild tore down video game displays, trampled merchandise and shoved each other for the deeply-discounted goods.
“People started screaming, pulling and pushing each other, and then the whole area filled up with pepper spray,” Alejandra Seminario, 24, told the newspaper.
After the competitive shopper unleashed the chemicals, Seminario said she began to cough and her face began to itch.
“I guess what triggered it was people started pulling the plastic off the pallets and then shoving and bombarding the display of games. It started with people pushing and screaming because they were getting shoved onto the boxes,” she added.
Chaos also erupted at a Fayetteville, N.C. mall after gunfire erupted. Police are looking for two suspects. Luckily no one was injured.
In addition, a discount-seeking shopper was shot and critically wounded during a robbery outside a Wal-Mart in San Leandro, Calif.
And in Myrtle Beach, S.C., a 55-year-old woman was also shot and injured during a robbery attempt near a Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart came under the microscope on Black Friday in 2008, when a store employee died after a mob of frenzied shoppers smashed through a Long Island store front and trampled the to death.
Despite the mayhem in Los Angeles, the store remained opened and those not affected by the pepper spray continued to hunt for bargains.
“I don’t care,” Nakeasha Contreras, a 20 year old who arrived after the incident, told the Times. “I’m still getting my TV.”
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*VIDEO* Norm MacDonald Saves Black Friday
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Click on the image above to watch Norm save Black Friday.
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Your Daley Gator Slightly Disturbing Black Friday Quote For 2011
“There is no such thing as time. The past is only an idea in the minds of creatures who exist in the now. However, the now cannot exist because as soon as any creature contemplates the now, it has already become the past, which was only an idea to begin with. Moreover, the future hasn’t happened, so to even consider the concept is an act of pure madness.” – Edward L. Daley
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