CNN Now Reporting Potential Bombshell in Ferguson Shooting Regarding What Alleged Friend of Officer Darren Wilson Told TheBlaze’s Dana Loesch On-Air | Video | TheBlaze.com

CNN Now Reporting Potential Bombshell in Ferguson Shooting Regarding What Alleged Friend of Officer Darren Wilson Told TheBlaze’s Dana Loesch On-Air | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"For the very first time, an alleged “friend” of the officer who fatally shot Ferguson teenager Michael Brown is revealing new details about the controversial incident that has sparked unrest in cities across the country, CNN reported on Monday."

These Are The 10 Most Boring Places In Michigan

These Are The 10 Most Boring Places In Michigan - Movoto:

Ah, Michigan, The Great Lakes State.
The state of warm days spent on the lake, rich culture, arts, fascinating and fit people everywhere you look, and so many things to do in each and every city that you won’t even know where to start.

In fact, we’ve already made a list of the 10 most exciting places in Michigan.

Then there are some places that aren’t exactly bastions of excitement.
Here are the 10 most boring places in Michigan, starting with our winner (or loser, depending on how you look at it), Norton Shores:

1. City of Norton Shores
2. City of Southgate
3. City of Roseville
4. City of Romulus
5. City of Southfield
6. City of Oak Park
6. City of Warren
8. City of Taylor
9. City of Inkster
10. City of Lincoln Park
If you’re a resident of Norton Shores, or any one of these top 10, you might be torn between outrage: “Our city made the most boring list!” and elation that your city actually won, well, something: “Our city made a list!”

Detroit losing MILLIONS because it buys CHEAP BATTERIES

Detroit losing MILLIONS because it buys CHEAP BATTERIES – report • The Register:
"But such frugality has a price, city sources say, because the discount batteries that Detroit is using now don't do the job as well as the name-brand alkaline cells the city used before budget cuts took effect.
As a result – according to the office of the emergency manager, whose thankless job it is to oversee the city's ongoing fiscal crisis – on any given day, nearly half of Detroit's parking meters aren't working.
It's not just that the cheap batteries don't last as long. 
Apparently, they're also more sensitive to temperature, particularly when Detroit's frigid winters hit.
In icy conditions, they may give out significantly less than the full 9-volt charge, which can play havoc with parking meters' fussy circuitry.
On an 8.2-volt charge, a meter might take money but not give out any parking time, and at 8 volts it will stop working altogether, one meter repairman told the Detroit News."

Holi crapoli! This site tells us Chicago is "murder city USA"------- HeyJackass! | Illustrating Chicago Values

HeyJackass! | Illustrating Chicago Values

The Hidden Audio Of Mike Brown Shooting Eye Witness – A Witness Conversation Unknowingly Captured at the Scene of the Ferguson Shooting is a Game-Changer

The Hidden Audio Of Mike Brown Shooting Eye Witness – A Witness Conversation Unknowingly Captured at the Scene of the Ferguson Shooting is a Game-Changer | The Last Refuge:

1 How’d he get from there to there?

#2 Because he ran, the police was still in the truck – cause he was like over the truck

{crosstalk}

#2 But him and the police was both in the truck, then he ran – the police got out and ran after him

{crosstalk}

#2 Then the next thing I know he coming back toward him cus - the police had his gun drawn already on him –

#1. Oh, the police got his gun

#2 The police kept dumpin on him, and I’m thinking the police kept missing – he like – be like – but he kept coming toward him

It was a sharp Treeper  who originally caught the background conversation within the video.  The video was originally uploaded by a U-Tube account “Black Canseco“.

The 50 Best College Towns In America

The 50 Best College Towns In America - Best College Reviews

Our national disgrace!---Stung by Suicide: 20 Service-Members a Day Kill Themselves

Kwame's lawyer as SOC?!!!!-----As Democrats assemble November slate, could Secretary of State nominee raise eyebrows?

Tim Skubick: As Democrats assemble November slate, could Secretary of State nominee raise eyebrows? | MLive.com:
"Democrats do not appear to be concerned that one of their statewide candidates has done legal work for Matty Moroun and the former Mayor of Detroit.
It is not a major issue at this read, but just for the sake of discussion let’s review some of the lawyer-ing done by probable Secretary of State candidate Godfrey Dillard.
He’s a Detroit attorney.
One of his clients is the litigious owner of the Ambassador Bridge and the other was Kwame Kilpatrick.
Will that raise political eyebrows?
One Democratic player wonders if Dillard could take some heat and could the rest of the ticket be forced to defend him?
When the Detroit City Council was making noises about ousting his Honor, or not-so-honorable Mayor Kilpatrick, it was Mr. Dillard representing city government, who argued against that.
As for his legal work on behalf of Mr. Moroun, one would have to ask what does that have to do with Mr. Dillard wanting to beat Ruth Johnson to be SOS?"

Sunspots 2014: Two big surprises

Sunspots 2014: Two big surprises | Communities Digital News

AUSTIN, August 16, 2014 – A rare spotless day on the sun on July 17-18, 2014 triggered public speculation that an already stunted Cycle 24 was nearly over. Such is not the case. Defying the odds for so late in a sunspot cycle, another solar sunspot maximum was set last month. Another one is coming this month.

In other major news, a long needed revision to the 400-year sunspot record was proposed. It’ll be the first change made to the sunspot record since it was first established by Rudolf Wolf back in 1849. The changes will affect long-term climate and other dependent scientific studies.

One effect of the proposal will be to reduce modern sunspot totals. That will wipe out the so-called “Modern Maximum” and make the current sunspot cycle, Cycle 24, the weakest in 200 years.

Cycle 24 solar sunspot progression

New solar maximum set in July. Credit/SILSO data, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels

.....Cycle 24 still remains the weakest solar cycle in 100 years. It’s nowhere near NASA’s forecast peak. Data indicating weak sunspot activity over the next couple cycles remain strong.

....When that change finally arrives, long-term indicators suggest the next sunspot cycle will be much weaker than this one. That could portend a general cooling trend for earth, if history serves as a guide to future behavior.

Extended periods of inactivity – like the Spörer, Maunder and Dalton minimums – were all accompanied by cooler earth temperatures. Conditions today mimic Cycles 3, 4 and 5 which marked the beginning of the Dalton Minimum.
Read more at http://www.commdiginews.com/news-2/sunspots-2014-two-big-surprises-24027/#Itdy3JSROtjzOrLU.99

OMG! Da unions gettin' screwed. Who'd of thunk?------Power plant regs spur new union rebellion for Obama administration

Power plant regs spur new union rebellion for Obama administration | Fox News:
"But labor organizations are now piping up regarding an Environmental Protection Agency proposal to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 30 percent by 2030. 
The rules are intended to curb global warming.
Last week, Edwin Hill, president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), penned an op-ed claiming the plan would “have a dramatic impact on the American economy but only a minimal effect on global carbon emissions.”
Hill claimed the EPA plan is a “classic example of federal tunnel vision—focusing on a single goal with little heed for the costs and dangers."
He predicted the plan would kill roughly “52,000 permanent direct jobs in utilities, mining and rail and at least another 100,000 jobs in related industries” – losses that would fall particularly hard on rural communities.
....."Our initial analysis indicates that there will be a loss of 75,000 direct coal generation jobs in the United States by 2020,” Roberts said, adding:
"And no one -- no one -- can point to a significant reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions that is guaranteed to come from this rule.”

Where the hell is Al?-------Four men shot in one hour in Flint Sunday night, police say

Four men shot in one hour in Flint Sunday night, police say | MLive.com:

"FLINT, MI -- Four people were shot within about an hour in Flint Sunday night, Aug. 17, police say.
Between 8:30 and about 9:30 p.m. Sunday, three shootings left four men with gunshot wounds, Sgt. Troy Simpson with the Flint Police Department said."

A Medicare scam that just kept rolling

A Medicare scam that just kept rolling | The Washington Post:
LOS ANGELES — In the little office where they ran the scam, a cellphone would ring on Sonia Bonilla’s desk. 
That was the sound of good news: Somebody had found them a patient.
When Bonilla answered the phone, one of the scam’s professional “patient recruiters” would read off the personal data of a senior citizen. 
Name. 
DOB. 
Medicare ID number. 
Bonilla would hang up and call Medicare, the enormous federal health-insurance program for those over 65.
She asked a single question: Had the government ever bought this patient a power wheelchair?
No? 
Then the scam was off and running.
“If they did not have one, they would be taken to the doctor, so the doctor could prescribe a chair for them,” Bonilla recalled. 
On a log sheet, Bonilla would make a note that the recruiter was owed an $800 finder’s fee. 
“They were paid for each chair.”
This summer, in a Los Angeles courtroom, Bonilla described the workings of a peculiar fraud scheme that — starting in the mid-1990s — became one of the great success stories in American crime.
The sucker in this scheme was the U.S. government. 
That wasn’t the peculiar part.
The tool of the crime was the motorized wheelchair.
The wheelchair scam was designed to exploit blind spots in Medicare, which often pays insurance claims without checking them first. 
Criminals disguised themselves as medical-supply companies. They ginned up bogus bills, saying they’d provided expensive wheelchairs to Medicare patients — who, in reality, didn’t need wheelchairs at all. 
Then the scammers asked Medicare to pay them back, so they could pocket the huge markup that the government paid on each chair.
A lot of the time, Medicare was fooled. 
The government paid.
Since 1999, Medicare has spent $8.2 billion to procure power wheelchairs and “scooters” for 2.7 million people. 
Today, the government cannot even guess at how much of that money was paid out to scammers.

Where the heck is Barry's kid???------15 shot in NYC within 8 hours, 2 dead

15 shot in NYC within 8 hours, 2 dead - New York News

NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) -

Fifteen people were shot in a rash of violence in New York City.

The violence left two people dead and 13 others injured within a span of just 8 hours.

The NYPD reported the first shooting late Saturday.  It happened at an East Harlem Park.

In that incident, 3 people were shot, with one of the victims being seriously injured, at Jefferson Park on 113th Street and First Avenue; Shortly before 3 a.m.

On Sunday, 2 people were shot dead in Hamilton Heights when a driver got out of his car and opened fire.

The motorist fled after killing a 21-year-old and a 29-year-old man.

A man in his 20s was shot on West 128th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem at around 1 a.m.

A 19-year-old man was shot on Lewis Avenue and Van Buren Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant at around 2 a.m. And a 26-year-old was shot at Sutter Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York at around 5:30 a.m.

3 people were shot in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx around 3 a.m. Sunday.

A 19-year-old and a 24-year-old were both shot in the arm and a 29-year-old was shot in the thigh. The three victims are expected to survive.

In the South Jamaica section of Queens at around 6 a.m. Sunday, 4 people were shot when two men got out of a car and fired more than 20 rounds. Two of them are in critical condition.

Police say three other people were shot and injured with non-life-threatening injuries in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Officers from the NYPD also shot and injured a man who was attacking a woman with a knife in an apartment building in the Bronx shortly before 4 a.m. Sunday.

Ferguson: When Stupid and Evil Reign, It’s Good to Own a Gun

Ferguson: When Stupid and Evil Reign, It’s Good to Own a Gun | The Minority Report Blog:

Owners of SAMs Meat Market defending their store because they say police won’t. @FOX2now#ferguson pic.twitter.com/TTG2eaCw5d

— George Sells August 16, 2014

Feds Buy Border Fence ... for Ukraine | The Weekly Standard

Feds Buy Border Fence ... for Ukraine | The Weekly Standard:
"As part of the U.S. Crisis Support Package for Ukraine announced by the White House in April, the State Department awarded a $435,000 contract to B.K. Engineering System in Kyiv for razor wire to help "defend the newly imposed borders between Ukraine's mainland and the Crimean peninsula." The contract was awarded on June 12, but was just posted online this week."

Police tell Detroiters to buy guns in city riven by race issues and crime

Police tell Detroiters to buy guns in city riven by race issues and crime | Money | theguardian.com

Detroit police chief James Craig – nicknamed “Hollywood” for his years spent in the LAPD and his seeming love of being in front of the camera – has repeatedly called on “good” and “law-abiding” Detroiters to arm themselves against criminals in the city.

His words have not fallen on deaf ears.

Patricia Champion, a 63-year-old lifelong Detroiter, a grandmother and retired educator, decided to get her concealed pistol license -- a CPL -- two years ago after her son said he was increasingly worried for her safety. Champion, a resident of northwest Detroit, mostly keeps her gun, a 9mm Glock 19 that set her back $600, in her house.

“That’s why I got it: because I’m going to be in the house. Now, if somebody chooses to come in and I didn’t invite you, between the Glock and the dog, you’re gone. If one doesn’t get you, the other one will.”

“The police are not going to protect you when something is being perpetrated on you. They may turn up after the fact and run after that person, but you have to protect yourself,” Champion says.

Champion’s fears of facing a threat in her home are not ill-founded. Besides having the worst homicide rate among large American cities, Detroit experienced 12,935 burglaries last year. With around 250,000 households, that means Detroiters have roughly a 1 in 20 chance of being burgled. To residents who have been victims of crime, being allowed to carry a weapon, whether openly or concealed, is not just reassuring, it’s part of the pragmatic reality of living in the Motor City. Wayne County, which encapsulates Detroit and its metro area, counted 83,950 active concealed-pistol permits as of 1 August 2014 – meaning one permit for every 21 households.

The Most Commonly Spoken Language In Your State Is...

The Most Commonly Spoken Language In Your State Is... | Zero Hedge:

History for August 18

History for August 18 - On-This-Day.com

Birth anniversary of Virginia Dare, the first child of English parents to be born in the New World(1587-?).

Birth anniversaries of baseball hero Roberto Clemente (1934-72) and explorer Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809).

Happy Birthday! Roman Polanski, Robert Redford, Madeleine Stowe

1227 - The Mongol conqueror Ghengis Khan died. 


1587 - Virginia Dare became the first child to be born on American soil of English parents. The colony that is now Roanoke Island, NC, mysteriously vanished. 


In 1872, the first mail-order catalog was published by Montgomery Ward (it was a single sheet of paper).


1894 - The Bureau of Immigration was established by the U.S. Congress. 


1914 - The "Proclamation of Neutrality" was issued by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. It was aimed at keeping the U.S. out of World War I. 


1920 - Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Amendment guaranteed the right of all American women to vote. 

1960 - Anniversary of “the Pill”: the first commercially produced oral contraceptives were marketed by the G.D. Searle Company on this date.


1963 - James Meredith graduated from the University of Mississippi. He was the first black man to accomplish this feat. 


1991 - An unsuccessful coup was attempted in against President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The Soviet hard-liners were responsible. Gorbechev and his family were effectively imprisoned for three days while vacationing in Crimea. 

VIDEOS: Belligerent Drunk Democrat Rosemary Lehmberg in Charge of ‘Integrity Unit’ Indicts Rick Perry Over a Lawful Veto

VIDEOS: Belligerent Drunk Democrat Rosemary Lehmberg in Charge of ‘Integrity Unit’ Indicts Rick Perry Over a Lawful Veto:
"It’s precious that the same people who argue that Obama’s “pen and phone,” which unconstitutionally makes laws, changes laws, and uses federal bureaucracies to commit acts of tyranny against innocent U.S. citizens (see IRS, NSA, EPA, DHS, etc.), is not an abuse of power, but potential Republican 2016 presidential candidate Perry’s using his lawful veto power is somehow an abuse of power.
Lehmberg was sentenced to 45 days in jail, but released after spending 23 days in the slammer. "

Report: Armed men attack Liberia Ebola clinic, freeing patients

Report: Armed men attack Liberia Ebola clinic, freeing patients - CBS News:
"MONROVIA, Liberia - Liberian officials fear Ebola could soon spread through the capital's largest slum after residents raided a quarantine center for suspected patients and took items including bloody sheets and mattresses.
The violence in the West Point slum occurred late Saturday and was led by residents angry that patients were brought to the holding center from other parts of Monrovia, Tolbert Nyenswah, assistant health minister, said Sunday.
Local witnesses told Agence France Presse that there were armed men among the group that attacked the clinic.
"They broke down the doors and looted the place. 
The patients all fled," said Rebecca Wesseh, who witnessed the attack and whose report was confirmed by residents and the head of Health Workers Association of Liberian, George Williams.
Up to 30 patients were staying at the center and many of them fled at the time of the raid, said Nyenswah. "