Uh-oh Two uniformed NYPD officers were shot dead — execution style — as they sat in their marked police car on a Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, street corner. According to preliminary reports, both officers were working overtime as part of an anti-terrorism drill when they were shot point-blank by a single gunman who approached their car at the corner of Myrtle and Tompkins avenues. “It’s an execution,” one law enforcement source told
December 2014
December 20, 2014
BREAKING: “2 NYPD cops shot dead ‘execution style’ in Brooklyn” [Darleen Click] UPDATED
December 20, 2014
Character will out — GW Bush v King Barry [Darleen Click]
via British news media: George W. Bush is nothing if not a good sport. And in no better way was that illustrated when the former President donned a Santa suit for a hospital visit in Dallas. The 68-year-old was handing out toys at the Children’s Medical Center of Dallas to patients who have to spend Christmas at the facility. The family that posted the picture of Bush to Facebook lost
December 19, 2014
Merry Christmas and #ShareTheGift [Darleen Click] *sticky* new posts below
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December 19, 2014
Obama criticizes Sony; asks us to “imagine” [Darleen Click]
Obama takes his last day before winging off to a Hawaiian vacation until next year to lecture Sony The rare presidential criticism of a major corporation was leveled at Mr. Obama’s final news conference of the year on Friday. Earlier on Friday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation publicly blamed the North Korean government for an online attack that erased Sony ’s data, leaked embarrassing emails and culminated in a threat
December 18, 2014
“Legendary Mad Magazine Illustrator Jack Davis Calls It Quits at 90”
From Wired: Jack Davis, the legendary Mad magazine illustrator and movie poster artist, is finally hanging up his pencils. It’s not that the iconic 90-year-old cartoonist can’t draw anymore—he just can’t meet his own standards. “I’m not satisfied with the work,” Davis says by phone from his rural Georgia home. “I can still draw, but I just can’t draw like I used to.” Davis has probably spent more time in
December 16, 2014
“Obama amnesty is unconstitutional” [Darleen Click]
King Barry will not be amused A federal judge has found parts of President Obama’s new deportation amnesty to be unconstitutional, issuing a scathing memo Tuesday accusing him of usurping Congress’s power to make laws, and dismantling most of the White House’s legal reasoning for circumventing Congress. Judge Arthur J. Schwab, sitting in the western district of Pennsylvania, said presidents do have powers to use discretion in deciding how to
December 16, 2014
Taliban attacks school in Pakistan, blows up and beheads children [Darleen Click]
This is Islamofascist terrorism An assault led by the Taliban on a Pakistan military-run school Tuesday left 141 people dead, 132 of which were children, officials say, in the worst attack to hit the country in years. The horrific attack in Peshawar, carried out by a relatively small number of militants from the Tehreek-e-Taliban group, a Pakistani militant group trying to overthrow the government, also sent dozens of wounded flooding
December 15, 2014
Morning, all!
Finally finished all the legal work necessary for probate, and today I’m heading back to the doctor’s to discuss the results of my blood panels. My Vitamin D level was very low — granted, I haven’t been outside that much since we made the move, spending much of my time working on the new house and watching the boys (and of course, dealing with lawyers all over the east coast);
December 14, 2014
Life imitates Monty Python: British soldiers barred from shouting at terrorists [Darleen Click]
All interrogation must be done with soft cushions and comfy chairs: British soldiers have “lost their capability” to interrogate terrorist insurgents because of strict new rules on questioning that even ban shouting in captives’ ears, military chiefs have warned. The rules — detailed in court papers obtained by The Telegraph — also prevent military intelligence officers from banging their fists on tables or walls, or using “insulting words” when interrogating