7 ”Chemical Engineers” from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia were caught trespassing at Quabbin Reservoir, Boston’s Main water supply.Though police say there was no evidence that the seven were committing any crime beyond the trespassing.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight
STUPID
Seems like an “infringement” upon a Constitutional right due to the fact that it places an unnecessary burden upon a U.S. citizen who chooses to exercise their 2nd Amendment right.
A man recently captured police, who were outside his home answering a call about a domestic violence complaint, in what can only be described as a very bizarre video.
The unidentified Cotati, Calif., man and woman tell the police from inside their home that “there is no domestic violence, just an argument with yelling.”
They also inform police that they have one child in the house and one playing outside.
When the police ask the couple “why” they are not coming out, the man inside tells police: “Because we don’t live in a police state, sir. Martial law has not been established in this country.”
The man insists that police do not have a warrant or probable cause. Seconds later, the police tell the people inside to get down on the floor.
Police then break down the door and enter armed.
The woman is tased first and screams, then the man is tased and the recording ends.
Fucking cops
I can’t believe that this would happen in super hyper progressive liberal “only-the-cops-should-have-guns” California???
marcustalkspoliticsandphilosophy:
Gun lobby logic
Of course….. only one of those 4 wrote a book saying (and I quote): “I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manufacturers’ lobby.” From “The Audacity of Hope” by Barack Obama, p.215 Oct 1, 2006
And he’s the same one who is quote as saying: ”I don’t believe that people should be able to own guns.”- Barak Obama, as quoted to John R. Lott, Jr., PhD, while both were working at the University of Chicago Law School in 1996. From the book “Debacle”, by Grover G. Norquist and John R Lott, Jr., John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: PublisherBut yeah…. he’s not coming to take all our guns. He just said he would, that’s all.
Also, Reagan actually carried a gun and used it. One VERY SILLY press attempt otherwise, Obama has never been know to use, operate or understand anything about firearms.
So then by these standards, liberals should love conservatism!
But they made damn sure that billionaires keep their corporate welfare. #p2 #tcot
If we raise the minimum wage further, it will cause the price of goods to rise as well. For example: the vineyard I work at spends about 15 bucks per person because of workman’s comp, medical, insurance, etc. Packing and shipping wine grapes/barrels of wine can be divided into about 20 bucks per person. Now, they pay 9.25 as the baseline wage rate. If they have to pay more, that means that all those other costs rise as well. A company simply can’t afford to keep raising it’s prices to compensate for a rise in the minimum wage. Things that were out of reach for minimum wage workers before are STILL out of their reach, because prices will have adjusted.
^ BOOM
This is why the left is braindead. They only look at selfish reasons, not the ripple effect.
If I’m being forced to pay an employee a certain price, then I’m not going to hire someone who’s inexperienced, just graduated, or entry level. I’m going to hire someone who will already has the know-how of the job that I’m being forced to pay them to already know.
In other words, the young, elderly and non-trained, need not apply. The young, elderly and non-trained can thank a governmental minimum wage for that.
- It has been revealed that the Department of Justice illegally obtained phone records for a two month period of time from AP journalists and editors in what AP’s top executive calls a “massive and unprecedented intrusion.”
- The IRS has admitted to giving Tea Party/conservative groups extra…
Scoreboard updated!
killthebloodyredprinceofdeath:
We ran out of plates.
This is possibly the greatest photo on Tumblr.
This is possibly the most disrespectful photo on Tumblr. I am not saying that you have to agree with what the bible says, but to utilize that book ‘as a plate’ knowing what it means to people, is just plain disrespectful to religion.
This is possibly the most disrespectful photo on Tumblr. I am not saying that you have to agree with the fact that pizza is the most delicious thing ever, but to let it touch that book, knowing how people misinterpret it as a reason to hate gays, is just plain disrespectful to pizza.
This is possibly the most disrespectful photo on Tumblr.
My uncle got killed by a falling microwave.
Using any book as a plate is disrespectful…
Next time, use the Koran to fry up some bacon. Let’s see how brave you really are.
From article:
THOUSANDS of Britons are carrying out DIY dentistry, pulling their own teeth with pliers and using household glue to stick down fillings.
Unable to afford soaring charges, almost a fifth of people have all but given up going to their dentist, the Sunday Express has discovered…
…Since a new NHS contract was introduced in 2006, the number of crowns, bridges and dentures being fitted has fallen dramatically as dentists feel they are no longer paid enough for time-consuming procedures.
As many as 500,000 patients have been wrongly told by their dentist they must pay privately for treatment that should be available on the NHS.
#ineedmachismo, because women like Kate Upton, Hannah Simone and Genesis Rodriguez don’t need to tell men when, where and what to shave…unless they’re willing to do the things we want them to do as well.
If all the sworn testimony from witnesses on the ground contradicting almost everything the administration told us about Benghazi wasn’t enough to make you think this was a cover-up, how about this? The administration has always said that it got the talking points as to the reason for the…
no pepsi
Brown sausage
I don’t know what I expectedDenim chex mix
black jolly rancher
Black chicken nuggets
Blue smoked salmon
Black Oatmeal. Rock on baby!
Blue Cheesecake…or…Raspberry Swirl
Pink Popcorn
Pink cookie
Denim Ritz baked crackers cream cheese mint jelly.
yeah.
I’m not wearing pants cereal?
Brown pu-pu platter. Doesn’t sound too metal to me.
Fifteen of the gun’s 16 pieces are constructed on the $8,000 Stratasys Dimension SST 3D printer.
The US government has blocked a Texas-based company from distributing details online of how to make a plastic gun using a 3-D printer.
The ban, by the State Department citing international arms control law, comes just days after the world’s first such gun was successfully fired.
Defense Distributed, the company that made the prototype, stated on Twitter that its project had “gone dark” at the instigation of the government.
The company is run by Cody Wilson, a 25-year-old University of Texas law student who has said the idea for freely distributing details about how to produce the guns online was inspired by 19th century anarchist writing. Wilson argues everyone should have access to guns.
A State Department spokesman said: “Although we do not comment on whether we have individual ongoing compliance matters, we can confirm that the department has been in communication with the company.”
The action came too late to prevent widespread distribution of the files: Defense Distributed told Forbes that the files have already been downloaded more than 100,000 times in the two days since they were uploaded. The largest number of downloads initially were to addresses in Spain, followed by the US, Brazil, Germany and the UK.
Fifteen of the gun’s 16 pieces are constructed on the $8,000 Stratasys Dimension SST 3D printer, Forbes said. The final piece is a common nail, used as a firing pin, that can be found in a hardware store.
Betabeat posted a copy of the letter reportedly sent by the Department of State to Wilson. The department said the blueprints had to be taken offline because they may contain data regulated by the State Department. The departement said it would review the files.
“I immediately complied and I’ve taken down the files,” Wilson told Betabeat. “But this is a much bigger deal than guns. It has implications for the freedom of the web.”
Defense Distributed does not host the files in the US; instead it has uploaded them to the Mega website run by the internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, based in New Zealand, and where user information – including who has logged into the site and downloaded files – is encrypted.
The files have also been uploaded to the Pirate Bay file-sharing site, where they have proved a popular download.
The gun blueprints take the form of computer-aided design files, which have to be read by specialist software which can then be used by industrial 3D printers to build up the hair-thin layers, one by one, to create the finished parts.
On Thursday, a British expert in 3D printing and a ballistics expert separately warned that building a gun from the parts could be lethal to the user, because the physics involved in firing a bullet – with pressures in the gun chamber of more than 1,000 atmospheres, and temperatures of over 200C – could put catastrophic stresses on the plastics used it its construction.
Even so, two British newspapers are understood to have asked 3D printing companies to try to build the gun for them.
In the US, a reporter who downloaded the file found that companies with sufficient 3D printing capability refused to produce the device, citing laws against the production of such weapons – or asking prices that were substantially higher than those for high-quality rifles available in shops.
Wilson has been on a public mission to create a 3D printed gun since September 2012. He initially attempted to fund the project using crowdsourcing site Indiegogo, but the site removed his pitch for breaching the company’s rules. Wilson then raised $20,000 in Bitcoins for the project but Stratasys repossessed his printer.
He has since gained access to a second Stratasys printer which was presumably used to create the gun fired over the weekend.
Wilson unsuccessfully applied for a federal firearms license from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and has said he wants to create the gun legally. On Sunday, New York senator Charles Schumer said that legislation should be created to prevent people from making 3D printed guns.
Thank God, I downloaded a copy before it went down!
(RNN) - Caffeine is being added to foods more and more these days. But the caffeine craze has caused the Food and Drug Administration to look into the possibility regulating America’s favorite drug.
Last week, Wrigley announced it will release a new gum that will contain a half cup of coffee’s worth in each stick. The new “energy gum” is just one example of a recent trend that has seen caffeine added to everything from granola bars to jelly beans, and even water.
However, the FDA says that so many caffeinated foods could be harmful, especially to children, and the agency plans to investigate the effects.
“Our concern is about caffeine appearing in a range of new products, including ones that may be attractive and readily available to children and adolescents, without careful consideration of their cumulative impact,” said Michael R. Taylor, the deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine at the FDA, in a press release.
“The proliferation of these products in the marketplace is very disturbing to us,” he added.
Taylor claimed that so much caffeine added to foods put children at risk of “excess caffeine consumption” and that the agency needs to better understand the effects, as well as determine what are safe consumption levels.
In the Q & A press release, Taylor was asked if it is possible that the FDA would set age restrictions for purchasing of caffeine.
“We have to be practical; enforcing age restrictions would be challenging,” he said. “For me, the more fundamental questions are whether it is appropriate to use foods that may be inherently attractive and accessible to children as the vehicle to deliver the stimulant caffeine and whether we should place limits on the amount of caffeine in certain products.”
The concern over caffeine comes at a time when various levels of government have been at odds with beverage manufacturers over caffeine regulation.
In April, a congressional study titled, What’s All the Buzz About? claimed that many energy drinks were misleadingly labeled as “dietary supplements” and often target-marketed toward adolescents. The drinks also contained high amounts of caffeine that were deemed harmful by the FDA.
“Caffeine toxicity is a concern, especially for children and adolescents, who are the frequently targeted demographic for energy drink companies,” the report said.
The report also cited the American Academy of Pediatrics, which said “caffeine can produce harmful health effects in adolescents, including cardiovascular problems, anxiety, insomnia, digestive problems, dehydration, and others.”
Attempts to regulate caffeine are not new. As the libertarian-leaning magazine Reason pointed out, cries to regulate the drug have been around since at least 1980 when the FDA began looking into regulating added caffeine in foods.
No new regulations were created from the FDA proceedings. However, the agency has been more vigilant in recent years when it urged caffeinated alcohol producers to remove caffeine from their drinks.
A federal ban was not issued, but several states, including Washington, Michigan, and Oklahoma, outlawed the drinks.
Taylor said that any new regulations would take much time and resources, but the FDA is ready to take the steps it deems necessary.
“We believe that some in the food industry are on a dubious, potentially dangerous path,” he said. “If necessary, and if the science indicates that it is warranted, we are prepared to go through the regulatory process to establish clear boundaries and conditions on caffeine use.”
He added “We are also prepared to consider enforcement action against individual products as appropriate.”
But I need the caffeine
Maybe there’s too much FREEDOM in my food.
So let me get this straight, FDA allows 15 year old girls access to an abortifacient drug but, doesn’t allow me, as an adult, I can’t buy caffeinated foods cuz that might be bad for me.
Two words for you FDA: Fuck…You. I’m an adult. If I want to kick back a Starbuck Trenta with 4 shots of expresso and follow that with a nice cold can of Jolt cola and a Red Bull, then guess what? I should be allowed to do that. I guess you could say, that when it comes to the things I eat, I’m very much pro-choice. Why would anyone want to take my right to choose what I eat away?
