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Author: Jonn Lilyea

  • Chase Bishop; “dance-pop” FBI agent arrested

    Chase Bishop; “dance-pop” FBI agent arrested

    Eggs sends us a link to CBS News which reports that Chase Bishop, that FBI gent who had a negligent discharge while dancing at the Mile High Spirits bar in Denver, Colorado, has turned himself over to the local constabulary;

    Bishop turned himself in to the Denver Sheriff Department on Tuesday morning after a warrant was issued for his arrest, according to Denver police.

    Denver Police had previously said they were awaiting the results of alcohol and drug tests before making an arrest. The district attorney’s office said in a statement investigators are still awaiting the tests to determine Bishop’s blood alcohol content at the time of the incident, and additional charges may be pending.

    The negligent discharge injured Thomas Reddington, who happened to be watching the spectacle.

  • AMA backs gun control

    AMA backs gun control

    The Associated Press reports that the American Medical Association has stepped outside their lane and have pressed for increased gun control, ignoring the Second Amendment protections for Americans;

    At its annual policymaking meeting, the nation’s largest physicians group bowed to unprecedented demands from doctor-members to take a stronger stand on gun violence — a problem the organizations says is as menacing as a lethal infectious disease.

    The organization wants a ban on scary-looking black rifles and universal registration for firearms as a panacea for gun violence, you know, despite the fact that neither has ever affected gun crimes.

    Many AMA members are gun owners or supporters, including a doctor from Montana who told delegates of learning to shoot at a firing range in the basement of her middle school as part of gym class. But support for banning assault weapons was overwhelming, with the measure adopted in a 446-99 vote.

    “There’s a place to start and this should be it,” Dr. Jim Hinsdale, a San Jose, California, trauma surgeon, said before the vote.

    The AMA resolution does offer some good points about detecting suicidal tendencies, but largely it’s the same old gun-grabbing bullshit;

    While it is no longer viewed as the unified voice of American medicine, the AMA has more clout with politicians and the public than other doctor groups. It counted more than 243,000 members in 2017, up slightly for the seventh straight year. But it represents less than one-quarter of the nation’s million-plus physicians.

    It’s time to deflect questions about your access to guns from your activist family doctor.

  • Samuel Tom Holiday; Navajo Code Talker passes

    Samuel Tom Holiday; Navajo Code Talker passes

    Mick sends us the sad news that Samuel Tom Holiday, a Navajo Code Talker veteran of the Second World War passed at the age of 94 in southern Utah on Monday. He was surrounded by his loving family during his final moments in this life according to Stars & Stripes;

    He was 19 when he joined the Marine Corps and became a part of operations in several locations across the Pacific during the war, according to The Spectrum. A mortar explosion left him with hearing loss, but he would later tell family that he always felt safe during battle because of a pouch around his neck holding sacred stones and yellow corn pollen…After the war, Holiday returned to the Navajo reservation and worked as a police officer, a ranger and later started his own equipment company. He married Lupita Mae Isaac and had eight children.

    Samuel Tom Holiday will be interred in Kayenta, Arizona with his wife.

    It is believed that only 10 Navajo code talkers remain with us.

  • Indiana VA and Gay Pride flag

    Indiana VA and Gay Pride flag

    Bobo sends us a link to WANE which reports that the VA Northern Indiana Health Care System in Fort Wayne removed five service flags so they could fly a gay pride rainbow flag at their facility.

    The sight drew plenty of attention from residents and visitors to the VA. NewsChannel 15 received several questions and comments and photos from viewers.

    The VA Northern Indiana Healthcare System issued the following statement:
    “Logistically, we could not add a flag without removing a flag from the poles outside our VA. Rather than single out one military branch’s flag to be temporarily replaced with the LGBT flag, we chose to remove all of them for one day in order to show our dedication to serving all Veterans equally.”
    The VA said service flags were put back up before the end of the business day.

  • Wednesday morning feel good stories

    Wednesday morning feel good stories

    From Wilmington, Delaware;

    Police in Delaware are investigating a shooting that left a burglary suspect with life-threatening injuries.

    New Castle County Police say officers were dispatched to a residence at about 11:30 p.m. Monday for a report of a burglary in progress.

    Officials say police learned that a 20-year-old man had unlawfully entered the residence while a family was inside.

    Authorities say the homeowner confronted the suspect, who was then shot.

    The suspect was being treated for life-threatening injuries at a local hospital. The homeowner was not injured.

    An update to yesterday’s story from Salt Lake City, Utah;

    Friendly fire caused a man to be shot in the head.

    According to charging documents, Julius Navanick was one of the three suspects who barged into a home and began spraying bullets.

    It happened Thursday near 500 North Redwood Road. Their target was shot once in the arm and survived.

    The trio is now facing multiple felony charges ranging from aggravated burglary, firing a weapon to causing bodily harm.

    Daniel Gonzalez and Richard Arriola have also been charged by the Salt Lake district attorney.

    In charging documents, Gonzalez told police: “He did not mean to shoot his friend Navanick (who) walked in front of the gun while he was shooting into the house.”

    Navanick remained hospitalized after being shot in the head. Gonzalez and Arriola are currently in the Salt Lake County Jail.

    The homeowner, who didn’t want to be identified, said Cesar Hernandez was very lucky.

    “He hid in the place that was more accessible to him, I guess at the moment by our fridge,” said the homeowner. He didn’t come out until the shooting stopped.”

    The homeowner said Hernandez is an acquaintance. He was shot once in the arm and is out of the hospital.

    From Madison, Tennessee;

    Metro Police responded to a reported shooting at a Burger King on Gallatin Pike North in Madison just before 11: 30 p.m. on Monday.

    According to police, the incident began as a robbery attempt when three suspects entered the restaurant. At least one of the suspects had part of their face covered.

    Both an employee and a suspect were shot. The employee is in critical condition at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The suspect that was shot died on the scene.

    From McComb, Mississippi;

    It was reported that [21-year-old Saveyon Raheam] Harvey forced a female clerk inside the store at gun point after he came in contact with her at the front door.

    Once inside Harvey pointed a small caliber handgun at the store clerk behind the register and demanded money while waving the gun around at both employees of Service Station.

    Harvey and the store clerk begin exchanging gun fire where Harvey ran out the front doors towards W. Presley Blvd. and Witterman St., where a witness saw Harvey stop in the roadway then fall into the westbound lane of West Presley Blvd.

    Officers arrived moments later to find Harvey dead in the roadway.

  • Juan Rodriguez; Fake cop falls for mother’s taco gambit

    Juan Rodriguez; Fake cop falls for mother’s taco gambit

    Mick sends us a link from Fox News about a mother who distracted Juan Rodriguez, who was pretending to be a police officer while he robbed a family that was enjoying Taco Sunday at a taco truck;

    The mother, going for the “taco tactic,” offered the 38-year-old suspect a taco and told him she needed to grab napkins from the food truck.

    “The man with the gun continued to flash his gun and ransack through the mother’s purse as she walked away,” the news release stated.

    The mother approached customers at the taco truck, told them not too look a back and told them a man with a gun was threatening her family. The taco truck employees and customers immediately called 911.

    Police found Rodriguez standing next to the family’s van when they arrived at the scene. Rodriguez allegedly tried to escape by tossing his gun in the van and trying to get in.

    “Deputies were able to detain the suspect before anything further occurred. Deputies recovered the gun and made sure all family members were unharmed,” police said.

    Who among us could resist the offer of free tacos?

    Adios, Juan. Enjoy those free tacos in prison, ‘mano.

  • Trump – Kim “commit” to recover remains of US troops

    Trump – Kim “commit” to recover remains of US troops

    According to the Washington Post, among some of the points of yesterday’s summit between President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un was a commitment to recover the more than 5000 remains of US troops missing since the war.

    The Post reports that the inclusion of the issue in the agreement was a victory for Veterans’ Service Organizations which have lobbied the President.

    In recent days, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told his negotiating team, led by U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim, that the POW issue was important to Trump, and he “instructed Kim to negotiate for it,” said State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert. Trump, during a news conference on Tuesday, said that he had received “countless” phone calls from Americans asking for help on the issue.

    “So many people, during the campaign, would say is there any way you can work with North Korea to get the remains of my son back or father back,” Trump said. “I said we don’t get along too well with that particular group of people. Now we do. And he agreed to that so quickly and nicely. It was a nice thing.”

    As Trump headed into his landmark meeting with Kim Jong earlier in the day, a top Defense Department official told families of the missing soldiers that securing the remains and resuming recovery efforts is a top priority for negotiations.

    US-North Korean teams repatriated 229 sets of US remains between 1990 and 2005 when relations between the countries deteriorated.

    On Monday, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, which has for years promoted recovery efforts for fallen soldiers, sent a letter to Trump, Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis urging that a repatriation agreement be on the table during the president’s negotiations with Kim.

    “As the leader of the free world, we urge you to do everything in your power to ensure that those who paid the ultimate price for freedom during the Korean War are finally returned home to their families,” Keith Harman, VFW’s commander in chief, wrote. He called the return of missing soldiers’ remains an unsettled issue of “paramount importance” to the VFW and its 1.7 million members.

    More than 35,000 American soldiers died on the Korean Peninsula between 1950 and 1953. The U.S. government estimates that 7,702 remain unaccounted for, with about 2,400 in South Korea.

    Yet another reason for you to support the VSOs.

  • Western Union comps scam victim

    The UK’s Daily Mail reports that Western Union has compensated 77-year-old Fred Haines for the $110,000 that he sent to a Nigerian prince;

    Fred Haines, 77, will get back the six figure sum that he wired between 2005 and 2008 to scammers who had promised him $64 million in inheritance from a Nigerian prince, if only he could pay the fake fees to move the money.

    Last year, Western Union admitted in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission to knowingly looking the other way regarding employees who had been helping scammers to steal the money of its customers, including Haines.

    A $586 million fund was created to pay back victims, throughout the US and Canada.

    The lure of $64 million was too much for Fred to resist;

    ‘Those Nigerians know how to talk.’

    Haines shared that the prospect sounded too good to be true, but after investing so much time and money, it became too difficult to believe it was all a lie.’

    ‘It got to the point where they were showing me that the President of Nigeria had sent me a letter. It had his picture on it and everything,’ Haines said.

    ‘I looked it up on the computer to see what the Nigerian president looked like, and it was him.’

    Haines kept one email which appeared as if it was signed by Robert Mueller, who at that time was the director of the FBI, and called Haines ‘B-DOG’ as a code name.

    That email read, in part: ‘I wish you can remove doubt and suspicious and go ahead I assured you that you will never regret this fund release.’

    The article claims that B-DOG is one of 344 Kansas residents who have been compensated from the pool of money created from the lawsuit.