Homelessness in this country is not about lack of jobs. And dumping crazy people onto the streets where they commit offenses against random people all day every day all over the country is not better than crazy people havibg their "human rights" violated. The only thing that's needed to prevent real systematic rights abuses in locked psych facilities is to eliminate ALL the "privacy" laws, which are actually "secrecy" laws. When the whole world can see exactly what's going on inside locked facilities the abuses will stop. Crazy people have no need for "privacy" at the expense of sane people's (and their own) safety.
Nonsense. The problem is rooted in federal laws and federal court decisions. Anyone who is forced into treatment can sue, and activist legal groups will bring these suits anywhere. No medical facility or police or sheriff's department or city/county/state agency can afford these suits (which they will usually lose) so they refuse to do anything about the "homeless" or any other disruptive/dangerous mentally ill people.
Reality check: our unsheltered "homeless" population is almost 100% mentally ill and substance abusing. Many refuse to go to shelters in the first place. The rest behave in ways that necessitate kicking them out of shelters before their behavior causes all the other inhabitants to leave. Our "homeless" population is the direct result of laws and policies that shut down nearly all long-term residential psych hospitals and make it impossible to force mentally ill people into any kind of treatment until after they kill someone.
Can we please lighten up on the "stupid cop" comments? Think about the way violent criminals are being allowed to roam free no matter how many crimes they've committed, or how recently, and police officers have their hands tied a hundred different ways in dealing with criminals, and police officers never get the benefit of the doubt before cities get burned and looted and the officers get put on trial for murder. How many really intelligent, competent, well-suited-for-the-job people do you think are signing up to become police officers these days? Frankly, we're lucky to have anybody filling these positions, who isn't there for the sole purpose of deliberately abusing their authority for personal gain (think stealing drugs from dealers to resell them, demanding protection money from businesses, forcing prostitutes to provide unpaid sexual services in exchange for not getting arrested, arranging life-threatening beatings for anyone who "rats" on their corrupt activities, etc).
This officer was probably doing the best she could, with whatever combination of natural ability and training and experience she had. She panicked, and reached for the wrong weapon, and fired it. She's 48 and had been a police officer since she was 22. https://www.startribune.com/officer-who-fatally-shot-man-in-brooklyn-center-is-identified-as-25-year-veteran/600045243/ God only knows why she didn't quit this thankless job before now. The life she had is now effectively over, because she happened to cross paths with a young thug who had an outstanding warrant. The thug called his mama as he was being pulled over, and told her he was being pulled over because he had an air freshener dangling from his rearview mirror. Yeah, sure. https://www.wbay.com/2021/04/12/protests-erupt-after-minnesota-police-shoot-kill-man-in-traffic-stop-incident/
The article lists Iowa among the states requiring a license to purchase. This is technically still true, but the bill signed by Governor Kim Reynolds on April 2 eliminates both the license to purchase requirement and the license to carry concealed requirement. The new law goes into effect July 1.
Not to mention that Crenshaw's missing eye and problems with the remaining one are both due an IED blast while he was serving in our armed forces in Afghanistan. His vision problems are not an appropriate topic for joking or snarking.
The headline is missing the relevant detail that the abducted woman was Asian. So Asian nutjob dude wanted to rape a random white woman in revenge for anti-Asian "hate crimes" by white people (because apparently he isn't much bothered by all the anti-Asian "hate crimes" committed by black people in recent weeks), and ends up committing a hate crime (and yes, they're actually charging him with a "hate crime") against a random Asian woman.
The citizen militia needs to show up with bolt-cutters. Lots of big scary bolt-cutters. Chop that fence into thousands of itsy bitsy pieces and sell them on eBay as historic memorabilia, to raise funds for Tinhorn Flats' legal bills.
4 used copies showing for sale (a couple of the listings are duplicates) priced from $7.99 to $12.33:
A lot of them are teenagers, and will be eligible for full-blown welfare benefits very soon -- their own apartments, food stamps, Medicaid, community college tuition, etc. The younger ones will be dumped in the already overloaded foster care system, so that "BIPOC" foster care providers can collect even more money for "caring" for kids than they already do (never mind that a LOT of those kids are neglected, physically and/or sexually abused, dealing drugs in the local schools, or have been missing for a long time but not reported because then the checks stop).
I would suggest reading up on his claims about his tech "accomplishments". They're legendary, to be sure. He certainly did not "invent the QR code". His "scanner", the CueCat, is an infamous tech flop (both for its uselessness and for the colossal amount of money investors lost because of its uselessness). His claims about his brilliant tech achievements are as credible as Al Gore's claims to have invented the internet. See a sampling of media coverage about him, all long pre-dating his attempts to get involved in the election fraud issue, so certainly not motivated by any anti-Trump sentiment:
https://www.seattleweekly.com/news/101-uses-for-a-dead-cuecat/
https://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/10/10/the-failure-awards-defunct-branding-9-cuecat-barcode-scanner
https://www.fastcompany.com/48220/where-they-are-now
https://www.inquisitr.com/2704626/oak-island-roman-sword-j-hutton-pulitzer-jeffrey-jovan-philyaw/
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I have a favorable opinion. It's fundamentally an anti-CCP site -- that's its reason for existence. I view that as a good thing, but it's worth keeping in mind that it has a bias towards pushing that agenda, so keep a watch out for stories that may be overstating a case or omitting relevant information that would weaken an argument that the CCP is responsible for this or that specific bad thing.
She's a US citizen. Any baby she has is entitled to US citizenship.