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TexasTowelie's JournalRoommate reportedly threatened with a meat cleaver (yes folks, in College Station again)
A 40-year-old College Station man has been arrested after authorities said he threatened a roommate with a meat cleaver.
The man faces a Class A misdemeanor charge of terroristic threat, which is punishable by up to one year in jail if convicted.
He is accused of chasing his roommate out of the apartment with a 6-inch meat cleaver after the roommate told him he could no longer live there and offered to take the man to Houston where he had family and job opportunities.
Police responded to the apartment in the 1100 block of Southwest Parkway on Thursday, where the roommate told investigators the man got as close as 4 feet from him while charging at him with the cleaver in his hand, according to an arrest report.
Read more: http://www.theeagle.com/news/local/roommate-reportedly-threatened-with-a-meat-cleaver/article_ce06fda4-8b2e-5176-a0b4-2848c8a3f6ed.html
[font color=green]Weird things happening in College Station. Maybe this guy should get together for dinner with the woman that threw the salmon at her mother-in-law? (see http://www.democraticunderground.com/107825053)[/font]
Police: Woman threw cooked salmon at mother-in-law, tossed into jail for assault
A 24-year-old College Station woman remained behind bars Friday after she was accused of assaulting her mother-in-law with a piece of cooked salmon.
The woman reportedly hit her mother-in-law in the head with the salmon during an argument about feeding her toddler with a fork, according to an arrest report from the Wednesday night incident in the 400 block of Southwest Parkway.
The mother-in-law told police the woman then flailed her arms wildly in a circular motion, punching her in the arm and leaving large scratch marks, the report stated.
When questioned, the woman told police she threw the salmon but that her mother-in-law reciprocated by throwing the fish back at her, police said. She denied hitting the woman, telling police the two had an arm wrestling match.
Read more: http://www.theeagle.com/news/local/police-woman-threw-cooked-salmon-at-mother-in-law/article_91a03e4f-950b-51b2-9a66-ead9022c7a76.html
[font color=green]This article should be a great setup for some witty remarks...[/font] 
Perry Eyes June 1 Date to Announce Presidential Plans
Surprised that he isn't in the back seat behind the cage?
Former Gov. Rick Perry is putting a date on it — or at least an approximate one.
In an interview published Friday evening, Perry said he will announce "around the first of June" whether he will run for president in 2016, the most specific timeline he has given yet. He has been indicating for months he will disclose in late May or early June whether he will launch a second bid for the White House.
"I’ll make an announcement of my intentions around the first of June, so we’re about 30 days out from allowing that to be public, what we're going to do," Perry told a TV station in South Carolina.
Since his 2012 presidential campaign ended in embarrassment, Perry has been working hard to prepare more for the 2016 race, boning up on policy and spending more time in the early-voting states than many other potential candidates. Yet he has been stuck in the low single digits in early polling, and he remains under indictment on abuse-of-power charges in Travis County.
Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2015/05/01/perry-eyes-june-1-date-announce-presidential-plans/
Cross-posted in the Politics 2015 forum.
Perry Eyes June 1 Date to Announce Presidential Plans
Surprised that he isn't in the back seat behind the cage?
Former Gov. Rick Perry is putting a date on it — or at least an approximate one.
In an interview published Friday evening, Perry said he will announce "around the first of June" whether he will run for president in 2016, the most specific timeline he has given yet. He has been indicating for months he will disclose in late May or early June whether he will launch a second bid for the White House.
"I’ll make an announcement of my intentions around the first of June, so we’re about 30 days out from allowing that to be public, what we're going to do," Perry told a TV station in South Carolina.
Since his 2012 presidential campaign ended in embarrassment, Perry has been working hard to prepare more for the 2016 race, boning up on policy and spending more time in the early-voting states than many other potential candidates. Yet he has been stuck in the low single digits in early polling, and he remains under indictment on abuse-of-power charges in Travis County.
Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2015/05/01/perry-eyes-june-1-date-announce-presidential-plans/
Cross-posted in the Texas Group.
As Ben Carson bashes Obama, many blacks see a hero’s legacy fade
The black man courting crowds of white conservatives doesn’t seem like the same guy that H. Westley Phillips once idolized. Phillips still relishes the day he heard Ben Carson inspire minority students at Yale University with his story of persistence. He can still feel the nervous anticipation he had while waiting in line to shake Carson’s hand.
After the speech, Phillips followed Carson’s path and began to study neurosurgery.
“I had come from a public school in Tulsa and came from a single-parent household and thought I was the admissions mistake,” said Phillips, now 27. “But he gave me the comfort to know that if I did struggle — and I thought I would — that I wouldn’t have been the first, and there are ways to handle it. The message he gave was this backup artillery when times were hard.”
For many young African Americans who grew up seeing Carson as the embodiment of black achievement — a poor inner-city boy who became one of the world’s most accomplished neurosurgeons — his emergence as a conservative hero and unabashed critic of the United States’ first black president has been jarring.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-ben-carson-bashes-obama-many-blacks-see-a-heros-legacy-fade/2015/05/02/b9ce53c8-e850-11e4-9767-6276fc9b0ada_story.html
In South Carolina, GOP hopefuls run against Obama, terrorism
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential hopefuls eventually will have to start running against each other. But, for now, many are content to run against President Barack Obama, Iran and Middle East extremists.
At the South Carolina Republican convention on Saturday, Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, called the president's international stewardship "an unmitigated disaster. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum called Obama "weak." Rick Perry, Texas' former governor, blasted "vacillation" by the administration. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina called the president "feckless" on the world stage. And Graham and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas echoed each other as they accused Obama of "leading from behind."
All five pledged loyalty to Israel and expressed varying levels of disdain for Iran.
The rhetoric — similar to what other potential GOP nominees are saying in early voting states — plays well at GOP venues where Obama is a reviled figure: the audience whooped, hollers and occasionally shouted "Amen" in response to the candidates. The approach also allows potential Republican nominees an easy transition into attacking former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the favorite for the Democratic nomination.
Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/texas/article/In-South-Carolina-GOP-hopefuls-run-against-6238077.php
Hundreds protest Obama's immigration policy in South Texas
Hundreds of people began arriving in Dilley on Saturday to protest the Obama administration's policy of detaining immigrant families.
Buses from throughout Texas gradually delivered protestors to this community 75 miles south of San Antonio, where the American government in recent months opened a large camp to hold immigrant women and their children as they navigate the immigration processing system.
More than 500 protestors were to march from a park in downtown Dilley 2 miles to the Dilley Family Residential Center, a detention center operated for the Homeland Security Department and which can hold up to 2000 people.
Guards affiliated with the detention center kept a watchful eye Saturday morning at the facility as a sea of people nearly 2 miles away holding signs of many colors called for an end to the jailing of immigrant families, and deportations.
The organizers called for the closing of the detention center in Dilley and another smaller one in Karbes City.
Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Hundreds-protest-Obama-s-immigration-policy-in-6238231.php
Ted Cruz’s claim after skipping Lynch vote has aides pedaling fast
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz, stung by criticism for skipping Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s confirmation vote to rub elbows with donors, claimed Thursday that “absence is the equivalent of a no vote.”
That’s an unconventional interpretation of Senate rules.
On Friday afternoon, aides sought to contain the damage.
“Senator Cruz was referring specifically to the Lynch vote. He made clear his opposition to her nomination and voted against cloture, which was the vote that mattered most. Once cloture was invoked, her confirmation was guaranteed,” campaign spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said.
Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20150501-ted-cruzs-claim-after-skipping-lynch-vote-has-aides-pedaling-fast.ece
Cross-posted in the Politics 2015 forum.
Ted Cruz’s claim after skipping Lynch vote has aides pedaling fast
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz, stung by criticism for skipping Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s confirmation vote to rub elbows with donors, claimed Thursday that “absence is the equivalent of a no vote.”
That’s an unconventional interpretation of Senate rules.
On Friday afternoon, aides sought to contain the damage.
“Senator Cruz was referring specifically to the Lynch vote. He made clear his opposition to her nomination and voted against cloture, which was the vote that mattered most. Once cloture was invoked, her confirmation was guaranteed,” campaign spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said.
Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20150501-ted-cruzs-claim-after-skipping-lynch-vote-has-aides-pedaling-fast.ece
Cross-posted in the Texas Group.
Angela Merkel’s NSA Nightmare Just Got A Lot Worse
Angela Merkel, Germany’s most successful and popular politician, could be in serious trouble, after revelations that Germany’s national intelligence agency, the BND, has been spying on key European assets on behalf of US intelligence. Those “assets” include top French officials, the EU’s headquarters, the European defense corporation EADS, the helicopter manufacturer Eurocopter and even German companies.
To wit, from Der Spiegel:
In 2008, at the latest, it became apparent that NSA selectors were not only limited to terrorist and weapons smugglers… But it was only after the revelations made by whistleblower Edward Snowden that the BND decided to investigate the issue. In October 2013, an investigation came to the conclusion that at least 2,000 of these selectors were aimed at Western European or even German interests.
Today, the German foreign intelligence agency is accused of processing over 40,000 spy requests from the NSA, many of which represent a clear violation of the Memorandum of Agreement that the US and Germany signed in 2002. Washington and Berlin agreed at the time that neither Germans nor Americans — neither people nor companies or organizations — would be among the surveillance targets.
From Victim to Villain
The scandal could be particularly damaging for the Minister of Interior Thomas de Maiziere, whose ministry is accused of misleading parliament after claiming, as recently as April 14, to have no knowledge of alleged US economic spying in Europe, and of Germany’s alleged involvement.
For Merkel, it is a dizzying reversal of roles and fortunes. In 2013 she was arguably the most high-profile victim of NSA surveillance when it was revealed that the NSA had targeted her cellphone. When confronted with Edward Snowden’s allegations of US National Security Agency mass surveillance of European citizens, Merkel famously said that “spying on friends is just not on.” According to official accounts, she even placed a “strongly worded phone call” to US President Barack Obama.
Read more: http://wolfstreet.com/2015/05/01/don-quijones-angela-merkel-nsa-bnd-nightmare-spy-scandal-got-a-lot-worse/
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