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Demovictory9's Journal" I can't support somebody who's going to be 80 before their term is over,"
The age of some of the candidates could also give members of the older generation pause. Mr. Sanders is 77 years old, while Mr. Biden is 76 and Mr. Trump is 73. “I would probably support Biden if it wasn’t for his age, but I can’t support somebody who’s going to be 80 before their term is over,” said Mike Hauxwell, a 66-year-old retired TV reporter in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/senior-voters-some-wavering-on-trump-figure-to-shape-2020-election-11565429401
Police fear 'suicide by cop' cases. will no longer check on your suicidal family member
Police fear ‘suicide by cop’ cases. So they’ve stopped responding to some calls
GRAEAGLE, CALIF. — Before George Quinn wrapped a chain around the rafters of his wood shop and hanged himself in June, he texted his big sister goodbye.
“This is the hardest part,” wrote the reclusive 63-year-old master carpenter, who lived alone with his elderly cat, Sam, in this Northern California mountain town. “Sorry for everything. You should call the Plumas Co sheriff and have them go to the garage.”
Carol Quinn dialed law enforcement from her home near Reno, more than an hour away, desperate for them to save her brother’s life.
The answer she received was startling: Deputies were no longer responding to calls like hers, because the situation could end as a “suicide by cop.”
“Go to the garage” could be a hint at an ambush, a deputy told her. She would have to try to reach her brother on her own.
“We were flabbergasted,” Carol said. “I think almost anyone assumes when you call the sheriff’s office for help that you’re going to get some help. And they refused to go.”
“I think almost anyone assumes when you call the sheriff’s office for help that you’re going to get some help. And they refused to go.”
Plumas County is not the only jurisdiction in California that is rethinking how it responds to suicide calls. Some small and midsize law enforcement agencies across the state have stopped responding to certain calls because of the potential dangers to both officers and the person attempting to end his or her life. They also present a financial liability from lawsuits — especially if the situation turns violent.
Other departments, including the Los Angeles police and sheriff’s and San Francisco police, use “disengagement” strategies that allow them to leave calls without confronting someone in crisis. These tactics are used most often when the person is alone and does not present a threat to anyone else, and no crime is being committed.
“In too many instances, we show up and further aggravate a crisis situation,” Plumas County Sheriff-Coroner Greg Hagwood said. “And then, in the end, bad things happen.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-09/suicide-calls-california-cops-stopped-responding
Joe Walsh continues to surprise me
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A prisoner commits suicide in a federal prison. The Justice Dept immediately launches an investigation. And the President of the United States immediately retweets conspiratorial shit accusing a former President of having the prisoner killed.
Defend that MAGA world, I dare ya.
4:38 PM · Aug 10, 2019·Twitter for iPhone
A bad owner dumped this wolfdog at a kill shelter when he got too big and too much to handle.
https://twitter.com/Sarah_SKG_1983/status/1160170369996578816A bad owner dumped this wolfdog at a kill shelter when he got too big and too much to handle.
Luckily a sanctuary took him instead and saved his life!
His DNA testing came back as 87.5 % Gray Wolf, 8.6 % Siberian Husky, and 3.9 % German Shepherd 🐺🐶
Publix Heirs Are Maxing Out Donations to Donald Trump's 2020 Campaign
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/publix-jenkins-family-heirs-are-donating-to-trumps-2020-campaign-11238481Publix Heirs Are Maxing Out Donations to Donald Trump's 2020 Campaign
Progressives, critics, and basically all people with moral backbones and souls this week are furious at Stephen Ross — the multibillionaire owner of the Miami Dolphins and the gym chains Equinox and SoulCycle, as well as an investor in many other ventures — for quietly planning to host a fundraiser for Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign. After Dolphins receiver and civil rights activist Kenny Stills called out Ross for his garbage politics, critics have been urging people to boycott Ross' companies.
But heirs to a prominent Florida corporation have, so far, escaped the same scrutiny. According to a review of Federal Election Commission (FEC) records, multiple heirs of Publix Super Markets founder George Jenkins have sent max federal donations to Trump's 2020 campaign in the past few months.
According to FEC records, three of Jenkins' heirs, who sit on the board of the nonprofit George Jenkins Foundation, have funneled max contributions to Trump this year: Jenkins' daughter Julia Jenkins Fancelli and his grandchildren Gregory Fancelli and Leslie Fancelli Sonatori.
The records show that Gregory Fancelli donated $2,800 to both Trump's primary and general election campaigns, as well as $5,600 to the Trump Victory political action committee February 27. The same day, Leslie Sonatori and her husband Matteo also donated $2,800 each to Trump's primary and general election campaigns.
Barely a week later, their mother got in on the action: March 5, Julia Jenkins Fancelli dumped $2,800 into Trump's primary and general election accounts and then $5,600 into the Trump Victory PAC. (New Times was not able to reach the Fancellis for comment. Julia Jenkins Fancelli did not answer multiple phone calls last evening to numbers listed under her name.)
According to a Lakeland Ledger story from November 2018, Julia Jenkins Fancelli grew up in Lakeland, Florida, and met her husband Mauro while on a study-abroad year in Florence, Italy, while she was a University of Florida student. Their son Gregory Fancelli, meanwhile, is a ponytailed businessman who "restores historic bungalows throughout the central Lakeland area," according to the Ledger. In 2015, Forbes said the Jenkins family was worth $6.8 billion, making it the 43rd richest family in America at the time.
The three heirs together run the George Jenkins Foundation — a nonprofit separate from Publix Charities, the official philanthropic arm of the supermarket chain. According to online records, the George Jenkins Foundation was formerly called the Fancelli Foundation. (The name of the charity was changed in 2016.) The foundation has mostly given to a spate of Christian and otherwise religious nonprofits, including donations to Catholic Charities, the Salvation Army, and tons of local charities in and around Lakeland.
suburban republicans are scared by gun violence
Several suburban Republicans in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District said this week that they are open to hearing out the Democrats on guns, raising the prospect that the issue could upend the dynamics in America’s suburbs as Congress is pressured to act in the wake of the latest mass shootings.
“I’ve always supported the Second Amendment, and I grew up hunting with my dad, but you saw what happened over the weekend. It’s scary,” said aircraft worker Chad Staggs, a 52-year-old Republican, as he shopped at a Whole Foods Market. “I’ve got two daughters, and I don’t want to see anything happen to them. It’s simply out of control, and something has to be done on guns.”
Liz Chase, a retired teacher and Democrat who was shopping nearby, said residents of this bustling suburb, which is full of young families and manicured lawns, are unsettled and seeking reassurance.
“They’re afraid,” Chase said. On Monday morning, she said — the first day of classes at many of the district’s elementary schools — several parents stood “together in a circle at the bus stop, holding hands and praying that their kids would come home safely in the afternoon.”
For parents, said Jake Orvis, a McBath adviser, “their kids are in lockdown drills at school, they’re rightly horrified. They’ve seen Lucy’s story and they know she really is the district and not part of the usual partisanship that they’re tired of.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/theyre-afraid-suburban-voters-in-red-states-threaten-gops-grip-on-power/2019/08/08/86b12410-b868-11e9-bad6-609f75bfd97f_story.html
Trump wrapping up press conference: "there's never been a president like President Trump"
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Trump wrapping up press conference: “there’s never been a president like President Trump”
7:59 AM · Aug 9, 2019·Twitter for iPhone
so chuck woolery is a magat
https://twitter.com/chuckwoolery/status/1160000916336123904https://twitter.com/chuckwoolery/status/1159962831401263104
Black Asheville residents, officials criticize sentence of officer convicted of assault
the victim received $650,000.-----------------------
ASHEVILLE - The unusual sentence of an officer convicted in a high-profile assault is facing criticism from black officials and residents who say his jail-less punishment is another example of systemic bias.
"What message does that send to the population that is telling you time and time again that there are officers out there who don’t deserve to be officers?" said City Councilman Keith Young, one of several officials and residents to criticize the sentence of ex-officer Christopher Hickman after he pleaded guilty to choking a black pedestrian. That criticism came quickly the day of the Aug. 9 sentencing in Buncombe County Superior Court.
Hickman, who is white, was given no jail time. Instead, he will serve 12 months' probation for the felony assault and two misdemeanors — communicating threats and assault inflicting serious injury — and participate in a first-of-its-kind restorative justice program. If he completes all requirements, his charges will be dismissed and possibly expunged.
https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2019/08/09/black-residents-officials-criticize-christopher-hickmans-sentence/1969941001/
The plea deal was arranged by District Attorney Todd Williams and Hickman's attorney, Thomas Amburgey. The victim, Johnnie Rush, who was beaten, shocked and choked after an Aug. 24, 2017, confrontation over alleged jaywalking, agreed to the sentence, according to his attorney, well-known civil rights lawyer James "Fergie" Ferguson.
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Amburgey said Hickman has suffered weekly death threats and been turned away from restaurants because of publicity around the case, which came largely from a leaked police body camera video. His client has also lost work because of the charges, Amburgey said.
The plea deal headed off a potential decision by a judge to move the trial to a county where where there had been less publicity and where it would be easier for jurors to be impartial. That could have meant a more rural county with different attitudes about policing, a situation Williams said would have been more favorable to Hickman and less to Rush.
Idiotic Yellowstone tourist caught petting bison on video
Weeks before an agitated bison charged a 9-year-old in Yellowstone National Park, a jackass visitor was filmed petting one of the massive beasts, disturbing video shows.
The man — seen in footage reaching over a fence to pet the animal on the head — was lambasted by park officials Wednesday for his “incredible lack of judgment and common sense.”
Watch bison launch young girl into the air at Yellowstone
The Cheyenne, Wyo., park said Wednesday they’re investigating the YouTube video posted July 8 to determine who the man was.
“Not only did he put himself and others at risk, he violated regulations designed to keep these animals wild,” park superintendent Cam Sholly said in a statement. “We expect better from our visitors.”
https://nypost.com/2019/08/08/idiotic-yellowstone-tourist-caught-petting-bison-on-video/
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