Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will reclassify marijuana as a "Schedule Two" drug on August 1, 2016, essentially legalizing medicinal cannabis in all 50 states with a doctor's prescription, said a DEA lawyer with knowledge of the matter. Update 6/28: The Recreational Marijuana Initiative qualifies for the California's November Ballot. Will it be pre-empted by action of the DEA? http://www.smobserved.com/story/2016/07/04/news/dea-source-confirms-sc...
A series of major US airstrike near Fallujah, Iraq, is said to have killed 260 fighters. The Islamic State is believed to have about 25,000 fighters, so if confirmed, the death toll would be significant relative to ISIS size. Most of the fighters have been recruited from other Arab countries or from Europe. American airstrikes killed at least 250 ISIS fighters driving in a convoy outside Fallujah on Wednesday, a senior U.S. defense official confirmed to Fox News. The strikes...
The tragic deaths of six children due to a certain type of dresser from Ikea falling over, are regrettable. No parent ever quite overcomes the death of a child. My own mother lost a 4 year old daughter to a tragic car crash before I was born; she would cry every year on the anniversary for the rest of her life. But tragedy and legal liability are different things. Swedish furniture kit maker IKEA Group recalled 36 million chests sold at their North American stores. They have...
We don't have a lot of choice with consumer checking accounts, the pariah of banking. Banks regard checking accounts as loss leaders, so they can peddle mortgages to a customer base. A banker told me that years ago. But today, I'm under the impression that the rate at which banks seize their own customers' accounts because of "fraud," is astounding. It's illegal, but no one does anything about it. That's probably because consumers have so few banking choices. In California,...
The jury has returned with a defense verdict, finding no substantial similarity between the song Stairway to Heaven and the instrumental song Taurus by the Los Angeles-based rock band Spirit. Taurus was written by the band's guitarist Randy Wolfe, known as Randy California. Spirit was able to file the lawsuit, despite the obvious statue of limitations problem, because Led Zepplin had released a greatest hits album. Spirit could therefore sue for the new version of the song on...
Amid concerns that his Secret Service detail was costing the nation too much (4360,000 a day); Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for the first time appears to have conceded. "It doesn't appear that i'm gonna be the nominee, he said on CSPN. The fiesty 74 year old, speaking during a C-SPAN interview, said his presidential campaign is negotiating on an "almost on a daily basis" with presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's entourage, urging them to stake out the most...
It is difficult to find motive in the insane ravings of a madman like Kevin James Loibl. But it has become increasingly apparent to police from an examination of Loibl's cell phone and computer records, that singer Christina Grimmie was murdered because of her outspoken Christian faith. Loibl, 27, traveled from St. Petersburg to Orlando, a distance of some 107 miles, with the specific intent to kill the contestant from NBC's 'The Voice,' said police, adding that Grimmie and...
Tucker was a macho Karate teacher, the kind of guy boys looked up to and wanted to be, especially when they found out what their dads really did for a living. And he was brought low, hospitalized by a brown recluse spider bite. Or so he thought. The truth is, it was probably a different member of the recluse family. Experts deny that the Brown Recluse spider, fairly common in Kansas and other southern plains states, exists at all in California. California does have Black...
Eric Trump asserts 20% of the $1 billion raised by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, comes from the Saudis. Yet on Monday, Clinton issued a pointed warning to US allies in the Middle East, saying countries like Saudi Arabia must crack down on citizens supporting extremism. It is known that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia donated around $25 million to the Clinton foundation. This has been known since 2008, when the new Secretary of State disclosed potential conflicts of...
It is a tale as old as men in tall ships sailing the sea. Shore leave, bar fight, murder, and flight from police. A decorated Navy SEAL beat and stabbed a man Sunday after a bar fight on the Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica police said Tuesday. Theo Andrew Krah, 28, was arrested in San Diego on Monday. He fled back to the Naval base where he lived, two days after he and the other man had to be separated at the Santa Monica Pier by the SMPD. They then proceeded to meet each...
Federal investigators continued Wednesday to methodically retrace Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen's recent activities and contacts. Reportedly the investigation is now focused on Noor Salman, his wife. Authorities say she knew about her husband's plans to machine gun people in the Pulse nightclub. Salman could be charged with 49 counts of accessory to murder, 53 counts of attempted murder, and of knowing about a terrorist plot in advance and not telling authorities. The Palestin...
State legislators in our Democrat dominated California State houses, will meet Wednesday and approve the 2016-7 state budget, hitting their deadline for a new spending plan. The proposal includes $170.9 billion in state spending, which includes the general fund, dedicated funds and bond money. The Assembly and the state Senate are each scheduled to start their floor sessions at 3 p.m. The final budget deal includes extra money for the state's rainy-day fund, as well as new...
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. - James Wesley Howell was charged with child molestation on Wednesday, officials with the Clark County prosecutor's office said. Howell, 20, is accused of sexually penetrating an underage girl on May 31, just days before he was arrested in Santa Monica. He was found in possession of weapons and an explosive mixture called Tannerite. He told Santa Monica Police that he was on his way to the West Hollywood Gay Pride Parade. Howell left Indiana because he...
He married women twice, but went to gay nightclubs to meet men. He beat wives and they left him. Unable to resolve his own sexuality, Mateen took out his rage on those at Pulse Saturday night. Shouting "Allahu Akhbar" was just a part of his cover. It was about his sexual identity, not his religious identity. Since the tragic Orlando Pulse Nightclub shooting, a portrait has emerged of a young man with issues of emotional instability and sexuality. Orlando shooter Omar Mateen...
Not only did Al Gore create the internet, but Bill Clinton invented the iPhone. Okay, that's an exaggeration, but not by much. San Francisco's representative in Congress and the House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, says the federal government created the components--GPS, alloys, voice recognition. "Steve Jobs did a good job putting it all together, but federal research built the components. The youtube video of Pelosi is below. It's ironic that Pelosi would claim the Feds inven...
Users have pretty much trashed Facebook online after they received notifications including emails, alerting them that their synced photos will soon be deleted unless they download and install the Moments app. Facebook is about to delete a group of photos on your phone, although you might not know or care that they're there. That's because they're hiding in a private "synced from phone" section of your Facebook photos. This photo section was created in 2012 when Facebook...
She died at 22 while signing autographs after a concert. The senseless killing of Christina Grimmie in front of fans, her band and her brother, shocked Orlando Florida and the Nation later Friday night. The singer was pronounced dead when she arrived at the emergency room. At 1:15 a.m. EST Saturday, Christina Grimmie died as a result of gunshot wounds. According to an anonymous intern at Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC), Grimmie passed away shortly after being brought...
Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger posted on Facebook and Twitter Monday that Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who was criticized by Donald Trump, "stood up to the Mexican cartels." Schwarzenegger appointed Curiel in 2007. Judge Curiel is an American hero who stood up to the drug cartels," said Arnold. "I was proud to appoint him to the California bench." Ironically, Schwarzenegger a Liberal Republican, will take over Trump’s vacated seat on the next season of Celebrity A...
A letter read by the victim before sentencing has grabbed the nation's attention and garnered millions of hits. Don't misunderstand me. Rape is a serious, heinous crime that has effects lasting a lifetime. But a reading of the facts stated by the victim indicates to me, as a former criminal defense attorney, that this was a tough case for the prosecution, and she's lucky that the jury convicted Brock Allan Turner at all. So here's my legal analysis: Turner, 18, met the 22 year...
Okay, so let's get the sequence of events clear here: Hulk Hogan permissively has sex with a friend's wife, which the husband films. Hulk Hogan Sex Tape is somehow obtained by celebrity gossip site Gawker, and posted on the internet for all to see. Hogan get's mad, files lawsuit in Florida, and tells his story tearfully to a jury. Jury awards Hogan $140 million and this morning, Gawker files for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy code. Got all that?...
Presumptive Republican party presidential nominee Donald R. Trump has been made of teflon, but attacking the judge in the Trump University case for his Mexican heritage, may have finally backfired for the candidate. Trump labelling of an American judge as "Mexican" in order to cast doubt on his fairness, has been labeled simple racism by many Republicans - even House Speaker Paul Ryan - and has again increased fears that Trump will destroy down-ballot Republicans in November....
Update: 6/8/16 The National Enquirer, which has broke many stories in the past, reports that Richard Simmons is transitioning to be a woman. In a front page article entitled "Richard Simmons secretly living as a woman named Fiona," the article reports the "shocking news" that the athletic exercise guru, believes he is a woman trapped in a man's body. At home, he puts on women's clothing. Then hangs around in bars. Yes, he's a lumberjack, but he's OK. Like Jenner, Simmons has...
Elon Musk has been called a twenty-first century Leonardo Da Vinci. When he was 21, he and his brother invented a way to send money by e mail. They called it PayPal. He sold the company to Ebay for $100,000,000 when he was 24. He is the genius behind SpaceX, Solar City and Tesla Automotive. He may well be the smartest man alive on Earth today. And women completely baffle him. But that is a story for another day. At the annual Recode Code Conference, he decided to let us in on...
"That was messed up, Butthead." Okay, that's not really what they said, but still one group of Sen. Bernie Sanders supporters were recently caught on camera beating each other up, mistaking each as Donald Trump supporters. In the video, protestors argue and become violent with each other, apparently mistaking each other for Donald Trump supporters. Once they start shouting at each other, the two groups realize they all support Sanders, and begin to chant "Bernie! Bernie!...
A severely ill woman who seemed to have symptoms consistent with Ebola, caused a response from firemen in Hollywood last night. In a scene right out of a Hollywood movie, a battalion of firemen along with helicopters, Los Angeles Police officers and paramedics brought 200 neighbors into the street to gawk. The Los Angeles Fire Department, including 33 firemen and a Hazardous Materials Team, were called about 9:15 p.m. to the 5900 block of Barton Avenue, immediately west of Par...
