‘Gun enthusiasts’ stalk and threaten CEO after she develops weapon only owner can fire

‘Gun enthusiasts’ stalk and threaten CEO after she develops weapon only owner can fire

Belinda Padilla, president and CEO of the U.S. division of firearm manufacturer Armatix, says she was stalked and threatened by “gun enthusiasts” after she tried to bring a safer handgun to market.

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Well, there's your problem: she's trying to sell smart guns to a bunch of dumbasses.- TechYes comment

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The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• FedEx employee armed 'like Rambo,' witness says, shoots 6; 3 critical
• Mother of disabled son killed by police over $10 movie ticket tells Congress she wants justice
• Violence Kills Nearly 50 in Iraq Ahead of Key Vote
• Mortar shells kill 14 in central Damascus
• Ukraine separatists seize second provincial capital, fire on police

More than 70,000 people will travel to Indianapolis this weekend for the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association. The weekend will feature a brunch, a gun raffle, and no sudden movements.- Jimmy Fallon







NBA bans Donald Sterling for life

The NBA has banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life and fined him $2.5 million for racial comments he made to his reported girlfriend. The NBA will immediately begin working to try to force him to sell the team.

Republican Shenanigans

• Fox News sends reporter to ask NBA if punishing racists is a ‘slippery slope’
• Denver radio host on Donald Sterling: ‘All racists are, at the end of the day, atheists’
• Person tells AP: FBI examines Brownback ally
• Anti-gay group: Businesses ‘trample’ the freedom of Christians by serving LGBT people
• Oklahoma governor’s daughter performs ‘war dance’ to mock Native American protesters

Remember, for every liberal with a cause who makes you go, “Oh, just shoot me,” there’s a conservative with a gun who will.- Bill Maher

Sterling's punishment could have been a lot more humiliating. He could have been forced to appear on Fox and Friends.- LOLGOP



Tarnished Sterling from The Smoking Gun

Just what the NBA needs, another sex scandal: Donald Sterling, the miserly tycoon who owns the Los Angeles Clippers, testified last year that he regularly paid a Beverly Hills woman for sex, describing her as a...

More filthy excerpts from Donald Sterling's deposition ewww. This man is sick.


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Rock The Voter News

• White House pushes colleges to crack down on sexual assaults
• Federal judge strikes down Wisconsin voter ID law
• Senator Reid leaves door open to Keystone pipeline vote

Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face. One of the Republicans’ strongest voting blocs is low-income whites who didn’t go to college. These are people who desperately need a minimum wage hike, need unions; they need healthcare. But, not if it’s got Obama’s name on it.- Bill Maher

Business News

• Oil prices gain ground amid Ukraine caution
• High lime prices giving US bartenders a hangover
• Texas power company Energy Future files for bankruptcy
• After Data Breach, Target Replaces Its Head of Technology

30,000 gun deaths is proof we don't need better background checks but zero elections swung by voter fraud proves it should be harder to vote. - LOLGOP

• Los Angeles deputies charged with planting drugs and guns at marijuana dispensary
• Florida cops arrest and jail man for filming his friend’s arrest

Obama Is Paying The Bills! Who Knew?

The U.S. Treasury expects to pay off $78 billion of debt in the third fiscal quarter, compared to an earlier projection, given in February, that it would pay off $40 billion, the government said Monday. This will be the largest amount of debt the Treasury has paid off in any quarter since April-June 2007. 

A Beverly Hills podiatrist makes his living by giving women the "Cinderella Procedure," a surgery that alters the shape of feet so they can fit into designer shoes more comfortably. One day, God willing, technology will advance to where it's easier to alter a shoe than a human foot.- Seth Myers

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Odd News

• Mother accused of ‘dodgeball rage’ faces criminal charges
• Boston mobster posing as Idaho rancher gets 28 years for attempted murder
• Surreal exchange during legal deposition recreated by New York Times
• New restaurant to sell $2000 per person meal
• New Jersey tot wipes out hours of monks' work

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Batu Caves, KL, Malaysia.

Peace.

LA Clippers Owner to GF: Don't Bring Black People to My Games

LA Clippers Owner to GF: Don't Bring Black People to My Games 

L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling told his GF he does NOT want her bringing black people to his games ... including Magic Johnson ... and it's ALL on tape.
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Is it really fair that we tape racists in private or Sarah Palin in public?- LOLGOP


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The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• 50 killed in bomb attack on rally, police and troops voting in Iraq
• Egypt sentences 683 to death in mass trial over Islamist riots
• US, EU hit Russia with new sanctions over Ukraine
• Texas teen arrested after taking assault rifle, handguns to school

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Uh Oh. Don't Use Internet Explorer

The U.S. Department of Homeland security is advising Americans not to use the Internet Explorer Web browser until a fix is found for a serious security flaw that came to light over the weekend.

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Sarah Palin's water-boarding as Baptism line is literally Spanish Inquisition schtick.- LOLGOP

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Republican Shenanigans

• ‘Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists:’ Sarah Palin throws red meat at NRA annual meeting
• Republican US Rep. Grimm of NY indicted on fraud charges
• Clergy sue North Carolina over same-sex weddings, cite religious freedom
• Eric Cantor confronts Republican infighting
• Conservatives Called Him A Democrat, But Sterling Is Registered Republican
• Sterling's wife describes alleged mistress as gold digger in lawsuit

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Racist's Daughter Blames Media

Cliven Bundy doesn't think Fox News host Sean Hannity "abandoned" him in the wake of his racist, pro-slavery rant, but one of the Nevada rancher's daughters thinks otherwise.

Shiree Bundy Cox on Thursday took aim at conservatives who rallied and amplified her father's cause on national television only to abandon him after the media "turned this into a circus side show."

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If you're looking for the "pro-lifers," they were busy this weekend celebrating guns and torture.- LOLGOP

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Rock The Voter News

• Homeland Security struggles to tempt, retain cyber talent
• Majority of Colorado voters say legal pot has been good for state: poll
• SEC probing New Jersey Governor Christie's transport funding: report

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NO MORE DrivingWhileBlack or DrivingWhileHispanic?

The U.S. Justice Department on Monday said it will begin collecting data on stops, searches and arrests made in five U.S. cities to weed out possible racial biases within the criminal justice system.

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I'm glad the NRA got together to talk about the 19,000 gun suicides each year. Gun owners gotta be concerned about that. Oh, didn't come up.- LOLGOP

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Business News

• Stocks slip on slide in US growth shares, oil prices fall
• Toyota to Relocate US Operations to Texas --Update
• Supreme Court to Consider Case on Rescinding Mortgage Loans 
• Detroit reaches labor deal with city unions

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LA Clipper Sponsors

The Chumash Casino, the presenting sponsor of the Los Angeles Clippers, jumped ship Monday along with used car dealership chain CarMax and airline Virgin America as advertisers pondered their partnerships with the team in the wake of racist remarks allegedly made by owner Donald Sterling.

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The only sponsor Donald Sterling has left is his wife.

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I can dream, can't I?

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Odd News

• Laughter may be the best medicine for age-related memory loss
• Unique Crystals: Newfound Purple-Pink Mineral Is Like No Other
• Gee wizz: Man’s roadside bathroom break uncovers an ancient Chinese artifact
• U.S. high school graduation rate reaches record 80 percent
• Spain might pass law that would make children do chores and ‘be respectful’

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The Magic Mirror

Peace.

Louisiana proposes law that would overrule brain-dead pregnant women’s families

Louisiana proposes law that would overrule brain-dead pregnant women’s families

A Louisiana lawmaker has proposed a bill that would compel doctors and hospitals to use life support to keep a brain-dead pregnant woman alive until the birth of her child, regardless of her family’s wishes.



“How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?” 
― George Carlin

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• 11 Killed at Iraq Campaign Rally for Shiite Group
• Obama Says He'd Save a Drowning Putin
• Obama: North Korea will gain nothing by making threats

"Evil Vladimir Putin said this about President Obama. He said, 'If I were drowning, I think President Obama would rescue me.' And I thought: Well, give that a try." –David Letterman







The Putin Effect

The ax has fallen: Standard & Poor’s Friday cut Russia’s credit rating one notch to triple-B-minus, leaving it just above junk status—and with a negative outlook to boot.

Republican Shenanigans

• State GOP asks Ervin to stop calling himself Republican
• Fox host rips Chris Christie’s anti-weed stance: Obesity kills more people than pot
• KY reporter’s hidden camera catches Tea Party candidate lying about cockfighting rally
• SC GOP candidate: Women cause ’95 percent’ of divorces by loving their kids too much
• Stephen Colbert sings ‘The Ballad of Cliven Bundy’ for Fox News’s fallen folk hero

Bundy Blames MLK For His Racism

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy claimed during a Friday interview on CNN that he didn’t understand the bipartisan outrage over his recent comments suggesting the "Negro people" were “better off” as slaves, and blamed the perception that he's racist on Martin Luther King Jr. for not finishing “his job.”

The big difference between gun rights and voting rights, of course, is that someone is actually coming for your vote. - LOLGOP

Preachy Christians Can Dish It Out But.....

Itinerant evangelists are upset that an anthropology professor at the University of Connecticut mocked their brimstone-and-hellfire mode of preaching the gospel on Tuesday.

Don Karns of Hampton, Virginia told Christian News Network that the performance by James Boster, a professor of anthropology, was “very unbecoming.”

“He asked me if I had accepted Darwin as my lord and savior,” Karns said. “He was very demonstrative.”

Rock The Voter News

• Obama wraps up Japan visit but no trade deal
• Holder to remain U.S. attorney general through November elections at least

"Hillary Clinton is going to be a grandmother. She's very excited about it. She's home right now knitting a tiny pantsuit." –David Letterman

California Drought

A prolonged period of below-average rainfall has put the entire state of California under some level of drought, ranging in severity from moderate to exceptional, for the first time in 15 years.



Today the Pentagon announced they are going to spend millions shooting clouds with super-lasers to create more precipitation. It's in The Washington Post newspaper. A newspaper is like a blog except everything is from yesterday.- Craig Ferguson

Business News

• Oil set for worst week since mid-March
• Baltic states lead push to cut Russia gas reliance
• Canada still betting the U.S. will approve Keystone XL
• Consumer confidence jumps to 9-month high
• First lady gets resume from girl with jobless dad
• 1 in 13 US schoolkids takes psych meds

Halliburton To Public: Go Frack Yourself

The oil and gas industry supplier Halliburton isn’t committing to disclose the chemicals in hydraulic fracturing fluid, after a major competitor made a surprise announcement to do so.

While he was in Japan today, President Obama visited a science museum, where he played soccer with a robot. Joe Biden is negotiating with the prime minister in Ukraine, and Obama is playing soccer with a robot. It's like the White House version of "Freaky Friday." - Jimmy Fallon

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Odd News

• Carisa Ruscak, 14.5-Pound Baby, Born In Massachusetts
• Woman suing hotel for $1 million after falling off one of their bar stools
• Ohio woman accused of robbing toy from baby's grave turns herself in
• Teen Arrested With Loaded Gun In Vagina: Cops
• Releasing 1.5 Million Balloons Into The Air Is A Bad Idea

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I don't know if this is photoshopped or not but I would love to be crashed by a wave.

Peace.