Category: Domestic Affairs,

Documents detail prison assault on Colorado theater shooter | Colorado Springs Gazette, News

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DENVER — Colorado theater shooter James Holmes was transferred to another prison partly because another inmate pushed his way through a partially open door and attacked him, according to prison officials and documents released Thursday. Holmes was coming out of an office with a case manager when a corrections officer opened a door to the area. The other inmate pushed his way through as officers tried to close it, according to documents detailing the October incident. The inmate hit Holmes in and around the head before officers pulled them apart. 

….Officials refuse to reveal where Holmes is located, even to the families of his victims. The move, which sent him out of state or to a federal facility, was part of an exchange agreement with another prison. Officials refuse to provide details of the trade.

The inmate who attacked Holmes has received money and letters from strangers praising him, according to the documents.

Documents detail prison assault on Colorado theater shooter | Colorado

Springs Gazette, News

hmmm

Military Beginning to Recruit Women for Combat Jobs 

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The military services are already beginning to recruit women for combat jobs, including as Navy SEALs, and could see them serving in previously male-only Army and Marine Corps infantry units by this fall, according to new plans endorsed by Defense Secretary Ash Carter and obtained by The Associated Press.

…All of the services say they have made required changes to base bathrooms and other facilities to accommodate women, and they will monitor training, injury assessments, and possible sexual harassment or assault problems.

…Military services have put together plans outlining exactly how they will incorporate women into the male-only units. The Army intends to first assign female officers to jobs in the infantry and armor units, and then gradually bring in female enlisted soldiers. And it plans to also assign more than one woman in a unit.

…Unlike the Army and Marine Corps, the Air Force said it will not assign women in groups to units, and will instead follow routine assignment procedures.

Military beginning to recruit women for combat jobs – SFGate

Nice!

Nine Republicans Reject Naming Post Office After Maya Angelou 

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On Capitol Hill a debate over naming a post office after award winning poet and Civil Rights activist, Maya Angelou surprised political watchers.

While Maya Angelou did many good things in her life, Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-5) did not believe it appropriate to name an American Post Office after a communist sympathizer and thereby honor a person who openly opposed America’s interest by supporting Fidel Castro and his regime of civil rights suppression, torture and murder of freedom-loving Cubans,” Lauren Vandiver, a spokesperson for Brooks, told NBC News in a statement.

Nine Republicans Reject Naming Post Office After Maya Angelou – NBC News

WTF?! The GOP is off the rails.

Here Comes the Berniebro: The Young, White, Male, and Unbelievably Presumptuous Bernie Sanders Supporters 

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The Berniebro, though steadfastly a Berniebro now, will not always be such. You can sense this. Soon, maybe already, the Berniebro will become a Schoolboardbro. Or a Municipalparkingbro. Or, heaven help us, a Localhistoricaldistrictzoningrestrictionsbro.

Yet today the Berniebro is still a Berniebro. The Berniebro is #FeelingtheBern. And until Sanders drops out of the race, the Berniebro wants you to #FeeltheBern, too.

Here Comes the Berniebro: The Young, Male, and Earnest Bernie Sanders Supporters – The Atlantic

heh

Crowd Pelts Cops With Rocks and Debris After Shooting of Teen in Salt Lake City 

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A small riot erupted in Salt Lake City after police shot a teenage boy near a homeless shelter on Saturday night.

The shooting occurred at around 8pm in the northern part of the city, near a shopping mall about five miles east of the airport. Witness Selam Mohammed, 19, told local news outlets that his friend was trying to break up a fight outside the Road Home, a homeless shelter, when police arrived on the scene.

Crowd Pelts Cops With Rocks and Debris After Shooting of Teen in Salt Lake City | VICE News

We need to stop tolerating cops who kill at will. They are not justified. It is not understandable. It is murder pure and simple. Betraying the public’s trust need to be severely punished, every single fucking time. There is no excuse for giving racist thugs special privileges. Shoot an unarmed person? Lose your badge and pension. Every single time. If it turns out a cop shoots someone when they were not in danger then it needs to be lengthy jail sentences. Every single time. The police involved need to be tried, convicted of murder, and jailed for 1st degree murder.

What Hillary Clinton’s massive win among black voters really says – The Washington Post

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…the rather standard and presumptive claim that the party, which is home to the most racially and ethnically diverse array of voters, must leave the earliest and most influential choice about its presidential candidate to two states that look very little like the party or the country. The argument that voters in Iowa and New Hampshire are somehow specially trained or primed and therefore “take the responsibility seriously,” in some sort of unique way, seems largely emotional, even nostalgia-driven in the light of turnout results in far more diverse South Carolina.

If the turnout patterns and election outcomes look the same in most Super Tuesday states, consider that another blow. Voters in New Hampshire and Iowa didn’t simply behave quite differently than those in Nevada and South Carolina; they delivered different election outcomes indicating that, for them, Sanders’s message and Sanders’s political priorities were a good or at least not an uncomfortable fit.

What Hillary Clinton’s massive win among black voters really says – The Washington Post

Look you fuckwits, it’s not about Iowa or NH being representative, it’s about them being smaller media markets where you can successfully run without have a ton of cash in your war chest. What the fuck part of that is so damn hard for you dipshits to understand?

If

Bill Clinton: Hillary Victim to “Vicious Trolling” and “Sexist” Attacks From Sanders Supporters | Video | RealClearPolitics

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Former President Bill Clinton accused Bernie Sanders’ supporters of sexist attacks against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton at a campaign event in Milford, New Hampshire yesterday.”She and other people who have gone online to defend Hillary and explain — just explain — why they supported her have been subject to vicious trolling and attacks that are literally too profane often — not to mention sexist — to repeat,” Clinton said.”When you’re making a revolution, you can’t be too careful about the facts,” Clinton jabbed.

Bill Clinton: Hillary Victim to “Vicious Trolling” and “Sexist” Attacks From Sanders Supporters | Video | RealClearPolitics

Don’t fuck with someone the big dog loves, you ignorant neophytes!!

Bernie Sanders voted for the 1994 tough-on-crime law. But it’s complicated. – Vox

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Sanders’s vote seems to be an outlier in an otherwise softer-on-crime record. But Hillary Clinton’s support was genuinely about being tough on crime.

Bernie Sanders voted for the 1994 tough-on-crime law. But it’s complicated. – Vox

Revisionary, apologist, nonsense. Either he voted for it or he didn’t.
If she gets a black on her record for supporting it, then he certainly gets one for voting for it. Without the votes in Congress it never would have passed and all of the spin in the world doesn’t change that fact.

Bernie Sanders Seeks to Repeal Gun Law He Once Voted for – Hit & Run : Reason.com

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Presidential candidate and Senator Bernie Sanders will soon be co-sponsoring the repeal of a law that shields gun manufacturers from lawsuits that involve their guns—the law he voted for in 2005.

For years Sanders had defended the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) on the assertion that weapon providers have no control over how consumers use their products and therefore lack liability. Hillary Clinton has vowed to repeal the law if elected and routinely attacked Sanders’ over his 2005 vote.

Bernie Sanders Seeks to Repeal Gun Law He Once Voted for – Hit & Run : Reason.com

A PowerPoint Slide Advises Professors to Alter Teaching to Pacify Armed Students

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The Faculty Senate president at the University of Houston suggests that his colleagues “drop certain topics” from their curricula after a campus-carry law takes effect in Texas.

…”It’s a terrible state of affairs,” Mr. Snow, a professor of isotope geochemistry, said in an interview with The Chronicle. “It’s an invasion of gun culture into campus life. We are worried that we have to change the way we teach to accommodate this minority of potentially dangerous students.”

A PowerPoint Slide Advises Professors to Alter Teaching to Pacify Armed Students

Grrrrrrrrrrr

Texas academics told to avoid ‘sensitive topics’ if gun law goes into effect 

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Slideshow for University of Houston faculty advises dropping certain topics from curriculum [because of] law that would allow concealed weapons on campus.

Texas academics told to avoid ‘sensitive topics’ if gun law goes into effect | US news | The Guardian

so the education of the whole is diminished in favor of the paranoias of the few and the privileged. How very Perry’s Texas of them.