A Norwich [Connecticut] man who police say intentionally drove his pickup truck into the front of the police station was arrested, police said.
Kevin
Vary, 51...was arrested after driving his
full-sized, Chevrolet pickup truck into the front glass door entrance
about 9:30 p.m. Sunday. No one was injured.
The front entrance of police Hq. sustained extensive damage in the incident. Police charged the man with reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, and reckless driving.
As we have noted before, it is not just the fat and salt that poses a danger at fast food restaurants--other customers can be hazardous to your health. Police say the perpetrator of this machete attack at US Chicken in Paterson, New Jersey, is apparently still at large.
The massive power outages in the Northeast following the freak October 29 snowstorm showed just how personally and professionally dependent we've become on our electronic devices. Left without electricity, Starbucks (and other similar venues offering a Wi-Fi oasis) in the affected areas were jammed with strung-out people 50% of whom were suffering caffeine withdrawal and the other 50% suffering Internet cravings.
But the disruption after a natural disaster is only a minor part of a a national and international security menance according to SkyNews in the U.K. in an interview with Internet security expert Eugene Kaspersky:
"I don't want to speak about it. I don't even want to think about it," he said.
"But we are close, very close, to cyber terrorism. Perhaps already the criminals have sold their skills to the terrorists - and then...oh, God."
Speaking privately at the London Cyber Conference, Kaspersky told Sky that he believed that cyber terrorism was the biggest immediate threat to have emerged to confront nations as diverse as China and the US.
"There is already cyber espionage, cyber crime, hacktivisim (when activists attack networks for political ends) soon we will be facing cyber terrorism," he said.
Each time reasonable people seek to shrink bloated federal (or state) workforce costs, the fearmongers trot out the usual "police and firefighter" scare tactics. Although public safety pensions appear to be a time bomb, one of the primary concerns involves deskbound pencil pushers in make-work government jobs, those "unessential" employees that never have to report to work in bad weather. Large segments of the media never seem to question vast amounts of taxpayer money spent on or by self-serving bureaucrats. Ross Douthat of The New York Times nails it:
The public-sector workplace has become a kind of artificial Eden, whose fortunate inhabitants enjoy solid pay and 1950s-style job security and retirement benefits, all of it paid for by their less-fortunate private-sector peers. Some on the left have convinced themselves that this “success” can lay the foundation for a broader middle-class revival. But if a bloated public sector were the blueprint for a thriving middle-class society, then the whole world would be beating a path to Greece’s door...
The story of the last three decades, in other words, is not the story of a benevolent government starved of funds by selfish rich people and fanatical Republicans. It’s a story of a public sector that has consistently done less with more, and a liberalism that has often defended the interests of narrow constituencies — public-employee unions, affluent seniors, the education bureaucracy — rather than the broader middle class.
What's more bogus in contemporary politics--made-up stories about Tea Party transgressions or the delusional reasons that the Democrats and the ACLU types use to justify their opposition to reasonable requirements for showing a photo ID before voting?
Former Congressman Artur Davis, a Democrat who unsuccessfully ran for Alabama governor, no longer buys into the left-wing mythology (which is just a smokescreen for voter fraud) about the latter according to this opinion piece in a Montgomery newspaper:
I've changed my mind on voter ID laws -- I think Alabama did the right thing in passing one -- and I wish I had gotten it right when I was in political office.
When I was a congressman, I took the path of least resistance on this subject for an African American politician. Without any evidence to back it up, I lapsed into the rhetoric of various partisans and activists who contend that requiring photo identification to vote is a suppression tactic aimed at thwarting black voter participation.
The truth is that the most aggressive contemporary voter suppression in the African American community, at least in Alabama, is the wholesale manufacture of ballots, at the polls and absentee, in parts of the Black Belt.
Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights -- that's suppression by any light. If you doubt it exists, I don't; I've heard the peddlers of these ballots brag about it, I've been asked to provide the funds for it, and I am confident it has changed at least a few close local election results.
To his further credit, Davis apparently was the only black Democrat to vote against Obamacare.
Do you think that the Occupy Wall Street (and other cities) protesters have the awareness that Barack Obama received more contributions from Wall Street fat-cats and crony capitalists than any other candidate in history?
In any event, in this video financial guru and former U.S. Senate candidate from Connecticut Peter Schiff provides the protesters with some most-needed continuing economic education (suggestion for Mr. Schiff: lose the jacket and tie; business casual is a better look).
In this video, a man with personal experience of living under socialism schools another protester:
Obama advisor Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Scott Brown's likely opponent for the Senate seat in Massachusetts, claimed that she provided the intellectual foundation for the OWS movement. In today's Boston Herald, Howie Carr asks, "What intellectual foundation? Riots, rapes, robberies, sexual assaults, naked vagrants armed with knives, ugly anti-Semitism, death threats to the Boston cops ..."
Back in October 2008, CBS News aired this report on Obama's corporate fundraising haul (but left unmentioned allegations of online credit-card fraud and illegal foreign contributions).
The Washington Post, which usually worships all things Obama, brings the corporate campaign cash story up to date here.
Could Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore's presumed estranged husband, be headed to family court sometime soon for a paternity test? There is some speculation on the Internet that the actor (who took over for Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men) might have to cough up some child support--unless he is being punk'd, that is.
January Jones (Betty Draper on Mad Men) gave birth to a baby boy in September but left the name of the father off the birth certificate. According to Findlaw.com, the dad may or may not be Kutcher.
BlindGossip.com ran a story on October 17 that speculated about a "married actor" who had a "one-night stand with one of his exes." It went on to specify that the actress is on an "acclaimed television show."
The story went on, explaining that the married actor's wife found out about the baby, and both husband and wife tried every tactic including "money, lawyers, threats to ruin her career" to get the ex to terminate her pregnancy. Then an online gossip blogger posted another item that succinctly read: "all signs point to January Jones."
Must be something about TV shows with "Men" in the title.
