Friday, August 3, 2018

Arrested, jailed, charged with a felony — for voting. ( Illegal voting, playing the " I didn't know card")..... Again the media is not telling the whole story !!

You are a damn ADULT..... you should know!!! There aren't too many people going to believe that he didn't know. Of course you knew.

Arrested, jailed, charged with a felony — for voting. ( Illegal voting)

By Jack Healy

Updated 7:30 am PDT, Friday, August 3, 2018

Photo: Travis Dove / New York Times

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Whitney Brown (left) and Keith Sellars are among 12 people being prosecuted in North Carolina.

GRAHAM, N.C. — Keith Sellars and his daughters were driving home from dinner at a Mexican restaurant last December when he was pulled over for running a red light. The officer ran a background check and came back with bad news for Sellars. There was a warrant out for his arrest.

As his girls cried in the back seat, Sellars was handcuffed and taken to jail.

His crime: Illegal voting.

“I didn’t know,” said Sellars, who spent the night in jail before his family paid his $2,500 bond. “I thought I was practicing my right.”

Sellars, 44, is one of a dozen people in Alamance County in North Carolina who have been charged with voting illegally in the 2016 presidential election. All were on probation or parole for felony convictions, which in North Carolina and many other states disqualifies a person from voting. If convicted, they face up to two years in prison.

A HuffPost/YouGov poll shows almost half of Republicans believe there was widespread voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election, even though the White House says they do not have proof.

Media: Buzz 60

While election experts and public officials across the country say there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud, local prosecutors and state officials in North Carolina, Texas, Kansas, Idaho and other states have sought to send a tough message by filing criminal charges against the tiny fraction of people who are caught voting illegally.

“That’s the law,” said Pat Nadolski, the Republican district attorney in Alamance County. “You can’t do it. If we have clear cases, we’re going to prosecute.”

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The cases are rare compared with the tens of millions of votes cast in state and national elections. In 2017, at least 11 people nationwide were convicted of illegal voting because they were felons or noncitizens, according to a database of voting prosecutions compiled by the conservative Heritage Foundation. Others have been convicted of voting twice, filing false registrations or casting a ballot for a family member.

The case against the 12 voters in Alamance County — a patchwork of small towns about an hour west of the state’s booming Research Triangle — is unusual for the sheer number of people charged at once. And because nine of the defendants are black, the case has touched a nerve in a state with a history of suppressing Africa American votes.

Local civil-rights groups and black leaders have urged the district attorney to drop the prosecution, saying that black voters were being disproportionately punished for an unwitting mistake. African Americans in North Carolina are more likely to be disqualified from voting because of felony convictions; their rate of incarceration is more than four times that of white residents, according to the Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit organization.

“It smacks of Jim Crow,” said Barrett Brown, head of the Alamance County NAACP. Referring to the district attorney, he added, “I don’t think he targeted black people. But if you cast that net, you’re going to catch more African Americans.”

Nadolski said that race and ethnicity are not a factor in any case he prosecutes.

The case has become part of a partisan war over voting rights before this November’s midterm elections. At a rally Tuesday, President Donald Trump — who has made baseless claims that millions of people voted illegally in 2016 — renewed his calls for laws requiring voters to show photo identification.

Jack Healy is a New York Times writer.

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Another pair of kids that feel that "rules are not for me"..... this is the future people

Brothers, 17, 'beat their mother to death with a hammer, stabbed her in the neck and buried her in the desert because they didn't like her parenting style'

Michael Wilson and Dakota Saldivar, both 17, have been charged with murder
The brothers buried their mother Dawn Liebig in a shallow grave after killing her
Told police they hit her in head with a hammer 20 times and stabbed her neck
Confessed that they killed Liebig because they 'couldn't take her complaining'
Liebig cried for their help during attack, not realizing her sons were the killers

By Anneta Konstantinides For Dailymail.com

Published: 10:36 EDT, 2 August 2018 | Updated: 12:14 EDT, 2 August 2018

Two teen brothers are behind bars after they told police they beat their mother to death with a hammer and then buried her in the desert.

Michael Wilson and Dakota Saldivar, both 17, confessed to the crime and said they murdered their mother Dawn Liebig because they didn't like her parenting style.

The brothers, from Pahrump, Nevada, buried Liebig in a shallow grave after striking her in the head with a hammer 20 times and stabbing her neck, police said.

Wilson and Saldivar were arrested on Wednesday and have been charged with open murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and domestic battery with a deadly weapon.

Michael Wilson (left) and Dakota Saldivar (right), both 17, told police they beat their mother to death and then buried her in the desert because they didn't like her parenting style

The brothers, from Pahrump, Nevada, buried Dawn Liebig (pictured) in a shallow grave after striking her in the head with a hammer 20 times and stabbing her neck, police said

A man from Idaho had called the Nye County Sheriff's Office to ask about a welfare check he had requested on Liebig's home.

The man told a detective that he did not trust her sons and, after it was discovered Liebig's cell phone was still in her home, police opened up a missing person report.

Detectives then contacted another man who revealed that Saldivar and Wilson had different stories about their mother's disappearance, according to KVVU.

The man, whose identity was not released, told police that Liebig, 46, had multiple disabilities and that he believed she was dead 'due to the type of family she is in'.

Investigators returned to Liebig's home to speak with Wilson and Saldivar, who said they didn't know what had happened to their mother.

The brothers (pictured here in a 2015 photo with their older brother Michael) first told police that Liebig was suicidal and had asked them to help kill her

But detectives found that the brothers' stories were inconsistent and that Wilson had sent a text saying 'my mother passed away'.

Wilson then claimed that Liebig had wanted to commit suicide and asked her sons to help kill her. He said the teens stabbed her to death and buried her in the desert.

The brothers eventually confessed that they murdered Liebig after getting into a fight

The brothers eventually confessed that they murdered their mother after getting into a fight, Sgt Adam Tippetts said during a press conference.

They said they were tired of her parenting style and that they 'couldn't take her complaining'.

Saldivar and Wilson waited for Liebig to fall asleep after the fight and had planned to stab her in the jugular vein so she would die fast, they told police.

Wilson stabbed her in the neck and said she screamed 'No!' and fought for her life.

Saldivar then struck her 20 times in the head with a hammer. He said his mother cried out for her sons during the half-hour attack, not realizing they were her killers.

He only stopped after the hammer went through his mother's skull, police said.

Saldivar then stabbed Liebig in the back of the neck with a pocket knife and the pair buried her body in the desert.

One brother led detectives to Liebig's shallow grave, while the other showed investigators where they had buried the murder weapons.

Saldivar (pictured) struck Liebig 20 times in the head with a hammer. He said his mother cried out for her sons during the half-hour attack, not realizing they were her killers

The pair tried to justify the murder by telling police that their mother had wanted to be with her dead sister.

Wilson told police he was adopted by Liebig and had lived with her for five years. It remains unknown if Saldivar was also adopted.

Liebig wrote about her dedication to her sons in the 'Intro' section of her Facebook page

The two also have an older brother, Michael Liebig, who was in prison at the time of their arrest.

Wilson and Saldivar are being held as adults in the Nye County Detention Center.

Saldivar uses 'Liebig' as his last name on his Facebook profile, which was full of comments from his mother writing about how much she loved him.

'I miss my sons terribly when they're gone,' she wrote on one of his posts.

Liebig even wrote about her dedication to her sons in the 'Intro' section of her Facebook page.

'I'm a mom that hopes she did okay,' she write. 'I want my boys to become the men I hoped for. I live for them.'

Teens charged after minor accident turns into road-rage murder

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New York Post 23 hours ago

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Teens charged after minor accident turns into road-rage murder

By Joshua Rhett Miller

August 1, 2018 | 11:58am | Updated

Trevyon D. Shepheard and Rafeasia Kirkland Kansas City Police Department

A pair of teens were arrested in Missouri after a minor traffic accident turned into a road-rage encounter that ended with a father of two shot to death in the street, police and witnesses said.

The violence unfolded after a cream Lincoln Town Car driven by Leonard Joyner, 57, rolled back at a Kansas City intersection and tapped a Chevrolet Trailblazer driven by Rafeasia Kirkland, 18, and that had Trevyon Shepheard sitting in the passenger seat, according to charging documents obtained by the Kansas City Star.

Several witnesses said Kirkland and Shepheard, 19, hopped out of their SUV to meet Joyner, who also stepped out of his car. Joyner then pulled out cash and appeared to offer it to the teens to repair the damage, but Shepheard returned to the SUV and pulled out a black semi-automatic handgun — which he used to shoot the man down in the street, police said.

Kirkland ran back to the SUV, while witnesses said Shepheard pumped several more shots into Joyner while he was on the ground.

Prosecutors claim the teens then got back into the SUV and drove off, but surveillance cameras from nearby apartments captured them as they fled, leading to their arrests. Shepheard is now facing charges of second-degree murder, armed criminal action and tampering with evidence. Kirkland was charged with tampering with evidence.

Joyner — whose funeral is scheduled for Friday, which would’ve been his 58th birthday — had planned to return home to Atlanta to spend the weekend with his two children, according to an online fundraiser set up in his memory.

“I would like for Justyce and Essence to go and say a final goodbye to their dad, which would give them some needed closure to this horrific nightmare,” the website reads.

The children’s mother, Jill Martin, told the Kansas City Star that 20-year-old Essence and 23-year-old Justyce — both of whom attend Georgia State University — were looking forward to playing chess with their father this weekend. Now those plans are shelved forever.

“We’re caught up in a [murder] statistic that is so insane,” Martin told the newspaper. “It’s just crazy the times we’re in.”

Shepheard, according to police, told investigators he had been involved in a car crash and that Joyner had offered some money in return. Joyner then reached under his driver’s seat and pulled out a handgun, Shepheard said, prompting him to shoot Joyner.

Shepheard said he then took Joyner’s gun, only to realize it was either an imitation handgun or BB gun, Shepheard tossed it out of his SUV as the couple drove off, he said. Kirkland also recorded the encounter with Joyner on her cellphone, but Shepheard said they deleted the footage, court documents show.

Friends of Joyner, meanwhile, said they’re angry that a kind, “good old teddy bear” of a man had been needlessly taken from them.

“He was my first boyfriend,” Janice Shelton told WDAF. “He used to catch me lightning bugs and put them in a jar.”

Joyner’s best friend, Gary Hardin, said he still can’t process what happened.

“Why him of all people?” Hardin asked. “Something like this, I just can’t place it for somebody that didn’t do nothing. As far as the guy that did it, he was a coward.”

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Politically correct effort to rename Austin proves Donald Trump was right

James S. Robbins, Opinion columnist Published 6:00 a.m. ET Aug. 2, 2018

First they came for the Confederate monuments, but who knows where progressive efforts to erase history will end? It is a 'short hop from the unthinkable to the mandatory.'

“Keep Austin Weird” is a longtime city motto. Now the challenge for Texans may be to keep Austin Austin.

The Texas capital has been reviewing names of streets, parks and public buildings honoring major figures of the Confederacy. But last week the city’s Equity Office also suggested that a broader secondary review could encompass renaming anything honoring anyone with ties to slavery, including town namesake Stephen F. Austin. Austin, who died 25 years before the Civil War broke out, is remembered as the “Father of Texas” for establishing the first successful American settlements in 1825. Many places — cities, a county, colleges and schools — bear his name. But Austin promoted slavery in Texas and resisted abolition efforts by the Mexican government. The Equity Office considered it “within the spirit” of the anti-Dixie effort to include Austin as someone to exclude.

Democrats' war on their history

City spokesman David Green said, “no one sees this as an attempt to change the name of the city,” even though that is exactly what was being suggested. And in the progressive worldview it is a short hop from the unthinkable to the mandatory, from concept to edict. Witness the evolution of then-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s thinking: in 2015 he said that “Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, these are all parts of our heritage,” and it would be best to “leave the statues and those things alone” on Richmond’s Monument Avenue. A brief two years later the more “woke” McAuliffe, eyeing a run for the presidency, called the statues "flashpoints for hatred, division, and violence” and said they should all come down.

Much of the self-flagellation over these issues has arisen because Democrats are at war with their own history. Southern slavery, Jim Crow and segregation were Democratic institutions. Democrats elevated Confederate memory, and now they are erasing it. The statue of Robert E. Lee that the city of Dallas took down in 2017 was unveiled by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, who said at the time that “all over the United States” Lee was recognized as “one of our greatest American Christians and one of our greatest American gentlemen.” If a Democrat said that today they would be given a beat-down in the name of tolerance.

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The Austin Equity Office's suggestion also illustrates a point President Donald Trump made a year ago, that erasing honors to the Confederacy is only the starting point in a general assault on American memory. “Is it George Washington next week” he said, “and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after?

You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?” Liberal historians tut-tutted at the president for even suggesting such an absurdity. But the vandals who attacked the Jefferson statue at the University of Virginia on his birthday proved Trump right.

So where does it end in Texas? Sam Houston was the first President of Texas and later a Unionist who lost his governorship over the secession issue. But he was a slave owner, so rename that city.

Thomas Saltus Lubbock was a Confederate officer, and Augustus Hill Garland was a Confederate congressman, albeit reluctantly, so their cities are also suspect. Arlington, Texas was named for Robert E. Lee’s Virginia home, so scrub that. Plus, Corpus Christi, San Antonio and other city names rooted in Christianity may be seen as exclusionary by progressives and need rechristening. And don’t forget to investigate Odessa, “because Russia.”

Woke-ness invading the Alamo

Even the Alamo, the most sacred soil of Texas, is being “reimagined” to deemphasize the heroic stand that took place there in 1836. Project master planner and non-Texan George Skarmeas defended this approach, saying "the events of 1836 were just one small chapter in 10,000 years of history,” and “we cannot single out one moment in time.” But “Forget the Alamo” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.

Old-school liberals underestimate the ISIS-like desire of progressives to wipe out history that does not pass ideological muster. Stephen Austin’s views on slavery were complex and nuanced like Jefferson’s, but so what? He is tainted by the American Republic’s original sin, so for progressives that is case closed. Hopefully most Texans will respond to having Austin’s name removed by saying, “come and take it.”

James S. Robbins, a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors and author of "Erasing America: Losing Our Future by Destroying Our Past," has taught at the National Defense University and the Marine Corps University and served as a special assistant in the office of the secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush administration. Follow him on Twitter: @James_Robbins.

You can read diverse opinions from our Board of Contributors and other writers on the Opinion front page, on Twitter @usatodayopinion and in our daily Opinion newsletter. To respond to a column, submit a comment to letters@usatoday.com.

More people thinking they are better than everyone else and they don't need to follow the same rules as everyone else.

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Inside Edition Staff,Inside Edition 20 hours ago

Her sister, Towanda, accused the pilot of ridiculing the TV personality.

Delta Air Lines is under fire as a pilot is accused of ridiculing singer and TV personality Tamar Braxton in what she and her sisters claimed was a racially motivated encounter.

Braxton, who co-hosted talk show "The Real" and competed in "Dancing with the Stars," was flying from Cincinnati to her home in Atlanta when she got an earful from the pilot.

“Here’s how it works,” he started. “If you get an instruction from a flight attendant, I need to know you are willing and able to do what you are told. Are you willing and able to do what you are told by a flight attendant? Don’t ask any questions. Answer yes or no."

The pilot, whose name was not immediately released, was caught on camera by Tamar’s sister, Towanda, a fellow member of their 2000s pop group The Braxtons.

Towanda was sitting next to Tamar as the situation unfolded.

“[Tamar Braxton] got ridiculed by a pilot for flying while black by Delta. Wow! I guess being a diamond and double million miler don’t matter,” she wrote after posting the video to Instagram.

Tamar was taken aback by the exchange and could be heard after the pilot walked away discussing with her sister whether they should get off the flight before the plane left the tarmac.

Delta responded directly to Towanda on Twitter, writing, “Towanda, our employees reflect our culture of treating all people with dignity and respect, and if we aren't doing that, we aren't doing our job. We're looking into it now.”

The incident reportedly began when Tamar told a flight attendant she and her group wanted to deplane without their bags, a possible violation of federal law.

“It's crucial for the safety of every flight for customers to be willing and able to follow crew instructions. When these customers exhibited some unusual behavior and refused to acknowledge our flight crew’s instructions, the captain addressed them directly to ensure the safety and security of the entire flight,” the airline told Inside Edition.

Social Media Sucks..............Too many STUPID people believing LIES because they are too stupid to search for FACTS.

TWO more stars posting HALF the story about DELTA Airlines.

READ BOTH SIDES OF THE STORIES BEFORE BELIEVING!!

Monday, July 30, 2018

What a bunch of "WHIINING BABIES" !!

You don't like me
You called me fat
you called me skinny
you called me ugly
you called me cute
you called me this
you called me that
you put your hand in my hand
you gave me a compliment.

STOP !!!

Act like an adult and brush it off.

What the hell happened to "stick and stones may break my bones but words WILL NEVER HURT ME" ?

Grow the hell up.

Ramblings About Daily Life. Let's Blame it On Menapause.

Friday, August 3, 2018