Four people were injured in Denver, Thursday night, after one of them was lit on fire.
According to police two men knocked on the door of an apartment along the 4300 block of Lipan Street.
When the door was answered, one of the men used a weed sprayer to douse the woman with a flammable liquid and the second man threw a lit match.
The woman, who was sprayed, ended up in the hospital with serious injuries.
Three other people, who were in the apartment, suffered minor injuries.
Police are investigating if an attempted robbery, that happened near 32nd Street and Champa earlier Thursday, is related, as a weed sprayer was used to start a fire there, as well.
Twenty-seven people have been killed, more wounded in Newtown, Connecticut shooting.
A gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School about 9:30 EST, with two guns and a bullet proof vest, and opened fire.
After shooting through the school, leaving at least twenty-six other people dead, the gunman, who was twenty years old, shot himself, committing suicide.
Police began searching the school as soon as they had arrived, calling for back up as soon as they entered the building.
Twenty of the dead are children, the rest were staff and visiting parents.
Teachers and emergency workers evacuated the children, as soon as possible, doing their best to keep them calm.
Police in full tactical gear spent part of the day
searching the town, and roads out of it, for a possible second gunman,
but eventually called that off.
Parents were sent a reverse 911 call, and were asked to pickup their children at the local fire house.
The fire house is now being used as a place for the families of the victims to gather.
Counselors have been made available for the families, first responders, and survivors.
Five hundred and seventy-five students go to Sandy Hook, with forty-two teachers and staff.
This is the second worst school shooting in US history.
The shooter's mother was found dead at her home, she was a teacher at Sandy Hook.
All three of the guns, one was found in the trunk of the shooter's car, belonged to his mother, who had legally obtained them.
We will continue to update as more information becomes available.
Thanks to the White House's petitions, we now have another opportunity.
A petition calling for the building of a Death Star has received enough signatures for it to be considered.
"Those who sign here petition the United States government to secure
funding and resources, and begin construction on a Death Star by 2016.
"By
focusing our defense resources into a space-superiority platform and
weapon system such as a Death Star, the government can spur job creation
in the fields of construction, engineering, space exploration, and
more, and strengthen our national defense."
The petition barely squeaked by with the necessary twenty-five thousand votes.
Almost sadly, the petition has no hope of becoming reality.
Discussions over a proposed United Nations internet treaty came to an end Thursday, after Canada, the UK, and the US walked out.
The proposed treaty would have given all country's equal rights to the internet.
It was progressing, slowly, til an African bloc of countries proposed that all countries have equal control of the world wide web.
An eventual vote showed seventy-seven in favor of that proposal, with thirty-three against it.
Most of Europe voted against it, but for Canada, the UK, and the US it was too much, and the three countries left the conference saying no treaty would now be possible.
In "Killing Them Softly" Brad Pitt plays Jackie Cogan, an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys
rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to
collapse.
Set in 2008, much of the movie has audio from the US political and economic news going in the background.
This isn't that great of a movie, and doesn't have much of a reason for having been made.
The first part of the movie is filled with vulgar language, to a gratuitous degree. After that the movie does get a little better, but not a lot.
If I hadn't seen it for free, I would've wanted my money back. Consider yourself warned.
The only redeeming qualities were the soundtrack and the first murder scene. The cinematography used in that scene, is actually pretty amazing.
Set two years before the Civil War, "Django Unchained" is the latest movie by the mastermind of Quentin Tarantino. I had the pleasure of seeing a pre-screening of this movie last night and I was not disappointed.
With an All Star cast with the likes of Jamie Foxx, Leonardo Dicaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Jonah Hill, Kerry Washington and a previous Tarantino great, Christoph Waltz, the movie is already set up for some big buzz.
The storyline is sure to create that buzz too. Django Unchained is the story of a slave (Jamie Foxx) who is befriended and freed by a bounty hunter (Waltz). This unlikely friendship, leads them on several journeys throughout the movie, with the most important being the quest to reunite Django with his wife whom he lost to the slave trade years ago. Manipulation and revenge are some of the main themes set in the movie.
For fans of Tarantino's work, this movie is sure to please. He makes his signature cameo at a great point in the movie, and he does not shy away from gore and violence. This could be his goriest movie to date. Some scenes can be quite disturbing, but they are needed to set the tone of the movie.
All in all, I would give this movie a 9/10. Very great acting and story, but the film does seem to go on and on at some points. One thing is for sure though, you are never left bored!
Anybody with a cursory familiarization in American History and the development of our governmental system known as a Constitutional Republic will, undoubtedly, know of the ideals used in establishing our great nation.
Thomas Jefferson along with Adams' advisement drafted the Declaration of Independence. Within that document, Jefferson addressed several ideals that most Americans today still hold sacred. The Declaration states that each individual person is endowed by his or her creator with certain rights that nobody has a right to take away. Among those are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
However, without doing the due diligence, most people don't even know to what those items refer. To understand them would require a bit more reading. Those who wish understanding should read the source materials Jefferson and Adams drew from, the philosophies of John Locke and Montesquieu. Of note, the term "Pursuit of Happiness" was a euphemism of the times for intellectual and physical property.
When drafting the US Constitution, still leery of government having too much power and turning tyrannical, Madison and his cohorts added the Bill of Rights to enumerate certain things necessary for individuals in order to insure that the government doesn't over step the limitations placed upon them by the base document itself.
The list goes on. However, one can easily see how each of the first ten amendments is set up to secure the blessings of liberty and insure the natural rights of Life, Liberty, and Property are not infringed upon.
The left hates that.
The left really hates that.
Unions are the thugs and extortionists of the left.
The Michigan legislature passed their Right To Work (RTW) law on December 11, 2012. They became the 24th state that sees mandatory union membership as an infringement upon Life (how you wish to spend your time on this Earth), Liberty (what labors or recreations you choose to engage in), or Property (intellectual or physical, what you have created, earned or otherwise lawfully and legally acquired as the fruits of your labors or gifts from that of others). RTW laws and the states that employ them do such as methods to insure those natural rights. Opposing RTW laws necessarily equates to opposing natural rights.
They protested while the bill was voted on and while it awaited signing by Michigan's governor. they had hoped that their loud threats of violence and baseless propaganda would sway the state's government from championing natural rights. They had hoped that the government would join them in enforcing tyranny and depriving those rights. When the RTW law passed, the demonstrations turned violent.
The union goons assaulted a reporter who was attempting to interview them to get their side of the story:
The union goons vandalized Americans For Prosperity's (AFP) tent while children were inside:
The union thugs, acting worse than the mobsters that own them, then cut up the tent to sell as souvenirs to commemorate their turning to violence when their days of oppressing citizens seeking employment ended:
Then they attempt to blame the violence on the victims of their assaults. It is like some coward who beats his wife and children then blames them for "making me do this to you". Yet they run like cowardly bullies when challenged to a fair fight:
Just like the black bloc of the socialists infamous "Occupy Movement" did in Oakland, California, among other locales. Remember when members of the Black Bloc attempted (and failed) to blow up a bridge in Ohio?
Perhaps some may recall when two members of the Black Bloc were arrested for conspiring to firebomb the 2008 RNC convention. Had it not been for the bravery of Brandon Darby in informing the FBI they may have gotten away with it.
See, rational and reasonable people see violence as something necessary when all other recourse have failed and no other viable options remain. The left, on the other hand, sees it as a necessary, daily intimidation and scare tactic required to get their point across. Since their arguments are devoid of logic, reason, or empirical data, they resort to attempting to force people to see things their way. When people don't, they employ violence to set examples of what happens when they aren't given power over you.
Some on the left claim to promote anti-bullying campaigns. However, the hypocrites employ intimidation, extortion, and terrorist tactics on a daily basis. They cowards seeking to steal what others have and are willing to earn. They are bullies and thugs afraid to allow others the right to earn and enjoy the fruits of their labors on their own merits.
This is an excerpt. The full article and additional commentary appears on P-G Matuszak's Mental Aikido.
