Bloods gang member Rasoul Speight, 32 years old had 100 bags of heroin in anus. This appears to be a new record according to police.

Maybe this is the drug dealer version of Kopi Luwak coffee which is poop based.

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I can't imagine what television is going to be like without the incessant airing of those commercials with the nice, friendly scooter customer service representative who says, "your power chair has been paid in full!"

The SCOOTER Store power wheelchair company raided in federal probe 

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If your girlfriend asks you to leave her apartment in the midst of an argument, it's probably a good idea to do so, rather than try to kiss and make up.

Woman allegedly bites off piece of boyfriend's tongue after Valentine's dispute 

"He told her they should stop fighting and went to kiss her," Assistant State's Attorney Eve Reilly told the Chicago Sun-Times, "and she bit off a large portion of his tongue." 

Reilly said Cook's boyfriend ran to the sink bleeding. Cook followed him and threw the tongue on the counter. He put the piece into a bag of ice, and then he and Cook's roommate called 911.

The boyfriend was rushed to Evanston Hospital, Reilly said, but doctors could not reattach the tongue because of inadequate blood supply, the Sun-Times reported.

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In response to Is Social Media Breeding Monsters?:

Another thought: there's a passage in Mark Steyn's most recent book where he muses that H.G. Wells' Time Traveler, jumping forward from the latter days of the 19th century, would have been astounded at the changes the coming half-century held in store... but then rather non-plussed about the relatively modest practical improvements of the half-century after that.  One of Steyn's hypothetical observations is that the Time Traveler would be puzzled at the sight of adults walking around dressed like children, only a few decades after it was commonplace for men to wear suit and tie on short airplane flights.  

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In response to Is Social Media Breeding Monsters?:

Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites really unleash the id.  The combination of distance, anonymity, and attention is intoxicating, and some people are mean drunks.  The Internet finally lets the rest of the world hear all the stuff people used to scream behind the privacy of their steering wheels.

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Is anyone else noticing a pattern these days?

Facebook Postings Prompted Stabbing, Accused’s Sister Says
Facebook argument escalates into real-world crime when boy grabs gun
Facebook gangbanger turns himself in after threatening Brooklyn's cyber crime-fighting captain
Briton charged over Facebook threats to kill 200 US children
Police investigating Facebook predator
Man pleads guilty to sexually assaulting underage girls he met on Facebook
Tulsa Man Arrested For Using Facebook To Solicit Sex From 12-Year-Old Girl
Facebook Sting Nets Illinois Perv On Federal Rap
FACEBOOK MURDER CASE: Defendant concocted “sinister plot,” prosecutor says

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In response to It's Enough Already:

One reason for the popularity of a creature like Chris Dorner among the Left is that those who control the culture in modern America still love to think of themselves as the counter-culture.  Nothing pumps up this fantasy like a heroic "rebel" myth, starring someone who actively went to war against The Man.  Some of the less energetic liberals will create a modest buffer of separation, as in the case of Marc Lamont Hill: "Oh, of course I don't actually condone Dorner's murders, but I can sympathize with the people who do, and he was such an interesting man with such a thoughtful manifesto, and shouldn't we pay more attention to the issues he was concerned with..."

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In response to Deb:

I think Rosie Gray was fairly clear that the mainstreaming of Dorner support was on the left. However, she and others have fuzzed up the lines just enough that, if it's not corrected, it will come back to haunt the right.

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In response to About that Bipartisan Dorner Fan Club:

 The article attempts to make the case that the #teamDorner phenomenon is spread across the aisle, "Dorner is now hailed as a kind of folk hero by some on the Chomsky-esque left and the Ron Paul right, who view the killer's manifesto as an articulate indictment of the "police state" they have always opposed. "

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Last week Rosie Gray wrote a post at Buzzfeed titled "The Christopher Dorner Fan Club Is More Mainstream Than You'd Think." Mainstream, yes. Bipartisan, not so much.

The article attempts to make the case that the #teamDorner phenomenon is spread across the aisle, "Dorner is now hailed as a kind of folk hero by some on the Chomsky-esque left and the Ron Paul right, who view the killer's manifesto as an articulate indictment of the "police state" they have always opposed. " But the rest of the article is devoted to recounting the liberal outlets and individuals who have expressed admiration for Dorner. Gray opens with Marc Lamont Hill who said with apparent enthusiasm on CNN "It's almost like watching Django Unchained in real life, it's kind of exciting." There's also a story at Alternet which argues that Dorner was a "bad man" but may become an enduring black folk hero. Additionally Gray points to stories at Salon which she describes as "sympathetic" and one at Vice about Anonymous' sympathy for Dorner's views on police.

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An interesting press release from the Philadelphia office of the FBI came across my emails today.

"Former Philadelphia City employee John D. McDaniel, 39, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty today to one count of wire fraud for allegedly stealing $100,000 from a campaign/political committee." ...

"Between 2010 and 2011, McDaniel used several methods to routinely and, at times, without authorization, withdraw funds from the committee account, which funds he then used for his own purposes and other purposes. At times, McDaniel wrote and cashed checks to himself and wrote checks to Progressive Agenda, a political action committee which he controlled, from which he then took stolen funds. McDaniel concealed the theft by filing false and incomplete campaign finance reports."

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If you're going to jump a turnstile, it's recommended that you leave your illegal Smith & Wesson, extra bullets and holster behind.  Better yet, don't own an illegal Smith & Wesson.

Turnstile jumper arrested on gun charges gets seven years in prison

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In response to Priorities, priorities:

Yes it would be terrible if the country missed Obama's 16th pivot to the economy. And I'm sure we're all excited to hear about his "balanced approach" for the 27th time. Personally I'm looking for a "Look..." or perhaps a "let me be clear" or two. Actually, no, I'm not that excited about it.

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A raging gun battle with mad-dog killer Chris Dorner erupts at Big Bear Lake in California.  Two officers down, and the killer's fate is still unknown at the moment of this writing.  

But the media has its priorities.  Howard Kurtz, Newsweek/Daily Beast/CNN: "What if alleged killer Chris Dorner is captured or killed as the SOTU begins?  Obama could face a Bill Clinton/O.J. verdict moment."

A school secretary in Pennsylvania faces up to seven years in prison for allegedly hacking into a school district's computer network to change her children's grades and snoop into school personnel files and emails.

Catherine Venusto, 46, worked for the Northwestern Lehigh School District in the administration building.  For approximately six years, her job responsibilities included creating log-on credentials for school employees and the district's superintendent.  According to the area's local newspaper, The Morning Call: 

Venusto accessed the school district's grading database system over 110 times and also viewed district emails and personnel files nearly 12,916 times, said Chief Deputy District Attorney Christie Bonesch.

Authorities say Venusto's daughter went from a failing grade to a medical exception and her son went from a grade of 98 percent to 99 percent. Venusto claims her son's grade went from 96 to 99, according to testimony Monday.

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The people of Montana can rest easy tonight, knowing that Zombies will not be stopping by for dinner to eat them.

KRTV in central Montana issued an apology to its viewers today after a hacker broke into their system and sent out a bogus emergency alert message over the airwaves and on the station's website.

KRTV says on its website the hackers broadcast that "dead bodies are rising from their graves" in several Montana counties.

 

The alert claimed the bodies were "attacking the living" and warned people not to "approach or apprehend these bodies as they are extremely dangerous."

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Obama spokespuppet Stephanie Cutter was the face of many of the worst moments of the 2012 presidential campaign. On ABC's web extra for This Week, she declined to apologize for her wild speculation that Mitt Romney may have committed a "felony" after leaving Bain Capital. She also helped push the claim that Romney killed a man's wife, then lied about it. She represents the worst of our divided, partisan political era.

In a country whose media were not in thrall to a political cult, Cutter would be drummed out of politics for good. Instead, she is privately--and not-so-privately--admired for her sheer audacity. She represents what the Obama camp has been taught is the highest good--the willingness to repeat any lie as many times as necessary to win, the idea being that the means justify the ends. Bring a gun to a knife-fight, Obama once said. She did.

In response to FBI Nabs CA Man Who Attempted to Bomb Bank of America, 'Trigger Civil War':

The full criminal complaint for The United States of America v Matthew Aaron Llaneza, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on February 7th, 2013, is now available here.

The San Francisco office of the FBI posted a press release this afternoon announcing that a San Jose, California man had been arrested this morning for attempting to blow up a Bank of America building in Oakland, California.

28 year old Matthew Aaron Llaneza was charged with "attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction against property used in an activity that affects interstate or foreign commerce." The arrest is the outcome of an undercover operation conducted by the FBI’s South Bay Joint Terrorism Task Force that began late last year.

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