Via Times Online:

Police cruisers from Hopewell Township, Aliquippa, state police and the Beaver County sheriff’s office lined the parking lot of Fox’s Pizza on Friday afternoon, but there was no emergency.

It was Jeffrey McCarty’s ninth birthday and his second annual police pizza party he held to celebrate his appreciation of local law enforcement.

“We don’t have a lot of family out here, but we have a lot of blue line family here,” said Ashley Matesic, Jeffrey’s mother.

More than a dozen officers showed up to give the Jeffrey gifts, eat pizza and enjoy the company of a young boy who was smiling from ear to ear at being surrounded by his heroes.

Jeffrey got to try on a bomb suit from a Allegheny County bomb squad that was also at the pizzeria.

“It was heavy, but I could manage,” Jeffrey said.

The pizza party is just one way Jeffrey shows his appreciation for local and regional police. Through the organization Jeffrey’s Joy for All Heroes, Jeffrey, who lives in Aliquippa, has given cupcakes, pendants and prayer cards to officers around the county and around the region.

“His mission is to bring joy and recognition to the past, present and future generations of law enforcement,” Matesic said.

It started after the 2016 Dallas police shooting in which officers were ambushed and fired upon at a protest against police violence. Five officers were killed and nine were injured in that incident.

Jeffrey said he saw the news coverage on the shooting and wanted to help in some way. At first, he and his mother made cupcakes and dropped them off at a few local police stations.

After his mother told him the story of St. Michael, the patron saint of law enforcement, Jeffrey wanted to incorporate that into his mission.

They ordered 600 St. Michael medallions and began passing them out to officers as they encountered them.

“It’s to make sure they stay safe every day,” Jeffrey said.

Hopewell Police Chief Brian Uhrmacher said he was touched when Jeffrey stopped by the station to drop off cupcakes and later the medallions for his officers.

“He definitely goes above and beyond,” the chief said.

Jeffrey also sends prayer and memorial cards to departments that have lost an officer in the line of duty, Matesic said. Her son has also grown close to several of the families of fallen officers.

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Lots of you guessed it! Moose and Grizzly Bear are the 2 tags I was able to cut in the Yukon! Did you know on average a single Grizzly eats around 40 Moose and Caribou calves during each calving season?

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Bizarre, he kills a bear and the moonbats call for his death.

Via NY Post:

A former professional hockey player has received death threats and abusive comments online after posting photos and boasting about a grizzly bear he hunted last week.

Tim Brent, 34, shared multiples pictures of himself posing with the large bear in the Yukon, Canada.

“Alright folks, here is my Mountain Grizzly! We put an awesome stalk on him but he spotted us at about 75 yards. Instead of taking off he turned and came right at us. It was very easy to tell this boar owned the valley we were hunting in and wasn’t scared of anything!” Brent wrote in a caption on Instagram.

In another photo of Brent holding up the massive paw, he shares, “Did you know on average a single Grizzly eats around 40 Moose and Caribou calves during each calving season?”

The Canadian national, who played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Carolina Hurricanes before retiring in 2016, began receiving backlash right away for the multiple hunting photos – including from comedian Ricky Gervais.

Some of the threats of violence were so extreme, Brent posted that he contacted Twitter. However, the social media platform said the threats did not violate their abuse policy.

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Fake meat in support of the fake Latino candidate, Beto.

Via The Hill:

GOP Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) jokingly thanked People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for “helping” his campaign after the animal rights group urged Cruz supporters to try barbecued tofu.

Video shared by vegan activists on Facebook shows members of PETA holding signs reading “Tofu is made in Texas” and “Republicans eat tofu, too” outside a Cruz event on Saturday and offering tofu to people entering the event.

Cruz gave a nod to the small protest during his remarks.

“PETA outside protesting with barbecued tofu,” he said, according to reports. “Banning BBQ is a great way to motivate voters in Texas, so I thank PETA for helping my campaign.”

The exchange came days after Cruz suggested tofu in Texas would be an effect of efforts to turn Texas blue.

“We are seeing tens of millions of dollars flooding into the state of Texas from liberals all over the country who desperately want to turn the state of Texas blue,” the senator said during a campaign rally last week. “They want us to be just like California, right down to tofu and silicon and dyed hair.”

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HT: Twitchy

Berkeley PD monitored the situation.

Via SF Chronicle:

A federal judge has dismissed nearly all the claims made in a $23 million lawsuit filed by a woman who was pepper-sprayed last year at UC Berkeley during a protest against right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.

Oakland resident Kiara Robles filed the August 2017 suit against six individuals and entities, including the UC Board of Regents, the city of Berkeley and people she said were members of the far-left activist group Antifa.

Robles said the defendants “willfully withheld police officers” to protect pro-Yiannopoulos and pro-President Trump supporters like herself because they were at odds with the defendants’ political beliefs.

U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken on Friday dismissed all claims against the regents and Berkeley, and part of a claim against alleged Antifa member Raha Mirabdal. Robles said that Mirabdal shined a flashlight “aggressively” in her face to incapacitate her and left her prone to attacks by other Antifa members.

In a 23-page ruling, Wilken wrote: “There are simply not enough factual allegations to show that it is plausible that Berkeley has an official policy or custom of ‘selectively providing police support and withholding police support to conservative events, rallies, and protests.’”

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Another beneficiary of open borders.

Via Breitbart:

28-year-old Syrian national Ibrahim Ali, who came to Canada as a refugee, has been accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl in Burnaby, British Colombia, whose body was found last year.

The Syrian refugee, who came to Canada through a private sponsorship programme, was arrested last week by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) after a large-scale investigation into the death of the 13-year-old, who was found in Burnaby’s Central Park in July 2017.

In court, the 28-year-old was charged with first-degree murder. He required an Arabic interpreter, with proceedings delayed as the court waited for the interpreter to arrive.

When the Arabic interpreter did arrive, the session lasted only a few minutes as defence lawyer Danny Markovitz requested and was granted an adjournment until October, claiming to have received a package of disclosure from the Crown, The Province reports.

Several protesters also attended the court hearing including some showing solidarity and support for the family of the victim, as well as others demonstrating against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — who initiated a programme to allow tens of thousands of Syrians into Canada.

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Bad enough dodging fecal matter on the sidewalks.

Via ABC7:

San Francisco residents fed up with having their cars broken into multiple times have taken matters into their own hands. They’re hoping to connect with would be thieves on an emotional level.

Fed up with having his vehicle broken into four times over a year and a half, Felix Kubin decided to express his frustration, writing on the rear windshield, “Thank you for letting this glass remain unbroken. We are a poor family with two kids. No values inside except diapers.”

“Maybe they feel pity or like empathy,” Kubin told ABC7 News.

On the driver’s side window he wrote, “No valuables inside except baby’s milk.”

On the rear passenger window he wrote, “Nothing to take valuable in this car. Thank you.”

Kubin and his wife learned what would work the hard way. First break in, they lost $1,500 worth of sporting goods.

“I think maybe it’s my fault I left the car in such a place,” said Kubin.

Second break-in, they lost just a bag, but in a third break in at Golden Gate Park, much more.

“That time we was really upset because it was all my official papers,” said Kubin.

“My passport, social security, working permit, everything, it was my wallet, it was two phones,” he continued.

The fourth break-in was on Otis Street.

“I see the thieves just open and see milk and diapers and left it,” said Kubin.

That’s when he decided to use a marker to plead his case as a dad.

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Triggered.

Via BPR:

Despite recruiting an anti-cop zealot to represent its “Just Do It” campaign for 2018, the apparel retailer Nike still expects the unfairly maligned police to help it in its alleged hour of need.

One Arkansas-based Nike store in particular reportedly contacted local authorities Thursday after a peaceful pro-police protester showed up outside to purportedly stir up trouble.

Except peaceful protester Jimmie Cavin didn’t approach the store, pester employees or really do anything disruptive whatsoever.

He casually waved a “Blue Lives Matter” flag to show love to the police, and for that act the store called the cops on him. But instead of telling him to leave or even arresting him, the cops wound up turning right around moments later and skedaddling. Why?

“He realized I wasn’t doing anything wrong,” Cavin explained later to local station KLRT.

“So, Nike called the police on the guy supporting the police for supporting the police,” he sarcastically added, the point being to highlight the apparel company’s hypocrisy.

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Via WaPo:

Earlier this summer, Christine Blasey Ford wrote a confidential letter to a senior Democratic lawmaker alleging that Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. Since Wednesday, she has watched as that bare-bones version of her story became public without her name or her consent, drawing a blanket denial from Kavanaugh and roiling a nomination that just days ago seemed all but certain to succeed.

Now, Ford has decided that if her story is going to be told, she wants to be the one to tell it.

Speaking publicly for the first time, Ford said that one summer in the early 1980s, Kavanaugh and a friend — both “stumbling drunk,” Ford alleges — corralled her into a bedroom during a gathering of teenagers at a house in Montgomery County.

While his friend watched, she said, Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes, grinding his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull off her one-piece bathing suit and the clothing she wore over it. When she tried to scream, she said, he put his hand over her mouth.

“I thought he might inadvertently kill me,” said Ford, now a 51-year-old research psychologist in northern California. “He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing.”

Ford said she was able to escape when Kavanaugh’s friend and classmate at Georgetown Preparatory School, Mark Judge, jumped on top of them, sending all three tumbling. She said she ran from the room, briefly locked herself in a bathroom and then fled the house.

Ford said she told no one of the incident in any detail until 2012, when she was in couples therapy with her husband. The therapist’s notes, portions of which were provided by Ford and reviewed by The Washington Post, do not mention Kavanaugh’s name but say she reported that she was attacked by students “from an elitist boys’ school” who went on to become “highly respected and high-ranking members of society in Washington.” The notes say four boys were involved, a discrepancy Ford says was an error on the therapist’s part. Ford said there were four boys at the party but only two in the room.

Notes from an individual therapy session the following year, when she was being treated for what she says have been long-term effects of the incident, show Ford described a “rape attempt” in her late teens.

In an interview, her husband, Russell Ford, said that in the 2012 sessions, she recounted being trapped in a room with two drunken boys, one of whom pinned her to a bed, molested her and prevented her from screaming. He said he recalled that his wife used Kavanaugh’s last name and voiced concern that Kavanaugh — then a federal judge — might one day be nominated to the Supreme Court.

On Sunday, the White House sent The Post a statement Kavanaugh issued last week, when the outlines of Ford’s account first became public: “I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time.”

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Does he know McCain is dead?

Via Washington Examiner:

A leader of the “Never Trump” movement has no plans to let President Trump run for re-election without first facing a primary opponent.

Bill Kristol told CNBC in an interview published Friday that his nonprofit Defending Democracy Together is seeking a Republican to challenge Trump in 2020.

“People aren’t going to say they will run against Trump unless they have the infrastructure, but I’ve been trying to persuade people that it may not be that difficult,” he said.

To prepare, he’s organized a group of activists to poll voters and meet with focus groups in swing states. He’s also setting up a super PAC to raise money for 2020 Republican candidates.

He’s been courting Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Ohio Gov. John Kasich — all of whom have frequently criticized the president.

The three have shown interest in running against the president, Kristol said. But they’ve also said publicly that they’re focused on serving their constituents and helping Republicans maintain control of Congress through the midterm elections.

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WATCH: Looters raid Wilmington, NC Family Dollar as management asks police to pull back pic.twitter.com/EecaQ3il0u

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 16, 2018

Gotta hand it to this reporter, she’so morally outraged at them for what they’re doing, she doesn’t consider they could attack her. Thieves generally don’t like being caught on camera.

He will go all Cujo.

Via Raw Story:

President Donald Trump’s controversial nomination for a lifetime seat on the United States Supreme Court could end the political career of Maine’s Republican senator, Susan Collins.

Collins, who has branded herself as pro-choice, has been heavily criticized for backing the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the high court.

Bestselling author Stephen King, who lives in Maine, slammed the conservative lawmaker for supporting President Donald Trump’s nominee.

“If Susan Collins votes to confirm Kavanaugh, and if she runs for re-election — two bigs ifs — she will be defeated,” King tweeted on Saturday.

“It would be unwise for anyone to mistake how angry most Americans are at the way this is being railroaded through,” he added.

King, whose 58 novels have sold more than 350 million copies, was born in Portland, Maine and attended the University of Maine. King currently lives in Bangor.

This was not King’s first time pressuring his senator on a confirmation vote.

In January of 2017, King asked his Twitter followers to “Please ask Susan Collins, a sane Republican senator, to vote against the totally unqualified Betsy DeVos.”

A week later, following the vote, King praised Sen. Collins.

“Thanks to Susan Collins for saying ‘no’ on Betsy DeVos. Notice that it’s possible to be a good Republican and still say no to Donald Trump,” King argued.

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CNN's Jake Tapper presses socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on how she'll pay for her $40 Trillion in government programs.

She can't answer.pic.twitter.com/RDvHYoRSZA

— Ryan Saavedra 🇺🇸 (@RealSaavedra) September 16, 2018

Bobble-headed boobie…

Still no collusion.

Via Breitbart:

Several celebrities took to social media on Friday and posted messages celebrating former Trump presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s decision to plead guilty to a federal conspiracy charge as part of a plea agreement with special counsel Robert Mueller.

The longtime adversary of President Donald Trump Rosie O’Donnell tweeted a photo of a red-faced Trump with the words “Donald is Done” on it. She captioned the tweet, “Manafort flipped — Fuck u Trump.”

Federal court filings, released Friday, revealed that the charges against Manafort include conspiracy against the United States and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
The White House issued a statement Friday that said the charges against Paul Manafort are unrelated to Mr. Trump’s election victory.
“This had absolutely nothing to do with the President or his victorious 2016 Presidential campaign,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. “It is totally unrelated.”

Still, President Trump’s most outspoken celebrity critics used the news of Manafort cooperating with Mueller as good news and used it to heckle the president. Below is a roundup or their reactions.

Check mate. Game set match. The fat lady is singing. The party’s over.

— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) September 14, 2018
Knock
Knock
Knockin’
On justice [email protected] @GOP @SenateGOP @HouseGOP #VoteBlueForAmerica #PaulManafort https://t.co/59VNHF1pOQ

— Matthew Modine (@MatthewModine) September 14, 2018
Paul Manafort’s kids think he is responsible for murder. I don’t think they adore him. Remember all those texts they discovered about that? https://t.co/j7auBrQoAB

— Judd Apatow (@JuddApatow) September 14, 2018

Music cue: Piano sequence at the end of “Layla” https://t.co/XhV6wPSUd0

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) September 14, 2018
#snitchhunt https://t.co/THjUaVfNsO

— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) September 14, 2018

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All the democrats had was theatrics and innuendo.

Via The Hill:

The surest sign that Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed to the Supreme Court is that opposition to his nomination has devolved into a farce. Even the deepest-pocketed dark-money source for the Republicans couldn’t have cooked up the plan deployed against Kavanaugh.

Opponents of Kavanaugh lost the fight when they lost their marbles. His foes on the Senate Judiciary Committee and allied activists ensured that opponents to the nomination appear to be a pack of wild cranks.

Mainstream Americans unfamiliar with the ways of Washington witnessed loud activists screaming over the gentle opening remarks of Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). Grassley’s shrieking foils were just the opening act; a long parade of howling disruptors followed, shouting slogans and accusations that were largely incoherent to the television audience.

It sounded as if the strategy to defeat Kavanaugh was to distribute committee gallery passes inside an asylum.

Not only did the outbursts seem uncivil and destructive of Senate decorum, they may have violated federal criminal laws — including 40 U.S.C. 5104 — against disrupting congressional proceedings. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), instead of criticizing the criminal bedlam, called it “the noise of democracy.”

Then Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) made his contribution. With great fanfare, Booker announced his “Spartacus moment,” daring to disclose committee confidential documents that revealed Kavanaugh’s opinions about racial profiling. Of course, breaking rules appeals to the disruptive gang in the gallery, so Booker’s play seemed well-designed.

Yet, in execution, Booker’s plan was a disaster for Kavanaugh foes. Not only did Kavanaugh not support racial profiling, the documents were not subject to committee confidential restraints in the first place. Booker’s Spartacus moment joins other great parodies of the 1960 Hollywood classic, including “I’m Brian of Nazareth,” performed with far more levity than the senator in Monty Python’s “Life of Brian.”

Then the handmaids showed up.

Nine costumed characters of the internet streaming drama “The Handmaids Tale” stood silently outside Senate offices. The series depicts a dystopian future where some women are made to wear creepy red robes and white bonnets and forced into sexual slavery. Perhaps this exhilarates Kavanaugh’s most passionate opponents, but for the rest of us, it all seemed preposterous. Inferring that totalitarian slavery of women has anything to do with the nomination is fully unhinged.

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Dick ‘I can’t stop lying’ Durbin isn’t a good support for anyone’s position.

Via Twitchy:

So Dick is saying that we should respect and listen to victims of sexual assault regardless of the age of those involved and how long ago the alleged assault took place. That’s fascinating. We can think of at least one such victim who he and his entire party were more than happy to disrespect and ignore.

What was her name again?

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One way to foil the looters.

Via Daily Mail:

The residents of Hurricane Florence-stricken Wilmington, N.C., started cleaning up the mess left by 100 mph-winds and torrential rains Saturday morning – and went shopping.

At 10am., the word spread like wildfire that, despite wide-spread electrical outages, one measly grocery store was open in the entire historic port city of 120,000 residents.

And within minutes, several thousand people descended on the store, a Harris Teeter supermarket.

‘It was a mad house out here,’ said Wilmington Police Officer Don Oakes. ‘I don’t know how everybody heard the place was open, but the parking lot was at a standstill. When we saw the numbers of people, we called for backup for crowd control.’

And what were people, who were supposed to have prepared before the hurricane, looking for?

‘The essentials,’ said Oakes. ‘Cigarettes and beer and junk food.’

A line that was estimated to take three to four hours long stretched out of the store and around the building as Teeter managers let in a handful of people at a time. Nearly 15 cops made sure no one got out of control and hunted down impatient types jumping ahead in line.

‘We just want some water and s…,’ said Rayquan Robinson when police made him leave for cutting in line, something that made a group in line cheer for the officer.

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Even with all the spying and media leaking, even with putting someone next to people in the Trump team. Nothing. So when are they going to start reviewing the obvious collusion of the Democrats? Russian info from Russian agents Fusion GPS through Chris Steele who worked for a Russian oligarch close to Putin.

Via Fox News:

More than nine months after the FBI opened its highly classified counterintelligence investigation into alleged coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia, FBI lawyer Lisa Page said investigators still could not say whether there was collusion, according to a transcript of Page’s recent closed-door deposition reviewed by Fox News.

“I think this represents that even as far as May 2017, we still couldn’t answer the question,” Page said.

Page was responding to Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe of Texas, who wanted more information about a May 2017 text where Page, and her then colleague and lover FBI agent Peter Strzok discussed the merits of joining Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team.
Page sat for the transcribed interview before the House Judiciary and Oversight committees in mid-July as part of a joint congressional investigation into the Justice Department’s handling of the Russia and Clinton email probes.

According to the transcript, Page stopped mid-answer.”…sorry. Can I consult with counsel? I’m sorry. I need to consult with FBI counsel for a moment.”

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Remain vigilant.

Via Sun Sentinel:

A man with a concealed-weapons permit shot one of three men who tried to rob him at a gas station just outside West Palm Beach, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said.

He had just paid for his gas and was walking back to his car when three men approached and demanded money. Rather than hand it over, he drew his gun and shot at them, the Sheriff’s Office said.

The wounded would-be robber is in custody and is expected to survive.

The attempted robbery happened just before 7 a.m. Saturday at the Shell station at 2970 N. Military Trail, said sheriff’s spokeswoman Teri Barbera.

“The victim, in fear of this life, discharged his firearm, which he has a concealed weapons permit for, striking one of the suspects,” she said, in a statement.

The gas station clerk, who would only identify himself as Mr. Nasser, said the intended victim appeared unhurt.

“The guy came in and paid for the gas and they tried to rob him and he fired at them,” Nasser said. “He was not killed, but somebody was injured.”

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HT: TAH

Via KRTV:

It’s an aspect of law enforcement and public service teamwork most people aren’t aware of.

A new postage stamp illustrates the relationship between emergency responders and the U.S. Postal Service, making its national debut in Missoula this week.

The ceremony was held at the Aerial Fire Depot and Smokejumper Center in Missoula, home to the nation’s largest training center for firefighters who parachute into remote areas of national forests to fight wildfires.

“We honor them for possessing the training, and knowledge to treat the injured, rescue the endangered and restore safety and order,” said U.S. Chief Postal Inspector Guy Cottrell.

“People have asked us for many years to create a stamp for first responders so it finally came to be. We get 30,000 requests a year for stamps and we do twenty or thirty. So a very big honor to be on a stamp and I’m just happy that I can be a part of this right here in Montana,” he continued.

The new stamp portrays a firefighter, a police officer, and an EMT, rushing to the rescue through a smoky background. The stamp is designed to not only show the individual dedication of each service, but the teamwork.

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