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Monday Open Thread – August 3rd

tomb of the unknown - memorial dayOur Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

UPDATE: Memphis Cop Shooter Tremaine Willbourn WANTED $10,000 Reward Via U.S. Marshals….

update-1 6:00 p.m.  Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong held a press conference at 6 p.m. today to update the search for the suspect who shot and killed Officer Sean Bolton. Here are the quick takeaways:

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  • · Suspect and driver fled the scene before officers could arrive
  • · Police say Officer Bolton apparently interrupted drug transaction; scale and marijuana found in the car
  • · Driver turn himself in, but he has since been released
  • · 29-year-old Tremaine Willbourn is the wanted individual. Police believe he is the shooter.
  • · Wilbourn was on supervised release for 121 month sentence for a bank robbery
  • · Memphis police say Wilbourn should be considered armed and dangerous
  • · $10,000 reward being offered by U.S. Marshals  (read more)

Here Comes The ObamaCare of Energy Sector Regulations – Obama To Unveil EPA Regulatory Carbon Tax Program Tomorrow…

Here comes the beginning of the second holy grail goal of the Obama administration. This one comes with guarantees of billions for Chicago Jesus and his ideological co-horts. Get ready for “Carbon Trading” in the U.S. energy sector along a similar vein to the historical “Mortgage Trading” in the housing sector.

Listen closely tomorrow and you’ll hear some familiar catch phrases. Remember “if you like your plan you can keep your plan”, or “if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor”, or “it will save the average family $2,500 per year on health insurance premiums”, or “we have to pass the bill (regulation) to find out what’s in it” etc… the nouns will change, the verbs and adjectives will remain the same.

WASHINGTON DC – President Barack Obama will Monday unveil what he called the “biggest, most important step we’ve ever taken” to fight climate change, a sensitive issue central to his legacy.

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The White House will release the final version of America’s Clean Power Plan, a set of environmental rules and regulations that will home in on the pollution from the nation’s power plants, setting limits on power-plant carbon emissions.

Laying out how climate change was a threat to the health, well being and security of millions of Americans, and adding that time was of the essence, Obama said in a video released early Sunday: “Climate change is not a problem for another generation. Not anymore.” (more…)

Navy Denies Any Charges Against Naval Officer During Chattanooga Terrorist Attack…

Contrary to numerous accounts there are no charges being considered against t. Cmdr. Timothy White. We made some inquiries several days ago after the Washington Post article alluded to the possibility of White being held accountable for possession of a firearm. The PIO shared it was a rumor without substantiation and thus we did not report the speculative, and highly questionable, assertions.

TENNESSEE – A spokesman for the U.S. Navy on Sunday denied reports that disciplinary charges will be filed against Lt. Cmdr. Timothy White for discharging an unauthorized weapon on federal property.

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According to a post of Facebook and other social media sites, a statement reads, “Stories of Navy personnel being charges with an offense are not true. There is still a long way to go in reviewing the facts of this tragic incident, but at this time we can confirm no service member has been charged with an offense.” (more…)

Whaaambulace Alert – Hipster CEO Who Paid $70k To Every Employee Regardless of Merit Sees Company Now Collapsing…

This story is the personification of the ‘Everyone-Deserves-A-Trophy’ ideology expanded to the larger economic model.

Hipster CEO socialist dreams run smack into the reality of common sense.  When you pay people the same, regardless of performance, the top performers leave and you are left with nothing but a staff mired in mediocrity…

Seattle-Hipster-550x310SEATTLE WA – The Seattle CEO who reaped a publicity bonanza when he boosted the salaries of his employees to a minimum of $70,000 a year says he has fallen on hard times.

Dan Price, 31, tells the New York Times that things have gotten so bad he’s been forced to rent out his house.

Only three months ago Price was generating headlines—and accusations of being a socialist — when he announced the new salary minimum for all 120 employees at his Gravity Payments credit card processing firm. Price said he was doing it, and slashing his $1 million pay package to pay for it, to address the wealth gap.

“I’m working as hard as I ever worked to make it work,” he told the Times in a video that shows him sitting on a plastic bucket in the garage of his house. “I’m renting out my house right now to try and make ends meet myself.” (more…)

Loretta Lynch Embeds Federal Agents In Baltimore To Help Control Embarrassment of Growing Crisis…

The transparency of motive is brutally obvious.  As Baltimore suffers the worst explosion of gun/homicide violence in 40 years, the race-based professional apologists have to move quickly to avoid the consequences from their own insufferable policy/agenda failures.

baltimore mayor faceBALTIMORE – After 10 people were shot — seven of them in one incident — overnight in Baltimore following the city’s most violent month in decades, police announced Sunday that 10 federal agents will embed with the city’s homicide unit for the next two months.

The special agents detailed to the city from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S. Secret Service represent a “flipping of the script of sorts,” Interim Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said.

“That’s a bit unusual because local police departments — and Baltimore is no different — historically send detectives to federal law enforcement agencies to embed with their long-term investigations,” he said. (more…)

Sketchy Wall Street Journal/NBC National Poll Sets Stage For Final GOP Debate Qualifications….

The Wall Street Journal and NBC have published their last national poll prior to the debate qualification cutoff. However, there’s something considerably afoot with the entire construct of the debate field.

In addition, this poll is sketchy at best, because it only includes “252 interviews” within the poll, yet is considered a “substantive poll” used for the qualification of the debate field.  Yeah, go figure that one out.

The Highlighted Candidates are the 10 “debate qualifiers”:

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets a supporter following her address at the 18th Annual David N. Dinkins Leadership and Public Policy Forum at Columbia University in New York April 29, 2015. (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)
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(Via NBC) Days before the first Republican debate, Donald Trump has surged into the national lead in the GOP primary race, with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush following, a new NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll shows. (more…)

Crony Hiring – Emails Show Senator Tom Harkin Pressing Secretary Hillary Clinton To Hire His Daughter…

(Via Daily Caller) Emails released Friday show former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton and other State Department officials discussing how to go about helping a powerful Democratic senator who was asking for a job for his daughter in the agency in summer 2009.

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The pressure paid off for the now-retired Iowa senator, Tom Harkin, as his daughter Jennifer was hired on as the assistant to the ambassador-at-large at the State Department’s Office of Global Criminal Justice. The gig was in a small office that had a “limited number of slots,” another Clinton aide wrote in a separate email chain published Friday. (more…)

Memphis Police Officer Shot and Killed During Routine Traffic Stop…

Report from Fox Memphis

sean Boltonupdate-1  FOX13 has confirmed with multiple sources that Officer Anthony Sean Bolton, the officer who was shot during a traffic stop, has died. MPD Director Toney Armstrong will be holding a press conference at Regional One soon.

According to Memphis Police Department Public Information Officer (PIO) Karen Rudolph, a call came in at approximately 9:18 p.m. Here is what we know so far:

•Communications was advised that additional officers were needed in the area of Cottonwood and Perkins.
•Officer was conducting a traffic stop when he was shot by an occupant of the vehicle  (link)

Sunday Open Thread – August 2nd

tomb of the unknown - memorial dayOur Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †