The manipulative endeavors of CNN and CNNi are legendary – but this one is actually funny.

Producers at CNN apparently thought viewers  wouldn’t notice that anchors Nancy Grace of HLN/Headline News and Ashleigh  Banfield of Newsroom were standing no more than 30 feet way from one another as  they manipulated the footage and placed Grace on Banfield’s right instead of her  left.

The blatant visual gimmick aired  Tuesday  morning as the two correspondents reported on the latest details behind the  horrific Cleveland kidnapping story and pretended they were  conducting a remote  interview, as the Atlantic  Wire pointed out soon  after. (more…)

Washington, D.C.). Three families of Navy SEAL Team 6 special forces servicemen, along with one family of an Army National Guardsman, will appear at a press conference on May 9, 2013, to disclose never before revealed information about how and why their sons along with 26 others died in a fatal helicopter crash in Afghanistan on August 6, 2011, just a few months after the successful raid on the compound of Osama Bin Laden that resulted in the master terrorist’s death.

 DATE: MAY 9, 2013

PLACE: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB (HOLEMAN LOUNGE)

Accompanying the families of these dead Navy SEAL Team 6 special operations servicemen will be retired military experts verifying their accounts of how and why the government is as much responsible for the deaths of their sons as is the Taliban.

The areas of inquiry at the press conference will include but not be limited to: (more…)

Gee, given the propensity of the School Superintendent, Alberto Carvalho, to force Miami-Dade School Police to use the Baker Act to divert students way from the criminal justice system….. what could possibly go wrong?

MIAMI (CBS4) – It’s called the silent epidemic; children and adolescents suffering from mental illness.   Without early intervention it’s considered by many experts to be a time bomb.

One of the nation’s leading experts on mental illness, Miami-Dade Judge Steve Leifman, said time is running out. He’s launched an offensive to identify children in trouble and children who might cause trouble.

“Miami-Dade County has the largest number of people with mental illness than any other urban area equivalent in the nation. That’s 52,000 children and less than one-third have access to treatment,” Leifman told CBS4’s Chief Investigative Reporter Michele Gillen.

Leifman is the architect of a project whose goal is to identify mental illness in students. Beginning in March, the program ”Typical or Troubled?” will roll out in a handful of schools across the country. (more…)

Our 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 †

Cleveland man Ariel Castro charged with 4 counts kidnapping, 3 counts rape. No charges filed against 2 other Castro brothers.

— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) May 8, 2013

CLEVELAND OHIO – The eldest of three women held captive in the Cleveland ‘house of horrors’ has told police how she had to give a fellow captive’s newborn daughter CPR as their alleged abductor threatened to kill them.

Michelle Knight, now 32, says she saved the life of Amanda Berry’s daughter after she was born by giving her the kiss of life.

The girl, named Jocelyn, was not breathing and Castro allegedly told her that if the baby died, he would kill her mother. (more…)

We’re reviewing notes from the Benghazi Hearings but wanted to put the initial media take together for review:  This is the Greg Hicks portion – including his statement for the record recounting his experience on the day/night of Sept 11th 2012

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Brought to you courtesy of the compassionately “unhinged”.  Words simply fail me.  

…….if Julie Frein has anything to say about it…

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, aka: The Islamic jihadist scumbag, aka: the dead Boston Bomber will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery if one US Air Force Veteran has her way.

Yes, you heard that right. The murdering, older brother who killed three and maimed hundreds more innocent people at the Boston Marathon, including an eight-year-old blown to bits has been offered a National Cemetery burial plot by a USAF veteran named Julie Frein. What?

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The first notice to appear has been mailed to the custodian of records for the Seminole Country Jail.  It would infer the objective is to begin the trial with an approach to diminish the integrity of George Zimmerman;  Perhaps aiming at his Paypal acct. VS. financial affidavit contradictions’.  

SANFORD – In yet another sign that the George Zimmerman second-degree murder trial is just weeks away, today the first trial subpoena was returned to the Seminole County Courthouse.

It is for Jeffrey Morales, custodian of records at the Seminole County Jail. Special Prosecutor Angela Corey sent it to him Friday, ordering him to be ready to appear June 10 or any day thereafter as long as the trial lasts.

June 10 is the day it’s to begin. It’s not clear how long it will last. On Tuesday, defense attorney Mark O’Mara predicted jury selection would take two to three weeks and the rest of the trial another two to three weeks. (more…)

….. or Brad Pitt, or Matt Damon et al.

No, in real life, heroes are just ordinary people putting one foot in front of the other, trying to keep their head above water, and when life sticks them in the middle of an issue – they choose to do the right thing.

The unselfish thing.

For no particular reason.

Such is the case for Charles Ramsey, the man who heard a woman’s cries for help and walked over to the neighbors door still holding part of his dinner from McDonalds, a Big Mac.

The raw honesty of the guy just exudes through his reaction and responses.    Such reactions and responses you would likely expect to see and hear from yourself, your friends, or your loved ones if they were in the same or similar circumstances. (more…)