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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Donald Trump Beats Own Campaign Prediction, Reaching 1,536 Delegates - Breitbart

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Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump sailed past his own campaign’s prediction on the final delegate count, and now heads into next month’s Republican National Convention.

After the final five state Republican primaries on Tuesday night, Trump stands at 1,536 delegates.

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In April, Trump’s campaign predicted it would reach 1,400 delegates ahead of the convention to meet the threshold delegate requirement of 1,237 in order to clinch the nomination on the first ballot.

Trump broke the Republican primary record by 1.4 million votes, according to the conservative blog site, The Gateway Pundit.

Breitbart News earlier reported that following the New York primary in April, Trump already had two million more votes than GOP nominee Mitt Romney did in 2012.

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Thursday, January 7, 2016

'MAKING A MURDERER' NETFLIX BREAKOUT DOCUMENTARY CORRUPT SYSTEM EXPOSED

Steven Avery is escorted to the Manitowoc County Courthouse for his sentencing Friday, June 1, 2007, in Manitowoc, Wis. Dan Powers/AP

'Making a Murderer': The Story Behind Netflix's Hit True-Crime Show

Filmmakers on turning Steven Avery's case into a docu-series: "We were taking a procedural look at the system"

 BY DAVID BROWNEJanuary 6, 2016

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For anyone connecting with Netflix over the holidays, it was anything but a merry Christmas. Premiering on Dec. 18, the streaming service's docu-series Making a Murderer plunged viewers deep into one of the strangest and most disturbing true-crime cases in recent memory. In 1985, Steven Avery, a 22-year-old whose family runs an auto salvage yard in Wisconsin, was found guilty of rape and sent to prison. Eighteen years later, he was released when DNA evidence proved he was innocent, as he'd asserted all along.

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But then matters took the first of many dark twists: Two years after his release, just as Avery was about to sue the county and local officials for $36 million, he was arrested for the murder of a local photographer, Teresa Halbach. Avery once more asserted his innocence, but in 2007 he was found guilty of first-degree intentional homicide and is serving life in prison with no chance of parole; Brendan Dassey, Avery's nephew who lived next door to him and allegedly took part in the murder, was also sentenced to life but will be eligible for parole in 2048.

Produced and directed by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos — two filmmakers with backgrounds in the law and film editing, respectively — Making a Murdererdevotes its first hour to Avery's initial arrest and trial in the Eighties. The next nine episodes follow Avery's arrest in the Halbach murder and the subsequent trial. From the crime itself to suggestions of tampered evidence and repeated shots of bleak Wisconsin winters, Making a Murderer is unrelenting, intense and sometimes infuriating. (Was Avery set up as payback for his lawsuit? Was Dassey's confession coerced?) It's also become the Internet-watercooler series of the moment; Alec Baldwin, Rosie O'Donnell, Ricky Gervais and Rainn Wilson have all recommended it on Twitter.

And the subjects' situations are still fluid. Avery is working on an appeal, and thanks to the series, an online petition from Change.Org  for release has generated over 300,000 signatures; a petition to the White House asking for President Obama to pardon Avery and Dassey has reached over 100,000 signatures. Meanwhile, Ricciardi and Demos just announced they were contacted by a juror who claims some jurors felt Avery was framed but that they voted guilty for fear of their "personal safety." ("The person felt burdened for eight years and was hoping some new evidence would come out and lead to a new trial," says Ricciardi.) In the midst of this hubbub,Rolling Stone spoke with Ricciardi and Demos about their left-field sensation.

You've said this all started with a New York Times article about Avery's arrest in 2005. What made you want to investigate further?
Ricciardi: In terms of what appealed to us about this story, unfortunately lots of people in America are charged with serious violent crime, including murder. This was not going to be a murder story to us. From reading the initial Times piece, this was a man who we thought, if we embark on this journey with him through the American criminal justice system, we'd go from one extreme of it to another. When we read this was someone exonerated in a DNA case now charged with a new crime, that struck me as unprecedented.

Demos: What we saw in Steven's story was this incredible and valuable window he provided into the system. He had been in the system in the mid-Eighties. It had failed him. He'd been wrongly convicted and here he was back in that system in 2005. It was this opportunity to say, okay, in those 20 years, DNA [testing] and legislative reforms were developed — all these things being heralded as a new and improved system. So let's test that system and see what happens. Are we better off or not?

What prompted you to move to northeast Wisconsin for nearly two years to make it?
Demos: We read the article around Thanksgiving [of] 2005 and our first day of filming was December 6. We lived in New York but at that time Laura's sister and brother-in-law lived in Chicago, so we rented a car, drove out to Wisconsin and rented a camera. The first shoot was Steven's preliminary hearing, which you see in Episode Three. That was to test the waters and see if it was worth a week of our time.

We came back to New York but it was so clear there was something going on, so by January [2006] we'd sublet our apartment and rented an apartment in Manitowoc County. A few months later, we were packing up to go back to New York to our day jobs and raise money to come back for the trial in September, and we got a call saying, "Have you heard there's going to be a press conference?" It was about Brendan [and his alleged confession about participating in the rape and murder of Halbach]. That changed everything. It made the story much more expansive. We literally unpacked our boxes and tried to figure out how we could borrow more money from our student loans to stay there.

Directors Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos behind the scenes on the Netflix original documentary series "Making A Murderer". Danielle Ricciardi/Netflix

What was your access to Avery?
Ricciardi: Steven was in custody the entire time we were filming.  We were limited to telephone conversations with him. Before we arrived he had given some on-camera interviews to the local media. Steven was appointed counsel in the process and I believe his lawyer advised him to stop giving on-camera interviews, especially once in custody. We asked early on if we could bring a camera to visits and we were told "No."

How did you get access to prison phone calls, videotaped confessionals and other engrossing material?
Ricciardi: Wisconsin has an expansive public records law. Any materials generated by state or county officials are part of the public domain.

Demos: For all the recorded calls from the county jail or detention center, there are stacks and stacks of CDs of recorded calls in the case files. Getting them wasn't a problem as it was going through them.

"[From] what I've listened to of Serial, she's on a journey to understand what may have happened. That's not what we were doing."—Laura Ricciardi


Did you presume Avery was innocent — and did you have moments during the trial when you thought, "Hmmm … maybe not?"
Demos: It was never our interest whether he did it or not; it wasn't what it was about. Our job wasn't about any type of investigation of did he do it or not?

Ricciardi: Some people have made comparisons to Serial and The Jinx. [From] what I've listened to of Serial, she's on a journey to understand what may have happened. That's not what we were doing. Ours was much more macro. We were taking a procedural look at the system. We have no stake in the outcome of the trial; we have no stake in whether Steven is innocent or guilty. What a risk we would have taken as filmmakers to devote all our resource and time to a case if it was going to hinge in a particular outcome. What we were documenting was the procedure that led to the verdicts.

Demos: What the prosecution is doing to get a conviction is of greater importance. Does our system leave us in a place where we can rely on the verdict or not?

As viewers, we have plenty of "whoa!" moments here, as when the defense team finds a clearly tampered-with vial of blood. What were those moments for you as filmmakers?
Demos: Certainly the Brendan revelation. I don't think we saw that coming at all. That was the first press conference we attended, and that clearly changed things. When we first saw the video with Brendan — his defense investigator virtually interrogating his own client to get a statement out of him — we said, "Wait ... who's this? What cop is this?" It took a long time for us to realize this was his own defense investigator. There were definitely revelation moments and seeing things connect.

It's interesting that the defense team wasn't allowed to bring up other possible suspects during the trial.
Demos: The defense said if it was given the opportunity, they'd like to argue it wasn't Steven Avery but it may have been this person or that person. And the judge said, basically, "You haven't met your burden of proof and I'm not going to allow you to mention any of those people by name. But you can name Brendan."

Steven Avery looks around a courtroom in the Calumet County Courthouse before the verdict was read in his murder trial Sunday, March 18, 2007, in Chilton, Wis. Jeffrey Phelps/AP

Did you ever hear those names?
Ricciardi: No. The judge ordered the defense motion sealed. After the verdict, the judge unsealed the motion. It should be part of the case file now.

Class — and how it shaped Steven's standing — is also an underlying theme in the movie.
Ricciardi: What we learned along the way is that the Averys were perceived very much to be the "other" in that community. For the most part they kept to themselves. Steven had a number of priors and he would get into trouble when he essentially went out into the community and made bad choices. The Avery family was perceived to be, for lack of a better word, white trash. There was this desire as we understood it for the community to separate itself from the Averys. And that played a role. 

You didn't interview Ken Kratz, the former Calumet County District Attorney who prosecuted the case. Why not? 
Ricciardi: We reached out to Ken Kratz multiple times. I first wrote a letter to him in September 2006. I talked about how our project depended on a diversity of insight and we wanted to talk to lawyers on both sides and anyone who would talk to what was relevant to the story. Ultimately he declined as did the Halbach family.

"The takeaway is that the American criminal justice system is in peril. We as American people should have concerns about that system."—Laura Ricciardi


Demos: There's nothing in the letter, in our behavior and I would argue in the final product that supports Kratz's sense that this is a defense advocacy piece.

Kratz (as well as a local sheriff) has since told the media that certain pieces of damning evidence didn't make the movie, and Kratz has said it "really presents misinformation." How do you respond?
Demos: We tried to include as much of the trial as we thought viewers would tolerate. We tried to choose what Kratz himself was claiming was his strongest evidence. He had a press conference saying that because Steven's DNA is on the key and his blood is in [Halbach's] car, there was no question who killed Teresa Halbach. So we had to include the key and the blood. We got the list of priority evidence from Kratz himself and tried to put all that in. As storytellers it's in our interest to show conflict. It was choosing the state's strongest evidence and the defense's response to it.  By the end of the trial what did you learn Ricciardi: The takeaway is that the American criminal justice system is in peril. We as American people should have concerns about that system. The system had clearly failed Steven in 1985. He had 16 or more alibi witnesses, not all family members. There was so much evidence pointing away from guilt in that case and yet he was still convicted. We wanted to understand how that could happen. Why aren't there more safeguards in our system to protect against someone who had been wrongly convicted? How was that borne out in the Halbach trial?Ricciardi: There were certain individuals who had stakes in the outcome of this trial besides Steven Avery.  Demos: This is a small community. Steven was suing the county for $36 million. The annual budget of the county is $80 million. It was a lot easier to think that junkyard man who had been in prison maybe was the bad guy and everything will go back to normal and the county doesn't have to go bankrupt.

When did you last speak with Avery, and did he mention the reaction to the series?

Ricciardi: We last spoke with him right after Christmas. He said he received 40 letters, 30 in one day. It's difficult to speak to him. The calls are monitored and recorded. We had concerns about his safety because we've been told the Department of Corrections is not interested in inmates becoming celebrities. So we haven't talked with him about the public response to the series. It was mostly about his family visiting him at Christmas, which is rare; it was the first time that happened since he was imprisoned.

What do you make of all the on-line chatter about defense lawyer Dean Strang as a "sex symbol"?

Demos: [Laughs] I didn't see that one coming.
Ricciardi: I don't know how his wife feels about that. It's nice to be able to laugh about something like that.

Monday, January 4, 2016

Burned Out Bush: “Trump Will Never Be President”

Posted by Adam Lankford

Jeb Bush Continues Embarrassing Campaign Courting Graham Supporters

The pathetic campaign of what was supposed to be an inevitable nomination, continues with Jeb Bush to the point where he is now courting supporters of an equally pointless and failed Lindsey Graham 



campaign.  The former Governor of Florida refuses to let go and face the reality of the political climate where the establishment has been determined to be as equally destructive as Democrats to a free Republic.  Appearing at an event in South Carolina at Hudson BBQ, where he was over 45 minutes late, Bush spoke to some 100 supporters about the state of his campaign and his intention to win the state of South Carolina.  After taking questions at the town hall style event, Jeb insisted that “Donald Trump will not win the nomination and he will not be President.”

Jeb Bush is finished.

The promise from Jeb to his supporters was met with a smattering of applause similar to what would be heard when a golfer sinks a two foot putt for bogie.  The Golf clap is about all Jeb has been able to muster in this ridiculous campaign since being outed by Donald Trump over his “low energy” and open border stance on immigration.  What is still incredible, is the enormous amount of money still available to the Bush campaign with over $100 Million at his disposal through his Right To Rise super PAC.  The continuous bombardment of ads produced by the PAC, show a Vitamin B12 induced Bush with more energy, but will do little to achieve the desired result of establishment supremacy.  If your campaign is to a point where you need to scrape the bottom of the barrel and gain Graham supporters, who didn’t have any to begin with, then there isn’t much hope for you going any further.

The RAW Scoop is this.  Jeb Bush is a walking example of how powerful and dedicated the Republican Party is to keeping the current system in power.  With newly elected Speaker of The House Paul Crying about to launch another symbolic and intelligence insulting repeal vote on Obamacare while Obama is still in office, these people represent the epitome of all talk and no action.  They simply play to the desires of the electorate rather than actually accomplishing a goal or pushing back on a failed Obama agenda.  Nothing about moderate Republicans is appealing.  Not a single damn thing.  If you are a Conservative, at this point, your eyes are most likely stuck in the back of your head listening to the idiots in charge talk about what they are going to do, have done, and have stopped.  The reality is, Jeb Bush is a Democrat.  Plain and simple.  The American people know it, the party knows it, but the powers that be and the people in charge think you are stupid and don’t know any better.  If Jeb Bush loses in Iowa and New Hampshire, which he will, there is no reason for him to be in the race.  Hell…there is no reason for him to be in the race now.  Tell us what you think

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Glenn Beck attacks Melania Trump as a lesbian porn star

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Dec 29, 2015

by CAIDEN COWGER

In recent Facebook post, libertarian radio talk show host Glenn Beck thought that it would be funny to viciously attack Donald Trump’s wife, Melania Trump.

“[If Donald Trump is elected President], the First Lady would be the first to have posed nude in lesbian porno shots,” Beck stated on Facebook.

The problem is that this claim is not verified. We searched and searched for articles to back up Beck’s claim, and were unable to find any except from one 2007 post from an unpopular celebrity gossip website called Omgblog.com. Nice try, Glenn.

For the record, The New York Daily news reported the story; however, it was listed in their gossip section (which means that it is just a rumor).

Sean Hannity responded to Beck’s disgusting attack, “I thought you were libertarian? Also I go back to the fact that you have changed. Trump’s wife is a mother and what she did in the past doesn’t make my top 10,000 list of problems we face as a country.”

While Hannity is not aware that Beck’s claim was solely based on a rumor from an unpopular tabloid article, his response pointing out Beck’s hypocrisy was brilliant.

Day after day on his radio show, Beck has been smearing Donald Trump and now he is smearing his wife by spreading unproven, disgusting rumors designed to degrade her.

To everyone who still gets your news from Glenn Beck, remember this: you are getting your news from a guy who gets his news from tabloid magazines.

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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

BREAKING POLL: 40% of Blacks Line Up Behind Trump – 45% of Hispanics


Jim Hoft Dec 29th, 2015 8:42 am 5 Comments

A SurveyUSA poll released in September showed that 25% of black respondents said they would vote for Trump over Clinton.

According to The American Mirror Trump would more than double the best result for a Republican in modern American history.

Looking at the last 10 presidential election cycles, the highest black vote share for a Republican was 12% for Bob Dole in 1996.

Now there’s even better news for Trump.
40% of black voters and 45% of Hispanic voters support Donald Trump.
If these numbers hold up Donald Trump would win the 2016 election in a landslide.
World Net Daily reported:

Pundits might point to billionaire Donald Trump’s huge lead in the GOP presidential primary race as being the result of his generally anti-Washington, anti-government, anti-establishment, anti-politically correct attitude.

If so, it’s not just whites who are ticked at the bureaucracy, but minorities too.

Because a new poll, which still has Trump leading the race, shows 40 percent of blacks are lining up behind Trump, as are 45 percent of Hispanics, and even nearly 19 percent of Asians.

Blacks and Hispanics, in fact, even support Trump at a higher level than whites.

The results are from a new WND/Clout poll by Clout Research, a national opinion research firm in Columbus, Ohio. The telephone survey of registered voters was taken Dec. 18-27, except for the holiday, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.35 percentage points.


After Obama, Americans are yearning for a leader who loves America, for a change.

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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

EPIC - Blind and Mentally Disabled Man Hits 3 Pointer for FREE McDonald's

Michael Quinn hits a 3 pointer from center court of a College of the Ozarks basketball game and the crowd erupts screaming.  Enjoy. Free McDonald's

http://www.SickBias.com - Restoring your faith in finding Good Inspiring Videos on Youtube.  Michael Quinn 54 year old blind and mentally challenged man hit this three pointer to win a year long supply of McDonald's, not sure if thats the best reward but oh well.  College of the Ozarks.

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Meet the NIssan BladeGlider

Nissan's BladeGlider to Debut at Tokyo Motor Show

This is an amazing work of art and technology but Im not sure the world is ready for it just yet.




Nissan Press Release

“The goal was to revolutionize the architecture of the vehicle to provoke new emotions, provide new value and make visible for consumers how Zero Emissions can help redefine our conception of vehicle basics,” Francois Bancon, who led the project, said. “BladeGlider has its conceptual roots in the soaring, silent, panoramic freedom of a glider and the triangular shape of a high performance “swept wing” aircraft, looking to achieve low drag while generating road-hugging downforce,” Nissan added in its press release.