Posted on 03/25/2018 4:46:18 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
Thank you!
The new Dennis Quaid film? On my way to Heaven?
Good in Mr Quaid.
I think I’m gonna go get breakfast.
Newt just created a great tagline: ‘The left don’t know how to govern, but they are great at demonstrating!’ Great line...
I picture congress handing Donald Trump a wad of cash and saying, "Go buy the groceries for the next (week, month). I'd like lots of vegetables and argula, please." When the purchases are getting unloaded and it's mostly red meat and beer, I suspect some people are going to be upset.
Remember when the media type was breathlessly reading the results of the Supreme Court decision in 2000 about Gore V Bush, and slowly realized they did not like the result?
What we have here is a failure to comprehend, not communicate; this is a gigantic opportunity for a civics lesson about how the American government is supposed to work. Just in time for the mid-terms.
I hold great hope now that congress will actually work on a budget going forward, and stop the weekly and monthly drama about emergency spending bills. Hopefully when the big boy pants get pulled up, they are not on backwards.
Did Chris ask anything about the authorities hiding the shooters record or cops being ordered to stay outside while kids were being shot. Is this the gummit they want to put more trust in?
Its all ridiculous.
I got a sweet deal an a S&W MP Shield yesterday.
I consider it a defense
You forgot Pencils and the dreaded ROCKS.
He’s good in everything he does and this is a role he has never played.
thanks very much since f.Chuck gets harder to take each week probably won’t spend a lot of time on him.He’s pretty predictable anyway: get Trump impeached pretty much explains his existence.
I think the Left is talking the Democrats right out of winning the House. Despite the hype, most Americans are not interested in backing this latest assault on the 2nd Amendment by the Anti Gun Jihad.
For all his rough edges, I like Randy too LOL
I was in downtown Tampa yesterday, and I think the anti gun rally was a failure.... (of course Tampa had a few things going on, so who knows what the Anti2A rally was.)
I have always opposed raising the drinking age to 21. I remember the days growing up in NY when you could drink at 18. This is part of infantilizing our youth, e.g., staying on your parents healthcare until age 26.
The Last Detail, A truly great film...
That was a fun movie and Randy Quaid is always good. He stole the show in the Vacation movies.
It it’s over 10” it’s an assault stick...
Not yet but some friends have and they loved it. It's on my list to see ASAP.
Or how about the fact school officals and law enforcement WANTED an involuntary commitment hearing on the Parkland murder.
Who stopped this and why? Could it have SOMETHING to do with the PC “ending the school to jail” Piplelind the 0 administration forced on the schools?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nikolas-cruz-parkland-shooter-mental-stability/
MIAMI — Officials were so concerned about the mental stability of the student accused of last month’s Florida school massacre that they decided he should be forcibly committed. But the recommendation was never acted upon. A commitment under the law would have made it more difficult if not impossible for Nikolas Cruz to obtain a gun legally.
Students calling for change after the Parkland shooting
Cruz is accused of the shooting rampage that killed 14 students and three school employees at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Feb. 14. In addition, 17 people were wounded.
Police release frantic 911 calls from Florida school shooting
But more than a year earlier, documents in the criminal case against Nikolas Cruz and obtained by The Associated Press show school officials and a sheriff’s deputy recommended in September 2016 that Cruz be involuntarily committed for a mental evaluation.
The documents, which are part of Cruz’s criminal case in the shooting, show that he had written the word “kill” in a notebook, told a classmate that he wanted to buy a gun and use it, and had cut his arm supposedly in anger because he had broken up with a girlfriend. He also told another student he had drunk gasoline and was throwing up. Calls had even been made to the FBI about the possibility of Cruz using a gun at school.
The documents were provided by a psychological assessment service initiated by Cruz’s mother called Henderson Behavioral Health. The documents show a high school resource officer who was also a sheriff’s deputy and two school counselors recommended in September 2016 that Cruz be committed for mental evaluation under Florida’s Baker Act. That law allows for involuntary commitment for mental health examination for at least three days.
Such an involuntary commitment would also have been a high obstacle if not a complete barrier to legally obtaining a firearm, such as the AR-15 rifle used in the Stoneman Douglas massacre on Feb. 14, authorities say.
In the month since the shooting, survivors from the school have called for reforms in gun laws. On March 14, they encouraged students nationwide to take part in the March for Our Lives, a walkout from school to protest gun violence.
Shooting at high school in Parkland, Florida
Shooting at high school in Parkland, Florida
There is no evidence Cruz was ever committed. Coincidentally, the school resource officer who recommended that Cruz be “Baker Acted” was Scot Peterson — the same Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy who resigned amid accusations he failed to respond to the shooting by staying outside the building where the killings occurred.
David S. Weinstein, a former federal prosecutor, said that an involuntary commitment would have been a huge red flag had Cruz attempted to buy a firearm legally.
“If he had lied, hopefully the verification of the form would have pulled up the commitment paperwork,” Weinstein said.
The documents do not say why Cruz was not committed under the Baker Act or whether he may not have qualified for other reasons. The law allows a law enforcement officer such as Peterson to initiate commitment under the Baker Act.
An attorney for Peterson did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Sunday.
Cruz, 19, is charged in a 34-count indictment with killing 17 people and wounding 17 others in the attack. He faces the death penalty if convicted, but his public defender Melisa McNeill has said he would plead guilty in return for a life prison sentence.
In the Henderson Behavioral Health documents, Cruz’s mother Lynda is quoted as saying she had fresh concerns about her son’s mental state after he punched holes in a wall at their home in Parkland. The clinicians at Henderson came to the home for interviews and said Cruz admitted punching the wall but said he did so because he was upset at a breakup with his girlfriend.
Cruz also admitted cutting his arm with a pencil sharpener.
After a Sept. 28, 2016 interview, the documents say Cruz “reports that he cut his arms 3-4 weeks ago and states that this is the only time he has ever cut. (Cruz) states that he cut because he was lonely, states that he had broken up with his girlfriend and reports that his grades had fallen. (Cruz) states that he is better now, reports that he is no longer lonely and states that his grades have gone back up.”
He also told the clinician he owned only a pellet gun and was not capable of doing “serious harm” to anyone.
The documents show that Cruz was very much on the radar screen of mental health professionals and the Broward County school system, yet very little appears to have been done other than these evaluations.
Other red flags have also surfaced, including calls to the FBI about Cruz’s potential to become a school shooter and numerous visits by county law enforcement officials to his home — both before his mother died in November and after, when he lived briefly with a family friend in Palm Beach County.
Again, very little was done.
It’s not clear from the documents who the recommendation was forwarded to or why it was not followed up.
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