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Come Watch The Daytona 500 Today And XFL Football @ Caribbean Joe's

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 06:28 AM PST

We have great specials today for the race. $2.50 domestic beers and $4.99 1/2 pound burgers. How many cars do you predict will wreck today?

Maryland Town Threatening 60 Days Jail Time For Revving Engines

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 06:03 AM PST

The "Cruisin' Weekend" event that takes place in Ocean City, Maryland every year has turned into one of the biggest gearhead car gatherings on the East Coast. However, the city never intended for it to be such a huge ordeal.

Over the years, laws have been passed to control the situation. Essentially, they seem aimed at drivers who act out or cause a scene, which makes sense. However, the newest proposed law, Senate Bill 878, seems like it might be a bit much.

State Senator Mary Beth Carozza introduced the bill which includes under exhibition driving operating a vehicle in a manner that produces abrupt acceleration or deceleration, skidding, swerving, raucous engine noise, gear grinding or wheels losing contact with the ground. Violations could result in 60 days jail time, a fine of $1,000 or both. Essentially, town authorities could send drivers to jail for quickly accelerating or deceleration among other offenses.

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The Week In Review

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:01 AM PST

The below posts with today's date were the most 
popular posts last week.

Drag Queen Reading Coming Soon To Pittsville Library

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

We're told this is tied to Salisbury Maryland Mayor Jake Day's LGBT Parade and parents are ticked off. 

Do you support and or not support this upcoming event and please explain why either way. Keep it clean people or your comments will be rejected. 

JMB Rock and Roll Revival Controversy

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

A Comment Worthy Of A Post 2-10-20

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

Joe, are you following the disaster at SPD? A corporal already previously demoted for multiple violations was caught in an affair with his subordinate whose husband works there. 2 other officers are under investigation for assault. And the big one they are freaking over is the property department supposedly has a bunch of missing items that could jeopardize criminal cases. This is a complete failure of organizational leadership. Barb can no longer blame one officer at a time. This is Barb, Kolb, Meienschein, Kaiser being inept and comfortable for years while not doing their jobs. Jake is on the hook for allowing it. Watch them spin and blame rather than own and apologize. They are hiding this trainwreck.

A viewer writes.....Firestone Complete Auto Care in Salisbury

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

EDITOR'S NOTE: This post is very long and detailed. Click 'READ MORE' below to continue and view photos. 

Teresa Davis Tierney added 5 new photos to the album: firestone total story — at Firestone Complete Auto Care.


I made an appointment Sunday, February 9 at 9 AM with Firestone in Salisbury Maryland for an oil change. I should have realized that something wasn't quite right when I went to sign my invoice and was told I needed a new starter and tires. I then advised them I just purchased tires with them this past August , then they look at my record and stated , oh yeah I see that. My tires were then confirmed to be OK and when I asked the manager, George why would they tell me I need new tires when I didn't he said they always recommend them. I was also told I needed a new starter. Attached is the quote for the new starter which is labeled as preventative maintenance and also the receipt from where I had a new starter installed in October 2017 from them.


In addition to getting my oil changed my battery was also changed as well since it came back as a bad battery and that also was just replaced August 2019. The entire time that we were there in the morning the gentleman taking care of me at the register was new. The manager George kept interrupting us the entire time while the gentleman was trying to take care of me and just constantly belittling him is the only way to say it——I even told the gentleman don't worry you'll get the hang of it your new it takes time. I felt really sorry for him and I told my husband I'm going to call and make a complaint on that —-that's not right—- you don't do that to someone in front of the customer. We left. Two hours later I go to start my car and again it's real weak when trying to start. I call Firestone and was immediately advised "so that means it is your starter." They told me they cannot get me back in and it would have to be Monday. ( ironically when we showed back up after corporate told me to go back they had two cars in the Bay) !!!!!! I asked them could they squeeze me in as I am a long time customer ever eight years that provides them a lot of business and I needed my car fixed. The manager did not even put me on hold and even consult about it just told me no and saying he was rude about it doesn't even come close to accurately describe his attitude. I made a phone call to corporate to make a complaint and in the interim we drove to AutoZone. While I am on the phone with corporate putting my complaint in the AutoZone employee has the tester to my car checking the parts in my car. The results are also attached in this post. The starter came back good the alternator came back good and the battery came back *******bad battery*******Two different employees looked at my car and tested these parts several times. They both said your starter is absolutely fine. The results show the starter was fine. After researching it's really not normal that the starter would have gone up after only being a little over two years old. This is a 2004 car and that was the first starter I ever had to put in it was 2 years ago.  So then the representative from corporate told me to go ahead and take my car back and it would be looked at. While on the way there my husband advised me don't let them know we've had it checked ,, I want them to check it themselves and let us know what they recommend —this way we will tell if they're being honest. And of course the technician came in and said it's definitely your starter you need a new one. That is when my husband then told them we had the parts checked and that the starter is fine and it is the battery that came back that it was a bad battery. He tried to show George the picture showing the test results and George told him he did not want to see it. He was becoming even more rude overtalking us at this point ,, I was told we cannot trust auto zone by the firestone employees. I asked the technician do you test these batteries before you install them and he told me there is no way to test them until they are installed!!!!!!!!!??????? My husband told him he would go get his voltmeter and show him how to test it. I demanded them to put a new battery in my car so they did and of course when they went to start it it would not start. This time however when it was trying to start there was a loud popping noise that had not been there before and we were at AutoZone for 30 minutes turning off and turning on Over and over and never once had that noise been there. The technician told my husband look it's smoking ——when my husband went to look at it , there was one clear spot that looked as if it had been tampered with , something did not look right. (See attached pic). This area , mind you , had been inspected prior to going back to Firestone)))))) at this point I told them I knew they did something to my car ——-my starter was fine before we showed back up and now all of a sudden my starter is smoking and making a noise that it wasn't before. ( it seemed that they were going to try to make their 500+ dollars after all——-for that had been the plan from the very beginning))))))). I said I will have a tow truck take my car from here —they were very catty with me , not speaking to us and just very quickly opening the bay door and pushing my car outside —not even in a parking spot ———pushed it out and left it sitting in the middle of the parking lot. Closed their doors and never said anything else to us. this was probably around 130 2 o'clock at this time. I called for the tow truck and we stayed outside waiting. I will attach a picture to show where they pushed my car to and just left it. After we were outside for two hours still waiting for a tow truck the technician not the manager but the technician came out and offered us to install the starter at no charge. Basically making it sound like let's just get this rid of and will do it to get you out of here. Of course I declined —- they already sabotaged my starter—— I'm not sending my car back in there for them to do who knows what to it. Again this is after we were standing outside for over two hours waiting for our tow. - With no communication from any firestone worker ! We finally get our tow —-get our car home and it's around 5 PM. But wait it gets much better now. I post my experience on Facebook. Crystal Justice and Christy Lynn start blowing up comments on my post being extremely rude. They accused me of being a scammer, making comments that I did not make and much more!!!!  it was nothing but harassment. !!!!! So since I decided to voice my opinion and concerns of what happened to me I started to become harassed by ............................ wait for it ...............the technician that was working on my car ——-his family!!!!!! Crystal justice is the mother and christy Lynn either a friend or relation - both ladies are friends with him on their Facebook which was Russell Justice (Firestone tech) - that's how I figured that part out was by their Facebook profiles. The firestone technician that worked on my car. These ladies started making comments to me about things that only the Firestone employees would know. And believe me I captured all the screenshots before they both deleted everything they said to me, which I have also attached to this post. . So ,,,,,, I showed up at firestone at 9 AM and I got home at 5 PM with a tow truck dropping my car off to my home but I am the one being harassed!!!! Not to mention my whole entire Sunday was a bust!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! With statements such as I should have just taken my free battery and been happy or taken the offer for the free starter and swallowed my pride! Now I've been away from my home all day long and now I'm dealing with these type of comments that I have to respond to. Like I have dumb tattooed on my forehead to let them actually take my car back in after two hours of waiting for my tow! I am extremely happy that this happened to me and not someone that would have been gullible and listened to their lies and paid money for services that were not needed and would have been really financially hurt because of it. Not that I'm happy I'm just glad that someone else didn't actually fall for this and loose money because of their lies———What happened to me is no different than scammers calling people and scamming them out of money or stealing from people and fraud ! it is absolutely no different! Going through life being dishonest and having no morals may be how some people live and I don't know how they can lay down at night and sleep being that type of person but these practices are absolutely not acceptable. I understand that certain job positions have quotas - I myself work in a call center and have quotas. I have been at my current employer for over 16 years and never once have I lied to one of my customers and try to steal and cheat them out of money!!!!!. I have left my job plenty of days in the negative which I would do 1000 times over before I would ever cheat someone out of their money!!! that is completely unethical!! Anyone who is friends with me knows that I never post on Facebook - SO for me to be putting this out there is very severe on my part that I have gone to this extreme to make this public. 

If I can help even one person from being scammed by this company it will be well worth taking the time to get this posted!!!
Please please please please share this over and over and over ! . - I would greatly appreciate it ☺️

If there is anyone else out there that believes you have been a victim of firestone in Salisbury md , please reach out to me.

Thank you for your time to read this information.

Have a blessed day
Teresa Tierney

Lawmaker Wants to Open a Dialogue About Reparations in Md.

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:01 AM PST

Maryland's 250-year history of legal slavery came to an end when the practice was abolished on Nov. 1, 1864, nearly a year before the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.

Del. Wanika B. Fisher (D-Prince George's) says it's finally time for Maryland lawmakers to have a talk about how to move forward.

"It's been 155 years and we haven't addressed it, and I think if we keep going we're never going to address it, and it continues to be something that's impossible," she said.

"I think it's very possible."

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A Viewer Writes......Threats at Schools **(Updated)**

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:01 AM PST



WELL Another student from NORTH DORCHESTER HS made a threat on social media, pictured with a shotgun and rifle and handgun ALSO 2 weeks prior another student from the middle school on the bus had a knife and made threats . A week before that a PRINCIPAL at Maces lane was ASSAULTED by a student..WHEN IS THE BOE GOING TO ANSWER TO THIS as a week later these problem kids are back in with students ??? They need to be EXPELLED AND THE BOE IS JEPORDIZING CHILDREN BY ALLOWING THEM BACK ... ENOUGH IS ENOUGH OF THIS BULL. 

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Senate votes to limit Donald Trump's powers to wage war on Iran after eight Republicans defy him to side with Democrats

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

The Senate approved a bipartisan measure Thursday limiting President Donald Trump's authority to launch military operations against Iran.

Eight Republicans joined with Democrats to pass the resolution by a 55-45 vote.

The rebels were Lamar Alexander; Bill Cassidy; Susan Collins; Mike Lee; Jerry Moran; Lisa Murkowski; Rand Paul; and Todd Young.

The measure, authored by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., says Trump must win approval from Congress before engaging in further military action against Iran.

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Alabama Democrat proposes bill mandating all men have vasectomy at age 50 or after third child

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

MONTGOMERY — State Rep. Rolanda Hollis (D-Birmingham) on Thursday filed a bill that would mandate every Alabama man to undergo a vasectomy within one month of his 50th birthday or the birth of his third biological child, whichever comes first.

Democrats in the Alabama legislature last year brought up the possibility of introducing such a bill during the abortion debate on 2019's HB 314, known as the Human Life Protection Act.

"Under existing law, there are no restrictions on the reproductive rights of men," states the introduction to Hollis' new bill, HB 238.

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Racist University of Virginia Student Tells White People to Leave New Campus Multicultural Center: ‘There’s Just Too Many White People in Here’

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:01 AM PST


A video posted to social media shows a racist black student demanding that white people leave the newly opened Multicultural Student Center at University of Virginia.

The entitled student stood up and announced to her peers that white students using the space made her and other people of color uncomfortable.

Student at University of Virginia to other students in the Multicultural Center:
"Public service announcement! Frankly, there is just too many white people in here… It does make some of us PoCs uncomfortable."
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Worcester County Schools Considering Changing Over From PC's To Mac

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

Talk about a complete disaster! 90% of homes have PC's. No Worcester County Departments run on Mac computers. No servers, work stations and or TECHNICIANS and these fools want to not only pay THREE TIMES more money for a Mac system and then force families to spend three times more money for computers at home. 

Now don't get me wrong, I am not knocking Mac computers. I'm simply stating that this is a horrible move on so many levels and it needs to be stopped dead in its tracks. 

A Viewer Writes: What the f#@k is up with the Airport?

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

Wicomico County submitted their formal letter request to Maryland State Highway for a stoplight at Mt. Hermon/Walston Switch intersection back in August 2019. At that point, there were officials working with the Airport that knew full well Walston Switch Extended would be terminating through traffic at some point in the near future thus significantly improving the safety of the intersection (check out the Airport Master Plan draft showing a cul-de-sac dated April 2019 here: https://flysbyairport.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/16093-SBY-ALP-TAP-4-23-19-reduced.pdf ). Yet they proceeded ahead not sharing that info with MD. The stoplight was approved almost immediately by MD at the end of November - curiously without all the standard traffic volume studies. So that Wicomico County Lobbyist is apparently paying off after all. Oh wait, you didn't know there was such a thing? Neither did the County Council members for the first couple months of his tenure, here's a fun Council clip after finding out in October: https://youtu.be/5WvHcX3p9lM?t=2905

And how about that city/county pre-annexation agreement for the water project to the airport? Oh wait, what agreement? That's right. They haven't come to one. And the project starts 3/1 officially, but you can take a ride down Walston Switch & see they've already started prep and spent a ton of taxpayers money doing so.

Almost 40 million in the budget for this airport over the next 5 years, with cut after cut to the schools (spread your wings & fly high on your own Mardela!). For what? One week it's to bring the worldwide elite in their 757's that would otherwise swing by BWI to layover and refuel. Those guys are going to LOVE this town (hopefully they'll arrive with full security staff should they choose to venture out after dark). Or is it actually for hometown Piedmont (that doesn't book to capacity even when can 3/4 of the year anyway)? What is the REAL driving factor behind all the airport expansion? And is it really good for the people who live here?

Bill Banning Balloon Releases Statewide Passes In Maryland Senate

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — A bill that would ban balloon releases statewide has passed in the Maryland Senate.

SB28 would prohibit balloon releases in the state except for those used for scientific or government purposes. People who "knowingly and intentionally" organize or take part in balloon releases would face a penalty of up to $250.

Last year, Queen Anne's County became the first county in the state to ban balloon releases.

The bill now moves to the House.

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Salisbury Middle School being evacuated 2-11-2020

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST



Salisbury Middle School- evacuated due to mold being dispersed through building via HVAC system. Students and teachers relocated to other county schools for remainder of the day.

Right or Wrong?

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

'Out of our range': XFL dismisses Colin Kaepernick salary requirements as 'exorbitant'

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:01 AM PST

Talks between former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and the XFL broke down because Kaepernick's salary requirements exceeded what any of the eight teams in the league were willing to pay him.

"We have some pretty significant salary restrictions," XFL Commissioner Oliver Luck told NPR over the weekend. "We're a startup league, so we want to make sure that we can be fiscally responsible and fiscally prudent."

Launched this year, the XFL is a professional football league with eight teams in major media markets across the country. The league held its opening slate of games over two days last weekend.

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Virginia Passes Bill to Give Electoral Votes to Popular Vote Winner

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

The Virginia House of Delegates has passed legislation seeking to award its electoral votes to whomever the wins the popular vote.

House Bill 177 passed with a 51-46 vote in the Democrat-majority House after being handed off by the Privileges and Elections Committee last week. Should the Senate also approve, Virginia will officially become part of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

"Under the compact, Virginia agrees to award its electoral votes to the presidential ticket that receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia," a bill summary states. Further:  
The compact goes into effect when states cumulatively possessing a majority of the electoral votes have joined the compact. A state may withdraw from the compact; however, a withdrawal occurring within six months of the end of a President's term shall not become effective until a President or Vice President has qualified to serve the next term.
So far, 15 states, along with Washington D.C., have joined. The idea gained momentum as an answer to President Donald Trump's electoral college victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, despite her approximately three million popular vote lead.

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Yes, Human Trafficking is on the Shore: A Chat with For All Seasons’ Katharine Petzold

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

It's typically hard for most Eastern Shore residents to know that human trafficking is alive and growing in their backyard. Beyond the false narrative that this inhumane treatment of adults and children is an urban phenomenon in the United States, the fact remains that these crimes are tough to see even if they are taking place in broad daylight.

Some of these victims are hidden behind locked doors in brothels and factories. But in other cases, they are interacting with community members on a daily basis. In the labor market, it can be found agricultural work, particularly with seasonal fisheries and crab processing as well as construction, nail salons, hospitality industries, and domestic work. With the sex trade, it is showing up locally on online, secret brothels, and "massage parlors" as well as truck stops, private homes, or on the street.

That is one of the many challenges that For All Seasons, the Mid-Shore's behavioral health center, face as they increase their work to identify and rescue victims in the region. And part of that work is ensuring that members of the health and education professional community understand the signs of human trafficking in a variety of different environments.

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State senator's Limbaugh tweet draws fire

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

A tweet by a state senator referring to radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh as a KKK member has rallied Democrats behind him, while the GOP is demanding disciplinary action.

Sen. Bryan Townsend, D-Bear, posted a cartoon on his Twitter account Feb. 8 that shows several hooded KKK figures with one wearing the Medal of Freedom. The caption reads "Find Rush Limbaugh" and Townsend posted, "Whoever finds him gets a medal."

Limbaugh received the Medal of Freedom from President Donald Trump during the State of the Union address Feb. 4.

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AOC: Trump 'knows' Bernie Sanders can beat him in November

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

DURHAM, New Hampshire — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez taunted President Trump at a Bernie Sanders rally on the eve of the New Hampshire Democratic primary.

"Let's talk about November, because we know, in every poll, Bernie beats Trump," Ocasio-Cortez said Monday at the University of New Hampshire, the last major campaign stop for the Vermont senator before voters in the state go to the polls.

She added, "Trump knows that. Why else do you think he's come here tonight?"

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JUST IN: Va. House passes bill that bans assault weapons, other firearm accessories

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY) – The House of Delegates has voted to pass a bill that bans assault weapons and other firearm accessories.

House Bill 961, sponsored by Delegate Mark Levine (D – Alexandria), passed with a 51-48 vote Tuesday afternoon.

The bill prohibits the sale, transporting, transferring, manufacturing, purchasing, or possessing of an assault firearm. Doing so would result in a Class 6 felony.

The final version of the House Bill includes several amendments, including the definition of an assault firearm. The final bill defines it as, "A semi-automatic center-fire rifle that expels single or multiple projectiles by action of an explosion of a combustible material with a fixed magazine capacity in excess of 12 rounds."

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VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS VOTE TO ADVANCE SEMI-AUTOMATIC GUN BAN, EJECT CITIZENS FROM ROOM

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

Video footage uploaded to social media from inside the Virginia State Capitol shows a group of State Troopers ejecting citizens from the meeting room of the House Public Safety Committee as lawmakers voted to advance the latest in a series of Bloomberg-sponsored gun control and confiscation bills.

"Up and out" a Trooper can be heard shouting as he removes the public from the open meeting room. "Everybody! Everybody in here sitting it doesn't matter you need to get out now!"

According to those in attendance, Virginia State Police gave spectators 30 seconds to vacate the room or face arrest.

Interestingly enough, just as Chairman Patrick Hope (D-47) signaled for spectators to be removed, the Public Safety Committee's usual live stream was cut.

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KKK photo a hoax, police say

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

FEDERALSBURG — A photo of a KKK gathering supposedly in Caroline County went viral on Facebook on Monday Feb. 10.

Federalsburg Chief of Police Michael McDermott said the picture was also posted on the Federalsburg Police Department Facebook page with the poster making disparaging comments about the town.

The post circulated first on SnapChat before making its way across Facebook. Police do not believe the photo was taken in Federalsburg or in Caroline County or even anywhere near the area. But, after being screenshot multiple times, a caption had been added across the picture making reference to "burg" or Federalsburg and with the additional caption, "We from the south of the county our #1 enemy them racist...white people."

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Watch – Pete Buttigieg: Flood Small American Towns with Immigration to Grow Population

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, is touting a new visa program to flood small American towns with legal immigrants to grow the regions' populations — a boon to corporate investors, housing developers, and big business.

During a campaign stop in Merrimack, New Hampshire, Buttigieg touted his investor-friendly plan to inundate small American towns and rural communities with legal immigration for the sole purpose of driving up population growth.

Buttigieg said:
I'm proposing what we call "Community Renewal Visas" that when a community that is very much in need of growing its population, recognizes that, and makes a choice to welcome more than its share of new Americans that we create a fast-track, if they apply for an allotment of visas, that goes to those who are willing to be in those areas that maybe are hurting for population but have great potential.
Buttigieg's population growth agenda mimics a plan by the Economic Innovation Group, an organization led by investors, that seeks to create a "Heartland Visa" to flood small American towns with more legal immigration to increase the population.

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What to Do After You Shoot Someone in Self Defense

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

It is the end of a long day. You and your wife tucked your children in and are heading to bed. As you turn off the lights you hear a sound you do not recognize. When you go to investigate, you discover a broken window. An intruder is in your home. Fearing for your safety and the safety of your family, you prepare to defend yourself. You know you have your right to defend your family and your home. You grab your firearm and confront the intruder at gunpoint. The intruder draws a weapon and turns to attack. You pull the trigger and hit your mark. The intruder falls to the ground seriously injured and likely dying.

The immediate threat is over, but your emotions are running high and adrenalin is pumping through your body. You and your family are safe, but what do you do next? Do you flee from your residence? Do you start collecting evidence? Do you move the body? Do you call the police?

What you do after shooting someone in self-defense can determine what legal consequences will follow. There are several things you should do and other things you should not do if you find yourself in this situation.

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Corona Virus 2-11-2020

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST


 103 DEATHS AND 2104 NEW INFECTIONS SINCE YESTERDAY.

Student, 21, says she was insulted by Joe Biden when he called her a 'lying dog-faced pony soldier' after asking about his poor Iowa results and says it shows how badly his campaign is going

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

A college student who Joe Biden called a 'lying, dog-faced pony soldier' after she asked about his poor performance in Iowa has shamed him for 'humiliating' her and said his inability to answer her question shows how extremely poorly he's performing.

Madison Moore, a 21-year-old economics student at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, said on Monday for people to wave off the former vice president's remark as a 'joke' is 'kind of insulting'. Biden later explained he was quoting John Wayne.

Biden asked Moore if she had ever voted in a caucus and she nodded her head yes while attending his campaign event in Hampton, New Hampshire on Sunday night, leading Biden to call her a 'lying, dog-faced pony soldier'.

Moore said: 'It was kind of humiliating to be called a liar on national TV by the former vice president. Instead of answering that question straightforward, his immediate response was to attempt to invalidate me by exposing my inexperience.

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Rashida Tlaib urges Federal Reserve to bail out bankrupt Detroit and Puerto Rico

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib told Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that he "has the authority" to bail out the governments of Detroit and Puerto Rico.

"My city filing for bankruptcy was devastating to so many retirees, sir. Forty, 50 years they worked for the city of Detroit, saw their pensions completely diminished, gone," Tlaib said to Powell during a House Financial Services Committee hearing.

"Do you not believe that the governments of Detroit and Puerto Rico also play a vital role that should be preserved even if a financial crisis makes it hard for them to borrow money?" she added.

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Maxine Waters: White Dem Candidates ‘Have Blemishes on Their Record About Their Relationships with Black People’

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said Sunday on MSNBC that the 2020 presidential hopefuls who are white had "blemishes on their record about their relationships with black people."

When asked about 2020 hopeful Pete Buttigieg, Waters said, "You know, one's record will speak for itself. If there are facts about what he has done or what he has not done, then he's going to have to try and make people, you know, believe that he understands where he made mistakes and promises to do better and be able to articulate how he's going to do even better than he's done in the past."

She continued, "But let me just say this; most white candidates live in white communities. They go to white churches. Their children go basically to white schools, etc., etc. So, you know, they all have blemishes on their record about their relationships with black people. And so the way they change oftentimes is if we are able to organize and to protest and to force them to understand what they're not doing in terms of equality and justice and force them to have to recognize that and do the right thing."

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Bills allowing illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses approved by Virginia lawmakers

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

Both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly have passed bills allowing illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses.

HB 1211 and SB 34 both passed their respective chambers as Democrats hurried to meet the Tuesday "crossover" deadline, after which legislation could not be considered by the other chamber.

The Senate version of the bill passed by a margin of 22-18 and the House version by a margin of 57-42.

Democrats took full control of the state legislature in November 2019, and Democrat Ralph Northam currently holds the governorship.

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Snowflake Knocks Off The Wrong MAGA hat! **Language warning**

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

VA State Police Refuse to Rule out Door-to-Door Enforcement of Suppressor Ban

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

During a Monday morning phone conversation, the Virginia State Police public relations department did not rule out knocking doors to enforce a suppressor ban.

Breitbart News called the Virginia State Police and noted Democrats are passing legislation to ban various firearm accessories. We specifically mentioned the suppressor ban which is currently moving through the state legislature and asked if, "Virginia State Police will go door-to-door to get those."

The public relations official did not respond with a direct answer "yes" or "no" on going door-to-door. Rather, she said, "[No laws] have gone into effect, no laws have been formalized or finalized."

She said they do not, "do the speculation because nothing's been passed into formal law," but made clear that their job is to "enforce and comply with the laws" once they are on the books.

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How Trump can lose in 2020 – here's why and how

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:01 AM PST

Amid voter fraud, ballot harvesting, and media giants railing against Donald Trump, only a sovereign act of God can bring about a re-election. Every trick in the book will be unleashed, from sandbagging to illegal voting. They will do whatever it takes to acquire victory – you can count on that.

The title above may be shocking and disheartening to many of us, but it's a reality check on what could happen. The 2020 election will be one of the most important elections in the history of America (as was Abraham Lincoln's – who was a Republican fighting slavery).

Most are not aware that in 2016 President Trump barely won in many swing states, with margins as low as 1.2% in Florida and a very narrow 0.23% in Michigan. I hope you realize how narrow this is. The 2016 election caught Democrats off guard – but they won't let that happen again. My concern is that the 2020 election will catch Republicans off guard this time. Complacency may lead to apathy when the economy is good and the president's approval rating is high. We can't become comfortable thinking that Trump will easily take it again.

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Michelle Obama tells Oprah she went to marriage counselling with Barack to work through 'tough times' after Malia and Sasha were born and admits she found it hard raising a family

Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:00 AM PST

Michelle Obama revealed that she and husband Barack Obama attended marriage counseling to work through 'tough times' soon after their two daughters were born and admitted raising a family can be difficult.

On Saturday, the former First Lady had an honest conversation with Oprah Winfrey as part of the 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus Tour with WW at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

In front of an crowd of 15,000 people, 56-year-old Obama opened up about the ups and downs of her marriage to America's 44th president.

'Sometimes you need an objective person to just hear you out,' Obama began.

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