Earlier this week, a funny video went viral of 11-year-old Jessi Slaughter (AKA Kerligirl13) crying while her dad yelled at the people trolling her on the Internet. It's not so funny now that she's been placed under police protection.
11-year-old Viral Video Star Placed Under Police Protection After Death Threats
More than 1.7 million people have seen the foul-mouthed Floridan's breakdown and laughed at her dad's luddite rage. But the video, "You Dun Goofed Up," wasn't the only thing to go viral: Jessi Slaughter's real name, address and phone number was distributed widely on the Internet via Internet pranksters 4chan, Tumblr and other online backchannels. We spoke with Jessi's mother, Dianne Leonhardt, on the phone, and tells us they've received a slew harassing phone calls since the video went viral Thursday.
Leonhardt says some of those phone calls have been death threats, and the local sheriff's department has launched a criminal investigation into the video. Jessi was placed under police protection and brought to a safe house soon after it went viral. She came home today, but she's not online: A court order has barred her from using the Internet for at least three days.
So far, things haven't escalated past phone calls and online vandalism of Jessi's social-networking accounts. But Leonhardt says the family's life has been completely upended by a stream of prank calls." I've had people calling, impersonating themselves as cops, as child protection services," she says. Though Leonhardt says Child Protection Services is in fact involved in the case. "Something we never wanted!" Leonhardt's husband shouted from somewhere in the room when she told us this over the phone.
Leonhardt says the family is under "24/7 police surveillance" but still doesn't feel safe knowing that anyone on the Internet could have their home address. "We've had may, many death threats," she says. "We're afraid to leave the house. We're afraid to go to bed. We're sleeping in shifts, my husband and I am." Above all, Leonhardt says, "I wan't my life back. I want my daughter's life back."
Pre-teen or not, Jessi isn't an entirely passive player in this. The freakout in "You Dun Goofed" was over harassment sparked by one of Jessi's earlier videos that had also gone viral, to a lesser extent: An astonishingly profane rant in which Jessi tells Internet haters to "suck my non-existent penis" and "Get AIDS and die" and hurls epithets no 11-year-old should know.
What does her mother think of it?
Sunday, July 18, 2010
The Obama Deception
The Obama Deception is a hard-hitting film that completely destroys the myth that Barack Obama is working for the best interests of the American people. The Obama phenomenon is a hoax carefully crafted by the captains of the New World Order. He is being pushed as savior in an attempt to con the American people into accepting global slavery. We have reached a critical juncture in the New World Order's plans. and only by exposing the con can we help to save freedom in America. The Obama Deception is not about Left or Right: it's about a One World Government. The international banks plan to loot the people of the United States and turn them into slaves on a Global Plantation. Covered in this film: who Obama works for, what lies he has told, and his real agenda, and how his initial appointments and actions prove he serves the corporate oligarchs, not the American people. If you want to know the facts and cut through all the hype, this is the film for you. other locations:------------- or ------------------------ http://www.megavideo.com/?v=TFHZ8MQQ -------------------------- or ----------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Obama faces growing credibility crisis
Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama’s chief spokesman, got into hot water this week for daring to speak the truth – that the Democrats could lose control of the House of Representatives in November. But it could be even worse than that.
Contrary to pretty much every projection until now, Democratic control of the Senate is also starting to coming into question. While Mr Obama’s approval ratings have continued to fall, and now hover at dangerously close to 40 per cent according an ABC-Washington Post poll published on Tuesday, the fate of his former colleagues in the Senate looks even worse.
In the past few days polls have shown Republican challengers taking the lead over previously safe Democratic incumbents, such as Barbara Boxer in California and Russ Feingold in Wisconsin. Indeed, given the uniformly negative direction in the numbers, it is now quite possible the Republicans could win the Senate seats formerly held by both President Obama in Illinois, and Joe Biden, vice-president, in Delaware.
Add to that the continuing woes of Harry Reid, the Senate Democratic majority leader, in Nevada, where the Republican party’s recent nomination of Sharron Angle, a far-right and highly eccentric Tea Party supporter, appear to have had no positive effect on Mr Reid’s prospects, and the Grand Old party has a good shot at taking control of both houses of Congress. Worse for Mr Obama, political scientists say that at this stage in the calendar, there is almost nothing he can do about it.
“If you ask me where the silver lining is for President Obama, I have to say I cannot see one,” says Bill Galston, a former Clinton official, who has been predicting for months the Democrats could lose the House. “Just as BP’s failure to cap the well has been so damaging, Obama’s failure to cap unemployment will be his undoing. There is nothing he can do to affect the jobless rate before November.”
The direction of the data could hardly be worse. According to Democracy Corps, a group headed by Stanley Greenberg, a liberal pollster who is a close friend of Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama’s chief of staff, a majority of US citizens see Mr Obama as “too liberal”.
Astonishingly, 55 per cent of citizens think Mr Obama is a “socialist” against only 39 per cent who do not share that diagnosis. The same poll shows 48 per cent support for Republicans against just 42 per cent for Democrats. The numbers are eerily similar to 2006, except that it was George W. Bush’s Republicans who were on the receiving end four years ago.
“The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership,” says Rob Shapiro, another former Clinton official and a supporter of Mr Obama. “He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.”
In private, informal advisors to Mr Obama are almost as negative. According to one, the US public’s loss of confidence in Mr Obama’s leadership is a factor above and beyond their dissatisfaction over the state of the real economy, which continues to slow as last year’s $787bn stimulus starts to run dry. The adviser, who asked to remain anonymous, said the public did not know what Mr Obama really believed. Examples include his lukewarm support last year for a public option in the healthcare bill and his equally lukewarm support today for a Senate bill that would extend unemployment insurance and aid state governments to keep teachers in their jobs.
In both cases, Mr Obama has offered only token, negotiable, support. “I never thought I would say this, but even I’m unsure what President Obama really believes,” says the adviser. “Instead of outsourcing decisions to Congress, he should spell out his bottom line. That is what leaders are for.”
Next week, Mr Obama is likely to sign a historic Wall Street re-regulation bill into law. Earlier this year he did the same for healthcare. But polls show the public either does not care, or even opposes these otherwise big reforms. “The longer this goes on, the more it looks like Obama wasted his first year on healthcare,” said the outside adviser. “It’s still the economy, stupid.”
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Contrary to pretty much every projection until now, Democratic control of the Senate is also starting to coming into question. While Mr Obama’s approval ratings have continued to fall, and now hover at dangerously close to 40 per cent according an ABC-Washington Post poll published on Tuesday, the fate of his former colleagues in the Senate looks even worse.
In the past few days polls have shown Republican challengers taking the lead over previously safe Democratic incumbents, such as Barbara Boxer in California and Russ Feingold in Wisconsin. Indeed, given the uniformly negative direction in the numbers, it is now quite possible the Republicans could win the Senate seats formerly held by both President Obama in Illinois, and Joe Biden, vice-president, in Delaware.
Add to that the continuing woes of Harry Reid, the Senate Democratic majority leader, in Nevada, where the Republican party’s recent nomination of Sharron Angle, a far-right and highly eccentric Tea Party supporter, appear to have had no positive effect on Mr Reid’s prospects, and the Grand Old party has a good shot at taking control of both houses of Congress. Worse for Mr Obama, political scientists say that at this stage in the calendar, there is almost nothing he can do about it.
“If you ask me where the silver lining is for President Obama, I have to say I cannot see one,” says Bill Galston, a former Clinton official, who has been predicting for months the Democrats could lose the House. “Just as BP’s failure to cap the well has been so damaging, Obama’s failure to cap unemployment will be his undoing. There is nothing he can do to affect the jobless rate before November.”
The direction of the data could hardly be worse. According to Democracy Corps, a group headed by Stanley Greenberg, a liberal pollster who is a close friend of Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama’s chief of staff, a majority of US citizens see Mr Obama as “too liberal”.
Astonishingly, 55 per cent of citizens think Mr Obama is a “socialist” against only 39 per cent who do not share that diagnosis. The same poll shows 48 per cent support for Republicans against just 42 per cent for Democrats. The numbers are eerily similar to 2006, except that it was George W. Bush’s Republicans who were on the receiving end four years ago.
“The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership,” says Rob Shapiro, another former Clinton official and a supporter of Mr Obama. “He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.”
In private, informal advisors to Mr Obama are almost as negative. According to one, the US public’s loss of confidence in Mr Obama’s leadership is a factor above and beyond their dissatisfaction over the state of the real economy, which continues to slow as last year’s $787bn stimulus starts to run dry. The adviser, who asked to remain anonymous, said the public did not know what Mr Obama really believed. Examples include his lukewarm support last year for a public option in the healthcare bill and his equally lukewarm support today for a Senate bill that would extend unemployment insurance and aid state governments to keep teachers in their jobs.
In both cases, Mr Obama has offered only token, negotiable, support. “I never thought I would say this, but even I’m unsure what President Obama really believes,” says the adviser. “Instead of outsourcing decisions to Congress, he should spell out his bottom line. That is what leaders are for.”
Next week, Mr Obama is likely to sign a historic Wall Street re-regulation bill into law. Earlier this year he did the same for healthcare. But polls show the public either does not care, or even opposes these otherwise big reforms. “The longer this goes on, the more it looks like Obama wasted his first year on healthcare,” said the outside adviser. “It’s still the economy, stupid.”
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
fema info
Sometimes I wonder what goes on at our town meetings? When I'm not thinking about more exciting stuff. Like, if today's the day I put hospital corners on my bed.
Recently, I read a blow-by-blow account of such a meeting. Now, I don't know who came up with the term "minutes" to depict the slow-moving action, but I think he had a more objective and fluid sense of time than Stephen Hawking.
Here's what happened when the town board last met.
At their last meeting, the board proposed that they amend Chapter 155 of the Town Code, entitled, "Garbage, Rubbish And Refuse." Amazingly, chapter 155 of Tolstoy's "War And Peace" has the same exact title. Tolstoy has better characterization, but he's got nothing on Harrison for raw suspense. A novelization of the proceedings will be out in the fall.
Mayor Joan Walsh stated that this amendment was "only for three family homes," who will be exempt from paying a carting fee in the year 2010. But they will have to begin paying again in 2011. When this was announced, gasps were heard around the room and several people fainted.
However, the board was not through with discussing "Garbage, Rubbish And Refuge." Even though the tension and excitement in the room was already at a fever pitch.
Next up was the controversial amendment, "Placement For Collection: Collection In Commercial Districts." This should have been resolved in the previous meeting, but the board got bogged down in semantics and spent several hours just defining "placement." And all they could resolve was that they'd tackle the rest of the title in the next meeting.
So, it was resolved, that "Every Commercial Establishment within the Town/Village of Harrison" shall "annually pay a Commercial Registration Fee for the carting away of its Garbage, Rubbish And Refuse." The board was near an agreement on this when someone suggested that "Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse" was a tautology, or, an unnecessary repetition of words. Then someone said that "an unnecessary repetition" was itself a tautology. So things bogged down for the second time in a month.
The suggestion that they instead re-title the amendment "Blood, Sweat And Tears" went unheeded.
Finally, the amendment was passed because Harrison needed the money.
The board then put forward the amendment that every commercial establishment must also pay a fee for the collection of "trash, rubbish and garbage." Which, if carefully worded, would seem like a completely different amendment and allow the town to charge everyone twice. This amendment passed enthusiastically.
Finally, the board got around to the meat of the garbage question. That's right, the kind of pails it should be put in. It was proposed that each commercial establishment shall put out no more than 10 pails or cans for the collection of trash. Although some merchants have put out 12 and said it's the same according to The New Math. The quality of each pail, it was proposed, must be approved by the Public Works Commissioner. If you bought them from his brother, Joe the pail salesman, approval would occur that much quicker.
All the board members called out "Aye!" So either the amendments passed, or they really are just in there watching "Pirates Of The Caribbean."
The other order of business that the board voted on, had to do with installing an emergency generator at police headquarters, to the tune of $210,000. The board first resolved to make sure there was that much money in their Capital Improvement Account. Not like the last time, when all they found was some petty cash and some handwritten IOUs - misspelled.
It turns out the money was available. Then the Law Department had to prepare a contract and the Treasurer had to do an audit. And, after submitting their bills to the town, Harrison was $30,000 short.
Finally the money was all in place.
The last order of business for this recent board meeting was the Authorization To Adopt The Hazard Mitigation Plan. Now, I'm no fan of hazards. And I feel they should be mitigated whenever you get a break in the day. But there's one catch here. This plan was supposed to be presented to FEMA. What happened after that in the meeting? I'm still unsure, because I didn't read the minutes. Whenever I see the name FEMA. I have a tendency to scream and throw stuff across the room. In this case, it was my laptop, which broke.
It should be ready Thursday.
So, I really don't know how the most recent board meeting ended. But, I'm concerned. FEMA doesn't really have a great history, especially when it comes to mitigating hazards. Harrison, are you sure you want their advice about this?
Recently, I read a blow-by-blow account of such a meeting. Now, I don't know who came up with the term "minutes" to depict the slow-moving action, but I think he had a more objective and fluid sense of time than Stephen Hawking.
Here's what happened when the town board last met.
At their last meeting, the board proposed that they amend Chapter 155 of the Town Code, entitled, "Garbage, Rubbish And Refuse." Amazingly, chapter 155 of Tolstoy's "War And Peace" has the same exact title. Tolstoy has better characterization, but he's got nothing on Harrison for raw suspense. A novelization of the proceedings will be out in the fall.
Mayor Joan Walsh stated that this amendment was "only for three family homes," who will be exempt from paying a carting fee in the year 2010. But they will have to begin paying again in 2011. When this was announced, gasps were heard around the room and several people fainted.
However, the board was not through with discussing "Garbage, Rubbish And Refuge." Even though the tension and excitement in the room was already at a fever pitch.
Next up was the controversial amendment, "Placement For Collection: Collection In Commercial Districts." This should have been resolved in the previous meeting, but the board got bogged down in semantics and spent several hours just defining "placement." And all they could resolve was that they'd tackle the rest of the title in the next meeting.
So, it was resolved, that "Every Commercial Establishment within the Town/Village of Harrison" shall "annually pay a Commercial Registration Fee for the carting away of its Garbage, Rubbish And Refuse." The board was near an agreement on this when someone suggested that "Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse" was a tautology, or, an unnecessary repetition of words. Then someone said that "an unnecessary repetition" was itself a tautology. So things bogged down for the second time in a month.
The suggestion that they instead re-title the amendment "Blood, Sweat And Tears" went unheeded.
Finally, the amendment was passed because Harrison needed the money.
The board then put forward the amendment that every commercial establishment must also pay a fee for the collection of "trash, rubbish and garbage." Which, if carefully worded, would seem like a completely different amendment and allow the town to charge everyone twice. This amendment passed enthusiastically.
Finally, the board got around to the meat of the garbage question. That's right, the kind of pails it should be put in. It was proposed that each commercial establishment shall put out no more than 10 pails or cans for the collection of trash. Although some merchants have put out 12 and said it's the same according to The New Math. The quality of each pail, it was proposed, must be approved by the Public Works Commissioner. If you bought them from his brother, Joe the pail salesman, approval would occur that much quicker.
All the board members called out "Aye!" So either the amendments passed, or they really are just in there watching "Pirates Of The Caribbean."
The other order of business that the board voted on, had to do with installing an emergency generator at police headquarters, to the tune of $210,000. The board first resolved to make sure there was that much money in their Capital Improvement Account. Not like the last time, when all they found was some petty cash and some handwritten IOUs - misspelled.
It turns out the money was available. Then the Law Department had to prepare a contract and the Treasurer had to do an audit. And, after submitting their bills to the town, Harrison was $30,000 short.
Finally the money was all in place.
The last order of business for this recent board meeting was the Authorization To Adopt The Hazard Mitigation Plan. Now, I'm no fan of hazards. And I feel they should be mitigated whenever you get a break in the day. But there's one catch here. This plan was supposed to be presented to FEMA. What happened after that in the meeting? I'm still unsure, because I didn't read the minutes. Whenever I see the name FEMA. I have a tendency to scream and throw stuff across the room. In this case, it was my laptop, which broke.
It should be ready Thursday.
So, I really don't know how the most recent board meeting ended. But, I'm concerned. FEMA doesn't really have a great history, especially when it comes to mitigating hazards. Harrison, are you sure you want their advice about this?
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