Posted on 02/27/2015 6:24:23 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
(CNN)Nine people are dead after shootings in south-central Missouri, the Houston Herald newspaper in Missouri reported Friday morning, citing a sheriff there.
There are multiple crime scenes, including four in the Texas County community of Tyrone, county Sheriff James Sigman told the Herald.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol is expected to hold a news conference about the deaths at about 9 a.m. CT (10 a.m. ET) Friday, CNN affiliate KYTV reported.
Tyrone is about 135 miles (84 kilometers) southwest of St. Louis.
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
135km = 84mi.
Someone at CNN had their Google conversion calculator backwards.
Nine persons are dead — including one of natural cases
Then later in the article:
Lawmen later went to another residence, where they found an elderly woman who apparently had died of natural cases.
So it wasn't just a case of spellcheck not catching a misspelling, because cases is spelled correctly. Though as I'm sure everyone here knows that is the wrong word to be used. The cause (clue to reporter, it's natural causes) is laid clearly at the feet of our education system. An education system where educators keep demanding more pay and less oversight of the job the perform. Far too many educators are not worth a third of what they are paid. I realize this is off topic, however, it annoys me to see such incompetence within our press.
Heavy drug users don’t hold jobs but still need money for drugs. I’ve seen the same to a lesser extent with things like alcohol or cigarettes.
Homeland Security sees it to be their job to protect Hollywood’s copyright. They raid stores for illicit NFL panties.
Why not call for an end of the WOC?
Control the internet and regulate school lunches.
I share your disgust with the spelling on TV, etc. The ‘ticker’ which runs below the news on all stations is a particular irritant to me.
I chronically call the 3 local affiliate stations in Reno to tell them they have spelling errors or even worse. Last week, the noun was missing from their short blurb. They also seem to think that they need to use as few characters as possible in saying what they want to say.
I often wonder just how much $$$is being paid to those who create the ticker. When I do call, I don’t get much of a response.
These are more of the people who won’t & do not need to survive the coming war here 9in the USA. They are useless.
How about we just allow the citizen to buy and use whatever drug they want and allow anyone to produce/sell whatever drug the buyer wants?
Willing Buyer/Willing Seller = cheaper drugs.
Cheaper drugs & legalization = removal of drug user need to steal to feed habit.
Drug users unable to control their habit will overdose = drug user population will plummet.
Removal of WOD AGencies/”Drug Warriors” = no more civil forfeiture abuses.
“Let’s have a WOC. War on Crime.”
*****
We’ve gotten to a point that no one can live their lives for a single day without violating some law because there are so many on the books. Criminalization of everything is a means by which the government can arbitrarily pick those it wants to prosecute for political or other reasons.
ABC is the worst.
News Release by the Missouri State Highway Patrol at the following link:
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2015/02/27/nine-reportedly-dead-in-south-central-mo-shootings/
Spot on! Post of the month!
Freedoms being lost can be attributed to governments at all levels, but blame also lays at the feet of people inhabiting & visiting America. For to have freedoms requires that the citizens place limitations upon themselves. When they don't, a percentage of people will demand something be done, which is where governments come into play.
To just make an activity legal, in no way makes our freedoms greater. Indeed our freedom to move about freely in our own neighborhood may be impacted by increased criminal activity spawned to engage financially in said legal activity. I wonder how many people commit crimes to afford the outrageous prices of cigarettes, for example. It seems I have read of cases where clerks were shot in convenience stores, and items taken were cigarettes, and alcohol.
Hopefully you can offer up the solution that satisfies all, while not infringing upon the freedoms of any. Hint: it's impossible, at least I believe it to be. That is, without people themselves being their own policemen. However, I am always open to hearing from everyone.
I agree 100%.
When prosecution is arbitrary, we no longer have a nation of laws, we have a dictatorship. We are at the mercy of whoever has the authority to make the decision to prosecute or not.
This goes for small, petty issues, as well. Want to build on your property? Do you have a good relationship with the building inspector? With the guy who issues building permits? With everyone else involved in that process? You better, or they will make your life a living hell, and jack up the costs beyond belief.
“To just make an activity legal, in no way makes our freedoms greater.”
Any time you take away government power, you are more free. No exceptions. No you won’t eliminate crime caused by people seeking money to buy drugs, but those crimes are already occurring. Will they occur more often if drugs are legalized? Colorado would suggest not.
To paraphrase Ben Franklin: Those who would trade liberty for security deserve, and will get, neither.
If it was Kentucky I would have expected Raylan to be involved.
Au contraire.
Legal marijuana drawing homeless to Colorado
CBS/AP ^ | 12/24/2014 | /Doug Pensinger
Pot seen as reason for rise in Denver homeless
AP ^ | 7/26/2014 | Unattributed AP
With an increase in homelessness comes increases in crime, welfare and other social ills.
See tagline.
Why would we need prescriptions then? People could just buy all the antibiotics they want. Prescribe their own meds. It will be perfect.
Years ago I went to Tennessee through the hillbilly country of the Ozarks.
East through Arkansas I found nice homes, retirement areas, nice farms and a decent economy. Very little poverty.
On the way back I came through Southern Missouri. talk about POVERTY ROW! It was interesting to notice how backwoodsy and remote Missouri was.
I remember a LIFE magazine article from the late 1950s on the remoteness of the Missouri Ozarks.
This killing seems similar to the Ronald Gene Simmons murders in Dover Arkansas years ago.
How did he retaliate if he was dead by suicide?
;-)
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