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  Noted Democrat and big Obama friend
Posted by: Soupcity Kid - 10 hours ago - Forum: ZigbeeNutHouse List of topics for discussion - Replies (5)

Noted friend and supporter of Obama and yes Biden P Diddy had his homes raided.  They came at his homes with a military like raid. A lot of speculation as to what the crimes are.  Rnor of sex trafficking but more reports of gun and drug related charges.

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  People's Republic of Michigan
Posted by: Hightop77 - 11 hours ago - Forum: ZigbeeNutHouse List of topics for discussion - Replies (6)

Newcomer Rental Subsidy

The Newcomer Rental Subsidy program provides Refugees and other Newcomer population-eligible households with rental assistance up to $500 per month for up to 12 months, with eligibility based on immigration status and household income.

A beneficiary must have an eligible immigration status as defined by the Office of Refugee Resettlement which includes:

  • Refugees
  • Asylees
  • Special Immigration Visa (SIV)
  • Victims of Human Trafficking
  • Cuban and Haitian entrants
  • Afghan Nationals, and
  • Ukrainian Humanitarian Parolees.
Other immigration statuses include individuals who arrived under the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan (CHNV) program; individuals who arrived under the Family Reunification Parole Process for El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Colombia, individuals with a pending asylum application, and other immigrant individuals on a case-by-case scenario.

https://www.michigan.gov/ogm/services/ne...al-subsidy

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  Probability factor
Posted by: zigbee - Yesterday, 05:01 PM - Forum: ZigbeeNutHouse List of topics for discussion - No Replies

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  Leaves behind one year old; 31 years old and 3 years on force dead in NY
Posted by: zigbee - Yesterday, 04:43 PM - Forum: ZigbeeNutHouse List of topics for discussion - Replies (10)

Disturbing footage shows NYPD cop Jonathan Diller screaming in pain on street after he was fatally shot by career-criminal suspect 

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Slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller can be seen writhing and screaming in pain just seconds after he was shot in the stomach by an alleged career criminal while on the job in Queens, disturbing surveillance footage shows.

Three gunshots can be heard echoing down the relatively quiet Far Rockaway street as Diller, 31, appeared to tussle with suspect Guy Rivera, 34, near the open passenger door of a dark gray Kia Soul, according to the footage shared Wednesday by the Instagram account @ny_scoop.

Diller can be seen dragging himself behind the car and collapsing on the pavement, while Rivera falls out of view onto the sidewalk.

Diller’s partner – who was on the driver’s side of the car – then fired two return shots, at least one of which struck Rivera in the back, according to cops.

In the seconds after the shots rang out, Diller’s partner pulled a man later identified as Lindy Jones, 41, from the driver’s seat and yelled at him to “get on the f–ing floor” before putting him in handcuffs.

Another officer appears to try to help Diller – who is screaming and occasionally moaning what sounds like “Oh, God!”

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Suspected cop killer Guy Rivera being placed in an ambulance Monday, March 26, 2024.

A swarm of cops soon descended on the troubling scene, and several of them carefully lifted Diller and loaded him into an unmarked police vehicle.

Diller – a father of one with three years on the force – was shot once in the stomach below his protective vest, police later said.

The fallen officer was taken to Jamaica Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

Rivera was later taken from the scene via ambulance. He has not been charged.

A sign a few feet behind the Kia indicated that the car was parked in a metered zone. Police initially said it was parked at a bus stop.

When Rivera arrived at the hospital, doctors discovered a shiv stashed up his rectum, a source told The Post Tuesday.

The ex-con – who has 21 prior arrests – may have stashed the weapon because he thought he was going to be arrested later that day for a different crime and wanted protection in jail, the high-ranking source explained.

Rivera was released from prison in 2021 following a five-year stint for drug charges.

He went off parole the following year.

Jones was arrested at the scene. He was charged Wednesday morning with criminal possession of a weapon and defacing a weapon.

Neither Jones nor Rivera had documented gang ties, although the fatal shooting occurred in a known playground for the Gang of Apes.

Jones – who was nicknamed “Killa” – also has an extensive rap sheet, including 14 prior arrests.

He was due in court Monday, April 1 for a hearing regarding an incident last year during which he was found with a loaded, illegal firearm.

Jones was arrested at the time, but was released on $75,000 bail after the judge balked at prosecutors’ request for electronic monitoring.

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  AI: Fact or Fiction?
Posted by: ChinaBuck - Yesterday, 12:30 AM - Forum: ZigbeeNutHouse List of topics for discussion - Replies (2)

There may have been another thread on AI, but I could not find it as you need a minimum of 3 characters for a search. Now Maize might be able to find it.

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  Social Security........glad I don't count much on it
Posted by: zigbee - 03-26-2024, 06:35 PM - Forum: ZigbeeNutHouse List of topics for discussion - Replies (4)

BlackRock CEO says Social Security's retirement age 'a bit crazy' as crisis looms
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said Social Security's retirement age looks “a bit crazy" given the program's projected insolvency and benefit cuts

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink sent his annual letter to investors on Tuesday in which he cited the "immense strain" on Social Security amid the aging of the U.S. population and the need to reform the retirement system given its looming insolvency.

Fink explained the economics behind Social Security, which collects taxes from people who are working to pay those in retirement who are receiving benefits: "During your working years, the government takes a portion of your income, then after you retire, it sends you a check every month. The idea actually originates from pre-World War I Germany, and these 'old-age insurance' programs gradually became more popular over the 20th Century largely because the demographics made sense."

"Think about someone who was 65 years old in 1952, the year I was born. If he hadn't retired already, that person was probably getting ready to stop working. But now think about that person's former colleagues, all the people around his age who he'd entered the workforce with back in the 1910s. The data shows that in 1952, most of those people were not preparing for retirement because they'd already passed away," Fink wrote.


Data from the Social Security Administration (SSA) shows that the ratio of covered workers paying taxes to the number of beneficiaries was 8.6 workers to beneficiaries as of 1955. That number declined to 2.8 as of 2013 due to the aging of the U.S. population.

Fink noted that Americans' longevity in retirement is also straining the financial health of Social Security and wrote that, "Today, if you're married and both you and your spouse are over the age of 65, there's a 50/50 chance that at least one of you will be receiving a Social Security check until you're 90."

"All this is putting the U.S. retirement system under immense strain," Fink added. "The Social Security Administration itself says that by 2034, it won't be able to pay people their full benefits. What's the solution here? No one should have to work longer than they want to. But I do think it's a bit crazy that our anchor idea for the right retirement age — 65 years old — originates from the time of the Ottoman Empire."

Social Security's two major trust funds help augment payroll taxes as a source of funding to pay out benefits to beneficiaries, but those are projected to be exhausted a decade from now. Once the trust funds are depleted, incoming payroll taxes will be the sole source of funding for benefits, and under current law, automatic cuts would kick in to match benefits paid to incoming recipients.

An analysis by the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget last year found the average dual-income couple retiring in 2033 would see a benefit cut of 23%, or $17,400 in current-dollar annual benefits — while a single income couple would see benefits cut by $13,100.

Fink's letter noted that the Netherlands moved to address financial challenges impacting its state pension over a decade ago by gradually raising the retirement age and automatically tying it to changes in life expectancy.

He suggested that the U.S. should have a conversation about what the average retirement age should be, as well as ways to incentivize more people to work longer rather than retiring to boost the labor force participation rate.

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  It's a constitution no one wants
Posted by: zigbee - 03-26-2024, 03:02 PM - Forum: ZigbeeNutHouse List of topics for discussion - Replies (2)

Former Justice Breyer rips conservative Supreme Court for giving nation 'Constitution no one wants'
Breyer said originalism will 'overlook lots of changes designed to further the value of protecting basic civil rights, because the world has changed'

In a recent interview with Politico, former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer claimed that the current conservative majority on the court will give the U.S. a Constitution that "no one wants."

Breyer spoke to the media outlet ahead of the release of his new book, titled, "Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism." In it, the former liberal justice spent time criticizing the interpretations his former conservative colleagues have been making in landmark Supreme Court cases.

He elaborated on these points in the interview. Politico Magazine senior writer Ankush Khardori reported, "If the court continues to deploy their methods of interpretation, Breyer told me, ‘We will have a Constitution that no one wants.’ It’s a remarkable statement from a former Supreme Court justice."

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The journalist asked Breyer about his point in the book warning about "originalism," noting that Breyer has called this lens of interpretation "inherently ‘regressive,’" writing that it "will not permit modern solutions to modern problems" as well as consigning "us to a set of views and values that predominated during a period when many groups of people today were not equal citizens."

Breyer affirmed those points in the interview, declaring, "When the founders were thinking about and writing the words of the Constitution and protecting certain basic rights in the Constitution, women were not really part of the political process. They didn’t have a right to vote, and there was slavery, and the slaves weren’t part of [the political process either]."

He continued, "In the 1860s, after the Civil War, they wrote words designed to protect some people, but the theory of who is part of this community — America, which precedes through democratic means — was quite different then than it is now."

The former justice added that an originalist interpretation "will overlook lots of changes designed to further the value of protecting basic civil rights, because the world has changed."

Breyer noted that he made the "no one wants" line while debating constitutional interpretation with the late Justice Antonin Scalia, telling the conservative giant that his method would be deeply unpopular among modern Americans.

The former justice went on to rebuke the conservative majority’s ruling in the 2022 Dobbs case. He said, "The majority thought in Dobbs there would be fewer cases — we will turn the abortion matter over to the states, and they will legislate or Congress will legislate and it won’t be decided by the courts."

He described how they were wrong, stating, "But Tuesday, there will be cases on abortion in the Supreme Court. Many states have many different abortion laws now, and I suspect that many of them will be decided in the court where the words will matter, where it will be more complicated than ever, and if you think it’s going to be simpler, I have a bridge in New York City I’d like to sell you."

In a recent interview with NBC’s "Meet The Press," Breyer expressed his feelings on the Dobbs ruling, telling host Kristen Welker he had hoped he and his fellow justices at the time could have come to a "compromise" rather than overturning Roe V. Wade.

During that interview, he also called the leak of the Dobbs opinion signaling the end of Roe V. Wade "unfortunate."

Later in the interview, Breyer described what could result from this originalist interpretation of the Constitution over time, stating it "will move the interpretation of statutes away from the direction of trying to help people," and "will move the law away from the direction of trying to produce a society where 340 or 330 or 320 million people of every race, every religion, every point of view, can live together more peacefully and productively."

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  NFL bans the hip drop tackle and new format of kickoffs
Posted by: maize - 03-26-2024, 02:45 PM - Forum: ZigbeeNutHouse List of topics for discussion - Replies (5)

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How are you supposed to tackle someone from behind? How far away are we from flag football?

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  Really? Yelling N word at female college Utah BB players??
Posted by: zigbee - 03-26-2024, 02:11 PM - Forum: ZigbeeNutHouse List of topics for discussion - Replies (16)

Utah women's basketball team moves hotels after racist incidents
Utah coach Lynne Roberts said her team experienced a series of racial hate crimes last week after arriving at its first NCAA tournament hotel and was forced to change hotels for safety concerns.

Roberts didn't go into detail but said Monday there were several incidents that happened last Thursday night after the team arrived in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, which is located about 30 miles away from Spokane, Washington, where the Utes were scheduled to play in the tournament's opening weekend.

KSL.com reported early Tuesday that the N-word was yelled at members of the Utah basketball team, along with other members of the traveling party -- including cheerleaders and the school band, on multiple occasions as they were walking to and from a restaurant near their hotel in Coeur d'Alene.

Utah deputy athletic director Charmelle Green, who is Black, told KSL.com that the first incident occurred while the team was walking from the hotel to the restaurant. An unidentified person in a white truck revved the vehicle's engine near the team before yelling the N-word in the team's direction and speeding off.

"We all just were in shock, and we looked at each other like, did we just hear that? ... Everybody was in shock -- our cheerleaders, our students that were in that area that heard it clearly were just frozen," Green told KSL.com. "We kept walking, just shaking our heads, like I can't believe that."

Green told KSL.com that a similar incident took place about two hours later as the team was leaving the restaurant. Green said two trucks parked near the team began revving their engines before people inside the vehicles again yelled the N-word in their direction.

KSL.com reported that Utah filed a police report. Roberts said the incidents were "shocking" and "incredibly upsetting for all of us," saying the team had not been exposed to racism very often because of the diversity on college campuses.

"Racism is real and it happens, and it's awful," Roberts said after fifth-seeded Utah's loss Monday to fourth-seeded Gonzaga in the tournament's second round. "For our players, whether they are white, black, green, whatever -- no one knew how to handle it and it was really upsetting. For our players and staff to not feel safe in an NCAA tournament environment, it's messed up."

Green told KSL.com that after the team safely returned to the hotel Thursday night, she "got emotional and started to cry."

"I will never forget the sound that I heard, the intimidation of the noise that came from that engine, and the word (N-word)," Green said. "I go to bed and I hear it every night since I've been here."

Roberts said the NCAA and Gonzaga worked to move her team after the first night in Coeur d'Alene. South Dakota State and UC Irvine also were staying at hotels in Idaho, even with Gonzaga as the host school, because of a lack of hotel space in the Spokane area.

Several years ago, Spokane was announced as a host for the first and second rounds of the men's NCAA tournament and there was also a large regional youth volleyball tournament during the weekend. With limited hotel space, Gonzaga received a waiver from the NCAA to allow teams to be housed in Coeur d'Alene.

Green said she contacted Utah AD Mark Harlan, who had not yet made the trip to join the team, after the incidents occurred Thursday night. Harlan told KSL.com that the incident was "disturbing" and that the team "should not have been" in Coeur d'Alene.

Far-right extremists have made a presence in the region of Spokane and northern Idaho. In 2018, at least nine hate groups operated in the region, including Identity Evropa, Proud Boys, ACT for America and America's Promise Ministries, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

"We should not have been there," Harlan told KSL.com. "I do appreciate the NCAA and Gonzaga moving us from that situation, but we should never have been there in the first place. So a lot of folks need to get home and heal from the whole matter.

"But for Charmelle Green and what she's done in terms of being the director of this group, being the victim of this, along with so many others, is something that is going to take a long time for us all to process. It's not the experience that our student-athletes and our students overall should have experienced."

Gonzaga issued a statement after Roberts finished speaking, saying that the first priority is the safety and welfare of everyone participating in the event.

"We are frustrated and deeply saddened to know what should always be an amazing visitor and championship experience was in any way compromised by this situation for it in no way reflects the values, standards and beliefs to which we at Gonzaga University hold ourselves accountable," the statement said.

Utah's season ended Monday with the 77-66 loss to Gonzaga. The Utes were hoping to return to the regional semifinals after last year, when they lost 66-63 to eventual national champion LSU in the Sweet 16.

Roberts said that the incident in Idaho was a distraction to her team.

"It was a distraction and upsetting and unfortunate," Roberts said. "This should be a positive for everybody involved. This should be a joyous time for our program and to have kind of a black eye on the experience is unfortunate."

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  Vince Young, former Texas QB goes DOWN with sucker punch in bar
Posted by: zigbee - 03-26-2024, 01:55 PM - Forum: ZigbeeNutHouse List of topics for discussion - No Replies

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Vince Young got absolutely rocked during a February bar fight in Texas.

TMZ released footage Tuesday morning of the former Texas Longhorns and NFL QB involved in an altercation at Tokyo Joe's Shot Bar in Houston, Texas back on February 4th.

The video shows a group of men jawing, pushing and shoving and then things escalate. At one point, a man standing near Young landed a clean shot directly on his face.

The Texas legend hit the deck like a sack of potatoes and appeared to have his lights briefly switched off.

Vince Young punched during bar brawl.
I'll share with you all some free advice that I was once given at a younger age. Don't get into fights because you simply don't know what people are capable of.

Vince Young appears to be the biggest guy involved by a significant margin, and it made no difference. A much smaller guy laid him out with a single punch.

It reminds me of the brawl involving a couple MMA guys and an Oklahoma football player. Granted, Young got hit with a bit of a cheap shot, and that infamous bathroom beatdown was more straight up. You can watch that legendary video here.

TMZ noted that it's not entirely sure what was said to spark this entire melee, but what is clear is that Vince Young got it handed to him. He got it handed to him in a way that you rarely see caught on camera. Dude went down like it was a curtain call.
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Don't get in fights, folks. It's never worth it. A wise man knows when to leave a dangerous situation. Arrogance and ego lead you down a path you don't want to. That's not me saying Young started it. It's simply a fact. Learn to put one foot in front of the other and walk the hell away.

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