Socialist Pigs: Far Left Climate Activists Leave Mounds of Trash For Cities to Deal With

9/23/2014

Earth First!
On Sunday, tens of thousands of committed leftists held “climate change” world rallies. Thousands descended on New York City, marching through the heart of Manhattan with a message of alarm for world leaders.

The far left activists are worried about the effects of global warming despite the fact that the US just went through its coldest winter in a century and Antarctic sea ice is at record levels.

The alarmists are worried about global warming.
But, they let others worry about their trash.

From the climate rally in London Sunday. This doesn’t seem eco friendly, does it?

More trash in New York City.

From the cup, “The Arctic affects us all.”

Because nothing says, “I care about the environment,” like leaving heaps of trash for someone else to deal with.

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Immigration Failure: Mexican man pleads guilty to having sexual contact with girl as he smuggled her into US

9/23/2014

PHOENIX –  A Mexican man accused of sexually attacking a 14-year-old girl as he smuggled a group of people into the U.S. has pleaded guilty to having sexual contact with a minor.

The plea marked a rare conviction for a crime that authorities say seldom gets reported by victims who are sexually attacked as they sneak into the country.

Jose Ramon Mancinas-Flores, 23, could face five to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty Monday in Santa Cruz County to human smuggling and sexual contact with a minor that stemmed from an illegal border crossing in December.

Investigators say Mancinas-Flores separated the girl from a group of people being smuggled and sexually attacked her. The crime was reported to authorities after the group was apprehended by the Border Patrol.

It's rare for females who are sexually assaulted during illegal crossings to report the crimes, because they are threatened by their attackers and fear they will be deported if they hold attackers accountable, said Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada, whose office investigated the case.

"Unfortunately, it happens more often than we get reports on," Estrada said.

James Miller, Mancinas-Flores' attorney, didn't immediately return a call seeking comment on Wednesday.

Sentencing is set for Oct. 13.

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Enviro-Mentals using "zombie fun" to cash in on donations

9/23/2014

Tube-ocalypse now: Photos & video from the zombie tube world record attempt

Photo by Derek Turno

Hundreds of humans and zombies alike joined together on the French Broad River Sept. 20 to try to break the world record for most linked tubers on the water. Afterwards, crowds gathered at the new Salvage Station venue along the river to enjoy music from bands such as The Krektones and Lyric. The event aimed to  raise awareness of the river as a growing recreation hub as well as money for the WNC Alliance, a local environmental nonprofit.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Tube-ocalypse Zombie Float

Slide show photos by Cindy Kunst

The day after the event, organizer Ben Wiggins said the official final count of participants on the river was 548. That was 87 short of what was needed to break the Guinness world record for linked tubers. The record is currently held by the Harley Owners Group Taiwan Chapter, which brought together 634 people in June in that country’s Sun Moon Lake. That broke the Guinness record for “Most People in a Floating Line” held by the Human Access Project, a Portland environmental nonprofit that had strung together 620 floaters on the Willamette River in 2013.

Wiggins said organizers are already planning another try for next year. He thanked everyone who participated in the inaugural event and vowed that next year they are “going to crush the record.”

Drone video of the zombie float via the Hummingbird Aerial Imaging YouTube page

Timelapse video of the zombie float via the the Casey Dougan Vimeo page

Meanwhile, participants and observers took to social media Sept. 20 to post photos and dispatches from the event. Here’s a sample via Storify:

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New Mexico yanks Obamacare advertising contract after a struggling start

9/23/2014

Photo from a NHIX commercial

A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE: After posting disappointing enrollment numbers, the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange is putting its marketing and advertising account back up for bid.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — After missing many of its targets in the first year of the rollout of the Affordable Care Act in New Mexico, the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange board is shaking things up.

On Friday, the board announced it’s pulling its $6.2 million advertising and marketing contract from BVK, a firm based in Milwaukee, and putting the contract back up for bid.

“There are lots of clean slates and one of those is marketing,” said Dr. Martin Hickey, director of the NMHIX Marketing, public relations and outreach committee.

The NMHIX board voted unanimously Friday to rebid the contract.

The decision comes after a statewide poll showed that, despite spending $7 millionmarketing in New Mexico, only 40 percent of respondents knew what the state’s health care exchange did.

BVK is eligible to rebid for the contract. Hickey said as of Friday he had not heard if BVK plans to try again to win back the NMHIX contract.

BVK spokeswoman Annie Holschuh sent an email to New Mexico Watchdog saying, “BVK will have a statement to share in the near future but we decline to comment on the topic at this time.”

“It has been a year of lots of learning,” said Hickey, choosing his words carefully after Friday’s board meeting.

“My belief from the very beginning was that our marketing needed to be focused on boots on the ground and neighbor-to-neighbor contact,” board member Jason Sandel told New Mexico Watchdog. “I think there are a number of studies that show you take the message where people are … Instead, we invested a tremendous amount of money in a television buy and expected a 30- or 60-second television ad to convince somebody to change their lifestyle.”

NMHIX also has a new person in charge. Amy Dowd is the new CEO of the state’s exchange, coming to New Mexico after running the state exchange in Idaho. She replaced interim CEO Mike Nuñez.

Dowd outlined a 60-day plan to make a decision on advertising and marketing, telling the board Friday there will be “heavy weighting of knowledge of New Mexico and knowledge of the Spanish community and Native American tribes.”

Time is a factor since the next open enrollment period for people signing up for individual policies under the ACA — colloquially known as “Obamacare” — starts on November 15.

NMHIX chairman Dr. J.R. Damron told New Mexico Watchdog that NMHIX has about $4 million on hand to spend on advertising and marketing between October and next February 15, when the enrollment period is scheduled to end. Dowd, however, was reluctant to talk about how much money will be spent.

“I’m looking very strategically how we’re going to spend this money,” Dowd told New Mexico Watchdog.

“We’re concerned about the enrollment numbers we had this past year,” said Damron. “We felt like we needed to look at this … and change our business plan.”

Small businesses in New Mexico can sign up for the ACA through NMHIX, but individual policies in the state will have to go through the federal government’s www.healthcare.gov website, which stumbled badly in its national rollout earlier this year.

NMHIX officials have blamed the website’s multiple breakdowns for keeping New Mexico’s enrollment from reaching its goals.

Just before healthcare.gov debuted, NMHIX planned on signing up 83,000 people to individual policies across the state this year. Going into the November open enrollment period, 32,000 had signed up.

In addition, numbers released this spring showed that while 85 percent of those who signed up for individual polices across the country qualified for federal subsidies, just 79 percent of those in New Mexico received subsidies.  

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Innocent Until Proven Guilty Labeled A "Loophole" In N.M. Rape Case Agaist Gunshop Owner

9/23/2014

A New Mexico father is scared and angry.  The man accused of raping his daughter is out on his own recognizance and he's legally allowed to continue operating his Rio Rancho gun shop.

Andrew Davis was indicted by a grand jury last month on four counts of criminal sexual penetration of a minor age 13 to 18.  At his most recent hearing, he pleaded not guilty and the judge allowed him to continue operating Bulldog Firearms, despite the criminal case.  His attorney found the legal loophole in federal statute 18 USC Sec. 925 B.

But now the father of the plaintiff says he is afraid Davis will harass his daughter, and he says they have no legal protections.

"You deal with it initially, and it almost becomes an issue on paper so it's a little better to deal with, and then you have to relive this process over and over again that brings the anger out," the father said.

The plaintiff's attorney is pushing for Davis to be on an ankle monitoring device while this case plays out, but another hearing for Davis has not been scheduled yet.

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"Kitten Scanner" Used At Arkansas Children's Hospital To Ease Fear Of MRIs

9/23/2014

Where's the outrage?

LITTLE ROCK, AR -- Today 8-year-old Evan Tracy will get an MRI, but first he gets to learn how it works on what's called a Kitten Scanner.

It turns what can be a scary medical procedure into child's play.

Evan picks a "patient" which is a plastic toy and puts it on the toy scanner.

Then, a video plays to explain what happens and how the scan works.

Evan said, "That you got to be still and not to be afraid."

Evan's now ready for the real MRI.

Medical staff at Arkansas Children's Hospital say while the Kitten Scanner is a fun toy, it serves a serious purpose.

Mandy Fenwick, with Arkansas Children's Hospital, said, "So they know exactly what you're expecting the whole process."

It helps to calm the child's nerves because, while painless, some MRI scans last up to two hours.

Fenwick said, "And I have kids say well I can be still like Robert the Robot."

Radiology Director Karen Craig says the Kitten Scanner reduces the need of sedation in 43% of MRI and CT scan patients, which makes the procedure safer.

Craig said, "I think a piece of it is just the fear of the unknown with the kids, they do much better when they sort of know what to expect."

So playing make-believe helps the reality of the procedure become a little less scary.

The Kitten Scanner is most effective for children between the ages of four and ten-years-old.

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