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So Nasty And So Rude: Outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder Blasts Critics In Email ‘Kiss My A**!’

Eric don’t play that! Eric Holder Blasts Critics In Newly Released Emails Eric Holder, the first black Attorney General who recently resigned from office , is being outed for blasting some of his critics in emails. In one in particular a very frustrated Holder suggested “some people can kiss my a**.” Welp! The Huffington Post reports: Newly released emails show Attorney General Eric Holder said that Justice Department prosecutors who were critical of the department’s handling of the fallout of the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal could “kiss my a**.” Operation Fast and Furious was a botched effort by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to track firearms across the Southwest border. Revelations about it created a political firestorm, leading to congressional investigations and turnover within the ATF and Justice Department. The Justice Department selectively provided a batch of emails this week to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The Associated Press obtained the emails on Friday. In one email from March 2011, after being sent a news story about the Fast and Furious investigation, Holder told staff, “I hope there is another side to the story.” Later, after the ATF deputy director assured Holder aides that “we did not allow guns to walk,” Holder responded to staff with, “Do they really, really know?” That August, Holder was told by staff that about 25 U.S. attorneys was upset that the resignation of Dennis Burke, then the U.S. attorney in Arizona, was announced simultaneously with the reassignment of ATF Acting Director Ken Melson. Holder wondered “why wouldn’t we get the benefit of the doubt. Assume we’re doing things for the right reasons and in the right way.” Holder later added, “Some people can kiss my a**.” It’s obvious that the Attorney General was at his wit’s end over the gun-walking scandal. Do you think what he said was fair or foul??

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People Aint Isht: Man Kills His 29-Year-Old Girlfriend And Stuffs Her Into A Garbage Can In Their Bronx Apartment

How cold to kill a human being and throw them away like trash. Man Kills Girlfriend According to The NY Daily News A 29-year-old NYPD employee was killed by her jealous boyfriend, who stuffed her body in a trash can inside their Bronx apartment, police and friends of the couple said. Cops on routine patrol noticed livery cab driver Moises Martinez, 52, inside his maroon Lincoln Town Car, which was parked on the sidewalk in front of the building he shared with victim Yajaira Reyes, about 5:40 a.m. Sunday. Cops told him to scram from the illegal spot outside the building on Walton Ave., but Martinez merely circled the block and returned, seeming nervous. That’s when police questioned him. When officers entered the couple’s apartment, they saw Reyes’ body crammed into a trash can. A Guatemalan immigrant, she had joined the NYPD as a traffic enforcement agent less than a year ago. Martinez was arrested on charges of murder and manslaughter. He has one prior arrest, from 2003, for stealing an automobile, police said. Martinez and Reyes were raising four kids together, neighbors said. The children were visiting their grandfather in Florida at the time of the murder, a friend said. Martinez had grown jealous over his much-younger girlfriend, friends said. “He was getting strange,” said Maximo Pena, a co-worker at Diplo car service. “He believed she was cheating on him.” Friends said the suspect’s deranged possessiveness sparked conflicts. “They’re fighting and arguing all the time,” said a neighbor who declined to give her name. Martinez was well-liked by his employers and co-workers. “According to the [livery cab] base he was a good, hardworking man,” said Fernando Mateo, head of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers. “A very quiet man.” The city medical examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine how Reyes was killed. We feel bad for those kids. Shutterstock

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People Aint Isht: Man Kills His 29-Year-Old Girlfriend And Stuffs Her Into A Garbage Can In Their Bronx Apartment

How cold to kill a human being and throw them away like trash. Man Kills Girlfriend According to The NY Daily News A 29-year-old NYPD employee was killed by her jealous boyfriend, who stuffed her body in a trash can inside their Bronx apartment, police and friends of the couple said. Cops on routine patrol noticed livery cab driver Moises Martinez, 52, inside his maroon Lincoln Town Car, which was parked on the sidewalk in front of the building he shared with victim Yajaira Reyes, about 5:40 a.m. Sunday. Cops told him to scram from the illegal spot outside the building on Walton Ave., but Martinez merely circled the block and returned, seeming nervous. That’s when police questioned him. When officers entered the couple’s apartment, they saw Reyes’ body crammed into a trash can. A Guatemalan immigrant, she had joined the NYPD as a traffic enforcement agent less than a year ago. Martinez was arrested on charges of murder and manslaughter. He has one prior arrest, from 2003, for stealing an automobile, police said. Martinez and Reyes were raising four kids together, neighbors said. The children were visiting their grandfather in Florida at the time of the murder, a friend said. Martinez had grown jealous over his much-younger girlfriend, friends said. “He was getting strange,” said Maximo Pena, a co-worker at Diplo car service. “He believed she was cheating on him.” Friends said the suspect’s deranged possessiveness sparked conflicts. “They’re fighting and arguing all the time,” said a neighbor who declined to give her name. Martinez was well-liked by his employers and co-workers. “According to the [livery cab] base he was a good, hardworking man,” said Fernando Mateo, head of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers. “A very quiet man.” The city medical examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine how Reyes was killed. We feel bad for those kids. Shutterstock

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Breaking News: Southwest Airlines Jet Crashes “Nose First” At LaGuardia Airport, 10 People Injured

Wow, this had to be so scary for the passengers . Southwest Airlines Jet Collapses According to The NY Post The front landing gear of a Southwest Airlines jet collapsed upon landing at LaGuardia Airport sending the nose of the Boeing 737 crashing to the tarmac. Ten passengers were treated at the scene. Six were taken to a hospital with minor injuries, said Thomas Bosco, Acting Director of Aviation for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The six crew members were taken to another hospital for observation. Southwest Flight 345 hit the tarmac “nose first” shortly before 6 p.m. on Runway 4, sending sparks flying all around the front of the jumbo jet, a source said. “There was no warning,” the source added, referring to the unexpected crash landing. Tom Marsala, 54, and his wife, Debra, were at the airport to pick up their daughter, Reena Posten, 21, and her husband, who were returning from Nashville to celebrate their second wedding anniversary. “She texted us, ‘Our plane just crashed, but we’re all OK,’” said Marsala. “I said, ‘What?’ I couldn’t believe it,” added Debra. Port Authority firefighting and rescue units raced to the scene and deployed fire retardant foam before quickly escorting frightened passengers and crew to safety, who descended onto the runway through emergency chutes. The cause of the mishap was unclear, Soutwest said. Flights arriving at LaGuardia were being rerouted to Newark and JFK. “We are gathering details and will post a statement soon,” a Southwest Airlines spokesman said in a tweet. Thank God no one died. Simrin Player/Instagram

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NPR: Will legalizing Pot solve California’s budget woes?

Listen to the story at link – 4:14 By at least one estimate, California's largest cash crop is not milk, cheese, or oranges, it's marijuana. Some advocates say legalizing pot — and taxing it — could be a way out of the state's financial woes, and they recently secured enough signatures for a ballot initiative to do just that. But how much revenue a legal pot industry generates would depend on how prices are set. Transcript: Heres NPRs David Kestenbaum with our Planet Money team. DAVID KESTENBAUM: Right now, the price of marijuana varies a lot. The government actually studies these things. Researchers go into holding cells or if people have been arrested and asked questions like what do you pay for marijuana? According to a report published in 2004, pot in some parts of the country can cost two or three times as much as in another. Ms. ROSALIE LICCARDO PACULA (Acting Director, RAND Health; Co-Director, RAND Drug Policy Research Center): If youre close to the Canadian border and can get, you know, Canadian bud thats higher quality than ditch weed from Mexico. KESTENBAUM: Rosalie Liccardo Pacula is co-director of RANDs Drug Policy Research Center. She says some of the differences in price are just differences in quality. Ms. PACULA: Its just like wine. Theres really, really good wine and theres mediocre wine. KESTENBAUM: According to that report, hydroponically grown weed in New York can go for $1,000 an ounce. The marijuana market is a real challenge for economists to understand. Its not a black market anymore, and its not quite an open market either. Ms. PACULA: Yeah, we call it a gray market. (Soundbite of laughter) KESTENBAUM: Over a dozen states now allow marijuana for medical purposes. But federal laws still ban it. And strange things can happen when a commodity crosses that border from illegal to legal. For instance, when states began passing medical marijuana laws, Pacula assumed the price for pot would drop because now if youre growing the stuff, you didnt have to worry so much about being busted, you wouldnt need lawyers, guns, cars with secret compartments for smuggling. But this question has been studied and it looks like the opposite happened. The price of marijuana actually went up. Pacula thinks the big reason is that when pot became legal for medical purposes, more people started using it. Increased demand, more people wanting something, tends to push prices up. Kevin Johnson is the general manager of a medical marijuana dispensary in San Francisco called, Grassroots. The place is decorated like a turn-of-the-century saloon. And it does seem like more people are using marijuana these days to treat all kinds of things like insomnia. Mr. KEVIN JOHNSON (General Manager, Grassroots): Insomnia, I recommend something heavier. Any of the purple varietals tend to work very well for that, something like Purple Urkle or Granddaddy Purple or a Purple Kush. Those tend to be much dopier and sleepier. KESTENBAUM: Now, in a normal economic market, when demand goes up, suppliers -in this case pot growers – would just grow more Purple Kush, and prices would come back down. But Johnson says the marijuana market is still quirky. Before running the marijuana club, he used to run a bar, which he says was completely different. Mr. JOHNSON: When you, you know, make an order for your suppliers, for you booze, you know, its going to be delivered on time and you can get whatever Budweiser or Jameson that you need for that week. Whereas in this industry, youd never know when people are going to harvest, sometimes theyll just disappear. You dont know if they just gave up growing or they went on vacation. KESTENBAUM: If marijuana were completely legal, big corporations might start growing pot super efficiently. And people think the price could come down by at least half. After all, pot is just a plant not that different from growing tomatoes. And price is important because the cheaper pot is, the more people will use it. And whenever you think about more people smoking pot, that could mean more potential revenue from the tax. California has estimated that the tax could bring in $1.4 billion in revenue a year, though some economists think that number is high. A few weeks ago, supporters have legalization and taxation in California turned in enough signatures to put the question on the state ballot in November. http://media.2news.tv/images/0802027_marijuana.jpg added by: samantha420