Society's Child
Here's one you haven't heard about. I happened upon it by sheer accident.
Antwon Rose II was a 17-year-old boy shot by an East Pittsburgh police officer in June 2018 after he bolted from a jitney car that had been stopped by the officer. The Times published about a half-dozen stories on Antwon Rose — or as the Times calls him, "Antwon, who was unarmed."
"The debt of these disabled veterans will be completely erased," Trump said. "That's hundreds of millions of dollars of student loans debt for our disabled veterans that will be completely erased."
The memo Trump signed directs the government to develop an "expedited" process so veterans can have their federal student loan debt discharged "with minimal burdens." Currently, just half of the roughly 50,000 disabled veterans who are qualified to have their federal student loan debt forgiven have received the benefit because of a burdensome application process.

Mausoleum wall of the exclusive palm-lined cemetery on the fringes of the Florida Everglades.
Sources believe the pedophile financier's remains were transported to Loxahatchee, Florida so they could be entombed beside his parents, Pauline 'Paula' and Seymour Epstein.
Cemetery staff have refused to say why they mysteriously removed the couple's memorial plate last Wednesday - the day after 66-year-old Epstein's low-key funeral in New York - and replaced it with a blank white slab.
The neighboring crypt has a brand new, unmarked plate but when DailyMail.com contacted Epstein's only sibling Mark to confirm that the sex offender's remains were sealed inside, he raged: 'It's nobody's f**king business.'
Mark, 65 - sole heir to the predator's $577 million fortune - added: 'It's a private family matter, you got that? I'm not going to answer your question.'
Comment: Actually, it's not clear that Mark Epstein gets the money. Not all of it anyway.
Nothing to see here! Epstein created $578M trust two days prior to his death
Shares of Overstock popped as much as 17% after being halted for the news. Shares were up 9% later in the afternoon.
Byrne said in a statement:
"In July I came forward to a small set of journalists regarding my involvement in certain government matters. Doing so was not my first choice, but I was reminded of the damage done to our nation for three years and felt my duty as a citizen precluded me from staying silent any longer. Though patriotic Americans are writing me in support, my presence may affect and complicate all manner of business relationships, from insurability to strategic discussions regarding our retail business.
"Thus, while I believe that I did what was necessary for the good of the country, for the good of the firm, I am in the sad position of having to sever ties with Overstock, both as CEO and board member, effective Thursday August 22."
Comment: See also:
- Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne provided docs to DOJ on FBI's probes into Russia and Hillary Clinton
- Another Russia Probe twist: The billionaire CEO, the convicted Russian agent and the FBI
- New twist in Butina case: FBI informant seduced her, but even he believes she is NOT a Russian agent
- Overstock CEO: Plans to accept Bitcoin
Analysts at the Media Research Center (MRC) found that MSNBC interviewed congressional Democrats 13 times more than their GOP counterparts, and on CNN, the ratio "was a still wildly-imbalanced four to one (136 vs. 29)."
The study said:
MRC analysts examined every broadcast from 6am ET to midnight ET on CNN and MSNBC during three randomly-selected weeks when Congress was in session (January 7-11, March 25-29 and June 10-14), amounting to 540 hours of programming. Each network conducted virtually the same number of interviews with sitting members of Congress: 159 on MSNBC, vs. 165 on CNN.On August 5, President Trump criticized the media on Twitter for its failure to be fair and balanced in their news coverage following two mass shootings which occurred on August 3.
Despite the current Republican majority in the Senate, Democrats accounted for 90 (87%) out of a total of 103 interviews with Senators, while Republican Senators received just 10 (10%).
The split was virtually identical among members of the House: 199 (87%) were Democrats, while the remaining 30 (13%) were Republicans.
The "Do a good turn daily" group has been hit with more sexual abuse lawsuits thanks to a state law allowing victims to bring new legal claims on old abuses.
The nine new suits were filed late Monday in both Manhattan Supreme Court and Nassau County Supreme Court by lawyers on behalf of victims who charge that they were sexually abused as children by scout leaders in the late 1950s, '60s, '70s, and '80s.
The suits bring negligence claims made possible by the Child Victims Act, which took effect last week and opened a one-year window allowing victims to bring civil claims regardless of when the alleged abuse occurred. The suits allege:
"Defendants have known for decades that sexual predators had infiltrated scouting, desiring positions around children, due in part to their sexual interest in children.The suits claim that the existence of the Boy Scouts' internal "perversion files' listing some 7,800 problematic scout leaders
"Defendants knew or should have known of the danger that pedophiles presented to children participating in scouting before [plaintiffs were] abused."
"demonstrate that the Boy Scouts were aware and have been aware that pedophiles are attracted to scouting, the distinctive characteristics of scouting render scouts particularly susceptible to pedophiles who are given authority, and the actual and apparent authority of persons who serve in scoutmaster roles are used by pedophiles to sexually abuse young scouts in and out of scouting."
Comment: See also:
- Lawyer claims Boy Scouts of America has 'perversion files' covering nearly 8,000 alleged sexual offenders
- Pedocracy: Nine more lawsuits accuse Boy Scouts ofAmerica of protecting 8,000 child rapists for decades
- Boy Scouts hit with lawsuit for allowing pedophile serial abuser to prey on boys
The U.S. Center for SafeSport announced the decision on Wednesday, two weeks after Adam Schmidt accused the 73-year-old coach of sexually abusing him while he trained as a teenager from 1999 to 2001.
Schmidt, previously known as Adam Badaani, filed a lawsuit against Callaghan, U.S. Figure Skating and the Onyx Ice Arena where he trained alleging that USFS failed to protect him after skater Craig Maurizi accused Callaghan of abusing him from 1977 to 1986 when he was as young as 13 years old.
"How did this happen?" Schmidt told ABC News after filing his lawsuit. "Why 20 years ago did everyone know and do nothing? Because if they would have done something then ... I never would have been abused."
The new ad, which launched last week, stars Australian firefighter and personal trainer Ben Ziekenheiner. "I've been a firefighter for 19 years," Mr Ziekenheiner says in the ad.
"People sometimes ask if it's scary. It can be, but like anyone who has a job to do, you prepare — not just in terms of your equipment but also mentally and physically."
The ad spruiks the brand's SkinGuard range, highlighting the issue of sensitive skin for men who shave every day — including firefighters, who are required to be clean-shaven as it enables a proper seal for their breathing mask.
Five-year-old Zarina Avgonova disappeared around 2pm on Sunday. Reports say she may have wandered off from the village of Stepanovka in Nizhny Novgorod Region, 460km from Moscow, to a forest nearby while looking for relatives who went mushroom picking.
Rescue teams first searched the village. Then more than 800 people, many of whom were volunteers, began searching the woods, as divers examined several lakes and the Sarma River. The forest was hit by a thunderstorm with heavy rain on the first night of the operation, hampering their efforts. The fog was another problem. "The fog makes it hard to search during the night - it doesn't go away until sunrise," one of the volunteers said.

A Mexican judge ruled, for the first time, to allow two petitioners to "possess, transport and use cocaine," but not to sell it
The rulings, the first of their kind in Mexico, would allow the two petitioners to "possess, transport and use cocaine," but not to sell it, according to Mexico United Against Crime, an organization devoted to ending the Latin American country's "war on drugs."
The Mexico City court ordered the national health regulator, COFEPRIS, to authorize the petitioners' cocaine use in personal, recreational doses, the organization said.













Comment: The relief of a debt burden on those who have served is commendable. Now that reform needs to be extended to Veterans Affairs in its entirety.