Based...

Andrea Ramsey announced in a Facebook post that she was ending her congressional campaign, calling allegations that she harassed her former employee and then retaliated against him "a lie."

The employee, Gary Funkhouser, filed the lawsuit against OneLab Inc., the Kansas City-area company where Ramsey worked as a vice president. The two parties agreed to dismiss the lawsuit after settlement talks.

Ramsey was hoping to win the right to challenge four-term incumbent Republican Kevin Yoder next year. The district contains a mix of affluent, GOP-leaning suburbs and poorer, heavily Democratic city neighborhoods. Democrat Hillary Clinton carried it in last year's presidential election.

Funkhouser filed the federal lawsuit in October 2005, four months after he was fired as a human resources manager at OneLab. Ramsey, then known as Andrea Thomas, was the company's executive vice president for human resources, a position she left in April 2006 for another job.

Harass and retaliate, is that considered sexually based?

Intent...**

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Pennsylvania man who posted several violent messages on Facebook and was convicted under a federal threat statute.

The Supreme Court rejected that view and decided that people cannot be convicted of the crime of sending threats unless they had an “awareness of some wrongdoing,” which is needed to show criminal intent.

The court’s opinion rested on a subtle point of criminal law and said nothing about the 1st Amendment or free speech. But it is likely to shield people who rant online or muse darkly about carrying out violent acts.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., however, said the court decided to focus narrowly on a historic principle of criminal law. Before someone can be convicted of a crime, they should be at least aware that what they were doing was wrong.

A defendant can be convicted if he “transmits a communication for the purpose of issuing a threat or with the knowledge that the communication will be viewed as a threat,” the chief justice said.   So Be Carefull...

It's Now...*

UFO...

Social media speculation was sky high after a line of flashing lights was seen above across the Denver area. At first glance, many saw a convoy of flashing lights lined up in a straight formation. 

Some speculated the line of lights were part of UFOs. Others were curious if they were drones. 

According to a military spokesperson, the lights actually belonged to a convoy of C-17 aircraft that were involved in an exercise. CBS Denver was told the planes were headed from South Carolina to Nevada and back.

Aviation expert Steve Cowell says the planes were flying in a formation that is commonly seen in military exercises.

"That was the echelon formation. In other words, they were all lined up in a row," Cowell said. "It is not uncommon to have these types of planes in formation, especially at night.

 Some described the line of lights in the sky as "creepy," claiming they couldn't hear any sounds coming from more than a dozen aircraft. Cowell said the planes, being military cargo aircraft, are designed to operate at quiet tones.

Slow Day...

A Louisiana private investigator [Jordan Hamlett, 32] pleaded guilty to misusing Donald Trump's Social Security number in repeated attempts to access the president's federal tax information before his election last year.

A court document accompanying Hamlett's plea agreement says he used Trump's Social Security number and other personal information to open an online application for federal student aid on Sept. 13, 2016. After obtaining a username and password, he tried to use an Internal Revenue Service data retrieval tool to obtain Trump's tax information, the document says.

"The defendant made six separate attempts to obtain the federal tax information from IRS servers, but he was unsuccessful.

Consent...

Sexual immorality is spreading rapidly among so-called Bible-believing, gospel-preaching, family-focused churches. Many of the conservative Christians probably know about a currently ongoing affair or premarital sex between active members of their own church. They may not approve of it. Many other religions have the same issues.

In Massachusetts, Consent can be just judicial, but is normally both parental and judicial. In the absence of any statutory minimum age, one opinion is that the traditional minimum common law marriageable age of 12 for girls and 14 for boys may still be in effect . Other States may have similar.

While couples or those attempt forming a relationship, may believe they are doing the right thing, their opinion is not shared by many.

However, let us keep morality and judgment out of the hands of well paid media personnel. 
Just a thought.

Riding Horse...

Indonisia's...

Indonesia's top court on Thursday ruled against petitioners seeking to make gay sex and sex outside marriage illegal in a victory for the country's besieged LGBT minority.

The 5-to-4 decision by the nine-judge panel of the Constitutional Court rejected the arguments of a conservative group, the Family Love Alliance, which believes Indonesia is being swamped by immoral behavior, fueled by the internet and social media.  

The judges in their ruling said it's not the Constitutional Court's role to criminalize private behavior or to usurp parliament by imposing laws on it. The court's decision is final.

In the past two years, LGBT Indonesians have endured a wave of hostility that has been stoked by inflammatory public statements from conservative officials and religious groups. 

D- Evidence...**

Image is not related.

In a video posted online, a woman, whose face is not shown, undoes her top and caresses her breasts while holding what appears to be a religious artifacts.

The New York Daily News reported that at least two porn videos featuring the same woman were filmed at the same church.

According to the Austrian Times, Bernhard Pauer, a priest went to police after parishioners recognized  their church in the video.

After the footage was screened on local television, a tipster came forward and said he recognized the woman's breasts. Police were then able to track down the 24-year-old amateur video star, who confessed. She now faces charges of offending religious feeling and desecration of a church.

Warning, You can't do that any more. You will leave behind..... a sizeable couple of hot tips, evidence, which will lead directly to you.  Just a thought.

...سندوتش فلافل

Dina Habib [Deputy National Security Advisor for strategy] was born in Cairo, Egypt to a middle-class, Coptic Christian family.^[20][22] Her father was a captain in the Egyptian Army, and her mother had attended American University in Cairo. Dina Habib at the age of four came to the United States with her parents and her younger sister. Dina knew no English.

The Habib family settled in Dallas, Texas, where they had relatives among the Coptic community there; the parents ran a convenience store.^[20] Her father also worked at times as a bus driver and in real estate, while her mother sometimes endeavored as a social worker.

Her family insisted that she be raised with Egyptian culture and language as well.^[20][25] As a result, she is fluent in Arabic. "I so desperately wanted a turkey and cheese sandwich, and instead I always got grape leaves, and falafel. And now, of course, I appreciate so much that I did."