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The Brooklyn DA apparently didn’t know that you’re not allowed to take the money you confiscate from convicted drug dealers and use it for your political consultants. But really, you’re not allowed to do that.
Foxer Kimberly Guilfoyle says Bowe Bergdahl is lucky Obama did a prisoner swap. “He’s pretty lucky that he was brought home the way he was because if those special forces had found him and encountered him and they were looking for him, he would have come home either in a body bag or come home and gone straight to jail.” Watch.
We’re out more about that man who tried to storm a courthouse in Cummings, Georgia, armed to the teeth and carrying explosives. His name was Dennis Marx, a gun trader, already due in court on Friday on weapons and drug charges. Marx had various gear on his person which suggested he planned to take hostages. He was also a self-proclaimed “sovereign citizen.”
TPM Reader RJ sends us more details from the neighborhood …
So Scott Brown got $1.3 million for signing on as an “advisor” for this company …
GDSI is a unusual outfit. As reported by the Globe, it was originally formed as a beauty supply company in New Jersey, then became a wireless data firm in California, before evolving into a firearms and gun technology company in south Florida last year.
The company says it is positioning itself as (deep breath) “a leader in providing small arms manufacturing, complementary security and technology solutions and knowledge-based, cyber-related, culturally attuned social consulting in unsettled areas.” But GDSI has no revenue, no patents, and no manufacturing facilities. It has issued millions of shares of stock, which trade for well under a dollar a share. (The stock’s value has fallen by half since Brown got his stash.)
More here.
Guy drives up to the front of a courthouse in Georgia “armed with an assault rifle, bullet proof vest, smoke grenades and a gas mask.” Deputies confronted him in a gun fight and killed him before he could do more than injure (non-fatally) one of the deputies.
While that mass shooter in Seattle paused to reload his gun, another student came at him with pepper spray and managed to subdue him. Pepper spray versus shotgun = brave.
Richard Lugar tells Thad Cochran that if he wants to stay in the Senate he’s going to need to show a little more spunk and energy.
Weed sherpa who guided Dowd on Colorado adventure speaks out.
