Police have found the father of the girl left alone in an apartment full of weapons in Little Havana.

Luis Bianchi, 25, is being held on $5,000 bond on child neglect charges, according to Miami Police.

Officials began looking for the man Wednesday night when they were alerted that a 3-year-old was roaming the halls of her father's apartment at 922 SW 3rd Street.

When police arrived, they entered the apartment that the girl and neighbors said she lived in to try to find her parents. When they checked the bedroom, officers noticed several high-powered weapons, specifically AR-15s, and a grenade sitting on a table in plain view, according to an arrest affidavit.

Officials said the weapons were unsecured and in arms reach of the child.

Link, and h/t The Politics Blog @ Esquire.

Even if he hadn't had the weapons, he shouldn't have left a 3-year old alone in the apartment - guns aren't the only thing that can harm a child.  

The father said he left the child after he talked to her mother, who was supposed to be on the way.  The police were still looking for her parents the next morning - her father didn't even know about any of this until he saw it on the news, so I guess he didn't even think to check with the child's mother to see if she had gotten there.  

Good luck to the kid - she's probably headed for foster care and all that goes with that.  

Have a good humpday, my friends.

Naturally, this type of fraud is a criminal act, a felony, when committed by you, or me. But, our "watchdogs" concluded that a sternly worded letter, a promise never to do it again, and ten minute's profits, was enough of a penalty for these Job Creators.

 And, as always, no one goes to jail, the executives who authorized the criminal acts pay nothing out-of-pocket, and, they don't even have to admit that committing crimes is criminal. They just felt that shelling out half a billion dollars was a small price to pay to get this "nuisance" off their desks.

 Unqualified pronouncements such as less care is better, or fewer tests are needed may make some sense in a static economic field, but not in one with the dynamism of health care.  A case in point:

Until recently, it was determined that there was too little evidence to justify annual X-ray screening for lung cancer--such testing seldom caught the tumors early enough.  However, based on new large scale clinical  trials by the National Cancer Institute, computed tomography (CT) scans can detect much smaller tumors and reduce mortality by 16 percent among patients with high risk.

Based on these results, the US Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends (still in draft form) annual CT screening for those at high risk (55-74 years old, currently smoking or have quit within the past 15 years, pack a day for 30 years, or two packs/day for 15 years).  

At this critical historical moment, when a major Hollywood production could have alerted the world to what was going on in Germany, the director did not have the final cut; the Nazis did.

2/27/2012 - Fox Orlando airs report with  eyewitness "John" Good  interview at his door.  It includes interviews with Brandy Green, who is clearly identified in the video, as well as, Tracy Martin.

2/27/2012  to  3/23/2012:

-Orlando story is picked up by some sources, but largely is missed or attempts are made to discredit the eyewitness account.

-Fox Orlando link to the original airing appears to stop working.  I am unable to locate the original on their website.  Here is the original report: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfN7-2ErEk4

3/23/2012 - Fox Tampa Bay airs an altered version of the Orlando story, including eyewitness "John" Good interview at his door, calling "John" someone we have not heard from before now.  Brandy Green's and Tracy Martin's video interview are cut from the new version.

3/26/2012 - Fox News Hannity airs a report that does mention the eyewitness for the fist time.  The transcript of the show refers to the "John" Good interview at his door, but I cannot determine if the video was actually used, and the transcript is bad.  Here is the link...note the video starts after the "John" Good transcript and it makes sense based on the discussion that the video NEVER aired:
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/2012/03/27/witness-reportedly-saw-trayvon-martin-beating-georg e-zimmerman-shooting?page=1

After 4/??/2012 - The Fox Tampa report from 3/23 appears to have been removed from the Tampa website.
Here it is:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilrviX8LIZs

Not what you hope will happen, but rather what you think realistically will happen.

Guess what?

It's not.

Four years ago, North Carolina was thought to be in transition, a Southern state turning blue in President Obama's "new America." But at the close of its legislative session last Friday, the Tar Heel State showed its true hue: deep red.

Since the state's legislative session began in January, lawmakers have blocked a Medicaid expansion under Obama's Affordable Care Act, reduced access to federal unemployment benefits, cut the corporate tax rate, trimmed public-education funding, passed a bill that allows concealed weapons in bars and restaurants, tackled welfare reform, proposed a ban on Shari`a, restricted access to abortion and enacted stricter voting laws.

It had been over a century since the GOP held both the legislature and governor's mansion in the moderate state, but after Republicans seized control of both houses of the general assembly in 2010, drew redistricting maps that will help solidify their control on local and federal levels over the next several years, and elected the first Republican governor since 1988 last November, state lawmakers were poised to push forward with their new, conservative agenda.

And so they have.

Over the next 30 days, Governor Pat McCrory will see 60 bills come across his desk, after what has been one of the most dramatic shifts in the political leanings of a state during one legislative session in recent history. The governor has been openly critical of a few bills; he plans to veto a proposal to drug-test welfare recipients and opposes another requiring employers to verify the immigration status of their workers.

Some of the names being dropped and facing possible lengthy suspensions after being linked to Biogenesis along with Braun are:

Nelson Cruz - Texas Rangers
Everth Cabrera - San Diego Padres
Jhonny Peralta - Detroit Tigers
Alex Rodriguez - New York Yankees
Francisco Cervelli - New York Yankees
Jesus Montero - Seattle Mariners

Some others such as Bartolo Colon (Oakland A's) and Melky Cabrera (Toronto) are also linked but have already served suspensions.