Source: CBS Ch 13 WGME

NORRIDGEWOCK (WGME) – A Somerset County Sheriff's corporal has been shot and killed in Norridgewock, according to the Somerset County Sheriff's Office.

An active manhunt is underway for the suspect, who is considered armed and dangerous.

Maine State Police say between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. Wednesday, Somerset County Sheriff's Corporal Eugene Cole was shot and killed in Norridgewock.

Police say the suspect involved in the shooting stole Cole’s fully marked cruiser, drove to the Cumberland Farms in Norridgewock and committed a theft.

The suspect then fled Cumberland Farms driving Cole’s cruiser.

Read more: http://wgme.com/news/local/manhunt-underway-for-man-who-allegedly-shot-killed-somerset-county-deputy

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Never forget that the man and women of law enforcement do tough and dangerous
work every day.


Corporal Eugene Cole

Donald Trump brushed some "dandruff" off the President of France's
shoulder on a live t.v. feed and then said, "let me get that piece of
dandruff .... now you are perfect." Afterwards he called Kim Jung Un
"an honorable man."

WTF is wrong that man?

Here Are 16 of the Dumbest Things Americans Believe -- And the Right-Wing Lies Behind Them

https://www.alternet.org/here-are-16-dumbest-things-americans-believe-and-right-wing-lies-behind-them

Nearly one-fifth of Americans think Obama is a Muslim. Thanks, Fox news, for acting like this was a matter of opinion, not fact.

25 percent of Americans don’t believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution while less than 40 percent do. Consider the fact that several of our newly elected officials, specifically newly elected Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, share that belief.

Earlier this year, nearly 40 percent of Americans still believed the Sarah Palin-supported lie about "death panels" being included in health care reform.

As of just a few years ago, about half of Americans still suspected a connection between Saddam Hussein and the attacks of September 11, a lie that was reinforced by none other than Dick Cheney.

NRA supporters blow up Yeti coolers after end of discount program

Source: NY Daily News

The National Rifle Association is hot and bothered after cooler company Yeti put its relationship on ice.

The NRA posted a peeved statement on its website late last week saying that the company no longer wishes to be a vendor for the lobbying group but did not explain why.

Former NRA President Marion Hammer said that the decision, which comes after the NRA has been criticized for attacks on survivors of the Parkland school shooting, “isn’t sportsmanlike.”

Some supporters upset that they would have fewer Yeti discounts called for a boycott of the goods, which are hard-sided coolers popular at tailgates and other parties.

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Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/nra-supporters-blow-yeti-coolers-discount-program-article-1.3951287

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/987278269765517312

Shadey

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/986711015630036992

When does this all stop? This is madness.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/good-grief-cohens-gets-mobbier-the-closer-i-look

Good Grief. Cohen’s World Gets Mobbier The Closer I Look

In today’s podcast, we look into the background of Michael Cohen. TPM first reported last year that Cohen was actually a childhood friend of Felix Sater, whose father was himself a reputed capo in the Mogilevich organized crime syndicate, said to be Russia’s largest and most dangerous. Filling out this picture of how Cohen fell into this milieu we’ve always been focused on the fact that Cohen’s uncle, Morton Levine, owned and ran a Brooklyn social club, El Caribe, which was a well-known meeting spot for members of Italian and Russian organized crime families in the 1970s and 1980s. (Levine, a medical doctor has never been charged with a crime.) But now it turns out there’s a bit more to this story.

I came across this in a January AP article about Boris Nayfeld, one-time organized crime boss in Brooklyn who now wants to go home to Russia to start a new life. Nayfeld is 70 and he just finished his latest prison sentence. The whole story is a bit low energy and a sad sack in a nonetheless menacing and predatory way.

According to published reports, in the 70s and early 80s, the boss of the Russian mob in New York (and for practical purposes the whole U.S) was a man named Evsei Agron. Things ended badly for Agron when was gunned down in a mob hit in 1985. After Agron was assassinated, his organization was taken over by under-boss Marat Balagula. Authorities believed Balagula was behind Agron’s killing. But he was never charged with the crime. Balagula ran things until 1991 when he was convicted of gasoline bootlegging. Nayfeld had been the bodyguard and enforcer for both Agron and Balagula, one would say more successfully in the latter case than the former. He took over the organization when Balagula went to prison.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/986576502358671361

NO COLLUSION except for Trump's lawyer trip to Prague to meet w/
a pay off Russians for hacking and rigging our elections.

McClatchy: Mueller has evidence Cohen was in Prague in 2016, confirming part of dossier



But investigators have traced evidence that Cohen entered the Czech Republic through Germany, apparently during August or early September of 2016 as the ex-spy reported, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is confidential. He wouldn’t have needed a passport for such a trip, because both countries are in the so-called Schengen Area in which 26 nations operate with open borders. The disclosure still left a puzzle: The sources did not say whether Cohen took a commercial flight or private jet to Europe, and gave no explanation as to why no record of such a trip has surfaced.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article208870264.html#storylink=cpy