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Billy Beane would let ‘Jeopardy!’ champ James Holzhauer ‘ruin’ baseball
Post Date: 2019-05-10 11:04:14 by Deckard
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Recently, record-breaking “Jeopardy!” champ James Holzhauer said that his real dream was to work in a Major League Baseball front office. He loves baseball, of course, but as anyone who is aware of the way Holzhauer has applied an analytical framework and strategy to the popular gameshow is aware, there is a certain logic to that separate and apart from a love for the game. It’s not an exaggeration to say that he has, for lack of a better term, hacked “Jeopardy!” and it’s not an exaggeration to say that the modern baseball front office is largely in the business of hacking baseball, with each trying to get the most out of it they possibly can. Holzhauer’s ...
Run Out of Gas? Hut! Hut! Hut!
Post Date: 2019-05-10 09:20:15 by Deckard
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Running out of gas is apparently “suspicious,” too – and justifies a Hut! Hut! Hutting! Two guys in a black SUV were forcibly removed from their SUV, shackled and subjected to the demeaning “sit on the curb” Submission Training Exercise popular with AGWs as a tool for establishing their dominance. But what did the driver and his passenger do to warrant this treatment? Cue Dark Helmet… absolutely nothing. Not even a traffic violation. But the AGWs eructed “suspicious” – and that gave them the power to handle the two men as presumptive criminals, in the absence of any evidence that a crime had been committed. The men were forced ...
Our Former Right to Travel – And How to Reclaim It
Post Date: 2019-05-10 08:55:31 by Deckard
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Control mobility – free movement – and you have controlled the population. Their other rights are automatically cheapened into functional irrelevance if the right to come and go without permission and free from interference is denied. And so it has been. It took a couple of generations, but most Americans seem to implicitly accept the idea that travel – even on foot – is a conditional privilege conferred (and legitimately regulated) by “the government.” Which of course is just an evasive euphemism for the busybodies and control freaks who have somehow acquired a legal monopoly on the use of force – and who use its threat (and actuality) to enforce ...
Study: The 'War On Cops' Is Pure Bullshit
Post Date: 2019-05-10 08:19:48 by Deckard
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from the it-keeps-the-money-rolling-in-though deptFri, Apr 26th 2019 10:44am — Tim Cushing The "War on Cops" is a belief system that's currently being preached to the converted. Evidence abounds that it's safer to be a cop now than it's ever been, and yet, officers still claim they're being targeted and use these unfounded fears to obtain military equipment and qualified immunity rulings. We've covered how safe police work is here before. But the narrative coming from the law enforcement community refuses to change, despite evidence to the contrary. Research is piling up, exposing law enforcement agencies' claims of cops being targeted by a vengeful ...
You Apparently Can't Win A Drug War Without Sexually Abusing Kids And Murdering Parents
Post Date: 2019-05-10 08:08:49 by Deckard
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from the flag-emojis-and-etc. deptMon, May 6th 2019 11:58am — Tim Cushing This is the price we're paying to win fight stand our ground during participate in a drug war. We take criminals under our wing, turn them into informants, and send them out into the general population to engage in criminal activity -- all under the assumption this will eventually lead to the dismantling of a drug cartel. Of course, this is the same rationale propelling civil asset forfeiture. But no matter how much property is taken from people never charged with crimes, drug cartels remain intact and their products continue to flow into the country. But that's only dollars and cars and houses lost. ...
Cop Shoots 14-year-old Boy Through a Fence as He Played With His Friends
Post Date: 2019-05-10 05:41:12 by Deckard
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Oklahoma City, OK — Disturbing body camera footage was released this week showing how normal childhood acts can and will lead to children being shot by police. Boys being boys is apparently now a reason for deadly force in the land of the free. Lorenzo Clerkley, 14, was playing with his friends two months ago when Oklahoma City police officer Kyle Holcomb put two bullets in him. Lorenzo was playing with friends in an abandoned house and he was also playing with toy guns with his other friends, but this was no reason for a cop to open fire—especially when the cop knew the boys were playing with toy guns. “Everything happened so quick,” Cherelle Lee, Lorenzo’s ...
Great-Grandmother Arrested at Disney World for Having CBD Oil in Her Purse
Post Date: 2019-05-10 05:35:54 by Deckard
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The Mind Unleashed – by Emma Fiala For many, a trip to Disney World is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, with some planning their trips years in advance. Sometimes, even a small change in plans—like a delayed flight or a thunderstorm—can result in a big loss when it comes to both money and fun. For one great-grandmother, her trip to the most magical place on earth turned into a nightmare. The 69-year-old woman from North Carolina was visiting Disney World when she was arrested after an Orange County Deputy discovered CBD oil in her purse. The great-grandmother, Hester Jordan Burkhalter, had been using CBD oil to treat arthritis on a recommendation from her doctor. She ...
Denver voters narrowly pass ‘magic mushroom’ measure (Shrooms decriminalized )
Post Date: 2019-05-09 20:20:28 by Hondo68
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DENVER — The Mile High City has become the first U.S. city to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms, commonly referred to as "magic mushrooms."Initiative 301 narrowly squeaked by, passing with only 50.56% of the vote, according to the final unofficial results. The measure appeared to be losing in early returns, with the "no" votes holding a substantial lead.The initiative would effectively decriminalize use or possession of psilocybin by people 21 and older, making it the lowest enforcement priority for police and prosecutors. The measure does not legalize psilocybin or permit its sale by cannabis businesses.The ordinance would also prevent city funds from being used ...
‘Somebody Help!’: Cops Handcuff Mentally Challenged Boy, Before Pepper Spraying & Beating Him
Post Date: 2019-05-09 08:29:01 by Deckard
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Albion, MI — Utterly horrifying and extremely hard to watch body camera footage has just been released of the arrest of a 13-year-old boy, whose only ‘crime’ had been acting up at home. Da’veon Cieslack, the mentally ill child had been hiding his grandmother’s keys and throwing pillows and so police showed up, handcuffed him, threw him in the back of a cruiser and proceeded to savagely beat him. The incident occurred on November 24, 2018 as police were called out to a home to deal with the 13-year-old. The boy’s grandmother called them and rather than deal with her own flesh and blood herself, she had police do the dirty work—and dirty it was. When police ...
D Is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
Post Date: 2019-05-09 08:17:59 by Deckard
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“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility.” — Professor Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Discourse in the Age of Show Business What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater. And what political ...
Denver Just Became the First U.S. City to Decriminalize Psychedelic Mushrooms
Post Date: 2019-05-09 07:21:59 by Deckard
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23In a surprise turn of events, a Denver ballot initiative to effectively decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms, previously thought to have failed, now appears to have narrowly passed after all. This would make the Mile High City the first in the U.S. to decriminalize psilocybin.If the unofficial final tally holds, Denver law enforcement will be directed to treat psychedelic mushrooms owned for personal possession as the lowest enforcement priority. The initiative will not legalize commercial sales."We're sending a clear signal to the rest of the country," Kevin Matthews, the leader of the "Decriminalize Denver" movement, which placed the initiative on the ...
Trump Asserts Executive Privilege Over Full Mueller Report
Post Date: 2019-05-08 11:03:58 by Willie Green
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WASHINGTON — President Trump asserted executive privilege on Wednesday in an effort to shield hidden portions of Robert S. Mueller III’s unredacted report and the evidence he collected from Congress. The assertion, Mr. Trump’s first use of the secrecy powers as president, came as the House Judiciary Committee is expected to vote Wednesday morning to recommend the House of Representatives hold Attorney General William P. Barr in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena for the same material. “This is to advise you that the president has asserted executive privilege over the entirety of the subpoenaed materials,” a Justice Department official, Stephen E. Boyd, ...
"Stop The TV Whore Takeover": Drone Drops Nazi Flyers On Sacramento State Bridge Dinner
Post Date: 2019-05-08 08:43:38 by Deckard
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Hundreds gathered at an outdoor college fundraiser in downtown Sacramento Friday evening; residents were abruptly interrupted when a drone buzzed overhead and dropped Nazi propaganda flyers, reported The State Hornet. Flyers landed on Sacramento State's annual "Bites on the Bridge" Farm-to-Fork dinner held on Guy West Bridge, a suspension bridge for students linking the school with campus dorms. Additional reports said flyers were also dropped around the Golden 1 Center, where thousands were waiting to enter the stadium for an Ariana Grande concert. The flyers, marked with swastikas and statements like "stop the TV whore takeover" and "the press is the ...
"Dystopian Approach": SEC Blesses MasterCard's Idea Of Cutting Off Customers With Right-Wing Views
Post Date: 2019-05-08 08:30:34 by Deckard
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Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden Blocking payments to individuals or groups by financial service firms impedes freedom of speech in a free society, journalist Ben Swann has told RT, following reports that MasterCard is allegedly on course to censor the far-right. The New York-based firm is reportedly being forced by left-leaning liberal activists to set up an internal “human rights committee” that would monitor payments to “white supremacist groups and anti-Islam activists.” “The problem is that everyone has their own views and, in a free society, the idea of a free society is that you are free to have ...
Cop Tells Tiny Elderly Man to ‘Slap Me’ and Then Beats and Arrests Him for Doing It
Post Date: 2019-05-08 08:25:59 by Deckard
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Houston, TX — As our regular readers know, police officers acting inappropriately is more common than most of the public believes. From crashing cruisers into schools while snorting xanax to pulling people over to ask them on a date, cops have made some incredibly poor decisions. One of these poor decisions was captured on video recently and shows a deputy with the Harris County Sheriff’s department encouraging an elderly man to slap him. According to police, they were responding to a disturbance outside an IHOP on Sept. 30, 2018 when one of the deputies became engaged with an innocent 61-year-old man unrelated to the call. While they were talking, the deputy randomly challenged ...
Trump’s hotels and casinos lost $1.17 billion over 10 years
Post Date: 2019-05-08 08:10:03 by Deckard
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Daily MailIn the span of nearly a decade, Donald Trump lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer, a new report has claimed.Ten years of Trump’s official Internal Revenue Service tax transcriptions, obtained by the New York Times, make shocking reading.The figures, which date from 1985 to 1994, reveal that the future president lost $1.17billion in 10 years. Every year from 1985 through 1994, Trump reported a negative adjusted gross income – an individual’s total gross income minus specific deductions – on his tax returns.In fact, Trump lost so much money that he didn’t have to pay income taxes for eight of the 10 ...
President Trump Blames Kentucky Derby Disqualification on 'Political Correctness'
Post Date: 2019-05-06 11:07:37 by Deckard
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President Donald Trump weighed in yesterday on the interference disqualification that shook Saturday's Kentucky Derby.Race stewards determined that the first horse to cross the finish line, Maximum Security, had moved to the outside of the track, blocking the path of other horses. The race officials disqualified Maximum Security for interference and handed the win to second place finisher Country House. It was the first case of an apparent winner being disqualified for interference in the Derby’s 145-year history.Trump expressing his displeasure at the judge's decision and blaming the outcome on "political correctness.""The Kentucky Derby decision was not a good ...
Facebook to Ban Users Who Share Infowars Content Unless It Is “Explicitly Condemning” It
Post Date: 2019-05-06 09:34:08 by Deckard
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By Matt Agorist In one of the most disturbing moves by Facebook we’ve ever seen, the platform banned Alex Jones and other controversial U.S. political personalities for violating the social media company’s policies on “dangerous individuals and organizations.” Most of the individuals who’ve been unilaterally wiped off the face of the largest social media space in the world are far right activists like Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer and Paul Joseph Watson. However, in a seeming move to appease those on the right who advocate for equal censorship, Facebook also banned far left Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. While Facebook has previously banned Infowars from ...
2019 Kentucky Derby odds, best predictions: Expert who has nailed 9 Derby-Oaks Doubles releases picks
Post Date: 2019-05-04 16:44:28 by buckeroo
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The 2019 Kentucky Derby field is down to 19 after Gotham Stakes winner and double-digit longshot Haikal scratched from the race on Friday morning with a foot abscess. He's the second horse to withdraw from Saturday's 2019 Kentucky Derby, as Omaha Beach, the morning-line favorite, scratched on Wednesday with a breathing issue. This will be the first time since 2015 that the Run for the Roses will have less than a full field of 20. The latest 2019 Kentucky Derby weather is calling for a soggy day at Churchill Downs, with rain chances over 70 percent ahead of the 6:46 p.m. ET post time. Three horses trained by Bob Baffert are among the top favorites: Game Winner (6-1), Improbable (5-1) ...
Cop Indicted After Video Shows Him Kill Unarmed Man Over Stop for Expired Vehicle Sticker
Post Date: 2019-05-03 07:01:38 by Deckard
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Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist Arlington, TX — O’Shae Terry and his friend were stopped last September by Arlington police officer Julie Herlihy because the temporary tag on Terry’s vehicle had expired. Officer Bau Tran would also respond to the stop, and ten minutes later, he would shoot and kill Terry. For killing Terry, Tran was indicted this week on a charge of criminally negligent homicide. “The Grand Jury’s decision, irrespective of the outcome, is viewed as an additional factual piece of information to consider by those responsible for the administrative investigation of this incident,” Arlington police said in a news release after ...
Police Union Protects Another Bad Cop, This Time Despite Domestic Violence Allegations
Post Date: 2019-05-03 06:55:38 by Deckard
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Thanks to a police union, Officer Darren Cachola has managed to stay on the job despite a firing, brutality and abuse allegations, and a video of him punching his girlfriend. (HUGH GENTRY/REUTERS/Newscom) Despite another domestic abuse incident, Officer Darren Cachola might once again get to keep his job at the Honolulu Police Department (HPD). Cachola was arrested Tuesday for felony abuse of an unspecified member in his house. Following his arrest, the Star Adviser revealed a long history of brutality both in Cachola's professional and personal lives. He once kicked a motorcyclist and broke their ribs during a traffic stop. He was also caught on camera hitting his former ...
US Navy Sailors Told to Clap Like They’re ‘at a Strip Club’ for Pence
Post Date: 2019-05-02 21:16:59 by Hondo68
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US Navy Sailors Told to Clap Like They’re ‘at a Strip Club’ for Pence - Reporter © Facebook/WTKR News 3 Before US Vice President Mike Pence took the podium to address the sailors of the USS Harry S. Truman Tuesday, the members of the armed forces were reportedly given particularly puzzling instruction on how to welcome the VP.On Tuesday afternoon, Pence traveled to Norfolk Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia, to deliver a message from US President Donald Trump while also recognizing the 2,000-plus missions the USS Harry S. Truman and its 7,500 sailors have been a part of in the past year. The vice president, via Twitter following his ...
Admitted Child Rapist Gets NO JAIL as Cancer Patient Faces Years for Using Cannabis
Post Date: 2019-05-02 06:40:49 by Deckard
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Watertown, NY — If ever you feel that the state has your interests in mind when they provide their mandatory “protection” through this system of law enforcement, consider the following scenario which completely negates that idea. This week, Shane Piche, a school bus driver, pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old girl who rode his bus. Last year, Piche lured the child to his home after school where he gave her alcohol before raping her. He admitted to the facts of this case, yet the legal system which is ostensibly in place to protect society’s most vulnerable didn’t give him so much as a slap on the wrist. For this horrific act, Piche will spend the next 10 years ...
US test-launches nuclear-capable Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (Vandenberg AFB)
Post Date: 2019-05-01 20:10:02 by Hondo68
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© Facebook / Vandenberg Air Force Base The US has tested an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM, launching it from southern California towards the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. The nuclear-capable missile successfully hit its target. The missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base early Wednesday. The projectile traveled 4,200 miles (6,759km) over the Pacific towards a target placed on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Video of the launch shows the missile silo opening before liftoff, as well as the ascent of the projectile. The footage does not show the final stages of the missile’s flight, though it is said to have successfully hit the mock target.While you were ...
Former police officer found guilty of third-degree murder in woman's shooting death
Post Date: 2019-05-01 05:19:46 by Deckard
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A former Minneapolis police officer has been found guilty of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the July 2017 shooting death of an unarmed woman who had called police to her home to investigate a possible attack outside. Jurors read the verdict against former officer Mohamed Noor in the death of 40-year-old Justine Ruszczyk Damond of Australia on Tuesday afternoon. Noor was found not guilty of the top charge of second-degree murder.(MORE: Minnesota grand jury convening in police killing of Australian woman) "We are satisfied with the outcome," Justine's father, John Ruszczyk, said outside the courthouse following the verdict. "The jury's decision ...
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