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Don’t Bet On It [legal sports gambling]
Post Date: 2018-05-16 13:21:12 by Tooconservative
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The Supreme Court has opened the floodgates to sports betting by overturning a federal law restricting legal betting on games. More than a dozen states are likely to join New Jersey, which brought the suit challenging the1992 federal law, in instituting legalized betting on the NFL, NBA, and other leagues. Other states, under pressure to balance their budgets without raising taxes, will surely follow. Don’t bet, however, that this is good news for taxpayers. Since states began instituting lotteries six decades ago, legalized gambling has spread throughout the United States. Advocates have often touted gambling as a magic bullet to generate revenues, but it hasn’t delivered. And ...
Louisiana Is Determined to Keep You Safe from Rogue Florists
Post Date: 2018-05-16 09:40:56 by Deckard
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With Mother’s Day upon us, people are wondering what to get their mothers as a token of appreciation. Flowers are a classic gift. Beautiful bouquets are available everywhere, but customers in Louisiana are unique in that their florists must obtain licenses to practice their profession. After a bill that would have repealed the licensing requirement was defeated in the State Senate Agriculture Committee by a 6 to 1 vote this week, licensing will remain the case for the immediate future. Louisiana should remove this licensing requirement for florists. It would create more opportunities for would-be florists, and lower prices for people looking for flower arrangements, ...
USMC Vet Pulled from Car, Mauled by K9 Over Stop for Missing Front License Plate
Post Date: 2018-05-16 05:50:06 by Deckard
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Canton, OH — In the Land of the Free, police officers can and will escalate a situation to the point of kidnapping, severely injuring, or killing you for failing to place a license plate in the front of your car. The extremely graphic footage below is evidence of this policy and it is nothing short of horrifying. Ron Wagner II had harmed no one, had stolen nothing, and was merely driving his car, when he was stopped by police in Canton, Ohio. During the stop, Wagner, knowing he’d hurt no one, decided to not give his ID to police as a form of peaceful protest to a state code that he feels violates the constitution. Wagner was stopped for failing to screw a license plate to the ...
Woman Calls for Help to Catch Two Dogs, Cops Respond by Running Over, Shooting Them
Post Date: 2018-05-16 05:45:55 by Deckard
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Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns Newark, Delaware – Police officers are being criticized for their response to a call about two stray dogs, and the concerned citizen who called animal control to ask for help is saying that the officers’ actions were actually what she hoped she could save the dogs from. Leigh Spencer told Fox 29 that she was horrified when she witnessed the officers intentionally trying to run over over the dogs with their patrol cars. “I was the one that called Animal Control, and this was the outcome,” she said. Spencer said that about a dozen police officers initially showed up and began clapping their hands and ...
Fight the Populist Right, the Progressive Left, and the Governments They Control
Post Date: 2018-05-16 05:20:36 by Deckard
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Democrats and Republicans reject individualism and free speech and both have become dangerous to our liberty.In America 2018, the dominant political tribes despise all things that make America worth a damn. The populist right rejects individualism in favor of a raw cult of personality that demands unthinking loyalty to the Great Leader. The progressive left rejects debate in favor of repressing those who would dare offer opposing views. What's a decent person to do but spurn both political tribes and work to undermine the governments they dominate? "My husband and I are watching closely to see who supports our president," wrote a voter whose comments were read aloud this week ...
Come clean McCain
Post Date: 2018-05-15 16:02:49 by BobCeleste
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Why hasn't McCain explained this? Come clean McCain.
Poster Comment:Countries build memorials to their heroes not their enemy captives.
Police use spying doorbells to create digital neighborhood watch networks
Post Date: 2018-05-15 10:39:42 by Deckard
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MassPrivateI It seems like all I have been writing about lately, is how police are using cam-share programs to create city-wide surveillance networks. When I first heard about ‘Ring’ a smart doorbell with a video camera, I didn’t think much of it. I mean how could the police state turn what appeared to be an innocuous smart device into another surveillance tool? Enter Amazon, who recently purchased Ring for $1 billion dollars. Fast forward a few months and Amazon announces that Ring is on a mission to work with law enforcement across the country. “Ring a company on a mission to reduce crime in neighborhoods, today launched the Neighbors app on ...
Serial Killer, Molesting Kids, Selling Drugs: 10 Things Cops Got Caught Doing Last Month
Post Date: 2018-05-15 10:24:31 by Deckard
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(ANTIMEDIA) — “By demonizing the police,” right-wing commentator Tomi Lahren screeched this week while scolding celebrities for raising awareness about police violence, “you’re putting the communities you claim to care about at risk because it’s our officers who protect those communities and all communities.” 1. A New Jersey police officer was arrested Friday amid charges of selling narcotics out of his police car. While the entire premise of the drug war and prohibition is highly questionable, so is a sworn officer of “the law” directly breaking it. This is not an uncommon occurrence, as ...
The Age of Petty Tyrannies
Post Date: 2018-05-15 10:19:17 by Deckard
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“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers’ enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.”—Simone Weil, French philosopher and political activist We labor today under the weight of countless tyrannies, large ...
Man attending Route 91: ‘There is multiple active shooters here at the concert’
Post Date: 2018-05-14 09:20:22 by Deckard
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Another eyewitness video surfaces on the Innerweb in which a man mentions how multiple active shooters were possibly firing from the direction of the Mandalay Bay on the night of 1 OctoberLAS VEGAS (INTELLIHUB) — A man who attended the 1 October Route 91 Harvest Music Festival was live-streaming on Facebook from inside the venue during the shooting where he candidly admits that there was more than one shooter outside of the venue near the Mandalay Bay which coincidentally matches other eyewitness accounts reported by Intellihub. “There’s active shooters going on,” the man stated while live-streaming. “Multiple active shooters going on.” “There was multiple ...
Couple Raided by Cops for Facebook Post of LEGAL Morel Mushrooms
Post Date: 2018-05-14 09:07:26 by Deckard
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Darlington, MD — It is a travesty enough when the drug war lays waste to the rights and lives of entirely decent people who’ve harmed no one simply because they choose to ingest a substance deemed illegal by the state. However, because the drug war is such an immoral and barbaric practice, entirely innocent people are also swept up in the dragnet of tyranny and ignorance. Case in point: a couple in Maryland were raided by cops for posting photos of legal morel mushrooms they picked and ate. On Friday, John Garrison and his girlfriend Hope went foraging the mountains for some morel mushrooms. Morels are known to those in the region as being the safest mushroom to hunt for as they ...
School Calls Police on Student Who Made Gun with Legos
Post Date: 2018-05-14 08:57:54 by Deckard
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Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins School officials at Jepsen Magnet School in New Haven, Connecticut, called police on a student who made a gun out of Legos, then pointed it at other students. Fox 61 reports that Will Clark, COO of New Haven Public Schools, defended the school’s reaction to the construction of a Lego gun. He said: School leaders and local police partners were able to investigate and resolve the issue internally with use of restorative practices. Appropriate steps were taken at the school level to insure the safety of all students and to impress upon the students the seriousness of engaging in positive peer interactions while avoiding conduct that may ...
Good Lord, Has George Will Finally lost His Mind?
Post Date: 2018-05-13 14:21:18 by no gnu taxes
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Trump is no longer the worst person in government Donald Trump, with his feral cunning, knew. The oleaginous Mike Pence, with his talent for toadyism and appetite for obsequiousness, could, Trump knew, become America’s most repulsive public figure. And Pence, who has reached this pinnacle by dethroning his benefactor, is augmenting the public stock of useful knowledge. Because his is the authentic voice of today’s lickspittle Republican Party, he clarifies this year’s elections: Vote Republican to ratify groveling as governing. Last June, a Trump Cabinet meeting featured testimonials offered to Dear Leader by his forelock-tugging colleagues. His chief of staff, Reince ...
The 2017 Statistics Just Came Out... And The "War On Cops" Is Officially A Myth
Post Date: 2018-05-13 12:03:01 by Deckard
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Authored by Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.com, Though right-wing commentators continue to decry the ‘war on cops,’ the latest data released by the country’s top law enforcement undermines that alarmist narrative. According to the FBI’s annual Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted report, released this week, there were fewer police deaths in 2017 than in 2016. In 2016, 118 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty while in 2017, that number was 93. More telling is the type of death the officers suffered. Last year, 46 officers were killed “feloniously” on the job while 47 died in accidents. As the FBI’s press release noted, “Both ...
Cops Now Kidnapping and Caging People for Leaving Their Cars Running
Post Date: 2018-05-12 23:55:45 by Deckard
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Sacramento, CA – In a bizarre case that shows the increasing overreach of the police state in the United States, their oversight has apparently grown to the point where officers are targeting drivers who leave their cars running while they walk into a convenience store to make a purchase. A recent incident was caught on cell phone recording as bystanders tried to make sense out of the scene that led to Craig Williams being arrested, even though it appeared that he has done nothing wrong. It did not seem to matter to the arresting officer that he was on private property and had not been called to the scene as no crime had been committed. He simply saw that Williams left his car running ...
Cop Savagely Beats His Own Daughter at School, No One Tries to Stop Him, Gets Paid Vacation
Post Date: 2018-05-12 15:18:30 by Deckard
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Disturbing surveillance camera footage has been released that shows a police officer confronting his daughter after she was sent to the principal’s office for disrespecting her teacher—and his response is so violent that it has even led to criticism from advocates of corporal punishment. Footage from the incident, which occurred in March, shows Officer Raymond Emilio Rosario entering the school office. Moments later, his 14-year-old daughter entered, and he immediately slapped her across the face and then hit the back of her head. Surprisingly, the officer’s violent actions didn’t seem the faze the office secretary who never moved from her seat. Rage continued ...
Fitzgerald officer of the deck pleads guilty at court-martial
Post Date: 2018-05-12 09:04:40 by Tooconservative
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WASHINGTON — The junior lieutenant in charge of navigating the USS Fitzgerald when it collided with a commercial vessel pleaded guilty Tuesday to dereliction of duty and acknowledged her role in the deaths of seven sailors last year. Lt. j.g. Sarah Coppock cried during her court-martial at the Washington Navy Yard. She was sentenced to forfeit half of her pay for three months – an additional month on top of the two she forfeited as her nonjudicial punishment. She also received a letter of reprimand. “Not a day goes by where I haven’t thought about what I could have done differently,” she said. “There is nothing I can do now but take responsibility.” ...
Police CCTV cameras turn citizens into stay-at-home spies, spying on their neighbors 24/7
Post Date: 2018-05-11 20:17:54 by Deckard
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Leave it to the great American police state to turn Reality TV into real-time spying of its citizens.Recently the Newark, New Jersey Police Department decided it needed to do more, much more to build trust between the police and the community.Here's a little background on police building trust in the community.Last year, the Newark Police Department received an award from the New Jersey Attorney General for Outstanding Community Policing for its innovative approach in fostering relationships of collaboration and trust between police and the community. How did the Newark Police foster trust between the police and community you ask? By creating a new community program ...
City Slaps Burn Victim with Violation for Not Mowing Lawn While He Was in the Hospital
Post Date: 2018-05-11 20:02:28 by Deckard
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Dallas, Texas – A homeowner who was severely injured after a natural gas explosion destroyed the heating unit in his home and left him with second-degree burns, was threatened by the city that he could face fines because he was not able to mow his lawn while he was in the hospital. The notice from the city stated that the homeowner had just 7 days “to remove litter, solid waste, and/or cut and remove weeds and grass.” If he did comply before the deadline, the city threatened to forcefully “remove the litter and/or cut and remove weeds and grass” at the homeowner’s expense. However, the man and his family have not been allowed on their property for nearly 3 ...
20-Year-Old Whiskey in 6 Days: Will This Self-Taught Chemist Upend the Liquor Industry?
Post Date: 2018-05-11 04:50:23 by Deckard
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Bryan Davis created a chemical reactor that compresses time, bringing an artistic sensibility back to aged spirits. Why does a well-aged glass of smokey whiskey taste so good? It's all about the chemistry of sitting in a barrel for decades. "The polymer structures make the wood slowly fall apart," says Bryan Davis, a pioneering distiller who learned the science of liquor production by watching MIT classes on YouTube. "They shed all of these precursor chemicals that turn into different stuff that tastes really good." This time-consuming process is the reason distillers have to charge five figures for a top-shelf bottle. Not anymore. Davis, cofounder of the Los ...
Retired CIA Analyst Dragged from Senate Hearing for Exposing Gina Haspel’s War Crimes
Post Date: 2018-05-10 12:50:44 by Deckard
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Washington, D.C. — Retired CIA analyst and outspoken antiwar activist, Ray McGovern, who chaired the National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the President’s Daily Brief, was forcibly removed from the United States Senate Intelligence Committee hearing Wednesday as Gina Haspel, the nominee for director of the CIA, was answering questions about her record of torture. McGovern is a highly decorated CIA analyst who received the Intelligence Commendation Medal at his retirement. He has since become an outspoken antiwar and anti-police state activist and returned the medal in 2006 in protest to the CIA’s involvement in torture. McGovern is also a ...
Autistic 5th-Grader Handcuffed, Arrested for Playing With ‘Imaginary Gun’ at School
Post Date: 2018-05-10 12:45:03 by Deckard
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Conroe, TX — After the shooting in a Parkland, Florida high school earlier this year, the entire nation is on edge and is taking steps to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Because authorities ignored the shooter’s threats, and essentially allowed the massacre to take place, police are being extra cautious now to ensure this does not happen again. Since that fateful day, school children across the country have been arrested for threatening behavior. Now, however, a case out of Texas has many wondering if this reaction to fear is going to far as a 5th grade autistic student was arrested for “brandishing an imaginary rifle.” On Monday, 12-year-old David Sims, a 5th ...
Hidden 'War Codes' In Trump's Iran Proclamation?
Post Date: 2018-05-10 07:07:47 by Deckard
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Authored by Daniel McAdams via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, Tuesday President Trump announced that he was canceling US participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JPCOA) otherwise known as the Iran nuclear deal. The president's assertions were ludicrous and factually incorrect, but the neocons who were no doubt behind the speech have never been all that wedded to the truth. It became obvious fairly early on that Trump's rationale was not to be taken seriously, when he cited last week's comical stage performance by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that "Iran Lied" about its nuclear program. Netanyahu's fairy tale ...
$25,000 Robot Barista Can Make 120 Cups Of Coffee An Hour
Post Date: 2018-05-10 06:54:26 by Deckard
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A San Francisco company has created a $25,000 robot barista that can crank out 120 allegedly good cups of coffee per hour, threatening human coffee shop employees far and wide. The machine was designed by the award-winning team behind Dr. Dre’s Beats products, the Ammunition Group. Cafe X is effectively a fully functional café with a six-axis animatronic arm as its centerpiece. Customers order coffee via a touchscreen at the kiosk, or the Cafe X app – where a text message is sent when one’s drink is ready. Like at a regular coffeehouse, you get a multitude of beverage options: latte, single-origin espresso, matcha latte, cortado and so on, and ...
MAGA Dumbness
Post Date: 2018-05-10 06:44:30 by Deckard
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In my exchanges in the twitterverse, I have experienced a remarkable degree of ignorance concerning the history of Iran and Syria. MAGA supporters, in particular, seem clueless. Iran hates us, they insist, and they want to wipe Israel off the map. Plus they are trying to get the capability to attack us with nukes, so that’s why we have to attack them first. I mentioned the CIA coup in Iran, ousting the democratically elected leader of that country, as part of the reason they hate us. One MAGA guy was unaware such a thing happened. I imagine he gets all his information from Fox News, which never puts anything about Iran or Syria in context. Fair and balanced, right? ...
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