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Refusing to pay taxes for religious reasons: self-employed software developer from Oregon wins case against IRS
Post Date: 2018-04-16 09:29:22 by Deckard
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Investment Watch Michael Bowman, a 53-year-old self-employed computer software developer from Columbia City, Oregon, hasn’t paid his federal income taxes since 1999. He says it’s because his Christian ideals don’t allow him to pay into a system that funds abortions. In a YouTube video explainer of his defense, he likened paying taxes that then go toward funding abortions to German citizens under Nazi rule who outed Jewish citizens, sending them to their deaths. And according to The Associated Press, he beat the feds in court this week. To be clear, Bowman won the battle, not the war he’s fighting with the IRS and the Oregon U.S. District Court, when ...
Trump Announces Unprecedented Support for Legalizing Marijuana
Post Date: 2018-04-16 09:18:51 by Deckard
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On the first great-weather day of Spring 2018, President Donald Trump has committed to withdrawing federal objections to the legalization of marijuana, reports Tom Angell of Marijuana Moment. President Trump is preparing to support far-reaching legislation to reform federal marijuana prohibition so that states can enact their own cannabis laws without interference. "Since the campaign, President Trump has consistently supported states' rights to decide for themselves how best to approach marijuana," U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (D-CO) said in a statement. "Late Wednesday, I received a commitment from the President that the Department of Justice's rescission of the Cole ...
R. Lee Ermey dies at age 74
Post Date: 2018-04-15 19:31:01 by Willie Green
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R. Lee Ermey, a former Marine Corps drill instructor known to millions of moviegoers as the sadistic Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket," died Sunday morning, according to his longtime manager. He was 74. In a statement posted on Twitter, Bill Rogin said Ermey had died due to complications from pneumonia. "He will be greatly missed by all of us," Rogin wrote. "Semper Fi, Gunny. Godspeed." A Kansas native, Ermey enlisted in the Marine Corps and age 17 and spent 14 months in Vietnam before he was discharged in 1972. He served as a technical advisor in Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War epic, "Apocalypse Now," in ...
R. Lee Ermey Dies!
Post Date: 2018-04-15 19:28:58 by Justified
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Sad Day!
Donald Trump: James Comey and Andrew McCabe a ‘Den of Thieves and Lowlifes!’
Post Date: 2018-04-14 17:03:49 by buckeroo
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Summary President Donald Trump reacted to the latest inspector general report released by the FBI on fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. The report detailed that McCabe purposefully misled investigators about leaking details about the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation to a reporter. The president added that McCabe was “totally controlled” by former FBI Director James Comey. “McCabe is Comey!!” he wrote. “No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders added her own condemnation of McCabe and Comey during the White House press briefing. “Sounds like two peas in a pod with McCabe and ...
Trump to pardon ex-Cheney aide Scooter Libby
Post Date: 2018-04-13 13:23:59 by Justified
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President Trump is expected to pardon Scooter Libby, the former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney who was ensnared in what was known as the “Valerie Plame affair” during the Bush administration. Sources tell Fox News the pardon will likely be announced Friday. Libby, who served as Cheney's chief of staff, was convicted in 2007 of perjury, obstruction of justice and making false statements. The case stemmed from an investigation into the leaking of the covert identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame, though Libby was not charged for the leak itself. President George W. Bush had previously commuted Libby's prison sentence. The Libby case has been criticized by ...
‘It’s possible’ that so-called ‘pee tape’ is real
Post Date: 2018-04-13 10:53:35 by Willie Green
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Former FBI Director James Comey admits in a new interview that he doesn't know if the so-called "pee tape" — one of the more salacious items in the "Steele dossier" — exists. The "golden showers" allegation, which first surfaced in the unverified dossier created by former British intelligence operative Christopher Steele, claims Trump ordered two prostitutes to urinate on a bed once used by the Obamas at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton.In excerpts from an interview airing on an ABC News "20/20" special this Sunday, Comey says that its "possible" that the alleged incident occurred, and that he was careful not to tell ...
Three Wheels Bad
Post Date: 2018-04-13 07:17:15 by Deckard
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You probably haven’t heard of Paul Elio – probably because his car company hasn’t been the recipient of your tax dollars, nor the prostrate fawning-over of an adulatory press . . . unlike another car company headed by someone with name recognition on par with Coke and Jesus.Paul’s car is simple and inexpensive – projected base price of $7,450. It is extremely fuel-efficient (80-plus MPG) and so makes economic and practical sense – two more reasons why you probably haven’t heard about it.Which is probably why you’ll never get to drive it.The Elio doesn’t meet the criteria which that other company’s cars do. They are expensive – base ...
Georgia Officer Fired for Not Writing Ticket (It’s About the Revenue, Stupid)
Post Date: 2018-04-13 07:11:06 by Deckard
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Citizens are stopped on a daily basis by the police for speeding. Some drivers take responsibility, some get argumentative. The result is either a traffic citation or a warning citation. Motorists can also receive traffic tickets if they’re involved in a traffic collision. In most cases, a ticket does get issued. While some police departments allow officers discretion–is it really worth it to issue citations for traffic accidents with little damage?–others have a blanket policy to write tickets for all offenders in traffic collisions. As a result, police departments often times get criticized for being “ticket happy.” In Alpharetta, Georgia Officer Daniel Capps ...
David Bowie's Last Post Before He Died: 'Google Is Illuminati. Illuminati is Google.'
Post Date: 2018-04-13 06:32:36 by Deckard
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Singer David Bowie contributed on a regular basis to the website bowie. Com, posting on his official forum. The final message he posted just weeks before he tragically died, was a prophetic warning concerning humanity in a world where information is totally controlled by Google.Bowie Believed Google Wants To Enslave HumanityBowie warned that Google has been infiltrated by the elite when he described a future of society and said it was a fascist dystopia. He said that they wanted to attempt to try to enslave humanity. Bowie went on to say that the motto of Google was bullshit and that the search engine was destroying one of the most glorious of gifts that humanity had been given during the ...
How much of your life the U.S. has been at war
Post Date: 2018-04-13 06:23:35 by Deckard
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As you look at this harrowing image, keep in mind that in 1913, two very important changes occurred in America. First, was the adoption of the income tax. From 1913 onward, all of a person’s earnings **belong to the government first.** The government then decides how much they permit everyone to keep. Second, the Federal Reserve was created in 1913. If the government wants wars and welfare, it now had a monopolistic central bank that could create money out-of-thin-air to pay for them. Governments *always* want wars and welfare. We’re now witnessing the extremes of both.
Inside the GOP plan to discredit Comey
Post Date: 2018-04-12 12:53:27 by Jameson
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President Donald Trump's allies are preparing an extensive campaign to fight back against James Comey's publicity tour, trying to undermine the credibility of the former FBI director by reviving the blistering Democratic criticism of him before he was fired nearly a year ago. The battle plan against Comey, obtained by CNN, calls for branding the nation's former top law enforcement official as "Lyin' Comey" through a website, digital advertising and talking points to be sent to Republicans across the country before his memoir is released next week. The White House signed off on the plan, which is being overseen by the Republican National Committee. "Mr. ...
Paul Ryan is third casualty of GOP dysfunction in 20 years. Is major change afoot?
Post Date: 2018-04-12 11:56:42 by Jameson
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Paul Ryan is the third GOP speaker casualty in 20 years. The historic level of departures and dysfunction suggests we may be on the cusp of major political change. For the first 200 years of this nation’s history, only three House speakers resigned from office, all because they were accepting other political appointments. But in just the past 20 years, an equal number of House speakers, all of them Republicans, have decided to depart under very different circumstances. Rep. Paul Ryan is voluntarily surrendering a job considered so important it is second only to the vice president in the line of succession to the presidency. That reflects some terrible truths about the state of ...
Facebook Has Dozens of Ex-Obama and Ex-Hillary Staffers in Senior Positions
Post Date: 2018-04-12 07:40:01 by IbJensen
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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, has been defending his company’s privacy and advertising practices to querying congressional members on Capitol Hill. But if you want to know why Facebook has an anti-conservative bias problem, you need look no further than the staffers at the company. Apparently, Facebook employs dozens of individuals with tight ties to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — and puts them in key positions of influence. During his recent apology tour, Mark Zuckerberg notably failed to mention recent revelations about the Obama 2012 campaign’s exploitation of the platform’s weak pre-2014 data protections to harvest masses of data from non-consenting ...
How to fix education in the USA
Post Date: 2018-04-11 21:08:28 by BobCeleste
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How To Fix Public Education In 24 Hours Have you ever spent an entire afternoon playing Monopoly with your family? Monopoly always sounds like a great idea when you first pull the box off the shelf and count out the money. But, before long, the game becomes kind of miserable and everyone ends up mad at each other. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. The game is called Monopoly for a reason. Teachers work for a monopoly that is controlled by the state. Having a monopoly on a product or service only works for the owner of the monopoly and no one else. Customers must pay whatever price the monopolist demands, employees must work for whatever the monopolist ...
Neil Gorsuch Just Finished Year 1 on the Supreme Court. Here’s How He’s Making His Mark.
Post Date: 2018-04-11 14:29:18 by redleghunter
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Title: Neil Gorsuch Just Finished Year 1 on the Supreme Court. Here’s How He’s Making His Mark. Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of Neil Gorsuch taking his seat on the Supreme Court. In his first year, he has proven to be—as Donald Trump promised during his campaign—“very much in the mold” of Justice Antonin Scalia, whom he succeeded on the Court. Gorsuch quickly planted himself squarely in the textualist camp, aligning most closely with fellow conservative Justice Clarence Thomas. Gorsuch’s written opinions (including a handful from the last term and the current term) show a commitment to legal text and careful analysis. He has shown ...
I don't watch SNL much anymore, but this is pretty funny
Post Date: 2018-04-11 12:25:27 by no gnu taxes
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Congress Yet Again Plants Its Flag Atop Mt. Hypocrisy
Post Date: 2018-04-11 09:12:32 by Deckard
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Is it me, or is there something obscenely ironic in Our Rulers’ condemnation of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s collecting and exploiting some users’ data, given the NSA’s collection and exploitation of all data? I won’t even mention further exculpatory facts, such as Facebook’s wretched record on privacy, which should scare away anyone who prizes confidentiality, or that joining its pages is entirely voluntary.
It’s Spreading: More Anarchists Are Fixing Potholes Because the Gov’t Won’t Do Its Job
Post Date: 2018-04-11 05:42:55 by Deckard
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Image credit: Open Source Roads As government agencies continue to prove themselves incompetent at local, state, and federal levels, some citizens are taking responsibilities typically assigned to the authorities into their own hands. One of these responsibilities is maintaining the roads, a task most people believe only government entities can carry out. In Indianapolis, Indiana, however, where the roads are in disrepair and require hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade from “poor” to “fair” condition, two young men are taking a radically different approach: they are filling potholes themselves and building open source technology to crowdfund a ...
STATEMENT OF THE COMMISSION In the Matter of Facebook, Inc., File No. 092 3184, Docket No. C-4365 August 10, 2012
Post Date: 2018-04-10 12:50:15 by A K A Stone
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The final consent order in In re Facebook, Inc. that we approve today advances the privacy interests ofthe nearly one billion Facebook users around the world by requiring the company to live up to its promises and submit to privacy audits. Notably, Facebook will be subject to civil penalties of up to $16,000 for each violation of the order. We intend to monitor closely Facebook's compliance with the order and will not hesitate to seek civil penalties for any violations. We write to address the arguments raised by our colleague, Commissioner Rosch, who opposes final approval of the order. One of his objections relates to the extent to which the order would reach the activities of ...
How Gun Control Laws for “Mentally Ill” Could Disarm Those Who Question Authority
Post Date: 2018-04-09 09:35:38 by Deckard
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In the growing debate surrounding the natural right to self-defense, one of the most popular proposed methods of gun control has been restrictions on gun-ownership for those who are deemed to be mentally ill. This is a measure that is often suggested by liberals and conservatives alike, but it is important to stop and consider what something like this might entail. When any collective group is banned from owning a gun, they are effectively turned into second-class citizens. In the case of mental illness, that classification is so vague and open to interpretation that it could possibly be applied to over half of the population, depending on which criteria you use. Mental illness can be very ...
Soy Boy Politics and Cop Massacres (They’re stepping up)
Post Date: 2018-04-09 09:30:43 by Deckard
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David Hogg, a student who witnessed Wednesday's massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school in Florida made a direct plea to lawmakers on Thursday to take action, warning more children will die otherwise. It’s barely four months into the year and already, armed government workers have shot to death 294 people. This is more than twice as many people as have been shot to death by freelancers – those not wearing government uniforms who shot people at schools – during the past six years.Last year, armed government workers shot to death 987 people. This is almost 60 times as many people as were shot to death at Parkland. If the first three-ish months of carnage are ...
Planned Parenthood Fined for Failing to Disclose Hillary Donations
Post Date: 2018-04-09 07:22:29 by IbJensen
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A political faction of Planned Parenthood out of Wisconsin has been fined by the Federal Election Commission for failing to properly report $120,000 in expenditures allocated for the support of Hillary Clinton and Russ Feingold in the 2016 election. According to the FEC report, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin filed a report in October of that year that claimed the group had spent more than $133,000 on political candidates. This produced a discrepancy when the FEC found that $120,000 spent in support of Clinton and Feingold in August was not shown in any previous filing up until the final October report. This was two months past the required reporting date. According to the ...
Mirriam-Webster Dictionary changes definition of ‘assault rifle’ to include sporting rifles
Post Date: 2018-04-09 05:43:54 by Deckard
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Julio Rosas reports for IJR (Independent Journal Review), April 2, 2018, that on its website, top dictionary resource Merriam-Webster has changed the definition of an assault rifle to include most modern sporting rifles that are popular in the United States. In 2016, Mirriam-Webster defined “assault rifle” as: “any of various automatic or semiautomatic rifles with large capacity magazines designed for military use.” But Mirriam-Webster now defines “assault rifle” as: “any of various intermediate-range, magazine-fed military rifles (such as the AK-47) that can be set for automatic or semiautomatic fire; also : a rifle that resembles a military ...
Cops Mistake Epileptic Man’s Seizure for a Crime So They Beat, Taser and Arrest Him
Post Date: 2018-04-09 05:20:56 by Deckard
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Indianapolis, IN — When your only tool is a hammer, everything around you, even medical emergencies, begins to look like a nail. As the video below illustrates, police who are only trained to use violence, made a bad situation worse when they responded to a call about a man who was having a seizure. A family is outraged after watching cellphone footage of their son and brother being savagely beaten by Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officers during a medical emergency. The victim, Christopher Knox, who is an epileptic, suffered a seizure while shopping in a Speedway gas station last week. For those unfamiliar with epileptics, often times during and after seizures, they can become ...
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