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Cops Destroyed for Shaming Couple Over Selling Shrimp, Forced to Delete Their Facebook Page
Post Date: 2018-01-15 09:41:08 by Deckard
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Monroe County, FL — In the land of the free, if you try to raise some extra money by selling a willing customer a product—you can and will be charged and arrested—if you don’t pay the state for permission beforehand. A married couple in Key West just learned the hard way that entrepreneurial spirit—the very fabric of America—will not only be crushed by armed agents of the state, but they will also brag about it on social media. Last week, the Monroe County Sherrif’s office was so proud that they protected the citizens..ahem..their paychecks, that they took to Facebook to gloat in the fact that they detained and extorted a couple for selling shrimp. ...
DWI-Droning While Intoxicated: Drinking While Flying a Drone Could Land You in Prison
Post Date: 2018-01-15 08:40:02 by Deckard
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By Jack Burns Lawmakers in New Jersey have passed a bill, which if signed by Gov. Chris Christie, would turn drinking while flying a drone into a criminal offense that could carry up to $1,000 in fines and six months in prison. Understandably, flying any drone even a toy while intoxicated can be hazardous and cause injury, but NJ lawmakers are now asking the governor to impose stiff penalties. According to the proposed legislation, operating a drone with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 (BAC) percent or more (same as with driving a vehicle) would be considered a disorderly conduct offense under the new rules. The bill passed with a vote of 65-0 and is expected to be ...
Federal Documents Reveal Stephen Paddock Had Likely Accomplices — And SEVEN Different Cellphones
Post Date: 2018-01-15 07:54:27 by Deckard
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On Friday a federal judge made public hundreds of pages of court documents that had been filed by the FBI in the days and weeks after the Las Vegas concert shooting. The judge did so in response to a lawsuit filed by CNN and several media organizations. On Sunday October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire on concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. The shooting left 58 dead and another 546 injured in the deadliest mass shooting by an individual in US history. Investigative journalist Laura Loomer posted a page from the report on Twitter. According to the federal document — “Subject offenses have been ...
11-year-old girl allowed to use medical marijuana at school
Post Date: 2018-01-15 07:50:28 by Deckard
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HANOVER PARK, IL (WGN/CNN) - An 11-year-old girl who is suffering from leukemia can now use medicinal marijuana at her elementary school.A federal judge gave the ruling Friday after the girl's parents sued their daughter's school district.Ashley Surin was diagnosed with leukemia in December of 2008.Her parents say there were side-effects to the chemotherapy and other medical treatments that brought on seizures."We administered chemotherapy to her for days, weeks, months," said Jim Surin, Ashley Surin's father.Surin has been using a medical marijuana foot patch and rubbing oil with positive results."Her brain used to be like in a cloud, and now ...
Core Competency
Post Date: 2018-01-15 07:49:33 by IbJensen
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These numbers help explain why these last eight years were disastrous for the USA. I read the last item and then look at Trump's Cabinet. No wonder Washington, DC is in a turmoil. Trump's picks are bosses who expect their employees to work. These are Eye Opening Numbers. This is what bothers a lot of people about Trump. He won't accept a can't do attitude, or inexperienced, incompetent performance. He will get results; it just might not be smooth or pretty. Here are some amazing stats: Make sure you read to the bottom. An eye opener! 1. These 10 States now have more people on welfare than they do employed! California New Mexico Mississippi Alabama Illinois Kentucky ...
Pew: US media bias ranks worst in the world
Post Date: 2018-01-15 07:25:40 by 3-Dee
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Pew: US media bias ranks worst in the world by Paul Bedard | Jan 11, 2018 Americans on both sides of the political aisle believe the media does a poor job covering political issues fairly, according to a blockbuster new survey of media consumption in 38 nations. What’s more, the Pew Research Center’s study found that supporters of President Trump believe the media is doing a worse job covering politics than the supporters of any of the other international political leaders in countries surveyed. Pew Research Center “Large gaps in ratings of the media emerge between governing party supporters and non-supporters. On the question of whether ...
Selling Freedom
Post Date: 2018-01-15 06:21:14 by Deckard
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Meet Larry Sharpe, the Marine turned management consultant who is rising to the top of a leaderless Libertarian PartyLibertarians like Larry Sharpe. It was nearly impossible to attend a state-level Libertarian Party (L.P.) convention in 2017 and not see the affable former Marine and 2018 candidate for governor of New York laying out his seven-year plan to transform the party from a distant third-place finisher to the country's decisive swing bloc at all levels of government. When I asked former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld how Libertarians could best build on their momentum, he began his reply with: "You want to get out more candidates like Larry Sharpe." Of course, Bill ...
HIT & RUN BLOG Shitholers of the World Are Making America Great
Post Date: 2018-01-15 06:13:46 by Deckard
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Here's a nifty table put together by American Enterprise Institute's Mark Perry, a University of Michigan economics professor who runs the super smart blog Carpe Diem. It makes an illuminating companion to my post on Indian shitholers. Let that sink in before you talk smack again, Mr. President! Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia is a columnist at The Week and a Bloomberg View contributor.
Clearwater cites bike shop for city-owned bike rack
Post Date: 2018-01-15 06:10:53 by Deckard
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Turns out, it was the city that had installed the racks weeks earlier.
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Army Rips Out Chinese-Made Surveillance Cameras Overlooking U.S. Base
Post Date: 2018-01-15 06:09:29 by 3-Dee
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Army Rips Out Chinese-Made Surveillance Cameras Overlooking U.S. Base Congressional committee also plans to hold a hearing about security-camera risks to small businesses By Dan Strumpf Jan. 12, 2018 5:30 a.m. ET The U.S. Army said it removed surveillance cameras made by a Chinese state-backed manufacturer from a domestic military base, while a congressional committee plans to hold a hearing this month into whether small businesses face cybersecurity risks from using the equipment. Fort Leonard Wood, an Army base in Missouri’s Ozarks, replaced five cameras on the base branded and made by Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., said Col. Christopher Beck, the ...
[In the immortal words of Dr. McCoy to Captain Kirk, "Its dead Jim."] Hopes for immigration deal fade as lawmakers trade barbs and Trump declares dreamer program ‘probably dead’ ]
Post Date: 2018-01-14 15:55:29 by buckeroo
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Prospects for a bipartisan agreement to protect young immigrants from deportation and prevent a government shutdown later this week faded Sunday as key lawmakers traded accusations of bad faith and President Trump said hopes for a deal were “probably dead.” Negotiators spent last week seeking a solution that would shield young immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children, including the roughly 800,000 who secured work permits under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created under President Barack Obama. But a tentative deal worked out Thursday by a small bipartisan group of senators crumbled in an Oval Office meeting in which, according to ...
GOP senator: 'Gross misrepresentation' of Trump's remarks
Post Date: 2018-01-14 14:33:14 by buckeroo
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Georgia Republican Sen. David Perdue said Sunday that President Donald Trump did not use the phrase "shithole countries" during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration reform last week. "I'm telling you he did not use that word, George, and I'm telling you it's a gross misrepresentation," Perdue told moderator George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "This Week." During an Oval Office meeting on immigration Thursday, Trump expressed frustration with people coming to the United States from "shithole countries," sources told CNN. Trump has denied making the vulgar remarks, tweeting Friday: "The language used by me at the DACA meeting was ...
Chelsea Manning files to run for U.S. Senate in Maryland
Post Date: 2018-01-13 16:25:46 by buckeroo
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Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army private who was convicted of passing sensitive government documents to Wikileaks, has filed to run for the U.S. Senate in Maryland, according to federal election filings. Manning, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, would be challenging Democrat Ben Cardin, who has served two terms in the Senate and is up for re-election in November. Cardin is Maryland’s senior senator and is considered an overwhelming favorite to win a third term. Manning, 30, who is formerly known as Bradley Manning, was convicted in 2013 of the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history and was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Last year, ...
Keith Jackson, legendary college football announcer, dies at 89
Post Date: 2018-01-13 14:51:42 by no gnu taxes
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Legendary college football announcer Keith Jackson, who also was the first play-by-play in Monday Night Football history, died Friday night, ESPN announced. He was 89. Jackson, who retired from announcing in 2006, started calling college football games for ABC Sports in 1966. He called the first ever Monday Night Football game between the New York Jets and Cleveland Browns on Sept. 21, 1970. He also announced American Football League games in the 1960s and USFL games for ABC in the 1980s. In addition to football, Jackson covered the World Series, NBA games, 10 Olympics and auto racing over a career that spanned more than 50 years. He was a five-time National Sportswriters and ...
Well, I've never seen this happen before....
Post Date: 2018-01-13 12:19:33 by no gnu taxes
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We bought a large screen TV a few months ago. Last night, smoke came pouring out from it. I mean billowing clouds of smoke. We quickly unplugged and disconnected it. I never saw that even from those old tube TVs. Needless to say, we will be returning it.
Indian Americans: America's Shithole Success Story
Post Date: 2018-01-13 09:49:29 by Deckard
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I came to America 32 years ago with my former husband from India, a country that would surely qualify as what this president called a "shithole". It is poor, underdeveloped and polluted, where—as one reader helpfully pointed out—people literally shit on the streets. Between my ex and me, we had two suitcases, $1,200 (the maximum foreign currency India allowed a couple to take out from the country), zero connections—and a ton of youthful obtuseness. Thanks to the last item, we saw only the possibilities of America and none of the challenges of making it in a new country where we had no family and few friends. Over the years, without ever collecting a dime in welfare, ...
'Why are we having all these people from s***hole countries come here?' The astonishingly blunt question Trump asked in Oval Office immigration meeting (but he'd welcome more from Norway) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-01-12 17:03:52 by IbJensen
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President was meeting in the Oval Office with senators from both parties about proposals for immigration reform He reportedly asked them why the U.S. had to shoulder the burden of refugees coming to the U.S. after Third World natural disasters 'Why are we having all these people from s***hole countries come here?' he asked, according to a Washington Post report He also said: 'Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out' Trump has been rescinding 'Temporary Protected Status' for otherwise-illegal immigrants who came from Haiti, Nicaragua and El Salvador because of earthquakes and hurricanes In addition to Haitians, he was referring to people from African ...
New Mexico Supreme Court Upholds Exaggerating Cop Testimony
Post Date: 2018-01-12 15:27:58 by Deckard
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The Newspaper A police officer’s exaggerated testimony can still be used to convict a motorist of a traffic offense, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled last week. The justices overruled a three-judge panel of state Court of Appeals that had previously tossed the evidence gathered by Bloomfield Police Sergeant George Rascon, whose description of events of November 11, 2008, failed to match what the judges saw from dashboard camera footage. Sergeant Rascon said motorist Jennifer Martinez raced to the intersection of Sycamore and North Third. “And at the four-way stop sign the vehicle just went past the stop sign completely into the lane of traffic, southbound lane of ...
Trump questions taking immigrants from 'shithole countries' -sources [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-01-12 08:49:34 by IbJensen
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Adds late night tweet from Trump; paragraphs 11-13) WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Thursday questioned why the United States would want to have immigrants from Haiti and African nations, referring to some as "shithole countries," according to two sources familiar with the comments. Trump's remarks, made in the White House, came as Democratic Senator Dick Durbin and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham briefed the president on a newly drafted immigration bill being touted by a bipartisan group of senators, according to the sources, who asked not to be identified. Other government officials were present during the conversation, the sources said. The ...
Cop Has Panic Attack, Opens Fire on Innocent Unarmed Man—Police Charge Victim
Post Date: 2018-01-12 07:23:41 by Deckard
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Sevier County, TN — Deputy Justin Johnson, with the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office, was called to a Sevier mobile home park back in December 2016, where Brian Keith Mullinax, 41, and his girlfriend, Tina Carrie Jo Cody, 37, live. During the call, which was over a family vehicle dispute, Johnson suffered a panic attack, shot at an unarmed Mullinax for no reason, and now, the county is charging the victims, claiming they made the deputy panic. As Knox News reports, Mullinax is charged with assault in Sevier County Circuit Court for causing Sevier County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Justin Johnson to suffer a panic attack four minutes after Johnson opened fire in a neighborhood ...
“You’ve Been Part Of The Problem For Decades”: Pop Singer Seal Exposes Oprah’s Extreme Hypocrisy Over Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Post Date: 2018-01-12 06:53:33 by Deckard
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Longtime pop singer Seal has publicly called out Oprah Winfrey for her extreme hypocrisy surrounding her speech at the Golden Globes and subsequent grandstanding in the wake of the Hollywood Harvey Weinstein scandal. The pop singer posted a now viral meme to Instagram Wednesday that openly showed Oprah actually sucking on Hollywood mega-predator Harvey Weinstein’s ear while another showed her actually introducing a young actress to him. “Oh I forgot, that’s right…..you’d heard the rumors but you had no idea he was actually serially assaulting young stary-eyed actresses who in turn had no idea what they were getting into. My bad,” Seal rightfully noted. Keep in ...
The Drug Whisperers
Post Date: 2018-01-12 06:39:52 by Deckard
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You may have heard about people getting speeding tickets not based on the reading of a radar gun or other instrument subject to empirical verification but solely on the basis of an armed government worker’s “training,” his estimation – that is is, his opinion – about how fast the alleged offender was traveling. In some jurisdictions, this is considered acceptable evidence in court – sufficient to convict. Now comes the Drug Whisperer. A whole army of them. These are armed government workers such as Cobb County, Georgia’s TT Carroll – who have received similar “training” and been anointed Certified Drug Recognition Experts, ready to go to ...
Disturbing Things You Never Knew About Ivanka’s Relationship With Donald Trump
Post Date: 2018-01-11 11:25:56 by Deckard
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If you’ve ever watched or listened to one of Donald Trump’s interviews, it’s obvious that he is fond of his daughter Ivanka. However, many of his statements about her go beyond admiration and are so inappropriate that they’re disturbing. His jokes about having a relationship with her beyond a father-daughter partnership are quite unsettling. Here are seven disturbing things Donald Trump has said about Ivanka. We’ll also take a look at the most fascinating things you never knew about Ivanka. 1. Donald Trump said he would date his own daughterIs this something that a normal father would say? | Giphy It’s one thing to say your daughter is beautiful, but it’s ...
Trump Administration Waives Punishment For Convicted Banks, Including Deutsche — Which Trump Owes Millions
Post Date: 2018-01-11 08:31:31 by Deckard
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The Trump administration has waived part of the punishment for five megabanks whose affiliates were convicted and fined for manipulating global interest rates. One of the Trump administration waivers was granted to Deutsche Bank — which is owed at least $130 million by President Donald Trump and his business empire, and has also been fined for its role in a Russian money laundering scheme.The waivers were issued in a little-noticed announcement published in the Federal Register during the Christmas holiday week. They come less than two years after then-candidate Trump promised “I'm not going to let Wall Street get away with murder.”Under laws designed to protect ...
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