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Stossel: Entrepreneur Saves Free College Courses from Government Ban
Post Date: 2017-09-29 06:19:37 by Deckard
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An internet entrepreneur saved 20,000 free online college lectures (and more) after the government declared them illegal. Berkeley once had 20,000 college lectures available on their website. Anyone could watch for free. But then government said the videos were illegal because they didn't have captions for the deaf. Captioning 20,000 videos would cost millions. So instead, Berkeley just took down all the videos. That meant nobody outside the college would be able to see them. But one person didn't let that happen. Jeremey Kaufmann just started a new service called LBRY (pronounced "library"). He posted the Berkeley videos and thousands of others. LBRY is kind of like ...
$7,700 Is Your Share of the Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria So Far
Post Date: 2017-09-29 06:13:00 by Deckard
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Including homeland security, domestic surveillance, TSA harassment, veterans benefits and interest on associated federal debt: $61,000 per taxpayerHow much have our post-9/11 wars on terror cost? This year's National Defense Authorization Act ordered the government to collect and calculate that information, and the results are in. The Pentagon estimates that so far the war in Afghanistan has cost $753 billion, amounting to a cumulative cost per taxpayer of $3,785. Iraq and Syria are $770 billion, or $3,955 per taxpayer. That adds up to a grand total of more than $1.5 trillion and $7,740 per taxpayer. So far. At Defense One, Marcus Weisberger notes: "Americans paid the most for the ...
Bad Bob,telling it like it was and is
Post Date: 2017-09-28 11:29:48 by sneakypete
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gsmh4mPge0 Bob at the dedication to the VN War Memorial in DC,saying things in public that have needed saying for decades. Bob Howard was reported to have been the soldier with the most combat valor decorations of any soldier in American history,he was put in for the Medal of Honor THREE times in a 13 month period. He had so many Purple Hearts that by the time they ordered him to quit running missions in 1969 he was already refusing any that didn't require hospitalization. America lost one of her greatest assets the day that he died. Poster Comment:Please feel free to pass this on to any veteran or veterans organizations you have contact with.
Kushner Again: How He Helped Push Trump Into A Ditch In Alabama
Post Date: 2017-09-28 11:19:39 by IbJensen
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Once again, President Donald Trump finds himself in trouble after taking political advice from his son-in-law. Over the last few months, Jared Kushner, who is also a White House senior adviser, was chief among those who lobbied the president to endorse Luther Strange, the losing candidate in Tuesday’s Republican Senate primary in Alabama. According to two sources who work closely with the young real estate tycoon, Kushner suggested the endorsement, in part, because he believed that a Strange victory would enrage Steve Bannon, the newly reinstalled executive chairman of Breitbart News and a nemesis of Kushner’s from their time together in the Trump White House. Bannon backed the ...
Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packers ask fans to lock arms during national anthem
Post Date: 2017-09-28 10:56:07 by Deckard
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Green Bay Packers Aaron Rodgers quarterback has asked fans to join arms Thursday during the national anthem. (AP) Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and his teammates have asked fans to stand up and lock arms at Thursday's night game during the national anthem. On Sunday, most of the Packers locked arms with one another during the anthem. Three players, Lance Kendricks, Martellus Bennett and Kevin King chose to sit instead. “This is about equality,” Rodgers told ESPN Tuesday. “This is about unity and love and growing together as a society and starting a conversation around something that may be ...
Protests at the Fryer (The Current Football Foofaraw)
Post Date: 2017-09-28 08:01:49 by Deckard
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I’m a little embarrassed to admit how much time I spend watching NFL performances: about two hours per year. I’m sure the Super Bowl actually lasts longer than that; but life is short and I’ve only got so much time to give. So I’ll donate approximately half my annual allotment to comment on the current foot-ball foofaraw. The conflict owes its genesis to former ball-tossing mediocrity, Colin Kaepernick. Reportedly, Mr. Kaepernick was the fruit of a fleeting union between a 19 year-old white girl and her black boyfriend, who customarily disavowed the relationship upon learning of her pregnancy. The girl subsequently put the child up for adoption, where it was claimed off ...
NFL Players Have A First Amendment Right To Act Like Little Bitches
Post Date: 2017-09-28 06:15:49 by Deckard
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Frankly, in my view, the sporting world should be a politics free zone, and the fact that I am compelled to write about politics in sports in America today is bewildering beyond belief. That said, to be clear, I am not a fan of the NFL. I think the sport, like most professional sports, is overrun with whiny, juiced-up morons paid millions of dollars for providing nothing to the public except sub-par entertainment and little-to-no loyalty to the state or city in which they happen to be employed. NFL players are not legitimate role models for society anymore than costumed television wrestlers are role models for society. Add to this the rampant politicization of the NFL over the past ...
Cop Attacks Road Workers So They Take Him Down in Citizen’s Arrest
Post Date: 2017-09-28 05:47:46 by Deckard
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Louisville, KY — A Kentucky State Trooper on a power trip allegedly got violent with a road construction crew over the weekend. However, as the video of incident shows, unlike most scenarios with cops on power trips, it was the Trooper who got taken down, not the citizens. According to video and the witness accounts from the road crew, Trooper Anthony Harrison punched a worker and put them all in danger as he drove through a construction site Sunday night. According to the crew, Harrison drove too fast toward their work zone near Fort Knox about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, adding that he stopped his personal car abruptly, confronted the workers and started arguing. Two of ...
Good Samaritan could face charges for trying to help rescue child from burning truck
Post Date: 2017-09-28 05:35:44 by Deckard
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SNOQUALMIE PASS, Wash. - An Idaho woman who acted as a good Samaritan when a child was stuck inside a burning truck could face charges - all over a fire extinguisher.“I’m in absolute shock,” said Tequila Isaacson who jumped in to help when the pickup truck went up in flames. It happened near the Washington State Department of Transportation restroom building on Snoqualmie Pass. On Tuesday one of the glass front doors on the neighboring Red Mountain Coffee remained boarded up after Isaacson broke the window on Sunday to gain access to a fire extinguisher.“We turned around and the whole vehicle was on fire,” said Isaacson. “There were flames shooting between the ...
Hugh Hefner, Founder Of Playboy, Dead At 91 [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-09-28 04:40:50 by XDMAR
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Playboy founder and legendary ladies’ man Hugh Hefner has died at the age of 91, according to Playboy Enterprises. The magazine said he was surrounded by loved ones and “peacefully passed away today from natural causes at his home.”
NSA Leaker Told FBI That She Was Triggered By Fox News Being On At Her Workplace
Post Date: 2017-09-28 01:18:48 by nolu chan
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NSA Leaker Told FBI That She Was Triggered By Fox News Being On At Her Workplace Chuck Ross, Contributer The Daily Caller New Foundation September 27th, 2017 The National Security Agency contractor who leaked a top secret report about Russian activities during the election told FBI agents that she was upset with her employer because Fox News was played on TVs at her office. “I’ve filed formal complaints about them having Fox News on, you know?” Reality Winner, the contractor, told FBI agents during a June 3 interview at her home in Augusta, Ga. “Uh, just at least, for God’s sake, put Al Jazeera on, or a slideshow with people’s pets. I’ve tried ...
Nolte: Defenders Say NFL Protests ‘Not About Disrespecting’ America — Kaepernick Disagrees
Post Date: 2017-09-27 17:06:27 by 3-Dee
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Nolte: Defenders Say NFL Protests ‘Not About Disrespecting’ America — Kaepernick Disagrees Eli Harold, Colin Kaepernick, Eric Reid The Associated Press by John Nolte 26 Sep 20173 As ratings collapse, stadiums echo with boos, and lifelong fans burn merchandise, it appears as though a brand new set of talking points went out to the sports world, a talking point that is a bald-faced, provable lie. As the backlash grows against these spoiled millionaires, we are now being told by their defenders that the NFL protests are “not about disrespecting” America and the flag. Here is a sample: Lebron James: ......It’s not about the disrespect of our flag and the ...
Anthem pulls out of Obamacare market in Maine
Post Date: 2017-09-27 15:32:47 by nolu chan
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Anthem pulls out of Obamacare market in Maine Insurers face rampant uncertainty on deadline day By Tom Howell Jr. The Washington Times Wednesday, September 27, 2017 Anthem, a major insurer, said Wednesday it will pull out of the Obamacare marketplace in Maine next year, as insurers navigate choppy waters in the wake of the GOP’s failure to pass a repeal bill and square away plans to stabilize the markets. Affected residents will still have options on the exchange, though customers who want to re-enroll in Anthem plans will not be able to tap Obamacare’s taxpayer-funded subsidies. The decision coincided with Wednesday’s deadline for insurers to commit to participating in ...
Rep. Mo Brooks: ‘Terminate All Federal Government Support to NFL’
Post Date: 2017-09-27 14:55:59 by nolu chan
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Rep. Mo Brooks: ‘Terminate All Federal Government Support to NFL’ by Penny Starr Breitbart 27 Sep 2017 Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) said on Tuesday that the federal government should not financially support the NFL because of players’ disrespectful “take a knee” protests during the national anthem. “I believe we ought to terminate all federal government support of the NFL,” Brooks told Breitbart News following the Conversations with Conservatives event at the Capitol. “That would include the termination of any and all advertising that is done on behalf of the federal government — military and non-military — to the extent we do any.” ...
Trump "embarrassed and pissed" after backing Alabama loser
Post Date: 2017-09-27 11:52:36 by Willie Green
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(CNN)Returning from a high-dollar fundraiser in Manhattan on Tuesday evening, an infuriated President Donald Trump watched aboard Air Force One as Fox News called the Alabama Senate primary for Roy Moore against Trump's favored candidate, Luther Strange. What ensued was a barrage of angry venting at his political team and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who had consolidated establishment GOP support behind Strange. Trump, officials and informal advisers say, felt misled by McConnell and his political team, who encouraged him to endorse and campaign for Strange. Even before Strange's loss on Tuesday, Trump expressed misgivings about getting behind the candidate, who he ...
Tim Allen On ‘Last Man Standing’ Cancellation: “Nothing More Dangerous Than A Likable Conservative”
Post Date: 2017-09-27 11:22:24 by Deckard
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Tim Allen says he still has no idea why ABC “did what they did” in canceling his popular Last Man Standing sitcom, but suggests “There’s nothing more dangerous right now than a likable conservative.” Allen, speaking to Norm Macdonald on the latter’s podcast yesterday, said the cancelation of his show last May “was handled very badly.” “I have no idea why they did what they did,” he said. And, he adds, his show would have made a good lead-in for the upcoming Roseanne revival. Allen compares his Mike Baxter character to Archie Bunker in their boundary-pushing ways, but concedes that Carroll O’Connor was nothing like that All in the ...
Psychopaths Likely Have A Specific Taste In Music [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-09-27 10:49:11 by Deckard
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In a study of 200 people who listened to 260 songs, those with the highest psychopath scores were among the greatest fans of a few select songs. As it turns out, psychopaths likely have a very specific taste in music, according to the study. Only about 1% of the general population meets the psychological description of a psychopath, but the figure is far higher in prisons, where about one in five has the disorder. One estimate, from Kent Kiehl, a psychologist at the University of New Mexico, suggests that psychopaths cost the US government (taxpayers) $460 billion a year. According to The Guardian, contrary to the movie trope epitomised by Alex in A Clockwork Orange and ...
Mass Exodus From Puerto Rico Feared After Hurricane and Debt Crisis
Post Date: 2017-09-27 05:25:35 by XDMAR
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CAROLINA, Puerto Rico — Inside the steamy San Juan airport, mothers sleep on the floor with their children. Travelers, many of whom have been there for days, fan themselves as they wait for a flight out. The lines are long and there is no air conditioning, but after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans are eager to just get out — and the island's governor fears many will not return. Related: Lawmakers Press White House to Step Up Aid to Puerto Rico "My expectation is to rebuild stronger than ever," Gov. Ricardo Rossello told NBC News. "But clearly if this is not taken seriously ... Puerto Rico is going to collapse into a humanitarian crisis." Saddled with a ...
AT&T's DirecTV Is Giving Refunds on NFL Packages Due to Protests [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-09-26 21:19:43 by nolu chan
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AT&T's DirecTV Is Giving Refunds on NFL Packages Due to Protests By Scott Moritz Bloomberg September 26, 2017, 3:38 PM CDT Subscribers to AT&T Inc.’s DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket who want to cancel the service because of football players’ national anthem protests can get refunds, according to customer service representatives. The protests, which started with some players kneeling during the anthem to protest racial inequality, has expanded to teams and even owners linking arms in a show of unity. The issue has been magnified by tweets from President Donald Trump, who called the protests “disgraceful” and encouraged fans to boycott the NFL. AT&T is the ...
Florida Town Booted Food Truck Offering Meals to Hurricane Survivors After Nearby Restaurant Complained
Post Date: 2017-09-26 08:02:17 by Deckard
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Mayor says the town doesn't ban food trucks, but only allows them on certain days. And that's one rule that can't bend even in the wake of a major hurricane.A few days after Hurricane Irma blasted through the town of Green Cove Springs, Florida, Jack Roundtree drove his Triple J's BBQ truck downtown to give residents a hot lunch and hand out free bar-be-que to utility workers trying to get the power restored. It didn't take long for the cops to show up. According to Clay Today, a news website for the community south of Jacksonville, the cops told Roundtree his food truck had to go. City manager's orders. Roundtree didn't have a permit to operate in Green Cove ...
NFL Backlash: ‘Sunday Night Football’ Hit With Season-Low Ratings
Post Date: 2017-09-26 03:08:35 by nolu chan
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NFL Backlash: ‘Sunday Night Football’ Hit With Season-Low Ratings by John Nolte Breitbart 25 Sep 2017 After President Trump finally spoke up for tens of millions of voiceless Americans disgusted over spoiled NFL crybabies disrespecting the American flag and anthem, the controversy finally erupted over the weekend. You would think that this firestorm would have resulted in record ratings for Sunday Night Football, or at least a ratings boost. Unfortunately for the anti-American NFL, the exact opposite proved true with an 8 percent drop in viewership, compared to last week. This is a new season low. Compared to this time last year, the ratings decline was in the double-digits, a ...
How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege?
Post Date: 2017-09-25 20:15:58 by XDMAR
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Marriage, which used to be the default way to form a family in the United States, regardless of income or education, has become yet another part of American life reserved for those who are most privileged. Fewer Americans are marrying over all, and whether they do so is more tied to socioeconomic status than ever before. In recent years, marriage has sharply declined among people without college degrees, while staying steady among college graduates with higher incomes. Currently, 26 percent of poor adults, 39 percent of working-class adults and 56 percent of middle- and upper-class adults ages 18 to 55 are married, according to a research brief published today from two think tanks, the ...
Wave of protests grip NFL after Trump urges fan boycott
Post Date: 2017-09-25 07:31:52 by IbJensen
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A wave of protests swept across the National Football League on Sunday as President Donald Trump escalated his feud with players who kneel during the US national anthem to draw attention to racial injustice. Trump ignited a firestorm of criticism after comments on Friday in which he described NFL players who chose to take a knee through renditions of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as "sons of bitches" who should be fired. The US leader doubled down on those remarks in an early morning tweet, urging fans to boycott the NFL as long as the protests continued. "If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see ...
Heather Heyer Died by a Heart Attack
Post Date: 2017-09-25 01:37:24 by nolu chan
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Heather Heyer Died by a Heart Attack Lauren Rose Published on Sep 9, 2017 Video evidence appears to prove that Heather Heyer was never hit by James Fields's vehicle Footage appearing to show Heather being pushed to the ground 3:30
Trump On NFL Anthem Kneelers: ‘Get That Son Of A B**** Off The Field - 09/22/2017
Post Date: 2017-09-23 03:14:37 by nolu chan
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kg8FoYE1lc Trump On NFL Anthem Kneelers: ‘Get That Son Of A B**** Off The Field - 09/22/2017 2017 FlashTrendinG Published on Sep 22, 2017 President Donald Trump declared at his Alabama rally on Friday night that he would love to see an NFL owner fire anyone who disrespects the U.S. flag and national anthem.
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