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Powell has 'no recollection' of Clinton email dinner conversation
Post Date: 2016-08-20 11:01:21 by buckeroo
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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell "has no recollection of the dinner conversation" recounted by Hillary Clinton to FBI agents, as documented by journalist Joe Conason in a forthcoming book. Conason's anecdote, reported Thursday night by The New York Times, recounts a small dinner party at Clinton's Georgetown home toward the beginning of her time as secretary of state, with former secretaries Madeleine Albright, Henry Kissinger and Condoleezza Rice also in attendance. During that dinner, Conason reports, Albright asked the former secretaries to impart advice to Clinton. “Powell told her to use her own email, as he had done, except for classified communications, ...
Something Different: Really Good Movies That Are Mostly Depressing In Nature
Post Date: 2016-08-20 09:25:27 by no gnu taxes
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I'll start with 3: Owning Mahoney Straight Time Glen Garry/Glen Ross
NEW: Donald Trump's First General Election Ad, "Two Americas". MAGA! HD
Post Date: 2016-08-20 07:43:44 by buckeroo
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This doll in a hot car was so lifelike that a cop gave it CPR after smashing window
Post Date: 2016-08-19 20:12:55 by GrandIsland
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Lt. Jason Short believed he was about to save a life. A 911 call - someone had spotted a baby left alone in a car on a hot July day - prompted the police officer to rush to the Walmart shopping plaza in Keene, N.H. There, just as the call had said, he spied an infant in a car: a blanket, a bottle and finally two bare feet, motionless, emerging from beneath the fabric. He drew his baton, smashed the window and saved the child. Something was wrong. He described the infant as appearing lifeless or dead. Short began administering CPR. It did not work. He called for an ambulance, and then he checked for an obstructed airway. “And I went to put my finger in its mouth and it was all ...
Obama irks La. flood victims with memo warning them not to discriminate
Post Date: 2016-08-19 16:41:07 by redleghunter
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President Obama has refused so far to survey the Louisiana flood disaster, but he did let state and local officials know that he’s watching to make sure they don’t engage in racial discrimination. In a 16-page guidance issued Tuesday, the Obama administration, led by the Justice Department, warned Louisiana recipients of federal disaster assistance against engaging in “unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin (including limited English proficiency).” The guidance’s frameworks “highlight the importance of complying with nondiscrimination requirements of civil rights statutes, addressing the needs of the whole community, and ...
Yes, US Government Propaganda Use Against American Citizens Is Officially Legal Now
Post Date: 2016-08-19 09:55:49 by Deckard
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By Melissa Dykes Some people still aren’t sure on this point, so just for the record, yes: US government propaganda use against American citizens has been fully made legal. You see kids, once upon a time in 1948, we had something known as the Smith-Mundt Act (or, more officially, The US Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948). This act specified the State Department’s propaganda operations outside (key word “outside”) of US borders in a shift from wartime to peacetime use of propaganda as an instrument of the new post-World War II foreign policy. The first restriction on this act was to prohibit domestic propaganda dissemination, with assurances that Congress, ...
Clinton Foundation hired cyber firm after suspected hacking
Post Date: 2016-08-18 09:16:47 by redleghunter
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Clinton Foundation hired cyber firm after suspected hacking:sources Bill and Hillary Clinton's charitable foundation hired the security firm FireEye to examine its data systems after seeing indications they might have been hacked, according to two sources familiar with the matter. So far, no message or document hacked from the New York-based Clinton Foundation has surfaced in public, the sources said. One of the sources and two U.S. security officials said that like hackers who targeted the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democrats' congressional fundraising committee, the hackers appear to have used “spear phishing” ...
John McLaughlin, Host Of ‘The McLaughlin Group,’ Dead At 89
Post Date: 2016-08-17 18:10:20 by Stoner
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Dr. John McLaughlin, the conservative political commentator and longtime host of his eponymous TV show “The McLaughlin Group” that pioneered hollering-heads discussions of Washington politics, has died. He was 89. “The McLaughlin Group” posted the following statement on its Facebook page: “Earlier this morning, a beloved friend and mentor, Dr. John McLaughlin, passed away peacefully at the age of 89. As a former Jesuit priest, teacher, pundit and news host, John touched many lives. For 34 years, The McLaughlin Group informed millions of Americans. Now he has said bye bye for the last time, to rejoin his beloved dog, Oliver, in ...
Obama Wants A Third Term And This Is How He Could Make It Happen
Post Date: 2016-08-17 10:44:56 by Deckard
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Yes, we are all well aware the Constitution limits the Presidency to two consecutive four-year terms of office. Then again, if you weigh the track record of the Obama administration, the Constitution is nothing more than a challenge that he bypasses and circumvents with every given opportunity. Small wonder that he may very well do the same thing with the upcoming presidential elections. Already a sham, the presidential elections are actually a vehicle he can use to grab that “Third Term” for himself. First we’re going to quote straight out of the Huffington Post, an article from August 9, 2016, entitled “Does He Deserve a Third Term? Obama is ...
12-Year-Old Girl Faces Online Backlash Over Hunting Photos
Post Date: 2016-08-17 10:41:31 by Deckard
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A 12-year-old girl who likes to hunt big game with her father sparked an online firestorm after posting photos of herself online posing with a giraffe and a zebra that she killed with the help of her dad.Aryanna Gourdin and her father Eli took the trip from Utah to South Africa last week. Gourdin told ABC News she posted the photo on Facebook of her posing next to the dead zebra with a bow and arrow and the caption, "One of my dream hunts for sure," to share the experience."It's something I cherish and enjoy and I want other people to see what I experienced," she said in an interview with "Good Morning America."Beyond Cecil the Lion: Trophy-Hunting Industry ...
How Free Is Your State? Cato Releases List of States Ranked by Individual Liberty
Post Date: 2016-08-17 07:37:27 by Deckard
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We all know that some states provide more individual liberties to their residents than others, but have you ever wondered how free your state really is? The Libertarian think tank known as Cato, can give you an answer to that question. They recently published a list that ranks each state based on how free their residents are, which is updated annually. Unsurprisingly, the most left leaning states were often found to have comparatively little freedom. New York was ranked the least free, followed by California, Hawaii, and New Jersey. However, several conservative states also ranked quite poorly, including Mississippi, Kentucky, and West Virginia. This year New Hampshire lived up to its ...
Here’s How Much Michael Phelps Might Have to Pay the IRS for Winning Olympic Medals
Post Date: 2016-08-17 05:53:18 by Deckard
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“You didn’t win that” might as well be the U.S. government’s official congratulatory platitude to American Olympians who succeed in Rio this summer. This year, the IRS will impose a nearly 40% “victory” tax on athletes who take home gold, silver, and bronze medals for the United States. American Olympians earn $25,000 for gold medals, $15,000 for silver, and $10,000 for bronze, paid for by the U.S. Olympic Committee. But according to the non-profit advocacy group Americans for Tax Reform, “a gold medalist from Team USA could end up facing a tax bill of $9,900 per gold medal, $5,940 per silver medal, and $3,960 per bronze medal.” Though ...
Mom: My Son's Daycare Provider Reported Me to CPS. Because of a Birth Mark.
Post Date: 2016-08-17 05:43:38 by Deckard
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It's been quite a week for Tamara O'Haire, a cowgirl and online fitness trainer from Bozeman, Montana. O'Haire is a mother to a 9-month-old boy. On Monday, she put him in daycare for the very first time. On Tuesday, Tammy got a call at work—a cattle feedlot—from Child Protective Services. The agency had to meet with her immediately. She and her husband were suspected of child abuse. The daycare center had called CPS to report a bruise on the baby's chest. But it wasn't a bruise. It was a birthmark. According to O'Haire, the daycare—Roots Nature School, which offers "nature-based childcare and preschool"—made no attempt to contact her ...
Libertarian Gary Johnson likely to appear on Ohio's ballot (Independent)
Post Date: 2016-08-16 20:40:46 by Hondo68
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Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune via AP Gary Johnson, Libertarian candidate for president, speaks at the University of Utah Student Union, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016, in Salt Lake City. Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson likely will appear on the fall ballot as an independent candidate for president, the office of Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted said this afternoon. State law neither allows nor prohibits the Libertarians' withdrawal of placeholder candidate Charlie Earl and the substitution of Johnson before the needed 5,000 petition signatures needed for an independent candidate are verified, Husted's office said in a memo. "The law being unclear, Secretary ...
Italian restaurant under fire for selling 'Black Olives Matter' merchandise
Post Date: 2016-08-16 14:08:18 by Deckard
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An Italian restaurant in New Mexico is under fire after making merchandise with a slogan that mimics the Black Lives Matters Movement. KOAT-TV reported Monday that Paisano’s in Albuquerque is selling “black olives matter” shirts and hats after making national headlines for putting the phrase on a sign outside the restaurant. Paisano’s owner Rick Camuglia said he emblazoned the phrase on the restaurant's main sign to sell a new recipe: a tuna dish with black olive tapenade. Camuglia posted pictures of the dish and the sign on Facebook, drawing complaints he was being insensitive and trivializing a movement aimed at trying to stop police shootings of black residents. ...
Army veteran arrested for hanging US flag upside down in protest
Post Date: 2016-08-16 09:14:44 by Deckard
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An Iowa man was arrested Thursday and was charged with desecrating the U.S. flag after hanging it upside down beneath a Chinese flag in protest at his home. The Fort Dodge Messenger reported that Homer Martz, an Army veteran, of Somers, put up the flag to protest an oil pipeline being built without his consent next to a well that supplies water to his home. Martz said he was arrested by Calhoun County sheriffs at around 11 a.m. "They said, 'You can't do this. We have a statute.' I said I'm sorry but you shouldn't have took them down," Martz told The Messenger. "So I walked back out and put them back up, and they arrested me." Calhoun ...
The Real Existential Threats of 2016
Post Date: 2016-08-16 08:57:56 by Stoner
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On Sept. 30, the end of fiscal year 2016, the national debt is projected to reach $19.3 trillion. With spending on the four biggest budget items — Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, defense — rising, and GDP growing at 1 percent, future deficits will exceed this year’s projected $600 billion. National bankruptcy, then, is among the existential threats to the republic, the prospect that we will find ourselves in the not-too-distant future in the same boat with Greece, Puerto Rico and Illinois. Yet, we drift toward the falls, with the issue not debated. Ernest Hemingway reminded us of how nations escape quagmires of debt: “The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is ...
America: You Will Go Insane Because Of What Your Eyes Will See
Post Date: 2016-08-16 08:38:43 by U don't know me
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America: You Will Go Insane Because Of What Your Eyes Will See By Michael Snyder, on August 15th, 2016 A cloud of madness is descending on America, and most of us are completely unprepared for the chaos that will be unleashed during the months ahead. This morning, I was reading through Deuteronomy when I came to a phrase that really resonated with me. In the Modern English Version, this is what Deuteronomy 28:34 says: “You will go insane because of what your eyes will see”. As I read that, it struck me that this is precisely what America is heading for. There are going to be people that have vast quantities of food and supplies stored up that are still going to blow their brains ...
FULL Event: Donald Trump Foreign Policy Speech at Youngstown State University 8/15/16
Post Date: 2016-08-15 21:47:59 by buckeroo
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I am very impressed with the_Donald on his speech, today. He actually addressed considerations that are REQUIRED by anyone running for office. Near Perfect on the buckeroo estimation scale for a presidential candidate on foreign policy.
Father & 7yo daughter held at gunpoint by ‘insane & violent’ police officer [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-08-15 14:08:31 by Deckard
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A father and his young daughter claim they were terrorized by a highway patrolman in Arizona while they were en route to the Grand Canyon on Friday. Ken Walton, who is from California, described the horrifying ordeal in a lengthy Facebook post where he and his 7-year-old daughter were held at gunpoint after being pulled over by the out-of-control highway patrolman.“Tonight, I was arrested at gunpoint by an Arizona highway patrol officer who threatened to shot me in the back (twice) in front of my 7-year-old daughter. For a moment, I was certain he was going to kill me for no reason,” he wrote.Walton had been making his way to the Grand Canyon in a rented car when he was pulled ...
Police Dog Shot in Deadly Arkansas 'Ambush' Found Alive
Post Date: 2016-08-15 09:11:34 by Stoner
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A wounded police dog that ran off after being shot by a gunman also accused of killing a sheriff's deputy in Arkansas Wednesday has been found alive, the Sebastian County Sheriff's Office said. The police dog, Kina, was found by a passerby inside a house that was under construction, the sheriff's office said in a statement. The dog was shot twice after suspected gunman Billy Monroe Jones opened fire at officers who responded to a domestic disturbance call, authorities said. Sheriff's Col. Bill Cooper was killed, and Hackett Police Chief Darrell Spells was grazed in the head by a bullet, police said. Cooper, a 15-year veteran of the sheriff's department and a former ...
HA Ha! Anti-Trump Muslim Planting Bombs In Kentucky Shot And Killed By Fire Captain
Post Date: 2016-08-14 22:09:30 by Stoner
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By day, Mark Sawaf, 39, was a mild-mannered mental health counselor. By night, Sawaf was an extremist leftist who made his neighbors nervous. Oh, and he was a Muslim who planted bombs all over the place, also. One of his bombs cost a man several of his fingers. Fortunately for people who don’t want to get blown up by radical Islamic terrorists, Sawaf was sent to Allah on Thursday night. According to the Lexington Herald, Sawaf was indicted by a federal grand jury in July for “owning and making unregistered destructive devices,” along with 7 other charges. He was ordered to remain in custody until his trial which was set for Sept. 13th. Apparently, Sawaf had planted bombs ...
Tim Cook says Apple won't repatriate money to US 'until there's a fair rate'
Post Date: 2016-08-14 21:35:40 by Justified
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Refusing to bring big profit stateside, Tim Cook says there's nothing patriotic about paying high taxes, the Apple CEO told The Washington Post. Apple CEO Tim Cook struck back at critics of the iPhone maker's strategy to avoid paying U.S. taxes, telling The Washington Post in a wide ranging interview that the company would not bring that money back from abroad unless there was a "fair rate." Along with other multinational companies, the tech giant has been subject to criticism over a tax strategy that allows them to shelter profits made abroad from the U.S. corporate tax rate, which at 35 percent is among the highest in the developed world. The move complies with the ...
Scuffle breaks out at Multnomah County Democratic Party HQ, prompting police response
Post Date: 2016-08-14 18:55:42 by Stoner
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A scuffle broke out at a Multnomah County Democrats meeting Thursday night, prompting a police response and leaving several of the party's newest members disillusioned. It all started when one of the organization's new members asked to amend the agenda at the meeting's outset. Chairwoman Lorraine Van Hoe reportedly denied the request, which only prompted loud, angry responses from the gallery. "People felt they were not being heard," said Leigha LaFleur, who last month traveled to Philadelphia as a delegate for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders at the Democratic National Convention. "In order to be heard, they amplified their voices. That was taken as aggressive ...
Squirrels!
Post Date: 2016-08-13 20:05:25 by no gnu taxes
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I recently noticed 2 large holes in the side of my garbage dumpster. Now these dumpsters are are made out of very hard plastic. It would take a long time to cut a hole in one with a very sharp hacksaw. So, I'm thinking WTF? So I just went out to throw away some garbage and to my surprise, 2 squirrels scurried out when I opened the lid. Those little bastards are gnawing their way in.
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