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Cops Adopt Own Version of U.S. Flag — By the Police State, For the Police State
Post Date: 2016-06-06 11:01:13 by Deckard
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Sacramento, CA – A video taken by protesters is raising some serious questions after it captured police officers wearing a modified version of the American flag on their official gear.The modified version of the flag being worn by officers entails one thin blue line, which police often contend represents the barrier between “anarchy and a civilized society, between order and chaos, or between respect for decency and lawlessness.” However, citizens increasingly perceive this as a symbolic line that represents the separation and differentiates police from the rest of society, representing a blue code of silence amongst the brotherhood of cops. All colors on the flag are ...
Monday marks the 72nd anniversary of D-Day
Post Date: 2016-06-06 10:13:52 by Stoner
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Allied troops invaded Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, in order to fight Nazi Germany in World War II. Celebrations have been scheduled throughout Normandy today in honor of the 72nd anniversary of D-Day. Facts It was the largest amphibious invasion in history. The invasion’s code name was Operation Overlord. General Dwight D. Eisenhower commanded the operation, and plans were made to land in Normandy, west of where the German troops and artillery were built up. The “D” stands for Day. D-Day and H-Hour stand for the secret day/time an operation is scheduled to begin. Code names for the five beaches where the Allies landed: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. The date ...
IRS finally reveals list of tea party groups targeted for extra scrutiny
Post Date: 2016-06-06 09:02:35 by IbJensen
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More than three years after it admitted to targeting tea party groups for intrusive scrutiny, the IRS has finally released a near-complete list of the organizations it snagged in a political dragnet. The tax agency filed the list last month as part of a court case after a series of federal judges, fed up with what they said was the agency’s stonewalling, ordered it to get a move on. The case is a class-action lawsuit, so the list of names is critical to knowing the scope of those who would have a claim against the IRS. But even as it answers some questions, the list raises others, including exactly when the targeting stopped, and how broadly the tax agency drew its net when it went ...
Ron Paul: Why almost everyone has the whole bathroom debate wrong
Post Date: 2016-06-06 05:50:51 by buckeroo
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Debates over the U.S. government's foreign and economic policies have recently taken a back seat to the debate over what bathroom transgender individuals should use. The two sides of the debate both believe that government has the legitimate authority to tell private businesses who they should allow to use their facilities. Few on either side of this debate defend the right of private property owners to decide for themselves who may and may not use their bathrooms. Some say government must be involved in this issue in order to ensure that private businesses do not violate individual rights. Those who make this claim are accepting the idea that rights are no more than a gift from the ...
Growing fear inside GOP about Trump
Post Date: 2016-06-05 22:24:14 by buckeroo
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Washington (CNN)Top Republican officials and donors are increasingly worried over the threat Donald Trump's attack on a judge's Mexican heritage could pose to their party's chances in November -- and about the GOP's ability to win Latino votes for many elections to come. Trump is under fire for repeatedly accusing U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing a lawsuit involving Trump University, of bias because of his Mexican heritage. Those concerns intensified Sunday after Trump said he would have the same concerns about the impartiality of a Muslim judge. House and Senate GOP leaders have condemned Trump's remarks about Curiel, while donors have openly ...
2 million base pairs later: CDC stands by DNA evidence
Post Date: 2016-06-05 21:10:56 by Gatlin
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Last month, when health officials reported they discovered a pathogenic connection between raw milk from a Pennsylvania dairy and two illnesses in 2014 — one in California and the other in Florida — a wave of disbelief and condemnation began rippling out from the raw milk community. News stories about the announcement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sparked a flurry of online comments from raw milk drinkers and producers who disparaged the government’s science and scientists. A common thread through many of the posts was disbelief that laboratory analysis could actually prove the pathogen samples from the two patients and the dairy were the same strain ...
9-year-old boy said principal told him to remove Trump cap
Post Date: 2016-06-05 20:00:47 by buckeroo
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A California elementary school student has one simple wish: Make school dress codes great again. Third-grader Logan Autry, 9, said officials at Powers-Ginsburg Elementary School in Fresno told him to remove his “Make America Great Again” hat because it could stir “negative emotions” in other children. The red baseball cap with the phrase printed in white capital letters has become almost synonymous with the campaign of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. “The principal told me to take it off, and I still didn’t take it off,” Autry told Fox and Friends on Saturday. “And she said it was against the dress code to wear the hat, ...
Trump shocked liberals with these comments on immigration
Post Date: 2016-06-05 14:27:15 by buckeroo
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Trump: It was legal immigrants that made America great!Finally the 4X bankrupt bastard is suggesting some of the truth about the spirit of America.
North Carolina Blue Cross and Blue Shield Sues U.S. Over Health-Care Payments
Post Date: 2016-06-05 11:40:19 by buckeroo
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina sued the federal government, becoming the latest health insurer to claim it is owed money under the Affordable Care Act. The suit, filed on Thursday in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C., says the U.S. failed to live up to obligation to pay the insurer more than $147 million owed under an ACA program known as “risk corridors,” which aimed to limit the financial risks borne by insurers entering the new health-law markets. The suit argues that the federal government violated the language of the health law, as well as a contractual obligation to the North Carolina insurer. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina ...
Recall and quarantine targeted at Organic Pastures raw milk products — again
Post Date: 2016-06-05 11:11:41 by Gatlin
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For the second time this month, Organic Pastures Dairy of Fresno, CA, is recalling raw milk products because they may be contaminated with Salmonella. Organic-Pastures-whole-raw-milkLate Monday, California State Veterinarian Annette Jones announced that raw milk and cream produced by Organic Pastures with a code date of June 1, 2016, is the subject of a statewide recall and quarantine order. The quarantine order followed the confirmed detection of Salmonella bacteria in raw whole milk and raw skim milk. No illnesses have been reported at this time. Under the recall, Organic Pastures Dairy brand raw milk, raw skim milk and raw cream labeled with a USE BY date of JUN 01 2016 is to be ...
Legalizing marijuana is a hazy question once you've seen addiction up close
Post Date: 2016-06-05 11:06:55 by Gatlin
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“I’ve spilt more than you’ve smoked,” my brother-in-law, let’s call him Marty, bragged to my husband in the throes of his addiction. A measure to legalize recreational marijuana is heading toward the California ballot in November. Marty would have been thrilled — but then, he didn’t bother much with voting. My vote, too, would have been a no-brainer some years ago. Legalize it, tax it, make it safer, I would have said then, back when I felt more certain about everything, when I viewed addiction as a lack of self-discipline and personal weakness. I never dreamed it could take down an entire family. My husband helped his older brother move frequently in ...
AP: Do-Nothing San Jose Police Hammered for Allowing Thug Riot
Post Date: 2016-06-05 10:55:03 by Gatlin
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — This Silicon Valley city and its police department are facing mounting complaints of a tepid and tardy law enforcement response to attacks of Donald Trump supporters after a political rally. Videos circulating online show physical clashes occurring in front of San Jose police officers dressed in riot gear and standing stoically in a line outside the convention center where Trump spoke. Critics also complained that assaults occurred on side streets near the venue that lacked police presence. “Potentially more could have been done,” said San Jose Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio, chairman of the council’s public safety committee. The questions about ...
Memphis police officer dies after being struck by vehicle following shooting
Post Date: 2016-06-05 10:45:27 by Gatlin
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Tennessee authorities said early Sunday that a police officer died after being struck by a vehicle following a shooting in downtown Memphis that left three wounded. Memphis Police Department Director Mike Rallings said during a news conference that Officer Verdell Smith was pronounced from his injuries at 10:45 p.m. Saturday. Smith, 46, was an 18-year veteran of the police force. He’s survived by a father, fiancé, son and two daughters. "This highlights the dangers officers face every day," Rallings said. Police said two people were in critical condition after being shot near a Westy’s restaurant at about 10:00 p.m. They said the suspect ran into a Bass Pro ...
What Does It Mean to Be a Republican?
Post Date: 2016-06-05 07:24:28 by buckeroo
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Donald Trump’s surge has been anything but subtle. He climbed the polls throughout the primary season while his rivals exited the race one by one. His controversial rhetoric rarely made a dent on a campaign built on ardent, loyal supporters. And now, Trump’s candidacy is complicating the relationship between party identification and party allegiance within the GOP. Historically, party identification is weaker among Republicans than Democrats. A Pew Research analysis released in 2015 found 23 percent of Americans identify as Republicans compared with 32 percent who identify as Democrats. The findings align with a pattern in the United States. As Pew put it: “For more than 70 ...
CDC: Raw milk from Lancaster Co. farm tied to death, sickness
Post Date: 2016-06-04 22:05:29 by Gatlin
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LANCASTER, Pa — (WTHM) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that a Lancaster County dairy farm is linked to a multistate outbreak of Listeria. The CDC announced on its website that raw milk from Miller’s Organic Farm in Bird-in-Hand was tied to a death in Florida and a sickness in California. Officials said it was a strain of Listeria from the raw milk that caused the sickness in 2014, but the source was not known until Jan. 29 of this year. Both victims were over the age of 70. The CDC said it is concerned that more raw milk products from the farm could be contaminated. Health officials said drinking unpasteurized milk comes with the risk of carrying deadly ...
Heroin Deaths Up 340% Since 2007 [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-06-04 21:56:38 by Gatlin
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(CNSNews.com) – An official with the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy told a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee Thursday that the number of deaths involving heroin increased 340 percent from 2007 to 2014, the latest year of available data. “In 2014, the most current year for which we have data, more than 47,000 Americans or approximately 129 people each day died from a drug overdose. Of the overdose deaths in 2014, 22 percent involved heroin,” Kemp Chester, associate director for the National Heroin Coordination Group within the Office of National Drug Control Policy, told the committee during a hearing titled, “Cartels and the U.S. Heroin Epidemic: ...
How the illegal immigrant hiring train works.
Post Date: 2016-06-04 21:08:02 by no gnu taxes
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I talked with a Mexican guy who explained it to me. I guess I probably knew this already, but it was good to here somebody on the inside confirm it. It is wealthy Americans who hire illegal immigrants. Oh, it's not just some fat cat at the top calling the shots. It's a conglomeration of a number of different individuals and companies with common interests. They partner together. They typically subcontract to companies or "hiring consultants" for labor. These contracted personnel are legal Latinos. The Americans make sure that these people are legal. However, they then wash their hands of anything these subcontractors do. The subcontractors then hire mostly illegals. ...
Watch an 11-Year-Old Boy Shut Down a Speed Trap and Flex His Rights Like a Pro!
Post Date: 2016-06-04 20:00:27 by Deckard
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Keene, NH — Nothing illustrates how the times are changing quite like an 11-year-old boy filming the police and shutting down a speed trap.Mikey, an 11-year-old boy from New Hampshire made an awesome video this week showing him holding up a sign to warn motorists that there was a speed trap ahead. Within only a few minutes, this mini-rights flexing guru shuts down the officer and forces him to move on.But holding the sign to warn motorists was only half of Mikey’s awesomeness. When the state trooper came back to intimidate the tike, Mikey held his own better than some adults would have done.Without batting an eye, Mikey continued to film and refused to answer questions, ...
Muhammed Ali, 'The Greatest,' passes away at age 74
Post Date: 2016-06-04 18:54:08 by Deckard
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PHOENIX, AZ. (AP) - Muhammad Ali, the magnificent heavyweight champion whose fast fists and irrepressible personality transcended sports and captivated the world, has died according to a statement released by his family. He was 74.A family spokesman says Muhammad Ali died of septic shock "due to unspecified natural causes." Ali died Friday at 9:10 p.m. and spent the last hour of his life surrounded by his family. He was initially hospitalized in the Phoenix area on Monday. Ali's funeral is scheduled for Friday at 2 p.m. at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky. There will be eulogies given by Billy Crystal, Bryant Gumbel, and former President Bill Clinton. The ...
Libertarian Party Gains Second Sitting State Legislator (quits GOP)
Post Date: 2016-06-04 17:45:16 by Hondo68
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The Libertarian Party, in the wake of unprecedented press following the nomination of Gary Johnson and William Weld (both former Republican governors) as their candidates for president and vice president, just won their second seated state legislator. Laura Ebke Facebook Like the first one, Nevada's Assemblyman John Moore, Sen. Laura Ebke of Nebraska's 32nd district, enters as an already seated legislator who switched party allegiance from the Republicans. The Lincoln Journal-Star reports: Ebke, who always had identified herself as a Republican whose political philosophy was Libertarian, changed her registration online last week. "I'm not willing to bend my ...
Afghan national tied to Taliban, attack plot smuggled into US
Post Date: 2016-06-04 11:54:46 by Gatlin
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An Afghan national with ties to the Taliban — and a plot to carry out a terror attack somewhere in North America — was caught last fall after being smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico, an incident sure to further inflame the debate over national security risks at the border. The Afghan national’s alleged terror ties were not initially flagged in a terror database – and as a result, not initially reported – when the incident first came to light last November, according to Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., who obtained Homeland Security documents on the incident. It was only later that U.S. officials discovered his associations. Hunter told Fox News on Friday that the ...
Dumbass Obama tries to trash Trump without a teleprompter and turns into a stuttering fool
Post Date: 2016-06-04 09:11:33 by no gnu taxes
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Pot doc suspended, medical marijuana clinic under investigation in trooper's death
Post Date: 2016-06-03 22:43:39 by Gatlin
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BOSTON — FOX25 Investigates has learned Massachusetts is investigating a group of medical marijuana clinics tied to a pot patient who prosecutors said plowed into and killed a state trooper on the Massachusetts Turnpike in March. One of the doctors linked to those clinics has already had his medical license suspended, FOX25 uncovered. State officials suspended the medical license for Dr. John C. Nadolny for improperly recommending patients for medical marijuana. The state’s physician licensing board found that Nadolny had approved 5,792 medical marijuana patients as of last week. Read the remainder fo the article here.
May Was a Bad Month for Drug War Deaths
Post Date: 2016-06-03 22:36:21 by Gatlin
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At least seven people were killed by police doing drug law enforcement last month. Four were armed and two of them engaged in shootouts with police. Two were killed by police after vehicle chases where police claimed they were trying to run them over. One was killed during a physical struggle with police. Four of the victims were white, two were black, and one was a Pacific Islander. The ethnicity of one -- Eugene Smith -- remains undetermined. May's drug war killings bring Drug War Chronicle's count of drug law enforcement-related deaths this year to 21. The Chronicle has been tallying such deaths since 2011, and they have occurred at a rate of roughly one a week over that ...
The Battle Of Midway (1942) 74 Years Ago Today
Post Date: 2016-06-03 20:28:26 by Stoner
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Lest we forget. Click on the link for the video, which was filmed by US Navy www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OBw0r28qC0
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