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Kids Ordered to Pay Sales Tax at Children’s Expo Receive a Sad Lesson in Entrepreneurship
Post Date: 2019-08-29 07:05:03 by Deckard
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Kids participating in Utah's Children’s Entrepreneur Market are being ordered by government officials to pay sales tax on their small businesses. But one activist says children are exempt from such taxes. Twelve-year-old Lucie Wise couldn’t wait to open her own business. On three separate occasions, she had accompanied her mother to the Children’s Entrepreneur Market—an expo of child-run businesses hosted annually by the Utah nonprofit Libertas Institute—dreaming of the day she could set up her own booth and sell her wares to curious passersby. Lucie’s experience as a spectator at prior markets had given her time to think long and hard about what kind of ...
Dorian Slams Virgin Islands; Likely to Approach Florida as a Major Hurricane
Post Date: 2019-08-29 06:36:08 by IbJensen
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Hurricane Dorian was pulling away from the Caribbean on Wednesday evening, embarking on a four- to five-day journey that will take it across near-ideal territory for strengthening. By this weekend, Dorian is likely to be a major hurricane threatening Florida’s Atlantic coast, and it may plow onward into the Gulf of Mexico next week. Dorian muscled its way to hurricane strength on Wednesday with a burst of thunderstorms (convection) wrapping around a newly formed eye. Originally expected to move somewhere between the eastern Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, Dorian ended up tracking well to the east, in part because its center reformed 60 miles to the north beneath intense convection ...
Opinion and Fair Comment Privileges
Post Date: 2019-08-29 06:33:31 by Gatlin
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The right to speak guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution includes the right to voice opinions, criticize others, and comment on matters of public interest. It also protects the use of hyperbole and extreme statements when it is clear these are rhetorical ploys. Accordingly, you can safely state your opinion that others are inept, stupid, jerks, failures, etc. even though these statements might hurt the subject's feelings or diminish their reputations. Such terms represent what is called "pure opinions" because they can't be proven true or false. As a result, they cannot form the basis for a defamation claim. This is not to say that every statement ...
‘Last Blood’ Should be Last Straw for Gun Owners and Stallone Movies
Post Date: 2019-08-29 06:23:25 by Deckard
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U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “Sylvester Stallone gets back to his roots with explosive new trailer for ‘Rambo: Last Blood’,” Agence France-Presse reports on the fifth installment in the series, scheduled for a September release. “Still in top shape at 73, Stallone’s muscles are put to good use to save the life of his friend’s daughter, who’s been kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel.” It won’t just be his muscles put to use, but plenty of weapons, including guns. How he’ll keep and bear them in Mexico without violating almost as many gun laws as ATF’s Phoenix Field Division is left unstated in what looks to be a ...
New Hampshire woman fights state for ‘PB4WEGO’ vanity plate
Post Date: 2019-08-29 06:13:16 by Deckard
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New York Post – by Yaron Steinbuch A New Hampshire woman is pissed off with the state Department of Motor Vehicles, which told her to surrender her vanity license plate because of a common parental phrase – PB4WEGO. Wendy Auger received a letter from the DMV informing her to turn in the plate, which she has had for 15 years, because phrases involving bodily functions are forbidden, according to seacoastline.com. The bartender from the Gonic neighborhood of Rochester, NH, is fighting the bladder-related ban on the phrase – “Pee before we go” – because she believes it’s a free speech matter. “Who has a mom or dad or parental figure who ...
The American Gulag: Brick by Brick, Our Prison Walls Get More Oppressive by the Day
Post Date: 2019-08-29 06:07:42 by Deckard
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"The exile of prisoners to a distant place, where they can ‘pay their debt to society,’ make themselves useful, and not contaminate others with their ideas or their criminal acts, is a practice as old as civilization itself. The rulers of ancient Rome and Greece sent their dissidents off to distant colonies. Socrates chose death over the torment of exile from Athens. The poet Ovid was exiled to a fetid port on the Black Sea.”— Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History This is how freedom dies. This is how you condition a populace to life as prisoners in a police state: by brainwashing them into believing they are free so that they will march in lockstep with the state and ...
A Nonemergency of His Own Making
Post Date: 2019-08-29 06:01:08 by Deckard
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Late last week, President Donald Trump issued a tweet in which he purported to order American businesses to cease doing work with their employees and contract partners in China. He claimed he was exercising presidential powers pursuant to what he contended was the national emergency surrounding the trading relationship between the United States and China. Since he did not declare a national emergency, he did not notify Congress and give it the opportunity to ratify or reject his executive orders. In fact, he didn’t even sign any executive orders on this. He merely ordered American businesses in a tweet to cease all commercial activities with anyone in China. It appears that no American ...
The False Premises of the Ruling Against Johnson & Johnson
Post Date: 2019-08-29 05:40:52 by Deckard
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Blaming opioid makers for the "opioid crisis" may be emotionally satisfying, but the reality is more complicated. (K-State/Flickr) This week an Oklahoma judge ruled that Johnson & Johnson should pay $572 million to "abate" a "public nuisance" the company created in that state by minimizing the hazards and overselling the benefits of prescription opioids. A few months ago, a North Dakota judge rejected a very similar claim against Purdue Pharma under a nearly identical "public nuisance" statute.The difference between those two decisions partly reflects the difference between broad and narrow understandings of "public nuisance." But the ...
Free RepublicÂ… * belly up * --- Under the pope
Post Date: 2019-08-29 02:09:50 by BorisY
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Free Republic Under the pope Posted by RevelationDavid I’m sure this post won’t stay up long But as a born-again evangelical I no longer feel comfortable on this site. It has become openly and aggressively pro Catholic. Catholicism is heresy. Thank you Jim for putting so much effort into this clearinghouse of ideas But the bombardment of papers nonsense can a longer be tolerated by me. God bless all who proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord. God bless America TOPICS: Chit/Chat KEYWORDS: catholic; catholics; catholicspaythebills; freerepublic; hailmaryfullof To: FReepers; Patriots; FRiends; I’m sure this post won’t stay up long But as a born-again evangelical I no ...
Panic At The DNC: General Feeling Is That Trump Is Just Killing Them On All Fronts
Post Date: 2019-08-28 23:24:38 by Tooconservative
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President Trump calls them suppression polls, the endless surveys the liberal media puts out there showing how the support for this administration is in the toilet. It’s meant to demoralize his base. It didn’t work in 2016 and it won’t work in 2020. The polls were wrong. Right now, 2020 general election polling is trash. It’s worthless. It’s way too early. Everyone knows that—and even some Democrats would admit that they’re not going to win by a nine-point of double-digit margin next year. If anything, the media just reminds Trump voters that they need to vote next year. In the meantime, the Democratic Party has a three-way race at the top for the 2020 ...
PA Gov. Tom Wolf “horrified” that Rep (R) prayed to Jesus before Rep (D) was sworn in on Quran at Statehouse in Harrisburg
Post Date: 2019-08-28 22:20:41 by A K A Stone
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Pennsylvania state Dems slam Republican’s prayer as ‘offensive,’ bigoted By Lukas Mikelionis | Fox News Pennsylvania state Democrats branded as “offensive” a Republican’s decision Monday to open a voting session with a prayer and a thank-you to President Trump for supporting Israel, with some Dems claiming to be “horrified” by the remarks and accusing the female lawmaker of Islamophobia. State Rep. Stephanie Borowicz, a Republican and associate pastor’s wife who was elected to the state House in November, was accused of bigotry after she invoked the name of Jesus just before the Legislature swore in its first Muslim woman on the Quran at the ...
PA Gov. Tom Wolf converts to Islam
Post Date: 2019-08-28 22:17:23 by A K A Stone
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Governor Wolf’s official Islamic conversation has not yet been made public, other than these photographs circulating on social media. It has become evident through the photographs that Wolf has in fact already converted. According to Islam it is not permissible for a non-Muslim to pray either in the ranks or on his own. It is required that one converts to Islam before he prays, then to purify himself [by doing ghusl], and then fulfil the conditions of prayer. He is included in the obligation of prayer, and he is to be punished if he does not become Muslim and pray, but it will not be accepted from him unless he enters Islam.
The Bull
Post Date: 2019-08-28 19:19:11 by redleghunter
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Turkey looking to buy Russian stealth fighters
Post Date: 2019-08-28 18:19:25 by Tooconservative
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After we canceled the sale of our F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan wasted no time making good on his threat to take his business to the Russians. Since the bone of contention leading to this decision was Turkey’s move to buy the S-400 missile system from the Russians, I suppose this shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. Now that potential deal seems to be taking shape as Erdogan is viewing demonstrations of the Russian Su-57 fighter at an air show taking place near Moscow. (Time) President Vladimir Putin showed off Russia’s latest stealth warplane to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who’s been barred from buying a new U.S. fighter jet ...
A political ... hit-job --- beyond words.
Post Date: 2019-08-28 16:01:20 by BorisY
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‘Attorney General William Barr is about to break open the biggest spying scandal in American history’… Posted by Kane August 13, 2019 Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne on Fox Business this morning – Timestamped to begin Warning Shot to Deep State — Bill Barr is About to Break Biggest Scandal in American History “I ended up in the center of the Russian and the Clinton investigations. I have all the answers. I have been sitting on them waiting for America to get there. Last summer I figured out… what they all are is all about political espionage. It had nothing to do with law enforcement, it was all political espionage. Here’s the bottom line. ...
The Beast
Post Date: 2019-08-28 14:45:19 by redleghunter
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Rick Santorum Slams Trump for Pitching His Own Miami Resort as Next G-7 Venue: 'Hell No… Put an End to It'
Post Date: 2019-08-28 11:07:25 by Deckard
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Former GOP Senator Rick Santorum and ex-White House Ethics lawyer Richard Painter appeared on CNN this week to condemn President Donald Trump for pitching his own Miami resort as the next G-7 summit venue.Trump confirmed for the first time on Monday that the Trump National Doral Miami resort has been floated to be the location for next year's G-7 summit during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the end of this year's G-7 in Biarritz."Doral happens to be... only five minutes from the airport, the airport's right next door," the president told reporters. "By the way, my people looked at 12 sites, all good, but some were two hours from ...
The Survival of Iggy Pop
Post Date: 2019-08-28 10:54:28 by Deckard
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n late July, in a brief window between professional appointments, Iggy Pop drove to the mouth of Biscayne Bay, so that he could bob in its tropical waters. In 1995, he had bought what he described as “a very seedy condo” in Miami, and he has had a home in the city ever since. The extremity of the place—it is both environmentally tenuous and aesthetically vulgar—seems to suit Pop, who, in the late nineteen-sixties, as a member of the Stooges, helped invent and refine punk rock, a genre of music so menacing and physically savage that it is sometimes shocking that Pop has made it to the age of seventy-two. After he moved to Miami, he started swimming every day. “I ...
Donald Trump, Democratic Dictator
Post Date: 2019-08-28 10:16:06 by Deckard
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Some people think that the United States is safe from dictatorship because the country is a democracy. It’s only in totalitarian countries, they hold, that people are subject to dictatorship.Nothing could be further from the truth. Such people are confusing how a ruler gets elected with the powers that the ruler has after being elected. A democratically elected ruler can wield and exercise dictatorial powers. Case in point: President Donald Trump. He is the democratically elected president of the United States. He also wields and exercises dictatorial power over the American people.The system of government that the Framers established with the Constitution provided for three branches ...
American And Chinese Cities Lead The World In Spying On People
Post Date: 2019-08-28 08:57:21 by Deckard
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By MassPrivateI It is no longer speculation, American law enforcement has been lying to the public about the expansion of CCTV camera surveillance. A recent report released by Comparitech confirmed what I have been warning people about for years: American law enforcement has become a world leader in spying on its citizens. Cities in China are under the heaviest CCTV surveillance in the world, according to a new analysis by Comparitech. However, some residents living in cities across the US, UK, UAE, Australia, and India will also find themselves surrounded by a large number of watchful eyes, as our look at the number of public CCTV cameras in 120 cities worldwide found. According to ...
Mass Surveillance: NJ Cops Turn Individuals’ Phones Into Spying Devices
Post Date: 2019-08-28 08:48:41 by Deckard
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It’s for their own good, of course! A New Jersey police department has unveiled technology that will allow 911 operators to stream video from callers smartphones. For the time being, callers have to turn on the live video stream, meaning they are consenting and giving the police permission to see what’s happening as they call. This is the first step to automatic surveillance upon calling people who are assumed to be there to help. According to RT, the technology allows the 911 operators to use the phone’s camera and microphone. This is the first step down a very slippery slope. Police Drop “Crime Prediction” Software, But Not Because It’s Orwellian ...
Are Atheists Right? Is Faith the Absence of Reason/Evidence?
Post Date: 2019-08-28 08:44:15 by A K A Stone
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Atheists often accuse Christians of believing things or having “faith” without evidence and like to remind them of the old adage: “faith is believing what you know is not true.” In the eyes of many atheists, “faith” has become a buzzword for putting your intellect out of gear and for believing something without any reason or evidence for it (i.e., blind faith). For example, atheist and scientist Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith, argues that faith is separate from reason and is the absence of evidence: Faith is nothing more than the license that religious people give one another to believe such propositions when reasons fail. . . . When we find reliable ...
‘It Could Happen to Anyone’: Family of Man Fatally Shot by Off-Duty LAPD Officer at Corona Costco Speaks Out
Post Date: 2019-08-28 06:06:53 by Deckard
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The family members of a man fatally shot by an off-duty Los Angeles police officer at a Corona Costco publicly spoke out Monday for the first time since the June 14 incident. Russell and Paola French, who were also shot, and their other son, Kevin French, pushed for the release of the store surveillance video that captured the shooting that killed 32-year-old Kenneth French, who had schizophrenia. Kenneth, Paola and Russell French appear in a photo released by Juris Productions on Aug. 26, 2019. Kenneth French struck Salvador Sanchez from behind as the officer fed his toddler son some samples, Sanchez's attorney previously said. French's parents said they informed Sanchez, who ...
Man, 75, tells Belton officer to close bathroom door then gets fined $257
Post Date: 2019-08-28 05:52:26 by Deckard
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A 75-year-old man who has an artificial leg and says he is hard of hearing was cited for disorderly conduct after he yelled at a police officer to close the bathroom door after the officer used the restroom at a Belton restaurant.Part of the Tuesday incident was captured on video by a bystander who was told by the officer to stop filming the incident.Bobby Ray Phillips, a regular at the Standpipe Family Restaurant, said he was enjoying his grilled chicken, cabbage and cornbread on Tuesday afternoon when Belton Police Cpl. Thaddeus Shockley went to the restroom, used it and left the door open.Shockley wrote in an incident report that Phillips “yelled in a boisterous ...
Surveillance Video Outside Epstein’s Cell Deemed ‘Unusable’
Post Date: 2019-08-28 05:39:35 by Deckard
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It appears that Jeffrey Epstein had really good timing when he, according to New York Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson, decided to hang himself in his Manhattan jail cell the morning of August 10th – crushing bones in his neck which can fracture during hangings, but are typically broken during homicide by strangulation. Not only was his cellmate moved out the day before he died, overworked prison guards reportedly fell asleep – missing their assigned 30-minute checks on the highest profile inmate in the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC). Epstein had recently been taken off suicide watch stemming from ...
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