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Senate sends $717B defense bill to Trump (John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act)
Post Date: 2018-08-01 23:48:01 by Hondo68
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"It is what we have to do to defend America," said Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.). The Senate Armed Services Committee Acting Chairman managed the bill for Senate Republicans. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo The Senate on Wednesday easily cleared and sent to President Donald Trump a compromise $717 billion defense policy bill aimed at building up the military and blunting Chinese foreign investment and telecommunications technology. The final vote on the fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act was 87-10. The president is expected to sign it. Next, the Senate turns to legislation to fund the Defense Department, which will likely be packaged with an annual Labor-HHS-Education spending ...
SESSIONS SILENT AFTER TRUMP DEMAND
Post Date: 2018-08-01 22:22:27 by VxH
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... Contrary to Trump’s tweet, Sessions doesn’t have power to stop the investigation because he recused himself from the Russia investigation more than a year ago. Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod J. Rosenstein became responsible for the probe, appointed Mueller and supervises his work. ... Click for Full Text!
Old Man Trump
Post Date: 2018-08-01 12:56:21 by VxH
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Old Man Trump Words by Woody Guthrie, Music by Ryan Harvey I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts When he drawed that color line Here at his Beach Haven family project... Click for Full Text!
Alaska Airlines: Gay couple separated, seats given to straight couple
Post Date: 2018-08-01 11:42:56 by Deckard
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Alaska Airlines is apologizing for an overbooking situation in which a gay couple was asked to relinquish their seats to a heterosexual pair."We mistakenly booked two people in one seat. We are deeply sorry for the situation, and are investigating the details," the carrier said in a statement, adding that it has a "zero-tolerance policy for discrimination of any kind."Later, the carrier said, ""This unfortunate incident was caused by a seating error, compounded by a full flight and a crew seeking an on-time departure and nothing more than that. It's our policy to keep all families seated together whenever possible; that didn't happen here and we are ...
The Secrets Donald Trump Doesn't Want You to Know About: Business, Finance, Marketing
Post Date: 2018-08-01 11:41:16 by VxH
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"he's a con-artist" Click for Full Text!
Guy says he ‘identifies as a woman’ to legally save a bundle on car insurance. Libs mad at their own laws.
Post Date: 2018-08-01 11:03:09 by Deckard
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A clever Cannuck took advantage of the insanity of the left’s gender nonconformity beliefs to save a bundle on car insurance. With his eye on a new Chevrolet Cruze, the Alberta man, identified only as “David,” told CBC News that he was given an insurance quote of $4,500 Canadian dollars for the new ride, but said he was told his annual bill would be about $1,100 cheaper if he was a woman. So, presto! He became a woman. “I was pretty angry about that and I didn’t feel like getting screwed over any more,” the man said. What happened next highlights how liberal laws are north of the border, as seen in a Fox News debate on a law that allows the ...
Innocent One-Legged Man Called a ‘N****r’ then Framed By an Officer for Parking in Handicap Spot
Post Date: 2018-08-01 10:21:15 by Deckard
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Brockton, MA — A federal lawsuit filed this month in Massachusetts is exposing one of the most egregious cases of racism, corruption, and negligence within the ranks of American law enforcement we’ve reported on. For legally parking in a handicap parking space on his way to the hospital, an innocent black man—with only one leg—was targeted, verbally assaulted, framed for a crime he did not commit, and arrested and tried—in spite of exculpatory video evidence showing he was innocent. Massachusetts resident, Sean Williamson was on his way to therapy at the Brockton Neighborhood Health Center on March 29, 2017. Despite legally parking in a handicap space, and ...
Republicans abuzz over Schmidt's divorce from GOP
Post Date: 2018-08-01 09:18:26 by Willie Green
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Steve Schmidt's public break from the GOP and quiet departure from his corporate PR gig earlier this summer are fueling speculation in Republican circles that that he’ll advise a presidential bid by his longtime client, former Starbucks chief Howard Schultz, or another Democratic candidate in 2020. Questions about Schmidt’s future began to swirl in June when he announced his departure from the GOP in a series of tweets embracing the Democratic Party. It was a rare act of defiance in a party that has mostly fallen in line behind President Donald Trump — one that has many Republicans talking about what exactly Schmidt plans to do next. Working for a Schultz campaign would ...
What is QAnon? Conspiracy Theorists Showed Up to Support Trump at Tampa Rally
Post Date: 2018-08-01 08:49:21 by Willie Green
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At a rally in Tampa, Florida, Tuesday evening in support of Representative Ron DeSantis, President Donald Trump hit on familiar themes, boasting of being America’s most popular Republican ever, attacking the “fake media” and drawing chants of “build the wall."Sharp eyed viewers may have noticed a plethora of signs held aloft by members of the crowd not emblazoned with the customary Trump slogans, but with the phrase “We Are Q” or "QAnon."Others wore a T-shirt with a large Q encircling a YouTube logo. Slogans also referred to Seth Rich, a Democrat staffer whose death last year has become the focus of baseless right-wing conspiracy ...
‘National Disgrace’ — UK Home Office Rejects Syrian Christians, Refugee Intake 100 Percent Muslim
Post Date: 2018-08-01 07:49:26 by IbJensen
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When it comes to taking in refugees from different nationalities and religions, the U.K.’s Home Office has been a little bit tipsy on the side of pro-Islam, accepting 100 percent of Muslim applicants and zero — that’s right, zero — of Christians. This is despite the fact the European Union has recognized the persecution of Christians by Muslims in Syria. And for a quick glance at the other top places around the world where Christians are persecuted, take a look at this video: The U.K. statistics were obtained by the Barnabas Fund, an organization that tracks the persecution of Christians around the world. From Breitbart: The British government has admitted that ...
New York state shuts down boy's lemonade stand, citing need for permit
Post Date: 2018-08-01 07:34:43 by Deckard
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© FacebookThe New York State Health Department reportedly shut down a 7-year-old boy’s lemonade stand because his family didn’t have a permit.Brendan Mulvaney’s makeshift stand was located just outside the Saratoga County Fair in upstate New York, where a group of vendors reportedly made complaints to a state health official doing a routine inspection of the fair about the young competition, according to the New York Post.The inspector then made a visit to the lemonade stand, where he reportedly ordered the family to shut down the operation.“We didn’t think that we needed [a permit], we didn’t know that we needed one,” the young ...
After Armed Homeowner Defends Family from Home Invader, Cops Show Up and Kill Him
Post Date: 2018-08-01 05:51:48 by Deckard
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Aurora, CO — When an armed intruder broke into a family’s home early Monday morning, and reportedly began harming a juvenile inside, the homeowner did what he was supposed to do. He armed himself, called 911, and defended his home—and he was successful. However, after he’d successfully fended off the home invader—by killing him—police then showed up and killed the innocent homeowner. According to police, they received a call from the homeowner notifying them that a man had broken into the home. When officers arrived, the scene was chaotic, according to police. “Officers arrived to a very chaotic and violent scene,” Aurora Police Chief Nick ...
Stossel: The End of Tipping?
Post Date: 2018-08-01 05:41:14 by Deckard
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Activists want to increase minimum wage for tipped workers. Celebrities, union activists, and politicians demand that the government raise the minimum wage for restaurant workers. They are upset that in 43 states, tipped workers can be paid a lower minimum wage than other workers. The logic behind the lower minimum is that the tips make up the difference. That's not good enough for people like Buffalo University law professor Nicole Hallett. She tells John Stossel that, "the problem with tips is that they're very inconsistent." She wants to "require restaurant owners to pay the same hourly wage that all other employers have to pay." But many restaurant workers ...
County compels 91-year-old woman to tear down home wheelchair ramp
Post Date: 2018-08-01 05:37:12 by Deckard
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LAUREL, Md. (ABC7) — Prince George’s County filed a legal case against a Laurel couple in their 90s over a wheelchair ramp in their own home. To avoid legal trouble, the elderly couple’s son tore down the ramp, trapping the woman in her own home. The county permitting department said the family had no permit to build a wheelchair ramp in front of their own home."I don't want my husband trying to lift me now," said 91 year old Evelyn Strahle.Evelyn Strahle's husband David is 94 years old. "Two people had to put her in a wheelchair and lift her down those steps before we had it,” said David.A pile of lumber is all that remains of the wheelchair ...
FDA May Soon Allow MDMA Prescriptions for PTSD
Post Date: 2018-08-01 05:28:27 by Deckard
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MDMA, which was banned by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1985, could be available by prescription as soon as 2021."I was finally able to process all the dark stuff that happened," Nicholas Blackston, a Marine veteran who served in Iraq, told The New York Times, describing his experience with MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. "I was able to forgive myself. It was like a clean sweep." MDMA, which was banned by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1985, could be available by prescription as soon as 2021. The rehabilitation of MDMA, a.k.a. "ecstasy" or "molly," is directly related to the rehabilitation of veterans like Blackston, who participated in ...
Cody Wilson Takes Gun Plans Offline After Judge Issues Restraining Order
Post Date: 2018-08-01 05:26:06 by Deckard
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But thanks to the internet, it may not matter.The internet is defying a federal judge's attempt to block Defense Distributed from publishing instructions showing how to create 3D-printable firearms. A few hours after U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik, a Clinton appointee, muzzled Defense Distributed with a court order Tuesday evening, the CodeIsFreeSpeech.com mirror site appeared. It's a project of the Calguns Foundation, the Firearms Policy Coalition, and other civil rights groups, and includes freely downloadable computer-aided design (CAD) files for the AR-15, AR-10, Ruger 10-22, Beretta 92FS, and other firearms. Soon after the court order, Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson ...
Trump at rally makes false claim on photo IDs for groceries
Post Date: 2018-08-01 05:18:42 by Deckard
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday wrongly claimed that shoppers need to show photo identification to buy groceries and accused Democrats of obstructing his agenda and his Supreme Court nominee during a raucous rally aimed at bolstering two Florida Republicans ahead of the state's primary. Trump, addressing thousands of supporters in one of the nation's top electoral battlegrounds, was railing against the idea of noncitizens voting and advocating stricter voting laws when he claimed that IDs are required for everything else, including shopping. "If you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a picture on a card, you need ID," he said at the ...
The Greatest Hero America Never Knew
Post Date: 2018-08-01 00:39:55 by Dead Culture Watch
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The Department of Homeland Security is not doing its job. As proof, I, David Feherty, a 17-year resident of the Dallas area but an Irishman by birth, recently became an American citizen. There goes the neighborhood—but yay, me! The reason I felt compelled to become an American is my Troops First Foundation, a nonprofit organization that does its best to improve the quality of life and future prospects of some of our most severely wounded servicemen and women. I became involved after my first trip to Iraq, on Thanksgiving in 2007, and it was there I first heard the name of Col. Robert Howard. The name was always spoken with reverence, but I had no idea who he was. Then an Army Ranger ...
Afghan migrant whose deportation was thwarted by 'hero' Swedish student was actually sentenced for assault
Post Date: 2018-07-31 12:12:13 by Justified
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The Swedish student who was branded a “hero” and captured worldwide attention after she stopped the deportation of an Afghan migrant by refusing to sit down on a plane instead prevented the extradition of a man sentenced for assault and whose asylum application was rejected. Elin Ersson, a student at Gothenburg University, was subjected to fawning media coverage over her stunt earlier this month when she refused to take her seat on the plane until the 52-year-old Afghan deportee was released. She was successful and authorities weren’t able to deport the man. However, Swedish Police confirmed to Fox News that the man whose deportation Ersson prevented had received a prison ...
Hiroshima Revisited: Memorializing the Horrors of War with 10 Must-See War Films
Post Date: 2018-07-31 11:48:01 by Deckard
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“The horror... the horror...”—Apocalypse Now (1979) Nearly 73 years ago, the United States unleashed atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 individuals, many of whom were civilians. Fast forward to the present day, and the U.S. military under President Trump’s leadership is dropping a bomb every 12 minutes. This follows on the heels of President Obama, the antiwar candidate and Nobel Peace Prize winner who waged war longer than any American president and whose targeted-drone killings continued to feed the war machine and resulted in at least 1.3 million lives lost to the U.S.-led war on ...
Cops Lose Qualified Immunity After Arresting Man For A Snarky Facebook Comment
Post Date: 2018-07-31 10:49:20 by Deckard
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from the no-time-for-facts!-move-move-move! dept Three cops have just had their qualified immunity stripped by an appeals court for turning an innocuous, snarky Facebook comment into an arrest. It wasn't all the officers' fault. A "helpful" citizen playing internet telephone forwarded the comment to someone who happened to be married to a police officer and everything went from bad to worse to unconstitutional from there. Here's how the whole thing started, as related by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision [PDF]: On January 25, 2015, James Ross was a 20-year-old resident of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and an active user of the social media website, ...
DOJ Tells Sheriff To Give It Back The $70,000 In Forfeiture Funds He Spent To Buy Himself A New Sports Car
Post Date: 2018-07-31 10:42:51 by Deckard
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from the I-guess-it's-good-to-know-there's-a-line-that-can-actually-be-crossed deptYou have to screw up pretty badly to step on the DOJ's toes hard enough for it to notice when it comes to asset forfeiture. After the briefest of reforms under Eric Holder, new AG Jeff Sessions reactivated the federal forfeiture escape hatch, allowing law enforcement agencies to skirt local reform efforts by having their seizures "adopted" by the feds. According to proponents of forfeiture, it's a valuable tool that cripples drug cartels. That far more seizures take place than convictions or even arrests is glossed over by fans of forfeiture who honestly (or more likely, dishonestly) ...
Israel Arab sentenced to jail for 'incitement' with poems
Post Date: 2018-07-31 10:05:14 by VxH
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JERUSALEM (AFP) - An Israeli court on Tuesday sentenced an Arab woman to five months in prison for incitement to violence and support for a terrorist organisation in poems and other social media posts, the justice ministry said. Dareen Tatour, 36 and an Israeli citizen, posted a video clip of herself reading her poem "Resist, my people, resist them," in October 2015, accompanied by pictures of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces, according to authorities. The posts on YouTube and Facebook came as a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence was erupting, including Palestinian knife attacks. She was convicted in May and sentenced in the Nazareth district court. Her lawyer ...
Don’t try to rejuvenate your vagina, FDA warns
Post Date: 2018-07-31 09:35:44 by Willie Green
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Ouch — The FDA notes that the “energy-based” therapies are unproven and can cause serious harm.The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on companies “deceptively” marketing unproven “vaginal rejuvenation” devices and treatments that have been reported to cause serious burns, scars, and chronic pain, the agency announced on Monday, July 30. In addition to warning consumers, the FDA revealed that it has taken action, sending warning letters to seven companies marketing “energy-based” devices that are being used outside of their cleared or approved intended uses. Some of the devices, which are commonly radiofrequency- or laser-based, ...
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