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A Forbidden Remedy for Veterans’ Nightmares
Post Date: 2018-05-03 06:16:23 by Deckard
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Banned Since 1985, MDMA could soon be approved as a PTSD treatment.The emotional hangover from Nigel McCourry's seven months in Iraq as a U.S. Marine plagued him for years, keeping him up at nights, troubling his sleep with recurring nightmares, and isolating him from friends and family. After he was diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in 2011, McCourry tried "weekly talk therapy and more drugs than I could keep account of," none of which helped much. The one thing that worked for McCourry, leading to "huge breakthroughs" that immediately resolved his sleep issues, was psychotherapy facilitated by MDMA, which was banned by the Drug Enforcement ...
Mike Pence Calls Lawbreaking Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio a 'Champion of the Rule of Law'
Post Date: 2018-05-03 06:13:22 by Deckard
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Because nothings says "rule of law" like a sheriff held in contempt for refusing to follow a judge's orders.Vice President Mike Pence had kind words Tuesday night for former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-styled "toughest sheriff in America," who was pardoned by President Donald Trump last year after a federal judge held him in criminal contempt. At a rally in Arizona, Pence introduced Arpaio, now running for U.S. Senate, as "another favorite, a great friend of this president, a tireless champion of strong borders and the rule of law." It was interesting choice of words, considering Arpaio was charged by federal prosecutors and convicted of ...
Black Gun Owner Will Give Birth in Prison After Trying to Protect 2-Year-Old Daughter from Assailant
Post Date: 2018-05-03 06:05:56 by Deckard
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Siwatu-Salama Ra used a legally purchased firearm to protect her family. She was sentenced to 2 years in prison.Siwatu-Salama Ra is a 26-year-old black mother who watched in horror as an angry assailant—a neighbor with whom Ra had a dispute—deliberately crashed her vehicle into Ra's car while Ra's two-year-old daughter was playing inside. Ra removed her unloaded, legally purchased handgun from the glove box and brandished it, scaring the neighbor off. The assailant, Channel Harvey, was never charged. Ra was arrested for felonious assault. She is now serving a mandatory two-year-sentence, even though Michigan is a Stand Your Ground state and Ra was clearly defending her ...
Redskins cheerleaders: The team practically "pimped us out" to rich dudes and corporate sponsors in Costa Rica in 2013
Post Date: 2018-05-03 00:52:39 by Tooconservative
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Silver lining, I guess: The name “Redskins” is no longer the team’s biggest political problem. There was no actual sex in this “pimping out,” the Times’s sources say, just some of the traditional pre-coitus arrangements for an escort service. A group of attractive women all in the firm’s employ are told that a group of wealthy men wants to mingle with them privately, and saying no doesn’t seem to be much of an option. Allegedly, when you sign up to cheer for the ‘Skins you’re also unwittingly signing up to be “companions” for rich fans in foreign countries after they’ve watched you model topless. Oh, and after team management ...
Kanye West: I Want to Apologize to George W. Bush for 2005 Comment
Post Date: 2018-05-02 14:24:02 by no gnu taxes
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Kanye West revealed in a TMZ interview on Tuesday that he wanted to apologize to George W. Bush for saying in 2005 that the president did not care about black people in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Kanye West said he was always told not to apologize to Bush, but that he recently saw the former president pushing his father’s wheelchair at Barbara Bush’s funeral in March, and he felt sympathy for him. “Do you know how bad I would want to go to George Bush and say I’m sorry for hurting you. I was an artist I was hurting when I went up to the telethon,” Kanye explained. “I said something in the moment, but when I look at you as a Dad, and a family member, ...
How Weather and Climate Work
Post Date: 2018-05-02 12:46:04 by Tooconservative
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There are three big drivers of weather for any place on Earth: the latitude, the local environment, and solar system cycles. The biggest weather factor is latitude – are you in the torrid, temperate, or frigid zone? These climatic zones are defined by the intensity of heat delivered to Earth's surface by the sun. In the Torrid Zone, the sun is always high in the sky. It is generally hot, often moist, with low atmospheric pressure, muggy conditions, and abundant rain and storms, some severe. Places close to the Equator get two summers per year (just one long summer) and very little winter. Farther from the equator, there are two seasons: "The Wet" and "The ...
Kanye West just said 400 years of slavery was a choice
Post Date: 2018-05-02 12:11:59 by no gnu taxes
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Tuesday brought us two Kanyes. The first was a man who opened up about his mental health, his family, and his art in a nearly-two hour interview with radio host Charlamagne Tha God. The second was a Kanye who appeared at the TMZ headquarters where he had this to say: "When you hear about slavery for 400 years ... For 400 years? That sounds like a choice." The rapper went on to add:"You were there for 400 years and it's all of y'all. It's like we're mentally imprisoned." Provocative statements are second nature to the 40-year-old rapper. And this week he's been making headlines left and right, including proclaiming his love for President Trump. ...
Here’s How To Make Your Old Slow Computer Like New Again
Post Date: 2018-05-02 11:51:59 by Willie Green
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Clever new device is saving people hundreds (even thousands) and the big computer companies aren’t happy about it!Is your computer painfully slow? Have you considered buying a new ‘faster’ computer but the price of even a basic one makes you cringe? Do you wish there was a cheaper, more affordable way to get a new computer? (Hint: there is – keep reading.)It’s incredibly frustrating when computers slow down or stop working for seemingly no reason at all. And even after all the diagnostics, upgrades, and money spent, the amount of time waiting for that spinning wheel or hourglass to disappear never seems to get any shorter. Your once new, lightning-fast, computer ...
Let’s Be Honest: Paul Ryan Would Fire Jesus as House Chaplain
Post Date: 2018-05-02 11:09:33 by Deckard
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As a scholar of the life and teachings of Jesus, I am frustrated when I hear some “Christian” politicians hijack and, in fact, mutilate his teachings. A recent example involves House Speaker Paul Ryan’s firing of the House chaplain, Father Patrick Conroy, which apparently occurred, in part, because Conroy had the audacity to pray for the fair treatment of the poor during the tax debate last fall. Although the speaker’s office denied that the chaplain—the second Catholic to serve in that position and the first chaplain to be fired midterm—was forced to resign because of a specific prayer, Conroy reports that he received complaints from the speaker’s office ...
Life after Janus [compulsory union dues cast, USSC]
Post Date: 2018-05-02 10:02:22 by Tooconservative
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Government unions dodged a bullet in 2016 when an eight-member Supreme Court deadlocked 4–4 on a case that would have ended the right of labor groups to collect fees from workers who don’t want to be members. In late February 2018, with Justice Neil Gorsuch replacing the late Antonin Scalia, who died before the Court rendered the 2016 decision, the justices heard a new challenge to the compulsory fees in Janus v. AFSCME. Though the Court isn’t likely to render a decision on the case until late spring, worried labor leaders, anticipating that the ruling will go against them, are scrambling to prepare for the worst: a world in which they can no longer forcibly dun workers. ...
Smut Night at the Press Dinner
Post Date: 2018-05-02 09:29:00 by Deckard
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Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, billed as a celebration of the First Amendment and a tribute to journalists who “speak truth to power,” has to be the worst advertisement in memory for our national press corps. Comedian Michelle Wolf, the guest speaker, recited one filthy joke after another at the expense of President Trump and his people, using words that would have gotten her kicked out of school not so long ago. Media critic Howard Kurtz said he had “never seen a performance like that,” adding that Wolf “was not only nasty but dropping F-bombs on live television.” Some of her stuff was grungier than that. The anti-Trump ...
"History lesson" from Mahmoud Abbas: You'll never guess who backed the creation of Israel
Post Date: 2018-05-02 09:24:59 by Tooconservative
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Judenfrei today, Judenfrei tomorrow, Judenrein forever! As Philip Klein points out, it’s a good thing that this “history lesson” comes from the Left’s favorite Palestinian moderate. Lord knows how this would have unfolded with a less rational personage than Mahmoud “Abu Mazen” Abbas. The Palestinian leader opened the first Palestinian National Council in 22 years yesterday, hoping to firm up his credibility enough to establish his preferred line of succession as well as unite Palestinians under his leadership. And what better way to accomplish this than some unadulterated and absolutely bat-s*** crazy anti-Semitic conspiracy theories? In a long and ...
Dial T for Tyranny: While America Feuds, the Police State Shifts Into High Gear
Post Date: 2018-05-02 09:23:27 by Deckard
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By John W. Whitehead April 30, 2018 “Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility.” — Professor Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Discourse in the Age of Show Business What characterizes American government today is not so much ...
Teen defends Chinese prom dress that sparked cultural appropriation debate: 'I would wear it again'
Post Date: 2018-05-02 08:24:22 by Deckard
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One Utah teenager's prom dress has sparked a heated debate on the controversial issue of cultural appropriation. Keziah Daum, an 18-year-old senior at Woods Cross High School, Utah, received backlash after she posted photos of her dressed in a red qipao, a traditional Chinese dress, on prom night. After she posted them online, many on Twitter were quick to criticize her choice of wardrobe, accusing her of appropriating the Chinese culture, given she is not of Chinese descent. One of the first criticisms came from a Chinese American student who shared Daum’s post on Twitter with the caption “My culture is NOT your g------ prom dress,” pointing out the origins of qipao ...
Dad in America Told His Son Had To Die Like Alfie—But He Resisted With Guns and His Son LIVED
Post Date: 2018-05-02 05:29:01 by Deckard
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As the tragic story of baby Alfie begins fading from headlines, it is important to point out what allowed this situation to unfold like it did. Guns. Before throwing your arms in the air and screaming out, “how the hell does this child’s death have anything to do with guns?” consider the following truth: The majority of the United Kingdom is unarmed, leaving most guns in the hands of criminals and government. When only government has guns, they can make decisions—like kidnapping a baby and starving him to death—without fear of recourse from the citizens, or even the family. Officials in the UK sentenced baby Alfie to death this year when they denied his parents the ...
Police Cadets Quit, Expose Departmant for Training Cops to View Public as ‘Cockroaches’ They’re at War With
Post Date: 2018-05-02 05:23:12 by Deckard
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Nearly a dozen police recruits quit their training program and are now calling out the department for trying to teach them aggressive tactics that do not serve or protect the public. It takes at least four years of college for an enlisted person in the military to become a military “officer,” which is quite a contrast from the mere nine months it takes for a police officer to earn the title. But according to a group of 10 former Austin Police Department recruits who wanted to become peace officers, just like the military, the Austin PD is training “warriors” instead of “guardians.” The former recruits are now blowing the whistle and claiming that the type ...
Why the NRA, Olympic shooter are suing California over Prop. 63 limits on ammo purchases
Post Date: 2018-05-01 23:19:48 by tpaine
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Why the NRA, Olympic shooter are suing California over Prop. 63 limits on ammo purchases By Luis Gomez Xavier Becerra National Rifle Association of America Parkland The NRA and an Olympic medal-winning shooter are taking California to federal court over a voter-approved measure that sets tight restrictions on purchases of ammunition, which the pro-gun group says violate the Second Amendment. The complaint, filed by the NRA on behalf of Kim Rhode and other plaintiffs on Thursday, comes against the backdrop of a national debate over gun control following the deadly mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school in February. This also marks the fourth lawsuit the NRA has brought up ...
Jerry Brown: Mike Pence Bigger ‘Problem’ than Migrant Caravan
Post Date: 2018-05-01 22:26:39 by buckeroo
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California Governor Jerry Brown (D) said on Tuesday that Vice President Mike Pence is a bigger problem than illegal immigrants in the migrant caravan who are seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. “I think Pence is a problem for the whole country,” Brown snapped when asked if he wanted to comment about Pence’s remarks about the migrant caravan. Brown made his comments while announcing that California and 17 other states were suing the Trump administration over the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to roll back vehicle emissions standards.On Monday, Pence visited the border and said migrants in the caravan were victims being exploited by open-borders ...
65% of Public School 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading; 67% Not Proficient in Math
Post Date: 2018-05-01 12:20:31 by misterwhite
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(CNSNews.com) - Sixty-five percent of the eighth graders in American public schools in 2017 were not proficient in reading and 67 percent were not proficient in mathematics, according to the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress test results released by the U.S. Department of Education. The results are far worse for students enrolled in some urban districts. Among the 27 large urban districts for which the Department of Education published 2017 NAEP test scores, the Detroit public schools had the lowest percentage of students who scored proficient or better in math and the lowest percentage who scored proficient or better in reading. Only 5 percent of Detroit ...
Device Detects Drug Use Through Fingerprints, Raising A Host Of Constitutional Questions
Post Date: 2018-05-01 10:43:20 by Deckard
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from the defendant-has-indicated-gov't-will-receive-'two-fingers-while-he's-s dept If this tech becomes a routine part of law enforcement loadouts, judicial Fourth and Fifth Amendment findings are going to be upended. Or, at least, they should be. I guess citizens will just have to see how this all shakes out. A raft of sensitive new fingerprint-analysis techniques is proving to be a potentially powerful, and in some cases worrying, new avenue for extracting intimate personal information—including what drugs a person has used. [...] The new methods use biometrics to analyze biochemical traces in sweat found along the ridges of a fingerprint. And those trace ...
Appeals Court: Driving Attentively While Black Isn't Probable Cause For A Traffic Stop
Post Date: 2018-05-01 10:41:07 by Deckard
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from the ends-still-not-a-justification-for-the-means dept The courts have allowed police officers to engage in pretextual traffic stops. Minor moving violations -- including some that aren't actually moving violations -- have been used to engage in fishing expeditions for drugs, cash, or evidence of some other criminal activity. The Supreme Court dialed this back a bit with its Rodriguez decision, allowing pretextual stops but forcing them to end once the stop's objective is complete. When an officer hands out a citation or warning, the person is free to go, no matter how much the officer may want to ask more questions or run a drug dog around the vehicle. This hasn't ...
What Leftists Stand For
Post Date: 2018-05-01 09:52:23 by Tooconservative
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Historically, both sides of the political spectrum in America have supported the rule of law and the Constitution. Additionally, other than the Democrats' longstanding racist oppression of black people, the positions held by both sides were generally differences that people of goodwill could hold. For example, good people can disagree on just what the tax rates should be. Since Roe v. Wade, that has changed, and the change has accelerated rapidly in the last eight years. The left in America has openly embraced evil, rejected the rule of law, and denied that Americans they disagree with have constitutional rights. That's why 2016 was a Flight 93 ...
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Says Slaughtering Kids in Yemen is Worth It Because It Creates Jobs
Post Date: 2018-05-01 06:04:39 by Deckard
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Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist The current conflict in Yemen, which was manufactured as a proxy war by Saudi Arabia, targeting its bitter enemy, Iran, is America’s dirty little secret which the media refuses to question. According to an analysis from Unicef, more than 5,000 children have been slaughtered in the war, with the death toll from violence alone surpassing 10,000—as millions teeter on the brink of starvation. The number of casualties has only continued to increase, as a report from the United Nations noted that the parties involved are conducting operations “heedless of their impact on civilians.” ...
Saudi prince: Maybe the Palestinians should've taken the deals they were offered [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-05-01 02:51:50 by Tooconservative
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Or maybe they should stop sucking up to Iran. That’s the real subtext of the surprising rhetoric coming from Mohammed bin Salman, the young crown prince of Saudi Arabia who’s rewriting the Middle East script after seizing power in a family feud last year. Barak Ravid reports for Axios that MBS, as he’s colloquially known, told representatives of Jewish groups last month that while Saudi Arabia still wants a just and lasting settlement for the Palestinians, they could have gotten that themselves. Now, MBS says, it’s time to make a deal or “shut up and stop complaining”: According to my sources, the Saudi Crown Prince told the Jewish leaders: “In the last ...
Trump weekly approval rating reaches 11 month high
Post Date: 2018-04-30 22:33:01 by buckeroo
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President Trump's weekly approval rating has hit an 11 month high, according to data compiled by Gallup on Monday. Forty-two percent of Americans said they approved of the job Trump was doing at the end of the week of April 29. Trump's approval rating was 38 percent the week before. The rating is the highest weekly rating for the president since May 7, 2017, when his approval rating also hit 42 percent. The poll came on the heels of an eventful week for the president. Trump met with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel and discussed the future of the U.S. in the Iran nuclear deal. He hinted last week he could end up pulling the U.S. from the ...
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