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Airlines Know You Hate the Airport, and Are Trying to Do Something About It
Post Date: 2018-04-12 09:35:41 by Willie Green
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Competition between airlines is heating up over airport expansion plans. American Airlines Group Inc. signed on last month to a $8.5 billion renovation at O’Hare International Airport after bristling for months at what it argued was preferential treatment for the Chicago gateway’s largest tenant, United Continental Holdings Inc. American, United and other carriers at O’Hare agreed to new airport leases that will underpin funding plans for an expansion that is being mirrored at other big hubs across the country. From Los Angeles to New York to Atlanta and dozens of other airports, airlines and local officials are planning $100 billion in renovations over the next few ...
Former Speaker Of U.S. House Of Representatives Lights Up A Cannabis Company
Post Date: 2018-04-12 09:22:24 by Willie Green
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By now it’s no secret the former Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, excitingly, is an advisor to a cannabis company that owns and operates medical marijuana production and retail facilities. As an investment firm established in 2014, High Street Capital Partners, LLC, (HSC), quickly invested in the medical marijuana industry. Over the past four years, the company provided capital to cannabis operations across the U.S. At the end of 2017 HSC decided to pursue a strategy that changed not only the company's direction from mere investment to outright ownership, but also changed its name in March 2018 to Acreage Holdings (AH). ...
More Drug Lab Misconduct Results In Massachusetts Court Tossing Nearly 12,000 Convictions
Post Date: 2018-04-12 07:59:35 by Deckard
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from the one-drug-habit;-exponential-damage dept If everything keeps falling apart in Massachusetts, there won't be a drug conviction left in the state. The eventual fallout from the 2012 conviction of drug lab technician Annie Dookhan was the reversal of nearly 21,000 drug convictions. Dookhan was an efficient drug lab worker -- so efficient she often never performed the tests she was required to. The state moved much slower, dragging its feet notifying those possibly affected by Dookhan's lab misconduct until a judge told it to stop screwing around. There still could be more reversed convictions on the way as the state continues to make its way through a 40,000-case backlog. ...
Facebook Has Dozens of Ex-Obama and Ex-Hillary Staffers in Senior Positions
Post Date: 2018-04-12 07:40:01 by IbJensen
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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, has been defending his company’s privacy and advertising practices to querying congressional members on Capitol Hill. But if you want to know why Facebook has an anti-conservative bias problem, you need look no further than the staffers at the company. Apparently, Facebook employs dozens of individuals with tight ties to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — and puts them in key positions of influence. During his recent apology tour, Mark Zuckerberg notably failed to mention recent revelations about the Obama 2012 campaign’s exploitation of the platform’s weak pre-2014 data protections to harvest masses of data from non-consenting ...
Shock: Google Recording Porn Searches, Even 'Incognito' History Easily Obtainable
Post Date: 2018-04-12 02:01:57 by Tooconservative
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Let’s admit it: There are some things you just don’t want other people to know you Googled. Whether it’s an adult topic, a sensitive medical condition, or simply something innocent like gift ideas for a surprise birthday party, we like knowing that some of our searches are “off the record.” Almost anyone who has ever used the Google Chrome browser is familiar with “Incognito” mode. Its purpose is supposedly to browse the web without leaving a history of sites visited or terms searched … but is Google keeping its promises to users? “Chrome won’t save the following information: Your browsing history, cookies and site data, information entered ...
Should people who “aren’t sure the Earth is round” be allowed to vote?
Post Date: 2018-04-12 01:14:37 by Tooconservative
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After the Parkland shooting, many liberal activists and pundits were quick to suggest that the voting age be lowered to 16, or in some cases even 13. This was an obvious ploy to allow a bunch of kids who had suddenly decided that the Second Amendment wasn’t such a hot idea the chance to vote in the midterms. My response was to point out that some of these same children, when not protesting the President, were occupying themselves by eating Tide Pods or snorting condoms. Now, however, I’m not even sure if the 18-year-olds should qualify for suffrage. A new poll conducted by YouGov finds that among the youngest millennials, aged 18-24, an alarming number of them aren’t sure ...
What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
Post Date: 2018-04-12 01:02:57 by Tooconservative
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We’ve all been caught unawares by our digestive tract at one time or another. It happened to the Nash family several months ago. We were nearing the end of an extended road trip, driving down a secondary highway through a sparsely populated area of Colorado at night, when one of my 9-year-old twin sons had to use the bathroom. Despite my pleading, he said he couldn’t make it to the next town. (He had to poop.) So we pulled over and headed for the bushes. After he took care of his business, we realized that we didn’t have toilet paper with us. The whole dramatic episode got me thinking, and for the next couple of hours, I pondered toilet paper and the cultural nature of ...
The US got this one right
Post Date: 2018-04-11 23:41:32 by paraclete
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Within three hours of arriving in the US, Australian author and activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied said she was back on a plane after being refused entry. Ms Abdel-Magied had landed in Minneapolis ahead of speaking engagements in New York, but said that border agents decided to deport her just minutes after starting their investigation. "They’ve taken my phone, cancelled my visa and are deporting me," she said. She did not say where she was being sent back to. "Will follow up on messages once I understand what’s going on." © Instagram Yassmin Abdel-Magied posted an Instagram story after being put on a plane out of the US. Despite being on a plane out of ...
How to fix education in the USA
Post Date: 2018-04-11 21:08:28 by BobCeleste
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How To Fix Public Education In 24 Hours Have you ever spent an entire afternoon playing Monopoly with your family? Monopoly always sounds like a great idea when you first pull the box off the shelf and count out the money. But, before long, the game becomes kind of miserable and everyone ends up mad at each other. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. The game is called Monopoly for a reason. Teachers work for a monopoly that is controlled by the state. Having a monopoly on a product or service only works for the owner of the monopoly and no one else. Customers must pay whatever price the monopolist demands, employees must work for whatever the monopolist ...
Bible has the answer: divide the city(s) of the sanctuary of God 3 ways
Post Date: 2018-04-11 20:38:00 by interpreter
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The original sanctuary of God (Eden) is now Iraq and Iran, which is where the final Battle (Ar Mageddon or "City of the Sanctuary" when translated into English) takes place (it began in the first year of the Third Millennium AD just as prophesied (on 9/11). It will not and cannot end until the great city(s) of the Sanctuary of God are split 3 ways. I was originally planning on making that prediction for 2019. But after watching the world news the last couple days, I've decided to move it up a bit, to my mid-yaer predictions (for 2018). When it happens there will be peace for a thousand years. I'm pretty sure that our President, the King of the Earth's deal-makers, ...
Cancel your Bank of American credit cards easily over the phone
Post Date: 2018-04-11 18:06:24 by sneakypete
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It's easy. Just dial 800-732-9194 and tell them you want to cancel your BoA CC immediately. They will ask why,so make sure you tell them it is about BoA's decision to support gun control. No,you do NOT have to pay your cards off before you cancel them. You will still owe the money,you just won't be able to charge anything to your former CC account. I just did this a few minutes ago and got a message about "a short wait of 4 to 6 minutes due to the unusually high amount of calls being received",but I don't think it took that long before a pleasant sounding woman answered the phone,asked me why I was cancelling my card after 3 years,and just said "OK,thank ...
15 Evil Or Incompetent Women Who Prove That Females Are Horrible Leaders [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-04-11 14:54:51 by Liberator
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A common argument amongst feminists (in addition to their emasculated white knight and soy boy allies) is that women are better suited for leadership positions in the modern world. It doesn’t matter whether it’s being President, Prime Minister, Chancellor, or CEO, because men are just “too violent” or “too corrupt” or “too sexist”, and will inevitably ruin things for everyone like they have for many millennia. Yup. Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, and Dwight Eisenhower really ran the country into the ground alright. However, they are dead wrong. Female leaders throughout the course of history have proven themselves capable of ...
Neil Gorsuch Just Finished Year 1 on the Supreme Court. Here’s How He’s Making His Mark.
Post Date: 2018-04-11 14:29:18 by redleghunter
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Title: Neil Gorsuch Just Finished Year 1 on the Supreme Court. Here’s How He’s Making His Mark. Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of Neil Gorsuch taking his seat on the Supreme Court. In his first year, he has proven to be—as Donald Trump promised during his campaign—“very much in the mold” of Justice Antonin Scalia, whom he succeeded on the Court. Gorsuch quickly planted himself squarely in the textualist camp, aligning most closely with fellow conservative Justice Clarence Thomas. Gorsuch’s written opinions (including a handful from the last term and the current term) show a commitment to legal text and careful analysis. He has shown ...
LGBT Activists Vow to Shut Down Christian Ministry, 'Your Faith be Damned'
Post Date: 2018-04-11 14:12:52 by redleghunter
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OKLAHOMA CITY, April 3, 2018 /Christian Newswire/ -- "The level of hatred and bullying is not like anything we've seen," says Stephen Black, who lived as a gay man for 8 years, over 35 years ago, and now Executive Director of First Stone Ministries is in the crosshairs of gay activists. Black is the author of a ground-breaking book that reveals that 70-percent of people who want freedom from a destructive same-sex lifestyle find it. In Freedom Realized Black and his colleagues examined 25 years of case files and found incontrovertible evidence that people can and do change. On April 6, First Stone Ministries (firststone.org) is hosting a public screening of ...
I don't watch SNL much anymore, but this is pretty funny
Post Date: 2018-04-11 12:25:27 by no gnu taxes
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Procol Harum - Conquistador // Denmark - 2006 (LIVE)
Post Date: 2018-04-11 12:21:08 by Liberator
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Spectacular stirring rendition of Procol Harem's 'Conquistador', featuring a a tight Danish orchestra from 2016 -- nearly 45 years after the original. Of note, the studio album rendition did not originally feature the orchestra section was re-released as a live 1972 version (similar to this) and featuring the London Symphony Orchestra. That was the rendition widely played on radio. Gary Brooker's soulful vocals remained largely unchanged after all this time. This classic ditty was always under-appreciated; Musically, it has everything. Poster Comment:
The Richest 1% Will Own Two-Thirds Of Global Wealth By 2030, Report Finds [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-04-11 09:43:51 by Deckard
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Back in November, Credit Suisse highlighted an alarming - yet altogether unsurprising - milestone in the increasing concentration of global wealth that has been perhaps the most influential force behind the populist revolts that rocked the US in 2016 and have continued to unfurl across Europe. According to the Swiss bank's annual "global wealth pyramid," for the first time, the wealthiest 1% of the world's population had accumulated more than half of its aggregate household wealth. Credit Suisse's researchers describe in stark terms how global wealth inequality had actually improved somewhat in the years between the start of the new millennium and the financial crisis ...
Bank of America will no longer lend to companies that make ‘military-style’ weapons
Post Date: 2018-04-11 09:41:47 by misterwhite
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Bank of America officially took sides in America’s gun debate Tuesday, announcing it would no longer make loans to companies that make “military-style” weapons. The second-biggest U.S. bank announced Tuesday that it would drop current loan-customers Vista Outdoors, Remington and Sturm Ruger, and blackball any other manufacturer of assault weapons. Bank of America Vice Chairman Anne Finucanetold Bloomberg TV on Tuesday her bank has told those companies “it’s not our intent to underwrite or finance military-style firearms.” “We have had intense conversations over the last few months,” Ms. Finucane told Bloomberg, a network founded by tycoon and ...
Congress Yet Again Plants Its Flag Atop Mt. Hypocrisy
Post Date: 2018-04-11 09:12:32 by Deckard
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Is it me, or is there something obscenely ironic in Our Rulers’ condemnation of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s collecting and exploiting some users’ data, given the NSA’s collection and exploitation of all data? I won’t even mention further exculpatory facts, such as Facebook’s wretched record on privacy, which should scare away anyone who prizes confidentiality, or that joining its pages is entirely voluntary.
DeVos review of racial bias guidance stirs controversy (Among DemocRATs, Communists and Negroes)
Post Date: 2018-04-11 08:42:28 by IbJensen
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Civil rights groups are fighting to stop Education Secretary Betsy DeVos from rolling back Obama-era guidance on school discipline that aimed to protect black students from being punished more severely than their white peers. DeVos met with education advocates on the left and right last week to talk about the joint guidance the Education and Justice departments issued in 2014 to help schools avoid policies that discriminate, even unintentionally, against black students. Some Republicans and conservatives have argued the guidance has made schools less safe and contributed to the deadly Parkland, Fla., high school shooting in February. Others say the administration is using the shooting ...
The Time for a Massive Anti-War Movement is Now
Post Date: 2018-04-11 05:46:42 by Deckard
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An alleged new ‘chemical incident’ in Syria reminds of a similar series of events we saw last year. We are told to believe that each time the U.S. pulls back from the war on Syria the Syrian government is responding with a ‘chemical attack’ that pulls the U.S. back in. – From Moon of Alabama article: Syria – Timelines Of ‘Gas Attacks’ Follow A Similar Scheme If you’re genuinely against U.S. wars for profit, power and empire the current moment represents our best opportunity to push back aggressively and launch a real grassroots anti-war movement. The entrenched forces who’ll stop at nothing to get their war with Iran and Russia ...
It’s Spreading: More Anarchists Are Fixing Potholes Because the Gov’t Won’t Do Its Job
Post Date: 2018-04-11 05:42:55 by Deckard
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Image credit: Open Source Roads As government agencies continue to prove themselves incompetent at local, state, and federal levels, some citizens are taking responsibilities typically assigned to the authorities into their own hands. One of these responsibilities is maintaining the roads, a task most people believe only government entities can carry out. In Indianapolis, Indiana, however, where the roads are in disrepair and require hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade from “poor” to “fair” condition, two young men are taking a radically different approach: they are filling potholes themselves and building open source technology to crowdfund a ...
DEA Has Taken $3.2 Billion from People Never Charged with a Crime
Post Date: 2018-04-11 05:26:34 by Deckard
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Western Journal – by Becky Loggia A new report published by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General suggests that the Drug Enforcement Administration has seized billions of dollars in cash from people who it has not charged with crimes. The report, released in late March, said that since 2007, the DEA has taken over $4 billion in cash from those suspected of involvement with the drug trade. However, 81 percent of those seizures were conducted administratively and did not lead to any civil or criminal charges, according to The Washington Post. In total, that meant $3.2 billion was seized from people who were not charged. In many of these thousands ...
State Department: US 'has its own mechanisms' to investigate Bashar Assad
Post Date: 2018-04-11 02:46:28 by A Pole
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President Trump might not feel obliged to await the results of an international investigation into the latest chemical weapons attack in Syria to decide if an attack on President Bashar Assad’s regime should face a retaliatory strike, the State Department said Tuesday. “The United States government has its own mechanisms to be able to look into things,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters. ... Start at 9:30: “A chemical was used, we're just not sure — at this point, today — exactly what was used,” Nauert said. ... International monitors with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons have announced plans to go ...
Donald Trump Livid After FBI Raids Personal Lawyer: ‘Attorney-Client Privilege Is Dead!’ (Brietbart posters lighting it up! FIX IN?)
Post Date: 2018-04-10 15:23:13 by Liberator
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President Donald Trump continued his frustrated rant against the FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller after the office of his personal lawyer Michael Cohen was raided. “Attorney–client privilege is dead!” Trump wrote on Twitter on Tuesday morning, decrying the investigation as “A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!” Trump told reporters on Monday night that the raid was “a real disgrace,” “an attack on our country,” and “an attack on what we all stand for.” “When I saw this and when I heard it — I heard it like you did — I said, that is really now on a whole new level of unfairness,” the president continued. He condemned ...
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