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Trump’s New Budget Plan Is a Fiscal Disaster
Post Date: 2018-02-14 09:47:12 by Deckard
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The administration's spending blueprint continues the fiscal decline that began during the Bush era.The federal government's fiscal outlook has been in decline since the Bush administration, and President Trump's new budget plan is another step in the wrong direction. Trump's 2019 budget ramps up spending on the military and border security. Although the budget offers some ideas for domestic spending cuts, most of these won't see the light of day. In other words, it continues the long-term unwinding of the nation's fiscal discipline. The newly released 2019 plan calls for $4.407 trillion* of expenditures while forecasting $3.422 trillion* in revenue, resulting in an ...
China Set To Launch Yuan-Prices Oil Futures Next Month
Post Date: 2018-02-14 09:33:55 by U don't know me
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China Set To Launch Yuan-Prices Oil Futures Next Month By Tsvetana Paraskova - Feb 09, 2018, 11:00 AM CST China In a move that could upend the pricing and trading of one of the world’s most actively traded commodities, China plans to finally launch its long-awaited and delayed yuan-denominated oil futures contract on March 26, Reuters reported on Friday, quoting two sources familiar with the latest developments. China has been preparing to launch its oil futures contract for years and has postponed or shelved plans several times, but it looks like now it is close to launching an oil futures contract that will give it more clout in crude pricing and promote its currency as a truly ...
Cops Called on Parents Whose Autistic 5-Year-Old Son's Hair Was Too Messy
Post Date: 2018-02-14 06:45:54 by Deckard
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Amazingly, cops do not "fear for their lives" and shoot the child This mom's story in The Washington Post will kick anyone in the gut. Texas writer May Cobb was out for a day with her mom, her husband, and their autistic 5-year-old who, miraculously, was doing great. By great, Cobb explained, she meant he had not had a single meltdown during the hour they were at a park and on the boardwalk near Lady Bird Lake in Austin. He hadn't stripped off all his clothes, and he wasn't banging his head over and over again. Sure, his hair was messy—his sensory issues render him distraught when he gets his hair brushed. And his pants were too short—but at least he'd ...
The Military Industrial Complex Strikes Again: War Spending Will Bankrupt America
Post Date: 2018-02-14 05:41:40 by Deckard
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“Why throw money at defense when everything is falling down around us? Do we need to spend more money on our military (about $600 billion this year) than the next seven countries combined? Do we need 1.4 million active military personnel and 850,000 reserves when the enemy at the moment — ISIS — numbers in the low tens of thousands? If so, it seems there's something radically wrong with our strategy. Should 55% of the federal government's discretionary spending go to the military and only 3% to transportation when the toll in American lives is far greater from failing infrastructure than from terrorism? Does California need nearly as many active military bases (31, ...
Water, Water Everywhere, But Not a Drop on Earth
Post Date: 2018-02-13 22:29:24 by A K A Stone
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According to the evolutionary theory of how the solar system came to be, Earth ought not to have water. The planets supposedly formed out of a disk of material left over from the sun’s formation 4.6 billion years ago. The planets would have formed gradually by amalgamation of tiny dust particles. The problem is, the early sun would have heated the inner solar system sufficiently to have evaporated and blown away any water present in the dust that eventually formed the Earth. Furthermore, as Earth formed through this hypothetical process, gravitational potential energy liberated would have heated the early Earth to a molten state, driving away any water that might have survived. Given ...
Duke prof suggests libertarians are 'on the autism spectrum'
Post Date: 2018-02-13 22:06:03 by Gatlin
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A Duke University history professor recently suggested that many of the conservative and libertarian subjects of her book “seem to be on the autism spectrum.” Nancy MacLean, author of the controversial book Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America, made the comments during a February 7 lecture at the New York City Unitarian Church of All Souls, where she was slated to discuss “the roots and agenda of the radical right.” She was delivering a presentation on her book’s conspiratorial thesis about the American libertarian movement, which she claims originated with Nobel Prize-winning economist James Buchanan. Almost ...
US airstrike killed 'dozens' of Russian contractors in Syria [200+ dead Cossacks?] [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-02-13 19:56:31 by Tooconservative
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U.S. airstrikes in Syria killed 100 pro-regime forces including an unknown number of Russian contractors who were fighting alongside them. The conflict started when a force of around 300-500 soldiers armed with Russian made tanks and artillery came across the Euphrates River and began firing on a Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) base. There were American advisers at the SDF base who called in an airstrike. From CNN: Several Russians who had been hired as paramilitary contractors were among more than 100 men killed in US airstrikes in northern Syria last week, according to their friends and families. The men were working for a private Russian company called Wagner, which has sent ...
The Book Of Enoch EXPOSED!
Post Date: 2018-02-13 19:55:48 by A K A Stone
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Is the Book of Enoch really a lost book of the Bible? A born-again Christian who has been reading the Bible for several years only needs to read the "Book of Enoch" briefly to know that something is very wrong. There are so many obvious flaws with this alleged missing book of God's Word. It is clear to me that someone copied from the Bible and wrote this garbage. The same type of mumbo-jumbo can be readily observed in the Qur'an. I do NOT believe that Enoch, who lived during the time period of Genesis, wrote this manuscript. Evidently the King James translators didn't either, and for good reason. The Devil is working relentlessly to corrupt God's Word, as he has ...
Reverse Trump effect? Remington Arms files for chapter 11
Post Date: 2018-02-13 19:40:29 by Tooconservative
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A particularly depressing bit of news from my old stomping grounds growing up crosses our desk today. Remington Arms, one of the nation’s most venerable manufacturers of firearms, is in serious financial trouble and has reached an agreement to file for bankruptcy protection. And according to Bloomberg’s coverage of this story, the main reason they’re citing for their fiscal woes is… Donald Trump. This particular case of assigning blame is probably different from ones you’ve seen in the past, however. Normally we’d hear about Washington passing some new regulation which harms businesses. In this case, they’re saying that President Trump is such a fan of ...
Christian Peace [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-02-13 19:05:02 by Vicomte13
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It's been a rough couple of days around here. Several of us, myself included, have not behaved in a manner at all befitting of a follower of Jesus. I propose that we cut that off and come back together in peace. We worship the same God and follow the same Lord. And he admonished us to love each other. Having gone in the other direction and riled ourselves up with hatred, what do we have to show for it? Nothing good. So lets cut our losses and get back in line with our leader, who is in heaven. For my part, I am sorry for all of the harsh words. I was hurt and angry, and lashing out, trying to inflict hurt and spread around the hate. We all know this is bad. I'm sorry I did it, ...
Piers Morgan: Omarosa Offered Me Sex...Called Me ‘F*cking F*ggot’ When I Declined
Post Date: 2018-02-13 18:40:56 by A K A Stone
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Piers Morgan, the most loathed man in British media, took aim at Omarosa Manigault, his stateside counterpart, claiming that she offered him sex when the two were on the set of The Apprentice — and resorted to vicious insults when he declined. Omarosa — who is currently appearing on Celebrity Big Brother to dish about her time in President Donald Trump’s White House — once starred in The Apprentice and subsequent Celebrity Apprentice, both Trump productions. The latter was where Omarosa clashed bitterly with media personality Morgan.
Who Were the Nephilim?
Post Date: 2018-02-13 12:22:03 by A K A Stone
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Genesis 6:1–6 Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God (bene Elohim) saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God (bene Elohim) came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was ...
Ex-MLB pitcher Esteban Loaiza arrested on drug charges
Post Date: 2018-02-13 11:12:44 by Deckard
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CHULA VISTA, Calif. - Former Major League Baseball pitcher Esteban Antonio Loaiza, a Tijuana native who attended Imperial Beach's Mar Vista High School, was in a Chula Vista jail Monday following his arrest on suspicion of possessing roughly 44 pounds of cocaine with intent to sell, authorities said. Loaiza, 46, was under surveillance Friday when he left an Imperial Beach home in a suspected drug smuggling vehicle, San Diego County Sheriff's Lt. Jason Vickery said. Deputies from the Border Crimes Suppression Team stopped Loaiza for a traffic infraction, and inside the vehicle found "a sophisticated after-market compartment used to conceal contraband." Based on that stop ...
Coin-Toss Whiner Shani Davis Finishes Off the Podium (19th Place)0
Post Date: 2018-02-13 10:12:21 by Deckard
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GANGNEUNG, South Korea—Of all the athletes caught up in the U.S. speedskating team’s debacle at the 2014 Olympic Games, perhaps none took it harder than Shani Davis. As one of the most accomplished skaters in the world, he had hopes of picking up two more golds, booking his place among the greatest American Olympians of all time. He went home with none.Davis finished 19th here, the lowest of the three Americans competing, nearly two full seconds off the podium. The gold and silver medals went, almost predictably, to two members of the dominant Dutch squad, Kjeld Nuis and Patrick Roest. Kim Min-seok of South Korea took bronze.Davis’s best hope to medal at these Games ...
Fox News: 'School Science Project That Connected Race & IQ Is Pulled After Complaints'
Post Date: 2018-02-13 09:34:13 by Deckard
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The first rule of Science club is: Scientific inquiry is no longer permitted if it leads to hurt feelings. From Fox News:A science fair project at a California high school faced criticism earlier this week after it compared race and IQ levels in connection to participation in an elite program at the school, The Sacramento Bee reported Saturday. The project, titled "Race and IQ," was put together by a C.K. McClatchy High School student who is part of the school's elite Humanities and International Studies Program. It was displayed in the fair on Monday, the outlet said.According to the SacBee, the boy is of "Asian descent."In comparing intelligence levels, the project ...
Trump Budget Would Swap Food Stamps With "100% American Grown Food"
Post Date: 2018-02-13 09:23:29 by Deckard
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President Trump's new budget proposes reducing EBT card (food stamps) payments and swapping in "100 percent American grown food" boxes distributed directly to recipients. From Bloomberg:In what would be one of the biggest shakeups of the U.S. food-stamp program in its five-decade history, President Donald Trump is proposing to slash cash payments and substitute them with "100 percent American grown food" given to recipients. The changes, outlined Monday in Trump’s budget proposal, would reshape the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which supports roughly one in eight Americans, by reducing cash spending by about one-third from current ...
Obama Painter Kehinde Wiley Known For Portraying Black Heroines Decapitating White Women
Post Date: 2018-02-13 09:17:28 by Deckard
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Source: Chris Menahan, Information Liberation Barack Obama unveiled his official portrait as painted by artist Kehinde Wiley at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC on Monday. "Wiley typically portrays people of color posing as famous figures in Western art," the Portrait Gallery said of his work. "Through this practice, he challenges the visual rhetoric of power that is dominated by elite white men.""Barack Obama said he admired how Wiley's photos 'challenge our conventional views of power and privilege,'" NPR reports. Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of President Obama. pic.twitter.com/8XruEgzgMK ...
FACT CHECK: Does The Federal Government Borrow $1 Million Every Minute?
Post Date: 2018-02-13 09:03:33 by Deckard
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Republican Sen. Rand Paul claimed Thursday that the federal government borrows $1 million every minute. Verdict: True The annual federal deficit has averaged more than $1 million per minute since fiscal year 2016 and is projected to reach around $2 million per minute in FY 2019. Fact Check: Congress passed a two-year budget deal early Friday morning. Although lawmakers still have to appropriate specific spending by late-March, the deal addressed spending priorities of both parties by hiking defense and domestic spending caps in addition to allocating $90 billion in disaster relief funding. The deal received bipartisan support in both houses of Congress, and President ...
FEMA Contractor Seeks $70 Million After Failing to Deliver 29,950,000 Hot Meals to Puerto Rico
Post Date: 2018-02-13 08:59:26 by Deckard
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A contractor facing acrid backlash over a scathing report detailing the delivery of just 50,000 of a promised 30 million self-heating meals to desperate Puerto Ricans recovering from Hurricane Maria has now come forward to defend her actions after FEMA had no choice but to terminate the contract “due to late delivery” — but Tiffany Brown’s response smacks of shirking responsibility for blatant failures, rather than humble mea culpa. “I’ve had challenges in that area,” Brown, the sole operator and employee of Tribute Contracting in Atlanta, told CBS News of the bungled deal, “particularly because I’m so young and being a woman in the food ...
Police: Man pointing gun at his own head killed by officers
Post Date: 2018-02-13 08:46:19 by Deckard
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WILLISTON, Vt. (AP) — A distraught man who was pointing a pistol at his own head was shot by police as he walked toward two officers next to a busy interstate and refused repeated commands to drop the weapon, state police said Monday.The man died at a hospital shortly after the Sunday shooting in the breakdown lane of Interstate 89 in Bolton, said state police Col. Matthew Birmingham. Benjamin Gregware, 42, of Sheldon, did not point his weapon at police before he was shot three times, Birmingham said. State police Trooper Christopher Brown and an officer from the nearby Richmond Police Department fired 12 shots total at him.It was the third fatal shooting involving Brown in ...
Disturbing Video Shows Cops Take Turns Beating a Disabled Elderly Man—In HANDCUFFS
Post Date: 2018-02-13 08:40:00 by Deckard
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Louisville, KY — A recent settlement paid out by the Kentucky State Police, highlights the utter importance of filming cops. A 68-year-old disabled man was accused of attacking police officers but video evidence showed the exact opposite. The victim, Lewis Lyttle has since been paid $130,000 in taxpayer money because officers took turns kicking and punching him while he was in handcuffs. The suit was settled in October of last year, however, police have kept it secret and even lied about it. According to WDRB, Kentucky State Police denied an open records request for a copy of the settlement on Jan. 10, saying no settlement existed and “any documents related to a possible ...
KEENAN: Rand Paul Is Wrong About The Deficit
Post Date: 2018-02-13 07:40:30 by Gatlin
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Study the chart below, math whizzes: 2% growth: $1.2T deficit 3% growth: $900B deficit 4% growth: $600B deficit 5% growth: $300B deficit 6% growth: $0 deficit, balanced budget 1% economic growth = $300 Billion of federal revenue. Let me be the first to say it, the new spending measure by Trump & the GOP may BALANCE THE BUDGET. Rand Paul kept the Senate wide awake on Thursday night, grandstanding to lament what he called a $1.2 Trillion annual deficit predicted by this new bi-partisan spending measure. But who predicts the deficit? The CBO. The CBO has based its revenue projection off their usual static scoring, presuming a pessimistic 2% growth (apparently for the upcoming ...
Security Drags Woman from Hearing for Exposing Big Oil Bribes to Politicians
Post Date: 2018-02-13 07:11:27 by Deckard
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West Virginia — (RT) A candidate for the West Virginia House of Delegates was dragged out of a hearing after listing the donations received by state lawmakers from fossil fuel companies. She was testifying on a bill on oil and gas drilling rules. Lissa Lucas was criticizing a proposed bill, HB 4268, which would allow oil and gas companies to drill on private land with the consent of just 75 percent of the landowners. Energy companies are currently required to have 100 percent approval from landowners before they can extract gas and minerals from land. As part of her testimony, she read out the list of names of lawmakers who received sizeable donations from fossil fuel companies. ...
While in Louisville, Chuck Schumer slams Rand Paul's government shutdown as 'hollow'
Post Date: 2018-02-13 06:45:32 by Gatlin
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While speaking at the University of Louisville's McConnell Center on Monday, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, says Rand Paul is only concerned about deficit when it’s convenient. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday slammed Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's single-handed effort to stop a budget deal and shut down the government last week. "His idea of railing against the deficit on this bipartisan deal after he supported a $1.5 trillion deficit for tax cuts, 80 percent of which are aimed at the top one percent, is very hollow," Schumer said. Schumer, a New York Democrat, was speaking at the University of Louisville as a guest of Senate Majority Leader Mitch ...
Hospital Reverses Policy About Denying Illegal Immigrant Liver Transplant After ACLU Pressure
Post Date: 2018-02-13 06:31:45 by Gatlin
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An Oregon hospital contacted an illegal immigrant on Tuesday and told her she could not be on the liver transplant list. The hospital stated it “requires proof of lawful presence for transplant services.” Now the hospital has done an about-face after the ACLU and others applied public pressure. The legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon, Mat dos Santos, responded to the woman’s receipt of the letter from Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) by calling the policy “cruel and inhumane.” The ACLU in Oregon started a petition drive, Tweeting, “TAKE ACTION! Add your name to the petition asking all Oregon hospitals to stop denying ...
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