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Report: Trump Reluctant to Campaign in Alabama — But Swamp Fears Domino Effect if Luther Strange Defeated [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-09-21 21:59:00 by Tooconservative
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and his gang of establishment Republicans implored President Donald Trump to campaign for establishment Republican Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL) against conservative frontrunner Roy Moore, the former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice, because they reportedly are terrified that more grassroots candidates across the country will challenge establishment Republicans if Moore defeats Strange on Tuesday. Moore has led in every poll leading up to Tuesday’s runoff in what has been described as the “first proxy battle” between Trump and his former Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, who has vowed to support the economic nationalist agenda that ...
CanÂ’t Believe IÂ’m Saying This, But ItÂ’s Time for Big Government to Rein In Big Data
Post Date: 2017-09-21 21:31:25 by Tooconservative
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Reports that Facebook helped spread fake news brewed in Russia raises the question of whether Big Data has gotten too big and unaccountable. According to the social network, the ads in question “appeared to focus on amplifying divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum—touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights.” In other words, they featured hot-button issues that are ripping our social fabric apart at the seams. Whether this “mistake” was generated by profit motive, nefarious greed, or gross negligence, Facebook’s abdication of moral responsibility provides additional fodder for critics on ...
IS SPAIN ON THE BRINK? Tensions Mount As Catalan Independence Referendum Draws Near
Post Date: 2017-09-21 15:30:06 by Tooconservative
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For years, there has been a growing movement for independence from Spain in Catalonia, a prosperous region that includes the city of Barcelona. Since 1977, Catalan has enjoyed limited autonomy from the Spanish government and in 2006, Catalonian citizens approved the Statute of Autonomy for Catalonia by referendum vote, establishing the framework for Catalonia’s autonomous government. In 2010, the Statute of Autonomy was struck down by Spanish Government Constitutional Courts, which reignited the independence debate. And now, on October 1st, 2017, citizens of Catalonia will vote in a major referendum that could decide the future of the region. Well… if they’re allowed to ...
Trump’s Horrible, Arrogant, Dumb, Neocon UN Speech
Post Date: 2017-09-21 15:17:34 by Hondo68
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It reads like a declaration of war to every country that does not accept Washington’s hegemony I listened to part of Trump’s UN speech this morning. I was so embarrassed for him and for my country that I had to turn it off. I wonder if whoever wrote the deplorable speech intended to embarrass Trump and inadvertantly embarrassed America as well, or whether the speechwriter(s) is so imbued with the neoconservative arrogance and hubris of our time that the speechwriter was simply blind to the extraordinary contradictions that stood out like sore thumbs all through the speech. I am not going to describe all of them, just a couple of examples. Trump went on at great length about how ...
49ers-Rams tickets reselling for the price of two stadium pretzels
Post Date: 2017-09-21 14:36:01 by nolu chan
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49ers-Rams tickets reselling for the price of two stadium pretzels By Bill Disbrow SFGate Updated 7:59 am, Thursday, September 21, 2017 Thursday night's Rams-49ers game may be the toughest sell in the history of Levi's Stadium. As of Wednesday, resale tickets were being offered on StubHub for as low as $14 to see the team host the Los Angeles Rams at 7 p.m. That price is just cheaper than buying a pair of $7.50 pretzels through the Levi's Stadium app and comparable to the price of a beer and a hot dog at the the three-year-old arena. According to the team's seat licensing map, the cheapest original face value for any seat is $85. Ticket sale aggregator TicketIQ listed ...
The NFL is praying for a ratings turnaround [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-09-21 14:34:30 by nolu chan
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The NFL is praying for a ratings turnaround By Richard Morgan New York Post September 20, 2017 | 10:29pm | Updated s the NFL kicks off Week 3 with “Thursday Night Football,” team owners, TV networks and Madison Avenue are hoping it can turn around an early-season ratings dip. Ratings in Weeks 1 and 2 were down 12 and 15 percent, respectively, according to Nielsen. To be sure, saturation TV coverage of Hurricane Irma sapped some eyeballs from football during the first week of play. Still, nine of the 13 NFL windows in the season-to-date posted viewership declines, Sports Media Watch reported. “Week 2 might have still been disrupted by carryover impacts from the ...
Hillary Clinton: I Might Challenge Legitimacy of 2016 Election
Post Date: 2017-09-21 12:07:37 by IbJensen
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the woods of Chappaqua, New York… As you may have heard, Hillary Clinton is out there doing the rounds to promote her new book, “What Happened,” which promises readers an inside look at the Democrat’s failed 2016 presidential aspirations. In addition to building up a blame list a mile long – Russians, FBI Directors, and Matt Lauers, oh my! – Clinton is now floating a new possibility that should alarm Americans of all political stripes: She says she might challenge the very legitimacy of the election. And here TRUMP was supposed to be the big, bad danger to democracy! In an interview with NPR’s Terry Gross, ...
Moscow Unveils A Monument To Mikhail Kalashnikov, The AK-47’s Designer
Post Date: 2017-09-21 10:15:08 by Deckard
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A brand new statue of Mikhail Kalashnikov holding his signature AK-47 assault rifle was unveiled in Moscow on Tuesday. The statue commemorates one of Russia’s most renowned inventions. Kalashnikov is a staple name in Russia. The history of the rifle though began almost 100 years ago when its designer was born. The inventor of the world’s most famous rifle was born into a Siberian peasant family in 1919. He was mechanically minded and first aspired to design farm equipment. But World War II called him into the army and he was wounded in the 1941 battle of Bryansk. While he was in the hospital recovering, he heard other soldiers saying their weapons were ...
Prominent Washington D.C. Monument to Masonic Confederate General Albert Pike is untouched
Post Date: 2017-09-21 10:07:02 by Deckard
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The statue in our nation’s capitol of Confederate General Albert Pike, Grand Master of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Southern Jurisdiction — the most powerful masonic organization in the world in Pike’s lifetime. Albert Pike was a a Confederate Brigadier General in charge of American Indian troops fighting for the Confederacy.After the war he assumed command of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction. No member of the U.S. government or Union Army, or Federal officials during Reconstruction, were permitted to harm a hair on his head. Quick as a weasel, shortly after the war he was operating in the North with impunity, ...
Republicans Make Common Cause with a Billionaire Homosexual Rights Activist to Defeat Roy Moore
Post Date: 2017-09-21 10:03:37 by Deckard
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Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer has donated $1 million to the “Senate Leadership Fund,” a Republican super PAC backed by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), dedicated to defeating Christian Judge Roy Moore, who is running for the U.S. Senate in a Republican primary contest in Alabama. Paul Singer is a major donor to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund. Paul Singer He also serves on the board of directors of the Republican Jewish Coalition, and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. Singer and The Paul E. Singer Family Foundation support the Philos Project, an anti-Palestinian ...
Has asset forfeiture gone too far? Truck seizure case sparks outrage, a call for change
Post Date: 2017-09-21 09:55:55 by Deckard
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WASHINGTON – Two years ago, Gerardo Serano – an American citizen, Kentucky farmer and a one-time GOP Kentucky statehouse candidate – was driving his brand new, $60,000 Ford F-250 pick-up truck to visit relatives in Mexico, snapping pictures along the way, when Customs and Border Patrol agents halted him at the border, demanded his cell phone, and asked him why he was taking pictures. "I just wanted the opening of the bridge. I was gonna take the opening of the bridge, the entrance of the bridge. That’s all I wanted to do," Serano told Fox News. As a self-proclaimed student of the Constitution, Serano said he knew his rights, and ...
Canadian School Bans Cartwheeling, Because We Can't Be Too Careful
Post Date: 2017-09-21 09:21:24 by Deckard
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Risks? What about the risk of never taking a risk?Yes, a school in Canada banned cartwheels. What's worst about this is the school's reasoning: Cartwheels have been banned at M.T. Davidson Public School in Callander. Cartwheels are not permitted on school property in the playground rules section of the school's draft handbook for 2017-18. The rule came into effect this school year even though injuries have not been reported, principal Todd Gribbon admitted. "The activity can cause concussions, and neck and wrist injuries," he said. True—any activity, including a cartwheel, can cause injury. Walking down the stairs can cause falls resulting in concussions, neck, ...
We’re Living in the Bizzaro World (This is the way things look to me)
Post Date: 2017-09-21 08:36:12 by Deckard
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This is the way things look to me. The left—those folks who I had mistakenly thought were supposed to be opposed to the status quo—have strangely sided with the establishment powers-that-be since Donald Trump won the election.Further these people have the audacity to call themselves “The Resistance”! I’m not sure this has happened before. A group of rabble rousers rallying to the cause of the Status Quo? Rabble rousing to defend the ruling class against someone who would dare challenge the comfort of the privileged folks on top? Do you remember Trump’s great line at his inauguration with presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter, ...
9 Cops Reveal How To Actually Get Out Of A Ticket
Post Date: 2017-09-21 07:14:11 by Deckard
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Americans pay somewhere from $3.75 billion to $7.5 billion in traffic citations every year. The average ticket costs $152, including fees, although rates vary substantially depending on the nature of the offense and the laws of the state. In any case, you certainly don't want a citation, so if you see flashing red-and-blue lights in your rearview mirror, you'd better be on your best behavior. iStock Police don't really want to give you a ticket, but it's their job. Fortunately, they're more than willing to help you keep your record clean, provided that you're willing to listen to some common-sense advice. Here are a few ways to improve your chances of driving ...
14 Monopoly Rules That Aren't Actually Rules
Post Date: 2017-09-21 06:36:10 by Deckard
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The man who invented Monopoly did not invent Monopoly. Here's the company line (and we mean that literally—Hasbro, which now owns the rights to the game, continues to print this story on the first page of the official Monopoly rules): Monopoly was born when Charles Darrow presented the game, fully formed, to Parker Brothers executives in 1934. iStock In fact, by then Monopoly had been entertaining players for three decades. The truth is that a left-wing feminist named Lizzie Magie invented the game in 1903 under the title "The Landlord's Game." Her deliberate goal was to highlight the evils of capitalism. The Strong "It's a practical ...
If we’re not getting the wall, we may as well have an attractive dignified president
Post Date: 2017-09-20 17:28:36 by Willie Green
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Ann Coulter on Wednesday slammed President Trump as less "attractive" and "dignified" than Vice President Mike Pence and doubled down on her recent harsh criticism of the president by advocating replacing him with his second in command."If we're not getting a wall, we may as well have an attractive, dignified Republican there. We'll get better Supreme Court justices under Pence," the prominent conservative pundit said on Newsmax TV's Howie Carr show. Coulter, who was a fervent advocate of Trump as a candidate and authored the book "In Trump We Trust," has since become a critic of Trump due to inaction on campaign ...
France may make wolf-whistling and asking women for their phone number a CRIMINAL offence
Post Date: 2017-09-20 15:04:59 by Hondo68
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Surveys show virtually all French women have been harassed on public transport, in the street or elsewhere at some timeWOLF-WHISTLING is set to be banned in France as the government declares war on men hassling women in public. Under new plans bugging women for their telephone numbers and following them could also be prohibited. Rex Features The red card could be shown to French lads who wolf-whistle The crackdown comes after surveys show virtually all French women have been harassed on public transport, in the street or elsewhere at some time. France’s new leader, President Emmanuel Macron, has pledged to end this during his election campaign this year. Only a few countries, ...
Freedom Is a Myth: We Are All Prisoners of the Police State’s Panopticon Village
Post Date: 2017-09-20 10:20:40 by Deckard
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"We're run by the Pentagon, we're run by Madison Avenue, we're run by television, and as long as we accept those things and don't revolt we'll have to go along with the stream to the eventual avalanche.... As long as we go out and buy stuff, we're at their mercy… We all live in a little Village. Your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners.”— Patrick McGoohan First broadcast in Great Britain 50 years ago, The Prisoner—a dystopian television series described as “James Bond meets George Orwell filtered through Franz Kafka”—confronted societal themes that are still relevant today: the ...
Suspect in Starbucks Armed Robbery Plans to Sue Good Samaritan
Post Date: 2017-09-20 09:33:02 by cranky
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video A Good Samaritan stepped in to do what police say was the right thing, but now, that man could find himself in legal troubles. Back in July, Fresno Police say 30-year old Ryan Flores used a gun and tried to rob the Starbucks near Herndon Avenue and Highway 99. 58-year old Cregg Jerri stepped in to stop the crime, and the two got into a fight. Both men were hurt, but the Flores family said their son plans on suing Jerri for excessive force. Flores remains in jail, and faces a felony attempted robbery charge. His mother, Pamela Chimienti, said the family does not condone what he allegedly did, but she said Flores should not have been attacked back the way he was. The surveillance ...
Hero Cops a Feel
Post Date: 2017-09-20 08:45:49 by Deckard
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Here’s a video of a Hero copping a feel – fondling the breasts of an attractive blonde woman – who’d called police (bad mistake) after her car was rear-ended by another vehicle: The woman was injured and shaken by the accident – which the Hero used as pretext to accuse her of being “drunk” (she wasn’t, as subsequently determined by blood tests). The despicable cop paws at her breasts – you know, because a slight blonde woman might be a “threat” to “officer safety.” Lesson? There is no problem that calling a cop won’t make worse. Remember: They are not there to “help.” They are there to “bust” ...
Cop Mistakes Autism for Drug Use, Assault, Hurt Innocent Boy
Post Date: 2017-09-20 08:35:24 by Deckard
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Buckeye, AZ — Officer David Grossman and the Buckeye Police Department are under fire this week from an angry family who says the way the Phoenix area police officer treated their 14-year-old autistic son was completely inappropriate for an officer of the peace. The officer slammed their son to the ground, injuring him in the process, and now the family wants answers. Grossman explained to his supervisors why he felt the need to take the boy to the ground that day on July 19. He said he noticed Connor Leibel pacing from the park’s street bench to the corner of the street, fidgeting with something he was holding in his hand, and then smelling it. He said after smelling it the ...
Happy Birthday CIA: 7 Truly Terrible Things the Agency Has Done in 70 Years
Post Date: 2017-09-20 08:27:49 by Deckard
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On Monday, President Trump tweeted birthday wishes to the Air Force and the CIA. Both became official organizations 70 years ago on September 18, 1947, with the implementation of the National Security Act of 1947. After spending years as a wartime intelligence agency called the Office of Strategic Services, the agency was solidified as a key player in the federal government’s operations with then-President Harry Truman’s authorization. In the seventy years since, the CIA has committed a wide variety of misdeeds, crimes, coups, and violence. Here are seven of the worst programs they’ve carried out (that are known to the public): Toppling governments ...
Native American Man Misses Mother’s Last Moments Because Cops Beat Him at Hospital
Post Date: 2017-09-20 08:24:35 by Deckard
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Wagner, SD — A family is grieving and an elder Native American man is heartbroken and injured after he was unable to be by his mother’s side as she passed on. The family of Raymond Cournoyer, a 64-year-old Yankton Sioux Tribal Elder, says their father was beaten by police to the point of hospitalization while on his way to see his dying mother and therefore never got to see her. They have the bloody photos to back up their claims. On Sunday, Philly Cournoyer, the daughter of Raymond was heading to see her dying grandmother with her father when she says they were stopped by police after arriving at the hospital. “This is what happened to a man that just wanted to say his final ...
In Florida it’s Illegal to Power Your Home with Solar Panels
Post Date: 2017-09-20 08:19:37 by Deckard
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With roughly 1.5 million Floridians initially without electricity from the damage inflicted on Florida’s energy infrastructure, many in the Sunshine State are now questioning why it’s so difficult for people to utilize solar energy. The simple answer is that one of the major electrical suppliers in the state – Florida Power and Light (FPL) – has utilized a massive lobbying campaign, directed at state lawmakers, to create legal barriers to disallow people from powering their own homes with solar panels without being subject to power companies. In fact, current Florida state law makes it illegal. This is the definition of crony capitalism. Companies lobby government ...
Unlicensed Tour Guides Not Allowed in Savannah
Post Date: 2017-09-20 07:58:00 by Deckard
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Would you trust a tour guide who wasn't licensed? John Stossel writes: Michelle Freenor's business almost failed before it began. That would have been a loss, since her Savannah, Georgia, walking tour gets only good reviews from customers. "Top notch tour guide giving us a lot of history of Savannah's Historic District," said one five-star Yelp review. "Great, informative," said another. But that didn't matter to Savannah politicians. They said she had to get a government license if she wanted to charge people for tours. And getting the license was difficult. She had to pay $100 and then "pass a college-level history exam with tons of obscure gotcha ...
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