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Exec: Most Lyft rides will be in autonomous cars in 5 years
Post Date: 2016-09-19 14:08:43 by HomerBohn
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DETROIT (AP) -- Within five years, a majority of ride-hailing company Lyft's rides will be in self-driving cars, the company's co-founder and president predicted on Sunday. John Zimmer also said that personal car ownership will come to an end because autonomous rides will become a cheaper way to travel than owning an automobile. He made the predictions in an essay on the future of transportation in urban areas. Technology, auto and ride-hailing companies are moving quickly toward self-driving vehicles. San Francisco-based Lyft is testing autonomous cars on the streets of San Francisco and Phoenix in partnership with General Motors. Its main competitor Uber is starting to carry ...
Kasich: 'Very unlikely' I'll vote for Trump
Post Date: 2016-09-19 14:05:35 by Willie Green
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Ohio Gov. John Kasich isn't ruling out voting for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, though he says it's "highly unlikely" he'll support his former rival. "I'll let everybody know when, but I think my actions have spoken very loudly, louder than even my words," Kasich told CNN's Dana Bash in an interview broadcast Friday on "New Day." The former Republican presidential candidate indicated he won't vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton and hasn't considered voting for Libertarian Gary Johnson. "So is it still possible that you could vote for Donald Trump?" Bash pressed. "Very unlikely," Kasich ...
Scott Walker Leaks Could Force Supreme Court to Confront Dark Money
Post Date: 2016-09-19 13:49:55 by Willie Green
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Rarely do members of the public get to see behind the closed doors of political nonprofits, which may receive unlimited amounts of money from mega-donors without disclosing anything about their operations. But a trove of leaked documents from an investigation into Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s 2012 recall election campaign has offered an unprecedented look at how politicians operate in a post-Citizens United world that features record levels of undisclosed political money. The documents, leaked to The Guardian newspaper, detail the allegedly illegal coordination between Walker’s campaign and an outside group. Walker, in a scramble to win a bitterly contested election, asked a ...
More than 800 immigrants mistakenly granted citizenship
Post Date: 2016-09-19 10:42:16 by Hank Rearden
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has mistakenly granted citizenship to at least 858 immigrants from countries of concern to national security or with high rates of immigration fraud who had pending deportation orders, according to an internal Homeland Security audit released Monday. The Homeland Security Department's inspector general found that the immigrants used different names or birthdates to apply for citizenship with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and such discrepancies weren't caught because their fingerprints were missing from government databases. The report does not identify any of the immigrants by name, but Inspector General John Roth's ...
Colorado Drug Warriors Mistakenly Storm Innocent Family's Home
Post Date: 2016-09-19 10:28:14 by Deckard
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The cops were looking for a meth dealer who had not lived there for at least a year. A SWAT team breaks into a home early in the morning based on an informant's tip, expecting to find an armed methamphetamine dealer. Instead they encounter an innocent family with several young children. Those were the circumstances in which police in Habersham County, Georgia, nearly killed a toddler with an errant flashbang grenade in 2014, leading to a lawsuit that was eventually settled for $3.6 million. Something similar happened last week in Mesa County, Colorado. This time no one was injured or killed, although things easily could have turned out differently. Around 11:30 p.m. last Tuesday night, ...
Merkel Loses Control Of Berlin After Worst-Ever Election
Post Date: 2016-09-19 09:31:03 by HomerBohn
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) had its worst-ever election in Berlin Sunday, when the party was voted out of power. Surging nationalist party Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) was declared the big winner after reaching a high share of votes in notoriously liberal Berlin. Merkel’s CDU, on the other hand, suffered its worst election results in the capital since Germany’s reunification in 1990. CDU has been losing seats in state assemblies across Germany throughout the year as people show dissatisfaction with Merkel’s open-door immigration stance. CDU dropped almost six points from the election in 2011, finishing with just 17.5 percent ...
EX-NFL PLAYER ARRESTED NAKED WITH MARIJUANA IN BACKYARD, POLICE SAY
Post Date: 2016-09-19 08:11:13 by Gatlin
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Todd Marinovich, a former USC football star who later played for the Los Angeles Raiders, was arrested last week in an Irvine backyard after being found naked and in possession of marijuana, authorities said. The incident, which authorities said occurred Friday evening, was the most recent of multiple drug-related arrests dating back to Marinovich's days as a college quarterback. Officers responded about 9:20pm to a report of a "naked person" crouching in a group of bushes near Venta Spur Trail, according to a statement issued Monday by the Irvine Police Department. Authorities searched the area and discovered Marinovich, in the nude, hiding in a backyard off of Bluecoat, ...
‘I played stoned’: Some NFL players love getting high before kickoff
Post Date: 2016-09-19 07:32:49 by Deckard
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BEFORE he suited up to play against the New York Giants in 2012, Jacksonville Jaguars offensive lineman Eben Britton took an ice bath followed by a hot shower. He did his routine stretches. Then he smoked a joint. In fact, Britton — who also played for the Chicago Bears but left the league in 2014 — tells The Post he played three NFL games while high on marijuana. “NFL games I played stoned were some of the best games I ever played. Cannabis cements your surroundings,” he says. “A lot of people say they’re useless when they smoke weed. But hell, I played NFL games [while stoned], dude. My performances were solid and I felt really good after.” Modal ...
The Hillary Clinton Song
Post Date: 2016-09-18 16:36:42 by Stoner
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Funny, with a lot of truth
HILARIOUS! Hillary Clinton - Delete It! (Parody of Michael Jackson's "Beat It")
Post Date: 2016-09-18 16:27:21 by Stoner
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Funny
When you have an illiterate bus driver ... running your nation...this is what you get...
Post Date: 2016-09-18 13:16:51 by BorisY
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Venezuela, Cuba warn of US intervention at Non-Aligned meet September 17, 2016 View photos Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro claims the US is working with conservative interests in his country to oust him (AFP Photo/Ronaldo Schemidt) More Porlamar (Venezuela) (AFP) - Venezuela's embattled President Nicolas Maduro has warned world leaders at a Non-Aligned Summit that his country was being lashed by a US economic war aimed at toppling him. Speaking at the same event, which opened Saturday, Maduro's closest regional ally, Cuban President Raul Castro, echoed the charge, despite his country's thawing relations with the United States. "Venezuela is facing an ...
Farewell and Best Wishes
Post Date: 2016-09-18 12:51:32 by SOSO
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My wife's cancer is taking control of our lives. We are relocating tomorrow to be closer to our daughter and her family. Perhaps I may return to this forum sometime down the road. In the interim may God bless you and keep you and yours close to His heart.
The terrifying moment a Philadelphia cop was shot as he fled for his life during ambush by police-hating gunman who killed one bystander and wounded two officers
Post Date: 2016-09-18 09:11:46 by cranky
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Closed circuit cameras show an officer being shot during exchange of gunfire on street in West Philadelphia late FridayThe officer shown in the video is believed to be Ed Miller, a cop with the University of Pennsylvania police forceOne woman was killed and five others were wounded, including Miller and another officer, Sgt. Sylvia YoungOne of the wounded civilians is listed in critical condition The lone gunman has been identified as Nicholas Glenn, who was shot dead after the ambushAuthorities in Philadelphia say the gunman was motivated by hatred of police Nicholas Glenn, 25, identified as the gunman who injured two Philadelphia police officers and killed woman, 25, during Friday ...
Australian Efforts to Dump the United Nations Gain Momentum
Post Date: 2016-09-18 08:43:17 by HomerBohn
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As the United Nations becomes increasingly radical in its assaults on liberty and national sovereignty, the movement for free nations to leave the dictator-dominated UN has now officially arrived in Australia. Speaking on the floor of Parliament in his inaugural address, newly elected Senator Malcolm Roberts (shown) with the One Nation party said Australian values were under threat from “insidious” institutions such as the unelected UN. To deal with it, he called for an “OzExit.” In a passionate defense of freedom, Roberts also blasted privately owned central banks and the incestuous relationship between global mega-banks and Big Government. The tide is already turning. ...
Hillary Clinton: Your Kids Belong to the State
Post Date: 2016-09-18 07:11:11 by HomerBohn
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The president has the power to “shape our children,” Hillary Clinton said in a controversial tweet that sparked outrage among parents. (Read Tweets at link) Clinton’s Orwellian notion that the government should take more control from parents to raise the nation’s children has been promoted by the authoritarian left before, perhaps most famously by former MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry in 2013. “We have to break through our private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families,” she said, adding that kids belong “to whole communities” instead. MSNBC Host: Your Kids Belong to the Collective (Watch this at link) More ...
Clinton cautions against drawing conclusions on the New York explosion before facts are in
Post Date: 2016-09-18 06:23:44 by HomerBohn
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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said late Saturday night that it is important to “know the facts” before drawing conclusions about incidents such as the explosion in New York City. Clinton told reporters in the back of her campaign plane en route from Washington to New York state that she had been briefed on the episode, which she referred to as a bombing, wanted to be supportive of first responders and was praying for victims. Asked what she thought of her Republican opponent Donald Trump immediately referring to the explosion as a bomb earlier Saturday night, Clinton said: “I think it’s important to know the facts about any incident like this.” ...
Obama: Would be 'personal insult' to legacy if black voters don't back Clinton
Post Date: 2016-09-18 06:13:20 by HomerBohn
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Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama delivered an impassioned plea to the African-American community Saturday night to help stop Donald Trump, saying he would consider it a "personal insult" to his legacy if black voters didn't turn out for Hillary Clinton. Addressing the Congressional Black Caucus gala for the last time as president, Obama warned that while his name would not be on the ballot in November, all of the progress that the country has made over the last eight years was on the line. "If I hear anybody saying their vote does not matter, that it doesn't matter who we elect -- read up on your history. It matters. We've got to get people to ...
Breaking: Explosion in New York City – CCTV Video Added, 2nd Device Pressure Cooker Bomb Found
Post Date: 2016-09-18 05:57:06 by HomerBohn
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Developing – Earlier today there was a detonation of explosive device in New Jersey. Currently Firefighters are at the scene of an explosion in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood, and another in Charlottesville Virginia. The Fire Department of New York said there were reports of 15 patients, all with minor injuries, and there were no reports of fatalities. [Via New York Post] A dumpster blew up at 8:30 p.m. Saturday night in Chelsea, blowing out the lower windows of a 14-story residence for the blind. At least 26 suffered minor injuries from what may have been an explosive device, police sources told The Post. The explosion, described by one neighbor as “deafening,” ...
Explosion in Manhattan
Post Date: 2016-09-17 22:01:37 by cranky
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CHELSEA, Manhattan — Multiple people were injured during an outdoor explosion in Chelsea Saturday night. The explosion happened around 8:30 p.m. at 135 23rd St. between Sixth and Seventh avenues. Sources say 26 people have minor injuries. The victims were taken to area hospitals. The FDNY is on the scene with the NYPD Counterterrorism Unit. The explosion comes after a pipe bomb exploded in Seaside Park, New Jersey near the Semper Five 5K Charity Run Route. The device was placed in a garbage can. You can read the rest of the story here.
Florida Woman Found Not Guilty of Marijuana Cultivation (Jury Nullification) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-09-17 21:06:32 by Hondo68
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Bridget Kirouac, a medical marijuana patient who relocated from Maine to Florida, and who suffers from debilitating bone spurs, was found not guilty of cultivating medical marijuana in her Martin County home. BREAKING: Bridget Kirouac found NOT GUILTY of cultivation and possession of cannabis. More tonight on @WPTVpic.twitter.com/KTNuuRqXd7 — Jason Hackett (@JHackettWPTV) September 16, 2016 Informing the sympathetic jury, “I’m not a criminal, I’m a patient,” Kirouac told the attentive courtroom. “All I’m trying to do is survive.” Kirouac used marijuana Kirouac explained to the courtroom that she was an MMJ patient in the state of Maine with a valid ...
On Its 229th Birthday, Our Constitution Hangs by a Thread
Post Date: 2016-09-17 20:31:13 by cranky
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On this day in 1787, the founders of this nation finished writing a Constitution that in the intervening 229 years has helped make America the greatest nation on earth. When voters go to the polls on Nov. 8, the American people will decide whether that document will continue to serve as the Supreme Law of the Land. America declared its independence from Great Britain in 1776. Then in 1777 the signers of the Declaration adopted the Articles of Confederation, creating a common government that would bind the 13 newly minted states together as a nation, forming a confederation of sovereign states. But it became clear that America would not survive under the Articles. Americans stuck together ...
Coats v. DISH, Colorado APPEALS Court, UPHELD licensed medical marijuana user fired for positive THC test (25 Feb 2013)
Post Date: 2016-09-17 18:08:19 by nolu chan
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Coats v. DISH, Colorado APPEALS Court, UPHELD licensed medical marijuana user fired for positive THC test (25 Feb 2013) The trial court order dismissing the Coats suit for failure to state a claim of action may be found at the link below: libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=47866 The Court of Appeals upheld the trial court's dismissal of the Coats lawsuit. Coats v. DISH, Colorado Ct. App., 2013 COA 62 (25 April 2013) COLORADO COURT OF APPEALS 2013 COA 62 Court of Appeals Nos. 12CA0595 & 12CA1704 Arapahoe County District Court No. 11CV1464 Honorable Elizabeth B. Volz, Judge Brandon Coats, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Dish Network, L.L.C., Defendant- Appellee. JUDGMENT ...
PIPE BOMB detonated on route of Jersey Shore military 5K race: Thousands of runners, including wounded vets and their children, evacuated after trash can explodes; further two explosives found
Post Date: 2016-09-17 17:30:31 by cranky
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Pipe bomb exploded shortly before the Semper Five Run at Seaside Park, New JerseyThe bomb was in a garbage can when it exploded - no one was inured in the explosion The race, which is a 5K to benefit marines and sailors, was canceled because of the blastAt least 1,000 people had already gathered nearby to begin the third-annual Semper Five RunThe event gathers huge crowds of veterans - many wounded - and their families, including childrenA pipe bomb exploded in a Jersey Shore town shortly before thousands of runners were due to take part in a charity 5K race to benefit marines and sailors on Saturday.At least 1,000 people gathered just blocks away from the explosion, including wounded ...
NYPD Steals $18,000 from Man Because He Was Carrying a Banned Pocket Knife [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-09-17 14:59:03 by Deckard
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In the past five years, the New York Police Department has spent $347,000 on false arrest lawsuit settlements. According to the Village Voice, these costs stem from the city’s “gravity knife statute.” Passed in 1958, the law banned New York residents from carrying knives fitted with blades that fall out of the handle as the user points them toward the ground while pushing the lever. This antiquated law is responsible for thousands of yearly arrests, despite the fact that current knife designs bear no resemblance to the blades of yesteryear. But estimates suggest that over the past ten years, this particular ban has been the reason for the prosecution of “60,000 New ...
Johnson and Stein fail to make cut for first presidential debate
Post Date: 2016-09-17 14:18:31 by Hondo68
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Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein failed to make the cut for the first presidential debate on Sept. 26, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced on Friday afternoon, in a significant blow for their campaigns. Though Johnson and Stein satisfied two of the criteria necessary to participate – that they be constitutionally eligible and have achieved ballot access in a sufficient number of states to win a theoretical Electoral College majority – neither met the threshold on polling. The commission said Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been formally invited to participate in the first presidential debate later this month, while ...
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