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Here’s Why Abolishing the Police is Not a Crazy Idea
Post Date: 2016-08-29 08:40:17 by Deckard
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Are police necessary? Although this existential question often produces a knee-jerk ‘of course they are, who would protect us?’ a growing call for the abolition of police — and working examples to back it up — deserves more than scornful dismissal, particularly amid epidemic-level violence by agents of the State. Police are under no obligation to protect the public they putatively serve — a series of state and Supreme Court decisions stretching back more than three decades indisputably establish this fact — so the lingering question, ‘who will protect us?’ is of no consequence to the case for dismantling every police department in the nation. On the ...
Church of England parishes consider first step to break away over sexuality
Post Date: 2016-08-29 07:47:58 by HomerBohn
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(The Rev Dr Peter Sanlon at St Mark's, Tunbridge Wells) A group of parishes is preparing what could be the first step towards a formal split in the Church of England over issues such as homosexuality, with the creation of a new “shadow synod” vowing to uphold traditional teaching. Representatives of almost a dozen congregations in the Home Counties are due to gather in a church hall in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, later this week for the first session of what they say could eventually develop into an alternative Anglican church in England. Organisers, drawn from the conservative evangelical wing of Anglicanism, say they have no immediate plans to break away - but are setting ...
An Internet Giveaway to the U.N.
Post Date: 2016-08-29 07:34:08 by HomerBohn
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If the U.S. abdicates internet stewardship, the United Nations might take control. When the Obama administration announced its plan to give up U.S. protection of the internet, it promised the United Nations would never take control. But because of the administration’s naiveté or arrogance, U.N. control is the likely result if the U.S. gives up internet stewardship as planned at midnight on Sept. 30. On Friday Americans for Limited Government received a response to its Freedom of Information Act request for “all records relating to legal and policy analysis . . . concerning antitrust issues for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers” if the U.S. gives ...
Congressional Testimony: If the Government Is Not Constrained By Law It Is “our revolutionary right to overthrow it”
Post Date: 2016-08-29 07:01:58 by HomerBohn
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If you had a chance to make a difference by speaking to the US Congress, would you hold back? Or would you go all out and make what is possibly one of the best speeches ever heard on that floor? Would you go hard or would you go home? Michael F. Cannon went hard. Really, really hard. Cannon is the author of Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It and the director of health policy studies for the Cato Institute, “a public policy research organization dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peace.” (And one of the best sources of information around, in my opinion.) He recently testified to the ...
The Entire ‘LGBT’ Narrative Just Crumbled
Post Date: 2016-08-29 06:44:01 by HomerBohn
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If your daughter, sister, mother or friend “identified” as a fat person trapped in a perilously emaciated body – if she truly believed she was obese, but, in reality, suffered from anorexia – would you affirm her “fatness” and get her liposuction, or would you go to the ends of the earth to help her bring her subjective (and mistaken) identity into alignment with objective reality? When someone is engaged in demonstrably self-destructive behavior, it is not loving, but hateful, to encourage persistence. It was, ironically, lesbian activist and writer Dorothy Allison who once wrote, “Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with ...
Policeman Prays with Flood Victims – Red Cross tells Him to Stop
Post Date: 2016-08-29 06:32:12 by HomerBohn
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Apparently, that whole First Amendment, Freedom of Religion thing is kind of passé for some people at the Red Cross down in Lafayette, Louisiana. I mean, how else could you explain their decision to condemn a police officer for having the audacity to pray with flood victims in need of help? Last week police officer Clay Higgins stopped by the local Red Cross shelter after work to see how he could be of service to the hurting people of his community. Higgins was still in uniform and carrying a Bible as he spoke and prayed with local residents. After a few minutes on scene he was approached by a Red Cross volunteer who told him that the Red Cross had taken issue with what he was doing ...
'You should never play in the NFL again. Move to Canada': 49ers fans burn Kaepernick jerseys to the national anthem after the $114million sport star refused to stand 'to protest black oppression'
Post Date: 2016-08-28 20:24:12 by cranky
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San Francisco 49ers fans have filmed themselves burning Colin Kaepernick jerseys to the national anthem after he refused to stand for itThe $114million athlete stayed seated on Friday when the anthem played ahead of the 49ers clash with the Green Bay PackersAsked about his decision, Kaepernick said he refuses to feel pride in a country that mistreats 'black people and people of color'The quarterback has been outspoken on racial issues in the past and openly supports the Black Lives Matter movementKapernick has an African American father but was raised by a white couple alongside their two children after being put up for adoption Furious San Francisco 49ers fans are burning Colin ...
Patent No. 6,630,507: Why the U.S. government holds a patent on cannabis plant compounds
Post Date: 2016-08-28 19:58:04 by Operation 40
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Photo courtesy of Willie's Reserve -Willie Nelson holds up a container of his branded marijuana with “6630507” written on it. Following the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s inaction on rescheduling marijuana, legalization proponents have responded by taking to the internet to highlight Patent No. 6,630,507, which covers the potential use of non-psychoactive cannabinoids. Patent No. 6,630,507: Why the U.S. government holds a patent on cannabis plant compounds The Denver Post By ALICIA WALLACE | awallace@denverpost.com PUBLISHED: August 28, 2016 It’s about technology transfer, not legalization It may not have quite the same ring to it as a certain seven-digit ...
Michele Bachmann Joins Trump’s Clown Car of Advisors
Post Date: 2016-08-28 18:05:46 by Willie Green
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Is this a foreign policy advisor? Following directly on the heels of ultra-right-wing (“Alt Right”) former executive chair of Breitbart News, Steven Bannon, joining the Donald Trump campaign team, now former Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann has announced that Trump has tapped her to advise his campaign on foreign policy issues. Bachmann is notorious for her uninformed and bigoted pronouncements on LGBT people and Muslims. Her accumulated playlist of whacked out drivel and lies is unending, though I have my favorites. Though entirely untrue, she vomited: “The president of the United States [Obama] will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the ...
Man arrested for providing "really hot sex" to fags
Post Date: 2016-08-28 17:53:46 by no gnu taxes
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A man has been arrested and charged after allegedly putting hydrochloric acid inside what is understood to be a lubricant dispenser at a gay club in Sydney's north-west. Police said the 62-year-old man went into the Bridge Street premises in Rydalmere on Saturday, filling a dispenser inside a room with the highly corrosive acid. The ABC understands the club in question is the Aarows club, which describes itself as "Sydney's gay and bi social club" with "three levels of adult adventure". Items in the room had been fitted with alarms after they had previously been tampered with in a similar way, police said. Security stopped the man before police arrested him, ...
The Glenn Beck Blitz: 2016 candidate Darrell Castle 08 24 16
Post Date: 2016-08-28 17:23:49 by Hondo68
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Washington State Law for Potheads
Post Date: 2016-08-28 15:13:06 by nolu chan
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Washington State Law for Potheads Cannatonics v. City of Tacoma, No. 45999-0-II (Ct. App. Wash. Div. II, 15 Sep. 2015) at 14: In conclusion, we reject Cannatonics’ arguments that medical marijuana is legal and thus we reject its argument that the statute is overbroad. Contrary to what some addle-brained potheads believe, marijuana is an illegal, Schedule I drug under Washington state law. The Washington pot law of 2011, as passed by the Washington legislature, gave the appearance that the legislators were potheads. The governor vetoed significant provisions, notably a registry to be maintained by state employees. ...
New Black Panther Leader Quanell X: Trump Is Right About Democrats Exploiting Black Votes
Post Date: 2016-08-28 15:11:13 by cranky
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Quanell X, leader of the New Black Panther Party in Houston, Texas, said this week on a local news program that black Americans should “truly examine” Donald Trump’s outreach to the black community and “reexamine the relationship” that black voters have with the Democratic Party. Read the transcript of Quanell X’s remarks: Donald Trump last week went to Milwaukee because of the rioting behind the police shooting of a young African-American male by a black officer and the city was being burned down in certain parts of the black community by protesters so Donald Trump decided to go to Milwaukee and speak about the conditions of America and why he felt black ...
Surprise: Gun ownership rises to 44% of all homes
Post Date: 2016-08-28 15:06:31 by cranky
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After a steady decline in gun ownership in recent years, more homes are reporting having a weapon inside, according to a new survey. Pew Research Center, in a poll on guns released Friday, showed that 44 percent of the country has a gun in the house. Some 51 percent don't. The survey firm didn't break those numbers out for special attention in reviewing American attitudes about background checks, an assault weapon ban or other gun issues, but it shows a jump in ownership from the mid-30 percent found in other recent polls. CBS, for example, had gun ownership to a low of 36 percent. Gun sales have been on a tear over the past year, giving support for growing household ...
Trump allies leave key question about his deportation policy unresolved
Post Date: 2016-08-28 14:46:30 by ConservingFreedom
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[...] On immigration, Conway said on "Fox News Sunday" that Trump has not recently advocated a mass deportation force. "The deportation force, I would like to address that. He hasn't mentioned that since last November," she said. Trump's running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, said on CNN's "State of the Union" that the idea of a deportation force was a "mechanism, not a policy," and that Trump has remained "completely consistent" on immigration. Neither would definitively say what Trump would do with immigrants who have not committed any crimes since entering the country illegally. "And what he's said now is that he ...
Weekend Joke
Post Date: 2016-08-28 13:18:39 by Stoner
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I LOVE this ! : A driver was stuck in a traffic jam on the highway outside Washington DC. Nothing was moving. Suddenly, a man knocks on the window. The driver rolls down the window and asks, "What's going on?" "Terrorists have kidnapped Congress, and they're asking for a $100 million dollar ransom. Otherwise, they are going to douse them all in gasoline and set them on fire. We are going from car to car, collecting donations." "How much is everyone giving, on average?" the driver asks. The man replies, "A gallon would be good."
Trump Wants Police to Keep Getting Military Equipment From the Pentagon
Post Date: 2016-08-28 12:26:07 by Deckard
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Donald Trump says he would restart a controversial federal program that transfers surplus military equipment to local police departments, The Guardian reported Monday night: During discussions at a fraternal order of police lodge in Akron, Trump was asked by one questioner if he would return "military equipment" to law enforcement, according to a pool reporter who observed the event. "Yes, I would," said Trump, who added that the current situation facing law enforcement was "ridiculous." President Obama issued an executive order last May banning the transfer of several categories of military surplus equipment, such as bayonets, grenade launchers, heavy ...
As Fed nears rate hikes, policymakers plan for 'brave new world'
Post Date: 2016-08-28 10:57:18 by cranky
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Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen testifies before the Senate Banking Committee at Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 21, 2016.Federal Reserve policymakers are signaling they could raise U.S. interest rates soon but they are already weighing new tools they may need to fight the next recession. A solid U.S. labor market "has strengthened" the case for the first rate increase since last December, Fed Chair Janet Yellen told a central banking conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Several of her colleagues said the increase could come as soon as next month if the economy does well. Further rate hikes are expected to be few and far between as the U.S. central bank tries to ...
Global central bankers, stuck at zero, unite in plea for help from governments
Post Date: 2016-08-28 10:42:20 by cranky
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Central bankers in charge of the vast bulk of the world's economy delved deep into the weeds of money markets and interest rates over a three-day conference here, and emerged with a common plea to their colleagues in the rest of government: please help. Mired in a world of low growth, low inflation and low interest rates, officials from the Federal Reserve, Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank said their efforts to bolster the economy through monetary policy may falter unless elected leaders stepped forward with bold measures. These would range from immigration reform in Japan to structural changes to boost productivity and growth in the U.S. and Europe. Without that, they ...
Hillary’s Health: Emails Show Clinton Obsessed with Sleep, “Exotic Drugs”
Post Date: 2016-08-28 09:32:22 by HomerBohn
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Clinton herself says she’s “chronically exhausted”. Her staff calls her a “champion napper” (Infowars) – So is Hillary Clinton sick? It’s a fair question. I’m not just talking about those endless coughing fits, and that she always needs to be propped up on pillows when she sits, and requires help standing or climbing stairs. (Watch video at link) Four years ago, she had a concussion, and a blood clot in her brain sent her to the hospital. Later, her head was still so injured that she was seeing double. That’s why she wore those Fresnel prism glasses: to counter double-vision. Have you seen that video of her apparently having a seizure while ...
Revealed: How Jack the Ripper fled to YORKSHIRE to continue his killing spree - but was finally hanged in Australia
Post Date: 2016-08-28 08:36:40 by cranky
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Jack the Ripper was very likely Derbyshire-born Frederick Bailey DeemingLocal historian Mike Covell has chronicled his story in a new book In 1892 Deeming was hanged in Melbourne, Australia, before the international press touted him as the infamous killer Jack the Ripper, aka Frederick Bailey Deeming, 'one of the most evil men in British history,' fled to Yorkshire to continue his killing spree after his Whitechapel Murders, claims a historian. In 1892 Deeming was hanged in Melbourne, Australia, before being touted as the infamous Jack the Ripper by the international press.Local historian Mike Covell has chronicled the killer's journey in his book Jack The Ripper – Or ...
Voodoo doll, lizard carcass left outside Tybee Island Police Department
Post Date: 2016-08-27 23:03:21 by Hondo68
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SAVANNAH, Ga. — Tybee Island Police appear to be the target of some kind of dark magic after someone left a mutilated lizard carcass and doll outside their headquarters. Lieutenant Emory Randolph found a voodoo doll with its head ripped off and a dead, mutilated lizard outside the police station early Friday morning. Police said surveillance reveals someone left it there on Wednesday."To me it makes me feel like we probably struck a nerve with someone when they are trying to send spiritual forces against us," said Randolph. Police said they don't know of any voodoo communities on the island, but they want to know who put together the bizarre exhibit. ...
23 Health Benefits Of Marijuana
Post Date: 2016-08-27 20:43:04 by Deckard
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States around the country — more than 20 in total — have legalized medical marijuana. Experts have been changing their minds too — recently, CNN's chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta reversed his opinion on medical marijuana. While recreational pot usage is controversial, many people agree with Gupta's new stance, and believe that the drug should be legal for medical uses. And even though the benefits of smoking pot may be overstated by advocates of marijuana legalization, new laws will help researchers study the drug's medicinal uses and better understand how it impacts the body. Currently only 6% of studies on marijuana analyze its medicinal ...
Jim Robinson is getting desperate
Post Date: 2016-08-27 19:23:23 by no gnu taxes
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Seriesly, folks, we need to be working on completing this FReepathon very soon.
Fast & Furious Was Child’s Play — Pentagon “Lost” 700,000 Guns in Iraq and Afghanistan
Post Date: 2016-08-27 18:12:08 by Deckard
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Over half of 1.4 million guns U.S. shipped into Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11 are unaccounted for in DoD’s own records, watchdog discoversA picture uploaded by Dutch al Nusra militant Abu Saeed al-Halabi shows a masked man holding what appears to be a US-made M240 machine gunNika Knight | Common DreamsThe U.S. government has shipped over 1.4 million guns to Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11, according a new analysis by the U.K.-based watchdog Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), but the Pentagon is only able to account for fewer than half of them.AOAV released its analysis of publicly available data on U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contracts on Wednesday, and added that when requested ...
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