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1/31/2018

FBI Director Wray "Shocked To His Core" By FISA Memo, McCabe 'Removed' Next Day, More Heads To Roll: Report

The Chances Are Good
The House Intelligence Committee on Monday evening voted to release a classified memo circulating in Congress that purportedly reveals government surveillance abuses.
The vote was announced to reporters by California Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the committee, who called it a “very sad day, I think, in the history of this committee.” The motion passed on a party-line basis, he said.
President Trump now has five days to decide whether he has any objections before the memo can be publicly released.

The Feds will investigate Apple for slowing down older iPhones
The Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission will probe Apple over whether the company "violated securities laws concerning its disclosures about a software update that slowed older iPhone models," Bloomberg reports.

The Flu Is Far Worse Than We're Being Told

"The Honest Poor"? - 1 In 5 Of America's Homeless Live In NYC Or LA

Democrats are coming unhinged over the Trump economy

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1/30/2018

Don’t Miss The Incredibly Rare 'Super Blue Blood Moon
On Wednesday, sky gazers will be in for a rare lunar event: For the first time in 35 years, a blue moon coincides with a total lunar eclipse, and as a bonus, the moon will seem bigger than usual, TIME .

Must Have Been a Predisposed Condition
Ravens CB Marlon Humphrey has been arrested and charged with 3rd degree robbery. The 2017 first round draft choice of the Ravens who signed a four-year $11.9 million deal last May found himself on the wrong side of the law when he was booked by Tuscaloosa police for a third-degree robbery. Via The Baltimore Sun “Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey arrested in Alabama on robbery charge involving $15 phone charger”:

What a Joke, But They Do Have a Great Welfare Program For all The Immigrants
Three years ago, Germany's military made headlines when it used broomsticks instead of machine guns during a NATO exercise due to a shortage of equipment. The lack of real weapons in the European Union's most populous nation was seen as symptomatic of how underfunded its military has long been.

There were more than 25,000 murders across drug-ravaged Mexico in 2017, the highest annual tally since modern records began, government data showed.
Investigators opened 25,339 murder probes last year, up nearly 25 percent from the 2016 tally, interior ministry data released on Saturday showed. It was the highest annual total since the government began counting murders in 1997.
Mexico has struggled with years of violence as the government has battled vicious drug cartels that have increasingly splintered into smaller, more bloodthirsty, gangs.

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1/29/2018

People come into your life
And then they will leave
But it’s how they left
That you always remember

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1/28/2018

Lord Loves a Thinkin Man
Hawaii governor took 15 minutes to correct false nuclear missile alert because he FORGOT his Twitter username and password

Wow
Huge Snapping Turtle in Frozen Arkansas Lake

One in 10 travelers has sex in an airport, survey finds
American air travelers reports having had sex of some kind at an airport, compared with about 8 percent who are members of the Mile High Club, according to an important new survey conducted by a
flight-shopping website.

He Needed A Fix
A North Carolina man who made headlines when he was caught for break-ins after winning a doughnut-eating contest has been arrested again. And this time he’s accused of stealing from a Dunkin Doughnut shop.

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1/27/2018

Amazon gives in to Massachusetts tax officials and agrees to turn over third-party seller data
On Tuesday, Amazon notified its marketplace sellers that the company has agreed to hand over important merchant information to the state of Massachusetts — including their federal tax ID numbers and the estimated value of inventory stored in Amazon's warehouses in that state.
The move — which is the first public case of Amazon handing over seller data to state tax officials — will help the state of Massachusetts identify which Amazon sellers may owe them unpaid sales taxes.

DOJ Demands Sanctuary Cities Turn Over Law-Enforcement Documents
The Trump administration's battle with so-called sanctuary cities escalated Wednesday when the Department of Justice, under the guidance of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, asked for records from 20 cities and countries, including the country's three largest, as well as California, Illinois and Oregon.
The documents would reveal whether law enforcement agencies in these jurisdictions are illegally withholding information from US immigration authorities in violation of federal law, Reuters reported. Most sanctuary cities have passed local laws meant to stop municipal law enforcement from sharing an arrestee's immigration status with ICE.

THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY maintains a page on its website that outlines its mission statement. But earlier this month, the agency made a discreet change: It removed “honesty” as its top priority.
Since at least May 2016, the surveillance agency had featured honesty as the first of four “core values” listed on NSA.gov, alongside “respect for the law,” “integrity,” and “transparency.” The agency vowed on the site to “be truthful with each other.” On January 12, however, the NSA removed the mission statement page – which can still be viewed through the Internet Archive – and replaced it with a new version.

Fridays Open Road

1/26/2018

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

Ransom Riggs

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1/25/2018

More Crumbs Falling from the Sky, Can I get a do-over
Nancy Pelosi had described the massive tax cuts passed by Republicans as, "crumbs that they are giving to workers to kind of put the schmooze on — it’s so pathetic... I think it’s insignificant."

Walt Disney Co. said it will give employees a one-time cash bonus of $1,000, joining a growing list of companies handing out awards in the wake of federal tax reform. Via Bloomberg:

Verizon says employees, other than top management, will receive 50 shares of restricted stock, the price of which will be set on February 1.

Via Bloomberg “Starbucks to Spend $250 Million on Worker Benefits After Tax Cut”:

How about a triple-expresso with black eye?

You’re Multiculturalism Report
Last week, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven of Sweden said that the country would do whatever it takes, including sending in the army, to end the wave of gang violence situated in the no-go zones around the country. Sweden’s murder rate has been relatively low over the years, but thanks to the migrant crisis, police are powerless in many areas across the country.

I Thought, The whole point of Immigration is that it doesn't matter where immigrants come from. It matters what productive steps they are able to accomplish in the new country when they get there.

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1/24/2018

They Really Are Nuts
There are videos of Eagles fans climbing light poles slicked with Crisco, fans throwing beer at Vikings fans and even a fan who was arrested for punching a police horse. But the best one has to be the fan that got pumped up watching a group of fellow Eagles fans on a train heading in the opposite direction. This guy wanted to get them excited and started running with the train car — then hitting the pole and
bumping into the train.

Why the US considers parts of Mexico just as dangerous to visit as Syria and Yemen

How the heroin trade explains the US-UK failure in Afghanistan
After fighting the longest war in its history, the US stands at the brink of defeat in Afghanistan. How could this be possible? How could the world’s sole superpower have battled continuously for more than 16 years – deploying more than 100,000 troops at the conflict’s peak, sacrificing the lives of nearly 2,300 soldiers, spending more than $1tn (£740bn) on its military operations, lavishing a record $100bn more on “nation-building”, helping fund and train an army of 350,000 Afghan allies – and still not be able to pacify one of the world’s most impoverished nations?

The Tax Plan is Working
Apple Inc. told employees that it’s issuing a bonus of $2,500 worth of restricted stock units, following the introduction of the new U.S. tax law, according to people familiar with the matter.
The iPhone maker will begin issuing stock grants to most employees worldwide in the coming months, said the people, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. The move comes on the same day Apple said it would bring back most of its cash from overseas and spend $30 billion in the U.S. over the next five years, funding an additional technical support campus, data centers and 20,000 new employees. From Bloomberg

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1/23/2018

120 Pounds of Pot Fall from Trailer Driving Down I-80
The Nebraska State Patrol gave the community a tip Saturday afternoon. "Today's hint: if you are carrying over 120 pounds of marijuana, pack it so that it doesn't fall out while driving down the interstate," The Nebraska State Patrol Troop C tweeted. "Luckily someone called us so we could reunite them with their lost packages."

There is Dumb, and Then There’s California Dumb
California 'raw' water fans pay $9 a gallon for Oregon tap water

When is a Spending Deal not a Spending Deal? When it's a DACA Deal
It's pretty simple: funding bills should be about appropriations, not immigration. Unfortunately, Democrats let politics take priority over policy, thus paralyzing any compromise, ultimately shutting down the government.

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1/22/2018

“I’ve never met a strong person with an easy past.”
Atticus

Tom Petty died of accidental drug overdose
Rocker Tom Petty died last year from "multisystem organ failure" caused by accidental drug toxicity, the Los Angeles County Coroner said Friday. An autopsy found that Petty had several drugs in his system including fentanyl, oxycodone, temazepam, alprazolam, citalopram, acetylfentanyl and despropionyl fentanyl, the agency said.

Control for street drug trade pushes Tijuana to grisly new record: 1,744 homicides
Welcome to 2018,” read the threatening and neatly penned message left early this month with the bodies of a man and woman gunned down in the outlying Tijuana development of Villa del Alamo. “The plaza is not Sinaloa’s, it belongs to Nueva Generación.”
After spiking to unprecedented levels last year, the bloodshed in Tijuana has continued at an unrelenting pace in these first days of the new year as two powerful drug trafficking organizations battle for control of the city’s lucrative street drug sales.

California is the Poverty Capital. Why are so many people poor in the Golden State?

California's Homeless Problem Revealed In One "Incredible" Video