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7/31/2019

The New College Scam
Parents Are Giving Up Custody of Their Kids to Get Need-Based College Financial Aid

Solar storm is predicted for this week - and could cause chaos

Speak the Truth, You Will Be Labeled

Trump is right about Baltimore — and the Democrats know it

But, But, But
Bernie Sanders did NOT like Trump quoting what he said about Baltimore

Democrat Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh
Was Caught On Camera Complaining About ‘Rats, Dead Animals’ Last Year

USA Today even named Baltimore as the most dangerous city in the country

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7/30/2019

I Know, it’s just a few more “poor, tired, huddled masses just yearning to breathe free”
“But Doubling Down on Dumb” is never going to help that cause

Washington Sheriff’s Office Refused to Honor Over 370 ICE Detainers
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released records regarding law enforcement agencies that failed to honor ICE detainer requests. For a 27-month period ending on December 31, 2017, Washington State refused to honor over 370 immigration holds, almost 290 of which were classified by ICE as threat level 1 and 2 offenses. These included but were not limited to, homicide, kidnapping, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, drugs, burglary, and fraud.

Not Good News For The Left
Trump Touts "Big Victory" After Supreme Court Allows Military Funding For Border Wall
Having been summarily embarrassed by Mueller's performance, Democrats just lost another 'fight' as Bloomberg reports that the Supreme Court has cleared President Trump’s administration to start using disputed funds to construct more than 100 miles of fencing along the Mexican border.

'Rat Film' highlights Baltimore's rat warfare, urban planning failures

Politicians Were Not Included
LA Now The ‘City Of Rats’? Report Warns Of ‘Alarming Increase’ In Rodent Population

Surprise
Apple contractors 'regularly hear confidential details' on Siri recordings. Via The Guardian

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7/29/2019

Immigration Now Top Overall Problem According To Gallop Poll
Immigration now sits at the top of the "most important problem" list. After hitting a new high last month, mentions of immigration as the most important problem facing the U.S. increased further to 27% in July. Gallup

Home Equity Theft: How a Man’s Home Was Seized Over $8.41 in Unpaid Taxes

Ron Paul: Forget Russiagate, Look at FBI-gate Instead

Democrats Control America’s Most Dangerous Cities. So Why Do They Keep Passing the Buck on Gun Crime?

Amazon Has 'Destroyed' AUS Retail Industry

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7/28/2019

There Out There,

He Knew And Even Tried To Run
She is worried her man is looking at other women, then she takes-off on him

Just A Total Spaceshot
McDonald's customer fired gun inside restaurant because her fries were cold, owner says

Another Legendary Performance
Florida woman accused of aggravated assault after being refused pizza slice

He Just Needed A Fix, Like Some Wings N Things
Man tells police he 'needed a ride' after driving stolen ambulance to KFC in Houston area

Today's PSA
Regular use of cannabis can cause decreased performance in memory functions compared to people who don’t partake of the drug as seen in, South by Southwest, Puffers Edition

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7/27/2019

New Zealand's Failed Gun Control Scheme
Once again, responding to a horrendous crime by inflicting knee-jerk, authoritarian restrictions on innocent people proves to be an ineffective means of convincing people to obey. Specifically, New Zealand's government—which also stepped up censorship and domestic surveillance after bloody attacks on two Christchurch mosques earlier this year—is running into stiff resistance to new gun rules from firearms owners who are slow to surrender now-prohibited weapons and will probably never turn them in.

Prescription For Violence
The Corresponding Rise of Antidepressants, SSRIs & Mass Shootings

American Psychological Association Pushes Polyamory
Remember when psychologists’ goal was to help people live balanced and ordered lives? Now, it seems, the profession’s highest purpose is to empower and validate people’s deepest desires and sexual urges without having to suffer “stigma” or any adverse judgments from themselves or society.

Federal Government Brings Back Executions, Starting With 5 Child Murderers

With the start of the season for harvesting veggies from the garden, or your local supermarket, you will enjoy this collection of easy salsa and dip recipes that are perfect for any summer gathering.
From The Daily Meal

Fridays Adventure Road

7/26/2019

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Victor Hugo

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7/25/2019

Pabst Blue Ribbon is now offering Hard Iced Coffee
The beer maker is now offering a hard coffee in five states. The company says the alcoholic vanilla iced coffee in a can is an attempt to appeal to consumers from a "range of lifestyles." The malt beverage is made from rabica and robusta coffee beans and "American milk." It contains five percent alcohol by volume and 30 milligrams of caffeine per 11-ounce can.
For now, it is available in limited supply in Florida, Georgia, Maine, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Oh My, From Bad To Worse
A witness to a heated grocery store encounter between state Rep. Erica Thomas and a man she accused of uttering racist comments told authorities she didn’t hear him make those remarks, according to a Cobb County police report.
A Publix employee told a Cobb County officer that she witnessed part of the conversation and heard Thomas “continuously tell Eric Sparkes to ‘Go back where you came from!’” but did not hear Sparkes utter those words to Thomas. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

An Iowa Grocery Store Employee, Missing for 10 Years Is Found Behind The Store’s Cooler
A man whose dead body was found at a former Council Bluffs supermarket in January has been identified as an employee who went missing 10 years ago.

But, But, But…………………Another Bad Day For Bernie
Sanders White House Campaign Hit with Federal Labor Complaint

There's 'poop in the water' at America's dirtiest beaches. Is yours on the list?

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7/24/2019

Bad Boys……….
Over 85,000 cops have been investigated for misconduct in the last 10 years
USA TODAY is leading a national effort to obtain and publish disciplinary and misconduct records for thousands of police officers.

Health care teams in Canada turn to CBD oil to treat difficult symptoms of dementia

10 Awesome Skills People Got From Injury And Disease – Listverse

Killing the seeds of cancer: A new finding shows potential in destroying cancer stem cells | EurekAlert! Science News

The Mysterious Beauty of Robert Frost’s New England | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian

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7/23/2019

But, But, But………………… BS from Bernie
Sanders Campaign Workers Demand $15 Minimum Hourly Wage, then the Sanders campaign announces it will cut hours to pay staffers $15 minimum wage.

The blurred line in the definition of sex and gender, male and female, science and feelings
Hospital staff blamed for not realizing “man” was pregnant. You know something is wrong when people consider it prejudiced and hateful to state a basic scientific fact like, “sex is determined by XY or XX chromosomes.”

Don’t worry folks; it’s just a few more “poor, tired huddled masses yearning to breathe free”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents had to use tear gas and pepper spray early Saturday to stop nearly 50 “undocumented individuals” from illegally entering the U.S. after they stormed a port of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas, officials said. Fox News.

Connected With The Corrupt
Two years after he shot an unarmed man and was fired, former police officer Philip “Mitch” Brailsford was rehired by the City of Mesa in order to obtain a special pension. Now, Brailsford is considered medically retired, not fired, according to a Mesa city spokesman.

From The Days When The Party Had A Lot More Common Sense: A History Lesson

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7/22/2019

Is there anything worse than busy-bodies harassing kids with lemonade or drink stands?
An 11-year-old boy was trying to earn an honest buck by selling some ice cold beer. He was holding a sign that said “ICE COLD BEER.” The boy whose name is “Seth set up his money making business outside of his parents’ house. However, not everything is what it seems.
Young Seth is already a showing the sign of being a gifted salesman. His sign that said “ICE COLD BEER,” also had the word “root” written in very small print on the sign. So the sign actually read: “ICE COLD root BEER.”
Naturally there was a nosey neighbor that didn’t see the root beer part of the sign and called the police. When the cops arrived, they saw that Seth was selling just ice cold root beer.
The Brigham Ut Police Department shared the photo of Seth to their Facebook page and it quickly went viral. More

More News From Good Old Baltimore
Baltimore Police Deputy Commissioner Was Robbed At Gun Point in SE Baltimore

Divide And Conquer Is The Politics of America
Colorado State University claims that “American” is a non-inclusive word that should be avoided.

Man charged with killing 3 had been deported twice
An illegal immigrant from Guatemala, who has twice been deported, was arrested Tuesday in connection to the murders of an Iowa woman and her two children.

The Come Overs Are Acting up Again On The Cape
Viral video: Great white shark leaps at Cape Cod fishing boat

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7/21/2019

Things Went From Bad to Real Bad
A 32-year-old Antioch T.N. man is facing numerous charges after allegedly fleeing the scene of a crash on I65 and accidentally shooting himself in the process, authorities say. Smokey Barn News

Florida man allegedly cut off the penis of his wife’s lover with scissors
Alex Bonilla of Gainesville, Florida walked next door, held his neighbor at gunpoint and threatened to kill him if he resisted, tied the man who slept with his wife up, cut off his penis, and ran out of the house with his neighbor’s penis in hand. The man’s children were in the house while it happened.

Who Forgot to Add A Warning Label
A Woman Dies After Being Impaled by Reusable Metal Straw

Hello, Is Anybody Out There
An allegedly stoned and unlicensed Melbourne Australian teenager, accused of ramming a police car and breaking an officer's leg. Benjamin Saurini, 19, said he couldn't see the police vehicle because his car windows had fogged up from smoking cannabis. via 7 News.

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7/20/2019

Ticks spread plenty more for you to worry about beyond Lyme disease

Cockroaches are evolving
to a point where they’ll be nearly impossible to kill – New York Daily News

Harvard Study Finds
That trigger warnings may actually harm trauma victims

Elizabeth Warren
Vows to flood the US with refugees

What Do You Do
When Mental Health Professionals Treating Trump Derangement Syndrome Have TDS Themselves?

Even the NYT
Is recognizing Trump's foreign policy genius

Fridays Adventure Road

7/19/2019

There are fires you can walk towards,
There are others you should walk away from
Sometimes it's difficult to make the right distinction

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7/18/2019

Portland man indicted in connection with violent June 29 protest
Portland, OR – A grand jury indicted the man Portland police identified as having attacked an elderly man during a violent protest downtown on June 29.
Gage Halupowski, 23, was scheduled for arraignment on Wednesday and is facing charges of second-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon, attempted assault of a public safety officer, and interfering with a peace officer.
Halupowski was one of the black-masked antifa who were captured on video as they attacked an elderly man who walked through the area where they were marching. The Oregonian.

Are Mexicans Now Racist?
A new poll conducted by the Washington Post found that the clear majority of Mexicans think migrants should be deported back to their home countries.
The survey, which was conducted in partnership with Mexico’s Reforma newspaper, found that Mexicans are “deeply frustrated” with immigrants traveling through their country from Central America.
6 in 10 Mexicans say migrants are a burden on their country taking jobs that should belong to citizens, the poll found.

Don’t worry folks; it’s only a few of the “ poor, tired unaccompanied children who were yearning to be free”
LOS ANGELES – Federal racketeering, murder and other charges were filed against 22 suspected MS-13 gang members who law enforcement officials believe are linked to a series of grisly killings involving baseball bats, machetes and other tools of "medieval-style" violence, authorities said Tuesday.
Nineteen of those indicted are considered illegal immigrants, and most of the group's members arrived in the U.S. in the past four years from Central America. All but two are under the age of 24, Nicola Hanna, the U.S. Attorney for Los Angeles, announced at a news conference. Most, he added, participated in the "killing spree."
Via USA Today:

You Should Know, You Will Be Be Labeled
Chris Pratt is facing criticism over a T-shirt he was pictured wearing featuring a controversial symbol. The Marvel star’s top shows the American flag with a coiled snake over the top and a message underneath which reads “Don’t Tread On Me.”
The writing and snake combo on its own is depicted on the Gadsden flag; a symbol created by Christopher Gadsden, a Charleston-born brigadier general in the Continental Army.
Although the symbol has a non-racial history – it is has been used by the U.S. men’s soccer team and Metallica – over the years it has also been adopted by political groups like the Tea Party and some Libertarian groups, as well as gun-toting supporters of the Second Amendment. It has therefore also become a symbol of more conservative and far right individuals

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7/17/2019

Cape Cod has now become one the world’s epicenters of great white shark activity. With more than 38 great white sharks spotted around the outer beaches of the Cape between the 4th of July and the 11th just this year, there’s a national attention on how the region is dealing with the dangers in the water this summer. There have also been an additional 13 Shark sightings off the beaches of the Cape between Monday and Tuesday. These ocean predators are here for one thing only, to hunt and eat seals. With the huge influx of seals that we have seen over the last decade now living along the coast, it looks like they are here to stay.

Group sues Boston for banning Christian flag, approving 284 others
The city of Boston is facing a federal lawsuit after officials refused to allow a Christian flag to be flown at city hall. Camp Constitution, a Judeo-Christian advocacy group, requested that the city of Boston fly the flag back in September of 2017 and again in 2018 as part of Constitution Day. The city refused, despite approving 248 other flags, according to Fox News.

Drugmaker Pays Largest Opioid Settlement In History To Make Investigations Go Away
A UK-based drugmaker has agreed to pay a record $1.4 billion settlement to the US government in order to end criminal and civil probes into allegations of illegal marketing of opioid addiction treatment medication, according to the Justice Department. The settlement with Reckitt Benckiser Group (RB Group) will include multiple investigations into a subsidiary, Indivior (formerly Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals Inc.). More

He Was Right
Remember when President Trump claimed in April that "corrupt or incompetent" Puerto Rico officials had badly bungled relief efforts following 2017's Hurricane Maria? Last week the FBI arrested two former Puerto Rico officials for funneling disaster aid payments to politically connected contractors. FBI indictment charge Puerto Rico's former Education Secretary Julia Keleher, former Health Insurance Agency Chief Ángela Ávila-Marrero, with crimes related to the distribution of the U.S. disaster relief aid. according to the Washington Post.

Apple Cofounder Steve Wozniak deleted his Facebook account last year and is now telling anyone willing to listen to do the same.