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Dedicated to all Neocons who booed Ron Paul

brill — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:42:48 +0000

Decades of US military aggression overseas have caused blowback in the form of terrorist attacks. One candidate on the national stage had the courage to try and explain that cause-and-effect relationship, key to understanding and ending the threat of terrorism. Here's the reaction he got from conservatives.

The cost of having a baby in 1950

sharalynn — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:38:44 +0000

Total: 86.33
Adjusted for inflation: $755.00
Check link out for vintage receipt.
Mine cost around $7000. Prices have sure gone up since Medicare was created!

California’s ‘Amazon Tax’ Already Proving a Bust

stuntmantdave — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:55:43 +0000

Online businesses and entrepreneurs are leaving the state, thus risking an actual reduction, as opposed to marginal increase, in California’s tax revenue.

Aussie Government-School Forces Children to Soil Their Pants

The Anarchia Virus — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:06:31 +0000

A government-school in Australia practically forces children to soil and wet themselves as part of a social engineering experiment.

'Non-lethal' taser kills U of Cincinnati Student

young92782 — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 03:12:02 +0000

University of Cincinnati assistant police chief, Jeff Corcoran claims agitated 18 year old college student ignored orders to halt before being fired upon with taser. Afterwards incoherent, student goes into cardiac arrest after paramedics arrive and is pronounced dead at University hospital.

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Vet Checks Wrong Box, Faces Charges

KareFree — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:25:34 +0000

Now, Dawkins, a Navy reservist and decorated Army combat photographer who served in Iraq, is in jail, charged with passport fraud. He's facing 10 years in prison for what could be a simple misunderstanding.

Georgia immigrant crackdown backfires

Spoonerian — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:38:00 +0000

"Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal’s program to replace fleeing migrant farmworkers with probationers backfired when some of the convicted criminals started walking off their jobs because field work was too strenuous, it was reported Wednesday."

$1 Billion That Nobody Wants

phonon — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:21:55 +0000

Politicians in Washington hardly let a few minutes go by without mentioning how broke the government is. So, it's a little surprising that they've created a stash of more than $1 billion that almost no one wants.

Unused dollar coins have been quietly piling up in Federal Reserve vaults in breathtaking numbers, thanks to a government program that has required their production since 2007.

And even though the neglected mountain of money recently grew past the $1 billion mark, the U.S. Mint will keep making more and more of the coins under a congressional mandate.

Gulf oil spill cleanup workers report medical problems; lawsuit filed

slayer548 — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:49:38 +0000

Help the government, die a slow, painful, and humiliating death! Despite all the assurances that what was being used to clean up the oil was "like Dawn soap, but a bit stronger", at least 200 people are already suing due to permanent disability caused by toxic chemical exposure. BP's response?

"Kenneth Feinberg, administrator for the GCCF, said he hadn't seen any claims filed that suggested the Gulf spill cleanup had caused medical illness."

Don't Take The Plea Deal

mikesylvia — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:09:38 +0000

Judge refuses to accept the defendant's plea deal on charges of misdemeanor reckless conduct and misdemeanor disobeying a police officer. At trial the jury acquits on both charges.

New Authorization for Worldwide War Without End?

Roisin Dubh — Wed, 18 May 2011 01:26:15 +0000

Congress is considering monumental new legislation that would grant the president–and all presidents after him–sweeping new power to make war almost anywhere and everywhere. The proposed legislation would allow a president to use military force wherever terrorism suspects are present in the world, regardless of whether there has been any harm to U.S. citizens, or any attack on the United States, or any imminent threat of an attack. The legislation is broad enough to permit a president to use military force within the United States and against American citizens.

Mexican Protesters Demand an End to the Drug War

highline — Thu, 12 May 2011 13:47:59 +0000

Frustrated beyond belief with the bloody consequences of President Calderon's aggressive drug war tactics, the people of Mexico are finally beginning to make some noise.

Virginia Middle School Students Suspended for Oregano Possession

johnson — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:16:44 +0000

A few Virginia parents would probably like to know what local school administrators are smoking.

Seventh-grader Adam Grass and three other students at Hickory Middle School in Chesapeake, Va., were suspended last week after being caught with what teachers initially thought was a bag of marijuana but turned out to be a stash of oregano, The Virginian-Pilot reports.

Middle East: Democratization

MuslimNonarchist — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:23:33 +0000

With all the uprisings in Egypt, Iran and others it seems clear we are witnessing the democratization of the Middle East. The framers of the American system drew upon all of history in their deliberation. Likewise, there is no reason that democracy in the Middle East must emulate the democracies of the West when they could learn from America’s history and avoid problems so deeply entrenched they will never be solved here. To paraphrase Thomas Paine, they have it in their power to begin the world over again.

Green Goop Falls From NY Sky

loungedaddy — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:03:33 +0000

Mystery Goo Turns Icicles Green and Yellow in Snyder, N.Y.
FAA Dismisses Suggestions That Gunk Is ‘Blue Ice’ From Passing Jetliners

iPhone snitch network launched

tmikecurry — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:17:07 +0000

"A new iPhone App with the misleading name ‘PatriotApp’ attempts to draw on the power of the patriot movement, turning smartphone users into a gigantic snitch network." -From the InfoWars web site.

Counter-Terrorism: How America is destroying itself

MuslimNonarchist — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:59:51 +0000

At a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Portland Oregon another FBI co-produced terror plot landed a young Muslim in custody charged with “attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.”

Man arrested after ejaculating during TSA pat-down

Info-Seeker — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:02:28 +0000

A 47 year old gay man was arrested at San Francisco International Airport after ejaculating while being patted down by a male TSA agent. Percy Cummings, an interior designer from San Francisco, is being held without bail after the alleged incident, charged with sexually assaulting a Federal agent.

Amid airport anger, GOP takes aim at screening | Washington Examiner

szano1 — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:01:17 +0000

Individual airports can decide to get their own security.

Tyranny: the power to execute American citizens without a trial

KareFree — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:12:10 +0000

"Obama is arguing the executive has the power to execute American citizens without a trial, without even so much as an airing of the charges against them, and that it can do so in complete secrecy..."