Listen to them stretch, rationalizing Creepy Molester Joe's behavior is acceptable.
How convenient that Ana Novarro mentions Jeffrey Epstein yet none of them mention the cushy, brief prison term of teen-sexter Anthony "Carlos Danger" Weiner.
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Howard Caplan attended the Global Institute of Long Island University’s event featuring speaker Joe Biden and took the opportunity to call the former Vice President out regarding viral videos showing him groping young women.The clip:
“Why did you molest all those girls on CSPAN?” Caplan shouted.
He continued, “It’s all on YouTube. You know you did it, everybody’s seen it!”
In the midst of his protest security escorted Caplan out of the event as the crowd booed and shouted, “Get out of here.”
The widow of Joe Biden’s late son Beau Biden has started a romantic relationship with Beau’s brother Hunter Biden, the former vice president’s younger son.
Hallie was devastated when her husband, Beau, died after suffering from brain cancer in May 2015. But she has since struck up a romance with Beau’s brother Hunter, 47, who has separated from his wife, Kathleen. We’re told Hallie and Hunter are now officially a couple.
Lucy Flores:
"I felt him get closer to me from behind. He leaned further in and inhaled my hair. I was mortified. I thought to myself, 'I didn’t wash my hair today and the vice-president of the United States is smelling it. And also, what in the actual fuck? Why is the vice-president of the United States smelling my hair?' He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head."
Political Insider: 10 Images and Instances of Gropin' Joe Biden.Amanda Terkel, writing in Huffington Post, described another incident. “The teenage daughter of Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), for example, visibly cringed and pulled away when Biden whispered in her ear and kissed her on the head.”
One of the more awkward moments from the Joe Biden inappropriate behavior reel is his whispering, grabbing, and ultimately trying to kiss Delaware Senator Chris Coon’ daughter Maggie. She is 13....As adorable as a pedophile.
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NBC’s Capitol Hill Correspondent Kelly O’Donnell joshed Biden was “multi-tasking” when he had his arm wrapped around a teenager while swearing in her mother, Senator Joni Ernst. Biden also told the teen “I hope mom has a big fence around your house.” Today co-host Matt Lauer wise-cracked that this was Biden’s way of “welcoming” the families of the new Senate class. Even PBS found “Biden being Biden” just so adorable.
A speech given by the head of the BBC pouting over the "abusive" term "mainstream media" misses the point entirely, media analyst Lionel told RT.
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Rather than complain about "people of all political persuasions" pointing out the system's flaws, he said, BBC director general Tony Hall and others like him would do well to look in the mirror to understand how "traditional journalism" came to be seen as "part of the problem rather than the solution."
I'd write some commentary about our societal obsession with "Warnings About Everything" but I have to check my other accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, SnapChat, Weibo, Reddit, 4Chan, 7Chan, 8Chan, 9Chan, PasteBin, Gab, Foursquare, Skype, Spotify, Pinterest, Badoo, Nextdoor, Xanga, Quora, Word Press, Vimeo, You Tube, Yelp, STEEM and...uh...I'm forgetting one.State Sen. Roger Chamberlain's, [R-Lino Lakes...]
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...bill would force social media companies to post a warning whenever users access their accounts. The message would tell users that social media is addictive and that excessive use “may lead to mental health disorders, reduced productivity, lack of sleep, and social alienation.”
"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not have always. Take what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own.
And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind."
Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam
Listed as KIA February 7, 1978
The Department of Defense today announced it will conduct a wreath laying ceremony with the Department of Veterans Affairs at The Vietnam War Memorial March 29, 2019. On March 28, 2017, President Trump signed into law The Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017, establishing The National Vietnam War Veterans Day that will, henceforth, be celebrated each year on March 29.
This is the second anniversary of that special day. DOD will also support over 1,600 events in many states across the nation to recognize, honor and thank U.S. Vietnam veterans and their families for their service and sacrifices.
NEW BERLIN, WI (WTAQ) - A single ticket sold in Wisconsin matched all six numbers in the Powerball drawing to win the third-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history.
According to the Wisconsin Lottery website, the winning ticket was sold in New Berlin.
A statement on the Powerball website says that due to strong ticket sales, the jackpot climbed to an estimated $768.4 million at the time of the drawing with a cash option of $477 million.
...we’ve reached a point where artificial intelligence algorithms can solve very complicated problems, and in many cases with speed and accuracy that is far superior to those of humans. But whether contemporary AI works likes the human mind is up for debate.TechSpot: AI coming soon to a McDonald's drive thru near you.
McDonald’s will put its newfound technology to work in the drive thru. Working in conjunction with the company’s digital menus, Dynamic Yield technology will account for factors like weather, time of day, current restaurant traffic and trending menu items to display items that customers are more likely to purchase.McDonald's predictive menu ordering=here. Change people's lives? They'll get there sooner rather than later.
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McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook said they have a really straightforward business. “People only come to us if they want something to eat, or something to drink. We’re not in the business of using technology to try to change people’s lives.”
Known respectively as the "link tax" and the "upload filter", these two clauses have generated a great deal of interest from internet users and the technology industry alike. In particular, article 13 has proved especially controversial, holding websites responsible for material uploaded without a licence [sic] [.]ZD Net: Social media platforms affected by new EU copyright regulations.
The European Parliament said the directive aims to ensure that copyright law also applies to the internet. It added that YouTube, Facebook and Google News are some of the internet household names that will be "most directly affected" by this legislation.TechDirt: MEP's say mistaken in their vote on Articles 11 and 13. EU replies, "pound sand.".
...the key vote was whether to allow amendments that could have deleted those two articles. That vote failed by just five votes, 317 to 312. Unfortunately, soon after the vote was finalized, a few of the MEPs who voted against the plan for amendments -- Peter Lundgren and Kristina Winberg -- said they voted incorrectly and meant to vote for the amendments in order to get rid of Articles 11 and 13. Apparently, someone changed the vote order which threw them off[.]- - -
A large-scale analysis of global positioning data has discovered widespread Russian spoofing over the past three years of the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) used by ships and autonomous vehicle systems to find their positions and safely chart courses, according to a new report.- - -
The report — published by the Center for Advanced Defense (C4ADS), a nonprofit intelligence firm focused on worldwide security issues — found that at least 9,883 instances of spoofing occurred near sensitive areas in Russia and Crimea and during times when high-ranking officials, such as President Vladamir Putin, were present.
...it wasn't malware that was injecting and running code in a user process; it was a Huawei-written driver. Huawei's driver was supposed to act as a kind of watchdog: it monitored a regular user mode service that's part of the PCManager software, and if that service should crash or stop running, the driver would restart it. To perform that restart, the driver injected code into a privileged Windows process and then ran that code using an APC—a technique lifted straight from malware.- - -
Technocrats pushing for a cashless society are seriously conflicted as its flagship experiment in Sweden is coming unravelled. The people in Sweden have spoken, and cash stays. ⁃ TN Editor- - -
Sweden will likely push through a proposal to force banks to keep offering cash to customers who require it as the Nordic nation grapples with how to balance the rapid transformation into a cashless society.
Norwegian metals and energy giant Norsk Hydro, one of the world’s biggest aluminum producers, has been hit by a ransomware attack that has impacted operations, forcing the company to resort to manual processes.- - -
In a press conference on Tuesday, Norsk Hydro representatives revealed that the attack, which they described as extensive, started on Monday at around midnight, Norway time, when the company’s security team noticed some unusual activity on its global network. They said the ransomware is designed to encrypt files, but they have yet to determine exactly which malware family it belongs to.
The hoax, which appears to have begun making the rounds on Monday, promises to make users' feeds more "colourful" if they change the birth year in their profile to 2007. An early tweet on the trick has been retweeted more than 13,000 times[.]
Ibrahim Ahmed, 14, was crossing the road when Mohammed Hussain, 20, struck him at 59mph in a 20mph zone.Metro: Teen somersaults four times after hit by speeding driver.
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Ibrahim survived broken bones, organ damage and internal bleeding.
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Ibrahim can be seen on CCTV spotting Hussain coming towards him. He starts to run but is hit and thrown into the air.
Hussain, of Southampton Gardens, Luton, admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving and was jailed for 16 months at Luton Crown Court.
Jake Patterson, the man who abducted 13-year-old Jayme Closs and held her captive until she escaped months later, pleaded guilty in an emotional court appearance on Wednesday.WTVR: Jake Patterson pleads guilty to intentional homicide and kidnapping.
"Bye, Jayme," Patterson said, before he was led away.
Patterson, 21, shot and killed Closs' parents on Oct. 15 and kidnapped the 13-year-old from her home in rural Barron, Wisconsin.
As he pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and one count of kidnapping, Patterson appeared emotional, with his voice cracking at times.
[Patterson] wept as he entered a plea to each count, with his lawyer leaning over to comfort him. Patterson tapped his foot nervously and, at times, his manacles rattled as he moved.
In a stunning move, Cook County prosecutors on Tuesday dropped all charges against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett on disorderly conduct charges for allegedly staging a phony attack and claiming he was the victim of a hate crime.CBS Chicago: Judge seals the case.
“We believe this outcome is a just disposition and appropriate resolution to this case,” a prosecutor said in court in announcing the dismissal of all 16 counts.
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“Jussie is relieved to have this situation behind him and is very much looking forward to getting back to focusing on his family, friends and career," [said Judge Steven Watkins].
Judge granted a motion to seal the case. @cbschicago
— Charlie De Mar (@CharlieDeMar) March 26, 2019
Charlie De Mar Twitter
Matt, Matt, Matt...of which are you more proud: your narrow biased political view or your ability in arrogantly bestowing admirable and altruistic accolades on people who fool no one other than you?Avenatti, by contrast, has:
Publicly said he’s exploring a run for president.
Formed a PAC to donate to Democratic candidates in 2018, a common first move of presidential contenders.
Visited Iowa in August for the Democratic “Wing Ding dinner” fundraiser, alongside declared presidential candidates Rep. John Delaney (D-MD) and entrepreneur Andrew Yang.
Visited New Hampshire that month for a Democratic picnic, where the state party chair enthusiastically introduced him.
Also visited Florida and Ohio and Pennsylvania, where he met with Democratic officials and tried to schmooze Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), another potential contender who called Avenatti a “phenomenal guy.”
Decided to put his campaign headquarters in St. Louis to make it easier for him to flip Missouri blue.
Released a platform document laying out an agenda he’d run on.
He is really, truly, honest-to-God running for president. And I think he could win.
Trump isn't merely going to lose. He's going to lose in the biggest popular vote landslide in modern presidential history.How'd that landslide/"wipeout" end up, Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamon?
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Trump may well end up being the most unpopular candidate from a major party since before the New Deal.
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Trump, by contrast, is going to sink.
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The most credulous members of the Trump fan club will show up to cast ballots for him no matter what he says and does. But the rest? An awful lot of them are likely to stay home out of simple self-respect. Precisely how many do so is what will make the difference between a loss and a historic wipeout.
A major Greenland glacier that was one of the fastest shrinking ice and snow masses on Earth is growing again, a new NASA study finds.Temporary. As in it might freeze and grow for a while, and then some time later melt, and then re-freeze again? As in, climate changes? As in, the temperature and weather tomorrow will not be exactly the same as today or as yesterday? Weather fluctuates? No, it can't be.
The Jakobshavn glacier around 2012 was retreating about 3 kilometres and thinning nearly 40 metres annually.
But it started growing again at about the same rate in the past two years, according to a study in Nature Geoscience. Study authors and outside scientists think this is temporary.
Lamborghini written-off after ploughing [sic] into a wall by showboating driver[.]Go and buy another Huracan, and avoid showboating. Idiot.
The driver of the Huracan Performante was revving the engine before he took off speeding down the road – the vehicle can reach speeds of 321km/h.
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“Visibility was good but the road was dusty — that might be why he lost control. It’s fortunate no one was hurt.
“I can’t imagine them being able to repair the car.” Another witness said the driver was visibly shaken from the crash.
“I’m pretty sure he was crying when he got out. It was easily a write-off.”
“[Michael Jackson's] sexual needs were his sexual needs, coming from whatever childhood he has or whatever DNA he has," [Barbra] Streisand told The Times. “She's not "profoundly sorry." She knew exactly what she was saying. Her words were not uncarefully chosen. This all about her and her benjamins.
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"[ I guess I blame the parents ]."
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Dan Reed, the director of “Leaving Neverland,” seemed shocked at Streisand’s comments. “'It didn’t kill them” @BarbraStreisand did you really say that?!,'” Reed tweeted Friday.
Others were equally outraged.
But my personal favorite spoof scene has always been the death of Dr. Wentworth, played by Dick Van Patten. A takeoff on a scene from Hitch's last film, Family Plot--released the year before--it features Van Patten struggling to escape from a car while the world's most annoying rock song blares over the car stereo, until his eardrums explode. This ludicrous scene always cracks me up the most, and best of all, Brooks actually composed the rock song! ("If you love me baby, tell me LOUD! LOUD!")
Black First Land First (BLF) said in a statement on Friday that Tropical Cyclone Idai is not a natural disaster but a direct consequence of the white, Western system of ecological assault for profits.News 24 (at the link, scroll down the pop-up "support" page, click "I choose not to support News 24" and the article will appear): White people caused cyclone Idai.
BLF called on the African Union (AU) to demand reparations and relief from the European Union (EU) and the US for Cyclone Idai. Part of the statement reads:
Those who pollute and destroy our ecosystems must pay ecological reparations to those who suffer as a consequence of their irresponsible actions. It’s no longer speculation – even the white man’s own science corroborates what we blacks know: Africa is paying a heavy price for the actions of the white world. The West pollutes and the West must pay. Part of driving their conspiracy of recolonisation [sic] is to profit from disasters. The West has no incentive to stop destroying our planet. The West knows only one value and that is to make profits. If the West is not stopped soon, then we should prepare for the extinction of our species.
#CycloneIdai was created by whites and therefore the West must pay
https://t.co/8rHxMsd0RS pic.twitter.com/jdx8FdIORq
— Black First Land First (BLF) (@BLF_SouthAfrica) March 22, 2019
BLF called on the African Union (AU) to demand reparations and relief from the European Union (EU) and the US for Cyclone Idai.Yes, because as we all know, Western Civilization is populated only by white people. Africa would be a conflict-free continent, if it weren't for white people.
"Africa is tired of carrying the burden of the destructive behaviour of the global white system of power and consumption," the statement read.
On Friday, BBC reported that rescue workers were continuing the search for survivors of Cyclone Idai, which destroyed towns and villages in its path.
"Hundreds of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands more have been affected by what the UN says could be 'one of the worst weather-related disasters ever to hit the southern hemisphere'," its report stated.
#CycloneIdai was created by whites and therefore the West must pay https://t.co/8rHxMsd0RS pic.twitter.com/jdx8FdIORq
— Black First Land First (BLF) (@BLF_SouthAfrica) March 22, 2019
In 2012, during a book signing at a Prague bookstore, Czech activists confronted the former secretary of state over the Kosovo War, to which an agitated Albright shouted "Disgusting Serbs, get out!"Sign of The Times: Where Albright goes, death and genocide follow.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) told Bill Maher that the House Intelligence Committee will subpoena special counsel Robert Mueller to testify before Congress and present the findings of his report.Mother Jones: Adam Schiff prepared to subpoena Mueller’s Evidence.
Hours after Mueller submitted his report to Attorney General William Barr, Swalwell said during an appearance on Maher's show Real Time that "we're going to subpoena" Robert Mueller.
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"Yeah, we're going to subpoena him and Adam Schiff announced that earlier," Swalwell replied.
"You'll subpoena Mueller?"
"Yep."
"[The Departmet of Justice] should cooperate willingly, but if it doesn’t, we will have to subpoena the evidence, subpoena Mueller or others,” Schiff told CNN.RT: U.S. MSM in panic attack after failure of Mueller investigation indicts Trump.
The news dealt a devastating blow to the sensational prophesies of journalists, analysts and entire news networks, who for nearly two years reported ad nauseam [sic] that President Donald Trump and his inner circle were just days away from being carted off to prison for conspiring with the Kremlin to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.Because watching Liberals' heads explode is so damn satisfying and enjoyable!
“His sexual needs were his sexual needs, coming from whatever childhood he has or whatever DNA he has," [Barbra] Streisand told The Times. “...we know she hasn't taken time reading The Constitution:
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"[ I guess I blame the parents ]." (WTF! - D.D.)
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Dan Reed, the director of “Leaving Neverland,” seemed shocked at Streisand’s comments. “'It didn’t kill them” @BarbraStreisand did you really say that?!,'” Reed tweeted Friday.
Others were equally outraged.
[Following New Zealand's ban on all military-style semi-automatic weapons] Democrat presidential candidate and socialist Bernie Sanders endorsed the move right away and said it needs to happen in the United States. He wants to strip Americans of their Second Amendment rights overnight.The Independent: Sanders, "This is what real action looks like."
“This is what real action to stop gun violence looks like,” [said Sanders] on Twitter. “We must follow New Zealand’s lead, take on the NRA and ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons in the United States.”Conservative Review: NZ's knee-jerk gun ban is EXACTLY why we have the Second Amendment.
That’s just one thing that’s so great about having a Constitution that’s hard to change by design and has language specifically protecting the right to keep and bear arms. Every human being is born with the intrinsic right to defend themselves. Period. Our Founders knew this and wisely put a backstop in place that keeps reactionary impulses from trampling over that right.Washington Examiner: Democrat's celebrating New Zealand gun ban exposes the Left's authoritarian impulses.
Democrats cheered the actions of the government of New Zealand. Even as liberals often insist that nobody is talking about taking away guns, many applauded the decision of a government to quickly confiscate weapons from law-abiding citizens without any debate or legal arguments.Breitbart: Bernie Sanders calls for NZ style gun ban in U.S.
...the DOJ released a study showing handguns are the weapons of choice for criminals. The study looked at roughly 300,000 federal and state inmates, finding that 18 percent of them used handguns in the commission of their crimes while 1.4 percent used rifles of any kind. The percentage of “assault weapons” used would have necessarily been even lower than 1.4.The Guardian via MSN by Lois Beckett: 25 years of inaction in U.S. gun laws. (Lois be smokin' some potent nugs):
But Sanders and other Democrats want to ban commonly-owned semiautomatic rifles under the guise of keeping us safe.
In the US, where conservative politicians have blocked even moderate gun control for 25 years, New Zealand’s swift action was greeted as a powerful inspiration – and a reminder of how far behind the country is.Freedom Outpost: 50 Years of Federal Gun Tyranny.
One of the biggest infringements upon the rights of the people regarding arms is the 1968 Gun Control Act. It's been fifty years since that unconstitutional piece of legislation was foisted upon the American people and we are still under its tyranny.ATF: A 243-page pdf of U.S. Federal Firearms Regulations; (2005 edition).
Speaking of outrage...Business Insider: New Yorkers blame "Villian" Cortez for killing Amazon jobs.In an earlier post, Ocasio-Cortez mocked media pundits for being “outraged” that people of color pronounce their own names correctly.
“‘How dare they refuse to say their name in a wrong accent & not mangle their own family name so that I can feel more comfortable instead of look inside myself & examine why something as small as *a person’s name* makes me uncomfortable in the first place?? This is an outrage!’” she wrote.
A poll of registered voters in New York found that more than a third blamed Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez for Amazon's cancellation of its plans to build a second headquarters in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens.
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Ocasio-Cortez ... celebrated when Amazon announced it was pulling out of New York.