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Anti-war activist, author and podcast host Cindy Sheehan is probably best known for pitching a tent near then-President George W. Bush’s summer house in Texas in 2005 as she continued to request meetings with Bush about the death of her son during the Iraq War. Her son, U.S. Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, was killed by enemy action near Baghdad in April 2004. Cindy Sheehan, who lives in Vacaville, Calif., was honored Saturday night with the 2016 Eugene V. Debs Award during a ceremony inside the Sycamore Banquet Center on the Indiana State University campus. For those not familiar with Debs,...

OKLAHOMA CITY — A New Jersey woman who was arrested during a 2014 protest of a satanic “Black Mass” has sued Oklahoma City and police a month after her municipal convictions were thrown out. Joan Bell, a longtime activist who said she has been arrested hundreds of times, claims that her civil rights were violated when she was wrongfully arrested. Bell, 68, was arrested during the protest after she refused to cease kneeling while saying the rosary on a landing at the top of the north steps of the Civic Center Music Hall. She said she attended the Sept. 21,...

1. What time did Killary get out of bed today? Assumes she has gotten up by now. 2. Where did she sleep last night? Maybe at home? Maybe in Chelsea's emergency room?

If you watched the debate last night, you noticed that Hillary Clinton seemed to be looking down quite a bit, and a closer look at the video may reveal why. One thing that didn’t go unnoticed was that Hillary seemed to know the questions to the answers before they were even asked. It was almost as if they were leaked to her campaign so she could prepare or she had someone feeding her information in real-time. She was busted with an ear piece at the first presidential forum, so it would have been hard for her to pull that off...

Attention NBA! Attention Olympics! Attention everyone on the internet! This woman is destined for athletic greatness after having “swished” a sandwich into a car sunroof from her balcony! After her husband forgot his lunch at their high-rise apartment, this wife saved herself a trek down to the lobby, and instead tossed a sandwich from the balcony down to her husband’s open sunroof. With a quick “heeya!” she launched the sandwich into the open air and by way of magic, luck or extreme skill, the sandwich landed in the passenger seat next to her husband, who drove away seemingly as if...

Oh my gosh!! Beck goes completely nuts in this video. It's a must watch. http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57e9ce67e4b024a52d2a1071

Remember the 80s... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH9O2fOcuEw

Get it? 'Cause their website is BeCandid. Ha.

The ad cuts to footage of Clinton in Nevada earlier this year, barking to mimic an ad she'd been describing to supporters.

Asked of Hillary by fawning reporter aboard her campaign plane. She replied, 'Well, I'll be there for the second and the third debate. Donald Trump can run his campaign any way he likes.' Where did this nonsense come from?

We don’t want to be dramatic, but NASA just ruined our lives. For the first time in 3,000 years, they’ve decided to update the astrological signs. This means that the majority of us are about to experience a total identity crisis. Apparently, these changes are due to the fact that the constellations are not in the same position in the sky that they once were, and the star signs are about a month off now, as a result. To further confuse things, there is now a new, 13th sign, called Ophiuchus, which those born between November 29 and December 17...

Trump and Clinton debated each other for the first time last night. Here’s how I score the night. Clinton won on points. She had more command of the details and the cleaner answers. Trump did a lot of interrupting and he was defensive. If this were a college debate competition, Clinton would be declared the winner. I call that victory on the 2D chess board. But voters don’t care about facts and debating style. They care about how they feel. So let’s talk about that. For starters, Trump and Clinton both seemed “presidential” enough. That mattered more for Trump. We...

People asked me to break up a very important article into segments: China's Conquest of Internet, ICANN + Quantum Encryption [*a*] It's not easy to do. For example: in the followup posting we began to discuss a 'balkanized internet' in which the leftist bigshots: google, amazon, twitter, etc abandon a single 'freedom of speech' TLD and the rest of the internet converges with heavy censorship rules. Then that tiny corner of the world wide web gets infiltrated and trashed like a cyber-version of Kosovo during Tito's regime. How can I quickly jump into such a contingency from scratch? If you...

Here’s the full Clinton -vs- Trump debate video for those who might have missed it. Odd Note(s) – At the conclusion of the debate, specifically at 1:35:30, you see the “Cleaner” swoop in quick as a flash and put the papers in his folder.

ROSEBURG, Ore. — Chris Mintz finished his six-minute deployment broken yet unbowed. He had been shot five times and was bleeding out, thousands of miles from the nearest battlefield. Being wounded was a real possibility when Mintz enlisted as an Army infantryman, but taking fire in rural Oregon wasn’t quite what he pictured. He joined in 2004, between two vicious battles in Fallujah while an insurgency simmered in Afghanistan. He could have gone into water purification or finance or any number of jobs. But choosing combat arms in wartime takes a certain kind of soldier with a certain something to...

The call came in the wee hours of Sunday. At 3 a.m., Mark Ross learned his 15-year-old sister had just been killed in a car wreck. Stunned and shocked, and without a car, he convinced someone he knew to drive him from Indiana to Detroit. It was a risky proposition. The man had a suspended driver’s license, but Ross begged him. They were speeding down an Ohio highway when, sure enough, they were pulled over by the state highway patrol. Ross also had an outstanding misdemeanor warrant. But instead of going to jail, he ended up being driven more than...

Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the two African-American athletes sent home from the 1968 Olympic Games for their raised-fist protest on the medal podium, will receive a long-awaited moment of redemption at a U.S. team event at the White House this week. The two were invited by the U.S. Olympic Committee to attend a gala dinner on Wednesday in Washington honoring the 2016 Olympic team and accompany the team to meet President Barack Obama at the White House the following day, Carlos told Reuters on Sunday. The image of Smith and Carlos, gold and bronze medalists in the 200-meter track...

A month after India’s home minister promised to consider replacing pellet guns with a less deadly form of crowd dispersal, the corridors of Srinagar’s biggest hospital are still lined with young men wearing sunglasses and eye patches. In a 21 September ruling, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court declined to prohibit the use of pellet guns.

I watched the debate, and felt it was unlikely to move the needle in any direction. Contrary to what idiots on TV are saying, I thought the first segment was Trump's weakest. Mainly because she nailed him on the tax returns. He had no good answer there, and it showed. He did get more irate in the second two, but he landed solid blows. Law and order. He mentioned the thousands dead in black locales, and she says everything is fine and vibrant? What was she thinking? The third section was close to a tie, but I think Trump won...

NFL Week Four Thursday, Sept. 29 8:25 p.m. ET Dolphins at Bengals Sunday, Oct. 2 9:30 a.m. ET Colts at Jaguars 1 p.m. ET Titans at Texans 1 p.m. ET Browns at Redskins 1 p.m. ET Seahawks at Jets 1 p.m. ET Bills at Patriots 1 p.m. ET Panthers at Falcons 1 p.m. ET Raiders at Ravens 1 p.m. ET Lions at Bears 4:05 p.m. ET Broncos at Buccaneers 4:25 p.m. ET Rams at Cardinals 4:25 p.m. ET Saints at Chargers 4:25 p.m. ET Cowboys at 49ers 8:30 p.m. ET Chiefs at Steelers Monday, Oct. 3 8:30 p.m. ET Giants...

Anybody notice how she would pause in her sentences as if she was listening to information? They weren't the pauses as if she was collecting her thoughts. I think she had another receiver in her ear.

So someone tell me, is the CNN poll scientific? The local Fox station in Miami is promoting this poll and ignoring the others. Can anyone shed light on this?

In our "For what it's worth department", Hillary had on high heels covered by her pants and her podium was shorter. Both things were to try to help her not look so small next to Trump. I did NOT waste my time watching the debate, but maybe someone could comment on whether they showed a lot of head and shoulders shots of her to increase her presence and full-length views of him to diminish his presence.

I asked if that was a red Mao suit Hilary was wearing. I was told that I was showing my hate and ignorance. I admitted that they were correct and thanked them for that, because it is true that I hate red Mao suits, but I wasn't up on the latest fashion trends. Was I wrong? Are red Mao suits in fashion?

I've had some time to think about these debates, and a few thoughts I think people aren't talking about (enough).. After the debates I'm seeing a lot of furled brows and shrugged shoulders here and everywhere I go (In the right wing). I would like to offer some words: Trump is a better debater than Hillary is. You don't get to where he is without being good at this. Without winning. Winning arguments, winning negotiations and being alpha male. When the debates began, Trump stopped in front of his podium and made HER walk to HIM. This is a powerplay...

Did anyone else think that Hillary seemed like a plastic doll, Stepford wife type politician? She looked plastic and sounded too good. She must have known the questions ahead of time because she didn't appear to have to think about anything. It was already there for her. Too, too perfect. Totally unreal. Yes, she is the Stepford candidate!

While Hillary was expected to faint and have stroke or seizures. STOP with the health expectation even if it is true... It is a massive trap. Hillary should have the burden to perform. With seizure expectation, all she had to do was not faint. Ugh Good night

I have been to over 20 polls...Donald is winning EVERY SINGLE ONE E V E R Y,,,,,,, S I N G L E O N E!!!! Whats 'THAT' say you sad and pathetic lurking doomsayers.....??

Trump was honest. Hillary lacks Integrity. This is what is memorable from the 1st debate.

Soooo the MSM painted Don as a Buffoon...right? Well the Buffoon just went toe to toe with 'the smartest women in the world' and went all 90 rounds. He wins... the 'smart' one lost.

When I had a TV and cable it gradually turned me into a VERY angry person. I realized something had to change and I got rid of my TV. I'm happier but for a very few things, like a Presidential debate, my choice suddenly becomes a bad one. There is a bombastic radio host from Austin active on the internet and I know he's offering real-time debate coverage but my experience is that that guy so thoroughly TALKS OVER whatever he says he's broadcasting that I become quite as angry as when had cable TV, though for a very different...

I have an IPhone 6 and sometimes when I put it in my pocket it gets kinda warm, is this normal?

Guys, implement a tax that says we will tax imports at the same rate as a US Source to a foreign source. Equal tax!

A cheapskate just made his first ever monetary political donation to Trump

Debate night newsroom dinners:

I am not sure if anyone discussed this but Hillary's team has to have a contingency plan in case Hillary senses she is "going down." Hillary, or someone on her team, will send a signal when it is sensed she is about to go into brain freeze. I can envision a few scenarios. One scenario is one or more persons in the audience will then cause a serious commotion, rushing the stage or setting off fireworks, resulting in "both" candidates having to be quickly escorted off the stage by SS agents. It would be easy for Hillary to make sure...

Jeff Berwick Septemeber 26, 2016 As we enter into the last week before the end of the Jubilee Year, the National Guard has been deployed in Charlotte, North Carolina and massive military convoys have been deployed in the streets of New York City. This is a continuation of last summer’s Jade Helm seven-state military exercise that many in the area saw as a prelude to military occupation. After Jade Helm came the US Army Special Operations Command’s Unconventional Warfare Exercise 16 (UWEX 16) that ran in Texas through June. And now, after yet another police shooting in Charlotte, the city’s...

It's hard to believe that even Obama would actually do this. But here is the professional witness testimony: "This reaffirmation was made through an exchange of letters. Not only are the letters non-legally binding, they actually acknowledge the possibility that at some point a separation of the IANA function from ICANN might threaten the stability and security of the US government’s top level domains. [Such as military websites and government websites.] I can’t speak for other observers, but for me, as a lawyer, an exchange of letters is a way of avoiding a contractually enforceable obligation. I know why ICANN...

No one was hurt in a car versus couch wreck on Interstate 86 near Pocatello Regional Airport on Saturday night. The incident occurred around 9:30 p.m. when a motorist heading east on the interstate collided with a large couch that was sitting in the roadway. State police said fortunately the motorist was not injured but the car suffered heavy damage and was towed from the scene. Other vehicles struck debris from the couch after the initial impact but were not seriously damaged. An Idaho Transportation Department crew was called in to remove the couch from the interstate following the wreck....

Anybody else have the jitters, a nervous twitch, strange feeling about tonight-s debate? The only time I can remember feeling like this over a TV event was when Geraldo Rivera was going to open Al Capone's vault. Personally, I think it's going to end up like a normal debate, Hillary will be jacked up on meds and perform normally, and that is my greatest fear, because then the MSM will dominate the air waves on how great she was. Still, I almost cannot bear to watch, but will ...

Blame it on jet lag or maybe a precocious knowledge that his great-grandmother is Canada's head of state but Britain's 3-year-old Prince George just wasn't going to be charmed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Landing in Canada on Saturday on a weeklong official visit with parents Prince William and Kate Middleton, George, holding his father's hand, ignored Trudeau when he squatted down to the toddler's level to offer a high-five variation, the low-five. Trudeau then switched his palm for a high-five and subsequently offered a handshake, both of which were seemingly rebuffed, creating an awkward moment on the airport...

I recently lost my cat and have been thinking of getting another one. My niece, who is a vet, works with a cat rescue group that has a one year old female kitty with feline leukemia that they have been trying to find a home for and are even willing to waive the adoption fee in order to place her. So my question is directed to anyone here who has ever had a cat with feline leukemia. How long did your cat live with the disease, how was its quality of life, did you have to administer medication on a...

Too many people are confused. Let's cut through the lies and make this as simple as 'ABC'. Lie Number 1: "ICANN's just a 'phone book'." No, ICANN is the chained up guard dog in the back yard. [More on that later.] The closest thing to a phonebook is a Top Level Domain like .COM or .MIL. But calling them 'libraries' would be closer to the truth. So who is the TLD's librarian? That would be the 'Registrar' who manages the TLD's registry. ~ ~ Simple as ABC: A ... ICANN .. the chained up watchdog. B ... TLD ... Top...

HOUSTON - Seven people were injured in a shooting at a shopping center Monday morning in southwest Houston, and the gunman was shot and in custody, police sources said. Dozens of police vehicles could be seen just before 7 a.m. at a strip mall on the northwest corner of Weslayan and Bissonnet streets.

So what are they going to do? Make Hillary seem five inches taller than she actually is? Does anyone really believe that's going to help her win the debate? Well what about her voice? All Hillary has to do is speak and the average viewer tonight will then have second thoughts about seeing her as President. Hillary is already considered boring/unlikable. And like they have been saying all year, the less we see of her, the better her polls are, right? And when she does speak on live TV/Rally, her poll numbers go into a free fall.

Carnival Cruise Lines is investigating an altercation that took place in a restaurant involving several passengers, which was all captured on video by Irie Namma. The dispute started with a group of men and women arguing near the buffet line. The fight broke out within seconds, and chairs went flying across the room. Carnival cruise ship security reacted fast and managed to break up the fight within seconds. Unfortunately, the incident becomes the third cruise ship fight in 16 days. There was a fight on the Carnival Glory last week. Passengers allege that one person said something "out of line"...

It is 116 days, 5 hours, 47 minutes, 3 seconds until the stuttering enemy-agent Muslim-excusing pusillanimous embarrassing lawless defiling unctuous hypocritical sniveling whining odious disgusting election-corrupting formulaic callous puerile sickening wicked sullen wretched venal psychopathic grifting furious (and fast) spying-for-enemies juvenile delinquent conniving Marxism-loving America-surrendering sly villainous shameful touchye unwelcome abominable indecisive stomach-turning meddling corrupt predatory impoverishing personal-history-concealing apathetic absurd unaccomplished repressive putrescent contemptible simpering megalomaniacal sputtering disruptive perjurious taxing predictable nauseating blasphemous race-baiting crazed inconsequential trash-talking cynical arrogant vacuous sanctimonious foul exploitive mercurial mocking Christophobic nefarious appalling uncaring vile Republican-enabled colluding wimpy prevaricating raging hoplophobia-consumed irresponsible belligerent repellent childish...