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It happened again and I cracked and had to post. No joke...stuff on my desk is literally shaking when these things go over. They cant be more than 500' AGL. Probably the 10th time today. Never remember this happening so much before. Training I suppose...

What got me thinking about this is...I conduct inspections at gas station/convenience stores. Exxon,Mobil,Chevron,Texaco,Marathon,Shell,etc... Today at two sites, the workers were from Kenya, Africa. Their accents sounded very British to me. But heres the thing..('the thing'..oh crap)...no seriously they were all very intelligent and professional. Well spoken. Respectful. Very pleasant people. They came off in a way that reminded me of graduate students. I was stuck by how much I was caught off guard. One gal told me that the Kenyan Gov't was ruled by the British until recently. She actually knew gov't history of her country! Now...the black (american)...

The Democratic National Committee filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit Friday against the Russian government, the Trump campaign and the WikiLeaks organization alleging a far-reaching conspiracy to disrupt the 2016 campaign and tilt the election to Donald Trump. The complaint, filed in federal district court in Manhattan, alleges that top Trump campaign officials conspired with the Russian government and its military spy agency to hurt Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and help Trump by hacking the computer networks of the Democratic Party and disseminating stolen material found there. “During the 2016 presidential campaign, Russia launched an all-out assault on our democracy, and...

This is the most heated GOP primary I remember by far. It seems like there are very strong supporters and haters of Trump. Many talk radio hosts seem to take have taken sides. Prager, Medved, Hewitt, (and slightly Glenn Beck) are against Trump. Limbaugh seems to give Trump moderate support. I'm wondering if anyone has completely stopped listening to any talk show hosts because of their current stances and comments they may have made about your favorite or least favorite candidate.

“Let’s broaden the base, let’s reduce the rate,” Jarrett said at a Bloomberg breakfast in Charlotte, North Carolina, the convention site. “That means we are going to close some loopholes, but that’s going to benefit the broader business community... The long-term sustainable growth rests with the private sector,” she said. “The president knows that.”

I've been having a running "commentary" with 2 gov't workers in the comments section of this article. Their self-centered, self-serving posts are thoroughly revolting. NO appreciation that the taxpayers are providing them and their cronies with overly-generous GOLDEN PARACHUTES at taxpayer expense. Would appreciate a few Freepers following the links and backing me up. I'm poster "jeannebee" starting at 8:40am on 2/16/09. The assinine government workers are "gubmtwrkr" and "KJ250". Go read it and see if they infuriate you as much as they did me.

A meteroite has hit outside of Chicago, chitting an apartment complex and causing an explosion and fire...looking on the web fo followup

Dutch give nod to 'guru currency' More than 100 Dutch shops accept 'raams' By Danielle Rossingh BBC News Online business reporter A new "currency" issued by a group founded by Beatles guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi may be used and has not violated Dutch law, the Dutch central bank has said. The Global Country of World Peace, set up by the Indian mystic, issued the brightly coloured notes of one, five and 10 "raam" last October. Since then, more than 100 Dutch shops, some of them part of big department store chains, in 30 villages and cities have accepted the notes....