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HOUSTON — The party game Cards Against Humanity says it's bought U.S.-Mexico border land and hired a lawyer to try to stop President Donald Trump's proposed border wall. A promotion called "Cards Against Humanity Saves America" offered 150,000 subscribers to its game a map of the land and a "certificate of our promise to fight the wall." To build sections of the existing border fence, the U.S. government took hundreds of private landowners in Texas to court. A wall will likely require new lawsuits....

Did a tree fall on her in a forest?

The American grid security story grows increasingly grim. Last week, security consulting firm Symantec warned that recent cyberattacks gave hackers direct access to the nation’s power grid on multiple occasions, according to a new report by Wired. This time, not only the United States was exposed, said Symantec. Europe also experienced similar vulnerabilities, proving the hackers could have induced blackouts on both sides of the Atlantic. Thankfully, this apocalyptic scenario didn’t happen. In spring and summer 2017, the Dragonfly 2.0 hacker group—a primary culprit featured in cybersecurity reports from many experts lately—launched campaigns against energy companies. They succeeded 20 times,...

An armed robbery at a Texas doughnut shop took an unexpected turn when one of the three suspects apparently grabbed several pastries to hand out to customers. The act came just after he had taken their cellphones. It was all captured by security cameras.

That's how it is in nature with regard to human beings. Generally speaking, opposite sexes attract. It's how nature intended. Also, a vital factor in perpetuating the species.

Over the summer, Grits highlighted perverse incentives created by overtime rules in police union contracts that give officers extra pay for time they appear in court, honing in on the subject in July's Reasonably Suspicious podcast. Some officers have gamed the system to extract exorbitant amounts of overtime pay which not infrequently can exceed an officer's annual salary. So I was interested to see in coverage of the Philadelphia DA's race this tidbit about why the local police union opposed the ultimately victorious reform candidate: Why is [the union] so afraid to see [Larry] Krasner as Philly’s head prosectuor? Because...

As many of us know, a dentist or oral surgeon applies Novocain before the real work begins. This is done to induce a numbing sensation so that we, the patient, will be buffered so as not to feel the oncoming pain as they drill. And drill. And drill. Any dentist or oral surgeon worth their salt does the least amount of drilling necessary — or applies an adequate amount of Novocain — to spare the patient pain. The idea is to spare the patient pain. And then to do the necessary work. In life we also want to spare those...

We're well along the way to legalizing adult-child sex, on the pretext that 'the kid seduced me'. I've seen such behavior, it ALWAYS indicates the child has undergone traumatic early sexualization. The child was, will be and remains, constitutionally incapable of consent.LifeSiteNews is the bearer of bad news, about the fact that the grandkids of After the Ball have determined that they will queer your kids.

Heard on the James T Harris radio show today that Tucson's 20 X 30 foot giant American Flag at Quebedeaux Mitsubishi here in Tuscon on Speedway was burned at 4:30 in the morning sometime this weekend by vandal protesters who got away - for now. They did severe damage to the pole and left a huge pile of ashes on the sidewalk. The family has flown a big flag at their car lot since 1958. The arson squad was summoned and examined the scene. I'm assuming this is part of Antifa's big resistance weekend. Quebedeaux Mitsubishi was astounded by the...

After recording this, I went to my fridge (functional), took out cheese and ham (fresh) and made a sandwich (delicious). God bless civilisation.

The Swedish postal service released surveillance footage from one of its trucks showing a particularly daring team of suspected thieves. Men can be seen boarding the truck in motion from the hood of a following car and moving back and forth between the two vehicles.

Question: What would happen if all time zones were abolished and the entire world set their clocks to Greenwich Mean Time? I am pondering this because changing clock time, whether due to Daylight Savings Time or traveling to a new time zone, is an opportunity for mistakes and even deadly errors.

Anonymous intel sources just dumped some huge bombshells on 4chan. They've been converted the image files to link below. Wow if true! Anonymous Drop on 4chan dropping bread crumbs in the form of questions for you to follow along and connect the dots. You can figure out what certain initials mean. I figured most of them out. The great news is we won’t have long to wait to see if this source really has the intel correct. Take with a huge grain of salt for now. https://i.imgtc.com/0OvW7kI.jpg

From the “If ya can’t beat ‘em... join ‘em” department: I hereby offer a new business idea... Immavictim.com. For a small fee we will research your ethnic past and come up with some “discrimination”, “oppression” and/or “disrespect” that you and/or your ancestors musta endured somewhere, somehow! So you too can claim victim status. Victim status is all the rage these days… great for excusing personal failures and (what used to be called) “responsibility”. No one wants that anymore. Free two-day shipping! I recently researched myself… I was born left-handed, as a result I was not even allowed to try out...

Surveillance footage at one Pennsylvania bank shows a customer intervene during an apparent attempted robbery. The man can be seen in the video entering the bank shortly before another man walked in with his face covered, carrying what appeared to be a gun.

Want to listen to something creepy tonight? I have the answer for you.... Back in 1948, radios in American homes outnumbered televisions by about 900 to 1. Radio programs were very popular and covered every genre ... including horror. In August 1948, the radio program "Quiet, Please" broadcast an episode titled "The Thing on the Fourble Board." Many people familiar with the history of radio describe this episode as one of the best radio horror programs ever broadcast; some cite it as one of the best examples of radio drama as a whole. It isn't gory or explicitly violent --...

The next generation of sex bots will apparently have a moral code that can differentiate between good and bad people. The Sun reports the creator of the Samantha sex robot, Sergi Santos, said sex dolls will develop a moral code that will reward good people and punish bad people. Santos reportedly told IBTimes, “With two to three months work I can make her have a conversation with me and she might be able to tell if I’m evil or not.” According to Santos, the robot’s determination of whether a person is “evil or not” will play a role in whether...

As thousands prepared to head to Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Saturday for its 18th annual celebration of the Mexican tradition known as Dia de los Muertos, they had no shortage of places to shop. Outfits adorned with images of colorful sugar skulls, skeletons and other traditional Day of the Dead symbols are available these days far beyond the small neighborhood stores that once had a lock on such things. Target, Wal-Mart and other big retailers have plastered the theme on masks, paper plates and candle holders. There are Day of the Dead earrings and necklaces at Party City, costumes and...

Let’s start with a rather uncontroversial statement: It’s important to learn about the Holocaust, and Anne Frank’s diary is an excellent way to start. What seems more contentious, however, is the notion that it would be a good idea to dress up as one of the Holocaust’s most famous victims for Halloween. One online costume retailer recently discovered the hard way just how offensive many people find that idea. HalloweenCostumes.com pulled an “Anne Frank costume for girls” off its website on Sunday after being criticized for putting it up in the first place. “It is utterly inappropriate, offensive and quite...