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  • Locals Outraged At Cartoonist For Exposing Free Parking Hack At Jackson Ski Resort

    03/25/2024 9:16:26 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 32 replies
    Cowboy State Daily ^ | March 24, 2024 | Jake Nichols
    Hundreds of employees at Wyoming’s largest ski resort had finagled a way to park for free (regular rates $35 - $45 per day) until a popular Jackson cartoonist accidentally exposed the hack. Now the free ride is over and so too, perhaps, the love affair with the artist. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Parking lots at Teton Village fill up fast even at $35-$45 dollars a day. Because Jackson Hole Mountain Resort workers are required to pay for parking, they've been exploiting a hack to park free — until a local cartoonist outed the hack. (Seejh.com) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A popular content creator in Jackson touched...
  • Lauren Boebert officially wins U.S. Congressional District 3 in Colorado after recount

    12/12/2022 8:14:39 PM PST · by CFW · 32 replies
    KKTV Colorado ^ | 12/12/22 | Toby Keith
    DENVER (KKTV) - The Colorado Secretary of State certified the 2022 General Election on Monday. “The certification was conducted after each county’s bipartisan canvass boards submitted their official abstract of votes to the Secretary of State’s Office, as well as the conclusion of a mandatory recount in the race for Colorado’s U.S. Congressional District 3 and permissive recount of the Colorado House District 43 race,” part of a news release from the Secretary of State’s Office reads. The race for U.S. Congressional District 3 went to an automatic recount because of how close it was. Incumbent Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert...
  • The ‘bummer’ of the $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit: Its full value may be hard to get

    10/16/2022 1:24:31 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 57 replies
    CNBC ^ | 10/15/2022 | Greg Iacurci
    The historic climate legislation President Joe Biden signed in August offered a federal tax break — worth up to $7,500 — to households that buy new electric vehicles. But it may be tough for consumers to get the full value of the tax credit — at least initially. That’s largely due to the structure of the clean vehicle credit and certain requirements for consumers and car manufacturers. Those roadblocks, however, are poised to ease in the longer term, experts said.
  • All Charleston County Parks Closed - South Carolina

    03/19/2020 9:30:30 PM PDT · by onona · 20 replies
    vanity ^ | today | me
    Just got the news...........
  • FR's Own Travis McGee hosted Infowars 4th Hour 12/6/18

    12/08/2018 12:11:39 PM PST · by Sir Gawain · 42 replies
    Watch Travis McGee https://www.real.video/5976506498001https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDG23Z76icAhttps://www.bitchute.com/video/fbOZEcnycF1S/
  • I Lost My Son to the Alt-Right Movement

    08/18/2017 12:22:42 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 69 replies
    New York Magazine ^ | August 18, 2017 | Anonymous As Told To Alexa Tsoulis-Reay
    My son was in Charlottesville. He probably went with his friends, but I don’t know for sure because I haven’t talked to him in about three years. Maybe some alt-righters were born into racist families and then they just follow along, but we weren’t like that. He grew up in a big, multicultural city. When he was a kid, he was very accepting — his friend group was ethnically diverse, we often hosted overseas exchange students. He was dating someone who wasn’t white. He was a responsible kid. I mean, he would occasionally drink and smoke pot and stuff like...
  • Caption time. Bummer and bite me.

    12/13/2016 2:54:39 PM PST · by WhatNot · 38 replies
    Kiss me you fool!
  • VANITY: Be Vigilant. This victory could be short lived. A call for continued prayer.

    11/12/2016 1:50:53 PM PST · by Angels27 · 61 replies
    FREE | 11/12/16 | Me
    I write this knowing full well I will probably be scorned as a concern troll, but there are facts we must face head on to avoid this election victory being a short lived victory and in 2020 seeing a President Cory Booker, Julian Castro or Elizabeth Warren. We dodged a huge bullet for sure. But a swing of a few thousand votes in 5 states, Hillary Clinton would have been President. Keep these things in mind: 1) While Donald Trump broke the supposedly "blue wall" by winning MI, WI and PA, Corrupt and Crooked Hillary Clinton was still the choice...
  • Gwyneth Paltrow: Mean words hurt water's feelings

    06/05/2014 6:08:10 PM PDT · by Dallas59 · 103 replies
    Fox News ^ | 6/5/2014 | Fox News
    First she consciously uncoupled from her husband. Then she said being criticized on social media was just like war. Now Gwyneth Paltrow has somehow trumped both! The Oscar winning actor and mother of two believes bad vibes can bum out water. Yes, we’re talking H2O.
  • Denver mom shot to death after husband allegedly consumed marijuana edibles, began hallucinating

    04/16/2014 2:57:27 PM PDT · by PaulCruz2016 · 74 replies
    The New York Daily News ^ | 04-16-2014 | Nina Golgowski
    A Denver woman was allegedly shot to death by her own husband while on the phone with police after he consumed marijuana edibles and began hallucinating. Kristine A. Kirk clung to her phone with a 911 dispatcher for nearly 15 minutes before her final scream was accompanied by a piercing gunshot late Monday night, NBC reported. When officers arrived at the 44-year-old's home they reported finding the mother of three dead at the scene after suffering a gunshot wound to the head.
  • Franklin court ruling won't stop cigarette tax from starting Sunday (WA)

    06/30/2012 1:52:33 PM PDT · by Drango · 12 replies
    Efforts to postpone state cigarette taxes for roll-your-own cigarettes have failed. Smokers cannot legally buy roll-your-own cigarettes unless the carton has a state tax stamp, starting Sunday. The Washington State Supreme Court issued a stay on the Franklin County Superior Court preliminary injunction Friday. And Dana Henne of Pasco, a roll-your-own cigarette consumer; Gary Alexander of Sammamish, owner of 1/2 Price Smokes stores in Tacoma and Kennewick; and RYO Machine LLC, an Ohio-based manufacturer with about 2,000 of the machines nationwide, did not post the $200,000 bond or security required for the preliminary injunction to go into effect. If tax...
  • Scroogle unplugged for good this time.

    02/21/2012 10:51:13 PM PST · by Rabin · 6 replies · 1+ views
    The Register ^ | 21st February 2012 | Kelly Fiveash
    Scroogle - a not-for-profit search engine that offered users something of a pro-privacy antidote to Google - has been killed... Daniel Brandt (its creator), called it quits after his servers were repeatedly targeted by DDoS attacks on Scroogle. (NOT) Google to once again attempt to banish the site from the interwebs, but.... a number of DDoS attacks that hit Scroogle, rendering the site utterly useless. “Scroogle.org is gone forever,” Brandt told BetaBeat. “Even if all my DDoS problems had never started in December, Scroogle was already getting squeezed from Google’s throttling, (DATE SORT) and was already dying. It might have...
  • Early marijuana use tied to long-term brain problems

    06/03/2011 6:33:47 PM PDT · by AustralianConservative · 72 replies
    CBS ^ | June 1, 2011 | David W. Freeman
    Call it the pubescent pot problem. New research shows that adults who smoked marijuana before age 15 have significant problems with attention span, impulse control, and "executive function" - the ability to plan and carry out tasks. How about people who took up toking later in life? The same research showed they were much less likely to have such difficulties. For the research, scientists at the Federal University of Sao Paulo in Brazil used a stardard "card sorting" task to evaluate the cognitive ability of 104 long-term cannabis users, including 49 who had started using before age 15. On average,...
  • A NEW DAY, A FRESH START (Lonsberry)

    11/05/2008 5:50:51 AM PST · by shortstop · 22 replies · 1,173+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 11/05/08 | Bob Lonsberry
    It is a sea change, but not a mandate. And that's not a hit on Barack Obama, it is a challenge. A challenge to make his rhetoric about no more blue states and red states, but simply United States, actually mean something. Unity is earned, not declared, and the simple fact is that one more 51-percent president doesn't bind a country together. Rather, like George W. Bush, he has tremendous potential to leave it decidedly divided. Democrats are exultantly talking about a wave sweeping the country, about a new hope and an era of change, but the fact is that...
  • Incredibly, deep new cutbacks at L.A. Times (MSM death spiral)

    10/06/2008 5:06:05 PM PDT · by Drango · 33 replies · 758+ views
    la observed ^ | 10/6/08 | Kevin Roderick
    Kevin Roderick • Bio • Email This is a breaking situation this afternoon. Editors met over the weekend to get the word and to refine their lists. Newsroom staffers are being told today individually and in department meetings that as many as 75 editorial positions are being cut through voluntary departures and layoffs. Some staffers were approached last week about volunteering, "enticed" with the threat that this will be the absolute final time that editorial employees will receive two weeks severance pay for each year of service when they leave. When new publisher Eddy Hartenstein took over in August, right after the last round...
  • Lottery winner wasn't supposed to gamble (convicted bank robber on probation)

    11/29/2007 7:08:30 AM PST · by nuconvert · 48 replies · 90+ views
    Yahoo News/AP ^ | Nov 28, 2007
    Lottery winner wasn't supposed to gamble By MARK PRATT, Associated Press Writer Nov 28, 2007 BOSTON - The winner of a $1 million lottery scratch ticket may not be so lucky after all: He's a convicted bank robber who isn't supposed to gamble. Timothy Elliott faces a Dec. 7 court hearing over whether he violated his probation when he bought the $10 ticket for the $800 Million Spectacular game at a supermarket in Hyannis. Elliott was placed on five years' probation after pleading guilty in October 2006 to unarmed robbery for a January 2006 heist at a bank on Cape...
  • Mexico-bound jet diverted as pilot dies

    01/20/2007 8:47:51 PM PST · by txroadkill · 110 replies · 2,601+ views
    Ap via yahoooooooo ^ | 1/20/07 | Staff
    The pilot of a Continental Airlines flight became ill after takeoff and was later pronounced dead after the plane made an emergency landing Saturday, a company spokeswoman said. The 210 passengers on the flight, which departed from Houston, were never in danger and the co-pilot landed the plane safely, Continental spokeswoman Macky Osorio said. The airline said only that the pilot suffered a "serious medical problem." Continental believes the pilot died of natural causes, Osorio said. The pilot's name was not released.
  • Reform Feud Cools (Harry Reid Takes a Dive and Is Fuming!)

    01/18/2007 6:22:18 AM PST · by beyond the sea · 20 replies · 1,232+ views
    thehill.com ^ | 1/18/07 | Elana Schor
    The Senate yesterday cooled down a partisan conflagration over the breadth of earmark reform in its lobbying and ethics bill, voting unanimously to adopt an amendment strengthening earmark disclosure rules offered by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) with modifications from Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). DeMint’s amendment would require members to attach their names to earmarks appearing in report language as well as bill text, would expand the definition of a targeted tax benefit, and would ensure earmarks sent through federal entities are covered by the disclosure standard. Democratic leaders initially sought to quash DeMint’s bid after 10 majority members...
  • Antioch Man On Wrong End Of Practical Joke

    10/20/2006 1:08:43 PM PDT · by Froufrou · 14 replies · 491+ views
    WTFV Nashville ^ | 10/20/06 | Unknown
    An Antioch man found himself in a sticky, humiliating situation at a local Wal-Mart on Monday. He sat down on a toilet in the store's rest room, only to find himself glued to the seat. Jeffery Hanserd wants everyone to know that using a public toilet could leave you flushed with embarrassment. "I walked into the restroom and came out on a stretcher," Hanserd said. "There's somebody out there doing dirty low-down things they shouldn't be doing. I want everyone to know how dangerous it is." The recent colon cancer survivor found himself slammed by what he calls a painful...
  • WR man survives 50-foot fall from billboard

    05/15/2006 5:12:22 PM PDT · by Excuse_My_Bellicosity · 8 replies · 158+ views
    Macon Telegraph ^ | 5/15/2006 | Staff
    WARNER ROBINS - A Warner Robins man who scaled a billboard Saturday to watch the air show at Robins Air Force Base survived a 50-foot fall. Christopher Gerbig, 39, of 806 McArthur Blvd., was recovering today at The Medical Center of Central Georgia. "Gerbig, who was intoxicated - alcohol - apparently lost his balance and fell 50 feet," the sheriff's report said. Gerbig, who works in construction, was among hundreds of people who lined the perimeter of the base to get a glimpse of the death-defying aircraft maneuvers. "It was my own fault ... It was my own foolishness, and...