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FOR DECADES,A major piece of counter-culture history was wedged behind a bed in Merl Saunders’ San Francisco house. The crude pipe looks like something a teen may have cobbled together at summer camp, but according to art historian Steve Cabella, it’s basically a religious object. A so-called “spirit pipe,” this particular pot implement was made by LSD pioneer Augustus Owsley Stanley for Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia, & it’s been MIA for decades. “I’ve bought party pipes from rock people before,” Cabella — owner of California antiquities shop The Modern i — tells Rolling Stone. “They’re just funny little things;...

How can America unite again to do great things if we are led by people who believe America suffers from a great sickness of the soul, an original sin that dates back to her birth as a nation? Consider. After his long night of prayer for "the right verdict" to be pronounced – Derek Chauvin was convicted on all three counts – Joe Biden stepped before the White House cameras to tell us what it all meant. George Floyd's death, said Biden, "was a murder in the full light of day, and it ripped the blinders off for the whole...

A 77-year-old military veteran was attacked in California for wearing a MAGA hat supporting President Trump and a Back the Blue mask with a blue line in support of police, according to a report. The victim, who did not want to be identified, told KRCR-TV the attack came out of nowhere, surprising him, last Friday in broad daylight at the Red Bluff post office. He said he was approached by a man and woman: "She looked at me and she goes, 'We just don't like people like you.' Just kind of got shocked a little bit and said, 'Well, that...

Vote.org Official 2019 Voter Survey Voting is the cornerstone of our democratic republic, and yet the United States trails most developed countries in voter turnout. Only about 60% of the voting eligible population votes during presidential election years. At Vote.org, we're working to increase voter turnout by fighting for voting reforms, registering more voters, and getting out the vote. But there's a lot of work to be done. Please take a few minutes to answer our quick three-question survey. Your answers will help determine our strategy for the 2020 elections. Every opinion, and every vote, matters. SPONSORED BY Vote.org HAVE...

ANTI-GUN David Hogg was caught campaigning for #Georgia’s MARXIST gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who said she wants to ban the AR-15 & infringe on YOUR 2nd Amendment right! Don’t allow for this radical Leftist to get elected! Brian Kemp is the Republican opponent running against Stacey!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrOMhjfyfZI&feature=youtu.be    

ane Fonda believes the downfall of Leslie Moonves won’t be the last we’ll see among powerful entertainment industry executives. “It’s a shame he didn’t behave, [but now] it’s come back to get him,” Fonda said at Thursday night’s Los Angeles premiere of the HBO documentary “Jane Fonda in Five Acts” at the Armand Hammer Museum. Moonves departed on Sunday amid a cascade of sexual assault and misconduct allegations. “This has been happening for a long time and it’s been an epidemic of behavior like this on the part of people who have power,” Fonda said. “I think the #MeToo movement...

Punk rock, Noam Chomsky, Jane Fonda, and psychedelic ignorance, among many other things, has tainted the minds of hordes of college students and wannabe “progressives”. These “progressives” eventually leak into the suburbs after quietly admitting defeat and getting a 9-to-5 or wither away into pathetic community organization, cuckolded by the repressive, regressive society they see around them. Because capitalism will not wipe their a$$ for them, the youth feel they must destroy it.(Periscope video at link)These children in Antifa, led by blind masters, think they hate capitalism. They frequently complain that businesses are evil – and so they protest. In...

From street mob activist to White House guest— 20 year-old Ferguson activist Rasheen Aldridge met with Barack Obama this week in the White House to discuss Ferguson. He was the president’s guest. No Ferguson business owners or Ferguson police officers were invited to the publicized event.Several local Ferguson protest leaders were invited by Barack Obama to the White House.Torch a town – Get invited to White House!

A Thanet man has been charged and released on bail following an assault on UKIP party leader Nigel Farage with a placard. Andrew Scott, 37, from Ramsgate Road, Margate, was charged with assault by beating, after Mr Farage was allegedly attacked as he entered a hotel in Cliftonville at around 3pm yesterday. Unemployed Scott was released on conditional bail, to appear at Margate Magistrates' Court on March 3. As a condition to his bail he must not attend any political event of any political party, either in protest or support of the party in question. It comes after the South...

Here is a clip (less than 2 minutes) from a television movie called, 'The Contender' (2000). It is about a woman, Senator Laine Hanson, (played nicely by actress Joan Allen) who has been appointed by the President to replace his Vice President who passed away a few weeks earlier. In this clip, Hanson is testifying before the Senate during her confirmation hearing.The movie is a liberal Hollywood producer's wet dream of the way big government should operate, and it is a dead-on window into the mind of today's typical liberal Democrat. In this brief speech, the nominee lays out exactly...

The standard portrayal of the Wall Street protesters goes something like this: Ragtag group of unemployed young adults, venting often incoherent but overall legitimate populist outrage about economic inequality. But go down to the movement’s headquarters, as I did this past weekend, and you see something far different. It’s not just that knowledge of their “oppressors” -- the evil bankers -- is pretty thin, or that many of them are clearly college kids with nothing better to do than embrace the radical chic of “a cause.” I found a unifying and increasingly coherent ideology emerging among the protesters, which at...

Half of my letters brand me an idiot - President Obama * From correspondents in Washington * From: AFP * March 11, 2010 10:24AM US President Barack Obama has joked that half of the 40,000 letters that pour into the White House each day brand him an "idiot''. Tongue-in-cheek, the President remarked that his staff did not spare him the wrath of his correspondents - selecting a representative portion of 10 letters for him to read when he returns to the White House residence at night. "I will tell you, that my staff is very even-handed, because about half of...

Here is video of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sparring with the Russian National Judo Team, where he threw members of the team in what appeared to be a carefully crafted media event: Black belted Russian leader Vladimir Putin has offered to join the national judo team after showing off his martial arts skills to members of the squad. The 57-year-old prime minister made the proposal at a special coaching session on Saturday aired on state television, adding to his carefully-crafted macho image. Putin, who many observers believe is still paramount leader despite standing down as president last year, entered...

Note: Almost all of these comments (and many more at the link provided) are from Muslims living in America.... (Shadow Lands)- Following the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, some Muslim forums have been advising commenters to show restraint – for example here: would just advise everyone to choose their words very carefully. Regardless of how you feel, certian words can be construed as sedition. Why be locked up for celebrating on the forum the death of 12 people? not worth it.. so think about it So having thought about it carefully, here are some of the responses: OMG! 12 Maggots...

DENVER -- The most revealing moments at the Democratic National Convention didn't happen in the hall or on the stage. They occurred as activists, political operatives and thinkers gather at small forums around Denver to talk about the future. Two panels this week revealed potential fault lines among Democrats if they end up in control of the White House and Congress. A morning panel sponsored by The American Prospect made clear that the more liberal wing of the party feels resurgent and wants sweeping change reminiscent of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. An afternoon forum sponsored by the insider publication...

China will censor the Internet used by foreign media during the Olympics, an organising committee official confirmed Wednesday, reversing a pledge to offer complete media freedom at the games. "During the Olympic Games we will provide sufficient access to the Internet for reporters," said Sun Weide, spokesman for the organising committee. He confirmed, however, that journalists would not be able to access information or websites connected to the Falungong spiritual movement which is banned in China. Other sites were also unavailable to journalists, he said, without specifying which ones.

As the article explained, neuroscientists have found that “many children growing up in very poor families with low social status experience unhealthy levels of stress hormones, which impair their neural development.” The effect is to impair language development and memory — and hence the ability to escape poverty — for the rest of the child’s life.

Leftists are flocking to see a country being transformed, writes Rory Carroll in Caracas TO SCEPTICS, they are naive Westerners who would not recognise communist tyranny if it expropriated their sandals. "Malodorous, left-wing, US and European peace creeps armed with Mom's credit card and brand new Birkenstocks," sneered the American Thinker, a right-wing magazine. To the Venezuelan Government, however, they are valued friends who are witnessing first-hand the positive changes sweeping the slums and countryside and who return home, a volunteer army of ambassadors, to spread the good news. Meet the revolutionary tourists, a wave of backpackers, artists, academics and...

"These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities. ... I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much." Hatemonger Ann Coulter's assessment of some of the widows of 9/11 victims. It would be my great pleasure to arrange for a screening of Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center" for Ann Coulter and some of the families whose loved ones were killed or seriously injured on 9/11. It could take place in New York, New Jersey, any place, any time, all expenses on me. All I ask is, after the screening...

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