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  • Letter: Join the movement against student debt

    10/17/2017 6:35:10 AM PDT · by pabianice · 31 replies
    UMass Daily Collegian ^ | 10/17/17 | Staff
    Ask anyone on campus if they enjoy watching the digits of their own personal student debt-counter increase, and you will probably receive a resounding no. Ask anyone if they believe burdening a student with thousands of dollars of debt while receiving a quality education is a good idea and you will likely receive the same answer.
  • Intoxicated United Airlines passenger peed on seatmate mid-flight, lawsuit claims

    10/17/2017 5:48:59 AM PDT · by workerbee · 15 replies
    Fox ^ | 10/17/17
    As the cross-country flight prepared for takeoff to Newark Airport, Card alleges in the suit, filed on Wednesday, that the inebriated man next to him in row 24 “took out his penis and aimed it at Card and proceeded to urinate all over Card’s leg, while Card was confined to his seat due to an imminent departure of the flight.” Card said he tried to wake up the passed out passenger, who smelled strongly of alcohol, but could not. He then alerted the airline crew, who according to the suit, “refused [his] request to relocate his seat.” After several requests,...
  • Carrizal’s Defense Won Today

    10/17/2017 5:04:00 AM PDT · by Elderberry · 41 replies
    The Aging Rebel ^ | 10/16/2017
    Carrizal’s Defense Won Today Houston lawyer Casie Gotro shook a lime tree last Friday. Today she made margaritas. She was late to court as she often is. Her client, Dallas Bandido Jake Carrizal, sat at the lawyer’s table all alone. One of the prosecutors, Michael Jarrett, glanced at his watch and smirked. The judge, Matt Johnson, glared at an invisible spot over the courtroom door. When she arrived six minutes late she was admonished by Johnson. She promised not to do it again. Five prosecutors are trying the case. The other side is just Casie and her entourage. Throughout the...
  • Hannity's Tick Tock: Circa News Sara Carter and Hill's John Solomon-huge breaking news Tues night

    10/16/2017 7:08:14 PM PDT · by bitt · 60 replies
    Hannity Show | Oct 16, 2017 | Hannity
    "circa news Sara Carterand the Hill's John Solomon, huge breaking news - let me just put it this way - if I'm Hillary or Fake News, I won't be sleeping well tonight."
  • What's up with Jeff Sessions?

    10/16/2017 2:43:21 PM PDT · by Signalman · 114 replies
    youtube ^ | 10/15/2017 | The Still Report
    Judge Jeanine Pirro interviews Congressman Ron DeSantis (R). Very interesting information at the end of this short video re: Imran Awan and Debbie Wasserman Schultz. DeSantis said Awan, while residing in Pakistan, was transferring "terrabytes" of information to Pakistan! He also said that Awan's wife is going to be testifying against him in the criminal case against him.
  • New York jihad bomber found guilty, New York Times identifies him only as “New Jersey man”

    10/16/2017 2:18:34 PM PDT · by heterosupremacist · 6 replies
    https://www.jihadwatch.org ^ | 10/16/2017 | Robert Spencer
    A federal jury convicted Ahmad Khan Rahimi, a loner from New Jersey drawn to online calls to jihad, of setting the explosives in the Chelsea neighborhood that blew out windows and sent shrapnel flying into buildings, cars and people during a two-day bombing campaign in and around New York City last year…. Mr. Rahimi carried multiple bombs — nine in all — but most did not explode. The first was set early that morning in a garbage can at the finish line of a United States Marine Corps charity race in Seaside Park, N.J. The race’s start time was delayed,...
  • NATIONAL DICTIONARY DAY October 16

    10/16/2017 2:09:37 PM PDT · by heterosupremacist · 4 replies
    In 1806, American Noah Webster published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language. In 1807 Webster began compiling an expanded and fully comprehensive dictionary, An American Dictionary of the English Language; it took twenty-seven years to complete. To evaluate the etymology of words, Webster learned twenty-six languages, including Old English (Anglo-Saxon), German, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Arabic and Sanskrit. Webster completed his dictionary during his year abroad in Paris, France, at the University of Cambridge. His book contained seventy thousand words, of which twelve thousand had never appeared in a published dictionary before. Webster took...
  • Escaped Oklahoma Inmates Walk Back to Jail After Smoking Pot, Visiting Girlfriends

    10/16/2017 12:16:21 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 19 replies
    New York Daily News ^ | Saturday, October 14, 2017 | Jessica Schladbeck
    Two men behind bars at an Oklahoma jail on drug charges briefly escaped to tend to affairs of the heart and “smoke weed,” police said. Inmates Harley Davidson and Rakeem Lennox around 10 p.m. waited for jail staff to leave the area around their room before sneaking off and stealing the key to the laundry room, according to a statement from Choctaw County Sheriff Terry Park. They managed to leave the facility and spent their brief moments of freedom visiting their girlfriends. About two hours after their escape, the trusties walked back to the Choctaw County Jail. Two female inmates...
  • Body Found in Philadelphia River Identified as 'Shark Tank' Entrepreneur

    10/16/2017 12:03:18 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 39 replies
    ABC30 ^ | Saturday, October 14, 2017
    Authorities have identified the body found floating in the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia on Thursday. The medical examiner has confirmed the victim was 58-year-old Philip Reitnour. Reitnour was the entrepreneur behind the app "Emergensee" and was featured on an episode of ABC's Shark Tank. Body found in Schuylkill River: Rick Williams reports during Action News at Noon on October 12, 2017. Court records reveal he was three million dollars in debt and being sued. Police are investigating his death. The medical examiner has not ruled on the cause.
  • Megyn Kelly Today, Today: 'Have You Ever Been Attacked By a Wild Cougar?'

    10/16/2017 11:44:44 AM PDT · by nikos1121 · 53 replies
    Jezebel ^ | 10/16/2017 | Bobby Finger
    Welcome to Megyn Kelly Today, Today, a new daily column in which we will share the most memorable things that happened on Megyn Kelly Today every morning until we are no longer able to watch Megyn Kelly Today without feeling like there will be no tomorrow. ·Megyn Kelly walked onstage in a tan suede dress. ·Megyn Kelly began by discussing Mayim Bialik’s terrible op-ed, which she hated. ·Megyn Kelly said some things that made the audience applaud. ·Megyn Kelly discussed the outrage against Woody Allen. ·Megyn Kelly said, “There was a very scary moment for passengers on an Air Asia...
  • Help please post

    10/15/2017 7:19:37 PM PDT · by rey · 14 replies
    Please post this for me as I am in the middle of this mess near where the nunns fire started. This article explains how these fires followed nearly the exact same path they did in 1964. http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7382773-181/gaye-lebaron-tubbs-fire-revives?artslide=0 It is complete mismanagement. The burnable material wasn’t managed the people were not alerted when it started I’m well though suffered hard but pray for the others who are much worse off. Thanks to whoever posts this for me. Go Cubs!
  • Tomorrow Is Going To Be Big

    10/15/2017 6:17:41 PM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 168 replies
    Mike Cernovich via Twitter ^ | 10/15/17 | Mike Cernovice
    Tomorrow is going to be big.
  • NATIONAL I LOVE LUCY DAY October 15

    10/15/2017 5:10:27 PM PDT · by heterosupremacist · 24 replies
    In four of its six seasons, I Love Lucy was the most-watched show in the United States and was the first to end its run at the top of the Nielsen ratings. In 2002, TV Guide ranked the sitcom television’s 2nd greatest show of all time, and in 2007 it landed on TIME Magazine’s “100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME” list...
  • EXCLUSIVE: We won’t give back a cent of Harvey Weinstein’s tainted $250,000(tr)

    10/15/2017 5:02:06 PM PDT · by heterosupremacist · 17 replies
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | 10/15/2017 | Alana Goodman
    Full title ~~~ EXCLUSIVE: We won’t give back a cent of Harvey Weinstein’s tainted $250,000 says the Clinton Foundation - we’ve spent accused rapist’s every cent claims group run by Bill and Chelsea ~~~ Clinton Foundation ends days of dodging questions over up to $250,000 it took from Harvey Weinstein to say it won’t hand it back * Foundation already spent the money on its programs, spokesman tells DailyMail.com * Those include lowering the cost of HIV medication and supporting women and girls in developing countries * Chelsea Clinton ran from DailyMail.com reporter in Boston Saturday to avoid answering same...
  • Peter Jenkins Set Out to Walk Across America and Ended Up Finding Himself a New

    10/15/2017 4:32:22 PM PDT · by daniel1212 · 28 replies
    http://people.com ^ | March 19, 1979 | Patricia Newman
    Peter Jenkins was of the Watergate generation, a cynic who picked up his college diploma and a 75-pound backpack and set off, as he puts it, “to give this country one last chance.” Now more than five years and 4,750 miles later, he is a believer. “I have America in every cell of my body,” he exults, “and I could feel God everywhere.”.. By the time Jenkins reached the Mississippi he was no longer a vegetarian. A poor mountain man in Virginia, who offered Jenkins a lamb chop, had made him feel foolish about his no-meat diet. Once a “hyper...
  • Have dirt that could impeach Trump? Larry Flynt will pay you $10 million.

    10/15/2017 1:14:51 PM PDT · by Morgana · 62 replies
    washington post ^ | October 14, 2017 | Amy B Wang
    Larry Flynt’s ad in the Sunday edition of The Washington Post is hard to miss. For one, it takes up a full page. And there are no pictures — just bold, all-caps text dominating the top third of the page: “$10 MILLION FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO THE IMPEACHMENT AND REMOVAL FROM OFFICE OF DONALD J. TRUMP.” Flynt, best known as the publisher of the pornographic magazine Hustler, outlined numerous reasons he felt President Trump needed to be removed from office, charging him with everything from “compromising domestic and foreign policy with his massive conflicts-of-interest global business empire” to “telling hundreds...
  • Men flee Indian village after 'female, man-hating ghost that only attacks males'...

    10/15/2017 12:38:25 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 29 replies
    Mailonline ^ | , 13 October 2017 | Kelly Mclaughlin
    It appears as though only women are now living in the tiny village of Kasiguda, in the Nirmal district of Telangana, after reports of the ghost. Word of the reported ghost spread throughout the town of 60 residents after three people, including two brothers, were killed in the village within a three-month period. ... The few people who have remained go to sleep when the sun sets and do not leave their homes until sunrise the next morning. A woman in the town told Tamil News that the reported ghost had not attacked any women. No one plans to return...
  • Fundraiser for Kelli Ward with Laura Ingraham

    10/15/2017 8:20:04 AM PDT · by Hildy · 13 replies
    For those if you in and around Scottsdale, AZ: there’s a rumor someone named Steve Bannon will make an appearance., Laura Ingraham for Kelli Ward October 17th
  • SW Ohio boy, 13, dies of suspected heroin overdose; dad jailed

    10/14/2017 10:58:00 PM PDT · by Djl3668 · 30 replies
    AP ^ | 0410 | Associated Press
    heroin, Heroin At Home - SW Ohio boy, 13, dies of suspected heroin overdose; dad jailed - WBNS-10TV Columbus, Ohio | Columbus News, Weather & Sports - heroin, Heroin At Home SW Ohio boy, 13, dies of suspected heroin overdose; dad jailed SW Ohio boy, 13, dies of suspected heroin overdose; dad jailed NEWS ASSOCIATED PRESS PUBLISHED: 04/04/17 08:46 AM EDTUPDATED: 04/21/17 05:27 PM EDT DAYTON, Ohio — Authorities say a 13-year-old Ohio boy died of a suspected heroin overdose, and his father has been jailed in a previous drug-related case. Nathan Wylie's father and another man brought the unresponsive...
  • Girl, 8, dies after falling from second-story balcony inside Carnival Cruise ship docked at Miami...

    10/14/2017 4:16:19 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 15 replies
    Dailymail.com ^ | Daniel Roth For
    Medical emergency units responded to the incident and provided first aid to the young victim before rushing her off to nearby the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, ABC News reported.  The incident occurred at the Dante B. Fascell Port of Miami around 8am (pictured: Captain Ignatius Carroll) Doctors later announced that the eight-year-old had died after succumbing to her injuries.  What led to the girl falling from the second-story atrium aboard the cruise ship while docked at the Dante B. Fascell Port of Miami is still unknown. Carnival Cruise Lines spokesperson Jennifer de la Cruz said in a statement that...