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Seven years ago, Amol Yadav announced to his family and friends that he would build an aeroplane on the roof of a boxy apartment building in the teeming Indian city of Mumbai. Incredulous friends and family members asked the young pilot how he planned to bring the plane down once it was complete. "I really don't know," he told them. Mr Yadav, who flies twin-engine turboprop planes for a living, is nothing if not obstinate. The five-storey building, home to his 19-member joint family, didn't have a lift, so they lugged factory lathes, compressors, welding machines, and an imported 180kg...

This is a great summary of the 2016 DNC Primary. Please share this video to everyone, and even make sure your Democrat friends watch it. It's absolutely spot on and devastating to the DNC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5PstmxVr-g&feature=youtu.be&a=

I have been watching SNL for well over 40 years. Used to beg my dad to let me stay up to watch Mr. Bill. Keenan Thompson has not done one funny skit ever, if so please name it. Tonight, Larry David, somebody who has done nada for eternity hosts the show because NYC and the Left Coast love him. This show must be subsidized.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo.— Steve Stepp and his team of septuagenarian engineers are using a bag of rust, a kitchen mixer larger than a man and a 62-foot-long contraption that used to make magnetic strips for credit cards to avert a disaster that no one saw coming in the digital-music era. The world is running out of cassette tape. National Audio Co., where Mr. Stepp is president and co-owner, has been hoarding a stockpile of music-quality, ⅛-inch-wide magnetic tape from suppliers that shut down in the past 15 years after music lovers ditched cassettes. National Audio held on. Now, many musicians are...

After 30 months, the outlines of a giant iceberg are finally emerging through the fog. Although 90 percent of it remains concealed. What happened at the Waco Twin Peaks restaurant on May 17, 2015 was an example of state sponsored mass murder. Both the mass murder and the Orwellian coverup which has followed, and which includes a shallow racketeering case titled US v. Portillo et al., were contrived and have been executed by members of the Waco Police Department, the Lorena, Texas Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Federal Bureau...

Richard Paulson, president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, said eight children had already been born to women after transplants. And he told a meeting in San Antonio, Texas: “There’s plenty of room to put a uterus in there. Men and women have the same blood vessels.” He said the next step would to be trials involving transgender women to help them become natural mothers. Such ops are not allowed in the UK. However, medical ethics lawyer Dr Amel Alghrani joined calls this year for the NHS to consider them. Last night critics said transgender women may want to...

For THISISMONEY.CO.UK Weathermen and weatherladies sometimes use the Fujita scale to describe storm levels. The highest point on the Fujita scale is F5, which refers to wind speeds of between 261mph and 318mph. Why do you need to know this? Because it explains the Venom F5 name chosen by American fast car specialists Hennessey for their latest madness machine. How mad is it? Well, it has a claimed top speed of 300mph-plus. All this from a road-legal car with number plates and indicators.

In what has become a familiar refrain in the first Twin Peaks trial, Jacob Carrizal’s attorney was notified Friday that prosecutors and law enforcement officials again have failed to produce discovery evidence to the defense. The trial was on a two-day continuance Friday after the city of Waco revealed it had three recordings involving the Twin Peaks case that had not previously been turned over to the state or the defense. Judge Matt Johnson granted a motion for continuance for Carrizal’s attorney, Casie Gotro, Wednesday morning so she could review the materials, which he ordered the city to produce. It...

A flight has been canceled after a 76-year-old woman was found flipping coins into aircraft engine, the airlines said Thursday. The 8L9960 flight, scheduled Wednesday from Anqing, east China's Anhui Province, to Kunming, Yunnan Province, did not depart until 10 a.m. Thursday after a thorough safety check, said a statement by Lucky Air, a Kunming-based low-cost airline affiliated with HNA group. The flight was grounded after airport workers noticed the woman, surnamed Fang, throwing something at the engine while boarding and later found a coin on the ground. Fang is in police custody. A similar case was reported in late...

A 2015 shootout at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas resulted in a charge of “directing organized criminal activity” against Jacob “Jake” Carrizal in McClelland County Court. The prosecution claims that Carrizal is a leader of the Dallas chapter of the Bandidos motorcycle gang, and that he directed its members to bring guns to a confrontation with the Cossacks motorcycle gang. Carrizal is also charged with two counts of engaging in organized criminal activity. To prove the more serious charge, prosecutors must prove that Carrizal directed a criminal gang to commit an assault upon members of the Cossacks. The...

There’s been a new development in Corey Feldman’s one-man pedo-exposing crusade. While looking like he just stepped out of the Kardashian Christmas card, Corey appeared on Dr. Oz yesterday, and in a move that probably stunned the frosted hi-lites off Judy Haim, he named a name. Corey says that one of his alleged molesters is former actor Jon Grissom, whose acting resume is limited to two small parts in 1988’s License to Drive and 1989’s Dream a Little Dream. Corey identified Jon after Dr. Oz held up a picture of Jon on his phone. Corey says that Jon has pictures...

Troopers said Ronnie Jackson, 67, had failed to lower the truck’s bed after leaving a construction zone. A dump truck driver was cited for careless driving Wednesday after he failed to lower the bed of his truck and it hit an overpass on Interstate 75 in Gainesville. Ronnie Jackson, 67, of Lake City, was cited after the accident, which occurred at 12:45 a.m. in the northbound lanes around Mile Marker 385, according to a Florida Highway Patrol media release. The truck overturned and the bed came off after hitting the Southwest 20th Avenue bridge. Troopers said Jackson had failed to...

Arizona Sen. John McCain took another swipe at Trump administration policy in a speech to the U.S. Naval Academy, where he slammed both isolationism and nationalism, ideas he said are ascendant within the President Trump’s White House. In the speech to the midshipmen in Annapolis, Maryland, on Monday, the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman ripped into the Trump administration’s policies, although — taking a Voldemort-like approach that’s become habitual among anti-Trump conservatives — he never mentioned the president’s name. McCain contrasted the “hopeful atmosphere of 1991” after the fall of the Soviet Union with “the current circumstances of our world,”...

I just received a call from the RNC in DC asking for a donation. Normally I don't pick up on these calls but this morning, after reading the Breitbart article on Session, I answered the call. Before the woman could continue her sales pitch, I said, "I'm not sending the Republican Party another dime until Sessions is replaced and the DOJ prosecutes the Clintons". The woman's started speaking, "Well, you know sir..." My response. "Click". Maybe if they get enough responses like this, they'll get the message. What can I say, I'm an optimist.

Stuck at the dental surgeon with my dad and I am being tortured by The View. Keith Olbermann is on, Whoopie opened her mouth and Joy the Witch is being herself. Wish I had some spit balls. Maddie10

TOKYO — As the president might say, the room was half full. Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and adviser, was the much-heralded guest at a government-sponsored conference on women’s empowerment in Tokyo on Friday, just two days before President Trump’s scheduled arrival here on his first stop of an Asia tour.

On Thursday afternoon, Wall Street Journal reporter and MSNBC contributor Eli Stokols ripped into President Trump for not demanding the death penalty for already dead Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock.

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) Chief Executive Tim Cook quashed concerns recently about muted demand for the iPhone X, saying pre-orders for the 10th anniversary smartphone were “off the charts,” but it might be the company’s market capitalization that needs a bigger graph. Positive reviews for the new device and expectations that many users are on the verge of upgrading from older iPhones have sent Apple’s stock to record highs, pushing it closer to becoming the first publicly listed company with a stock market value above $1 trillion.

The premiere of Laura Ingraham’s Fox News Channel show The Ingraham Angle at 10 PM last night was tops among cable news shows in the time slot, snagging 3.3 million total viewers and 622,000 in the news demo. Also in the hour, MSNBC’s Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell delivered 2.6M viewers and 612K news demo viewers. CNN Tonight clocked 1.34M viewers and 506K news demo viewers. Compared to Fox News’ 10 PM average in 2017 to date, The Ingraham Angle’s launch jumped 29% in overall audience and 10% in the news demo. Ingraham’s debut also made headlines with her John...

SIERRA VISTA – Happy endings are not always found in a courtroom, but for Terry Bannon every Friday is an exception. That’s when the Cochise County Superior Court Judge (Division VI) has the pleasurable task of formally finalizing the adoptions of children into permanent, loving homes. And later this month, Bannon will help around half a dozen more families realize a dream when she presides over the County’s National Adoption Day celebrations on November 17. “National Adoption Day recognizes the joy and solemnness of the adoption process,” Bannon said. “It’s been a national event for about 20 years, although we...