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According to the suit, in the two-and-a-half years before Kalodimos was fired, seven other employees over 40 years old were replaced with younger employees. In that period, Kalodimos wrote two letters to management detailing what she considered to be discrimination at the station, but it took no action, the lawsuit said.The conflict came to a head in November 2017 when former co-workers named Kalodimos as a witness in their own age-discrimination lawsuit. Much of the publicity surrounding that suit focused on Kalodimos, who was still an anchor.A week later, Kalodimos was fired. She was 58 at the time.

Source: Tennessee news anchor sues over age, gender discrimination | Daily Mail Online

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Age discrimination alive and well in the “liberal” media!

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Outgoing Broward County elections official Brenda Snipes will be cashing in on $130,000 in pensions after she leaves her position in January.

Source: Outgoing FL Official Brenda Snipes to Receive $130,000 in Pensions

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Doesn’t anyone else think that this pension is excessive?

Wonder how many taxpayers who will pay for this “pension” have a pension at all?

This is part of the problem —  current 18T+ national debt and the guesstimated 200T+ in unfunded liabilities that our posterity will have to deal with.

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Trump is unabashedly putting U.S. economic and strategic interests first. He is not going to damage our relationship with Riyadh and its royal family, even if the future king ordered a cold-blooded killing of a U.S.-based Saudi journalist he regarded as an enemy.

Source: Are the Saudi Princes True Friends? – Antiwar.com Original

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Well, I am not a “DJT fan boy”, but I think it’s not the job of the American President to be the world’s policeman.

I’m sure that there are many more terrible things to discover out there.

I’d like the USA to adopt Switzerland’s foreign policy and just MYOB!

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Private firefighters provided by American International Group (AIG) safeguard the mansions of 42% of Forbes’ list of the 400 richest Americans. Average Americans ended up burning to death in the California wildfires while private firefighters protected the empty mansions of the rich.

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The existence of private firefighters proves that most Americans cannot rely on the government in disasters.

Rich people and insurance companies hire private firefighters because they know the government will not protect their property and lives. In addition, the government is probably not even competent enough to do so. The majority of Americans need to learn the same lesson if they want to survive.

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Source: Americans Burned To Death While Private Firefighters Protected Mansions

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Any questions?

Argh!

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Ultimately, a return to sound money is a solution that will do less damage than fiat currencies losing their purchasing power at an accelerating pace. Think Venezuela, and how sound money would solve her problems. But that path is blocked by a sink-hole that threatens to swallow up whole governments. Trying to buy time by throwing yet more money at an economy suffering a credit crisis will only destroy the currency. The tactic worked during the Lehman crisis, but it was a close-run thing. It is unlikely to work again.

Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Will China Adopt a Gold Standard to Boost Its Economy?

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The USA, and all the Western Gooferments, are screwed.

Their inability to “discipline” the “wants” from the real “needs” will be their downfall.

The USA’s current 18.8T$+ national debt (as of 2015) and the guesstimated 200T+ in unfunded liabilities that our posterity will have to deal with just tells you the WHOLE story.

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LOS ANGELES — Ray Chavez, the oldest U.S. military survivor of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor that plunged the United States into World War II, died Wednesday. He was 106.

Source: US military Pearl Harbor survivor dies at age 106

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God Bless you sailor.  And all my fellow vets.

Peace.

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It’s like when our tax dollars are used to buy up surplus cheese. Paul Shapiro wrote a great editorial. Imagine the headline “Government Buys $20 Million in Surplus Pepsi,” our hard-earned tax dollars “buying millions of unwanted cola cans, all as a favor to the flailing soda industry, which just kept producing drinks no one wanted. As outrageous as such a government handout to the soda industry would be, that’s exactly what the [USDA] is doing for the…dairy industry.”

Source: Is Cheese Really Bad for You? | NutritionFacts.org

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The ACLU no longer even pretends to believe in civil liberties. In the late 1960s, the ACLU was a small but powerful liberal organization devoted to a civil libertarian agenda composed primarily of devotion to freedom of speech, free exercise of religion, and the rights of accused criminals.

Source: [David E. Bernstein] American Civil Liberties Union, RIP

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It’s been going hard “left” for a long time.  So sad, it’s a great loss to our “civil society”.

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Every educated person should understand basic supply and demand. If someone is in the business of laking laws that the rest of us must adhere to, they should ABSOLUTELY have a basic understanding of supply and demand. Sadly, economic ignorance is widespread among both the public and lawmakers.

Source: Ocasio-Cortez’s rise reveals rampant economic illiteracy in US

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It’s sad that some one so “uneducated” could be elected.

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There are people out there who we describe as anti-gun who may not want to take away your guns. They might want to make it virtually impossible for you to buy any more, sell yours, or leave them to your kids, but they don’t actually want to take them away from you.

Source: Maryland Shooting Illustrates What Will Happen If Guns Are Confiscated

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Interesting that NO ONE knew who sought the protective order.

I predict that police, or others, who seek to enforce such orders will come out on the losing end.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Robert Wenzel

Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: THE GALL: Bernanke Says the Fed Needs System to Bailout Shadow Banks

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No conflict of interest here!

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You have to hand it to James O’Keefe and his group of undercover journalists: Time and again they have caught Left-wing Democrats red-handed doing immoral, improper, and often illegal things. And now it’s Robert “Beto” O’Rourke ’s turn or, at least, some of his campaign staffers .

Source: Project Veritas uncovers staffers for Beto O’Rourke appearing to illegally spend campaign funds on caravan aliens

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The pair appears to be using “pre-paid credit cards” and therefore it would, according to an attorney with Project Veritas who viewed the footage, be likely the pair violated Federal Election Commission rules.

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Anyone surprised?

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ST. AUGSTINE, Fla. — Authorities say a man was found injured after breaking into a Florida zoo and jumping into a crocodile enclosure.

Source: Man breaks into crocodile enclosure, gets bitten

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Crocs must be getting old and slow?

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Zebra stands for Zero Evidence but Really Adamant.  Zebras are people who see things in black and white.  They are sure of their own opinions and they disdain information or science which undermines their beliefs.

Source: Don’t Be a Zebra, Be a Giraffe | Innovation Management

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A great addition to my vocabulary.

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Nobody at Georgetown Prep expects special pity in light of these experiences. Indeed, the problem is that almost any institution could be broadly caricatured in the underhanded way we have.

Source: Life at Georgetown Prep after the Kavanaugh smear machine rolled through our school | Fox News

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Sounds like the “press” slandered a good Catholic school?

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On Monday, Senator Elizabeth Warren released the results of a DNA test confirming what everyone already knew: The “vast majority” of her genetic makeup is European, but she may have a Native American ancestor in her distant past. That makes her, as Barack Obama once said in a different context, a “typical white person.”

Source: Elizabeth Warren, typical white person – The Boston Globe

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And, a typical politician. What an embarrassment!

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– Be living with myself and my two pets, a cat and a dog;- Dog barks at everything and cat never give a **** about anything or anyone;- Be asleep;- Hear my dog barking;- He shuts up after 30 seconds;- I try to fall asleep again;- After two minutes my dog start barking again like crazy;- I go down to tell him to shut up;- When I get down there is a freaking burglar on the bookshelf;- Ski mask and all;- On the floor lies a gun;- Beneath bookshelf is my dog barking and jumping up after him;- On the couch sits my cat looking like he found my tuna stash;- I call the police;- They arrest the guy;- I give my dog a sausage for being a good guard dog;- A couple of days later a guy calls from the station;- During the interrogation the burglar admitted that he broke into my house, kicked my cat and lured my dog into a closet;- My dog jumped him two minutes later;- The burglar didn’t know my dog can open doors;- He can’t;- My cat being “**** everyone else” – king of the house can though;- Taught himself so he can come and go as he pleases;- My cat must have become pissed and released my dog so he could attack the burglar;- MFW my cat is a ****;- MFW I added animal cruelty to the charges.

Source: 25+ Of The Most Unbelievably Smart Things Animals Have Done That Surprised People | Bored Panda

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I thought this was hysterical!

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Is my Facebook account impacted by this security issue?Based on what we’ve learned so far, your Facebook account has not been impacted by this security incident. If we find more Facebook accounts were impacted, we will reset their access tokens and notify those accounts.

Source: An important update about Facebook’s recent security incident | Facebook Help Center

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Seems worth it to check.

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“We can’t allow rules to apply to one business but not another when they essentially provide the same service,” said Assemblywoman Vainieri Huttle, D-Bergen.

Source: 3 New NJ Tax Hikes Start Now | Patch

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Why not?  And, why all these taxes (i.e., thefts)?  Cut expense and cut taxes!

Argh!

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Unlike here in the states or in Europe, the Icelanders told the bankers to piss off. Instead of bailing  them out, they were sent into bankruptcy. The results were a fast and sharp decline, followed by a rapid, post-crisis economic recovery — faster and stronger than any other country in the world.

Source: BBRG: Iceland Found Another Way to Clean Up a Financial Crisis – The Big Picture

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The bailout of banks creates what the economists call a “moral hazard” because they don’t learn from their mistakes.

That’s our big mistake.

Argh!

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After participating in a special promotion that would eliminate early termination fees on a lease, a Hyundai customer gets an unexpected bill.

Source: Man terminates car lease under special promotion. Then a collection agency came knocking. | NJ.com

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Absolutely unacceptable!

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Your phone number is increasingly tied to your online identity. You need to do everything possible to protect it.

Source: How to Protect Your Phone Against a SIM Swap Attack | WIRED

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Something else to try and prevent?

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S-1265/A-3634 (Turner, Cruz-Perez, Singer/Jasey, Pinkin) – Provides that no more than 120 credits will be required for baccalaureate degree awarded by a public institution and no more than 60 credits for associate degree.

Source: Murphy Signs 13 Bills Into Law, Makes Big School Security Push | Patch

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Why is the State Gooferment involved in this?

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Incentives are important!

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Unemployment compensation in labor disputesA bill sponsored by Senate Labor Committee Vice Chair Joseph F. Vitale and Sen. Vin Gopal to permit individuals who are unemployed because of a labor dispute to collect unemployment compensation under certain circumstances is now law after being signed by the governor.The new law, S-1046, will allow unemployment compensation during a labor dispute if it was caused by the failure of an employer to comply with an agreement or existing labor laws. It specifies that if a dispute is caused by any other reason, unemployment compensation would not be available for the first 30 days of unemployment.The bill outlines that a waiting period would not apply if the employer hires a permanent replacement worker and that any hired replacement workers would be presumed to be permanent unless the employer certifies in writing that the unemployed individual would be able to return to their position when the labor dispute ends.”It’s been long recognized that workers’ rights are human rights and that it is just and fair to uphold workers as they struggle to better their working conditions, compensation and benefits,” said Vitale, D-Middlesex. “This bill provides the framework needed to protect New Jersey’s workers from financial hardship while they exercise their right to fight for safe and fair working conditions.”

Source: Gov. Murphy Signs 19 Bills Into Law, Mandates School Recess In NJ | Patch

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“Workers’ Rights”?   What about employers’ rights?  And we will all pay in higher prices.  Argh!

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