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Like George said

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"Corporate Democrat" phrase created at the same place "Angry Mob" was...People keep falling for rightwing talking points. How sad.

Boris Johnson, the UK Foreign Secretary, is resigning. He has often been called the UK's Donald Trump.

Boris Johnson tells PM she is suffocating Brexit 'dream'
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-44770847

Awwwww. Poor widdle snowflake and mop top Boris. Can we get you a blankey?

Do not let the door hit you where the good lord split you, Boris.

BTW, May's coalition government may be headed to the bye thread as well ... we'll see.

Trump brings collapse everywhere he goes ... perhaps his trip to Britain will be met with the British government collapsing. As well as that awesome giant Baby Blimp.

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Lawmakers override LePage veto, endorse sweeping medical marijuana reforms

Maine state lawmakers overturned a gubernatorial veto to pass a sweeping medical marijuana reform bill on Monday.

The Maine House voted 119-23 and the Maine Senate voted 25-8 to override a veto by Gov. Paul LePage and adopt legislation that will allow patients to use marijuana if a doctor deems it medically beneficial, grant six new medical dispensary licenses, permit caregivers to expand their business operations and give the state and municipalities more power to regulate them.

https://www.pressherald.com/2018/07/09/ ... a-reforms/

Smucker is saying goodbye to Pillsbury and its doughboy

J.M. Smucker is offloading Pillsbury and other baking brands.
The company -- known for products like Smucker's jam, Jif peanut butter and Folgers coffee -- announced Monday that it would sell its baking business to private equity firm Brynwood Partners for $375 million.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/09/news/c ... index.html

Judge boots Green Party from Montana ballot in boost to Tester

A Montana judge has ordered state elections officials to remove the Green Party from the November ballot, a boost to Sen. Jon Tester (D) in his bid for reelection.

Helena District Court Judge James Reynolds invalidated some of the signatures Green Party backers submitted to the secretary of state’s office, either because the signatures did not match those on file, because they did not match a registered voter or because of improper signature-gathering practices.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/39 ... -to-tester

Top prosecutor on leave after offensive social media posts

A top prosecutor in California was placed on paid administrative leave after allegedly making disparaging and racially-charged social media posts, a spokesman for the San Bernardino County District Attorney's office said on Monday.

Deputy District Attorney Michael Selyem, the lead prosecutor in the San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office gang unit, is accused of making offensive posts on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter referencing Rep. Maxine Waters, Michelle Obama and Mexican immigrants, according to the San Bernardino Sun. The paper provided screen shots of some of the posts, which were made by accounts that have since been deleted.

https://www.kyma.com/news/politics/top- ... /765762526

I remember when the Green party in Montana threatened to overtake the Democratic party. They grew quickly, and fell on their face just as quickly. As I recall they either had or came close to having a majority on the Missoula city council. It was disastrous, but we got some new park benches, trees in pots along a street. A little major/highway though town rebuild project which should have taken six months became a ten year mess and cost at least four times as much, maybe ten times as much. In terms of impact on the town it cost a hundred times as much.



They were idiots.

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Socialism! That's that word that your politicians use that it's so nasty. Socialism. Other places just call it sharing. It's a good thing! You just share and give some to the less fortunate. -Fred Eaglesmith

FBI charges former Apple employee with stealing trade secrets from self-driving car project

An engineer who worked on Apple’s secretive autonomous car project allegedly stole trade secrets for a Chinese car startup backed by Alibaba, according to new charges filed by the FBI.

Xiaolang Zhang, who worked for Apple from December 2015 until May 2018, has been charged in federal court with stealing trade secrets, and faces 10 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. Zhang was arrested trying to leave the country this past weekend. The news was first reported by The Mercury News.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/10/1755 ... lf-driving

Uber executive resigns after race discrimination probe

A senior executive at the ride-hailing firm Uber has resigned, following an investigation into how she handled allegations of racial discrimination at the firm.

Liane Hornsey was head of Uber's human resources department, with the title of chief people officer.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44791153

Video captures gun falling from judge’s jacket at courthouse. Now he’s charged.

A veteran Cook County judge was hit with a misdemeanor gun charge after sheriff’s deputies saw him drop a pistol last week in the lobby of the county’s main criminal courthouse, authorities said.

Judge Joseph Claps, who has presided over felony criminal cases at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, was reassigned last week to “nonjudicial duties” pending a meeting Wednesday of the circuit court’s executive committee, a spokesman for Chief Judge Timothy Evans’ office said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... story.html

John Schnatter resigns from University of Louisville board of trustees

John Schnatter — founder of the Papa John's pizza empire — resigned Wednesday from the University of Louisville board of trustees after he admitted to using a racial slur during a business call.

Board chairman J. David Grissom announced Schnatter's resignation, which is effective immediately, late Wednesday afternoon.

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/n ... 777018002/

Papa John Gone!

John Schnatter, the founder of pizza chain Papa John’s, resigned as chairman of the company’s board Wednesday after reports surfaced that he used a racial slur in a conference call in May, the company announced.

Schnatter used the N-word in a call between Papa John’s executives and marketing agency Laundry Service, Forbes reported early Wednesday, citing a “source with knowledge of the event.”
HuffPost

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When you vote Left you vote right.

I sure hope he took that what he calls "pizza" with him.

Scuttlebutt is that in his rant about NFL ownership he referred to "niggers taking a knee."

And glen is trying to tell us how it's a different country from 100 years ago. IMHO with the majority of white christian Americans, it's the same country it was in 1850.

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Another arrogant prick. Good riddance. Never had their pizza, never will.

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bird's theorem-"we the people" are stupid.

"No one is so foolish as to choose war over peace. In peace sons bury their fathers, in war fathers bury their sons." - Herodotus

The new motto of the USA: Unum de multis. Out of one, many.

Officer resigns after not helping woman harassed for wearing a Puerto Rico flag shirt

(CNN)An Illinois police officer has resigned after being criticized for not intervening as a man harassed a woman for wearing a Puerto Rican flag shirt.

In the incident caught on video, the woman pleads for help as a man harasses her, saying her shirt is un-American. The officer appears to ignore the pleas.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/12/us/illin ... index.html

Legislative affairs director Marc Short and a key deputy to leave the White House

Two key officials in the White House's Office of Legislative Affairs will leave in July, just as the administration gears up to confirm President Donald Trump's second nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.

White House Legislative Director Marc Short will depart July 20, a White House official confirmed to CNBC. Another key official in the legislative affairs office, special assistant Andy Koenig, will also be leaving the White House. Koenig, whose departure has not been previously reported, will exit on Friday. He joined the White House in March of 2017.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/12/legisla ... house.html

Ugly incident...epitomizes white christian trumpers all across the fruited plain.

PS - these Cook County Forest Preserve District "officers" are basically security guards who's job it is to make sure drunk assholes aren't burning down the picnic shelters and the outhouses at the forest preserve. They are notorious for not doing too well with anything more complicated than that. But only a goddamn bigot would watch something like this going down and not step in. The asshole agreed with the drunk and he gets to keep his fucking job? Yikes.

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Alain Kaloyeros found guilty on all counts in 'Buffalo Billion' case

NEW YORK (NEWS10/AP) - A jury has found Alain Kaloyeros guilty on all counts in the 'Buffalo Billion' case.

Three other defendants were also found guilty on all counts.

https://www.news10.com/news/local-news/ ... 1298883459

MLB suspends Papa Slam promotion with Papa John's after founder's racial slur

Major League Baseball has indefinitely suspended its Papa Slam promotion with Papa John’s pizza, Yahoo Sports has confirmed.

The pizza chain is under scrutiny after founder John Schnatter admitted to and apologized for using the N-word in a May training session, an event that became public Wednesday. In the aftermath, Schnatter announced his resignation as the company’s chairman late Wednesday night. He previously resigned his seat on the board of trustees at the University of Louisville.

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-suspends-p ... 36135.html

Exxon quits ALEC

Oil giant ExxonMobil will not be renewing its membership to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative, corporate-backed lobbying organization known for giving lawmakers template legislation. ALEC also has a long history of pushing laws that would undermine environmental protections and clean energy.

It’s unclear whether climate change was the issue that pushed Exxon to leave ALEC. However, its decision to quit the council reportedly comes after a public spat over climate change policy last December.

https://thinkprogress.org/exxon-quits-a ... c0ce2dad1/

From the article, "The move by Exxon to not renew its membership — which expired in June — comes after years of climate science denial and misinformation by the company. In the past couple of years, however, the company has been publicly shifting its stance on climate change through statements defending the Paris climate agreement and the need for a carbon tax."

I've posted about this before. Exxon has a carbon sequestration project in the advanced pilot program stage of development and has invested a lot of money toward that goal.

In the past they did engage in climate science denial. I think it was a stalling tactic because they weren't at the stage to roll out their carbon sequestration program yet and they worried that adverse legislation which could be enacted which would come at an inconvenient time, and go in an inconvenient direction for their plans.

But now the progress on their program has proven viable and they're set to go into the development of a major full scale sequestration project which can make a difference.

Trump got elected and he's been a royal pain in the ass insofar as their goals are concerned. He's the guiding the Lemmings toward the cliff overlooking the sea.


We're long past the stage where reducing our carbon emissions a bit will do. I reduce it as much as I can, but still it is not enough. We were past that stage before the issue came into the public eye 20 years ago.

Shell, BP, and Conoco with Kinder Morgan doing the project management are all major partners with Exxon on this project as well.

Florida man arrested after trying to burn down condo to 'kill all the f------ Jews'

A 72-year-old Florida man was arrested Friday after he vowed to burn down his condo to kill “all the f---ing Jews.”

Walter Stolper was in the midst of being evicted from his Miami Beach condo this week when a resident complained about smelling gas in the building, CBS 4 Miami reported on Friday.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... o-kill-all

You know, the one thing I can say about the current revival of anti-Semitism, is we've finally moved beyond dog whistles and code words.

At least folks like Msr. Stolper are rather direct and clear over what they want ...

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Malaclypse the Younger