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[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Falwell-says-wife-had-affair-family-faced-15510116.php

Trumps tweets age like a fine wine.

Edited August 25, 2020 by FrostyWinnipeg

[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://ktla.com/news/california/squaw-valley-ski-resort-to-change-its-name-citing-offensive-word/

[Mr Dee]

Sweet Carolina’s Nikki Haley...

I took a break when she uttered “ America is not a racist country”.

And she said it with a straight face.

Edited August 25, 2020 by Mr Dee

[Jpan85]

Nikki Haley from 2016

 

[FrostyWinnipeg]

 

[nate007]

13 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

 

That's a heck of a resignation package... all for making sure his wife and their friend were adhering to the Billy Graham rule...

[Mr Dee]

Yes, I’ve heard more than a few players from different teams have expressed these thoughts. 
One team can’t do it,

but a whole league boycotting would make the world notice. 
The league, the TV networks and the current WH admin would go trumpish (nuts)

[TrueBlue4ever]

3 hours ago, Mr Dee said:

Yes, I’ve heard more than a few players from different teams have expressed these thoughts. 
One team can’t do it,

but a whole league boycotting would make the world notice. 
The league, the TV networks and the current WH admin would go trumpish (nuts)

For about 5 minutes. Then everyone with a zero attention span (which Sean Hannity recently said is “everyone”) would move on, and the players would have no platform to continue. And Trump and his ilk would be happy because out of sight, out of mind.

Kaepernick did it right. That’s why his protest is still talked about. 

[Mr Dee]

 

Go for it!

Edited August 26, 2020 by Mr Dee

[Mr Dee]

Former One America News correspondent Emily Miller gets senior FDA post
Former reporter for right-wing network has no known health expertise, and has made inaccurate coronavirus claims.

👁‍🗨 She oughta fit right in...

[FrostyWinnipeg]

David Blaine nixed his plan to float over the Hudson River from New Jersey to New York City strapped to a bunch of helium balloons, blaming logistical challenges. Instead, he’ll attempt to perform the stunt in Arizona. https://nbcnews.to/2QF87Tj

[FrostyWinnipeg]

 

[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://abc7.com/pilot-landing-at-lax-reports-guy-in-jetpack-flying-near-plane/6398152/

[FrostyWinnipeg]

 

[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/03/jeep-grand-wagoneer-suv-to-top-100000-as-brands-luxury-flagship.html

[tacklewasher]

9 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/03/jeep-grand-wagoneer-suv-to-top-100000-as-brands-luxury-flagship.html

It's not a Wagoneer without the wood grain siding. Never will be.

[Mr Dee]

This is just ludicrous. While she’s giving her briefing they play a loop of Nancy Pelosi entering a hair salon without a mask...

Wow, they really got her on that one...

 

[FrostyWinnipeg]

Driver caught with DIY hand-drawn license plate

[FrostyWinnipeg]

 

[Mr Dee]

 

 

[Mr Dee]

A rarity indeed.

 

[Wideleft]

How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

September 11, 2020

 

Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon, is standing on the end of its landfill watching an avalanche of plastic trash pour out of a semitrailer: containers, bags, packaging, strawberry containers, yogurt cups.

None of this plastic will be turned into new plastic things. All of it is buried.

"To me that felt like it was a betrayal of the public trust," she said. "I had been lying to people ... unwittingly."

Rogue, like most recycling companies, had been sending plastic trash to China, but when China shut its doors two years ago, Leebrick scoured the U.S. for buyers. She could find only someone who wanted white milk jugs. She sends the soda bottles to the state.

But when Leebrick tried to tell people the truth about burying all the other plastic, she says people didn't want to hear it.

"I remember the first meeting where I actually told a city council that it was costing more to recycle than it was to dispose of the same material as garbage," she says, "and it was like heresy had been spoken in the room: You're lying. This is gold. We take the time to clean it, take the labels off, separate it and put it here. It's gold. This is valuable."

 

But it's not valuable, and it never has been. And what's more, the makers of plastic — the nation's largest oil and gas companies — have known this all along, even as they spent millions of dollars telling the American public the opposite.

For more:  https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled

[Wideleft]

QAnon Key Figure Revealed as Financial Information Security Analyst from New Jersey

Published: Sep 10, 2020 12:40:15 PM

A Logically investigation identifies a key QAnon figure as New Jersey resident Jason Gelinas. The investigation ties QAnon properties to a company owned by Gelinas, an information technology specialist who has held prominent positions at both Credit Suisse and Citigroup.

 

Ever since the shadowy figure known as Q made his first appearance on the 4chan imageboard in October of 2017, the author’s identity has remained a mystery. Since then, Q has posted thousands of ‘drops,’ converting legions of followers to the belief that Donald Trump is leading a global fight against a satanic cabal of child trafficking elites, commonly referred to in the QAnon world as the ‘Deep State’.

Over the years, Q’s posts would move from the 4chan forum to 8chan, and finally to its later iteration, 8kun. But these forums weren’t where most of Q’s followers would go to access the drops: most would find them neatly compiled on a site called QMap, now the main platform on which Q’s drops are published. For years it was believed that QMap was an endeavour that was independent of both the chan forums and the person or people posting Q’s drops, but recent discoveries concerning an IP address behind QMap raised questions as to whether Jim Watkins, the owner of 8chan and 8kun, an elusive figure in his own right, could also be Q. As some QAnon researchers have pointed out, however, the story of Q’s operations does not end with Jim Watkins.

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https://www.logically.ai/articles/qanon-key-figure-man-from-new-jersey

[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/like-an-experimental-concentration-camp-whistleblower-complaint-alleges-mass-hysterectomies-at-ice-detention-center/

[Rich]