>https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status
Twatter is saying Brian Cates has tweeted 100 times today
WTF
Maybe somebody ought to check on him
Put the Red Bull down, buddy, there ya go
This Tauscher woman has spent decades just grabbling for more titles and notches on her LinkedIn
Disgusting
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6976285/Judge-rules-Confederate-statues-Charlottesville-removed-without-state-approval.html
o7 to the judge who has common sense
This anon has ancestors who fought on both sides
The FACTS and TRUTH about that war are never going to go away.
It happened
Facts don't care about anyone's feelings
Robert E. Lee was a remarkable gentleman.
Confederate statues in Charlottesville are war memorials and can't be removed without state approval, rules Virginia judge - two years after Unite The Right rally where protester was killed
A circuit court judge in Charlottesville has ruled that statues of Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson are classified as 'memorials for war veterans'
Thus, they are protected under Virginia state law, which declares that such memorials cannot be 'removed, damaged or defaced' by local authorities
The judge will decide in September whether plans for their removal can go ahead to trial
In August 2017, Charlottesville was rocked by the violent Unite The Right rally, where white nationalists came together to defend the monuments
Confederate monuments have been removed from many other southern states, while others have been vandalized by protesters
Check this out:
Apparently Alphabet is having a very bad day on Wall Street
Q, is that you?
https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/04/30/why-alphabet-stock-was-slammed-tuesday.aspx
Daniel Sparks
(TMFDanielSparks)
Apr 30, 2019 at 12:32PM
What happened
Shares of Google parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) were hit hard Tuesday, falling as much as 8.7%. As of 11:20 a.m. EDT, the stock was down 8.5%.
The decline follows the online search giant's first-quarter results, which included sales that missed analysts' average forecast by about $1 billion.
So what
Alphabet reported first-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings per share of $36.34 billion and $11.90, respectively. On average, analysts were expecting revenue and adjusted earnings per share of $37.33 billion and $10.61.
While Alphabet's adjusted earnings per share for the period was notable, the rare revenue miss took the Street by surprise, especially since the miss was so substantial.
"In terms of our key revenue drivers, with respect to Sites revenues as we indicated last quarter, the timing of product changes in ads at times can have an impact on year-on-year growth rates," said Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat during the first-quarter earnings call, suggesting the timing of changes to its ad products may have had an adverse impact on the quarter's revenue growth rate.
Now what
Management also noted during the call that when it comes to revenue growth, it will always prioritize the long-term interest of users and advertisers. Its efforts to make product changes by improving the advertiser and user experience, therefore, could lead to more lumpiness in revenue growth in the future. But if revenue growth decelerates meaningfully and consistently in the coming quarters, investors may need to revisit their growth expectations for the company.
It's refreshing to see that somebody else gets it.
Both sides WERE right. Both sides WERE wrong.
It was the inevitable result of a very poorly planned economic system.
Had the Industrial Age taken off BEFORE everyone decided to make the south (with its warm climate and advantageous geography) a massive agricultural system, things would have been vastly different.
No need for cheap labor, no demand for slaves.
No war and economic prosperity, especially with the railroads of the Industrial Age available for distribution.
We'd have a completely different country today.
People, on average, tend to only get pissed off about simple concepts. It's all they can manage.
Complex ideas are too much for most.
Yeesh, this sounds dangerous. Armed conflict at the border. Hell naw.
https://twitter.com/JoshJPhilipp/status/1123277509750132743
https://www.theepochtimes.com/anti-fascist-plot-for-armed-conflict-at-the-border-allegedly-uncovered-by-fbi_2900593.html
A bizarre plot has been uncovered, involving a Mexican cartel, “anti-fascist” activists in the United States, “migrant” caravans, and an alleged cartel associate named “Cobra Commander.” As strange as it sounds though, the story appears rather serious. It involves a plot to start an armed conflict at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The case was uncovered in a federal investigation last year into groups and individuals behind the migrant caravans. Details were included in a Dec. 18, 2018, document from the FBI, which the Union-Tribune said it obtained.
It states part of the federal investigation “focused on an alleged plot by a drug cartel to sell guns to protesters,” and said “activists” had planned to buy guns from a “‘Mexico-based cartel associate known as ‘Cobra Commander,’ or Ivan Riebeling.”
After getting these guns, it says “The protesters wanted to ‘stage an armed rebellion at the border.'”
The document is not public, so the information cannot be independently verified. A phone call to the FBI press office to inquire was unanswered.
The Union-Tribune says the FBI report is unclassified, and was provided under the conditions that names of individuals in the report were not made public. The paper didn’t publish the report online because the investigation is ongoing.
It says the group behind the planned uprising was “anti-fascist activists,” an apparent reference to the anarchist-communist group Antifa—given a key individual it mentions. Antifa is classified as a domestic terrorist group and was being investigated by the FBI in 2017. The group has various branches, and carries out violent attacks for political intimidation.
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