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A small town in Texas beats San Francisco on this key metric for startups – MarketWatch

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I bet I know at least partly why. West Texas Investors Club, is based in the area. Mike “Rooster” McConaughey and company have been creating all kinds of new startup jobs in a tiny area, so the percentage of jobs that are with startups is like double Silicon Valley…which has millions of jobs, compared to tiny Midland. Go Rooster and Butch!

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Government contractor arrested for stealing top secret data

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Secretly arrested, held for weeks. Nothing is more threatening than the government’s ability to do this shit. Not terrorists. Not criminals. Our own government being able to make you disappear for weeks while they secretly interrogate…or do whatever they want with…you. #HabeusCorpus #FifthAmendment #miranda

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Government contractor arrested for stealing top secret data

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Secretly arrested, held for weeks. Nothing is more threatening than the government’s ability to do this shit. Not terrorists. Not criminals. Our own government being able to make you disappear for weeks while they secretly interrogate…or do whatever they want with…you. #HabeusCorpus #FifthAmendment #miranda

http://wapo.st/2dFyDtS

1 pot bust every 49 seconds in US – FBI

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#News420 While medical marijuana may be legal in 25 states, new crime data shows that police made more than 600,000 marijuana-related arrests in 2015, according to the FBI.

A widely-cited 2013 ACLU report estimated that the total cost to taxpayers of marijuana possession enforcement in the U.S. was $3.6 billion. It also found that, while whites and blacks use marijuana at similar rates, black users were four times more likely than whites to be arrested for it.

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Another Deadly Drone Mistake: At What Point Do We Say Enough?

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We need a better approach. We’re coming up on the 15 year anniversary of our decent into middle eastern warfare hell, and we are arguably no safer than we were in 2001 for all of the killing. All the warfare and death is only creating more martyrs and anti-American sentiment. How long did it take for the war in Afghanistan to break the economy of the Soviet Union, leading to their withdrawal from the region and the eventual fall of the Soviet Union itself? Shall we continue the same course until the same happens to the United States? I have about 20 $Trillion$ reasons why we need to promptly withdraw from the middle east and begin funding the rebuilding American infrastructure…and real American values…not the bullshit values Trump is selling…instead.
THIS is not the America I grew up in. 15 years of undeclared war…history will surely write this as another Vietnam, because we are faring no better than we did in Vietnam. We went from “protecting the south vietnamese and the world from the threat of communism” to “hunting terrorists and making America safer”. Both lies achieving the same result: Defeat — Yes I said it. We’re LOSING in the Middle East, just like we LOST in Vietnam. But then, how can you expect to win when your mission is Bullshit?

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