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    Koko dead at 46

    The world famous gorilla Koko has passed away at 46. She was famous for her mastery of sign language and spear-headed conservation efforts to help the freeborn members of her species. There are literally thousands of hours of film of her life, and if you have never seen her interactions with...
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    mental disorder

    WHO declares compulsive video game playing a mental disorder. It is obviously true. You realize that this is a video game Walter?
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    Supreme court denies Trinity U discrimmination

    Trinity U will no longer be able to discriminate against LGTQ students as the Supreme Court votes 7-2 to disallow their rule that law students must sign a contract that says they will abstain from all sexual contact outside of heterosexual marriage. I am left to wonder who would ever even want...
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    Fed raises rates

    And signals two more increases ahead this year. So the long awaited reckoning is upon us. Credit cards morgages car loans are all going up. How high remainz to be seen. It will all allegedly depend on inflation - but a better way to think of it would be that rates will rise until enough people...
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    App to defeat facial recognition

    U of T researchers developing tool to jam facial recognition software | CBC News UofT scientist developing technology to defeat facial recognition. A lot of people are upset that all the pictures they have posted of themselves are in AI databases and allow them to be recognized now. By...
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    Us imposes steel/aluminum tariffs

    This is just the beginning. You can't lose a trillion dollars off of your tax base and not raise taxes somewhere else.
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    Open military to non citizens?

    Canada continues to struggle to recruit people into its armed forces. Why? Rather than answer that question the idea of recruiting non citizens into the forces is gaining some momentum. It works very well and many countries do it and always have. I was considering joining the Aussie air force...
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    NFL bans protest

    NFL owners voted en mass to make any player who is on the field have to stand for the national anthem and "show respect". If you can't do that you stay in the locker room. The rule is made in such a way that it does not have to be compliant with the players collective agreement. Of course...
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    No Texas school shooting thread?

    Are we that desensitized?
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    58 dead in Gaza

    Due to Hamas - according to Nikki Haley. Nothing to do with the embassy thing, which is a Trump Promise Fulfilled.
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    Notely receives 11 death threats

    CBC is reporting that Racheal Notely has received 11 death threats thus far in her tenure. Not from anti pipeline lefties. Just from normal Albertan's who don't appreciate having a woman in charge. We have no doubt a small number of these whack jobs right here on the Ignore List. They just...
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    Gibson guitar bankruptcy

    Gibson guitars is filing for bankruptcy protection in a deal to try and keep their guitar business going. Incredible that an iconic brand like this could be going down the drain but the fact is they have always been terrible at business. For instance just trying to find out about a Gibson guitar...
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    General Amnesty

    Coming soon, twit list amnesty. At some point in the near future i will uncheck everyone off of my ignore list, and begin anew the never-ending task of regulating the internet. If you are wondering why I never respond to you its probably because I never see anything you post. Check my profile...
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    It costs $3,900 to shoot an indian

    in Saskatchewan. $3,000 fine plus a $900 victim surcharge. Gerald Stanley to pay $3,900 and receive 10-year ban on gun ownership for improper firearm storage | CBC News Roughly the same as it costs to hunt a bear.
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    Kinder Morgan: the business case

    Scenario: you own a pipeline transporting X amount of bitumen to market. This stuff is not very popular or useful and not very many places can even handle it and you cannot get much of a price for it. So you decide that you will triple or quadruple your investment because by increasing the...
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    Humboldt Broncos bus crash

    14 dead 15 injured in crash of hockey team bus outside of Tisdale Sask. What a horrible story to wake up to. https://ca.gofundme.com/funds-for-humboldt-broncos here is the go fund me page to help these people out. Not a hockey fan but I am a parent and my kids do play sports and the last...
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    Tariffs are taxes

    How else do you think they can make up for the tax cut shortfall ? Every time an American gets his, for instance, brakes done its an extra 50 bucks straight into goverment hands. That is all there is to it. The rich have reduced the amount of money they are willing to put in, so the 99...
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    Clarence the Lion redux

    Poor Clarence. 13 year old lion in a national park in (I think ) Zimbabwe. Lured out of the park at night by bait and shot with an arrow by an American dentist who paid $50k ish for the thrill of it all. Of course the Lion didn't die, but ran away with the arrow in him and took about 10 hours to...
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    Phoenix boondoggle surpasses $1 billion.

    Cost of Phoenix federal payroll debacle surpasses $1B | CBC News Well that is quite a bot of money to spend in order to achieve a $70 million a year savings. Thanks cowboy!
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    Repeal the Second Ammendment

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/03/27/former-supreme-court-justice-john-paul-stevens-repeal-second-amendment/461672002/ Former Supreme Court Justice recommends repealing the 2nd Amendment. This is the future of gun control. You control the laws and let the brick...