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Demovictory9's JournalI guess we will just never solve the mystery of who stole the cookie...
https://twitter.com/charliehtweets/status/1199682529755910145"I don't understand why you're walking around this neighborhood w/ a bunch a packages" to black UPS
https://twitter.com/_SJPeace_/status/1199750656564908032The woman has not immediately been identified, but said she lives in the area where the Peters, a seasonal worker, was delivering several postal items.
'I'm going to need someone's information to check up on you, because I don't understand why you're walking around this neighborhood with a bunch a packages,' the woman says at the beginning of the video.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7734061/White-woman-calls-police-black-UPS-man-delivering-packages-nervous.html
When Peters expresses that the woman is bothering him, she explains that the man's presence made her 'nervous.'
'I'm not bothering you,' she says. 'I want to complain to UPS that you look very suspicious and making me nervous.'
She then goes on to explain her apprehension, citing past break-ins that occurred in the area.
Peters then proceeds to turn the camera around and show what appears to be a company issued jacket with the official emblem attached.
Later, Peters also shows his work dolly carrying a pile of packages meant to be delivered.
At one point the woman retreats to her home, but reappears to allegedly take pictures of the man and record him.
In a separate clip, the woman says she has called the police as a second UPS worker comes into frame and begins speaking to the woman.
It is unclear what occurs after the video ends.
Since is initial posting, the video has been shared on Twitter and has quickly gone viral.
After Stephen F. Austin player beats Duke donations total 96k to help family rebuild from Hurricane
The biggest winner in the aftermath of Stephen F. Austin's shocking upset of No. 1 Duke might be the fundraising effort for the family of the player who hit the game-winning layup.
https://abc11.com/sports/after-he-beat-duke-donations-spiked-to-help-his-family-rebuild-from-dorian/5722404/
A two-month old GoFundMe page set up to help guard Nathan Bain's family rebuild from Hurricane Dorian damage had raised $46,186 , and counting, at 11:50 a.m. EST Wednesday - a massive spike from the roughly $2,000 it had raised before Tuesday night's game that became the talk of college basketball.
Bain's family in Freeport, Bahamas lost "nearly everything of value" and the church run by his father, a minister, sustained "extreme damage" in the Category 5 storm that hammered the islands, according to the website set up by the school two weeks after the storm. The initial goal was to raise $25,000.
"My family lost a whole lot this year, and I'm just playing this game for them," Bain said in a television interview following the game. "Just playing for my SFA family, my family back home in the Bahamas. I just want to make my country proud and my whole team is behind me. ... When everything happened earlier in the year, they had my back, and I just wanted to return the favor."
Bain scored on a breakaway layup just before the overtime buzzer to give the Nacogdoches, Texas-based school an 85-83 victory that sent shock waves through the sport, ending the Blue Devils' 150-game winning streak at Cameron Indoor Stadium against nonconference opponents - a run that extended nearly 20 years.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/sfa-athletics-fundraiser-for-nate-bain039s-family?utm_medium=email&utm_source=product&utm_campaign=p_email%2B4904-welcome-wp-v5
Trump Tax Records Reveal New Inconsistencies -- This Time for Trump Tower
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-trump-tower-tax-records-reveal-new-inconsistenciesTrump Tax Records Reveal New Inconsistencies — This Time for Trump Tower
Documents show the president’s company reported different numbers — higher ones to lenders, lower ones to tax officials — for Trump’s signature building. Last month, ProPublica revealed a similar pattern in two other Trump buildings.
Donald Trump’s business reported conflicting information about a key metric to New York City property tax officials and a lender who arranged financing for his signature building, Trump Tower in Manhattan, according to tax and loan documents obtained by ProPublica. The findings add a third major Trump property to two for which ProPublica revealed similar discrepancies last month.
In the latest case, the occupancy rate of the Trump Tower’s commercial space was listed, over three consecutive years, as 11, 16 and 16 percentage points higher in filings to a lender than in reports to city tax officials, records show.
For example, as of December 2011 and June 2012, respectively, Trump’s business told the lender that 99% and 98.7% of the tower’s commercial space was occupied, according to a prospectus for the loan. The figures were taken from “borrower financials,” the prospectus stated.
In tax filings, however, Trump’s business said the building’s occupancy was 83% in January 2012 and the same a year later. The 16 percentage point gap between the loan and tax filings is a “very significant difference,” said Susan Mancuso, an attorney who specializes in New York property tax.
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More than a dozen tax and finance experts, presented with ProPublica’s earlier findings, also said they could not decipher a reason for the differences. As with Trump Tower, the discrepancies made the two properties — a skyscraper located at 40 Wall Street and the Trump International Hotel and Tower near Columbus Circle — appear more profitable to the lender and less so to property tax officials.
Those discrepancies were “versions of fraud,” according to Nancy Wallace, a professor of finance and real estate at the Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkeley. The penalties for false filings can include fines or criminal charges.
Doctors Group Is Owned by a Private Equity Firm and Repeatedly Sued the Poor Until We Called Them
This Doctors Group Is Owned by a Private Equity Firm and Repeatedly Sued the Poor Until We Called Them
After the Blackstone Group acquired one of the nation’s largest physician staffing firms in 2017, low-income patients faced far more aggressive debt collection lawsuits. They only stopped after ProPublica and MLK50 asked about it.
Unsure what the bills were for, Brooks, a stay-at-home mother, said she ignored them until they were sent to collections. She made payment arrangements, but when she was late, she said the collection agency demanded $500, which she didn’t have.
In December, Southeastern sued her for more than $8,500 in unpaid bills — a third of what her husband makes per year as a cook.
The case against Brooks is one of more than 4,800 lawsuits Southeastern has filed against patients in Shelby County General Sessions Court since 2017. In the first six months of this year, Southeastern filed more lawsuits than local hospitals Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Baptist and Regional One combined.
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But late last week, faced with additional questions by the news organizations, the company reversed course, issuing a statement saying it would no longer sue patients and wouldn’t pursue the lawsuits it has already filed. “It’s difficult to ensure that only patients with a strong ability to pay are ultimately impacted, so we’ve decided to eliminate it,” a TeamHealth spokesman said.
TeamHealth also had policies in place that made it difficult for patients to access charity care, a form of financial assistance for low-income patients. Two former TeamHealth employees told MLK50 and ProPublica that they were instructed not to mention the term charity care when patients called with questions about their bills.
After the company was asked about this, TeamHealth president and chief executive officer Leif Murphy announced a new discount policy for patients without insurance.
“Effective December 1, 2019, we are implementing discount policies for our uninsured population to reduce the cost of care by as much 90%, and up to 100[%] when necessary. We will proactively include eligibility criteria in our invoices to help promote participation rather than force patients to seek assistance,” Murphy wrote in a letter to employees.
https://www.propublica.org/article/this-doctors-group-is-owned-by-a-private-equity-firm-and-repeatedly-sued-the-poor-until-we-called-them
trump brags about his "gorgeous chest", starts a "bull****" chant
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7728111/Trump-rally-liberals-trying-change-Thanksgiving.htmlTrump slammed the inquiry as’ bull****.’
'Bull****, bull****, bull****,' the crowd yelled back, offering a new chant to the president's previously raucous rallies which have included 'build the wall,' 'send them back,' and 'lock her up.'
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Trump said the doctors' praised his physique during his visit.
'The first thing they do is say, "Take off your shirt, sir, and show us that gorgeous chest. So we want to see. We've never seen a chest quite like it." No but seriously,' he told a Florida campaign rally.
No, the new CNN poll is not good news for Donald Trump on impeachment
No, the new CNN poll is not good news for Donald Trump on impeachment
A new CNN poll shows that half the country believes that President Donald Trump should be not only impeached by the House, but also removed from office by the Senate.
That result is being spun in some corners of the internet as great news for Trump, because that 50% number is unchanged from a CNN poll in mid-October, the conclusion being that the last 10 days of public impeachment hearings have not convinced more of the public that the President needs to go.
Except that we are missing the forest for the trees here: A majority of the country believes the current President of the United States should be impeached and removed from office!
A quick check of history shows how strange that is.
The peak of support for the impeachment and removal of then-President Bill Clinton in 1998 was 29% in CNN polling. That's the highest that number ever went, despite the fact that the House Republican majority did vote to impeach late that year!
Ditto impeachment sentiment for the two presidents between Clinton and Trump. In a 2006 CNN poll, 30% of the public wanted George W. Bush impeached and removed from office; in 2014, 33% said the same of Barack Obama. (Unlike Trump and Clinton, neither Bush nor Obama ever faced any sort of formal impeachment investigation or vote.)
What those historical numbers tell us is that for at least the last two decades, there is roughly 30% of the country that is ready to impeach a president (usually of the party to which they do not belong) at all times.
What makes the Trump number so remarkable, then, is that 20% more of the public is now convinced not only that he should be impeached but that he should be removed from office -- despite the fact that, unlike Clinton, Bush and Obama when those CNN polls were taken, Trump will face voters in a bid for a second term in less than a year's time.
Now, it is fair to say that Democrats -- if you gave them truth serum at the conclusion of last week's public impeachment hearings -- believed they had hit a home run, and that polling would reflect that. That polling so far hasn't changed all that much is worth noting.
So that point is right -- for now. But it's also worth noting that we are in the immediate aftermath of the hearings, and its findings may not have fully seeped into the public consciousness just yet. And more importantly, whether it's 50% or 51% or 55%, it's noteworthy that a majority of the public wants the President gone.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/26/politics/trump-cnn-impeachment-poll/index.html
woman killed by feral hogs in Texas
Authorities say feral hogs attacked and killed a woman outside a southeast Texas home where she worked as a caretaker. Christine Rollins cared for an elderly couple at their home in the small town of Anahuac. Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said Monday the 84-year-old woman she cared for was waiting for Rollins to arrive on Sunday. The woman went outside and found the 59-year-old Rollins in the front yard between her car and the front door, the AP reports. Hawthorne says Rollins had a severe head wound consistent with a fall and "numerous injuries that appear to be animal-related," including bites.
The coroner in neighboring Jefferson County ruled Monday that Rollins bled to death after an attack by feral hogs. The cause of death was listed as "exsanguination due to feral hog assault," 12 News reports. The sheriff says it was a "very rare" incident. "I don't want to go into detail," Hawthorne says, per KHOU. "But, in my 35 years, I will tell you it's one of the worst things I've ever seen." He says authorities have put out traps to try to catch some of the hogs, which have long been a problem in the area. The sheriff says the couple Rollins was caring for owns around 12 acres, and "the feral hogs have taken over some of their family land."
https://www.newser.com/story/283559/sheriff-texas-woman-killed-by-feral-hogs.html
Sheriff says wild hogs have been a problem in the area and a lot of neighbors have called complaining the animals were tearing up their front yards.
The sheriff’s office has even put out traps to see if they can trap one.
The sheriff says wild hogs are dangerous, travel in packs, but they're rampant in Texas. If folks do encounter one, it's best to stay away, and call Texas Wildlife Services at (979) 845-6201.
https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/local/caretaker-found-dead-may-have-been-attacked-by-wild-hogs-in-anahuac/502-5b79ae7b-0841-40a6-8fd7-0795303b4b27
vice squads still tormenting LGBT bars? decades after Stonewall?
This past Saturday, the NYPD Vice Squad was deployed into a Jackson Heights bar for a "routine check-in." One of these armed police officers donned a Trump lanyard.
As a result, a whole group in the Queens queer community was corralled and intimidated. We won't stand for this.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKQZruVWwAUrsgx?format=jpg&name=900x900
https://twitter.com/jessicaramos/status/1199111649170513921
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