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IronLionZion

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May 15, 2016

We need more pipelines like this

In Bruges, beer to flow underground



Bruges, Belgium (CNN)Under the streets of the medieval Belgian city of Bruges, a full two-mile pipeline is being built -- exclusively for beer.

The pipeline, which is expected to be completed this summer, will pump beer at a speed of 4,000 liters (about 1,057 gallons) an hour from De Halve Maan Brewery in the center of Brussels to its bottling plant outside the city.
"I think we are the very first ones to do this ever in the world," says Xavier Vanneste, whose family has run the brewery for 160 years.

Mainline beer?
It sounds like a beer-lover's dream -- beer on tap, 24 hours a day. Unsurprisingly, there's a lot of support around town for the project.
"We received a lot of people spontaneously offering us to pass alongside their house," he said. "They just had one condition -- they wanted a tap-in point."


Video at link: http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/15/travel/bruges-beer-pipeline/index.html

Looks like an interesting way to solve the logistical problem of large tanker trucks in a very old city with narrow cobblestone streets.


May 12, 2016

F**k whoever is in this bag



I know the feeling....this can happen in certain forums.

March 31, 2016

Police Say Teenage Girl Was Pepper Sprayed and Sexually Assaulted at Wisconsin Trump Rally




The Janesville Police Department says a 15-year-old girl was pepper sprayed and sexually assaulted by two men outside of a Donald Trump rally yesterday in Janesville, Wisconsin.

The incident took place in a crowd of approximately 1,000 people standing outside the Holiday Inn Express where the rally took place, the police department said in a statement.

A 15 year [sic] girl from Janesville was peppered sprayed in the crowd by a non-law enforcement person. A 19 year old woman from Madison received 2nd hand spray as well. Both individuals received medical attention at local hospitals. A male in the crown [sic] groped the 15 year girl, when she pushed him away; another person in the crown [sic] sprayed her. We are currently looking for two suspects, one for the sexual assault and one for the pepper spray.
The incident mentioned in the statement was apparently caught on camera. Clips show the teenage girl accusing a member of the crowd of groping her.

“You were touching my breast,” she says. “You fucking touched my chest.”

She shoves him and someone else sprays orange pepper spray directly in her face and into the eye of a girl standing next to her. As she pushes her way out of the crowd, people yell that she’s a “bitch” and a “goddamn communist nigger-lover.”


http://gawker.com/police-say-teenage-girl-was-pepper-sprayed-and-sexually-1767969494

Make America Hate Again!

Don't read the comments at the Gawker link or Youtube.
February 29, 2016

Trump's unwelcome support: White supremacists

(CNN)New Hampshire voters may be stunned to hear the latest robocall asking for their vote; it's from white nationalists with a simple, disturbing message.

"We don't need Muslims. We need smart, educated, white people," according to the male voice on the calls, which began Thursday night and urge voters in New Hampshire to vote for Donald Trump.

Three white nationalist leaders have banded together to form their own super PAC in support of Trump, even though Trump doesn't want their support.

The American National Super PAC is funding the robocall effort, which is organized under a separate group called the American Freedom Party.

On its website, the American Freedom Party says it "shares the customs and heritage of the European American people."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/politics/donald-trump-white-supremacists-new-hampshire/index.html



Trump really has a way of getting cockroaches to crawl out into the light.

February 24, 2016

Kurds rescue Swedish teen from ISIS-held territory in northern Iraq

Source: CNN

(CNN)Kurdish forces have rescued a 16-year-old Swedish girl from ISIS in northern Iraq, according to regional Kurdish authorities.

Kurdish special forces came to the aid of the girl, named Marlin Stivani Nivarlain, near the ISIS-held city of Mosul on Wednesday, said a statement by the Kurdistan Region Security Council. The statement did not say how long ISIS had held the girl.

The teen is from Boras, about 405 kilometers (250 miles) southwest of Stockholm, the Swedish capital. According to the statement from Kurdish authorities, Nivarlain "was misled by an ISIL member in Sweden to travel to Syria and later to Mosul." ISIL is another acronym for ISIS.

Members of her family, along with Swedish authorities, asked for Kurdish help in rescuing her, the statement said.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/23/middleeast/swedish-teen-freed-from-isis/index.html



How the hell does someone like this decide to go join ISIS? Don't they watch/read the news ever? This kind of stuff just blows my mind.

The Kurds seem like decent people.

There's video in the CNN link.

February 21, 2016

TYT: Same Old Warmongering, Pretty New Face



Pretty blonde advocating racial violence as a preemptive action and assuming that most Americans agree with her? Well of course she's trying to be like her heroes at Fox News!

February 15, 2016

Obama Compiles Shortlist Of Gay, Transsexual Abortion Doctors To Replace Scalia





WASHINGTON—Moving quickly to begin the process of filling the unexpected vacancy on the Supreme Court bench, President Obama spent much of the weekend compiling a shortlist of gay, transsexual abortion doctors to replace the late Antonin Scalia, White House sources confirmed Monday. “These are all exemplary candidates with strong homosexual values and proven records of performing partial-birth abortions, but am I missing anyone?” Obama reportedly asked himself while reviewing his list of queer, gender-nonconforming, feminist Planned Parenthood employees, all of whom were also said to be black immigrants. “I definitely have enough post-op transsexuals on the list, but it is a little light on pre-op candidates. And I should probably add a cop killer or two on here just to round out my options.” Sources later confirmed that Obama was attempting to rapidly narrow the list down to the single best nominee to submit to the Senate in hopes of wrapping up confirmation hearings before his choice had to leave to attend the Hajj pilgrimage.

http://www.theonion.com/article/obama-compiles-shortlist-gay-transsexual-abortion--52361



Seriously though, we should nominate someone who will really make GOP heads explode since they're going to block it no matter what.

February 15, 2016

Marco Rubio -Ted Cruz doesn't speak Spanish at CBS NEWS GOP DEBATE



These people are bizarre. They went into a Spanish language face off.

Native speakers, what do you think of Cruz's command of the language and pronunciation?

February 15, 2016

Bernie Sandwiches Won New Hampshire



One of my favorites!

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If an H-1b has an American accent, they are probably not an H-1b. It's race, not citizenship. Americans are more diverse than you think. Millions of US citizens don't look the way you might expect. This fact is very important and will help us win elections.
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