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Jihadists kill dozens in north Iraq 'massacre': officials
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-Land of the Free
Four business owners squeezed by Operation Choke Point
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/17/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You ever notice how prosperous the United States has become in the Obama Administration. Business is booming. Jobs everywhere. People enjoying themselves. Everywhere you look people living the "good life".

Its enough to make you get a thrill up your leg.

Hope and Change have sure done it for all the poor and the minorities also. People are lining up to get "free stuff". Its practically a Paradise to anyone who just kicks back and bays at the Moon. You should try it. ( as soon as it gets dark in Ferguson)
Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 || 08/17/2014 4:45 Comments || Top||

#2  The Feds will also examine the personal accounts of the business owners as well.
Posted by: Airandee || 08/17/2014 7:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Brookman, a former police officer and Army veteran…dealing in vintage coins and selling firearms — were labeled “high risk” by federal bureaucrats as part of an Obama administration initiative called Operation Choke Point.

In that statement lies the problem. IMO is that Brookman got "profiled" as a white, possible right winger and a threat to the left.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/17/2014 7:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Appears the business owner in Ferguson, Mo. where the "Gentle Giant" lifted his cigars has experienced a bit of squeezing as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/17/2014 8:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Since the posting system won't take this link - dailysignal.com/2014/08/15 in HTML
here's the title -
Federal Agency Blames ‘Confusion’ for Choking Business Owners’ Access to Banks
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/17/2014 9:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Have the emails explaining the "confusion" already been deleted, or does that not happen until a subpoena is actually served?
Posted by: Matt || 08/17/2014 11:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Procopius2k, the URL you wanted is http://dailysignal.com/2014/08/15/federal-agency-blames-confusion-for-choking-business-owners-access-to-banks/
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2014 12:09 Comments || Top||

#8  Yes, I put that in the comment window via HTML, but for some reason the comment would disappear when I hit submit a couple of times and subsequently posted as shown. Thanks for getting the link on the board.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/17/2014 13:33 Comments || Top||

#9  use the linky symbol - like this
Posted by: Frank G || 08/17/2014 14:14 Comments || Top||

#10  The linky symbol is in the bottom row below the comment box, the one that looks to me like the Earth sitting on a pair of glasses -- but apparently they're meant to be two links in a chain. Having copied the URL, type the word or phrase you want to hold the link, highlight it/them, then click on the link icon and paste the URL into the box after erasing the placeholder "http://". Click OK, and that should do it. Standard HTML doesn't always work here in Rantburg, but many of us don't know it, and I, as least, have not yet used all the icons Fred provides.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/17/2014 16:09 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2014-08-17
  Jihadists kill dozens in north Iraq 'massacre': officials
Sat 2014-08-16
  Iraq Sunni Tribes Take Up Arms against Jihadists
Fri 2014-08-15
  ISIS jihadist poses with severed head as Caliphate seize more key towns
Thu 2014-08-14
  Boko Haram Appoints New Emir for Gwoza
Wed 2014-08-13
  Prince Saud: Israel has no right to self-defense
Tue 2014-08-12
  "Convert by noon today or we will kill all of you"
Mon 2014-08-11
  Iraq PM to sue president, security forces deploy across Baghdad
Sun 2014-08-10
  Al-Qaida Militants Kill 15 Yemeni Soldiers
Sat 2014-08-09
  Gazans back in UN schools as Israel resumes blitz
Fri 2014-08-08
  Widening of Zarb-i-Azb operation likely
Thu 2014-08-07
  Iraq forces, Peshmerga kill 240 ISIL terrorists
Wed 2014-08-06
  Iraq air force to back Kurds fighting Islamists
Tue 2014-08-05
  American Major General Killed in Shooting at Afghan Military Academy
Mon 2014-08-04
  Woman Kills Four Taliban Before Dying
Sun 2014-08-03
  Islamic State seize town of Sinjar, pushing out Kurds and sending Yazidis fleeing


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