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Black Guns Matter activist brings message to Detroit

Black Guns Matter founder Maj Toure to speak in Springfield; says urban populations lacking info on gun rights

Maj Toure Takes his Message of Gun Rights into the Heart of Boston

Rumbling Against Tyranny

'Black Guns Matter' Focuses On Firearms Education To Decrease Violence

What could possibly go wrong? 'Black Guns Matter' campaigner claims he will cut violence in inner cities like Chicago by arming residents with more LEGAL firearms

@MAJTOURE

Tesla Owner Who Sacrificed His Model S To Save Another Driver Gets Surprise From Elon Musk

Mmmh, that sweet good publicity. It's even better than bad publicity.

New diesel Chevy Cruze can go an estimated 702 miles on a single tank of fuel

The 52 mpg highway fuel economy numbers apply to the six-speed manual transmission diesel Cruze, which gets 30 mpg on city streets. The car also comes in a 9-speed automatic transmission version, which returns 47 mpg on the highway and 31 mpg in the city with start-stop technology regulating the engine.

Not to take potshots at the "other site" but damn.

I had mostly stopped checking it because the comment signal-to-noise ratio had become so bad. But now they're running these giant floating ads that cover half the comment-text so you can't actually read them anyway.

This one is a first for me. The IRS has never called me before - either for real, or as part of a scam.

"This phone call is to inform you that you have been named in a lawsuit by the Internal Revenue Service. If you wish to settle the claim against you before the suit is filed, you should call 6466326448. Thank you, the Internal Revenue Service."

I wish I had recorded it, to be sure that I got the phrasing precise, and the phone number accurate, but there it is, very close to what I heard. Note that neither my name, nor my wife's name was used - no names at all. Some mysterious "you". I used Google Talk to try calling the number, and got some tones, and a message that the number is not in service.

Funny that they didn't repeat the phone number - even scammers know that people don't always have a pen and paper in reach. I would think the scammers would want to make sure that the victim knows what number to call, so he can be properly scammed.

Ahhhh - looking at the telephone, I see that I got the number wrong - it is 6466321448. Dial that number, and I get a busy signal. I know it's the busy season, but, doesn't the IRS have like unlimited phone lines coming in? Gonna try a couple more times, just to get an idea how the scam works . . .

entering the number into Google leads me to this page, http://mobilecallertracker.com/phone-search/6466321 and 2/3 down the page, I find the number. So, the IRS callback number is a mobile phone? Wow - THAT is interesting!! I've heard that landlines are pretty much obsolete, but the IRS is all mobile now?

Well, still busy - I don't want to spend my day trying to scam a scammer. Maybe I'll try a couple more times later today.

Suggestions, anyone? I suppose I should inform my local sheriff's office of this call - maybe they will ask the local radio stations to warn their listeners - or something.

https://www.irs.gov/uac/stay-vigilant-against-bogus-irs-phone-calls-and-emails

https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report_scam.shtml

Online complaint made - I guess I've done my civic duty of the day.

Mod journal flamebait!!!

Why does the United States still let 12-year-olds get married?

This is an opinion piece in WaPo written by the founder of a nonprofit. archive.is link because I figured out WaPo has a 5 article/month limit paywall.

While most states set 18 as the minimum marriage age, exceptions in every state allow children younger than 18 to marry, typically with parental consent or judicial approval. How much younger? Laws in 27 states do not specify an age below which a child cannot marry.

Unchained At Last, a nonprofit I founded to help women resist or escape forced marriage in the United States, spent the past year collecting marriage license data from 2000 to 2010, the most recent year for which most states were able to provide information. We learned that in 38 states, more than 167,000 children — almost all of them girls, some as young 12 — were married during that period, mostly to men 18 or older. Twelve states and the District of Columbia were unable to provide information on how many children had married there in that decade. Based on the correlation we identified between state population and child marriage, we estimated that the total number of children wed in America between 2000 and 2010 was nearly 248,000.

Turns out R2D*2pa$tramimacaronomy is doing just fine stateside, for the moment...

Republicans vote to rebuke Elizabeth Warren, saying she impugned Sessions's character

Republican Senators Vote to Formally Silence Elizabeth Warren

Sen. McConnell Refuses to Let Sen. Warren Speak About Attorney General Nominee Sessions - YouTube

Rule XIX - Senate Rules Committee - US Senate

Micron 2017 Roadmap Detailed: 64-layer 3D NAND, GDDR6 Getting Closer, & CEO Retiring

Worth a look, but not a submission just yet.

Canada's Trudeau decides not to poke U.S. 'grizzly bear' for now

Just play it cool and use Canada's great strength: utter invisibility despite sharing a border with the United States.

Trump is reportedly going to summon two finalists for the position to the announcement, at 8 PM EST. There can only be one.

Neil Gorsuch.