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To: tejek who wrote (853415)	4/30/2015 7:45:42 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576882

>> Every major airline in this country has BK'd at least once; some multiple times. The airline business has a terrible history and, in general loses money due to a combination of insanely high capital expenditures and a number of horrible unions. But your statement is not correct. Southwest and Jetblue, IIRC, have not filed for bankruptcy.

To: tejek who wrote (853415)	4/30/2015 8:07:24 PM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB Taro Respond to of 1576882

Can a One-Percenter Lead the Democrats? ............................................................................ Townhall.com ^ \| April 30, 2015 \| Emmett Tyrrell WASHINGTON -- Does it strike you as an indication of a political party's robust vitality that in a country of more than 300 million people that party has just one likely nominee for president? Notwithstanding the fact that she has at her disposal nearly a billion dollars, she is 67 years old and stands accused of committing at least one felony. What country are we talking about, the old USSR? No, we are talking about the contemporary U.S. of A. This is the condition in which the Democratic Party now finds itself, and it calls itself the party of youthful...

To: tejek who wrote (853415)	4/30/2015 8:10:01 PM
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Ted Cruz on Baltimore riots: 'President Obama has turned us against each other' ........................................................................................ Fox News Latino ^ \| April 30, 2015 \| Elizabeth Llorente

To: tejek who wrote (853415)	4/30/2015 8:10:28 PM
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The Clinton Family’s Proud Tradition of Shamelessly Lying .................................................................... National Review ^ \| 4-30-15 \| Jim Geraghty

To: tejek who wrote (853415)	4/30/2015 8:13:41 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1576882

Journalists And Religion Are Under Worldwide Assault: Report ................................................................... The Daily Caller ^ \| 2015-04-30 \| Ivan Plis

To: tejek who wrote (853415)	4/30/2015 8:14:41 PM
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Obama Admin. Won’t Let States Ask for Proof of Citizenship … On Voter Registration Form! .................................................................................................... pjmedia.com \| april 30, 2015 \| Joseph Vanderhulst

To: tejek who wrote (853415)	4/30/2015 8:19:32 PM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576882

.Freddie Gray had an arrest record. He had been arrested a total of 22 times in Maryland, primarily for possession and distribution of illegal narcotics. Gray had been involved in 20 criminal court cases, five of which were still active at the time of his death.

To: tejek who wrote (853415)	4/30/2015 8:19:49 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1576882

Freddie Gray was armed. Police found him carrying a switchblade knife.

To: tejek who wrote (853415)	4/30/2015 8:24:30 PM
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Protestors in Philadelphia conducted a "Philly is Baltimore" demonstration at City Hall, drawing parallels between Gray's death and the death of a local man shot during a traffic stop in December. Evidence later indicated that Brandon Tate-Brown was reaching into his car for a loaded pistol when he was shot.

To: tejek who wrote (853415)	4/30/2015 8:24:56 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1576882

Baltimore fought to open the CVS that was burned down. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Black's administration "worked very hard" to get CVS pharmacy to open a store in the low-income neighborhood where the rioting occurred, she said. It was the only new store in the area where residents could fill prescriptions, but rioters looted merchandise and burned the pharmacy down.16.

To: tejek who wrote (853415)	4/30/2015 8:25:16 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1576882

Firefighters attempting to quell the blaze were hampered when someone slashed a hose that had been turned on the flames.

To: tejek who wrote (853415)	4/30/2015 8:25:40 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1576882

. Rioters also set fire to 144 vehicles, in addition to neighborhood businesses.

To: tejek who wrote (853415)	4/30/2015 8:28:27 PM
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To: tejek who wrote (853415)	5/1/2015 6:43:35 AM
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Pizza shop worker loves Seattle's new $15 minimum wage, until he finds out that it cost him his job - Red Alert Politics 8 redalert

To: tejek who wrote (853415)	5/1/2015 2:47:53 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576882

Every major airline in this country has BK'd at least once; some multiple times That is close to being true (only false as a categorical statement), airlines have over time come close to break even. (Slightly positive and close to break even over the long run, won't keep you out of bankruptcy if you have a lot of debt, don't have a lot of cash to fall back on, and have highly variable profitability, often losing a lot of money.) But the financial performance of long distance passenger railroads, or at least Amtrak which is the only long distance passenger line operating for decades, has been much worse. It always looses money good times or bad. That despite the fact that it doesn't face direct competition (unlike the airlines). And consequently most of our local and train transport is third world. Nonsense.