Sanders: Will help blacks sell drugs

[Legion]

Channel 4 is a left of centre TV channel in the UK, but its fact checking service is remarkably unbiased, which is more than can be said for the likes of Snopes. Although the 13% figure is bandied about a lot, in truth it's nearer 7% as the vast majority of those homicides are black males between 15-35.

https://www.channel4.com/news/factch...s-commit-crime

Snopes has an interesting history.

David Mikkelson, co-founder of Snopes, faces a nasty legal dispute with former business associates over control of Snopes, the website that Mikkelson launched with a former wife in 1994 and which he now runs with his current wife from their house in Tacoma.

The dispute, which is playing out in the California courts, has generated claims and counterclaims of financial mismanagement, conspiracy and embezzlement. Mikkelson stands accused of, among other things, using company funds for “lavish” vacations.

It has been so costly that, by Mikkelson’s account, Snopes and its parent company might have gone under without help from GoFundMe campaigns, and Snopes hasn’t been able to operate at full capacity.

Officials with Proper Media, the San Diego-based web and advertising-services firm that worked for nearly two years to build up Snopes’ site traffic and ad revenues, say Mikkelson drained the company’s coffers. The dispute between Proper Media and Bardav arose “because there was a sense that David is siphoning money from the business to fund a fairly extravagant lifestyle,” said Stephen Fox, a Dallas-based attorney representing Proper Media.

Mikkelson claims Proper Media was no more than a vendor that Bardav hired in 2015 to modernize the Snopes website and boost advertising, in return for a percentage of monthly ad revenues.


The relationship was initially successful, and led to a tripling in Snopes’ advertising revenue. But it soured when Mikkelson began to “chafe” under criticism from Proper Media over his high salary and his spending.By 2017, Mikkelson says, he decided to terminate the agreement.

That was easier said than done, however, because by that time, Proper Media had become a part owner of Bardav. Mikkelson’s ex-wife, Barbara, who’d finalized her messy divorce from Mikkelson in 2015, sold her half interest in Bardav for $3.6 million to Proper Media.

Proper Media’s intent all along had been to acquire Snopes and add it to a “portfolio of media sites,” according to Proper Media's co-founder Drew Schoentrup. But Mikkelson was not been willing to sell his own half share in Bardav.

Mikkelson then tried to wrest control of the company by conspiring to persuade two of Proper Media’s minority stakeholders to join Bardav. With their shares, Fox said, Mikkelson believed he was in a position to run the company as he saw fit, without any oversight from anyone else.

Mikkelson spent nearly a hundred thousand dollars on prostitutes alone.

He's still using the website to beg for money from gullible liberals.


https://tinyurl.com/y7nkmgt6

[Nomad]

Really

Colorado governor won't rule out banning marijuana again. Here's why

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/20/us/co...ime/index.html




A review of the crime statistics cast doubt on proponents’ claim that legalization reduces violent crime; to the contrary, homicides have generally increased in pro-marijuana jurisdictions. In Denver, the homicide rate has steadily climbed from 36 in 2013 to a peak of 67 in 2018. Seattle had 19 homicides in 2013, then the rate increased every year except 2016, reaching a peak in 2018 of 31 cases. Even the District of Columbia has experienced a resurgence of violence — reaching 160 homicides in 2018 after seeing a historically low 116 homicide cases in 2017. Though too early in the year to make a meaningful projection, homicides spiked more than 100 percent in January 2019, as compared with January 2018.

The article and the video you linked do no make the same claim you do.

As far as law enforcement can tell, the 5% rise in crime is due to transients moving to Colorado because of the legal pot, not because of any direct correlation to the use of it.

But you being the typical right-wing lying troll that you, are didn't see fit to include that part, did you, volsSUCK?

Why do you Trumptards lie constantly?

[Legion]

Then we should make alcohol illegal too.

That's been tried. and it lead to a tremendous bonanza for organized crime. Where do you think the Kennedys got the money to buy their way into politics?

[AProudLefty]

That's been tried. and it lead to a tremendous bonanza for organized crime. Where do you think the Kennedys got the money to buy their way into politics?

Which exactly is my point.

[Legion]

Taxation is an unlawful burden. Gov. Control of anything is unlawful and lawless. Usurpation occurs by consent of a bunch of dead headed stoners.

OK, Gomie.

[Legion]

Which exactly is my point.

If it was, it was well disguised.

[Nomad]

A nation where everyone is stoned is an idiot nation indeed.the flakiness of a stoned people is unconsciouness of the people. Unconscious people are dead people. I am 180 degrees against federal legalization / control of weed . Nobody will be able to get more than a nickle bag of shake per month; or the deepstate's ashes. yes even weed... DEATHTOTHEDEEPSTATE!

What's your excuse, goofball?

[AProudLefty]

If it was, it was well disguised.

Actually it was kinda a sarcasm. Look at the post I replied to. Here's the quote.

“Pot driving fatalities in Colorado are up 151 percent!”

[Nomad]

Nobody who gets high should be allowed to vote.

You have your weed, we require your rights in exchange.

Nobody who believes in the bible should be allowed to vote.

You have your fairy tales and tax exempt churches, we require your rights in exchange.

Idiot.

[USFREEDOM911]

The article and the video you linked do no make the same claim you do.

As far as law enforcement can tell, the 5% rise in crime is due to transients moving to Colorado because of the legal pot, not because of any direct correlation to the use of it.

But you being the typical right-wing lying troll that you, are didn't see fit to include that part, did you, volsSUCK?

Why do you Trumptards lie constantly?

So the transients moved to Colorado, because of the legal pot; but this doesn't mean they're using and are just committing crimes, that have nothing to do with the legalized pot!!

[Legion]

Actually it was kinda a sarcasm. Look at the post I replied to. Here's the quote. “Pot driving fatalities in Colorado are up 151 percent!”

Yes, I saw that.

[Nomad]

You damnedascraps prey upon the simple, weak and retarded that you may deceive enslave and usurp over their souls. You are the embodiment of very evil.

You are a semi-literate goofball jackass.

I wouldn't trade places with you.

[Nomad]

So the transients moved to Colorado, because of the legal pot; but this doesn't mean they're using and are just committing crimes, that have nothing to do with the legalized pot!!

Exactly.

But volsSUCK implied something different.

He conveniently left out the part that suggests that the rise in crime is an indirect result of legalization.

[Nomad]

You are not excused. Guilty. You may publicly correct your testimonies or continue in your treasons. You do have the right to remain silent. I am innocent of your treasons and have warned you of judgement.

Go smoke some weed.

Straighten out your mind.

[USFREEDOM911]

Exactly.

But volsSUCK implied something different.

He conveniently left out the part that suggests that the rise in crime is an indirect result of legalization.

Then why did they move to where pot is legalized, if they're not using??