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Dial the tone down so we both can achieve most of our hopes.  Just a thought.

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Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an American musician and political activist. Nugent initially gained fame as the lead guitarist of the Amboy Dukes, a band formed in 1963 that played psychedelic rock and hard rock.

He once said Obama should "suck on my machine gun." Now he wants to tone down the "hateful rhetoric."

Following the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and other Republicans at a congressional baseball practice last week, Nugent announced that it was time to stop using incendiary rhetoric to demonize political opponents.

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After six days of deliberation, the seven men and five women jury were unable to render a unanimous verdict on any of the three counts of felony aggravated indecent assault with which Cosby had been charged. The jury told the judge that they were deadlocked, and he ordered them to continue deliberations.

During the week-long trial, Cosby, 79, never took the stand, but excerpts from his 2005 to 2006 depositions in a civil suit brought on by Constand were read aloud.

Montgomery County District Attorney describing Cosby as a calculating sexual predator, who not only drugged and assaulted Constand in 2004, but also recast the attack as consensual and romantic.

Constand, 44, testified for seven hours over the course of two days last week, telling the jury that in 2004, Cosby gave her a drug at his home in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, that rendered her unable to stop his alleged assaults.   Being Asexual sounds great.

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A Chinese regulator announced that it had taken disciplinary measures against the Anbang Insurance Group, a financial behemoth, for the improper sale of two investment products.

The come against a backdrop of broader worries about the country’s financial system, in addition to ones about the insurance industry.

 

The State Council, China’s cabinet, announced the dismissal of the chairman of the insurance regulatory commission, who has been the subject of a corruption investigation.

One, the Anbang Longevity No. 5 Annuity, had been presented to regulators as a long-term investment. But the commission said should have been subject to more stringent regulations on short- and medium-term investments.

The other banned investment product, Anbang Endowment Insurance, was put on the market without an actuary’s signature, the commission said.

China's Anbang Insurance Group set a record for the largest acquisition of a U.S. real estate asset by a Chinese buyer when acquired Waldorf Astoria.

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Transport chiefs in the Spanish capital, Madrid, have launched a campaign discouraging "manspreading" - men encroaching on other seats by sitting with their legs wide apart.

The aim of the new signs was to remind male travelers of the need to maintain civic behavior and to respect the space of everyone on board the bus and or the train. Just a thought.