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Pelosi and the rest are CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: weakening protections against pollution, Max Cannon, Kayla Church, Michael Ellis, Nate Hewitt, driving species extinction, enacting millionaires ripping off you and I. And they Alyssa Metoyer, Ryan North, Mike Organisciak, destructive trade deals or “disappearing” want to continue doing so. I say if they Jen Sorensen scientific research paid for with our tax dollars. want Trump’s tax returns, well, let us see all SALES SALES DIRECTOR: Try Googling a term like “Trump attacks on of the hyenas’ tax returns. Imagine Maxine Tierna Unruh-Enos (ext. 248) [email protected] science.” Waters! What a joke. She’s living high off ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES: But a funny thing happened to POTUS’ the hog while there are 60,000 homeless Kittie Blackwell (ext. 224) [email protected] efforts to destroy the planet; the groups he John Hankinson (ext. 235) [email protected] living in the streets of her district. EVENT AND MARKETING COORDINATOR claims to be helping are rebelling. What they have managed to accomplish Madeline MacKenzie [email protected] Trump no doubt expected praise from the is convince schmucks like you that Trump is ADMINISTRATION automobile industry when he ditched the PUBLISHER: Obama administration’s requirement for an evil. Only weak-minded fools like you have Constance Moss (ext. 222) [email protected] fallen for it. CONTROLLER: average fleet mileage of 52.5 miles per gallon Courtney Foster (ext. 257) [email protected] by 2025. Nope. BMW, Ford, Honda and Fact: The economy is doing great, SYSTEMS MANAGER: Volkswagen got together with the State of unemployment down—the lowest in 50 Kyle Silfer (ext. 242) [email protected] WEB MONKEY: California and worked out a compromise deal years. Even grocery prices are lower. We John Millington (ext. 238) [email protected] requiring 51 mpg by 2026. So hooray for that finally have someone to defend us against OWNERS: extra 15 miles per gallon. Christopher Johnson and Daniel Scott countries gouging us to death. Companies ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE: Nor are American farmers and are hiring again. Fact: You libbies are the Courtney Foster (ext. 257) [email protected] manufacturers happy about Trump’s clumsy most intolerant, hateful un-Americans since CIRCULATION trade war with China. In response to Trump’s CIRCULATION MANAGER: “strategy of constant escalation and Woodrow Wilson! Chris Silva (ext. 252) [email protected] antagonism,” according to the National Stop the hate, pick up your flowers and CIRCULATION SPECIAL FORCES: Darrell Sparks [email protected] Farmers Union, China canceled all purchases snowflakes and stop the hate! Get over it, of US agricultural products. Now POTUS is crybaby—Hillary lost! 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Vice reports that Romanian WEIRD NEWS engineer Razvan Sabie and aerodynamicist Iosif Taposu say that the design of their Dateline: Virginia unique aircraft was not based on traditional A mysterious man wearing a TV on his head UFOs. They say they were attempting to left vintage TV sets on the porches of more mimic the back cross-section of a “Dolphin” than 50 homes in Virginia last week. NBC type airfoil. But the All-Directional Flying News reports that residents of Henrico Object, or ADIFO, looks very much like two County, Va., woke last Sunday to find the old pie tins glued together at the seams, TV sets on their porches. The unknown reminding those who have seen it of a classic prankster meticulously positioned each set so flying saucer straight out of a 1950s science they faced the houses’ front doors. The fiction movie. “The aerodynamics behind this homeowners were at a loss until doorbell aircraft is the result of more than two decades camera footage from one of the homes was of work and is very well reasoned in hundreds discovered that showed a man wearing a blue of pages and confirmed by computer jumpsuit and a hollowed-out TV over his simulations and wind tunnel tests,” Sabie told head placing an old-fashioned TV on a porch. reporters. The craft utilizes four ducted fans to Before leaving, the man can be seen waving at accomplish takeoffs, landing and “slow speed the camera. Police were alerted to the maneuvers.” Horizontal thrust is achieved incident, but officials say the sets don’t seem with the help of two jet engines located at the to have been left maliciously. Lt. Matt Pecka rear of the aircraft. Lateral thrust nozzles of the Henrico Police Department told mounted on the sides of the ADIFO allow it reporters that the incident appears to have to move along any lateral vector and rotate been isolated and did not threaten the health quickly while in flight.