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  • Bank of America will no longer lend to companies that make ‘military-style’ weapons

    04/11/2018 5:48:16 AM PDT · by ptsal · 39 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | 04-10-2018 | Victor Morton
    Bank of America officially took sides in America’s gun debate Tuesday, announcing it would no longer make loans to companies that make “military-style” weapons. The second-biggest U.S. bank announced Tuesday that it would drop current loan-customers Vista Outdoors, Remington and Sturm Ruger, and blackball any other manufacturer of assault weapons. Bank of America Vice Chairman Anne Finucanetold Bloomberg TV on Tuesday her bank has told those companies “it’s not our intent to underwrite or finance military-style firearms.” “We have had intense conversations over the last few months,” Ms. Finucane told Bloomberg, a network founded by tycoon and gun-control-financier Michael R....
  • Conservatives circulate lists of Trump’s Alabama supporters to ‘blackball’

    03/21/2016 11:16:22 AM PDT · by RushIsMyTeddyBear · 48 replies
    Yellowhammer News ^ | 3/20/2016 | Cliff Sims
    WASHINGTON — Several conservative opinion leaders are circulating lists of prominent Donald J. Trump supporters, including some from Alabama, and vowing to “blackball” them from the conservative movement in the years to come.
  • LA 'black ball' reservoir rollout potential 'disaster' in the making, say experts

    08/19/2015 6:35:47 PM PDT · by Leaning Right · 52 replies
    Fox News ^ | August 19, 2015 | Hollie McKay
    LA's scheme to cover a reservoir under 96 million "shade balls" may not be all it is touted to be, experts told FoxNews.com, with some critics going so far as to refer to the plan as a "potential disaster." *snip* "Black spheres resting in the hot sun will form a thermal blanket speeding evaporation as well as providing a huge amount of new surface area for the hot water to breed bacteria," said Matt MacLeod, founder of the California biotech firm Modern Moon Farms. "Disaster. It’s going to be a bacterial nightmare.”
  • Jerry Doyle (Garabaldi from Babylon 5) talking on Michael Savage about being BLACKBALLED

    04/17/2003 5:33:50 PM PDT · by Beck_isright · 39 replies · 414+ views
    The Micahael Savage Show (with Rusty Humphreys tonight) | 04.17.03 | Self
    Rusty just had Jerry Doyle a "conservative" actor from Hollywood on. It was an interesting contrast to the whining from Susan "I love Stalin" Sarandon and Tim "Mass Murder by Commies is Great" Robbins. He said that after he ran for Congress in 2000 as a Republican, he was basically blackballed from getting any parts in Hollywood. To paraphrase "after the 2000 election I was about as busy as a deodorant salesman in Paris". I guess we need more actors to step forward about the policy of blackballing conservatives in Hollywood to demonstrate that the shrill whine from the left...