Posts on Sunday, September 1, 2019
A neighbor of the Odessa mass shooter says she reported him to police last month—after he threatened her with a rifle for leaving trash near his property—but cops couldn’t find his house on account of it having no GPS address or electricity. The woman told CNN that Seth Ator, 36, would often sit on top of his home and shoot animals at night, which he would then go and retrieve afterwards.(Snip) Ator would often sit and sleep inside his Toyota Camry with the heat on when the weather would get to cold, the woman said. He also had no running water.
Warning, Toxic Masculinity Alert! LOL
After a hurricane, lunch-buckets are the second-best ‘buckets’… believe me.So far over 3,000 power crews have arrived at the Daytona Intl Speedway staging area, with more en route. That’s a not-so-small army of over 16,000 lineman and electrical utility personnel staged and prepared to jump into action depending on the impact zone of Hurricane Dorian.(Photo) The power crews are from all over the United States and Canada, with more on the way to alternate staging areas.
HBO producer and creator of The Wire David Simon lashed out on Twitter asking God to wipe out President Donald Trump’s club at Mar-a-Lago with Hurricane Dorian.
“After the last three years, the work of a just and righteous God cannot be considered credible evidence of His goodness unless He picks all of Mar-a-lago up by the roots, sails it across half of Florida and heaves it on top of Doral and its every last bedbug,” David Simon wrote on Twitter. (Tweets) David Simon also created The Deuce which is in its final season on HBO. Simon reacted angrily to critics of his post,
TALLAHASSEE-Mandatory evacuation orders for parts of Palm Beach County and Martin County are being issued starting at 1 p.m., as a now-Category 5 Hurricane Dorian reached the Bahamas and nears Florida’s east coast, state emergency director Jared Moskowitz said Sunday morning.The orders for Zones A and B in both counties cover residents in low-lying areas or mobile housing and affect about 215,000 people in all. Shelters are opening in those counties at the same time, Moskowitz said.The evacuation zones, organized from A to E, correspond to storm surge risk based on the category strength of a hurricane. In Palm Beach County, one of the state’s most populous regions,
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Kenny Stills, who took serious issue with team owner Stephen Ross for his support of President Donald Trump, was traded on Saturday to the Houston Texans.Stills was part of a trade that occurred on the day NFL teams were required to reduce their rosters to a league-mandated 53 players. Star left tackle Laremy Tunsil, seen by many as the best player on the Dolphins, was also part of the deal. In exchange, Miami got two first-round draft picks, a second-round pick, offensive tackle Julién Davenport, and cornerback Johnson Bademosi, according to Fox News.Stills had criticized Ross for putting on a fundraiser for President Trump,
Fired FBI Director James Comey has become very emboldened since the Justice Department declined to prosecute him for leaking his memos and stealing government property.Comey attacked Trump Sunday morning from his Twitter account and asserted the President is a narcissist.“It’s Sunday morning. A devastating hurricane is approaching. A gunman just slaughtered innocents in Texas. But the President of the United States is wasting time airing personal grievances and live-Tweeting Fox. Narcissism is not leadership. America deserves better,” Comey said.(Tweet)
Paris—An Afghan man was in a “psychotic state” and on drugs during a stabbing in France that killed one person and injured eight others, but investigators haven’t found any terrorist ties, a regional prosecutor said Sunday. A psychiatric evaluation of the man in custody for Saturday’s attack revealed he was experiencing “paranoid delirium,” prosecutor Nicolas Jacquet said. The suspect reported he “heard voices” telling him to kill, according to Jacquet. A 19-year-old man died after being stabbed with a knife in the attack outside a subway station in the Lyon suburb of Villeurbanne. Passers-by surrounded and apprehended the assailant
Mayor Bill de Blasio has aggressively pushed a bike-friendly agenda, adding about 100 miles of dedicated lanes for cyclists amid a spike in rider collisions, but he’s done little to address the danger that bikers themselves pose.
Since 2011, bicyclists have injured more than 2,250 pedestrians — including at least seven who died — according to stats from the city Department of Transportation and published reports.
Injuries are up 12 percent this year, rising to 127 through June 30 from 113 over the same period in 2018, the NYPD says.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence pledged Sunday at a WWII memorial in Poland that that America will not abandon its allies and the superpower will always fight to protect their sovereignty and basic freedoms. Pence led a United States delegation to Poland for a tribute on the 80th anniversary of the German and Soviet Union attack after President Donald Trump decided to remain Washington as a catastrophic hurricane threatened to devastate parts of Florida.In a speech decrying the 'twisted' ideologies of Nazism and Communism that Trump had been slated to give, Pence said on behalf of the administration, 'America and Poland will continue to stand with all of our allies
Former FBI Director James B. Comey’s leaks, in addition to violating bureau policy, also could scare future witnesses away from cooperating in investigations because their confidential conversations could be exposed, a former high-ranking agent warns. Lew Schiliro, who used to run the bureau’s New York office, said there is an element of trust in any FBI investigation that agents will abide by the rules, keeping secret information secret and not deploying it for their own purposes. The Justice Department’s inspector general, in a report last week, found Mr. Comey broke both of those strictures. “The real harm by the release of internal memos
California's legal cannabis revenue isn’t growing as fast as many state officials anticipated, recent data suggests. And one industry expert believes that taxes and a still thriving black market for marijuana, are partly to blame. “The legal market is struggling with the set of regulatory rules and tax rates that are pretty onerous and make it fairly uncompetitive versus a thriving black market that’s had the whole industry for 60 years now,” Tom Adams, BDS Analytics managing director, told Yahoo Finance’s YFi PM in an interview this week. California’s marijuana excise tax produced $74.2 million in revenue for the second
Germany's far-right AfD party surged in elections in two ex-communist eastern states Sunday, reflecting anger over Chancellor Angela Merkel's migrant policy and a wealth gap 30 years after the Berlin Wall fell. The Alternative for Germany became the second-strongest party in regional parliaments in both Saxony and Brandenburg, the state which surrounds the capital Berlin, said public television exit polls. In Saxony, where the radical anti-Islam Pegida street movement was born, the AfD scored 28 percent, sharply up from 9.7 percent five years ago, broadcasters ARD and ZDF forecast. And it won 24 percent in Brandenburg state, double its result
[Effective 5:00pm] A Hurricane Warning is in effect for Florida’s east coast from Jupiter Inlet to the Volusia/Brevard County Line. Evacuations outlined below.
At 500 PM EDT (2100 UTC), the distinct eye of Hurricane Dorian was located near latitude 26.6 North, longitude 77.3 West. Dorian is moving toward the west near 5 mph (7 km/h). A slower westward to west-northwestward motions should continue for the next day or two, followed by a gradual turn toward the northwest.
Sometimes, married life seems to invite disagreements, disputes, arguments, the silent treatment, all sorts of personal discord and turmoil. At least that’s what a friend tells me. But, it turns out, the good news is that marriage also seems to help prevent dementia, that ominous omnibus diagnosis that covers memory loss, personality and behavioral changes and disorienting loss of reasoning skills. The bad news is that divorced individuals are more than twice as likely as marrieds to develop dementia, especially the men. This is no minor concern. Experts on aging estimate Text corrected.
Rep. Matt Schaefer (R-Tyler) delivered a blistering rebuke to Second Amendment-hating forces in the media and Democratic Party on Saturday in response to the tragedy in Odessa, Texas, saying that he will not cave and surrender the rights of law-abiding Americans. "'Do something!' is the statement we keep hearing," Schaefer began. "As an elected official with a vote in Austin, let me tell you what I am NOT going to do." (Tweet) "I am NOT going to use the evil acts of a handful of people to diminish the God-given rights of my fellow Texans. Period. None of these so-called gun-control solutions will work to stop a
Not content with his proposals for how Americans are to live their lives, Bernie Sanders now suggests he's open taxing meat as another means of virtue-signalling on global warming. According to Breitbart News:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) signaled that he is open to the possibility of a “meat tax” to help combat climate change, according to a video of a Q&A session at his town hall event in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Thursday. A town hall attendee asked the presidential candidate what he would do to address the meat industry’s impact on climate change and floated a “meat tax,” which Sanders did not immediately dismiss:
Here's how that went:
WATCH: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Shreds
‘Lack Of Transparency’ From DNC
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‘Lack Of Transparency’ From DNC
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On Wednesday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) appeared on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" to discuss not having made the cut for the next debate, which is scheduled for September 12.
CARLSON: Tell me if I'm misstating this. The Democratic Party is refusing to – the DNC is refusing to recognize as valid polls that puts you, that would qualify you for the next debate.
GABBARD: Oh, here's the situation. There's a whole bunch of different polls that have come out. The DNC has only recognized some of them as being qualifying polls for the debate.
So this tweet is going around Twitter today…“Your reminder that in Texas, you can vote with a gun permit but not a student ID.” The tweet included pictures of a Texas concealed carry ID and and a Texas University student ID.(Tweet/Photo) Democrats think this is a clever tweet.
Even Squad leader Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted it. (Tweet/Photo) o secure a concealed carry permit in the state of Texas you must be a “legal resident” in the state of Texas.To secure a school ID you can be any yahoo from any other state or country.
Climate Theology
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Back in May I wrote here about the newest celebrity among the climatistas, the Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg who was adorning the cover of Time magazine, giving TED talks, appearing at the World Economic Forum, and, soon, speaking at UN climate change summit of some kind. This, after sailing across the Atlantic to get to New York to avoid the carbon footprint of a plane flight, never mind that she made the voyage in a sailboat made largely from oil and constructed in an energy-intensive manufacturing process, and never mind that a crew of four is going to be flown over from Germany to sail the boat back,
At least 25 people were shot, seven fatally, during the first half of Labor Day Weekend in Democrat-controlled Chicago. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the fatalities began around 12:22 a.m. Saturday, when 42-year-old Willie Coker was shot to death while standing outside. The shooting occurred on South Burley Avenue. Roughly three hours later 18-year-old Angel Perez was shot and killed on West Le Moyne Street. A 26-year-old man and a 32-year-old man were shot to death about an hour later in the 7100 block of South Paulina Street. The Chicago Tribune reports that three other adults were wounded in the South Paulina shooting.
The family of a 17-month-old girl who was struck by a bullet fragment during the latest Texas mass shooting on Saturday says she will survive — but they’re hoping donations will help with her medical bills. Anderson Davis was grazed by shrapnel on the right side of her chest, according to a GoFundMe page set up on behalf of her family. More shrapnel knocked out her front teeth and tore a hole in her bottom lip and tongue, the page reveals. “She is alive,” family friend Haylee Wilkerson wrote in setting up the fundraiser. “When others today are not alive.
The assault rifle-toting madman who killed seven people and wounded more than 20 others in a roving Texas spree was identified Sunday as Seth Ator.Ator, a 36-year-old resident of Odessa, Texas, was first named as the assailant by CBS News, citing law-enforcement sources.When his gold Toyota pick-up truck was pulled over for a minor signaling infraction along a stretch of I-20 near Midland, Texas, on Saturday, Ator blasted approaching state troopers, seriously wounding one, authorities have said.He then peeled off, firing indiscriminately with his AR-style rifle out of the truck as he floored it towards Odessa, authorities said.
Catastrophic 185 MPH Hurricane
Dorian Makes Landfall in Bahamas –
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Dorian Makes Landfall in Bahamas –
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Florida has suspended all roadway tolls as intensely powerful Hurricane Dorian continues a slow westward track over the Bahamas. There is a great deal of uncertainty on the timing of any northward shift… Everyone on the east coast of Florida pay attention.
The eye-wall of category-five hurricane Dorian now carries 185 mph winds outward 45 miles from center. This presents a 90-mile-wide buzzsaw of devastating impact. It cannot be overstated how dangerous this storm has become. Very few structures can withstand winds of that scale for any prolonged duration of time. [Hurricane Center Update]
This is a ‘topography changing’ event.
A menacing Hurricane Dorian made landfall in the northern Bahamas midday Sunday after strengthening to a "catastrophic" Category 5 storm -- packing winds of 185 mph and the threat of torrential rain that could last for days as millions in the U.S. along the Southeast coast from Florida to North Carolina are keeping an eye on where the storm may head next.
The National Hurricane Center said in a 2 p.m. ET Sunday advisory that Dorian was a Category 5 storm with sustained winds of 185 mph and it was moving west at 7 mph, located directly over Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas. The storm made landfall
A ragtag team of wealthy fashion “elites” are reportedly shunning a nonprofit because of the organization’s ties to billionaire real estate developer and philanthropist Stephen M. Ross, who was outed last month as a backer of President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign. Lying in the Hudson Yards neighborhood of Manhattan is The Shed, a recently opened cultural center run by a nonprofit cultural organization of the same name. Three years ago the organization played a role in “forming a free, citywide residency program for young people.”
It’s rare that I get my news and / or commentary via social and cable TV media anymore. In excess of 95 percent of what appears on these sites and channels is a witches’ brew combining left-wing bias, post-colonialist theory, lies, damned lies and pure fabulation. Do you, like me, feel manipulated by cable TV and social media? Well, you are. It’s not your imagination. So let’s face it and deal with it. Rational human beings can no longer regard the vile output from today’s phony media mavens as “news.” So what is it, then? What’s their product? Answer: Pure entertainment.
Amid a diplomatic row with France, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has vowed to stop using French Bic pens to sign official documents.“A pen (of the Brazilian brand) Compactor and no more Bic, will work,” Bolsonaro said, according to AFP. He added that he would stop using Bic “because it is French."When asked if he was joking or serious, the Brazilian presidential office declined to comment.The conservative Bolsonaro, 64, has touted his use of Bic disposable pens to sign important documents as a show of austerity after his predecessors.
Apparently, the truth and the accuracy of details meant little to the so-called “powerhouse roundtable” on ABC’s This Week. During the latter half of the Sunday show, the panel defended former Vice President Joe Biden after The Washington Post exposed that a war story Biden had been telling for years was actually a tall tale. But it wasn’t entirely false. As The Post explained and ABC rationalized on Thursday, Biden created the story by conflating several real events into a, sort of, Frankenstein’s monster designed to tug on the heartstrings
London mayor Sadiq Khan has slammed Boris Johnson and Donald Trump as 'extreme right wing leaders' and claimed that the lessons of the Second World War are in 'danger of being forgotten' because of their rise in popularity. Khan labelled the US president 'the global poster-boy for white nationalism' and said that he inspired right wing leaders around the world, including the Prime Minister and Nigel Farage.The London mayor added that support for democracy in the western world is at a 'record low'.He also believes that Brexit Party leader Farage has pushed Johnson
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders previewed a plan to cancel about $81 billion worth of existing medical debt in the United States. The plan, which will be released in September, would cancel $81 billion in past-due medical debt, repeal sections of the 2005 bankruptcy reform bill and protect credit scores from being affected by medical debt, according to a press release obtained by The Hill on Saturday. “We will eliminate medical debt in this country. Just stop and think for a second — why should people be placed in financial duress? For what crime did you commit? You had a serious illness?
Joe Biden sincerely did not understand the hullabaloo about a Washington Post story detailing how the former Vice President had mangled facts about U.S. soldiers and his own role in honoring them. For the life of him, he told his staffers on Thursday between campaign stops in South Carolina, he could not process why journalists, let alone the public, saw this as a problem. He had meant well enough, Biden told aides. The campaign wouldn’t dignify it with a proper statement. When it came time to do two previously scheduled interviews on the road, Biden stood defiant against any suggestion
Police in Odessa, Texas, report that eight people were killed and nearly 20 were injured in a shooting that began after a traffic stop on Saturday afternoon. Three officers are said to be among the wounded. Police shot and killed the suspect. The eighth person died Sunday morning in Midland, Texas.UPDATE 9:30 a.m.: What we know… Two Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers attempted to stop a gold Honda for a traffic violation on Interstate Highway 20 near mile marker 131 at about 3 p.m. on Saturday. Before stopping for the troopers, the driver reportedly pointed a rifle toward his rear window striking the patrol vehicle
This is the left at work today in America — spewing hatred and racism while offering nothing. A black pastor is defending a hateful sign displayed outside his Birmingham, Alabama Baptist church saying, “God motivates me to take a stand for what’s right.” On one side, the church sign reads in bold letters: “A black vote for Trump is mental illness.” On the other side it reads, “A white vote for Trump is pure racism.” This unhinged leftist is a church pastor? Via the Washington Post: (Video)
Common gumption would dictate that colleges and universities foster environments that promote “free and open inquiry in all matters,” and guarantee “the broadest possible latitude to speak, write, listen, challenge, and learn.” Too many higher education administrators today, however, are afraid to endorse such principles, principles clearly articulated in what is known as the “Chicago Statement.” These administrators have allowed their institutions to become ideological gulags, where speech codes limit discourse, certain topics are off limits, and invited speakers must pass litmus tests. Entire academic disciplines, such as political science, education, sociology and others, are in pedagogical and ideological lockstep. It is
Some 80 years ago, on Aug. 23, 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, formally known as the "Treaty of non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics."The world was shocked — and terrified — by the agreement. Western democracies of the 1930s had counted on the huge resources of Communist Russia, and its hostility to the Nazis, to serve as a brake on Adolf Hitler’s Western ambitions. Great Britain and the other Western European democracies had assumed that the Nazis would never invade them as long as a hostile Soviet Union threatened the German rear.
On Tuesday, the Denver-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit ruled that the Colorado secretary of state violated the Constitution when he removed an Electoral College delegate who had chosen to vote for John Kasich instead of Hillary Clinton. The secretary of state nullified the vote of the delegate and installed a new delegate who voted in accordance with the popular vote of the state of Colorado.Michael Baca, a loyal Democratic voter, was elected as a delegate to the Electoral College in November 2016. By voting for Kasich instead of Hillary, Baca was attempting to be a part of a movement
Rock music isn't dead, but it's barely hanging on. This is true in at least two senses. Though popular music sales in general have plummeted since their peak around the turn of the millennium, certain genres continue to generate commercial excitement: pop, rap, hip-hop, country. But rock — amplified and often distorted electric guitars, bass, drums, melodic if frequently abrasive lead vocals, with songs usually penned exclusively by the members of the band
Alexandra Ocasio Cortez sees the “Z Generation” as the most historically cognizant of all time and they are also those who can and do “puncture more taboos” as compared to previous generations.
There are dozens of random on-street interviews both on and off campus where young people are asked simple questions about geography, history, politics, and current affairs. The product of most of these videos does not support AOC’s conclusion. A typical video asks the question – “Do you know where Mt. Rushmore is?”
Let’s see.
Where's the pope? He's stuck in a Vatican elevator. Thousands of people who were gathered in St. Peter's Square for the traditional Sunday on-the-dot-of-noon appearance by Pope Francis were watching for the window of the Apostolic Palace to be thrown open so they could listen to the pope's remarks and receive his blessing. But after seven minutes, people were looking at each other quizzically: no pope? Then Francis popped out and answered their question: "First of all I must excuse myself for being late. I was blocked in an elevator for 25 minutes."
The Humanitarian Hoax is a deliberate and deceitful tactic of presenting a destructive policy as altruistic. The humanitarian huckster presents himself as a compassionate advocate when in fact he is the disguised enemy.
Every natural force on Earth from fire to nuclear energy has the potential for construction or destruction. This inherent duality presents man with moral choices between construction and destruction. Traditional Judeo-Christian morality deems construction good and
A 17-year-old was arrested after 10 people were shot following a high school football game in Alabama, according to police. The victims in the shooting, which happened in Mobile, ranged in age from 15 to 18. They were rushed to area hospitals, officials said. No one died, according to authorities. Deangelo Parnell, 17, has been arrested and charged with nine counts of attempted murder, Mobile Police Department spokesman Laderrick Dubose told ABC News Saturday morning.
A man wearing a traditional Middle Eastern tunic told a barista at a Starbucks in Philadelphia his name was "Aziz." The employee wrote "ISIS" on his cups. Niquel Johnson told NBC News that he was dressed in a thobe — an ankle-length, long sleeve garment — when he ordered three drinks, one for himself and the others for two friends he was with at a nearby store. When he was asked by a barista for a name for his order, Johnson said he gave his Muslim name, "Aziz." "Abdul Aziz is the name I normally go by; it means servant of the
Angry Muslim American voters are tired of being ignored by the Democratic Party’s presidential candidates—even though they make up a fast-growing source of Democrat votes. Only two of the party’s White House contenders, Bernie Sanders and Julian Castro, agreed to speak at Saturday’s presidential forum at the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) which has drawn 30,000 attendees to Houston, Tex. this weekend.(Snip) “If they’re serious about courting the Muslim vote, they have to show up,” advocate Wa’el Alzayat told Politico Friday. “The entire system is rigged to keep our issues out of the spotlight
Hurricane Dorian has continued to build in strength over the past 12 hours and now has maximum sustained winds of 160 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).
This puts the storm in the highest category on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
Dorian will be capable of catastrophic damage as it tracks towards the Bahamas during Sunday and into the early hours of tomorrow.
The NHC has confirmed Dorian’s strength and direction:
NEW: #Dorian is now a category 5 #hurricane with 160 mph sustained winds. The eyewall of this catastrophic hurricane is about to hit the Abaco Islands with devastating winds.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has said that the rise of nationalist politics shows that lessons of the Second World War are being forgotten.
The Labour politician made the intervention in a column for The Observer penned as Europe commemorates the 80th anniversary of the start of the Second World War.
Mr Khan claimed that “for the first time in more than 70 years, it seems the lessons of the Second World War are genuinely at risk of being forgotten,” with far-right politicians bringing “appalling new parallels with the horrors of the past.”
He wrote: “A new wave of extremist far-right movements and political parties are winning
Move over, Nancy Pelosi. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the “squad” of freshmen women of color are emerging as new stars of Republican attacks against Democrats running for Congress.
The tone is being set from the top as President Donald Trump bashes the four squad members with a strategy Republicans are quick to mimic, modeled on his own rise to the White House. Trump set a new standard in 2016, making some Republicans uneasy, by taunting rivals and branding them with exaggerated nicknames intended to make them unelectable.
The GOP is embracing the tactic for 2020.
A first test will be a Sept. 10 special election in North Carolina,
There are two sets of documents that outline a very specific picture. Robert Mueller’s lead FBI Agent David Archey made sworn declarations to the court, without knowledge of FBI “whistleblower” information provided to DOJ Inspector General, Michael Horowitz.
There is a distinct conflict within the IG report on James Comey (and memos) [Available Here] and the David Archey declarations [Available Here]. However, beyond the conflict there’s an even more alarming picture of how Robert Mueller was deployed, when all the information is overlaid in a timeline. A very clear picture emerges; very clear.
In June 2017 CNN (and other media) filed a FOIA suit to gain the Comey
The wise and statesmanlike Democrat congresswoman from Minnesota, Ilhan Omar, demonstrating yet again her determination to protect and defend the citizens of the United States, has come up with a new idea to safeguard the security of American citizens: place the border and migration crisis in the hands of the resolutely fair and impartial United Nations. Yeah, that’ll work.
“We should do what any other country does by dealing with this situation in a serious way,” said Omar. “So we have to bring in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,
Chris Hayes of MSNBC apparently is a big fan of tautology, delivering one of the stupidest lines of recent cable news memory. His studio audience failed to understand the fatuousness of this claim about the Electoral College:
“If it wasn’t [sic] in the Constitution specifically for the presidency, it would be unconstitutional.” (snip) Now that the Electoral College no longer favors Democrats with the disintegration of the “Blue Wall” of states that Democrats were believed to have a lock on, they suddenly have embarked on a campaign to question its legitimacy.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Saturday called out participants in Boston's "Straight Pride Parade," saying it should have been called the “I-Struggle-With-Masculinity” parade.
"For men who are allegedly so 'proud' of being straight, they seem to show real incompetence at attracting women to their event," Ocasio-Cortez said in a tweet accompanied by a video showing marchers. "Seems more like a 'I-Struggle-With-Masculinity' parade to me."
"Hope they grow enough over the next year to support / join LGBTQ family next #Pride," the freshman lawmaker added.
Right to work is a very simple concept. It simply means that no worker should be compelled to join or pay dues to a union just to get or keep a job.
Twenty-seven states have now enacted and implemented right-to-work laws, with five joining in the last eight years.
And on June 27 of last year, the U.S Supreme Court handed down one of the most significant employee rights legal victories in the history of the right-to-work movement with the Janus decision, which ended the forced payment of union dues or fees for millions of government workers nationwide.
Unfortunately, there are more private sector American workers in the 23 non-right-to-work states and
Taliban strikes second city amid peace talks with US
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Taliban forces on Sunday killed security personnel in Afghanistan's Baghlan province, their second attack in two days amid ongoing peace talks with the U.S., according to The Associated Press.
The assault on Puli Khumri, the province’s capital, occurred hours after Zalmay Khalilzad, who is overseeing peace talks on behalf of the U.S., said that he had warned the Taliban during negotiations in Qatar that such attacks must end, the AP noted.
Provincial police chief Jawed Basharat’s office said firefights on the outskirts of the capital were ongoing. The Afghan interior ministry, meanwhile, reported that two security force personnel, three Taliban
Biden: Constitution Doesn't Say 'Anyone
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Can Own a Weapon,' Each Amendment
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Former Vice President Joe Biden, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said that U.S. Constitution does not allow "anyone" to own a weapon and does not give citizens the right to buy "any kind of weapon" they want because every amendment has limitations.
Biden positioned himself as the only Democratic candidate who took on the National Rifle Association nationally and won, citing the temporary assault weapons ban that was passed when former President Bill Clinton was in office. It expired under former President George W. Bush and Congress did not renew it when former President Barack Obama was in office.
Some health clinics that quit the federal family planning program over Trump anti-abortion policies are cutting staff, charging for services that had been free and making other austerity moves to avert a major hollowing out of reproductive health care for poor women.
At least four state health departments, hundreds of Planned Parenthood clinics and dozens of independent providers have withdrawn from the more than $250 million Title X program. Some have literally had to box up and return unused supplies bought with a government discount. They’re leaning on emergency funds, private donations and in some instances, state assistance.
America, the Racist
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Writing in the December 1991 issue of Academic Questions, Fred Siegel, associate professor of history at Cooper Union and a self-described liberal and Democrat, bemoaned a fashionable trend in history writing. The “New Historians,” he quipped, saw American life as “a story of defeat, despair, and domination. American history became a tragedy in three acts: what we did to the Indians, what we did to the African-Americans, and what we did to everyone else.”
That’s a pretty fair description of A People’s History of the United States. (Snip) As usual, capitalism is the culprit. Zinn plays fast and loose with numbers and sources in his effort to prove that capitalism
A Swedish municipality that took in one of the highest numbers of asylum seekers per population faces a crisis as natives move out and decimate the local tax base.
The municipality of Filipstad took in many asylum seekers during the migrant crisis of 2015 and now are facing increasing costs as unemployment among migrants has surged and financial assistance rates have tripled, broadcaster SVT reports.
Claes Hultgren, the local municipal manager, described the situation, saying of the migrant population: "In this group, unemployment and dependency are very high, while education levels are very low. This group runs the risk of ending in an eternal alienation that is already
Some parents hope their children will experience a challenging math and reading curriculum during the new academic year, but many school staff and administrators are focused on social and emotional learning, and how to create “trauma-sensitive” classrooms.
“We’re in an all-fired hurry because there’s this ‘trauma’ thing and we have to help our kids,” said Melissa Sadin, according to Education Week. Sadin is the director of the Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools Initiative, a national group that trains staff and administrators in schools and districts.
“Yes, but you have to do it correctly, and nobody learns it in a day,” she added.
Reaching for Enlightenment
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Explorer and aviator Richard E. Byrd noted how surprising it is, “approaching the final enlightenment, how little one really has to know or feel sure about...” [Alone, 1938].
Tardiness in discerning first and final things points to a common weakness among intellectuals, leaders and movers of society, namely a radical detachment from the spiritual side of human life, with a total disregard for the consequences in the here and now, let alone the before and hereafter. Compensating for that spiritual blindness with brain-powered “enlightenment” requires an impossible act: the substitution of self for God, an act that mostly leads to misery, not progress. For it feeds an egomania, especially
A tough week for NBC!
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It was a bad week for NBC, and that's a shame. In other words, I know a lot of good people who work at that network (or the Spanish Telemundo), and they are hardworking journalists.
So let's recall NBC's very bad week.
First, Lawrence O'Donnell got ahead of his source and presented a lie to a national audience. He said his source had told him that a Russian bigwig had cosigned a Trump loan at a German bank. Within 24 hours, that story and that source were out running for their lives. Why? The source had not seen any of the documents.
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on a major case on sex, gender, identity, and discrimination in October. It is titled R.G. and Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The nub of the case is as follows: Aimee Stephens worked for over five years as a funeral director at the R.G and G.R. Harris Funeral Homes. Stephens is a male but in 2013 claimed he is a woman and started surgeries to make himself look like a woman the next year. When Stephens informed the funeral home owner Thomas Rost about this, he fired Stephens.
Michael Flynn’s new attorney, Sidney Powell, filed a motion on Friday formally accusing the government of hiding information that a judge ordered to be released in early 2018.
Powell’s motion came the same day the parties filed a status report that laid bare the breakdown between the parties. Flynn worked in the Trump transition effort after the election and briefly served in his administration as national security advisor. Flynn’s guilty plea in November 2017 for lying to federal investigators appeared to be an early victory for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team. Judge Emmet Sullivan then ordered the special counsel’s office to produce “evidence [that] is material either to
I had hardly finished my lecture when the student came bounding down the auditorium’s stairs.
“You’re just like all the others,” he said, fuming. “You don’t really take religion seriously.”
This happened a few years ago, when I was teaching a college course on virtue and vice. I had just finished talking about the Catholic thinker Thomas Aquinas. My sin? According to my student, I had “intellectualized” Saint Thomas. I had described his philosophical sources and his historical context, but had said little about the philosopher’s fundamental project—one that had everything to do with the salvation of our souls.
Gays And Orthodoxy, Again
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I arrived in Austria close to midnight last night, logged on, and found this extraordinary letter from a reader, written in response to this article of mine about Orthodoxy and homosexuality. Actually, I had seen an earlier version of it last week. I asked him if he would rewrite it to obscure some details to protect his own identity, so I could publish it on this blog. He has done so. I will have a little commentary afterward. The letter begins:
I’m an American Orthodox living in a traditionally Orthodox country for a number of years now, and recently in the Orthodox internet world there
A "Straight Pride" parade in downtown Boston has attracted counterprotesters and a heavy police presence.
A large number of counterprotesters taunted marchers and chanted: "Alt right, get off our streets, no justice, no peace."
Counterprotesters outnumbered the parade participants, CNN affiliate WCVB reported. Boston's mayor also condemned the parade, and encouraged residents to attend block parties and other events that celebrated the city.
Thirty-four people were arrested at the parade, said Boston Police Officer James Moccia, a department spokesman.
Four officers also suffered non-life threatening injuries, he said.
The parade started around noon at Copley Square and moved down Boylston and Tremont streets, ending at City Hall Plaza.
Coming Legal Attractions
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In Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about his perceptions of America almost 200 years ago. Much of his observations have stood the test of time. Among them his views of Americans’ respect for the legal system: (Snip) And so it is, that two matters of public interest: The misuse of intelligence to affect the presidential election in Hillary Clinton’s favor and then to hamstring and oust Donald Trump and the enduring mysteries surrounding Jeffrey Epstein will test the legal system and the public’s continued willingness to respect it.
On fifth anniversary of Obama’s
tan suit, media keep lying that
his White House was scandal-free replies
tan suit, media keep lying that
his White House was scandal-free replies
Five years ago, former President Barack Obama revealed at a White House press briefing that he had no strategy to defeat the Islamic State.
Members of the press and a handful of right-wing and GOP cranks went wild ... for the president’s choice of attire. Obama attended the briefing wearing a baggy tan suit. It was all reporters and commentators could talk about.
Newsrooms have since rewritten the history of that 2014 incident. Every year on the anniversary of Obama debuting his tan suit, a number of journalists and commentators claim it was the president’s critics who overreacted. They claim it was conservatives, not the newsrooms that gushed like teenage fans,
No one should underestimate the significance of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ingenious measure for assuring the end of the crisis of immobilized government that has possessed the United Kingdom in the past three years. In 2016, 52% of a heavy turnout of British voters chose to leave the European Union.
The minority voted to remain — there was no option on the ballot for a compromise. The stark choice was selected by the prime minister at the time, David Cameron, because he was convinced that there was no chance that Britain, whatever its level of grumbling, would choose to “crash out” of the association with Europe
Joe Biden Needs An Intervention
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Joe Biden leads the Democrat pack and he’s a catastrophe, meaning that we have to weigh the human kindness that compels us to seek to end his humiliation against the practical reality that this doddering establishment weirdo will get squashed by Donald Trump like a dung beetle under a steamroller. Or even like an ex-Beatle under a steamroller – Biden is the Pete Best of American politics, the guy who never quite made it. Except Pete Best wasn’t a gropey, senile, corrupt Democrat plagiarist with delusions of adequacy.
And every day, [Pick A Nickname] Joe is getting worse.
Now, Joe used to have this kind of goofy charm.
The Washington Post reports that John Bolton, President Trump’s national security adviser, has been excluded from discussions about an Afghanistan “peace deal” between the U.S. and the Taliban. Bolton apparently doesn’t favor such a deal.
This is a president who rages against Fox News because people who appear on that network occasionally say things he doesn’t like hearing. So we shouldn’t be surprised that Trump doesn’t want to hear from Bolton on the subject of Afghanistan.
Still, it’s extraordinary that Bolton has been shut out to the point that, according to the Post, he wasn’t even allowed initially to have his own copy of the draft agreement
Biden Stands Alone
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ROCK HILL, S.C. — The crowd waiting to see former vice president Joe Biden speak at Clinton College, a historically black, Christian school just outside Charlotte, N.C., is not the crowd you might expect to find on a college campus. In other words, it's exactly the sort of crowd you'd expect to see at a Joe Biden campaign event.
According to the latest Quinnipiac poll, only 10 percent of Democratic voters below the age of 34 are backing Biden, putting him in a distant third behind Bernie Sanders's 31 percent and Elizabeth Warren's 25 percent. The former vice president has maintained his frontrunner status thanks
Reaching for Enlightenment
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Explorer and aviator Richard E. Byrd noted how surprising it is, “approaching the final enlightenment, how little one really has to know or feel sure about...” [Alone, 1938].
Tardiness in discerning first and final things points to a common weakness among intellectuals, leaders and movers of society, namely a radical detachment from the spiritual side of human life, with a total disregard for the consequences in the here and now, let alone the before and hereafter
For those of you who weren’t yet born on September 11, 2001, on that day Islamic jihadis killed nearly 3,000 Americans in attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. A fourth plane was set to murder even more people by crashing into another landmark in Washington, but it was downed in Pennsylvania by its passengers in order to thwart the jihadis’ plans. Even those who don’t remember the day have probably learned about it in school, but few people are aware of the fact that the surviving plotters have not yet been brought to trial.
That is now set to change on January 11, 2021, the day
A 19-year-old asylum-seeker was arrested in Villeurbanne, a suburb of Lyon, France, on Saturday after he allegedly killed a 19-year-old and wounded nine others at a subway stop.
The suspect, armed with a knife and a "skewer" of some sort, was arrested at the scene. He is reportedly a 33-year-old Afghan citizen who was hoping to gain asylum in France.
An eyewitness to the attack told France 24 that the attack was "frenzied":
“There was a man at the 57 (bus stop) who started striking out with a knife in all directions,” said a young girl whose top was stained with blood.
MSNBC and NY Times don’t let
facts get in way of anti-Trump
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facts get in way of anti-Trump
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MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell, who used to write for the fictional TV show “West Wing,” proved this week that he hasn’t lost his touch. He showed that he’s not limited to discussing real news – he can make it up and report his fictional version as if it were real.
Like much of what is wrong with the media, it began with a tweet. And then O’Donnell repeated his fictional claim on MSNBC Tuesday night.
In on-air conversation with Rachel Maddow, whose show immediately precedes his, O’Donnell said he had information about how years ago businessman Donald Trump was “able to obtain loans when no one else would loan him money.”
We saw the presumption of innocence under assault during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh and it is once again under assault with the consideration of so-called “red flag” laws after the mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso. These laws would allow authorities to disarm law-abiding citizens on the basis that it had been somehow determined that they are an “unstable threat” to themselves and to society.
A gunman in West Texas who went on a shooting spree, killing five people while randomly firing from his vehicle and then from a hijacked mail truck, was shot and killed by police in a gun battle in a movie theater parking lot, authorities said Saturday.
At least 21 people were injured, including three law enforcement officers, Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke said at a news conference. A hospital administrator said a child under the age of 2 was hurt and at least seven people were in critical condition.
Gerke identified the shooter as a white male in his 30s. His name and a motive were not given. The rampage began
WARSAW/GDANSK, Poland - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence are set to join leaders on Sunday who are commemorating 80 years since the start of World War Two in Poland, where the conflict is still a live political issue.Few places saw death and destruction on the scale of Poland. It lost about a fifth of its population, including the vast majority of its 3 million Jewish citizens.
After the war, its shattered capital of Warsaw had to rise again from ruins and Poland remained under Soviet domination until 1989. Ceremonies began at 4.30 a.m. (0230 GMT) in the small town of Wielun, site of
Donna Brazile, former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman and Fox News Channel contributor, offered a head-scratching defense on Friday of former Vice President Joe Biden badly mistelling an emotional story regarding the war in Afghanistan.Appearing on The Five, Brazile argued Biden’s latest blunder was caused by an overload of information.“Let’s not attribute this gaffe to age. There are a lot of people who are older than Joe Biden who still got it going on,” the longtime Democrat operative said.“Sometimes when you have a lot of information in your brain and you try to put it out your mouth, it comes across like, you are juggling the story,” she added.
Netflix seems to be on a mission lately to alienate conservative subscribers.On top of their producing partnership with the Obamas, the streaming giant is now reportedly producing a show about one of the least interesting topics in the world: Hillary Clinton’s lifeless attempts to win the presidency. (Photo) The show will be based on the book “Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns and One Intact Glass Ceiling,” which was authored by Amy Chozick. Netflix won the rights to the book in a pricey bidding war. Despite being based around Hillary Clinton, the story will reportedly not have the failed presidential candidate as its main character.
Slaying the imperial dragon
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America is trapped in a living nightmare dominated by the Imperial Dragon of Washington, D.C. But why not have a dream of mythic proportions? Let’s dream about slaying the dragon.
The administrative state, sometimes called the Deep State, undermines the country. D.C. is the hub of concentrated power used to control the country down to the most basic level. If citizens allow D.C. to determine the size of their commodes, they will allow most any kind of centralized control. In effect, D.C. is an Imperial City ruling by edict. This is supported by the fact that the richest five counties in the country are located around DC.
