Walmart will discontinue the sale of products emblazoned with the phrase “All Lives Matter,” the retail giant announced Tuesday.
Walmart has ceased the sale of products featuring the phrase “indefinitely” amid public backlash, the company announced. The company alleged that the statement is insulting to the Black Lives Matter BLM movement that has gained prominence following the death of George Floyd. The items in question are sold by third parties, USA Today reported.
Amid new evidence of the direct involvement of President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in the prosecution of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the onetime national security adviser's lawyer is putting a spotlight on one of the likely motives.
Michigan superintendents: Skip standardized test this year amid coronavirus | Bridge Magazine
"Michigan students, homebound for months because of the worst pandemic in a century and facing a return to school with social distancing and possibly face masks, shouldn’t have to take standardized tests.
That was the message of State Superintendent Michael Rice, a bipartisan group of legislators and school leaders from across the state Thursday.
If tests are eliminated for the upcoming school year, students would not take the M-STEP, third-graders would not face the possibility of being held back in grade for poor reading scores on the M-STEP, and teachers would not have student test scores used as part of their annual performance reviews... Read all.
"Might as well get ready for the annual July 4th fireworks...no, not the ones in the sky, the usual flood of articles about how bad America is and why celebrating our freedom is some "ist" kind of bad.
I noticed some have posted the article how Mount Rushmore is really a celebration of white supremacy but the Salt Lake Tribune got a head start on Sunday with a gem headlined: "Being born someplace isn’t an accomplishment". It featured this wisdom:
"Beyond that, I’m not sure what “proud to be an American” even means. I don’t much care for its undeniable “We’re better than everyone else” ring. Try as I may, I am hard-pressed to see what makes American-ness intrinsically better than, say, Liechtensteiner-ness, Canadian-ness, or Basotho-ness. A human is a human, neither inferior nor superior, point of origin notwithstanding."
Like how one can count on falling leaves in Autumn, one can count on articles like this any time there is an opportunity to celebrate our nation."
Three events last week showed that Democrats do not want a mere transfer of power if they win the November election: they intend to revolutionize our entire system of government.
The first happened Wednesday, when Democrats blocked the Senate from considering a bill on police reform by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC).
‘The precinct is on fire’: What happened at Minneapolis’ 3rd Precinct – and what it means | MPR News "...It was 9:53 p.m. when a Minneapolis police officer sent out an urgent call to the other officers who remained in the 3rd Precinct. “We need to move. We need to move,” he shouted over the police radio. Protesters were breaking into the back of the station, and officers were preparing to take an unprecedented step in American policing: to abandon their precinct building. “The front has been breached,” an officer called over the radio just before they fled.
“They’re coming in. They’re coming in the back.”In a dramatic exit, a squad car rammed through a gate near the station in south Minneapolis, leading a motorcade racing from the parking lot.
Patrol officers in riot gear left on foot, hurrying past a jeering crowd hurling rocks and fireworks.
A student group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is calling for the school to remove its popular Abraham Lincoln statue, saying the president who is known as the "Great Emancipator" is a symbol of racism.
President Donald Trump on Saturday shared a series of images of individuals possibly responsible for vandalizing the Andrew Jackson statue in Lafayette Square.
The flyer urges Americans to contact the U.S. Park Police or the FBI if anyone has information on the people possibly involved with the crimes that occurred on June 22.
Mob Rule Imperils Western Civilization. It's Time for Courage, Leadership.
"The war on history has spread across our country and has even spilled over to other parts of the Western world. Now, on a daily basis, we see scenes of lawless mobs attacking and tearing down statues, and defacing monuments of every type—often as authorities stand idly by.
But this violence has hardly been reserved just for statues.
After toppling a statue of an abolitionist who gave his life to the cause as a member of the Union Army, a mob in Madison, Wisconsin, mercilessly beat a Wisconsin Democrat state senator who supported the protests. Mob rule is indeed coming to America. It must be stopped... Read all.
Kansas State football players announce boycott after student's Floyd tweet - Washington Times "MANHATTAN, Kan. - Kansas State football players say they will boycott all team activities until administrators create a policy that would allow a student to be expelled for “openly racist, threatening or disrespectful actions.”
The move that most players announced Saturday on social media follows a tweet by a student about the death of George Floyd that prompted outrage on campus.
“We are demanding that Kansas State University put a policy in place that allows a student to be dismissed for displaying openly racist, threatening or disrespectful actions toward a student or groups of students,” the players said in the letter they posted.
“We have resolved that we cannot play, practice or meet until these demands are heard and actions taken...
On Thursday, one month after Floyd, a Black man, died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on his neck for nearly eight minutes, student Jaden McNeil tweeted, “Congratulations to George Floyd on being drug free for an entire month!”... Read all.
Minneapolis City Council, which voted to disband police, hires private security on taxpayer dime - TheBlaze:
The Democrat-controlled Minneapolis City Council controversially voted to disband its police department in the wake of George Floyd's tragic death.
Now, three members of the city council are costing taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars per week because they have hired private security after receiving threats related to their support for defunding the Minneapolis Police Department.
Andrea Jenkins, Phillipe Cunningham, and Alondra Cano — who have been outspoken proponents of the radical law police reform measure — are costing city taxpayers $4,500 per day in private security fees,
Proposed budget agreement calls for $53 million in hazard pay to Michigan teachers | WEYI
LANSING, Mich. -- Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and House Speaker Lee Chatfield have come together in a proposed budget agreement which includes adjustments to the fiscal year 2020 budget and allocation of Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) dollars...
Read agreement:
History for June 30 - On-This-Day.com Lena Horne 1917 - Jazz singer, Susan Hayward 1919, Nancy Dussault 1936 Florence Ballard (The Supremes) 1943, Vincent D'Onofrio 1959 - Actor ("Law and Order: Criminal Intent"), Mike Tyson 1966 - Boxer 1953 - The first Corvette rolled off the Chevrolet assembly line in Flint, MI. It sold for $3,250. 1971 - The 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified when Ohio became the 38th state to approve it. The amendment lowered the minimum voting age to 18.
Nearly half of all COVID-19 deaths in the United States are connected to nursing homes and long-term care centers, according to a new report from the New York Times.
The analysis found that there were more than 54,000 residents and workers at nursing homes and long-term care centers who have died from coronavirus-related illnesses. There were over 282,000 people infected at 12,000 senior facilities across the country. COVID-19 cases at nursing homes made up only 11% of all COVID-19 cases, but accounted for approximately 43% of the total U.S. deaths.
Hostilities flare at Emancipation Memorial, black man slams protesters: 'Y’all don’t know the history of this statue' - TheBlaze:
Protesters gathered in Lincoln Park to demand the Emancipation Memorial be removed, but one black man stood up to the crowd and attempted to educate them about the historic statue.
Don Folden, a tour guide in D.C., gave a history lesson on the statue that shows Abraham Lincoln freeing a slave.
"A lot of people out here are talking about tearing down something that they don't even know the history of," Folden told the protesters assembled outside the fence protecting the statue. "Y'all don't even know the history of this statue, but you want to tear it down because you are offended."
Fans of Best of the Web Today--Michael Smith
"The Covid-19 pandemic is the perfect political weapon.
It has no cure, no vaccine and no real therapeutic regimen.
The only successful management tool currently available to the public at large is avoidance.
That being the case, it is a tool that can be turned on and off. It can be deemed selectively deadly...
The debates over wearing/not wearing a mask, whether a mask even provides a sufficient degree of safety and to whom it protects (the wearer or the public) has transitioned from a scientific discussion to one of moral dimensions - you are viewed as and active weapon if you do not wear a mask in public. If you don't wear a mask all the time, you are essentially a fully semi-automatic AR-15 carrying, high capacity magazine toting, body armor wearing, school shooting, serial killer wanna-be... Read all!
The headline to this article is not sensationalistic. It is not click bait. It is truth. Shocking truth. Yes, Instagram has designated videos of live worship on the streets to be in violation of community guidelines, calling the content "harmful." Let the outrage be felt and heard.
Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming:Roy W. Spencer"
This is how climate alarmism spreads...the latest news headline is at the top, while the rest is provided by me (and the WeatherBell.com graphic) — with Joe Bastardi and Anthony Watts."
The coffee chain joins big brands including Coca-Cola, Unilever, Hershey, Honda, Eddie Bauer, The North Face, Levi's, Ben & Jerry's and Verizon in taking various steps.
Much of the activity stems from the #StopHateForProfit campaign, which includes the NAACP, Anti-Defamation League, Sleeping Giants, Color of Change, Free Press and Common Sense.
"We will pause advertising on all social media platforms while we continue discussions internally, with our media partners and with civil rights organizations in the effort to stop the spread of hate speech," Starbucks said in a statement... Read all!!
This man apparently was fed up with CHAZ, the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle, and decided to take matters into his own hands. The unidentified man started ripping apart booths and tossing tables in CHAZ on June 25, the video shows. The man also can be heard lecturing bystanders, saying “this is not a Black movement.” CHAZ, also known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP), is located in downtown Seattle. Spanning six blocks, it is a self-proclaimed autonomous zone that organizers described as a cop-free area. Later in the video, an unidentified Black woman is heard telling CHAZ residents that “the Republican Party is the party of the Blacks.”
Like many people, my exasperated friend, and others I know, are mesmerized and frightened by daily news reports on the number of COVID-19 cases. You can cite all the data you want, such as these from the U.S.:
It’s good news all around. But you turn on the television and get a different message.
People worry about sending their children to school this fall.
Some display authoritarian views as they excuse politicians for destructive errors merely because they showed “strong leadership.”
If you’re wondering why so many people don’t see the world the way you do, engage them in conversation...
“Videos and photographs of the mob flooded social media as they shouted various messages throughout the residential neighborhood and tore down American flags,” the Daily Wire reported.
Human Events Managing Editor Ian Miles Cheong shared footage of protesters shouting “Eat the rich!”:
Later, he tweeted a video of protesters in Los Angeles shouting “No justice, no peace! No racist police!” as they tore down an American flag attached to a building:
In another video, the protesters in Beverly Hills shouted, “Abolish capitalism now!” while they continued their march through the neighborhood...
Surprise! Gun sales explode in Minnesota after riots, #
"Gee, whodathunkit?
Let’s allow the streets to burn, demand the dismantling of the police department, and then call concern over property crimes and assaults a symptom of “privilege.” Minnesotans have responded by rediscovering one of the core purposes of the Second Amendment — mainly first-time firearms buyers, local CBS affiliate WCCO reports.
“People are really scared,” one gun-store owner says, and they should be:
...Background checks in Minnesota spiked in March as COVID-19 hit the United States, with more than 96,000 filed — the most for any month in 20 years.
...What happens when civic authority retreats?
Those with the most credible threat of violence fill the vacuum.
That’s what happened in the riots themselves, and that’s what happened in Seattle, too... Read all.
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg rolled out new rules for the platform in a Facebook post Friday, most notably that the company would place labels on posts from public officials that violate user policies. The Facebook post stated that “problematic content” from public officials would include “a prompt to tell people that the content they’re sharing may violate [Facebook] policies.” Zuckerberg mentioned that “newsworthy” posts found in violation of user policies would not be removed, however, stating that “seeing speech from politicians is in the public interest.”
Biden calls protests 'right and necessary,' urges Americans to turn 'anguish into purpose'
"Former Vice President Joe Biden, the apparent Democratic presidential nominee, released a statement just after midnight Sunday morning, calling the protests “right and necessary” while urging peaceful demonstrations over violence. “I know that a grief that dark and deep may at times feel too heavy to bear,” he said in the statement. “I know. I also know that the only way to bear it is to turn all that anguish into purpose.”
He urged Americans to use their pain to make change.
“We are a nation in pain, but we must not allow this pain to destroy us,” he said."
History for June 29 - On-This-Day.com George W. Goethals 1858, William Mayo 1861, Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900 John Toland 1912, Slim Pickens 1919, Gary Busey 1944 1953 - The Federal Highway Act authorized the construction of 42,500 miles of freeway from coast to coast. 2007 - The first generation Apple iPhone went on sale.
On Friday night, a group of Black Lives Matter activists began shouting a political script in a Target store in Washington, D.C.
The verbal assault was led by a male with a bullhorn, who read the script in portions which were were then shouted back by the rest of the group.
Yet, pretending that these figures never existed, or eradicating the memory of the good they performed, will continue the march toward a false sense of place — one that is not based on what was, but on what the folks in power wish had been. That is a self-delusion that escapes reality. We must live in the real world where bad men did good things and good men did bad things — and intelligent people recognize this. You can escape reality. But you cannot escape the consequences of escaping reality. Those consequences will be the inevitable repetition of a past we should never forget.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 63% of American Adults still regard being a police officer as one of the most important jobs in our country today, down only slightly from 68% three years ago.
...Blacks (67%) are the most concerned about public safety where they live, compared to 63% of whites and 65% of other minority Americans..."
Fans of Best of the Web Today--Michael Smith "Law enforcement is necessary because crime exists. Crime was not created to give law enforcement officers a job. The situations of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks were significantly different but share an important commonality - both men had extensive criminal histories which clearly factored into the perspective of the police during the interaction with both men. Those histories informed the low enforcement officers on the scene that a negative reaction to detainment was at least possible, if not likely. Minneapolis is about to find out about predicates. They are about to find out that abolishing law enforcement officers does NOT eliminate crime. One thing of which you can be sure, any amount of funding that gets cut from the budget as they "defund the police" will never be returned to the taxpayer - more ineffective social programs are in the offing."
Walmart will discontinue the sale of products emblazoned with the phrase “All Lives Matter,” the retail giant announced Tuesday.
Michigan superintendents: Skip standardized test this year amid coronavirus | Bridge Magazine
Pollak: 3 Recent Signs Democrats Want a Socialist Revolution:
President Donald Trump on Saturday shared a series of images of individuals possibly responsible for vandalizing the Andrew Jackson statue in Lafayette Square.
Mob Rule Imperils Western Civilization. It's Time for Courage, Leadership.
Now, on a daily basis, we see scenes of lawless mobs attacking and tearing down statues, and defacing monuments of every type—often as authorities stand idly by.
"MANHATTAN, Kan. - Kansas State football players say they will boycott all team activities until administrators create a policy that would allow a student to be expelled for “openly racist, threatening or disrespectful actions.”
Nearly half of all COVID-19 deaths in the United States are connected to nursing homes and long-term care centers, according to a new report from the New York Times.
It can be deemed selectively deadly...
Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming:Roy W. Spencer"
Much of the activity stems from the #StopHateForProfit campaign, which includes the NAACP, Anti-Defamation League, Sleeping Giants, Color of Change, Free Press and Common Sense.
Surprise! Gun sales explode in Minnesota after riots, #
Biden calls protests 'right and necessary,' urges Americans to turn 'anguish into purpose'
