NFL Hypocrisy: They Refuse to Ban Kneeling, But Banned All These Other Things

NFL Hypocrisy: They Refuse to Ban Kneeling, But Banned All These Other Things
"During the height of the national anthem protest controversy last autumn, statements like this one from Suzanne Nossel in The Washington Post were very much en vogue:
“The threat to free-speech rights from the White House is unmistakable. 
If NFL owners do as the president asks, no matter what justification they give, the bedrock principle that the government cannot abridge the free-speech rights of individuals will have been breached.”
...But that freedom of speech only applies to kneeling for the national anthem. 
Players who take a stand on the field on any other controversial (or not so controversial) topic are on their own. 
No cause célèbre. 
No op-eds in their defense. 
No implications that those who oppose what they’re doing are secretly bigots. 
Nothing.
If you don’t believe me, believe Robert Jackson of Melbourne, Florida. 
He’s the writer behind a letter to the editor that’s going viral on social media as another NFL season approaches...
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The Timeline of a Dossier - The Perfect Storm - Google Sheets

"via Extraneus - "Check out this spreadsheet from one of the commenters at the Apelbaum post. 
Over 20 tabs.

There are some serious sleuths out there."

The Timeline of a Dossier - The Perfect Storm - Google Sheets

Much more at link.

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Tax cuts only help the wealthy, right? American paychecks show otherwise | Fox News

Tax cuts only help the wealthy, right? American paychecks show otherwise | Fox News:

For the first time in American history, there are more jobs available than people looking for them. Rather than sitting on the sidelines, more workers are eagerly looking for work—which is readily available. A majority of the uptick in new job seekers is fueled by women, individuals with disabilities, and minorities, looking for their first job or reentering the workforce after a poor economy pushed them out many years ago.
Opponents of this conservative pro-growth agenda are mounting a campaign to roll back the tax cuts and reverse the great economic growth we are now seeing.

Obama Foundation’s monumental rip-off

Obama Foundation’s monumental rip-off
"The Obama Presidential Center planned for Chicago is nothing more than a personal monument to Barack Obama and a center for political indoctrination in his radical views. 
It serves no public purpose the way that a presidential library would.  
Obama’s presidential papers will not be housed there, and no scholars will be afforded the opportunity to explore the history of his presidency.

And, this is receiving vast public subsidies, despite assurances that it would be privately funded.  
Barack and Michelle Obama have been playing a major role in its design, in a fashion reminiscent of a dictator putting up monuments to himself in some third world country...

...In an article there, Mark Glennon challenges the vast subsidies that all American taxpayers will be affording this personal and political endeavor:

Illinois taxpayers will put up at least $174 million for roadway and transit reconfigurations needed to accommodate the Obama Center. If you don’t live in Illinois, you may be smirking—but you’ll be footing the bill, too. Eighty percent of such spending is generally reimbursed by the federal government, and Illinois officials confirmed to me that they expect to receive $139 million from Washington if they request it.

Bait and switch

Taxpayers were softened up by a bait and switch strategy..."
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History for August 13

History for August 13 - On-This-Day.com
Annie Oakley 1860, Bert Lahr 1895, Alfred Hitchcock 1899


Fidel Castro 1926 - Cuban leader, Don Ho 1930, Danny Bonaduce 1959 - Actor ("The Partridge Family")
 

1521 - Present day Mexico City was captured by Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez from the Aztec Indians.


1889 - A patent for a coin-operated telephone was issued to William Gray.


1932 - Adolf Hitler refused to take the post of vice-chancellor of Germany. He said he was going to hold out "for all or nothing."

1942 - Henry Ford unveiled his "Soybean Car." It was a plastic-bodied car that weighed about 1000 lbs. less than a steel car.


1942 - Walt Disney's "Bambi" opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, NY.


1959 - In New York, ground was broken on the $320 million Verrazano Narrows Bridge.

Twitter Bans Conservative Commentator Gavin McInnes | Breitbart

Twitter Bans Conservative Commentator Gavin McInnes | Breitbart:

Everywhere one looks, high-profile media figures are being cut off from their audiences without warning, either for discussing forbidden topics or embracing forbidden political positions.

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Woman protests sharing abuse-shelter room with man who says he’s female

Woman protests sharing abuse-shelter room with man who says he’s female
"A Canadian woman seeking help in an abuse shelter fled the facility after she was placed in a room for two nights with a man who says he’s a woman.
They were assigned to the double room by the managers of the Palmerston House, run by the Jean Tweed Center.
The National Post reported Kristi Hanna has filed a formal complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario after the Ontario Human Rights Legal Support Center warned that her description of the roommate as a “man” might be considered illegal discrimination.
Since fleeing the facility, she’s been sleeping on friends’ couches.
The two nights at the abuse shelter “were hell for me,” she said.
“It’s affecting everyone in the house. This can completely ruin your recovery, let alone your safety, let alone your life,” she told the Post.
The center is for women who are recovering addicts, and she claimed the staff “forced her” to share a small double room with a “pre-operative male-to-female transgender person.”...
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‘Diversity’ Looks a Lot Like Old-Fashioned Discrimination - WSJ

‘Diversity’ Looks a Lot Like Old-Fashioned Discrimination - WSJ-By Michael Blechman
"At 76 I am old enough to have experienced the old-fashioned kind of discrimination.
It happened in 1965, when I was in my second year at Harvard Law School.
...He told me that the most important thing for any lawyer was to be able to relate to the clients, and that of course it is always easiest for clients to relate to lawyers who are like themselves.
...Since my experience in 1965, all of the firms at which I had interviewed have overcome their prejudices and now hire and promote Jewish lawyers, as well as women, blacks, Hispanics and Asians...
Yet as the old kind of discrimination has died out, a new form has emerged—this time under the banner of “diversity.” 
It’s good to open opportunities to people who were previously excluded.
But promoting “diversity” by discriminating against nonfavored categories of people seems quite a different thing.
A continuing suit against my alma mater is a case in point.
...Furthermore, Harvard’s admissions team has allegedly justified its rejection of qualified Asian-American applicants by giving negative assessments of their character traits.
The result, according to the plaintiff, is a de facto quota for Asian-Americans—very much like the express quota of 20% imposed by Harvard on the number of Jews it would admit in the 1920s.
...Thus, the old liberal ideal of equality of opportunity has been replaced by a new goal, demographic proportionality, pursued at the cost of inequality of opportunity..."
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Woman protests sharing abuse-shelter room with man who says he’s female

Woman protests sharing abuse-shelter room with man who says he’s female:

A Canadian woman seeking help in an abuse shelter fled the facility after she was placed in a room for two nights with a man who says he’s a woman.

Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria Donations Never Given Out, Left Sitting in Parking Lot

Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria Donations Never Given Out, Left Sitting in Parking Lot
"At least 10 trailers filled food, water and medical supplies donated to victims of Hurricane Maria have been found sitting unattended in a parking lot outside a state elections office in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The containers had been broken open and were infested with rats, The New York Times reported.
A local radio station—Radio Isla—posted a video on Friday showing cases of a range of supplies, including food and water, covered in rat and lizard droppings.
The election commission office was being used a collection point for humanitarian supplies.
...Officials have now admitted the trailers have been sat there for more than a year, even though citizens are still struggling to recover..."
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The Rise Of Mass Knife Attacks Around The World Shows The Problem Isn't Guns. It's People | Zero Hedge

The Rise Of Mass Knife Attacks Around The World Shows The Problem Isn't Guns. It's People | Zero Hedge
"In China, where firearms are tightly restricted, it’s probably no surprise that those who want to hurt people found another way to do it. 
The dramatic rise of knife attacks around the world shows that the problem these days isn’t with guns. 
It’s with people.

Mass knife attacks have become so common over the years that a Chinese police department recently released a video to teach citizens how to defend themselves against knife-wielding assailants and it has gone viral, with 16 million views in just a few days. 

It has subtitles and some great advice that even I would be able to follow.

All humor aside, some folks in the US who want to do away with the Second Amendment are probably saying smugly, “Well, knife attacks are bad, but only people with GUNS can kill dozens of victims quickly.”

Those folks would be wrong.

For example…

• In 2014, 33 people were killed and 130 more were injured when a group of men coordinated a terror attack using knives at a train station in southwest China’s Yunnan Province.
• In 2015, fifty workers at a Chinese coal mine were killed in a coordinated knife attack. Fifty more workers were injured.
• In 2016, a facility for the disabled was attacked by a man with a knife. He killed 15 people and injured 45, then later surrendered himself to police.
• In 2017, 18 people walking down a city street were injured when a man attacked them with a knife
• 13 people were seriously injured by a knife-wielding assailant at a shopping mall in Beijing earlier this year. One woman died from her injuries.

This tells me that it isn’t really a problem with guns. 
It’s a problem with people..."
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Dem revolt against Pelosi grows, amid fears her shadow could cast pall over midterm hopes | Fox News

Dem revolt against Pelosi grows, amid fears her shadow could cast pall over midterm hopes | Fox News:

Democratic congressional candidates are revolting against Nancy Pelosi in even bigger numbers, amid fears that her grip on power could hurt the party's chances in the midterms and hold back its next generation of leaders.
The list of candidates refusing to support the California Democrat for speaker -- or refusing to state their position -- has steadily grown, though estimates vary.
The Washington Post counts at least 27 Democratic House candidates who won't commit support.

How @CNN and Other #FakeNews Media Are Now Working to Silence Dissent : The Other McCain

How @CNN and Other #FakeNews Media Are Now Working to Silence Dissent : The Other McCain
"Journalists or Activists?
CNN, Which Admitted They Were Responsible for Getting Alex Jones Deplatformed from YouTube, Apple, and FaceBook, Now Admits It’s Also Pressuring Twitter to Deplatform Him
This is shameful.
When I was working for The Washington Times, we did not seek to prevent the distribution of The Washington Post, nor during my years as a correspondent for The American Spectator have we ever sought to silence any competing publication.
Yet CNN and other so-called “mainstream” media operations are now actively engaged in a smear campaign intended to “de-platform” alternative voices online.

...And this is why I deplore the habit of people who, in opposing the suppression of someone like Alex Jones, feel an obligation to characterize him in a negative way, as if he is a special case in some way substantially different from those who are not (yet) de-platformed.
Is Alex Jones more “racist” than, say, Jordan Peterson or Charles Murray?
Is Alex Jones a “conspiracy theorist” in a way that, say, Jim Hoft or Pamela Geller are not?
Is Alex Jones more “controversial” than, say, Glenn Reynolds or Rush Limbaugh?
Do you see my point here?
...personally I have a hard time forgiving him for siccing a mob of his supporters on Michelle Malkin at the 2008 DNC in Denver.
Yet this is not why Alex Jones is being de-platformed now.
Rather, CNN and others on the Left are seeking to silence Alex Jones because he has been effective in calling attention to various facts that the Left desperately seeks to conceal from the general public. Please go read the entirely of the Ace of Spades post about this and ask yourself: “Who’s next?”