Friday, July 20, 2018
House expresses support for ICE, denounces calls to abolish agency - Washington Times
House expresses support for ICE, denounces calls to abolish agency - Washington Times:
The GOP-controlled House passed a resolution Wednesday putting the chamber on record in supporting the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which, they say, has become a scapegoat for the left wing of the Democratic Party.
The non-binding resolution by Rep. Clay Higgins, Louisiana Republican, celebrated the work of an agency that still has the support of most Americans, but has recently come under heavy fire from Democrats over the role it plays in enforcing federal immigration laws.
The non-binding resolution by Rep. Clay Higgins, Louisiana Republican, celebrated the work of an agency that still has the support of most Americans, but has recently come under heavy fire from Democrats over the role it plays in enforcing federal immigration laws.
SF registers non-citizens to vote in school election | The Sacramento Bee
SF registers non-citizens to vote in school election | The Sacramento Bee:
"San Francisco began registering non-citizens, including undocumented immigrants, to register to vote Monday in the November election for the city school board, reported The San Francisco Chronicle.
The move follows passage of a 2016 ballot measure by San Francisco voters opening school elections to non-citizens who are over the age of 18, city residents and have children under age 19, reported the publication.
“This is no-brainer legislation,” Hillary Ronen, a San Francisco supervisor, told the Chronicle.
“Why would we not want our parents invested in the education of their children?”
“We want to give immigrants the right to vote,” Norman Yee, also a county supervisor, told KGO..."
Read on.
"San Francisco began registering non-citizens, including undocumented immigrants, to register to vote Monday in the November election for the city school board, reported The San Francisco Chronicle.The move follows passage of a 2016 ballot measure by San Francisco voters opening school elections to non-citizens who are over the age of 18, city residents and have children under age 19, reported the publication.
“This is no-brainer legislation,” Hillary Ronen, a San Francisco supervisor, told the Chronicle.
“Why would we not want our parents invested in the education of their children?”
“We want to give immigrants the right to vote,” Norman Yee, also a county supervisor, told KGO..."
Read on.
The Most Difficult Languages To Learn For English Speakers | Statista
• Chart: The Most Difficult Languages To Learn For English Speakers | Statista
"Some languages are more difficult to learn than others, especially for native English speakers.
...Category V is the most difficult for English speakers with Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean all taking at least 88 weeks.
Given that this list was formulated by the FSI, it is important to note that some language students or experts may disagree with the ranking.
"Some languages are more difficult to learn than others, especially for native English speakers.
...Category V is the most difficult for English speakers with Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean all taking at least 88 weeks.
Given that this list was formulated by the FSI, it is important to note that some language students or experts may disagree with the ranking.
Very worthy read-----Sultan Knish: Did the Russians Hack the DNC to Help the Left Take Over the Democrats?
Sultan Knish: Did the Russians Hack the DNC to Help the Left Take Over the Democrats?
"The Russia conspiracy theory hinges on the single creaky claim that the Democratic National Committee hacks were a Russian plot to elect Trump.
The theory and all its illegitimate stepchildren, including Robert Mueller and his infinitely expanding corps of prosecutors, lives or dies by the DNC hacks.
Trying to elect Trump by releasing damaging insider information from the DNC never made any sense.
The DNC was already a dysfunctional organization that was being run by the Clinton campaign. Undermining its leadership had little impact on the election, but a great deal on control of the DNC.
There has never been any evidence that the DNC hacks swung the election.
The vast majority of people never even heard of them.
Only a handful of political insiders and watchers, already deeply and unpersuadably committed to one side or another, could name the contents of a single email.
When you want to understand the motive of a crime, follow the money.
See who benefited from it, not casually, but deeply and significantly enough to justify the effort and risk of undertaking it.
The hacks targeted Clinton allies and sought to undermine their influence within the Democrat Party..."
Read on!
"The Russia conspiracy theory hinges on the single creaky claim that the Democratic National Committee hacks were a Russian plot to elect Trump.
The theory and all its illegitimate stepchildren, including Robert Mueller and his infinitely expanding corps of prosecutors, lives or dies by the DNC hacks.
Trying to elect Trump by releasing damaging insider information from the DNC never made any sense. The DNC was already a dysfunctional organization that was being run by the Clinton campaign. Undermining its leadership had little impact on the election, but a great deal on control of the DNC.
There has never been any evidence that the DNC hacks swung the election.
The vast majority of people never even heard of them.
Only a handful of political insiders and watchers, already deeply and unpersuadably committed to one side or another, could name the contents of a single email.
When you want to understand the motive of a crime, follow the money.
See who benefited from it, not casually, but deeply and significantly enough to justify the effort and risk of undertaking it.
The hacks targeted Clinton allies and sought to undermine their influence within the Democrat Party..."
Read on!
Chicago police union fights state's 'bizarre' proposed consent decree after Obama-era DOJ investigation | Fox News
Chicago police union fights state's 'bizarre' proposed consent decree after Obama-era DOJ investigation | Fox News:
The Chicago Fraternal Order of Police is fighting to get a pending consent decree it considers heavily anti-police tossed out before the document is enacted and potentially brings a dramatic overhaul to the city’s police policy.
“The consent decree will make the simplest police duties and actions rife with ambiguity, and set up officers for discipline no matter how professional or appropriate their conduct,” Chicago FOP Vice President Martin Preib wrote in a statement to Fox News.
“The consent decree will make the simplest police duties and actions rife with ambiguity, and set up officers for discipline no matter how professional or appropriate their conduct,” Chicago FOP Vice President Martin Preib wrote in a statement to Fox News.
More Americans are drinking themselves to death, study suggests - CBS News
More Americans are drinking themselves to death, study suggests - CBS News
"The Great Recession continues to take a grim toll:
Since 2009, a growing number of Americans have died from liver disease and liver cancer.
a...deaths from cirrhosis increased by 65 percent (from about 20,600 in 1999 to nearly 34,200 in 2016).
Deaths from liver cancer doubled (from more than 5,100 to nearly 11,100) during the same time period..."
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"The Great Recession continues to take a grim toll:
Since 2009, a growing number of Americans have died from liver disease and liver cancer.
The increase among 25- to 34-year-olds is especially troubling because the deaths are due to cirrhosis, a disease caused by excessive drinking, the authors of a new study said.
The researchers suspect the economic downturn in 2008 prompted people to comfort themselves with alcohol.
"These are deaths of despair," said lead researcher Dr. Elliot Tapper, an assistant professor of gastroenterology at the University of Michigan...
The researchers suspect the economic downturn in 2008 prompted people to comfort themselves with alcohol.
"These are deaths of despair," said lead researcher Dr. Elliot Tapper, an assistant professor of gastroenterology at the University of Michigan...
a...deaths from cirrhosis increased by 65 percent (from about 20,600 in 1999 to nearly 34,200 in 2016).
Deaths from liver cancer doubled (from more than 5,100 to nearly 11,100) during the same time period..."
Read all.
History for July 20
History for July 20 - On-This-Day.com
Francesco Petrarch 1304, Sir Edmund Hillary 1919 - Explorer, first to climb Mt. Everest, Mike Ilitch 1929 - Founder of Little Caesar's Pizza franchises, owner of Detroit Red Wings
Chuck Daly 1933, Diana Rigg 1938 - Actress (Medea, King Lear, The Avengers), Natalie Wood (Natasha Nikolaevna Gurdin) 1938 - Actress (From Here to Eternity, West Side Story, Rebel Without a Cause)
1881 - Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn, surrendered to federal troops. (Montana)
1942 - The first detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, (WACS) began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
1944 - An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed. The bomb exploded at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters. Hitler was only wounded.
1969 - Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon.
1976 - America's Viking I robot spacecraft made a successful landing on Mars.
1982 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan pulled the U.S. out of comprehensive test ban negotiations indefinitely.
1985 - Treasure hunters began raising $400 million in coins and silver from the Spanish galleon "Nuestra Senora de Atocha." The ship sank in 1622 40 miles of the coast of Key West, FL.
1998 - Russia won a $11.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help avert the devaluation of its currency.
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Sleeping Giants Founder Matt Rivitz Unmasked
Sleeping Giants Founder Matt Rivitz Unmasked:
The group’s modus operandi is consistent throughout its campaigns: use social media in cooperation with other well-funded left-wing groups like Media Matters for America and Think Progress to urge their followers to contact advertisers en masse – expressing their outrage that companies dare advertise with conservatives – until the companies relent and pull their ads. Equally consistent is their goal in organizing these social media mobs: pressure corporate America to blacklist conservative audiences.
The group’s modus operandi is consistent throughout its campaigns: use social media in cooperation with other well-funded left-wing groups like Media Matters for America and Think Progress to urge their followers to contact advertisers en masse – expressing their outrage that companies dare advertise with conservatives – until the companies relent and pull their ads. Equally consistent is their goal in organizing these social media mobs: pressure corporate America to blacklist conservative audiences.
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