Sunday, May 12, 2019
Pentagon says it'll send ship, missile battery to Middle East to deter Iran | Fox News
Pentagon says it'll send ship, missile battery to Middle East to deter Iran | Fox News:
The Pentagon announced plans Friday to send a U.S. ship and a Patriot missile battery to the Middle East in an effort to deter actions from Iran.
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan gave the green light to move the USS Arlington and the Patriot battery, according to a statement. The latter is "a long-range, all-weather air defense system to counter tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and advanced aircraft," the Pentagon said.
The Pentagon announced plans Friday to send a U.S. ship and a Patriot missile battery to the Middle East in an effort to deter actions from Iran.
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan gave the green light to move the USS Arlington and the Patriot battery, according to a statement. The latter is "a long-range, all-weather air defense system to counter tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and advanced aircraft," the Pentagon said.
Maybe It's Time To Cut The Federal Government In Half
Maybe It's Time To Cut The Federal Government In Half:
"I think the time is coming for an idea that is so old that it is new again: cutting the Federal government in half.
The idea is: cancel all Federal welfare-type programs, including all means-tested welfare programs (apparently there are over 150 of them), all healthcare-related programs including Medicare and Medicaid, all education-related, arts-related and housing-related programs, and anything else of this sort -- in short, most everything except for the military, national parks, and maybe some public works.
Social Security could eventually be reformed to a system of private retirement accounts, known as a "provident fund" system and in use today in over thirty countries..."
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"I think the time is coming for an idea that is so old that it is new again: cutting the Federal government in half.
The idea is: cancel all Federal welfare-type programs, including all means-tested welfare programs (apparently there are over 150 of them), all healthcare-related programs including Medicare and Medicaid, all education-related, arts-related and housing-related programs, and anything else of this sort -- in short, most everything except for the military, national parks, and maybe some public works.
Social Security could eventually be reformed to a system of private retirement accounts, known as a "provident fund" system and in use today in over thirty countries..."
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Teacher's 1-on-1 Transgender 'Lessons' Leave 9-Year-Old Boy Suffering from Anxiety
Teacher's 1-on-1 Transgender 'Lessons' Leave 9-Year-Old Boy Suffering from Anxiety"Most people understand that kids just want to be kids.
While adults run around squabbling over politics and careers, the childhood years are a time to develop and grow free of the complexities of adulthood.
But at an elementary school in Oregon, a teacher is being accused of trying to push her sexual views and politics onto a student, all hidden from parents.
To make matters worse, the student was only eight years old at the time.
“Parents in Woodburn said their 8-year-old son was held back from recess multiple times for one-on-one conversations about his gender identity,” reported KPTV News in Oregon..."
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Michael Pillsbury Outlines China’s Biggest Miscalculation… | The Last Refuge
Michael Pillsbury Outlines China’s Biggest Miscalculation… | The Last Refuge
"Great interview segment between Lou Dobbs and Michael Pillsbury discussing the status of the U.S-China trade conflict.
Pillsbury notes how the Chinese analysts likely fell into the trap of believing what most western financial media were saying about domestic opposition to President Trump’s policies.
"Great interview segment between Lou Dobbs and Michael Pillsbury discussing the status of the U.S-China trade conflict.
Pillsbury notes how the Chinese analysts likely fell into the trap of believing what most western financial media were saying about domestic opposition to President Trump’s policies.
One of the aspects to President Trump that bears a continual reminder is the importance of actual economic victory over optical political victory.
President Trump is primarily focused on the former, and only concerned about the latter as it relates to his goal:
….to fundamentally restructure the way the American economy interacts with the global community. Economic security is national security.
That’s what President Trump cares about..."
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Liz Cheney Fires Back After Ilhan Omar Accuses Her Of Lying: ‘An Anti-Semitic Socialist’ | The Daily Caller
GOP Conference chair Liz Cheney had some strong words for Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar on Friday after the freshman congresswoman accused Cheney, without evidence, of lying.
“Liz Cheney is accusing a committee investigating Russian election interference of…helping Vladimir Putin,” Omar tweeted. “This is an impressive lie even for the Cheney family.”
Don't rule out Michelle Obama as Democrats' Hail Mary Pass to prevent a Bernie electoral apocalypse
Don't rule out Michelle Obama as Democrats' Hail Mary Pass to prevent a Bernie electoral apocalypse:- The Democrat convention is where it could happen. To save the Party. To save America. And most of all, to save the Obama Legacy from Orange Man Bad.
I believe her.
But her husband once made a declaration that he would not run for president, until he did.
We have been on Michelle-for-President-watch longer than just about anyone else:
- Get Ready for Michelle Obama 2020 (September 10, 2017)
- Michelle Obama 2020. Yes She Can. But will she run? (January 29, 2018)
- Michelle Obama 2020 coming into focus with Memoirs release just after 2018 midterms (February 25, 2018)
- Michelle Obama may be best Dem hope for 2020, but says she doesn’t want the job (April 7, 2018)
- Rasmussen Poll: Michelle Obama would beat Trump (November 19, 2018)
- Michelle Obama’s Grammys Buzz – A reminder of the mediocrity of Democrat presidential candidates (February 11, 2019)
- With Bread Line Bernie rising, expect Michelle-mentum (February 21, 2019)
The logic of Michelle as Hail Mary Pass is as clear as it ever was.
At least to me."
At least to me."
History for May 12
History for May 12 - On-This-Day.com
Florence Nightingale 1820 - Nurse, contributed to modern nursing procedures, author, Mildred McAfee 1900 - Captain Mildred McAfee (Horton), first director of U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service), Katherine Hepburn 1907 - Actress ("Morning Glory", "On Golden Pond [1981]", "The Rainmaker")
Mary Kay Ash 1915 - U.S. businesswoman and the founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc., born Mary Kathlyn Wagner, Yogi Berra 1925 - Baseball player, manager, George Carlin 1937 - Comedian, actor
1885 - In the Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebelled against the Canadian government.
1940 - The Nazi conquest of France began with the German army crossing Muese River.
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Cartels thrive in New Mexico county after feds shut down checkpoints
Cartels thrive in New Mexico county after feds shut down checkpoints:
Black, who has lived in this city of nearly 32,000 people his whole life, said he has 44 “gun toters” overseeing the county’s 6,628 square miles of lonely ranchland and pistachio orchards nestled among national parkland and Holloman Air Force Base.
Now the lawman said he has to deploy his own overworked forces to stop drugs such as methamphetamines, marijuana and fentanyl from coming through his territory, which is home to some 65,000 people.
Otero County is undefended because US Customs and Border Protection shut down two inspection facilities on US Routes 54 and 70, Black said. The Border Protection agents were sent south to El Paso to help with the massive influx of migrants. More than 800 have been arriving per day at the border near El Paso, according to Border Protection statistics.
Now the lawman said he has to deploy his own overworked forces to stop drugs such as methamphetamines, marijuana and fentanyl from coming through his territory, which is home to some 65,000 people.
Otero County is undefended because US Customs and Border Protection shut down two inspection facilities on US Routes 54 and 70, Black said. The Border Protection agents were sent south to El Paso to help with the massive influx of migrants. More than 800 have been arriving per day at the border near El Paso, according to Border Protection statistics.
Heh!-----"Senate Dems Delete Poll After Brett Kavanaugh Beats Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Facebook--Janet Shagam
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Twitter suspends account exposing attacks on Trump supporters - WND
Twitter has suspended an account established to document violent attacks on supporters of President Trump.
The One America News network, OAN, reported the account, @Magaphobiaconservative, had been set up by one of its reporters, Jack Posobiec.
High School in Ohio Invites Radicals to Present | Clarion Project
High School in Ohio Invites Radicals to Present | Clarion Project
"There is a high school in Columbus, Ohio that offers a political radicalism class where actual radicals present to the students.
They have been providing this class to the students since 1975.
"There is a high school in Columbus, Ohio that offers a political radicalism class where actual radicals present to the students.
They have been providing this class to the students since 1975.
“Poli-rad students study each speaker ahead of time, gathering background and preparing questions,” AP reported about the class. “Afterward, teachers help them think critically about how factors such as deceptive language or personal charisma were used.“The teachers attribute the course’s success to a few key ground rules: Presenters must come from across the political spectrum, they can’t be censored, students must remain respectful and instructors can’t share their personal political beliefs.”
The idea is that by exposing students to political landmines they will most likely encounter in their lives, they will be equipped to react rationally to them.
If this class were to be proposed today — with the media exposure that we have had in regards to extremism and terrorism — it would be extremely difficult to develop it without pushback from parents and activist organizations.
...In actuality, it is more logical that exposure to different types of radical thoughts and ideologies in a safe and controlled environment can prove to be a strong preventative measure.
By allowing students and young people to hear opinions and belief systems from all points of view, including radical ones that can clearly involve extremely skewed idea, it can help open their minds and develop cognitive thinking..."
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By allowing students and young people to hear opinions and belief systems from all points of view, including radical ones that can clearly involve extremely skewed idea, it can help open their minds and develop cognitive thinking..."
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Fans of Best of the Web Today
Fans of Best of the Web Today--Matt Cederholm"Milton Friedman wrote a famous essay in which he posited that a model should not be judged by the validity of its assumptions, but by how well it predicts what happens in the real world.
On both, actually, climate models have failed abjectly.
The temperature trends lie well below the 5% projection, even when the models are refined. Arguments that the heat is "hiding in the ocean" or somesuch are a tacit admission that we don't understand the climate well enough.
They are an admission that the models failed.
Much of the climate change cult uses global warming as an excuse to restrain capitalism.
It is a religious movement based on expressions of faith such as "settled science."
Its goal is not to save the planet, but to institute socialism.
The proof of their intent is their objection to nuclear power, which is the superior choice on almost every margin.."
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