Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Wow – Puerto Rico Governor Fires Emergency Response Director After Massive Warehouse of Unused Aid Discovered… | The Last Refuge

Wow – Puerto Rico Governor Fires Emergency Response Director After Massive Warehouse of Unused Aid Discovered… | The Last Refuge
"...The warehouse was discovered after the recent earthquake, and the building suffering damage. 
...First, the report:
(VIA CBS) Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced fired the island’s emergency management director on Saturday, after a video showing aid sitting unused in a warehouse went viral on social media. 
Some of the aid has allegedly been sitting in the warehouse since Hurricane Maria struck in 2017.
...To give you an idea of the scale, there’s at least 100 semi truck loads of supplies in this video, in this single warehouse.
...It is unfathomable these supplies were not distributed; and worse yet were likely being re-sold on the black market.
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...President Trump was correct:

Impeachment is a full-on Democrat temper tantrum-----Fans of Best of the Web Today

Fans of Best of the Web Today--Michael Smith
Back in 2016, I wrote:
"If one remembers their own childhood, one can assume that there will be remembered at least one situation where some unfair punishment or major injustice was vested on one’s person. 
I can vividly remember being punished for a crime I clearly committed (I snuck a piece of my own chocolate birthday cake a little early) and got punished by both parents…on my birthday…on a Saturday…and before my birthday party. 
Can life get more unfair? 
I can remember crying on my bed then getting angry and saying under my breath that “Nobody loves me.
They all hate me.”
Image result for child temper tantrumI was five…and guilty as sin.
I got what I deserved. It was all on me."
Of course, my parents did love me but the emotional reasoning of a child's immature mind just couldn't process what resulted from my own actions.
I guess that's to be expected - from a five year-old child.
Now look at the things of which the President has been accused. Look at the absurd things Robert DiNiro, Michael Moore, Joy Behar and other members of the leftist elite (and even local writers of letters to the editor) allege.
Trump is setting himself up to be a dictator, he's a Russian agent, a traitor, a racist, a bigot, a white supremacist, a LGBTQ-ophobe - when there is either zero or contradictory evidence any is true - but he must be impeached!
Things of which there is little but their imagination to base those allegations upon and the entire Democrat Party has adopted that same immature reasoning - or lack thereof - of a five year-old. 
To them, President Trump represents a rejection of them and their policies. 
He is an existential threat to them for every reason they can imagine - and if their current actions are to be believed, they have a pretty vivid imagination.
The real issue for Democrats is that Trump exposes them for their crimes. He doesn't look like them, act like them or speak like them. He doesn't play by their rules. He represents a constant reminder that they truly take the cake.
And they don't feel loved. 
Impeachment is a full-on Democrat temper tantrum, a screaming, kicking emotional meltdown in the candy aisle of Walmart.
The simple fact is that once a person renounces reason for emotion, any emotion can be converted into their reality, any feeling can be interpreted as their truth.
But there is no my truth or your truth - there is only THE truth - and with that fact, the adult babies in the Democrat Party simply can't deal."

Lunch video-----Maldives To Drown Again

"Experts said the Maldives would be gone by 2018 unless we sent them money. 
Now they say we need to send them money or they will be gone by ....."

Noon-toon


France Sees Large Surge of Rape, Murder and Violence in 2019

France Sees Large Surge of Rape, Murder and Violence in 2019:

Image result for flickr commons images ParisNew statistics from the French Interior Ministry have revealed a significant increase in violent crimes with a 12 per cent rise in sexual violence and an 8.5 per cent rise in murders.
The statistics, which were collected by the Interior Ministry’s statistics service SSMI, show that sexual violence increased by 12 per cent last year. In 2018, the increase had been even greater at 19 per cent, French newspaper Le Figaro reports.

Don't believe it!-----China to ban plastic bags in major cities by end of 2020

Image result for china polutionChina to ban plastic bags in major cities by end of 2020
"The National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, which issued the new policy, said plastic bags will be banned in all of China's major cities by the end of 2020 and banned in all cities and towns in 2022.
...Other items such as plastic utensils from takeaway food outlets and plastic courier packages will also be phased out.
By end of 2020, the restaurant industry will be banned from using single-use straws.
By 2025, towns and cities across China must reduce the consumption of single-use plastic items in the restaurant industry by 30 percent..."
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Also happened yesterday!


Imagine a mother of a daughter athlete voting democrat!-----WATCH: GOP Rep. Greg Steube: Not One Democrat Voted to Protect Women's Sports

Image result for transgender men womens sportsWATCH: GOP Rep. Greg Steube: Not One Democrat Voted to Protect Women's Sports
"Florida Republican Congressman Greg Steube was disgusted to tell Fox News that not a single Democrat voted in favor of a bill that would protect women’s sports from biological males who claim to be transgender women.
...The Florida congressman recently introduced a bill that would have banned “schools from using Title IX federal funds to support women sports if biological men are allowed to compete with them,” Steube told Carlson.
...“It’s just fascinating that we are in a place in our country where you have to file bills to make it clear that women are actually going to be competing with women and women’s sports,” Steube told the Fox host.

#1 This day 1966-----Simon & Garfunkel - The Sounds of Silence (Audio)

Actually, not a bad way to go-----David Olney: Folksinger-songwriter dies while performing on stage at festival - CNN

Singer-Songwriter David Olney died of an apparent heart attack at age 71.David Olney: Folksinger-songwriter dies while performing on stage at festival - CNN
(CNN)Americana singer and songwriter David Olney, whose music was recorded by Linda Ronstadt, Steve Young, Emmylou Harris and others, died of an apparent heart attack while performing on stage in Florida Saturday, according to a statement on his website.
He was 71.
Olney stopped in the middle of a song and paused, said "I'm sorry," and "put his chin to his chest," said fellow singer-songwriter Scott Miller, who was performing with Olney at the 30A Songwriters Festival in Santa Rosa Beach.
"He never dropped his guitar or fell (off) his stool," Miller wrote on Facebook.
"It was as easy and gentle as he was."..."
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Happened yesterday!


Nolte: U.S. Movie Ticket Sales Hit Near 25-Year Low

Nolte: U.S. Movie Ticket Sales Hit Near 25-Year Low:
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Other than the year 2017, the number of movie tickets sold in the U.S. this year is the lowest since 1995.
Throughout last year, Americans purchased 1.244 billion movie admissions, which is five percent lower than last year and only a little higher than the number sold in 2017 — and 2017 is the worst year on record since 1995.

MLK on the Purpose of Education: 8 Quotes | Intellectual Takeout

MLK on the Purpose of Education: 8 QuotesMLK on the Purpose of Education: 8 Quotes | Intellectual Takeout:
"...As the quotes below illustrate, Dr. King promoted a traditional understanding of education in which students learn to think for themselves while simultaneously developing in virtue.
Are today’s schools failing to give students the kind of education that Dr. King promoted?

  • “Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.”
  • “To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education.”
  • “A great majority of the so-called educated people do not think logically and scientifically. Even the press, the classroom, the platform, and the pulpit in many instances do not give us objective and unbiased truths.”
  • “Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.”
  • “The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.”
  • “The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.”
  • “[E]ducation which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.”
  • “Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education.”

AM Fruitcake


History for January 21

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History for January 21 - On-This-Day.com
Ethan Allen 1738, Stonewall Jackson 1824, Telly Savalas 1924
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Steve Reeves 1926, Wolfman Jack 1939, Jack Nicklaus 1940
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1793 - During the French Revolution, King Louis XVI was executed on the guillotine. He had been condemned for treason.
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1924 - Soviet leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died. Joseph Stalin began a purge of his rivals for the leadership of the Soviet Union.
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Monday, January 20, 2020

Christian Bakers Challenge $135K Fine for Quoting Bible

Christian Bakers Challenge $135K Fine for Quoting Bible:

Image result for Closed BibleDid Oregon officials violate their duty to remain neutral on matters of religion when they ordered Christian bakers Aaron and Melissa Klein to pay $135,000 for declining to create a custom same-sex wedding cake, a move that crushed the small, family-owned business?
That’s the question that the Oregon Court of Appeals will answer after having heard oral argument last week in the case of Melissa Klein v. Bureau of Labor and Industries.
Oregon courts are taking up the case once again, after being ordered to do so by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The way we were-----Little Rock- School Integration

Boob tube-----PAROLE on TV 1955 PART 1

44 profs at Catholic university demand school apologize for screening pro-life film Unplanned

44 profs at Catholic university demand school apologize for screening pro-life film Unplanned | News | Lifesitenews
LONDON, Ontario, January 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Forty-four faculty members from a Catholic university in Canada have demanded the school apologize for allowing campus ministry to show the wildly successful pro-life film “Unplanned.”
...The demand for an apology came in a letter from faculty members this past Wednesday and was addressed to college Principal David Malloy.
It described what the faculty called the “furor and fear” expressed by the school community over the fact that the pro-life film was screened on campus..."
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