Mainstream Media’s Trump Opposition Exposed Their Bias & Irrelevance | National Review:
"No wonder the fading establishment media is now distrusted by a majority of the public, according to Gallup — and becoming irrelevant even among progressives.
Once upon a time in the 1960s, all the iconic news anchors, from Walter Cronkite to David Brinkley, were liberal. But they at least hid their inherent biases behind a professional veneer that allowed them to filter stories through left-wing lenses without much pushback."
Saturday, December 24, 2016
The Dems mindset, in one sentence
The Dems mindset, in one sentence – Da Tech Guy Blog:
"This good morning, after breakfast and a shower, I was browsing the Memeorandum trends looking for topics to write about, when this one popped up:
b. working class
"This good morning, after breakfast and a shower, I was browsing the Memeorandum trends looking for topics to write about, when this one popped up:
When you see a headline like that, you know it’s either at the New York Times or at the Washington Post; sure enough, it’s the WaPo.
It starts by asking,
Why did all those Economically Anxious™ Trump voters reject policies that would have helped relieve their economic anxiety?
The headline and the opening sentence are based on the following premises:
a. The white
b. working class
c. doesn’t know what’s good for them,
and
d. the Dems know better than the voters themselves.
‘m kay.
Having established points a-through-d above, the author, Catherine Rampell ventures into the speculative weeds,
Maybe they believed any Big Government expansions would disproportionately go to the “wrong” kinds of people — that is, people unlike themselves.
Again, Rampell takes for granted another premise: that all remedies, actions and initiatives must necessarily depart from
Big Government Expansions.
Munificent, paternalistic government raining manna down on the working, or not: the stuff that Dems’ dreams are made of.
I was going to do a fisking, but William Teach did a very good job already.
The article’s most revealing statement, and perhaps the most honest one, is this (emphasis added):
But there seems to be universal agreement, at least among the Democratic politicians and strategists I’ve interviewed, that the party’s actual ideas are the right ones.
In plain English, Democrats universally agree they’re right and everybody else is wrong.
Pauline Kael is attributed with having said in 1972, “I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken.” Rampell joins Kael in the land of liberal provincialism, but at least forty four years ago Kael acknowledged her own provincialism..."
History for December 24
History for December 24 - On-This-Day.com:
Ignatius (Loyola) 1491, Benjamin Rush 1745, Kit Carson 1809
James Joule 1818, Howard Hughes 1905, I.F. Stone 1907
1814 - The War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain was ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in Belgium.
1865 - Several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, TN, called the Ku Klux Klan.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces as part of Operation Overlord.
1966 - Luna 13 landed on the moon.
1968 - Three astronauts, James A. Lovell, William Anders and Frank Borman, reached the moon. They orbited the moon 10 times before coming back to Earth. Seven months later man first landed on the moon.
1979 - Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in support of the country's Marxist government.
1985 - Fidel Castro, the Cuban president, announced that he was a non-smoker.
1990 - Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were married.
Friday, December 23, 2016
Gun Control Laws Conflict with Data about Gun Owners & Crime | National Review
Gun Control Laws Conflict with Data about Gun Owners & Crime | National Review:
"The fallacy of believing that the way to reduce shootings is to disarm peaceful people extends from domestic gun-control laws to international disarmament agreements. If disarmament agreements reduced the dangers of war, there would never have been a World War II.
The decades leading up to that war were filled with international disarmament agreements. As with domestic gun-control laws, the agreements were followed by peaceful countries and ignored by belligerent countries that built up huge war machines, such as in Nazi Germany and imperial Japan."
The decades leading up to that war were filled with international disarmament agreements. As with domestic gun-control laws, the agreements were followed by peaceful countries and ignored by belligerent countries that built up huge war machines, such as in Nazi Germany and imperial Japan."
For First Time Ever, Fewer Michigan Charter Schools
For First Time Ever, Fewer Michigan Charter Schools [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"...This year, however, is the first time since the first Michigan charter school opened in 1993-94 that the number of charter schools in Michigan went down.
School choice advocates attribute the reduction in part to the closure of 14 charters over the last three years for academic reasons.
The state of Michigan is unable to identify a non-charter public school that has ever been closed due to poor academic performance.
According to a state database, there were 302 charter schools operating in the 2014-15 and 2015-16 school years.
There are currently 299 charter schools, according to the Michigan Association of Public School Academies.
...“The fact that it remains very difficult to get authorized in Michigan hasn’t changed because the legislative cap on the number of charters has been eliminated,” Naeyaert said..."
"...This year, however, is the first time since the first Michigan charter school opened in 1993-94 that the number of charter schools in Michigan went down.
School choice advocates attribute the reduction in part to the closure of 14 charters over the last three years for academic reasons.The state of Michigan is unable to identify a non-charter public school that has ever been closed due to poor academic performance.
According to a state database, there were 302 charter schools operating in the 2014-15 and 2015-16 school years.
There are currently 299 charter schools, according to the Michigan Association of Public School Academies.
...“The fact that it remains very difficult to get authorized in Michigan hasn’t changed because the legislative cap on the number of charters has been eliminated,” Naeyaert said..."
CT school bans word ‘white’ from game cheers: ‘Given current social climate’
CT school bans word ‘white’ from game cheers: ‘Given current social climate’ | EAGnews.org: "EAST HAMPTON, Conn. – A Connecticut principal is siding with political correctness over school spirit by injecting race relations into a student chant.
Students at East Hampton High school have chanted “blue” and “white” – school colors – for years, but principal John Fidler thinks the word “white” could be construed as racist, so he posted a notice that the cheer is “under suspension,” WFSB reports.
Students, of course, immediately sounded off on social media.
Fidler thinks the word “white” alone is offensive to some folks.
...“Given the current social climate across our country, our use of the ‘white’ cheer is under suspension,” he wrote in a notice ahead of the winter sports season.
“Please show your pride in our town and in our school through other means when cheering on our teams.”...
Students at East Hampton High school have chanted “blue” and “white” – school colors – for years, but principal John Fidler thinks the word “white” could be construed as racist, so he posted a notice that the cheer is “under suspension,” WFSB reports.Students, of course, immediately sounded off on social media.
Fidler thinks the word “white” alone is offensive to some folks.
...“Given the current social climate across our country, our use of the ‘white’ cheer is under suspension,” he wrote in a notice ahead of the winter sports season.
“Please show your pride in our town and in our school through other means when cheering on our teams.”...
House panel investigating Planned Parenthood reveals additional criminal referrals – TheBlaze
House panel investigating Planned Parenthood reveals additional criminal referrals – TheBlaze:
"Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), the chairman of the House Select Panel on Infant Lives, revealed Wednesday that the panel has issued additional criminal and regulatory referrals for tissue procurement businesses and abortion clinics to federal, state, and local authorities."
Hate hoaxes and fake news are separate issues united by mainstream media’s narrative agenda
Hate hoaxes and fake news are separate issues united by mainstream media’s narrative agenda – Da Tech Guy Blog:
"Hate is a real issue.
Americans have plenty of it.
They demonstrate it all the time.
The difference between hate today and hate in the recent past is that it’s now manifesting in the form of hoaxes perpetrated mostly by the left.
They don’t want to be seen as hateful, so they turn their own hate into “clever” ruses to paint the right as the “real “haters.
Why did this happen?
Did the media become suddenly more gullible?
No.
This is willful.
"Hate is a real issue.
Americans have plenty of it.
They demonstrate it all the time.
The difference between hate today and hate in the recent past is that it’s now manifesting in the form of hoaxes perpetrated mostly by the left.
They don’t want to be seen as hateful, so they turn their own hate into “clever” ruses to paint the right as the “real “haters.
Fake news is a real issue.
...Today, we’re seeing the two collide in spectacular fashion.
They’ve always had a secondary relationship in that hoaxes would be perpetrated and the media would investigate and report if necessary, but the boundary that separated them has collapsed.
Today, the media’s standard operating procedure is to report the hoax first, investigate (or maybe not) later.
Why did this happen? Did the media become suddenly more gullible?
No.
This is willful.
Ever since about a month and a half before the election, mainstream media started their “ready, fire, aim” stance on hate hoaxes because they realized they needed it to propagate their narrative agenda.
They’ve learned two important things: falling for a hoax will not decrease ratings/readership, and they can source each other rather than investigate in order to justify their choices.
Here are four major hate hoaxes that have been reported in the last 24 hours:
- Police arrest black man for church arson that was blamed on Trump supporters
- University of Michigan Oppressed Hijab Wearer Shown to Be Another Hoaxer
- As Delta prankster confirms, media’s problem is they are susceptible to their own hopes and dreams
- Lesbian couple burned their home to the ground, wrote anti-gay slurs, and blamed neighbors
In all four cases, there were reasons for the media to doubt the stories. In all four cases, the narrative of white and/or conservative and/or Trump-supporting and/or bigoted “people of privilege” persecuted and/or harassed and/or discriminated against some variation of minority. In all four cases, the hoax was reported before confirmed and later it was revealed by law enforcement or conservative media that we had all been duped..."
A religion of peace...-----Disturbing Clip: Father Urges Daughters to Blow Themselves Up
Disturbing Clip: Father Urges Daughters to Blow Themselves Up
"A fighter from the terrorist group formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra filmed his two daughters preparing to blow themselves up.
One of the children is thought to be the eight-year-old girl who carried out last week’s suicide bombing at a police station in Damascus.
The child was the only person killed in the attack.
The video was widely shared on rebel-aligned social media on Wednesday.
“Why are you sending your daughters?” jihadist Abu Nimr asks the girl’s mother from behind the camera, according to a translation by The Independent.
“One is seven and the other is eight, they're young for jihad.”
“No one is too young for jihad, because jihad is a duty for every Muslim,” she answers him.
“You want to surrender so that you're raped and killed by the infidels?” he asks the girls.
“You want to kill them, no?
We're a glorious religion, not a religion of humiliation, isn't that so darling?
“You won’t be scared, because you're going to God, isn't that right.”
Jabhat Fatah al-Shams is one of the many Islamist rebel groups fighting against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s ongoing civil war.
"A fighter from the terrorist group formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra filmed his two daughters preparing to blow themselves up.
One of the children is thought to be the eight-year-old girl who carried out last week’s suicide bombing at a police station in Damascus.
The child was the only person killed in the attack.
The video was widely shared on rebel-aligned social media on Wednesday.
“Why are you sending your daughters?” jihadist Abu Nimr asks the girl’s mother from behind the camera, according to a translation by The Independent.
“One is seven and the other is eight, they're young for jihad.”
“No one is too young for jihad, because jihad is a duty for every Muslim,” she answers him.
“You want to surrender so that you're raped and killed by the infidels?” he asks the girls.
“You want to kill them, no?
We're a glorious religion, not a religion of humiliation, isn't that so darling?
“You won’t be scared, because you're going to God, isn't that right.”
Jabhat Fatah al-Shams is one of the many Islamist rebel groups fighting against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s ongoing civil war.
Crimes Against the Electoral College, DOJ Silent
Crimes Against the Electoral College, DOJ Silent:
"The age of Obama will be remembered for the grotesque perversion of law. The latest example is Justice Department and FBI inaction when it comes to death threats to members of the Electoral College who were voting for Donald Trump.
I was on Fox and Friends this week to discuss the failure to respond to these efforts to undermine the constitutional order:"
"The age of Obama will be remembered for the grotesque perversion of law. The latest example is Justice Department and FBI inaction when it comes to death threats to members of the Electoral College who were voting for Donald Trump.
I was on Fox and Friends this week to discuss the failure to respond to these efforts to undermine the constitutional order:"
Merkel wanted refugees to be lorry drivers
Merkel wanted refugees to be lorry drivers | Fox News:"German Chancellor Angela Merkel in September tried to push through a plan that would allow refugees to be trained and hired as lorry drivers – just months before a lorry was used by a suspected asylum-seeker to mow down civilians during Monday’s Berlin terror attack.
Merkel encouraged companies to hire refugees – even if they hadn’t yet been granted asylum – as drivers and also wanted to make it cheaper for migrants to trade in their foreign driver’s license for a German one, The Daily Express reported.
...Anis Amri is suspected of hijacking a lorry and killing the driver before going on his rampage at a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12 and wounded 48.
Authorities continued on Thursday to hunt Amri."
Blame the messengers: Dem boss Schumer fires staffers after November rout
Blame the messengers: Dem boss Schumer fires staffers after November rout | Fox News"Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, smarting from the Democratic Party's big November losses, is blaming the messengers.
With Christmas days away, nearly every member of the Senate Democratic Media Center has been fired, a senior Democratic aide confirmed to Fox News.
Schumer swung the axe on Friday, according to Politico, which first obtained “goodbye” emails from staffers, including some with decades' experience.
...The timing could not be worse, given the holidays.
...“We don’t comment on personnel decisions,” a spokesman from the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC), which serves as an advisory board to the Democratic Leadership in which Sen. Schumer will serve, told FoxNews.com in an email.
...“Job creation has never been a strength of the Democrats,” a Republican aide told FoxNews.com. “But firing staffers just days before the holidays so they can play catch-up is pretty brutal.”
Snopes Wife Claims Husband Embezzled Thousands and Spent It on Prostitutes — But Hey, They'll Tell Us What "Fake News" Is?!
Snopes Wife Claims Husband Embezzled Thousands and Spent It on Prostitutes — But Hey, They'll Tell Us What "Fake News" Is?! | The Daily Sheeple:
"Well, this just takes the big fat hypocrite cake.
Oh goodie. Sounds legit.
"Well, this just takes the big fat hypocrite cake.
Out today, the Daily Mail is reporting that Snopes, the supposed bastion of fact checking, is no longer the picture perfect “independent” (yeah right) husband and wife myth-busting couple just lounging around on the couch with their cat that they have claimed to be.
Snopes founders, former husband and wife David and Barbara Mikkelson
Gee… Where to begin…
According to court documents, Barbara Mikkelson is claiming that her now-ex-husband David embezzled $98,000 of company money and spent it on “himself and prostitutes”...
...The Mail reports that David is currently running Snopes with his new wife who has spent most of her life working as an adult model, porn star, and escort under the name Erin O’Bryn:
...This goes on and on and on… but it continues by pointing out that one of their main “fact checkers” Kim LaCapria “has also been a sex-and-fetish blogger who went by the pseudonym ‘Vice Vixen’.”
Now we’re told Snopes has become part of the “fact checking” cadre that will weed out so-called “fake news” on Facebook?
Oh goodie. Sounds legit.
This expose comes on the heels of the Daily Caller taking Snopes’ entire left-leaning crew to task just a few days ago, pointing out how obviously liberal and biased all of them are with specifics for each employee in a piece titled, “Snopes, Which Will Be Fact-Checking For Facebook, Employs Leftists Almost Exclusively”:
Almost all of the writers churning out fact checks for Snopes have a liberal background, and many of them have expressed contempt for Republican voters. The Daily Caller could not identify a single Snopes fact-checker who comes from a conservative background. Snopes did not respond to a list of questions from TheDC regarding the site’s ideological leaning..."
Walker asks Trump to allow Wisconsin to drug test food stamp recipients | Washington Examiner
Walker asks Trump to allow Wisconsin to drug test food stamp recipients | Washington Examiner:
"Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is asking President-elect Donald Trump to give his state the authority to drug test certain food stamp recipients.
Walker, a Republican who ran for president against Trump, made other requests to the president-elect, which would allow more state authority over federal policies.
"Too often, states have become mere administrative provinces of an all-powerful federal government in Washington," Walker said "
Walker, a Republican who ran for president against Trump, made other requests to the president-elect, which would allow more state authority over federal policies.
"Too often, states have become mere administrative provinces of an all-powerful federal government in Washington," Walker said "
A GREAT way to start your day!-----WHY HE'S PRESIDENT-ELECT: Best of Trump insults and comebacks
WHY HE'S PRESIDENT-ELECT: Best of Trump insults and comebacks - The American MirrorThe American Mirror:
"A new highlight reel of Donald Trump’s insults and comebacks put together by media analyst Mark Dice is a good reminder of why Trump was elected president.
The examples span Trump’s candidacy in both the primary and general election campaigns and show why American fed up with politics and usual flocked to the unvarnished billionaire..."
"A new highlight reel of Donald Trump’s insults and comebacks put together by media analyst Mark Dice is a good reminder of why Trump was elected president.
The examples span Trump’s candidacy in both the primary and general election campaigns and show why American fed up with politics and usual flocked to the unvarnished billionaire..."
History for December 23
History for December 23 - On-This-Day.com:
Joseph Smith 1805, Samuel Smiles 1812, Yousuf Karsh 1908
Susan Lucci 1946, Eddie Vedder 1964 - Musician, singer (Pearl Jam), Corey Haim 1971 - Actor
1788 - Maryland voted to cede a 100-square-mile area for the seat of the national government. About two-thirds of the area became the District of Columbia.
1823 - The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore (" 'Twas the night before Christmas...") was published.
1888 - Following a quarrel with Paul Gauguin, Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh cut off part of his own earlobe.
1893 - The Engelbert Humperdinck opera "Hansel und Gretel" was first performed, in Weimar, Germany.
1913 - The Federal Reserve Bill was signed into law by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. The act established 12 Federal Reserve Banks.
1941 - During World War II, American forces on Wake Island surrendered to the Japanese.
1947 - John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley invented the transistor.
1968 - The crew of the U.S. Navy ship, Pueblo, was released by North Korea. The Captain of the Pueblo, Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, and 82 of his crew were held for 11 months after the ship was seized by North Korea because of suspected spying by the Americans.
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Hoax? Police arrest black man for church arson that was blamed on Trump supporters – TheBlaze
"Another story that the mainstream press wielded against Trump is now being exposed as a possible hoax as police have arrested an black man in the “racist” arson attack on a black church in Mississippi.
And it appears that the suspect is a member of the church:"
Reparations?-----From bias incidents to reparations demand, Columbia Native American activists get bolder over time
From bias incidents to reparations demand, Columbia Native American activists get bolder over time - The College Fix:
"For five years, a secretive group that claims to represent Native American students at Columbia University has been steadily winning concessions from the administration.
Emboldened by those victories, it is making a demand that appears to have only been made once before by a Native American college group: reparations.
The controversial idea showed up on a list of demands given to the administration last month by the Columbia Native American Council, according to the Columbia Spectator.
The demand for reparations comes just weeks after the administration acquiesced to the council’s demands for a plaque lamenting the colonization of the land upon which the university sits..."
"For five years, a secretive group that claims to represent Native American students at Columbia University has been steadily winning concessions from the administration.
Emboldened by those victories, it is making a demand that appears to have only been made once before by a Native American college group: reparations.The controversial idea showed up on a list of demands given to the administration last month by the Columbia Native American Council, according to the Columbia Spectator.
The demand for reparations comes just weeks after the administration acquiesced to the council’s demands for a plaque lamenting the colonization of the land upon which the university sits..."
The Onion - America's Finest News Source
The Onion - America's Finest News Source:
"A member of the endangered subtype of human, who possesses the unusual abilities to calmly reflect on situations and view the world from others’ perspectives, is reintroduced into the population.
ITHACA, NY—In an ambitious attempt to revive a population long considered to be on the brink of extinction, scientists announced Friday they have slowly begun to reintroduce normal, well-adjusted human beings back into society.
According to officials at Cornell University, where for the past 18 years conservation researchers have operated an enclosed sanctuary for humans who are levelheaded and make it a habit to think before they speak, the endangered group is being cautiously reintegrated into select locations nationwide in hopes that they can reestablish permanent communities and one day thrive again.
“We’ve worked for years to stabilize our society’s dwindling population of sane, generally reasonable people, and within the safe confines of our refuge we’ve finally seen their numbers start to bounce back a little,” said Josh Adelson, head of the Cornell research team, which moved the remaining members of the group into a protected habitat in 1998 to keep them from dying off completely.
“Now, we can very gradually begin to release this rare breed of rational humans back into the general public.
With luck, they can survive and prosper.”..."
Amazing hope for the future!!!
"A member of the endangered subtype of human, who possesses the unusual abilities to calmly reflect on situations and view the world from others’ perspectives, is reintroduced into the population.
ITHACA, NY—In an ambitious attempt to revive a population long considered to be on the brink of extinction, scientists announced Friday they have slowly begun to reintroduce normal, well-adjusted human beings back into society.According to officials at Cornell University, where for the past 18 years conservation researchers have operated an enclosed sanctuary for humans who are levelheaded and make it a habit to think before they speak, the endangered group is being cautiously reintegrated into select locations nationwide in hopes that they can reestablish permanent communities and one day thrive again.
“We’ve worked for years to stabilize our society’s dwindling population of sane, generally reasonable people, and within the safe confines of our refuge we’ve finally seen their numbers start to bounce back a little,” said Josh Adelson, head of the Cornell research team, which moved the remaining members of the group into a protected habitat in 1998 to keep them from dying off completely.
“Now, we can very gradually begin to release this rare breed of rational humans back into the general public.
With luck, they can survive and prosper.”..."
Amazing hope for the future!!!
Here’s a look at how Obama is trying to Trump-proof his legacy – TheBlaze
Here’s a look at how Obama is trying to Trump-proof his legacy – TheBlaze:
"With his time as leader of the free world coming to a close, President Barack Obama’s efforts to secure his political legacy are in the home stretch.
So before Republican President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month, Obama has started a final push to tackle some of his most important issues — and make sure they’re safe from Trump for at least the time being.
From Guantanamo Bay to Planned Parenthood, here’s a look at how the 44th president is closing out his final term and preparing for his successor:"
"With his time as leader of the free world coming to a close, President Barack Obama’s efforts to secure his political legacy are in the home stretch.
So before Republican President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month, Obama has started a final push to tackle some of his most important issues — and make sure they’re safe from Trump for at least the time being.
From Guantanamo Bay to Planned Parenthood, here’s a look at how the 44th president is closing out his final term and preparing for his successor:"
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