Czech Republic Joins Poland, Hungary And Slovakia In Refusing EU-Imposed Refugees | Daily Wire

Czech Republic Joins Poland, Hungary And Slovakia In Refusing EU-Imposed Refugees | Daily Wire:

"The Czech Republic last week joined other Central European nations in withdrawing from the European Union’s 2015 migrant resettlement program. The program sought to resettle 160,000 refugees across EU states, but the C.R. is bailing over the "dysfunctionality" of the program, Gateway Pundit reports."

Yup, everything they control is a financial disaster-----Michigan Universities Also Socked by Massively Underfunded School Pensions [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Michigan Universities Also Socked by Massively Underfunded School Pensions [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"Michigan’s public school districts are not the only educational institutions grappling with the financial burdens of a massively underfunded pension system.
Seven of the state’s 15 public universities are also having to pay large sums to catch up on the public school system’s debt, which since just 2009 has risen from $12.0 billion to $29.1 billion.
The schools are paying these costs even though no new university employees have been enrolled in the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement System since 1995.
But all those who were hired before then remained in the pension system and continue to accrue pension credits from it.
...According to Michigan Technological University Vice President Ellen Horsch, roughly 250 of MTU’s current 1,300 employees are covered by the traditional pension system.
Michigan Tech spent an average of $28,607 for each employee in MPSERS, of which $17,513 goes towards the underfunding in the system between July 1, 2014, and June 30, 2016, according to data provided by the university.
“The fact that we got out of this system is helpful, because we have that light at the end of the tunnel in 2038 [when MTU’s unfunded liabilities are projected to be met],” Horsch added.
But she also said that MTU and the other universities in the system still need financial relief from the burdens it imposes..."
Read on!

AM Fruitcake

History for June 13

History for June 13 - On-This-Day.com:
Winfield Scott 1786 - United States Army General, James C. Maxwell 1831 - Scottish theoretical physicist and mathematician, William Butler Yeats 1865 - Poet, dramatist
 

Richard Thomas 1951 - Actor ("The Waltons"), Tim Allen 1953 - Comedian, actor ("Home "), Ally Sheedy 1962 - Actress


1415 - Henry the Navigator, the prince of Portugal, embarked on an expedition to Africa.


1825 - Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. Hunt then then sold the rights for $400.


1866 - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. It was ratified on July 9, 1868. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.


1900 - China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Chinese Christians erupted into violence.


1912 - Captain Albert Berry made the first successful parachute jump from an airplane in Jefferson, Mississippi.


1966 - The landmark "Miranda v. Arizona" decision was issued by the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision ruled that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional rights before being questioned by police.


1989 - The Detroit Pistons won their first National Basketball Association title. They beat the L.A. Lakers in four games.


1992 - Future U.S. President Bill Clinton criticized rap singer Sister Souljah for making remarks "filled with hatred" towards whites.

Corruption and Collusion: Obama, Comey, and the Press | Klavan On The Culture

Corruption and Collusion: Obama, Comey, and the Press | Klavan On The Culture:

"It now seems clear that Barack Obama was a corrupt machine politician in the worst Chicago mold. He used the IRS to silence his enemies, and the Justice Department to protect his friends. His two major "achievements" — a health care law that doesn't work and a deal that increased the power and prestige of the terrorist state of Iran — were built on lies to the public and manipulation of the press. And that's according to his own allies! Only the leftist bias and racial pathology of the media kept his administration from being destroyed by scandal, as it surely would have been had he been a white Republican.

I don't mention this to bring up old grudges, but for what it says about the current moment and the week just passed. Here's some of what we recently learned:"

Large Anti-Sharia Rallies at San Bernardino Terror Site, LAX - Breitbart

Large Anti-Sharia Rallies at San Bernardino Terror Site, LAX - Breitbart:

"Protest rallies sponsored by ACT for America — Bridgette Gabriel’s anti-jihadist group — were held nationwide.

As the Los Angeles Times noted, a diverse group of over 500 demonstrators gathered at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino to protest what they described as the spread of sharia law in the United States.

They were met by smaller groups of counter-demonstrators, many from so-called “Antifa” groups. San Bernardino Police Officers handled security without any major incidents, except a few scuffles on the Anitfa side.

The San Bernardino protest was organized by Latinos for Trump co-founders Marco Gutierrez and Denise Ruiz.

Marco, who grew up in Mexico, became a US citizen in 2003, married his high school sweetheart in California, and founded Latinos For Trump in 2016."

The way we were-----The Second D-Day You've Probably Never Heard of | World War 2 Documentary

Unstable

Unstable
"The New York Times is uncertain whether to break out the champagne or don the sackcloth and ashes over Jeremy Corbyn's electoral gains. 
Ordinarily "progressives" would be celebrating a success by Labor.   
Unfortunately the British Labor party no longer clearly represents the "working class" any more, so it's hard to keep score.  
It's as if someone tore up the program to an old familiar play and scrambled the characters onstage.  
Consequently the Gray Lady is unable to say with confidence Who's on First.

...Just how confusing things have become was shown by Van Jones, who speaking at the People's Summit in Chicago, denounced Hillary Clinton for wasting a billion dollars on a big nothing-burger of an election campaign.  
The Hill recounted Jones' tirade.

"The Hillary Clinton campaign did not spend their money on white workers, and they did not spend it on people of color. They spent it on themselves," Jones told a packed house at McCormick Place in Chicago. "They spent it on themselves, let's be honest."

"Let's be honest," Jones continued. "They took a billion dollars, a billion dollars, a billion dollars, and set it on fire, and called it a campaign!"...

How could a billion dollars worth of consultants and polling be wrong?  

How could the old certainties so radically collapse? 

Max Fisher and Max Taub of the NYT, baffled, conclude that uncertainty, more than populism, is the new normal in Western politics.  

But merely declaring that "leaders must now govern societies reshaped by forces that are barely understood" explains nothing."

Murray: postmodernism, Trump to blame for left's campus anger

Murray: postmodernism, Trump to blame for left's campus anger

• Murray says he is identified as a "person of the right" on campus, which allows students to transfer their anti-Trump anger onto him.

Charles Murray spoke about the causes of the recent rise of violent mob protesters during a speech delivered at an Intellectual Takeout gala late last week.
Earlier this year, Middlebury students hijacked Murray’s planned speech by using mob rule, followed him outside of the building to attack his getaway car, and at least one person, Professor Allison Stanger, ended up in the hospital with a concussion.
...He lamented that what happened at Middlebury wasn’t an isolated incident and that those types of protests have begun to spread, not just at his own lectures, but at other speeches, too.
“What is going on there?” he inquired.
Murray theorized that there are two major causes of the recent campus hysteria, “both a proximate reason, and a deeper reason” —

• the election of Donald Trump, and 
• the tide of postmodernism throughout academe.

"The election of Donald Trump aroused a great deal of anger throughout the left, and especially in academia,” said Murray. 

"If I'm on campus, I'm the way that [students’] anger against Trump's election could be vented,” he said, noting that he “did not run into that kind of protest right up until the election...”

Facebook Patent Reveals Plans to Collect Footage Through Cameras Without User Knowledge - Breitbart

Facebook Patent Reveals Plans to Collect Footage Through Cameras Without User Knowledge - Breitbart:

"A new patent filed by Facebook shows that the company may use phone, tablet and laptop cameras to spy on their users.
The Daily Mail reports that social media company Facebook filed a patent called “Techniques for emotion detection and content delivery” to collect “passive imaging data” via device cameras that are not turned on, an act which experts are calling an “ethical minefield.”"

Unprecedented: Pakistani Man Sentenced to Death for Blasphemous Facebook Post | The Daily Sheeple

Unprecedented: Pakistani Man Sentenced to Death for Blasphemous Facebook Post | The Daily Sheeple:
"Pakistan has handed down the stiffest penalty imaginable for a post to social media — the death penalty — for blasphemy, after a 30-year-old man argued with someone online who turned out to be a counterterrorism agent.
Taimoor Raza allegedly denigrated the Prophet Muhammad, his wives, and companions, in a debate about Islam, according to Bahawalpur public prosecutor Shafiq Qureshi and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, and was arrested and charged for the crime as part of an oppressive crackdown on dissent by the administration of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
“An anti terrorism court of Bahawalpur has awarded him the death sentence,” Qureshi told Reuters. “It is the first ever death sentence in a case that involves social media...”

With DNC in mind, city bans carrying urine, feces : DNC - Security : The Rocky Mountain News

With DNC in mind, city bans carrying urine, feces : DNC - Security : The Rocky Mountain News
"Poo and pee dominated a public hearing Monday on a new law that prohibits people from carrying certain items if they intend to use them for nefarious purposes.
The law, crafted in advance of the Democratic National Convention, was adopted unanimously by the City Council.
But not before a hearing laced with comedy and profanity.
Representatives from some of the groups planning large-scale protests during the DNC this month said the ordinance was unnecessary and accused city officials of fear mongering.
"The intent of this ordinance is to try to smear protesters and make them look as if they are somehow criminal or somehow going to engage in some kind of gross conduct," said Glenn Spagnuolo, an organizer with the Re- create 68 Alliance.
The ordinance makes it illegal to carry certain items, such as chains, padlocks, carabiners and other locking devices. 
It also prohibits the possession of noxious substances. 
Two of the most frequently used examples of a noxious substance are a bucket of urine and a "feces bomb..."

Lunch video-----America's Sources of Immigration (1850-Today)

Noon-toon

Top MIT Scientist: Global Warming Science Is 'Propaganda'

Top MIT Scientist: Global Warming Science Is 'Propaganda':

"A leading MIT scientist claims that global warming science is based on pure propaganda, and that the “97 percent consensus” statistic is false.

According to Dr. Richard Lindzen, most scientists do not agree that CO2 emissions are the cause for climate change."

Blog: Comey and Mueller Have a History as a Deep State Tag Team

Blog: Comey and Mueller Have a History as a Deep State Tag Team:
"In my Sunday column I wrote of the similarity of the Comey - Mueller investigation of purported "Russian collusion" with the Trump campaign to the confected search for who leaked Valerie Plame's name.
This was a scheme against Vice President Cheney that ended in the conviction of his aide, Lewis Libby, for a weakly-proven process crime.
I had missed that Comey and Mueller may well have honed their deep state purge of political opponents then, something clearly at the bottom of this nonsensical investigation into "Russian collusion" with the Trump campaign.
According to Michael Isikoff, writing in 2006, the FBI (then headed by Mueller) and an unnamed "senior Department of Justice official" were advised in October 2003 that Armitage was the man who leaked Plame's identity -- and yet two months later upon his appointment to be Deputy Attorney General, James Comey appointed his friend Patrick  Fitzgerald to investigate the leak.
It's hard to believe that he didn't at the time know full well who the leaker had been..."
Read on!

No bias? Trump isn't "fixing" EVERY lib dream at once?-----Trump Backs Paid Leave For New Parents, But Ignores Those Caring For The Elderly

Trump Backs Paid Leave For New Parents, But Ignores Those Caring For The Elderly:
"The Trump Administration believes that caring for babies is so important that employers should give their parents up to six weeks of paid leave.
It apparently doesn’t believe it is as important, or as disruptive to work life, to care for aging parents or other relatives in need of personal assistance.
That, at least, is the message it is sending in Trump’s 2018 budget.
In a fiscal plan otherwise filled with cuts to government-funded social supports, the president proposed allowing states to use their unemployment insurance systems to fund paid family leave.  The U.S. is the only developed country in the world without a paid leave program.
But if we are going to recognize the need to give workers time off to tend to the needs of their families, why limit that support to parents of new-borns or new adoptees?..."

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Why Trump Wins

Instapundit » Blog Archive » WALL STREET JOURNAL: Why Trump Wins
Why Trump Wins: Will Robert Mueller investigate intelligence agencies for playing in domestic politics?

The FBI, CIA and NSA are eager to pose as scrupulous, disinterested arbiters of Russian meddling. They are not eager to be seen as victims and patsies of Russian meddling. To use Mr. Comey’s phrase, the performance of our national intelligence directorate is the one rock that hasn’t been turned over.

So here’s a question for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, a former FBI chief himself. Will he accept the current framing that his Russia investigation is about everything except whether his former agency was semi-wittingly duped into some of its interventions by Kremlin danglings—there’s nothing to see here, move along.

Or will he have the courage to ask the requisite questions the FBI, CIA and NSA don’t want asked about their own, perhaps, gullibility and overeagerness to play in domestic politics because of their dislike of Mr. Trump?

Washington’s desire to get to the bottom of Russian meddling is probably less than you imagine. If not, the places to start are the Trump dossier and the role of Russian disinformation in promoting Mr. Comey’s intervention in the Hillary Clinton email matter.

I don’t think Mueller can be objective here. 
He should resign — or be replaced by someone without his conflicts of interest."

You ought to know!

Corruption and Collusion: Obama, Comey, and the Press | Klavan On The Culture

Corruption and Collusion: Obama, Comey, and the Press | Klavan On The Culture:

"It now seems clear that Barack Obama was a corrupt machine politician in the worst Chicago mold. He used the IRS to silence his enemies, and the Justice Department to protect his friends. His two major "achievements" — a health care law that doesn't work and a deal that increased the power and prestige of the terrorist state of Iran — were built on lies to the public and manipulation of the press. And that's according to his own allies! Only the leftist bias and racial pathology of the media kept his administration from being destroyed by scandal, as it surely would have been had he been a white Republican.

I don't mention this to bring up old grudges, but for what it says about the current moment and the week just passed. Here's some of what we recently learned:

Former FBI Director James Comey's Senate testimony concerning former Attorney "