Robert Pattinson, 41, was fired after introducing himself to his fellow firefighters by bringing in a watermelon with a pink bow on top as part of workplace tradition of new recruits bringing in a gift for fellow employees on their first day on the job."
Saturday, October 14, 2017
Detroit's Black Firefighters Back White Recruit Fired over 'Racially Insensitive' Watermelon - Breitbart
Detroit's Black Firefighters Back White Recruit Fired over 'Racially Insensitive' Watermelon - Breitbart:
"A group of black firefighters from Detroit are backing their white colleague after he was fired on his first day for bringing a “racially insensitive” watermelon to work.
Robert Pattinson, 41, was fired after introducing himself to his fellow firefighters by bringing in a watermelon with a pink bow on top as part of workplace tradition of new recruits bringing in a gift for fellow employees on their first day on the job."
Robert Pattinson, 41, was fired after introducing himself to his fellow firefighters by bringing in a watermelon with a pink bow on top as part of workplace tradition of new recruits bringing in a gift for fellow employees on their first day on the job."
Kmele Foster Gets Shouted Down by Black Lives Matter Activists After Pointing out That MLK Used Free Speech Protections—Wait, What? - Hit & Run : Reason.com
Kmele Foster Gets Shouted Down by Black Lives Matter Activists After Pointing out That MLK Used Free Speech Protections—Wait, What? - Hit & Run : Reason.com
"So the "Unsafe Space" campus speaking tour sponsored by Spiked (and hosted at least once so far in an emergency backup way by Reason) continues to generate interesting collisions between libertarian commentators and the angry campus progressives who seek to shout them down.
One recent incident...caught my attention because it involved old pal Kmele Foster, and my favorite piece of writing by Martin Luther King.
"So the "Unsafe Space" campus speaking tour sponsored by Spiked (and hosted at least once so far in an emergency backup way by Reason) continues to generate interesting collisions between libertarian commentators and the angry campus progressives who seek to shout them down.
One recent incident...caught my attention because it involved old pal Kmele Foster, and my favorite piece of writing by Martin Luther King.
Foster (see video below) had just sat through a series of emotional audience harangues defending identity politics and speech-sensitivity as necessary pushbacks against a racist power structure, when he attempted to make a case familiar to Reason readers—that free-speech protections are crucial precisely for minority populations' struggles against the majority:
For so many years in this country, and I'm pointing to the 1960s in particular, speech protections were used by minority groups who were fighting for civil rights, and it was essential for them to be able to secure those rights, in order to advocate. The reason why Martin Luther King, for example, wrote his Letter from a Birmingham Jail from a Birmingham jail was because he was imprisoned for effectively violating speech codes—handing out flyers in the wrong spot, all of these various things. I think this is something that we don't necessarily understand.
It was at that precise moment—the whole speech-codes-hurt-comparatively-powerless-black-people moment—when activists started shouting "Black lives matter! Black lives matter! Black lives matter!" as if, uh, there was any suggestion to the contrary?
Thus began several minutes of barky audience non-sequiturs such as "WHO controls the facts? WHO controls the facts? It's the system!"
Eventually Foster was able to complete his point.
You can read more about it over at Campus Reform (with a corrective follow-up tweet from Kmele) and watch the exchange below:
Congress warned North Korean EMP attack would kill '90% of all Americans'
Congress warned North Korean EMP attack would kill '90% of all Americans':
"Congress was warned Thursday that North Korea is capable of attacking the U.S. today with a nuclear EMP bomb that could indefinitely shut down the electric power grid and kill 90 percent of "all Americans" within a year.
At a House hearing, experts said that North Korea could easily employ the "doomsday scenario" to turn parts of the U.S. to ashes.
In calling on the Pentagon and President Trump to move quickly to protect the grid, the experts testified that an explosion of a high-altitude nuclear bomb delivered by a missile or satellite "could be to shut down the U.S. electric power grid for an indefinite period, leading to the death within a year of up to 90 percent of all Americans..."
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At a House hearing, experts said that North Korea could easily employ the "doomsday scenario" to turn parts of the U.S. to ashes.
In calling on the Pentagon and President Trump to move quickly to protect the grid, the experts testified that an explosion of a high-altitude nuclear bomb delivered by a missile or satellite "could be to shut down the U.S. electric power grid for an indefinite period, leading to the death within a year of up to 90 percent of all Americans..."
Read on!
Driverless Cars Are Giving Engineers a Fuel Economy Headache - Slashdot
Driverless Cars Are Giving Engineers a Fuel Economy Headache - Slashdot:
"schwit1 shares a report from Bloomberg:
Judging from General Motors' test cars and Elon Musk's predictions, the world is headed toward a future that's both driverless and all-electric.
In reality, autonomy and battery power could end up being at odds.
That's because self-driving technology is a huge power drain.
Some of today's prototypes for fully autonomous systems consume two to four kilowatts of electricity -- the equivalent of having 50 to 100 laptops continuously running in the trunk, according to BorgWarner Inc.
The supplier of vehicle propulsion systems expects the first autonomous cars -- likely robotaxis that are constantly on the road -- will be too energy-hungry to run on battery power alone..."
"schwit1 shares a report from Bloomberg:
In reality, autonomy and battery power could end up being at odds.
That's because self-driving technology is a huge power drain.
Some of today's prototypes for fully autonomous systems consume two to four kilowatts of electricity -- the equivalent of having 50 to 100 laptops continuously running in the trunk, according to BorgWarner Inc.
The supplier of vehicle propulsion systems expects the first autonomous cars -- likely robotaxis that are constantly on the road -- will be too energy-hungry to run on battery power alone..."
With Stroke of a Pen, Trump Takes First Substantial Slice Out of Obamacare | The Rush Limbaugh Show
With Stroke of a Pen, Trump Takes First Substantial Slice Out of Obamacare | The Rush Limbaugh Show:
"THE PRESIDENT: — and transformative in so many ways, change aimed at creating more and lower prices for millions of Americans.
RUSH: There you go.
THE PRESIDENT: The competition will be staggering.
RUSH: There you go. That’s right.
THE PRESIDENT: Insurance companies will be fighting to get every single person signed up. And you will be hopefully negotiating, negotiating, negotiating. And you’ll get such low prices for such great care."
RUSH: There you go.
THE PRESIDENT: The competition will be staggering.
RUSH: There you go. That’s right.
THE PRESIDENT: Insurance companies will be fighting to get every single person signed up. And you will be hopefully negotiating, negotiating, negotiating. And you’ll get such low prices for such great care."
Michigan Sen. Patrick Colbeck kicked off committees by GOP leadership
Michigan Sen. Patrick Colbeck kicked off committees by GOP leadership:
"LANSING — He's arguably the most vocal conservative in the Michigan Senate, often rubbing colleagues the wrong way for loudly and frequently criticizing their decisions.
He's also running for governor and taking his right-wing ideas to districts — both Republican and Democrat — across the state.
And now, Sen. Patrick Colbeck, R-Canton, is even further isolated in the 38-member Senate.
Late Tuesday, he was informed that the chamber's GOP leadership had removed him from the four committees on which he serves.
"This is swamp politics, and this is exactly what people are ticked off about," Colbeck said.
He said that Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, R-West Olive, was upset that he attended a recent Right to Life fund-raiser in Holland, which is part of Meekhof's district, and didn't notify him that he was going to be in the district..."
"LANSING — He's arguably the most vocal conservative in the Michigan Senate, often rubbing colleagues the wrong way for loudly and frequently criticizing their decisions.
And now, Sen. Patrick Colbeck, R-Canton, is even further isolated in the 38-member Senate.
Late Tuesday, he was informed that the chamber's GOP leadership had removed him from the four committees on which he serves.
"This is swamp politics, and this is exactly what people are ticked off about," Colbeck said.
He said that Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, R-West Olive, was upset that he attended a recent Right to Life fund-raiser in Holland, which is part of Meekhof's district, and didn't notify him that he was going to be in the district..."
History for October 14
History for October 14 - On-This-Day.com
Akbar (Akbar the Great) 1542 - Mughal Dynasty ruler in India, William Penn 1644 - Penn was the colonist that founded the Pennsylvania colony for Quakers., Dwight David Eisenhower 1890 - 34th president of the United States
John Wooden 1910, Roger Moore 1927 - Actor ("Live and Let Die," "For Your Eyes Only"), Ralph Lauren 1939 - Fashion designer
1912 - Theodore Roosevelt was shot while campaigning in Milwaukee, WI. Roosevelt's wound in the chest was not serious and he continued with his planned speech. William Schrenk was captured at the scene of the shooting.
1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution after being accused of conspiring against Adolf Hitler and the execution that would follow.
1947 - Over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California, pilot Chuck Yeager flew the Bell X-1 rocket plane and became the first person to break the sound barrier.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis began. It was on this day that U.S. intelligence personnel analyzing data discovered Soviet medium-range missile sites in Cuba. On October 22 U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that he had ordered the naval "quarantine" of Cuba.
1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent resistance to racial prejudice in America. He was the youngest person to receive the award.
1984 - George ‘Sparky’ Anderson became the first baseball manager to win 100 games and a World Series in both leagues. (MLB)
1986 - Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev charged that the U.S. wanted to "bleed the Soviet Union economically" with the arms race in space.
1987 - Jessica McClure, 18 months old, fell down an abandoned well in Midland, TX. The rescue took 58 hours.
Friday, October 13, 2017
NFL Goes Left: Won't Force Players To Stand For Anthem, Focuses On Social Justice | Daily Wire
NFL Goes Left: Won't Force Players To Stand For Anthem, Focuses On Social Justice | Daily Wire:
"The National Football League announced on Friday that it wants to use its platform to raise awareness for social justice issues and that it does not plan to mandate that players stand for the U.S. national anthem.
Commissioner Roger Goodell and the head of the NFL Players Association are expected to meet with team owners this next week in New York, where they will discuss possible solutions on how to end the national anthem protests, Reuters reported."
"The National Football League announced on Friday that it wants to use its platform to raise awareness for social justice issues and that it does not plan to mandate that players stand for the U.S. national anthem.Commissioner Roger Goodell and the head of the NFL Players Association are expected to meet with team owners this next week in New York, where they will discuss possible solutions on how to end the national anthem protests, Reuters reported."
Scott Pruitt's Clean Power Plan Rollback | National Review
Scott Pruitt's Clean Power Plan Rollback | National Review:
"The first argument against the Clean Power Plan is cronyism. The Clean Power Plan was designed to disadvantage certain industries, namely coal producers and other fossil-fuel concerns, in the interest of certain other politically favored industries, namely alternative- and renewable-energy companies."
"The first argument against the Clean Power Plan is cronyism. The Clean Power Plan was designed to disadvantage certain industries, namely coal producers and other fossil-fuel concerns, in the interest of certain other politically favored industries, namely alternative- and renewable-energy companies."
neo-neocon » Blog Archive » The West Point rot
neo-neocon » Blog Archive » The West Point rot:
"Many people (me included) wondered how it was that the openly-Communist Spenser Rapone was allowed to graduate from West Point.
It’s not as though Rapone was underground with his point of view as a proud Communist.
And West Point isn’t Evergreen State College—is it?
So how on earth did Rapone fall through the cracks?
"Many people (me included) wondered how it was that the openly-Communist Spenser Rapone was allowed to graduate from West Point.
It’s not as though Rapone was underground with his point of view as a proud Communist.
And West Point isn’t Evergreen State College—is it?
Now the professor who had originally reported Rapone to West Point authorities (to no avail), retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert Heffington, has issued an open letter to West Point graduates with a word—actually, many words—of explanation:
Here is the text of the letter.
After you’ve read it, you will understand that Rapone didn’t fall through the cracks.
There weren’t any cracks.
If what Heffington says it’s the truth—and I’m definitely inclined to believe it—then West Point has apparently become a standardless, permissive, PC, open (and perhaps bottomless) pit.
Honor hearings are rarely scheduled and reports of honor infractions actively discouraged, and students are rarely disciplined for violations even when admittedly guilty.
Academic standards are non-existent; it seems nearly impossible to flunk out.
Heffinton isn’t sure when all this started—he thinks about 10 years ago, but my guess is that it began at some point early in the Obama years, with their emphasis on a PC military..."
Read on!
Steve Russo - "How to Lose What We Have" Wow! Amazing Video From...
Steve Russo - "How to Lose What We Have" Wow! Amazing Video From...:
"How to Lose What We Have"
"Wow!
Amazing Video From The 50's Warning Americans About Bernie, Warren and Obama's "Master Plan"
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"
People could see it coming and tried to warn us about Socialism / Progressivism / Communism / Marxism infecting America back in the 1950s!
Excellent video that shows you what happens when you surrender you liberty to government in exchange for dependency on the government for your every need.
Unfortunately, today’s radicalized Democrats are all for the Master Plan, to be devised and implemented by the likes of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama."
"How to Lose What We Have"
"Wow!
Amazing Video From The 50's Warning Americans About Bernie, Warren and Obama's "Master Plan"
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"
People could see it coming and tried to warn us about Socialism / Progressivism / Communism / Marxism infecting America back in the 1950s!
Excellent video that shows you what happens when you surrender you liberty to government in exchange for dependency on the government for your every need.
Unfortunately, today’s radicalized Democrats are all for the Master Plan, to be devised and implemented by the likes of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama."
Justice Dept. issues final warning to 'sanctuary' jurisdictions - Washington Times
Justice Dept. issues final warning to 'sanctuary' jurisdictions - Washington Times:
"The Justice Department has issued a final warning to five of the 10 jurisdictions it accused of having “sanctuary” policies that defy federal immigration laws, saying they have until Oct. 27 to submit additional evidence proving compliance or risk losing grant money.
Letters conveying the Justice Department’s preliminary assessment of the jurisdictions’ local laws and policies were sent Wednesday. Cook County, Illinois; Chicago; New Orleans; New York City; and Philadelphia were all warned that the Justice Department believes they cities have laws of policies that run afoul of federal immigration law."
Letters conveying the Justice Department’s preliminary assessment of the jurisdictions’ local laws and policies were sent Wednesday. Cook County, Illinois; Chicago; New Orleans; New York City; and Philadelphia were all warned that the Justice Department believes they cities have laws of policies that run afoul of federal immigration law."
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