Best picture Oscar winners are out of touch with audiences: Box office data - Business Insider

Best picture Oscar winners are out of touch with audiences: Box office data - Business Insider: 
"It's easy to say that the Oscars are out of touch with the regular moviegoer, but when you dive into the numbers it's scary how correct that general thought is.
We looked back at the lifetime domestic gross for the last 15 best picture Oscar winners and matched those with the lifetime gross for the movies that topped those years at the box office. 
And only once did they match up (2003's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King").
In fact, most of the best picture Oscar winners didn't crack $100 million at the box office and only two crossed the $200 million mark — and that's counting inflation!
See the last 15 years for yourself below. 
As you'll see, the numbers don't lie.
Note: All figures are domestic grosses only from Box Office Mojo and are added for inflation."
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"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" is the only movie in the last 15 years that won the best picture Oscar and was the top box office-grossing movie of that year. New Line Cinema

John Podesta: "We Must Reduce World's Population" - Your News Wire

John Podesta: "We Must Reduce World's Population" - Your News Wire

"Former Clinton campaign chair John Podesta has outlined plans to implement a controversial eugenics program in order to depopulate the planet. 
Writing for the Washington Post, Podesta claims that reducing the world’s population is not only desirable, but absolutely necessary in order to “reduce carbon emissions by 2050.”

Writing for WaPo, Podesta writes:

"When we talk about stepping up to address climate change across the world, we rarely think of it in terms of women’s rights. But if environmental activists really want to reduce emissions, raise living standards and build a more sustainable future, they cannot overlook the importance of reproductive rights and health.

Forging a coalition between the environmental movement and the women’s rights movement will not only fundamentally advance women’s rights but also do a world of good for the planet, which is bearing an environmental burden because of population growth..."
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Democratic Party Revolutionaries Destroy Norms, Advocate Violence | National Review

Democratic Party Revolutionaries Destroy Norms, Advocate Violence | National Review:

"The danger to the country this time around is that the Left has so destroyed the old protocols of the opposition party that it will be hard to resurrect them when progressives return to power.
We are entering revolutionary times. The law is no longer equally applied. The media are the ministry of truth. The Democratic party is a revolutionary force. And it is all getting scary."

What Leftists Stand For

What Leftists Stand For:
"Historically, both sides of the political spectrum in America have supported the rule of law and the Constitution.  
Additionally, other than the Democrats' longstanding racist oppression of black people, the positions held by both sides were generally differences that people of goodwill could hold.  
For example, good people can disagree on just what the tax rates should be.

Since Roe v. Wade, that has changed, and the change has accelerated rapidly in the last eight years.  
The left in America has openly embraced evil, rejected the rule of law, and denied that Americans they disagree with have constitutional rights.

That's why 2016 was a Flight 93 election: the political fight in America is no longer among people of good will, but between evil fascists and the American people.  
Most of the people who vote for the Democrats have no idea what the left actually stands for due to the actions of the media, who hide the truth.

Here are some of the evils perpetrated or supported by large numbers of leftists so you can convince those Democrat voters to switch sides:

8. They don't care that cheap illegal labor hurts black people by denying them jobs.

9. They don't care that their fake climate crisis will drive up energy costs and hurt the poor, who are disproportionately people of color.

10. They declare that giving inner-city black parents the choice of sending their kids to a school where they will get a good education is "racist."

11. They don't care that thousands of blacks are shot each year in Democratic-run cities.

12. They deny witness reports by black crime victims that show that blacks are more likely to commit crimes, though most blacks are law-abiding, and demand that blacks be incarcerated at the same rate as all other groups, ensuring that blacks continue to suffer from black-on-black crime.

13. They want to take money from people who never owned slaves and give it to people who never were slaves.

14. They refuse to accept any election result that doesn't favor them.

56. They hate the police and demand that cops be perfect or face jail time.

...This in turn tells us why we have to fight and why, even though the Republicans have failed us many times, letting the Democrats take over the House or the Senate, or both, would be a disaster of unparalleled magnitude..."
Long, sick list.
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Our government funded NPR brands everyone "xenophobes" who support secure borders----- we Hungary Has A Xenophobia Problem : Parallels : NPR

Hungary Has A Xenophobia Problem : Parallels : NPR:
"Our series "Take A Number" looks at problems around the world — and the people trying to solve them — through the lens of a single number.
Today's number: 10 — that's the percentage of Hungarians who feel "totally comfortable" having an immigrant as a friend.
...In a newly published European Union survey on immigration, only 10 percent of Hungarians said they would feel "totally comfortable" having an immigrant as a friend.
Fifty-five percent said they would feel "uncomfortable."...
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The full movie:  Sink the Bismarck

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Penn State Shuts Down 'Outing Club' After Deciding Going Outdoors Is 'Too Risky' For Students | Daily Wire

Penn State Shuts Down 'Outing Club' After Deciding Going Outdoors Is 'Too Risky' For Students | Daily Wire:

"Penn State University has shut down a 98-year-old "Outing Club" after school administrators deemed the group, which enjoys hiking, backpacking, and kayaking, "too risky" for its student body."

Poll: Nearly 2 Out of 3 Voters Support Reducing Legal Immigration to U.S. | Breitbart

Poll: Nearly 2 Out of 3 Voters Support Reducing Legal Immigration to U.S. | Breitbart
"Nearly two out of three American voters say they support President Trump’s plan to reduce overall legal immigration levels in the United States, whereby currently more than 1.5 million legal immigrants arrive annually.

In a new poll by Harvard-Harris polling, about 66 percent of voters — or nearly two out of three — said they support a plan by the Trump administration to almost cut legal immigration in half by ending the process known as “chain migration,” as well as the Diversity Visa Lottery, and building a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The deal would couple the wage-boosting relief for American citizens with allowing only illegal aliens enrolled in the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to stay in the U.S. There are nearly 800,000 DACA illegal aliens.

...Since 2005, chain migration has allowed 9.3 million foreign nationals to resettle in the U.S. for no other reason than they had extended family members already living in the country. This huge inflow outpaces two years of American births, which amount to roughly four million babies every year..."
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Ann Arbor’s $307,000 Firefighter [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Ann Arbor’s $307,000 Firefighter [Michigan Capitol Confidential]: 

"When Gretchen Virlee-Wagner, an assistant training officer with the Ann Arbor Fire Department, retired in 2017 she collected $307,516 in total compensation for the year.
...But she used payments for unused compensation time, vacation time and sick time to boost that final year’s income.
“Ms. Wagner retired, and the salary shown includes the pay-outs for her accumulated compensation time, sick pay, and vacation pay,” City Manager Howard Lazarus said in an email. 
...According to OpenTheBooks.com, Virlee-Wagner’s salary in

2014 was $90,692. 

It jumped to $102,592 in 2015 and $110,581 in 2016.
According to the city of Ann Arbor, Virlee-Wagner retired in February 2017 with 25 years of service..."
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Parents Stand Up for Children in ‘Sex Ed Sit Out’ | Intellectual Takeout

Parents Stand Up for Children in ‘Sex Ed Sit Out’ | Intellectual Takeout:
"Parents across the country pulled their children out of public schools on Monday for the “Sex Ed Sit Out”—a grassroots awakening of frustrated parents who are sick of the sexualization of children in their taxpayer-funded schools.
The Sex Ed Sit Out was conceived by Elizabeth Johnston, who blogs at Activist Mommy, and other moms on social media who are concerned about the increasingly graphic, unscientific nature of sex education in public schools.
Parents protested in cities across the United States, as well as in England, Canada, and Australia.
In solidarity with the event, parents in Northern Virginia held a conference on Saturday on the radical changes in sex education and how schools deliberately deceive parents.
A common note struck at the conference was the anti-science approach of the Fairfax County sex ed curriculum.
Students are taught that they weren’t really born male or female—rather, a sex was assigned to them at birth by a delivery room doctor who might have gotten it wrong.
In fact, sex ed curriculum advisers recently announced that “biological sex is essentially meaningless,” and the phrase is being scrubbed from all lessons and replaced by the phrase “sex assigned at birth.”
It’s a little sexual-revolutionary agitprop to keep the youngsters off balance..."
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The Changes That Made California Become a Liberal Fiasco

The Changes That Made California Become a Liberal Fiasco: "A Basket Case

“California’s de facto status as a one-party state lies at the heart of its poverty problem,” wrote Kerry Jackson, the Pacific Research Institute’s fellow in California studies. “With a permanent majority in the state Senate and the Assembly, a prolonged dominance in the executive branch, and a weak opposition, California Democrats have long been free to indulge blue-state ideology while paying little or no political price. The state’s poverty problem is unlikely to improve while policymakers remain unwilling to unleash the engines of economic prosperity that drove California to its golden years.”"

5 Myths about the Great Depression and New Deal | Intellectual Takeout

5 Myths about the Great Depression and New Deal | Intellectual Takeout:
"This year marks the 85th anniversary of the New Deal, the controversial set of programs, public works, and economic reforms that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt undertook to combat America’s Great Depression. 
Historians commonly contend that the New Deal was pivotal in beating the Great Depression and protecting the American middle class. 
But how significant was it, actually?

Although plenty of agencies and reforms remain intact, there is much more to the story than meets the eye, as in most popular accounts of polarizing events. 

Here are five myths concerning the New Deal and the Great Depression:

1. Hoover’s “Free-Market” Policies Led to the Great Depression..."

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AM Fruitcake-----Cartoons: A.F. Branco for April 27, 2018 — The Patriot Post

Cartoons: A.F. Branco for April 27, 2018 — The Patriot Post:

History for April 29

History for April 29 - On-This-Day.com
William Randolph Hearst 1863 - American newspaper magnate, newspaper publisher, Duke Ellington (Edward Kennedy) 1899 - Composer, pianist, big band leader, Willie Nelson 1933 - Musician, singer - his family cites April 29, his birth certificate says April 30 at 12:30am


Dale Earnhardt 1951 - Father of race car driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jerry Seinfeld 1955 - Comedian, actor ("Seinfeld"), Michelle Pfeiffer 1957 - Actress


1429 - Joan of Arc led Orleans, France, to victory over Britain.


1852 - The first edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus was published.


1945 - In a bunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were married. Hitler designated Admiral Karl Doenitz his successor.


1945 - The Nazi death camp, Dachau, was liberated.


1961 - ABC’s "Wide World of Sports" premiered.


1975 - The U.S. embassy in Vietnam was evacuated as North Vietnamese forces fought their way into Saigon.


1990 - The destruction of the Berlin Wall began.


1992 - Rioting began after a jury decision to acquit four Los Angeles policemen in the Rodney King beating trial. 54 people were killed in 3 days.

Confirmed: John Brennan Colluded With Foreign Spies to Defeat TrumpThe American Spectator

Confirmed: John Brennan Colluded With Foreign Spies to Defeat TrumpThe American Spectator:

"John Brennan’s CIA operated like a branch office of the Hillary campaign, leaking out mentions of this bogus investigation to the press in the hopes of inflicting maximum political damage on Trump. An official in the intelligence community tells TAS that Brennan’s retinue of political radicals didn’t even bother to hide their activism, decorating offices with “Hillary for president cups” and other campaign paraphernalia.
A supporter of the American Communist Party at the height of the Cold War, Brennan brought into the CIA a raft of subversives and gave them plum positions from which to gather and leak political espionage on Trump. He bastardized standards so that these left-wing activists could burrow in and take career positions. Under the patina of that phony professionalism, they could then present their politicized judgments as “non-partisan.”"

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Instapundit » Blog Archive » COME AND SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks suggested in a radio inter…

Instapundit » Blog Archive » COME AND SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks suggested in a radio inter…:
"COME AND SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks suggested in a radio interview that Republicans are retiring en masse because of assassination fears.

Well, I’m sure it’s a factor.
Earlier:

• “Democrats should fight dirty, play dirty, beg, borrow, steal, do whatever it takes. ‘When they go low, we go high’ doesn’t work. Playing nice got us to this point with President Trump,” the New York Times tweets.
• NBC’S Rachel Maddow Show Sparked FBI Investigation Into Death Threats Against Mcconnell, Pruitt.
• Rand Paul: Recovery after attack ‘was a living hell.’
• Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History.
• FCC Chairman Ajit Pai canceled his appearance at CES because of death threats.
• Terry McAuliffe says he’d punch Trump: ‘You’d have to pick him up off the floor.’

(Classical reference in headline.)  Posted by Ed Driscoll 

University of Texas to Treat Masculinity as a 'Mental Health' Issue | Trending

University of Texas to Treat Masculinity as a 'Mental Health' Issue | Trending:
"The Counseling and Mental Health Center at the University of Texas at Austin recently launched a new program to help male students “take control over their gender identity and develop a healthy sense of masculinity.”
Treating masculinity as if it were a mental health crisis, “MasculinUT” is organized by the school’s counseling staff and most recently organized a poster series encouraging students to develop a “healthy model of masculinity.”
The program is predicated on a critique of so-called “restrictive masculinity.”
Men, the program argues, suffer when they are told to “act like a man” or when they are encouraged to fulfill traditional gender roles, such as being “successful” or “the breadwinner.”...
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Sources: McCabe ordered ‘stand down’ on Hillary probe

Sources: McCabe ordered ‘stand down’ on Hillary probe:

"The accusation is that McCabe leaked the information in defense of accusations that he ordered bureau investigators to “stand down” in their probe of the Clinton Foundation.
But his troubles may only be compounding, according to FBI sources and a congressional official who spoke to investigative reporter Sara Carter.
The officials say McCabe gave a “stand-down” order regarding the opening of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state through which she transmitted classified information."

Cop killer Herman Bell released on parole after nearly 40 years - NY Daily News

Cop killer Herman Bell released on parole after nearly 40 years - NY Daily News:

Convicted cop killer Herman Bell was released from the maximum-security Shawangunk Correctional Facility in upstate Ulster County on Friday. (AP)-Friday, April 27, 2018, 7:52 PM
A convicted cop killer walked out of prison on parole Friday after nearly 40 years behind bars — over the angry protests of police unions and some politicians.
...Bell, 70, was convicted in 1979 of the 1971 murders of Police Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones in Harlem. 
He was also convicted of the 1971 murder of a California cop.

Police officers Joseph Piagentini (l.) and Waverly Jones (r.) were both killed in 1971. (SUSAN WATTS/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
Sen. Golden (R-Brooklyn) said Bell’s parole approval sent the wrong message. 
He compared the decision to the release of Palm Sunday Massacre killer Christopher Thomas, who murdered 10 people in one day in 1984. 
Thomas got out in March after 32 years in prison..."
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Seriously? Facebook Says "Kill Trump, Hang Him, Hunt Him" Page Does Not Violate Community Standards

Seriously? Facebook Says "Kill Trump, Hang Him, Hunt Him" Page Does Not Violate Community Standards:
"Tech Giants Google and Facebook are currently purging conservative content from Facebook and YouTube — They are hiding conservative stories on Google — They are shadow-banning conservative news on all social media.

In February Facebook launched a new algorithm to ensure that conservative news would not spread on the social media platform.

This was after Facebook announced it was losing 50,000,000 user hours a day in the previous quarter.

The algorithm change caused President Donald Trump’s engagement on Facebook posts to plummet a whopping 45%.

In contrast, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) do not appear to have suffered a comparable decline in Facebook engagement.

Top conservative Facebook pages with daily traffic in the millions have seen 75% to 95% drop in traffic.

Young Cons, Western Journalism, SarahPalin.com, Independent Journal Review, Right Wing News, and several others have seen dramatic loss in traffic.

...But at the same time Facebook allows hateful pages calling for President Trump’s assassination.
Facebook administrators recently decided the “Kill Trump, Hang Him, Hunt Him” page did not violate community standards.

Unbelievable.

A screenshot of the report was posted by comedian Owen Benjamin, who was banned earlier this month.

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