Trump's average job approval reaches highest level in a year

Trump's average job approval reaches highest level in a year
"No, actually, I think this is easily explained.

It’s not out of the blue, remember. 

Two weeks ago I noticed that Democrats’ lead on the generic ballot had shrunk to its smallest level in nearly a year, due mainly to Trump’s improving job approval. 

After slogging along at 38-39 percent for most of the second half of last year, POTUS had crept up to 41-42 percent. 

Not a world of difference, but a few points can mean a lot in the midterms.

Today he’s at 43.5 percent in the RCP “poll of polls.” 

..On April 28 he was at 41.9 percent, in line with where he’s been for most of this year. 

The next day he leaped four-tenths of a point. 

...What gives? 

If 59 Michael Avenatti appearances on CNN can’t tank Trump’s approval, what are they good for?...

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Rapper Calls For Violence Against Kanye | Daily Wire

Rapper Calls For Violence Against Kanye | Daily Wire:

"Dillinger isn't the only person on the Left trying to silence Kanye. Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters unloaded on West on Monday in a stunningly paternalistic rant in which she chided him for talking "out of turn" and saying too much about politics, which she suggested he needs to "not have so much to say."
"Kanye West is a very creative young man," Waters said Monday in response to a question from a Politico reporter. "But we also think that sometimes West talks out of turn and perhaps he needs some assistance in helping him to formulate some of his thoughts. "

Photo: F-117 Retires

Photo: F-117 Retires:
"Two specially painted F-117 Nighthawks fly on one of their last missions.
The F-117s were retired in a farewell ceremony at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, April 22, 2008. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Kim Frey)"

Why Humans Increasingly Are Unaware of Their Ignorance (And Why it's a Big Problem) | Intellectual Takeout

Why Humans Increasingly Are Unaware of Their Ignorance (And Why it's a Big Problem) | Intellectual Takeout:
"At what point does collective ignorance parade as truth?"
“Has there ever been a time in the world’s history when people were more sure of their opinions?” asks Jim Ferrell of the Arbinger Insitute.

Ferrell observes, “We become set in our opinions precisely because we have lost sight of the fact that they are merely opinions…our culture is suffering from what one might call ‘opinion creep’—the elevation of unsupported thoughts to the status of opinions and opinions to convictions.”
We don’t know how to have civil disagreements anymore.
We fail to recognize that having a thought doesn’t make our thinking the truth.
Ferrell writes, “We tend to have convictions about many things and to have opinions about almost everything else. We blind ourselves to the enormity of our ignorance.”
Cognitive scientists Steven Sloman and Phillip Fernbach in their book The Knowledge Illusion, put it this way: “In general we don’t appreciate how little we know; the tiniest bit of knowledge makes us feel like experts. Once we feel like an expert we start talking like an expert.”
We take that tiny bit of knowledge and, as Ferrell observes, elevate it to a conviction.
Sloman and Fernbach write..."
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EXCLUSIVE -- Research: Google Search Manipulation Can Swing Nearly 80 Percent of Undecided Voters | Breitbart

EXCLUSIVE -- Research: Google Search Manipulation Can Swing Nearly 80 Percent of Undecided Voters | Breitbart:
"By inserting negative search suggestions under the name of a candidate, search engines like Google can shift the opinions of undecided voters by up to 43.4 percent, according to new research by a team at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology and reported exclusively by Breitbart News.

The lead author of the study, Dr. Robert Epstein, has previously conducted research into what he calls the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME).
This research showed that the manipulation of results pages in search engines can shift the voting preferences of undecideds by anywhere between 20 and 80 percent, depending on the demographic...
From the study:

The voting preferences of participants who saw no search suggestions shifted toward the favored candidate by 37.1%. The voting preferences of participants in the search suggestion groups who saw only positive search suggestions shifted similarly (35.6%). However, the voting preferences of participants who saw three positive search suggestions and one negative search suggestion barely shifted (1.8%); this occurred because the negative search suggestion attracted more than 40% of the clicks (negativity bias). In other words, a single negative search suggestion can impact opinions dramatically. Participants who were shown four negative suggestions (and no positives) shifted away from the candidate shown in the search bar (-43.4%).

The researchers conclude that by using this method of manipulation, search engines can shift a “50/50 split split among people who are undecided on an issue to a 90/10 split without people’s awareness and without leaving a paper trail for authorities to follow.”

Further on in the paper, the researchers reference allegations of search suggestion manipulation made against Google during the 2016 election, when the tech giant appeared to be suppressing negative search suggestions for Hillary Clinton while allowing negative suggestions for Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders to remain..."

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Alfie Evans Tragedy: Britain's Single Payer System Is To Blame

Alfie Evans Tragedy: Britain's Single Payer System Is To Blame:

"How are such horrors possible? They are possible because decades ago the British bought into the "single-payer" health care myth. It's the very same myth that leading Democrats are now insisting we import into the U.S.
The promise was that every British citizen would have the "right" to health care, at no cost to them. What they didn't know, or understand, was that by putting government in control of paying for health care and dispensing this right also gave the government bureaucrats the ability to decide what care gets provides, who can get it, and under what circumstances."

Cancer cells can go mysteriously dormant for years, and scientists are beginning to understand why

Cancer cells can go mysteriously dormant for years, and scientists are beginning to understand why: "Cancer has always been thought of as something that grows rapidly and uncontrollably, but this view may be wrong.
New evidence suggests that cancer alternatively uses the "accelerator" and the "brake" in order to survive.
If you plot the growth of prostate cancer tumour progression over years, you get a graph that looks something like this:

The graph shows that prostate cancer cells alternate periods of rapid growth with periods of dormancy. 
In the above example, the tumour will grow to the point where it starts to produce symptoms and the patient seeks treatment – which usually involves cutting the tumour out.
Surgery is often effective but, for some unfortunate patients, their cancer will return."...
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History for May 3

History for May 3 - On-This-Day.com
Niccolo Machiavelli 1469 - Italian philosopher/writer, Golda Meir (Golda Mabovitch, Golda Meyerson) 1898 - Fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel, Bing Crosby 1903 - Singer, according to Bing Crosby his birthday is May 2nd, his birthday is actually May 3 


Sugar Ray Robinson (Walker Smith Jr.) 1921 - Boxer, James Brown (James Joseph Brown, Jr.) 1928 - Singer, Frankie Valli 1934 - Musician (The Four Seasons) 



1802 - Washington, DC, was incorporated as a city.


1921 - West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax.


1937 - Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With The Wind."


1944 - Dr. Robert Woodward and Dr. William Doering produced the first synthetic quinine at Harvard University.


1948 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities were legally unenforceable.


1952 - The first airplane landed at the geographic North Pole.


1966 - The game "Twister" was featured on the "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.


1992 - Five days of rioting and looting ended in Los Angeles, CA. The riots, that killed 53 people, began after the acquittal of police officers in the beating of Rodney King.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2018/05/whatsyour-function-bytammy-derouin.html

What's Your Function?

By Tammy Derouin

If you grew up prior to today's multi-functional television remote control, you learned how to manage your time at an early age. The television commercial served as an effective tool to see how much you could get done in the least amount of time. The fade away was the starting pistol. My siblings and I would dash, collide and of course, fight over who did what first, before the show returned. Sometimes it was possible to negotiate a plan of attack ahead of time but that meant talking during the show. Negotiations could deteriorate very quickly if too much talking interfered with the program.

There was a time when entertainment was experienced in the present. Making plans and hoping they wouldn't be interrupted actually played a part in making the entertaining experience, your show of choice, special. If you missed it, it was gone. Eventually, there would be a re-broadcast but there was no guarantee you would see it. In more recent decades, even prior to today's multi-functional remote, holding out for summer re-runs was the best way to catch missed episodes. I recall neighborhood kids explaining or in some cases, acting out scenes for those who missed the show of choice.

Life was lived in the present. Pausing your entertainment was not possible. Don't get me wrong, it is nice to record shows and skip commercials. But, some of life's early childhood learning experiences came from learning how to get things done and done well, in a short amount of time. There was a given time frame and if you failed, life went on without you.

If you grew up in the 70's and 80's.......

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