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The Common Thread in All Those Florida Election Debacles

The Common Thread in All Those Florida Election Debacles:

One thing Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis have going for them -- besides the obvious lead in vote totals so far -- is history. Republican presidential candidates Rutherford B. Hayes and George W. Bush both eventually ended up carrying the state of Florida in 1876 and 2000, two other prolonged elections.
Even before Brenda Snipes ran elections in Broward County, Florida had real issues with counting votes.

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History for November 14

History for November 14 - On-This-Day.com
Robert Fulton 1765 - Engineer and inventor (steamboat), Claude Monet 1840 - French impressionist painter, Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 - Indian politician


Joseph McCarthy 1909 - Politician (U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, P.J. O'Rourke 1947 - Political satirist, journalist, writer, Condoleezza Rice 1954 - U.S. Secretary of State


1972 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 1,000 (1,003.16) level for the first time.


1994 - U.S. experts visited North Korea's main nuclear complex for the first time under an accord that opened such sites to outside inspections.

Top Facebook exec fired ‘for supporting Trump’

Top Facebook exec fired ‘for supporting Trump’:

Facebook, embattled in recent months because of its aggressive campaign to censor conservative speech and views, is being accused of firing a key executive after it was revealed that he contributed to a campaign that opposed Democrat Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election.

The way we were-----Patsy Cline - Crazy

Boob-tube-----The Monty Python and Holy Grail, The English meet the French castle - Fr...

"Israel should let Hamas kill some Jews, it's unfair that only one side has casualties" - BBC host - Speech Point

"Israel should let Hamas kill some Jews, it's unfair that only one side has casualties" - BBC host - Speech Point
"Every week Hamas terrorists and their supporters take part in violent riots along the Gaza border. 

For many Israeli families, the Gaza Strip is a short walk from their backyard. IDF soldiers don’t just protect a border, but what lies behind it -- our families, our homes, and our children. 

The world refuses to blame terrorists who brag about their plans to “tear down that border and tear out their hearts from their bodies,” (a quote from Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar).

Palestinian terrorism has nothing to do with Jerusalem and everything to do with Islam..."
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Prof sues over gender pronoun usage

Prof sues over gender pronoun usage

• A Shawnee State University professor is suing his university, alleging that he was punished over refusing to use a student's preferred gender pronoun.
• Nicholas Meriwether, who cited his Christian beliefs when refusing to use the pronoun, claims that the student told him, “then I guess this means I can call you a c**t.”
  
  A professor at a public university in Ohio is suing the school, claiming he was punished for not calling a student by their preferred pronoun.
  The professor called on the student in class, saying “yes, sir.”
  The lawsuit states that Meriweather "has always used the titles and pronouns that refer to a student's biological gender" and that he "has never knowingly used feminine titles and pronouns to refer to men or masculine titles and pronouns to refer to women."
  ...Following the class period in January 2018, the student in question “demanded” that the professor address the student as a female, the lawsuit alleges.
  ...But, when Meriwether declined to address the student as a female, the student allegedly told the professor, “then I guess this means I can call you a c**t.” ...
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Election Judge Sees Fraud 7 Ft Away. Reports It. Dems Demand She Be Removed: Report

Election Judge Sees Fraud 7 Ft Away. Reports It. Dems Demand She Be Removed: Report:

While “all eyes” are on Florida amidst accusations of potential election fraud, there may have been something fishy going on in St. Clair County, Illinois. According to The Gateway Pundit, this would not be the first time something like this has happened, either.
Peggy A. Hubbard posted a multi-tweet thread explaining what happened in the 2018 midterm elections, noting that she was an election judge. She began describing some of what she witnessed as she watched the polling station.

Napoleon Reborn: We Need A "European Empire" To Challenge US And China, French Minister Says | Zero Hedge

Napoleon Reborn: We Need A "European Empire" To Challenge US And China, French Minister Says | Zero Hedge
"As increasingly unpopular French President Emmanuel Macron's calls for creating a "Real European Army" have been met with ridicule from President Trump, who has insisted that Macron should first try meeting France's NATO commitments...
@realDonaldTrump
President Macron of France has just suggested that Europe build its own military in order to protect itself from the U.S., China and Russia. Very insulting, but perhaps Europe should first pay its fair share of NATO, which the U.S. subsidizes greatly!
...Another senior French official upped the aggressive rhetoric in an interview published on Monday, saying that Europe shouldn’t be afraid of using its power to become "a peaceful empire" to help it stand up to China and the US. 
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire made the comments in an interview with Germay's Handelsblatt, which noted that Germany remains largely opposed to such a Continent-wide military alliance..."
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We hear about US jobs outsourced overseas ('stolen') but what about the 7.1M insourced jobs we ‘steal’ from abroad? - AEI

We hear about US jobs outsourced overseas ('stolen') but what about the 7.1M insourced jobs we ‘steal’ from abroad? - AEI
Carpe Diem

"We’ve heard a lot of criticism over the last several years, especially from President Trump and many of his economic advisers and supporters, about US firms outsourcing factory jobs overseas, along with accusations that countries like Mexico, China, and Japan are “stealing US jobs” (see more than 20,000 Google search results for “Trump” + “stealing jobs”). 

...What we don’t hear very much about from Team Trump are the jobs that are “insourced” into every US state by foreign companies, even though those insourced jobs totaled more than 7.1 million Americans and represented 5.6% of all private sector US jobs in 2016 based on new preliminary data released this week by the Bureau of Economic Analysis on “Activities of U.S. Affiliates of Foreign Multinational Enterprises in 2016.” 

The map above (thanks to AEI’s Allison Torban for assistance) shows the thousands (and in half of the US states the hundreds of thousands) of insourced jobs in each US state in 2016.

Here are some key statistics on jobs insourced to the U.S. that highlight some of the significant economic benefits to the U.S. economy from the thousands of foreign-based firms that outsource jobs and production to the U.S.:

• More than 6,000 US affiliates of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) employed 7.1 million American workers in 2016, an increase of 3.9% from 2015, adding roughly 300,000 to the US economy..."
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Lunch video-----John Stossel - Cool Commies and Other Myths

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Behar Blames 'Gerrymandering' for GOP Senate Wins in Midterms

Behar Blames 'Gerrymandering' for GOP Senate Wins in Midterms:

Joy Behar of "The View" falsely claimed Wednesday that Republicans maintained control–and even gained seats–in the Senate this election cycle because of gerrymandering, a process that impacts congressional districts.
ABC’s Matt Dowd had to reply that the Republican Party's ability to control of the Senate while obtaining less votes in the national popular vote was not a result of gerrymandering. "That’s the Constitution," he said.

'Emergency Voting' Centers Opened by Dem Recorder Raise Questions

'Emergency Voting' Centers Opened by Dem Recorder Raise Questions
"Republicans argue Maricopa merely created illegal extension of early voting
PHOENIX, Ariz.—Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes's (D.) answers to questions about controversial emergency voting centers opened on the Saturday and Monday before Election Day only inspired more criticism from Republicans, who consider the centers workarounds for voting election deadlines set by law.
The debate over Maricopa County's logistical decisions comes as ballots continue to slowly be counted in Arizona's Senate contest.
...By law, early voting is supposed to end on the Friday before Election Day, but the law also provides for the emergency voting centers that may be created after. 
Ambiguities over the "emergency voting" statute—including questions as to what constitutes an emergency and whether or not a voter should have to prove their emergency—are the points of conflict..."
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Petition asks UMN to 'address' College Republicans' gender pronoun mural

Petition asks UMN to 'address' College Republicans' gender pronoun mural

• A painting by the College Republicans at the University of Minnesota was vandalized at least twice.
• The university said that was it able to identify the individual who spray painted the College Republicans panel," but that the "city attorney's office has declined to charge the individual.”

College Republicans at the University of Minnesota painted a critique of a proposed pronoun policy at the school, but the mural was later vandalized with the phrase “Queer Power.”
Now, some students are petitioning the university to take action against the College Republicans, saying that their mural constituted "hate speech." 
Every year, student groups at UMN decorate blank bridge panels on Washington Avenue Bridge. College Republicans painted panels on Oct. 11 that included the statement, “the proposed pronoun policy mocks real social issues,” “Make the [university] great again,” “Trump 2020,” and “all opinions are welcome here” for their 2018 design..."
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#1 This day 1960-----Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind (The Orginal Song From The Albom)

Lack of sunspots to bring record cold, warns NASA scientist - Ice Age Now

Lack of sunspots to bring record cold, warns NASA scientist - Ice Age Now

“It could happen in a matter of months,” says Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s Langley Research Center.

“The sun is entering one of the deepest Solar Minima of the Space Age,” wrote Dr Tony Phillips just six weeks ago, on 27 Sep 2018.

Sunspots have been absent for most of 2018 and Earth’s upper atmosphere is responding, says Phillips, editor of spaceweather.com.

Data from NASA’s TIMED satellite show that the thermosphere (the uppermost layer of air around our planet) is cooling and shrinking, literally decreasing the radius of the atmosphere.
...“Right now, it is very low indeed … 10 times smaller than we see during more active phases of the solar cycle,” says Mlynczak

Record cold in a matter of months

“If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold,” says Mlynczak. “We’re not there quite yet, but it could happen in a matter of months.”

The TIMED satellite monitoring the temperature of the upper atmosphere

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The Chill of Solar Minimum

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Ignorant Democrats Don’t Understand the Constitution - The Rush Limbaugh Show

Ignorant Democrats Don’t Understand the Constitution - The Rush Limbaugh Show:

Now, this is a great illustration of how pathetic the education about our country is, how literally pathetic the education about our Constitution is.  I’m telling you, it is a flashpoint.  And it is a danger.  We have people in the media who do not know history.  They have not been told the truth about various historical things, and they certainly have not been taught the Constitution.  They have not been taught the founding documents.
They have been taught to hate it.

FB censors didn't like another one. "Community standards" you know....

This is how our National Civility Censors are now "educating" us deplorables.

My "History for November 12" FaceBook post was removed.

The Stalin quote is verified and accurate.

Even if it were not, why remove the post?

To send a message to any and all who would dare diverge from our Dear Leader's Newspeak?


This is how our National Civility Censors

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History for November 13

History for November 13 - On-This-Day.com
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850- Author, best known for Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde., Louis Brandeis 1856- Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939, Nathaniel Benchley 1915- Author 


Garry Marshall 1934- Producer, director, Whoopi Goldberg 1955- Actress, Gerard Butler 1969- Actor ("The Ugly Truth," "The Bounty Hunter")


1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend in which he said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."


1805 - Johann George Lehner, a Viennese butcher, invented a recipe and called it the "frankfurter."