Proposed Michigan law would take guns from people who pose threat to the public | WWMT

Proposed Michigan law would take guns from people who pose threat to the public | WWMT:

Democrats in the Michigan House and Senate introduced a new bill Thursday that would allow law enforcement officials to remove guns before a crisis happens. This is
The Red Flag law would be targeted toward people who may pose a serious threat to public safety. A Michigan sheriff said this is not law enforcement officials deciding on their own who poses a risk. Typically concern comes from family members or those around an at-risk individual who may have their firearms taken.

"How dare you THINK that!"-----I called for diversity of thought. My peers compared me to a neo-Nazi. - The College Fix

I called for diversity of thought. My peers compared me to a neo-Nazi. - The College Fix
"As I took part in a recent student leadership board meeting for the Department of Political Science at Boston University, a group that works to advise faculty on ways to improve, I offered some advice: the department could use more intellectual diversity.
I suggested more debates in the classroom, as opposed to what I had witnessed in my three years at the school, that being an assumption during class that everyone agrees.
I broached my idea after I had sat and respectfully listened to the ideas of others for an hour, but my peers, and a professor and an administrator in the room, were not about to return the favor.

• One student chided me that “debate” was too aggressive of a word, that I should use “discussion” instead. 
• Another student, a College Democrat in the room, then compared me to a well-known peer from Boston University who is often regarded as a neo-Nazi and who went to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, noting “he has sat here in these seats asking for intellectual diversity as well.”

I felt shocked and insulted. 
I waited to see if either the professor or administrator or any of the other students in the room would defend me. 
None did. 
One student suggested conservatives shouldn’t major in political science at Boston University, as they’d have a hard time. 
The room erupted in laughter.
I wish I could say I was surprised. 
But after years of experiencing liberal bias, both at Boston University as well as Lehigh University, where I attended before I transferred, it felt like just another day on campus.
To that end, there are plenty of anecdotes I could supply. 
Here are just a few.

• As a freshman, or as the administration likes to say to avoid being sexist— as a “first-year”— I was required to take an English class. My instructor was a teaching assistant, but insisted we call her professor. The morning after President Trump won, she dismissed class early because she could not stop crying..."

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Lots of taxes (like GAS TAX) not on this list but a worthy list.-----Where you'll pay the most – and least – on state and local taxes in the US

Where you'll pay the most – and least – on state and local taxes in the US: 
"While all Americans are generally subject to the same federal tax code, each of the 50 states has broad authority to levy its own sales, income and property taxes – or not.
While every state government relies on taxes to operate, no two state tax structures are exactly the same. 
For example, 

• four states do not charge a sales tax and 
• seven states do not levy personal income taxes. 
• ...13 states derive the largest share of their annual tax revenue from sales taxes and 
• nine from personal income taxes.

The differences are compounded by the amount states need to collect to function. 
While some states collect as little as $2,800 per capita annually, others collect well over $6,000..."

25. Michigan
• Taxes paid as percentage of income: 9.4 percent
• Income per capita: $46,201 (20th lowest)
• Income tax collections per capita: $937 (24th lowest)
• Property tax collections per capita: $1,382 (25th highest)
• General sales tax collections per capita: $922 (25th highest)

#1 This day 1962-----Bruce Channel - Hey Baby

Oh goody! Another reason to be OUTRAGED!!-----Will Smith hit with 'colorism' backlash after new role announced - New York Daily News

Will Smith hit with 'colorism' backlash after new role announced - New York Daily News
"Will Smith is set to star as tennis superstars Serena and Venus Williams’ father, Richard, in the aptly titled “King Richard,” but the former “Fresh Prince” isn’t getting a very royal welcome.
...While Hollywood is clearly intrigued by the project — set to be produced by Tim White and Trevor White’s Star Thrower Entertainment — the public has a different view.
The news elicited colorism-related backlash given that Smith has lighter skin than Williams.
The term “colorism” is used to describe “the privileging of light skin over dark,” something Hollywood has been accused of more than once..."
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And the media shilled for her every step of the way!

Trump’s New Attorney General Warns Of ‘Porous Border’ Effects | The Daily Caller

Trump’s New Attorney General Warns Of ‘Porous Border’ Effects | The Daily Caller:

Newly-confirmed Attorney General Bill Barr laid out in stark terms the negative effects of a porous border, in a Monday speech before the National Association of Attorneys General.

Eruption of corruption!-----Olympic Skier Caught With A Needle In His Arm During Blood Doping Raid

Olympic Skier Caught With A Needle In His Arm During Blood Doping Raid
"Boy, it’d suck to be this guy. 
German and Austrian officials conducted a doping raid at the Nordic skiing world championships last week in Seefeld, Austria. 
Five skiers and four other people were arrested at the championships, while German authorities claim they also arrested the alleged ringleader in Erfurt, Germany. 
Two pro cyclists already admitted to blood doping last week, but nobody will likely be as embarrassed as the dude caught on camera receiving a transfusion.
The man who was caught red-armed is Austrian Max Hauke, a veteran of the Sochi and Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. 
A brief video obtained by Norwegian network NRK shows Hauke, unsure of what to do, sitting on a chair while police mill around. (German paper Vorarlberg also had it, though they have since deleted it without explanation.) 
Maybe he can try the “The needle fell into my arm!” excuse?
The police officer who took the video was reportedly fired and could face criminal charges...."
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AM Fruitcake

History for March 6

History for March 6 - On-This-Day.com
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806, Ed McMahon 1923, Alan Greenspan 1926 - Federal Reserve chairman


Leroy Gordon ‘Gordo’ Cooper 1927, Marion Barry 1936, Shaquille O'Neal 1972 - Basketball player


1820 - The Missouri Compromise was enacted by the U.S. Congress and signed by U.S. President James Monroe. The act admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory.


1899 - Aspirin was patented by German researchers Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dreser.

Report: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Has Violated Her Own Green New Deal | The Daily Caller

Report: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Has Violated Her Own Green New Deal | The Daily Caller:

Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez admitted to contributing to greenhouse gas emissions in response to a report calling out her hypocrisy on climate change.
An article from the New York Post on Saturday noted that Ocasio-Cortez, the main proponent of the Green New Deal, does not do much to limit her carbon footprint and reminded the self-described “democratic socialist” that she has encouraged others to do so while warning that “the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.”

The way we were-----Rita Coolidge - (Your Love Has Lifted Me)Higher & Higher

Boob-tube-----Dumb Family Feud Family

Dinner video-----The whole speech!----CPAC 2019 - President Donald J. Trump

The progressive media is dragging out the "Red Scare" meme to tar Republicans for calling attention to the Democrat lurch to the far left. ----Fans of Best of the Web Today

(7) Fans of Best of the Web Today---Michael Smith
"The progressive media is dragging out the "Red Scare" meme to tar Republicans for calling attention to the Democrat lurch to the far left. 

Trump and Pence were uncomfortably close to the bulls-eye in the SOTU and CPAC remarks.
The progressive mass media is handling this just like they do acts of terrorism - when a terrorist claims he did it for Islam and the glory of Allah, their first response is "No you didn't, Islam is a religion of peace. You did it due to global climate change or a lack of education."
The terrorist gets mad and says, "You infidel, we did it because you are a non-believer and we are commanded by Allah to kill the non-believers and the Jews. Allahu Snackbar!"
The next day, the media reports, "The attack was likely due to America's imperialism, racism, xenophobia and regional hegemony."
"No, idiots. We want to kill you to defend Islam! Convert or die! Death to the Great Satan!"
To which the media responds, "We may never know what the motives of this group were but we are pretty sure it wasn't jihadism."
Same with the Democrats.
When the Democrats saunter up to the podium and say, "I'm a socialist who wants government to give everything to you because everything that has happened to you is the bourgeois fault and billionaires will be shot!", the media says "That's not REAL socialism! It's democracy at work!"
When that doesn't work, they say, "It's your fault for noticing. How dare you! Have you no shame?"

House Foreign Affairs Chair Engel Slams Omar for ‘Vile Anti-Semitic Slur’

House Foreign Affairs Chair Engel Slams Omar for ‘Vile Anti-Semitic Slur’:

House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) blasted Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Friday for suggesting that pro-Israel politicians hold “allegiance to a foreign country” and demanded the freshman congresswoman apologize for her “vile anti-Semitic slur.”

The Other Opiate Problem

The Other Opiate Problem
"I used to love "60 Minutes." 
...Oh, how times have changed!

On February 24, 60 Minutes did a segment about a drug manufacturer who is calling out drug companies for "corrupt," "immoral," and "depraved" actions in marketing opioids.

Supposedly, the incentive for changing the labeling of opioids to allow for extended use is some sort of moral crime. 
David Kessler, former Commissioner of the FDA said, "There are no studies on the safety or efficacy of opioids for long term use." (8:25 in the video)

Case closed! 
We need to restrict opioids to two or three days at most. 
...while there may be no studies on extended use, those of us in medicine are painfully aware that while some patients do well without opioids, others require what Dr. Kessler would call "extended" use. 
This is a result of the Bell curve, or "normal distribution" of response to drugs.

The person whose knee replacement requires zero opioids is on the left side of this curve, while the one who needs them for two weeks is on the right. 
Most of us fall somewhere in the middle. 
Every surgeon and every anesthesiologist lives with this curve every day. 
Importantly, the difference between the left and right sides of the curve isn't two or three pain pills. 
The range is from zero to a hundred or more. 
And that leads to a key piece of information that 60 Minutes completely ignored.

Most physicians routinely use medications in "off-label" ways. 

To understand this, we have to point out one part of the Law of the Bureaucrat. 
Each FDA officer has been hired to "protect the public" from unsafe drugs. 

This means that people are too stupid to use drugs properly 

(Unfortunately, this is often all too true, even when explicit instructions are provided). 

And it means that doctors are too stupid to prescribe them safely, leaving the bureaucrat charged with "protecting the public" as the smartest person in the room. 

That then means that the bureaucrat must create iron-clad instructions for how medical personnel with more training and experience than him or her should prescribe the drugs..."

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In case you missed it on TV-----Service grinds to halt at Secretary of State offices - so does drivers' patience - Story | WJBK

Service grinds to halt at Secretary of State offices - so does drivers' patience - Story | WJBK
(FOX 2) - Michigan's Secretary of State system was beset with issues after a system upgrade earlier this month that was supposed to make everything better in the long run.
The issues and wait times were especially bad on Wednesday, when customers told us the text notification system was not accurately predicting wait times. 

We were told the self-service kiosks were also down - and many waited 3 or 4 hours for routine services.
"I came here at 2:30 and was told it was a three to four-hour wait," one woman at the Secretary of State branch in Novi told us.
..."I got in line about 2 o'clock and they said the estimated wait time was 220 minutes," Alex Tartaglia told us..."
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Lunch video-----Idiocracy - Trailer

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UPS stops deliveries to Muslim 'no-go zone' - WND

UPS stops deliveries to Muslim 'no-go zone' - WND:

The international delivery company UPS will no long deliver packages in a Muslim-majority neighborhood in Malmo, Sweden, for security reasons.
The Swedish daily newspaper Sydsvenskan reported a customer in the Rosengard district of Malmo received notice from UPS that the company no longer delivers to private addresses there because of the risk of being exposed to robbery or other crimes.
PostNord Sverige, the Swedish postal company, does not deliver packages to another area in Malmo, Seved.
“We must think of our staff in the first place,” said Mathias Krummel of PostNord.
A UPS employee said home delivery in Rosengard was stopped two months ago after drivers were attacked.
Even in some areas in Stockholm, UPS has stopped the delivery of parcels, Sydsvenskan reported.

Economics of Green New Deal: More Red Than Green | Competitive Enterprise Institute

Economics of Green New Deal: More Red Than Green | Competitive Enterprise Institute
"My colleagues have written elsewhere about the energy and environmental components of the “Green New Deal” proposals that have been enthusiastically agreed to by most declared Democratic candidates for the presidency and which are about to be debated in the Senate. 
In this post I will take a brief look at the “social justice” components of the proposed Deal, which cover issues such as monetary theory and labor and employment policy.
What we will see is that they are just as radical as the proposals to decarbonize the economy in ten years. 

...Here are the “social justice” aspects of the Deal, as described in the now-withdrawn FAQ that was issued with the initial draft Senate resolution.

Long, long list.

Read 'em all!

• Ensure that all GND jobs are union jobs that pay prevailing wages and hire local...
• Guarantee a job with family-sustaining wages...

...The architects of the Green New Deal often refer to themselves as European-style social democrats or at most, Democratic Socialists. 

...there is an appropriate word for the political system they seek to institute—it is communism.

We know from history that the appropriate color to describe communism is not green, but a deep, bloody red."

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Imagine if ANY republican had done this!-----Tom Elliott on Twitter: "I montage'd her accent's greatest hits today. -->… "

Tom Elliott on Twitter: "I montage'd her accent's greatest hits today. "
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Tom Elliott‏ @tomselliott 15h15 hours ago

Hillary's occasional Southern accent made a well-timed return today in Selma, Ala., where she spoke at a "Bloody Sunday" anniversary event More

I montage'd her accent's greatest hits today.

#1 This day 1979-----I Will Survive