DON’T ALL LIVES MATTER?

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DON’T ALL LIVES MATTER?:
“Oregon county to pay black worker who complained about ‘Blue Lives Matter’ flag $100K settlement.”
Chaser: Buttigieg now regrets having said “All lives matter.”
And by the way: Black crime victims matter too.--Posted by Gail Heriot"

#1 This day 1971-----Joy To The World

HAPPY EASTER SEASON FROM SEATTLE

Instapundit Blog Archive HAPPY EASTER SEASON FROM SEATTL
"Seattle Man Punches Priest After Asking, ‘How’s Trump?’

Related: Seattle elites coordinated a PR campaign in response to ‘Seattle is Dying.’

These talking points, which you can see spelled out here, wound up in multiple stories at outlets that received funding from the same groups who hired the PR firm for their coverage of homelessness.

For instance:

“New poll shows the majority in Seattle say we have a moral obligation to help homeless people, and we need to spend more,” declared Seattle Times data journalist Gene Balk. 

The Butterfield Effect strikes again!--Posted by Ed Driscoll

Yes, they are insane. And mean!

People Fleeing Kim Foxx’s Office After Decision To Drop Charges Against Smollett | The Daily Caller

People Fleeing Kim Foxx’s Office After Decision To Drop Charges Against Smollett | The Daily Caller:

Two officials have resigned from their positions in the office of Cook County, Illinois, State’s Attorney Kim Foxx in the wake of her decision to drop charges against disgraced “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett.
April Perry, Foxx’s chief ethics officer, and Conviction Integrity Director Mark Rotert have both tendered their resignations and will serve their last days on the job in May.

Study: 1 In 5 Children Suffers From A Mental Health Disorder - Study Finds

Study: 1 In 5 Children Suffers From A Mental Health Disorder - Study Finds
HAMILTON, Ontario — One in five children suffer from a mental disorder — with notable increases in depression and anxiety over the past 30 years — yet less than one-third have had contact with a mental healthcare provider, a new study finds.

Results from the 2014 Ontario Child Health Study actually mirror findings from a similar study conducted in 1983, but this latest version shows a higher proportion of children and youth with disorders have had contact with health providers and in other settings, usually via schools.
The new study also found that the patterns of prevalence among different genders and age groups have changed.
Specifically, hyperactivity disorders in boys between four and 11 years old spiked from 9% to 16%. ..."
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AM Fruitcake

History for April 21

History for April 21 - On-This-Day.com
Friedrich Froebel 1782 - Teacher, author, toy maker, invented kindergarten in 1837, Anthony Quinn 1915 - Actor ("Viva Zapata! [1952]," "The Guns of Navarone"), Elizabeth II (Elisabeth Mary) 1926 - Queen of the United Kingdom


Patti LuPone 1949 - Actress ("Evita", "Driving Miss Daisy"), Tony Danza 1951 - Actor ("Who’s the Boss," "Taxi," "Angels in the Outfield"), Andie MacDowell (Rosalie Anderson) 1958 - Actress ("Groundhog Day", "St. Elmo’s Fire," "Four Weddings and a Funeral")


1836 - General Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. This battle decided the independence of Texas.


1943 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announced that several Doolittle pilots had been executed by the Japanese.

BuzzFeed Scrambles To Explain Botched Michael Cohen Bombshell | The Daily Caller

BuzzFeed Scrambles To Explain Botched Michael Cohen Bombshell | The Daily Caller:

BuzzFeed News is attempting to explain its botched bombshell claiming President Donald Trump directed lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress after Mueller’s report on Russia collusion revealed the story not to be true.
An article by editor-in-chief Ben Smith published Thursday further characterizes the sources and documents that lead to the report, but does not indicate that BuzzFeed intends to retract the story.

The way we were-----Sugarland - Everyday America

Boob-tube-----Unseen Scenes From WKRP

Increasing presence of homeless people seeking shelter at SFO airport - Story | KTVU

Increasing presence of homeless people seeking shelter at SFO airport - Story | KTVU
SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) - San Francisco is struggling with a surge of homeless people seeking shelter inside San Francisco International Airport.
San Francisco International Airport welcomes the world to the City by the Bay, but the airport said homeless people have discovered the airport as a temporary shelter; especially in the early morning hours after the last BART train has pulled into the airport.
An airport official said they're working on a short term and long-term solution
..."Ultimately we want to develop advocacy that finds the proper channels for these individuals," said Yakel.
...A former airport worker told us she walked everywhere with a buddy in the early morning hours because she frequently encountered homeless in the airport, especially in the early morning hours on cold or rainy days.

Mystery Surcharge Among Taxes, Fees Added To Gasoline In California – CBS San Francisco

Mystery Surcharge Among Taxes, Fees Added To Gasoline In California – CBS San Francisco
BERKELEY (KPIX 5) — A University of California, Berkeley professor is drawing attention to a gasoline “mystery surcharge” in the state – unexplained price increases in gasoline which have cost drivers $20 billion since 2015.
...The surcharges began in 2015, when the refinery explosion in Torrance caused what was expected to be a temporary spike in gas prices, according to Borenstein. 
However, the surcharge remained ever since..."
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Border Apprehensions In 2019 Have Already Surpassed Last Year’s Total | The Daily Caller

Border Apprehensions In 2019 Have Already Surpassed Last Year’s Total | The Daily Caller:

Border Patrol agents, halfway through fiscal year 2019, have already apprehended more migrants nationwide than all of fiscal year 2018.
Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) announced that 418,000 nationwide apprehensions have occurred this fiscal year to date. A total of 404,142 nationwide apprehensions took place in the entirety of fiscal year 2018, a CBP spokeswoman told The Daily Caller News Foundation. The numbers indicate that 2019 is on pace for a stellar year in border apprehensions.

Brain stimulation reverses age-related memory loss - Neuroscience News

Brain stimulation reverses age-related memory loss - Neuroscience News
"Summary: 
Transcranial magnetic stimulation applied to the parietal lobe improves the function of brain areas important for memory which are disrupted by aging. 
The study reports TMS helps improve memory in older adults experiencing memory loss to the level of younger adults.

Source: Northwestern University

...“Older people’s memory got better up to the level that we could no longer tell them apart from younger people,” said lead investigator Joel Voss, associate professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. 
“They got substantially better.”

The study used Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to target the hippocampus – the brain region that atrophies as people grow older, which is responsible for memory decline.

The study will be published April 17 in Neurology..."
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Hundreds Of Teens Run Through Downtown Chicago, Fighting And Disobeying Police – CBS Chicago

Hundreds Of Teens Run Through Downtown Chicago, Fighting And Disobeying Police – CBS Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago police were dealing with hundreds of teens running through downtown Chicago Wednesday night, yelling, stopping traffic and running in the streets.

A huge police presence did not deter the rowdy behavior at Millennium Park.
...“They work their butt off all night long, and they are so tolerant of these kids who are just so disrespectful, cursing at them, saying the things that they say, and we have the upmost tolerance of that,” said Chief Fred Waller.

Police say they had 200 officers on the scene, and as many as 500 young people were involved...

Lunch video-----Notre Dame Fire: A Tremendous Gift to the French People

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Jim Jordan Rips Democrats For Handling Of Trump Investigations | The Daily Caller

Jim Jordan Rips Democrats For Handling Of Trump Investigations | The Daily Caller:

Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan wrote a letter Monday accusing Democratic House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings of executing a secret “Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) with other House Democratic chairmen meant to target President Donald Trump.
The ranking member on the Oversight Committee, Jordan indicated that Cummings had coordinated the MOU with House Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters, and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, while keeping Republican members in the dark on investigations into Trump and his campaign.

My Simple, Effective Comprehensive Illegal Immigration Reform Plan: Go Home

My Simple, Effective Comprehensive Illegal Immigration Reform Plan: Go Home
"Get out, illegals.
Go home.
Or don’t go home – I don’t care where you go.
You just can’t stay here in America.
This is my elegant, uncomplicated comprehensive immigration reform plan.
If we did not invite you in – if you didn’t have the basic courtesy and respect for this country to ask to come here, then get out.
And don’t come back – if you snuck into America, you don’t get to come back.
It’s simple and fair.
The fair part is important, because it’s about time that our immigration laws be fair to the only people who should matter when we make our policies – American citizens.
Yes, the goal of our immigration system should be one thing – to benefit American citizens..."
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Camille Paglia vs the trans-Taliban | Spectator USA

Camille Paglia vs the trans-Taliban | Spectator USA:
"Camille Paglia has joined the ever-growing list of women in the metaphorical stocks being pelted with accusations of transphobia. 
A number of blue-fringed students at her university are demanding she be fired for her statements criticizing some women who bring charges of sexual assault, and because of her comments about transgender people. 
‘I am highly skeptical about the current transgender wave, which I think has been produced by far more complicated psychological and sociological factors than current gender discourse allows’, she said in 2017.
Why are they bringing this up now, you may ask? 
Why ever not? 
I am still hounded and bullied by the cabal for a comment piece I wrote in 2004. 
The trans extremists never forget, and, as sporting legend Martina Navratilova recently discovered they certainly do not forgive..."
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#1 This day 1980-----Blondie - Call me

OUR POLITICAL CLASS IS COMPOSED OF IDIOTS

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"OUR POLITICAL CLASS IS COMPOSED OF IDIOTS:

“Chief Legal Analyst” for CNN.
UPDATE: From the comments: 
“This is not stupid, and it is dangerous to see it that way. 
This is the deliberate and coordinated big lie, the latest attempt to keep this coup together. 
All the left united in the latest lie. 
It is aimed at people so ignorant of their own nation’s affairs they don’t even realize that the Obama Administration actually spied on an opponent’s campaign and Nixon never did.”
Flashback: Was Obama administration illegal spying worse than Watergate?

In 1972, some employees of President Nixon’s

 re-election committee were caught when they broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters to plant a bug. This led to Nixon’s resignation and probably would have led to his felony prosecution had he not been pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford.

But if a single bugging of the political opposition is enough to bring down a presidency — and maybe lead to an unprecedented criminal prosecution of a former president — then what are we to make of the recently unveiled Obama administration program of massively spying on political opponents in violation of clearly established law?

Because that’s what was unveiled last week.

It’s now become much clearer what happened. 
And yes, it was much worse than Watergate, since it involved the perversion of existing government agencies into political spying and persecution.
Plus:

Will the Justice Department investigate and prosecute former Obama officials? ...

Answer: No.--Posted by Glenn Reynolds"
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Yes, there is a difference between political parties.