Excellent response from billionaire Home Depot co-founder and noted philanthropist, Bernie Marcus:---Fans of Best of the Web Today

Fans of Best of the Web Today-Fred S. Sebastian
"Excellent response from billionaire Home Depot co-founder and noted philanthropist, Bernie Marcus:

“I woke up this morning thinking it was going to be another great day. 

I've been celebrating with friends, family and the community since I turned 90. 

I've told you about the gracious gift of $117 million that was collected and given in my honor to four charities that mean a lot to me. 

All that happiness blew up because I said in a newspaper interview that I have supported and will continue to support Donald Trump.

Boom!

Negative stories... vicious threats, without cause, to boycott the company that has enabled my foundation to give billions to support autism, medical research, education, heart and neurological issues like stroke, and to help our veterans. 

The company that I retired from in 2002 and have not had a business relationship with in almost 20 years. 
A company that has employed more than a half-million people. 
The people who work there are affiliated with both political parties or no party at all. 
They are of all religions and all colors and backgrounds. 
Why would people want to hurt them?

All because I give my voice and some of my money to our President. Am I in China? Argentina? Russia? That's what it feels like to me.

It saddens me that our country has come to this, where I, as a private citizen, cannot express my feelings. 

It angers me and it saddens me, but it sure as hell is not going to stop me. 

If you thought it would, you've got the wrong guy.

In the next ten years, God willing, I will accomplish more to save this world than my critics will do even if they had forty lifetimes.”

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Inspector General Reaches ‘Breakthrough’ With Key Witness In FISA Abuse Probe | Daily Wire

Inspector General Reaches ‘Breakthrough’ With Key Witness In FISA Abuse Probe | Daily Wire:

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz reportedly has reached a "breakthrough" in the government's investigation into alleged FISA abuse against the Trump campaign as at least one witness has started to cooperate in the investigation.

Contempt is the New Tax Evasion :: SteynOnline

Contempt is the New Tax Evasion :: SteynOnline
"I've just come off of two days holed up in London's Old Bailey.
The famous court was once a beacon of justice, though you wouldn't know it from what happened there to Tommy Robinson.
...The finding of guilt was a fitting end to what was always a politically motivated show trial. 

Last week's hearing was ordered by Theresa May's attorney general after Robinson's previous conviction, for which he served 10 weeks of a 13 month prison sentence, was unanimously overturned by an appeals court.
Robinson had been arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced and jailed within a matter of five hours. 

I'm not even sure North Korea is so efficient. 

It just goes to show how the establishment is far more concerned with what you think than what you do.
The sex grooming gangsters Robinson filmed had been operating in Huddersfield with relative impunity for years, as countless others have in Rotherham, Rochdale, Bradford, and as many as 70 more English communities.
These cases were not simply flying under the radar of the state and the mainstream media, but operating in plain view, being met with politically correct silence and wilful ignorance.
Robinson threatened the establishment's indifference, and has been its enemy ever since.
In doing so, he's proven that if they want to get you, they'll get you on something. 

...All the official voices you'd hope would pipe up in his defence have been silent. 

The 10 weeks he served in prison were predominantly in solitary, with him unable to eat because of threats he was getting from Muslim inmates working in the kitchen.
A Somali warlord who served a day of Robinson's sentence would have had Amnesty International beating down the door of 10 Downing St.
He believed the wrong things and angered the wrong people. 

In 2019 Britain, that's apparently a crime."

WATCH: Best-Selling Author Reveals Why Trump Kicked Epstein Out Of Mar-A-Lago | Daily Wire

WATCH: Best-Selling Author Reveals Why Trump Kicked Epstein Out Of Mar-A-Lago | Daily Wire
"Best-selling author James Patterson — who wrote "Filthy Rich: The Billionaire's Sex Scandal--The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein" — told Fox News on Tuesday that then-private citizen Donald Trump threw alleged pedophile Jeffrey Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago after he was notified about complaints being made against Epstein
...."I knew him like everybody in Palm Beach knew him. He was a fixture in Palm Beach. I had a falling out with him a long time ago," Trump said. "I don't think I’ve spoken to him for 15 years. I wasn't a fan. I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you. I was not a fan of his."

Perino asked Patterson about Trump's remarks: 

"President Trump said earlier that he had a falling-out with Epstein about 15 years ago. Do you know what that was about?"
Patterson responded: 

"Well, I know that there were some complaints about Epstein at Mar-a-Lago and also I spoke to the head of the spa there. 

I said ‘did you ever meet Epstein?’ 

She said, 'oh yes... he was inappropriate with some of the younger women there.' She said she went to Trump and he threw him out of the club."
At another point in the interview, Patterson said he "knows Trump didn't know" about Epstein's alleged criminal activity...."
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Conservative sues 'malicious' Facebook for $3 billion - WND

Conservative sues 'malicious' Facebook for $3 billion - WND:

The lawsuit was announced by Larry Klayman, a former federal prosecutor and more recently the founder of Freedom Watch.
The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida and alleges “that Facebook and its wholly owned sister company Instagram, in banning Ms. Loomer from the social media sites, maliciously defamed her by publishing that she is a ‘dangerous individual’ and a domestic Jewish terrorist.”

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History for July 11

History for July 11 - On-This-Day.com
John Quincy Adams 1767 - Sixth President of the United States, John Wanamaker 1838, E.B. White 1899


Yul Brynner 1915, Tab Hunter 1931 - Actor, Leon Spinks 1953


1804 - The United States' first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, was killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in a duel.


1962 - The first transatlantic TV transmission was sent through the Telstar I satellite.

Pence Fires Back At Democrats’ Holocaust Comparisons | The Daily Caller

Pence Fires Back At Democrats’ Holocaust Comparisons | The Daily Caller:

Vice President Mike Pence criticized Democratic lawmakers Monday for diminishing the atrocities of the Holocaust in order to promulgate their own political narrative.
“We can never allow the memory of those lost in the Holocaust to be forgotten by freedom-loving people around the world. We must teach our children and our children’s children the truth of what happened. We must preserve the memory of those lost for future generations,” Pence told the crowd while speaking at the Christians United For Israel (CUFI) Summit.

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From 2017-----News - Global warming: Fake News From the Start | Heartland Institute

News - Global warming: Fake News From the Start | Heartland Institute
"...most of the American and global public have been brainwashed into believing the science is correct (and supported by the faux 97% consensus), so they would not have believed that explanation.
...But CO2 is a gas, the trace atmospheric gas that makes life on Earth possible.
Carbon is a solid, and carbon-based fuels are solid (coal), liquid (oil) or gaseous (natural gas).
By constantly railing about “carbon emissions,” Trudeau, Obama and others encourage people to think of carbon dioxide as something “dirty,” like soot, which really is carbon.
Calling CO2 by its proper name would help the public remember that it is actually an invisible, odorless gas essential to plant photosynthesis.
Canadian Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is arguably the most misinformed of the lot, saying in a recent interview that “polluters should pay.” 
She too either does not know that CO2 is not a pollutant, or she is deliberately misleading people.
...The plot to deceive the world about human-caused global warming gathered momentum right after the World Meteorological Organization and United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) created the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988.
...U.S. Senator Timothy Wirth (D-CO) was fully committed to the political agenda and the deception. As he explained in a 1993 comment, “We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing.…”
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Dori: Amazon pullout continues, setting Seattle up for devastation

Dori: Amazon pullout continues, setting Seattle up for devastation
"The Amazon pullout of Seattle continues. 
The corporate giant announced on Tuesday that it is going to build a 43-story tower in Bellevue.
It will be Amazon’s tallest building anywhere in the world, and it will be the tallest building in Bellevue, which has more than a few skyscrapers. 
...All of this is because we have a city council and a mayor who have gone fanatic about socialism. 
They keep pushing anti-business policies.
What this means for the downtown Seattle real estate market is that when the economy inevitably starts to turn, it will be cataclysmic. 
...More than 50 percent of the money Kshama Sawant has raised for re-election has come from outside of Seattle. 
What does that tell you? 
The socialist-Marxists around the country are so hell-bent on keeping a foothold in a major American city that they will donate to a Seattle City Council race. 
That’s where her support is — it’s not coming from within the city.
Keep letting the Amazon pullout happen and watch how hard the crash will be."
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REVEALED: Google’s ‘Respectful Code’ Policy To Edit Politically Incorrect Terms From Software, Including ‘Trumpssh’ | The Daily Caller

REVEALED: Google’s ‘Respectful Code’ Policy To Edit Politically Incorrect Terms From Software, Including ‘Trumpssh’ | The Daily Caller:

Google has undertaken a substantial program to ensure its code adheres to standards of political correctness. The “respectful code” policy, a copy of which was obtained by the Daily Caller, applies both to new code, and also includes an initiative to go back and edit old code that may include phrasing or words deemed problematic by Google’s diversity and inclusion team.
This is a matter of utmost importance, according to one of the documents obtained by The Daily Caller, because, “The cost of not doing this is the harm done to other Googlers every time they encounter these terms.”

Russia submarine that caught fire may have been to cut internet cables - Business Insider

Russia submarine that caught fire may have been to cut internet cables - Business Insider
"A Russian navy submarine caught fire on Monday, killing 14 sailors on board.
Two independent Russian news outlets reported that the vessel was the AS-12 "Losharik," a nuclear-powered vessel that US officials have said is designed to cut undersea cables that keep the world's internet running.
...US and other Western officials have long warned that Russian ships have been active near major undersea fiber-optic cables that carry calls, emails, texts, and trillions of dollars' worth of daily financial transactions.
..."If they are doing research on the sea floor with a military submarine, they are probably also able to interdict or disrupt undersea cabling or other undersea infrastructure, like pipelines."
,,,"These submarines might also be used to install, remove, or disrupt seabed sonar arrays" to either bolster Russia's own defenses or dismantle the defenses of another country..."
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https://www.businessinsider.com/map-shows-extent-of-undersea-internet-cables-that-russians-could-cut-2017-12

Seattle's 'Hate Crime Epidemic That Never Was' | Trending

Seattle's 'Hate Crime Epidemic That Never Was' | Trending
"Wilfred Reilly, author of the book Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War, has investigated the extraordinary and frightening claims by the Seattle Times that hate crimes and "incidents" in that city were up an astonishing 400% since 2012.

In the immortal words of Defense Secretary Albert Nimziiki from Independence Day, "That's not entirely accurate."

An examination of the Seattle data indicates that fewer than 40 actual criminal cases resulting from real, serious hate incidents were successfully prosecuted between 2012 and 2017. This provides an excellent case study of how media coverage of flash-point issues such as hate crime can—whether intentionally or not—sensationalize and exaggerate the urgency of social problems.

"Sensationalize and exaggerate"? 

Sounds familiar.

A look through the data that has been made available from Seattle’s office of the City Auditor reveals that there is little basis for panic. First, most of the situations contained in the 500-plus documented incidents for 2018 turned out not to be hate crimes at all. Out of 521 confrontations or other incidents reported to the police at some point during the year, 181 (35 percent) were deemed insufficiently serious to qualify as crimes of any kind. Another 215 (41 percent) turned out to involve some minor element of bias (i.e., an ethnic slur used during a fight), but did not rise to the definition of hate crime. Only 125, or 24 percent, qualified as  potential hate crimes—i.e., alleged “criminal incidents directly motivated by bias.” For purposes of comparison: There are 745,000 people living in Seattle, and 3.5-million in the metro area.

"Hate crime" is a politically charged term. 
But the Seattle Times uses it in a scare headline to describe interactions between people that, while mean and nasty, are in no way, shape, or form to be considered a "crime" much less a "hate crime."

The deeper you look at these stats, the more ridiculous it gets.

Indeed, if there is a single archetypal Seattle hate incident that emerges from this data, it would seem to involve a mentally ill homeless man yelling slurs at someone. According to the City Auditor, 22 percent of hate perps were “living unsheltered” at the time of their crime, 20 percent were mentally ill, and 20 percent were severely intoxicated.

Accusing a homeless, crazy person of a "hate crime" is ludicrous. 

But when you're a liberal newspaper trying to gin up fear and outrage, it's considered "good reporting."

The exaggeration of "hate crimes" isn't confined to Seattle..."
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New Book On Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Has Incendiary Allegations About Christine Blasey Ford | The Daily Caller

New Book On Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Has Incendiary Allegations About Christine Blasey Ford | The Daily Caller:

A forthcoming book on Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court relays incendiary allegations about Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, excerpts obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation show.
In “Justice on Trial” authors Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino say unnamed peers accused Ford of drinking to excess and accosting boys with some regularity as a student at the Holton-Arms School, a contrast with press accounts that cast her as innocent and naive during that period. Ford accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a 1982 house party in suburban Maryland when they were high school students.

Inconvenient Energy Realities: The Math Behind the "New Energy Economy" | Economics21

Inconvenient Energy Realities: The Math Behind the "New Energy Economy" | Economics21

• The math behind “The New Energy Economy: An Exercise in Magical Thinking”

"A week doesn’t pass without a mayor, governor, policymaker or pundit joining the rush to demand, or predict, an energy future that is entirely based on wind/solar and batteries, freed from the “burden” of the hydrocarbons that have fueled societies for centuries. 
Regardless of one’s opinion about whether, or why, an energy “transformation” is called for, the physics and economics of energy combined with scale realities make it clear that there is no possibility of anything resembling a radically “new energy economy” in the foreseeable future. 
Bill Gates has said that when it comes to understanding energy realities “we need to bring math to the problem.”
He’s right. 
So, in my recent Manhattan Institute report, “The New Energy Economy: An Exercise in Magical Thinking,” I did just that.
Herein, then, is a summary of some of bottom-line realities from the underlying math. 
(See the full report for explanations, documentation and citations.)..."

• Realities About the Scale of Energy Demand"

All the data here.

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