Attorney General William Barr said Thursday the Justice Department will resume executions of federal prisoners after a nearly 20 years lapse, and immediately scheduled executions for five federal death row inmates convicted of murdering children and the elderly, while promising more to come.
According to a Justice Department announcement, Barr directed Hugh Hurwitz, the acting director of the Bureau of Prisons, to adopt the revision to the Federal Execution Protocol, a maneuver that “[clears] the way for the federal government to resume capital punishment after a nearly two decade lapse, and bringing justice to victims of the most horrific crimes.”
Nick French teaches a course at UC Berkeley on ‘Individual Morality and Social Justice.”
He recently made his views on the topics public, arguing that those who gain wealth through capitalism are always complicit in immorality.
A University of California, Berkeley instructor teaching a course on morality has made his views on the subject abundantly clear, arguing that wealthy people are inherently immoral, even when they donate their wealth to worthy causes.
“We don’t need the wealthy, just their wealth"
French argued in a recent Jacobin Magazine op-ed that people need to “dispossess the benevolent rich of their ill-gotten gains.”... Read all.
Fairplay World Championship Pack Burro Race won’t reach Mosquito Pass for first time ever due to snow drifts | SummitDaily.com: "Days away from August, this winter and spring’s snowfall is still affecting outdoors events in the High Country. Sunday’s 71st annual World Championship Pack Burro Race will not reach Mosquito Pass for the first time since the race, which pairs a human with a donkey, has run its course from historic South Park in Fairplay up to the 13,185-foot Mosquito Pass, and back. “The snow is still too deep,” town of Fairplay special events coordinator Julie Bullock said Wednesday evening.
Bullock said snow drifts up near the top of the pass, near 13,000 feet, remained as high as 13 feet late last week..." Read all.
Michigan’s big utilities also plan for you to just have less to use
Severe storms last weekend left some 600,000 DTE Energy and 250,000 Consumers Energy customers without power. ...“We understand your frustration as you try to go about your daily activities without power,” DTE said on Twitter. ...But as DTE and Consumers Energy implement their ideas for generating electricity in the future — called integrated resource plans — customers can likely expect lower levels of power reliability. In 2017, 37% of energy in Michigan was generated by coal, but DTE is planning to retire 11 of its 17 coal-fired generation units by 2022. The electricity these plants provide will be replaced by a mix of renewable sources, including more industrial wind turbines. The company will also import power from utilities in other states and Canada when the renewables can’t handle the demand. Similarly, Consumers Energy recently announced a goal of getting 56% of its electric capacity through renewable sources. It plans to do that by buying power from elsewhere and by requiring Michigan household and business customers to use less through demand response programs. These may include voluntary incentives to use less power, but they can also involve mandatory reductions in energy usage, especially for commercial and industrial users. As Consumers Energy anticipated last week’s heat wave, the company asked customers to keep their thermostats at 78 degrees to conserve its limited resources..." Read all.
Republican Georgia Rep. Doug Collins threw out his opening statement Thursday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration, instead calling on Democrats to properly fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to deal with the crisis on the border.
East Side Neighborhood Chamber in Chicago Hosts Event Where Kids Bash ICE Agent Pinata - Blue Lives Matter
"Children took turns beating a pinata that was created in the likeness of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent during a community block party on July 13.
The “East Side Community Day in Chicago” community event was hosted by a chamber of commerce comprised of 25 local businesses, FOX News reported.
Videos and photos of the scene showed the kids as they lined up for their turn to smash the ICE agent-themed pinata with a large stick..." Read all.
History for July 27 - On-This-Day.com Charlotte Corday 1768, Norman Lear 1922, Bobbie Gentry 1944 - Country singer Peggy Fleming 1948, Maureen McGovern 1949 - Singer, Bill Engvall 1957 - Comedian ("Blue Collar TV") 1777 - The marquis of Lafayette arrived in New England to help the rebellious American colonists fight the British. 1995 - The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC, by U.S. President Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam.
The Senate confirmed Brian C. Buescher to a federal judgeship in Nebraska, over the objection of Democrats who’d peppered him with questions about his membership in the Catholic fraternal group Knights of Columbus.
What Were Robespierre’s Pronouns? - WSJ "We often make historical parallels here. History doesn’t repeat itself but it does rhyme, as clever people say. And sometimes it hiccups. Here is a hiccup. We start with the moral and political catastrophe that was the French Revolution. It was more a nationwide psychotic break than a revolt—a great nation at its own throat, swept by a spirit not only of regicide but suicide. For 10 years they simply enjoyed killing each other. ...It was a revolution largely run by sociopaths. One, Robespierre, the “messianic schoolmaster,” saw it as an opportunity for the moral instruction of the nation. ...There would be pageants, and new names for things. They would change time itself! ...So here is our parallel, our hiccup. I thought of all this this week because I’ve been thinking about the language and behavioral directives that have been coming at us from the social and sexual justice warriors who are renaming things and attempting to control the language in America. There is the latest speech guide from the academy, the Inclusive Communications Task Force at Colorado State University.
Don’t call people “American,” it directs: “This erases other cultures.”
Don’t say a person is mad or a lunatic, call him “surprising/wild” or “sad.”
“Eskimo,” “freshman” and “illegal alien” are out.
“You guys” should be replaced by “all/folks.”
Don’t say “male” or “female”; say “man,” “woman” or “gender non-binary.”
...there’s an aspect of self-infatuation, of arrogance, in telling people they must reorder the common language to suit your ideological preferences. There is something mad in thinking you should control the names of things. ...I see in it a spirit similar to that of the Terror. There is a tone of, “I am your moral teacher. Because you are incapable of sensitivity, I will help you, dumb farmer. I will start with the language you speak.” An odd thing is they always insist they’re doing this in the name of kindness and large-spiritedness. And yet, have you ever met them? They’re not individually kind or large-spirited. They’re more like messianic schoolmasters. Offices and schools are forced to grapple with all the new gender-neutral pronouns. Here a handy guide from a website purporting to help human-resources departments in midsize businesses. It is headlined. “Gender Neutral Pronouns—What They Are & How to Use Them.”
It’s wrong, when you meet a new co-worker, to ask his pronouns. (We don’t say “preferred” pronouns—that “implies someone’s gender is a preference”!) You don’t want him wondering if you think he’s transgender or nonbinary. Instead, introduce yourself in a way that summons his pronouns: “Hi, I’m Jim and my pronoun is he/him.” Use “they” a lot. It’s gender neutral. Suggested sentence: “I spoke to the marketing director and they said they’d get back to me.” This is grammatically incorrect but so what? ...And there are the office arguments about bathroom policy, which I gather are reaching some new peak. ...It’s all insane. All of it. But we’re moving forward, renaming the months and the sexes, reordering the language. You wonder how the people who push all this got so much power. But then, how did Robespierre?" Read it all!!
Former Facebook Exec Explains Why Media Are Botching Coverage Of Company’s Settlement | The Daily Caller:
Former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos said Wednesday that people are missing the most important element involved in holding the Silicon Valley company responsible for alleged privacy rights violations.
“The real threat to the tech giants is competition, not regulation, and everybody is missing what really happened today,” he told his Twitter followers. He was responding to a tweet from Obama-era adviser Ashkan Soltani, who laid out details surrounding the Federal Trade Commission’s settlement with Facebook.
Do You Understand that Democrats will Destroy America?
"I earn my living investing other people’s money in the stock market. I am terrified contemplating how I am going to save my clients’ money, as well as my own, if a Democrat is elected president.
The policies that the Democrats are advocating will destroy the American economy, not just the stock market, but the whole US economy.
My first instinct will be to raise cash ahead of the stock market crash, but even that is only a temporary safe harbor.
The Green New Deal, renewed regulations, Medicare for All, free college, as well as the 70-90% tax rates proposed by Democrats, will tank the stock market and US economic growth, leading to higher unemployment and reduced wage gains. All these programs require higher taxes and not just the soak the rich fantasy of the 70-90% rates. Most of the Democratic candidates have pledged to roll back the 2017 Republican tax cuts that fueled the renewal of economic growth in the US.
Open borders will flood the US with poverty stricken immigrants and their competition for jobs will depress wages. The social welfare needs of the immigrants will skyrocket government expenditures. So while taxes receipts are falling due to slower economic growth rates, expenditures will be rising, leading to increased government debt and consequently higher interest rates.
If the Federal Reserve tries to keep interest rates low to prevent a deepening recession, then the increase in the money supply and the expanding deficit will eventually destroy the value of the dollar. So much for my safe harbor in cash..."
Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months - BBC News
"Do you remember the good old days when we had "12 years to save the planet"?
Now it seems, there's a growing consensus that the next 18 months will be critical in dealing with the global heating crisis, among other environmental challenges.
Last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that to keep the rise in global temperatures below 1.5C this century, emissions of carbon dioxide would have to be cut by 45% by 2030.
But today, observers recognise that the decisive, political steps to enable the cuts in carbon to take place will have to happen before the end of next year.
The idea that 2020 is a firm deadline was eloquently addressed by one of the world's top climate scientists, speaking back in 2017..." Read all.
Pennsylvania Congressman Guy Reschenthaler compared the confusion surrounding Robert Mueller’s final report to fears previously expressed by former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno while questioning the special counsel during Wednesday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee.
Reschenthaler explained that Reno, attorney general under President Bill Clinton, feared that a special counsel’s “final report provides a forum for unfairly airing an opponent’s dirty laundry. It also creates yet an another incentive for a special counsel to over investigate in order to justify his or her tenure and to avoid criticism that the independent counsel may have left a stone unturned.”
Attorney General William Barr said Thursday the Justice Department will resume executions of federal prisoners after a nearly 20 years lapse, and immediately scheduled executions for five federal death row inmates convicted of murdering children and the elderly, while promising more to come.
A University of California, Berkeley instructor teaching a course on morality has made his views on the subject abundantly clear, arguing that wealthy people are inherently immoral, even when they donate their wealth to worthy causes.
"Days away from August, this winter and spring’s snowfall is still affecting outdoors events in the High Country. Sunday’s 71st annual World Championship Pack Burro Race will not reach Mosquito Pass for the first time since the race, which pairs a human with a donkey, has run its course from historic South Park in Fairplay up to the 13,185-foot Mosquito Pass, and back.
"Days away from August, this winter and spring’s snowfall is still affecting outdoors events in the High Country. Sunday’s 71st annual World Championship Pack Burro Race will not reach Mosquito Pass for the first time since the race, which pairs a human with a donkey, has run its course from historic South Park in Fairplay up to the 13,185-foot Mosquito Pass, and back.
In 2017, 37% of energy in Michigan was generated by coal, but DTE is planning to retire 11 of its 17 coal-fired generation units by 2022. 
East Side Neighborhood Chamber in Chicago Hosts Event Where Kids Bash ICE Agent Pinata - Blue Lives Matter
There is a tone of, “I am your moral teacher.
There is a tone of, “I am your moral teacher.
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Do You Understand that Democrats will Destroy America?
Pennsylvania Congressman Guy Reschenthaler compared the confusion surrounding Robert Mueller’s final report to fears previously expressed by former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno while questioning the special counsel during Wednesday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee.
