It's worse today!-----Gangs and Politicians in Chicago: An Unholy Alliance | Chicago magazine | January 2012

Gangs and Politicians in Chicago: An Unholy Alliance | Chicago magazine | January 2012
"LAWBREAKERS, LAWMAKERS:
In some parts of Chicago, violent street gangs and pols quietly trade money and favors for mutual gain.
The thugs flourish, the elected officials thrive—and you lose. 
A special report.--BY DAVID BERNSTEIN AND NOAH ISACKSON--PUBLISHED DEC. 13, 2011
A few months before last February’s citywide elections, Hal Baskin’s phone started ringing.
And ringing.
Most of the callers were candidates for Chicago City Council, seeking the kind of help Baskin was uniquely qualified to provide.
Baskin isn’t a slick campaign strategist.
He’s a former gang leader and, for several decades, a community activist who now operates a neighborhood center that aims to keep kids off the streets.
Baskin has deep contacts inside the South Side’s complex network of politicians, community organizations, and street gangs. as he recalls, the inquiring candidates wanted to know: “Who do I need to be talking to so I can get the gangs on board?”
Baskin—who was himself a candidate in the 16th Ward aldermanic race, which he would lose—was happy to oblige..."
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Leaked Transcript Of NYT Staff Meeting Reveals Leadership’s Plan For Reporting On Trump For Next Two Years | Daily Wire

Leaked Transcript Of NYT Staff Meeting Reveals Leadership’s Plan For Reporting On Trump For Next Two Years | Daily Wire:

On Monday, New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet presided over a "crisis townhall meeting" of the Times' staff after the paper was met with massive backlash from readers for a straightforward headline deemed too kind to Donald Trump by his Democratic opponents. On Thursday, Slate published a leaked transcript of the 75-minute meeting that includes Baquet openly laying out the new agenda for the Times on how it covers Trump.

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History for August 19

History for August 19 - On-This-Day.com
Bernard Baruch 1870, Orville Wright 1871, Coco Chanel 1883


Ogden Nash 1902, Malcolm Forbes 1919, Gene Roddenberry 1921


2004 - Google Inc. stock began selling on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The initial price was set at $85 and ended the day at $100.34 with more than 22 million shares traded.

2016 - A federal judge ordered Hillary Clinton to answer questions from the watchdog group Judicial Watch in writing about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.

Google blacklists American Thinker

Google blacklists American Thinker:

In a video and article published on Wednesday, ex-Google employee Zach Vorhies speaks with the antitrust investigators at Project Veritas about the thousands of internal Google documents he recently released to the public.  Among the cache of information is a list of sites that Google has blacklisted with an algorithm developed to alter users' search results.  American Thinker is one of them.

The way we were-----Batman 1966 - The Batusi

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The enforcement problems with gun-grabbing ‘red flag’ laws are even worse than you think

The enforcement problems with gun-grabbing ‘red flag’ laws are even worse than you think
"Everyone is debating “red flag” laws like they’re some new thing, but California has had variations of them for decades. 
We call them domestic violence restraining orders, civil harassment restraining orders, workplace restraining orders, elder abuse restraining orders, mental health seizures and prohibition orders, and, more recently, gun violence restraining orders.
They’re all meant to disarm dangerous people — but they’re all fundamentally flawed.
None of these red flag laws would have prevented recent mass shootings.
And in my 23 years practicing law in the heart of Silicon Valley, I have litigated dozens of these cases.
I’ve seen firsthand the practical enforcement problems that emerge in real-life cases.
These kinds of court orders are usually obtained from a judge ex parte.
That’s fancy Latin for: The judge only hears one side of the story, it is not your side, and you may not even know about it until after the fact.
Then they immediately strip you of fundamental constitutional rights for the duration of the orders.
You’ll get your “full due process” hearing, but not until later..."
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Clinton IT Aide Who Defied Subpoena Says He Created A Cryptic Gmail Account And Sent It Nearly All Of Hillary’s Emails | The Daily Caller

Clinton IT Aide Who Defied Subpoena Says He Created A Cryptic Gmail Account And Sent It Nearly All Of Hillary’s Emails | The Daily Caller:

Virtually every single one of Hillary Clinton’s emails were sent, potentially secretly, to a cryptically named Gmail address, according to a new Senate report.
The finding, which has not been previously reported, means that Clinton’s emails, including classified ones and ones which were later deleted, likely existed on Google’s U.S.-based servers. The FBI said in the report that it knew this — and of the suspicious explanation for it — but did not alert other intelligence agencies or the public, according to the report.

Out of control. Rodney Allebach: Can you...

Harriett Lublin - Out of control. Rodney Allebach
"Can you imagine a situation where plastic cups imported from China must be labeled ‘this country has a one-child policy,’ or gas from Russia must be labeled, ‘This is gas from a country that illegally occupies Crimea,’ or products from the United States require the labeling ‘the U.S. engages in capital punishment and is building an illegal border wall?’ 

Product labels will have become political billboards depending on the whims of EU politicians, and every EU importer will shoulder a liability for not complying with arbitrary labeling laws.

Personally, I think the rest of the world should just immediately stop sending goods and services of any kind to the EU to avoid offending them."

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Democratic Senators Threaten SCOTUS: Do As We Say, Or Else...

Democratic Senators Threaten SCOTUS: Do As We Say, Or Else...
"...I think the extraordinary nature of what's happening here needs to be highlighted repeatedly.  
In an effort to bully the Supreme Court, a group of Senate Democrats are warning that if the conservative justices refuse to "heal" the court -- in this case, "healing" constitutes declining to take up a specific gun rights case -- the Court will face a "restructuring."  
This is nothing less than a threat against the independent judiciary by hardcore partisans:

Several high-profile Senate Democrats warned the Supreme Court in pointed terms this week that it could face a fundamental restructuring if justices do not take steps to "heal" the court in the near future. The ominous and unusual warning was delivered as part of a brief filed Monday in a case related to a New York City gun law. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., referenced rulings by the court's conservative majority in claiming it is suffering from some sort of affliction which must be remedied. "The Supreme Court is not well. And the people know it," the brief said. "Perhaps the Court can heal itself before the public demands it be 'restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics.'"

The short-term goal here is to prevent SCOTUS from even taking up a Second Amendment-related matter..."

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Missing the Point of Gun Ownership

Missing the Point of Gun Ownership:

It still has not occurred to the Left that gun laws only impact the law-abiding. Criminals break these laws all the time but politicians continue to ignore the fact that good people with guns prevent more mass shootings than gun-free zones. In fact, gun-free zones only place targets on the backs of the innocent humans there.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were still mainstream journalists who knew how to research the truth when it comes to guns and the Second Amendment? I’ve written several columns on gun control and readers know that I’ve always abhorred and feared them.

Clarice!-----Epstein and the Public Loss of Faith

Epstein and the Public Loss of Faith
"...It’s curious that our universities are chocked to the brim with brainwashed students and fourth-rate professors and administrators who hate the U.S. and its Constitution while in Hong Kong people their age are risking their lives for freedom, waving American flags, and wishing they had a Second Amendment right to defend themselves against brutal tyranny.

As curious as that is the fact that our press, which should by now have lost all credibility, continues to destroy itself with propagandizing foolishness to assist the failing Democrats.  
Take the gaslighters at the New York Times, where this week a leaked transcript of its editor and his staff shows that despite having earned two Pulitzer prizes for promoting the Russian Collusion hoax, the paper is throwing in the towel on that one and is now promoting a new fairy tale, that the President is a “racist.”

New York Times chief outlines coverage shift: From Trump-Russia to Trump racism

Baquet used the gentlest terms possible -- "the story changed" -- but the fact is, the conspiracy-coordination allegation the Times had devoted itself to pursuing turned out to be false. Beyond that, Democrats on Capitol Hill struggled to press an obstruction case against the president. The Trump-Russia hole came up dry.

Now, Baquet continued, "I think that we've got to change." The Times must "write more deeply about the country, race, and other divisions."

"I mean, the vision for coverage for the next two years is what I talked about earlier: How do we cover a guy who makes these kinds of remarks?" Baquet said. "How do we cover the world's reaction to him? How do we do that while continuing to cover his policies? How do we cover America, that's become so divided by Donald Trump?" [snip] Baquet vowed a transition to a new "vision" for the paper for the next two years. "How do we grapple with all the stuff you all are talking about?" he said to the staffer. "How do we write about race in a thoughtful way, something we haven't done in a large way in a long time? That, to me, is the vision for coverage. You all are going to have to help us shape that vision. But I think that's what we're going to have to do for the rest of the next two years."

What impels this shift?..."
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Millennial has meltdown when boss corrects her spelling of ‘hamster’ - DC Clothesline

Millennial has meltdown when boss corrects her spelling of ‘hamster’ - DC Clothesline
"Carol Blymire is an adjunct professor of public relations and journalism at Georgetown University.

...In a series of tweets on July 12, 2019, Blymire recounted a story she overheard of a millennial “in her late 20s” in Washington, DC, getting feedback on something she had written from her boss, who is also female:

"In office space near a client, a young woman was meeting with her boss. 
She was (by my estimation) in her late 20s.
The boss (also a woman) was giving her feedback and reviewing edits she had made on something this young woman wrote.
They had been speaking in low tones, but their volume got louder toward the end of the conversation because the young woman was getting agitated about a particular edit.
That particular edit was correcting the spelling of “hampster” to “hamster”. Apparently she had used the phrase “like spinning in a hamster wheel” in this draft (presumably) speech or or op-ed.
The young woman kept saying, “I don’t know why you corrected that because I spell it with the P in it.” The boss said (calmly), “But that’s not how the word is spelled. There is no P in hamster.”
Young woman: “But you don’t know that! I learned to spell it with a P in it so that’s how I spell it.”
The boss (remaining very calm and professional), let’s go to https://t.co/n2ZU5Uuuy3 and look it up together. (mind you, this is a woman in her late 20s, not a 5th grader)
The young woman insists she doesn’t need to look it up because it’s FINE to spell it with a P because that’s HOW SHE WANTED TO SPELL IT.
The boss says, “Let’s look over the rest of the piece so I can explain the rest of my edits.” They do, and I can see the young woman is fighting back tears. The boss is calm, cool, and handles this with professionalism and empathy.
Boss says, “I know edits can be difficult to go over sometimes, especially when you’re working on new kinds of things as you grow in your career, but it’s a necessary process and makes us all better at what we do.”
Boss gets up from table and goes to her office and the young woman can barely hold it together. She moves to another table in the common workspace area, drops all her stuff loudly on the table top, and starts texting. A minute later, her phone rings.
It was her mom. She had texted her mom to call her because it was urgent, and I’m sure her mother maybe thought she was in the ER or something. She then … PUTS HER MOM ON SPEAKERPHONE. IN THE WORKPLACE.
She bursts into tears and wants her mom to call her boss and tell her not to be mean about telling her how to spell words like “hamster”.
The mother tells her that her boss is an idiot..."
This story appears not to be isolated case. 
Blymire continues...
...Indeed, the “hampster” millennial is far from being unique.
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Feel-good of the day-----He awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Then he shot and killed the person who broke in. | 11alive.com

He awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Then he shot and killed the person who broke in. | 11alive.com
"An armed homeowner shot and killed a home invader Friday morning after waking up to the sound of breaking glass.

South Fulton Police Lt. Derrick Rogers said that as soon as he woke, the man "grabbed his weapon and started toward the area" where he heard glass breaking.

It was there that he encountered the home invader and "gun shots rang out between the homeowner and the subject" Rogers said.

The home invader was killed..." 

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