The Nasdaq Hits Record High, S&P Turns Positive, As Official Arbiter Announces Recession

The Nasdaq Hits Record High, S&P Turns Positive, As Official Arbiter Announces Recession:

The major U.S. stock indexes rose again Monday even as the official referees of the economy announced the U.S. had entered into a recession.
The Nasdaq Composite rose 1.13 percent to a new record high. The S&P 500 climbed 1.2 percent, turning positive for the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average moved up 1.7 percent to 27,572.

Financial incentives have given us ever more aggressive policing — if we want real change, we must change those incentives - MarketWatch

Financial incentives have given us ever more aggressive policing — if we want real change, we must change those incentives - MarketWatch
"...We should be wary of calls to “defund the police”. 
Historically, when government departments (such as the U.S. National Park Service) have their budgets threatened, they respond by cutting their most essential services (like threatening to close the Washington Monument), to drum up voter support.
...Instead, we must stop making bad policing pay.
Here are just six ways we can alter the financial incentives; there are other options as well, but the logic of these is relatively easy to see.
• Repeal civil asset forfeiture laws.
• Disband SWAT teams in any town smaller than 100,000 people.
• Don’t allow towns to keep revenue from tickets and fines; instead place that revenue in victim restitution funds.
• Remove laws immunizing police from civil and criminal penalties.
• Enable citizens to sue police for excessive or inappropriate violence; pay resulting judgments from police pension funds or salary pools, rather than general taxes.
• Make police salary raise pools dependent upon measured community satisfaction.
If we change the incentives, we change behavior...
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You think this can't happen here?-----Watching in real time as Seattle descends into anarchy - American Thinker

Watching in real time as Seattle descends into anarchy - American Thinker
"On Tuesday, the police in Seattle’s Eastern District had initially battled with the rioters, using tear gas and flashbangs. 

Eventually, recognizing that anything short of a military-style defense was a waste of police time and put police lives at risk, the police abandoned the Eastern Precinct.
They shredded important and confidential documents, boarded up the windows, and walked away, leaving the people whom they serve to the mob’s mercy.
The mob set up barricades around the streets and announced a new independent community called the “Capitol Hill autonomous zone” or “Free Capitol Hill.” 

Because this is Seattle, residents of the city, rather than looking at the probably and imminent end of a comfortable life predicated on the smooth functioning of modern civil services (law enforcement, food delivery, garbage pick-ups, street cleaning, etc.), immediately donated huge amounts of food, water, and medical supplies to allow the anarchists to settle in for a long siege.
Currently, people are boasting about how Utopian the whole thing is.

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Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle. 6 blocks retaken back for the people. “You are now leaving the USA” when you enter. Long live the fucking revolution.

Lunch video-----Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality

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White House: Trump Restored Order in America

White House: Trump Restored Order in America:

The White House says that President Donald Trump’s decision to push for a surge in National Guard troops in American cities last week has paid off.
“The streets of America didn’t spontaneously become peaceful last week,” Alyssa Farah, the White House’s top communications official, told Breitbart News on Monday. “It was a direct result of President Trump calling on Governors and Mayors to surge the National Guard in their states and restore law and order on America’s streets so that peaceful protestors could demonstrate safely.”

Michigan Secretary of State, 16 clerks accused of keeping sloppy voter roll records in new lawsuit - mlive.com

Michigan Secretary of State, 16 clerks accused of keeping sloppy voter roll records in new lawsuit - mlive.com: 
“...Leelanau County has more registered voters than it has adult citizens who are over the age of 18,” the lawsuit said. 
"That number of voters on the rolls is impossibly high.
“An additional 15 counties -- Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Iosco, Kalkaska, Keweenaw, Livingston, Mackinac, Oakland, Otsego, Roscommon, and Washtenaw -- have voter registration rates that exceed 90% of adult citizens over the age of 18. 
That figure far eclipses the national and statewide voter registration rate in recent elections...”
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Dissenting black lives don't matter to power-crazed liberals.

MUST VIEW!!-----Tucker: The rise of left-wing rage mobs in America

#1 This day 1963-----Sukiyaki (Ue o Muite Arukou) - Kyu Sakamoto (English Translation and Lyr...

Societal preditor.

Woman cop of color blasts Los Angeles councilwoman to her face — and Black Lives Matter, too - TheBlaze

Woman cop of color blasts Los Angeles councilwoman to her face — and Black Lives Matter, too - TheBlaze:

Amid a growing "defund the police" movement as protests continue nationwide in reaction to George Floyd's death, there are also proposed budget cuts looming for Los Angeles police — but cops there aren't having it.
'You bowed down to Black Lives Matter'
Sgt. Jeretta Sanchez — vice president of the L.A. police union — stood in front of City Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez and told her so, right to her face. And Sanchez didn't hold back her disdain for Black Lives Matter, either — nor for the councilwoman and city officials she said "bowed down" to the organization.

New York Times Columnist Demands White People Ditch Family Members Who Don’t Support Black Lives Matter – Summit News

New York Times Columnist Demands White People Ditch Family Members Who Don’t Support Black Lives Matter – Summit News
"A New York Times columnist wrote an article in which he demanded that people ditch family members who don’t make financial donations to Black Lives Matter.
Yes, really.
In an article titled ‘I Don’t Need ‘Love’ Texts From My White Friends’, Chad Sanders hysterically hyperventilates about how he lives in constant “fear of death” because he is black.
...“As Tucker Carlson said on his show last week, modern leftism is a cult which demands followers isolate themselves from their loved ones and submit to complete and total humiliation,” writes Chris Menahan.

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History for June 10

History for June 10 - On-This-Day.com
Judy Garland 1922, F. Lee Bailey 1933 - Attorney, Eliot Spitzer 1959 - Governor of New York


Jeanne Tripplehorn 1963 - Actress, Elizabeth Hurley 1965 - Model, actress, Kate Upton 1992 - Actess, model


1948 - Chuck Yeager exceeded the speed of sound in the Bell XS-1.


1994 - U.S. President Clinton intensified sanctions against Haiti's military leaders. U.S. commercial air travel was suspended along with most financial transactions between Haiti and the U.S.

Black Georgia state trooper refuses to kneel at a Black Lives Matter protest - TheBlaze

Black Georgia state trooper refuses to kneel at a Black Lives Matter protest - TheBlaze:

Georgia State Trooper O'Neal Saddler refused to kneel during a Black Lives Matter protest in Hartwell, Georgia, on Sunday, saying he "has much respect" but only kneels "for one person."
Video was rolling after Saddler had apparently been asked by a protester to kneel during the demonstration out of respect for the black community.

The way we were-----Snowdrift at Lenham Heath Sat 17 Jan 87

Boob-tube-----best old hollywood bloopers

How Black Lives Matter activists see the future of urban policing

How Black Lives Matter activists see the future of urban policing

• This is the cop-free world that Black Lives Matter protesters are dreaming about.

"Social workers and religious leaders would replace officers on the street — and there would be no crimes such as stealing because the community workers would do such a good job helping everyone, fueled by money redirected from local police departments, advocates claim.
“Right now, cops don’t just respond to violent crimes; they make needless traffic stops, arrest petty drug users, and engage in a wide range of ‘broken windows policing’ behaviors that only serve to keep more people under the thumb of the criminal-justice system,” reads the Web site for the Minneapolis community coalition MPD150.
...Now, instead of cops — a.k.a. “strangers armed with guns” — mental-health providers, social workers, religious leaders and victim advocates could keep law and order, the MPD150 says.
The activists insist that if there was enough money put into the changeover, society could then become a “place where people don’t need to rob banks.”
Still, a small “specialized class of public servants” to fight crime might be necessary to fight some crime that slips through the cracks, they acknowledge...
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So much here-----Jerry Falwell Jr. apologizes for tweet that included racist photo - Daily Press

Jerry Falwell Jr. apologizes for tweet that included racist photo - Daily Press

• Jerry Falwell Jr. apologizes for tweet that included racist photo

"Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. apologized Monday for a tweet that included a racist photo that appeared on DEMOCRAT Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook page decades ago.
"After listening to African American LU leaders and alumni over the past week and hearing their concerns, I understand that by tweeting an image to remind all of the governor's racist past I actually refreshed the trauma that image had caused and offended some by using the image to make a political point," he tweeted Monday.
Falwell, a stalwart backer of President Donald Trump and the son of the late evangelist the Rev. Jerry Falwell, said he had deleted the tweet and apologized "for any hurt my effort caused, especially within the African American community."
...They said they would stop urging students to attend Liberty, would no longer donate to the university and would urge fellow people of faith to avoid speaking at the school unless Falwell changes his behavior or steps aside.
...Falwell tweeted that he was "adamantly opposed" to the mask mandate "until I decided to design my own."
With it, he posted a picture of a mask bearing a racist photo that appeared on DEMOCRAT Northam's medical yearbook page and — when made public last year — sparked a scandal that nearly forced him from office.
The photo showed a person in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan costume.
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HBO MAX's ‘Looney Tunes’ Reboot Bans Elmer Fudd from Having a Gun

HBO MAX's ‘Looney Tunes’ Reboot Bans Elmer Fudd from Having a Gun:

HBO Max’s reboot of the Looney Tunes cartoon features iconic character Elmer Fudd but without his classic rifle, the show’s executive producer announced.
According to the series executive producer and showrunner Peter Browngardt, the new series Looney Tunes Cartoons — which has launched on HBO Max — will still feature Elmer Fudd as a characteristically violent character. However, he will now carry a scythe instead of a gun and his attacks will be restricted to using sticks of dynamite, booby traps, and dropping heavy objects on Bugs Bunny.

Studies Show There Is No 'Epidemic' of Racist Police

Studies Show There Is No 'Epidemic' of Racist Police
"...Perhaps the most common form of alleged racist police “brutality” we hear about is shootings, particularly those with questionable justification. 
To hear some people, there’s an epidemic of racist police brutality and we need to do something about it.
...But, this all leads to some very important questions. 
While we all agree that unjustified police brutality is bad, is there really an “epidemic” of racial bias in police brutality? 
It only takes one incident to go viral and serve as a call to arms for thousands of people to protest, but is it a really as big of a problem as people suggest it is?

Looking at the data, the answer might actually be no. 
According to a 2019 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, white officers are not more likely to shoot black civilians than black or Hispanic officers are. 
...Other studies have reached similar conclusions, including a Harvard study that found no racial bias in police using deadly force, though there is some disparity when it comes to physical force. 
With regard to lethal force, however, no disparity exists.
“A solid body of evidence finds no structural bias in the criminal-justice system with regard to arrests, prosecution or sentencing,” explained Heather Mac Donald of the Manhatten Institute in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week. 
“Crime and suspect behavior, not race, determine most police actions.”...
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New sex ed teaches New Jersey minors about sodomy and how to consent to it | News | Lifesitenews

New sex ed teaches New Jersey minors about sodomy and how to consent to it | News | Lifesitenews
"...TRENTON, New Jersey, June 8, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The new standards for sex education in public schools of New Jersey push homosexuality and gender ideology, as well as abortion and contraception.
Children are taught about giving “consent” and how to decide “whether and when to engage in sexual behaviors” such as “oral” and “anal sex.”
Abortion giant Planned Parenthood was one of the organizations that had worked with the state’s Department of Education to prepare the new standards.
“Modeled on the National Sexuality Education Standards — the gold standard for sex education — the new guidelines and educational requirements feature an updated, more comprehensive curriculum that includes expanded content topics, including LGBTQ identities and consent,” wrote Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey in a press release...
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Lunch video-----David Webb accused of 'white privilege' by CNN legal analyst