"I've had enough!"--Muskegon County Informed-Local Politics, taxes and politicians.

Muskegon County Informed-Local Politics, taxes and politicians.--Jim Riley

"I've had enough!

Another leftist, union democrat made ANOTHER "that's racist" accusation (find it if you will below) about a comment on this site.

Let me tell you what is REALLY RACIST in America today, and it isn't black versus white. It's democrats versus the rest of this country's minorities.

What's REALLY RACIST is:

• The democrat/union support of democrat/union dominated, failed schools in minority communities!
• The democrat/union attacks on those police who protect the victims of violent thugs in minority communities!
• Craven democrat/union "leaders" who release violent predators back into their communities, to prey on the weak and helpless, in the name of "social justice".
• Democrat/union city/county bosses who divert municipal resources AWAY from minority communities and allow crumbling roads and filth as long as it's not in their neighborhoods!
• The totally democrat/union controlled city politicians who send bad cops back on the street!
• The democrat/union total control over city politics that covers up child sex abuse and prostitution in their communities!
• Democrat/union domination over city finances that bankrupt city treasuries and send communities into bankrupt squalor!

That sir, is RACISM!

And it's all about retaining THEIR POWER and grabbing MORE MONEY!"

Shutting down the entire country for this?

WALSH: I Looked Up Every Case Of An Unarmed Black Man Shot By Cops In 2019. Here’s The Truth The Media And BLM Are Hiding. | The Daily Wire

WALSH: I Looked Up Every Case Of An Unarmed Black Man Shot By Cops In 2019. Here’s The Truth The Media And BLM Are Hiding. | The Daily Wire
"I have already made the case that systemic racism in law enforcement is a myth. 
...It is by now well publicized — at least in some corners — that, despite all of the panicking and rioting over race-based police brutality, only a very small number of unarmed black men are killed by police each year. 
But an even closer look at the data, and a study of each “unarmed” killing, reveals that the real number of unjustified police shootings of actual unarmed people — black, white, or any other race — is much smaller still.
First, to put the statistics into perspective, it’s helpful to begin with the overall number of arrests. 

• According to the DOJ, police make about 10 million arrests each year. 
• As a rough average, 7 million of the arrested suspects are white and 3 million are black. 
• Out of that number, last year, 25 unarmed white people were killed by police, compared to 14 unarmed black people, according to the Washington Post database of police shootings. That means about .0004 percent of all blacks arrested were killed while unarmed. 
• The percentage for whites is comparable. 
• In total, 1,000 people were shot and killed by police in 2019, the vast majority of whom were armed. Still, that’s a mere .01 percent of all arrests.

...I looked up all 14 cases included in the Post’s 2019 database. (Read about each case!)...
...No reasonable person could describe any of the 8 cases just listed as cold-blooded murder, much less racist hate crimes. 

• These were violent criminals shot while in the act of physically attacking and threatening officers. 

Most of them were not truly “unarmed,” either. 

• Some were using cars. 
• One used a dog. 
• Another used a taser. 
• Others used their hands and nearly succeeded in arming themselves with the officer’s weapon. 

These cases may count as “unarmed” in a strictly legal sense, but any news outlet interested in accurate reporting wouldn’t use the term without careful qualification.
This is what the media and BLM activists mean when they scream about the epidemic of “unarmed” black men killed by police. 
They mean that a very tiny fraction of black people arrested by police are killed in the process, and that an even tinier fraction are unarmed at the time, and that an even tinier fraction of that fraction of the fraction, actually had no weapon of any kind, and were making no attempt to hurt or kill a police officer. 
When phrased like that, it doesn’t seem like there’s much of an epidemic here at all.
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When government is the liar.

The media covers for this sad, mentally deficient man?!!----Joe Biden Tripped Up Badly by Running Mate Question... 'I'm Having a 2-Hour, Uh, Um, Vetting Report'

Joe Biden Tripped Up Badly by Running Mate Question... 'I'm Having a 2-Hour, Uh, Um, Vetting Report'
"Far-left Democrats will be too far gone to listen, but Joe Biden’s appearance on MSNBC Monday night should have been a warning to the rest of America.
If the former vice president botches his words under conditions where everything is set up in his favor, how can anyone expect him to perform when the going really gets tough?
The answer was on full display for the inaugural episode of “The ReidOut,” and it wasn’t what any American really wanted to see.
For a Democratic presidential aspirant, the stage couldn’t have been better:
The network was MSNBC, the leftiest of the liberal media that passes for “mainstream” these days. It’s a welcoming environment for any candidate willing to oppose President Donald Trump, much less the man who’s trying to unseat him outright.
The host was Joy Reid, an unapologetic liberal who scored a coup by landing Biden as her first “get” as a prime-time performer (replacing the ex-MSNBC star and now-disgraced Chris Matthews).
Yet Biden still couldn’t manage to answer Reid’s question about his potential running mate on the Democratic ticket in November without seeming to confirm the suspicions about his mental decline that have been building since his gaffe-filled days on the campaign trail before the coronavirus confined him to his basement.
“Have you narrowed down your choices?” Reid asked.
The response started cogently enough (if the “physical examination” part was a little odd), but got lost in a word salad.
Republican National Committee spokeswoman Liz Harrington caught part of it for a Twitter post.

“I’ll tell you what’s happening,” Biden told Reid. “We’re getting the detailed analysis that has done. I’ve been through one of these vets, as they say. It takes about six weeks and you go into everything, it’s like having a public physical examination.
“That is just being finished. I’m having a two-hour, uh, uhm, vetting report from the lawyers, and women and men of color, as well as white folks who are doing the vetting, uhm, and, uh, we’ve gone through about four candidates so far, and the two-hour vetting.
“And then when I get all the vetting done of all the candidates, then I’m going to narrow the, uh, the list, and then we’ll see, and then I’m going to have personal discussions with each of the candidates who are left...Read all.

It's happening, America!

EXCLUSIVE: ‘An Expression Of Hatred Towards The United States’ — Joni Ernst Says She’s Fighting Back Against ‘Anarchist’ Zones In America | The Daily Caller

EXCLUSIVE: ‘An Expression Of Hatred Towards The United States’ — Joni Ernst Says She’s Fighting Back Against ‘Anarchist’ Zones In America | The Daily Caller:

Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst spoke to the Daily Caller about her push to hold cities accountable for “anarchist jurisdictions” like Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), saying “enough is enough.”
Ernst introduced the “Ending Taxpayer Funding of Anarchy Act,” which aims to restrict federal funding in “anarchist jurisdictions,” in June. The bill defines such a jurisdiction as an area where city or local governments give its power to a non-government entity and ultimately do not allow fire, medical or police services.
The Iowa senator, along with 29 other colleagues, signed a bicameral letter Wednesday continuing to push the bill.

AM Fruitcake

History for July 25

History for July 25 - On-This-Day.com
Walter Brennan 1894, Eric Hoffer 1902, Barbara Harris 1935


Walter Payton (NFL) 1954, Illeana Douglas 1965, Matt LeBlanc 1967 - Actor ("Friends")


1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army. He was the first American officer to hold the rank.


1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England. She had been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio Blames COVID-19 For Crime Surge | The Daily Caller

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio Blames COVID-19 For Crime Surge | The Daily Caller:

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, said Wednesday that the recent crime surge in the Big Apple is due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“In New York City, we’ve been the safest big city in America for years,” de Blasio told MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough. “We’ve had a very tough two months — no doubt — and it is directly related to the coronavirus — the dislocation it’s caused, the fact that our court system is not functioning yet, so many factors.”

The way we were-----1963 TV Concert: 'It's The Beatles' Live

Boob-tube-----Classic TV Commercials from the '60s and '70s

Orchestral Manoeuvres No Longer in the Dark :: SteynOnline

Orchestral Manoeuvres No Longer in the Dark :: SteynOnline
"Pop quiz:
What's the most important thing about opera singer Luciano Pavarotti?

• (A) He used his vocal gifts to bring joy to millions;

or

• (B) He was white, and not black or Latino.

If you're a normal person, you'd choose option A. 
But if you're the New York Times chief classical music critic, Tony Tommasini (or some other equally lousy person), you choose B.
Tommasini last week published what might be the single worst arts piece ever published by the formerly revered, now auto-cannibalizing Gray Lady. 
...It's the same old rotten, thuggish, conscription of everything – film, sport, love, family, history, literature, science, everything – into the service of some hideous, ultimately inhuman, ideology.
At some point, someone, something has to stop The Destroyers. 
But who, or what, and how?...Read all.

All animals are equal ... but some are more equal than others.

American Companies Used To Collaborate With The Nazis. Now They’re Working With The Chinese Communist Party | The Daily Caller

American Companies Used To Collaborate With The Nazis. Now They’re Working With The Chinese Communist Party | The Daily Caller:

A report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute earlier this year concluded that 83 companies were benefiting from “potentially abusive labour transfer programs” in Xinjiang.
Aside from forced labor camps, American companies have collaborated with the CCP in other ways.

Who stands for the victims of murderous thugs so beloved by democrats and BLM?-----Most Chicago homicide victims over the past decade are Black, police data show | Fox News

Most Chicago homicide victims over the past decade are Black, police data show | Fox News
"As gun violence in Chicago increased exponentially over the past decade, African Americans were overwhelmingly impacted.
...From Jan. 1, 2010 through July 8 of this year, Black homicide victims accounted for 4,374 of the city's murders, according to figures provided by the Chicago Police Department to Fox News.
The second-largest group impacted by gun violence -- Hispanics and Black Hispanics -- totaled 785 murder victims over the same period.
The murder rate of Black victims held steady, never surpassing 400 annually until 2016.
That year, 607 Black people were killed, according to police...Read all.

"Meat Of The Future" - KFC Is 3D-Printing Chicken Nuggets | Zero Hedge

"Meat Of The Future"-KFC Is 3D-Printing Chicken Nuggets. | Zero Hedge
"Fast-food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) debuted the "restaurant of the future" last month in Moscow. 
The US fast-food chain unveiled a storefront dominated by automation and food lockers, a move that would allow for a contactless environment to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
...KFC partnered with 3D Bioprinting Solutions to create cell-based "chicken meat" in labs that will be as "close as possible in both taste and appearance to the original KFC product," with product testing expected this fall.
3D Bioprinting Solutions is developing additive bioprinting technology using chicken cells and plant material, allowing it to reproduce the taste and texture of chicken meat almost without involving animals in the process...Read all.

Lunch video-----Empty sidewalks, boarded windows and upset business owners in downtown P...

"Downtown Portland Monday revealed mostly empty sidewalks and destruction.
A plate glass window hung broken at the Stevens-Ness legal forms store.
The local owner wants to celebrate 100 years in business and 58 years at the Southwest 4th Avenue and Salmon Street location, but with the ongoing destruction in downtown, it does not feel like a time for a party.
At Southwest 3rd Avenue and Yamhill Street, the popular Chipotle restaurant is locked, closed after someone shattered two large windows here.
And at the H&B Jewelry and Loan on Southwest 3rd Avenue, a one-time prime location is now a plywood bunker and still it gets attacked.
“This is a little business that's supported Portlanders and Oregonians for 70 years. And our customers are all races, all walks of life,” said owner Phil Tobin."

Noon-toon

Joe Biden: Federal Law Enforcement 'Brutally Attacking Peaceful Protesters' in Portland

Joe Biden: Federal Law Enforcement 'Brutally Attacking Peaceful Protesters' in Portland:

Former Vice President Joe Biden called violent anarchists attacking federal property in Portland, Oregon, “peaceful protesters” in a statement Tuesday condemning President Donald Trump for sending in federal law enforcement officers.
In a statement, Biden failed to condemn the violent actions of rioters who have attacked a federal courthouse, vandalizing it and attempting to set it ablaze.

55% of businesses closed on Yelp have shut down for good during the coronavirus pandemic - MarketWatch

55% of businesses closed on Yelp have shut down for good during the coronavirus pandemic - MarketWatch: 

• Another 15,742 businesses listed on Yelp closed forever in just the past month

"American states have been reopening their economies in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, but tens of thousands of businesses are still closed — many of them for good.

...But while temporary closures have dropped, the number of businesses that have permanently shuttered is rising. 
Of all the business closures since March 1, 55% (or 72,842 businesses) will never reopen again...Read all.

We are "wired" differently.

GOP's Gohmert introduces resolution that would ban the Democratic Party | TheHill

GOP's Gohmert introduces resolution that would ban the Democratic Party | TheHill
"Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) introduced a House resolution Thursday calling on lawmakers to ban organizations or political groups that have historically supported the Confederacy or slavery in the U.S., a list he said includes the Democratic Party.
“A great portion of the history of the Democratic Party is filled with racism and hatred. Since people are demanding we rid ourselves of the entities, symbols, and reminders of the repugnant aspects of our past, then the time has come for Democrats to acknowledge their party’s loathsome and bigoted past, and consider changing their party name to something that isn’t so blatantly and offensively tied to slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination, and the Ku Klux Klan,” Gohmert said in a statement.
...It comes after the House on Wednesday voted to remove from the Capitol statues of people who served in the Confederacy or defended slavery...
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#1 This day 1966-----The Troggs - Wild Thing