Think we should hold emails to and from potus? That’s the heart of his exec privilege. We could get them to ask for that. They may not care, but I [sic] seems like they will."
Monday, October 17, 2016
Hillary Clinton's & Barack Obama’s E-mails -- WikiLeaks Reveals John Podesta’s Concern | National Review
Hillary Clinton's & Barack Obama’s E-mails -- WikiLeaks Reveals John Podesta’s Concern | National Review:
"We now know that Podesta was very concerned about the Obama-Clinton e-mails and turned to Mills for advice. His succinct e-mail to Mills is dated March 4, 2015 (at 8:41 p.m.), and he entitled it “Special Category.” He stated:
Think we should hold emails to and from potus? That’s the heart of his exec privilege. We could get them to ask for that. They may not care, but I [sic] seems like they will."
Think we should hold emails to and from potus? That’s the heart of his exec privilege. We could get them to ask for that. They may not care, but I [sic] seems like they will."
Here's Why You Deserve a State Income Tax Cut
Here's Why You Deserve a State Income Tax Cut [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"Recent Michigan legislatures have taken more from regular people with new tax hikes while giving more to politically well-connected interests through municipal bailouts and corporate giveaways.
It’s the people’s turn for something positive, and this is the right time and environment for a substantial state income tax cut.
Legislators are sympathetic, and want you to know it:
In every recent legislative session, bills have been introduced to lower the income tax rate.
But they never move.
The excuse is always the same: “Budget pressures are growing; we might have to cut spending if citizens get to keep more.”
The excuse is irrelevant.
Yes, a lower income tax rate is likely to reduce state government revenues in the short run.
But in the long run, income tax cuts encourage growth and can result in higher revenues to the state treasury.
Lowering tax rates lowers the barriers to investing in Michigan, and letting people keep more encourages them to earn more.
More money than ever is now rolling into the treasury.
Tax revenues are up from $25.2 billion at the low point of the last recession to $31.0 billion this year. Some of that increase should be returned to the regular taxpayers who pay the bills.
...In 2012, when Detroit Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch wanted hockey arena subsidies, Lansing found a way.
Today it's Dan Gilbert’s Detroit real estate holdings and yet another “economic development” scheme.
The final price tag is unknown, but the Senate, at least, seems poised to write a blank check.
Scores of other machinations to redistribute income to developers have been introduced in the current Legislature, and many have passed the House or Senate.
Others create more potential for distributing privatized gains and socialized risks, such as a Michigan Senate public-private partnership bill and a House-passed bill to involve developers in port authorities.
So when do regular people who receive no special government favors get their chance for some relief?
...Today, legislative appropriators are already discussing politically feasible ways to pay for more corporate handouts.
Those discussions should instead be repurposed to finding a way to let regular taxpayers keep more of what they earn..."
"Recent Michigan legislatures have taken more from regular people with new tax hikes while giving more to politically well-connected interests through municipal bailouts and corporate giveaways.
It’s the people’s turn for something positive, and this is the right time and environment for a substantial state income tax cut.
Legislators are sympathetic, and want you to know it:
In every recent legislative session, bills have been introduced to lower the income tax rate.
But they never move.
The excuse is always the same: “Budget pressures are growing; we might have to cut spending if citizens get to keep more.”
The excuse is irrelevant.Yes, a lower income tax rate is likely to reduce state government revenues in the short run.
But in the long run, income tax cuts encourage growth and can result in higher revenues to the state treasury.
Lowering tax rates lowers the barriers to investing in Michigan, and letting people keep more encourages them to earn more.
More money than ever is now rolling into the treasury.
Tax revenues are up from $25.2 billion at the low point of the last recession to $31.0 billion this year. Some of that increase should be returned to the regular taxpayers who pay the bills.
...In 2012, when Detroit Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch wanted hockey arena subsidies, Lansing found a way.
Today it's Dan Gilbert’s Detroit real estate holdings and yet another “economic development” scheme.
The final price tag is unknown, but the Senate, at least, seems poised to write a blank check.
Scores of other machinations to redistribute income to developers have been introduced in the current Legislature, and many have passed the House or Senate.
Others create more potential for distributing privatized gains and socialized risks, such as a Michigan Senate public-private partnership bill and a House-passed bill to involve developers in port authorities.
So when do regular people who receive no special government favors get their chance for some relief?
...Today, legislative appropriators are already discussing politically feasible ways to pay for more corporate handouts.
Those discussions should instead be repurposed to finding a way to let regular taxpayers keep more of what they earn..."
Watch the 21 PragerU Videos That YouTube Is Censoring
Watch the 21 PragerU Videos That YouTube Is Censoring
YouTube is currently restricting 21 educational videos from PragerU, a conservative advocacy organization.
Click link to see all the 21 "OFFENSIVE" videos.
YouTube is currently restricting 21 educational videos from PragerU, a conservative advocacy organization.
According to YouTube, videos that are restricted contain vulgar language, violence and disturbing imagery, nudity and sexually suggestive content, and portrayal of harmful or dangerous activities.
Videos that fit this description are not available to logged-out users, those who are under 18 years of age, or those who have activated restricted mode, according to YouTube.
PragerU believes YouTube to be censoring these 21 videos, according to a press release from PragerU.
The list below contains all of the videos currently under question by YouTube.
This video explores the debate that the police are targeting African-American communities.
2. Why Don’t Feminists Fight for Muslim Women?
Why do feminists claim to be champions of women’s rights everywhere, but do not fight for women facing oppression in Muslim countries? This video attempts to answer that question.
Why do feminists claim to be champions of women’s rights everywhere, but do not fight for women facing oppression in Muslim countries? This video attempts to answer that question.
Click link to see all the 21 "OFFENSIVE" videos.
WikiLeaks: Podesta Asks Cheryl Mills If They Should 'Withhold' POTUS Emails After Benghazi Subpoena - Cortney O'Brien
WikiLeaks: Podesta Asks Cheryl Mills If They Should 'Withhold' POTUS Emails After Benghazi Subpoena - Cortney O'Brien:
"The House Select Committee on Benghazi subpoenaed the State Department on March 4, 2015 asking for key emails on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private server. A new WikiLeaks email reveals just how nervous the Obama administration was about the subpoena. Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta emailed Cheryl Mills, a former aide to Clinton, to ask if they should withhold President Obama's emails from the committee. "
"The House Select Committee on Benghazi subpoenaed the State Department on March 4, 2015 asking for key emails on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private server. A new WikiLeaks email reveals just how nervous the Obama administration was about the subpoena. Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta emailed Cheryl Mills, a former aide to Clinton, to ask if they should withhold President Obama's emails from the committee. "
Affirmative action director says people who oppose PC culture suffer from 'fragility'
Affirmative action director says people who oppose PC culture suffer from 'fragility' - The College Fix:
"‘People who have traditionally held power’ are suppressing speech?
Nizam Arain of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse doesn’t think there’s any danger in people speaking their minds in politically incorrect ways.
In fact, their fear of being blacklisted, disciplined or fired for questioning the prevailing progressive wisdom at the public university is a sign of their “fragility.”
At a campus “teach-in” on free speech and civil discourse last week, the “Affirmative Action director and Title IX coordinator” (also a lawyer) gave 50-60 students an overview of the First Amendment and common misunderstandings of its effect, the La Crosse Tribune reports.
...He also addressed the issue of political correctness during his remarks, saying marginalized groups also have the right to free speech, and those who have privilege are now being called out for their views.
It’s a new experience for people who have traditionally held power, he said, and they are reacting poorly to the experience.
“It is evidence to me of a kind of fragility,” Arain said, “where people can only feel free to speak their mind if no one is going to contradict them.”...
Read on!
"‘People who have traditionally held power’ are suppressing speech?
Nizam Arain of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse doesn’t think there’s any danger in people speaking their minds in politically incorrect ways.
At a campus “teach-in” on free speech and civil discourse last week, the “Affirmative Action director and Title IX coordinator” (also a lawyer) gave 50-60 students an overview of the First Amendment and common misunderstandings of its effect, the La Crosse Tribune reports.
...He also addressed the issue of political correctness during his remarks, saying marginalized groups also have the right to free speech, and those who have privilege are now being called out for their views.
It’s a new experience for people who have traditionally held power, he said, and they are reacting poorly to the experience.
“It is evidence to me of a kind of fragility,” Arain said, “where people can only feel free to speak their mind if no one is going to contradict them.”...
Read on!
Holi crapoli, it's me and TJ!--Lunch video-----Local Taxpayers Speak Out on Pension Underfunding
"Jim Riley got his own fiscal house in order so he could retire.
Now he wonders why his city government can’t do the same for their employees, and taxpayers who could end with huge bills from the unfunded retirement liabilities.
Riley was inspired to take action after reading the Mackinac Center’s ranking of pension underfunding for Michigan’s largest 100 cities.
Riley was shocked when he saw his seemingly tranquil lakeshore community ranking sixth from the bottom.
He is now alerting his neighbors about this fiscal storm and encouraging them to keep the pressure on city leaders.
The retired financial planner enjoys living in Norton Shores and wants to stay there indefinitely but worries that rising taxes from unfunded pension and retirement healthcare liabilities will chase residents and businesses away, making the problem worse.
He encourages taxpayers and businesses in other communities with similar liabilities to also speak out and that lawmakers pass laws prohibiting underfunding.
Now he wonders why his city government can’t do the same for their employees, and taxpayers who could end with huge bills from the unfunded retirement liabilities.
Riley was inspired to take action after reading the Mackinac Center’s ranking of pension underfunding for Michigan’s largest 100 cities.
Riley was shocked when he saw his seemingly tranquil lakeshore community ranking sixth from the bottom.
He is now alerting his neighbors about this fiscal storm and encouraging them to keep the pressure on city leaders.
The retired financial planner enjoys living in Norton Shores and wants to stay there indefinitely but worries that rising taxes from unfunded pension and retirement healthcare liabilities will chase residents and businesses away, making the problem worse.
He encourages taxpayers and businesses in other communities with similar liabilities to also speak out and that lawmakers pass laws prohibiting underfunding.
IT’S OVER: Hillary’s ISIS Email Just Leaked & It’s Worse Than Anyone Could Have Imagined… | Friends of Syria
IT’S OVER: Hillary’s ISIS Email Just Leaked & It’s Worse Than Anyone Could Have Imagined… | Friends of Syria:
"Maybe it has something to do with the fact that The Saudi’s brag about funding 20% of Hillary’s Presidential campaign, and along with Qatar, are among the largest donors to the CLINTON FOUNDATION.
Is it any mystery now why ISIS has flourished under the Obama/Clinton administration? The United States has created armed and funded the terrorists overthrowing Syria via our Terrorist State allies. When you know this it makes you look at the situation in Syria differently. Perhaps Russia and Iran are the ones fighting ISIS, it stands to reason once you know we are fighting Russia, and at the same time arming ISIS."
Is it any mystery now why ISIS has flourished under the Obama/Clinton administration? The United States has created armed and funded the terrorists overthrowing Syria via our Terrorist State allies. When you know this it makes you look at the situation in Syria differently. Perhaps Russia and Iran are the ones fighting ISIS, it stands to reason once you know we are fighting Russia, and at the same time arming ISIS."
Global Warming be Damned: Record Corn, Soybeans, Wheat
Global Warming be Damned: Record Corn, Soybeans, Wheat « Roy Spencer, PhD
"For many years we have been warned that climate change is creating a “climate crisis”, with heat and drought reducing agricultural yields to the point that humanity will suffer.
Every time there’s a drought, we are told that this is just one more example of human-caused climate change.
But droughts have always occurred.
The question is:
Are they getting worse?
And, has modest warming had any effects on grain yields?
We have yet to experience anything like the Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s, or the mega-droughts the western U.S. tree ring record suggests occurred in centuries past.
And even if they do occur, how do we know they were not caused by the same natural factors that cause those previous droughts?
While “global warming” must cause more precipitation overall (because there is more evaporation), whether this means increased drought conditions anywhere is pretty difficult to predict because it would require predicting an average change in weather patterns, which climate models so far have essentially no skill at.
So, here we are with yet another year (2016) experiencing either record or near-record yields in corn, soybeans, and wheat.
Even La Nina, which was widely feared would cause reduced crop yields this year, did not materialize.
How can this be?
How has Climate Changed in the U.S. Corn Belt?...
Read on!
"For many years we have been warned that climate change is creating a “climate crisis”, with heat and drought reducing agricultural yields to the point that humanity will suffer.
Every time there’s a drought, we are told that this is just one more example of human-caused climate change.
But droughts have always occurred.
The question is:
Are they getting worse?
We have yet to experience anything like the Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s, or the mega-droughts the western U.S. tree ring record suggests occurred in centuries past.
And even if they do occur, how do we know they were not caused by the same natural factors that cause those previous droughts?
While “global warming” must cause more precipitation overall (because there is more evaporation), whether this means increased drought conditions anywhere is pretty difficult to predict because it would require predicting an average change in weather patterns, which climate models so far have essentially no skill at.
So, here we are with yet another year (2016) experiencing either record or near-record yields in corn, soybeans, and wheat.
Even La Nina, which was widely feared would cause reduced crop yields this year, did not materialize.
How can this be?
How has Climate Changed in the U.S. Corn Belt?...
Read on!
Blog: The little act that is destroying the country
Blog: The little act that is destroying the country:
"In 1958, New York City mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr. issued an executive order that permitted municipal employees to be represented by unions for collective bargaining.
This order came to be called the “little Wagner act,” not because it was insignificant (its effects would be vast), but because it followed the “big” Wagner act, the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 authored by the mayor’s father, United States senator Robert F. Wagner, Sr.
When he became president, John Kennedy observed that Junior’s “little act” had revolutionized New York City politics.
Democrat officials and union leaders now shared an interest in lavishly spending public money on public salaries and pensions, which would circle back to the unions in the form of increased dues, and then back to the politicians themselves in the form of campaign contributions and advertising.
It was a virtuous circle in which all were winners, except the taxpayers who financed it.
With his Executive Order 10988 in 1962, President Kennedy imposed the “little Wagner act” on the entire country.
Now federal employees could join unions and negotiate wages, hours and overtime, vacations and holidays, work rules, and job security.
Other cities and states followed suit.
Politicians became entrenched with union support, the unions grew rich on Democrat largesse, the Democratic Party became the Party of Government, and the costs of operating government began to soar.
We’re still paying the consequences of that little act.
Our national debt doubles every eight years.
But no amount of money, it seems, is enough to improve the performance of employees who cannot be fired.
In recent years, we’ve learned of mind-numbing incompetence and spirit-sapping malfeasance by federal employees.
But nobody takes responsibility, nobody pays a price.
So when politicians tell us that some of us aren’t paying our “fair share,” and when we find out that we can’t dismiss even grossly incompetent “public servants,” well, that’s when our stomachs start to churn..."
"In 1958, New York City mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr. issued an executive order that permitted municipal employees to be represented by unions for collective bargaining.
This order came to be called the “little Wagner act,” not because it was insignificant (its effects would be vast), but because it followed the “big” Wagner act, the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 authored by the mayor’s father, United States senator Robert F. Wagner, Sr.
When he became president, John Kennedy observed that Junior’s “little act” had revolutionized New York City politics.
Democrat officials and union leaders now shared an interest in lavishly spending public money on public salaries and pensions, which would circle back to the unions in the form of increased dues, and then back to the politicians themselves in the form of campaign contributions and advertising.
It was a virtuous circle in which all were winners, except the taxpayers who financed it.
With his Executive Order 10988 in 1962, President Kennedy imposed the “little Wagner act” on the entire country.
Now federal employees could join unions and negotiate wages, hours and overtime, vacations and holidays, work rules, and job security.
Other cities and states followed suit.
Politicians became entrenched with union support, the unions grew rich on Democrat largesse, the Democratic Party became the Party of Government, and the costs of operating government began to soar.
We’re still paying the consequences of that little act.
Our national debt doubles every eight years.
In recent years, we’ve learned of mind-numbing incompetence and spirit-sapping malfeasance by federal employees.
- In “Fast and Furious,” the ATF sold guns to Mexican drug cartels – then lost track of them with predictable consequences.
- Homeland Security failed to find 95% of smuggled weapons and explosives in a security test.
- The EPA accidentally poisoned Colorado’s Animas River with three million gallons of toxic sludge. The Department of Veterans Affairs wasted $6 billion on artwork, furniture, bloated contracts, and employee bonuses, while veterans died waiting for medical treatment.
- Terrible tales of bungling have similarly tainted the CDC, the GSA, the IRS, the Pentagon, the Department of Justice, and the FBI, and even the Secret Service.
But nobody takes responsibility, nobody pays a price.
So when politicians tell us that some of us aren’t paying our “fair share,” and when we find out that we can’t dismiss even grossly incompetent “public servants,” well, that’s when our stomachs start to churn..."
Leaked Email: Clinton Campaign Plotted To Threaten Supreme Court Over ObamaCare Ruling
Leaked Email: Clinton Campaign Plotted To Threaten Supreme Court Over ObamaCare Ruling:
"Here's an interesting bit from the latest trove of Clinton campaign emails leaked out Thursday morning: Clinton operatives were conspiring in June 2015 on how to best threaten the Supreme Court to rule their way in King v. Burwell, the case that could have effectively ended ObamaCare.
On June 2, 2015, Neera Tanden, the president of the leftist Center for American Progress, emailed Clinton advisor Jake Sullivan her thoughts on how to put the most pressure on the Supreme Court to rule in favor of ObamaCare."
On June 2, 2015, Neera Tanden, the president of the leftist Center for American Progress, emailed Clinton advisor Jake Sullivan her thoughts on how to put the most pressure on the Supreme Court to rule in favor of ObamaCare."
2 Simple Charts Show Which State Pensions Are Most Likely To Enforce Benefit Cuts
2 Simple Charts Show Which State Pensions Are Most Likely To Enforce Benefit Cuts | Zero Hedge
"A new research note from Moody's found that State pension funds were underfunded by $1.3 trillion at the end of FY15 but was expected to grow to $1.8 trillion at the end of FY17 as pensions continue to struggle with low returns...
"A new research note from Moody's found that State pension funds were underfunded by $1.3 trillion at the end of FY15 but was expected to grow to $1.8 trillion at the end of FY17 as pensions continue to struggle with low returns...
Per the following chart, many states have racked up over $20,000 of liabilities per capita, a level from which it will be very difficult to recover absent benefit cuts, massive tax hikes and/or a federal bailout.
Looking at pensions on a standalone basis, New Jersey, Illinois and Alaska remain the most at risk with underfunded liabilities equal to over $10,000 per person living in those states. Meanwhile, only Wisconsin and South Dakota have fully funded plans.
But, as the CATO Institute points out, the pension crisis is likely much worse than what most auditor reports would suggest because discount rates of 7.4% are unreasonably high. CATO estimates that reducing the discount rate from 7.4% to 2.7% would increase state pension underfunded liabilities from $1.2 trillion to $3.4 trillion.
Pension shortfalls are actually larger than these figures indicate. Those are the officially reported figures, but financial experts think that the discount rates used to report pension liabilities are too high. Higher discount rates reduce reported liabilities and create an overly optimistic picture of pension plan health.In his study, Rauh recalculated pension plan funding using a 2.7 percent discount rate, rather than the official average rate of 7.4 percent. His recalculated unfunded liability jumps from $1.2 trillion to $3.4 trillion. Similarly, Munnell and Aubry found that their unfunded pension liabilities jumped to $4.1 trillion if plans are estimated using a 4 percent discount rate. Under that assumption, the funding level of state and local pension plans averages just 45 percent.
Unfortunately, the pension ponzi becomes more and more unsustainable each year with funds simply borrowing from future benefit payments, which are almost certainly impaired in many states, while paying current benefit recipients in full. While these types of "kick the can down the road" games can be played for a long time, eventually the massive underfundings will have to be addressed...and that will not be a pretty day.
History for October 17
History for October 17 - On-This-Day.com
Arthur Miller 1915, Rita Hayworth 1918, Tom Poston 1927
Jimmy Breslin 1930 - Newspaper columnist, Evel Knievel (Robert Craig) 1938, George Wendt 1948 - Actor ("Cheers")
1777 - American troops defeated British forces in Saratoga, NY. It was the turning point in the American Revolutionary War.
1888 - The first issue of "National Geographic Magazine" was released at newsstands.
1931 - Al Capone was convicted on income tax evasion and was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released in 1939.
1945 - Colonel Juan Peron became the dictator of Argentina after staging a coup in Buenos Aires.
1973 - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) began an oil-embargo against several countries including the U.S. and Great Britain. The incident stemmed from Western support of Israel when Egypt and Syria attacked the nation on October 6, 1973. The embargo lasted until March of 1974.
1979 - Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1987 - U.S. First Lady Nancy Reagan underwent a modified radical mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.
1989 - An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale hit the San Francisco Bay area in California. The quake caused about 67 deaths, 3,000 injuries, and damages up to $7 billion.
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Emails: Clinton aides touted her 'cordial relationship' with Loretta Lynch | Washington Examiner
Emails: Clinton aides touted her 'cordial relationship' with Loretta Lynch | Washington Examiner:
"Hillary Clinton's campaign staff discussed her friendliness with Attorney General Loretta Lynch in March 2015, just a few months before the FBI opened a criminal investigation into Clinton's private email use.
The conversation, which was included among the roughly 9,000 emails stolen from the inbox of campaign chair John Podesta that have been published by WikiLeaks, involved a debate over whether Clinton should issue a statement in favor of Lynch's confirmation as attorney general. "
The conversation, which was included among the roughly 9,000 emails stolen from the inbox of campaign chair John Podesta that have been published by WikiLeaks, involved a debate over whether Clinton should issue a statement in favor of Lynch's confirmation as attorney general. "
Boycott Leftism
Articles: Boycott Leftism:
"The Achilles heel of leftism is its dependence upon conservatives and other normal people using the institutions of society that leftism has invested, and so providing the audience and income needed for the left to use against us.
These institutions conspire against the normal operations of the marketplace by declining to ever compete by offering an alternative to leftism.
...Football is an excellent example of how this works.
College athletic departments, which once did not care a hoot about political correctness, now have either cadres of the left as their spokesmen or have utterly cowed and terrified administrators who dare not say a word against the messages of the left.
The college football players who enter the NFL find the same insinuation of leftist cant into every crevice of professional football.
Although the dopey former San Francisco 49ers' insulting behavior during the National Anthem is a conspicuous example of leftist venom, the cringing fear of offending the left seems to terrify everyone in football.
Well, let football be terrified instead of offending those Americans who watch football on television and pay for tickets to football games and buy sporting equipment endorsed by football players.
There is evidence that this is happening.
As Rick Moran noted in American Thinker on October 5, Monday Night Football ratings have dropped 19% this year.
The same day, Rasmussen reported that a whopping 32% of Americans said they are less likely to watch NFL games because of the offensive Black Lives Matter glop.
What conservatives and other normal people have done to punish the NFL, they have done as well to punish those corporations that beg for their business but then reflexively follow political correctness in slapping down conservatives in other areas.
Cracker Barrel learned in just a few hours how deeply its customers were offended by corporate condemnation of Duck Dynasty and quickly issued a mea culpa before the losses in sales got too high or the perception that Cracker Barrel corporate bureaucrats really looked down on its customers got too focused.
Walmart, another business that would quickly go belly-up if conservatives stopped shopping there, also moved fast to change a decision not to bake a cake for a paying customer with "Blue Lives Matter" because that was deemed "racist."
If corporate offices learned that offending conservatives, Christians, patriotic Americans, and other groups seen as fair game today produced a permanent loss of consumer goodwill and sales, then corporate employees from CEOs down to store managers would be trained not to offend those who buy the stuff that pays their salaries.
What if conservative groups united to organize boycotts of all corporations who outrageously offend their values or use corporate funds to advance a radical agenda?...
Rean on!
"The Achilles heel of leftism is its dependence upon conservatives and other normal people using the institutions of society that leftism has invested, and so providing the audience and income needed for the left to use against us.
These institutions conspire against the normal operations of the marketplace by declining to ever compete by offering an alternative to leftism.
...Football is an excellent example of how this works.
College athletic departments, which once did not care a hoot about political correctness, now have either cadres of the left as their spokesmen or have utterly cowed and terrified administrators who dare not say a word against the messages of the left.
The college football players who enter the NFL find the same insinuation of leftist cant into every crevice of professional football. Although the dopey former San Francisco 49ers' insulting behavior during the National Anthem is a conspicuous example of leftist venom, the cringing fear of offending the left seems to terrify everyone in football.
Well, let football be terrified instead of offending those Americans who watch football on television and pay for tickets to football games and buy sporting equipment endorsed by football players.
There is evidence that this is happening.
As Rick Moran noted in American Thinker on October 5, Monday Night Football ratings have dropped 19% this year.
The same day, Rasmussen reported that a whopping 32% of Americans said they are less likely to watch NFL games because of the offensive Black Lives Matter glop.
What conservatives and other normal people have done to punish the NFL, they have done as well to punish those corporations that beg for their business but then reflexively follow political correctness in slapping down conservatives in other areas.
Cracker Barrel learned in just a few hours how deeply its customers were offended by corporate condemnation of Duck Dynasty and quickly issued a mea culpa before the losses in sales got too high or the perception that Cracker Barrel corporate bureaucrats really looked down on its customers got too focused.
Walmart, another business that would quickly go belly-up if conservatives stopped shopping there, also moved fast to change a decision not to bake a cake for a paying customer with "Blue Lives Matter" because that was deemed "racist."
If corporate offices learned that offending conservatives, Christians, patriotic Americans, and other groups seen as fair game today produced a permanent loss of consumer goodwill and sales, then corporate employees from CEOs down to store managers would be trained not to offend those who buy the stuff that pays their salaries.
What if conservative groups united to organize boycotts of all corporations who outrageously offend their values or use corporate funds to advance a radical agenda?...
Rean on!
Not good-----Islamists beat liberals in Morocco elections
Islamists beat liberals in Morocco elections:
"Rabat (AFP) - The Islamist party which has headed Morocco's coalition government since Arab Spring-inspired protests five years ago has beaten liberal rivals in parliamentary elections, results showed Saturday.
Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane's Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) took 125 seats out of 395, the interior ministry said after all ballots were counted.
Its main rival, the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), which had campaigned against the "Islamisation" of Moroccan society, won 102 seats, the ministry said.
Istiqlal, the party which historically fought for independence from France, came third with 45 seats.
...PAM spokesman Khalid Adennoun declined to comment but said that his party had filed "50 complaints" of voting irregularities, some concerning the PJD in Tangiers.
...A video shared on social networks also showed a man stuffing a ballot box, leading the PJD to file a complaint, media reported.
...The PJD came to power in 2011, months after massive street protests prompted concessions from the monarchy..."
"Rabat (AFP) - The Islamist party which has headed Morocco's coalition government since Arab Spring-inspired protests five years ago has beaten liberal rivals in parliamentary elections, results showed Saturday.
Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane's Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) took 125 seats out of 395, the interior ministry said after all ballots were counted.
Istiqlal, the party which historically fought for independence from France, came third with 45 seats.
...PAM spokesman Khalid Adennoun declined to comment but said that his party had filed "50 complaints" of voting irregularities, some concerning the PJD in Tangiers.
...A video shared on social networks also showed a man stuffing a ballot box, leading the PJD to file a complaint, media reported.
...The PJD came to power in 2011, months after massive street protests prompted concessions from the monarchy..."
Voter Fraud Is Real. Here’s The Proof
Voter Fraud Is Real. Here’s The Proof:
"This week, liberals have been repeating their frequent claim that voter fraud doesn’t exist. A recent Salon article argues that “voter fraud just isn’t a problem in Pennsylvania,” despite evidence to the contrary. Another article argues that voter fraud is entirely in the imagination of those who use voter ID laws to deny minorities the right to vote.
Yet as the election approaches, more and more cases of voter fraud are beginning to surface."
Yet as the election approaches, more and more cases of voter fraud are beginning to surface."
An Aircraft Carrier In Drydock
An Aircraft Carrier In Drydock | The Arts Mechanical:"The US Navy’s large nuclear carriers need to be refueled at an interval of about every ten to fifteen years.
Since refueling is an involved process requiring the removal a significant amount of deck plating the ship typically undergoes a complete overhaul at the same time.
This takes about a year and means that the ship and it’s crew are placed into living a different kind of life while the ship occupies the drydock.
...The US Navy has made this wonderful documentary of the USS Nimitz in drydock while undergoing the ROH process.
This is a big project for a big ship.
This is not a refueling overhaul, which typically done at Newport News, still it’s a year of refit and rebuilding..."
Clink link and watch the videos!
CUNY Prof Accused of Sexual Harassment Because His Syllabus Says Effort Is 10% of Grade
CUNY Prof Accused of Sexual Harassment Because His Syllabus Says Effort Is 10% of Grade - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"A professor at the City University of New York's Brooklyn College was ordered to make changes to his syllabus because it amounted to sexual harassment.
The professor, David Seidemann has refused to comply, and for good reason.
According to Seidemann, a university administrator expressed three grievances about the syllabus. First, and most quizzically, the grading portion of the syllabus suggests sexual harassment.
It reads, "Class deportment, effort etc……. 10% (applied only to select students when appropriate)."
That's it.
That's sexual harassment, Seidemann's department chair claimed.
Why?
No one explained it to him..."
The professor, David Seidemann has refused to comply, and for good reason.
According to Seidemann, a university administrator expressed three grievances about the syllabus. First, and most quizzically, the grading portion of the syllabus suggests sexual harassment.
It reads, "Class deportment, effort etc……. 10% (applied only to select students when appropriate)."
That's it.
That's sexual harassment, Seidemann's department chair claimed.
Why?
No one explained it to him..."
EXPOSED: How The Clinton 'Racism' Machine Used African Americans Will Make Them FURIOUS
EXPOSED: How The Clinton 'Racism' Machine Used African Americans Will Make Them FURIOUS:
"Among the many noteworthy trends of this election cycle has been the constant barrage of racism charges leveled against Donald Trump. Whether such charges are baseless, I will let the reader decide. However, there appears to be a systematic and concerted effort to paint not only Donald Trump, but any Clinton competitor, as a racist. The “R” word was hung around virtually everyone’s neck as Hillary perversely began to admit her own “white privilege” was a problem she was determined to overcome.
Racist. It’s a loaded word and an emotion-packed concept the left knows will serve as something progressives, hypocritically, constantly decry — an effective dog whistle to roust and rally the hounds of political war."
Racist. It’s a loaded word and an emotion-packed concept the left knows will serve as something progressives, hypocritically, constantly decry — an effective dog whistle to roust and rally the hounds of political war."
The Gelded Age :: SteynOnline
The Gelded Age :: SteynOnline:
Step forward, Richard Dreyfuss, star of Jaws, Mr Holland's Opus and (one of my favorites) American Graffiti:
Step forward, Richard Dreyfuss, star of Jaws, Mr Holland's Opus and (one of my favorites) American Graffiti:
Mark Steyn, a writer with an irritating case of the smart-alecs, has written a book I urge you read called America Alone. Just the first few chapters are a geo-political wake-up call, and he is not someone I agree with very much. But he quotes bin Laden: "When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse." And he quotes Donald Rumsfeld: "If we know anything it is that weakness is provocative."We are on a clock we don't see or comprehend. We will not survive this century unless civic virtue is revived. We can discuss its origins all day—if we have the right to speak at all, and aren't dead under jihad.
That's an unusually robust formulation from today's Hollywood. I will leave it to Mr Dreyfuss to expand on what he means by "civic virtue". For my part, I explain in America Alone that what's needed is more civilizational or cultural confidence:
Read on!This book isn't an argument for more war, more bombing, more killing, but for more will. In a culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of "suttee" – the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands. General Sir Charles Napier was impeccably multicultural:
'You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows.You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.'
Voter Fraud Is Real. Here’s The Proof
Voter Fraud Is Real. Here’s The Proof"Data suggests millions of voter registrations are fraudulent or invalid.
That’s enough to tip an election, easily.
This week, liberals have been repeating their frequent claim that voter fraud doesn’t exist.
A recent Salon article argues that “voter fraud just isn’t a problem in Pennsylvania,” despite evidence to the contrary.
Another article argues that voter fraud is entirely in the imagination of those who use voter ID laws to deny minorities the right to vote.
Yet as the election approaches, more and more cases of voter fraud are beginning to surface.
In Colorado, multiple instances were found of dead people attempting to vote.
Lots more here.
Your vote IS being stolen!
Mizzou considers quizzing profs on social justice bona fides
Mizzou considers quizzing profs on social justice bona fides:
"A preliminary proposal released as part of a system-wide "diversity audit" includes a suggestion that professors be evaluated on their "commitment to diversity and inclusion" when being considered for tenure.
The proposal also includes expanded definitions of sexual misconduct and a gender-neutral "preferred name" policy.
As part of its $1.1 million diversity audit, the University of Missouri has released a preliminary round of suggested practices that would expand on the its commitment to diversity and inclusion.
The system announced its plan to scrounge up $1.1 million for a diversity audit back in May, at a time when the university was beginning to see the effects of a semester of racial uprising, experiencing a drop of 2,200 in enrollment while facing a $32 million financial hole.
"Among the revisions are calls to implement a system-wide preferred name policy."
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Now, the school has released a set of potential revisions to the system’s “Collected Rules and Regulations” put forward by the diversity audit.
Among the revisions are calls to implement a system-wide preferred name policy, which would extend beyond the school’s existing policy that allows students to be referred to by their preferred names on ID cards and diplomas.
Additionally, The Missourian reports that the diversity audit has also suggested expanding the definitions of both sexual misconduct and consent, though no specifics were mentioned..."
"A preliminary proposal released as part of a system-wide "diversity audit" includes a suggestion that professors be evaluated on their "commitment to diversity and inclusion" when being considered for tenure.
The proposal also includes expanded definitions of sexual misconduct and a gender-neutral "preferred name" policy.
As part of its $1.1 million diversity audit, the University of Missouri has released a preliminary round of suggested practices that would expand on the its commitment to diversity and inclusion.
"Among the revisions are calls to implement a system-wide preferred name policy."
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Now, the school has released a set of potential revisions to the system’s “Collected Rules and Regulations” put forward by the diversity audit.
Among the revisions are calls to implement a system-wide preferred name policy, which would extend beyond the school’s existing policy that allows students to be referred to by their preferred names on ID cards and diplomas.
Additionally, The Missourian reports that the diversity audit has also suggested expanding the definitions of both sexual misconduct and consent, though no specifics were mentioned..."
Judge Strikes Down Sandy Hook Suit Against AR-15 Manufacturer - Breitbart
Judge Strikes Down Sandy Hook Suit Against AR-15 Manufacturer - Breitbart:
"According to a Friday report from CBS New York, Bellis cited the 2005 Lawful Protection of Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which protects gun manufacturers from being sued in instances where the gun in question was legally made and sold. The AR-15 used in the Sandy Hook attack was legally made and was sold and registered to Nancy Lanza, Adam’s mother. He stole that gun from her, then shot and killed her before going to the school."
Scenes From The Apocalypse – Mass Muslim Illegal Immigration Ruins The Streets Of Paris-Steve Russo
Steve Russo:
"Scenes From The Apocalypse – Mass Muslim Illegal Immigration Ruins The Streets Of Paris
Paris survived occupation by Nazis. Whether it survives occupation by Muslim welfare colonists remains to be seen. But prospects are not looking bright.
Remember when the ultimate trip anyone could receive on the old Dating Game show was a trip to Paris? That was like getting the Cadillac on Let’s Make a Deal. I wonder what they would think now? Islamic refugees have destroyed the once beautiful city of Paris. They have no respect or care for the Parisian culture or the beauty of the city. They’ve littered it with garbage, violence, and forced THEIR WAY OF LIFE and religion down everyone’s throat.
The Paris you know or remember from adverts or brochures no longer exists. While no part of Paris looks like the romantic Cliches in Hollywood movies, some districts now resemble post-apocalyptic scenes of a dystopian thriller.
If no portable toilets are in reach, open urination and defecation are commonplace. Tens of thousands of homeless Illegal immigrants, undocumented or waiting for a decision of their asylum application, waste away trying to pass the time in the city. Although their prospects of being granted asylum as Africans are bleak, they’re hoping for a decision that would grant them an apartment, welfare and make France their new home.
This short video shows what these disrespectful hobos have done to Paris – and if we elect Hillary, the same thing will happen to our beautiful cities.https://twitter.com/LucidHurrican…/status/780031978733088768
This footage, taken with a hidden camera by an anonymous Frenchman in the Avenue de Flandres, 19th Arrondissement, near the Stalingrad Metro Station in Paris as well as areas in close proximity, shows the devastating effects of uncontrolled illegal mass immigration of young African males into Europe.…
https://youtu.be/Ek1ENuEyWHE
https://youtu.be/Ek1ENuEyWHE
France is now paying the price for years of masses of migrants who they are unable to absorb. This is what President Hillary Clinton will bring. On the bright side, this should make vacationing more affordable. Rather than travel to romantic Paris, you can just visit Haiti instead, getting a similar experience while saving on airfare. https://youtu.be/UD7UA1d-WnA
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