An angle makes a world of difference. The dangers of a one sided story.

From a friend.

"Friends, as we watch what is happening on our Border with the "caravan", see how easily we are manipulated through images shown by "credible" sources.  

Remember the pictures of Mexican children in cages, said to have happened on Trump's watch?  

We later learned the images were taken while Obama was president.  

I have seen countless pictures of Palestinian women and children being shot by Israeli soldiers, only to learn these were staged stunts - no one was actually shot, but there was a lot of fake blood - designed to generate anger toward Israel.  

Do your homework before passing judgement!

 Here are some examples of the ways the Media manipulates “news” events...
 
There's no denying that the media often isn't wholly objective and truthful in its coverage of news events. 

The photos you're going to see below show just how easy it is to manipulate people's perceptions of an event that's being covered for the sake of whatever agenda that the powers-that-be at a given news network might have. 

Take a look:

An angle makes a world of difference.

This just goes to show how easily things can be staged on TV.

Creating the impression of strength in numbers for Hillary Clinton!

This soldier looks like he was threatening the boy in the first image. It turns out he wasn't.

Not many people turned out for the launch of UK PM Theresa May's campaign bus...

This photo was staged between photographers and a young Palestinian.

The kid in this infamous photo was participating in a pro-immigration demonstration. He wasn't a detained illegal immigrant.

The camera was used to create the illusion of more people.
 

 
 
Not quite as many people there as was made out...

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Public university removes white instructor for telling students to 'be respectful in class' - The College Fix

Public university removes white instructor for telling students to 'be respectful in class' - The College Fix
"...A white biology instructor who repeatedly warned her students to behave themselves has been yanked out of the classroom for the semester and required to undergo classroom management training.

The University of Texas-San Antonio cleared Anita Moss of showing racial bias toward a black student, who has a history of being disruptive, by calling campus police on her.
But a second investigation faulted the senior lecturer for telling students throughout the fall semester to “be respectful in class” by keeping their feet off chairs, putting away their phones and not talking.
...Students called her ‘one of the best instructors they had’
...Moss chose to “throw a temper tantrum” and cancel class, but even worse was her decision to “single out and humiliate a student just to flex her authority in a destructive manner,” Rawal wrote.
In a longer statement, he said Moss had started class by handing out “a printed list of UTSA Student Conduct and Community Standards” on civil behavior.
...Despite identifying this long history of disruptive behavior by Burgess, as well as Moss’s positive reviews as a faculty member, the administration decided to remove her from class for the semester. Another instructor was chosen to take over her duties and “an unarmed safety officer” was placed in the classroom..."
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#1 This day 1967-----The Monkees - "Daydream Believer" (Official Music Video)

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH: The Little Town That Pot Built…

Instapundit Blog Archive ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH
"ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH: The Little Town That Pot Built.

Garden City isn’t much of a city; it’s smaller than a square mile and has fewer than 300 residents. But it could afford to spend $3 million on downtown infrastructure upgrades thanks to its four bustling marijuana retailers.

Before the first medical marijuana dispensary in town opened in 2009, Garden City collected about $360,000 in revenue each year, said longtime Town Administrator Cheryl Campbell. Now pot is legal for recreational use, too, and last year, the town raked in over $2 million from sales taxes alone — mostly from the sale of bud, pre-rolled joints, edibles and other pot products...

 But:

Thanks to the influx of sales tax revenue, Garden City has been able to spend more on public works...

The money also has allowed the city to add new services. Garden City used to be patrolled by the county sheriff’s office, but now it can afford its own four-person police force..."

"Government expenditures will expand to exceed revenues".--Posted by Stephen Green"

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Al Gore Kicked Off 24-Hour Climate Broadcast As Thousands Rioted In Paris Over Carbon Taxes | The Daily Caller

Al Gore Kicked Off 24-Hour Climate Broadcast As Thousands Rioted In Paris Over Carbon Taxes | The Daily Caller:

Former Vice President Al Gore kicked off his live 24-hour broadcast calling for solutions to man-made global warming Monday as waves of protests against the very types of policies Gore champions rocked major French cities.

A mum accidentally bought an inflatable sheep sex doll for her child's nativity play - The Scotsman

A mum accidentally bought an inflatable sheep sex doll for her child's nativity play - The Scotsman: "A mortified mum sent her five year old to his school nativity with a ‘shepherd’ costume she bought online – before she realised it came with a blow up sheep sex doll.
Helen Cox bought son, Alfie, the 16.99 fancy dress costume on Amazon for his school nativity play and he was delighted it came with the free inflatable animal.
But Helen was puzzled when a teacher told Alfie to take the sheep home – until she blew it up and found it had a huge hole in its bottom – as well as red lips and eyelashes.
Mum of two Helen, 46, then found the same sheep on sale as a ‘stag night bonkin’ sheep’ – and is now devising a way to steal it away from her unaware son.
‘I don’t know whether to laugh or cry’
Helen, a psychology student, from Alloa, Scotland, said, “He’s probably in his room right now stuffing Lego in the hole.
“I just can’t believe it. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. How am I going to explain this to his teachers?"

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History for December 8

History for December 8 - On-This-Day.com
Horace 65 B.C., James Thurber 1894, Sammy Davis, Jr. 1925


Flip Wilson 1933, James MacArthur 1937, Jim Morrison (Doors) 1943


1854 - Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. The theory holds that Mary, mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the moment she was conceived.


1993 - U.S. President Clinton signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Report: FBI Email Chain May Spell Big Trouble For Anti-Trump FBI Officials For FISA Abuse | Daily Wire

Report: FBI Email Chain May Spell Big Trouble For Anti-Trump FBI Officials For FISA Abuse | Daily Wire:

A chain of emails between FBI officials regarding FISA applications obtained largely on the basis of the infamous Democrat-funded anti-Trump dossier may contain "the most damning evidence to date of potential abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)," The Hill's John Solomon reports.

The way we were-----Pearl Harbor!-----CBS Radio News 12/7/1941 & 12/8/1941

The day after: Americans react to Pearl Harbor

A college kid running for 13th Ward alderman gets a lesson in the Chicago Way - Chicago Tribune

A college kid running for 13th Ward alderman gets a lesson in the Chicago Way - Chicago Tribune
"The history of the little guy being squashed by massive Chicago political clout at election time is just too long to print without weeping.
But the story for today is so amazing that some Chicago election officials have never seen the like.
“No one can remember anything approaching this,” said an election official.
Really?
It’s overkill of epic proportions, like using a sledgehammer to kill a gnat, or firing off a nuclear weapon to kill a sparrow.
A Southwest Side David vs. Goliath story.

• The David is David Krupa, 19, a freshman at DePaul University who drives a forklift part time. He’s not a political powerhouse. He’s just a conservative Southwest Side teenager studying political science and economics who got it in his head to run for alderman in a race that pits him against the most powerful ward organization in Chicago.
• The Goliath is the 13th Ward Democratic Organization run by House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, aka Boss Madigan, the most powerful politician in the state. Boss Madigan has long hand-picked his aldermen. He likes them loyal and quiet. The current silent alderman of the 13th Ward is Marty Quinn.

“I’m from Clearing,” Krupa told me.
“All I want to do is get on the ballot to address the serious issues we have, from public safety to taxes..."
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Hope n' Change Cartoons - Posts

Hope n' Change Cartoons - Posts

"The days of December are quickly passing, moving us ever deeper into that beloved time of year when liberal nitwits find hilarious new reasons to be offended by anything and everything related to Christmas.

As a case in point, a hue and cry has been raised against the playfully romantic tune "Baby, It's Cold Outside," owing to interpretations that the song is actually about men drugging women and raping them, then casting them aside (perhaps in the snow) while heading for a warm seat on the Supreme Court.

...Is that cold enough for you...baby?"

Suzy Vanhoose You forgot the one that just came out today...that a “professor” decided that God got Mary pregnant with baby Jesus “without consent”. Wouldn’t want anyone to miss an opportunity to be offended!Read all!

Sen. Hirono: Democrats Have a Hard Time "Connecting" With People Because Of "How Smart We Are" | Video | RealClearPolitics

Sen. Hirono: Democrats Have a Hard Time "Connecting" With People Because Of "How Smart We Are" | Video | RealClearPolitics:

Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) said Democrats have a difficult time "connecting" with voters because of "how smart we are" that "we know so much." Hirono was interviewed by journalist Dahlia Lithwick at the 'Bend Towards Justice' conference in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.

Trump's Right About California's Fires: It Wasn't Climate Change; Two New California Laws Prove It

Trump's Right About California's Fires: It Wasn't Climate Change; Two New California Laws Prove It
"California’s politicians, bureaucrats, electric utilities and even celebrities have taken to using “climate change” as a multipurpose excuse for having done nothing to prevent deadly wildfires.
...The facts are clear: California’s deadliest year of wildfires has been decades in the making, with overlapping environmental rules, both state and federal, making fuel load reductions in forests and coastal chaparral nearly impossible, while hostility towards commercial timber harvesting has allowed a massive build up in tree density and brush with a concurrent reduction of access roads and firebreaks.
Yet in spite of blaming climate change and attacking President Trump for suggesting bad environmental policies made California’s fires worse, California’s outgoing governor, Jerry Brown, quietly signed two bills to correct the worst of the state’s fire management policy missteps, proving Trump was right all along.
...Once again, President Trump weighed in with a tweet, observing that “There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor.”
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Boulder Residents Given Days To 'Certify' Rifles Or Face Consequences

Boulder Residents Given Days To 'Certify' Rifles Or Face Consequences:
"...It seems the People’s Republic of Boulder wants to get in on the action and is now giving people who own so-called assault rifles just days to “certify” their weapons or face repercussions.
Residents of Boulder, Co., have until December 27 to “certify” their “assault weapons” or remove the firearms from city limits.
Those who fail to comply could face fines, jail time, and confiscation and destruction of their firearms, according to the Denver Post..."

Lunch video-----Pearl Harbor: What happened?

Noon-toon

Grassley wants answers about FBI raid on whistleblower with information on Clinton Foundation, Uranium One | Fox News

Grassley wants answers about FBI raid on whistleblower with information on Clinton Foundation, Uranium One | Fox News:

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has written to FBI Director Christopher Wray and the Justice Department's internal watchdog to request information about a raid on the home of a former FBI contractor who gave the watchdog documents related to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the sale of Canadian mining company Uranium One to a Russian firm's subsidiary.
According to The Daily Caller, 16 FBI agents raided the Maryland home of Dennis Nathan Cain on Nov. 19. Cain's lawyer, Michael Socarras, told the website that the agent who led the raid accused his client of possessing stolen federal property. In response, Cain reportedly claimed that he was a protected whistleblower under federal law and had been recognized as such by the DOJ watchdog, Michael Horowitz.

First "Caravan" Baby Born In US—End Birthright Citizenship Now! | Blog Posts | VDARE.com

First "Caravan" Baby Born In US—End Birthright Citizenship Now! | Blog Posts | VDARE.com
"From PatriotFire.net:

Caravan Woman Gives Birth to First Anchor Baby in U.S., Posted on December 5, 2018

A pregnant woman who spent weeks traveling with a caravan of migrants gave birth in San Diego after crossing illegally to the United States to seek asylum.

Maryuri was more than seven months pregnant when she left Honduras with her husband, Miguel, and their three-year-old son. The family spent weeks traveling north on foot and by bus until they arrived in Tijuana.

“He was born here in San Diego,” Maryuri said, holding her eight-day-old daughter, a US citizen by birth, in an interview with Telemundo 20...

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Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Inevitable’ Global Warming Governance Will Create ‘Economic, Social, and Racial Justice’

Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Inevitable’ Global Warming Governance Will Create ‘Economic, Social, and Racial Justice’:
"‘It’s inevitable that we can use the transition to 100% renewable energy as the vehicle to truly deliver and establish economic, social, and racial justice in the United States of America’
New York City’s incoming socialist congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, says there will only be benefits, and no costs, to passing a raft of new climate change laws.
In particular, she said, a new system of global warming governance will usher in “economic, social, and racial justice”, suggesting the federal government should nationalize technology the automaker Tesla developed following its receipt of tax subsidies.
...The comments came during a recent Bernie Sanders-hosted symposium on global warming.
The incoming congressman did not elaborate on how laws aimed at curbing global warming would create “economic, social, and racial justice.”...
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#1 Song this day 1941-----Chattanooga Choo Choo - Glenn Miller

Why Pearl Harbor Could Happen Again | Intellectual Takeout

Why Pearl Harbor Could Happen Again | Intellectual Takeout: Annie Holmquist | December 7, 2016 "December 7th marks the anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Naturally, headlines are full of remembrances of the dead and honors for the living.
But in reading through headlines, one concern in particular keeps resurfacing.
That concern is that the younger generation does not know, nor does it care about, what went on during that “day of infamy.”
...The following comment about Pearl Harbor left on one of Intellectual Takeout’s social media pages today puts this problem into sharper focus:
In his book The Founders and the Classics, Professor Carl Richard notes that the American Founders held history in high esteem, largely because:
“History was not merely a pleasant pastime, but a guide to action.
Knowledge of the past might prevent its repetition.”
Today only 12 percent of American high schoolers are proficient in history. 
If students continue to remain clueless about major events such as Pearl Harbor and the war it led to, should we be at all surprised if they end up facing similar problems in the years ahead?"
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Must read!---A Short History of American Medical Insurance - Imprimis

A Short History of American Medical Insurance - Imprimis:
"Perhaps the most astonishing thing about modern medicine is just how very modern it is.
More than 90 percent of the medicine being practiced today did not exist in 1950. 
Two centuries ago medicine was still an art, not a science at all.
As recently as the 1920s, long after the birth of modern medicine, there was usually little the medical profession could do, once disease set in, other than alleviate some of the symptoms and let nature take its course.
It was the patient’s immune system that cured him—or that didn’t...
...But hospitals had a financial problem from the very beginning of scientific medicine.
By their nature they are extremely labor intensive and expensive to operate.
Moreover, their costs are relatively fixed and not dependent on the number of patients being served. To help solve this problem, someone in the late 1920s had a bright idea: hospital insurance.
The first hospital plan was introduced in Dallas, Texas, in 1929.
The subscribers, some 1,500 schoolteachers, paid six dollars a year in premiums, and Baylor University Hospital agreed to provide up to 21 days of hospital care to any subscriber who needed it...
...The second dislocation was that hospital insurance did not provide indemnity coverage, which is when the insurance company pays for a loss and the customer decides how best to deal with it.
Rather than indemnification, the insurance company provided service benefits.
In other words, it paid the bill for services covered by the policy, whatever the bill was.
As a result, there was little incentive for the consumer of medical services to shop around.
With someone else paying, patients quickly became relatively indifferent to the cost of medical care.
...There is no price competition to keep prices in check.
Predictably, the medical profession began to lobby in favor of retaining this system.
In the mid-1930s, as Blue Cross plans spread rapidly around the country, state insurance departments moved to regulate them and force them to adhere to the same standards as regular insurance plans. Had hospital insurance come to be regulated like other insurance, those offering it would have begun acting more like insurance companies, and the economic history of modern American medicine might have taken a very different turn.
But that didn’t happen, largely because doctors and hospitals, by and for whom the plans had been devised in the first place, moved to prevent it from happening.
...In recent years, hospital use has been falling steadily as the population has gotten ever more healthy and surgical procedures have become far less traumatic.
The result is a steady increase in empty beds.
There were over 7,000 hospitals in the U.S. in 1975, compared to about 5,500 today.
But that reduction has not been nearly enough.
Because of the cost-plus way hospitals are paid, they don’t compete for patients by means of price, which would force them to retrench and specialize.
Instead they compete for doctor referrals, and doctors want lots of empty beds to ensure immediate admission and lots of fancy equipment, even if the hospital just down the block has exactly the same equipment.
The inevitable result, of course, is that hospital costs on a per-patient per-day basis have skyrocketed..."
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One-Eyed-Jack Law for Obama, Clinton, Mueller | National Review

One-Eyed-Jack Law for Obama, Clinton, Mueller | National Review:

Mueller has already weaponized politics, making a crime out of the tawdry business of opposition research — but only sort of, since his interests in doing so are highly selective. And so his chief legacy will have little to do with whatever he finds on Donald Trump. He has already established the precedent that there is now no real equality under the law, at least as Americans once understood fair play and blind justice.
Once Mueller deviated from his prime directive of determining whether Donald Trump colluded — sought help from the Russian to win the 2016 election in exchange for the promise of later benefits — and turned to indicting political operatives for supposedly giving false testimonies about political shenanigans and engaging in illegal business practices, lobbying, and tax avoidance, he either knowingly or unknowingly established a precedent that the serial misdeeds of 2016 would be treated unequally under the law.

Miseducated or Stupid? – Walter E. Williams

Miseducated or Stupid? – Walter E. Williams:
"A recent Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation survey found that 51 percent of American millennials would rather live in a socialist or communist country than in a capitalist country.
Only 42 percent prefer the latter (http://tinyurl.com/ybsejy3f).
Twenty-five percent of millennials who know who Vladimir Lenin was view him favorably.
Lenin was the first premier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Half of millennials have never heard of Communist Mao Zedong, who ruled China from 1949 to 1959 and was responsible for the deaths of 45 million Chinese people.
The number of people who died at the hands of Josef Stalin may be as high as 62 million.
However, almost one-third of millennials think former President George W. Bush is responsible for more killings than Stalin (http://tinyurl.com/yb43dlhm).
By the way, Adolf Hitler, head of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, was responsible for the deaths of about 20 million people.
The Nazis come in as a poor third in terms of history’s most prolific mass murderers.
...Are Americans who admire the world’s most brutal regimes miseducated or stupid? 
Or do they have some kind of devious agenda?
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History for December 7

History for December 7 - On-This-Day.com
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini 1598, Willa Cather 1873, Donald Albert Hall 1898 - Aircraft designer (Spirit of St. Louis)


Eli Wallach 1915, Ted Knight 1923, Larry Bird (NBA) 1956


1796 - John Adams was elected to be the second president of the United States.


1941 - Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was attacked by nearly 200 Japanese warplanes. The attack resulted in the U.S. entering into World War II.