Kurt Schlichter----Democrat Prospects Are Bleak As The Wacky Pack Takes Over

Democrat Prospects Are Bleak As The Wacky Pack Takes Over
"...the Democrats are in a terrible position.
...What do they do now that the entire soft coup hoax is a heap of garbage smoldering in the dumpster of American politics?
...There is just not a lot of enthusiasm out there in America for a bunch of schemes that generally involve Democrat-disfavored people like you and me paying our hard-earned money to subsidize Democrat-favored demographics like illegal aliens, shiftless bums, snooty academics and militant Maoist pottery majors.
...The congressional Democrats are in a miserable position.
Their party is under internal attack by leftist loons whose approval ratings are on par with syphilis. Their last three years were wasted chasing the collusion chimera.
Their party platform demands Americans give up their doctors, their guns, their cars and their money. 
The only thing they have going for them is that their opponents are the Republicans.
Come to think of it, the odds might actually be in their favor..."
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#1 This day 1983-----The Police - Every Breath You Take (Official Music Video)

• Chart: Is 100 the New 80?: Centenarians Are Becoming More Common | Statista

• Chart: Is 100 the New 80?: Centenarians Are Becoming More Common | Statista
"...This year, the number of centenarians has increased to a new high of around 533,000 worldwide. The United Nations expect that number to rise to approximately 573,000 by 2020.
The U.S. has the highest absolute number of centenarians in the world with 72,000 living in the country..."
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Racist?

Former Planned Parenthood president reveals how ghoulish the abortion giant really is

Former Planned Parenthood president reveals how ghoulish the abortion giant really is:

It’s not clear if Wen is genuinely surprised at Planned Parenthood’s goal to eschew even the optics of being an organization that provided healthcare while actually focusing more on abortions, but she certainly seems like it. Conservatives have claimed for years, correctly, that Planned Parenthood's sole mission is to perpetuate murder-at-will through abortion for any reason at nearly any cost.

Rat Photo-Bombs Reporter's Live Coverage of Baltimore's Decay

Rat Photo-Bombs Reporter's Live Coverage of Baltimore's Decay
"A rat ran through a live camera shot as a reporter discussed outrage over President Donald Trump’s claim the city of Baltimore, Maryland was rat-infested and needed to be cleaned up.

On Monday, Reporter Maxine Streicher was on-air live in the city’s Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood, saying residents think Trump should visit Baltimore and see its condition for himself:

“Now, we spoke with many people today, who say the president should consider coming here to Baltimore, to the Sandtown area, and taking a look at things for himself.”

As the camera panned to a shot of an alley, a rat scurried out from behind a bag of trash, and ran along the wall and around the corner.

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A rat runs through a FOX45 Baltimore Reporter’s live shot during a story on President Trump’s tweet Baltimore is rat infestedhttps://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/rat-photo-bombs-fox45-live-shot …

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History for July 31

History for July 31 - On-This-Day.com
S.S. Kresge 1867 - Founder of S.S. Kresge Company (renamed Kmart Corporation in 1977 and later Sears Holding Corporation), Milton Friedman 1912 - Economist, Curt Gowdy 1919 - Sportscaster, longtime "voice" of the Boston Red Sox


Wesley Snipes 1962 - Actor, J.K. Rowling 1965 - Author ("Harry Potter" series), Dean Cain 1966 - Actor (TV: "Lois & Clark")


1928 - MGM’s Leo the lion roared for the first time. He introduced MGM’s first talking picture, "White Shadows on the South Seas."


1989 - A pro-Iranian group in Lebanon released a videotape reportedly showing the hanged body of American hostage William R. Higgins.

Rat Runs Through Live Shot Of Baltimore | The Daily Caller

Rat Runs Through Live Shot Of Baltimore | The Daily Caller:

A rat ran through a live shot of Baltimore during a local news outlet’s coverage of the controversy surrounding Trump’s tweets that the city is “rat infested.”
During a FOX45’s live shot of an empty lot in Sandtown-Winchester a rat quickly scurried across just as reporter Maxine Streicher said city residences would like to see President Trump visit Baltimore.

John Ratcliffe: AG William Barr will deliver justice to any Obama officials who committed crimes

John Ratcliffe: AG William Barr will deliver justice to any Obama officials who committed crimes:

A top Republican investigator said accountability is coming for any of those individuals who may have committed crimes during the Trump-Russia investigation.
With the Justice Department conducting a review of that operation, Rep. John Ratcliffe said during a Fox News interview Sunday that he trusts Attorney General William Barr and Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz to provide answers.
And while Ratcliffe said he does not want to prematurely accuse any specific person of a crime — as Democrats have done with President Trump — he stressed that it is clear crimes were committed by people during the Obama administration, including government officials.

The way we were-----The Standells - Dirty Water

Boob-tube-----Comedienne Jean Carroll--1955 TV

Parents Are Giving Up Custody of Their Kids to Get Need-Based College Financial Aid — ProPublica

Parents Are Giving Up Custody of Their Kids to Get Need-Based College Financial Aid — ProPublica

• First, parents turn over guardianship of their teenagers to a friend or relative. Then the student declares financial independence to qualify for tuition aid and scholarships.

Dozens of suburban Chicago families, perhaps many more, have been exploiting a legal loophole to win their children need-based college financial aid and scholarships they would not otherwise receive, court records and interviews show.

...Parents are giving up legal custody of their children during their junior or senior year in high school to someone else — a friend, aunt, cousin or grandparent. 
The guardianship status then allows the students to declare themselves financially independent of their families so they can qualify for federal, state and university aid, a ProPublica Illinois investigation found.

“It’s a scam,” said Andy Borst, director of undergraduate admissions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 
“Wealthy families are manipulating the financial aid process to be eligible for financial aid they would not be otherwise eligible for. They are taking away opportunities from families that really need it.”..."
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You can't afford the car, why should you pay for their free electricity?!!-----Michigan Utility Customers Subsidizing High-End Electric Cars – Michigan Capitol Confidential

Michigan Utility Customers Subsidizing High-End Electric Cars – Michigan Capitol Confidential:

• State’s big utilities giving subsidies for plug-in charging stations

"In a push to encourage drivers to shift from from gas-powered cars to plug-in electric vehicles, Consumers Energy recently announced a program to subsidize the installation of charging stations. Dubbed the PowerMIDrive program, the Jackson-based gas and electric utility’s initiative pays EV owners $400 subsidies to install car chargers at home. 
It also provides businesses amounts ranging from $5,000 to $70,000 to put chargers in their parking lots.
Most of the payments so far have gone to individuals and companies in nine counties, subsidizing some 50 charging stations altogether.
They are: Charlevoix, Muskegon, Kent, Allegan, Kalamazoo, Calhoun, Jackson, Saginaw and Midland counties.
...DTE, Michigan’s other big utility company, has introduced a similar program in its territory...
“It’s reverse Robin Hood: stealing from the poor to give to the rich,” said Jason Hayes, director of environmental policy at the Mackinac Center.
...Hayes added that he has no problem if the company wants to invest its private funds into EV infrastructure, “but when they use the force of the government to push me, an unwilling participant, into funding their business exploits, that’s a totally different thing.”
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'We will find out exactly what Comey was up to' - WND

'We will find out exactly what Comey was up to' - WND:

The legal team, through the Freedom of Information Act, is seeking every email, memorandum, brief and electronic message regarding a “spy” Comey dispatched to the White House and apparently used against the president.
“We will find out exactly what Comey was up to and bring it to light. And we’re prepared to go right back to court against the FBI Deep State in order to expose the truth, defend the Constitution and our rule of law, and once again defeat the Deep State. We will keep you updated as this case progresses,” ACLJ said Friday.
“The American people deserve to know the truth.”

"A few rats"?-----Selling Baltimore as Safe and Al Sharpton as Honest. The Trump Dilemma for Democrats. – Da Tech Guy Blog

Selling Baltimore as Safe and Al Sharpton as Honest. The Trump Dilemma for Democrats. – Da Tech Guy Blog
"One of the greatest strengths of Donald Trump is his ability and willingness to say aloud things that everyone knows on prima facie evidence are true without a doubt but are either not spoken by the MSM or not spoken in the context of the Democrat/left having any connection to said facts.

Yesterday I wrote about the President’s statement concerning Baltimoreand listed a plethora of groups who made similar statements without them being attributed to racism. The fruits of his move, as Don Surber notes are now becoming apparent:

Baltimore Sun quickly exuded an editorial, “Better to have a few rats than to be one.” A couple of its white columnists came in on a sunny Saturday to denounce as racist the president telling the truth.

I doubt anyone on the editorial board lives in West Baltimore, which is the center of this tragedy. They belong to the Protected Class, as Peggy Noonan put it. They are protected from the adverse effects of the policies they embrace.

I wonder what they would think if their children went to sleep in a rat-infested house each night.

Americans know Donald John Trump is right. Cummings has represented Baltimore for 36 years in Congress. On his watch, parts of Baltimore slid into being rat-infested war zones with third world homicide rates..."

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Solar minimum warning: Mini ice age could last until 2055 - shock warning | Science | News | Express.co.uk

Solar minimum warning: Mini ice age could last until 2055 - shock warning | Science | News | Express.co.uk
"THE current solar minimum could last for more than three decades which could lead to temperatures plummeting across the globe, scientists have warned.

NASA predicts solar minimum will be at its lowest by 2020

The Sun is currently entering the solar minimum – a period of roughly 11 years when there is less activity on our host star. 

But experts who have been analysing the Sun believe there is evidence to suggest that it could last until 2055. 

The Sun follows 11 year cycles where it reaches a solar maximum and then a solar minimum..."

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Lunch video-----In Search Of... The Coming Ice Age

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Robert Mueller Can’t Recall – American Greatness

Robert Mueller Can’t Recall – American Greatness:

It is a great sadness, a great victory, and a great irony. The spectacle of a stooped and aged Robert Mueller, after he had (voluntarily) been so dishonestly used by the president’s enemies, was an objectively sad one, a sorry swan-song to a substantial career. The victory of the Trump Republicans is seismic, and announces the imminent exposure and punishment of those who abused the system to attack the president and deform the political system.
The irony is two-fold. If Trump’s enemies had not launched the Russian collusion nonsense, all their pre-electoral skullduggery would not have been unearthed—if they had given him the normal honeymoon for incoming presidents, a serene ambiance would have settled Washington down, at least for a year or so, and they would now be wallowing in their Washington lobbying and other sinecures.
The second irony is that there is

Former Planned Parenthood president reveals how ghoulish the abortion giant really is

Former Planned Parenthood president reveals how ghoulish the abortion giant really is
"Leana Wen, now the former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, was fired from the organization over what she calls “philosophical differences over the best way to protect reproductive health.”
A few days later, she penned an op-ed in the New York Times explaining what happened and why, from her perspective.
What she reveals about the organization’s goals and methodology is not only unsurprising, but confirms what conservatives have been claiming about Planned Parenthood for years.
Wen first writes that while she understood Planned Parenthood certainly performed abortions, she didn’t believe that should be the organization’s primary goal..."
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Well, she can say it. Cuz she's a democrat.

Ann Coulter: How we became the world's suckers on immigration | TheHill

Ann Coulter: How we became the world's suckers on immigration | TheHill
"Looking at our immigration policies compared to the rest of the world, you’d think America lost a bet.
The United States is one of only two developed countries in the world (the other is Canada, and even it has some restrictions we don’t have) with full “birthright citizenship,” meaning that any child born when his mother was physically present within the geographical borders of the U.S. automatically gets a U.S. birth certificate and a Social Security card.
That means legal immigrants, pregnant women sneaking in on tourist visas, travelers on a three-week vacation, cheap foreign workers on “temporary” visas and, in some cases, foreign diplomats.
...And that’s not all.
We’re the only country but two that confers automatic citizenship on children born to illegal aliens, or “anchor babies.”
...The other two countries that grant citizenship to anchor babies are Canada and Tanzania.
Canada doesn’t have Latin America on its border, of course — and Tanzania is reconsidering the policy.
Here’s a fun fact: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman — the notorious Mexican drug lord, sentenced on July 17 to life plus 30 years for drug trafficking and multiple murder conspiracies — has two children who are American, born in sunny California to his wife, who’s an anchor baby herself..."
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#1 This day 1975-----The Egles One Of These Nights

Why aren't contractors building more starter homes? Excessive fees imposed by state and local politicians - American Experiment

Why aren't contractors building more starter homes? Excessive fees imposed by state and local politicians - American Experiment

"Last week, noting how “The average single-family home in the Twin Cities will cost you $294,000 on average, a record high and 6-percent increase over June of 2018”, Kare 11 looked at ‘Why contractors aren’t building more starter homes‘. They came to the same conclusion as we have: excessive fees and regulations make Twin Cities housing expensive.

As Kare 11 report,

A recent conversation in the newsroom spawned the question: With demand so high for homes in the $150,000 – $250,000 price range, why don’t contractors just build more?

“I’d love to,” said Tony Wiener, vice president of Cardinal Home Builders. “It’s not possible.”

Wiener said he gets a call or email once a week asking for a new two-story house in the starter home price range. But he said the math makes it impossible for a number of reasons, and construction costs or profit are not foremost among them.

“One third of the total package price, with the land, is in the regulatory costs. Your wetland fees, your park dedication fees, your permit costs,” Wiener explains..."

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Liberal "condiment"

Richard Grenell Calls Out Left's Hypocrisy on Baltimore: Read the New York Times | Breitbart

Richard Grenell Calls Out Left's Hypocrisy on Baltimore: Read the New York Times | Breitbart:

The same phenomenon occurred in other cities, especially where elected Democrats declined to support police and backed protests against them.
“Spikes in homicides in Baltimore, Chicago and the District of Columbia accounted for more than half of the national increase in killings in the 30 largest cities in 2015, according to a final analysis of yearly crime data by New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice,” the Baltimore Sun noted in April 2016.
The Times magazine article, “The Tragedy of Baltimore,” by Alex MacGillis, described “the crackup of an American city”:

So many ways to lie to us. Continuing today----Reuters Photo Fraud

Reuters Photo Fraud
"A comprehensive overview of the four types of photo fraud committed by Reuters, August, 2006
The recent discovery that the Reuters news agency released a digitally manipulated photograph as an authentic image of the bombing in Beirut has drawn attention to the important topic of bias in the media. 
But lost in the frenzy over one particular image is an even more devastating fact: that over the last week Reuters has been caught red-handed in an astonishing variety of journalistic frauds in the photo coverage of the war in Lebanon.
This page serves as an overview of the various types of hoaxes, lies and other deceptions perpetrated by Reuters in recent days, since the details of the scandal are getting overwhelmed by a torrent of shallow mainstream media coverage that can easily confuse or mislead the viewer. 
...It's important to understand that there is not just a single fraudulent Reuters photograph, nor even only one kind of fraudulent photograph. 
There are in fact dozens of photographs whose authenticity has been questioned, and they fall into four distinct categories.
The four types of photographic fraud perpetrated by Reuters photographers and editors are:



1. Digitally manipulating images after the photographs have been taken.



2. Photographing scenes staged by Hezbollah and presenting the images as if they were of authentic spontaneous news events.



3. Photographers themselves staging scenes or moving objects, and presenting photos of the set-ups as if they were naturally occurring.



4. Giving false or misleading captions to otherwise real photos that were taken at a different time or place.

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