Hillary Clinton Recently Said, ‘Don’t Let Anybody Tell You’ That Businesses Create Jobs. Guess What She’s Saying After the Backlash. | Video | TheBlaze.com

Hillary Clinton Recently Said, ‘Don’t Let Anybody Tell You’ That Businesses Create Jobs. Guess What She’s Saying After the Backlash. | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Hillary Clinton recently told supporters at a campaign rally, “Don’t let anybody tell you that… it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs.”

Predictably, the remarks sparked a good amount of backlash from Americans across the country who strongly disagreed with her assessment. On Monday, Clinton attempted to distance herself from her own comments."

Another sorority cancels a fundraiser because it somehow offends a few people

Another sorority cancels a fundraiser because it somehow offends a few people:

The Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, which has held Jail ‘N Bail in previous years, and Zeta Beta Tau fraternity canceled the event to benefit Reading is Fundamental, a “children’s literacy nonprofit,” after some people complained it was “insensitive,” the Daily Northwesterner reported.

Judging by the paper’s attributions, that would be four people:

“You’re employing aspects, the orange jumpsuits, of an oppressive system that operates as a massive encumbrance to the lives and literacy rates of black and brown children in these ‘underprivileged’ areas,” Weinberg sophomore Alejandro Banuelos wrote in a comment.

“All of them should be ashamed,” SESP junior Maria Marquez wrote in a public Facebook post about the event.

In a letter to the editor published Sunday night in The Daily, Weinberg sophomore Ajay Nadigsaid the event idea was offensive on both racial and socioeconomic grounds. [The letter claims that "racism and classism" are "ubiquitous" at Northwestern and Greek life is an "economic overclass" that is "overwhelmingly white."]

Austin Romero, Associated Student Government vice president for diversity and inclusion, brought students’ concerns about the event to the organizers’ attention Sunday night.

The comments on the article are just as snarky as you would expect them to be.

Read 'em:

“permissionless innovation”----Four innovation buzzwords you need to know

Four innovation buzzwords you need to know - The Washington Post

4. Permissionless innovation
.... government policymakers and bureaucratic regulators don’t always share that approach. 
Their first instinct is usually to view any new technology – drones, driverless cars, de-extinction – as something potentially posing a real risk to society. 
Technology, they say, needs to be regulated and controlled in order to prevent things from spiraling out of control.

So along came a new term – “permissionless innovation” – to describe the policy approach favored by the digital elite. 
The word means exactly what it sounds like it should mean: 
Innovators shouldn’t have to ask permission before they bring a new technology into the world. 
Instead, the burden of proof should be on regulators – they should be forced to show that there is a real and immediate threat to society posed by the technology. 
In the absence of such proof, the innovation should be allowed to flourish. 

Remember, most of what we hear/see/read from the MSM is politically motivated propaganda, not fact--------The Truth About Mass Public Shootings

The Truth About Mass Public Shootings - Reason.com
The findings from two separate reports released in the last month—one by the FBI and the other by progressive investigative media outlet Mother Jones—have been offered up as evidence that "mass shootings" are occurring more frequently than ever. The truth, however, is a little more complicated.

...Why does the Mother Jones list suffer from an underreporting problem that gets worse for the earlier cases? Due to a lack of detailed information about the search methodology used to compile the list, it's difficult to say with complete certainty. The most likely reason is that the Mother Jones list relied exclusively on news reports as a source of data, and news coverage tends to be less accessible for the older cases.

...But when we look at annual rates derived from the more complete dataset above, we see that only two of the 11 highest rates have occurred within the last eight years. Instead, six of the 11 highest rates were observed during the eight-year period between 1988 and 1995.

...Reducing the occurrence of mass public shootings is implicit to the debate over whether they have recently increased. Yet asking why mass public shootings have recently increased, even if only modestly since the mid-1990s, is the wrong question. Rather, what truly needs explaining is why the mass public shooting rate during the 1996-2006 period (an annual average of 1.00) was lower than at any time during the last 30 (or even 40) years.

Small Town Deploys ‘Military-Style Maneuvers’ to Collect 75-Year-Old Man’s Debt | Video | TheBlaze.com

Small Town Deploys ‘Military-Style Maneuvers’ to Collect 75-Year-Old Man’s Debt | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"What do you do when a 75-year-old man owes you $86,000?

If you’re with the sheriff’s department in Marathon County, Wisconsin, you send in a SWAT team."


Now it all makes sense.

Lansing ballpark renovation project $3M over budget

Lansing ballpark renovation project $3M over budget
Renovations to downtown Lansing’s minor league ballpark will cost up to $3 million more than budgeted.
As a result, a project to outfit Cooley Law School Stadium — home to the Lansing Lugnuts — with new locker rooms, scoreboards, concessions areas and other upgrades will have to rely on more private funding and more money borrowed in bonds, Mayor Virg Bernero’s administration said today.
...The project initially was estimated at $22 million.
Lansing said it would issue up to $11 million in bonds to pay for most of the upgrades at the city-owned stadium.
But the lowest bids came back nearly $5 million above early cost estimates, Bernero’s office said.

Watch: This Guy Just Asked The One Question About Obama That Could Destroy The Democrats

Watch: This Guy Just Asked The One Question About Obama That Could Destroy The Democrats: "According to Riley, it was a slap in the face.

“What has [Obama and his party] done for blacks?”

“Why should blacks be enthusiastic about getting out to the polls to keep the president’s party in power?”
Riley expanded on that idea by noting the conditions blacks have seen since Obama took office.

“On another level, why should blacks be eager to run to the polls to support the Senate Democrats and Harry Reid? What have they done for blacks?"

Showing ID When Voting Should Be One of the Least Controversial Policies in the World

Showing ID When Voting Should Be One of the Least Controversial Policies in the World

That helps explain why 31 states have some form of voter-ID laws in effect. Some are stricter than others, but all send an important message: Voting is too important not to take fraud seriously. We need to make sure that when someone shows up to vote, he is who he says he is, and not someone else.

You’d think this would be the most noncontroversial thing in the world. Who could oppose voter-ID laws? Some fringe groups? A few, yes, but unfortunately, they’re joined by some people who ought to know better, such as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., whose headquarters in Washington requires a photo ID to enter.

Video: What if Kids Talked Like Politicians? | Video | TheBlaze.com

Video: What if Kids Talked Like Politicians? | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“What if 5-year-old boys talked like politicians?” That’s the question posed by the Des Moines Register’s Ken Fuson in an op-ed published Saturday."

DIY is in decline because today's men are too soft

DIY is in decline because today's men are too soft - Telegraph:
"Men were clamouring over themselves to be seen as anything but sexist.
But as we lost our rough edges and took on more of what had traditionally been regarded as female roles, no one really stopped to question whether equality for women came with a cost for masculinity. If everything overtly “masculine” is dismissed as sexist, what’s left of men is, arguably, sexless.
You see this behavioural androgyny everywhere, from the increasingly corporate and sterile football terraces to the Croc-wearing househusband on the school run.
In an age where we’re expected to Hoover, iron, change nappies, make a woman climax for four hours like Sting and cook like Jamie Oliver, old-fashioned pursuits like DIY have become quaint, self-indulgent and almost shameful.
The result is that many modern men are more like our mothers than our fathers, while the opposite is true for women, who are increasingly wearing the trousers.
Women decry us for not being able to wire a plug like our dads, but can – or would – they cook a cracking apple crumble like their mums?"

Obama’s post-election plans for a secret radical agenda

Obama’s post-election plans for a secret radical agenda | New York Post

• Immigration
• Nominations
• War on terror
• Environment
• ObamaCare
• Iranian nukes
• Housing

It's happening ALL over our country. And it's ALWAYS to the benefit of democrats!!!-----‘Calibration issue’ pops up on Maryland voting machines

‘Calibration issue’ pops up on Maryland voting machines | Fox News:
"Voting machines that switch Republican votes to Democrats are being reported in Maryland.
“When I first selected my candidate on the electronic machine, it would not put the ‘x’ on the candidate I chose — a Republican — but it would put the ‘x’ on the Democrat candidate above it,” Donna Hamilton said.
“This happened multiple times with multiple selections.
Every time my choice flipped from Republican to Democrat. Sometimes it required four or five tries to get the ‘x’ to stay on my real selection,” the Frederick, Md., resident said last week.
Queen Anne County Sheriff Gary Hofmann said he encountered the problem, too, personally.
“This is happening here as well. It occurred on two candidates on my machine. I am glad I checked. Many voters have reported this here as well,” Hofmann, a Republican, wrote in an email Sunday evening.
Two other Maryland voters reported the same in Anne Arundel County on Friday."

CDC Finally Admits that Ebola Can Float through the Air … 3 Feet

CDC Finally Admits that Ebola Can Float through the Air … 3 Feet | The Daily Sheeple:
We’ve noted for some time that Ebola can be spread by aerosols to frontline healthcare workers.

The CDC is finally admitting this fact.

The CDC put out a new poster stating:

Droplet spread happens when germs traveling inside droplets that are coughed or sneezed from a sick person enter the eyes, nose, or mouth of another person. Droplets travel short distances, less than 3 feet (1 meter) from one person to another.
A person might also get infected by touching a surface or object that has germs on it and then touching their mouth or nose.

***

Clean and disinfect commonly touched surfaces like doorknobs, faucet handles, and toys, since the Ebola virus may live on surfaces for up to several hours.

Meryl Nass, M.D. – a board-certified internist and a biological warfare epidemiologist and expert in anthrax - comments:

CDC says it doesn’t travel farther than 3 feet.  Well, at least CDC is starting to move the narrative.  Maybe tomorrow it will be 5 feet.  Then 10.  Maybe next month they will tell us why all the victims’ possessions are being incinerated and apartments fumigated.
Just remember: historically, Ebola spread fast in healthcare facilities.

Elizabeth Warren Got REALLY Rich In The System She Calls ‘Rigged’

Elizabeth Warren Got REALLY Rich In The System She Calls ‘Rigged’:

"Somehow, by some glorious miracle, the “system” she indicts as being completely “rigged” is the same that allowed her to graduate from college, then law school, become a Professor at Harvard, a well-paid lawyer, and ultimately a Senator worth 14.5 million dollars. What a rigged system! Yet somehow, for the rest of us, unless we vote for her so she can grant us plebes her magnificent beneficence, we’ll just never make it.

The True Reason Gas Prices are Falling (Hint: It's Not Because of Green Energy)

The True Reason Gas Prices are Falling (Hint: It's Not Because of Green Energy)
There are many global reasons why gas prices are falling, but the major one isn’t being widely reported. America has become in the last several years an energy-producing powerhouse.
And sorry, Mr. President, I’m not talking about the niche “green energy” sources you are so weirdly fixated with.
Oil prices are falling because of changes in world supply and world demand.
Demand has slowed because Europe is an economic wreck. 
But since 2008 the U.S. has increased our domestic supply by a gigantic 50 percent. 
This is a result of the astounding shale oil and gas revolution made possible by made-in-America technologies like hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.
Already thanks to these inventions, the U.S. has become the number one producer of natural gas.
But oil production in states like Oklahoma, Texas and North Dakota has doubled in just six years.
Without this energy blitz, the U.S. economy would barely have recovered from the recession of 2008-09. 
From the beginning of 2008 through the end of 2013 the oil and gas extraction industry created more than 100,000 jobs while the overall job market shrank by 970,000.

Are We Ready For The Fall Of Baghdad?

Are We Ready For The Fall Of Baghdad? | Zero Hedge:
"This is simple payback for Washington's threats, banking fines and penalties against institutions and nations de jure that fail to march to the US tune of dictating trade and financial arrangements.
The world is now ganging up on the United States because Washington has terrorized smaller nations around the world for decades as the big bully on the block.
 We've had the misfortune of watching ISIS – originally funded and equipped by the US, Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf allies, as was Bin Laden – turn on their benefactors out to destroy Assad in Syria because of a pipeline deal and take over much of Iraq.
My point is just as the pro-US South Vietnamese government could not survive without major US forces, neither will the present government in Baghdad.
So what could happen to the massive, fortified Baghdad US Embassy in the Green Zone that rivals the Vatican in size?
What are the possible military objectives of the Islamic State fighters (ISIS) in regard to the Iraqi capitol?"

History for October 28

History for October 28 - On-This-Day.com:
Jonas Salk 1914, Suzy Parker 1933, Charlie Daniels 1936 


Dennis Franz 1944, Bill H. Gates 1955, Brad Paisley 1972 


1636 - Harvard College was founded in Massachusetts. The original name was Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was the first school of higher education in America. 


1776 - The Battle of White Plains took place during the American Revolutionary War. 


1793 - Eli Whitney applied for a patent for his cotton gin. 


1886 - The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor by U.S. President Cleveland. The statue weighs 225 tons and is 152 feet tall. It was originally known as "Liberty Enlightening the World." 


1904 - The St. Louis Police Department became the first to use fingerprinting. 


1919 - The U.S. Congress enacted the Volstead Act, also known as the National Prohibition Act. Prohibition was repealed in 1933 with the passing of the 21st Amendment to theU.S. Constitution. 


1922 - Benito Mussolini took control of the Italian government and introduced fascism to Italy. 


1958 - Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was elected Pope. He took the name John XXIII. 


1965 - The Gateway Arch along the waterfront in St. Louis, MO, was completed. 


1982 - Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev condemned the U.S. for arms buildup. 


1986 - The centennial of the Statue of Liberty was celebrated in New York. 

Comedian Jon Lovitz Unravels Hillary Clinton’s Buffoonish Economics Using Only Nine Words

Comedian Jon Lovitz Unravels Hillary Clinton’s Buffoonish Economics Using Only Nine Words:

"But you don’t even need fancy charts to prove both Hillary Clinton and fellow Marxist Barack Obama’s economic illiteracy, whose own version of “trickle down” is that all things trickle down from the good angels in government, from power-hungry and sociopathic politicians and bureaucrats.

As Twitchy reported, comedian Jon Lovitz used some good old-fashioned common sense to school Hillary on American economics, and it only took him nine words, including the word, “Huh?”

Moron democrat super-gaffs and MSM ignores----Sen. Mark Udull Strikes Again

Sen. Mark Udull Strikes Again | Power Line

Here’s the transcript (hat tip: RealClearPolitics):

“I’m so proud of our country,” Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) said as he introduced First Lady Michelle Obama at a campaign event on Thursday. “We showed that Dr. Martin Luther King [Jr.] had it right. Which is that in America, at our best, we judge people by the content of their color.”

Udall quickly corrected himself.

“The content of their character, not the character of their skin,” he said.

“I got it right. I got it both ways!” 

“We judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.”

Unintended consequences-Drone nearly collided with British passenger plane on purpose

Report: Drone nearly collided with British passenger plane on purpose | Ars Technica

On Sunday, a British regulatory agency revealed that the country faced its first near-collision between a passenger aircraft and a drone in May. 

The UK Airprox Board's report, uncovered by the Daily Mail, determined that a quadcopter flew "within 80 feet" of an 74-seat ATR 72 aircraft and did so "deliberately."

The incident happened over the county of Essex as the plane prepared to land at London Southend Airport. According to the report, the quadcopter came close to hitting the larger plane's right-side wing at an altitude of roughly 1,500 feet. 

The report included a conversation between the ATR 72's pilot and an air control tower, in which the tower confirmed the offending red-and-black craft was probably a quadcopter, as "we've had a couple of those around here" recently.