Pandering to felons?!!-----The Voting Effect of Virginia’s Move on Felons? Small but Potentially Decisive

The Voting Effect of Virginia’s Move on Felons? Small but Potentially Decisive - The New York Times:
"There was considerable fretting — or satisfaction — over Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s decision Friday to re-enfranchise 200,000 ex-felons in Virginia.
The state will be one of the central battlegrounds this November, and it’s widely believed that ex-felons will vote heavily for Democrats. (More than half are African-Americans, a big voting bloc for the party.)
And the big number of newly enfranchised voters — 200,000 — is actually larger than Mr. Obama’s 149,298-vote margin of victory there in 2012.
But the electoral effect of felon re-enfranchisement is likely to be modest.
The best-case scenario for Democrats might be that they improve their popular vote margin by a half-point.
That’s a big deal, but only in a close election..."

Lunch video-----Americans Petition to Ban Cash and Issue New Digital Dollar for a Cashless economy...

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On The Prowl: Russian Attack Submarines Patrolling Near Cold-War Levels

On The Prowl: Russian Attack Submarines Patrolling Near Cold-War Levels:

"Even more worrying was this nugget buried in the piece:

Russia is also building an undersea unmanned drone capable of carrying a small, tactical nuclear weapon to use against harbors or coastal areas, American military and intelligence analysts said.

Charming. An enemy that was defeated by Ronald Reagan’s military buildup in the 1980s is posing an entirely new threat to the United States. Meanwhile, the current American president prattles about the liberal dream of a nuclear free world, and makes war policy based on the exaggerated threat of “climate change” as the very real threat of foreign countries flexing their military muscles grows right under his nose.

Putin’s Russia is changing the rules of the game, while Obama sits on the sidelines."

Follow the money------Top Global Corporations Urge Leaders To Sign Paris Climate Accord on Earth Day

Top Global Corporations Urge Leaders To Sign Paris Climate Accord on Earth Day - Technocracy News: "
TN Note: And, why not? 
The money is flowing like never before and profits are piling up, but will their profits be sustainable? The alternative energy market is already imploding and trillions are being wiped out.
Global firms responsible for tens of trillions of dollars in investments on Tuesday (April 19) urged the world’s leading economies to sign the landmark Paris accord to limit global warming adopted at a UN summit in December.
Seven organisations that represent over 400 investment funds sent a letter to the leaders of G20 nations calling on them “to sign the Paris Agreement on April 22nd at the United Nations in New York.”
...Most large banks and financial services companies are represented in the letter, including American giants like Blackrock, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as well as Britain’s Aviva, HSBC and RBS..."

Heavy teen marijuana use may cut life short by 60

Heavy teen marijuana use may cut life short by 60 - CBS News:
"Heavy marijuana use in the late teen years puts men at a higher risk for death by age 60, a new long-term study suggests.
Swedish researchers analyzed the records of more than 45,000 men beginning in 1969 and 1970.
The scientists from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm reported that 4,000 died during the 42-year follow-up period, and men who'd used marijuana heavily at ages 18 and 19 were 40 percent more likely to die by age 60 compared to guys who hadn't used the drug.
The authors of the new study, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, said the findings contradict previous research involving the same group of men.
But this study was longer and participants might have reached an age where the long-term effects of cannabis were taking a toll on health, said addiction expert...
"Cannabis users have poorer health in general.
You'd expect there to be increased mortality risk," Krakower told CBS News.
He pointed to another long-term study linking early heavy marijuana use with lung cancer, and a second study that associates the drug with increased heart problems..."

Democrat culture of corruption-----The mayor is going down!

The mayor is going down! | New York Post:
"Less than a week ago, Mayor de Blasio was offering aid to Ecuadorians after the earthquake there. Now a political earthquake is rocking City Hall and the mayor is the one who needs help.
The report from the state Board of Elections that accuses him and his team of “willful and flagrant” violations of campaign-finance laws immediately changes everything.
The veneer of business as usual is shredded.
Never again can de Blasio wave off questions about the mushrooming investigations of his administration.
As revelations pile up day after day, allies will desert him and the Putz will find himself a very lonely man.
There is no way to sugarcoat the facts: de Blasio is in trouble. 
Maybe very big trouble.
His City Hall is being depicted as the seat of a criminal enterprise. 
And so far, he offers nothing resembling a convincing ­denial.
As bad as it is, the election report covering the 2014 state Senate races is just the start.
The endgame involves the more ­lethal issue of whether de Blasio sold government favors to donors. 
That is what federal prosecutors are looking for, and I believe they will find a mother lode..."
Read on.
It gets worse!

‘You Know That’s Not True’: Fox Host Gets DNC Chair to Admit Clinton Was Only Sec. of State Ever to Use Private Email Sever | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘You Know That’s Not True’: Fox Host Gets DNC Chair to Admit Clinton Was Only Sec. of State Ever to Use Private Email Sever | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz struggled to defend former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server this morning during an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”

When host Chris Wallace asked the Florida congresswoman about about Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ persistent critiques of Clinton’s campaign and the scandal that surrounds it, Wasserman Schultz unsuccessfully tried to divert the conversation to the messy, “backwards” Republican race."

AT&T offering $5 internet to low-income families

AT&T offering $5 internet to low-income families | New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV:
"SAN FRANCISCO — AT&T will start offering discounted internet access to low-income families for as low at $5 a month.
Any home where at least one person receives food stamps will be eligible for the new program, called Access from AT&T.
The offering is part of an agreement AT&T made with the FCC as part of last year’s DirectTV merger and will be available until 2020.
The company is the latest to offer discounted internet to low-income households in the United States, joining Comcast, Google Fiber, and some local government and nonprofit.
...In March, the FCC voted to expand its Lifeline program and add a $9.25 subsidy that could go toward broadband internet for low-income households. 
Another government initiative called ConnectALL wants to bring internet access to 20 million homes by 2020.
Access from AT&T will offer 3Mbps connections for $5 a month, and faster 5Mbps or 10Mbps connections for $10 a month.
All installation and equipment fees will also be waived.
...To spread the word about the program, AT&T says it will work with community organizations on education. 
The pool of potential customers is deep. AT&T currently offers internet in 21 states, and there are 22 million families signed up for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which offers food stamps."

AM Fruitcake

History for April 25

History for April 25 - On-This-Day.com
Oliver Cromwell 1599 - English military and political leader, Guglielmo Marconi 1874 - Italian inventor (radio telegraph system), Edward R. Murrow 1908 - American broadcast journalist


Ella Fitzgerald 1918 - Vocalist, known as "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella", Meadowlark Lemon 1932 - Basketball player, Harlem Globetrotters, Al Pacino 1940 - Actor


1684 - A patent was granted for the thimble.


1915 - During World War I, Australian and New Zealand troops landed at Gallipoli in Turkey in hopes of attacking the Central Powers from below. The attack was unsuccessful.


1959 - St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping. The water way connects the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.


1961 - Robert Noyce was granted a patent for the integrated circuit.


1967 - Colorado Governor John Love signed the first law legalizing abortion in the U.S. The law was limited to therapeutic abortions when agreed to, unanimously, by a panel of three physicians.


1980 - In Iran, a commando mission to rescue hostages was aborted after mechanical problems disabled three of the eight helicopters involved. During the evacuation, a helicopter and a transport plan collided and exploded. Eight U.S. servicemen were killed. The mission was aimed at freeing American hostages that had been taken at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. The event took place April 24th Washington, DC, time.


1998 - U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on was questioned by Whitewater prosecutors on videotape about her work as a private lawyer for the failed savings and loan at the center of the investigation.


2003 - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader and ex-wife of former President Nelson Mandela, was sentenced to four years in prison for her conviction on fraud and theft charges. She was convicted of 43 counts of fraud and 25 of theft of money from a women's political league.

Sheriff Clarke Slams Hillary Clinton, Democrats, For Pandering To Blacks

Sheriff Clarke Slams Hillary Clinton, Democrats, For Pandering To Blacks:

"He went on to make a broader point about the Democrat Party’s perceived penchant for pandering. Though he has won four elections as a member of the party, Clarke urged blacks to consider the candidate before his or her party affiliation.

“You go to all these cities where there’s high poverty,” he asserted, “there’s now high levels of crime and violence. They’re all run by liberal Democratic mayors, liberal Democratic politicians. Nothing’s getting better.”

He concluded that voters should treat every candidate the same way he asks Milwaukee County voters to treat him each election cycle."

Massive Amounts of WMDs Were Found in Iraq

Massive Amounts of WMDs Were Found in Iraq – Daily Headlines
"One of the biggest knocks against George W Bush is that he lied about WMDs in Iraq.  Even today, liberals still spew those lies.  
Before the Iraq War started under Bush, trailer load after trailer load of what is suspected to have been WMDs were moved from Iraq to Syria.  
But even with all that movement, large amounts of weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq.  
The CIA was even able to buy 400 Borak rockets filled with pure Sarin gas.  
And on top of that, our troops found 5,000 WMDs that the Pentagon kept secret until last year...

Last year, The New York Times did an investigative piece on WMDs found by our soldiers.  
Here are parts of a story I did on the subject at the time:

The soldiers at the blast center sensed something was wrong.

It was August 2008 near Taji, Iraq. They had just exploded a stack of old Iraqi artillery shells buried beside a murky lake. The blast, part of an effort to destroy munitions that could be used in makeshift bombs, uncovered more shells.

Two technicians assigned to dispose of munitions stepped into the hole. Lake water seeped in. One of them, Specialist Andrew T. Goldman, noticed a pungent odor, something, he said, he had never smelled before. He lifted a shell. Oily paste oozed from a crack. “That doesn’t look like pond water,” said his team leader, Staff Sgt. Eric J. Duling.

The specialist swabbed the shell with chemical detection paper. It turned red — indicating sulfur mustard, the chemical warfare agent designed to burn a victim’s airway, skin and eyes.

All three men recall an awkward pause. Then Sergeant Duling gave an order: “Get the hell out.”

That led to more discoveries including one cache of 2600 rockets armed with chemical weapons.  At the time, Jarrod Lampier, a now retired Army major said that he was ordered to make a statement downplaying the find:

“’Nothing of significance’ is what I was ordered to say.”

...And the victims of this policy are the American soldiers who came into contact with these materials.  First of all, since the Pentagon was hiding the existence of these weapons, soldiers who stumbled upon them did not have protective clothing and the medics did not carry the proper medicines needed to treat them.

The Times found 17 servicemen and 7 Iraqi policemen who were injured by these weapons and it was discovered that American soldiers found it difficult to impossible to get treatment for injuries not recognized by the Pentagon.

In 2008 MSNBC reports the US removed 550 metric tons of yellowcake (Used to make nuclear weapons) from Iraq. This is the same yellowcake Joe Wilson, husband of Valerie Plame said Saddam never tried to get. George W Bush accepted the lies and criticisms against him because he felt it might be harmful to the morale of our troops and could hurt our intelligence community if the details got out.  Can even one of you say that Obama would do that?  Anyone who says yes is a liar or a fool.

Angry Brit: Correcting Grammar Is Racist, Classist, and Censorious

Angry Brit: Correcting Grammar Is Racist, Classist, and Censorious:
Apparently having good grammar or correcting someone else’s grammar means you are a racist and experiencing yet another form of “white privilege.”
 At least that’s what The Guardian’s data editor, Mona Chalabi believes.
Chalabi also thinks grammar rules were created by wealthy white people and can be ignored by minorities without facing any criticism:
“Grammar snobs are patronizing, pretentious, and just plain wrong.” [HT Daily Wire]

This sounds quite unbelievable, but sadly, it’s no joke.
Chalabi argues that using good grammar or correcting one’s grammar is just another way to shut up minorities:
“The people pointing out the mistakes are more likely to be older, wealthier, whiter, or just plain academic than the people they’re treating with condescension…"

Mother Left ‘In Tears’ After Being Investigated for Letting Her Kids Play in Backyard | Video | TheBlaze.com

Mother Left ‘In Tears’ After Being Investigated for Letting Her Kids Play in Backyard | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"One Canadian mother was left in tears after being investigated by Child and Family Services for allowing her children to play in her own backyard.

Jacqui Kendrick, a stay-at-home mom from Winnipeg, said a CFS worker showed up at her house unexpectedly earlier this month, telling her they were there to perform a “well-being check” after receiving a complaint about her children being left unsupervised in the fully-fenced-in backyard."

The Green Unreality Show

The Green Unreality Show - WSJ:
"The climate deal negotiated in Paris and signed in New York Friday is not a treaty.
It is not enforceable against the U.S. or anybody else. 
It waves vaguely at the idea of a $100 billion adjustment fund for poorer countries, to be filled in later by somebody else, maybe.
Like all such international agreements, it’s a giant PR exercise designed to put a global imprimatur on what domestic politicians want to do anyway. 
In China and India, that’s grow their energy output any way they can.
In President Obama’s case, it’s continue to dish out green mandates and subsidies that please his entourage.
Economist Bruce Yandle coined the term bootleggers and Baptists for political coalitions of true believers and their more self-interested fellow travelers.
The climate movement is the ultimate example.
Having ginned up a climate “crisis” in the first place, it’s almost as if the movement has ginned up a fake victory to keep the game going.

This week’s signing was preceded by an outpouring of fishy studies in the press about how renewable energy is on the verge of solving the problem. 
The most paradoxical claim, regularly aired in the New York Times, is that the fate of the planet depends on how you vote in the U.S. presidential race because solar power is falling rapidly in cost and is now competitive with fossil fuels.
Well, then it doesn’t matter how you vote.
Cheaper solar energy will displace fossil energy for purely economic reasons.
The fragment of truth here is that the cost of solar collectors has come down thanks to Chinese production, but this represents a small fraction of the actual cost of integrating solar into the power system.
Solar is free; the sun does not send us a bill.
But solar is only competitive to the extent that fossil-fuel plants remain on hand to provide backup power when the sun is not shining. 
Unfortunately, fossil-fuel plant economics deteriorate rapidly when plants must stop and start to make up for fluctuating wind and solar..."

A great read-----Queen Elizabeth II, The War Years

Queen Elizabeth II, The War Years:
"When Britain entered the Second World War in September 1939, Elizabeth was only fourteen years old.
The long-serving British Conservative politician, Douglass Hogg, the Viscount Hailsham, had recently retired from government, but still had the ear of those at the top of British society.
He suggested to the Royal Family that the young Elizabeth and her sister Margaret should be evacuated to Canada, but the princess’ mother replied in no uncertain terms.
“The children won’t go without me,” she said, “I won’t leave without the King, and the King will never leave.”
It was settled.
The British Royal family would stay in their country.
....Still at the young age of fourteen, the Princess Elizabeth made her first public radio broadcast, on the long-running BBC radio programme Children’s Hour.
She spoke with feeling directly to the many children and young people who had been separated from their families during the evacuations which had begun in September 1939.
She appealed to their courage and to their determination, telling them to stay strong and to stay hopeful.
She expressed a belief that, eventually, peace would come again.
“When peace comes,” she said, “remember, it will be for us, the children of today, to make the world of tomorrow a better and happier place...”"

Lunch video-----Fossil Fuels: The Greenest Energy

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Judge Napolitano: FBI Has ‘Overwhelming’ Amount of Evidence Against Clinton, Enough for an Indictment and Conviction | Video | TheBlaze.com

Judge Napolitano: FBI Has ‘Overwhelming’ Amount of Evidence Against Clinton, Enough for an Indictment and Conviction | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"If the evidence against Clinton is indeed overwhelming, then the FBI would most likely be more than inclined to recommend to the Justice Department that Clinton face criminal charges.

However, according to Napolitano, whether or not the Justice Department will actually indict Clinton — despite the evidence — is a completely different question, given the current political landscape."

The Stuff Greens Keep Getting Wrong

The Stuff Greens Keep Getting Wrong | The Arts Mechanical:
"9. In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.
12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in his 1970 that “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles.
...The problem is that the Greens want to worship the planet rather than live on it.
They want to fix everything in that mythical set point of theirs and they’ve demonstrated that they are perfectly willing to sacrifice humanity to achieve that.
What they don’t understand is that would be the worst thing that could happen.
A fixed system can’t respond to changes and the biosphere is, by it’s very nature changing all the time. 
All the Greens will achieve is a disaster that will hurt or kill billions of people if they get what they want and change nothing.
It’s time we celebrated the great civilization that so many worked so hard to create for us. 
Especially those who toiled to create new enterprises that have done so much to improve our lives..."

Your family.....soon in America?-----Plea from dying teen: Please help | Toronto Star

Plea from dying teen: Please help | Toronto Star
“Hello. I’m Laura Hillier.”
The voice of the 18-year-old girl cracks in distress.
She’s propped up on a hospital bed, eyes swollen from crying, lips stained red from bleeding lungs.
“. . . I’m in the ICU . . . I can’t breathe. Soon, a tube will be stuck down my throat again. And for feeding as well. And I won’t be able to talk. They said I may not wake up but I really hope I do. But if I don’t, I hope this never happens to anyone ever again. And that the government sees that there needs to be funding. Because people are dying when we can save them. We can save these people. Please help. Thank you.”
Laura recorded these words, shared for the first time, because she thought they would be her last.
While her friends were graduating high school and settling in as freshmen at university, the Burlington teenager was getting a cruel lesson in the fatal shortcomings of Ontario’s health-care system.
Laura went to Juravinski Hospital in Hamilton expecting to get better, cured even.
Yes, the acute myeloid leukemia that nearly killed her five years ago was back but it was beatable.
Laura Hillier, 18, of Burlington, died in January of a form of leukemia considered curable. 
But doctors say the health-care system failed her by forcing her to remain on a wait-list for a stem cell transplant until it was too late..."

The states people really want to move to — and those they don’t

The states people really want to move to — and those they don’t - The Washington Post:

Former Medicare Chief Makes ‘Big Prediction’ About Obamacare in 2017 — and It’s Not Good | Video | TheBlaze.com

Former Medicare Chief Makes ‘Big Prediction’ About Obamacare in 2017 — and It’s Not Good | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"You might remember Marilyn Tavenner, the former head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services who also oversaw the disastrous Obamacare rollout.

Tavenner is now president and CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans, and she just gave an interview to Morning Consult about 2017 Obamacare premiums — and said the news isn’t good."

ESPN Fires Curt Schilling for Telling the Truth

ESPN Fires Curt Schilling for Telling the Truth:
"...ESPN is openly progressive, celebrating every advance of the sexual revolution, and it has been wildly inconsistent in its discipline for on-air statements.
The network stood by an employee who guffawed as Mike Tyson graphically described a black man raping Sarah Palin. in an interview.
They failed to discipline another employee who compared Tea Party members to ISIS.
They issued only a brief suspension to Stephen A. Smith when he argued that women can “provoke” their own beatings.
Critically, each of those incidents occurred on the job and not on personal Facebook postings.
...In other words, ESPN doesn’t have any standard operating procedure for dealing with controversy. But in this case, they were all too happy to appease the leftist internet mob.
So what if a man loses his job as long as the Huffington Post is happy?
...In the short term, though, a man has lost his job for daring to speak an opinion the Left deems unacceptable. 
Progressive America is sending a message.
In the institutions it controls, there is no distinction between the personal and professional. 
Keep dissent to yourself. 
All your words belong to your boss."

AM Fruitcake

History for April 24

History for April 24 - On-This-Day.com:
Shirley MacLaine 1934 - Actress, Jill Ireland 1936, Sue Grafton 1940 - Author


Barbra Streisand 1942 - Singer, Vince Ferragamo 1954, Kelly Clarkson (Kelly Brianne Clarkson) 1983 - Singer, first "American Idol" participant to win a Grammy Award

1805 - The U.S. Marines attacked and captured the town of Derna in Tripoli.


1833 - A patent was granted for first soda fountain.


1915 - During World War I, the Ottoman Turkish Empire began the mass deportation of Armenians.


1961 - U.S. President Kennedy accepted "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.


1967 - Soviet astronaut Vladimir Komarov died when his craft crashed with a tangled parachute.


1967 - The newest Greek regime banned miniskirts.


1990 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL. It was carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope.


2003 - A U.S. official reported the North Korea had claimed to have nuclear weapons.