Sunday, May 22, 2016

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Group That Helped Sell Iran Nuke Deal Also Funded Media | TheBlaze.com

Group That Helped Sell Iran Nuke Deal Also Funded Media | TheBlaze.com:

"WASHINGTON (AP) — A group the White House recently identified as a key surrogate in selling the Iran nuclear deal gave National Public Radio $100,000 last year to help it report on the pact and related issues, according to the group’s annual report. It also funded reporters and partnerships with other news outlets."

Professor Run Out of Classroom for Offending Students Will Lose Job

Professor Run Out of Classroom for Offending Students Will Lose Job - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"...Andrea has been denied continuation of her tenure," her husband, Scott Quenette, told Reason. Despite having a recommendation from the tenure committee and her department.
...her employment at KU will be at an end."
But the reason for that seems clear.
Last fall, members of Quenette's class asked to discuss the racial tensions on campus.
Quenette made the mistake of confessing her own blind spots, and used imperfect language when she did so. 
She said, "It's not like I see nigger spray-painted on walls," according to her students. 
She also denied that racism was the sole explanation for some black KU students falling behind in their studies.
Quenette's statements weren't malicious, and she didn't use the n-word as a slur.
Moreover, she's a professor of communications, and the classroom was an appropriate place to have a conversation about these issues—even if the conversation bothered some people.
But her students didn't see it that way, and published a letter calling on KU to fire her.
A lengthy investigation ensued: months later, the university determined that Quenette had broken no policies.
Even so, her career at KU will soon be at an end..."

Tolerance! Over 50 Muslim Countries Blocking LGBT Groups from UN AIDS Convention

Tolerance! Over 50 Muslim Countries Blocking LGBT Groups from UN AIDS Convention... » Louder With Crowder:
"Wherever gays go, AIDS follows.
They make up more than half of the HIV infected population in the US.
So it’s kind of a huge problem for dude loving dudes.
The UN plans to host an “End AIDS” meeting, where loads of LGBT groups are expected to show up.
UNAIDSBlockedByMuslimsAs they should, since the increase in AIDS is primarily their fault (see Dear AIDS Day Activists: Facts or Political Correctness? Pick One).
That’s not hate speech, that’s science.
But one group is preventing multiple LGBT groups from going to said meeting. 
You want to venture a guess as to who?
A group of 51 Muslim states has blocked 11 gay and transgender organizations from attending a high-level meeting at the United Nations next month on ending AIDS…
Egypt wrote to the president of the 193-member General Assembly on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to object to the participation of the 11 groups.
It didn’t give a reason in the letter.
...Oddly enough, Muslims are the only “minority” leftists love as much as LGBT.
Even though they want to crush the gays."

Funny!-----Woman in Chewbacca mask sets the record for most-viewed Facebook Live post ever

Woman in Chewbacca mask sets the record for most-viewed Facebook Live post ever - Trending - CBC News:
Candace Payne is not a celebrity.
She doesn't know Michael BublĂ©, hasn't served as president, and, to the best of our knowledge, she's never wrapped elastic bands around a watermelon until it explodes.
Nor has she shared live footage of someone giving birth without their knowledge.
Payne is a mom from Dallas, Texas, who really appreciates "the simple joys in life" — like Star Wars merch and making videos in her car.
And yet, with zero resources outside of her phone, a personal Facebook profile, and one very fun Chewbacca mask, she managed to master something this week that brands and publishers across the globe have been sinking their all into for months. 
Payne has crushed the record for the most-viewed Facebook Live post in history.

The roughly four-minute-long video, titled "It's the simple joys in life..." currently boasts a view count of just over 114 million views as of Saturday afternoon.
Buzzfeed's famous "watermelon elastic" stream held the title previously with about 10 million views, according to Tech Insider, despite the attempts of many publishers to build up bigger numbers since Facebook Live rolled out to non-celebrities in April.
So how did a 37-year-old mother of two become the most successful user of Facebook's live-streaming service in history?
It's hard to know, exactly, but Payne's infectious laugh, positive attitude, and surprisingly life-like Chewbacca mask are certainly making a lot of people happy right now.

BREAKING UPDATE: Iran Comes Clean – Obama’s Betrayal Greater Than Expected | John Hawkins' Right Wing News

BREAKING UPDATE: Iran Comes Clean – Obama’s Betrayal Greater Than Expected | John Hawkins' Right Wing News:

"Recently an Iranian military commander has claimed that the U.S. has been quietly encouraging them, the Islamic Republic, to keep it’s missile testing a secret – in most part to not raise concerns in the region. Now, the cat is out of the bag and guess what… MAJOR cause for concern is spreading rapidly throughout the region, as more details of this possible betrayal come to light."

‘Genderqueer’ teacher wins $60,000 after threatening federal workplace harassment complaint

‘Genderqueer’ teacher wins $60,000 after threatening federal workplace harassment complaint | EAGnews.org:
soell"GRESHEM, Ore. – Hall Elementary School transgender teacher Leo Soell will receive a $60,000 payout from the Gresham-Barlow School District for emotional distress tied to alleged harassment by co-workers.
The fifth-grade teacher came out as transgender after a mastectomy for breast cancer early last year. Soell does not identify as male or female, and prefers to be addressed with the pronoun “they.”
...According to the news site:
If kids asked whether Soell was a boy or a girl, district leaders told Soell to respond, “We all have private lives, and it would not be appropriate to talk about our private lives during the school day.”
A district spokeswoman last year said administrators were worried about “age appropriateness.”
Soell, 25, explained they rationale behind they complicated gender to the Portland Tribune last August.
“I identify as transgender.
Specifically, I say transmasculine and genderqueer,” Soell said.
“The genderqueer piece comes from not identifying within the gender binary of male and female – so (I fit in) along the spectrum, I between.”

...Regardless, Soell contends they co-workers were not supportive of they lifestyle, and made her life difficult at work by repeatedly referring to her as “lady,” or using female pronouns. 
Some also allegedly occupied a unisex bathroom on campus to prevent Soell from using the facility, they alleges.
...In a deal hammered out with the help of a federal judge, Gresham-Barlow officials agreed to pay Soell $60,000 for attorney fees and emotional distress, to designate all of Hall Elementary’s staff bathrooms as gender-neutral, and to install gender-neutral bathrooms in all of the district’s schools within the next three years, according to the news site..."

AM Fruitcake

History for May 22


History for May 22 - On-This-Day.com
Wilhelm Richard Wagner 1813 - Composer, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 - Author of Sherlock Holmes detective novels, Vance Packard 1914 - Journalist, social critic, author


T. Boone Pickens 1928 - Oil tycoon, Peter Nero (Bernard Nierow) 1934 - Pianist, conductor, Richard Benjamin 1938 - Actor, director


1819 - The steamship Savannah became the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean.


1849 - Abraham Lincoln received a patent for the floating dry dock.


1939 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini signed a military alliance between Germany and Italy known as the "Pact of Steel."


1947 - The Truman Doctrine was enacted by the U.S. Congress to appropriate military and economic aid Turkey and Greece.


1967 - "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" premiered on PBS.


1977 - Janet Guthrie set the fastest time of the second weekend of qualifying, becoming the first woman to earn a starting spot in the Indianapolis 500 since its inception in 1911.


1990 - Microsoft released Windows 3.0.


1992 - Johnny Carson hosted NBC's "Tonight Show" for the last time. He had been host for 30 years.

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Mike Brown's Mother Exposes SICKENING Truth About His Father... Media Silent

Mike Brown's Mother Exposes SICKENING Truth About His Father... Media Silent:

"Shocking passages from a newly released book by Lezley McSpadden, the mother of deceased Ferguson criminal Michael Brown, revealed that his father was an abusive, controlling and paranoid man who once almost killed her.

“All of a sudden Mike got quiet and kicked me with all his might in my leg,” she wrote about her first physical confrontation with Brown’s father, Michael Brown Sr., in 1997, according to the U.K. Daily Mail."




Bill Clinton's 'Energizer mistress' Julie Tauber McMahon seen for first time since storm

Bill Clinton's 'Energizer mistress' Julie Tauber McMahon seen for first time since storm | Daily Mail Online:
EXCLUSIVE: What Bill Clinton's 'Energizer mistress' looks like today. Family friend seen for first time since revelation his foundation helped her firm
  • Julie Tauber McMahon has been named as the 'Energizer', nickname given to alleged mistress by Bill Clinton's Secret Service detail 
  • Divorcee McMahon, 56, denies having had an affair with the former president and says she is simply 'family friend' of the Clintons 
  • This month it emerged a firm she holds a substantial stake in was aided in getting a grant by the Clinton Foundation 
  • Ex-president said to have personally intervened to secure home insulation company further government funding 
  • Donald Trump has increased his focus on Bill Clinton's private life and on Wednesday used word 'rape' during interview 
  • This week Hillary Clinton was asked to defend her husband's 'honor' but declined claiming it was what Trump wanted her to do

Buying the MSM and NPR-----Group that helped sell Iran nuke deal also funded media

Group that helped sell Iran nuke deal also funded media
WASHINGTON (AP) — A group the White House recently identified as a key surrogate in selling the Iran nuclear deal gave National Public Radio $100,000 last year to help it report on the pact and related issues, according to the group's annual report.
It also funded reporters and partnerships with other news outlets.
The Ploughshares Fund's mission is to "build a safe, secure world by developing and investing in initiatives to reduce and ultimately eliminate the world's nuclear stockpiles," one that dovetails with President Barack Obama's arms control efforts.
But its behind-the-scenes role advocating for the Iran agreement got more attention this month after a candid profile of Ben Rhodes, one of the president's top foreign policy aides.
...The magazine piece revived Republican criticism of the Iran agreement as they suggested it was evidence of a White House spin machine misleading the American people..."

WOW: Oklahoma Makes Massive Move to Strip ALL Power From Barack Obama

WOW: Oklahoma Makes Massive Move to Strip ALL Power From Barack Obama:

"As President Barack Obama has advanced his progressive agenda over the past seven-and-a-half years with coerced help from a kowtowed Congress and ruling by executive fiat when they refused, there has been one state consistently at the forefront of opposition to his destructive efforts.

That state is Oklahoma, and there are plenty of reasons why Obama failed to win even a single county in that state during the 2012 election.

Through the actions of the state legislature and governor, Oklahoma has made several moves to stymie the agenda of the Obama administration on such issues as gun control, illegal immigration, and religious liberty, among other things."

Goldman downgrades stocks to 'Neutral'

Goldman downgrades stocks to 'Neutral' - Business Insider:
"Goldman Sachs doesn't find stocks appealing anymore.
In a note Tuesday, the firm downgraded equities to "Neutral" over the next year.
"Until we see sustained earnings growth, equities do not look attractive, especially on a risk-adjusted basis," wrote Christian Mueller-Glissmann, an equity strategist.
"We expect particularly poor returns in dollar terms, with our forecast of a stronger dollar and the prospect of less negative equity/FX correlations."
It's virtually anything but stocks for Goldman; Mueller-Glissmann and team are "Overweight" cash on a three-month basis and think credit valuations are much better than stocks.
Bond yields have fallen amid reassurance from the Federal Reserve of slow interest-rate hikes and higher demand from foreign investors.
The dollar has weakened, and commodity prices have gained..."

Obama Has Sent $770 Million To Pay For Mosque Renovations Overseas

Obama Has Sent $770 Million To Pay For Mosque Renovations Overseas | American Military News: "According to a CBS News report that originally aired in 2011 and people who have continued to monitor the spending since then, Obama and the State Department have sent overseas a total of $770 million dollars used to renovate mosques.
This has been going on for years. Frankly, why is the U.S. government funding restoration of anything overseas?
Why are there still homeless vets?
This has caused a lot of uproar amongst taxpayers since this is where a portion of their taxpayer money is going.
It has also brought up multiple questions about how this money is truly being spent and if it is going to be used to fund terrorist groups.
...“This part of the world has a lot of respect for power and America is not showing its power, it’s showing its appeasement. 
They are laughing all the way to the bank,” said Darwish. Darwish, who has now written multiple books on radical Islam, has said that the mosques that the U.S. government is funding is run by Muslim extremists that are looking to kill former Muslims, such as Darwish..."

Lunch video-----Klintonerdämmerung

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Trey Gowdy Criticizes Pentagon Response on Benghazi | TheBlaze.com

Trey Gowdy Criticizes Pentagon Response on Benghazi | TheBlaze.com:

"Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said in a statement that the Defense Department ignored a request for nearly five weeks for the pilots who sent drones over Benghazi and Tripoli, and that the Pentagon, at the end of April, then provided an incomplete list.

“The committee needs all of the names so the relevant witnesses can be interviewed and the investigation completed,” Gowdy said. “Surely (the Defense Department) can complete the simple task of finding the people within the chain of command in less than three months.”

The Racist Trees of Our National Parks

The Racist Trees of Our National Parks | Frontpage Mag
Mickey Fearn, the National Park Service Deputy Director for Communications and Community Assistance, made headlines when he claimed that black people don’t visit national parks because they associate them with slaves being lynched by their masters.
Yellowstone, the first national park, was created in 1872 in Wyoming.
Slavery was over by then and no one had ever been lynching slaves around Old Faithful anyway.
But false claims of racism die very hard.
Now Alcee Hastings, an impeached judge, and a coalition of minority groups is demanding increased “inclusiveness” at national parks. 
High on their list is the claim that, “African-Americans have felt unwelcome and even fearful in federal parklands during our nation’s history because of the horrors of lynching.”  
What do national parks have to do with lynchings?
Many national parks have trees.
People were hung from trees.
It’s racial guilt by arboreal association.
Trees are racist down to their roots.
The origin of the bizarre racist lynching theory of national parks appears to be Carolyn Finney. Finney was an actress noted for, apparently, little more than an appearance in The Nutt House.
Then she became a cause cĂ©lèbre for race activists when she was denied tenure by Berkeley’s Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management because her work didn’t meet academic standards.
Her supporters blamed racism, rather than her academic shortcomings, and protested vocally.
These days she’s a diversity advisor to the U.S. National Parks Advisory Board..."

Obama's Overtime Rule Tried at IBM, and It Didn't Work

Obama's Overtime Rule Tried at IBM, and It Didn't Work:
"Juggling work and family life is hard.
On Wednesday the Labor Department made it even harder for millions of salaried workers.
The administration’s new overtime regulations will effectively turn them into hourly employees.
The regulation won’t increase their earnings, but it will greatly reduce their control over their schedules.
The Fair Labor Standards Act requires employers to pay hourly workers overtime for working over 40 hours a week.
But the Fair Labor Standards Act regulations exempt many salaried employees. 
This makes sense: 
Salaried employees get paid to do a particular job, not work particular hours.
They also generally have more control over when and where they work.
Many salaried employees have the flexibility to do things like take off early in the afternoon to attend a child’s soccer game, and then finish their work from home in the evening when their child has gone to sleep.
Similarly, millions of salaried employees telecommute at least once a month.
On Wednesday it raised the overtime “threshold” test for salaried employees to $47,500 a year.
All salaried employees making less than that—no matter how advanced their job duties—now qualify for overtime. 
Their employers must pay time and a half when they work more than 40 hours a week.
On the surface this seems appealing.
Why shouldn’t workers get extra pay for working longer hours?
However, economic research shows that is unlikely to happen.
Most employers respond to overtime laws by reducing base pay an offsetting amount. 
Combining new overtime pay and lower salaries, most workers will earn almost exactly what they made before.
This is what happened when IBM reclassified 7,000 salaried and technical-support workers as overtime-eligible in a lawsuit settlement.
It also cut their base pay by 15 percent, leaving total earnings unaffected. 
Even liberal supporters of the rule concede that the “wage offer reflects expected overtime hours” and so there will be “no change at the margin” in pay..."