AAUP conference emphasizes flag burning, white fragility, social justice

AAUP conference emphasizes flag burning, white fragility, social justice:
"Professors at a recent academic conference discussed burning the American flag and other methods of promoting social justice on campus.
Prof. Shaun Harper of the University of Pennsylvania delivered a keynote speech in which he discussed the need to address social and racial justice issues in the classroom.
...Presentations at this year’s American Association of University Professors (AAUP) conference included “Burning the Flag: An Artistic Means for Promoting Social Justice,” a talk on “white fragility,” and a panel concerning campus divestment from fossil fuels.
According to Inside Higher Ed, University of Pennsylvania professor Shaun Harper also gave a keynote address Friday on how faculty members should address race and racism in the classroom.
...The professor compared microaggressions to paper cuts, saying that while one may be inconsequential, a series of them could impact a student’s time at a university.
To address the issue, he recommended the use of trigger warnings, comparing their helpfulness to that of food allergy warnings..."

Burning Down The House

Burning Down The House | Zero Hedge
Recently an article appeared in Forbes magazine that recommended a universal basic income (UBI) for all citizens. The writer, who is from the UK, argues that:

“we can indeed afford a UBI at an entirely reasonable level within the confines of the amount that we already tax. So thus the question moves on to the next point: do we actually want one? At which point I say yes, obviously we do, as I have been saying for some years now. Simply on the basis that a UBI would be vastly better than the cruel, almost wicked, welfare states that we currently have.”

The author picks US$13,000 as the appropriate number that he feels should be granted to all US citizens over the age of twenty one and placed automatically into their individual bank accounts in monthly installments, for the rest of their lives.

Since this concept is unquestionably socialistic in nature and encourages the government’s role as a nanny state to an even greater degree than it already operates, the reader may understandably raise an eyebrow at reading it in a publication such as Forbes. Whilst I would agree, I would add, in all fairness, that, today, the article might also have been acceptable in that old British stalwart, The Economist..."
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RADICAL JIHADIS Assault Restaurant Patrons in Philly, Screaming: "We Belong to ISIS!"

RADICAL JIHADIS Assault Restaurant Patrons in Philly, Screaming: "We Belong to ISIS!" (VIDEO):
On June 11th at 4 AM five assailants were captured on security camera assaulting restaurant patrons outside Geno’s Steaks.

The jihadis beat the restaurant patrons screaming, “Don’t mess with us, we belong to ISIS!”

The Philadelphia police released this report:

On June 11, 2016 at approximately 4:15 am, five (05) unknown males were captured on surveillance video outside 1219 South 9th Street assaulting the victims. After the assault the suspects fled in two (02) vehicles, a dark colored pickup truck and a SUV and fled in an unknown direction. Both vehicles had New Jersey license plates. Victim #1 was struck in the face & body causing a cut to his face, victim #2 was struck in the face & body causing a cut to his face and a bloody nose, and victim #3 was punched in the face but injuries were reported by this victim.

The attack took place less than 24 hours before the deadly Orlando Islamist attack.
The police released video of the suspects.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported:

The men, all caught on surveillance video, fled in two cars – a dark colored pickup truck and an SUV – both with New Jersey license plates.

Police are also looking for one woman described as a getaway driver.

Police did not provide information about the assault, but said the video of it was “too graphic” to release.

Patrick Kane, a victim of the attack, provided this account.

He said he and his wife, Brooke Kane, had spent the night at a friend’s wedding and then at an after hours club with another couple, when they all decided to grab a bite to eat at Geno’s.

They were just finishing up their cheese steaks when Brooke Kane’s girlfriend asked another group of patrons if she could bum a cigarette, Patrick Kane said.

“That is when the guys just lost their minds,” said Patrick Kane, 31 and a maintenance supervisor at an apartment building.

In seconds one man stood up, put his hand over the face of the woman and pushed her across the sidewalk, said Patrick Kane.

“‘Don’t mess with us, we belong to ISIS,’” Kane said the man shouted at them..."

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3 Economic Facts That Counter Obama's Recovery Narrative

3 Economic Facts That Counter Obama's Recovery Narrative
"President Barack Obama needs a reality check.
Earlier this month in Indiana, he accused his critics of ignoring the “facts” and purporting “myths” about his economic record.
But if Republicans are truly ignoring the facts, Obama should consider it a blessing.
A quick look at the facts will show that Obama’s economic performance has been weak—even by his own standards.
...But is this really surprising?
We know that Obama has done virtually everything wrong when it comes to promoting growth.
Here’s a reminder:

• 1. Obamacare: When Obama pushed this boondoggle of a bill, he said on several occasions that it would lower health costs by $2,500 per family. Instead, insurance premiums have risen— in some cases nearly 30 percent.  On top of this, business owners are hiring fewer people to stay beneath the 50 employee threshold, which mandates business owners employing 50 people or more to provide full health insurance.
• 2. Regulation: It’s hard to grow, when the federal government is literally standing in the way of business.  According to a recent Heritage Foundation study, More than $22 billion per year in new regulatory costs were imposed on Americans, costing Americans nearly $100 billion annually under Obama’s presidency.    
• 3. Taxes: Obama has raised taxes on investment income by nearly 60 percent (raising capital gains tax from 15 percent to 24 percent), and pushed the top marginal tax rate (the tax on small business owners) to 40 percent.  The U.S. has the highest business tax rate in the world; causing companies to flee offshore (with jobs) to find a better deal elsewhere..."

5 Reasons So Many Britons Favor Brexit And Want To Dump the EU

5 Reasons So Many Britons Favor Brexit And Want To Dump the EU | Economics21:
"Just as Americans wouldn’t want U.S. tax, immigration and regulatory policy to be controlled by an imaginary American Union office based in Buenos Aires, many British don’t like their country being controlled by European Union bureaucrats in Brussels. 
That is why the latest polls show more British side with the “Leave” than the “Remain” campaign ahead of the Brexit referendum on June 23.
Americans wouldn’t like an American Union — call it the AU for short — responsible for 60% of laws, which is the share in Britain that come from the EU in Brussels rather than from Parliament in London.
We wouldn’t like an AU telling us we couldn't deport criminals or control our borders, as the EU does to Britain.
We wouldn’t want an AU ruling that we could no longer buy food by the pound, but would have to buy it in kilos because in Latin America food is measured in kilos.
That is what the EU tells Britain.
Everything from tomatoes to butter to flour has to be sold in kilos.
Americans wouldn’t like an American Union telling us how many hours we are allowed to work.
...During the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Korean War, Britain stood with America.
The EU is taking decisions ever further away from Parliament, in contempt of national sovereignty. No wonder the Brits are fed up. 
Just as the U.S. wouldn't want to live under an American Union, and declared freedom from England 240 years ago, now Britain wants to declare freedom from the EU."

Bigger Isn't Better as Mega-Ships Get Too Big and Too Risky

HughPickens.com - Slashdot User:
"HughPickens.com writes:
Alan Minter writes at Bloomberg that between 1955 and 1975, the average volume of a container ship doubled — and then doubled again over each of the next two decades.
The logic behind building such giants was once unimpeachable:
Globalization seemed like an unstoppable force, and those who could exploit economies of scale could reap outsized profits.
But it is looking more and more like the economies of scale for mega-ships are not worth the risk. The quarter-mile-long Benjamin Franklin recently became the largest cargo ship ever to dock at a U.S. port and five more mega-vessels are supposed to follow.
But today's largest container vessels can cost $200 million and carry many thousands of containers — potentially creating $1 billion in concentrated, floating risk that can only dock at a handful of the world's biggest ports.
Mega-ships make prime targets for cyberattacks and terrorism, suffer from a dearth of qualified personnel to operate them, and are subject to huge insurance premiums..."

Senate Blocks Four Gun Control Measures Proposed in Wake of Deadly Orlando Attack | TheBlaze.com

Senate Blocks F
our Gun Control Measures Proposed in Wake of Deadly Orlando Attack | TheBlaze.com:

"A series of gun control measure, the first legislation proposed following the deadly Orlando terrorist attack, failed Monday to garner enough votes in the Senate to move forward.

The first vote was on an amendment by Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa) to expand funding for an already-existing gun background check program, which needed 60 votes to move forward. The final vote was 53 to 47."

‘Something is Going On’ – And It’s Worse Than You Thought

‘Something is Going On’ – And It’s Worse Than You Thought - Antiwar.com Original by -- Antiwar.com:
"I used to wonder why in the heck right-wing commentators on Fox News kept repeating the same mantra over and over again: sitting through the Republican debates, my eyes glazed over when I heard each and every candidate denounce the Obama administration for refusing to say the Sacred Words: “radical Islamic terrorism.”
What are these people talking about, I thought to myself: they’re obsessed!
In short, I wrote it off as Fox News boilerplate, until the other day when, in the wake of the Orlando massacre, Donald Trump said the following on Fox: “Something is going on.
He doesn’t get it, or he gets it better than anybody understands.
It’s one or the other.”
Reiterating this trope later on in the same show, he averred that the President “is not tough, not smart – or he’s got something else in mind.”
The Beltway crowd went ballistic. Lindsey Graham had a hissy fit, and other Republican lawmakers started edging away from the presumptive GOP nominee.
The Washington Post ran a story with the headline: “Donald Trump Suggests President Obama Was Involved With Orlando Shooting.”
Realizing that this level of bias was a bit too brazen, the editors changed it an hour or so later to: “Donald Trump Seems to Connect President Obama to Orlando Shooting.”
Not much better, but then again we’re talking about a newspaper that has a team of thirty or so reporters bent on digging up dirt on Trump.
In any case, Trump responded as he usually does: by doubling down.
And he did it, as he usually does, on Twitter, tweeting the following:
“Media fell all over themselves criticizing what Donald Trump ‘may have insinuated about @POTUS.’
But he’s right:”
The tweet included a link to this story that appeared on Breitbart: an account of a 2012  intelligence report from the Defense Intelligence Agency predicting the rise of the Islamic State in Syria – and showing how US policy deliberately ignored and even succored it... 
...So we finally unlock the Great Mystery: why oh why does is this administration and the Clinton campaign so reluctant to utter the words “radical Islamic terrorism”? 
Is it because of political correctness and a fear of inciting “Islamophobia”?
Don’t flatter them: they’re not above that, when it serves their purposes.
But it doesn’t serve their purposes this time.
What they’re afraid of is alienating their allies in the Middle East – not just the jihadists they’ve funded and succored in an effort to overthrow Assad, but primarily the Saudis, the Turks, and the Gulf sheikhs who are all in on the game and are playing it for all it’s worth.
And of course there’s the Clinton Foundation, which has received millions in “donations” from the Saudi royals and their satellites..."
Read it all!!

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History for June 21

History for June 21 - On-This-Day.com:
Martha Washington 1731, Jean-Paul Sartre 1905, Jane Russell 1921


O.C. Smith 1932, Berke Brethed 1957, Juliette Lewis 1973


1788 - The U.S. Constitution went into effect when New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.


1834 - Cyrus McCormick patented the first practical mechanical reaper for farming. His invention allowed farmers to more than double their crop size.


1893 - The Ferris Wheel was introduced at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, IL.


1940 - Richard M. Nixon and Thelma Catherine ‘Pat’ Ryan were married.


1954 - The American Cancer Society reported significantly higher death rates among cigarette smokers than among non-smokers.


1985 - Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.


1989 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest was protected by the First Amendment.


2004 - SpaceShipOne, designed by Burt Rutan and piloted by Mike Melvill, reached 328,491 feet above Earth in a 90 minute flight. The height is about 400 feet above the distance scientists consider to be the boundary of space.

WATCH: CHEROKEE PEOPLE Express Disgust Over "Lying" Elizabeth Warren Faking "Native American Heritage" To Get Prestigious Law Professor Job » 100percentfedUp.com

WATCH: CHEROKEE PEOPLE Express Disgust Over "Lying" Elizabeth Warren Faking "Native American Heritage" To Get Prestigious Law Professor Job » 100percentfedUp.com:

 "To be fair, most reviews note that Warren has never substantiated her claims of Native American heritage, which is true. The larger and unaddressed issue, however, is whether or not Warren falsely claimed minority status in order to gain an unfair advantage in her academic career. This was a question that was unresolved at the end of the 2012 campaign and it remains unresolved with the publication of Warren’s book."

How They Spin 'Underfunded Schools': Ignore the Federal Money

How They Spin 'Underfunded Schools': Ignore the Federal Money [Michigan Capitol Confidential]: "One of the most inaccurate narratives promoted in the Detroit school bailout debate is that poor urban districts like Detroit are underfunded compared to schools in more affluent suburbs.
What this storyline fails to acknowledge is the role of federal money in hiking funding for poorer urban school districts. 
All school districts get some federal money, but poor districts get a lot more, and the difference is significant.
...For example, Eclectablog, a self-described progressive blog run by Washtenaw Democratic Party Chair Chris Savage, contained several inaccurate claims in a recent article on Detroit Public Schools:
-- “Disinvestment in education in places like Detroit led to starving local schools of adequate funding. …”
-- “Republicans have continuously sought to educate urban kids on the cheap and to avoid making the necessary investments in their schools.”
-- “In addition to birthing the for-profit charter industry in Michigan and ensuring that poor kids’ schools would never be comparable to their counterparts in wealthier districts, ...” the website said.
The sins of omission go beyond just the blogosphere, however.
Read on and see their lies!

Government promises...-----Call center that promised 400 jobs in Ann Arbor closes offices in city | MLive.com

Call center that promised 400 jobs in Ann Arbor closes offices in city | MLive.com: "ANN ARBOR, "MI – Two-and-a-half years after announcing plans to bring 400 jobs to Ann Arbor, Universal Marketing Group appears to have shuttered its call center.
Although a company spokesman could not be reached for comment, Universal Marketing's doors are locked and windows are blacked out at its suite at 100 Phoenix Drive.
The company also no longer is promoting an office in the Ann Arbor area on its website.
In October 2013, the Toledo, Ohio-based company announced plans to bring 400 jobs to Ann Arbor by the end of 2016 as part of an incentive agreement. Six months later, the company told The Ann Arbor News it had already brought 150 jobs to the area and was planning on bringing 200 more in the coming months.
The planned job creation was to be funded in part by a $600,000 grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corp..."

Portion of Orlando Shooter’s Calls With Hostage Negotiators to Be Released — Here’s What Will Be Edited Out | TheBlaze.com

Portion of Orlando Shooter’s Calls With Hostage Negotiators to Be Released — Here’s What Will Be Edited Out | TheBlaze.com:

 "ORLANDO, Fla. (TheBlaze/AP) — Although the killer is known, the investigation continues into what motivated and enabled Omar Mateen, 29, to carry out one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in interviews Sunday on several news shows that the FBI would release a partial printed transcript of the phone conversations Mateen had with Orlando police negotiators while the shooter was still inside Pulse nightclub.

But portions of the call will be edited out."

When the Law Would Leave You Defenseless Against the Likes of Omar Mateen, Carry a Gun Anyway

When the Law Would Leave You Defenseless Against the Likes of Omar Mateen, Carry a Gun Anyway - Reason.com:
"Despite social media jabber, the 49 dead at Orlando's Pulse nightclub weren't killed by their sexual orientation, or by disapproval of the same, or by the collective adherents of Islam, or by the National Rifle Association.
They all died in an act of terrorism committed by one evil man, named Oscar Mateen, and his accomplices, if any.
Yes, in America in 2014 Bare Hands And Feet Were More Often Fatal to Americans than "Assault Weapons"
Nor were Mateen's victims directly killed by gun control, though their ranks were certainly swelled by restrictions that forbade most patrons of the nightclub from carrying the means of self-defense.
Unburdened by any scruples about breaking the law, Mateen was not only unhindered by Florida's ban on carrying firearms in bars and nightclubs, he was enabled by its guarantee of a bonanza of relatively defenseless victims once he'd shot his way past the establishment's sole armed defender.
But rather than focus on the murderous Islamist terrorist who did the deed, too many reactions have looked elsewhere to place blame—specifically, the "AR-15" rifle he used to commit his crime (it was actually an MCX, but "AR-15" is the new "assault weapon"—a term of opprobrium used by all right-thinking people).
This reaction takes the animist position that the tool compelled the bearer to do evil, rather than acknowledging Mateen's role in selecting the tool once he'd settled on the crime he wanted to commit..."

'Why not Texit?': Texas nationalists look to the Brexit vote for inspiration

'Why not Texit?': Texas nationalists look to the Brexit vote for inspiration | US news | The Guardian: "How closely is Daniel Miller tracking the news ahead of the referendum about whether Britain should leave the European Union? 
“Hourly!” he grins.
The Sun’s recent editorial calling for the UK’s departure got him quite excited.
Miller, though, is not from London or Liverpool.
He hails from Longview, Texas, and we are talking in a cafe in the bleakly industrial Gulf coast town of Port Arthur, some 5,000 miles from Westminster.
Culturally, too, we are a long way from Europe.
Heck, we are even a long way from Dallas.
But the referendum matters deeply to Miller and like-minded Texans.
As the president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, which wants Texas to secede from the United States, he is hoping for a Leave vote that he believes will ripple all the way from Austria to Austin.
“There are a lot of people asking, if Brexit why not Texit?” he says..."

Lunch video-----Painting Muhammad with Bob Ross

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