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Hook, Line and Sinker

By Tammy Derouin

The Progressive Left likes to promote social justice. So what is social justice?  Most definitions are pretty similar.  Words like fair and just are used to map out some sort of directive for individuals within a society.  It doesn’t take long for the word distribution to pop up.  Distribution of not only wealth but privileges and opportunities are thrown in the mix.  Who would determine what is fair or just within the society?  If you dig a little deeper a motive begins to emerge.  Within the mumble jumbo of key words and desirable objectives a conspiracy begins to unfold. 

In order for this Utopian quest to get underway, the population needs to buy into the idea.  That’s not too hard.  Who wouldn’t agree that people should be treated fairly and justly?  Well, there’s the proverbial Hook.

The Left works its magic and begins to vilify anyone or any institution which is opposed to what they, the Left, feels is an absolute right, entitlement or fact.  They will force their will by elevating their chosen causes or groups.  What they interpret as equal treatment under the law becomes special rights for many.  It may even be interpreted as overdue justice.  So, if some individuals now feel they don’t have the rights they once had, it’s okay because they had them for too long.  Many fall for this unequal justice as some sort of payback and jump on the band wagon.   They enjoy riding out the proverbial Line.

Who decides what is fair and just?  Who decides how to distribute wealth, privilege and opportunities?  The answer is very interesting and so very predictable.  Once you’ve accepted the bait, you have been hooked......

A Really Important Melanoma Breakthrough Just Rocked the Science World

A Really Important Melanoma Breakthrough Just Rocked the Science World:
"A major scientific discovery has been made that will affect future treatment options for melanoma — the most aggressive of all skin cancers.
Researchers from Tel Aviv University have determined that a melanoma tumor sends out vesicles, small structures enclosed by a membrane, that contain molecules that cause changes in the dermis — the inner layer of the skin — and allow the cancer to spread to other vital organs, including the brain, lungs, liver, and bones.
Understanding this process means that investigators can finally begin to stop the cancer before it reaches the metastatic stage.
For years, scientists have understood that melanoma forms in the epidermis, the outer layer of the skin.
At this stage, the cancer is unable to enter the bloodstream because it doesn’t have access to blood vessels.
Yet it somehow can find a way to break the barrier to connect with the numerous blood vessels running through the dermis..."

SC school bans American flag from football games

SC school bans American flag from football games | EAGnews.org:
"TRAVELERS REST, S.C. – School officials’ decision to ban students from displaying the American Flag at a recent football game is creating controversy in a South Carolina school district.
On Friday, Travelers Rest High School principal Lou Lavely banned students from carrying American flags into a football game against Berega High School, because a lot of students at Berega are Hispanic. 
Lavely contends the American flag could have been used to taunt those students, WNCN reports..."

Brace Yourself, Bridget: 'Single-Payer' Health Care Is On Its Way | PJ Media

Brace Yourself, Bridget: 'Single-Payer' Health Care Is On Its Way | PJ Media:

"If you haven't figured out by now that Obamacare -- aka, the Patient Deflection and Unaffordable "Care" Act -- was designed to fail from the start, you haven't been paying attention. "Insurance" that wasn't really insurance, an ever-spiraling cost structure, the destruction of private (i.e. real) insurance, and the creation of yet more dependents on the federal government -- these were the real goals of Obamacare when it was rammed through Congress in the dead of night at Christmas, 2009. And now, voila!"

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: The Russians Have Penetrated The NSA. “While many intelligence se…

Instapundit » Blog Archive » NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: The Russians Have Penetrated The NSA. “While many intelligence se…

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: The Russians Have Penetrated The NSA. 
“While many intelligence services have tried to steal secrets from NSA, only the Russians have been able to do so consistently. Kremlin penetration of NSA has been a constant.”

Plus: “In fairness to NSA, the record of our Intelligence Community, indeed our whole government, in counterintelligence is nothing less than dismal. 
And it’s gotten markedly worse during Barack Obama’s two terms in the White House, with their unprecedented losses of America’s secrets to spies, traitors, and hackers. 
However, given the importance of NSA to our collective security—it’s the backbone of counterterrorism operations across the Western world, our vital shield against jihadism—it’s important that the agency at last starts getting serious about security. 
Catching some Russian moles would be a solid beginning.”

WHY OBAMA LET IRAN’S GREEN …

Instapundit » Blog Archive » WHY OBAMA LET IRAN’S GREEN …:

WHY OBAMA LET IRAN’S GREEN REVOLUTION FAIL: Eli Lake at Bloomberg News discusses a new book by The Wall Street Journal‘s Jay Solomon, The Iran Wars.

Excerpt:

…Obama wasn’t just reluctant to show solidarity in 2009, he feared the demonstrations would sabotage his secret outreach to Iran…Behind the scenes, Obama overruled advisers who wanted to do what America had done at similar transitions from dictatorship to democracy, and signal America’s support.

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We Just Discovered What May Really Be Behind Kaepernick's Protest | The Federalist Papers

We Just Discovered What May Really Be Behind Kaepernick's Protest | The Federalist Papers:

"It truly is extraordinarily sad to watch people, who have opportunities that people around the world only dream of thanks to the God-given rights protected by this incredible nation, disrespect it so thoroughly.

In fact, this spoiled, misinformed couple not only has opportunities that people around the world only dream of, many people in this country could only dream of being so fortunate — and that goes for people of all races, despite Kaepernick’s race-resentment sentiment."

The Clinton Foundation’s Global Bribery and Crony Access Scam

The Clinton Foundation’s Global Bribery and Crony Access Scam | Observer
“Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers,” says the frequently delusional Blanche Dubois near the bitter end of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Streetcar Named Desire.
Ah yes, kind strangers.
It’s a playwright’s loaded line.
Put bluntly, Miss Blanche may practice intermittent prostitution.
...Blanche Dubois is a fictional character. 
Hillary Clinton often inhabits a fictional universe. 
Claiming she was targeted by snipers in Bosnia and telling Fox News interviewer Chris Wallace that FBI Director James Comey exonerated her grossly negligent mishandling of classified information are just two examples of Hillary’s fictional existence.
However, Hillary’s State Department was no cheap Mississippi hotel, and the latest batch of emails confirming close, coordinated contact between Hillary’s top State aides and the kind strangers who donate to the Clinton Foundation ain’t rumors spread by traveling salesmen.
Even The Associated Press is troubled by the number of Clinton Foundation donors with quick access to Hillary’s senior staff.
The second paragraph in the AP report has numbers, not rumors:
“At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press.
Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million...”

Former East to lag behind West for years to come: study

Former East to lag behind West for years to come: study - The Local
Twenty-six years after reunification, eastern Germany remains economically anaemic with little prospect of catching up with the rest of the country by 2030, a study published on Wednesday said.

Of the eastern states, only "Saxony and Brandenburg will reach the level of overall average German growth" between 2015 and 2030, wrote Joachim Ragnitz of the Ifo economic think-tank.

The remaining federal states formed from the former territory of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Thuringia, and Saxony-Anhalt - will by contrast reckon with "in parts  extremely low growth rates".

Eastern Germany's GDP grew by 1.2 percent per year between 2010 and 2015, underperforming the 1.6 percent achieved by western Germany plus Berlin, Ifo calculated..."

Hillary's Coughing and the Debates

Articles: Hillary's Coughing and the Debates
Hillary's flacks maintain that she has no serious health problems, but there is an increasingly public amount of evidence that they are lying.
Her coughing fits, for example, have gone on for minutes during interviews and speeches and debates.
The leftist establishment media has totally ignored this running story, but there is one venue in which her uncontrollable coughing and hacking cannot be hidden from the American people: the presidential debates.
Because her health seems to getting worse all the time and because she has never appeared in a nationally televised presidential debate (indeed, even her few debates with Bernie Sanders were scheduled to avoid large audiences) the stress of standing before 100 million or so Americans watching her live should make the chances of her descending into minutes of coughing, gagging, and hacking while the world watches very real.
What happens then?
Well, consider if she keeps coughing for two or three minutes, as she has several times.
It will interrupt whatever point she has been trying to make and focus instead on her inability to speak.
A debater affects audiences as much by his demeanor and voice as by what he actually says.
Images matter, as the haggard-looking Nixon proved in the 1960 presidential debates..."

U.S. Meets Target of Admitting 10,000 Syrian Refugees | TheBlaze.com

U.S. Meets Target of Admitting 10,000 Syrian Refugees | TheBlaze.com:

"WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Monday met President Barack Obama’s goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country, the White House announced.

Obama sought a sixfold increase in the number of Syrian refugees provided safe haven in the United States. After a slow start, the administration was able to hit the goal about a month early and just a few weeks before Obama convenes a summit on refugees during the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly."

Federal Deficits Explode — Is Anyone Paying Attention?

Federal Deficits Explode — Is Anyone Paying Attention? | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD
"Red Ink: The Congressional Budget Office says the federal deficit will be 33% higher than last year's. 
Over the long term, the deficit picture is just as bleak. 
But on campaign trail, this looming threat gets zero attention from either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.

The CBO's updated budget projections show that federal government's fiscal outlook has worsened considerably over the past year.

Red ink in fiscal year 2016, which ends on Sept. 30, will hit $590 billion. 
That's much worse than the CBO had expected just a few months ago. 
It's also a big jump from last year's deficit, which was an already outrageously high $439 billion. Revenues climbed 1% this year, but spending jumped 5%.

What's more, the CBO projects that in 10 years the annual deficit is on track to more than double, topping $1.3 trillion by 2026. 

That's equal to 4.9% of the nation's economy, a scale that has been reached only seven times since World War II (and four of those years were under President Obama).

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History for August 31

History for August 31 - On-This-Day.com
Caligula (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) 0012, Arthur Godfrey 1903, Daniel Schorr 1916 
             

Frank Robinson 1935, Eldridge Cleaver 1935, Richard Gere 1949 


1920 - The first news program to be broadcast on radio was aired. The station was 8MK in Detroit, MI.


1920 - John Lloyd Wright was issued a patent for "Toy-Cabin Construction," which are known as Lincoln Logs. (U.S. patent 1,351,086)


1940 - Lawrence Olivier and Vivian Leigh were married.


1964 - California officially became the most populated state in America.

1965 - The Department of Housing and Urban Development was created by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.

1980 - Poland's Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a 17-day strike.


1990 - U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar met with the Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz to try and negotiate a solution to the crisis in the Persian Gulf.

1994 - A cease-fire was declared by the Irish Republican Army after 25 years of bloodshed in Northern Ireland.

Principal Will Permit U.S. Flags at HS Football Games, Reverses Himself | TheBlaze.com

Principal Will Permit U.S. Flags at HS Football Games, Reverses Himself | TheBlaze.com:

"The principal of a South Carolina high school has reversed his controversial decision to bar the American flag from football games, according to a spokesperson for Greenville County Schools.

According to WSPA-TV, social media posts from students at Travelers Rest High School’s game against Berea High School on Friday indicated they were not permitted to bring American flags into the venue.

“I’m sick of this political correctness,” one student wrote."

OH BOY: EMAILS REVEAL THAT TOP HILLARY AIDE RESEARCHED DRUG USED TO COMBAT PARKINSON’S AND ALZHEIMER…

Instapundit » Blog Archive » OH BOY: EMAILS REVEAL THAT TOP HILLARY AIDE RESEARCHED DRUG USED TO COMBAT PARKINSON’S AND ALZHEIMER…:
OH BOY: EMAILS REVEAL THAT TOP HILLARY AIDE RESEARCHED DRUG USED TO COMBAT PARKINSON’S AND ALZHEIMER’S,THEN PASSED INFORMATION ON TO HILLARY, Ace of Spades writes.

Meanwhile, increasing chatter about Hillary’s admitted medical condition, hypothyroidism.

By the way, the media is of course in Circle the Wagons mode around Hillary.

CNN’s very liberal media critic (would they hire any other kind?) calls Sean Hannity’s questions about Hillary’s health“reckless.”

And yet his colleague at CNN, Sanjay Gupta, has penned an article asking if Trump is at high risk for heart disease.

Will Stetler mention this? Of course not; the Guild knows its own and the Guild protects its own.

In May of 2008, Gupta also strongly questioned then 71 year old John McCain’s health — including his mental health as a former POW — during an interview with Katie Couric, in order to help CBS and Time-Warner-CNN-HBO’s preferred candidate to cross the finish line. ABC’s Charles Gibson also asked that same month if McCain had sustained any “psychological damage,” asNewsBusters notes in a post today headlined “Nets Skeptical of McCain Health in 2008, Worried About Mental Fitness.”

UK Muslims at Risk of Radicalization Refuse Gov. Help

UK Muslims at Risk of Radicalization Refuse Gov. Help:
Nearly have of those deemed to be at risk of radicalization have refused to participate in the state’s counter-radicalization program “Channel.”

Islamists in the UK. (Photo: © Reuters)
The British government’s Channel program offers de-radicalization services to those deemed to be at risk. The service is voluntary, however. Last year, out of 245 people identified as at risk of joining the Islamic State, 117 refused government help, reported the Daily Mail.

• The data was revealed via a freedom of information request submitted by the BBC’s  “World At One” program.

‘Shame on You’: Gold Star Mom Unloads on Colin Kaepernick for Refusing to Stand During National Anthem | TheBlaze.com

‘Shame on You’: Gold Star Mom Unloads on Colin Kaepernick for Refusing to Stand During National Anthem | TheBlaze.com:

"San Fransisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick became the subject of heated debate — literally — when he refused to stand for the national anthem during a preseason game last week, and now a Gold Star mom is weighing in on the issue.

“My heart is exploding, my lungs are without air, my blood is boiling, my body is shaking, and tears are running down my face,” the mother, whose comments were first shared by CNN’s Jake Tapper, wrote of the athlete’s controversial decision."