Indictment: Somali gangs ran sex ring in 3 states | MPR News

Indictment: Somali gangs ran sex ring in 3 states | MPR News
"Twin Cities girls, including some who were 13 and younger, were shuffled across state lines to work as prostitutes in a wide-reaching sex-trafficking operation controlled by Somali gangs, according to an indictment unsealed Monday in federal court.
...The indictment describes how the girls were transported between Minnesota, Tennessee and Ohio, how cell phones were used to recruit customers, and how money, alcohol and drugs were exchanged for sex..."
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History for April 5

History for April 5 - On-This-Day.com
Joseph Lister 1827 - British surgeon, inventor (Listerine mouthwash), Booker T. Washington 1856 - Educator, author (Up From Slavery), Spencer (Bonaventure) Tracy 1900 - Actor ("Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1941]")


Bette (Ruth Elizabeth) Davis 1908 - Actress ("Dangerous", "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?")
Gregory Peck 1916 - Actor ("To Kill a Mockingbird [1962]", "The Guns of Navarone", "Captain Horatio Hornblower"), Colin Powell 1937 - U.S. Secretary of State, four-star general, Chairman of U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff


1887 - Anne Sullivan taught Helen Keller the meaning of the word "water" as spelled out in the manual alphabet.


1985 - John McEnroe said "any man can beat any woman at any sport, especially tennis."

Firms Tied To Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele Were Paid $3.8 Million By Soros-Backed Group | The Daily Caller

Firms Tied To Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele Were Paid $3.8 Million By Soros-Backed Group | The Daily Caller:

A nonprofit group partially funded by billionaire activist George Soros paid firms tied to Fusion GPS and dossier author Christopher Steele more than $3.8 million in 2017 to provide research and analysis to “government entities,” according to IRS filings.
The payments made by The Democracy Integrity Project are more than three times what the DNC and the Clinton campaign paid Fusion GPS and Steele during the 2016 presidential campaign to investigate Donald Trump’s possible ties to Russia.

The way we were-----"Day By Day" ~ Godspell (1973)

Boob-tube-----Cartoon Cereal Commercials (1950s to 1980s)

Dems Have Vastly More to Fear from Full Mueller Report than GOP (UPDATED) | Roger L. Simon

Dems Have Vastly More to Fear from Full Mueller Report than GOP (UPDATED) | Roger L. Simon
"Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler is huffing and puffing away about his committee's subpoena-in-waiting lest Attorney General William Barr not be sufficiently forthcoming about the details of the Mueller Report.

“But if we cannot reach an accommodation, then we will have no choice but to issue subpoenas for these materials,” Nadler warned. "And if the department still refuses, then it should be up to a judge — not the president or his political appointee — to decide whether or not it is appropriate for the committee to review the complete record.”

Methinks the chairman doth protest too much. 

In other words, it's all a charade for the faithful. 

He doesn't really want to do anything. 
Likely Nadler is secretly praying Barr redacts the whole damn thing or ties things up in the courts for long enough for the investigation to disappear at least somewhat down the memory hole.

...No, the Republicans have little to fear. 
As Chairman Mao would put it, let a hundred Mueller reports bloom.

UPDATE: I see the NYTimes has made its latest salvo against Trump in re: Mueller. 

As almost always with the paper, the article relies on anonymous sources, just as did in its now discredited Pulitzer Prize reporting on the subject. 

At question of course is whether Trump "obstructed" justice in a crime it is now admitted never happened. 

The Kafkaesque nature of this accusation is obvious. 

It's hard to imagine Donald Trump, of all people, as Joseph K., but those are times in which we live.  

Remember Trump complaining loudly a couple of years ago that he was "wiretapped" and the media uniformly dismissing him as paranoid? 

Kafka indeed."

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What If Toxic Masculinity Is The Reason For Climate Change?

What If Toxic Masculinity Is The Reason For Climate Change?
"When a person walks out of the grocery store holding an eco-friendly canvas bag instead of a plastic bag, what gender do you think they are? 
Most likely, your unconscious bias answers that they are female. 
...Brough co-authored a paper with professors from four other universities to understand how gender norms affect sustainable decision making. 
...What they found was remarkable.
They found that both men and women associated doing something good for the environment with being “more feminine.” 
And when men’s gender identity was threatened, they tried to reassert their masculinity through environmentally damaging choices. 
The report states that “men may be motivated to avoid or even oppose green behaviors in order to safeguard their gender identity.” ...
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Mark Morgan: Trump critics say there’s no emergency at the border. The numbers show they are wrong | Fox News

Mark Morgan: Trump critics say there’s no emergency at the border. The numbers show they are wrong | Fox News:

It gets worse. There is another false narrative which continues to gain steam. It goes like this: “But the numbers of illegal immigrants are way down so it’s not a crisis.” Any student who has taken a basic statistics course knows you can manipulate raw numbers to support just about any position on either side of the aisle. It’s essential to look at the context behind the numbers to evaluate their true meaning. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, there were more than 1.5 million apprehensions at the border. These are the raw numbers the uninformed politicians and pundits use to disparage the administration’s position. What they don’t tell you is the overwhelming majority were Mexican adults, of which 90 percent were deported, often within hours of being apprehended. Additionally, a third of those apprehended were repeat offenders, so the realistic number of migrant apprehensions was well below what’s reflected.

Manhattan D.A. Spent $250K in Asset Forfeiture Funds on Fine Dining and Luxurious Travel - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Manhattan D.A. Spent $250K in Asset Forfeiture Funds on Fine Dining and Luxurious Travel - Hit & Run : Reason.com
"Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance spent nearly $250,000 over the past five years from a state asset forfeiture fund on fine dining, first-class airfare, and luxurious hotels, according to public records obtained by The City, a nonprofit news outlet in New York City.
...Expense reports show that in the last fiscal year alone, Vance visited Washington nine times, Aspen and London twice, and Paris and Los Angeles once apiece.
...There was also the Georgia sheriff who purchased a $90,000 Dodge Viper with forfeiture funds for the department's D.A.R.E. program—not to be confused with the other Georgia sheriff who bought a $70,000 Dodge Charger Hellcat with forfeiture funds.
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Things Get Awkward When Tucker Asks Mexican Official Why Mexico Won’t Let Central Americans Stay | The Daily Caller

Things Get Awkward When Tucker Asks Mexican Official Why Mexico Won’t Let Central Americans Stay | The Daily Caller
"Things got awkward fast when Tucker Carlson asked a Mexican official why Central Americans migrating through Mexico shouldn’t be allowed to remain there.

Speaking with Guanajuato Secretary of Migration Juan Hernandez on Wednesday night’s edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the Fox News host began by asking why Hernandez’s own words from the past wouldn’t constitute a “hostile act” against the United States.

WATCH:

“I want to read three quotes from a Mexican government official, and these are direct quotes,” Carlson said. 

• “‘We are betting Mexican-Americans will think ‘Mexico first,’ even unto the seventh generation. 
• Mexican immigrants to the United States are going to keep one foot in Mexico. They are not going to assimilate in the sense of not being Mexican,’ and 
• final quote, ‘We recognize the Mexican population is 100 million in Mexico and 23 million who live in the United States. We are a united nation.'”

“Those quotes are from you,” Carlson told Hernandez. 

“And I wonder if a government takes that position, that it’s sending foreign nationals to your country. 
That is a hostile act. 

So why are we sending money to a country committing hostile acts against us?”

“No, it’s not, my friend, no, no it’s not a hostile act at all,” Hernandez said..."
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Lunch video-----Why the government should stay out of health care

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Tucker Eclipses Ocasio-Cortez Town Hall By Over A Million Viewers | The Daily Caller

Tucker Eclipses Ocasio-Cortez Town Hall By Over A Million Viewers | The Daily Caller:

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson had an audience of over a million more people than MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, who moderated a town hall with Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday night.
Carlson had an audience of 2,656,000 viewers with 420,000 in the key 25-54 age demographic, according to Nielsen Media Research. Comparatively, the Ocasio-Cortez town hall only had 1,568,000 viewers, 232,000 of which were in the key demo.

U.S. Was Closer To Coup D'Etat Than Ever Before

U.S. Was Closer To Coup D'Etat Than Ever Before
"...The Russian-collusion argument was always an absurd, a practically insane proposition.
...The entire collusion claim was a political smear funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign, and all of those just mentioned as well as Mrs. Clinton, former attorney general Loretta Lynch, her deputy Sally Yates, others who made false FISA-warrant applications, and a large group of smaller fry, are up to their eyeballs in criminal abuse of high offices and betrayal of the nation’s trust.
...The president and his family have endured merciless torment by the intellectually corrupt national press and the lawless opposition.
...And the ringleaders in confecting this monstrous aggregation of defamatory lies should be legally punished, with the due process they tried to deny the nation’s leader.
Attempts to drive a president from office on the basis of allegations of betrayal of the country that they knew to be false is as close as the United States has ever been to an attempted coup d’état. 
It is time for the legal system, which has ground slowly to a just verdict, to do the same to those responsible for this disgraceful episode.
This must never happen again; not in America."
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Virginia Governor Who Supported Infanticide Signs Bill to make Animal Cruelty a Felony | LifeNews.com

Virginia Governor Who Supported Infanticide Signs Bill to make Animal Cruelty a Felony | LifeNews.com:

• Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has a clear moral disconnect.

"Earlier this year, Governor Northam came under massive national criticism for appearing on a radio show and supporting infanticide.
During his interview he advocated for merely keeping babies comfortable as parents leave them to die shortly after birth.
Northam defended a radical pro-abortion bill that would have allowed unborn babies to be aborted up to the point when a woman is about to give birth. 
The governor not only defended the legislation, but he also said doctors and women could have a discussion about whether to leave a disabled newborn baby to die.
Later, Northam refused to disavow his comments when he endorsed infanticide, saying: “I don’t have any regrets.”
While protecting newborn babies who survive abortions is apparently too much for Northam to support, a law against animal cruelty isn’t.
Today he signed a new bill into law that would make animal cruelty a felony in the commonwealth."

#1 This day 1971----The Temptations-just my imagination

UK: Mother Arrested for Calling Trans Activist a Man on Twitter

UK: Mother Arrested for Calling Trans Activist a Man on Twitter:
"British police arrested a mother in front of her children for calling a trans activist a man in a Twitter argument, with a judge subsequently issuing an injunction banning her from referring to the person’s “former male identity”.
38-year-old Kate Scottow, of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, said she was “arrested in my home by three officers, with my autistic ten-year-old daughter and breastfed 20-month-old son present” in comments posted to the Mumsnet online forum, according to the Mail on Sunday.
“I was then detained for seven hours in a cell with no sanitary products (which I said I needed) before being interviewed then later released under investigation… I was arrested for harassment and malicious communications because I called someone out and misgendered them on Twitter.”

Yet an entire American Political party denies this.

The Trump Administration Is Expanding A Program That Boots Asylum Seekers Back To Mexico | The Daily Caller

The Trump Administration Is Expanding A Program That Boots Asylum Seekers Back To Mexico | The Daily Caller:

The Trump administration will be increasing the number of Central American asylum seekers who are sent back to Mexico to await their court case.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced Monday she will be expanding the “Migrant Protection Protocols” program, more popularly known as “Remain in Mexico.” Nielsen, in a memo sent to the federal borer chief, ordered Customs and Border Protection agents deployed on the U.S.-Mexico border to begin reviewing hundreds of migrant cases a day to determine if they should be booted back to Mexico.

Breakfast Isn't Important - Reason.com

Breakfast Isn't Important - Reason.com:

• I skipped breakfast again this morning. I won't worry about it.

"Yes, I've heard the advice. "It's the most important meal of the day."
...A Harvard University study said men who regularly skip breakfast have a 27 percent higher risk of suffering a heart attack.
Twenty-seven percent!
But I'm not worried, because I now know there's no proof that skipping breakfast causes heart attacks or any other problem.
In my latest video, nutritionist Dr. Ruth Kava points out that just about all the claims about breakfast being especially important are unproven.
Those Harvard researchers actually say it "remains unknown whether specific eating habits…influence…heart disease risk."
Strokes and heart attack news persists in part because people who skip breakfast tend to have other bad habits, like smoking.
But the breakfast bunk keeps coming.
Several years ago, the government announced that skipping breakfast may make you fat.
Of course, the media jumped on that one.
...The government has backed away from its claim.
Why did researchers and the government get it so wrong?..."
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History for April 4

History for April 4 - On-This-Day.com
Dorothea Dix 1802, Linus Yale 1821 - Inventor (Yale Infallible Bank Lock and cylinder lock), Isoroku Yamamoto 1884
 

Anthony Perkins 1932 - Actor (Movies: "Psycho" series), Craig T. Nelson 1944 - Actor (Movies: "Turner and Hooch", "Stir Crazy", "Poltergeist"), Robert Downey, Jr. 1965 - Actor (Movie: "U.S. Marshals")


1818 - A plan was passsed by the U.S. Congress that the U.S. flag would have 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars and that a new star would be added for the each new state.


1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the age of 39.

Solomon: Time To Question Obama And Clinton About FISA Warrant - Sara A. Carter

Solomon: Time To Question Obama And Clinton About FISA Warrant - Sara A. Carter:

 Solomon said Obama needs to be formally interviewed by the feds on what he knew and when he knew it.
“Why wasn’t [Obama] interested in Russian collusion before the election but [was interested] after the election?” he asked.
Solomon said Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) should also be interviewed to see how much she knew about the contact between former Wall Street Journal reporter Glenn Simpson and ex-MI6 spy Christopher Steele.
Simpson, who worked at the time for opposition research firm Fusion GPS, reportedly worked with Steele to compile the disputed “Trump dossier.”

Jim Jordan Explains Why Certain Sections Of Mueller Report Must Be Redacted | The Daily Caller

Jim Jordan Explains Why Certain Sections Of Mueller Report Must Be Redacted | The Daily Caller:

“This is where they’re at because the Mueller report was not the bombshell that they had hoped it would be. But when you have the head of the Intelligence Committee, the head of the Judiciary Committee saying, ‘Make public material that’s not supposed to get public,’ that’s not consistent with the law — that’s just wrong, just plain wrong.”

The way we were-----The Wonderful Insults of Groucho Marx

Boob-tube-----Wilkins Coffee - Wilkins and Wontkins (1957-1961, USA)

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Look at the science and stop the march toward legalized marijuana

Look at the science and stop the march toward legalized marijuana
"A new study published in the Lancet, a highly respected medical journal, found that high-potency marijuana can make you psychotic. 
In fact, about half of all cases of psychoses in Amsterdam could be prevented “if high-potency cannabis were no longer available,” the data suggest.
...Despite myths to the contrary, marijuana is a serious health risk. 
It does indeed result in unhealthy dependence among nearly one-third of users. 
It is a definite risk (perhaps deadly) for lung health, and it is especially dangerous for heart health. Some studies also show that it substantially increases risk for a form of testicular cancer.
To be specific on heart risks, the National Institute on Drug Abuse reports: “Limited evidence suggests that a person’s risk of heart attack during the first hour after smoking marijuana is nearly five times his or her usual risk.”
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LGBTQ groups: Student vets 'jeopardize' well-being of students

LGBTQ groups: Student vets 'jeopardize' well-being of students

• The Pride Center and LGBTQ+ Multicultural Support Network at Oregon State University posted that they do not want a student veteran group to occupy a student lounge.
• A letter co-penned by both groups stated that “the communities that our organizations serve are vulnerable to the ideological and practical consequences" of letting the student veteran group in the center...

...The Pride Center, which is an entity of the Department of Diversity and Cultural Engagement, stated that their members would be “vulnerable” to the consequences of deciding to let the vet group occupy that space.

...The Pride Center and LGBTQ+ group also explain that they are concerned with the “particular type of American patriotism that would be promoted by centralizing the Veteran Students Association in the [Student Experience Center].”

“We aim to resist the pain that US militarism has caused our siblings in struggle, and we denounce the glorification of the system that is responsible for this violence,” the center stated..."

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Judicial Watch Files Ethics Complaint Over Rep. Adam Schiff’s Contacts with Glenn Simpson and Michael Cohen - Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch Files Ethics Complaint Over Rep. Adam Schiff’s Contacts with Glenn Simpson and Michael Cohen - Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch announced today that it filed an official complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics about Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) controversial communications and contacts with two congressional witnesses: Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS and Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer.
The complaint asks that Rep. Schiff, who is the new chairman of the House Intelligence Community, be investigated in connection with recent revelations that he met with Simpson in Aspen, Colorado, in July 2018 and that he and his staff coordinated with Michael Cohen on Cohen’s recent testimony to congressional committees. Cohen’s testimony is alleged to be false in several important respects.
Judicial Watch filed an ethics complaint on April 13, 2018, against Rep. Schiff and Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) for improperly confirming classified information in violation of House rules but the Committee has yet to take any public action on the complaint.
“Rep. Schiff has an ethics problem. His and his staff’s irregular communications with anti-Trump witnesses reflect poorly on the credibility of the House and its committees’ investigations,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “It has long been apparent that Rep. Schiff can’t be trusted to lead the Intelligence Committee, so we hope that Democrats on the Ethics Committee stop protecting Mr. Schiff and take action.”
The latest Judicial Watch ethics complaint is reprinted below:

The attack on meat eaters ratchets up!-----Eating Red and Processed Meats, Even in Small Amounts, May Increase Death Risk - Neuroscience News

Eating Red and Processed Meats, Even in Small Amounts, May Increase Death Risk - Neuroscience News
"Summary: Combined total intake of both red and processed meat is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease deaths.
A new study out of Loma Linda University Health suggests that eating red and processed meats — even in small amounts — may increase the risk of death from all causes, especially cardiovascular disease.
Saeed Mastour Alshahrani, the lead author of the study and a doctoral student at Loma Linda University School of Public Health, said the research fills an important gap left by previous studies that looked at relatively higher levels of red meat intake and compared them with low intakes..."
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Listen to their hate!-----Seriously, eff ESPN

Seriously, eff ESPN

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   So.... This is how ESPN decided to open today’s Noon SportsCenter about Michigan State. Wow. Take a listen to this audio our friend @RicoBeard sent over:

   
   

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Lunch video-----Portland is a Sh*thole

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