Thursday, April 25, 2019
Italian Town to Cover Crosses at Cemeteries So as Not to Offend Muslims (Video)
Italian Town to Cover Crosses at Cemeteries So as Not to Offend Muslims (Video)"Pieve di Cento is a town of 7,000 inhabitants near Bologna, Italy.
Recently the town leaders decided to cover Christian symbols in the local cemetery so as not to offend Muslim migrants.
The debate in the town is still ongoing and the mayor now understands he may have made a blunder."
County Project Imposes Illegal Union Wage Mandate On Bidders – Michigan Capitol Confidential
County Project Imposes Illegal Union Wage Mandate On Bidders – Michigan Capitol Confidential
"A group of nonunion construction firms has mounted a challenge to Muskegon County’s policy of requiring union-level wages on major building projects it financially supports.
The group is threatening to file a lawsuit if the policy is applied to bids for work on an upcoming $17 million convention center in the city of Muskegon...
...County Commissioner Zach Lahring said he believes he is in the minority on the county board in supporting an end to the prevailing wage policy.
Requiring union-level wages results in higher costs and shuts out competent, nonunion contractors, he said..."
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"A group of nonunion construction firms has mounted a challenge to Muskegon County’s policy of requiring union-level wages on major building projects it financially supports.The group is threatening to file a lawsuit if the policy is applied to bids for work on an upcoming $17 million convention center in the city of Muskegon...
...County Commissioner Zach Lahring said he believes he is in the minority on the county board in supporting an end to the prevailing wage policy.
Requiring union-level wages results in higher costs and shuts out competent, nonunion contractors, he said..."
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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", Al Pacino 1940 - Actor, Bjorn Ulvaeus 1945 - Musician (Abba)
1846 - The Mexican-American War ignited as a result of disputes over claims to Texas boundaries. The outcome of the war fixed Texas' southern boundary at the Rio Grande River.
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.
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
FBI admits Hillary emails found in Obama White House - WND
FBI admits Hillary emails found in Obama White House - WND:
“This astonishing confirmation, made under oath by the FBI, shows that the Obama FBI had to go to President Obama’s White House office to find emails that Hillary Clinton tried to destroy or hide from the American people,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a statement Tuesday.
“No wonder Hillary Clinton has thus far skated – Barack Obama is implicated in her email scheme,” he said.
Fitton was referring to the more than 30,000 emails under subpoena that were thoroughly deleted through an application called BleachBit by order of Clinton’s State Department team.
“No wonder Hillary Clinton has thus far skated – Barack Obama is implicated in her email scheme,” he said.
Fitton was referring to the more than 30,000 emails under subpoena that were thoroughly deleted through an application called BleachBit by order of Clinton’s State Department team.
Why Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama Tweeted About 'Easter Worshippers' - The Dennis Prager Show
Why Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama Tweeted About 'Easter Worshippers' - The Dennis Prager Show
"Sometimes, a few sentences tell you more about a person — and, more importantly, an ideology — than a learned thesis.
That is the case with tweets from Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama two days ago in response to the mass murder of more than 300 Christians and others in Sri Lanka.
Their tweets are worth serious analysis because they reveal a great deal about the left.
...Only leftists understand that one must vote left no matter who the Democrat is, no matter who the Republican opponent is.
...That is why it is important to understand Clinton and Obama’s tweets: to understand the left, not to understand her or him.
Here are the tweets:
...Here’s what’s critical: Neither used the word “Christians.”
And in order to avoid doing so, they went so far as to make up a new term — “Easter worshippers” — heretofore unknown to any Christian..."
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"Sometimes, a few sentences tell you more about a person — and, more importantly, an ideology — than a learned thesis.
That is the case with tweets from Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama two days ago in response to the mass murder of more than 300 Christians and others in Sri Lanka.Their tweets are worth serious analysis because they reveal a great deal about the left.
...Only leftists understand that one must vote left no matter who the Democrat is, no matter who the Republican opponent is.
...That is why it is important to understand Clinton and Obama’s tweets: to understand the left, not to understand her or him.
Here are the tweets:
- Obama: “The attacks on tourists and Easter worshippers in Sri Lanka are an attack on humanity. On a day devoted to love, redemption, and renewal, we pray for the victims and stand with the people of Sri Lanka.”
- Three hours later, Clinton tweeted: “On this holy weekend for many faiths, we must stand united against hatred and violence. I’m praying for everyone affected by today’s horrific attacks on Easter worshippers and travelers in Sri Lanka.”
...Here’s what’s critical: Neither used the word “Christians.”
And in order to avoid doing so, they went so far as to make up a new term — “Easter worshippers” — heretofore unknown to any Christian..."
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Russian Interference, the Steve Bartman of U.S. Politics | RealClearPolitics
Russian Interference, the Steve Bartman of U.S. Politics | RealClearPolitics
"...But here is the reality: Russia’s intrusion was very unwelcome and decidedly illegal, but the wildly disproportionate reaction by anti-Trump operatives in both government and media has far eclipsed the damage wrought by a minor 2016 foreign intelligence scheme.
This totally unbalanced reaction represents the political equivalent to the Steve Bartman incident in Major League Baseball.
In 2003, the Chicago Cubs led the National League Championship Series three games to two and had a 3-0 lead in game six at home, with one out in the eighth inning.
A pop fly sailed foul but well within the left fielder’s reach. Lifelong Cubs fan Steve Bartman grabbed at the ball, as would many fans, interfering with Moises Alou’s attempted catch.
Both players and fans massively overreacted, forcing Bartman to exit Wrigley Field with a security detail, but the kerfuffle would have been utterly forgotten had previously dependable Cubs shortstop Alex Gonzalez ended the inning moments later with a potential double play ground ball hit right to him.
Instead, his rare error commenced an epic Cubs implosion that sent Chicago to defeat that night and in the ensuing NLCS game seven, vaulting the Marlins to the World Series.
As in politics, the point here is that the scapegoat, the Bartman, is not really to blame.
Russians spending a whopping $100,000 on Facebook ads, per the Mueller Report, represents a miniscule rounding error compared to $81 million spent by the campaigns on Facebook within a presidential election where total direct and indirect spending reached into the billions of dollars..."
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"...But here is the reality: Russia’s intrusion was very unwelcome and decidedly illegal, but the wildly disproportionate reaction by anti-Trump operatives in both government and media has far eclipsed the damage wrought by a minor 2016 foreign intelligence scheme.
This totally unbalanced reaction represents the political equivalent to the Steve Bartman incident in Major League Baseball. In 2003, the Chicago Cubs led the National League Championship Series three games to two and had a 3-0 lead in game six at home, with one out in the eighth inning.
A pop fly sailed foul but well within the left fielder’s reach. Lifelong Cubs fan Steve Bartman grabbed at the ball, as would many fans, interfering with Moises Alou’s attempted catch.
Both players and fans massively overreacted, forcing Bartman to exit Wrigley Field with a security detail, but the kerfuffle would have been utterly forgotten had previously dependable Cubs shortstop Alex Gonzalez ended the inning moments later with a potential double play ground ball hit right to him.
Instead, his rare error commenced an epic Cubs implosion that sent Chicago to defeat that night and in the ensuing NLCS game seven, vaulting the Marlins to the World Series.
As in politics, the point here is that the scapegoat, the Bartman, is not really to blame.
Russians spending a whopping $100,000 on Facebook ads, per the Mueller Report, represents a miniscule rounding error compared to $81 million spent by the campaigns on Facebook within a presidential election where total direct and indirect spending reached into the billions of dollars..."
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Progressive Caucus’s Arrangement With Outside Charity Violates House Rules, Experts Say. Punishment Is Unlikely | The Daily Caller
Progressive Caucus’s Arrangement With Outside Charity Violates House Rules, Experts Say. Punishment Is Unlikely | The Daily Caller:
But although the progressive caucus’s relationship with the outside charity group “seems like a clear violation of the rule,” there likely won’t be any consequences anytime soon, Acton Institute editor Joe Carter, who has researched congressional caucuses, told TheDCNF.
“Article 1, section 5, clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution says that, ‘Each House may … punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member,'” Carter said. “Based on previous history, the most severe punishment would likely be censure or reprimand of the leaders” of the progressive caucus.
“But that isn’t likely to happen under Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi,” he continued. “The most that will happen—if any action is even taken—is that they will have to promise to do a better job of complying with the rules in the future.”
“Article 1, section 5, clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution says that, ‘Each House may … punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member,'” Carter said. “Based on previous history, the most severe punishment would likely be censure or reprimand of the leaders” of the progressive caucus.
“But that isn’t likely to happen under Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi,” he continued. “The most that will happen—if any action is even taken—is that they will have to promise to do a better job of complying with the rules in the future.”
Living in Leftlandia
Living in Leftlandia
"As children we passed the time pretending to be grownups.
We were doctors or cowboys or ballerinas or truck drivers.
We built forts and made-up languages.
We played school.
We imagined our way through grand adventures –- and then, little by little, we turned into adults.
Even those who actually became doctors and cowboys faced the reality of those challenging professions.
Or we didn’t, and took up voting Democrat, ranting around in marches, and running for office instead.
It’s hard not to notice how little growing up those on the left have actually accomplished.
They live in La-la Land, in Leftlandia, saturated in fantasies filled with pots of gold at the ends of LGBT rainbows.
They never touch down.
Just look at the fairytale multiverse they swoop around in:
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"As children we passed the time pretending to be grownups.
We were doctors or cowboys or ballerinas or truck drivers.
We built forts and made-up languages.
We played school. We imagined our way through grand adventures –- and then, little by little, we turned into adults.
Even those who actually became doctors and cowboys faced the reality of those challenging professions.
Or we didn’t, and took up voting Democrat, ranting around in marches, and running for office instead.
It’s hard not to notice how little growing up those on the left have actually accomplished.
They live in La-la Land, in Leftlandia, saturated in fantasies filled with pots of gold at the ends of LGBT rainbows.
They never touch down.
Just look at the fairytale multiverse they swoop around in:
- Leftlandians actually believe that the world’s climate is something they can control, that man is so much greater than the God Who created the world that humans can use so much toilet paper, or so much gasoline that they can undo creation.
- They also believe that using fossil fuels to generate electricity with which to run our cars is somehow more environmentally sensible than just using the fossil fuels directly. When someone points out the damage –- both human and environmental –- done by building all those lithium batteries, the Leftlandians just cover their eyes and holler La-La-La-La..."
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Supremes to decide if 'sex' can be redefined - WND
Supremes to decide if 'sex' can be redefined - WND:
“Substituting ‘gender identity’ for ‘sex’ in nondiscrimination laws also threatens freedom of conscience,” the petition continued. “Statutes interpreted that way have the effect, for instance, of forcing doctors to participate in – or employers to pay for – surgical efforts to alter sex in violation of their deeply held beliefs…. In sum, the Sixth Circuit ushered in a profound change in federal law accompanied by widespread legal and social ramifications.”
“These are important policy questions that the people have the right to decide through their elected officials,” said ADF Senior Counsel Jim Campbell. “Unelected officials – whether bureaucrats or judges – don’t have the power to make these choices for us.”
When ADF sought Supreme Court review, nearly a year ago, it argued to the high court that “sex” means “sex,” and bureaucrats are not arbitrarily allowed to substitute “gender identity.”
“No court or federal agency has the authority to rewrite a federal statute. That power belongs solely to Congress,” said Alliance Defending Fund Senior Counsel Jim Campbell at the time.
“These are important policy questions that the people have the right to decide through their elected officials,” said ADF Senior Counsel Jim Campbell. “Unelected officials – whether bureaucrats or judges – don’t have the power to make these choices for us.”
When ADF sought Supreme Court review, nearly a year ago, it argued to the high court that “sex” means “sex,” and bureaucrats are not arbitrarily allowed to substitute “gender identity.”
“No court or federal agency has the authority to rewrite a federal statute. That power belongs solely to Congress,” said Alliance Defending Fund Senior Counsel Jim Campbell at the time.
Marijuana Sales in Canada Are Flat Since It Was Legalized - Barron's
"Recreational pot sales in Canada haven’t exactly been red hot since the country became the first wealthy nation to legalize marijuana nationwide in October.
Government data indicate that Canada’s legal weed sales in the first two months of 2019 were flat compared with those in the first two months of 2018’s fourth quarter, analysts at BMO Capital Markets said in a new report.
...The government’s StatsCan agency measures retail sales of marijuana. Industry sales in January and February of this year were 105 million Canadian dollars (US$79 million), which was disappointingly flat with the industry total for September and October of 2018..."
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AP U.S. History textbook calls Trump “racist,” questions his mental stability | Power Line
AP U.S. History textbook calls Trump “racist,” questions his mental stability | Power Line
"I have written repeatedly about the hard-left bias in the teaching of AP American History.
I finally got tired of writing such posts and abandoned the beat.
But now, I learn that, beginning in 2020, many Advanced Placement students will be using an American History textbook that suggests President Trump is mentally ill and that depicts him and many of his supporters as racists.
The book asserts that “[Trump’s] not very-hidden racism connected with a significant number of primary voters.”
...The textbook goes further.
It says that Hillary Clinton supporters “worried about the mental stability of the president-elect.”
...The book’s publisher defends its handiwork, saying that it underwent “rigorous peer review to ensure academic integrity.”
No doubt..."
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"I have written repeatedly about the hard-left bias in the teaching of AP American History. I finally got tired of writing such posts and abandoned the beat.
But now, I learn that, beginning in 2020, many Advanced Placement students will be using an American History textbook that suggests President Trump is mentally ill and that depicts him and many of his supporters as racists.
The book asserts that “[Trump’s] not very-hidden racism connected with a significant number of primary voters.”
...The textbook goes further.
It says that Hillary Clinton supporters “worried about the mental stability of the president-elect.”
...The book’s publisher defends its handiwork, saying that it underwent “rigorous peer review to ensure academic integrity.”
No doubt..."
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Speech Is Violence, and Vice Versa | Power Line
Speech Is Violence, and Vice Versa | Power Line
"The apotheosis of the Left’s 21st-Century lunacy is its insistence that disagreeing with leftist dogma–declining to accept the “trans” farce, for example–is “violence” that demands suppression, while actual violence by leftists like Antifa–bashing people in the head with a baseball bat, for instance–is merely free speech exercised by “protesters.”
No one in the world, with the possible exception of a handful of mis-educated college professors and students, is dumb enough to be fooled by that inversion.
But liberals soldier heedlessly on.
"The apotheosis of the Left’s 21st-Century lunacy is its insistence that disagreeing with leftist dogma–declining to accept the “trans” farce, for example–is “violence” that demands suppression, while actual violence by leftists like Antifa–bashing people in the head with a baseball bat, for instance–is merely free speech exercised by “protesters.” No one in the world, with the possible exception of a handful of mis-educated college professors and students, is dumb enough to be fooled by that inversion.
But liberals soldier heedlessly on.
Here is a today’s instance of the phenomenon.
April Ryan, a CNN personality, suggested that Sarah Sanders’ head should be “lopped off.”
Sanders’ father, Mike Huckabee, protested–whereupon Ryan accused Huckabee of inciting violence against her.
You can’t make this stuff up:
As I thank God this day and for his sacrifice as you should be doing, I have a warning for you! If anything happens to me or mine or anyone connected to me, you and your daughter and this administration will be held accountable! So you better stop now!
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