History for February 21 - On-This-Day.com:
Zachary Scott 1914, Sam Peckinpah 1925 - Director, Erma Bombeck 1927 - Humorist, columnist, writer
Alan Rickman 1946, Kelsey Grammer 1955 - Actor ("Cheers", "Frazier"), Jennifer Love Hewitt 1979 - Actress ("Party of Five", "I Know What You Did Last Summer", "Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit")
1842 - John J. Greenough patented the sewing machine.
1848 - The Communist Manifesto was published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
1904 - The National Ski Association was formed in Ishpeming, MI.
1916 - During World War I, the Battle of Verdun began in France. The battle ended on December 18, 1916 with a French victory over Germany.
1947 - Edwin Land demonstrated the Polaroid Land Camera to the Optical Society of America in New York City. It was the first camera to take, develop and print a picture on photo paper all in about 60 seconds. The photos were black and white. The camera went on sale the following year.
1965 - Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City at the age of 39 by assassins identified as Black Muslims.
1988 - In Baton Rouge, LA, TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart confessed to his congregation that he was guilty of an unspecified sin. He announced that he was leaving the pulpit temporarily. Swaggart had been linked to an admitted prostitute.
1989 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush called Ayatollah Khomeini's death warrant against "Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie "deeply offensive to the norms of civilized behavior."
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Obama’s Response to Marine Beaten by Black Mob Will Make You SICK | John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Obama’s Response to Marine Beaten by Black Mob Will Make You SICK | John Hawkins' Right Wing News:
"Guess he’s the wrong skin color. Imagine that. These black teens who are Black Lives Matter acolytes are wanted for other crimes as well. Chris Marquez is still waiting for the outcry over what he views as a hate crime. He’ll be waiting a long time with this president. Marquez was hit in the back of the head with a gun. When he hit the ground they viciously beat him, ripped his pants and stole his wallet with $400 and several credit cards in it. They then spent $115 via those cards. You would think the police could track them down with that and a surveillance video. We’re waiting."
"Guess he’s the wrong skin color. Imagine that. These black teens who are Black Lives Matter acolytes are wanted for other crimes as well. Chris Marquez is still waiting for the outcry over what he views as a hate crime. He’ll be waiting a long time with this president. Marquez was hit in the back of the head with a gun. When he hit the ground they viciously beat him, ripped his pants and stole his wallet with $400 and several credit cards in it. They then spent $115 via those cards. You would think the police could track them down with that and a surveillance video. We’re waiting."
The Most Trusted State Governments Are Red
The Most Trusted State Governments Are Red - The American Interest:
Bad news for the blue model at the state level: According to a recentGallup poll, red states are home to some of the most trusted state governments in the country, and blue states are home to some of the least.
The four states whose governments have the highest “confidence” ratings—North Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Montana—are all red, while the four states whose governments have the lowest ratings—Illinois, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey—are all deep blue.
(Note: The terms red and blue refer to governing models, not partisan affiliation of the current state leadership; blue New Jersey has a Republican governor, and red Montana has a Democratic governor).
Three of the four blue states most facing a confidence crisis are suffering from acute blue model decay in the form of runaway public pension costs..."
Bad news for the blue model at the state level: According to a recentGallup poll, red states are home to some of the most trusted state governments in the country, and blue states are home to some of the least.
The four states whose governments have the highest “confidence” ratings—North Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Montana—are all red, while the four states whose governments have the lowest ratings—Illinois, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey—are all deep blue.
(Note: The terms red and blue refer to governing models, not partisan affiliation of the current state leadership; blue New Jersey has a Republican governor, and red Montana has a Democratic governor).
Three of the four blue states most facing a confidence crisis are suffering from acute blue model decay in the form of runaway public pension costs..."
These 8 federal agencies are the worst. Here's how to fix them
These 8 federal agencies are the worst. Here's how to fix them | Washington Examiner
"Many conservatives are quick to say the Department of Education should be abolished.
For example, Ted Cruz included the department in his list of five agencies that must go.
It's important for the department and its programs to be eliminated, rather than just shifting it into another agency, said Neal McCluskey, who directs the Center for Educational Freedom at the libertarian Cato Institute.
"It doesn't mean much if you just get rid of the department and you keep all the programs, and you move all the programs to [the Department of Health & Human Services]," McCluskey told the Washington Examiner.
"It's the programs that are ultimately the problem."
McCluskey said only two Department of Education activities can be justified: the Office for Civil Rights, to enforce the 14th Amendment, and Impact Aid, which gives federal funds to school districts that are burdened by nearby federal installations such as military bases or large science labs.
Even then, the department doesn't perform those two activities particularly well, McCluskey said, but at least they're justifiable.
...Of the department's 4,137 employees, "many of those jobs don't have to exist," Hess said..."
Read on!
"Many conservatives are quick to say the Department of Education should be abolished.
For example, Ted Cruz included the department in his list of five agencies that must go.
It's important for the department and its programs to be eliminated, rather than just shifting it into another agency, said Neal McCluskey, who directs the Center for Educational Freedom at the libertarian Cato Institute.
"It doesn't mean much if you just get rid of the department and you keep all the programs, and you move all the programs to [the Department of Health & Human Services]," McCluskey told the Washington Examiner.
"It's the programs that are ultimately the problem."
McCluskey said only two Department of Education activities can be justified: the Office for Civil Rights, to enforce the 14th Amendment, and Impact Aid, which gives federal funds to school districts that are burdened by nearby federal installations such as military bases or large science labs.
Even then, the department doesn't perform those two activities particularly well, McCluskey said, but at least they're justifiable.
...Of the department's 4,137 employees, "many of those jobs don't have to exist," Hess said..."
Read on!
BOOM: 4 Countries Join To Send BRUTAL Message To “Refugees"
BOOM: 4 Countries Join To Send BRUTAL Message To “Refugees":
"Czech President Milos Zeman is not a proponent of allowing more refugees into his country. He has even said the crisis is an organized invasion, and it seems the citizens in his country agree with him. A recent poll suggested that at many as 65 percent of Czechs were against taking in war refugees.
Countries across the world are waking up to the serious problems refugees are causing and they’re not waiting around to put measures in place to help keep the problem manageable."
"Czech President Milos Zeman is not a proponent of allowing more refugees into his country. He has even said the crisis is an organized invasion, and it seems the citizens in his country agree with him. A recent poll suggested that at many as 65 percent of Czechs were against taking in war refugees.
Countries across the world are waking up to the serious problems refugees are causing and they’re not waiting around to put measures in place to help keep the problem manageable."
DC MEDICAL DIRECTOR DROPS BRUTAL RESIGNATION LETTER, CALLS OUT OFFICIALS
Instapundit » Blog Archive » DC MEDICAL DIRECTOR DROPS BRUTAL RESIGNATION LETTER, CALLS OUT OFFICIALS: The medical director of D…:
DC MEDICAL DIRECTOR DROPS BRUTAL RESIGNATION LETTER, CALLS OUT OFFICIALS:
DC MEDICAL DIRECTOR DROPS BRUTAL RESIGNATION LETTER, CALLS OUT OFFICIALS:
The medical director of D.C.’s fire department resigned in a scathing letter to Mayor Muriel Bowser, charging that “people are dying needlessly” in “a highly toxic” culture where reform is impossible.
Poor response times plague the District fire department. Bowser hired Dr. Jullette Saussy seven months ago for the specific purpose of reforming the department. Confirmed in November and named EMS Medical Director and Assistant Fire Chief, Saussy is already fed up with the D.C. system. In her resignation letter to the Mayor dated January 29 she rips the culture of a department that she argues values bureaucratic structure over meaningful medical reforms, reports WTOP.“The culture of the DC Fire and EMS Department is highly toxic to the delivery of any semblance of quality pre-hospital patient care,” Saussy writes in her letter. “EMS reform, even attempts to make basic changes, are met with resistance from the top down.”Saussy accuses the fire department of fostering a “feel good” environment which relies on manipulated or incomplete data that serves as their measure of performance. She says it creates a false reality within the department, where people are not properly overseen and issues fail to ever be addressed.
Hasn’t a false reality in the District of Columbia been a given since about 1913 or so?
(And isn’t that true in most if not allDemocrat-run cities?)
(And isn’t that true in most if not allDemocrat-run cities?)
Why does "the State" release on Friday afternoons?------State releases hundreds of Clinton emails just before Nevada caucus
State releases hundreds of Clinton emails just before Nevada caucus | Washington Examiner:
State Department officials published 550 of Hillary Clinton's private emails Friday in accordance with a judge's order in a contentious Freedom of Information Act case.
The roughly 1,000 pages of emails came just hours before the start of the Nevada caucus Saturday.
Clinton has faced increased scrutiny of her private email use since the end of last month, when the State Department withheld at least 22 emails deemed "top secret," the highest level of classification in government.
Since then, Clinton has attempted to argue the controversial decision was the result of "over classification."
The State Department inspector general's acknowledgement that former Secretary of State Colin Powell transmitted two potentially classified emails on his private email account more than a decade ago has given Clinton supporters fodder in their argument that Clinton did nothing wrong in setting up her own email network."
State Department officials published 550 of Hillary Clinton's private emails Friday in accordance with a judge's order in a contentious Freedom of Information Act case.
The roughly 1,000 pages of emails came just hours before the start of the Nevada caucus Saturday.
Clinton has faced increased scrutiny of her private email use since the end of last month, when the State Department withheld at least 22 emails deemed "top secret," the highest level of classification in government.
Since then, Clinton has attempted to argue the controversial decision was the result of "over classification."
The State Department inspector general's acknowledgement that former Secretary of State Colin Powell transmitted two potentially classified emails on his private email account more than a decade ago has given Clinton supporters fodder in their argument that Clinton did nothing wrong in setting up her own email network."
Lunch videos-----Top 10 Viral Aviation Videos of 2015
Top 10 Viral Aviation Videos of 2015 | Flying Magazine:
From heart-stopping landings to gorgeous flights, check out these most-watched videos.
These days almost anything aviation can be caught on video — stunning airshow performances, hair-raising emergencies or priceless experiences you can only get while being in the cockpit.
Thanks to the accessibility of video cameras, people have the opportunity to capture some pretty incredible and unbelievable moments that were much more difficult to record only a few years ago. These 10 viral aviation videos were featured in Flying’s Enews over the year and they are definitely worth watching again and again.
From heart-stopping landings to gorgeous flights, check out these most-watched videos.
These days almost anything aviation can be caught on video — stunning airshow performances, hair-raising emergencies or priceless experiences you can only get while being in the cockpit.
Thanks to the accessibility of video cameras, people have the opportunity to capture some pretty incredible and unbelievable moments that were much more difficult to record only a few years ago. These 10 viral aviation videos were featured in Flying’s Enews over the year and they are definitely worth watching again and again.
Sorry, Girls Just Have to Deal With Being Assaulted for the Sake of Trans People | TheBlaze.com
Sorry, Girls Just Have to Deal With Being Assaulted for the Sake of Trans People | TheBlaze.com:
"Dispatch from the Inevitable File out of Seattle: A man undressed in the women’s locker room of a local pool. Actually, he entered the locker room on numerous occasions, once while young girls were getting changed.
Under normal circumstances, the police would be called and the intrusive creep would be arrested. However, "
"Dispatch from the Inevitable File out of Seattle: A man undressed in the women’s locker room of a local pool. Actually, he entered the locker room on numerous occasions, once while young girls were getting changed.
Under normal circumstances, the police would be called and the intrusive creep would be arrested. However, "
FIRE Announces 10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech: 2016
FIRE Announces 10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech: 2016 - FIRE:
Nearly half of America’s top colleges maintain speech codes that blatantly violate First Amendment standards.
But every year the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) takes a closer look at the past year’s incidents of college censorship to determine the nation’s 10 worst abusers of student and faculty free speech rights.
Nearly half of America’s top colleges maintain speech codes that blatantly violate First Amendment standards.
But every year the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) takes a closer look at the past year’s incidents of college censorship to determine the nation’s 10 worst abusers of student and faculty free speech rights.
This year’s list of the 10 worst colleges for free speech—published with detailed descriptions at The Huffington Post—includes many public colleges or universities bound by the First Amendment.
Some of them, on the other hand, are private colleges that, though not required by the Constitution to respect student and faculty rights, nonetheless promise to do so. This year’s list features:
Some of them, on the other hand, are private colleges that, though not required by the Constitution to respect student and faculty rights, nonetheless promise to do so. This year’s list features:
- Mount St. Mary’s University
- Northwestern University
- Louisiana State University
- University of California, San Diego
- Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota
- University of Oklahoma
- Marquette University
- Colorado College
- University of Tulsa
- Wesleyan University
Among the institutions on FIRE’s annual “worst of the worst” list are a university that fired two faculty members for criticizing the university president’s plan to oust low-performing freshmen, a college that suspended a student for making a six-word joke on social media,and even one university that punished a student for something someone else said—and then went after the student newspaper for reporting on the story..."
Attack on marriage?-----Robots Can Now Flawlessly Iron Clothes
Robots Can Now Flawlessly Iron Clothes | Motherboard
GIF: YouTube
Somewhere on the laundry list of things that humans can do easily and robots totally suck at it handling clothes. A shirt isn’t a rigid object like a coffee cup, for example, which robots can quite easily handle; folding and ironing one requires some seriously advanced on the fly computing.
Well, here’s some comforting or terrifying news, depending on which side of the “robots are going to take all our jobs or make life awesome” debate: robots can totally iron clothes all by themselves now.
What’s more, the robot is honestly a hell of a lot better at ironing than I am—and, let’s face it, probably you, too. I mean, just look at that technique, those crisp lines… Frankly, the end result speaks for itself.
Cooley Craters: Enrollment, Faculty Down 60%, Tuition Up 40%
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Cooley Craters: Enrollment, Faculty Down 60%, Tuition Up 40%
Cooley Craters: Enrollment, Faculty Down 60%, Tuition Up 40%
By Paul Caron
Lansing State Journal, Enrollment Up, Scores Down at Cooley:
After five years of declining enrollment, Western Michigan University Cooley Law School brought in more first-year students last year than it did the year before, according to American Bar Association data.
But only by three students.
And halting the slide seems to have come at the expense of selectivity.
Cooley has long been one of the least selective law schools in the country, but the average GPA and LSAT scores of its most recent entering class are the lower than any class at Cooley in at least a decade.
The median GPA and LSAT scores for new Cooley students last year were 2.85 and 141, respectively. Students in the 25th percentile had an average LSAT score of 138. LSAT scores range from 120 to 180. A score of 138 falls in the bottom 11 percent of scores from recent years.
Cooley has not lowered its admissions standards, said Jim Robb, associate dean of external affairs. Students are evaluated using a complex admission formula that weighs an applicant’s LSAT scores and GPA, Robb said. In recent years, the school has placed more value on GPAs. ...
The Lansing-based law school has cut its number of full-time faculty in half since 2011. ...
Cooley students have struggled on the Michigan bar exam in recent years. Slightly more than half of Cooley graduates taking the exam for the first time passed in in July, compared to 72 percent of all first-time test takers. MSU and U of M graduates fared better, with 80 percent and 97 percent pass rates among first-time test takers, respectively. ...
Fewer than one out of every three 2014 Cooley graduates found full-time work that required them to pass the bar in the months after graduation, according to ABA data. Placement rates for MSU and U of M graduates were 59 percent and 92 percent, respectively.
Germany Finds Easy Way to Cut "Refugee" Crime... Liberals Outraged by Brutal Action
Germany Finds Easy Way to Cut "Refugee" Crime... Liberals Outraged by Brutal Action:
"Germany has found a fairly foolproof method of handling refugees and the crimes they commit, and it’s one that will have liberals everywhere screaming.
They’re sending them back to Austria, and they’re not letting any more in. They’re also refusing anyone with a fake or stolen passport to cross borders."
"Germany has found a fairly foolproof method of handling refugees and the crimes they commit, and it’s one that will have liberals everywhere screaming.
They’re sending them back to Austria, and they’re not letting any more in. They’re also refusing anyone with a fake or stolen passport to cross borders."
Southern Border Now a 'Fertile Environment For Jihadis'
Frank Gaffney: Southern Border Now a 'Fertile Environment For Jihadis':
Frank Gaffney, founder of the Center for Security Policy, appeared on Breitbart News Daily with host Stephen K. Bannon on Wednesday to discuss the need for tighter border security, and how it conflicts with Pope Francis’ support for mass migration from the Third World into Western countries.
Gaffney used the Zika virus as a metaphor for how mass migration brings security pathologies from regions with serious security issues into the United States, much as Zika has flourished in countries with less stringent disease and mosquito control protocols.
“We’ve now got these cartels operating with gangs all over the United States,” said Gaffney, referring to South American drug cartels.
“Literally, every state in the Union is now a border state.”
“That’s partly because we have been neglecting the border,” he continued, “and not preventing people who have been operating on one side of it from operating on both.”
Gaffney warned that the drug cartels are not alone in establishing operations on both sides of the porous border.
“They are being now, increasingly, accompanied by – and collaborating with – jihadists that the Pope is ignoring in Europe, where he’s residing at the moment, and a lot of other places besides, of course,” he said.
Noting that the big cartels have been compared to the Islamic State in their organizational methods and violence, Gaffney said, “You also have the Islamic State in Latin America.
You also have Hamas.
You also have Hezbollah.
You also have the Iranians… and, by the way, the Chinese and others.
That side of the border is now a fertile environment for jihadists to operate from, with impunity – and to bring their violence, and other kinds of predations, here as well.”
Frank Gaffney, founder of the Center for Security Policy, appeared on Breitbart News Daily with host Stephen K. Bannon on Wednesday to discuss the need for tighter border security, and how it conflicts with Pope Francis’ support for mass migration from the Third World into Western countries.
Gaffney used the Zika virus as a metaphor for how mass migration brings security pathologies from regions with serious security issues into the United States, much as Zika has flourished in countries with less stringent disease and mosquito control protocols.
“We’ve now got these cartels operating with gangs all over the United States,” said Gaffney, referring to South American drug cartels.
“Literally, every state in the Union is now a border state.”
“That’s partly because we have been neglecting the border,” he continued, “and not preventing people who have been operating on one side of it from operating on both.”
Gaffney warned that the drug cartels are not alone in establishing operations on both sides of the porous border.
“They are being now, increasingly, accompanied by – and collaborating with – jihadists that the Pope is ignoring in Europe, where he’s residing at the moment, and a lot of other places besides, of course,” he said.
Noting that the big cartels have been compared to the Islamic State in their organizational methods and violence, Gaffney said, “You also have the Islamic State in Latin America.
You also have Hamas.
You also have Hezbollah.
You also have the Iranians… and, by the way, the Chinese and others.
That side of the border is now a fertile environment for jihadists to operate from, with impunity – and to bring their violence, and other kinds of predations, here as well.”
History for February 20
History for February 20 - On-This-Day.com:
William Prescott 1726 - American Revolutionary soldier, know for the quote "Don't fire until you see the white's of their eyes.", Sidney Poitier 1927 - Actor ("Lillies of the Field", "To Sir With Love"), Roger Penske 1937 - Race car driver
Jennifer O'Neill 1948 - Actress ("Summer of '42"), Ivana Trump 1949, Patty Hearst (Patricia Hearst Shaw) 1954 - Publishing heiress, kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) and ultimately joined her captors, pardoned by President Clinton
1792 - U.S. President George Washington signed the Postal Service Act that created the U.S. Post Office.
1809 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the power of the federal government was greater than that of any individual state.
1815 - The USS Constitution, under Captain Charles Stewart fought the British ships Cyane and Levant. The Constitution captures both, but lost the Levant after encountering a British squadron. The Constitution and the Cyane returned to New York safely on May 15, 1815. The Cyane was purchased and became the USS Cyane.
1872 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened in New York City.
1872 - Silas Noble and J.P. Cooley patented the toothpick manufacturing machine.
1962 - John Glenn made space history when he orbited the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. He was the first American to orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule. Glenn witnessed the Devil's Cigarette Lighter while in flight.
1987 - A bomb exploded in a computer store in Salt Lake City, UT. The blast was blamed on the Unabomber.
1998 - American Tara Lipinski, at age 15, became the youngest gold medalist in winter Olympics history when she won the ladies' figure skating title at Nagano, Japan.
William Prescott 1726 - American Revolutionary soldier, know for the quote "Don't fire until you see the white's of their eyes.", Sidney Poitier 1927 - Actor ("Lillies of the Field", "To Sir With Love"), Roger Penske 1937 - Race car driver
Jennifer O'Neill 1948 - Actress ("Summer of '42"), Ivana Trump 1949, Patty Hearst (Patricia Hearst Shaw) 1954 - Publishing heiress, kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) and ultimately joined her captors, pardoned by President Clinton
1792 - U.S. President George Washington signed the Postal Service Act that created the U.S. Post Office.
1809 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the power of the federal government was greater than that of any individual state.
1815 - The USS Constitution, under Captain Charles Stewart fought the British ships Cyane and Levant. The Constitution captures both, but lost the Levant after encountering a British squadron. The Constitution and the Cyane returned to New York safely on May 15, 1815. The Cyane was purchased and became the USS Cyane.
1872 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened in New York City.
1872 - Silas Noble and J.P. Cooley patented the toothpick manufacturing machine.
1962 - John Glenn made space history when he orbited the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. He was the first American to orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule. Glenn witnessed the Devil's Cigarette Lighter while in flight.
1987 - A bomb exploded in a computer store in Salt Lake City, UT. The blast was blamed on the Unabomber.
1998 - American Tara Lipinski, at age 15, became the youngest gold medalist in winter Olympics history when she won the ladies' figure skating title at Nagano, Japan.
Friday, February 19, 2016
Watch How WH Press Secretary Answers When Reporter Asks If He Can ‘Rule Out’ Obama Golfing During Scalia’s Funeral | Video | TheBlaze.com
Watch How WH Press Secretary Answers When Reporter Asks If He Can ‘Rule Out’ Obama Golfing During Scalia’s Funeral | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest on Wednesday was unable to rule out golfing as the reason President Barack Obama intends to skip Justice Antonin Scalia’s funeral this weekend.
“The president has said that he is not always as sensitive as he should be on optics,” one reporter asked Earnest during Wednesday’s press briefing. “Can you rule out that he’s going golfing on Saturday instead of the funeral?”
"White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest on Wednesday was unable to rule out golfing as the reason President Barack Obama intends to skip Justice Antonin Scalia’s funeral this weekend.
“The president has said that he is not always as sensitive as he should be on optics,” one reporter asked Earnest during Wednesday’s press briefing. “Can you rule out that he’s going golfing on Saturday instead of the funeral?”
Man Undressing in Women's Room Cites Transgender Rule
Man Undressing in Women's Room Cites Transgender Rule
The Seattle Parks and Recreation department is facing an obstacle regarding gender bathroom rules.
According to KING-TV, a man undressed in a women's locker room on February 8, citing a new state rule that allows people to choose a bathroom based on gender identity.
Seattle Parks and Recreation says a man wearing shorts entered the women's locker room at Evans Pool and took off his shirt.
Women alerted staff, who told the man to leave, but he said, "the law has changed and I have a right to be here."
Employees claim the man made no verbal or physical attempt to identify as a woman, yet he still cited a new rule that allows bathroom choice based on gender identification.
The man later returned a second time while young girls were changing for swim practice.
No arrests were made, according to the KING-TV report.
A Seattle Parks spokesman says they're still working on the issue.
At this time there's no specific protocol for how someone should demonstrate his or her gender in order to access a bathroom.
The Seattle Parks and Recreation department is facing an obstacle regarding gender bathroom rules.
According to KING-TV, a man undressed in a women's locker room on February 8, citing a new state rule that allows people to choose a bathroom based on gender identity.
Seattle Parks and Recreation says a man wearing shorts entered the women's locker room at Evans Pool and took off his shirt.
Women alerted staff, who told the man to leave, but he said, "the law has changed and I have a right to be here."
Employees claim the man made no verbal or physical attempt to identify as a woman, yet he still cited a new rule that allows bathroom choice based on gender identification.
The man later returned a second time while young girls were changing for swim practice.
No arrests were made, according to the KING-TV report.
A Seattle Parks spokesman says they're still working on the issue.
At this time there's no specific protocol for how someone should demonstrate his or her gender in order to access a bathroom.
CIA Has Dedicated Program to Recruit Transgender Individuals
CIA Has Dedicated Program to Recruit Transgender Individuals:
Intelligence agency releases 3-year ‘diversity and inclusion strategy’
The Central Intelligence Agency three-year “Diversity and Inclusion Strategy” includes a dedicated program to recruit transgender individuals and agency-wide “unconscious bias” training.
The plan, released by the CIA’s Diversity and Inclusion Office last week, lays out several goals for “weaving diversity and inclusion throughout the talent cycle.”
One agency goal is “Becoming an Employer of Choice,” and includes “dedicated programs” to recruit every demographic imaginable.
“Cultivating an inclusive culture that encourages collaboration, flexibility, and fairness enables all officers to contribute to their full potential,” the CIA plan stated. “When employees feel included, have a voice, and are given opportunities to develop and maximize their potential, we create an organization of choice and become a model employer for the full diversity of America’s talent.”
...CIA Director John Brennan said diversity and inclusion are “at the heart” of what the intelligence service is “charged to do...”
Intelligence agency releases 3-year ‘diversity and inclusion strategy’
The Central Intelligence Agency three-year “Diversity and Inclusion Strategy” includes a dedicated program to recruit transgender individuals and agency-wide “unconscious bias” training.
The plan, released by the CIA’s Diversity and Inclusion Office last week, lays out several goals for “weaving diversity and inclusion throughout the talent cycle.”
One agency goal is “Becoming an Employer of Choice,” and includes “dedicated programs” to recruit every demographic imaginable.
“Cultivating an inclusive culture that encourages collaboration, flexibility, and fairness enables all officers to contribute to their full potential,” the CIA plan stated. “When employees feel included, have a voice, and are given opportunities to develop and maximize their potential, we create an organization of choice and become a model employer for the full diversity of America’s talent.”
...CIA Director John Brennan said diversity and inclusion are “at the heart” of what the intelligence service is “charged to do...”
Beyonce Concert in Tampa Expected to Sell Out — Here’s What Happened When Police Got a Request to Provide Security | Video | TheBlaze.com
Beyonce Concert in Tampa Expected to Sell Out — Here’s What Happened When Police Got a Request to Provide Security | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"In the wake of Beyonce’s controversial Super Bowl halftime performance of her new song “Formation” — which critics say contains an anti-cop message — police and politicians around the country have been speaking out against it."
"In the wake of Beyonce’s controversial Super Bowl halftime performance of her new song “Formation” — which critics say contains an anti-cop message — police and politicians around the country have been speaking out against it."
Six Funerals The Obamas DID Attend
Six Funerals The Obamas DID Attend | The Daily Caller:
The White House announced on Wednesday that neither President Barack Obama or first lady Michelle Obama will be attending the funeral of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. While Justice Scalia’s funeral apparently doesn’t warrant Obama’s presence, here are six funerals that did.
The White House announced on Wednesday that neither President Barack Obama or first lady Michelle Obama will be attending the funeral of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. While Justice Scalia’s funeral apparently doesn’t warrant Obama’s presence, here are six funerals that did.
- Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
Less than two months before the 2012 election, both Obamas took time out of their schedule to attend the funeral of Senator Inouye. President Obama openly wept over the liberal senator. - Hadiya Pendleton
Three days before his 2013 State of the Union address, President Obama sent Michelle on his behalf to the funeral of 15 year-old shooting victim Hadiya Pendleton. Obama’s decision to send Michelle to the Chicago teen’s funeral set the stage for his SOTU address, in which he called for further gun control restrictions. - Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV)
Despite Robert Byrd’s well-known ties to the Ku Klux Klan, President Obama attended the Democratic senator’s funeral. Obama gave a speech at the ceremony and called the late senator his friend. - Reverend Clementa Pinckney
Reverend Pinckney, who also served as a South Carolina state senator, was one of the nine people killed in the Charleston shooting last summer. Despite never having met Pinckney, President Obama delivered his eulogy. - Former Democratic House Speaker Tom Foley
Just six months after snubbing the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, President Obama attended the funeral of former Democratic Speaker of the House Tom Foley. As he tends to do when actually attending funerals, Obama delivered a speech. - Walter Cronkite
When the legendary newscaster passed away in September 2009, President Obama found room in his schedule to travel to New York for the memorial service. Once again, Obama gave a speech at the service. He had openly admitted that he never met Cronkite.
Justice Scalia leaves behind nine children and 36 grandchildren.
Marriage advice!-----Palestinian leader gives wife-beating tips on Gaza TV
Palestinian leader gives wife-beating tips on Gaza TV | Fox News
A top spiritual leader in the Palestinian territory of Gaza told a television audience last week how and when men can beat their wives, advising not to hit them in a way that “makes the face ugly.”
The shocking interview with Hassan Al-Laham, who holds the title “mufti of Gaza,” came during a weekly Palestinian Authority TV program on social issues.
Explaining that divorce must be a last resort in Islam, Al-Laham laid out the four steps that should come first.
"Allah said: Warn them [the wives], and separate from them, and hit them, and bring an arbitrator from his family and an arbitrator from her family," he said.
Al-Laham, whose title makes him the top spiritual leader appointed by the Palestinian Authority, then went into detail about how a husband should hit a wife.
"Not hitting that will bring the police, and break her hand and cause bleeding, or hitting that makes the face ugly," he said.
The hitting should "be like a joke," even reinforcing "the love and friendship" between the couple, he said.
A top spiritual leader in the Palestinian territory of Gaza told a television audience last week how and when men can beat their wives, advising not to hit them in a way that “makes the face ugly.”
The shocking interview with Hassan Al-Laham, who holds the title “mufti of Gaza,” came during a weekly Palestinian Authority TV program on social issues.
Explaining that divorce must be a last resort in Islam, Al-Laham laid out the four steps that should come first.
"Allah said: Warn them [the wives], and separate from them, and hit them, and bring an arbitrator from his family and an arbitrator from her family," he said.
Al-Laham, whose title makes him the top spiritual leader appointed by the Palestinian Authority, then went into detail about how a husband should hit a wife.
"Not hitting that will bring the police, and break her hand and cause bleeding, or hitting that makes the face ugly," he said.
The hitting should "be like a joke," even reinforcing "the love and friendship" between the couple, he said.
Ted Cruz hands out list of Donald Trump's donations to Dems twitchy.com
Ted Cruz hands out list of Donald Trump's donations to Dems twitchy.com:
"Senator Ted Cruz’s campaign reportedly handed out the flier below at a press conference earlier today listing donations to Democratic politicians from “The Real Donald Trump.”
"Senator Ted Cruz’s campaign reportedly handed out the flier below at a press conference earlier today listing donations to Democratic politicians from “The Real Donald Trump.”
FLASHBACK: Sen. Obama reminded ‘Constitution calls for the Senate to advise and consent’
FLASHBACK: Sen. Obama reminded ‘Constitution calls for the Senate to advise and consent’ | The American Mirror:
But in a 2006 video posted to YouTube the same day, then-Sen. Obama of Illinois provides a decidedly different take on the nomination process in a filibuster to oppose a Senate decision on Justice Samuel Alito.
“As we all know, there has been a lot of discussion in the country about how the Senate should approach this confirmation process,” Obama said at the time.
“There are some who believe the president, having won the election, should have complete authority to appoint his nominee and the Senate should only examine whether or not the justice is intellectually capable and an all-around good guy. That once you get beyond intellect and personal character there should be no further questions as to whether the judge should be confirmed.
But in a 2006 video posted to YouTube the same day, then-Sen. Obama of Illinois provides a decidedly different take on the nomination process in a filibuster to oppose a Senate decision on Justice Samuel Alito.
“There are some who believe the president, having won the election, should have complete authority to appoint his nominee and the Senate should only examine whether or not the justice is intellectually capable and an all-around good guy. That once you get beyond intellect and personal character there should be no further questions as to whether the judge should be confirmed.
“I disagree with this view,” he continued. “I believe firmly that the Constitution calls for the Senate to advise and consent. I believe that it calls for meaningful advice and consent and that includes an examination of a judge’s philosophy, ideology and record.
When I examine the philosophy, ideology and record of Samuel Alito, I am deeply troubled.”
Of course, Obama doesn’t see the hypocrisy in his apparent flip-flopping, but is now working to address critics who were quick to point out his conflicting statements nonetheless.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told the media during a daily press briefing Wednesday that the president “regrets” his unsuccessful filibuster of Alito, but maintains that the situation then and now are entirely different..."
Of course, Obama doesn’t see the hypocrisy in his apparent flip-flopping, but is now working to address critics who were quick to point out his conflicting statements nonetheless.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told the media during a daily press briefing Wednesday that the president “regrets” his unsuccessful filibuster of Alito, but maintains that the situation then and now are entirely different..."
Marijuana legalization unlikely to blame for Denver crime increase
Marijuana legalization unlikely to blame for Denver crime increase - The Denver Post
"...When making his case against the measure, Sen. William Sharer, a Republican from Farmington, pointed to Denver, where he said crime has increased since retail marijuana stores opened in the city in 2014.
Marijuana policy experts and Colorado officials urge caution when trying to grade legalization's impacts — which are the subject of debate all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, where this week justices are scheduled to discuss a lawsuit over pot filed against Colorado by two neighboring states. But there is one thing that legalization supporters, opponents and neutrals within Colorado agree on: It's unlikely marijuana has much to do with Denver's recent uptick in crime, as Sharer suggested it did.
"Crime is up," said Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson, " but I don't know if you can relate it to marijuana."
Since 2012, the year when Colorado voters passed recreational marijuana legalization, the number of crimes in Denver has grown by about 44 percent, according to annual figures the city reported to the National Incident Based Reporting System..."
"...When making his case against the measure, Sen. William Sharer, a Republican from Farmington, pointed to Denver, where he said crime has increased since retail marijuana stores opened in the city in 2014.
Marijuana policy experts and Colorado officials urge caution when trying to grade legalization's impacts — which are the subject of debate all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, where this week justices are scheduled to discuss a lawsuit over pot filed against Colorado by two neighboring states. But there is one thing that legalization supporters, opponents and neutrals within Colorado agree on: It's unlikely marijuana has much to do with Denver's recent uptick in crime, as Sharer suggested it did.
"Crime is up," said Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson, " but I don't know if you can relate it to marijuana."
Since 2012, the year when Colorado voters passed recreational marijuana legalization, the number of crimes in Denver has grown by about 44 percent, according to annual figures the city reported to the National Incident Based Reporting System..."
Almost Half of US Residents Still Pay No Federal Income Tax
Almost Half of US Residents Still Pay No Federal Income Tax:
The chart tells the story.
The chart tells the story.
In 1962, the percentage of people who did not pay federal income taxes themselves and who were not claimed as dependents by someone who paid federal income taxes stood at 24.0 percent; it fell to 12.6 percent by 1969 before beginning a ragged and ultimately steady increase.
By 2000, the percentage was 34.1 percent; by 2009, it was 49.6 percent. The number dropped to 44.7 percent in 2011, and it has hovered around 44 percent ever since.
An astounding 33.67 percent of tax returns are filed only to claim benefits while not paying any income tax.
That is up from 18.64 percent in 1990.
"Stunned" Former Homicide Det. Drops "Injection" Bombshell About Scalia's Death
"Stunned" Former Homicide Det. Drops "Injection" Bombshell About Scalia's Death:
"William O. Ritchie, formerly the head of criminal investigations for the D.C. police, wrote Sunday that he found it inconceivable no autopsy was ordered on Scalia’s body, especially given the possibility the justice might have been injected with a drug that would induce heart failure.
“As a former homicide commander, I am stunned that no autopsy was ordered for Justice Scalia,” Ritchie wrote."
"William O. Ritchie, formerly the head of criminal investigations for the D.C. police, wrote Sunday that he found it inconceivable no autopsy was ordered on Scalia’s body, especially given the possibility the justice might have been injected with a drug that would induce heart failure.
“As a former homicide commander, I am stunned that no autopsy was ordered for Justice Scalia,” Ritchie wrote."
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