Michigan State student gov shoots down American flag proposal

Michigan State student gov shoots down American flag proposal:

• Michigan State University's student government recently rejected a resolution to install flagpoles with the American and Spartan flags in residential areas of campus.
• Although a survey of MSU students revealed broad support for the idea, some student senators expressed concerns that the American flag is not inclusive enough, suggesting additional flags for international and LGBT students.

The Michigan State University student government recently shot down a proposal to install more U.S. flags on campus, arguing that Old Glory lacks inclusivity.
...no American or Spartan flags mounted on flagpoles exist in the neighborhoods,” the proposal stated...
...“What I proposed was having all or [sic] MSU student's [sic] countries’ flags flowing through the wind together, whether the flags are smaller and on the same pole or larger and on 113 [different poles], whatever gives the MOST effective impact to cost ratio while not alienating anyone,” MSU student Ryan Aridi told Kelly in an email obtained by Campus Reform."
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TRANSPARENT AS MUD: Obama Administration Spent Record Dollars On Legal Costs To Keep Information Private | Daily Wire

TRANSPARENT AS MUD: Obama Administration Spent Record Dollars On Legal Costs To Keep Information Private | Daily Wire:

"According to an Associated Press analysis, the Obama Administration, led by a president who claimed in 2013 that it was “the most transparent administration in history,” spent a record amount of money to defend its refusal to release federal records under the Freedom of Information Act.
As CBS News reports, during the last year of Barack Obama’s tenure, his administration spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs, which broke the record it set the previous year. CBS News added, “It set records for outright denial of access to files, refusing to quickly consider requests described as especially newsworthy, and forcing people to pay for records who had asked the government to waive search and copy fees.”"

Walter E. Williams: A Mayor's Most Important Job — The Patriot Post

Walter E. Williams: A Mayor's Most Important Job — The Patriot Post: 
"When World War II ended, Washington, D.C.‘s population was about 900,000; today it’s about 700,000. 
In 1950, Baltimore’s population was almost 950,000; today it’s around 614,000. 
Detroit’s 1950 population was close to 1.85 million; today it’s down to 673,000...
...A similar story of population decline can be found in most of our formerly large and prosperous cities. 
...During the 1960s and ‘70s, academic liberals, civil rights advocates and others blamed the exodus on racism — “white flight” to the suburbs. 
However, since the '70s, blacks have been fleeing some cities at higher rates than whites. 
It turns out that blacks, like whites, want better and safer schools for their kids and don’t like to be mugged or have their property vandalized. 
...At the heart of big-city exoduses is a process that I call accumulative decay. 
When schools are rotten and unsafe, neighborhoods become run-down and unsafe, and city services decline, the first people to leave are those who care the most about good schools and neighborhood amenities and have the resources to move. 
As a result, cities lose their best and ablest people first. 
Those who leave the city for greener pastures tend to be replaced by people who don’t care so much about schools and neighborhood amenities or people who do care but don’t have the means to move anywhere else. 
Because the “best” people — those who put more into the city’s coffer than they take out in services — leave, politicians must raise taxes and/or permit city services to deteriorate. 
...Big cities can be revitalized, but it’s going to take mayors with guts to do what’s necessary to reverse accumulative decay. 
They must ensure safe streets and safe schools. 
They must crack down on not only violent crimes but also petty crimes and misdemeanors, such as public urination, graffiti, vandalism, loitering and panhandling."
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Lawmakers Send Criminal Referrals for Clinton, Comey, Lynch, McCabe

Lawmakers Send Criminal Referrals for Clinton, Comey, Lynch, McCabe:

"Republican lawmakers on Wednesday sent a slew of criminal referrals to Attorney General Jeff Sessions for a number of Obama administration officials and senior FBI employees for violations of the law in connection to the Clinton email and Trump-Russia investigations.
Specifically, they sent criminal referrals to Sessions for: former FBI Director James Comey, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, as well as FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and his lover, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, for separate violations."

History for April 19

History for April 19 - On-This-Day.com
David Ricardo 1772 - Economist, author, Ole Evinrude 1877, Eliot Ness 1903


Frank Fontaine 1920, Hugh O'Brian 1930 - Actor ("The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"), Jayne Mansfield (Vera Jane Palmer) 1932 - Actress ("It Takes a Thief")


1775 - The American Revolution began as fighting broke out at Lexington, MA.


1892 - The Duryea gasoline buggy was introduced in the U.S. by Charles and Frank Duryea.


1933 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a proclamation that removed the U.S. from the gold standard.


1943 - The Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazi rule began. The Jews were able to fight off the Germans for 28 days.


1951 - General Douglas MacArthur gave his "Old Soldiers" speech before the U.S. Congress after being relieved by U.S. President Truman. In the address General MacArthur said that "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away."


1989 - A gun turret exploded aboard the USS Iowa. 47 sailors were killed.


1993 - The Branch-Davidian’s compound in Waco, TX, burned to the ground. It was the end of a 51-day standoff between the cult and U.S. federal agents. 86 people were killed including 17 children. Nine of the Branch Davidians escaped the fire.


1995 - The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, was destroyed by a bomb. It was the worst bombing on U.S. territory. 168 people were killed including 19 children, and 500 were injured. Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing on June 2, 1997.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2018/04/april18-2018-lifesjourney-bytammy.html

Life's Journey

By Tammy Derouin

I look at life from many different angles. Sometimes it feels like a board game. You roll the dice or pick a card and see in which direction it will take you. Sometimes life feels like a road trip. You plot your course and hope you get to your destination, safe and sound. As much as I look forward to arriving at my destination, I've learned that it's the journey which can provide some of life's most interesting experiences. No matter which way you look at it, you always try to make good decisions. You want the best possible outcome. You play a game to win not lose. You travel for a desired purpose. Getting lost is sometimes part of the experience. Hopefully, you find yourself and you continue the journey.

Life's journey is full of unknown possibilities with many challenges and rewards. We start out in life full of optimistic dreams. You plot a course and go. Eventually, you realize that the path changes over time. The sooner you come to terms with the fact that life changes, the sooner you can adapt and see the good despite the potholes. You may have the same desired destination but obstacles and detours have a way of altering your course. Life is a continuous learning experience and sometimes you never know where you are going to land.

Sometimes life's obstacles turn into battles. Nobody is immune and everyone has their individual front lines on life's battlefield. Circumstances you could have never possibly imagined start starring you down. How do you prepare yourself for such a battle? How do you survive such darkness? There are only two choices, survive or succumb. Succumbing to the dark side has never been an option for me. Giving into anger will only destroy you. When your destruction is the desired intent, it doesn't make sense to lend evil a helping hand.......

Comey knew of Wall Street Journal leak, McCabe lawyer says - Washington Times

Comey knew of Wall Street Journal leak, McCabe lawyer says - Washington Times:

"Former FBI Director James Comey knew his Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was leaking information about the Clinton Foundation probe to the press, a lawyer representing Mr. McCabe said.
The two men provided “starkly conflicting accounts” about a conversation they had over a leak to The Wall Street Journal, according to a Justice Department Inspector General report released last week. Mr. McCabe insisted he told his boss that he had authorized the disclosure about the Clinton Foundation investigation, but Mr. Comey has denied that claim."

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Lies allowed to stand — The Patriot Post

Political Editors: Tuesday Short Cuts — The Patriot Post

• The BIG Lie: “Women are dying because we are losing elections.” —DNC Deputy Chief Keith Ellison
• Alpha Jackass: “People will rot in hell for besmirching the reputation, the integrity and the professional history of [Comey and Mueller].” —Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT)
• Someone’s not telling the truth: “Throughout the [Clinton email probe] process I did what I always do: rise above politics and uphold the law. At no time did I ever discuss any aspect of the investigation with anyone from the Clinton campaign or the DNC. I have known James Comey almost 30 years. Throughout his time as director we spoke regularly about some of the most sensitive issues in law enforcement and national security. If he had any concerns regarding the email investigation, classified or not, he had ample opportunities to raise them with me both privately and in meetings. He never did.” —ex-Attorney General Loretta Lynch

We gonna make our children pay?-----Bankrupt Public-Employee Pensions: The Next Big Financial Crisis? | Investor's Business Daily

Bankrupt Public-Employee Pensions: The Next Big Financial Crisis? | Investor's Business Daily
"Pension Crisis: As the media relentlessly focus on the federal government's burgeoning debt, a new report says that states face their own ticking debt bomb: the exploding liabilities for lavish state and local public-employee pensions.
...A new report by the Pew Charitable Trusts shows that the problem is getting out of hand.
In 2016, the most recent full year for which data are available, states were more than $1.4 trillion in the red. 
Pension debt has increased for 15 straight years, and shows no signs of abating.
Indeed, as Reason blogger Eric Boehm notes, "The really scary part is that pension debt keeps increasing despite the fact that taxpayers' contributions to state-level pension plans have doubled as a share of state revenue in the past decade."...
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James Comey Pilloried Left, Right, and Center | National Review

James Comey Pilloried Left, Right, and Center | National Review:

"Not only does the book offer zilch in the way of damaging new evidence against the president in the Russia matter or anything else, but its most revealing and most noticed passage pulverizes Comey’s own reputation. The former FBI director is being pilloried from left, right, and center. Perhaps even worse for him, he is being mocked as a pompous ass from left, right, and center. This is quite an achievement when you consider that it isn’t a Fire and Fury–style exposé but Comey’s own memoir that is making a fool of him."

K-12: How Our Schools Make Monsters

K-12: How Our Schools Make Monsters:
"Lots of people who study K-12 education end up looking for a metaphor, a parallel, to explain the unnecessary stupidity of our public schools.  
Don't bother.  
Ayn Rand has run ahead and done the job.

In 1970, Rand published a very long essay titled "The Comprachicos" (which roughly translates to the child-buyers).  
It lovingly examines a bit of history mentioned in a Victor Hugo novel.  
He wrote about vicious exploiters who mutilate and transform children into all sorts of freaks, dwarfs, gymnasts, and novelties.  
The techniques are analogous to those used by bonsai masters.  
You cut, twist, break, deprive – you do whatever works to make a glorious anomaly.

Finding this history, Rand must have shouted, "Eureka."  
She perceived that Progressive educators are the comprachicos of our time:

The production of monsters – helpless, twisted monsters whose normal development has been stunted – goes on all around us.  But the modern heirs of the comprachicos are smarter and subtler.  They do not hide, they practice their trade in the open, the results are invisible.  In the past this horrible surgery left traces on a child's face, not in his mind.  Today it leaves traces in his mind, not on his face.  In both cases the child is not aware of the mutilation he has suffered.  Today's comprachicos do not use narcotic powders.  They take a child before he is fully aware of reality and never let him develop that awareness.  Where nature put a normal brain, they put mental retardation.

...For example:

The thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident effort on teaching their fledglings to fly – yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think[.] ... Men would shudder ... if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival – yet that was what they did to their children."

...Many people try to explain the failures of modern education by pointing to incompetence and good intentions gone awry.  
...She credits our Education Establishment with evil intent from start to finish..."

Thin film converts heat from electronics into energy | Berkeley News

Thin film converts heat from electronics into energy | Berkeley News:
"Nearly 70 percent of the energy produced in the United States each year is wasted as heat. 
Much of that heat is less than 100 degrees Celsius and emanates from things like computers, cars or large industrial processes.
Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a thin-film system that can be applied to sources of waste heat like these to produce energy at levels unprecedented for this kind of technology..."

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'MONEY LAUNDERING SCHEME': Hillary, DNC Funneled $84 Million Through State Parties To Avoid Campaign Finance Laws, Lawsuit Claims | Daily Wire

'MONEY LAUNDERING SCHEME': Hillary, DNC Funneled $84 Million Through State Parties To Avoid Campaign Finance Laws, Lawsuit Claims | Daily Wire:

"On Monday, a lawsuit was filed against the Federal Election Commission (FEC) with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that claims the government entity has ignored complaints alleging that the Hillary Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) funneled money through state parties to avoid campaign finance laws."

Michigan Requires More Training for Makeup Artists Than Car Mechanics - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Michigan Requires More Training for Makeup Artists Than Car Mechanics - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"Donna Williams has worked as a makeup artist in California and on movie productions in her home state of Michigan.
But when she looked into the possibility of opening her own salon, she found that doing it legally would require 400 hours of training in skills she already had.
To lawfully apply makeup to people's faces and get paid for it, Williams would have to obtain an esthetician license.
On top of the 400 hours of class time, she would have to pass multiple tests and pay $200 to the state. 
Becoming a full-fledged cosmetologist—someone allowed not just to apply makeup but to style hair and offer other salon services—would require 1,500 hours of study..."
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Trains Not on Time in California – Da Tech Guy Blog

Trains Not on Time in California – Da Tech Guy Blog
"by baldilocks

When depredation after depredation mandated promote and allowed by California’s government, this should barely register in the Sweepstakes of Surprise.

Trains along the popular Capitol Corridor are running later than before, and homeless camps are partly to blame.

Rail officials say more people have trespassed on train tracks in the last year, forcing engineers at times to hit the brakes to avoid a possible crash – and at times tragically unable to. That’s left trains loaded with commuters or freight grinding to a halt in the middle of nowhere.

Capitol Corridor board chair Lucas Frerichs said the issue is foremost about human safety. But, it’s also a business problem.

You think?

However, I wonder if California’s elected officials plan to give CA to the homeless and the illegal aliens. 

Actually, I don’t wonder.

One more nail in the coffin."

(Thanks to Breitbart California)Juliette Akinyi Ochieng has been blogging since 2003 as baldilocks. Her older blog is here.  She published her first novel, Tale of the Tigers: Love is Not a Game in 2012.

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This is how they lie!-----Sea Level Stakes for the Caribbean, in Pictures | Climate Central

Sea Level Stakes for the Caribbean, in Pictures | Climate Central:
"Sea Level Rise Report by Climate Central
Long-term sea level rise set in motion by near-term carbon emissions threatens major coastal cities across the world. 
Science-based imagery helps show the stakes for the Caribbean.
The first image in each pair below shows projections of post-2100 sea level rise that could be locked in following 4°C (7.2°F) of warming from carbon pollution...
..The images on this page were created by visual artist Nickolay Lamm based on Climate Central’s maps and elevation data, with support from the Inter-American Development Bank..."
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