Obama FDA OKed Serving Lion Meat in 2010... #CecilTheLion

Obama FDA OKed Serving Lion Meat in 2010... #CecilTheLion - GotNews:
"The Obama Admin wants to hector lion-killing dentist Walter Palmer but its FDA once argued it was perfectly legal to eat African lion.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is apparently investigating Palmer for a safari trip he took to Zimbabwe.
A White House petition calling for Palmer’s extradition to Zimbabwe has nearly 198,000 signatures.
And yet Obama’s Food and Drug Administration has OKed importing African lion meat into the U.S.
In Phoenix, AZ, a restauranteur served lion meat in honor of the World Cup held in South Africa in 2010.
Serving African lion meat is perfectly legal, said Michael Herndon, a spokesman for the Food and Drug Administration.
Game meat such as lion can be sold as long as the species isn’t endangered, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn’t prohibited importation of African lion, although its Asiatic cousin is on the endangered list.
Perhaps the reason lions are endangered and cows are not is that they aren’t on the menu?
The author of Obama’s book, Dreams From My Father, lied about Obama potentially eating illegal tiger meat while he lived in Indonesia."

Ted Cruz’s Blunt Response to Mitt Romney Saying It Was ‘Way Over the Line’ to Say Iran Deal Would Make Obama ‘Financier’ of Terror | TheBlaze.com

Ted Cruz’s Blunt Response to Mitt Romney Saying It Was ‘Way Over the Line’ to Say Iran Deal Would Make Obama ‘Financier’ of Terror | TheBlaze.com:

“When you send billions of dollars to jihadists trying to kill Americans, you bear responsibility for the murder they carry out with the money you have given them” Cruz told host Chad Hasty, adding that the Iranian supreme leader routinely leads chants in which he shouts, “Death to America.”

Cruz previously characterized the deal as “catastrophic” and said that it poses the “gravest national security threat” more than anything else for three reasons.

“One, if it goes through,"

Where is the Coverage of Juanita Broaddrick?

Articles: Where is the Coverage of Juanita Broaddrick?:
"The liberal media feeding frenzy about a quarter-century-old alleged marital rape involving GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, and former wife Ivana, has a fury that was strangely absent when Bill Clinton was credibly accused of rape by Juanita Broaddrick in a Little Rock hotel room in 1978 when William Jefferson Clinton was attorney general of Arkansas.
Ivana says her alleged “rape” never happened, Juanita Broaddrick says hers did.
So why aren’t Hillary and Bill being peppered with questions about it as Donald and Ivana are? Perhaps because unlike liberal nemesis Trump’s case, Clinton’s more credidble story is now considered “old news”.
Alleged rape victim Ivana Trump issued a statement to CNN that made the stories by the Daily Beast and others look downright silly if they weren’t so maliciously untrue:
“The story is totally without merit. Donald and I are the best of friends and together have raised three children that we love and are very proud of.
I have nothing but fondness for Donald and wish him the best of luck on his campaign.
Incidentally, I think he would make an incredible president.”
...Juanita Broaddrick’s story is a credible one, and one of the many “bimbo eruptions” that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton handled during her husband Bill’s presidential campaign.
...Juanita Broaddrick’s story was one that saw the light of day when in January 1999, a month after Bill Clinton’s impeachment in the House, she agreed to be interviewed by NBC’s Lisa Myers. As Breitbart reports concerning the interview:
Her account begins in 1978, when then-Juanita Hickey was a 35 year-old Clinton campaign worker, and Attorney General Bill Clinton, who was running for governor of Arkansas, visited a nursing home where she worked as a nurse….
According to the transcript of an NBC Dateline report on Broaddrick, during that campaign stop, Clinton reportedly invited her to visit his campaign headquarters in Little Rock. Broaddrick, who was planning to go to Little Rock the following week for a seminar, called Clinton’s headquarters when she arrived and said she was surprised to be greeted on the phone by a staff member who seemed to be expecting her call.
The aide directed her to telephone Clinton at his apartment.
“I did call and ask him if he was gonna be at the headquarters that day and he said no he didn’t plan to be there,” Broaddrick said.
“He says, Clinton said, ‘Why don’t I just meet you for coffee in the Camelot coffee shop?'”
Broaddrick said the seminar was being held at the Camelot Hotel in Little Rock.
Clinton, however, reportedly called back later and asked if they could meet in her hotel room because there were reporters in the coffee shop.
Clinton arrived at her room and after some small talk Broaddrick, not having yet any reason to distrust the man she supported for governor, the top law enforcement officer in her state, said he forced himself on her in a particularly brutal way.
It was not quite as forceful as his later forcible groping of Kathleen Willey in the Oval Office but it fit a sexually predatory pattern that would also engulf Gennifer Flowers, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, and Paula Jones, to name a few.
So if a quarter-century-old alleged marital “rape”, which both Donald Trump and former wife Ivana say never happened, is relevant to Donald Trump’s candidacy, why isn’t Juanita Broaddrick’s accusation of rape relevant and credible, when added to the list of “bimbo eruptions” relevant to the candidacy of Hillary Clinton, who handled those eruptions and now champions women’s rights?..

History for August 2

History for August 2 - On-This-Day.com:
Myrna Loy 1905, James Baldwin 1924, Carroll O'Connor 1924 


Peter O'Toole 1932, Victoria Jackson 1959 - Actress, comdian, Mary-Louise Parker 1964 


1824 - In New York City, Fifth Avenue was opened. 


1861 - The United States Congress passed the first income tax. The revenues were intended for the war effort against the South. The tax was never enacted. 


1887 - Rowell Hodge patented barbed wire. 


1921 - Eight White Sox players were acquitted of throwing the 1919 World Series. 


1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed the Hatch Act. The act prohibited civil service employees from taking an active part in political campaigns. 


1943 - The U.S. Navy patrol torpedo boat, PT-109, sank after being attacked by a Japanese destroyer. The boat was under the command of Lt. John F. Kennedy. 


1945 - The Allied conference at Potsdam was concluded. 


1983 - U.S. House of Representatives approved a law that designated the third Monday of January would be a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The law was signed by President Reagan on November 2. 


1990 - Iraq invaded the oil-rich country of Kuwait. Iraq claimed that Kuwait had driven down oil prices by exceeding production quotas set by OPEC. 

White House Not Aware of Plans for Obama to Ever See Planned Parenthood Videos | TheBlaze.com

White House Not Aware of Plans for Obama to Ever See Planned Parenthood Videos | TheBlaze.com:

"White House spokesmen have repeatedly said they did not know whether President Barack Obama has seen the controversial Planned Parenthood videos, and on Friday, press secretary Josh Earnest told TheBlaze he’s not aware of any reason to think the president will watch them.

“Not that I’m aware of. I don’t believe that he has that planned for his weekend,” Earnest told TheBlaze."

Officials Reveal The Truth About Cecil The Lion – Animal Rights Groups Don’t Want You To See This

Officials Reveal The Truth About Cecil The Lion – Animal Rights Groups Don’t Want You To See This | Red Rock Tribune:
Palmer killed Cecil earlier this month while on a hunting trip in Africa, and after the news broke this week, he has been flooded with death threats and been forced to close down his dental practice.
Liberals are citing the people of Zimbabwe in justifying their outrage, saying that Cecil was something of a national icon.
However, new reports reveal that the people of Zimbabwe don’t care about Cecil at all: they have bigger things to worry about.
“What lion?” acting Information Minister Prisca Mupfumira responded when he was asked about the killing.
According to Conservative Tribune, Zimbabwe natives have expressed shock that American liberals have become so angry over this insignificant incident.
“Are you saying that all this noise is about a dead lion? 
Lions are killed all the time in this country,” said Tryphina Kaseke, a used-clothes hawker on the streets of Harare.
“What is so special about this one?”
In reality, most people in Zimbabwe rely on big game hunters like Palmer to drive their economy. There is an 80% unemployment rate in the African nation, so business from a wealthy traveler like him is very much appreciated.
The dentist paid $50,000 to hunt the lion.

Hillary Clinton fears bimbo eruption especially from Gennifer Flowers

Hillary Clinton fears bimbo eruption especially from Gennifer Flowers | Daily Mail Online
EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton's camp fears a new 'bimbo eruption' will put the kibosh on candidacy - especially from Gennifer Flowers who claimed Bill liked to be blindfolded and tied up with silk scarves and called his wife 'Hilla the Hun'

• In recent weeks Hillary's campaign has found itself increasingly mired in the scandals of the past
• Paula Jones slammed Hillary saying she 'lied' about sexual scandals
• Linda Tripp told Daily Mail Online Hillary ruthlessly destroyed the credibility of the women who came forward during Bill's presidency
• Ron Kessler, who divulged  Bill's affair with woman dubbed 'The Energizer' tells Daily Mail Online no doubt that more revelations will emerge 
• Gennifer Flowers, who had a 12-year-affair with Clinton could be next 
• Flowers has revealed Bill used to fantasize about having sex with his lover in a store window and have her use SEX TOYS on him
• Bill had a penchant for phone sex and sex-play that involved blindfolding and she tied him to her bedposts with silk scarves 

Man Behind Undercover Planned Parenthood Videos Says There’s a Reason Biotech Company Is ‘Very Scared’ of Unreleased Video | Video | TheBlaze.com

Man Behind Undercover Planned Parenthood Videos Says There’s a Reason Biotech Company Is ‘Very Scared’ of Unreleased Video | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Daleiden said the group met with “top leadership” at StemExpress, a biotech company that supposedly partners with Planned Parenthood on the harvesting of fetal tissue. Further, he claimed the officials made a shocking admission.

“In a meeting with their top leadership, they admitted that they sometimes "

Detroit teachers livid as they go unpaid, shortchanged

Detroit teachers livid as they go unpaid, shortchanged - EAGnews.org:
"DETROIT – While some teachers might complain about the size of their paycheck, Detroit Public School teachers are hardly surprised when they don’t get a check at all.
“We need something that will effectively, regularly pay the teachers what they’re owed.
They do the work.
They need the pay.
They need it on-time, with bills to pay.
All they get now is a runaround,” Detroit Federation of Teachers President Steve Conn told Click on Detroit.
Conn raised a ruckus in the media this week after some of his members were shorted hundreds of dollars in their paychecks, while others didn’t receive a pay check at all.
And it’s not the first time..."

Puerto Rico: No money available to make $58M bond payment

My Way News - Puerto Rico: No money available to make $58M bond payment:
"SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's government said Friday it would not make a $58 million bond payment due on the weekend and warned that the general fund will run out of liquidity by November if no action is taken.
Gubernatorial Chief of Staff Victor Suarez said at a news conference that the island's Public Finance Corporation could not meet the payment due Saturday.
"We don't have the money," he said, adding that the government still hopes to reach an agreement with creditors on renegotiating its debts.
Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla warned several weeks ago that the government and state agencies cannot repay the $72 billion in public debt that hangs over the U.S. territory, which is struggling with a nearly decade-long economic slump.
Puerto Rican officials contend that failure to make Saturday's payment will not constitute a default because it involves moral obligation bonds, which means there is no legal requirement to repay them."

Hello, Captain Clueless… | Liberal Logic 101

Hello, Captain Clueless… | Liberal Logic 101

This Guy Might Look Like a Construction Worker, but He’s Really Part of an Undercover Police Operation | Video | TheBlaze.com

This Guy Might Look Like a Construction Worker, but He’s Really Part of an Undercover Police Operation | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“What we’ve done here is we’re able to put officers in the roads so we’re able to get close enough almost inside their cars so we can look down and see exactly what they’re doing on their phones,” Officer Nick Serkedakis told WSB-TV.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re stopped at a light, if you’re on a public thoroughfare and facing the phone we’re going to have a conversation with you,” Serkedakis added to the news station."

Here's What the Guy Who Paid $50,000 to Kill Cecil the Lion Can Learn from the Guy Who Paid $350,000 to Kill a Black Rhino

Here's What the Guy Who Paid $50,000 to Kill Cecil the Lion Can Learn from the Guy Who Paid $350,000 to Kill a Black Rhino - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"Done right, paid hunts for endangered animals can be a huge boon for conservation
Days after the news of the death of Cecil the Lion broke—and weeks after the actual hunt—the Internet is still in an uproar.
The dentist/hunter who killed the beloved big cat has shuttered his business in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and seems to have gone missing.
Everyone from Betty White to Zimbabwe's minister of the environment is pissed.
...But the problem isn't that Palmer paid a lot of money to hunt a lion, it's that he didn't pay enough money, he paid it to the wrong people, and he killed the wrong lion..."

America's college obsession is depriving the military of the best officers, Marine says

America's college obsession is depriving the military of the best officers, Marine says - The College Fix
According to a new study by the left-leaning Brookings Institution, officer quality in the U.S. Marines “has steadily and significantly declined since 1980.”
Co-authored by a Marine lieutenant in Afghanistan who’s a grad student at Tufts University, Matthew Cancian, the paper blames college attendance rates for the plunge:
We didn’t find it was due to more minorities or women in the ranks, as many have assumed.
The basic answer is that more people are going to college.
...The expansion of the pool of college students means a larger, but lower quality, pool of potential officers.
While our data were about Marine officers, the results likely apply to the whole military.
Average intelligence has plummeted, the authors learned from data obtained in a public-records request:
For example, 41% of new Marine officers in 2014 would not have met the intelligence standards demanded of officers in World War II.
This decline is especially surprising because, as others have documented, 2011 saw the most intelligent group of enlistees in the history of the volunteer military.
Thus, even as the intelligence of our enlisted troops have been rising, that of our commissioned officers has been declining.

Michael Swartz: Big Win: Court Says Public Sector Employees Have Right to Work, Too

Michael Swartz: Big Win: Court Says Public Sector Employees Have Right to Work, Too — The Patriot Post:
"When Michigan shocked the nation and passed its right-to-work law three years ago, there was no question that Big Labor wouldn’t take it lying down.
The tentacles of Big Labor run deep in the state, not only in the obvious automotive-related businesses but also in the state employees organized under the United Auto Workers (UAW) banner.
It was on behalf of those workers, who fall under the auspices of the state’s Civil Service Commission, that the UAW filed suit to maintain its hold on the agency fees it has routinely extracted from these workers.
But the move backfired.
The Michigan Supreme Court upheld the 2012 right-to-work law even for public-sector employees. 
The 4-3 decision fell mainly along party lines — five of the seven members of the court are Republicans, and the two Democrats were among the dissenting trio.
...About 36,000 workers are affected by the decision, along with millions of dollars that will stay in the workers' wallets rather than fattening the coffers of Big Labor.
If the trend from other states adopting similar right-to-work provisions holds true, as many as 20,000 of those workers could walk away from the union."

Federal Judge Threatens to Haul IRS Commissioner Into Court, but Has Equally Harsh Words for Trial Lawyer | TheBlaze.com

Federal Judge Threatens to Haul IRS Commissioner Into Court, but Has Equally Harsh Words for Trial Lawyer | TheBlaze.com:

"A federal judge not only threatened to hold IRS Commissioner John Koskinen in contempt if the agency didn’t provide documents in the manner ordered by the court, but he issued the same strong warning to his lawyer as well.

U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan — during a status call for the case involving the IRS singling out tea party and conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status during the 2010 and 2012 elections — said that he was “not going to tolerate further noncompliance with the court’s orders.”

Baltimore killings soar to a level unseen in 43 years

Baltimore killings soar to a level unseen in 43 years:
"BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore reached a grim milestone on Friday, three months after riots erupted in response to the death of Freddie Gray in police custody:
With 45 homicides in July, the city has seen more bloodshed in a single month than it has in 43 years.
Police reported three deaths — two men shot Thursday and one on Friday.
The men died at local hospitals.
With their deaths, this year's homicides reached 189, far outpacing the 119 killings by July's end in 2014.
Nonfatal shootings have soared to 366, compared to 200 by the same date last year.
July's total was the worst since the city recorded 45 killings in August 1972, according to The Baltimore Sun.
...Baltimore is not unique in its suffering; crimes are spiking in big cities around the country."

History for August 1

History for August 1 - On-This-Day.com:
Francis Scott Key 1779, Herman Melville 1819, Arthur Hill 1922 


Dom DeLuise 1933, Yves Saint Laurent 1936, Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) 1942 


1774 - Oxygen was isolated from air successfully by chemist Carl Wilhelm and scientist Joseph Priestly. 


1834 - Slavery was outlawed in the British empire with an emancipation bill. 


1893 - Shredded wheat was patented by Henry Perky and William Ford. 


1894 - The first Sino-Japanese War erupted. The dispute was over control of Korea. 


1936 - Adolf Hitler presided over the Olympic games as they opened in Berlin. 


1944 - In Warsaw, Poland, an uprising against Nazi occupation began. The revolt continued until October 2 when Polish forces surrendered. 


1956 - The Social Security Act was amended to provide benefits to disabled workers aged 50-64 and disabled adult children. 


1957 - The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) was created by the United States and Canada. 


1973 - The movie "American Graffiti" opened. 



2006 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro turned over absolute power when he gave his brother Raul authority while he underwent an intestinal surgery.