Worthless high school education "earns" free college?-----Mayor to launch Detroit Promise registration for tuition-free community college

Mayor to launch Detroit Promise registration for tuition-free community college | MLive.com: "Students who graduate from any Detroit high school are being offered two-year scholarships covering community college tuition.
And Mayor Mike Duggan is officially launching the "Detroit Promise" registration process at 1:45 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 28 at Communication & Media Arts High School, 14771 Mansfield St.
More than 700 Detroit high school graduates from the class of 2016 are now attending community college or university after receiving the Detroit Promise funding, according to the mayor's office.
The Detroit Promise Zone Authority and Michigan Education Excellence Foundation oversee the program with funding through the Detroit Regional Chamber.
Detroit promises tuition-free community college to every high school graduate -- public, private or charter
Every student who graduates from any high school in Detroit — public, private or charter — was promised two years of funding for community college tuition on Tuesday.
In 2013, the Michigan Education Excellence Foundation launched a narrower version of the plan, and in March 2016, Duggan launched the Detroit Promise Zone Authority, dedicating a portion of tax dollars generated by that entity to fund two-year scholarships.
Applications for the funding are available here."

A Monster and his Suck-Ups: Fidel Castro, 1926-2016

A Monster and his Suck-Ups: Fidel Castro, 1926-2016 :: SteynOnline
"Who knows when Fidel Castro actually kicked the bucket? But this weekend his brother decided to let us in on the secret. His presidential term lasted, gosh, an awfully long time, as The New York Times reminded us:

Fidel Castro had held on to power longer than any other living national leader except Queen Elizabeth II.

That's one way of putting it. But in the end, when it comes to ruthlessly holding on to power, no one can compete with Her Majesty, and so that piker Castro got relegated to second place, while millions of English, Canadians, Jamaicans, Bahamians, Barbadians, Grenadians, etc, still groan under the jackboot of the Queen.

Elsewhere in the US media, The Nation offered a more local comparison:

Castro almost outlasted 11 US presidents—Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, and passing in the waning days of Obama's last term. Perhaps he just couldn't bear the thought of President Donald Trump.

Impressive. How exactly did he manage to outlast all those here-today-gone-tomorrow US presidents? As I wrote in Maclean's eight years ago:

What's wrong with this picture?

"Saying he is no longer healthy enough to hold office, Cuban leader Fidel Castro has announced he will not seek re-election after 49 years in power" — the Miami Herald.

Hmm. Castro didn't really have to "seek" re-election, did he? He's a — what's the word? Oh, yeah — "dictator." If he "seeks" re-election, he's pretty much guaranteed to find it — assuming for the purposes of argument you can be "re-elected" if you've never been freely or fairly elected in the first place. In its own "news report," the satirical website The Nose on Your Face got closer to reality:

"Fidel Castro announced today that he would not seek a new term as Cuba's president, citing concerns that at 81, it may be difficult for him to serve the full, constitutionally-mandated 49-year term."

Yeah, yeah, but who are you to preach? Back to The Nation:

Having been sanctimoniously lectured by all 11 US presidents on what constitutes proper democratic procedure, he might have thought Trump, about to take office with a minority of the vote and with significant voter suppression, a vindication..."

Veterans protest at Massachusetts college that removed US flags | Fox News

Veterans protest at Massachusetts college that removed US flags | Fox News:

"Around 1,000 veterans gathered at a western Massachusetts college Sunday to protest the school’s decision to stop flying all flags, including U.S. flags, after students allegedly burned a flag in protest of Donald Trump’s election victory.

Hampshire College in Amherst outraged many with its decision to remove all flags from campus. Protesters expressed their displeasure and hoped to reach out to students during their demonstration."

Is This The Democrats' Real Strategy In Launching Recounts?

Is This The Democrats' Real Strategy In Launching Recounts? | Zero Hedge
"Over the past couple of days we've written numerous times about Jill Stein's recount efforts in WI, MI and PA (see here, here and here).  
And while it's clear that Stein intends to move forward with recounts in all three states (she's now up to $6.1mm in donations), what is unclear, and quite perplexing, is exactly why she's pursuing these recounts in the first place.  Here are the potential justifications from Stein's perspective, as we see them:

1. Personal self-interest? - Obviously, No.  With less than 1% of the vote in WI, MI and PA, Stein obviously has no shot of winning any of the states in question.
2. Hopes of recount tipping states to Hillary? - No.  Multiple experts and even Hillary campaign insiders have admitted that overturning election results with a margin of victory of several 1,000 votes is extremely unlikely.  To win, Hillary would have to flip WI, MI and PA even though she trails by ~20k, ~12k and ~70k votes in each of those states, respectively...not going to happen.
3. Exposing voting machine hacking? - No.  Even the Obama administration has confirmed the the election was "free and fair from a cybersecurity perspective" and that votes "accurately reflect the will of the American people."  By failing to present even a shred of evidence of vote tampering in her WI recount petition, instead choosing to focus on wild conspiracy theories, Stein effectively also admits that there was no "hacking" of voting machines.
4. Fundraising scam to get millions in donations from disaffected Hillary voters? - Maybe.  As of right now, Stein has raised ~$6mm of the $7mm she says she needs to fund recount efforts.  Assuming Stein goes through with recounts in all three states and her cost estimates are reasonably accurate then she won't really have that much money left over to be added to the general Green Party coffers.

So, with no practical reason for forcing recounts, what exactly is Jill Stein up to?...
Read on!

Trump administration will pressure foreign states to probe Clinton Foundation

Trump administration will pressure foreign states to probe Clinton Foundation | New York Post
"Foreign governments will be encouraged to investigate the Clinton Foundation’s finances, as many are already turning off money spigots to the scandal-scarred group, The Post has learned.
A source close to President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team told The Post that the new administration plans to pressure the US ambassadors it will name to bring up the foundation with foreign governments — and suggest they probe its ­financial dealings.
Trump said last week that he would not order an investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server or her role in the foundation.
But Trump’s statement didn’t preclude the backroom moves to investigate the group.
“Haiti and Colombia will be key diplomatic posts for this ­because of all the money ­involved,” said the source.
In Haiti, recently leaked ­e-mails indicate “Friends of Bill” Clinton may have been given priority from the State Department as it prepared to spend some
$10 billion in aid after a devastating earthquake hit the country in 2010.
...The Australian government last week announced that it would end its decade-long affiliation with the Clinton Foundation — a commitment that had amounted to as much as $25 million, according to the foundation’s Web site.
Norway is also scaling back.
The country donated about $25 million in 2015.
Foundation donations dropped by 37 percent to $108 million last year.
Hillary Clinton left the foundation to run for president in April 2015 but Bill and daughter Chelsea Clinton remained on the board of directors.
It’s not clear whether Hillary will ­resume her role on the board."

Lunch video-----A Word To The Criminal Migrant

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Students Fed Up with Politically Biased Professors Are Hitting Back with a New Weapon: Professor Watch List

Students Fed Up with Politically Biased Professors Are Hitting Back with a New Weapon: Professor Watch List:

"Boasting 1000 plus chapters nationwide and a presence in all 50 states, the four-year-old organization prides itself on developing conservative activists who stand up to big government in and out of their universities. The Professor WatchList is a culmination of years of information gathering from conservative students who feel that radical leaning professors give no space for unpopular thinking in the classroom. Think of the website as the new ratemyprofessor.com but for conservative, libertarian-leaning students."

In "other news"-----Shootings spike over Thanksgiving holiday weekend: 8 killed, 62 wounded

Shootings spike over Thanksgiving holiday weekend: 8 killed, 62 wounded - Chicago Tribune:
"Chicago saw one its most violent Thanksgiving holidays in years, with eight people killed and 62 others wounded between late Wednesday afternoon and early Monday.
The toll towers over the number of shootings in the previous two Thanksgiving holiday weekends, according to data kept by the Tribune.
In 2014, five people were killed, including a woman inside the Nordstrom's store on Michigan Avenue, and 14 others were wounded. Last year, eight people were killed, including a 16-year-old boy, and 20 were wounded, the data show.
This year's tally does not include the three people shot dead by Chicago police over the holiday period.
In one of those shootings, authorities said officers fired at a man who had just shot two people, one of them fatally, early Friday in the Homan Square neighborhood on the West Side.  In another shooting Sunday night, authorities said an officer shot and killed a man who wounded a pregnant woman in West Garfield Park.
Early Saturday in the South Chicago neighborhood, a 20-year-old man was killed and five others were wounded at a house party, police said.
The number of people shot in Chicago this year is around 4,000, more than 1,000 above this time last year, according to Tribune data.

Development bills are crony capitalism on steroids

Development bills are crony capitalism on steroids | MLive.com:
"A Michigan Senate committee last month took a quick vote to pass several bills that could offer massive financial payouts to real estate developers, including Dan Gilbert, the law's chief private-sector advocate.
The legislation, Senate Bills 1061-1065, resembles tax increment financing laws on steroids.
TIF allows for collection of revenues — usually local property taxes — generated from alleged growth of a particular development.
The proposed legislation would also allow local personal income taxes and sales and use taxes to be earmarked for private developers.
This proposal is old wine in new skin.
Programs such as this are designed to do one thing: 
Transfer wealth from the many to a few. 
Michigan has had and continues to operate many programs that do this.
The crony capitalists who benefit most are typically well-connected politically. 
They often they get what they ask for: Red Wings owner Mike Illitch persuaded state and local governments to help him finance his new hockey stadium, and $250 million of it is expected to come from a TIF arrangement.
The chief argument supporting this new legislation is that "but for" special treatment, such development would not happen.
This talking point was repeated ad nauseum by apologists for the Michigan Economic Growth Authority, a business subsidy program.

The assertion is tough to disprove, since lawmakers tend to give the business projects what they ask for, making it hard to know what might have been.

• MEGA was the state's highest-profile business incentive program. The Snyder administration stopped giving out new awards, but the state is still paying out about $1 billion this year on old refundable tax credits. It's a hefty price tag, but the jobs promised rarely materialized — only 2.3 percent of awards met or exceeded projections. Lawmakers should be skeptical that these schemes improve the state after reading what the economic literature says about them. Of the five scholarly studies done on the MEGA program, four found a zero to negative impact and the fifth only showed a small positive one.

• The TIF literature is equally unflattering. A 2015 Ball State University study found that TIF districts in Indiana were actually "associated with less employment, less taxable income and slightly higher tax rates." A 2010 University of Chicago Law Review article finds, "There is little clear evidence that TIF has done much to help the municipalities that use it, and it is also a source of intergovernmental tension and a site of conflict over the scope of public aid to the private sector."...

99% Muslim, 43,000 Somali refugees settled in US under Obama

99% Muslim, 43,000 Somali refugees settled in US under Obama | Washington Examiner
The Obama administration resettled 8,858 Somali refugees in the United States last year, and nearly 43,000 during Obama's eight years, a huge number that is now raising concerns after a Somali refugee led a one-man attack spree on the campus of Ohio State.
Like Syrian refugees, there is no adequate way to check the backgrounds of the Somalis, according to the head of the Center for Immigration Studies.
...The Center also reviewed other data Monday and told Secrets that some 97,000 Somali refugees have been resettled in the United States since 9/11. 
Of those, 99.6 percent were Muslim, and 28,836 (29.7 percent) were males between the ages of 14 and 50.
"We have no way of vetting people from any of the failed states of the Islamic world, whether Somalia or Libya or Yemen or Afghanistan or Iraq. 
The latter two actually we have more intelligence on, having ruled them for a number of years, but even that information is of limited use; we admitted two Iraqis as refugees who, we only discovered later, had been [improvised explosive device] makers back in Iraq.
And the FBI fears dozens more such terrorists have been admitted as refugees.
"Oh, and we resettled nearly 9,000 Somali refugees last year."

Democratic Party Lost Governors & State Legislature Seats in 2016 Election | National Review

Democratic Party Lost Governors & State Legislature Seats in 2016 Election | National Review:

"The Democrats, on the other hand, are becoming more ideological, or at least more openly and self-consciously ideological, as the party’s progressivism becomes more and more a catechism. This has the effect of making the Democratic party less democratic. American progressives have a long and genuine commitment to mass democracy, having supported not only various expansions of the franchise but also many instruments of direct democracy such as the ballot initiative,"

Fix teacher retirement crisis today

Fix teacher retirement crisis today:
"Here in Michigan — and in Detroit especially — we’re far too familiar with what happens when we leave retirees’ future in the hands of politicians.
Underfunding.
Benefit cuts.
Bankruptcy.
In the aftermath?
Michigan taxpayers always get stuck paying for the politicians’ mess.
Well don’t look now, but the same warning signs the politicians ignored for years in the Motor City are on full display in the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement System.
...Without action, the entire retirement system is in serious jeopardy.
There’s a crisis coming for Michigan’s educators, the kids they teach, and the parents who pay their salaries.
Michigan’s public teacher retirement system — commonly referred to by Lansing insiders as MPSERS, or “mipsers”—is so dramatically underfunded that teachers’ pensions are at risk, current efforts just to catch-up are taking more than $700 per pupil out of the classroom each year, and new teachers understandably worry that the their benefits may not be there when they retire.
The massive pension system is facing a staggering $26.7 billion unfunded liability.
To fully fund the benefits Lansing has guaranteed our teachers, the fund needs $67.7 billion in the bank.
 There’s only $41 billion in the fund..."

AM Fruitcake

History for November 29

History for November 29 - On-This-Day.com:
Louisa May Alcott 1832, Busby Berkeley 1895, C.S. Lewis 1898


Suzy Chaffee 1946 - Skier, Garry Shandling 1949 - Comedian, actor, Howie Mandel 1955 - Actor, comedian


1890 - Navy defeated Army by a score of 24-0 in the first Army-Navy football game. The game was played at West Point, NY.

1892 - A patent was issued to Almon Brown Strowger for the rotary dial.


1929 - The first airplane flight over the South Pole was made by U.S. Navy Lt. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd.


1961 - The Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft was launched by the U.S. with Enos the chimp on board. The craft orbited the earth twice before landing off Puerto Rico.


1975 - Bill Gates adopted the name Microsoft for the company he and Paul Allen had formed to write the BASIC computer language for the Altair.


1981 - Actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, CA, at the age 43.


1987 - A Korean jetliner disappeared off Burma, with 115 people aboard.


1994 - The U.S. House passed the revised General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

Donald Trump’s Election: Progressivism Rebuked | National Review

Donald Trump’s Election: Progressivism Rebuked | National Review:

"For some 150 years, the loudspeakers of progressivism boasted of the meritocracy of the college-educated, political policy by “experts,” and steady increases of the power of the federal government for the sake of “progress.” At the same, progressives disparaged the American founding, individual achievement, and business corporations. (Progressivism could be true only if the American founding were wrong.) The legend held that progressivism would lead to disinterested government — whereas corporations were the sole incubator of self-interest. Good and evil were easy to define: Good was more government, evil was more corporate power."

Dark money donations fuel ads meant to influence voters; lawmaker fights to keep donors secret

Dark money donations fuel ads meant to influence voters; lawmaker fights to keep donors secret - WXYZ.com:
"LANSING, Mich. (WXYZ) - This election season, donors are shelling out millions of dollars to help produce ads designed to sway you, startle you and, most importantly, influence your vote.
While the intent of the ads are clear, the men and women paying for them is anything but.
"It is a license to corruption," says Rich Robinson, Executive Director of the Michigan Campaign Finance Network.
In Michigan, "issue ads" are given special protection under the law.
These commercials don’t explicitly tell you who to vote for, but they are designed to make you feel a certain way about a candidate and influence your vote.
When he was a candidate for Governor, Rick Snyder said this kind of “dark” money is dangerous because it conceals who’s “...trying to influence policy and for what reasons.”
"It’s a way to influence an election, without pretty much anyone knowing?" asked Channel 7's Ross Jones.
"That’s right, that’s right," Robinson said.
Secrecy, says Robinson, is the big appeal to donors, some of whom write checks totaling millions. While you can find out if someone seeking a contract or favorable law wrote a check to a politician’s campaign, you won't know who gives to these groups.
Since 2006, they've flooded Michigan airwaves with nearly $70 million in ads..."

Inside Fidel Castro’s life of luxury and ladies while country starved | New York Post

Inside Fidel Castro’s life of luxury and ladies while country starved | New York Post
"With his shaggy beard and rumpled, olive-drab fatigues, Fidel Castro presented himself to the world as a modest man of the people.
At times, he claimed he made just 900 pesos ($43) a month and lived in a “fisherman’s hut” somewhere on the beach.
But Castro’s public image was a carefully crafted myth, more fiction than fact.
“While his people suffered, Fidel Castro lived in comfort — keeping everything, including his eight children, his many mistresses, even his wife, a secret,” wrote Juan Reinaldo Sanchez, Castro’s longtime bodyguard.
Sanchez’s book, “The Double Life of Fidel Castro: My 17 Years as Personal Bodyguard to El Líder Maximo,” describes his former boss’s hidden life of political ruthlessness, mistresses and greed.
Castro, who died Friday night at 90, made a personal fortune offering safe haven to drug traffickers, bedded a bevy of women over the decades, and once threatened his own brother, Raul, with execution when the brother lapsed into alcoholism in the ’90s, Sanchez’s book reveals.
...Castro kept 20 luxurious properties throughout the Caribbean nation, including his own island, accessed via a yacht decorated entirely in exotic wood imported from Angola, Sanchez wrote.
But while he made good on some of his promises to educate and care for his people — building free schools and hospitals with the help of his Soviet sponsors — Castro’s legacy was also one of repression and hypocrisy.
Deep poverty persisted — teen prostitution, crumbling houses, food rations. 
Political opponents were executed by the thousands by firing squad, or sentenced to decades of hard labor...
Read on.
Disgusting monster.
Favorite of American libs.
Remember both!

Thoughtcrime: Germany To Prosecute Online 'Hate Speech' | Daily Wire

Thoughtcrime: Germany To Prosecute Online 'Hate Speech' | Daily Wire:

"In an attempt to control the recent uptick in xenophobia and racism, largely exacerbated by sudden demographic shifts linked to Berlin’s refugee-intake program, German authorities are now prosecuting arbitrarily-defined “hate speech,” otherwise known as free speech, with what appears to be de facto blasphemy laws.

On Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel backed a federal program to monitor and police internet activity on popular social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.  "

Castro’s Socialism and Death

Castro’s Socialism and Death | Frontpage Mag:
"In the fall of 1962, Fidel Castro urged his Soviet allies to wipe out the United States.

The Butcher of Havana told Khrushchev to “to eliminate this danger forever”. 
By that he meant destroying the United States of America in a nuclear assault.
“However harsh and terrible the solution, there would be no other,” he reasoned.
The Soviet leader replied warning of a “war of extermination” with “millions of deaths". 
He called Castro’s proposal, the “start of a thermonuclear world war”.
Khrushchev flinched from an orgy of death that would have wiped out most of the US, the USSR and Cuba. 
Castro did not. 
He was willing to see the world die rather than yield power.
Now the dictator who liked to shout, “Socialism or Death” is dead and out of power.
Castro’s slogan was “Socialism or Death”. 
But his real legacy was “Socialism and Death”..."
Send to you friends who buy into the Castro-lie.
Read on.

48 Organizations Now Have Access To Every Brit's Browsing Hstory

48 Organizations Now Have Access To Every Brit's Browsing Hstory - Slashdot:
"schwit1 quotes a report from Zero Hedge on Great Britain's newly-enacted "snoopers' charter":
For those who missed our original reports, here is the new law in a nutshell:

• it requires telecom companies to keep records of all users' web activity for a year, creating databases of personal information that the firms worry could be vulnerable to leaks and hackers. 
• Civil liberties groups say the law establishes mass surveillance of British citizens, following innocent internet users from the office to the living room and the bedroom. 
• They are right. Which government agencies have access to the internet history of any British citizen? 
• Here is the answer courtesy of blogger Chris Yuo, who has compiled the list

Click through to the comments to read the entire list...."
Big list!

Lunch video-----5 Stories That Prove Black Friday Just Turns People into Violent C...

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WikiLeaks: U.S. Government Armed And Funded Yemeni Forces

WikiLeaks: U.S. Government Armed And Funded Yemeni Forces:

"The Obama administration has made 42 separate weapons deals with Yemen since 2009, totaling $115 billion, according to a September report from the Center for International Policy.

With Yemen sitting at an important “narrow choke point” for oil trade passing through the Middle East, the war in Yemen was largely strategic, Wikileaks said.

The State Department has warned Obama the U.S. would almost certainly be accused of committing war crimes in the Yemeni conflict by providing logistical and intelligence support to the Saudi-led coalition. The Obama administration has, nevertheless, approved $1.3 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia since 2015."

Paul Krugman: Comey, Putin 'installed' the 'crazy, vindictive' Trump

Paul Krugman: Comey, Putin 'installed' the 'crazy, vindictive' Trump | Washington Examiner:
"New York Times columnist Paul Krugman mocked Donald Trump's claims that he lost the popular vote due to people voting illegally, while floating conspiracy theories of his own surrounding the election.
"So [FBI Director James] Comey and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin installed a crazy, vindictive, can't-handle-the-truth person in the White House. Scary," Krugman tweeted on Sunday.
Trump is losing to Hillary Clinton in the popular vote by around 2 million votes, but has 306 electoral votes compared to Clinton's 232, with 270 required to win the presidency.
Trump tweeted on Sunday that he would have won the popular vote had he campaigned in three or four high-populous states. He added that he would have won the popular vote "if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally."
Top Democrats and Krugman blamed Comey for Clinton's electoral loss, pointing to his decision to reopen an investigation into Clinton's private e-mail server about two weeks before the election. 

An examination of Anthony Weiner's e-mails for an unrelated probe into allegedly lewd exchanges with an underage girl prompted the reexamination of the Clinton e-mail probe.
Comey announced a few days before the election that he had not found any new evidence, and reiterated his decision not to charge Clinton.
A report in New York Magazine prompted speculation among Democrats over whether voting irregularities, allegedly from Russia, put Trump ahead in states Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Currently there is no hard evidence to suggest of such irregularities. 

However, Green Party Nominee Jill Stein requested a recount in Wisconsin and is eyeing a similar request in Michigan and Pennsylvania."

And these morons wonder why no one respects them?-----Dakota Access Pipeline Facts Protesters Don’t Want You to Know

Dakota Access Pipeline Facts Protesters Don’t Want You to Know
"For more than three months, thousands of protesters, most of them from out of state, have illegally camped on federal land in Morton County, North Dakota, to oppose the construction of a legally permitted oil pipeline project that is 85 percent complete.
The celebrities, political activists, and anti-oil extremists who are blocking the pipeline’s progress are doing so based on highly charged emotions rather than actual facts on the ground.
This 1,172-mile Dakota Access pipeline will deliver as many as 570,000 barrels of oil a day from northwestern North Dakota through South Dakota and Iowa to connect to existing pipelines in Illinois.
It will do this job far more safely than the current method of transporting it by 750 rail cars a day.
...Just like the companies that run the 10 other fossil-fuel pipelines crossing the Missouri River upstream of Standing Rock, Energy Transfer Partners—the primary funder of this pipeline—is taking all necessary precautions to ensure that the pipeline does not leak.
But even if there were a risk, Standing Rock will soon have a new water intake that is nearing completion much further downstream near Mobridge, South Dakota.
From the outset of this process, Standing Rock Sioux leaders have refused to sit down and meet with either the Army Corps of Engineers or the pipeline company.
The Army Corps consulted with 55 Native American tribes at least 389 times, after which they proposed 140 variations of the route to avoid culturally sensitive areas in North Dakota. 
The logical time for Standing Rock tribal leaders to share their concerns would have been at these meetings, not now when construction is already near completion.
...Though these protesters claim to be gathered for peaceful prayer and meditation, law enforcement has been forced to arrest more than 400 in response to several unlawful incidents, including trespassing on and damaging private land, chaining themselves to equipment, burning tires and fields, damaging cars and a bridge, harassing residents of nearby farms and ranches, and killing and butchering livestock....
...All that remains for the pipeline project to be completed is for the Army Corps of Engineers to issue a final easement to cross the Missouri River at Lake Oahe.
...The simple fact is that our nation will continue to produce and consume oil, and pipelines are the safest and most efficient way to transport it. Legally permitted infrastructure projects must be allowed to proceed without threat of improper governmental meddling.
The rule of law matters. 
We cannot allow lawless mobs to obstruct projects that have met all legal requirements to proceed.

Another from Steve Russo - From Jimmy Carter To Jill Stein To Hollywood and...

Steve Russo - From Jimmy Carter To Jill Stein To Hollywood and...:
"From Jimmy Carter To Jill Stein To Hollywood and Foreign Leaders.. The Rewriting Of History and Praise For The Dead Communist Dictator Of Cuba Continues To Pour In

You know, after witnessing the left react to things, in the most abnormal ways for so many years, I have to admit, they still manage to shock me from time to time. 
The death of Castro is yet another example. Watching world leaders, leftist politicians and American citizens, (who live in comfort thanks to the sacrifice of so many Americans who gave their lives for their freedom) praise a brutal communist ruler who executed over 75,000 people, who he believed to be a threat to his dictatorship, is not only bizarre, but downright disgusting. 
And it's not only the praise, it's the rewriting of his violent history. 
He's now considered by many on the left to be a "Freedom Fighter" and "Social Justice Leader" or "Reformer!"

Wow!
Enslaving an island for 50 plus years, to the point that thousands would risked their lives in shark infested waters to have a taste of freedom, now makes you a hero in the eyes of the left.

With the much anticipated death of a brutal, communist dictator like Fidel Castro, Liberals expose their own love of enslavement. Leftists despise Liberty so much they are happy to surrender it in exchange for “free” stuff. Just take a look at this tweet from a leftist praising Cuba's... "Free Stuff" ... that isn't free and isn't great at all. But then again, how would she know, she doesn't live there. She just buys into what the communist propagandist in the media, Hollywood and academia tell her.

"In Cuba everyone has free healthcare, free education and affordable housing, electricity, water, food. Just saying."https://twitter.com/SJG99/status/802421243672674304…

Ah, yes. “Free.” So I’m guessing the Cubans who risk their lives to escape this Nirvana are just ungrateful. What’s a little imprisonment in Cuba compared to “free” education and healthcare and “affordable” housing, electricity, water, and food? Ironic, isn’t it? Leftists cry and moan about “over-incarceration” yet they praise Fidel Castro for incarcerating an entire island nation for nearly sixty years. Why? Because they get “Free Stuff!!!”

Want a peek into what Cuba's "Free Healthcare" looks like?

http://www.therealcuba.com/?page_id=77

How about "Free Education?"

http://www.therealcuba.com/?page_id=62

How about Free Hosing?

http://www.therealcuba.com/?page_id=117

Does this mind-numbed Leftist moron believe that slavery in the US wouldn’t have been such a bad thing provided the slaves got free healthcare and education? Wouldn’t you rather be a kept human?

Sure, you’re not allowed to speak your mind. You can’t choose where you want to live or how you want to live. And, yeah. You might find yourself on the wrong end of a firing squad. Worse still, you won’t be able to defend yourself because you happily surrendered your own self-protection. But think of all the things you’ll get for free!!! So long as you obey. I swear, Liberalism’s default setting leans toward totalitarianism.

People like this deeply ignorant Leftist and Jimmy Carter and a host of others, praising Castro don’t have any idea what it’s like to live under tyranny. Yet in their ignorance, they wax longingly for it.

The problem is, they have been taught in a corrupt education system that advances Marxism and socialism.

Goal #17 of the 45 Goals of Communism: http://rense.com/general32/americ.htm

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

And while this education system praises tyranny, it goes out of its way to slander and demean our country’s founding.

Goals 29 and 30 of the 45 Goals of Communism:
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

Our Founders gave us the greatest gift in the history of the world: Freedom. And these ungrateful, mindless ass-hats want to exchange that gift for enslavement.

Nobody is forcing them into slavery; they are willingly enslaving themselves. Why, for "Free Stuff!" How cheaply some will sell their liberty and souls for something they think is "Free!"

No, Fidel Castro, nor his brother Raul, nor Che Guevara or any of their evil executioners, were "Freedom Fighters" ... they were tyrants! And the praise for them and rewriting of their vicious legacy is a disgrace! If you want Free Stuff, go live under that brutal regime or North Korea's and other one of these communist hell holes, but don't come back after you find out what you sold your soul for. Live with your mistake.

Fidel Castro’s greatest atrocities and crimes – Part 1 - Fidel Castro’s firing squads in Cuba...

http://babalublog.com/…/fidel-castros-firing-squads-in-cuba/

Fidel Castro’s greatest atrocities and crimes – Part 2 - Fidel Castro sank the 13 de Marzo tugboat killing Cuban women and children...
http://babalublog.com/…/fidel-castro-sank-the-13-de-marzo-…/

Fidel Castro’s greatest atrocities and crimes – Part 3 - Fidel Castro’s shoot down of American civilian aircraft killing 4 people including 3 American citizens...http://babalublog.com/…/fidel-castros-shoot-down-of-americ…/

Fidel Castro’s Cuban forced labor camps, the UMAPs....

http://babalublog.com/…/fidel-castros-cuban-forced-labor-c…/

'Trump Effect' Just Getting Started But We're Already Seeing Numbers Not Even Reagan Had

'Trump Effect' Just Getting Started But We're Already Seeing Numbers Not Even Reagan Had:

"Nattering naysayers about the economic future of America in a Trump administration already have so much egg on their faces they might be mistaken for the daily special at the local breakfast joint.

You may have heard (if you even cared) that Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman moaned and groaned on the day the Trump upset election was declared that the markets would “never” recover from the policies of this particular president."

Virginia school board member resigns after profane anti-Trump social media rant

Virginia school board member resigns after profane anti-Trump social media rant - The College Fix:
"A member of the Lynchburg City (Virginia) School Board has resigned in the wake of an obscenity-laden Facebook post ripping the election of Donald Trump.
The Roanoke Times reports Jenny Poore wrote (among other things)  “f— you and your s—– straight white man version of America” in her diatribe while claiming the president-elect has an “obvious and clear amphetamine addiction” and is a “sexual assaulter.”
Poore admits she would have “considered her language more carefully had she known the post would go public,” but said “her conscience compelled her to act.”
She said the controversial comments weren’t the only reason for her resignation; with her being a “lightning rod for outside distractions,” her departure was best “to preserve the integrity of the board.”
From the article:
[Poore] stated she was not asked or pressured to step down, and the decision was her own.
...Poore said “a number of people have reached out to her” offering their thanks for her speaking out. In addition, some fellow board members praised her, saying she has “an incisive mind” and is “a champion for different students of all backgrounds.”

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