Blame the messengers: Dem boss Schumer fires staffers after November rout

Blame the messengers: Dem boss Schumer fires staffers after November rout | Fox News
"Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, smarting from the Democratic Party's big November losses, is blaming the messengers.
With Christmas days away, nearly every member of the Senate Democratic Media Center has been fired, a senior Democratic aide confirmed to Fox News.
Schumer swung the axe on Friday, according to Politico, which first obtained “goodbye” emails from staffers, including some with decades' experience.
...The timing could not be worse, given the holidays.
...“We don’t comment on personnel decisions,” a spokesman from the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC), which serves as an advisory board to the Democratic Leadership in which Sen. Schumer will serve, told FoxNews.com in an email.
...“Job creation has never been a strength of the Democrats,” a Republican aide told FoxNews.com. “But firing staffers just days before the holidays so they can play catch-up is pretty brutal.”

Snopes Wife Claims Husband Embezzled Thousands and Spent It on Prostitutes — But Hey, They'll Tell Us What "Fake News" Is?!

Snopes Wife Claims Husband Embezzled Thousands and Spent It on Prostitutes — But Hey, They'll Tell Us What "Fake News" Is?! | The Daily Sheeple:
"Well, this just takes the big fat hypocrite cake.

Out today, the Daily Mail is reporting that Snopes, the supposed bastion of fact checking, is no longer the picture perfect “independent” (yeah right) husband and wife myth-busting couple just lounging around on the couch with their cat that they have claimed to be.

Snopes founders, former husband and wife David and Barbara Mikkelson

Gee… Where to begin…

According to court documents, Barbara Mikkelson is claiming that her now-ex-husband David embezzled $98,000 of company money and spent it on “himself and prostitutes”...

...The Mail reports that David is currently running Snopes with his new wife who has spent most of her life working as an adult model, porn star, and escort under the name Erin O’Bryn:

...This goes on and on and on… but it continues by pointing out that one of their main “fact checkers” Kim LaCapria “has also been a sex-and-fetish blogger who went by the pseudonym ‘Vice Vixen’.”

Now we’re told Snopes has become part of the “fact checking” cadre that will weed out so-called “fake news” on Facebook?

Oh goodie. Sounds legit.

This expose comes on the heels of the Daily Caller taking Snopes’ entire left-leaning crew to task just a few days ago, pointing out how obviously liberal and biased all of them are with specifics for each employee in a piece titled, “Snopes, Which Will Be Fact-Checking For Facebook, Employs Leftists Almost Exclusively”:

Almost all of the writers churning out fact checks for Snopes have a liberal background, and many of them have expressed contempt for Republican voters. The Daily Caller could not identify a single Snopes fact-checker who comes from a conservative background. Snopes did not respond to a list of questions from TheDC regarding the site’s ideological leaning..."

Walker asks Trump to allow Wisconsin to drug test food stamp recipients | Washington Examiner

Walker asks Trump to allow Wisconsin to drug test food stamp recipients | Washington Examiner:

"Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is asking President-elect Donald Trump to give his state the authority to drug test certain food stamp recipients.

Walker, a Republican who ran for president against Trump, made other requests to the president-elect, which would allow more state authority over federal policies.

"Too often, states have become mere administrative provinces of an all-powerful federal government in Washington," Walker said "

A GREAT way to start your day!-----WHY HE'S PRESIDENT-ELECT: Best of Trump insults and comebacks

WHY HE'S PRESIDENT-ELECT: Best of Trump insults and comebacks - The American MirrorThe American Mirror:
"A new highlight reel of Donald Trump’s insults and comebacks put together by media analyst Mark Dice is a good reminder of why Trump was elected president.
The examples span Trump’s candidacy in both the primary and general election campaigns and show why American fed up with politics and usual flocked to the unvarnished billionaire..."

AM Fruitcake

History for December 23

History for December 23 - On-This-Day.com:
Joseph Smith 1805, Samuel Smiles 1812, Yousuf Karsh 1908


Susan Lucci 1946, Eddie Vedder 1964 - Musician, singer (Pearl Jam), Corey Haim 1971 - Actor
         

1788 - Maryland voted to cede a 100-square-mile area for the seat of the national government. About two-thirds of the area became the District of Columbia.


1823 - The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore (" 'Twas the night before Christmas...") was published.


1888 - Following a quarrel with Paul Gauguin, Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh cut off part of his own earlobe.


1893 - The Engelbert Humperdinck opera "Hansel und Gretel" was first performed, in Weimar, Germany.


1913 - The Federal Reserve Bill was signed into law by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. The act established 12 Federal Reserve Banks.

1941 - During World War II, American forces on Wake Island surrendered to the Japanese.


1947 - John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley invented the transistor.


1968 - The crew of the U.S. Navy ship, Pueblo, was released by North Korea. The Captain of the Pueblo, Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, and 82 of his crew were held for 11 months after the ship was seized by North Korea because of suspected spying by the Americans.

Hoax? Police arrest black man for church arson that was blamed on Trump supporters – TheBlaze

Hoax? Police arrest black man for church arson that was blamed on Trump supporters – TheBlaze:

"Another story that the mainstream press wielded against Trump is now being exposed as a possible hoax as police have arrested an black man in the “racist” arson attack on a black church in Mississippi.

And it appears that the suspect is a member of the church:"

Reparations?-----From bias incidents to reparations demand, Columbia Native American activists get bolder over time

From bias incidents to reparations demand, Columbia Native American activists get bolder over time - The College Fix:
"For five years, a secretive group that claims to represent Native American students at Columbia University has been steadily winning concessions from the administration.
Emboldened by those victories, it is making a demand that appears to have only been made once before by a Native American college group: reparations.
The controversial idea showed up on a list of demands given to the administration last month by the Columbia Native American Council, according to the Columbia Spectator.
The demand for reparations comes just weeks after the administration acquiesced to the council’s demands for a plaque lamenting the colonization of the land upon which the university sits..."

The Onion - America's Finest News Source

The Onion - America's Finest News Source:
"A member of the endangered subtype of human, who possesses the unusual abilities to calmly reflect on situations and view the world from others’ perspectives, is reintroduced into the population.
ITHACA, NY—In an ambitious attempt to revive a population long considered to be on the brink of extinction, scientists announced Friday they have slowly begun to reintroduce normal, well-adjusted human beings back into society.
According to officials at Cornell University, where for the past 18 years conservation researchers have operated an enclosed sanctuary for humans who are levelheaded and make it a habit to think before they speak, the endangered group is being cautiously reintegrated into select locations nationwide in hopes that they can reestablish permanent communities and one day thrive again.
“We’ve worked for years to stabilize our society’s dwindling population of sane, generally reasonable people, and within the safe confines of our refuge we’ve finally seen their numbers start to bounce back a little,” said Josh Adelson, head of the Cornell research team, which moved the remaining members of the group into a protected habitat in 1998 to keep them from dying off completely.
“Now, we can very gradually begin to release this rare breed of rational humans back into the general public.
With luck, they can survive and prosper.”..."
Amazing hope for the future!!!

Here’s a look at how Obama is trying to Trump-proof his legacy – TheBlaze

Here’s a look at how Obama is trying to Trump-proof his legacy – TheBlaze:

"With his time as leader of the free world coming to a close, President Barack Obama’s efforts to secure his political legacy are in the home stretch.

So before Republican President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month, Obama has started a final push to tackle some of his most important issues — and make sure they’re safe from Trump for at least the time being.

From Guantanamo Bay to Planned Parenthood, here’s a look at how the 44th president is closing out his final term and preparing for his successor:"

Black Man Burned African-American Church, Blamed On Trump

Black Man Burned African-American Church, Blamed On Trump | The Daily Caller:
"A black man has been arrested and charged with burning an African-American church in Greenville, Miss. last month and defacing its outer walls with “Vote Trump” graffiti.
The Mississippi state police arrested Andrew McClinton, 45, on Wednesday and charged him with first-degree arson of a place of worship, Warren Strain, a spokesman with the Mississippi Department of Public Safety told The Daily Caller.
McClinton allegedly set first to Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, where he is a member, on Nov. 1, a week before the election.
The fire destroyed 80 percent of the church. A GoFundMe account raised more than $240,000 to repair the facility.
“We do not believe it was politically motivated. 
There may have been some efforts to make it appear politically motivated,” Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, who also serves as the state fire marshal, told The Associated Press.
The attack, which was investigated by local and state authorities as well as the FBI, was widely attributed by media outlets to Trump supporters.
The Atlantic, to cite one example, published an article entitled “A Black Church Burned in the Name of Trump.”
Mississippi U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, whose district encompasses Greenville, said last month that the arson and vandalism was an act of “domestic terrorism.”
“If there is something like the Ku Klux Klan or the Aryan Nation…we look at that as domestic terrorism,” he told the AP at the time.
The case appears to be yet another hoax targeting Trump supporters.
Several Muslim women who have claimed since the election that they were targeted by Trump fans because they wore hijabs have been charged with making false reports.

Gun Control Laws Conflict with Data about Gun Owners & Crime

Gun Control Laws Conflict with Data about Gun Owners & Crime | National Review:
"Liberals imagine that law-abiding citizens do not have any idea how to use a gun responsibly — and that criminals will start following rules.
Sometimes someone inadvertently performs a public service by bringing an unbelievably stupid and dangerous idea to the surface, where it can be exposed for what it is.
The New York Times can be credited — if that is the word — with performing this public service in a recent editorial against proposals to allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed guns.
They refer to what they call the National Rifle Association’s “fantasy that citizens can stand up to gunmen by shooting it out.” 
Nobody has suggested any such thing. 
Data collected over many years — but almost never seeing the light of day in the New York Times or the rest of the mainstream media — show many thousands of examples of people defending themselves with a gun each year, without having to pull the trigger.
If someone comes at you with a knife and you pull out a gun, chances are they will stop.
The only time I ever pointed a gun at a human being, it was when someone was sneaking up toward me from behind a shed in the middle of the night.
I never fired a shot. I just pointed the gun at him and told him to stop.
He stopped.
Actually having to shoot someone is the exception, not the rule. 
Yet the New York Times conjures up a vision of something like the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Concealed guns protect not only those who carry them but also those who do not.
If concealed guns become widespread, then a mugger or a carjacker has no way of knowing who has one and who does not.
It makes being a mugger or a carjacker a less safe occupation.
Gun-control laws are in effect occupational-safety laws — OSHA for burglars, muggers, carjackers, and others. 
The fatal fallacy of gun-control laws in general is the assumption that such laws actually control guns..."
Read on!

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State Department: Iran Never Signed Nuclear Deal, Which Isn't 'Legally Binding' - Guy Benson

State Department: Iran Never Signed Nuclear Deal, Which Isn't 'Legally Binding' - Guy Benson:

"President Obama didn’t require Iranian leaders to sign the nuclear deal that his team negotiated with the regime, and the deal is not “legally binding,” his administration acknowledged in a letter to Representative Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) obtained by National Review. “The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is not a treaty or an executive agreement, and is not a signed document,” wrote Julia Frifield, the State Department assistant secretary for legislative affairs, in the November 19 letter. "

The Obama 'Recovery': Number Of Millennials Living At Home With Mom Reaches 75-Year High

The Obama 'Recovery': Number Of Millennials Living At Home With Mom Reaches 75-Year High | Zero Hedge:
"Millennials finally get to claim a trophy for an achievement they actually earned (no participation medals here)...that's right, Millennials have officially set a 75-year record for highest percentage of young adults living at home with mom.  
At just under 40%, Millennials are barely shy of the all-time record of 40.9% set in 1940, after the end of the Great Depression.  
For once, we have every confidence that our young snowflakes will excel in crushing this longstanding record.  
Per the Wall Street Journal:

Almost 40% of young Americans were living with their parents, siblings or other relatives in 2015, the largest percentage since 1940, according to an analysis of census data by real estate tracker Trulia....

We must admit that we're somewhat confused by the following data, from the Census Bureau, suggesting that the percentage of the population with college degrees has increased 5x since 1940.  
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren assured us that spending 4-7 years drinking and partying at an institution of higher education, while incurring $100,000's of dollars worth of debt that will ultimately have to be absorbed by taxpayers, would automatically result in higher incomes which should then translate into higher household formation and economic growth, right?

Well, we're sure their is some other fantastic explanation as to why only 200,000 households have been created by the 5 million milliennials that have joined the "young adults under 30" cohort over the past decade...and this is just a guess but we bet it has something to do with Republicans and/or Russia. 

The result is that there is far less demand for housing than would be expected for the millennial generation, now the largest in U.S. history. The number of adults under age 30 has increased by 5 million over the last decade, but the number of households for that age group grew by just 200,000 over the same period, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies..."

Saudi Arabia Funding Extremist Islamist Groups in Germany?

Saudi Arabia Funding Extremist Islamist Groups in Germany?:
"A newly-leaked German intelligence report states Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar are funding extremist Islamic groups in Germany.
...The report, compiled by German domestic intelligence agency Bft and Federal Intelligence Agency (BND) allegedly accuses Saudi Arabia and the two Gulf nations of funding various Islamic institutions including mosques and religious schools, as well as individual strict preachers and conversion, or “dawah” groups.
The three countries supported missionary groups as a “long-running strategy to exert influence,” according to the report.
More specifically, the report called out  the Saudi Muslim World League, Sheikh Eid Bin Mohammad al-Thani Charitable Association and the Kuwaiti Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (which is banned in both the U.S. and Russia for allegedly supporting al-Qaeda).
...Also, suspicion that Saudi Arabia is funding terrorist organizations is not new.  Especially since the recent disclosures by the Saudis that they had, in fact, funded extremism in the past..."

Caddell: 'Grace, That's What's Missing' as Obamas Prepare to Leave White House

Caddell: 'Grace, That's What's Missing' as Obamas Prepare to Leave White House:

"Caddell continued, “The Bush people, they had a certain conduct. … George W. Bush kept his mouth shut about Obama forever. What’s Obama doing saying, ‘I’m going to be back here right after vacation. … I need to be in Washington. I need to comment’? Where’s the part where you gracefully leave the stage?”

Additionally, pointing out that, post-election, no one in major media was fired or demoted for getting the election so wrong. “None of them have been fired. Are you kidding?” he said."

Who really hacked the U.S. elections

Who really hacked the U.S. elections:



The FBI was able to track the DNC hack to an IP address located somewhere close to the North Pole, but sources close to the investigation said the trail had grown cold.

"As soon as special agents were close to apprehending the suspect, they unexpectedly left the area," one source confirmed. "They suddenly grew very eager to spend Christmas vacations with their families."

All we know about the "North Pole Hacker" at this time is that he has an uncanny ability to monitor even the most secret communications in order to compile his annual "naughty or nice" list, which he then cross-references - twice - with corroborative data from other sources. 

"The suspect, who goes by the initials SC, usually keeps his list to himself," the FBI source said, "but this was an unprecedented year in many ways." It appears that this year the North Pole Hacker broke with his tradition and posted his "naughty or nice" findings on WikiLeaks, allegedly "so that Americans can get a good president for Christmas." 

We will keep you informed as this case develops.

AM Fruitcake

History for December 22

History for December 22 - On-This-Day.com:
Connie Mack 1862, Gene Rayburn (Rubessa) 1917, Steve Garvey 1948 - Baseball player
     

Robin Gibb (Bee Gees) 1949, Maurice Gibb (Bee Gees) 1949, Ralph Fiennes 1962, Ted Cruz 1970 - Politician from Texas


1775 - A Continental naval fleet was organized in the rebellious American colonies under the command of Ezek Hopkins.


1864 - During the American Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman sent a message to U.S. President Lincoln from Georgia. The message read, "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah."


1894 - French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason in a court-martial that triggered worldwide charges of anti-Semitism. Dreyfus was eventually vindicated.


1895 - German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen made the first X-ray, of his wife's hand.



1961 - James Davis became the first U.S. soldier to die in Vietnam, while U.S. involvement was still limited to the provision of military advisers.


1984 - New York City resident Bernhard Goetz shot four black youths on a Manhattan subway. Goetz claimed they were about to rob him.


1990 - Lech Walesa was sworn in as Poland's first popularly elected president.


1991 - The body of Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, an American hostage murdered by his captors, was found along a highway in Lebanon.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/12/tool-of-fairness-by-tammy-derouin-race.html

Tool of Fairness

By Tammy Derouin

The race for the presidency of the United States is the American way of shifting power without battles or bloodshed. Our leaders do not rise up out of periodic revolutions.  They are elected by the people, in a republic.  Those who run agree to the election process.  The rules are the same as they have been for generations as set forth in the Constitution.

We teach our children good sportsmanship.  Accepting a loss with dignity builds character.  Nobody wants to lose, but it’s your behavior after the fact which sets the tone for future games and races.  We learn at a very early age that it’s not fun playing with cheaters and crybabies.  When someone is caught cheating, there’s a myriad of excuses which they attempt to turn on anyone but themselves.  Crybabies shift the blame to the process.  There must be something wrong within the system because they didn’t win.  Whichever tactic is launched, and if you’re really lucky you get hit with both, the blame game becomes the only game on the table.  The original, agreed upon rules are now called into question.

Changing a rule because it does not fit the desired political agenda at the moment is a very dangerous game to play.  Laws and rules which are put into place for the advancement of a party line can have dire consequences.  What suits you today may turn on you tomorrow.  Then there’s that pesky double standard.  If the tables were turned and the opposition was crying foul, would there be the same eagerness to change the rules?  No, they would cling to the rule book and defend it as a time-tested tool of fairness.

Instead of trashing a rule, such as the Electoral College, why not look at it closer and learn why it was put into place.......