Dinesh D'Souza: Antifa Protesters Are Closest Thing Today to Nazi Brownshirts | Fox News Insider

Dinesh D'Souza: Antifa Protesters Are Closest Thing Today to Nazi Brownshirts | Fox News Insider:

"Author Dinesh D'Souza drew a parallel between the anti-Trump Antifa protesters and the brownshirts, an early Nazi army.

"The main difference I think is that the old fascists were proud to call themselves fascists, but the new fascists march under the banner of anti-fascism," D'Souza told "Fox & Friends" Saturday."

The way we were-----Vintage old 1950's Westinghouse 17" Lynwood Television TV Commercial 1950

Top journalist sues Time magazine for ‘sex and age discrimination’ | Media | The Guardian

Top journalist sues Time magazine for ‘sex and age discrimination’ | Media | The Guardian
"...Ultimately, Mayer claims, the company took away her responsibilities as Europe editor the year after she took on the position, then forced her to relinquish the title, which the company gave to McAllester.
In April 2015 she was fired.
The suit, filed on 24 July, said: “Time has violated [anti-discrimination and civil rights] laws by operating a system of male cronyism, by which men, especially former war correspondents, were favoured over women in recruitment, dismissal and promotion decisions.”
Catherine Mayer: ‘I don’t know of one female journalist who hasn’t been discriminated against at work’
...‘Non-macho’ men and women who did not conform to traditional expectations of gender roles did not fare well,” the suit claims.
...Her treatment triggered serious health problems including depression, migraines and insomnia, Mayer alleges.
...Mayer said that despite her prominent position as an advocate for gender equality, she had hoped to keep her personal battle with Time quiet by reaching a private settlement..."

De Blasio Pushes for Tax on the 1% to Fund New York City Subway Fix - Bloomberg

De Blasio Pushes for Tax on the 1% to Fund New York City Subway Fix - Bloomberg:
"New York (AP) -- The mayor of New York City wants to tax the wealthiest 1 percent to fund repairs and improvements to the beleaguered subway system.
The proposal comes as Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, both Democrats, continue to squabble over responsibility for paying for repairs to the nation's largest transit system that has seen growing delays, mechanical failures, power outages and even derailments.
...It would affect about 32,000 of New Yorkers filing taxes in the city, or just less than 1 percent, officials said.
...New Yorkers already contribute to the agency through other taxes and fees.
De Blasio's plan also includes funding to offer half-price fare cards for low-income riders..."

BEWARE: There is Potential Danger in Michigan…

BEWARE: There is Potential Danger in Michigan…:

"Radical Muslims, on the other hand, will sneak in through the back door, or any way they can, and rob us of every last thing we hold precious and dear, all before we are even cognizant of the fact that there’s a danger lurking among us."

Cyber threats prompt return of radio for ship navigation

Cyber threats prompt return of radio for ship navigation:
LONDON (Reuters) - The risk of cyber attacks targeting ships' satellite navigation is pushing nations to delve back through history and develop back-up systems with roots in World War Two radio technology.
Ships use GPS (Global Positioning System) and other similar devices that rely on sending and receiving satellite signals, which many experts say are vulnerable to jamming by hackers.
About 90 percent of world trade is transported by sea and the stakes are high in increasingly crowded shipping lanes.
Unlike aircraft, ships lack a back-up navigation system and if their GPS ceases to function, they risk running aground or colliding with other vessels..."

Gigantic scam!-----Illinois financial woes haven’t stopped high-dollar university salaries - The College Fix

Illinois financial woes haven’t stopped high-dollar university salaries - The College Fix:
"With looming credit crisis and reduced budgets, many University of Illinois employees make hundreds of  thusands of dollars
Facing junk bond status, high debt and the threat of downgraded credit ratings, the state of Illinois is in dire financial straits – yet thousands of public university employees continue to pull down high-six-figure salaries.
Many of those employees are located at the Chicago campus of the University of Illinois, with more at its Urbana-Champaign flagship.
More than 3,100 employees make at least $100,000 and more than 500 make $200,000 or more at the Chicago campus.
Four doctors alone make a combined $4 million, and the top 14 employees at Chicago all make more than $500,000, according to OpenTheBooks.com, which tracks “disclosed spending” across federal, state and local governments.
When asked about these salaries, UI spokesman Thomas Hardy told The College Fix via email that “compensation for faculty and academic staff generally follows the market for the respective positions.
For example, our engineering, medical and college of business faculty, as well as senior administrators, earn compensation comparable to their colleagues at peer institutions.”..."
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Lunch video-----Nigel Farage in D.C. Warns Over Fake Conservatives, Crony Capitalism, and Radical Islam

WATCH -- Farage in D.C. Warns Over Fake Conservatives, Crony Capitalism, and Radical Islam: "Brexit leader Nigel Farage spoke in Washington, D.C. on Friday at the Young America’s Foundation conference, using his remarks to take aim at fake conservatives, slam crony capitalism, and issue a warning over radical Islamic terrorism.
“The one thing I’ve learned is that good conservative values have to be fought for and defended zealously at all time. 
We face huge enemies with the establishment and the media… and the biggest enemy of all that we face are those that are within in our ranks, those that masquerade as conservatives but actually follow liberal agendas,” Farage said."

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Dems Chortle at Trump's Claims of Voter Fraud in CA, but an Investigation Shows an Alarming Trend - Jennifer Van Laar

Dems Chortle at Trump's Claims of Voter Fraud in CA, but an Investigation Shows an Alarming Trend - Jennifer Van Laar:


"When President Trump claimed after the election that ballots cast by millions of illegals, especially in California, cost him the popular vote, progressives rushed to dispute his notion. The Secretary of State's office even says they haven't had one single complaint about an illegal voting in last year's election. "

Pennsylvania bill would provide scholarships to children of incarcerated parents - The College Fix

Pennsylvania bill would provide scholarships to children of incarcerated parents - The College Fix: "In late June, a bipartisan group of Pennsylvania state senators proposed a bill which would “establish a public charitable trust” to assist children who have a parent (or parents) in the prison system.
The “First Chance Trust Fund” would provide scholarships to these children which, according to Penn Live, does not utilize taxpayer monies.
Instead, lawmakers say, First Chance would be funded by “private, tax-deductible donations” and a “1 percent surcharge on vendors that have a contract with the Department of Corrections exceeding $5 million.”
...But would taxpayers really be unaffected by this program?
On WPHT radio’s Dom Giordano program on Friday, Pennsylvania State Representative Steve Barrar said that one percent surcharge indeed will affect taxpayers:
“At the end of the day, the contractors, all they’re going to do if you’re going to hit them with a one percent surcharge, is increase their price to absorb that one percent surcharge knowing it’s coming.
So at the end of the day, the taxpayers pay.”
...perhaps more importantly — where’s the “surcharge” scholarship funds available for the children of slain law enforcement officials?..."

#1 Movie this week 1962-----The Music Man Official Trailer (1962)

What Ponzi Scheme? Public Pensions Average 0.6% Return In 2016 Despite 7.6% Assumption | Zero Hedge

What Ponzi Scheme? Public Pensions Average 0.6% Return In 2016 Despite 7.6% Assumption | Zero Hedge:
"We've frequently argued that public pension funds in the U.S. are nothing more than...

• thinly-veiled ponzi schemes 
• with their ridiculously high return assumptions 
• specifically intended to artificially minimize the present value of future retiree payment obligations and minimize required annual contributions 
• thus also from taxpayers...
• all while actual, if immediately intangible, underfunded liabilities continue to surge. 

As evidence of that assertion, we present to you the latest public pension analysis from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.  

As part of their study, Boston College reviewed 170 public pension plans in the U.S. and found that their average 2016 return was an abysmal 0.6% compared to an average assumed return of 7.6%.

Meanwhile, per the chart below, the average return for the past 15 years has also been well below discount rate assumptions, at just 5.95%.

All of which, as we stated above, continues to result in surging liabilities and collapsing funding ratios.

...But, perhaps the most telling sign of the massive ponzi scheme being perpetrated on American retirees is the following chart which shows that net cash flows have become increasingly negative, as a percentage of assets, as annual cash benefit payments continue to exceed cash contributions.

Conclusion, you can hide behind high discount rates and a "kick the can down the road" strategy in the short-term...but in the long run actual cash flows matter.

Read the full report here:"

#1 This week 1967-----The Doors - Light My Fire

10 of 11 California Counties With More Registered Voters than Voting Age Adults Are Democrat:

10 of 11 California Counties With More Registered Voters than Voting Age Adults Are Democrat

"There are eleven counties in California with more registered voters than voting age adultes in the county.

Ten of the Eleven counties voted for Hillary Clinton.

The counties include San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego.

Judicial Watch lays out the specifics: “[T]here were more total registered voters than there were adults over the age of 18 living in each of the following eleven (11) counties: Imperial (102%), Lassen (102%), Los Angeles (112%), Monterey (104%), San Diego (138%), San Francisco (114%), San Mateo (111%), Santa Cruz (109%), Solano (111%), Stanislaus (102%), and Yolo (110%).” The letter notes that the percentage in L.A. Country may be as high as 144%.

In June California Secretary of State Alex Padilla told the Trump administration the state will not cooperate with the election integrity commission because it would “only serve to legitimize the false and already debunked claims of massive voter fraud.”

You ought to know!

Breaking: Trump Insider Defects, Delivers Outrageous Info to Susan Rice

Breaking: Trump Insider Defects, Delivers Outrageous Info to Susan Rice:

"An undated, unclassified letter McMaster sent to Rice gave her “unfettered and continuing access to classified information and waiving her ‘need-to-know’ requirement on anything she viewed or received during her tenure,” according to a report from Circa.

According to a report from Bloomberg, McMaster apparently concluded that Rice did nothing wrong when she tried to unmask the identities of officials on Trump’s transition team whose names were mentioned in U.S. intelligence reports during the election."

Classic fake-news!-----TIME MAGAZINE SLIMES KOCH IN HEADLINE

Instapundit » Blog Archive » TIME MAGAZINE SLIMES KOCH IN HEADLINE: Time Magazine covered a Charles Koch speech with the headline…:
"TIME MAGAZINE SLIMES KOCH IN HEADLINE: Time Magazine covered a Charles Koch speech with the headline “Charles Koch says U.S. Can Bomb Its Way to $100,000 Salaries.” 
Except what he actually said was:

“I think we can have growth rates in excess of 4%. When I’m talking about growth rates, I’m not talking about that GDP, which counts poison gas the same as it counts penicillin,” the 79-year-old industrialist said, veering off his prepared remarks. “What a monstrous measure this is. If we make more bombs, the GDP goes up — particularly if we explode them.”

Time later changed the headline to say “Charles Koch Mocks Common Measure of Prosperity.” 

Reason points out that the URL still has the telling phrase “charles-koch-bomb-economy/” and goes on to take apart the reporters’ woefully inadequate understanding of basic economics.  
This is a classic case of a form of libel (privacy, actually) called “false light”, generally wherein untrue implications, rather than directly false statements are made. 
For instance, an article about sex offenders illustrated with a stock photograph of an individual who is not, in fact, a sex offender could give rise to a false light claim, even if the article and photo caption never make the explicit false statement.

If legacy media had spent the last 10 years practicing responsible journalism and less time being party apparatchiks, they might not be in the trouble they’re in."

AM Fruitcake

History for August 7

History for August 7 - On-This-Day.com
Nathaniel Greene 1742, Mata Hari 1876, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer 1927
  

Garrison Keillor 1942, David Duchovny 1960, Charlize Theron 1975 - Actress


1782 - George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart.


1888 - Theophilus Van Kannel received a patent for the revolving door.


1934 - The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling striking down the government's attempt to ban the controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses."


1942 - U.S. forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II.


1959 - The U.S. launched Explorer 6, which sent back a picture of the Earth.


1960 - The Cuban Catholic Church condemned the rise of communism in Cuba. Fidel Castro then banned all religious TV and radio broadcasts.


1964 - The U.S. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which gave President Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.


1974 - French stuntman Philippe Petit walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center.

FOIA Dump Reveals Collusion Between Lynch, FBI And Media To Bury Bill Clinton Meeting | Zero Hedge

FOIA Dump Reveals Collusion Between Lynch, FBI And Media To Bury Bill Clinton Meeting | Zero Hedge:

"That said, documents released today by the ACLJ reveal several emails between FBI and DOJ officials concerning the Lynch/Clinton meeting primarily related to how they should go about explaining the train wreck that had just been unwittingly played out on live television courtesy of a local Phoenix affiliate station.  Here is a recap from ACLJ:"

The way we were-----Do You Believe In Magic - The Lovin' Spoonful

Why Professional Cuddling Is Booming Under Trump - Rolling Stone

Why Professional Cuddling Is Booming Under Trump - Rolling Stone:
"...The reasons one seeks out a professional cuddling experience range from average adults seeking connection...
The elephant in the room during some of these sessions, though, is the current state of the country's affairs.
Since November – and the election of Donald Trump – professional cuddling services have seen a spike in client interest.
"The holiday season was the first time that since Trump won the election that a lot of people were seeing their family," says Adam Lippin, co-founder and CEO of Cuddlist, which provides training services to professional cuddlers and allows clients to search listings of "Cuddlists" nearby.
"People with different political views were going to be in the same place with relatives.
That was the first hit of people having to confront it in a significant way.
We saw an uptick around that."
But what makes the organized effort of being held, a service that comes with a cost (Cuddlist sessions go for $80 an hour), something that aids in relieving the fear and discomfort that has come with Trump's presidency?..."

Percentage of Europeans Who Are Willing To Fight A War For Their Country - Brilliant Maps

Percentage of Europeans Who Are Willing To Fight A War For Their Country - Brilliant Maps:
From high to low, these are the percentages by country:

• 74% – Finland
• 73% – Turkey
• 62% – Ukraine
• 59% – Russia
• 58% – Kosovo
• 55% – Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 55% – Sweden
• 54% – Greece
• 47% – Poland

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