"Bottom line: In April, President Obama and his Justice Department adopted a Hillary Clinton defense strategy of concocting a crime no one was claiming Clinton had committed: to wit, transmitting classified information with an intent to harm the United States."
If you attend the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League institution in a tony Philadelphia neighborhood, you are massively privileged.
That didn’t stop student activists from grasping at straws to sling mud at the private university in a newly released “Disorientation Guide,” also known as “the shit Penn won’t say,” that they distributed to students Monday, The Daily Pennsylvanian reports.
It decries the “white capitalist imperialist values” of Penn that make it possible for the privileged student activists to attend a university that will vastly boost their earning potential for a lifetime and gives them wide latitude to say odious things without any sanction, to say nothing of a speech-chilling investigation.* The biggest section of the guide is about Penn’s racism, informing black students it’s “made up of people who hate you” … because last year a University of Oklahoma student created a racist GroupMe chat and invited black freshmen at Penn to join it. A single op-ed co-written by Law Prof. Amy Wax that praised “bourgeois culture” and said not all cultures are equal also proves that Penn is “made up of people who hate” black students..."
"What happens to a country whose most important police force — and its key investigators — is no longer telling the truth to the citizens of that nation? Nothing good, I'm sure most would agree. There's almost no point in going through all the analogies to despotic regimes. Writers from George Orwell to Arthur Koestler have already done it for us.
But those analogies come immediately to mind following two revelations regarding our Federal Bureau of Investigation that surfaced this week. In one instance, the FBI refused to turn over documents regarding the Hillary Clinton emails because of -- wait for it -- "lack of public interest.""
Canada demands U.S. end ‘right to work’ laws as part of NAFTA talks - The Globe and Mail "Canadian negotiators are demanding the United States roll back so-called "right to work" laws – accused of gutting unions in some U.S. states by starving them of money – as part of the renegotiation of the North American free-trade agreement.
The request is part of a push by Ottawa to get the U.S. and Mexico to adopt higher labour standards under the deal.
...One group of negotiators spent all day Sunday working on the labour file, according to a schedule of the talks obtained by The Globe and Mail.
One source familiar with the discussions said Canada wants the United States to pass a federal law stopping state governments from enacting right-to-work legislation..."
Govt. union rep: Employees only have to be "available to work" to get paid - Hot Air Hot Air:
"We recently talked about the difficulty that VA chief David Shulkin ran into when attempting to fire one of his people who had been found to be grossly negligent. That person was Brian Hawkins, who had been deemed incompetent in leadership and guilty of mishandling patient records, including sending some of them to his wife’s personal email accounts.
Hawkins wasn’t out of work long after the MSPB agreed to hear his appeal.
He’s now back on the job awaiting final disposition of his case.
It’s not just the VA where we’re having trouble cutting out the deadwood, however.
This report from the Washington Post has at least one real eye opener in it.
The head of the Treasury has been made aware of problems at the Patent and Trademark Office.
Over there, a number of workers were found to be falsifying their time reporting, billing the government for hundreds of thousands of dollars for time not worked. In some of the most severe cases, workers put in two hours of time, then had the audacity to charge the government for a full day plus two hours of overtime.
Only one person has managed to be fired in that scandal and that case may be put on hold also.
A union official denied any impropriety, saying his members “were available to work” but often finished their tasks quickly and awaited more assignments, a practice that went on for as long as a decade..."
"At least five people were shot during a four-hour time frame on Sunday morning in gun-controlled Chicago. The shootings included a man and woman; he was 23-years-old and she was 34. Both were “shot multiple times just after 4:30 a.m.” and were hospitalized in serious condition.
According to the Chicago Tribune, a 15-year-old boy was shot three hours earlier. He is in stable condition.
The “historically violent holiday weekend” began ominously when 13 people were shot–with two fatalities–as late Friday gave way to early Saturday.
"North Korea claimed that a nuclear blast on Sunday was a big advance from its previous five tests because it had successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb. But some experts suspect the North may have tested a “boosted” atomic bomb.
How are a hydrogen bomb and a regular atomic bomb different? And why would that matter to the United States and its allies? Here’s what the experts say.
Nuclear weapons trigger an explosive reaction that shears off destructive energy locked inside the bomb’s atomic materials.
The first atomic weapons, like those dropped by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II, did that with fission: splitting unstable uranium or plutonium atoms so that their subatomic neutrons fly free, smash up more atoms and create a devastating blast.
How is a hydrogen bomb different?
A hydrogen bomb, also called a thermonuclear bomb or an H-bomb, uses a second stage of reactions to magnify the force of an atomic explosion. Read on!!!
"Equally apparent is the fact this witches’ brew of trouble is befalling the United States on President Trump’s watch because the Obama administration basically did nothing to attenuate the danger. Instead, it dressed up inactivity and passivity in the face of the metastasizing danger as “strategic patience.”
Even before the North Koreans’ latest intercontinental missile launches, nuclear test, and threat of an EMP attack, Mr. Trump and his senior subordinates have properly signaled that the era of strategic patience is at an end."
History for September 5 - On-This-Day.com Louis XIV (King of France) 1638, Jesse James 1847, Bob Newhart 1929 - Actor, comedian (The Bob Newhart Show) Raquel Welch 1940 - Actress, Freddie Mercury (Queen) 1946, Cathy Lee Guisewaite 1950 - Cartoonist ("Cathy") 1698 - Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards. 1774 - The first session of the U.S. Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia. The delegates drafted a declaration of rights and grievances, organized the Continental Association, and elected Peyton Randolph as the first president of the Continental Congress. 1793 - In France, the "Reign of Terror" began. The National Convention enacted measures to repress the French Revolutionary activities. 1836 - Sam Houston was elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas. 1881 - The American Red Cross provided relief for disaster for the first time. The disaster was the Great Fire of 1881 in Michigan. 1914 - The Battle of the Marne began. The Germans, British and French fought for six days killing half a million people. 1939 - The U.S. proclaimed its neutrality in World War II.
1960 - Cassius Clay of Louisville, KY, won the gold medal in light heavyweight boxing at the Olympic Games in Rome, Italy. Clay later changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
Just asking, because on TV this week I’ve been watching the “Cajun Navy” pull one Dunkirk after another all around the Gulf Coast.
And those good old boys look like they just came off the set of “Duck Dynasty.” They could be wearing MAGA hats. Hell, I’ll bet one or two of them may have even been falsely accused of committing a fake hate crime or two since the election by some unhinged Social Justice Warrior."
(Infowars) – Shocking images out of a classroom in Jacksonville, Florida illustrate how 11-12 year olds in 6th grade are being taught how to use strap-on dildos amidst a debate about Common Core sex education standards which have been attacked by some as pornographic.
...In another image, the woman shows the children how to wear a harness to which the strap-on is attached.
Clinton Middle School in Duval County hired 39-year-old Sharon Mercer to teach the sex education class but after the photos emerged she was suspended and the school refused further comment...
The teaching of so-called “alternative” sexual lifestyles is mandated in many states under Common Core. ...Perhaps the most infamous example of how Common Core will manifest itself in America’s schooling system was illustrated by a bizarre video in which a Common Core curriculum director said that 3 x 4 = 11 could be considered a correct answer so long as students could explain how they reached that number..." Read on!
A Word To The Wise - "You're A Mercenary If..." | Zero Hedge
"The Burning Platform's Jim Quinn notes that:
I have no idea if Major General Higginbotham actually penned this or not but it is a stark warning, one that I have maintained for years, that a civil war in North America (if it happens in the USA it will take Mexico and Canada along for the ride) will not be as cut and dry and as some folks would like.
There are no definable sides to our current predicament, no political organization to speak of, and as such a wide spread conflict would become chaos in short order.
The continent would get very tribal very quickly. Political ideologues proceed with caution.
You won’t like what you are about to read.-Via Kunckledraggin.com"
“If you are paid $25.00 an hour to show up to a rally to “counter” the other party using physical force and violence, you are not a “counter protestor.” You are a mercenary.
There is no need for further debate on this.
You were paid to attack someone you don’t know for reasons that you couldn’t care enough about to go there for free.
You did your “job” and collected your check and your reimbursement of expenses.
You’re a mercenary. Not a Patriot. Not a Social Justice Warrior. Not a Defender of Freedom or Liberty. Not an upholder of Truth or Justice. None of those things you claim to be. You are a mercenary.
...All you young and naive kids on both sides of this equation who think that having a Civil War will advance your agenda or restore your vision of what you think is America, just remember this… Those of us older generations aren’t having any of this shit.
And if you jump off, you better be prepared to deal with US.
We don’t care what color you’re wearing or what sign you’re holding if you come after us, our friends, our family, our co-workers, our neighbors, etc., WE will kill you.
So remember that when you’re thinking that it’s just Left vs Right, or Liberal vs Conservative, or Commie vs. Fascist.
We are the variable you’re not considering.
That “Silent Majority” that you pretend does not exist is getting really sick and tired of your bullshit.
Geoffrey B. Higginbotham
Major General, USMC (Ret.)
-SS
"Liberals prove everyday that they truly are the mentally ill of society. Many liberals implied the money was coming from a Russian bank, others complained that it wasn’t enough money. Remember when Obama pledged $1 million of his own money to the Louisiana flood victims? Neither do we."
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"Here is an e-mail sent to Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune after an article he published concerning a name change for the Washington Redskins.
Dear Mr. Page: I agree with our Native American population. I am highly insulted by the racially charged name of the Washington Redskins.
One might argue that to name a professional football team after Native Americans would exalt them as fine warriors, but nay, nay. We must be careful not to offend, and in the spirit of political correctness and courtesy, we must move forward.
Let's ditch the Kansas City Chiefs, the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians. If your shorts are in a wad because of the reference the name Redskins makes to skin color, then we need to get rid of the Cleveland Browns.
The Carolina Panthers obviously were named to keep the memory of militant Blacks from the 60's alive. Gone. It's offensive to us white folk.
The New York Yankees offend the Southern population. Do you see a team named for the Confederacy? No! There is no room for any reference to that tragic war that cost this country so many men's lives.
I am also offended by the blatant references to the Catholic religion among our sports team names. Totally inappropriate to have the New Orleans Saints, the Los Angeles Angels or the San Diego Padres.
Then there are the team names that glorify criminals who raped and pillaged. We are talking about the horrible Oakland Raiders, the Minnesota Vikings, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Pittsburgh Pirates!
Revisiting wind turbine impacts – Erroneous recent calculation highlights need to assess renewable energy sustainability claims | Watts Up With That?:
"An article I wrote several weeks ago had a couple of stupid math errors.
This column attempts to correct them – and take readers on a journey to the futuristic world of 100 percent “clean, green, sustainable, renewable” wind energy.
Since the assumptions always replacing the 2.85 terawatts of electricity generated worldwide in 2016 – while ensuring stored power for just 48 windless hours – would require:
guide the analysis, this column lays mine out, crunches the numbers, and concludes that
14.4 million 1.8-GW turbines … 570 million acres (30% of the Lower 48 US states) … and 1.4 trillion Tesla 100-kWh lithium-ion battery packs!
Need stored electricity for seven windless days? 50 million turbines, the US-Canadian land mass, and 5 trillion battery packs should do it.
Disagree with this analysis?
Wade in with your own.
Let’s have a wide-open debate, before renewable energy activists and politicians lock us into an energy future that might be horrendous for humanity and planet. (Or might save us from calamitous climate change.)..."
In the current crisis, governments, NGOs, charities and the media have all embraced migrants in the millions, and welcomed them with open arms. The Jews during the Second World War -- most of whom were turned away, turned in, or betrayed by all European governments -- were not so fortunate.
All of Europe's efforts have been devoted to rescuing migrants: on borders, at sea and in cities that host asylum centers. Such distinctions, however, are apparently not enough: the immigration question must become a new ideology, like a religion. That seems why there is an orchestrated attempt by large segments of the establishment to turn Europe's rescue operations into a "new Holocaust". Questioning them must become a taboo. Even Pope Francis, who compared a center for migrants to "concentration camps", adopted this nonsense.
What is the best way to shut down the debate on immigration? By heightening the language to levels impossible to be debated. That is what has been happening in the new -- and false -- trend of comparing the waves of migrants arriving in Europe to Jews during the Holocaust..."
"According to information released Friday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, the Obama administration not only gave protection to millions of illegal immigrants through DACA, but also allowed DACA recipients to obtain green cards.
"Preliminary data provided by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in response to recent inquiries from the House and Senate Judiciary Committees indicate that the Obama administration allowed thousands of DACA recipients to exploit an immigration law loophole to obtain green cards. "
Ferguson Erects A Memorial For Michael Brown : Here is What a Police Officer Has To Say - Patriot Chronicle:
"From IJreview
“I don’t think a criminal that was killed while assaulting a police officer deserves to be memorialized. It sends the wrong message.
Every time people are paid to protest a supposed injustice before the facts are known we lose credibility in the justice system.
Michael Brown was a criminal, he had moments earlier committed or assisted with a strong armed robbery.
When the officer approached, Brown attacked.
The officer shot him in self-defense and it was proven to be justified by a Grand Jury..."
That didn’t stop student activists from grasping at straws to sling mud at the private university in a newly released “Disorientation Guide,” also known as “the shit Penn won’t say,” that they distributed to students Monday, The Daily Pennsylvanian reports.
It decries the “white capitalist imperialist values” of Penn that make it possible for the privileged student activists to attend a university that will vastly boost their earning potential for a lifetime and gives them wide latitude to say odious things without any sanction, to say nothing of a speech-chilling investigation.*
"What happens to a country whose most important police force — and its key investigators — is no longer telling the truth to the citizens of that nation? Nothing good, I'm sure most would agree. There's almost no point in going through all the analogies to despotic regimes. Writers from George Orwell to Arthur Koestler have already done it for us.
"Canadian negotiators are demanding the United States roll back so-called "right to work" laws – accused of gutting unions in some U.S. states by starving them of money – as part of the renegotiation of the North American free-trade agreement.
That person was Brian Hawkins, who had been deemed incompetent in leadership and guilty of mishandling patient records, including sending some of them to his wife’s personal email accounts. 
That person was Brian Hawkins, who had been deemed incompetent in leadership and guilty of mishandling patient records, including sending some of them to his wife’s personal email accounts. 
The shootings included a man and woman; he was 23-years-old and she was 34. Both were “shot multiple times just after 4:30 a.m.” and were hospitalized in serious condition.
"Equally apparent is the fact this witches’ brew of trouble is befalling the United States on President Trump’s watch because the Obama administration basically did nothing to attenuate the danger. Instead, it dressed up inactivity and passivity in the face of the metastasizing danger as “strategic patience.”
You are a mercenary.
"Liberals prove everyday that they truly are the mentally ill of society. Many liberals implied the money was coming from a Russian bank, others complained that it wasn’t enough money. Remember when Obama pledged $1 million of his own money to the Louisiana flood victims? Neither do we."
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Revisiting wind turbine impacts – Erroneous recent calculation highlights need to assess renewable energy sustainability claims | Watts Up With That?: In the current crisis, governments, NGOs, charities and the media have all embraced migrants in the millions, and welcomed them with open arms. The Jews during the Second World War -- most of whom were turned away, turned in, or betrayed by all European governments -- were not so fortunate.
"According to information released Friday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, the Obama administration not only gave protection to millions of illegal immigrants through DACA, but also allowed DACA recipients to obtain green cards.
Ferguson Erects A Memorial For Michael Brown : Here is What a Police Officer Has To Say - Patriot Chronicle: