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Friday, October 20, 2017

History for October 20

History for October 20 - On-This-Day.com
John Dewey 1859 - Psychologist, philosopher, Bela Lugosi (Blasko) 1882 - Actor ("Dracula"), Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay) 1905 - Author

Art Buchwald 1925 - Newspaper columnist, Mickey Mantle 1931 - Baseball player, Tom Petty 1950 - Musician (Traveling Wilburys )

1774 - The new Continental Congress, the governing body of America’s colonies, passed an order proclaiming that all citizens of the colonies "discountenance and discourage all horse racing and all kinds of gaming, cock fighting, exhibitions of shows, plays and other expensive diversions and entertainment."

1892 - The city of Chicago dedicated the World's Columbian Exposition.

1935 - Mao Zedong arrived in Hanoi after his Long March that took just over a year. He then set up the Chinese Communist Headquarters.

1942 - Pierre Laval told the French labor that they must serve in Germany.

1947 - Hollywood came under scrutiny as the House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings into alleged Communist influence within the motion picture industry.

1952 - The Mau Mau uprising against white settlers began in Kenya.

1968 - Jackie Lee Bouvier Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis.

1993 - Attorney General Janet Reno warned the TV industry to limit the violence in their programs.

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Federal court rules World War I memorial cross must be torn down | Fox News

Federal court rules World War I memorial cross must be torn down | Fox News:

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"The American Legion could appeal directly to the Supreme Court.

"Today's decision sets dangerous precedent by completely ignoring history, and it threatens removal and destruction of veterans memorials across America," First Liberty Institute attorney Hiram Sasser said. "

The way we were-----Harper Valley P.T.A. movie clip / singer Jeannie C. Riley

Boob-tube-----CNN FAKE NEWS COMPILATION pt 1 - EXPOSING their lies, fabrications, half...

Steve Russo - Frederica Wilson.... (Maxine Waters in a Cowboy Hat)...

Steve Russo - Frederica Wilson.... (Maxine Waters in a Cowboy Hat)...
"Frederica Wilson.... (Maxine Waters in a Cowboy Hat) Is Distracting You From the Real Scandal

How convenient that the Fake News is far too busy covering “CondolenceGate” to notice the explosive Uranium One story.

The Democrat party is filled with cookie-cutter grievance attention seeking media whores who love to stick their faces in the camera while throwing dog crap at someone they don't like and blaming them for the problems they were elected to fix, to keep the public distracted from something a lot more important.

One of those attention seeking media whores is Frederica Wilson.

For those who don't know who Frederica is, she's the deranged East Coast version of Maxine Waters.... in a cowboy hat.

Lots of different cowboy hats.

I think it's safe to say, that Frederica owns as many cowboy hats as Dolly Parton owns blonde wigs.

I noticed a pattern here.

Whenever there's a damaging story or revelation against either Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or someone from that administration, either the Democrat party or the media go into full protection mode by distracting the public with something else to divert their attention from whatever they don't want you to see.

Now that blockbuster revelations have emerged that the Obama regime knew about a huge bribery scam over that Russian uranium (collusion) deal that went down when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State and covered it up, it is time for the media to launch another weapon of mass distraction.http://thehill.com/…/355749-fbi-uncovered-russian-bribery-p…

That Sgt. Johnson and his grieving spouse have become pawns in the left’s war on Trump is a testament as to just how vile and embittered that the Democrats have become after their putrid excuse for a candidate lost the election. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/…/Trump-slammed-insensitive-phon…"

Read it all!

A nation of wimps!-----Google Deletes Cupcake Calorie Counter From Maps | Time.com

Google Deletes Cupcake Calorie Counter From Maps | Time.com:
Google is removing a cupcake-themed calorie counter from Maps after backlash from users, including concern over the feature being a possibly unscientific add-on that could trigger people with eating disorders.
The experimental feature, styled as a pink cupcake, showed users how many estimated calories in terms of cupcakes that users would burn if they walked to the destination of their destination.

It first appeared in the iOS version of Google Maps beneath walking directions.
As might be expected, it was critiqued by users that thought that the new feature was unnecessary and potentially harmful and took to the Internet to share their feelings about the matter.

Shapiro At 'National Review': Hollywood's Diseased Culture | Daily Wire

Shapiro At 'National Review': Hollywood's Diseased Culture | Daily Wire:

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"Next, the implications: Hollywood has long been accused of depravity, but has spent the past two decades attempting to establish feminist bona fides. All of that collapsed this month. No longer can Hollywood pretend to be a forum designed for female betterment; no longer can many of Hollywood’s most burnished elites proclaim their love for female empowerment. They stood by and did nothing because Harvey Weinstein was powerful. And now, too late, they proclaim their mea culpas."

Uranium One Means Mueller Must Recuse Himself from Russia Probe | Roger L. Simon

Uranium One Means Mueller Must Recuse Himself from Russia Probe | Roger L. Simon
"At the end of their lengthy editorial regarding the new Uranium One revelations -- "Team Obama's stunning coverup of Russian crimes" -- the New York Post editorial board writes:

Until September 2013, the FBI director was Robert Mueller — who’s now the special counsel probing Russian meddling in the 2016 election. It’s hard to see how he can be trusted in that job unless he explains what he knew about this Obama-era cover-up.

I'll go the Post one better.

Virtually whatever Mueller has to say about his involvement or non-involvement in this metastasizing scandal, he must recuse himself immediately for the most obvious reasons of propriety and appearance.

Frankly, it's outrageous that he, Ron Rosenstein, or anyone who even touched the Uranium One investigation now be involved with the current probe -- unless the real name of the FBI is actually the NKVD.

This is not how a democracy is supposed to work, even remotely. Forget transparency -- this was deliberate occlusion..."

Read on!

Virtually no coverage of Obama-Clinton Russian uranium BOMBSHELL

Virtually no coverage of Obama-Clinton Russian uranium BOMBSHELL
WHERE’S THE COVERAGE …

Nothing on CNN … More than 24 hours ago, The Hill reported that the FBI knew of, and was investigating, Russian bribes before the Obama administration approved a deal giving Russians control of a significant portion of U.S. uranium production.

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This happened way back in the early days of the Obama presidency, and investigators were looking into payments made to the Clinton Foundation that may have swayed Hillary Clinton, who was part of the chain of approval of the deal.

You wouldn’t know that if you watched CNN.

As of noon today, the only reference to the bombshell report was during live coverage of a hearing involving Senator Jeff Sessions before a Senate committee.

There have been no produced news reports on the network, according to the TV Eyes Media Monitoring Suite.

It is a total blackout.

...Nothing on the broadcast networks, either …

Our friends at NewsBustersshow that there was no coverage of the uranium news on the networks, either.

They further report that the networks, across all news programming, have spent a whopping total of 181 seconds on the Clinton Foundation scandal.

That’s huge bias, plain and simple..."

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Lunch video-----Stossel: Baby Salmon Threatened?

Noon-toon

FBI: Over Four Times More People Stabbed to Death Than Killed with Rifles of Any Kind - Breitbart

FBI: Over Four Times More People Stabbed to Death Than Killed with Rifles of Any Kind - Breitbart:

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"The FBI Uniform Crime Report (UCR) for 2016 shows more than four times as many people were stabbed to death than were killed with rifles of any kind.
And because the category of rifles covers every type of rifle, this means there would be an even greater divide between the number of people stabbed to death versus those shot to death with an AR-15 or similar rifle."

We've found the worst take on the Harvey Weinstein scandal

We've found the worst take on the Harvey Weinstein scandal:
"We've done it.
We've found the worst response to the growing and increasingly awful Harvey Weinstein sex scandal.

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Behold: New York Times opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg, who wrote this week, "The movie business is corrupt, depraved and iniquitous — and still morally superior to the Republican Party under Trump."
Impressive.
She identified a bad thing, and then identified a second bad thing so as to mitigate the sins of the first.
We didn't think we'd see someone from the Times downplay the Hollywood scandal this soon, yet here we are.
"Betraying the principle of gender equality is bad. Rejecting it is worse," Goldberg added.
It's downhill from there, trust us.
The chief argument of Goldberg's piece is that supporters of President Trump have no right attack the film industry over its decades of silence in the face of Weinstein's well-known behavior because the president is actually worse..."
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"No Devilishly Effective Plot" - Clinton Chief Strategist Admits "You Can't Buy The Presidency For $100,000" | Zero Hedge

"No Devilishly Effective Plot" - Clinton Chief Strategist Admits "You Can't Buy The Presidency For $100,000" | Zero Hedge:
"Authored by Mark Penn, former chief strategist on Bill Clinton’s 1996 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign, and Mrs. Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign; via The Wall Street Journal...

Russia didn’t win Trump the White House any more than China re-elected Bill Clinton in 1996.
The fake news about fake news is practically endless.
Americans worried about Russia’s influence in the 2016 election have seized on a handful of Facebook ads—as though there weren’t also three 90-minute debates, two televised party conventions, and $2.4 billion spent on last year’s campaign.
The danger is that bending facts to fit the Russia story line may nudge Washington into needlessly and recklessly regulating the internet and curtailing basic freedoms.

After an extensive review, Facebook has identified $100,000 of ads that came from accounts associated with Russia.

Assume for the sake of argument that Vladimir Putin personally authorized this expenditure.
Given its divisive nature, the campaign could be dubbed “From Russia, With Hate”—except it would make for a disappointing James Bond movie.
Analyzing the pattern of expenditures, and doing some back-of-the-envelope math, it’s clear this was no devilishly effective plot.

Facebook says 56% of the ads ran after the election, reducing the tally that could have influenced the result to about $44,000.
It also turns out the ads were not confined to swing states but also shown in places like New York, California and Texas. Supposing half the ads went to swing states brings the total down to $22,000.
Facebook also counted ads as early as June 2015. ssuming they were evenly spread and we want only those that ran the year of the election, that knocks it down to $13,000.
Most of the ads did not solicit support for a candidate and carried messages on issues like racism, immigration and guns. The actual electioneering then amounts to about $6,500..."

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#1 Song-This week 1967-----To Sir, with love (1967) - the ending

Walter E. Williams: Who Pays What in Taxes? — The Patriot Post

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Walter E. Williams: Who Pays What in Taxes? — The Patriot Post:
"Politicians exploit public ignorance.
Few areas of public ignorance provide as many opportunities for political demagoguery as taxation. Today some politicians argue that the rich must pay their fair share and label the proposed changes in tax law as tax cuts for the rich.
Let’s look at who pays what, with an eye toward attempting to answer this question: Are the rich paying their fair share?
According to the latest IRS data, the payment of income taxes is as follows.

The top 1 percent of income earners, those having an adjusted annual gross income of $480,930 or higher, pay about 39 percent of federal income taxes. That means about 892,000 Americans are stuck with paying 39 percent of all federal taxes.
The top 10 percent of income earners, those having an adjusted gross income over $138,031, pay about 70.6 percent of federal income taxes. About 1.7 million Americans, less than 1 percent of our population, pay 70.6 percent of federal income taxes.

Is that fair, or do you think they should pay more?
By the way, earning $500,000 a year doesn’t make one rich.
It’s not even yacht money.
But the fairness question goes further.

The bottom 50 percent of income earners, those having an adjusted gross income of $39,275 or less, pay 2.83 percent of federal income taxes. Thirty-seven million tax filers have no tax obligation at all..."

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You ought to know!

ACLJ Demands Obama-Era Iran Deal Documents on Iran’s Use of Commercial Planes for Jihad | American Center for Law and Justice

ACLJ Demands Obama-Era Iran Deal Documents on Iran’s Use of Commercial Planes for Jihad | American Center for Law and Justice:

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"Late last week, the President boldly announced that his Administration will not certify the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), otherwise known as President Obama’s catastrophic Iran Nuclear Deal. In his announcement, President Trump called out the Iranian government for what it is – a “radical regime.”

As we have explained before, the disastrous Iran Deal is even worse than previously thought: “Evidence now surfaces showing the Obama Administration concealed information that Iran—the number one state sponsor of terror—has made it a practice of shipping jihadists on commercial aircraft to Syria in violation of the international laws governing the Iran Nuclear Deal.”"

Team Obama’s stunning cover-up of Russian crimes | New York Post

Team Obama’s stunning cover-up of Russian crimes | New York Post:
"It turns out the Obama administration knew the Russians were engaged in bribery, kickbacks and extortion in order to gain control of US atomic resources — yet still OK’d that 2010 deal to give Moscow control of one-fifth of America’s uranium.
This reeks.

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Peter Schweizer got onto part of the scandal in his 2015 book, “Clinton Cash”: the gifts of $145 million to the Clinton Foundation, and the $500,000 fee to Bill for a single speech, by individuals involved in a deal that required Hillary Clinton’s approval.
But now The Hill reports that the FBI in 2009 had collected substantial evidence — eyewitnesses backed by documents — of money-laundering, blackmail and bribery by Russian nuclear officials, all aimed at growing “Vladimir Putin’s atomic-energy business inside the United States” in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
The bureau even flagged the routing of millions from Russian nuclear officials to cutouts and on to Clinton Inc..."