Kellogg's replacing racially insensitive Corn Pops art after Twitter call out

Kellogg's replacing racially insensitive Corn Pops art after Twitter call out

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Kellogg's promises to replace racially insensitive Corn Pops boxes

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Kellogg's will be redesigning Corn Pops cereal boxes after a complaint about racially insensitive art on the packaging.

The Battle Creek, Mich.-based cereal and snack maker said on Twitter Wednesday it will replace the cover drawing of cartoon characters shaped like corn kernels populating a shopping mall. The corn pop characters are shown shopping, playing in an arcade or frolicked in a fountain. One skateboards down an escalator. 

What struck Saladin Ahmed was that a single brown corn pop was working as a janitor operating a floor waxer. Ahmed, current writer of Marvel Comics' Black Bolt series and author of 2012 fantasy novel Throne of the Crescent Moon, took to Twitter on Tuesday to ask, "Why is literally the only brown corn pop on the whole cereal box the janitor? this is teaching kids racism..."
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Emory University professor: whites inherently racist, men inherently sexist - The College Fix

Emory University professor: whites inherently racist, men inherently sexist - The College Fix
"Another day, another race “expert” lecturing white people on their racism and what they need to do about it — this time at Emory University.
On October 17, Emory’s George Yancy, a philosophy professor whose areas of research include the “Critical Philosophy of Race” and “Critical Whiteness Studies” (naturally), lectured his white Emory peers on their “inherent racism” and the necessity of recognizing their “white privilege.”
As reported by the Emory Wheel, Yancy noted that in his classes he does a twist on “safe spaces” — he creates what he dubs “dangerous spaces” — but only for white students.
That’s because, he says, “whiteness is often considered the ‘norm’ in society” and “many white students have never had to think of themselves as different or problematic.”
(One can only imagine if a professor attempted that with any other racial/ethnic group.)
...“My argument is that at the end of the day the best that I can be is an anti-sexist sexist.
I fight against sexism everyday of my life, to the best that I can,” Yancy said.
“The best that [a white person] can become is an anti-racist racist...”
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Cuban refugee warns Democrats against 'communist movement' hijacking the party - Washington Times

Cuban refugee warns Democrats against 'communist movement' hijacking the party - Washington Times:

"A man who fled Cuba as a boy is warning Democrats against what he sees as ideological parallels between the communist regime and the American political party.
In a speech to the College Republicans at UCLA on Wednesday, Rafael Dagnesses said he doesn’t want “the Democrat Party to disappear.”
“Balance is good,” Mr. Dagnesses said, reported The College Fix, “but the Democrat Party no longer exists. Rational, middle-of-the-road Democrats have been hijacked by the leftist, socialist, communist movement.”"

“Digital Music Takeover” -----Wednesday afternoon links - AEI

Wednesday afternoon links - AEI:

"1. Chart of the Day I (above) shows the amazing “Digital Music Takeover” of recorded music sales, based on new mid-year data for 2017 from the Recording Industry Association of America. 
As recently as 2003, physical format recordings (CD, LPs, DVDs, etc.) were 100% of recorded music sales. 
In 2004, digital music was in its infancy and captured just 1.5% of recorded music sales. 
Since then digital music formats have become increasingly popular, and for recorded music sales in the first six months of 2017, digital music captured a record-high market share 84%. 
I’m pretty sure we can expect that trend to continue, as CD and LP sales continue to decline as a share of recorded music sales and digital music continues to gain market share."

We Visited a WWI Memorial a Court Ordered to Be Removed. Here’s What We Saw.

We Visited a WWI Memorial a Court Ordered to Be Removed. Here’s What We Saw.: 
"A federal district court ordered that a nearly century-old “Peace Cross” be taken down in Bladensburg, Maryland.
Why?
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled earlier this month that the cross, built in 1925, “has the primary effect of endorsing religion and excessively entangles the government in religion.”
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, has vowed to take the case to the Supreme Court..."

#1 This day 1974-----The Spinners - Then Came You (with Dionne Warwick)

New Zealand To Foreigners - Get Out! | Zero Hedge

New Zealand To Foreigners - Get Out! | Zero Hedge
"The New Zealand Prime Minister that took the country back into Marxism, has fired its first shot across the bow. 

Thirty-seven-year-old Jacinda Ardern, a member of the New Zealand Labour Party, became the world’s youngest female leader. Hillary must be crying in her martini.

The Labour party have formally signed a coalition agreement, introducing all new policies focusing on climate change, regional development, and poverty which translates into hunting the hated rich.

Nevertheless, PM Ardern has just fired the first shot across the bow and this is a serious warning that foreign investment better cross New Zealand off the list of places that will be up-and-coming.

She has banned foreigners from buying property in New Zealand.

As The BBC reports, the rise in New Zealand house prices over recent years has been fuelled by strong immigration, low interest rates and limited housing supplies.

...She thinks banned foreign property ownership will cool off the property market. The problem will be, a property crash. When home values decline, people feel they lost money and they spend less.

With rising property values, people feel they are better-off and spend more assuming they have equity even if they do not borrow against it.

She may be the youngest female leader in the world, but she also is clueless about economics."

You ought to know!

The Left has gun-toting militias of its own, Charlottesville lawsuit reveals | Fox News

The Left has gun-toting militias of its own, Charlottesville lawsuit reveals | Fox News:

"With a name like Redneck Revolt, one “paramilitary” group named in a lawsuit filed in the wake of the deadly Charlottesville protests sounds like the classic alt-right, gun-toting militia many blame for the August incident that sparked a national debate on race and guns.

But Redneck Revolt is a sometimes-armed militia that left-wing protesters have apparently started calling on for security, and critics say it represents a growing group of heat-packing, far-left social justice warriors who are “willing to take on personal risk to defend those in our community,” according to the group’s website."

10 Things Reporters Need To Understand About The Steele Dossier

10 Things Reporters Need To Understand About The Steele Dossier
'Here Are The 10 Most Important Reported Claims About The Steele Dossier On Russia
There's a lot of misinformation swirling about that shoddy dossier on Trump and Russia compiled by Christopher Steele.
Here's what's actually been reported on the matter.- Mollie Hemingway By Mollie Hemingway
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Last night the Washington Post reported that the infamous “Russia dossier” was partly funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The dossier’s inflammatory and unsubstantiated claims about Donald Trump provided the framework for mainstream media treatment of the president for much of the last year and fueled multiple investigations. Here are 10 things to keep in mind about the dossier.
1) Russian officials were sources of key claims in dossier...
2) No, the Russian dossier was not initially funded by Republicans...
4) The dossier was used as a basis for wiretaps on American citizens...
5) The FBI also paid for the dossier...
10) The Steele dossier was a Clinton/DNC-funded operation supported by the FBI and influenced heavily by Russian operatives in the Kremlin...
...Yet here we have the realization that the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and the FBI all worked wittingly or unwittingly with Russians to affect the results of the 2016 election.
Far from just meeting with a Russian and not getting dirt on a political opponent, these groups wittingly or unwittingly paid Russian operatives for disinformation to harm Trump during the 2016 election and beyond..."
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History for October 26

History for October 26 - On-This-Day.com
C.W. (Charles William) Post 1854 - Founder of Post cereals and products (Grape Nuts), Napoleon Hill 1883 - Writer (Think and Grow Rich), Mahalia Jackson 1911- Singer


Pat Sajak 1946 - TV host (Wheel of Fortune, The Pat Sajack Show), Hillary Rodham Clinton 1947 - First Lady: wife of 42nd U.S. President William J. Clinton, U.S. Senator from New York, U.S. Presidential candidate in 2008, Jaclyn Smith 1947 - Actress (TV: "The Bourne Identity," "Charlie’s Angels")


1881 - The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ. The fight was between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday and the Ike Clanton Gang.


1942 - The U.S. ship Hornet was sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz during World War II.


1944 - During World War II, the Battle of Leyte Gulf ended. The battle was won by American forces and brought the end of the Pacific phase of World War II into sight.


1951 - Winston Churchill became the prime minister of Great Britain.


1958 - Pan American Airways flew its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York City to Paris.


1991 - Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry arrived at a federal correctional institution in Petersburg, VA, to begin serving a six-month sentence for cocaine possession.


1996 - Federal prosecutors cleared Richard Jewell as a suspect in the Olympic park bombing.


1998 - A French lab found a nerve agent on an Iraqi missile warhead.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2017/10/october-25-2017-value-of-freedom-by.html

Value of Freedom

By Tammy Derouin

Life is never boring. It's an endless roller coaster of ups and downs, twists and turns, gut wrenching upsets and uncontrollable laughter. As much as we would love life to slow down for a little while, given the alternative, we continue the ride. We hold on as long as possible. We choose life and all the chaos which comes with it.

Life is worth living. We know this to be true because we never stop investing in ways to improve or prolong the life we've been given. Life is too short. We realize how quickly life goes by with each passing birthday. Life is difficult and very complicated, yet extremely rewarding. If it wasn't worth living, worth fighting for, giving up would be acceptable practice. Quitting is not an option for most.

We were not born with individualized how-to guides to help navigate us through life. There weren't any maps indicating all the hazards and challenges we would face or the answers to situations which would alter our path. Life is full of surprises and many trials and errors. Our life experiences, our struggles and triumphs, are what make us unique individuals. Not a single one of us could control how we entered this world or the circumstances of the times into which we were born. It's what we do with those challenges, how we strive to make a difference and how we go about obtaining those goals which determines our success......

The way we were-----The Box Tops - The Letter (Upbeat 1967)

Boob-tube-----24 NEW SHOWS OF FALL TV 1973

The Trump dossier was Clinton’s dirtiest political trick | New York Post

The Trump dossier was Clinton’s dirtiest political trick | New York Post:
"And so the worm turns. Make that worms.
Just as key congressional panels open new probes into the still-smoking debris of last year’s election, the revelation that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid as much as $9 million for the discredited Russian dossier on Donald Trump flips the collusion script on its head.
Now it’s Democrats’ turn in the barrel.
The explosive report in the Washington Post goes a long way to explaining how the dossier was so widely spread among political reporters during the election.
The Clinton camp must have passed it out like Halloween candy to its media handmaidens.
News organizations tried for months to confirm the salacious details, but couldn’t.
The document became public when BuzzFeed, a loud Clinton booster, published it 10 days before the inauguration, while acknowledging it couldn’t verify the contents.
The Post report provides possible answers to other questions, too.
Because Clinton’s team paid for the dossier, it’s likely that she gave it to the FBI, where James Comey planned to hire the former British agent who had compiled it to keep digging dirt on Trump.
The finding also raises the possibility that the dossier is what led the Obama White House to snoop on members of Trump’s team, and leak the “unmasked” names to the anti-Trump media in a bid to help Clinton.
In short, we now have compelling evidence that the dossier was the largest and dirtiest dirty trick of the 2016 campaign. And Clinton, who has played the victim card ever since her loss, was behind it the whole time.
Anybody surprised?
Me neither."

Undermining America - Walter E. Williams

Undermining America - Walter E. Williams:
"Our nation's leftist progressives have long sought to undermine the American values expressed in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
...Students at the University of Virginia want to remove the statue of Thomas Jefferson, the university's founder. Students at the University of Missouri also want Jefferson's statue gone.
Why?
He was a slave owner.
Many in the college community supported Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential bid.
They welcomed Sanders' belief that the United States was founded on "racist principles." 
There have also been calls for the removal of George Washington's and Abraham Lincoln's statues. Some have called for the renaming of schools that honor Washington, Jefferson and 11 other slave-owning presidents.
Leftists have called for the renaming of streets named after slave-owning presidents.
There have been many leftist calls for the elimination of Columbus Day.
Their success at getting Confederate statues taken down has emboldened them.
What goes unappreciated is just why America's leftists' movement attacks the Founders.
If they can delegitimize the Founders themselves, it goes a long way toward their agenda of delegitimizing the founding principles of our nation.
If the leftists can convince the nation that men such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were good-for-nothing slave-owning racists, then their ideas can be more easily trashed. 
We find the greatest assaults on our founding documents on the nation's college campuses..."

Delingpole: Now 400 Scientific Papers in 2017 Say 'Global Warming' Is a Myth

Delingpole: Now 400 Scientific Papers in 2017 Say 'Global Warming' Is a Myth:

"When I reported earlier this year on the 58 scientific papers published in 2017 that say global warming is a myth the greenies’ heads exploded.
Since then, that figure has risen to 400 scientific papers."

Iphoneconservative - Posts

Iphoneconservative - Posts: 
"Did I get your attention???......... Good.
Now let's be very clear..........the meme in no way seeks to minimise the serious problem of sexual assault or harassment.
Nor is it a not-so subtle jab at the proclivity of certain Middle Eastern men to take the idea of animal husbandry a little too seriously.
The memes purpose is to point a finger squarely at the moral vacuity of the MeToo movement.
#MeToo perfectly encapsulates the Left's love of virtue signalling over actual efforts to address an issue.
Like so many issues the Left embrace, it has the form of virtue without any of its substance.
Unlike the #MeToo crowd, the actresses who accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault and misconduct, showed real courage in naming the person who assaulted or harassed them.
#MeToo allows the individual to flaunt their victim-hood credentials without the concomitant courage of exposing the identity of those who degrade and use women..."
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MEDC Downplayed Pure Michigan Return On Investment Claims? Oh Really [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

MEDC Downplayed Pure Michigan Return On Investment Claims? Oh Really [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
Secretive numbers used in claims have headlined many tales told to reporters and lawmakers
"David Lorenz is the Michigan Economic Development Corporation official in charge of the state agency’s Travel Michigan tourism promotion bureau.
Lorenz said in a recent news article that he wants to make sure the $35 million spent on Pure Michigan ads is used wisely.
The MEDC recently ended its relationship with Longwoods International, a company that provided alleged rate-of-return calculations on how much the ads added to state economic activity and tax collections.
Longwoods’ most recent report stated that the state received more than $8 in additional tax dollars for every dollar spent on Pure Michigan promotions.
(The ads must have got better, because in 2010, Longwoods and the MEDC were claiming just an extra $2.23 collected per dollar spent.)
There’s just one catch: 
The company and the MEDC refuse to divulge the methods used to come up with those numbers, saying the process contained proprietary information. 
Essentially, what they have told both taxpayers and policymakers is, “Trust us.”
Yet Lorenz now says he never focused on how much return on investment the state gets from its Pure Michigan tourism campaign.
“People always focus on the (ROI) numbers. I never have,” Lorenz said in a Crain’s Detroit Business article..."

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