Tuesday, November 14, 2017

University of Maryland Students Vote to Install $20,000 Napping Stations in Library - Breitbart

University of Maryland Students Vote to Install $20,000 Napping Stations in Library - Breitbart:
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"The student government at the University of Maryland recently voted to install two napping stations in the school’s library that will cost over $20,000.
“The order for two pods — including shipping, delivery, assembly and installation — would cost a combined $21,818.20 after applying a learning institution discount of $6,470,” reads a report from the school’s newspaper on the pods."


You Have to Hand It to Hillary – the Girl Can Smear

You Have to Hand It to Hillary – the Girl Can Smear:

Image result for flickr commons images hillary clinton"With the help of the DNC (broke, but forking over millions to this end), Hillary pulled off what Kimberly Strassel rightly calls “one of the dirtiest tricks in U.S. political history." She hired a smear outfit (Fusion, headed by Glenn Simpson) which put together ludicrous claims, leaked them to willing press cohorts, including David Corn at Mother Jones, hired Christopher Steele (GPS) to concoct a fairytale about Donald J Trump and had Steele give the Dossier to the FBI in July 2016. Then press megaphone Michael Isikoff at Yahoo News -- obviously tipped off by Steele -- reported, “U.S. intel officials probe ties between Trump advisor and Kremlin.”

Having generated this nonsense, handed it off to the FBI, and shared the news of that handoff to Isikoff, Hillary “jumped all over it, spinning its own oppo research as a government investigation into Mr. Trump.” She and her surrogates hit the airwaves with it:"

The way we were-----Stand By Me, Ben E King, 1961

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Crash Of The Tu-144 – The Higher You Rise, The Farther You Fall | Frontline Videos | Raw, Uncut, Real Videos From The Frontlines

Crash Of The Tu-144 – The Higher You Rise, The Farther You Fall | Frontline Videos | Raw, Uncut, Real Videos From The Frontlines:
CONCORDSKI.
The quest for the best supersonic aircraft is one that drove a wedge between Russia and the rest of the world. ..
“Just wait until you see us fly. Then you’ll see something.”
– Mikhail Kozlov (Tupolev Tu-144 Pilot)
The Tu-144 launched with a steep climb and everything was going fine until its nose started to dip. In this clip, BBC News shows film of the tragic crash as well as an interview test pilot John Farley who witnessed the crash.

Teaching Millennials How Not to Think Stupid | Minding The Campus

Teaching Millennials How Not to Think Stupid | Minding The Campus
TEACHING MILLENNIALS HOW NOT TO THINK STUPID

"...Here is the speech I gave them.
Before I can teach you how to reason, I must first teach you how to rid yourself of unreason. For many of you have not yet been educated. You have been dis-educated. To put it bluntly, you have been indoctrinated. Before you learn how to think you must first learn how to stop unthinking.
See the source imageReasoning requires you to understand truth claims, even truth claims that you think are false or bad or just icky. Most of you have been taught to label things with various “isms” which prevent you from understanding claims you find uncomfortable or difficult.
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Reasoning requires correct judgment. Judgment involves making distinctions, discriminating. Most of you have been taught how to avoid critical, evaluative judgments by appealing to simplistic terms such as “diversity” and “equality.”
Reasoning requires you to understand the difference between true and false. And reasoning requires coherence and logic. Most of you have been taught to embrace incoherence and illogic. You have learned to associate truth with your subjective feelings, which are neither true nor false but only yours, and which are constantly changeful...."
...So, here are three ground rules for the rest of the semester.
  1.  The only “ism” I ever want to come out your mouth is a syllogism. If I catch you using an “ism” or its analogous “ist” — racist, classist, etc. — then you will not be permitted to continue speaking until you have first identified which “ism” you are guilty of at that very moment. You are not allowed to fault others for being biased or privileged until you have first identified and examined your own biases and privileges.
  2.  If I catch you this semester using the words “fair,” “diversity,” or “equality,” or a variation on those terms, and you do not stop immediately to explain what you mean, you will lose your privilege to express any further opinions in class until you first demonstrate that you understand three things about the view that you are criticizing.
  3.  If you ever begin a statement with the words “I feel,” before continuing you must cluck like a chicken or make some other suitable animal sound.
To their credit, the students received the speech well. And so far this semester, only two students have been required to cluck like chickens."
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Court-ordered deportations surge after Trump ends Obama-era delay tactics

Court-ordered deportations surge after Trump ends Obama-era delay tactics:

Image result for flickr commons images Court Room"Government data shows the Trump administration has already shifted the "culture" of immigration attorneys, who used to have more tools under the Obama administration to delay court decisions on whether to remove illegal immigrants, but are now being forced to push for a final verdict more quickly.

Under Obama, immigration attorneys were more likely to leave cases for illegal immigrants in limbo, thus preventing them from ever ruling on whether they needed to be removed from the U.S. An official from the Executive Office for Immigration Review explained to the Washington Examiner that attorneys would push for an administrative closure, or a pause in the proceedings before an administrative judge."

Interesting take!-----Scott Adams: Trump Tweeting About Kim Jong Un is "Little Bit Theater and...

Thin gruel-----Mona Shores superintendent resigns following paid leave | MLive.com

See the source imageMona Shores superintendent resigns following paid leave | MLive.com
"NORTON SHORES, MI - Mona Shores Public Schools superintendent Greg Helmer, who has been the subject of scrutiny after he was reprimanded for retaliating against an employee and was placed on paid administrative leave last week, has resigned.
The plan was established for Helmer after Principal Jennifer Bustard filed a complaint that alleged Helmer had engaged in a pattern of "bullying, harassment and intimidating behavior to 'get rid of her,'" according to an investigative report released to MLive in October.
She later filed a second complaint alleging that Helmer tried to "intimidate and undermine" her in retaliation for filing the first complaint, according to the report.
...Helmer's annual salary was $133,500, according to Mona Shores' most recent transparency reporting of W-2 compensation exceeding $100,000. 
Total compensation in 2016 was $211,624..."

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Stop Forcing Taxpayers to Fund Public Broadcasting | The Heritage Foundation

Stop Forcing Taxpayers to Fund Public Broadcasting | The Heritage Foundation:
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"When President Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act on Nov. 7, 1967, he spoke of a future in which non-commercial broadcasters would function as nationwide replicas of Ancient Greece's "agora," or marketplace. But he added a dark warning: If mishandled, they could "generate controversy without understanding ... mislead as well as teach."

Conservatives quickly realized it was not going to be the agora."


Local Governments Are Not in Debt Because of Less Revenue Sharing [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Local Governments Are Not in Debt Because of Less Revenue Sharing [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"The largest problem facing local governments is the amount of debt they have for workers in retirement.
Image result for Underfunded Pension CartoonThe debt comes in two forms: pension liabilities and government-funded medical insurance. 
The political debate is how to solve the debt problem.
Local governments can stop racking up pension debt by shifting their employees to 401(k) retirement plans as soon as possible.
...Local governments would always like to have more money from the state.
But that’s not the real problem.
The problem is that municipalities have made promises they are pushing off onto future taxpayers. These problems are self-inflicted and, because there is no right to retiree health care, local managers already have the tools necessary to fix them..."

BARACK BIPOLAR OBAMA, THEN AND NOW. Shot: Obama had always had a high estimation of his ability …

Instapundit » Blog Archive » BARACK BIPOLAR OBAMA, THEN AND NOW. Shot: Obama had always had a high estimation of his ability …:
BARACK BIPOLAR OBAMA, THEN AND NOW.
Shot:
Image result for obama memeObama had always had a high estimation of his ability to cast and run his operation. When David Plouffe, his campaign manager, first interviewed for a job with him in 2006, the senator gave him a warning: “I think I could probably do every job on the campaign better than the people I’ll hire to do it,” he said. “It’s hard to give up control when that’s all I’ve known.” Obama said nearly the same thing to Patrick Gaspard, whom he hired to be the campaign’s political director. “I think I’m a better
 speechwriter than my speechwriters,” Obama told him. “I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.”
“Obama: I Can Do Every Job Better Than Those I Hire to Do It,” Jim Geraghty, April 24, 2012.

Chaser:  “Fifty Times Obama Reminded Us His Job Isn’t Easy,” Washington Free Beacon video supercut, Thursday.
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Teenagers who smoke cannabis damage their brains for LIFE and may be more likely to develop schizophrenia | Daily Mail Online

Teenagers who smoke cannabis damage their brains for LIFE and may be more likely to develop schizophrenia | Daily Mail Online:
    Cannabis
  • Teenagers who smoke cannabis damage their brains for LIFE and may be more likely to develop schizophrenia
  • U.S. study found that mice exposed to even small doses of marijuana for 20 days suffered lasting brain damage into adulthood 
  • Results highlight how teenagers who regularly smoke weed may have a greater risk of developing schizophrenia
Teenagers who regularly smoke cannabis suffer long lasting brain damage and are in much greater danger of developing schizophrenia..."
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ABC News: Firearm Confiscation Orders Part of Solution to Mass Public Attacks - Breitbart

ABC News: Firearm Confiscation Orders Part of Solution to Mass Public Attacks - Breitbart:

Image result for Weapons Confiscation"Senate Democrats pushed nine different gun controls during the past six weeks, and ABC News has now emerged with a tenth gun law which they suggest may be the ringer.
That law would legalize firearm confiscation orders like those in Washington state. Such orders allow a judge to issue an ex parte order for the confiscation of an American’s firearms."



Canadian Doctor Laments Pitfalls of Canadian Health Care

Canadian Doctor Laments Pitfalls of Canadian Health Care
"A Canadian doctor is lamenting the pitfalls of Canadian healthcare, penning an article for the Huffington Post blasting both his provincial government and the federal government for policies that are driving him and others away.
Image result for Canadian Health CareAdam Stewart, a family physician practicing in Ontario, says doctors like him are “looking for the exit,” citing high tax rates, severe underfunding, burnout, and feelings of unappreciation as driving factors.
“For over three years, Ontario’s doctors have been hit with multiple unilaterally imposed cuts to funding,...
And Stewart isn’t alone.
Nadia Alam, an anesthetist also based in Ontario, penned her own story of burnout and despair, writing,
“Dread and despair, uncertainty and panic ebb and flow around thoughts of my medical career.
Most days clamour with stories of clinics closing, physicians leaving and patients dying on waitlists — all flatly ignored by provincial leaders.
Stewart and Alam’s stories appear to run contrary to the progressive American view of Canadian universal healthcare, one that wants so desperately to believe that Canadian healthcare is free, efficient, and morally superior to that of private medicine.
If Canada’s system were implemented in the United States, the damage could be enormous."

AM Fruitcake


History for November 14

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History for November 14 - On-This-Day.com
Claude Monet 1840 - French impressionist painter, Jawaharlal Nehru 1889 - Indian politician, Joseph McCarthy 1909 - Politician (U.S. Senator from Wisconsin)
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali 1922 - Egyptian politician, P.J. O'Rourke 1947 - Political satirist, journalist, writer, Condoleezza Rice 1954 - U.S. Secretary of State
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1851 - Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" was first published in the U.S.
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1940 - During World War II, German war planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry when about 500 Luftwaffe bombers attacked.
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1956 - The USSR crushed the Hungarian uprising.
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1972 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 1,000 (1,003.16) level for the first time.
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1972 - Blue Ribbon Sports became Nike.
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1979 - U.S. President Carter froze all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks abroad in response to the taking of 63 American hostages at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran.
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1994 - U.S. experts visited North Korea's main nuclear complex for the first time under an accord that opened such sites to outside inspections.
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1995 - The U.S. government instituted a partial shutdown, closing national parks and museums while most government offices operated with skeleton crews.
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Monday, November 13, 2017

Gal Gadot Won't Be In The 'Wonder Woman' Sequel Unless Producer Brett Ratner Is Fired | Daily Wire

Gal Gadot Won't Be In The 'Wonder Woman' Sequel Unless Producer Brett Ratner Is Fired | Daily Wire:

"The star of this summer's blockbuster hit "Wonder Woman," Gal Gadot, says she won't return for the sequel unless Brett Ratner is dumped from the film.
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According to the New York Post, Gadot has launched a one-woman crusade against the popular Hollywood producer who stands accused of sexually harassing more than a dozen women, including starlets Natasha Henstridge and Olivia Munn. Ratner has repeatedly denied the allegations, through his attorney Marty Singer, but the accusations keep piling up, and Hollywood movie houses are beginning to take notice."

The way we were-----Jan & Dean - Surf City - 1963

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We have been warned!-----The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany: William L. Shirer

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany: William L. Shirer
"…Hitler’s contempt for “professors” and the intellectual academic life had peppered the pages of Mein Kampf, in which he had set down some of his ideas on education.
...But, even more important, he had stressed in his book the importance of winning over and then training the youth in the service “of a new national state”—a subject he returned to often after he became the German dictator.
“When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’” he said in a speech on November 6, 1933, “I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already … What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. 
Ina short time they will know nothing else but this new community...’” 

MALKIN: An ICE Agent's Quest For Justice | Daily Wire

MALKIN: An ICE Agent's Quest For Justice | Daily Wire:

""Betrayed."
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Victor Avila is a survivor. Soft-spoken but iron-willed, he dedicated his life to law enforcement and to his country. Yet, the feds are now fighting tooth and nail to bury the full truth about the 2011 ambush by Los Zetas drug cartel thugs in Mexico that left him gravely wounded and his partner, special agent Jaime Zapata, dead."

Black Lives Matter cashes in with $100 million from liberal foundations - Washington Times

Black Lives Matter cashes in with $100 million from liberal foundations - Washington Times:
Black Lives Matter demonstrators gather during a protest on Broad Street in Philadelphia on July 26, 2016, during the second day of the Democratic National Convention. (Associated Press)"For all its talk of being a street uprising, Black Lives Matter is increasingly awash in cash, raking in pledges of more than $100 million from liberal foundations and others eager to contribute to what has become the grant-making cause du jour.
The Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy recently announced the formation of the Black-Led Movement Fund [BLMF], a six-year pooled donor campaign aimed at raising $100 million for the Movement for Black Lives coalition.
That funding comes in addition to more than $33 million in grants to the Black Lives Matter movement from top Democratic Party donor George Soros through his Open Society Foundations, as well as grant-making from the Center for American Progress.
...aligned themselves with the staunch left-wing platform of the Movement for Black Lives, which unveiled a policy agenda shortly after the fund was announced accusing Israel of being an “apartheid state” guilty of “genocide...”"
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Instapundit » Blog Archive » KATIE YODER: Feminist attacks on Taylor Swift reveal something very ugly about the movement. “Swif…

Instapundit » Blog Archive » KATIE YODER: Feminist attacks on Taylor Swift reveal something very ugly about the movement. “Swif…:
Image result for Feminist attacks on Taylor Swift"KATIE YODER: Feminist attacks on Taylor Swift reveal something very ugly about the movement. 
“Swift is already under fire from feminist critics. 
And their attacks reveal something very ugly about modern feminism: 
While today’s feminists claim to champion the rights of all women, they speak only for women who agree with them – vocally, frequently and on demand.”
"Yes, modern feminism isn’t about freedom, but about control."

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