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Saturday, June 23, 2018

The left's new storm troopers-----Kevin McHale Under Fire For Attending Donald Trump Rally - Outkick the Coverage

Kevin McHale Under Fire For Attending Donald Trump Rally - Outkick the Coverage

Last night Donald Trump traveled to Duluth, Minnesota for a rally in that community. Trump, who lost the state of Minnesota by just 44,765 votes to Hillary Clinton out of nearly three million votes cast, spoke to over 9,000 at the rally.

Among those in attendance?
Legendary Boston Celtic player and former coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Houston Rockets, Kevin McHale.
McHale wasn’t on the stage or introduced by Trump, he was just in the crowd in the rally. The anti-Trump social media community dove into the photos of the rally and shared a picture of what appeared to be McHale in the crowd.

You can see that Tweet of the initial photograph here.

...I don’t know who the first person to spot McHale in the photo — who zooms in to photos from political rallies to look at the people there unless it’s you looking for yourself? — but left wing sports Twitter immediately ran roughshod over the McHale connection, which was shared so much that McHale began to trend on Twitter.

The left wingers then tracked down Kevin McHale’s wife’s Twitter, decided some of her political opinions were unacceptable, and so deluged her with hate that she shut down her account.
At the same time many prominent sports media voices were arguing that McHale’s attending a Trump rally was unacceptable.

It’s important to note that I’m only embedding Tweets from people who are verified by Twitter in this story.

That is, Twitter has decided that these people are significant enough that their opinions should be given particular prominence.

Leading off the charge, a prominent writer on the NBA blogosphere scene sent out this Tweet.

Ah, yes, Kevin McHale should never be able to work in the NBA again because he has different political opinions than you do.

This is insane.

It’s important to note that LeBron James attended a Hillary Clinton campaign event on the stage and not one person with any kind of audience in the country had any issue with that or even remotely suggested it should impact his job status. ecause LeBron’s a citizen, just like you and me, and he has a right to his political opinions, just like you and me, even if we disagree.

This is what reasonable adults used to think.

The NBA has, of course, been filled with coaches, among them, Steve Kerr and Gregg Popovich, who have publicly condemned Donald Trump all season long.
No one has suggested that they should be fired or rendered unemployable by the NBA for those opinions.

Remember, unlike all three of these men, all Kevin McHale did was attend a rally.

He was just in the crowd.

He didn’t speak or openly support Trump...

...Then resident ESPN left wing moral authority Howard Bryant, who was charged with domestic violence for choking his wife in a the parking lot of a pizza parlor and accepted six month probation as part of a plea agreement, weighed in on how unacceptable McHale’s Trump attendance was.

Kevin McHale is just a poor white man from a forgotten Deep South town suffering from economic anxiety. That explains it.

— Full Dissident (@hbryant42) June 21, 2018

Up next?
A Bleacher Report NBA writer who embarked on a psychologically unstable jeremiad against Trump as a result of McHale’s having attended the Trump rally.
I’d encourage you to go check out his timeline, but here’s a fun sample.

But that wasn’t enough..."

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#1 This day 1965-----The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man (1965)

U.S. Cost of Living and Wage Stagnation, 1979-2015

HumanProgress:
"...adjusted for inflation, average hourly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees in the private sector (closest approximation for the quintessential blue-collar worker that I could find) have barely changed between 1979 and 2015.
In October 1979, average hourly earnings stood at $6.51 or $21.20 in 2015 dollars.
In October 2015, average hourly earnings stood at $21.18 – slightly below the inflation adjusted 1979 level.

Looking at the average hourly earnings, however, ignores at least three very important factors: expansion of non-wage benefits, fall in the price of consumer goods and rise in price of services, such as education and healthcare..."
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BACKFIRE: Poll Has Bad News For Those Hoping Border Separation Would Change Voter's Minds | Daily Wire

BACKFIRE: Poll Has Bad News For Those Hoping Border Separation Would Change Voter's Minds | Daily Wire:

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The survey found that 82% of Republicans and 56% of non-affiliated voters believe that the illegal immigrant parents are to blame because they are breaking the law, whereas 60% of Democrats feel that the government is to blame for enforcing the law.
Rasmussen also found that the majority of Americans (54%) agreed with President Donald Trump's recent comment that "The United States will not be a migrant camp. And it will not be a refugee-holding facility – it won’t be."

Note the date-----Caged and diseased: Shocking pictures of the child illegal immigrants flooding over the border - as Joe Biden calls for an 'unrelenting stream' of migrants | Daily Mail Online

Caged and diseased: Shocking pictures of the child illegal immigrants flooding over the border - as Joe Biden calls for an 'unrelenting stream' of migrants | Daily Mail Online
Caged, diseased and desperate: Shocking pictures of the child illegal immigrants flooding over the border - as Joe Biden calls for an 'unrelenting stream' of migrants

Democrat congressman took the images at a holding center in south Texas to highlight the terrible conditions
400 children a day are pouring over the border and Republicans blame an Obama 'amnesty' for unaccompanied minors
It came as it emerged Joe Biden told an audience this week that the US needs an 'unrelenting stream' in 'significant flows' of new immigrants to bolster the economy
Border patrol officers tell MailOnline that they are so overwhelmed they are 'quarantining' the sick kids with police evidence tape

By RYAN PARRY IN NOGALES, ARIZONA

PUBLISHED: 17:12 EDT, 12 June 2014 | UPDATED: 05:42 EDT, 13 June 2014

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These shocking photos show child immigrants crammed inside cages and tiny rooms at a U.S. Government border facility - further highlighting the humanitarian crisis along America's border with Mexico.

The images were taken at a holding center in Texas which can no longer accommodate large numbers of children and mothers traveling alone with their kids, forcing the federal government to open more facilities.

Congressman Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, took the photos on his camera phone to highlight the terrible conditions children are being kept in.

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Caged: Congressman Henry Cuellar took these shocking images to highlight how overwhelmed the US authorities are with the recent tide of illegal immigrants

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Young faces: The pictures, taken recently, show just how many of the illegal immigrants are children - many of whom have no supervising adult. Up to 400 a day are pouring over the border

In one snap, taken during a tour of the Customs and Border Protection facility in South Texas, a large group of immigrants are locked in a wire mesh cage.

In another, tiny children run around a packed room and foil sheets – the only blankets they have – cover the concrete floors.

Up to 40 people a time - most appearing dirty and dejected - can be seen in filling rooms only large enough for ten.

This comes as the MailOnline learns that overworked border patrol officers struggling to cope with the huge influx are separating diseased child immigrants with make-shift quarantine methods - yellow evidence tape..."
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AM Fruitcake

History for June 23

History for June 23 - On-This-Day.com
Irvin Cobb 1876, Alfred Kinsey 1894, Alan Turing 1912

June Carter Cash 1929, Clarence Thomas 1948 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Frances McDormand 1957 - Actress

1836 - The U.S. Congress approved the Deposit Act, which contained a provision for turning over surplus federal revenue to the states.

1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention that he called a "Type-Writer."

1926 - The first lip reading tournament in America was held in Philadelphia, PA.

1931 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.

1972 - U.S. President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI's Watergate investigation.

1960 1st contraceptive pill is made available for purchase in the U.S.

2016 United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union in their "Brexit" referundum

2004 - The U.S. proposed that North Korea agree to a series of nuclear disarmament measures over a three-month period in exchange for economic benefits.

Friday, June 22, 2018

Former Secret Service Agent Slaps Lawsuit On Clintons, Podesta And More | The Daily Caller

Former Secret Service Agent Slaps Lawsuit On Clintons, Podesta And More | The Daily Caller:

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Former Secret Service Agent Gary J. Byrne, an outspoken critic of the Clintons since he left the White House and their employ, has filed a RICO lawsuit against former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a list of others.
The nature of the suit, according to the filed documents, is “racketeer-influenced and corrupt organizations.”

The way we were-----Patsy Cline -- I Fall To Pieces

Boob-tube-----39 NEW SHOWS OF FALL TV 1961

Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Actually Pretty Popular.

Instapundit Blog Archive MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Actually Pretty Popular.
"MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Actually Pretty Popular.

When asked which policy they prefer for how to handle families that are stopped for crossing the border illegally, two-thirds of the 1,500 surveyed said they support detention for lawbreakers and less than 20 percent responded that they support previous presidential administrations’ policy of letting the lawbreakers enter the country with a promise to return for a later court date. The poll was taken June 17-19, at the height of media outrage over the policy.

When given a choice for how to handle illegal border crossing arrests, some 44 percent of Americans chose “hold families together in family detention centers until an immigration hearing at a later date.” Another 20 percent of U.S. adults chose detention options that would separate families. Only 19 percent chose to return to the policy of allowing people who cross the border illegally to go without detention on the promise they’d return for a court hearing at a later date.

The Economist/YouGov poll shows an American electorate fare more serious about border enforcement than what the media conversation would indicate.

The media’s got this — or at least they think they do."
Posted by Stephen Green"

Plus-size clothing and overweight models are normalising obesity, warn experts�

Plus-size clothing and overweight models are normalising obesity, warn experts
"The normalisation of 'plus-size' clothing and overweight models could be fuelling the obesity epidemic because it leads people to underestimate their own weight, a new study has shown.

The plus-size movement may help promote body positivity but it is having the unintentional consequence that people start believing they are a healthy weight, researchers claim.
Sociologists from the University of East Anglia said it could undermine efforts to tackle the obesity epidemic where more than three in five Britons are overweight or obese.
....“The increase in weight misperception in England is alarming and possibly a result of this normalisation.”...
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Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Kevin Clinesmith, anti-Trump FBI employees, joined Robert Mueller probe - Washington Times

Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Kevin Clinesmith, anti-Trump FBI employees, joined Robert Mueller probe - Washington Times:

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The special counsel office said last year that lawyers picked for Mr. Mueller’s team donated more than $60,000 to Democrats. Only one lawyer donated to Republicans, contributing the maximum amount of $2,750. In total, the probe’s prosecutors donated $19,000 to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 and 2016 political campaigns, according to Mr. Mueller’s office.
But some media outlets have claimed the numbers underestimate the amount of Democratic donations by as much as $12,000. The donation discrepancy only further raises the bias accusations lodged against Mr. Mueller’s team, which Mr. Trump has repeatedly highlighted.

If the Media Keeps This Up, They're Going to Get Somebody Killed - The Rush Limbaugh Show

If the Media Keeps This Up, They're Going to Get Somebody Killed - The Rush Limbaugh Show
"RUSH: Okay, folks, I’m just gonna say it here.
If the media keeps this up — if they keep up generating this hysteria — somebody’s gonna get killed.
I think we’re pretty close to somebody getting killed already, and I’m not being hyperbolic, and I’m not trying to call attention to myself.
I’m genuinely worried about the out-of-control aspect of this.
The news media’s fanning the flames.
The news media is leading the way on this.
It’s again an oxymoron.

News media?
There is no media, and none of this is news.
It’s a manufactured crisis — that is one of many — after Donald Trump committed an unpardonable sin — and that was winning the presidential election.
This today is not about kids and the way they’re being treated anywhere.
This is about Donald Trump winning and these people not being able to do anything about it.
Look at everything they’ve thrown at Trump.
They’ve had full-blown intelligence community FBI, CIA, DOJ, special counsel investigations all happening simultaneously designed to drive Donald Trump from office in six months.
Failed.
Every one of them has failed.
Donald Trump’s popularity is increasing.
His approval numbers are increasing.
Overall satisfaction in the country is rising..."
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Steve Russo - ‘Concentration Camp’: People React To Photos Of...

Steve Russo - ‘Concentration Camp’: People React To Photos Of...
"‘Concentration Camp’: People React To Photos Of Trump’s Detention Centers — Just Kidding, They Were Obama’s
TheDC’s Amber Athey and Justin Caruso regularly take to the streets of Washington, D.C., to ask the most important questions in America.
This week, they showed people a number of photos taken of detention centers for migrant children.
Clearly, President Trump is keeping these kids in such horrible conditions … just kidding, that was President Obama in 2014.
That’s right, they showed people around D.C. photos from detention centers that were run in 2014 under President Obama.
Some of the reactions may surprise you."

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Starbucks burned by social-justice appeasement as growth stalls, stock plunges - Washington Times

Starbucks burned by social-justice appeasement as growth stalls, stock plunges - Washington Times:

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Meanwhile, critics of the company-wide diversity workshops argued that Starbucks sent the wrong signal by bowing to social-justice protesters instead of tending to its business model.
“One would think Starbucks shareholders would be better served by leadership that prioritizes sound business principles over so-called social justice initiatives,” said Robert Kuykendall, spokesman for 2ndVote, a conservative corporate watchdog.
The curriculum for the half-day training on implicit bias was created in part by the Perception Institute, which is headed by Planned Parenthood board member Alexis McGill Johnson and receives financial support from billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.

The $1.5 Trillion Student Loan Debacle Hits a Tipping Point - Minding The Campus

The $1.5 Trillion Student Loan Debacle Hits a Tipping Point - Minding The Campus
"What’s to be done about the large and growing number of Americans who cannot repay their student loans?
There are two new developments.

The New York Times reports, “Senators Marco Rubio and Elizabeth Warren introduced a bill on Thursday that would prevent states from suspending residents’ driver’s licenses and professional licenses over unpaid federal student loans.”
And The Wall Street Journal explains, “For decades, bankruptcy judges refused to consider reducing student loans.

That is now changing, and some judges are throwing lifelines to people struggling to repay their debt.”...
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Subway station ceiling tile crumbles - Story | WNYW

Subway station ceiling tile crumbles - Story | WNYW:
NEW YORK (FOX5NY) - The Borough Hall subway station in Brooklyn is more than 100 years old and is known to have water problems.

That issue led to a ceiling collapse on Wednesday.
A 10-feet-by-10-feet section of ceiling tile came crashing down onto the 4/5 subway platform.
...With service seriously disrupted on the No. 4 and No. 5 lines, agents and officers tried their best to redirect riders.
The grumble of New Yorkers won't be happy to hear what they probably already know: that this isn't an isolated incident.
All one needs do is look around to see that the infrastructure is crumbling.
...Subway service was restored by the end of the evening rush hour.
But the problem of the aging infrastructure will persist."
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#1 This day 1957-----"Love Letters in the Sand" Pat Boone

Thirty Years On, How Well Do Global Warming Predictions Stand Up? - WSJ

Thirty Years On, How Well Do Global Warming Predictions Stand Up? - WSJ:
"James E. Hansen wiped sweat from his brow.
Outside it was a record-high 98 degrees on June 23, 1988, as the NASA scientist testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources during a prolonged heat wave, which he decided to cast as a climate event of cosmic significance.
He expressed to the senators his “high degree of confidence” in “a cause-and-effect relationship between the greenhouse effect and observed warming.”
With that testimony and an accompanying paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research, Mr. Hansen lit the bonfire of the greenhouse vanities, igniting a world-wide debate that continues today about the energy structure of the entire planet.
President Obama’s environmental policies were predicated on similar models of rapid, high-cost warming.

But the 30th anniversary of Mr. Hansen’s predictions affords an opportunity to see how well his forecasts have done—and to reconsider environmental policy accordingly.
...Global surface temperature has not increased significantly since 2000, discounting the larger-than-usual El Nino of 2015-16.
...And it isn’t just Mr. Hansen who got it wrong.
Models devised by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have, on average, predicted about twice as much warming as has been observed since global satellite temperature monitoring began 40 years ago.
...On the 30th anniversary of Mr. Hansen’s galvanizing testimony, it’s time to acknowledge that the rapid warming he predicted isn’t happening..."
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