Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Hate driving them to insane violence-----New Jersey officials say 81-year-old man was attacked for wearing MAGA hat

New Jersey officials say 81-year-old man was attacked for wearing MAGA hat
"An 81-year-old man was allegedly attacked in New Jersey by someone who confronted him for wearing one of President Trump's "Make America Great Again" hats.
Somerset County prosecutors said that the man was assaulted at a supermarket after being confronted by the alleged assailant over the hataccording to a local NBC affiliate.
The victim had minor injuries from the alleged attack and refused medical treatment, the outlet reported, citing local prosecutors.
The cap flashing Trump's signature slogan has fueled other altercations in recent years..."
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72 Media Mistakes in the Trump Era: The Definitive List | Sharyl Attkisson

72 Media Mistakes in the Trump Era: The Definitive List | Sharyl Attkisson
Wethe media have “fact-checked” President Trump like we have fact-checked no other human being on the planet—and he’s certainly given us plenty to write about. 
That’s probably why it’s so easy to find lists enumerating and examining his mistakes, missteps and “lies.”
 But as self-appointed arbiters of truth, we’ve largely excused our own unprecedented string of fact-challenged reporting. 
The truth is, formerly well-respected, top news organizations are making repeat, unforced errors in numbers that were unheard of just a couple of years ago.
Our repeat mistakes involve declaring that Trump’s claims are “lies” when they are matters of opinion, or when the truth between conflicting sources is unknowable; taking Trump’s statements and events out of context; reporting secondhand accounts against Trump without attribution as if they’re established fact; relying on untruthful, conflicted sources; and presenting reporter opinions in news stories—without labeling them as opinions. 
What’s worse, we defend ourselves by trying to convince the public that our mistakes are actually a virtue because we (sometimes) correct them. 
Or we blame Trump for why we’re getting so much wrong. It’s a little bit like a police officer taking someone to jail for DUI, then driving home drunk himself: he may be correct to arrest the suspect, but he should certainly know better than to commit the same violation.
So since nobody else has compiled an updated, extensive list of this kind, here are:

72 Notable Mistakes and Missteps in Major Media Reporting on Donald Trump

1. Aug. 2016-Nov. 2016:

The New York Post published modeling photos of Trump’s wife Melania and reported they were taken in 1995. Various news outlets relied on that date to imply that Melania—an immigrant—had violated her visa status. But the media got the date wrong. Politico was among the news agencies that later issued a photo date correction..."
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NEVER trust the hate-driven, liberal media.

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Planned Parenthood: 'There's No Such Thing' As Infanticide. Lila Rose: WRONG. | Daily Wire

Planned Parenthood: 'There's No Such Thing' As Infanticide. Lila Rose: WRONG. | Daily Wire:

Image result for flickr commons images capital hillDemocrats just went on record as pro-infanticide.
Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion mill, quickly came out to spin the ghoulish optics for Democrats, chalking up the no-vote as a “win” for women.
Planned Parenthood Action Fund and the abortion company’s leader, Leana Wen, issued tweets suggesting there is no such thing as born-alive survivors of abortions or even late-term abortions.
“There is no such thing as abortion until or after birth,” reads the Planned Parenthood tweet.

Siren companies contribute to politicians...BIG TIME-----Noise-weary New York ponders a gentler, European-style siren

Noise-weary New York ponders a gentler, European-style siren
See the source imageNEW YORK — If two New York City lawmakers get their way, the long, droning siren from police cars, fire trucks and ambulances that has been part of the city's soundtrack for generations — WAAAAAhhhhhhh — would be replaced by a high-low wail similar to what's heard on the streets of London and Paris — WEE-oww-WEE-oww-WEE-oww.
Their reasons for the switch: The European-style siren is less shrill and annoying and contributes less to noise pollution.
..."Europeanizing" New York sirens would not change the decibel level — still topping out at roughly 118 — but would lower the frequency and thus make the sirens less shrill but still ear-catching enough to grab attention.
...If approved in a council vote —which has yet to be scheduled— the legislation would require sirens on all emergency vehicles to transition within a two-year period..."
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California Professor Believes Cops Should Be Killed - Law Officer

California Professor Believes Cops Should Be Killed - Law Officer:
"I first heard about a UC Davis professor who thinks cops should be killed late in Fall Quarter. 
There were murmurings in the newsroom about his in-class discussions, and rumors of how the professor had given an interview that advocated for violence against law enforcement. 
It bothered me, but I assumed that what I heard was typical hearsay and likely exaggerated. 
I wasn’t shown anything concrete; there were no words to read, no sound-bites to parse over. 
The story seemed too extreme to be believed, because only the intellectually dishonest would even broach such blanketed and violent sentiments — certainly not a highly-regarded professor at a top public university. 
But I kept the rumors at the back of my mind.
The killing of Natalie Corona changed everything. 
Corona, an up-and-coming Davis police officer who was gunned down last month, was the type of person who makes labeling all law enforcement as “bad” a simple exercise in fallacy..."
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“Smollett has shown that the most absurd narratives imaginable will continue...

Instapundit  Blog Archive  VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: 
“Smollett has shown that the most absurd narratives imaginable will continue to gain credence because they fill a deep psychological, cultural—and, yes, careerist—need for millions in the country to believe that 

  • hate crimes are epidemic, 
  • that they are the currency of the Right, and 
  • that they can only be addressed by more government scrutiny of a particular class of victimizers such as the 
Duke Lacrosse team, 
the Covington kids, or 
Smollett’s mythic red-hatted Trump racists.”---Posted by Glenn Reynold"

There ain't much edjakatin' goin' on there.


PayPal CEO Admits Partnership with Far-Left SPLC to Blacklist Conservatives | Breitbart

PayPal CEO Admits Partnership with Far-Left SPLC to Blacklist Conservatives | Breitbart:
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PayPal CEO Dan Schulman admitted during an interview with the Wall Street Journal that PayPal works with the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) when it considers blacklisting conservatives.

Bring Back the Golden Fleece! | Power Line

Bring Back the Golden Fleece! | Power Line
"Back in the days when some Democrats actually cared about government waste, Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin became famous for his “Golden Fleece” award, which exposed absurd federal spending boondoggles. 
Since then, the government’s hemorrhaging of our tax dollars has only gotten worse.
The same thing is going on at the state level. 
Democrats consider all spending, no matter how stupid, to be an “investment” and therefore desirable. My home state of Minnesota is even worse than most, which is why our State Arts Board hands out an unbelievable amount of money to “artists” for just about anything. 
In 2018, the Arts Board gave Jim Denomie a $10,000 grant:
Denomie will create a series of large paintings in response to Standing Rock and other contemporary events from a Native American perspective.
“Standing Rock” refers to left-wing protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline..
In any event, Mr. Denomie has now produced his Standing Rock painting. 
It was hailed by the Minneapolis Star Tribune
This is it; click to enlarge:
The painting is so poorly executed that it is hard to tell what is going on. 
We know that it depicts President Trump groping Lady Liberty only because the Strib’s news story tells us so. 
The painter is so inept that he can’t render a recognizable image of Donald Trump, one of the most easily recognizable people in the world. 
Similarly, the news story tells us that “Barack Obama is portrayed as a sitting duck.” 
Can you find him? 
My only candidate is a guy who appears to be seated on a toilet and bears little apparent resemblance to Obama. 
Is he a “sitting duck”? 
Beats me.
The real question, of course, is why Minnesota’s taxpayers should be forced, against their will, to support inept left-wing artists...
This particular painting is not alone, of course. The Minnesota State Arts Board also approved contributions like these:
Rosy Simas, Minneapolis $9,875
“Weave” honors the interwoven, interdependent nature of our world in an intersectional Indigenous dance project that envelops the audience in an immersive experience of story, dance, moving image, and quadrophonic sound.
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Deborah Thayer, Saint Paul $10,000
Thayer will choreograph “All Hail the Queen,” using somatic explorations to unearth experiences of the female voice and vagina. The piece will be presented as an evening length dance installation in Minneapolis.
***
Cecilia M. Cornejo, Northfield $10,000
In collaboration with the Mexican community of Northfield. Cornejo will complete Ways of Being Home, a poetic documentary that addresses issues of marginalization and belonging as experienced by that community.
This one is hilarious:
Jason Coyle, Minneapolis $10,000
Coyle will complete and distribute the documentary short Charlie, Bella, Cooper, which examines the deaths of three domestic pets whose lives were ended by law enforcement.
Furry lives matter! The list goes on and on, this is just a sampling:
Diana M. Fraser, Saint Paul $10,000
Across the course of the 2017-2018 project year, I will produce a broadcast length documentary about queer women’s access to safe medical spaces in the Twin Cities.
Some of the grants make no sense. 
See if you can figure out what this is all about:
Jennifer Glaws, Mound $10,000
Glaws will exhibit The Collectiveness (Of Ourselves), an interactive, multimedia performance installation investigating acts of belonging. A work in progress presentation will be shown at the Art Attack event in the Northrup King Building...
Cello concerts “reflecting global racial injustice and genocide”
Seriously?..."
Incredibly, there is more.
Much more.
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History for February 27

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History for February 27 - On-This-Day.com
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 - Poet, Hugo (Lafayette) Black 1886 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice, John Steinbeck 1902 - Writer ("The Grapes of Wrath")
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Elizabeth Taylor 1932 - Actress ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"), Ralph Nader 1934 - Consumer advocate, Chelsea Clinton 1980 - Daughter of U.S. President Clinton
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1933 - The Reichstag, Germany's parliament building in Berlin, was set afire. The Nazis accused Communist for the fire.
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1951 - The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, limiting U.S. Presidents to two terms.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Liberal tech billionaire funded fake-news software - WND

Liberal tech billionaire funded fake-news software - WND:

Image result for free clip art Fake NewsA liberal billionaire who allegedly backed a misinformation campaign against Roy Moore has helped fund the development of software capable of creating “deepfake” news articles.
Reid Hoffman, a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter and Democratic donor, has greatly increased his financial contributions to the artificial intelligence research group OpenAI, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported.
OpenAI has published software called GT2, which is capable of generating news stories from two sentences that look like the real thing, dubbed “deepfake” articles.
In 2017, groups financed by Hoffman, New Knowledge and American Engagement Technologies, allegedly used social media to undermine support for Republican Roy Moore’s U.S. Senate campaign in Alabama. Moore, who had held a sizable lead in polling, lost narrowly to Democrat Doug Jones, who has called for an investigation of the scheme.

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Another Hate Hoax That the Left Recently Promoted | The American Spectator

Another Hate Hoax That the Left Recently Promoted | The American Spectator
"Now that we are in the Age of the Hate Hoax, it is valuable to look closer at a recent “anti-Semitic” temple attack that the Left initially promoted as more proof of the evils of Trump and White nationalists. 
See the source imageThey promoted it — until it turned out that the vandal who attacked the Jewish house of worship was a (i) Black (ii) LGBT (iii) Obama supporter. 
Then the media dropped it like an Acme anvil in a Looney Tunes cartoon: 
Anti-Semitic attack? 
What anti-Semitic attack?
It began in the aftermath of the Pittsburgh Temple Massacre. 
Remember how the Mediacracy and the Leftist Democrat Jewish choir raced in to blame Trump for that American tragedy? 
The Pittsburgh Democrat politicians refused to appear at the temple when the President compassionately came to pay his respects..."
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Of the 27 Deadliest Mass Shooters, 26 of Them Had One Thing in Common | Mark Meckler

Of the 27 Deadliest Mass Shooters, 26 of Them Had One Thing in Common | Mark Meckler
"Suzanne Venker’s recent opinion piece on FoxNews is very, very important, because she points out that almost all of the most recent deadly mass shooters have one thing in common: fatherlessness.
She begins by pointing out a tweet after the terrible shooting in Florida last week. 
See the source imageActor and comedian Michael Ian Black began a series of tweets in this way, Deeper even than the gun problem is this: boys are broken.”
Venker goes on to describe how his “tweet storm” strayed from the truth:
Unfortunately, Black quickly veered off course. “Men don’t have the language to understand masculinity as anything other than some version of a caveman because no language exists…The language of masculinity is hopelessly entwined with sexuality, and the language of sexuality in hopelessly entwined with power, agency, and self-worth…To step outside those norms is to take a risk most of us are afraid to take. As a result, a lot of guys spend their lives terrified…We’re terrified of being viewed as something other than men. We know ourselves to be men, but don’t know how to be our whole selves. A lot of us (me included) either shut off or experience deep shame or rage. Or all three. Again: men are terrified.”
Mr. Black is not the first to attack masculinity and suggest it’s at the root of all evil. Indeed, the phrase ‘toxic masculinity’ has become boilerplate language in America.
It’s not a hard sell, either. After all, it is boys and men who are typically to blame for violent acts of aggression. Ergo, testosterone—the defining hormone of masculinity—must be to blame. But testosterone has been around forever. School shootings have not.
Mr. Black is correct that boys are broken. But they’re not broken as a result of being cavemen who haven’t “evolved” the way women have. They’re broken for another reason.
They are fatherless.
Yes, yes, and a thousand times yes.
Fatherlessness is a serious problem.  
America’s boys have been under stress for decades.  
It’s not toxic masculinity hurting them, it’s the fact that when they come home there are no fathers there.  
Plain and simple..."

Privacy group urges feds to force Google to dump Nest - WND

Privacy group urges feds to force Google to dump Nest - WND:

Image result for flickr commons images google logoA privacy group that had opposed Google’s acquisition of Nest is urging the Federal Trade Commission to force Google to divest of the company after hidden microphones were discovered in Nest’s home security and alarm system.
Business Insider reported consumers had not been informed of the microphones in Nest Secure, which linked to the Google “Assistant” artificial intelligence-powered device.
Google, in a statement, acknowledged the “error” and said “the on-device microphone was never intended to be a secret and should have been listed in the tech specs.”
Nest Guard is the alarm, keypad and motion-sensor component of the Nest Secure system offering.
Google claimed the microphone “was originally included in the Nest Guard for the possibility of adding new security features down the line, like the ability to detect broken glass.”
“Still, even if Google included the microphone in its Nest Guard device for future updates – like its Assistant integration – the news comes as consumers have grown increasingly wary of major tech companies and their commitment to consumer privacy,” the report said.
It’s not the first time Google has confessed to a major privacy invasion.

Disgusting!-----Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act Fails In The Senate | The Daily Caller

Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act Fails In The Senate | The Daily Caller
Image result for babies who survive abortions"The Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act, which would have ensured that babies who survive abortions are given medical attention, failed to pass the U.S. Senate Monday evening.
The bill failed by a vote of 53 to 44. 
The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act would have mandated that babies born alive after an abortion would receive the “same protection of law as any newborn.” 
The bill required 60 votes to pass.
...Democratic Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth described the bill as an obvious effort “to bully doctors out of giving reproductive care,” and voted against it..."
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Zuckerberg's 'obfuscatese' means more support for blasphemy laws - WND

Zuckerberg's 'obfuscatese' means more support for blasphemy laws - WND:

Image result for flickr commons images facebook logoJudith Bergman, a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute, writes in a commentary recent events “illustrate how Facebook – which has previously championed blasphemy laws – continues its ‘Shariah censorship’ regarding content it apparently deems contrary to its ‘Community Standards.'”
She says Zuckerberg “now appears to be more intent on censorship than ever.”
“In a recent memo, written in mind-numbing, bureaucratic obfuscatese, he described his plan to discourage ‘borderline content,’ a concept appearing to be so meaningless as to encompass anything that Zuckerberg and Facebook might ever want to censor.”
She cites Facebook and Twitter’s removal of activist Laura Loomer from their platforms. The action came after Zahra Billoo of the Council on American Islamic Relations in San Francisco complained.
“What Facebook fails to disclose is that CAIR was an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terror-financing case in U.S. history. CAIR has also been designated a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates,” Bergman writes.
Islamist Watch’s Sam Westrop confirmed the Silicon Valley Community Foundation handed over more than $330,000 to two radical Muslim groups, including CAIR, after Zuckerberg gave upward of $1.5 billion to the SVCF.

Dr. Marc Siegel: Heavy pot smoking has now been linked to THIS strange syndrome | Fox News

See the source imageDr. Marc Siegel: Heavy pot smoking has now been linked to THIS strange syndrome | Fox News
"...Studies have shown that regular users can develop cognitive and behavioral problems, and an increased risk of anxiety and depression.
And according to a recent study at NYU Langone Health, chronic pot smokers (defined as more than 20 days per month) had almost a one out of three chance of developing Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome (CHS), an awful condition associated with varying degrees of pain and uncontrolled nausea and vomiting, which can for last several hours.
This translates to over 3 million sufferers in the U.S., when you consider the current numbers of chronic pot smokers..."
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Here’s what happens when you wear a #MAGA hat in NYC

Here’s what happens when you wear a #MAGA hat in NYCHere’s what happens when you wear a #MAGA hat in NYC:
"In the left-leaning Big Apple, it’s a fashion faux pas more fatal than walking around in sandals with socks, or strapping a fanny pack around your waist: wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat.
 To see for myself, I sported the fire-engine-red baseball cap worn by Donald Trump on the campaign trail in liberal gin joints and shops across Manhattan and Brooklyn..."
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Ivy League offers 'free' ski trip...but not for whites

Ivy League offers 'free' ski trip...but not for whites
"Dartmouth College is offering students free skiing lessons this winter - as long as those students are not white.  
Three “POC Ski Days” are scheduled this term, inviting “self-identified" students of color to ski for free. 
...According to an email promotion obtained by Campus Reform, attendees receive free ski lessons, transportation, and equipment.
While the events are not advertised anywhere on the university’s website, the event organizer, Dartmouth Assistant Director for Leadership and Experiential Education Tracie Williams, confirmed to Campus Reform that POC Ski Days are “university sponsored” events..."
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