Saturday, November 30, 2019
Heh...Heh...-----Don Surber: Press pity party. Enjoy
Don Surber: Press pity party. Enjoy"Esquire magazine's Jack Holmes has the blues.
Orange Man is treating the press as though they are unimportant.
Considering they didn't stop his nomination, didn't stop his election, didn't get him indicted for Russiagate, and won't get him impeached, I would say he is right.
They are the wind beneath his wingtips.
Holmes penned a 4,300-word thumb-sucker, "Chopper Talk: Where the White House Press Corps Goes to Get Ritually Abused by Donald Trump. In a world without press briefings, reporters are forced to ask the world's most powerful man questions over the roar of a helicopter."
The press did this to themselves.
Reporters know it.
They had a good thing going with the daily press briefings.
Cable news got big ratings.
Reporters had a shot at being the next Sam Donaldson.
Then the press got too big for its britches.
Instead of reining in Jim Acosta, it sided with him in a lawsuit.
The departure of Sarah Sanders as press secretary opened the door for President Donald John Trump to slam the door on the daily press conferences.
Instead, the president holds impromptu briefings.
He answers their questions but does not allow them to preen for the cameras.
Let the crying begin..."
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Why Michelle Obama may jump into the race - American Thinker
"Although it's far from a lead-pipe cinch, a plausible case is to be made that former first lady Michelle Obama may enter the Democratic primary race.
There are three reasons for believing this..."
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Charlie Kirk: Harder Line Immigration Policies Necessary to Save America | Breitbart
Charlie Kirk: Harder Line Immigration Policies Necessary to Save America | Breitbart:
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk told Breitbart News that “huge reforms need to happen” with hard line policies regarding both legal and illegal immigration “if we’re serious about saving this country.” Kirk spoke to host Alex Marlow in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.
“The reporting that Breitbart has been doing so consistently for the last, seven, eight, ten years on the cartels, I think helped President Trump come to this conclusion,” said Kirk of President Trump’s recent announcement that he would designate Mexican drug cartels as terror organizations.
“The reporting that Breitbart has been doing so consistently for the last, seven, eight, ten years on the cartels, I think helped President Trump come to this conclusion,” said Kirk of President Trump’s recent announcement that he would designate Mexican drug cartels as terror organizations.
THE CDC SUCKS, BASICALLY: Study Finds Nearly All Minnesota Patients With Vaping-Related Lung Injuri…
"Study Finds Nearly All Minnesota Patients With Vaping-Related Lung Injuries Used Illegal THC Products Containing Suspect Additive.
“Although the CDC is now emphasizing the potential hazards of vitamin E acetate, it continues to warn the public about e-cigarettes that don’t contain it.”
They jumped on this to unleash an across-the-board anti-vaping campaign as if it was all a setup or something.--Posted by
They jumped on this to unleash an across-the-board anti-vaping campaign as if it was all a setup or something.--Posted by
History for November 30
History for November 30 - On-This-Day.com
Jonathan Swift 1667, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835 - Writer ("Tom Sawyer," "Huckleberry Finn"), Winston Churchill (Britain) 1874
Richard Crenna 1926, Dick Clark 1929 - Television personality ("American Bandstand"), G. Gordon Liddy 1930 - Radio talk show host, convicted for his role in the Watergate burglaries in 1972
1803 - Spain completed the process of ceding Louisiana to France.
1971 - ABC-TV aired "Brian's Song." The movie was about Chicago Bears' Brian Picolo and his friendship with Gale Sayers.
Friday, November 29, 2019
Hong Kongers Hold 'Thanksgiving' Rally after Trump Signs Support Bills
Hong Kongers Hold 'Thanksgiving' Rally after Trump Signs Support Bills:
Thousands of demonstrators in Hong Kong staged a “Thanksgiving” rally on Thursday evening in response to President Donald Trump signing two bills in support of the city’s pro-democracy movement.
Demonstrators took to the streets shortly after the president signed the legislation. Some draped themselves in U.S. flags and expressed gratitude for the administration’s support.
Demonstrators took to the streets shortly after the president signed the legislation. Some draped themselves in U.S. flags and expressed gratitude for the administration’s support.
Climate Advice: Don’t Worry, Be Happer | Science Matters
Climate Advice: Don’t Worry, Be Happer | Science Matters"William Happer’s Major Statement at the Best Schools Global Warming Dialogue is CO₂ will be a major benefit to the Earth.
Readers can learn much from the whole document (Title is link).
Excerpts in italics with my bolds.
"Some people claim that increased levels of atmospheric CO2 will cause catastrophic global warming, flooding from rising oceans, spreading tropical diseases, ocean acidification, and other horrors.
But these frightening scenarios have almost no basis in genuine science.
This Statement reviews facts that have persuaded me that more CO2 will be a major benefit to the Earth.
Extremists have conflated these genuine environmental concerns with the emission of CO2, which cannot be economically removed from exhaust gases.
Calling CO2 a “pollutant” that must be eliminated, with even more zeal than real pollutants, is Orwellian Newspeak.[3]
“Buying insurance” against potential climate disasters by forcibly curtailing the use of fossil fuels is like buying “protection” from the mafia.
There is nothing to insure against, except the threats of an increasingly totalitarian coalition of politicians, government bureaucrats, crony capitalists, thuggish nongovernmental organizations like Greenpeace, etc."Read all.
Social justice program says teachers should ‘reject and resist’ parents who disagree with it | The College Fix
Social justice program says teachers should ‘reject and resist’ parents who disagree with it | The College Fix"A social justice schooling program meant to train teachers in eliminating racial disparities between students also instructs them how to treat individuals who disagree with the program’s ideas, ordering them to “explicitly reject and resist” parents and other outsiders who take issue with the curriculum’s content.
...The program, called “Deep Equity,” is offered by Corwin Press, a subsidiary of SAGE.
According to its website, the program was developed by Gary Howard, a self-proclaimed civil rights activist with experience in “social justice, equity, education, and diversity.”...
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Trump To Designate Mexican Drug Cartels As Terrorist Groups | The Daily Caller
President Donald Trump revealed that he plans to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations, a move that will give the U.S. government a range of new authorities to crack down on their activity.
Heh...People's Cube debunks Trump photo
People's Cube debunks Trump photo
"President Trump has tweeted a picture he is representing as himself with his shirt off.
Many concerned citizens have asked if this is in fact a actual picture of the President.
The People's Cube assigned its resident internet pictures scholars to find out the true facts.
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The professional scholars of internet pictures have found this claim to be false.
Another day, another impeachable offense.
"President Trump has tweeted a picture he is representing as himself with his shirt off.
Many concerned citizens have asked if this is in fact a actual picture of the President.
The People's Cube assigned its resident internet pictures scholars to find out the true facts.
Rating:
The professional scholars of internet pictures have found this claim to be false.
This is NOT an actual photo of President Trump with his shirt off. 97% of international experts agree that this picture was doctored by Trump in an attempt to falsify his record as the worst president of the United States by pretending he actually played Rocky in the award-winning movie from 1980s. Nobody except his cultist followers will believe that he was in that film. This criminal attempt to steal the next election by fostering his strange personality cult will be added to the already long list of impeachable offenses.
Another day, another impeachable offense.
Kamala Harris answers Trump's photoshop by photoshopping herself as Apollo Creed.
The Left Destroys History With Its Anti-American Victim Narrative
The Left Destroys History With Its Anti-American Victim Narrative
"...I am a historian by trade.
One of the most important moments I experienced in my graduate training was when a professor explained that her doctorate was in the “philosophy of history,” not history itself.
It is an important distinction because people equate history with mastering historical trivia.
...We have all heard the well-worn rejoinder, "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." Nevertheless, many in our society go about their daily lives with little or no regard for history or those who write it.
It is enough to beg the question, "Is history obsolete?"
The answer, of course, is no.
However, it is time that those in the profession reevaluate how we present history to the public and adopt strategies to address the problem of societal disinterest.
If no remedy is found, it is historians themselves who face becoming irrelevant."
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A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is lowered to a truck for removal May 19, 2017, from Lee Circle in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Scott Threlkeld)
"...I am a historian by trade.
One of the most important moments I experienced in my graduate training was when a professor explained that her doctorate was in the “philosophy of history,” not history itself.
It is an important distinction because people equate history with mastering historical trivia.
...We have all heard the well-worn rejoinder, "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." Nevertheless, many in our society go about their daily lives with little or no regard for history or those who write it.
It is enough to beg the question, "Is history obsolete?"
The answer, of course, is no.
However, it is time that those in the profession reevaluate how we present history to the public and adopt strategies to address the problem of societal disinterest.
If no remedy is found, it is historians themselves who face becoming irrelevant."
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Millennials Want To Ban Secret Santa Because It Gives Them Anxiety | The Daily Wire
Millennials aren’t interested in participating in the office “Secret Santa,” according to a new study by the British job-hunting website, Jobsite, because the practice is “stressful” and anxiety-inducing.
After watching this video,if you are still a climate change /global warming believer, then there is no hope for your brain. You are brainwashed beyond belief.---Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming
Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming--Mike Welch shared a link.
Alan Tomalty @ATomalty--After watching this video,if you are still a climate change /global warming believer, then there is no hope for your brain. You are brainwashed beyond belief.
Who funds these "Youth Climate Councils"?---Thousands pledge not to have children until action is taken on climate change
Thousands pledge not to have children until action is taken on climate change"WKBW — No future, no children.
That's Emma Lim's,18, pledge , and it's a message that's spreading.
She's vowing not to have kids until governments across the world take action on climate change.
"It came about out of the fear that we feel when we think about the future and it's meant to be a plea for action and just an expression of that fear," said Lim.
...Sophia and Valerie are two of the approximately 20 teens that make up Western New York's Youth Climate Council.
...The group's biggest goal is to get Erie County to declare a climate change emergency, over 50 counties and local municipalities across the U.S. officially declared one...
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AP Reporting Now Being Funded by Left-Wing Orgs | Frontpagemag
AP Reporting Now Being Funded by Left-Wing Orgs | Frontpagemag
"The media already has a major credibility problem.
Its political biases are obvious.
But increasingly the media is being directly funded by activist lefty foundations.
The last time this became a major story was when NPR took funding from a pro-Iran deal group to report on Iran.
This though is a more pervasive problem with the Associated Press' reporting being compromised through lefty foundation funding.
"The media already has a major credibility problem.
Its political biases are obvious.
But increasingly the media is being directly funded by activist lefty foundations.
The last time this became a major story was when NPR took funding from a pro-Iran deal group to report on Iran.
This though is a more pervasive problem with the Associated Press' reporting being compromised through lefty foundation funding.
And it's right there in AP's press release as the news organization fails to report where its money is coming from.
The Associated Press, through an unprecedented collaboration with Report for America, will bolster its 50-state presence with the addition of 14 statehouse reporters, providing local newsrooms with essential accountability journalism and state government coverage. Report for America, an initiative of The GroundTruth Project, will help fund the 18-month positions and recruit the journalists, who will begin reporting in June 2020.The addition of 14 reporters underscores AP’s wide-ranging efforts to address the local news crisis head-on, infusing significant resources at a time when many local newsrooms are forced to make tough decisions about coverage priorities, and when critical decisions — from gerrymandering to gun regulations — are made at the state level.
Gerrymandering and gun regulations. Issues that lefty activists would, shall we say, be most interested in.
...It doesn't bother to inform readers of who the GroundTruth Project is or where it's money is coming from...
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...It doesn't bother to inform readers of who the GroundTruth Project is or where it's money is coming from...
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Economic Growth Accelerated to 2.1% Rate in Summer | Breitbart
The American economy grew at a faster pace this summer than estimated earlier.
Gross domestic product grew at a 2.1 percent annual rate for the third quarter, the Commerce Department said yesterday in its second estimate of economic growth. That is a substantial boost from the 1.9 percent in the earlier estimate.
Parents Protest Indiana School District Allowing Children To Use Bathrooms According to "Gender Identity" ⋆ Activist Mommy
Parents Protest Indiana School District Allowing Children To Use Bathrooms According to "Gender Identity" ⋆ Activist Mommy"...While virtually no public space is free from transgender tyranny, public schools are among the worst offenders as they put their female students at risk by allowing gender-confused male students to use these girls-only spaces if they simply “identify” as girls.
One father in Indiana, after learning that daughters’ school district had adopted such a policy, is fighting back.
“It has been confirmed by both Manchester Elementary Principal Korus and Superintendent Dr. Gremaux that this is happening NOW,” reads a petition by Nate Gephart, a self-described angry father of four daughters in North Manchester School system.
“Boys can now go to the bathroom with your daughters. And yes, girls… can now go to your son’s bathroom.”...
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History for November 29
History for November 29 - On-This-Day.com
Louisa May Alcott 1832, Busby Berkeley 1895, C.S. Lewis 1898
Chuck Mangione 1940 - Composer, musician, Suzy Chaffee 1946 - Skier, Howie Mandel 1955 - Actor, comedian
1890 - Navy defeated Army by a score of 24-0 in the first Army-Navy football game. The game was played at West Point, NY.
1975 - Bill Gates adopted the name Microsoft for the company he and Paul Allen had formed to write the BASIC computer language for the Altair.
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