Grand Rapids killings already exceed last year’s total, police identify latest victim - mlive.com

Grand Rapids killings already exceed last year’s total, police identify latest victim - mlive.com
GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A man now is charged with open murder after a daytime shooting in Southeast Grand Rapids that killed another man now identified as 23-year-old Martell Deon-Daajon Phillips.
The homicide is the 19th killing so far this year.
The deadly violence in just seven months already has surpassed the total number of homicides recorded in 2019 for Grand Rapids.
That year, the city had 18 homicides.
In 2018, the total was just nine...
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History for July 17

History for July 17 - On-This-Day.com
James Cagney 1899, Art Linkletter 1912, Phyllis Diller 1917 - Comedian


Donald Sutherland 1934 - Actor, David Hasselhoff 1952 Actor ("Knight Rider," "Baywatch"), singer, Angela Merkel 1954 - German Chancellor


1955 - Disneyland opened in Anaheim, CA.


1995 - The Nasdaq composite stock index rose above 1,000 for the first time.

FOX 35 INVESTIGATES: Florida Department of Health says some labs have not reported negative COVID-19 results

FOX 35 INVESTIGATES: Florida Department of Health says some labs have not reported negative COVID-19 results:

ORLANDO, Fla. - After FOX 35 News noticed errors in the state's report on positivity rates, the Florida Department of Health said that some laboratories have not been reporting negative test result data to the state.
Countless labs have reported a 100 percent positivity rate, which means every single person tested was positive. Other labs had very high positivity rates. FOX 35 News found that testing sites like one local Centra Care reported that 83 people were tested and all tested positive. Then, NCF Diagnostics in Alachua reported 88 percent of tests were positive.

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Pedophiles rebranding themselves as 'Minor-Attracted Persons’, seek same protection as LGBT community: Report | MEAWW

Pedophiles rebranding themselves as 'Minor-Attracted Persons’, seek same protection as LGBT community: Report | 

• Using social sites, they are also trying to re-categorize pedophilia as a harmless sexual preference

"An investigation for The Mail on Sunday has found that several notorious child-sex offenders of Britain are using online platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter to rebrand themselves as ‘Minor-Attracted Persons’. 

Through these social media  sites, they are also trying to re-categorize pedophilia as a harmless sexual preference.

As per the findings of the investigation, every day hundreds of social accounts are being set referring to both potential and prolific abusers as “MAPs” - Minor-Attracted Persons. 

The rebranding is reportedly an attempt by them to detach themselves from the “stigma” attached to the word pedophile....

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Going to National Parks Is Racist, Declares ABC News

Going to National Parks Is Racist, Declares ABC News
"...And we’re just getting started. 
Everything that white people enjoy is racist, because they’re white people. 
Even going to national parks is racist now, because most of the people who go to national parks are white.

Seriously.

Did you get all that? 

It’s racist to go to national parks...

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‘Schools Are About Public Health’: Dr. Marc Siegel Calls On California Governor To Open Public Schools | The Daily Caller

‘Schools Are About Public Health’: Dr. Marc Siegel Calls On California Governor To Open Public Schools | The Daily Caller:

Fox News host Tucker Carlson introduced the Monday night “Tucker Carlson Tonight” segment by pointing out schools opening elsewhere “with none of the restrictions” U.S. schools are contemplating. He then played a clip of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accusing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos of “malfeasance.”
“This is what happens when science intersects with politics,” Carlson said. “Both lose, and the country loses most of all. Keeping kids out of school, keeping the elderly inside, forcing everyone to wear a mask when there is no evidence that helps, all of these become statements of resistance and moral imperatives.”

Black Lives Matter In Public Schools Is Turning Kids Into Little Marxists

Black Lives Matter In Public Schools Is Turning Kids Into Little Marxists:

• School systems across the country are adopting BLM curriculum at at alarming rate, indoctrinating our children to achieve Marxist objectives.

"...According to the NYC Department of Education, teachers will delve into “systemic racism,” police brutality, and white privilege in their classrooms.
North Carolina’s largest school system in Wake County launched a website this summer that provides BLM lessons for teachers to use in classrooms and for parents to use at home.
The website, created by the school system’s Office of Equity Affairs, encourages teachers to “address the injustices that exist beyond education by the conversations we have with others, by speaking up when we see hate, by supporting efforts that oppose racism and oppression, and by directly engaging in advocacy work.”
...The financial backers of the BLM movement, such as the Ford Foundation and George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, no doubt recognize the value of infiltrating the understructure of our educational system.
Through partnering with BLM, school systems across the country are indoctrinating our children to achieve Marxist objectives."
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National Museum of African American History & Culture Says Hard Work, Nuclear Family & Christianity are Negative Aspects of “Whiteness” – Summit News

National Museum of African American History & Culture Says Hard Work, Nuclear Family & Christianity are Negative Aspects of “Whiteness” – Summit News
"Objective thinking, being polite, sticking to time schedules, property rights all listed as forms of ‘oppression’.--Paul Joseph Watson

The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) has published a guide which asserts that hard work, the nuclear family and Christianity itself are negative forms of “whiteness” that should be reconsidered because they are “oppressive”.

Yes, really.

The (NMAAHC) is a Smithsonian Institution museum located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum’s guide to “whiteness & white culture” lists examples of “white dominant culture” that have become “normalized” in America and are used to prevent people of color from gaining institutional power.

These examples include;

– Rugged individualism

– Self-reliance

– The nuclear family, with a mother and a father and 2.3 children

– Objective, rational, linear thinking

– Hard work

– Delayed gratification

– Respect for authority

– Following time schedules

– Christianity as the norm

– Planning for the future

– English common law justice

– Property rights

– Being polite

That list is by no means exhaustive either...

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Graham Working To Declassify Memo Of FBI Interview With Steele Source Who Undermined Dossier | The Daily Caller

Graham Working To Declassify Memo Of FBI Interview With Steele Source Who Undermined Dossier | The Daily Caller:

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said Tuesday he is working to declassify a memo regarding an FBI interview conducted with the primary source for Christopher Steele, the former British spy who wrote the infamous anti-Trump dossier.
Graham revealed new details about the memo in an interview with former South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy. He said that the document is 40 pages in length and covers information that Steele’s source provided the FBI over the course of three days in January 2017.

Victor Davis Hanson: Millions of NFL Fans Are About To Shrug and Change the Channel

Victor Davis Hanson: Millions of NFL Fans Are About To Shrug and Change the Channel
"...Given that about 13 percent of the U.S. population is black, and given that the Black Lives Matter movement embraces concepts like proportional representation, today’s NFL teams hardly qualify as diverse.
Social activists might argue that the league should mentor and recruit more Latinos, Asian-Americans and Native Americans to better reflect their percentages of our diverse national population.
Perhaps an NFL compromise could ensure that 30 percent of coaches and owners are nonwhite, thus reflecting current U.S. demography.
But then, in reciprocity, the players would match such mandatory demographic diversity — leading to Native Americans, Latinos, Asians, whites and those of mixed ancestry accounting for 87 percent of the player population.
The NBA might also take note.
This progressive model of proportional representation could also apply to overrepresented white athletes in hockey, tennis, golf and swimming — sports faulted by identity politics groups as being unfairly overrepresented by whites.
Obviously, such racial gerrymandering will not happen because fans value meritocracy over ethnic affiliations.
Or at least they did.
If the multibillion-dollar NFL decides that multimillionaire players have no obligation to stand to honor a collective national anthem, and that there will be separate anthems and politicized uniforms, then millions of Americans will quietly shrug and change the channel.
And that silent protest will make the 2016-17 anthem protest look like child’s play."
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There's a Huge Issue With Florida's COVID Positivity Rates

There's a Huge Issue With Florida's COVID Positivity Rates
"Okay, so Florida is seeing a surge in new cases.
...there’s an issue with the testing—a big issue.
And no doubt it’s screwed with reporting of the new cases.
Some of these labs in the Sunshine State were reporting a 100 percent positivity rate.
Well, Fox 35 Orlando investigated and found that one location’s actual positivity rate, originally reported to be 98 percent, was really 9.4 percent (via Fox 35 News)[emphasis mine]:
After FOX 35 News noticed errors in the state's report on positivity rates, the Florida Department of Health said that some laboratories have not been reporting negative test result data to the state.
Countless labs have reported a 100 percent positivity rate, which means every single person tested was positive.
Other labs had very high positivity rates.
FOX 35 News found that testing sites like one local Centra Care reported that 83 people were tested and all tested positive.
Then, NCF Diagnostics in Alachua reported 88 percent of tests were positive...
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Despicable Behavior of Today's Academicians, by Walter E.Williams | Creators Syndicate

Despicable Behavior of Today's Academicians, by Walter E.Williams | Creators Syndicate-- Walter E.Williams

• The Michigan State University administration pressured professor Stephen Hsu to resign from his position as vice president of research and innovation because he touted research that found police are not more likely to shoot black Americans. The study found: "The race of a police officer did not predict the race of the citizen shot. In other words, black officers were just as likely to shoot black citizens as white officers were." For political reasons, the authors of the study sought its retraction.
• The U.S. Department of Education warned UCLA that it may impose fines for improperly and abusively targeting white professor Lt. Col. W. Ajax Peris for disciplinary action over his use of the n-word while reading to his class Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" that contained the expressions "when your first name becomes "n——r," your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are). Referring to white civil rights activists King wrote, "They have languished in filthy, roach-infested jails, suffering the abuse and brutality of policemen who view them as 'dirty n——r-lovers.'"

...The suppression of free speech and ideas by the elite is nothing new. 
It has a long ugly history. Galileo Galilei was a 17th-century Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes called "father of modern physics." 

The Catholic Church and other scientists of his day believed that the Earth was the center of the universe. 
Galileo offered evidence that the Earth traveled around the sun — heliocentrism. 
That made him "vehemently suspect of heresy" and was forced to recant and sentenced to formal imprisonment at the pleasure of the Inquisition and was later commuted to house arrest for the rest of his life.
Much of today's totalitarianism, promotion of hate and not to mention outright stupidity, has its roots on college campuses...Read all.

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Hillary Clinton: We Have to Be Ready if Trump Doesn’t ‘Go Quietly’

Hillary Clinton: We Have to Be Ready if Trump Doesn’t ‘Go Quietly’:

Monday on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton proclaimed “we have to be ready” for President Donald Trump does not go quietly if he loses.
Host Trevor Noah said, “It seems like America is on an ominous path to a November date when there is going to be a lot of questions in and around the election. Donald Trump is vehemently against mail-in voting. What do you make of this, and what do you think the path is to getting people the easiest access to casting their votes?”

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"From the New England Journal of Medicine
“Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). 

• The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. 
• In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.”

And
“A mask will not protect [health care] providers caring for a patient with active Covid-19 if it’s not accompanied by meticulous hand hygiene, eye protection, gloves, and a gown. 

A mask alone will not prevent health care workers with early Covid-19 from contaminating their hands and spreading the virus to patients and colleagues. 

Focusing on universal masking alone may, paradoxically, lead to more transmission of Covid-19 if it diverts attention from implementing more fundamental infection-control measures.”

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History for July 16

History for July 16 - On-This-Day.com
Orville Redenbacher 1907, Jimmy Johnson (NFL) 1943, Michael Flatley 1958


Will Ferrell 1967, Barry Sanders 1968, Corey Scott Feldman 1971


1942 - French police officers rounded up 13,000 Jews and held them in the Winter Velodrome. The round-up was part of an agreement between Pierre Laval and the Nazis. Germany had agreed to not deport French Jews if France arrested foreign Jews.


1969 - Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, and began the first manned mission to land on the moon.

California’s Indoor Religious Worship Suspended Indefinitely, State Health Department Says | The Daily Caller

California’s Indoor Religious Worship Suspended Indefinitely, State Health Department Says | The Daily Caller:

“We’re going back into modification mode of our original stay at home order,” Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom said, according to The New York Times. “This continues to be a deadly disease.”
The DCNF pressed both the governor’s office and the California Department of Health on when Californians may attend indoor religious services again, and what punishments Californians face if they do attempt to attend these banned services. Newsom’s office referred the DCNF to the California Department of Health (CDPH).

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Not Wearing a Mask? Ohio Starts Hotline to Report People Who Refuse

Not Wearing a Mask? Ohio Starts Hotline to Report People Who Refuse
"A county in Ohio has set up a hotline for people to report anyone not wearing masks in public amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as the state recorded its highest daily spike in cases yet.
...Cuyahago county, one of those wear masks are mandated, has set up a hotline and online form for people to share comments upon the use of the coverings there.
...Not wearing a mask in the county has been deemed a second-degree misdemeanor. 
This means failing to do so could be punishable with a $750 fine and up to 90 days in jail...Read all.

Michigan COVID-19 Deaths Plummet – Michigan Capitol Confidential

Michigan COVID-19 Deaths Plummet – Michigan Capitol Confidential
On July 14 there were six deaths related to COVID-19 in the state of Michigan, according to the New York Times.

From July 12 through July 14 there were a total of 14 Michigan deaths linked to COVID-19.

Here are the state coronavirus death figures for the same three-day periods in April, May and June:

April 12-14: 372 coronavirus deaths.

May 12-14: 203 coronavirus deaths.

June 12-14: 35 coronavirus deaths.

July 12-14: 14 coronavirus deaths.

An article on liberty and free markets as sound public policy for Michigan.

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Michigan COVID-19 Deaths Plummet

An article on liberty and free markets as sound public policy for Michigan.

Criminal probe widens into DA who charged officers in Rayshard Brooks death — now involves the Brooks case - TheBlaze

Criminal probe widens into DA who charged officers in Rayshard Brooks death — now involves the Brooks case - TheBlaze:

An ongoing criminal investigation into Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard, the same prosecutor who charged the officers responsible for the death of Rayshard Brooks, recently widened — and now includes his actions involving the Brooks case.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds confirmed to Law.com last week that a criminal investigation into Howard now includes grand jury subpoenas he issued in the Brooks case — despite the fact that a grand jury had not been impaneled since March 13 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Howard attempted to subpoena records related to a use of force investigation against former Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe, whom Howard charged with felony murder in the Brooks case.