Using hate to divide us and enrich the thugs!-----Shakedown: BLM Demands Protection Fees from Louisville Business

Shakedown: BLM Demands Protection Fees from Louisville Business
Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters issued “social justice” and “black liberation” demands regarding “diversity” to a restaurant owner in Louisville, KY, including a directive for “donations” to organizations run by non-whites.

Listed demands from a BLM affiliate in Louisville include racial quotas for staff and ownership of business suppliers, donations to organizations run by non-whites, and adjustment to dress codes. 

The posters used the acronym “BIPOC” (“black or indigenous persons of color”) as a euphemism for non-white persons:

23% of Staff is BIPOC in Front of House

23% of inventory is from BIPOC retailer(s)

Regular donations to BIPOC organization

Dress code policy does not discriminate against BIPOC patrons of employees.

Additional demands issued via the letter included the option to give 1.5 percent of revenues to a local “black nonprofit or organization” in lieu of purchasing a minimum of 23 percent of the business’s inventory from “black retailers,” mandated “diversity and inclusion training” for all employees, and displaying of left-wing messaging to support “reparations.”...

“Repercussions of non-compliance” are listed in the letter:

• Reduction in Racial Index Score/bias report to the Better Business Bureau.
• Social Media Blast: Notification, via all social media platforms, of non-compliance.
• Boycott: Public boycott, coordinated through social media and mail announcements, of yours NuLu establishment AND any other business ventures owned by you.
• Protest: Visible, media-covered demonstration/sit-in outside your establishment.
• Invasive Reclamation: Placement of booths/tables outside your establishment where competing Black proprietors will offer items comparable to those offered by you.

Fernando Martinez, the owner of La Bodeguita de Mima, a restaurant serving Cuban cuisine, described Black Lives Matter’s demands as a Mafia-style shakedown. He characterized them as “Mafia tactics,” according to Courier-Journal, a Kentucky-based newspaper...

...Chris Turner, a Louisville-based reporter, reported on a Black Lives Matter protest forcing the closing of businesses on July 24:

Black Lives Matter Louisville markets “anti-racism training” on its verified Facebook page produced in partnership with MoveOn.org and other left-wing and partisan Democrat organizations...Read all.

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Woman angry at 2020 flag outside pizzeria tells owner she'll put him out of business. Her plan backfires. - TheBlaze

Woman angry at 2020 flag outside pizzeria tells owner she'll put him out of business. Her plan backfires. - TheBlaze:

And we've seen how such scenarios go, haven't we? The social media mob gets outraged and delivers immense online pressure, and before you know it, the victim apologizes profusely — or even closes up shop for good.
But as it turns out, the last laugh was on Long Island Karen.
Caligiuri told Fox Business that the following morning Patio Pizza was inundated with customers from all over who also declared their support for President Donald Trump, as well as the pizzeria.

"Mostly peaceful protests" is interesting as a terminology--Michael Smith

Fans of Best of the Web Today--Michael Smith
"Mostly peaceful protests" is interesting as a terminology used to explain and excuse the minority of violence that occurs in conjunction with the protests.
Using that definition, pretty much every war - especially the World Wars, would be considered "mostly peaceful" because only a small percentage of people actually actively participated in them - but wars are defined by destruction, violence and death, just as these "protests" should be."

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Ratings Crash for NBA, MLB After Protest-Filled Debuts

Ratings Crash for NBA, MLB After Protest-Filled Debuts
"As the NBA and MLB return from their coronavirus-imposed hiatus, it appears TV viewers are not interested in what the increasingly woke leagues have to offer.

With both baseball and basketball draped in all sorts of Black Lives Matter and social justice symbolism for their opening games, a substantially smaller number of fans tuned-in to the rest of the week’s games...

For good measure, Strauss also pointed out that baseball can’t blame the coronavirus. 

The virus didn’t stop people from watching Tom Brady golf with Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson back in May...Read all.

#1 This day 1960-----Brian Hyland "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini"

Analysis: NY Times hints at Leftist Coup if Trump wins in November - Capstone Report

Analysis: NY Times hints at Leftist Coup if Trump wins in November - Capstone Report
"If you think the Resistance to 2016 was unhinged, you haven’t seen anything yet. 
Get ready for crazy if the Woke Mob doesn’t get its way. 
The New York Times provided a hint into how Leftists could respond to a Donald Trump victory this November. 
Buried at the end of a column on the media’s coverage of the election was a shocking tidbit floating a constitutional crisis.

According to Ben Smith in the New York Times:

“A group of former top government officials called the Transition Integrity Project actually gamed four possible scenarios, including one that doesn’t look that different from 2016: a big popular win for Mr. Biden, and a narrow electoral defeat, presumably reached after weeks of counting the votes in Pennsylvania. For their war game, they cast John Podesta, who was Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, in the role of Mr. Biden. They expected him, when the votes came in, to concede, just as Mrs. Clinton had.“

But Mr. Podesta, playing Mr. Biden, shocked the organizers by saying he felt his party wouldn’t let him concede. Alleging voter suppression, he persuaded the governors of Wisconsin and Michigan to send pro-Biden electors to the Electoral College.

“In that scenario, California, Oregon, and Washington then threatened to secede from the United States if Mr. Trump took office as planned. The House named Mr. Biden president; the Senate and White House stuck with Mr. Trump. At that point in the scenario, the nation stopped looking to the media for cues, and waited to see what the military would do.”

Wow....Read all.

Some folks just ain't never gonna get it.

Alveda King: Obama took nation back to segregated '60s

Alveda King: Obama took nation back to segregated '60s:

It was more like a stump speech than a eulogy, taking America back to the segregated '60s, according to Alveda King, a niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
King was talking about Barack Obama's "wordplay" in the funeral of Congressman John Lewis on Thursday, BizPacReview reported.

It’s August: Rest, Fall will be Even Crazier - American Thinker

It’s August: Rest, Fall will be Even Crazier - American Thinker
"If you had any doubt that the Democrats know they have a losing candidate (who has this week pushed back the announcement of his running mate) at the head of their ticket, their conduct the past week is the tell:

1.The outrageous House Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General William Barr, whose IQ surely bests that of the combined intelligence of the Democrats on the committee, was surely a desperation move to hold their base. Scott Johnson:

To say the Democrats must be crazy would be an overly charitable interpretation of their performance in the House Judiciary Committee spectacle starring Attorney General Barr yesterday. They only seemed crazy as they repeatedly disgraced themselves. The disgrace, however, was obviously premeditated...

2. The Democrat mayors’ walkbacks of their overt support for the rioters...

3. The push for mail balloting as evidence grows of its inadequacies...

4. RussiaGate

At the House Judiciary Committee Hearings, Democrats pressed Barr to agree that no criminal prosecutions would be initiated until after the election. He refused...

To recap, as we head into the national campaign, the Democrat mayors and councils have done little to protect their citizens and property, and only the federal government, despite the strictures of the federal system, has been working to restore law and order. 
It’s possible that indictments will be filed against the wrongdoers in the RussiaGate scandal before the election, and the Democrats are doing everything they can to make the election as chaotic and litigious as they possibly can. 
As if there is not enough chaos in ordinary national elections (and transitions), they hope to make it even more so. 
Doesn’t sound like they think they have this in the bag. 
Rasmussen says they certainly do not. 
He places the President ahead of Obama’s approval ratings at this point in time."
Read all!

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History for August 3

History for August 3 - On-This-Day.com
Ernie Pyle 1900, Margaret Kuhn 1905, Leon Uris 1924
 

Tony Bennett 1926, Martin Sheen 1940 - Actor, Martha Stewart 1941 - Television personality


1492 - Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain with three ships. The voyage led him to what is now known as the Americas. He reached the Bahamas on October 12.


1923 - Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as the 30th president of the U.S. after the sudden death of President Harding.

'What I discovered was absolutely shocking': Doctor reveals the REAL reason for anti-hydroxychloroquine hype - TheBlaze

'What I discovered was absolutely shocking': Doctor reveals the REAL reason for anti-hydroxychloroquine hype - TheBlaze:

"It's been around for centuries and it's been FDA-approved in the modern version, called hydroxychloroquine, for 65 years. In all of that time, [doctors] used it for breast-feeding women, pregnant women, elderly, children, and immune compromised. The typical use is for years or even decades because we give it mostly to RA, rheumatoid arthritis patients and lupus patients who need to be on it, essentially, all of their life. So, we have extensive experience with it ... it's one of the most commonly used medications throughout the world."
Dr. Gold told Glenn she was surprised when the media suddenly "vomited all over hydroxychloroquine", but initially chalked it up to the left's predictable hatred for anything President Donald Trump endorses. However,

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Germans March Against Shutdown | Power Line

Germans March Against Shutdown | Power Line
"...Of course, it wasn’t the virus that crushed Germany’s economy, it was the shutdown.

The huge crash in the April to June period was triggered by a massive collapse in exports and measures introduced in a desperate attempt to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

This will set alarm bells ringing in Germany as even in the worst three months of the financial crisis in 2009, the country’s economy shrank by less than five percent.

This is a point that is not made often enough: 

• the costs of government shutdowns to “fight” the coronavirus are huge and indisputable. 
• The benefits of shutdowns are speculative and hypothetical. 

In my opinion, those benefits are minimal and maybe nonexistent. 

Closing down economic and social life can indeed slow the spread of the COVID virus (or any disease), albeit at enormous cost.

But what is the benefit? 
The evidence increasingly shows that shutdowns merely prolong the inevitable effects of the disease. 
Instead of suffering only from the effects of the disease, we now suffer from the same effects of the disease, spread over a longer time, but in addition are experiencing the incalculable human toll caused by the shutdowns. 

I have yet to see any convincing evidence that this assessment is incorrect...Read all.

It can't happen here...right?-----America's Civil War Rising

America's Civil War Rising | 'REPORT: Soros Plot to Blow it All Up… This is Terrifying' - HENCH-PEOPLE BOUGHT & PAID FOR!

• ‘George Soros Pouring $220 Million into “Racial Justice Movement”...
• ...Yes, George Soros Sent Money to Fund the Riots—and So Did Taxpayers; DARK MONEY Trails….
• EXPOSED: George Soros Bank Rolls Coronavirus Campaign...

...Still yet, for those who remain unconvinced re the dangers within, well, this ought to set the record straight.

“Far left billionaire George Soros has been systematically targeting district attorney races throughout the United States for several years now. 
Several of his candidates are already in office creating havoc.
In St. Louis City George Soros was Kim Gardner’s biggest donor in her race for Circuit Attorney.
Soros funded PAC even released an ad in support of this far left and unqualified nutcase.
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...Soros-funded Marxist program marches forward, new city attorney funded by Soros
A radical new budget proposal by the Austin, Texas, City Council calls for a controlled demolition of the police department’s current headquarters in a symbolic gesture towards Black Lives Matter and defund police protesters...Read all.

CNN Doesn't Name ‘Women’ – Only ‘Individuals with Cervixes’ – in Cancer Screenings Story

CNN Doesn't Name ‘Women’ – Only ‘Individuals with Cervixes’ – in Cancer Screenings Story:

CNN effectively erased the reality of biological females in its coverage of the American Cancer Society’s recommendation that women undergo cervical cancer screenings at age 25 rather than 21.
The beginning of CNN’s coverage reads:

If they'll lie about this, what else will they lie about?-----Hakeem Jeffries Lies for a Living - American Thinker

Hakeem Jeffries Lies for a Living - American Thinker
"...Despite the length of the hearing, the transcript shows that there were 25 instances of our representatives uttering “reclaiming my time.” 
Seems that at this hearing the Dems didn’t want to hear what Mr. Barr had to say. 
In any event, at the 2:12:38 point in the hearing (also below), New York Democrat Rep. Hakeem Jeffries had this exchange with A.G. Barr:

JEFFRIES: Thank you, Mr. Barr. That is inaccurate. That’s a myth. That’s a lie. [Barr attempts to speak.] Reclaiming my time. In April, President Trump irresponsibly suggested that the American people inject … them … selves … with … bleach. Was that superb? Yes or no?

BARR: That’s not what I heard.

JEFFRIES: That’s exactly what he said. That’s what the American people heard. And you know it. And you can’t defend it. Let’s move on to May.

But that’s not “exactly what” President Trump said, not even close. 
It’s Jeffries who is lying. 
Even so, Jeffries wouldn’t allow Barr to enlighten him and the American people on what was actually said in April. 
You see, Jeffries was “reclaiming” his time...Read all!

Yes. They hate America. And you!-----Left-wing activists burn bibles in Portland anti-police riot - The Post Millennial - News, Politics, Culture, and Lifestyle

Left-wing activists burn bibles in Portland anti-police riot - The Post Millennial - News, Politics, Culture, and Lifestyle
"Left-wing activists took to the streets of Portland Friday night—just as they’ve done every night for the past two months—to protest in front of the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse, and burned bibles and American flags...Read all.