Now on table: Regulating Google, says Trump adviser - WND

Now on table: Regulating Google, says Trump adviser - WND:
The Media Research Center found the problem at Twitter, Facebook, Google and YouTube is “far more troubling than most conservatives realize.”
For example, “Project Veritas recently had caught Twitter staffers admitting on hidden camera that they had been censoring conservatives through a technique known as shadow banning, where users think their content is getting seen widely, but it’s not.
And Facebook’s “Trending Feed” was found by Gizmodo to be exhibiting bias.
“It had detailed claims by former employees that Facebook’s news curators had been instructed to hide conservative content from the ‘trending’ section, which supposedly only features news users find compelling.”
Blacklisted were the Conservative Political Action Conference and Rand Paul.
And at Google?

When morons run your city-Taxpayers on the hook AGAIN!!-----PEAK Training Academy owner loses lease at Walker Arena Annex | MLive.com

PEAK Training Academy owner loses lease at Walker Arena Annex | MLive.com

• This is the same Muskegon city manager (and his city council) who just got a raise and his college loans paid off. 
• https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2018/08/muskegon_manager_contract_incl.html
• City now on hook for $165,000.
• Both "Angels" and "Builders" too smart for this disaster. 
• And... why is the city funding competition to all the other health clubs in the county?

MUSKEGON, MI - City officials recently voted to terminate a lease agreement with the company operating the PEAK Training Academy in the LC Walker Arena...

The deal also leaves the city on the hook for $165,000 as it pays off PEAK's debts to two local investors, and takes up his utility payments, which were valued in 2015 at $15,000 annually.

...The PEAK Training Academy was established in 2016 and is located in the 6,000-square-foot arena annex. 

...Williams' creditors were the Muskegon Angels investment group and developers Muskegon Quality Builders, Peterson said. 
The Muskegon Angels helped purchase equipment for the facility, while Muskegon Quality Builders helped get the building ready for commercial use.
According to the termination agreement, the city now will be responsible for those debts and will pay:

• Muskegon Quality Builders $1,500 a month for the next 70 months.
• Muskegon Angels $1,000 a month for the next 60 months. ..."

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"LIKELY"?!!-----Mueller wants to review emails between Manafort, former lawyer - POLITICO

Mueller wants to review emails between Manafort, former lawyer - POLITICO

"Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team wants to review emails between Paul Manafort and one of his former lawyers — messages that would typically be protected by attorney-client privilege.
Manafort’s emails are a special case, Mueller’s team argued in a court motion Wednesday.
Attorney-client privilege doesn’t apply when the client enlists a lawyer’s help to commit a crime — and that’s what Mueller’s team is arguing that Manafort did.

...The question of how attorney-client privilege applies to a lawyer who advised Manafort and his former deputy, Rick Gates, around their foreign lobbying work on behalf of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych has dogged the Washington case for nearly a year.
...Attorney-client privilege didn’t apply to Manafort’s discussions with the lawyer, U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell wrote, because Mueller’s team had demonstrated that Manafort “likely violated federal law”..."
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Officers told stand aside as 'Silent Sam' fell, report says

Officers told stand aside as 'Silent Sam' fell, report says:
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — A police chief assisting with crowd control during a protest at the University of North Carolina told his officers to stand aside as protesters tore down a century-old Confederate monument, according to documents obtained by a television station.
The messages obtained by WRAL-TV show Chapel Hill Police Chief Chris Blue closely monitored the Aug. 20 protest as his officers backed up the UNC police force that takes the lead in policing the Chapel Hill campus.
...During the protest around the statue known as “Silent Sam” in a main campus quad, Blue instructed officers “Let’s give them lots of space” and “stay way out,” the messages show.
At one point Blue sent a message saying Chapel Hill officers were “too close.”
Shortly thereafter protesters pulled down the statue..."
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Lunch video-----"All White People Are Racist"

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Witness: Fusion GPS, Trump Tower Participants Met with Clinton Associate Ed Lieberman | Breitbart

Witness: Fusion GPS, Trump Tower Participants Met with Clinton Associate Ed Lieberman | Breitbart:

Attorney Edward Lieberman, whose late wife Evelyn previously served as Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff when she was First Lady, was present at one and possibly two dinner meetings between the controversial Fusion GPS firm and key participants in the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, according to witness testimony reviewed by Breitbart News.
One of those meetings with Fusion GPS took place just days after the Trump Tower meeting, the testimony reveals.

And the liberal media agrees!-----Don’t ‘monkey this up’ and elect Andrew Gillum, Ron DeSantis says | Tampa Bay Times

Don’t ‘monkey this up’ and elect Andrew Gillum, Ron DeSantis says | Tampa Bay Times:
"Democrats immediately criticized the comment as racist. 
Gillum is the first black nominee for governor..."
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Racist Monkeys!

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo halted an investigation into the Manhattan DA…

Instapundit � Blog Archive � CULTURE OF CORRUPTION:

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: 
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo halted an investigation into the Manhattan DA’s handling of the Harvey Weinstein case just as the law firm representing the Hollywood producer gave Cuomo’s campaign $25,000.---Posted by Glenn Reynolds

#1 This day 1955-----The Yellow Rose Of Texas Mitch Miller Orchestra 1955

Gregg Jarrett: The scheme from Bruce Ohr and Comey's confederates to clear Clinton, damage Trump | Fox News

Gregg Jarrett: The scheme from Bruce Ohr and Comey's confederates to clear Clinton, damage Trump | Fox News
"Editor's note: This op-ed is based on the author’s book “The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump.”
Director James Comey knew the FBI was incorruptible. 
This is precisely why he seized control of the investigation of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s email practices covering her time as secretary of state, instead of allowing the FBI field office to conduct the probe.
By commandeering control of the investigation, Comey and his confederates could twist the facts and contort the law to dictate the outcome they desired. 
Clinton was the beneficiary of what FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe reportedly described as the “HQ special.”
The same is true of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. 
The very people who cleared Clinton of crimes – despite strong evidence that she broke the law – also assumed unfettered authority over the so-called “collusion” investigation to determine if Donald Trump’s presidential campaign worked with Russia to help Trump become president..."
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And read the book!

You ought to know!

Student arrested for stealing MAGA hat, slapping teacher in profanity-laced tirade | Fox News

Student arrested for stealing MAGA hat, slapping teacher in profanity-laced tirade | Fox News:

A high school senior in California was arrested Monday after she went on a profanity-laced tirade against a classmate for wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat.
Union Mine High School student, Jo-Ann Butler, 17, was suspended for one week and faces two counts of battery: one against her classmate for grabbing his MAGA hat and the other against her English teacher, whom she slapped as he escorted her out of the classroom in an altercation captured on a cellphone, according to CBS Sacramento.

Northwest Passage Icebound - Ice Age Now

Northwest Passage Icebound - Ice Age Now
"“CCG icebreakers cannot safely escort pleasure craft.” 
At least 22 vessels affected and several have turned back to Greenland, according to Daria Blackwell of oceancruiseclub.org.

Daria also posted this release from NORDREG CANADA, a branch of the Canadian Coast Guard.

Subject: 9H9573 – INFO – 08-18-1256 – LR – HEAVIER ICE CONDITIONS
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 13:06:44 +0000
NORDREG IQALUIT 181256 UTC AUG 2018

Good morning,
Due to heavier than normal ice concentrations in the Canadian arctic waters north of 70 degrees, the Canadian Coast Guard, recommends that pleasure craft do not navigate in the Beaufort Sea, Barrow, Peel Sound, Franklin Strait and Prince Regent. CCG icebreakers cannot safely escort pleasure craft. Operators of pleasure craft considering a northwest passage should also consider the risk of having to winter in a safe haven in the Arctic, or in the case of an emergency, be evacuated from beset vessels. Safety of mariners is our primary concern.
REGARDS,
NORDREG CANADA
181256UTC\LR

To confirm that the “heavier than normal ice concentrations” statement was true, I checked Denmark’s Polar Portal site.

Turns out that as of today, 23 Aug 2018, Arctic sea-ice volume for this date is higher than the 2004-2013 average (thick black line vs thick grey line).

Arctic sea-ice volume is also higher for this date than in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

I have a sneaking suspicion that you won’t hear much about this from the mainstream media.

So much for Al Gore’s ice-free Arctic.

http://oceancruisingclub.org/newsitem/478/Northwest-Passage-remains-icebound-in-2018

http://polarportal.dk/en/sea-ice-and-icebergs/sea-ice-thickness-and-volume/

Thanks to Lloyd Chandler for this info"

AM Fruitcake

History for August 30

History for August 30 - On-This-Day.com
Mary Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1797 - Author, Maria Montessori 1870, Huey P. Long 1893


Shirley Booth 1907, Fred MacMurray 1908, Ted Williams 1918


1905 - Ty Cobb made his major league batting debut with the Detroit Tigers.


1994 - Rosa Parks was robbed and beaten by Joseph Skipper. Parks was known for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, which sparked the civil rights movement.

Google-Facebook 'can shift 12 million votes this election' - WND

Google-Facebook 'can shift 12 million votes this election' - WND:

A study of how Google and Facebook are manipulating the political views of their users shows the internet tech giants have the power to shift “upwards of 12 million votes” in November’s midterm elections, psychologist Robert Epstein told Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson.
“We should be extremely concerned,” said Epstein. “Content no longer matters. All that matters is the filtering and ordering of content.”

The way we were-----Classics IV - Stormy

Boob-tube-----Boris Karloff's Thriller - A Good Imagination

The IRS Has Rehired Hundreds of Fired Employees. Congress Should Step In.

The IRS Has Rehired Hundreds of Fired Employees. Congress Should Step In.
"For one of the most punitive agencies in the federal government, the IRS sure is forgiving with its own employees.

Rep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., has proposed a bill that would prevent the IRS from rehiring employees fired for misconduct or poor performance.
The bill, titled the Ensuring Integrity in the IRS Workforce Act, follows a recent Treasury inspector general report that shows the IRS rehired more than 200 fired workers in a little over a year. 
A previous inspector general report proves this problem dates back to at least 2009.

...the IRS—an agency with nearly unrivaled access to citizens’ personal information and capacity to harass individual taxpayers—rehired:

• A fired worker with several misdemeanor theft convictions and one count of felony possession of a forgery device.
• 11 employees previously disciplined for unauthorized access to taxpayer accounts.
• An employee who was absent without leave for 270 hours—the equivalent of 33 work days.
• An employee fired for physically threatening co-workers.
• An employee fired for lying about previous criminal convictions on employment forms.
• 17 employees previously caught falsifying official documents..."

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When the World Was Cold: Five Questions for Dagomar Degroot

When the World Was Cold: Five Questions for Dagomar Degroot

"COMPARED WITH THE climate change we’re experiencing now, the Little Ice Age — which chilled the globe from the 13th to the 19th century — was modest. 

“The world has already warmed more, relative to mid-20th-century temperature averages, than it cooled in the chilliest stretches of the Little Ice Age,” says Dagomar Degroot, a historian at Georgetown University. 
“And there is much more warming to come.”
Yet in his new book, “The Frigid Golden Age,” Degroot argues that the Little Ice Age has a lot to teach present-day societies about coping with climate change.
The Dutch managed to thrive during a time of cooling that caused great suffering elsewhere.
Degroot, himself born in the Netherlands, explores what made the Dutch so resilient..."
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MasterCard, Visa back down on Freedom Center attack - WND

MasterCard, Visa back down on Freedom Center attack - WND:

David Horowitz’s Freedom Center has announced MasterCard and Visa have backed down from their decision not to accept donations to the conservative organization – a threat Rush Limbaugh believes represents the next big wave of corporate efforts to destroy opposition to the leftist juggernaught dominating technology, media, academia and other powerful cultural and business institutions.
”And after 2 days of meetings with our attorneys I have good news and bad news,” said Horowitz, a former Communist who switched political sides during the Reagan administration, to his supporters. The good news is they’re backing down. The bad news is this is just the beginning of the most brutal battle for the future of our country.”

National Health Crisis! U.S. Rates of Syphilis, Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Soar To The Highest Levels Ever

National Health Crisis! U.S. Rates of Syphilis, Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Soar To The Highest Levels Ever:
"America is facing a health nightmare unlike anything that we have ever experienced before. According to the CDC, rates of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia have all skyrocketed to the highest levels on record, and top health professionals are urging coordinated national action to battle this unprecedented crisis. 
Even before these latest numbers, the United States had “the highest STD rates in the industrialized world”, and it is becoming exceedingly clear that things are rapidly getting worse. 
So exactly what does this say about us as a society? 
Sexually-transmitted diseases are spreading like wildfire, and those on the front lines are not optimistic that we will be able to turn this health crisis around any time soon..."
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The School Shootings That Weren't : NPR

The School Shootings That Weren't : NPR
"How many times per year does a gun go off in an American school?
We should know. 
But we don't.
This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, "nearly 240 schools ... reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting." 
The number is far higher than most other estimates.
  But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. 
Child Trends, a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government's Civil Rights Data Collection.
We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports..."
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Lunch video-----How Al Gore Misled the World

Noon-toon

Don’t Typecast Conservatives: They, Too, Respect the Dignity of LGBT Persons | The Heritage Foundation

Don’t Typecast Conservatives: They, Too, Respect the Dignity of LGBT Persons | The Heritage Foundation:

Do you support religious liberty or LGBT individuals? It needn’t be an either–or proposition. Just as many who identify as LGBT hold conservative values, so many religious social conservatives count LGBT individuals among their beloved friends, family, and colleagues. This allows conservatives to take a compassionate, solution-oriented approach to addressing the problems faced by LGBT individuals. Such an approach can negate the need to treat sexual orientation and gender identity as a protected class.

Hispanic Antifa Group in Los Angeles Calls for ‘Revolutionary Violence’ Against America – Eagle Rising

Hispanic Antifa Group in Los Angeles Calls for ‘Revolutionary Violence’ Against America – Eagle Rising
"An Hispanic communist Antifa group is openly calling for violence against Americans urging a “sea of armed masses” to use “revolutionary violence against the enemies of the people” and “take power” from our government.

According to Debra Hein at PJ Media:

The revolutionary Maoist group Serve the People — Los Angeles (STPLA) made the call during a recent demonstration in South Central Los Angeles, where “dozens of protesters” wearing red bandannas and carrying STPLA flags, banners, and a Trump piñata-effigy “rallied the masses” to demand the release of Gladis Hernandez, an illegal immigrant woman who is being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

On Sunday, according to the far-left Incendiary News Service, the agitators marched and chanted, “La migra, la policia, la misma porqueria!” (“ICE, the police, the same sh*t!”) and “F*ck ICE! F*ck the pigs!”

They set up shop in front of the main entrance to the Banc of California Stadium and passed out fliers about Hernandez’s detention as soccer fans headed into the stadium for the evening’s game. During the demonstration, according to the report, they called for “militant escalations” and for the “defense of their undocumented working-class immigrant communities by any means necessary” The group lit road flares and gave incendiary speeches against the country at their L.A. demonstration. They also chanted foul things at police that gathered to keep things orderly.

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