Friday, August 30, 2019
7 Reasons Taylor Swift Shouldn’t Support Equality Act
7 Reasons Taylor Swift Shouldn’t Support Equality Act:
Nancy Pelosi delivered Wednesday on her promise to introduce the so-called Equality Act, which would elevate sexual orientation and gender identity to protected classes in federal anti-discrimination law.
Although that may sound nice in theory, in practice sexual orientation and gender identity policies at the state and local level have caused profound harms to Americans from all walks of life.
How might a sexual orientation and gender identity law on the federal level, as introduced in the House and Senate, affect you and your community? Here are seven ways:
Nancy Pelosi delivered Wednesday on her promise to introduce the so-called Equality Act, which would elevate sexual orientation and gender identity to protected classes in federal anti-discrimination law.
Although that may sound nice in theory, in practice sexual orientation and gender identity policies at the state and local level have caused profound harms to Americans from all walks of life.
How might a sexual orientation and gender identity law on the federal level, as introduced in the House and Senate, affect you and your community? Here are seven ways:
Soooo petty!-----Google Buried True Meaning of Covfefe [I Will Stand Up] Once President Trump Tweeted It!!!
UNREAL: Google Buried True Meaning of Covfefe [I Will Stand Up] Once President Trump Tweeted It!!!
"President Trump tweeted “Covfefe” and nobody knew what he meant.
If you googled the word you couldn’t find it.
Now we know that the reason you couldn’t find it is because Google had it erased from its social platform!
"President Trump tweeted “Covfefe” and nobody knew what he meant.
If you googled the word you couldn’t find it.
Now we know that the reason you couldn’t find it is because Google had it erased from its social platform!
UN flies in 4,000 people to Salt Lake to complain about fossil fuels | CFACT
UN flies in 5,000 people to Salt Lake to complain about fossil fuels | CFACT
"How does the United Nations convince people that they are super serious in their outrage about fossil fuels?
How about flying 4,000 people from all over the world in fossil-fueled jet airplanes to isolated Salt Lake City to whine about it?
Sounds like a good plan to the United Nations bureaucracy, which is sponsoring a sustainability and climate change conference this week in Salt Lake City.
"How does the United Nations convince people that they are super serious in their outrage about fossil fuels?
How about flying 4,000 people from all over the world in fossil-fueled jet airplanes to isolated Salt Lake City to whine about it? Sounds like a good plan to the United Nations bureaucracy, which is sponsoring a sustainability and climate change conference this week in Salt Lake City.
...There is no compelling agenda, no compelling actions items, and no expected meaningful outcome from the conference.
It is simply an opportunity for leftist global activists to get together and express outrage about economic freedom and the existential global climate disruption that is the greatest crisis humanity has ever faced – surpassing Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, the Black Plague, smallpox, AIDS, and the threat of nuclear war combined..."
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It is simply an opportunity for leftist global activists to get together and express outrage about economic freedom and the existential global climate disruption that is the greatest crisis humanity has ever faced – surpassing Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, the Black Plague, smallpox, AIDS, and the threat of nuclear war combined..."
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TSA bans Star Wars Coke bottles from flights because they look like bombs - The Verge
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TSA bans Star Wars Coke bottles from flights because they look like bombs - The Verge"...Transportation Security Administration confirmed...souvenir Coke bottles shaped like thermal detonators from Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge theme park would not be allowed in carry-on or checked bags.
...Unfortunately, the Imagineers that worked on the packaging did too good of a job, and TSA clarified further yesterday that even with the decorative lid removed, the bottle would still not be allowed through security."
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Fight over 4-year-old seized by government reaches state Supremes - WND
Fight over 4-year-old seized by government reaches state Supremes - WND:
A battle over custody of a 4-year-old child seized from his parents by Texas officials without any explanation is being appealed to the state Supreme Court.
WND reported the lawsuit brought by the Texas Home School Coalition on behalf of the boy, Drake Pardo, and his parents, Ashley and Daniel. The group set up a Bring Drake Home website and posted a video on Facebook to present their case to the public.
WND reported the lawsuit brought by the Texas Home School Coalition on behalf of the boy, Drake Pardo, and his parents, Ashley and Daniel. The group set up a Bring Drake Home website and posted a video on Facebook to present their case to the public.
90 Hours A Week, 52 Weeks A Year: Detroit Cop Claims 2,617 Overtime Hours – Michigan Capitol Confidential
90 Hours A Week, 52 Weeks A Year: Detroit Cop Claims 2,617 Overtime Hours – Michigan Capitol Confidential"The Detroit Police Department said it has started an investigation into a police officer who reported having 2,617.2 hours of overtime in fiscal year 2018.
That much overtime, as revealed in city records, translates into an average of 90.3 hours worked every week of the year, and it includes overtime and regular shifts.
...Those hours boosted this one officer’s annual pay by $100,737 in 2018.
Altogether, he collected $159,387 from the city that year.
“We have some concern...We take misusage of overtime very seriously and if we determine during the course of our investigation that a violation has occurred, then we will take appropriate actions.”...
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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
Roy Wilkins 1901, Fred MacMurray 1908, John Gunther 1901
1905 - Ty Cobb made his major league batting debut with the Detroit Tigers.
1965 - Thurgood Marshall was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a Supreme Court justice. Marshall was the first black justice to sit on the Supreme Court.
Thursday, August 29, 2019
San Francisco’s New PC Terms For Criminals Met With Mockery | Daily Wire
San Francisco’s New PC Terms For Criminals Met With Mockery | Daily Wire:
In a non-binding resolution passed last month and which has gained the support of the district attorney, the city presents the grim statistic that now one-fifth, one out of every five, residents of the city has a criminal record. In response to this alarming criminal reality, the board has introduced its new "person first" terminology, in which old terms the city fears might encourage "negative predispositions" and "unfounded assumptions" have been swapped out for more positive and "stigma"-free language.
In the resolution, the city spells out its new terms for the old,"attitudinal barrier"-creating phrases: A "convicted felon" or "convict" or "felon" that has been released from jail should now be called a "formerly incarcerated person," or
In the resolution, the city spells out its new terms for the old,"attitudinal barrier"-creating phrases: A "convicted felon" or "convict" or "felon" that has been released from jail should now be called a "formerly incarcerated person," or
The Bee!--Truth or Fact?-----Lego Introduces New Sharper Bricks That Instantly Kill You When You Step On Them | The Babylon Bee
Lego Introduces New Sharper Bricks That Instantly Kill You When You Step On Them | The Babylon Bee
BILLUND, DENMARK—Lego has just introduced new and improved interlocking plastic bricks that will instantly kill you when you step on them, sources at the company’s headquarters confirmed Thursday.
...“This is the most promising advancement we’ve made in our brick design since we first introduced the bricks that make it feel like your foot is being stabbed by a hundred sharpened katanas many decades ago.”
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BILLUND, DENMARK—Lego has just introduced new and improved interlocking plastic bricks that will instantly kill you when you step on them, sources at the company’s headquarters confirmed Thursday.
...“This is the most promising advancement we’ve made in our brick design since we first introduced the bricks that make it feel like your foot is being stabbed by a hundred sharpened katanas many decades ago.”
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Somali Immigrant Convicted Of Gang Rape Says He’s Too Depressed To Be Deported | The Daily Caller
Somali Immigrant Convicted Of Gang Rape Says He’s Too Depressed To Be Deported | The Daily Caller:
Lawyers for a 30-year-old immigrant convicted of gang rape are arguing he is too depressed to be deported back to his home country of Somalia.
Yaqub Ahmed, a Somali who was granted refugee status in the United Kingdom, was convicted for the 2007 gang rape of a 16-year-old girl living in London. He served nine years in prison alongside three other men who took part in the brutal rape. Ahmed is due to be deported back to Somalia, but his lawyers claim that he is unable to return to his home country because he is feeling depressed and suicidal, according to the Sun.
Lawyers for a 30-year-old immigrant convicted of gang rape are arguing he is too depressed to be deported back to his home country of Somalia.Yaqub Ahmed, a Somali who was granted refugee status in the United Kingdom, was convicted for the 2007 gang rape of a 16-year-old girl living in London. He served nine years in prison alongside three other men who took part in the brutal rape. Ahmed is due to be deported back to Somalia, but his lawyers claim that he is unable to return to his home country because he is feeling depressed and suicidal, according to the Sun.
Fires in Brazil
Fires in Brazil"In the Amazon rainforest, fire season has arrived.
...As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years. (The Amazon spreads across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and parts of other countries.)
Though activity appears to be above average in the states of Amazonas and Rondônia, it has so far appeared below average in Mato Grosso and Pará, according to estimates from the Global Fire Emissions Database, a research project that compiles and analyzes NASA data..."
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Earth Day: Not a Single Environmental Prediction of the Last 50 Years Has Come True | Watts Up With That?
Earth Day: Not a Single Environmental Prediction of the Last 50 Years Has Come True | Watts Up With That?--Nicolas Loris, Bangor Daily News
...“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate … that there won’t be any more crude oil,” ecologist Kenneth Watt warned around the time of the first Earth Day event.
“You’ll drive up to the pump and say, ‘Fill ’er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, ‘I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’
Watt also warned of global cooling and nitrogen buildup rendering all of the planet’s land unusable..."
Report: Video from Camera Outside Epstein's Prison Cell is Unusable
Report: Video from Camera Outside Epstein's Prison Cell is Unusable:
Video from at least one security camera outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan prison cell, where the convicted pedophile was found dead as a result of hanging according to authorities, was reportedly unusable to investigators.
The camera with unusable footage was situated in the hallway near Epstein’s cell, according to the Washington Post. The newspaper said a second camera captured clearer footage. The reason for the filming discrepancies between the two cameras is unclear at this time.
The camera with unusable footage was situated in the hallway near Epstein’s cell, according to the Washington Post. The newspaper said a second camera captured clearer footage. The reason for the filming discrepancies between the two cameras is unclear at this time.
Get Ready For Apocalypse Ruth
Get Ready For Apocalypse Ruth
"Progressives’ ghoulish glee over the death of an old man turned into barely constrained panic when, later that day, it was revealed that their heroine Ruth Bader Ginsberg was just treated for pancreatic cancer yet again.
Their disgraceful joy at David Koch’s passing was yet another reminder of the harsh truth that leftists want you dead or enslaved.
Koch’s sin was that he disagreed with liberals (though, in important ways, also with conservatives).
For that, these cretins danced around like idiots celebrating his succumbing.
And they’ll celebrate when you die too.
Always believe people who tell you they hate you and want you dead.
Oh, and never disarm.
Of course, RBG is eager to disarm you, and she would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those meddling Supreme Court kids who actually read Second Amendment.
...But she’s very old and she’s very sick and facing that reality is not the same as high-fiving it.
...She just keeps going and going and going, but someday she’s going to run out of juice and join her pal Antonin Scalia on the bench in the great beyond, and if that happens with Trump in the White House, ho boy.
You can relive the shameful saga of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings in Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino’s remarkable Justice on Trial.
What will happen next time will pale in comparison.
If you thought you saw frothy, mouth-foaming insanity last time -- just you wait..."
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"Progressives’ ghoulish glee over the death of an old man turned into barely constrained panic when, later that day, it was revealed that their heroine Ruth Bader Ginsberg was just treated for pancreatic cancer yet again.
Their disgraceful joy at David Koch’s passing was yet another reminder of the harsh truth that leftists want you dead or enslaved.
Koch’s sin was that he disagreed with liberals (though, in important ways, also with conservatives).
For that, these cretins danced around like idiots celebrating his succumbing.
And they’ll celebrate when you die too. Always believe people who tell you they hate you and want you dead.
Oh, and never disarm.
Of course, RBG is eager to disarm you, and she would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those meddling Supreme Court kids who actually read Second Amendment.
...But she’s very old and she’s very sick and facing that reality is not the same as high-fiving it.
...She just keeps going and going and going, but someday she’s going to run out of juice and join her pal Antonin Scalia on the bench in the great beyond, and if that happens with Trump in the White House, ho boy.
You can relive the shameful saga of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings in Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino’s remarkable Justice on Trial.
What will happen next time will pale in comparison.
If you thought you saw frothy, mouth-foaming insanity last time -- just you wait..."
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You've been warned!-----‘I’m Radioactive’ – Reason.com
‘I’m Radioactive’ – Reason.com
"Journalist Jonathan Kaiman is one of the least famous, least powerful men to be brought down by the #MeToo movement.
A year later, the fallout continues.
Until the spring of 2018, Jonathan Kaiman was the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times. Today he is living at the home of his parents in Phoenix under conditions he describes as a form of psychological house arrest.
There are no visitors, and his few remaining friends rarely call.
He feels unable to make new ones, because he fears the reaction of anyone who Googles him.
He's 32, unemployed, and perhaps unemployable—"I'm radioactive," as he puts it.
And he's still trying to find the right combination of psychotropic medication to quell the recurrent thought that ending his life may be the best way out.
...Before it all fell apart, Kaiman's life was a success story.
After graduation from Vassar, he received a Fulbright scholarship to study in China.
He stayed on, became fluent in Mandarin, and, starting as a freelancer, worked his way up the journalism ranks.
...Given the millennia during which women have had to take male abuse and suffer under institutionalized denial of and indifference to it, it is perhaps understandable that there is a willingness to shrug off the prospect that some unfairly accused men will become roadkill on the way to a more equitable future.
A common feminist dictum holds there are no innocent men, as per the slogans #YesAllMen and #KillAllMen.
We are now in a time when a sexual encounter can be recast in a malevolent light, no matter whether the participants all appeared to consider it consensual at the time and no matter how long ago it took place.
Looking back, it can be even harder—perhaps impossible— to know what really happened in a private sexual encounter..."
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"Journalist Jonathan Kaiman is one of the least famous, least powerful men to be brought down by the #MeToo movement.
A year later, the fallout continues.
Until the spring of 2018, Jonathan Kaiman was the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times. Today he is living at the home of his parents in Phoenix under conditions he describes as a form of psychological house arrest. There are no visitors, and his few remaining friends rarely call.
He feels unable to make new ones, because he fears the reaction of anyone who Googles him.
He's 32, unemployed, and perhaps unemployable—"I'm radioactive," as he puts it.
And he's still trying to find the right combination of psychotropic medication to quell the recurrent thought that ending his life may be the best way out.
...Before it all fell apart, Kaiman's life was a success story.
After graduation from Vassar, he received a Fulbright scholarship to study in China.
He stayed on, became fluent in Mandarin, and, starting as a freelancer, worked his way up the journalism ranks.
...Given the millennia during which women have had to take male abuse and suffer under institutionalized denial of and indifference to it, it is perhaps understandable that there is a willingness to shrug off the prospect that some unfairly accused men will become roadkill on the way to a more equitable future.
A common feminist dictum holds there are no innocent men, as per the slogans #YesAllMen and #KillAllMen.
We are now in a time when a sexual encounter can be recast in a malevolent light, no matter whether the participants all appeared to consider it consensual at the time and no matter how long ago it took place.
Looking back, it can be even harder—perhaps impossible— to know what really happened in a private sexual encounter..."
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