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Friday, January 06, 2017

 


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FredGrams.com
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Trump takes aim at NBC in latest Twitter tirade
The PEOTUS is not amused.
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Obama ignores facts with boastful ‘greatest hits’ list
Amazing. He's still on his Hagiography tour headed
for Walk-on-Water status.
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Celebrities Call for ‘Month of Resistance’ to Fight ‘Fascist’ Trump
How in the world will they protest? Spend the month in their jammies?
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Ishmael Jones: From Russia With Doubt
Yet another report says Russia hack doesn't make
it through the truth filter.
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Congress Probes FBI Over Top Obama
National Security Advisor’s Security Clearance

A little late but interesting still.
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The Washington Post Needs To Come Clean
About Its Russian Hacking Story Fiasco

By Monday we will know what happened here.
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It´s Epiphany Day in Tarpon Springs
Bay News 9 [Tampa, FL], by Fallon Silcox    Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac- 1/6/2017 10:07:37 AM     Post Reply
TARPON SPRINGS -- It´s Epiphany Day in Tarpon Springs. And this year´s edition, the 111th Epiphany Celebration, will feature something different. The priest presiding over today´s Epiphany, Father Athanasios Haros, is doing so for the first time. And, as part of this year´s celebration, Archbishop Demetrios of the Greek Archdiocese of America will welcome a special guest from Greece as part of the festivities. Dignitaries from Tarpon Springs´ sister cities of Kalymnos and Halki, Greece also will be in attendance along with thousands of visitors to the annual event. "I came (to Epiphany) over 30 years ago as a teenager just to watch the

Kerry: Continuing Violence in Syria Has
Nothing to Do With Obama’s ‘Red Line’
Washington Free Beacon, by Jack Heretik    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/6/2017 9:56:38 AM     Post Reply
Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that the ongoing violence in Syria has nothing to do with President Obama’s failed “red line” on the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons. In August 2012, Obama said that the use of chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the country’c conflict would be a “red line” that would provoke a military response by the United States. The Obama administration admitted the following year that Assad used such weapons on his own people but chose not to use any military force in response. Fox News reporter James Rosen told Kerry on

The ‘most transparent’ president
in history issues record number of
‘midnight’ regulations
- Thread Closed
Washington Times, by Dave Boyer    Original Article
Posted By: earlybird- 1/6/2017 9:46:09 AM     Post Reply
President Obama has issued 145 “midnight” regulations with a cost of more than $21 billion since the election of Donald Trump, the most by a lame-duck president in a generation, a study has found. The conservative American Action Forum said Thursday that Mr. Obama’s rules, issued from Nov. 8 through Dec. 31, include 31 “economically significant” regulations with a cost of at least $100 million each. “The administration has published more than 21 million hours of final federal paperwork requirements since November 8,” said Sam Batkins, AAF’s director of regulatory policy. “At the current pace, the Obama administration is going to be

  


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Obama Still Doesn’t Get America
American Thinker, by James Lewis    Original Article
Posted By: magnante- 1/6/2017 9:42:52 AM     Post Reply
President Obama came as a stranger, and is leaving as a stranger. The Obama presidency has been different from any other administration in the last two centuries. From the start, he has gone out of his way to defy the very essence of the American Republic, our constitutional limits on the power of any single dictatorial individual. Under Obama, the US Congress and even the Supreme Court have failed to assert their constitutional independence, presumably out of fear of this president an the accusations of racism that followed opposition to him or his policies. According to the Supreme Court, Obamacare was a

´So much for being a movie star´: Trump
mocks new Apprentice host Arnie for low
viewership compared to ´ratings machine, DJT´
Daily Mail (UK), by Ariel Zilber    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 1/6/2017 9:41:59 AM     Post Reply
As Donald Trump gets set to take on his new job as president of the United States, he couldn´t resist taking a dig at his successor on The Celebrity Apprentice. Trump took to Twitter early Friday morning to mock the reality show´s new host, Arnold Schwarzenegger, after the latest Nielsen ratings showed the Terminator star failed to attract the same viewership that The Donald did during his stint at the helm with 4.9million viewers compared to Trump´s 6.5million. ´Wow, the ratings are in and Arnold Schwarzenegger got ´swamped´ (or destroyed) by comparison to the ratings machine, DJT,´ Trump tweeted, using

President Obama Brickhouse
I´ve Even Got My Own Wall
TMZ, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: earlybird- 1/6/2017 9:35:28 AM     Post Reply
President Obama is taking a cue from Donald Trump ... he´s building himself a wall. We got photos of construction at Obama´s soon-to-be D.C. rental. You also see construction in the garage. As we reported, it will become an office with a bathroom. We broke the story ... the rental will be home until Sasha graduates so the Obamas needed the property outfitted for the Secret Service and ... it needed more fortification. BTW ... he´s getting a new neighbor. Ivanka Trump and fam are moving nearby to a rental. At least the landlords know the checks will clear. (Photos)

The #BlackLivesMatter Torture Film
American Thinker, by Matthew Vadum    Original Article
Posted By: magnante- 1/6/2017 9:19:46 AM     Post Reply
According to our leftist betters, a sickening graphic video showing a white man being brutally tortured in Chicago by four black attackers as they shout, "F--- Donald Trump! F--- white people!" isn´t evidence of racism or a hate crime. In the left´s alternate universe, Pepe the Donald Trump-loving cartoon frog is racist. Kidnapping, torturing, and scalping an innocent white man because he is white is not racist. Black-hating mass murderer Dylann Storm Roof speaks for all white people, but the newly arrested black perpetrators in Chicago, Jordan Hill, Tesfaye Cooper, Tanishia Covington, and Brittany Covington, are all rogue actors. No minorities are

  


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In Obama´s Final Jobs report, A
Record 95.1 Million People Were
Not In The Labor Force
Zero Hedge, by Tyler Durden    Original Article
Posted By: PageTurner- 1/6/2017 8:58:52 AM     Post Reply
As it began so it will finish. Putting the exclamation point on a trend that has marked Obama´s entire presidency, in the final Obama jobs report, the BLS announced that the total number of people not in the labor force grew once more, rising by 18,000 in December, and a whopping 841,000 in the past three months, to a new all time high of 95.102 million Americans no longer in the workforce. This meant that the perennial bogeyman of the Trump administration, the collapsing labor force participation rate, remained flat near 35 year lows, risint fractionally from last month to 62.7% as

California as Alt-America
Real Clear Politics, by Joel Kotkin    Original Article
Posted By: garnet- 1/6/2017 8:36:09 AM     Post Reply
In 1949 the historian Carey McWilliams defined California as the “the Great Exception” -- a place so different from the rest of America as to seem almost a separate country. In the ensuing half-century, the Golden State became not so much exceptional but predictive of the rest of the nation: California’s approaches to public education, the environment, politics, community-building and lifestyle often became national standards, and even normative. Today California is returning to its outlier roots, defying many of the political trends that define most of the country. Rather than adjust to changing conditions, the state seems determined to go it

Send in the Head Clowns
Washington Free Beacon, by Matthew Continetti    Original Article
Posted By: garnet- 1/6/2017 8:33:12 AM     Post Reply
Democrats have been in power for so long that they’ve forgotten how to oppose. Their party has been on a roll since 2005 when the botched Social Security reform, the slow bleed of the Iraq war, and Hurricane Katrina sent the Bush administration into a tailspin. The Democrats won the Congress the following year and the White House two years after that. And while they lost the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014, Democrats still had the advantage of retaining the White House, a president seemingly immune from criticism, the courts, the bureaucracy, and large portions of the

Government by Faculty Lounge
Subject to Repeal
Creators Syndicate, by Michael Barone    Original Article
Posted By: PageTurner- 1/6/2017 8:29:33 AM     Post Reply
President Barack Obama went up to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to counsel congressional Democrats on how to save Obamacare. Or at least that´s how his visit was billed. But to judge from the responses of some of the Democrats, his advice was typical of the approach he´s taken to legislation in his eight years as president -- which is to say disengaged, above the fray, detached from any detailed discussion of how legislation actually works. He was "very nostalgic," said Louise Slaughter, a veteran of 30 years in the House and the ranking Democrat on the House Rules Committee. But, she

  


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Michelle Obama Can Now Speak
Her Mind. Will She?
New York Times, by Jodi Kantor    Original Article
Posted By: garnet- 1/6/2017 8:29:32 AM     Post Reply
On Jan. 20, Michelle Obama will hand her home over to a man who rose to power in part by spreading lies about her husband and intends to pulverize much of his work. If presidential tradition and her own recent conduct are any guide, she will carry herself through inauguration morning with quiet calm and few hints of what she is really thinking. After Donald J. Trump recites the oath of office, a helicopter — no longer called Marine One, because the president will not be on board — will lift the Obamas into new lives. Soon after, Michelle Obama will

No Extensions for State Dept. Officials –
President Trump Delivers First Private
Sector Reform Example To Career Public
Sector Officials…
Conservative Treehouse, by Sundance    Original Article
Posted By: earlybird- 1/6/2017 8:07:24 AM     Post Reply
Trump administration refuses to grant State Dept Ambassadors any tenure extensions. Splendid. More Winning – This is a brilliant level of strategic example-setting on many levels. Not only does this send an expectation message normally only found in the private sector; but it also is delivered upon the most horribly entrenched of all Federal Departments, the Department of State. These Department of State entities see themselves as a complete and separate structure of government. They also function as a complete and separate ideological structure of government. Remember, Congressional Democrats already poked the LION when they set up a portal for

Mexico gas protests, looting,
leave 1 dead, 600 arrested
Associated Press, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: earlybird- 1/6/2017 7:42:32 AM     Post Reply
MEXICO CITY – Sometimes-violent protests and looting over gasoline price hikes in Mexico are continuing and officials say that so far they´ve left one policeman dead and five injured, 300 stores looted and over 600 people arrested. The country´s business chambers says the combination of highway, port and terminal blockades and looting have forced many stores and businesses to close and threaten supplies of basic goods and fuel. Mexicans were enraged by the 20-percent fuel price hike announced over the weekend as part of a government deregulation effort. Since then, protesters have blockaded highways and gas stations and looting has broken out in

It’s Beginning: Economic
Micro-Riots Erupt in Mexico…
Conservative Treehouse, by Sundance    Original Article
Posted By: earlybird- 1/6/2017 7:34:59 AM     Post Reply
In 2015 we predicted if Donald Trump won the 2016 election, the Southern Border and Security Wall would not only happen as a construct of following through on a promise, but also factually happen as a function of avoiding the crisis of a neighboring economy in complete collapse. What underpins that prediction is the hidden scale, and almost unquantifiable scope, of the exfiltration of U.S. dollars -legal and illegal- into Mexico. American taxpayers as voters have no idea of the scale for how much money flows out of the U.S. into Mexico. The reason no-one knows about it, and the reason

  


  

Graph: Iowa´s Republican
Party is on the rise
Washington Examiner, by David Freddoso    Original Article
Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/6/2017 7:24:28 AM     Post Reply
For quite some time, Iowa was viewed as a swing state that usually leans Democratic. And its Democratic lean was never as evident as it was during the last two presidential elections, when Barack Obama was running for office. That´s why Donald Trump´s blowout win there came as something of a shock. Yes, he had polled relatively well at times, but he was expected to squeak by, at best. In the end, he carried the state by a margin (9.4 points) larger than Hillary Clinton´s win in New Mexico (8.3 points), Virginia (5.4 points), or Colorado (4.9 points), and nearly as

Democrats get deadly with their
Obamacare repeal rhetoric
Washington Post [US], by Aaron Blake    Original Article
Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/6/2017 7:17:01 AM     Post Reply
Back in 2009, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) was rebuked — including by some fellow Democrats — for saying that the Republicans´ health-care plan was for people who got sick to "die quickly." And Republicans including Sarah Palin drew criticism for accusing Democrats of instituting "death panels." Such accusations, it seemed, were taboo during our country´s big health-care debate. Flash forward to today, and death is a big part of the debate over Obamacare, thanks in large part to Democrats. In recent days, the specter of death and illness has permeated the debate over Republicans´ plans to repeal Obamacare, also known as the Affordable

Sears, Other Retailers Reel From
Gales Of ´Creative Destruction´
Investor´s Business Daily, by Terry Jones    Original Article
Posted By: RockyTCB- 1/6/2017 7:11:44 AM     Post Reply
Sears. Macy´s. Kohl´s. Traditional department store retailers have taken hard hits over the Christmas holidays, with sales lagging the generally robust performance of retailers overall. Now, these mall stalwarts are slashing thousands of jobs and hundreds of stores, trying to right-size themselves. It´s no coincidence. Sears on Thursday became the latest retailer to announce that it was restructuring after a weak Christmas season. It´s closing 150 Sears and Kmart stores and selling its iconic Craftsman tool brand for just under a billion dollars to Stanley Black & Decker. Meanwhile, Macy´s is letting 10,000 people go. And Kohl´s warned about its decline

Another ObamaCare Promise Bites The Dust
Investor´s Business Daily, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: RockyTCB- 1/6/2017 7:08:49 AM     Post Reply
Health Reform: Remember when Democrats were promising that ObamaCare would cut the deficit by $1 trillion in its second decade? Turns out they were off by, well, about $1 trillion. A report from the centrist Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says that, left in place, ObamaCare would reduce the deficit by between $350 billion and $150 billion over the next 10 years, depending on whether or not you account for the economic harm caused by the law. It might look like a big number, but it´s far smaller than the $1 trillion Democrats promised. What´s more, a realistic accounting shows that

Tickets for Obama farewell to be
handed out at 8 a.m. Saturday
Chicago Sun Times, by TINA SFONDELES    Original Article
Posted By: Tishimself- 1/6/2017 7:05:53 AM     Post Reply
Public ticket distribution for President Obama’s farewell address in Chicago next week will start at 8 a.m. on Saturday at McCormick Place, according to details released by the White House on Thursday. Tickets are free, and one ticket per person will be handed out on a first-come, first-serve basis. No one will be allowed to line up before 6 a.m., the White House said. There’s also no “loitering, camping or other overnight activities” allowed outside McCormick Place prior to 6 a.m. on Saturday. Booking Obama’s evening presidential farewell at McCormick Place — where he celebrated his 2012 re-election with a massive rally

  



4 More Prisoners Leave Guantanamo In
Waning Days Of Obama Administration
National Public Radio, by Doreen McCallister    Original Article
Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/6/2017 7:05:25 AM     Post Reply
Since the Obama administration hasn´t been able to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the push has been on to transfer as many of the cleared detainees as possible before Donald Trump becomes president. The Pentagon announced on Thursday that four prisoners have been released and sent to Saudi Arabia — they are expected to participate in a rehabilitation program. The four are from Yemen and had been held at Guantanamo for more than 14 years. They were suspected of being low-level militants with ties to al-Qaida but never charged. The Associated Press reports: The U.S. must find other countries to accept

The Washington Post Needs To Come Clean
About Its Russian Hacking Story Fiasco
Investor´s Business Daily, by John Merline    Original Article
Posted By: RockyTCB- 1/6/2017 6:57:26 AM     Post Reply
When a company fails at its basic mission in a way that harms the public, and then tries to mislead the public about it, newspaper reporters can be counted on to immediately swoop in and demand that the company be held to account. So what happens when the company in question is a major, highly influential newspaper? Let´s see. On Friday, the Washington Post published an earth-shattering report that Russian hackers had infiltrated the U.S. electricity grid through a Vermont utility. The story´s lede said that a "code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been

Trump takes aim at NBC
in latest Twitter tirade
New York Post, by Joe Tacopino    Original Article
Posted By: Drive- 1/6/2017 6:40:58 AM     Post Reply
President Obama’s intelligence briefing Thursday on Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee also detailed widespread Russian cyber attacks on The White House, US State Department, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and unnamed American corporations, according to a report. The report, which as broadcast on Thursday’s NBC Nightly News, was quickly blasted by President Elect Donald Trump. “How did NBC get ‘an exclusive look into the top secret report he (Obama) was presented?’ Who gave them this report and why? Politics!” Trump tweeted. The cyberattacks dated back to 2008 and some were successful while others were thwarted, the network said. Russia’s motive for the attacks

Farmer on Trial Defends Smuggling
Migrants: ‘I Am a Frenchman.’
New York Times, by ADAM NOSSITER    Original Article
Posted By: Drive- 1/6/2017 6:38:38 AM     Post Reply
NICE, France — At times it was hard to know who was on trial, the smuggler or the state. The defendant, Cédric Herrou, 37, a slightly built olive farmer, did not deny that for months he had illegally spirited dozens of migrants through the remote mountain valley where he lives. He would do it again, he suggested. Instead, when asked by a judge, “Why do you do all this?” Mr. Herrou turned the tables and questioned the humanity of France’s practice of rounding up and turning back Africans entering illegally from Italy in search of work and a better life. It was

Greta Van Susteren to join MSNBC
Politico, by Hadas Gold    Original Article
Posted By: Toledo- 1/6/2017 6:36:13 AM     Post Reply
Greta Van Susteren is joining MSNBC, taking over the channel´s 6 p.m. time slot with a new show called "For the Record," the network announced Thursday. Van Susteren’s show will feature both news and analysis, working as a bridge from MSNBC´s dayside news shows into its more opinion and analysis-focused primetime. She starts on Jan. 9, and the show will be based out of Washington D.C. “Greta is a true pro with a proven record of tough journalism,” MSNBC President Phil Griffin said in a statement. “Her broad range of experience and sharp news judgment will be of great value to MSNBC

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