Posts on Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Burien, Wash.—Almost all of the city of Burien's Pride flags were stolen from downtown this week and the police are now investigating the incident.
Burien city leaders discovered that 38 of the 40 Pride flags installed downtown had been removed and stolen, according to a city press release. The flags were put up by Discover Burien in support of Pride Month, which is recognized in June as a way to celebrate members of the LGBTQ+ community and commemorate the Stonewall riots that occurred on June 28, 1969.
"The city of Burien is an inclusive and welcoming city and we want to strongly declare
It is rare when a cable news host comes right out and says “I’m not objective.” And on CNN on Wednesday night, host Chris Cuomo seemed to acknowledge the many ethical dilemmas arising from his repeated interviews with his big brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, as he appeared to offer a final, praiseworthy send-off to his elder sibling.After yet another intra-family interview, in which the younger Cuomo offered some blunt questions about the state’s nursing home deaths scandal — but offered little aggressive follow-up to the older Cuomo’s dismissals — the CNN host nodded at the “unusual” circumstances of journalist questioning his own politician brother.
One of golf’s four “major” tournaments every year is called “The Masters.” The field of golfers is the smallest of all the majors — only the best allowed — and the winner can be deemed “The Master” (plus, he gets a cool green jacket that every pro golfer covets).But one writer at Deadspin has decided that the tournament’s name is racist and should be changed.Rob Parker wrote a piece headlined “We’ve Lived with ‘The Masters’ Name Long Enough.”
Attorney General Bill Barr committed to testifying before the House Judiciary Committee next month after Chairman Jerry Nadler threatened him with a subpoena. Barr's spokeswoman Kerri Kupec made the announcement Wednesday over Twitter. 'The Attorney General has accepted an invitation to appear before the House Judiciary Committee for a general oversight hearing on July 28th,' she said. (Photos/Video) Nadler has wanted to get Barr in front of his Democrat-led committee for months.In recent weeks Nadler's torn into Barr for 'unprecedented politicization' of the Justice Department,
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry donned hair nets and facemasks as they volunteered alongside former gang members at a Los Angeles bakery. The Duke, 35, and Duchess of Sussex, 38, who are currently living in Tyler Perry's $18 million mansion in Los Angeles having stepped back from royal duties in March, visited the Homeboy Industries cafe and bakery yesterday. It comes after it was revealed the couple could make more than £1million per speaking engagement with an elite agency used by Michelle and Barack Obama.New York-based Harry Walker describes itself as 'the world's leading speaker's bureau'
Green-eyed Mark Cuban’s credibility
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Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks and star of “Shark Tank,” told Fox News’ Sean Hannity Tuesday evening that he “absolutely” believes presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has the mental wherewithal and strength to run the country better than President Donald Trump.“Do you believe that he has the strength, the stamina, the mental acuity, the alertness to be taking on what is the toughest job in the world, being the president of the United States?” the “Hannity” host asked to kick off the interview. “Do you in your heart believe he does?” (Video)
President Donald Trump on Wednesday at the White House vowed to protect statues of Jesus Christ and statues of the Founding Fathers in the United States from leftist mobs seeking their destruction.“They’re looking at Jesus Christ. They’re looking at George Washington. They’re looking Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson. Not going to happen,” Trump said. “Not going to happen as long as I’m here.”Activist Shaun King demanded Monday that some statues of Jesus and his mother Mary be torn down because they were “a form of white supremacy.”Trump spoke about statues and monuments during a joint press conference at the White House with Polish President Andrzej Duda.
On Wednesday, Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney issued a statement in which he championed the removal of the Christopher Columbus statue at Marconi Plaza in South Philadelphia, thought to be the first publicly-funded monument to Christopher Columbus in the United States, citing his concern for “public safety.”Kenney stated: Like many communities across the country, Philadelphia is in the midst of a much-needed reckoning about the legacy of systemic racism and oppression in this country and around the world. Part of that reckoning requires reexamining what historical figures deserve to be commemorated
Former President Barack Obama has once again lashed out at the Trump administration and Senate Republicans, this time during a virtual fundraiser for former Vice President Joe Biden’s White House campaign on Tuesday.
Obama accused President Trump of taking a “shambolic, disorganized, mean spirited approach to government,” which he judged as antithetical to American values. The former president stated:
What we have seen over the last couple of years is a White House enabled by Republicans in Congress and a media structure that supports them that has not just differed in terms of policy but has gone at the very foundations of who we are and who we should be.
On Wednesday, BET Founder Robert Johnson mocked those who are destroying statues across the U.S. and who are trying to cancel television shows because they think that’s what black people want.
During an interview with Fox News, Johnson said that those who are destroying statues across the country “have the mistaken assumption that black people are sitting around cheering for them saying ‘Oh, my God, look at these white people. They’re doing something so important to us. They’re taking down the statue of a Civil War general who fought for the South.'”
Defund the Thought Police
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Due process is not the strong suit of mobs. Neither is nuance, open discussion, or disagreement. These inherent defects should be painfully obvious as mobs pull down statues, seize sections of cities, and demand the public approach them on bended knee, literally. Anyone who dares push back, perhaps with a mild tweet saying “All lives matter,” faces immediate censure. If the mob is successful, any offenders will lose their jobs. Feckless employers are all too eager to appease the mob and hope it turns on another target.
In this perilous environment, the most frenzied voices do more than dominate the public square.
Raleigh, N.C.—Crews in North Carolina removed the largest remnants of a 75-foot-tall (23-meter-tall) Confederate monument that sat near the grounds of the state Capitol for 125 years. The granite pillar that had supported a statue of a Confederate soldier was pulled from its base in Raleigh to cheers from a crowd of onlookers late Tuesday night, news outlets reported.(Snip) On Friday, protesters pulled down the statues of two Confederate soldiers that were secured on a lower part of the obelisk, before dragging the figures down the street and stringing one up by its neck from a light post.
Vandals defaced a statue of Brigham Young at Brigham Young University over the weekend. The vandals dumped red paint on the state and painted the word “racist” on the base of the statue in large red letters.
According to a report by Campus Reform, a statue of Brigham Young on BYU’s campus was vandalized over the weekend. Campus police officers discovered that the statue had been covered in red paint on Monday morning. [Tweet]
Brigham Young University police Lt. Rich Christianson said that the vandal must have used an entire gallon of latex paint.
Ratings for last weekend’s woke ESPY Awards crashed to the lowest numbers the show has ever recorded. The ESPYs only earned 482,000 viewers over both ESPN and ESPN2 combined, making it the smallest audience the show has ever reached dating back to its inaugural awards in 1993. The previous low occurred in 2011 when 1.98 million viewers tuned in, according to Sports Media Watch.
“This year’s ESPYs was tape-delayed, lacked its usual live audience, took place a month earlier on the calendar,” Sports Media Watch explained, “and occurred more than three months into a historic drought of live sporting events.
The Guardian has promoted a petition calling for British honours depicting the victory of St Michael the Archangel over Satan to be redesigned, as the “offensive” imagery is “reminiscent of the recent murder of George Floyd”.
The Order of St Michael and St George is bestowed at the pleasure of the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, and “recognises service in a foreign country, or in relation to foreign and Commonwealth affairs” — typically of a non-military nature — with members holding the rank of Knight Grand Cross (GCMG), Knight Commander (KCMG), or Companion (CMG).
The 202-year-old order is now under fire, however,
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday spread dangerous misinformation and claimed President Trump is urging people to “inject Lysol and drink bleach.” President Trump in April during a presser was referring to discussions of testing ultraviolet light on patients and possibly using the light inside the body. “And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it [the virus] out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside, or almost a cleaning, cause you see it gets in the lungs.”
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle could make millions for giving speeches after reportedly signing with an elite agency that represents the Obamas and the Clintons. According to reports, the couple have joined the Harry Walker Agency – which also counts the Obamas, Clintons, Serena and Venus Williams, and TV legend Oprah Winfrey as clients – in their first career move since moving to Hollywood. They will hold “moderated discussions” and give the keynote speeches to trade associations, businesses and community forums, the LA Times reports. The talks will also focus on racial justice, gender equality, the environment and mental health. Correction*
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s (Ret.) attorney, Sidney Powell, exclusively told Breitbart News that the “rule of law” prevailed after an Appeals Court ordered a lower court to grant a request by the Department of Justice to drop its case against the former National Security Adviser.
(Snip) " The Court of Appeals decision is consistent with every other court that has addressed these issues.”
(Snip)“We appreciate the Integrity and professionalism of the Department of Justice that produced the exculpatory evidence that has been hidden for years, and the prosecutors stepping forward to dismiss a case that never should have been brought. We trust that Judge Sullivan will follow the law and quickly enter
Conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat observed Saturday that, with his decision in the arena of gay and transgender rights, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch made himself the “arbiter of sexual and religious liberties.”
“[P]olitics abhors a power vacuum, and our juristocracy has claimed new powers in part because Congress doesn’t want them,” Douthat asserted, adding, “The Supreme Court, clothed in meritocratic authority, seems more like management than Congress.”
Protesters from the Black Lives Matter movement vandalized and toppled a statue Tuesday night in Madison, Wisconsin, of Col. Hans Christian Heg, an immigrant from Norway who died fighting for the Union against slavery. Local ABC affiliate WKOW reported:
Protesters pulled down the Forward statue that normally stands outside the State Capitol and left it lying in the middle of the road.
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The same group also tore down the Col. Hans Christian Heg statue a short time later. The group then went on to throw the statue into Lake Monona. Heg fought for the Union during the Civil War and was a stark opponent of slavery during that time.
Newly released notes confirm President Barack Obama’s key role in surveillance and leak operation against Michael Flynn, the incoming Trump administration national security adviser. The handwritten notes, (Snip) disclosed in a federal court filing made by the Department of Justice on Tuesday, show President Obama himself personally directed former FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to investigate Flynn for having routine phone calls with a Russian counterpart. He also suggests they withhold information from President Trump and his key national security figures.
The handwritten notes from fired former FBI agent Peter Strzok appear to describe a Jan. 5, 2017, Oval Office meeting between Obama, Vice President
Because the left’s demand for racism far exceeds the supply, the NASCAR “noose” is just the latest noose hoax to be perpetrated on America by the Woke Taliban and its fake news media.
And that’s why, when the news broke of a “noose” discovered in a NASCAR garage temporarily used by Bubba Wallace, a black NASCAR driver, everyone knew it would end up being exposed as a hoax. We all knew it was a hoax because it’s always a hoax.
Every single hate crime blown up by the media almost always end up being a hoax. I’ve literally lost count of how many hoax hate crimes the media and their Woke Taliban
he “noose” found in the team garage of black NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace on Sunday turns out to be a garage door pull rope that had been installed last October. Oops.
It took a full two days and an investigation by the FBI for this information to be disclosed. That was enough time for the hysteria over this imagined hate crime to metastasize into a full-blown media circus. NASCAR was quick to announce that it was “angry and outraged” over the “heinous act” of racism presumably embodied by the offending door cord. A group of drivers organized a solemn religious procession with Wallace as its living martyr
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) warned Wednesday that some out-of-state travelers to New York might be pulled over by police if they have license plates from states with high levels of the coronavirus. Cuomo said that in addition to law enforcement, he would expect individuals such as hotel clerks and businesses in New York to question travelers from select states.“You’re stopped by a police officer who says, ‘You’re driving a car from Florida. Weren’t you supposed to be on quarantine for 14 days?’” he said, citing an example.Travelers from Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, Utah, and Texas would be ordered to put themselves
Obama's Marching Order on Flynn Revealed
in Peter Strzok's Notes: 'Have The Right
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in Peter Strzok's Notes: 'Have The Right
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Oh, we have our sweet victory at last. The D.C. Court of Appeals handed down their ruling on the Michael Flynn case: dismiss it. The last battle of the Trump-Russia collusion circus is over. We won. The Left lost. The liberal media lost. The anti-Trump deep state lost. We win, you lose. It took more than a few rounds, but justice did prevail. Katie has more from her post on the court’s decision this morning. The decision caps off one of the most absurd legal sagas in recent memory. There was no case. New documents revealed a plot from within the Department of Justice to ensnare Flynn
A dog in Tennessee has become the oldest known living golden retriever in history after celebrating her 20thbirthday in April, according to a recent blog post from the GoldHeart Golden Retrievers Rescue. A golden retriever called August, or “Augie”, who lives with owners Jennifer and Steve Hetterscheidt in Oakland, Tenn., turned 20 years old on April 24. The couple said Augie was born in 2000 and had two previous homes before they adopted her when she was already 14. “They figured that most people wouldn’t want such an elderly golden, but they had no idea of the upcoming journey they would be on with Augie,”
Madison, Wis.—Gov. Tony Evers said Wednesday he was prepared to activate the National Guard to protect state properties after protesters outside the Wisconsin Capitol tore down statues commemorating an abolitionist and women's rights and threw a Molotov cocktail into a government building during a night of violence that also included an attack on a state senator.
The violence broke out Tuesday night as a group of 200 to 300 people protested the arrest of a Black man who shouted at restaurant customers through a megaphone while carrying a baseball bat. Officers inside the Capitol used pepper spray to repel protesters who were trying
A 24-year-old in a wheelchair gave walking papers to a rival endorsed by President Trump on a Tuesday in a Republican primary runoff in North Carolina. He also showed that nasty negative advertising can be defeated by a largely positive message.Madison Cawthorn, who won’t turn 25 until Aug. 1, is a motivational speaker and real estate investor whose career at the U.S. Naval Academy was cut short when he was partially paralyzed in an automobile accident (in which he was a passenger). In a race for the U.S. House of Representatives in the Tarheel State’s 11th Congressional District, Cawthorn first survived a multi-candidate primary featuring several political veterans,
Police officers in Tampa, Florida, were ambushed Saturday while responding to a call, according to Tampa Police Department (TPD) Chief Brian Dugan.
The chief said “officers were called to the intersection of 15th Street N and 26th Avenue E for a report of shots fired with a possible victim,” according to Fox 13.
When they arrived, hundreds of people had all four intersections blocked off and as they attempted to find a victim, the crowd became aggressive.
“There were hundreds of them. Hundreds,” Dugan recalled. “We ended up having to call every single police officer that was available that night to respond there, from New Tampa to South Tampa.”
Handwritten notes taken by former FBI agent Peter Strzok revealed that President Barack Obama directed the FBI to continue investigating Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Michael Flynn just weeks before he was to become President Trump’s national security adviser, in a meeting during which Vice President Joe Biden suggested that Flynn violated the Logan Act. Up until now, it had been unclear exactly how involved Obama was in the FBI investigation of Trump’s national security adviser. Strzok’s notes are believed to have been taken on January 4, 2017, the apparent date of a White House Oval Office meeting with Obama, Biden, FBI Director James Comey, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and
A Seattle woman has been filmed screaming on the ground and claiming she has a black husband after a black man accused her of using the n-word and flipping him off during a road rage incident. The woman, who only identified herself as Leah, ended up in hysterics on the floor in front of her garage in Seattle after being confronted by Karlos Dillard on Monday. Dillard claimed in the now viral video posted on his Instagram that she had cut him off, brake-checked him and called him the n-word. His footage shows the moment he confronts the woman, who he brands 'Karen',
A top federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered a lower court to grant the Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss all charges against Michael Flynn, who previously served as the White House National Security Adviser. In a 2-1 ruling, the federal appellate court for the District of Columbia wrote that Emmet G. Sullivan, the trial judge in Flynn’s case, exceeded his authority under the Constitution and Supreme Court precedent when he refused to grant an unopposed motion by DOJ to dismiss charges against Flynn. The ruling was authored by Circuit Judge Neomi Rao.
Researchers in Brazil began administering an experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University to volunteers, the Federal University of Sao Paulo said Wednesday.
The vaccine, developed together with pharmaceuticals group AstraZeneca, is one of the most promising of the dozens that researchers worldwide are racing to test and bring to market.
Known as ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, it is already being tested in volunteers in Britain, and is due to start being administered this week in South Africa, as well.
The Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), which is coordinating the study in Brazil, said in a statement its researchers had begun issuing the first doses Tuesday
A former federal prosecutor said Tuesday that he believes that the reason congressional Democrats are working so hard to smear Attorney General William Barr is to “preempt” what will soon be coming down in two Department of Justice investigations.
Jim Trusty, formerly the Chief of the Organized Crime Section at the DOJ, now a partner at Ifrah Law, said Dems are doing “damage control” because U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the FBI’s Russia probe, and a DOJ investigation into antifa’s financing are about to result in some “bombshell” indictments.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) defended his order that sent coronavirus patients into nursing homes and blamed the infections in nursing homes on staffers bringing in the virus.
Co-host Willie Geist asked, “Looking back now, with the information you have, was it a mistake to issue that March 25 order to send people back into the nursing homes, now that you have all the information you have?”
Cuomo responded, “First, it was a — it was federal guidance that was put out, Willie. … No, it wasn’t a mistake. Because if you look at the facts, not that anybody looks at facts anymore,
#Twexit: Twitter Went Too Far Yesterday
and Now People Are Searching for a New
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and Now People Are Searching for a New
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In one day, Twitter screwed the pooch so many times that people are now searching for greener social media pastures in the social media wilds.
Let’s go over what Twitter did to make people so mad.
At the beginning of the day, a racist grifter looking for social media fame followed a woman to her home after claiming that she flipped him off and called him the “n-word.” He proceeded to film himself harassing the panicked woman and displaying her license plate. According to some Twitter users who looked into the man, who was identified as Karlos Dillard, Dillard has an odd history that includes claiming people were racist toward him while
Judge Sullivan’s Resistance Theater Comes
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I’m sure this saga isn’t really over, because it never seems to be really over, but for now, it appears that Judge Sullivan’s resistance theater is coming to an end. The D.C. Circuit ruled on Sullivan’s ridiculous, farmed out argument that he should be allowed to continue sentencing Michael Flynn, even after exculpatory evidence was revealed.(Snip)Sydney Powell, Flynn’s lawyer, has shown herself to be pretty incredible. She took a case that looked like it was over, one in which Flynn had been brow-beaten into two guilty pleas, and managed to not only get it dismissed, but have a higher court order the presiding judge to do so.
By the time eight-year-old Lee Ji-ho is bundled out the door for his one day a week of in-class schooling, his mother has already completed an online form detailing his temperature, any signs of a cough or other respiratory complaints, and whether any family members have recently arrived home from overseas or are in quarantine.
Once at school in Seoul’s Seocho district, he sits metres apart from classmates and is instructed not to talk to friends — not even during lunch, where instead he eats in solitude, separated from the other children by a plastic divider.
A 14-day quarantine will be imposed on travelers coming to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut from states like Florida where coronavirus cases are skyrocketing, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday in a joint press conference with his two neighboring governors.
“We have to make sure the virus doesn’t come in on a plane again,” Cuomo said during the Manhattan press briefing where New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont appeared via livestream.
“So we’re announcing a joint travel advisory on people coming in from states with a high infection rate must quarantine,” Cuomo said, noting that the traveler quarantine will last for 14 days.
A Tale of Two Ditties
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The story of the United States, and of Britain to a lesser degree, has been told through popular music. The experience of the two countries, the issues they faced, and the nature of public responses are depicted directly or by allusion in songs, some of which have become standards. By coincidence, two songs that are related to historical problems of the countries are currently the topic of discussion. One, “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” stems from the experience of the American South, from the universe of minority culture which has been an influence on general culture. The other, “We’ll Meet Again” brought to public attention by the death of the singer
Mayor Bill de Blasio is planning to install a massive Black Lives Matter mural right outside Trump Tower in Manhattan, The Post has learned. Plans for the mural—which will be painted in yellow block letters along Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th streets—come as the city grapples with troubling surges in gun violence and illegal firework activity. “Obviously he is doing it to antagonize the president,” a source said. “This is what he is concerned about while the city burns. What an amateur politician.”(Snip) The installation is one of seven that will pop up across all five boroughs.
Before NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace appeared on CNN with Don Lémon to discuss his now disproven racial “noose” targeting, he had a decision to make. Wallace could accept the FBI/NASCAR finding and admit an honest mistake was made by an overly sensitive Richard Petty racing team; or he could make racism his new identity in NASCAR as Colin Kaepernick did with football in the NFL. Bubba Wallace chose the latter.
As a result of Wallace’s new identity, and his announced career goals, NASCAR will now fragment in the same way as the National Football League. Social justice will now define Mr. Wallace professional effort; driving with NASCAR becomes a
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the attacks on monuments “healthy expression” and “good statements.” In an appearance Tuesday on NBC, he denied President Trump’s admonition that, in the words of interviewer Savannah Guthrie, “cities should do more to protect monuments.” Instead, Mr. Cuomo characterized the attacks—which have targeted monuments to Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt and World War II veterans among others—as anti-racist statements. “People are making a statement about equality, about community, to be against racism, against slavery, I think those are good statements,” the Democratic governor said. While he acknowledged that “of course you can” overdo such statements,
Melania Trump has blasted a comedian for making 'inappropriate and insensitive comments' about her son after he tweeted that he hopes 'Barron gets to spend today with whoever his dad is'.John Henson, who brings his comedy to ABC's 'Wipeout,' E!'s 'Talk Soup' and hosts Food Network's 'Halloween Baking Championship,' made the remarks as President Donald Trump's four other children from two prior marriages wished him a happy Father's Day via social media.The First Lady responded to the stand-up comedian's Twitter post on Tuesday via her spokesperson.
Congresswoman Karen Bass, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, is undergoing vetting as a candidate to be Joe Biden's running mate, CBS News has learned according to sources familiar with the process.The five-term congresswoman represents Los Angeles and endorsed Biden for president in mid-March.It is not immediately clear where Bass stands in the vetting process but her name has been floated for consideration by powerful Democrats like House Majority Whip James Clyburn.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered a judge to grant the Department of Justice's (DOJ) unusual move to drop charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn. A three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals approved Flynn's petition to intervene in the case after a district court judge had tapped an outside counsel to argue against the DOJ's move. The panel ruled 2-1, with two Republican-appointed judges carrying the majority, that U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan overstepped his authority in second-guessing the prosecutors' decision.
Pro-BLM Brits demand St. Michael
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Angry Brits want a royal order founded in 1818 under King George III redesigned because the image of St. Michael crushing the head of Satan reminds them of a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on George Floyd.
A Change.org petition has garnered over 4,000 signatures demanding an alteration to The Order of St. Michael and St. George awarded to diplomats and senior Foreign Office officials serving abroad.(Snip) “This is a highly offensive image, it is also reminiscent of the recent murder of George Floyd by the white policeman in the same manner presented here in this medal,” added Tracy Reeve,
Last Friday, three months after Louisville, Kentucky, police officers gunned down a 26-year-old EMT and aspiring nurse named Breonna Taylor during a fruitless drug raid, acting Police Chief Robert Schroeder initiated the termination of Detective Brett Hankison, who he said had "displayed an extreme indifference to the value of human life" when he "wantonly and blindly fired 10 rounds" into Taylor's apartment. But Hankison's recklessness is just one element of the circumstances that led to Taylor's senseless death, which never would have happened if politicians did not insist on using violence to enforce their pharmacological prejudices.
Insurgent Jamaal Bowman all but declared victory over veteran Rep. Eliot Engel in a fiery victory-like speech Tuesday night. Bowman led Engel by about 4,000 votes in early returns in the Democratic primary for the 16th Congressional District encompassing portions of the Bronx and Westchester. But tens of thousands of unopened absentee ballots have yet to be counted. (Snip) Bowman, a progressive, was endorsed by fellow lefty firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Working Families Party, Justice Democrats, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and city Comptroller Scott Stringer. Engel, 73, first elected in 1988
Elizabeth Rogliani, a Venezuelan actress living in the U.S., told followers on Tik Tok why she is concerned to see statues being torn down and roads being renamed in America:
ELIZABETH ROGLIANI: Why do I even worry about some silly little statues coming down or some silly little street names changing? Why do I care?
It is because the last time I didn't care about this, I was a teenager. I have already lived through this thing when I was living in Venezuela. Statues came down -- Chavez didn't want that history displayed. And then he changed the street names
Coronavirus Derangement Syndrome
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Today’s yellow brick road to a coronavirus-free world is as phony as the one Dorothy took to find her way back home (in “The Wizard of Oz”). Too many are acting as though they are characters in a fantasy instead of real human beings in the actual world. Such an astounding disorientation as we are witnessing on account of a virus leaves little doubt that political maneuvering and the hand of corporate media have a lot to do with the oppressive official response to Covid-19. Relying on the mainstream media for all you need to know about this pandemic is to put your faith in its honesty and objectivity.
One of the byproducts of anarchy is totalitarianism. People cannot sustain living in a wholly destabilized society, and they will invariably seek a strong man to create order. Order, after all, was Hitler’s promise following the utter chaos of the 1920s.
Democrats, with their simultaneous attacks against both Trump and civil order, are hoping that they can herd people into voting for Biden, with the promise that a Biden presidency will bring peace. And it will – a Roman peace, along the lines of Tacitus’s famous statement that the Romans “ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire.
Madness is in the air, with mobs terrifying guilt-ridden government officials, corporate leaders, educators, and the heads of all our significant institutions into violating previously sacred principles in an effort to prove their wokeness. The Constitution and basic concepts of justice are out the window, and we face a grim new normal in which “getting whitey” becomes acceptable behavior from governments.
How else to explain this “Face Covering Directive” from the “Health & Human Services” mandarins of Lincoln County, Oregon (snip) the exceptions allowed (snip) People of color who have heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment due to wearing face coverings in public.
When it comes to players taking a knee during the National Anthem, will Americans side with the USA or the NFL?
At this point, nobody knows for sure, but those on the left are feeling emboldened and confident for a reason. Have middle-class Americans become increasingly complacent and lost the will to stand up and fight back?
NFL owners who support their players kneeling during the National Anthem are routinely heard saying they feel that the act of kneeling shows respect for the hardships minorities have endured and that it exhibits inclusivity and brings the country together.
At the risk of sounding overly disdainful regarding such deceptive drivel,
Think it can't happen here?
It can happen here.
That's the warning from a young woman from Venezuela, who has seen the statue-topplings before - and the street renamings, (and the flag alterings, and the name changings) along the destruction of history, and knows exactly where it leads.
She made this powerful video [Video] "Why do I even worry about some silly little statues coming down? (snip) It's because the last time I didn't care about this, I was a teenager. I have already lived through this thing, when I was living in Venezuela"
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden may not be moving much, but he’s proving a tougher target for President Trump than his past political opponents.
Less than five months from the election, the Trump campaign team is still trying to find the right message to defeat Biden. The president has stuck with the “Sleepy Joe” nickname, though his campaign is as likely to go with “Hidin’ Biden,” to mock his low-key approach to the trail, or “Beijing Biden,” to paint the Democrat as soft on China. But none of these have defined the former vice president as effectively as “Crooked Hillary” Clinton,
We often hear blacks complain about the struggles they deal with as a minority group in the USA. We hear that blacks are being oppressed by a system that holds them back because of their race. Some of their so-called "leaders" are telling them they can't make it in America due to the lack of opportunities for "people of color." When someone, black or white, disagrees with that antediluvian contention, he's likely to be branded as a racist. Yes, even if you're black and disagree with a white that racism is universal, you'll be deemed a racist.
Exiled Chinese dissident Guo Wengui alleged this weekend the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “allocates $2 billion a year” to pay off the Vatican for its silence concerning Chinese atrocities.
In a June 20th interview on The War Room, Mr. Guo said the CCP earmarks massive sums each year to win the allegiance of foreign countries including the Vatican, Italy, and Australia. Among them, the Vatican receives up to 2 billion dollars from the Chinese Communist Party every year, he said.
“The Chinese Communist Party allocates 2 billion US dollars each year” to gain influence over the Vatican’s internal policy making and to pay for its silence
When I see the images from Lafayette Square last night or from the weekend across the country of radical leftists and anarchists tearing down or defacing memorials to some of America’s greatest heroes, what I keep wondering is: where are the conservative leaders who have said so much and done so little to defend our history?
For decades, the conservative movement has profited off the invocation of the American Founding. Multiple political analysts have said over the years that the biggest mistake Democrats made was letting Republicans have The Bible and the Flag, and the right has certainly profited from it.
TRUMP WELCOMES DUDA: For the first time since the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of official Washington, President Trump is welcoming a visiting foreign leader to the White House. Polish President Andrzej Duda will meet with Trump on Wednesday to discuss "further advancing our cooperation on defense, as well as trade, energy, and telecommunications security,” according to the White House, followed by a planned joint news conference.
The visit comes as Trump has rattled NATO allies and some Republicans in Congress over his surprise announcement that he plans to pull almost 10,000 troops out of Germany and perhaps redeploy some to other more favored allies, such as Poland.
Think it can't happen here?
It can happen here.
That's the warning from a young woman from Venezuela, who has seen the statue-topplings before - and the street renamings, (and the flag alterings, and the name changings) along the destruction of history, and knows exactly where it leads.
She made this powerful video here:
"Why do I even worry about some silly little statues coming down?Or some silly little street names changing? Why do I care? It's because the last time I didn't care about this, I was a teenager. I have already lived through this thing, when I was living in Venezuela " she begins.
NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace says he’s “pissed” members of the public are now questioning his integrity after the FBI said a noose found in his garage stall this week was there before his team moved in.
“I’m mad because people are trying to test my character and the person that I am and my integrity,” he told CNN’s Don Lemon Tuesday night. NASCAR said it launched an investigation after a crew member discovered the noose Sunday afternoon at the Talladega Superspeedway.(snip) Talking to Lemon, Wallace said the image he saw of “what was hanging in my garage is not a garage pull.”
The recent spate of statue toppling is not just vandalism of the rabble gone wild. It’s more than that, much more.
So far in this current cycle, the statues of Confederates, Christopher Columbus, George Washington, a Spanish missionary, U.S. Grant, a Texas Ranger, and an Oregon pioneer, to name a few, have either been torn down by mobs or removed by officials who have surrendered to the swarming Woke activists. It’s not easy to decide who is more contemptible, the thugs pulling down the memorials or the authorities who are allowing the crimes to occur.
Either way, the rampaging is
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has long insisted that the company is politically neutral, but the same apparently can’t be said for all of its content moderators.
The social-media giant said it would review its training and oversight after a Project Veritas sting released Tuesday showed moderators on hidden-camera footage claiming that they delete pro-Trump and conservative posts; that the company harbors an anti-Trump bias, and that Facebook shadow-bans content, despite its claims to the contrary.
One of the rules of thumb in 2020 America is that, if you hear about a racist incident, you should refrain from commenting for 48 hours. (snip) no one left a noose in Bubba Wallace’s garage space. This whole furor, which the leftists used to good effect to tar NASCAR and Alabama, was about a permanent knotted cord put in place to open and close the garage door. (snip) While Wallace may have experienced pain, he was also discovering fame. His story was everywhere, and suddenly he was a hot commodity on leftist TV outlets, (snip) Bubba isn’t a trailblazer at all. He’s just another race hustler
When I first saw the mural of George Floyd with large angel wings, I assumed that it was a satire on his sanctification – effective, perhaps, but not in the best of taste. Shortly afterwards, however, I realised that the mural was in earnest: the picture of the mural in the newspaper included a man genuflecting before it and the caption said that he was making a ‘pilgrimage’. Apparently, St Peter can no longer cope alone at the Pearly Gates: he need bouncers too, Heaven having become something like a nightclub.
George Floyd was not a saint; in fact, he was a bad man, and being killed by a brutal policeman
NBC reports many of the facts of the case, but leaves readers to guess which party the alleged bribe-taker belongs to.
Jose Huizar, 61, was arrested at his home on a federal racketeering charge amid an ongoing FBI corruption probe, according to federal prosecutors in California.
Huizar is accused of turning his city council seat into what U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna described as a “money-making criminal enterprise that shaped the development landscape in Los Angeles.”
Notice NBC hasn’t named his party yet. Makes one wonder if their Verification Unit was too busy to deploy Google search.
The movement to tear down statues or even just to deface them was misconceived in its earliest stages and has now, like most aspects of the self-flagellating fever over “systemic racism,” evolved from just concerns about offending African-American sensibilities into an assault on the entire body of achievement of Western civilization. This movement really began with the debate over whether to remove the statue of General Robert E. Lee from a main square of Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. Serious civic discussion on a legitimate question quickly deteriorated into mob violence between Klansmen and neo-Nazis on one side and Antifa and the belligerent faction
Self-righteous vandals
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Violent left-wing activists have taken to styling themselves as antifa, short for ‘anti-fascists’, though their street-fighting tactics resemble nothing so much as the Brownshirt thuggery practiced by fascists themselves. This did not stop NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson from likening these hooligans to the heroes of World War Two. On the anniversary of D-Day, June 6, while America’s cities still smoldered after days of riots and looting, Liasson took to Twitter to call the Normandy invasion the ‘biggest antifa rally in history’.
Dumb jokes are nothing new on Twitter.
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Now the mob is planning to tear down the statue of Theodore Roosevelt, and, may I add, that TR was one of the original Progressives. Take a look in an American history book, if you can find one. Teddy was an original Progressive. The mayor of the fated city of New York, Bill de Blasio has already approved Teddy’s removal. Au revoir, Teddy; you will soon rest in the dustbin of history along with George Washington and so many other old white men of American history. Possibly, in time Mayor de Blasio himself will repose there. After all, he is an aging white male, and he has not achieved
I was wrong about Bolton
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There are few men in public life I have admired more than John Bolton. To take just one example, I am grateful for his successful work in the administration of the first President Bush to overturn the UN’s vile “Zionism is a form of racism” resolution. See pages 40-43 of his memoir, Surrender Is Not an Option.
Bolton suffered the Democrats’ remorseless campaign of defamation against him to prevent his confirmation as our ambassador to the United Nations upon his appointment by the second President Bush. I wrote about the role of the New York Times in this campaign at the time in “Déjà vu, all over again.”
Here we go again…
As reliably as children being fooled by Santa Claus, the news media has once again been duped by an obviously false story that fit their favorite narrative about race. Last year, it was the Jussie Smollett fiasco, on which I was one of the first media commentators to call out as lacking credibility, today, in a very different but similar story, we have learned that, contrary to an enormous amount of media outrage and moralizing, black NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace was not the victim of a noose-related hate crime.
For those who have somehow missed it, over the weekend NASCAR dramatically and declaratively
Three months ago, Bernie Sanders lost his chance at the Democratic nomination, after a brief moment in which his socialist revolution seemed poised to raze the bastions of neoliberal power. But the developments of the last month, the George Floyd protests and their cultural repercussions, may prove the more significant defeat for the Sanders cause. In the winter he merely lost a presidential nomination; in the summer he may be losing the battle for the future of the left.
Throughout his career, Sanders has stood for the proposition that left-wing politics lost its way after the 1970s by letting what should be its central purpose —
A Democrat state senator from Milwaukee was pummeled by a group of protesters at the Wisconsin State Capitol late Tuesday during a violent clash that included two statues being toppled, a report said.
Sen. Tim Carpenter told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he was beaten after taking a photo of some of the protesters.
“I don’t know what happened,” he told the paper. “All I did was stop and take a picture and the next thing I’m getting five-six punches, getting kicked in the head.”
Longtime U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, who was first elected in 1988 and rose to become one of the most powerful Democrats in the House, was substantially trailing middle school principal Jamaal Bowman in Tuesday's primary -- which could mark the second major upset of a veteran New York City Democratic congressman in just two years.
However, the primary in New York’s 16th Congressional District was too early to call. As of 1 a.m. ET Wednesday, Bowman had roughly 61 percent of the counted vote. Engel was in second with about 36 percent of the counted vote.
New York counties didn’t release any mail ballots
State Senator Chris Jacobs declared victory Tuesday night in the special election for New York's 27th congressional district, held to replace former Rep. Chris Collins (R) after his resignation following insider trading charges. NY-27 has been classified as the "most conservative district" in the state of New York, so there were plenty of eyes on this one. In his win, Jacobs defeated attorney Beth Parlato, Erie County Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw, and the lone Democratic candidate Nate McMurray. McMurray has yet to concede, but Jacobs’s team says there’s no way, even with absentee ballots, that the Democrat can make up the deficit.President Trump endorsed Jacobs,
Joe Biden voted to allow racially segregated private schools to keep their tax exempt status in the late '70s, a stance that put him at odds with the Carter administration and drew criticism from civil rights groups at the time. Biden was among 54 senators who voted in 1979 to keep the "Dornan rider"—a provision that barred the IRS from revoking the tax-exempt status of segregated private schools, sometimes called "white flight academies," that had appeared in the wake of the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling integrating public schools. Biden's vote is one of multiple instances in which the then-senator actively opposed federal school desegregation efforts