Posts on Saturday, July 18, 2020
It was, by any measure, a royal wedding like no other. On the side of tradition, there was the beaming couple, a chapel laden with flowers, and the bride’s beloved grandparents at its heart. In almost every other respect, the wedding of Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi was unrecognisable as a Great British Royal Wedding of the modern era.(Snip)In a touching tribute to “granny”, Princess Beatrice wore a vintage dress by Norman Hartnell, loaned to her by the Queen for the occasion.
Back in the summer of 2015, all the cleverest people made fun of Donald Trump for obsessing about China. One of them even made a video compilation of the candidate saying ‘China’ over and over again on the hustings. Ha ha ha.
It seems distinctly less funny now. (snip) Just on Thursday, it was reported that poor Christians in China in must replace religious symbols in their houses with portraits of Mao and President Xi in order to receive welfare payments. ‘These are the greatest gods,’ a Chinese officials said. ‘If you want to worship somebody, they are the ones.’
As violence and unrest surge in major cities across the U.S., liberal mayors are taking a combative stance toward the Trump administration and offers of federal help -- engaging in sometimes-feisty social media feuds with officials.
And the vitriol is flowing in both directions.
“Hey Karen. Watch your mouth,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot tweeted Thursday in response to White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who described her as the “derelict mayor” of the city because of the surge in violence there.
That tweet came the same evening as three people, including a 5-month-old baby boy, were shot in Chicago.
White House health advisor Anthony Fauci has praised New York for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying the state responded “correctly” to bring its outbreak under control. “We know that, when you do it properly, you bring down those cases. We have done it. We have done it in New York,” Fauci said in an interview with “PBS NewsHour” that aired Friday evening.
The official portraits of former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were reportedly removed from the White House’s Grand Foyer last week, aides told CNN. “White House tradition calls for portraits of the most recent American presidents to be given the most prominent placement, in the entrance of the executive mansion, visible to guests during official events,” the article stated. However, following Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s recent visit to the White House, the Clinton and Bush portraits were placed in the Old Family Dining Room,
An LAPD ‘top shot’ who had become somewhat of a social media darling is facing a lawsuit after she fatally shot a man who appeared to advance towards her with a knife.Toni McBride, 23, shot and killed Daniel Hernandez, 38 on April 22. A lawsuit was filed on behalf of Hernandez’s 14-year-old daughter, claiming that McBride had “reckless, violent and homicidal propensities,” the Daily Mail reported. As a member of the Newton Division in South Central Los Angeles, McBride and her partner responded to a multiple-vehicle collision, with a suspect carrying a “folding utility-type knife” Corrections*
Two women were arrested Saturday afternoon for smearing black paint across the “Black Lives Matter” mural outside Trump Tower, with a city cop injured after he slipped while grabbing one of the suspects, police said. The chaotic scene—the third attack by vandals targeting the Midtown street art in a week—began around 3 p.m. when a car carrying four women and 10 cans of paint arrived at the Fifth Ave. site, according to witness/street artist Nina Khan and a photo of the vehicle. A video captured one of the two Black women involved in the incident pouring paint on the street,
President Donald Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, who was cut from the family’s fortune by her grandfather and visited the White House as recently at 2017, is making the rounds to promote her book trashing her uncle as being “unfit for office.” In an interview with tax-payer funded National Public Radio, she said preventing his re-election is a “life and death” matter. (Snip) some of the story she told is getting scrutiny.
The Daily Mail reported on her claiming the Trump family is homophobic and that is why she kept her lesbianism a secret.
Trump is the first person to appoint an openly gay man, Richard Grenell, as a U.S. Ambassador.
The Senate Judiciary Committee released a declassified document Friday that shows former FBI agent Peter Strzok knew that a February 2017 article in the New York Times suggesting Russia “collusion” was false in almost every respect.
The document includes Strzok’s digital annotations on a Times article, “Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence,” which claimed that former and current U.S. “officials” had alleged that “members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials.”
Strzok added a note in the margins: “This statement is misleading and inaccurate as written. We have not seen evidence of any individuals affiliated with the
State Dept. Cables Warned of China’s Wuhan Lab Two Years Ago: ‘Serious Shortage’ of Trained Staff
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Two State Department cables in 2018 warned that a new laboratory in Wuhan did not have enough trained personnel to operate it safely while it was studying SARS-like coronaviruses isolated from bats, according to the cables that were published on Friday after a Freedom of Information Act request.
A cable sent from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on January 19, 2018, notified Washington that China had opened the Wuhan Institute of Virology, its first Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) laboratory, and that the lab’s leadership considered it ready for research on class-four pathogens (P4) — the most virulent viruses that pose a high risk of person-to-person transmission.
MINNEAPOLIS — Gun battles, drug dealing and prostitution — that’s what neighbors in one part of north Minneapolis say they’re dealing with on a daily basis. Homicides and other violent crimes are pulling police away. That’s leaving some neighborhoods feeling like they’re on their own. The aftermath of a shoot out near Lowry and Logan Avenues in north Minneapolis has residents fed up. “There was about 30 rounds shot,” Jake, a nearby resident told WCCO. Several homes on the block were hit. Two showed up at the hospital and are expected to recover. “It’s 24-hour crime,” Arthur Dent explained. Neighbors
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is facing pressure from contending groups inside his party as he prepares to interview a shortlist of women for the most important hire of his political career: his running mate. (Snip) Adding to the weight of Biden’s choice, he would be 78 at his January inauguration, making him the oldest U.S. president and setting up his vice president as an early front-runner for the 2024 race should he serve only one term. “There’s a lot of attention on this for a number of reasons, not least of which that Vice President Biden is 77 years
SF Mayor London Breed shreds
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San Francisco Mayor London Breed recently spoke with Vogue about certain white progressives involved in the recent demonstrations following the death of George Floyd, and did not have very nice things to say.
Breed stated that while she's happy more white Americans are now supportive of the Black Lives Matter movement — recent polling shows upwards of 60% of white Americans support the protests and calls for police reform — she has "a real problem with the takeover of the movement by white people." "I want people to respect the opinions and feelings of Black people and allow us to decide what is in our best interest," Breed told Vogue.
Large crowds of maskless revelers are packing the streets in Astoria and partying like there’s no pandemic.
A video shot Friday night shows hundreds of partiers packing Steinway Street as an NYPD cruiser tries to get by and police tell people to “get out of the street.”
The crowd cheers as the car moves on, then fills the street again, plastic cups in hand. They stood in front of bars and restaurants, some of which had tables out for dining.(Snip) The partygoers “block traffic and cause roadblocks. They park dozens of motorcycles and quads on the sidewalk and set up a hookah
Senate Democrats are proposing a $350 billion measure designed specifically to “address systemic racism and historic underinvestment in communities of color,” via the Economic Justice Act, which they announced on Thursday.Democrats view the measure as an “important down-payment to answer the calls to address systemic racism and historic underinvestment in communities of color.”The act, unveiled on Thursday, effectively acts as a reparations proposal, with Democrats proposing to “immediately” help minority communities with a $135 billion investment in “child care, mental health and primary care, and jobs.” The remaining $215 billion would be used to address inequality in the long term, devoting the investment to “infrastructure,
Viva Goya!
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“Goya (food products) CEO Robert Unanue, whose great grandfather founded the company as a Spanish immigrant in 1936, praised President Trump last Thursday at a White House event, saying the U.S. is “truly blessed” to have a leader like him….The comments immediately sparked a backlash among Latino leaders, (italics mine) including former Housing Secretary Julián Castro and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who called for a boycott of the brand,” reports The Hill.Result?“Goya Foods is doing GREAT. The Radical Left smear machine backfired, people are buying like crazy!” (President Trump tweet, July 15). Indeed, some have rebranded the boycott as a BUY-cott.
President Donald Trump and four ex-presidents have all released statements responding to the news that U.S. Rep. John Lewis died Friday night at age 80. Trump, who also ordered flags at the White House and on federal property to be flown at half-staff on Saturday, said on Twitter he is “saddened” to hear Lewis was gone and sent prayers to his family. The president’s statement belied the often antagonist relationship he had with the Democratic congressman from Atlanta.
The Minneapolis City Council declared racism a public health emergency in the city Friday, vowing to allocate funding and other resources to “name, reverse, and repair the harm done” to people of color in the city. The resolution was unanimously approved nearly two months after George Floyd, a Black man, was killed by Minneapolis police while in custody in south Minneapolis.(Snip) During a committee meeting last week, Jenkins said Floyd’s killing, Black people’s vulnerability to the coronavirus and racial gaps in homeownership are issues that have “been deeply agreed upon that at the core is racism.” “How do we begin to address
The continued surge of Minneapolis police officers seeking disability benefits after the George Floyd unrest is heightening concerns of a police staffing shortage amid a wave of violent crime. Ron Meuser Jr., the lawyer handling the claims, said his office met with an additional 43 Minneapolis cops this week who have retained him. That’s in addition to the estimated 150 officers who Meuser said at a July 10 news conference had retained him. And it brings the total closer to 200 now, out of a sworn force of about 850. Meuser said most of the officers starting the disability paperwork leave their jobs fairly quickly
Saratoga Springs, NY—Harvey's Irish Pub got a call from the State Liquor Authority after CBS 6 reported they began selling "Cuomo Chips" for $1 as a creative way to bypass a new State regulation. They were told that the Cuomo Chips themselves were not in compliance but, that didn't stop them.
Turns out a small bowl of Cuomo Chips for just $1, well that won't cut it, but if they serve them with salsa, then they are officially in compliance.(Snip) “Peanuts, chips, anything like that on their own would not count and wouldn’t be in compliance. So the counter is
I’m going to get straight to the point. It’s time for bold action. It’s time for Americans everywhere who love their country to heed the words of President Ronald Reagan: “If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.”
All around us, the forces of socialism, Marxism, and anarchy are waging a war against democracy and the moral legitimacy of the great American experiment. Radicals have hijacked peaceful protests and are using the current racial unrest as a tool to attack the very foundation of our nation.
Democrats’ religion of the Tyrannical Woke is a dangerously malevolent one. Bow to it, or else.
Or else…crazed leftists will do something like hop on an Alaska Airlines flight bound for Chicago and threaten to kill everyone on board. Unless…they publicly acknowledge Jesus is black. It really happened on July 11, 2020.
Lying media outlets framed it as: Man Threatens to Kill Passengers on Flight in the Name of Jesus. Or something.
The headline should have read: “Off-Duty Cop Opens Can of Whoop-ass on Five-Foot-Nothing Frail and Pale Fascistic Lunatic Leftist Sally.”
A small group of former George W. Bush administration and campaign officials are trying to help Joe Biden win this November — but contrary to all the media hype, they still make up a tiny fraction of the overall Republican Party.
Thousands of political appointees served under Bush, and I was one of them. A vast majority of my former colleagues support President Trump and will unquestionably support his re-election all the way to the finish line on November 3. More importantly, given that the former president is not taking an active role in this election, using his name and legacy to advance one’s own political agenda is simply dishonest.
The nation may still be battling its way through the end stages of a pandemic, but the 2020 presidential candidates are forced to turn their thoughts to the election which – almost unbelievably – is less than four months away.
While former Vice President Joe Biden, who seems to be enjoying favorable poll numbers of late, tries his best to woo voters in a constituency he should own, his birth state of Pennsylvania, the Trump campaign is looking southward and focusing on a constituency long coveted by Republicans: Latinos.
What’s more, according to John Pence, senior advisor to the Trump campaign
How to Cancel ‘Cancel Culture’
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The woke left has awakened to the fact that it can destroy almost anybody's career and livelihood by just surrounding him or her with controversy and bad press, which convinces the person's employer that the simplest way to avoid the controversy is to fire the person in question. The same techniques can and should be used against the enemy's own livelihoods and careers. Those on the receiving end of “cancel culture” should adopt the position that anything they do to their tormentors is OK as long as it is nonviolent and lawful. Defamation is unlawful but it is not necessary to destroy the canceler's own reputations.
Federal Unit Behind Arrests In Portland
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) smeared federal law enforcement officials on Friday night while making false claims about the continuing violence and rioting in Portland, Oregon.“Unidentified stormtroopers. Unmarked cars. Kidnapping protesters and causing severe injuries in response to graffiti,” Pelosi claimed. “These are not the actions of a democratic republic. @DHSgov’s actions in Portland undermine its mission. Trump & his stormtroopers must be stopped.”“First Amendment speech should never be met with one-sided violence from federal agents acting as Trump’s secret police, especially when unidentified,” Pelosi continued. “This is disgraceful behavior we would expect from a banana republic —
Noose hoaxer Bubba Wallace this week was booed as he was introduced at the NASCAR all-star qualifier and cheered after he crashed. The media exploded last month after NASCAR released a statement revealing that a ‘noose’ was reportedly found in top driver Bubba Wallace’s Talladega garage stall. The FBI unleashed 15 agents on the case and ultimately determined that the ‘noose’ was actually a garage door pull rope. It was a garage door pull rope. Fans feel duped after rallying around a crying Bubba Wallace. “Bubba Wallace was also booed when he was introduced, and many cheered when he crashed,” AP reporter Jenna Fryer said. /snip for Tweet/ Bubba
When I first started reading Kurt Schlichter’s political columns, I thought he was a bit of a blowhard and also kind of an evil genius at cooking up big, steaming pies of metaphor scrapple. I also figured he was preaching to the choir. A Schlichter essay can be a tactical victory, but, if you are fighting a war, you have to win a few strategic maneuvers. Would his columnar vitality translate to book length?In The 21 Biggest Lies About Donald Trump (and You!), the answer is yes and no. The 23 chapters more or less go from general to more specific, and each is an answer to
Chaos in Chicago: 18 officers injured,
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At least 18 Chicago Police Department officers were injured and some taken to nearby hospitals for treatment Friday night after a mob of 1,000 left-wing extremists showed up at Grant Park in hopes of tearing down a statue of Christopher Columbus. Watch scenes of the extremists surrounding the statue, attacking police officers and also grabbing a journalist’s camera from her hands (*Language warning):/snip for Tweets/
The mob of extremists and rioters — or “protesters,” as the media have falsely labeled them — initially came together at Buckingham Fountain, which is about a third of a mile away, for a so-called Solidarity Rally to call for the defunding of the police.
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David Webb and Jessica Tarlov got into a testy exchange during Fox News’ “Outnumbered” on Friday over the rising tide of violence against police and the policies believe to be responsible for them, leading hosts Melissa Francis to instruct Harris Faulkner to break them up.The exchange began with Tarlov explaining that, as a life-long New Yorker, it bothered her to see NYPD officers attacked and brutalized like they were earlier this week on the Brooklyn Bridge, in which three officers including Chief Terence Monahan were struck with a large stick, allegedly by Quran Campbell, 25, of the Bronx. (Tweet/Video)
THIS VIDEO IS INSANE— These are NOT protesters. These are THUGS! Black Lives Matter and Antifa terrorists swarmed the Columbus statue in Chicago tonight.
They vandalized the statue and attempted to pull it down with ropes.They were ready to rip it down. (Tweet/Video) The Chicago Police then moved in and took control of the area. That’s when the Antifa and Leftist mob started hurling frozen bottles, sticks, cans, rocks and fireworks at the Chicago police!
This video from Chicago was insane.FOX News reported 18 Chicago police officers were injured tonight.
Alex Trebek is opening up more about his battle with cancer.The veteran "Jeopardy" host -- who announced his stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis last March -- revealed what it would take to step away from the game show and his treatment in a new interview."It's a quality program, and I think I do a good job hosting it," Trebek told The New York Times this week, ahead of his 80th birthday. "And when I start slipping, I'll stop hosting." (Photo) Trebek will turn 80 on Wednesday, one day after his first memoir, "The Answer Is...: Reflections on My Life," hits shelves. For decades he turned down book offers,
The Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul of Nantes, also known as Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul or simply Nantes Cathedral, which dates from 1434, has been engulfed in flames. UPDATE: Regional fire chief General Laurent Ferlay has told AFP that, after a two-hour battle, firemen have contained the blaze. The wire service reports that officials have told them the damage is “not comparable to last year’s fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris”, although interior fixtures including the cathedral organ have been destroyed. Our original report continues below: “After Notre-Dame, Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral, in the heart of Nantes, is in flames,” lamented President Emmanuel Macron in a social media post.
Two teenage boys have been charged in the fatal shooting of a retired University of North Dakota provost during an attempted robbery Friday morning in South Carolina. Retired UND provost Tom DiLorenzo, 63, was out walking with his wife, newly-appointed College of Charleston provost Suzanne Austin, when the fatal shooting occurred at about 6.15am in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. During the incident, two men approached the couple at an intersection near an antiques store and demanded money from them at gunpoint. DiLorenzo was then shot during the attempted robbery. He was taken to the hospital where he died just before 7am,
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sparked heated backlash for seeming to compare the use of federal forces against protesters in Portland with stormtroopers. The California Democrat slammed President Donald Trump in a tweet on Friday for deploying “unidentified stormtroopers” in the Oregon city to quell rioting and violent protests that have continued for weeks. But Pelosi’s attempt to shame and berate the president boomeranged as she was called out for the “despicable” analogy on social media. Unidentified stormtroopers. Unmarked cars. Kidnapping protesters and causing severe injuries in response to graffiti,” Pelosi tweeted. “These are not the actions of a democratic republic. @DHSgov’s actions in Portland undermine its mission.”
Washington—The official portraits of former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were removed from the Grand Foyer of the White House within the last week, aides told CNN, and replaced by those of two Republican presidents who served more than a century ago. White House tradition calls for portraits of the most recent American presidents to be given the most prominent placement, in the entrance of the executive mansion, visible to guests during official events.(Snip) But in the days after after that, the Clinton and Bush portraits were moved into the Old Family Dining Room, a small, rarely used room
The Plants That Make Music
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On June 22, Gran Teatre del Liceu, a concert hall in Barcelona, reopened its doors for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic closed them months earlier. A string quartet walked onto the stage, bowed, and proceeded to perform Puccini’s “Cristantemi” to a captive audience of almost 3,000, raptly sitting upright upon the hall’s red velvet seats.
But the Liceu didn’t skirt any rules by filling its seats with unsocially distanced classical music fans. Instead, the UceLi Quartet played for plants.
The Revolution Is Winning
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This is what the revolution looks like.
Weather Underground terrorists, who made no secret of being anti-AmeriKKKan “small-c” communists, are having more success than they could have dreamed of in the 1960s.
They are dominating the language. You know that whole “white privilege” nostrum that we’re paying universities $60K per year to drum into our children’s brains? It is derived from their lamentation of “white skin privilege.” In their ideology, the revolution to overthrow the capitalist, racist, imperialist system summoned them — lily white radicals — to abandon their privilege and embrace the armed struggle.
Among their most influential thinkers was Bill Ayers. He got a windfall from the government’s failure
The ‘Fatal Conceit’ of Dr. Fauci
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More than four months after abruptly saying goodbye to the daily life we once knew, Americans still live in a surreal and virus-induced dystopia. Summer, essentially, has been canceled: no big family weddings, no trips abroad, no open public beaches and pools, no baseball. Tens of millions remain out of work while small businesses close up shop, permanently altering the landscape of big cities and small towns across the country. Mini Gestapo populated by once-friendly neighbors police face coverings and six feet of separation. (Snip)One person, however, seems to be basking in the chaos and confusion: Dr. Anthony Fauci
Nearly half of respondents of a national poll conducted by Morning Consult are just fine with the name of NFL team The Washington Redskins. The football team, which has been for years accused of racism against Native Americans despite polls finding Native American majorities support the name, has been slated for change to placate a small group of online leftist agitators.
However, it turns out that far more Americans believe the name ought to remain than those who prefer a more culturally sensitive name. According to the poll, 49 percent of respondents believe the Redskins should keep their nickname, with only 29 percent in favor of the upcoming change and 22
Anyone who understands politics in the corrupt state government of Illinois realizes that the power of Michael Madigan, Speaker of the state House of Representatives since 1983 except for two years, dwarfs that of the state’s governor. He’s been called “the most powerful Democrat politician in the country” with good reason, and over the years AT has covered him (Snip) for his power, and lately for the appearance that federal investigators have been wiretapping associates and maybe, just maybe closing in on him.
News released in Chicago yesterday by federal prosecutors indicates that that the noose is closing on him, though he still has not (yet) been indicted.
The Russians are coming — again.Joe Biden, the presumptive 2020 Democratic nominee, warned Americans on Friday that Russia would again try to interfere in the presidential election, just as they did in 2016.The former vice president said he is now receiving intelligence briefings on the matter, Reuters reported.“We know from before, and I guarantee you that I know now, because now I get briefings again. The Russians are still engaged in trying to delegitimize our electoral process. Fact,” Biden said during an online fundraiser for his campaign. In the same event Biden also warned that China was getting in on the act to with maneuvers “designed for us
A supervising video producer for Joe Biden's presidential campaign tweeted a meme in June that urged people to stop calling the police "pigs" -- but only because unlike the police, pigs are "highly intelligent and empathetic animals who would never racially profile you."The videographer, Sara Pearl, also retweeted a user's comment that while "pigs are sweet, intelligent and compassionate," police officers are "monsters" who "don't deserve to be called pigs."
On June 1, Pearl tweeted simply, "#DefundPolice." Days later, she said Buffalo's police department should be "defunded immediately."
When the U.S. Department of Justice dropped that federal hammer on Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan on Friday, I thought of the shock waves spreading out to Democratic bosses across the country, and the sound of Illinois political rats scurrying for cover they won’t find.
But mostly I thought of Boss Madigan’s eyes, blue stones made flat and cold from 50 years as the political boss of the most politically corrupt state in the country.
In my mind I could see Madigan’s eyes widening, as he concentrated on the federal documents filed Friday that are the road map to his end game, like the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg, the oculist in
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Friday he is now getting intelligence briefings and has been told Russia continues to try to meddle in November's U.S. election.
China also was conducting activities "designed for us to lose confidence in the outcome" of the 2020 election, Biden told supporters during an online fundraiser for his campaign.
"We know from before, and I guarantee you that I know now, because now I get briefings again. The Russians are still engaged in trying to delegitimize our electoral process. Fact," Biden said.
He warned that if Russia continued to interfere there would be "a real price to pay" if he wins the November election
It's about the Trump voter
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It’s never been about Donald Trump.
It’s always been about the Donald Trump voter.
To say that Donald Trump is a flawed human being is an understatement. The same could be said about the Donald Trump voter.We are all flawed in our own individual ways. The president wears his flaws on his sleeve, which is refreshing in a strange and compelling way.
The Trump voter loves America, reflexively, even if America and its political class lets it down on occasion.The Trump voter stands for the national anthem at the beginning of every Major League Baseball game and sings “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” during every 7th inning stretch. There is no ambiguity
An individual who was killed in a fatal motorcycle crash in Florida was recently listed as a COVID-19 death for the Sunshine State, according to a state health official. The truth about the death was brought to light after FOX 35 News asked Orange County Health Officer Dr. Raul Pino whether the two individuals in their 20s who were listed as coronavirus deaths had any underlying conditions. “The first one didn’t have any,” Pino said. “He died in a motorcycle accident.” Pino was then questioned on whether the data from the individual who passed away in the motorcycle crash had been removed from the system, to which Pino said,
All that and a bag of “Cuomo Chips.” A New York pub has figured out a cheap and easy way to comply with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s order that bars sales of alcoholic beverages without food: simply selling them a $1 bag of potato chips. The governor’s new edict says patrons must be seated and order a food item in order to get drinks as part of an effort to curb large booze-fueled gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic. In upstate Saratoga Springs, Harvey’s Irish Pub Owner Matthew Bagely immediately put “Cuomo Chips” on customers’ tabs — so they don’t have to pay for a full meal.
Disturbing new revelations that permanent immunity to the coronavirus may not be possible have jeopardized vaccine development and reinforced a decision by scientists at UCSF and affiliated laboratories to focus exclusively on treatments.
Several recent studies conducted around the world indicate that the human body does not retain the antibodies that build up during infections, meaning there may be no lasting immunity to COVID-19 after people recover. Strong antibodies are also crucial in the development of vaccines. So molecular biologists fear the only way left to control the disease may be to treat the symptoms after people are infected to prevent the most debilitating effects, including inflammation, blood clots and death.
An online petition is calling on grocery store chain Trader Joe's to change the packaging and branding on some of its products amid claims it encourages racist stereotypes. The protesters have taken issue with branding on the chain's food products from different parts of the world which change the name in 'Trader Joe's' to a popular or common name from its country of origin.It sees products from China branded with 'Trader Ming's', products from Italy named 'Trader Giotto's' and those from Mexico named 'Trader José's'.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sent a new shudder through the ranks of liberals by disclosing she was diagnosed in February with a fifth bout of cancer, this time on her liver. Ginsburg, 87, said in a statement on Friday that chemotherapy is yielding “positive results,” with the latest scan showing a significant reduction in lesions and no new disease. She said she has been “fully able” to do her job as a justice and intends to remain on the court. But with President Donald Trump in the White House and Republicans controlling the Senate through at least January
Hillsdale College to hold in-person graduation
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A conservative college in Michigan is planning to hold an in-person graduation ceremony that could draw as many as 2,600 guests and students, in defiance of Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s social distancing guidelines amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Officials at Hillsdale College say they have notified county health officials of their plans to hold the in-person graduation over the weekend even as coronavirus cases rise in the area, reports noted.
In internal emails, county health officials criticized the college’s plans, but noted that there was little the state could do to prevent the ceremony.
”The individuals that do come to visit the community will not just be at the commencement ceremony,”
Hello, America. My wife Mary and I recently returned home to West Virginia after spending three days with patriots in Boulder City, Nevada and Kingman and Sun City, Arizona. We were assisting the Conservative Campaign Committee's mini-tour of battleground states to help elect GOP candidates and reelect President Trump.
Despite the grueling travel and temperatures over 100 degrees, Mary and I did the tour because the American people need to see patriots standing up for our country, police, and president. Wicked fake news media is deceptively promoting violent, anti-American, Marxist domestic terrorists as saints. Democrat governors and mayors have given Marxists free rein to wreak havoc in our streets.
Former Vice President and 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is a vehicle for the left’s cultural revolution, even if he doesn’t know it. Someone might remind him that he’s even running.
On Wednesday, prominent communist, anti-Semite and former Black Panther Angela Davis said Biden could be “effectively pressured,” into promoting the agenda of the radical left in pursuit of a complete societal transformation overthrowing existing norms into a new world order.
“I don’t see this election as being about choosing a candidate who will be able to lead us in the right direction,” Davis said on “Russia Today.” “It will be about choosing a candidate who can be most effectively pressured
A labor watchdog group is urging presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden to reject the support he's received from corrupt union leaders after a top party ally pleaded guilty to embezzlement in June.
National Right to Work Committee president Mark Mix sent a letter to Biden on Thursday, calling on the Democrat to "put the rights of workers above the demands of union bosses" and "disavow the support" from top brass at the United Auto Workers union. Just weeks earlier, former UAW president Gary Jones pleaded guilty to embezzlement, racketeering, and tax evasion. Jones, a prominent Democratic ally, admitted to spending more than $1 million in union funds
John Durham, the U.S. Attorney who is heading a criminal inquiry into the Russia investigation, is to release his findings by the end of the summer.The review, which became a criminal investigation last fall, has been derided by Democrats as simply a scheme to damage President Trump's Democrat rivals before November's election. But Department of Justice spokeswoman Kerri Kupec, said that the report was not the 'goal' of the criminal investigation but that it will be 'pivotal to the restoration of that one tiered system of justice.' 'There is a story to be told there.
Fake News Becomes a Way of Life
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In December 2016, Ben Smith, then BuzzFeed’s editor-in-chief, wrote a memo to his staff that was meant to be a kind of charter for the dawning of the Trump Era. In truth it spoke to and aimed to speak for the entire mainstream media. Smith would eventually move on to the New York Times, which elevated him to a role as the supervisory voice of conscience for the whole media. But that December, he warned his staff of the danger of fake news, and the need of the media to be accurate and factual:
The information environment itself will become even more central to our coverage:
Brzezinski: How Long Until We Are No
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Longer ‘Shocked’ and ‘Appalled’ by Trump?—
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Friday, MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski delivered a rant against President Donald Trump and his behavior as commander in chief.Brzezinski asked how many times does it take until Americans are no longer “shocked” and “appalled” by something Trump says. She also predicted Trump would refuse to leave and “will try to hold on somehow.”“How many lessons do we have to learn about Donald Trump? How many times do we have to be shocked? How many times do we have to be appalled? How many times do we have to be humiliated as Americans around the world to see that he will do anything, doesn’t care about the law,
Maybe it’s due to my Christian condition, but I’m a sucker for lost causes. Twenty centuries ago, our leader was crucified, his friends were tortured, and many of his early followers were eaten alive by lions while the Romans clapped and laughed. It is not, let us say, a story of victors, even if it does have a happy ending. Usually, winners bore me. The people I idolized when I was young were the sort that got the sack, suffered media censorship, were abandoned by their girlfriends, and often died in wretched circumstances, like trying to find a way out of a shopping mall
Cry the Beloved Country
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I write today to cry for my beloved country, the United States of America.
First, a word about that love. I have visited, set foot in, and explored the vast majority of the United States. I have been to almost every battlefield of the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. I not only visited Guinea Station where Stonewall Jackson died but even searched irresponsibly with my daughters, then young girls, through endless grain stalks during a Virginia summer’s lightning storm until we found the oak tree at Ellwood Plantation in Chancellorsville where his left arm is buried. After visiting the McCoy family cemetery in Pikeville, Kentucky,
Through Antifa and BLM, the Democrats are preparing for war. The riots, looting, arson, and public beatings taking place every day are merely practice for the coming revolutionary conflagration. They are war-gaming to see how best to seize control of the streets and intimidate citizens into ceding their right to vote for the candidate they support.
From the beginning, they forced the police to stand down. The constant drumbeat for defunding the police has sent a message to LEOs everywhere: "Don't interfere" when the insurrection goes hot.
Knowing that the police can be constrained into allowing anarchy to reign, they then went after the National Guard and regular army
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has released two newly-declassified documents related to government surveillance abuses against the Trump campaign in 2016.
The first document, withheld from public view until now, is a 57-page summary of a three-day FBI interview in January 2017 with Christopher Steele’s so-called "primary sub-source" in the anti-Trump allegations and "dossier."
According to the analysis by Sen. Graham's office:
The document reveals that the primary "source" of Steele’s election reporting was not some well-connected current or former Russian official, but a non-Russian-based contract employee of Christopher Steele’s firm.
Social media is abuzz over the release of a clip of President Trump’s interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, where the Fox News host “fact-checked” Trump’s claim that Joe Biden wants to defund the police.
“It’s gotten totally out of control and it’s really because they want to defund the police, and Biden wants to defund the police,” Trump said in the clip.
“Sir, he does not,” Wallace shot back.
You can watch the exchange below.
The madcaps at Power Tie—I wish I knew who they are, but I don’t!—have done it again, with this takeoff of David Attenborough’s “Planet Earth” movie, except this time it is “Planet Earth: The Swamp.” And you can guess what “swamp” he has in mind
The Biden campaign has been lucky most of all, but it’s also been smart — at least smart enough.
To go, as Joe Biden did, from left for dead to sweeping to the nomination and quickly thereafter emerging as the favorite in November is a run of success that would be the envy of any national politician.
It’s easy to consider this a mere accident given the weakness of Biden’s opponents, first a socialist in the Democratic primaries who had a ceiling on his support and now an incumbent president whose ratings have sagged.
How badly has the state of New York handled its vote-by-mail primary? Only today did the Associated Press make the call on the race in NY-16, concluding three weeks after the election that Rep. Eliot Engel lost to his primary challenger, progressive insurgent Jamaal Bowman — by sixteen points. It took that long to get through enough of the mail-in ballots and navigate the opaque reporting on the count for the AP to reach a firm conclusion in a landslide for Bowman. That race is no fluke, either. The New York Times reports that some races have only a handful of ballots counted,
Andrew Sullivan penned his last op-ed in New York Magazine on Friday after previously announcing that he would no longer be a columnist for the outlet.
Sullivan began the column by stressing that the magazine "has every right to hire and fire anyone it wants when it comes to the content of what it wants to publish," but also indicated "the quality of my work does not appear to be the problem."
"What has happened, I think, is relatively simple: A critical mass of the staff and management at New York Magazine and Vox Media no longer want to associate with me, and in a time of ever tightening budgets,
A protest near the Christopher Columbus statue in Chicago’s Grant Park turned violent Friday night, as the crowd started hurling objects at police officers who were guarding the statue, according to reports.
As conditions worsened, dozens of police officers arrived from across the city, FOX 32 of Chicago reported.
A total of 18 police officers were injured at the scene, the report said. Some required treatment at hospitals.
At least a dozen rioters were taken into custody, FOX 32 reported.
At least four civilians were taken to hospitals but their medical conditions were unknown, Chicago's WGN-TV reported.
During his final year in the Senate, Joe Biden inserted a speech into the Congressional Record praising a foreign dignitary with language that appears to have been plagiarized, in part, from a well-known national magazine.
In early 2008, fresh off seeing his second campaign for president falter after a disastrous showing in the Iowa Caucuses, Biden returned to the Senate and his chairmanship of the chamber’s Foreign Relations Committee. As part of that role, then-Senator Biden introduced a number of congressional resolutions honoring foreign leaders, especially those representing America’s strategic allies.
One such resolution, introduced in February of that year, honored South Korea’s newly-elected president, Lee Myung-Bak,
We know how Democrats see the world. They — and the media — have been telling us, for the past four years, that Donald Trump is the second coming of Hitler.
To them, anything Trump does is proof he is a racist, or a dictator, or at least — with Russia “collusion” — the puppet of a racist dictator.
Theirs is an imaginary tyranny.
But Trump supporters have lived through a real tyranny: an anti-democratic effort to prevent Trump from governing, and to oust him from office.
Stage 1: Hillarygate. The Obama administration contrives to allow Hillary Clinton to continue running for president, and to escape accountability for mishandling classified information
Progressive groups are pushing 2020 Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden to cut the military budget by hundreds of billions and move his foreign policy platform further left.
They have laid out a progressive wish list that includes cutting the Pentagon’s budget by $200 billion each year, ending the refurbishment of the nation’s nuclear arsenal begun under Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and getting rid of the Space Force — at a time when U.S. adversaries are ramping up spending in those areas.
More than 50 progressive groups made the demands in a letter sent to Biden in May. It is not clear how receptive Biden is to their demands,
In a discussion about why she is supporting Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, radical Marxist and former Black Panther Angela Davis explained Monday that while Biden is by no means an ideal candidate for the radical left, he is the “candidate who can be most effectively pressured.”
RealClear Politics brought attention to a tweet by J Michael Waller of the Center for Security Policy that contained the clip of Davis appearing on Russia Today’s (RT) Going Underground. [Video]
A former Communist Party USA vice presidential candidate, Davis, 76, said:
I don’t see this election as being about choosing a candidate who will be —
The police chief at West Virginia University was forced to apologize after students noticed a “thin blue line” American flag honoring police on display in his home during a Zoom video conference. The chief apologized to the community after acknowledging the “hurt” his flag caused.
According to a report by Campus Reform, West Virginia University Chief W.P. Chedester apologized last week in response to the outrage that erupted after students noticed a “thin blue line” American flag on display in Chedester’s home during a video conference. The American flag with a blue stripe was created to honor police officers.
Many students called on Chedester to resign in response to the student’s outrage.
Can a Whole Country Go Mad?
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“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
(Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland)
The other day I was watching TV.
(We’re quarantined. Sometimes there is little else to do.)
In any case, in the mindless surfing that approaches an altered state, I saw an ad that left me nearly apoplectic. It consisted of a series of faces covered by masks of all types and sizes. The voice-over repeated like the peeling of bells over St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Easter: “This is not a mask. This is not a mask. This is not a mask. This is solidarity.”
It propelled me off the couch. I screamed, “IT’S A MASK.”
Civil rights icon and 17-term Georgia Rep. John Lewis died Friday in Atlanta, The Associated Press has reported. He was 80. Lewis, the son of Alabama sharecroppers whose fight for racial equality spanned seven decades, had waged a long battle with advanced pancreatic cancer, a diagnosis he shared in December, 2019.
“All of us were humbled to call Congressman Lewis a colleague, and are heartbroken by his passing,’ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement confirming the death.
“May his memory be an inspiration that moves us all to, in the face of injustice, make ‘good trouble, necessary trouble,'” she said,
Sheer Lunacy Rules the Day
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In a world that appears to be tottering off its axis with sheer lunacy ruling the day, here is a small sampling of the dangerous ideas gaining traction and the cowardice displayed by so many.
In Great Britain, where grooming gang crimes exist, "British women who drew attention to 'Asian' [Pakistani and South Asian] sex grooming gangs, are also being attacked by the 'woke' establishment" because "if the victim is white and the rapist is not, she is no victim at all; worse, she is a 'racist' and 'hater' who, if anything, apparently deserves what she got and more."
As each day passes, the increasingly totalitarian nature of Woke Culture is becoming more apparent.
Recently, the U.K. Daily Mail described the reverse racism emerging in Hollywood, which has created a "toxic" climate for white middle-aged men:
"A revolution is under way. White actors are being fired. Edicts from studio bosses make it clear that only minorities — racial and sexual — can be given jobs.
A new wave of what has been termed by some as anti-white prejudice is causing writers, directors, and producers to fear they will never work again. One described the current atmosphere as 'more toxic than Chernobyl,' with leading actors afraid to speak out