Posts on Sunday, August 18, 2024
Several professors, headed by project leader Daniel Oto-Peralías at Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Spain, have created a new app that they claim will help identify “offensive” and “harmful” street names and “repair past wrongs.”
The STNAMES LAB app was described by Oto-Peralías and fellow geography professors Derek Alderman of the University of Tennessee and Joshua Inwood of Penn State University as an “important education tool” in a recent article at The Conversation.
The intrepid professors wrote that the app:
Raffensperger blasts proposed rule requiring
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ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s secretary of state on Thursday came out against election rule changes pending before the State Election Board, specifically rejecting a proposal to count ballots by hand at polling places on election night. At a meeting in July, the board advanced a proposal that would require three separate poll workers to count ballots at voting precincts on election night to make sure they match the number of ballots recorded by voting machines. That proposal has been posted for public comment and the board is set to vote Monday whether to adopt it.
Over the last decade, late night shows (with the single exception of Greg Gutfeld) have become nothing more than infomercials for the Democrat party.
It has gotten to the point where almost the only guests on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert are Democrat politicians and hosts from CNN or MSNBC.
Millions of Americans have been turned off and have tuned out. As a result, many of these shows are going to be phased out eventually.
The New York Post reports: The end is nigh for snoozefest late-night talk shows
In an interview this week, Jimmy Kimmel conceded that the end is nigh for late-night talk shows.
Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a meandering aside about democracy on Sunday, giving her critics more fodder with which to mock the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate.
Harris spoke during a stop on a multi-city bus tour in the battleground state of Pennsylvania along with her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and their spouses.
“Our election is about understanding the importance of this beautiful country of ours in terms of what we stand for around the globe as a democracy,” Harris said.
“As a democracy,” she repeated, “we know there’s a duality to the nature of democracy. On the one hand, incredible strength when it is intact.”
Secret Service’s ‘Inexcusable’ J6
Failures Stem From Much Deeper Problems,
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Failures Stem From Much Deeper Problems,
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Leadership that completely ignores field agent concerns, combined with inconsistent communication protocols and a lack of preparation, lead to outcomes like the Secret Service’s failures on Jan. 6, 2021, former agents told the Daily Caller.
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report July 31 detailing the agency’s performance on the day of the Capitol riot. A fundamental breakdown in inter-agency correspondence led to disparities in intelligence gathering and coordination between the agency and the United States Capitol Police (USCP), the former agents said.
I don’t know what Don Lemon was thinking with this segment because anyone who visits the Jersey Shore knows it’s Trump country. The former CNN host traveled to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to ask voters on the boardwalk who they’re supporting. These weren’t the answers he sought, as most of those who spoke to him said, Donald Trump. One man said he was making more money four years ago than now, which led to Lemon saying that the economy has never been more robust. Again, the media cannot accept that no one trusts them because voters know what life was like under Trump. They see their checkbooks.
Kamala Harris campaigned in western Pennsylvania as she kicked off her “Road to Chicago” bus tour on Sunday. (X) Harris, Doug Emhoff, Tim Walz and his wife Gwen Walz stopped in Rochester on their bus tour to the DNC.
Kamala Harris spoke to a Pennsylvania football team and told them they will be undefeated even if they lose.
“In all that that requires which is the hard work, the practice, working as a team. Knowing that you will be undefeated even if you don’t win every game, but no circumstance or event or moment will defeat your spirit,”
It’s not until you're somewhat deep into yet another mainstream media puff piece of Kamala Harris that you come across a rather startling admission by Joe Biden’s former chief of staff, Ron Klain. He basically admits that the Democrats’ nominee for president failed in her VP gig.
The New York Times headline Sunday certainly might make you think that Harris had mastered the intricacies of the job: “A Vice Presidential Learning Curve: How Kamala Harris Picked Her Shots,” it reads. But after first describing how Harris was “deliberate and disciplined” despite the many pitfalls she faced as the first female vice president, the Times finally got to the point (emphasis mine):
srael has long been known to have a great intelligence apparatus; being a small nation surrounded by people who want you dead tends to sharpen your intelligence-gathering skills. Now we are presented with another example of just how good Israel is at information-gathering, as on July 30th, they used a ruse involving a mysterious phone call to lure a Hezbollah commander out of hiding to a location where he could be (and was) deleted by an airstrike.
Israel lured out an elusive Hezbollah commander with a mysterious phone call moments before launching the deadly airstrike that would kill him and cause the terror group to vow revenge,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that pressure — from the U.S. and from domestic opposition — for a hostage deal needs to be on Hamas, not the Israeli government, due to the terror group’s ongoing obstinacy.
Netanyahu at the beginning of a meeting with his governing coalition, after negotiations wrapped up in Doha, Qatar, on Friday without Hamas representatives present. Hamas, under its new leader Yahya Sinwar, boycotted the talks.
The Israeli government has been under pressure from the U.S. to agree to a deal — though it has already accepted the terms laid out by President Joe Biden in May. (Secretary of State Blinken will visit
Off-Script Disaster: Kamala Harris Confounds
PA Crowd with Word Salad on ‘Duality
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PA Crowd with Word Salad on ‘Duality
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While speaking at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris appeared to stumble over her words while explaining what the 2024 presidential election is “about” and what the United States stands “for around the globe.”
“Our election is about understanding the importance of this beautiful country of ours in terms of what we stand for around the globe as a democracy,” Harris told the crowd. “As a democracy, we know, there’s a duality to the nature of democracy.”
Writer Greg Price posted a video of Harris’s speech on X, and commented, “Kamala word salads are so back.” “On the one hand, incredible strength when it is intact,”
There is a considerable discussion starting about Kamala Harris potentially having a problem with alcohol {LINK}. In part, people are reviewing the videos of Mrs. Harris and there appears to be a pattern of odd behavior that seems like she is drunk.
Mrs Harris has always been a rather odd person, with a propensity for speaking in gibberish. I guess the question is whether that goofy personality is really just the outcome of Kamala Harris drinking. Some of the video segments being highlighted are shared below.
What do you think? Is Kamala Harris under the influence of alcohol? (video)
She's Back: Off-Script 'Veep' Kamala Harris
Rides Again With Multiple Word Salads
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Rides Again With Multiple Word Salads
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She's back. Off-script Kamala Harris returned with a vengeance on Sunday providing several mock-worthy moments.
Often compared to Julia Louis-Dreyfus' character on "Veep," Harris has long spun word salads and spoken nonsensically when she ventures off the teleprompter. Until this point, though, her astroturfed campaign (in which she won zero primary votes before becoming the nominee) was doing a relatively decent job wrapping her in political bubble wrap. She'd do some rallies with opening musical acts, read short speeches, and generally get nowhere near any situation that wasn't heavily produced and focus-grouped.
Vice President Harris is holding a narrow lead over former President Trump ahead of the Democratic National Convention next week, according to a new poll.
The ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll found Harris has 49 percent of support among registered voters while Trump has 45 percent and 5 percent said they would back someone else. This shows Harris pulling ahead, as a previous ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted last month showed President Biden and Trump tied at 46 percent of support each.
Harris also holds a thin lead over Trump when third-party candidates are added to the mix. The poll showed Harris with 47 percent of support, Trump with 44 percent
In the world of politics, where the stakes are high and the drama is even higher, it’s no surprise that rumors can spread like wildfire. And right now, the internet is buzzing with whispers—okay, maybe more like full-on gossip—that Vice President Kamala Harris has a “serious drinking problem.”(snip)
It all kicked off with a tweet from James Blair, the political director for Trump’s 2024 campaign. Blair casually dropped a bombshell on Twitter (now X), suggesting that there are “a lot of rumors” about Kamala Harris having a drinking problem. The tweet was quickly picked up by Trump campaign advisor Alex Bruesewitz, who gave it the official stamp of approval with
Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), who is running for vice president, savaged Vice President Kamala Harris’ economic policies, which involved government bans on “price gouging” and shelling out taxpayer money to help first-time home buyers.
During an interview with Fox News’ Shannon Bream on Sunday, Vance discussed Harris’ stance on inflation and polling showing that she is slightly ahead of former President Donald Trump.
Vance did not mince words when discussing how ridiculous Harris’ economic policies are. He said, “The American people just don’t buy the idea that Kamala Harris, who has been vice president for three and a half years, is somehow going to tackle
The DNC Convention starts tomorrow. I have been requested to repost “THE BIG WHY” explanation. When we understand just how much corruption was needed in the weaponization of the modern IC, we start to understand why the effort to hide it will continue.
President Barack Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; instead, what they did was take the preexisting system and retool it, so the weapons only targeted one side of the political continuum. This point is where many people understandably get confused.
The already-long 2024 presidential campaign has become the strangest in modern history.
Here are 10 unanswered questions that illustrate how and why we've entered this bizarro world:
1. How can Kamala Harris merely promise us fixes to come in 2025 for inflation and an open border when she is still vice president for another six months? Why can't she enact her proposed solutions to these problems (which she helped create) right now?
2. Would the media prefer to help her win but lose further credibility themselves by failing to ask why she has disowned her last three decades of leftist agendas, or to reclaim some of their reputations and thereby risk her losing?
Sanity in the Court
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On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied an emergency application by the Biden Administration for partial stays on orders entered by district courts and affirmed by the Fifth and Sixth Circuits. As usual in such cases, the Court’s order was Per Curiam. The order lays out the procedural history succinctly:
"The Department of Education recently issued a new rule implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The rule newly defined sex discrimination to “includ[e ] discrimination on the basis of sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity.” 89 Fed. Reg. 33886 (2024).
"Several States and other parties sought preliminary injunctions against the
The Harris-Walz ticket, we’re told, is all about joy. Joy. Joy. Joy. Also, it’s about the benefits Democrats create for children, with a special focus on teachers’ unions and Tim Walz’s creepy (but, to Democrats, admirable) focus on LGBTQ+ youth. However, alert people are noticing that the Democrats’ campaign’s slogans, along with their images and ideas, have an uncanny resemblance to some things coming out of really icky regimes, such as the Nazis, the Soviets, and Chinese communists. I’m not saying that the Democrats are ready to commit genocide or open gulags, but it really is weird how leftists always think alike.
What’s been pushed down our gullet since Kamala’s launch
Kamala Harris and the obedient media are attempting to push a platform of “joy.”
Video via Breitbart. (Video) Guess who else had a propaganda campaign of joy? Adolf Hitler.
Ryan Fournier reported via Midnight Rider. (Snip) It’s true.
This photo was taken during the Strandbad Wannsee event outside Berlin in April 1937.
(Photo) Persepctives.org reported on the Nazis’ famous “strength through joy” programs in the 1930s:
After the Nazi rise to power in 1933, the new regime immediately began efforts to bring German society completely under Nazi control in a process known as Gleichschaltung (German for “coordination” or “synchronization”).
The Democrats are unintentionally doing their all to make sure that Donald Trump is reelected president of the United States.
We’ve all watched a football game where our beloved team seems to be busy trying to help the other team win. Penalties, dropped catches, miscommunication, bad blocking and turnovers allow the other team to simply add points by the bushel. The bad guys did not win; our guys emphatically lost. If one breaks down the Democratic approach to the 2024 presidential election, it would seem that the Democrats will do anything to make sure that Donald Trump wins. Obviously, they would claim that all of their actions—
A financial analyst I follow on Twitter/X, Robert Sterling, says everyone should calm down about Kamala’s grocery price controls idea. It’s actually worse than you think. Here’s his expectation from his Twitter column: People need to stop overreacting about Kamala’s plan to reduce food inflation, as if it would lead to communism, mass starvation, and the end of America. I worked in M&A in the food industry. Here’s a step-by-step summary of what would actually happen: 1. The government announces that grocery retailers aren’t allowed to raise prices. 2. Grocery stores, which operate on 1-2% net margins, can’t survive if
Abortion behemoth Planned Parenthood will offer free medication abortions and vasectomies during the Democratic National Convention (DNC).
A mobile health center run by Planned Parenthood Great Rivers will set up shop near the convention and provide these services the first two days of the convention, according to The New York Times. The Times noted that there’s already a waiting list for vasectomies. This, the Times reported, shows the Democrats’ “head-on display of a new, unbridled abortion politics” (via NYT):
Elon Musk shared a devastating video on Kamala Harris, posted by Kanekoa the Great on his X page on Saturday.
“Strange days.” (X Video) The video reminds us that Kamala Harris was so shallow and unlikeable during her initial run for US president in the Democratic Party primary that she dropped out before the Iowa caucus. The video captures CNN hosts discussing an article from The New York Times on a key aide to Kamala Harris turning in a resignation letter.
CNN’s Nia-Malika Henderson: “How Kamala Harris’s campaign Unraveled.” They obtained the resignation letter of the Harris campaign State Operations Director,
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and Elon Musk made plenty of news in their August 12 “X-cast.” Perhaps the most consequential statement was Trump’s assertion that “we have 100 to 500 years of oil left.”
The policy implications of those words are vast: We are not running out of energy. In fact, it is just the opposite. In so declaring, Trump threatens to overturn a half-century of liberal orthodoxy: We have an energy crisis, also an environmental crisis, so we need to cut back. Not only that, we need bureaucratic overseers to tell us how to live our lives: Less meat. No more gas stoves. Use mass transit.
Axios headline, April 12: “New data shows violent crime dropping sharply in major U.S. cities.”
That assertion, the article merrily stated, “puts a serious dent in one of the most frequently used lines of attack by former President Trump and his allies, who have sought to tie Democrats to the issue since 2020.” And it comes surely by coincidence as freshly anointed Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris gives herself a makeover as a hard ass on crime rather than the effusive “defund the police” candidate she ran as in 2020.
Indian Summer
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Kamala Harris’ fabulous career has of course benefited extraordinarily from her being roughly one-quarter black, but few have offered much of an opinion on her being one-half Tamil Brahmin (besides her fellow South Asians, of course), other than it reduces her despised white component.
And yet, the rise of South Asians to positions of immense power across the Anglosphere is one of the big stories of the 21st century.(snip) The limited percentage of Americans familiar with South Asians tend to admire them as worldly hustlers with a glib line of salesmanship.
It is not difficult to understand why the Kamala Harris campaign, led on strategic coordination by Brian Fallon, rejected the efforts of Robert F Kennedy Jr to coordinate with the campaign. (snip)
Prior to the switching of Biden with Harris, RFK Jr was polling around 8 to 12% (snip) After Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden, RFK Jr ballot support dropped to around 4 to 6%. (snip) democrats supporting RFK Jr, disenfranchised with Biden, returned once he was replaced.
The current 4 to 6% support that remains with Robert Kennedy Jr are never-MAGA republicans, single issue vaxx voters and never-Trumpers. Why would Fallon want to interrupt that convenient fracture?
A few weeks ago, former Senator Benn Sasse quit his job as President at University of Florida. The claimed reason given by Sasse was to care for his wife who has epilepsy, but the timing of things now looks very sketchy.
I’m going to outline the details in real time because this is going to become more critical as Ron DeSantis positions his future ambitions ,(snip)
CTH noted a few years ago that Ron DeSantis was positioning for 2024 presidency. One of the supportive datapoints was a $20 million donation by the Republican Governor’s Association (RGA) to Ron DeSantis {LINK}. (snip) Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts was the RGA chairman.
A New York Times reporter in Australia leaked the names of Jews in Australia on a WhatsApp group that was then leaked to pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists who “doxxed” and targeted them for harassment and vandalism.
The Wall Street Journal reported:
Early this year, the contents of a WhatsApp group for Jewish creative professionals and academics, set up in Australia after the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, leaked and fell into the hands of pro-Palestinian activists.
The activists posted snippets on social media, along with the names, photos and social-media page links of many of the group’s 600-odd members.
Revealed: The NINE different pronouns
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The presidential campaign for Kamala Harris is now including special pronoun options for job applicants, as part of their commitment to diversity and inclusion.
The job application for the Harris campaign includes nine different options for pronouns, including 'xe/xem,' 'ze/hir,' 'ey/em,' 'fae/faer' and 'hu/hu.'
'Fae/faer,' indicates a gender-fluid person but non-masculine, sometimes of Celtic origin. 'Hu/hu,' pronouns are third person gender-neutral pronouns referring to both a man and a woman.
The other pronouns are considered gender neutral.
Vot-ER is a group of 50,000 physicians who are signing up patients to vote in the 2024 election. The group is led by Dr. Dr. Alister Martin who served as a White House Fellow in the office of Kamala Harris.
Dr. Kat Lindley joined Tom Basile on Newsmax Saturday morning to discuss this latest attempt by the Biden regime to use doctors to register patients to vote. Tom Basile: A code blue for election integrity. Why do doctors need to know your voter registration status? Why would they be tapped to help ensure you’re registered to vote?
A plot to steal the 2024 election from President Trump is well underway, and not just by suppressing information online or dragging Trump through the court system. Those are instances of throwing anything and everything at the wall hoping something sticks, but not the master plan. The real plots have a much more direct impact on the election results rather than just swaying voter perception. We know this because those behind these plots are openly revealing them. A recent joint CISA and FBI press release warned of potential “attacks on election infrastructure that support election operations, which could hinder public access to election information.”
After decades in public life as a prosecutor, senator and vice president, Kamala Harris has a long track that could provide fodder for opponents.
The Trump campaign could focus on her reputation as a liberal senator, her support for the chaos of Black Lives Matter protests, or a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
But the issue that could hurt her most is her support for a bail fund blamed for freeing a man who went on to commit murder, according to our exclusive poll of likely voters.
It found that 54 percent of voters said that was a problem for her.
Two Heroes and a Marxist Airhead
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Stifling of free speech remains in full force in Great Britain and attempts continue by the worst power-hungry leaders in Europe to extend their self-serving censorship here. Last Monday, Thierry Breton, Commissioner for the EU internal market, warned Elon Musk that the planned Musk-Trump interview could run afoul of the EU’s overreaching online censorship laws. Musk ignored the warning of Mr. Thierry, a man who is the very avatar of “Eurotrash.” (Musk has been threatened by a variety of autocrats around the world for refusing to bow to their censorship dictates.)
If the media were honest, they would be admitting that Kamala Harris has had a rough start to her campaign. She picked a running mate who makes Howard Dean seem calm and coherent, not to mention all the swirling scandals resulting from his problem with the truth over stolen valor and other issues.
Former President Donald Trump declared there has “never been a more dangerous time since the Holocaust” to be Jewish in the US on Saturday night.
The Republican presidential candidate made the remarks at a campaign rally event in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, where he claimed Vice President Kamala Harris decided against choosing Penn. Gov. Josh Shapiro as her running mate because he is Jewish.
“They turned him down because he’s Jewish,” Trump told a packed house at the Mohegan Sun Arena.
“They turned him down for other reasons, but the primary reason is because he’s Jewish,”
Donald Trump is one of only two Republican three-time presidential nominee in history.
That achievement was unthinkable in January 2020.
Back then, his personal polls had hit rock bottom after the Jan. 6 Capitol demonstrations.
Republicans had just lost two Senate seats to hard leftists in Georgia.
With those defeats, an increasingly unpopular Trump was blamed by many Republicans for losing the Senate, along with the House. He was faulted for allowing the Biden-Harris administration to implement the most hard-left agenda in the modern era.
Over the subsequent two years, a demonized Trump faced four separate criminal proceedings and a civil suit,
Iran has made no secret of the immense importance it places on the US protests – as a way to export its Islamic Revolution. They have been making it clear that the regime sees the protesters at US campuses as an Iranian fifth column in America to be used in the future....
According to the analysts, "60 percent of Pro-Palestine campus protestors were not authentic online users...." — XPOZ analyst, iranintel.com, August 2, 2024.
At UCLA, "Those who occupied encampments on the university's property disallowed Jews from passing through the quad unless they would disavow Israel and, by extension, their Jewish faith.
Ranchers are furious after an armed federal agent stormed the land of a South Dakota couple, who are now facing 10 years in prison over a fence if convicted as charged. Charles and Heather Maude, both 39, of Caputa, were separately served grand jury indictments of alleged theft of government property on June 24 by Forest Service Special Agent Travis Lunders, who showed up at their door unannounced, armed, and full tactical gear, according to Cowboy State Daily.
I realized something the other day about media bias that I’d been aware of for a long time, but never really connected all the dots on it before – these people aren’t trying to win anyone to their side, they’re simply lying to keep their claws deep into the people they’ve already made ignorant.I’ve known it, but hadn’t thought about it in a while and not in such obvious terms. What set me off? Remember the Weeble? Brian Stelter, the fired CNN personality who lacks personality, or any self-awareness, honestly.
Stelter tweeted Friday, “Pirro said Harris was ‘being hidden’ tw
The 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) is scheduled to take place next week from August 19-22, 2024 in Chicago.
However, the city is bracing for the chaos of up to 100,000 pro-Hamas protesters flooding the streets and has instituted new courtroom procedures to streamline the process in the event of mass arrests.
It is also hoping to avoid the bad optics of the 1968 DNC convention that saw then-Mayor Richard J. Daley ring the convention site with barbed wire and ultimately call in the National Guard to quell the violence.
Her words may often come in salad form but when it comes to stress eating Kamala Harris prefers a very cheesy crunchy snack.
The vice president has left the internet divided after learning the Democratic presidential nominee's guilty pleasure is Nacho Cheese Doritos - a treat she said soothed her soul after what she labeled the 'shock and dismay' of the 2016 election.
In a fundraising email her team sent out on Friday night, Harris revealed she ate an entire bag of the flavored tortilla chips by herself that night.
Trump Supporter Prevented from Entering
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Mets Stadium with MAGA Hat: ‘Political Discrimination’ replies
A Trump supporter claims that she was prevented from entering the New York Mets stadium while wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, and labeled it “political discrimination.”
Aura Moody explained to the New York Post that she, and her friend Taisha had been wearing MAGA hats and had gotten past the security checkpoint when they were informed they could not enter the Mets stadium, known as Citi Field. The ladies were informed by an employee that the hats were “too political.” Moody and her friend were instructed to put the hats back in their car after the stadium worker informed them