October 20, 2018
lAmy Klobuchar: Not Your Senator Next Door
By Steve Sherman
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"This story starts when Amy Klobuchar, a partner at the law firm Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis, held the office of Hennepin county attorney. Her sights were set on Minnesota attorney general. Klobuchar thought she had found a great case to further her career, the Kirby Puckett case.
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My late father was very physically strong nearly to the end of his life at age eighty-six. He hated to take pills or see doctors for a physical checkup. My mother once had to argue with him to get a tetanus shot because he had stepped on a rusty nail. But circumstances caused him to go with me to a type of New Age physical therapy called Rolfing when he was in his fifties.
I was visiting my parents in the mid to late 1970s when they informed me that my father's legs had stiffened up on him, that he could not put on his socks without great effort and pain. He had first gone to a typical doctor of that time, a hack who had prescribed Valium and gave him a chart of exercises.My mother had started the conversation but my father joined in to protest the doctor's simplistic advice of "make exercises" because he was visibly in too much pain to do that. He clearly was open to alternative healing suggestions from his "crazy American" son, myself. more...
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As a pre-teen, I stopped growing at five feet, my mother's height. My parents got me to our family physician where I received growth injections of Human Growth Hormone (HGH). I shot up seven additional inches.
Only in recent years, while reading a book on the health food store and medical product HGH, did I find out that while all medical HGH now is synthetic, in the years I took it, HGH came from dead African blacks (probably from their adrenal glands). My family certainly wasn't told this and I even wonder if my doctor knew its origins.
So, if I now use the Elizabeth Warren standard of genetic racial identity, I wonder if I now can claim - without the DNA test that Warren refused to take for years - that I am part African? I suddenly have a craving for yams (I actually eat them all the time) and roasted breadfruit and oxtail soup. I may be as African as Barack Obama!
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Nikki Haley mocks Elizabeth Warren
"I get it. You wanted an Indian woman, but Elizabeth Warren failed her DNA test," Haley said in jest at the annual Al Smith Dinner, where speakers are known for roasts. "Actually, when the President found out that I was Indian-American, he asked if I was from the same tribe as Elizabeth Warren."
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Almost single-handedly, climate change evangelist and multi-millionaire Al Gore launched the scare that has frightened and depressed generations of school children and pushed normally sensible politicians into drastic, expensive and ultimately futile actions to "save the planet†by stopping climate change.
On October 12, Mr. Gore went completely off the rails during a PBS interview – declaring that we have "a global emergency" and "an existential threat to human civilization†due to supposed human-caused climate change. Only "a few outliers" in the scientific community do not support the IPCC’s climate conclusions and demands that we completely end fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, Gore claimed.
This is nonsense, of course. Many well-qualified climate experts have serious problems with these overblown claims. Among them is Princeton University Emeritus Professor of Physics and climate realist Dr. Will Happer, who was recently appointed to be President Trump's Senior Scientist for the National Security Council.
In this article, Jay Lehr and Tom Harris explain how Al Gore deceived the public and created what is undoubtedly the most expensive and dangerous science scandal of all time – and why we must bring some common sense back into this discussion
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October 19, 2018
Michigan pizzeria employee makes 'epic' delivery for terminally ill man nearly 500 miles away
Dear Readers, if you are ever in Battle Creek, PLEASE look up Steve's Pizza, go there and get yourself a meal! And if Dalton Shaffer is not on duty, leave some nice words (and some $$$) for him!Talk about service.
A Michigan pizzeria employee went out of his way – quite literally – to deliver a couple of pies to a man battling cancer.
When Julie and Rich Morgan lived in Battle Creek25 years ago, Rich would always bring home Steve’s Pizza for dinner each payday, even though money was tight. The couple has since relocated to Indianapolis, but those pizzas – the taste and the memories – have stuck with them.
In fact, the Morgans had planned to visit Battle Creek and Steve’s Pizza for a weekend getaway. But after a trip to the emergency room, their plans changed; Rich is now home with hospice care as his battle with cancer comes to a close, Julie said in a Facebook post.
Knowing how much that pizzeria meant to the couple, Julie's dad called Steve’s Pizza to see if someone could send a card or text to cheer them up. But Dalton Shaffer, a manager, had a different idea.
"Well, what kind of pizza do they like?†Shaffer asked Julie Morgan’s father, according to MLive.com.
Her father quickly sought to clarify that he was calling from Indianapolis – nearly 200 miles away and in a different state. Shaffer, 18, said he understood and promised to make the special delivery of two 16-inch pepperoni and mushroom pizzas as soon as he closed the restaurant just after 10 p.m.
"And so, while Rich and I slept, at 2:30 a.m., Dalton rolled into our driveway, left the car running and delivered two extra special pizzas to my waiting family,†Julie said. "He told them we were in his prayers, and offered to help in any way he could.â€
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In all, Shaffer traveled about 450 miles round-trip to make the delivery. But here's what makes it even more "epic": Steve’s Pizza doesn't even offer delivery services. [Emphasis mine]
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Go here to see the rest of the fun! https://lidblog.com/voter-fraud-more-registered-voters/Riddle me this: Why does the United States have has 3.5 million more registered voters than it has living adult citizens? That’s impossible after all the Democrats say there is no reason for Voter ID laws or purging the voter rolls. They anyone who wants to ensure only people who are supposed to vote are allowed to vote are trying to suppress voter turnout. And in a way they are correct, we want to make sure that none of those 3.5 million extra voters get to cast ballots, that would be voter fraud.
The Election Integrity Project ofJudicial Watch— a Washington-based legal-watchdog group — analyzed data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2011–2015 American Community Survey and last month’s [July] statistics from the federal Election Assistance Commission. The latter included figures provided by 38 states. According to Judicial Watch, eleven states gave the EAC insufficient or questionable information. Pennsylvania’s legitimate numbers place it just below the over-registration threshold.
These 462 counties (18.5 percent of the 2,500 studied) exhibit this ghost-voter problem. These range from 101 percent registration in Delaware’s New Castle County to New Mexico’s Harding County, where there are 62 percent more registered voters than living, breathing adult citizens — or a 162 percent registration rate.
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Yesterday was my birthday and the wife and I went to Landry's Seafood House at Union Station in downtown St. Louis. As I don't see well at night and wanted to have a couple of drinks we took a cab, which dropped us in front, at the entrance to the Hyatt Hotel. Now, Union Station was a great thing in it's day, a major entertainment and dining spot built in the old train depot. Unfortunately the Hyatt is the only thing operating in the Station, everything else having closed (they intend to renovate and open a huge aquarium), and we couldn't cut through. Had to walk around the building, the mammoth, enormous building in the dark. At one point there were two rather seedy looking dudes hanging out on the corner and we were walking down a path bordered by landscaping so you could only go forward. These guys suddenly came around and got on the path behind us. Nobody else around. My wife was having a particularly hard time walking last night, too, (she was wearing heels) and we no doubt looked like easy pickings. Fortunately for us she had a stroke of brilliance; she turned around and called out to her sister (who was not there, of course) and said "they were just right behind us". The two men passed and kept walking, cutting across the street.
Luckily there were a bunch of buses along the side of the building with their motors running so once we were on the side we had some measure of protection. It was a close, scary thing, though.
The restaurant was excellent and the service impeccable. Our waiter was a fine young man who went over and above, and I had a wonderful time of it. I would heartily recommend Landry's, at least the one in Union Station.
At any rate, I had the restaurant call the cab to take us home, and they could then drive onto the parking lot to get us. There was no way I was going to make that dark, empty walk again.
Funny thing; this older couple sitting next to us was from New Jersey and THEY walked there from the Omni two blocks away. Said they never saw a city so empty and asked if it was a good neighborhood. I told them it was a good neighborhood to get mugged in. It's pretty bad when people from New Jersey are afraid to walk the streets in St. Louis.
That is one of the things that killed Union Station. There is no free parking. The lot there has always been quite expensive, and it used to be you could park on the streets nearby, but the city put in parking meters, and with the proximity of the Rev. Larry Rice's New Life Evangelistic Center, the area is full of mentally ill homeless people, drug abusers, etc. And downtown is poorly lit, making a walk to the Station fraught with peril. St. Louis is not a city designed for walking, especially not the downtown area. Union Station lasted longer than a lot of other things down there, because it was unique. There was a shopping mall downtown - St. Louis Center - which was always empty and then closed. Why? You had to pay to park for the privilege of going to the same stores you could go to for free just a few miles outside the city limits. Nobody in the municipal government that promoted the idea thought of that - or tried to address it. It's typical of a city run for 70 years by the Democrats.
At any rate, Landry's is one of the investors in the new aquarium, which is going to feature big sharks and whatnot. Hopefully it will do well; the old station is a grand place, a magnificent relic of the Gilded Age, the days of glory past for st. Louis. I would hate to see it torn down to put in a strip mall.
Suffice it to say it was an entertaining night. Never thought I'd have people from JERSEY frightened to walk down a street in St. Louis. But then, we ARE ranked as the third worst place to live in America and number one]/link] as the most violent city in the United States.
Glad we finally made it to the top!
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October 18, 2018
Does the public at large care about Jamal Khashoggi? I mean, nobody is happy about a person being murdered, but is this really a national issue? Those guys in the Middle East 86 each-other on a regular basis. Why is this so much more important? Yes, Khashoggi had resident status in the U.S., but he wasn't an American citizen. But he was also a member of the radical Jihadist Muslim Brotherhood. When you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas, the old saying goes.
I have to wonder why the Washington Post employed a terrorist supporter anyway. What does that say about them?
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Is Brett Kavanaugh going to be another Scalia or Souter? Former Congressman Gil Gutknecht believes the latter.
From Townhall:
"The Left predictably and immediately unleashed fire, furry and vitriol. They pledged millions to defeat her (Susan Collins) in her next election. Traitor! She would be forever banished from the feminist plantation. How could she turn her back on her gender? more...
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This is not your father's Democratic Party. It's more like your father's Communist Party just after the Six Day War.
From the article:
Some Democrats are trying furiously to push back against a New York Times article reporting what's been patently clear for years to any honest observer: The party is abandoning its support of Israel.
"Senate Democrats are very strongly pro-Israel and will remain that way"Â declared Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Would that it were so. In fact, as the Times noted, several Democratic candidates, including some of the party's rising stars, are running on blatantly anti-Israel platforms.
Read it all at The New York Post.
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I'm sure this will help end Warren's plans to become the Great White Father....errr...Great Indian Mother...in Washington.
I hear that Fauxcahontas's new political ad will begin this way.....
"Allow me to introduce myself. Princess Running Bull, at your service."
Rocky: "Gee, Bullwinkle, she doesn't look like any Indian princess to me."
Bullwinkle: "I don't know, Rock. Her business card says 'Made in Cleveland.'"
Rocky: 'Yeah? So?"
Bullwinkle: "Well, haven't you ever heard of the Cleveland Indians?"
Rocky: "And look at her feet. Something is awfully funny about them."
Fauxcahonas: "Don't worry. I'm wearing white socks because I was just traded from that team in Chicago."
Bullwinkle: "Come to think of it, her skin is so white, I couldn't make out the socks before."
Announcer: Tune in for our next episode, "Who you callin' paleface, paleface? Or The Me Sioux Movement." more...
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Big Facebook investors call for ouster of Zuckerberg as chair
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Yesterday I went to my doctor's office for a checkup. There weren't any surpises except one in the waiting room.
My doctor has a some health network show playing on a television for patients to watch as they wait their turn with her. One of the video pieces of health advise was given by a young, thin healthy looking woman who was surprised a few years ago while working in a doctor's office and having a physical after an unusual weight loss of ten pounds. She then found out she had type 1 diabetes. She optimistally spoke about what she does to manage her condition and how she now advocates for younger diabetes patients to do active exercise as she herself does. Her apparent, on the screen, normal glowing health and slim build appearance are remarkable.
This next day, while reading a political story that mentioned Nancy Pelosi, I recalled seeing her speak in person when she came to New York's 92nd Street YMHA a few years ago. I wrote in the Aviary at that time that Pelosi mentioned the USDA's approved diet for the general population was a cure all. She specifically held up a hard copy of this diet - and I quote her accompanying words verbatum - "Diet, not diabetes." The thinly veiled implications of her remark were obvious. Pelosi was saying a few powerful things. First is that the government has a prevention stage cure all for diabetes with its USDA food pyramid chart. She was also subtly impling that any Americians who have this affliction must be fat slobs who eat a gallon of ice cream for breakfast and drink a gallon of beer with lunch or dinner, and thus anyone who has diabetes has brought it upon themselves. Lastly, if this is a simple problem that can be solved by merely following the USDA food chart then why should the government do diabetes related medical research when government tax money are needed by people on welfare and government largess is also needed for college women to pay for their birth control pills and to help fund their abortions? You think the money to buy Democrat votes grows on trees?
No matter what the political preferences are of that thin young woman I saw on my doctor's waiting room television screen, I would have loved to see her in the audience at the 92nd Street YMHA that day years ago to challenge, if not confront, Pelosi on her simplistic solution to a major disease that plagues millions of Americans.
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When Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), who is running in an uphill battle for reelection, tried to show how much more she cares about women's rights than the Republicans who support Justice Kavanaugh, she just dramatically proved the OPPOSITE. And she might well be dragged into court for her incompetencies.
Here's the article:
And here's the Money Quote:
"This is what teed up the Heitkamp debacle:
Responding to the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the "Me Too" movement at large, Cramer spoke out against the current "movement toward victimization" and added that the women in his family were "tough."
Heitkamp responded to Cramer by sharing that her own mom was a sexual assault survivor. Then, in a new open letter to Cramer which serves as a new ad, she writes that she and several other North Dakotan women are determined to show Cramer what "prairie tough"Â looks like.
"We are here to let you know that you are wrong" this is not Ëœa movement toward victimizationâ„¢ it"s about being a survivor" the ad reads. "We are here to let you know that we have all suffered from domestic violence, sexual assault, or rape â€" and that yes, we expect somebody to believe us when we say it. Because it happened."Â
At the bottom of the letter is a long list of North Dakotan women who are identified as sexual assault survivors. However, some of the women named in the ad say the campaign did not seek their permission.
Of course, the Heitkamp campaign issued an apology, but the damage has been done. Now, some of the women are seeking a lawyer and could slap Heitkamp with a lawsuit. Rob Port of Say Anything, a North Dakota-based blog, said there are 22 women in the group that's considering taking legal action [emphasis mine]:
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What you mean, paleface?
Pocahontas Descendant Calls on Warren to Apologize
"A descendant of Pocahontas, the 17th-century Powhatan princess, said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) needs to apologize for claiming to be Native American for political gain."
Read it all at Townhall.
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Even before its enactment, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was one of the biggest incentives for US business growth in at least a decade. This year, all across America, small and mid-sized business owners, entrepreneurs and start-ups are investing in and expanding their businesses. As my colleague Mark Murphy notes in this article, dentists and other business owners are finding that incentives created by this statute can make reinvestment and expansion a smart move.
As his article and examples also point out, strong gains posted by banks and other corporations are being reflected in countless other sectors and companies, contributing to a generally upbeat economic mood, which in turn is inspiring consumers to spend more on their personal lives. Much of that spending has gone to small and medium-sized companies.
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October 17, 2018
Does she just not get it? Can she not connect the dots? Oh, sorry, I forgot. Socialists rarely know there ARE dots.New York Socialist Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has continued to use Uber and other ride-hailing apps – but not New York taxi cabs – despite blaming them for a suicide.
Between July and the end of September, Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign spent nearly $4,500 on rides with Uber, Lyft, and Juno, according to the receipts submitted to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
The latest figures still indicate that she remains unashamed of using the services she criticizes for exploitation and leading people to suicide, despite increasing pressure and accusations of hypocrisy.
Ocasio-Cortez has frequently attacked ride-hailing apps for what she sees as underpaying its drivers, decrying their pay as "exploitation†if they don’t get at least $15 an hour, the so-called living wage.
She directly blamed Uber for the suicide death of Doug Schifter, a driver in his 60s, who killed himself with a shotgun amid financial difficulties caused by flooding the streets of New York with alternative and cheaper options of taxis, as detailed in a lengthy Facebook post.
"NYC's fourth driver suicide. Yellow cab drivers are in financial ruin due to the unregulated expansion of Uber. What was a living wage job now pays under minimum,†Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a tweet.
The new data from the campaign follows previous Fox News’ report that revealed the campaign spent nearly $4,000 on Uber and $2,500 on Juno between April and late June when she won against top Democrat Joe Crowley in a New York Democratic primary
Ocasio-Cortez’ campaign did cut its excessive spending on Uber rides amid scrutiny, spending merely $500 in the last quarter, with fares ranging from $2 to nearly $60.
But the cut was offset by the use of Lyft, another ride-hailing app facing nearly identical criticisms as Uber. The campaign spent over $2,700 on rides with Lyft.
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'People Just Can't Know That': McCaskill, Staff Exposed In Undercover Sting Video
James O'Keefe's Project Veritas released a new undercover video Monday night showing Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and her staffers expressing support for radical gun control measures that they admit she can't state publicly.
The video shows McCaskill and her staff admitting that she supports banning semi-automatic weapons, bump stocks, high-capacity magazines, along with supporting other far-left policies.
Rob Mills, who works on McCaskill’s campaign, says in the video that McCaskill can't be open about her policies because "she has a bunch of Republican voters" and "that could hurt her ability to get elected."
Nicolas Starost, who also works McCaskill’s campaign, says in the video that former President Barack Obama isn't campaigning for McCaskill because she doesn't want to be cast as too far-left, even though she believes in the same policies that Obama does [emphasis mine].
"Because of how like, cause he’s a very liberal candidate," Starost says. "And like… Claire distancing herself from the party is gonna help her win more votes than it will saying like: 'Oh here’s Obama, the former President of the United States, to now speak on my behalf.' Which is unfortunate because I love Obama to pieces, and I’d love to see him come here."
People who are phonies on gun control usually get unmasked sooner or later, and these days it's often sooner. Daily Wire is widely distributed, so let's hope this blows up in Claire's face. We at The Aviary are doing our part!
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October 16, 2018
Ohhhhh KAY! For one thing, I doubt CNN's polling is that accurate except among hard-core Democrats. For another, I don't see Hillary's name in there anywhere, with any percentage numbers after her name or none. Does that mean anything? And please read on about the "cringeworthy" interviews that Hillary recently gave. Might they affect her "loveability quotient?"Top Democrats close to Hillary Clinton are reportedly telling her to keep her 2020 options open in case former Vice President Joe Biden passes on challenging President Donald Trump.
On Monday’s Hardball on MSNBC, Steve McMahon, a top Democratic strategist, said that "some people close to the Clintons and close to Hillary Clinton who look at the field and think if Joe Biden doesn’t run, it’s an awfully weak field and someone like Hillary Clinton could get back in.â€
He added that some of these confidants are "whispering in her ear†that she might be able to win the nomination if Biden decides not to run.
CNN’s most recent national poll of potential 2020 Democratic contenders had Biden with a 20-point lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Biden got 33% in the poll while Sanders received 13%. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) was next with 9%, followed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) with 8% and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) with 5%.
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