December 19, 2018
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Go Fund Me project 4 the Border Wall
https://www.theblaze.com/news/florida-vet-kickstarts-crowdfunding-campaign-for-border-wall-and-has-raised-big-bucks-so-far-in-just-2-days
Brian Kolfage, a triple-amputee Air Force vet who hails from Florida, has decided to set up a GoFundMe page to raise money for the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
In just three days, Kolfage has raised more than $400,000.
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What’s often lost in the Cohen, Comey, Flynn, Mueller shuffle - a more important issue, far more important with a far greater impact and reach - is the threat of globalism. Were it not for the leadership vision and the hard work of the Trump administration, we can be looking at a much less free and prosperous USA over the next 100 years.
The president's instincts - pushing for a border wall, renegotiating NAFTA, insisting on fair trade with China - are spot on. On almost every important issue, President Trump has held firm, even in the face of immense resistance from those who have made billions on the failed promise of globalism. But the president has faced enormous opposition in his efforts, and not just from outside his own party. He clashed with Gary Cohn, his now-former director of the National Economic Council.
"I am absolutely not offended by the term 'globalist' because I am a globalist," Cohn said on another cable news channel on Tuesday. "I believe we live in a globalized world. I think the United States is a very integral part of a globalized world and we have to figure out how to live as a good citizen of globalized earth. So, do the Chinese. So, do the Russians. So, do the Middle Eastern countries. But we are globalized. We cannot change that fact."
We have to figure out how to be "good global citizens." While that might sound really high minded, what's happened in the 20 years since China entered the WTO is not pretty. We ended up enriching other countries and lots of Wall Streeters like Cohn himself, as our own middle class suffered.
[...]Well, how did that work out? The Chinese are richer, sure. But we have a $375 billion annual trade deficit with China and the only "imagination" they brought to the game is in their plotting to steal America's innovations. Eighteen years after China's entrance into the WTO, even Trump's most ardent critics are conceding that basically, he's right.
"Let's be honest on one big fundamental point, Donald Trump is right. China is a trade cheat," CNN host Fareed Zakaria said. "The U.S. Trade Representative's Report to Congress on China's compliance with global trading rules is an exception worth reading. It lays out the many ways that China has failed to enact promised economic reforms, backtracked on others and used formal and informal means to block foreign firms from competing in China's market. All of which directly contradicts Beijing's commitments when it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001."
Bingo.
But even as the intelligentsia began to recognize reality, some liberal do-gooders in Hollywood and Silicon Valley are MIA. They're willing to bow to the Chinese censors to maintain access to the marketplace. Desperate to capture the Chinese box office, industry execs forgo most of any project that would offend their Chinese overlords. Where is that Mao film, Mr. Spielberg?
Scripts are altered. Movie posters redesigned. Previews edited. All to please their communist business partners.
[...]The Jamal Khashoggi's murder by the Saudis is still making news, and Trump is faulted for his response. But there is no equivalent media coverage or condemnation of China for its widespread ongoing horrific human rights violations. Access to the Chinese market has turned captains of industry into silent stooges and frankly, enablers.
Meanwhile, the political class is afraid of Goldman Sachs, hedge funds, and any big business that stupidly stakes so much of its future on a communist country. So the globalists don't really resist China. They resist Trump and are fighting the president, urging him to back off his tough trade policies with China.
"If you look at the arithmetic of Chinese exports to the United States, U.S. to China, and what the impact of tariffs is, again, it drives things in the wrong direction," former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said recently.
"I think, in the long term, that's [tariffs on China] actually bad for American manufacturing - not a good thing," said Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich.
These are many of the same people who fought Trump on NAFTA and are objecting to a border wall. Isn't it funny how it works? It's like a Venn diagram.
For the moment, the president is standing firm. The United States and China are in the middle of a 90-day cooling off period in their trade tariff dispute. But Trump should not relent.
I agree. Entire article is here: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/laura-ingraham-resisting-globalism-and-winning
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December 18, 2018
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Cardinal Dolan recalls childhood Christmas memories in St. Louis
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At Christmas time I see that Kohl's sells discounted Disney dolls (Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, etc.) with a portion of the money going to help underprivileged children.
So if you don't have any kids or grandkids to give such a toy to, what to do with such a toy? Well, our readers probably know about Toys for Tots and other organizations that gather toys to donate to children. But when I went to donate my Minnie Mouse doll I looked online and found out another toy donation service that the New York City Fire Dept.does year round. And this very well could be a program with many other fire departments around the country.
The NYFD brings toys with them to fires to give to children who have just been burned out of their homes. This is awful and frightening for both adults and children this time of year - or any other time. They give these toys to small children who are very upset about losing their home and it helps soothe their nerves. As most parents know, small children can be distracted by a new toy and it takes their mind, somewhat or totally, off some other upseting problem.
I'm sure parents have delt with some toys that their youngest child no longer cares for. Even those little inexpensive Beanie Baby-like stuffed toys on a keychain will do. And ten dollars and under stores have low cost toys - ESPECIALLY after Christmas Day. Unfortunately, children can get burned out their homes on New Year's and all year around.
This is something to look in our readers' home towns.
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I believe my last post on Twitter was shadow banned.
Here is the newer alternative that Selywn Duke is using alongside his twitter;
https://gab.com/Selwyn_Duke
I registed myself at https://gab.com/home
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Explaining the Left, Part V: Left Vs. Right Is Brain Vs. Mind
From Dennis Prager:
"When I talk to young people, I try to offer them what I was offered when I was their age but is rarely offered today: wisdom. I was given wisdom largely because I went to a religious school -- a yeshiva, a traditional Jewish school in which the long day (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) was divided between studying religious subjects (in Hebrew) and secular subjects (in English).With the increasing secularization of society, less and less wisdom has been conveyed to young people. One particularly obvious example is most secular people, especially on the left, believe human beings are basically good. It is difficult to overstate the foolishness of this belief. And a belief it is: There is no evidence to support it, and there is overwhelming evidence -- like virtually all of human history -- to refute it. Jewish and Christian kids who study the Bible know how morally flawed human nature is by the age of 10.
Another thing I tell young people -- which, if they take seriously, will make them immeasurably wiser, finer, happier and more productive -- is life is a daily battle between the brain and the mind. The brain wants an ice cream sundae; the mind knows too many sundaes will make a person overweight and eventually diabetic. Similarly, the brain (especially that of the male) wants sex with anyone it finds attractive; the mind knows the trouble doing so will likely lead to.
The brain is instinctive and feelings-based; the mind is thoughtful and can be reason-based.
Tragically, since the 1960s, the brain -- i.e. feelings and instincts -- has been valued far more than the mind."
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I'm shocked, shocked! That Woody would be dating a girl as OLD AS 16!
https://pagesix.com/2018/12/17/woman-claims-she-was-woody-allens-secret-teen-lover/
"An actress and model claims she had a clandestine eight-year affair with Woody Allen that began when she was 16 years old†and included threesomes with the director and Mia Farrow in his penthouse, according to a new report.
Babi Christina Engelhardt, now 59, told The Hollywood Reporter that she first caught the then-41-year-old Allen's attention in October 1976 at famed eatery Elaine's on the Upper East Side, where she dropped a note with her phone number.
"Since you've signed enough autographs, here's mine"Â the star-struck girl scribbled.
Allen soon invited Engelhardt to his Fifth Avenue pad, where she said she told him she was still in high school and living in New Jersey while pursuing a modeling career in the Big Apple."
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A Kentucky radio station held a two hour "Baby it's Cold Outside' marathon to stick it to the non-binary types.
El Zoro News has gives us the skinny:
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"Other radio stations reevaluated the song after WDOK Christmas 102.1 took it off the air, but WAKY in Elizabethtown didn't even briefly consider pulling it. Instead, the station decided to embrace the 1944 song, written by Frank Loesser, and some of the other versions that followed.
"I'm not sure why it's controversial," Joe Fredele, director of programming for WAKY, told WLKY. "We've played this song for years, you know, this song is older than WAKY is. It's almost 70 years old."
Kentuckians were able to listen to "Baby, It's Cold Outside" on WAKY from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Sunday. The station played five different versions of the tune, WLKY reports."
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Good for them!
Jack Kemp forwards the same story from Newsweek.
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With Microsoft surrending the web browser market, Google has essentially conquered the digital world.
According to Ars Technica:
"Chrome itself has about 72 percent of the desktop-browser market share. Edge has about 4 percent. Opera, based on Chromium, has another 2 percent. The abandoned, no-longer-updated Internet Explorer has 5 percent, and Safari—only available on macOS—about 5 percent. When Microsoft's transition is complete, we're looking at a world where Chrome and Chrome-derivatives take about 80 percent of the market, with only Firefox, at 9 percent, actively maintained and available cross-platform.
The mobile story has stronger representation from Safari, thanks to the iPhone, but overall tells a similar story. Chrome has 53 percent directly, plus another 6 percent from Samsung Internet, another 5 percent from Opera, and another 2 percent from Android browser. Safari has about 22 percent, with the Chinese UC Browser sitting at about 9 percent. That's two-thirds of the mobile market going to Chrome and Chrome derivatives.
In terms of raw percentages, Google won't have quite as big a lock on the browser space as Microsoft did with Internet Explorer—Internet Explorer 6 peaked at around 80 percent, and all versions of Internet Explorer together may have reached as high as 95 percent. But Google's reach is, in practice, much greater: not only is the Web a substantially more important place today than it was in the early 2000s, but also there's a whole new mobile Web that operates in addition to the desktop Web."
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Google, the Evil Company, is now poised to pretty much have complete domination of the Internet. Isn't it about time Congress take steps to break it up, or at least the Justice Department? After all, the Clinton DOJ popped the tech bubble by filing an anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft over Internet Explorer many moons ago.
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New educational guidelines at a school in England are instructing that teachers ]tell eight year olds that "boys can have periods too".
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"The city council of large English city Brighton & Hove -- population almost 300,000 -- has issued new sex-education guidelines instructing teachers to tell students as young as eight that boys can have periods just the same as girls.
Per the guidance, bins used for "time-of-the-month" waste products will also be installed in male bathrooms on school premises.
"Menstruation must be inclusive of all genders," the authority ruled."
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How long before hospitals are required to admit "pregnant" men who then go through a ritual pretending they have a baby?
Progressivism has gone completely insane.
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December 17, 2018
Here is an interesting essay. It explains how Catholicism made the West completely dominant in world affairs.
From the American Conservative:
"Schultz and his team drew on 20 of these cross-cultural experiments (including several "natural†experiments, such as the likelihood that a diplomat at the U.N. from a given country would call on diplomatic immunity to get out of a parking ticket) to sketch a psychological profile of the Western mind. They found that on average, Westerners are more individualistic, more trusting of strangers and public institutions, more likely to donate anonymously, less concerned with the opinions and judgments of their peers, less likely to cheat or bend rules (especially for the sake of friends and relatives), and far less tolerant of nepotism than those from other parts of the world.
This will come as little surprise to anyone who has lived both in and outside the West. It also won’t shock psychologists, who have even invented an acronym to label this unique psychological type: "W.E.I.R.D.â€â€”Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Developed. But in contrast to past research, which tended to emphasize the gap between Europe and the rest of the globe, Schultz and his team have focused their attention on differences within Europe itself. They have found that WEIRDness is not uniform across Europe. Some European populations are far WEIRDer than others. What explains this variation in WEIRD psychology? Schultz provides a simple answer: the date at which a region first fell under the influence of the Catholic Church. To predict how civic-minded, individualist, and trusting a population is today, you need only check whether a Catholic bishopric had been established there by the 7th century AD." more...
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The Progressive Left has decided they will stop the trump Administration from doing anything, to make the Administration a sort of bad dream. Here is another example of that assertion; an appellate court has ordered the U.S. Forest Service to ban the building of a gas pipeline across national forest land. In the process, they cite Dr. Suess as part of their ruling.
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There's gonna be more of this, with these (unconstitutional) "red flag laws"
https://www.ammoland.com/2018/11/home-owner-killed-maryland-police-trying-confiscate-guns/ #axzz5W2A8NDc7
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