July 06, 2019
The Betsy Ross Flag was displayed during Obama's second inaugural.
Strange how it has somehow become a symbol of white supremacy.
An idiot from Georgetown says it is.
According to Campus Reform:
"Words matter. Symbols matter, too. Why don’t we wear a swastika for July 4th?†Dyson asked. "‘Cause, I don’t know, it makes a difference. The cross burning on somebody’s lawn? Why don’t we just have a Nike celebration of the [cross]? Well, because those symbols are symbols of hate.â€x
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"Right now, this flag has been used by people who wanna pummel African Americans, Latinx, Jews, and other people.â€
Strange; I find all the pummeling seems to be coming from Antifa and not people waving American flags. Certainly most of the assaults are on the "AfricanAmerican, Latinx and other people" side.
Doubt that? Stephan Crowder gives a few choice examples of Antifa violence and mayhem.
And if we are going to eliminate everything that has some remote connotation involving racism we will have to remove everything. I once heard a victicrat complain about pocket billiards. Yes, the game of pool was racist because the object of the game was to use a white ball (oh the humanity!) to sink colored balls into pockets from which they could not escape. I kid you not.
If you are forever looking for examples of inherent racism, sexism, homophobia, or whatnot you will find it.
Let's reverse that game. Notice the Betsy Ross flag; The colored bars and blue background surround the white stripes and stars, thus menacing them. Is this a subtle way to impose racial hegemony over white people. The white stars appear to be in the process of being swallowed by the colored background. And the red stripes are above the white ones, suggesting a desire for the white ones to submit.
And remember, Betsy Ross was a woman, a member of the Matriarchy.
See how easy that is?
These people need to grow up.
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BURN!
"Let me be frank. Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez," explained Kennedy, "someone needs to tell her that the voices in her head are not real."
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Here is a thoughtful essay on the difference between values and morals - and why it matters.
From the article:
Yet this language of values, where all morals, all the categories of morality (and I will get to those in a minute), all of what used to be called virtues, are treated as values, makes no distinction between justice and the colour of a T-shirt. The idea of an objective moral principle has been reduced to a matter of personal choice and aesthetics.
There has been a shift away from the idea of morality as an objective thing to the notion of values, which essentially means we VALUE something. It's subjective and malleable. It makes it impossible to say anything is right or wrong. It makes the individual a god, answerable to nobody EXCEPT the society which imposes its will by virtue of social stigma. So being a sexual deviant can now be excused if the deviant can acquire the political power to enforce their acceptance, while, say, the Christian can be forced into hiding by that same sword.
It is the road to socialism, which sees society as existing under the will of the majority rather than being bound by Nature and Nature's God.
Language is a huge part of it. Change what we say and we change what we think.
Ever wonder why the so-called "War on Terror" has largely failed? Well, the name for starters; we have a nebulous, weak enemy called "terror" rather than a specific enemy. Throughout the war we were told we were fighting some sort of sanitized opponent "militants" or "extremists" rather than, say, ragheads or Muhammadans or any other concrete or pejorative term. Every effort was made to make us NOT hate the enemy. But in war you have to hate the enemy or you will lose. We have basically lost this supposed war, primarily because we never actually fought it.Oh, we had soldiers fighting, and supremely well, I might add, but they never had the resources to do what they were supposed to do,because America couldn't get on a war footing. Why? Because we simply refused to use the proper language.
Wars are won or lost by the words we use.
Which is also why conservatives have been on an endless losing streak in the war for America's soul. We allow them to define the language, to choose the terms. How many of us call those who support murdering babies Pro-choice" rather than baby killers, or at least abortion advocates? How many times have we been tricked into using terms like "marriage equality" for homosexual unions, or using the term "social justice" for revolutionaries? We are forever falling into that trap because the media is overwhelmingly leftist, and they know half the battle is in the words used. We follow along like children behind the pied piper. Then when they win the battle we scratch our heads. Gee, I wonder why?
Confucious said that if you want to renew a nation you must first true the language. True dat!
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Corey "Spartacus" Booker personally smuggled five illegal aliens into the country, in violation of Federal law.
Isn't that a crime? This should disqualify him for the Presidency.
Corey Booker misunderstands, thinks it was Spartacus who crossed the Rubicon.
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I was on Facebook this morning when an old schoolmate (my, how many years ago that was!) posted an essay by James Dobon about the border crisis, and I wound up having to interject myself.
A woman reader responded:
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Recently a friend on Facebook posted something that caught my attention. She said she heard a patriotic song that said "everybody gets to dance" and she went on to explain the metaphor; you get to dance to any song you want, wearing what you want, in any style you want. Of course, you have to dance to the tune; if you are not moving in sync with the music you will look ridiculous, but as long as you do you get to choose the tune, the style, the way you want it. As she pointed out, you might have to work hard at it, but in the end the dance is yours, not someone else's.
That pretty much sums it all up. Nobody is going to give you your dance, either through malice or generosity; you have to choose your own way, and make it happen. But you have the choice, and that is more power than almost any other people have had in history. You might fail, just as you might be a terrible dancer (I certainly am, and once had a girl at a high school dance ask if I were drunk because I was so bad!) you might fail, you might lose. But what is success without the possibility of failure? Without bitter there is no sweet.
And in America we have a generous public willing to help those who are down and out. We are the most generous people on Earth, giving far more to charity than any other country. Yes, they might have more generous social welfare programs,but our people give when they do not have to do so. Nobody makes us (or at least didn't used to until the Progressives came along.) That too is a part of the dance.
There was a song sung at my Catholic church growing up called "Lord of the Dance" which comes to mind in this discussion. In the song Jesus is compared to the Lord of the Dance, and He was the reason the dance went on.
"It's hard to dance with the Devil on your back" was one of the lines, followed by His death and then "but I am the dance and the dance goes one." America, Christian and moral and self-reliant, is clearly the soc hop, the home of the dance. Or at least it used to be before the forces of social justice grew so mighty. America, in the interests of security and "fairness" his now making us all dance to the dreary tune of a single musician, and we are all starting to be compelled to move in the same ways. That is not freedom. But it is what so many young people think they want these days, because it sounds fair. But what is fairness anyway? No two of us are alike - is that fair? The fairest thing is to let us choose our own dance.
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July 05, 2019
The undercover journalist for Project Veritas who exposed Planned Parenthood for selling baby parts has lost a lawsuit and been forced to pay $195,000. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to hear his case.
From the article:
The liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused this week to consider a request by Daleiden to overturn a $195,000 contempt charge levied against him by District Judge William Orrick III in 2017.
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Orrick originally issued the fine after the pro-life journalist’s legal team purportedly violated a gag order he placed on Daleiden's videos. Orrick, who has ties to the abortion industry, is currently presiding over the two civil cases brought against Daleiden’s Center for Medical Progress (CMP) by Planned Parenthood (PP) and the National Abortion Federation (NAF).
Daleiden has spent the last four years in and out of court rooms fighting various lawsuits, including a 15-count felony prosecution by the State of California that’s set to resume in September. Since the release of Daleiden’s videos in 2015, courts have continually refused requests from his attorneys to throw out the charges he’s facing and to have Orrick taken off the case.
SCOTUS needs to hear this case - but probably won't, with John Roberts on the case.
Hat tip: Tim McNabb.
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This from the Daily Herald courtesy of the Illinois Tea Party:
OUTRAGEOUS. Illinois six-figure pensions grow 74% since 2015
$17,532 = average annual Social Security pension.
$34,332 = maximum annual Social Security pension.
21,794 former public employees making $100,000+ each in annual public pension benefits from six Illinois retirement plans.
Public pensions are bankrupting the state. Until there is pension reform, idiots in Springfield will continue to raise any/all taxes.
Illinois is going to collapse at some point, and all the rest of us are going to be on the hook for it.
Hat tip: Warner Todd Houston
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Nabisco goes insane>
https://mobile.twitter.com/Oreo/status/1145383884764454913?fbclid=IwAR1xBOseoe74UchVkoHOeBBk7vhLbQfU5s70cZu_LmMTuEeieQE2K8a3Gfo
Yes, they are introducing a "share your pronoun" Oreo cookie in support of transgenderism.
Puts a whole new meaning on the phrase "double stuffed".
Hati tip: Warner Todd Houston/
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July 04, 2019
hen
in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and
to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station
to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent
respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare
the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
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Due to a lawsuit by Judicial Watch California is going to have to purge 1.5 million bad voters from the rolls.
https://thehornnews.com/good-news-1-5-million-illegal-voters-removed/
How much did this effect the last election?
IYeah - no election fraud in America.
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No, this was not the hottest June on record - not even close.
Jo Nova gives us the dirt:
June 2019 was the hottest ever recorded on Earth: European satellite agency
New data released Tuesday found the average temperature inEuropefor June 2019 was higher than any other June on record.
According to the data, the average temperature in June was more than 2 C above normal.
Earth is 4.5 billion years old and we’ve "recorded†1 part in 35 million of the total climate history of Earth. It’s not only not the hottest on Earth ever, it’s not even the hottest in the last thirty years, according to UAH satellite data. Thanks to Roy Spencer.
June 1998 was hotter (and 16 other months) and thousands upon thousands of years
Since 1979 fully 17 months have been hotter than this last June, and if we had had satellites for 10,000 years, we’d have found thousands of Junes hotter than today. Even without satellites there is no respectable climate scientist on Earth who would argue that temperatures weren’t hotter than this for most of life on Earth.
UAH Satellite, Global Temperatures, Lower Troposphere, graph, June 2019.
Before ground data was adjusted and homogenized, June 1998 was 0.1C hotter. If you want to avoid heatstroke, don’t get homogenized and don’t sit near a jet engine (where many thermometers are based, and where you might really get homogenized).
Read it all!
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The co-founder of Wikipedia is calling for a boycott of the tech giants on July 4 and 5, a "digital independence day".
From the article:
However, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger certainly seems to hold the latter viewpoint -- at least, in regards to social media's current state. Sanger recently published a Change.org petition that calls for a complete social media boycott on July 4 and July 5.
Though the petition does outline Sanger's grievances with social media -- such as the improper use of personal user information by tech giants and the cold, detached nature of algorithms -- his personal blog is a better place to read his full "Declaration of Digital Independence." The Declaration is intended to act as a tool of persuasion, which can be used to convince "as many people as possible" to "join together and [reform]" the social networks that we have today.
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger.
Sanger wants to return to the early days of the internet, where instead of giant social media "empires," we had many decentralized networks, run by independent individuals who didn't stand to profit from the sale or sharing of personal user information. Sanger summarizes his feelings in the following quote:
We are calling for a boycott, or strike, of the big, centralized social media networks on July 4 and/or 5. As this new Declaration of Digital Independence states, we possess the digital rights of free speech, privacy, and security. Like old King George, Big Social Media have systematically abused our rights. They have centrally collected and control the data we individually own. We should declare our independence of them by demanding a new system of decentralized social media in which we own and control our own data, and the networks are made fully interoperable. Let's tear down the silos. Sign the Declaration, and strike!
Sanger didn't stop with a petition and Declaration alone -- he also took the time to put together 9 comprehensive "principles" that we should judge social networks on. "We free individuals should be able to publish our data freely, without having to answer to any corporation," one principle reads (you can see the full list here).
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Hew Boy! Cockroaches are becoming immune to insecticides - and America is facing a roachpocalypse!
From Science Mag:
Not all insecticides are created equal. Some degrade the nervous system, whereas others attack the exoskeleton; they also have to be left out for varying amounts of time. But many insects, including cockroaches, have evolved resistance to at least one of the most commonly-used insecticides. And because cockroaches live only for about 100 days, that resistance can evolve quickly, with genes from the most resistant cockroaches being passed to the next generation.
Ye Cats! An immortal roach?! That's scarier than the words "Madam President Clinton".
I have some questions as to the methodology of the study. From the article:
Regardless of the different treatments, the size of most of the cockroach populations didn’t drop over time, the researchers wrote last month in Scientific Reports. That was true even when the researchers used multiple insecticides at once—a standard practice among exterminators. That suggests cockroaches are quickly evolving resistance to all three of the chemicals that were tested. On the upside, the researchers found that one kind of treatment—abamectin gel bait—could wipe out a portion of the colony—if the roaches had a low-level resistance.
This isn't exactly a controlled experiment. These bugs could have been exposed to all of these chemicals in the past; there is no way of telling if they weren't already immune to them. Also, we don't know for sure that wild roaches weren't getting into the building, replacing sick ones. The article doesn't say what concentration of these chemicals were being used, either.
This experiment should have been done under laboratory controls, rather than in the field.
But be that as it may, it is still disturbing that roaches are surviving our mustard gas attacks. We want to win the war - not have a stalemate. Roaches are vile little critters, almost as bad as CNN.
Cockroaches are very hard to get rid of once they infest a place, but are hardly the most difficult; bedbugs and bird mites are worse. (If you ever have a bird make a nest against your house get it down right away; if the bird has bird mites it will eventually fly away, leaving its parasites homeless, and they may choose to make you their next banquet hall.) But roaches, despite being related to lobsters, have no redeeming features and are just plain nasty. We want to be able to exterminate them with extreme prejudice.
Like the rise of the socialist Democrats in America, the rise of the roach spells trouble.The Day of the Roach seems to be at hand in America - bot in politics and in slum properties.
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Mini AOC, the eight year old girl who satirizes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has had to stop due to death threats.
According to Fox News:
"The Left's Harassment and death threats have gone too far for our family. We have been getting calls on our personal phone numbers," Martinez's stepfather Salvatore Schachter tweeted. "For our safety and for our child's safety, we deleted all Mini AOC accounts."
The Left accused Donald Trump of "hate" and malice, but he never, ever went after a child. Who are the real haters?
This goes back to Saul Alinsky's rule "ridicule is Man's most powerful weapon". They cannot afford to allow their own to be ridiculed in any fashion. They read the book, after all
This would be a huge news story if the media wasn't fornicating with the Left and the Democrats. The Left is now truly Fascist.
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Elliott Davis is a local news anchor here in St. Louis on Fox 2 News, and he weighed in on Facebook about his thoughts on the murder of a local police officer - and the subsequent arrest of the black perpetrator. Oh, and did I mention Davis is black himself?
Here is his post:
We have heard time and again, and it's a line that's been fed to young blacks. That police just want to gun down innocent African Americans for no reason at all, just because they're black. That Officers are inclined to just walk up to an innocent African American family dining in the Central West End and just shoot them dead for no reason.
What no one really points out in this horrible murder of Officer Michael Langsdorf is that, while the officer is dead, shot to death by the accused murder suspect; that suspect Bonette Meeks is still alive. If ever there was someone who could have ended up shot to death by police it's the suspect police accuse of killing the officer. A suspect who was armed and obviously dangerous. But that didn't happen.
Despite how devastated police were by the shooting of Officer Langsford, and despite knowing how dangerous the criminal suspect was, Meeks was arrested without being hurt. Police say he still had the gun used to kill the officer on him when he was caught. Still, he was taken peacefully into their custody. He was not assassinated, not gunned down.
Police say that's not an option he gave Officer Langsdorf. The Officer was knocked nearly unconscious. Police say the suspect stood over the officer who was lying face down on the floor and fired the bullet, execution style, striking the officer in the neck.
It was the execution of a police officer. Yet, the suspect walked away. I don't hear the usual cast of elected officials who always condemn police officers offer any words of praise for restraint above and beyond the call in capturing the suspect.
Such words from our leaders might have helped point out to people in some communities that maybe it's not true that police are trying to gun down every black person they see. It might have made a difference in changing attitudes of some of those against law enforcement. I guess the peaceful capture of accused Police killer Bonette Meeks doesn't fit the narrative.
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July 03, 2019
Well, well, well; a Federal judge is going to throw out a massive award against Monsanto for its Roundup herbicide
According to Physorg:
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said at a hearing Tuesday that he will reduce but not entirely eliminate punitive damages for what he called the company's "reprehensible" conduct. He said the evidence at the trial showed "Monsanto not really caring whether its products cause cancer."
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Why? Probably because the chemical DOESN'T CAUSE CANCER. The World Health Organization report lied about the results after some activists altered the conclusion.
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Robert Romano
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a citizenship question can be included in a Census under the U.S. Constitution, however a narrower 5 to 4 majority threw out the specific rationale used by the Trump administration for the 2020 Census, remanding the case to lower courts for adjudication.
Chief Justice John Roberts, joining the higher court’s liberal justices, stated "We do not hold that the agency decision here was substantively invalid. But agencies must pursue their goals reasonably. Reasoned decisionmaking under the Administrative Procedures Act calls for an explanation for agency action. What was provided here was more of a distraction.â€
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This courtesy of Veritas Pac:
Article by Yaron Steinbuch N Y Post July 2, 2019 NYPD ramps up patrols at Staten Island Mall in wake of attacks
"The fifth fracas broke out about 9 p.m. June 26, when two 14-year-old white girls were attacked by a group of girls described as black and about 13 or 14.
"Police don’t think race played a role in that attack, either.
"There’s nothing that elevates it to the status of a hate crime right now,†the source told the Advance. "There’s no slurs. There’s nothing to support that.â€
Five "incidentsâ€: A "…group of girls described as black and about 13 or 14…†attacked two 14-year-old "white girlsâ€; in four other "incidents†in the same Staten Island Mall attacks were committed by "… a group of 12- and 13-year-old black and Hispanic girls…â€
But, the N Y Post reports, with a straight face apparently, "police don’t think race played a role…†in any of the 5 "fracasesâ€!
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I've never heard of a black or Hispanic charged with a hate crime. Anybody? Strange; I guess hatred is only a Caucasian thing...
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For those still feeling the Bern, I’ve some bad news: Bernie Sanders will never be president. This is first and foremost because he’ll never, ever be the Democrat nominee. The man who never really was yesterday’s candidate (except in Vermont) is nonetheless yesterday’s news.
While I wrote about this prior to Thursday’s Star Wars bar scene (a.k.a. the Democratic Debate), that no one is talking about Sanders after that event tells the tale. His case is a curious one, too.
When Sanders crashed the 2016 Democrat primaries, he seemed a breath of fresh Green Mountain State air up against Mrs. Establishment. Sure, he had no charisma, but, hey, what are we talking about here? His opponent was Ice Maiden Hillary.
Moreover, Sanders’ message’s time had come. He demonstrated that open socialism (as opposed to the Democrats’ erstwhile closeted variety) now sells. He was a bit like Donald Trump, who captured the GOP nomination partially because on immigration he was willing to go where no modern Republican had gone before. The senator was the first American Fabian in the field.
But having seen this, two years later Democrat hopefuls essentially quoted 19th-century Brit Sir William Harcourt and declared, "We’re all socialists now.†So why would the Democrat Party, which hates old white males almost as much as dead white males, need Sanders?
From their panoply of panderers they can choose a woman. They can choose a minority. They can choose a minority woman. They can choose a woman who claimed to be a minority woman; a man who claims to have a husband; a minority man who claimed to be an ancient Greek gladiator; or a blonde, two-brain-cell-wonder woman who’ll claim to be anything you want. Who could ask for anything less?.
Yet Sanders is less. More wizened than wise, gray but not gay, more white than woke, he’s now reaching for others’ radicalism. For all his manifold flaws, his message had traditionally been more economic than racial, but now he has embraced the idea of reparations for slaves who don’t exist. He supports free healthcare for aliens who’ve broken into our country. And while he partied in a Soviet Union that might lock men masquerading as women up, earlier this year he hung a "transgender†flag at his office.
So what does Sanders have to recommend him? The voice in the wilderness has become the toothless lion among the wild things. Bernie is now the crazy old uncle at the table, a walking, talking anachronism trying to seem hip by copying the young.
Sanders’ next major problem concerns decrepitude vs. pulchritude: He’s the antithesis of what in 2011 I called "that presidential look.†Like it or not, many people vote on superficial bases, and being unattractive will likely cost you enough votes to turn an otherwise winnable election. Just consider: When was the last time a white-haired man, a bald man or one sporting glasses won a presidential contest?
Answer: Prior to the television age.
Of course, Sanders is white-haired, bald and bespectacled. When President Jimmy Carter tried to make Ronald Reagan’s age an issue during the 1980 election and asked him, "Ronnie, how come you look younger every day I see a new picture of you riding on horseback?†Reagan replied, "Jimmy, that’s easy. I just keep riding older horses.â€
Well, there’s not a horse around that could make Sanders look good — not since the old gray mare who ain’t what she used to be in 2016, anyway.
Oh, note, Reagan was 68 in 1980. Sanders will be 79 at election time 2020.
The senator’s last major deficit is that, to quote what commentator Pat Buchanan quipped about Bob Dole, "he’s like Richard Nixon — without the charm.†Sanders’ personality never really seems to thaw from the Vermont winters, as he exudes all the warmth of a 50s-era Soviet commissar. And in politics, charisma is king.
Add to this Democrats’ governance by prejudice — they don’t like white men, the aged or Jews — and, hey, it’s Dead End at Bernie’s. Similar to the ’89 film that characterization is patterned after, some of Sanders’ underlings may know he’s dead, but they have reasons to pretend otherwise.
Of course, the old white male can still go back to Vermont and remain senator until he’s a dead white male. But if you’re still feeling the Bern, well, it’s probably something you ate.
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