Monday, August 19, 2019

Tlaib and Omar press conference stunt on Israel today.


St. Paul, Minn. – Democratic U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan plan to host a news conference Monday afternoon on travel restrictions to Israel and Palestine, after they were denied entry into Israel last week.
Let me guess...their feelings are hurt. More feigned outrage from ingrates. How unsurprisingly novel.

Omar and Tlaib could have traveled to Israel with a bipartisan delegation with 70 of their colleagues a little over a week ago, but that would have removed the opportunity for their stunts and false claim that their "free speech" is being violated.
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Detroit News Archived

Saturday, August 17, 2019

Biden scales back campaign to avoid gaffes?


Allies to Joe Biden have suggested to the former vice president’s 2020 presidential campaign that he scale back his schedule to limit his gaffes.

The allies have become increasing uneasy about the candidate’s gaffes, the Hill reported Thursday. They said Biden, 76, tends to make the flubs later in the day during longer campaign swings. They have floated giving the candidate more down time as the race for the Democratic nomination is set to heat up in the coming months.
Joe The Gaffe Machine. The Best Is Yet to Come.
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Washington Examiner Archived

9th US Circuit Court of Appeals upholds Trump Admin Title X. Planned Parenthood departure as soon as Monday.

NBC2: Planned Parenthood faces critical decision after abortion-referral restriction upheld:
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday denied Planned Parenthood's request to reverse its order allowing the Trump administration's Title X abortion clinic-referral restriction to go into effect -- a blow for abortion rights activists after the organization threatened to pull out of the federal family-planning program over the rule.
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[Mia Heck, director of external affairs at HHS' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health] pointed to an earlier statement accusing Planned Parenthood of "actually choosing to place a higher priority on the ability to refer for abortion instead of continuing to receive federal funds to provide a broad range of acceptable and effective family planning methods and services to clients in need of these services."
National Catholic RegisterPlanned Parenthood to pull out of Title X.
The decision is set to take effect Aug. 19, the date by which funding recipients are required to make a “good faith” undertaking to comply with a new rule barring the referral of clients for abortion services.

After it was announced in final form in February, the Protect Life Rule was subject to court challenges from abortion providers and several states. In June, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that the rule could come into force. In July, judges refused to issue a stay against that decision.

Planned Parenthood informed the court on Wednesday that, unless they reversed its refusal to grant a stay, it would leave the Title X program on Monday.

Planned Parenthood’s acting president Alexis McGill Johnson said the group refused “to let the Trump administration bully us into withholding abortion information from our patients.”

Calling the Protect Life Rule a “gag on health care providers,” Johnson said in a statement that the rule is “a blatant assault on our health and rights, and we will not stand for it.”
Yeah, well, PP faced a choice (no pun intended) and they made their decision. It wouldn't be surprising if PP backtracks on this considering how much Liberal organizations love public funding. But doing so would compromise their ideological price of human life, of which they've just determined. Now, if they can just stop whining over their choice...(pun intended).
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NBC2 Archived

Friday, August 16, 2019

Biden latest gaffe: Confuses Burlington Vermont, Burlington Iowa and...Burlington Coat Factory?


Gaffe-prone Democratic 2020 frontrunner Joe Biden reportedly added another factual blunder to his list Friday.

During a campaign fundraiser in his home state of Delaware, the former vice president was referencing a speech he had made to a group of 275 people, in which he accused  President Trump of "fueling a literal carnage” in the country through his rhetoric.

But Biden mistakenly recalled the location of the speech as Burlington, Vt., instead of Burlington, Iowa, according to The Washington Examiner. Whether Biden had Democratic rival Bernie Sanders -- a former mayor of Burlington, Vt. -- on his mind was not immediately known.
We don't know what was on Joe's mind. Joe doesn't know what was on Joe's mind.

Peter Fonda, sub-mediocre actor dies; age 79.

Snopes even says the above Tweet by room-temperature Fonda is true, so it must be.

Continued from the above Snopes link:
Fonda also proposed harassing and intimidating families and children of federal agents involved in immigration law enforcement in two tweets which have also since been deleted, but the authenticity of which have also been corroborated. Fonda has not acknowledged or apologized for those.
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Aging, mediocre actor with famous last name, who otherwise would have been a nobody, dead at age 79. MSN:
Peter Fonda, the two-time, Oscar-nominated star of "Easy Rider" and more recently films such as "Ulee's Gold" and the remake of "3:10 to Yuma," has died, his manager confirmed to TheWrap. He was 79.
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"In one of the saddest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our hearts. As we grieve, we ask that you respect our privacy," his family said in the statement to People.
"We are not able to find the appropriate words...".

Here, I'll provide the appropriate words:
Good. Fucking. Riddance.
"Easy Rider"...one of the most overrated films ever made.

True Dat!

Tlaib plays the victim card. Can visit her Grandma, but won't.


Representative Rashida Tlaib said she will not visit Israel to visit her grandmother and other Palestinian relatives on the West Bank after being treated “like a criminal” by Israel, which announced Thursday that Tlaib and Representative Ilhan Omar would not be allowed into the country on a planned political visit.

“Silencing me & treating me like a criminal is not what she wants for me,” the Michigan Democrat said of her grandmother. “It would kill a piece of me. I have decided that visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions stands against everything I believe in–fighting against racism, oppression & injustice.”
Tlaib isn't being silenced or being treated like a criminal. She was asked to be respectful as a guest in another country. She couldn't - rather, wouldn't - do that.

Offensive behavior and speech has consequences. Tlaib apparently feels her behavior and the consequences don't apply to her. Well, they do and now she's getting a taste of the repercussions. Ain't That a Shame.

Card may not be accepted in Israel. Restrictions apply.
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National Review Archived

Thursday, August 15, 2019

President Trump considers buying Greenland. Sure, why not?


Donald Trump has discussed trying to buy Greenland for the US, according to US reports.

The US president's proposal, which was first reported in the Wall Street Journal, has come with “varying degrees of seriousness”, though he has apparently gone as far as seeking the view of the White House counsel.

Mr Trump discussed the idea at a dinner last year at which he said he had heard Denmark found the financial support to the territory burdensome, the Journal reported.

Suggesting the US purchase the island, he reportedly asked the other guests: “What do you guys think about that?”
Buy it! We'll need the extra ice during the next six-plus years. Plus, we can look forward to Triggered Liberals screeching that, "Trump is Empire Building!"
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The Telegraph Archived

Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib banned from entering Israel.


The decision has been made, the decision is not to allow them to enter,” Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely told Israel’s Reshet Bet Radio.
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Israel’s law prohibits the entry of people who call and operate to boycott Israel, as is the case with other democracies that prevent the entry of people whose perception harms the country,” [said Interior Minister Aryeh Deri].
L'chaim! (Glasses clink).
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NY Post Archived

Man dies from taco-eating championship contest.


Dana Hutchings [age 41] died during an amateur taco eating contest Tuesday night.
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Mathew Boylan, who watched Tuesday’s contest, says he noticed Hutchings because he was eating much faster than the other two contestants.
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...Hutchings collapsed about about seven minutes into the contest and hit his face on a table as he fell to the ground.
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FOX 10 Phoenix Archived

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Minneapolis residents raise concerns about Uptown Mall renovation. Oh, no! The Patchouli-Birkenstock Crowd is Triggered!

A fine example of Full Circle Liberalism, aka Socialism 360°. How I love stories like these...

FOX 9 KMSP: Minneapolis residents raise concern about Uptown Mall renovation:
Some possible changes could be coming to an age-old part of Uptown Minneapolis. Plans from the Park Board could potentially reduce the amount of parking on part of the plaza.
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For more than a century, the Uptown Mall has been a shady oasis in one of the most densely-populated neighborhoods in the city.

Some neighbors worry possible changes to the park could cause it to lose its character.

“This is like going to St. Anthony Main and ripping up all the bricks,” said Uptown resident Steven Taylor. “Uptown doesn’t want that.”

Last spring, the Park Board released a new design to update the median between Hennepin Avenue and East lake of the Isles Parkway that would include a new plaza and play area by the Walker Library, a connection to the Midtown Greenway and community and rain gardens.

Park Board officials say a Community Advisory Committee is also considering getting rid of the streets in the two blocks closest to Lake of the Isles and turning them into green space for multi-use fields and a sand volleyball court.

It was quite shocking for the community to hear about,” said East Isles Residents Assocation Ellen Van Iwaarden. (GASP! The Progs were shocked! Triggered! They didn't see it coming. - DD)
The East Isles Residents Association says neighbors are split on the possible plans for the park.

“There are some people who are absolutely for it, who think we shouldn’t be designing our parks around cars,” Van Iwaarden said. “But there are many who live in the apartments and park there.”

Nobody wants to tarnish one of the city’s hidden gems.

“I’m not opposed to getting rid of parking for the right reasons,” Taylor said. “I don’t think volleyball courts is the right reasons [sic].”

Understand this geographic area is a textbook definition of Progressivism.

Some folks in the area worry this renovation may cause the area to lose its character. WELCOME to what you've pushed on everyone else, everywhere else.  How does it feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel?

Renovation? Heck yes, DO IT! I have suggestions:

* Add a 24/7 bus line or light rail service.
* Add several pedestrian bridges, whether they're needed or not.
* A couple of amphitheaters. Why have only one?
* Since Minneapolis has a large homeless population, add several affordable-housing-in-a-box projects. Make them real tall and narrow buildings with the first level being zoned for commercial use. Dig deep underground parking facilities that will take years to complete. The benefits outweigh any short-term delays, don't they?
* Eliminate all vehicles and build several lanes for bicycles, skateboarding, scooters, roller-blading and unicorns.
* Design a costly, grand, obtuse, central-theme artwork. Maybe a gigantic, Plexiglas nonagon filled with liquid that glows or changes colors similar to a lava-lamp!
* Designate the renovated area a Gun Free Zone so no crime or vandalism will occur there, ever.
* Make all activities free; no-charge. Everything is Free! Always!

How is all this funded and paid for? Why ask such an unrelated and offensive question. Are you some Fascist Luddite who hates progress and development?

See, in the long run, the above will save so much money, it will pay for itself. A government or quasi-government bureaucracy that accurately predicts future tax revenue will say so, and projected revenue and savings are never wrong. Any financial burden by - say, taxpayers - will be short-lived. Besides, taxpayers have LOTS of money. Lots and Lots of it.

The benefits of renovating the Uptown Mall area? Beneficial to everyone, it will be a happy place where everyone is welcome.

Somewhere, hidden in all this renovation plan, there must be the belief that promotes this plan fights global warming global cooling climate change. How could anyone be against that?

DO IT! Make the renovation happen. Make the plan Grand and Bold! I'm all for it!

Full Circle Liberalism hits and so many NIMBYS start whining? This is the mystery of life. It's time to do your part, Uptown. Cars and parking are bad for the environment. Volleyball courts and green spaces are better for the environment!

Losing character and tarnishing gems, hidden or otherwise, is what Liberalism does best. Somehow, Liberals dislike living with it, though they expect - née demand - it from others.

We should probably doxx everyone who even slightly voices any opposition to this planned Uptown renovation.
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FOX 9 KMSP Archived

BOB O'Rourke Changes a Tire! Goes Viral!


Twitchy: Watching Beto O’Rourke change a tire is a great metaphor for his stalled presidential campaign.
Ordinarily we wouldn’t consider video of Beto O’Rourke changing a tire news, but the image is just the perfect analogy for his presidential campaign[.]
This is so much better than his live-streamed hair cut, his laughing over the El Paso shooting, his reboot BOB 2.0, his mugshot, his most recent rally and - considering his open/no-borders policy - his strange fixation with lockable doors and having bars on his windows.

Maybe BOB was born to change tires?

Facial recognition software mistook 1 in 5 California lawmakers for criminals, says ACLU. So, they're saying it works, then?


California Assemblyman Phil Ting has never been arrested, but he was recently mistaken for a criminal.

Ting (D-San Francisco), who authored a bill to ban facial recognition software from being used on police body cameras, was one of 26 California legislators who was incorrectly matched with a mug shot in a recent test of a common face-scanning program by the American Civil Liberties Union.

About 1 in 5 legislators was erroneously matched to a person who had been arrested when the ACLU used the software to screen their pictures against a database of 25,000 publicly available booking photos. Last year, in a similar experiment done with photos of members of Congress, the software erroneously matched 28 federal legislators with mug shots.
Again, they're saying it works, or it's not identifying enough politicians as criminals?

 One glance and you can tell they all look guilty.
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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Shrieking Heard from Jeffrey Epstein’s Cell. Person of Interest identified.

Political Wire: Shrieking Heard from Jeffrey Epstein’s Cell.
CBS News has learned that the morning of Jeffrey Epstein’s death there was shouting and shrieking from his jail cell. Guards attempted to revive him while saying “breathe, Epstein, breathe.”
Police ID a Person of Interest:

 

Epstein Jailer photo surfaces.


Naaaaah...that's Hillary wearing a mask...too fat to be Bill.

Triggered San Bernardino students offered emotional support caused by CBP job posting.


Students at a California college received an apology and were offered counseling services after being sent an email about employment opportunities with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.

California State University in San Bernardino sent an apology to students who “experienced distress” after the career center sent a flyer from USCBP announcing that “U.S. Border Patrol is Now Hiring!”

Veteran and military recruitment webinars being offered during the week were promoted by USCBP in the flyer which was forwarded to students.

    The career center at CSUSB really didn’t think this one through. There is already underrepresentation [sic] of our undocumented students at this campus and this was to say the least – thoughtless. pic.twitter.com/v2aSGqNPxh

    — 𝔢𝔤𝔤𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔫𝔱 𝔭𝔞𝔯𝔪𝔢𝔰𝔞𝔫 (@ifoundajalapeno) August 5, 2019

Complaints to the school’s career center came in from the liberal students who were apparently triggered by the message.

    CSUSB really sent out a Border Patrol Recruitment email to a school where over 60% is HISPANIC.

    — Luci  (@alcon0321) August 5, 2019

    Wow $90k, I’d sell my soul to the devil first before i join border patrol.

    that shit hurted. (@jstpeachy_) August 7, 2019

While the school’s response did not note what the offensive part of the Border Patrol recruitment flyer was, their message was a pointed apology that pandered to the sensitive snowflakes.

    Outrageous:

    Cal State San Bernardino is apologizing for sending an email promoting employment opportunities with the US Border Patrol

    Students complained the emails were “triggering” & the school is offering counseling.

    RT if you support the brave men and women of the USCBP! pic.twitter.com/3bhOSp7uTe

    — Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 8, 2019

The Career Center sincerely apologizes for the email sent to students on Monday, August 5, 2019, regarding the employment webinars offered by the U.S. Border Patrol,” the message read.

“We recognize that some recipients experienced distress due to the contents of the message, and we acknowledge the validity of your concerns. Please know that the Career Center is committed to informing students about employment opportunities while also considering the safety and well-being of all members of the campus community,” it continued.
The offensive and triggering CBP job-recruitment posting: 


Just before publishing this post, the BizPac Review link went haywire. The Blaze also covers this story here.

Monday, August 12, 2019

Chris Fredo Cuomo Unhinged. Profanity laden tirade against someone who didn't know his name. Fredo threatens violence.

Advisory: Language - NSFW.


A fan of news went to ask Chris Cuomo for a photo, mind you the man who asked him DID NOT know his real name and knows of him only through The RUSH LIMBUAGH SHOW and on that show Rush repeatedly calls him "FREDO" so the man legitimately thought his name was FREDO. At this point CHRIS CUOMO LOSES IT AND THREATENS THE MAN WITH VIOLENCE!
I'll only add that Fredo was wearing a baseball cap because the fake raccoon hair he wears must've been at the dry cleaners.

FREDO! FREDO! FREDO the WOP! Fredo has sand in his vagina...


The Triggered Fredo Cuomo clip has amused Donald Trump, Jr.:

#FakeNewsFredo - that may just stick!

CNN, of course, is defending and stands by their little Dago.  Abusive, threatening language, intimidation and all.

We can only imagine the feigned outrage from The Left if instance and behavior of the Fredo Cuomo clip had instead been an unhinged Tucker Carlson.
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Washington Times (story, "defending Fredo") Archived

Epstein autopsy observed by celebrity pathologist Michael Baden. Epstein described as being in "good spirits." Removed from suicide watch per his attorneys request.

BloodSport Capital @ Twitter:


DNYUZ: Epstein Camp Sent Pathologist Michael Baden to Watch Over His Autopsy.
Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson also noted that Epstein’s representatives have hired celebrity pathologist Michael Baden to conduct an independent autopsy and they were allowed to observe the autopsy. Baden, who served at the city’s chief medical examiner in late 1970s, has made a career investigating high-profile deaths, including Michael Brown, who was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez. Baden also testified at the murder trials of O.J. Simpson and Phil Spector.

It was not immediately clear if Epstein’s body had been released or who was going to be claiming it, or who “those representing the decedent” were.
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“People close to Epstein” had said Saturday that “he seemed recently to be in good spirits” and they “expressed concern about the possibility of foul play,” according to the account of  “one person familiar with their discussions” cited by The Washington Post on Saturday.
NY PostEpstein met with attorneys up to 12 hours a day.
Epstein had been meeting with his attorneys for up to 12 hours a day before they requested that he be taken off suicide watch, sources familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal.
NY PostEpstein hanged himself with bedsheet.
The convicted pedophile, who was 6 feet tall, apparently killed himself by kneeling toward the floor and strangling himself with the makeshift noose, a law enforcement source said Monday.
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DNYUZ Archived

NY Post "Epstein met with attorneys" Archived

Sunday, August 11, 2019

Suicide nearly impossible at Metropolitan Correctional Center. One suicide in 21 years; Epstein makes it two?


Jeffrey Epstein’s shocking death occurred at an ultra-secure federal lock-up where suicide is supposedly next to impossible.

Yet Epstein, 66, apparently managed to hang himself in his cell in the Special Housing Unit on the 9th floor of the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center at about 6:30 a.m. Saturday.
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Suicide at the jail, which serves mainly as a holding facility for about 765 men and women awaiting trial for federal crimes of all levels, is rare.

A review of published stories found only one such death in the past 21 years, the 1998 suicide of South Philadelphia drug kingpin Louis Turra, who reportedly hanged himself.

A handful of suicide attempts were also reported.

But life in the specialized units often involves inmates being watched by cameras in their cells and checked by guards almost constantly.

One former inmate, Uzair Paracha, who was held there for two years until 2005, wrote he was subjected to frequent strip searches, isolation from other prisoners, lights that were left on 22 or 23 hours per day.

He said guards "monitored us like lab rats."

Still buying the "Epstein suicide" Narrative?
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NY Post Archived

Biden draws bigger crowds than expected in Iowa.

Joe Biden, Iowa State Fair - Saturday

8/11 and the Golden Gate Bridge.


Hmmmmmm...

A very important day in the history of the world is upon us. In the near future the moon will cross through the Celestial Golden Gate flanked by Jupiter and Saturn. Now here is why it is significant; on 9/11/01 the moon crossed through the Celestial Silver Gate while being flanked by Jupiter and Saturn. As you will see the upcoming Celestial Golden Gate crossing of the moon has even greater implications for the Earth than the Silver Gate crossing at 9/11.

Saturday, August 10, 2019

Whose body was on the gurney carrying Epstein? Is he really dead? Ears and nose different. Conspiracies abound.

So many theories.

BNL News:


More at Hal Turner: Guards in Epstein Jail Told to LEAVE AREA 3 Hours early.



Three You Tube Channels:

1) Nose and ears don't match on Epstein and person on gurney. Emergency call for cardiac arrest. (It's an hour, 24min video. I skimmed over much of it).

2) Nose and ears don't match. (8 1/2 minutes).

3) Gemetria-the numbers surrounding Epstein. (9 minutes).

Some selected screen caps below from all three videos:





Hoax and Change: Someone edited Jeffrey Epstein's Wiki page. (The page is now locked).
According to Wikipedia’s revision tracker, someone going by the name “TheEarthboundFan2001” added four words to Wikipedia’s page on “suicide watch” soon after news got out that Jeffrey Epstein had committed suicide in his prison cell.
Jessica Fletcher @ Twitter:

Dick McDonald's reply nails it.

John McAfee @ Twitter (heh):


Scooby and the Gang are on to something...

Epstein "suicide"...Cortez Tweets, "We need answers. Lots of them."

Zipper Head Cortez Tweet on Epstein:



More at Breitbart: Cortez Demands ‘Answers’ After Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead in Jail.

Epstein suicide? The Clinton's Arkancide Machine keeps on going...or does it? Faked death? Camera malfunction.








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The Count Archived

Friday, August 9, 2019

US Border Patrol boat on the Rio Grande takes fire from the Mexican side.


A US Border Patrol boat patrolling the Rio Grande was shot at early Friday morning from the riverbank on the Mexican side, US Customs and Border Protection, or CPB, reported.

More than 50 rounds were fired and the boat was hit several times, but no one on board was injured, according to the agency.

Shots rang out while the agents were patrolling near Fronton, Texas, the Rio Grande City Station Marine Unit reported. Agents saw four people with automatic weapons on the Mexican riverbank, CPB reported.

The incident is under investigation.
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CNN Archived

Do sharks attack humans for a reason?


 "The more sharks and people there are in one place, the greater the chance of them bumping into each other," [said Gavin Naylor, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research].

This seems like an obvious point, but when you look closer at where attacks are taking place there are some clues as to what might be going on. The large human populations along the southern coast of Australia and the eastern coast of the US mean large numbers of people enjoying the water. But southern Australia has also seen rising numbers of fur seals along its coastline, the favourite prey of great white sharks in the region.
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[Seal seal populations off Cape Cod on the coast of Massachusetts in the US have rebounded in recent years]...[which has]...led to increased numbers of great whites in the area too during the warm summer months as they look to feast on the seals[.]
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...there is no real evidence that sharks are actively hunting humans, according to the scientists who study them.
Unless they're the sharks in the Sharknado series. And the Land Shark . They are out to attack and eat us.

Sanders and Castro to Speak at ISNA, "Radical Islamist Convention".


WASHINGTON, DC, USA, August 8, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ — Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Julian Castro are scheduled to speak at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)’s convention in Houston on August 31. ISNA has been designated a Muslim Brotherhood entity by the US Justice Department.
Ares and Athena: Are these two [Sanders, Castro] brain dead, misinformed, or traitors? 
Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Julian Castro have agreed to speak at the convention of a radical Islamist group with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and hostility towards progressive Muslims and values.
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The U.S. Justice Department lists ISNA as an “entity” of the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical and often violentarm of the Islamist global political project. The Brotherhood’s goal is a worldwide caliphate with all of humanity living under sharia law.
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Sanders and Castro, [are] apparently unaware of—or is unconcerned with—ISNA’s radical ideology, including expelling Muslims for Progressive Values, a pro-LGBT group, from its conference in 2017 or the fact one of ISNA’s past presidents endorsed the execution of homosexuals by sharia-based governments.
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By speaking at the event, [Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, also slated to speak at the ISNA convention], Sanders and Castro are helping ISNA appear as moderate leaders of the Muslim-American community (not to mention helping ISNA raise money through ticket sales) [sic].
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D.C. Presswire Archive
Ares and Athena Archive

Thursday, August 8, 2019

Jesicca Yaniv Scooters Away from Reporters in a George Costanza sort of way. Fun with Video and Audio!

"You go out! Out! Out you go!" - lady at the end of the clip is believed to be Yaniv's mother.


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More at

PRESSFORTRUTH at You Tube 
PRESSFORTRUTH at Bitchute

Dan Dicks at Twitter

John southern at You Tube

Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Advising Pollster to Biden embraces gun control. "It's no longer radical."

Ledger-Enquirer: Biden: Trump ‘fanning the flames of white supremacy’.
...on Wednesday, even red-state Democrat Steve Bullock, the Montana governor, backed gun control measures, insisting in a Washington speech that gun owners are worried about their families' safety just like everyone else. He called for universal background checks, a ban on assault weapons, and so-called "red flag" laws aimed at restricting gun ownership from high-risk individuals.

"I am a hunter and a gun owner," Bullock said. "And let me say as a hunter, no real hunter needs a 30-round clip. No real hunter needs a weapon of war." (The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting, Steve. - DD)
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John Anzalone, a veteran Democratic pollster who is advising Biden, acknowledged the party's sudden willingness to embrace gun control.

"It's no longer radical," he said. "No one's afraid of the NRA anymore."
What was their reason for being afraid of the NRA? That the NRA supports The Second Amendment and promotes legal gun ownership for law-abiding people? That it promotes gun safety and responsibility of gun owners? Yeah, that's scary. Far more scary than addressing the issue of criminals obtaining their guns illegally.

White Supremacy, Racism and The Fear Card are all the DEMS have left. Count on them milking it for the next 14 months.

TF is he aiming at? Rabbits?

I've noticed that recently Joe's opted for teleprompters for the most basic platitudes, words and statements that should be extemporaneous.
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Ledger-Enquirer Archive

60 Pistols Found Hidden in Smugglers Car Trying to Enter UK. Discovery by The Specialist Deep-Rummage Team.

Smuggled Guns discovered (UK National Crime Agency)

60 pistols were found during a search at the Port of Dover on 2 August. The pistols are believed to be blank firing pistols converted to live fire.

The 60 weapons were apparently hidden within “deeply inside the car’s bumper and both rear quarter panels.” The guns were found by what is quaintly described by the National Crime Agency as a specialist deep-rummage team”. The initial search discovered a blank firing SIG Sauer P226 pistol, with a barrel converted to fire live ammunition, in the car’s rear-left quarter panel, accessible from the boot/trunk of the car. The rest of the vehicle, a Volkswagen Passat was then searched completely.

A 37-year-old man, Robert Keogh, from Dublin, was arrested and charged with illegally importing firearms and appeared at nearby Margate Magistrates’ Court on 5 August.
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... the Border Force and National Crime Agency did not share further photos of the guns unpacked so we could see what sort of other pistols/blank firers were being smuggled into the country and estimates on how many guns are smuggled across the channel annually are not currently available.
This is a shame. I bet many of those guns were on their way to law-abiding UK citizens who sought only a way to defend themselves against criminals rather than being another statistic of victim status.

How long can it take to "completely search" a VW Passat, anyway?
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TFB Archive

Hypersensitive Cortez feelings hurt over cardboard cut-out that looks like her. The Horror! The Horror!

Image: Instagram/Facebook
But did they know it was cardboard?

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went on the warpath Tuesday over a picture of some Mitch McConnell-supporting high-schoolers groping and mock-choking a cardboard cutout of her — but the Senate majority leader and his supporters said her complaints were paper-thin.

The Kentucky senator’s spokesman pointed out that then-President Barack Obama’s staffers did the same thing to a Hillary Clinton cutout 11 years ago, while others just thought the whole debate was yet another example of today’s ­hypersensitivity.
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“Hey @senatemajldr – these young men look like they work for you,” [Cortez] tweeted Monday night. “Just wanted to clarify: are you paying for young men to practice groping & choking members of Congress w/ your payroll…or is this just the standard culture of #TeamMitch?”

McConnell’s campaign manager, Kevin Golden, shot back Tuesday, defending the majority leader and noting the Obama-staff similarities.
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Ocasio-Cortez wouldn’t let the issue drop Tuesday, as she put out a tweet implying that McConnell’s camp is condoning the stunt.
And hands near the neck of a cardboard cut-out is not "choking".


Have some Tissues, Princess...

Triple-Ply for maximum weep absorption.

The Frogs destroyed the flies.


Bible Gateway: Psalm 78:45.

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Jim Watkins, 8 Chan owner, says El Paso shooter didn't post manifesto. Watkins called to testify before congress.


The statement comes after Jim Watkins, the owner of the 8chan message board, suggested in a YouTube video that the document had been loaded to his site by a different user. Watkins, who appeared in front of an image of Benjamin Franklin, said the site had made law enforcement "aware" of the manifesto when it appeared.

He also suggested -- but didn't state -- that the gunman, who killed 22 in the attack at a Walmart store, had posted the document to Instagram.

"First of all, the El Paso shooter posted on Instagram, not 8chan," Watkins said in the video. "Later, someone uploaded the manifesto. However, that manifesto was not uploaded by the Walmart shooter. I don't know if he wrote it or not, but it was not uploaded by the murderer; that is clear."

8chan, an anonymous forum, is a magnet for trolls, who delight in racist, sexist and politically incorrect humor. Watkins' video was titled "Sorry for the inconvenience, common sense will prevail" an apparent reference to the title of the 2,300-word manifesto, which was called "The Inconvenient Truth."
 Jim Watkins; Image Reclaim The Net

Reclaim The Net8chan owner Jim Watkins called to testify before congress
Homeland Security Chairman Bennie G. Thompson and Ranking Member Mike Rogers have sent a letter to Jim Watkins, the owner of the online imageboard 8chan, requesting that he appear before Congress to answer questions about how the site investigates and mitigates “extremist content”.
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The letter from Thompson and Rogers cites various reports alleging that in total three mass shooters have posted racist letters or manifestos to 8chan before mass shootings – the El Paso shooter, the Poway synagogue shooter, and the Christchurch shooter.

“Regrettably, this is at least the third act of white supremacist extremist violence linked to your website this year,” the letter reads.
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Clauvino da Silva, found dead in jail cell. Failed prison escape last Saturday.

Daily Mail: Brazilian drug lord who tried to escape prison while disguised as his daughter is found 'HANGED' in his cell days after his jailbreak was foiled.
A Brazilian drug lord who attempted to smuggle himself out of prison while dressed as his own daughter before being caught has been found dead.

Clauvino da Silva, 42, had been serving a 73-year sentence in Bangu prison, Rio de Janeiro, when he was caught trying to break out of jail wearing an elaborate disguise on Saturday.

Guards caught him and returned him to his cell, where he was found dead on Tuesday having apparently hanging himself with a bed sheet

The Rio prison authority said it had launched an investigation into the death.
da Silva's failed prison escape, here.