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    Stupid election backlash

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    Don't you worry.........the "media" is all over this

     

    As reported, two JetBlue passengers were removed from a JetBlue flight after one of them, the husband of a Hunter College professor, verbally berated Ivanka Trump. The professor, Andy Lasner, deleted his Twitter account in the wake of the incident, including tweets indicating an intent to harass.

     

     

     

    ThinkProgress editor Judd Legum put it this way:

    Passenger kicked off Jet Blue flight for talking to Ivanka Trump. "Your father is ruining the country!," he said https://goo.gl/dW5VTE

     

    Not to be outdone, check out Yahoo News’ approach:

    Man kicked off JetBlue flight for questioning why Ivanka Trump was on it https://yhoo.it/2h6jShy

     

    Talking points memo softened the tone a bit as well:

    Ivanka Trump reportedly jeered at by fellow passenger in JetBlue coach: "Your father is ruining the country" http://bit.ly/2igaw7T

     

    I believe the word you are searching for is ....."Harass"

    REMEMBER “LOVE TRUMPS HATE” AND “THEY GO LOW, WE GO HIGH?”................ ME NEITHER

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    Global warming err Climate change HOAX

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    Good...................let's see how Mr Mann likes it when his case gets to court............ :)

     

     

    Appeals Court Rules Climate Scientist Can Pursue Defamation Claims Against Critics

     

    Michael Mann, known for his work on the “hockey stick” analysis of global warming, can proceed with defamation claims against writers who called him the “the Jerry Sandusky of climate science” and characterized his work as fraudulent.

    https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/appeals-court-rules-climate-scientist-can-pursue-defamation?utm_term=.jl7qVWnpJ#.qe73LzJlG

    Check out the bizarre statement by the judge in this ruling..........................very illustrative

    Judge Vanessa Ruiz wrote for the three-judge appeals panel:

     

    “Tarnishing the personal integrity and reputation of a scientist important to one side may be a tactic to gain advantage in a no-holds-barred debate over global warming. That the challenged statements were made as part of such debate provides important context and requires careful parsing in light of constitutional standards. But if the statements assert or imply false facts that defame the individual, they do not find shelter under the First Amendment simply because they are embedded in a larger policy debate.”

    Trump's leadership team

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    SALENA ZITO: Why Hillary Clinton is still losing supporters.

     

    Audrey and Robert, a Virginia couple, were heading to Montana to visit their daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren; Edward of Lancaster, Pa., was traveling to see his mother and brothers and sisters in Fort Wayne, Ind. All had voted for Trump — and all had noticed the way they were still being portrayed by the losing side.

     

    “On Nov. 8 I went from a responsible, hard-working, upstanding citizen to an uninformed bigot who gleefully supports Russian interference in our elections and the destruction of our republic,” Robert said. “At least that’s what I have read in the newspaper or seen on television, so it must be true, right?”

     

    Edward smiled, paused, and then said, “It is refreshing to hear your candor, it’s gotten to the point where you are afraid to not only express your opinion, but to stand by your opinion. Yes, I supported him and yes, I would do it again.”

    “They’ve thrown everything at everyone who voted for Trump to deteriorate or place doubt in his supporters’ minds,” said Audrey.

     

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    It astounds me that the press still doesn’t get it, that my party (Democrats) are blaming everyone but themselves for a poor message, poor messenger and the responsibility she bears for placing her email security in jeopardy . . . it’s not Comey’s fault. It’s hers,” said Elizabeth who was sitting in the booth across the aisle.

     

    Elizabeth voted for Clinton, but wasn’t sure she’d do so again. “The way everyone is acting now post-election shows that no one, no one, has learned anything. She is just proving she deserved to lose,” she said.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Nobody likes a sore loser.

    Stupid election backlash

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    NON-BACKLASH: Michigan Student Made Up Anti-Muslim Hate Crime.

    Several days after the U.S presidential election in November, a female student at the University of Michigan reported being attacked by a man who threatened that if she did not remove her hijab, her would set her on fire.

     

    The student told police that the obeyed the man’s order before fleeing the scene and reporting the incident. She described the perpetrator as a white male between the ages of 20 and 30. University police alerted students of the alleged crime, and said they were “disturbed by this report of hate crime in our community.” The FBI was called in to investigate.

     

    Now police in Ann Arbor have determined that the “hate crime” never happened. After conducting multiple interviews and reviewing surveillance footage, investigators found “numerous inconsistencies” in the alleged victim’s statements, which led them to conclude that she made it all up.

     

     

    Williams speech/Alton/Philando/Dallas shootings

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    Member of black Mississippi church arrested for arson

    Sarah Fowler , The Clarion-Ledger6:13 p.m. CST December 21, 2016

     

     

    State law enforcement officials say a member of the Greenville church that was burned and vandalized with "Vote Trump" in spray paint is in custody for the Nov. 1 crime.

    Greenville police on Wednesday arrested Andrew McClinton, 45, of Leland for setting Hopewell Baptist Church on fire and scrawling "Vote Trump" on the side in spray paint, according to Warren Strain with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation. McClinton is charged with one count of first degree arson of a place of worship.

    Strain said the investigation is ongoing and declined to comment further. A motive has not been released.

    Hopewell Bishop Clarence Green could not immediately be reached for comment. However, Green told The Associated Press that McClinton is a member of the congregation.

    Kenya Collins, spokesperson for the city of Greenville, said McClinton was not currently being charged with a hate crime.

    "The charges that he received today, it was not a hate crime but we do not know if the federal government will pursue that as such because we do not have a motive yet," she said.

    McClinton, who authorities say lives approximately six miles from the church, is currently in the custody of the Washington County Detention Center awaiting an initial appearance in Greenville Municipal Court.

    Someone notify the bigots at SPLC

    Liberal Protests

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    This is why the dems are really panicking

     

     

    "I take no pleasure in saying this, but the fact is — there is no excuse for us black voters to remain in such a supine and infantilized state..."

    "... that a Republican controlled legislature in, say, NC can neuter the effect of black citizens merely by asking them to present an ID card. Frankly, I find that entire argument to be patronizing in the extreme.
    How is it that the uneducated, opiate-addicted and under-employed white voters who came out in droves for Trump at his rallies and later in the voting booth, and who thereby made him our next president — how is it that such 'deplorables' are able to pull the lever, but their black counterparts need a federal court in order to have their constitutional rights validated?"

    Writes Glenn Loury.

    He's reacting to a petition "demanding that Congress nullify the Supreme Court's decision in Shelby County v. Holder — the case which struck down section iv(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965." That's his characterization of the petition.

    The Affordable Care Act II - Because Mr. Obama Loves You All

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    YOUR OBAMACARE FAIL OF THE DAY: Another Obamacare Co-Op Exits Exchanges, Leaving Only 5 Co-Ops in 2017.

     

     

    Evergreen Health Cooperative Inc. of Maryland announced earlier this month that it is withdrawing from the Affordable Care Act exchanges next year, leaving only five co-ops in operation. The co-op will not offer or renew individual health policies in 2017.

    “After many months of working closely with Evergreen management, leadership at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and outside investors to find a workable solution, we have run out of time to meet the deadline for a January 1 effective date,” said Maryland Insurance Commissioner Al Redmer Jr. “We remain committed to a viable, competitive insurance industry in Maryland.”

    This action will force 6,000 customers serviced by the co-op to be automatically enrolled in new plans. The co-op was awarded $65.5 million in taxpayer-funded loans in 2012.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Assuming the incoming Congress repeals ObamaCare, it will be a much bigger story that ruthless Republicans put the remaining co-ops out of business — and never mind that 18 others did little more than suck up tax dollars before going broke all on their own.

    Global warming err Climate change HOAX

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    House probe: Obama attacked own scientists to advance climate agenda

    By John Siciliano

     

    The Obama administration engaged in a calculated effort to dismantle an Energy Department program so it could focus on meeting the goals of the president's climate change agenda, even going as far as to fire scientists that disobeyed strict orders not to talk to members of Congress, according to a Tuesday report issued by the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.

     

     

    The report showed the administration even attacked one of its own Energy Department scientists who stepped out of line with strict orders to deny lawmakers with information on a nuclear radiation program that it was seeking to scuttle to pursue its global warming programs more aggressively.

     

     

    "Instead of working to understand the value of the [radiation program] for emergency situations, [Energy Department] management engaged in a campaign to terminate research programs that could divert funds from the President's Climate Action Plan," the House committee's report said. "Management and senior DOE employees privately discussed congressional support for the [radiation program] and its nexus to regulatory limits yet still maintained their agenda to close the program."

     

     

    The report concluded that the Energy Department's actions are a reflection of an "institutional problem that must be corrected by overhauling its management practices with respect to its relationship with the Congress," it read.

     

    "Instead of providing the type of scientific information needed by Congress to legislate effectively, senior departmental officials sought to hide information, lobbied against legislation, and retaliated against a scientist for being forthcoming," said Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chairman of the committee.

     

     

     

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/house-probe-obama-attacked-own-scientists-to-advance-climate-agenda/article/2610126#.WFoASGWgNV8.twitter

     

     

     

     

     

    ANALYSIS: ARE YOU KIDDING ME? The electoral college is thwarting our ability to battle global warming.

     

     

     

     

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    Stupid election backlash

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    FREAKOUT ON THE LEFT

     

    The Democratic Party has been making a fool of itself ever since Election Day. (Before that too, probably, but that’s a different post.) An utter lack of self-awareness apparently disables Democrats from understanding that 1) they lost the presidential election because they nominated the worst candidate of modern times, 2) they have been losing ground across the large majority of America for a decade or longer, and now are at best a minority party everywhere except California, New York and a few other enclaves, and 3) their party’s leadership is uniformly both geriatric and corrupt.

     

    A lefty named James Kunstler turns a jaundiced eye on his fellow liberals, and dissects their “Russia hacked the election!” theme:

     

    The headline deployed everywhere last week,
    “Russia Hacks Election,” was designed by the Deep State players to deviously lead the broadly dim public to think that Russia somehow interfered with the balloting process, which was not possible since voting machines are not hooked up to the internet. And then it was repeated endlessly by the cable news networks and the newspapers, under the number one rule of propaganda: that if you repeat something often enough, the public will swallow it.

     

    This dishonest meme was also designed to distract the public from the substance of the emails disclosed by WikiLeaks — namely, the scamming and trickery of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and the influence-peddling of Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation, which had her flirting with indictment last summer, and only reinforced her already-established public image as an unscrupulous person.

     

    The New York Times especially worked the “Russia Hacks Election” story to a fare-the-well, saying in its Sunday edition:

     
    The Central Intelligence Agency has concluded that Moscow put its thumb on the scale for Mr. Trump through the release of hacked Democratic emails, which provided fodder for many of the most pernicious
    false
    attacks on Mrs. Clinton on social media.

     

     

    False attacks?

     

    What, that Hillary’s cronies put the DNC’s “thumb on the scale” against Bernie Sanders? That Donna Brazille gave Hillary debate questions beforehand? That as Secretary of State Hillary gave more face-time to foreign supplicants based on their contributions to the Clinton Foundation, and expedited arms deals for especially big givers? That she collected millions in speaking fees for sucking up to Too-Big-To-Fail bankers? That The Times and The WashPo and CNN reporters were taking direction from Hillary’s PR operatives?

    Islamic Terrorism

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    Kv_cNNub_bigger.pngABC NewsVerified account ‏@ABC 3h3 hours ago

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel lays flowers at the Berlin Christmas market where 12 people were killed by a truck. http://abcn.ws/2gXBAno

     

     

     

    I think calling a "truck" the murderer counts as #fakenews.

     

     

    Added: My error..........................everyone else is doing it too

     

     

     

    KB3RFwFm_bigger.jpgThe New York TimesVerified account ‏@nytimes 18h18 hours ago

    The truck's path through a crowded Christmas market in Berlin http://nyti.ms/2hNhDS8

     

    8z9FImcv_bigger.pngThe Associated PressVerified account ‏@AP 17h17 hours ago

    BREAKING: Berlin police raise death toll to 12 after truck rams into Christmas market; 48 injured.

     

    Stupid election backlash

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    We Get It, New York and D.C. Editorial Boards, You Can’t Stand Trump.
    by Jim Gerharty
    Here’s what you’re missing if you haven’t perused the New York Times op-ed page, today…

    http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html

     

    * The editorial board calls for an end to the Electoral College, an urgent national priority that did not seem to bother them before Election Day.

     

    * David Leonhardt argues that Republicans win because they’re meaner and tougher and willing to rewrite the rules, and the only way Democrats will win is if they do the same. (Oddly, he doesn’t mention Harry Reid nuking the filibuster for presidential nominees.)

     

    * Desmond Lachlan argues that Trump’s trade policies will “lead to a significant widening of the budget deficit and to a corresponding decline in public savings.”

     

    * Mimi Swartz argues that Rick Perry and Rex W. Tillerson are ruthless Texans, and self-evidently terrible picks for the cabinet: “If you stop to consider a “Dancing With the Stars” contestant (Mr. Perry) making decisions about the nation’s nuclear arsenal, well, that way lies madness.”

     

    * Omri Boehm contemplates whether even a limited embrace of Trump by Jews represents a betrayal of Jewish values and concludes, “The comparisons between Trump and Hitler — more prevalent in pre-elections articles than today — will hopefully prove entirely exaggerated.”

     

    Meanwhile, over on the op-ed page of the Washington Post
    * the editorial board calls for a special Congressional committee to investigate Russian mischief and propaganda efforts in the election: “Russian propaganda outlets and some organizations in the shadowy world of fake news also chipped in to erode Ms. Clinton’s candidacy.”
    * Richard Cohen writes that Trump’s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, is “a danger to peace in the Middle East, to American lives, to moderation and to civil discourse.”
    * Catherine Rampell writes that Trump’s nominee to be director of the Office of Management and Budget “seems poised to help Trump ignite another worldwide financial crisis.”
    * Michael Gerson writes “the president-elect seems to offer equal chances of constitutional crisis and utter, debilitating incompetence.”
    * Eugene Robinson writes that the incoming president wants America “working with Putin, who supports the continued rule of barbarous dictator Bashar al-Assad. Are you ready for that, Republicans? Have you seen the pictures from Aleppo?”

    In short, everything on the op-ed pages of these major papers is about President-elect Trump in one way or another, and everything is arguing that he is wrong: wrong on economics, wrong on foreign policy, wrong on social policy, wrong in his appointments, wrong on ethics, and arguably wrongly elected.
    I’m a longtime critic of Trump, and even I find this tiresome.
    Each one of these topics is fair to debate, but having the page filled with one variation of “Trump is just the worst” after another turns into a numbing drum-beat that’s very easy to tune out.

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