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    Women's March On Washington

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted · Edited by B-Man

    Protesters who plan to descend on Washington in the days surrounding President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next month will find themselves barred from the nation’s most famous public protest site.

    The National Park Service, on behalf of the Presidential Inauguration Committee, filed a “massive omnibus blocking permit” securing much of the National Mall, Pennsylvania Avenue, the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial for Trump’s inauguration festivities, The Guardian reported on Thursday.

    “None of these spots will be open for protesters,” the newspaper reported.

    The temporary ban mostly affects a planned march from the Lincoln Memorial to the White House on Jan. 21, 2017, the morning after Trump’s inauguration. The morning after the election, organizers began the Women’s March on Washington, which leaders say is an intentional nod to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 civil rights march at the Lincoln Memorial.

    But organizers ran into permitting issues early in the planning process. The Park Service issues permits for protests on a first-come, first-serve basis and other protests had already received permits before the women’s march organizers applied. Now, the massive omnibus blocking permit has blocked at least a dozen other groups from protesting in the days after Trump’s inauguration.

    National Park Service spokesman Mike Litterst told The Guardian that agency rules in place since 2008 give an inaugural committee preferential access to some public areas along Pennsylvania Avenue, the National Mall and surrounding land. Litterst said it will likely take crews until March 1 to dismantle the barricades and seating assembled for Trump’s inauguration.

    “They’re construction zones, effectively,” Litterst explained.

    Most public sidewalks along the inauguration parade route down Pennsylvania Avenue — the boulevard running from the Capitol to the White House — are still open to protesters.

    But those constrained accommodations are still not enough, one Washington, D.C. civil rights group said.

    The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund argues that the National Park Service and Trump’s inaugural committee have “done a massive land grab inhibiting all those who want to exercise their right to free speech.”

    Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, the executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, said at a press conference that this instance is “extremely unique” in that it banned access to public land for protesters for days after the inauguration, according to the fund’s website.

    http://www.salon.com/2016/12/09/womens-march-on-washington-barred-from-protesting-donald-trump-inauguration/

    We're special !

    We want to protest Donald Trump, and we can't understand why the already long-planned Inaugural activities should take "our choice spot"

    Waaah!

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    Global warming err Climate change HOAX

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted · Edited by B-Man

    JOURNALISM: When you read a science report claiming that 2016 was the hottest year on record, you might expect that you will get numbers. And you would be wrong.

     

    “Note to the New York Times: ‘trouncing’ and ‘blown past’ are phrases appropriate to sports reporting, not science reporting. Except that no sports reporter would dare write an article in which he never bothers to give you the score of the big game. . . .

     

    It’s almost like they’re hiding something. And that is indeed what we find.”

     

     

    TLDR: Increase is one-hundredth of a degree. Margin of error is a tenth of a degree.

     

    So it’s all bull ****.

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    Obama and Trump

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted · Edited by B-Man

    OBAMA EXITS STAGE LEFT, WITH A LIE AND A THREAT

     

    When Barack Obama speaks, especially without a teleprompter, you can almost see the zzzzzzs rising over the heads of his audience. You can only listen to platitudes for so long. But then, suddenly, Obama will come out with a falsehood so other-worldly that you sit up and say, “WTF was that?”

    This was one such moment in today’s press conference:

    OBAMA
    :
    We are the only country in the advanced world that makes it harder to vote rather than easier.
    And that dates back. There’s an ugly history to that that we should not be shy about talking about.

     

    QUESTION
    : Voting rights?

     

    OBAMA
    : Yes, I’m talking about voting rights.

     

    The reason that we are the only country among advanced democracies that makes it harder to vote is — it traces directly back to Jim Crow and the legacy of slavery and it became sort of acceptable to restrict the franchise. And that’s not who we are. That shouldn’t be who we are. That’s not when America works best. So I hope that people pay a lot of attention to making sure that everybody has a chance to vote. Make it easier, not harder.

     

    This whole notion of election — voting fraud, this is something that has constantly been disproved, this — this is fake news. The notion that there are a whole bunch of people out there who are going out there and are not eligible to vote and want to vote.

     

     

     

    “Making it harder to vote” means requiring identification in order to prevent voter fraud. Is the U.S. really, as Obama says, “the only country in the advanced world” that imposes such a minimal requirement?

    Of course not. In fact, we are pretty much the only country that doesn’t. John Fund provides useful background:

    Almost all industrialized democracies — and most that are not — require voters to prove their identity before voting.

    ***

    The vast majority of countries require voter ID — usually photo ID — to prevent fraud and duplicate votes at the polls. Our neighbors do.
    Canada
    requires voter ID.
    Mexico’s
    “Credencial para Votar” has a hologram, a photo, and other information embedded in it, and it is impossible to effectively tamper with. Confidence in the integrity of elections has soared since its introduction in the 1990s.

     

    At a 2012 conference in Washington at which election
    officials from more than 60 countries met to observe the U.S. presidential election, most were astonished that so many U.S. states don’t require voter ID.

     

     

    They were right to be astonished. Yet President Obama says the effort to ensure ballot integrity “traces directly back to Jim Crow and the legacy of slavery.” This is idiotic.

    When Democrats imposed Jim Crow laws across the South in the wake of Reconstruction, they relied on poll taxes and ridiculously difficult or ambiguous tests–administered only, apparently, to African-Americans who hadn’t finished a certain grade level–to maintain Democratic Party control. Voter ID had nothing to do with it. But no one ever said that Barack Obama knows anything about history.

    Obama repeats the Democratic Party talking point that there is no such thing as voter fraud. A person wise in the ways of the world probably wonders, if there isn’t any voter fraud going on, why are the Democrats so vehemently opposed to the ballot integrity measures that are used in virtually every other country? The answer, of course, is that voter fraud is no myth.

    Global warming err Climate change HOAX

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    EPA Pardons Itself in the Animas River Pollution Case

     

    LI-07-EPA-Spill-on-Animas-River-e1439085EPA message to the little people: If you like your river, you can’t keep your river.

     

     

    As President Obama spends the remainder of his presidency pardoning trangenders who disclosed vital security information, appointing fabulists to key positions, and releasing dangerous Gitmo detainees, people are beginning to mull over what we will remember most about this era.

    I assert that the damage caused by the rogue bureaucracy within the Environmental Protection Agency will float to the top of legacy cesspool. So, while Democratic politicos grill Scott Pruitt, the candidate likely to head the EPA in the Trump administration, the agency has finished its misrule under Obama appropriately enough.

    The EPA has pardoned itself from paying claims totaling more than $1.2 billion for economic damages from a mine waste spill the agency accidentally triggered in Colorado the summer of 2015.

    The EPA said the claims could be refiled in federal court, or Congress could authorize payments.

     

    But attorneys for the EPA and the Justice Department concluded the EPA is barred from paying the claims because of sovereign immunity, which prohibits most lawsuits against the government.

     

    “The agency worked hard to find a way in which it could pay individuals for damages due to the incident, but unfortunately, our hands are tied,” EPA spokeswoman Nancy Grantham said.

     

     

     

    The EPA is hiding behind the Federal Tort Claims Act, indicating that it prevents the agency from paying claims the result from “discretionary” government actions. Congress passed the law to allow government agencies to act “without the fear of paying damages in the event something went wrong while taking the action,” according to its press release.

     

     

     

    Trump Alone at the Top

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    Ben Stein: “The left will beat and beat and huff and puff. But it’s a different world now. Again… The people who elected Trump don’t remotely believe he’s a racist and they’re sick of hearing it anyway. This Trump guy. He’s not a sensitive soul like Nixon. He knows how pitifully jealous the media people are. He owes them nothing. He sneers at them. He’s moving them out of the White House. It’s brilliant. He’s making real the truth of now. The media are not good guys by and large. They’re jealous snobs.”

     

    https://spectator.org/the-assassination-of-donald-trump/

    Obama and Trump

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    Posted

    Some Presidents still maintain their class......................


    Former President George H.W. Bush sent President-Elect Donald Trump the following note on why he won’t be able to attend Friday’s inauguration.

    In summary, “I could go but it would kill me”:

     

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    Trump Alone at the Top

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    Posted

    Eight years of press leg-humping the president earns them a pat on the head from Obama as he leaves office

    President Obama began his final news conference by picking up where Josh Earnest left off and reminding the gathered media what their job is

    "You’re not supposed to be sycophants, you’re supposed to be skeptics. You’re supposed to ask me tough questions.”

     

     

     

    Sometimes its just impossible to even make fun of his ignorance.

     

     

     

    Reminder of the press and their attitude towards democrats:

     

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

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted · Edited by B-Man

    Obamacare has cost roughly 300,000 small business jobs due to higher health care costs, according to a new report.

     

    The American Action Forum, a center-right policy institute, released findings Wednesday that rising premiums and regulations under the Affordable Care Act have had “dire” consequences for the labor market.

     

    The report found the law has cost $19 billion in lost wages per year and forced 10,000 small businesses establishments to close their doors. The study covered employers with 20 to 99 employees.

     

    “Research from the American Action Forum (AAF) finds regulations from the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are driving up health care premiums and are costing small business employees at least $19 billion in lost wages annually,” the report said.

     

    “These figures varied by state, but in 2015 the ACA cost year-round workers $2,095, $2,134, and $2,260 in Ohio, New York, and North Dakota, respectively.”

     

    “Premium increases, a prospect regulators predicted when issuing the first ACA regulations, also significantly diminished the number of business establishments and jobs nationwide,” the report said. “Across the country, small businesses (20-99 workers) lost 295,030 jobs, 10,130 business establishments, and $4.7 billion in total wage earnings. Florida lost 17,950 jobs; Ohio lost 19,000; Pennsylvania lost 15,680; and Texas lost 28,010 jobs due to higher sensitivity to rising health care premiums and the ACA.”

     

    Ben Gitis and Sam Batkins, the authors of the report, used data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics for their findings.

     

     

     

     

    I’m old enough to remember when ObamaCare was spurring startups and creating small business jobs.

    Trump Alone at the Top

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    Standard Liberal procedure............

     

    Fake News? How CNN And ABC Are Fudging The Numbers To Tank Trump’s Favorability

     

    Two polls released Tuesday — one from ABC and a second from CNN — tout Donald Trump as being the most unfavorable incoming president in modern history — yet on second look, the data is clearly boosted by the pollers’ decision to oversample Democrats.
    According to Gallup, 28 percent of Americans identify themselves as a Republican, while 25 percent identify as a Democrat.

    Despite this information, eight more percent of participants in both the ABC and CNN polls identified as Democrats, leading to an 11 point swing in partisanship breakdown off the national average.

     

    ABC’s poll sampled 1,005 adults across the nation. However, partisan breakdown shows that only 23 percent of participants identified as Republican.


    Original Article






     

    Global warming err Climate change HOAX

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    THE LEFT’S WAR ON SCIENCE: Climate activists step up campaign to cut funding to science museums.

     

    Today’s target is the American Museum of Natural History in New York, which is being denounced for taking money from Rebekah Mercer and allowing her to serve on its board of trustees. The activists want her removed because she has also donated to the Trump campaign and to think tanks skeptical of climate alarmism.

     

    As the Times article notes, there is absolutely no evidence that Mercer has had any influence on the museum’s climate-change exhibits. Far from downplaying the threat of climate change, the museum has hyped it. I’ve written about the faulty science in its alarmist exhibits, and Edward Rothstein has critiqued its apocalyptic sermonizing. But none of this matters to the green activists determined to shame and intimidate conservative philanthropists even if it means less money for science education:

     

     

    “To politicize science is shameful; to politicize the institutions that are designed to foster greater learning is even worse,” Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, said. The museum’s executives “should acknowledge that they have a healthy endowment — a steady stream of funding — and they should thank Ms. Mercer for her service and talk about a reasonable plan for her to resign,” he said.

     

     

     

    The chutzpah is astonishing. The only ones politicizing science at the museum are Brune and the other witch-hunters quoted in the Times. One of them is Michael Mann of Penn State, the researcher who produced the infamous hockey-stick graph and has done even more to discredit climate science with his unhinged activism.

     

    As usual, the threats to science come from one direction: the left.

    Women's March On Washington

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted · Edited by B-Man

    LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY UPDATE: Women’s March Waffles on Sex-Worker Rights, Disinvites Women Who Oppose Abortion: The Women’s March claims to be for anyone “who believes women’s rights are human rights.” And yet…

     

    “That’s right: anything less than complete agreement about abortion and the group doesn’t even want you participating in the rally.

     

    Nevermind if you’re with the group on any or all of its myriad other principles—identify as pro-choice (but against sex-worker rights) or the cool girls don’t want to sit with you.”

    " I " am Legend

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    He's commuting Chelsea's sentence. No, not Chelsea Clinton... Chelsea Manning. :thumbdown:

     

     

    David Burge Retweeted The New York Times

    Hey errbody, it's Handing-Classified-Secrets-To-Wikileaks-And-Russian-Spies-Is-Suddenly-Okay-Again Tuesday

     

     

     

    Hacker's pre-check list before sending information to Wikileaks:

     

    OK: US battlefield comms on troop strength and position

     

    Treason: DNC emails

    Women's March On Washington

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    As you know, organizers for the big Women’s March on Washington have decided that pro-life women don’t count as actual women.

    Just to make their stance perfectly clear, they’ve removed a pro-life — sorry, “anti-choice” — group from their list of partners. Can’t have people thinking that they’re willing to work together with people who don’t support feminism’s “central” raison d’être, abortion access.

    Funny, then, that the Women’s March is welcoming CAIR with open arms:

    From CAIR.com:

    (WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/12/17) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, announced today that it will be joining the Women’s March on Washington as a partner organization.

    …

    “Every American Muslim community should send a delegation to our nation’s capital in support of the Women’s March on Washington,” said Government Affairs Director Robert S. McCaw. “Muslims stand in solidarity with members of every community whose rights have come under attack and status has been marginalized in the recent campaign cycle.”

    McCaw said the Women’s March on Washington will send a bold message to the new administration on its first day in office that women’s rights are human rights.

    Gee, that’s nice. There’s just one teensy little problem:

    Abortion is a grave sin according to CAIR

    taken straight from CAIR’s website:

    We anxiously await the Women’s March press release announcing they’ve severed ties with CAIR. With the march less than a week away, they’re running out of time to put their money where their mouths are.

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