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DISPATCHES FROM THE LEFT’S WAR ON BATHROOMS:
Cruz campaign now selling “Make PC Great Again” hats to mock Trump over transgender comments.
Related: “Prediction: within 24 hours [Trump] announces a major reversal on this plank and begins using the most extreme language possible to put him in sync with what he imagines conservative opinion to be.”
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Yeah...........run with that ............please
Hillary Vows to Spend ‘Every Single Minute’ as President to ‘Change Gun Culture.‘
If we’re lucky, she’ll bring the same dedication and focus that Obama brings to his “every waking hour” serving as president.
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the Left is upset......................
Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill Is Problematic Now, TooNot to be appeased, some progressives are upset about Treasury Secretary Jack Lew’s decision to honor a once-enslaved black woman on the $20 bill.Victoria M. Massie at Vox believes replacing Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the face of the 20 is “tricky” (i.e., problematic), and Ijeoma Oluo at the Guardian believes it “papers over racism” because money is, of course, a symbol of capitalist oppression. Massie quotes Jay Smooth, “What we’re basically talking about right now is honoring the work Harriet Tubman did to free us from slavery by putting her face on the reason we were in slavery.”{snip}Placing Tubman’s image on our currency shouldn’t be understood as a corrective action. Her legacy shouldn’t be wielded as a tool to redeem the cruelty of our ancestors. There should be no intention to “paper over” racism. The action should rather esteem a woman who defied unjust laws, trusted God, and endangered her life for others’ freedom. It should remind us that human goodness can prevail despite the evil that other humans do.We should venerate people for displaying something that has nothing to do with their race, sex, origins, or social standing: virtue.The capacity to be — or not to be — virtuous is the most significant source of human equality, and it is inalienable. It is Tubman’s historic selflessness and courage, not her state of oppression, that we honor. -
Steve Goddard @SteveSGoddard 1h1 hour ago I've caught @NSIDC in yet another major data alteration event
http://realclimatescience.com/2016/04/nsidc-caught-cheating-yet-again/ …pic.twitter.com/eMlrWm2Tr7
The animation below shows what the map should have looked like compared to what it does look like. They massively reduced the amount of five year old ice that should have been present in the map.
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How Democrats Win Debates by Corrupting EnglishHuman beings have been using euphemisms ever since Adam first “knew” Eve. In politics especially, obfuscating and twisting the meaning of words has been going on forever. But today’s debates aren’t just littered with rhetorical distortions; in some ways, many of Democrats’ most potent arguments are built on corrupt language.One word that’s really getting a workout this cycle is “loophole.” Basically, all of life is a giant loophole until Democrats come up with a way to regulate or tax it. In its economic usage, “loophole” — probably more of a dysphemism — creates the false impression that people are getting away with breaking the law. It’s a way to skip the entire debate portion of the conversation and get right to the accusation.So when Hillary Clinton promises to close the loophole of corporate inversion, what she means to say is that Democrats disapprove of this completely legal thing that corporations do to shield their money from the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world. Loopholes are like giveaways, money that D.C. has yet to double and triple tax.It’s one thing for Democrats to try and set the parameters of a debate before the debate is even begun, but it’s quite another to watch the press participate.Here’s CNN: “Clinton to push closing corporate tax loopholes.” Here’s The Hill: “Obama calls for Congress to close corporate tax loopholes.” Here’s how Halimah Abdullah and the Associated Press reported the issue on NBC: “President Obama on Tuesday criticized loopholes that help protect offshore tax havens and U.S. companies that move abroad for lower tax rates.”But Bernie Sanders, bless him, just skips the entire game and just comes out with it by Tweeting: “The offshore tax haven network isn’t something that we need to reform or refine. It’s a form of legalized tax fraud that must end.”“Legalized tax fraud” is a revealing statement about the progressive belief system. For progressives, taxation is moral. So when you fail to pay an imaginary tax that doesn’t exist but Democrats think should, you are by default engaged in fraud. The law has just to catch up with sin.Take “access,” formerly meaning having the ability to approach, enter, or use. In today’s liberal parlance, when the state doesn’t give you something for free, it’s taking something from you. It’s denying you access. When there’s a lack of access to birth control, it doesn’t, as the dictionary might lead you to believe, mean that Walgreens and CVS have been dissuaded from selling condoms, or that someone is bolting the door when women attempt to purchase birth control at the local pharmacy. It means that government has not made condoms free for anyone who desires them.To oppose the latter — whatever you make of the position — is not tantamount to a ban or outlawing. Yet Clinton has accused Cruz of attempting to “ban” contraception. Neither Cruz nor any Republican in office today has ever tried to ban — prohibit, forbid, proscribe, disallow — contraception altogether. This is a fairy tale with a thriving political fan-fiction community.“Any right that requires you to take extraordinary measures to access it is no right at all,” Clinton recently lamented as she spoke about the persistence of the anti-abortion movement’s activism. Women won’t have a true right on this issue, she says, “as long as we have laws on the book like the Hyde Amendment, making it harder for low-income women to exercise their full rights.”By “extraordinary measures,” Clinton means walking past anti-abortion protesters who might say something that makes a woman uncomfortable. Any genuine attempt to hinder a person from walking into a Planned Parenthood clinic is already illegal, after all. Some of us, you see, are imbued with special rights, or full rights. Women who support the right to an abortion, for instance, have full rights — not women who want to express themselves in opposition.There are plenty of other distortions. “Disenfranchisement” once meant revoking the rights gained through suffrage, but has been corroded to mean asking a person to provide a picture ID or to wait in a line before voting.Today, a country that deports hundreds of thousands of people every year has open borders, while millions of illegal immigrants are called everything but “illegal.”Today, tax cuts “cost” Americans something, but state spending is an “investment.” And so on.This is just a small taste of the war on meaning, of course. And to allow them this falsification language is to surrender a debate before it even begins.
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I would support an obtainable one day course for everyone to explain why this crap won't ever work.
If everyone listens closely we should be done by noon which would allow for free pizza.
I'm in.As for Hillary.............
"Belatedly rediscovered" - really ?
State Department Office Removed Benghazi Files After Congressional Subpoenas
by Alana Goodman
Original Article
State Department officials removed files from the secretary’s office related to the Benghazi attack in Libya and transferred them to another department after receiving congressional subpoenas last spring, delaying the release of the records to Congress for over a year. Attorneys for the State Department said the electronic folders, which contain hundreds of documents related to the Benghazi attack and Libya, were belatedly rediscovered at the end of last year. They said the files had been overlooked by State Department officials because the executive secretary’s office transferred them to another department and flagged them for archiving last April. -
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Will any slang terms start to be used ?
I need $60 BUCKS,
but all I got is 3 Benjamin's and 2 Tubs
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LOL.
and here I was going to scold you DR, for wasting your time arguing with Gator,
but you managed to get a response from him that virtually sums up the ignorance of the Left.
I can't prove it, but its true
Well done.
Meanwhile ....back to the thread.
Leftists Lose Their Lunch Over the Tubman 20
After years of complaining that America’s paper money featured only dead white guys, a lot of folks on the Left are in a snit that Harriet Tubman is going to replace Andrew Jackson on the face of the twenty-dollar bill.
You can practically hear them: “We didn’t mean a gun-toting, Bible-believing Republican black woman! We meant Angela Davis!”
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/04/leftists-lose-their-lunch-over-the-tubman-20.php
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She's much hotter than Huma. She even has some meat on the bones.
Hillary's gal Friday, confidante, and soul mate.
Nicely put......................
Here's Cruz's ad again..............VIDEO: Inside Hillary’s War Room.
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The funny part is the obvious ignorance of lefties (like Gator) and the media who only can conceive that Rs are racist and would only see skin color and not ideology of person.
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That brunette is pretty hot.
I have to laugh Meazza, because I am sure that your comment about the Huma Lookalike will undoubtedly get more people to click on the link than mine
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"We are still in the midst of the third major cooling period that began around 3 million years ago."
I thought it was a little chilly in here -
Normally, the rule of thumb for online political ads is not to have them exceed, at absolute most, 1:30. And, indeed, this Ted Cruz ad should probably (and probably will) be cut down to thirty seconds and shown everywhere (as Mark Impomeni notes here).
But… in the mean time, allow yourself this treat anyway. Because ‘War Room’ is two and a half minutes of pure, vicious fun at the expense of both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The best kind of vicious fun, in fact: the kind where it’s all true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cpqoVqqDGk
What a great ad, the humor isn’t laugh out loud funny, but it’s definitely subtle and clever.
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INTRODUCING Ted Cruz’s best friend.
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The Democratic Party Now Belongs to Hillary Clinton.
WATCH AS ABC JOURNALIST IS MISTAKEN FOR A HILLARY SUPPORTER BY ‘BERNIE BRO.’
Huh. Why would an employee of the House of Stephanopoulos be mistaken for a Hillary supporter?...
CAMILLE PAGLIA: Enough with the Hillary cult: Her admirers ignore reality, dream of worshipping a queen.
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Gator and lybob were in a parking lot trying to unlock the door of their Mercedes with a coat hanger.
They tried and tried to get the door open, but they couldn't.
The one with the coat hanger stopped for a moment to catch his breath,
and the other said, anxiously, "Hurry up! It's starting to rain and the top is down."
What did one cannibal say to the other while they were eating a clown?
Does this taste funny to you?
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3 Gov’t Workers Formally Charged in Flint Water Crisis
The #FlintWaterCrisis, which we have been following closely, has formally become a criminal case.
Three government employees are now facing serious charges for their alleged involvement in perpetuating conditions that led to the elevated levels of lead in the public water supply.
Good.
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AND THEN RUN AS AN INDEPENDENT IF THINGS GO WRONG AT THE CONVENTION: Sanders defiant: ‘We still have a path to the nomination.’
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Wednesday expressed optimism over his campaign’s chances to win to win the nomination, despite having lost the state of New York Tuesday night to front-runner Hillary Clinton.“We still have a path to the nomination, and our plan is to win the pledged delegates in this primary,” the Vermont senator said in an email to his supporters.“Next week five states vote, and there are A LOT of delegates up for grabs. I am going to keep fighting for every vote, for every delegate, because each is a statement of support for the values we share.”Sanders followed up with a fundraising pitch, asking supporters to chip in $2.70. Also included was a message he had sent out to supporters when he launched his campaign in April of last year.Sanders currently trails Clinton in pledged delegates, 1,428 to 1,151. The count increases to 1930 to 1,189 when including unbound superdelegates. The former secretary of State needs just 435 more delegates to secure the nomination before the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia at the end of July.In the short time since its Empire State win Tuesday night, the Clinton campaign has been trumpeting the message that Sanders now has no shot at becoming the nominee.“I don’t see a clear path for them at this point. The numbers are pretty daunting,” Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said in an interview with Yahoo on Wednesday.Never give up — never surrender!
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STOP AND IMAGINE WHAT A HYPERSENSITIVE MAN LIKE TRUMP MIGHT DO WITH THE POWER OF THE PRESIDENCY.
Just imagine it: a hypersensitive man in the White House might start off his administration by flipping off the opposition with the words “I won.”
He could tell intransigent fellow party members, “Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.”
He could “joke” about auditing his enemies, and then look away when the IRS does just that.
He could singlehandedly abandon a war his predecessor had won, purely out of partisan spite.
He could rearrange the Middle East and then set it alight, to better match his socialist Ivy League faculty break room worldview.
He could shaft Israel and hand Iran — Iran! — the Bomb.
He could let Vladimir Putin overrun much of his neighboring countries and wide swatches of the Middle East.
He could ignore a terrorist attack to go play golf.
He could gin-up race riots in America.
Yeah, I know that all sounds like science fiction, but just stop and imagine with a hypersensitive man could do with the power of the presidency.
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We need to change the $100 to Kanye on the front, and Michelle Pfiefer on a bed of pot leaves on the back.
Nonsense. We haven't healed, matured, and transformed as a nation until we can put Osam Bin Laden's likeness on the one dollar bill and replace "in God we trust" with "allahu akbar".
Harriet is not amused by your silly posts..
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I am really hoping that they go with the "rebel" Tubman and not the "Grandma"We need this. We need this as a nation.
Gun-toting, free-exercise acting, lawbreaking Christian rescuer of fugitive slaves. . . . . . . .GREAT CHOICE.
seriously, an armed, black, Republican standing up to government tyranny on the $20. This works for me on so many levels.
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Saudi Arabia snubs President Obama at the airport
CNN is reporting that Saudi Arabia appears to have snubbed President Obama when he arrived in Riyadh for his farewell tour. It is customary for a U.S. president to be greeted by a high-ranking government official. In Saudi Arabia that would be a high-ranking member of the royal family, perhaps the king himself or the crown prince. Today, Obama was greeted by the governor of Riyadh. CNN reports:
When Obama touched down in Riyadh shortly after 1 p.m. local time, there were no kisses with the kingdom’s ruler as President George W. Bush once exchanged. The Saudi government dispatched the governor of Riyadh rather than a senior-level royal to shake Obama’s hand,a departure from the scene at the airport earlier in the day when King Salman was shown on state television greeting the leaders of other Gulf nations on the tarmac.Social media users quickly termed the reception, which was not carried live on state TV, a snub and a sign that a relationship long lubricated by barrels of oil is now facing deep questions on both sides.Reporter Nic Robertson says the greeting was very different from the one President George W. Bush received when he made a similar farewell tour at the end of his presidency:
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Anyone surprised ?
She lost in Michigan, so ........................
Clinton is gone, and Flint forgotten
Flint Mayor Karen Weaver is learning a tough lesson about the political spotlight — it switches off quickly once you no longer serve its purpose.
The mayor came into office in January solely focused on solving her city’s water contamination crisis. She worked closely at first with Gov. Rick Snyder and stayed away from the partisan gamesmanship.
But then the presidential primary campaign came to Michigan and Weaver was co-opted by Hillary Clinton’s camp. She was a hot commodity for a while, feted by Clinton and making joint appearances with her. Weaver played nicely into Clinton’s attempt to cast herself as Flint’s savior.
Clinton even cut a national commercial that claimed once she found out what was going on in Flint and gave Washington the what-for, federal funds began flowing to the city.
And then the campaign moved on. With New York and other states on her mind, Clinton forgot about Flint and Weaver.
The mayor is fretting the fading of the intense national attention the city received in February and March will hurt Flint’s chances of capturing those federal funds Clinton boasted of delivering but that still haven’t arrived.
Now she’s back where she started, with Snyder as Flint’s best hope. The mayor and governor did a joint appearance last Friday decrying the slowness of the federal response.
Weaver does have one more shot. Clinton is coming to Detroit in May to headline the NAACP’s Freedom Fund dinner.
She’ll need a talking point, and she may find it useful to dust off Flint and Weaver for the night.
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And I know..........the most important thing to take away from this article is NOT what a horrible, self-serving disaster of a president that Hillary will undoubtedly be,
but the standard..........."they're just campaign promises", "everyone does it"
THATS whats important.....
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Just thinking out loud but does the QB trade ups force other QBs down the board in round 2 and beyond? I would presume that Paxton Lynch goes in round1 as well. Let's just say for the sake of argument that he goes to SF. It doesn't really matter where but call it SF. At that point the Jets, Broncos, Browns, Cardinals and Bills are 5 teams that are looking at QB still. I guess that the question is with less competition and threats to select a QB (LA, Philly & SF) do these teams go elsewhere and pick the QB as they see value. For example does Denver take someone like Connor Cook or do they take BPA and wait on someone that they perceive to be better value (Brandon Allen for example)? Or does the opposite happen and these other QBs get pushed up? Do teams start reaching to get the best of the 3rd tier or do they wait and try to get better value?
I would think that Elway and the World Champion Broncos have to have some type of move in mind.
They won't be picking early enough for any "sure thing" in the near future, it seems they would have to take the risk and jump up.
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Americans hate the Federal Government more than ever
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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Gee, it's almost as if government works only to protect itself, not us.
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