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    Islamic Terrorism

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    Wanna guess why 17 Middle Eastern men are training in middle of desert shouting "Allah Akbar?"

     

    http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/03/29/17-men-reportedly-heard-chanting-firing-off-shots-in-apple-valley-detained-released/ …

     

     

     

    APPLE VALLEY (CBSLA.com) — Federal and local law enforcement authorities Tuesday are investigating after 17 men were detained for reportedly firing off hundreds of rounds in a remote part of Apple Valley.

     

     

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    North Carolina GOP Block Gay Anti-Discrimintion Law

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    Governor Pat McCrory (R., NC) responded to the lawsuit brought this morning, in regards to the recently passed House Bill 2, named the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act.

     

    In responding to the lawsuit, McCrory stated:

     

    “We have not taken away any rights that have currently existed in any city in North Carolina, from Raleigh to Durham to Chapel Hill to Charlotte,” he said. “Every city and every corporation have the exact same nondiscrimination policy this week as they had two weeks ago.”

     

     

     

    Further statements from the governor’s office:

     

    “The governor respects the right of any legal challenges; however, he does not respect the continued distortion of the facts by the groups challenging this law and by many members of the state and national media,” said Graham Wilson, the governor’s press secretary.

     

     

     

     

    What HB2 does prevent is cities in North Carolina from enacting their own ordinances to make all public facilities gender-neutral. Private organizations and businesses can maintain whatever policy they prefer, in regards to bathrooms and locker rooms, however, no city government can implement such policies.

     

    McCrory went on to say:

     

    “I frankly think some of the media has failed miserably in communicating the clear facts.”

     

     

    No kidding.

     

     

     

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    North Carolina GOP Block Gay Anti-Discrimintion Law

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    IF ONLY THE LEFT FOUGHT THE WAR ON TERROR WITH AS MUCH FEROCITY AS THEIR WAR ON BATHROOMS:

     

    Law is NOT anti-Gay or about enforcing a religious view...............no matter how many times you repeat it........ :D

     

     

     

    NBA’s Threatening North Carolina Is Textbook Cultural Cronyism.

     

    Big business has stomped into another state, trying to impose the values of the cultural left.

     

    This time, a governor who dared to stand up for responsible policy is being targeted by big business’ bullying over bathrooms.

     

    At issue is H.B. 2, a bill Republican Gov. Pat McCrory signed into law last week after it passed the House 83-25 and the Senate 32-0.

     

    The bill accomplishes two main objectives.

     

    First, it says that private schools, restaurants, stores, and businesses are free to establish whatever bathroom policies they’d like, but that access to government bathrooms will be determined primarily by biological sex.

     

    Second, it says that North Carolina will have one set of regulations for the entire state when it comes to employment and public accommodation, rather than additional piecemeal regulations city by city.

     

     

    The NBA has said North Carolina’s law might make it move the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte.

     

    The NBA threat over the All-Star Game is particularly amusing. The NBA (and its sister organization, the WNBA) apparently think bathroom access shouldn’t be based on biology, but basketball leagues should.

     

    The NBA and WNBA, of course, are free to have gender-neutral basketball teams—and to have gender-neutral bathrooms at those games. That they are threatening the state to impose a policy that even they haven’t voluntarily adopted is the height of hypocrisy.

     

    And it’s another example of “cultural cronyism.” Just as we saw in Indiana last year, and in Georgia today, big businesses are using their outsized market share to make economic threats to pressure the government to do their bidding—at the expense of the common good.

     

    What’s in the Bill?

     

    The first provision of the bill—the bathroom provision—is simply common sense. It leaves actors in the private sector free to do what they think best with their bathrooms, and it says government-run facilities will operate according to biological sex as noted on a birth certificate.

     

    Even then, the North Carolina law makes accommodations.

     

    The governor’s office explains: “Anyone who has undergone a sex change can change their sex on their birth certificate.” And the law allows government buildings to make special accommodations by using single-occupancy bathrooms and allowing students to have controlled access to faculty locker rooms.

     

    The bill tries to find a reasonable compromise. It prevents biological males who identify as females from using women’s and girls’ private facilities in public schools and government offices, but it also allows local school officials and office managers to make reasonable accommodations for such students and employees, such as providing access to single-occupancy facilities.

     

    Ask yourself: Why do we have sex-specific bathrooms and locker rooms in the first place? It’s because of biology, not because of “gender identity.” Separate facilities reflect the fact that men and women have bodily differences; they are designed to protect privacy related to our bodies. So the North Carolina bill continues the bathroom policy America has always had.

     

    The second provision—the employment provision—is simply a preference for statewide uniformity. It says North Carolina will have one set of employment regulations for the entire state rather than a multiplicity of additional laws set at the municipal level.

     

     

    More at the link:

     

     

     

     

     

    Can any of our local lemmings tell us what is specifically wrong with H.B. 2 ??

     

     

     

     

     

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    Trump Alone at the Top

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    The Culture That Created Donald Trump Was Liberal, Not Conservative.

    The man didn’t emerge, all at once and fully formed, from some hidden and benighted hollow in the American psyche. He’
    s been kicking around for 30 years or more, and he was promoted and schooled, made famous and made wealthy, by the same culture and economy that now reviles him, and finds his success so vexing.

    After all, it wasn’t some Klan newsletter that first brought Trump to our attention: It was Time and Esquire and Spy.

    The Westboro Baptist Church didn’t give him his own TV show: NBC did.

    And his boasts and lies weren’t posted on Breitbart, they were published by Random House.

    He was created by people who learned from Andy Warhol, not Jerry Falwell, who knew him from galas at the Met, not fundraisers at Karl Rove’s house, and his original audience was presented to him by Condé Nast, not Guns & Ammo. He owes his celebrity, his money, his arrogance, and his skill at drawing attention to those coastal cultural gatekeepers — presumably mostly liberal — who first elevated him out of general obscurity, making him famous and rewarding him (and, not at all incidentally, themselves). . . .

    If you think that sounds stupid and smug, imagine how it sounds to people out in the rest of the country. Liberals were sure the devil would come slouching out of Alabama or Texas, beating a bible and shouting about sodomy and sin. They didn’t expect him to be a businessman who lives on Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. Rick Santorum was a threat, but your run-of-the-mill New York tycoon just couldn’t be, not in the same way — because even if the latter was unlikable, he was known, he was covered, he fell within a spectrum that the morning shows and entertainment press are comfortable with, much more so, anyway, than they are with what the slow learners among liberals still blithely call “rednecks.”

     

     

    Want political leaders with the decorum of yesteryear? You’ll need a society with the decorum of yesteryear.

     

     

     

     

     

    Blame Boomers For Trump & Clinton.

     

    “Throughout the campaign, boomers have provided the bedrock of support for both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Bernie Sanders may have devastated Clinton among millennial voters, by almost 3-1, but she has more than offset that gap by winning overwhelming support from older voters.”

    Islamic Terrorism

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE:

     

    Bloody tide: Terror deaths increased 8-fold since 2010, says study.

     

    “The deadly toll of terrorism around the globe has jumped nearly 800 percent in the past five years, according to an exhaustive new report that blames the alarming expansion of Islamist groups across the Middle East and Africa.

     

    The nonprofit Investigative Project on Terrorism found that an average of nearly 30,000 people per year have been killed by terrorists since 2010, when terrorism’s death toll was 3,284.

     

    The authors of the study, which tabulated the numbers through the end of 2015, say that the exponential increase shows two troubling trends: More attacks are happening, and they tend to be deadlier than ever.”

    Disney / Marvel vs The state of Georgia

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    Wonder what number of male (probably conservative/probably christian) elected officials who have been arrested or caught for malfeasance in their offices/bathrooms is compared to people pretending to be trans to get into a bathroom to check out the plumbing of the other sex........

     

     

    Hey,

     

    remember Baskin's blatantly racist assumption post a week or two ago ?

     

    now he's going with a anti Christian bigoted assumption.

     

     

    such versatility.

     

     

     

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    Hillary's Campaign Kickoff

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    Has she been arrested yet??

     

    FOURNIER: 'HIGHER BAR' TO CHARGE...

     

     

    During a panel discussion Monday morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe about a pair of new reports in the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post concerning the ongoing FBI investigation into the Clinton private e-mail server, National Journal political reporter Ron Fournier argued that there should be a higher bar to bring charges against Hillary Clinton because she is running for president.

     

    Wait, what?

     

     

     

     

    FBI TO QUESTION HILLARY...

     

     

    147 FBI Agents Involved in HillaryClinton Email Investigation: bit.ly/1qczJ32........................I guess she is a 'job creator'

     

    Islamic Terrorism

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    Ten members of one family were killed in the suicide bombing at the park in Lahore............. Ten................ Unbearable.

     

    http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/the-economic-case-for-worldwide-vegetarianism/475524/?utm_source=SFTwitter …

     

     

     

    ABC News ‏@ABC 1h1 hour ago

    Pope denounces "vile" bombing in Pakistan that targeted Christians celebrating Easter: http://abcn.ws/1XZ1xCB pic.twitter.com/uCp8yKRGfH

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    We claim responsibility for the attack on Christians as they were celebrating Easter," Pakistan Taliban spokesperson Ehansullah Ehsan

     

     

     

     

     

    Family of Muslim man who was killed after posting loving message to Christians and Jesus are "scared for our lives":

     

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/03/28/family-muslim-man-who-was-killed-after-posting-loving-message-to-christians-and-jesus-are-scared-for-our-lives/ …

     

     

     

     

    "fueled a decline in Iraq's Christian population" is Newsweekspeak for genocide.

    http://www.newsweek.com/isis-crucify-catholic-priest-good-friday-441219 …

     

     

     

    Obamanomics

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    Unexpectedly- The economy stinks.

     

    http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/28/shocker-cuts-to-q1-growth-pace-show-faltering-economy.html …

     

     

    Shocker cuts to Q1 growth pace show faltering economy

     

    First-quarter growth is now tracking at just 0.9 percent, after new data showed surprising weakness in consumer spending and a wider-than-expected trade gap.

     

    According to the CNBC/Moody's Analytics rapid update, economists now see the sluggish growth pace based on already reported data, down from 1.4 percent last week. According to the rapid update, economists have a median forecast of 1.6 percent growth in first-quarter GDP, which includes their estimates for data not yet released.

     

    "It's not a polar vortex winter. You can't blame the weather this year. It's the consumer. I think there's a problem with the measurement but at the end of the day if the world were as good as we'd hoped, people would feel better and it's not showing up," said Diane Swonk of DS Economics.

     

     

    Personal income rose 0.2 percent in February, a tenth above expectations, and spending was up 0.1 percent. But revisions to January's spending data wiped out earlier solid gains and showed spending marginally higher — at 0.1 percent from an earlier 0.5 percent.

     

     

    Economists had been hopeful the first quarter would show a snapback with growth above 2 percent, and some have been optimistic that weak manufacturing was beginning to show signs of bottoming.

     

    They note the size of the revision to consumer spending is rare.

     

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