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Monday, October 15, 2018

News and Interesting Stuff for October 15, 2018

The Covens Gather to Hex Justice Kavanaugh
Next thing you know, they’ll be dancing to bring hurricanes down on the justices chambers. They’ve totally lost their minds. And here’s their leader:
Note to readers and my computer’s spell checker. The below is cut and pasted from the facebook page description of the event. The grammar and spelling are theirs.
Please join us for a public hex on Brett Kavanaugh, upon all rapists and the patriarchy at large which emboldens, rewards and protects them. We are embracing witchcraft’s true roots as the magik of the poor, the downtrodden and disenfranchised and it’s history as often the only weapon, the only means of exacting justice available to those of us who have been wronged by men just like him.
He will be the focal point, but by no means the only target, so bring your rage and and all of the axes you’ve got to grind. There will also be a second ritual afterward – “The Rites of the Scorned One” which seeks to validate, affirm, uphold and support those of us who have been wronged and who refuse to be silent any longer.
50% of the event proceeds will be donated to charity:
25% to the Ali Forney Center and 25% to Planned Parenthood.
Please note that no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Was the Kavanaugh Mess a Con or a Hit Job
I know we’re all sick and tired of hearing about this. He’s been confirmed and sits on the Supreme Court.
But, what about Blasey Ford? Where is she and what’s going on?
Seems there’s an investigation far, far from media scrutiny on here and her lawyers.
Michael Bromwich and Debra Katz seem to have some very close dealings with various resist Trump efforts (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S1Zt0K3fnw) Katz serves as vice chair of the Project on Government Oversight, a “core grantee” of George Soros’s Open Society Foundation, which also funded some 20 of the largest groups that led the anti-Kavanaugh protests.
What’s more vital to contemplate and support is that at least one grand jury is currently hearing testimony far from the media’s klieg lights from various individuals associated with the known cast-of-characters behind the rigged Hillary Clinton investigation and Robert Mueller’s dubious Russian collusion inquiry. And one can find encouragement that much more truth will be forthcoming as the unsealing of many thousands more indictment widens the scope of grand jury inquiries.

Ocasio-Cortez Once Again Displays her Ignorance
She’s just too good to be true for her non-campaigning opponent.
Last week, she proved that again. During an appearance on MSNBC, liberal host Chris Hayes tossed her a soft-ball question that should have been easy for any serious candidate to hit out of the park.
“Well, I think a lot of it has to do with changing our strategy around governance. You know, there’s a lot of inside baseball, inside the beltway, as you always hear that term thrown around,” she began.

The Funniest Campaign Ad Of The Year
Just what we need in this time of political correctness
‘An Unhinged Mob’: RNC Rolls Out Damning New Ad Just Weeks Before Midterms @
President Trump says ‘Lee was a great general’
So, when the hell is speaking the truth wrong?
In the era of Confederate statues and monuments being removed due to the South’s history of slavery, Robert E. Lee isn’t often talked about in a good light. But President Donald Trump managed to bring him up at a rally in Lebanon, Ohio on Friday.
“So Robert E. Lee was a great general. And Abraham Lincoln developed a phobia. He couldn’t beat Robert E. Lee,” Trump said.
He went on to explain that Lee was “winning battle after battle after battle” in the Civil War, and that Lincoln came home and said “I can’t beat Robert E. Lee.”
At that point, Trump explained, Lincoln looked to Ulysses S. Grant to save the day – even though he was told Grant had a drinking problem.
“And he went in and knocked the hell out of everyone,” Trump said of Grant.
The Left has gone so out of it that they can’t tolerate the truth from our president.

At Portland’s ‘Law and Order’ March, a Bloody Melee and an American Flag Set Ablaze
Leftists hide their faces with masks while the Patriot Prayer group stood up to their gangster tactics. About time. This will not be the last violent confrontation. As long as the Left resorts to violence, the Right has no choice but to respond in kind.
Things are going to get a whole lot worse.
Participants with the conservative Patriot Prayer group and counterdemonstrators with Antifa got into a bloody melee outside a popular bar, where members on both sides used bear spray, fists and batons to beat each other, The Oregonian reported.
Police fired pepper balls and other nonlethal impact munitions to break up the brawls, and there were no immediate reports of arrests. Earlier in the evening, police reported seeing participants from both groups with hard knuckle gloves, knives, and firearms.
No weapons were reported seized.
Patriot Prayer Rally Turns Bloody; American Flag Rescued From Flames @ https://thefederalistpapers.org/opinion/patriot-prayer-rally-turns-bloody-american-flag-rescued-flames
MASSIVE BLOODY STREET BRAWL IN PORTLAND! Antifa Leftists Attack Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer Protesters in Street @ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/breaking-massive-bloody-street-brawl-in-portland-antifa-leftists-and-proud-boys-and-patriot-prayer-protesters-battle-in-street/
All sorts of Tweets w/videos

7 Pictures Illustrate Why Voters Should Choose the GOP this November
No few of them are right on the spot!





My guess is they would not be as excited if Republicans started adopting similar tactics.
Then we’d hear comparisons to brown-shirts and Nazis.
When will the violence, and threats of violence by Democrats end?

Ford Layoffs Not Due to Trump’s Tariffs
 
If only the loudmouth, Trump-hating media had asked Ford before lying like they usually do.
“The reports you have read about our organization redesign work being related to external forces such as tariffs are incorrect,” Ford Motor Company spokesperson Karen Hampton told Watchdog.org.
“This is a global effort and not specific to the U.S.,” she added. “We began this effort recently as part of our CEO’s work to make us a faster, more nimble, more innovative company.”
Hampton said she wished that everyone in the media had reached out to Ford before publishing their articles.

White woman claimed black 9yo boy sexually assaulted her
What the hell is going on with society today?
Local reporter Andrew Ramos shared footage taken of the store’s CCTV which shows the child did not grab the woman’s behind, but instead brushed against her with his schoolbag as he passed her in the aisle.
The New York Times reports Klein was confronted by neighbors when she returned to the store on Friday. A reporter at the scene urged her to watch the security footage of the incident. After viewing the footage, Klein made an apology to the boy through the reporters present.
“Young man, I don’t know your name but I’m sorry.” she said.

Austria tiring of being 'ashtray of Europe'
 
Neutrality has had its drawbacks. Staying out of the limelight and going about ones business is not always productive. So the new leadership of Austria is finding out.
Austria is tiring of its reputation as "the ashtray of Europe" -- at least according to the results of a nationwide petition backing a ban on smoking in cafes and restaurants.
All about the EU’s move to stop smoking in public places and a referendum of 14 percent of the Austrian electorate to do away with it.
Even though he was also part of the previous government that backed the law, Chancellor Kurz has maintained a studied silence on the issue.
Strache, who is also vice-chancellor, claims the current setup maintains "freedom of choice" and protects "the interests of non-smokers, smokers and restaurateurs".
However, a growing number of establishments are themselves becoming smoke-free.
The country's Economic Chamber, which represents businesses, says that "not a single establishment set up this year has set aside a smoking area".

The new music law and other tech news you may have missed
The media gets so caught up in anti-Trump garbage that there’s lots of stuff that slips by. We’ve got states taking the administration to federal court over the FCC’s stopping internet regulation. And then there’s this:
The latest news on the Facebook breach Friday may have caught everyone's attention, but there was other tech-related news this week that's worth your time — including a new music law and a possible IPO from Bumble.
Catch up quick: Trump signs the Music Modernization Act into law; a Nasdaq IPO from Bumble is under “serious consideration”; Waze rolls out Waze Carpool nationwide; Amazon's AI recruiter may have favored men; and Snapchat faces a lot of problems as it launches an original video series.
  • Why it matters: Many watched Kanye West meet President Trump at the White House, but what didn’t make news was the president signing the Music Modernization Act into law. The bill revamps Section 115 of the U.S. Copyright Act and aims to bring copyright law up to speed for the music streaming era. It's intended to improve royalty payouts, ensuring that artists are paid more and have an easier time collecting money they are owed.
  • Why it matters: Dating apps have become very profitable. The worldwide revenue in 2018 is projected at $3.2 billion and is expected to increase to $3.9 billion by 2023, per a Statista report.
  • Why it matters: Alphabet's first foray into ride-hailing is through none other than a classic carpooling service — a way for you to pick a few people up on your way to work without disrupting your route too much and still earn some money. After testing it for a couple of years, Alphabet-owned Waze is taking its service nationwide. Like other ride-hailing apps's carpool options, it’s an attempt to reduce traffic congestion.
  • Why it matters: It's another example of how artificial intelligence has a long road ahead before it can capture the diversity of the human race. The findings, originally reported by Reuters, is a textbook example of algorithmic bias. By learning from and emulating human behavior via the hiring data used to train it, the system ended up learning the same biases and prejudices.
Honorable mention: Elon Musk fired back at the Financial Times after it reported that outgoing 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch is the top contender for the Tesla chairman job. In a tweet, Musk called the report "incorrect."
From Axios

The Little College Where Tuition Is Free and Every Student Is Given a Job
Students at Berea in 1899. (Library of Congress) Co-educational and racially integrated.
Berea College, in Kentucky, has paid for every enrollee’s education using its endowment for 126 years.
I’ve never heard of this place but the story is amazing. 1,600 to 1,700 students that study for BA degrees in 32 majors. All working at a variety of jobs and ending up their four years with small debts, usually for things such as food and living accommodations.
A large number of students come from Appalachia.
It will make you smile – and wonder why other colleges can’t do the same. I’ve also read comments from posters who live in the area that it has a very liberal agenda.

This Ain’t the Mad Max Movie
It’s a festival in the middle of the Mojave Desert
All of this—the cars, the costumes, the choking dust, the binding heat—has created something as real, as lasting as any other community. At dusk one evening, things briefly quieted down, people heading to their tents to grab another layer of clothes. A group of War Boys—the bald, white, unsettling beings from Mad Max: Fury Road—marched down the street together, stripped to the waist, glowing faintly in the gathering dusk, like phosphorescent jellyfish. The lower edges of the horizon turned rose-pink. A small, trickling line of people ducked under the thin yellow rope marking the western edge of the Wasteland site and headed up a hill covered in rocks and scrub brush. At the top was a memorial, a metal screen covered in the names of Wastelanders who’ve passed.
4,100 people trek out to an enormous, dusty patch of rocks, scrub, and dirt near Edwards, California
I’ve never heard of this. Not even a hint. The pictures are amazing and it made me shake my head that anyone would spend so much money to do this stuff.

The Elusive Chicago Coyotes
They’ve adapted to human intrusion everywhere. In towns and cities wherever they can find food. Rodents. Garbage. And even small pets. As this article points out, they’ve even become accustomed to human patterns, waiting to cross streets on red lights. [They’re not the only animals to do so as I just saw a video of a raccoon doing the same thing.]
In my study of American Indians, I loved the many stories about Coyote.
Many Native American tales about Coyote, the trickster figure, begin with a standard opening: “Coyote was going along …” This phrasing bears some resemblance to the fairy-­tale salvo “Once upon a time …” There are differences worth noting, though. “Once upon a time” locates a story in some distant world, refracted through the prism of fantasy. “Coyote was going along” suggests something else. The audience to these narratives is dropped on the trail with this character, in midstride. The events of the tale may have occurred long ago, in a distant time, but its protagonist keeps going, trotting through our present. Coyote is always up to something, always on the move.
He frequently loses limbs and comes close to death, but Coyote always ends up skipping away, tail and ears high.
This is a long but very interesting article by a transplant from New Mexico to Chicago. Check it out @ https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-channel-coyotes/

NFL – Weak 6
And don’t try to convince us these are pre-game photos and videos!

El Niño Brewing
Bringing some relief to drought-stricken Southwest.
As Becker puts it, “The strength of El Niño doesn’t necessarily indicate the strength of its impacts on global weather. But a stronger El Niño can increase the likelihood that impacts of some kind will happen.”
If current forecasts are right, we won’t have to wait too much longer to find out just what El Niño will bring this time around.

Posted by Dale Day at 4:46 AM

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