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Friday, May 25, 2018

The News You Won't Easily Find for May 25, 2018






While Media Whines About President Not Holding Press Conferences,


ABC’s Political Director says He’s 'Above and Beyond' More Accessible Than Obama, Bush

It’s amazing that anybody from ABC would say anything close to friendly about the president.

[Rick] Klein explained:

“In every way that I can think about, he’s changed the way that a president communicates: the way a president articulates positions, the way the president communicates with world leaders as well as the public. He used the megaphone of Twitter and also kind of informal statements and media availability in and around his day-to-day in such a radically different way.”



NO BLUE WAVE: Texas Democratic Gubernatorial Runoff Lowest In Nearly 100 Years

It keeps getting worse and worse for the Dims. Their negativity is showing results at the polls. People vote FOR things, not against.



Federal Agency Known for Fraud & Waste Finances Own Attacks

Secretary Carson tries to do the right thing and a so-called non-profit getting money from George Soros AND the Secretary’s own HUD, is suing him for doing it! I won’t even try to get into much of it as it’s complicated, no surprise for such stuff.

Here’s an amusing—and unbelievable—story about the most overtly communist agency in the U.S. government financing its own attacks with taxpayer money. A nonprofit that receives millions of dollars from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is suing the agency in federal court for suspending a controversial Obama program with far-reaching racial and ethnic housing quotas. Known as Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH), the policy aims to transform nearly all of the nation’s neighborhoods with unprecedented low-income housing quotas and preferred ethnic and racial formulas.

If you really want to get into it, there’s a whole lot more @ https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2018/05/federal-agency-known-fraud-waste-finances-attacks/


President Trump’s Animal Comments


Americans are aghast. Right?

Wrong!

A recent poll shows 56 percent of Americans believe President Trump's “animals” comment was fair, compared to just 44 percent who found the characterization unfair. Fifty-two percent even went so far as to say terms that “dehumanize” members of the violent gang is acceptable.

As usual, the media can’t remove their heads from their anuses to see the truth. More @ https://ijr.com/2018/05/1098243-americans-agree-ms-13-animals/


The White Who Claims to be Black Nailed for Welfare Fraud

Oh my oh my. How could that be? Remember her? She disappeared from the news for a while and it seems she couldn’t tolerate the obscurity.

Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP chapter leader who resigned after her parents revealed she’s not African-American, is facing a felony theft charge in Washington state after she allegedly made false statements to secure nearly $9,000 in food and childcare assistance.

The charges against Dolezal, who changed her name to Nkechi Diallo in October 2016, were first reported by KHQ-TV.

According to court documents, investigators with Washington state’s Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) started looking into Dolezal’s finances in March 2017 after the publication of her autobiography, “In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World.”



A better picture of her


Comey Disaster: Agent Who Quit Over Rigged Hillary Investigation Heads to Congress

The rats are scurrying out of the sewers.

Well, now we’re finally about to see some fireworks. Three top witnesses are going to testify before lawmakers: John Giacalone, who was in charge of the Clinton investigation for the first seven months; Bill Priestap, assistant director of the FBI’s counterintelligence division; and Michael Steinbach, former head of the FBI’s national security division and the man who succeeded Giacalone.

It’s going to be interesting to see how much coverage the media gives this.




NKorea Weaseling Now That President Trump Nixed the Summit

The Leftist media continues to underestimate the president in his dealing with foreign leaders. Especially those as paranoid as Kim Jong Un. He plays the media like they play him. But this time, the stakes are sky high – ending a 6 decades old war and possibly averting the use of nukes.

It didn’t take long before Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan was sounding a significantly different tune.
The Associated Press reported Friday that he announced the country was willing to sit down with the United States “at any time, at any format” and was “willing to give the U.S. time and opportunities” to reconsider.
Kim, meanwhile, is said to have called the cancellation of talks “unexpected” and “very regrettable,” and said that North Korea’s “objective and resolve to do our best for the sake of peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula and all humankind remain unchanged.”


Scaramucci: Trump's 'Preemptive Move' on NKorea 'Right One'



It ain’t over ‘til the fat lady sings.


After 16 Years, Efforts in Afghanistan “Mostly Failed”

This report shouldn’t surprise anyone.

“Between 2001 and 2017, U.S. government efforts to stabilize insecure and contested areas in Afghanistan mostly failed.”

That’s the main conclusion in the latest “lessons learned” report to Congress from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). After 16 years, nearly 2,400 U.S. service members killed, and untold billions spent, the U.S. government is no closer to achieving the “peace and freedom” that President George W. Bush promised would prevail in Afghanistan when he announced combat operations there in October 2001.

It then lists the reasons which are rather simple when looked at in hindsight.

Greatly overestimated its ability to build and reform government institutions
Arrogance
Wasteful spending
An inadequate strategy
Obama’s timeline “had a profound and harmful impact on countless downstream decisions regarding stabilization planning, staffing, and programming.”



Pope Francis to be Replaced by a Nigerian Cardinal?

Why not? Nothing about the Roman Catholic church should surprise anyone any more.

Here’s part of one of his speeches:

Sarah told the young pilgrims that "western society has chosen to establish itself without God," and that without God, it will become the "cradle of an ethical and moral terrorism more virulent and more destructive than Islamist terrorism." Without Christ, this lion from Africa said, Europe would be a society of "error, hopeless nihilism, or aggressive Islamism."



Julian Assange On the Brink of Eviction, Situation is ‘Unusually Bad’

Ecuador is clearly receiving lots of heat about the Wikileaks founder. And, if he steps out of the embassy, police will swoop in and take him into custody, extraditing him to the US.

“The concern from day one until the present is that if Julian Assange walks out of the Embassy, he will be extradited to face what the executive director of the ACLU described as an ‘unprecedented and unconstitutional’ prosecution under the U.S. Espionage Act,” his lawyer, Melinda Taylor, told CNN.

I doubt that his being in the cooler will stop the organization from gathering and releasing information a lot of people don’t want to surface.



Solar Panels Not So Eco-Friendly After All

Not just for destroying thousands of acres of land where wildlife once roamed free. Now endless acres of toxic waste from their production. And they still need carbon based fuel to operate properly in massive arrays.

Solar panel disposal in “regular landfills [is] not recommended in case modules break and toxic materials leach into the soil,” the Electric Power Research Institute determined in a 2016 study.

There is growing concern over the possibility of rainwater washing cadmium out of panels and into the environment. In Virginia, for example, a group of locals are pushing back against a proposal to construct a 6,350-acre solar farm in Spotsylvania County.

“We estimate there are 100,000 pounds of cadmium contained in the 1.8 million panels,” Sean Fogarty of Concerned Citizens of Fawn Lake stated to Shellenberger. “Leaching from broken panels damaged during natural events — hail storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc. — and at decommissioning is a big concern.”

Who woulda thunk it?



Who’s to Blame for Higher Gas Prices?


Of course Chuckie Schmummer blames President Trump for it for nixing the unconstitutional Iran Deal.

Tom Kloza, an oil industry analyst and founder of the Oil Price Information Service, said Schumer is wrong to pin the blame for rising gasoline prices on Trump.

“Perhaps 75% of the ascent for crude oil and gasoline was tied to the usual factors; a very disciplined OPEC agreement and global demand growth that has outpaced global supply growth,” Kloza told us via email. “The withdrawal from the Iranian agreement helped promote a small geopolitical risk premium on oil, as did the continued deterioration of Venezuelan oil production and refinery output.
Want a laugh? Read the following:

“Gas prices are at crazy levels–fire Obama!” Trump tweeted on Oct. 22, 2012, when the national average for regular gas was $3.69 a gallon.



Pigs Aren’t Flying, But Mother Jones and FAIR Agree on E-Verify


As the author points out, having either group agree on the need to verify immigration status of workers is a miracle.

Here’s something you would probably never expect to read on FAIR’s blog site: Mother Jones is right!

Here’s something you would probably never expect to read on the pages of Mother Jones: They think FAIR is right about a key element of immigration reform!


Posted by Dale Day at 4:12 PM

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