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Sunday, August 12, 2018

News and I(nteresting Stuff for August 12, 2018

Every Member of the Trump Family has Received White Powder in the Mail
Where’s the outrage?
Where’s the media reporting?
A recent interview by Fox News’ Sean Hannity revealed that the entire extended family of President Donald Trump — sons, daughters, in-laws, and more — have had “white powder” terror envelopes mailed to them since the inauguration.
Let that happen to Nancy or Maxine or Al or Chuck and watch the firestorm.

Obama’s net worth EXPLODES after leaving office
Sounds eerily similar to the Clintons, doesn’t it?
Former President Barack Obama said he went to Washington to look out for the little guy, but new financial records show his family’s net worth has skyrocketed since he took office.
The Obamas are worth a mind-blowing 30-times more than they were when he was elected president in 2008 – and possibly much, much more than that.
Obama was worth $1.3 million when he was elected president in 2008.
He’s now worth an estimated $40 million – and that’s a low-ball figure.
Unlike most current politicians – from both parties – President Trump earned him money BEFORE entering office.

USDA Booting 700 employees out of D.C.
All part of President Trump’s efforts to make government more responsive to the needs of the people.
Secretary Perdue, who knows a bit about agriculture from the civilian side, wants to move The Economic Research Service and Research, Education and Economics branch outside the Beltway, closer to the people they serve, and where the cost of living is lower.
In addition, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has plans to move the Bureau of Land Management, the largest land-owning agency in the federal government, out West. A specific location has not yet been picked.
These steps could have a massive impact n future dealings between government agencies and the people they affect.

Manned Launches to Resume at Cape Canaveral
Boeing CST-100 Starliner
Space-X Crew Dragon
Seems the days of space shuttles are over. At least we seem to be reaching the point where we no longer need to rely on Russia to get our people to the International Space Station. Civilian companies seem to be coming up with boosters that NASA no longer has the capability of producing.
United Launch Alliance is involved in NASA’s Commercial Crew program that will take American astronauts into space on missions launched from U.S. soil. Since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011, the U.S. has been relying on Russian Soyuz rockets, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, to get astronauts to the International Space Station.

I.C.E. Nabs 11 Businesses Using Illegal Immigrant Labor
133 illegal immigrant workers were detained in the findings as well.
I’ve never heard of Christensen Farms but it appears to be the largest pork producer in the country. Not only were they hiring illegals, they were forcing them to cash their paycheck at an illegal remittance business for a fee, deducting tax money and not sending it to the government, and coercing them to remain quite about it.

Why Show the Hookers? Why Not Show the Johns?
Living in Nevada, my immediate response is to ask why they’re working on the streets and not in a clean, well-regulated brothel?
But I do agree that the best way to “clean this up” is to show the faces of the Johns. Let the whole world know what they’re doing. See how their friends and families react.
Carrying out undercover operations in the area (Willow Street) has become a routine response to complaints from residents, yet women keep returning to the area,” reads the article.
Because that’s where the customers are, duh.

San Francisco, Chicago, and Detroit Sliding into Chaos
It should surprise no one. Leftist governance has resulted in massive problems in these, as well as other cities. Crime. Homelessness. Lack of public services. Massive debt.
How did they get that way?
San Francisco has not had a Republican mayor since 1964, the height of Motown music in one of the other cities we are discussing.  For the past fifty-plus years, San Francisco has been led by a procession of Democrats.
Chicago's last Republican mayor finished his term in 1931, almost a century ago, followed by a string of Democrat mayors up to the present time.  At a national level, Chicago is currently represented by Democrat senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth.
Detroit's last Republican mayor finished his term in 1962, around the time the Supremes were singing "Where Did Our Love Go?"  Now they would be singing, "Where did our city go?"  Since the early 1960s, Detroit has had a succession of Democrat mayors, including Coleman Young and their famous hip-hop mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, now serving a long prison term.  Michigan, similar to Illinois and California, has two Democrat U.S. senators.

How the Press Lies about Itself
This opening paragraph tells it like it is and I couldn’t have phrased it better!
Ever notice how the press smushes stuff together?  If you say something about illegal immigration, like how you don't want it, the media say you're against immigration in general, which is to say "brown people," which is to say, aha, you have been exposed for what you are: a racist, a bad person, probably a Republican, and quite possibly a World Wrestling Entertainment habitué.  All this for pointing out something no more complicated than that when you decide to have laws, they ought to be obeyed, and when they're not obeyed, they should be enforced.  You want to say no, no, no, it's only illegal immigration I want to have a look at, but they blur the lines, pretending you're saying something you're not, something broader than that, so you can be vilified and ridiculed for the stupid, racist thing you're not saying.

Democrat Lawmaker Caught on Camera Stealing His Opponent’s Campaign Handouts
And the guy’s a philosophy teacher at a Hawaiian university. What kind of philosophy does he teach?

Bikers for Trump
Say what you want, he manages to draw a huge crowd. It would be great if local clubs could turn out to help conservatives being confronted by rabid Leftists.

Registered Democrat Loses It Over Online Political Argument – Shoots Other Person
Why not? The Dims support Antifa and other radical Leftists. Why not carry it to the extreme among themselves?
Tampa, Florida – Registered Democrat Brian Sebring, 44, and Alex Stephens, 46, had a major political disagreement on Facebook. Unfortunately, both live in Tampa, Florida, just two miles from each other. The Democrat allegedly armed up with an AR-15 and a Glock, drove over to Stephens’ home on Monday night and shot him in the butt and thighs. Brilliant way of handling a Facebook argument.
Yes, you read that right, a Democrat armed up with an AR-15 and Glock. Will wonders never cease.
Wonder if he’s an NRA member.
Georgia Democrat congressional candidate: ‘I hate this county’ @ https://conservativefiringline.com/georgia-democrat-congressional-candidate-i-hate-this-county/
What the hell is going on with the Dims?
AN HONEST DEMOCRAT=> Dem Congressional Candidate Admits: “I Hate This County. I Prayed to God That He Would Curse It” @ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08/an-honest-democrat-dem-congressional-candidate-admits-i-hate-this-country-i-prayed-to-god-that-he-would-curse-it/
Democrat Staffer Resigns After Old Tweets Surface Calling America A ‘Sh*thole Country,’ And Saying ‘F*ck You’ To Arizona @ https://www.weaselzippers.us/393663-democrat-staffer-resigns-after-old-tweets-surface-calling-america-a-shthole-country-and-saying-fck-you-to-arizona/
Surprised she was forced to resign.
Democrat congressman calls Trump supporters ‘a**holes’, shouts ‘I don’t give a f***’ @ https://mediaequalizer.com/martin-walsh/2018/08/democrat-congressman-calls-trump-supporters-aholes-shouts-i-dont-give-a-f

Grabbing a Beer With SecDef Mattis
So he drops into his favorite drinking place, Bern’s Tavern, to have a beer with the guys. Not a word about politics.
He's a Tri-Cities boy so we kept it local,” Petersen told IJR.
You could tell just my talking to him he was happy to be just hanging out. He said he doesn't get to go out for a beer in DC, they keep them all under pretty tight security. If you didn't know who he was and were having a beer with him, you would think he's just another funny, down to earth, local Tri-cities veteran...with a knife hand that is classified as a WMD.
A Four-Star Marine general as down-to-earth as one can get.

Tech Worker [H1-B] Visas Getting Stricter Scrutiny
Seems too many qualified Americans were passed up under the previous administration in favor of foreign applicants.
H-1B visas are available to foreign nationals “to perform services in a specialty occupation, services of exceptional merit and ability.” Over the years, parameters have expanded to include fashion models and other not-so-high-tech endeavors.
Some 65,000 H-1Bs are allotted each year for workers with bachelor’s degrees, and 20,000 more are earmarked for those with master’s degrees or higher. Universities and research organizations are exempt from the caps.
Over the past year, USCIS has received over 5,000 e-mails reporting various forms of fraud, abuse and wage slavery involving H-1Bs.

Fake Charities Exploiting Military Families
You’re living in a hotel with your family waiting for government quarters. You hear of charities designed to help you. The problem is that they don’t!
Major cases. Who are the people behind these fake charities? The most accurate way to describe them is as con artists. CBS’s MoneyWatch reported that some individuals have actually done this multiple times, such as the case of Utah-based Travis Deloy Peterson who is behind the organizations Veterans of America, Vehicles for Veterans, Saving our Soldiers, Act of Valor and Medal of Honor. The Federal Trade Commission has charged Peterson with violating the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act.
Documents filed by the FTC indicate that Peterson “has created and used a series of corporate entities and fictitious business names that sound like veterans’ charities (collectively, “fake charities”) to operate a telemarketing scheme that uses robocalls to trick generous Americans into giving their vehicles or other valuable property to him.” According to the case, both the calls and the claims that donations go to help veterans make his actions illegal.

Social Media Giants Shouldn’t Be Arbiters of Appropriate Speech
Of course they shouldn’t.
But, they’re private entities and one agrees to their Terms of Service when logging on. If they want to decide who uses their site and who doesn’t, that’s their business.
It’s not as if users wouldn’t possess a block button. I can’t recall a single time, in my decade using social media, that I opened an Infowars link. I doubt most of you have, either. Even if you did, you wouldn’t melt. They’re just words.
And the very last thing we need is some bureaucrat or politician telling them what to do.

What Kavanaugh Is Like Behind the Scenes: Former Clerks Share Stories
There’s nothing more telling about someone than what the people who work for him or her have to say. [At least those without a political agenda.]
In their own words.
In the midst of a very contentious debate over Judge Garland’s nomination, Judge Kavanaugh went out in public. He wasn’t going to take a position on whether to confirm or not confirm anyone,” Martinez said. “But he thought the right thing to do in that circumstance was tell people he thought Judge Garland was one of his heroes, that he thought he was supremely qualified and he wasn’t going to say anything bad about Judge Garland. I’m not sure everyone would have done that.”
Who else would have the juevos to do that?
Senator Grassley announces that hearings on Kavanaugh will start Sept 4.

The mystery of Jupiter's coloured bands is finally solved!
Why is this important? Why should we care?
Why not? Advancing our knowledge is important to our future. Perhaps what is happening there could have some meaning for something similar here.
Several strong jet streams flow west to east in Jupiter's atmosphere, which are similar to Earth's jet streams.
However, unlike on Earth where the jet streams meander across the surface, Jupiter's jet streams are more even and straight.
There are also no continents and mountains below Jupiter's atmosphere to obstruct the path of the jet streams.
As a result, the jet streams on Jupiter are much simpler than those on Earth, causing less turbulence in the upper atmosphere.
Clouds of ammonia at Jupiter's outer atmosphere are carried along by these jet streams to form Jupiter's regimented coloured bands.

How troops learn to sleep anywhere, any how, any way
It’s something you learn from your first day of in-processing. Hurry up and wait is the order of the day and what better way to pass the “wait” than dozing off?
The next contributing factor is that troops are generally sleep deprived and have their sleep cycles interrupted constantly. Starting in basic training, a drill sergeant could wake everyone up at 0100 for sh*ts and giggles, have a special someone pull fire guard at 0300, and wake up for the rest of the day at 0500.

Chinese Military Video
It’s a bit over 2 minutes long and in Chinese. But, it tells an awesome story and is well-worth the time to watch it.
Pure propaganda.



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