GOP recruiting women, political outsiders to run for House
It’s the only way we’re going to retake the House in 2020. It’s so refreshing to see that the RNC is getting off its duff to do what’s needed.
(House Minority Leader Kevin ) McCarthy (R-Calif) says he's met with over 30 contenders, of whom nearly 6 in 10 are women and nearly half are minorities. Rep. Susan Brooks, R-Ind., recruitment chief for the National Republican Congressional Committee, the House GOP's campaign arm, says more than 130 women have contacted the committee about running. Another group called Winning for Women and E-PAC, formed by Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., are also seeking female GOP candidates.
So far, Republicans haven't matched Democrats' ability to attract women candidates. According to data collected by The Associated Press through noon last Monday, just 38 of 172 declared Republican House challengers were women, around 1 in 5. That compared to 84 of 222 declared House Democratic challengers, nearly 2 in 5.
Democrats scoff that GOP efforts will flop because Americans care less about candidates' attributes than about issues like buttressing health care and wages.
What do you think? Can GOP candidates win by running on the economy and defending our borders? Or will the Dimocrap giveaway promises win?
House GOP Focusing on Women, Minorities for 2020 Challengers @ https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/US-Election-2020-House-GOP-Recruits/2019/05/13/id/915698/
And then comes this:
Iowa Trump voters want Warren-style policies
Some of President Trump's supporters in Sioux City, Iowa love liberal populist proposals. They just don't love the 2020 Democrats as the messengers.
Reading the article indicates that most of the women surveyed indicating they went along with the idea of forgiving part or all of student loans. They also want a tax on banks.
In other words, they get sucked in by the liberal propaganda of the Left.
So, how to conservative GOP candidates overcome it?
They're not excited about any of the 2020 Democrats running for president, and they only really recognized Warren, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. "The presidency is a man's job," said 44-year-old Jamison P.
The economy was the issue that came up the most among this group when discussing their top concern heading into the 2020 presidential election. And although half of the respondents thought the national economy is booming, no one said they've seen an increase in their own wages or financial situation.
The bottom line: It's still early, but right now Warren — or any other Democrat — would face an enormous challenge winning these voters back even though there's a market for her style of populism.
What America’s swing voters think about climate change and energy
Swing voters in three of America’s top battleground states want President Trump to do more on climate change, think the weather is getting weirder and don’t know much about the Green New Deal.
Stuff like this frightens me. Have we created a populace of dunces who cannot see reality? How do they so easily get caught up in the tripe driven their way by the eco-freaks?
Another Iowa voter, Christine, said in the focus group that Iowa’s recent floods may be linked to Arctic ice melting. “The water maybe comes from there,” she said.
Ohmagawd. That’s unbelievable!!!!
The bottom line: Energy and climate change seem to be rising in the minds of America’s swing voters, but the extent of concern appears less intense than many might otherwise assume if you just watch Twitter or cable news.
US Marines needing Slang Dictionaries to Talk with their Aussie counterparts?
The Marines and sailors, who by July are expected to number 2,500, are slated to take part in several exercises before heading home in October. It’s a chance to hone skills and strengthen ties, while working through possible differences in lingo.
And they’re going to need to catch on to stuff like this:
A glossary in the original WWII-era booklet provides some other “colorful, picturesque” words and phrases — and hints at likely common interests among the troops of both countries, if not a common vocabulary.
Included among the first 20 words are the following selections, some of which appear to have fallen out of use: sheila – a babe; cliner – another babe; sninny – a third babe; shivoo – a party; shikkered – drunk; plonk – cheap wine; shout – to buy drinks for the house; smooge – to pitch woo (to flirt); cobber – pal.
I think it’s hilarious.
An Aussie Air Force Group Captain – the equivalent of a US full colonel – got himself in trouble for telling a local newspaper that they needed to educate the US visitors as, “The time to figure that out is not on the battlefield when the bullets are flying.”
Seems Aussies are proud of the fact that they use more slang than any other English speakers in the world.
(Don’t think they’ve ever visited some US neighborhoods)
More of this fun stuff @ https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/05/no-australian-soldiers-arent-banned-from-using-slang-around-us-marines/
Australia election: Fines, donkey votes and democracy sausages
One has to go to the site to view the video a bit over 2 minutes long – but most entertaining @ https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-australia-47895022/australia-election-2019-what-s-up-for-grabs
Australia election: The campaign with cash to splash @ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-48196027
The US is ‘operating blind’ in the Arctic
With all the money we’ve spent on technology, it’s still the human eye that’s needed for our ships to navigate polar waters.
When it comes to predicting fluctuations in Arctic weather, the United States is “operating in the blind,” the U.S. Navy’s chief meteorologist said Monday.
The northern polar region is heating up about twice as fast as the rest of the globe, creating wildly variable weather and conditions that don’t happen anywhere else. As climate change makes the Arctic more accessible, the Navy’s ships, subs, and aircraft need better weather models to help them operate in the region’s chaotic seas, Rear Adm. John Okon told an audience at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space conference on Monday.
Okon said relatively small atmospheric events in the Arctic, sometimes called polar lows, can be as dangerous as hurricanes at lower latitudes. They “develop quick and move really fast,” he said.
And the Soviets are expanding their bases along their northern borders. They already have a huge advantage as they’ve been in those waters throughout their entire history.
Women Are Putting Their Money Where Their Mouth Is...And It's Going To Trump
This Townhall piece indicates tht 10,375 women donated to the 2020 Trump campaign, far ahead of any of the Dim opponents. Harris was the best Dim but she only had 3,850.
According to Open Secrets, female Trump supporters donated between $200 and $499/
“He talks about women just like he would talk to a typical American voter,” Kayleigh McEnany, press secretary for the 2020 Trump campaign, told Fox News. “Democrats pander to women. President Trump acts for women and speaks to women.”
Leftist Nightmare as Women’s Donations to Trump Jump 60%, Now Nearly Half of All Donors @ https://gellerreport.com/2019/05/women-donating-2trump-jumps-60percent.html/
Sri Lanka imposes nationwide curfew after mosques attacked
Muslims slaughter hundreds attending Easter services and the police break up crowds demonstrating at mosques and shops owned by Muslims.
What’s wrong with this picture?
A Reuters reporter saw a mob of several dozen young Sinhalese men wielding sticks and rods in what appeared to be a standoff in the town of Madulla in North Western Province.
Many anxious Muslims were hunkering down at home but young men, some of them carrying rods, were still zipping around on motorbikes, despite regional curfews from 2 p.m. before the nationwide curfew was imposed.
The Media Wounded
There still exists a physical media in the sense of airing current events. But it is not journalism as we once understood the disinterested reporting of the news. Journalism is now dead. The media lives on.
I don’t think I’ve ever read truer words! We have News Readers who get their words from behind-the-scenes producers who never have to face the public. And many of the Talking Heads are employed for their left-leaning biases.
Reporters today believe that their coverage serves higher agendas of social justice, identity politics, “equality” and diversity. To the degree a news account is expanded or ignored, praised or blasted, depends on its supposed utility to the effort to fundamentally transform the country into something unlike its founding.
At the recent third president-less White House Correspondents’ Dinner, passive-aggressive journalists whined that they were victims, standing on the barricades against the all-powerful, all-evil—and all absent—Donald Trump. If the attempt was to return professionalism to the evening and eschew the pathological celebrity obsessions of the past, the result was only more confirmation of the self-referential and narcissistic culture of the Washington press corps.
Why should we believe reporters suddenly worried about ethics, and free inquiry and speech?
Defiance!
Good for them.
Full story with Tweets @ https://conservativefiringline.com/defiance-san-jacinto-county-texas-officials-illuminate-courthouse-crosses-after-atheists-demand-removal/
Public-Sector Unions: The Other Deep State
Government unions insulate their members from the challenges facing ordinary private citizens. On every major issue of our time; globalization, immigration, climate change, the integrity of our elections, crime and punishment, regulations, government spending, and fiscal reform, the interests and political bias of public-sector unions is inherently in conflict with the public interest. Today, there may be no greater core threat to the freedom and prosperity of the American people.
Here’s why we have to do away with them:
Public-sector unions do not negotiate with management accountable to shareholders, but instead with politicians whom they help elect and, therefore, are accountable to the unions. Moreover, politicians, unlike corporate executives, typically occupy their offices for shorter periods of time. And politicians, unlike corporate executives, don’t own shares that might be devalued after they leave office due to decisions they made while in office.
There is one good thing on the horizon. With the SCOTUS ruling that union dues many no longer be mandatorily taken from government employees salaries, union membership has plummeted. And, it keeps falling.
How did the states get their names and shapes?
If you observe carefully, you will find that many states have been named after dukes, kings, queens, presidents, islands, and other places that the travelers and explorers fancied. But most names were christened by native Indians. These names mostly described the place and characteristics of the land. One of the states was even named after an Aztec God!
Do you know how your state got its name?
Check it out @ https://historyplex.com/how-did-50us-states-get-their-names
As for the second part of the question, the answers to that can be found @ https://www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/how-did-the-states-get-their-shapes
UK losing it!
A group of men of migrant descent threaten to rape a girl in Portsmouth. One of them then states they will 'rape the whole country'. If the races were reversed & white men were seen threatening a migrant girl, this would be front page news!pic.twitter.com/S6toMTQqs5
— Mark Collett (@MarkACollett) May 8, 2019
In the video, the victim is reduced to tears as she’s approached by three men. As they walk towards her, one of the men yells: “We’re gonna rape you. We’re gonna rape the whole f***ing country.”
“What you gonna f***ing do about it?” he askes, as a second individual spat on the woman.
“This is what it’s like to be a woman in the UK,” the woman said in an additional video.
More of this disgusting story @ https://gellerreport.com/2019/05/uk-muslim-gang-rape-country.html/
Obama-appointed Judge to hear showdown between President Trump and the House
Mehta sits on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and has been the subject of non-stop investigations by Republicans since be appointed in 2014.
I wonder how he got the suit? Merrick Garland – name sound familiar – is the Chief Judge and assigns cases as he sees fit.
On Monday, the Republican president’s attorneys objected to Mehta’s plan to fast-track the lawsuit by holding a trial on Tuesday, saying that would deny Trump a “full and fair” hearing.
Either way, Mehta will likely issue a written decision at a later date, although he may indicate on Tuesday how he intends to rule. Whatever the outcome, his ruling will almost certainly be appealed to a higher court.
The appeal, when it comes, will go to a panel of judges from the district court, again appointed by Judge Garland. After that, it will go to SCOTUS.
More of this @ https://ijr.com/first-court-test-trump-house-probes/
Filipino President Duterte To Hand Out 42,000 Free Guns To Battle Drugs And Crime
The Philippines has vowed to give free guns to members of the public — so long as they promise to use them to fight drugs and crime.
President Rodrigo Duterte said he’s considering arming 42,000 community leaders, known as barangay captains, after consulting with the police and intelligence agency.
Martin Dino, the interior department undersecretary responsible for barangays, said handguns would be provided for free, or private purchases subsidized, but only for those not involved in illegal drugs.
Dino said: “The condition is that the barangay captain should fight drugs and crime. If he is conniving with criminals, he could be the one shot.”
Duterte has repeatedly said thousands of community officials were involved in the trade, without elaborating.
Philippines midterm elections boost Rodrigo Duterte's power
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's allies appear to have scored sweeping victories in the country's midterm elections. The results signal broad public backing for the leader's authoritarian style, say experts.
That should really frost a lot of “human rights advocates.”
Low Water in the Yukon River
The article doesn’t go into a lot of detail so I have to guess there’s something going on to cause it.
Is a college degree worth it?
You’ll be blown away to learn who’s asking the question!
A college professor for 25 years.
He talks about how much it costs to get a degree. Between $60 and $200k. I think that’s an underestimate and doesn’t count all the professional students who spend decades getting their doctorates.
A graduate can make good money in STEM, particularly in engineering. But fewer students major in science than other areas.
If someone took the cost of four years of college–and that assumes students finish in that time–and invested the money into the stock market or a house, the estimated $20,000-a-year gap between the salary of a high school grad and a college grad shrinks considerably.
Moreover, there are a lot of jobs where high school grads can make a lot of money.
It’s something I’ve frequently posted about and it surprises me to see it coming from a professor.
U.S. Women's Soccer Co-Captain: ‘I’ll Probably Never Sing The National Anthem Again’
Get rid of her.
Now.
The co-captain of the United States Women’s national soccer team, Megan Rapinoe, told Yahoo Sports, "I'll probably never put my hand over my heart. I’ll probably never sing the national anthem again,” boasting that she is "a walking protest when it comes to the Trump administration,” because of "everything I stand for.” She added, “I feel like it's kind of defiance in and of itself to just be who I am and wear the jersey, and represent it. Because I'm as talented as I am, I get to be here, you don't get to tell me if I can be here or not. So it's kind of a good ‘F you' to any sort of inequality or bad sentiments that the [Trump] administration might have towards people who don't look exactly like him. Which, God help us if we all looked like him. Scary. Really scary. Ahh, disturbing."
More of this disgusting story @ https://www.dailywire.com/news/47169/us-womens-soccer-co-captain-ill-probably-never-hank-berrien
I sent the following email to communications@ussoccer.org
Re: Megan Rapinoe
I am extremely angry that a member of a team representing the United States of America should be so ignorant as to protest the national anthem. If she's ashamed of this country - go play for a different one. I sure don't want US taxpayer dollars paying her to play on our team.
Maybe others can do the same.
California Dems want to do away with single family homes
Co-Author claims existing land use regulations exclude people “for economic reasons and race reasons.”
All in the name of fairness?
If you have the stomach to read all of it, go to https://www.dailywire.com/news/47205/ca-bill-would-eliminate-single-family-home-zoning-jeffrey-cawood
Finally! A way to return flavor to bland tomatoes
When was the last time you plucked one from the vine in a garden as just savored its taste?
When one starts typing the phrase "Tomatoes taste like…", in Google, the six most common auto-complete suggestions are "blood," "dirt," "fish," "pumpkin," "chlorine" and "wet dog."
If you, too, have ever lamented tasting wet dog (or, uh, blood) as you've bitten into a store-bought tomato-and-cheese sandwich for lunch, you may be in luck.
On Monday, scientists introduced a rare version of a gene that promises to make store-bought tomatoes taste more edible in a report published in Nature Genetics.
Tomato breeders usually sacrifice the flavor of their batches for the sake of production, opting to instead breed larger fruits in higher quantities with longer shelf lives.
A team of researchers (perhaps after hearing such "wet dog" and "dirt" complaints) gathered genetic information from 725 wild tomatoes and constructed a "pan-genome," or a genome with information from all 725 tomatoes.
Has anyone here eaten a tomatillo?
More of the story @ https://www.dw.com/en/finally-a-way-to-return-flavor-to-bland-tomatoes/a-48732899
Austrian state plans 'Ten Commandments' for refugees
That certainly will anger Leftists who believe people don’t have to integrate when they come to a new country.
Among the rules, migrants are required to:
Learn German
Adhere to Austrian laws
Adopt "Austrian values" and raise children in accordance with them;
Resolve conflicts nonviolently
Respect religious freedom
Prevent unnecessary suffering to animals
Show gratitude to Austria
Ohmahgawd, how can they demand such things?
Speak the language of the country?
Respect religious freedom?
You gotta be kidding me.
More of this @https://www.dw.com/cda/en/austrian-state-plans-ten-commandments-for-refugees/a-48712265
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