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Thursday, July 11, 2019

Air-Conditioning Is ‘Sexist,’ The Story Behind Company Names, Beetle production ending after 80 years, ‘Salute to America’ Attendees Say the Long Wait, Heavy Rain Was Worth It, and a lot more for July 11, 2019


‘Salute to America’ Attendees Say the Long Wait, Heavy Rain Was Worth It
I would say that was the mood of over 90% of the people who were there.
The only ones who didn’t enjoy it was the hand full of protesters and their deflated balloon.
He (Birch) said that he liked that the speech “was focused on the nation, that it was non-partisan, that it was really about Independence Day was about.”
“It was about acknowledging the men and women who have died for our freedom. And that was great,” he said. “He did a very good job covering all the branches of the armed forces, and even the people he acknowledged before he got started. I mean, really, some of them were tearing up, some of us were tearing up…it was great.”
There was also criticism of some attendees being given “VIP” tickets for the show, for seats closer to where the president would speak in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
But many of those attendees were military families, like Bill Wheatley’s, from Stockton, New Jersey.
“I’m just here to celebrate the Fourth of July and Independence Day and you know have a good time, and be with my family,” Wheatley told Breitbart News.
“My son is going to Marine [Officer Candidate School] on Sunday, he reports, so we want to spend some time together. My daughter is in Army basic training right now, so we just wanted to come and be together and celebrate our great country and our freedom and that we’re able to do this and just come here and have a nice time,” he said.

Trump's patriotism vs. the new anti-Americanism
I cannot disagree with one word of the following:
Despite all the grousing and griping about his “politicizing” of the Fourth of July and “militarizing” America’s birthday, President Donald Trump turned the tables on his antagonists, and pulled it off.
Pull it off he did. To a packed house. I’m sure there were more people in the trees on both sides of the Reflecting Pool that got everything on the massive TV screen everywhere. I can’t find any pictures but am certain the Park Service did not have a whole lot to do to clean up after the crowd – unlike where the protesters were.
A specter of anti-Americanism appears to be rising on the left.
Listening to the Democratic debates, and the depiction of the nation and its economy by the candidates, one would think we were living in the Paris of “Les Miserables” or the London of Charles Dickens.
Demography undeniably favors a millennial-dominant Democratic Party over the middle-aged and seniors party that is the GOP.
Yet how does a party, 3 of 4 of whose adherents profess no pride in its political system, persuade the nation to put it in charge of that system? How does a party, not one-fourth of whom are “extremely proud” to be an American, persuade a majority of Americans to entrust it with the leadership of their nation?
From liberals and progressives, we constantly hear griping, grousing and grievances. When do we hear the gratitude – for America?
YOUNG LADY GETS EMOTIONAL After President Trump’s Historic Speech: “This is the first time I’ve ever cried at a 4th of July” @ https://100percentfedup.com/young-lady-gets-emotional-after-president-trumps-historic-speech-this-is-the-first-time-ive-ever-cried-at-a-4th-of-july-video/
They Don’t Hate Donald Trump—They Hate You
They hate you because you disagree with their desire to turn this great nation into a socialist sewer.
In the scant two-and-a-half years since his inauguration, on every field, from national security, to economics, to domestic policy, to our global standing, the 45th president has proven that not only are we a great nation but that we are again the greatest nation on the Earth. That is what the Left hates him. But they hated you first because you believed it too and you made his victory possible.
Savor that thought today, as you celebrate our Republic and as the those who loathe America stew in their own bile.
Happy Independence Day America.

Democrat Rep. Secretly Sending Staffers To Mexico To Coach Migrants On Seeking Asylum
We’ve got Spartacus Booker leading illegals into the country and now we have this Dim representative sending people to find people to come into the country in spite of the law.
There has to be something done about this.
“What we believe is happening is Veronica Escobar’s office is going … to basically second-guess and obstruct work already done by the Border Patrol,” a union official told the Washington Examiner.
The loophole exists because the “Remain in Mexico” policy requires returned migrants to be fluent in Spanish while they stay in that country for up to five years pending a U.S. judge’s asylum claim decision.
Dem Rep. Could Face Criminal Charges For ‘Obstruction’ In Illegal ‘Coaching’ @ https://conservativedailypost.com/dem-rep-could-face-criminal-charges-for-obstruction-in-illegal-coaching/
Could? Must!
And this has been verified by various sources.

The Unemployment Rate went up in June
One-tenth of a percent from 3.6 to 3/7.
Golly gee. That’s horrible. The Left has to step in to save our nation. The labor market is weakening.
Oops.
The reason is that more working-age Americans are stepping up and looking for work.
In a time of very low unemployment, bringing more Americans into the workforce is a key to economic growth. It also reflects working conditions and wages becoming more attractive over time, meaning the workforce is very likely happier. That’s hard to measure but increasing workforce participation is one of the best signals we have of worker happiness.
And there’s more room for improvement. The current participation rate is still well below pre-Great Recession levels. That means the expansion may continue for sometime without straining the economy because there are still more workers to be drawn back into jobs.

Illegal Alien from Kenya now facing charges for 750 murders!
The number boggles the mind. I don’t think the most intensive bombing raid in Europe during WWII caused that many.
Who the hell is this guy?
And why is the media silent about it?
An illegal alien from Kenya is a serial killer who preys on elderly women.
On May 16, 2019, authorities in Dallas, Texas, said former health care worker Billy Chemirmir, 46, who was previously arrested in the death of an 81-year-old woman has been charged with killing at least 11 more elderly women in Dallas and Collin counties.
Someone, somewhere has to be held accountable for this. How did he get work being close to elderly people? Who decided he could work in health care? Who failed to verify his legal status?
The guy will get the death sentence but he can only die once? What about the families of the 750? Will his death ease their pain?

The Story Behind Company Names
Six Flags is self-evident. But, these others might be quite interesting.
1. Twitter
2. Skype
3. Facebook
4. Lego
5. Amazon
6. Starbucks
7. 7-Eleven
8. Apple
9. Häagen-Dazs
10. Samsung
11. Ikea
12. Google
13. Panera Bread
14. Six Flags
15. Gap, Inc.

Bay Area critics decry Fed’s plan to use banned rodent poison on Farallon Islands
So what? Nobody lives there full time. They’re overrun with rats because of people and the bird population is dying off because the predators are eating their eggs and young, along with them.
In spite of the eco-freaks whining, here’s what the fed say:
The Fish and Wildlife Service argues otherwise regarding the effectiveness of the poison baiting, stating that brodifacoum-pellet drops have proved successful in 28 of the 30 similar eradication projects that have been undertaken across the globe since 2007.
They can use all the safety steps possible but some creatures will die. Better than the entire population being wiped out by the rats.

1 in 4 Americans say they never plan to retire despite realities of aging
Some people work because they enjoy it and it keeps them from getting stale and bored. Others just don’t to accept that they’re getting old.
According to the poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs
Research, 23% of workers, including nearly 2 in 10 of those over 50, don't expect to stop working. Roughly another quarter of Americans say they will continue working beyond their 65th birthday.
According to government data, about 1 in 5 people 65 and older was working or actively looking for a job in June.
For many, money has a lot to do with the decision to keep working.

FBI, ICE use driver license photos without owners’ knowledge or consent
This is news?
Police at all levels have been using driver license data bases for decades. And anyone who gets one – or a state ID – knows the information isn’t going to be kept from the cops or feds.
Thousands of facial-recognition requests, internal documents, and e-mails over the past five years, obtained through public-records requests by Georgetown University researchers and provided to The Washington Post, reveal that federal investigators have turned state Department of Motor Vehicles databases into the bedrock of an unprecedented surveillance infrastructure.
Police have long had access to fingerprints, DNA, and other ‘‘biometric data’’ taken from criminal suspects. But the DMV records contain the photos of the majority of a state’s residents, most of whom have never been charged with a crime.
State driver's license databases prove valuable for FBI, ICE for facial-recognition searches @ https://www.foxnews.com/tech/state-drivers-license-databases-prove-valuable-for-fbi-ice-for-facial-recognition-searches-report

Mexico disrupts human-smuggling rings along Guatemala border
The Mexican president is living up to his agreement with President Trump. He’s making major changes to the security forces and it’s beginning to show improvement.

The Woz says people should leave Facebook
Who?
Steve Wozniak, the guy who co-founded Apple. The guy responsible for putting PCs in your home. A leading figure in the computer world.
“There are many different kinds of people, and some [of] the benefits of Facebook are worth the loss of privacy,” Wozniak told TMZ, which spoke with the tech mogul at Reagan National Airport in D.C. “But to many like myself, my recommendation is – to most people – you should figure out a way to get off Facebook.”
Wozniak deleted his Facebook account back in March 2018, shortly after news broke about the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, which revealed that the private data of millions of Facebook users was being harnessed by the firm that worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign. The United Kingdom's top data watchdog group concluded that Cambridge Analytica's use of Facebook's data was illegal under British law.

Five best smartphone buys for summer 2019
I don’t know squat about them so this is all a matter of the author’s beliefs. Judge for yourselves.
Google Pixel 3a
Motorola Moto G7]
IPhone XR
Iphone XS
Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus

Supplements barely do anything for your health
I quit take them a couple of years ago, realizing they were just a waste of my $$$.
Some 34% of adults take supplements every day - driving a market that has grown 6% in five years is now worth an annual $37 billion globally
But a new US study found their benefits to be limited
I’m no expert but would dare to guess that a good diet would do as much, if not more, for one’s health.

Shirts and shade my not stop you from getting sunburned
I saw this on TV yesterday and had to grin.
Here are some myths about it:
Myth 1: Swim in a T-shirt to stay safe
Myth 2: I don’t need cream if it’s cloudy
Myth 3: A ‘base tan’ will protect my skin
Myth 4: Contacts will protect my eyes
Myth 5: Hats give great protection
Myth 6: I’m safe if I stay in the shade
Myth 7: Waterproof sunscreen lasts
Myth 8: Once-a-day cream keeps you covered.
After more skin cancer surgeries than I can possibly count, I can tell you that the only way to protect you if you’re light skinned is to stay indoors.
There are people with a lot of melanin in their skins that don’t have to worry so much. But, no matter how dark your skin, Ole King Sol will getcha if you’re not careful.

Trump's Deregulatory Successes
I don’t pretend to understand a lot of this. It seems the thrust is that deregulation frees up business which allows it to expand and hire more people. Something very good for the economy.
And that President Trump is directly behind the effort to deregulate.
In its conclusion, the CEA sums up the issue nicely:
Since 2017, consumers and small businesses have been able to live and work with more choice and less Federal government interference [DRH note: in the areas the CEA analyzed.] They can purchase health insurance in groups or as individuals without paying for categories of coverage that they do not want or need. Small businesses can design compensation packages that meet the needs of their employees, enter into a genuine franchise relationship with a larger corporation, or seek confidential professional advice on the organization of their workplaces. Consumers have a variety of choices as to less expensive wireless and wired Internet access. Small banks are no longer treated as “too big to fail” (they never were) and be subject to the costly regulatory scrutiny that goes with that designation.
As President Obama said three days after taking office in 2009, “Elections have consequences.” One consequence of President Trump’s election, which came as a welcome surprise to those of us who saw nothing in his past to suggest he was a deregulator, is a series of deregulatory measures and a slowing of regulation.
Just as the power to regulate is the power to destroy, the power to engage in judicious deregulation is the power to allow creation.

We’re killing our natural gas supplies with failing infrastructure and protests
In many ways, this goes along with the previous article on deregulation. Many of the examples are not just based on federal rules and regulations but those of states and counties.
We’re killing ourselves with bureaucratic stupidity.
America is awash in natural gas. In parts of the country there’s hardly a drop to burn.
Earlier this year, two utilities that service the New York City area stopped accepting new natural-gas customers in two boroughs and several suburbs. Citing jammed supply lines running into the city on the coldest winter days, they said they couldn’t guarantee they’d be able to deliver gas to additional furnaces. Never mind that the country’s most prolific gas field, the Marcellus Shale, is only a three-hour drive away.
Meanwhile, in West Texas, drillers have so much excess natural gas they are simply burning it off, roughly enough each day to fuel every home in the state.
And this close hits the nail on the head:
So we’re left with both feast and famine in terms of energy. New construction in parts of New York City can’t be put into use because they can’t get natural gas to heat the buildings. And those buildings sit literally less than a three-hour drive from one of the largest natural gas formations in the world. This problem can be fixed, but it’s going to require elected officials who are able to swallow a healthy dose of reality before it happens.

Trump slaps Fox (again): Don’t forget who got you where you are
He went on a Twitter storm slamming some of the talking heads on FoxNews on Saturday and Sunday.
I don’t blame him. Some of them are so anti-Trump you’d think they’d just come out and endorse a Dimocrap candidate.
Watching @FoxNews weekend anchors is worse than watching low ratings Fake News @CNN, or Lyin’ Brian Williams (remember when he totally fabricated a War Story trying to make himself into a hero, & got fired. A very dishonest journalist!) and the crew of degenerate……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 7, 2019
There are more after that in the same vein.
He’s absolutely right.

Beetle production ending after 80 years
First rolled off the assembly line in 1938 but was put on hold during WWII. British Occupation forces got it started again and the iconic “Bug” began swarming roads all around the world.
1954
Volkswagen is halting production of the last version of its Beetle model this week at its plant in Puebla, Mexico. It’s the end of the road for a vehicle that has symbolized many things over a history spanning the eight decades since 1938.
It’s probably the same plant that cranks out the popular tourist VW Thing that one finds in every Mexican tourist spot.
They’ll still be around for decades to come.

Nets Ignore CBO Report: $15/Hour Could Cost Almost 4 Million Jobs
That’s The Congressional Budget Office, not some Trump administration source.
The place where all those flaky Dims are supposed to get the FACTS they depend upon when coming up with legislation.
So, ignore them if they don’t agree with you.
In a 48-page report out Monday, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released their analysis of the Democratic “Raise the Wage Act” to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour. One of the main takeaways from the report was that almost 4 million jobs (3.7 million) could be eliminated by 2025. Of course, since the liberal media have backed the so-called "Fight For 15" effort, none of the network evening newscasts (ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News) reported the CBO’s findings.
Robert’s news brief of the report also noted that millions of jobs could be at risk if the Democratic bill was enacted. “But it could also eliminate jobs for between 1.3 million and 3.7 million people. The Democrat-run House is expected to vote on the minimum wage increase later this month, but it is unlikely that the Republican-held Senate would take up the bill,” he added.
And those are the young people who need entry-level jobs to get ahead.

First World Feminists: Air-Conditioning Is ‘Sexist’
The flakes come out of the woodwork like cockroaches scuttling after crumbs.
In an Afghan village, terrorists throw acid on little girls’ faces, poison their water, and hurl grenades into their classrooms to stop them from going to school. In an American office, some women are a little chilly. For first world radical feminists, the latter issue takes precedence, especially in the scorching summer heat. 
Yesterday, Atlantic staff writer Taylor Lorenz tweeted that air-conditioning is “unhealthy, bad, miserable, and sexist,” bringing attention to a feminist movement against air-conditioning. That’s right, a miraculous wonder of technology that allows people to settle in sweltering climates is now “an engine of the patriarchy.”
And a/cs remove moisture from the air so people, especially women, have to buy moisturizes manufactured by male-dominated labs.
For employers, these findings mean that by insisting on the subzero fridges you call cubicles, not only are you making half your employees miserable, you are also sacrificing productivity.

President Trump nominated 11 more to judicial vacancies
One of the nominees, Colorado Supreme Court Justice Allison H. Eid, is being tapped by the president to fill a vacancy on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals created when Justice Neil M. Gorsuch was confirmed for the Supreme Court in April.
The rest are all selectees for their conservative or constitutional approaches to the bench. More promises being kept.



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