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Monday, July 15, 2019

The US Army is selling its navy? Iconic brands lose their luster, President Trump’s 4th was a nothingburger, Almost 600,000 want to storm Area 51, plus some humorous stories for July 15, 2019


House Passes $733 Billion Defense Bill, Including 3.1% Troop Pay Raise for Troops
With all the other garbage going on, this items seems to have slipped through the cracks.
But it still has to go through the reconciliation process for a Senate bill voted 86-8 to pass a $750 billion version of the NDAA, which also included the 3.1% pay raise.
Republicans opposed it because it was less than what the president has asked for.
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, predicted that the House version of the NDAA would not survive a conference committee with the Senate.
"This bill will never become law," McCarthy said in a statement.
And the president has threatened to veto it.
And the bill includes an amendment prohibiting military funding for another Salute to America.
Hell, the president could come up with the money for that with no problem at all. The Dims are just shooting themselves in the foot again.

Another phony assault charge against President Trump
It never gets old. They just keep coming – only to disappear when their charges go poof.
Former Donald Trump campaign staffer Alva Johnson claimed in a lawsuit that Trump traumatized her by “forcibly” kissing her “on the mouth” before a rally in Tampa in 2016.
On Wednesday, Trump’s lawyer released video of the interaction showing they both appeared to have air kissed each other on the cheek:
This staffer said Trump grabbed her by the shoulders and forcibly kissed her at a campaign event. She is now suing Trump for "violating norms of decency."
Someone else captured this video, just released tonight.
The instance seems to have been greatly mischaracterized. pic.twitter.com/qAxJjPyrnN
— Boomieleaks (@notwokieleaks) July 11, 2019
Her ambulance chaser won’t give up calling it “literal rape” because she didn’t agree to the contact.
C’mon now. They gotta be kidding.

John Voight cleans off chairs for Gold Star Families at Salute America
You can’t make this up. This is one Hollyweird star with class.

Who Will Clean Up America’s Voter Rolls?
This is going to be huge in 2020. There’s no doubt that blue states and cities will do everything possible to inflate the voter rolls with their people. The problem will be how to stop it from happening.
Los Angeles County may be California’s worst offender, but 10 of the state’s 58 counties also have registration rates exceeding 100% of the voting age population. In fact, the voter registration rate for the entire state of California is 101%.
And the Golden State isn’t alone. Eight states, as well as the District of Columbia, have total voter registration tallies exceeding 100%, and in total, 38 states have counties where voter registration rates exceed 100%. Another state that stands out is Kentucky, where the voter registration rate in 48 of its 120 counties exceeded 100% last year. About 15% of America’s counties where there is reliable voter data – that is, over 400 counties out of 2,800 – have voter registration rates over 100%.
And there’s this from 2012:
Pew’s total included at least 1.8 million dead people and another 2.75 million Americans who were registered to vote in at least two states.
These are the ones Leftists continue to claim gave Shrillary the “popular vote.”

Video of President Trump in Asia
Not like anything you’ll ever see in the MSM.

The US Army is selling off its navy?
Did you you know that, at one time, the army had the 3rd largest navy in the world? I saw it first hand in Vietnam (and wrote 2 short stories about it) and am surprised that it’s still around. And they’re skippered by NCOs with special Occupational Specialties.
USAV SSGT Robert T. Kuroda, one of the eight General Frank S. Besson-class Logistics Support Vessels, or LSVs,
The decision to sell off Kuroda, one of the two youngest and most capable LSVs, only further calls into question what kind of watercraft capabilities, if any, the service is truly interested in retaining. GSA's announcement that it could auction a second LSV might point to the Army planning to get rid of Smalls, as well.
A banner advertisement on GSA's auction website also says that it expects to sell 18 LCU-2000 and up to 36 LCM-8 landing craft, along with 20 tugs and a pair of floating crane barges, between now and the end of next year. The divestment of the LCM-8s makes some sense, given the Army awarded a contract worth nearly $1 billion in 2017 to buy all new Maneuver Support Vessels (Light), or MSV(L)s, to replace these Vietnam War-era landing craft.

Ten Rules for Defense Management Reform
So the author’s spent 30 years at the Five-Sided Puzzle Palace and he’s gonna tell everyone how to clean up the mess? Take each of these for what they’re worth – and some apply to business as well as government.
Rule 1: Nobody gets to start with a clean sheet of paper.
Rule 2: If it sounds easy, it has already been tried.
Rule 3: Never overlook what is working.
Rule 4: There are no “perfect solutions,” only competing priorities.
Rule 5: One-size-fits-all approaches rarely work.
Rule 6: The best-designed reforms take a well-defined subset of problems, identify root causes, and develop focused solutions.
Rule 7: Legislation alone doesn’t solve anything.
Rule 8: Don’t try to take on too much.
Rule 9: Nobody in the Pentagon follows orders.
Rule 10: The most effective reform initiatives build broad support, address organizational alignment and individual incentives, and are driven by continuous engagement of senior officials.

Iconic brands lose their luster
Ah, the fickle public.
At least some.
I think most people shop for stuff they’re familiar and satisfied with.
But, that doesn’t appear to be the case all the time.
From Oscar Mayer and Campbell's to Clairol and CoverGirl, some of America's most famous supermarket and drug store brands are losing market share as consumers' tastes and shopping habits change.
Generics?
Store brands?
Kraft Heinz said this year that the value of its Oscar Mayer and Kraft brands — with products like Oscar Mayer hot dogs, Jell-O and Kraft Mac & Cheese — were worth $15 billion less than it had previously stated.
Coty, which purchased the Clairol and CoverGirl brands from Procter & Gamble 3 years ago, recently wrote down the value of those brands by $3 billion, following a previous writedown of $965 million.
Sales of Campbell's namesake soups have fallen in 8 out of the past 10 fiscal years, per the Wall Street Journal.

Donald Trump Attempts to Revolutionize GOP Fundraising; Consultant Class Pushes Back
Another common sense move that the GOP establishment doesn’t like. Do what the Dims do under their ActBlue program. It gave them the House win in the last mid-term.
Brad Parscale, Trump’s campaign manager, added in a statement to Breitbart News that the GOP committees and president’s campaign are fully behind WinRed and expect all candidates, state parties, and other political action committees (PACs) affiliated with the GOP to get on the WinRed platform.
“There’s a reason President Trump and all the major GOP campaign committees are united behind WinRed: it has the best technology and data integration that will lift all conservative boats and actually help Republicans win in 2020,” Parscale said.
Will this mean a massive GOP win in 2020?
While WinRed was just rolled out a couple of weeks ago, party officials are working across the country with candidates, state parties, and other party fundraising vehicles to implement it universally–and are convinced that if it can be utilized everywhere, they can stand up to ActBlue once and for all down the road. It remains to be seen if the GOP will be successful in doing this, but if they pull it off–and if they are able to do it without hurting grassroots anti-establishment candidates–it could, in theory, be a major step forward for Republicans. Couple this machine with GOP fundraising numbers at record levels, and Republicans believe they can significantly strengthen their chances in elections down the road long into the future.

ACLU Sues to Stop Trump Administration from Enforcing Federal Immigration Laws
Why don’t they understand that the law is the law? They feel they’re above the law and will shop around for some Leftist judge to support them.
According to the lawsuit the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, Central American Resource Center, Immigrant Defenders Law Center, and Public Counsel are suing Attorney General William Barr, James McHenry, director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, Kevin McAleenan, Department of Homeland Security secretary, Mark Morgan, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Thomas R. Decker, field office director of ICE’s New York Field Office.
The lawsuit claims that the Trump administration’s system for notifying migrants about their legal obligation to appear in court is “in chaos,” and seeks a court order to allow the migrants to appear before an immigration judge before deportation could take place.
“For the many families who came here as refugees fleeing violence, deportation is a death threat,” Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said in a news release, according to the New York Post.
“We will fight to ensure no one faces this kind of peril without having their case considered in court,” Lieberman said.
They ignore the fact that the people to be rounded up have already been through the process and were notified of their deportation. They’ve ignored the law.
Know Your Rights: How Immigrant Rights Activists Are Preparing for Looming ICE Deportation Raids @ https://www.democracynow.org/2019/7/12/trump_ice_raids_know_your_rights
Hillary Posts Instructions In SPANISH For Undocumented Immigrants To Evade ICE Agents @ https://freedomoutpost.com/hillary-posts-instructions-in-spanish-for-undocumented-immigrants-to-evade-ice-agents/

Canadians are finding well-paying jobs in the trades
Seems our neighbors to the north have wised up to the truth of where some very good jobs are. The Trades.
Within a year Harper had registered for an apprenticeship as a metal fabricator-fitter, completed a foundations course at British Columbia Institute of Technology, and got an apprenticeship job at Seaspan. One week ago he learned that he passed his final Red Seal exam, making his trade certification official.
Harper is one of thousands of Canadians to find well-paying jobs in the trades each year, taking advantage of strong demand for their skills and higher retirement rates stemming from an aging workforce. Yet the variety and scope of opportunities in the trades tends to be poorly understood by the population as a whole.
Another sector of the economy where people can earn a decent living.
Not only in Canada, but here in the USA too..

Bush and then Obama kicked out Honduran president to cause current crisis
In 2009, the US warned Peresident Manuel Zelaya to stop dealing with Hugo Chávez. When he didn’t a coup was orchestrated by the Honduran military, business and political elite, with the support of the Obama administration.
Once again, we cannot keep our noses out of the business of other nations.
Since then, extreme poverty and violence has skyrocketed in Honduras. Tens of thousands of Hondurans have been murdered, including more than 300 LGBTQ people, about 60 journalists, hundreds of peasant rights and environmental activists. Tens of thousands of refugees have also fled Honduras, most with the hope of receiving political asylum in the United States.
Meanwhile, mass protests are continuing to take place in Honduras against the right-wing government of Juan Orlando Hernández and his plans to privatize healthcare, pensions and education. Protesters have been met with violent repression from the Honduran military and police.
And thousands are fleeing north to seek asylum in the United States. And how much similarity is there with Guatemala and Nicaragua?

Hurricane Barry
You have to go to the site in order to get the version that plays. It’s @ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/

The Salute to America Speech We Never Heard
Just the first couple of paragraphs will get you to click on the site for the whole thing.
The American Revolution, which nobody knows more about than me, started because wacky King George III kept taxing everything. He taxed tea, paper, glass, lead, paint and stamps. This was intolerable and led the Colonists to resist. I think the crazy king was a Democrat. Then on a bright cold day in April as the clocks struck 13, the British attacked our Minutemen at Lexington and Concord, an event that started the American Revolution. Paul Revere had tried to warn the Colonists but he was captured. I prefer heroes that weren’t captured.
In June 1775, we Americans created the Continental army so that we could break away from the failing British Empire. The war did not initially go well for our patriotic forefathers. Even though America and England were separated by water — big water, ocean water — the British were still able to send over a bigly army. They surprised us by attacking Pearl Harbor and the Alamo. I remember. Then in 1777 General Washington marched his small army to Valley Forge. It was a painful march as many of his men were suffering from bone spurs following the Bataan Death March. While at Valley Forge, the soldiers had to endure a bitter winter as global warming hadn’t begun yet.
The British were also winning on the high seas having sunk the American frigates Titanic and Lusitania.

A sober look at today’s headlines
Judge for yourselves.

President Trump said Revolutionary War troops ‘took over the airports’ in his 4th of July speech

In fairness, Paul Revere did say: “One if by land, two if by sea, three if by direct flight from Heathrow to LaGuardia.”

US Women win World Cup 2-0

To translate that into American Football that would be 137-0.

Ten cities are reportedly waiting for the Trump campaign to pay $841,000 in rally bills

… get out that damn check book, right now, Mexico.

Spectacular fireworks display in D.C.

And, that was just over breakfast at Kellyanne and George Conway’s place.

6.6 Earthquake rocks SoCal

Although the Russian judge only gave it a 4.3.

Happy 44th Birthday, 50 Cent

With inflation you should at least be 83 Cent.

Bill O’Reilly against reparations

He believes people need to make money the old-fashioned way… by suing him for sexual harassment.

All-time record heat wave hits Alaska

Damn, now we’re talking baked Alaska!

Honey Boo Boo is allegedly blocking Mama June from accessing her money

That would make Mama June ‘Money Sue Sue.’

Trump doesn’t think Roy Moore Jr. should run for Alabama Senate seat

… but probably would be ok with him running for Prom King.

E-cigarettes linked to higher risk of stroke, heart attack, diseased arteries and cancer

Yeah, but besides that …?

Donald Trump Jr questioned Kamala Harris’s ethnicity

Unfortunately for him there’s no question about his heredity.

Chris Martin spotted kissing Dua Lipa backstage at music festival 2 weeks after Dakota Johnson split

Martin’s going to have to change the name of his band to Cold Playa.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders planning to write book about her time in White House

She should call it ‘Catch Her in a Lie!’

3 Helpful Tips For The Suffering Feminists Who Are Being Persecuted By Air Conditioning
Share this with all your female friends and coworkers.
1. Wear a sweater – simple, isn’t it!
2. Dress appropriately
3. Thank God that you live in such comfort and luxury that you have the time and energy to complain about something like this. - think of the uncounted millions who have no idea what air conditioning is.

British Muslims set up center to monitor criticism of Islam
So much for free speech in the UK. Of course, they don’t have a law enforcing free speech.
In other words, the media must conform to sharia dictates. Islam must be presented as a religion of peace, and it must be presented as if it were no different from any other religion, in complete contradiction to all facts about the abusive, oppressive and supremacist Sharia. This is what the MCB calls the promotion of “fair and responsible reporting of Muslims and Islam,” as it deceptively promotes its agenda as “engaging constructively with the media and empowering communities to make a change.” Such change will not support reports that condemn Muslim rape gangs, sanctioned by Islamic doctrine that approves of the assault of infidel girls. The Islamic monitoring center will condemn valid criticism of Islam.
They already arrest and prosecute anyone accused of defaming Islam on social media.]
Ezra Levant challenges Pakistan’s Foreign Minister over Twitter’s enforcement of Sharia blasphemy laws @ https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/07/video-ezra-levant-challenges-pakistans-foreign-minister-over-twitters-enforcement-of-sharia-blasphemy-laws

Some Fact Checks from IFCN
It’s always interesting to see just how fake some of the news is. This appears to be a valid source that clearly backs up its claims. Here are a few for today:
Claim by Viral Image: Claims that the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas is not also a casino because the Nevada Gaming Commission did not find President Donald Trump “trustworthy” enough to grant him a gaming license.
Check Your Fact rating: False
Trump has never been denied a gaming license in Nevada and was actually granted one in 2004, according to the Nevada Gaming Commission.
The hotel was never designed to have a gaming area.
And then comes this;
Claim by Viral Image: Claims that Trump took a picture with a young Ivanka and Jeffrey Epstein.
Check Your Fact rating: False
Trump and Epstein have been photographed together in the past. However, this image does not show one of those instances – it actually combines two separate pictures into one doctored image.

President Trump’s 4th was a nothingburger
Compared to the military parades of other leaders
Belarus Independence Day in 2018
Iran in 2017
Saudis in 2015
Turkey in 2015
So, how can the Left complain of 4 stationary armored vehicles, soldiers carrying muskets, and some flyovers?

Ninth Circuit Hands Trump Administration Win in Sanctuary-City Case
He just keeps on winning. And doesn’t hurt that he’s getting so many judicial appointments confirmed. He will change the judiciary for decades.
A three-judge panel of the court ruled 2–1 that the Justice Department could deny Community Oriented Policing Services grants to cities and states that have “sanctuary” policies prohibiting law-enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
“The panel rejected Los Angeles’s argument that DOJ’s practice of giving additional consideration to applicants that choose to further the two specified federal goals violated the Constitution’s Spending Clause,” Judge Sandra Ikuta wrote for the majority. “The panel held that DOJ did not exceed its statutory authority in awarding bonus points to applicants that selected the illegal immigration focus area or that agreed to the Certification.”
If it goes to the Supremes, I bet they’ll either refuse to review it or return it back to the 9th.

Almost 600,000 want to storm Area 51
All to see the aliens in storage there.
"We will all meet up at the Area 51 Alien Center tourist attraction and coordinate our entry. If we naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets. Lets see them aliens," the event description reads.
Many of the users that have signed up for the event are alien activists.
Users have formulated joke plans for the event, including a "naruto run," different job groups for the "stormers" and diagrams detailing how the storm would occur.
Set for September 20
(But, it’s really all a joke.)
"Hello US government, this is a joke, and I do not actually intend to go ahead with this plan. I just thought it would be funny and get me some thumbsy uppies on the internet. I'm not responsible if people decide to actually storm area 51," one user wrote.

Coasties deploy to west Pacific waters

Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf returned to their homeport in Alameda, California
One of the large Coast Guard vessels built in 2005 to update and improve the service.
On 25 March 2019, USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54), in concert with Bertholf transited the contested Taiwan Strait. On 15 April of same year, the ship visited Hong Kong, the first Coast Guard vessel to do so in seventeen years.
"In this particular mission set, we brought in decades of expertise in countering smuggling at sea," Driscoll said. " ... It's a piece that the administration and the [Defense Department] can use to reassure allies that we can stop things going in [to North Korea]."
Bertholf returned July 2 from the Coast Guard's first full-length deployment to the Western Pacific in seven years. Driscoll said the Legend-class Cutter Waesche, also out of Alameda, California, was the last to complete a comparable pump to the region. Since that previous deployment, tensions between the U.S. and China have become more pronounced in the region. Of the three mission sets Bertholf, under the authority of the U.S. 7th Fleet, accomplished on the deployment, all were done to communicate a clear message to China, and with a wary eye on the country's reaction and response.

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