by Bob Walsh
The Federal Reserve announced yesterday that their interest rate is moving DOWN from 2.25% to 2.0%, the first downward move in about ten years.
Thursday, August 01, 2019
IT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN ….. NOW JEWS ARE ACCUSED OF BEING WHIE SUPREMACISTS
AOC says Palestinians 'have no choice but to riot' against Israel
By Lukas Mikelionis
Fox News
July 31, 2019
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez agreed that Israel is “criminal” in its treatment of Palestinians, whom she said have no other choice but to “riot” against the Jewish state.
The New York Democrat made her remarks during an appearance on the hip-hop program “Ebro in the Morning” with Ebro Darden, where they touched on a variety of issues concerning the freshman congresswoman.
The host asserted that “corrupt” governments in Israel, the United States, Russia and Saudi Arabia were “all working in concert.”
“How do you have white supremacist Jews?” Ebro asked. “How do you have people like Stephen Miller? How do you have these individuals who are legit aligning with racism and white supremacy, but they're Jewish? And it's something that most people can't wrap their brains around. But it's a real thing.”
He added: “And what's going on with Israel and Palestine, while it's very, very, deep, it is very, very, criminal, and it is very, very unjust.”
But rather than push back against the claims, Ocasio-Cortez agreed with them, saying “Absolutely” and adding that “I think, too, where we're at as a country when it comes to Israel-Palestine is very much a generational issue.”
She said the right-wing unfairly accuses her of anti-Semitism when she’s actually just being critical of the Israeli government.
“Criticizing the occupation doesn't make you anti-Israel, frankly. It doesn't mean that you are against the existence of a nation,” she said. “It means that you believe in human rights, and it's about making sure that Palestinian human rights are equal to Israeli human rights, and there are a lot of troubling things happening there.”
Ocasio-Cortez went on to say that Palestinians also have no other choice but to resort to violence as they are “marginalized.”
“Jewish people have been persecuted throughout all of human history, but I don't think that by marginalizing Palestinians, you create safety,” she said.
“I believe that injustice is a threat to the safety of all people, because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalized and marginalized — once someone doesn't have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot, right? And it doesn't have to be that way.”
The Democrat’s remarks come at a time she and her fellow progressive freshman colleagues are being accused of anti-Semitism for embracing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
Two other Democrats, Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, have recently compared boycotts of Nazi Germany to the boycott of Israel.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ebro is an anti-Semitic asswipe of the worst kind, and by appearing on his show and agreeing with his vitriol, AOC is not far behind.
By Lukas Mikelionis
Fox News
July 31, 2019
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez agreed that Israel is “criminal” in its treatment of Palestinians, whom she said have no other choice but to “riot” against the Jewish state.
The New York Democrat made her remarks during an appearance on the hip-hop program “Ebro in the Morning” with Ebro Darden, where they touched on a variety of issues concerning the freshman congresswoman.
The host asserted that “corrupt” governments in Israel, the United States, Russia and Saudi Arabia were “all working in concert.”
“How do you have white supremacist Jews?” Ebro asked. “How do you have people like Stephen Miller? How do you have these individuals who are legit aligning with racism and white supremacy, but they're Jewish? And it's something that most people can't wrap their brains around. But it's a real thing.”
He added: “And what's going on with Israel and Palestine, while it's very, very, deep, it is very, very, criminal, and it is very, very unjust.”
But rather than push back against the claims, Ocasio-Cortez agreed with them, saying “Absolutely” and adding that “I think, too, where we're at as a country when it comes to Israel-Palestine is very much a generational issue.”
She said the right-wing unfairly accuses her of anti-Semitism when she’s actually just being critical of the Israeli government.
“Criticizing the occupation doesn't make you anti-Israel, frankly. It doesn't mean that you are against the existence of a nation,” she said. “It means that you believe in human rights, and it's about making sure that Palestinian human rights are equal to Israeli human rights, and there are a lot of troubling things happening there.”
Ocasio-Cortez went on to say that Palestinians also have no other choice but to resort to violence as they are “marginalized.”
“Jewish people have been persecuted throughout all of human history, but I don't think that by marginalizing Palestinians, you create safety,” she said.
“I believe that injustice is a threat to the safety of all people, because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalized and marginalized — once someone doesn't have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot, right? And it doesn't have to be that way.”
The Democrat’s remarks come at a time she and her fellow progressive freshman colleagues are being accused of anti-Semitism for embracing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
Two other Democrats, Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, have recently compared boycotts of Nazi Germany to the boycott of Israel.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ebro is an anti-Semitic asswipe of the worst kind, and by appearing on his show and agreeing with his vitriol, AOC is not far behind.
THE ANTI-BDS LAWS OF 27 STATES ARE THE ‘IRON DOME’ OF ISRAEL’S ECONOMY
Bottom-up foreign policy proves effective way to challenge BDS
by Eliana Rudee
Israel Hayom
July 31, 2019
In the past several years, 27 states have adopted laws designed to discourage boycotts of Israel, known as anti-BDS laws. These efforts gained more momentum when the US House of Representatives passed a bill against the Boycott, divestment and sanctions movement last Thursday in a show of overwhelming support, with 349 co-sponsors and 16 Democrats and one Republican opposing the measure.
The vote occurred amid a debate on the BDS movement in the United States, as earlier in the month, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) introduced a boycott resolution that would affirm the American “right to participate in boycotts in pursuit of civil and human rights at home and abroad, as protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.”
In response to the anti-BDS bill’s passing, Omar tweeted “Our [First Amendment] right to free speech allows boycott of inhumane policies,” she tweeted. “This bill is unconstitutional.”
According to Joseph Sabag, CEO of the Israeli-American Coalition for Action, Omar’s rhetoric and pro-BDS bill “retort to dishonesty and misrepresentation, trying to deceive the public by misrepresenting the nature of laws and the status of judicial treatment of these laws.”
“In January, a federal judge ruled that anti-BDS laws are entirely constitutional,” he explained.
Pro-BDS bills “stand no chance of success,” Sabag told JNS.
“Israel is a large consumer of US goods, and jobs depending on exports are significant,” he continued. “If states were to pass BDS bills that limited [US -Israel cooperation in the] sciences, pharmaceuticals, water desalinization and avionics, removal of trade would have a devastating impact on the quality of life.”
South Carolina State Rep. Alan Clemmons, whose state was one of the first to pass anti-BDS legislation back in 2015, told JNS that the legislation for his state was “common sense.”
“BDS is fueled by anti-Semitism and seeks to harm South Carolina’s businesses for doing business with Israel,” he said. “It was the common sense thing to do, which is why the law was passed unanimously by the legislature.”
While the anti-BDS bill in the House and a previous one in the Senate last February has brought the legislation to the national debate, the passage of anti-BDS legislation has been a bottom-up effort on the state and local level that has been part of a strategy by the Israel-American Coalition for Action.
Sabag said that these anti-BDS bills have been effective on the state-level and have seen success.
Compared to Congress, he said “states themselves are much more clear-eyed about what their interests are and face far fewer inhibitions in identifying and pursuing an issue that speaks to a compelling state interest.”
“State capitals are a far more functional place right now than Washington, DC, and states have compelling economic interests to defend their own state economy,” he said.
Both Sabag and Clemmons noted that Omar’s resolution related directly to their pro-Israel policymaking approach to promoting anti-BDS resolutions through a bottom-up approach. Promoting resolutions from the state level, they say, is a novel inversion of the pro-Israel lobby and the most effective way to challenge the BDS movement.
Airbnb: The big first-test case
According to Sabag, the new policy approach started in 2007, when then-Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Marco Rubio passed a bill requiring state retirement of funds to divest themselves of investments in companies doing business in Iran’s energy sector. The unintended dynamic that emerged, Sabag posed, was a change in the foreign-policy making model from a top-down approach to a bottom-up approach.
As the past executive director of the Israel Allies Foundation, he recalled that in 2014, he began to “hear concern about BDS from members of Congress who saw it as a mounting threat that had to be taken seriously.” Partnering with Clemmons and Professor Eugene Kontorovich, head of the international law department at the Kohelet Policy Forum, Sabag “recycled the Iranian divestment model.”
“Before, foreign-policy making started with the president, made its way to Congress, and only then would the states get their say. But beginning with Iranian divestment, states began to go ahead with some expression of policy, and by doing so consistently, it ripened an issue so that Congress has to follow the approach taken by their home states,” he explained.
From 2007-2010, noted Sabag, “you saw two-dozen states pass anti-BDS laws before Congress had to go ahead and respond with a federal pre-emption deal as to not look irresponsible. Now, this bottom-up policymaking has become the model by which most pro-Israel and Jewish community concerns are being addressed at this time.”
“Airbnb is a great example of why this is such an important development,” related Clemmons, referring to Florida and Texas directives for all state contractors to cease doing business with Airbnb in response to its November 2018 decision to delist properties in Judea and Samaria.
“Simply consider where we would be at this moment had 27 states not passed regulatory legislation, given that half the Congress can barely muster the resolve to pass a lukewarm resolution on the matter,” he said.
Sabag similarly noted that Airbnb “provided the big first test case of state-based anti-BDS laws, and the outcome was satisfying to the pro-Israel community.”
“The regulatory reach of these 27 statewide anti-BDS laws reaches into the trillions of dollars of the American economy,” said Sabag, calling the laws the ‘iron dome’ of Israel’s economy.
“It will be a long time before another publicly-traded company caves to pressure by BDS,” he said, which is “exactly what we set out to accomplish.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: Columnist Jonathan S. Tobin has a warning:
“The support of Lewis and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus for Omar’s pro-BDS resolution remains a troubling indication of the cracks within the Democratic Party. The refusal of all of the Democratic senators running for president to join the bipartisan consensus against a tough anti-BDS bill is another indication that the anti-Israel left has more clout than the House vote indicated.”
It should come as no surprise that Black Caucus members supported Omar’s pro-BDS resolution because it is simply a reflection of black anti-Semitism in this country.
by Eliana Rudee
Israel Hayom
July 31, 2019
In the past several years, 27 states have adopted laws designed to discourage boycotts of Israel, known as anti-BDS laws. These efforts gained more momentum when the US House of Representatives passed a bill against the Boycott, divestment and sanctions movement last Thursday in a show of overwhelming support, with 349 co-sponsors and 16 Democrats and one Republican opposing the measure.
The vote occurred amid a debate on the BDS movement in the United States, as earlier in the month, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) introduced a boycott resolution that would affirm the American “right to participate in boycotts in pursuit of civil and human rights at home and abroad, as protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.”
In response to the anti-BDS bill’s passing, Omar tweeted “Our [First Amendment] right to free speech allows boycott of inhumane policies,” she tweeted. “This bill is unconstitutional.”
According to Joseph Sabag, CEO of the Israeli-American Coalition for Action, Omar’s rhetoric and pro-BDS bill “retort to dishonesty and misrepresentation, trying to deceive the public by misrepresenting the nature of laws and the status of judicial treatment of these laws.”
“In January, a federal judge ruled that anti-BDS laws are entirely constitutional,” he explained.
Pro-BDS bills “stand no chance of success,” Sabag told JNS.
“Israel is a large consumer of US goods, and jobs depending on exports are significant,” he continued. “If states were to pass BDS bills that limited [US -Israel cooperation in the] sciences, pharmaceuticals, water desalinization and avionics, removal of trade would have a devastating impact on the quality of life.”
South Carolina State Rep. Alan Clemmons, whose state was one of the first to pass anti-BDS legislation back in 2015, told JNS that the legislation for his state was “common sense.”
“BDS is fueled by anti-Semitism and seeks to harm South Carolina’s businesses for doing business with Israel,” he said. “It was the common sense thing to do, which is why the law was passed unanimously by the legislature.”
While the anti-BDS bill in the House and a previous one in the Senate last February has brought the legislation to the national debate, the passage of anti-BDS legislation has been a bottom-up effort on the state and local level that has been part of a strategy by the Israel-American Coalition for Action.
Sabag said that these anti-BDS bills have been effective on the state-level and have seen success.
Compared to Congress, he said “states themselves are much more clear-eyed about what their interests are and face far fewer inhibitions in identifying and pursuing an issue that speaks to a compelling state interest.”
“State capitals are a far more functional place right now than Washington, DC, and states have compelling economic interests to defend their own state economy,” he said.
Both Sabag and Clemmons noted that Omar’s resolution related directly to their pro-Israel policymaking approach to promoting anti-BDS resolutions through a bottom-up approach. Promoting resolutions from the state level, they say, is a novel inversion of the pro-Israel lobby and the most effective way to challenge the BDS movement.
Airbnb: The big first-test case
According to Sabag, the new policy approach started in 2007, when then-Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Marco Rubio passed a bill requiring state retirement of funds to divest themselves of investments in companies doing business in Iran’s energy sector. The unintended dynamic that emerged, Sabag posed, was a change in the foreign-policy making model from a top-down approach to a bottom-up approach.
As the past executive director of the Israel Allies Foundation, he recalled that in 2014, he began to “hear concern about BDS from members of Congress who saw it as a mounting threat that had to be taken seriously.” Partnering with Clemmons and Professor Eugene Kontorovich, head of the international law department at the Kohelet Policy Forum, Sabag “recycled the Iranian divestment model.”
“Before, foreign-policy making started with the president, made its way to Congress, and only then would the states get their say. But beginning with Iranian divestment, states began to go ahead with some expression of policy, and by doing so consistently, it ripened an issue so that Congress has to follow the approach taken by their home states,” he explained.
From 2007-2010, noted Sabag, “you saw two-dozen states pass anti-BDS laws before Congress had to go ahead and respond with a federal pre-emption deal as to not look irresponsible. Now, this bottom-up policymaking has become the model by which most pro-Israel and Jewish community concerns are being addressed at this time.”
“Airbnb is a great example of why this is such an important development,” related Clemmons, referring to Florida and Texas directives for all state contractors to cease doing business with Airbnb in response to its November 2018 decision to delist properties in Judea and Samaria.
“Simply consider where we would be at this moment had 27 states not passed regulatory legislation, given that half the Congress can barely muster the resolve to pass a lukewarm resolution on the matter,” he said.
Sabag similarly noted that Airbnb “provided the big first test case of state-based anti-BDS laws, and the outcome was satisfying to the pro-Israel community.”
“The regulatory reach of these 27 statewide anti-BDS laws reaches into the trillions of dollars of the American economy,” said Sabag, calling the laws the ‘iron dome’ of Israel’s economy.
“It will be a long time before another publicly-traded company caves to pressure by BDS,” he said, which is “exactly what we set out to accomplish.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: Columnist Jonathan S. Tobin has a warning:
“The support of Lewis and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus for Omar’s pro-BDS resolution remains a troubling indication of the cracks within the Democratic Party. The refusal of all of the Democratic senators running for president to join the bipartisan consensus against a tough anti-BDS bill is another indication that the anti-Israel left has more clout than the House vote indicated.”
It should come as no surprise that Black Caucus members supported Omar’s pro-BDS resolution because it is simply a reflection of black anti-Semitism in this country.
YOUNG BLACK MEN COMMIT HOMICIDES AT NEARLY 10 TIMES THE RATE OF WHITE AND HISPANIC YOUNG MEN COMBINED
A Reality Check on ‘Racism’ and Urban Decay
By Jason L. Riley
The Wall Street Journal
July 30, 2019
The news media has spent the past week trying to rehabilitate the reputations of Baltimore and Al Sharpton, which is more evidence that they’ll try just about anything to advance the Democratic Party’s Trump-is-a-racist storyline.
Alas, we could be having a much more productive debate about why black-run cities like Baltimore haven’t produced more black economic advancement. Or why black politicians like Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, who was re-elected to a 13th term with more than 76% of the vote in 2018, so routinely skirt responsibility for the living conditions in their districts. Or whether there is any significant connection between black political power and black prosperity.
Mr. Trump’s Twitter spasms may eventually turn off enough white suburban moms to cost him re-election, but caution isn’t part of his repertoire. And when dealing with political opponents who are obsessed with racism, real or imagined, indifference to whether you are labeled a racist might even be an asset. The reality is that much of the racism that the left complains about these days has proved under scrutiny to be imaginary, which is good news for the country but bad news for politicians and activists who thrive on racial division.
The last time most of us thought about Baltimore was probably 2015, when residents rioted after a black suspect died in police custody. A year earlier, riots had erupted in Ferguson, Mo., after another black suspect was shot dead while assaulting a police officer. Much was made of the fact that Ferguson’s city leaders and police department were mostly white. A U.S. Justice Department review of the incident said that it was “critically important for law enforcement agencies, and the Ferguson Police Department in particular, to strive for broad diversity among officers and civilian staff.”
But if racial and ethnic diversity were so essential to preventing police shootings and subsequent race riots, what explained the unrest the following year in Baltimore, which had a black mayor, a black City Council majority, a black police chief and a majority-minority police force? Is it possible that biased law enforcement isn’t the problem?
In 2016 Harvard economist Roland Fryer published an empirical studythat examined more than 1,000 police shootings in 10 major departments nationwide. He concluded that there was no evidence of racial bias in police shootings and that blacks are about 24% less likely “to be shot at by police relative to whites.” So far, such research has failed to persuade Colin Kaepernick, Black Lives Matter activists and Democratic presidential candidates. And the political press prioritizes anecdotal evidence and viral videos on social media, not hard data. Still, it’s worth noting that a new academic study published last week is broader in scope than Mr. Fryer’s and backs his findings.
Writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the University of Maryland and Michigan State University concluded that racial disparities in police shootings stem from racial disparities in criminal behavior and not from police bias. “We did not find evidence for anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparity in the police use of force across all shootings, and, if anything, found anti-White disparities when controlling for race-specific crime.”
Many on the political left and in the media are loath to discuss how large black-white differences in violent crime rates result in racially disparate encounters with police. But why should anyone be surprised that young black men are far more likely than their white peers to be shot by police when young black men commit homicides at nearly 10 times the rate of white and Hispanic young men combined? “One of our clearest results is that violent crime rates strongly predict the race of the person fatally shot,” write the authors. Moreover, “reducing race-specific violent crime should be an effective way to reduce fatal shootings of Black and Hispanic adults.” More minority cops might help law enforcement build trust in certain communities, but the “data suggest that increasing racial diversity would not meaningfully reduce racial disparity in fatal shootings.” Minority officers are no less likely to draw their weapons on minority suspects.
When liberals decide to grapple with these realities, we’ll know they are serious about addressing racial disparities, never mind fixing the nation’s Baltimores. But don’t hold your breath. Mr. Sharpton was a frequent visitor to the Obama White House , and given the way the people on stage Tuesday and Wednesday night have lined up to kiss his ring, chances are that the reverend will be monetizing racial strife for years to come. We may be in a racial holding pattern until the 2020 election. Mr. Trump won’t back down, and his opponents, if they’re being honest with themselves, don’t really want him to.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Mr. Trump’s Twitter spasms may eventually turn off enough white suburban moms to cost him re-election.
By Jason L. Riley
The Wall Street Journal
July 30, 2019
The news media has spent the past week trying to rehabilitate the reputations of Baltimore and Al Sharpton, which is more evidence that they’ll try just about anything to advance the Democratic Party’s Trump-is-a-racist storyline.
Alas, we could be having a much more productive debate about why black-run cities like Baltimore haven’t produced more black economic advancement. Or why black politicians like Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, who was re-elected to a 13th term with more than 76% of the vote in 2018, so routinely skirt responsibility for the living conditions in their districts. Or whether there is any significant connection between black political power and black prosperity.
Mr. Trump’s Twitter spasms may eventually turn off enough white suburban moms to cost him re-election, but caution isn’t part of his repertoire. And when dealing with political opponents who are obsessed with racism, real or imagined, indifference to whether you are labeled a racist might even be an asset. The reality is that much of the racism that the left complains about these days has proved under scrutiny to be imaginary, which is good news for the country but bad news for politicians and activists who thrive on racial division.
The last time most of us thought about Baltimore was probably 2015, when residents rioted after a black suspect died in police custody. A year earlier, riots had erupted in Ferguson, Mo., after another black suspect was shot dead while assaulting a police officer. Much was made of the fact that Ferguson’s city leaders and police department were mostly white. A U.S. Justice Department review of the incident said that it was “critically important for law enforcement agencies, and the Ferguson Police Department in particular, to strive for broad diversity among officers and civilian staff.”
But if racial and ethnic diversity were so essential to preventing police shootings and subsequent race riots, what explained the unrest the following year in Baltimore, which had a black mayor, a black City Council majority, a black police chief and a majority-minority police force? Is it possible that biased law enforcement isn’t the problem?
In 2016 Harvard economist Roland Fryer published an empirical studythat examined more than 1,000 police shootings in 10 major departments nationwide. He concluded that there was no evidence of racial bias in police shootings and that blacks are about 24% less likely “to be shot at by police relative to whites.” So far, such research has failed to persuade Colin Kaepernick, Black Lives Matter activists and Democratic presidential candidates. And the political press prioritizes anecdotal evidence and viral videos on social media, not hard data. Still, it’s worth noting that a new academic study published last week is broader in scope than Mr. Fryer’s and backs his findings.
Writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the University of Maryland and Michigan State University concluded that racial disparities in police shootings stem from racial disparities in criminal behavior and not from police bias. “We did not find evidence for anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparity in the police use of force across all shootings, and, if anything, found anti-White disparities when controlling for race-specific crime.”
Many on the political left and in the media are loath to discuss how large black-white differences in violent crime rates result in racially disparate encounters with police. But why should anyone be surprised that young black men are far more likely than their white peers to be shot by police when young black men commit homicides at nearly 10 times the rate of white and Hispanic young men combined? “One of our clearest results is that violent crime rates strongly predict the race of the person fatally shot,” write the authors. Moreover, “reducing race-specific violent crime should be an effective way to reduce fatal shootings of Black and Hispanic adults.” More minority cops might help law enforcement build trust in certain communities, but the “data suggest that increasing racial diversity would not meaningfully reduce racial disparity in fatal shootings.” Minority officers are no less likely to draw their weapons on minority suspects.
When liberals decide to grapple with these realities, we’ll know they are serious about addressing racial disparities, never mind fixing the nation’s Baltimores. But don’t hold your breath. Mr. Sharpton was a frequent visitor to the Obama White House , and given the way the people on stage Tuesday and Wednesday night have lined up to kiss his ring, chances are that the reverend will be monetizing racial strife for years to come. We may be in a racial holding pattern until the 2020 election. Mr. Trump won’t back down, and his opponents, if they’re being honest with themselves, don’t really want him to.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Mr. Trump’s Twitter spasms may eventually turn off enough white suburban moms to cost him re-election.
TEXAS SCHOOL BOARD CONDEMNED FOR TRYING TO KEEP KIDS FROM USING DRUGS
Want To Play In Band Or Park On Campus? If You’re A Bushland ISD Student, Prepare For A Drug Test
By Kristen Cabrera
Texas Standard
July 30, 2019
Bushland ISD in the Texas Panhandle has initiated a policy of testing students in middle and high school for drugs like marijuana, cocaine and alcohol. The ACLU and other civil liberties organizations worry about students’ privacy, and the punishments under the new policy.
Drug testing in the district had previously been limited to athletes, but the new policy includes any student who wants to participate in extracurricular activities, or who wants a parking pass. Failing a test would result in removal from any extracurricular activities and loss of parking privileges. Administrators say the district does not have a drug problem yet, but that the tests are a preventative measure.
District officials say they want to prevent drug problems before they start. Critics say the policy could backfire, causing students to become more isolated and fearful of trusting adults.
Andrew Hairston is an attorney with Texas Appleseed, which describes itself as a nonprofit social justice organization. He is also the director of the organization’s school-to-prison pipeline project. He says Bushland ISD’s new drug testing policy is a violation of students’ privacy and is too invasive for what the district is trying to accomplish.
“[The tests] seem very invasive, could be up to 10 times a year, could take saliva samples from these young people,” Hairston says. “Just you know way too superfluous for the issue that the school district is trying to address.”
Hairston says that instead of stopping drug use, this new policy might push students into isolation and bad habits, if they do not have access to extracurricular activities or parking passes. He also says that the policy will push more students into the school-to-prison pipeline, because it criminalizes and punishes young people.
“The idea that substance abuse would be criminalized at all, or that it would be so heavily regulated and made into a punitive measure by the school district is concerning,” Hairston says.
Hairston says that the district needs to put more trust in students to come to adults and trained mental health professionals to talk about the problems they face outside of school. But a policy that punishes students instead of promoting an open conversational and safe culture means they won’t do it, and will push their efforts backward.
“Counselors, school psychologists and social workers can pay tremendous dividends for a culture of openness and communication between young people and the adults who are charged with their care,” Hairston says. “Then ultimately that will address some of these fundamental issues that are brought up this policy and others like it.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Bushland ISD deserves to be commended rather than condemned for its effort in fighting drug abuse.
On the other hand, Andre Hairston and his ilk are worsening the drug abuse problem, not diminishing it..
By Kristen Cabrera
Texas Standard
July 30, 2019
Bushland ISD in the Texas Panhandle has initiated a policy of testing students in middle and high school for drugs like marijuana, cocaine and alcohol. The ACLU and other civil liberties organizations worry about students’ privacy, and the punishments under the new policy.
Drug testing in the district had previously been limited to athletes, but the new policy includes any student who wants to participate in extracurricular activities, or who wants a parking pass. Failing a test would result in removal from any extracurricular activities and loss of parking privileges. Administrators say the district does not have a drug problem yet, but that the tests are a preventative measure.
District officials say they want to prevent drug problems before they start. Critics say the policy could backfire, causing students to become more isolated and fearful of trusting adults.
Andrew Hairston is an attorney with Texas Appleseed, which describes itself as a nonprofit social justice organization. He is also the director of the organization’s school-to-prison pipeline project. He says Bushland ISD’s new drug testing policy is a violation of students’ privacy and is too invasive for what the district is trying to accomplish.
“[The tests] seem very invasive, could be up to 10 times a year, could take saliva samples from these young people,” Hairston says. “Just you know way too superfluous for the issue that the school district is trying to address.”
Hairston says that instead of stopping drug use, this new policy might push students into isolation and bad habits, if they do not have access to extracurricular activities or parking passes. He also says that the policy will push more students into the school-to-prison pipeline, because it criminalizes and punishes young people.
“The idea that substance abuse would be criminalized at all, or that it would be so heavily regulated and made into a punitive measure by the school district is concerning,” Hairston says.
Hairston says that the district needs to put more trust in students to come to adults and trained mental health professionals to talk about the problems they face outside of school. But a policy that punishes students instead of promoting an open conversational and safe culture means they won’t do it, and will push their efforts backward.
“Counselors, school psychologists and social workers can pay tremendous dividends for a culture of openness and communication between young people and the adults who are charged with their care,” Hairston says. “Then ultimately that will address some of these fundamental issues that are brought up this policy and others like it.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Bushland ISD deserves to be commended rather than condemned for its effort in fighting drug abuse.
On the other hand, Andre Hairston and his ilk are worsening the drug abuse problem, not diminishing it..
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
DISRESPECT OF POLICE ‘BEGAN WITH RACE BAITING FORMER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S MISGUIDED CRITICISM OF POLICE IN CAMBRIDGE, MASS. OVER THE 2009 ARREST OF HIS FRIEND HENRY GATES’
The ‘Pantaleo effect’ proves the city can’t afford to soften the NYPD
By Miranda Devine
New York Post
July 28, 2019
We were still reeling at the spectacle of meek NYPD cops being doused with water all over town when Officer Daniel Pantaleo’s home on Staten Island was besieged by protesters Saturday night.
“He needs to feel fear wherever he goes!” chanted the small group. “We will find you, Pantaleo! No justice, no peace.”
Five years after bootleg cigarette seller Eric Garner died during a so-called “chokehold arrest” on Staten Island, Pantaleo has had no justice and no peace.
He was a good cop doing his job. But his abandonment by craven politicians and top brass has become the unspoken subtext of every police interaction in this city ever since.
His childhood friend Joseph Imperatrice, founder of Blue Lives Matter, is one who calls it the “Pantaleo effect.”
“Police officers cannot be afraid to do their job,” he said. “They have to understand the officers around them and the higher brass will have their back.”
Garner’s death was a tragedy, but even the medical examiner who ruled it a homicide found his health problems contributed. Garner was 6-foot-3 and obese, at 395 pounds. He had an enlarged heart and chronic asthma. The stress of struggling with cops triggered a fatal asthma attack.
Pantaleo is 6 feet and 220 pounds. He had been ordered to arrest Garner. When a man far bigger than him resisted, what was he meant to do, walk away?
Well, walk away is exactly what police are doing now.
And not once has anyone in authority understood how their failure to defend Pantaleo has damaged police morale.
Instead they pander to anti-police bullies who use the poor grieving Garner family as pawns.
The extraordinary passivity last week of those officers in Brooklyn and Harlem as jeering punks soaked them with water has been a long time brewing.
It began with race-baiting former President Barack Obama’s misguided criticism of police in Cambridge, Mass., over the 2009 arrest of his friend Henry Gates. It came to a head in 2014 with the “hands up, don’t shoot” lie told about Michael Brown after he was fatally shot by police in Ferguson, Mo., just three weeks after Garner’s death.
Along the way, Obama gave succor to anti-police activists. The inevitable result of hostility to law enforcement was the assassination of two police officers in Brooklyn, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, just weeks after a grand jury cleared Pantaleo.
Vilified by president wannabe Bill de Blasio and hung out to dry by Commissioner James O’Neill, Pantaleo has seen his actions on that summer’s day in 2014 after Garner resisted arrest scrutinized in every available jurisdiction.
A Staten Island grand jury found he had no case to answer.
The US Justice Department found he had no case to answer.
Now we await the result of a police disciplinary trial and the verdict of Commissioner O’Neill.
For police-haters, Pantaleo is a symbol of the “broken windows” tough-on-crime policing which so successfully cleaned up the city 25 years ago, and which de Blasio is doing his best to unwind while boasting of the low crime rates that are entirely its legacy.
Destroy Pantaleo and you destroy broken windows and, with it, the morale of the NYPD.
You can see how low morale has sunk in the resigned reaction of cops to egregious acts of disrespect, whether being doused by water in Harlem and Brooklyn, having buckets thrown at their heads, or just a foul-mouthed punk on the subway telling them to “suck my d–k”.
“Officers are not supported,” Ed Mullins, head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, said on Friday.
“That’s the sentiment of the rank and file. They’re afraid to get involved because they know they don’t have the backing of the commissioner or the mayor.”
He is furious that de Blasio used the national platform of the first Democratic presidential debate last month to repeat the racist slur that his biracial son, Dante, wasn’t safe around cops because he was a “child of color.”
Nothing has changed since thousands of officers turned their backs on de Blasio at the funeral five years ago of assassinated cop Liu.
Mullins warns that it was the soft-touch policing of the 1970s that led to the crime explosion of the 1980s, and says water dousing incidents are just “the appetizer” to lawlessness to come.
“It won’t be on [de Blasio’s] watch,” he says. “It’s going to be the next mayor and the next commissioner.”
Already, he says, “crooks are getting emboldened . . . Perps know they’re not being searched for firearms. When you talk to the people of the city, they don’t feel safe. They see homelessness, people urinating in the street, turnstile jumping . . . We’re not enforcing crimes anymore.”
“The cops are confused as to what you want them to do,” Mullins says. “The backing off of law enforcement is beginning to erode the city.”
President Trump’s intervention this week, when he voiced support for the embattled cops of his hometown, blasting the water tossing as a “total disgrace,” meant the world, says Mullins.
But the only way to restore the morale of New York’s emasculated police force is for O’Neill to come out from behind his desk and defend Pantaleo.
He might owe his job to de Blasio but he doesn’t owe him his soul.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Way to go. You tell ’em, Miranda, you’re divine!
By Miranda Devine
New York Post
July 28, 2019
We were still reeling at the spectacle of meek NYPD cops being doused with water all over town when Officer Daniel Pantaleo’s home on Staten Island was besieged by protesters Saturday night.
“He needs to feel fear wherever he goes!” chanted the small group. “We will find you, Pantaleo! No justice, no peace.”
Five years after bootleg cigarette seller Eric Garner died during a so-called “chokehold arrest” on Staten Island, Pantaleo has had no justice and no peace.
He was a good cop doing his job. But his abandonment by craven politicians and top brass has become the unspoken subtext of every police interaction in this city ever since.
His childhood friend Joseph Imperatrice, founder of Blue Lives Matter, is one who calls it the “Pantaleo effect.”
“Police officers cannot be afraid to do their job,” he said. “They have to understand the officers around them and the higher brass will have their back.”
Garner’s death was a tragedy, but even the medical examiner who ruled it a homicide found his health problems contributed. Garner was 6-foot-3 and obese, at 395 pounds. He had an enlarged heart and chronic asthma. The stress of struggling with cops triggered a fatal asthma attack.
Pantaleo is 6 feet and 220 pounds. He had been ordered to arrest Garner. When a man far bigger than him resisted, what was he meant to do, walk away?
Well, walk away is exactly what police are doing now.
And not once has anyone in authority understood how their failure to defend Pantaleo has damaged police morale.
Instead they pander to anti-police bullies who use the poor grieving Garner family as pawns.
The extraordinary passivity last week of those officers in Brooklyn and Harlem as jeering punks soaked them with water has been a long time brewing.
It began with race-baiting former President Barack Obama’s misguided criticism of police in Cambridge, Mass., over the 2009 arrest of his friend Henry Gates. It came to a head in 2014 with the “hands up, don’t shoot” lie told about Michael Brown after he was fatally shot by police in Ferguson, Mo., just three weeks after Garner’s death.
Along the way, Obama gave succor to anti-police activists. The inevitable result of hostility to law enforcement was the assassination of two police officers in Brooklyn, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, just weeks after a grand jury cleared Pantaleo.
Vilified by president wannabe Bill de Blasio and hung out to dry by Commissioner James O’Neill, Pantaleo has seen his actions on that summer’s day in 2014 after Garner resisted arrest scrutinized in every available jurisdiction.
A Staten Island grand jury found he had no case to answer.
The US Justice Department found he had no case to answer.
Now we await the result of a police disciplinary trial and the verdict of Commissioner O’Neill.
For police-haters, Pantaleo is a symbol of the “broken windows” tough-on-crime policing which so successfully cleaned up the city 25 years ago, and which de Blasio is doing his best to unwind while boasting of the low crime rates that are entirely its legacy.
Destroy Pantaleo and you destroy broken windows and, with it, the morale of the NYPD.
You can see how low morale has sunk in the resigned reaction of cops to egregious acts of disrespect, whether being doused by water in Harlem and Brooklyn, having buckets thrown at their heads, or just a foul-mouthed punk on the subway telling them to “suck my d–k”.
“Officers are not supported,” Ed Mullins, head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, said on Friday.
“That’s the sentiment of the rank and file. They’re afraid to get involved because they know they don’t have the backing of the commissioner or the mayor.”
He is furious that de Blasio used the national platform of the first Democratic presidential debate last month to repeat the racist slur that his biracial son, Dante, wasn’t safe around cops because he was a “child of color.”
Nothing has changed since thousands of officers turned their backs on de Blasio at the funeral five years ago of assassinated cop Liu.
Mullins warns that it was the soft-touch policing of the 1970s that led to the crime explosion of the 1980s, and says water dousing incidents are just “the appetizer” to lawlessness to come.
“It won’t be on [de Blasio’s] watch,” he says. “It’s going to be the next mayor and the next commissioner.”
Already, he says, “crooks are getting emboldened . . . Perps know they’re not being searched for firearms. When you talk to the people of the city, they don’t feel safe. They see homelessness, people urinating in the street, turnstile jumping . . . We’re not enforcing crimes anymore.”
“The cops are confused as to what you want them to do,” Mullins says. “The backing off of law enforcement is beginning to erode the city.”
President Trump’s intervention this week, when he voiced support for the embattled cops of his hometown, blasting the water tossing as a “total disgrace,” meant the world, says Mullins.
But the only way to restore the morale of New York’s emasculated police force is for O’Neill to come out from behind his desk and defend Pantaleo.
He might owe his job to de Blasio but he doesn’t owe him his soul.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Way to go. You tell ’em, Miranda, you’re divine!
RED BILL GETS SINGED FOR CREATING DISRESPECT OF THE POLICE
Former NYPD chief slams de Blasio over cop-dousings
By Louis Anemone
New York Post
July 26, 2019
Former NYPD Chief of Department Louis Anemone, an architect of the department’s CompStat strategy that is credited with driving down crime to record lows since the 1990s, blames Mayor de Blasio for the abuse NYPD officers are enduring at the hands of foul-mouthed, water-lobbing punks.
Recent events in Brooklyn, Harlem and on the subway involving acts of disrespect toward police officers in uniform have provoked the sentiment of anger and shame in me.
Let me explain — I am angry as hell at the “woke,” “progressive,” political establishment of New York City, who are a disgrace to the city of New York.
They collectively have created a situation that can only get worse for the rule of law in New York. They have replaced common sense, impartiality and honesty in the pursuit of happiness in the city with crazy theories about our subconscious prejudices and minority privilege.
The educational and criminal justice systems in this city are under attack by these “progressives,” with not a care for the consequences of these deranged theories.
Our mayor has indicated on a number of occasions now that he had “the talk” with his son about how not to enrage the racist police of the city if he is ever stopped by them.
Mr. Mayor, it is now time for you to have a different “talk” with your supporters in each of the boroughs.
You should begin by explaining to your supporters that you were wrong to attack the motives of the men and women of the NYPD.
You should then apologize to those men and women of the NYPD who put it all on the line, 24/7, 365 days a year for all people in the city — residents or tourists, businesspersons or employees, the homeless or condo dwellers, citizens or aliens.
Your next step should be training and teaching the youth of the city in correct, courteous behavior that is the norm in most civilized cities in the world.
You may also mention the fact that in the future, parents will be held responsible for the behavior of their minor children, while adult children will be answerable to the courts for their behavior.
People must expect consequences for their anti-social and criminal behavior. No excuses, no hard-luck stories, no placing the blame on our institutions of education, health and policing for the lack of civility, rude and dangerous, threatening behavior by far too many youths and adults in our city.
I am ashamed that members of my beloved NYPD — when confronted with behavior that could just have easily been life-threatening — did nothing. They turned their backs on a threat, walked away defeated, all the while in uniform.
We who have served understand that when you wear the uniform, it is not about you anymore.
These people have now become emboldened to take perhaps more serious action against a police officer thinking that there will be no consequences for them. This is a very dangerous situation for the other officers in that precinct, who may meet these same people on the street a day, a week, a month later.
I have been retired for 20 years now, but I have known and witnessed true American heroes who wore that NYPD uniform with pride and courage during their careers. How dare any members of the department disgrace that same uniform by giving in to their selfish fears? Worries about what the department or the public might think of your actions are no justification for not stepping up and doing the right thing.
Shame on you. Resign now.
God bless the men and women of the NYPD. Walk tall, hold your heads high, and never back down.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Never back down and when no one is looking, kick the supreme shit out of the sorry ass bastards.
By Louis Anemone
New York Post
July 26, 2019
Former NYPD Chief of Department Louis Anemone, an architect of the department’s CompStat strategy that is credited with driving down crime to record lows since the 1990s, blames Mayor de Blasio for the abuse NYPD officers are enduring at the hands of foul-mouthed, water-lobbing punks.
Recent events in Brooklyn, Harlem and on the subway involving acts of disrespect toward police officers in uniform have provoked the sentiment of anger and shame in me.
Let me explain — I am angry as hell at the “woke,” “progressive,” political establishment of New York City, who are a disgrace to the city of New York.
They collectively have created a situation that can only get worse for the rule of law in New York. They have replaced common sense, impartiality and honesty in the pursuit of happiness in the city with crazy theories about our subconscious prejudices and minority privilege.
The educational and criminal justice systems in this city are under attack by these “progressives,” with not a care for the consequences of these deranged theories.
Our mayor has indicated on a number of occasions now that he had “the talk” with his son about how not to enrage the racist police of the city if he is ever stopped by them.
Mr. Mayor, it is now time for you to have a different “talk” with your supporters in each of the boroughs.
You should begin by explaining to your supporters that you were wrong to attack the motives of the men and women of the NYPD.
You should then apologize to those men and women of the NYPD who put it all on the line, 24/7, 365 days a year for all people in the city — residents or tourists, businesspersons or employees, the homeless or condo dwellers, citizens or aliens.
Your next step should be training and teaching the youth of the city in correct, courteous behavior that is the norm in most civilized cities in the world.
You may also mention the fact that in the future, parents will be held responsible for the behavior of their minor children, while adult children will be answerable to the courts for their behavior.
People must expect consequences for their anti-social and criminal behavior. No excuses, no hard-luck stories, no placing the blame on our institutions of education, health and policing for the lack of civility, rude and dangerous, threatening behavior by far too many youths and adults in our city.
I am ashamed that members of my beloved NYPD — when confronted with behavior that could just have easily been life-threatening — did nothing. They turned their backs on a threat, walked away defeated, all the while in uniform.
We who have served understand that when you wear the uniform, it is not about you anymore.
These people have now become emboldened to take perhaps more serious action against a police officer thinking that there will be no consequences for them. This is a very dangerous situation for the other officers in that precinct, who may meet these same people on the street a day, a week, a month later.
I have been retired for 20 years now, but I have known and witnessed true American heroes who wore that NYPD uniform with pride and courage during their careers. How dare any members of the department disgrace that same uniform by giving in to their selfish fears? Worries about what the department or the public might think of your actions are no justification for not stepping up and doing the right thing.
Shame on you. Resign now.
God bless the men and women of the NYPD. Walk tall, hold your heads high, and never back down.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Never back down and when no one is looking, kick the supreme shit out of the sorry ass bastards.
I'LL BET TRUMP PAID THE RAT
by Bob Walsh
Some TV talking head was doing a live shot from Baltimore about how mean Trump was for calling Baltimore a rat-infested shit hole when a rat the size of a small dog wandered thru the live shot. The only thing that would have been better would have been if the talking head would have seen it and freaked and they would have had to pull her off off of a telephone pole.
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Baltimore Rat Runs Through Fox Reporter's Live Shot, Trump Supporters Tout as 'Proof' President Not Racist
by Benjamin Fearnow
Newsweek
July 30, 2019
A rat in West Baltimore ran through a local Fox TV reporter's live shot on Monday as she discussed President Donald Trump being urged to visit the city he controversially labeled a "rat and rodent infested mess."
Fox 45 Baltimore reporter Maxine Streicher was engaged in a live broadcast from the city's Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood on Monday when the camera panned over to an alley just as a rat scurried out from under trash and along a wall. The live shot prompted widespread mockery from supporters of the president who touted the video as "proof" the president was correct in telling Maryland's 7th District Democratic congressman Elijah Cummings via Twitter to "clean up this very dangerous & filthy place."
"Now, we spoke with many people today, who say the president should consider coming here to Baltimore, to the Sandtown area, and taking a look at things for himself," Streicher can be heard saying as the camera examined a nearby alley.
The rat can be seen emerging from behind several bags of trash on the ground before running along a wall and disappearing into an adjacent patch of grass and concrete. Streicher is heard detailing how neighborhood residents told her the area needs to be "cleaned up" and crime needs to be reduced, but Trump's words were "too harsh."
Ann Coulter, Fox News radio host Todd Starnes and several state-level Republican Party lawmakers joined thousands of right-leaning social media users in gleefully sharing the video. WCBM-AM talk radio host Bruce Elliott declared on Starnes' radio show that the "unpleasant truth" is Trump was correct in identifying the city's rat and crime problems which many critics said were "racist" comments.
"I think that when you're telling the truth that that's hard to classify as anything other than the truth. There is a rat problem in Baltimore, the crime rate in Baltimore is scary, and we've had 191 murders so far this year," Elliott said.
During a later broadcast Monday, a Fox 45 Baltimore anchor described the rat's fleeting appearance as "proof" of Trump's complaints about parts of the city. The segment also noted Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders referred to portions of the city as "uninhabitable" in 2015, which Trump lamented on his Twitter account Monday.
"During Maxine's live shot in West Baltimore at 4 o'clock, we got some proof of what the president was talking about. Our photographer on the scene captured that, that big rat, seen running right across your screen," she explained.
The Fox-affiliated TV station, which is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, continued addressing Trump's criticism of Baltimore and noted a "surge in non-fatal shootings" across the city. The Monday evening segment highlighted a 31 percent increase from 2018 through July 20 of this year.
Many Twitter users responded to the rat "photo-bomb" video by pointing at several local stories over the years about longtime rodent problems in Baltimore. A September 2018 WBFF-TV report showed former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh exclaiming, "you can smell the rats." The clip prompted right-wing pundit Mark Dice and several conservative news outlets such as Breitbart and CNS News to further distance Trump's comments from accusations of racism.
"Here's a local Baltimore news story about the rat problem from a few years ago. 'Rats' are not a code word for black people. The city has a rat problem! #TrumpIsRightAgain," Dice tweeted Tuesday.
Some TV talking head was doing a live shot from Baltimore about how mean Trump was for calling Baltimore a rat-infested shit hole when a rat the size of a small dog wandered thru the live shot. The only thing that would have been better would have been if the talking head would have seen it and freaked and they would have had to pull her off off of a telephone pole.
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Baltimore Rat Runs Through Fox Reporter's Live Shot, Trump Supporters Tout as 'Proof' President Not Racist
by Benjamin Fearnow
Newsweek
July 30, 2019
A rat in West Baltimore ran through a local Fox TV reporter's live shot on Monday as she discussed President Donald Trump being urged to visit the city he controversially labeled a "rat and rodent infested mess."
Fox 45 Baltimore reporter Maxine Streicher was engaged in a live broadcast from the city's Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood on Monday when the camera panned over to an alley just as a rat scurried out from under trash and along a wall. The live shot prompted widespread mockery from supporters of the president who touted the video as "proof" the president was correct in telling Maryland's 7th District Democratic congressman Elijah Cummings via Twitter to "clean up this very dangerous & filthy place."
"Now, we spoke with many people today, who say the president should consider coming here to Baltimore, to the Sandtown area, and taking a look at things for himself," Streicher can be heard saying as the camera examined a nearby alley.
The rat can be seen emerging from behind several bags of trash on the ground before running along a wall and disappearing into an adjacent patch of grass and concrete. Streicher is heard detailing how neighborhood residents told her the area needs to be "cleaned up" and crime needs to be reduced, but Trump's words were "too harsh."
Ann Coulter, Fox News radio host Todd Starnes and several state-level Republican Party lawmakers joined thousands of right-leaning social media users in gleefully sharing the video. WCBM-AM talk radio host Bruce Elliott declared on Starnes' radio show that the "unpleasant truth" is Trump was correct in identifying the city's rat and crime problems which many critics said were "racist" comments.
"I think that when you're telling the truth that that's hard to classify as anything other than the truth. There is a rat problem in Baltimore, the crime rate in Baltimore is scary, and we've had 191 murders so far this year," Elliott said.
During a later broadcast Monday, a Fox 45 Baltimore anchor described the rat's fleeting appearance as "proof" of Trump's complaints about parts of the city. The segment also noted Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders referred to portions of the city as "uninhabitable" in 2015, which Trump lamented on his Twitter account Monday.
"During Maxine's live shot in West Baltimore at 4 o'clock, we got some proof of what the president was talking about. Our photographer on the scene captured that, that big rat, seen running right across your screen," she explained.
The Fox-affiliated TV station, which is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, continued addressing Trump's criticism of Baltimore and noted a "surge in non-fatal shootings" across the city. The Monday evening segment highlighted a 31 percent increase from 2018 through July 20 of this year.
Many Twitter users responded to the rat "photo-bomb" video by pointing at several local stories over the years about longtime rodent problems in Baltimore. A September 2018 WBFF-TV report showed former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh exclaiming, "you can smell the rats." The clip prompted right-wing pundit Mark Dice and several conservative news outlets such as Breitbart and CNS News to further distance Trump's comments from accusations of racism.
"Here's a local Baltimore news story about the rat problem from a few years ago. 'Rats' are not a code word for black people. The city has a rat problem! #TrumpIsRightAgain," Dice tweeted Tuesday.
CAT LADY TO BE JAILED FOR FEEDING CATS
by Bob Walsh
Some poor deluded cat lady in Garfield Heights, Ohio is actually getting ten days in the slammer for feeding stray cats, which is illegal there. In her news clip she referred to the feral, vicious, overbred animals as "kitties" so clearly she is a couple of french fries short of a happy meal.
Her neighbors ratted her out because they got tired of the constant traffic of cats, cat pee and cat shit everywhere, and general stupidity.
Some poor deluded cat lady in Garfield Heights, Ohio is actually getting ten days in the slammer for feeding stray cats, which is illegal there. In her news clip she referred to the feral, vicious, overbred animals as "kitties" so clearly she is a couple of french fries short of a happy meal.
Her neighbors ratted her out because they got tired of the constant traffic of cats, cat pee and cat shit everywhere, and general stupidity.
CA GOVERNOR PISSING INTO THE WIND AGAIN
by Bob Walsh
The governor of the formerly great state of California, Gavin Newsom, has signed into law a clearly unconstitutional bill which would, if upheld, force ANYBODY (including Donald Trump) who wants to get his name on the California primary presidential ballot to cough up his tax returns.
Since there is no such requirement in FEDERAL law or in the U. S. Constitution it can not be enforced by a state against federal office holders or potential federal office holders.
The state of California is basically collectively jacking off in hopes of accomplishing something that they think will be significant. Since Trump isn't going to win in CA he could tell them to fuck off, but I am hoping he will sue the dog shit out of them, and collect damages and attorney's fees in the process.
I think even Ruth Ginsberg would have a problem with saying this is constitutional, but she is crazy and senile, so you never know.
The governor of the formerly great state of California, Gavin Newsom, has signed into law a clearly unconstitutional bill which would, if upheld, force ANYBODY (including Donald Trump) who wants to get his name on the California primary presidential ballot to cough up his tax returns.
Since there is no such requirement in FEDERAL law or in the U. S. Constitution it can not be enforced by a state against federal office holders or potential federal office holders.
The state of California is basically collectively jacking off in hopes of accomplishing something that they think will be significant. Since Trump isn't going to win in CA he could tell them to fuck off, but I am hoping he will sue the dog shit out of them, and collect damages and attorney's fees in the process.
I think even Ruth Ginsberg would have a problem with saying this is constitutional, but she is crazy and senile, so you never know.
LIFE AND ART INTERSECTING
by Bob Walsh
On Sunday evening life and art intersected each other at an intersection in Stockton.
An unnamed documentary filmmaker was shooting at the intersection of East Hazelton and South Center Street (not the best part of town, from far from the worst) at about 6 p.m. when somebody tried to steal his car. They fought, and the film maker managed to get away in his car, with injuries that required hospital care.
I wonder what the subject of his documentary is.
On Sunday evening life and art intersected each other at an intersection in Stockton.
An unnamed documentary filmmaker was shooting at the intersection of East Hazelton and South Center Street (not the best part of town, from far from the worst) at about 6 p.m. when somebody tried to steal his car. They fought, and the film maker managed to get away in his car, with injuries that required hospital care.
I wonder what the subject of his documentary is.
MOTHERS AGAINST SENSELESS KILLINGS KILLED
2 mothers killed in drive-by shooting had worked to stop gun violence in their Chicago neighborhood
By Manny Ramos and Nader Issa
Chicago Sun-Times
July 29, 2019
Chantell Grant and Andrea Stoudemire were at their usual spot Friday night, posted on a corner lot in the Gresham neighborhood as part of their effort to curb gun violence in their community.
The two women had spent two years working with Mothers Against Senseless Killings (MASK), a team of moms who put on events and offer a safe space for kids in the community.
But the peace-seekers became victims Friday when Grant — a 26-year-old mother of four — and Stoudemire — a 35-year-old mother of three — were killed in a drive-by shooting.
“It is terrifying. It is heartbreaking. I haven’t slept because I am trying to figure out how we can stop this,” Tamar Manasseh, founder of MASK, told the Chicago Sun-Times. “Who’s next? I just keep thinking, ‘Who’s next?’ ”
Just before 10 p.m. Friday, a blue SUV rolled by 75th Street and Stewart Avenue, where MASK sets up shop, and someone fired shots into a crowd, Chicago police said. Grant and Stoudemire were killed, and a man was grazed in the arm.
“This is still very much under investigation, but at this time, we have no evidence that we can point to that suggests the women were the intended targets. We also have no evidence to the contrary,” CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi wrote in an email. No one was in custody as of Monday evening.
Manasseh started the group in 2015, with the moms “occupying” the southwest corner of 75th and Stewart — hanging out, cooking out and walking the neighborhood — with the belief that their presence and engagement with the community alone could do some good. The mothers also offer youths counseling, healthy meals and homes for those who don’t have them.
Instead of a lively group of kids playing and adults enjoying the summer weather Monday, mourners stopped by to leave candles, flowers and sign a poster at a memorial set up by friends of the two women.
“I’m trying to hold up. I’m taking it literally one day at a time,” said Charvonda Andrews, Stoudemire’s friend of more than two decades. “Honestly, every 30 minutes I’m crying. But I’m trying to just hold it together right now. That’s been my best friend since fifth grade.
“She was very outgoing. Very spontaneous. Loved to smile,” Andrews said. “She loved taking care of her kids. That’s the main thing. Her kids were her world.”
A few minutes later, as rain started to fall on Andrews and a group of friends, they released a dozen balloons into the air and watched as two drifted off together.
Andrews, sobbing over the loss of her friend, let out her frustration: “Why are these cowards taking moms away from these kids? ... I’m so tired of Chicago.”
The man who was grazed in Friday’s shooting also stopped by the scene Monday — with his arm bandaged — to pay his respects.
The man, who spoke to the Sun-Times on the condition he remain anonymous, said he spends much of his time walking the neighborhood, trying to console people affected by gun violence. The night of the shooting, he comforted one of the women who was shot, holding her hand as she died.
”It’s too much around here. The older people can’t come out and sit on the porch; the kids can’t play,” he said. “It’s just, wow. Everyone is scared.”
MASK has started a GoFundMe campaign with the goal of raising a $5,000 reward for information “that will bring these mother killers to justice.”
The attack was the second drive-by shooting on the block in the past month. The night of June 25, a 23-year-old woman was wounded as she stood on the corner about 9 p.m., when a black vehicle drove by and someone inside opened fire, Chicago police said. She was shot in the face, back and leg but survived. There was no indication from police that the shootings were connected.
At the site Monday, Stoudemire’s older brother, Dyrell Powell, paced around the block in shock over his sister’s death.
“They killed my sister. It hurts,” Powell said. “Whoever did this, I hope they go to jail for life.”
By Manny Ramos and Nader Issa
Chicago Sun-Times
July 29, 2019
Chantell Grant and Andrea Stoudemire were at their usual spot Friday night, posted on a corner lot in the Gresham neighborhood as part of their effort to curb gun violence in their community.
The two women had spent two years working with Mothers Against Senseless Killings (MASK), a team of moms who put on events and offer a safe space for kids in the community.
But the peace-seekers became victims Friday when Grant — a 26-year-old mother of four — and Stoudemire — a 35-year-old mother of three — were killed in a drive-by shooting.
“It is terrifying. It is heartbreaking. I haven’t slept because I am trying to figure out how we can stop this,” Tamar Manasseh, founder of MASK, told the Chicago Sun-Times. “Who’s next? I just keep thinking, ‘Who’s next?’ ”
Just before 10 p.m. Friday, a blue SUV rolled by 75th Street and Stewart Avenue, where MASK sets up shop, and someone fired shots into a crowd, Chicago police said. Grant and Stoudemire were killed, and a man was grazed in the arm.
“This is still very much under investigation, but at this time, we have no evidence that we can point to that suggests the women were the intended targets. We also have no evidence to the contrary,” CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi wrote in an email. No one was in custody as of Monday evening.
Manasseh started the group in 2015, with the moms “occupying” the southwest corner of 75th and Stewart — hanging out, cooking out and walking the neighborhood — with the belief that their presence and engagement with the community alone could do some good. The mothers also offer youths counseling, healthy meals and homes for those who don’t have them.
Instead of a lively group of kids playing and adults enjoying the summer weather Monday, mourners stopped by to leave candles, flowers and sign a poster at a memorial set up by friends of the two women.
“I’m trying to hold up. I’m taking it literally one day at a time,” said Charvonda Andrews, Stoudemire’s friend of more than two decades. “Honestly, every 30 minutes I’m crying. But I’m trying to just hold it together right now. That’s been my best friend since fifth grade.
“She was very outgoing. Very spontaneous. Loved to smile,” Andrews said. “She loved taking care of her kids. That’s the main thing. Her kids were her world.”
A few minutes later, as rain started to fall on Andrews and a group of friends, they released a dozen balloons into the air and watched as two drifted off together.
Andrews, sobbing over the loss of her friend, let out her frustration: “Why are these cowards taking moms away from these kids? ... I’m so tired of Chicago.”
The man who was grazed in Friday’s shooting also stopped by the scene Monday — with his arm bandaged — to pay his respects.
The man, who spoke to the Sun-Times on the condition he remain anonymous, said he spends much of his time walking the neighborhood, trying to console people affected by gun violence. The night of the shooting, he comforted one of the women who was shot, holding her hand as she died.
”It’s too much around here. The older people can’t come out and sit on the porch; the kids can’t play,” he said. “It’s just, wow. Everyone is scared.”
MASK has started a GoFundMe campaign with the goal of raising a $5,000 reward for information “that will bring these mother killers to justice.”
The attack was the second drive-by shooting on the block in the past month. The night of June 25, a 23-year-old woman was wounded as she stood on the corner about 9 p.m., when a black vehicle drove by and someone inside opened fire, Chicago police said. She was shot in the face, back and leg but survived. There was no indication from police that the shootings were connected.
At the site Monday, Stoudemire’s older brother, Dyrell Powell, paced around the block in shock over his sister’s death.
“They killed my sister. It hurts,” Powell said. “Whoever did this, I hope they go to jail for life.”
JEWISH DRUG DEALER PARDONED FOR THE RIGHT REASONS
Trump pardons Israeli man from 20-year sentence for drug offenses
JNS
July 30, 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump commuted the 20-year prison sentence on Monday of Israel-born Ronen Nahmani, who was convicted in 2015 of distributing synthetic drugs that he purchased from suppliers in China.
The 41-year-old Torah-observant Jew has already served four years in prison.
The pardon comes after Nahmani’s children wrote letters requesting a presidential pardon and also due to the health of his wife, Ruth, who suffers from terminal cancer.
“Mr. Nahmani is a non-violent, first-time offender with no criminal history. He has five young children at home, and his wife is suffering from terminal cancer. These extenuating circumstances underscore the urgency of his request for clemency,” the White House said in a statement.
It also noted that “members of Congress and a broad cross-section of the legal community have expressed support for clemency for Mr. Nahmani.”
“I’m still trying to catch my breath because I’m so overwhelmed; I can’t believe what happened, and I’m so grateful,” Ruth, told Hamodia news. “I don’t even have words in the dictionary to describe how grateful I am, how blessed I feel and how I overwhelmed I am with the joy in my heart.”
Among the lawyers fighting for Nahmani’s pardon was professor emeritus at Harvard Law School Alan Dershowitz, who said, “what President Trump did was the right thing; he ought to be praised for saving lives and doing a mitzvah. … I think it will be an important part of President Trump’s legacy that he did the right thing for the right reasons.”
JNS
July 30, 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump commuted the 20-year prison sentence on Monday of Israel-born Ronen Nahmani, who was convicted in 2015 of distributing synthetic drugs that he purchased from suppliers in China.
The 41-year-old Torah-observant Jew has already served four years in prison.
The pardon comes after Nahmani’s children wrote letters requesting a presidential pardon and also due to the health of his wife, Ruth, who suffers from terminal cancer.
“Mr. Nahmani is a non-violent, first-time offender with no criminal history. He has five young children at home, and his wife is suffering from terminal cancer. These extenuating circumstances underscore the urgency of his request for clemency,” the White House said in a statement.
It also noted that “members of Congress and a broad cross-section of the legal community have expressed support for clemency for Mr. Nahmani.”
“I’m still trying to catch my breath because I’m so overwhelmed; I can’t believe what happened, and I’m so grateful,” Ruth, told Hamodia news. “I don’t even have words in the dictionary to describe how grateful I am, how blessed I feel and how I overwhelmed I am with the joy in my heart.”
Among the lawyers fighting for Nahmani’s pardon was professor emeritus at Harvard Law School Alan Dershowitz, who said, “what President Trump did was the right thing; he ought to be praised for saving lives and doing a mitzvah. … I think it will be an important part of President Trump’s legacy that he did the right thing for the right reasons.”
HERE’S HOPING THOSE WEAPONS WON’T EVENTUALLY BE USED AGAINST ISRAEL
Trump administration gets green light to sell arms to Saudi Arabia, after Senate rejects veto overrides
By Gregg Re
Fox News
July 29, 2019
The Trump administration is set to move forward with plans to sell billions of dollars of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, after the Republican-controlled Senate on Monday rejected efforts to block the sales by overriding President Trump's vetoes.
The White House had vowed to use an emergency loophole in the Arms Export Control Act to move ahead unilaterally with sales of billions of dollars in precision-guided munitions, other bombs, ammo and aircraft maintenance support, infuriating lawmakers from both parties. The administration pointed out that this authority has been invoked by past presidents on multiple occasions, including in 1979, 1984, 1990 and 2006.
But, in bipartisan pushback, Democrats and Republicans banded together to pass resolutions blocking the $8.1 billion weapons sales to the U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf.
Three votes Monday to override Trump's vetoes failed. Each required a two-thirds vote.
The veto override attempts commenced in the Senate, because it's the body that originated the legislation in question. Successful veto overrides are rare, and there have only been 111 veto overrides in the history of the republic. The last override was the Senate's 97-1 vote in 2016 to override then-President Obama's veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, which allowed families of 9/11 victims to sue those responsible for the attacks, including Saudi Arabia.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last month cited threats from Iran as a reason to approve the $8.1 billion arms sale to the two U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf, which are enemies of Tehran.
"To reject these sales at this time and under these circumstances is to reward recent Iranian aggression and to encourage further Iranian escalation," Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, said last month after the Senate voted to block the sales. Risch added that blocking the sales would "encourage miscalculation on the part of Iranians which will be disastrous."
The White House also argued that stopping the sales would send a signal that the United States didn't stand by its partners and allies, particularly at a time when threats from hostile countries such as Iran have been increasing.
"Iran’s malign activity poses a fundamental threat to the stability of the Middle East and to Americans at home and abroad. We took this step of prudent diplomatic deterrence to augment our partners’ long-term capacity for self-defense and threat mitigation," a senior State Department official told Fox News this past May.
The official added, "Congress won’t act, but we will."
Meanwhile, human rights groups, government officials and the broader international community routinely have raised concerns about the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen striking civilian targets, potentially with the assistance of U.S weaponry. However, less has been said about the possibility of such weapons ending up in enemy hands in the chaotic and lawless theater of war – both Iran proxies and extremist Sunni militias.
"This is an evolving topic; these weapons are getting handed off to a vast range of militias," Philippe Nassif, the advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International, told Fox News. "There are a lot of weapons floating in Yemen, and this isn’t a new issue. We have seen this happen for years in parts of the world."
The United States has been the largest arms supplier to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and between 2013 and 2017 alone Saudi Arabia purchased $112 billion in weapons. While there have been distinct Pentagon rules that arms transfers could not be moved to a third party without authorization, critics have argued that monitoring or enforcing such regulations was comprehensive enough.
"When these weapons leave U.S. hands, we ultimately have little ability to control where they go," said Defense Priorities fellow Gil Barndollar.
Still, much of the conversation in Washington concerned the legality of Trump's move and the strength of the precedent for using the emergency exemption for arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Then-President Ronald Reagan invoked it in the 1980s, and both Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush used it for sales before the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 Iraq war, respectively.
But, in a statement on Monday, Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin, a Democrat and senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Republicans had "abdicated their constitutionally mandated responsibilities as lawmakers" and their "legal and moral obligation to make certain that U.S. weapons are not used to repress human rights or perpetrate violence against innocent civilians."
Cardin said Saudi Arabia has "shown a total disregard for international law by using U.S.-provided arms to level devastating attacks on civilians, including young children," adding that "just this morning, a Saudi led airstrike killed at least 10 civilians in northern Yemen."
He said, "This must end."
Tensions between Iran and the West have mounted since Trump unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from a 2015 accord restricting the Iranian nuclear program. Trump reimposed sanctions that had been lifted under the accord, devastating Iran's economy.
Saudi Arabia has long been a regional rival to Iran, and tension has mounted between the UAE and Tehran over several issues, including the UAE's coordination with U.S. efforts to curb what it's called Iran's malign activities in the region.
The Senate votes came after the House Oversight Committee released a report criticizing the Trump administration for its alleged ties to Saudi Arabia.
By Gregg Re
Fox News
July 29, 2019
The Trump administration is set to move forward with plans to sell billions of dollars of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, after the Republican-controlled Senate on Monday rejected efforts to block the sales by overriding President Trump's vetoes.
The White House had vowed to use an emergency loophole in the Arms Export Control Act to move ahead unilaterally with sales of billions of dollars in precision-guided munitions, other bombs, ammo and aircraft maintenance support, infuriating lawmakers from both parties. The administration pointed out that this authority has been invoked by past presidents on multiple occasions, including in 1979, 1984, 1990 and 2006.
But, in bipartisan pushback, Democrats and Republicans banded together to pass resolutions blocking the $8.1 billion weapons sales to the U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf.
Three votes Monday to override Trump's vetoes failed. Each required a two-thirds vote.
The veto override attempts commenced in the Senate, because it's the body that originated the legislation in question. Successful veto overrides are rare, and there have only been 111 veto overrides in the history of the republic. The last override was the Senate's 97-1 vote in 2016 to override then-President Obama's veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, which allowed families of 9/11 victims to sue those responsible for the attacks, including Saudi Arabia.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last month cited threats from Iran as a reason to approve the $8.1 billion arms sale to the two U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf, which are enemies of Tehran.
"To reject these sales at this time and under these circumstances is to reward recent Iranian aggression and to encourage further Iranian escalation," Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, said last month after the Senate voted to block the sales. Risch added that blocking the sales would "encourage miscalculation on the part of Iranians which will be disastrous."
The White House also argued that stopping the sales would send a signal that the United States didn't stand by its partners and allies, particularly at a time when threats from hostile countries such as Iran have been increasing.
"Iran’s malign activity poses a fundamental threat to the stability of the Middle East and to Americans at home and abroad. We took this step of prudent diplomatic deterrence to augment our partners’ long-term capacity for self-defense and threat mitigation," a senior State Department official told Fox News this past May.
The official added, "Congress won’t act, but we will."
Meanwhile, human rights groups, government officials and the broader international community routinely have raised concerns about the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen striking civilian targets, potentially with the assistance of U.S weaponry. However, less has been said about the possibility of such weapons ending up in enemy hands in the chaotic and lawless theater of war – both Iran proxies and extremist Sunni militias.
"This is an evolving topic; these weapons are getting handed off to a vast range of militias," Philippe Nassif, the advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International, told Fox News. "There are a lot of weapons floating in Yemen, and this isn’t a new issue. We have seen this happen for years in parts of the world."
The United States has been the largest arms supplier to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and between 2013 and 2017 alone Saudi Arabia purchased $112 billion in weapons. While there have been distinct Pentagon rules that arms transfers could not be moved to a third party without authorization, critics have argued that monitoring or enforcing such regulations was comprehensive enough.
"When these weapons leave U.S. hands, we ultimately have little ability to control where they go," said Defense Priorities fellow Gil Barndollar.
Still, much of the conversation in Washington concerned the legality of Trump's move and the strength of the precedent for using the emergency exemption for arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Then-President Ronald Reagan invoked it in the 1980s, and both Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush used it for sales before the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 Iraq war, respectively.
But, in a statement on Monday, Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin, a Democrat and senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Republicans had "abdicated their constitutionally mandated responsibilities as lawmakers" and their "legal and moral obligation to make certain that U.S. weapons are not used to repress human rights or perpetrate violence against innocent civilians."
Cardin said Saudi Arabia has "shown a total disregard for international law by using U.S.-provided arms to level devastating attacks on civilians, including young children," adding that "just this morning, a Saudi led airstrike killed at least 10 civilians in northern Yemen."
He said, "This must end."
Tensions between Iran and the West have mounted since Trump unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from a 2015 accord restricting the Iranian nuclear program. Trump reimposed sanctions that had been lifted under the accord, devastating Iran's economy.
Saudi Arabia has long been a regional rival to Iran, and tension has mounted between the UAE and Tehran over several issues, including the UAE's coordination with U.S. efforts to curb what it's called Iran's malign activities in the region.
The Senate votes came after the House Oversight Committee released a report criticizing the Trump administration for its alleged ties to Saudi Arabia.
130 YEARS LATER
Slain Kentucky Marshal Honored Over A Century Later In Texas
LAPPL News Watch
July 30, 2019
A federal officer gunned down while transporting prisoners through eastern Kentucky was honored at a small ceremony Friday in Texas, more than a century after his death.
Senior officials with the U.S. Marshals Service and judges gathered at a courthouse in Plano, a suburb northeast of Dallas, to present a flag to Russell Wireman's great-great-great grandson, Gary Hulsey.
Wireman, a marshal, was shot in the chest in 1889 during the so-called Moonshine War, but his death until recently has been a lost part of history. The presentation of the folded flag was part of an effort by America's oldest federal law-enforcement agency to recognize officers whose deaths during a particularly deadly period of its history had been obscured by the passing decades.
"We have a saying in the law enforcement community that we never forget," said Richard Taylor, U.S. marshal for the Northern District of Texas. "One hundred and 30 years later, we never forget."
LAPPL News Watch
July 30, 2019
A federal officer gunned down while transporting prisoners through eastern Kentucky was honored at a small ceremony Friday in Texas, more than a century after his death.
Senior officials with the U.S. Marshals Service and judges gathered at a courthouse in Plano, a suburb northeast of Dallas, to present a flag to Russell Wireman's great-great-great grandson, Gary Hulsey.
Wireman, a marshal, was shot in the chest in 1889 during the so-called Moonshine War, but his death until recently has been a lost part of history. The presentation of the folded flag was part of an effort by America's oldest federal law-enforcement agency to recognize officers whose deaths during a particularly deadly period of its history had been obscured by the passing decades.
"We have a saying in the law enforcement community that we never forget," said Richard Taylor, U.S. marshal for the Northern District of Texas. "One hundred and 30 years later, we never forget."
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
BY DEMOCRATS OWN STANDARD, SANDERS OUGHT TO CARRY RACIST LABEL DURING PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
Trump asks why 'Crazy Bernie' wasn't called a racist for comparing Baltimore to a 'third world country' while he has been roasted for his 'rat-infested mess' tweets
Daily Mail
July 29, 2019
President Trump turned his ire to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Monday as he opened up a third front in his Baltimore battle.
'Crazy Bernie Sanders recently equated the City of Baltimore to a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY! Based on that statement, I assume that Bernie must now be labeled a Racist, just as a Republican would if he used that term and standard!' he charged.
Trump further claimed that he'd be happy to assist leaders of the urban area clean the city up, if they requested his assistance. 'The fact is, Baltimore can be brought back, maybe even to new heights of success and glory, but not with King Elijah and that crew. When the leaders of Baltimore want to see the City rise again, I am in a very beautiful oval shaped office waiting for your call! he tweeted.
Sanders had in 2015 compared Baltimore to a third world country. Yet, he criticized Trump in a Sunday morning interview for zeroing in on a majority-black district represented by a respected African-America congressman.
But the sitting president also had 2015 comments that were coming back to haunt him on Monday. He'd blamed then-President Barack Obama for crime in Maryland's capital city and said the nation's leader should go to Baltimore and calm racial tensions.
EDITOR’S NOTE: While taking a tour of East Baltimore a year ago, former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh said:
“What the hell? We should just take all this shit down. Woah, you can smell the rats. Whew, Jesus. Oh my God, you can smell the dead animals.”
Now, according to the Democrats, that was downright racist. Oops, it could not have been because Pugh is black.
Daily Mail
July 29, 2019
President Trump turned his ire to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Monday as he opened up a third front in his Baltimore battle.
'Crazy Bernie Sanders recently equated the City of Baltimore to a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY! Based on that statement, I assume that Bernie must now be labeled a Racist, just as a Republican would if he used that term and standard!' he charged.
Trump further claimed that he'd be happy to assist leaders of the urban area clean the city up, if they requested his assistance. 'The fact is, Baltimore can be brought back, maybe even to new heights of success and glory, but not with King Elijah and that crew. When the leaders of Baltimore want to see the City rise again, I am in a very beautiful oval shaped office waiting for your call! he tweeted.
Sanders had in 2015 compared Baltimore to a third world country. Yet, he criticized Trump in a Sunday morning interview for zeroing in on a majority-black district represented by a respected African-America congressman.
But the sitting president also had 2015 comments that were coming back to haunt him on Monday. He'd blamed then-President Barack Obama for crime in Maryland's capital city and said the nation's leader should go to Baltimore and calm racial tensions.
EDITOR’S NOTE: While taking a tour of East Baltimore a year ago, former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh said:
“What the hell? We should just take all this shit down. Woah, you can smell the rats. Whew, Jesus. Oh my God, you can smell the dead animals.”
Now, according to the Democrats, that was downright racist. Oops, it could not have been because Pugh is black.
SO, WHAT'S THE ANSWER? MORE GUN LAWS OF COURSE
by Bob Walsh
The 19 year old asshole shooter in Gilroy purchased his Kalashnikov pattern rifle legally in Nevada. He probably had some dreaded high-capacity magazines too, purchased legally in Nevada. (They are actually factory standard capacity magazines, but why bother with details.) Unless he bought his ammo in California (he might have) importing it into CA was illegal. Possession of the rifle in CA was illegal unless he registered it here. Possession of the high-capacity magazines was illegal. Carrying a loaded rifle except on private property or at a licensed gun range was illegal. Cutting the fence and sneaking into the Garlic Festival was illegal. Discharging the weapon with intent to harm or kill was illegal. So, how to stop it from happening again? Pass more laws.
SB61 would prohibit anyone in California from purchasing more than one gun per month. He didn't buy it in California, and he may have owned just the one gun, so he may very well have been cool anyway.
The Gun Violence Restraining Act needs to be expanded obviously. Of course the now dead shooter, Santino William Legan, 19, had no reports of violent claims or tendancies.
Also of course we should increase training on gun violence restraining orders. That would stop these crimes dead.
And we must increase funding to CA DOJ to take guns away from prohibited persons. Of course Legan was not in fact a prohibited person, but what the fuck, just go with it.
Of course, Governor Gavin Newsom said yesterday that it was Donald Trump's fault. So we can just blame him and stop all this meaningless bullshit. But we won't. Because our legislature is collectively a pack of whores and assholes and the electorate is collectively too lame or too stupid to throw the bastards out.
The 19 year old asshole shooter in Gilroy purchased his Kalashnikov pattern rifle legally in Nevada. He probably had some dreaded high-capacity magazines too, purchased legally in Nevada. (They are actually factory standard capacity magazines, but why bother with details.) Unless he bought his ammo in California (he might have) importing it into CA was illegal. Possession of the rifle in CA was illegal unless he registered it here. Possession of the high-capacity magazines was illegal. Carrying a loaded rifle except on private property or at a licensed gun range was illegal. Cutting the fence and sneaking into the Garlic Festival was illegal. Discharging the weapon with intent to harm or kill was illegal. So, how to stop it from happening again? Pass more laws.
SB61 would prohibit anyone in California from purchasing more than one gun per month. He didn't buy it in California, and he may have owned just the one gun, so he may very well have been cool anyway.
The Gun Violence Restraining Act needs to be expanded obviously. Of course the now dead shooter, Santino William Legan, 19, had no reports of violent claims or tendancies.
Also of course we should increase training on gun violence restraining orders. That would stop these crimes dead.
And we must increase funding to CA DOJ to take guns away from prohibited persons. Of course Legan was not in fact a prohibited person, but what the fuck, just go with it.
Of course, Governor Gavin Newsom said yesterday that it was Donald Trump's fault. So we can just blame him and stop all this meaningless bullshit. But we won't. Because our legislature is collectively a pack of whores and assholes and the electorate is collectively too lame or too stupid to throw the bastards out.
SAVED BY THE BRA
by Bob Walsh
Daniesa Murdaugh, 21, is a very lucky lady. She was present at a block party in Brooklyn when, at about 11 p.m. on July 27, somebody started shooting. She ran and was shot in the back.
Fortunately for her the bullet impacted her bra strap directly over her spine. When EMS showed up and checked her out they unhooked her bra and the bullet fell out of the strap. She had some fragments in her skin but no significant injury. The shooting left one man dead at the Brownsville area party.
The New York Public Advocate, Jumaane D. Williams, asserted (incorrectly of course) that there is a mass shooting "nearly every day" in the U.S. Mayor "Red Bill" deBlasio tried to come up with some way to blame Donald Trump, but couldn't manage it.
Nobody said anything about whether or not a shooter had been identified or was in custody, or a possible motive, nor pretty much anything actually helpful.
Welcome to the Big Apple. INCOMING.
Daniesa Murdaugh, 21, is a very lucky lady. She was present at a block party in Brooklyn when, at about 11 p.m. on July 27, somebody started shooting. She ran and was shot in the back.
Fortunately for her the bullet impacted her bra strap directly over her spine. When EMS showed up and checked her out they unhooked her bra and the bullet fell out of the strap. She had some fragments in her skin but no significant injury. The shooting left one man dead at the Brownsville area party.
The New York Public Advocate, Jumaane D. Williams, asserted (incorrectly of course) that there is a mass shooting "nearly every day" in the U.S. Mayor "Red Bill" deBlasio tried to come up with some way to blame Donald Trump, but couldn't manage it.
Nobody said anything about whether or not a shooter had been identified or was in custody, or a possible motive, nor pretty much anything actually helpful.
Welcome to the Big Apple. INCOMING.
KAMALA HARRIS REFINES HER POSITION YET AGAIN
by Bob Walsh
Kamala Harris has again refiined / explained her position on medicare-for-all just prior to the next round of Democrap presidential debates.
She still wants medicare for all, BUT would allow private health care insurance plans to remain in the mix, IF they are willing to follow certain rules that she lays down. (Damn nice of her I think.)
Her first expressed idea was to shitcan all private insurance and dump everybody into medicare. She has been backing incrementally away from that position ever since she expressed it.
She still has not come up with any realistic idea as to how she would fund this huge cost. Currently her idea is to tax the dogshit out of any family making above $100,000. She would also tax many stock market transactions at as much as 0.2% to help fund it. She would also tax the "rich" another 1% on top of whatever they are paying now.
The techie types say Medicare for all would cost about $30 trillion dollars. Harris's plan would raise about 10% of that sum.
One thing for sure. She really, really, really wants to be president and really, really, really thinks she can beat Trump if she can just get the Democrap nomination. The knives may come out for the next Democrap debate circus. DEATH TO THE OLD WHITE GUYS.
Kamala Harris has again refiined / explained her position on medicare-for-all just prior to the next round of Democrap presidential debates.
She still wants medicare for all, BUT would allow private health care insurance plans to remain in the mix, IF they are willing to follow certain rules that she lays down. (Damn nice of her I think.)
Her first expressed idea was to shitcan all private insurance and dump everybody into medicare. She has been backing incrementally away from that position ever since she expressed it.
She still has not come up with any realistic idea as to how she would fund this huge cost. Currently her idea is to tax the dogshit out of any family making above $100,000. She would also tax many stock market transactions at as much as 0.2% to help fund it. She would also tax the "rich" another 1% on top of whatever they are paying now.
The techie types say Medicare for all would cost about $30 trillion dollars. Harris's plan would raise about 10% of that sum.
One thing for sure. She really, really, really wants to be president and really, really, really thinks she can beat Trump if she can just get the Democrap nomination. The knives may come out for the next Democrap debate circus. DEATH TO THE OLD WHITE GUYS.
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