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Sun., July 16, 2017
*** OK, so ISIS – which takes great pride and pleasure in blowing up innocent civilians, including teenage girls attending a concert, in addition to raping women, making them slaves and cutting off people’s heads – has been driven out of Mosul, Iraq.
In the process, some Iraqi liberators have allegedly been tossing ISIS barbarians off buildings and riddling their bodies with bullets.
And, um, I’m supposed to lose sleep over that tonight? I don’t think so.
*** Let me see if I have this straight:
A lawyer from Russia with no ties to the Russian government was allowed into the U.S. illegally by Obama’s attorney general who was colluding with the Crooked Hillary campaign, claims she has dirt on Crooked Hillary, gets a 20-minute meeting with the president’s son through a third-party intermediary, has her B.S. ignored because there was no "there" there - and somehow Donald Trump Jr. is the bad guy?
On what fake news channel does that make sense?
*** President Donald Trump’s constitutional temporary travel ban was blocking an all-girls robotics team from coming to the U.S. for a competition.
The fake news media and Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers had a conniption. But get this:
We learned today that “President Trump intervened” himself to allow the kids to come after all.
Next meltdown, snowflakes?
*** Yesterday President Trump complemented France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron by observing, “You’re in such great shape.”
The remark triggered a nationwide outbreak of Trump Derangement Syndrome on the left. If only the President, as White House spox Sean Spicer joked, had called her a “fat slob.” Then everything would have been OK.
*** An insignificant, largely unknown California (of course) Democrat, Rep.Brad Sherman - who is infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome - has filed an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump for putting Russian dressing on his salad or some such other nonsense.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Cheers.
Dr. Chuck Muth, PsD
Professor of Psephology (homeschooled)
Nevada’s #1 Irritator of Liberals and RINOs
P.S. So MSNBC’s “Psycho Joe” Scarborough has left the Republican Party because President Donald Trump hurt his widdle feelings and insulted his mistress.
Yawn. Don’t let the door hit ya. Bye, Felicia.
Internet Goes Nuts Over Sammy Sosa's Drastic Change
By CHASE STEPHENS
On Wednesday, former Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa made a brief appearance on ESPN Deportes in a segment about the All-Star Home Run Derby, but it wasn't the substance of the interview that lit the internet on fire, it was Sosa's new look.
Sosa's lightening skin tone has been a source of wonder for people since 2009, when in a span of mere months Sosa came on TV looking a bit more pale than folks remembered him. He eventually had to deny claims that he was trying to lighten his skin, saying that it was a skin softener that "bleached [him] some" in the understatement of the year. And it was almost forgotten.
Then the Home Run Derby happened.
Twitterers then stepped into the batter's box and began swinging for the fences:
They need to do a #30for30 on Sammy Sosa and not even talk about baseball.
"What if I told you that this guy...was also this guy..."
"What if I told you that this guy...was also this guy..."
OXTAIL GAWD Sammy Sosa out here lookin like Pepto Bismol.
frumpy @frumpy14He looks more like Snagglepuss
RT @ThatDudeMCFLYSammy Sosa out here lookin like Pepto Bismol.
The Fake ESPN @TheFakeESPNYo Sammy Sosa turned into the Pink Panther.
Ol' QWERTY Bastard @TheDiLLon1Sammy Sosa really living his life as a one man Neapolitan Ice Cream
Craig Bro Dude Sammy Sosa look like the milk at the bottom of a bowl of Fruity Pebbles.
Congrats to Sammy Sosa on landing the Franken Berry endorsement.
Sammy Sosa then, and Sammy Sosa now, don't look like the same human being. They don't even look related to each other.
Villaz @ChrisVillazSammy Sosa really on his way to becoming the first invisible man
Apparently he's pink because of "white supremacy"...
Tariq Nasheed Sammy Sosa lightening himself is a result of a perverted system of white supremacy that causes people to take extreme measures to feel "safe"
roxane gay It's sad that the emotional pain Sammy Sosa feels about being black is so sharp he was willing to endure bleaching himself pink.
Little But Talawa @LittleButTalawaThis is what self-hate looks like: Sammy Sosa before and after
In 2009, Sosa told Univision’s Primer Impacto, "It’s a bleaching cream that I apply before going to bed and whitens my skin some. It’s a cream that I have, that I use to soften [my skin], but has bleached me some. I’m not a racist, I live my life happily. What happened was that I had been using the cream for a long time and that, combined with the bright TV lights, made my face look whiter than it really is. I don’t think I look like Michael Jackson.”
Why the Post Office Gives Amazon Special Delivery
A Citigroup analysis finds each box gets a $1.46 subsidy. It’s like a gift card from Uncle Sam.
By Josh SandbulteIn my neighborhood, I frequently walk past “shop local” signs in the windows of struggling stores. Yet I don’t feel guilty ordering most of my family’s household goods on Amazon. In a world of fair competition, there will be winners and losers.
But when a mail truck pulls up filled to the top with Amazon boxes for my neighbors and me, I do feel some guilt. Like many close observers of the shipping business, I know a secret about the federal government’s relationship with Amazon: The U.S. Postal Service delivers the company’s boxes well below its own costs. Like an accelerant added to a fire, this subsidy is speeding up the collapse of traditional retailers in the U.S. and providing an unfair advantage for Amazon.
This arrangement is an underappreciated accident of history. The post office has long had a legal monopoly to deliver first-class mail, or nonurgent letters. The exclusivity comes with a universal-service obligation—to provide for all Americans at uniform price and quality. This communication service helps knit this vast country together, and it’s the why the Postal Service exists.
In 2001 the quantity of first-class mail in the U.S. began to decline thanks to the internet. Today it is down 40% from its peak levels, according to Postal Service data. But though there are fewer letters to put into each mailbox, the Postal Service still visits 150 million residences and businesses daily. With less traditional mail to deliver, the service has filled its spare capacity by delivering more boxes.
Other companies, such as UPS and FedEx , compete with the Postal Service to deliver packages. Lawmakers, to their credit, wanted a level playing field between the post office and its private competitors. The 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act made it illegal for the Postal Service to price parcel delivery below its cost.
But with a networked business using shared buildings and employees, calculating cost can be devilishly subjective. When our postal worker delivers 10 letters and one box to our home, how should we allocate the cost of her time, her truck, and the sorting network and systems that support her? What if the letter-to-box ratio changes?
In 2007 the Postal Service and its regulator determined that, at a minimum, 5.5% of the agency’s fixed costs must be allocated to packages and similar products. A decade later, around 25% of its revenue comes from packages, but their share of fixed costs has not kept pace. First-class mail effectively subsidizes the national network, and the packages get a free ride. An April analysis from Citigroup estimates that if costs were fairly allocated, on average parcels would cost $1.46 more to deliver. It is as if every Amazon box comes with a dollar or two stapled to the packing slip—a gift card from Uncle Sam.
Amazon is big enough to take full advantage of “postal injection,” and that has tipped the scales in the internet giant’s favor. Select high-volume shippers are able to drop off presorted packages at the local Postal Service depot for “last mile” delivery at cut-rate prices. With high volumes and warehouses near the local depots, Amazon enjoys low rates unavailable to its competitors. My analysis of available data suggests that around two-thirds of Amazon’s domestic deliveries are made by the Postal Service. It’s as if Amazon gets a subsidized space on every mail truck.
I do not know which stores in my neighborhood will be gone five years from now, but I am certain my household will continue to receive numerous boxes from Amazon. I also believe that society would be better off if competing retailers, online or brick-and-mortar, continue to thrive. Congress should demand the enforcement of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, and the Postal Service needs to stop picking winners and losers in the retail world. The federal government has had its thumb on the competitive scale for far too long.
Mr. Sandbulte is co-president of Greenhaven Associates, a money-management firm that owns FedEx common stock.
This 19-Year-Old Dad Had Trouble Finding A Job. One Look At His Picture Shows Why.
In a variation on the old adage, the reason one teenage father from New Zealand was complaining about employers refusing to hire him was as plain as the tattoo on his face.
Mark Cropp, 19, who recently completed his 2015 two-year sentence in jail for armed robbery after he brandished a knife to rob a tourist who backed out of a fake marijuana sale, got a tattoo in jail that covered the lower half of his face. It read “DEVAST8.”
Cropp got the idea from his brother, who shared his cell in the jail in Christchurch and thought the tattoo would prevent other inmates from giving Cropp trouble.
After the brothers got drunk drinking home brew made from fermented apples, sugar and bread, things went awry; Cropp said the tattoo was supposed to be a “little one along the jawline,” but “Before I knew it I had this on my face. ... It was swollen like a bloody pumpkin,” Cropp told the New Zealand Herald.
Pity his wife and child. I guess it means his wife has two kiddos.
New from England. Acid attacks: What has led to the rise and how can they be stopped?
By George Mann BBC News
Resham Khan was left with burns on her face, arms, legs and shoulder after having acid thrown at her
The latest acid attacks in north-east London on Thursday, which saw five people being sprayed with a corrosive liquid, add to a growing number of cases being reported in the UK.
Last month cousins Resham Khan and Jameel Muhktar were left with life-changing injuries after a corrosive liquid was thrown at them through a car window.
And in April clubbers in east London were caught up in an attack involving acid, which left 20 people injured.
And in April clubbers in east London were caught up in an attack involving acid, which left 20 people injured.
Assaults involving corrosive substances have more than doubled in England since 2012, police figures show.
The vast majority of cases were in London.
It is legal to purchase strong acid but there have been growing calls for regulations to be tightened in the wake of recent incidents.
The National Police Chiefs Council lead for corrosive attacks, Assistant Chief Constable Rachel Kearton, told the BBC Asian Network that reported acid attacks had seen a significant rise in percentage terms, but that compared with knife crime the number of incidents were "tiny".
'I thought I was going blind'
Imran Khan suffered facial injuries after being attacked while delivering food in east LondonTakeaway restaurant owner Imran Khan was attacked while out delivering food in Barking, east London, in November.
He was confronted by a group of youths who demanded money and food while hurling racist abuse at him. When he got back into his vehicle they squirted a corrosive liquid in his face.
Mr Khan says the pain "overtook everything" and he feared he would be left completely blind.
He was saved from long-term damage by a quick thinking shopkeeper who washed his face with clean water at the scene of the attack.
He says the attack affected him "big time" leaving him feeling unsafe in public, especially after dark.
Weapon of choice
Attacks in London in 2016-17
Crimes using "corrosive substances"
208
Violence against the person
38
caused serious injuries, 1 was fatal
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118 robberies
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10 of which left victims with serious injuries
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2 sexual offences, including 1 rape
Source: Metropolitan Police
Metropolitan Police figures obtained by the BBC show men are twice as likely to be victims of acid attacks in London than women after being linked to a number of gang crimes.
The vast majority of cases never reach trial.
Dr Simon Harding, a criminologist and expert on gangs at Middlesex University, says acid is becoming "a weapon of first choice".
"Acid throwing is a way of showing dominance, power and control, building enormous fear among gang peer groups," he says.
Gang members know there are advantages in using acid to hurt someone rather than a knife because "the charges are more serious if you are caught with a knife and the tariff for prison sentences are much higher".
Dr Harding added that "acid is likely to attract a 'GBH with intent' charge while using a knife is more likely to lead to the attacker being charged with attempted murder"
"There's no specific offence of throwing acid. It's a harder offence to prove because there is rarely any DNA evidence and its much easier to dispose of a plastic bottle than it is a knife."
Dr Harding says the government needs to attack the problem on three fronts.
He says acid is too easily available, sentencing needs to be brought into line with knife crime and a programme of education is required.
"Gang members do respond when they realise a victim of an acid attack may never work again or may need 15 or 20 plastic surgery operations."
Physical and emotional damage
Isobella Fraser was caught up in the acid attack at a London nightclub in April and was treated for injuries to her back and arms
"This is a horrendous crime, it maims, it disfigures," ACC Kearton explains.
"What particularly disgusts me about this crime is that it's premeditated, no-one carries acid around on the streets for any other reason than using it for this reason.
"The intention behind this is for someone to live with this for the rest of their lives.
"That is lasting physical and emotional damage, it’s sometimes why some people choose this as a form of attack."
Asked what can be done to stop it she says: "To have an acid in a different bottle to the one it was purchased in can be an offence, we can also regulate volumes of sale, we can regulate ages at which people can buy it."
Jaf Shah, from the London charity Acid Survivors Trust International says the phenomenon isn't new and dates back to the Victorian times in Britain, but says the recent figures are shocking.
"The recent spike in attacks means the UK has the highest number of reported acid attacks per capita in the world."
He is among those calling for regulations on the sale of acid to be tightened.
What does the law say?
There are no age restrictions on buying household bleach or drain cleaning products containing acid in the UK.
There are rules which limit the sale of certain substances under the explosives precursors and poisons (EPP) rules aimed at businesses who sell or supply such chemicals in bulk.
The Met said it was working with retailers to raise awareness that people might be buying corrosive substances to use as weapons.
But Jaf Shah wants the government to make it compulsory when purchasing corrosive chemicals to pay by card that is traceable to an individual and to make acid available only under licence.
Labour MP for East Ham Stephen Timms has tabled an adjournment debate for Monday in the House of Commons on the rise in the number of acid attacks.
About a third of last year's acid attacks in the capital took place in the London borough of Newham, which is in his constituency.
Mr Timms says he is "most concerned about sulphuric acid" and that carrying a bottle without justification should be treated as an offence, like carrying a knife.
The Hysterical Absurdity of the Modern Media
On Wednesday, I wrote about President Trump’s remarkable address to the Polish people in Warsaw on July 6 that he made before attending the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany.
Today, I’d like to discuss the hysterical, absurd, and truly looney response that many in the media had to it.
Throughout his speech, President Trump did a wonderful job highlighting the strong, enduring relationships the United States has with Poland and our NATO allies, the tremendous importance of maintaining these relationships, and the need to band together to defeat ISIS and other enemies of Western civilization.
To any normal American, the speech was likely reminiscent of President Ronald Reagan’s address to the British Parliament in 1982 or speeches made by Sir Winston Churchill and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the World War II era.
But the leftwing media saw something entirely different.
One article in The Atlantic described the speech as “racial and religious paranoia,” saying “to be considered Western, a country must be largely Christian (preferably Protestant or Catholic) and largely white.” Then, I suppose to support its faulty thesis, the article wrongly suggests that there’s some confusion about whether Latin American countries are a part of Western civilization – saying while they are mostly Christian, “by U.S. standards, they’re not clearly white.”
This is a perfect example of the writer creating a false definition, then projecting it upon Latin America. He ignores that modern Latin American civilization was developed by settlers from Western Europe and that the leader of the Catholic Church (a cornerstone of Western culture) is from Argentina. This is either profoundly ignorant or delusional.
A story for Vox Media called the speech “an alt-right manifesto” because Trump urged NATO allies to “fight like the Poles – for family, for freedom, for country, and for God.” Those seem like pretty normal American values to me. After all, it’s the Declaration of Independence that states Americans “hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” It makes me wonder if these words penned by Thomas Jefferson would be considered alt-right, by Vox’s definition.
A writer at Slate claimed Trump’s only definable ideology was “white American chauvinism” and said the speech in Warsaw, “fit comfortably into a long history of white nationalist rhetoric.” Really? The editors at Slate must have missed when the President said that “above all, we value the dignity of every human life, protect the rights of every person, and share the hope of every soul to live in freedom.”
The truth is, the media is so frenzied in its disdain for the President, it is operating in a distorted version of reality. As I explain in my #1 New York Times best-selling book, Understanding Trump, members of the media cannot accept that the American people chose Donald Trump to represent them, so they have turned to a false world of facts in an effort to wage war on the White House. They might find it useful, however, to consider what President Reagan said to the British Parliament in 1982: “self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.”
While it is not surprising that the media attacked President Trump’s Warsaw speech – they were committed to doing that regardless of what he said – the offensive against Western civilization is simply baffling.
Western civilization grew out of centuries of spiritual and intellectual thought going back to Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome. It has produced foundational documents such as the Magna Carta – part of the bedrock for our concept that all people are equal under the law.
To suggest that Western civilization is racist or intolerant, is to deny the fabric by which our modern society has evolved – particularly in the United States. The effects of Western civilization on the world have amounted to a continual pattern of technological advancement, the creation of free markets, healthy competition, enforcement of the rule of law, and the promotion of freedom of thought.
This last hallmark points to the most absurd aspect of the media railing against Western civilization: Without it, there is no free press.
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