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Speaking at Netroots Nation, an event organized by far-left website Daily Kos, Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar accused Americans of treating illegal aliens worse than dogs. What's more, she said, they do so because they're inherently and deeply racist. "We live in a society," Rep. Omar said, "and govern in a body that might value the life of a dog more than they value the life of a child who might not look like theirs." Here's the video:

And so it begins…Ice ice baby Too cold Ice ice baby Too cold too cold Ice ice baby Too cold too cold Ice ice baby Too cold too coldOr if you prefer, here’s the Game of Thrones cast singing Vanilla Ice’s biggest hit:Either way you have a prima facie case of melatonin challenged actors using white privilege to culturally appropriate black rap music.But while Ice Ice Baby was the subject of a landmark music copyright suit, oddly enough the suit was brought by two other white artists, Freddie Mercury and David Bowie. Since it was an obvious rip off of...

 In a 'popcorn-dropping moment' the actress is handed Bond's number Bond girls have been renamed as Bond women in the new movie The new Bond movie pays tribute to the past 007 films   Since Daniel Craig announced he was standing down as James Bond, debate has raged whether the next 007 should be a woman, or black.Now The Mail on Sunday can reveal that she will be both – thanks to the intervention of feminist TV writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge.In what's been called a 'popcorn-dropping moment', British star Lashana Lynch, will be given Bond's licence to kill in the 25th movie in...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti: “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all… we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing” Saikat Chakrabarti is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff.On July 10, 2019, the Washington Post published the following: (the bolding is mine)Chakrabarti had an unexpected disclosure. “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal,” he said, “is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all.” Ricketts greeted this startling notion with an attentive poker face. “Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?” Chakrabarti continued. “Because...

A recent test has confirmed the predictions of quantum trajectory theory, which describes what happens during the long-mysterious “collapse” of a quantum system.Imagine if all our scientific theories and models told us only about averages: if the best weather forecasts could only give you the average daily amount of rain expected over the next month, or if astronomers could only predict the average time between solar eclipses. In the early days of quantum mechanics, that seemed to be its inevitable limitation: It was a probabilistic theory, telling us only what we will observe on average if we collect records for...

So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly...… ....and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how.... ....it is done. These places need your help badly,...

Today’s Cryptogram BDK ADJ KVCSJ, PVX BKSJLCYHF ADJ KVCSJ, UMCYLYQJ ADJ HM KVCSJ. ---KMJJ USKML Today’s CG is courtesy of the Arkansas Gazette. You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram). Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated. PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and any tips you...

Last month President Trump announced plans for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to begin enforcement actions, or raids, throughout ten U.S. cities in order to enforce deportation orders. Following pleas from Congressional Democrats the President suspended the actions for two weeks in order to give Congress a chance to act. Of course, Congress has done nothing but bloviate. On Friday the President confirmed that the raids are back on and scheduled to begin this Sunday. As well they should be. The raids are both legal and necessary, yet they have already been misrepresented by opponents and such acts will almost certainly...

I am your stereotypical, cisgender, middle-aged suburban dad. I dabble in woodworking, I take out the garbage, and I covet my neighbor’s Porsche. Though I do think men should wear makeup (it looks nice!), my tepid masculinity apparently rings loudly enough online and in person that most people guess that I go by “he” and “him.” And that’s fine; I will not be offended if you refer to me by those traditional, uselessly gendered pronouns.

Since its debut in June, the Florida Climate Reporting Network has sparked interest from a growing number of media outlets — even beyond Florida. The network is emblematic of a trend that's been seen throughout the cash-strapped news business: A collaborative streak. Competitors are teaming up on certain projects while still competing on other stories. The editors hope that readers are the beneficiaries. Right now the Tampa Bay Times, Miami Herald, South Florida Sun Sentinel, Orlando Sentinel, Palm Beach Post, and WLRN Public Media make up the network, and they are banding together to increase local reporting about the climate...

Just nine months ago, attorney Katie Baron was so inspired by Beto O’Rourke’s Senate campaign in Texas that she commissioned a sprawling mural on the side of a building in east Austin featuring the candidate in a Superman-like pose. After O’Rourke lost race and began mulling a presidential campaign, the artist added a sweeping “2020” in blue paint — providing what seemed to be yet one more call for O’Rourke to get into the crowded race. Now, four months into O’Rourke’s campaign, Baron wishes he had stayed out.

Separately, arrogance and ignorance are some of humanity’s worst traits. Together, when coupled with power, they achieve “weapon-grade stupid” status. This is the marinade of the “gang of four,” the “progressive” Congresswomen – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar –  who I’d accuse of having exponentially more social media followers than accomplishments, but it’s impossible to multiply by zero. This week we witnessed why those two traits together are such a problem for Democrats, and it was hilarious.Individually, the Gang of Four have strung together an uninterrupted string of gaffes, stupid statements, and racist comments that would...

Ron DeSantis kept his word: He’s the boldest Florida governor since Jeb Bush two decades ago. That’s why we’re so worried. After six months in office, he has lived up to the rhetoric of his Jan. 8 inaugural address: “I will lead with purpose and conviction.” But lead how? If the 2018 election proved anything, it’s that Florida is more closely divided than ever, and that should translate into a nonpartisan style of governing to lessen the extreme polarization in this deep purple state. It means honoring the public will, respecting all sides and protecting Florida’s fragile environment all the...

An all-out racially charged fight within the House Democratic Caucus escalated Saturday when an African American freshman lawmaker said the party doesn’t need “any more black voices that don’t want to be a black voice.” Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) made those comments during a speech at the liberal Netroots Nation conference where she, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) appeared after a week-long clash with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her allies.

Warren pledges to create commission to investigate 'crimes committed by the United States against immigrants' Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Saturday that she will create a commission to investigate "crimes committed by the United States against immigrants" if she is elected president. “On my first day, I will empower a commission in the Department of Justice to investigate crimes committed by the United States against immigrants,” she said at the progressive Netroots Nation conference. Warren accused President Trump of looking the other way at abuse, but said she will not do so. “To anyone out there who’s working in this...

The Talk Shows July 14th, 2019 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Senior Presidential Counselor Kellyanne Conway; Rep. Ben Ray Luján, D(elusional)-NM. The panel includes Jason Chaffetz, Former Congressman R-UT; Josh Holmes, Former Chief of Staff to Senator Mitch McConnell / President & Founding Partner of Cavalry; Jane Harman, President of (VERY Racist democrat President) Woodrow Wilson Center & Former Congresswoman D(elusional)-CA; and Whine Williams, Fox News Political Analcyst. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Bernie Sanders, I(ncontinent bladder)-VT, NOPE*; Ron Johnson, R-Wis.; U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team and American-hater co-captain Megan...

It’s been barely two weeks since Donald Trump became the first American president to step onto North Korean soil, with all attendant theorizing about what the move meant, or didn’t. Was it the “biggest moment of the Trump presidency so far” and “already a political win,” as some media figures claimed? Was it, on the contrary, another sign of Trump’s “dictator envy” and “authoritarian buffoonery”? Was it a move toward peace—or war, or both, or neither, or simply more uncertainty? Who was outwitting whom? Although it was just two weeks in the past, that moment feels like two centuries ago,...

LONDON — It was just hours after Boris Johnson, then Britain’s foreign secretary, returned to London from a whirlwind trip last year to try to persuade the White House to abide by the Iran nuclear accord. Kim Darroch, then the British ambassador to the United States, fired off a withering assessment of President Trump’s wish to quit the deal. Mr. Trump, he wrote in leaked diplomatic cables that were published on Saturday, was “set upon an act of diplomatic vandalism, seemingly for ideological and personality reasons — it was Obama’s deal.” The vice president, the national security adviser and the...

Fascism, Communism, Nazism -- all gifts to the world from Europe. Now it's nonsensical worries about climate change resulting in deliberately built-in inefficiencies in everything from household appliances to transportation methods. Compared to the U.S., Europe’s love of control-down economics leaves it in the dust: “The US GDP is five times that of Germany, seven times that of France and UK, 10 times of that of Italy, and 14 times of that of Spain in 2018.” And when the UK leaves the EU as I predict it will, the gap will be much larger. Still, the control freaks of the...