theblaze--2020-01-14--Christian powerhouse author and speaker Priscilla Shirer undergoes surgery due to 'dangerous irregul

Christian powerhouse author and speaker Priscilla Shirer undergoes surgery due to 'dangerous irregularities' in lung

Christian powerhouse author and speaker Priscilla Shirer undergoes surgery due to 'dangerous irregularities ' in lung

Christian actress, Bible teacher, speaker, and author Priscilla Shirer announced Friday that she will be undergoing surgery to remove an entire lobe of one of her lungs after discovering "dangerous irregularities"
What are the details?
Shirer, who is also the founder of Going Beyond Ministries, announced the news on Facebook.
"Several pulmonary specialists and I have watched it meticulously [since finding a nodule three years ago]," she wrote. "This past summer, it was clear that something surgical needed to be done as the nodule had begun to grow and show signs of dangerous irregularities."
Shirer recently lost her mother, Lois Evans, after a battle with cancer.
“For those reasons, the surgery was delayed but I cannot put it off any longer without jeopardizing my own health,"she added. “So this Monday, 1/13/20, surgeons will be removing an entire lobe of my left lung. Thank you for praying for me and for our entire family. We refuse to cave to fear, anxiety or a decrease in faith …because, well ... ain't nobody got time for that!"
Shirer added that she is trusting on God's mercy and graciousness for a "favorable outcome"
“Through it all, we still believe God. We are trusting Him for a favorable outcome and that I will return to full health personally and full function in ministry," she added. “I'm incredibly grateful to you for lifting me, Jerry, our sons ... and my entire family up to our Father. We are tired but we are holding steady."
Shirer said that her church family gathered to pray over her, which eventually brought the news to a more public level.
“On Tuesday, the women in my home church surrounded me in prayer regarding an upcoming surgery that I have scheduled," the mom of three explained. “Since then, news of this procedure began to spread on the inter webs by concerned individuals so I wanted to take a moment to address it personally."
It's been a rough year for Shirer and her family to say the least — according to Christian Headlines, Shirer lost her grandfather in November, her aunt in January, and her cousin in 2018.
At the time of this writing, there has not been any updates on Shirer's surgery or condition.
(H/T: CBN News)


theblaze--2020-01-14--Judge hands Trump admin a victory against the ACLU on family separations at the border

Judge hands Trump admin a victory against the ACLU on family separations at the border This is going to anger @ @ @ @

A federal judge sided with the Trump administration against the American Civil Liberties Union in a lawsuit challenging their power to separate families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw issued a lengthy 26-page decision saying that the administration was not abusing the power of the executive branch, according to the Associated Press.
"It is an invitation that is potentially massive in scope," Sabraw wrote, "invades an area that is particularly within the province of the executive branch to secure the nation's border, and goes beyond this court's class certification and preliminary injunction orders, which were focused on the administration's practice of separating families at the border for the purpose of deterring immigration, and failing to reunify those families."
The ruling applies to family separation at the border due to the administration finding the parents to be unfit or dangerous. It applies to about 900 children who were separated under such criteria.
Sabraw did give the ACLU a partial victory by rejecting the government's argument that 90-minute DNA tests to determine parental disputes were operationally difficult.
"The court strongly reaffirmed that the Trump administration bears the burden if it attempts to separate families based on an accusation that the adult is not the child's parent," said attorney Lee Gelernt, who represented the ACLU.
"We are evaluating the decision to determine next steps on how to ensure that children are not separated from their parents based on minor infractions," he added.
Family separations at the border have become a contentious issue, with critics claiming the administration is acting with malice and cruelty to deter illegal entries, while supporters say the separations are necessary and not unique to the Trump era.
Here's a previous report about border separations:


theblaze--2020-01-14--Rand Paul vows to force votes 'to call Hunter Biden and many more' if Dem witnesses testify in Senat

Rand Paul vows to force votes 'to call Hunter Biden and many more' if Dem witnesses testify in Senate

Rand Paul vows to force votes 'to call Hunter Biden and many more ' if Dem witnesses testify in Senate @ @ @ @ @ it both ways . '

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says if his colleagues in the Senate support calling the witnesses Democrats are demanding for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, he will force votes "to call Hunter Biden and many more" witnesses to assure a balanced prosecution.
What are the details?
On Monday, Politico reported that Republicans are facing a "reckoning on impeachment witnesses," and quoted Paul as telling fellow Republican senators during a lunch last week, "Don't think you can just vote for Bolton and not the witnesses Trump wants."
Paul was referring to former national security advisor John Bolton, who said last week that he would testify if called by the upper chamber.
Politico noted that over the weekend, President Trump tweeted out a request "that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and even Speaker Nancy Pelosi [D-Calif.] appear as witnesses."
Sen. Paul appeared to confirm his statement when he retweeted Politico's article, writing, "My colleagues can't have it both ways. Calling for some, while blocking others. If we are going to give a platform to witnesses the Dems demand, I look forward to forcing votes to call Hunter Biden and many more!"
Axios reported that in December, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) requesting that four witnesses be called: John Bolton; Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney; Office of Management and Budget Associate Director for National Security Michael Duffey; and Senior Advisor to Mick Mulvaney, Robert Blair.
On Friday, moderate GOP Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) told the Bangor Daily News that she has been working with a small group of fellow Republican senators who agree "we should be completely open to calling witnesses."
Anything else?
The Hill pointed out that Sen. McConnell "has said he does not believe either side should call witnesses and warned Democrats last month that if they successfully call a witness, Republicans could try to call individuals Democrats would oppose."
McConnell told Fox News Radio that Republicans would "want the whistleblower. We're going to want Hunter Biden." He added, "You can see here that this would be a kind of mutual assured destruction episode that would go on for a long time."


theblaze--2020-01-14--21 Saudi students to be expelled after Pensacola attack investigators find jihadi posts and child po

21 Saudi students to be expelled after Pensacola attack investigators find jihadi posts and child porn on their computers Barr @ @ @ @ @ act of terrorism . ''

The investigation into a deadly shooting at a Pensacola military base resulted in the expulsion of 21 Saudi nationals who were military students over jihadi literature and child porn found on their computers.
Attorney General Bill Barr told reporters in a media briefing on Monday that the military students were found to have posted jihadist messages on social media, while others had contact with child pornography.
Three U.S. sailors were killed in the December mass attack and another eight Americans were wounded. Barr called the attack "an act of terrorism."
The FBI found that the assailant had posted messages ahead of the attack that could have served as a warning. One message read "The countdown has begun," on the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.
"He also posted other anti-American, anti-Israeli, and jihadi messages on social media, and did so two hours before his attack at the naval base," said Barr.
Investigators say he had been planning the mass attack for months. They did not find that any other students had prior knowledge of the attack, or that they aided it in any manner.
The FBI is seeking help from Apple to access information on the attacker's iPhone devices, which he attempted to disable during the attack.
Barr told reporters that the vetting process would be improved to prevent future attacks, but he added that the Saudi Arabian training was important to U.S. foreign policy.
Here's a news report about the expulsions:


theblaze--2020-01-14--Group threatens to sue after blessing of 'official Bible' for swearing in Space Force commanders

Group threatens to sue after blessing of 'official Bible ' for swearing in Space Force commanders The activist organization called @ @ @ @ @ repulsive display '

A non-profit group called the Military Religious Freedom Foundation has threatened to take legal action in a scathing statement condemning the blessing of a Bible to be used for swearing in commanders of the newly-formed military branch, the United States Space Force.
What are the details?
During Sunday's service at the Washington National Cathedral, a three-minute ceremony was held to bless a King James Bible which the cathedral said "will be used to swear in all commanders of America's newest military branch."
According to The Washington Post, the blessing was given by the Right Rev. Carl Wright, the Episcopal Church's bishop suffragan for the Armed Forces and Federal Ministries, and overseen by the National Cathedral's dean, the Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith, and by chief of chaplains for the U.S. Air Force, Maj. Gen. Steven A. Schaick.
A spokesperson for the cathedral told The Hill that the Bible would be used to swear in the first chief of space operations of the U.S. Space Force, Gen. John Raymond. The outlet noted that "the ceremony included mentions of blessing [President Donald] Trump, Raymond, and 'all the men and women of the newly created United States Space Force, wherever they may go."
What did the MRFF say?
The MRFF issued a statement expressing the organization's outrage over the ceremony, saying the group "condemns, in as full-throated a manner as is humanly possible, the shocking and repulsive display of only the most vile, exclusivist, fundamentalist Christian supremacy, dominance, triumphalism and exceptionalism which occurred at yesterday's 'blessing.'"
The group went on to say that it was "receiving a multitude of new complaints from outraged [Department of Defense] military and even civilian DoD personnel, as well as veterans, regarding this unmitigated, unconstitutional horror."
The MRFF then threatened to sue, saying if their "fervent attempts to exhaust all DoD administrative remedies to eliminate this fundamentalist Christian tyranny and oppression fail, MRFF will plan to stop this matter in Federal court in Northern Virginia," arguing, in part, that "the utilization of a Christian [B]ible to 'swear in' commanders of the new Space Force or any other DoD branch at ANY level is completely violative of the bedrock Separation of Church and State mandate of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution."


theblaze--2020-01-14--Bernie Sanders angrily denies CNN report that he told Liz Warren a woman couldn't be elected — and s

Bernie Sanders angrily denies CNN report that he told Liz Warren a woman couldn't be elected — and she just responded

Bernie Sanders angrily denies CNN report that he told Liz Warren a woman could n't be elected — and she @ @

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) vehemently denied a report Monday from CNN that he had told Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) a woman couldn't be elected president, but she released a statement confirming the claim.
The CNN report claimed that Sanders made the comments at a meeting between the two presidential candidates in December 2018.
The Sanders campaign denied the report, which depended on four sources. The Warren campaign initially refused to comment on the story, which sparked much speculation.
Later on Monday, Warren released a statement confirming the report.
"Bernie and I met for more than two hours in December 2018 to discuss the 2020 election, our past work together and our shared goals: beating Donald Trump, taking back our government from the wealthy and well-connected, and building an economy that works for everyone. Among the topics that came up was what would happen if Democrats nominated a female candidate," Warren said in the statement.
"I thought a woman could win; he disagreed," she said.
"I have no interest in discussing this private meeting any further because Bernie and I have far more in common than our differences on punditry. I'm in this race to talk about what's broken in this country and how to fix it — and that's what I'm going to do. I know Bernie is in the race for the same reason," Warren continued.
"We have been friends and allies in this fight for a long time," she concluded, "and I have no doubt we will continue to work together to defeat Donald Trump and put our government on the side of the people."
Sanders had called the claims "ludicrous" and said the staffers reporting the exchange were "liars."
Here's more about the claims against Sanders:


theblaze--2020-01-14--MEGXIT: Harry and Meghan say they'll move to L.A. — but only after Trump is out of office

MEGXIT : Harry and Meghan say they 'll move to L.A. — but only after Trump is out of office

England's royal family is in turmoil, and it's completely taken over the news cycle here in the United States.
Last week, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, caused quite the kerfuffle when they announced their plans to walk away from their public duties and move to "North America."
Now, sources say the royal couple wants to move to Los Angeles, where Markle grew up and her mother Doria Ragland still lives -- but not until after President Donald Trump is no longer in office.
On Monday's episode of "The Chad Prather Show," Chad made it clear that the slight against our president was of zero interest or concern when it is coming from a British royal and an American former actress who "wouldn't piss in your ear if your brain was on fire."
"Weirdos out there, y'all have this weird basement under the basement nerd fascination with the royal family," Chad said. "They don't care about you."
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theblaze--2020-01-14--Woman charged with murder after allegedly using her pit bull to kill a man

Woman charged with murder after allegedly using her pit bull to kill a man The suspect reportedly told police she @ @ @ @ @ the victim

A Kentucky woman was been charged with murder after police say she commanded her pit bull to attack a man while she beat the victim, resulting in his death.
What are the details?
Melissa Wolke, 38, told police officers she was "going redneck" on victim Donald Abner, 55, last week, when law enforcement responded to a call from neighbors that a woman was jumping up and down on a man and pummeling him while she sicced a large dog on the victim.
"Troopers and deputies advised the lady to halt and quit attacking the male subject that was on the ground," Kentucky State Police trooper Scottie Pennington told WKYT-TV. "She refused to, and also she was giving commands to the pit bull to attack the victim."
ABC News reported that Wolke allegedly refused officer's commands to stand down and call off her dog, and both she and the animal were shot with a Taser.
According to WLEX-TV, "troopers arrived at the home and had to shoot the dog as they were not able to attend to the victim due to the dog's aggressive behavior." Abner was pronounced dead at the scene, and police said it appeared the dog had bitten him near his neck and face.
NBC News reported that police described Wolke as "belligerent and aggressive" at the scene, and said "she appeared to have blood on her hands and feet, and had a large clump of hair in her hands that was consistent with the victim's hair."
"The way I look at it she used her animal, a pit bull, as a weapon to help her in this altercation," Pennington said.
In addition to the murder charge, Wolke was arraigned on counts including alcohol intoxication, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest.


theblaze--2020-01-14--Jon Miller explains what Dems 'accomplished' in 2019 in addition to impeachment

Jon Miller explains what Dems 'accomplished ' in 2019 in addition to impeachment

On Monday's episode of " White House Brief,"' Jon Miller explained where taxpayer money was spent in addition the impeachment of President Trump. Then, Miller explained how Americans are being replaced by foreign workers they were forced to train.
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theblaze--2020-01-14--American Airlines sued over creepy texts sent to female passenger by employee during her flight

American Airlines sued over creepy texts sent to female passenger by employee during her flight She said the texts made @ @ @ @ @

A woman says that she was stalked by an American Airlines employee during her flight and she's suing the company for not taking her complaint seriously.
Ashley Barno said she received mysterious texts as she boarded a flight at San Diego International Airport in April.
"Hey, Ashley! How are you?" the first text began.
Barno says she didn't recognize the number, and responded, "sorry, I'm not sure who this is."
"BTW I must tell you that you are gorgeous," the person texted her.
She said the texts made her very nervous and she felt unsafe.
"You are looking very gorgeous in that gray top today," read another text.
That's when he told her that his name was "Ahmed" and that he worked for the airlines. She believes he obtained her phone number from the luggage tag on her carry-on bag.
"I am on board now. Are you going to Chicago too??" he texted after they boarded.
Barno said the texting frightened her.
"Just knowing that he knew what I looked like, and that we were in an enclosed flight, on an enclosed plane, and there's no way out, like, really really scared me," she told NBC-7 in New York.
The man continued to text her and said that their "friendship" could mean flight perks for her.
"I can always give you good seats, access to the lounges, and free drinks," he texted.
Barno told a flight attendant about the harassment, and they had the man escorted off the plane when it landed in Chicago.
"I called my sister, and I was crying profusely because I just felt," Barno said, "I mean, the best way to describe it was, I felt naked in a public place."
Barno says the airline was not responsible to her emails, and she is suing them for negligent hiring and sexual harassment.
She was also told that it was better to use luggage tags with a flap in order to prevent personal information being used in such a manner.
Here's a local news video about the harassment:


theblaze--2020-01-13--Attorney General Bill Barr says attack on Pensacola naval base 'an act of terror,' calls on Apple to

Attorney General Bill Barr says attack on Pensacola naval base 'an act of terror,' calls on Apple to unlock killer's iPhones

Attorney General Bill Barr says attack on Pensacola naval base 'an act of terror , ' calls on Apple to @ @ @ @ @ suspect took the time to shoot one of his phones during the attack

Attorney General Bill Barr said Monday that the Saudi national who killed three U.S. service members and wounded eight more Americans at a naval air base in Pensacola last month committed "an act of terror," and made a public plea for Apple to cooperate with investigators to assist in unlocking the murderer's iPhones.
What are the details?
Speaking during a press conference, Barr told reporters of the Dec. 6 attack, "This was an act of terror," he said, according to NBC News. "The evidence shows the shooter was influenced by jihadist ideology."
The attorney general went on to cite further evidence uncovered by investigators, confirming that the suspect — who was killed after exchanging gunfire with law enforcement at the scene — held anti-American and anti-Israeli views.
Barr also took the time during his presser to call on Apple, the maker of the iPhone, to assist investigators in unlocking the killer's devices. "During the gunfight with the first responders the shooter disengaged long enough to place one of his phones on the floor and shoot a single round into the device," he said. "It also appears the other phone was damaged."
The FBI was able to reconstruct the damaged iPhones, but are still unable to open the devices.
"This situation perfect illustrates why it is critical that investigators be able to get access to digital evidence once they have obtained a court order based on probably cause," Barr explained. "It is very important to know with whom and about what the shooter was communicating before he died. We call on Apple and other technology companies to help us find a solution so that we can better protect the lives of Americans and prevent future attacks."
According to Politico, Apple told the outlet last week "that it had provided as much help as it could" in the case, but Barr said the company "has not given us any substantive assistance."
Anything else?
The suspect in the attack was in the United States as part of U.S. Air Force Foreign Military Sales training program. Following the attack in Pensacola, the Pentagon suspended the program for Saudi Arabian students and Defense Secretary Mark Esper ordered a review of the screening process for foreign students training in the U.S.


theblaze--2020-01-13--Bernie Sanders clashes with Elizabeth Warren over who is more elitist

On Monday's episode of "Pat Gray Unleashed," Pat discussed why Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren clashed after Sanders' campaign accused Warren of being elitist.
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theblaze--2020-01-13--Journalist Sharyl Attkisson: Former federal agent blows the whistle on illegal surveillance operatio

Journalist Sharyl Attkisson: Former federal agent blows the whistle on illegal surveillance operation during Obama administration

Journalist Sharyl Attkisson : Former federal agent blows the whistle on illegal surveillance operation during Obama administration And it was @ @ @ @ @ Rod Rosenstein

Sharyl Attkisson, a five-time Emmy Award winner and recipient of the Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting, joined Glenn Beck on the radio program Monday to discuss an illegal government operation that allegedly spied on her and several other U.S. citizens during the Obama administration -- and it was lead by former U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein.
A former federal agent has recently stepped forward to admit that he was directly involved in the unauthorized and illegal surveillance of Attkisson's laptop computers and telephones from 2011 to 2014. The insider also identified Rosenstein as the person directing the surveillance operation.
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theblaze--2020-01-13--Hollywood spews outrage, goes into crisis mode over lack of 'woke' Oscar nominations for women, peop

Hollywood spews outrage, goes into crisis mode over lack of 'woke' Oscar nominations for women, people of color: 'Largely noninclusive'

Hollywood spews outrage , goes into crisis mode over lack of 'woke ' Oscar nominations for women , people of @ @ @ @ @

Hollywood is outraged after discovering that the majority of Oscar nominations are going to male-dominated projects, excluding many women and people of color.
What are the details?
"Joker," a breakout hit, received 11 nominations, including a Best Actor nod for Joaquin Phoenix, who portrayed Joker.
Quintin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" also received 10 Oscar nominations, as did "1917" and Netflix hit "The Irishman."
All five nominees for best director are men. However, the Academy said that 2020 was a record-breaking year for women, with a stunning 62 women being nominated across all award categories.
According to the New York Times, British-Nigerian actress Cynthia Erivo was the sole black nominee for her work in "Harriet." Erivo also received a nominee for "Stand Up," a song she wrote for the film. Spanish-born actor Antonio Banderas was got a Best Actor nomination for "Pain and Glory."
That apparently wasn't enough for Hollywood's trade publications, who have all spoken out in rage against the nominations.
You can read the full list of nominees here, and more background here.
Here's what people are saying
Deadline's Dino-Ray Ramos wrote an article headlined "Oscars Nominations Lack Diversity In Major Categories, Continuing #OscarsSoWhite Franchise."
"After making some major strides last year, the nominations for the 92nd Annual Academy Awards are basically #OscarsSo WhitePart 2: #OscarsSoWhiterAndWithMoreMen, a sequel to the hashtag originated in 2015 by April Reign for the lack of diverse nominees," Ramos complained.
Vox's Emily Todd VanDerWerrf wrote, "The lack of diversity among the 2020 Oscar nominees feels disappointingly familiar."
VanDerWerrf added, "The 2020 Academy Awards have avoided another Oscars So White — a scenario that happened in both 2015 and 2016, when no performers of color were nominated for any acting awards, prompting structural overhauls meant to diversify the Academy's voting membership. But only by the skin of their teeth."
The Hollywood Reporter's Tatiana Siegel said, "Oscars Almost So White as Diverse Nominees Overlooked After 2019's Historic Wins."
"One year after women and minorities made historic strides at the Academy Awards, this year's nominees list was largely noninclusive," Siegel noted.
Variety's Kate Aurthur wrote, "Oscars Shut Out Women in Best Director Category Again."
"After a historic year for women directors, the Academy Awards have followed the regressive path established this awards season by the Golden Globes, SAG Awards and the BAFTAs by not nominating any women for best director," she complained.
The Los Angeles Times' Jen Yamato added, "Déjà vu: 2020 Oscar nominations ignore female directors once again."
She noted, "The 2020 Oscar nominations for best director were announced Monday morning, with all five slots going to an all-male field of nominees — again."
Thomas E. Rothman, who is chairman of Sony's Motion Picture group, told the New York Times that the choices were "disappointing."
"The gender and racial diversity of the nominations continues to be clearly lacking, which continues to be disappointing," Rothman said.
The 92nd Oscars will be held Feb. 9 in Hollywood, and will be televised live on ABC at 6:30 p.m. ET.


theblaze--2020-01-13--High school's 'Redmen' mascot — deemed racist, offensive — got booted last year. But new GOP-control

High school's 'Redmen' mascot — deemed racist, offensive — got booted last year. But new GOP-controlled school board just brought it back.

High school 's 'Redmen ' mascot — deemed racist , offensive — got booted last year .
But new GOP-controlled @ @ @ @ @ back .
It reportedly was the first time a U.S. school reinstated a Native American @ @ @ @

Last year, a Connecticut school board eliminated its high school's "Redmen" mascot after it was called racist and offensive to Native Americans — but the new Republican-controlled school board just reinstated it, WFSB-TV reported.
The Killingly Board of Education voted 5-4 last week to bring back the "Redmen" mascot, the station said, adding that it was the first time a U.S. school reinstated a Native American mascot after previously deciding to ditch it.
Not everybody was happy about the "Redmen" coming back, however.
"You are all pulling the rug right from beneath us. Everywhere we go, we are the laughingstock of the state," Kevin Marcoux, the athletic director of Killingly High School, said during the meeting's public testimony, the Hartford Courant said.
Board member Hoween Flexer told WFSB that "we stopped letting it be about the students and doing what's right. And people can be mad about the process and people can be mad about whatever it is that they think they are losing, but the people who are directly Impacted have spoken and we chose to not listen to them."
What's the background?
Killingly High School — which had been using the "Redmen" name and logo since 1939, the station said — was among many schools around the country grappling with controversy over Native American-related mascots.
The decision to ditch the mascot occurred after students, faculty members, and representatives from nearby Native American tribes convinced the board that "Redmen" is an offensive term, WFSB said. Three months later, Red Hawks was selected as the new school mascot, the Courant said.
But in November, Republicans — some who campaigned on a promise to change the mascot back to "Redmen" — were voted in, took control of the board, and promptly got rid of the Red Hawks mascot, the station reported.
Then came last Wednesday's vote to bring "Redmen" back, with the caveat that a different logo will be used, WFSB said.
What else was said at the meeting?
The station said a large number of people at the meeting spoke out against the "Redmen" mascot — including teachers, students, and Native Americans — but no one in the crowd spoke in support of it.
But Jason Muscara, a Republican member of the board, said students who supported the "Redmen" mascot called him and said they didn't feel they could "speak up in favor of that," the Courant reported.
"If we're going to talk about respecting our students and protecting our students and doing what's best for our students, we need to respect the opinion of all of our students, not just the ones we agree with," Muscara also said, the paper noted.
Prior to last fall's election, Muscara said getting rid of the "Redmen" mascot was the work of town Democrats' "radical left agenda," the Courant added.
"We're doing an abysmal job of teaching history to these kids," said Karen Fremuth — another Republican board member who supported reinstating the "Redmen" mascot — who argued that it has "nothing to do with race" and that the qualities of a "Redman" are "the same virtues we want in a graduate," the paper said.
"History and facts change as we get more information," said Lydia Rivera-Abrams — a Democratic board member who opposed reinstating the "Redmen" mascot — who said the board was charged with helping students have "respect for everyone" and adjust to an "ever-changing world," the Courant added.
But Republican Gregory Biggs said the board was moving "too fast" with the vote, the paper reported, adding that he said he and other board members got emails from many Killingly students opposing the reinstatement of the "Redmen" mascot.
"I think if we go back to the Redmen name, even if the numbers haven't changed, we'll have 40 percent of our student body that is disappointed with the decision, and that is far too high," Biggs said, according to the Courant.
What did a Native American tribe have to say?
The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation last week urged board members to "rethink their decision," the paper said.
"Although we appreciate the Board of Education's decision to establish a subcommittee to develop a Native American centered curriculum, we're disappointed in their vote to reinstate the offensive Redmen mascot," the tribe's statement said, according to the Courant. "We support the sentiments shared by members of our Youth Council at yesterday's hearing, and believe the mascot doesn't honor or represent Native people and has no place in our school system."


theblaze--2020-01-13--Wisconsin election commissioners refused to remove 209,000 people from voter rolls. Now a judge has

Wisconsin election commissioners refused to remove 209,000 people from voter rolls. Now a judge has found them in contempt of court.

Wisconsin election commissioners refused to remove 209,000 people from voter rolls .
Now a judge has found them in contempt @ @ @ @ @ ca n't be any clearer than this .
They need to follow my order .
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A Wisconsin judge found the state's election commission and three of its members in contempt of court Monday for refusing to comply with his court order to remove more than 200,000 individuals from voter rolls.
Judge Paul Malloy fined the commission $50 a day until it begins removing people from the rolls and is fining the three Democratic members who fought his previous order — Ann Jacobs, Julie Glancey and Mark Thomsen — $250 a day, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported.
"I can't be any clearer than this," Malloy said. "They need to follow my order."
What's the background?
In December, Malloy ordered the immediate removal of individuals from voter rolls who were flagged as having potentially moved and who subsequently failed to respond within 30 days to a deactivation notice sent by the elections commission.
In October, the deactivation notice had been sent to 234,000 residents. By the end of the year, 209,000 voters had yet to respond asking for their voter status be continued.
But the election commission — made up of three Democrats and three Republicans — has been deadlocked and has failed to comply with the court order.
Cleaning up the voter rolls in the state had become a partisan issue, with Democrats in the key battleground state fearing that a voter roll purge would hurt their chances of defeating President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. Trump won the state in 2016 by just over 20,000 votes.
Republicans, on the other hand, have argued that removing the voters is a necessary measure aimed at eliminating fraud. This way, the voter rolls would not be full of people who should not be voting.
In late December, Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, a conservative law firm, filed a lawsuit against the commission, asking Judge Malloy to find the commission in contempt and fine its members.
What happens next?
As a result of the new ruling, the commission is set to meet again on Tuesday to decide whether to begin removing people from the rolls, a process that takes about three days.
Ann Jacobs, one of the Democratic commission members, maintains that Judge Malloy's initial findings are incorrect and desires to continue appealing the court order.
"If we are going to treat voting as the central component of our democracy, we need to be far less cavalier about taking people off the rolls," she said, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
Robert Spindell, a Republican who was recently added to the commission, hoped the new ruling would prompt bipartisanship moving forward on the voter purge.
"I am pleased with the decision and I hope all six of us on the Elections Commission follow the law and follow the judge's order. I know at least three of us will," Spindell said.
Spindell had reportedly encouraged Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty to file its lawsuit before he was appointed to the commission.
Rich Esenberg, president of the firm, responded to the ruling, saying in a statement: "Court orders are not, and have never been, optional. It is our hope that today's decision will cause the Wisconsin Elections Commission to finally follow state law."


theblaze--2020-01-13--NY Times reporter rips Trump for telling Iran to 'let reporters roam free' while calling US press 'e

NY Times reporter rips Trump for telling Iran to 'let reporters roam free' while calling US press 'enemy of the people.' Reporter gets slammed.

NY Times reporter rips Trump for telling Iran to 'let reporters roam free ' while calling US press 'enemy of @ @ @ @ @ gets slammed .

After President Donald Trump tweeted a warning and appeal to the leaders of Iran over the weekend to not kill their protesters and to leave their reporters alone, New York Times' White House correspondent Maggie Haberman took issue with that.
"'Let reporters roam free' says the president, who routinely refers to the U.S. press as 'enemy of the people,' to Iranian leaders," she tweeted Sunday.
What's the background?
Things have suddenly turned in Iran since thousands of mourners chanted "America is the Great Satan" during the funeral of bloodthirsty Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, killed earlier this month in a U.S. airstrike on Trump's orders.
But over the weekend protesters flooded the streets of Tehran and demanded that Ayatollah Khamenei step down as supreme leader after the Iranian government admitted its armed forces shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet, killing all 176 people on board. Video posted to social media showed protesters shouting "death to liars," "death to the Islamic Republic," and "Soleimani was a murderer, his leader is also a murderer."
As the protests intensified, the Iranian government's security forces reportedly shot live rounds and tear gas to disperse demonstrators, ABC News said.
Trump weighed in with his tweet to the leaders of Iran: "DO NOT KILL YOUR PROTESTERS. Thousands have already been killed or imprisoned by you, and the World is watching. More importantly, the USA is watching. Turn your Internet back on and let reporters roam free! Stop the killing of your great Iranian people!"
And then Haberman let Trump have it with her Twitter post.
How did folks react to the NYT reporter's tweet?
As you might expect, many commenters pointed out that Haberman was propagating a false equivalence by seemingly suggesting that Trump's disgust with "fake news" — and the left-wing media that puts it out there — is on the same level of Iran's totalitarian regime, which commonly arrests and jails journalists and generally is viewed as among worst countries in the world when it comes to freedom of the press:
Here are a few other perspectives from Haberman's detractors:
"Are you seriously comparing Trump to the Iranian government literally silencing their media? Get a grip."
"Thank you for calling this out. Trump's mean tweets about journalists are exactly like the Iranian government imprisoning and torturing journalists."
"Stop being a Drama Queen Maggie. More people would respect you if you told the truth. Go to Iran and badmouth your Ayatollah and see how long you last. You badmouth President Trump 24/7, and I don't see you in jail or worse yet."
"Did I miss where Trump had your phones bugged, and your parents' phones, too?"
"Maggie freely tweets and writes whatever she wishes without the slightest worry of being arrested. Just like it is in Iran."
(H/T: NewsBusters)


theblaze--2020-01-13--Bernie Sanders once told Elizabeth Warren that he didn't think a woman could win in 2020: report

Bernie Sanders once told Elizabeth Warren that he did n't think a woman could win in 2020 : report

It would appear that the pre-Iowa tensions between 2020 progressive candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are heating up following the release of a news report about a private conversation the two reportedly had just over a year ago.
On Monday afternoon, CNN broke a story saying that Sanders told Warren during a December 2018 private meeting that a woman couldn't win the presidential race. The two had met to discuss the possibility of running against each other in a Democratic primary:
The two agreed that if they ultimately faced each other as presidential candidates, they should remain civil and avoid attacking one another, so as not to hurt the progressive movement. They also discussed how to best take on President Donald Trump, and Warren laid out two main reasons she believed she would be a strong candidate: She could make a robust argument about the economy and earn broad support from female voters.
Sanders responded that he did not believe a woman could win.
The description of that meeting is based on the accounts of four people: two people Warren spoke with directly soon after the encounter, and two people familiar with the meeting.
Sanders, however, says that CNN's sources weren't telling the truth and that he didn't say what he's been accused of saying and that a woman can win the election:
"It is ludicrous to believe that at the same meeting where Elizabeth Warren told me she was going to run for president, I would tell her that a woman couldn't win," Sanders told the outlet. "It's sad that, three weeks before the Iowa caucus and a year after that private conversation, staff who weren't in the room are lying about what happened. What I did say that night was that Donald Trump is a sexist, a racist, and a liar who would weaponize whatever he could. Do I believe a woman can win in 2020? Of course! After all, Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by 3 million votes in 2016."
As to Warren's take on the story, her campaign declined to comment on it, which is significant because — since she was reportedly in the room — her weighing in on the matter could refute the claim instead of allowing it to continue playing out in the news cycle, as Axios' Jonathan Swan pointed out.
This story comes on the heels of an exchange over the weekend where Warren criticized Sanders for "sending his volunteers out to trash me," after Politico reported that Sanders' campaign volunteers had been using talking points to paint Warren as a candidate of the wealthy who is "bringing no new bases into the Democratic Party."
The apparent escalation between the two far-left candidates comes just ahead of Tuesday's Democratic National Committee primary debate — which will be the last such event before the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses — meaning there's a chance that the two senators could end up swapping some televised blows on stage. With only six candidates qualifying, the debate will be the smallest such event yet.
Sanders is currently polling ahead of Warren overall, with both of the candidates still trailing behind former Vice President Joe Biden, according to RealClearPolitics' averages on Monday.
Meanwhile, on Monday, the progressive political action committee Democracy for America urged the two to de-escalate things between them and focus their energies on less-progressive Democrats, tweeting "you both are progressive champs & our movement needs to see you working together to defeat your corporate Dem opponents — not attack each other."


theblaze--2020-01-13--Man tapped to run Rep. Van Drew’s re-election campaign is now leading the charge to beat him after t

Man tapped to run Rep. Van Drew’s re-election campaign is now leading the charge to beat him after the congressman became a Republican

Man tapped to run Rep. Van Drew ’ s re-election campaign is now leading the charge to beat him after @ @ @ @ @

The man who was supposed to run the re-election campaign for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.) is now leading the charge to oust him from his seat.
Joshua Roesch, a New Jersey local, had been hired on to manage Van Drew's campaign. Then in December, the South Jersey congressman announced he was switching to the Republican Party and pledged his "undying support" to President Donald Trump. Now, Roesch has been named the campaign manager for Democratic candidate Amy Kennedy, who is seeking to unseat Van Drew, according to an NJ.com report.
"Is it strange? Of course it's strange. It's a unique situation," Roesch reportedly told NJ.com.
"I thought I was working for a Democrat," Roesch said. "I'd like to go work for a Democrat still."
Roesch, like most of Van Drew's congressional staff, quit after the congressman decided to leave the Democratic Party.
In his new job, Roesch says he is working for a candidate that "best represents the district [he] grew up in" and is "dedicated to serving people in our community and doing what's right."
Kennedy, a former public school teacher, is one of five candidates running for the Democratic nomination for New Jersey's 2nd Congressional District.
She is also the wife of former Rep. Patrick Kennedy, who served Rhode Island's 1st Congressional District as a Democratic member of the House Representatives and is the son of the late Massachusetts Sen. and liberal firebrand Ted Kennedy.
In the announcement for her campaign, Kennedy called out Van Drew for losing his "moral compass" by switching parties.
Roesch appears to support the sentiment, arguing on Twitter that Van Drew "turned his back on South Jersey families."
Last month, after switching parties, Van Drew revealed that he was threatened by a local Democratic Party county chairman in his congressional district, who warned there would be political consequences if he voted against impeaching President Donald Trump. This, he said, was the "final straw."
"It made me think for all the years that I've worked so hard and tried to give so much not only to the party but to everybody … and it all boils down to one vote that I may have my own individual opinion on one vote and that's not going to be allowed," Van Drew said in the Fox News interview.
"And I'm going to be punished for that? And that's when I knew," he explained.
President Trump has since endorsed Van Drew in the race for New Jersey's 2nd Congressional District.


theblaze--2020-01-13--Colorado judge issues first gun confiscation denial under new red flag gun law

The denial was in a 2A sanctuary county Colorado judge issues first gun confiscation denial under new red flag gun @ @ @ @ @ Spurlock ( left ) is in the hearing for the red flag gun bill that @ @ @ @ @ from a person experiencing a mental health crisis on Feb. 21 , 2019 .
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A judge in Colorado denied a law enforcement request to confiscate a man's guns under Colorado's red flag gun law, which just took effect Jan. 1, according to KCNC-TV.
The law allows for law enforcement or family members to file for an extreme risk protection order if they deem someone to be a danger to themselves or others, leaving the final decision up to a judge.
In the case of this denial, a woman in Limon, Colorado, reported to police that she was being verbally and physically threatened by a man with a handgun, who she claims had a problem with drugs and alcohol.
A judge in Lincoln County, where the order was filed, denied the request, but the reason for the denial has not been made public.
Lincoln County is considered a Second Amendment sanctuary, where residents have voted to not honor the red flag law, although Democratic state Rep. Alec Garnett said even the denial shows that the law worked as intended.
Of the four extreme risk protection orders that have been filed this month, three of them have been approved — two in Denver County and one in Larimer County.
When a judge approves an extreme risk protection order, a court hearing must take place within the next two weeks to determine if the person's guns should be held for up to 364 days.
The stated intent behind red flag laws is the idea that people who commit acts of gun violence often show signs of dangerous behavior or mental instability leading up to the act. So, if such behavior can be flagged by family members or police, it's possible that tragedies can be prevented.
However, many gun owners view the laws as a dangerous infringement on Second Amendment rights, and fear ways such laws could be abused to take guns from law-abiding citizens without cause.
According to CBS News, the push for red flag laws can be traced back to an incident in which one Douglas County sheriff's deputy was killed and five officers hit during a shootout with a man who was known to own numerous firearms and suffer from mental illness before the day he barricaded himself in his home on New Year's Eve 2017.


theblaze--2020-01-13--Elizabeth Warren calls out Bernie Sanders for 'sending his volunteers out to trash me'

Elizabeth Warren calls out Bernie Sanders for 'sending his volunteers out to trash me' Will this spill over to the @ @ @ @ @

As the 2020 Democratic presidential primary draws closer to the Iowa caucuses next month, there's some new drama starting to play out between two of the field's top contenders.
This particular square-off began Saturday, when Politico reported that volunteers for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) had been being using a script on how to sway voters who are thinking about voting for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and painting her as a candidate for the wealthy:
The script instructs Sanders volunteers to tell voters leaning toward the Massachusetts senator that the "people who support her are highly-educated, more affluent people who are going to show up and vote Democratic no matter what" and that "she's bringing no new bases into the Democratic Party."
"I like Elizabeth Warren. [optional]" the script begins. "In fact, she's my second choice. But here's my concern about her."
The script — the authenticity of which Politico says was unchallenged by the Sanders campaign — also has instructions for how to deal with voters leaning toward other candidates. For example, the story notes, it says that former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg lacks support among black voters and also says that "no one is really excited about" former Vice President Joe Biden's candidacy.
When asked about the document on Sunday, Warren fired back, saying that she was "disappointed to hear that Bernie is sending his volunteers out to trash me," and called on her Senate colleague to change his campaign tactics to help foster more unity among Democrats.
"We cannot nominate someone who takes big chunks of the Democratic Coalition for granted," Warren was quoted as saying in a story at NBC News. "We need someone who will bring our party together. We need someone who will excite every part of the Democratic Party, someone who will be there. Someone that every Democrat can believe in. I hope Bernie reconsiders and turns his campaign in a different direction."
The exchange between the two candidates comes just ahead of Tuesday's Democratic National Committee primary debate — which will be the last such event before the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses — meaning there's a chance that the two senators could end up swapping some televised blows over the claims in the volunteer script. With only six candidates qualifying, the debate at Drake University in Des Moines will be the smallest such event yet.
As far as polling goes, Sanders is currently a few points ahead of Warren with a RealClearPolitics average of 20.3 percentage points in contrast to the Massachusetts senator's 14.8 as of Monday. Biden's 29.3 RCP average still has him at the head of the pack. However, Sanders also led the Democratic field in Iowa in a recent poll of likely caucus-goers conducted by the Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom.
(H/T: HotAir)


theblaze--2020-01-13--Ryan: Donald Trump’s truthful hyperbole

Ryan: Donald Trump’s truthful hyperbole

After the rally in Monroe , President Trump returned to Louisiana less than a week later , for a rally @ @ @ @ @ by Jim Dale )

Part One. Part Two.
President Trump rallies officially begin with a prayer, spoken by some local clergyman. That day, the pastor seemed giddy and nervous as he strolled down the long, long red-carpeted walkway. By the time he introduced himself, he had found composure.
As the prayer was about to begin, a man on the south side of the arena shouted, "Don't forget about Jesus."
He said it with conviction, as if he didn't realize the entire arena was about to join in prayer, an act that signifies the intentional remembrance of Jesus.
NOTE: All pictures are from the Shreveport-Bossier City rally that took place the following week. Jim Dale, the photographer, will run an account of his experience. Photo by Jim Dale
Then, the prayer. So I bowed my head. And in the breathy pauses between words, in each brief, perfect, angelic silence, I could hear journalists clacking at their MacBooks.
Good thing they didn't accept me as one of their own, or else I would sever all ties with those blasphemers.
*
The arena was cozy and drab like a decaying small-town gymnasium. It had that sweat odor buried in the walls. Wrestling tournaments. Basketball. Today would not be its first circus. Conventions. Trade shows. Conferences. The stench of past-due. The kind of place that had clearly held tons of indoor rodeos, so add the smell of dirt and livestock.
NOTE: All pictures are from the Shreveport-Bossier City rally that took place the following week. Jim Dale, the photographer, will run an account of his experience. Photo by Jim Dale
And third-rate sports teams nobody actually cares for, also known as the Bayou Beast indoor football team, since you really have to know. And probably some no-name musicians. And if I had to guess, the odd wedding or high school prom or reunion or mayor's funeral.
Capacity of 7,600, and every seat would soon be taken.
Photo by Jim Dale
Before the Nov. 6 rally, I spoke with a dramatically pregnant Kayleigh McEnany, national press secretary for Trump's 2020 campaign.
She had a D.C. sharpness. Well used to appearances on network TV.
Consensus was, Louisiana was in the bag. All of it was. All in the bag.
Much noise had been made those past weeks and months about Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, and about how he had to go. Louisianans felt conflicted. Same as they have since the end of the Civil War. Bel Edwards supported Hillary Clinton in 2016, but he is the son of a sheriff, and, if you judged by his policies, he'd be a Republican in most other states.
Photo by Jim Dale
Trump had come to Monroe to endorse Bel Edward's opponent, Eddie Rispone, 70 years old, rich as hell, a construction contractor from Baton Rouge, and a Republican, first and foremost. Who, when he's not campaigning, shovels dirt and lays cement and, in hotter months, he'll do some tiling or even fire a nailgun into a roof. That week, he'd been digging up the concrete below a Murphy USA station.
As one Trump supporter told me, off-the-record, because they may or may not have been a member of law enforcement, "Eddie is loyal to our president and our borders and beholden to God as we know and believe him." Then the gentleman said something I cannot put in writing and remain baffled by.
An arena full of Trump rallygoers does the "Y.M.C.A." Photo by Jim Dale
A month earlier, in October, John Bel Edwards and Eddie Rispone faced off, and nobody's too sure what happened, only that Louisiana sure does live up to its reputation as a never-ending source of corruption. Now it's November, round two of the gubernatorial runoff, and the president of the United States is flying in to straighten the kinks.
It was almost enough to make Louisianans forget about the devilishly high murder rate, number one in the nation. For 30 years in a row. Thirty years with the highest murder rate in the country! No challengers, every single year since 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell.
Second highest incarceration rate in the nation. Barely. With 719 per 100,000 residents locked up. Unemployment is third highest. Earlier, outside, people had nodded to a little-known Lynyrd Skynyrd song titled, "Heaven or Hell."
Will it be Hell or Heaven on earth the choice is up to you
Look to the sky, the answer is clear
Are you gonna live life for all it's worth
Choose Hell, or Heaven on earth
If you live it right, there's nothing to fear'
Cause you'll find Heaven right here
*
The "Duck Dynasty" crew shuffled to the podium like a biker gang on vacation. Think Hawaiian shirts designed by gun aficionados and ripped jeans from American Eagle circa 2003. Hometown heroes, no doubt. There to endorse Eddie Rispone. And theirs is a hell of an endorsement in the Pelican State.
I'm not being funny, but it was hard to differentiate the "Duck Dynasty" lads from much of the crowd, a few of whom had hints of camouflage paint on their faces as CeeLo's "Crazy" blared from the massive speakers.
Fellow journalist Jade Byers and I rambled about "the idea of extinctions." Told her that I got real big into mass extinctions a few months ago, around the time my wife and I learned we'd be parents. As I yapped about the timeline of snails, "Live and Let Die" came on.
Photo by Jim Dale
Yes, it was an animal moment. Full of animal sweetness. And for that instant, blessed by the ghost of Axl Rose, wailing and snakelike, I believed that none of us would ever go extinct.
In anticipation of Trump's arrival, men, women and children in American-flag regalia tossed a MAGA hat around like it was a beach ball. Like in Brazil when the shoeless kids play soccer with balled-up trash bags.
Later, Trump would describe the crowd as "proud, hard-working, freedom-loving American patriots." He would nod, say, "that's what you are."
Yours truly in the media pen Photo by Jim Dale
Thirty minutes before Trump took stage, people rose to their feet, gasping every time a song ended, and gyrated to Michael Jackson's "Beat It." An anxiety intensified with each song that ended and Trump still wasn't there.
Is private ritual possible? For Freud, private ritual meant neurosis. A lot of the time, people don't mean what they're saying.
*
On the other side of the media pen barricade, a larger man in a heavy-fonted T-shirt that read "GOD. GUNS. AND TRUMP," with "TRUMP" in the form of an American flag. In another part of the arena, a woman had the same shirt, tucked into spangled black jeans held up by rhinestone clippies.
A 20-something with a pouched lip strutted the floor, holding a SURGE bottle full of Skoal spit. He was hunting; a predator with no threats.
Section 226 was especially rowdy. They needed Trump. It meant everything. They writhed under a sign for "Johnny's Pizza House."
Trump 2020 campaign manager tosses MAGA hats to rallygoers in Shreveport, Louisiana. Photo by Jim Dale
All the other media had planted themselves on the risers, safely inside the media pen. CNN and CSPAN and Fox News and MSNBC and all the other important networks, cameras trained on Trump's podium. And all the camera operators, expressionless. Some of them stared ahead like veterans occasionally do. Others rolled their eyes.
*
"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 45th President of the United States. President Donald. J. Trump," then his entrance track, that Lee Greenwood song.
President Trump emerged like an apparition. The entire crowd thrust their cellphones in the air, all the red blinks of recording. Chants of "four more years."
Every person in the place had their eyes trained on him.
Look, it doesn't matter what your politics are, this was the president of the United States of America. Every citizen of any country ought to see their leader in person. Without any interference. Without the pollution of someone else's account.
Photo by Jim Dale
I cannot tell you how captivating it is to feel tens of thousands of people, including yourself, including the media who pretend that Trump is a monster, involuntarily surge forward all at once, darting their heads around like Santa Claus is real again, and there he is, there he is, just down there, there he is, it is actually him.
He gripped the podium, mouthed, "Thank you," tilted his head, then told them, "Wow, do you have spirit."
*
It was beastly hot in that arena. Beastly hot, almost tropical. At one point, Trump joked that it had to be 100 degrees, so yes, a little hot. He joked that it was so hot, he'd lost about nine pounds.
But hot as it was, Trump still beamed. "Is there any place you'd rather be than a Trump rally, on a beautiful, wonderful evening in Louisiana?"
You know darn well how they responded!
Photo by Jim Dale
Then he asked would they rather be here at this Trump rally, or at the upcoming football game between their own Louisiana State University and their loathsome rival, Alabama Crimson Tide?
It was clearly a jocular statement, a softball hypothetical that most people would realize was not an actual question. Yet, as you can hear on the footage of the rally, much of the audience was truly baffled it, almost troubled. Perplexed, stricken, eyes bulging and hands limp and voices yodeling in uncertainty.
They did not know how to answer.
Three days later, Trump would attend the game, to a standing ovation.
Donald Trump given huge ovation at Alabama/LSU www.youtube.com
Both teams entered the game undefeated, with 8 wins and somebody had to lose. And, would you believe it, LSU won. 46-41.
Meaning, the solution to the Trump-LSU dilemma was much like so many other Trump dilemmas. Somehow, Trump wound up the winner either way. Depending on the metrics.
Because Eddie Rispone, the man Trump traveled to Louisiana three times to endorse, would lose.
*
From the back, section 203, a man screamed, "We love you Trump." Followed by a group of women on the second tier shouting, "We love you Trump."
Photo by Jim Dale
He used the "the status quo isn't working" approach, and it landed every time.
Without prompt, a lady on the first level yelled, "Democrats suck!"
Step into his diorama. His world made of gold and tinted glass, where the embattled billionaire fights for a civilization that has fallen. Listen carefully to his dialectic game, gaze at his sideshow of power, his postmodern kingdom. A televised empire, where high culture and low culture fornicate like germs.
Look at the horizon of skyscraping condos, five times the size of the Statue of Liberty. His face superimposed onto Mount Rushmore, which turns out to be a Las Vegas replica. Who cares! A trophy is a trophy!
All flash and capital. And now, the White House. The United States of America. The people of Earth. With Trump at the helm, gripping the steering wheel the way rappers in videos do, still calling people losers like Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
*
In his book "Art of the Deal, he writes,
[W]hen people treat me badly or unfairly or try to take advantage of me, my general attitude, all my life, has been to fight back very hard. The risk is you'll make a bad situation worse, and I certainly don't recommend this approach to everyone. But my experience is that if you're fighting for something you believe in — even if it means alienating some people along the way — things usually work out for the best in the end.
He describes the importance of thinking big.
Most people think small because they are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning.
Trump speaks the superlative language of competition. Of winning and losers. Of records and embarrassments and pitiful upsets. Of heroes and — what's an ugly word for douchebags? Of a nation in peril, desperate for a savior, but he is here so don't worry.
Photo by Jim Dale
It's a matter of playing the game, which Trump describes in "Art of the Deal" as "the real excitement." The game is what he loves. Money, he writes, is only useful because it's a way to keep score.
This might explain how and why he has repeatedly commodified objects, events, and people that we hadn't realized could be price-tagged, let alone sold for a whopping profit.
He shields himself with provocation, flamethrower style. He uses tactical hyperbole to win followers and agitate enemies. And he has weaponized the media in his favor.
Photo by Jim Dale
Combine all of these elements and you have the shoddy blueprint of Trump's strategy for the game.
A man who uses combat and grandiosity and the intoxication of fantasy to succeed. So of course it was only a matter of time before he tackled politics. And, in accordance with his doctrine of going as big as possible, it had to be President.
Which is part of his non-performer performance style, like an unforced cool that took years to choreograph.
Photo by Jim Dale
I did not fully understand this until I saw Trump in person, especially at his rallies. He plays what's most likely a version of himself, same as anyone famous or powerful. The suave, brash New Yorker who-knows-how-rich-llionaire, who has a penchant for the spotlight and a colorful history which is tragic in parts, and often ridiculous, and unbelievably ostentatious, and oh so full of beautiful women, literally the most beautiful women in the universe.
And now he'd made it into the White House, the first President — ever — to be elected to the office without a single day of formal experience. His debut to politics was the Presidency, the most unattainable job in politics. A position that men and women have spent lifetimes vying for, often unable to make it past the local or state levels.
If that's not proof that politics is a game, I don't know what is.
*
Trump's influence on large groups is sociological in complexity. He literally fills arenas. A human tsunami, a comet that could wipe us out, but it could also deepen the oceans and that's a good thing, right?
He says, "Yes."
He says a lot of things.
In "Art of the Deal," he wrote
The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That's why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It's an innocent form of exaggeration, and a very effective form of promotion.
I can think of no single quote that better explains Donald Trump. It's the best quote, maybe of all time. Maybe Ever.
This is why his followers hear themselves in much of what he says. Maybe because that's what he believes, or maybe because he uses an innocent form of exaggeration to say what they want to hear, or just the way they want to hear it.
Same as every Trump rally, people waited for hours to get into the Shreveport rally. Photo by Jim Dale
Same goes for the people who hate him. Do they hate him for who he is, or because they see hating him as their only option? But, in their hatred, are they actually promoting him?
Is this love or hatred a measurement of Donald Trump, as president or person? Or a reflection of ourselves in relation to Trump's ability to harness power, insight into what we admire or despise about ourselves? And does anyone care about this distinction anymore?
*
At rallies, one of Trump's routines is to pull a sheet of paper from his inside blazer pocket, then wiggle it in the air like a mystical artifact. Then confide in his audience. This was important stuff he had, did they want to hear about it?
Extend that offer to anyone, all mysterious like that, and their ears will perk. But entice a group of people who love the man with great pride and have waited all day to see him? He wins them over every time.
Photo by Jim Dale
And when Trump waved the paper around, I automatically needed to follow it, like a cat trained on the red dot of a laser. This was the work of a magician. Didn't matter what was on the paper.
But if you looked close enough, Trump resembled the "yellow cake" routine on Dave Chappelle's Show.
To get to the White House, he needed to play the game with more intensity than ever before. This meant building an army.
*
Humans can't live in a wasteland for long, even if it's only the perception of a wasteland. And the cleverest person will spark the revolution and off we go in the opposite direction.
In Monroe, Trump thrived with the drama of this maneuver.
"And here's the story," he told the penitent crowd, "we're winning."
Photo by Jim Dale
That. I think I understood. It wasn't just about winning, not for the people in the audience. It was about not losing any more. They latched onto Trump's each word and superimposed their own values. Facilitated their willingness to help him however they could.
When Trump talked about guns and abortion and fake news and Democrats and Antifa and climate change and socialism, it stirred the crowd. A nifty provocation. But maybe what they really heard were incantations of meaning. Words of affirmation. Phrases that validated them and their beliefs and their hopes and futures, acknowledged their existence in a place that most of the country has forgotten, or never even cared about to begin with.
Maybe that's why many of Trump's followers don't mind his contradictions. His tactical hyperbole.
In "Political Tribes," Amy Chua writes
What elites don't see is that Trump, in terms of taste, sensibilities, and values, actually is similar to the white working class. The tribal instinct is all about identification, and Trump's base identifies with him at a gut level: with the way he talks (locker-room), dresses, shoots from the hip, gets caught making mistakes, and gets attacked over and over by the liberal media for not being politically correct, for not being feminist enough, for not reading enough books. His enemies, they feel, are their enemies.
There in Monroe, I could consider theories about them all day and it wouldn't change the world that they called their own. Like how, in real life, in person, kids see a hundred different Santa Clauses — outside WalMarts, at malls, on TV, in books — yet they still believe in Santa. It doesn't occur to them that there can only be one. And, clearly, there are a lot of them, so maybe it's mom who buys the bike and dad who eats the cookies.
Photo by Jim Dale
On the other side of the media pen barricade, a man in tattered clothes was fanning a young girl in tattered clothes as she hacked a loose cough and snugged into his neck. She looked feverish and anxious and miserable, deathly ill. Noosed confetti glued to her sweat-damp face. Night over. Last laugh had. You're the punchline, kid.
Or, worse, the discarded set-up.
Somebody wins, but not you.
Air Force One, just up the street. Ten times the size of your house and it's not even where the MAGA Guy lives. Existence itself conspired against you and now, here in northern Louisiana, the audience is clapping and all you want is home.
Why had this father brought his sick child to a Trump rally? Why take her anywhere that wasn't a doctor's office, maybe even a hospital? We all know that the only place to take a sick child is somewhere with a cure. Was that how the father saw this? Not as an elaborate game, but a cure? Was that how the whole arena felt?
Everyone deserves the terror and joy of knowing that you matter.
The final two parts of the Trump Louisiana Saga will be published Wednesday and Thursday. Check my Twitter for updates. Email me at kryan@blazemedia.com NOTE: All pictures are from the Shreveport-Bossier City rally that took place the following week. Jim Dale, the photographer, will run an account of his experience.


theblaze--2020-01-13--President Trump updates major Obama-era labor regulation aimed at benefiting unions

'This final rule furthers President Trump 's successful , government-wide effort to address regulations that hinder the American economy '

The Trump administration has updated a major labor regulation implemented during the Obama administration that was meant to benefit labor unions.
The Labor Department announced Sunday final updates to "joint employer" regulations, declaring that businesses should not be held liable for Fair Labor Standards Act violations, such as overtime pay and minimum wage, simply for being under the same corporate umbrella as a violating business.
According to the Washington Examiner, the Obama administration sought to implement joint employer regulations in such a way that benefited labor unions.
From the Examiner:
The Obama administration had sought to make franchiser corporations such as McDonald's legally responsible for workplace violations by their franchisees, even if the latter were legally independent businesses. The previous administration based this on the theory that a corporation was a "joint employer" with the other company even if the former only had "indirect control" over the latter company's policies.
However, under the rules announced Sunday, to meet joint employer status both businesses must:
Be able to hire or fire the employee
Control the employee's schedule and employment conditions
Set the employee's wage
Maintain the employee's employment records
This means that a corporation, like McDonald's for example, cannot be held liable for FLSA violations by a franchisee, which is legally a separate business entity.
The regulation update is meant to promote further economic growth, Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia said in a statement.
"This final rule furthers President Trump's successful, government-wide effort to address regulations that hinder the American economy and to promote economic growth," Scalia explained. "By giving greater clarity to businesses who want to work together, we promote an entrepreneurial culture that has driven American prosperity for decades."
Wage and Hour Division Administrator Cheryl Stanton added, "The changes in this final rule break down barriers that keep companies from constructively overseeing, guiding and helping their business partners. For small business owners, and the employees working in those businesses, the relationship and the guidance coming from franchisors and other contracting companies can greatly improve the workplace and help them create jobs."


theblaze--2020-01-13--House Democrats want ICE to release all transgender detainees, saying they're 'particularly vulnerab

House Democrats want ICE to release all transgender detainees, saying they're 'particularly vulnerable' to abuse

House Democrats want ICE to release all transgender detainees , saying they 're 'particularly vulnerable ' to abuse They say @ @ @ @ @ to release them

House Democrats will call on Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release all transgender detainees, according to a copy of a letter obtained by The Hill, because those migrants are "particularly vulnerable" to various forms of abuse.
The initiative to call for transgender migrant detainees to be released is led by Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), who believes ICE is legally obligated to release them.
"Transgender migrants and asylum-seekers are particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment, solitary confinement, physical assault, and medical neglect," the letter reads. "These inhumane conditions and systematic abuses are evidenced in countless reports and accounts by formally detained people."
In the letter, Democrats point to a 2015 ICE memo that addresses "Further Guidance Regarding the Care of Transgender Detainees." In the memo, ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations division is told to consider initially placing transgender detainees in facilities specifically equipped to accommodate transgender people.
It also cites the 2020 Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill, which directs ICE to limit the detention of individuals to facilities like the ones mentioned in the 2015 memo.
"As far as we are aware, no facility has ever entered into a contract modification pursuant to the 2015 memo, which means that by the plain text of this language ICE is now legally obligated to immediately release every transgender person in detention," Quigley wrote.
There are between 15,000 and 50,000 transgender illegal immigrants living in the U.S., according to an estimate from the National Center for Transgender Equality, and numerous transgender people seek asylum in the United States due to increased threat of persecution or death in their home countries.
Quigley said ICE can choose to either release these transgender detainees into the community or transfer them into "supervised alternative-to-detention programming." The letter, according to Quigley, has a Friday deadline for lawmakers to sign on to the letter.


theblaze--2020-01-13--Convicted sex offender says he identifies as 8-year-old girl, claims child porn found on computer is

Convicted sex offender says he identifies as 8-year-old girl, claims child porn found on computer is protected by First Amendment

Convicted sex offender says he identifies as 8-year-old girl , claims child porn found on computer is protected by First @ @ @ @ @ n't see things his way

A convicted sex offender not only said that he identifies as an 8-year-old girl but also that child pornography found on his computer in his Michigan home is protected under the First Amendment, WZZM-TV reported.
"I've always been an 8-year-old girl," Joseph Gobrick said at his sentencing, the station noted. "And even my drawings and fantasies, I am always an 8-year-old girl."
Image source: WZZM-TV video screenshot
Gobrick, 45, claimed the images were computer-animated using an image manipulating program and protected under the First Amendment, WZZM said — but police said eight child victims were identified in the pornography recovered from Gobrick's computer.
What's more, some images depicted children between infancy to 5 years old being sexually assaulted, the station added, citing court records.
What's the background?
Gobrick was arrested in 2018 after a 17-year-old Ohio girl listed as endangered/missing was found at his Grand Rapids home, WZZM said, adding that child pornography was found on his computer during the investigation.
But Gobrick, who was convicted of sexual abuse in 2001 in New York, insisted in court he's not sexually attracted to children, the station said.
"I would no sooner have sex with a child than you would with a rattlesnake," he told the judge, according to WZZM. "It's just not safe."
Image source: WZZM-TV video screenshot
'Danger to the public'
But Kent County Assistant Prosecutor Daniel Helmer called Gobrick "a danger to the public," the station reported.
Helmer added that "even during the trial, the defendant continued to draw, talking about raping babies in the Kent County Jail and making other statements about how this is his constitutional right to continue to do so," WZZM said.
Image source: WZZM-TV video screenshot
Kent County Circuit Court Judge Paul Denenfeld found Gobrick guilty on three counts of child sexually abusive commercial activity and using a computer to commit a crime, the station said, and sentenced him to between 10 and 20 years in prison.
"Based on everything he's said and done, including bragging about what he was drawing in his cell, he obviously doesn't think child sexually abusive material is wrong," Denenfeld said, according to WZZM. "This isn't just virtual stuff; this is also real people being harmed."
Other oddities
Strangely, at a bench trial Gobrick fired his court-appointed attorney and chose to represent himself, the station said, adding that he also kept maintaining his innocence and even challenged the legality of his prosecution at his sentencing.
"Under the law, Auschwitz was legal," Gobrick said, WZZM reported, presumably a reference to the infamous Nazi concentration camp. "What you're doing here is wrong, just as Auschwitz was."


theblaze--2020-01-13--Second Amendment advocates converge on Virginia capital to demonstrate for gun rights. NRA plans to

Second Amendment advocates converge on Virginia capital to demonstrate for gun rights. NRA plans to show up, hand out free 30 round magazines.

Second Amendment advocates converge on Virginia capital to demonstrate for gun rights .
NRA plans to show up , hand @ @ @ @ @ .

Law-abiding Virginia gun owners will converge on Richmond, Virginia, on Monday to protest the state Democrats' agenda of banning a variety of firearms and accessories.
Members and representatives for the National Rifle Association will also be on hand to dole out free 30 round magazines to interested attendees, according to reports.
What's a brief background here?
Virginia Democrats in the Democratic-controlled state Legislature aim to impose an assault weapons ban as well as a red flag law and a limit on the number of legal gun purchases per person, per month.
At least a dozen gun control bills have been pre-filed, and some Democratic lawmakers have also voiced support for the idea of bringing in the National Guard to enforce any new gun control-related laws.
You can read more on the background of what's going on here.
What are the details?
According to a report by The Daily Wire, "thousands" of protesters are expected to attend the NRA's legislative action day in Richmond.
Monday starts the first hearings on the proposed banning of firearms.
On Sunday, the NRA announced that Magpul sent the organization 1,000 "30 round PMAGs to hand out" in Richmond for NRA members who appear to "fight [Democratic Gov. Ralph] Northam's extreme gun ban!!" The organization announced that it would be meeting at Richmond's General Assembly Building in Senate Sub-Committee Room No. 1.
What else?
Last week, residents of Virginia Beach and other state localities descended on the city and voted to become a "Second Amendment Constitutional City."
The resolution reiterates the city's support for citizens' Second Amendment rights and strongly opposes any legislature that might infringe on law-abiding gun owners.
"The City Council expresses opposition to any law that would unconstitutionally restrict the right of law-abiding citizens of the City to keep and bear arms," a portion of the resolution reads.


theblaze--2020-01-13--Amazing video shows an Alaska man rescued after being trapped in the freezing snow for 23 days

Amazing video shows an Alaska man rescued after being trapped in the freezing snow for 23 days He survived in @ @ @ @ @ charred canned goods

Alaska State Troopers rescued a man who was trapped in sub-zero temperatures for 23 days after his remote cabin burned down in mid-December leaving him little food and no means of communication.
Tyson Steele, 30, survived for nearly a month by constructing a make-shift shelter, eating partially charred canned goods, and stamping an "S.O.S." distress signal in the snow at his remote homestead roughly 70 miles northwest of Anchorage.
The moment when a helicopter rescue team located Steele was captured on video and posted on the Alaska State Troopers official Facebook page.
The rescue team was responding to a welfare check on Steele after family and friends reported that they had not heard from him in weeks. He had been living at the remote homestead since September.
What's the background?
After his cabin burned down, killing his beloved dog, Phil, and destroying most of his home goods, Steele was forced to hunker down and wait for rescue, an Alaska Department of Public Safety report on the incident notes.
Miles of rugged wilderness, including forests, hills, rivers, and lakes, stood between his homestead and the nearest road system, and his closest neighbors were 20 miles away in the tiny community of Skwentna, Alaska.
Steele said the fire likely started after he mistakenly placed a large piece of cardboard in his old wood stove, which sent a spark through the chimney and onto the roof. By early morning the next day, the roof had become engulfed in flames.
In a news video posted by NBC News, Steele told reporters that had his bullets not been destroyed in the fire, he may have faced real temptation to use them to end his suffering.
Alaska Man Rescued After More Than 20 Days Stranded In The Wilderness | NBC Nightly News youtu.be
During his time stranded in the wilderness, Steele rationed out what little canned food he had, at one point forcing down pineapples — a food he is allergic to.
Now rescued, Steele plans to return home to Salt Lake City, where his family still lives, in order to regroup. But he isn't done with Alaska.
He told reporters that he will eventually head back to Alaska to rebuild, this time constructing two cabins "in case one burns down."


theblaze--2020-01-15--Five recent, major border security wins

Five recent, major border security wins

On Tuesday 's episode of `` The White House Brief , '' Jon Miller discussed progress made by the Trump @ @ @ @ @ border , and breaks down five recent , major border security wins .
Then , @ @ @ @ @ Warren 's campaigns are letting the personal attacks .
Finally , Miller gave the play-by-play @ @ @ @ @ transgender woman who tries to bully estheticians into waxing her scrotum , confronting a reporter @ @ @ @ @ for more details .
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On Tuesday's episode of "The White House Brief," Jon Miller discussed progress made by the Trump Administration in securing the southern border, and breaks down five recent, major border security wins. Then, both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren's campaigns are letting the personal attacks. Finally, Miller gave the play-by-play of Jessica Yaniv, the transgender woman who tries to bully estheticians into waxing her scrotum, confronting a reporter.
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theblaze--2020-01-14--Report: Revolutionary Guard has arrested the person who posted video of Ukrainian plane being struck

Report: Revolutionary Guard has arrested the person who posted video of Ukrainian plane being struck down by Iran

Report : Revolutionary Guard has arrested the person who posted video of Ukrainian plane being struck down by Iran New @ @ @ @ @ two missiles hitting the aircraft

The individual who posted a video online showing Iran shooting down a Ukrainian jetliner has been arrested by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to a new report.
What are the details?
Business Insider reported Tuesday that Iran's "semi-official" outlet Fars News Agency announced that the person who shared the video — which was posted prior to Tehran admitting its military had shot down the airplane — has been detained by the IRGC, the same branch of the Iranian Armed Forces that claimed responsibility for missile strikes on Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops last week.
Iran initially denied shooting down the Boeing 737 on Jan. 8, refusing to hand over the plane's black box while vowing to investigate what led to the tragedy that killed all 176 people on board. The next day, the video showing the moment the Ukrainian airliner was hit over Iran began circulating online and its authenticity was confirmed by The New York Times.
Days later, the Iranian regime finally took responsibility for downing the plane, and protests erupted in the country over the government's attempt to deny involvement.
On Tuesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani made a televised speech, according to the Daily Mail, where the leader promised an investigation and harsh punishment for the individuals found responsible for the plane being shot down. Rouhani called the incident an "unforgiveable error."
Also on Tuesday, The New York Times released addition footage showing two Iranian missiles hit the Ukrainian airplane.
Anything else?
During Rouhani's speech, he also sought to place blame on America for his military shooting down the Ukrainian plane. According to CBS News, the Iranian president said, "It was the U.S. that caused such an incident to take place."
The regime has attempted to shift blame onto the Trump administration for the downing of the jetliner, accusing President Donald Trump of escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran when he ordered airstrikes that killed Iranian general and known terrorist Qassem Soleimani on Jan. 3.


theblaze--2020-01-14--17 children injured after airplane drops jet fuel onto playground of elementary school in California

17 children injured after airplane drops jet fuel onto playground of elementary school in California The plane had to be @ @ @ @

Numerous children and adults are being treated for minor injuries after an airplane taking off from Los Angeles International Airport experienced engine troubles and dropped jet fuel into an elementary school.
Seventeen children and nine adults were reportedly receiving treatment at Park Avenue Elementary School in Cudahy, California.
The Delta Air Lines flight was diverted to LAX just minutes after takeoff. It was bound for Shanghai, China, but instead made an emergency landing.
Jet fuel was also dropped at other sites, including a different elementary school.
The official social media account for the Los Angeles Unified School District tweeted a short statement about the incident.
"An airplane making an emergency landing today at #LAX discharged fuel while flying over our schools," they tweeted. "Students and staff may have been sprayed by fuel or inhaled fumes."
"Paramedics are treating those complaining of skin irritation or breathing problems. Info will be updated," they added.
Local reporter Claudia Peschiutta tweeted photos from outside the school showing parents trying to pick up their children.
Peschiutta reported that no students or staff were taken to hospitals for treatment.
Here's video of the aftermath:


theblaze--2020-01-14--The Navy says it has Top Secret UFO files that would cause 'grave damage' to US national security if

The Navy says it has Top Secret UFO files that would cause 'grave damage' to US national security if made public

The Navy says it has Top Secret UFO files that would cause 'grave damage ' to US national security if @ @

The Pentagon is in possession of Top Secret-classified briefings and Secret-classified video that would cause "exceptionally grave damage" to U.S. national security interests if made public, the Navy said in response to a public records request first reported on by Vice.
The files are in regard to an unusual encounter between the USS Nimitz and unknown aerial objects that occurred off the coast of San Diego in 2004, which show flying objects moving at high speeds thousands of feet in the air yet without any apparent wings or visible engines.
In 2017 and 2018, the videos were published by the New York Times. The Navy later confirmed that the videos — which were never supposed to be released to the public — are, in fact, real.


theblaze--2020-01-14--Transgender activist with male genitalia turns on testosterone, gets caught on video appearing to ph

Transgender activist with male genitalia turns on testosterone, gets caught on video appearing to physically attack reporter outside court

Transgender activist with male genitalia turns on testosterone , gets caught on video appearing to physically attack reporter outside court @ @ @ @ @ that hard '

Jessica Yaniv — the transgender activist who infamously filed numerous human rights complaints against salons that refused to wax Yaniv's male genitalia, who complained of being turned away by a gynecologist, who vowed to shut down Ricky Gervais' live show after the comedian mocked Yaniv's antics — has turned up the aggression dial.
What now?
Rebel Media reporter Keean Bexte said he wasn't allowed in a British Columbia courthouse where Yaniv was appearing Monday on a weapons charge — so Bexte tried interviewing Yaniv outside the courtroom.
With that, Bexte turned on his cellphone video, and Yaniv flew into a rage with Bexte's first — and only — question, appearing to physically attack the reporter.
Image source: Twitter video screenshot
Video showed Yaniv relentlessly going after the retreating reporter who said Yaniv punched him in the back of the head.
"Go away from me!" Yaniv hollered at Bexte.
Here's the clip. (Content warning: Language):
After the unnerving ordeal, Bexte wrote, "I need an Advil."
He also wondered if any surveillance video would see the light of day:
Now what?
Bexte told the Daily Wire that "police have been reluctant to charge [Yaniv] before," therefore the reporter added that he's speaking to legal counsel "to figure out my options to make sure this menace sees justice."
Image source: Twitter video screenshot
The reporter was a bit more direct on Twitter, noting, "I've never seen a girl hit like that. Tbh you're more manly than most men, and you belong behind bars. I'll be seeing you in court, and I'll visit you in prison. No tampons in mens prison! Sad!"
Bexte also wrote, "Splitting headache. Do Alberta healthcare cards work in BC? F*** Yaniv. No real woman can punch that hard."
Here's a bit of what Bexte went through prior to the hearing:
What else has ol' Jess been up to?
While British Columbia's Human Rights Tribunal several months back determined Yaniv's complaints against the waxing salon were "divorced from reality" — and the trans activist was ordered to pay $2,000 to each of three respondents in the case — Yaniv is on full reload mode.
Yes, the activist recently launched a new complaint against a salon run by immigrant women of the Sikh faith, the National Post said. Seems the salon turned down Yaniv's waxing request, saying it only serves females — and further rejected the request because of "religious, cultural and safety reasons," the paper added.
Oh, and last summer Yaniv pushed for LGBTQ "topless" swim parties for children as young as 12 at pools run by a Canadian town — and one of the stipulations was that parents and guardians are barred from attending. The municipality in question postponed voting on the matter.


theblaze--2020-01-14--Sen. Tim Kaine says he has the votes for resolution limiting Trump's war powers on Iran

Sen. Tim Kaine says he has the votes for resolution limiting Trump 's war powers on Iran 'Congress can not @ @ @ @ @ decisions '

A Democratic senator said Tuesday that he has enough Republican support to pass a measure limiting President Donald Trump's ability to take on military action against Iran without congressional authorization.
The Hill reported that Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said he was able to pick up the extra votes on an amended version of a war powers resolution that he introduced earlier this month.
"I've got 51 declared votes on version two" with "more considering getting on board," Kaine said.
Republican Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.) and Mike Lee (Utah) voiced their support for Kaine's effort last week. At a Democratic leadership news conference on Tuesday, Kaine named Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) as the other two Republicans supporting the revised measure. He added that there are "a number of other Republicans who are looking at it as well."
The Hill reported that Kaine's changes to the resolution include removing language that directly mentions Trump by name, which some found to be too political.
At the news conference, Kaine said the amended version would be available for consideration in the upper chamber next week.
"The good news is this: We now have a majority of colleagues — Democratic and Republican — who will stand strong for the principle that we shouldn't be at war without a vote of Congress," the senator said.
In a statement, Collins said that "Congress cannot be sidelined on these important decisions" and that "the Kaine resolution would continue to allow the President to respond to emergencies created by aggression from any hostile nation, including Iran, and to repel an imminent attack by Iran."
The first version of Kaine's resolution was introduced in the wake of the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian general and terrorist Qassem Soleimani. Even if the measure passes, it's highly unlikely to overcome a presidential veto.


theblaze--2020-01-14--Chad Prather: 'The thing sold out faster than Mitt Romney'

Chad Prather : 'The thing sold out faster than Mitt Romney '

On Tuesday, Chad Prather ranted about actress Gwyneth Paltrow's $75 vagina-scented candle that sold out within hours on her website, The Goop. Chad explained that Paltrow is merely trying to remain relevant as she gets older. Paltrow is 47.
"The thing sold out faster than Mitt Romney,' Chad said with a chuckle.
Watch the video below to hear Chad's rant.
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