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November 13, 2018 5:01 pm

Judge Karen Geivers ruled Tuesday to extend the recount deadline for Palm Beach County until November 20 in Florida’s U.S. Senate race, according to reports.

The extension comes after Sen. Bill Nelson’s (D-FL) legal team filed a lawsuit in a federal court earlier Tuesday in a bid to extend the deadline for recounting votes statewide.

 

This story is developing. 

It’s no secret that Disney is a left-leaning company that wears its political correctness and liberal beliefs proudly on their sleeves.

Given that, it’s a little funny how the far left loves to extol the virtue of things like freedom of speech, but only when it serves them — like when NFL players kneel for the national anthem.

When it doesn’t suit their agenda? They conveniently forget the dangers of censorship.

One of the latest examples of this brazen hypocrisy comes from Disney World, where a proud Trump supporter has been banned for life after holding up a “Trump 2020” sign.

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According to multiple outlets, such as the Orlando-based Spectrum News 13,  Dion Cini has been permanently banned from all Disney properties after brandishing a “Trump 2020” sign while on Splash Mountain at Disney World.

Naturally, Disney claimed that this has nothing to do with politics.

“Walt Disney World welcomes all guests to enjoy our parks; however, demonstrations and the display of signs and banners is not permitted on the premises. We have previously reminded this guest about our rules,” a Disney spokeswoman told Spectrum News in a statement.

I’m sorry, but banning a man over a sign endorsing the president is inherently political.

Now, to be perfectly fair, Cini had reportedly been kicked out of Disney World before for unfurling a banner in September that read “Re-Elect Donald J. Trump. Keep America Great. 2020.”

But according to WOFL, Disney eventually allowed Cini back into the park so long as he didn’t carry any signs that would “incite crowds.” So, again, apparently supporting your president is tantamount to inciting crowds?

Check out the WOFL report here:

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The cynic in me thinks that Disney’s response to Cini wouldn’t have been nearly as harsh had he carried a “Hillary 2020” sign.

To his credit, Cini denies inciting anything, but is willing to accept Disney’s ban. Claiming he does not want to break any laws by trespassing, Cini will not go to any Disney properties ever again.

That being said, Cini also told WOFL that he has no plans to curtail his enthusiastic support of President Donald Trump.

He’s already made a name for himself with pro-Trump demonstrations in New York City, as reported by CNN last year. And it doesn’t sound like anything’s going to change.

Cini said he will continue to proudly unfurl flags and banners supporting Trump. In fact, he said that his flags and banners will only get bigger.

Good for him for sticking with his beliefs, no matter what the far left tries to do to him.

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Far be it from me to ever perpetuate a stereotype, but sometimes the caricature of a snooty and arrogant Frenchman cuts astonishingly close to the real thing.

Take, for example, French President Emmanuel Macron.

The French president recently spoke at a ceremony honoring the 100th anniversary of the World War I armistice and exuded a smug attitude about how superior his way of thinking was.

“Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism,” Macron said. “Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. By saying ‘our interests first, who cares about the others,’ we erase what a nation holds dearest, what gives it life, what makes it great and what is essential: its moral values.”’

Parroting a far-left talking about about how patriotism and nationalism are so different, Macron was clearly taking a not-so-veiled shot at President Donald Trump.

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Trump has made no secret about his desire to put “America first,” and it’s been a rallying cry for many of his constituents.

AMERICA FIRST!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 14, 2016

Macron further dug in against Trump, alluding to “old demons.”

“I know there are old demons which are coming back to the surface,” Macron said at the ceremony. “They are ready to wreak chaos and death. History sometimes threatens to take its sinister course once again.”

It doesn’t take a historian to figure out that Macron, ever subtly, was trying to conflate Trump’s brand of patriotism with Nazism.

Further alluding to the world wars, Macron recently claimed that he wanted a “real, true European army,” echoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to the Guardian.

The mere hint that Europe might need a way to stand up against America certainly wasn’t lost on Trump, who fired back as only he can on Twitter and gave a little history lesson of his own against Macron.

Emmanuel Macron suggests building its own army to protect Europe against the U.S., China and Russia. But it was Germany in World Wars One & Two – How did that work out for France? They were starting to learn German in Paris before the U.S. came along. Pay for NATO or not!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 13, 2018

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“Emmanuel Macron suggests building its own army to protect Europe against the U.S., China and Russia,” Trump said on Twitter. “But it was Germany in World Wars One & Two – How did that work out for France? They were starting to learn German in Paris before the U.S. came along. Pay for NATO or not!”

Ouch. That, my friends, is what the young people call a “burn” these days.

That tweet certainly won’t help Macron’s ego, which should already be pretty bruised considering Trump’s popularity in France is rising while Macron’s is plummeting.

Leave it to a proud American to knock a Frenchman down a peg or two.

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Why do we seem to be constantly at each other’s throats when discussing politics in America today? Andrew Klavan contends that the media plays a large part in that, and it might be the way they like it.

“I think the reason we can’t talk is because the media stands between Left and Right, and 8 percent of the people, the radical left, are running 85 percent of the media,” the Daily Wire podcast host explained on Monday’s episode of “The Andrew Klavan Show.” “By the media, I don’t just mean however you’re getting your news, I’m talking about Hollywood, I’m talking about social media. It was amazing to watch social media this weekend, I think a lot of people just took the weekend off and weren’t on it, so the only people who were left were angry people, people who always say ‘I’m so outraged!’ It was endless, and I started to crack up after a while. It was kind of funny.”

Klavan also criticized New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd for calling President Donald Trump the “real American Psycho” and Republicans not supporting the White House “malefactors.”

“What she’s saying here is just because other Republicans attack Trump, doesn’t mean we should like other Republicans; they all stink,” he explained. “The point she is making is hate Trump, but don’t forget to hate all the other Republicans as well. At least that’s honest, they’re not saying, ‘Oh it started with Trump’ — they’re saying we’ve hated you all this time — it never occurs to her that maybe Trump is a reaction to all that hatred she was pouring on people.”

Video and transcript below:

Five million poor Central Americans want to migrate into the United States’ communities and workplaces, according to a report by Gallup.

The caravans of economic migrants moving northwards to the U.S. border “actually represent a relatively small fragment of a much larger group of people in their own region — and around the world — who say they would like to move to the U.S. if they could,” said Gallup. The five million number is one-in-three adults in Central America, the survey firm said.

The estimate was posted by Gallup as President Donald Trump’s lawyers try to fend off lawsuits against his November plan to curb the growing use of asylum claims by economic migrants from Central America, including the migrants who are part of the caravans heading to the U.S. border.

On Tuesday, the ACLU and other elite groups who favor cheap-labor migration are asking a California judge to block Trump’s asylum-reform, anti-caravan plan.

Trump’s lawyers are expected to say his plan complies with Congress’ law by offering caravans of migrants full access to asylum courts if they apply at the border’s “ports of entry,” while also offering a limited form of asylum, dubbed “withholding from removal,” to migrants who illegally sneak into the United States.

If upheld, Trump’s “withholding of removal” fix would be a huge blow to the cartels’ labor trafficking business. It would be a blow because it would deny migrants the easy access to U.S. jobs which is needed to pay the cartels’ smuggling costs and profits.

Trump issues proclamation barring illegal border crossers from seeking full asylum benefits, but migrants can formally apply at ports of entry for full asylum benefits. Expect outrage from cheap-labor/pro-migration industry. Caravan heading to 9th circuit. https://t.co/gU14OOQEfC

— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) November 9, 2018

Gallup reported:

In Gallup’s most recent global estimate, between 2015 and 2017, 15% of the world’s adults — more than 750 million people — said they would like to move to another country permanently if they could. In Central America, this percentage is one in three (33%), or about 10 million adults.

Three percent of the world’s adults — or nearly 160 million people — say they would like to move to the U.S. This includes 16% of adults from Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama and Costa Rica, which translates into nearly 5 million people.

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For example, in Honduras, whose residents make up a large percentage of the migrant caravan, about half of adults (47%) say they would like to move to another country permanently if they could, but about 9% are planning to move in the next year — and 2% are actively preparing to do so.

However, these Gallup numbers may be far too low.

People stuck in their poor homelands may not want to admit their frustrated wish to migrate.

Also, rising migration spurs runaway migration once successful migrants use their cell phones to video and broadcast their glamorous success in Europe and the United States to their homeland peers in their towns, villages, and families.

Rising emigration cripples economic development in the homeland, so encouraging the next generation also to migrate.

The Mexican labor-trafficking cartels are expanding their business by offering to move people from Indian and African through their smuggling networks into U.S. jobs via the backlogged U.S. asylum system.

Migration is encouraged and welcomed by many Democratic legislators who rationally expect the government-dependent migrants to back their political party once the migrants are naturalized.

Many business-first Republicans support migration because it provides Wall Street investors and companies with a growing number of workers and consumers. Poor migrants are good for companies and investors because taxpayers are forced to spend more money on aid and welfare payments. That extra welfare spending becomes an indirect taxpayer subsidy for the many grocery stores, used-car dealers, teachers, landlords and other people who help or trade with migrants.

Wealthy and influential Americans gain cheap labor from low-wage migration. They also gain stock market wealth, political influence amid the chaotic civic diversity, plus satisfaction from aiding distant foreigners instead of local Americans.

The tacit alliance of progressives and investors, Democrats and Republicans, has largely blockedPresidentt Donald Trump’s effort to help ordinary Americans by curbing migration into U.S. workplaces and neighborhoods.

Washington’s economic policy of using migration to boost economic growth shifts wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap white-collar and blue-collar foreign labor. That flood of outside labor spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees.

The policy also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least five million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.

Immigration also pulls investment and wealth away from heartland states because coastal investors can more easily hire and supervise the large immigrant populations living in the coastal states.

 

 

Here’s an interesting news item which may represent the intersection of violent crime and invasive technology and privacy concerns. In January of last year, two people were murdered in a grisly crime in Farmington, New Hampshire. A suspect, Timothy Verrill, was identified and placed in custody. His trial is upcoming but prosecutors are still looking for more evidence to support their case.

As part of this effort, they’ve convinced a judge to order Amazon to release all data from the Amazon Echo located in the room where police believe the murders took place. (CBS Boston)

A New Hampshire judge has “directed Amazon.com to produce” any recordings an Amazon Echo may have because it could contain evidence of a January 2017 double-murder. Prosecutors are looking for the two days worth of recording from the Echo in a Meaderboro Road, Farmington home where 47-year-old Christine Sullivan and 32-year-old Jenna Pellegrini were found dead.

The information from the Echo would also include if any cellphones were paired with it.

According to prosecutors, sometime between January 27 and 29, 2017, Sullivan and Pellegrini were murdered by 36-year-old Timothy Verrill. He was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, along with other charges, and is in jail waiting for his trial in May 2019.

So what do they expect this Amazon Echo to cough up in terms of evidence? We all know the standard line from the major manufacturers who produce Alexi, Siri and “Okay Google.” They’re never “listening” or recording your activities until you tell them to, right? And they certainly wouldn’t partner up with any phones or other devices around the house without you knowing. Perish the thought!

But it sounds as if law enforcement believes there’s more hidden inside Alexa’s digital brain. They mention the possibility that the device was “paired” with any cellphones in the area. We know they can do that if we ask them to. My phone is paired with the Cortana on my Dell laptop so I can quickly access text messages without taking out my phone if I wish. But was their Alexa paired with their phones during the attack? Or might it have even been detecting the phone of the alleged killer while he was in the house? There’s a disturbing thought.

And what of the audio recordings they think might possibly be on the device. Unless one of the victims cried out for Alexa to call 911 while they were being killed, the Alexa isn’t supposed to be listening or recording anything right? All I’m saying is that I’ve never believed that these digital servants are as inert as the manufacturers claim they are when not in use. How would they hear you say “Alexa” and wake up if they weren’t already listening?

Assuming the police have the right guy, I hope he’s put away and some justice for the victims is delivered. And if information on their Echo can help do that, all the better. But if Amazon is going to fess up and let the police know that the device is recording more than we think it is, I think they should let everyone know.