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Actress-comedian Whitney Cummings said she got in trouble last year for saying “Merry Christmas” to a television production crew.

Cummings revealed the incident during an appearance Wednesday on the late-night talk show Conan on TBS.

“Last year, I was working on a TV show, got in trouble with Human Resources for saying ‘Merry Christmas’ to an intern,” she said. “I was leaving, like on the 18th or whatever today was, and I was like, ‘Bye guys, Merry Christmas.’”

Cummings said when she returned to work, she was called into HR and notified that an intern was upset about the reference to Christmas. The comedian didn’t reveal the TV show where she worked.

Conan posted a clip from Wednesday’s show, with the story beginning around the four-minute mark.

Cummings said that she wasn’t being sincere about wishing her co-workers a “Merry Christmas.”

“I don’t even care how your Christmas was. It was just a formality. It’s what you say when you leave,” she said.

Host Conan O’Brien chimed in, “In these times we’re in, that could trigger someone or offend them if it’s not their holiday.”

Cummings said she was told the intern was agnostic. “I can’t guess your holiday based on what you look like,” she said.

Since emerging as a popular stand-up comic, Cummings has segued into television, scoring a hit as a co-creator of the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls, which ran from 2011 to 2017 and continues to live on in syndication.

Cummings also worked briefly on ABC’s rebooted Roseanne before it was canceled after just one season and re-tooled as the Roseanne-less The Conners.

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While in the classic Christmas story “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” the Grinch takes all the decor from the Whos and then has a change of heart, many modern-day vandals aren’t quite so easily moved.

If you’ve ever displayed inflatable Christmas decor on your front lawn, perhaps you know this first-hand: There are groups of (generally young) people who take great joy in tackling Santas, snowmen, reindeer and pretty much anything that is inflatable and displayed unattended outdoors.

But the tackling often proves fatal to such installations, and what was once a jolly front yard can look a little sad after a group of vandals runs through it. The Vincenti family experienced that on Dec. 8, when their Santa Claus inflatable was popped, The Baltimore Sun reported.

The Vincenti kids, aged 5 and 3 according to the Aberdeen Police Department’s Facebook post, were heartbroken over the loss. When Aberdeen Police Officer Cynthia Mowery showed up on the scene for a damage report, she could see what a toll the destroyed decor was having on the 6-year-old, and her heart grew several sizes.

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“When I was taking the report, I looked up and their [older] son was standing there looking out,” the cop, who also happens to be a mother and grandmother, told The Baltimore Sun. “It was so sad, he looked so upset, and that weighed on my heart all night. When I woke up the next morning, I just knew what I had to do.”

With the help of her squad, she brought some Christmas cheer to the family’s yard once more.

“Officer Mowery was not going to let a vandal ruin a families Christmas spirit this year,” the Aberdeen Police Department shared in a Facebook post on Monday. “After learning that a homeowners Christmas decorations were vandalized Officer Mowery took action.

“Officer Mowery purchased new decorations to replace the damaged ones. Officer Mowey made this purchase in the middle of the night, so when the children woke (boys ages 5&3) they would be surprised.”

The post went on to say that while the officer wasn’t asking for recognition, this kind act wasn’t out of the ordinary for her. She’s only been on the force for a year after working with them as a civilian, but she’s clearly making a difference.

“This is not the first time she has demonstrated an act of kindness that goes above and beyond the call of duty,” the post continued. “Officer Mowery does not seek recognition for her good deeds but we had to share. Officer Mowery’s actions are the definition of the true meaning of Christmas!!!”

“I’ve always had an interest in the field of law … when I accepted the position at the Harford County Sheriff’s Office, it sparked that love of law enforcement again,” she told The Baltimore Sun.

“My husband and I talked, our children were grown and out of the house, it was a good time to go ahead and make it happen.”

The Vincenti parents “surprised” their kids with the news by placing their Elf on the Shelf sitting on the front window, looking outside. The kids noticed immediately, and their dad urged them to look outside, too.

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“I said ‘let’s open the door and find out what he’s looking at’ and we went out there and he was just ecstatic, losing his mind because there’s all these decorations after the one decoration had previously been removed,” Richard Vincenti said.

“I don’t know how to explain the happiness that they had. They were very grateful.”

Mowery has been very modest about her deed, explaining that others helped as well and that she just wanted to do something nice for the kids.

“My goal was to try to help,” she explained. “I’m a mom, I’m a grandmom. I saw how upset that family was and I just wanted to help them.”

“And if it helps with the way the perception is with law enforcement, that’s fantastic. Aberdeen has a great agency, we work with a lot of people that care about the community.”

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A hospice care program in South Carolina isn’t able to grant every wish from its patients, but when Jenis James Grindstaff told the chaplains that he wanted to be baptized, a team of nurses, transportation staff and others rallied together to make sure his wish could come true.

“I thought, ‘We’re going to make this happen,’” Chaplain Terrell Jones said, according to a media release from Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System.

Grindstaff, who lives with his son Craig and daughter-in-law Pam, receives in-home treatment from the hospice program at the South Carolina-based hospital.

“The hospice team is wonderful,” Pam said.

“They’re very kind in the way they talk to him. They make him laugh.”

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Spartanburg Regional says on its website that through hospice service, it aims to care for the “‘whole person,’ not just the illness.”

While talking with a chaplain, Grindstaff expressed his desire to get baptized before his death.

The news initially came as a surprise to his family, according to the hospital’s media release.

“He’s always read the Bible, but he had never been baptized,” Grindstaff’s other son, Jim, said of his father.

“He wanted to show he believed more than anything else.”

Jones met with Grindstaff in September, and the two discussed what he’d like his baptism to look like.

“He wanted full immersion,” she recalled. “He said, ‘I don’t want sprinkles.’”

Due to Grindstaff’s medical issues, however, the staff had to creatively plan how to ensure his safety.

Thankfully, a facilities team member remembered that the Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home had a 60-gallon tub specifically designed for patients unable to step in and out of a traditional bathtub.

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Patients are able to step into the tub through a door that then seals and quickly fills with water.

The cost for the transportation from Grindstaff’s son’s home to the hospice facility was at least partially paid for by the Spartanburg Regional Foundation’s Hospice Special Needs fund, according to the media release.

On Dec. 11, Spartanburg Regional posted a heartwarming video of the baptism, which has since gone viral and encouraged thousands of people.

Jones prayed over Grindstaff while nurses helped support him in the specialized tub.

Family members were also able to be there to support him during such a monumental moment.

“My beloved son, Jenis James Grindstaff, I now at this time, I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son and of the Holy Ghost, and in Jesus’ name,” Jones said as she baptized Grindstaff.

Tameka Irvin, the hospice home’s nurse manager, said she sees these moments as precious blessings.

“I look at it as a ministry,” Irvin said. “Being able to honor wishes like this baptism is heartwarming.”

“Seeing that smile on his face fills my heart with joy.”

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The Obama White House held special secret meetings related to the shady Russia investigation in 2016.  The odd thing is that crooked John Kerry from the State Department was invited but Admiral Mike Rogers from the NSA was excluded.

Yahoo News reported in March the following related to former President Obama’s Russia fake news actions in 2016  –

For the usual interagency sessions, principals and deputies could bring staffers. Not this time. “There were no plus ones,” an attendee recalled. When the subject of a principals or deputies meeting was a national security matter, the gathering was often held in the Situation Room of the White House. The in‑house video feed of the Sit Room — without audio — would be available to national security officials at the White House and elsewhere, and these officials could at least see that a meeting was in progress and who was attending. For the meetings related to the Russian hack, Susan Rice, Obama’s national security adviser, ordered the video feed turned off. She did not want others in the national security establishment to know what was under way, fearing leaks from within the bureaucracy.

Rice would chair the principals’ meetings — which brought together Brennan; Comey; Kerry; Director of National Intelligence James Clapper; Defense Secretary Ash Carter; Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson; Treasury Secretary Jack Lew; Attorney General Loretta Lynch; and Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — with only a few other White House officials present, including White House chief of staff Denis McDonough; homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco, and Colin Kahl, Vice President Joe Biden’s national security adviser. (Kahl had to insist to Rice that he be allowed to attend so that Biden could be fully briefed.)

Rice’s No. 2, deputy national security adviser Avril Haines, oversaw the deputies’ sessions. White House officials who were absent from the meetings were not told what was being discussed. This even included other NSC staffers — some of whom bristled at being shut out. Often the intelligence material covered in these meetings was not placed in the President’s Daily Brief, the top-secret document presented to the president every morning. Too many people had access to the PDB. “The opsec on this” — the operational security — “was as tight as it could be,” one White House official later said.

One Internet sleuth highlighted the questionable actions noted above and posted on Reddit –

The National Security Agency was not allowed to be part of a “national security matter,” but John Kerry was at these meetings, aka the State Department, whose agency is not an investigative agency:

Rice said, she feared leaks and therefore she hid the discussions from these meetings from the NSA; however, out of all the leaks that have made their way into the press, not a single one can be found that came from the NSA.

Mike Rogers ran a pretty tight ship. Rice did not want Rogers at these meetings because the Obama team did not trust Rogers to conceal their crimes.  

In addition, Obama’s DOJ and FBI were illegally searching Americans against their rights.  Unbeknownst to most Americans, Obama’s FBI was providing this information to outside contractors who had no business or legal cause or claim the information.

On Thursday November 17th, 2016, after the presidential election, NSA Director Mike Rogers traveled to New York and met with President-Elect Donald Trump.  It is widely believed Admiral Rogers warned President-elect Trump on Obama regime’s spying on his campaign during this meeting.

Obama officials were OUTRAGED that the NSA Director would meet privately with President-elect Trump without notifying Obama officials first.

On Thursday the Intercept reported that Mike Rogers is working with John Durham on the origins of the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump Campaign.

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RETIRED ADM. MICHAEL ROGERS, former director of the National Security Agency, has been cooperating with the Justice Department’s probe into the origins of the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump presidential campaign’s alleged ties to Russia, according to four people familiar with Rogers’s participation.

Rogers has met the prosecutor leading the probe, Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, on multiple occasions, according to two people familiar with Rogers’s cooperation. While the substance of those meetings is not clear, Rogers has cooperated voluntarily, several people with knowledge of the matter said.

Rogers, who retired in May 2018, did not respond to requests for comment.

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Jazz Lyles

A transgender former Nike contractor who identifies as “transmasculine/non-binary” is suing Nike for $1.1 million in damages citing pronoun abuses.

Apparently Nike isn’t “woke” enough.

“Jazz Lyles,” a biological female, claimed in a complaint that co-workers abused her when they failed to use pronouns such as they/them/their when addressing her.

And she wants Nike to pay a hefty price for allegedly allowing the abuse.

CBS reported:

A transgender former Nike contractor is seeking $1.1 million in damages from the sporting goods giant for allegedly allowing gender identity-based harassment.

According to a civil lawsuit filed this week, Nike and Mainz Brady Group, a staffing firm that hired workers for Nike, discriminated against computer engineer Jazz Lyles, who identifies as transmasculine and prefers the pronouns they/them/their. The complaint was filed with Multnomah Circuit Court in Oregon.

During Lyles’ tenure at Nike — from May 2017 to September 2018 — the engineer was repeatedly “misgendered” by coworkers, the complaint said. While Lyles notified management about the issue multiple times, the companies allegedly failed to implement any policies, procedures and trainings around the use of gender pronouns in the workplace.

“When someone refuses to acknowledge a person’s gender identity or insists on referring to them by a gender to which they do
not identify (called misgendering), this causes real and significant harm,” read the complaint. “This is particularly true when a person is misgendered repeatedly on a daily basis.”

Nike reportedly held a training session after Lyles made a series of complaints that her co-workers were misgendering her.

But that wasn’t enough for Lyles because the re-education camp training session was only conducted for her teammates and not the entire department.

Nike has rolled out a series of ad campaigns featuring transgender athletes, but they will never be “woke enough” for the radical left.

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Hate-filled Democrats were hoping their political slapdash impeachment this week would ruin President Trump.

Instead, their criminal acts enraged Trump voters, Independents and decent Americans.

At the beginning of the week President Trump’s approval rating was 47% on the Rasmussen daily poll.
On Friday President Trump’s approval rating hit 50%.

This is three points higher than Barack Obama at the same point in his presidency.

And on Thursday a CNN poll found the Trump economy received its best ranking in nearly 20 years.

Overall, 76% rate economic conditions in the US today as very or somewhat good, significantly more than those who said so at this time last year (67%). This is the highest share to say the economy is good since February 2001, when 80% said so.

And Black approval of President Trump is at 34%.

Mrs. Pelosi’s Early Christmas Gift?

Overall Likely Voter @POTUS approval – 50%

Democratic Likely Voter approval of @POTUS – 22%

Black Likely Voter approval of @POTUS – 34%

Other non-white approval of @POTUS – 45%

Strongly approve/disapprove index – even https://t.co/3bK65yySGc pic.twitter.com/MIidtW67DC

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) December 20, 2019

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Left-wing comedian Samantha Bee traveled to Hong Kong to meet with pro-democracy protesters committed to holding “China accountable for their actions,” airing her interviews on Wednesday’s edition of Full Frontal. It came as quite a shock to the vehemently anti-Trump Bee that the protesters actually liked the President and Republican Senator Marco Rubio.

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Democrat presidential candidates hold 63 million Americans who voted for President Donald Trump in contempt, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) observed Friday during an interview with Alex Marlow, host of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.

Scalise said, “They have disdain. It’s not just for President Trump; it’s for the 63 million Americans who voted for President Trump, the forgotten men and women, people in the Rust Belt who have been left behind by the liberal elites in Washington.”

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Scalise added, “You listened to all the people on the stage last night. I didn’t even [need to] watch the debate last night to know that none of them have had any record of success on any of these issues. Their economic plans would wreck what is the greatest economy in the entire world.”

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was an improvement over the previous status quo of the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA), stated Scalise.

“President Trump went and negotiated a better deal with Mexico and a better deal with Canada,” Scalise said. “Barack Obama couldn’t get a better deal with any of our allies because they kept taking advantage of us. You look at what happened in NATO. President Trump came in and made our NATO allies, they’re good friends, but they were taking advantage of us. They weren’t paying their fair share of two percent of their GDP that every country agreed to after World War II. President Trump finally has them stepping up and doing more of their part.”

Scalise continued, “If you don’t like NAFTA, this is a better deal than NAFTA, and if you like NAFTA, this is a better deal than NAFTA. The president went and negotiated a really good deal for American workers. The real win is for American workers, who are going to get well over 160,000 new jobs in our economy right off the bat. Plus you get the ability to sell products in countries like Canada that you couldn’t sell [before].”

Scalise went on. “The bigger message is for everybody else around the world; it says that we can close deals. The president can go and negotiate a better deal, but until Congress ratifies it, it doesn’t happen. Pelosi should’ve had this on the [House] floor six months ago. It would’ve passed overwhelmingly like it did yesterday, but she held it up because of her obsession with impeaching him, like she’s held up so many other things that matter to families.”

“For China, yesterday, this was not a good day,” concluded Scalise, describing American trade deals with Canada, Mexico, Japan, and European states as measures decreasing U.S. dependency on Chinese exports.

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Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) praised Breitbart News in a Thursday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX).

“By God’s grace, we’ve got a few outlets like Breitbart that are willing to share the truth,” said Johnson while reflecting on recent interviews he had done with CNN and MSNBC regarding Democrats’ impeachment push against President Donald Trump.

Johnson described the acrimony he perceived from CNN and MSNBC figures during his interviews with them.

“I spent a lot of time over the last week … going into those lions’ dens,” said Johnson, referring to CNN and MSNBC. “I think I did six or seven CNN and MSNBC shows, for example, over the last four or five days to go and present our case. Now, you know going into those arenas, that it’s [going to be] a hostile interview. Some of these [interviews] we put on our Facebook page.”

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Johnson continued, “You go watch, but they’re just seething with just, it’s almost like a hatred that some of these hosts cannot even hold back, and these are journalists, right? The idea that you would come into their arena — they want you to come on — but the fact that you would stand there, answer the questions, and refute their nonsense with facts is a great frustration to them.”

“As I’ve said to our colleagues, this is the most important time ever to go into those quote-unquote mainstream or drive-by media venues, because if we don’t go share our version of — the real truth — our version of the facts, they will never hear it, because it’s an echo chamber over there,” added Johnson. “So I’m trying to encourage conservatives, constitutional conservatives, to go into these places where we’re not expected. Sometimes you’ve got to take a few incoming bullets, but you still get the message out.”

Johnson noted that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is required to deliver the articles of impeachment, as passed by the Democrat majority in the House of Representatives, to the Senate given the text of the resolution.

“What’s interesting about this is Nancy Pelosi’s own resolution — this is the Democrat resolution that they drafted, everybody can pull this up on the Internet and read it for themselves — it says in the third and fourth lines of the resolution, ‘Resolved …  that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited in the United States Senate,’” explained Johnson. “S0, by their own resolution that they passed by that majority vote last night, they are required to deliver this — to exhibit it — to the Senate.”

Johnson went on, “Now, it doesn’t have a timeline on there, but obviously it’s presupposed that because they were breathless in their sense of urgency over the last week, remember, they had to get this done, ‘Donald Trump is an existential threat to the Constitution and the country,’ it was presumed that, of course, they would deliver it.”

Johnson concluded, “As someone said today, Nancy Pelosi currently has a grenade in her hand with the pin pulled, and she doesn’t know what to do with it, and so we’re in a real interesting constitutional quandary. How long can she hold it? I don’t know. If she holds it too long, you might suppose that Mitch McConnell and the Senate, if he were in a court, he would bring a motion to dismiss for want of prosecution that they didn’t bring it over, but it’s not even a live issue in the Senate, yet, because they’ve not yet delivered it. So we don’t even know what’s going to happen. That’s a long, complicated answer to a very simple question that everyone on Capitol Hill is asking themselves right now.

Pelosi said on Wednesday she would not commit to delivering the articles of impeachment to the Senate.

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