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GOOD LUCK: Shaun King Demands NFL Boycott Until Colin Kaepernick Is Signed

Sunday marks the start of football season for most NFL fans, but at least one man, Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King, won’t be tuning in: he’s vowed to boycott the league until medicore second-string quarterback Colin Kaepernick finally gets signed to a team.

He might be waiting a while.

On Friday, King provided his faithful followers with a thousand-word instruction manual on how to boycott the NFL in four simple steps, three of which – signing up on NFLBoycott.com, following the boycott on Twitter and joining a Facebook group – involve little but subjecting yourself to further Shaun King missives (the other one is turning off your television and refusing to watch games or highlights).

So, I’m asking you to join me in boycotting the NFL this year. We will end our boycott when Colin Kaepernick is signed to an NFL roster. It’s that simple. Listen, we have power,” King wrote. “Our money has power. Our viewership has power. Our buying power can sway what companies do or don’t support. But we have to unify and make this power mean something.”

Kaepernick, of course, has been persona non grata within the NFL since he began a campaign of protest against the national anthem. The campaign had twin effects: it propelled Kaepernick, who, despite his success in previous seasons, was a mediocre second-string quarterback doomed to warming the bench, to national promimence, and turned viewers off the NFL in droves.

Perhaps thinking his notoriety made him a commodity, Kaepernick opted out of his contract with the San Francisco 49ers; he ended up unemployed, with at least one team turning him down because of his reputation as a political troublemaker Miami, as well, didn’t outright say they were dumping Kaepernick for Jay Cutler, but last year, Kapernick and members of the Dolphins got into a tussle over Kaepernick’s love of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, which Cuban refugee Miami fans just didn’t appreciate.

But Kaepernick also isn’t a really a commodity. He’s sort of a middling quarterback, and there are plenty of those to go around, even if Shaun King thinks Kaepermick is a superstart who’s been denied the limelight.

“These white team owners cannot believe that Colin took a stance against injustice in America without their expressed permission and blessing. And they particularly cannot believe that when they expressed their displeasure, that he continued to do it anyway — with players all over the league following his example,” King wrote. “That’s why they hate him. He is a quiet, peaceful man. To hate him says much more about you than it does about Colin.”

Weirdly enough, the NFL and its fans don’t seem to be losing too much sleep over Kaepernick’s unemployment, and given that ratings can’t get much worse, they seem willing to take the risk that Shaun King might tune out – especially if plenty of other people start tuning back in.

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Newsweek hails Al Gore for predicting eventual-but-inevitable powerful hurricane

**Written by Doug Powers

Call him NastraDUHmus.

Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” was released eleven years ago. In the movie, the Goracle predicted man-made climate change would cause hurricane to increase in both frequency and intensity. Until late this summer, since that movie’s release, ZERO powerful hurricanes (cat 3 or higher) made U.S. landfall. But now that there have been a couple catastrophic hurricanes, the alarmists are back in business:

They’re reduced to praising Al Gore as some sort of eco-oracle for “predicting” something that’s been happening since the dawn of the planet. He really called that one!

The article at Newsweek might as well be a paid advertisement for “An Inconvenient Sequel” which had an inconvenient box office for Gore. Next up, the Left will hail Al for correctly predicting tornadoes in Oklahoma.

**Written by Doug Powers

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How Chicago is morphing into Detroit in one easy lesson

My heart is breaking for Chicago, and for all Americans, as one of our greatest cities crumbles before our (and the world’s) eyes. I don’t see any way out of the vicious circle of political corruption, irrevocable pensions obligations overwhelming tax revenue, vanishing public services, and a decline in civil order leading toward a third world level of crime.

 As a result, the city consumes itself, strangling business and entrepreneurship, and killing off precious assets. Now, comes a story that captures it all in one heart-rending example. Sam Cholke of DNAChicago writes:

BRONZEVILLE — Chicago’s top-rated bed and breakfast is selling its historic mansion home and leaving Bronzeville because it’s too hard to persuade people to stay in the neighborhood.

Owner Mell Monroe is closing Welcome Inn Manor, 4563 S. Michigan Ave., Trip Advisor’s top-rated bed and breakfast in Chicago, and putting the historic mansion up for sale for $794,000.

“I’m not happy about the situation, but I have to do what I have to do,” Monroe said.

Monroe and his wife have lived in the brownstone seven-bedroom mansion for 15 years, and five years ago they converted it to a bed and breakfast.

Monroe said he’s built the business up to serve about 250 guests a year. But, he said, for every three guests he books, one cancels. He said he rarely gets an explanation for the cancellation, but suspects people are lured in by the proximity to Downtown and McCormick Place and then cancel when they realize the bed and breakfast is in a largely black neighborhood with a bad reputation.

Take a look at the place:

 

This is the type of building that gives a neighborhood, and in larger numbers a city, charm, character, and a sense of place. Except for the fact that civil order has crumbled, everything about the Welcome Inn Manor would be great for all sorts of visitors to the city. Near downtown, full of charm, historic, and gorgeous. In San Francisco, this place woiuld sell for a large multiple of what the owners are asking.

The owners were what used to be called “urban pioneers,” who bought and improved properties in undervalued neighborhoods close to downtown or other attractions, but out of fashion. But they bet on the wrong city.

My heart is breaking for Chicago, and for all Americans, as one of our greatest cities crumbles before our (and the world’s) eyes. I don’t see any way out of the vicious circle of political corruption, irrevocable pensions obligations overwhelming tax revenue, vanishing public services, and a decline in civil order leading toward a third world level of crime.

 As a result, the city consumes itself, strangling business and entrepreneurship, and killing off precious assets. Now, comes a story that captures it all in one heart-rending example. Sam Cholke of DNAChicago writes:

BRONZEVILLE — Chicago’s top-rated bed and breakfast is selling its historic mansion home and leaving Bronzeville because it’s too hard to persuade people to stay in the neighborhood.

Owner Mell Monroe is closing Welcome Inn Manor, 4563 S. Michigan Ave., Trip Advisor’s top-rated bed and breakfast in Chicago, and putting the historic mansion up for sale for $794,000.

“I’m not happy about the situation, but I have to do what I have to do,” Monroe said.

Monroe and his wife have lived in the brownstone seven-bedroom mansion for 15 years, and five years ago they converted it to a bed and breakfast.

Monroe said he’s built the business up to serve about 250 guests a year. But, he said, for every three guests he books, one cancels. He said he rarely gets an explanation for the cancellation, but suspects people are lured in by the proximity to Downtown and McCormick Place and then cancel when they realize the bed and breakfast is in a largely black neighborhood with a bad reputation.

Take a look at the place:

 

This is the type of building that gives a neighborhood, and in larger numbers a city, charm, character, and a sense of place. Except for the fact that civil order has crumbled, everything about the Welcome Inn Manor would be great for all sorts of visitors to the city. Near downtown, full of charm, historic, and gorgeous. In San Francisco, this place woiuld sell for a large multiple of what the owners are asking.

The owners were what used to be called “urban pioneers,” who bought and improved properties in undervalued neighborhoods close to downtown or other attractions, but out of fashion. But they bet on the wrong city.

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Hollywood Liberals Continue To Drop F-Bombs On Christians

Earlier this week Hollywood producer Danny Zucker gave a big “f*ck you” to Christians because he was upset that President Trump cancelled Obama’s unconstitutional DACA order. Now, actor/comedian Michael Ian Black wants Christians to go f*ck themselves because he’s pissed off about global warming or something. It seems to me that Hollywood is trying to scapegoat Christians the way they say conservatives do with illegal aliens and Muslims. Lucky for them they have written all kinds of carve-outs into the rules of tolerance or they’d seem like major hypocrites.

Black, who is most famous for…I have no idea. I think I saw him on TRU TV’s World’s Drunkest Stupid Assholes one time, but that could have been Danny Bonaduce. In any case, he went on an extended Twitter-storm today because he was upset about global warming or maybe people who don’t buy into the hoax.

I’m not going to imbed all of these tweets or even cut and paste his words; it’s simply too long. If you must read it, you can check out his Twitter. I’ll give you the gist of this insane rant. He starts out by claiming that Hurricane Irma, which is headed towards Florida, is a result of man-made global warming and complains that Republicans denying climate change is the reason why this storm is poised to do massive damage. After this, he accuses Republicans of not believing in science, even though his hypothesis is completely devoid of any sound scientific principals.

From there, Black goes into how everything that Republicans do as politicians is based on their Christian faith and therefore bullshit in his eyes. He says this makes them unfit to govern as well as being proof that conservatives favor a monarchy over democracy. I know this seems crazy, but Black was just warming up.

He slams Christian faith some more, claims that lower taxes hurt economic growth, and throws in some shit about the evils of private education. All of this lunacy was leading up to this:

“And they will never stop justifying their own bullshit. People are going to die in [Florida] in the next few days and they’re going to offer thoughts and prayers and go back to raping the country they claim to love in the name of Jesus fucking Christ on high. Fuck them,” wrote Black.

“And if you support this bullshit, fuck you too,” he added.

I know this is a lot to absorb, but basically if you are a conservative Christian, Michael Ian Black wants you to go f*ck yourself for not believing in what liberals consider science.

While we are on the subject, let’s take a look at some of the “science” liberals like Black believe in: If a person born with a penis puts on a dress and calls himself a woman, he is biologically a woman. A baby inside the mother’s womb is not alive or human until he or she passes through the magic portal of the vagina. Firearms, inanimate objects made out of metal and plastic, are capable of killing people without human manipulation.

That is some pretty shitty science there, and so is thinking that electing democrats will stop hurricanes from making landfall. It’s also not super-sciencey to believe that something mankind has done in the past couple of decades is responsible for creating weather conditions that have existed since the Earth cooled.

After all of this nonsense, we still have the fact that Black is telling Christians to f*ck off because he believes in a hoax. Is it okay to tell Muslims to f*ck off because you believe the Earth is flat? No, that would be Islamaphobia. Is it cool to tell Jews to f*ck off because you think we faked the moon landing? No, that would be anti-Semitism. Why then is it acceptable for Hollywood douchebags to drop F-bombs all over Christians because of their own crazy delusions?

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Caught on Video=> Looters Break Into Stores In Fort Lauderdale As Hurricane Irma Rages

A WPLG camera crew caught looters breaking into stores in Fort Lauderdale as Hurricane Irma batters Florida.

WPLG reports:

Despite dangerous winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Irma, several looting incidents have been reported in Fort Lauderdale.

Local 10 cameras caught a group breaking into the Simon’s Sportswear on Sunrise Blvd. and Powerline Road.

The group of about 8-9 people broke through the front window and were seen walking in and then walking out with stolen items.

A group then began looting a Footlocker in the same area. It’s not known whether the groups were the same.

South Florida law enforcement officials promised to police the streets to prevent looting, but with unsafe winds currently pummeling the region, it’s not known if units are currently on patrol.

Developing….

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NBA To Players: Be More Political, Pursue Social Justice

The NBA has a lack of diversity.

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While it’s largely seen as taboo in the NFL to get political, it’s actually encouraged for basketball players to get active and pursue social justice.

According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the National Basketball Association (NBA) commissioner Adam Silver and the National Basketball Players Association executive director Michele Roberts are pushing players to speak their mind on politics and social issues.

In the letter obtained by ESPN, Silver and Roberts told players, “None of us operates in a vacuum. Critical issues that affect our society also impact you directly. Fortunately, you are not only the world’s greatest basketball players — you have real power to make a difference in the world, and we want you know that the Players Association and the League are always available to help you figure out the most meaningful way to make that difference.”

The letter also praised players for their work in NBA communities, Basketball Without Borders events, and Hurricane Harvey fundraising efforts.

Many liberals and progressives have accused NFL owners of being racist for not signing Colin Kaepernick because of his politics. Meanwhile, after the Golden State Warriors won the 2017 NBA Finals, Finals MVP Kevin Durant said that he would not visit the White House because of his opposition to President Trump, saying, “We don’t f— with him.”

Other stars like LeBron James spoke out following the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia in August, putting the blame solely on Trump.

Keep reading…

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Hillary Clinton’s “Crazy, Floating Eye” Returns as She Blames Comey for Election Loss (VIDEO)

The return of Crazy Eyes–

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sat down with Jane Pauley on ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ and gave her first T.V. interview since the 2016 presidential election.

Hillary spoke about her new memoir ‘What Happened’ which is set to release September 12.

Hillary Clinton reacted to a clip of then-FBI Director James Comey giving a presser in July of 2016, admitting Hillary acted careless in her handling of highly sensitive classified information.

“I don’t know quite what audience he was playing to other than maybe some right-wing commentators, right-wing members of Congress, whatever,” Hillary said.

Unbelievable.

Hillary Clinton blamed Comey for his 11th hour decision to re-open the FBI investigation eleven days before the election after more emails were discovered on her aide Huma’s husbands computer, Anthony Weiner.

“Eleven days before the election and it raised the specter that somehow the investigation was being re-opened. It just stopped my momentum,” Hillary continued.

Hillary got very excited as she continued to blamed Comey for revisiting a ‘closed investigation’ and claims there was an open investigation into Trump-Russia which the media and Comey ignored.

Watch Hillary’s eye go wonky as she leans forward. Something is seriously wrong with this woman.

Video via NTK Network:

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UC Sues Trump Administration over DACA Decision

UC Sues Trump Administration over DACA Decision

Janet Napolitano audit (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)

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by Chriss W. Street10 Sep 2017Newport Beach, CA0

10 Sep, 2017
10 Sep, 2017

The University of California has sued the Trump administration for its decision to rescind the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy.

UC lawyers allege that the rights of the nation’s largest college system were violated when President Donald Trump, on “nothing more than unreasoned executive whim,” dumped DACA.

Many conservatives complain that President Barack Obama issued DACA in violation of the Constitution, after failing to win congressional approval for a “pathway to citizenship” for 11.5 million illegal aliens.

UC President Janet Napolitano is especially knowledgeable regarding DACA, because as Obama’s Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security between 2009 to 2013, she issued the memorandum, “Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children,” to stop up to 2 million deportations of those brought illegally to the U.S. as children.

Although the title of Napolitano’s DACA memo talked about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) using their professional discretion to decide deportation issues, the document’s language specifically mandated that for any individual meeting Napolitano’s criteria, ICE and CBP would “prevent low priority individuals from being placed into removal proceedings or removed from the United States.”

Breitbart News reported that of the 790,000 eligible aliens that enrolled in DACA, California has 223,000 California, or 28 percent of DACA enrollees. That is more than the combined totals of the next four states, including Texas, Illinois, Arizona and New York; and also more than in the lowest 28 states combined.

Despite the constant emphasis by DACA supporters about vulnerable children being victimized by their parents’ actions, DACA only covers aliens between the ages of 15 to 30 years old. The median age of a DACA enrollee is 25 years old.

One of the reasons that California is such a magnet to so-called “Dreamers” is the spectacular array of college educational benefits made available through the 2003 passage of AB 540, a waiver of out-of-state tuition for illegal aliens; and the 2011 passage of the California DREAM Act, which made all “undocumented” immigrants eligible for financial aid if they attended high school in the state or received a GED.

Financial aid programs available to “Dreamers” include Cal Grants for tuition; a Board of Governor’s fee waiver; and institution-specific grants and scholarships for UC and California State University campuses. Illegal aliens can also receive the UC’s California DREAM Loan Program and resources through campus Undocumented Student Centers.

Napolitano told NPR, “Neither I, nor the University of California, take the step of suing the federal government lightly, especially not the very agency that I led.”

She added: “It is imperative, however, that we stand up for these vital members of the UC community. They represent the best of who we are — hard working, resilient and motivated high achievers.”

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Texas Attorney: ‘I’d Be OK if #BetsyDeVos Was Sexually Assaulted’

Texas Attorney: ‘I’d Be OK if #BetsyDeVos Was Sexually Assaulted’

by Dr. Susan Berry9 Sep 20170

9 Sep, 2017
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A Texas attorney has protected, then fully deleted his Twitter account after tweeting he would “be ok” if U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos “was sexually assaulted.”

Robert Ranco, a partner of the Carlson Law Firm who specializes in civil rights law, apparently disagrees with DeVos’s decision to scrap the Obama administration’s heavy-handed Title IX policy that forced colleges and universities to conduct “kangaroo courts” in dealing with accusations of sexual assault.

The Washington Times reports on Ranco’s tweets before the attorney protected his Twitter account:

Rob Ranco, a partner at the Carlson Law Firm, suggested Mrs. DeVos does not fully grasp how serious of a crime rape is, and that she might come to a different policy conclusion if she did.

“I’m not wishing for it… but I’d be ok if #BetsyDevos was sexually assaulted,” Mr. Ranco said in a tweet on Friday evening.

“Perhaps Betsy doesn’t understand how horrible rape is,” Mr. Ranco said in another tweet. “She’s made the world more dangerous for my daughters. I need her to understand.”

“Make the world more dangerous for my daughters — intentionally — and your well being is not my concern,” he continued. “Full stop.”

Mr. Ranco cut off access to his Twitter account sometime early on Saturday morning when the tweets drew significant criticism.

The education secretary criticized the Obama administration’s 2011 Dear Colleague letter, in which it sought to end cross-examination of alleged victims by students accused of sexual assault in campus courts and rejected the traditional clear-and-convincing evidence standard of proof in school disciplinary procedures.

DeVos made herself clear at the start of her address that “acts of sexual misconduct are reprehensible, disgusting, and unacceptable. They are acts of cowardice and personal weakness, often thinly disguised as strength and power.”

Unlike her predecessors in the Obama administration, however, she gave significant attention to the problem of those students who are accused of sexual assault and denied their due process.

“We need to remember that we’re not just talking about faceless ‘cases,’” the secretary said. “We are talking about people’s lives. Everything we do must recognize this before anything else.”

DeVos said the system put into place by the Obama administration has failed both alleged sexual assault victims and the accused.

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Conservative groups ask media to stop relying on SPLC ‘hate map’

A coalition of conservative groups has written an open letter to the media asking them to stop using data from the Southern Poverty Law Center so long as the group continues to lump right-wing think tanks in with groups like the KKK as “hate groups.” From the Alabama Political Reporter:

Nearly 50 prominent conservatives and far-right lawyers have penned an open letter to the media, asking reporters not to use statistics and information gathered by the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center.

The letter was penned by leaders of fundamentalist and conservative groups, many of which are listed as anti-LGBT hate groups on the SPLC’s Hate Map. The signers call the SPLC a “discredited, left-wing, political activist organization that seeks to silence its political opponents with a ‘hate group’ label of its own invention and application that is not only false and defamatory, but that also endangers the lives of those targeted with it.”…

The signers blame the SPLC for a shooting in 2012 at the offices of the Family Research Council, during which a building manager was shot and injured. The shooter, Floyd Lee Corkins, said in a police interrogation that he chose the building because the AFA had been listed as an anti-LGBT hate group by the SPLC.

In addition to the shooting by Floyd Lee Corkins, the letter devotes a page to criticism of the SPLC for referring to Ayaan Hirsi Ali as an anti-Muslim extremist. The letter concludes by suggesting no media outlet would direct readers to a map that listed the locations of abortion clinics:

If a national pro-life advocacy organization were to release a map with caricatures of abortionists and title it, “Here’s Where the Baby Killers are Located in Your State,” would the media run the story? Would it reprint the map and discuss the location of these “pro-death” doctors throughout the news day? Clearly, it would not.

This summer, Politco published a story in which several observers suggested the SPLC had gone too far in some cases. Journalist Ken Silverstein, who wrote a critical piece about the organization for Harpers in 2000 told Politico, “The organization has always tried to find ways to milk money out of the public by finding whatever threat they can most credibly promote.”

And the group has been extremely successful at fundraising, having amassed a $320 million endowment fund. The Weekly Standard reports that the SPLC has so much money on hand it is now sending millions of it offshore:

The Southern Poverty Law Center invests almost 20 percent of its nearly $320 million endowment fund in offshore equities and other investments. The 2016 annual reportof the Alabama-based civil rights organization reports $69,093,576 of “non-U.S. equity funds” among the assets comprising the total endowment fund of $319,283,961, a fund the SPLC describes as a “plan for the day when nonprofits like the SPLC can no longer afford to solicit support through the mail because of rising postage and printing costs.”

The SPLC has a vested interest in making the hate map appear as threatening as possible. It’s clearly been good for business.

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