Month: June 2018

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Country Time: If your kid gets fined for opening a lemonade stand, we’ll cover it

A PR stunt of near genius. For the price of not even a hundred grand, the company’s all set for a multitude of photo ops with adorable tykes who’ve been harassed by the bureaucratic state at its very dumbest and most soulless. Their product will probably land on the “buycott” list of every libertarian in the country now, which should raise sales by, uh, a tenth of a percent or so.

Two important lessons for kids here. One: It’ll teach them that if they can get some corporate money behind them, they can flout the law with impunity. Never too early to let them in on that little secret of adult life.

Two: It’ll lead them to believe that lawyers are kind and helpful, which is unconscionable.

Is this a real problem? you ask. It is! The Blaze has a list of incidents. Stand shutdowns are presumably/probably rare but it happens often enough to reliably provide a handful of viral news stories each summer. Take a grade-schooler, add the most heartwarmingly traditional form of child entrepreneurship you can think of, drop in a couple of cops shutting them down because they lack the requisite paperwork to sell lemony sugar water on the street, and you’ve got outrage material that’ll sizzle for days online and on local TV. The difference is, this year, Country Time will be there in front of the cameras to glom onto it. That’s why I call their stunt genius. This wave starts rolling in every June. They had the good sense this time to grab their boards and surf.

Not limitlessly, though. They’ll pay fees and fines but only up to $300 per kid. And while they’re willing to pony up as much as $500,000 to start the “legal-ade” fund, they’ve only budgeted $60,000 so far. There likely won’t be *that* many cases of kids getting shut down — the optics are terrible for local government and, let’s face it, most cops can probably be bought off with some puppy-dog eyes and a free cuppa. There’s a question Country Time hasn’t answered yet. Will it also cover the cost of lemonade bribes for police?

Exit question via a Twitter pal: If they want to put some money towards beating the nanny state, why don’t they try to get exemptions for kiddie lemonade stands added to street-vendor regulations instead of doing it this way? Not enough photo-op material that way?

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Starbucks Raises Prices After Opening Tables, Bathrooms to Non-Customers

Starbucks boosted coffee prices across most U.S. locations this week, just days after opening its shops and bathrooms to non-paying guests.

On Tuesday, customers of the coffee giant saw the price of a 12-ounce cup of java jump from $1.95 to $2.15, while some locations raised coffee prices by ten cents.

“This price adjustment was not related to last week’s store closures and trainings,” a spokesperson for Starbucks claimed.

Starbucks closed 8,000 of its company-owned locations in the U.S. on May 29 to put its baristas through “racial bias training.”

Starbucks adopted an open bathroom policy, dropping a requirement for customers to buy before they use the facilities, following the arrest of two black men that turned into a public relations nightmare for the coffee chain.

Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks on April 12, sparking international outrage, protests, and anguished soul searching about America’s lingering problems of racial discrimination.

“We don’t want to become a public bathroom. But we’re going to make the right decision 100 percent of the time and give people the key,” executive chairman Howard Schultz told the Atlantic Council think tank on Thursday.

“Everyone is welcome at Starbucks,” he insisted.

The Agence France-Presse contributed to this report. 

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JetBlue’s ‘Support Animal’ Policy Allows Therapy Horses on Flights

JetBlue announced Tuesday that it would allow miniature horses as therapy animals in airplane cabins with a letter of approval from a veterinarian.

The airline announced Tuesday that its revised support animal policy would allow customers to bring dogs, cats, and miniature horses as therapy support animals starting July 1, 2018, as long as a veterinarian can attest to the animal’s health and give proof that its immunizations are up to date, SF Gate reports.

Customers would also have to give the airline 48 hours notice if they are taking an emotional support animal on the plane and must accept responsibility if the animal damages property or injures other passengers.

Morgan Johnston, a JetBlue spokesperson, says the airline released their updated list of allowed animals to match the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) guidelines on therapy animals. Before the DOT released its updated guidelines in May, JetBlue only prohibited certain animals such as ferrets and hedgehogs from being brought on board aircraft.

“The new requirements follow a dramatic increase in industry incidents involving emotional support animals that haven’t been adequately trained to behave in a busy airport or the confined space of an aircraft, which creates health and safety risks for customers, crew members and other service or support animals,” JetBlue announced in a statement.

Unlike service animals, Therapy animals — or emotional support animals — help people with mental health issues and do not need special training. Service animals, such as guide dogs that help the blind, need to undergo special training.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released updated guidelines on what animals could be recognized as support and service animals under the Americans with Disabilities Act in 2010 when a court ruled that miniature horses could qualify as both service and support animals.

Emotional support animals are becoming so common that airlines are cracking down on what can be considered an emotional support animal.

United and Delta Airlines announced this year that they would be implementing stricter guidelines on what animals can be considered support animals.

Delta Airlines announced in January that, as of March 1, 2018, passengers with emotional support animals have to provide vaccination records, proof of animal training, and a health form signed by a veterinarian to the airline at least 48 hours before flying.

Despite the crackdown, some passengers have still tried to pass their exotic animals off as therapy animals. In January, a woman flying out of Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey attempted to bring her emotional support peacock on a United Airlines flight, but the airline denied her request to bring the peacock aboard the plane.

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LIBERAL VALUES: MSNBC and ‘The View’ Hosts Defend Honorable Hookers and Porn Stars and Their Values …WTH? (VIDEO)

LIBERAL VALUES: MSNBC and ‘The View’ Hosts Defend Honorable Hookers and Porn Stars and Their Values …WTH? (VIDEO)

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by Jim Hoft
June 7, 2018

So this happened…

Liberal hacks at MSNBC and The View defend honorable hookers and porn stars and their values.

This comes after Rudy Giuliani The Ingraham Angle:

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Ex-Ranger: ‘Communism Will Win’ Soldier Discharged from Army

Spenser Rapone — the Army soldier who became notorious after a picture of him in his West Point uniform holding a “Communism Will Win” sign circulated the web — was discharged from the Army this month, according to social media postings.

Rory Fanning, a former Army Ranger and conscientious objector, tweeted on Tuesday that he was sitting down and interviewing Rapone for an event called: “Socialism 2018: A War Resister in the Ranks,” scheduled for July 5.

A description of the event said:

Spenser Rapone is a former Army Ranger and Infantry Officer recently separated from the military for speaking out against its imperialist violence. He enlisted as an infantryman out of high school in 2010, and deployed to Afghanistan in 2011.

After returning from his combat tour, he applied and was accepted into the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY in 2012, graduating and receiving his commission in May 2016. Deciding he could no longer stomach the immorality of US imperialism, he spoke out against the reprehensible actions of the military in September 2017

He ultimately resigned his commission, and was separated from the Army in June 2018 with an Other Than Honorable Discharge.

Rapone first gained widespread attention in September after he tweeted the picture of himself at his 2014 West Point graduation holding the “Communism Will Win” sign under his cover, or hat, along with the hashtag #VeteransforKaepernick, in support of former San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Members of the military are prohibited from expressing political views while in uniform.

He also tweeted a photo of himself wearing a Che Guavara t-shirt under his uniform.

West Point and the Army subsequently launched an investigation, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), a staunch anti-Communist, demanded answers from Army leadership. Rapone’s mentor at West Point, Professor Rasheed Hosein, was on administrative leave at the time of the controversy, as Breitbart News exclusively reported. A West Point spokesperson said the action was unrelated to Rapone.

Breitbart News inquired Tuesday with West Point about the status of its investigation into Rapone. The request was forwarded to the Army headquarters at the Pentagon, but a response has not yet been received.

Fanning, a book author and Afghanistan veteran, called Rapone a “now war-resister, who sparked nation-wide fury after publicly supporting Colin Kaepernick and Socialism during his West Point graduation.”

“Our conversation will be called ‘Resisting Within the Ranks.’ Spenser is being discharged from the military with an Other Than Honorable discharge this June, in part, because [Marco] Rubio penned a panic-stricken letter to acting Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy demanding the branch nullify Rapone’s military commission after seeing this photo.”

Rapone retweeted Fanning’s tweet on Twitter.

The event page for Socialism 2018 said the two would discuss “what does it mean to resist as an active duty soldier in the 21st century?”

“Social revolutions share a vibrant historical legacy with disaffected,” it said.

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Ryan’s No-Details Amnesty Leaves GOP Reps to Argue Over Wall, Border Security

President Donald Trump wants a concrete-and-steel border wall, but the scant details about Speaker Paul Ryan’s amnesty briefing on Thursday prompted intra-party debates over the design, funding, and priority of the border-barrier project, according to reports from Capitol Hill.

Fox News reporter Chad Pegram cited comments from Rep. Steve Scalise, Ryan’s main whip and enforcer in day-to-day operations, saying “use technology and other means to truly secure the border.”

But “technology and other means” is jargon that anti-wall advocates use to divert Congress’ attention and money from the deployment of a real concrete-and-steel wall. For example, advocates in the 2000s used the promise of mobile TV-cameras, drones, and camera-carrying balloons to help steer money and attention away from plans to build a 600-mile, double-layer fence on the border. Those expensive tools were bought, deployed, repaired, redeployed and mostly removed, leaving the fence unbuilt across long stretches of the border in November 2016.

Ryan offered only a broad overview of his amnesty bill during the Thursday morning meeting. Most reporters spent the rest of the day asking legislators about the amnesty for the illegal immigrants, but they asked few questions about other aspects of the legislation, or why Americans must pay for yet another amnesty.

Fox’s Chad Pergram, however, noticed that some GOP legislators were arguing over what “border security” means: Is it a forever concrete-wall backed up by stronger border-laws — as Trump wants — or will the wall consist of a few miles of fence plus many digital drones that can be turned off the day after Trump leaves office? Would it include legal reforms to close border-wall loopholes or reforms to stop the northward flow of “Unaccompanied Alien Children” into U.S. asylum courts?

Rachel Bade, a reporter at Politico, reported that the 23 Republicans who are fronting the amnesty bill — dubbed “Moderates” or “Mods” — want funding for the border barrier to be blocked until the DACA amnesty is unstoppable.

That is amnesty-before-wall demand is a rejection of what mainstream conservatives say is the primary lesson from President Ronald Reagan’s disastrous 1986 amnesty.

Reagan allowed the amnesty to be established before security measures were implemented. But once the Democratic and business groups pocketed their amnestied voters and customers, they reneged on their security commitments to Reagan, ensuring no security, but more migration, more Democratic voters, and more amnesties.

This time around, Trump’s allies are demanding the border-wall money be put into an account where the President can save for building his wall over several years.

But the “moderates” are in the driver’s seat and may use their power to diminish Trump’s wall. They are quietly backed by Ryan, by major donors, and by business groups — and they are demanding written concessions or else they will trigger the discharge-petition amnesty in cooperation with Democrats. Their confidence was made clear by GOP Rep. Jeff Denham, who survived a 2016 Democratic wave in his California district with aid from Trump voters. Denham told Fox News:

The political opponents of an effective wall have proved powerful. So far, Congress’ pro-migration caucus rejected major funding for Trump wall in two annual budgets, despite that wall being a central part of the mandate won by Trump in November 2016.

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Past time for Andy McCabe to hit the road

It turns out that Andrew McCabe interrogated Gen. Mike Flynn, after which Flynn was ousted as national security adviser to the president.  But Flynn had been a hostile witness against McCabe in a sexual harassment case, meaning McCabe had a conflict of interest and should never have been involved in any Flynn interrogation.


No way was McCabe unaware of the conflict.  This ain’t beanbag.  He hid it in his reports of the interrogation, actually changing the 302 forms that constitute the report (and changing which is illegal in itself).  This is no penny-ante procedural crime that you get guys on when you got nothing else; this is major stuff.



Yet this little weasel had the gall to come out with an article in the WaPo just a few weeks ago about how shocking it all was – his fall from grace, how he never imagined his glittering career ending so fast and so grimly, how unfair it all felt, all those years courageously battling for truth, justice, and yada yada yada.


Liberal brazenness knows no bounds.


McCabe needs to just crawl into a sewer pipe to China – one so narrow that it rubs raw his elbows and kneecaps and he keeps banging his head on the top.  The man appears to have no concept of what’s meant by rules, following the law, fair play, justice, any of that.  He just did whatever struck him at the moment.  He could always paper over whatever he had to.


Apparently, with James Comey at the helm and his direct supervisor, McCabe’s judgment of the situation was about right.  He got away with it for a long time and would have gotten away clean but for Anthony Weiner’s computer.  That bleepin’ computer!


We’d almost forgotten Lil Antnee.


McCabe’s real life in the FBI could be the basis for all manner of spy thrillers where the good guys turn out to be bad guys just when you were starting to trust them.  Good cop/bad cop sans good cop.  Think of it: bad cop/worse cop.  Awful cop/horrible cop.


Hey, why play fair when you can really put it to the other guys?  Constitutions, laws, procedures, rules – old-fashioned and outta date.  It’s no fun when you can’t gloat.  This guy would have enjoyed himself at Abu Ghraib.


Sewer pipe.  China.  Long and winding route.


It turns out that Andrew McCabe interrogated Gen. Mike Flynn, after which Flynn was ousted as national security adviser to the president.  But Flynn had been a hostile witness against McCabe in a sexual harassment case, meaning McCabe had a conflict of interest and should never have been involved in any Flynn interrogation.


No way was McCabe unaware of the conflict.  This ain’t beanbag.  He hid it in his reports of the interrogation, actually changing the 302 forms that constitute the report (and changing which is illegal in itself).  This is no penny-ante procedural crime that you get guys on when you got nothing else; this is major stuff.


Yet this little weasel had the gall to come out with an article in the WaPo just a few weeks ago about how shocking it all was – his fall from grace, how he never imagined his glittering career ending so fast and so grimly, how unfair it all felt, all those years courageously battling for truth, justice, and yada yada yada.


Liberal brazenness knows no bounds.


McCabe needs to just crawl into a sewer pipe to China – one so narrow that it rubs raw his elbows and kneecaps and he keeps banging his head on the top.  The man appears to have no concept of what’s meant by rules, following the law, fair play, justice, any of that.  He just did whatever struck him at the moment.  He could always paper over whatever he had to.


Apparently, with James Comey at the helm and his direct supervisor, McCabe’s judgment of the situation was about right.  He got away with it for a long time and would have gotten away clean but for Anthony Weiner’s computer.  That bleepin’ computer!


We’d almost forgotten Lil Antnee.


McCabe’s real life in the FBI could be the basis for all manner of spy thrillers where the good guys turn out to be bad guys just when you were starting to trust them.  Good cop/bad cop sans good cop.  Think of it: bad cop/worse cop.  Awful cop/horrible cop.


Hey, why play fair when you can really put it to the other guys?  Constitutions, laws, procedures, rules – old-fashioned and outta date.  It’s no fun when you can’t gloat.  This guy would have enjoyed himself at Abu Ghraib.


Sewer pipe.  China.  Long and winding route.




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The White House Press Corps: Pull their credentials

 


The White House Press Corps has jumped the shark and needs to be reined in.  While I respect and admire Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s work, and I enjoy her ability to spar with an increasingly hostile force, the daily briefings have become about the media agenda and not the White House’s agenda.



Having a White House press credential is not a right; it is a privilege.  The First Amendment prevents Congress from making any law … abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press.  It does not grant license to media sycophants to drive their agenda in the people’s house.  For far too long, we’ve allowed the left free rein.  It is time to take charge of the narrative and make it known that we will no longer tolerate the press obfuscating the news.


Sarah Huckabee Sanders needs to make an example of one or more of the Press Corps by yanking their credentials.  


In the past week, we have seen at least three incidents where this action was more than justified.


Jim Acosta


In Jim Acosta’s most recent tantrum, he attempted to rally the Press Corps to gang up on Sarah Sanders when one of them got cut off.  Having abandoned decorum long ago, Acosta appears to want to make these briefings about him and his outlet (CNN)’s agenda.


April Ryan


Not wanting to miss an opportunity to attack our president, April Ryan reported that Donald Trump was booed and heckled at the White House event honoring our service members and America.  It turns out that the booing and heckling were directed at an attendee who kneeled during the National Anthem.


In the prior week, April Ryan tweeted out an article stating that the Trump administration was running a child trafficking ring.  What…?!


Brian Karem


At Tuesday’s press briefing, CNN’s Brian Karem yelled out to Sarah Sanders as she was exiting the briefing, “What color is the sky in the president’s world?”


Was there a question in that question?  As a back-bencher, it appears that Karem is seeking to make a name for himself by joining the likes of Acosta and Ryan in being disrespectful to our president and his spokesperson (and by extension, us).


Would we tolerate these behaviors in our children?  It is long past time that Sarah Sanders thinned the herd.  As long as we tolerate disrespect, the only thing we can expect is increasing disrespect.      


Press briefings are about communicating White House talking points, not advancing the media’s liberal slant on said talking points.  President Trump has had an extremely successful 500-plus days, yet all we hear about in the mainstream press is doom and gloom.


Enough.  Yank their credentials.  Make an example of one or more of the press corps, and we’ll begin to see a different tone from those who remain.  Continuing to tolerate blatant disrespect only encourages more disrespect.


 


The White House Press Corps has jumped the shark and needs to be reined in.  While I respect and admire Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s work, and I enjoy her ability to spar with an increasingly hostile force, the daily briefings have become about the media agenda and not the White House’s agenda.


Having a White House press credential is not a right; it is a privilege.  The First Amendment prevents Congress from making any law … abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press.  It does not grant license to media sycophants to drive their agenda in the people’s house.  For far too long, we’ve allowed the left free rein.  It is time to take charge of the narrative and make it known that we will no longer tolerate the press obfuscating the news.


Sarah Huckabee Sanders needs to make an example of one or more of the Press Corps by yanking their credentials.  


In the past week, we have seen at least three incidents where this action was more than justified.


Jim Acosta


In Jim Acosta’s most recent tantrum, he attempted to rally the Press Corps to gang up on Sarah Sanders when one of them got cut off.  Having abandoned decorum long ago, Acosta appears to want to make these briefings about him and his outlet (CNN)’s agenda.


April Ryan


Not wanting to miss an opportunity to attack our president, April Ryan reported that Donald Trump was booed and heckled at the White House event honoring our service members and America.  It turns out that the booing and heckling were directed at an attendee who kneeled during the National Anthem.


In the prior week, April Ryan tweeted out an article stating that the Trump administration was running a child trafficking ring.  What…?!


Brian Karem


At Tuesday’s press briefing, CNN’s Brian Karem yelled out to Sarah Sanders as she was exiting the briefing, “What color is the sky in the president’s world?”


Was there a question in that question?  As a back-bencher, it appears that Karem is seeking to make a name for himself by joining the likes of Acosta and Ryan in being disrespectful to our president and his spokesperson (and by extension, us).


Would we tolerate these behaviors in our children?  It is long past time that Sarah Sanders thinned the herd.  As long as we tolerate disrespect, the only thing we can expect is increasing disrespect.      


Press briefings are about communicating White House talking points, not advancing the media’s liberal slant on said talking points.  President Trump has had an extremely successful 500-plus days, yet all we hear about in the mainstream press is doom and gloom.


Enough.  Yank their credentials.  Make an example of one or more of the press corps, and we’ll begin to see a different tone from those who remain.  Continuing to tolerate blatant disrespect only encourages more disrespect.




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