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Time to take a little break from Facebook...
(*SMILING WHILE WINKING*)
I expect a few of my Facebook friends will "follow
me" here on my blog - at least I sincerely hope so.
(*SHRUG*)
Either way... my "Diary of the Decline and Impending
Fall of the Once Greatest Nation on Earth" will continue via postings here
on Usually Right.
To remind you of the format...
Newsbites (links with excerpts and my commentary) will be
posted within the "comments" section of each day's
"Newsbites" post.
ENJOY!
And... er...
(*HUGE FRIGGIN' GRIN*)
LEARN...!!!
(*WINK*)
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/4-cops-injured-3-youths-busted-brawl-pa-school-article-1.2417481
Shocking video shows the moment a mob of eastern Pennsylvania high school students attacks a group of police officers during a brazen brawl outside class.
* YEP. CLEARLY "I'M" THE ONE WHO IS NUTS AND OVER-REACTING WITH MEME'S SUCH AS "THE CONTINUING DECLINE AND IMMINENT FALL OF THE ONCE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH."
(*SMIRK*)
https://theintercept.com/2015/10/29/media-fundraisers-presidential/
The giant media companies that shape much of the coverage of the presidential campaign have a vested stake in the outcome. From campaign finance laws that govern how money is spent on advertising to the regulators who oversee consolidation rules, the media industry has a distinct policy agenda, and with it, a political team to influence the result.
The top fundraisers for Clinton include lobbyists who serve the parent companies of CNN and MSNBC.
The National Association of Broadcasters, a trade group that represents the television station industry, has lobbyists who are fundraising for both Clinton and Republican candidate Marco Rubio.
CNN’s parent company, Time Warner, is represented on Capitol Hill by Steve Elmendorf, an adviser to Clinton during her 2008 campaign, who is also known as “one of Washington’s top lobbyists.” He’s lobbied on a number of issues important for media companies like CNN, including direct-to-consumer advertising policy.
Elmendorf, according to disclosures, has raised at least $141,815 for Clinton’s 2016 bid for the presidency.
Comcast, the parent company of NBC Universal, which includes cable networks NBC, CNBC, and MSNBC, has a number of lobbyists on retainer who are working to raise cash for the Clinton campaign, including Justin Gray, Alfred Mottur, Ingrid Duran and Catherine Pino.
Much of the $5 billion expected to be spent over the course of the 2016 presidential election cycle will be on cable and network news advertisements. The election-related spending bonanza is singularly boosting the profit margins of many media companies, as we’ve reported.
“Super PACs may be bad for America, but they’re very good for CBS,” Les Moonves, president and chief executive of CBS, memorably said.
Tony Podesta, the brother of Clinton’s campaign chairman and a lobbyist who has raised at least $55,600 for the Clinton campaign, is registered to lobby on behalf of the National Association of Broadcasters. In 2010, his firm helped defeat dark money disclosure legislation on behalf of his corporate media clients.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/how-the-clinton-white-house-handled-doma-in-1996-in-their-ow#.spw6Ne84j
Over the past few years, some Democrats — including the Clintons — have offered a new explanation for why they supported the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996.
The threat of a federal constitutional amendment, these Democrats have argued, motivated them to support DOMA...
“We were attempting at the time, in a very reactionary Congress,” Bill Clinton told an audience in 2009, “to head off an attempt to send a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage to the states.” ... Hillary Clinton just last week called her husband’s decision to sign DOMA “a defensive action.”
* BUT HERE'S THE REALITY... THE TRUTH...
There is no contemporaneous evidence, however, to support the claim that the Clinton White House considered a possible federal constitutional amendment to be a concern, based on a BuzzFeed News review of the thousands of documents released earlier this year by the Clinton Presidential Library about same-sex couples’ marriage rights and the Defense of Marriage Act. In the documents, which include correspondence from a wide array of White House and Justice Department officials, no one even hints that Bill Clinton’s thinking or actions regarding DOMA were animated by the threat of a federal constitutional amendment.
There was no documented discussion in 1996 within the White House or Justice Department about any momentum for a federal constitutional amendment that DOMA was intended to prevent.
In 1996, Clinton repeatedly marked his approval of talking points on same-sex marriage, as it is referred to in the documents and will be referred to throughout this report, and DOMA; the talking points included his opposition to same-sex marriage and opposition to providing federal benefits to same-sex couples.
* HELL... LET'S GO FURTHER BACK!
During his 1992 presidential campaign, Bill Clinton had said he opposed same-sex marriage.
* FOLKS... IT'S A LONG ARTICLE... BUT IF YOU'RE A DEMOCRAT... OR REGARDLESS OF PARTY AFFILIATION A STRONG SUPPORTER OF GAY MARRIAGE... YOU SHOULD READ THE FULL ARTICLE.
http://www.fox5ny.com/news/40760350-story
A heroic New York EMT who tried in vain last week to save a 7-year-old school girl choking on her lunch said he was suspended because it is against company policy to make a stop without being called.
Qwasi Reid, who works for Assist Ambulance, was transporting a nursing home patient last Wednesday with his partner when he said they were flagged down at a red light by a frantic man who told them that a student was choking. Reid said his partner, who was not reprimanded by the company, told the man they already had a patient and there was nothing they could do.
Reid, who has driven ambulances for four years, said he knew the choking girl took a priority over the transport, and against his partner's urging, jumped out of the ambulance's back door and administered first aid to the girl, who he said had already turned blue. No one at the school was rendering first aid, he said.
"I don't regret it," Reid, who said he is suspended without pay, told FoxNews.com. "I'd do it again. If I know there's a child choking, I'm going to do my best to help her."
http://cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/ted-cruz-climate-change-not-science-its-religion
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who grew up in a scientific household – both of his parents are mathematicians – said a recent exchange he had with the president of the Sierra Club further affirmed that “climate change is not science" but is "religion,” and he added that climate change disciples use the “language” of religion, regardless of scientific facts, to push their doctrine.
“Just a couple weeks ago in the Senate I chaired a hearing where the president of the Sierra Club testified,” said Senator Cruz in an Oct. 28 interview on The Blaze TV. “We had an exchange, where I simply asked him about the data.”
“He [Mair] simply couldn’t answer the most basic question, starting with the fact -- he couldn’t answer the most basic fact that for the last 18 years the satellite data show no significant warming whatsoever,” said Cruz.
“He had no idea about that,” said Cruz. “He turned to his aides every minute or two.”
“You know, part of the reason he didn’t know the facts?” said Cruz. “Because climate change is not science -- it’s religion.”
“Look at the language where they call you a denier,” said the senator. “Denier is not the language of science.”
Look, I’m the child of two scientists,” he said. “My parents are both mathematicians, computer programmers. My dad was a self-taught geophysicist. The essence of the scientific method is to start with a hypothesis and then look to evidence to disprove the hypothesis. You’re not trying to prove it. You’re trying to disprove it.”
“Any good scientist is a skeptic,” said the senator. “If he’s not, he or she should not be a scientist. But yet the language of the global warming alarmists, ‘denier’ is the language of religion. It’s heretic. You are a blasphemer.”
Cruz continued, “The response from the Sierra Club: ‘We have decreed this is the answer, you must accept it.’ And so he didn’t know his facts because he just knew his religion.”
According to Dr. John Christy, professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama, the Earth’s temperature has “plateaued,” and there has been no global warming over the last 18 years.
“That’s basically a fact. There’s not much to comment on,” Christy told CNSNews.com last fall when his data were released. Christy and other scientists compiled their data from actual raw temperatures collected from 14 instruments on various weather satellites.
"I predicted this in 1999," Dr. Don Easterbrook, a climate scientist and glacier expert from Washington State, said of the 18-year period with no global warming. "My prediction has now happened."
"The same year the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) models were predicting that the Earth would warm by one degree per decade, I was predicting that the Earth would cool for the next three decades," he noted. "They were way off the mark, while my prediction is still on target."
http://cnsnews.com/video/camille-paglia-hillary-clinton-shes-fraud
A video of Camille Paglia just DISSECTING the Clintons...
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/sen-lee-budget-deal-last-gasping-breath-disgraced-bipartisan
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) excoriated the budget deal passed by the Republican-controlled Senate on a 64 to 35 vote early Friday morning, calling it “the last gasping breath of a disgraced bipartisan Beltway establishment on the verge of collapse.”
* BUT... HE DIDN'T ATTEMPT TO FILIBUSTER IT - TO ACTUALLY STOP IT.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/poll-half-college-students-feel-intimidated-when-expressing
Forty-nine percent of U.S. college students admit they feel “intimidated” when they express beliefs or opinions that differ from their professors, according to a new nationwide survey of 800 undergraduates.
When researchers asked: “Have you felt intimidated to share your ideas, opinions or beliefs in class because they were different than your professors and course instructors?” 49 percent responded that they did, including 14 percent who said this happens “frequently”.
Fifty percent of survey respondents also said they felt intimidated by classmates when sharing different or unpopular beliefs.
The vast majority (95 percent) of students surveyed said that the issue of free speech is “important” to them, and 87 percent agree that listening to those with whom they disagree has educational value.
However, despite their strong support for free speech, a majority (51 percent) of students favor on-campus speech codes...
* AND ON THAT NOTE... I JUST GIVE UP.
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