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FBI Pushed Junk Science on Mass Shooting Trends : by Bob Allen
from Doofiegirl on 06/12/2015 06:04 PMWe were assured mass shooting occurrences were increasing. We were fed junk science.
As you read this short article, think: Climate Change science. From the Patriot Post: http://patriotpost.us/posts/35728
Last fall, we noted that the FBI used bogus stats in its pre-election mass shooting report. Researchers counted some mass shootings that weren't "mass" at all, and entirely omitted actual mass shootings that occurred early in the carefully selected timeframe. All of it was an effort to show an increasing trend of "gun violence" since 2000, we suspect in concert with Democrat campaign talking points about the necessity of gun control. The Wall Street Journal's Jason Riley picked up on a quiet announcement that, indeed, the researchers pretty much made it up. http://patriotpost.us/posts/29961 http://www.wsj.com/articles/obamas-gun-control-misfire-1433892493
I can't count how many times I've had people protest my "climate change denier" status by pointing to the "scientific consensus." Many are absolutely aghast that I would question whether the individuals putting out the data might be... gasp... biased and lying in their conclusions.
Many of the same people are quick to point to the "nefarious and evil" Koch brothers—who are supposedly funding everything dark and wicked—but they refuse to even momentarily ponder that government money (stolen from taxpayers, rather than earned in free commerce) might be used to "encourage" results in line with the wishes of those handing over the checks.
This brief look into FBI data from 2014 illustrates the point that government numbers are often totally cooked to portray something that simply isn't true. It's a bit hollow to see the Academics trying to salvage their reputations years later—well after the checks have been cashed, and the damage done. There are so many who are willing to prostitute themselves for a bit of notoriety and fortune.
The recent NOAA report arose from the same abyss of deceit as the FBI statistical report on "mass shooting" violence. Face it: Everyone has a bias, and is liable to being influenced by the Siren Song of mammon. http://politicaloutcast.com/2015/06/mark-steyn-on-climate-change-scamology/
The same people who hide trade negotiations, abuse taxpayers, lie about economic and unemployment numbers, molest young boys and girls, take measureless bribes under the table, and completely sell their souls for fleeting earthly power and money are simply not to be believed when they say "trust me."
http://politicaloutcast.com/2015/06/fbi-pushed-junk-science-on-mass-shooting-trends/#sZoercCx758L43RJ.99
ReplyRachel Dolezal, Spokane NAACP Head, Accused of Pretending to Be Black : By Nick Sanchez
from Doofiegirl on 06/12/2015 05:40 PMRachel Dolezal, president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP in Washington state, has been accused of pretending to be black, and now the city is investigating.
The Coeur d'Alene Press reported Thursday that Dolezal, who in childhood photos appears as Caucasian with blonde hair, identified herself as African-American on her application to serve on the citizen police ombudsman commission — a commission she now chairs. Additionally, she claimed on her Facebook page in December that Albert Wilkerson, a black man posing with her in a picture, was her father. Public birth records indicate otherwise.
"It is very disturbing that she has become so dishonest," said Ruthanne Dolezal, Rachel's mother, in a phone interview from Montana. "Rachel is very good at using her artistic skills to transform herself."
Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, who just celebrated their 41st wedding anniversary, are listed as Rachel's parents on her Montana birth certificate, filed in Lincoln County in 1977.
They told The Spokesman-Review that they are both white, having Czech, Swedish, and German roots with "faint traces" of Native American ancestry. Between 1993 and 1995, the couple adopted four black infants, Ezra, Izaiah, Zachariah, and Esther, but clarified that Rachel was their biological daughter.
When reporters confronted Dolezal about her possible masquerading this week, she gave confusing and unclear answers.
"That question is not as easy as it seems," she said from Eastern Washington University, where she's a part-time professor in the Africana Studies Program. "There's a lot of complexities . . . and I don't know that everyone would understand that . . . We're all from the African continent."
http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/rachel-dolezal-naacp-woman-black/2015/06/12/id/650197/
GOP Critical of New Obama Rules To Create 'Utopian' Neighborhoods : By Courtney Coren
from Doofiegirl on 06/12/2015 05:35 PMHousing regulations aimed at diversifying wealthy neighborhoods, which some are calling executive overreach for the purpose of establishing a utopia, are expected to be released by the Obama administration this month.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will release the rules with the aim of ending segregation in neighborhoods around the country, The Hill is reporting.
HUD plans to offer grant money to communities willing to build affordable housing within affluent neighborhoods. On the flip side, the federal agency will also give money to poorer neighborhoods to improve those communities through better schools, parks, libraries and grocery stores.
"HUD is working with communities across the country to fulfill the promise of equal opportunity for all," a HUD spokeswoman told The Hill. "The proposed policy seeks to break down barriers to access to opportunity in communities supported by HUD funds."
The regulations are a continuation of a rule made by the Obama administration in 2013, in which HUD started gathering data about diversity in neighborhoods around the country for the purpose of making such policy changes.
The new regulation has its share of critics, especially among conservatives.
Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar, who is working to block the rule, said that the Obama administration "shouldn't be holding hostage grant monies aimed at community improvement based on its unrealistic utopian ideas of what every community should resemble."
"American citizens and communities should be free to choose where they would like to live and not be subject to federal neighborhood engineering at the behest of an overreaching federal government," Gosar told The Hill.
The Heritage Foundation's Hans von Spakovsky said the rule is "too race conscious."
"It's a sign that this administration seems to take race into account on everything," Spakovsky told The Hill.
The plan has plenty of advocates among civil rights groups, who say it will help break down barriers that make upward mobility difficult for those in poor, rundown neighborhoods.
"We have a history of putting affordable housing in poor communities," Debby Goldberg, vice president of the National Fair Housing Alliance, told The Hill.
http://www.newsmax.com/US/hud-neighborhoods-wealths-poor/2015/06/11/id/650022/ {I WOMDER IF BIDEN AND HILLIERY ARE GOING TO LIKE THIS. OR IF THEY ARE SAYING "THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD " ?}
Obama Facing Humiliating Defeat if Trade Bill Fails : Jonathan Ernst
from Doofiegirl on 06/12/2015 05:29 PMA landmark trade bill that tops President Barack Obama's second-term agenda faces a showdown vote in the House as Democrats mount a last-ditch effort to kill it.
The outcome was uncertain and the drama intense heading into Friday's votes. In frantic 11th-hour maneuvering, liberals in the House defied their own president and turned against a favored program of their own that retrains workers displaced by trade. Killing the program would kill the companion trade bill, and many Democrats and labor leaders advocated just that.
The move caught the GOP off-guard. House Republicans, already in the awkward position of allying themselves with Obama, found themselves being asked by their leaders to vote for a worker retraining program that most have long opposed as wasteful. Many were reluctant to do so, leaving the fate of the entire package up in the air, and Obama facing the prospect of a humiliating defeat at the hands of his own party members — unless he can eke out what all predict would be the narrowest of wins.
"If we have to pass something that's a Democratic ideal with all Republicans to get the whole thing to go," said Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fla., "we could be in trouble."
The main trade bill at issue would give Obama so-called "fast track" authority to negotiate trade deals that Congress could approve or reject, but not amend. He hopes to use the authority, already agreed to by the Senate, to complete a sweeping pact with 11 other Pacific Rim nations which would constitute the economic centerpiece of his second term. Obama says such a pact with Japan, Mexico, Singapore and other nations constituting 40 percent of the global economy would open up critical new markets for American products.
Business groups like the Chamber of Commerce crave the deal; labor unions are ardently opposed, pointing to job and wage losses from earlier trade pacts opponents say never lived up to the hype from previous administrations.
Those colliding interests have produced unusual alliances on Capitol Hill, with House Republicans working to help a president they oppose on nearly every other issue, and most Democrats working against him.
Yet in a convoluted series of events Thursday, the fast-track bill, long the main event, seemed to fade in importance even as Republicans began sounding confident it would command enough votes to pass. Instead, Democrats began eyeing the possibility of taking down the related Trade Adjustment Assistance bill — a maneuver that would be made possible only because of how House leaders decided to link the two of them in rules governing how they would come to a vote.
Republicans said that the sequencing was determined at the behest of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. Pelosi, trying to maintain leverage, has remained noncommittal on the whole issue to the end, even as she worked behind the scenes with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, this week to solve a last-minute hang-up involving Democratic concerns about cutting Medicare funds to pay for worker retraining.
The intricate solution to the Medicare issue lay in finding another revenue source —various tax penalties — and also lining up the votes in a certain order that made passage of the fast-track bill contingent on passage of the trade adjustment bill. That created the opening for Democratic fast-track opponents to take aim at the trade adjustment measure.
"The TAA is the handmaiden to facilitate the whole deal," said Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore. "We have the potential to stop this whole train."
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/US-Congress-Trade/2015/06/12/id/650194/#ixzz3crW2AzkJ
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Carly Fiorina Shuts Down CNN Host: 'In This Country,' We 'Protect Free Speech' :: Monica Sanchez
from Doofiegirl on 06/12/2015 04:37 PMTwo gunmen, one confirmed to have declared his loyalty to ISIS, opened fire on a free speech event in Garland, Texas on Sunday night.
The liberal media were quick to the blame the organizers of the event—specifically Pamela Geller, the president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative—for provoking the attack with a cartoon contest featuring the Muslim prophet Mohammed.
CNN's Erin Burnett pressed one of the newest additions to the 2016 GOP primary, Carly Fiorina, to condemn Geller for supposedly knowingly and even purposefully inciting violence by jihadists.
"Well it clearly was provocative, just like white supremacists demonstrating is provocative," Fiorina said.
"But you would agree with that? With white supremacists?" Burnett interjected.
"And yet," Fiorina continued, dismissing the interruption, "we do protect free speech."
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"I'm very pleased that the President came out and called this what it is, which is an attempted act of terror," the potential 2016 GOP presidential nominee said, "because in other attacks, he hasn't always been willing to call it what it is."
"He said that the attack on a Jewish grocery store was a random act. It clearly wasn't. The beheading of Christians, or people who are the wrong sect of Islam, is clearly not random. And neither was this terrorist attack."
"So we can say this was a provocative gathering. I think that's true. I think it's fair," Fiorina said.
"But it never justifies this kind of terror attack and we should call it what it is."
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"He said that the attack on a Jewish grocery store was a random act. It clearly wasn't. The beheading of Christians, or people who are the wrong sect of Islam, is clearly not random. And neither was this terrorist attack."
"So we can say this was a provocative gathering. I think that's true. I think it's fair," Fiorina said.
"But it never justifies this kind of terror attack and we should call it what it is."
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Burnett then tried to push Fiorina into saying that Pamela Geller should not have held the cartoon contest knowing that it would offend Muslims.
"Should she have done that, though? ... Should she have held a cartoon contest?"
"A lot of people do things in this country that I don't agree with—that I don't approve of," Fiorina replied.
"But nevertheless, in this country, they're free to do it," she said.
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Walid Shoebat ; Ridiculous Study Claims Rooms Filled With White People Causes Aggression For Black People
from Doofiegirl on 06/12/2015 03:27 PMWhen liberals run the country, there is no telling what type of insane garbage they can come up with. A report by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign into the topic of "microaggressions" now found that the simple task of "walking into or sitting in" a room full of white people can be problematic for minorities. http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/university-of-illinois-system/
"Students of color reported feeling uncomfortable and unwelcomed just walking into or sitting in the classroom, especially if they were the only person of color, or one of a few," said the report, titled "Racial Microaggressions @ University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign," National Review reported Wednesday. http://www.racialmicroaggressions.illinois.edu/files/2015/03/RMA-Classroom-Report.pdf http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/university-of-illinois-system/ http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418273/university-study-certain-rooms-are-microaggressions-themselves-katherine-timpf
"People do not necessarily say I do not belong, but I feel as if I do not when I am in a classroom and I am the one non-White person," said one student in the college's report, National Review reported.
Many colleges turn to Dr. Derald Wing Sue of Columbia University for a definition for the term "microaggression." He has described such offenses as "brief, everyday exchanges that send denigrating messages to certain individuals because of their group membership."
The Princeton Microaggressions Facebook page relied on Dr. Sue's definition for its purposes in December 2014, but added: "The perspective and lived experiences of each individual contextualizes the world around them and thus places a particular meaning in words based on their distinct subjectivity. What counts as harmless banter to some may be emotionally triggering to others."
The University of Illinois report suggests that one way to ameliorate microaggressions on campus may include "General Education requirement about race, White privilege, and inequality in the United States," National Review reported.
Source http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/university-of-illinois-system/ http://freedomoutpost.com/?s=White+privilege
http://shoebat.com/2015/06/10/crazy-and-insane-a-new-study-reveals-that-rooms-filled-with-white-people-causes-aggression-for-black-people/
Mac Slavo ; New Obama Policy Would Make “Merely Posting Firearm Information on the Internet” a Crime
from Doofiegirl on 06/12/2015 03:20 PMThe blogosphere is sounding off about a pending new Obama policy that would impact not only the 2nd Amendment, but the 1st Amendment as well.
As incredible as it seems, individuals would be in violation by "merely posting information on the Internet about common firearms" which "could be interpreted as illegally sharing sensitive information with foreign nationals" http://joshuamark5.com/
Applying issues related to "exporting" and "foreign nations" under an international treaty to individual on-line speech (under the guise of improperly sharing technical data about firearms) may seem like a stretch, but it is apparently what is happening, unless public opposition is voiced before this oh-so quiet regulation sets in towards the end of summer.
While it remains to be seen if such a policy would be enforceable, the mere redefinition of Internet activities – now under FCC regulation – is startling, suggesting that the "bark" about guns may be just as threatening to this anti-gun administration as the "bite" of 'military-style weapons' like the AR-15 that so frequently drives media coverage. According to the Washington Times: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/8/ernest-istook-obama-swats-free-speech-gun-control/
Gun control and control of free speech would be combined in a new Obama administration plan that could send Second Amendment advocates to prison. http://freedomoutpost.com/?s=Gun+control http://freedomoutpost.com/?s=free+speech+is+free http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/06/new-obama-policy-would-make-merely-posting-firearm-information-on-the-internet-a-crime/#WpTtuJR0iRqUcFGW.99
Tim Brown : Armored Blackhawks Converge on Mexican Border Following Attack on US Chopper
from Doofiegirl on 06/12/2015 03:11 PMOn Saturday, we reported that a Border Patrol chopper took fire from the Mexican side of the border while still in US airspace. The shots forced the chopper to land without any injury or loss of life. Today, it is being reported that two UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters are being sent by Customs and Border Protection to continue surveillance in the area where the chopper was shot at by Mexican drug traffickers. http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/06/mexico-shoots-border-patrol-chopper-on-texas-border-forces-it-down/
According to KGNS: http://www.kgns.tv/home/headlines/Two-Blackhawk-helicopters-requested-306851011.html
Just days after a Customs and Border Protection helicopter took fire along the border in Laredo, two Blackhawk helicopters are being deployed to South Texas.
The two aircraft will be used by C.B.P. agents and will offer them better protection as they patrol the U.S. Mexico border.
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The Blackhawks are expected to arrive in Laredo by Friday.
They will patrol the border from Laredo down to the Rio Grande Valley.
US Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) said that these helicopters would be armored Blackhawks. "The Black Hawk is armored against small-arms fire of the sort used in the recent incident, carries a larger crew than the EC120 helicopter currently used in the area, and is well-suited for operating in a higher-threat environment," Cuellar told the Laredo Morning Times. "I don't want our men and women of CBP to be at any risk." http://www.lmtonline.com/front-news/article_b826e806-0fd2-11e5-a972-e379069d7e13.html
According to an FBI statement, an alleged bulletproof vest kept one of the rounds from hitting the pilot. Apparently not wearing the vest is what saved his life. http://www.bulletsafe.com/ http://www.brownells.com/ammunition/rifle-ammo/index.htm?source=CJ&aid=7501369&cm_mmc=affiliate-_-Itwine-_-CJ-_-11795396
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/06/armored-blackhawks-converge-on-mexican-border-following-attack-on-us-chopper/#QhzEgkaPlwsCjit4.99
Tim Brown : Couple Arrested and Charged with Felony for Son Playing Outdoors Alone – CPS Kidnaps Boy & Brother
from Doofiegirl on 06/12/2015 03:02 PMA Florida couple has been arrested and charged with felony neglect after their 11-year-old son played basketball in the back yard for 90 minutes alone. Welcome to the new Amerika!
The unnamed parents were both stuck in traffic this past April and unable to make it home in time to let their son in the house, and unfortunately, the boy didn't have a key. So, what did he do? He played basketball in the back yard.
A nosy neighbor, who apparently didn't have good enough sense to go and check on the boy, decided to call police, who arrived at the house shortly.
The parents then arrived and were immediately arrested and charged with neglect. That's not all. They were handcuffed. Strip searched (Yes, strip searched), fingerprinted and held in jail overnight.
The 11-year-old was removed from the home and said to have been a "victim," even though no crime occurred. Not only that, but the couple's younger 4-year-old boy was also removed from the home by Child Protective Services.
According to the law:
"A person who willfully or by culpable negligence neglects a child without causing great bodily harm, permanent disability, or permanent disfigurement to the child commits a felony of the third degree."
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/06/couple-arrested-and-charged-with-felony-for-allowing-son-to-play-outdoors-cps-kidnaps-boy/#ktFW8w8Lh746GOze.99
What Happened to Republican Tom Coburn? : The Common Constitutionalist
from Doofiegirl on 06/12/2015 02:55 PMI never knew much about former Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn. The few things I had read in years gone by led me to believe that the Republican was kind of a middle-of-the-road guy. Not conservative, but not full on establishment. This is no longer my position. http://freedomoutpost.com/?s=tom+coburn
ThinkProgress, as we know, is about as far left as one can get without falling off the edge of the earth. I usually glance at their site just to see what the extremist extreme left is up to, but then I saw this title: "Former GOP Senator Trashes Party Presidential Field: 'Scares Me to Death,' 'Not Ready for Prime Time.'" http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/06/09/3667555/coburn-gop-presidential-candidates/
Okay, that intrigued me enough to read on, only to find that the GOP Senator is the aforementioned Coburn.
Now, back in 2011, the New York Times wrote: "Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma was a Tea Partier long before the movement even had a name, the family physician who came to Washington to hammer on Democrats and Republicans alike. His years of bill blocking earned him the nickname Dr. No." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/us/politics/24coburn.html?_r=0
Now fast-forward to 2015 and MSNBC is quoting Coburn as saying: "I think Hillary's experience would make her a very effective president, I think, if she were to win. First of all, she's been on the inside of politics for a long time, so she knows the inside game inside and out. She also knows the relationship game. Her husband was great at it." http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/tom-coburn-praises-hillary-clinton
They also wrote: "Coburn was friendly with Obama in the Senate and said he was 'proud' the country elected its first black president in 2008."
So I stand corrected about the whole middle-of-the-road Republican thing, for it seems Coburn has gone to the dark side, although it seems he's been flirting with it for quite a few years.
ThinkProgress writes that, during an interview with Andrew Wilkow last week, "Coburn trashed nearly every GOPers running for president, calling them 'not ready for prime time,' lacking 'integrity' not 'capable,' and saying he wouldn't support one of them even if he won the nomination."
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/06/what-happened-to-republican-tom-coburn/#AexGvKCs5rCqS0CW.99