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Post by sharkhaywood on Jul 22, 2019 8:35:18 GMT -8
This is gold. Campaign workers for Bernie Sanders have taken aim at one of the senator's key policies in his 2020 presidential run — raising the federal minimum wage. According to The Washington Post, some members of Sanders' campaign team have been lobbying to raise their wages so that they make the $15 hourly rate that the Vermont senator has frequently called for both on the campaign trail and in Washington D.C. The Post obtained a draft of a letter that the campaign's union planned to send to Sanders' campaign manager Faiz Shakir which read in part that workers "cannot be expected to build the largest grassroots organizing program in American history while making poverty wages. Given our campaign's commitment to fighting for a living wage of at least $15.00 an hour, we believe it is only fair that the campaign would carry through this commitment to its own field team." The letter states that field organizers are working at least 60 hours a week, which lowers the average per hour pay to $13 an hour. "Many field staffers are barely managing to survive financially, which is severely impacting our team's productivity and morale. Some field organizers have already left the campaign as a result," the letter said, According to documents reviewed by the newspaper, the issues regarding wages extend back to May 2019, though talks between the campaign union and Shakir appear to be ongoing. It is unknown if Sanders is aware of the requests from campaign workers. It gets better. Sanders Campaign is now agreeing to pay everyone $15.00 an hour but is going to be cutting people's hours to be able to afford the increased wages. You know, exactly what people have been saying would be the direct result of an increase of the minimum wage to $15.00 an hour. |
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Post by danvilleshark on Jul 22, 2019 8:38:28 GMT -8
AOC says the end of the world is at hand due to the environment. Now Mayor Pete claims America is at risk due to white supremacy. It seems the DNC plan to invoke total doom and gloom.
White supremacy “could be the lurking issue that ends this country”, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has said. He added: “The entire American experiment is at stake.”
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Post by danvilleshark on Jul 22, 2019 8:53:10 GMT -8
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Post by sharkhaywood on Jul 22, 2019 9:00:56 GMT -8
AOC says the end of the world is at hand due to the environment. Now Mayor Pete claims America is at risk due to white supremacy. It seems the DNC plan to invoke total doom and gloom. White supremacy “could be the lurking issue that ends this country”, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has said. He added: “The entire American experiment is at stake.” Because there has been no history whatsoever of white supremacy in the nations history? Did he actually have a U.S. History class before? |
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Post by cjelli on Jul 22, 2019 9:33:23 GMT -8
AOC says the end of the world is at hand due to the environment. Now Mayor Pete claims America is at risk due to white supremacy. It seems the DNC plan to invoke total doom and gloom. White supremacy “could be the lurking issue that ends this country”, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has said. He added: “The entire American experiment is at stake.” Because there has been no history whatsoever of white supremacy in the nations history? Did he actually have a U.S. History class before? But then he & Co. claim that the US achievements are also a result of white supremacy and that's why reparations and so on.
So US has become so good because of White Supremacy, and it is going to crash because of White Supremacy.
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Post by Fugazi on Jul 22, 2019 10:10:11 GMT -8
OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- A new report says immigration officers chartered flights out of the Oakland Airport to deport immigrants.
According to our media partner the Bay Area News Group, about 27,000 people were deported through Oakland's airport over an eight year period.
RELATED: Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf calls President Trump's ICE deportation announcement 'ironic'
Justin Berton with the mayor's office says Mayor Libby Schaaf is looking into whether this was a violation of the city's sanctuary policy and how to properly address it.
An ICE spokesperson told the Bay Area News Group they have stopped the practice, saying they haven't chartered a flight out of Oakland since October of last year.
Reaction to the news was mixed at the airport this morning.
"I am a little surprised that they'd hit the airport, but they have to come and go from somewhere I guess," said Tom Stephens.
He doesn't think the mayor should launch an investigation.
"No I don't think it's her call," he said.
Joe Dimilia was upset to hear immigrants were being sent out of Oakland's airport.
"We're a country of immigrants so I don't get why we should be using our airport- our tax payer funded airport- to ship out immigrants. And all the racist policies that are happening right now are absolutely ridiculous," said Dimilia.
Michelle Lewis, an immigrant from Grenada, said she did not want to comment on whether the airport should be used by ICE agents.
"I'm an immigrant. I came here 37 years ago. I have opportunities a lot of my fellow countrymen don't. I came here legally but I understand the plight of those who didn't," Lewis said.
Oakland Airport has released the following statement: "Oakland International Airport is actively reviewing the situation. The privately chartered flights out of Oakland have stopped. We're looking into options in case the flights resume."
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Post by carolinasharksfan on Jul 22, 2019 12:12:12 GMT -8
I saw an interview with him. He told her to get in the right lane at the market because she was in the express line with too many items. So, she decides to break a rule because she's lazy and feels entitled (of course, her young daughter is with her and learning all this) to not follow the rules like everyone else, and when she gets called on it she claims racism instead of apologizing for being a rude ass hat...got it. |
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Post by carolinasharksfan on Jul 22, 2019 12:14:10 GMT -8
AOC says the end of the world is at hand due to the environment. Now Mayor Pete claims America is at risk due to white supremacy. It seems the DNC plan to invoke total doom and gloom. White supremacy “could be the lurking issue that ends this country”, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has said. He added: “The entire American experiment is at stake.” He's right about one thing...the American experiment is at stake, but its not from white supremacy, its from the media getting in bed with the DNC and the DNC going to socialism. |
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Post by sharkhaywood on Jul 22, 2019 12:42:12 GMT -8
The Southern District of New York's U.S. Attorney's office concluded their investigation into the Stormy Daniels payoffs. No further charges being filed.
Take a look at this collection of comments from the media about how devastating this investigation was going to be to Trump. Comedy gold!
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Post by danvilleshark on Jul 22, 2019 22:52:35 GMT -8
The DNC owns this. Why any police unions support D candidates is beyond me.
Videos of New York Police Department officers being doused with water and pelted with objects in separate incidents surfaced on social media on Monday, including one clip that showed officers getting drenched as they were making an arrest.
NYPD officials called the videos “reprehensible.”
In one video, somebody hurled a bucket that hit an officer in the head while he was making an arrest in Harlem. Groups of jeering bystanders could be heard reacting as people continued to splash the officers with water.
“The videos of cops being doused with water and having objects hurled at them as they made an arrest in #Harlem is reprehensible,” NYPD Chief Terence Monahan said in a tweet on Monday.
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Post by cjelli on Jul 23, 2019 5:25:57 GMT -8
The DNC owns this. Why any police unions support D candidates is beyond me. Videos of New York Police Department officers being doused with water and pelted with objects in separate incidents surfaced on social media on Monday, including one clip that showed officers getting drenched as they were making an arrest. NYPD officials called the videos “reprehensible.” In one video, somebody hurled a bucket that hit an officer in the head while he was making an arrest in Harlem. Groups of jeering bystanders could be heard reacting as people continued to splash the officers with water. “The videos of cops being doused with water and having objects hurled at them as they made an arrest in #Harlem is reprehensible,” NYPD Chief Terence Monahan said in a tweet on Monday. Because Police and Police Unions are not 100% compatible? |
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Post by sharkhaywood on Jul 23, 2019 8:18:37 GMT -8
This is big if actually pans out.
According to multiple sources, Inspector General Michael Horowitz’ upcoming report will include a bombshell announcement about James Comey.
The report will detail how the former FBI Director repeatedly lied to Trump about not targeting him in his probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. In addition, and most shocking of all, it appears that Comey also placed his own personal spy in the White House to dig up dirt on Trump.
From Real Clear Investigations:
Sources tell RealClearInvestigations that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz will soon file a report with evidence indicating that Comey was misleading the president. Even as he repeatedly assured Trump that he was not a target, the former director was secretly trying to build a conspiracy case against the president, while at times acting as an investigative agent.
Two U.S. officials briefed on the inspector general’s investigation of possible FBI misconduct said Comey was essentially “running a covert operation against” the president, starting with a private “defensive briefing” he gave Trump just weeks before his inauguration. They said Horowitz has examined high-level FBI text messages and other communications indicating Comey was actually conducting a “counterintelligence assessment” of Trump during that January 2017 meeting in New York.
In addition to adding notes of his meetings and phone calls with Trump to the official FBI case file, Comey had an agent inside the White House who reported back to FBI headquarters about Trump and his aides, according to other officials familiar with the matter.
Apparently, J. Edgar Hoover never left but was merely reincarnated in James Comey.
If true, these allegations are a once in a lifetime bombshell.
Hot Air adds:
RCI’s Paul Sperry goes into considerably more detail, so be sure to read all of his report. How much of this actually ends up in Horowitz’ finished version is anyone’s guess. Usually, these reports get passed around to various impacted department heads for feedback and revisions. Sperry notes that the report isn’t expected out until September, which means edits and revisions might still take place. And, curiously, Sperry doesn’t offer much of anything at all on what is supposed to be central to Horowitz’ investigation — the use of the Steele dossier to get a FISA surveillance warrant on Carter Page. Either that part might be a dud, or perhaps Horowitz is playing that one a little closer to the vest.
If Sperry’s sources are accurate, and if Horowitz can document all this, hoo boy. The allegation that Comey repeatedly lied to Trump about his status in Comey’s probe may not be impossible to explain; if Trump was suspected of espionage, the FBI wouldn’t have wanted him to know it too soon. The problem with this explanation is that the FBI had no evidence of any such suspicion. The Horowitz report will supposedly confirm that, but Robert Mueller has already done that work for Horowitz. Under those circumstances, Comey acted with significant insubordination to his superior and constitutional officer, which matters even if Comey didn’t like Trump or think he should be president.
Spying on Trump by coopting one of his aides hikes that to a level not seen since the FBI’s bad old days. It’s true that the FBI has the main charter for domestic counterespionage activities, but the FBI is not supposed to spy on elected officials — not without bulletproof substantiation of a threat. And again, we know now that the FBI never had even a reasonable suspicion to spy on Trump.
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Post by danvilleshark on Jul 23, 2019 9:10:33 GMT -8
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Post by danvilleshark on Jul 23, 2019 9:19:44 GMT -8
Here is yet another example where the facts that are presented leads most commentators on the story draw additional conclusions: Here is what we do know: LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a 23-year-old tourist from Chicago punched a worker in the face when her FastPass wasn't valid for the Tower of Terror ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios. An Orange County Sheriff's report says the Disney World cast member offered to help the woman's group on July 13, but they only became angrier. The Orlando Sentinel reports the woman started pushing buttons on the podium that could have affected the ride. When the employee pushed her hand away, the woman punched her in the face. The family yelled profanities and recorded the worker.
The group left the ride, but security tracked them down. Disney officials tell the Sentinel they issued a lifetime ban on the woman. The worker didn't want to press charges and the woman wasn't arrested. www.yahoo.com/news/disney-worker-punched-face-angry-105925052.html |
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Post by sharkhaywood on Jul 23, 2019 9:19:45 GMT -8
Welcome to your new city Mr. Deputy Police Commissioner
One of Baltimore’s newest deputy police commissioners and his wife were robbed at gunpoint Friday night near Patterson Park, police said.
Deputy Commissioner Daniel Murphy and his wife were approached around 9 p.m. by four men in a large white SUV at the 2200 block of East Pratt Street, police said in a statement. Two approximately 18-year-old men got out of the SUV and approached the couple. The men announced it was a robbery and showed a gun before fleeing with a wallet, a purse, some cash and multiple cell phones, the press release said.
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Post by danvilleshark on Jul 23, 2019 9:26:34 GMT -8
sf.curbed.com/2019/7/22/20704224/bay-area-point-in-time-homless-count-2019San Francisco recently released the results of its 2019 point-in-time homeless census conducted in January, and the news appeared nothing less than disastrous, as SF’s homeless headcount increased by the hundreds despite the city’s seemingly ceaseless efforts to provide relief. However, the San Francisco count alone does not provide the whole story. The 2019 homelessness spike in SF came amid a tide of similar baleful results across the Bay Area. Five out of nine Bay Area Counties—i.e., all of those not located in the North Bay—saw their homeless counts spike during the same period, with each other county showing worse homelessness surges than SF:
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Post by danvilleshark on Jul 23, 2019 9:30:14 GMT -8
So Black lives matter? The man accused of killing a Black Lives Matter activist on a New Orleans street last year pleaded guilty to manslaughter on Monday under an agreement that will see him sentenced to 17 years in prison. Roosevelt Iglus, 27, accepted a plea agreement from New Orleans prosecutors in front of Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Darryl Derbigny. Here is the perp who has now plead guilty:  |
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Post by danvilleshark on Jul 23, 2019 11:18:58 GMT -8
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Post by danvilleshark on Jul 23, 2019 11:52:45 GMT -8
The so called media....
The New York Times issues an embarrassing correction to an essay on gender bias in American space exploration that was largely lampooned even when it was presumed to be accurate.
The essay celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with a "woke" feature that retroactively criticized NASA for gender bias. One of the key examples was that the SpaceX’s Dragon crew capsule was “tested an optimized for an all-male crew,” but that was apparently inaccurate.
“An essay about gender bias in American space exploration misstated the genders of people involved in testing of the SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule,” the Times wrote Tuesday. “The testing included both men and women, not only men.”
The essay, penned by author Mary Robinette Kowal and headlined, “To make it to the moon, women have to escape earth’s gender bias,” declared that NASA can learn from its failures as it aims to send women to the moon and beyond.”
The current online version makes no reference to the SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule other than the italicized correction beneath the essay.
“The New York Times proves once again that it's too woke to confirm facts,” Young told Fox News on Tuesday. “In the middle of their piece trashing NASA for being sexist so that they could get clicks, they literally just made up talking points that sounded right so that they could run with it.”
The original essay also “incorrectly stated that an astronaut had completed a spacewalk” because “Cady Coleman qualified for a spacewalk” but “did not perform one.”
Mediaite columnist Caleb Howe wrote that “two pretty major corrections” were made.
“It’s not partisan bias to see it that way. This change, which the New York Times obviously sees as minor, alters the character of the essay significantly,” Howe wrote. “The Times had to correct a gender bias essay that misstated gender bias.”
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Post by danvilleshark on Jul 23, 2019 12:09:04 GMT -8
Boom!
Washington (AFP) - White police officers in the United States are not more likely to fatally shoot members of minority groups than black or Hispanic officers, according to a new study.
Recent police shootings of unarmed African-Americans have stirred outrage in the United States and led to the creation of the Black Lives Matter movement.
But a study of more than 900 fatal police-involved shootings in 2015 by researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) and the University of Maryland found "no evidence of anti-black or anti-Hispanic disparities across shootings."
"We found no relation between the race of the police officer and the race of the person shot," Joseph Cesario, an associate professor of psychology at MSU and the senior author of the report, told AFP.
"White police officers were not more likely to shoot black citizens than black police officers were."
The study added: "This suggests that increasing diversity among officers by itself is unlikely to reduce racial disparity in police shootings."
There is no national database on the officers involved in fatal police shootings, Cesario explained.
So for the study, the researchers used data compiled by The Guardian and The Washington Post.
Of the total number of victims, 26 percent were black. African-Americans make up 12 percent of the US population.
Researchers did find that the local crime rate within a given racial group strongly predicted the likelihood a person from that group would be shot.
"In any given county... the more violent crimes that were committed, let's say by white citizens, the more it is predicted that a white citizen would be shot by the police," Cesario said.
"If there are more crimes being committed by black citizens, that predicted a black citizen getting shot."
For Cesario, the data showed that blacks were perhaps shot more often relative to their population "not because police officers are biased... it has to do with whom they are coming into contact with."
"It's an exposure question that is due to differences in violent crimes," he said.
Cesario emphasized that the study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, does not "incriminate or exonerate officers in any specific case."
"Findings at the national level do not directly speak to the presence or absence of bias in individual shootings," he said.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2019 12:55:04 GMT -8
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Post by danvilleshark on Jul 23, 2019 12:56:22 GMT -8
Oh my!
President Trump spent the last week battling accusations of racism for his tweets suggesting liberal lawmakers "go back" where they came from, fix things and return to "show us how it's done."
But it turns out one of his targets -- Rep. Rashida Tlaib -- had a similar, even harsher, message for him during the 2016 campaign.
“Deport this a--hole!” Tlaib, D-Mich., tweeted in December 2015, linking to a story about then-presidential candidate Trump’s highly controversial call for "a total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the United States after the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack. Tlaib, a Muslim, was later elected to Congress in 2018.
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Post by sharkhaywood on Jul 23, 2019 13:50:08 GMT -8
The media showing their bias again.
Left out of the headline and tweet? The cut to food stamps is for people making over 130% of the poverty line.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2019 15:15:04 GMT -8
The media showing their bias again. Left out of the headline and tweet? The cut to food stamps is for people making over 130% of the poverty line. Its a scummy, clickbait headline but if we are only going to judge the book by its cover, then I guess it is biased. TRO Edit: if we also get to be outraged at scummy summaries to generate clicks, we should also be outraged at summaries which leave out details like eliminating food stamps for people making more than 130% of the federal poverty line (which is around $32000 annual for a family of 4). Also, that $1.9B savings over 5 years is a bit offset by the $1.1-1.2B cost to 40 states and DC. |
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Post by sharkhaywood on Jul 23, 2019 15:36:54 GMT -8
Oh my! President Trump spent the last week battling accusations of racism for his tweets suggesting liberal lawmakers "go back" where they came from, fix things and return to "show us how it's done." But it turns out one of his targets -- Rep. Rashida Tlaib -- had a similar, even harsher, message for him during the 2016 campaign. “Deport this a--hole!” Tlaib, D-Mich., tweeted in December 2015, linking to a story about then-presidential candidate Trump’s highly controversial call for "a total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the United States after the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack. Tlaib, a Muslim, was later elected to Congress in 2018. Not to mention she was quoted on election day saying "We are going to impeach that mother fucker!" and identifies herself as a Palestinian but is clutching the pearls and crying outrage over Trump's tweet. |
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Post by sharkhaywood on Jul 23, 2019 15:37:13 GMT -8
The media showing their bias again. Left out of the headline and tweet? The cut to food stamps is for people making over 130% of the poverty line. Its a scummy, clickbait headline but if we are only going to judge the book by its cover, then I guess it is biased. TRO Edit: if we also get to be outraged at scummy summaries to generate clicks, we should also be outraged at summaries which leave out details like eliminating food stamps for people making more than 130% of the federal poverty line (which is around $32000 annual for a family of 4). Also, that $1.9B savings over 5 years is a bit offset by the $1.1-1.2B cost to 40 states and DC. Valid points. |
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Post by danvilleshark on Jul 23, 2019 16:08:16 GMT -8
The media showing their bias again. Left out of the headline and tweet? The cut to food stamps is for people making over 130% of the poverty line. Its a scummy, clickbait headline but if we are only going to judge the book by its cover, then I guess it is biased. TRO Edit: if we also get to be outraged at scummy summaries to generate clicks, we should also be outraged at summaries which leave out details like eliminating food stamps for people making more than 130% of the federal poverty line (which is around $32000 annual for a family of 4). Also, that $1.9B savings over 5 years is a bit offset by the $1.1-1.2B cost to 40 states and DC. I dont know how you can even have a federal poverty line as the cost to live is not at all universal based on where you live. |
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Post by danvilleshark on Jul 23, 2019 17:13:29 GMT -8
Way to keep it real Mr. Booker:
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker on Monday’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” said the country is facing a “moral moment” in which Democratic candidates must take the high road in order to defeat Donald Trump in the next election.
Oh, and he also said this:
‘My testosterone sometimes makes me want to feel like punching him, which would be bad for this elderly, out-of-shape man that he is if I did that... this physically weak specimen.’
The receptive audience laughed.
Booker then switched gears and explained that, at this time of “moral vandalism,” the U.S. needs a different kind of leader.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2019 17:17:33 GMT -8
Its a scummy, clickbait headline but if we are only going to judge the book by its cover, then I guess it is biased. TRO Edit: if we also get to be outraged at scummy summaries to generate clicks, we should also be outraged at summaries which leave out details like eliminating food stamps for people making more than 130% of the federal poverty line (which is around $32000 annual for a family of 4). Also, that $1.9B savings over 5 years is a bit offset by the $1.1-1.2B cost to 40 states and DC. I dont know how you can even have a federal poverty line as the cost to live is not at all universal based on where you live. It’s easy enough - federal salary schedules (and geographical cost of living increases) are all published. It seems the appropriate recourse would then be to set a base federal poverty line cost of living and adjust from there due to geography. It’s not dissimilar to the IRS compensation guidelines for personal vehicle use. People in the Midwest and people who drive electric cars love it. People on the coasts who drive ICE cars are less happy about the prospect. TRO |
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Post by carolinasharksfan on Jul 23, 2019 17:40:28 GMT -8
The media showing their bias again. Left out of the headline and tweet? The cut to food stamps is for people making over 130% of the poverty line. Its a scummy, clickbait headline but if we are only going to judge the book by its cover, then I guess it is biased. TRO Edit: if we also get to be outraged at scummy summaries to generate clicks, we should also be outraged at summaries which leave out details like eliminating food stamps for people making more than 130% of the federal poverty line (which is around $32000 annual for a family of 4). Also, that $1.9B savings over 5 years is a bit offset by the $1.1-1.2B cost to 40 states and DC. Regarding the “1.1-1.2b cost to 40 states and DC”. Is that money the feds have to pay the states, or money the states will choose to pay if the feds cut this program? |
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