Ramblings & Smiles

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1/18/2020

Stephen King Got Woke
Legendary horror author Stephen King is facing backlash on Tuesday for his commentary on this year's Oscar nominations, stressing that the "quality" of the art should matter over "diversity."

Knives Designed To Prevent Fatalities
A UK company is marketing a new range of knives without sharp tips in response to soaring knife crime levels, which just hit another decade high.

11 Troops Injured By Iranian Retaliatory Missile Strike
Nearly one dozen American troops were wounded in Iran’s Jan. 8 missile attack on Iraq’s al-Asad air base. This week, they were medically evacuated to U.S. military hospitals in Kuwait and Landstuhl, Germany, to be treated for traumatic brain injury and to undergo further evaluation, several U.S. defense and military officials have confirmed to Defense One.

Pathologist Reveals Jeffrey Epstein’s Was Murdered
One of America's leading forensic pathologists has detailed several of Jeffrey Epstein's injuries, after examining his body, which he says "suggest" he didn't kill himself as they're more consistent with "murder."

Fridays Adventure Road

1/17/2020

Never say no to an adventure,
After all who looks forward
to having just another ordinary day.

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1/16/2020

Elizabeth Warren:
Trans Youth Are More Likely…to Experience Mental Health Problems’

The Reagan Revolution Gives Way to the Trump Revolution
As with Reagan, Democrats and the media panic.

Climate Experts Suggest Trump Was Right
When He Blamed California’s Wildfires On Land Management

John Kerry Claims Obama 'Never Had a Whiff of Scandal' So Let's Remind Him Of Some

Europe Under Siege from People-Smuggling Gangs

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1/15/2020

Russia Takes a Big Step Toward Internet Isolation.
Russia can't cut its internet off from the rest of the world yet. But a recent test foreshadowed more censorship and repression to come.

Why Warren Buffett is right to warn about Illinois:
The state’s true retirement costs now total 50% of annual budget.

The Train Keeps A Rolling
Trump Has The Lowest Average Unemployment Rate of Any President in Recorded History

Democrats Defended Soleimani In Life and Death
More Iranians than Democrats dare to criticize Iran and support President Trump.

Alex Cora out as Red Sox manager following sign-stealing scandals

What's next for Red Sox after Alex Cora's fall?

CNN fighting with Babylon Bee over who has the fakest news

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1/14/2020

The Real Question Should Be: Safe Communities For Whom?
Thanks to the sanctuary city policies in effect now throughout the country, undocumented individuals who are currently facing charges such as murder, sex crimes and drug trafficking are free to wander the streets.

In 2019 Over 90% of Illegal Aliens Arrested in U.S. Had Criminal Convictions, Pending Charges
More than 90% of illegal immigrants arrested by federal agents in the United States last year had criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, including 56,000 assaults and thousands of sex crimes, robberies, homicides and kidnappings. Many had “extensive criminal histories with multiple convictions,” according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) year-end report. The 123,128 illegal aliens arrested by the agency’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in 2019 had 489,063 criminal convictions and pending charges, representing an average of four crimes per alien, highlighting the “recidivist nature” of the arrested aliens, the agency writes, noting that sanctuary cities nationwide greatly impeded its public safety efforts.

Unjust Deserts
Cities move to ban dollar stores, blaming them for residents’ poor diets.

Who knew that earthquakes come from climate change?

Jupiter is flinging asteroids at Earth ‘like a sniper’, top scientist warns

Yes, your boss can fire you for a Facebook post

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1/13/2020

Virginia vows to shut down all gun ranges not owned by the state
If it wasn’t bad enough watching the action unfold surrounding unconstitutional gun laws and the militias being formed to fight against them, now it seems like Virginia is trying to pull yet another move threaten the rights of law abiding gun owners.

Texas Governor Announces the State Will Not Be Accepting Any More Refugees, Becomes First in Nation to Decline Them

Put Me In Coach, I'm Ready
Taco Bell Dangles $100,000 Salary Amid Tight Worker Market

‘The Bullitt’ Mustang driven by Steve McQueen sells for $3.4 million at auction

CNN’s Very Bad Week
CNN Pays $76 Million in Settlement with National Labor Relations Board

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1/12/2020

Did His Ears Hang Low?
Suspect shouts curses at neighbors, slings genitals at deputies.

You Have To Start With Goals
Mississippi men tried cashing in lottery ticket after gluing on the winning numbers, officials say

Guilty Pleasures Are Bad
Popcorn stuck in man’s tooth leads to life-threatening infection, open heart surgery

She Also Failed At Acting Class
Woman wearing FBI hat tells gas station clerks she's with the CIA

Planning For Efficiency
Do Not Make It Easy For The Cops By Hiding Your Meth Stash Inside A Box Labeled "Dope"

I Cant Touch That
Man ransacks home, steals toilet seat in bizarre burglary

The Story Should Go "The Means and The End"
Florida woman arrested for threatening to get McDonald’s sauce by any ‘means necessary’

Just A Little Diggin
Police Rescue Woman Trapped In Clothing Donation Bin For Three Days

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1/11/2020

This is the same party that wants to allow teens the right to vote, and also no longer have to wait until the age of 21 to seek gender-affirming surgery.

A Democrat State Senator introduced a bill in the Vermont state Senate that would make it illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to use or possess a cellphone. The bill, S.212, would make such possession or use a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum of a year behind bars and a $1,000 fine.

A Lesson To Learn.
CNN to settle the first lawsuit with Nick Sandmann

And The Beat Goes On
The revenge of Covington high school students continues. Just one day after CNN came to a settlement in their defamation lawsuit with Nick Sandmann, lawyer Robert Barnes announced he was suing Reza Aslan, the disgraced former CNN host, for a minimum of $135,000 in damages.

Remember When It Was Ok!
A resurfaced clip that features Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi shows that the California representative once believed a president did not need congressional approval to use military force.

Trump Wins His First Sanctuary City Fight
Just before Christmas, the Ninth Circuit rejected Los Angeles’s petition to reconsider its ruling upholding the administration’s COPS rules.

If At First You Don’t Succeed
Throw another $1.4 Billion at Homelessness

TRUMP WINS IN COURT ON BORDER WALL

Fridays Adventure Road

1/10/2020

You can have very few possessions in your life,
but having a good dog will always make you rich.

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1/9/2020

The Real Question Should Be: Safe Communities For Whom?
Thanks to the sanctuary city policies in effect now throughout the country, undocumented individuals who are currently facing charges such as murder, sex crimes and drug trafficking are free to wander the streets.
As ICE has repeatedly made clear, when local jurisdictions refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement, they have betrayed their duty to protect the safety of the public. Here is another story from last week that reinforces that fact.

ICE agents were able to apprehend an illegal alien who was allegedly involved in a deadly hit-and-run accident in New York. Mexican national Jorge Flores-Villalba was arrested by local police after allegedly striking a New York mother with his vehicle and driving off on Christmas Eve, but was then quickly released.