[BREITBART] The University of Kentucky announced this week that it will remove mandatory classes from a campus building that features a controversial mural that critics claim remind them of Kentucky’s "unsavory history."
In a move that was designed to appease leftist student activists, the University of Kentucky announced over the weekend that it will remove mandatory classes from a building on campus that is home to a controversial mural. The mural, which includes stereotypes of blacks and Native American, has been a point of contention at the University of Kentucky for some time.
A column in the Lexington Herald-Leader argues that white students should support their black classmates that want the mural taken down. The author, who argues that white Americans wrongly believe that racial oppression ended in the 19th century, says that the mural is a symbol of Kentucky’s "unsavory history."
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Why not just move classes for the 'offended parties' to some other location ? Give them the teachers of their kind and forget about them. I reckon even the 'Kentucky' must pique them. Maybe, rename the new building to something like 'Mugabe College Of Learning'.
As reported in the Lexington Herald-Leader, by Greg Kocher, "Kentucky supported Lincoln's efforts to abolish slavery — 111 years late," on 23 February 2013 -- Here's an OMG fact for you: The Kentucky legislature didn't go on record against slavery until 1976 — 111 years after the 13th Amendment prohibiting involuntary servitude became the law of the land.
See Kentucky didn't succeed from the Union in those early days of 1861. In fact, the Kentucky legislature declared Kentucky neutral which didn't stop an invasion of Confederate forces. As such, it was not effected by the Emaciation Proclamation which only applied to states in rebellion. When the 13th Amendment went to the states to be ratified, the position taken by Kentucky pols (and slave owners) was that the act was a taking without compensation. Kentucky became the last state of the union, circa 1865, to get around to ratifying the amendment.
So, maybe these SJWs need to just boycott all of Kentucky?
Obama Administration: Not a smidge of corruption
[NYPost] A former top official in the Federal Emergency Management Agency was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly taking bribes from the head of a company who received $1.8 billion in federal contracts to repair Puerto Rico's power grid after Hurricane Maria devastated the island in 2017.
Ahsha Tribble, a deputy regional administrator, another former FEMA official, Jovanda Patterson, and Donald Keith Ellison, the former president of COBRA Acquisitions, were charged in a 15-count indictment.
Patterson, Tribble's deputy chief of staff, steered contracts to COBRA and left FEMA in July 2018 for a job at the energy company, the court documents say.
"These defendants were supposed to come to Puerto Rico to help during the recovery after the devastation suffered from Hurricane Maria. Instead, they decided to take advantage of the precarious conditions of our electric power grid and engaged in a bribery and honest services wire fraud scheme in order to enrich themselves illegally," Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, the US attorney in Puerto Rico, said in a statement.
The charges implied that Tribble, who oversaw the restoration of the island's electrical system for FEMA, and Ellison were romantically involved and documented how they traveled together and often stayed in the same room between October 2017 and April 2019.
Ellison, who had a two contracts for recovery work from the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, enticed Tribble with gifts, including a helicopter tour of the Caribbean island, helping her get an apartment in New York, hotel rooms in Fort Lauderdale and Charlotte, N.C., first-class air tickets from San Juan to New York, and use of his credit card, the indictment released Sept. 3 says.
In return, she used her influence to "secure favorable treatment" of COBRA by pressuring PREPA executives to speed-up payments to the company and assign work to Oklahoma-based COBRA that could have been done by PREPA workers.
In February 2018, after an explosion at a transmission center that knocked out power for several towns, Tribble pushed PREPA to hire COBRA to make the repairs even though the costs would be much higher than if the agency used its own employees.
PREPA eventually paid COBRA more than $600,000 for the work.
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Ellison seems not to be quite the colourful Central Casting corruptocrat I was expecting. From NYT article: Mr. Ellison’s lawyer, William Leone, described his client as a former Army Ranger and a “decorated war hero” who had done tours in Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Pic, too: "booties on the ground" (not like that, dammit!).
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Would I be right to guess that people more important than Tribble and Patterson intended the work to go to somebody else?
As I recall the $1.8B contract was immediately cancelled after the Governor(?) was outedrecalled resigned in shame. Not a lot of news about the next contractor.
[BREITBART] Sen. Willard Mitt Romney ...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012, now Senator from Utah. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. He is currently a member of the Never Trump Party and is attempting to assume the mantle of the late John McCain... (R-UT) expressed disappointment over the news of National Security Advisor John Bolton’s firing, calling the outgoing senior White House official "brilliant" and suggested his reinstatement.
"I’m very, very unhappy to hear that he is leaving. It’s a huge loss for the administration and for the nation," Romney told news hounds on Tuesday. "John Bolton is a brilliant man with decades of experience in foreign policy. His point of view was not always the same everybody else in the room. That’s why you wanted him there.
"The fact that he was a contrarian from time to time was an asset, not a liability," the Utah Republican added.
Asked who he believes should replace Bolton, Romney replied: "John Bolton."
Actually, this kinda sorta makes sense. Bolton has strong, well-defined views, and a weapons-grade mustache. He is a perfect candidate for National Security Advisor. Except for the just getting fired thing.
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Aww, neocon warmonger can't start a war? Boo hoo so sad for them. Now people aren't going to die.
People are still going to die. Seems to be the way of the world. And we can still have wars. They just need to have a beginning, a middle and and end. None of this decades of nation-building in silliness.
[BREITBART] Sunday while speaking with news hounds, 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... ’s (D-MA) said the Trump administration and the Republican Party were the "heart of corruption."
Warren said, "We need to stop the control of our defense budget that is exercised by the giant defense industry."
She continued, "We now have a secretary of defense who spent seven years as the main lobbyist for Raytheon. I asked for some simple conflict of interest rules that he would abide by. For example, not to make decisions that would involve Raytheon and Raytheon’s bottom line, and he refused. The Republicans confirmed him anyway. This is what corruption is all about‐putting lobbyists in charge of our government agencies‐a lobbyist, a former lobbyist in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency."
She added, "This is the heart of corruption and the moment has come to call it out and fight back."
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Liz Warren practiced law in Massachusetts without a Mass. law license or its equivalent, but naturally that gets in the way of a sanctimonious lecture, so we rarely hear about that.
[APNEWS] The two major candidates vying for an open House seat from North Carolina used television and radio ads to drum up last-minute support Tuesday in a special election that could provide clues about President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... ’s reelection prospects and Republican chances of retaking the House in 2020.
Republican contender Dan Bishop, a conservative state senator, was hoping a pair of visits Monday to the GOP-leaning district by both Trump and Vice President Mike Pence would boost him to victory over Democrat Dan McCready. At a rally in a Fayetteville arena, Trump told a MAGA-hat-wearing crowd that the vote was a chance for them to send a message to "the America-hating left."
Bishop’s conservative credentials include authorship of the state’s 2016 law that dictated which public bathrooms transgender people could use. The law was repealed after it prompted a national outcry and boycotts that The News Agency that Dare Not be Named estimated cost North Carolina $3.7 billion.
McCready, a former Marine turned financier of solar energy projects, was banking on the district’s suburban moderates to carry him over the top. McCready, a moderate, was already a familiar name in the district: He narrowly trailed in an election for the seat last November that was later invalidated after evidence surfaced of vote tampering.
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In a lot of headlines, the close race was won by the "Trump backed candidate," while in the one that was a walk away, the winner was merely "the GOP candidate." Implication: Trump almost lost. Almost...
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Trumpin' it in NC!
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[SFGate] The National Rifle Association is suing the city and county of the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for declaring it a domestic terrorist organization earlier this month through a resolution passed by the board.
In the lawsuit, which was filed Monday in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, the NRA claims that SF and the Board of Supervisors "adopted a new government policy: blacklist anyone linked to the NRA." They are claiming that the resolution violates the organization's first and fourteenth amendment rights.
The NRA called the resolution "obviously unconstitutional" before comparing it moves by the state of New York and city of Los Angeles they said were similar to SF's.
"Regrettably, this Court, too must step in to instruct elected officials that freedom of speech means you cannot silence or punish those with whom you disagree," the NRA urged before going on to mention its millions of members, some of whom they say "have risked everything to protect Americans from terrorism."
"Therefore, the Resolution's 'terrorist' designation is a frivolous insult‐but San Francisco's actions pose a non-frivolous constitutional threat," the NRA said.
"In the face of recent, similar blacklisting schemes, financial institutions have expressed reluctance to provide bank accounts for disfavored political groups, and city contractors fear losing their livelihoods if they support or even work with the NRA."
Through the lawsuit, the NRA is seeking to stop SF from "interfering" in its exercise of rights, assessing the relationships businesses in SF have with the NRA and potentially taking action against them, and enforcing the resolution that was passed on September 4.
The organization is also asking for damages and for an injunction against SF and the Board of Supervisors.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012, now Senator from Utah. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. He is currently a member of the Never Trump Party and is attempting to assume the mantle of the late John McCain...
...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless...
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
