Reply With QuoteFree cell phones to track illegal immigrants
Unbelievable! White House plans to give cell phones to migrants to track them. Watch the full interview video (second).
https://www.foxnews.com/media/dan-bo...icans-politics
Ukraine: It’s not ok to look away, to say never again!
Spot on!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other...ategory=foryou
Free cell phones to track illegal immigrants
Unbelievable! White House plans to give cell phones to migrants to track them. Watch the full interview video (second).
https://www.foxnews.com/media/dan-bo...icans-politics
College freshmen journalists embarrass CNN and mainstream media
College freshmen Chicago Thinkers journalists Daniel Schmidt and Christopher Phillips questioned The Atlantic journalist Anne Applebaum and CNN host Brian Stelter on his "Reliable Sources" show Sunday on dismissing comments on the Hunter Biden laptop story, during a "Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy" conference this past week at the University of Chicago.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...31c313b8631923
"They push the Russian collusion hoax, they push the Jussie Smollett hoax, they smear Justice Kavanaugh as a rapist, and they also smeared Nick Sandmann as a White supremacist. And yes, they dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop affair as pure Russian disinformation," Phillips said.
The student accused journalists of being little more "than apologists and cheerleaders" for President Biden, before asking, why "all the mistakes of the mainstream media and CNN, in particular, seem to magically all go in one direction."
‘Woke’ mob swarm’s LT. Col. West’s speech at the University of Buffalo
Wow! Free speech, eh? Sad!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/wo...ategory=foryou
The mainstream media in Biden CYA mode
This week’s Liberal Media Scream focuses on the raw reality of just how bad the 2022 political landscape looks for floundering Democrats stuck with a deeply unpopular President Joe Biden. Instead of promoting the type of unity agenda Biden promised in his Inaugural Address, key Democratic strategists say the party should deploy anti-Trump scare tactics.
So, what’s new. This has been their strategy and the mainstream medias for the past 6 years. Trump bad, Biden good. Trump a consummate pathological liar, Biden honest Abe. Everything bad that has happened domestically and foreign in the last 16 months is Trump’s fault – or attributed to others, not Biden’s policies.
What is especially troubling has been the leftwing medias refusal to cover the Hunter Biden scandal – refusing to even acknowledge today there is a scandal. More alarming is the following report from the Hill that Hunter and his family may walk away free from any charges – even though Hunter is currently paying off a fine.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...f586d8ad1119a1
Trump or Biden in 2024? Can’t take any more! Had enough of both!
Diogenes in Albany looking for an honest politician
New York Lt. Gov. Benjamin arrested
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...099b81c9e93504
It would seem that the tragic New York subway shootings has conveniently taken the spotlight off of this second Cuomo-Hochul administration scandal in under one year.Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec
LIDA Member Rinow to Member Ruda: You were a sitting Trustee on the Board. Did you help support Mr. Sweeney getting a seat on the CDC Board?"
Poloncarz: Bills’ owners sought 100% public financing; stadium condition impacted talks
An interesting read and why so many are not enamored with the new Bill’s stadium construction.
https://buffalonews.com/news/local/p...bd6d8ee11.html
Poloncarz also publicly confirmed for the first time that Bills owners Kim and Terry Pegula initially wanted the public to pay 100% of the cost to construct the stadium in Orchard Park. Ron Raccuia, the executive vice president of Pegula Sports and Entertainment and lead negotiator for the Bills’ owners, declined to comment.
The Bills in Buffalo group, co-founded by developer Rocco Termini and architect Benjamin Siegel, has argued that a downtown stadium, which would cost at least an additional $350 million, could be transformational for the city. Poloncarz, in the tweets Monday, pushed back on the group’s estimated economic impact of a downtown location, given the hundreds of millions of dollars in additional expenses and increased taxes.
“Second, the future value of economic impact was wildly inflated,” Poloncarz wrote. “The IMPLAN model of analysis was used, which is so bad the ECIDA doesn’t use it anymore to calculate future economic impact of projects. Everyone agreed the future impact of a stadium in Bflo was inflated.”
IMPLAN stands for Impact Analysis for Planning. It is a widely cited economic input-output model “frequently used to confirm an advocacy position of those who commission studies, rather than a search for truth,” according to John Crompton, a Texas A&M professor of recreation, park and tourism sciences, who wrote an article on the subject published in 2020 in the journal Tourism Review.
“Third, the cost to put light rail to the Bflo site was not included in the analysis, though it was contemplated as necessary,” Poloncarz wrote. “We are not far enough along to qualify for federal infrastructure dollars, and it would have been hundreds of millions more in costs.”
Last edited by Lee Chowaniec; April 13th, 2022 at 01:24 AM.
An untainted politician in New York, seriously?
Without reference to Chris Lee, Chris Collins, and Anthony Weiner, electing those of questionable character to high office appears to be trending in New York State.
Since 2008, New York State has seen its last two elected governors resign because of inappropriate sexual conduct, and an unelected governor withdraw from his re-election campaign for ethical reasons.
Furthermore, since 2012 both a Democrat Majority Leader and a Republican Minority Leader of the New York State Assembly resigned in disgrace.
Yesterday, fourteen years, one month, and way day since this terrible trend began, the Lieutenant Governor of New York resigned after being arrested.
New York State's motto is "Excelsior," a Latin word which means “Ever upward!”
I wonder how one writes "I've fallen and I can't get up" in Latin?
References:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-n...62947520080312
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/n...7paterson.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...signs-n1260310
https://www.wsj.com/articles/silver-...ter-1422671601
https://www.syracuse.com/news/2020/0...wi-arrest.html
Last edited by mark blazejewski; April 13th, 2022 at 11:33 AM.
LIDA Member Rinow to Member Ruda: You were a sitting Trustee on the Board. Did you help support Mr. Sweeney getting a seat on the CDC Board?"
Biden’s blunt comments on Ukraine can veer from U.S. policy
Washington Post
President Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal,” although U.S. officials had not made that legal determination. During his trip to Europe last month, he seemingly urged regime change in an ad-libbed line at the conclusion of a speech in Warsaw, then clarified he was expressing “moral outrage” rather than articulating American policy.
Then on Tuesday, the president once again veered from his prepared remarks, labeling Russia’s atrocities in Ukraine a “genocide,” despite top U.S. officials saying last week they had not yet seen evidence of actions meeting that definition, and even though a legal review on the matter has not been completed.
Biden’s off-the-cuff comment marked the latest example of the tension between his often-emotional response to Putin’s brutal war and the international implications of a president’s words. Throughout his political career, Biden has cultivated a reputation for unscripted candor, a trait allies laud as humanizing but adversaries deride as undisciplined.
“Intent is hard to prove because you need some sort of smoking gun — a memo or directive or unclassified telephone call saying something like ‘Kill them all,'” Koh said. He added that Biden is “perfectly entitled to say as a matter of personal belief that he believes that Putin has that intent, but I think that’s different from saying that the United States has the evidence that it could prove that case beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.”
The United Nations defines genocide as an attempt to destroy, in part or in whole, an ethnic, racial, religious or national group. Russia has carried out a brutal campaign of killings throughout Ukraine, and investigators have uncovered evidence of torture before death, beheading and dismemberment, and the intentional burning of corpses in towns like Bucha.
White House officials were caught off guard, as they did not anticipate Biden to make such an important declaration during a speech about ethanol in Iowa. But as officials were flooded with inquiries from reporters, Biden and his aides decided he would make it clear he intended to make the comment and that it reflected his personal belief.
Before boarding Air Force One back to Washington, Biden told reporters he would “let the lawyers decide internationally whether or not it qualifies.” But he said, “It sure seems that way to me.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky immediately praised Biden’s remark, writing on Twitter, “Calling things by their names is essential to stand up to evil.”
On Wednesday, Psaki vigorously defended Biden’s comments — and their timing. “He’s the president of the United States and the leader of the free world, and he’s allowed to make his views known at any point he would like,” Psaki said.
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Biden called it right, IMHO! The biased left Washington Post should be less hypocritical when it comes to anthers free speech and/or opinion expressing opposing viewpoints.
Anyone not seeing that Putin is the personification of a war criminal or that his army is practicing genocide and brutal acts against humanity is an idiot. And he isn’t done yet.
Media Hypocrisy
Elon Musk: The Left’s newest existential threat
Imagine, the man invested in clean energy has managed to become a threat to the left’s control of speech by proposing to purchase Twitter and open the media network to speech and opinion from all sources not engaging in promoting violence or acts that incite violence.
Twitter leftists are in panic mode and ‘frightened’ after hearing of Musk’s offer to buy the social media giant, seeing it as a dangerous precedent – a dangerous threat to free speech, of all things. Musk opines reports or opinions that have been blocked or dismissed by a network considered false, salacious, or posted by individuals with opposing views to that of the network and its left-leaning ilk needs a reset.
Even like mainstream media outlets are now acknowledging events they refused to report on, reports falsely presented, or misleading reports. Such as:
The Trump-Russian collusion, Steele dossier, Clinton disinformation scandals.
The Hunter Biden scandal.
The media-fabricated scandal where Border Patrol agents were accused of “whipping” Haitian migrants - and have been cleared of wrongdoing. The same cannot be said for the liberals who smeared them in their support of opening the southern border.
The police arrested a suspect in a New York City subway shooting that left 23 people injured, 10 with severe gunshot wounds. The suspect, Frank James, is a 62-year-old African American male who posted prolifically on social media and hosted a YouTube channel where he expressed Black Nationalist leanings and racial grievances. But you wouldn't know this if you got your news from corporate liberal media. Not only did they fail to cover the trail of hate James left on social media, but many hesitated to refer to him as Black at all, even while an active manhunt was underway for the would-be mass murderer.
HORACE COOPER: Even though if you go to UC Berkeley, they might make some kind of false claim. Here's what's actually being pursued. I call it the racial antinomian heresy: The theory that there are people that ... can misbehave, they can blow up subways, they can run their car down over people. And we're going to overlook that as somehow we're making up for past mistreatment. All that we're signaling by that behavior is that more people should do it. So shame on the New York Times, shame on CNN, and shame on Joe Biden for lying to America.
While Biden continues to main his domestic and foreign policies are working, while the mainstream media defames FOX, Newsmax, ONAN, etc. and the Republicans to discredit their reports and opinions on inflation, supply side deficiencies, the border crisis, crime, etc., Biden’s approval rating continues to drop. The American voter has experienced enough with socialist-Marxist policies / programs, wokeism and cancel culture.
Ukraine – While Ukrainians continue to be indiscriminately slaughtered, raped, and displaced from their homes by the millions, where the Russians are not backing off but changing their strategy, Zelenskyy continues to beg for promised weaponry not delivered:
"When some leaders ask me what weapons I need, I need a moment to calm myself, because I already told them the week before." He acknowledged that shipments of weaponry may be stalled because leaders of other countries across the world cannot understand the immediacy with which Ukraine needs the shipments. "They are not against us. They just live in a different situation. As long as they have not lost their parents and children, they do not feel the way we feel," Zelenskyy said.
Fossils in leadership positions
Biden’s and Diane Feinstein’s diminished cognitive abilities are being openly reported on. it is time America considers the aged they are returning to office and the quality of services provided. While Jen Psaki declared the other day, “We are not sending the president to Ukraine,” one must ask, ‘who is in charge’?
The ages of top Democrats like President Biden (79), Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., (82), Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., (82), Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., (81), and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. (71), Bernie Sanders, 80.
On the Republic side, Trump 75, Grassley 88, McConnell 80, and a host of others.
Bills stadium deal deemed worst ever
I've studied stadium financing for over two decades – and the new Bills stadium is one of the worst deals for taxpayers I've ever seen
https://news.yahoo.com/ive-studied-s...121246769.html
New Governor, same mess
Faced with controversy over the budget spending, bail reform, the $850 million of public funding to keep the Bills in New York (appearance of conflict of interest between her husband and the Pegulas in the Bills deal), failure to produce ethical reform, surging statewide crime, etc., Kathy Hochul’s political capital is under assault.
New governor, familiar promises … and nothing changes
Chris Churchill – Albany Union Times
ALBANY – In Andrew Cuomo’s first speech as governor, he promised he would remake a state government mired in scandal and tainted by corruption.
“We have lost the trust,” he told his Capitol crowd at that 2011 inauguration. “And we’re not going to get it back until we clean up Albany and there’s real transparency and real accountability and real ethics and real ethics reform.”
And how did that turn out? Oh, not too well.
Enter Kathy Hochul – and more promises. “For me, it’s very simple,” the Democrat said in August during her first speech as governor. “We’ll focus on open ethical governing that New Yorkers will trust.”
Not even eight months later, we’re confronted by the arrest and resignation of Brian Benjamin, handpicked by Hochul to be lieutenant governor, on allegations of a bribery scheme focused on campaign contributions.
It’s as if New York is determined to prove the cliché about things staying the same despite change. Same old Albany. Same old embarrassments. Same old reasons for cynicism and distrust.
The suddenly former lieutenant governor is accused of directing taxpayer money to a real estate developer’s nonprofit in exchange for contributions to prior campaign accounts. He also, according to the federal indictment, promised to help the developer obtain a zoning variance in exchange for donations to state Senate Democrats.
It is allegedly the infamous quid pro quo, in other words. You give me this, and you’ll get that. Same old baloney.
It should go without saying that Benjamin, who entered a not guilty plea on Tuesday, is due our presumption of innocence. Hochul, meanwhile, is not responsible for what her chosen running mate may have done, and her office isn’t implicated by the charges.
Hochul is still tainted by this. Benjamin’s arrest makes those promises about a new era of ethical government ring hollow. It calls her judgment into serious question. For a governor who vowed a clean break with the dirty past, the optics are terrible.
Meanwhile, Benjamin’s plight is not the only reason to doubt whether Hochul is living up to those early promises. Given the methods and sources of her record-breaking fundraising, the governor has been tiptoeing through an ethical minefield.
She has relied to an unusual degree on lobbyists for her donations, including many who represent clients who have active business before state government or want something from it.
For example, as The Buffalo News reported, Hochul’s campaign received large donations from the lobbyist representing the Buffalo Bills as the team was seeking public money for a new stadium.
How did that request turn out? Has anybody heard?
Playing footsie with donors who want something is the way the game has long been played, of course, but that doesn’t mean it’s ethical. It certainly doesn’t represent a new era for state government or suggest that New Yorkers should trust that things are kosher.
What’s notable about Benjamin’s plight is that he’s accused of doing something that isn’t far from routine, the only difference being that he was allegedly more explicit about what the donor would get for the money. “Let me see what I can do,” Benjamin said, according to the indictment.
Since we’re talking about mere degrees of difference here, you can imagine the indictment set knees a-knocking all around the Capitol as lawmakers realized that the lieutenant governor might go down for something that’s similar to what they have done.
New governors arrive with promises. Nothing much changes.
U.S. and NATO face new dilemma on Ukraine aid
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...6de8cb43b92cdc
One of the greatest challenges for the Biden administration and its allies thus far has been determining where Putin's "red line" lies and how much they can continue to assist Ukraine without provoking the Russian president to widen the war, potentially placing NATO troops in harm's way.
As the US prepared to send the $800 million aid package last week, Russia warned in a diplomatic note to the State Department that there would be "unpredictable consequences" if the US and allies continue to send in the heavier duty weaponry that Ukraine has sought.
Military experts interpreted the demarche as sign that Russia could contemplate targeting not only the weapons themselves as they arrive on Ukrainian soil, but also NATO supply convoys that ferry the weapons to Ukraine's borders.
As world leaders try to glean what Putin is thinking -- and how far he might go in trying to punish the nations that help Ukraine -- Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who met face-to-face with Putin last week, said it was clear that Putin believes he's winning the war and is operating "in his own war logic."
Given those pressures, US officials must be clearer in defining their objectives and whether America is committed to doing what it takes to help Ukraine win, retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, the former commanding general of the US Army in Europe, said Sunday in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." While the latest round of US aid was "substantial," he said it was not enough.
"What the Ukrainians need desperately are long-range fires, rockets, artillery, drones that can disrupt or destroy the systems that are causing so much damage in Ukrainian cities, and which will also play a critical role in this next phase, if and when it begins," Hodges said. "I would really like to hear the administration talk about winning and having a sense of urgency on getting these things there. Otherwise, this window of opportunity we have, the next couple of weeks, to really disrupt Russia's attempt to build up is going to pass."
One would hope that Mr. Biden would take this war and the crisis at the border more serious than his war on inequity and where he will be utilizing our military.
Nothing is Biden’s fault
The Biden administration hates being held accountable. Biden is using the war in Ukraine to distract from the crisis at home. The mainstream media unabashedly covers up for his blatant policy mistakes.
Economic picture is grim – rising inflation and supply chain shortages now predicted long term. Surging crime rates, border crisis, Afghanistan fiasco, Covid collateral damage, Hunter Biden, etc.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...67aaefc90a2f8c
This week’s Liberal Media Scream finds President Joe Biden making history — he may be the first president for whom nothing is his fault.
While every president before him, Democrat or Republican, has had wars, inflation, or terrible policies hung around their neck, Biden’s media fans are finding others to blame for out-of-control inflation, historic illegal immigration, and bumbling decisions.
Brent Baker, vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Center, explains our weekly pick: “Poor, poor Biden. After enacting policies that caused the problems (on inflation, massive new government spending and hampering domestic energy production; on the border, stopping the building of Trump’s wall and allowing illegal immigrants to pass into the United States while awaiting asylum decisions), he’s now helpless to solve the problems he’s exacerbated. How about he reverse his policies? This media spin is reminiscent of the hapless Carter years, when the media painted the presidency as overwhelmed until Reagan proved the problem wasn’t the office but who was in it.”
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