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Italian Emma Morano, last known survivor of 19th century, dies at 117

Paradox: Abortion Rights, but Anti-Death Penalty; Right to Life, but Pro-Death Penalty

Judge halts Arkansas plan to execute inmates by end of month

Andrew Demillo and Kelly p. Kissel, Associated Press April 15, 2017

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A federal judge on Saturday upended Arkansas' unprecedented plan to execute eight inmates in an 11-day period, saying the men have the right to challenge prison procedures that could expose them to "severe pain."

The state still hopes to begin the executions Monday and the attorney general's office promised an appeal to overturn U.S. Kristine Baker's order. Arkansas' supply of one of its lethal injection drugs, midazolam, expires April 30 and Gov. Asa Hutchinson has said he wants to use the state's supply before it spoils.

The Arkansas Department of Corrections has said in court filings it has no source for obtaining additional midazolam.

Another federal judge and the state Supreme Court had already granted stays to two of the eight inmates, reducing the number of executions to six within an 11-day period. Only Texas has executed six prisoners in a shorter timeframe since the U.S. Supreme Court reauthorized the death penalty in 1976.

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GOOD NEWS!!!

Fear of Trump Makes Migrants Disappear From Mexican Border

Their border-town shelter used to be full of migrants on their way to the United States. Now it stands nearly empty, thanks to America’s president.

Betsy Woodruff  04.14.17 

GET OUT AND STAY OUT!

NOGALES, Mexico—In the 35 years Gilda and Juan Francisco Loureiro have been running a shelter in northern Mexico for undocumented immigrants, they’ve never seen a week like this one.

The shelter, called Albergue San Juan Bosco, is perched on a steep hillside looking over the busy border town of Nogales, Mexico. Its walls are painted bright turquoise and tangerine, and its wide-open double doors look west over low hills and Highway 15. Since they opened it, upward of 1 million people have slept there on their way to the U.S. But on the day I visited, it was almost empty.

It didn’t used to be this way, Gilda and Juan Francisco, known as Paco, explained. In the decades since they opened the space to give migrants a place to shower and sleep before crossing the border, the shelter—with separate rooms full of bunkbeds for men and women—would regularly house 100 migrants per night. Sometimes, that number would hit 300 or more, and Gilda and Paco would pull out thin mattresses to fit everyone on the floor.

But today, those mattresses are neatly stacked in a closet, untouched. ...

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Ending the Obama Sucking Terror Era

Moab is an Old Testament Name and Region East of Israel

US drops largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan after Green Beret killed

by Lucas Tomlinson  Published April 13, 2017

The U.S. military dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday just days after a Green Beret was killed fighting ISIS there, a U.S. defense official confirmed to Fox News.
The GBU-43B, a 21,000-pound conventional bomb, was dropped on an ISIS tunnel complex in Nangarhar Province.
The MAOB -- Massive Ordinance Air Blast -- is also known as the “Mother Of All bombs.” It was first tested in 2003, but hadn't been used before Thursday.
"As [ISIS'] losses have mounted, they are using IEDs, bunkers and tunnels to thicken their defense," Gen. John Nicholson, Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, said in a statement. "This is the right munition to reduce these obstacles and maintain the momentum of our offensive against [ISIS]."

For comparison, each Tomahawk cruise missile launched at Syria last week was 1,000-pounds each.

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This is How Government Works, Badly or Not At All

And Ben Carson knows it all too well. m/r

Ben Carson visits Miami housing development — and gets stuck in elevator

By Rene Rodriguez  4-12-17

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson's two-day visit to Miami — his third stop on a national listening tour — started with a big glitch.
Carson, Miami-Dade County Public Housing Director Michael Liu and five other people got stuck inside an elevator Wednesday on the way down from a visit to the rooftop of the Courtside Family Apartments in Overtown.
Miami Heat basketball legend Alonzo Mourning, whose nonprofit AM Affordable Housing co-developed the complex with Miami's Housing Trust Group, waited anxiously in the building's lobby while Miami-Dade fire rescue labored to pry open the elevator's jammed doors.

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Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/real-estate/article144130049.html#storylink=cpy

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How I Hate To Fly Now-a-Days - Airlines, as many Big Gov't Loving Big Companies, Don't Understand Market Forces

The Major Airlines have been in Economic Fascist Partnership with the Federal Government for decades. The sad result, they start acting like political fascists. m/r

The Nation’s Pulse

The Dao of United Airlines

George Neumayr  April 12, 2017

Few experiences capture the awfulness of life in post-Christian America more vividly than a trip to the airport. It is a toss-up as to who behaves worse: the sandals-wearing passengers or the surly crew.

The classlessness of the airlines industry is breathtaking and has now culminated in the beating and dragging of a paying customer who dared to resist its “overbooking” schemes. One can only cheer the plummeting stock price of United Airlines — a biblically fitting punishment for its smallness and greed.
For the sake of saving thousands, it has lost millions. This is a Tiananmen Square moment for the airlines industry, with David Dao as Tank Man. Of course, those whom the media gods would destroy, they first make famous. Now we are seeing reports on Dao’s squalid and difficult past. But who cares? He was still mistreated, as even the corporate weasels at United Airlines now admit.

United CEO Oscar Munoz has called the episode “horrific” and pledged to “fix what’s broken so this never happens again.” But his first instinct was to blame the customer and pander to his employees.

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Clemson's Tide is Out

Is mañana the underlying theme here? What a load of PC. m/r

Clemson U. Training Says Tardiness Is 'Cultural' and Must Be Tolerated

By Tom Knighton April 11, 2017

Clemson University wants to promote tolerance and diversity and all the other progressive buzzwords that mean the exact opposite of progressives' actual intentions. Nothing surprising there.

But what Clemson is now arguing for in the name of tolerance is just about the nastiest example of the "bigotry of low expectations" I've ever seen:

On another slide, a character named Alejandro schedules a 9:00 a.m. meeting between two groups of foreign professors and students. The first group arrived fifteen minutes early, while the second arrived ten minutes late. According to the answers, it is wrong for Alejandro to “politely ask the second group to apologize,” or explain that “in our country, 9:00 a.m. means 9:00 a.m.”

Rather, the slide says that Alejandro should “recognize cultural differences that may impact the meeting and adjust accordingly,” and understand “that his cultural perspective regarding time is neither more nor less valid than any other.”

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"Islam is king on a field of corpses."

Last week, Trump did something fundamental for schoolboys and new prison inmates who need to make it known that they will fight back if anyone crosses them. This establishes survival. In school or prison, it is a fundamental article of survival to stand up to the bully in order to get respect. Win or lose. Standing up and striking a blow is, as the saying goes, the best defense is a good offense. Arabs and the Muslim world understand it, so does the Orient, as do the Russians. There exists something more fundamentally attached to our animal past across Asia than there is in the Occidental World. m/r

More tellingly freighted, the toll of the dead in Stockholm numbered Maïlys Dereymaeker, the young mother of an 18-month-old baby. She'd worked as a psychologist at several Belgian migrant centers helping "refugees" whose asylum bids had been turned down. Her killer could have used her assistance: Rakhmat Akilov had had his application for Swedish asylum rejected last year, but the authorities couldn't be bothered to rouse themselves to deport him. She was, in a certain sense, on his side. But he killed her anyway, because that's not how he saw it.

The Incoming Roar

by Mark Steyn  Steyn on the World  April 11, 2017 

Last week was a fairly typical one in 21st century headlines:
~On Monday, 14 victims were killed in an Islamic terrorist attack on the St Petersburg Metro;
~On Friday, four victims were killed in an Islamic terrorist attack by a homicidal truck driver on Queen Street in Stockholm;
~On Palm Sunday, at least 45 victims were killed in an Islamic terrorist attack on two Coptic churches in Egypt.
In other news, the United States bombed Syria after a chemical-weapons attack, and UK, Canadian and other newspapers reported on the treatment a Berlin schoolboy received after revealing to his Muslim classmates that he's Jewish. Meanwhile, Giulio Meotti wrote for the Gatestone Institute on the closure of 500 churches in London, and the opening of 423 mosques.

The US bombing raid got the most headlines - because, after eight years of Obama, it was unusual.

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Obama's Legacy: "being black, and being able to convincingly read a teleprompter."

There was nothing worthwhile for the US in Obama's presidency. Even his radical race agenda made black race relations their worst since 1968. m/r

The Rotten Obama Record -- and Legacy

By David Prentice April 10, 2017

There is an excellent cartoon showing a circle of people surrounding Barack Obama, guarding him, preventing anyone from bringing him harm.  An observer asks if those people are the Secret Service.  The answer:  No, that’s the media.
I don’t think there is a better portrayal of the Obama legacy.  This cartoon succinctly communicates how this man gained office, kept it, and remained popular.  The Obama phenomenon had a complex side, but the most complex and nefarious part was the unwillingness of the mainstream media to criticize, or bring up any hint of wrongdoing on his part.  From the beginning, our media created an image for him, never actually delving into his background, his beliefs, or his life in any way.  Unlike the quest to find out Trump’s tax returns, the media never sought to reveal who or what Obama was.
After Obama’s election, it was Chris Matthews who infamously said, “My Job Is to Make the Obama Presidency a Success” continuing with, “This country needs a successful presidency.”  The entire left-leaning media clearly took that construct as its main job for Obama.  They reported everything as positive.  If there was something negative, or heaven forbid WRONG, it often was ignored, lied about or spun hard to make it look like nothing was there.  Great examples are the horror of Obamacare, the lies about Benghazi, and the falsehoods about the “wonderful” Iran deal.
There is a very dark underbelly to this fawning:  Obama himself.  Here was a radical leftist who had accomplished nothing in his entire life.  

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Are Huge Lies Just a Fetish with Democrats, Or is it Just Part of Their DNA?

Susan Rice is trying to take the Liars Crown Away From Obama and Hillary. m/r

Susan Rice Touted 'Success' in Syria as Recently as January

by Debra Heine April 7, 2017

Dubious claims made by former National Security Adviser Susan Rice and other members of the Obama administration regarding Syria have attracted jeers and catcalls from conservatives following this week's sarin gas attack. Contrary to their repeated assertions, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad did not destroy his chemical weapons stockpile, in violation of the Obama administration's much-touted chemical weapons deal of 2013.

“There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and ignored the urging of the U.N. Security Council,” President Trump said.

Via Fox News:

Video footage from the chemical attack scene immediately raised credibility problems for claims made by members of the Obama administration that the prior agreement had rid the war-torn country of chemical agents.

During an interview this past January with National Public Radio, former National Security Adviser Rice touted the “success” in Syria, in striking a deal with Russia's help that resulted in the prior administration dropping the threat of military action.

“We were able to find a solution that didn’t necessitate the use of force that actually removed the chemical weapons that were known from Syria, in a way that the use of force would never have accomplished,” she boasted. “We were able to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile.”

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