Beer Drinkers Are Boycotting Yuengling After Its Billionaire Owner Endorses Trump
[Forbes] One of America’s wealthiest beermakers is in hot water after voicing support for Donald Trump. Dick Yuengling, the fifth-generation owner of America’s oldest brewery, gave Eric Trump a personal tour of his historic Pottsville, Penn. plant on Monday.
Brian Sims, one of Pennsylvania’s first openly gay state legislators, wrote a lengthy Facebook post criticizing the company. "D.G. Yuengling & Son, Inc. believes that an agenda that is anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT, anti-racial minority and anti-equality is best for them and that tells me all I need to know about what they think is best for their own customers," Sims wrote in the post on Wednesday, which he signed "a former customer of 17 years." Fortunately, Yuengling recently began distribution in my area - guess I'll head across the street and buy a 12-pack.
My recipe calls for porter or stout but when I don't have them available I've tried any dark beer around and B&T does well. Of course the B in a real B&T is Guiness so it's not unexpected.
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Net profit attributable to the newspaper publisher fell to $406,000, or break-even per share
that won't even pay for their Christmas Holiday Party
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They earned princely $400k in 3Q. Not bad for an upper westside newsletter owned by a Mexican plutocrat. Pulitzer Award Snark of the Day
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What they are NOT SAYING about all of this is the main reason for ads not being purchased. Progressive Big Government policy is destroying the economy.
[New York Post] A consultancy company linked to the Clintons is trying to silence a former employee, suing GOP strategist Ed Rollins for $10 million for talking about the inner workings of the controversial corporations.
The defamation suit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday, says Rollins made "false statements" about Teneo Holdings to Lou Dobbs on "Fox Business News" on Oct. 28 and to the New York Times in an Oct. 22 article.
In the Times article, headlined "A Constellation of Influencers: Behind the Curtain at Teneo," Rollins, who ran President Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election campaign, said the company rented out high-profile consultants like former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton to business executives to boost their prestige at events.
"The ability to bring business and political leaders together to meet the CEOs was all part of the selling point," Rollins said.
He also told the newspaper that Teneo quietly hosted salons connecting executives with Democratic lawmakers. Even though Teneo sponsored the DC dinner parties, the company disguised its involvement by sending invitations through Bloomberg View columnist Margarat Carlson, the Times reported. Con't.
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It all depends on what you mean by "pay for Play."
Its the Democratic Party way to smear and intimidate. Or am I missing something?
Just so long as I don't have to be dead to actually Vote. I would hate that. Ask yourself WHO does it actually benefit ? And too, Follow the Money. Teneo? i will remember the name.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Police in Des Moines, Iowa, say two officers have been shot and killed in ambush-style attacks.
The Des Moines Police Department said in a news release that the shootings took place early Wednesday. Officers responded to a report of shots fired at about 1:06 a.m. and found an Urbandale Police Department officer who had been shot.
Des Moines officers responded to assist. About 20 minutes later, a Des Moines officer was found shot. Both officers have died.
The Des Moines Police Department said suspect information is being developed. The agency didn’t immediately release any other information but said a news conference was planned for 5 a.m.
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Looking for: Scott Michael Greene, 46, is considered armed and dangerous. He is about 5'11 and 180 pounds and is believed to be driving a blue 2011 Ford F-150 with an Iowa license plate 780 YFR.
CBBC’s series Just a Girl is the latest baffling attempt at normalizing, trivializing and even celebrating the completely unnecessary process that is childhood sex change. Freely available online on CBBC’s website, the series even teaches children about taking hormones and puberty-halting drugs. Do we truly know the effects of such drugs on one’s developing body and brain chemistry. Of course not. Why is this radical and aberrant process promoted to children? To what Circle of Hell do Programming Executives go?
Although X and Y chromosomal abnormalities are more common than people appreciate, but that never enters the discussion. It's always framed as an issue of personal choice.
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This entire manufactured transgender issue is utter nonsense. The very definition of Delusional is an individual who cannot reconcile emotionally and/or intellectually with physical reality. I am afraid a middle aged man such as Bruce Jenner who looks into a mirror and sees a woman staring back does not need surgery as much as a stint in the proverbial Quiet Room with some puzzles and baskets. The idea that this lunacy is being spread like manure over the airwaves is cultural madness, and worse yet aimed at the most defenseless segment of the population.
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This entire manufactured transgender issue is utter nonsense. The very definition of Delusional is an individual who cannot reconcile emotionally and/or intellectually with physical reality.
Silicone Gel Implants to a lesser degree? No 'nonsense' to plastic surgeons and big pharma. Follow the money, per usual.
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Bruce Jenner who looks into a mirror and sees a woman staring back does not need surgery as much as a stint in the proverbial Quiet Room with some puzzles and baskets.
Mr. Jenner doesn't see a woman staring back. Rather, he has a kink that gets off on having breasts of his very own. (He has refused to have his male bits removed.) Other than that he is robustly heterosexual, but very frustrated that none of the women in his life have agreed with him that the change is a turn-on. And yes, therapy to deal with this is a much better idea than indulging him.
Some Venezuelan city dwellers are trying to grow their own produce to offset the country’s severe shortages following socialist President Nicolás Maduro’s calls for “food sovereignty.”
But in a country where families are going hungry as a result of government mismanagement and sky-high inflation, many view the “Great Agro-Venezuela Mission” with skepticism.
“Agriculture shouldn’t be a solution” to the country’s shortages, said former landowner Iraima Pacheco de Leandro, 54, a well-to-do government opponent who lives in Caracas.
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government mismanagement and sky-high inflation,
As though there is any difference between the first, cause, and the second, effect.
Actually small plot agriculture worked in the USSR. After the collectivization movement some ridiculously large proportion of vegetables were grown on the tiny plots that were left outside government control.
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A guy I know from Chile told me the statists took over his country and redistributed the wealth of many of the estates. Most of the people who received the redistributed wealth ate the farm animals and edible foodstuff such as gardens and then they had no more. A few caught on how to husband their redistributed wealth and they started building and growing again.
During WWII in the U.S. people had Victory Gardens to help sustain themselves during the war. Of course many of them were property owners also. Property rights are important to freedom and liberty.
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Property and land ownership is the hallmark of freedom and the free man. Perhaps that is why gov't always wants to seize it and insist it be used for the public good.
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Most of the (cough) seed money is being distributed in densely populated urban areas, with marginal to poisonous soil, not in the countryside. We're talking patio farming here.
[Lawfareblog] There are limited details about the recent U.S. Freedom of Navigation (FON) operation in the South China Sea on October 21, but by any account it surely did not achieve what some had advocated: challenging China’s installations on artificial land in the Spratly Islands. Instead, if press accounts and expert analysis (such as Julian Ku’s post) are correct, the USS Decatur challenged Chinese claims to "straight baselines" surrounding the separate Paracel Islands, which the U.S. government has long claimed are excessive. By challenging an explicit claim on the grounds that it exceeds what international law supports, such a maneuver is a textbook FON operation. A military maneuver designed to challenge China’s Spratly Islands construction is far less clear-cut.
This most recent FON operation was the first publicly known instance since May. This is not necessarily extraordinary, but an anonymous source told Reuters in November 2015 the challenges would occur "about twice a quarter or a little more than that," which many observers took as a reference point. The Decatur’s operation took place 164 days--almost two full quarters-- after the last public report on May 10 and some had begun to question U.S. resolve.
But the public maneuvers from May 10 and October 21 are not necessarily the only recent examples of U.S. FON operations. Last month, Assistant Secretary of State Danny Russel implied not all FON operations are announced, saying "some things are only visible to people with radar and tracking." The U.S. government does, however, publish an annual report describing which "excessive claims" by which countries the FON program challenged through "DoD operational assertions and activities."
North Korea is preparing to launch another intermediate-range ballistic missile in the next 24 to 72 hours, two U.S. officials with knowledge of the latest intelligence assessment tell Fox News.
The pre-Election Day launch of the Musudan missile would be the ninth test launch this year, in addition to two nuclear tests by the communist nation in defiance of United Nations sanctions.
Neither official would specify what the latest satellite imagery showed indicating a launch was days away. The U.S. military is concerned that the Musudan can be launched from concealable road-mobile launchers, typically from highways or mountainous areas. North Korean officials have long expressed a desire to build a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile to strike the United States.
North Korea has shown a propensity to conduct missile launches around major events in the United States. In early February, Superbowl Sunday in the United States, North Korea launched a satellite into space. One of the Musudan launches came before the final presidential debate and while top South Korean leaders visited Washington earlier this month.
In March, the U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution condemning a January nuclear test as well the long range launch putting the satellite in space. Resolution 2270 calls on North Korea not conduct further tests and immediately suspend all activities related to its ballistic missile program.
On Monday, for the first time in 28 years, a U.S. Navy ballistic missile submarine visited the U.S. island territory of Guam in the western Pacific, according to Navy officials. USS Pennsylvania, the American submarine which made the call to Guam, can carry 24 Trident D-5 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) with a range of nearly 7,500 miles.
Last week, the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said the goal of persuading North Korea to abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons is probably a "lost cause."
Thanks in part to DNI Clapper...
Earlier this month, North Korea attempted two Musudan launches, which both failed according to the U.S. miltiary. One of the launches occurred while South Korea’s top diplomat and defense minister visited Washington for scheduled talks. At the State Department, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter vowed an “overwhelming” response if the United States or its allies were attacked. Secretary of State John Kerry said the U.S. would deploy an advanced anti-missile system, THAAD, “as soon as possible.”
South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se warned that North Korea was “nearing the final stage of nuclear weaponization” and called the threat “grave.”
At a Pentagon press conference alongside his American counterpart hours after the North Korean launch, South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo, speaking through an interpreter, said there was a “high possibility” North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was present for the launch. Han said his country would keep up “psy-ops” or psychological operations to expose North Korea to the outside world.
Recent satellite photos first reported by the Washington Post last week allege the two recent missile launches on Oct. 15 and Oct. 20 may, in fact, be long range KN-08 missiles and not Musudan intermediate-range missiles.
Despite a number of spectacular failures beginning in April, North Korea conducted a Musudan launch last summer that was deemed partially successful. The U.S. military’s Strategic Command said a June lunch resulted in a Musudan traveling nearly 250 miles into the Sea of Japan. When fully operational, a Musudan can travel up to 2,500 miles, well within range of U.S. forces stationed in Japan and Guam, according to officials.
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[NPR] For years, New Jersey drivers enjoyed relatively cheap gas -- thanks to one of the lowest state gasoline taxes in the country. The state's gas tax hasn't gone up since 1988. But that all changed Tuesday, when it jumped by 23 cents a gallon.
Across the state on Monday, drivers raced to fill up their tanks before a tax hike took effect.
"I already went to a couple of different stops, and they were out of regular gas," said Tobin Gringras, as he topped off his tank at a gas station in Hoboken, right across the river from New York City. "So obviously there's a lot of people that are filling up right now."
"I'm speechless, cause I really relied on this," said Jazmine Rogers, who commutes from Ellenville, N.Y., about 90 miles each way. "It's gonna hit my pockets hard, unfortunately."
James O'Connor of Hoboken was skeptical that New Jersey will spend its new windfall wisely. "I just hope it's used for what it's supposed to be used for," he said. "You know, it's supposed to be for roads and bridges and so forth. They put these taxes on, and where's it go?"
There's no doubt that New Jersey's roads are in bad shape. The state's transportation trust fund ran out of money this year. So lawmakers reached a bipartisan deal to raise the state's gas tax by 23 cents a gallon, to 37.5 cents. Gov. Chris Christie says the deal will generate billions of dollars a year for transportation projects, and allow the state to lower the sales tax and phase out the estate tax altogether. Con't.
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Gov. Chris Christie says the deal will generate billions of dollars a year for transportation projects, and allow the state to lower the sales tax and phase out the estate tax altogether.
No mention of impacts to consumer goods, bread, milk, fuel costs for school buses, public transport. The hidden taxes increases paid by everyone.
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even with the increase, NJ State fuel tax will be less than NY (about 43c)or PA (about 54c) which are its biggest competitors for biz
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Gas prices have dropped by about half at the pump, probably permantly, and tax revenue fell as a result. Overall, consumers are still ahead of where they were.
Igor Dodon, the Socialist Party candidate at Moldovan presidential elections, retains the leadership but fails to get 50 percent of the votes required to win the presidential elections in the first round, as all the ballots have been counted, according to Moldova's Central Election Commission (CEC), Sputnik International reported.
After 100 percent of the votes have been counted, Dodon holds 48.72 percent of the votes, while the runner-up Maia Sandu got 37.96 percent, the CEC said on its website. As a candidate needs to gain 50 percent and one vote to win the elections, Moldova is likely to hold the runoff on November 13.
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[AlAhram] The head of the Turkish armed forces, General Hulusi Akar, was visiting Russia on Tuesday to discuss military cooperation and regional developments with his Russian counterpart, the Turkish military said in a statement.
Russia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... member, are backing opposing sides in the Syrian conflict. In recent months they have been normalising ties that broke down a year ago when Turkey shot down a Russian warplane along its border with Syria.
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I'm sure Russia will be very interested in hearing your military plans.
[AlAhram] Turkish authorities will appoint administrators to run the municipality in Diyarbakir, the mainly Kurdish southeast's largest city, after detaining its joint mayors last week, officials said on Tuesday.
The state will name the administrators in the coming days, the officials told news hounds on condition their names were not used.
A prosecutor accuses Gultan Kisanak, Diyarbakir's first female mayor and a well-known former parliamentarian, and her co-mayor Firat Anli of links with terrorism for public statements they made about greater autonomy for Kurds, who make up about 20 percent of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's population of 79 million people.
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Turkish authorities will appoint administrators to run the municipality in Diyarbakir, the mainly Kurdish southeast's largest city, after detaining its joint mayors last week, officials said on Tuesday.
Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin: [walking in with Darth Vader] The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I have just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.
Tagge: That's impossible! How will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?
Tarkin: The regional governors now have direct control over their territories.
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Recall the Jeff Foxsworthy show "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?" Latest version of the show in Minnesota with high school students.
[Minnesota.CBS] Republican candidate Donald Trump has won the first round of Minnesota’s mock election for high school students, narrowly beating out Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
Secretary of State Steve Simon announced Tuesday the results of the Minnesota Students Vote 2016, which showed the flamboyant businessman taking 34.97 percent of the vote. Clinton was close behind, with 32.89 percent. Over 77,000 students so far have cast a mock ballot for U.S. President.
Detailed results of the poll. And it's Minnesota too. Strange, I was talking with a former 86-year old teacher yesterday and he expressed he was voting for Hillary. I silently questioned his lack of good discrimination.
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Ima gonna have to figure out how to embed a website embed thingee in the story.
Not your fault, JohnQC. I fixed the problem by removing the quotation marks the website embed icon automatically places around the URL. For some reason those quotes sometimes cause problems. So I always remove them in my own posts, just in case.
Yesterday, there was a buzz around the internet that something was coming or happening. It's still not clear whether or not it's happened. However, today, a lead article at WAPO and a provocative headline at Drudge would indicate that something is going on. These headlines are: WASH POST LEAD WEDNESDAY: FBI SPOOKS--"GOV'T INSIDERS HELPING ASSANGE?" Moreover, there are several stories on the alt-news at YouTube sites that discuss these events. There seem to be a lot of moving parts to this story
[WashingtonPost] The surprise tweet from a little-used FBI account came about 1 p.m. Tuesday, announcing that the agency had published on its website 129 pages of internal documents related to a years-old investigation into former president Bill Clinton’s pardon of a fugitive Democratic donor.
The seemingly random reminder of one of the darkest chapters of the Clinton presidency a week before the election drew an immediate rebuke from Hillary Clinton’s campaign -- with its spokesman tweeting that the FBI’s move was "odd" and asking whether the agency planned to publish unflattering records about Republican candidate Donald Trump.
"Will FBI be posting docs on Trump’s housing discrimination in ’70s?" asked Brian Fallon.
For the second time in five days, the FBI had moved exactly to the place the nation’s chief law enforcement agency usually strives to avoid: smack in the middle of partisan fighting over a national election, just days before the vote.
The publication of the files related to the Marc Rich pardon inquiry, which agency officials said was posted automatically in response to pending public records requests, came as the Clinton campaign and Democratic lawmakers continued to fume over FBI Director James B. Comey’s decision with less than two weeks before the election to announce that he was effectively resuming a review of Hillary Clinton’s email practices.
It got so bad that in 2015, as Warah explains, a coalition of nine UN whistleblowers got together to raise the matter with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon. "Each of us has blown the whistle on serious wrongdoing, gross misconduct, and even criminal acts at the United Nations," the group wrote in the letter, which is quoted in the book. "Our collective experience of reporting misconduct in the UN covers sexual exploitation, abuse of power, corruption, and other criminals activity over a period of more than a decade and a half."
Instead of the UN scrambling to make things right, though, it responded in every case by attacking the whistleblower instead of the crimes, abuse, and the people behind the problems. "Each of us has faced retaliation for reporting the wrongdoing," the whistleblowers continued. "Our cases are well-known, and sadly, deter others from reporting wrongdoing. This must change." Unfortunately for humanity, despite threats from Congress to cut funding, and increasingly widespread media attention, nothing has changed, as the book documents extensively.
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[TheFederalist] There’s a reason Planned Parenthood isn’t very good at women’s health care, as these reviews attest: Planned Parenthood’s bad business model. Because Planned Parenthood is a rational economic actor, its clinics will push abortion over other women’s health care--explicitly in the event of a pregnancy, and implicitly by not providing adequate contraceptive care and instruction.
Why? First, Planned Parenthood is a business franchise, just like McDonalds, and its franchisees--local clinics, usually referred to as "affiliates"--are cost-sensitive. Affiliates get the highest profits from abortion, so they have an incentive to oversell this service.
Second, because many Planned Parenthood customers have nowhere else to turn, Planned Parenthood can get away with providing shoddy contraceptive care. Here, there are two incentives at play: Planned Parenthood faces a low profit margin when selling contraceptives; and providing subpar contraceptive care and instruction indirectly pushes abortion on some customers.
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If revenue per abortion is estimated to be around $500 (a conservative estimate), then $164 million, or 15 percent of clinic-level revenue, comes from abortion. This not only factors in "Non-Government Health Services Revenue," but also includes "Government Reimbursements" that go toward abortion (more than half of the states cover abortion through their Medicaid programs). Pro-choice advocates love to point out that abortion is only 15 percent of Planned Parenthood affiliate revenues. From 2015, but I got a little curious and was astounded to find the Planned Parenthood model resembles that of ReMax, etc. but subsidized by $Taxpayer.
The ReMax business model works very well for driven, entrepreneurial real estate agents who don't want to be held back by less able colleagues, nor to give up a large portion of their earnings to a broker who does not do much for them because they do so much for themselves. But there are still plenty of able, driven real estate agents in traditional brokerages to provide competition, keeping the ReMax folks honest.
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.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Police in Des Moines, Iowa, say two officers have been shot and killed in ambush-style attacks.
[Lawfareblog] There are limited details about the recent U.S. Freedom of Navigation (FON) operation in the South China Sea on October 21, but by any account it surely did not achieve what some had advocated: challenging China’s installations on artificial land in the Spratly Islands. Instead, if press accounts and expert analysis (such as Julian Ku’s post) are correct, the USS Decatur challenged Chinese claims to "straight baselines" surrounding the separate Paracel Islands, which the U.S. government has long claimed are excessive. By challenging an explicit claim on the grounds that it exceeds what international law supports, such a maneuver is a textbook FON operation. A military maneuver designed to challenge China’s Spratly Islands construction is far less clear-cut.
North Korea is preparing to launch another intermediate-range ballistic missile in the next 24 to 72 hours, two U.S. officials with knowledge of the latest intelligence assessment tell Fox News.
[NPR] For years, New Jersey drivers enjoyed relatively cheap gas -- thanks to one of the lowest state gasoline taxes in the country. The state's gas tax hasn't gone up since 1988. But that all changed Tuesday, when it jumped by 23 cents a gallon.
It got so bad that in 2015, as Warah explains, a coalition of nine UN whistleblowers got together to raise the matter with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon. "Each of us has blown the whistle on serious wrongdoing, gross misconduct, and even criminal acts at the United Nations," the group wrote in the letter, which is quoted in the book. "Our collective experience of reporting misconduct in the UN covers sexual exploitation, abuse of power, corruption, and other criminals activity over a period of more than a decade and a half."
[TheFederalist] There’s a reason Planned Parenthood isn’t very good at women’s health care, as these reviews attest: Planned Parenthood’s bad business model. Because Planned Parenthood is a rational economic actor, its clinics will push abortion over other women’s health care--explicitly in the event of a pregnancy, and implicitly by not providing adequate contraceptive care and instruction.
