[Breitbart] Members of the National Guard on Friday were looking for a new place to stay, after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered that they leave the hotel they were staying at, according to an official.
The city had taken over the Marriott Marquis in downtown Washington, D.C. to use for the National Guard’s coronavirus response mission, but many rooms remained vacant, so National Guard members deploying to D.C. as part of the civil unrest mission began staying there.
Bowser did not like the idea that Guardsmen from out of state were staying at the hotel, so she ordered the more than 1,000 members to leave.
National Guard members who worked the night shift now are looking for a new place to stay instead of getting rest before their next shift, the official told Breitbart News.
The National Guard said in a statement:
Some National Guard responders were quartering in hotel accommodations which had preexisting contractual agreements with the District. Out of respect for existing agreements those facilities have with the city government, those service members have relocated. For further information, please contact city government.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) blasted Bowser’s order, which affected 200 National Guardsmen from Utah:
[Zero Hedge] An Illinois journalist who broke the story that Gov. J.B. Pritzker's wife violated the state's "stay-at-home" order by traveling to the family's equestrian estate in Wisconsin has sued after she was barred from Pritzker's coronavirus press briefings.
On Friday, May 15, Jacobson broke the story that Pritzker’s family had traveled to their equestrian estate in Wisconsin amid Illinois’s stay-at-home order — weeks after it was reported that his family was at another estate in Florida. The news raised questions about why the stay-at-home order did not apply to the governor’s family.
On the day of the governor’s next press briefing, Pritzker’s press secretary told Jacobson she was banned from the briefings because she had attended a rally advocating for Illinois to end its lockdown. When questioned by reporters about Jacobson’s exclusion the next day, Pritzker told the press corps that Jacobson could not attend because advocating for Illinois to end its stay-at-home order represents an "extreme position." The governor went on to say: "That is not a reporter ... once upon a time she was a reporter but she proved that she is no longer a reporter." -AP
Here in Chicago I found 2 signs to be offensive. There is NO need for this. @GovPritzker @MorningAnswer @DanProft https://t.co/QOl3wrJ0cD pic.twitter.com/TBoIHTtg1J
— Amy Jacobson (@AmyJacobson) May 16, 2020
The lawsuit, filed by attorneys from the Liberty Justice Center, asks the court to take immediate action to allow Jacobson back into the press briefings.
"Gov. Pritzker has been in the hot seat over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, and it’s visible from his reactions to Amy Jacobson’s questions that her reporting made him uncomfortable. But what the governor appears to not understand is that Americans have a right to hold their elected officials accountable, and one of the ways they do this is through a vibrant, free press," said Liberty Justice Center president and co-founder, Patrick Hughes.
"It’s not up to Gov. Pritzker to pick and choose which reporters can cover him based on how much he agrees with their coverage or their points of view. And keeping reporters out of the room because he disagrees with their line of questioning or point of view is a gross violation of the First Amendment."
Jacobson has worked for television and radio stations nationwide for over 25 years - the last decade of which has been spent as a reporter and morning show host on Salem Media's Chicago AM 560 The Answer.
Jacobson has been attending the governor’s COVID-19 press briefings on behalf of the station since April. While some reporters have used the daily briefings to ask softball questions, such as how the governor is holding up, Jacobson has asked notably tough questions. -AP
"The reason we sent Amy to these press briefings is because she is a dogged reporter with a reputation for holding public officials accountable. Over the last two months Amy has done her job well, asking the tough questions that are on the minds of so many of our listeners," said AM 560 regional VP and general manager, Jeff Reisman. "We’re disappointed that the governor would retaliate against her and take the unprecedented step of blocking her from his press briefings. We had hoped litigation would not be necessary, but it’s imperative for Amy to get back into the room and keep doing her job."
If you don't understand this, let me explain: #CCP is encouraging everyone to become a street vendor and official media are saying that someone is earning 30K yuan per day. So Wonder Woman is rushing to China to be a street vendor! 走！上中國擺攤去！ pic.twitter.com/k5C5DTk2tE
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In Brazil it is common to call a vendor who then brings everything into your living room for you to look at and then choose what you wish to purchase.
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I was a big fan of Gal Gadot when the anti-Israeli bigots attacks her, then she started that Imagine sing along. Now I figure she's as woke as the rest. Sigh.
Twitter moderators mistakenly disabled a video of House Republican candidate Rich McCormick doing push ups with his sons for PTSD awareness, a company spokesperson said Friday without providing an explanation for the error.
Users were unable to watch the Thursday video, which contained a “sensitive content” label, if they were not logged into Twitter or were otherwise not following McCormick. People who followed the military veteran or were already logged in had access to the video, which shows McCormick and his sons doing pushups outside in the rain.
A Twitter spokesman told the Daily Caller News Foundation that McCormick’s video was flagged in error and is being corrected. He did not provide a reason for speaking anonymously, but Twitter’s press office often requests anonymity when speaking to journalists.
McCormick, a physician and candidate for Georgia’s 7th congressional district, is participating in an online challenge in which he must do 22 pushups per day for 22 days in support of soldiers who suffer from PTSD. (RELATED: Here’s Twitter’s Plan To Create A World Where Censoring Conservatives Is Unnecessary)
“Day 6 of the #22pushupchallenge with my sons….in the rain,” he wrote in a tweet accompanying the video, adding:”#PTSD is not something to be ashamed of. To all my #veteran brothers and sisters out there you are loved!! If you are having a problem reach out!”
McCormick posted five other tweets on his account that include videos of him doing pushups, none of which were censored.
[Zero Hedge with WBBM link inbedded] While Chicago officials give slaps on the wrist to arrested protesters, Mayor Lori Lightfoot is begging Walmart and other major retailers who were hit by looting and vandalism to reopen their doors despite riots over the killing of George Floyd by a Minnesota police officer who now faces charges for second-degree murder.
Lightfoot held a conference call with Walmart and the other retailers when she pleaded with them not to abandon Chicago, according to WBBM.
"I think in the case of Walmart, what they were focused on was assessing the damage. They are doing an effort to donate fresh produce, to the extent of what's left so it doesn't perish, and other perishables, and they are talking their time, as I would expect," she said.
There were earlier reports that Walmart expected to rebuild all stores trashed by looters and vandals, but company officials later said they would open some stores and would not say which ones.
The Mayor said most of the others said they are committed to Chicago. She said she hopes Walmart follows suit. -WBBM
"My hope is that they will come back," said Lightfoot. "But I got a resounding, 'Mayor, this is our city, this is our home,' from a lot of other retailers and I would hope that Walmart would follow suit."
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The nerve of that slob mayor. Surely these retailers will make sound business decisions, but here's hoping they do, indeed, abandon that particular area.
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"Baby, you know I didn't mean to give you that black eye. It's just that I get so mad because I love you so much."
Unfortunately the CEOs of many of these retailers are more interested in sucking up to the poz than in doing right by their employees and shareholders.
Let's not forget how some business orgs have recently renounced the whole concept of fiduciary duty to shareholders.
The Huns and Mongols must be kicking themselves for not having come up with this sweet scam.
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Did the Mayor and the Governor and Michael Madigan get down on their knees to bow to the retailers like the Hollywood government made the National Guard soldiers do? No? Then it should be tough titties.
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Urban retail shrinkage is one thing. Burning the store to the ground is yet another. The mayor may soon be getting a revealing education involving the road to Detroitification.
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You build them and lease them back to those who will fill them instead of sport stadiums. Along with a riot rider that kills any contract obligation on the other party.
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What the hell incentives do these blue city mayors and blue state governors provide for them to stay?
Violence, burning and looting of their stores? They have created a weird dystopian society redolent of that depicted in "Escape from L.A. and Escape from NY."
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How are insurance rates doing in these areas/ZIP codes?
I'm sure that the Illinois and Minnesota insurance commissioners will declare any realistic risk assessment of urban areas in their states amounts to illegal "red-lining."
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The CEOs will bend the knee, because that's what they do.
What will be interesting to see is if they can get a sufficient number of competent people to man these outposts.
I suspect that the next form of racism to be condemned by Minitru will be the disinclination of white staff to make themselves available for future looting, beatings and killings.
After all, Tim Wise already wants your kids to suffer, so why would they cavil at demanding adults submit to the same?
And here's Karen from HR to explain how your career path will be determined by your willingness to put your head in a noose.
Don't worry though -- Karen and the CEO will be behind you all the way.
Bitchslap!
[Breitbart] In a unanimous 7-0 decision, the Michigan Supreme Court sided with 77-year-old barber Karl Manke over Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday.
Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel have been relentlessly pursuing Manke, attempting to force the closure of his shop during the coronavirus pandemic.
Great Lakes News reported on Facebook late Friday that the Court ruled unanimously in favor of the Owosso barber — a stunning decision, given the narrow 4-3 ideological split in favor of conservatives.
According to Great Lakes News, Manke's attorney, David Kallman, called it the "biggest, most lopsided victory of his career."
Whitmer and Nessel fined Manke and stripped him of his license after he repeatedly refused to close his business in defiance of Whitmer’s executive orders.
A Michigan Court of Appeals upheld that Manke’s license suspension was valid, but the Supreme Court decision reversed that.
Manke was defiant after the Appeals Court ruling and told WILX, "I'm still open, still working until they cut my hands off."
He said the response during the protest and the support for his stand was "overwhelming," and called himself "a Michigan small town barber that just wants to work."
"This is an oppressive move on this governor's part," Manke said, observing that it "reflects almost a police state."
"I refuse to stand down on this," he said.
"I wasn't this rock star three weeks ago," Manke told Breitbart News, but Whitmer made him one.
He thanked God for the development.
"I'm still standing up. I still have that courage," Manke said.
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Sue everyone involved under Witchmer and make them stand in court and say "I was just following orders."
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A unanimous decision on any level speaks volumes. Congratulations to Mr. Manke (and F.U. to Witless Whitmer).
[THEMIX.NET] NBC News published an op-ed blasting NFL star Drew Brees for criticizing football players who kneel during the national anthem. The op-ed by Noah Berlatsky goes so far as to say that Brees’ "biggest mistake" in defending the American flag was "believing" that it "means anything."
Brees has been hit with an unprecedented amount of backlash this week after simply saying that he does not agree with kneeling during the national anthem. The New Orleans Saints quarterback said that he views the move as a sign of "disrespect" and shared the story of his military roots.
NBC News decided to pile on to him on Thursday with this op-ed, teasing it on the network’s "THINK" page under the headline "Drew Brees’ biggest mistake?’ Believing the American flag means anything."
The actual headline of the story, which was written by Noah Berlatsky, ended up reading, "Drew Brees’ comments on George Floyd protest prioritize symbols over justice."
Needless to say, Berlatsky was not kind to Brees and his patriotism in the slightest of ways:
"[Brees] has unfortunately become the poster child for what happens when you venerate a hollow space wrapped up in red, white and blue. Brees believed that his comments honored the flag and America’s ideals. But valuing a symbol of justice over justice itself isn’t moral or righteous. It’s the opposite. When honoring the flag is the price of justice, then the flag does not symbolize justice. It symbolizes force, inequality and racism. It’s a flag of conquest for white people, not of mercy or freedom for all."
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Comcast-NBC means nothing...
BTW once StarLink is functional Comcast and AT&T(CNN) and Verizon will slowly begin to Tank.
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BTW, Musk has admitted that the current tough problem with the StarLink network is to make the phased array user's terminal cheap enough. The current one costs $1500+ just to build.
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So they have freely admitted they are traitors, strip their citizenship and deport them to Devil's island or it's near vicinity. When they get kicked out of the Helo, who cares if they hit water or land?
A commencement address previously recorded by Trump was set to air Saturday at Wichita State Tech’s graduation ceremony in Kansas. She had been invited back in February to deliver some remarks, but on Thursday, an assistant professor at Wichita State University, the tech school’s parent campus, wrote a whiny letter to faculty about how “horrified and disgusted” she was by Trump’s scheduled appearance.
The letter, written by Jennifer Ray, complained that as an administration official, Trump was complicit in the president’s supposedly “callous disregard of the concerns of black people, immigrants, and Latinx people.”
But after the letter penned by Ray, a woman who isn’t involved with the tech school, Wichita State Tech President Sheree Utash decided to cancel Trump’s speech.
Pubs have gone down the "They wub us -- they really wub us! And now we'll have a cool black friend too!" road before, only to have it prove a chimera, while ignoring or even alienating their own actual voters.
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I believe there is a growing number of Black Americans who are starting to realize that voting straight Democrat for the last 50 years may have lead to the problems in major urban cities.
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If you raise them out of poverty they become middle class and likely to vote Republican. Can't have that. Got to keep the plantation system humming.
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Biden had 40 years to do the things the locals expect of their "home town boys." He's done about as much for Scranton as Murtha did for Johnstown. Which is scary if you look at either city today.
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All Trump needs is 5% of the blank vote to walk away and a lot of political contests get more interesting. 20% ? You’re talking an electoral landslide and flipping the house.
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.
