[NYPOST] Cigarettes in Hawaii may soon go up in smoke ‐ thanks to a proposed bill that aims to bar sales of them to anyone under the age of 100.
"The legislature finds that the cigarette is considered the deadliest artifact in human history," states the bill, sponsored by Democratic Rep. Richard Creagan. "The cigarette is an unreasonably dangerous and defective product, killing half of its long-term users."
The bill adds that the Aloha State is "suffering from its own addiction to cigarettes in the form of the large sums of money that the State receives from state cigarette sales taxes, with the tax revenues recently reaching more than $100,000,000 per year."
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Trying to kill a mouse without noticing the elephant volcano in the room.
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They're competing with California who's crazier?
[Townhall] So, who's left to take over if Fairfax and Northam can't? Well, that would be Virginia's Democratic gun-grabbing Attorney General Mark Herring. Herring tried to eviscerate Virginia's concealed carry reciprocity laws in 2015, which prompted the state legislature to work out a deal with then-Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe on the matter. McAuliffe signed the pro-gun bills into law, which irked the anti-gun Left. And Herring has made it known that he was going to run for governor in 2021. Well, the rumor is that there's a photo of him in blackface. He met privately with the legislative black caucus this morning to discuss the matter. And now, he's admitted it:
Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring today released the following statement:
"The very bright light that is shining on Virginia right now is sparking a painful but, I think we all hope, important conversation. The stakes are high, and our spirits are low.
"I am sure we all have done things at one time or another in our lives that show poor judgment, and worse yet, have caused some level of pain to others. I have a glaring example from my past that I have thought about with deep regret in the many years since, and certainly each time I took a step forward in public service, realizing that my goals and this memory could someday collide and cause pain for people I care about, those who stood with me in the many years since, or those who I hoped to serve while in office.
"In 1980, when I was a 19-year-old undergraduate in college, some friends suggested we attend a party dressed like rappers we listened to at the time, like Kurtis Blow, and perform a song. It sounds ridiculous even now writing it. But because of our ignorance and glib attitudes ‐ and because we did not have an appreciation for the experiences and perspectives of others ‐ we dressed up and put on wigs and brown makeup.
"This was a onetime occurrence and I accept full responsibility for my conduct.
That conduct clearly shows that, as a young man, I had a callous and inexcusable lack of awareness and insensitivity to the pain my behavior could inflict on others. It was really a minimization of both people of color, and a minimization of a horrific history I knew well even then.
"Although the shame of that moment has haunted me for decades, and though my disclosure of it now pains me immensely, what I am feeling in no way compares to the betrayal, the shock, and the deep pain that Virginians of color may be feeling. Where they have deserved to feel heard, respected, understood, and honestly represented, I fear my actions have contributed to them being forced to revisit and feel a historical pain that has never been allowed to become history.
"This conduct is in no way reflective of the man I have become in the nearly 40 years since.
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From the article: "But because of our ignorance and glib attitudes ‐ and because we did not have an appreciation for the experiences and perspectives of others ‐ we dressed up and put on wigs and brown makeup."
Still glib and ignorant, just regrets getting caught, like the rest of them.
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...You just can NOT make this shiat up, I'm telling you.
Mike
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But he's certain that proles owning guns is a bad thing.
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I really can't see any big deal with this one. Dressing up as a Rapper doesn't seem to be all that horrible.
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We are at a place where we have let the left control the language on issues and create a context of heresy and heretical sin if you voice questions or disagreement. Race, gender, climate are all liturgy now, and the sin of being against affirmative action, victimhood, gender as a fact, preferences for the long list of splinter groups all are considered evil, and worse, White Nationalist! This is nuts but it works for them because we don't just get in the faces and say ENOUGH! Just fucking ENOUGH! If yo don't like it, FOAD/ESAD and other equally crude epithets....
[PJMedia] Stacey "Tank"
Abrams, former Democratic candidate for governor in Georgia, delivered the Democratic response to President Donald Trump's State of the Union on Tuesday. In that speech, she repeated the fake news that Trump's administration put kids in cages.
"This administration chooses to cage children and tear families apart," Abrams declared.
The viral photo of a child in a cage did not come from Trump's immigration policy, however. The photo came from a protest against the Trump administration. Other photos came from 2014, during the Obama administration.
In May, Trump tweeted, "Democrats mistakenly tweet 2014 pictures from Obama’s term showing children from the Border in steel cages. They thought it was recent pictures in order to make us look bad, but backfires. Dems must agree to Wall and new Border Protection for good of country...Bipartisan Bill!"
PolitiFact rated his statement "True."
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Ms. Abrams started out with a large grin and soft approach with her words. Her speech devolved and she started to rant, her grin kept turning into a sneer which she kept trying to replace with the earlier grin but she kept on lapsing into her sneer. Alas, she just showed her sneering distaste for America.
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Cages? You want cages? Twelve years of schooling and you still can't read, write or do arithmetic - that's a cage. But as long as you can vote Democratic, it's all good!
[Guardian] A record number of female House members were present for Donald Trump's second State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Many, including the speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, dressed in white in tribute to the women's suffrage movement. Trump obviously wasn't expected the dancing and laughter that broke out among the mainly Democratic members when he talked about record levels of female employment in the US economy. 'No one has benefited more from our thriving economy than women who have filled 58% of the newly created jobs last year,' Trump said before the large group of women stood up and cheered. 'You weren't supposed to do that,' Trump joked before pointing out that the midterms had seen the largest number of women elected to Congress.
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And don't forget Virtue Signaling! Too bad they didn't go full 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Didn't Klan plebes wear all white? Asking for a friend.
Mr. Trumps SOTU seemed more Kennedyesque than Reaganesque, and he knocked it out of the park, imo. The closing minutes were absolutely mesmerizing, and in the final analysis, I believe it will go down as one of the most statesmanlike messages to have emerged from the chambers.
I'm certain the MSM will expend much gas in belittling the delivery, giving reluctant kudos to "the speechwriters." But we know better.
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An embarrassment to our nation. They are elected officials, I expect them to be professional, not self centered focused on themselves. This is not about their accomplishments, its about our nation. We have self centered bar flies in the hall....
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These fucking broads are children in adult bodies. Not a single one of them should be an elected official.
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They sat there with glum expressions like spoiled brats while Trump recited some of the best employment and economic statistics we've heard in decades. Obviously they would prefer that their constituents remain unemployed and poor.
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Nothing says Bipartisanship like dressing in uniforms and taunting the Opposition. Maybe they should have elevated their game to flicking spitballs across the aisle.
[PJ] Decked out in white to virtue-signal their #Resistance to Trump, Democratic women sat emotionless as Trump described a horrific Virginia legislative proposal that would allow children to be killed after they are born, and a law recently passed in New York that allows for partial-birth abortion. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) simply smirked as the president described the monstrous procedures.
"There could be no greater contrast to the beautiful image of a mother holding her infant child than the chilling displays our nation saw in recent days," declared Trump.
Schumer smiled as Trump continued, "Lawmakers in New York cheered with delight upon the passage of legislation that would allow a baby to be ripped from the mother's womb moments from birth."
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A lot of people on the right just don't get it. I've heard many people refer to children as rats and one prize example called childbirth "sh*tting a monkey." Lots of people are actually more than just OK with abortion no matter how late in gestation or how gruesome.
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Pathetic. No other way of putting it.
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Fox News and the cameramen must have been tipped off to the contents of the STOU. They new exactly whose reaction to zoom in on with every line of the speech.
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That was an evil little smirk on the face of an evil little man.
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Lots of people are actually more than just OK with whatever, you name it, they like it. I once found a term "the concealed savage" which I think is quite apt here.
[NYPOST] Sen. Elizabeth Fauxchahontas 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... wrote, "American Indian" next to the designation of "Race" when she filed her registration card with the State Bar of Texas in the 1980s, according to a document that emerged on Tuesday.
The registration card, which was obtained by The Washington Post through a records request, was filled out and signed by Warren in 1986, the newspaper reported.
The document shows another ‐ previously unreported ‐ example of the now-senator identifying herself as Native American.
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Liberals claim the right to identify as whatever they want. The problem is biology and genetics and Mother Nature doesn't give a crap about who/what you "feel" you are.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[NYPOST] Cigarettes in Hawaii may soon go up in smoke ‐ thanks to a proposed bill that aims to bar sales of them to anyone under the age of 100.
[Townhall] So, who's left to take over if Fairfax and Northam can't? Well, that would be Virginia's Democratic gun-grabbing Attorney General Mark Herring. Herring tried to eviscerate Virginia's concealed carry reciprocity laws in 2015, which prompted the state legislature to work out a deal with then-Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe on the matter. McAuliffe signed the pro-gun bills into law, which irked the anti-gun Left. And Herring has made it known that he was going to run for governor in 2021. Well, the rumor is that there's a photo of him in blackface. He met privately with the legislative black caucus this morning to discuss the matter. And now, he's admitted it:
[Guardian] A record number of female House members were present for Donald Trump's second State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Many, including the speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, dressed in white in tribute to the women's suffrage movement. Trump obviously wasn't expected the dancing and laughter that broke out among the mainly Democratic members when he talked about record levels of female employment in the US economy. 'No one has benefited more from our thriving economy than women who have filled 58% of the newly created jobs last year,' Trump said before the large group of women stood up and cheered. 'You weren't supposed to do that,' Trump joked before pointing out that the midterms had seen the largest number of women elected to Congress.
[PJ] Decked out in white to virtue-signal their #Resistance to Trump, Democratic women sat emotionless as Trump described a horrific Virginia legislative proposal that would allow children to be killed after they are born, and a law recently passed in New York that allows for partial-birth abortion. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) simply smirked as the president described the monstrous procedures.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ): "Have you ever had any LGBTQ law clerks?"
...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...
