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Archive for 2018
May 7, 2018
WHY IS LEFTY POLITICS SUCH A CESSPIT OF SEXUAL ABUSE AND HYPOCRISY? Four Women Accuse New York’s Attorney General of Physical Abuse: Eric Schneiderman has raised his profile as a voice against sexual misconduct. Now, after suing Harvey Weinstein, he faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own.
Well, Eliot Spitzer crusaded against prostitutes, too.
UPDATE: NY Governor Andrew Cuomo is calling on Schneiderman to resign. And it seems as if Donald Trump had an inkling earlier.
ANOTHER UPDATE: From the Ronan Farrow New Yorker story: “After the former girlfriend ended the relationship, she told several friends about the abuse. A number of them advised her to keep the story to herself, arguing that Schneiderman was too valuable a politician for the Democrats to lose. She described this response as heartbreaking.”
Flashback: “The woman even said, according to the transcript of her interview with Portland, Ore., police made public on the Internet, that her ‘Birkenstock Tribe’ friends told her to ‘suck it up’ and not tell anyone or the ‘world’s going to be destroyed from global warming.’”
ANOTHER UPDATE: Schneiderman has resigned.
IF YOU DON’T LIKE TRUMP, REMEMBER THE JEWS AND THE BICYCLISTS ARE TO BLAME: Women’s March leader blames Trump Muslim ban, Mexican border wall on Israeli PM.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ IN THE HILL: Federal judge rightly rebukes Mueller for questionable tactics.
THAT’S WHY LEFTIES ARE SO BIG ON DISARMAMENT: Without Weapons, The West Dies.
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SOD OFF, SWAMPY: Study Warns of ‘Toxic Masculinity’ in Boys as Young as 14.
WHY ARE LEFTY INDUSTRIES SUCH CESSPITS OF SEXUAL ABUSE? The Open Secret Of Charlie Rose.
THE 27TH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION: There aren’t many stories about the Constitution that I would term “adorable.” But this is one of them. And it limited Congress’ power too. So good-o.
A SAD GALLERY: 37 Women Before and After Third-Wave Feminism Hit Them.
FAITH MOORE: Don’t Let Feminists Determine the Narrative. It’s Not About Who’s Better, It’s That We’re Different.
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YOUR DAILY TREACHER: What Are We Allowed to Joke About? “All jokes are equal, but some jokes are more equal than others.”
That’s not funny.
BLUE ON GREEN: Cannabis Industry Could Be ‘A Form Of Reparations,’ Says Cynthia Nixon.
“Arresting people–particularly people of color–for cannabis is the crown jewel in the racist war on drugs and we must pluck it down,” she said. “We must expunge people’s records; we must get people out of prison.”
As she walked off the stage, a crowd of people moved in to get Nixon’s attention. One man tried to give her a giant, multi-colored bong. (She demurred.) A woman–joint in mouth–attempted to get a selfie with her mid-puff. Her campaign staff tried to manage the crush of cameras surrounding her.
In an interview after her speech, Nixon explained that she has made cannabis a central part of her campaign because it touches on so many other issues.
“It’s a racial justice issue because we’re incarcerating people of color in such staggering numbers,” she said.
Any minute now I’m expecting Governor Cuomo to announce a new Marijuana Importation Fleet — to be staffed entirely by genderqueer persons of color.
ON THIS DAY IN 1711, David Hume was brought into the world via the miracle of birth.
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Where Is America’s Craft Beer Capital?
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CAN YOU NAME THE FIVE FEDERAL JUDGES WHO HAVE MOST THWARTED TRUMP? LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby can and he’s got the details on how each one of them made the list.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Keeping up with the Jones Act is killing U.S. shipbuilding.
Fishermen’s Finest, an American fishing company headquartered in Washington state, commissioned the America’s Finest for $75 million from Dakota Creek Industries, a shipyard in Anacortes, Washington. Unfortunately, the process of building the vessel ran afoul of regulations under the Jones Act, which requires that ships that ply U.S. waters be built with no more than 1.5 percent foreign steel. America’s Finest contains 7 percent steel that was cold-formed in the Netherlands, a process that the Coast Guard currently interprets as “fabrication.” Thus, America’s Finest is legally unable to fish in American waters.
Fishermen’s Finest appealed to the Coast Guard for a waiver, but it chose a bad time to do so. Fishermen’s Finest intended to consolidate two other fishing permits into a permit for America’s Finest, retiring the two ships currently using those permits in the process. Those ships would be turned into “motherships,” ships which sit offshore and process fishing deliveries from fishing vessels.
The town of Unalaska currently processes the majority of fishing deliveries in the Bering Sea region, and would stand to lose if Fishermen’s Finest set up motherships in the region. Unalaska, a town with tax revenues just over $18 million in FY 2018, generated over $1 million in taxes on cod deliveries last year. Not wanting to lose out on that tax revenue, Unalaska’s mayor, Frank Kelty, has been active in petitioning first the Coast Guard then Congress not to grant Fishermen’s Finest a Jones Act waiver.
Because of this political pressure, Fishermen’s Finest failed to get a Jones Act waiver and will be forced to sell the vessel at a discount overseas. That means that the fishing jobs that Fishermen’s Finest would have provided are being, literally, shipped overseas. Meanwhile, Dakota Creek, the shipyard that built the vessel, has already laid off half its staff due to Fishermen’s Finest’s inability to receive a waiver, and its future is “uncertain.”
The irony here is that one of the most common arguments made in defense of the Jones Act is that it supposedly protects the jobs of shipyard workers.
Our competitors probably can’t believe their good luck, that American politicians are so economically illiterate, pandering, or both.