Friday, January 5, 2018

NYT Shames Mormon Leader in Obituary, Nearly Deified Hugh Hefner

“NYTimes: the official wrapping paper of outer darkness.”

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On Wednesday, The New York Times announced the death of 90-year-old Thomas Monson, the president of the Mormon church, but not without a dig at his religious beliefs. In a post to Twitter, The Times ignored any good the man might have done during his long life and focused in on the fact that he wouldn’t ordain women as priests and opposed same-sex marriage:
Sure, that may be factually correct, but it’s not lost on anyone with half a brain to see the obvious bias from The Times. Compare that to how they spoke of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner after he died last year:
The fact that Hefner made millions off the sexually objectified bodies of women was left out of that headline. And you’d think socialist dictator Hugo Chavez was a saint when the NYT announced his death in 2013:
Even a writer at the leftist outlet The Atlantic couldn't help but notice the extreme bias.
“Been trying to figure out all day how the @nytimes justified this framing of the Mormon prophet's obituary,” McKay Coppins said on Twitter. “The facts are accurate, of course, and it's entirely fair to include them in the piece. But the NYT doesn't usually lead their obituaries for public figures with the things they didn't do when they were alive.”
Coppins then attempted a rewrite of Hefner using the NYT’s tactic:
"Hugh Hefner, the Playboy founder who rebuffed demands that he stop publishing a misogynistic pornographic magazine and exploiting young women, died at 91."
The Times received further criticism online:



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Dem Advisor Worried Millennials Will Let GOP Tax Savings Influence 2020 Vote

Yeah, getting your own money back tends to do that.

1.5.2018 
 
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Get this: Hillary Clinton’s former senior advisor and press secretary, Phillip Reines, is concerned that millennials might turn on Democrats in the 2020 election after they benefit from the GOP tax bill and wind up with more of their own money in their pockets. Just another reminder that Dems are running a modern-day plantation and don’t want their people to be free.
“I don’t know how millennials think,” a flustered sounding Reines said on C-SPAN. “It’s unclear what will get them going.”
He said Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren might be able to “tap in” to the younger demographic, but added they shouldn’t expect to get the kind of voter turnout Hillary Clinton did.
“It’s not like that’s some sort of bedrock,” Reines said. “She worked for it; she spent a billion dollars on it. So, it’s not a gimme.”
The next part is a bit rambling but the underlying fear that millennials might turn on a Democratic Party again, like they did in 2016, is palpable:
“Millennials have to say this is not normal and there’s a lot of pressure to shut up. Donald Trump and his people want everyone to shut up; get over the election; Hillary Clinton go away. That’s in their best interest, but that’s not how it works. We’re supposed to oppose what we disagree with. And I hope millennials don’t fall into a lull of accepting this is what it is. God knows how many of them will see their taxes go down and base it just on that.”
So, how would Reines like to see them vote in 2020? Why "productively," of course:
“They are a key demographic that voted oddly in 2016 that I’m not sure that people understand how to get them to vote, you know, productively in 2020.”
Roughly translated, that means, “Vote the way we tell you.”
Desperate times.
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Almost Half of DACA Aliens Can Barely Speak English, 25% ‘Functionally Illiterate’

Send us your poor, your criminal, your non-assimilators.

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The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) tells us that nearly half of illegal aliens who are eligible for DACA have only a “basic” proficiency of the English language and 24 percent are considered “below basic” or “functionally illiterate.” This blows away the claims of the Left that Dreamers are productive members of our society, when it appears most don’t want to assimilate at all.
CIS research director Steven Camarota says illegal aliens tend to overstate their English skills in order to take advantage of the system, while tests reveal the truth:
Even those numbers could exaggerate the level of assimilation. As mentioned above, a high-school diploma has become so commonplace among today’s youth (due in large part to watered-down standards) that it is no longer a strong indicator of skills. Similarly, CIS research has shown that immigrants tend to overstate their English ability. When Hispanic immigrants, who make up some 80 to 90 percent of DACA recipients, recently took an objective test of English literacy, 44 percent of those who said they speak English “well” or “very well” actually scored “below basic” — a level sometimes described as functional illiteracy. Based on test-takers with the required age and residency, I estimate that perhaps 24 percent of the DACA-eligible population fall into the functionally illiterate category and another 46 percent have only “basic” English ability.
Other studies reveal even more problems caused by Obama’s DACA program. The Congressional Budget Office reported that 1 in 5 DACA-eligible illegal aliens would be on food stamps in under a decade. Harvard’s Roberto Gonzales told CIS that 73 percent of DACA recipients are living in low-income housing and reap welfare benefits plus more from taxpayers. Breitbart reported that only 4 percent of DACA illegals complete college, “[M]aking the DACA population far less likely than the native American population to finish college with a degree.”
For illegal aliens, the American Dream is a free ride — or at least, it has been. President Trump has called an end to DACA and will pull the plug in late MAGA, er, March.
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New Online Hate Speech Law in Germany Levels Fines in the Millions

Critics say it’s turning people into “opinion martyrs.”

1.5.2018 
 
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Germany started the new year off with a new law on the books that targets online hate speech. But according to the top-selling newspaper in the country, Bild, it’s already turning people into “opinion martyrs.”
Reuters reports that “the law requires social media sites to delete or block obviously criminal content within 24 hours” and “can impose fines of up to 50 million euros ($60 million) on sites that fail to remove hate speech promptly.” The “far-right” Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has been the first on the receiving end of the new policy. Twitter has deleted posts from the AfD deemed anti-Muslim and anti-migrant. An Islamophobia parody account was also blocked. 
The report highlighted two tweets from AfD politicians that were deleted. Beatrix von Storch criticized police for seeking “to appease the barbaric, Muslim, rapist hordes of men.” There are indeed  “rapist hordes” of Muslims in Germany, especially on New Year’s Eve, yet police are investigating Beatrix for “possible incitement to hatred.”
Jens Maier, another AfD politician, found one of his tweets deleted in which he described someone as a “half-nigger.”
On Wednesday, Bild ran the following headline in protest: “Please spare us the thought police!”
Editor-in-chief Julian Reichelt believes the law is turning AfD politicians into “opinion martyrs” and should be completely scrapped.
"The law against online hate speech failed on its very first day,” he said. “It should be abolished immediately.” 
Reichelt said the wording of the law could be applied to just about anything because there is no hard definition of what makes a post “manifestly unlawful.”
As Reuters notes in its report, “Germany has some of the world's toughest laws on defamation, incitement to commit crimes and threats of violence, with prison sentences for Holocaust denial or inciting hatred against minorities.”
Those defending the new law says having an opinion doesn’t give a person license to spread hatred.
"Calls to murder, threats, insults and incitement of the masses or Auschwitz lies are not an expression of freedom of opinion but rather attacks on the freedom of opinion of others," Justice Minister Heiko Maas said. “Those who care about protecting freedom of opinion can't just look on as criminal incitement and threats inhibit the open exchange of views." 
Looks like Germany is getting back to its totalitarian roots.
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