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[Saints News Network] Saints and Pelicans Owner Gayle Benson made a statement on George Floyd’s death, protests, peace, unity, and finding solutions. She offered an insightful response to the tragedy by selecting three athletes in her organizations, Pelicans Lonzo Ball, JJ Redick, and Saints LB Demario Davis, to be members of her organization, Social Justice Leadership Coalition. The purpose of the organization is to advocate for social change in black and brown minority communities in the United States.
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If advocating means show up at community centers and talk to the kids about being responsible citizens for the sake of the black community I'm all for it. If it means pontificating online or for the media it's a waste of time.
[Breitbart] If the uproar over Netflix’s Cuties tells us anything, it’s that we’re now at a point where the political left and the national media want to normalize child pornography.
There is no moral world, no sane world in which a movie like Cuties is okay. While I acknowledged in my review that Cuties is critical of the misogynist elements of traditional Islam and that that’s a perfectly reasonable message, I do not agree the movie is a critique of how social media sexualizes children.
To me, Cuties is a classic story with a classic structure. You put your hero through a difficult journey and the hero comes out the other end better for it. That’s what twerking and posting nude photos accomplish for the 11-year-old Ami, the protagonist in Cuties. This journey is portrayed as difficult but ultimately healthy. Spiritually and mentally healthy. There’s no lasting damage at the end of that journey, just growth and enlightenment. Terrible message. Indefensible.
Even if you buy the manure that Cuties is critical of sexualizing children, how is sexualizing children to criticize sexualizing children okay?
Cuties is not like a movie opposed to torture or animal abuse or rape that dramatizes torture and animal abuse and rape. The sexualization of young girls is not dramatized in Cuties. The girls are sexualized. The camera floats all over them like a pervert, even when they spread their 11-year-old legs.
So why is the left suddenly crossing this line? Why is Netflix mainstreaming soft-core child pornography? Why is it now acceptable for the elite media to publish headlines like this one?: "Cuties, Netflix Review: a Provocative Powder-Keg for an Age Terrified of Child Sexuality" — as if only backwards hicks could be "terrified" of sexualizing 11-year-olds.
Or this headline: "The Creepy Conservative Obsession With Netflix’s Cuties, Explained" — as though finding soft-core child pornography revolting and outrageous is all of a sudden a "creepy obsession."
Those in the media not openly defending soft-core child pornography are defending it by covering up the controversy, by pretending it doesn’t exist, like CNNLOL.
= 'See: we can pay no-talent shit-fee-brains Hairy&Smeg a gazillion dollars, and no-talent stoner Soetoro and Mike another gazillion dollars, and what are ya gonna do about it, Slim?'
#8
We cancelled Netflix this week because of that. We were monthly subscribers since the days where they mailed you the DVDs and you mailed them back, cheaper than Blockbuster.
[American Thinker] Within a very short time, we knew a lot about the Compton shooting of two deputies: We knew that witnesses to the shooting celebrated and did nothing to help; that Black Lives Matter descended on the hospital, hoped for the deputies’ deaths, tried to storm the Emergency Department, and blocked ambulances; and that no one in the Democrat party, from Biden down, called out Black Lives Matter for fomenting this anti-police terrorism, with some actually supporting it. What we did not know until today was that the female deputy showed extraordinary presence of mind, competence, and courage.
There were two deputies in the car, both of whom had become deputies only 14 months before. The female deputy is 31 and has a six-year-old son. The male deputy is only 24.
The would-be assassin shot both deputies multiple times. The woman took a bullet to the jaw and was shot in both arms. The man was shot in the head although, thankfully, the bullet didn’t penetrate his brain. He also suffered other injuries that were severe enough that he would have bled out were it not for his partner’s immediate action.
After they were shot, neither deputy had any idea whether there would be more bullets coming. The female deputy, despite her injuries, managed to get her more badly-wounded partner to safety behind a pillar. She then saved his life with a tourniquet, after which she radioed headquarters for help. This is a woman you want at your back in any fight. She kept her cool, never lost her situational awareness, and triumphed over what must have been unimaginable pain and fear.
The following pictures and videos are graphic, raw, and disturbing. I think, though, that we need to see them because this is what Democrats are doing to America with their race wars and wars on the police. They are engaged in an over-arching, doggedly determined, and unrelenting effort to undermine any semblance of law and order or civil society in America.
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The female officer was extraordinary but you also have to give credit to her trainers. As a trainer you drill your people to recognize a situation and then to associate that situation to a series of steps appropriate for that situation.
In other words, trainers teach you to recognize, associate, and process corresponding steps.
She notified base of the crisis, then eliminated their exposures to more injury by moving to a safe place, she identified and treated (triage) each type of injury according to her first aid training, and then took a protective defensive observation position.
God bless her trainers. Most people would have panicked, well trained people evaluate and respond.
[ZACKS] Getting big returns from financial portfolios, whether through stocks, bonds, ETFs, other securities, or a combination of all, is an investor's dream. But for income investors, generating consistent cash flow from each of your liquid investments is your primary focus.
Cash flow can come from bond interest, interest from other types of investments, and of course, dividends. A dividend is the distribution of a company's earnings paid out to shareholders; it's often viewed by its dividend yield, a metric that measures a dividend as a percent of the current stock price. Many academic studies show that dividends account for significant portions of long-term returns, with dividend contributions exceeding one-third of total returns in many cases.
CLOROX IN FOCUS
Clorox (CLX - Free Report) is headquartered in Oakland, and is in the Consumer Staples sector. The stock has seen a price change of 39.38% since the start of the year. Currently paying a dividend of $1.11 per share, the company has a dividend yield of 2.07%. In comparison, the Soap and Cleaning Materials industry's yield is 1.89%, while the S&P 500's yield is 1.65%.
In terms of dividend growth, the company's current annualized dividend of $4.44 is up 4.7% from last year. In the past five-year period, Clorox has increased its dividend 4 times on a year-over-year basis for an average annual increase of 8.36%. Future dividend growth will depend on earnings growth as well as payout ratio, which is the proportion of a company's annual earnings per share that it pays out as a dividend. Clorox's current payout ratio is 58%, meaning it paid out 58% of its trailing 12-month EPS as dividend.
Earnings growth looks solid for CLX for this fiscal year. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2020 is $7.76 per share, which represents a year-over-year growth rate of 5.43%.
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Clorox ( a P&G spinoff), P&G (Mr. Clean, Bounty, Tide, Dawn), Benckiser (Lysol), among others — all the cleaning and sanitary supplies companies are doing well during the Coronavirus panic. No doubt they will fall back to normal once it’s over.
[NPR] Orbital Insight CEO Jimmy Crawford has, quite literally, a bird's-eye view of the U.S. auto industry
Using satellite images as well as anonymous cellphone location data, Orbital Insight tracks a wide range of human behavior — including key economic indicators such as how many people report to work at auto plants.
"We can just look at the number of cars in the parking lot," he said.
This spring, when the industry entered an unprecedented shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, "there was just nobody there," Crawford said. "Just really skeleton crews."
[American Thinker] The Clinton, Bush, and Trump families will forever be intertwined in not just American history, but the history of the world. The past several years have certainly seen a major change in what once seemed to be a warm relationship between the Trumps and the Clintons, two elite New York clans inhabiting similar circles that have now become the political equivalent of the Hatfields and McCoys. To a lesser extent, because they never seemed particularly close, the same can be said about the Trump and Bush families as well.
We also all remember prior to his being nominated as the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, that President Trump had to contend with the man who was considered by many the most powerful threat to his possible presidency in the GOP establishment -- former Florida governor Jeb Bush. During the early portion of the primary, Bush, whose campaign never recovered from the early attacks from Trump, was continually embarrassed and even seemingly bullied by the cocksure future president.
But, despite a past prior to politics that was full of congenial exchanges, former candidate Trump was well aware of the failures of the Clinton and both Bush administrations, as much of his "America First" policy was predicated on undoing the damage of a combined 20 years of pro-Globalist American leadership.
At the top of the list of these failures is the issue of America’s previous China polices. The "Red Dragon," which had been rightly banished from most of the global economy until the 1970s, was unwisely allowed to be put on the fast track to global economic inclusion beginning in 1986 when at the behest of politicians including then-vice-president George H.W. Bush, the communist nation achieved "observer" status with the predecessor to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
[Washington Examiner] The Trump campaign released an open letter Monday signed by 235 retired military leaders expressing their support for President Trump’s reelection.
"As senior leaders of America’s military, we took an oath to defend the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic. At present, our country is now confronted with enemies here and abroad, as well as a once in a century pandemic," the letter reads.
The group, which includes three retired Air Force generals and five Navy admirals, contends that Trump "has been tested as few other presidents have and is the proven leader to confront these dangers."
"With the Democratic Party welcoming to socialists and Marxists, our historic way of life is at stake," the letter says.
The letter adds that during President Barack Obama’s tenure, when Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was vice president, U.S. forces faced "ill-considered and debilitating budget cuts." The letter also warns that Democrats have vowed to slash defense spending.
"The Democrats’ opposition to border security, their pledge to return to the disastrous Iran nuclear deal, their antagonism towards the police and planned cuts to military spending will leave the United States more vulnerable to foreign enemies," the letter reads.
Last month, more than 70 former national security officials who served under Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Trump released a letter endorsing Biden.
"We are profoundly concerned about the course of our nation under the leadership of Donald Trump. Through his actions and his rhetoric, Trump has demonstrated that he lacks the character and competence to lead this nation and has engaged in corrupt behavior that renders him unfit to serve as President," they wrote in the letter, adding that "Trump has gravely damaged America’s role as a world leader."
With only 49 days until the election, both campaigns have been working to woo voters. A RealClearPolitics average of national polls shows Biden with 50% support and Trump with 42.9% support.
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These must be the officers that Oblahblah forced out. Maybe Trump should shitcan all flag rank officers that got their flag from Obama, and ask these officers to come back for a while and fix the services.
#2
They were the ones that knew how to fight a war. And it wasn't with SHARP training about letting trannies in the military. It was about breaking your enemy's shit, killing their troops and making them beg to stop. Only then does a war end.
#3
I suspect these are folks that were around during the Cold War and not the little wars since. And they say the anti-trump group had folks during Reagan, i recall one guy from Reagan's time. They were mostly Bush lackies.
[Conservatives Journal] Barack Obama’s Cop-Hating Ways Are Putting Lives At Risk.
We begin another week here at the Kruiser Morning Briefing my friends, and I thank you for being along for the ride. I hope your Monday isn’t being too Monday-ish.
As you may or may not have noticed, I’ve recently been referring to the civil unrest in the United States of America as the "Barack Obama Legacy Riots." Sure, I’m flippant and sarcastic about a lot of things, but this one is a little more serious.
Barack Obama is the beating heart of the Black Lives Matter movement. Obama’s embrace of the false narrative about Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri helped birth BLM.
Obama began throwing law enforcement under the bus in the first year of his presidency when he blamed Cambridge police for a confrontation with a Harvard professor despite — as he admitted himself — having not seen all the facts.
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Cop in the Gates kerfuffle gave up to easily. Did his job, got called a racist for it. Should have made more of a deal, even if it cost him his job.
[NY Post] Foreign entities looking to influence American politics sometimes devise lucrative commercial deals involving a politician's family. While the deals can, and do, ensnare politicians of all stripes, those involving the Biden family are particularly troubling: The transactions implicate US national security.
While Joe Biden served as vice president, his son Hunter received offers from foreign governments and oligarchs in areas where the he had little or no expertise. That his foreign partners included a rival state, Communist China, make these arrangements particularly brazen, even by Washington's swampy standards.
Newly released Secret Service travel records for Hunter paint a clearer picture of how extensive these efforts were. The documents, reviewed by Judicial Watch, show that between 2009 and 2014, Hunter made 411 trips across 29 countries. While some of those trips were perhaps leisure and others related to his volunteer work for the World Food Program, many of them appear to be connected to deals that he or his associates either secured or sought with foreign governments and oligarchs.
For example, Hunter visited China five times between 2009 and 2014. Most notoriously, he traveled with his father aboard Air Force Two in December 2013 as part of an official visit with Chinese officials. Ten days after their return to Washington, Hunter and his associates partnered with the state-owned Bank of China to formally establish BHR, a new, first-of-its-kind fund aimed at making investments outside China through the newly established Shanghai Free Trade Zone.
When this deal was first revealed in Peter Schweizer's book "Secret Empires," Team Biden attempted to paint Hunter as a passive participant involved in the formation of BHR, arguing that "other business partners" had laid the groundwork for it in a June 2013 meeting. But the new travel records reveal that Hunter was, in fact, in Beijing in June 2013.
Hunter's trips to China are also of interest in light of what happened with another company he co-founded and served as a board adviser, Rosemont Realty. In 2015, that firm sold a majority stake to Gemini, a Chinese state-owned company.
There is evidence of extensive foreign dealings going beyond China, including the well-known case involving the corrupt energy company Burisma in Ukraine. According to corporate-board records released as part of a criminal trial in New York, Hunter's business partners bragged about their relationships with powerful figures around the world. One matter mentioned was a $200 million deal involving Yelena Baturina, a powerful Russian oligarch formerly married to Moscow's mayor.
Hunter visited Moscow in February 2012, according to the travel records. The nature of his relationship with Baturina isn't publicly known, but Kirill Zakharin, who managed investments for Baturina at the time, listed himself as an advisory board member of Rosemont Realty, Hunter's firm. Zakharin now helps run the Russian government's housing finance company, DOM.Rf.
But the most troubling aspect of Hunter's relationship with foreign entities isn't simply that a politicians' family is getting wealthy. That's all too common. It's that his largest partner overseas appears to be the Chinese government, a brutal totalitarian regime fast emerging as America's major 21st-century adversary. And some of their commercial deals have clear implications for national security.
Not long after its founding, BHR, the investment firm, became involved in a string of high-profile deals involving sensitive national-security concerns. BHR received a pre-public offering stake in a state-controlled nuclear company now under federal indictment for espionage. It invested in strategic mineral resources in Africa. And it partnered with a Chinese military contractor to purchase a Michigan-based manufacturer of vibration dampening equipment, which are used in transport systems but are considered "dual use" by the federal government, i.e., they have military applications.
During all of these deals, Hunter Biden sat on the firm's board of directors. His close friend and business partner Devon Archer was BHR's vice chairman and a member of the investment committee.
Joe Biden has pledged that his family will not do any new foreign deals if he is elected president. This is an echo of a promise President Trump made in December 2016. Such promises are largely meaningless. But beyond securing new deals, the current Biden commercial relationships are troubling enough.
While Hunter Biden resigned from the board of BHR under the glare of public attention, he retains his equity stake in the firm. And the full extent of his relationships through his other businesses cannot be known. And the Bidens are not talking.
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It is Hunter Biden. How many trips to Thailand for drugs and hookers?
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The "best" gun is the one you have with you, and know how to use like its part of your own hand.
Choose for ammunition supply (cant beat .22LR and 9mm parabellum for availability, 5.56 or .7.62 for long range), accuracy (depends on practice) and reliability (bolt action rifle, pump shotgun, and a wheel gun are kings for this, along with the GOG - good old glock - or a 1911)
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.22 bolt & revolver for practice and teaching.
Pump shotgun for hunting birds, up-close defense, and intimidation.
Bolt .270 Win or .30-'06 for large game hunting (2-4 legs) at a safe distance and with common ammo.
.30-30 lever carbine for large game hunting (2-4 legs) at shorter range or in woods, also with common ammo.
.38 special revolver and/or 1911 to fill out the list.
Seven, not five, but that's what got lost in the lake...
#5
Honestly, if SHTF, my goto gun is probably going to be my M-1 Garand for anything over short range. I have a 7.62N and 5.56N rifle, but I KNOW the M-1 will do the job.
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
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
