Folks I’m just gonna excerpt two paragraphs and commend that you look at the source article for more.
The social network is heading to court in Belgium on Wednesday, Bloomberg reports. Its goal is to fight a court order that would force it to stop using cookies and other tracking technology to follow its users as they navigate around the internet to serve them ads–at least until Facebook explains exactly how and why it collects data and what it does with the information. The original court order required the social media giant to stop tracking users, delete all data it had gathered illegally on Belgian citizens–including people who were not Facebook users themselves–or face fines of up to €250,000 ($281,625) a day. It may be a tough slog, as Facebook’s tracking technology is applied not only to people who willingly signed up for the site, but also to millions of people who aren’t signed up or have closed their accounts. Belgium’s court order, meanwhile, may be bolstered by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which allows penalties as large as 4% of a company’s annual revenue.
I know that many Democrats have already declared their candidacy for President, but this is not what I’m referring to in this case. Now that the Mueller Report was released and found Trump did not collude with Russia—which we knew 2 ½ years ago—we can begin to see what Trump will do between now and the next election.
The theme for the 2020 campaign will be this: American Values versus California Values.
Trump will be for freer markets, changing the structure of the bureaucracy, and getting as many promises as he can codified by Congress. Trump will champion traditional American values. Also, adding more judges to the Federal Bench.
The Democrats will try to out do each other promising a Socialist Utopia on the one hand and looking to add even more felons and illegal immigrants to both the dole and voter rolls. Heck in just one speech last week, candidate Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren promised one trillion dollars in new spending if she is elected as the next President.
Symbol of National Socialist Party
The other reason it will be equating Democrats with California Values is that in the heartland nothing is more toxic than comparing anything to California. We may have great weather but the ideas that are popular here are insanity to right minded people.
California is hostile to God, patriotism, American history, free markets, personal property, individual freedom, free speech, religion, traditional values, the elderly, unborn, academic freedom, business, and common sense.
Ronald Reagan campaigned against Jimmy Carter on the question, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” In that spirit, Trump may very well ask if you will be better off after four more years of my leadership as opposed to what is offered by the Democrats? This election will hinge on a right direction, wrong direction question. I think Trump will win by a larger margin even with all the election fraud and tampering that the Democrats are interjecting into the process. (See California, Virginia, and Florida.)
Blacks are better off under Trump than they were under Obama. Ditto for Hispanics, Asians, business owners, and on down the line. Trump will continue to offer disruption to business as usual in Washington while Democrats will offer disruption of our lives, livelihood, and freedom.
In my opinion, should Trump fail, the Republic is over. It may be over anyway, but Trump is our last, best hope before we go over the demographic, ideological, and fiscal cliffs. Literally the point of no return.
I fear that we are in the decline analogous to the decay of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the Old Testament. You know what I mean. King (insert name here) did more evil than all his predecessors. He died and the next guy was even worse. Every so often, a king would be a bit of a rest from the trend, but he too would fail and then the decline would continue. Finally, the nation was overrun by their enemies, sacked, and the population enslaved.
Democrats are offering to skip the enemy invasion and enslave us themselves. No, I haven’t forgot about the border invasion. Democrats are ok with those folks as long as they can enslave them and control them too. If people come to America wanting freedom, they will not be welcome here.
We are balanced on the knife edge of history; one side will prevail. Our only hope is that God, in his mercy, will tilt things in the direction of grace not continued judgement.
If you want to bury a news story, everyone knows you need to release it at 5 P.M. on a Friday night. The fact that Robert Mueller has done just that (his report has been held since Monday) means that there is nothing to see. Trump has been exonerated as we knew that he would be.
Some “tells” include that NBC news and other MSN outlets have been saying that the report will be disappointing for the last two months, no indictments have materialized that lead to the President, and the Mueller team have been leaving for other assignments for the last several weeks. The Liberal worship at the chapel of Our Lady of Perpetual Investigation has yielded no fruit. As promised weeks ago by Nancy Pelosi, there will be no impeachment.
While much political posturing will continue, the 2016 election is finally over just in time for 2020 to begin. Which brings up the obvious question, how long will it be until the report is released?
OK, there are technically two reports; the executive summary that the Attorney General will give the President and Congress and the actual report which many thinks will never see the light of day. Trump says release it but which one, the short version or the actual report? I will give you 50/50 odds that Trump will release it before Congress can.
Cory Booker
Why let Cory Booker leak this like he did with information from Brent Kavanaugh’s hearing last summer? The only thing missing from this report is the validation that Democrats hoped to find for their hatred of Trump.
This whole sordid episode of American history is all based on a lie from Hillary Clinton and perpetuated by John McCain to bring down a political outsider that doesn’t have the right pedigree to be a Washington politician. When push comes to shove, the ruling class will band together against insurgents that threaten their livelihood.
Trump is the enemy of both parties. Few Presidents can be compared to him. In some ways, he is in the same league as Teddy Roosevelt and Abe Lincoln. Trump is a different type of guy and one that is desperately needed in times like this. Can he change the trajectory of our decaying republic? I’m not sure anyone can but perhaps he can sew the seeds of change for a new generation.
If all Trump does is let the younger generation see an alternative to the headlong plunge into socialism, he will have done us all a huge favor.
now emerges a story that Facebook has stored your password in plain text available to any employee and anyone with access to the house that Mark built. This has been their practice since 2012 and at least 600,000,000 passwords are involved.
“Security rule 101 dictates that under no circumstances passwords should be stored in plain text and at all times must be encrypted,” said cybersecurity expert Andrei Barysevich of Recorded Future. “There is no valid reason why anyone in an organization, especially the size of Facebook, needs to have access to users’ passwords in plain text.” Facebook said there is no evidence its employees abused access to this data. But thousands of employees could have searched them. The company said the passwords were stored on internal company servers, where no outsiders could access them. But the incident reveals a huge oversight for the company amid a slew of bruises and stumbles in the last couple of years. The security blog KrebsOnSecurity said some 600 million Facebook users may have had their passwords stored in plain text. Facebook said in a blog post Thursday it will likely notify “hundreds of millions”…
Apple has no plans for a 5G phone in 2019. We have reported that several times on this blog but recently more information has come to light. The truth is Apple has no supplier for the technology. Why, because they have burned bridges with everyone.
Apple has four choices for 5G
Qualcomm – Apple has disputes with this competitor. Source
Intel – Apple is dropping Intel as chip supplier. Source
Samsung – Apple’s direct competitor in cell phone mfg. Samsung #1 in the world, Apple #3
Make their own – starting from scratch and not running afoul of existing intellectual property and patents is problematic and years from concept to production
Ok, I just don’t get this controversy. When the P.D. pulls their weapons and gives you an instruction, you better follow it. End of story. If the cops were wrong, then that’s why we have lawyers.
I’ve watched enough cops shows back in the day and shootings on the news to know that you comply with police instructions and better drop the cell phone or whatever is in your hands because they will presuppose you are holding a weapon. Clark ran and failed to follow instructions by cops with their weapons drawn. It is fair to say that he provoked a confrontation. He rolled the dice and lost.
Now people claim that they want justice for Stephon. The only thing nobody can define is what is “justice for Stephon?” Protestors say that they want the cops fired and presumable the police chief too but for what? (FYI I never hear from them that one of the two cops that shot Stephon was black or that the police chief is too so this can’t be a racial thing, right?) What does any of this have to do with justice? I can understand Ann Marie Schubert not wanting to prosecute but Javier Becerra?
Sacramento County District Attorney Ann Marie Schubert
Javier would gladly throw Schubert under the bus if he wanted too. He has filed a new lawsuit against President Trump every week for the last two years; none of which he will win. Becerra is all in for political posturing not following the law. Let’s face it, Schubert waited until Becerra gave assurances that he wouldn’t throw her under the bus before announcing that the officers would not face charges. Darrell Steinberg is the one doing the posturing in all this at the expense of the police and public safety just to score cheap political points.
Folks let’s take a cold, honest look at this situation. The people leading the so call “Stephon Clark protests for justice” are part of a paid political operation. This is the same continuing campaign as Occupy Sacramento, Black Lives Matters, Antifa, and all the rest. This is Obama’s community organizing; just taking advantage of the next target of opportunity. “The Tell” as they say in poker is folks like Reverend Al Sharpton stirring up the faithful and the group of people camped out in front of the District Attorney’s Office for the last year. This is a paid and coordinated campaign that reaches from Stephon’s neighborhood into the Legislature.
The Stephon protests are all about tearing down law and order and have nothing to do with justice. This is the same scam as reparations and other things perpetrated on the black community. Whatever Stephon’s family thinks, there is no definition of how to decide when justice is achieved. It is an ethereal and empty promise. They are being used. I’m sorry that this is happening to them but at some point, they have to take responsibility for their association and continued involvement with this rent-a-mob.
Before concluding, I must give a special condemnation of the so-called clergy involved in this circus. I watched one of the first press conferences after the shooting and was ready to give Stephon a chance until they paraded Al Sharpton out as a leader. Once Al showed his face, you knew this was a political operation, one unconcerned with justice. Sharpton only shows up if someone is angling for a large check.
A real minister would not get immersed in such a mess as this. What happened to “government is established by God to bear the sword?” What happened to keeping the commandments? What about avoiding the company of evil men? What about turning the other cheek? What about allowing God to take vengeance? What about caring for the widow and orphan? (Per the Bible, this is the responsibility of individuals not government.) What happened to the gospel? What about abortion? Whatever these guys are saying either from the pulpit or the press conference, it’s not based on the Bible. No wonder people can’t get out of the plantation, they aren’t being shown the way.
The fake outrage from organizers of the Stephon Clark protests are just furthering a political narrative. They want to get the community so emotionally worked-up that people will call them leaders and follow them; however, unlike Moses in the wilderness, there is no destination, only dry bones in the desert where these folks are being herded.
“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”
— Proverbs 14:12
The Apostle Paul warns us of those that “preacheth another Jesus, … another spirit, …, or another gospel, …” (2 Cor 11:4) When I hear that Stephon is innocent because of the color of his skin and not the content of his character, I know that the person speaking is uttering falsehood. If the person is not promoting agape love, they are speaking falsely, if the person is not promoting Biblical values but spewing words based on Marxism and Liberation Theology that they speak falsely.
The Biblical standard of justice requires that no preference be given to the rich or the poor but that all are equal before the law. However,
“As Karl Marx phrased it, the battle cry of the revolutionaries must be: “permanent revolution!” Anarchist Leo Tolstoy agreed: “The only revolution is the one that never stops.”
— David Chilton from Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt Manipulators, p 84
Stephon Clark was another youth that died as a result of an accumulation of stupid life choices. Had he been raised to follow the values and practices that he should have received from all the ministers that purport to speak for him now, he would still be walking upon our planet. He wouldn’t have abused drugs, had an extensive criminal record, and fathered children out of wedlock. Stephon is a household name not for what he did right but for what he failed to do.
Again, I don’t care whether you think you are right or wrong, if a guy with a badge pulls a weapon on you, then you comply. If he’s wrong, get a lawyer.
I knew that Dinesh D’Souza was supposed to be in Stockton last Friday but at $50 per ticket, there was no way I could afford to go let alone take the wife and son. The day of the event, I got an unsolicited text message from the Sith Lord asking if I was interested. It seems the promoters had given the Sith Lord nine tickets for the event. These weren’t just tickets but VIP tickets. I told him that I was interested but could not attend the VIP event prior to the event. After a short phone call with my wife, we decided to go on a road trip to Stockton that evening to see D’Souza.
The only exposure that our family had previously had with D’Souza was via his movie on Hillary Clinton.
For those unfamiliar with D’Souza, he researches history and digs up nuggets of inconvenient truth that have been buried by those in power because their past is often at odds with the narratives that they put forward. Truthfully almost everything you were ever taught in school about history is so incomplete as to be completely untrue.
D’Souza’s appearance was at the Bob Hope Theater in Stockton. The venue can hold up to 2,000 people.
Based on the amount of paid security and other employees, this place cost the promoters a pretty penny. In my opinion, based on the number of comped tickets available the day of the event, many in attendance didn’t actually pay to attend. I think that fiscally this event was unprofitable. I would guess the crowd to be less than 400 souls.
D’Souza was entertaining and spoke at length about the success of President Trump in spite of the relentless and blistering attacks on him. His basic thesis is that Trump’s ego is so big that Trump doesn’t care what people think about him. That coupled with the fact that Trump gives more pushback than he gets allows him not only to survive but thrive. In an era where “politics is perception” Trump is a non sequitur.
D’Souza then went on to talk about his films and presentations on the typical college campus. As is our experience as Conservatives, once you get past the bumper sticker slogan that someone on the Left has memorized, they are out of substance. D’Souza talked about his mission not to convert the hardcore Liberal but reach the person on the fence in order to get them to think. He expressed his mission as to provide irrefutable information that undoes the conventional narrative and hope that causes folks to further challenge their worldview. D’Souza never stated so, but his belief in the Truth prevailing is due in part to his faith in God.
Peppered throughout his discussion, D’Souza also spoke at length about the history of the Democrat Party and the lie of socialism. In light of constant attacks on history and Trump (and I guess a new book that he authored), D’Souza once again put to rest the lie that National Socialism was an ideology of the right. FYI: Socialism, Fascism, and Nazism are all the exclusive purview of the Left. The real zinger to me was the claim from his new book that the Nazi’s rules on the treatment of Jews were a direct rip-off of Southern Jim Crow laws. D’Souza claims to have a written record of this early 1930’s meeting in Germany. I would be skeptical except he wouldn’t say it if it weren’t true; he has too much at stake to be wrong.
D’Souza is not alone in correcting the record by any means but as an immigrant from another country he doesn’t have to deal with the construct placed on us that have gone thru the American educational system. I have found D’Souza correct in his information and analysis. He is only controversial because he is confronting recent history and current events. D’Souza is only controversial because the truth is counter to the prevailing narrative.
This also true with much of what passes as American History. If you want a voice correcting the record for another era of our nation’s history–namely the millennia prior to the Vikings–look up three books by Barry Fell: Saga America, Bronze Age America, and America B.C. Last I checked they are out of print, but the basic point is that everything you think you know about “Native Americans” is wrong. For example, people in the time of heyday of Carthage and Rome travelled here all the time and so did others. Fell documents much that has fallen into obscurity or runs counter to academic dogma.
D’Souza is worth listening to because he has the pulse of what is real in an age of noise and fury. I’m gratful that the Sith Lord made this night possible for my family.
Back in July, we documented the fact that Disney—in a fake display of political correctness—fired Guardians of the Galaxy producer James Gunn. As a bonus, Liberals blamed conservatives for Gunn’s termination. Gunn was fired for stuff he posted on Twitter many years before Disney hired him as a producer of Guardians the first time.
Back on August 1, 2018 you will find the following:
Disney insiders told Variety the company was not aware of Gunn’s offensive tweets prior to hiring him in 2012 and “were taken aback when they were recirculated.” The “Vol. 3” production start date is tentatively scheduled for February 2019, but that could easily be pushed back as Disney takes its time to find a new director.
At the time, Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn said, “The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James’ Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio’s values and we have severed our business relationship with him.”
Today it is reported that Disney has seen the light—or felt a void in their cash flow—and decided to rehire Gunn. I’m not surprised at Gunn’s rehiring but the last Guardians movie was crumby even if it was nice to see Kurt Russell on the big screen again.
Taxes were cut under the Trump plan. However, because of how it was done, some folks out there are pushing the lie that Trump actually raised taxes on everyone but the rich.
Here is yet another example, this time from Reuters.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Only one in five U.S. taxpayers expect to pay less income tax this year as a result of the tax reform law passed in 2017 by Republicans who promised big savings for everyday Americans, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Friday.
The tax overhaul lowered federal income tax rates for individuals as well as for corporations, but it also capped certain deductions, such as for state and local taxes, which could mean that some people will wind up paying more. The March 6-11 survey found about 21 percent of adults who had either filed their taxes or planned to said “the new tax plan that Congress recently passed” would let them pay less this year; about 29 percent said they would pay more; 27 percent said there would be no impact; 24 percent said they were not sure.
Did you note the deception that is the premise of this article? It’s subtle. The verbal sleight of hand is this, the only federal taxes you pay or don’t pay are solely determined on whether or not you get a tax refund on April 15th. If you get a refund then the tax cut is good for you but if you write a check then you are paying more taxes and thus you are getting screwed once again by the Republicans. This article totally ignores whether you got to keep more of your money each month last year (once the new tax withholding tables were enacted) or on the whole paid less than the previous year. To reduce the value of the tax cut down to whether you get a refund on April 15th is deception and ignorance. This is economic illiteracy.
This ladies and gentlemen will be one of the Democrat’s chief arguments against Trump in 2020. Not whether on the whole you got to keep more of your money and really did pay less but instead whether your refund was larger after the tax cut. Talk about economic illiteracy and low information voters…
Just when you thought you had hear the last of CRA champion, Ted Cruz, comes a headline that just has to smack you in the ole kisser. Yes, “Lyin’ Ted” Cruz and Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren are on the same side of an issue that we just blogged about, Facebook.
Recently, Warren’s presidential campaign had ads on Facebook talking about her stance on breaking up big tech monopolies, and in particular, Facebook (yes, it is ironic). The social media giant responded by pulling the ads. Eventually, the ads were restored but the whole debacle proves Warren’s point. And while Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) doesn’t agree with Warren on much, he did back her up, saying big tech has too much power to stifle free speech.
Folks, besides just the fact that both Senators agree on Facebook censorship—even though Pocahontas was OK with it until it happened to her—Ted has found a way to interject himself into the dialogue of the 2020 Presidential race and that has to give CRA hope that Ted is still in the hunt.
Breaking up “Big Tech” is turning into a bipartisan issue that could be a path back to relevance for Republicans. Perhaps their salvation lies not in Ronald Reagan but in the modern Teddy Roosevelt in his role as “Trust Buster”.
For CRA, this couldn’t come at a better time. Ted is back.
What an inspiration for the faithful and just in time for their upcoming state convention which will be held in Sacramento just a few days from now. CRA, like Ted, believes that as long as they draw breath that there is hope for the Republican Party. Ted will lead them to victory in a post Trump Republican Party.
Teddy Roosevelt use his charge up San Juan Hill to propel him to the White House and now likewise, they believe that Teddy Cruz can channel that same spirit to facedown the enemy of “Big Tech” and ride his victory to the White House too.
CRA is newly energized by the prospect that Ted is back and just in time for 2020.
