And thanks to Powerline for reminding me (emphasis mine, reformatted):

The second example is Target. According to Wray, it has taken a beating on the heels of a March announcement that promoted an all-comers bathroom and changing room policy — an expression of solidarity with the current policy goals of liberal LGBT activists. With sales lagging, Target recently announced the departure of its e-commerce director.

And at last look, $6 billion in market cap.  And for the record, they fired the wrong guy.  They should have hit the guy who actually caused their problem and I’m betting it wasn’t this guy.

The lagging sales are no coincidence. According to Wray, 1.42 million people signed the American Family Association’s boycott pledge.

Ayup.  A while ago, I said I wasn’t going to shop there anymore.  Haven’t, even to purchase a replacement Target lamp that died (one I had bought before this all happened) and it looks like others are doing the same.  But they are just darned determined to be stuck on Stupid:

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Leo DiCaprio, like those in the Borgia era, is just another corrupt Cardinal in the Climate Change College. Preaching one life while living another. But not every so-called Green Group is willing to look the other way.

At a press conference in London, the Bruno Manser Funds offered DiCaprio an ultimatum: either he renounce his connections to the “politically exposed persons” at the center of the multi-billion dollar 1MDB Malaysian corruption scandal now being investigated by the U.S. Justice Department and return corrupt money he allegedly received or resign from the position he was given by UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon in 2014.

DiCraprio is a UN Messenger of Peace with a focus on Climate Change. He’s a goodwill ambassador to the weather.

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BBC.com has an article with the above picture titled, ‘Moonbow’ photographed over Yorkshire.’

Moonbow?

Moonbow sounds like…moonbow. It’s awful. Does that mean we should be calling the light side version a Sunbow? Yes? Well, we can’t, that’s already taken.

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I’m not the only one that is noticing that the MSM has dropped all pretense of being the “who, what, where, why, and how” – objectivity.  Oh sure, I’ve pointed this and them out for years but this election season, it is beyond “over the top”:

The Democrats’ and mainstream media’s blizzard of sexual accusations against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is getting stronger every day, right at a time when fully investigating and responding to the allegations would be very tough for Team Trump with only weeks before the election. The former judge and prosecutor took to “Fox & Friends” Friday to explain why she finds the whole affair just a little too “convenient” for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Emphasis mine:

…“You know what? It’s a little too convenient, all of the sudden, all these people, all in one day, on the day when WikiLeaks starts coming out … Look, you’ve got the mainstream media in cahoots with the Clinton campaign.

“I always respected the media, they’re supposed to be the Fourth Estate. They’re the people who keep us honest. No, they don’t. They want Clinton elected, and don’t want to do anything else.”

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“When did atheists become so evangelical? I mean, if you don’t believe something to be true, wouldn’t you just ignore it? That’s certainly what I do. Whether it’s leprechauns or a congressional debt reduction plan – if I’m convinced it’s fiction, I simply put it out of my mind. Not the atheists. They are obsessed with faith and religious practice. Their identities and their works are one big reaction to that which they hate. No longer content to simply dismiss God and those who follow in Him, the New Atheists have created a cult of unbelief.”

-Laura Ingraham (radio show host, TV commentor, author (“Shut up and Sing”)

It often seems that these New Atheists are

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So, on one hand we have women obectifying themselves…..but she’s a Democrat “friend” and donor.

Butbutbutbut….Trump was a Democrat when he did those things – and Democrats and their allied Feminists certainly protected Bill Clinton as he was assaulting women.  Why the double standard, Democrats?

After all…

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And the headline says, “Clinton Foundation Internal Audit…”

An internal audit commissioned by the Clinton Foundation in 2011 revealed that the Clinton’s family charity may have misled the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) when it claimed, under penalty of perjury, that it was enforcing a policy against conflicts of interest.

First of all, wouldn’t be nice to see a real audit – as in IRS audit?

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Since at least the 5th century BC observers have suggested that sunspots affect Earth’s climate. In the centuries since then the observations have become more concise and the correlations more exact, not just about how solar cycles effect Earth’s weather but what drives the solar cycles themselves.

New research suggests a very strong correlation between solar cycles (and sun spots) and the influence of the gas giants Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus. Named after ancient gods, it appears that their combined presence drives the solar cycles that play such an important part in our weather.

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Sheeple: (a portmanteau of “sheep” and “people”) is a derogatory term that highlights the passive herd behavior of people easily controlled by a governing power which likens them to sheep, a herd animal that is easily led about. The term is used to describe those who voluntarily acquiesce to a suggestion without critical analysis or research in large part because the majority of others possess a similar mindset

I’m tabbing a bunch of posts about the WikiLeaks-Podesta emails and if the media wasn’t so brown nosing up Hillary’s arse and those of her progressive posse, these email might be the end of her campaign.  But they’re busy protecting her (and “Caining Trump”) so the only source of discussion of these emails is coming from the Right blogosphere.

Sheeple?  I prefer LIVs – Low Information Voters.  It is not that they are stupid but certainly do not take their civic duties highly.  Easy to prove – the “man in the street” interviews I’ve posted up in the past.  They may know the latest about pop culture but nada about their government (after all it is supposed to be about WE the People).  The problem here is that Progressives don’t believe that the citizens have a government – in their model, people are there to be ruled (not even governed, but ruled).  Emphasis mine, reformatted:

One of John Podesta’s emails released by WikiLeaks this week exposes how progressive elites seek to exploit the unwashed masses. The email features one of Podesta’s colleagues from the Center for American Progress admitting that the institutional left “conspires to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry,” ostensibly to impose their radical agenda on us without much resistance.

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That’s the title of yet another great piece by Victor Davis Hanson, a Professor of History at Stanford.  I know that I have used the Roman Empire as a parallel comparison to what I see happening here in US in both culture and political – he calls folks like us out for being off base.  Instead, he thinks that Medieval times are a better fit – a couple of snippets (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Pessimists often compare today’s troubled America to a tottering late Rome or an insolvent and descending British Empire. But medieval Europe (roughly A.D. 500 to 1450) is the more apt comparison. The medieval world was a nearly 1,000-year period of spectacular, if haphazard, human achievement — along with endemic insecurity, superstition and two, rather than three, classes. The great medieval universities — at Bologna, Paris and Oxford — continued to make strides in science. They were not unlike the medical and engineering schools at Harvard and Stanford. But they were not centers of free thinking.

Instead, medieval speech codes were designed to

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Stories for this Obamacare have all of the major insurance companies are pulling out of the Exchanges because of enormous losses,

Sidenote:  First, Democrats were all but ready to burn these same insurance companies for causing our healthcare industry because of a lust for greedy profits.  Now that they are suffering large fractional parts of a billion each and are pulling out of the Exchanges (due to legal fiduciary responsibilities to their shareholders) and pulling out of the Democrat only legislation created, mandated, and over-burdened the same, they are being put on the rack for “destroying” the Exchanges.

…the failure of the  majority of the faux facade co-ops that Government set up to be shining examples of non-profits that could make it (especially with billions of our tax dollars) and the news that individual policies on the Exchanges are SKYrocketing premiums / deductions and causing exactly the results we said would happen – a government mandated marketplace isn’t a marketplace and when government pushes its thumb down on the economic scale to create the results it wants, the results will be those they expected.  One person’s horror story:

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Since it is October and the Clintons are running for president again it might be time to re-visit how this running for office deal really works.

Take Gary Bauer for instance, circa 1999.

Mr. Bauer Had his “October Surprise” courtesy of the Washington Post. It was a no-win deal for him. Gary Bauer was caught, hands down, unequivocally, unapologetically, having meetings in his office with the 27-year-old friend of his daughter who was working on his campaign.

Two of his “loyal” campaign staff went public with the raw details – Bauer repeatedly went into his office alone with this young lady and he was warned by his loyal campaign staff that this looks bad. It was so bad they talked to the press – like any loyal staff would do.

Gary Bauer’s goose was cooked. The press wanted to know about the affair, he didn’t want to fire the assistant, etc., etc., you know the drill.

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Forwarded to me by NH State Senator Kevin Avard.

CONCORD – In today’s Union Leader, State Senator Regina Birdsell penned an op-ed criticizing Governor Maggie Hassan for her lack of focus on key projects that will help New Hampshire. Read the entire op-ed here or check out the excerpts below:

“Gov. Maggie Hassan has used her office to satisfy her own political ambitions, including taking credit for the Legislature’s balanced budget and the $100 million surplus as a result of a stronger economy. This is ludicrous. This is the same budget she vetoed last summer because of business tax cuts. Her veto and lack of focus on the needs of the Granite State is negatively impacting our communities every day…

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From Rich Girard’s News Read yesterday: looks like Maggie Hassan is giving away no-bid contracts in exchange for campaign contributions.

Is Governor Margaret Wood Hassan presiding over a pay to play scheme in the awarding of state contracts?  Curious minds want to know, at least on the Republican side of the aisle.  Republican State Committee Chair Jennifer Horn called on Hassan to quote “start answering questions about the growing list of no-bid contracts she has awarded to her campaign donors,” charging Hassan has quote “turned the state’s contracting process into her personal A T M.”  Horn also filed Right-To-Know requests for all records pertaining to the awarding of controversial contracts to a company called Centene, which the Union Leader reported as having given Hassan tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions before and after  the company received no-bid contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and all no-bid contracts issued while Hassan’s been in office.

Among the facts raising questions over the state’s involvement with Centene are the following:

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The Left cannot tolerate dissent or opposition.  There can be no debate – only silencings. They say they want tolerance – and then show up with a flamethrower.

So, right after Google / YouTube decided to block Prager U’s videos (H/T: Steve), we now have friend of the ‘Grok James O’Keefe letting us know that Twitter has blocked this Conservative (and flamboyant Progressive baiter) James O’Keefe and Project Veritas (and remember, law Professor Glenn Reynolds was blocked on Twitter for commenting negatively for telling drivers what to do with their cars when Black Live Matters thugs attacked them and their cars).  From the email he sent out yesterday:

About an hour ago, the Twitter Corporation decided to silence me and suspended my account.

No notice, no warning, I just received a terse message that I had “violated” their rules.

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I’m behind the 8-ball once again with WikiLeaks just dumping a lot of Hillary’s Campaign Manager and long term political hack John Podesta’s emails.  It is infuriating to me to see the collusion of MSM, her campaign, the think tanks and the Obama Administration.  Worst of all is the utter disdain and disgust that Hillary’s campaign staff and other hanger-oners have for religion and those of us of faith but that will have to wait for another post.  It does make for the PERFECT example of why the religious population of Christian persuasion are under such attack with no though of offending them (but NEVER offend a transgender Muslim convert, right?).  Oh, and that she thinks SO much of the United States, she wants to completely remake it over via NO borders and no controls – imagine what that would mean for we American citizens? And the utter depravity of someone who is unwilling (unable?) to look the American people in the eyes and tell us what she (or them) REALLY believe and will do to us if she were to gain the Presidency.

But I digress – here’s a quick list from the Washington Time’s of 10 of the significant areas in which these emails are showing us the true heart of Progressives (for these ARE the cream of the Progressive crop aching for a Progressive coup of our country):

The ongoing WikiLeaks dump of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails has exposed the corruption and cronyism of her campaign and time in office. Everyday there are more revelations of wrongdoing, so much so, it’s hard to keep up with. So here’s the top 10 double-dealing, dishonest discoveries uncovered thus far.

• 1. Mrs. Clinton had cozy and improper relationship with the mainstream media.
• 2. The State Department paid special attention to “Friends of Bill.”
• 3. Mrs. Clinton argued for “a hemispheric common market with open trade and open borders.”

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