Harris Faulkner doesn't know how big Wisconsin is

Harris Faulkner just said that when she lived

in Minneapolis, she was "right next door to Kenosha, WI"....

A town that's 370 miles away is "right next door"?

That's about the same distance as New York City to Norfolk, VA.

🙄 

Three Leopards die of COVID-19 complications after testing positive

3 Snow Leopards that recently tested positive with COVD-19 have died at the Lincoln's Children Zoo in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Read more at CNN

Liberals' latest crme-fighting idea: "Buy Back" fake guns

Read:  Minnesota gun buyback program a dud, some legal owners say

An August 2019 music festival in Detroit charged different ticket prices based on skin color

It was called "AfroFuture Fest" and charged higher ticket prices for "non-people of color".

Read:  Festival charges double ticket price for 'non-people of colour' 

Rashida Tlaib uses her grandmother to advance anti-Israeli rhetoric

Rashida Tlaib, in her typical trashy way, has pounced on her own grandmother's public dignity as a chance to trash Israel.

If it wasn't for Ilhan Omar and her trashy past, Tlaib would be the most anti-American and classless member of Congress.

Read: Rashida Tlaib Shuns Her Own Grandmother to Trash Israel

CBS News covers for domestic terrorist group Antifa

CBS News claims Portland Police are preparing for widespread violence at a "far-right rally" today but fail to mention that it's Antifa the police are actually preparing for. Antifa has violently attacked conservative protests in Portland more than a dozen times over the past 2 years and are promising on social media to attack the protestors today with hammers. None of that was mentioned by CBS News.

It's been 2 weeks, and CBS still has also not mentioned that Dayton mass shooter Connor Betts was a member of Antifa. Still waiting...

Read: Portland braces for violence at far-right rally — entire police force will be on duty

South Korean and Japanese fighter jets intercepted a Russian A-50 after it invaded both of their airspaces

Beriev A-50 "Mainstay"

On Tuesday, a Russian A-50 "Mainstay" AWACS plane invaded the airspaces of both South Korea and Japan, forcing both countries to scramble fighter jets to intercept it. The breach of South Korea's airspace was so abrasive, the South Koreans fired over 300 warning shots in an effort to get the plane to divert course, but the Russian pilots ignored the warning shots and attempts at communication.

Russia is denying the Beriev A-50 ever entered either nation's airspace, essentially calling both countries' defense departments "liars" on an international stage.

Why South Korea and Japan would both lie about a Russian military plane invading their airspaces is anyone's guess.

Read more:  Warplanes from four countries face off in Asian confrontation

Iran Claims to have Captured a Foreign Oil Tanker...which doesn't seem to exist

Iran is bragging about capturing a "foreign" ship after Iranian smugglers were caught smuggling Iranian fuel out of Iran.

This "foreign" ship has not been claimed by any actual nation, nor has any nation reported a missing ship in the Strait of Hormuz.

See:  Iran seizes foreign oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz, state TV reports

U.S. Women's Soccer Team Accused Of Snubbing Star Player For Christian Views

Jaelene Hinkle

The absence of one of the best women’s soccer players in the nation from the national squad that just won the World Cup has prompted questions as to whether she didn’t make the team because of her openly professed Christian faith.

Jaelene Hinkle, 26, “has been called the top left defender in the U.S. game,” according to The Washington Times. Fox News noted Hinkle “helped her team win the NWSL championship and previously helped it win a title in 2016 when it was known as the Western New York Flash.”

But none of that apparently mattered to the women’s team. The Irish Times, which called Hinkle “the finest left-back in the NWSL,” wrote in June, “Hinkle likely would have been a fish out of water on the uber-woke women’s national team, some of whose biggest stars are openly lesbian, raising questions about whether she would have thrown off the squad’s chemistry.”

That’s because Hinkle has been quite open about her Christian faith. In 2015, Hinkle objected publicly to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, writing on Instagram:

Jesus didn't come to save those who already believed in Him. He came so that the lost, rejected, and abandoned men and women would find Him and believe. I believe with every fiber in my body that what was written 2,000 years ago in the Bible is undoubtedly true. It's not a fictional book. It's not a pick and choose what you want to believe. You either believe it, or you don't. This world may change, but Christ and His Word NEVER will.

Read more:  U.S. Women's Soccer Team Accused Of Snubbing Star Player For Christian Views

95-year-old WWII veteran Ernest Andrus begins second 2-year walk to visit every state

A 95-year-old American hero is walking across the country for the second time. Ernest Andrus began his journey in Saint Simons Island, Georgia on March 16. He says he plans to make it through every state in the country. The last time he did this, it took him two years. Right now, he’s covering 13 miles a week and says he would be 100 by the time he’s done.

Read more at WISH TV 8:  WWII veteran walking across America from Georgia to California

2 more Broward sheriff's deputies fired over inaction during Parkland shooting: Edward Eason and Josh Stambaugh

Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony said two additional deputies have been fired as a result of an internal affairs investigation into the agency's response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that killed 17 people in February 2018. Tony said during a news conference Wednesday morning that deputies Edward Eason and Josh Stambaugh were fired Tuesday for their inaction.

More:  2 more Broward sheriff's deputies fired over inaction during Parkland shooting

Josh Stambaugh

Edward Eason

A Brazilian Lesbian Couple tried to force transgender surgery on their 9-year-old son before Stabbing him to Death

A lesbian couple in Brazil who tried to force transgender surgery on a 9-year-old boy have been arrested after stabbing him to death.

Rhuan Maycon

Rhuan Maycon was murdered by his mother, Rosana da Silva Candido, and her partner Kacyla Damasceno Pessao on May 31st.

Maycon had been suffering for a year as a result of a botched gender re-assignment operation performed by the pair with no medical supervision after his mother decided he should be a girl.

Brazil’s child protection agency said the women had attempted to perform a “Kind of a sex-change surgery. After removing the penis, they sewed the mutilated region and improvised a version of a female genital organ, making a cut in the groin.”

More at Summit News:  Brazil: Lesbian Couple Who Tried to Force Transgender Surgery on 9-Year-Old Boy Stab Him to Death

How badly did CNN get the election?

"Trump's ghost will haunt the GOP -- and possibly kill it"

"It's all over for Donald Trump"

This was a column penned by a chief CNN political analyst and historian about 4 weeks before the election. He mocked Trump's upcoming landslide defeat in the election, encouraged Hillary Clinton to redirect some of her campaign funds to Congressional races, predicted a takeover of the Senate by the Democrats, and speculated about a small chance that the Democrats could take back the House and strip Paul Ryan of his position as Speaker of the House.  And he declared the Republican Party as being dead (again) and would be living in the shadow of Trump's ghost for the near future.

Of course in the actual election:

1. Trump won the presidential election by a considerable margin.
2. Hillary Clinton spent every dime of her $2 billion campaign budget (the largest in world history) and still lost.
3. The Republicans maintained their majority in the Senate, 51-48.
4. The Republicans maintained their majority in the House, 239-193.
5. The Republicans grew their majority of governorships from 31-18-1 to 34-15-1.

So practically overnight, we went from nearly every political pundit predicting Democratic takeover of the White House, Senate, and governorships and a collapse of the Republican Party to the GOP winning the White House, Senate, House, and governorships.

1990 vs 2015

The FCC claims that its famous Carterfone decision opened the door to the Internet

In the Section III. Report and Order on Remand: Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet of the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules, they claim that their famous Carterfone decision freed up technological innovation and helped create the Internet later on.  The Carterfone was a device that bridged two-way radios to each other over a phone line, greatly extending their reach beyond the range of a typical consumer radio-signal broadcast. In the 1960s, AT&T was the largest telephone company in the United States and provided most of the physical telephone lines for communication.  But AT&T created a rule that banned any non-AT&T device from connecting to their phone lines, thereby preventing their customers from using devices such as the Carterfone on AT&T telephone lines.

In 1968, the Federal Communications Commission ordered that AT&T’s ban was unlawful, thereby, by federal government decree, allowing these and other acoustic coupling communication devices such as fax machines and modems, to connect to AT&T phone lines.  Win for the consumer, right?

Well, not so fast!

While the FCC was patting itself on the back for outlawing an AT&T business practice that gave their customers more freedom, we must go back to what allowed AT&T to create and enforce such a ban to begin with, a rule that was clearly unpopular with their own customers.

AT&T, like other local telecommunication companies, had long been in bed with local governments that gave them government-protected monopolies in nearly all areas of the United States, preventing pretty much any competition from starting up where AT&T was the de facto telephone provider.  AT&T claimed that the initial investment into the telephone infrastructure (the phone lines and switching equipment) would not have been profitable if other companies were allowed to build their own networks alongside AT&T (or use AT&T’s infrastructure).

This, of course, was nonsense.  This government-protected monopoly almost guaranteed AT&T’s profits for decades by reducing their costs and allowing them to not have to worry about competing.  And when a business doesn’t have to worry about competing, they are free to provide poor products and services, enforce high prices, and threaten to cut off their customers altogether from using telephones at all.

It was this GOVERNMENT-PROTECTED MONOPOLY that allowed AT&T to ban customers from using non AT&T devices on their telephone lines.  If AT&T did not have a monopoly then competitive telecommunications products and service providers would have been able to swoop in and fill in the gaps that AT&T left, such as the Carterfone.

So in reality, what we had was the government getting in bed with a huge business to protect their monopoly, then later government comes in to “save” us from the monopolistic business practices that they helped create.

It never seems to occur to government officials to just stay out of our business to begin with, does it?  Let us choose a telecommunications provider on our own.  Let us choose our own telecommunications rules, products, services, restrictions, and freedoms.

It’s important to understand that the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights was written because our founding fathers recognized that the only way our freedoms could ever be taken away was by government, and the Constitution was a required guideline to follow to prevent the government from taking our freedoms away.

Businesses cannot take our liberties with government assistance.  If you ever feel as if your rights are being trampled on by a business, look closely and you will find government regulations giving them that authority to do so.

That being said, government is not our savior from ourselves or each other.  They have no power to “grant” us freedoms, only to take them away.  If you ever hear a government official talk about giving us liberty, rest assured they were responsible for the loss of that liberty to begin with.  Every time.

Read the Unconstitutional regulations of Net Neutrality yourself, downloaded from the FCC in three formats: PDF | Word | Text

The FCC quietly excuses dial-up Internet providers from Net Neutrality

If Net Neutrality is supposed to save the Internet and maintain its “openness” for decades to come, as the FCC claims, then why did they exclude dial-up ISP’s from the new regulations?

From their own rules:  II. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, A. Strong Rules That Protect Consumers from Past and Future Tactics that Threaten the Open Internet, 4. Scope of the Rules, #25, definition of "broadband Internet access service", they explicitly exclude dial-up ISPs:

“A mass-market retail service by wire or radio that provides the capability to transmit data to and receive data from all or substantially all Internet endpoints, including any capabilities that are incidental to and enable the operation of the communications service, but excluding dial-up Internet access service.”

The U.S. Constitution explicitly forbids the enactment of new laws that target specific individuals or companies.  It’s illegal.  But it’s become obvious from the FCC’s own words that the Net Neutrality regulations were specifically written to target Comcast, because of their publicly known battle with Netflix.

What the FCC is doing is Unconstitutional on many levels, but this may be their worst violation.  They are breaking the law with the writing of these new regulations, and the American people are not even aware of what’s going on.

Read the Unconstitutional regulations of Net Neutrality yourself, downloaded from the FCC in three formats: PDF | Word | Text

Internet access in parts of the world wouldn’t even exist if Net Neutrality were there

I read an article a few weeks back that noted the seemingly impossible survey results that in several 3rd world countries, more respondents indicated that they used Facebook than the number that used the Internet.

Impossible.  Right?  After all, Facebook EXISTS on the Internet.  One cannot access Facebook.com, the Facebook mobile app, Facebook Messenger app, Facebook Desktop Chat, Facebook mobile site, and more without Internet access.  And that is true.

But when the researchers dug further, they discovered that in some parts of the world where broadband Internet access is scarce, enterprising mobile phone providers had begun offering limited Internet access to their customers for a small monthly charge, a charge substantially lower than if they had full Internet access.  This limited Internet on their phones often was only allowed to access Facebook and nothing else.

These customers’ experience with the Internet on a daily basis was strictly through the Facebook mobile apps.  It was an affordable way for not only the mobile phone providers to offer some Internet, it was an affordable way for mobile phone users in these parts of the world to get on the Internet, even if it was only a tiny fraction of the Internet.

But the size of the slice of Internet they could access wasn’t really the point.  The point was that they had Internet access.  Finally.  The free market worked.  Consumers wanted Internet (mostly Facebook, it turns out), providers couldn’t afford to offer them full access, so they were presented with Facebook-only Internet.  And it was a huge success.  So Instead of “no Internet”, at least they had Facebook, which is a good starting point.

The free market delivered.  Again.

Net Neutrality, however, makes it illegal in the United States to offer Internet access to any consumer that either gives preferential treatment to one site/content source or to block sites or traffic.  ILLEGAL.  If Net Neutrality existed in these 3rd world countries, millions of people who have limited Internet access today would have NO INTERNET access at all.  Zilch.

As is the case with just about any federal government program that promises to maintain “free access” to whatever, it does just the opposite.  Net Neutrality is the antithesis of the free market.  It gets in between you, as a consumer, and the merchant (the broadband provider) and restricts a big, long list of terms that you are NOT ALLOWED TO AGREE TO within your contract with them.  It is ILLEGAL to offer Facebook-only Internet access in the United States.  Yes, ILLEGAL.  Even if it’s 100% free.

You read that right.  Net Neutrality makes it illegal to offer Internet access in the United States if it’s not 100% of the Internet.  If the provider blocks porn, Nazi propaganda, Facebook, red high-heeled shoes, eBay Swahili, the Roman numeral ‘MMXCVIII’, photos of barns with purple polka dots, or 3-legged dogs, it’s illegal, even if this limited Internet access is 100% free.

Yes, illegal.

Aren’t you glad you live in a country that’s so “developed” that it’s illegal for someone to give you something for free?

Read the anti-free-market rules of Net Neutrality yourself, downloaded from the FCC in three formats: PDF | Word | Text

Net Neutrality may make it illegal for ISPs to block spam, popup ads, and some malware

In the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules,

II. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, A. Strong Rules That Protect Consumers from Past and Future Tactics that Threaten the Open Internet, 1. Clear, Bright-Line Rules, 15. No Blocking:

Consumers who subscribe to a retail broadband Internet access service must get what they have paid for—access to all (lawful) destinations on the Internet. This essential and well-accepted principle has long been a tenet of Commission policy, stretching back to its landmark decision in Carterfone, which protected a customer’s right to connect a telephone to the monopoly telephone network.16 Thus, this Order adopts a straightforward ban:

A person engaged in the provision of broadband Internet access service, insofar as such person is so engaged, shall not block lawful content, applications, services, or nonharmful devices, subject to reasonable network management.

Spam, popup ads, and most malware are neither illegal nor harmful to your computer or mobile device; they’re just annoying.  Some broadband providers, especially those that offer email services, provide this additional service to their customers to make their Internet experience more enjoyable.

But under the FCC’s new Net Neutrality rules, it may be illegal for ISPs to do this from now on, and we may start seeing lawsuits filed by advertisers and software companies that have had their ads or software blocked at the ISP before ever reaching the customers’ computers.

Stay tuned.

Read the Net Neutrality rules yourself, downloaded from the FCC’s web site in three formats: PDF | Word | Text

The FCC mistook special interest lobbies for well-informed public opinion when they considered the Net Neutrality rules

In section II. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, #13, the FCC claims that there was diverse input from the public in support of Net Neutrality, after some 4 million comments were received.

Congress could not have imagined when it enacted the APA [Administrative Procedure Act, 1946] almost seventy years ago that the day would come when nearly 4 million Americans would exercise their right to comment on a proposed rulemaking. But that is what has happened in this proceeding and it is a good thing. The Commission has listened and it has learned. Its expertise has been strengthened. Public input has “improve[d] the quality of agency rulemaking by ensuring that agency regulations will be ‘tested by exposure to diverse public comment.’” There is general consensus in the record on the need for the Commission to provide certainty with clear, enforceable rules. There is also general consensus on the need to have such rules. Today the Commission, informed by all of those views, makes a decision grounded in the record. The Commission has considered the arguments, data, and input provided by the commenters, even if not in agreement with the particulars of this Order; that public input has created a robust record, enabling the Commission to adopt new rules that are clear and sustainable.

This is such nonsense.  The FCC first passed a form of Net Neutrality 5 years ago and has publicly thrown its full support behind every measure they’ve considered.  There was never any attempt to consider all viewpoints in their public forums nor closed-door meetings.  Even worse, the public opinion which consumed their ears had a strong pro-Net Neutrality leaning, as it was led by anti-broadband and anti-business groups that lean hard to the Left.

These groups activated their support networks of like-minded individuals across the country and successfully lobbied on social media, television commercials, blogs, news columns, and interviews for Net Neutrality.  And since they’ve always had the majority of the mainstream media on their side, they easily cast any opposition to Net Neutrality as shills for big business and broadband providers.

There was never any fair consideration of the free market opposition to Net Neutrality.  The FCC had already made up their minds of which laws they were going to write, then went through the motions—as required under the APA—to make it appear as if they solely had the public’s interests at heart.  But they’ve shown repeatedly they care much more about expanding their power base than allowing the free market to grow and prosper.

Download the Net Neutrality rules from the FCC’s Web site in three formats:

• PDF
• Word
• Text

The FCC falsely claims in their Net Neutrality rules that the Internet will only continue to expand if they clamp down on broadband providers by restricting their decision-making ability

From the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules, section II. Executive Summary, #11, it reads:

Three overarching objectives have guided us in answering these questions, based on the vast record before the Commission: America needs more broadband, better broadband, and open broadband networks. These goals are mutually reinforcing, not mutually exclusive. Without an open Internet, there would be less broadband investment and deployment. And, as discussed further below, all three are furthered through the open Internet rules and balanced regulatory framework we adopt today.

Again, this is ridiculous.  The FCC is trying to claim that the only way for Internet access options and broadband performance to continue to improve is if they FORCE broadband carriers to cater to every whim of every content provider on the Internet and have no discriminatory powers over their own private networks whatsoever.

Take a retailer analogy.  Under the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules, every retailer in the United States would be required to resale every product from every single supplier and would have no legal right or recourse to either charge more to specific suppliers or ban a supplier altogether.  That’s totally absurd.

It is BECAUSE retailers have the legal right to refuse certain suppliers or certain products that we have so many types of retailers today!! 

Imagine a Wal-Mart in Honolulu being approached by a manufacturer of snow shovels.  Under the FCC’s rules, that Wal-Mart would be required to stock those snow shovels on their shelves AND they would not be able to charge the snow shovel supplier a higher shelf rate than they charge other suppliers, nor would they be allowed to transfer those snow shovels to other Wal-Marts in colder zones where customers would actually buy snow shovels.

Wal-Mart would be required to stock those snow shovels…FOREVER.  Even if a single shovel was never sold, Wal-Mart would still be required to let those dusty snow shovels take up valuable shelf or floor space in their store.  Forever.

That is exactly what the FCC is trying to do with Net Neutrality.

Read the Net Neutrality rules yourself, downloaded from the FCC’s web site in three formats:  PDF | Word | Text