Drag Queen Kids? Really?
Casey talks about kid drag queens performing at a public library and getting tips like strippers.
Tanker owner seems to dispute U.S. account of Gulf of Oman attack
The Japanese owner of the Kokuka Courageous, one of two oil tankers targeted near the Strait of Hormuz, said Friday that sailors on board saw “flying objects” just before it was hit, suggesting the vessel wasn’t damaged by mines.
That account contradicts what the U.S. military said as it released a video Friday it said shows Iranian forces removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the two ships that were hit.
The Japanese tanker was attacked twice Thursday, damaging the vessel and forcing all 21 crew members to evacuate.
Company president Yutaka Katada said Friday he believes the flying objects seen by the sailors could have been bullets. He denied any possibility of mines or torpedoes because the damage was above the ship’s waterline. He called reports of a mine attack “false.”
Katada said the crew members also spotted an Iranian naval ship nearby, but didn’t specify whether that was before or after the attacks.
Source: Tanker owner seems to dispute U.S. account of Gulf of Oman attack
Ok, I’m not really sure how he can definitively say a limpet mine attack is not possible. They are often set above the water line. The video allegedly shows the Iranians removing one from above water level.
Interesting he says they may have been shot at and there was an Iranian vessel nearby. Limpet mines can have anti-handling devices placed on them that cause them to detonate if messed with. I suppose it’s possible it could have been shot by the Iranians to detonate. Either way, I get why some are skeptical of this story, but the tanker owner’s comments don’t make any sense.
FYI, Iran is still holding the crew of one of the tankers.
Report: Obama Administration’s Actions Against Press Worse Than Previously Known
The lapdog MSM has continued to give Obama a pass on most of his assault on the press. If they’d shown anywhere near the outrage they show now towards President Trump’s words for Obama’s actions, maybe they could be taken seriously.
On Thursday, the Columbia Journalism Review reported on the results of a Freedom of Information Act request for documents related to the Obama Justice Department’s attempts to crack down on leaks to reporters which reveal that the Obama administration’s actions against the press “were broader than previously known.”
CJR’s report, authored by Ramya Krishnan and Trevor Timm, is based on a highly redacted 59-page report by the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility completed Dec. 9, 2014 and obtained via FOIA request by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and the Freedom of the Press Foundation (where Krishnan and Timm work, respectively).
“In 2013, the Justice Department launched a brazen attack on press freedom, issuing sweeping subpoenas for the phone records of the Associated Press and several of its reporters and editors as part of a leak investigation,” the authors report. While those subpoenas have long been understood as “a massive intrusion into newsgathering operations,” they note, the recently unearthed 2014 report reveals that the subpoenas targeting AP “told only part of the story.”
The Office of Professional Responsibility’s report on the Obama Justice Department’s subpoenas of AP phone records reveals that “the DOJ’s actions against the AP were broader than previously known, and that the DOJ considered subpoenaing the phone records of other news organizations, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and ABC News,” the authors explain. The report also reveals “how narrowly the DOJ interprets the Media Guidelines, the agency’s internal rules for obtaining reporters’ data.”
Source: Report: Obama Administration’s Actions Against Press Worse Than Previously Known
Democrats Want To Ban The Sale Of Gas-Powered Cars By 2040
Why do Democrats hate everything good?
Democrats will introduce legislation to completely phase out the use of gasoline-powered cars by mandating that only zero-emissions vehicles can be sold by 2040.
“When I take a lungful of air in this moment, it has 30 percent more carbon in it than when I was born,” Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, the bill’s main sponsor told The Huffington Post on Wednesday. “That is a change that has never happened in a single generation of humankind on this planet.”
The bill is co-sponsored by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Kamala Harris of California, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Bernie Sanders of Vermont. California Rep. Mike Levin will introduce a House version of the bill, HuffPo reported.
Source: Democrats Back Bill To Ban The Sale Of Gas-Powered Cars By 2040
Do as we say, not as we do.
William Barr: DOJ to probe possibility of Clinton-Russia collusion – Washington Times
The media keeps lying about this whole collusion nonsense. They even lied about Mueller’s reaction to how Barr rolled out the summary of his findings. What we do know is that Hillary Clinton did engage in the behavior she accused Trump of engaging in and it needs to be investigated for any possible illegal activity.
Attorney General William P. Barr said Wednesday that he will probe whether the Clinton campaign’s payments to a company using a former British spy who collected information from Russian sources amounted to collusion.
Testifying to senators, Mr. Barr expanded on the scope of the “review” he says he’s conducting into “the activities over the summer of 2016,” which included vehemently anti-Trump FBI employees making key decisions on Hillary Clinton and President Trump.
But under questioning from Sen. Charles E. Grassley, the Senate’s senior Republican, Mr. Barr also said he’ll look at the Clinton campaign’s payments to facilitate the so-called Steele dossier, the salacious, mostly unverified and in some cases disproved set of documents that helped spur the Trump-Russia collusion narrative.
“That’s something that I am reviewing,” Mr. Barr told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee made payments — hidden in campaign finance documents behind a law firm — to Fusion GPS, a Democratic research firm that paid former British spy Christopher Steele to probe Mr. Trump.
Source: William Barr: DOJ to probe possibility of Clinton-Russia collusion – Washington Times
The Media Misled Americans On Mueller’s Reaction To AG Barr’s Summary Of His Report
This is obligatory really. Everyone already knows the media misled the public about Mueller’s reaction to Barr’s summary.
On the eve of Attorney General William Barr’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee today, the liberal media decided to toss a grenade—insinuating the Special Counsel Robert Mueller “complained” about Barr’s letter that summarized his report.
Buried down in The Washington Post’s story is the tidbit that Mueller did not think Barr’s letter to Congress was inaccurate.
The Washington Post and New York Times seized on the March letter, in which Barr criticizes the way he chose to present Mueller’s findings regarding Russian interference in the 2016 Trump campaign, as evidence of a conflict between Barr and Mueller over the way the AG handled the report’s release.
Both outlets created the impression Mueller is severely upset with Barr for mischaracterizing the Russia report in his four-page summary of Mueller’s report and that the tone of his criticism shocked the Department of Justice.
That response from Mueller would give a lot of ammunition to the leading narrative that Barr mishandled the delivery of the report and intentionally misled the public as to its contents if it were accurate. But the letter, read in full context, suggests a much more banal reality, which The New York Times and Washington Post buried in their reporting.
Mueller did disagree with the way Barr delivered his findings; he wanted Barr to release executive summaries of the report, but he did not take issue with the accuracy of Barr’s memo to Congress.
Bottom line is that Mueller wanted Barr to introduce the public to his report in a different way. Barr did not say anything inaccurate about Mueller’s report. Still not collusion, still no obstruction, still no crime, giant lie that wasted a lot of energy and a lot of taxpayer money.