Daily Show Prep: Wednesday, July 26
McDaniel said, “We have to get to the bottom of this, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz has obstructed at every level, on something that affects, potentially our national security. So to have this gentlemen try and leave the country yesterday, and now we know there’s bank fraud, and we know he destroyed these hard drives and when you talk to — when you read the story about the Marine that found them in the apartment he was trying to rent. I mean, it’s a long story, but it’s something we have to get to the bottom of. We’re not hearing the Democrats talk about it at all. Where’s Debbie Wasserman Schultz? And we also need to know why DNC never turned over their hard drive to the FBI to review it as to their hacking.”
Wasserman Schultz’s IT Aide Arrested | The Daily Caller
Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s top information technology (IT) aide was arrested Monday attempting to board a flight to Pakistan after wiring $283,000 from the Congressional Federal Credit Union to that country.
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: “I think you’re violating the rules when you conduct your business that way and you should expect that there will be consequences.”
Wasserman Schultz’s IT Aide Arrested | The Daily Caller
“On January 18, 2017 at 12:09 pm, an international wire transfer request form was submitted [at the Congressional Federal Credit Union] at the Longworth House Office Building in the District of Columbia, in the amount of $283,000.00, to two individuals in Faisalabad, Pakistan,” according to an affidavit obtained by TheDCNF.
Adobe Is Finally Killing Flash (For Real, This Time)
Here it is, hiding halfway down the company’s latest press release, like a guillotine in a crowded town square: “Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash.” Boom. That’s the sound of the blade dropping, and Flash, finally, thankfully, mercifully dying. Because Adobe just killed it.
CalExit II Approved to Gather Signatures for Right to Secede – Breitbart
For the second time in less than a year, the CalExit effort in California will gather signatures for the right to secede from the United States.
Al Gore Humiliation: NASA Study Confirms Sea Levels Are FALLING
Sea levels fell in 2016, and with all of this winter’s record-breaking snowfall, I wouldn’t be surprised if they decline again this year.
Hour 2
Indiana Supreme Court rejects Monarch affiliate’s bid to sell liquor
Monarch Beverage Co. has been dealt another major blow in its years-long push to distribute liquor in Indiana, this time by the state Supreme Court.
Blame The Aggressive LGBT Playbook For Trump’ | The Daily Caller
It’s part of the shopworn, aggressive LGBT playbook, in which any issue becomes us vs. them (and “them” is inevitably Republicans). Earlier this year when President Trump took the extraordinary step of squashing the vicious anti-gay executive order his Evangelical allies wanted, gay groups worked hard to find fault along the lines of “yes, but he almost did something very bad.”
Trump Announces Ban on Transgenders in the U.S. Military
“After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical cost and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.”
LGBT demographics of the United States – Wikipedia
the NHIS reported in July 2014 that 1.6 percent of Americans identify as gay or lesbian, and 0.7 percent identify as bisexual.
Special Report: 3.4% of U.S. Adults Identify as LGBT | Gallup
The inaugural results of a new Gallup question — posed to more than 120,000 U.S. adults thus far — shows that 3.4% say “yes” when asked if they identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.
Americans Greatly Overestimate Percent Gay, Lesbian in U.S. | Gallup
The American public estimates on average that 23% of Americans are gay or lesbian, little changed from Americans’ 25% estimate in 2011, and only slightly higher than separate 2002 estimates of the gay and lesbian population. These estimates are many times higher than the 3.8% of the adult population who identified themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender in Gallup Daily tracking in the first four months of this year.
GABBARD: “It’s this addiction to regime change, and this idea that somehow this is what must be done without actually looking at the fact that we have been providing direct and indirect support to al Qaeda, this very same terrorist group that attacked us on 9/11, and that we are supposed to be continuing to be fighting against and trying to defeat. The thing that should make everyone feel sick is that people would rather support, directly and indirectly, al Qaeda than actually give up their regime change goals.”
FLASHBACK: US-trained Syrian rebels gave weapons to al Qaeda, Pentagon admits | TheHill
Syrian rebels trained and armed by the United States gave at least a quarter of their weapons cache to al Qaeda affiliates in Syria earlier this week, U.S. Central Command acknowledged
Hour 3
Fatal shooting reported at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center on Elm Road in Mishawaka – 95.3 MNC
A shooting turns fatal south of the bypass in Mishawaka.
Moderate Senators Shoot Down Rand Paul’s Clean Obamacare Repeal Bill – Breitbart
Senate Republicans shot down Sen. Rand Paul‘s (R-KY) clean Obamacare repeal bill on Wednesday.
They had access to the information on the multiple clients that they had, and that number is nearly a score, as I recall, they would have had access to all the information that came through all those computers in all those offices and access to…all the communications of the foreign affairs committee.
First AP Story on Arrested Dem IT Staffer Makes Schultz Look Like the Victim
The report spun the news in the most favorable way it could for beleaguered Democrats, making Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz look like the victim as it headlined her spokesman’s claim that she fired Awan Tuesday after learning of his arrest.
Newly declassified memos detail extent of improper Obama-era NSA spying | TheHill
The National Security Agency and FBI violated specific civil liberty protections during the Obama administration by improperly searching and disseminating raw intelligence on Americans or failing to promptly delete unauthorized intercepts, according to newly declassified memos that provide some of the richest detail to date on the spy agencies’ ability to obey their own rules.
Jamey Johnson House of Blues Concert Cancelled After He Refused to Disarm
Tony TC Coleman is a member of Johnson’s band, and he responded to the HOBMB Facebook post by relaying a first-hand account of what happened:
First Mooch Casualty: Suspected Leaker Michael Short FIRED
Less than a week after Anthoney Scaramucci has resumed his role as White House Communications Director and heads are already rolling; it was just reported that Michael Short, long suspected to be one of the leakers, has been fired from his role as assistant press secretary in the White House Communications Office.