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Message in bottle found at Jersey Shore could be oldest ever — and included ‘unbelievable’ extra discovery
By Isabel Keane Published Aug. 4, 2024, 2:52 p.m. ET
A message in a bottle found in the sand at Ocean City, NJ, could be the oldest ever discovered.
Amy Smyth Murphy, 49, was strolling through Corson’s Inlet State Park over the July Fourth weekend when she discovered an antiquated green corked bottle containing what appeared to be a business card from 1876 and a handwritten note, she told NJ.com.
Smyth Murphy said she believes that the bottle, which bears the words “Barr & Brother Philadelphia,” a business from the mid-1800s, was tossed into the water about 146 years ago — or 10 years before the message-holding container found in Australia in 2018 that currently holds the Guinness World Record.
A message in this bottle could be the oldest ever discovered.
TikTok / @asmythco
“It’s just so interesting to be connected to people in this way,” Smyth Murphy told the outlet.
She said she has applied to have the bottle vetted by Guinness World Records.
One of the papers inside the bottle appeared to be a business car for “W.G. & J. Klemm,” a pair of brothers, William and John Klemm, who ran a gentleman’s furnishing goods company in Philadelphia until 1881, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer’s newspaper archives.
Another paper inside the container referenced a local yacht called “Neptune,” which was docked in Atlantic City, NJ, in the late 1800s and captained by Samuel Gale, according to the newspaper archives.
Gale may have lived in Atlantic City in the late 1800s, according to Smyth Murphy’s own research.
One of the papers in the bottle appears to be a business card from 1876.
TikTok / @asmythco
“I really like the mystery. I love the research,” Smyth Murphy said.
She said the rare bottle also contained something else a bit more unsettling.
“The smell that came out of it was unbelievable,” she said, describing the odor as “the bay smell times 1 million.
The business card was for a furnishings company owned by two siblings, William and John Klemm, in Philadelphia.
TikTok / @asmythco
“We were not prepared for that.
The discovery occurred months after a multimillion-dollar beach fill was performed in the Ocean City area, which according to experts may have caused the bottle to break free from the ocean floor.
“They dredge up things,” said Steve Nagiewicz, who teaches maritime history and marine archeology at Stockton University in Jersey, to NJ.com.
Another note in the bottle was linked to an old local yacht.
TikTok / @asmythco
“Some of them just get stirred up and float around the ocean, and I think that’s what happened in her case. Those ocean currents can do some amazing things,” he said.
Smyth Murphy shared her adventures in uncovering what the messages inside the bottle said, posting TikTok videos of her family gently using toothpicks to pull the decaying pieces of paper out of the container.
While the woman waits to hear back about whether her discovery broke a world record, Smyth Murphy’s family says uncovering information about where the bottle and its contents came from has been rewarding.
Videos shared to Smyth Murphy’s TikTok show her family carefully removing the papers from inside the bottle.
TikTok / @asmythco
“It’s been really fun kind of doing it all together,” said John Smyth, Smyth Murphy’s brother.
Guinness World Records did not return a Post request for comment Sunday.
https://nypost.com/2024/08/04/us-news/message-in-bottle-found-on-jersey-shore-could-be-oldest-ever-discovered/
8-12" is much better, cap.
Good luck.
Turn around. Don't drown.
Good luck, cap.
That is way too much rain.
Not to worry, MG. Quick research told me MS-13 has its roots in El Salvador.
Your visitor is probably a good Catholic boy at heart.
Scary scene. I don't blame you for being disconcerted.
If Trump does not get back in office...
this country is s.c.r.e.w.e.d.
Good luck with the wet weeds and crabgrass, Mr. G.
As long as everything is the same length, you'll be in great shape.
The sun just came out. I'm staying in.
Stay safe and have fun with it.
Good Morning, Mr. G. Thanks. I'm a big fan of Lenore Skenazy.
She nails it with this one.
I worked with a woman whose daughter went to Cornell.
She called the kid every morning to make sure she was up and going to class.
Good grief.
We would have been mortified if our parents hovered like that.
So glad I was a kid back then and not one now.
Hope you're surviving this rainy (torrential at times) weather.
I'll be happier when things dry out.
Stay safe and may your power stay on.
Black conservative activist steals show after introduced by ‘Big T’ Donald Trump at Atlanta rally: ‘Incredible’
By Fox News Published Aug. 4, 2024, 8:43 a.m. ET
(Smart and a real cutie.)
Trump invited Michaelah Montgomery up on stage toward the end of his speech at the Georgia State University Convocation Center.
REUTERS
A Georgia activist stole the show after being introduced by former President Trump at his rally in Atlanta Saturday.
Trump invited Michaelah Montgomery up on stage toward the end of his speech at the Georgia State University Convocation Center. He introduced Montgomery by explaining he met her at a restaurant this year.
Trump said Montgomery, who attended Clark Atlanta University, had recognized him in public and commended him for funding historically Black colleges and universities.
“She looks at me, says ‘It’s President Trump. You saved my college.’ And I said, ‘How the hell do you know that?’ … This one is so smart, so sharp,” Trump recalled.
“She grabbed me. She gave me a kiss,” he added. “I said, ‘I think I’m never going back home to the first lady.'”
“You were supposed to keep that quiet,” Montgomery laughed.
The former president commended Montgomery, describing her as “incredible” with a “tremendous future,” and told her he would do “whatever I can to help you,” before giving her the podium.
“She grabbed me. She gave me a kiss,” Trump said. “I said, ‘I think I’m never going back home to the first lady.'”
REUTERS
“I do want to add on to some of the remarks that were made by others,” the conservative activist began. “And we do need to do our best to get the message out there. The fight is nothing if all we do is talk about it amongst ourselves.”
Montgomery added that she was a founder of an organization called Conserve the Culture, which helps “mobilize the HBCU students so that they may get this [conservative] message.”
“Nobody needs this message more than my folks, so do y’all care for real?” Montgomery said to the cheering audience. “Are y’all with us for real?
“I’ma give it back to Big T.”
The rally took place days after Trump was criticized by the White House for statements he made at the recent National Association of Black Journalists convention about Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial identity.
“She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage,” Trump said. “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black. And now she wants to be known as Black. So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?”
On Wednesday, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson praised Trump for “answering tough questions” at the conference.
“I commend my friend @realdonaldtrump for going into a hostile environment at @NABJ today and answering tough questions,” Carson said in a post on X.
https://nypost.com/2024/08/04/us-news/black-conservative-activist-steals-the-show-after-introduced-by-big-t-trump-at-atlanta-rally/
Kamala Harris: The ‘discount-Obama’ repeating Clinton’s failed 2016 playbook
By David Christopher Kaufman Published Aug. 3, 2024, 7:00 a.m. ET
In June of 2016, six months before election day, I wrote a column detailing how Donald Trump could defeat Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House. As I explained, a mix of racial anxiety, political alienation and over-reaching identity politics was propelling rural whites and working-class urbanites toward Trump in an act of unanticipated voter rebellion.
“Fed up with the preachy do-goodism and blanket-blaming [by] the elite,” I wrote, Trump is “offering a safe space to supporters shut out from increasingly rigid definitions of ‘acceptable’ cultural conversations. Tired of being told what to say and how to think, Trump’s supporters are reclaiming their voice — and publicly committing it to the ballot box.”
Eight years on, I don’t write these words to gloat, but because history looks likely to repeat itself. Two election cycles after Trump’s first upset against a heavily hyped Democrat, the former president could easily triumph again. All of the signs are in place.
Today, as in 2016, the US is mired in economic uncertainty thanks to the Biden-era inflation Kamala Harris will inevitably inherit. The nascent wokeness and identity overreach of the Obama-era now extends from Hollywood to corporations and, most dangerously, higher education. Cancel culture no longer merely shames, it’s driven some caught in its crosshairs to suicide. Transgender issues now dominate school sports and medical care, while the chasm between left and right is so vast, it almost cost Trump his life.
Many things are not merely as bad as they were in 2016; they’re worse. And Harris represents everything that’s brought us here. Say what you want about Hillary Clinton — imperious operator, sloppy e-mailer — but she was the most qualified presidential candidate of her generation. A former first lady, secretary of state and US senator, her domestic, foreign and Beltway bona fides were unassailable.
Harris, however, can claim few of Clinton’s markers, yet alone achievements. Her CV is lacking and the only “first” Harris offers is the Asian-American heritage she’s continually downplayed for political expediency. She’s like a discount Obama or fire-sale Clinton — all of the identity but none of the politics. No wonder Michelle and Barack literally phoned in their Harris endorsement.
The worst part about Harris’s brief campaign is how far it’s leaning into the exact type of woke-babble that helped Hillary lose. Even in this age of peak affinity groups, Harris’s use of race- and gender– and sexuality-based supporter networks borders on the obscene. Imagine mega-Zooms of Whites-for-Trump or pro-lifers-for Trump or Trads-for-Trump. The take-downs by big media would make their Hamas-hyping seem tame by comparison.
Then there’s the left’s near total ban on Harris critique. As with every woke crusade, any dissent must be silenced, every criticism quashed into submission. We do not dare allude to her race or gender — even though Biden himself said he chose Harris as VP because she was female and black. We cannot question her failures on the immigration front; we can no longer even claim Harris was tasked with handling the border crisis in the first place. Any derision is seen as racist or sexist, and to ask “why” or “how” is the incontestable proof of that racism and sexism.
But woke culture thrives when reasonable people deny their best instincts, and my instincts say Harris is not what’s best for America right now. Let alone the rest of the world. I, too, am a mixed-race and California-born Gen X-er — raised on the same noxious dreck of grievance and entitlement as Harris. I come from the same culture that expects little from people of color and demands even less. I’m onto Harris’ hustle because it could easily have been my own.
But being born a woman or black or Indian are neither achievements or accomplishments. She’s done nothing to earn these totems and deserves little reward for them. Like Harris, I know what it’s like to be a DEI hire and let me tell you — it never ends well.
Eight years ago, I predicted Clinton would lose because her campaign lacked authority and authenticity. There was too much girl power and not enough hard power to defeat a brute like Trump. Imposed and manufactured, Harris’ campaign offers even less legitimacy, let alone authority. I am all for crowning Kamala the candidate if that’s what the Democratic electorate wants. But via the convention in Chicago — not a palace coup.
The conditions that allowed Trump to beat Clinton have been weaponized far beyond their 2016 levels, making Harris — even with her more than $300 million war chest — an uncertain winner. Sure, her campaign still has time to course-correct. But that would require an actual course, which Harris is still yet to deliver.
dkaufman@nypost.com
https://nypost.com/2024/08/03/opinion/kamala-harris-the-discount-obama-repeating-clintons-2016-playbook/
Cellphones don’t just harm kids but parents too
By Lenore Skenazy Published Aug. 2, 2024, 5:42 p.m. ET
New York City is on the verge of banning cellphones in schools because too many students are addicted to their screens. Several Long Island school districts are suing social-media companies, saying that kids’ phone use is causing record levels of mental illness.
But phones are doing damage to us parents, as well: The relentless connection to our kids may be driving our own anxiety sky-high.
A 2022 Harvard study found that 18% of teens were suffering from anxiety . . . as were 20% of mothers and 15% of fathers.
Of course, parents have always worried. That’s basically the job description.
But until about 15 years ago, we had no option but to learn to deal.
Today? Even though the murder rate is lower now than it was in the 1970s, ’80 and ’90s when many of today’s parents were children, kid trackers have become a $100 billion market, promising parents peace of mind.
As if! You want peace of mind? Get a time machine.
Somehow, way back when my mom let me walk to school as a kindergartener — I know, call the cops — she could wait till 3 p.m. to see me again.
No texts. No tracking.
In that way, she, like most other parents back then, learned to believe in me, in our neighbors and even in her own parenting. All were good enough to keep me safe.
Imagine how great that would feel: Trusting that all was well . . . because you didn’t have a choice.
The thing is: Trust is a muscle. It has to be exercised to get strong.
My mom’s trust muscle grew because it got daily exercise, thanks to the social norms of the time.
Mobile phones stop that growth from happening.
Instead of getting accustomed to being out of touch for a while, phones have us seeking — and getting — addictive hits of reassurance, all day long, that our kids are OK. Only constant connection soothes us.
I consider that arrested development . . . of us as parents.
In “The Anxious Generation,” Jonathan Haidt explains attachment theory: Kids need at least one adult that they know will always be there for them.
This adult is their secure base, whose attachment allows them to go off-base and explore.
As soon as kids can crawl, they scootch off to the dog or toy (or Ming vase), glancing backward: Yup, mom’s still there.
When the dog barks, they scurry back. On-base, they’re comforted. Off-base, the learning occurs. Off they go again.
But a cellphone means the child is less likely to internalize that secure base, because they never have to truly detach — and neither does the parent.
I read once about a mom who wanted to let her daughter walk alone by the creek, a childhood experience the mother had loved as a girl. So she gave her kid a smartwatch — as if this activity could not be allowed without one.
When the girl was off on her adventure, her bike chain fell off . . . and she called her dad, who rushed over and fixed it.
To the mother, this proved the wisdom of the technology. But to me, she’d given her daughter the opposite of her childhood experience.
The girl didn’t get a chance to solve her problem. The parents didn’t get a chance to see her succeed on her own.
And without that feedback, parents aren’t getting the information that would allow them to let go a little more.
Another problem: Some mobile devices can let us spy on our kids’ bad behavior.
But that, too, disrupts the off-base experience. At one time, kids had a chance to be good or bad and deal with the consequences themselves. And parents had no ability to know — or fret about — all the details of our kids’ minute-by-minute lives.
Without the opportunity for real separation, we’re missing out on our half of the attachment cycle: us letting go, us being afraid, us having them come back, and then letting them go off again.
With technology tethering us, both generations lose out.
I know most parents use the cellphone connection for convenience, not control. Most feel it lets them give their kids more freedom, not less.
But once we have the ability to watch, assist and reassure from afar, we’re no longer forced to trust our kids out there. We’re tricking ourselves into a form of false freedom.
Today’s tech relieves us of the pain of truly letting go. But the less we need to trust our kids, the less the trust muscle develops.
And if you’re wondering why being more in touch with our kids would make us more anxious about them, that’s why: The opposite of trust — the opposite of fiercely believing our kids can handle anything — is anxiety.
Lenore Skenazy is president of Let Grow, the nonprofit promoting childhood independence, and founder of the Free-Range Kids movement. Adapted from After Babel substack.
https://nypost.com/2024/08/02/opinion/cellphones-dont-just-harm-kids-but-parents-too/
I see we're thinking alike this morning. Howdy, Mr. G.
Maybe he needed to use the bathroom.
Biden-Harris wasted $8.5 billion in taxpayer money to lose 15,000 jobs at Intel
By Stephen Moore and Phil Kerpen Published Aug. 2, 2024, 7:14 p.m. ET
Well, ladies and gentlemen: the chips are down — literally and figuratively.
Two years ago, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris touted their “Chips Act” to bring the semiconductor industry back home from Taiwan, China and Singapore.
The price tag on the bill: a cool $280 billion of corporate handouts. It was arguably the largest corporate welfare bill in American history.
Intel, Micron, Global Foundries, Polar Semiconductor, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Samsung, BAE Systems, and Microchip Technology have been the direct beneficiaries of the law.
This was supposed to be one of the “Crown Jewels” of the Biden-Harris admin. A massive job creator that would allow America to take back its technological
leadership.
Even many Republicans in Congress shamelessly voted for the handouts at a time when the federal government was already borrowing more than $1 trillion a year.
Heavy failures
But today, the failures far outweigh the successes — and in spectacular fashion.
Intel was one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Chips Act, receiving an $8.5 billion grant announced in March, a $25 billion sweetheart tax incentive and likely the lion’s share of an $11 billion federal loan program. That’s only the opening act.
What did we get in exchange? Intel this week announced it was laying off 15% of its workforce — 15,000
positions.
America lost twice: billions of dollars and thousands of jobs.
Meanwhile, Nvidia, which took no government money, has been the top-performing stock over the past 18 months and has made hundreds of billions of dollars for American shareholders. Its chips are mostly made in Taiwan, but it creates thousands of jobs here at home.
This Chips Act was supposed to be the Biden-Harris crowning achievement. A giant job creator. Hundreds of billions of government handouts to bring the semiconductor industry back home. Now, it’s looking like the Titanic.
Maybe these layoffs make business sense and will help Intel become the powerhouse it once was. But the company’s new government-dependent status means all of its decision-making is being directed by Washington — not the marketplace.
Their strategy has been to maximize taxpayers’ dollars — not creating value for their customers.
How many times can we learn the same lesson? Government is terrible at picking winners and losers. Remember Solyndra and Fisker Auto?
Corporate welfare woes
Politicians gamble — with your money — and go broke again and again.
Corporate welfare almost never works. We’ve tried it with steel, autos, solar panels and electric
batteries.
Just look at how this policy has hobbled the electric-vehicle industry. Biden has handed out tens of billions in handouts, mandates and other Hershey kisses to an industry that was well on its way to success when Donald Trump left office. Now the car companies are losing billions of dollars even as they chase down all this “free” money.
EV sales would be much higher today if politicians had simply kept their paws off of it.
Or consider that the Biden administration passed its Green New Deal —dishonestly called the “Inflation Reduction Act” — with hundreds of billions for solar and wind companies.
Today, the industry is still flat on its back — providing less than 10% of American energy. Meanwhile the nonsubsidized oil and gas and coal industries still supply 80% of our energy. The oil and gas industry actually pays taxes rather than just taking government money.
Poor policy
The theory of national industrial policy is based on the idea that some sectors are of such paramount importance that they can’t be left to the private sector. That may make sense when it come to defense industries.
But as we’ve seen with electric vehicles and green energy in recent years, trusting the government to take charge is about the worst way for any business to succeed.
Ironically, the Biden-Harris administration wants to raise the corporate tax rate to 28% on our successful corporations — the ones that actually make a profit and don’t need government subsidies — and use that money to prop up the loser industries.
It’s no way to run a country. It is the way socialist regimes have all gone broke.
The two of us have suggested that America should pass a law preventing the government from giving any company a subsidy if it has more than $100 million in sales. Use the savings to cut tax rates for everyone.
The failure of the Chips Act is a reminder of the maxim that the best government policy for the economy is: don’t meddle.
In the meantime, Congress should suspend the $100 billion that the semiconductor industry hasn’t already spent and wasted. Never throw good money after bad.
Stephen Moore is chairman of Unleash Prosperity and Phil Kerpen is executive director. Moore also serves as a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation while Kerpen Heads American Commitment.
https://nypost.com/2024/08/02/opinion/biden-harris-wasted-8-5-billion-in-taxpayer-money-to-lose-15000-jobs-at-intel/
Guess you Patriots told me.
I'm still going to watch the sports I like.
Guess you guys told me.
I'm still going to watch the sports I like.
Only if they let her meet the press withOUT teleprompters. She is good at reading.
I've been watching the swimming (on now), gymnastics, and diving because I love the sports.
There's only so much political protesting I can do.
It's been taking over my life and that is not good.
"Frailty thy name is woman." (Hamlet)
Kamala Harris Rambles Incoherently in First Unscripted Comments to Press Since Becoming Democrats’ Nominee
WENDELL HUSEB Ø2 Aug 2024 2:35
Vice President Kamala Harris delivered one of her infamous word salads when speaking unscripted about Thursday’s prisoner swap with Russia.
Harris often spouts odd phrases and explanations for simple ideas. In 2022, for example, she marveled over Venn diagrams. Another time, she rambled about the “significance of the passage of time.”
“This is just an extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy,” Harris rambled with a serious face while waving her hands:
It was the second awkward statement in 24 hours. Harris accidentally called herself “president” on Thursday during former Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s eulogy.
Perhaps the gaffes are why Harris appears to be avoiding questions from the media. She failed to hold a serious interview since becoming the Democrats’ de facto nominee. Even Democrats took notice of Harris’s perceived strategy.
“The vice president is showing all of us that you don’t need to do high-profile interviews or press conferences in order to get attention from the media or from voters,” Democrat strategist Christy Setzer told the Hill. “I’d say she has a robust communications strategy.”
Another reason Harris could be avoiding the media is out of fear of answering questions about her radical-left policies. The vice president already appears to be back-peddling on many policies, though the flip-flops were given by anonymous aides.
Harris no longer supports “a federal job guarantee,” an anonymous Harris campaign spokesperson told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday. The New York Timesreported Monday, citing anonymous campaign officials, that she also now (1) supports fracking, (2) wants to increase funding for the border, (3) does not want to require people to sell their assault weapons back to the government, and (4) no longer supports “a single-payer health insurance program.”
More is here on Harris’s radical record:
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/08/01/kamala-harris-wanted-ban-plastic-straws-2020/
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/08/02/kamala-harris-rambles-incoherently-first-unscripted-comments-press-becoming-democrats-nominee/
‘Unfair, Unsafe and Wong’: Social Media Erupts After Taiwanese Fighter Who Failed IBA Gender Test Defeats Female Opponent
WARNER TODD HUSTON 2 Aug 2024 6:13
(Another freak of nature boxing against women. Wonder which of the two will take the gold? No wonder people are ignoring the Olympics.
Lots of Xweets at the link.)
Social media has erupted in condemnation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for its decision to allow two boxers who failed IBA gender tests to compete as females in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris this week.
The overwhelming victories by Algerian boxer Imane Khelif on Thursday and Taiwan fighter Lin Yu-Ting on Friday have caused an uproar in sports.
Both boxers were barred from IBA-sanctioned events in 2023 because they did not satisfy the gender testing required by the organization’s latest rules.
In 2023, the International Boxing Association (IBA) President Umar Kremlev explained his organization’s decision to disqualify Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting and Algeria’s Imane Khelif from competing in the IBA’s 2023 Women’s World Boxing Championships, according to Russia’s Tass News Agency. “Based on DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as women. According to the results of the tests, it was proved that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes were excluded from competition,” Kremlev said.
Despite the drama, Khelif and Lin have been declared winners in their first bouts.
Social media users were incensed with many characterizing the two boxers as males and excoriating the Olympics for allowing competitors with unfair advantage to fight against women in the brutal sport of boxing.
Former marathon runner and two-time Olympian Mara Yamauchi blasted the IOC for its decision, which she said was “unfair, unsafe, and wrong.”
Activist Maya Forstater slammed the 2024 Games on X, saying it is “unfair.”
Harry Potter scribe J.K. Rowling allowed that the two boxers may have a genetic condition that makes identifying their gender more difficult, but insisted, “Someone with a DSD cannot help the way they were born but they can choose not to cheat; they can choose not to take medals from women; they can choose not to cause injury.”
As the Telegraph reported, “Two-time Olympic champion Nicola Adams called allowing those ‘not born as biological women’ to compete both ‘unfair’ and ‘dangerous.'”
Former Olympic fencer Julia Bracewell is also decrying the IOC’s actions.
On Thursday, she wrote, “I am a former Olympic fencer and have been on various sports governing bodies boards. I was involved with Scottish Rugby’s gender policy. I am horrified at what has happened and am adding my voice to Sharon’s and other much better known sports women.”
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2024/08/02/unfair-unsafe-and-wong-social-media-erupts-after-taiwanese-fighter-who-failed-iba-gender-test-defeats-female-opponent/
Valentina Gomez makes a valid point.
It is ridiculous that XY-chromosome people are allowed to compete against XX-chromosome individuals.
Good luck to Ms. Gomez in the election.
Let's put the feminists who support this crap in the ring with the transgender turd and in the locker room with a bunch of his kind.
Wonder if they'd change their tune then.
Sick pup world these days.
Morning, possh. Stay safe.
Not sure about the numbers, but they are protesting.
Trouble is they are being ignored or vilified for speaking out.
‘Bully’ Kamala Harris ‘berated staff,’ left them in tears after berating them with ‘F-bombs,’ intern told never to make eye contact: report
By Megan Palin Published Aug. 2, 2024, 6:00 a.m. ET
Kamala Harris “throws around F-bombs” and constantly berated her staff when she was California Attorney General, according to a shocking report.
An unearthed 2019 op-ed from professor Terry McAteer published in California newspaper The Union describes the “eye-opening” month his son Gregory spent as an intern for Harris, now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.
McAteer, a Democrat with generational political ties to the party, claimed his son was subjected to a “side of Kamala Harris which the general public does not know”.
“Harris vocally throws around ‘F-bombs’ and other profanity constantly in her berating of staff and others,” McAteer wrote.
“As AG… Harris instructed her entire staff to stand every morning as she entered the office and say, ‘Good Morning General’.
“Gregory was also given instructions to never address Harris nor look her in the eye as that privilege was only allowed to senior staff members.”
The article, titled “Another Side to Kamala Harris,” also alleged staff members did not initiate an introduction on Gregory’s behalf to because they were “in complete fear” of her when she served as Attorney General of California from 2011 to 2017.
Terence and Gregory McAteer could not be reached for comment on Thursday and representatives for Harris did not immediately respond to questions from The Post.
McAteer went on to say that he has “nothing against” Harris but she didn’t show the quality of leadership skills or a decent boss one might expect during his son’s summer internship.
RedState reports Gregory’s LinkedIn page — which now appears to have been pulled down – showed that he worked as a “public policy intern” for Harris from June — August 2011.
“Assisted in researching/analyzing federal crime statistics in support of the Attorney General’s “Tactical Smart Crime Initiative”,” a screenshot of his page, cited by the publication reads.
Harris was previously dubbed a “bully” by a staffer who had worked for her after she became Vice President to Joe Biden in 2021.
“It’s clear that you’re not working with somebody who is willing to do the prep and the work,” the former staffer told the Washington Post in December of that year.
“With Kamala you have to put up with a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism and also her own lack of confidence. So you’re constantly sort of propping up a bully and it’s not really clear why.”
McAteer’s op-ed re-emerged after OpenTheBooks.com, which describes itself as a “government watchdog organization,” reported last week that Harris is experiencing a 91.5% staff turnover rate within the Office of the Vice President.
That figure significantly surpasses President Joe Biden’s staff turnover rate of 77% and former President Donald Trump’s rate of 72% during their terms, according to the site.
The organization, citing payroll records, says as of March 31, 2024, only four of the initial 47 staffers employed during Harris’ first year as vice president in 2021 are still working for her “consistently and without interruption”.
Harris reportedly has 50 staff currently working for her, as she campaigns for the presidency after Biden sensationally dropped out of the race on July 21.
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy this week told Fox News that “nobody lasts very long” while working for Harris.
“Even as VP, when she didn’t do anything, she could not keep staff, he said during an appearance on “Life, Liberty & Levin” .
“How she treats people around her is a real indication of what she’ll do in the future.”
https://nypost.com/2024/08/02/us-news/kamala-harris-berated-staff-with-f-bombs-report/
Fighter Alleged to Have Male Chromosomes Set to Face Hungarian Anna Luca Hamori After Italian Opponent Only Lasted 46 Seconds
DYLAN GWINN 1 Aug 2024 2:36
Imane Khelif’s first female opponent only lasted 46 seconds into the first round. We don’t know how long her next opponent will last, but we know who she will face.
Khelif, the fighter who failed the International Boxing Association’s (IBA) gender eligibility test in 2023 and is yet allowed to compete against females in the 2024 Paris Olympics, will go head-to-head with Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamori.
Twenty-five-year-old Imane Khelif was cleared to compete at the 2024 Olympics, even after being disqualified from the International Boxing Association (IBA) 2023 World Boxing Championships for failing gender-eligibility tests, according to Fox News. The International Olympic Committee, which uses different criteria to determine eligibility, ruled Khelif eligible to compete.
“Everyone competing in the women’s category is complying with the competition eligibility rules,” IOC spokesperson Mark Adams said. “They are women in their passports, and it’s stated that this is the case.”
The controversial Algerian fighter, who is alleged to have male chromosomes, made headlines Thursday by making Italian fighter Angela Carini withdraw in less than a minute.
Today, Angela Carini had her Olympics dreams shattered by Imane Khelif, a male boxer.
— Hazel Appleyard (@HazelAppleyard_) August 1, 2024
It is suspected that he BROKE HER NOSE.
Don’t let this pass quietly. MEN SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO BEAT WOMEN FOR SPORT.
SAVE WOMEN’S SPORTS. https://t.co/i5GMdgWrwb
An absolute travesty at the Olympics.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 1, 2024
Angela Carini is forced to box against a biological male. She quits after just 45 seconds, and cries hysterically as her opponent is declared the winner.
Don't look away. This is wokeness. pic.twitter.com/wOkVRs88t5
GM, Mr. G. I'd love to see what that bastard would look like after Tyrus got a piece of him.
What a freakin' disgrace. It isn't over yet either.
There's another bout scheduled for Saturday.
The women should all drop out of the event before someone gets killed.
Let the twisted twerp shadow box with himself.
lol... Close, but absolutely NO cigar.
Take a wild guess what I've been up to this afternoon.
Feelin' groovy
Remember... there are two sides to every story...
‘I Have Never Been Hit So Hard in My Life’: Italian Female Boxer Lasts Just 46 Seconds Against Fighter Who Failed Gender Test
SIMON KENT 1 Aug 2024 3:44
(Boxing does not appeal to me in the least and I cannot understand why women want to do it. That being said... this is a WOKE outrage.
Those are not the arms or the chest of a woman. Disgraceful.)
PARIS, FRANCE - AUGUST 01: Imane Khelif of Team Algeria and Angela Carini of Team Italy ex Richard Pelham/Getty
Forty-six seconds. That was the sum total of time a female Italian boxer lasted in the ring at the Paris Olympics before she retired from a bout against against an Algerian fighter caught in an eligibility furore.
Twenty-five-year-old Imane Khalif was cleared to compete at the 2024 Olympics having earlier failed an unspecified testosterone level test.
The contest Thursday between the mismatched pugilists shone fresh light on the controversy about athletes with abnormally high testosterone levels or other male characteristics being allowed to enter women’s sporting categories.
Angela Carini was seen going to her corner twice during the women’s category 66kg clash, once to get her headgear tightened after taking a punch to the face and the other to abandon the bout after 46 seconds.
Speaking after the match, the heartbroken Italian told Italy’s ASNA: “I’m used to suffering. I’ve never taken a punch like that, it’s impossible to continue. I’m nobody to say it’s illegal.
“I got into the ring to fight. But I didn’t feel like it anymore after the first minute. I started to feel a strong pain in my nose. I didn’t give up, but a punch hurt too much and so I said enough. I’m leaving with my head held high.”
The referee announced Algerian Khalif as the winner but Carini refused to acknowledge her opponent.
She fell to her knees in tears and despair as she came to terms with the end of her Olympic dream at the hands of an opponent cleared to fight by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Khalif will move on to the next round of the women’s 66-kilogram division. However, the win comes amid a week of controversy which will closely follow that progress.
Fox News reports the Algerian Olympian was disqualified from the 2023 World Boxing Championships after the International Boxing Association determined Khelif failed gender tests.
According to Reuters, Khalif was found to have elevated levels of testosterone.
IBA President Umar Kremlev explained the decision at the time, according to Russia’s Tass News Agency as cited by Fox.
“Based on DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as women. According to the results of the tests, it was proved that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes were excluded from competition,” Kremlev said.
The IOC cleared Khelif to compete and the Algerian Olympic Committee (COA) pushed back on criticism ahead of Thursday’s bout.
“COA strongly condemns the unethical targeting and maligning of our esteemed athlete […] with baseless propaganda from certain foreign media outlets,” the organization said, via Reuters.
“Such attacks on her personality and dignity are deeply unfair, especially as she prepares for the pinnacle of her career at the Olympics. The COA has taken all necessary measures to protect our champion.”
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, who was visiting Italy’s athletes in the Olympic Village on Thursday, voiced criticism that Carini had to box Khalif.
“We have to pay attention, in an attempt to not discriminate, that we’re actually discriminating” against women’s rights, Meloni said.
She added that it was strange “that there can be a suspicion, and far more than a suspicion, of an unfair and potentially dangerous contest for one of the contenders at the Olympics, an event that symbolises sporting fairness”.
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2024/08/01/i-have-never-been-hit-so-hard-in-my-life-italian-female-boxer-lasts-just-46-seconds-against-fighter-who-failed-gender-test/
Trump Allies Launch $20 Million Effort to Reach Young Men
Voter registration effort will partner with entertainers and sports figures, including from the UFC
By Alex Leary Aug. 1, 2024 5:00 am ET
WASHINGTON—Allies of Donald Trump are launching a voter registration and turnout program aimed at one of the hottest prizes in the election: young voters. In particular, young men.
The initiative, called Send the Vote, is expected to debut Friday on the popular “Full Send” podcast, which will feature an interview with JD Vance, Trump’s running mate...
Trump has increasingly found an audience with young men, who are trending more conservative and many of whom revel in a culture of entertainment and sports that is unabashedly masculine...
... Kyle Forgeard, one of the Nelk Boys, says in a promo for the podcast. “But every single one of you guys needs to register to vote and you need to make your voice heard. Don’t be f—ing lazy, get your ballot in the mail, do whatever you got to do, plan around it...”
Plans include voter-registration drives at major sporting events, and parties in which admission is proof of voter registration—including a Sept. 14 prefight party at UFC 306 in Las Vegas. Other events are planned for Scottsdale, Ariz., Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, New York City and Los Angeles.
Young voters might prove crucial for Trump. He has attracted a majority of men under age 30, a sharp reversal from the 2020 election and part of a growing gender divide. Young men now favor Republican control of Congress and Trump for president, after backing Biden and Democratic lawmakers in 2020, according to a merger of Wall Street Journal polls in February and July. Women under 30 remain strongly behind Democrats...
Full article is here:
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-allies-launch-20-million-effort-to-reach-young-men-e65aeb31?mod=hp_lead_pos9
Rise of Kamala Harris solidifies Dems full embrace as the party of ‘preachy females,’ scolding shrews
By Miranda Devine Published July 31, 2024, 10:38 p.m. ET
Long ago, Mother said "Women's Lib is Men's Lib" meaning they were now free of male responsibility.
This proves it. What a smarmy aggot-fay.
Breitbart Business Digest: Trump Proposes an End to the Stealth Social Security Tax on Retirees
JOHN CARNEY 31 Jul 2024 4:51
A Brand New Tax Cut: Ending the Social Security Tax on Retirees
Donald Trump on Wednesday threw a monkey-wrench into the plans of Democrats to claim he wants to cut Social Security when he proposed ending federal taxes on the benefits of retirees.
This was an unexpected but very welcome development. The taxation of Social Security benefits has long needed an overhaul, but the recent explosion of inflation has highlighted the problems with the current system. And for the first time in living memory, we have a proposed Social Security reform that will actually help seniors pay their bills.
Social Security benefits were not taxed for the first fifty years. The idea to tax them came out of one of the most dangerous creatures ever to stalk our Republic—the bipartisan reform commission. Led by Alan Greenspan, the National Commission on Social Security Reform proposed in 1983 taxing around half of the benefits received by high-income retirees.
The amendments to the Social Security Act that were signed into law that year subjected half the benefits to federal income tax if a retirees income exceeded $25,000. For a joint filer, the threshold was set at $32,000.
This was a tax on a relatively small share of people receiving Social Security benefits. Back in 1983, the median household income was $24,550. So, the tax only applied to people earning an above average income. For people eligible to collect Social Security—many of whom would have been retired—the median income was even lower. At the time, the Social Security Administration estimated that the tax would only affect 10 percent of beneficiaries.
Inflation + Time = Taxation Without Representation
This was a tax, however, that was destined to expand without any politician having to support a tax hike on the elderly. That’s because the thresholds for taxing benefits were not indexed to inflation. So, as time went on and inflation worked its way through our economy, more and more seniors were pulled into the taxable bracket.
The median household income in 2022—the latest data available from the Census Bureau—was $74,580. But those tax thresholds have remained unchanged. So, the tax that once applied only to retirees with incomes above the national average now applies to retirees with incomes much lower than average. The Social Security Administration estimates that around 40 percent of beneficiaries are subject to taxes on their benefits.
In other words, a tax that was designed to apply to people earning a relatively high-income at an advanced age now applies to elderly people working part-time to make ends meet. What’s worse, is that this is a form of taxation without representation. No one voted for the tax increases. They just happened because of inflationary bracket creep.
Donald Trump’s proposal will put an end to this. Just by raising the idea of ending taxes on Social Security benefits, Trump has restored some democratic accountability around the issue. If Trump’s opponent wants to defend a tax on the benefits of a widow earning $28,000, that seems like a fine thing to discuss at a presidential debate.
At the very least, the tax on benefits should be rolled back to the one that Ronald Reagan signed into law. That would mean a significant rise in the thresholds so that once again only wealthier households were subject to the tax. And those thresholds should be indexed to inflation so that the bracket creep is not allowed to occur again.
The Fed Didn’t Push Back Against a September Cut
The Federal Reserve did not endorse the certainty financial markets have about a rate cut in September—but it also did not do much to push back against that certainty.
The Fed’s formal statement seemed to be a bit more hawkish than many investors thought.
“The Committee does not expect it will be appropriate to reduce the target range until it has gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward two percent,” the Fed said.
That doesn’t sound like a Fed that is six weeks away from a cut. But in his statements during the press conference, Fed Chair Jerome Powell made it clear that a September cut is a possibility.
The Fed doesn’t like to shock the market. It almost never moves when the market is certain it will not and almost never fails to move when the market is certain it will. This is not so much because the Fed is fearful of upsetting markets but because officials move markets in the direction they intended to go.
So, if the Fed isn’t pushing back a market that is convinced there is going to be a cut, that’s a sign that the Fed also thinks there will be a cut.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/07/31/breitbart-business-digest-trump-proposes-an-end-to-the-stealth-social-security-tax-on-retirees/#disqus_thread
Morning, cap. I love it too.
Considering what's going on today, it is timeless.
Have a good one... regardless.
FWIW... Paranoia strikes deep.
Olympics Ad Fail: Google Flops by Showing Future of AI that *No One* Wants
LUCAS NOLAN 31 Jul 2024 2:32
(Apparently, I'm not the only one who was outraged by this.)
A recent Google advertisement debuted during the Olympics and featuring AI writing a personal letter has ignited a heated debate about the appropriate use of technology in human communication and creativity.
New York Magazine reports that Google’s latest advertisement, titled “Dear Sydney,” which has been airing during the Olympics, has become the center of controversy due to its portrayal of AI-assisted personal communication. The commercial depicts a father using Google’s AI model, Gemini, to help his daughter write a fan letter to Olympic athlete Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.
The premise of the advertisement has raised concerns among viewers and experts alike. In the commercial, a father, who claims to be “pretty good with words,” turns to AI to compose a heartfelt message from his daughter to her sports idol. This decision has been met with criticism, as many argue that such personal expressions should involve human creativity, especially in parent-child relationships.
Critics of the advertisement point out several issues with the message it conveys. Firstly, it suggests that it’s acceptable to use AI for personal writing tasks, potentially undermining the importance of developing communication skills. Secondly, the ad implies that it’s appropriate to delegate the expression of personal feelings to a machine.
The controversy surrounding the commercial has drawn comparisons to a similar advertisement by Apple for the iPad, which also faced backlash for its portrayal of AI in daily life. Both advertisements have been criticized for being tone-deaf to public concerns about the increasing role of AI in society.
Media professionals have been vocal in their opposition to the ad’s message. Shelly Palmer, a Syracuse media professor, expressed his rejection of the future Google is advertising, emphasizing the importance of using AI to enhance human skills rather than replace them.
The backlash against the advertisement has been so significant that Google has disabled comments on the video on its YouTube channel, a move that has further fueled the controversy. Critics argue that this action contradicts the open dialogue that should surround such important technological and social issues.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/07/31/olympics-ad-fail-google-flops-by-showing-future-of-ai-that-no-one-wants/
The WSJ has the under 30 vote split down the middle by gender.
Men for Trump. Women for Giggles -- it's that damn abortion thing.
America’s New Political War Pits Young Men Against Young Women
A majority of men under 30 support former President Trump and Republican control of Congress, a sharp reversal from the 2020 race; young women strongly favor Democrats
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/men-women-vote-republican-democrat-election-7f5f726c?mod=elections_trendingnow_article_pos2
PM me, if you want to read the whole thing.
I'm not allowed to post it.
The deranged left is breaking all the rules they claim to uphold to keep Donald Trump down
By Michael Goodwin Published July 30, 2024, 10:29 p.m. ET
As Michael Kinsley defined it, a gaffe occurs when a politician accidentally tells the truth.
Joe Biden passed the test when he explained why he was pushing a radical overhaul of the Supreme Court.
It’s because Donald Trump made him do it.
As Biden might say, “No joke, I’m serious!”
The cognitively challenged president has been shoved to the back of the bus after being driven out of the race by undemocratic Dems, which is perhaps why he admitted the truth.
Whatever the reason, Biden’s confession Monday at the LBJ Presidential Library perfectly captures the cause of the turmoil that has reshaped American public life in the last nine years.
Starting in 2015, Trump’s political rise set off a chain reaction of lunacy and hatred the likes of which we have not seen in modern times.
From politics to academia, from culture to media, and including even law enforcement and religion, the gatekeepers of the old order ripped away the guardrails they once treated as holy writ and that helped to keep the nation intact despite its differences.
A bogeyman is born
The gatekeepers-turned-destroyers cited Trump as the justification for giving themselves license to abolish limits on their own words and actions.
Claiming he would smash norms, they smashed norms.
And they haven’t stopped.
It’s as if they’ve adopted as a motto an infamous military line from the Vietnam War: We had to destroy the village to save it.
To the Trump haters, he is so uniquely bad and dangerous that any means necessary to stop him is acceptable.
Would-be assassin Thomas Crooks certainly got that message.
And so did the renegade media outlets that claimed Trump wasn’t actually hit with a bullet and that his ear bandage was all theater.
Once again, the tech companies did their underhanded part to distort public opinion.
Search engines at Google and Meta have been caught suppressing the facts and photos that don’t fit their politics.
Meta’s AI assistant went so far as to claim the attempt to murder Trump was “fictional,” according to The Post’s sensational Tuesday report.
Anybody who still doesn’t believe in Trump Derangement Syndrome and its destructive effects isn’t paying attention.
Consider the action of the Dem prosecutors who rewrote national history by using law enforcement and the courts to charge and try a former president.
It’s the stuff of banana republics, but they haven’t stopped even though he is now the opposition party’s presidential candidate.
Fearful he’ll win, they’re still trying to get one more trial in before the election.
Trump is no angel, but are there no limits to their jihad against him?
For my money, the gates to this particular hell were thrown open in the late summer of 2016 when The New York Times decided to abandon its legendary standards of fairness to make sure Trump didn’t win the White House.
The wheels started turning after the newspaper’s media writer, Jim Rutenberg, began a column with this question: “If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?”
All the bias fit to print
Under ethics guidelines of most major media, anyone with that bias would not be permitted to cover Trump.
But that’s not how the then-editor of the Times saw it.
As I have written, executive editor Dean Baquet said the Rutenberg column “nailed” his thinking and convinced him that the struggle for fairness was over.
“I think that Trump has ended that struggle,” Baquet claimed.
“I think we now say stuff. We fact-check him. We write it more powerfully that it’s false.”
Baquet is too modest.
He, not Trump, ended the struggle over fairness.
He did it by letting every so-called reporter express an opinion.
Many of them openly called Trump a liar from that day forward.
Baquet is no longer the editor, but his decision shapes the Times we see today — every supposed news article drips with opinion.
From front to back, the Times is so opinionated that it can no longer be trusted as an unbiased source of news on anything.
It’s a reminder that once standards are eliminated, they’re not easy to restore.
Sadly, other outlets have followed the Times over the fairness cliff.
The widespread collapse of public trust in major media has been the inevitable result.
Nor is it a coincidence that the Obama-Biden administration also went down its own corrupt road in 2016 to block Trump.
Recall it used the CIA and FBI to spy on him and try to stop him from beating Hillary Clinton.
In 2020, the Biden campaign tapped its deep state contacts again to protect Joe by calling the disclosures on son Hunter’s laptop a Russian plant.
So now half the country doesn’t trust either of those essential institutions.
Nice work, Dems!
Yet the Trump haters haven’t backed off because their strategy works often enough.
Biden, for example, claimed in his Monday speech that he was forced to call for radical changes to the Supreme Court because the GOP has “weaponized” the confirmation process.
That would be hilarious if it weren’t backward.
What he really means is that the GOP under Trump had the votes to confirm three nominations.
See, when Republicans gain power, the rules have to change because Dems are always entitled to win.
Biden’s hypocrisy
If Biden were telling the whole story, he would admit that the confirmation requirements were first lowered under former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, when Biden was vice president.
Reid, working with the White House, did it to get more Dem nominees on the courts.
Republicans at the time warned Reid he would regret the power play.
Reid has since died, but his successors are escalating again by coming directly for the Supremes, proving they are still willing to tear down the nation’s most trusted institutions if they don’t get their way.
Thus Biden, after protesting that “I have great respect for our institutions and the separation of powers laid out in our Constitution,” claimed Monday that “Extremism is undermining the public confidence in the court’s decisions.”
Not surprisingly, that “extremism” amounts to Supreme Court rulings Democrats don’t like, including overturning Roe v. Wade and a more recent one on presidential immunity.
His remedy is to replace lifetime tenure with 18-year-term limits, a constitutional amendment to overrule the immunity finding and an enforceable code of conduct for the justices.
Biden’s plan is little more than a campaign device so Kamala Harris can run on something other than her awful record.
But the larger truth is that the plan is the latest example of Trump haters using him as an excuse to do the things they once said should never be done.
And managing to keep a straight face while accusing him of destroying American political life.
https://nypost.com/2024/07/30/opinion/the-deranged-left-is-breaking-all-the-rules-they-claim-to-uphold-to-keep-donald-trump-down/