{"id":296,"date":"2018-06-19T17:07:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T01:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interestingitems.org\/wp\/?p=296"},"modified":"2018-06-19T17:07:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T01:07:45","slug":"interesting-items-0618","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interestingitems.org\/wp\/2018\/06\/19\/interesting-items-0618\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Items 06\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"

Howdy All, a few Interesting Items for your information.\u00a0 Enjoy \u2013<\/p>\n

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  1. Kim<\/li>\n
  2. G-7<\/li>\n
  3. Trudeau<\/li>\n
  4. ANWR<\/li>\n
  5. Raid<\/li>\n
  6. Trans<\/li>\n
  7. Rapone<\/li>\n
  8. Lemonade<\/li>\n
  9. Archives<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    1. Kim. President Trump had his meeting with Nork Chairman Kim Jong Un last week.\u00a0 Out of the meeting came an agreement for Kim to shut down both his ICBM and nuclear weapons program.\u00a0 In return, the US would halt joint exercises with South Korea for the time being.\u00a0 This meeting was the first between any Nork leader and an American president.\u00a0 Democrats and the media did their level best to paint the meeting as one which Trump was either bamboozled or simply bent over and kissed Kim\u2019s back side.\u00a0 They quickly went on to point out that he was meeting with a brutal dictator and what a horrible thing that was.\u00a0 The meeting gave Trump the ability to personally meet with Kim and size him up.\u00a0 Limbaugh thinks he looks at Kim as a na\u00eff, someone who is young (33) and is only in his position by virtue of who his father was, all of which is true, by the way.\u00a0 Trump went into his best real estate entrepreneur mode, pointing out how a Nork beach is better than some US beaches and should have condos rather than military installations.\u00a0 Kim appeared to be listening.\u00a0 Do not discount the possibility that the Norks may be better off as entrepreneurs than as bullies.\u00a0 Think of is as a different economic model, one that the ROKs figured out decades ago.\u00a0 As this continues, Kim\u2019s biggest problem may be people in his regime who want to return to the Old Ways of belligerence, threats, and the decades-long international protection racket they ran with their military.\u00a0 That racket is now over.\u00a0 How many in their leadership understand that basic fact remains to be seen.\u00a0 To me, the two most important things out of this meeting will be the shutdown of the Nork nuke and ICBM programs, and perhaps more important, severing their working arrangement with the Iranians on those systems.\u00a0 Scott Adams predicted at least a year ago that Trump would pursue a win-win with the Norks, essentially turning the nation into Switzerland, eventually reuniting with South Korea as a ChiCom protectorate.\u00a0 Switzerland is a significantly lower threat than the Norks are today.\u00a0 This may be where Trump is going with this.\u00a0 Perhaps it is time.\u00a0 https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/06\/12\/thank-god-trump-isnt-a-foreign-policy-expert\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      1. G-7. President Trump attended his first G-7 summit in Quebec over the weekend and introduced the other six world leaders to his notion of fair trade, America First, and paying your own way.\u00a0 The meetings were nothing like the other world leaders had ever experienced, upsetting them a bit.\u00a0 He pushed the notion that fair trade means that there are no tariffs on either side, and as long as the European Union (EU) has trade restrictions on American products, there will be similar tariffs on EU products coming into the US.\u00a0 This significantly irritated EU members.\u00a0 This includes but is not limited to subsidies for Airbus sales.\u00a0 He also pointed out that the US has been paying for EU defense since the late 1940s, and it is time for the other nations to pick up their fair share, their agreed upon share, of defense spending.\u00a0 He even yanked a couple chains and suggested that Russian President Putin be included back into the group as a voting member.\u00a0 There was a photo released with Trump seated at a table with German Chancellor Merkel leaning across talking with him.\u00a0 Trump was in typical arms crossed pose.\u00a0 Question from the photo is who is actually in charge.\u00a0 Media tried to paint Merkel.\u00a0 Sure didn\u2019t look like it to me.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2018\/06\/09\/g7-summit-trump-gives-masterclass-in-america-first-to-globalists\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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        1. Trudeau. Part of the fallout from the G-7 Summit last week was a round of brown stuff thrown back and forth between President Trump and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, aka the Canadian O\u2019Bama.\u00a0 President Trump has been adamant about free trade and is not a bit bashful using tariffs against nations that are using tariffs against US imports into those nations.\u00a0 One such example is a Canadian 270% tariff on US dairy products.\u00a0 This is not the only one.\u00a0 Trudeau held a press conference after President Trump departed the G-7 summit for his meeting with Nork Chairman Kim.\u00a0 Trudeau ran his mouth in front of the press, calling the US tariffs on Canadian goods insulting among other things.\u00a0 One of the things we know about President Trump is that he always, always fires back, and the predictable war of words took place.\u00a0 Interestingly, Trudeau was insufficiently incensed with Trump at the meeting that he kept his mouth shut rather than talking with Trump face to face.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2018\/06\/trump-nails-trade-hypocrisy.php<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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          1. ANWR. Looks like congress is on the verge of giving away 3% of anticipated revenues from ANWR to Alaska native corporations.\u00a0 ANWR was opened based on a 50 \u2013 50% revenue sharing between the feds and the State of Alaska.\u00a0 One of Representative Don Young\u2019s buds, a congresscritter from Oklahoma offered an amendment in the House Committee on Appropriations that cut revenues to Alaska to 47%.\u00a0 The other 3% goes directly to Alaska Native corporations, with the total expected to be about a billion dollars over the lifetime of ANWR oil production.\u00a0 The excuse given is \u201ctrust and treaty obligations are met related to Alaska Native oil and gas revenue sharing.\u201d\u00a0 Problem with this is that there are no treaty or trust obligations to Alaska Native corporations with opening ANWR.\u00a0 Craig Medred initially reported the story.\u00a0 To date, the entire delegation has been quiet about this.\u00a0 So have most of the Alaska gubernatorial candidates.\u00a0 Republican Mead Treadwell, democrat Mark Begich, and so-called independent Bill Walker are doing their level best to pander to Bush residents, so they will not say anything while this cruises through congress.\u00a0 Alaska Native corporations were the core of Lisa Murkowski\u2019s write-in victory in 2010 against Republican senatorial candidate Joe Miller.\u00a0 This will take a while to sort out, but so far looks to be pretty shady.\u00a0 https:\/\/craigmedred.news\/2018\/06\/10\/ak-losing-anwr\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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            1. Raid. Every time someone passes a new \u201ccommon sense\u201d gun control law, we are told that all the government is interested in is compliance and safety.\u00a0 No so fast, camel breath.\u00a0 What the government is really interested in is passing legislation that will turn us all into criminals after the fact for doing something completely legal before the law was passed.\u00a0 Latest example comes out of California where a farmer who tried to register a firearm online (due to a new California gun control law) had his home raided.\u00a0 A dozen guns, 230 rounds of ammunition (these firearms weren\u2019t regularly used, btw), and two silences seized.\u00a0 The farmer was arraigned on 12 charges and released with a $150,000 bond.\u00a0 California law enforcement also claimed that one of the firearms were illegally modified (under the new law).\u00a0 The only reason California democrats are passing gun control laws is to turn previously law-abiding citizens into felons.\u00a0 And when they reward someone trying to comply with the new laws with a raid and 12 felonies, perhaps it is time to no longer choose to comply.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/california\/2018\/06\/12\/farmers-home-raided-guns-confiscated-after-trying-to-comply-with-ca-gun-control\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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              1. Trans. In the ugly old days of the Cold War, the Eastern Bloc \/ Warsaw Pact countries were generally accused of using drugs to chemically modify the bodies and in turn sexuality of their athletes so as to be more competitive on the world stage (Olympics and various international games).\u00a0 East Germany was particularly suspected, as was Czechoslovakia.\u00a0 Today, we would suggest that whoever was competing back then were simply Warsaw Pact transgenders \/ tranies.\u00a0 Today, with the education establishment working furiously to manufacture as many sexually confused kids (transgender people) as humanly possible, we are seeing a lot more of them, all on the taxpayer dime.\u00a0 Now here\u2019s the funny part:\u00a0 These sadly non-competitive kids are systematically destroying women\u2019s sports at the High School level, now working their way into the college world.\u00a0 Men and boys are competing, particularly in track and field, as girls and starting to win track meets.\u00a0 While as the father of a couple girls, this really, really bothers me, the other part of me sees it as a great in your face to the feminists, who have been shoving women\u2019s sports down the throats of unwilling male sports fans for decades.\u00a0 I despise what the feminists and their enablers in the democrat party and media have done to college sports via Title IX, shutting down minor men\u2019s sports so the total participation numbers equal up.\u00a0 While this is not payback, it is an example that the laws of physics operate in the political world.\u00a0 While there was most certainly an action (harsh feminist Title IX enforcement), the reaction is most certainly unequal in magnitude and direction (the political world is a non-linear system).\u00a0 Who would have thought that the latest pet cat victim group of the left (transgender) would be the vehicle used to destroy women\u2019s sports and Title IX?\u00a0 https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2018\/06\/10\/latest-boys-beat-girls-track-event-story\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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                1. Rapone. Commie US Military Academy at West Point Cadet and commissioned 2Lt \u00a0Spenser Rapone, aka the Commie Cadet, got his wish last week and was separated from the Army active duty.\u00a0 He did not get a free ride, though as his release was other than honorable discharge.\u00a0 Rapone ended up being an Army Ranger and served briefly in Afghanistan.\u00a0 Unexpectedly (\/sarc), he was unable to keep his mouth shut while deployed, as he was insolent as a cadet.\u00a0 He spoke out against actions of the military in September 2017, just a few months after graduating.\u00a0 He was separated this month.\u00a0 Various public affairs offices have been very close-lipped about why Rapone was finally drummed out, citing privacy concerns.\u00a0 The other than honorable discharge is likely the worst that can be done to him without dragging him through a General Courts martial. It will damage his future employment, though given that he chose to become a darling of the left, my guess is that he will not have any problem getting a job in that world.\u00a0 They love people in uniform, especially when those people believe what they believe.\u00a0 And the Commie Cadet (Lieutenant) most certainly does believe the worst of what the left believes.\u00a0 https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/commie-cadet-spenser-rapone-leaving-army-with-less-than-honorable-discharge\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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                  1. Lemonade. The Land of Trump is creating a new, agile, feisty, persuasive group of entrepreneurs.\u00a0 Latest example comes out of Country Time, which announced last week that its lawyers will pick up the tab for any child fined for setting up a lemonade stand and selling its product.\u00a0 This is in direct response to local Nanny State law enforcement, Planning and Zoning demands that kids shut down lemonade stands usually with the excuse that they don\u2019t have either a license to sell product or operate a business on their front lawn.\u00a0 There have been enough recent stories about this sort of heavy-handed idiocy that Country Time decided to get involved in the festivities.\u00a0 On one level, this is marketing genius.\u00a0 On another, it is trolling at an epic, Trumpian level.\u00a0 There is a limit to assistance, though.\u00a0 They will pay fees and fines up to $300 \/ kid and have offered to help jump start legal defense funds to the tune of $500,000.\u00a0 Current budget for the campaign is only $60,000.\u00a0 It depends entirely on how big jerks local law and code enforcement want to be.\u00a0 Public blowback and embarrassment will lead to a large legal defense fund via GoFundMe or equivalent fundraising site.\u00a0 I like this.\u00a0 I like this a lot.\u00a0 Should see more of it.\u00a0 https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2018\/06\/07\/country-time-kid-gets-fined-opening-lemonade-stand-well-cover\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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                    1. Archives. In one of the least surprising stories of the week, comes a Western Journal story about the transfer of presidential records of Barack O\u2019Bama into the National Archives.\u00a0 The problem is that a bunch of them are missing.\u00a0 Looks like the outbound O\u2019Bama regime engaged in wholesale destruction of tens of thousands of government records covered by the 1950 Federal Records Act.\u00a0 Chief offenders are O\u2019Bama\u2019s WH, Hillary\u2019s ATM machine (State Department), Holder \u2013 Lynch (In)Justice Department, and several EPA officials.\u00a0 Unsurprisingly, the IRS also suffered record losses as well.\u00a0 The O\u2019Bama regime evaded the Federal Records Act by setting up a private communications system for the purpose of defeating federal records and disclosure laws.\u00a0 It was widespread, and they used it for all they were worth.\u00a0 Additionally, the O\u2019Bama Presidential Library is opting out of any relationship with the National Archives.\u00a0 Worst offenders appear to be Clinton, Lynch, IRS and EPA.\u00a0 The first three are obvious.\u00a0 The EPA is hiding its revolving door relationship with the NRDC.\u00a0 There will be no penalties for breaking this law.\u00a0 Like all laws, document destruction is only a problem when Republicans participate in it.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ct\/nat-archives-stumble-onto-new-obama-scandal-wholesale-destruction-of-govt-records\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                      More later –<\/p>\n

                      – AG<\/p>\n

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