That didn’t take long.
"The Seattle Mariners has suspended catcher Steve Clevenger for the remainder of the Major League Baseball season over controversial tweets in which he called the Black Lives Matter movement and President Barack Obama 'pathetic.'
"Clevenger posted a series of comments on Twitter on Thursday, two days after Keith Lamont Scott, a 43-year-old black man, was fatally shot by police in Charlotte, North Carolina.
"The Mariners catcher appeared to suggest that those protesting against Scott’s shooting should be locked up 'like animals.' He also mocked athletes who have been protesting by kneeling during the national anthem at sports events.
"'Black people beating whites when a thug got shot holding a gun by a black officer haha s--t cracks me up! Keep kneeling for the anthem!' Clevenger tweeted on Thursday.
"'BLM is pathetic once again! Obama is pathetic once again! Everyone involved should be locked behind bars like animals,' another tweet from his account read.
"Several Twitter users captured screen grabs of the posts. Clevenger has since made his account private."
Mariners general manager Jerry Dipoto: “As soon as we became aware of the tweets posted by Steve yesterday we began to examine all of our options in regard to his standing on the team. Today we have informed him that he is suspended for the remainder of the season without pay.”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/seattle-mariners-suspend-steve-clevenger-tweets-labeling-black/story?id=42327292
Clevenger said his comments were “beyond poorly worded” but not racist, rather reaction to recent events in the news.
Everybody has the right to free speech. And team bosses have the right to suspend or trade or release a player for just about any reason.
Waiting for the player's union to protest "without pay" part of the suspension. Waiting ... Waiting ...
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Probably alien H3 visas
“Seriously, I don’t know when exactly that UFO landed and dumped all these stupid people, but they apparently aren’t coming back for them.”
http://favim.com/image/583183/
http://favim.com/image/583183/
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Prediction: Mariners catcher Steve Clevenger will not get ESPN award for courage
Clevenger said protesters in Charlotte “should be locked behind bars like animals” and had some choice words for the 49ers third-string quarterback, as well as Soros-funded racist Black Lives Matter.
While the Mariners “are very disappointed” at Clevenger’s tweets and say “he is certainly free to express himself,” the club is “examining all internal options available to us as we determine appropriate next steps.”
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mariners-catcher-critical-of-black-lives-matter-after-charlotte-protest-001408008.html
Clevenger’s tweets definitely take him out of the running for any ESPN awards, such as Whatizface Jenner for courage and a “humanitarian” award to a few non-white University of Missouri football players.
While the Mariners “are very disappointed” at Clevenger’s tweets and say “he is certainly free to express himself,” the club is “examining all internal options available to us as we determine appropriate next steps.”
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mariners-catcher-critical-of-black-lives-matter-after-charlotte-protest-001408008.html
Clevenger’s tweets definitely take him out of the running for any ESPN awards, such as Whatizface Jenner for courage and a “humanitarian” award to a few non-white University of Missouri football players.
Loveland, Oklahoma, population 13
That’s right – 13. By the 2010 census. By 2015, the population had dropped 7.7%, to 12. The highest ever population was 191 in 1920.
In the 2000 census, 100% of the households were married couples living together. For every 100 females 18 and older, there were 100 males. (How that figure is determined in a town of 14 – Well, the government makes the formula.)
No individuals or families were living below the poverty line. Of the 14 population of 2000, 92.86% were white; 7.14% were African-American.
Loveland is in far Southwest Oklahoma, in Tillman County, which borders Texas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loveland,_Oklahoma
oklahoma.hometownlocator.com says there is a vacant housing unit in Loveland. Of 731 Oklahoma towns ranked on population, Loveland is 724. It is Number 496 in per capita income.
http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=LO022
has additional information.
“Located in Tillman County, Loveland (formerly Harriston) is located thirteen miles due east of the county seat of Frederick and six miles south of State Highway 5 on County Roads E1870/N2360. The town was carved from portions of two cotton farms when the Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway (acquired by Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway in 1911) extended its line from Wichita Falls, Texas. Harriston was founded on July 27, 1908, by G. V. Harris, Charles A. Swartz, and Frank Kell. Located in the newly opened Big Pasture, Harriston was situated near the train depot. The Post Office Department denied the requested designation of Harriston, because it was similar to other Oklahoma town names. Although the reason for the choice of Loveland is unknown, it is generally believed that it was selected either by postmaster Tom McCracken or local merchant E. C. Duncan. The Loveland post office opened October 23, 1908.
“By 1911–12 Loveland was an agricultural trade center with approximately three hundred residents. Several companies and individuals operated three grain elevators, one of which continued in service until the 1990s. Two cotton gins remained active until wheat replaced cotton as the major money crop. Hardware, grocery, clothing, lumber, and petroleum-product establishments catered to the farm families.
“An early-day weekly newspaper, the Loveland Journal, informed the local citizenry. Baptist and Methodist church congregations established early meeting places. Polk School, located near the northwestern corner of the townsite, first served public education needs. The last high school graduating class was in 1957, and the elementary school closed in 1961. In 1920 the town's population had declined to 191. By 1950 and 1970 numbers were 96 and 36, respectively. At the turn of the twenty-first century Loveland had 14 citizens, and in 2010 it had 13.
"Loveland has received its most widespread acclaim because of its name. Romantically inclined individuals send their Valentine greetings to be mailed and postmarked from Loveland. The postmaster later added to the service by affixing a red, heart-shaped rubber stamp bearing the words, "Valentine Greetings from the heart of the Big Pasture, Loveland, Ok.’"
In the 2000 census, 100% of the households were married couples living together. For every 100 females 18 and older, there were 100 males. (How that figure is determined in a town of 14 – Well, the government makes the formula.)
No individuals or families were living below the poverty line. Of the 14 population of 2000, 92.86% were white; 7.14% were African-American.
Loveland is in far Southwest Oklahoma, in Tillman County, which borders Texas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loveland,_Oklahoma
oklahoma.hometownlocator.com says there is a vacant housing unit in Loveland. Of 731 Oklahoma towns ranked on population, Loveland is 724. It is Number 496 in per capita income.
http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=LO022
has additional information.
“Located in Tillman County, Loveland (formerly Harriston) is located thirteen miles due east of the county seat of Frederick and six miles south of State Highway 5 on County Roads E1870/N2360. The town was carved from portions of two cotton farms when the Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway (acquired by Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway in 1911) extended its line from Wichita Falls, Texas. Harriston was founded on July 27, 1908, by G. V. Harris, Charles A. Swartz, and Frank Kell. Located in the newly opened Big Pasture, Harriston was situated near the train depot. The Post Office Department denied the requested designation of Harriston, because it was similar to other Oklahoma town names. Although the reason for the choice of Loveland is unknown, it is generally believed that it was selected either by postmaster Tom McCracken or local merchant E. C. Duncan. The Loveland post office opened October 23, 1908.
“By 1911–12 Loveland was an agricultural trade center with approximately three hundred residents. Several companies and individuals operated three grain elevators, one of which continued in service until the 1990s. Two cotton gins remained active until wheat replaced cotton as the major money crop. Hardware, grocery, clothing, lumber, and petroleum-product establishments catered to the farm families.
“An early-day weekly newspaper, the Loveland Journal, informed the local citizenry. Baptist and Methodist church congregations established early meeting places. Polk School, located near the northwestern corner of the townsite, first served public education needs. The last high school graduating class was in 1957, and the elementary school closed in 1961. In 1920 the town's population had declined to 191. By 1950 and 1970 numbers were 96 and 36, respectively. At the turn of the twenty-first century Loveland had 14 citizens, and in 2010 it had 13.
"Loveland has received its most widespread acclaim because of its name. Romantically inclined individuals send their Valentine greetings to be mailed and postmarked from Loveland. The postmaster later added to the service by affixing a red, heart-shaped rubber stamp bearing the words, "Valentine Greetings from the heart of the Big Pasture, Loveland, Ok.’"
Hard times in Cement, Oklahoma
Cement is in Caddo County, in the southwest part of the state. The 2010 population was 501. The town’s biggest population was 1,117 in 1930. Racial demographics for 2010 show 87% white; 8.1% Native American; 2.64% African-Merriman; and 1.89% Hispanic or Latino.
“About 24.6% of families and 27.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 35.3% of those under age 18 and 24.7% of those age 65 or over.” (Wikipedia)
Clinton Manges, Texas oilman and financial robber, was born in Cement in 1923. His parents were sharecroppers. Manges picked cotton in Oklahoma and worked at a gas station in Texas before hitting big money … somehow.
A satellite view https://www.google.com/maps/@34.9400903,-98.1372666,1554m/data=!3m1!1e3
shows a bunch of oil wells, most with new storage tanks. Land is mostly open.
“About 24.6% of families and 27.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 35.3% of those under age 18 and 24.7% of those age 65 or over.” (Wikipedia)
Clinton Manges, Texas oilman and financial robber, was born in Cement in 1923. His parents were sharecroppers. Manges picked cotton in Oklahoma and worked at a gas station in Texas before hitting big money … somehow.
A satellite view https://www.google.com/maps/@34.9400903,-98.1372666,1554m/data=!3m1!1e3
shows a bunch of oil wells, most with new storage tanks. Land is mostly open.
Eastern Europe remembers fall of Constantinople, siege of Vienna
Ancestors lived under Muslim rule or threat for centuries.
EU rulers open borders to Muslim invaders.
“Since the fall of Constantinople in 1453, much of Eastern Europe's Christian population spent centuries under Islamic occupation, particularly under the Ottomans. It now seems that the clock has reverted to 1683, when Ottoman armies were at the gates of Vienna.”
…
“Brussels is whipping up a propaganda war to cast the Western Europeans, who favor unvetted Muslim migration, as cosmopolitan and tolerant, and Eastern Europeans as a bunch of xenophobic bigots, if not outright neo-Nazis.”
…
“Europe's educated elite might do well to listen to their Eastern brethren. These countries, ironically, are the core of the "new Europe," the last to join the European project and the very countries, having escaped from authoritarian regimes, which should have revived it. Brussels' policy is now pushing this Eastern bloc back under Russia's sphere of influence.”
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8972/eastern-europe-christianity-islam
EU rulers in Brussels should listen to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who remembers “Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.”
Link at http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/
EU rulers open borders to Muslim invaders.
“Since the fall of Constantinople in 1453, much of Eastern Europe's Christian population spent centuries under Islamic occupation, particularly under the Ottomans. It now seems that the clock has reverted to 1683, when Ottoman armies were at the gates of Vienna.”
…
“Brussels is whipping up a propaganda war to cast the Western Europeans, who favor unvetted Muslim migration, as cosmopolitan and tolerant, and Eastern Europeans as a bunch of xenophobic bigots, if not outright neo-Nazis.”
…
“Europe's educated elite might do well to listen to their Eastern brethren. These countries, ironically, are the core of the "new Europe," the last to join the European project and the very countries, having escaped from authoritarian regimes, which should have revived it. Brussels' policy is now pushing this Eastern bloc back under Russia's sphere of influence.”
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8972/eastern-europe-christianity-islam
EU rulers in Brussels should listen to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who remembers “Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.”
Link at http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Stalin was a victim?
Bust of the dictator emplaced in Siberian town earlier this month by Russian Spirit movement.
"The idea came up when we were celebrating the 70th anniversary of victory [over Hitler's Germany in 1945]," Russky Dukh activist and Communist Party member Denis Khanzhin told RFE/RL. "To honor the leader of that victory: Generalissimus Josef Stalin."
http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-surgut-stalin-bust/28004817.html
Survivors of Stalin’s repression do not agree.
“Pavel Akimov, one of the organizers of the project to remember Stalin's victims, told RFE/RL what happened to him and his parents, independent farmers who were sent to Surgut from Tyumen Oblast in 1930.
"’First they were sent to Tobolsk,’ says Akimov, 71. ‘Then to Khanty-Mansiisk, which was then called Ostyako-Vagulsk. From there, people were scattered around. My parents and others were simply dropped off on the banks of the river. They were given a few axes and shovels and told to dig themselves some bunkers. It was autumn. They were left to the whims of fate to survive.’"
But, countered a present-day Stalin supporter: “(T)here is no reason for the descendants of the exiled to object to the Stalin monument. After all, he says, the dictator gave their relatives work when he evacuated a fish cannery to the city from Odesa, in Ukraine, during the war.”
(That's right. Stalin could have shot the resettled, but instead, he gave them work. And, work makes one free.)
“Moreover, Stalin himself, Khanzhin claimed, ‘was a victim of [Soviet leader Nikita] Khrushchev's political repressions.’"
Stalin was three years dead when Khrushchev gave a secret speech on Stalin’s murderous reign.
"The idea came up when we were celebrating the 70th anniversary of victory [over Hitler's Germany in 1945]," Russky Dukh activist and Communist Party member Denis Khanzhin told RFE/RL. "To honor the leader of that victory: Generalissimus Josef Stalin."
http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-surgut-stalin-bust/28004817.html
Survivors of Stalin’s repression do not agree.
“Pavel Akimov, one of the organizers of the project to remember Stalin's victims, told RFE/RL what happened to him and his parents, independent farmers who were sent to Surgut from Tyumen Oblast in 1930.
"’First they were sent to Tobolsk,’ says Akimov, 71. ‘Then to Khanty-Mansiisk, which was then called Ostyako-Vagulsk. From there, people were scattered around. My parents and others were simply dropped off on the banks of the river. They were given a few axes and shovels and told to dig themselves some bunkers. It was autumn. They were left to the whims of fate to survive.’"
But, countered a present-day Stalin supporter: “(T)here is no reason for the descendants of the exiled to object to the Stalin monument. After all, he says, the dictator gave their relatives work when he evacuated a fish cannery to the city from Odesa, in Ukraine, during the war.”
(That's right. Stalin could have shot the resettled, but instead, he gave them work. And, work makes one free.)
“Moreover, Stalin himself, Khanzhin claimed, ‘was a victim of [Soviet leader Nikita] Khrushchev's political repressions.’"
Stalin was three years dead when Khrushchev gave a secret speech on Stalin’s murderous reign.
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