Whistleblower Exposes LA Metro's Plan to Sideline Buses Advertising 'Melania' Documentary

 Bob Hoge; RedState   

"Now stop and think for a second: does anyone really imagine that if buses were driving around with ads for one of Michelle Obama’s self-pitying tomes or bitter podcasts and were vandalized, that LA Metro would take steps to minimize their exposure? If so, I’ve got a bridge to sell you." BH

All right, I’ll get the disclosure part out of the way right at the start: this story involves my wife, Los Angeles County GOP Chair Roxanne Hoge.

She got a tip on Wednesday that up to one hundred LA Metro buses featuring ads for the Melania movie were being kept out of service for the weekend. Her post about the situation went viral, amassing over 100,000 views:" . . .

. . . “ 'I’m hearing it’s because someone doesn’t want Melania, The Movie, to have a good opening weekend,” Hoge wrote in a X chain that made thousands of impressions.

[…] "Los Angeles Metro admitted to pulling buses with ads promoting First Lady Melania Trump’s new documentary off busy roads over vandalism concerns.

"The transit authority said buses featuring the ads for “Melania” were being rerouted to other “geographic areas to minimize potential vandalism,”

“ 'The buses remain in regular service. Our buses have unfortunately been subject to vandalism over the last couple of years,” the agency told Fox Los Angeles." . . .  More...

Man Who Just Climbed Skyscraper Kicks Himself After Seeing There Was An Elevator All Along

  Babylon Bee

TAIPEI CITY — After spending over an hour-and-a-half climbing to the top of the Taipei 101 skyscraper, Alex Honnold was left kicking himself after realizing there was an elevator just inside.

"Honnold paused to look down after ascending all 101 stories of the massive skyscraper, only to see there was an elevator there the whole time.

""I'm such an idiot," sighed Honnold, seeing people waving as they exited the elevator. "I could have died trying to get up here, when all I had to do was just press a button and wait. Aw man, I really should have picked up on something when I started seeing people through the windows on the 54th story. Boy, do I feel sheepish."

"According to local sources, hundreds of people on the street below tried to yell to Honnold to tell him about the elevator, but to no avail. "We kept telling him to come down, that there was an elevator just inside," said local man Lin Hsu. "But the idiot thought we were just cheering for him, and kept waving with a big dumb grin. What a moron."

"At publishing time, Honnold had asked if anyone could please let him in through a window so he could at least take the elevator back down."

Discouraged, Honnold spent some time relaxing and recuperating in peaceful Minnesota.

Visit Minnesota: It's Somalia, But Closer

"Could it be that his parents knew that Pretti had a propensity to do stupid things? Well, probably."

 

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Alex Pretti, another Democrat ‘martyr’ with feet of clay - Andrea Widburg

"As with Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, George Floyd, and Renee Good, to name but a few of the left’s honored dead, all is not as it seems."

. . . " And then there’s Alex Pretti. He was, we were told, a nurse, for God’s sake! (Did I mention that before?) He was at this particular ICE protest as a legally armed good Samaritan, trying to save innocent criminals from being rounded up by evil ICE agents. He died only because his childlike goodness led him to aid a woman whom ICE agents were brutally beating. This is the stuff of good martyrdom narratives.

"Except it’s not really true. Instead, he seems to have been a troubled man who became obsessed with opposing ICE. Thus, his father stated, “We had this discussion with him two weeks ago or so, you know, that go ahead and protest, but do not engage, do not do anything stupid, basically.”

"Could it be that his parents knew that Pretti had a propensity to do stupid things? Well, probably.

It turns out that a week after that conversation with his dad and a week before his final tangle with ICE, Pretti got physical with ICE agents, resulting in a broken rib:" . . .

. . . Good and Pretti are distinct from other Democrat martyrs in that neither had a history as a gangbanger or a felon. However, they were hardcore activists who embraced confrontation. Like other Democrat martyrs, both were engaged in manifestly criminal activity when they died: Interfering with government law enforcement agents in the performance of their duties, refusing lawful orders, and either attempting to kill or, in the heat of the moment, seemingly attempting to kill those officers.

The only way to elevate them to martyr status, of course, is to continue the leftist pretense that America is a fatally racist, morally corrupt hellhole (to which the whole Third World wishes to immigrate), run by Gestapo-like troops who dare to enforce longstanding federal law.

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3D scans reveal new details of Titanic’s final moments

"A documentary called “Titanic: The Digital Resurrection” will unveil the most detailed digital reconstruction of the shipwreck ever created. Experts are using the model to study the vessel’s demise."

 3D scans reveal new details of Titanic’s final moments

"A new documentary uses 3D scans to reveal fresh details on the infamous sinking of the Titanic 113 years ago. “Titanic: The Digital Resurrection” tells the story of how the deep-sea mapping company Magellan created a full-scale precise model of the Titanic and reconstructed the ship’s final moments."

See the Titanic in Remarkable Detail With a 3D Scan That Reveals New Secrets of the Doomed Ship's Final Moments  

They also found that one of the boat’s steam valves was left open, which supports eyewitness accounts that the engineers remained in the boiler room for more than two hours after the ship hit the iceberg—nearly until the end. These 35 men kept the electricity running, allowing the ship to send out distress signals, which may have ultimately saved hundreds of lives.

" 'They kept the lights and the power working to the end, to give the crew time to launch the lifeboats safely with some light instead of in absolute darkness,” Parks Stephenson, a Titanic analyst, tells BBC News’ Rebecca Morelle and Alison Francis.

"Additionally, the digital scan has complicated a controversial narrative about a first officer on the Titanic: William Murdoch, who has long been accused of abandoning his post. In James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster, Murdoch’s character shoots at passengers before shooting himself. But according to the new documentary, the high-resolution scans corroborate the account of Titanic survivor Charles Lightoller, who said Murdoch was swept out to sea while preparing to launch a lifeboat.

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Springsteen’s ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ an Ode to Fascists Obstructing the Law

  The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  

"Bruce Springsteen has streets on the brain — and politics. When you mix rock and politics, you get politics. We need less of that right now."

"Do you remember when Bruce Springsteen wrote that rousing anthem to honor Laken Riley?

"Me neither.

"But on Wednesday, he released “Streets of Minneapolis,” an ode to the mob that impedes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from enforcing federal laws passed by our representatives and as ordered to by the duly elected president of the United States. That’s another way of saying that Springsteen wrote a love song to fascists who believe that mob violence should act as a veto on the law. 

“ 'Streets of Minneapolis” offers no colorful descriptions of how this law-breaking mob beat a conservative provocateur bloody, stole a thousand-dollar camera from a journalist, disrupted a church service, or repeatedly attacked ICE agents. That a video showing an armed Alex Pretti, lionized in Springsteen’s song, spitting and hurling abuse at federal agents before he kicked out their taillight, came out the same day as “Streets of Minneapolis” proves inconvenient.

"In Bruce’s sonic telling, federal ICE officers, and not Somali illegal immigrants, are “occupiers,” and federal ICE officers, and not the mob vandalizing their cars and throwing rocks at them, are the “thugs” (if the man in this video was not a thug, then who is?). Springsteen even depicts federal law enforcers as “Trump’s private army.”

"This seems like not just distortion but projection. A “private army” does exist in Minneapolis. Reports trace money from Neville Roy Singham, George Soros, and others, less known, to the groups committed to the organized chaos that helped lead to the deaths of Pretti and Rene Good, who lost her life after she hit an ICE agent with her car while attempting to flee. 

"“Streets of Minneapolis” name-drops Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and “King Trump.” In characteristic leftist, cops-are-criminals, Shawshank Redemption fashion, it depicts the villains as the heroes and the heroes as the villains. The song omits that part about ICE agents heroically risking life and limb to arrest child-molester illegal aliens or Somali immigrants ripping off billions from the taxpayers. “If your skin is black or brown, my friend,” Springsteen sings. “You can be questioned or deported on sight.”

"Is this true that the federal government just randomly deports people because of their skin color?" . . .   More...

Pretti was a left-wing activist who knew what he was getting himself into, not some Mother Theresa nurse who happened to be just a protester or legal observer. We know he was actually unemployed at the time of his death.