California OKs new sex-ed guidelines for teachers despite objections from parents, protesters

Ultimately, California’s finalized framework tells teachers that students in kindergarten can identify as transgender and offers tips for how to talk about that, adding “the goal is not to cause confusion about the gender of the child but to develop an awareness that other expressions exist.”

Fox News  "The California Department of Education approved controversial sex education guidelines for public school teachers Wednesday that encourage classroom discussions about gender identity and LGBT relationships, but removed five resources and books, including one that explains sex to students as young as kindergarten.
"LGBT advocates praised the new recommendations for giving attention to a community that is often left out of sex education policies.
"But some parents and conservative groups assailed the more than 700-page document as an assault on parental rights, claiming it exposes children to ideas about sexuality and gender that should be taught at home." . . .

" 'It's just scary what they are going to be teaching. It's pornography," said Patricia Reyes, 45, a mother of six who traveled more than 400 miles to attend Wednesday's hearing in Sacramento, the state capital. "If this continues, I'm not sending them to school."
" 'Not everything under the sun needs to be taught to our kids, with no moral judgment," Greg Burt, director of the California Family Council, told the Sacramento Bee." . . .

Porn or vital life lessons? California approves controversial new sex education curriculum

The Lies, Clichés, and Hypocrisy of Bernie Sanders

The old "kill the Americans, Comrade Ho " raised fist.

Conrad Black  "There is something seriously disconcerting about the sight of the leading declared Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, embracing the most imperishable charlatan in American political history, the supposedly reverend Al Sharpton. This most improbable clergyman, although he is only 64, is so worn down by what Dr. Johnson called the “disingenuousness of years,” he now looks like an ambulatory waxwork dummy. He has been exposed countless times for scams, falsehoods, and incitements to violence. Of all prominent African-Americans, only Louis Farrakhan is more odious.*

"Now that Sanders is the front-runner, with the possible exception of Joe (Hamlet) Biden, it is time to start taking a closer look at him. I’ve always been curious why he would have worked for a time on a Stalinist Kibbutz after the 20th Communist Party Congress where Stalin’s infamies and atrocities were publicly denounced by Nikita Khrushchev. Sanders apparently was a renegade Communist as a youth, regarding Khrushchev as a mealy-mouthed compromiser. It was eccentric that he spent his honeymoon in Moscow, but that, I suppose, is the business of no one but the then-newlyweds.

"Our country has seemed benignly incurious about a man running officially as a socialist . . . To see Bernie Sanders and listen to him for a few minutes, it is clear that there is a story to his career that is likely to be unusual and interesting. For young people, he seems to hold that odd attraction of elderly Marxists that Herbert Marcuse had for glamorous youthful acolytes in the 1960s such as Joan Baez and Angela Davis." . . .
*Highlights mine, TD

Colorado School Shooter Devon Erickson: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Heavy

"Devon Erickson, an 18-year-old high school student who has worked as a youth actor in Colorado, was identified by authorities as one of the two shooters accused of wounding nine students in a K-12 STEM school located in Douglas County. One of those students, 18-year-old Kendrick Castillo, died heroically in the attack after confronting one of the shooters. 

"In court for the first time on May 8, Erickson bowed his head, his purple hair dangling over his face. He’s facing more than two dozen charges. He shook his head to answer some of the judge’s questions. At one point, he answered “no” when asked whether he had questions." . . .

Suspect's profile photo

"On social media, Devon Erickson, a registered Democrat, expressed hatred for some Christians, and shared posts criticizing Donald Trump and praising Barack Obama, which you can see later in this article.

“ 'You know what I hate? All these Christians who hate gays, yet in the bible, it says in Deuteronomy 17:12-13, if someone doesn’t do what their priest tells them to do, they are supposed to die. It has plenty of crazy stuff like that,” he wrote in one Facebook post a couple years ago. “But all they get out of it is ‘ewwwwww gays.'” In 2015, Erickson put a celebrate pride filter onto a Facebook picture." . . .

After a beehive of activity, Jared Kushner will finally be unveiling his comprehensive immigration plan!

True then, true now

Ann Coulter  . . . "Trump's genius was that he was pushing policies that were popular. The fact that the media said they weren't just made him look brave. He used the media's lies against them. 
"Political analysts kept droning on and on about Trump's mysterious appeal, but in all their prolix analyses, I can't find a single one saying, Boy, were we wrong about immigration! 
"Trump proved it's not a suicidal act to notice that high levels of immigration do not benefit most Americans. Republicans refuse to understand that not all rising tides lift all boats. There are ways the rich can do well while most of the country does worse. ... 
"Some Republicans surely knew in their hearts that dumping millions of low-wage workers on America was hurting the people who lived here, but they were too scared of not getting the fat checks to say so." . . . 
. . . 
"Elected Republicans run for office on defending the middle class, then get to Washington and concentrate on gifts to big business. They'd say, Of course we're with you on immigration, but unless you write us a check there's nothing we can do. 
"Then they get elected and say, Oh yeah ... about immigration, we'll be screwing you over on that -- but we are going to pass a job-killing trade deal! And don't worry -- Wall Street will be getting a blank check. I think a little gratitude is in order. 
"That's not what we asked for! 
** ** ** 
"We had no choice but to vote for Trump. Hillary was promising to take us straight to hell. I've got it all mapped out, the coordinates are in the GPS, I'll have us in hell within 24 hours! Trump was promising to take us in the exact opposite direction. 
"We elected him. But that didn't happen. It turns out that instead of taking us away from hell, he's zigzagging all over creation, sometimes getting stuck in a parking lot, sometimes heading straight for hell, then suddenly taking a left at the last minute, so that it's never clear where we're headed. 
"But on the eve of the big immigration plan unveiling, let's remind him what we voted for. (By "him," obviously I mean Jared.)" 

Does Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Deserve Its Official ‘Terrorist’ Designation?

Noisy Room

"Only weeks after the U.S. State Department officially designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, a new, extremely militant commander has been appointed to lead the elite organization.
"Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei demoted longtime Revolutionary Guards leader Maj. Gen. Mohammed Ali Jafari on April 21 and replaced him with his deputy Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami.]
"According to the Times of Israel:

“ 'Salami has frequently vowed to destroy Israel and ‘break America.’ Iran was ‘planning to break America, Israel, and their partners and allies. Our ground forces should cleanse the planet from the filth of their existence,’ Salami said in February. The previous month, he vowed to wipe Israel off the ‘global political map,’ and to unleash an ‘inferno’ on the Jewish state.“ 'Any new war, he said, ‘will result in Israel’s defeat within three days, in a way that they will not find enough graves to bury their dead.’”

"During a July 2016 speech in Tehran, Salami stated, “Today, more than ever, there is fertile ground—with the grace of God—for the annihilation, the wiping out, and the collapse of the Zionist regime.”
"Salami continued: “Only in Lebanon, more than 100,000 Qaem missiles are ready for launch … so that any time the Zionist regime seeks to repeat its previous mistakes with miscalculations, these missiles would … come down on the heart of the Zionist regime and be the prelude for a big collapse in the modern era. … They are just waiting for the command so that when the trigger is pulled, the accursed black dot will be wiped off the geopolitical map of the world, once and for all.' ” . . .

CNN, again doing what CNN does

How much more racist will CNN be?  "Just when you thought CNN couldn't get any lower, it plummets to rock bottom, asking:"

. . . "So let's also ask, how American will the royal baby be?  Hmmm.  Will he speak English with a British or an American accent? Town and Country magazineasks.  Or will he be American enough to run for president of the U.S., as some speculate, since he probably won't be king — which has nothing to do with his race — because his cousins, the children of Harry's older brother William and his wife, Kate Middleton, have priority?  Or something.

"Now, to answer Blake's question, "how black will the royal baby be?"  According to my limited knowledge of and interest in the subject plus too long ago elementary school math, the royal baby is 25% black, as one of his grandparents is black, and the other three are white.

"And for the unasked question, the royal baby will be 100% human, as are his parents, grandparents, and ancestors."

CNN contributor makes a truly bizarre claim about abortion  . . . "In a CNN segment fulminating against the new Georgia law that bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, Quinn claimed that a baby is not human while it is in the womb. Here is the short version (the entire segment is embedded below)." . . .  Via Youtube

Trump Asserts Executive Privilege Over Unredacted Mueller Report. Democrats lay down more hate

Legal Insurrection

DOJ: Barr “could not comply with” the subpoena “in its current form without violating the law, court rules, and court orders…”

"President Donald Trump exerted executive privilege over the unredacted from Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

"The move came after the House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to hold Attorney General William Barr “for failing to comply with a subpoena for the full report and its underlying materials.' ” . . .

Rep. Al Green: We Need to Impeach Trump Because He Might Get Reelected   "Democratic Congressman Al Green proves once again to be the gift to Republicans that keeps on giving." .............................. ...............................................................O’Rourke voted twice against impeachment proceedings as a member of the House.  But that was then. This is now.    Notice how a slippery politician responds.

Democrat Hypocrisy on Trump ‘Inciting Hate’ Brilliantly Summed Up  "If Democrats didn’t have double standards they wouldn’t have any standards at all.

"For the past three years they’ve been claiming that Trump incites hate, when the fact is they’re the ones who are actually inciting the hate.
"The cartoon below illustrates this brilliantly." . . .

The Angry, Scowling Democrats and Mass Hysteria

The Democrats and Mass Hysteria by Michael James   "My father owned a house on a golf course and at night we would sit on his patio.   If we were chatty enough to let it get late there sometimes sounded a helluva riot in the near or far distance.  The coyotes had found prey and were wildly shrieking at a potential kill.  It always sounded like a pack of drunks to me.

"It sounded like mass hysteria." . . .

Rich Terrell

. . . "Somebody should tell the Democrats that behaving like Midnight Coyotes for over two years is wearing on the self and on the body politic.  If they want to preserve the Constitution, they should trust it and abide by it instead of trying to tear it to pieces and devour it in a shared frenzy of mass hysteria.

"I’d tell them, but they never stop howling hysterically long enough to get an authentic thought in edgewise."

Is anybody else getting sick of seeing angry, scowling Democrat faces daily?

Then there is this Democrat punching out a pro-life protestor   . . . " 'Did y'all put these up?" a woman asks in the video. As soon as the man confirms that he did, she rushes in, punching him in the face multiple times and hitting him in the stomach. She concludes by yelling, "F**king terrible person!"

" 'You’re a terrible person. You — this is not okay! This is not okay! This is not okay! Shut the f**k up right now!" she kept yelling. "This is wrong! This is triggering! You’re not an innocent human being. You’re a terrible person."

"The protesters called the cops and told her to stay on site. The police confirmed she will be charged with misdemeanor assault." . . .

All brought to you by The Nadler Circus.

Los Angeles Will Celebrate Unveiling of ‘Obama Boulevard’ With Day-Long Party

Mental Recession

Any streets in San Francisco named for him yet?

Did activists like Medea Benjamin ever meet a ruthless dictator they didn't like? For that matter, did Obama?

Mike Harris at American Thinker

And they are doing all this . . . why? Socialism at any price apparently. TD

Code Pink refusing to leave Venezuela’s DC embassy as State Dept. slams ‘trespassers’  . . . "The United States and others countries believe Maduro's most recent election was fraudulent and have said he's not the legitimate president of Venezuela. But Benjamin has repeatedly said activists are there to prevent a “hostile takeover” of the embassy. Benjamin said the group has the permission of the Maduro government to stay in the embassy." . . .

No diplomats, no Venezuelans as activists occupy DC embassy . . . “ 'We are placeholders,” Medea Benjamin, co-founder of one of the groups, Code Pink, told The Associated Press. They see Maduro, whose government is recognized by the United Nations, as Venezuela’s legitimate leader.
“ 'We are doing what another country will hopefully do, which is hold the space.” When two countries don’t have relations, it’s common for a third, neutral nation to handle diplomatic functions in place of an embassy or consulate.
"The Trump administration has said the activists are trespassing Venezuelan sovereign territory and need to leave. Gustavo Vecchio, Guaidó’s appointee as ambassador to Washington, has said he’s signed all necessary documents and it is now up to U.S. authorities to clear the building." . . .

Back in 2014: Medea Benjamin: Deported From Egypt, Admired by Obama
. . . "And the “Woman’s Day” event she was touting is actually a holdover from a Stalinist event put on in the Soviet Union in 1934, so it allowed Benjamin and her fellow wannabe communist revolutionaries and acolytes a communist-inspired venue." . . .

Senate Dems Delete Poll After Brett Kavanaugh Beats Ruth Bader Ginsburg

PJ Media

"As you know if you've ever watched a TV show about lawyers, you should never ask a question if you don't already know the answer. You shouldn't be arrogant enough to assume you already know it, just because you really want to believe it's true. Don't get cocky. Don't hurt your own case.
"In other words, don't be the Senate Democrats. They're out of power right now, and until they start winning some elections again, all they can do is complain about being thwarted again and again. Whine, whine, whine:

.@realDonaldTrump and the Republican-led Senate have aggressively pushed to reshape the judiciary with conservatives. Decades of hard-fought progress could be erased. We must take back the Senate.— Senate Democrats (@dscc) May 5, 2019

 "As part of this effort to take back the Senate from those rotten voters who don't know what's good for them, the Dems decided it would be a good idea to hold a Twitter poll. They invited chaos. And unfortunately for them, chaos has a sense of humor.

. . . The poll didn't go the way they planned, they asked a question without knowing the answer, so they just deleted it. That's the Democrat way. If you can't accept what's happening, then... don't. When reality doesn't do what you want, just ignore reality.

"And of course, #RepublicansPounced:"  [as the liberal press likes to state]

Democrats, refusing to accept voting results (again)https://t.co/p2VFw3OVp1

. . . 

POTUS pardons ex-Army lieutenant convicted of killing suspected Al Qaeda terrorist in 2009

iOTW Report  "FOX: President Trump has pardoned a former Army lieutenant who was convicted in 2009 of killing an Iraqi prisoner suspected of being an Al Qaeda terrorist, the White House announced Monday evening.

"White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders cited “broad support” for Michael Behenna, of Edmond, Okla., “from the military, Oklahoma elected officials, and the public” — including 37 generals and admirals, along with a former Pentagon inspector general — as the reason for Trump’s clemency grant. Sanders also said Behenna had been a “model prisoner” while serving his sentence.

“ 'In light of these facts, Mr. Behenna is entirely deserving of this Grant of Executive Clemency,” Sanders concluded.

"A military court originally sentenced Behenna to 25 years for unpremeditated murder in a combat zone. However, the Army’s highest appellate court noted concern about how the trial court had handled Behenna’s claim of self-defense, Sanders said. The Army Clemency and Parole Board reduced his sentence to 15 years and paroled him in 2014, as soon as he was eligible.

"Behenna acknowledged during his 2008 trial that instead of taking prisoner Ali Mansur home as he was ordered, he took the man to a railroad culvert, stripped him, and then questioned him at gunpoint about a roadside bombing that had killed two members of Behenna’s platoon.   more